Xbox is Launching Cloud Gaming With Ads?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 10.03.25

0:00Today's stories include Xbox is about to launch cloud gaming with ads, Final Fantasy Remake Part 3's multi-platform plans, and the Golden Joysticks nominees are here. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.

0:26Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Friday. October 3rd, 2025. And one of your hosts, Blessing, Adio Ye Jr. Joining me is LaCroix Poppy with a great shirt. Thank you. Tim, ma, fucking. Banana Republic. I bought this for my Mexico days. I broke it out a couple times on shows and it's been, you know when you start doing laundry and then it kind of like pushes your closet back a little bit and then you forget about some shit for a long time? I finally saw this. I need to wear this a lot more. You don't have like a system? Because for me, my system is clothes that I've worn most recently go on the right.

0:59yeah or something just went right into the laundry is going on the right i do have a system but the system kind of gets messed up when i buy new clothes and i don't properly like audit things out and then it kind of becomes a little confusing and i'm just at that point right now where my life's a little disorganized but trying to figure that out you got a lot going on a lot going on going on house is a disaster baby stuff everywhere yeah i'm like fuck it's real a diaper a diaper bin came yesterday i'm like fuck my life and you know that's crazy can you imagine oh i cannot imagine that seems crazy you're preparing for a human to enter your home a human to enter and it won't leave and it won't leave and it's going to grow up there theoretically unless you move but you get what i mean it's gonna grow oh yeah yeah it's crazy crazy crazy times i also think it's crazy that and we'll get into it obviously but opening the show with essentially microsoft is bringing it adds it gets worse by the day i know it gets so bad that like right as we're starting bear added something to the khd like slack and it was another xbox thing i was like i don't have the time i don't have the time for more bad xbox news i'll get to that later i don't care yeah let's get into it because remember this is kind of funny games daily each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad-free.

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2:53I love this is one of those rare experiences that over time is becoming a little bit more frequent where it's a project I have essentially nothing to do with. And I just get to be surprised and be a part of it. Like, that's the best part. You get to be on it. I just get to show up. Yeah, you get to show up and just have fun and take it all in. I can't wait, man. We got some really, really special things planned. A lot of great people have helped work on this. So stay tuned for Monday. it's going to be a blast we're in 11 person business all about live talk shows so today after khd you're going to get games cast and i pulled an audible here we're gonna we're gonna talk about like what we've been playing you know and i was thinking about it i was like i can't really talk about anything i've been playing andy has like one thing and so instead we're finally going to fix game of the year 2019 me and andy have been talking about it for a very long time so who's on the show it's me andy and mike perfect so we're gonna fix okay of the year 2019 blessing and andy have been talking for years about needing to fix something yes who are they gonna do it with snowbikes what's that something the 2019 game of the year okay i can't wait this will be one of the best episodes or worst episodes of kind of funny games cast i can't wait for it uh then after that is game showdown kinda beauty's return then the stream is lego party with a whole crew including both of us yes can't wait can't wait great reviews on this game really the the chatter and i haven't looked too deep so chat let me know if i'm like overselling this but from what i've seen on social media everyone's like this is legitimately the best mario party like that we've had that's not a mario party i was i was ready to call you on your bullshit but metacritic 80 i gen 8 out of 10 shit reviews are looking good as i'm scrolling through them hold on we're jumping into open critic we're going to open everybody oh 80 was underselling it's an 82 right now in open game rant 8 out of 10 dual shockers 8.5 there's nothing under an 8 on here hey that's right what the fuck that's great holy party game coming out in 2025 like an 8 means like hey this actually got the stuff a lego party game of all things all right i'm excited about this if you're a kind of funny member today's gregway is coming at you from mike begot our patreon producers carl jacobs omega buster and delaney the psalm twining today brought to you by kind of funny games daily episode 2000 and our new merch but we'll tell you about that later for now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report it's time for some news we have five stories today ah bankers does starting with our number one microsoft is about to microsoft is about to launch free xbox cloud gaming with ads this is tom warren at the verge microsoft is getting ready to announce an ad supported version of xbox cloud gaming sources familiar with microsoft's plans tell the verge that the software maker has started testing ad supported games streaming internally allowing employees to play select titles free without a game pass subscription i understand that the free ad supported version of xbox cloud gaming will include the ability to stream some games you own as well as eligible free play days days titles which lets xbox players try games over a weekend you'll also be able to stream xbox retro classics games sources tell me the internal testing includes around two minutes of pre-roll ads before a game is available to stream for free through Xbox Cloud Gaming.

6:25Microsoft is also currently testing a limit of one hour for sessions with up to five hours free a month. These limits may well change when the service is officially launched. The ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming version will be available on PC, Xbox consoles, handheld devices, and via the web. Microsoft is planning to test free streaming through a public beta test soon before launching it fully in the coming months. there's a lot to talk about here because here's the thing real talk cut all the bullshit jokes timing everything this is good this is a good thing that they're offering and at the end of the day it's literally free to you look at this as a demo to play games to look at this as a demo for cloud streaming it's free the ads two minutes of ads you're watching whatever there's a lot of questions i have about the implementation of this that's the main thing is like is it i click on a game i watch a two minute ad and then i get into a game uninterrupted that's what it seems like yeah and so it's like they're saying here two minutes of ads where it's like cool they're spelling it out for us like if that's what the case is then cool then you get an hour but how is that our countdown are we visually seeing that are we in a boss fight as the seconds tick and then it's like hey time's up i hope that doesn't make it to the final version yeah and then like ads interrupting that'd be a problem but it doesn't sound like that's the case so real talk just on paper taking this for what it is what what's bad about it it's the context of this week's news and it's how complicated all of this stuff is getting yes and the fact that this at the end of the day if it's good news how good news how big of a deal is it to an amount of people compared to the fact that what how many months from now if not weeks from now are we going to get a new infographic with game pass and what it all includes and one of the many many many many bullet points on the higher tiers is going to be cloud gaming with no ads which is already the case you know but trying to act like that's a benefit when really it's just what was already there yeah you know but it is a benefit if they're offering another version that is worse and it's worse because it has ads like i'm not i i if i am into an ecosystem ads drive me fucking crazy so i pay for the get rid of the ads version of shows youtube premium literally the best subscription service i ever got i and i feel like especially nowadays like people don't realize that it comes with youtube music so i'm not saying you should do this but like if you don't want to pay for spotify or apple music but like you need to pay for one of them because you like music but you want you watch a lot of youtube videos you should just get youtube premium it gets just so much yeah i was listening to youtube music this morning like it's also nice because i don't mean you we come from the mixtape era we love listening to rap mixtapes you ain't finding those on apple you and you're not finding those on spotify whatsoever you are finding them on youtube music which is why i was listening to that this morning but yeah i totally feel you feel you right like it's very much a to each their own thing do i look at this and go is this is something i want absolutely not i don't want to like i don't want to experience ads before i'm playing a game i don't want a countdown timer i barely even want cloud right like it's such a i think the problem when you want this in with the xbox stuff right it's to your point and i take even further i think it is like the messiness of everything like the more messy and clunky your messaging is around the packages that you're delivering the less enticing it becomes and i think the more annoyed i become as a consumer when it is the thing of like all right so when i want to get in at this bottom tier i am losing x y z a b c d e f thing right like you the list goes on as far as the things that you're saying that don't come with this and now i am over here having to watch a two-minute ad to play i don't know halo and i can play it for an hour and then i have to put it away before i had to come home and play it natively and to be clear this is not a xbox unique problem when playstation announced it's uh changed plans for ps plus with essential and premium and all that stuff like literally it's funny because like these being our jobs we talk about this stuff every single day like i try to at least retain the information that i know that we're going to talk about for the coming years to make sure that we know off the top like how much does this cost like what are the factors here i didn't even try for playstation plus if i ever need to know what the difference is i'll look it up in the moment you know what i mean like i don't care and we're so there with xbox we've been there for a long time with all the various services they have that they're over the last couple years been trying to condense into one one thing kind of you know because at least it's not all xbox live and xbox game pass you know what i mean and and there's pc versions of both as well like whatever now it's like okay cool we're starting to get somewhere that only has six options as opposed to a million sure yeah i feel that i feel that i think you know what it is because i think you bringing in the playstation factor is very interesting because i remember those conversations that we were having when they revamped playstation plus and turned it into three things and we would joke about like oh you got essential extra and then extra extra right like it's extra really one of them yeah it's playstation plus like it's essential whatever dude i truly don't care it's essential extra and premium guess which one i have i have essential right like i for those first three months we got uh access they gave us like the codes to review or whatever for like the first three months of like playstation plus the top one which is premium and after experiencing that i was like all right cool i ain't paying for this shit right and i think that comes down to um what you want out of your experience as a player and also what you consider to be the most vital experience on a platform i think one of the issues why maybe this compounds more maybe feels worse with xbox is that the things that they marketed as the important things the vital things i think those are the things that feel like they're being watered down a little bit with all these changes and so when you're talking about day one games and you're uh in between every announcement right you're talking about play anywhere you're talking about uh cloud gaming and you're talking about day one games when those are the things that are then feeling like they're being affected the most negatively by the switch-ups i think that's when people go well what the fuck then right yeah and you know to to kind of compare it to a a similar thing on in a different medium but with with similar problems that we see the streaming side of movies and tv right that would be the equivalent of like having like disney plus having its different levels which it does uh with the ad supported no ads like higher resolution like all that stuff but then being like yeah but the low end doesn't get you the disney plus originals yeah what's like it's like what are we even talking about then like that is what we're trying to get here the problem here is xbox live just playing games with your friends is at that low level so they can always make the argument of like well that's that's really what you need but you're right that's not what they are promoting that's not what they're they're putting out there like they know as well as any of us that the top tier is the one that they're trying to get people like the top tier is the is the bread and butter and and i feel like that is in opposition to how most of the streaming services function yeah they there's the middle tier that they were trying to get you to there's always gonna be the entry one for them just trying to get people in the door but there's usually a higher tier that they're like uh if you want 4k go for it you know yeah um if you want no ads at all go for it whatever and i know i mean i say this i say this all the time i'm a cheap dude right when it comes to like my purchases and all that stuff but when it comes to any subscription service i have i always get the lowest tier i'm always like a lowest tier person and a big reason for that is that to your point lowest tiers are often like Like, or lowest to medium tiers are often the, hey, this will get you what you need.

13:55This is the bread and butter of our service. And if you want the highest tier, that is for the people who want lossless audio. And that's the thing is I am that guy. And to me, I feel like I'm the opposite of you where when it comes to subscription services, I often find that I am. I want the highest tier or I don't want any of the tiers. Like, it's a value proposition to me of like, if they're not offering at the high end enough for me to be like, yes, I want that. it's like i don't care what you're offering because i don't want to watch that show i don't want to watch your shows i don't want to play your games that bad yeah like to have to deal with whatever i have to put up with for a price on top of ads on top of all this other shit like one step further i want to take the uh comparison to the streaming services stuff one argument that i am firmly on a side that i feel like is not the most popular side of this but i stand by it wholeheartedly is the memes about oh we're just back to cable and it's like in some ways yes but not in the ways that I think people give it credit for, because to me, we are undeniably in a space where every single one of the streaming services is offering more new, unique premium content than any TV cable thing had ever done in the past.

15:02You talk about cable before the HBO shows, you're still getting all those HBO shows, but now all the other motherfuckers are trying stuff too. You're also getting more shit than you ever, you're just getting more than we've ever gotten. Yes. But you are getting more for your money by insane amount, by like a hundred times the content perhaps than what content in the TV shows in the 90s looked like. You know what I mean? Like we were getting so much more of good, bad, everything. To me, the part that it's like the cable, the cablefication of it is really hitting in a way that sucks. 10 years ago, you look at any of the streaming services and you understand exactly what every tier looks like without caring.

15:41Now, everything feels like PlayStation Plus. every single thing feels like the cable networks used to the packages where you're like do i need 900 channels okay i only want disney channel why do i need to pay this much more for 953 comcast channels and that's what xbox ultimate feels like i don't want fortnite crew yeah what is ubisoft classics that's a really good question what is ubisoft class did you see what i'm saying and it's like maybe we look into it like hey that's fucking awesome yeah but it's not ubisoft plus and and i and you know i just come back around to the point i'm making right like i think the problem that i have and i think that people might feel is that that 30 also feels like at the same time they're bread and butter you know what i mean like the thing that is advertised the most right and like yeah we look at that and go what the fuck is ubisoft classics what the fuck is i don't care about this fortnite stuff i don't care about like i don't know if you play any riot games right like no a lot of these things don't speak to uh to a lot of people right and so i think yeah i i mean i think it just feels a bit sharper with this xbox stuff with the ways that they're messaging it in the ways that this is coming down and like that said it didn't feel nice with the playstation stuff either it did it doesn't know it typically doesn't feel nice when our subscription services revamp and go up in price but i do think it's important to and i think this is a point that me and you were like kind of tapping into that i haven't seen most people talk about that is what is the tier that they expect us to buy and what is the tier that they are marketing yeah and with xbox it is that 30 dollar one it is ultimate i'm so interested to see what the next xbox game showcase looks like or even the next xbox developer underscore direct as far as do they keep that same messaging because their messaging up until now has been all those keywords that i look at and go okay you're advertising ultimate and now that ultimate is the highest 30 dollars here that i think is unattainable for a large amount of their audience now does that continue to be the bread and butter this is what we're advertising yeah or do they start to go like do they start to shift the language to be like no you want that$20 not a standard not a chance in hell i want to bring in um a super chat plus some breaking we ish news but it feeds into the xbox stuff kabobs writes in and says game pass ultimate is also losing 10 discounts on dlc um this is the one that barrett wrote in with uh as it was breaking as we were going live this morning um i'm pulling from thegamer.com from josh colson uh who who writes xbox has been the talk of the games industry this week for all the wrong reasons yet again a game pass restructure means those with ultimate now have to pay 30 30 bucks a month a 50 price increase and the second time the price has gone up um as the dust from that bombshell is starting to settle subscribers have noticed the changes also include the removal of dlc discounts before this week's restructuring game pass subscribers were entitled to a 10 discount on dlc and add-ons the recently released order of the giants for example the dlc for indiana jones and the great circle was discounted if you had an active game pass description sure it would be nice to get the dlc for no additional cost along with your game pass game but a discount is better than nothing now yes yeah but at a certain point i really start to question is it because we're talking about 10 a 10 discount of the dlc we're talking about 10 of ten dollars a dollar off for the dlc you're getting it costs more than ten dollars i imagine but twenty dollars twenty two dollars yeah okay obviously i'd rather take that than not yeah but i don't like that that small amount being another bullet point that they get to put on the value add to this thing yeah that they're playing you like that's that does not add up that simply doesn't add up the dlc should either be fucking free which by the way it should you think the dlc i think the dlc xbox dlc yes 100 oh like it should be included in game pass absolutely that i agree with so that i for sure agree with actually like they're taking this away yeah that's just that is another like poke in the wound but it's like the reality of this is that is a weak bullet point that's fortnite crew levels of bullshit oh yeah honestly this without all the other news of this week this by itself i would have been like i would have honestly yeah i would have kind of been like i don't really care like and that sucks for the people that really take advantage of that discount but it's like it really is just another bullet point that being added to all the other bullshit it's like yo fuck off dude like you guys are just you guys are stepping on unnecessary ricks when it comes to this whole thing yep um let's move on real quick sorry i just want to say this because i want to i want to make sure that i'm like uh very clear about some things because we run a business with a subscription service yeah right we think about this stuff we talk about this stuff so ad nauseum i just want everybody to understand like what i'm saying and how we talk about this is reflected in what we do and how we act with this stuff and it shows a level of understanding granted xbox microsoft very different levels very different amounts of money all that shit sure but when it comes down to it it's like i we act like not like don't just add a bunch of shit to have a bunch of shit the changes we've made to the patreon tiers over the years the amount of stuff that we've cut just because we're like people aren't using this people don't actually want it we're just putting it there to have more stuff and when we have our$25 happy hour tier that is us trying to come up with something to add actual value to the limited amount of people that are going to support us at that level yeah we are telling you guys the$10 level is the membership level is what we're asking from you that's the content yes there are higher levels if you want to go above and beyond the support and we're going to try our best to meet those standards and like do better things but we don't want those better things to be dangling over everybody else as like, man, you're missing out on the real content.

21:16That's not saying it's not high quality, some of the best content we make. But do you get my point? It's not our core stuff. And I think that that to me is the difference. It's like we in the past, just because of how our companies evolved, there were times that our Patreon had a bunch of tiers that had just this and this and this. Well, only if they're in this, if that. And it's like we had to make some calls that literally lost us a ton of money just because of how it all works. but it's like we knew what was the right thing to do for the sustainability of our business and for under like creating value and like believing in what we're putting out there yeah well sorry for the rant that was a good rant i like that rant um we're gonna rant about so much more because we got a fun new story coming up about game of the year nominees your first listed game of the nominees are here from an outlet and you won't believe what's on and what's not but before we get there i want to talk to 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 kind of funny games daily 2000 is happening on october 6th i can't believe it we are 2000 episodes into this daily weekday show thank you so much for your support over the years watching us live on youtube twitch podcast services around the globe kind of funny.com slash store is where you want to go to get this shirt to celebrate Kinda Funny Games Daily 2000.

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23:55And we're back with story number two. Claire Obscure Expedition 33 leads the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 charge for most nominations nudging out Death Stranding 2 Ghost of Yote and Keenum Come Deliverance 2 I'm reading from Lane Harris at GamesRadar and I'm skipping the article part because I'm just here to read the nominees you know what the Golden Joysticks are if you don't they're another big video game award show I would say one of the biggest ones I'll put it out there yeah I mean easily top 5 debatably top 3 I don't know about top 3 what would it be then? You got the Game Awards. You got, what's the one that Greg does?

24:34Dice? But that's the thing. And then you got the kind of funny Game of the Year. Come on. Come on. It was right fucking there. No, but like real talk, I think Dice, there's the... There's BAFTAs. BAFTAs, IDGs, right? Is that what they're called? IDGAs? Yeah. Oh, yeah, from like GDC. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, IGDAs. And then maybe I'd say Golden Joystick. But I mean, I feel like, are those, is that really under those? I'm not so sure. but i feel like same tier different it's different types of vibes i think the thing is like golden joysticks is more similar to game awards than it is to the other ones because the other ones seem a bit more like formal actually professional don't mean that in a bad way jeff you get him i didn't say you know you know what i mean yeah that's crazy but yeah you're right baftas are a bit more dressed up and stuff yeah maybe that's what we'll call it um i'm just gonna go through them again until i get tired so let's start off i'm going from the beginning of the article to then uh best storytelling they got clear obscure silent hill f blueprints mafia the old country lost records blooming rage and the hundred line last defense academy we're gonna come back to that in a second because lost records blooming rage that's interesting uh best multiplayer game you got battlefield 6 peak elden ring night rain split fiction mario kart world and rematch i want to come back to that one too because battlefield 6 what's going on with that that gave me it's not even know yet uh best visual design death training 2 clear obscure the midnight walk ghost of yote sword of the sea assassin's creed shadows best indie game they got blueprints citizen sleeper 2 wander stop skin deep despolote hurtling abiotic factor baby steps caves of quod uh and deep rock galactic survivor caves of what caves of what i wasn't sure i don't know you went for it I was like, was you committed to pronouncing Q-U-D in a way no man's ever committed to saying a word?

26:25I was like, if I just say it and continue to know the whole question. Jesus. Best indie game self-published. You got Hollow Knight Silksong, Hades 2, Sword of the Sea, Peak, Keep Driving, Spilled, Lonely Mountain, Snow Riders, Deltarune, Promise, Mascot Agency, and Consume Me. the still playing award for pc and console is minecraft dead by daylight hell divers 2 naraka blade point satisfactory call of duty warzone marvel rivals fortnite apex legends rainbow six siege x gta online and warframe still playing award yeah really like the phrasing there that's a really good phrasing ongoing fuck of this yeah playing like that uh they also have a separate mobile one it goes like this uh call of duty mobile pokemon go subway surfers clash royale honkai star rail genshin zenless zone zero roblox free fire and pubg mobile for best remake slash remaster another category i really like uh metal gear solid delta snake eater the elder scrolls 4 oblivion remastered trails in the sky first chapter the talus principle reawakened gears of war reloaded and tony hawk's pro skater 3 plus 4 stacked here for remake slash remaster dude it really is it really freaking is this doesn't even include the galaxy games like we've Got so much awesome stuff.

27:39Studio of the Year, Team Cherry, Sandfall Interactive, Agro Crab and Landfall, Bloober Team, Slow Clap, and Rebellion. Best Game Expansion. Rebellion. I was going to ask. You're going to have to look that one up for me. Best Game Expansion, you got Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Order of the Giants, Liza P. Overture, No Man's Sky, Voyagers, Atom Fall, Story Expansion Pack, The Red Strain, Assassin's Creed Shadows. Sniper Elite. really with the sniper elite people first i respect it shout out shout out sniper elite uh you got uh the claws of awaji from assassin's creed shadows still wakes the deep and sirens rest for best audio design you got adam fall there you go this year as well there you go uh best audio because i had to do the lil wayne thing you ever seen a lil wayne clip where he was like asking about like somebody was telling me about like the top five rappers or whatever as decided by an outlet and they're like um they're like on number one jay-z he was like cool uh number two was um oh fuck i forget what number one number two was like somebody else and he was like oh interesting and then um number three was gucci or no he was like he was asking like is eminem on the list and he was like no eminem's not on the list and they were like gucci man was number three and he was like gucci man was number three and eminem's not on the list and then he stopped himself he was like shout out gucci shout out gucci sorry i butchered that but like that's essentially how it goes you get the point no it is funny though because looking at their wiki it's like all right they have uh the most recent game was zombie zombie army vr before that atomfall and before that the last five were sniper elite games oh hell yeah that's funny uh best audio you got goes to yote battlefield 6 dk bonanza death training 2 two point museum chronos the new dawn best soundtrack uh you got expedition 33 south of midnight silent hill f eric's home the stolen dream deltaroone sword of the sea uh we just got four more categories i'm so mad about so many omissions here oh we'll get to it let me finish this off best lead performer you got jennifer english for my l uh in expedition 33 you got troy baker for indiana jones you got tom mckay as henry in kingdom come deliverance 2 you got alex jordan as jan dolsky in the altars you got erica ishii as atsu and ghost of yote and you got adrian ray as hazel in south of midnight fuck yeah for a best supporting performer you got troy bakers as higgs in death stranding you got jim high as eric in kingdom come you got ben star as verso in you got lucy griffiths as alva in eric's home you got logan cunningham um in hades 2 didn't play a character and then you got marios gabrilis um as emmerich voss in indiana jones now for the two game of the year categories let's start with pc game of the year you got hollow knight silksong the altars kingdom come deliverance 2 peak abiotic factor and dune awakening and then for console game of the year you got donkey kong bonanza monster hunter wilds ghost of yote death training 2 on the beach sonic racing cross worlds and you got mario kart world what don't you have i don't what's missing i don't see anything okay where's blueprints that's a good point that's a good point where's blueprints yeah where is it where is it where is it yeah what is anything else missing we have mario kart world we have sonic racing cross worlds and we don't have expedition 33 can i tell you the headline of this is expedition 33 leads the things that it's not for best indie game or game of the year it's lovely to have a game of the year list right and sonic racing crossroads is on it and that's not even the game that i'm like if you're going to remove one remove sonic racing i'm starting out with mario no not a chance i'm not getting in that conversation i'm getting mario kart world the fuck out of here no no but to be clear neither deserve to be on a game of the year like oh this year i agree both are at best eight out of ten games i mean i gen gave sonica nine out of ten just saying and we can you know i give it an eight out of ten but you know you're mad again yes okay you know what fair very fair uh and not to say that eight out of ten games can't make it on a game of the year shortlist but there's been a lot of these years yeah it's like that's that's crazy having said that this well no hollow knight is making hollow knight's not there hollow knight's not there it's under pc game of the year so they're differentiating that for some reason i mean it wasn't on most consoles hollow knight right am i crazy hades wasn't i'm thinking of hades thank you yeah yeah never mind it was on most consoles yeah um damn yeah i feel like is there anything else missing from the game because one of the games you usually talk about we're talking about clear obscure hades 2 which again hades 2 is the it's all over this yeah hades 2 isn't on the game of the year and stuff but it's not there is this a canary in the coal mine for what this game of the year season is gonna look oh it's gonna be wild but no it's not gonna be like this though i don't think i think that i think that the game awards it's gonna be a very competitive top six yeah but i thought that i don't even want did people just forget that split fiction came out this year i think split fiction isn't it takes two yes it is split fiction versus it takes two they're like here's the thing right i think they are to prove my point by the way they're the exact same amount of quality cool but that came out many years ago and already one game of the year you're right so if it's the exact same thing again if you make a okay if you make a game that is a exact follow-up to something that was previously game of the year I don't know man I feel like that follow-up should probably still be in the conversation if it's like the same exact quality if it's the same in the conversation yes but in a year that has so many other heavy hitters that's the difference okay I feel like yes but fiction again it goes back I give split fiction an eight and it's like eights can make it and they have made it in the past this year we don't got room for eights fair enough but yeah it's going to be an interesting conversation every which way the one big thing here that I'm going to be incredibly annoying about for the rest of the year yeah is for soundtracks mario kart world deserves oh yes i'm with you and like obviously expedition 33 is freaking fantastic but like i just want you guys are going to hear this a lot from me coming up okay just fucking prepare yourself yeah we're gonna need a bingo for this game of the year season yes this is one of the squares on the bingo exactly yeah mario kart world is the soundtrack of the year and you might say oh a lot of it's just remixes of old songs the a level of love and live instrumentation love of music that is shown off worldwide music shown off in that is incredible and that's not even talking about the fact that 50 of the soundtrack is original songs that are fucking bangers so you're gonna hear more from me so i'm not gonna elaborate like like that's my opening statement opening statement you're gonna see me a lot for the rest of the year get the essay over the rest of the year i need what i need from somebody in the audience who cares enough to do this right i need i need a meme that is the bingo the game of the year season bingo card each of us get a square because tim's square is going to be the mario kart soundtrack my square i imagine is going to be blueprints like blueprints deserves to be either game of the year or nominated i'll figure out i'll iron out what that what you're actually official yeah what my official statement is um what's greg square i feel like greg square hasn't been determined yet we got time left in the year it's gonna annoy me it's gonna be something annoying yeah it's gonna be i feel like it's gonna be pokemon related i think it's gonna be something along the lines of pokemon zah being his number one game we're gonna see um andy i imagine it's gonna be lies of he overture is gonna be his bingo square yeah um what's barrett but what's barrett's like pick of the year chat you're gonna have to remind me what barrett's been saying because i know that boy be vocal um mike is gonna be what mike is probably gonna be all like so he's gonna be talking about peak or something like that he's gonna be like peak we keep forgetting peak who else thought oh nick is gonna be doing awakening you know that's nick is doing awakening um oh baby steps mike is gonna be all up on baby steps for sure let's move on um story number three final phasenia 7 remake part three won't be impacted by multi-platform approach despite xbox's problematic lack of memory says director says director just so you know like that headline didn't need to be written that way ed nightingale at euro gamer oh man i would love i don't even know what we headlined this episode but i'm sure it's equally like guys you didn't need to do that this is ed nightingale at euro gamer final fantasy 7 remake trilogy director naoki hamaguchi has stated the multi-platform approach for Part 3 won't impact development whatsoever.

36:48With Remake Integrate heading to Switch 2 and Xbox consoles next year, Square Enix confirmed the full trilogy would be multi-platform. That said, we don't know yet the release date of Rebirth on Switch 2 and Xbox, and it's unknown if Part 3 will be a simultaneous multi-platform release or staggered with PlayStation leading. Still, it seems this multi-platform approach is working out just fine, as Hamaguchi told easy allies for part three quote we do we do have designated teams working on each platform so that our multi-platform approach won't impact the development whatsoever end quote yet while development for both nintendo switch 2 rebirth and the third installment are going very smoothly it seems the xbox consoles are proving a little more problematic quote as for the xbox version like many other publishers i think we did we did see some issues with the lack of memory compared with other platforms said hamaguchi while he doesn't specify presumably he's referring to the less powerful series s console which proved proved tricky for baldur's gate 3 studio larian among others quote but as for the switch 2 releases hamaguchi continued uh we actually have the main dev team working really hard on this as a result i think we're pretty confident with the end product we did get some great reviews for ff7 remake integrate so i hope the fans look forward to it end quote indeed in an interview with automaton earlier this week hamaguchi praised the switch to his great hardware specs uh quote however he added due to power consumption constraints constraints uh it's designed to dial back performance a bit in handheld mode so since a straightforward port wouldn't be enough to make the game run stably in handheld mode we had our talented rendering programmers put in extra work on optimization i believe lighting is the crucial factor in terms of graphics quality and expression in this day and age said hamaguchi end quote approximating the lighting would have made the game feel cheap he explained uh and so the development team has reduced the processing load in other areas such as post effects and fog to retain high quality lighting real quick i just want to say i truly believe that without any exaggeration i think hamaguchi is going to go down as one of the goats when all done when you look at the work that he and the teams have done but him being kind of a co-lead on remake then lead on rebirth and now lead on on the the third one and with all the wins that they've taken in terms of the actual game development side like hearing the words being said here these are words from a man that cares yeah you know and similar love was put into the ps5 pro version of rebirth and i remember them taking a lot of pride in that as well and rebirth was one of the highlights of the PS5 Pro's launch as opposed to a lot of the other titles, including Sony titles, right?

39:33So in terms of optimization and incredible games, obviously, it's just great to see and also just a love for the games industry at large. The question still does remain, this is all amazing, but is it going to launch simultaneously or is it going to be delayed? I am starting to believe based on these words, it's going to be simultaneous. That's cool. and I think that's the best move possible specifically for the end of this trilogy when by that point the first two games will be available everywhere PC, Xbox, Switch, PlayStation like that's going to be so valuable to them and I think it's going to be a great experience overall and especially since they are taking the time to update they did say and I'm sure this was like a translation issue to some extent but that Final Fantasy VII Remake is getting great reviews it was previews um but they were because the game's not until january but um they were glowing previews on the switch to talking about it running solid 30 looking great not looking lesser than um and if they can pull that off and they're doing it uh unlike a lot of other third parties on uh switch two ports it's like i'm feeling really good about this you know and i also am feeling incredibly good about the game wards be the announcement of final fantasy 7 3 oh wow really yeah all right we'll see yeah it's time story number four peak developers aggro crab have announced a new game this comes directly from a press release developer aggro crab who did peak another's crab another crab's treasure and going under revealed their latest game today crash out crew crash out crew is a one to four player cooperative forklift experience in which players will fulfill increasingly chaotic orders delivering physics-based packages to the best of their abilities in a warehouse full of safety hazards.

41:22The Crash Out Crew demo will be available on October 13th for the start of Steam Next Fest. Crash Out Crew is the other half of the 2025 Game Jam projects from AggroCrab. After the recent cancellation of Going Under 2, the studio decided to explore the whimsy multiplayer side of game development. While some of the AggroCrab developers worked on Peak with Landfall, the rest of the studio locked in to produce Crash Out Crew. It was really cool. Super sick, man. I'm still blown away by the success of Peak. Yep. Like such a crazy story for them to be like, all right, we're canceling our big project.

41:54Let's take time and like have a creative game jam, work on some small side things. And one of them ends up being one of the biggest games of the year. I mean, especially after another crab's treasure that was like so, so much excitement from us going into it. Heavily marketed. Good, you know, but I don't think it kind of was that breakout indie hit that it could have been to see them get that like from the outside by accident. and then be able to follow that up with something that looks super cool. I love it because we look at this and had we not had the story I just said, we'd be like, oh, it looks kind of cool.

42:28But because we do, we're like, oh, hell yeah, I believe in this. They know what they're doing. Because of Peak, you look forward and you're like, okay, well, let's see what this is. Tim, I hope Crash Out Crew comes out and is big. Yeah, me too. But if I wanted something small, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? You'd 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 five is Wii News. From game developer, Destruction All-Stars developer Lucid Games, is opening a new office in Liverpool in collaboration with design firm Octra to establish itself as a leading creative force within the UK city.

43:04The studio, which has also worked on titles such as Apex Legends and Sea of Thieves, said the workspace will open in November and it will replace its existing headquarters within the city. Notably, it said the new location is designed to meet the needs of his growing 250-person team. More Wii news for you. New Dragon Ball Sparking Zero DLC characters will be announced in January. That's what the game needs. More characters. More characters, yes. How are there more characters? I don't know. Like, how many Dragon Ball Z characters exist? It's crazy. How many more Gokus can you fit in this video game?

43:37They're going to find a way to put in more. Today, three games from the App Store come to Apple Arcade. you're getting thomas and friends let's roll plus you're getting dominoes classic tile game plus and piffle plus yuka replayly physical edition launches december 18th hunter hunter nen survivor has been announced for ios and android stray children launches october 30th in the west and finally demio cross dungeons and dragons battle mark launches november 20th and that is it for we news uh we got a lot of super chats i'll save you off for this second i like to hang out here um let's see let me scroll to the top let's start let's take this from the top graham of legend writes in with a birthday tax they say on october 3rd he asked me what day it was i said it's my birthday celebrating my 35th with y 'all cheers everyone hell yeah happy birthday what movie is that from again the best mean girls mean girls thank you yes red hudson writes in and says what happened in mexico tim you'll never know you got this shirt in mexico or for mexico or mexico i bought this in san francisco interesting to mexico this thing's been worldwide baby wow got that shirt just for the deeds that you're doing over there dirty deeds dirty deeds that's crazy yeah you might start to do the math oh i've already i've already done the math we know what happened you know babies had to be made at some point lord foosh writes in and says uh been an xbox gamer since 2002 been debating switching it seemed like they were almost back on the right track then the activision merger happened you know stick it out for another five years see it really sucks dude like to have a real moment for a second yeah like i know the dominoes falling thing is like just it's become a bingo thing i'm just like it just comes up so much but it's like the reality is xbox nailed it for a while and like in a lot of ways continues to they are redefining how games are delivered and all this stuff it's just also simultaneously fucking up the entire industry you know what i mean it's like this hard thing of just like yeah man they've done so much stuff that's crazy and questionable but it also they're delivering the goods and it's now just getting to a point that it's unsustainable because ironically they have too much goods and they need to sell those goods at a price that is worth it to them yeah and it's like well maybe i shouldn't have done all that you know what i mean yeah like it's just it's so crazy that we're about to get this xbox uh asus handheld right and like we're opening up this this new world of possibilities and we're going to wait to see what the next gen looks like and as we're starting to get ghost of yote like uh another round of big playstation titles right and then eventually that'll come to pc and then it'll also be playable on this xbox ally through steam like all this shit right yeah it's just there's so many interesting conversations we're coming up on games daily 2000 and i think back to my fond memories of games daily and i'll never forget sitting there with andrea renee when game pass was announced and they were saying every game Xbox studio game day one and I remember sitting there being like I don't believe you I simply don't believe you and it was very easy for them to say back then when it was Crackdown 3 coming out right and it was like okay but then not that long after we got Gears 5 and it was like holy shit they're actually sticking to this but they're not gonna continue sticking to it and then they stuck to it and they stuck with it long enough that now it's$30 a month it's like that's the inevitable end to this yeah it felt unbelievable then because guess what it was unbelievable if only people were saying this if only any if only anybody said oh the price is probably gonna go up on this thing dramatically um kyle labeouf writes in and says microsoft can't get out of their own way with messaging own goal after own goal uh omega buster said let's party like it's episode 1999 i fucking love that i didn't even think about that this is episode 1999 come on what you doing for y2k uh dolphin corn uh writes in with the birthday tax kf has been with me since middle school and now i'm 25 thank you for all all the great times love you all uh have a great weekend have a great weekend dolphin corn yeah and damn that's crazy happy birthday middle school middle school to 25 where was i when i first started listening to kf i I think I must have been midway through college.

48:16I guess I started listening to IGN when I was probably like 18, 19. When I started listening to Beyond, I think Kind of Funny started. I would have been 21. So I was like graduating college. Yeah. Time flies. Time flies. Ricardo Gonzalez says, Wife and I are having our first baby and listening to Tim's KFG announcement and him talking about the same worries and fears i have becoming a new dad has really helped thank you for sharing that's cool thank you man and congratulations alex awesome a lot of people hit me up that are also like expecting for the first time it's a weird little club because you're like this is scary yeah everybody's like this is fucking insane but you're in this together all y 'all are producing human life together i'm doing very little at this point but yeah but you gotta listen you got years ahead of you i do you're gonna do you're gonna form a person's entire life in being i want y 'all to think about that you listen to me every day that kid's gonna love oled oh yeah that kid's gonna love oled uh star wars yes yes dude halo um nintendo alex rasia writes in how mad would you be this is not the super chat this is just me asking how upset would you be if your kid just rejected nintendo just wholeheartedly just wasn't into nintendo stuff i mean i i'd be pretty upset yeah i'm being honest like and i understand like whatever she wants i'm going to support her and all that stuff because that's the truth and the reality yeah i did put that in quotes it would hurt me it would suck you know what i mean yeah it's also impossible so like i'm not worried because i'm enjoying that here's the thing and i mean this if you don't if you're one of those people that like thinks less of nintendo games i think less of you so i'm like fuck with that and that'll stay true to my daughter fuck with that if she thinks less of nintendo games i'll think less of her i'll still support her in her endeavors you know i feel it what if you like you get you like you put like a little um like a charmander like plush in front of her you know just to kind of like plant the seed and she looks at it and it said points to back and you turn around and it's like a fucking playstation vita like what what are you doing what are you doing in that scenario are you just like dropping off on greg's porch i wouldn't be mad at that but because that doesn't mean i'm okay with her choosing playstation over nintendo you just got to show nintendo respect you know what i mean yeah what if it's like what it was like what if it's like an ouya like she sees like you she looks in your hardware closet you look in your hardware closet and like you just have an abandoned you you never opened or whatever she sees that and she likes the shape she's like i want i want that that's the one i want that i want to form my identity around that god can you imagine forming your entire identity around a piece of hardware that just didn't work out and nobody cares about craig miller and devita yeah i'm sure somebody got obsessed with like the google glass or whatever like i'm sure i'm sure there are people i'm sure this happened plenty of times and i feel bad for those people yeah um alex frazier writes in and says this is a slippery slope to eventual uh to the eventual incorporation of ads in all games in the inevitable price hike for an ad free experience to existing subs this is a conversation i'm fascinated about because like my brain didn't automatically go there as far as the slippery slope element of it is that a thing you're scared of at all here's the thing i'm not scared of it because it's already happening like we've been talking about this for years you turn on your xbox there's ads yeah that's that's what this is like if you're talking about pre-roll like video ads playing like yeah i mean i think i think inevitably that's going to happen and i also think that it is starting already and it sucks but it's also i think just an inevitability and that's where these things come into play of like the paying for it and to me that comes down to what i said earlier i will pay the highest subscription thing if i'm getting stuff i like there at a certain point if i look at this xbox stuff and i'm like you know what game pass does not serve me at all i'm not gonna pay for it but right now it is and i think that with the um future of the the the handhelds i'm like i think that the value might be there for me yeah but that might not be the case in which case buy xbox i don't need you it's that simple yeah and i say that about playstation i'd say that about nintendo I would say it about anybody.

52:41You are the only person that can decide is this thing worth it to me or not. It gets annoying when you look at something and go, I want that part. I don't want that part. Think about me right now with Disney Plus and Hulu. And I'm all about it. I'm fine. I love Hulu FX. They've served me so well. Disney Plus serves me. Me personally very well. Even the things I don't like, I'm still happy with. Now you're trying to get me to get ESPN? you're trying to get Tim you're trying to get me to pay for ESPN I don't want to fucking do that WWE I don't want to fucking do that and guess what I'm not going to VPN motherfuckers damn I've been VPNing damn I will continue to my thing with this is Alex Frazier you start off your thing of like this is a slippery slope I don't want to be like the fucking I went to logic class in college guy but like slippery slopes are inherently a fallacy right like slippery the whole the phrase slippery slope is like a thing to be like no that's not an actual like that's not actually going to happen you're talking about a slippery slope like so many things we need to line up in order for that to be an actual thing now like i think separately from the xbox cloud gaming stuff i can see a fear for like ads infecting video games i understand that fear i think there is legitimacy there as far as that thought but i don't think xbox cloud gaming is the reason why ads and video games are going to be normalized mainly because i don't think xbox cloud gaming is popular enough for like that to then like normalize the thing i was very i was kind of surprised yesterday i put up a tweet or a blue sky actually i put up a blue sky about um that's bstm yeah uh thank you barrett in the back asking people hey people who follow me do you care about xbox cloud gaming just to get a vibe right and again you know small sample size again going back to logic class you know i can't take this as gospel or whatever but i got like almost 200 applies to that blue sky the vast majority of people are like no do not give a fuck about xbox cloud gaming at least the people that are like the gamers that listen to the show or whatever yeah um and i think if you're talking about the hardcore audience like that sample size of hardcore audience not caring like i don't think i don't think putting ads in xbox cloud gaming is then going to ripple effect into now ads or in the video games that you pay for i just don't think that's that's how i also do think though that the the people that are that want to hate on the cloud gaming are the people that just don't want to hear about it and don't believe in it period which are the hardcore gamers that listen to these shows you know what i mean so i do think that there is that kind of sample size where i think that the imagine the biggest group of people that use xbox cloud are like probably the least gamer of anybody where they see somebody at best buy tell them yeah you just do this and it works and that's all they know that's how they play games then yeah because it just works for them and because we're at a point that it just works now and if it doesn't that's the state of all video games period at this point yeah uh let's see we've got some more super chats here for you infinite loop writes in and says missing piece of the accounting is people being less likely to go to go buy game pass games after playing them how many publishers will pass now with the ink cost i read all that i didn't retain any of the information

55:57it's episode 1999 missing a piece of the accounting is people being less likely to go buy game pass games after playing them I mean that's by design right like why would people buy games after playing them yeah that's already been the case niche situation I personally Tim Geddes most games I buy are after I play them because i for the most part get game codes for review sure yeah so but i also want to support the developers and i care about physical collections and stuff so i'm in a incredibly unique position there but yeah i don't think that the majority of people playing playing a game even if they like it are like well they're not using game pass as a demo i guess is my point they're using it as their way to experience the game uh demon hacker says uh is oh my god this thing just jump forward hold on demon hacker i hate when that happens yeah is microsoft current year the least customer friendly year of all time for for a gaming company i mean it's just because they're such a big gaming company sure they might feel that way but i don't know man i mean i no it's a it's a it's a weird question to answer that's like such a subjective thing i'm not gonna wade into that um norman writes in and says huge congrats on khd 2k been watching since day one heading to san francisco tomorrow for my first trip to the west coast and we will be out there for most of the week wanted to get this in now in case i don't get the chance to hop in live on monday thank you so much norman thank you norman obviously i've seen your name for many many years now so thank you very much for all of your support and being a great member of the community uh teflon tev says greg's square is going to be that dc mobile game i like that i don't even know what that here's what i want clear about the bingo thing yeah i feel like the audience is the one that needs to kind of like help us get there it's not just like what weird game are we pushing for game of the year yeah because that's not what i'm doing with mario kart world marco world should stay the fuck away from game of the year conversations i want that it's what's the repeated what is there just the thing that we're being like loud about i mean yeah annoying is not the right word because it's like no fuck that yeah it's like what do we stand by that's just like a thing that we're just going to keep repeating over and over yes i like that um Ben Cosm writes in with Gaming adjacent Wii News The Proto Men just announced Act 3 The City Made Us Bandcamp pre-order up There is still hope man There is still hope in man There is still hope man Let's see Alec KB writes in and says Wii News or Huge News Game I've been working on just got released today King of Meat is out now with a cheeky Mr.

58:39Beast collab I've been seeing King of Meat a lot I've read that name a lot in the last week i think we're planning on playing it next week yeah that might change but kevin if you if you can look up a trailer for king of meat oh baron in the background says it's like fall guys this year hell yeah congratulations on the release it's awesome uh kabob says sparking legit put out a 200 plus character trailer good for them good for them um last greek i'm sorry last geek says shout out to every cool people whose birthday is tomorrow including me also blessing that jacket is dope thank you so much this is my uh tech and jacket happy birthday tomorrow last geek it's also this girl kimberly i went to high school with his birthday happy birthday kimberly kimberly remember kimberly's birthday i remember a lot of birthdays when's barry's birthday i'll be real both your birth oh actually hold on got it july 2nd yeah my device is there april damn damn fuck yeah i don't know i don't know damn you gotta have to like get baron a pizza or something that's fucked up because baron i remember your birthday come on i'm trying to think of like a i don't remember his birthday oh that's fucking funny oh man yeah i don't know is it february it's february okay you're nodding your head cool i would see i was gonna say february i know i know andy's it's february 16th it's 16th it's the 16th i'm not february 16th okay i'm locking in 16th there we go kevin obviously i know it's may 26th the day gta 6 comes out next year wow nick is april no it's not sorry nick is january 13th greg is april 27th damn he's on it yeah he's on um joey is december 25th christmas is that every employee we have what's cool grace is february 23rd mike that'd be crazy if you didn't know that one oh i don't know mike's it's in may no way yeah mike's birthday is in may i'm pretty sure i would have lost my house may 11th not may may's the only month i wouldn't have guessed yeah roger i don't think he has a birthday yeah i don't think so we ever celebrated roger's just like he just appeared damn yeah he just appeared on this earth one day yeah and i was like i'm rod um demon hacker writes in and says snow bike mike bingo slot magic in his top five of his top 10 i don't think we're allowed to do well yeah well there in the background just said a strong no i'm glad we hashed this out now because bear you might have seen it in my top 10 you know arena gets updates uh mr hawks 182 says shouting out my 10 year wedding anniversary oh we're over time and then game cat writes in and says let's play hokkaido or sapienza for a psvr2 hitman i appreciate that um dave bro thank you so much for your super chat we gotta end the show because we're already late i'm gonna hop into kindoffunny.com slash you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so you can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe um let's see here jeppo says that's not you're wrong i'm not reading that and then om jesus let's see what you got here regarding the free xbox cloud gaming even the lower tiers of game pass have a waiting period because you don't have cloud priority i bet the free ad here will have the longest wait times it's cool that it's free but you might have to wait like 30 minutes to finally see the ad to play yeah that's just how those things work though i'm not saying that's good or bad yeah and that is it for you're wrong tim that's been another episode of kind of funny games daily uh each time we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon or youtube to get all of our shows ad-free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show enjoy the games cast next where we fix game of the year 2019 and game of showdown after uh where kind of feudy returns and then lego party and then lego party which is gonna be a really fun time but until next time game daily episode 2000