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the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for June 26, 2024 for the

1:15

next hour or so. Let

1:19

me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game

1:21

Mess Mornings Live with me, Jeff Grubb. Today,

1:23

Miyazaki said it would break Elden Ring if they

1:26

made it easier, so today they announced that they're

1:28

breaking Elden Ring. But first, please join

1:30

me in welcoming today's co-host to Game Mess Mornings. It's

1:33

Lucy James, everybody. Lucy, how's

1:35

it going? Hasn't everyone just

1:37

considered getting good? I mean,

1:39

come on. I got plenty of get good

1:42

left over here, so I'm settled. You know,

1:44

actually, I haven't even tried using

1:46

that stuff when I'm playing Elden Ring, so it's like

1:48

I got this as a bit, and I didn't do

1:50

it. You could always try

1:52

it. I mean, if you get it's probably,

1:54

you know, if game scent is going to

1:56

get you sick, then I don't have good

1:58

feelings of get good. The

4:00

gamer is here. I've

4:03

been playing a lot, so no,

4:05

I'm now going to be doing Elden Ring

4:08

and still wakes the

4:10

deep I want to finish this week. But

4:12

I've got a guest arriving tonight for

4:15

the next few days. So who knows?

4:19

Yeah. Do you always

4:21

feel like your house is ready for a guest or do you

4:23

have to do a lot to get it ready? I never, I'm

4:25

like, oh my God, I have to do so much. Because

4:28

I've been traveling so much, I

4:31

did a deep clean at the weekend. I

4:33

made a spreadsheet about all the things, all

4:35

the chores that I have to do. So

4:38

today's today's chores, the final ones, I have

4:40

to change the sheets. I

4:42

have to change

4:44

the cat litter, take out the

4:46

bins, one final whizz around with

4:48

the vacuum and most

4:51

importantly, get some wine. You

4:54

know what? Can I just have that spreadsheet?

4:56

That sounds very useful. Yeah, it's got

4:59

different views based on days.

5:02

Oh, yeah. Well, that's what I need. Yeah,

5:06

I'm very excited about it. But

5:08

no, and so Ben and I have had a

5:10

very we had like the most British argument ever

5:12

the other day, like on the phone where he

5:14

was like, well, I'll sleep on the couch. I

5:16

was like, no, you will not have

5:18

my bedroom. He's like, no, no, no, no. I've got to blow up bed.

5:20

It's fine. It's like, well, I'll sleep in the blow up bed. And I

5:23

was like, no, you will not. And then he

5:25

went, but I insist. And I was like, I

5:27

insist. That's how you know. I

5:31

assumed that it didn't even

5:33

get that heated. It was very much

5:35

like that. Eddie Isard, the British actor

5:37

scene, once I oh, yes, should I

5:40

know? No, please. Oh, oh, maybe

5:42

I should go. Yeah. Yes. That's sort

5:44

of thing. I hit him with an

5:47

I insist with a firm tone. But he's

5:49

bringing me he's bringing me chocolate and marmite.

5:51

So he's he's good. Well,

5:53

what is the problem? You got you got Hershey bars

5:55

here. What do you need that for? So you know,

5:57

they taste like vomit. Yeah, that's that's

5:59

the. but butyric acid apparently it makes

6:01

it taste sweeter but it's the same stuff

6:04

is it's literally trick acid

6:06

it's close it's butyric with the B

6:08

but it does sound that way but

6:11

literally this basically the same chemical that

6:13

is in vomit so right

6:15

yeah that really turned me off of

6:17

chocolate when I was when I started

6:19

putting that together I was

6:22

born into it it was I didn't notice and then started

6:24

talking to you freaks and you're all like this tastes

6:26

like them no what are you talking about shouldn't

6:29

have looked into it all right let's

6:32

explain what we do here most weekdays I

6:34

Jeff grub will help piece your gaming life

6:36

back together that includes breaking news and maybe

6:38

even some of our own original reporting for

6:40

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6:42

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6:45

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6:47

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hello YouTube all right we have a lot to

7:00

get into and I should put up the headlines

7:02

there we go well

7:04

yes let's start the morning mess with

7:07

from software just made the Elden Ring

7:09

DLC a little bit easier this is

7:11

from Olly Welsh at polygon from

7:13

software has released a surprise mini patch

7:15

or a calibration update as it's calling

7:17

it for Elden Ring that should ease

7:20

the steep difficulty challenge posed by its

7:22

new expansion shadow of the earth tree

7:24

the patch adjusts the way shadow

7:26

the shadow the way shadow realm

7:28

blessings a crucial character advancement system

7:30

in the DLC will scale these

7:32

are the skippity tree fragments the

7:35

blessings increase the attack and defensive

7:37

players characters and their

7:39

spirit summons through the collection of

7:41

skidoo tree fragments and revered spirit

7:44

ashes from software yeah

7:46

go ahead they're apparently pronounced shadow

7:48

shadow yeah cuz it's like

7:50

right cuz it's a shadow tree yes but it's like

7:52

see it I'm like from

7:56

software says it has increased the value of the

7:58

blessings for the first half of players price 40

10:00

tries and I feel like I'm not making any progress.

10:02

We'll see. I am at like level

10:05

10, I think, on my

10:08

Shadow Tree blessings. Skidoo

10:10

trees? Skibidi toilet trees? Skibidi toilet

10:12

trees. How

10:14

many total are there? How many total levels is

10:17

there? I know there's 50 fragments. I

10:20

don't know, because doesn't it, some of it, it's like, it's 20? It's

10:25

20. No, no, no. Sorry. It's

10:28

like, it's like fragments for a bit and then does it get to three? It

10:30

gets to three and it stays at three, apparently. So

10:33

I don't know. Oh, people are saying 20. So

10:36

when I said 20 accidentally, then I was right.

10:38

That sounded right. Okay, so then I am

10:40

like halfway there then. So I wonder

10:42

if I would make a big difference if I

10:44

did do the update. I don't know. I

10:46

think I'll just be mesmerizing. I had him, of course. He

10:49

was right there. He had him. Almost

10:51

dead several times now. And

10:54

I was in the bozo choke zone

10:56

and I just messed up and yeah.

11:00

So I don't know. I kind of want to stick with

11:02

it. I beat that one raw dog. Overall,

11:05

though, the games, this

11:07

conversation feels like we'll get past this patch.

11:10

People will be like, okay, is it easier?

11:12

Whatever. We'll get past this. And now

11:14

this conversation is going to be a lot, pretty much behind

11:16

us, right? Like it always is with these games where the

11:18

difficulty conversation is all people could talk about in the first

11:20

couple of days. But now we're going to get a little

11:22

bit past that at this point, right? Well,

11:24

review as a tip when it comes to Game of the Year. Yes,

11:26

exactly. Yeah. Like something

11:29

else or like people will think about something else for a

11:31

little bit and then yeah, Game of the Year, it'll come

11:33

back around. No. Somehow

11:36

the discourse has returned. It always

11:38

does. Let's see if there's any

11:40

other like the further balance changes and bug fixes

11:42

will be coming in a future patch from software

11:45

said. So this is really just all about the

11:47

difficulty. People

11:50

also are complaining about some performance issues,

11:52

although I continue to mostly not have

11:54

experienced that. But on Steam Deck, I

11:56

also have not experienced it. I'm playing

11:58

on my NZX TP. Yeah, I don't know

12:00

if 4090 will help with that. Yeah,

12:03

I was gonna say. All right, so let's

12:05

move ahead here to... Hey, you

12:07

heard about this doctor disrespect? He's

12:10

out there doing his thing, unfortunately. No,

12:13

I don't think he's an actual doctor. I

12:15

think that there might be some invalidity

12:17

to that claim that he is a doctor. He

12:20

admits to inappropriate messaging with a

12:22

minor. This is from Ethan

12:25

Gotch at Kotaku. The guy, Dr. Disrespect

12:27

Beam, has broken his silence on allegations

12:29

that he was banned from Twitch in

12:31

2024, allegedly sexting a minor.

12:33

The famous streamer admitted to the incident

12:35

but said there was no real intentions

12:38

behind these messages and claimed nothing illegal

12:40

happened. No pictures were shared. No crimes

12:42

were committed. I never even met the

12:45

individual, he said. He

12:47

did not share that, you

12:49

know, allegedly, according to Twitch employees, he

12:51

was in conversation to say, hey, what

12:54

are you doing at TwitchCon? So

12:57

they stepped in before that happened. So

12:59

of course he didn't meet her because people stopped

13:01

him from meeting her. Beam

13:04

shared his version of the events on

13:06

Twitter on Tuesday saying that while he

13:08

has been legally bound from discussing the

13:10

matter, former Twitch employees sharing the incident

13:12

on social media and discussing it with

13:14

reporters has enabled him to now share

13:16

his side of the story. The man

13:18

behind the Dr. Disrespect persona with millions

13:20

of followers said he was banned from

13:22

Twitch in 2020 over a 2017 exchange

13:24

with an individual that sometimes, quote,

13:26

leaned too much in the direction of being

13:29

inappropriate but nothing more. He added

13:31

the word minor out of the initial version of

13:33

the statement before adding it back in later after

13:35

people noticed. According to Beam,

13:37

no criminal charges were ever filed. He's

13:40

got a big long statement. The statement reads

13:42

very much like, one

13:44

of the most entitled things I've ever read, Lucy, where

13:48

he just like, yeah, I did this thing that is most

13:50

people consider to be horrendous and bad, but

13:53

I'm not going anywhere and you should get over it. And,

13:56

and like, that's, that's just the

13:58

whole statement, basically. Uh,

14:00

kind of wild that he's out there

14:02

just yelling about this on Twitter. What

14:04

do you think? I

14:07

cannot believe. And

14:09

this was happening when we were recording the bomb

14:11

cast yesterday and I would keep seeing it and

14:14

I was like, Oh my God, he's tweeting through

14:16

it. Oh my God, he's tweeting

14:18

through it. Like it's the fact that it opens

14:20

with let's cut the fucking bullshit as you know,

14:22

there's no filter with me. An

14:25

objectively hilarious way to kick this

14:27

off. Uh-huh. You should

14:29

have a filter when talking to minors

14:31

actually. Yeah, I really

14:33

think you should.

14:36

I yeah, dude, I just,

14:38

what do you, what do you, I

14:41

think my ever, I

14:43

mean, ever, like, first of all, as we saw it,

14:45

we talked about yesterday during the bomb cast, the way

14:47

that he finds out he's been fired from 12 AM

14:49

with the fucking Elden Ring music over

14:51

the top. You

14:54

know, like you couldn't write that. It's

14:56

the timing on it. It's the

14:58

slow motion. Just like breathe out. And

15:01

then it's the quick wrap up of probably the last

15:03

stream of his life. It's the

15:05

way that everything and everyone is

15:07

distancing themselves from him. Like turtle beach went that

15:09

the San Francisco 49ers went out this morning, like cut

15:12

ties completely.

15:16

Um, and so yeah, I know he's got a lot

15:18

of people who don't like him already.

15:20

Like didn't enjoy a stick. Like

15:23

he was like, Oh, I'm not going to do that. Like

15:26

he almost, he almost gate crashed a stage that I

15:28

was hosting in like 2019. Just

15:31

just before he went and

15:33

filmed in the bathroom. Um, I actually

15:35

think it was the bathroom that was right next to our stage. I'd have

15:37

to go back and see if it was that one in

15:39

his blog. But

15:41

um, yeah, I was talking to Rod Ferguson and

15:43

he like came up through the middle of the

15:46

crowd and just started walking and just

15:48

like came and stood right in front of me

15:51

on the stage and just like sort of stared

15:53

at us. And so anyway, cool guy. That was

15:55

my interaction with him. But right, let's be real here

15:57

at the end of the day. This is

15:59

a minor. And I

16:01

hope that person is doing okay

16:03

because surely the way that

16:05

this has been handled previously where it's like NDAs,

16:08

no one knows what's going on, I assume the

16:10

miner does an absolute like, I really hope people

16:12

don't go fucking digging and try and get their

16:14

name and do all that kind of horrible shitty

16:17

stuff. Yeah, I think the presumption or maybe

16:19

people know, I haven't seen it said explicitly

16:21

anywhere that the reason we haven't heard about

16:23

a lot of this is because it's at

16:25

the wishes of the miner.

16:28

And I hope people really, yeah,

16:30

keep it that way. And I hope they're doing okay. Because

16:32

like at the time, people were trying to figure out that

16:34

this was what, 2017? He

16:37

was 35, this person, 17 roughly. Yeah,

16:41

dude, that's like, not

16:43

even just messed up in

16:45

terms of ages, but in terms of power dynamics, like

16:47

imagine if that's, oh, hey, my favorite streamer is, oh,

16:51

God, and he's married. I don't know

16:53

if he had the kid back then, but like, got a kid now.

16:56

Oh, God. Awful. Yeah,

17:00

it's the kind of thing where I think

17:02

he's just like, it was a mistake. Okay.

17:06

And he says stuff like, I've grown a lot

17:08

since then. I

17:10

kind of don't want to hear any of that. I just want

17:12

to hear what I did

17:15

was wrong and I'm going to go away now. That's

17:18

kind of what I need from this. And the

17:20

fact that he follows up all

17:22

of that with, there's no

17:25

fucking way I'm going away, you're

17:27

going to have to continue to deal with me. That

17:30

is, it is frustrating

17:32

and it's like, well, it really doesn't feel like

17:34

you've grown, doesn't feel like you've learned anything.

17:37

I guess what you're saying is you wouldn't DM

17:39

a minor. I mean, man,

17:41

at 35, that should have been

17:43

a lesson long learned. How are you

17:46

not just uncomfortable by like having messages

17:48

from kids? Like

17:50

I'll have like kids reach on the discord, just like, like

17:53

be like, hey, what's going on? I'm

17:55

going to discord. There you are. But you

17:57

got to be in the public. You can't just DM me. Like you have to

17:59

be. has to be all out here for

18:01

everyone to see, please. And that's

18:04

the way to handle it, I think. And

18:06

that goes for kind of anybody, really, that you

18:08

might have a power dynamic with. You have small

18:10

little conversations here or there where they're asking you

18:12

questions about your job and you can talk about

18:14

it in a professional manner. And I think any

18:16

time it crosses over to anything personal, you

18:19

gotta have to have a firm line of,

18:21

that's not what's happening here. And

18:23

so the idea that he was like, well, you

18:25

know, we're just having a little conversation and it

18:28

got a little inappropriate. That doesn't just happen. You

18:30

are the adult in the situation. You guided

18:32

it there and you

18:34

have to pay the price on this. And it

18:37

just feels like he's not really. In

18:39

fact, he got paid, so, which is he continues to point

18:41

out. Yeah, he got paid out of the Twitch thing. I

18:43

wonder, I mean, Robert Boling's statement

18:45

was yikes. Like,

18:49

as in I've never seen someone in that kind

18:51

of position of power just outright say, I haven't

18:53

put this through legal, I haven't put this HR,

18:56

just basically like, if you text a minor,

18:58

like you're out, which is like good on him for doing

19:00

it and good on the company for ousting him. Right,

19:02

and I would bet that he has

19:05

seen everything. So like, you know, and

19:07

so he would know better than most

19:09

exactly what it looks like. Yeah,

19:13

and Robert Boling, he was the other

19:15

person that started Midnight Society with a

19:17

doctor disrespect before they cut ties with

19:19

him. Yeah,

19:21

he's gonna take an extended vacation, he says, and

19:23

then come back and continue to stream. That's

19:26

gonna be annoying when he comes back because I'm sure he'll

19:28

make a big deal out of it. I'm

19:30

sure he can go to kick. Yeah, 100%. Where's

19:34

he streaming on YouTube now? YouTube,

19:37

yeah, I mean, how long? Right,

19:40

probably on kick going forward. All

19:43

right, let's see here. Breaking

19:45

news, let's see here, so I want to put this

19:47

in the thing. Dead Rising Remastered is happening. You put

19:49

this in here, thank you so much. Let me take

19:51

a look. All right, let's see

19:53

what they say here in a tweet

19:55

from the Dead Rising Twitter account. Hello,

19:57

is this thing on? This is Frank.

20:00

Frank West, is anyone out there grab

20:02

your camera and prepare for the big

20:04

scoop on Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster? Stay

20:07

tuned for more info soon. Does

20:10

this video have any more information? I

20:13

haven't seen it, but I believe it

20:15

is just it's the it's the remaster. It's got

20:17

a little bit of little clips. HD

20:20

remaster. Wow, he looks good, man. Yeah.

20:22

Right. And there was people remember

20:24

there was an HD remaster released at 2016. This

20:27

is the deluxe version of that. Yeah.

20:30

So very cool. Dead

20:32

Rising feels like one of those Capcom

20:34

franchises that could come back in a

20:36

real way at any time, because

20:39

they're in such a strong position with all

20:41

their other games. They're probably looking for other

20:44

stuff that can join the parade

20:46

of Monster Hunter and Resident Evil. And

20:48

now dead. What

20:51

is it? Or Dragon's Dogma? Excuse me. Yeah,

20:53

Dragon's Dogma. It's

20:55

like we had Dead Rising could come out. That could

20:58

easily be another one of these major franchises that could

21:00

get the five million copies sold. So this

21:03

might be a precursor to that. What do you think?

21:05

Do you think that's something they might end up doing?

21:08

I think so. I mean, God, Capcom is

21:10

on such a roll with new releases, but also

21:12

looking at its back catalog and re-releasing stuff.

21:14

So I'd be interested to see what they did

21:16

do with Dead Rising, because I mean, Dead

21:19

Rising 4 was what, 2013, 2014, like launch title? It

21:24

was early in the Xbox one, yes. Yeah,

21:27

because I remember going to all the previous stuff for

21:29

the new Xbox and playing like Rise,

21:31

Son of Rome and Dead Rising.

21:34

So I think it would be I just think

21:36

it's neat. I think the world's ready. I

21:38

think so, too. And I think that

21:41

it's the kind of thing where Dead Rising remaster is

21:43

actually the one I most want

21:45

to go back to anyhow, because I like the

21:47

the time mechanic of that first game the most.

21:50

And I yeah, I want to go back and play around

21:52

with this. And then I hope we come out of it

21:54

in a few months later, maybe a year or two later,

21:57

and Dead Rising is back. Here's a real new one.

22:00

So that would be very cool.

22:02

Capcom, they're just firing on

22:04

all cylinders. I would love to see what they would do with

22:06

the new entry in the series. I think they would really be able to

22:09

pull that off. All

22:11

right, speaking of Capcom though,

22:15

one of their games on iOS is not doing

22:17

very well. In fact, no game is doing very

22:19

well on iOS if it costs around $50. This

22:22

is from Chris Cohen at VGC. iOS

22:25

ports of Resident Evil 4, Assassin's Creed

22:27

Mirage, and Death Stranding sold poorly, estimates

22:29

suggest. Apple's attempt to

22:31

bring AAA console games to its

22:33

iPhone and iPad devices appear to

22:35

be off to a very slow

22:38

start. According to analysis by mobilegamer.biz,

22:40

based on estimates from app figures, the

22:43

iOS ports of Resident Evil 4, Resident

22:45

Evil Village, Death Stranding, and Assassin's

22:47

Creed Mirage have failed to sell well

22:49

despite Apple featuring them during their

22:51

keynote presentations in the past year. The

22:54

games are only playable on high-end iPhone

22:56

and iPad devices, meaning the potential audience

22:58

size is smaller than the overall

23:00

iPhone user base in the first instance. However,

23:03

even with this in mind, app

23:05

figures estimates suggest that while Assassin's

23:07

Creed Mirage has been downloaded around

23:09

123,000 times, it

23:12

only made around 138,000 gross revenue, given

23:16

that the game is free to download with players able

23:18

to access a small part of the game before paying

23:20

the $50 fee to unlock the rest of the game.

23:24

This suggests that fewer than 3,000 people went

23:26

on to buy the full game. Similar

23:29

calculations based on app figures estimates suggest

23:32

that around 7,000 iOS users have

23:34

paid for Resident Evil 4, 5,750

23:36

have paid for Village, and

23:39

around 10,600 have paid for Death Stranding. Those

23:43

aren't very good numbers, Lucy. Oh.

23:48

I guess I'm not too surprised. I've

23:50

really had no way of gauging what to expect

23:53

from these games going to mobile. I didn't think

23:55

a lot of people would buy them, but

23:57

I guess I didn't know if the number would be this small. is

24:00

like such a tiny number that it's

24:02

not worth the time and effort that these companies probably

24:04

put into it, right? Yeah. I

24:07

thought it reminds me of Jimin,

24:09

but when they released Bioshock.

24:11

Yeah. Excuse me. Yeah,

24:15

Bioshock on iOS and then they

24:17

quickly like took it back. I

24:19

think that price point is not like,

24:25

so if you are, if you're a mobile

24:27

phone user, I mean in the world of

24:29

2024, most people are mobile phone user. We're

24:33

conditioned there for apps to be 99 cents. Like

24:37

maybe if you're paying for a yearly subscription or

24:39

something like LastPass, then it's like, I'll pay a

24:41

$30 like subscription or

24:43

I'll pay something. You don't

24:47

look at one off apps and think,

24:49

oh, I'm going to be paying 50

24:51

bucks. It's just not how we've

24:53

been conditioned to think or like use

24:55

that device. So it's

24:58

kind of like the Nintendo switch problem when it

25:00

comes to third party, where it's like, I don't

25:02

want to play the worst version of

25:05

this game, but pay the same amount of price. Yeah.

25:08

At least they pay the same amount. Like

25:10

Nintendo Switch third party stuff, like I'm not

25:12

paying Apex legends or overwatch or Mortal Kombat

25:15

on switch, right? Cause that's going to be

25:17

a bad time, a bad experience.

25:19

It's not going to look as nice as it can

25:21

with iOS. It's like, well,

25:25

that's my small screen. Yeah.

25:27

That's my screen that I check when there's a loading

25:30

screen on my big screen or that's the screen. Like,

25:32

you know, I don't want to be playing Resident Evil

25:34

four and be like, oh shit, someone sent me a

25:36

meme. I should double check that. Exactly. And

25:39

also my battery's not going to last that long. So

25:41

I just don't understand.

25:43

I mean, I can, I can understand the fact

25:45

that Apple definitely wants to get into the console,

25:48

gets into the gaming AAA space. But

25:52

yeah, and this is using the same processor basically

25:54

that's going to be in their, their computers. So

25:56

when, if these games get ported to Mac, they

25:58

can just basically work on the phone. with

26:00

not a lot of extra effort. So

26:02

I think this is a byproduct of that. As

26:04

the story mentioned, we mentioned this, Sean points out in chat,

26:06

this is just iPhone 15 Pro, which

26:10

would be, yeah, would be, you know, a

26:12

smaller percentage of the audience. It would also

26:14

be like the most affluent, I would guess.

26:17

So the people most likely

26:20

to pay a big fee for a game. But

26:23

honestly, it feels like none of that really

26:25

matters. What's happening here is, you know, I

26:28

think on grub snacks early

26:30

on, I did an episode of kind of like,

26:32

there was a lot of talk about the cloud

26:34

one week and the issue

26:36

with the cloud is like the last mile problem.

26:38

And, you know, the last mile problem in shipping

26:41

is, it's really cheap to ship stuff to

26:44

like a city. Getting it to

26:46

the person's door is actually by far the

26:48

most expensive and the biggest hurdle to overcome.

26:51

And I think a similar thing happens with

26:53

cloud gaming where getting

26:56

to people's houses is pretty cheap these days

26:58

and effective and it works. Getting someone to

27:00

then be like, and I'm going to connect

27:02

a controller to my TV and decide to

27:04

play a game on there and then pay

27:06

whatever price I have to pay to access

27:08

that stuff, that is still a massive hurdle

27:10

that these companies haven't figured out. And I

27:12

think a lot of that is still gonna

27:14

happen with these games on

27:17

mobile, even if they're running natively,

27:19

where it's there

27:21

and it's available, but getting

27:24

the person to get over that last mile of

27:26

paying a big fee to pay a game probably

27:28

just isn't going to be something they're gonna be

27:30

able to figure out really easily and probably not

27:32

at all. The people on phone are happy playing

27:34

free to play games and that's what they're used

27:36

to. So I don't

27:38

see this changing. And

27:40

really this is kind of bad news for the

27:42

gaming industry because the whole idea

27:44

here was making

27:47

these games, we wanna keep making games this way.

27:49

We wanna keep selling you big video games that

27:51

you all claim to really like, but

27:54

console sales aren't growing and

27:57

it's like we have the same audience there. to

28:00

start looking elsewhere for people who are willing to

28:02

pay this price and they might not

28:04

exist. The people that are willing to pay 30 to

28:06

$50 for a Resident Evil game, we might

28:10

have found all of them already. And so the

28:12

growth potential might not be there. And in this

28:14

moment, that's got to be a little bit scary

28:17

to these companies. So this feels like

28:19

a failed experiment. I don't know. What do you think? Yeah,

28:22

it's interesting. I know

28:26

I'm in a privileged position where I have everything.

28:28

I just, again,

28:30

I just would not play a game

28:32

like that on my phone. If I

28:34

wanted to play something 3D on my phone,

28:38

I would be like, oh man, I would

28:40

love to play the original Resident Evil games.

28:43

Something... Actually,

28:45

the only game that I want to play on

28:47

my phone is PEGL. Original

28:49

PEGL. Put that on my phone. And

28:52

New York Times crossword games. Yeah.

28:55

Oh, big time. If I'm not ruining the day

28:57

of at least three people, it kind of funny

28:59

with my miniscore, then it's not even worth it.

29:02

Man, I was like, I should get in

29:04

on that, but I don't need you destroying me every day. I don't

29:06

need that in my life. She's

29:09

very good at it, everybody. I'm very good

29:11

at it. Yeah. I

29:14

think that this probably is the kind of thing where they're like,

29:16

okay, we tried to do what

29:19

people claim that they want. They want

29:21

these games that are big blockbusters and

29:23

they have an upfront cost. And

29:25

this feels like the final gasp of can

29:27

we make that work on another device that

29:30

looks like a phone? And

29:32

maybe things change and as

29:34

these games are available on more iOS

29:37

devices, this stuff is

29:39

like, oh, well, now that the bigger audience is there, they

29:41

are buying these games. Maybe that does change. But I feel

29:43

like what really is going to happen here is, it's going

29:45

to be like, you know what? We tried. If

29:47

we're going to be on mobile, we're going to have to adapt

29:50

it for mobile. And that means free to play with microtransactions. And

29:52

the games are not going to feel like they did traditionally and

29:54

they're going to have to be very different. So yeah,

29:57

I think that's kind of all she

29:59

wrote for this. sort of kind of this

30:01

kind of gaming on mobile devices. All

30:04

right, let's take a quick break. When we get

30:06

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30:08

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30:52

Evil comes to PC in all of its

30:55

unremaster glory. This is from Michael McWhorter at

30:57

Polygon. The original Windows PC

30:59

version of Capcom's Resident Evil is now

31:01

available through digital storefront GOG, letting PC

31:04

players experience the groundbreaking survival horror classic

31:06

as it was back in 1996. PC

31:10

versions of Resident Evil 2 and Resident

31:12

Evil 3 Nemesis are also getting a

31:14

rerelease through GOG, the company announced Wednesday.

31:16

This is this is pretty neat.

31:18

I you know, I have a million ways to play

31:20

these games. And yet this still like peaked my interest.

31:22

I'm like, Oh, that's that's nice. Maybe I will play

31:24

those. I, I don't

31:27

remember how these

31:30

games ran on PC. I don't know if there's issues

31:32

with them. I mean, GOG always does the work to

31:34

make sure they're the best version possible usually. But I

31:36

wonder if it's like, actually, you should probably just play

31:38

the an emulated version

31:41

of the PlayStation game instead. But either

31:44

way, this is neat. I know I think there's

31:46

some exclusive stuff in the PC version

31:48

of Resident Evil 1, maybe costumes, I could be

31:50

making that up. But I thought I remembered that.

31:54

What do you think about this, Lucy? Is this something where

31:56

you're like, Oh, maybe I'll play those games now as as

31:58

you're, you know, this is PC gamer. Mrs.

32:01

PZ game. I know I you know

32:03

what I will not play them because I think I'm at

32:05

the point now where I'm kind of looking forward a little

32:07

bit a little bit too much there are

32:09

so many games out I was we were recording FPS

32:11

and Ralph was like oh my god there's nothing coming

32:14

out for the next two months until like Outlaws and

32:16

Frostpunk 2 and I was like bitch

32:18

have you seen my wish list like all the Lucy

32:20

games are coming out like uh uh

32:22

Tales of no is it fields of Mysterio um

32:25

thank goodness you're here like all these games are

32:27

coming out of the next couple months so I'm

32:29

just like I'm looking ahead also um

32:33

just because I'm not playing them doesn't mean that

32:35

I don't think this is fantastic and I think

32:37

places like Gog are really putting the work to

32:39

make sure that all of these old games are

32:41

not only able to be like

32:44

preserved but like purchased and I'm

32:46

sure they're doing the work to make it like

32:48

playable and run the best that they can so

32:51

good job Gog good good

32:53

job at Capcom um yeah

32:55

I know and also like I'm excited for folks like

32:58

you know like sphere hunter yeah because like she

33:00

loves Resident Evil stuff so much like

33:03

I would be excited to watch Susie play right

33:05

um rather than play it myself and uh it's kind

33:07

of thing where it's like and because this is happening

33:09

maybe maybe there'll be more interest there and so soon

33:11

so you can benefit from that as well yeah that's

33:13

that that's exactly what I get out a lot of

33:15

these announcements where it's just nice

33:18

to know people will be paying attention to these games

33:20

a little bit more than they were I yeah of

33:22

course I was playing these games on whatever device I

33:24

have laying around me it's not

33:26

usually about that it's just about sort of

33:28

the zeitgeist around them getting a slight boost

33:30

and I appreciate that uh fortnite

33:33

reload is an apology to sweaty

33:36

streamers and it's amazing since from

33:38

Phil Owen at GameSpot fortnite

33:40

reload a new version of battle royale in

33:42

the vein of call of duty war zone's

33:44

resurgence mode came out of nowhere this past

33:46

weekend a surprising shot in the arm to

33:48

a game that's needed one badly after the

33:50

launch of the vehicle oriented summer season fell

33:52

flat for a lot of players in

33:55

particular with folks who prefer build mode that

33:58

included many prominent streamers who struggled to adapt

34:00

to the all new changes in Chapter 5

34:02

Season 3 that were at odds with the

34:04

normal build mode playstyles. Reload

34:07

feels like Epic's constructed as quickly as

34:09

possible response to the poor Season launch,

34:11

and while I'd love to be annoyed

34:13

that it seemingly hacked something together so

34:15

quickly to appease streamers, Fortnite Reload is

34:17

so much fun and such a dramatic

34:19

change of pace from Fortnite norms that

34:21

I'm pretty sure I'm in love. Epic

34:23

got this one right. The reason why

34:25

Fortnite Reload works, because this idea is

34:27

a good one that Epic has probably

34:29

been pondering for a while. Call of

34:31

Duty Warzone's resurgence was created as a

34:33

sort of bridge between standard Call of

34:35

Duty deathmatch and the battle royale of

34:38

Warzone, allowing players to automatically respawn after

34:40

they die so long as they have

34:42

living teammates. It was a great hybrid

34:44

between the modes of Call of Duty

34:46

and the best of both worlds. Fortnite's

34:48

version of this is fairly simple.

34:50

It's squads only with a maximum

34:52

of 40 players, has a loot

34:54

pool of weapons and items from Chapter 1 through

34:56

4. It takes place on a

34:59

compressed version of the Fortnite OG map from

35:01

last November, populated with familiar

35:03

spots like Tilted Towers and without

35:05

much weird wilderness in between the

35:09

towns. With a smaller map, the fighting tends to

35:11

be hot from the second you hit the ground,

35:13

but the stakes of these fights are lower as

35:16

long as your teammates survive for 30 seconds after

35:18

you die. That sounds cool.

35:20

I know a lot of people do like that

35:22

Warzone equivalent mode, so yes, this is something I

35:24

might want to check out. Yeah, what do you

35:26

think? Yeah, I think it sounds

35:28

really fun. I only

35:30

really played Fortnite with

35:33

you guys. Right. I

35:35

haven't played Warzone so much since I

35:38

played a lot in 2020. But

35:41

I'm yeah, this sounds pretty fun. I'm and

35:45

am I gonna get into Fortnite? No, I'm

35:47

not. Okay. I thought about it. I'm not. I'm

35:52

going on my journey with you. Yeah, no, but

35:55

I would I play it for like, you know,

35:57

Nikki and Shawn going nuts in the chat and

35:59

like really enjoy. I don't even

36:01

play with you all. I just

36:03

don't have it in me to devote time

36:06

to a continuous game

36:08

right now. Maybe that'll change. Yeah,

36:11

I know this sounds really fun. I like Professional

36:14

fortnight return says Jan I

36:16

yeah, I I

36:20

was gonna say something embargoed that I can't say

36:22

okay Well done, I

36:25

saved myself no That's

36:27

fun. I'm happy for the fort the

36:29

fortnight play. Yeah me me too and I

36:33

Honestly part of my greenness Mike should I also go

36:36

check out more Call of Duty war zone resurgence? Maybe

36:38

that'd be fun, too But

36:40

yeah, I got my Nicki Minaj skin in there

36:46

And I say like who I mean they've got Alan

36:48

Wake is in there I would place Alan Wake just

36:50

cuz I think that's funny Well

36:52

that yeah, that's always hit the gritty Yeah,

36:57

that's that's honestly what fornite still is

36:59

for me just having characters that look

37:01

familiar do dumb stuff I

37:04

always appreciate that Indiana Jones in a

37:06

little back. What's that? We gotta get

37:08

did back? We we were the fun string bring

37:10

your dip to work day. We'll do another one of

37:12

those. Of course. That was really good Yeah, absolutely All

37:15

right, let's move along here forza

37:17

horizon for to be delisted by

37:19

the end of the year This

37:21

is from Marcus person at game

37:23

reactor The now five-year-old forza

37:25

horizon for has reached the end of the road

37:27

and will disappear from all digital platforms at

37:29

the end of the year This

37:31

is announced by Microsoft and playground games who

37:33

due to license rights cannot or will not

37:36

continue to keep the title alive Already

37:38

today the British one. I

37:40

think this is England. Yeah, right? Right Yeah,

37:43

wow. I remember

37:45

just going through rocky fences

37:49

Just driving through all like these rock these pebbles stone

37:51

fences and just make having them explode in front of

37:53

me. I really like that Yeah,

37:56

this happens with all the forza games it

37:58

seems to be a car license licensing issue, they

38:01

license real world automobiles, and

38:03

they can only do that for so long before

38:05

these companies ask for the same amount of money,

38:08

I suppose, which makes it prohibitively expensive. I

38:11

also wonder, soundtrack too?

38:14

Soundtrack for sure, yes. But there's a lot of games with

38:16

soundtracks. It

38:18

feels like this always happens to Forza

38:20

and other car games, and it must

38:23

just be the way that

38:25

this works with automobile licensing. Yeah,

38:28

it stinks. I wish it didn't work this way. I

38:31

wish there was some work around, some

38:33

standard that they could adopt to be like, yeah,

38:35

listen, let people keep buying it. Is it really

38:37

hurting your cars or anything like that? I guess

38:39

they just want to get paid though. Oh,

38:42

you do just want to get paid. I think I

38:44

just don't know. Part of me is like, get paid

38:46

by selling fucking cars. Like who cares about the way

38:48

it looks in a video game? Whatever.

38:51

I mean, I guess if I made it, I would want to get

38:53

paid too. I

38:55

was going to say, isn't the car selling

38:57

business industry

39:00

not doing so hard? Yeah, right now, yes. It

39:02

was very hot like a year and a half ago.

39:04

No, it's very not. Yes. I

39:07

drive by a dealership often,

39:10

and it is jam packed with

39:12

unsold cars. And I live right

39:14

next to a Ford dealership. And

39:18

they actually, when things were hot, they

39:20

had a massive amount of inventory sitting

39:22

around and now they don't. And I'm

39:24

like, what? Okay, so are they selling

39:26

all those? No, I think they're just

39:28

making fewer vehicles. So they're just like

39:30

holding back. So trying to stimulate

39:32

demand. It's weird out

39:35

there. I wish I kind

39:37

of wish I needed to buy a car right now. I don't. So

39:39

I'm not going to, but it's like now would be the time to do it. All

39:43

right. Sorry, PlayStation players. Insomniac just shot

39:45

down a request for a port of

39:47

Sunset Overdrive. This is from Alex Hopley

39:49

at Game Reactor. There's no

39:51

secret that Insomniac Games likes to keep itself

39:53

busy since the launch of Marvel's Spider-Man. The

39:56

studio has also released the standalone Spider-Man

39:58

Miles Morales, Ratchet and Clank. Rift

40:00

Apart and Marvel's Spider-Man 2. Prior

40:03

to the hit of Spider-Man, Insomniac has

40:05

made a fun action game

40:08

known as Sunset Overdrive. At the moment,

40:10

you could only play Sunset Overdrive on

40:12

Xbox and PC, but a

40:14

recent post from Insomniac showed off the game

40:16

once more. This led to one fan asking

40:18

if we could see the game remastered for

40:20

PS4 and PS5, to which Insomniac responded

40:23

that they're busy working on Marvel's Wolverine. Considering

40:25

Marvel's Wolverine is going to give us another

40:27

superhero game based on one of our favorite

40:29

comic book characters, we can't

40:31

really complain, but maybe one day we

40:34

could see a return to Sunset Overdrive.

40:36

Yeah, at a certain point, Insomniac can't

40:38

do everything, right? They were one

40:40

of the most prolific studios of the last several

40:42

years. They have a way

40:44

to keep games coming out, but

40:47

probably part of that is not getting distracted by

40:49

other side projects that maybe wouldn't have as big

40:51

of a return. I liked Sunset Overdrive, Lucy,

40:53

I didn't love it. How do you feel

40:55

about it? It was the same. It

40:58

didn't leave that much of a

41:00

mark on me, but maybe I didn't give it

41:02

a fair shake back in the day, but that

41:04

was 11 years ago. Yeah, I reviewed it

41:06

and I remember going, yeah, this is

41:09

good. I just didn't own the way

41:11

some people did. Yeah, but

41:14

also, I mean, who owns the rights to

41:16

it? Is it Xbox? It

41:18

seems like it is with Insomniac. It seems like

41:20

Insomniac does have it, and they could

41:22

put it on PlayStation if they wanted to. Is

41:24

the way I last understood it. I

41:27

mean, look, I think at this point,

41:29

PlayStation are just going to go for the hits. My

41:31

fringe is having an absolute nightmare. No,

41:33

that's great. Thanks. No,

41:37

I slapped on it funny. But yeah, they're going to

41:39

be going for the hits at this point, and those

41:41

hits are going to be mobiles. Yeah.

41:44

How much does Sunset Overdrive sell? Not

41:47

a ton. Yeah, just

41:49

like all those Xbox

41:51

exclusives that came out in that

41:53

generation. They didn't do great. I'm

41:55

a 2 mil. Yeah. Yeah, okay.

41:57

Listen, Spider-Man does like 30 million. That's

42:00

the difference. And we do, we know, in Simon

42:03

Yek, very busy, you said, we're working at Marvel,

42:05

they're working on Wolverine, and then

42:07

we saw in the week, they're making

42:09

a Venom, like spin-off, standalone game

42:11

of Venom, and then they're going to be

42:13

making the X-Men games. So they

42:16

have a lot on their plate for the next 10 years. I

42:20

think the way that you can keep up with

42:22

that is, again, don't get distracted by something like

42:24

Sunset Overdrive. You

42:26

know, that's maybe they could always work with an external team to

42:28

work that to PS4. That could still

42:30

happen. Who knows? We'll

42:33

see. UFC star Conor McGregor says he's

42:35

in a new video game with an

42:37

announcement coming this week according to McGregor,

42:39

who doesn't always seem to

42:41

know what's going on. This is from Kyle Knight

42:44

at Dual Shockers. In a now deleted tweet, UFC

42:46

superstar Conor McGregor announced that he would be starring

42:48

in a video game with an announcement for the

42:50

mystery title coming, quote, this week. Yesterday

42:53

evening, in classic McGregor fashion, the mixed

42:55

martial artist went on a tweeting tangent.

42:58

McGregor took aim at his previous opponent,

43:00

Dustin Poirier, in a

43:02

series of malicious tweets while also slipping in

43:04

that he'd been starring in a yet to

43:06

be announced video game. The star has since

43:08

deleted the tweet. McGregor

43:11

has appeared in multiple sports UFC games.

43:13

He shocked fans around the world back

43:15

in 2016 when he appeared in Call

43:17

of Duty Infinite Warfare as Captain Bradley

43:20

Fillion. The action packed first

43:22

person shooter didn't just bad Conor McGregor,

43:24

though, as the title also featured various

43:26

Hollywood stars such as Kit Harington, David

43:28

Hasselhoff, and Seth Green. What

43:30

the really? That's fucking what David Hasselhoff. I don't remember

43:33

any of that. Doesn't Conor McGregor suck? He sucks. Yes,

43:36

that's what I was going to get to. He

43:40

sucks. He

43:42

stinks, but I do wonder if this is just the

43:44

UFC game or is he in another thing? Is he

43:46

going to be in, are they making

43:49

a video game based on a Roadhouse? He was

43:51

in that movie. He was good in that movie

43:53

because his character was supposed to suck. So whenever

43:55

he showed up on screen and I'm like, this

43:57

dude sucked, he exuded so much of that. energy

44:00

that worked for the character. Suck energy?

44:02

Yes, just massive suck energy. It kind

44:04

of ruled. Yeah. OK. But yeah,

44:07

hey, he is someone out there

44:09

who just does a lot of talking. Seems

44:12

like he might, like I said, not

44:14

always know what's going on. So he might not

44:16

even be referring to something that is real or

44:18

ever going to become a real project. Maybe it's

44:20

a conversation that his agent had and it didn't

44:22

actually pan out. This, I would take this with

44:24

a grain of salt. But I don't know. We'll

44:26

see. Maybe he's going to be back in Call

44:28

of Duty. Yep. All

44:31

right. Last story here. Atari 50

44:33

getting 39 new free games as part of

44:35

the expanded edition. This is from Alex Hopley

44:38

at Game Reactor. Atari 50, the

44:40

anniversary collection, originally launched in 2022, giving

44:42

players access to 103 games

44:45

from the classic Atari machines, including the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, and

44:47

more. A

44:51

free update in 2023 added 12 more games. Now

44:54

in 2024, the expanded edition brings

44:56

a whopping 39 new titles to the collection.

44:59

And it adds two new timelines, the first

45:01

console war and the wider world of Atari.

45:03

For any interested video game historian, this will

45:05

feature old adverts, interviews, and artifacts. This is

45:07

really cool. I'm very excited about this. This

45:09

is a neat way to keep up with

45:11

this thing. Is this something that you've checked

45:14

out before? No. Atari

45:16

was kind of a little bit before my

45:18

time, did not really have much experience with

45:20

it as a kid. So I know.

45:23

But again, like the character

45:25

myself, very happy for folks who do get

45:27

to play and experience it. Yeah.

45:31

I am a, I wish I

45:33

was keeping up with all these that were coming out because they've done

45:35

this. They've done the

45:37

making of Karateka. And then

45:40

they did the Jordon, the

45:42

Llamasoft one, Jeff Mentor one. And that one

45:45

I haven't even touched. And

45:47

I didn't finish the

45:49

Karateka one either. So it's like, I

45:51

love these ideas. I hope

45:53

that they're able to keep doing them. And I hope

45:55

that by going back to Atari 50, they're going to

45:58

give us another boost. And they're able to like. carry

46:00

this stuff forward. I do worry that it's like,

46:03

if they keep doing worse than the previous one,

46:05

that they're like, okay, well, Atari 50 was cool,

46:08

but maybe this is an idea that won't last.

46:11

I'm afraid of that because I think this is

46:13

such a good idea that I hope they're able

46:15

to do it with the bigger games and stuff

46:17

that people really care about these days so that

46:19

they can have a really breakout hit of like,

46:21

this is a cool historical document that

46:23

really dives into stuff that I really care about.

46:26

They're not going to get Nintendo, right? But I think there's

46:28

a world in which they could get Sega or something like

46:30

that. That would be very cool. I think

46:32

so. And yeah, I mean, we've

46:35

had Xbox come out and say that preservation is

46:37

more important and like having people be able to

46:39

play these little games. And I really hope that

46:41

that is an ethos that is being adopted industry-wide.

46:44

And you know, if the

46:46

stuff like the Atari 50 can be a success, then

46:48

I'll have a lot of the other companies see it

46:50

and realize, hey, we

46:52

can do something cool here. They're releasing

46:55

the expanded edition as I

46:57

think a new physical game and it's coming

46:59

out the 25th of October for everything. It'll

47:01

come out for everything. And as ChatPoint points out,

47:04

they own in television now, so that will probably

47:06

be a part of that, the first console war

47:09

timeline that they're putting into the game. So very

47:11

cool. All

47:14

right, that does it for

47:16

the news. I have a poll question

47:19

here that we'll get to in a second. But while

47:21

I'm getting that set up, Lucy James, why don't you

47:23

tell people what you have going on, where they can

47:25

find you and all that good stuff. This

47:29

week Star Players is out with

47:31

Mona Exchange. Please go watch

47:33

it. It's very fun. That

47:36

is every Monday on GameSpot. So we'll go to

47:38

Dominic Monaghan next week and I think Steve will

47:40

be back a week after. And

47:44

then we recorded Jeff Jeff's Star Adventure yesterday that should

47:46

be going up to day

47:49

or tomorrow. A very

47:51

fun couple of episodes. I

47:54

think the series is finally as in

47:56

JoJo's not Jeff Jeff. Jeff's has been

47:58

firing on all cylinders. whole time.

48:02

But JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is definitely like,

48:05

hitting its groove and we are really, really

48:07

digging it. And then the rest of the

48:09

week, I am figuring

48:13

out some stuff like to make as

48:15

things are a little bit quiet.

48:17

Yeah, it's a, it feels

48:19

like you kind of got on the other side

48:21

of star players here a little bit, you've recorded

48:24

everything for that, right? Like that, like one more

48:26

to go, one more to go. Okay, one more

48:28

to go. But mostly behind you and now and

48:30

also like the industry overall slowing down after we

48:32

get past Summer Game Fest and feels like, you

48:34

know, the way the news is going the last

48:36

couple of days, so the gab room is on

48:38

vacation, not getting a lot of press releases quiet

48:40

is the right way of putting it. I'm gonna

48:42

take advantage of that because I am mostly is

48:45

it next week? Yeah, next week I'm off, right?

48:47

Next week. I am taking the four

48:49

day, I'm taking the four day weekend

48:51

on July 4. I've

48:53

got Ben staying for the next few days. I

48:58

need to make a sign to pick him up from the airport.

49:01

Yeah, that's fun. How close to the gate

49:03

can you get these days? I

49:06

guess you have to like be at that little area

49:08

at SFO or whatever. Yeah, I'm

49:10

not sure I need to find out actually

49:12

what time this flight gets in. I'm doing

49:15

that. We're hanging

49:17

out and then I've got

49:21

Comic Con coming up and Gamescom as

49:23

well. Yeah, I've got Gamescom. So because

49:25

big stuff coming up. Yeah,

49:29

I'm just I'm honestly super stoked that it's a

49:31

bit quiet. Me too. It's uh, I

49:34

was like, Oh, this would be a perfect time

49:36

to catch up on stuff. And then of course,

49:39

all I'm doing is play Nailed and Ring. That's

49:41

fine. That's totally acceptable. I'm okay with that. All

49:43

right. Yeah, I got the poll question. Let's do

49:45

it. All right. How are you finding the difficulty

49:47

of shadow of the erd tree? You know, let's

49:49

refresh this one more time. We do

49:52

have a double response there. But that's fine. We'll just

49:54

put them all together. Let's

49:56

see here. 2% say they find it easier

49:58

than they sailed and ring. 18%

50:01

say it's about the same as base Elden Ring, that's where

50:03

I'm at. 26%

50:05

say it's more difficult than the base

50:07

Elden Ring, and then 54% are not

50:09

playing Shadow of the Urtree. Yeah,

50:12

that sounds about right based on the responses that

50:14

like, yeah, there's a lot of people out there

50:16

that are like, yes, this is more difficult, but

50:18

then that's just like half. And the

50:21

other half is like, this is the same or easier.

50:24

Again, only 2% are saying it's easier. It was

50:26

probably trolls. Yeah,

50:28

for me, I

50:31

was totally fine with the difficulty. It's

50:33

challenging. Honestly, I was breezing through

50:35

some of these bosses, and of course, I'm using Mimik

50:37

tier. I am taking advantage of the tools it gives

50:39

me, which of course, but

50:42

now I'm at Mesmer and I'm struggling, and

50:44

I'm like, yeah, this is it. I'm glad that I finally

50:46

got a boss that is gonna be something

50:49

I really will have to download and learn before

50:51

I can overcome it. So that's been kind of

50:53

a relief almost, but we'll see.

50:55

I'm gonna try to avoid updating and making it too

50:57

easy. All right,

50:59

new poll question we have right here. Have

51:02

you beaten Shadow of the Earth Tree yet?

51:04

I'm curious to see how people are breezing

51:06

through this thing or not. Yes, no, or

51:08

I haven't started playing it. We

51:11

will get the results of that for Game

51:13

S Mornings on the show tomorrow. In

51:16

the meantime though, Lucy James, thank you so much for

51:18

hanging out with me today and talking about video games.

51:20

I really appreciate it. Of course,

51:22

of course, a pleasure. After watching live

51:25

on Giant Bomb, we will have some stuff

51:27

on the site today. No Blight Club. Blight

51:29

Club is on hold while Dan recovers. He

51:32

really is trying to put off having to get back to his games

51:35

even though he's far away. Him, he's just

51:37

cowardly and he's afraid of Drake in the 99 Nights. I

51:39

think that's what that game's called. He's got some real stinkers coming

51:42

his way. In the

51:44

meantime though, we'll probably, it

51:46

might not be a delight club. I'm sure we probably gonna

51:48

call it something else. We're gonna do that chain together game.

51:51

We're gonna play that today on the site. Yes, yes, yes. I'm

51:53

gonna get wrapped up with,

51:56

I think it's myself, Jan, Nikki,

51:58

and Turbo Sean. and we're going

52:00

to play that game. It's going to be a good time. And

52:02

then Jeff Jeffs is coming tomorrow.

52:04

We'll have voicemail dump truck Friday. We'll have

52:07

unprofessional Fridays and a BCR of power bomb.

52:09

Cast will figure it out in

52:11

the meantime, though. Thank you, everybody, for listening. Thank you

52:13

for watching. You're the best audience in gaming. Until then,

52:16

have a good one. Take care of

52:18

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