Star Fox Costs How Much?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.07.26

29:23We're going to block it in certain countries. Yeah, certain countries might block it, right? But, you know, I would say worst case scenario, you will likely not get blocked. You'll just only not be able to monetize the YouTube video. So it'll just be up there and you won't make money, but they will. The license, you know, the publishers or the labels would get the money. Game is getting fantastic reviews right now. Go check them out. Andy, you put out a really nice tweet. earlier today about the game because you had already played this game yes yes i had when we did the mixtape games cast a lot of chocolate right there for you greg get in there uh the mixtape review will be up next but uh i won't be on that because i got a lot of stuff so we try to let you know pace us out um but when i was on the games cast with tim we were told that hey you can't say that you've played the whole game so we had to act like we had we had to lie mike they asked to sin it's the original sin lying and i love lying to you roger and i had to act like i'd only played a demo of it like much like tindy but we had both actually played all of it and beaten it and it's it's deserving of all those scores i for me it's it's hard to put a score on it honestly but it'd be around like a 10 or 9 like it is like nailed it a must play must buy experience it by yourself experience it with a a loved one who maybe doesn't fuck with a whole lot of video games and just wants to experience something really cool and interactive and gamified in some ways but just a beautiful love letter to your past really like this game is going to make you feel it's gonna it's gonna hit you in a lot but i would say more importantly the writing of this game is just so fucking good and impressive i love the writing in this game like i mentioned with him on that games cast it's the same way i felt after after and while playing something like citizen sleeper one and two where i'm like damn i wish i could just clone you and have you write for everything i wish that i could get johnny galvatron to write for a million other different games because i think the quality is so great um it is so endearing and full of heart and funny as hell like it is so witty and quippy there was never a moment where i'm like ah that you know not unlike our Mortal Kombat 2 experience where there were a couple moments where I'm like, ugh, why would you say that?

31:45That's not a good line of dialogue. This one, I'm just like, ugh, this experience is amazing. Support art, man. Like, this game deserves it. They deserve it. This is not paid. If we're ever sponsored by stuff, you have to say so. We are not being paid to say any of this. I just love this experience. So, look forward to the full gamescast after this where Blessing, Tim, and Greg will be talking all about their mixtape experience. Currently$17.99 on Steam. $17.99 on Steam. 10 % off. Sitting at like a 90 on Metacritic or something. That's awesome. It had like an 88 on OpenCritic. Like it is awesome.

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36:00Oh, shit. The Witcher DLC. Mike's going to complain. It's my 30th. I've played it. I cannot believe you're going to miss me now. I've never played the DLC. I've got to play the DLC, man. You were supposed to just keep going into the DLC. No, it's too long. You're like, oh, Mike, I got to put you on ice for three and a half months. Just keep playing it, nerd. I had to deal with you saying that you're playing this too much. I had to back off of it. You were right. I was playing it. I just got so addicted. Sometimes you just get lost in it. Heart and stone and then blood and wine. Yeah, right? You got to do all of them.

36:35Yeah. And there are going to be some meaty-ass experiences. But what's happening tonight, Mike? i'm playing wind waker because i'm deep in a z hole i'm playing so much zelda i you and i were just gaming bro we're just having fun we're just gaming we're just gaming i'm playing zelda uh mixtape i'm gonna play with nick today we got forza right around the corner super excited for james bond at the end of the month we're gaming you and i and this has nothing to do with uh any of the stories today but okay i do want to mention that i'm about four hours in to alabaster dawn oh you talked about this yeah kevin can you give me a youtube search on alabaster dawn a-l-a-b-a-s-t-e-r the best spell they're kind of funny dog this game man i this is the best feeling top-down action game currently has a demo 21 on steam on sale right now it is uh an action rpg game made by the developers from crosscode okay i believe they're radical fish games is the name of the developer or maybe that's a publisher no you nailed it okay crush it alabaster dawn is a top-down action RPG that reminds me of all of my favorite things combat-wise about Hyper Light Drifter, but it is just so much more refined because so many years have gone by since we've done that sort of style of combat.

38:05The style of art, the writing is awesome. I love the dialogue. I love the characters so far. The combat is so fucking killer. The combat in this game rocks. It is just like a Diablo. No, it is. Top down Diablo. It's much like cross code. It's very similar to like what you would think of as a modern top down Zelda game. Oh, okay. Okay. With dodges, with parries, with movesets that expand and you continue on your moveset. You unlock new moves that you're not just like continuing the same combo. Now if you hold attack after tapping it once, now you do like a swipe. And then since you're holding it on the second time, you do a flurry of stabs.

38:55And then it is so great the way that the combat expands. But this game is like one that I immediately am like, holy shit, go support this. Okay. It is early access. Can you tell me about the early access? What is this? I believe the devs said that there is about five to ten hours of content, like story content. It's a story game. This isn't anything that's trying to be like a multiplayer type or anything like that. It's just a single-player, top-down action RPG. And I love the art style so much because it looks so much like just a straight-up 2D pixel art game. And a lot of the environments are 2D pixel art, but the characters themselves are 3D models.

39:37Okay. but they're just like but they are comprised of like 2d assets that are on top of the 3d model so whenever they it looks like it's all just hand-drawn animations and stuff but it's really really convincingly well done 2d sprites on top of a 3d model and just the way that the the i don't know there's just so much cool like skill and and artful like x expertise behind all of it uh i love the way the characters look the way they feel the way they move and the main character you play i just like i want to keep on playing as or i want to see what happened it's one of the coolest openings to a game i immediately had to tell tim and greg like well greg was already stoked to play it i had to tell tim look i know you're not you weren't planning on playing this just play the intro for me because it's sick as fuck and it just reminds me of like being a kid and playing a really awesome JRPG from back in the day on Super Nintendo or PS1.

40:33I cannot sing this game's praises enough. It rocks. Everybody go support this one. The initial early access version will include the story up until the middle of chapter two with a total play time of about six to 10 hours. Additionally, it will feature an optional rogue light side story to add more replayability. Yeah, I did see that. That was one thing that I assumed was happening similar to No Rest for the Wicked, how No Rest for the Wicked is trying to do a big sort of campaign story style game. But there's also in world a roguelite thing that isn't just like you going to the menus and going to roguelite mode.

41:10It is something that is happening in world and has like lore purposes. And I don't know if that's the case here, but I did see in the menu that you could, you know, use your accessibility to um to have an extra re-roll for skills i was like oh shit is there going to be some sort of roguelite element to this and it does seem like yes this is going to be a campaign story game but i think it's like genius for an early access game to have a roguelite element to keep players in and have them continue playing and give them more value i think you know run good on the steam deck yeah runs phenomenally on yeah yeah runs awesome story number three Take-Two CEO is deeply disappointed by Bioshock 4's delays.

41:57This comes from Cade Onder at IGN. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is just as disappointed as the rest of us when it comes to the never-ending development of the next Bioshock game. For years, a team known as Cloud Chamber has been working on what is tentatively referred to as Bioshock 4. While some games can take as many as four or five years to make, Bioshock 4 has been in the works since at least 2019 when the project was announced, but it has likely been even longer than that. Cloud Chamber went through some restructuring last year to get Bioshock 4 on track for release, but no one knows when it is expected to come out.

42:29Take-Two CEO Charles Zelnick was asked by Gamefiles' Stephen Totillo if he was surprised by how long it has taken to make Bioshock 4. He noted that it's hard to be surprised when he sees the inner workings firsthand, but he is disappointed. Surprised? Never, says Zelnick. Think about what surprise implies, Zelnick said. That's like one day everything's awesome, the next day I'm like, holy shit, and I don't run the business that way. But if you're saying I'm but I think if you're saying disappointed, yes, deeply disappointed. Zelnick also addressed why it's taking so long and noted that Bioshock 4 may have gone down some paths that didn't pan out, resulting in setbacks.

43:04Well, I think in retrospect, wasted a lot of time and money chasing down some creative allies that turn out to be dead ends. He said it was reported last year that Bioshock 4's biggest issues revolved around its narrative and the team was was taking measures to overhaul the story. 2K Games stated at the time that it believed it had a good game, but was making efforts to deliver a great game that would meet fan expectations. Mike, what say you listening to this story? I know Tim came in here and may have distracted. Yeah, Tim is a fun one there. What do you think Tim's favorite donut is? That's a side conversation that we'll have.

43:36He grabbed the powdered sugar jelly donut. Okay. Felt very dad-like of him. Is it the apple one, I believe? He did look at it going like, these aren't my kind of donuts. So it is interesting. Like, what is Tim's favorite donut? There's not a single just plain glazed in there. Well, they fucked up the order then. Did they? Yeah, I ordered two plain, unless Greg already grabbed them. Doesn't look like it. I think this is the first one taken. I appreciate it. Is that the single plain glazed? No, there wasn't any. I was shocked. Look in there. Open that up. Look what we got going on. Is there a jelly donut?

44:09So they fucked up the order then because I ordered two. Okay, good. I knew someone was a miss. You're a plain glazed guy. Is there a jelly lime? That's what I thought. Sorry about that. No, back to this story. It is very interesting. And I think there's lofty expectations for Bioshock. And I think that's the big catch on this is like to return to Bioshock, to return to a number of big time franchises that we're going to see here soon. Mass Effect looking at you, right? Of course, Ken Levine with his own game that is very Bioshock-esque, right? Like there are lofty expectations. And we saw this like trying to bring back a franchise that's quite old, like Bioshock for sure.

44:45That was like, Hey, has the old heads. we're into that but like the younger generation do they know Bioshock will they connect with this will they want to play this it is tough to probably nail down and like make it great and I think that's what we're going to see with this studio opened in 2019 so they've been working for a long time trying to figure out where this is at and as you know right you take one misstep writing gameplay wise well it's going to take a long time to get back to ground zero restart and pick up over there. So yeah, this seems on par for what I would expect of like this is a lofty game.

45:19This is a big franchise. It's going to be hard to bring back and make great. Completely agree, especially because when I think of Bioshock, Mike, I think of a game that usually wants to have a strong message tied to it. It's not just a gameplay shooter. You're not just pumping out, you know, this is going to sound like I'm downplaying the development of something like a new wolfenstein but you're not just going okay kill nazis give the character a story whatever right like this every bioshock usually wants to have a really strong theme or twist or awesome thing that it's revolving around in addition to the cool powers to the cool gunplay to the interesting villains and enemies but it's got to be so nerve-wracking to try to make a fourth version of this game where you're not saying this isn't just a new far cry where we say whatever throw them in whatever new region oppressive regime you got to fight back and liberate the people this isn't that this is this has got to be more and players expect more from something like bioshock and i would love to be a fly on the wall and wonder and ask them like what were the creative missteps that you mentioned yeah the creative alleys that you went down that ended up being dead ends i want to were they just gameplay related or were they holy shit we're gonna do this story thing damn nope it's a little too close to home it's a little too similar to maybe what's happening in this day and age or maybe it's just a villain that you know the writing wasn't strong enough on that yeah no andy you you said it so well it is the message it is the oh wow the full circle moment when i think of bioshock right it is that first person shooter immersive sim mixed with the special powers.

47:09That's all well and great. And I think they can nail that gameplay wise. But yeah, at the end of the day, it's got to kind of at the end of it all go, oh, wow, they were going outside of what I was even thinking. And of course, right, follow me with this one. Ken Levine was the former head and face, the mind of this game. So like, he's not around now, right? He's making almost what Bioshock is probably going to be, right? So it's like, now you have competition in that area as well. that's a tough one for sure yeah he headed up bioshock one and infinite um and i think i don't know fully but i know that he was a big part of two but i think he was working maybe on infinite at the time while he was being developed uh correct me if i'm wrong chad and kindoffunny.com you're wrong but then yes when eventually when when he left um 2k and i'm blanking on the name of the studio red red something i'll look it up right maybe maybe there's red not even in the name.

48:04I don't know why I'm going to Red. Ghost Story Games? Well, Ghost Story Games is the new place where he's making Judas at. Oh, okay. I think it's something else. I'm blanking. But I will say this. I applied to work there back in the day. Okay, really? Didn't get an interview, unfortunately. Maybe they'll call. Irrational is a name. I'm seeing the word Red, and like Red fits like the R-A-T in irrational. That's what I was thinking. I was going to go Red Barrel? Close. Story number five. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth didn't get story DLC, but part three could if fans want it, director says. This comes from Chris Scullion at VGC.

48:43The third part of Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy could get extra story DLC after release if there's enough fan enthusiasm for it, the series director says. When the first part of Final Fantasy VII Remake was released in 2020, it received an enhanced update called Intergrade the following year, which included a new story expansion called Episode Intermission. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, however, didn't receive a story expansion, with Square Enix instead turning its attention to the third game. In late 2024, series director Naoki Hamaguchi explained that Rebirth didn't get any major story DLC because fans, quote, want to see the third part of a series as quickly as possible.

49:21Now, in a new interview with N Tower, Hamaguchi has further explained the decision to not release story DLC for Rebirth, while also noting that the DLC for Part 3 could be possible depending on how well the third game is received. Quote, When it came to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, we seriously considered the possibility of developing a story DLC right up until immediately before the project officially moved on or moved into the planning phase, Hamaguchi explained. However, within the context of its long-term trilogy, we concluded that running development of the second installment's DLC in parallel with the third installment would inevitably affect the third game's schedule and overall quality.

49:57At that point, I believe my primary role was to not add DLC, but to deliver the third entry to fans as quickly as possible at a level of polish they would find satisfying. For that reason, we decided to forego Story DLC for Rebirth. As for DLC beyond the third installment, I believe that will ultimately depend on how strongly fans continue to support Final Fantasy VII, both as a title and a franchise. If there is significant demand, And we'd certainly be open to exploring those possibilities proactively. Snowback Mike. Yeah. When the day finally comes and we are hanging with the cat man. Kate Sith.

50:35And the dog boy. Vincent Valentine. No. Red 13. There you go. Vincent Valentine turns into, yeah, he has like a thing. He's Dracula. Yeah. Something like that. will you be screaming from the rooftops more DLC, or is it going to be one of those situations where you say, I don't need it right now? Oh, no, Andy, we'll be screaming more DLC. We are, we'll a hundred percent be saying, Hey, we love this world. We love the characters. We love final fantasy seven. And what you did with the remakes, making it modern, bringing it back. Give me more. It will be very interesting of like, when I think of final fantasy, I think of all the numbers, all the entries, all the games, right?

51:18But there's a couple of them of like, these are the mainstay names here. These are what the people want. They're clearly continuing to build off of Final Fantasy VII, right? Like more DLC, more stories, more character backstories, whatever it is. I don't see us ending Final Fantasy VII after the third, after the third game here, right? Do you think there's an opportunity, that they see an opportunity to maybe brush up on some old, you know, after entry games like the Vincent Valentine game? I think so. I think people will want to stay in this world. I think they're going to want to stay with these characters and whatever you can give them, I think is a big deal, right?

52:00I think, first off, I love that they skipped DLC after two and went straight to three, right? I think there was such a, for me and playing it with you, it was like, I'm ready for the next one. Let's go. Like, let's get this thing going, especially knowing that number three is going to be the finale. we're going to wrap up this story. It will be something epic, right? And so like that two to three, having a shortened time before me, between that, I appreciate. So great job skipping the DLC. You could have easily done that, right? Integrate following Yuffie story. I really liked that. I thought that was good, right?

52:31Does add on production time. It makes things go slower, but you could have given me a Vincent Valentine backstory there. You could have gone a little bit deeper with Kate Sith. If you wanted to with a DLC, sure. But like, we want to get to the finale. after that, I don't think there's a world where people would be like, enough Final Fantasy 7, we're good now. Yeah, I I don't disagree that when Final Fantasy 3 you know, remake part 3 comes out that that'll be the end of it. I think there's too much love there. I think there's too much love for the franchise. I'm not saying that, you know, we're getting close to like another remake talk or whatever.

53:10I just think that at the end of the journey there will be other avenues that they've maybe always wanted to explore but didn't have maybe resources or whatever and and i think that once this final thing happens i think we'll likely get some sort of collector's edition pack of all three or something like that just to kind of get more fans in and then i would love to see you know i know when dirge of cerberus came out back in the day that's the vincent valentine sort of you know side story and that's more of like an action rpg and I never played it, but I was always like, this dude looks sick as fuck.

53:46I want to play this video game. I wonder if they see this as an opportunity to maybe go back to that. And, you know, similar to what they did with Crisis Core, let's try to, you know, make things better. Let's try to improve it in some way or modernize it in some ways. That's cool. I didn't know he had a video game. I don't know much about this world, so I'm learning it as we go. But yeah, I think of the main characters, right? Tifa, right? You think of all these clouds, sure, but like avalanche can be an avalanche like prequel story of how they came together, maybe shenanigans with Jesse and pizza wedge and like have some fun.

54:20But like the characters there all lead to, you could give people more and they would be there for it. Story number six expedition 33 publisher launches high-end reset game magazine. This comes from Matt Gardner at Forbes Kepler interactive, the London based publisher that has found overwhelming success with games such as Sifu, Chia, Pacific Drive, and the multi-award winning Claire Obscure Expedition 33 is expanding beyond digital releases with the launch of a new print magazine, Reset. The biannual publication aims to pace video games at the heart of its cultural landscape, arriving at a time when the industry is increasingly moving beyond debates over artistic legitimacy and toward broader cultural influence.

55:02With Reset, Kepler is making the case for games as a part of the wired creative conversation spanning fashion, music, architecture, and design. Reset will be overseen by Simon Sweeney, creative director at Kepler Interactive, an Irish-born designer and art director whose past work includes projects for FKA Twigs, the V &A, Andre 3000, and the Barbican. I don't know what that is. Reset is in his first radio on the printed scene. He also created Raid, which invited designers to create and develop identities for fictional games. Quote, With the world moving more towards digital and ephemeral ways of communication and interaction, we're really interested in creating something tactile and physical that people can engage with.

55:46Something beautiful that can have a place in their home that they can hold in their hands, says Sweeney. We're also interested in the permanence of a printed object. Something solid that can be referenced in the future. Perhaps Reset's most interesting editorial choice is its focus on individuals rather than specific titles or franchises. quote, our focus is not so much on the work itself or heavily reliant on IP, but on the individual, Sweeney explains. We also want to elevate how game designers and developers are celebrated and represented. Our approach is to make the magazine feel almost more like a fashion publication, end quote.

56:21He intends for Reset to be an ongoing publication with a biannual release schedule and a focus on expanding its contributor network. that's uh when i first hear about this news mike yeah and i don't know what the direction is but i do see biannual my my mind immediately goes to you're going to be talking about a lot of developers and games that get shut down and are and aren't around for the following okay issue or whatever i think biannual kind of odd like release schedule are you releasing one in january and then one in june or like that that seems kind of odd and not frequent enough i don't think okay um it feels like more like you're just kind of just selling a book every six months yeah uh what say you about a book trying to this magazine trying to say hey we're not really just about the the current dialogue on the games industry you want to be about like how culturally games are yeah i think it's pretty cool and different and neat right when i look at their website and i see the photos of the magazine opened up and i see the different images and the articles over here on the side it's like this screams you andy very cool ip different right it's got it's got the visual yeah it's got it's got some stunning visuals like hideo kojima is reading this right yeah like that when i look at this i'm like oh that's what this is and i think there is a market for that i think a lot of people below like hold on dearly to their old school nintendo powers and those moments of getting that monthly magazine this feels a little different than that but it feels like it's like hey what if you were more sophisticated and elevated of like we're going to give you something really greg and jen would read oh my god yeah that you leave it on the coffee table greg and jen are going to be reading this yeah i think with how nicely so much of the pages are designed can you send that to assets yeah for kevin or here we go kevin brought it up um i think with how nicely so much of this looks and is designed it feels like like you're kind of just buying a not really this publication not really a magazine you you are buying just like a almost an art book of a coffee table thing that you put down maybe you don't really open a whole lot but it looks really cool because the cover is super nice um it'll be interesting to hear the stories right like mixtape could fit into this and have a cool story with johnny galvatron and woody probably talking about maybe the music and that kind of design in this i could see that filling in a couple of pages really well wow you can buy it's 28 and you can get optional different covers for it i feel like that's woody right there when i say woody that guy with the shower head over his head oh gotcha woody yeah i feel that the curly hair i see the curly yeah wavy hair uh well this This magazine could be huge, Mike.

59:13Could be huge. But I'm tired of all that big news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go? Andy, I take you to our last story, the We News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. From Game Developer. There it is. From Game Developer, Clinton Hawking, former creative director at LucasArts and Ubisoft for projects like Far Cry 2, has started a new independent game studio. Announced yesterday via LinkedIn, Hawking wants his studio Build Machine Games to expand the expressive range and power of the medium. Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 launches this summer.

59:55I'm pretty pumped about that. Good for them. I liked Fireteam 1. That was the four-player PVE one right there. Nice, yeah. Good for them. Stopping waves of aliens. I had a blast with that. Me, Mike, and Greg played it, and then I played a separate time with Blessing and Alana. I had a great time with it. This is one that we should definitely put on the books for. There's a market for that. A little party mode. This Friday, you're going to have a fun party mode. Tomorrow, we're playing Far, Far West. Far, Far West. You've been pumped up about that one. That's right. Super stoked about it. Pragmata has sold 2 million units in 16 days.

1:00:27Awesome. That's a Capcom. Getting Pragmata 2, you believe? Oh, yeah, I think so. This will become a franchise. I think so. I hope so. Okay. From WCCF Tech, GameStop Canada has been sold, acquired by McFarland Toys co-owner Stephen Tetral will relaunch his EB Games Canada. Bringing the EB back. I like that. I don't know if it ever, did it ever leave? Well, I mean, I got to assume that in Canada, I think it's still EB. That's what I thought. Yeah. Okay. But GameStop Canada, maybe they're just trying to get that EB name back. I think they're trying to buy eBay. Oh, I did hear about this. Where are you getting the money from?

1:01:12We're going to pay cash and stocks. Okay, but... Okay, but still, Mike, how are you going to buy this thing? Pay it with cash. But you don't have that. We could always issue more. That's probably illegal. We'll get more, man. Apple Arcade launches four new games. Nick Jr. Reply, Per Chang World, Good Pizza, Great Plus, and Ultimate 8 Ball Pool Plus. and Skull and Bones has revealed its year three roadmap. Damn, they're still doing that. Good for them. Did that pirate survival game come in and clean? Windrose. A lot of people like Windrose right now. People are into it. They're saying this is kind of what I was hoping.

1:01:53Well, we've held off. What's the rare? Sea of Thieves. You and I are holding off, unfortunately, because Subnautica 2 has finally been dated and slated. and it's next week. I think we just cancel everything. Stop everything? Stop everything for a whole week. I love that. Just stay in the studio. Just keep playing. Get smelly and stinky in there. And that's it for Ween News. Let's get to our super chats and some you're wrongs. You can write into kindoffunny.com forward slash you're wrong. So let's know what we got wrong with the show. Zeke speak with a$5 super chat. says been getting physical game informers and it's been awesome recent cover was gorgeous oh yeah the recent one was really really nice um fuck well i'm blanking on it but i have it on my desk coming to you i'm blanking on it what would it be i don't remember okay shout out to the to the restart of game informer it's been fantastic oh it was soul frame i don't have that issue then where the fuck's my soul frame one i have the one prior to that oh you know what my card has been getting declined everywhere because it like expired the a lot of these websites still have the old expiration date and everything because once they issue a new one so i bet you i didn't get the soul frame one yeah ponton one of the community members out there made me give my credit card information to a sketchy website because like i said i should probably cancel my fucking ponton but we we had a lot of fun last night so it was worth a dollar 99 the former one is invincible yeah i think that's the one i have invincible i'm so excited for Soulframe.

1:03:32When are we going to play Warframe? Warframe. Yeah, but then Bless goes, I want to wait for Soulframe. It's like pick a lane, big cat. Well, Soulframe is really far away. He thinks it's soon. I'd say we just play Warframe. I think Soulframe is sometime next year. Okay. We have plenty of time to play a week of Warframe with as much content as they have there.

1:03:57LKreekree97 with a$5 super chat says, birthday tax happy birthday to me and mike happy birthday to you are you gonna go across the street and uh ask the ask the employee when his birthday is i did i did that yesterday what do you like to do for your birthday sleep poor charlie he was having a bad day what about you well tomorrow is mine yeah i was like low-key like sliding it by him you know just let him know just let him know it's i mean it's snow bike michael scott like why are we talking about birthdays just so you I mean, I just saw the episode of him calling the woman he's into. And like, happy birthday.

1:04:33It's not my birthday, Michael. Really? I thought we had the same birthday. Happy birthday, Michael. Thank you. It's me. Sancho West. Sancho West. Happy birthday to Sancho West. Absolutely. Mr. Beast. Oh, that's right. Holy shit. Danger Daddy D with a$5 super chat says, Bioshock is my favorite game of all time. I think once Levine left, studios completely lost on where to go with story setting and how to modernize. Yeah, I don't disagree. I think a lot of teams can still kind of pick up that slack, but I think Bioshock's just such a weird franchise to try to make another one of. Because it has to be the strength of a Bioshock game.

1:05:10Crazy after that one, yeah. Zach with a$5 Super Chat says, Happy birthday, Mike. By the way, I think Andy's filling you up with Red Bull, chocolate milk, and donuts, so you slip into a diabetic coma and he doesn't have to go golf with you.

1:05:25Andy saw the doctor's report. I'm in the green. He's in the green. He's immortal. It's going to take a lot more than this to get me into the red, just so you know. He is immortal. Remember that time when you drank about seven Red Bulls when we were playing Warzone? Yeah, it was a really exciting thing. You know what I mean? I'm sorry to Red Bull as well. They were like, don't drink that many, and I drank that many. It was like 2021. You drank like six or something like one night? I was excited. And then you were out for the next week. You're like, I can't play games. Fighting it. Fighting the devil.

1:05:51Struggling. Alex Frazier with a$5 Superjet says, I just bought both Alabaster Dawn and Mixtape. What a great day for Indies. Nice. I hope you have fun. How many great, so many games out there. Yeah. I bought Tekken last week alongside Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Age. Whew. Too many games. Yeah, we're playing, we got some redacteds, but Alabaster Dawn has taken most of my time. I still got to play Pragmata. Play a little mouse. You like Pragmata. You like Pragmata. For higher. A lot of games. Clawmaster with a$2 super shot says, Andy, thoughts on last night's win over the Wolves? I mean you expected them to bounce back great coaching for Mitch Johnson and apparently Pop was in the tape room yeah if I'm Pop I'm there Pop is in the tape room going let's fix this and that and Mitch Johnson is like you got it how do we become coaches would you be willing to sacrifice a Tuesday and Thursday night to head coach a local high school basketball team with me in hopes that if you can get me on the court in hopes that we get good enough to then get called up to college and NBA basketball and we become head coaches?

1:06:55I think never say never, but man, you know, because it's your birthday, I'll let you have whatever delusional fucking fantasy that you want. We have a couple super chats here from Peacock. Thank you for the$10 super chat. It says birthday tax present from my boy Snow Mike. Mike, you're a wild one. I love it. Please give this directly to Mike and get that man more milk and donuts. P.S. We should be together too. Go Flyers. And also says... Shout out to Andy for the birthday presents. also says games and margs to celebrate hi Dan and it's a super chat saying it's two separate super chats and I thought it was just like a copy of each other but it's not they're very different thank you for the endless content my bad with a super chat says play mixtape right now reminds me of the magical experience when I played journey and what remains of Edith Finch for the first time that's high praise right there and a final super chat from Jake Collado saying birthday tax turning the big 3-0 today.

1:07:51Thanks, Kind of Funny, for keeping me focused at work while keeping me up to date with all game news. You guys and the YouTube chat are awesome. Cheers, lads. Go May Babies. Happy birthday to you, Jay Collado. Thanks for your support. Shout out to Nightlife for your$2 super chat as well. Let's go to You're Wrong. What do they got for us? Yep. And to Kind of Funny.com slash You're Wrong. Let's see here. not a whole lot you were just like questions just people asking questions um eb games name does in fact live on in australia and formerly new zealand too that's from kebabs okay uh another we knew says steam controller reservations begin tomorrow or like new steam controller reservations because they sold out your pre-order you in where yeah i have mine oh you have one yeah they sent me the the review i've been using the review copy and i'll tell you what oh okay nice here's the thing man i i underestimated how much it would feel like a video game console experience when you turn on that thing and it vibrates it goes and it just felt so right and what i did was i plugged in my steam deck dock okay into my tv put that sucker in there connected the Steam controller to it and I was like damn, I want a Steam box so badly now I felt like this isn't just this this disparate experience of a bunch of moving parts on PC this felt like a this felt like a whole experience like, you know, it was like I am playing a console PC right now it felt awesome, I love that controller and it I really want a Steam Box now and I hope they hurry up and make that Steam Machine thank you to everybody for chatting in with your Super Chats and with your wrongs stay tuned after this we have the Mixtape Gamescast Review where Blessing, Greg and Tim will let you know all how they feel sorry I saw Kevin walk into the room and I was like oh shit what's happening where they will let you know how they feel about Mixtape then after that after that we have An in review for Mortal Kombat 2.

1:10:16Shit. What the fuck, man? That shit's going to be lit. Can't wait to hear all about it. I'm really stoked to sort of like gush about this movie. Okay. Or maybe shit on it. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows how we're going to feel. I can't tell you yet. And then after that. What's happening? Mike and Nick play mixtape. Oh, shoot. Full playthrough with Nick Scarpino. Only on Twitch. Only on Twitch. It's exclusively on Twitch. Only on Twitch. Thank you, Barrett, for that clarification because we're worried about the DMCA takedown. So Mike, Mike, happy birthday. Thank you, Andy. You are my best friend.

1:10:45I love spending time with you. I wish I could spend every single day of my life with you. And luckily, I get to spend about five out of the seven days a week. That's a little too much. It's my favorite. I had to get the two chocolate milks because of the time that you looked at me during the Hollow Knight Silksong stream. And as I'm ordering donuts, you said, give me a chocolate milk. And then he looked at me and he gave me a two finger. He said, give me two chocolate milk. And Roger said, no, don't get him two. Don't get him two. Just get him one. He's not going to get you two. And then Mike said, no, he's going to get me two.

1:11:16He knows better. I'll get uptight. Yes. And that's just an all-timer. Another all-timer. Thank you, everybody, for watching. This has been Kind of Funny Games Daily. Happy birthday, Stolebike. Mike, it has been our pleasure to serve you.