The Pure Greed of the PS5 Price Hike, Silksong Coming SOON, and Valve's Fremont runs Win 11!

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What?

We should put like a trigger warning.

Has politics at the

beginning of the video.

Mmm.

Hey, that could be our cold open.

Cheeky.

You brought up the Trump phone.

If you bring up the Trump

phone, it's over for me.

Yeah.

We have to talk about

that. It's so stupid.

It is so stupid. It's

such a good content.

Welcome to Off the Console, the hottest

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And it's been a while since we've had all

three of us on air at some point,

because I think I went to Japan, and then

the week after I went to Japan, we just

didn't have an episode.

And then last week,

Gardener's Internet went out.

Welcome back, my little Gardener.

Thank you. It's good to be back.

And now this is the first

week where we've had everyone.

And how's everyone doing today?

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So what have you guys

been playing this week?

Go ahead, please.

That's a good question.

What have I been playing?

I played more of the Half-Life clone.

It's not really Half-Life

clone at all, but Abiotic Factor.

Abiotic or whatever it's called.

Abiotic?

Yeah, and it's fun. I really like it.

I need to... I'm going to start playing

with some people soon.

Probably my son, but that

is what I have been playing.

It's been fun.

Dude.

Imagine if we had...

Imagine if we all had the game.

It's a little pricier for the type of

indie game it is, but it's like 37 bucks.

Have you guys tried it at all?

No.

No. It sounds pretty cool, though. I've seen

some people play it.

I really like it.

It has that...

For some reason, because it's a very

different game than Half-Life,

it still has that Half-Life

feel to it, and I love it.

That's totally valid, man.

Half-Life feel mixed with maybe some Deus

Ex or something like that. I don't know.

Some building.

That's awesome. Building like Minecraft

building or building like...

Like a survival... Like...

70 Days to Die kind of thing, but not

quite to that level or Minecraft level.

It's not like you mine for anything, but

you can harvest computers

for equipment to put together.

You're a scientist, so you have to put

together gadgets to

progress in the story.

So you can't terraform the

Earth, is what you're saying?

No.

But maybe... I don't know. I haven't

finished the game. I'm only

probably a third through it.

But you can... There's security robots

that will patrol at night,

and they'll attack you too.

And you can go after

those and harvest them for...

See, that's one thing I want

in the Power World to do too.

Is the ability to dig into places to make

better bases and whatnot.

Because one of the things that really

annoys me is sometimes I have to start...

It's really hard to find a good place to

build a base in Power World.

There are plenty of flat areas, but at

the same time though, I'd like to have my

own flat area instead.

I don't know, man.

Power World would be

better with that, I agree.

A Biotic Factor is definitely not that

type of game, because you're

in a Black Mesa-like facility.

So it's not like you're on

ground or anything like that.

You're in a facility and it's massive,

and there's different

research wings and stuff, so...

Oh, that makes more sense.

Yeah, it's a very different type of

survival-style game.

It makes sense. What about Shoe Gardiner?

What have you been playing?

I have not been playing

anything. I have been very busy.

So you mentioned that I lost internet.

I'll tell that story real quick.

So I think it was

Thursday or Friday morning.

I woke up at my normal time, like 5-ish,

and I'm on my phone.

And then all of a sudden, maybe 15

minutes after I wake up, a little Android

notification pops up and says,

"Heavy Element, my Wi-Fi

has no internet access."

And I was like, "Oh, that's weird."

And come to find out, the entire town,

the neighboring town to the south and the

neighboring town to the west,

have completely lost internet.

And I was like, "What the hell?"

So I ended up calling...

Oh, it might have been... I don't know,

it might have been Saturday even.

I'm not exactly sure what day, but I had

no internet for four days.

I also have a static IP address, and my

static IP address was not reassigned when

the internet came back up,

because my ISP hadn't documented that I

even had a static IP address.

So I lost my static IP, and while

everyone else of my neighbors around me

got their internet back,

because my router was set to have a

static IP at the WAN level,

my internet didn't come back.

Oh, no.

So I was out without

internet for about 32 hours,

and then when I finally realized to

change the router to DHCP,

then I had internet, but I still didn't

have any of my home lab services,

which we're using to do the podcasts, to

do the show notes and stuff.

Long story short, I think it was Tuesday

or maybe even Wednesday morning when I

finally got my static IP address back.

Yeah, super annoying. But what I have

been doing is I've been playing...

Can you see that?

I have been messing around with this for

the last few hours. I did a live stream.

It's very out of focus. There we go.

It's even got that CRT scan to it.

Yeah, dude. It is a CRT, so...

Man, I've been messing around with this.

It is frozen right now. I

don't know why it's not.

I tried to load apple.com

from my retro proxy instance,

which would load it for a specific date.

So I set it to August 22, 1998.

And so if it had loaded, it would have

been cool to show you what the website

looked like at the date of

this machine was manufactured,

but it didn't load in time.

So have you tried

playing any games on it?

So here's the deal. I think something is

wrong with it because I can't unpack any

stuff at archives and I can't...

I tried installing... The only thing I've

been able to install

is Netscape version 7.

Everything else I

haven't been able to install.

So I have iTunes, I have KidPix, I have

Boom, and a few other things that I'm

trying to get working on here.

Very retro, very nostalgic apps and

games, but I have not been able to get

any of them to work.

And there was this whole ordeal. I

livestreamed for probably four hours, I

think it was, last night

as of recording this video.

And the archive, the VOD,

is available on my channel.

And I had to like... When I got this, I

was told that this worked flawlessly, but

when I turned it on, it

made this god-awful noise.

It was just this like... kind of noise

that lasted for maybe 30 seconds.

Long story short, I have this old one

here that I got from somewhere else.

And when it came in the

mail, it was fully destroyed.

So I had to salvage the hard drive from

that so I could put it into this one.

So my livestream was... I

covered a lot of bases in that.

Wow, shoot man, maybe one day you can

play Marathon, the

one from the old Bungie.

Yes, Marathon, the good Bungie, yeah.

That's definitely on my

list of games to play.

I want to do Myst and Myth and Halo

Combat Evolved, which I think I'd have to

upgrade this to Mac OS X to do Halo, I

don't know for sure.

Wait, was Halo on Mac?

Yes, it was, my dude.

Oh shit, I didn't realize.

Yep, Halo Combat Evolved.

Microsoft fucked up letting that happen.

So do you know the

whole story about that?

Yeah, I know that Halo was supposed to be

on the Mac originally.

So they had to make a... when Microsoft

bought Bungie, they had to honor the

previous contract with Apple.

And so after like a year or so of it

being on Xbox, it came to Mac OS.

Yeah, well funny enough too, Microsoft

owned a portion of Apple too, so it's not

like they don't have

some interest in there.

Right.

That's why everything on... that's why

everything Microsoft makes

somehow ends up on Apple stuff.

Mm-hmm.

I had Internet Explorer up on this

machine when I showed it to you, so...

Internet Explorer, I hate, I

hate that so much, I hate it.

To be honest, on this machine, Internet

Explorer is the best you

can do for a retro browser.

No, I get it, I just had a job, one of my

first programming jobs was I had a

support IE8 and I hated it so much.

Oh, it's trash.

Dude.

Well, I have a lot of... well, as for me,

I've been sorting through my Japan

footage, Japan photos, and

there's a lot going on in Japan.

Certainly Japan loves their mascot

characters that much as non-negotiable.

And I was surprised, but I was surprised

at what they... what

mascot characters they like.

So, of course, they have their anime

girls as mascots, but they also quite

like Snoopy as well.

I saw no less than three Snoopy stores

all selling, like, Snoopy branded

chocolate and stuff like that.

Whoa.

Yeah, that was pretty cool.

And I also got to visit

the giant Gundam in a...

Yeah, you sent pictures of it.

Yeah, and coincidentally, there happened

to be an idol show there, too.

Like, look. Look at this giant Gundam.

And look what's happening over there.

Wow.

It's the cra... it was like

the craziest coincidence ever.

Let's see what else they

were... let's see what else...

Damn, there's so much. I really have to

just look at everything in the process of

it, because it just kind of happened in

the... it happened really fast.

I wish I spent more time there, but...

I only ever get... I only

really get two weeks off the year.

But aside from Japan,

I've been playing games.

There was this one FPS game called the

Beyond Citadel that I've been playing,

and it's pretty sick.

But it's also, like, especially gory.

To, like, a disgustingly, like, detailed

degree, so it's not for everyone.

Nothing wrong with a little gore.

I'll have to try it out, I guess.

It's just a machine.

Have you guys ever seen that Quentin

Tarantino clip where he's being

interviewed by, like, a local newscaster?

And she's like, "But why is everything so

violent and gory in your movies?"

And he goes, "Because it's fun, Jan!"

Because it's fun.

I'm surprised she didn't question him

about his foot fetish.

His well-documented foot fetish.

You heard it first.

Garner says it's fun.

Why else would you do it, you know?

True to that.

But you know what

else is fun? Video games.

And you know what else

is fun? New video games.

And Gamescom has a bunch of announcements

for games that have

already been released.

And some new releases, too.

Some of the stuff that

I liked, though, were...

I don't know if this was necessarily

Gamescom, but it kind of

happened around that time.

Helldivers and Halo ODST.

Wow.

I saw the crossover.

It looked pretty sick.

Let's see. Halo...

And then let me find a picture of it.

There we go. There we go.

You guys see it?

Nice. Yeah.

You get... Not only do you get the ODST

armor, but you also get a recon as well.

Something Bungie used to not give you

until the very end of Halo 3's lifespan.

And it has... I can has recon.

So, I mean, this was pretty cool.

Another really cool announcement was that

Silksong is releasing

sometime next month.

In fact, not just next

month, but like in two weeks.

Yeah.

That was my pick for most exciting news.

That was pretty... Yeah,

Silksong's gonna be pretty cool.

I mean, there are some aspects of the

original Hollow Knight that

I didn't like all that much,

but I still thought it

was a pretty good game.

Yeah.

But one has to wonder if a seven-year

developer cycle for

Silksong did it any favors.

I mean, they had the capital to kind of

sit back and take

their time and do it right,

so I'm hoping that it's gonna be awesome.

I hope so too, man, because the one

question no one on the

internet is asking is,

"What if Silksong sucks?"

Yeah, we'll see. I think that they'll get

it right. I have confidence.

Yeah.

They also announced an

anime series based on Sekiro.

And have you guys played Sekiro?

I have not.

I don't remember if I played it, but I've

seen a lot of gameplay on it.

I've beaten the game. It's awesome. You

guys should definitely play it.

I know you guys are probably sick of

Souls-like, but I would go as far as to

say it's not a Souls-like.

Anyways, here's the anime series. You

know, there was some

controversy surrounding it.

Suppose there were some accusations that

they were using

generative AI to make the anime.

The studios come out and say that they're

not using generative AI.

It just looks vastly different compared

to every other anime out there, which I

think threw people off.

I hate this timeline so much because

people say everything's generated.

There's so many people just accusing

everything because it's just a little different.

And there's a lot of animes that are very

different these days because

they have to stand out, right?

I hate this timeline.

That said, the anime studio behind the

Sekiro anime has been quoted as saying

that they work in AI at some point.

But they came out and said that

specifically for Sekiro, the anime, they

are not using generative AI.

They're being hand-drawn.

Yeah, the thing about something like

this, if it's done with AI, you can tell

because there's no

consistency between the shots.

Characters look vastly different if they

are generated with AI.

And everything in that trailer looked

consistent to me, so it

doesn't smack of AI to me.

Plus, they have veterans in the anime

industry working on this.

For example, they have...

It's being headed by

production I.G.'s Shin Fukudome.

The I.G.'s known for

Fuli-Kuli, F-L-C-L, some call it.

And there's some animes that they...

Let's see what else.

We have Takuya Sato, who did Steins Gate,

Faith's Day Night, Haikyuu.

Kaito Moki, who did My Dress Up Darling.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5, and art

director Yuji Kaneko, who did Trigon

Stampede and Heavenly Delusion.

I don't think any of those creatives

would want to willingly go behind a

company that uses anime.

Not anime, sorry, uses

generative AI for anime.

Yeah, right.

But anyways, there's also LEGO Batman. It

looks like an Arkham game, but like LEGO.

And I'm pretty sure Bat... I know

Batman's not supposed to kill, but it

looks like in this game

he's just killing dudes.

He blows off their LEGO heads.

Their LEGOs. They don't die.

LEGO, there's no violence in LEGO.

Yeah, okay. There's no violence in LEGOs.

There's also the new Bubsy game, which

looks like a movement motion, like

momentum based platformer.

What could possibly go wrong?

Let's see what else. We got the He-Man

beat him up, which looks pretty cool.

Resident Evil Requiem, which looks okay,

I guess. Pretty decent.

What? No, that's what I'm most excited

for. That one in Helldivers 2.

I'm really excited for Resident Evil. It

looks like it's going to have

a different take on things too.

I think the one I'm most excited for was

Ninja Gaiden 4, which is

coming out in two months.

I take it back. My

most excited is Bubsy 4D.

Man, Gamescom is like... There's so many

things going on right now,

man. I could not keep up.

I might have been able to keep up had I

not been on VK, but yeah.

Thankfully, someone did that for us.

And it's not Noah from Steam

Let Hell Loose Vietnam, Edge of Memories,

Den of Wolves, Skate.

Let me know when you want to click on a

trailer specifically.

1348, Exavoto, Resident

Evil 4, Hell Loose Us.

I'm just going to

keep going down the list.

Until I find something super interesting.

Oh, Domekeeper. What

was that? Domekeeper.

Multiplayer mode.

Oh my god.

Dude, when that comes

out, we got to do it.

Co-op and PvP.

Ooh.

PvP.

PvP.

Dude, that... I can't

believe I missed that.

That's super exciting.

Things are happening so fast, man.

Dude, I don't think anybody in the

audience truly comprehends how good that

game is if they

haven't played it already.

I think all three of

us have loved that game.

Gardner, I think it's time for you to

make a dedicated video on it.

I should. Yeah, I should.

Let's see.

We've got Star Fox inspired Wild Blue.

I like Star Fox.

I do too.

But inspired in what way?

Oh, right. The gameplay, of course.

And also the furry characters.

Let's see what else.

Windstorm. I don't know what this is.

Base building, farming, and bounty

hunting in Bounty Star?

I mean, it's alright, I guess.

Let's see.

Ah, Phantom Blade Zero looks pretty sick

though. I do want to play this.

I know you guys are sick of Souls-likes,

but I don't think this is

a Souls-like, to be honest.

It doesn't look like one.

Yeah, I think it

looks too fast to be one.

Yeah. I'd play it.

Some Snussels-like.

Yeah. But then again, people don't know what they're talking about.

People kept saying Black Myth Wukong is

no Souls-like, but it's

definitely a Souls-like.

Whoever says it's not a

Souls-like is just wrong.

That's interesting.

Pragmata is an interesting one.

It's a Capcom third-person shooter, but

there's an emphasis

on hacking mid-combat.

Okay.

So you gotta do this little mini song and

dance to actually do

decent damage to enemies too.

Why does that read to me like Death

Stranding? Like the graphics?

Ah.

Because you're carrying

stuff on the back, on your back.

Oh, there's a person on the back.

Yeah. Yeah. There's like a

little Android girl on your back.

Ah.

And she's the one doing the hacking.

Yeah, no, this sounds interesting. I'm

gonna put on my wish list.

Is that your telegraph going off?

No, that's my phone.

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.

Let's see.

Halloween. Oh, they should have announced

this when y'all had Jimmy on there

because he's a horror guy.

Halloween?

Halloween, yeah. It's a single-player and

multiplayer stealth horror game.

Hmm.

I'm interested.

Wait, so you get to

play as Michael Myers.

Yeah.

Mmm. That's pretty sick.

You should play the trailer for a second.

Yeah, I think I will. Let's see. Let's

skip to the good part.

The killing?

Yes.

Do you have to have the lead up?

No.

Dude, where? Dude, obviously we're

catering to the TikTok generation, man.

Are we?

A two-hour long

podcast caters to Zoomers.

All right.

With a grumpy millennial who hates every

new video game? I don't know about that.

Dumpkeeper's new? Her?

Dumpkeeper, well, yeah,

but that's an indie game.

Look, it's Michael Myers.

And up until that thing comes out, the

expansion comes out, it doesn't have

multiplayer, so that makes it good.

So the big question now is, how can

Michael Myers then kill

anyone in this trailer?

Yeah.

Man.

Disappointed.

Riff off.

Lame.

There's another article for another event

that happened at Gamescom too.

Uh, see.

Dying Light the Beast, whatever this is.

Ugh, EuroShooters.

DaviexJones.

Den of W- wait.

Hey, hey, didn't we already see this in

the other article? Whatever.

XOborn.

Dune Awakening.

All right.

Ah, here it is. Here it is. Gamescom.

Black Ops 7.

Lords of the Fallen 2.

Securino Defeat.

LEGO.

Uh, Warhammer 40k.

Moths on our Wilds.

Oni- oh, Oni-Musha. I forgot about this.

That's one I keep forgetting about.

It's because Capcom doesn't-

It's because Capcom keeps-

doesn't remind me every so often.

I'm keeping it-

Got that- I've got- I've gotten that low

attention span even

though I'm not a Zoomer.

Fallout.

Fallout Season 2.

I'm excited for that.

Oh, they're making a video game based on

Fallout the TV show?

I'm waiting for that.

That was a joke.

It's the Indiana Jones

and the Great Circle.

World of Tanks 2.0.

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando.

Wait, what is this?

Toxic Commando.

Oh.

Oh.

Let's see, Death by Scrolling.

Rogue-like vertical scrolling RPG.

Eh.

Hmm.

The Zero Parades CRPG from the

guys that made Disco Elysium.

Hmm.

Huh.

It's hard to tell what's going on without

sound, but it looks vaguely interesting.

Ah, Ninja Gaiden 4, man.

This is gonna be Game of the Year.

For me.

Probably.

Dude.

I'll have to try it out.

I have liked Ninja

Gaiden in the past, but...

Hmm.

I like Ninja Gaiden on the NES.

Have you played the new 2D Ninja Gaiden?

Ninja Gaiden Ragebound?

I have not.

I didn't even know that was a thing.

It is.

And it's on GOG too if you're interested.

Oh, nice.

I played...

The last Ninja Gaiden game I played was

Ninja Gaiden Black for the Xbox.

Yeah.

Ragebound is being developed by the same

guys that made Blasphemous too.

Or it was developed by the same guys that

made Blasphemous rather.

It's pretty good.

You should try it out.

Let's see.

MMO shooter.

Ahh.

Pfft.

Free to play hero shooter.

Pfft.

Silent Hill F.

Looks vaguely interesting.

That's one that I'll probably play.

It's being written by the

guy that wrote Higurashi.

When they cry.

It looks interesting to me.

We'll see though.

Silent Hill is one of those

series that's always good.

It's not always good.

There have been some pretty big stinkers

in the Silent Hill franchise.

Yeah, but that's...

I don't...

I enjoy horror for also the B.

Like the B style.

It's not even B style.

It's like C style maybe.

Okay.

You see Italian...

Italian action RPG.

You know what this kind of looks like?

It looks like Soulslike again.

Maybe.

I'm not seeing...

The way the character is moving super

slowly makes me think Soulslike.

It might be, but honestly they'll have to

show us more differentiating features.

Like for example, they'd be able to jump

or like do air combos.

Kind of like Ninja Gaiden.

Shit.

Why don't we just make

more games like Ninja Gaiden?

This one I'm really excited for.

What is this?

Chronos.

Chronos.

The new Dawn.

It is...

Wait, hold on.

They get a guy on stage in Armor?

That's pretty sick.

We don't see that too often these days.

That was pretty cool.

I didn't...

Yeah, this is one that...

It's like a Dead Space

Time oriented horror game.

It looks really good.

We've seen it multiple

times when we've done these...

When we've done live streams of these

shows, this is the one

that's popped up once or twice.

Yeah, we didn't do a live

stream with this, did we?

Not of this one, no.

We...

Yeah, this snuck up on me.

Yeah, same.

It's the Outer Worlds 2.

The video game that

dropped in price, that's...

I'm really excited for that one too.

Enzoy.

Craft.

Okay.

Yeah.

Hey man, they're taking that...

Hey man, they really are like The Sims.

They're taking after EA's model of

selling a billion DLCs.

Oh wait, no, this is free DLC.

Sorry, big difference.

You gotta get the first DLC out for free,

just to get them addicted.

Then you charge.

Dude, this guy... this

guy... this guy deals.

Let's see, Moonlighter 2...

Hey man, I'm not gonna lie to you.

I thought Moonlighter was kind of like a

knockoff of Resettier in item shop RPG.

Have you guys heard of that game?

It's really old at this point.

It's like one of the first

third party games on Steam.

It's this one right here.

They're making a

remaster of it, but like...

Oh, I think you told us about this.

Yeah, so...

Oh yeah.

It was also the source for...

I'm kind of curious what the Steam ID is.

Like in the URL, I can't read it.

It's 70400.

Oh wow, okay.

That's higher than I thought it would be.

It was... man.

It also gave birth to like...

one of the funniest comics.

Related TF2.

I think you know which

one I'm talking about.

Yeah.

It costs $400,000 to

fire Sasha for 12 seconds.

That's $800 per bullet.

Where have you been buying your ammo?

Yeah.

The game's motto is "Capitalism" though.

Man.

It's such a good game though.

You guys need to play it.

There's so many games.

I haven't even gotten

Doom Dark Ages finished yet.

I'm two thirds through it, but...

other games keep on popping up and I keep

on playing everything else.

How do you feel about it?

I want your honest

opinion, Doom the Dark Ages.

It's not nearly as good as Doom Eternal.

Yeah.

But I started Dark Ages and then I

realized there was

some missing story for me.

So I went back to Doom Eternal's DLCs.

Because I finished the

game before the DLCs came out.

And so I played those.

And so definitely the graphics are a

little better in Doom Dark Ages.

The play styles are just...

The most annoying thing is the play

styles are so different.

When you jump back and

forth between the two,

honestly Dark Ages is still a rhythm

style in my opinion.

You have to really...

I don't know about rhythm because the

music's not nearly as good.

But it's very...

combo based.

You have to know your combos.

Yeah.

It's good.

But it's not as good as Doom Eternal.

Yeah.

It's not my favorite thing.

No.

It's...

Let's see there's...

Yeah.

It's starting to get

kind of boring, honestly.

But...

Yeah.

Let's see what else we've got.

We've got Age of Empires IV.

We've got a Eastern expansion.

We've got Deliverance II, DLC.

We've got Cult of the Lamb, DLC.

I'm excited for that one.

I think that one brings more multiplayer

or something like that.

I don't know.

We have...

We have a WoW expansion.

We have a new game.

It doesn't even have a real name yet.

Project Spectrum.

Let's see.

WoW of Tanks Heat is a...

more arcadey style tank game.

So I don't know what to make of that.

But...

It seems pretty...

It could be vaguely interesting.

You might need to watch more of the

trailers if we're...

If we're gonna be able to...

Summise what's going on.

But...

I mean World of Tanks is World of Tanks

and this is just a different...

Yeah.

Slightly less realistic World of Tanks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Man, if you get the tanks running World

of Tanks, man, someone's gonna leak some

government documents in your forums.

Or was that War Thunder?

I forget which game that was.

Gonna skip over Resident Evil, I see.

I think World of Tanks.

Yeah, we talked about

Resident Evil already, dude.

You didn't watch anything on it, though.

You said one thing that

you were not interested in.

And we moved on.

This is...

Resident Evils are so

classic and they're so...

This one, you're following someone that's

an introvert, though.

Or you're playing as

someone as an introvert.

It will be interesting to see how this

plays differently than 7 and 8.

So I'm definitely excited because it's

definitely gonna have

a different feel to it.

Yeah, it's back to third person, too.

Yeah.

Honestly, man, I would like

to play as Leon again, though.

Too bad they didn't make

Leon the main character.

But I also read the article where they

said they couldn't figure out how to make

games featuring Leon scary.

Because he's like this big

action hero in Resident Evil.

Yeah, and they want... I agree. I wanna

play more Leon, but...

I think they could figure it out.

But it might have to be a different...

Oh, and they saved the

big announcement for last.

New Black Myth game.

Black Myth is on Kui.

Hmm.

So I think they made it known in the

beginning that they wanted to make games

based on various

Chinese myths and novels.

And of course they

made Black Myth Wukong.

Now they're making one based on Zhong

Kui, who I'm not super familiar with.

Taoist deity in Chinese mythology.

Vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings.

So he's like a... ghost slayer.

Or a demon slayer. Maybe not necessarily

demons, I don't know.

But you get the idea.

Is it made by the same

studio that did Black...

Black Myth Wukong? Yes.

It's in the same series.

And I mean...

I don't know what to make it... Oh, wait,

they're still doing more livestreams for

Gamescom? It's not over yet?

Oh, well.

Oh, well, we got some footage of Sonic.

Oh, I think most... I

mean, come on, dude.

Mario basically made...

There's a lot of cart

razors coming out of...

Pretty extreme, like this one, of course.

But also there's

Garfield Kart 2 coming out.

Garfield Kart 2?

Yeah, Garfield Kart 2.

And Garfield Kart's surprisingly fun.

Interesting. I... I'm really just Mario

Kart. It's kind of classic for me.

Oh, here's Silent Hill F.

Well, I don't think it's Silent Hill F. I

think it's called Silent Hill Forte,

because it uses the

lowercase, like, italicized F.

Like, you wouldn't even think...

So I'm gonna call it Silent Hill Forte.

I mean, that F kind of looked like the

function F, right? Am I wrong about that?

Oh. You're not wrong.

Huh. I wonder what the

F actually means then.

But... this one looks a little...

So you're essentially a Japanese high

schooler destroying baddies?

Dude, that's like every Japanese game.

Yeah, but she's got like her traditional

high school outfit on. That's like... a

little different. That's interesting.

Yeah, I think this takes place in like...

the 80s or some shit.

Yeah.

I think it's like...

I think it's like... I think it's like... I think it's like... I think it's like... [sigh]

But yeah, Gamescom happened. I know we

kind of missed out on streaming Gamescom,

but again, they're also doing multiple...

They're doing multiple shows. Heck, this

is still going on technically.

Like, we're back to Sonic again.

But I think it's time for us to move on

from Gamescom. Do you have any final

thoughts on Gamescom?

Or the gaming conventions as a whole?

A lot of games coming out. There's a lot

of games coming out and

at least there's some...

I think with all of this, there's at

least some interesting stuff like...

Resident Evil, Tell Divers, Ninja

Guidance kind of stuff.

And so, I think we'll be pretty good next

year as we get some new games.

I agree, I agree, man. That's sad.

I want more indie games.

Yeah, I mean, Gamescom's not going to be

the place for indie

games. I think your best bet...

Yeah, I mean, your best bet would be that

Triple-I initiative that they

did earlier a few months ago.

That has some nice stuff.

There's a lot of indie games coming too,

so I think it's going to

be a pretty rich next year.

But, this isn't the last major gaming

expo this year. As you know, Tokyo Game

Show happens sometime in September.

So, we should probably cover that

sometime in September as well. I don't

know if we'll do a livestream or not

because, you know...

Tokyo Game Show, they're

like 11 hours ahead of us, so...

It might not be

necessarily possible, but we'll see.

But, you know what is possible?

The PlayStation going

up in price in the US.

Yeah.

So, similar to many

global businesses, says Sony.

Now, I think we can all pinpoint one

particular reason why the

price has gone up so much.

Well, 50...

$50.

It's gone up from...

Every single SKU

basically has gone up $50, so...

This used to be $500, now it's $549.99.

This one went up $50 as well.

And yes, the PS5 Pro went up $50 as well.

Yeah, it's tariffs.

Yeah.

And it's flat out tariffs. They're

starting to really hit

the companies, and so...

Xbox did a preemptive

raise in their prices.

Switch did one earlier last... Like, was

it last month? I believe.

They raised the original Switch.

Like, not even like the

new Switch too, but they...

The first Switch, they raised price.

This... I don't...

Has there ever been a time where consoles

have gone up instead of down?

I don't know if I've ever been...

Yeah.

Seen it.

Well...

Price gouging. It's

just price gouging too.

I mean, they're using tariffs as an

excuse, which they probably...

I mean, tariffs are definitely raising

the cost of goods sold in the US,

but also it's just

price gouging and greed.

If it doesn't go down, I definitely agree

with that, because the thing is,

every time they raise

prices with stuff like this,

once the tariffs go away,

will they drop it? Probably not.

So, it is a mixture, I think, of both.

It is...

Tariffs.

And it could get worse. It could get

worse depending on how tariffs go, so...

Fucking Nvidia, man.

I'm still pissed off that they raised the

prices of GPUs due to crypto.

Mm-hmm.

And then crypto basically died out.

You can't mine Ethereum

anymore, I'm gonna believe.

I think it went to proof of stake, not...

Proof of stake.

Yeah, not proof of work.

Yeah. So, you effectively

can't mine Ethereum anymore.

Even before it was starting to get to a

point it was getting harder.

And Bitcoin, you can't even mine anymore

because it's so difficult.

It's designed that way, though.

I mean, yeah, man.

I mean, I don't know what

to make of it besides...

Greed.

I mean, some...

I mean, realistically, Sony could have

taken the tariff hit.

They just chose not to.

I agree with that, but...

It's a really easy excuse for them to

say, "Hey, we're gonna raise it,"

because they are getting charged more.

They've probably been getting charged

more for a little bit now.

I mean, look at how much Trump has

collected in tariffs.

It's not that much, but

it still is something.

So...

It's actually one of the cases where I'm

like, "Okay, it makes sense

that they're raising the price,

and it could be worse,

but I've never seen..."

And I don't think this is a very bad

sign, I think, for the economy.

It is consoles going up, and even the

original Switch, where you

know that one's a greed one.

That's a... I agree with Gardner, though.

With at least the Switch, that is purely

greed. It has to be.

But to be fair, though...

To be fair, though, Sony also raised the

prices of the PS5 in other

regions that aren't the US.

Which tells me that

it's almost entirely greed.

They could still be a...

Well, no, it could be a greed there.

They could also be there being assholes

and just spreading the tariffs,

because $50 doesn't seem quite right for

how big the tariffs are.

They could also be just

making other people suffer.

But making other people in other

countries suffer for the US's...

Potentially. Potentially.

That's fucked up.

It's all fucked up. It's... I...

This is why I think we are in a

post-capitalism era.

Because it's not... Prices aren't based

on what it costs to manufacture.

It's based on cronyism

and who's at the top already

and how much they think

they can get out of a product.

I mean, this is... endgame capitalism is

really what a lot of people

like to say, in my opinion.

Post-game capitalism?

It's what happens when you have

unfettered capitalism.

It's Soviet capitalism.

That's definitely not Soviet capitalism.

That's completely different.

So there is one silver lining.

Apparently, PlayStation 5 accessories

won't increase in price

and they have no further price changes to

announce at this moment.

Yet.

Yet. It could happen, but it hasn't.

I mean, is there any reason to own a PS5?

Honestly...

Astrobot?

Yeah, Astrobot is really good.

That's not on PC?

Not yet.

No.

The hard part is that it

requires a PS5 controller,

which they could bring it out on PC if

once that happens...

Yeah, they could just

make it happen, man.

They could just make

Astrobot work on an Xbox.

Or they could just mandate

that you need a dual-sense 5.

But you've got to understand that

PlayStation is already

releasing a lot of their games on PC.

They might be holding back on this one,

kind of like their

flagship Mario-style type of game.

You don't see Mario on PC, but you don't

see any Nintendo games.

Oh, I thought you were talking about

their flagship game,

the Demon's Souls remake.

That at one point said that was going to

be on PC, but still

hasn't released on PC.

They might treat it

the same, unfortunately.

Oh, no.

Sony, Sony, Sony, Sony, if you want to

make your money back on tariffs,

just release Demon's

Souls and Astrobot on PC.

Yeah, they didn't need

to up the price, right?

Just release games on PC.

There.

You'll make more money

in a less shitty way.

It's also probably a little bit about

Control, making sure that they have

long-term, well,

short-term, long-term control.

Come on, man.

They lost at the

moment that they released.

What was their first

PlayStation game on PC?

Was it God of War or Horizon?

It was one of those two.

It might have been Horizon.

They didn't lose it.

They just wanted more money, but they're

going to still control it.

If they really wanted to, they could have

released almost all those

games on PC really fast.

Yeah.

Because the hardware that they're all

based on is AMD GPUs.

It's not hard to get

that to work on a PC.

I mean, the biggest hurdle with

PlayStation games on PC is porting it

from Orbis OS to like, you know,

because they have, don't they have their

own proprietary graphics API?

Yes, they do.

I think that would be the biggest hurdle,

but they're able to do it.

I mean, they could make a toolkit that

would work just fine.

It's a hurdle for sure, but I mean, Sony

has access to A, Nix's, B, the source

code to the games,

and C, a lot of capital.

So it's less a matter of is it possible

for Sony and more a matter

of if they'll even do it.

I don't know, man.

Sony increased the prices of consoles.

It's a little crazy to me that everyone's

done it, even the intent

of on the original Switch.

How old is the Switch

for like 10 years now?

Almost.

It's like eight years now.

Twenty seventeen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So honestly, Matt, it's crazy that this

generation of consoles.

It's not.

It's not a good sign.

And I honestly think them doing this and

all these companies doing it will

eventually hurt them

a lot in the long run.

Like I thought like consoles was a good

idea given how

expensive PC gaming has gotten.

But now you're telling me consoles are

getting fucking expensive too.

Do the PlayStation 5 Pro alone indicates

how expensive they are?

Yeah.

When they came out with

that price, I was shocked.

I know inflation over the years, but

compared to what consoles were like 20

years ago, I don't think

inflation quite adds up.

It's a little bit of greed inflation

mixed in with they just know that they're

they've they have brand loyalists.

And from what I understand, some games on

PS5 Pro don't look that much better.

In fact, I've heard in some cases, Metal

Gear Solid Delta games look worse on PS5

Pro than they do on PS5,

which is just a crazy thing to me.

But I mean, they look if you have the

hardware for if you have

the TV, they look better.

But yeah, only the die hard should ever

do like switch over.

That's also that's all

someone plays is PlayStation.

Like it's not that expensive.

I spend a lot more on my PC habit, my PC

gaming habits hardware wise,

game wise, I make up for it.

Yeah, I mean, the

games are cheaper on PC.

I think I think it evens out.

And plus, you don't

have to pay for online.

Agreed. And I can play my

games forever, essentially.

Yeah, you have near

infinite backwards and padability.

Yeah. And you might have actual infinite

backwards of padability with, you know,

fixes the games or like compatible layers

like on Linux or maybe

even like, oh, I don't know.

The only big downside

really is you have to.

It's getting better, but you have to

adjust the game depending

on what hardware you have.

If you have like a steam deck and you're

trying to play some games,

they might not play well.

There's always the

question on that type of stuff.

And console kind of is always solved that

where I can stick it in, I can play it.

That is true to a degree.

But like if you wanted to play like, I

don't know, Mach 100 World Wilds like

five years from now or maybe even 10

years from now, you there's a good chance

that, you know, PC is

like a decade later.

We'll probably be able to run it

justified without needing to upscale any.

Yeah, but I mean, scale or like rate or

even like frame generate to.

Yeah, but these people hold

on to their consoles, right?

And so they'll still have a plan as long

as they have the console.

I'm not trying to say I'm just saying

some people get consoles

because the ease they should.

I definitely try to

promote PC gaming over it.

Yeah, there is a reason.

But at the same time, though, we've kind

of lost that ease, to be honest,

especially in regards to consoles,

because like a you have to you have to

register for an account to

like play most games nowadays.

B, you have to like install the game,

like even if you buy a disk, you have the

physical copy, right?

But like you still have to stick it in

and install the game and like wait for it

to install and then you play it.

It's going to be really hard to ever be

console like experience

when it comes to ease.

The steam deck does that for the most

part because it has a simplified UI and

it has a list of recommended games.

It's getting there, but the PlayStation,

I mean, you're just you're it's going to

be really hard to beat a console when you

have hundreds and thousands of

different varieties of games.

And varieties of different PC hardware.

But I do think there are there is a

subset of gamers that really don't need

like I would say most people don't really

need the thousand dollar gaming PC to

play a lot of the games they like.

Like let's look at let's look at like the

most popular games right now.

I mean, League of Legends, for God's

sakes, is still really popular and that

doesn't need a 50 90.

I don't even think it needs a 50 70 or a

50 60. You could probably

get away with like a 50 50.

Yeah, 100 percent. Yeah, it doesn't need

a whole lot, but that's a completely

different style game than a console

player would typically play.

But but speaking of this, I'm sorry.

I'm going to the Val

Fremont emerges again.

And I think it's it's looking like and a

lot of the rumors are saying that that,

you know, it's a desk or a console made

by Valve, essentially.

So, right. Yeah. So here are the here is

the Geekbench results.

It's just CP right now. But as you can

see here, it's got a single core 24 12

multi core score of

seventy four fifty one.

I do find it interesting that the Val

Fremont uses when they used Windows 11

Pro to run the benchmark

as opposed to like Steam OS.

Right. Because you can run you can run

Geekbench on Steam OS,

right? Yeah. No, maybe.

No, I'm pretty sure you can run it on

Steam OS. I mean, I think I've

done it on a Steam OS as well.

But I mean, maybe the Steam OS, maybe

Steam OS isn't ready for Fremont yet.

It could be that it could be them testing

stuff. There could be so many different

reasons why this is a thing.

But thanks to this little test, we got

some specs. We've got a custom CPU.

We've got six cores, twelve threads.

Interestingly enough, it comes with what

looks like eight gigabytes of the of just

regular RAM instead of 16.

And to that point, suppose they're

suggesting, I think, sadly, as Bradley is

suggesting that Fremont is going to come

with a dedicated GPU.

It's not an APU. It's

going to come with a 7600.

Interesting. I don't actually know how

powerful the 7600 is to be on.

Like a 5060 or 4060? 5060?

It's between those two, I think.

So it comes with eight gigs of dedicated

VRAM, but I do find it interesting that

they're deciding to

remove eight gigs effectively.

Once again, I think this is too early to

speculate on some of those stuff.

I think the eight gigs is definitely

like, hmm, that sounds off, whether or

not it's real or whether or not that's

actually what they're going to use.

That's just way too low. Yeah, it does

sound way too low. Yeah.

I would imagine at minimum we'd have 16

gigs of RAM. So that's the bare minimum.

Yeah, that's like the bare minimum these

days. That's if it's not

shared VRAM. So, in my opinion.

Yeah, if it if it if it sticks to an RX

7600, like sadly, as Bradley has been

saying, then there's a solid chance that

I mean, it'll be 16 gigs.

And then they just has eight gigs of

dedicated VRAM for the GPU.

So it'd be comparable to the PS5. So

yeah, or maybe a little bit

more than the PS5 36 cues.

So it has supposedly has less compute

units than the original PS5.

Well, that's a 76. Didn't they say it's a

7700? No, it's a 7600.

Like, okay, I thought I was going crazy.

I mean, here, look, dedicated 7600 GPU,

no shared RAM as per Bradley.

Yeah. I mean, that said, though, the PS5

is based on our DNA, too, right?

And the RX 7600 is our DNA three, right?

Yes. Yeah, I think so.

So I think it should still be more

powerful. Oh, it should be. Yeah.

With SteamOS, it would really be

interesting to see how this goes.

Yeah. So I pulled a random steam deck

benchmark, the

original steam deck, mind you.

And I compared it against

the Fremont results we got.

So as you can see here, it's got about a

55 percent increase in a

score, a better score overall.

And it's got a pretty hot and it's got a

much better multi-core score, of course.

But this is for the CPU. Yeah, this is

just for the CPU, which is yeah, which is

good, which is good.

But it's definitely not going to be this

until we have it paired

with the GPU or whatever.

You know, they say 7600, but it might be

a customized version of it paired with it

because Valve likes to customize their.

Yeah. If it's customized, is the GPU

going to be built into the motherboard or

do you think it's going

to be a discrete card?

I don't see it being a discrete card.

Yeah, it's probably going to be built in

kind of like a mobile CPU, almost.

That's what I was thinking, too.

That would be cool if it was kind of like

a removable mobile GPU or something.

But yeah, or if it has

expansion anyway, that would be sick.

That would be sick. But of course, we've

yet to actually see what this frame out

looks like, unfortunately.

So we still don't

really know what the deal is.

The rumor mills are going, though, like

when this released, people like they're

going to pair Half Life 3 with it.

They're going to like because they do

like to release hardware with some type

of even if it's just a

demo version of their IPs.

Dude, Aperture Desk Job 2. I'm calling it

to go with the new team controller.

Oh, yeah, dude, that would be amazing.

But I want it to be a full experience. I

don't just want it to be a tech demo.

Agreed. Yeah, I mean, who knows?

Maybe Valve's turn a new leaf and they're

finally making Half

Life 3 or Half Life 2.5.

Oh, yeah. 2.5. Half Life 3.

Half Life 2.9999 repeating.

How sick would it be if for like, you

know, if Half Life 3

launched alongside Fremont?

Did not. With a steam

controller, too, that would be sick.

I could see it. I can see it.

I could definitely see it. And there's

like the rumor. Like there's so many

rumors about people playing a half the

Half Life X project.

Do you have friends and family kind of

stuff? So what if it was called Half Life

X? That would be sick.

It'd be like Mega Man X.

Such a different type of game series,

though. No, but what I'm wondering is the

X makes it sound awesome.

Does it?

I was going to say, it sounds like

something Elon came up with. Yeah.

Don't shoot me. Elon, too.

He has to name everything X because it's

cool. No, I mean, if you're going to do

Half Life X, might as

well do Half Life X, X, X.

So. But the X X X.

There's plenty of Half Life X X X

already, probably. Oh, God.

If it's Half Life, E.C.K.S.

Then I don't know. I don't know what to

make of it. Half Life, this Half Life

that Silksong came out.

So I think Half Life 3. Oh, Silksong is

coming out supposedly. So maybe Half Life

should come out. Half Life 3.

OK, to be fair, Silksong has not been

like it has been it's taken a

while, but it's not that long.

It's not like a Duke Nukem or something.

Yeah, it really has people were like,

yeah, it really hasn't been that bad.

It just got pushed back by a couple

years. Seven years,

though, right? Yeah, it is long.

But compared to OK, to be fair, there has

been a Half Life, Alex. So

there has been a Half Life out.

But Half Life 3 has been rumored and been

well, it's been in works for

since Half Life 2 came out.

We got Silksong before we got GTA 6.

I think GTA 6 has been works longer than

Silksong, hasn't it? I mean, probably.

Well, GTA 5 came out

before Hollow Knight. So.

But that but they did. But we did have we

did have Red Dead Redemption 2.

So it's not like they weren't. It's not

like they spent all

their time making GTA 6.

They have multiple studios, right? And so

I guarantee they've been

working on GTA 6 for a while.

I mean, do they have multiple studios

anymore? I mean, like, I think the same

studio that makes GTA

is also making Red Dead.

Right. So if they haven't had a date like

when's the last time we've seen a red a

rockstar game that wasn't

GTA or Red Dead Redemption?

Well, I'm talking about internally, they

might have multiple teams internally.

It's kind of more or less what I'm

talking about. Meaning in a lifecycle, if

they're doing it right at a company,

they're going to have like the concept

artist is not going to be working on a

game, the full lifecycle.

They're probably going to be working on

the next game for a while. So each role

is going to be playing is going to be

doing things in a different lifecycle.

So I thought something interesting here.

Someone under the comments of PC Gamer

mentioned that they might be running

Geekbench, the Windows version of

Geekbench through Proton.

Oh, yeah, that could. Yeah.

Which seems kind of odd, though, because

I ran like a Linux version of Geekbench

on on Linux, like in desktop mode.

I'm curious how optimized the native

Linux build of Geekbench is because it

could be like they were

getting lower results.

And also who produced this? Like was this

done internally at Valve? Like we don't

know who submitted this, do we?

I mean, it must have been. I mean, unless

unless unless one of those friends and

families accidentally fucked up and gave

us a Geekbench score.

That's the case. That means it's coming

much sooner. But bring his studios get

his hands on a prototype.

That'd be cool. We should try to get

bring us on the show,

but he'd be a great guest.

Let's do it. We got to do it. Like, I

don't know. I don't know. Do you have

contact with him?

Because I certainly don't.

I don't. Well, figure out a way. I

appreciate it. Gardner, you're depressed.

We're going to try to

get bring us in here.

I got mood of horror on the show. I could

probably get bring us to. Yeah. And we

were and we were discussing

another guest behind the scenes.

But she'll be a surprise for later if she

if we actually get her on.

In the meantime, though, speaking of

bringing things on,

splitgate two will live on.

It'll live on in the form of being able

to play player hosted matches.

So stop killing games has has is bearing

fruit, even though it's

not officially law yet.

Good job, Ross, for for stopping this

game from being killed, at least.

So, I mean, splitgate one was pretty fun.

I'm glad this is happening while

splitgate two has failed

to make FPS is great again.

And splitgate one was pretty fun. So

here's what they're doing there. In

addition to making the game playable,

they're also going to add multiple maps

that were work in progress. Some of them

ended up being maps in splitgate two.

They're also adding an unreleased map and

everyone gets access to

all cosmetics in the game.

A player will host a match and act as a

server. Other players will view the game

in the server browser and join from there.

If the host has saved custom maps and

those maps will be playable for the

lobby. So, I mean, that's

about as good as it gets, right?

Games playable.

Yeah, that's all we can ask for. I mean,

as long as they don't take it down, you

can buy it or get it and

you can keep on playing it.

Well, I mean, the fact that they actually

went through the effort of like,

decoupling the game from its online

servers tells me that they

probably plan on keeping it up.

Yeah.

And it's not like Valve charges you a

monthly fee for taking up

space in their servers, right?

No.

Yeah.

I don't think so, but they don't.

Yeah, that's part of the fee of when you

buy the game, I think, is how they

calculate all in. But, yeah, I mean, I think they're going to be able to get the game.

I don't really think it's that hard to do

the decoupling. It's based on if they

just will, companies will do it.

And they did it. I mean, I'll give them

credit where it's due. I know SplikA2

wasn't the game they thought they, they,

I gotta stop making the stupid FPS, make

FPS's bid again, Jake, cause

it's getting old at this point.

Well, it's such a stupid thing that they

did because FPS's

never stopped being good.

And this is definitely

not the game to do that.

If you want to make, if you want to play

a game in FPS, that's great. Ultra kills

the way to go. It's not a multiplayer

game, but it's pretty sick.

But you need like, you need like, zoomer

hands to play that game. And I mean, I

can play it, but like, it's, it's pretty

hard if you don't know all the tech or

how to execute it all.

You should see some like, high rank S

like, P rank gameplay in

the Ultra Kill. It's insane.

I think I think Gardner would like it. I

think I really think

you would like Ultra Kill.

Ultra Kill? Oh, probably. I've seen some

footage of it. It looks, it

looks kind of retro, right?

Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's kind of retro. So

they say it's a boomer shooter, but it's

actually more like Devil May Cry with

guns. Wait, Devil May Cry.

Okay. Devil May Cry, but

that's a first person shooter.

Interesting. And I know you don't like

the slower pace of Doom Eternal. And so I

think this is much

faster than Doom Eternal.

Doom Dark Ages, but

yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.

I have played, I have played Ultra Kill.

I need to, I played a little bit of it.

It was really fun. I just never, there's

a lot of games I start up and

I forget to continue playing.

Well, I mean, if you wait a little

longer, it seems like they're going to

release the last, the last circle of hell

at some point. They're on like, I think

the seventh one, which is violence.

How many circles of hell are there? Are

there seven or is there eight? There's

nine. There's nine. It's like, dude, it's

like, it's like the

Inferno. Dante's Inferno.

The Divine Comedy. Yeah. The Divine

Comedy featuring. Have you seen that

picture? It's like, it's like the cover

for the Divine Comedy.

This is so, dude, I don't

know why this is so funny.

I'm like, what, what am I missing here? I

see featuring Dante from Devil May Cry.

Dude. But yeah, I'm glad Split Gate 2 is

going to live on. And speaking of games

that are living on, Marvel Rivals is

living on, but not in the way that we

expect. So apparently, Marvel gave the

Green Knight to Netty's to just make

original characters.

What are your thoughts on this? I know

you guys don't play Marvel Rivals, but

you guys know Marvel Comics. No, I don't.

Oh, I don't know Marvel. I don't know

anything about Marvel.

Oh, so Marvel. So Marvel Comics has like

a billion characters and Netty's wants to

make original characters for some reason.

I mean, here's, here's the thing. That's

a game developer. I get it.

Because they want to be able to do maybe

some of their own creations. They have

their own ideas of what would be kind of

cool. And given how Marvel and DC works,

they're making new superheroes all the

time in their comics. So and villains. So

I don't know. What's another few that you

just don't know of except for in the

game? I don't know if

it's going to be that.

I'm sure that Luna Snow was actually from

a different Marvel game as an OC, but

made by Koreans instead of,

you know, instead of Netty's.

Hmm. Yeah. Why Luna Snow's Korean.

But I do think it's interesting that they

could that instead of pulling characters

from Marvel Comics, they're just making

new characters. Like I get I also get it

from like a gameplay design. But like

they've also drastically

changed how characters like.

Be I don't want to say how they behave,

but like how they would normally function

like Magneto like, you know, who Magneto

is, right, Gardner?

I'm sure you know him.

He's the master of magnetism.

He's the man I know. Is he from X-Men?

Yes, he's from X. He's the main villain.

Yes, I know. I know. Like when I was a

little kid, I had X-Men and Spider-Man

comics. Spider-Man Marvel, right? Yeah, Spider-Man's also Marvel.

And that's a that's about the extent of

my knowledge. Yeah. So like Magneto,

master of magnetism. Would you would you

ever imagine him as a tank character?

No, but I mean, to be fair, I mean, I'm

not saying these guys into like a PVP

kind of style game is so hard. Yeah,

like, I mean, I'm not saying it's a bad

reimagining reimagining as like a tank

style character instead

of honestly, I like it.

Yeah, but I mean, they already like twist

how some Marvel characters work to like

fit their roles. So it's

not so it's very comic.

It's very comic book based to the like

how many different comic books go off and

just change that like in a different

universe. Right. Of how characters are

so. Right. So I don't see why they

couldn't just do that instead of making

new original characters.

They're doing both. Yeah, like why not?

Not only like they have more than one

Spider-Man now, right? Like everyone

knows Peter Parker, Spider-Man, but also

everyone knows Miles

Morales, the other Spider-Man.

So like they could just pull alternate

versions of characters. They could, but I

just don't want to create

one Thor. Yeah, they can.

There's a lot. There's a lot of doors,

but why not have something original? I

don't know, man. I think the main draw to

Marvel Rivals are the Marvel Comics

characters. Yeah. I'm curious to see how

well the originals will work. Maybe it'll

be a good maybe not.

Or like I like the idea of originality,

though. Yeah. That said, if I had to

guess if they're making original

characters, then Marvel's probably just

going to make comics based on those

original characters. Yeah.

I don't know, but I feel like the main

draw is wanting to play as your favorite

Marvel characters like Wolverine and

Spider-Man. You can already do that in

Iron Man. Yeah. I mean,

you can already do that.

They already have almost all

the top tier heroes in the game.

Almost. Yeah.

There's always if you get into a big

comic book nerd, they're probably going

to have, you know, maybe missing a few

for them. But I mean, they've also had

some pretty good picks.

Like they added Blade recently.

Yeah, that'd be a good one. I haven't

played. I haven't played in a while, but

I have played it is fun. Not really my

type of game, but it's fun.

Blade the vampire guy. Yeah.

Yeah. Like Wesley Snipes. Yeah, he's

marvelous. Snipes is basically. Yeah. The

what's the site movies are based on

Marvel Comics. Yeah.

But like imagine I'd be kind of like

imagine I could imagine people being kind

of pissed if like they could have put

Deadpool instead of like an OC.

Go touch grass is what I tell them. Go

fucking touch grass because it is a

fucking game. And if the developers want

to play around with a few characters,

just let them do it. Sorry.

I'm that's my take on this.

Yeah, I'm in agreement. It's like, you

know, if if the gameplay demands it to

change, like, whatever, like the canon

powers are for a character,

just do that. I don't care.

Well, it's not so much changing canon

powers as much as it is introducing like

totally original totally original. Oh,

right. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

I think, yeah, like if you had to choose

between putting Deadpool in or putting

someone else that's not a

Marvel Comics character.

I don't. I'm not the

biggest comic person, but.

I if it's a cool character, I don't care.

As long as the characters like fun, it's

cool, whatever. It's what I come for. And

if they can add to the universe in their

own way, which I could. That's why I'm

saying I'm just trying to

see this from their aspect.

That would be really cool to try to

influence the Marvel universe and have

your own character injected into it.

Yeah. Check out this comment. Check out this comment right here.

Of course not. I don't want another

Overwatch with 9 0 3 8 8 9 4 3 2 Chinese

Korean Japanese characters. I would leave

Marvel Rivals for good if they dare to

give us a roster made up of K-pop lunas.

Hey, they can go play something else.

He's a fucking racist. He is.

You're not even. It's not

even that many of those.

Wow.

He hasn't even played Overwatch.

His name was Richard, by the way. I just find that hilarious. Your racism

is showing. Richard turn off Fox News.

Go touch grass. Luna

snows already in the game.

This is the problem. You're never going

to appease them. Just do what you want.

Nettie's like just do what you want.

You're not going to appease. You're going

to have someone mad because there's no original character. You're going to have people that are mad because they're.

The way you're doing the powers. Comic

book fans are some of the most toxic fan

base in the world. So my my only concern

with this right is how are they handling

licensing? Because if they're like if Marvel is allow it is like like get some stake in these characters and and Nettie's get some stake in the characters.

That gives like I don't know. Nettie's is

Chinese right. They're part of Tencent.

Yes. Yeah. So that that that's gives me out. That scares me because it's like it's I don't know. I just don't like the whole.

But I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I don't know. Nettie's is Chinese right.

They're part of Tencent. Yes. Yeah. So

that that that's gives me out. That

scares me because it's like it's I don't

know. I just don't like the whole private