Ubisoft's BIG Shakeup plus Google's LOCKING DOWN Android development

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to

another episode of Off the Console.

My name is Gardiner and I'm here with my

friend James, aka The Brink.

How's it going, James?

It is going good this morning.

Usually it's a three-man crew here on the

show, but Hi-Tech is off this week.

Hi-Tech, we can't wait to

see you next week, my friend.

We're gonna be covering a bunch of stuff

on this show. If you

don't know Off the Console,

this is our gaming and tech news and

anything nerdy show,

where we just kind of hang out and talk

about the things that are interesting to

us over the last week.

This week, we've... yeah, do

we have some interesting stuff?

We've got... we're gonna talk about all

the things that Nintendo mentioned in

their Nintendo Direct this week.

Maybe not all the things, but the stuff

that's most interesting to us.

We're gonna talk about how game def...

I have slowly converted my channel over

to a Mac only channel. No, I I

Am I'm working on on April

Fool. I love April Fool's videos

I'm gonna do one of those and so but I've

also been obsessing over the Mac

for stupid reasons

because you know reason but I

I just want to simplify my life and so

I've been obsessing over that and also

like smaller form factor

Um

PCs just

My room over heats with my 3090 and so I

just want something that's

not gonna overheat this room

So I'm looking at like

a my they say 40 90 m

3090 whatever. Mm-hmm, but there's a 40 I

I watched a video on the 40 90

eGPU

So it's like a mobile chip in it

I'm curious how well that runs like our

heat wise and so that

I'm have my eye on that

To then maybe build out

I don't know build out my

gaming system. I'm having fun. I

still playing

I'm not playing Astro bot right now

But

It takes two with my son still playing

that we're slowly getting

through that. That's really fun

I played it on bad side and I have to

switch over to back over to

Windows to play it because it

crashes at the same spot

Mm-hmm, and I think it's I don't think

it's bad as its fault per se. I think

it's in videos graphics drivers

Oh my god, don't get me started on any

videos graphics drivers

Yeah, I'm gonna have to

switch back over to Windows

Yeah, I think I'd have a better time

emulating this game. Honestly, I actually

would play fine if I if I had like

my MacBook

With a cross fire or something like that,

but we can that's a whole other

can of worms

That's what I've been doing nice

Nice, I've been doing doing a lot of

work. I've been getting ready for a big

project with my client

But I also have been playing

a

Classic an absolute classic. I don't know

if you know this about me James, but I

really love racing games

Which I find interesting because I don't

really like cars, but I love racing games

and I've been playing

I'm need for speed 3 hot pursuit

Which I have a big box version out in

there out in my game

shelf and

Oh my god, it is so much

fun. I'm playing through proton

And and it is sick. Yeah, it's so good

Didn't they remake it or is this

something else? I'm

thinking of I don't know

Uh, maybe they did is this the older one

like in that what wanted

to come out? Oh my gosh

2000s need for speed

3 I'm thinking like 98

Okay, it's that one. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I

never play that one a lot. Oh man. I

played so much of it

So much and and like and

the music is so nostalgic

the gameplay is

It has an aged super great, but there's

still like this like

dedicated community around it

And and I just enjoy it. It makes me it

takes me right back to being a kid

I'm gonna have to pick that back up

because I played it a ton as a kid

There's a there's a community patch that

you can get through Lutris

And it works really well and it makes

everything you can like run the game in

widescreen. I'm running it natively at 4k

I'm gonna try it on my steam deck and

probably I'll make a video about it, too

It's a lot of fun. That is that is fun. I

really like the need for speeds

I like arcade racers a lot more than

realistic ones. That's me, too

Yeah, they

Burnout the entire burnout franchise.

Love it burnout paradise, but

specifically is great

It's so good and I'm so like I am shocked

that as a franchise

that did not continue on

Yeah, tell me about it

because they you know

They didn't didn't it didn't do well

enough and so didn't they put them on

like a different project or

something like that the devs

I can't write here. I think so. Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's what happened. But

burnout series is amazing. It's I like it

Weirdly enough. I like it a little more

than need for speed

because you have all the crash

Physics and everything

like that's really fun. Mm-hmm

I think the newer need for speeds have

that too for the most part,

but it's not quite the same way

Yeah, I honestly I think need for speed 3

the one that I've been playing is the

only need for speed game I've ever played

Really? Yeah. Yeah, I really like I to be

honest when I was growing up

My cousin had like a really nice PC

gaming setup his dad did and

so I played whatever he had so

Unreal tournament I

played at his house. I played

Duke Nukem command and conquer these kind

of games over there need for speed 3 that

was the only one I ever got access to

but

And then and then like I never was

interested in the

console stuff. So I don't know

For example, like the other kind of

racing games cart racers, obviously, you

know, you got to have

like Mario Kart in there

You got to have crash

team racing in there

So those were the kind of games that I

played like on my own time like when I

wasn't visiting my cousin so

Need for speed most wanted like I think

it's kind of like a

remake off of need for speed

3 or just like the

need for speed most wanted

Yeah, that probably it's

I think pretty fun. He had

Cops in it if I remember correctly cuz I

remember getting yes over when I was a

kid and I think most wanted was was also

like cop based

Yes, yeah, yes

Like some of them are really fun. Some of

the need for speeds are just in

Yeah, Oh also dude links is officially

open source now source codes available

Which I'm really happy about you can go

get it. You can download it. There's a

demo available of for doodlings

You can download that

as well. It's on steam

But yeah, I

James I don't know about you, but I'm

interested in knowing what the audience

has been playing this week

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With that out of the way,

let's get into the first topic

Nintendo Direct

March 27th, Nintendo Direct

So I know we were talking off the show

about neither of us are

super into a lot of these games

But like did anything stick out to you?

A

Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD remake maybe I do

like Dragon Quest games

I just haven't played him in a long time

and yeah, I I don't tend to play those

types of games as much these days

Unless it's a it has

to be like a really big

Really like has to be a

Premium release of like an RPG or

something like that because I just don't

have the time and I'd

rather put my time into like

Horror horror games and stuff like Silent

Hill 2 remake. I just got it. I'm gonna

be playing that soon. I

Like a little bit shorter games or very

specific types of games

And so even though I

like all sorts of games

I have to limit my my list down and

that's the only

problem with Nintendo Direct

Is that a lot of these games are just not

games. I'm as interested in

Albeit, I'd love to play some of them. I

just don't have the time. But yeah,

that's definitely one

that popped out to me

Yeah, I like how this looks.

Yeah, it looks kind of cool

It the the name of it the the actual full

name is Dragon Quest

1 plus 2 HD 2d remake

Is that right? Am I reading that

correctly? I think

which I think is hilarious

But it's it's kind of got some cool

It's got a nice aesthetic like the

sprites are 2d and it's almost like Paper

Mario sprites in a 3d world, right?

which I think

Looks pretty neat. I haven't I don't

think I've ever played a

Dragon Quest game, honestly

But I do think this looks pretty cool

I'm gonna I'm gonna scroll past a lot of

these titles here and

I know that people are gonna

shout at me in the comments

But like the only the only ones that

really stuck out to me

pat upon one and two replay

Do you know why this is

super freaking interesting?

James, I don't know

This is a Sony game

This is Sony

So Sony's going around a Microsoft

everything's a PlayStation

Yeah, I guess I mean the thing is like I

believe they partnered with Namco Bandai

on this and they they licensed

Pat upon which was a PSP exclusive

and

Yeah, yeah, and they licensed this here

and now it's coming to switch

which hey, that's kind of neat

I I play I would buy this on PC Pat upon

was a super fun rhythm game

that I played all the time on my

My PlayStation my PSP

This bad boy right here. In fact, I love

I love the PSP play all the time

And I think that's pretty cool so

Maybe maybe Sony's trying to like get in

there and because honestly the like the

switch is not really a

competitor to the PlayStation

right like they're

Most people who have Playstations have

switches. I would imagine anyway, I

Buy stuff like for me. I buy stuff based

on what games they have

So now PlayStation I have all the

playstations for the most part because

they have series that I really like

Same thing with Nintendo devices. Yep

Yeah, and if I if I get a switch I'm

gonna get mine second-hand

because then I'm not gonna be

supporting Nintendo

But yeah, I don't know. I I think this is

pretty neat. The other thing is

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond

I'm a huge Metroid fan

I've been playing Metroid games for as

long as I can remember in fact and

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond looks pretty neat

and

I'm not really a story guy when it comes

to video games. I don't

really care that much about story

but

It but Metroid games

I actually really kind of enjoyed the

simple story that goes on in the you know

on the side when you're playing

But one thing at the end of this trailer,

which I don't think is gonna play for me

because IGN videos never play

At the very end of the trailer

There's like an alien speaking

In an alien language and he refers to

Samus as the chosen one

And it's like can we not do that?

Like how many how many sci-fi games have

to have a chosen one or sci-fi

franchises, you know, I

Think pretty much say how many games do

we have that have a chosen

one? Yeah, that's a pretty big

one for fantasy

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah

What do you what do you think the story's

been going on for so long that yeah,

unfortunately you have to

hand it off to additional

Writers and and yeah, it

always runs the risk of

Really going a different direction than

maybe what the original writers wanted

I don't know if the original writers are

still on it, but I'm assuming not I don't

believe so and it's evolved so much over

how long is I

Mean is this like a 30 plus year

franchise? I believe the

first Metroid came out in 88

So

We're coming up to what 40 40. We're

heading towards

heading towards it 86 my dude

It's almost 40 years old.

It is the same age as me

Wow

Yeah, I I was born in 88

So I ain't much

younger than you. Yeah and

Wowsers, I'll tell you what I like I

said, I've been playing Metroid for as

long as I can remember like

Super Metroid specifically was my first I

Played it, but I

played it for the gameplay

I don't remember that any story whenever

it was very little the story in Metroid a

super Metroid was super atmospheric like

Like the I don't know if

you remember like the intro

Like before you even start the game

Like it's like this mode 7 like it's

zooming in and stuff when I was a kid

I didn't know what

the hell it was going on

But like there are dead there's like dead

scientists on the ground right there like

they're dead people laying on the ground

And and then there's

like a Metroid with a broken

Containment

That or something, you know, and it's

like you when I look at it now, I'm like,

whoa, dude. This atmosphere is like

Super dense and really great. The only

the only real story beats

that I remember is when it's like

The last Metroid is

in captivity the galaxy

That's right is at peace right and then

it has like text on the screen

was Sam is giving an intro log

And I believe there's a little bit of a

thing at the end too, and that's it

Everything else is done environmentally

and I love that though.

That's the kind of game

Storytelling that I want, you know

Half-life does similar stuff. They have

some narrative. Yeah, but it's it's not

you know, I think it's

similar in some ways, but

Yeah, no, I remember the game being like

Just real atmospheric is I think the

correct word like for

what it was and what it is

Like I it's it's very like

Definitely

Just primo, yeah

Yep, yeah, that's the thing I like about

Video game storytelling is you get to

experience the story at your own pace and

it really bothers me when

the game like rips control

Away from you to tell you a story. It's

like no, I don't want to

if I wanted to watch a movie

I put a put a blu-ray on you know, like

I don't mind it depends

at all depends on the game

Yeah, if I'm expecting it in the game fine

If I'm expecting it in the game fine if

the franchise changes how

they do it gets annoying

Yeah, like honestly if they did that in

half-life, I think I'd be

very annoyed me too. Absolutely

so I

Know what to expect if as long as I know

what to expect with my game and they

don't change it too much

Throughout the years that I'm fine with

that like if I'm playing an uncharted

game. I expect it's gonna be very story

Driven very heavy. Yep

So

This is interesting. I I guess I missed

this when I looked through Monument

Valley one two and

three is coming to oh, yeah

That's kind of neat. I'm I

Like of all the games I've played on

Android, which isn't many

Monument Valley is like the best

Is a good one. It's on

Let's see, it's on Android iOS and

Netflix

Yeah, it's on Netflix

That's interesting. Is that pretty sure

it's on Netflix. Is that why YouTube

rolled out like those?

cut the rope games on YouTube because

Netflix has games on

it now, I'm sure it is I

You know if people enjoy that go for I

Don't play those types of

games if I'm gonna play a game

I want to download it and not have it be

integrated with my videos

Yeah, if I'm on YouTube or from Netflix,

I'm watching stuff. I don't want to play

now that being said I

Don't mind it being like if people are

enjoying it go for it

It's just don't you know if

it fails don't get mad at me

Which I feel like is more

and more the answer to every

C-level execs like well is the it's the

Consumers fault it's full even in the get

like in the game industry to like they

should have liked it

It's like no, you should

have made something better

Or just top lame us that they call that

victim blaming. Yeah

Though though I think the one last thing

I want to talk about

With the Nintendo Direct is the virtual

game cards thing. Have

you heard about this? No

So essentially now what you can do is any

game that you have installed on like like

as a as a downloadable game

you can eject from your steam from your

from your switch and then you can log

into another switch and

Insert that cartridge that's a cartridge

or is it as it's virtual. It's not

there's not actually a cartridge

But how do you inject it

just by like you download it? Oh

Yeah, you can't lend it to other family

members, too. So like I

Love the concept. I'd like it even more

if I could actually like download a game

and then they sell like either

Cartridges that I could write to or just

SD card that I'd be like the perfect set

up that it's very unique if Nintendo like

Did like if Nintendo create came out with

like their their own Meg cartridge?

You know where you could load

Games that you downloaded onto it and

pass that around that'd be cool

This is all done digitally. There's no

physical physicality to it at all still

Very cool that they're at least doing

this. This is very

feels very consumer friendly

Yeah, they're there are like some stupid

like weird stipulations

Like you can share it with your family

members, but I believe you can only share

it for like up to 14 days

Which is just interesting valves doing

this. Why can't you do it right you know?

Valve does it in a way to where I think

if the real login on the

computer if you're sharing so

Right unless they switched it

Val, so now the way it works is you can

share your games with

anyone living in your household

Yeah

Like my brother lives here my girlfriend

lives here, and the three of us are

sharing all of our libraries

And I I haven't logged into well

Maybe I did log into

Emily's steam deck to do it

But I don't think I logged into my

brother's computer to do it hmm

I'm I know that yeah

It's just accounts like you just log in

or you just share it with an account

Well, that's how it used to be and I just

have I don't know if I've

set up the new way of doing it

Or maybe I have and I just don't remember

but yeah the new way to do it

It's still not just with it, but it is

definitely I think pretty solid yeah the

new way to do it is a lot better

I know people complained about it when I

was talking about on my channel because

They used to be like oh my brother who

you know my brother who

lives like 40 states away

Like I used to share

my collection with him

But but now we can't do it, and it's like

dude. That's not what it was meant for

like why are you you know?

I don't know and then you could you'd be

locked out of your entire library if your

brother played one of your games

You know I mean it's just a lot better.

It's for families that live together like

this. Yeah, probably more for like

You know it's for you and your kids 20

maybe in the 20s and stuff like that is

kind of what it's meant for and I will

say this right now like I

Do think it's a little silly to get upset

about this type of stuff because a

Lot of games are so cheap

just by the by the damn game

I know it's maybe a privilege for me to

say that or whatnot, but by the damn game

support your the the developers we

So many people have so many games on

their account just play the games you

already have I guess

I don't know, but this is just a nice

little icing on the cake for me. It is

not something I use very often

sometimes my

My wife uses my like sometimes we'll buy

a copy of an indie game

or something like that

And we'll share play in that but usually

it's annoying enough to

because it at least in the past

You know I couldn't play anything else on

my account while

she's playing so sometimes

I'll just buy a copy for

just depends on what it is right

Yeah, yeah, I I don't know I I think this

virtual game card

thing here is pretty neat

I think it's cool. I like and like I

think it's a pro consumer move

Yeah, I like that and this works not only

on the current switch

But it will work on switch to my is my

understanding so

that's that's pretty cool

Okay, I'm down for that yeah

Um all right, let's do is there anything

else you want to talk about

in this no no poor high tech

This is probably his highlight

I'm sure he would have loved talking

about all these we would have

talked if high tech was here

We would have talked about every single

one of these games, and I've never heard

of like five of like

So I would have learned a

lot from this one yes me too

This is this is why I miss high tech when

he's not here because I learned so much

Alright alright, so I think the next

story we should talk about is

Ubisoft is

Spinning off assassins

Creed and a couple other

studios or

Franchises I should say into its own

Business unit, and it's getting a cash

infusion from Tencent

have you heard about this?

No, I've only read the article

Okay, somewhat and so

It's interesting. It's interesting choice

so three of their biggest franchises

assassins Creed Far

Cry and Rainbow six are

Becoming their own

subsidiary of Ubisoft and

according to this Yahoo Finance article

It it's valued at four

billion dollars, which

Really four billion for those three

franchises honestly. I thought it would

be more because those are

may get franchises

With how many assassins creeds there are

how many fire cries

there are and Tom Clancy's?

Well, it's Tom Clancy rainbow six, but

like if it was all

the Tom Clancy's mm-hmm

That's a lot if it yeah if

they're moving the IPs over there

and it sounds like Ubisoft is gonna

become more more of a

holding company or like

They're gonna become more like Tencent is

what I it's what this is a kind of look

at and this is a say

Probably to save their asses because

yeah, they've made so many mistakes. I

could see I

Could see the Ubisoft starting to go the

route of becoming like more

of a holdings company, which

Just let Ubisoft die in my opinion

I mean, what do they have like they have

I mean they have those three games

But if they were spitting those off into

its own thing, then what do they have

left like Splinter Cell?

This they have stuff. They actually have

quite a bit of IPs that they don't do

anything like Rayman

They if they make another rhythm

Man those are fun. Yeah, like those are

really fun. Those are the type of like I

loved Rayman is a legends

Yeah, love it. That was really good. That

was like one of the only good

You saw if games are played in the last

decade, you know, oh, you know, what else

was really good was was it grow?

or grow home

grow, um

It was like you were a red robot and you

it was like an indie style

game and you climbed a beanstalk

That was so much fun. I haven't played

it, but I've seen it and

it does look fun far cries

I love the far cry series, but they just

released him in such a weird way that

there's like two of them

I haven't played and I don't know

It I played the first far cry at my

cousin's house on PC and that was not a

Ubisoft game at the time that was

That was cry cry tech, right?

maybe it was published by Ubisoft, but

like Ubisoft ended up

buying far cry from cry tech and

Interesting. So and I played that and I

remember being like being graphics will

never get better than this

Agreed like water ice the amount of time

I spent optimizing my computer

overclocking and everything

Mm-hmm to get far cry to look just better

was

stupid I

remember

Crawling through the grass like I was

prone in the grass with my gun and I

could see the individual blades of grass

Casting shadows on the gun and I was like

What dude that's incredible and it was it

was so much fun and then I

never played another one I

Think I played them on the console they

were okay like because I worked at

GameStop at the time

And so they came out for the consoles

like I think was far cry 2 & 3

No, no, they were it was far cry. It was

like it wasn't even far

cry 2 & 3 it was I don't know

I've played half the games if it's

interesting enough. I will play it like

the doomsday one was interesting

Was a far cry 5 I think is what it is

It's the one where like there's a cult

leader and your wonder is it's pretty

good. I actually like that one

But it became more of like

Situation like far cry 3 is really good

one. Actually. I definitely

recommend playing that one

but it's like the Assassin's Creed series

like fun, they pumped them

out too much and they weren't

The gameplay just was too similar between

each one and the story just was good

Usually that's the type of games. I love

to play. I just didn't get

into them until black flag

and then I just that's

the only one I've beaten but

this is

Definitely an interesting direction for

them to take and I really do think it's

because they want to save their asses

Like I said, like I think we've seen it

like they're failing more and more

And in order to like save the least the

sea level execs there like we're gonna

Set up this new

Subsidiary and then they're gonna I think

they're gonna start probably either maybe

setting up multiple subsidiaries

And then you just become more of a

holdings company like Tencent and then

just work with other

companies to save themselves

I can see that it's kind of like how the

game industry is going right now

which

Could end up being good short-term for

these companies to be a subsidiary it

could really actually help

It's has to create far cry

to Tom Clancy rainbow six have

Being a focus of that company that are

gonna be part of

instead of a huge conglomerate

Could help them

But it could all it will most likely be a

double double-edged sword with these

types of holding companies

Eventually it will they will get sold off

or pieced apart. We'll see I don't I

don't have a lot of hope and stuff

Like this right now. No, I mean, I don't

have any I didn't have any hope anyway

But like I mean cuz Tencent already owned

like 10% of Ubisoft, right? Yeah, but now

they're going to acquire

25% stake in

This new entity here. Yeah, so that's

like whoa this article says it's one

point one six billion euro

to acquire 25% of this

company, which is just bonkers and

I

Mean that means like

Tencent is like involved in

So many like different

publishers right like Tencent

There it's interesting because Tencent.

I'm sure they have a little bit of a say,

but I don't know if they directly

influence too much

But they own a

Big chunk of probably most

Okay

At least well, I shouldn't say a big

chunk like as a whole games, but like

individually they

probably own like a quarter

At least a piece of a quarter of the

games out there. I would I wouldn't be

shocked if they don't have some

I mean, yeah, they own like a

Minority stake in epic. Yeah, they own

like a ton. They own so much.

It's it's very concerning why

Legends I think they do too. Oh, yeah,

they I think they fully own League of

Legends like the whole studio. Yeah

But the studio still or like the company

still I think acts more on

a creative level on its own

I don't think it's not like Ubisoft where

I feel like Ubisoft gave too many

directives and then

kind of like destroyed them

I I will have to give this to Tencent and

I could be wrong people could let me know

in the comments or just let

us know somehow

But I don't know if Tencent is as direct

but that doesn't mean they couldn't be or

that they're behind the shadows

Being more direct and I'm not saying that

this is a good thing. It's just

Interesting. Yeah, it's very interesting.

Oh my gosh. They're the

Tencent headquarters is

Bazaar, it's bizarre. What is a company

that looks that is like like

The owns like a quarter of the world

What is it? What are their

headquarters building look like?

Oh my gosh, why why would you want your

building to look like

that? I like unique stuff

I think it looks interesting

But yeah, it is

weird. That is very strange

And even has connections between the two

towers. So yeah, that's yeah.

There you go. That's Tencent

They probably don't produce any products

in there. It's all legal and

Business people that thing

Fascinating

Makes me feel weird, man

It it's fascinating how many companies

own

They don't do any like how many companies

own games or game

companies that don't do then

Their headquarters is drastically

different. They can go to the game studio

very different than if

you went to the business

District that we don't need to get into

that crap. Yeah, what's this next thing?

The next thing is there's a bunch of

publishers who want to delay their games

so that they don't compete with GTA 6

What do you think what do you think about

that headline first of

all first impressions?

Yeah, they're right like

you'd be an idiot to release

Honestly, you'd be an idiot. They should

be avoiding this year period probably

um

Especially if GTA 6 is gonna be $300 like

people are saying and I'm just gonna no

one's saying that but they might as well

I'll keep on upping that. Um, I

Because I don't care about that game very

much. I'm I'll

eventually play it or buy it

I don't know when but it would be

fascinating to see if they charge like

$500 see how many people would actually

buy it for like a year early

access more or less just to see

Because I'm you know, let's say a mask is

or something like that, but

Yeah, I mean within a month you probably

don't want to release within a month's

period of this game coming

out not even the same week

Yeah, dude, I mean I

did I release my game

the same day as Hades

2 stealth dropped and

My game sold nothing like it was so bad

So I like GTA 6 is poised to be like

probably one of the biggest launches of

any media anything ever

And so I don't blame

people for wanting to avoid it

This cut this report comes from the game

business, which I don't think I've ever

heard of the game business calm

and

According to this article three major

video game publishers

have told the game business

They are ready to delay their games to

avoid Grand Theft Auto 6

Rockstar's first GTA game in 12 years is

due for release at the end of

2025 and game companies are holding off

confirming their q4 release slate until

the developer makes its move. Yeah

Yeah, I don't there's been

Multiple games that have released during

a very popular game.

Let's say Call of Duty

There's been multiple really good games

have released and very around very

popular game releases

and and because of that

Done very poorly and I don't think it's

because of marketing or anything else. I

think it's because of that and so I

Will I and I we've said this in the past.

I will say this again

I think it'd be hilarious just to see the

half-life would lose but I want to see

half-life 3 dropped the same week

Just to see yeah. Oh,

yeah half-life would lose

But at least I'd have some of the plates

and not I probably won't I just don't

want to be tempted to buy this

The week of I'm and I probably will

From dude for me. There is literally zero

temptation like I have no

interest in playing this game

I have FOMO all the time. Oh, so I get

bad FOMO depending on the game

And if this game has like really fun

things to do in it, I

don't care about the GTA story

I don't want to be a bad guy

Personally, but I love running around and

doing and finding all

the cool stuff to do in GTA

That's the thing I like about GTA

As long as they don't lock that out and I

can just go cruise around even though I

don't want to go to Miami

I think that's where it's at, right? It's

like it's in Florida somewhere again.

Yeah something like that

It's not what it's called, but that's

what they base it off of

Vice City Vice City. Yeah, I

It'd still be fascinating to go around

and just see what they've added. Yes

That's why I'd get it. I mean that the

only appeal is that for me

like I don't I have no interest in

For me it's like this

is the thing that's like

For me, I don't care about like

supporting Rockstar. I don't want to

support them in anything. I hate Rockstar

They're unethical the way they treat

their employees blah blah blah the list

goes on and on so I

don't want to support them

Also like the last

good GTA was GTA Vice City

I think like GTA 4 was okay

But like Vice City was like the only one

that I really or the last one that I

enjoyed I didn't care for

San Andreas I didn't care for GTA 4 that

much and I definitely didn't like GTA 5

So I'm just I'm just not interested. I

don't know I like the Red Dead Redemption

series, and so I will say that

They're good. They're good. Yeah

but

Yeah, their GTA series is just okay like

they have other franchises that I like

more. Let's just say that hmm

because they have like

Max Payne series

bully

they have

Bullied on I I remember playing bully

that was that was pretty good. Yeah, they

Forgot about Red Dead revolver the heck

they had to read it read it revolver and

so they have some good stuff I

Just yeah, just not as interested. Yeah,

I haven't even put eight hours into GTA 5

Honestly that could be more than I put

into it really I think

GTA 5 is I don't know I probably put

around that just well

I just I spent time wandering around and

just having fun hmm. That's it, and then

I'm sure I played something else

Yeah, the thing is I like the driving

mechanics in a lot of GTA games. I

Yeah, like I said at the top of the show.

I like driving games, but

the getting out of the

car and like shooting and

Beating people up and stealing shit and

whatever I don't I just don't it was

But it was fun and novel when it was

naughty for a kid to be

playing it, and I'm not

I'm saying yeah, no I hear yet. I like

the watchdog series more for this type of

stuff where it feels

Slightly more ethical

But teach their own I guess I like the

the the watchdog series, but yeah

I think I played a little bit of that

what that's a Ubisoft game

It is a Ubisoft game, and it is actually

another series. I Ubisoft sounds a couple

of series. I really like my wish I

Wish they weren't so

tied up with everything

else

so

Yeah, so one thing about this it looks

like one of the games

That's good. That's probably gonna get

delayed is the new battlefield or the

battlefield relaunch. I should say

Battlefield relaunch

yeah, I'm a bit heard of that

I hadn't heard of that either are they

like relaunching the whole series because

they fucked up so bad

with the last one probably

dude, I bought I

reserved that one and I didn't

It was so I played the beta. It was fun

enough, but I'm like

okay. There's some big bugs

Hopefully they fix up

my time it comes out

I reserved it because I was super excited

about it because it's a little bit more

futuristic just a little bit and they

I like those types of battlefield games

I want them to do another like I wanted

them to do a like a

real futuristic game, but

besides the point and

I wasn't able to return it because I

waited too long because I didn't even

play it I didn't even play

Because it had such bad

reviews when it first came out

And I just have such a bad taste about

all that and it was it's my

fall at the end of the day, but

They're gonna have to do a lot to redeem

themselves because their last game was

performed and looked

worse than their previous two

Like you I don't know what you have to do

the royally fuck that bad

Just use this you could use the same like

you're using the same engine. Yeah, how

do you just screw it up that bad?

Oh

Only in the video game industry right

that's what it feels like sometimes they

release a new like I

Don't get it. I don't get I don't I don't

get just use the same assets and

Just work off of that don't I don't know

what they were doing

But it just ended up being drastically

worse, and it didn't look as good and

everything else like yeah

Well, we'll get to reusing assets in a

minute. There's another story. We're

gonna talk about in a minute

before we get to that though game stop

Plans to close a significant number of

stars and invest in

Bitcoin because it's 2018

I honestly haven't read this article of

you. Have you read this article? I

Have not they have been in the end

And an FT stop they've done on an NFT.

They've done the crypto stuff before

It is interesting that the reinvesting in

a Bitcoin. Maybe it's because

The US government is attempting to divest

into Bitcoin, which is a bizarre thing

Yeah, I don't know it could like if they

invest now and then the US government

Invest in and then they could then they

could rugpole and then they'd make at

least survive a little longer. Yeah

Dude I have you been

to a game stop recently

Yeah, oh my gosh. I there's a game stop

about 20 minutes from my house

And I went in there

Just because I was like in the area and

I'd get like a sandwich

at this shop next door

And I was like I was like what's been

it's been like two three years

since I've been to a game stop

Let's go in there, so I

went in there with Emily

And it was depressing it was

Depressing it was like

there were there were patches of

Like physical media on the walls, right

and then there were

empty shelves in between

So like there was the Xbox section and

then it was mostly empty shelves

And then it was the PlayStation section

and then it was mostly empty shelves and

then in the center of the store

It was like the kind of stuff that you

would have got from

ThinkGeek like, you know

15 years ago or whatever

it was like a bunch of like

plushies and

Like nerdy like trinkets and stuff and I

was like this sucks

like this is really sad

Um

My my kid really did like it

My son he was he was pretty like when we

went in there's a lot of cool stuff

Honestly, I've been I live probably 30

minutes away from you know

10 minutes to 30 minutes from like four

maybe five game stops like where I live I

can get to them pretty quick

Some of them are very depressing and some

of them are okay like

the one I went to was okay

The problem was is like

they didn't have split fiction

New which is and they came out that week

which I think it just did well enough to

where it was sold out

Which I've just never heard of a game

selling out in a long time

Back in the in the 90s and 2000s. You had

to reserve games and

they could sell out. Yeah

Nowadays because the digital and

everything I just don't

hear a game selling out. So I

Wasn't able to pick that game up at the

GameStop, but I picked up

some I don't do this very often

But I picked up some used ps5 games there

one of them being watchdogs

Lee, I think it was like legions or

something like that,

which I haven't played yet

But I picked up for five bucks make sure

why not like this is a

series. I really like

It wasn't bad and they had a lot. They

actually had quite a bit of a selection

which is not typical

But it's definitely not the same as it

used to be right? They get

Going downhill

Unfortunately, yeah, and I say that

because if I go to a mall

I there's not a whole lot

I'm gonna be doing at a mall. I want to

game stop right. Oh, man. I

haven't been to a mall dude

There's a mall like 40

minutes from my house

It's in Bangor in Bangor, Maine and

they I keep getting like email note or

not emails, but like

push notifications from the

from the newspaper because I'm a

subscriber because local media and

I

keep getting emails like the city of

Bangor has decided to

Like use eminent domain to take the mall

Like it is it's dude like it is like

collapsing in on itself

Like that bolt two of the three anchors

are gone. Like it's

just it's bad. It's so bad

And like people Walmart walk mall walkers

are like not going in there anymore

Because like it's so bad like and when

you lose the mall walkers you

you've lost the plot as a mall

It's what's that?

Funny enough like the closer you get to

like art the denser parts of our

metropolitan area here in Salt Lake City

Like it's the moles are

much fancier much like nicer

Yeah, no further you get away from that

and more into like more libertarian areas

I will say this but it is

like that like there's one

South of me that is

Half of it. It feels like

they're trying to set it up to be

Almost like what is it? I don't even know

what the word is in English

Because I know it in Russian but

It's like third-party markets where

people like kind of like it sound like

what you were saying

So you I went in like I've never heard of

any of these stores.

They're set up in a very weird

Mmm, almost third world away in some way.

I don't know. Yeah, it's

not it wasn't third world

Obviously, but like they're knockoff

generic brand right is bizarre

Yeah, and I'm just like this is this is

unfortunate because

it's a nice two-story mall

Yeah, don't get me started cuz I do like

it pisses me off when I go

on like Amazon and it's like

You know you search for like something

whatever Kleenex and it comes up with

dinger bring

brand

Kleenex tissues and I'm and you're like

what what does dinger bring mean?

What does that even have like there's you

know, at least with Kleenex. It's

inferring an idea of

like cleaning your nose

Whatever. Hey, oh man it so that kind of

stuff that happens at arm all up here,

too. It's it's oh, yeah it is

Amazon's almost getting unusable. It's

going the way of like Google

yeah, search in some ways because you go

to Amazon and you type something in and

you're gonna get all the

Chinese knockoff or

Yeah, it is

You're not gonna get exactly what you

want and because it's cheaper people you

tend to buy that but

it's cheaper for a reason

so

man

So I want GameStop to survive I

It's unfortunate. I want I honestly I

want malls to survive so that they can

compete with Amazon. I just don't know

What yeah, I mean

Here's the thing and this is getting into

like my own politics a

little bit, but I'll tell you this

I want malls and Amazon to disappear. I

think the only like real competition that

you can manage against Amazon is

Local Main Streets, right? Like malls are

a completely unnatural

And so fun economic like sink they don't

they don't belong like they're there

They're like a cancer in my opinion and I

think that Amazon can only exist

Because of the culture that malls created

but that that goes that goes on to it

Like malls here like in the winter time.

I don't want to walk the streets to go

shopping at a strip mall or a strips

Street, I don't want to walk the the

malls are nice. You go in nice pleasant.

You can get yourself

Some food walk around when to shop a

little bit then go in like I'm not like I

wish malls had more stuff for me

Like I'm not as big into like

shopping for clothes, but I'll go with my

wife and it's it's it's nice to walk

around and then they have

They'll have events there they have

trains like it's fun,

but I agree like it can I

Don't know. It's a hard one because my

whole thing is it's private property

That's owned the and I don't like that

Aspect like you in order to go into any

of these shops you have to

first go into private property

I do like that it's walkable, right?

But it also means you have to in most

places you have to drive your car and

park in order to walk the mall

Which dude, we should just have like

walkable cities right walkable town. Oh,

I agree with that and so

And like if you wanted to go protest at

the mall, you can't protest at the mall

You can't you can't like interesting

because it's private property. They can

control who can and can't be there

And but if you wanted to like make a

statement out on Main Street

You can get people's attention and you

can actually do it. I don't know if you

protest, but I worry about these things

Yeah, you could you could

Convinced me to like more of a public

style mall for like each city, but

That would be interesting to yeah

I just like it would be Main Street. I

Know but I wanted to be indoors because

yeah here in Utah it gets

really hot or gets really cold

And I don't like dealing

with Main Street or walking

House I like doing I was

like in downtown Salt Lake

There's a mall and I'm not gonna get be

down behind the religious portions of

this mall, but it is

It is really like I love what humanity

can build like I love cruises. I love

yeah big massive things. I just like

Big structures yeah, but the top portion

can open up in the summertime

And then it closes in the wintertime so

that it can stay heated and that is

awesome now the problem is it's all super

expensive luxury items for

The elite religious

people around here, but yeah

It's dope cool. That

is I mean it sounds cool

the reason that I

The reason I brought any of this up was

like when I moved I lived

in Kentucky for a while and

There was like nowhere to walk like just

to walk by shops and businesses

Unless it was in a mall and

when I came back to Maine I

I

Realized how much I missed the Main

Street right like

because the town I grew up in

You can walk down Main Street, and

there's 70 businesses. They're all small

businesses their own

Locally many of them are producing their

own products right right here in Maine

Great, but and that's how it is in many

of the towns especially along the coast

right you go to Bar Harbor

You go to Rockland you go to

Portland I mean there's so many really

nice Main Streets and even

inland at the end in Bangor

There's a really great Main Street

But like down in Kentucky like there was

nowhere to walk around and meet people

and do things and then

I think that's my lucky

issue I've been to a

couple of different places in

South and and other parts of like I

Yeah, because like so on the west coast

and in like here in Utah

We have both we have a mix of both we

have a Main Street where?

like the one I was talking about

Like the GameStop we have GameStops that

are outside you have to walk to it

You have to walk to the target yet the

walk like we have a mix of both the

problem more than any of the time is

Half our walkable stuff

outside is yet across the street

And you have a bunch of assholes here

like we have so much

road rages that we we have

This is going way off topic

campaigns for

People do not shoot each other when with

road rage because we've had so many

incidents. Oh my gosh Wow so a

Mall feels a lot safer for my kids do not

get rent over or shot so yeah

Well yeah, and that leads me to wanting

to ban cars, but that's

just I'm an extremist I

Can be an extremist too sometimes I want

walkable cities to with you

I'm with you on that one because it's

honestly if you go to a city

that is walkable or

That has really good public

transportation.

That's clean and everything

you're

You change your mind. I think I think

people just need to go do that more

because you'd be shocked at

how pleasant it can be and

I agree with you on that there's a town

This is the last thing I'll

say about this there's a town

About an hour from here where like at a

certain point in the day

Traffic is completely closed on on most

of its main roads like

it downtown and and like

when when traffic closes

people go out in the streets and

and and it's and it's not like you know

there's just a few people walking down

the street while you're

driving right you see just a

handful of people they

close the streets and

People flood the streets and it's like

where are all these people like when cars

are in play right there?

They're they're trapped in their private

little cars, and they

don't they don't go out

They don't spend money at the local shops

It's crazy to me like I don't understand

why we do shut the way we do here

It's a whole go like there's a lot of

documentaries. There's a lot of stuff on

this on the whole car

Lobbyists like people are more

brainwashed and more

Trained to do this than they realize it's

kind of hilarious actually, but yeah

Did we have a similar

like where I grew up in st.

George we had this we have the same thing

like they'd close down Main Street

That concerts and stuff and you could

walk around and I think they did it in

the summer time to do it every week

I think yeah

So yeah in the summer

Yeah

it's like I think I think they're

planning on closing one of the streets

like permanently over the summer and

Just letting people park a couple blocks

away and walk and there's

more cities doing that yeah

Which is good needs to

happen it needs to happen yeah

But

I like seeing game stops when I go to

malls or go to strip like when I go to

place like that because it's fun at

Least isn't a place I can go to yeah

While my wife goes and shops for

something like else that I might not be

as interested in yeah

And I can go do some window shopping is

and I don't know also I

worked at the game stops

So it's nostalgic for me kind of just

yeah thing I want to say on that

Yeah, I mean it's it's sad because I

think about game stuff like

when I think about game stop

I'm like man that you know I remember

going to game stop

and it was an experience

You know I told that story about like

when my brother like we did the midnight

Halo reach launched

together, and that was so much fun

So it is nostalgic and and it is sad that

they're closing how many stores that they

don't even say it's just the

There they're still significant stores.

It's gonna keep on happening. They've

almost like they've almost

gone on over multiple times

It'll be interesting to see how they're

in they invest in Bitcoin

I'm not against a changing our global

Currency or even going to

something different. I just I

Just don't know I'm a little turned off

by Bitcoin right now, but we'll see I I

Do think that another reason game stops

also not doing as well as

physical media is not as popular

People also hate their like you they're

like well if I trade

something in it's not as you know I

Get screwed on I'm like yeah

Well, then don't trade it in like this

the only option you have or you can sell

it on Facebook

marketplace like that's okay

Capitalism works you're not gonna get the

best deal every time and I

think people have a bitter

You know experience from that but yeah,

yeah, I don't know I

Whatever let's move on

I know it's it's depressing if I'm gonna

buy physical media anyway. I'm gonna go

to bull most music

which is a locally owned oh

Music and game and movie plays so anyway

I

Gg

They're reusing assets in like a dragon.

I told you we'd get to this

They're defending their their rationale

and honestly like I think we're using

assets in games make sense

I like I don't I haven't read this one.

This was put in here by high tech, but I

Don't know the the fact

that they're reusing assets

Means that they get to put more time into

other things like if if that's actually

what they're doing. I don't know

But like make from like if

I'm if I made a new game and

And it made sense for me to include some

assets from doodlings. I would do it. Why

not it's already made

So this debate has been going on for a

long time of reusing assets

Some games have reused too many where you

see a game come out too

soon. I think Far Cry 5's

What is it there's a game that came out

right after Far Cry 5

that was because I'm

spoilers if you if you don't

know how Far Cry 5 ends, but

Nukes do land which is a little annoying

you do all the work and the the freaking

person still wins at the end

And then the next game

that's like it's like a spin-off

You play in the post-apocalyptic area

They were used a ton of the assets, but I

don't think it was like

$40. It wasn't $60 game

That's a little bit

pushing the line where

90 like it feels like 80% of the game

wasn't was the same but at the same time

I

Think more studios need to reuse assets

But then make sure they

inject a lot of new stuff

So you make they feel like a new game as

long as you're making

it feel like a new game

That is totally fine to reuse assets. You

just got to make sure you have some

unique new assets to add to it

Yeah, I agree it there has yeah you get a

feel it out. You

gotta like make sure that

It's not just a complete asset flip

But also if you own the assets and you're

not like buying them from somewhere else

like a third party then it's totally cool

I think I'm just even fine with third

party if you you can modify those things

And like it's a rock. It's a rock yeah

There's certain things that are fine, but

yeah if you're going to

make it look and feel generic

It's just gonna sell like a generic so

yeah better be careful with that right

I mean like that kind of goes back to

when we were talking about like

So many Unreal Engine 5

games look and feel very similar

And it's cuz they're using

like the Nana the Nanaite

Not Nanaite. What's the thing like the

there's luminous then I there's

Well, it's like the

assets from that. Oh the mega

It's now called a fab store um yeah,

yeah, I don't know they they oh you run

the risk when you use

Yeah, or reuse assets that your games

just gonna look like everybody else's

they're all using the same rock textures

They're all using the same

trees. You know you can well

Here's the here's a little trick if

you're building a game

And you get those which I do I do use

some of those assets you

modify them you change them up

I'm not a 3d artist, so I can't you know

recreate all this other stuff

But you can get them and you can modify

textures you can modify a lot of

different things that make them your own

That's the trick you

got to make it feel not

Generic and with the Unreal engine

I don't I don't agree and I think you

gardener and like most the industry

Do feel this way with the Unreal Engine?

I feel like it is a developer issue if

you're unreal 5 game

feels the same as another one

That's not a developer issue not a

Engine issue per se they just made it

easier, and then people

are being lazy I guess yeah

I

Can see that one one thing too about this

is like they fully acknowledge that they?

Reused assets and unlike

a lot of other companies

In our studios in the

in the industry you know

RGG studio has been one of the few that's

like releasing games

Pretty frequently you know

And it takes time to develop new like

assets, so if you can reuse stuff. I

think it makes sense

Just make it feel different just make it

hard a certain amount

make sure it feels different

I

Don't I don't have much else to say you

have anything else about that

one. That's that's it like I I

It's interesting these types of stories

will pop up all the time like they'll pop

up every few years on

Asset reusing like using reusing assets

and so just do it right it's

a balancing game, man. Yeah

So Cristiano Ronaldo. I

don't know who that is

is

Now in a fighting game I?

only slightly know

It's a dude

Was the fighter chiseled draw yeah, so

Yeah, I

Mean

There's more more

celebrities partnering up like

How what is his face?

He does man. He lives

actually here in Salt Lake

but

The celebrity there's a

celebrity that is here. He's a senior

and he's partnered up with

Like three or four different

companies like game companies

To do just DLC's and stuff for so it's

it's interesting how it it's becoming

more and more of a thing

It's like a four is like fortnight

I think fortnight started this trend to

start including more and more

celebrities. How do you feel about

celebrities entering the gaming world?

I mean, I liked it back in the day when

Jack Black was in

That double fine game I

Can't remember the name of it on which

double fine game was

he in he was it a voice

He's been in a couple of them. Yeah, he

did um. Oh he voiced it

It wasn't his like him as well character

though Jack Black double fine

Cuz I've played a few

double fine, and I'm

What is this one oh?

Yeah, see this makes so much sense like

this is brutal legend. Oh my god. I can't

put a legend couldn't think of the name

Yeah, yeah, so that 100% makes sense it

makes like honestly even with this

fighter one the

fiddle fury it makes sense

I don't know how I feel about this

Fully it makes sense, but especially if

you want to try to capture

a whole new crowd of people

Mm-hmm you could drive cells really well,

but it it can come off. It's very cringe

if not done. He's a he's a footballer

Yeah, he's a it looks like

he's not yeah, yeah, okay

Well, I mean a footballer in a fighting

game and fatal fury well

at the end it showed the his

Old or something like that whatever it

is. I'm not I haven't played Phil for a

long time, but he kicked the soccer ball

Yeah, yeah, okay

Yeah, little cringe to me, but yeah well

dude I kind of like the either play like

any of the NBA games

like from like the mid

2010s where they had like the actual NBA

players come in and do the

voice overs yeah for the story

And it's like hey, man

You know time to get a thing done

It's like just puts an

effort in man, but uh yeah

I don't know I feel like that's I kind of

got those vibes here from from his acting

Like where was it? He's like looking like

oh geez. Oh, no big cartoon, man

It's they have their skill sets that

they've trained their whole

life for and it's definitely not

Yeah, some of the stuff that is

definitely not voice

acting that's for sure

It is interesting though like I

Like they there's a lot of people that

are entering the world like a lot of

actors entering the world of being

modeled inside of games,

which I think is interesting I

Don't want it to eat into

voice actors themselves though

I don't want them to lose a job and these

people like I don't know I just

It runs the risk of just

reusing the same person it

The same person over and over again, and

it's like Jack Black right now is

starting to feel very fatigued like I

Seen him in Minecraft. I'm just like not

interested. That's the

part I'm interested about

I'm just like dude, okay, you don't need

to be in everything dude

like yeah, it's starting

I want some fresh blood. I

want a new talent. I want a

Difference in my media. I don't need the

same person right like

Yeah, I mean for for me

It's like it was it's it's fun when it's

novel and it's and and it's it's fun when

it's unique and

interesting and makes sense

And as soon as that's any of those three

Cease to be the case. It's I'm not

interested anymore. You know like

Keanu Reeves in

Cyberpunk I was just kind of

like now we don't need that

But see that's the part that's the one

where I actually liked it. I actually

really liked his character in sight

I haven't I haven't played I don't know

And that's fine. There's a lot of people

that didn't that though

there weren't fans of that

And Keanu Reeves is not in too many video

games, so he's not right used too much

But I for some reason he

just did a good job in that I

Like Keanu Reeves. I think he's great as

neo. It's he's funny in Bill and Ted

But I just I was like I just don't see

the point of bringing in celebrities like

I don't know the time

Typically would say that but if that was

like right at the beginning of when I was

kind of done with celebrities

I agree when I saw cyberpunk. I was like

I don't know about this with Keanu Reeves

But then he plays certain characters so

well, and he was an

anarchist essentially an anarchist

And just the way

Keanu Reeves played it

I think lended very well to that and I

would have been curious to

see if someone else would have

Been able to pull that off as well as he

did but once again, you know

I don't want him to be in every video

game either like that'd be really

annoying Mark Hamill

I think is a good one

though because he does the

He does the Joker and the Batman Arkham

series and he does a great job

See Mark Hamill

Okay, like he's Lou Skywalker, but he

disappears in his

other roles like he's like

you know

He's just a he's like he's a character

actor and and and he's a voice actor

Before I even think of him as Luke

Skywalker, so I'm cool with

Mark Hamill showing up anywhere

I don't care about that and he's also he

was also doing it with like Wing

Commander in the frickin early 90s

So like I'm I don't have a

problem with him. He's an og

He's an og and he does a lot of voice

acting where it's not

his face in there. Yes

So yeah, there's times where I could I

agree with that but it they're injecting

celebrities like this

More more and I am I really I've been

trying to this I've been stolen this

whole time to try to figure out who

I'm thinking of cuz I don't

Damn it Indiana Jones

No, Indiana Joe. So

the new Indiana Jones has

Is it's no a mill in north right or is it

Troy Baker? It's Troy Baker.

I think he does an amazing job

He's I mean that the thing with that I

actually kind of am on

board with that because

There is only Indiana Jones

right like it's not it's not

Harrison Ford he's he is Indiana Jones

and so you have to have

Indiana Jones look and sound

like him. I'm cool with that

especially because they're not bringing

in Harrison Ford and

then scanning him and then

De-aging him in the in the geometry and

the textures and shit

like it's I don't know

I like that I'm fine with that. He's such

a grumpy actor these days that he does a

good job in some stuff

But as Indiana Jones, I just think he's

it's just kind of over and

if you tried to voice act

Indiana Jones, I think it

would have not ended well. Yes

Yep, anyway, I don't know is there you

have someone in mind. Yes, I'm trying to

What does it's such a weird one

I

Usually let my brain doesn't work

sometimes and so I I look I work off of

Susie my wife and so she'll know what

Yeah, but it doesn't matter. It's just

there's a lot of celebrities being

injected into more and more

and I think it's because of

Fortnight which is fine

But I don't mind fortnight like if people

want to go that route go that route

I'm not gonna play it but I

I am a little worried about

Up and coming dogs and up and coming

voice actors are gonna get replaced by

just more of the same

celebrities that already have more

Work than they need in my opinion. Like

yeah, I want a diversity and I don't want

companies to play it safe by just

Utilizing the same, you know dozen

Actors and where voice actors need roles

to right? That's my my thing. Well, um

what?

Hellblade

Like she's an amazing actress right from

no blade. I can't remember her name

But like you if they were all just

getting getting like big celebrity names,

we would have never met that

Actress, you know

Truth. I don't know. I yeah video games.

I don't think we need to have more

celebrities. We need to get more

Folks undiscovered talent. I like that

All right, hunt showdown is what it is

hunt showdown had post Malone

That's what it is post Malone

has been in multiple games now

But there's a new one and we I think they

did an announcement when we

watched it for the game awards

but post Malone, yeah, which

He's fine. I it's that

he just loves the game

but

Yeah, I heard what we have a to had like

Ethan and Eli Klein from h3h3

You remember that and I even that I was

like in why paid in payday they had DLC

I did not know that that is

Bizarre what a bazero. Why would you add

h3h3 people into that?

I don't know like I

like h3 like they're funny

But like I was like dude that just

doesn't feel right to me

Like crazy, but yeah, they died through

them are actors either. I was like why

no, why are we doing this?

But that is a bizarre. That's

a bizarre choice. That's yeah

Okay, that that's a choice that that's

what I don't understand and even with the

post Malone. I'm like

He I don't know if he's a good enough

actor to but because it is hunt showdown

He might roll. Okay in that

because it is a very gritty game

Mm-hmm, but I haven't played it. I just

yeah, I know I've never

heard of hunt showdown

Hunt showdown is a really fun

get it's a you can do solo duel or or

or

A trio and you go in

and it's like back in 18

80 what is it 18 something?

1896 and has guns and it has

Monsters that you're essentially hunting

down, but you're in a squad and you have

to you can take out other squads

Then you have to take down the monster

and then you have to extract. It's an

extraction kind of shooter and

It's unique. It's fun

But it is definitely different. So yeah,

I don't need to go much

further into it. It is

unique the last thing

I'll say about any of this is

We need to go back to

a time when video games

Couldn't incorporate

the lifelike likenesses of

Celebrities because

that's when games were more fun