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Today's stories include Elden Ring getting mixed

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Steam reviews, stop comparing about the Skyrim,

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and PS3 backwards compatibility could be on

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the way. We'll have all this and

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more because this is Kind of Funny

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Games Daily. Yo,

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what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily

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from Monday, June 24th, 2024. I'm

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one of your host blessing at AOE Junior joining

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me is the lock Roger Pekorney. What

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is up? You know what I mean? I'm a late

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addition to the show. It's supposed to be Tim. He

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calls me up. He says, you know what? I'm not

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feeling up to it. I need somebody that actually. I

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need somebody that's actually going to bring the show

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to new heights. And he called me up and

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he, yeah, no, no, no, the energy you're bringing

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today. I'm excited. I'm geeked off the fucking of

0:48

the McDonald's coffee. You know what I mean? Just

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so, oh my God, it was just,

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what does geeked off mean? I'm getting it doesn't

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sound good. I'm getting so geeked off. It's a

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one dollar, one dollar. Pretty good deal. The coffee.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One dollar. I think

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it's normally like a dollar 30. So I'm only

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saving 30 cents, but that adds up, put in

1:05

the retirement and then I'm going to be rich

1:07

savor it because five years from now,

1:09

it's going to be $4 because that's what happened in the double. Yeah.

1:12

The entire dollar menu. I

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still like to this day, I'm still very upset

1:16

by, I mean, I know this is inflation in

1:18

general in capital, in the effects of capitalism, but

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like, you know, going from back

1:23

in the day, being able to go to McDonald's

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and go, let me get a Mcdouble and two

1:27

fry and not worry about two fries. And I

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even worry about it. Wait, wait, two fry. Wait,

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no, sorry. Two Mcdouble in a small fry. I

1:33

fucked that up. Two fries. I

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got one Mcdouble. That's insane. That's an insane order.

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But no, I go to, I go on my

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give me two me doubles, a small fry. And

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not even order was two apple pies and a

1:44

small fry, which is also insane, but

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I get it. Two apple pies. One for one for

1:49

now, one for later. Not man. Yeah. But

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for now, once I said it, like I went to the drive

1:54

through, I just said that because I was thinking about the song

1:56

and I didn't even mean to order it. And I just

1:58

had it and I was like, huh, I'm not happy. Now

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I'm gonna eat it. I'm gonna eat all. I'm good. Was

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it good? No, I mean, it's two apple pies and a

2:04

small fry. You can't even be mad about that, but like.

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See, cause that's something I'll do at Jollibee. Jollibee has like

2:09

the peach mango pies and they're so good. Are they? Oh

2:11

my God. Yeah. I don't fuck

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with Jollibee like that. Dude, you need to change

2:16

your order. What's your order? Well,

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here's the thing. It used to be the chicken

2:20

sandwich, which I think the chicken sandwich at Jollibee-

2:22

Super made comparatively to other chicken sandwiches. But it

2:24

hits sometimes. I think it's just inconsistent. Where some

2:26

days it'll be like the best chicken sandwich in

2:28

the world. Which

2:30

won't hit compared to other places. But now I'll get

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like tenders, you know, I'll get like, just get the

2:34

chicken. Just go basic. Once in my order tenders from

2:37

there. And then they gave me a whole bucket of

2:39

chicken. And then they were there. I was like,

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no, I don't want this chicken. Give me the

2:43

tenders. And then they like took my card again. They charged me

2:45

again for the tenders. I'm like, no, that's not what I want.

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I want separate. I had to give back a whole bucket of chicken.

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Did you get that resolved or were you just like. It was a

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whole thing. It was a long time. No, I did get a resolved.

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I didn't get a resolved, but they were not happy. You're better than

2:56

me. You just went on with a

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whole bucket of chicken. I would have either went on with the

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entire bucket of chicken or they would have charged me again. And

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I would have been OK with it. I'll pay the extra $10

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for whatever this is. Did

3:08

you play anything this weekend? Did you play video games? I

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played, I think it's called Cooking Hill Sushi, the

3:13

sushi game with the robot. Have you seen this?

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Sorry. What the fuck are you

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talking about? What

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fucking game? Did you

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just invent? I see

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you played a video game. You're just making shit up

3:26

in front of me. It's a sushi game. It's on

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Game Pass. So it's a real game. It's

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on Game Pass. I think it's called Sushi Hills

3:33

or Sushi Rolling Hills. If we can find game

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play this, so I'm not a crazy man right

3:37

now, but you play as a

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robot and it's basically Diner Dash, but with

3:41

a robot that serves sushi, it's not good.

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It's a bad video game. It's like very

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much a bad video game. It

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is so fucking bare bones and I wanted to love

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it. I love cooking games. I love anything to do

3:53

with food in video games, but it

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is like the whole thing is that you're not making any

3:57

of the food. You're just going to this like conveyor. And

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then you just press a button and then it just randomly

4:02

generates the sushi So then you're just kind of going through

4:04

like okay I want to someone wants like a sweet roll

4:06

or whatever you give them the sweet roll and then you

4:08

have to go back and then Re like kind of refresh

4:10

and then hope that you get the right role from the

4:12

next person. It's like it's totally fine It's like a mobile

4:15

game pretty much like if this is a mobile game I'd

4:17

be totally fine with it, but like playing on an Xbox

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and like yeah, this is not so this is say you

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were scrolling through Game pass all this yeah, I was like

4:23

a new yeah I was like a new release on game

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pass and I was like it's like a gigabyte or something

4:27

like that Let me try it out. I like again. I

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like diner dash I like anything to do with like making

4:32

food and video games But

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yeah, this is this was not it She's

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there any deeper commentary on robots taking our

4:38

jobs in the food industry No,

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not at all. They welcome it. They welcome it

4:43

and they love it. Okay, they welcome it but

4:45

yeah, no, it's it's it's not great It's not

4:47

great. It's it's very simple. I mean for kids.

4:50

It's fun. What or a creator burger. I miss

4:52

them That was a whole saga. I miss them

4:54

so much for people listening who don't know create

4:56

a burger They're like a spot that had robots

4:58

are making burgers and say people who

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don't know which is 99% of people that are listening Yeah,

5:03

but people who didn't listen to the next time.

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Yes. This was a Continuing saga of

5:07

the creator burger. You're right. You're right I did

5:09

see I did see another version of this where it

5:11

was like the dream not the dream But like like

5:14

the fully realization of what career burger was where it's

5:16

like They're fully like the burger comes out and like

5:18

it flips it and everything and like put them you

5:20

can see it Yeah, you see it all doing

5:22

it all like like creator burger. I again. I don't

5:24

think was real I think it was a dude underneath

5:27

their flip it goes with thousand percent real Because

5:30

how do you think they got the burger so cheap because

5:32

they would show it? Like you would want to design that

5:34

in a way where you see the burger being made by

5:36

the robot cuz that is part of It I remember seeing

5:38

an entire Group of

5:40

Swedish tourists there like out the

5:42

door. I create a burger Yeah, wait because they were

5:44

like this is the robot burger place and they were

5:46

sorely disappointed. They were not happy about it Maybe I

5:48

don't know how that's the case. Yeah, cuz like it's

5:50

seven dollars and the burger was so good Yeah, but

5:52

you you're there you wanted the experience you want to

5:54

see the burger making the the robot making

5:56

the burger I Get it. Yeah,

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so I told you about the Yeah,

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my Twitter timelines weekend was filled with people

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discussing elven rings difficulty and a lot of

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you'll be like, ah shit This is hard.

10:06

Have you really? Yeah Yeah so I've seen

10:09

this and I always thought it was I

10:11

thought it was a funny conversation because I did

10:13

see the the memes of like The people shitting

10:15

on the on the games journalists and then being

10:17

like games journalists suck at video games and now

10:19

it's like Oh games journalists are too sweaty at

10:21

video games. That's the reason that they gave the

10:24

other to try hard now Yeah, they're really punishing

10:26

games, which I think is super funny. Wait Yeah,

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so like I have questions for you guys, right?

10:30

Cuz of course you played it Barrett, of course

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you played it What do you guys think about

10:34

this is this game? It do you think it

10:36

was significantly harder than the base game? Were

10:38

you when you were playing it? Did you like really? Oh

10:40

shit. I got a lock-in. I see I've been astonished

10:43

a bit by the reaction to the

10:46

difficulty because I've I Mentioned

10:48

this in the review that I do think the DLC

10:51

is a lot harder than the main

10:53

game, but it's not like Impossible.

10:55

Yeah, right like it is I think it basically

10:57

start to back off from like square one where

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I think part of it is I've What

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a couple months ago? I restarted Elden ring from the beginning

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and I played maybe about 15 hours or so And

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so like I'm I think I

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was already geared from the early Elden ring experience

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of jumping into the game from square one again

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Whereas I think a lot of people are jumping

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into DLC with their endgame characters and maybe haven't

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played for a couple years And so they're expecting

11:20

to go in and just dominate but the way

11:22

that the leveling system works in the DLC You

11:24

feel like you're having that early game experience again

11:26

Where even for just regular out in the wild

11:28

enemies it is taking four or five hits to

11:30

take them down as opposed to the just One

11:32

that you have in your endgame of

11:35

Elden ring taking these guys out. Yeah,

11:37

I would agree with that I feel like the the

11:39

mindset I feel like is off for a lot of

11:41

these people I I forget who

11:43

it was with someone was complaining about the

11:45

scottoo tree like Leveling system where

11:47

they're complaining of like I just want to

11:50

go to the dungeons I don't want to

11:52

have to like stop making me explore and

11:54

grind to like level up in the game

11:56

It's like did you play the base game

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because a lot of that game is like

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if you find a dungeon too hard, go

12:02

in any other direction, explore, level up and

12:04

all that stuff. And it's

12:06

a different leveling system, but it's

12:09

still the same kind of basic thing. And so I

12:11

feel like a mindset for a lot of people is

12:14

that they just wanted easy

12:16

bosses to fight, like back to back to

12:18

back, which is really weird. Yeah,

12:20

is it that or is it that

12:22

they did not expect to kind of

12:24

go back to square one? Is

12:27

that kind of what's happening here? Because that's from

12:29

what I'm gathering, that's kind of what it sounds

12:31

like. I feel like, yeah, maybe that's it a

12:33

little bit. There's a lot of people who are

12:35

like refusing to level up using the Skadu tree

12:37

like fragments. Cause they feel like, oh no,

12:39

I'm at level 150 to 200. Like

12:41

I should be able to do this. It's like, no,

12:44

that's not how that works though for

12:46

this DLC. And I forget who it

12:48

was. I

12:51

don't know any of these big YouTube creators like

12:53

off the top of my head, like

12:55

their names, but someone was talking about like Elden

12:57

Ring is as difficult as you make it. Like

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you can do a lot to make it

13:02

less difficult. The

13:05

reason that it took me nine hours to beat the final

13:07

boss of the DLC was because it was like, I knew

13:09

I could level up, but I knew I was so close

13:11

to just beating him at the level that I was at.

13:14

And so it was difficult cause I was making

13:16

it that difficult. And that's kind

13:18

of where I come through where in the review I

13:20

talked about, like I hadn't beaten the final boss yet.

13:22

I still haven't beaten the final boss. And one of

13:24

the reasons why I hadn't beaten the final boss, at

13:26

least during the review is that I am stubborn, right?

13:28

Like I was at Scatter Tree or like Shadow Realm

13:31

blessing or whatever it was called level 12, when

13:33

like Barret was saying like, you probably should be at maybe

13:35

15 and other people were like, yeah, probably 15

13:37

might be the way to go. But I was like, yo, I can

13:39

do this. I can do, that's the thing is I was like, to

13:42

Barret's point, it is as hard as you make it, right?

13:44

And so I'm like, no, I'm going to go at it

13:47

at this difficulty. And then finally I've caved and I've gone

13:49

and I've explored a bit more and I've gotten a few

13:51

levels. Have you beaten the final boss yet? No, not yet.

13:53

The last thing is like, I think maybe the final boss

13:55

is the one thing that I'll give people where I'm like,

13:58

oh, this is way too difficult. Wait, here's the thing. For

16:00

me at least, I think the only RNG

16:02

that I think is kind of bullshit is

16:04

the final boss. Of

16:07

the attacks they can do in

16:09

sequence, it's like

16:11

insane. It's like how is any

16:13

human being supposed to beat this

16:15

without some kind of assistance? Yeah,

16:18

I'm just kind of like, not

16:21

baffled is the word, but I'm just kind

16:23

of confused by this, right? Because I feel

16:25

like the souls community is very masochistic in

16:27

the way that they love the

16:29

difficulty of these games. So to see that this

16:31

is a complaint that's happening, I'm just interested to

16:33

see where this came from. Is

16:36

that the souls community though, or the

16:38

new community that was brought in with

16:40

Elden Ring? Sure, that makes sense. Elden

16:42

Ring was the first game that I

16:44

actually beat of from software, right? So

16:47

maybe expectations were off. But I do

16:49

think that that leads into a interesting

16:51

conversation for even from software to have,

16:53

which is, hey, the people that

16:55

have joined the souls community through Elden Ring, they are

16:57

part of the souls community now. We got

16:59

to still cater to all the people that

17:01

are here. I do think that it is probably a lot of

17:04

veteran souls players that might even be complaining still with

17:06

this stuff. Because I think it is,

17:10

right now at the final boss, this is the toughest shit

17:12

I've ever fought. I

17:14

think there is a lot of validity to the

17:16

struggle. And I think there's a lot of validity to

17:19

a critique of, hey, maybe this is too hard. Maybe

17:21

we need to figure out a better way to balance

17:23

this because I think the Skydewtree

17:26

fragments, which for context for people who might not play

17:28

Elden Ring, there are just these collectibles that are out

17:30

in the world that you find naturally as you're playing.

17:32

And those are how you use to level up your

17:34

stats. They're almost like moons and Odyssey, right? Kind of,

17:36

yeah, where you just find them randomly. I

17:39

wonder if the move could have been to, instead

17:41

of tying leveling to that, maybe you tie leveling

17:43

to the bosses that are in the world because

17:46

they talked about how there's like 10 big bosses

17:48

that you're fighting or whatever. Maybe it is, and

17:50

this would have to take some narrative for niggling,

17:52

and maybe this is why you don't do it,

17:54

of, hey, with every big boss that you fight

17:56

that is connected to the main big boss, it'll

17:58

weaken them, kind of like. who

34:00

alleged on the latest episode of the Xbox

34:02

era podcast that Sony is reportedly planning to

34:04

make PS3 games natively playable on PS5. The

34:07

reputable leaker sources apparently told him that

34:10

Sony is working on select PlayStation 3

34:12

backwards and patability for the PS5. The

34:15

word select in this context seemingly

34:17

indicates that Sony will individually handpick

34:19

some PS3 titles to make playable

34:21

on the PS5, similar to

34:24

what Microsoft did with the backwards and

34:26

compatible games on Xbox One and Xbox

34:28

Series X slash S. When

34:30

this was mentioned, a chat member from the

34:32

livestream podcast brought up the idea of PS3

34:35

games potentially having their frame rates and resolutions

34:37

boosted on the PS5. However,

34:39

when asked, Special Nick said that

34:41

he wasn't exactly sure about the

34:43

specifics. About time blessing.

34:46

About time. About time. About

34:48

time. About time. I mean like,

34:51

is it gonna happen though? Yes, it's an insider,

34:53

which I like a lot of insiders to write about a

34:55

lot of things. Special Nick, I think has been proven right

34:57

quite a few times. Correct me if I'm wrong, if he's

34:59

actually wrong all the time. But like, I don't

35:02

know, man, I've been waiting for this forever.

35:04

I think it's gonna happen. It's not going

35:06

to be everything that you want everybody. Everyone's

35:08

saying Metal Girl Solid 4. That is not

35:10

happening. They're gonna have the

35:12

collection too. That is gonna be part of their own

35:15

thing that they're gonna sell for 60 bucks. Like there

35:17

is no way that PlayStation is going to do all

35:19

this work and they're like, okay, it's part of PS

35:21

Plus now. No, it is. This is going to be

35:23

something that Select Games, of course, I think first party

35:25

games, which is gonna be great for a lot of

35:27

PS3. I wanted to get into that conversation because one,

35:30

I think Select Games for me also implies that these

35:32

games are going to get some special treatment as far

35:34

as like boosting PS5. I don't

35:37

know about that. You think it's gonna be straight up emulation like in

35:39

the course? I mean, I don't know about

35:41

boosting frame rates. I think you're gonna get higher

35:43

resolutions. I don't know about boosting frame rates. I

35:45

guess boosting I use as a general term for

35:47

like improvements on the PS5. Like

35:49

they're gonna play somewhat better. Maybe better resolution, maybe

35:52

better FPS. Chat, I would love if you guys

35:54

can let me know if any of the old

35:56

school like the PS3 and not PS2 and like

35:58

Vita games. that are on PlayStation 4. Do they

36:00

have like boosts or anything? I know they probably

36:03

have resolution boost. They have like frame rates boosts.

36:05

Like if that's something that that place is actually

36:07

doing that like you that PS2 games. Didn't

36:10

they just run at 60 anyway? Or was that when

36:12

games started going back to 30? That's

36:14

fair. That's fair. It's a good call. No, there's

36:16

a Canadian in chat. Oh, they all run worse.

36:18

People are saying. Oh,

36:20

interesting. Yeah. So I don't think

36:22

that this is the angle that PlayStation is playing.

36:25

That is very much an Xbox thing. They have

36:27

a whole team dedicated to going back and trying

36:29

to make this technology. I don't think that I

36:31

think the bare minimum. I think it's the bare

36:33

minimum PS4 though. Like for the PS4 games on

36:35

PS5. That was part of the marketing. Yeah. Now

36:37

granted it is PlayStation. Yeah. Anything

36:40

before PS4 for PlayStation. They're like, ah, fuck

36:42

it. They don't care. Yeah, they're all

36:45

by. They won't pay money for it. So we'll do the

36:47

bare minimum. But I would hope I would hope that like,

36:49

I don't know. We get some kind of improvements. Otherwise it's

36:51

like then why just do select? Why not just like make

36:54

do like a lot of the library then? Yeah. Well,

36:56

I mean, I think it's going to be select in

36:58

terms of like the PlayStation plus collection, right? Like it's

37:01

going to be droves and like batches

37:03

or whatever where one month you're going to get, you

37:05

know, on charge one, two, not three. The next month

37:07

you're going to get three. Like you're going to get

37:09

weird, weird things like that. I think that's the reason

37:11

select is it's not going to be, hey, you could

37:13

put a PS3 disk in and it's going to work.

37:15

It's not going to be that. So my question then

37:17

becomes what are the select games? If

37:19

your PlayStation, not even if you're a PlayStation, if

37:21

we're putting ourselves into the minds of PlayStation, what

37:24

are the games? Let's say we're going to start

37:26

off. We're going to report 10 games, the PS5,

37:28

10 PS3 games. Infamous

37:31

is one of them. It's got to be. It's

37:33

got to be. And yes. Yeah. I mean, one and two. You

37:36

start with one, you go to two later. Like I'm

37:38

saying like I hate this. What's going to

37:40

happen? Like this is what's going to happen. Like it's going to be like, oh,

37:43

eventually we get to two. Infamous for

37:45

me is like a huge blind spot in my gaming history. And I

37:47

would love to play that game. I think that's a cool. It's fun.

37:50

I think I played a little bit of it at my friend Quinn Murray's house.

37:52

Shout out to Quinn Murray. I don't know what

37:54

you're doing. Quinn Murray. Quinn Murray. Quinn Murray. Yeah. I don't

37:56

know what he's doing. But yeah, I want to play that

37:58

game. And I just have not had. But

40:00

I just don't see a revenge as being part of it. It

40:03

does metal. Oh, no. No, this is the HD collection

40:06

Yeah, but I don't know I I I don't

40:08

know It's always a tricky thing right because you

40:10

see all these like the holdouts even from the

40:12

Xbox backwards compatibility with

40:14

Lollipop chainsaw being one of the ones that

40:16

like never came over and they remade they

40:18

remastered the game they didn't remake it I

40:20

was gonna say like now that lollipop chainsaw

40:22

is about to come out lollipop chainsaw is

40:24

called repop or something Yes, I'm like that

40:27

Like do you think they look at this like when they announced this

40:29

you think they're like, ah fuck No,

40:32

they're very happy to sell five copies. Did you watch

40:34

the trailer? No, it's not it doesn't look like that

40:36

much work It

40:39

looks it looks very similar to the original ps

40:41

ps3 and Xbox 360 games So I wonder I

40:43

think it's just a way to double dip for

40:45

I've typed in best PlayStation 3 games Roger Okay.

40:47

All right as I go through red dead redemption

40:50

already ported. It's not gonna be that we

40:53

talked about uncharted already Yeah, but also

40:55

uncharted has the yes for collection. Yep

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Batman Arkham that's already

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also has a collection PS PS

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for Arkham asylum and City maybe

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Roger maybe Arkham origins

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I know they forgot about it But

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I'll be cool WB hates that game for some reason

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actually I could see it I

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could see that as like a random Tuesday Drop it's like

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I can you know actually it's part of the thing now.

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Our margins. That'd be sick ex-com enemy unknown I'm

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just keeping those yeah, you're in the wrong list. Yeah,

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you're seeing a bunch of yeah, four lists I don't

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people love ex-com ex but also I'm what I would

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be shocked if ex-com enemy unknown didn't have a ps4

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version play I'm sure it does. Yeah Yeah,

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I'm here see now that we've gone through all the

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games that have been remastered. I'm like, yeah

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I guess I can see why PlayStation hasn't

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done like a full or like hasn't put

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a lot of effort into like Maintaining ps3

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games on PS 5 because there

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was an era Especially early ps4 where

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everything was getting remastered everything was being put on

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ps4 because that wasn't backwards and patty Tokyo jungle

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somebody says bless eco. I mentioned eco before with

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the collection. Yeah, right like the shadow Colossus collection

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would have eco