Star Wars Eclipse Studio is Doing WHAT?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 10.16.25

16 Oct 2025 · 1 h 9 min · 24 chapters

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In short

The episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily (Oct 16, 2025) focuses on several gaming topics, led by a debate about Pokemon Z-A’s early gameplay and production choices. Hosts discuss how the game’s heavy opening cinematics feel jarring, and argue that Pokemon needs voice acting for immersion, while also criticizing “wild zones” that confine Pokemon to tiny city blocks. They mention the game’s real-time battle feel (trainer controls, dodge rolls, ability casting bars) and compare it to anime-like presentation.

Key news

Quantic Dream announced its first free-to-play multiplayer, Spellcasters Chronicles, a 3v3 third-person arena with mage archetypes (support/tank/damage), deck-building with 50+ spells/summons, and summonable titans. Hosts question whether it can stand out in a crowded MOBA/live-service market and whether it fits Quantic Dream’s cinematic identity.

Other stories

Sony allegedly misled PS Mobile leadership about a The Last of Us mobile pitch (it turned out to be Horizon assets). A manga about Masahiro Sakurai launches in Japan (Nov 18). Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki dies at 58. Battlefield 6 reportedly sold 7M+ in three days.

Guests

Bless (Mike?), Snowback (Mike?), and “Master of Hype” Snowback Mike; Greg Miller appears later via “Gregway” (not as a live guest in this excerpt).

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Discussion on Pokémon

1:15 to 1:44

Hosts discuss their experiences and expectations with Pokémon games.

“This summer, Prime Video takes you back before Legally Blonde, before law school, and into the world of Elle Woods in high school.”

Discussion on Pokémon

2:23 to 4:57

Hosts discuss their experiences and expectations with Pokémon games.

“You know, this game desperately needs voice acting.”

Video Game News Overview

4:57 to 7:54

Hosts transition to video game news and discuss upcoming topics.

“So now let's go on to the rest of Pokemon, okay?”

Quantic Dream's New Game Revealed

7:54 to 14:00

Discussion on Quantic Dream's new multiplayer game Spellcasters Chronicles.

“Cause remember, this is kind of funny games daily each and every week.”

Analyzing Star Wars Eclipse's Gameplay and Studio History

14:25 to 17:38

A deep dive into the gameplay style and studio history behind Star Wars Eclipse.

“I think it looks good, if I'm being honest.”

Expectations for Star Wars Eclipse's Narrative and Action

17:39 to 21:06

Discussion around narrative choices and action elements in Star Wars Eclipse.

Concerns About Development Timeline and Funding

21:07 to 22:48

Concerns raised about the long development cycle and funding for Star Wars Eclipse.

“Do we do you think we actually see this game?”

Exploring the Challenges of New Multiplayer Games

22:49 to 24:56

Exploration of the challenges faced by new multiplayer games in a saturated market.

“what this looks like differently from the previous things.”

Super Chat Conversations on Game Development

24:57 to 28:00

Engagement with audience comments and insights related to game development.

“Let's hop into super chats here to see what people are saying about it.”

Voice Acting in Video Games

28:00 to 30:02

Discussion on the necessity of voice acting in various video game genres.

“You look at me like that was a dunk on Pokemon.”
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Patreon Promotion

30:02 to 30:12

Promoting Kind of Funny's Patreon and YouTube memberships.

Patreon Promotion

30:19 to 31:20

Promoting Kind of Funny's Patreon and YouTube memberships.

“Andy, if you're listening, we'll be playing this soon.”

Sony's Mobile Games Strategy

32:30 to 40:52

Exploring Sony's efforts and challenges in mobile game adaptations.

“Sony traveled to China to discuss mobile adaptation of The Last of Us with Tencent.”

The Life of Masahiro Sakurai

40:52 to 42:01

Introducing a manga based on the life of game creator Masahiro Sakurai.

“i mean microsoft and xbox purchased the candy crush team king mike and it's like what are you doing with that what's the plan here they purchased the candy crush team is playstation going to purchase the Candy Crush?”

Manga on Masahiro Sakurai's Life

42:01 to 44:21

Discussion about the upcoming manga based on Masahiro Sakurai's life and career.

“Chapter 3, The Beginning of Super Smash Bros.”

Tribute to Tomonobu Itagaki

44:21 to 45:40

A tribute to Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive, who has recently passed away.

Battlefield 6's Launch Success

45:40 to 49:24

Analysis of Battlefield 6's successful launch and its impact on the gaming market.

“Battlefield 6 has sold over 7 million units in three days, making it the biggest franchise launch ever, says EA.”

The Future of Battlefield Against Competitors

49:24 to 52:00

Discussion on how Battlefield 6 will compete with upcoming titles like Call of Duty.

“What does this do as far as, like, when the Call of Duty Black Ops 7, are we on 7?”

Microsoft's Production Shift

52:00 to 53:29

Microsoft's reported move to shift Surface and Xbox production out of China.

“Splinter Cell Death Watch has been renewed for a second season.”

Wee News Summary

53:29 to 56:00

Quick updates on various gaming news, including McDonald's themed burgers and EA's acquisition concerns.

“Hey, remember after the Microsoft deal, right, was it the head of the FTC came out and was like, told you I wasn't happy with this.”

Mike's Phone Upgrade Experience

56:00 to 58:09

Mike shares a humorous story about upgrading his phone during lunch.

“I was like, well, let me just stop by the phone store real quick to see if they can like fix it real quick.”

Gaming Community Overlap

58:10 to 1:01:04

Discussion on the crossover between the Halo and Call of Duty communities.

“comp scene coming over with the final halo event being next weekend that's gonna be exciting that Is the Halo community then shift over to COD?”

Desire for Traditional Shooters

1:01:05 to 1:03:13

The hosts express their needs for traditional arena shooters beyond modern games.

“I just fucking swing around, fucking shotgun you, and then punch you in your fucking head.”

Listener Interactions and Corrections

1:03:14 to 1:04:50

Hosts read and respond to listener corrections and super chats.

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2:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for thursday october 16th 2025 today we're brought to you by solo leveling arise overdrive the action rpg based on the popular solo leveling franchise launches on november 17th and is open for pre-order and wishlisting on steam and xbox pc but folks at twitchcon can experience an exclusive demo at the solo leveling arise overdrive booth and shady rays but we'll tell you about that later i'm blessing at aoa junior joining me is master of hype snowback mike big blast what up homie happy thursday to you great to see you happy pokemon day pokemon day is that really today today on a thursday I bought it last night.

2:53I played it. Whoa. You played it? Yeah. What do you think? It's a long first hour. You know, this game desperately needs voice acting. I'm sick of reading, and I'm being real. Okay. Here's the deal. You're sick of reading. I'm being real, real. Bless. This game has some heavy cinematics at the beginning that look like a movie, and it's just a little jarring when you're watching it, and you're like, I'm in the world of Pokemon. And then they hit you with a bunch of subtitles on the bottom, and you're like, here's my thing. Here's my thing. You're right. You're right that I think Pokemon should have voice acting, but not because I'm sick of reading because how much reading is in Pokemon?

3:31Let's be real. You're giving me one line. You're giving me in the middle. Like the fucking line. I'll meet you in the middle. Like, yes, we need voice acting. But like, it's not like it's fucking Disco Elysium you're out here playing. It's Pokemon. Well, I get it. I mean, it's definitely for the children to help them, of course, learn to read and get better at reading. I mean, I don't think it's for that. I mean, I think at this point it's not for that but like I think at the beginning it was a little bit right they're basic sentences they make you stretch a little bit if you're a child and it's like that's nice that's great but like we are too far gone into like how much we're putting into the art style the character design the world design to just not make this like the Pokemon anime the Pokemon movies that the children have seen like we got to go triple a budget on this we got to go big and beyond I don't know why we're up there already and not doing see and that's where I meet with you where I totally agree of Pokemon should have more it should have more you know flashiness it should have more flair it should have more production in terms of the look the sound the feel they have the charm yeah obviously they got the charm they got the stuff they got the Pokemon but yeah like I I felt that way for about Pokemon the entire Switch generation right and I and I say Switch generation because I didn't own a DS or a 3DS and so I kind of took a break after the Game Game Boy Advance games hop back in when we got to Switch.

4:49And I'm like, oh, we're still here. Like, Pokemon, everything else has evolved, pun intended. Pokemon, you got to get with the times. We got to catch up a little bit. So I agree with you there. So now let's go on to the rest of Pokemon, okay? Now we're in the city, bless. They've trapped these Pokemon in wild zones, which is one city block. And all they give them is just basic roadway to live in. And that's not okay. Okay, let these Pokemon be free, man. It's fucked up. that. Well, you're in a city, right? They're like, we blocked off a block. You want them to knock down the downtown area? I miss going on Route 101 from Pewter Town up to Lavender Town and getting lost.

5:27You want a different video game. Now I'm just on some city block, you know? You want a different... You're playing Pokemon Z to A. The whole premise of this game is that you're in Paris, basically. You're in a city. You are in a city. What do you want out of these people? I just... I want them to be free. I want these Pokemon out. You know what I mean? Have you played Pokemon Sword? And then what's up with me running around? What do you mean? There's this weird new one where we're real-time casting the abilities of my Pokemon. So, like, they're building up a bar. But I, as the trainer, am running in circles for no reason as of right now, right?

5:59They caught me a dodge roll. They got me running in circles. And the other trainer, the AI, is, like, in between the two Pokemon, getting fire blasted and water spouted on. And I'm over in the corner, like, why are you moving? Like, none of this is happening to us. I think. Why do I have to move? i should be the pokemon moving like totodile why why do i gotta move well because you don't play in pokemon you don't play as the pokemon you play as the trainer but also i think i think what you're asking for is more late game stuff where it is going to be when you're doing the pokey raids or whatever like when you're i forget what they're called i haven't i haven't divvied that deep into pokemon zeta a yet but i'm pretty sure once you're doing like the big pokemon battles or after like the big old pokemon the raid stuff then you're gonna have to do the dodge roll and actually like maintain your the health of your actual trainer but you're early in a pokemon game like yeah It's going to be simple.

6:45It's a long hour. It's a long first hour. Very long. You're not enjoying it so far. No, I'm in. This is a long first hour? It's a long first hour. Fair enough. Very long first hour. Never forget Pal World. Remember that. Never forget Pal World. God, Pal World was so good. I can't wait to play Pokemon Z Day. I'm not going to get to it for a bit, though, which saddens me. Because I do love a Pokemon game, but it's that weird thing, too, where I know I'm going to play it. I'm going to really like it. but I'm gonna have that inner disappointment that this wasn't something more I think I identify a lot with Tim when it comes to Pokemon that we love Pokemon so much that we just have high expectations for what Pokemon should be and so I'm gonna go into and be like man I love this shit I Pokemon uh Tim described it as feeling like playing the anime in the sense that like it is real time you're you're yelling squirtle use water gun or whatever right and it's all it feels natural It feels real time.

7:39It feels like the anime, which is all I've ever wanted. But the problem is that anime also looks really good. You know what I mean? There's a flair. There's a flashiness to all that shit that the games haven't been able to attain yet for me, but I'm looking forward to it. Enough about Pokemon.

7:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Tell me more. Let's talk about video game news. Cause remember, this is kind of funny games daily each and every week. They run you through the nerdy news and need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch, and our podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube spotify and apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show some of your thoughts and opinions as youtube super chats as we go housekeeping for you we're an 11 person business all about live talk shows so today after kfgd you're gonna get games cast which is greg miller apologizing to pc gamers that's the headline That's a big moment.

8:36I don't know if I trust that headline. Yeah, I wouldn't trust that. I wouldn't trust that. And so I'm curious on what that's going to be.

8:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We're going to tune into that to find out. Then after Gamescast is in review, it is the official Pixar in review re-rank. And then after that is the stream. It is an NVIDIA GeForce Now sponsored stream. Do you know where we're playing or is that a surprise? I believe Andy and Greg are going to surprise you. But a very special one with GeForce Now getting to show off that awesome stuff. Yeah. Very cool. and then uh of course today's gregway will be coming at you from the one and only greg miller thank you to our patreon producers college might be okay what okay his gregway might be embargoed is what he's saying oh wow he's checking in on it he doesn't know i think did you already record it did you know it was embargoed when you recorded it let's talk about yesterday's gregway though before he gets into here i like this halloween shirt you got going on thank you very much yeah this is something I floated an idea to the Gregway audience not too long ago of like hey sometimes I want to talk about stuff but it would be embargoed would you be down for me to record a Gregway that has to go up later or whatever and they were all like yeah of course but this one's not this isn't like a review embargo so I think it's going to be okay but I need to check with PR okay you gotta slack me I don't mean to I come in a million things happen I know they happen for you too I know you're busy too I'm not trying to put it on you What it really is is that I essentially build KFGD from top to bottom.

10:03And so by the time when I get to house TV, that's the first thing I do. I just feel like I'm letting you down, but so many times I come in and then immediately I'm direct. You saw me get pulled into a fucking meeting.

10:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's freaking Tim. Oh, we're going to lay somebody off. You know what I mean? You didn't buy us donuts. It's the only time we let Roger go. You know what I mean? But, Mike, we have to have a meeting later. All right. Sounds good. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Saw and Twining. For now, let's begin with what is, and forever will be, the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have six stories today. Baker's Dosser! Starting with our number one, Quantic Dream has revealed its first ever free-to-play multiplayer game, Spellcasters Chronicles. This is Ed Nightingale at Eurogamer.

10:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quantic Dream, the studio behind narrative games like Heavy Rain and Detroit Become Human, has revealed its first ever multiplayer game. Earlier today, studio founder David Cage shared a blog post on forthcoming projects mentioning it was working on a new multiplayer game alongside continued development of Star Wars Eclipse. Now the studio has revealed Spellcasters Chronicles, a free-to-play, team-based multiplayer game of 3v3 third-person arena battles. Check out gameplay in the teaser currently playing by Kevin. Players will take on the role of the titular spellcasters, mages of distinct archetypes split between support, tank, or damage dealer.

11:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Further, a strategic deck build system will allow players to select from over 50 spells and summons, plus there are summonable titans too. Quote, we're honored and excited to introduce spellcasters chronicles to players today, developed in our Paris and Montreal studios, said Cage. Quote,

12:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, I got there's there's quite a bit to talk about. Yeah, there's this. Is there a place you want to start? I mean, I am riding the high of League of Legends world right now, so I am deep into the MOBA scene. I am enjoying my MOBA high for a little bit, so we could talk about kind of the MOBA-esque vibe of this 3v3, kind of giving Dota slash League vibes, ARMA vibes for those who know. all random all middle one lane 3v3 oh okay oh well i guess 3v3 and that's what i mean arma yeah it's a game mode within league of legends all random heroes all middle so it's just one lane wait there's three lanes is arma the acronym yeah say the words again all random All middle.

13:04ARMA. A-R-A-M. A-M. You got me. You know what? I'm getting going right now. Give me a little time, Jack. Give me a little time. Give me a little time, bud. Jesus Christ. Let's talk about this. A multiplayer coming from Quantic Dream. I don't think anyone would have predicted here, especially with the catalog of games before this. waiting on Star Wars' eclipse, knowing the baggage that this team has from all the news stories that we have covered over the past couple of years. I don't think anyone's looking at this going, I saw this coming. No. Quantum Dream is such an interesting, strange studio because I look at this trailer.

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14:29yeah there's there's things i can be like yeah this looks good then there's moments where i'm like this could be a multiplayer game that comes and goes very quickly because i've seen a million of these now yeah i think that's the thing is i i i worry less about the quality of the game at least it's hard to tell from just a fucking reveal trailer right i look at this and i'm like all right i like the art style okay i can see that this looks like something i'd actually want to play once or twice i worry about i guess more of the the ecosystem that we're in as far as moba games and, you know, what we talk about all the time when you're putting out a live service and multiplayer game, what does the competition look like?

15:06And right now, the competition is fierce when you're putting out one of these. Smite 2, Pokemon Unite. What's the one that Andrew Renee and Leif Adams used to play all the time? Peragon. Peragon and their predecessor or something weird that he still plays. There's just so many of these, Bless, and it is hard to stand out. And most importantly, it is hard to get people to drop the games that they already love and have been invested in to play something new and so you have to be really something new fresh fun to get over the hump of the first week of sponsored streams people being excited for something new once that wears off by day eight do you still have the staying power i i look at this and i mean you played way more deadlock than i have right you're you and andy are obsessed with deadlock i look at this and it strikes me as deadlock with like a marvel rivals type type art style oh which i think and i think there is like a market for that i do think that there is or at least not even a market i think there is appeal in that i think there there will be people that look at this and go no that fits exactly what i want that like i think there's i'm not mad at the idea i'm fascinated by it coming from quantic dream as a studio of course quantic dream you know them from games like heavy rain you know them from games like beyond two souls and um detroit become human and fahrenheit right and like i i'm i'm in a weird place where quantum dream historically kind of a divisive studio david cage not a not a uh loved figure in video games in general right a lot of people they hate on david cage i'm not really a fan of uh david cage and his work i think his stuff can be cringy and off off the mark i do however i do really like the quantum dream games okay which is like weird to say because i i think the writing gets weird because the david cage aspect but what i like about them and this might go back to the blue point uh conversation a little bit is that up until now they've specialized in a certain kind of game and i think they've been able to corner that market and make somewhat quality versions of of those i am talking about that cinematic choose your own adventure game that feels like you're playing a movie of course we get those with things like the telltale games where we get them with like you know you have dispatch coming up and there's examples of those quantity dream did it with a very specific like art style and a very specific i think way of doing it that felt really fresh and really different and really quality um like when you play detroit become human and you finish chapter and you see the butterfly effect of oh if i made this choice over here that would have led to this thing over here i think there is a fun in that and they're able to find the fun in that even though there are so many aspects of it that were goofy when it came to the writing and the plot and all that shit i found those games really fun to play and i honestly would like to see more of that from the studio um i don't get i don't know if star wars eclipse is or was going to be that this obviously is definitely not that you say but it's just as far from what you are describing as you can pick right here yeah and it makes me wonder are we in another place where a studio is kind of like sacrificing their identity to chase after a bag in the wrong place like are we looking are we looking toward this MOBA type thing to be like okay we want to make more money but then you're going to make less money than if you just kept doing the thing that you were doing probably a little bit of yes and no right like they bring up there was another part of the team and another studio that probably had time right we just talked about yeah sucker punch you and I and being hey this studio we're one game track that's what we're going to stick with other studios you and I talked about they have enough size to be able to have different projects on the go be able to think about it ideate and you know develop certain things and here we are and maybe i mean if you remember ninja theory the people who made hellblade made bleeding edge a couple years back yeah and so these are one of those teams where it's like hey somebody has an idea similar to i think about obsidian with grounded right and maybe there's a groundswell within the studio that says we're having fun playing this or hey we got something here let's show more of the team and maybe more people start to build on that and they go yo let's do this you guys are working on star wars where you at do you really need us and the team goes hey maybe we can put this out sooner help get some cash flow is going on like you say chasing the bag that will help this and maybe sustain it or it dies in six months and we look back and go maybe we should have kept the team on something else yeah where you at with star wars eclipse i mean anything star wars i'm very excited for what is star wars eclipse i still haven't seen enough to look at you and be like yeah bless i'm all in on star wars eclipse right i think we saw a bunch of people banging drums and a crazy star wars song the last time how long ago was that that feels like it was five years ago or something like that we've not heard a peep since um here we

19:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:go it was announced in 2021 and so that's four years ago yeah we've not heard i don't believe we've heard a peep of it since i'm even trying to like i'm trying to click into articles to see if there is any sort of uh okay here we go on the Quantic Dream website they they talk about it being okay here we go Star Wars Eclipse is an intricately branching action adventure game that can be experienced in many ways and put the destinies of multiple playable characters in your hands created in collaboration with Quantic Dream and Lucasfilm games said in the High Republic era choices have consequences every decision you make can have dramatic repercussions on your journey, alter your relationships, the locations you visit, the battles you fight, and even the fate of the characters themselves.

20:41That's fascinating. Because that does sound like a Quantic Dream game. I was just saying, except for the action part. The action is a little nice right there, because usually you're kind of keeping it pretty basic on the gameplay when I think of Detroit Become Human. There wasn't too much action. But yeah, I think you have to have action in a Star Wars game with that IP. And then on top of that, layering in your narrative decisions matter type style that Quantic Dream is known for. And when you read that, that's the vibe I'm getting. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, I'm expecting a Quantic Dream Star Wars game, maybe a little more heavy on the action, but still a lot of decisions, a lot of narrative branching paths that can go left, right or center, depending on what I do.

21:21Yeah. That's what I'm hoping for. Do we do you think we actually see this game? Yeah, I think so. When do you think it pops up again? Yeah. like a trailer or something. If it's been four plus years and now you have another team working on another project, my mind would go to maybe two more years from now that I think they're banking on the other projects, maybe getting them some cashflow and some help to maybe buy them some time in a perfect world. Bless. I'd like to see this next summer with some sort of announcement at like a game awards with a fun trailer, but I couldn't tell you bless Detroit become human came out in what?

21:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:2018. it's been a minute since we got in a Quantic Dream thing right and obviously take your time uh you know work on work on your game perfect it you know a lot about quality you brought about the level that they bring you think of Star Wars yeah that's an extra layer that you got to get even higher up on for sure yeah but also that's just such a long wait for a new thing and makes me worry as far as what that funding looks like because we're talking about Quantic Dream not also not being under under PlayStation is the wrong way to put it because they're never owned by PlayStation, but I guess being published by PlayStation is the thing.

22:29Quantic Dream's last three big games were all published under PlayStation, and so you had that safety net a little bit there. That's why you go for a smaller game without a small, quick game. That's true. That's why you make something in the interim. You gotta do that. I do wonder what that looks like under Lucasfilm. I do wonder what that looks like, especially if it's most platform. There's a lot of questions as far as what this looks like differently from the previous things. Like you said, as long as they bring the quality, then I think you might have something but with the Star Wars thing, I guess not always.

22:59I was going to say with the Star Wars thing, you've got to bring the writing but the last trilogy of movies, I proved that incorrect. But at the very least, I want a well-written Star Wars thing. I want it to be good. I think we all want that. I know we all want that. I don't think anyone's going, I don't want that. They want that for sure. Let's go back to this Spellcasters Chronicles. Yeah. That's a terrible name. Yeah, bad name. Terrible name. Really bad name. You know, you asked if I think it's going to make it. I think Spellbreak back in the day reminded me of Spellbreak. Spellbreak was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.

23:31Spellbreak is right. Yeah, Spellcasters Chronicles, not the best name here. This is giving, if you remember when Overwatch was big and then there was Battleborn. Battleborn. At TwitchCon 2015 that I went to, we had Battleborn come out and that died immediately. That was from Gearbox, maybe? Yeah, this is giving that kind of vibes right here. Like you said, it's got a really cool art style bless. The 3v3 looks like all one lane type vibe with a MOBA. It will be interesting to see because you did bring up Marvel Rivals. And I think the problem with that is Marvel Rivals has Marvel, the IP everyone knows.

24:09Yeah. And is a Overwatch clone, right? Or Overwatch-esque game where it is a team arena, but you know you're pushing the payload. You understand what's going on. MOBAs not many I think the general wider audience have really dove in on MOBAs I think on the PC side you probably have a better chance with Dota and League of Legends being so prominent Switch you had Pokemon Unite I don't think that set the world ablaze of new people finding MOBAs right you had games like Heroes of the Storm from Blizzard trying to get new players into MOBAs and get them excited on the console side I mean you've had games like Smite around for so long.

24:48And I just don't see the general audience flocking to that. It's very tough to get people into this kind of style of gameplay, which is tough.

24:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's hop into super chats here to see what people are saying about it. Of course, Naveed K writes in with a birthday tax. Thank you for everything. Thank you so much, Naveed and happy birthday. Evan Curtis also with a birthday tax turn 30 today. I am thankful for KFCD to keep me engaged in the hobby as I get older and busier game daily. Happy birthday, Evan. let's see here zero sp says multiplayer game out of nowhere quantum dream not doing well or something i think they just i think it's a passion project could be a we need an influx of cash but i can promise you inside that studio there is a a good number of people who believe in this project that want to see this come out and enjoy playing it that's why we're here uh and then we got a lot of people talking about pokemon so let's show gears and go back to the pokemon conversation mike kerzer writes in and says the lack of voice acting is very noticeable but i'll say the gameplay with battles and catching is quite fun most fun i've had with pokemon in ages you'll feel it right away when you start it yang fam also says mike is 100 correct no va throws off the immersion and makes it unbearable and i i mean i agree with that i'm totally i'm totally with the voice i think every pokemon fan is every pokemon fan i think would like voice acting at this point my only my only rebuttal was to the point where you talked about so much reading which i'm like pokemon does there's your reading obviously because everything has reading well but it's like first grade reading problem is i'm voice acting it oh because you're playing it on stream because i'm i'm trying to entertain so i gotta put a little spin on that thing gotcha okay and i feel that i just don't love doing that you gotta do what i do which is assume everybody can read at the same speed that you do moments where i go dead solid i'm like i'm sure they're reading this too and i quickly click it i'm like did i give them enough time to read it who knows i for sure i'm just like guys you gotta read it yourself i'm not voice acting this entire game on stream i'm sorry uh kyle labeouf says in 2025 with the revenue they have from these games not having voice acting is unacceptable there's there's definitely a bigger conversation here about why doesn't pokemon have voice acting in a lot of things and i wonder my speculation station would be just pure pure development time thank you my my thing would be i wonder if it's just we got to get a pokemon game out every year a pokemon game and so we're not going to bring in extra layers to the process that are going to delay something we're not going to take our time we're also talking about a i forget if the budget was announced or leaked or whatever but earlier this week i saw people talking about the budget of this game compared to the budgets of other things right like this game doesn't have a it doesn't have the kind of budget you usually see for triple a things and i think that's part of the business magic of pokemon is that they're able to put out something for 30 million dollar budget and maybe probably sell more than a playstation first party game they're able to keep that shit tight well make it like an audible book then have one guy read it just he'll make no i'd rather have no voice acting than fucking terrible voice acting oh let's see let's see what else we got here uh see you vods and then your name gets cut off my thing i'm sorry they say why do other pokemon games like snap and detective pikachu have voice over but not the mainline ones big fan by the way great questions great questions here smaller game i also think there's there's certain genres that you got to have voice acting for like a detective pikachu i not that you don't have to have voice acting for an rpg but also honestly a lot of grpgs just don't have voice acting like i'm playing when i played metaphor re fantasia there's a lot of voice acting in that game but there are large segments of the most triple a grpg you can play that don't have voice acting to them because that shit just takes a lot of time.

28:35Digimon's got voice acting. There you go. You look at me like that was a dunk on Pokemon.

28:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Digimon's got it. Digimon got it. Why don't Pokemon got it? Donesta says, have y 'all heard about Rogue Jack 21? It's a Blackjack-inspired deck builder. Looks very much inspired by Bellatro. Haven't heard of it. A lot of these coming out right now. A lot of them. There's a slot machine one. there's a dice one one they got a bunch of them yeah guitar hero arrow says remember in 2021 when it leaked that they were targeting 2027 for eclipse's release and quantic were tripping over themselves to deny the reporting okay well there you go 2027 still a ways off and 2026 would be a great time summer 2026 you know video games show that video games they always come out on schedule the year that they say at the beginning of the video game development cycle on track they're always able to hit that especially internally when they announce it or when they don't announce it uh manny bagel boy sanchez says mikey thank you for the giveaway last night today i saw my family today i saw a family in need and i paid that money forward since i would have bought the game anyway just know your money went to to someone in need thank you bro pokemon to someone oh that's super nice there you go that's beautiful and then one last one from dainty to you says birthday tax got a costco pizza a day off and yote and pokemon a great weekend ahead happy birthday Danny T let's move on to story number two but before we do I want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games we can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors there's just one month left until the launch of solo leveling arise overdrive the action rpg based on the popular solo leveling franchise I adore solo leveling I've seen every episode and this game cannot come at a more perfect time as I patiently wait for the next season and being able to experience this world solo or with up to three of my friends for some co-op raids is right up my alley.

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32:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back with story number two. Sony traveled to China to discuss mobile adaptation of The Last of Us with Tencent. This is Sammy Barker at Push Square. Sony allegedly traveled to Shenzhen, China in July 2024 to discuss the prospect of a mobile adaptation of The Last of Us with Tencent subsidiary Aurora Studios, the same team behind Sood Horizon ripoff Light of Multirum. The Game Post has been sharing fascinating new details from fresh court filings submitted earlier today. And it's the first time we've gotten an insight into PS Mobile's efforts, the division fronted by former Zynga exec Olivier Courtemanche, which has yet to ship a product according to a testimony from court manch sony met with aurora studios at gdc in 2024 where it was pitched on the previously reported horizon spinoff for mobile it's alleged this would later become light of multirom but originally was intended to depict aloe in an asian setting with robotic creatures inspired by chinese legends sony promptly rejected the project in april 2024 a month after gdc but it would later travel to china in july 2024 to meet with Aurora Studios again.

33:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:What's fascinating about this is that Kortemansh and his team believed they were visiting Shenzhen to see a mobile adaptation of The Last of Us, but were simply presented with a version of Horizon instead. Kortemansh is quoted as saying, quote, I recall the slide featured a female character with costume design resembling Horizon's mix of travel clothing and metal armor and a robot slash animal hybrid resembling a Horizon robotic animal. Now that I have reviewed the promotional materials released for Light of Motorom, I believe that these images contained assets from the Light of Motorom game. I was confused by the slide given that we had rejected a potential Horizon collaboration and thought we were there to discuss The Last of Us among other opportunities.

34:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:End quote. It's a long flight.

34:28This summer, serve up the cookout classics, Oscar Mayer hot dogs and Heinz mustard. Grill up a dog, add classic yellow mustard, or loaded Chicago style. We all know it's not a cookout without Oscar Mayer and Hines. Wait for that one. Long flight. It gives, like, I don't know. Like, you're going on a first date, and then they pull the rug, and all of a sudden you're just watching, like, I don't know, fucking Five Nights at Freddy's Lore instead. And you thought you were going to watch, I don't know, fucking. Got them. Yeah. Got them. they were like hey we made this look really good like no we don't want that actually we made it look really good we said no to this yeah you got an interesting situation here of course as they brought up no mobile games yet right so we were in a mobile moment here with PlayStation Studios and Sony of like there will be something eventually they're clearly finding out what it is and surprising it's not Horizon if you watch the 8 minute long trailer on the team's horizon-esque game right there it looks pretty dope and i'm like oh wow i'm surprised they chose not but i guess horizon is burned them in the past but they don't trust horizon enough to do the be the first one i don't think it's that i think it's i think it's more so we already told you no like i think it's like hey we fucking said no well why are we coming and thinking let's see the last of us on mobile and what is the last of us on mobile really

35:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:going to look like i mean why they said this is 2024 so i wonder yeah this only promptly rejected the project april 2024 i wonder if it's coming off of last was online being canceled and sony kind of wanting to fill that void like we had the idea of doing a last was online thing so let's try to continue to chase that i just i'm not a mobile gamer and i don't have mobile gamers in my life there's a lot of mobile gamers out there that we hear all of these corporations really speak to of like there's a mobile audience and we want to activate that mobile audience. And I stand there every single time twiddling my thumb going, I don't know what that looks like.

36:31My mom plays Candy Crush. I've downloaded Monopoly once, but I see that we're putting Resident Evils on phones, but you're talking about something different. You are looking at something different. It feels like then just saying I put Spider-Man two on your iPhone. Yeah. I mean, I just don't see it because I don't have anything. and I don't have anyone in my life going, this is the best mobile game I've ever played. Let me tell you about Magic the Gathering Arena. Let me tell you, Mike. This is a fascinating one because PlayStation, they've had this mobile division for what feels like forever now.

37:09I want to say it's been four or five years. I remember talking about this since early on in PSL of You, right? Like, this feels like a thing that they've been chasing that they've just made zero progress on for the last four or five years yeah uh so i'm surprised we're still in this place where we've not really seen much out of it i honestly i do think horizon is a better fit for mobile than last of us i don't know what a lot i mean you point looks good light of most i'm watching this trailer this is an eight minute long trailer they got going on here i could i could see that easier and i think part of that is just we talk a lot about what a horizon multiplayer thing or live service thing can be we bring up um whatchamacallit monster hunter all the time as far as making a horizon game and monster hunter like they put horizon in genshin that was like the thing that originally got me to start playing genshin impact is that they put her they put aloe in that game so i was like oh man i want to unlock aloe and then 20 hours later i was like finally i unlocked aloe i'm not playing this anymore um but i could see the connected tissue it's it's you know has a brighter palette to it i think there's a lot going on as far as what you with weaponry and the different types of robots and creating new characters and creating stuff that i think appeals to more of the mobile side of thing not that last of us doesn't have that shit but i think people people just take last of us a bit more seriously yeah in a way where i'm like what does what does the mobile version of this look like the last of us the feelings that it invokes when i think of the last of us is not something i want to like experience i don't want to mobile on the go life right now mike the last thing i want is to log into last of us every single day that's true you know what i mean like horizon is a world and like give or take what you feel about horizon right so many people fucking love horizon i really like horizon that's a world that i can log into that's a world that i can be like all right let me get in do my dailies hunt down this thing take these parts all right cool i'll log in tomorrow with last of us do i want to do that every i want to wake up every single day to this fucked up world this dark fucked up world where there's clickers and i gotta be quiet and shit gold's gotta check in with you like oh man We just lost Maggie down the road.

39:09Oh, not Maggie down the road. Oh, man. Samara's been down the road. You got to go save him. Yeah, I don't know. But I will say, like, if you're a mobile gamer out there and you want to put me on, I'm definitely open to trying. I definitely don't have the best cell phone. Am I supposed to have, like, the greatest cell phone? What do you mean you don't have the best cell phone? This iPhone is definitely old at this point. What is that? I don't know. Like a 9 or a 10. I asked that like I know. I got a while. Look at my cool loop. Aren't they on 15?

39:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, you know, it's been a long time. It's been a long time. Hold on. iPhone 9 release date. I'm getting to the bottom of this. I don't think they made an iPhone 9. Okay, well, I'm somewhere in that area. I'm somewhere in that. How can I tell? They're on 17. Stop it. I need you to go into your settings. Oh, I'm a 12. It says 12. Oh, okay. I'm a 12 Pro Max. Is this thing capable of running some good stuff? iPhone 12, that's from, oh, that's from 2020. I'm sure you'll be fine. That feels like a lifetime ago. I mean, yes, 2020 does feel like a lifetime ago. 2020 and iPhone talk feels like a lifetime ago.

40:17Chat, can you still play games on that thing? Let us know. I feel like that should be fine. Okay. Does it run slow? No. I'm sure you're fine. Just go to Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. So not much happening. How often do you go to the app store? Oh, never. Oh. I was going to say, they tell you in the app store, don't they? of like you need this version or later i never look at it okay yeah people are in chatter saying you're fine okay you can play bellacho you'll be fine story number three sony good luck in your mobile endeavors wherever you land or give up like what are we doing here you don't need the i mean microsoft and xbox purchased the candy crush team king mike and it's like what are you doing with that what's the plan here they purchased the candy crush team is playstation going to purchase the Candy Crush?

41:04Are they going to purchase a... They got Zynga? Oh, no. What happened to Zynga? They have the head of Zynga. Well, yeah. This is the head of Zynga. The former head of Zynga's probably got... But are they going to buy Zynga themselves? No. Go buy Plants vs. Zombies. Bless this two-console gamer thinking is what somebody says in chat. No. I just understand the fact that they just don't got this. I'm opening my heart. Thank you. PlayStation isn't Microsoft. They don't have endless resources. And PlayStation is very good when they lock in and focus on the thing that's working for them. just do what works all right like we've been through this with playstation they make a vita ah shit we don't have the resources to make games for this let's not let's not put out games for the vita all right cool the vita goes away oh let's make vr all right cool we got psvr too and let's make fucking zero games except for a horizon oh man looks like we're not making vr games anymore this is what playstation does didn't really think that one through right let's make uh what was the was it play link or play what was the one where it was like with phones i mean this was their original mobile push where you're playing games with hidden agenda was one of the games oh okay they made like three of those use your phone as a controller essentially ah that's smart because everybody's got a phone everybody's got i mean everybody's got a phone but does everybody does do people want to play fucking last of us on their fucking phone i don't know that's you was

42:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:also another game in the game yeah story number three a manga based on the life of smash bros creator masahiro sakurai is out next month this is chris scolian at vgc a manga book based on the life of sakurai is set to be released next month in japan the book's title roughly translates to roughly translates as masahiro sakurai making the world more fun with games and promises to tell the behind the scenes story of the birth of games that entertained the world kirby and smash bros As reported by Famitsu, the book's six chapters are as follows. Chapter 1, Young Sakurai and Games. Chapter 2, The Birth of Kirby.

42:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Chapter 3, The Beginning of Super Smash Bros. Chapter 4, The Founding of Sora Inc. 5, The Legacy. And finally, Chapter 6, A Beacon for the Future. The book, which was supervised by Sakurai himself, will also include various other written sections about Sakurai and the games industry, including a timeline of Sakurai's life and an article about working as a game developer. The 160-page book will be released in Japan on November 18th at a price of 1 ,430 yen. That's about$9.45. There are currently no plans. Sorry, there are currently... No, they mistyped this. There are currently no plans, or I see, no known plans for an official English translation.

43:41Cool.

43:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, that's very cute. That's really cute. Yeah, that's nice. Shout out Sakurai. You love Kirby. Shout out. you love smash bros i also love the art of the manga cover yes of sakurai sitting at his computer with a gamecube controller is that a switch controller it looks like a switch controller yeah i absolutely adore this and so shout out to this this i'm gonna use this to transition into the next story which is a sadder story but what i'm gonna say is that i appreciate us giving legends flowers while they're still here give them your right sakurai is somebody that is beloved has made incredible games is super creative and i think has given such positivity and such good stuff to the games industry and so yeah like we should we should shout people out while they're still here which transitions me to story number four is a sad one dead or alive creator tomonobu itagaki passes away i'm reading from amber v at automaton itagaki known for his work on koei tecmo's ninja gaiden and dead or alive series has passed away at the age of 58 the news was announced through a message posted by a loved one uh to his personal facebook account on october 16th following his 10 years at koei tecmo games and valhalla game studios itagaki founded his own company itagaki games in january 2021 where he was reportedly working on developing new ips for pc and consoles obviously you absolutely hate to hear news like this you know rest in peace rest in power tomonobu itagaki of course ninja gaiden very iconic for the games industry that are alive iconic for the games industry and iconic for fighting games in general it sucks that you hear this news on the precipice of a new Ninja Gaiden game being about to come out seeing his legacy live so long when you're talking about Ninja Gaiden being here since what NES being such a classic video game series being able to stay so long that's power right there as far as what you're able to bring to the table in video games and so rest in peace rest in peace final news story, story number 5 Battlefield 6 has sold over 7 million units in three days, making it the biggest franchise launch ever, says EA.

45:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is Alessio Palumbo at WCCF Tech. Following Alinea Analytics report that Battlefield 6 has sold more than 6.5 million units, publisher EA has now confirmed that the game has indeed sold more than 7 million copies just in the first three days. This means Battlefield 6 is officially the biggest franchise launch ever over 172 million matches were played online during the first weekend and players accumulated over 15 million hours of streaming as as previously reported the game also registered the most concurrent players in battlefield history congratulations wow they did it they can you believe they did it i kind of can't you know i made the joke on a little fun TikTok I've made, but like it feels truly like it's been 10 years since Battlefield has really been up and been the one, right?

46:39And now I'm excluding two games that came in between them. Battlefield 1 and 2042, right? But like it is nice to see Battlefield really get the love it deserves and have people excited to play it, right? This is very, very good. The game is good. The game is super fun to play. It's awesome to see people buy in and want to play it, right and so it has nothing but up right now i will say now you have a big challenge you got to keep this audience right you got to keep the player base you got to keep them satisfied excited how do you continue to build off of that's right is the rumored battle royale somewhere near what's the map layout what's the map plan right you only have nine maps right now how do i keep you the player engaged and in the ecosystem because right now people are loving this and that's what i want you to say throughout the rest of the year that's my goal i can't i can't imagine being a developer and like being like guys we did it we sold seven million and then listen to mike be like all right what are you giving me next what's next we talked about this with halo we celebrated halo we all fucking stood up on our chairs we were like this rocks man halo so back and then two months later you're like mike i'm so bored of playing yeah i'm playing halo on streets all day and i'm so bored right and so like to this team you did exactly what you plan to do we've seen this for the past two months since the betas people have been going crazy for battlefield they love battlefield they want more battlefield now it is your job to figure out how to keep them there so i got two not many games nail this i got two questions for you lay it on me one what did battlefield 6 do right what did they get right that led to this they launched with minimal bugs and issues that was a big factor there okay they also i think in my personal opinion size down the maps they really identified what they wanted to be known for i always say my favorite word in gaming was levolution you don't see levolution happening in these maps right there's the all-out destruction yeah that they're being known for right love that there is no one giant thing being changed on the map forever right they really focused in and i think the maps are smaller now to keep people more engaged when you played 2042 and you played that first Florida map it was way too big and you got bored running from left to right side to side to go from different points to points to points and so now I think they really focused in on like make it a little bit smaller keep it tighter keep the gunplay happening at all times so people are always in it and that's you know my two big takeaways minimal bugs no crashing and hey we've reduced the size of these maps to keep people more engaged instead of getting them bored.

49:21Keep that shit tight. That's what you got to do. Second question for you. Lay it on me. The Call of Duty factor. What does this do as far as, like, when the Call of Duty Black Ops 7, are we on 7? When Call of Duty Black Ops 7 comes out, do you think that this is more, now becoming a more head-to-head battle, like we would talk about back in the day with Battlefield 3 versus Call of Duty? Should Call of Duty be scared of Battlefield, or should Battlefield be scared of Call of Duty? Like, do we see Call of Duty coming out and then sucking up the player base that we're seeing coming to Battlefield?

49:54Now, I'll start because everyone's going to get on me. First off, as the players, you should be very happy that you have two great shooters coming at you. We celebrate that. Now, on the opposite side, right, Battlefield has a very long road and two big tasks. I say two because it's not just Call of Duty. At the end of the month, we're getting Ark Raiders, which is an extraction shooter that everybody and their mother have somehow found out about and is excited to play. Yeah, right. We went from escape from Tarkov being too difficult and not enough people playing that and they don't want to play that to now extraction shooters seem to be all the rage and people are interested in trying it.

50:32Right. And that's at the end of the month. Then following that is Call of Duty Black Ops 7, which we all know we're on the hamster wheel. As much as people want to dog on Call of Duty, as much as people say, I'm leaving Call of Duty in the bust, in the past, we go back. No matter what, you will go back. And so for Battlefield, you have to find ways to keep players engaged and excited from modes to maps. It doesn't matter because you have two big uphill battles, two fights that is going to start clawing at your audience. And by December 1st to January 1st, we will really start to see the rocky road of like, all these games in their player bases and where their players go.

51:13Because no matter what, on October 30th, you're going to take a player hit because people are going to Arc Raiders. And then whatever Call of Duty's date is, November, we'll just call it 14th for fun. I don't know it off the top of my head. Players are going to go, right? And so your goal over these next three months is to withstand that. Or if you're EA and you've gotten 7 million units sold, you say, Mike, none of that matters. We made a bunch of money. We're happy. You nailed November 14th, by the way. Oh, thank you. just shot that from the hip uh mike battlefield six is doing huge numbers but they can't can't maintain those huge numbers we'll have to wait and see but i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news i need to know where would i go uh bless you'd go to our last story the we news channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about story number six is we

52:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:news starting off with one from the verge microsoft is reportedly moving surface production out of china uh the report claims microsoft uh has already shifted some of its existing server production outside outside china and is pushing to also produce more xbox consoles outside of the country this next one is from noble via vgc mcdonald's japan is selling street fighter themed burgers based on ryu ken and chunli really exciting that's pretty cool i love that that's pretty cool two-point museum cross vampire survivors free update is now available uh from From VGC, WWE2K25 gets John Cena-themed Farewell Tour DLC today, which also adds Brock Lesnar.

52:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Okay. Splinter Cell Death Watch has been renewed for a second season. And then one final one. From VGC, two U.S. senators have voiced their concerns about the upcoming acquisition of EA by a group of private investors, including Saudi Arabia's Sovereign Wealth Public Investment Fund. United States Senators Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren have now questioned the deal, warning of potential security risks and foreign influence over the Saudi-funded acquisition. In a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besant, who also serves as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the two senators urged the committee to apply searching scrutiny to this unprecedented proposed foreign privatization of a major American technology and entertainment company.

53:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Okay. I know there's a lot there. Hey, remember after the Microsoft deal, right, was it the head of the FTC came out and was like, told you I wasn't happy with this. So this is definitely something to keep an eye on. I'm sure we'll talk more about that as it goes. I would like to see, I guess, scrutiny applied to this in, I guess, a similar way. But given the people that are going, given the people that are making this purchase, I think this will go through just fine, sadly. Very sadly. And that is it for Weedews. let's hop into Super Chats see what y 'all are talking about here Falcon4196 says shout out to Mike for keeping an iPhone for five years I'm doing my best I even dropped this in an abandoned ghost tunnel and I can't hear out of the earpiece so I have to take all my calls speakerphone if I want to be able to hear it I definitely got it waterlogged because I was swimming in the lake and so all the sound only comes out of one of the bottom speakers but you know what I'm holding on have you thought about getting a new phone Yeah, I think about it all the time.

54:28But then I think, man, I got to go to Verizon. And that's like an hour to two hour long process just to get a new phone. And I hate that process. And I'm always the first one through the door. Mind you, bless. Every time I get a new cell phone, I'm bright and early. I'm first one waiting at Verizon. And the best part of Verizon is everybody knows it's so fucking slow that there is somehow five other people with me trying to pull the mic because nobody wants to do this. And sure as shit, I go in there and we just fucking DMV me. We slow this. I'm like, I want the new iPhone. I want to transfer this.

54:58Plug it in. Let's go. Swipe the card. Let's get it. And somehow typing in, what's your passcode? What's your email? What are we doing for lunch today? It's like, get it moving. I feel like you can. Can't you like buy the phone? Just buy the phone and then do it all yourself at home? I don't know. I'm so ingrained in the Verizon ecosystem that that's how my life goes now. As a rebuttal, how much of the process is long because you don't remember your password? No, I know the passwords. I know everything. I'm dialed in. I'm fucking locked in. I'm locked in. But I might just go buy a new one. I think you just do it.

55:30Just ditch it. You know what? Take this phone. Here's what I'll say. Whip it out the window. Because, like, take the first half of the day off work. Just commit to it. Just commit to it. No, I'm being serious. Mike's getting a new phone. But the phone's fine. I mean, you don't have to give a reason for why you're out. But, like, just take this. Mark off. Mike is out from 10 to 2. Well, I got a meeting today. I might not be around, so I might have a lot of free time. Yeah. Yeah, like, because honestly, last time I got a new phone, it was on accident, honestly, because like my charging port stopped working.

56:01Okay. And so like a big problem. I went to during my lunch. I was like, well, let me just stop by the phone store real quick to see if they can like fix it real quick. And they're like, you don't have insurance. And I was like, I'm pretty sure I do have insurance. It was a whole thing. But they're like, you just want to get a new phone. You have an upgrade anyway. I was like, yeah, just upgrade that shit. Yeah. And so I was like, it turned into like an hour lunch. But now the problem is, is it also a mic problem? Because you know me, I love to learn your backstory. Ask how your day's going. Roger talked about it on the Call of Duty experience when all of a sudden went the hotel registration.

56:32And I've taken 17 minutes to log into my hotel room because I'm asking the guy what's his favorite locations to eat at. Yeah. What's his mama do? That for sure is, yeah, you're doing too much conversation. Here's the other thing is make it a stream. Mike gets a new phone. Oh, yeah. We got to sit there and watch that. Actually, don't do that. We can't make everything content. Just get a new phone. It's a fun time. I'm an IRL guy. You get the new phone smell. You get the new phone features. I want that new phone because it's orange, and I want to put that green case on it, make it the Master Chief phone.

57:01There you go. I see you, Stein, out there. You're going to turn on the phone, and they're going to be like, everything is AI now. That's the other thing that they don't tell you when you get a new phone nowadays. They're going to be like, oh, let us tell you. I don't know what the iPhone is, but for me, my galaxy, they're like, let's tell you about Gemini. And I'm like, do I have to? And they're like, yes, you do. It's the only way to use this phone now. I'm like, all right, cool.

57:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's see here. Nolan Weather says, Mike, Digimon or Pokemon?

57:52i mean pokemon because i know it and i love it but i am really enjoying digimon i'm nine hours in i would encourage you to check out digimon if you're a digital monster

58:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:that's good i like that yeah uh trevor says please have mike film his experience getting a new phone uh resolute says a very small percentage big picture but cod is getting all of the halo comp scene coming over with the final halo event being next weekend that's gonna be exciting that Is the Halo community then shift over to COD? Is there overlap? I mean, yeah, I think there's a lot of overlap in all of these. You know what I mean? That's the matches. Everybody will jump to what's new, right? Sometimes I think we get a little bogged down and forget that we're all on goldfish mines here, where after a month, you usually get bored of a game and you're ready for the next one, especially when it comes to first-person shooters and the same multiplayer maps over and over again.

58:46so it is usually like by month one to three you're already ready for the next thing and we just live in this cycle all the time i need more games what are the other games that are like halo as far as movement and like the flow of it because halo i i'm still bad at call of duty and battlefield like those more traditional military shooters don't work on me but halo i halo infinite i was locked the fuck in i felt like i was killing it in that game there's not many comparisons to halo because the team arena style is kind of slowly, like, not many teams in there. Like, it's that and Call of Duty. You have the Marvel Rivals approach, which is a hero-based shooter with Overwatch.

59:22Which I love both. The search and destroy games like Valorant and Counter-Strike. So, like, you're not getting many team arena ones. X-Defiant kind of died, came and went, if you remember that. Yeah, I did. I don't know if you heard, but Splitgate 2 is making shooters great again. So, I mean. Yeah, Splitgate 2. If only it was still out. They came out with a TikTok recently where they were doing the Maui Waui trend. Oh, I love that. You just hang around and the Maui Waui song plays. And then someone wrote like, you don't got to come back. I mean, no joke, though. Splitgate would have been one of the...

59:56We played Splitgate, too, in pre-access beta, whatever it was. Splitgate was very good. Splitgate is a very fun game. I really like Splitgate. Too bad that had to come and go like that. Yes. But yeah, like that type of game. What happened to Unreal Tournament? Do we still do that? No, we don't do Unreal Tournament. We don't do Unreal Tournament anymore? Didn't they have Unreal Champions recently? But when I say recently, it's like the past seven years.

1:00:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The last one I played was Unreal Tournament 3 on my PlayStation 3, and that felt like a ghost town by the time I played it. But I need something like that. You don't get those. Damn. I mean, I do like Overwatch. I do like Apex as well. But I need something that's more traditional. I'm trying to have the announcer be like, headshot. You know what I mean? I love Call of Duty though. I mean, I played so much Call of Duty. It's not that I don't like Call of Duty. It's just that I'm bad at Call of Duty. Slow down. I want something that I'm good at. Oh, no. The catch is with Call of Duty when you say you're bad.

1:00:52All you have to do is slow down a little bit. But that's not what I'm looking for. Because everyone is just blind firing and running around corners. And if you just slow down like half a second, you usually catch those kids. Because that's why I like Halo. Because you are that kid. That's why I like Halo. Is I get the grappling hook and I don't have to slow down. I just fucking swing around, fucking shotgun you, and then punch you in your fucking head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I love that. Somebody says the finals. The finals? Is it like that? Is it more arena pacing? Yeah, it's arena pacing. Yeah, I think you might like the finals.

1:01:20I actually, you know what, Blas, I take it back. You would love the finals. You would love the finals. If you grabbed the squad and actually tried for like a couple of nights, you would probably really love the finals.

1:01:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Okay. Yeah. Thank you for that. That's a great poll. James here says, birthday tax. At this time of the year, I'd like to reflect on those less fortunate, like Little Snowbike Ike and Little Snowbike Spike. Despite what Mike tells Sarah Bond, they've not seen a scent of child support. Let them eat and play Xbox. Thank you so much. Is that their names? They're playing a lot of Xbox. Yeah, Little Mike and Susie are so proud of them. You've seen me. We've been on a college tour, me and the kids. We're going out to different college campuses. I'm showing them Stanford. Of course, UC Santa Cruz. We're going to head down to Santa Barbara.

1:02:08The kids are very excited about the next generation, the next journey. Wow. And I'm really proud of them. Great grades too. Great grades. Yeah. Yeah. 3.9, 4.2. 4.2. 4.2. A 4.2. That's when you go above and beyond, you get extra credit.

1:02:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, I like that. An A plus plus. Kyle LaBeouf says, Mike low-key skipping his weakness for horse racing gacha mobile games. Yeah, I guess. I don't really think of Genshin. The horse racing game that I played was on PC, so I don't think of that on my phone. But I think that's what mobile games are nowadays. It's Genshin and shit like that. Yeah, but I've never played Genshin. And the horse racing game was like, I played like three nights and I got addicted to it for a minute. I don't know. I just don't look for those experiences on my phone, I guess. I have a feeling that if you streamed Genshin, you would get really into it.

1:02:59What was the one where we... Infinity Nikki. oh yeah that was the dress up one yeah the dress up one which was really popular i don't know if

1:03:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it still is i imagine it still is um and that is it for super chats let's hop into kind of funny.com slash you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe let's see here

1:03:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:kebab says i'm not going to correct what arma stands for because i don't think mike deserves to know uh to know what it actually is after mangled that badly for blessing size only it stands for armed assault but the developer dropped that and went for the latin word for war oh wait so is it not is it a rom is it not a rom arma or it was a game when i think of arma i think of a i think of the mod that was daisy was an arma mod okay i think kebabs is wrong here i think kebabs is talking shit kebabs isn't thinking about a ram yeah all random all middle kebabs yeah we're talking about all random all middle um let's see kebabs also writes in and says bless is correct the playstation mobile linking line of games is called play link thank you for that got it eric says while probably just a joke from mike sony couldn't purchase zynga unless they do so from take two there you go but he wants to make a mobile play um see let's see let's see we're gonna stop there we're getting messy in these super chats guys a request for super chats i know i know i want context try to keep it tight like if you can keep it tight and then a link for yeah for the year wrongs sorry what i say super chats yeah keep it tight in the year wrongs because now that i'm sitting here reading paragraphs and i'm like well i gotta read it before i say something i don't want to say you know what i in here trolling we don't like that we don't like that all right we're gonna end the show there mike thank you so much for hanging out with me on this episode thanks for a nice thursday you got me going uh greg miller's gonna apologize to pc gamers next that's crazy to say we're gonna be there for it me and you we're gonna witness it all we're gonna witness it of course each and every week they run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitching on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon or youtube to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show enjoy the games cast next and everything after but until next time game daily

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