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23:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:From Software announced on Friday that it's adding duo expeditions in a patch coming on July 30th, allowing you to take on enemies across Limveld with one other friend. Since Elden Ring Knight Reign's launch in May, the title has only let you play by yourself or in a group of three. Elden Ring Knight Reign director Junya Ishizaki told IGN last year that, quote, this was largely a game balancing decision, end quote. In a May interview with IGN. Ishizaki apologized for not including a two-player mode, saying the option was overlooked and neglected. He also said the team would look into adding support for two players in the future, and now that has finally arrived.

24:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Mike, I've heard you say that this is one of your favorite From Software video games. How excited does this make you? Not that excited, Bless. I really enjoyed Trios. I didn't have the desire to play solo, and Duos to me is a nice fun thing to add but this is not drawing me back in any way shape or form right now I did think that this game was going to be the game of summer for me where I was just going to play this non-stop this was going to be my battle royale Fortnite habit I thought that was going to be it but when I ran through all the bosses that was it for me right I have not circled back to play as different characters and do it all over again it just seems to be like that was it for me and now I'm done but adding duos I guess is great I'm a little trepidatious about it because it's like that first boss is clearly geared towards three people.

25:29There's three wolves that come out of that wolf. What's going to happen? Are they retuning all these bosses now? I mean, most of the bosses are just one jabroni running around.

25:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:How do people handle that on single player? Is it just them managing? Good luck. Because they did tweak single player to be a bit more balanced. And I don't know what the verdict on that has been. And like, Chad, if you've played single player, let me know. How are you fighting those three dogs is my biggest question. How are you managing that? I mean, I think it's great for the health of the game. But I am someone who has now completed all the bosses, had a great time with the game. But I am seeking more. I am now asking you to put out more games. Almost become a live service. I know people hate that word.

26:14But for me, it's like I need Elden Ring Night Reign to be a live service title. where every month there is a new boss. Every month there is two new bosses. There is a reason for me to turn the game back on and go back and play because it did not capture me and hook me where I thought I would be living in this every single day.

26:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:See, I strongly disagree only because I think this is a game that doesn't want you to live in it every single day. And I think the success of this game is something that I want people to learn from, but they will not. I want people to make more multiplayer games that don't have to be live service, that can come out, maybe get support for six months to a year as far as like updates or whatever it is but then for the developers to go all right we've done we're done right like we supported this for a year to iron out bugs add in features that weren't able to make it to launch and all that shit we were putting it down we're keeping it running right like we're not shutting it down by any means but like we're keeping it running have fun with the video game that we made while we make our next one i love that i'll push back of like that is such a one-off situation for these kind of world of games of like but why I want to know Elden Ring has an established from software Elden Ring has an established fan base that is so massive that only really few few games could ever come out and be like we're going to put out a multiplayer only experience for a price tag of a video game not a free to play game there's money involved in this for you to be able to jump in there are zero microtransactions there is zero effort from us to say you got to live and breathe in this world for us to get player counts and money back from you and just say you know what we sold a lot we're happy with it selling a lot is the win but other games can't do that is what i'm saying it's like they don't have that install base to be like yeah let me buy this x multiplayer game that is going to just be what it is from day one and just kind of exist for six months to a year and that's good enough like people don't have that but i i think we don't have that because they're not trying it the right way like i like you look at a rematch for example and that came out that's a 30 video game that's a 30 video game right and it has sold millions and it has 5 million players and all that shit right and it didn't come out as hey we're gonna be a live service we're gonna last you know forever and ever no like that's a game where it seems like they're taking it as it goes and you know looking at all right we want to support this from for the next year or whatever it is and i'm sure we'll check back in a year and go all right let's support this for another year or whatever right like i think there should be shorter term goals with these games i'm tired of life service games coming out and being like all right to live like to be successful we gotta last five fucking years on this thing and continue to have roadmaps and updates and do this and do that it's like no i that's why i miss games like outriders even though outriders wasn't the greatest game of all time but it came out and they said we're not a life service well let me talk about saber interactive they're making great double a titles like space marine yeah that you will love that is just like that yes you know that's your bread and butter there i think it's just you're in a world of the games industry being so difficult to break into so difficult to survive in that like if you put out a game and it does not hit you are not making a second game you are most likely shutting everything down and going to find jobs somewhere else that's why it's like so difficult for teams to make this perfect rematch or night rain where it just comes out and can beat you rematch does have a battle pass and does have a storefront right but like but they're actively looking they're looking but they're actively looking for you to still give them money right night rain has none of that night rain has never asked you for a dollar since the initial purchase right there so it's like that is just a crazy one-off situation to be fair that no one gets to be fair i'm not even saying have zero micro transactions oh yeah i'm just saying don't you don't have to be live service just come out and be a multiplayer game well live service is such a blended name here bless of like live service can be anything live service is madden live service is nba and you don't think of it like that it's like live service is a different thing now but my thing is like i think there is a a market for a multiplayer game that you can sell and like try to measure its success by single player game standards of all right can we hit three million sales can we hit five million sales right like can you in the way that elden ring night rain right has hit five million here and i'm sure from software doesn't look at that and go ah shit all right well we don't have macro transactions so it's failure it's like no we sold five million because that's our goal our goal is to hit the the copy sold can like i'm looking at i'm looking at developers that have assets that are already made i'm looking at ghost of Tsushima and going make legends sell it for you use the same assets uh-huh sell legends for$40 by itself sell legends for 30 to$40 by itself and aim for 2 million units okay it might be small for them but like yeah aim for a number hey 2 million is good because like we're talking about this a lot of what you bring up is a flash in the pan a one-off like great situation right like We're talking about Peak selling, what, a million copies, but they're selling it for like$3 to$10, right?

31:31And that's like that one-off super streamer game, and they're also changing the map every single day, which makes it a live service title because it's live and every updating and evolving. That's why this live service has a weird, sticky, negative connotation to it because it's evolved so much that you say live service, you don't know which side of the map it really means, right? But I get what you're talking about. It's like multiplayer online games. Yes. Let's have a conversation about that. How do you make a game that can be sold for$40, come out, be great, and not need to be like, hey, this game has to be the next Fortnite.

32:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, our studio has to solely focus on this thing for the rest of our existence. And there's a very, that is a difficult thing, right? Night Rain is tough to point at because it has such an established fan base and market already that you and I making video game X are zero to no chance of that happening. Now, you look at Sucker Punch when you bring up Ghost of Tsushima. We could talk about that, right? Here's a game that people know. They're getting the sequel. Legends is something that's already happened that they can build upon, right? I don't think everybody and their mother knows about Legends, right?

32:41So it is going to be a selling point. But could we sell a Legends one-off thing like Night Reign for$30 to$40?

32:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:1 ,000 % you could. And get 2 million sales. 1 ,000 % you could. 1 ,000%. I see people in chat saying I wouldn't buy it, but 1 ,000 % it's selling that much. I'm going to say I don't think so. Why? I'm going to say I'm worried about that because$30 to$40 for a multiplayer-only experience right now in today's market is a very difficult sell. because that requires$120 from you and your group to jump in, right? Ghost of Yote is different. It's got the PlayStation backing. There's a name to it, but... That's what I'm saying. I'm saying... Two million is tough. With the Ghost of... You put the Ghost of Yote name on it and make it a good game?

33:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, it's selling that much. Like, I don't even think it's a question. I think it's selling that much. Do you think Legends would have done that? Because, like, is Legends considered a good game? Legends is fantastic. Like, I enjoyed the experience, but, like, is that enough to sell 2 million? I think that's a really good question. I think you would have to package it. It depends on how you package it and how you market it. Then I'll push back, why are these teams not doing that? Why is Sony who is trying to jump into a live service market? Now we're asking the same question. That's my question.

33:57Call them up and say, why are we not doing this? Because it seems like an easy dunk. If we have a good product and a good game and you want to get into the live service multiplayer push, why not push this team or say, hey we'll give you whatever help you want we're cutting studios left and right let's have them

34:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:help you let's make that i think they're not doing it because playstation for the last half decade has been convinced that if you're going to do a lot of multiplayer thing it has to be a live service thing which takes a level of devotion and dedication from your studios that just isn't viable if you want sucker punch to continue to make a single player ghost of yote game right i think it's the same way that naughty dog stopped working on the last of us factions or last last was online game because they said like oh well this would become our studio now and we don't want to devote all our resources to doing that it's like my my pushback would be you don't then don't do that just make a make a multiplayer game put it out i would have played factions i would have played factions for six months two a year called it good called it good yeah like i would have played the one and done thing you got that you did already in 2013 yeah exactly i would have played that game take that spit it out charge 20 bucks whatever the fuck for it so what was in of tea leaves back then to have these teams stop doing that.

35:10Because when you bring up what you're saying here, that reminds me of Mike as a gamer in 2000s to the early 2000s, right? Of like, these were everywhere. All of these single player games had the tie in with multiplayer games that just kind of survived and lasted with them until they died off.

35:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It was the fact that they were packaged in in one thing, right? Which takes dev time and also you're not seeing, you're not necessarily seeing the return on that. When you put last of us factions as part of the single player thing right like you can't really measure oh why are people like are people buying this for online more likely than not no people are buying last of us to play to play last of us and so i think that's first and foremost um and then secondly i think they see fortnite i think they see the numbers it comes back to the graph that i always talk about that playstation uh put up in like their uh financial earnings talking about how this is where games are at now like this is like 2021 or something like that this is where video games are at now this is how much money is being made off of post-launch micro micro transactions we want to focus on this that's why we're allocating now 60 of our budget toward live service i think that's the big thing right so they see they probably see a ghost of the lta or they probably talk to their studios and go hey like we want to we want to see more live service if you give us more live service then you're going to get more investment from us making these studios go well instead of just making a multiplayer mode let's now take what was going to be a multiplayer thing and turn it into this big live service thing that's untenable and then eventually gets cancelled because they couldn't do it.

36:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because God of War online as a live service doesn't make sense, Bluepoint. I love that you spin facts. That's what we're here for this conversation. That is very well said. Now the interesting part is, could you flip that selling point and say, hey, we're going to make this smaller multiplayer situation and we'll have sales and skins. This isn't a live service, but we will still try to capture a little bit of extra cha-ching, cha-ching, some money for you. I think 1 ,000%. Why is Sony not saying yes then? You know what I mean? Because they don't know what they're doing. I don't want to say they don't know what they're doing.

37:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They're business people. They know more than me when it comes to the numbers and all that shit. I just don't think they're experimenting with that stuff enough and trying with that stuff enough. Should Ubisoft try to experiment and bring back the Assassin's Creed multiplayer then? What we talk about Ubisoft. Now we start shooting over at other teams, right? Ubisoft has a fun idea of a hide-and-seek tag-like situation in an Assassin's Creed multiplayer. What are they hiding from? Especially when Among Us took over the world a couple years ago. This social deduction game. You could make Clue with Assassin's Creed.

37:46You could make Ultimate Parkour tag with Assassin's Creed. Why are we not saying, man, if we're only going to focus on the big three, let's make this for$20 to$30 and see what happens.

37:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Mike, I don't think there's any way to save Ubisoft. I can sit here all day and talk about, like, PlayStation IP or, like, you know, the big, like, Xbox IP or Nintendo IP and what I think should. No, there's nothing you can do. It's too late. We're done. Pack it up. All right? Let's wait to get bought out by some big corporation and, you know, have them fucking manage Assassin's Creed. And, yeah, no, it's done. I don't think there's a way to fix it. Very interesting world. And I would just encourage all the viewers and audience out there to remember live service is a really crazy umbrella that can be used in all different ways.

38:36So it doesn't always have to be negative. Yeah. I think with our audience, the moment you say live service, we immediately go to Fortnite and we don't want that and we get really negative. But remember that this term is so gray now because it encompasses so much. 1 ,000%. That change your mindset when you think of that word and stuff. Yes.

38:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And I know even what I'm saying, what I'm talking about, you know, I think, you know, it's the fact that I'm saying don't do a live service. Even what I'm talking about is a form of live service. I'm just trying to say let's make it measured. You know what I mean? But, like, I'm also the mind of I don't think live service is a dirty word. I just think it's being used in a dirty way by a lot of these companies. And they don't fucking know. Like, they overscope. They overestimate what they can do with what they're trying to do. really quick before we leave let's bring back the from software you know what should be next then what's that because of course they're making a pvp situation with duskbloods but you know what i would look to next armored core and i would be making a multiplayer standalone situation with armored core multiplayer see this is where we now we've changed the positions because i'm like that's not going to sell what are you talking about mecha break had you interested what if i said that armored core came out and has a small multiplayer mode where it is we are battling mechs i mean you have me let me look up because i i think i just don't have that same feeling about the armored core ip as far as the sellability of it i'm even impressed that we got armored core 6 fires or rubicon but even remember that game came with a multiplayer mode because i think that's the level that that that from software sees it at of like hey this is a core part of this franchise we're not going to spit it out into its own thing that's going to take a lot of time and effort and resources let's just make a mode within the game that already exists and call it a day for the people that really want that i i'll be fascinated about an armored cord multiplayer like live service thing i just don't know if it would work i just don't know because then you're talking

40:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:i thought the brief page was over it is over i don't know what he's doing I guess today there's another episode of Game Showdown that I believe Greg is on. And so this actually does line up. I just wanted to back the order. You know what I mean? I looked at the calendar. Games cast in review. Yeah. Game Showdown. I thought the champs should be on this show too. But I wanted to point out to everybody just so they understand that today's Game Showdown not a real episode. It's an exhibition. So this won't be on my permanent record. This won't matter for my world title. He's getting ahead of it. What was that?

41:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He said you're getting ahead of it. Your future loss. It's an exhibition. It's just a friendly. He's getting loose. How did you do? Your first time competing in Game Showdown last week. It was a bullshit game show. Nobody cares about Game Showdown. How did it feel? Finally come down from the ivory tower, get in the mud with us pigs. Audience has some bad answers sometimes. Wow, never got in Mike's way. Yes, you're learning. Never got in the champ's way. I don't know who made this game. Not in the three-time champ's way. Not my way. Three-peat. Three-peat. Bad concept. Game showdown, bad concept for a show.

41:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't know who comes up with it and who comes up with these games. They're bad. They're bad. Headline says it's a Ben Affleck show. I'm pretty stoked. Let's get it moving so we can get to all of the awesome content. But a great conversation with you. Yes. Night Rain was very, very well done. I really enjoyed it. I want more out of it. But we will see in the future what other games try to dip into that. we will and we'll also see what's going on these super chats because uh game maiden writes in and says ubisoft had splinter cell spies versus mercs and squandered it i hear so many good things about spies versus mercs uh roger speaks highly of it the whole franchise uh that's just one of those of like you got to start with the base though you got to bring splinter cell back and then we can go from there um cd splits and says thoughts on the second legends mode like the first i mean me and kind of talked about it there i would love a second legends mode i think it'd be fucking awesome i don't know if they're making it i i think them bundling in the first legends mode with ghost of tsushima proper i like i think that probably lost some return they could have seen on it i will honestly i think yeah they should have spun it out as its own thing and charged like 20 to 30 dollars for it i think as long as you want it's just their existing when i tell you legends was so good it is what propelled ghost of tsushima to like towards the top of my game of the year list that year and it doubled my time like in ghost of tsushima if i played 40 hours of the single player i played another 40 hours of the multiplayer mode um in ghost of tsushima the legends mode is fucking fantastic has a raid like a fantastic raid in it god what a game we're gonna continue on with this show but before we do i want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors this This episode's brought to you by Mood.

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47:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and we're back with story number three wolfenstein tv series is in development at amazon from fallout producer this is joe otterson at variety a tv series adaptation of the wolfenstein video games is in development at amazon mgm studios variety has learned exclusively exact plot details are being kept under wraps but the incredible official log line of the series simply states quote the story of killing nazis is evergreen end quote patrick somerville is attached to serve as the creator writer executive producer and showrunner of the project under his chaotic good.tv production banner jonah nolan lisa lisa joy and atheno wickham will executive produce via kilter films should this project move forward it would be the latest video game tv series at amazon for kilter films the company currently produces the hit prime video series fallout which is currently prepping to release its second season in december and has already been renewed for a third mike when i tell you this shit's gonna rock i couldn't be more excited i'm usually whenever we get these adaptation like movie adaptation tv adaptation news about video games i have such a fatigue because we're in the season right now where every video game needs to get adapted yes split fiction is getting a movie starring sydney sweeney we've gone too far that's not even a joke that's literal we've gone too far with this shit when i tell you when i tell you a fucking wolfenstein tv show from Amazon from the same people that brought us the fallout TV show that shit's gonna be good that shit's gonna be fire dude yeah I mean you read that and it gets a hell yeah from all of us you know what I mean it gets a hell yeah um yeah plus I don't know on this one I love Wolfenstein I like the idea of it um you're gonna have to show me did you play Wolfenstein the I played them all even Youngbloods I played a little bit of I also played Youngbloods regrettably but Wolfenstein the is it the new Colossus the second one the second recent one um god which came out in 2017 way too long way too well you know but like the story they brought us in that game was fucking fantastic I feel like that already it's like wow Wolfenstein has evolved to a place where the narrative side of Wolfenstein is now phenomenal like you give me a base that is BJ Blazkowicz fucking hates Nazis and murders a lot of them like I I feel like there's not much there's not much to fumble here you just look at it and say that's it that's gonna be it yeah this will be interesting to see I mean I guess my mind just goes to like when I think of Wolfenstein I think of like ultra violent non-stop shooting they have weaved a solid narrative in there but like moment to moment it is me just blowing limbs off hucking grenades into buildings like it's non-stop okay how do you make that into a really good TV show let's see what you got I'm excited for that.

50:33So, yeah. Take me there. Listen, I see the vision. I see the vision. Have they done? Okay, let's roll it back. I guess my apprehensive is like, my mind goes like, oh, shit, this is going to be Doom the movie. And if you remember Doom with Dwayne the Rock Johnson, it was really bad. Have they ever successfully created a hyper-violent ultra-shooter video game into a TV series or movie yet? Because I don't know a video game or movie.

50:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let me tell you about this show called Halo. Oh, shit. you like that right master cheeks we had it i mean we had it there was i mean they put it on a silver platter they had the moment and they just fumbled that so hard bro i so it's funny because i think you're right because it's tough for me to think of um show me one where it's like this is like this game is just so violent and non-stop shooting i show me the example i give and it's not to be fair like it's not non-stop shooting right but i would say fallout for a first person i thought of that for a moment like shooter rpg but you know there's a lot of exploration a lot of walking a lot of exploration a lot of walking a lot of narrative there and also just a lot of like fertile ground for story and like really wacky and weird stuff you can you can do with story but also something that's very violent and they captured that violence really well i think for me like wolfenstein 2 the new colossus right that has so much story to it that i view i view it through more that lens than just like the gameplay violence of it if you wanted in fact I wouldn't even expect like this to mostly be violence I think this will have a lot of violence they're gonna kill a lot of Nazis in this show but I think there's enough like story character stuff there that you can work with that like you have you would have a lot of that focus on there you would have like I mean you're gonna cast somebody to play Hitler and like you're gonna cut to that and it's always gonna be a comedy scene it's always gonna be like the actor playing Hitler saying the most outlandish being like the most fucking like degenerate person and like i don't know i feel like there's a lot of potential for what you can do character wise there it feels like the right moment i mean a great moment to like let's get it out there it's been the right moment for a while yeah exactly it's been the right moment since 2016 as the quote says the story of killing nazis is evergreen yeah it's it's funny enough because i was i was just reminded of the show man in the high castle which is based on a book and that show is amazon original and that was in 2015 um and that's about uh you know an alternate history where uh the axis power wins and they take over america and they split it up into a bunch of pieces including a nazi area so it's interesting that um it's amazon right that's doing this amazon yeah so it's interesting that they're doing that again so cool stuff story number four magic the gathering's final fantasy set made 200 million dollars in one day this is from jordan middler at video games chronicle magic the gathering's final fantasy expansion is the best-selling set in franchise history and sold 200 million dollars worth of product in one day according to its maker the The set which saw characters, locations, spells, and enemies from across the Final Fantasy saga appear in Magic the Gathering form was a monster success with every single product in the set quickly selling out.

53:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:For comparison, Magic the Gathering's Lord of the Rings set needed six months to sell the same number of cards that Final Fantasy managed in one day. Quote, we couldn't produce enough, Hasbro CEO Chris Cox said via GameSpot. Quote, I think we increased production runs on it four times pre-release. It was substantially by many, many very high double digit percentages ahead of any other production run we've ever done. And we left the market wanting more. End quote. A week after launch, boxes of these collector boosters were being sold for$1 ,000 at card shows, more than double the retail price of the box.

54:17Wild. Congratulations, big hit. It hurts as a consumer to see those prices because I want them so desperately badly. But yeah, this was like the right mix of it all. Bless. There is something brewing in the magic world that, of course, magic has been around for a long time. It has always been a solid foundation of interest, growth and opportunity. And now there's like something brewing here. Bless. Like magic is about to pop the roof off the place. I think it's a lot of this like secret layer. What do they call that? Beyond universes. Beyond universes. Beyond just kind of mixing in the pot, getting new eyes.

54:55and faces in that it's like oh man this cauldron is like gonna explode and it definitely did with final fantasy here yeah and you see that number spidey's coming soon yeah spider-man the property

55:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:is coming to this that's gonna do that's gonna go even crazier i'm dude it's tough to imagine like spider-man actually it's weird to compare spider-man and final fantasy but like spider-man again part of one of the biggest ips in the world when you're just talking about marvel like if i open up that wikipedia article which i still have opened up right you had star wars disney on pond man barbie uh wizarding world and then marvel cinematic universe is right under that right and then if you go down a few spots spider-man individually is right below that um under call of duty and batman funny enough wow this is just like overall franchise numbers of course um but yes spider-man one of the biggest franchises in the world that's gonna pop off but what i'm even more excited for is just like where you go for the future of video game crossovers because they're going to keep doing this after Final Fantasy.

55:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't know if there is any IP, though, that is available to them that would be bigger than Final Fantasy because they're not going to do Pokemon because Pokemon does their own thing. Yeah. I mean, well, the easy ones is you would go to FromSoft. Yes. And you would do a Dark Souls through Bloodborne, Elden Ring, Sekiro, of like, give us all that because it fits the world so well. I think that would pop off. That's a layup, right? That wouldn't do Final Fantasy numbers, though. I don't think so. I don't know if any video game one will be as big as Final Fantasy right this moment that you could tell me.

56:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Right? Like PlayStation overall. Like just the PlayStation set. Nintendo. Yeah, but like Nintendo, I don't think Nintendo's doing it. Mario. I don't think Nintendo would play ball with this. PlayStation. Who are you pulling from PlayStation? God of War? I mean, everybody. I would say, yeah. Yeah, God of War is an easy one. God of War, Horizon. I guess you can't do Spider-Man. Horizon with Robo Dinos. Robo Dinos. would be nuts like um what am i missing last of us last of us yes that's what i'm thinking yeah that what was that uh jamie and chad just said pokemon and i was like fuck well no because pokemon cards exist like that's the direct what if but like what if resident evil resident evil would be good right there um yeah now see my mind goes like i want halo i want gears of war how do you really start incorporating guns and things like that into it i mean and make it good like we're in space right now yeah of course we're going to space so anything's possible i asked my so i've talked about my friend lexi right lexi she's the witcher the witcher would be great the witch would be fantastic baldur's gate as well which they've already done baldur's gate but elder scrolls would be fantastic as well um elder scrolls would pop off again i don't think anything's doing final fantasy numbers i hit up my my friend lexi who is in the in the markets you know she's flipping cards let's survive lexi it knows everything and i sent this article to Lexi and I was like Lexi I want your expert opinion and she gave me a little bit of breakdown here she said I think Final Fantasy the audience is just more prone to activation since it's not really a singular IP it's more like a true franchise which makes a lot of sense lots of different stories and modes to play more entry points and I guess the fans are also starved for collectibles of course yeah which I think makes a lot of sense when you love something you want the collectibles Final Fantasy was great because every single one of the commanders was from a different game the whole set ran from different games and you can jump on and be like, oh man, this is from 6, that's from 8, that's from 1.

58:21Oh, I love all of this. And guess what?

58:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm somebody who, I've played a few Final Fantasy, well, I guess nowadays I've played a lot. But most of my Final Fantasy games that I've played have all been 7, right? 7 Remake, 7 Rebirth, the prequel one, the original Final Fantasy 7, right? I've played so many of those and I've played Stranger of Paradise. So, like, that's what brought me in. Mike, you played 10. That's what brought you in, right? Tim's a sicko. that's what brought him in you know like we all have these different connection points to final fantasy and i think that works so strongly in the favor of this set i think i think they square enix has so fucked up by not making a queen's blood thing oh queen's blood should have been expanded out queen's blood should have they should have made physical sets they should have made a digital game they should have all like hella final fantasy characters playable in those that would be cool obviously that would have not get a standalone game no for 10 to 20 bucks which it should have there's another one that's another one that in our back pocket there's another one chat but yeah spider-man is going to be massive how about this avatar avatar is going to be big like how big is avatar i'm not a big i wasn't a nickelodeon kid i didn't have cable back then so it's like that missed me again it's it's very targeted and specific like okay there is the avatar audience it's not like there's all these different entry points but a lot of people love avatar okay like avatar is what's converting half of my friend group it's a magic that's cool so it's gonna be pretty big uh mike we just talked a lot about a lot of big news in these first four stories but if i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news i need to know about where would i go blessing i would take you to our last story the we news channel where we cover all the small items you need to know about story number five through seven is we news we were asking which avatar the last airbender not the blue people not the blue guys yeah we should yeah clarify that shit they get confused like that that's interesting yeah i mean it's tough when you're both just called avatar so i understand i understand uh story number five through seven is we news uh story number five that we had crafton acquires the last epoch makers 11th hour games that's tough you know like honestly like you know i'm very happy for a small indie dev team to be acquired and hopefully get a bunch of money from a large company to keep them around and keep them in business.

1:00:42The large company sees dollar signs from them. They see dollar signs back, and you hope it's like this perfect hand-holding situation of like, we're going to be better together. But like after the last story we read, all about them and Unknown Worlds and Subnautica 2, it's like tough for me to be like, yo, y 'all, this is going to be a good situation. I read up on the 11th hour, pretty interesting, an indie studio that's based all remotely. They're a full remote studio. I thought that was really cool. Love that. You know, I'm sure Crafton will call and tell you to go get an office and everybody's got a mark from the studio.

1:01:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's crazy. Later in the story, they say that the acquisition cost them$250 million. Stop it. I'm joking. I'm joking. That's not real. Can you imagine, though? And then story number six, Dying Light the Beast has slipped to September 19th. That is about a little bit over a month. It was originally going to come out August 11th, right around the corner. People spoke about the previews on this. I want to go watch and read some of them because I'm apprehensive. I think you and I, we both reviewed Dying Light 2, and I was on the come down of the Dying Light franchise. I think you were a little bit higher than me.

1:01:46I am very apprehensive about this experience of me jumping back in and having a good time. The core there still always pulls me in. The open world zombie game with intense zombie action at night and during the day, and then, of course, the parkour world that you can just get lost in, create new lines and get weird with. I just I don't know if I'm ready to go back

1:02:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I personally needed this game to come out at a time Where other games aren't coming out It's tough for this game to come out in September For me I'm not playing this in September I'm sorry I love Dying Light 2 for the most part I loved it like a flawed game It's your 7 It's my 7 It's your Star Wars Outlaws It's like a 7 that I love like an 8 But I really really enjoyed Dying Light 2 and so I I'm looking forward to The Beast but am I going to push things to play the beast? Am I going to like make time? I don't know. You got 40 to 60 hours. You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't have that just laying around or 20.

1:02:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:If you mainline, like put this out in a January, you know, Dying Light 2 came out on the top of the year. What are we doing? What are we doing? More wee news for you. Marvel cosmic invasion has revealed two new playable characters, beta Ray bill and silver surfer. This news came out yesterday during Tim's panel. Congratulations, Tim. You did great. Thank you, Tim, for this news. Invincible Versus has added Battle Beast to its roster. Who the hell's that? I mean, this guy right here. He's on screen now. You don't know about Battle Beast? Was he in the first season? I forget which season he was in, but he's definitely in the cartoon.

1:03:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Okay, I haven't seen him yet. Maybe. He's all up in the cartoon. He's cool looking. In fact, I think he appears repeatedly in the cartoon. I like this guy. I also think this game is going to be fun. but also competitive space right now they're saying he was in season one so i've seen him there you go there we go assassin's creed shadows claws of awaji expansion is coming september 16th oblivion remastered hits nine million players milestone frost punk 2 launches september 18th and then finally according to bill bill coon the unannounced plants versus zombies replanted launches October 23rd on Xbox PS5.

1:03:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's go! Getting a pump up from Raj Daddy right there. Raj is hella excited. I'm so excited. I was on the subreddit and I was seeing that leak and I was like, I was fucking pumped up in my car. I was going crazy. Play Frostpunk 2. Oblivion 9 million players is wild. We're just waiting on the next one. You know what I mean? Todd. Todd. The time's ticking, Todd. Listen, I need that shit out in less than two years all right god howard um all right now it's time for super chats where you write in we have a conversation with the audience like that starting with kuma babam who writes in and says what colors would the mtg cross kind of funny blessing and still like my commander decks be roger and kevin would definitely be token cards okay first of all no we're not doing that each of us here is getting their own commander deck the 11 employees All 11 get a commander deck Maybe not all 11 We would all be legendary creatures They're for sure shitting on y 'all That's fucked up I'm gonna turn off the stream We're all legendary creatures I think the four founders are the commanders Mike doesn't like that Yeah I'm putting you as one of the commanders I'm a co-commander You and Roger are definitely co-commanders You're the second card in the deck where you're like well you could make a deck out of him you know what i mean you could yeah listen what my colors be i mean i'm a blue i'm a blue green player but i guess if we're sticking within like the lore and the idea mike i feel like mike is a is mike is for sure a white okay okay you know lawful actually good yeah like like there's a like a positive energy to him I was going to go with like Oh I love that bless I feel like you're white Pale We'd change it from white to pale I think I would be blue I think I'd be more blue More like Tricky Meditative Surprise I'm already three steps ahead of you Yes Greg would be red Fiery red Maybe red green even like red but also like there's like a ramp to it like he has a lot of mana he has a lot of he has a lot of resources yes Greg has a lot of resources he's always on the phone calling people yes like who are you calling today why are you calling somebody yeah it's always somebody impressive he's got a big phone he's got a big phone library Tim would for sure at least be blue because he's a schemer okay he's a schemer but I feel like he'd be blue in another color maybe blue white I'd see blue white to him because he also has that like innocence to him what's Nick black dying yeah decaying yeah angry maybe black red okay he's Nick and then what's Andy because they want Andy what's Andy Andy's energetic he's young he's youthful he is talented he's fun I feel like he's blue green I feel like Andy would be blue green okay because he's also he's also somebody he's always like he's strong when he's at his computer cooking up a graphic he's on the guitar he's on the guitar like he knows he won't hang out and spend time with me he has a bunch of skills yeah but then i'm unaccounted for hours yeah but then green because also he has a lot of resources as well yeah he knows people all right we did it did i say mine yeah i think it just said blue yeah uh shiny pebble says kf watches avatar last airbender mike watches it and people drop in at will christmas in july in october cozy stream lol what if people would love if you did a watch along of avatar the last is that good yeah it's like that it's like that because i'm trying to watch all of the air bud films and talk about it okay so if you'd like me to talk about air bud with you i'll talk about air but i'll i'm i'll get i'll give a hot take i think airbender is better than air bud that's my hot take that's my hot take everybody um golden spider triple six says so stoked for spider-man mtg set i already have pre-ordered like three booster boxes lol i'm excited i can't wait to see it they're doing something different it's not a full-on final fantasy thing right where we'll get four commanders and all that jazz i think it's a little less than that right i mean yeah they have those sometimes it's like the sonic one look at it i assume it's like the sonic thing Oh, no, no.

1:08:31No, Sonic was just Secret Lair. Yeah. Where you only got a handful of them. No, this is like, there will be packs on packs.

1:08:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Really? Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's exciting. Oh, yeah. Oh, then that's going to pop off for sure. We have to look that up. I think that's, yeah. How many commanders is my question? Because I've been playing so much commander. Ed Reed Fan 28 says, Amazon should hire Alan Richson, star of Reacher as BJ. Yes, I liked that. I saw that. Someone wrote like, have BJ as Reacher. but maybe it's like a Reacher type of TV series slash show, right? That would get me in. That could get me in. Oh yeah, he looks like he could play a BJ. It's Thad Castle. We love Thad Castle. He looks like he could play a BJ. See, my first thought and this is mainly just because of Punisher would be my guy Jon Bernthal.

1:09:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Just because I love Jon Bernthal. Yeah, but he doesn't have that blonde hair like BJ. Yeah, he doesn't look like BJ. Yeah, he gotta have that blonde hair. But he has that like gruffness and like I would believe that he murders down Can you believe he's coming back? I just don't see Johnny being like a more toned down setting. He's, you know what? He's very similar to Wolfenstein. He's murdering people. He's super murdering. Let's see here. Picto 3 says birthday tax for my 7 year old. Rented out the hockey rink and it was all Astro Bot themed. No Fortnite or Roblox. In Minnesota, everyone can ice skate.

1:09:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Happy birthday to Picto's 7 year old. That's really exciting. and also that's sick as hell yeah a whole ice rink that's astrobot omega buster uh says greg miller the coward not willing to put the title on the line supports him the true pokemon master wow okay you chose a side um and i'll do one more i'll do one more oh people a bunch of people wrote in about games i should stream next week so i'll read those snake eater writes in it says bless liza p optimistic says play dead take want to see what this game is about i am also excited for dead take dead take okay it's the one from the abu uh who did tales against arazal last year this one stars ben star and a bunch of different actors he got another game yeah coming out like in a week yeah yeah neil newbin is in it he did it he was asterian a lot of years sam lake is in it that's a good idea yeah you might want to check that one out that's cool okay um foxy steve says bless i recommend playing a game called ink shade it's a tabletop strategy game with real inscription vibes very atmospheric there's a demo on steam um and then last one from napoleon blown apart who says in regards to star wars i think it just sucks that we can't take chances anymore games used to come out and be okay then the sequel would be better i agree and honestly you should go listen to our conversation that we had yesterday with alivier nelson on kind of funny games cast uh because he's doing a lot of cool things over with his studio he talks about how he's made like 17 he's put out like 17 games the last two years and the number is increasing he has more games that he's putting out in the net like before the end of the year he's a very cool dude he um talks about how this is possible on multiple levels right even on the triple a level he believes that like these are changes that we can make um and yeah like he has a lot of good shit to say about like that exact thing and so go and listen to yesterday's gamescast if you want to hear more about that greg and roger used to say that to me all the time of like back in the day a good game would warrant you to create a sequel that would be a great game now it has to be great right off the rip and you don't get a sequel yeah yeah it's pretty wild to think about that of like there's so many games where you're like oh that was a good experience I look forward to seeing what they're going to create in the sequel and then it's like no this industry is not doing that yeah I just hate that I hate that sequels take that long I think that's bad for like series management I just made up that term right but like yeah back in the day where you would get fucking GTA 3 and then the next year Vice City and the next year.

1:12:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I understand that that's not possible because of how things have scaled up. But to wait like six to seven years to know what's happening. Yeah, you gotta be on that two to three year max. Even like three to four would be better. It just keeps getting longer and longer. And now I'm like, why have series? If I'm going to wait seven years for the next thing, I'm a different person. Every seven years, I'm a different person. You're a different person. Mike, that's it. Kindoffunny.com slash you're wrong. Rewrite in. Let us know what we got wrong. as we got it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later um Colonel Crank no they're trying to correct us about what a Baker's Dozen is I had it I clicked on it and I saw that and I was going to read and I was like you know what I'll just take the laugh thank you no uh Baker's Dozen is a tradition it doesn't matter about the amount of news stories what matters is what's in our heart in our hearts and what is that Baker's Dozen and with that we end this episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily where each and every week we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch, and on podcast services around the globe.

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