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What's up everybody, welcome back to the neighborhood.
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This week we're talking about our favorite announcements and moments from the past month or so of digital events and showcases.
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Welcome to the podcast, with two longtime friends, and sometimes a guest, talk about their favorite games from the perspective of an average player.
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My name is Andrew Kimball and I'm Dylan Ren and we are your friendly neighborhood gamers.
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E3 might be dead, but that didn't stop June from being packed full of gaming events, full of updates and announcements on games.
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Rather than trying to keep up with all of the events individually, we're going to talk about some of our favorite games from all of the announcements here.
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So, dylan, we waited until the end and then.
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And then Nintendo did a direct today.
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But, yeah, pretty much they they did do that.
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Aren't you relieved to know that Just Dance 2024 is coming to switch?
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Yeah, Batman.
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Orchim games.
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Yes, i'm so glad games from the 360 era have finally made it to.
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Uh, if, if, somehow you haven't played them before, i'm sure this will be a mediocre way to play them on your switch.
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Yeah, it'll be like if you have no other option, sure, they're good games, but yeah.
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if you can play them anywhere else, please do Yeah, but yeah, that's not really how I expected this episode to start, with the Arkham trilogy on switch.
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But what we're doing is we're going to go through I think we decided we'll go through kind of showcase by showcase, just to try to keep this organized a little bit.
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Uh, we'll do them in the order that they happened, just again for organization purposes.
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But it's not going to be a lot of additional segments or fluff or anything else around this conversation, because I have a feeling that we're going to have to like stop ourselves and keep things moving in order for this to already not grow into a big episode.
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So, yeah, that's what you're getting on this one.
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You're going to get our, our opinions and our thoughts on some of the stuff that happened over the month of June.
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It's an exciting time to be a gamer, but it's also kind of overwhelming, like the saturation of news and announcements and games.
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Like.
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I found myself less engaged like hardcore this year.
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I watched the Xbox live and then I watched the Xbox showcase live, but most of these events I just went back and like looked at recaps or I got the news from my podcasts or I watched, like some of the trailers that interested me and I thought that that was a little bit more manageable and a little bit more healthy.
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And then things that I heard in conversation or from other people, when that would come up and be like oh, that sounds cool, i'll go check that out.
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It wasn't.
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I didn't like drown myself in it like I did in the LPF days.
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Yeah, yeah, i definitely.
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I didn't even watch the Xbox one live, mostly because I forgot what time it was on.
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I watched it like an hour later.
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But the I think it's kind of like a two fold thing.
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Like I definitely feel like there are way more games now than there used to be in in E3's past.
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But then also, yeah, like there's so many different shit, like we're going to cover PlayStation summer games fast, xbox, ubisoft, capcom and Nintendo, because those are the big ones that we remembered.
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But I'm sure there's like indie showcase or I don't think Devolver's gone yet, because I'll watch them, because they're insane.
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But like, yeah, there I'm sure there are a bunch of things that are that like we're missing.
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There are a ton of trailers that weren't at these, ton of games that weren't at these that are at something else.
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So if we don't cover your favorite game or a game that you're super excited about, jumping our discord and let us know, because we probably have just missed it And there's a lot of cool stuff out there.
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Yeah, and, that being said, where it's possible for us to have missed games this list in this doc is still ridiculously long like I think is a pretty good, like E3 season, summer game fest season.
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I think we got a lot, of, a lot of cool stuff to talk about.
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Yeah, and the back half of the years looking pretty stacked.
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Yeah, like if September, if everything holds its date, september is going to be crazy, because every like three days there's something huge coming out like Armored Core, lies of P, others that I'm forgetting is a is Assassin's Creed in in Starfield is in September.
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So, yeah, just a ton of stuff.
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Well, what do you say?
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we start with PlayStation.
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Who kicked this off like pretty early.
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It was a good couple weeks before.
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Yeah, game fest.
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Yeah, there's was like a showcase Yeah.
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And overall I was pretty meh on it.
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You could really see their push to kind of live service multiplayer stuff in this showcase.
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For me, really, the only big thing that got me excited was seeing Spider-Man 2 gameplay.
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That was.
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I mean.
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I was already all in on that game, but it looks.
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It looks amazing.
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It looks really good.
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It looks like it's iterating on on the last couple games that insomniac's done the.
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They showed off the symbiote suit.
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They gave the the Spider-Man wingsuits to like kind of fly through the city.
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You get to tag team as the Spider-Man, yeah.
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And it seems pretty obvious to me that at some point Miles is going to have to like realign Peter when he's gone too far wearing the symbiote suit, and I think that's going to be.
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It's going to be really cool to kind of see that unfold.
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Yeah.
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Do you think he's going to be walking down the streets of New York hip thrusting and that'll be like when, when we have to make the course correction, or will it go further?
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I could I actually could see them like making some sort of a joke to that in the same way that, like they did in Spider-Verse, which I'm pretty sure you still haven't seen.
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so No I have not.
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So I could definitely see people, because that has become such a such a meme and, like the superhero, spider-man community, i could see there being some nod to that.
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but Yeah it's, it's one that I look at and I'm like, okay, spider-man two, like Spider-Man two, for me was one of the few things at the PlayStation conference that I was like, oh man, like that's, that's a reason to buy a PlayStation.
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You know, like if you're a big fan of Spider-Man, i was like that's, i think probably maybe the one thing that they showed where I was like that'll sell consoles because Spider-Man is huge.
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It looks like a really fun game.
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I have been playing off and on some of the original Marvel.
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Spider-man or whatever its actual title is the one they did before this And it's a lot of fun.
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Like they, they did a lot of things right with that game and so for them to have taken everything that they learned from that and from Miles Morales and to be making a new game seems like it'll be a lot of fun.
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Was there anything else out of PlayStation's conference that got you super interested?
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So Assassin's Creed was shown off here, right.
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Yeah, I think they showed like a cinematic trailer for Mirage.
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Yeah, so that didn't really do much for me at the time, but then that is a game that, as I've seen more as these showcases have gone on, that's one that I'm very excited for.
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It looks like a, like a good, but it looks like what they've been promising kind of a return to form, kind of a very more stealth focused.
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There's less, you're not getting into brawls with people and and doing the kind of quick dodge type of combat or whatever it's, but it looks much more you're picking your tools from your, your tool wheel.
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You're trying to stay out of combat as much as possible.
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If you get into it, it's probably pretty counter based, like the original games were.
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Looks like they've added a few new, few new tweaks to like assassinations being able to do like chain assassin assassinations.
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That looks really cool.
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Looks like they're keeping some of the elements from the modern games, like you still get to use your bird to scout the area, but now they've they've added where the bird can like be noticed, which is cool, like the people can shoe the bird away or whatever, and then just some kind of like world building, contextual type things.
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That I thought looked really cool when we saw the gameplay showcase that Ubisoft did, like you know, weeks later, yeah, was actually seeing Bazem, like walking through a crowd and trying to blend in and then like verbally telling the people to like stay calm, like act natural, you know, just things like that that make it feel more immersive and more like a, you know, like a real, lived in world.
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It's cool to go back to like a Middle Eastern setting.
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The city looks cool.
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I'm just, i'm just really excited to see how this game does and to see how true they are to their promise.
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Like, obviously, everything you're showing looks really good.
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Right now, hopefully, you know, turns out that the city is actually massive and the game takes 60 hours to beat.
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Like, yeah, i doubt that's going to happen.
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So I'm kind of excited.
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I'm hoping it does well for Ubisoft so that, even if we get these type of games as like a side series, you know, then we at least have that option alongside the like bigger RPG style games.
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Yeah, because the I know the first Assassin's Creed was like three, maybe four like different cities that you could go to, similar to like Assassin's Creed 2, i think, where it had like a couple of different like cities, but not like massive cities necessarily and not like a huge sprawling, like open world situation.
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And so that's what this one is.
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It have they said whether it's a single city or multiple cities.
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I've heard in like podcasts and stuff it referenced, that it's going to all kind of take place in this one city.
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I think it's Baghdad.
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OK, but I haven't actually like I don't remember.
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I don't know if I've seen that directly from Ubisoft.
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I've just heard people mention that it's going to take place kind of within this one city, but yeah.
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Yeah, and are they?
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this is set Well, the, i guess the characters set prior to Valhalla.
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But have they talked much about how like it ties into the like overarching Assassin's Creed real world story, or is it?
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is it kind of like Black Flag?
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I don't know if like I don't know how it's going to like is somebody in an animus controlling Bazom, that kind of thing.
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Yeah, They haven't said much about that.
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I do know how he ends up, connecting to the larger plot at the end of Valhalla, obviously, But as far as he is concerned, this is like his origin story.
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So he's going to be like a young assassin, kind of learning the ropes in this game.
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So I am kind of curious about that to see, based on playing Valhalla and seeing where he ends up.
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Like I guess maybe spoilers, but like he could be controlling himself in the animus.
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Yeah, So it gets kind of weird and sci-fi at the end of Valhalla.
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So yeah.
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A game I'm curious to hear your thoughts on is Marathon, as a longtime Bungie fan and Destiny superfan currently.
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Yeah.
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What do you think about this one?
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I don't know yet, so I didn't play the older Marathon games.
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Really, i think there was one that was maybe released on like the 360, like a remake of, maybe the original game, but it was like it was very much of sort of the like original Doom, wolfenstein, like Quake era of things, like not quite that old but not like Half-Life new, like it was in.
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It was pre-Half-Life, i want to say.
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And Half-Life, Yeah to like compete with the dooms and stuff on PCs.
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I think so.
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I'm not like super up on all the like Marathon, like development lore, right, a British man has not explained that part to me, but on YouTube.
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But yeah it's.
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I know that, like it's, bungie and their games all have this kind of like weird sort of overarching lore.
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That sort of Easter egg ties them all together.
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From what I know about the like Marathon series, it seems cool.
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It seems like there's a you know there's a lot of themes similar to Halo, where it's like an AI has gone, sort of rogue and you know, now there's this big war and there are aliens and blah, blah, blah.
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So it seems cool.
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My understanding of what this is is an extraction shooter, though Like a multiplayer only extraction shooter, which to me doesn't do a whole lot, just because that sounds like the kind of game that would be much more fun to play with other people And realistically will I probably not.
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Like now, what if it's a unique take on that genre?
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you know it's coming from the people that kind of pioneered live service games.
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You're a big fan of Hunt Showdown, which is kind of like a twist on the extraction shooter, so I could see there being a universe where you do end up getting into this, but yeah yeah, i mean it's.
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It's one that's definitely on my radar.
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It's definitely one that, as more comes, because essentially this was a teaser, like it wasn't even a trailer trailer.
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It was just kind of like teasing, like, hey, this exists, this exists, yeah, exactly.
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So as more comes out about it, as I see more of it, i definitely could get into it.
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It's one that I could definitely see myself playing, especially if it's either free to play or like given away for free or is on sale, like jumping in and just messing around Because you know like you can play some extraction shooters solo and have a fun time.
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So, like I'm not saying I don't see myself getting into it, but it's also one that I'm sort of I haven't really played a bunch of extraction shooters.
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I think the dark zone and division two was maybe the closest we've ever gotten to an extraction shooter.
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I haven't really tried the one that's in Call of Duty or like any of the other, like Tarkov or Russ or you know, or whatever those ones are, so like it's definitely interesting because it's Bungie.
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But I'm kind of like I'm not like super hyped about it and the name Marathon doesn't hold any nostalgia for me.
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So I'm just kind of like will it be good?
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Probably It's Bungie.
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Will it be something I get into?
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We'll see.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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So I think the other game that was kind of talked about here and then got a bit more of a deep dive later that I would want to touch on is Dragon's Dogma 2, which we've talked about before.
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I think Dragon's Dogma is a game that I'm like.
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It's a game that I've almost bought like basically every time it's on sale.
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But then I think, realistically, am I going to sit here and play this long old RPG when such and such game is right around the corner or whatever, and so I never quite commit to it And but it seems like it would be right up my alley.
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And so seeing the gameplay and stuff for the sequel, it really kind of just looks like Dragon's Dogma, but like prettier, more modern, and I'm like that for someone that wants to get into this series, that seems perfect to me, like it's kind of an iteration and like a modern interpretation of the of the first game, at least stylistically and kind of they're still doing the pawn system.
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The world looks very similar, it all just looks better.
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I'm like this looks cool.
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I will play this one pretty close to release, because I've always been kind of right on the edge of playing the first one, just haven't fully committed to it.
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Yeah, yeah, it's.
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I have owned the first one a couple of different times.
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I think I have it on like the 360.
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Like I think I have the 360 version and the like Xbox one re-release or something I might have it on Switch.
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I doubt it, though.
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It's one that I've gotten into and then fallen off of multiple times just because it is an older game.
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Like there's a bit of of jank, much like most of like.
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What excites me about it is that Capcom has been doing a fantastic job of like just making their their sort of niche games just so much better, or even just coming in and like updating their old games.
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So like Monster Hunter, for example, used to be a very niche game and they release Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise and like those are huge now.
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The old, like Resident Evil's, felt bad to play if you hadn't like played them before and had nostalgia for them.
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Some of the just mechanics and stuff felt clunky because games have come a long way, and so to me that's always kind of what Dragon's Dogma has felt like, where it's like there are so many awesome ideas here.
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It's a big, sprawling RPG world.
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You've got like little AI followers that you can like recruit and like make your own and send them off into other people.
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It's kind of got like the summon system from Dark Souls, but like the summons are people, little AI people you've created that are like leveling up by helping other people.
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It's cool.
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Yeah like you're hunting these big monsters and stuff.
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You can like sort of shadow of Colossus them and like jump on them and like climb around and attack them.
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There's like you can like.
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The combat system always seemed very cool, like it was a very complicated seeming game, like the original one, and it didn't explain things super well.
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But again, that's like kind of old Capcom to me is like some of their stuff was just like that and they've done a fantastic job of updating it.
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And so I'm excited about this game because I kind of expect that from it of like they're going to come in and they're going to like still have what made the original a very special game, but have it sort of updated for modern sensibilities, have it streamlined, have it explain things a little bit better for someone who doesn't want to sit down and like figure out all of the little intricacies.
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Plus, it had a lot of loading screens because it was a 360 game And so like now that they could make it like a big open zone, i think that'll be a lot better.
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Yeah, that's definitely what I'm keeping my eye on for sure.
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I think that's pretty much it from the showcase.
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For me Was this when Lies of P was was talked about and the demo was released.
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I've already kind of talked about that game on on content, but yeah, I don't remember.
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If so, that was one that I was excited for.
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I played the demo, really enjoyed it, and I'm still excited for but outside of that, was there anything else at the PlayStation showcase that you were into?
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I'll shout out Lies of P if it was there, if it wasn't.
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Ignore that, yeah, phantom Blade Zero looked pretty cool to me.
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I've heard people talk about this, but I haven't watched the trailer yet.
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Yeah it looks.
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It's like a kind of steampunky hack and slash RPG that it reminded me, kind of like a Sekiro or what's the other one, neo.
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Neo yeah.
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Yeah, where it seems like it's got like sort of the fast paced, like hack and slash against some bosses and around the world, and so it looked really cool.
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I don't think it's one that's set to come to like Xbox, so I kind of just ignored everything after that, but the trailer looks really cool And so it seems interesting.
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It's not something that I would say is like oh, i got to go rush out and buy a PlayStation for it.
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You know like it's there.
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There's probably other games that do similar enough things to be cool, but it kind of seemed what was that Woe long fallen dynasty?
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It kind of seemed like if that was more like a like Sekiro or something versus how it was which will only make sense to people that played it.
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But right.
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It was a kind of rogue or a kind of souls like, but also not at the same time, Whereas Phantom Blade Zero looks way more like a souls like to me.
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Gotcha Also shout out Final Fantasy 16, sadly, which I will likely never play until I get a PlayStation.
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They haven't said it's not coming to Xbox, but also it's kind of like the Final Fantasy 7 remake where it was only a one year like exclusivity deal with PlayStation but it still hasn't shown up on Xbox yet.
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Yeah, and when, like it was originally announced, they said it was coming to PC as well, but then they've even kind of like walked that back to where.
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Now that's going to be like six months later or something.
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So yeah, but at the time you're hearing this, i hopefully will be hours and hours into that game because it comes out this weekend.
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I am super stoked and I have a PS5.
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So yeah, it looks.
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It looks very good.
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I've been interested in Final Fantasy's before, but this one is one that I'm like.
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I this feels like a Game of Thrones, like Godzilla mashup, and I'm all for that.
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Yeah, they.
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They have gone on record saying that they want to try to bring new people into the franchise with this one.
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So that's why they're they're changing things up so significantly And I they released a demo for this game as well And I played through that and it ends on a cliffhanger, and it was it's.
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It's the opening hours of the game.
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So it's a lot of menus and cutscenes and tutorials.
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But even with that being said, by the time it was over, i was like I wish I didn't play that, because I just want to keep going, which the progress does carry over, which is nice.
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So it is like I won't have to replay all those like menus and cutscenes and tutorials, so I'll be able to just pick up right where I right, where that ended.
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Yeah, nice, the last one I'll shout out Well, not shout out Alan Wake to.
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I'm very excited for Alan Wake to not a have not finished the first Alan Wake game.
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I do intend to finish that before Alan Wake to comes out.
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But you love control, but I like control is amazing.
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That's one of my favorite games and remedy has learned a lot since the like the original Alan Wake was on, like the 360 or something like that.
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Like early 360 to.
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I feel like could be wrong on that, but it had enough time for a sequel to come out on the 360.
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So like it couldn't have been that late in the cycle.
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I very much like the world and the story that they've set up.
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The gameplay is a little wonky, but Alan Wake to like just the trailers and what I've heard about the gameplay is very exciting.
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It seems like it's it's a mystery style game where you're actually like going in and like you're playing as an FBI agent that's looking into what is going on in this town And they know that like an FBI agent that was killed, he was looking at Alan along the way.
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They find like these pages, kind of like you would find in the first game, where it's like you would find pages that were basically written about like those events that were happening, as they were happening, and they were written by Alan Wake, and so like the FBI agents are like, oh, this guy's like a serial killer, he's like taunting us or whatever, and you're also, i think, playing as Alan in it trying to escape the dark realm or something like that.
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So it seems really cool.
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It seems seems very like ex files, sort of vibes, and so I'm really excited about it, plus, like just getting to see Remedy take everything that they learned from control and put it into this game, i think will make it so much better because the combat like I think the combat was like the main thing people didn't vibe with in the first game And the combat was one of the best parts in control, so like it felt really good in control to me.
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So I think that could be really cool.
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And they're not releasing this episodically, which will be nice as far as I know.
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So yeah, because I know that was another.
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That was the first game came out during like the peak of like the telltale, like put out a one hour chunk of the game at a time over like eight months or something like that.
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So, but I'm excited.
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It's a game that we saw multiple times throughout other conferences too, but I think they first showed it during PlayStation.
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Yeah, i haven't watched anything on this game because I probably won't play it.
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I mean, it's possible, but I never played the first one And from what I've heard, this one is more spookier, so looks like it's gonna be a little bit more survival horror inspired, so cool.
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So do we want to move on to Summer Game Fest?
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Yes, let's move on.
