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40:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back. Let's hop into some super chats real quick. Gaming Worlds UK just writes in and says, birthday tax, happy birthday. Happy birthday, my friend. Count on me. Thank you so much. One day I'm going to bring the party poppers. and like make it a thing. I'm going to, we're going to, some lucky birthday haver out there is going to get celebrated for real because y 'all been asking for it. I might bust out a cake. Count on me, 23 writes in and says, just secure the Sonic magic cards. Yeah, I've been seeing people in chat saying that the Sonic cards are live. Here's the thing. I got a person.

41:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I got a friend. She's going to do the work for me. He's got a person, chat. I have a friend. It's just a Venmo away for Bless. Yes. Yeah, I have a friend that's like, I trust her with my life, especially when it comes to magic cards. And these are must-have for you, right? I mean, there are, I'd like to have them. These are high. I don't think they're like must-have, but I'm like, the shadow card, I think I might want to make a deck around it. That's what I'm holding for right now. But yeah, Lexi, she's going to hold me down. Because she's like the friend who, I feel like everybody plays magic for a different reason.

41:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You know what I mean? Maybe you play for the competitive aspect. Maybe you play so you can collect cool looking cards. Lexi is in the market. Like she is flipping. She's wheeling and dealing. She's wheeling and dealing in a way where I'm like, I've never seen the side of you before. Let me tell you what, you can wheel and deal. If you got game like that, you can wheel and deal. Those collector boxes for Final Fantasy, that was crazy to see those price tags. Yeah, dude. Crazy. I should have hit her up for those, honestly. Wheeling and dealing. Clawmaster writes in and says, congrats to SGDQ for raising over$2.4 million for charity.

42:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Congrats, of course. some week did you see any good runs sadly i missed the whole thing okay usually i tune in because i dude i remember maybe a year or so ago watching just like all the gta speed runs that they would do and watching somebody just speed through vice city coolest thing ever did you see uh or did you hear about what the uh blueprints speed run thing was no it was essentially bingo where they like had like bingo cards of things that like they could possibly do in a run and And then whoever got like bingo first, like, and it was a race between two people, I think. And oh, that's cool.

42:58Whoever filled bingo first of just like random things that you could possibly do due to the RNG of it. One. And it's like, God, that's so fun. I love that. You watch them. Oh, of course. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a favorite two weeks out of the year. That's GDQ and a GDQ. They're the best. I mean, it's just, they're like a favorite game. You love to watch. I love the GTAs. I love bloodborne and anything. Our dark souls. Yeah. I love that kind of stuff. I love the weird wacky stuff when we get into Pepsi, man, or all of a sudden we're playing some random game you've never heard of. They played backyard baseball this week, which was fun.

43:31Oh, that's cool. Seven days, 24 hours of content, always live, always somebody on the couch in the panel doing something fun. I think it's great and all for a great cause. Fantastic.

43:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Congratulations, SGDQ. A brown spot writes in and says, this is a re-dropped ball of shit list from Friday's show. Atreus from God of War 2018 to Ragnarok should be on. Oh, my God. should be on that list it's a bad joke it's a bad joke we made a joke or we had a conversation on friday about like the biggest dropped balls in in gaming more mainly about like things that you fumbled biggest fun yeah yeah yeah they're saying atreus was fumbled as a character no they're saying that he went through puberty oh i got that you guys you guys gotta keep up you guys gotta keep up oh fuck um let's see here we got one more from jbc who writes it and says if we're going by nintendo sf merch breakdown it's clear that animal crossing slash splatoon slash metroid is is next on the dock for movies slash shows yeah it's just got to kind of be the right project yeah all of these 100 could be shows and maybe shows or movies maybe we'll see that there's a lot of deals being made there's a lot of content providers out there that want these kind of ips that would come over to their little live streaming service and make something out of it we've seen a lot of good and bad so i'm sure dollars will be thrown dollars will be thrown uh let's move on to story number four zeni max union responds to microsoft canceling unannounced mmo quote a feature has been stolen from us this is from rebecca valentine at ign following a way of mass layoffs that impacted an estimated 9 ,100 employees at Microsoft, many of whom were in its Xbox gaming division.

45:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The union of employees at Xbox subsidiary ZeniMax have responded with a statement explaining the current employment status of its members. Here is Zosu's statement published in full. Earlier this month, Microsoft indefinitely shelved an unannounced MMORPG at ZeniMax Online Studios, a shock to the 222 Zosu CWA developers working on the project. It has been heartening and validating to see our game mentioned in the press and by players that would have loved to see the results of our work. Undoubtedly, a future has been stolen from many of us, and our community will never experience an amazing game.

46:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:However, despite discussions regarding the status of our employment, the fact is we have not yet been laid off. While we understand that for most of us, something like a layoff is inevitable, last December, both the teams behind the Elder Scrolls Online and the Unannounced Project voted overwhelmingly to form a union and establish ZeniMax Online Studios United CWA, aka Zosu CWA. Workers volunteers elected to represent in the interests of our union are currently bargaining with Microsoft for the benefit of our impacted teammates. While Microsoft and Zosu bargain over how we move forward following the project closure, developers behind the unannounced project remain employees of ZeniMax with full pay and benefits.

46:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:On July 2nd, our lives were upended without prior notice or communication from Microsoft leadership and without clear understanding about the status of our employment. In light of this, our union came together with urgency, gathering and distributing information and resources to our affected members. Where Microsoft has failed to support the talented craftspeople who have generated billions in revenue, our union has stepped up to provide clarity and support. It is true that a layoff may be in the future for some of our members. However, as a result of our organizing, we are able to ensure that those impacted will be able to depart with dignity.

47:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:More importantly, the work of Zosu will continue so that our remaining teammates, the stalwart developers of ESO, can follow in the footsteps of our colleagues across other departments and studios at Microsoft, including our union siblings at ZeniMax Workers United. We look forward to other units who will soon ratify fair contracts that will guarantee the rights we all deserve. Kind of like a last statement about their canceled project there from the union. Yeah, chilling, heartbreaking situation there. Just statement there, right? Our future has been taken from us, and that's something you and I discussed afterwards, right, of when they had all those layoffs and canceling those projects.

48:04when you think about Rare and, of course, ZeniMax Online Studios, it is Elder Scrolls Online, it is Sea of Thieves, it is these live service titles. And, of course, when you start to get long in the tooth in those games and the money starts to run up, then the question is, well, what's next? Or is it time to just shut it all down? And to have the next project taken from you, you have to question your future, right? And there's no layoffs yet, but as the statement says, they're preparing for that, and that sucks, Bless.

48:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And that's, like, I think part of the importance of having unions, right? To, like, be able to advocate for you, be able to fight for you as an employee, and then also be able to help you prepare for what could be inevitable, right? As far as what you're talking about. Hey, our big next project got canceled. What does that mean for the people that were working on it? What does that mean for the people that are working here? I think the security provided from a union to be able to go, hey, let's prep you. hey let's work with microsoft and and bargain for like uh bargain for the i guess what's the word i'm looking for bargain for the help you might need when you when you end up losing your job right like i think that stuff is important um did you hear about what they're working on because remember watching a video a little while ago saying that like what like the kind of like next mmo they're working on was like looking promising behind the scenes no i was unaware of what they were working on there so i don't know what it was genre wise i think it was another mmo but i don't know what kind of like vibe it was at all gotcha yeah i mean the fact that they're saying here that like yo this is something that we believed in and this is something that like you know was taken from us i think is again very sad but hopefully i don't know i i would want to see maybe a no clip or somebody break down maybe a jason try a breakdown this is exactly what this was going to be and this is why they believed in it so much yeah yeah we'll probably get that become another um scale-bound situation again oh yeah you know story number five speaking of xbox microsoft employee has been criticized for advertising xbox graphics uh role using ai slop artwork just weeks after mass layoffs this is tom phillips at ign a microsoft employee has drawn criticism for sharing a widely ridiculed ai image to advertise empty roles on xbox's graphics team the image which features a woman sat at a computer typing code shown on the rear of the monitor rather than its screen is clearly made by ai accompanying text states xbox graphics is hiring reaction to the post which went live on linkedin over the weekend and is still available at the time of writing is a mixture of bafflement and outright anger with many responses criticizing the embarrassment quality of the image and the timing of the post just weeks after mass layoffs at Xbox as Microsoft doubles down on AI.

50:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, I saw this making the rounds on social media the other day. A lot of people, a lot of people dunking on this. We gotta tighten up. We gotta tighten up as humanity as a society. We gotta tighten the fuck up, people, because we're losing grip right now, and there's just too many dummies out there that are in control doing some dumb stuff. We gotta tighten this up. Too many CEOs drinking that AI Kool-Aid. Tighten the fuck up. I mean, it's just stepping on rake after rake, like we talked about, especially Xbox and Microsoft. You get so many wins. You start to finally get into the good graces, and we just absolutely throw all that down the drain.

51:24And then we have this, right, the audacity after all these layoffs to be promoting jobs, and then we have this. Nobody's looking at this. What's up with that? Nobody questions that? Or do we all just go, you know what?

51:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Great job. Can I tell you, this was the moment where I realized I give people too much of the benefit of the doubt. because i saw this and in my brain i was like oh it's like a clear monitor that's why that's why you're seeing the text that's why you're seeing the text on the back of the screen it's because it's a see-through nobody it's a cool futuristic no certainly nobody's dumb enough to like look at this and be like i'll publish it certainly there's some kind of thought process that goes behind like oh yeah you know we gotta tighten it up i was like we gotta tighten it up maybe i'm not ahead enough of the technology that we have just remember in the next 10 years this ai shit is just going to continue to run rampant unless we put our foot down and try to stop this shit because we're going to get lost in the sauce we'll get lost in the sauce y 'all this this is what i'll say or barry you popped up what's up no you you go ahead well this is this is what i'll say because i think barry mentioned earlier right love like you know ceos keep drinking the ai kool-aid i just want to make it clear clear microsoft is the ai kool-aid like they're not drinking it they are the ai kool-aid this is something that like we're going to see more and more and like i don't want to be i guess i will be a downer here right like i'll be a fucking downer because like i i'm of the mind and hopefully maybe i'm proven wrong right but like we've already lost the the ai race no there's no putting the there's no putting it back in the bottle there's no putting the genie back in the bottle yeah there's videos all over facebook tiktok twitter where you're going what in the hell why does it look so real and then it's quickly becoming ai and you're like oh fuck yeah we're already here it's gonna happen sorry barry you said i i i think there i don't think we've lost yes facebook videos and stuff like that that's uh gonna be a shit show uh for a while especially under this current administration that has no interest in regulating any of this shit um i don't think we've completely lost the fight in terms of ai uh being forcibly forcibly integrated into kind of everyday workday office life type of shit, I think there is still a very clear kind of like hatred towards AI that I think it's going to take a little bit for higher-ups and C-suite execs to like fully see and to kind of wind back on, especially when they eventually see, and this is unfortunately going to be the thing that takes this step to happen, is when they see the amount of money that they have to spend and infrastructure that they have to build to make AI such a large part of their company and the very little revenue that they're going to get back from that push.

54:21We'll see how long it takes with Microsoft. uh but yeah literally every facet of their company is just they're trying to push the shit out yeah i

54:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:the only part i disagree with there is the low revenue that they're going to see i right now ai is how you get high revenue in the tech business right like you make the turn to ai so that you can get that shareholder money so that you can make that graph continue to go up for you now i'm not saying that that's not going to crash and burn at some point because i think it will right i think we're gonna hit a point where like the quality of the stuff we're getting that spat out by ai is gonna be so bad and i think we're seeing enough people be like no this shit fucking sucks right but i think right now we're still descending into the the shit fucking sucks right like i think the battle that we're gonna face is more so about regulation and more so about like how much ground can we as consumers be like yo stop here right i don't want to listen to my music artists you know make ai albums i don't want to play games that are developed by um like that have like ai generated dialogue or ai generated story i don't want to like i think people don't necessarily want to interact day to day with i guess create like generative ai stuff yeah right and i think there is going to be a line drawn as far as that but i think ai has become such a big factor in so many tech things right like when we talk about dlss for example right or like a lot like in the tech world ai is everything ai is like pushing everything forward and i think that battle's already lost and we're seeing the drips of it and we that's been a thing for a while i'm talking more so in the the generative ai and like the assist tools that are just kind of worse versions than prior assist tools and stuff like that in terms of, like, Google Docs and, like, shit like that, right?

56:13Sure, yeah. But, yeah, in terms of, like, development-side things, like, yeah, I think that battle is, like, definitely, like, that's been cemented. But in terms of, like, creative process that AI, as we understand it now, as we've understood it in the last couple of years, is, like, I think, I don't think it's going to be as long for this world, I think, as people are expecting.

56:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. And I hope for that. The one thing I will say, I was watching a TikTok on Saturday. It was a girl. It was two people in the front of a car. Are you the one with the cow? The one with the cow. The one with the cow. In her face. Yes. She melted. And it looked so fucking real. I thought it was real. And it fucking terrified me. It's basically two people sitting in a car. And a girl has her window down. And a cow comes in the window. And I'm like, oh, the cow is going to eat her food or whatever. and then the cow it looks like the cow essentially like vomits on her face and then she disintegrates it's crazy and it wasn't until like she was gone real it looked way too real and i was like oh we're fucked where i'm i'm maybe this is me becoming a boomer in real time right of like i'm aging up but i legitimately i'm like oh man we're already here yeah in five years from now like they're gonna be making videos of you i'm yeah in five years from now you're gonna be listening to me on a podcast and it's not gonna be me and you and you won't know terrifying story number six ea is reportedly hitting the brakes on the need for speed franchise this is jackson shen at engadget it's crazy to shift to this story it's crazy to shift because like here i'm like okay this is something that i this this is something that brings me back to earth yeah you know i mean like i hate this new story but at the same time i'm like i can talk about reality this is reality now i'm back to the world that i'm from uh the need for speed franchise could be making its last lapse, at least for the time being.

58:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Matthew Everingham, a photographer who frequently contributed to car culture websites Speed Hunters, said in social media posts that EA has shelved Need for Speed and is quietly parking the series. Speed Hunters, which was funded by EA and was last updated in April of this year, will also reportedly cease operations for now. EA hasn't released an official statement on the fate of the Need for Speed franchise, but several internal decisions point to an uncertain future. Earlier this month, the publisher announced that it would shut down online servers for the cult classic Need for Speed Rivals on October 7th.

58:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Before that, the developer behind Need for Speed Criterion Games shifted most of its employees to focus on the Battlefield franchise, leaving only a core group to continue working on the racing series in 2023. However, Battlefield head Vince Zampella told Eurogamer earlier this year that the rest of the Need for Speed team would be, quote, joining their colleagues working on Battlefield, end quote. Yeah, we knew about this. They're focusing on tentpole revenue generating games here. And unfortunately, that meant a lot of studios that were making maybe the smaller title games or just games that you enjoyed like Need for Speed.

59:11We're going to come over and help them with their other games that they deemed more fitting. It's crazy, Bless, to think about Need for Speed, maybe, you know, parking in the garage and calling it quits for a little bit. but also at the same time, bless. I haven't been a need for speed kid. When I look at this since probably like 2008 with undercover. I mean, I was there for the undergrounds, the, you know, hot pursuits. But when I look at all these titles from really 2009 onward, right? I probably gave unbound a chance. Didn't really vibe with it. Didn't love with it. Didn't love it. Need for speed heat.

59:46There's just a lot of titles here between 2022 and eight here.

59:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is what I'll say. Yeah. is that ea just stopped trying with need for speed like i need for speed unbound was kind of cool because that was the last one right that was the most recent that was the last one yeah if you remember that game came out it had like these cool like little anime flourishes that they would have and like the graphics package and stuff and like i had almost like an underground feel of you know you're driving around the world and you're getting into races and you're building up your cred and all this shit right that game was fun it obviously it wasn't like fantastic or anything but it was cool they didn't announce that game until like a month before it released and it released in december do you remember this this is like we're like oh it kept being rumored throughout the year of like ea's work on a need for speed and then we got late into the year and it's like well there's no way and then yeah they announced it and released it and it felt like they just shat it out and the game didn't deserve to be released that way it was a game that you could have marketed better it was a game that you could have put more behind need for speed heat the one i believe before unbound also had a cult audience to it that swears by that game that will tell you that that game's actually pretty good i just think that i think ea just did not know how to treat the need for speed franchise maybe yeah maybe they didn't maybe they did i think the issue is we're living in a forza horizon world where that dominates the spot and then on top of that like the racing car culture world in video games is already super small and on top of that you already have juggernauts that are kind of running it right now especially with the boom of f1 globally that has become a hot title that people want to play the gran turismos are still going to sell we just saw microsoft really cut half of forza motorsport over there with that team and now it's clearly just going to be forza are cars not doing it anymore i think cars i think cars i thought cars were the safe bet i don't know if they're doing it anymore i didn't hear what i thought cars was the safe bet i've actually never seen and then you think of ubisoft with the crew right it's like here's a bunch of games coming at you that like i just don't know if there's a mass audience and so even the crew it's like i feel like forza works because they put money behind forza they like forza is developed as a thing that like xbox cares about and they want to see you do well and like that shows in the quality quality of the final product i don't think that shows in the quality of the crew when we get there i wanted to be like oh ea just might not have the money but that's the problem is like they can sink dollar after dollar into this and it can continue to come out and either be middling it can fail it could be a big hit they have plenty of money to do this but like they've clearly identified we're going to go after only money makers from this point forward and probably a big gamble right now if we really roll it all back bless there's a huge gamble on battlefield right now they've taken like seven studios to go out and support battlefield to make sure that the next Battlefield is that and more.

1:02:43And like after the last Battlefield and what happened with that game, it's like, oh man, you're putting a lot of chips on the table for this one. I hope it succeeds because if it misses, we're into another five to seven year revamp of something else. And all those other side projects are going to be gone. Yeah, I think that's the thing that I'm trepidatious about

1:03:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:is like Battlefield, you look at Need for Speed and you look at Battlefield. and for me I see two similar franchises of varying scales because like okay Mike when was the last like big Battlefield win well I mean you have the juggernaut that was Battlefield 4 then you go into Hardline then you go into 1 and 5 and so like it has to be that 1 right there then they mess up they went double World War you don't do that you always go World War then you go back to you know present day yeah futuristic yeah so like they went double on that you don't go double battlefield one was the last one i remember people being hot for yeah one i think was the one right like well before that you would have said battlefield 4 which came out like around launch of ps4 and xbox uh one right like but i feel like they're but out of five battlefields that have come out in the last decade and decade in a couple years right like we're talking about two of them coming out and being pretty good and the last one being pretty good was literally nine years ago i I think coming out a month after I started working in this industry.

1:04:09Well, the catch is just like in that time since then, let's just go back to battlefield one since 2016. You've had one, two, three, four, five, six need for speeds.

1:04:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Hell yeah. That's a lot of need for speeds to come out and be forgotten about. But I think it's the thing where I see two franchises that EA just doesn't know what they want to do with. And obviously with this new battlefield, EA is trying to lock in and they're like, all right, everybody, everybody's on Battlefield now. We're all just doing Battlefield. But I don't have the faith that the world wants Battlefield that bad right now. Yeah, but they're looking at the Fortnite market in Call of Duty and they're going, okay, well we need to be in the shooter genre. We need the shooter because the shooter market is way bigger than the racing market.

1:04:51But you have Apex.

1:04:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You have like, you had Titanfall. You had like, I feel I think the, here's, I think this is what I'm trying to say, right? Or this is what I feel. I think the all-in bet is the thing that i'm scared of i think i would have liked to see maybe like you split the difference of all right let's put out an apex let's put out a titanfall let's put out a battlefield but like market them separately and try to grow them as opposed to going all in on battlefield a franchise that i think is lost right now a franchise that i think is is that i think found its way when it was competing directly with call of duty and it felt like a real competitor to call of duty but like that was 2010 see i'm there with you and i would have gone the titanfall route or I would have even called up our friends over at Disney and Lucas and said, Hey, let me try to get back on the battlefront.

1:05:38Now that's a whole different beast, but like I would have in my mind, if this wasn't going down, it would have been battlefront. And if this falls and fails, it will be, Hey, how do we get on battlefront?

1:05:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Cause I don't think Titan Titan falls got the juice and it's good, but like, I would go for the star Wars market of like, let's bring a new star Wars shooter into this. I agree. Let's see if we can get a better foothold here. But they also don't want to do a lot of or too much like license IP outside of that. If you really want it to succeed, Mike, what do you have to do? Bring back bad company. Bad company. Oh, I was going to say make it free to play. Make it free to play. You know what, Bless? It might be free to play. You don't know. You don't know yet. We never know. Do you think it's going to be free to play?

1:06:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:No, I don't think so. Then what are we doing here? I think they're going to give you a full package. This shit's going to fail, bro. This shit's going to fail. Bless, it's coming into a real, well. You're going to put out a full price Battlefield game? Nobody does like Battlefield in the current market right now. Nobody's doing a 64 versus 64 online player match with full destructible environments having this stuff. Now, I say all that, and we literally just did this in Battlefield 2042, and it failed, but that's because it came out and it wasn't right, right? There were server issues. There was problems with the game.

1:06:50Now, on the flip side, when I look at the market, I go, okay, well, Fortnite's got Battle Royales covered. Call of Duty's got the normal team arenas covered. We got Overwatch. We got Marvel Rivals. Those got those hero-based games covered. So there's not much of a market here. Okay, I got to bring in something no one's doing, and that is 64 versus 64 big, large-scale battles. Now, I still say that Battlefront with Star Wars would have been better for this, but generic military dude is going to have to fit the build. So that means they have to have a killer campaign. They got to dominate in multiplayer.

1:07:23They're going to have some other game mode that is an extraction slash battle. But this is all what we already did in Battlefield 2042 minus the campaign. So now we're just betting on the campaign to carry this when we just proved that it doesn't work. Mike. What are we doing?

1:07:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's bring back burnout. That's all I want. That's all I want. I know it's not a maybe a money making move or all this shit. Right. Just bring it back for me. Just for one guy. Just bring me. Just give me burnout. Just play Paradise again. I mean, I could. But, dude, I've played Paradise so many times. Fair. It's a great game. I've played so much Paradise. I've played so much Burnout 3. I guess I could play more Revenge, but I prefer Burnout 3. I digress. Mike, if we brought back Burnout, that'd be big old news. That'd be big news, bless. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know, where would I go?

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1:08:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm just saying, like, a Burnout, I feel like would make more than, like, another need for speed. Especially if you're not going to market a need for speed. I like that, Bless. See, now you're thinking. Now you got to get in there. You got to come with the hot wheels of it. Of like, oh, wow, this isn't Need for Speed anymore. This is something different, right? Like, that's what you need to get lost in right there. Because Need for Speed, unfortunately, isn't doing it. Forza Horizon is already doing that. Oh, my God. So many chats says Burnout 3 Remaster. Give. This wouldn't work because different companies, right?

1:08:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But if you can find a Vicarious Visions-like studio, if you can find an Iron Galaxy-like studio, The way that they're doing these Tony Hawk remakes, give me just that, but Burnout. Burnout 3. Burnout 3 plus revenge. Story number 7 is Wii News from Video Games Chronicle. Speaking of Tony Hawk, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 plus 4 locks a SpongeBob SquarePants Easter egg behind the$70 deluxe edition of the game. The THPS series has a long history of pop culture Easter eggs, and the newest pair of remakes is no exception. However, players have now found out that several Easter eggs are locked behind the deluxe version of the game.

1:09:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:On the Skater Island level, there is a hidden area that pays tribute to the Nickelodeon cartoon Spongebob. However, the Nickelodeon branding in these areas is locked behind the deluxe edition of the game. Mike, do you want to know what happens if you go there without the deluxe edition? It's an empty pirate ship? It's an empty fucking pirate ship! Fuck off! So, wasn't that what it was in the original version? Probably. but like you're hiding an easter egg behind a fucking 70 version that's insane like i get characters you know like i think this article mentions like the doom guy and stuff like if you want stuff that's like actually like i don't know quote unquote valuable in terms of like how you can play or what your character is and stuff but like you're talking about like a 10 second easter egg i will say intrusive intrusive wombat in chat says incorrect i paid for the standard edition and still got into that area.

1:10:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Did it have? No, but the catch is, is it just an empty pirate ship? Oh, yeah. Or does it have the hidden Easter eggs? Is it Spongebob? You have to remember that. That's the difference. You can get into the area, but they're saying it's an empty pirate ship. If you paid, that pirate ship would then have the Spongebob Easter eggs. Yeah. Here's one I want to bring up really quick. DQ Roman over on TikTok loved this guy. Watched a lot of his content. Brought up a great one of like, a lot of companies are losing their losing the vision of what is a like hidden earnable and like me paying for stuff.

1:10:46A lot of these cool secret unlockables have been a lost art where like that back in the day where you'd unlock Doomguy as he brings up was a fun one. It was a wow factor. Now I have to pay for that. I have to pay for songs. That's ridiculous. So like there's additional songs in there if you pay. It's just like the Doom soundtrack. Oh, okay. I'll let that slide. That shit is like we're losing our way when it comes to microtransactions and just fun, like, cute unlockables in the game. And so we gotta, especially with Tony Hawk, we gotta find a better way with that. Give me a kiss. Someone else in chess can also confirm I'm on Game Pass and have the Easter egg.

1:11:23Because I assume Game Pass only gives you the, like, basic version.

1:11:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:In the article, they also mentioned you had a Game Pass or standard, which is interesting. I wonder what's going on with that, then. I gave him like 14 bucks so I could play the game early. Jesus Christ. Did you actually play it early? We have to probably get codes. I forgot the request. Jesus fuck. Did you actually play it early? Yeah, I played it early. I played all of four. I'm bad at that game. There's a lost art to Tony Hawk that I lost a long time ago. I feel like if you don't keep up with your Tony Hawk skills or really devote yourself to it, you'll never really hit in the combos and the wombos like you should.

1:11:56Yeah, but I love getting back into it. That's why I became a skate guy is because skate, to me, felt more like I could pick up and play. I could hit that sick nose blunt down a 14-stair rail and call it good enough. Tony Hawk it's like oh Mike you suck and they taught me I suck

1:12:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I want to say two things firstly I keep having this issue where my save data doesn't make it to the different device like I played on my Steam Deck throughout the review the save for some reason wouldn't make it to my PC and then I lost my cloud file and then something happened when they finally I assume they finally synced it but it erased my data you have to remember that a lot of the times on the early stuff and like you're pressed and you're doing it before sometimes the cloud data isn't enabled but usually usually you can tell that it's not enabled because it won't show you the thing here it said my cloud data had synced and so i don't know what that was but anyway my data got erased on my steam so i played it again and then also i streamed it here where i played it for some reason that data didn't make it to my home ps5 and so i have done the campaign for toni hawk 3 like four times in the last week but No, don't say oh no, because I love it every time.

1:13:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's been a blast every single fucking time. I fucking love Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. I forgot how much I love this game. I was trying to save the painter over at the docks, and you got to grind this ball, unlock the rope on the ball, but then you got to line yourself off and kind of bounce off the ball to go roll into the shark. Couldn't do it. You know what I mean? Everybody's like, you got to, like, no bone it. And I'm like, I can't no bone this thing. You got to bone it. You got to boneless it? Is that what you're trying to say? No bone. We call it no bone. trying to no phone this ball right now.

1:13:37Frab Gaming says, I didn't see the Easter egg when I went into the ocean. I'm on PS5 Basic Edition.

1:13:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We gotta get to the bottom of this, because there is a weird mystery going on with this shit. The second thing I wanted to say about Tony Hawk is that I've been getting a lot of Tony Hawk TikToks, and I'll look at the comments, and a really fascinating thing is happening. There are so many people that are mad at Tony Hawk. Not the person, the game. Mad at the Hawk man? No, not mad at the Hawk. Mad at the game. out of the Hawkman. Because it's not skate. I've seen so many comments that are like the two minute run is ruining it. Okay, well we do have to cut the title. But I've also seen people like, oh the grinds are too magnetic and all that.

1:14:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And they're like complaining about things that are inherently Tony Hawk's pro skater. And I assume it's kids that grew up with skate that are now seeing Tony Hawk and being like, yo what the fuck is this shit? The two minute thing is a big contention though. Because four wasn't designed around two minute runs. Four was you go around these kind of bigger areas go up to people get missions and stuff like that but i don't think that's what they're talking about i'm pretty sure they're just talking about like the things they just don't like tony hawk tony hawk's pro skater because they're complaining about like a list of things that are all like oh man like you know you're just doing these annoying it was someone i was watching like a hardcore tony player like get a million all this shit right yeah and they're like oh this shit looks whack or whatever i'm like brother this is this is a classic this is where skating games this is arcade skateboarding and they just said they weren't vibing with it they wanted skate They want skate.

1:15:03The people yearn for skate less. It was so interesting. Let's just boot up skate three, Mike.

1:15:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We can't. Come on, Barrett. I'm real late in the show. So let's move on with what we knew. Sorry, I'm the one ranting, too. So this is my name. We're ranting. Peak has sold five million copies in under a month. Congratulations to that team. Isn't that insane? That's crazy. It's like PlayStation first party numbers. That is insane. Congratulations. Fun gamers can be so much fun with your friends. From aggro crab to this. Yeah. Unreal. from um what was it going under going under and uh oh you're talking about another crab's treasure yeah thank you thank you another crab's treasure is crazy uh moving on this week marks the official launch of the gaming foundation that is gaming spelled g-a-y-m-i-n-g a newly established non-profit organization dedicated to uplifting and empowering the lgbtq plus games industry workers aspiring professionals and players to affect change celebrate inclusivity and drive forward representation in games people can donate to the gaming foundation by visiting gamingfoundation.org slash donate that is gaming spelt with a y and then lastly rexplode joins the invincible versus roster do you think i'll enjoy this invincible roster i just i'm not a big invincible guy they have some standout characters because you came back from your preview and it's like the kind of samey um you enjoy the roster i mean no like i i think you should watch the invincible show so you can appreciate the roster okay i think if you just hop into the game without watching the show yeah you're just gonna see a bunch of people that are fucking super strength beings but watch the show and then you'll be like oh i love adam eve i love maybe not rex but i like invincible i fell off that show really hard really still a hold a grudge because of the poor season two launch oh yeah hated that that's really lost me that's fair and i never came back that is it for we news uh let's hop into kind of funny.com slash you're wrong um it says superman you're wrong but that's not the show for it

1:17:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:um that's not you're wrong people are telling me there's already been an animal crossing movie from the mid-2000s it was Japan only well how is Blessing going to watch that as a child I'll tell you right now I was not going to watch it anyway as a kid I'm not watching oh this looks cool hold on I'll take that back he's in our style looks cute 2006 it does look kind of lit and that is it for kind of way.com slash you're wrong let's take a peek real quick at the super chat to see what people are saying um bless would you play a clips video game if you're saying it's like it would have to be like 50 cent blood on the sand i imagine but like you are selling cocaine on the streets and there's a whole narrative to it uh would i play it if if the entire soundtrack was clips music yes i'd play it that's really cool what rapper do you want a 50 cent video game made after oh see this is interesting because it's not just about like what rapper do i like it's about what rappers lived the coolest life and you don't get to say def jam right like we're not doing wrestling which rapper has would have the most fun video game if i played through i feel like jay-z might right was jay-z getting shot at nine times like 50 cent and then got up i mean i don't think he got shot nine times honestly 50 cent is kind of the final boss of rappers when you think about it chief keith maybe or like um bobby schmurda might have like a good video game associated with him anybody from chicago really but like not the con not chance not like the conscious folks chance can have like a telltale choose your own adventure game but like if i'm looking if i'm looking for like an action game like drill rappers from chicago or like maybe some drill rappers from the uk people are saying uh dmx that'd be fun a dmx game would be fun yeah easy e okay i'm just thinking now i'm just thinking san andreas i like that uh snoop dog uh let's see you have any more super chats costa the creator says heat was the most recent great game core need for speed vibe with great street racing on current gen kabob says how long until xbox's one last thing is an ai generated halo sequel kabob's just in there making jokes now um that is it oh we'll do one last one actually from dose of nostalgia from uh that says i like battlefield as an alternative to cod at the time do you think that it's still a viable alternative in 2025 um yes Back in the day, it was an alternative, and I really enjoyed that.

1:19:46I'm probably similar to you when I was calling it Call of Rage and Call of Booty, and I switched over to Battlefield and had a blast. I do think that Battlefield's bread and butter is not the 4v4 or 6v6 smaller maps. I think the bread and butter of Battlefield is that big wow factor, which is those larger scale, 32 on 32, 68 on 68, whatever the number is. I think Call of Duty has kind of cornered the market of this is that smaller team arena that is 4v4 5v5 battlefield is not that alternative for me but i think if you're just looking for a multiplayer generic military shooter it will be the alternative

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