Xbox Backwards Compatibility Comes to PC! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.22.26

22 Jul 2026 · 1 h 13 min · 21 chapters

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In short

Kinda Funny Games Daily covers Xbox backward compatibility launching on PC (original Xbox games), reviews for Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, and other gaming news including Hasbro Zelda figures, Fortnite’s rumored “gaming legends” crossover season, and discussion of Marvel fatigue.

Guests (hosts/regulars on mic)

Blessing at E.O., Tim “Little Croy” (also mentions being sick), Poppy, Poppy “Tim” (as referenced), and Barrett (frequently discussed). No external guests are introduced in this segment.

Key claims

  • Xbox backward compatibility on PC is effectively an emulated/ported experience; four original Xbox titles launch now with enhanced settings (4x resolution scaling, V-Sync, texture filtering, anti-aliasing) and achievements planned later.
  • Avatar Legends reviews are strong (Metacritic/OpenCritic ~81); fighting-game fans like the movement/combos, while story mode and some options (e.g., CPU difficulty) hurt casual appeal.
  • Avatar Legends’ community hype may be impacted by controversy around developer Mike Zaimont and its timing vs Marvel Rivals/Marvel Token beta.

Notable examples

  • Xbox PC titles: Blinks the Time Sweeper, Conker Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Fusion Frenzy.
  • Avatar Legends: praised for satisfying bending-integrated move sets (Zuko highlighted).
  • Zelda figures: Tears of the Kingdom-based Link ($28) and Ganondorf ($43), releasing Spring 2027.
  • Fortnite leakers: Sonic, Kingdom Hearts, Vampire Survivors, Persona rumored.

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Chapters

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Hosts Introduce Themselves and Discuss News

0:18 to 3:08

Hosts introduce themselves and discuss their health and personal updates.

“We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.”

Roper Report: Xbox Backwards Compatibility

3:08 to 5:27

Discussion about Xbox's backward compatibility and its launch on PC.

“For now, let's begin with what is, and forever will be, the Roper Report.”

Game Titles and Features Overview

5:27 to 9:21

Overview of the games available with backward compatibility and new features.

“Blinks the Time Sweeper, Conker Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies High Road to Revenge, and Fusion Frenzy.”

Discussion on Gaming Ecosystem and Future

9:21 to 11:03

Hosts discuss the future of Xbox and the integration of gaming ecosystems.

Memorable Gaming Experiences and Personal Stories

11:03 to 14:00

Personal anecdotes related to past gaming experiences and favorite games.

Nostalgic Gaming Experiences

14:00 to 19:35

The hosts share personal stories about their favorite childhood games and emotional moments related to gaming.

“And a lot of just, like, poorly designed games.”

Avatar Legends Game Review

19:35 to 28:22

A detailed review of Avatar Legends, discussing its mechanics, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as community reactions.

“The lackluster story mode and complete absence of some basic options like difficulty settings for the CPU certainly make Avatar Legends hard to recommend to casual Avatar fans.”

Avatar Legends Game Review

28:28 to 29:29

A detailed review of Avatar Legends, discussing its mechanics, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as community reactions.

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Xbox Backwards Compatibility Discussion

29:31 to 39:40

The hosts discuss Xbox's backwards compatibility program and its implications.

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Hasbro's Zelda Figures Announcement

39:41 to 41:36

The team reacts to Hasbro's announcement of new Zelda figures and the potential for a Zelda movie.

“Hasbro recently blew Nintendo's fans' minds with the announcement that they've acquired the license for the Zelda games, opening the door to new figures of Link, Zelda, and the rest of the gang.”
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Fortnite's Gaming Legends Theme Rumor

41:38 to 42:00

Discussion on the rumors of Fortnite's next season featuring gaming legends.

Fortnite's Next Season: Gaming Legends Crossover

42:00 to 45:46

Learn about the rumored characters from other video games in Fortnite's upcoming season.

“Now, leakers believe the next season, which is set to start shortly after season three ends on August 19th, will be mainly focused on characters from other video games.”

Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Updates

45:46 to 47:38

Discover the performance targets for the Metal Gear Solid master collection and its implications.

“Konami released details about both Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker's performance on its website.”

Maestro: Conducting Game Coming to Switch

47:38 to 49:46

Explore the new game Maestro that allows players to conduct an orchestra using Joy-Cons.

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WE News Roundup: Awards and New Releases

49:46 to 52:15

Get the latest updates on video game awards and upcoming board games.

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NBA 2K27 Cover Athletes and Game News

52:15 to 56:00

Hear about the cover athletes for NBA 2K27 and other gaming updates.

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Fortnite Characters and Proportions

56:00 to 58:28

Discussion on character proportions in Fortnite and potential new characters.

Marvel's Hall H Expectations

58:28 to 1:01:18

Speculation on Marvel's announcements at San Diego Comic-Con.

“If Nintendo's doing the action figures with Hasbro, which they are, that would be the smartest decision to do an MTG set as well.”

Zelda Magic: The Gathering Speculation

1:01:18 to 1:04:20

Discussion on the possibility of a Zelda MTG set and its implications.

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Dench Attack Gameplay Discussion

1:04:20 to 1:06:16

Conversation about the game Dench Attack and its significance.

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Avatar Discussions and Show Wrap-Up

1:06:16 to 1:08:30

Wrap-up of discussions about Avatar and final comments about the show.

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0:00Nick Scarpino:It's Kinda Funny's Patreon Pledge Month. Support us at patreon.com slash kinda funny. We really appreciate it.

0:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Today's gaming news stories include Xbox backwards compatibility comes to PC, Avatar Legends reviews are here, and Zelda's new figures have been revealed. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.

0:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for wednesday july 22nd 2026 i'm one of your host blessing at eo a junior joining me is little croy poppy tim mo buggy gettys some fun news to talk

0:40Nick Scarpino:about today i always like hearing that cold open and it's like okay yeah no front-facing layoffs i don't know how deep into the show they might come there's always the risk there's always breaking news you know i don't want to show it doesn't go dark at all yeah i mean yeah there's always breaking yeah let's just hope for the best let's keep it positive news nintendo's given up like dude if like for some reason it's like nintendo just toppled out of nowhere this is miyamoto it's done it's over i quit and then you just see the dominoes of nintendo just disappears one day, I think I'll just stop playing video games overall.

1:17Nick Scarpino:That might be the end. Yeah, I'll just take up a new hobby. I'll get really, I get a lot more into magic. And I'm already into magic. Yeah, that could be a problem. Tim, how are you doing? I'm doing okay. Yeah. Had a rough couple days. Had a pretty vicious sore throat over the weekend. Yeah. And the last couple days, I've just been dealing with, like, the fallout of that. Like, I was telling Barrett that my throat was, like, so ravaged. Wow. Whoa, Tim. Wow. That it really is just sore. Okay? Like the last like two days and now it's like, it just is dealing with what it went through. Yeah. We got to get to say, it's just the truth.

1:55Nick Scarpino:But now the problem I'm dealing with right now is my whole like equilibrium's off. Like my ears are popped. Like my whole ear, throat, nose situation. It's just like not good. So I appreciate your patience. I think I had whatever, whatever you had, I had, but like way lighter. Yeah. Yeah, like as I was going home on Friday, I felt a scratch in my throat and the scratch persisted through like Monday morning. Yeah. But like now I'm good. But it was never I was always gearing up to wake up the next day and be like, oh, I'm done. Oh, I haven't been this messed up in quite a while. Oh, no. Yeah. And I was very concerned about little baby Sammy.

2:29Nick Scarpino:I'm like, oh, this isn't going to be good. But she had her six month doctor appointment two days ago because she's six months old. That's crazy. That thing is half a year old. Yeah. I don't know how that happened. But she's looking great. Everything's good. And they checked her. They're like no signs of cold or no signs of sickness or whatever. So I think we made it past that. But I'm happy to be back here. Happy to be talking about video games.

2:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Happy to have you here talking about video games. Let's get into it so we can talk about video games. Of course, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. We couldn't do this without our producers on Patreon.com slash kind of funny. So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, Delaney, the Psalm, Twining, and Lax Nomad. For now, let's begin with what is, and forever will be, the Roper Report.

3:14Nick Scarpino:It's time for some news.

3:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We have seven stories today.

3:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:A baker's dozen. Starting with our number one, Xbox backward compatibility launches on PC. Four Xbox games are playable now. This is Dave Aubrey at Video Games Chronicle. Classic Xbox games are now playable on Windows PCs. thanks to Xbox backward compatibility on PC, which launches today in an early release state. I'm going to pause there. Is it backwards compatibility if those games weren't compatible? Isn't that just porting? Yes. Aren't we just porting old games? Because backwards compatibility, I think, implies that we're playing something that was on a previous physical system, right? I mean...

4:02Are we just doing this for brand purposes?

4:04Nick Scarpino:What does it matter? why are you being so aggressive about this i don't think it matters like i'm like go for it bear i don't know if i'm being aggressive about it it's just yes blessing is bringing up a good point these are just ports i i think it's a backwards compatibility just for the branding and the sake of it because of what xbox has used in the past of like yeah we're all about uh backwards compatibility when really this is just a port it's just people are saying it's emulated is that true yeah but that's isn't that that whole thing so it's like isn't that what it always was so yeah it's like it's just semantics at the end of the day of like what so true backwards compatibility would just be straight up you put it still takes the cartridges like gamecube discs working on okay i'm one actually no because i'm getting more context in real time so i just thought that these are just games that are now being ported to pc but are these like are these emulated versions where if i play them nothing's like they still have the xbox button prompts and all that yeah oh then i take it back then i do think that's backwards compatibility to some extent i think it is still using emulation and all that to an extent because that's just how all of this stuff works oh right i mean i didn't know that part i just assumed that going back to the wii u playing wii games like it still had to boot into like a wii mode that was emulating wii yeah i just think of backwards compatibility of like oh i'm playing i have an xbox series x and i'm playing xbox one games or i have a ps5 i'm playing ps4 games when i think of pc i'm like that's a separate platform from xbox but i guess if you're emulating the original xbox hardware then i'll accept it it doesn't it doesn't matter it's a semantic conversation that doesn't matter i just read the backwards bad ability i'm like this is not just boarding but who cares the rollout of the

5:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:feature has started today with four games for the original xbox now available to play on windows pcs and handhelds such as the rog xbox ally the four games available to play now as announced on the official Xbox Wire blog are as follows. Blinks the Time Sweeper, Conker Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies High Road to Revenge, and Fusion Frenzy. Players can currently purchase any of these games on PC with more games planned to be added in the future. The titles are also included on all Xbox Game Pass tiers. New features have also been added to the titles, including four times resolution scaling, V-Sync support, texture filtering, anti-aliasing, and more.

6:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Xbox has also confirmed that achievements will be added in the future original xbox games have never had achievements but xbox plans to add them to both the console and pc versions in coming months cool a lot of dope stuff here

6:36Nick Scarpino:really love i've always loved xbox's support of older games and making them enhanced in ways that kind of feel natural to the system and ecosystem that they're in so adding all the v-sync support resolution scaling all that stuff is like that's great and they've been doing that dating back to the xbox i mean i don't even know how far i want to go but i'll just say the xbox one and specifically i'm thinking about the one x i remember uh once it got all its kind of like added bumps and special things like the hdr and all of that they were talking about they put that backwards for a lot of their their games would support things and it's like that's always been such a crazy thing that i never believed would just work as well as it does granted i wish it worked better and i really what i mean by that is i wish that it applied to the entire library like it is unfortunate that we're in 2026 and we're still at a point that we're talking about four original xbox games being talked about now and all right so we're going to be slowly drip fed these coming over to pc as opposed to just being like we figured out a solution it works now you know um so all the games that we also slowly drip fed over the last 10 years for the same program on the xbox itself um but we're used to that from everybody right we see nintendo clearly have done that whether it was the e-shop back in the day or now with nso playstation plus premium yeah you know essentially start on playstation plus you know i hate how they do it goddamn stuff yeah here's a couple games here and there and all that like just drip fed over time so it just kind of is the way of the world now but um these titles i do think tell a story this is very much like hey hey xbox games yeah they're not the gears and halos you know and i mean gears wasn't on og xbox but uh also like halo campaign evolved is coming out right exactly so it's like chief collection on pc why they're not going with those but fusion frenzy you know iconic launch title quality and like this this is one of those initiatives too that you're not i don't think you're doing this on any sort of big business level you're kind of doing this as a win for the audience slash like maybe preservation of the catalog yes i think that's why you choose these games because these are these are things that like your core xbox fans are going to look at and go oh hell yeah fusion frenzy and conquer like you don't think about oh we're splinter cell chaos theory or whatever like i'm sure that'll come i'm surprised stubs the zombies not here you know because it's just that level of just like yeah these are these are xbox games you know uh but i i do think that there was a deeper business uh move here and you're right this isn't going to move the needle in terms of like getting anybody like oh man there's never been a better time to be an xbox fan but i do think that this is the moves towards the helix future right we've always been talking about in the last couple years i mean xbox has been talking about how the next console is going to be more of a pc hybrid and at a certain point when do we just drop the hybrid and it's just it's just a pc it is just the ecosystem is just xbox and this is taking moves to one of the few remaining things that cause a separation between console and pc is the backwards compatibility of these these old games that they haven't had a solution yet for them working on the pc side this is them starting that process now um which again i kind of wish it was a little bit more like it's done and also it's like oh we're gonna add achievements it's like well then why why are you putting them out now like like it does they're saying this is early access right early not early

9:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:access but the article just says it's in an early release state which like all right i think but i read the xbox blog i can pull up the xbox blog to see how they put it but it seems like this is just it's just out you know i don't think it's like an early access thing but let me double check

10:14Nick Scarpino:yeah but it's just it's not feature complete at this point they're going to be adding more features over time which again like i don't think that it's really that crazy but that adding

10:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:achievements to original xbox games is cool rolling out today xbox backward compatibility on pc launches in early release what does that mean i mean it doesn't have achievements okay sure

10:34Nick Scarpino:yeah i don't know it's not fully fully done they plan to add new things but yeah again i just i do think that this points to the future that they've told us they're building which is it's xbox and everything you expect from xbox will be there including achievements and online play and your your you know past uh save history and just like everything like the xbox play anywhere stuff they've been working on for a long time and it works very well yeah and it's just gotten very complicated because of the pc console divide if we get rid of that i think they're going to be in a much better spot is there do you have any uh desires for what games get added on there soon and also are there games that would make you take advantage of this or is this more so you're just excited for the future of having this thing figured out overall yeah i'm more excited about the about the future because it's like you're looking at this i i like the idea of fusion frenzy but the thing is it's like we we have our xboxes we can play these games you know that's true i think is if i wanted to play some of these games i'd play them already but again i think it's cool that the um added spec bumps and stuff is there that stuff is great for keeping things good going for the towards the future where we know we're going to end up just further and further with xbox play anywhere it's just going to have to date further and further back um and just be able to like from that original xbox in 2001 all the way to to until xbox dies whoever knows what what 20 29 2030 who knows who knows but you had to get some snark in there uh i'm trying to stay away from the snark but look at these like fusion frenzy like any any excuse i have to pop in there it's been too long since we've done a fusion frenzy party mode i'll be honest i'm such a fusion frenzy hater and like i but i think it just comes from bad memories i remember being at my friend steven's house and he had two games there was like a whole afternoon i was hanging out at his house it was after church our parents dropped us off and then went to lunch or something and then we busted out two games the first game dead or alive 3 and when i tell you i was having a blast i was having the time of my life playing dead or alive 3 on that xbox one of my favorite things about dead or alive 3 is uh the character zach where his catchphrase was just it's bitchin like dead or alive 3 i think was my first 3d fighter and uh that game has like tag like 2v2 tag i'm pretty sure and i remember i remember it vividly actually because like the way in which the characters would shift out and shift in and like jump from the fucking ceiling or whatever or like i'm chat correct me if it didn't have tag but i like i swear to god it did because i remember i remember it i remember it had crazy ass like environmental the environment would change throughout the match like you fucking like get punched through a wall then like and i think sometimes that would intermingle with the tag because i remember like fucking uh punching somebody they would fall and then like my other character would come in and continue the combo type shit oh man i loved dead or alive 3 and then half of the afternoon they're like all right let's play some fusion frenzy and i'm like oh sure and they booted up fusion frenzy started playing and i was like this shit is angering me i don't even remember what it like the details of it was so long ago yeah i just remember just not having a good time and as a kid like that meant crying oh i i making you cry is I was like, I want to play Dead or Alive 3.

13:50Why are we playing Fusion Frenzy?

13:52Nick Scarpino:No, Fusion Frenzy. It's getting emotional. It's part of the charm. You know, let me take that back. All of the charm is that, yeah, it's not good. It's a Mario Party with, like, fucked up input. And, like, a lot of delay. And a lot of just, like, poorly designed games. But then that's kind of the charm. You know what I mean? It's like, it is a slot party game. But, like, that wasn't the goal. That was the first friend slot. The thing that brought back that afternoon for me is that after we played Fusion Frenzy, on their computer, they had a demo for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. 2X, yeah. Yeah, and so I just started playing that, and that was my first time ever playing Tony Hawk.

14:32And legitimately, you want to talk about how much of a crier I was as a kid? I was having such a good time, and then my parents came to pick us up, and I started crying. I was enjoying Tony Hawk's. I was enjoying Tony Hawk's. It was my first Tony Hawk experience. I was enjoying it so much that my parents came to pick me up. I was not having a good time earlier. I was ready to go when we were playing Fusion Frenzy. When I was playing Tony Hawk on the PC, my parents showed up, and I couldn't handle it. I was like, no, guys. I'm having the best time of my life right now. Please, just let me play more Tony Hawk.

15:05What ups and downs you had. Oh, man. I'll never forget that after you did it at Steven's house. That was a great time.

15:09Nick Scarpino:Going through this, though, Blinks the Time Sweeper is a game that you'd think that I would have played. I've never actually played it. Really? Yeah, I played a demo. I never played the actual game. uh conquer live and reloaded that's another one that like i i love conquer yeah but like it's you know it is not the multiplayer was fun i remember but like if i'm gonna ever replay this game i'm gonna play the n64 one oh yeah i don't really like this remake as much uh and then crimson skies is one of those amazing dog fighting games like this is definitely like one of the i was calling it a sleeper hit might be going a little far uh at this point but like cult classic Xbox fan base for sure um so yeah good good kind of rollout here I've weirdly I've played these games to different extents blinks the time sweeper my next door neighbor Freddy he was the kid I knew with an Xbox and I'll play Xbox at his place all the time remember him booting up blinks the time sweeper in my mind was a little bit blown just by the visuals of it I was like oh man this is this looks really cool but also I was very confused by what he was doing in the game and however it was just a lot going on in that game it scared me did it make you cry didn't make me scared uh conquer live and reloaded i of course conquer 64 was my jam i i forget was live and reloaded part of rare replay or was that just original i think that was just og okay i'm did rare make that's a really reloaded i'm not even sure i mean where was bought by xbox yeah around that time before that time but like i was yeah developed by rare either way i'm pretty sure i booted that up once and just preferred the n64 version crimson skies i don't know if it was high realtor revenge but i had there's only one oh there's only one okay then i had the demo for it on pc and i played that demo all the time um and it's not in a way where i'm like oh let's go crimson skies is back but in a way where like as a kid there was there was a moment i had where i was like this is cool yeah i never played a flight game before it was doing something for me and then yeah fusion frenzy made me cry i might you asked me like is there any game that i'm looking forward to when in the xbox one x era like i remember being super hyped on sonic generations because it bumped it up, I think, to 60 FPS.

17:12Nick Scarpino:And there was something that it added that I was like, wow, I can't believe this game is now in 4K or whatever it was. And then I remember really wanting the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy. And it took forever for them to come. And then only like, I think one in three came, but never number two. It was always something weird about it. And then they delisted it. It was always like a journey that I didn't want to go on. But we then hit a point now where I just feel like even with all these games, there's just allegedly a lot of... preferable ways for me to play old games at this point like with the kind of uh i don't want to say resurgence but i would say there was a resurgence of retro game enthusiasm and in the emulation space and specifically with the the new era of handhelds right yeah where it's like like barrett and i were just talking about it before the show with the iron thorpe yeah there's just uh i think more interest in getting old games to play whether it's with uh you know texture packs or uh mods or tweaks to like make things play the way you remember them playing and i feel like that stuff goes at this point in my life a little further than a more blanket increase here allegedly people are doing that with dk64 yeah and i might have seen a video or two oh man yeah the n64 pc ports man they're man it's crazy i cannot wait to see what that ends up being I also want to mention Jet Set Radio Future.

18:37What's up with that? What do you mean? Is that even on Xbox consoles? That was probably my favorite original Xbox game. Is it on Xbox consoles? Yeah, like modern. Can I play that on Xbox Series X? Did that ever get backwards? Oh, I'm not sure. It must have, right? I don't know. I don't think.

18:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, somebody says yes. Well, somebody says delisted. Oh. You cannot. I feel like I would have known if Jet Set Radio Future was available because like I have such nostalgia for that game in particular because the soundtrack

19:08Nick Scarpino:didn't it come bundled with the Xbox? I feel like if not bundled I think they were literally giving away a two pack it was this and Sega GT they were in the same disc I remember because that was another one at Freddy's house where we would play it all the time and then I'd see the other racing game and I'm like we should play this sometime

19:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:but then we always just played Jet Set Radio Future because come on come on but yeah xbox if you're watching or listening add that to this and stop blaming people off story number two avatar legends the fighting game reviews are out i got a review roundup for you right now sitting on metacritic at an 81 and on open critic at an 81 uh mitchell saltman and ign gave it an 8 out of 10 uh just to highlight mitchell is my favorite fighting game reviewer favorite fighting like when it comes to understanding a fighting game i look at him and i look at maximilian dude is my my two guiding goats yeah my two goats he gives it an 8 out of 10 and says the potential of avatar legends is immense this is a gorgeous 2d fighting game that excels as both a throwback to the bygone era of sprite based fighters and a faithful adaptation of the beloved cartoons it's based on it's got some of the most satisfying movement of any 2d fighter I've played, combos, routes that are challenging but immensely rewarding to learn, a 12-character roster that feels way bigger than it actually is thanks to the clever support system, and flexible combat that allows for a ton of creative expression.

20:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The lackluster story mode and complete absence of some basic options like difficulty settings for the CPU certainly make Avatar Legends hard to recommend to casual Avatar fans. But for fighting game fans looking for something with the sauce, Avatar Legends is about as saucy as it gets edward gafton at cg magazine gave it a 7.5 out of 10 says avatar legends the fighting game is mechanically sound and plays very well yet neither the single player offerings or presentation are up to par and then austin soother at tech raptor gave it an 8 out of 10 and says avatar legends the fighting game is not just a good well fighting game it's the best avatar game to be released we got codes for this um the code situation was interesting because the codes we we've had for the last week or so where like beta codes wasn't like the final final version of the game we got access to the final final version of the game yesterday which from what i can tell it seems like not much meaningful has changed between the two um but i didn't really play much of the beta version because i wanted to earn trophies as i played and all that stuff and

21:37Nick Scarpino:also i've been i'm in an x-hole tim you're in the x-hole i got it playing xenoblade chronicles

21:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you'll get in the a-hole soon enough i'll get in the a-hole soon enough and yeah i was also reviewing Splatoon Raiders and so I was doing that with my work time but I spent some time playing this yesterday and I'm I can't wait to play more I'm having a lot of fun with it I think the I kind of disagree with the presentation to some extent with Edward I actually agree with him when it comes to the menus I think the menu presentation and like the UI is very positive kind of like stale kind of not even stale it's static might be more the word it feels like there's not much of a oomph to when you first boot up the game and you're navigating the main menus once you're in the fights themselves i think they look wonderful

22:22Nick Scarpino:i think they look wonderful too and it it seems very divisive and i don't quite understand the division because i'm like this looks like a dream avatar fighting game right yeah i i understand people will be oh it looks like a flash game it's like yeah but it doesn't though yeah it looks like it but it's way more polished and it's like kind of like the nth degree version of it i just need to say real quick how stupid i am having not watched this show um which i understand is criminal um but it's just time and place of my life i didn't when this came up with the trailer i was like i didn't know that the show took place in the real world you know i have watched the show i also didn't know no it doesn't it doesn't oh shit it's just me talking about rollback net code jesus fucking christ confused the shit out of me just now go back like two seconds in the spirit it because like when you hit play it's before it says roll that i'm listening to him you just you just see you just said this and i was just like really that because they were talking about story mode a second ago and i'm like that's fucking crazy and then i was like oh no they're just talking about you can play online i kid you not i was trying to place my mind like is bossing say real is that a real place god fucking damn it uh there's no war in bossing say uh tim you missed That reminded me of a great moment from the happy hour that we had yesterday, which you could join if you joined the kind of funny membership.

23:46Andy thought Mike's Xbox sign was one hundred and fifty dollars. So we got live reaction to how much Mike's actual. Yeah, I'm gonna have to check that out. Yeah, it was good. It was good. God.

23:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, because I was like, why are there so many Fire Nations? Why is one of them in Missouri? like what's going on here funny um but yeah as somebody who's seen the show and as somebody who likes fighting games i'm having a blast with this so far in the old in like the hour that i played of it and i've played previews of course i've been looking forward to this game uh the whole year i think i think a few things suck about the state of the release that i'll talk about in a second but i know barrett you dipped into this right yeah and then i dipped out you weren't feeling it um it's more so probably the stuff that you're about to talk about that like i boot this up and i'm like yeah i don't feel great about playing this right now yeah we kind of talked about it last week where mike zamont is working on the team it was revealed that he was working on the team mike zamont is somebody who's known in the fighting game community is a not great person yeah back in 2020 when everybody was talking about shitty people in the industry and people were getting outed he was one of those names uh and it seems like the studio was keeping that secretive and then yeah it was real last week that he that he actually is working on the game and so that combined with the timing of this coming out right before marvel token and marvel token's open beta happening this week i think is going to bury this game because i the people you need to be behind this game are the fighting game hardcore and right now the fighting game hardcore is not feeling it they're not feeling the mike zayman working on it if you go to a thread on like a reddit or whatever people talking about this game and any any of those threads would be going to be people like yeah but i don't know about it anymore like this person's on it

25:35Nick Scarpino:what an unforced error that sucks yeah when you when you have a game like a fighting game that requires niche community to show up don't piss off the niche community don't piss off the niche community and like don't hide it that's even worse yeah and so like i man if they didn't have that and also if the game came out on its original date of july 2nd i think you would have had like a good month of the fighting game community really rallying behind this and maybe a bit more uh of the hype the avatar movie is coming out soon as well in fact it's coming out this week yeah it comes out this week comes out friday that's why it's lined up like this yeah but i

26:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:we'll we'll see how it does but i think both those things kind of don't give me faith in terms of people really showing up to it at least for now i you always have a tale to work with when it comes to a game like this of course it's a fighting game right now on the screen you're seeing that they have a year one pass and all this stuff evo is always the thing fighting game tournaments are always happening and so even if marvel comes through and takes out all of the air pun intended uh out of this game you still have space post the marvel token hype leading up to these fighting game tournaments to maybe have a community build there and you know you can you can always hit those mountains after but yeah there are some unforced areas here it's like man you know it'd be easier to be excited about this game if xyz thing but um that said like from playing it seems really good i want to play more i've been playing zuko and zuko of course he's a firebender he's like one of the main villains early on i don't want to spoil where i look at him yeah he's the guy with the eye that's all i need to know yeah i know his story yeah yeah you just need to see scar you understand who is i love using zuko in this game his projectile game is so satisfying and fun and i also not to belabor this game but i love so much of just the character move sets in terms of how well they integrate the bending in there like you press any button you're playing as a waterbender any button you press there's gonna be some waterbending involved you play as as ang the he's the avatar he's a bender that means zooming all over the place you play as tough like everything is rock it's it plays the way that it should these are people that understand how to make an avatar game and also understand how to make a fighting game um and so if you're somebody who's super into avatar and are curious or want to spend money on it like there you go it is a 30 game for the standard edition so 30 30 good for them yeah tim we're gonna move on to story number three 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 and speaking of ads let us tell you about our

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29:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:super chats for you times hero says too late xbox i'm already running linux damn hate to see it dang you get no conquer live and reloaded uh josh says birthday tax wishing my dad a happy 60th happy birthday josh's dad birthday josh's dad uh opinus prime writes in says this move by xbox is awesome and helps build their vision for helix is this a step uh in blurring the xbox versus xbox pc line that tim talks about i mean tim you pretty much already covered all 100 nostalgic accountant says if i were to give up on if i was to give up video gaming i would just watch television and movies i mean yeah that's kind of how that goes i was was i talking was i thinking about this or was i talking about it a piece of content well you just said you'd go

30:23Nick Scarpino:fall into magic if gaming went away i think that's what they're referring to here oh yes i know that i know that's what they're referring to but i feel like i was i was thinking about this even before this show of like if i'm if i ever just like leave like really do i'm just like i'm done this is blessing i'm done this is blessing i'm finished how am i spending my time i think i talked about this on yesterday's gregway maybe um i think i would just like i think i would just be outside a lot i think i'll touch way more grass yeah i probably do two sports a week tim wow Wow. Yeah. Wow. I think I'll just be somebody who lives life outside and has friends and does all that.

30:59Yeah. But I play video games and so I can't do any of that.

31:01Nick Scarpino:Yeah. You know, everything's overrated. Video games and outside.

31:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You know what? That's fair. Dave Bro writes in and says, starting an MCU movie plus X-Men rewatch between now and Doomsday. Also going through MCU and review for the first time. Happy Wednesday, gents.

31:17Nick Scarpino:Hell yeah. Thank you so much for watching MCU and review. it's always fun hearing people go back and like how much they rewatch and review in review is by far our most rewatched show when you go back and look at the stats it's like staggering sometimes like how much am I damn y 'all really liked X-Men in review that's crazy I mean I get it there was some iconic bits in it but basketball kid man beast with the mangoes but yes doing a MCU movie plus X-Men rewatch like damn that's that's so many movies that's the tough thing now is I wish like I wish I had it in me because it was such a fun time doing that for an award and honestly I just wish there was more like positivity it's like just the sheer amount of how loud the negativity is about everything just makes it not even fun it like takes away so it's like the idea of doing any type of like proper MCU in review like again even in a different form with slightly different cast or whatever it like almost doesn't make sense because like the people that don't want to have it happen for whatever reason are just It's going to be so loud.

32:21Don't want to have like an interview happen or just like over the Marvel stuff.

32:25Nick Scarpino:People that are over Marvel, they will let you know they're over Marvel. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's just, it's just tough. And like the reality is, it's like the people that are still rocking with it and still trying to be positive about it. Like they're just way more few and far between same thing. I'm in star Wars. Like it's, and we can blame at the end of the day, the quality of the content and the the quantity of the the homework overall but it's just like yeah amazing star wars projects can come out three of us watch them here kind of funny amazing marvel projects can come out three of us watch them and like there's no place to talk about it we talk about it people still don't give a shit dude i used to be i used to be so devout you know i was watching any any mcu thing i'm locked in i'm watching every i'm listening to every podcast about i'm taking up i'm taking and all the information i hit such a breaking point it's the tv stuff the tv stuff broke me and the thing is the tv stuff i would argue has more good than bad it has some stinkers i don't know about that i mean what i watched you guys react i watched y 'all react to the and the doomsday thing and this happens every time everyone goes in it's just like oh since end game it's all sucked and then everyone starts going through i liked that i liked that i didn't really like that one i liked that i loved that yeah but like i don't i mean if we're bringing down the tv stuff like I don't know, I get to Echo, I get to Secret Invasion Even something like Ms.

33:42Marvel Where I'm like, I had buy-in to Ms. Marvel Like 60 % of that show Just did not do it for me I don't know, I think the TV stuff is so messy When you get into, oh you had something here Oh I'm liking this, oh you fumbled the Finale.

33:57Nick Scarpino:I think that there's a couple Examples of that. A couple? Yeah Dude, let's talk about Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Let's talk about X-Men. Who watched Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man? That's the problem, it's fucking incredible people are just not watching the stuff that's fucking good yeah but is that i get the whole long was incredible it wasn't what people are looking for for marvel shows i don't know that's not the question i'm answering was it a good show or not yes it was wandavision incredible loki season one season two daredevil born again season one season two at the very least very good sure i think we're talking about very varying levels of quality secret invasion trash yeah sure but like Hawkeye that's fine Hawkeye was so fine fine at least if we're making the argument that all the superhero TV shows for Marvel have been fine okay I'm with you but I need more than fine I'm saying that there are more good than bad that's what I'm saying I very understand by that Eyes of Wakanda awesome my argument is that you need more great than fine Marvel zombies great yeah but you're naming you're naming stuff i'm naming the stuff that they're putting out but you're naming stuff that nobody wants to watch but but but that's that's insane that's like that's what does that mean like nobody wants to watch so they don't want to watch the good stuff i think i think we're just oversaturated with content on the marvel side and so like when you put out the stuff that's supposed to be meaningful for like the live action mcu stuff and it doesn't hit like it's hard to ask somebody who invested for something like secret invasion that is supposed to pay off of all the stuff that we're in for and then go also watch eyes of wakanda an animated thing that we have no promises going to connect like the core connecting get out of here who cares about the that's the mcu the whole point of the mcu is to connect and be interested yeah that's a point putting out good projects that also connect i i would say is the point and it works at its best and it's like when they are just putting out a bunch of shit and that just to connect just to connect just connect but i that's when it's a problem i think the oversaturation thing I think becomes more of the problem then because cool I am watching the things that you guys are really asking me to watch when it comes to the connecting part of it and I am very underwhelmed by that stuff and so when you ask me to watch stuff that is like you're asking me to watch so many shows and there's just too many shows period and so I'm not going to watch Eyes of Wakanda and I'm not going to watch like XYZ thing that you keep putting out when I have Cape Fear and fucking the Widow's Bay and fucking like all these other shows that I got some of these shows though I put up with those though Like these are, they're putting out banger, amazing content.

36:24Nick Scarpino:Some of the best stuff in arguably that MCU, that Marvel studios has put out. And Oh, we're just not watching it because we were over it. It's like, all right, y 'all, but people can be over it though. No, people can be over it. Yeah, for sure. But that's my, it goes back to my entire point. It's just like the, the negativity wins out. It's the starting places. I don't even care that it's good. I don't, I think Marvel was the one who, ones who created that negativity. I agree with that too. They put out way too much stuff and it became homework. Like I entirely agree. And the homework part is, yeah, the homework part is what I'm talking about.

36:53Nick Scarpino:I guess, like, if you're saying that people stop doing their homework and it's like, all right, well, all the payoffs, all the good stuff, you're not getting it now. Yeah, but you shouldn't have put out that much homework. You shouldn't have done TV. I guess I hear what you're talking about as far as the overall quality when you watch every single Marvel TV thing is better than the bad. But I just don't think you should put out that much Marvel TV stuff because people don't want to do that homework. So that's where I'm at, where I'm like the Marvel TV stuff ruined it for me. Yeah. I also just think people need to stop thinking about his homework and just think about it like do I like this or not and it's like if you're not liking it stop watching it that's what people did if you don't like Secret Invasion stop watching Secret Invasion I didn't but I'm still tired of it because I watched all your other stuff and it's been fine you give me great shit every now and then because I'm somebody who loved Loki Loki to me in my opinion is one of the best Marvel things I'm loving X-Men 97 WandaVision I loved except for the last episode which I think really ruined that show but I loved WandaVision for the most part.

37:50Agatha all along, I enjoyed. Daredevil, I can sit here and list to you all of the things that I liked, but what I will say is that I'm not liking all this stuff enough to then invest into eight other shows that I didn't get around to, because guess what? I got other shows and other things to do and other things to watch that are on other channels. I'm not doing all this just so I can know one reference in Doomsday, just so I can understand how Wakanda, I forget the name of the show, but the Eyes of Wakanda, how this specific thing relates to Shuri's story in two scenes in the movie. Yeah. It's just a lot of work.

38:21I'm fatigued.

38:22Nick Scarpino:Yeah, I get it.

38:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's the problem. Yeah. Oh, no. Gnarly Chuggits writes in and says, Good morning, Blessing Tim. I turned 32 today. Gonna play Magic with friends and hang out. Oh, yeah. Happy birthday. Have fun playing Magic. Alvaro CN writes in and says, July 7th, Xbox back was a bad ability program. Cloud gaming lead has been laid off from Microsoft after 37 years. let's not forget the smoke screen and here's my thing right i was as i was reading this story before the show i was thinking about it in the context of we've had all this bad news at xbox what's a distraction what's not a distraction i think last week's news of them talking about obsidians making a fallout and hey here's bethesus make a fallout 5 i think that's that to me is so much of jangling keys in front of our eyes and trying to distract from all the bad news to where I actually think that's insulting to your audience base.

39:16And guess what? Most people fucking eat that shit up. And so if it works, it works. But I think that is so much of a distraction. This, I think, is just something that's been in the works. And timing for them is just like, all right, we have this ready. I don't think this is a big enough thing to where it works as a distraction for all the shit that's going on.

39:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But maybe I'm gullible in that regard.

39:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Tim, let's move on to story number three. Hasbro's The Legend of Zelda figures have been revealed. This is Jesse Skedden at IGN. Hasbro recently blew Nintendo's fans' minds with the announcement that they've acquired the license for the Zelda games, opening the door to new figures of Link, Zelda, and the rest of the gang. Thankfully, they aren't making us wait long to see the first fruits of that partnership. Hasbro has been unveiling the first three The Legend of Zelda Heroes of Hyrule figures at Comic-Con, and iGen can exclusively debut images of the whole set. It's important to note that all three figures are based on the games rather than the upcoming live-action movie.

40:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Specifically, this set draws inspiration from 2023's The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. The Lincoln Zelda figures are priced at$28 each, while Ganondorf is priced at$43. All three are slated for release in Spring 2027. Pre-orders for all three figures will open on July 22nd at 5pm Pacific Time.

40:37Nick Scarpino:tim what's this do for you i mean a lot these look pretty damn rad yeah i just i love the idea that you know zelda's about to get busted wide open with this uh movie next year you know this being announcements that we're going to see even more of at comic-con like there's a chance we get the zelda trailer this weekend oh yeah you think like i mean i haven't looked at the panel situation so i'm not exactly sure if there actually is a place for it but they don't even need to be there technically to to drop something i think there's a chance i i don't i wouldn't bet on it but um i do think that it's interesting that these are tiers of the kingdom designs like i i was expecting them to be movie designs and i wonder if maybe we will end up seeing some of the movie designs which then would lead to maybe we had a poster maybe we get some announcements a subtitle or logo treatment or something uh in the next couple days but uh we're about to get into a a very hype zelda cycle between ocarina of time remake and the zelda movie and all the accompanying fun stuff yeah when do we learn more about ocarina do you think that's possible so there was a rumor that or there was a a listing for pre-order dates being august 4th um but that seems to have been debunked so that that theory i at this point i'm like i don't really fully believe it i imagine my money would be on either a zelda 40th direct that we get before september or uh just a general nintendo direct in september okay that gives us a little bit more info let's move on to story number four

42:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:fortnight's next season could be based on gaming legends including sonic kingdom hearts and persona this is chris scolian at video games chronicle fortnight's next season could be based around other video game characters that's according to a number of fortnight leakers including hyper x who believes that fortnight chapter 7 season 4 will have a gaming legends theme the current season which is titled runners has focused mainly on the game's official lore but it's battle pass it still included a crossover skin featuring john wick barry laughing the same thing i'm laughing at the the fortnight lore the official fortnight lore what is the official fortnight what's the story behind the banana there's peely you know there's the duck that does the how to do it to him pose no the rocks there they're they're friends what's his name what's what's the rock's name ben star is also in it because doesn't the rock have like a name like the situation or something like that i don't know that's something like that the illuminati some shit like that i think they were like probably bad guys but now they're all friends you know because everybody's gotta be friends now like the modern pokemon game oh tim knows what i'm talking about that sucks They're all friends.

43:15The foundation. I was so close. And they, you know, go pickaxe things. That's the lore, right? He says Ben Star kills Troy Baker. Yeah, that happened. And then Troy Baker came back, right? Of course. Who was Troy Baker playing? The blonde guy, the main dude, right? Oh, that's Troy Baker? Jonesy. Jonesy. Troy Baker is Jonesy? Yeah. Oh, I didn't even realize that. Wait, he died? Ben Star killed him. Brought him back. They killed Jonesy?

43:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Ben Star killed him? Damn, that's crazy. Damn, Ben. Now, leakers believe the next season, which is set to start shortly after season three ends on August 19th, will be mainly focused on characters from other video games. According to Hypex, the following collaborations have either been leaked or confirmed to be coming to Fortnite. Sonic the Hedgehog, Kingdom Hearts, Vampire Survivors, Ember and Blade, Colonel Hearts, Kakao Games. Tim, one of those is fake. Which one do you think it is?

44:14Nick Scarpino:oh definitely uh ember and blade i lied all of them real yeah damn for uh fortnight leaker sam

44:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:leaks also posted on tuesday that persona would be arriving in fortnight's next season saying this lent more credibility to the theory that it'll be a video game crossover themed season hypex also said crash bandicoot megaman and marvel tolcon were rumored to be coming to fortnight soon but couldn't yet confirm this and so didn't count them in their list of leaked or confirmed crossovers wow nearly seven 70 video game characters from other ips have already appeared

44:43Nick Scarpino:as skins in fortnite wild i never thought that there'd be a video game official crossover right with this many characters bigger than smash brothers right like it's just it's it's wild to think about like 70 different video game characters yeah all their ip man i thought you're going to go the sarcastic route of like being a video game crossover this big featuring kingdom hearts and sonic the hedgehog and persona the streets yearn for smash they do sakurai yeah megaman bro like never got crash but whose fault is that like i certainly sakurai it's not mine i mean definitely not yours you voted yeah i voted hard yeah did you make multiple accounts uh pokemon went to go to the polls you know yeah it did it all but no didn't work bayonetta we sakurai what are you doing man like the streets are calling for you look at what's happening he's air riding look at what's happening in your absence fortnite's trying to swoop in and do this shit damn dude i want any smash but also good for you fortnite i guess story number

45:47Blessing Adeoye Jr.:five metal gear solid master collection volume two brings 4k 60 fps to mgs4 and peacewalker konami announces but switch one still gets saddled with 30 fps this is scott mccray at games radar konami has revealed the performance targets for mgs master collection volume two and 4k 60 fps MGS4 is finally within reach even if Switch 1 users are getting shortchanged again. Konami released details about both Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker's performance on its website. It's mostly as you would expect based on the previous game. Xbox Series X, PS5, and PC will be running at 4K 60fps. Switch 2 and Xbox Series S will be 1440p slash 60 with 1080 1080 slash 60 fps in mgs4's handheld mode and for both on peacewalker for switch 2 once again the original nintendo switch is stuck with 1080 slash 30 fps in docked and 720 30 fps in handheld that includes peacewalker a 2010 psp game that ran at 60 fps when its hd edition was released on 2005's xbox 360 i appreciate how much this uh writer is writing for the switch one and it's like yo make this shit run better what the fuck what the fuck is peace walker uh i mean hey besides

47:01Nick Scarpino:the switch one stuff this is all great news dude mgs4 60 fps what you want to hear 4k yeah love that i was seeing that like peacemaker uh or peace walker they're not going to be able to like update too many of the visuals for certain reasons like just because like the original asset creation of it all that makes sense so it's like that kind of sucks but i can't wait to see mgs4 like how how good is that game gonna look you know we've allegedly seen it uh at running at higher frame rates and higher resolutions than we have in the past uh but yeah it being official this is very exciting and yeah it across the board having great numbers that's awesome hell yeah

47:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:story number six maestro a game that lets you conduct an orchestra with a joy-con is coming to switch 2 in switch this is brian at nintendo everything maestro is getting a brand new version for Switch 2 and Switch, it's been revealed. The release date is set for September 17th. Maestro previously debuted at the end of 2024 as a VR title to positive reception. I'm going to pause there. Barrett, let's just play the trailer with sound. Because Tim dropped this in the KHD Slack. This looks really fun.

48:12Oh,

48:15Nick Scarpino:can we have this? If we're talking over it, I think we should be okay. We have the Harry Potter music playing as someone uses their Joy-Con 2s to be a conductor. Yeah. And conduct an orchestra here. And it's pretty freaking legit. Yeah, you look at the screen and it is straight up a rhythm game. What you're seeing is essentially two, what do they call them? It's like the roles from Guitar Hero. But there's two separate ones. One for your left hand, one for your right hand. so you're kind of conducting tempo and then you're also like bringing up the like you know crescendos and and holds and everything this looks really we got game of thrones music a bunch of other classical stuff like this looks incredible this looks very tim getty's coded i am so hyped for this uh and yeah apparently it's been on vr i need to check that out as well because i feel like that would be even better than joy cons but uh all about this yeah this looks really really cool i'm getting actual theme songs and stuff that we'd want like yeah that's really rad yeah it's funny because i actually didn't why i didn't watch the trailer with music so i didn't even know that it started off with the harry potter uh music there so pretty neat that it's getting the

49:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:some of the license tracks but yeah maestro coming to switch one and two september 17th with a demo i'm coming soon coming soon really cool tim that's some big news it's big also you know what else is big is that people are saying it's on playstation vr 2 which we never talk about i didn't know psvr 2 was getting video games damn the first time in a while where i see the game it's like oh actually i'm gonna bust this thing out yeah i'm like that actually looks pretty fun i could play that right now if i wanted to that's huge news tim but if i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news i need to know about where would i go go to our last story the we news channel where we cover all the small news items that you need to know about story number seven is we news meta's horizon plus subscription now includes xbox game pass starter edition they're doing more those uh from games for change has revealed the winners of its 2026 awards naming compulsion games is south of midnight as game and experience of the year you know what are we doing what is

50:26Nick Scarpino:the video games industry doing i mean look first off i'll take any accolades the south midnight i can get i love that game i pray the compulsion's okay i pray that we get a sequel how are we giving south of midnight a game of the year award right now because like obviously it must have been last year right but like yeah at the same time i'm like it feels like south of midnight was like five years ago oh i see what you're saying yeah no i see what you're saying about giving it a game it does feel I do appreciate an award show that is like, hey, let's give people time to play games and chill. Let's give people the time to settle their thoughts.

51:08I just don't understand how you can give.

51:09Nick Scarpino:I don't understand any rationale you can give to give South of Midnight 2026 game of the year. Unless you're reviewing the PlayStation version. It's the 2025 game of the year, but the awards are happening. It's the 2026 award show. Yeah.

51:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:hey it's getting an award you know let's get it's getting another award um and and you know this is a rough time over there uh karen's free dlc on the trail has been delayed to an unspecified date cult of the lamb the board game kickstarter is now available and this is what i'll say i'm such a sucker for all these video game board games um and kickstarter situations i don't i didn't even play that much cult of the lamb you know what i mean i played like maybe the first a couple of hours and fell off wasn't really for me i saw they announced this board game started watching the video and went man i want that this looks neat i like what they got going on here board game poppy board game poppy i just love the visuals of it i love the colors i love the design i think it looks really neat do i know all the rules no i just saw the pieces and went i want that so and it's already very funded by the way their goal was uh around 25k they're at 753 000 Wow.

52:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Good for them. Yeah. Almost$754 ,000. So congratulations. Victor Weminyama, Caitlin Clark, and Derek Rose are the new cover athletes for NBA 2K27. That's cool. I mean, I, y 'all know.

52:40Nick Scarpino:Yeah. I am speaking out of turn in terms of understanding any of this. But what I do know, Victor Weminyama, the alien. Yeah. We liked him and then we didn't like him. Yeah. That's what I understand. If you're from Texas, maybe you still like him. Maybe. Maybe. Derek Rose, Chicago. Chicago, yeah. Iconic. J. Cole raps about him. J. Cole raps about him. He gets injured or he was getting injured a lot. He got very injured. Yeah. All eyes on him. He was supposed to be the guy. Tore his ACL a million times. So I think he's probably getting some legacy things. Yeah. And then Caitlin Clark, pretty cool getting with the rise of all the WNBA stuff going on.

53:18Nick Scarpino:Yeah. And I don't know how much that's like, well, I guess this is evidence of like, hey, it's actually working like a cover athlete for nba 2k that's pretty sick oh yeah and uh i don't know how everyone else is feeling about it but i feel like i can't get away from wmba stuff and the valkyries the sf team yeah it's everywhere and everyone's super into it which is very cool yeah joey went to a game at chase center was like yo we need to go you're gonna have a blast oh yeah i like that that's all happening so shout out to caitlin clark i'm just very impressed that they're able to get victory with minyama on the cover like fit him physically yeah on the cover i need to see what that cover looks like because i don't know how you're gonna get that man uh the

53:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:proportions right souls like action rpg fountains is coming to ps5 xbox and switch later this year and then blizzcon digital bundles and blizzcon ultimate ultimate collection featuring in-game items from warcraft diablo and overwatch are available now i don't know what that means i

54:15Nick Scarpino:hate my life so much that we're in a world where i just look at the chat and i'm just seeing yeah she isn't officially mega i will listen here's the thing right because i remember i listen to a lot of podcasts that happen to talk about sports and so i know there is some drama there's a lot of drama in all sports yeah but i do know that there's some caitlin clark in like i forget what other player stuff i don't so i'm not i big up the wnba you're you're you're talking about the hype for the wnba you don't know shit about caitlin clark i don't know shit about cc i also don't know shit about caitlin clark so i'm not trying to go either way you know i just know that there's you know drama happens yeah angel reese yeah that was the other person chat thank you

54:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:uh and that is it for we news let's get into some more super chats before we get out of here it's been a very active super chat day because science dog official says barrett's next video essay the complete fortnight lore barrett get on it i responded already in chat and i said i don't hate myself that much no man we need you on it you're the only you're the only person that you're the only person brave enough no come on we roger made an entire video about peter griffin fortnight if there's anybody at this company yeah and it did happen so if there's anybody who's gonna do okay it's roger fortnight of course peter griffin was gonna you name any fictional i'll tell you right now it's fry from futurama and fortnight yet because that's my

55:37Nick Scarpino:prediction fry fry for future yeah but but roger did this years ago before got this off the rails fortnight was always on the trajectory i don't know man i'm gonna say it right now beavis and butthead and nikki minaj as a unit were put into call of duty i don't think that was true but by 2028 joe biden will be in fortnight as a playable character is joe biden coming before mario yes i think the chances of joe biden in there are way higher than mario i think joe biden just has better proportions for it what do you think about it because anytime they put somebody short circle jack anytime they put somebody short in fortnight they got to put them in a mech or like peter griffin they had to make him skinny joe biden is has way better proportions for fortnight now graded am i going to believe it when he's running no when he's jogging around when he's being mobile joe biden has way better proportions for fortnight it's like such a earnest nintendo's not gonna let them stretch out mario they did it yeah but they did it yeah they did they did it you're not letting you know epic do it it's either that or you put them in a mech which is probably

56:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:more likely opetus prime says tim get a stream with the sdcc news this weekend oh yeah yeah oh

56:54Nick Scarpino:yeah marvel's back at hall h kevin feige in an interview saying if we're at hall h we have something to say i'm like what do you think they have to say i don't know i don't think it's going to be anything too major you think adam driver shows up maybe i mean i do think a chance of x-men casting is is plausible um i just don't know how much they want to get too ahead of things spider-man brand new day will be coming out the following week yeah so it is interesting on how they play that like i don't know if they want to spoil things in that movie that they're clearly trying to hide so far even though it's very obvious thing is like i don't know i guess they've not started shooting secret wars yet right no no because that'd be cool if they somehow had concept or something like oh yeah an art but i i mean my fingers crossed is i hope that secret wars gets announced that it's going to be two movies oh my god and i hope that even potentially a delay from december to may i like that i'm hoping for let's spread the shit out yeah oh damn like secret wars wait a year and a half yeah between movies yeah i think i think that's the move at this point maybe get some other movies in between i mean if you have other movies if you know what secret wars is you secret wars cannot be a two and a half hour just oh and then we're done like they need to figure that out so okay because doomsday they're using as the like prelude to secret wars the like the replacement for the comic run of time runs out yeah so it's like that even that i'm like all right cool they could pull it off as an adaptation in the movie but like secret wars there's just no chance they can get that in one movie i don't believe it interesting i like that that's fine so we'll see i and that's i'm hopeful for that um let's see aaron lime says

58:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:konami just showed off the resolution options for the mgs master collection and peace walker looks so clean go look that up when you can dick i'm excited um go to bed ed youtube writes and says hi blessing tim edward here the cg mac reviewer for avatar it's surreal to hear my name mentioned after listening for so long much love that's awesome that's really fun edward thank you for writing your review of avatar falcon says do you think we'll get a zelda mtg set next year man if they're doing it right come on you know what i mean like i nintendo i don't know man i just don't know what nintendo i do think that wizards has had the sauce with being able to reach into a lot of different ip that i'm actually very surprised they've been able to do they're on their second um lord of the rings set now you know they did lord of the rings before now they're doing hobbit and that's coming that's coming up soon um they've done final fantasy they've done fallout a zelda set would be such a smash no pun pun intended uh would be such a smash but

59:41Nick Scarpino:it's just nintendo i don't know if they have that i believe now more than ever man i'm telling you we're about to get more zelda than we've ever gotten in our life we're getting we got the legos we're getting action figures from Hasbro. This is what I'll say. If Nintendo's doing the action figures with Hasbro, which they are, that would be the smartest decision to do an MTG set as well. Like you already have that connection. An MTG set for Zelda would be the, would immediately become the best performing set for the universes beyond stuff. And maybe just period. The fantasy aspect of Zelda makes it fit really well within MTG, the movie, I'm sure, I mean, Ocarina, the game.

1:00:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah it just makes so much sense to do i like it times hero says ganon dwarfs figure's face doesn't look menacing enough um not i don't know how you make a toy look that menacing i'll be honest i ain't scared of no toy i don't watch toy story and go ah oh no the teddy bear no what about the the baby uh baby head on top of the spider metal spider thing that was terrifying that was terrifying and then the the kid the bully kid from toy story either one or two i forget what is it sid yeah that kid was scary oh yeah that kid that kid himself was actually pretty scary to me not common press says bless some good tv for you interview with the vampire we'll see i'm making my way through widow's bay right now that shit's cooking and then after that might watch some cape fear and then somewhere in there i want to watch ghost in the shell because that also looks oh ghost in the shell you watching it oh yeah yeah oh yeah let's see Rob Bass Jr.

1:01:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:says Shrek and or Pirates of the Caribbean in review when

1:01:24Nick Scarpino:we were going to do Shrek in review and then they delayed Shrek 5 when is Shrek 5 coming out I think it's now coming out on my birthday next year June 3rd oh that'll be fun Tim they did it just for you they did it for me I'm excited you would love Shrek we'll see

1:01:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Drum Boy says late birthday tax keep up the great work What would it take to make sure Gary gets a weekly show? Probably him losing every other gig.

1:01:51Nick Scarpino:It's on Gary. It's on Gary. I don't know how I can make it more clear. And I'm at a certain point that I'm not sure if people are fucking with me or not. Because on that episode, were you on that episode with Gary? With the Steam Machine episode? No, I wasn't. Gary was kind of like, he said, what would it take for me to have a Gary show, a weekly show? And Greg and I were just like, it's yours. You can have it. That's it. Just show up. That's all you need to do to make this happen. And yet people are still like, oh, I won't give him a show. And I'm like, I have. I've done it. I did it. He just needs to come.

1:02:25Nick Scarpino:He just needs to do it. Something we haven't talked about with this, I remember bringing it up in chat, is that we did that already. It was called X-Cast. He came in and was like, I want a show about Xbox, and I would do it. And then we gave him X-Cast. We've done this in the past already. He got a show. He got it. And he's welcome anytime. Anytime.

1:02:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Fate says, if anyone's interested, Hi-Fi Rush just released a PS5 physical version in Asia. Got the deluxe edition. Beautiful box art. CD, OST, and art book.

1:02:57Nick Scarpino:Dude, I've been thinking about Hi-Fi Rush a lot recently because I've been playing a lot of Dench Attack. And there's just similar vibes. Yeah. Plus, you need to play Dench Attack. I listened to you on Gamescast a couple days ago. Yeah. And you were talking about how, like, you're in the X hole and Splatoon hole and all that stuff. Yeah. You have to play Dutch Attack. I would love to. I just don't know when. I genuinely do not know when. I'm telling you this. Yeah. You'll find time. Yeah. Before the end of the year. I just want you to like bookmark it. Like there's, we cannot end this year without you at least playing for like three hours.

1:03:35Nick Scarpino:Because at that point you won't look back. Well, here's the thing. Because I played the demo and I know I love it. I know, but it's more than the demo. Yeah. It's like there's just a certain point that you hit very early. I would say that you're like, this game is so much more than I expected. And I think it's everything that's more. It's so up. Is it on Switch? Do you know? It's everywhere. It's everywhere. It runs great on Switch 2. He beat it on Switch 2. I 100 %ed it on Switch 2 and then loved it so much. I looked at the platinum list on PlayStation and I was like, yeah, I'll do that again.

1:04:05And then, yeah. So I got the platinum for that.

1:04:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:In a few weeks, I do have travel plans that include some long flights. Now, granted, here's the thing. Granted, I already kind of have plans because I've been itching. Delta Rune. Okay. I've been itching. I've been itching. So that's on the list for what I'm going to play during that travel period. And then maybe I'm just going to play some more Splatoon Raiders. If I haven't beaten Xenoblade yet, which I should have beaten Xenoblade by then, maybe I'll play more Xenoblade. But I'm going to get Dench Attack for Switch 2 just in case.

1:04:34Nick Scarpino:Dench Attack is the game that I'm like secretly, and it's not so secret because I'm saying it live on content. I'm campaigning within the office. because anyone that i can get to play it if they play it it'll be on their top 10 how high can we get it that is my question okay i like that yeah i like i could see the top four i can i wanted to top four i'm trying to make it hit top four and granted it's it's like there's no shot i think right now for me it's probably a round four so i'm not doing the heaviest lifting here but like this shit is i'm like this year though like we're talking about a year that we already have had like um resident evil and double seven yeah and then also we're gonna get zelda and pta and uh gear i don't know where gears is gonna fall but gears and other games you think we get denture attack top four i mean we got me barrett and roj we're gonna have you i guarantee we have you if i play it yeah but you're going to because i'm telling you it's that good it's a busy fall though you know i got marvel seven hours eight hours oh that's out yeah if you don't play it like i played it like if you just go through the story and stuff

1:05:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it's very quick i love that i'm fighting against playing a game that was my most anticipated game of the year you were the guy for this game before the game came out i knew next to nothing about this game before i played it it was number one on my most anticipated games list and i'm here

1:05:56Nick Scarpino:and i'm like i'm telling you it's like you i'm not even worried about you playing yeah i know

1:06:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you're going to i i'll find time um okay we've ran out of time for super chats uh actually i'll do one from the cartel Dell that says run the avatar set bless Dell show up alright I'll fight you in fact I want to rematch in Tekken because this is Dell Walker by the way yeah you know last time I played Dell in Tekken he might have given me the hands he might have beat me up yeah it might have not been close I want to run that back and so come see me and then also see me

1:06:29Nick Scarpino:in Avatar Dell shout out to your YouTube videos I know me saying this I understand how much work goes into it but like keep it up do more i want to keep watching them kindoffunny.com slash you're on

1:06:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.: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 we only have one from kebabs who says on the avatar avatar irl thing an interesting note is that each nation is broadly based on a real a real eastern culture fire nation is japan earth kingdom is china water tribes are inuit and air nomads are tibet well kebabs that's not a factual you're wrong that's a fun fact and for that you're banned all right bans you're banned kebabs all right that's the final straw final straw i can't believe you got me for half a second there because i was looking at the map and you were saying i didn't mean i was trying to get you

1:07:20Nick Scarpino:you weren't even trying to get me what's the thing about this was because we need to talk about it I got got as somebody that doesn't know. Like, it's not, I'm not an idiot for thinking that, especially because I immediately corrected myself. Yeah. I immediately saw a context and I'm like, oh no, duh. And you, somebody that watched the show. There's no reason for me to think that show has USA in it. Like, there's no hints of that. Like, there's no reason. And yeah, I saw the map and I was like, oh shit. I didn't know the Fire Nation was in Missouri. That's crazy. Crazy.

1:07:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Tim, this has been another episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily. Of course, if you love what we do, support us with The Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube. Get our shows ad-free and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the Gamescast next, which is going to be Greg talking about, I think, one of his favorite games of the year at this point. It seems like he's really into it. I don't actually, I'm not going to put that on him because I actually have not talked to him about this game. But he's going to talk about a game.

1:08:15Nick Scarpino:Do you see what the game is? Yeah, Tears of Metal. Oh. Yeah, he's been talking about this. I haven't heard him. It's from the Bloodroots developer. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I also, I want to play this game because it looks really cool. Stay tuned to find out.

1:08:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Stay tuned to find out. Until next time, Game Daily.

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