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00:00.00 expat2020 Hello everyone and welcome into the Arena a multi-platform gimme news
podcast this is episode 63 I'm your host expat along with my co-host Burley of Burleyman
gaming and turn base carl how you guys doing man Burley welcome back. Awesome.
00:10.22 Burly Hello Hello doing good doing good. Glad to be back.
00:19.58 expat2020 Awesome and Carl How are you doing man got your Arizona today. Awesome
Awesome! awesome. 00:20.14 Carl Right? I do I Do right he
re.
It's very very yeah, delicious A'm little scruffier than I want to be just I wanted
I wanted to shave but you know I don't I don't I find the time hard to come by lately.
00:35.46 expat2020 Okay, okay, and Burly did you take your spiritual opium before the episode
started. Yeah, he all right man all right? all right? All right.
00:41.75 Burly Oh you know it? What do you think I have it mixed with the water. Oh yeah.
00:47.99 Carl Very very versatile. 00:54.28 expat2020 So we got a lot to tal
k
about tonight. Of course we're going to be talking about the ah gt a trilogy definitive
edition burley's going to give his stake on that we're going to be talking about activision
and the Bobby codex situation will be ah. We'll be updating you a little bit on that
of course ah xbox had its twentieth. Ah anniversary celebration. We'll be talking about that of
along with the halo multiplayer that kind of dropped on us. You know. For some people.
It was a surprise for some. It's like they already
knew it was going to drop. Ah, we're
gonna be talking about that more game delays we'll we'll be talking about those later ah
and of course our new game releases for the week of november twenty second through the
20 eighth. 01:26.89 Carl For having.
01:44.62 expat2020 So before we get into what we've been playing this last week here's a
brief word about where you can find the podcast. Okay guys. Ah, let me start. Ah this last
week ah you're going to be surprised. Ah, it's a game that popped on
game pass. The
thing. I think it's last month now it popped on game pass and I I had never thought I would
play this game I knew I wouldn't buy it but when it came to game pass I was like oh what
the hell I'll give it a try I started playing avengers. Um, and I played the ah the Kamala
khan. 02:15.85 Carl Ah, cool.
02:21.36 expat2020 Ah, ah, ah, part of the game where she's reassembling the avengers
and it's really fun so far I'm I'm I'm I'm having a great time with it. Ah I just finished
that p
art I think it's like the first or second chapter where she goes into the helix and
ah. 02:28.13 Burly Donka.
02:39.93 expat2020 And hulk is like in there and chasing her around and smashing everything
you know, ah that was pretty cool I you know I'm having fun with it and I really like Kamala
khan's character. Um, you know? Yeah yeah, exactly ah that there there's your.
02:43.24 Burly No no. 02:50.63 Carl You like her powers too right?
Cool powers. Ah. 02:58.43 Carl 8 now. How.
02:58.64 expat20
20 Shot at disney plus carl. yeah so yeah I like her powers a lot and I
just like the human story of it where you know in the story everybody that was affected
by what happened on avengers day. Ah, in the game you know a lot of people started getting
these powers now I have to ask you this carl and Burley is in this story of the avengers
game I started getting like you know people are being affected and getting these you know
superpowers like Kamala con did. Could they be considered like the fir
st x-men in a sense
you know like mutants. Okay, okay, right. 03:37.68 Carl Well, they're in humans which
is a variation they have they have ties all the way back to like even I think eternals
in a way like they're they're sort of weird variation of like humanity. There's so they
have this gene right? The reason that. 03:48.44 expat2020 Okay. But.
03:56.63 Carl Happens and this happened in the comics too. There was this heritagegen
mised. This is how Kamala khan gets her powers in the comics. Al
though I'm not sure how they're
going to do it in the ah in the show because it's not same. But if you have the inhuman
gene you don't have your powers don't activate until you undergo terragenessis which.
04:01.30 expat2020 Okay, okay. At. 04:12.20 expat2020 I see.
04:16.10 Carl Traditionally in Inhuman Society is a process that happens at like adulthood
right? when you reach adulthood they make you go through it and when you come out of
terrorogenessis. You get your powers and they could be so
mething creepy and weird or they
could be something awesome and amazing and you never know. But.
04:19.54 expat2020 No no. 04:28.64 expat2020 Yeah, Ok, ok.
04:31.79 Carl Then yeah, there was an event where a mist happened and and and anyone in
the world who may have somehow had that gene just popped powers.
04:39.53 expat2020 So yeah I I started playing that so I'm really enjoying it so far and
of course I I started playing the the halo infinite multiplayer and we'll talk about
that a little bit
later when we get into the xbox discussion later on so ah Burley. What
have you been playing this past week something japanese related. Maybe.
04:57.72 Burly I i. Yeah yet now now. Yeah I've been ah I've played 2 japanese games
judgment I'm on chapter four of judgment I am enjoying it and I am doing japanese voice
acting. Ah really I'm really looking forward to the third game.
05:04.10 Carl Nah he ducked out of that. 05:09.20 expat2020 Okay, okay, good good.
Yes. 05:21.84 Burly Where it's all a
bout Kaito
the real hero of the series. Ah hit Yeah, do.
05:22.64 Carl Yeah. 05:24.64 expat2020 Ah, yeah I have to admit
keito. Awesome! yeah he's awesome but yeah kimaraaku yeah he's he's an amazing actor
and he you know he's you know it's his original voice for Yagami. So yeah.
05:36.37 Burly Yeah, yeah, I'm really enjoying the story. That's and the game playing there
I have some little gripes of just okay, we go from big serious thing.
05:43.90 expat2020 Oh cool. 05:51.22 Burly Okay, let's ju
st do something
and waste time doing something silly really stupid over silly just to calm things down
and then Ranch stuff now come on like once a while that's okay, but when you really do
it enough times like I'm sorry a little spoiler when you have to.
05:53.29 expat2020 Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 05:56.80 Carl Yeah.
06:08.44 Burly Spend twenty minutes on a twenty minutes to a half hour on a case of who ate
this girl's cake and you find out what happened after this this whole just scene abou
t murders
and stuff. It's like come on. 06:12.61 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, right?
Yeah, that was my pet peeve too I was like yeah come on I want to get back to the main
story and that happens in lost judgment a couple of times as well in the in the in the
second game but 06:25.44 Burly Vision.
06:31.88 expat2020 It's still. It's an amazing story though. Yeah, good stuff.
06:33.00 Burly Yeah, I'm most like I'm most likely get a pick up. Yeah, you have to do
it like literally 1 of the things is
you're trying to get like information to find this
1 guy you gotta go talk to a homeless guy. 06:33.67 Carl And so those aren't even side
quests. Those are just like you got to do it? no.
06:39.41 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.
06:49.95 Burly And he's like oh before I'll give you the information go play all this
Vr game for me So you you can then get a little prize give it to me and then I'll give you
info. It's like oh my God it's like like go I could understand it. The mission was I'
m
hungry. Go get me some food. 06:52.24 expat2020 Right? right? right? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, right? right. 07:08.75 Burly And I'll give you information
or give me some money fine but go play a vr a come on sega like come on but it's making
me because lost judgment is on sale quite a bit right now because of black Friday deals
I'm thinking I'll probably end up picking that up soon.
07:14.22 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 07:23.76 expat2020 Cool, cool and what's the
other game Burley you said
there was another japanese game. You've been playing.
07:28.76 Burly Another yeah I was streaming Yesterday. Ah pokemon shiny pearl the gen
four remix gen four back in the day did not go well with me when I finished my original
copy of Diamond I traded it in and was off the series for a few years
07:34.90 expat2020 Oh okay, cool. 07:45.45 expat2020 Okay.
07:47.44 Burly But this ah this remake has done things to improve it like for anyone
that knows the whole Tms and the ad whole Hm stuff. It's
nice that I don't actually
have to teach my my mons the Hms like Rock Smash.. It's nice if you don't teach to any
of your pokemon. Ah, random pokemon they say comes out of nowhere and uses it for you.
So It's just nice, not having to do that So I can build better move sets. Yeah.
08:06.72 Carl Ah, that's that's useful. Yeah. 08:09.71 expat2020 Cool all right and carl
what about you? What have you been playing this past week
08:15.60 Carl Um, so so yeah I mean I didn't really play anything new ju
st more for to
Horizon five which is going Well you know and you know there's really not much more
to say about that game I mean it's you know, collecting more cars do more races you know,
enjoying that. 08:21.15 expat2020 Okay, well grab right.
08:32.49 Carl Barn finds all all the like you know I spent a little bit more time like
painting my cars and and modifying them just trying to all the different options and learning
how the the like rating systems on your cars. Go and like you know, putti
ng different parts
on to to max it out to a certain like there's ranks as abc.
08:37.98 expat2020 Okay, okay. 08:50.95 Carl No, there's just your c whatever
there's a b s 1 s point s 2 and there's a max number on each and if you want to stay
in a certain rank that keeps you racing against cars of that rank so you might not want to
put it into the next. But anyway, and yeah so I actually want to talk about arcane.
09:03.41 expat2020 I say. Yes, on Netflix. Yes, yeah, yeah.
09:09.99 Carl On Netfli
x which is related sort of because it is ah based on a video
game. It is based on legal legends and it is actually produced by riot games. There's
another studio that's doing most of the work on on the the production. Yes, ah they produced
it. 09:22.66 Burly Oh they actually are producing
I didn't hear that part. 09:29.81 Carl And ah it is. It's fantastic
I mean it is I would say probably 1 of the best if not the best like video game adaptations
probably ever and it does 1 of those things where
like you you hoped this could be achieved
which is like look at your games like ah. 09:31.52 expat2020 Yeah.
09:39.82 expat2020 Now. 09:48.95 Carl You know moral comment streetfighter
right? where it's like you have this cast of characters and and they're great and you
had to figure out. Okay, how do I take this awesome cast of characters and and build a
cool story around them and legal agents is similar. It's not It's not a fighting game
but it's like it's a moba right? There's no. Like there's
a regular storyline that you
have to really care about there's tons of lore which so so all these characters you
know history comes from that lore. But there's not a major plotline that you're following
in the game so like they like all right. We're going to pick whichever characters that we
want and they. But them together and made this really great story that gives them incredible.
You know, character development and relationships with a few of them and and just builds the
world in such an aw
esome way like you just want to see more of this world too like you're
in 1 part of this world but you know that there's more out there and.
10:40.79 expat2020 Yeah, oh yes, beautiful. Yeah yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
10:43.81 Carl Man I mean it's and the animation style in in Visuals Incredible I like I've
never seen anything like this is I want to see more of this and I every time when I'm
watching I'm like they're doing motion capture right? like they must be for the for the facial
animations I ass
ume. 10:57.73 expat2020 Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah
yeah. 11:02.61 Carl Because it looks that good.
Yeah, they must be doing something like that and you know other animations fight stuff
I'm not sure if they're doing mocap like for fight choreography probably not but it's all
incredible I mean it's It's definitely worth watching for sure and checking out. They just
dropped the last. 11:03.21 Burly I'd imagine.
11:20.98 expat2020 Yeah. 11:20.99 Carl 3 episodes of the season. So
I don't I don't know ho
w they they did the original episodes. Ah but there were 3 that
they still didn't put out that came out on the twentieth now. So I got to catch up. Ah
so me I'm like halfway through the series and I can't wait to finish it out.
11:33.92 expat2020 Have any of you watched black lotus yet. Okay, that's the 1 that's
based on a blade runner. So yeah, it's supposed to be supposed to be out now. So i.
11:37.54 Carl Yeah I don't even ever heard that.
11:38.20 Burly So on. 11:46.12 Carl Okay, okay now.
1
1:52.74 expat2020 Really want to watch that I haven't seen it yet. But yeah anyway now.
Yeah yeah. 11:56.20 Carl Yeah, there's there's a lot
of I mean like there's castle right on Netflix Also another adaptation. But this I think
is better like I enjoy California but this is better. Yeah of Castle's like I don't know
I kind of like that show I kind of fell off on it like.
12:00.42 Burly Oh yeah, oh wow. 12:03.64 expat2020 No, no yeah yeah.
12:13.81 Carl The first season I was into it and I forgo
t how far I got into the second
but just kind of like you know it's it's good, but it's not. It's not like engrossing you
in the characters and world as much as as this is.
12:26.22 expat2020 Yeah, all right? So thank you carl for that and now it's time to get
into our ah weekly newsbeat. So ah, burly you're gonna you're gonna be talking about
this 1 because you you know some people that have actually had experiences with this so
rock star. 12:39.30 Burly It.
12:45.55 expat2020 Of course they ah
released the gta definitive. You know the trilogy definitive
edition and it was just a buggy hell of a mess and ah some later news that has come
from it is that. Rockstar is apologizing for the ah the trilogy and is offering free games
to owners. Ah so yeah, they're trying to own up to what's going on so Burley why don't
you take it away man and ah tell us what's going on and the experiences that your friends
that have been playing it. 13:11.81 Burly Yeah, yeah.
13:19.10 expat2020 Have had. 13:
19.48 Burly Okay, yeah, so the the whole
free game thing because what had happened is just before this came out rockstar had
delisted on their own store. the the pc versions of 3 vice city in San andreas so you could
all. The only way you could play them was the definitive edition and then after the
definit this remake definitive edition came out and botched. They botched the hell out
of it. They're like okay here you go. We'll if you bought the definitive edition we will
give you those games ba
ck. And they reput the original versions on the stores because
they know people are like this is a dumpster fire. Give us the originals at least. But
yeah I know I know it's surprising rock star is a small company. They don't have very much
money so it's understand now now like. 13:59.58 expat2020 Yeah.
14:09.15 expat2020 Ah, what. 14:11.10 Carl It's a small little independent
developer. 14:11.65 Burly Seriously seriously seriously
that I I got to say if you guys pay attention I Knew you guys wo
uld react great with that.
But like. 14:16.52 expat2020 And carl I'm even drinking
right now and I could react to that you remember that from last week right ah
14:22.33 Carl I Know it's impressive, but that was ah that was a a double take there.
He's like I got a I can't I can't let that slide.
14:25.80 Burly Ah, oh I remember that. 14:33.90 expat2020 Okay, yeah.
14:33.30 Burly Ah, no, but like I've known quite a few people playing it on different
different platforms pc console like ah my my fr
iend re beckett who's playing on his
p s five and just saying it. Yeah I agree. 14:45.60 expat2020 Yeah, shout out to wreck
it. Yeah great guy. Yep. 14:51.67 Burly Ah, 1 hundred percent. 1 of
my moms they he had just nothing but issues in santareas certain missions would just not
ah it was soon as he start to go in it would crash so you've got your cyber punk or r e
8 syndrome for me it. It's like this is just a ah bad showing of.
14:59.81 expat2020 Now. Yeah. 15:11.65 Burly These companies do n
ot care.
They will throw anything out to make a quick buck and rockstar is like oh we apologize
we'll we'll do updates. It's like yeah you kind of have to you cannot sell this at a
premium price and then just say you will do updates but this is the state of gaming where
we're in. We're. 15:14.35 expat2020 Yeah.
15:19.68 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 15:31.62 Burly Most games are not ready at
release and we're gonna have to just they want us to wait four months or however, allowing
it takes to get
the game that we're promised see my little thing here is watch and let
other people be the fricking Beta testers. 15:39.98 expat2020 Yeah.
15:48.40 Burly Watch it or enough of people streaming youtube and good reviewers. Not
the reviewers that are like this is an 8 out of its head I just had some small bugs you
find out they had nothing but crashes but because they want the developer money and
want free copies. 15:58.49 expat2020 Yeah, this is this is so
unlike rock star too because Rockst star
you know is seen ah by a lot of people as being
the pinnacle of game Development. You know when it comes to the gta series especially
and with red dead redemption. You know so for this to happen. It's yeah you know it's
a big misstep by them. You know and it's just it's getting to the point guys where you know
a few years back yeah, there would be some bug issues and all you know and then they
would own up to it. But now it's getting to the point where games just don't even work.
It's like they'
re coming out with the game trying to get your money and then you know
with social media the way it is now. 16:35.41 Burly In.
16:41.29 Burly Oh yeah. 16:52.50 expat2020 You get people pissed off
really quickly and they you know they have to own up a lot quicker than they used to
you know? and ah yeah, it's just ah for for this, you know to be happening with rock star.
It's ah yeah, it's out of the ordinary for sure. Yeah.
16:55.96 Burly Yeah, yeah. 17:07.35 Carl Goes to show you could happen
to
anyone right? I mean any studio could could fall from Grace very quickly. You know, but
and it's like this project was I guess more bit off more than they can chew I don't see
that I mean you you. 17:09.57 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:13.74 Burly Now. 17:21.90 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
17:26.11 Carl 3 very large games right? I mean obviously gta games are big and to try
to throw them all out together and I don't know how much time you put into it and how
much developers had to work on this but cl
early not enough.
17:37.88 expat2020 Yeah now. 17:40.86 Carl It is a case where it's like
you could argue that like why did you have to release all 3 at the same time if you go
to you know you clearly couldn't make that work and these are remasters right? It's just
shouldn't you shouldn't be this. They shouldn't have these issues. You know that's it's not
a remake. You know it's not a new game. 17:51.54 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
17:54.64 Burly So. 18:00.76 Carl It's not it shouldn't be that
hard I g
et like obviously you're you're porting it from something that is completely different
right is a very old era of game but on Pc should it be that different. You're just going
from Pc to Pc You shouldn't have those issues. 18:17.17 Burly And you you'd still have zombie
you still would have some just because architecture even from back then has changed um but but
I agree with you, you shouldn't have these many issues this just seems like they put
10 guys and said you have 2 months. 18:17.49 expat
2020 Yeah, you wouldn't think
so yeah. 18:23.56 Carl Sure right.
18:35.67 Burly Do you can we we We need we need something out for the holidays just in
case grand theft auto casino only makes us 50 million this year instead of 75000000
18:44.37 Carl Yeah. 18:44.69 expat2020 Ah, yeah, they're putting
like 5000 ah employees on gta 6 and on red dead 3 or whatever the online stuff that they
have to work on into and then like 10 people. Yeah go okay, you work on the ah.
18:57.73 Burly Oh you think Gt
a X is being worked on. That's cute.
19:02.43 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 19:03.60 Carl Yeah, well I yeah I get you
get a wonderful kind of Q a they were doing on this because some of the bugs. He not be
yet, not even bugs some of the things like the rain right? You saw the the rain and the
game I'm like how do you? How does someone just like let that go the game look unplayable
like that I ah can it. 19:13.50 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. 19:13.28 Burly Oh yeah.
19:23.52 Carl Um, watc
hing the video may guys This is hard to look at I can't imagine trying
to actually play it in that situation. Let's yeah, and.
19:24.33 Burly Yeah, and like that the whole thing I knew people that were like well you
know they're doing the right thing because they're giving on game pass or ps now you
get 1 of the games so you can try. It's like they did that just so they could just.
19:26.50 expat2020 Oh yeah, yeah. 19:43.98 Burly Be like here 1 games there.
Ah, it's not the 1 I want all by the c
ollection because I knew people that were like that
they were like oh I wanted to play santareas but on ps now all I got was I think it was
vice city is like that's the 1 I don't want to really play I'll just go buy the collection.
20:00.50 Carl Ah, yeah, you serious if people think that that was some sort of charity like
Microsoft microsoft higher. Yeah right? I mean you know you know Microsoft and son you're
paying for that right. 20:04.80 Burly Oh I I I I heard some people
they mind you the p
eople I heard this from are not the sharpest tools in the shed. Let's
just say oh yeah, yeah. 20:04.24 expat2020 Here.
20:14.80 expat2020 The share. Well. 20:19.35 Carl Um, just like yeah um, unless
this was there's like they're like oh it's going to be good marketing. We'll just we'll
just put it on those services. Not they didn't do that come on now.
20:27.71 expat2020 Yeah, yeah. 20:29.40 Burly I think the q a it's just come
out the q a was Bobby kotech. 20:33.90 Carl Oh yeah, that makes sens
e.
20:34.88 expat2020 Yeah, well yeah, that's that's ah, that's a good 1 burley because
we're gonna we're gonna talk about that now. So activision blizzard. Okay, so so a second
walkout was staged this last week of course 20:37.40 Burly Ah.
20:54.65 expat2020 ah and ah I'm going to read some of this for you this from eddie
moooch over a game spot. The a bk workers alliance group which represented represents
workers at activision blizzard and its Subsidiary king announced the walkout that that th
ey
did on social media quote. We will not be silenced until bob bobby koak has been replaced
as ceo end quote. The group said adding that it continues to demand a third party review
of the company by a source chosen by its workers and then it goes on. Ah in Response. And activision
blizzard spokesperson provided the following statement to gamespot we are fully committed
to fostering a safe inclusive and rewarding environment for all of our employees around
the world I mean you could just see tha
t pinocchio knows growing as they're saying this right.
Ah, we support their right to express their opinions and concerns in a safe and respectful
manner without fear of retaliation end quote. So this is a second major activision blizzard
walkout and it follows the 1 in July when the workers group protested the company's
quote abhorrent. And insulting and quote response to the lawsuits the document claims of sexual
harassment of women pay violations and a quote frat boy in quote culture. So the
wall street
journal report. That's the big 1 though. That's the 1 that's ah kicking bobby codex ass right
now. Basically. Based on months of reporting interviews and source documents claimed that
coded acknowledge of numerous sexual assault and harassment claims at activision blizzards
various studios. It also said he did not notify the board of directors of an out of court
settlement to an employee who accused a supervisor of rape. The report also sheds light on the
departure of blizzards co-le
ader je o'neill and contains accusations of harassment by
a tray arc developer who left the company after the wall street journal began investigating.
So yeah, he's been covering up a lot of stuff and I think ah as. Of the time now that we
are recording this episode at least 1 thousand 3 hundred and possibly more now petitions
have been signed to ah oust to get rid of Bobby kodik and there was supposed to be a
board directors meeting as well. Think it was yesterday burley I think it was somethin
g
like that. But yeah, so ah, but as of the time of this recording. He's still there but
man oh man does he have to go and of course ah our buddy over at Microsoft ah uncle phil.
23:18.82 Burly Um, yeah. 23:37.37 expat2020 He was actually speaking
out on this as well as well as Jim ryan at at sony talking about the the problems and
that they really don't like what's going on over there. So ah, this is from windows central
samuel tolbert over windows central xbox had phil spencer.
23:41.10 Carl L
ong gone. Yeah. 23:57.19 expat2020 Reportedly reevaluating
the relationship with activision blizzard so head of xbox phil spencer said an email
to employees in which he stated that he and the rest of xbox leadership are quote disturbed
and deeply troubled by their horrific events and action end quote. As reported by ah bloomberg
of course previously spencer reportedly goes on to note that xbox is quote evaluating all
aspects of our relationship with acts of activision blizzard and making ongoing
proactive adjustments
end quote. So yeah I mean. This is just me. Okay, if I were Microsoft I would go after
activision now I really would because if you really want to get rid of this guy and get
rid of the scum that's working there. You buy them out and then you kick him out. Yeah.
24:48.27 Burly But you you let this you let you you let this continue and go on that stock
price will go. You can buy activision on pennies on dollar. Why pay the top price that you
pay now you wait a good 3 months
and more and more stories that thing that stock is
gonna be worth like a enron is today. 24:49.43 Carl Ah.
24:53.53 expat2020 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 25:06.00 expat2020 Yeah, but could you imagine
though, could you imagine I mean you know there's all this talk of you know, ah possible
acquisition in the near future for Microsoft. Maybe it's gonna be activision who knows yeah.
25:08.25 Burly Which is nothing. 25:12.90 Burly And.
25:17.63 Carl The huge by here. 25:17.96 Burly It like I don't know if th
ey'd
want to touch it because there's too much negativity going around it. It's that like
I get it would be smart, but it's also not smart at the same time but like this morning
when I woke up my first thing to check was. 25:22.84 Carl Yeah, yeah.
25:29.44 expat2020 Yeah, yeah. You still there? Yeah yeah, yeah I was looking for that too
I was looking to see if you'd be gone by now. But now. Yeah so.
25:35.22 Burly Is Bobby kotick still have a job.
25:35.72 Carl Narrative. Yeah. Yeah I mean Blizz
ard you know is a beloved company and
somebody I think people want that to be saved. So I think from that angle people might be
like oh yeah, Microsoft can at least save that company if that were to happen obviously.
25:48.84 expat2020 Now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 25:56.60 Burly So yeah.
25:57.40 Carl And then you know Mikey barra right? He's gonna he's going to get promoted
again to ceo after codex gone and and then ah Microsoft I'll buy him and he'll hit be
back at microsoft. 26:01.69 expat2020 Yeah
, maybe yeah there
you go man. Yeah yep, the the dominoes are fallen man. Yeah.
26:06.79 Burly Yes. 26:10.48 Carl Yeah, Mike you barr he he's
like I will I'd be hilarious if he if Cota goes fired and then E Barr got promoted again
like very fortuitous of event to to join this company and that's that's in a lot of trouble
and keep getting promoted. But. 26:18.83 expat2020 Ah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
26:28.17 Carl Hear the story about remember they appointed for Blizzard. It was like co
precedents
or whatever Mikey barra and that that woman I don't remember her name and she
left right? and now he's you know doing it himself and and the stories came out that
like she you know she was like Basically. Ah, figurehead and she and they weren't giving
her equal power and they weren't giving her equal pay I was like I can't believe you seriously
like you. You don't think this stuff goes on today but like in ah in a video game company
and we hear this news publicly. These 2 people are going to ta
ke over after.
26:51.26 expat2020 Yeah, yeah. 27:07.10 Carl You know all this crap going
on a blizzard and then you find out that nah they're not really being good people. They're
not doing what's right at all still in this company I mean and you then you hear of this
stuff now with Kotech and you're like yeah of course obviously they're not doing the
right thing. He's 1 of these. He's 1 of these guys who you know. Especially in America there's
a lot of these people in Power. You know who have m
oney who just think like I can just
get away with anything and I'm going to try and get away with anything and and even now
more so than ever there are these the type who's like I'm going to get caught and I'm
just Goingnna try to you know roll with it and.
27:32.50 expat2020 Now. Yeah. 27:42.80 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
27:46.14 Carl See see how far they'll push me see how see if I can just get get through
this and 1 day they'll forget about it and unfortunately that happens too often.
27:54.64 exp
at2020 Right? right? And then you have him probably thinking about well
if I do have to leave I'm going to get a nice severance package you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:02.77 Carl Oh my God he's gonna get so much money.
28:06.30 Burly And he already has it from like his 200 million bonus last year I'll
say he he bobby kotech financially a fine night I I kind of I kind of hope he gets sued
personally. 28:10.50 Carl Right.
28:18.40 Carl Yeah, like dude move on like. 28:23.36 expat2020 Yeah.
28:25.40
Burly And just a bunch of this money just starts going to the people that got affected
by. Um, oh yeah. 28:29.38 expat2020 That and paying for attorneys
fees and all but let me ask you guys this I mean let's say of course that's that's pretty
drastic but you know Microsoft you know buying activision blizzard let's say that of course
that's not. Going to happen probably I would love it too. But say you do you think you
know sony Microsoft do you think they would stop selling activision Blizzard
games as
the most drastic measure. Ah, you know besides actually trying to buy them out to get rid
of codec like for example, sony not putting call of duty you know on the playstation store
and xbox doing you know the same What do you guys? think.
29:26.15 Burly You would told me a few years ago they wouldn't do this I'd say that they
would we think of doing this I'd say you're fucking nuts but that they've gone out and
said this I'm I'm wanting them to kind of you set this this makes you look g
ood saying
this now you got to put up put up or shut up.
29:32.93 expat2020 Yeah, yeah. 29:43.85 expat2020 No.
29:46.50 Burly Here because the problem is like still if you go they kind of they. They've
backpedaled a bitd on the playstation store but used to be if you go on the web store
for playstation store call of duty was 1 of those games. That's all these front and setter
even with vanguard like I would love for them to.
29:59.32 expat2020 Yeah. 30:05.97 Burly To really take a stance like
so
ny did stop selling cyber pump remember so that's still so that still surprised me
a bit stop with stop selling their stuff see see if me 1
30:07.89 expat2020 Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was of course cyberpunk was a completely
different issue with you know, like technical issues and all that you know and but but but
now it's at a point where hey yeah. 30:22.35 Carl Now.
30:23.95 Burly Yeah. 30:27.69 expat2020 You know it's like what's
going on. There is inappropriate and it's unacceptable
and we can't endorse your products
until there's changes. You know so. 30:35.76 Carl Yeah I don't think that would
ever happen I Think that's a bit extreme and not that it wouldn't send a great message
and it would really be effective but I just don't see that there's too much money involved
and there's probably too many contracts involved for you to really do something like that now
I do think that. 30:40.89 expat2020 No no. Yeah, yeah.
30:49.28 Burly Um, yes. 30:55.48 Carl Sony is in a stronge
r position
to do something because they have such strong marketing ties with with call of duty like
yeah they they could and maybe they should at this point announce like we're not going
to renew any new marketing with call duty just to just like get ahead of it because.
30:59.14 expat2020 Right? with activision now.
31:15.70 Carl You know that there's going to be another call of duty next year and what
is sony's just going to you know, have the marketing deal with them again after this
is you k
now all blows over I mean I'm I'm sure they're already working on the deal right
now right? I mean you would think right? imagine these deals aren't done. You know.
31:18.21 expat2020 Yep. 31:23.20 expat2020 No.
31:32.75 Carl Relatively close to the release T right? like.
31:33.50 expat2020 Yeah, another thing that they could do is possibly withdraw their sponsorships
from like ah the overwatch league for Blizzard you know or something like that. So yeah,
yeah. 31:41.86 Carl Yeah, ah yeah, there
's plenty
of things to be done. 31:45.41 Burly Well what? what was that get
what was that league a sony bod that 1 e sports league thing they bought evo that's it. Yeah
I blanket on name they could always just say no their stuff ain't there.
31:53.90 Carl Evo. 31:54.20 expat2020 Yeah Evo like.
31:59.67 Carl Do they have any fighting games. 32:00.19 expat2020 No.
32:02.54 Burly Oh yeah, that's right that evos pure fighting. Okay, the the Opiums Cloud
in the mind I know. Ah. 32:05.36 expat2020 Ah,
yeah.
32:07.79 Carl Yeah, they have a they got a moba right? There's a blizzard moba did that
is that still around does it still exist Heroes of the storm right? I think that's the name
of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 32:12.52 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
32:18.33 expat2020 I Don't know. Yeah. 32:20.24 Burly Yeah, yeah.
32:22.99 expat2020 Okay, enough of Bobby kodi that's enough for him. Let's see. Yeah let's
talk about something really positive here which happened this last week the xbox twentieth
ann
iversary celebration and I really enjoyed watching that because it was a blast from
the past for me. Because I remember watching the rock on stage with bill gates showing
bill gates up there when the xbox was being ah you know shown for the first time that
was really cool. So ah. Yeah, a lot of we had some announcements at the anniversary
we didn't have any new game announcements obviously because that you know they they
had announced before the celebration that there weren't going to be any new
game announcements
but we did get some pretty interesting announcements and I'm going to read some of that now this
from windows central. Over ah alexander cope. Ah over there at windows central. So ah, the
biggest announcement ah was that halo infinite's multiplayer mode was going to be available
to download on that particular day. Ah, so now if you want to play the halo infinite
multiplayer mode which I might I must Add. It's in Beta is in Beta but still Ah yeah,
it's ah free right now on xbo
x series x series s and pc via steam. So yeah.
33:37.88 Burly Yeah. 33:38.13 Carl To Beta? yeah.
33:49.64 expat2020 Ah, that was ah a pretty big announcement actually and a lot of people
had been speculating earlier that oh it's going to drop you know. But yeah I guess yeah
we were wrong. Yeah yeah. 33:56.29 Carl Yeah, we talked about that last
week and we we were wrong. You know we we didn't think it was gonna happen and.
34:01.25 Burly And for your achievement hunters. You can start getting yo
ur achievements already
because I've gotten a little couple achievements in the Multiplayer beta.
34:07.16 Carl Yeah, yeah, it looks like it's working out really well for them. Um, yeah,
the audience was there. They were hungry and waiting you know So I I guess it didn't didn't
matter at all when you like and you released it. It is Beta now. So it's not.
34:08.60 expat2020 Yeah, yeah. Now now. 34:21.76 Carl They say they're getting away
with that I don't know like everything is in there right? T
here's nothing that's not
in there at this point. Although although they are then they already have adjusted the
battle pass. What do you call it leveling experience and.
34:25.58 expat2020 Now. Yeah. 34:26.27 Burly Yeah.
34:36.84 Burly Yeah, yeah. 34:38.85 expat2020 No yeah progression X p
Yeah right. 34:39.90 Carl Progression that's the word.
Yeah, that's that's been ah, adjusted's like if you want to say that's what the Beta is
about at this point is like how is how is everybody receiving sor
t of that and and adjusting
things and then when the final product is that'll be the official like all right? You
know we're not gonna but that's not true because. 34:55.13 expat2020 Well.
34:59.47 Carl It's it's ah it's a service game right? They're always going to keep changing
and so like I don't know Really why you're calling it a beta but whatever.
35:01.24 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, well hats off to the ah the the multiplayer team there at
xbox two I mean they're listening to the fans they're l
istening to the players you know
and they're making those changes as quick as they can so okay and the second.
35:12.32 Carl Yeah, yeah. 35:19.96 expat2020 Ah, big announcement they
discussed were that was that seventy six games have been announced for the backwards compatibility
program which is going to be the completion of the compatibility program. Ah so these
games include the max pain series. Fear series from software's o togi series dead are alive
ultimate star wars jedi night 2 and many
more so what did you guys think of that so it pretty
much completes the the library so to speak of. You know, especially like the 3 sixty
titles that they wanted to add to this compatibility program program. So yeah, that was pretty
cool. Would you guys think. 36:03.55 Carl Yeah, it's a it's It's ah it's
a lot of games. It's nice on discipline. Um, obviously I'm gonna be sad that this ending
I want more and they they said the rest are due to like marketing licensing and and other
issues that the
y can't get them. 36:07.14 expat2020 No, or. Now Yeah, right?
right? Legal issues things like that. Yeah yeah, right? right.
36:18.11 Burly Movement. 36:19.39 Carl Yeah I mean it does sound that
they exhausted all options right? At this point they've they've looked into everything
the weird 1 is that like meca Salt is still not a game that they can they can have on
Macros com combatibility which is bizarre and that licensing of of that property the
the. 36:27.76 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:32
.58 Burly Yeah, so. 36:39.15 Carl Me Warrior What is there. There's
another name around that but that that whole thing is like really bizarre that they can't
they seem to own part of it yet Now we can't figure out how to get that game on there come
on whatever. But yeah. 36:43.20 Burly Do.
36:49.28 expat2020 Yeah, and phil spencer came out this last week too and was mentioning
also about when it comes to legal emulation. Ah, he really wants to see that move forward
too. So yeah. 37:06.38 Carl Kn
ow yeah, and there's much
fbs boost titles I don't know if you were going to say that next because those was this
part of the same announcement. How many were there I don't remember more 30 something 20
something to 30 something. 37:10.71 expat2020 Yeah. It doesn't something
like that. Yeah doesn't see for sure. But yeah.
37:21.92 Carl Which notably like for me there weren't any of the new backwards ability games
that I were I was going to really play but I held off in dead space 2 in hopes that
something
would would drop and now that that's sixty fbs I'm I'm excited to jump into that because
the first game I mean I played it. And the original and it was fine 30 fps but like I
was like I really wish it would be nice to get 60 on that and there was another 1 I forgot
that was interested in I'm so disappointed that like middle middle-ear shadow of mortar
and war it weren't weren't in there come on. 37:43.57 expat2020 Now. Ah.
37:55.69 expat2020 Um, yeah, it says here it says in the artic
le ah 37 games ah cameo
are cameo elements of power near. 37:58.53 Carl So sixty frames on that fucking
can now betternounce that next game 30 seven who yeah they can.
38:00.48 Burly No. 38:06.30 Burly Okay, or.
38:12.81 expat2020 Allen wake the entire gears of war series fallout 3 fallout new vegas
fear 1 and 2 and much more will have the higher frame rate. So.
38:17.40 Carl Yeah, those good ones? yeah. 38:24.37 Burly So my Microsoft's been doing
great great on this stuff. This is stuff I reall
y like with Microsoft they are. They're
not just here's our new games. This is what we're south and like this is what you got
the new console. That's all you get you here. You can play as much of it.
38:33.33 expat2020 Ah. 38:42.58 Burly And I get it like some of the
licensing deals because some of these companies are are like well you're Microsoft you can
pay us 7 million for this niche title and Microsoft's like okay, you guys aren't like
halo where we can spend the money willing to spend the
money because we're gonna get
a lot of people for this like. They're they're having those deals and it's just great that
I can go back and play games on the original xbox that I never got to play load them up
on my series s and just play. That's. 39:03.48 expat2020 Now.
39:03.48 Carl Yeah, yeah. 39:10.63 expat2020 Now. Yep.
39:11.58 Carl Yeah, other things it's like licensed music and things like that where
they probably just is too much right too much licensing involved and like they're just no
t
going to be able to get the light like ah you know Jetset radio future right? I mean
there's just there's just so much music in that game.
39:16.55 expat2020 Right? yeah. 39:18.52 Burly Yeah, yeah.
39:25.31 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 39:25.94 Burly And.
39:29.74 Carl Like I don't know I guess I can't yeah as far as I know I don't think
fps boost that type of program isnt is done right? They're just saying that The backwards
compatibility is is over so like I there will is the potential
for more fps boost which.
39:39.10 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then finally a 6 part. No no go ahead
burly that's fine. Yep. 39:47.13 Carl Hopefully we do see.
39:47.46 Burly I wouldn't be surprised. We got more backwards compatibility sorry I was
gonna say I'm I wouldn't be surprised. We get more backwards compatibility it just I
don't think it'll be a giant push anymore like it'll be the odd time like let's say
the guys that own that. That there've been trot in talks with for measol
me warrior and
stuff like that. Go yeah, okay, you know what? let's well, we're willing to make a deal.
No 1 we might as well take the small cut we can and then Microsoft will throw them out
on the store. 40:13.11 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
40:13.55 Carl Yeah, yeah. 40:18.67 expat2020 Cool.
40:18.94 Carl Yeah I think the only exception would be in acquisition like if they were
to buy someone right? that had a game that wasn't backwards compatible. Maybe they would
add that but I I think I think they'
re done I think they really are.
40:24.30 expat2020 Right. 40:31.80 expat2020 And then finally a 6 bar
documentary titled power on the story of xbox will be debuted on december thirteenth of
this year and will and it will premiere on youtube I am db tv redbox roku and more. This
documentary will chronicle the development history of the xbox brand from the initial
conception of the original xbox all the way to up to the modern xbox series x. So yeah,
that should be pretty cool on December thirtee
nth looking forward to watching that so many good
documentaries have come out over the past couple of years. Um, you know, ah, especially
like on Netflix ah, and yeah, this is another 1 that's being added to the the great amount
of documentaries out on video games the past couple of years. So looking forward to that
man? Yeah, okay, yeah. 41:24.28 Carl Yeah I'll definitely check that
out. That's 1 41:28.55 expat2020 Yeah, burly youre going
to check it out too right? Yeah, it's good stuffed. Yep
cool all right guys. Let's go
ahead and move on so a couple of day ah game delays and this 1 I I thought would be predictable
Saints row. 41:28.97 Burly Oh yeah, no I definitely will
watch it I'm very curious. 41:48.19 expat2020 Delayed to august of 2022
so of course they're saying to improve quality. We have to improve quality. Yeah yeah, well
yeah, you're right? You're right before eldon ring you're right before you know you're right
in there in the mix with dying light too and. 42:05.91 Burly
This horizon.
42:06.38 expat2020 All the other games that are coming out in February so horizon yeah
forbidden west yeah, ah come on come on. Ah I mean yeah, of course you know they always
say this don't they it's to improve in quality because the standards are not up to what we
you know? ah want to provide to our. 42:07.98 Carl Price and yet.
42:24.99 expat2020 Are are players and the gamers out there. But I think a part of it
was it because of February iowa and what do you guys? think of this
? yeah ah, let's see
ah the actual day. 42:34.77 Carl Did they give a new date. What
would it say. 42:35.16 Burly Of.
42:44.69 expat2020 August Twenty Third 2022 yeah
42:45.95 Carl Okay I see that's a sizable delay. So yeah I mean obviously maybe they
didn't want to be in that mix. But they clearly have work to do and they announced when they
announced that game and then the release date they gave and they're pretty close. So I think
that. 42:59.31 expat2020 Yeah.
43:00.65 Burly Me. 43:04.34 Car
l And you know I give them the
benefit the doubt on that they want to make the best game they can you know obviously
to laser good look at Halo Infinite right. 43:04.49 expat2020 Alright. Yeah, yeah, but
I mean I mean if it was that long. Sorry berley let me just say this. But if it was that long
that they needed. Why did they pick February in the beginning you know they just should
have said ok, it's going to be in the summer 43:10.30 Burly Ah I think part of it was.
43:21.83 Carl Ah. 43:25.86
expat2020 You know, just give a release
window like okay Summer of Twenty Twenty two or something like that. yeah yeah I guess
ah, yeah, yeah. 43:27.17 Carl Yeah, they got the shareholders
right? gonna please the shareholders like look. We're gonna We're gonna We're gonna
put out a product at this day we're we're working we are okay leave us alone.
43:32.59 Burly Hit that. 43:42.93 Burly And ah I have a feeling part
of it is the whole February thing but the realistic thing I probably think they
look
at how gta came out and be like okay if rockstar can't get away of their game being a dumpster
fire like this if we release ours this bad. 43:45.15 expat2020 Maybe.
44:00.91 Burly We're we're done like so I think they they they've got a lot of work
to because they know they know this series has been dropping off I think they realize
because they want to try and get the series back. You can't if you release this game and
it's not. 44:01.45 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
44:11.40 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
44:19.88 Burly Really good quality. The series
is finished I imagine. 44:24.46 expat2020 Yeah.
44:24.52 Carl I mean I think we're starting to see that the patience isn't there anymore
with the gamers because time and for time now if a game comes out and is hugely buggy
like but just like that's fine I got something else to play. There's so many other games
to play i'll. Maybe I'll still play. It. But I'll I'll you know duck out if you don't fix
it right away. I mean if you're looking at you kno
w K right now vanguard and battlefield
twenty forty two I mean those games are not looking good and I kind of think that halo
infant is just going to crush those games for the rest of the year and beyond.
44:45.85 expat2020 Yeah. 45:00.25 expat2020 Yeah, that's what I did
with cyberpunk I mean I just I put it aside and I still haven't played it since I probably
won't play it until next year you know that's just me. But yeah.
45:09.91 Carl Yeah I mean if you had a next gen console you you kind of
had no excuse
like it ran very well and I didn't have very many issues. Yeah, there was some of the stuff
still in there of course bugs a few bugs here and there but like.
45:16.40 expat2020 Ah. Yeah, but then back to what you were saying is there's so many
games to play. You know it's just I got sidetracked on other games too. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
and just wait now. 45:21.84 Burly In depth.
45:28.40 Burly Do. 45:28.29 Carl That's true, right? Yeah I mean
exactly if you don't feel like it
's giving you the experience you want. It's super easy
for you to duck out and jump into something else.
45:39.55 expat2020 And the other game that's been delayed into 2022. We didn't get another
release date on it is 6 days in fallusion Now we've talked about this game before on
ah a previous episode of the show and there's a lot of controversy behind it. You know because
it ah depicts the the actual events of the ah you know the siege of Fallujah. Ah, during
the Iraq war. So ah, yeah, ah I don
't know what do you guys? think they just they didn't
really give a definitive reasoning for the delay. Ah maybe it's because of ah you know
the pressure that's coming From. You know activist groups or maybe it's a development
issue I don't know what? What do you guys? think it's hard to tell I think really.
46:25.72 Burly I Don't think it's the human rights act division and like activist stuff
I think it's more we put this out even though call of duty and Battlefield are dumpster
fires. Um, but
there's still big franchises and people talk about this and then with Halo
coming out. 46:30.71 expat2020 Oh.
46:37.25 expat2020 Ah, oh. 46:43.63 expat2020 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
right, right? And the trailer that they came out with it doesn't even show any gameplay
in it. 46:45.51 Burly In just a few weeks this game
ain't gonna get played let's let's be let's be honest because I know a lot of people.
They're really into shooters and most of them have not even heard of this game so they're
probably. Yeah. 47:03.21 Carl Yeah I didn't even know about
this delay until I read it in the rundown. So I don't I don't think that this is on most
people's radars. They're probably like you know what? Maybe it's not a good idea for
this to be a christmas gift for anyone just push it into next year
47:03.36 expat2020 And man. Yeah, so. Ah, no, no.
47:07.50 Burly Same. 47:17.22 expat2020 Um, car. It's number 1
in the my list. 47:21.91 Burly Damn it I now I got to get
expat a different Christmas
gift I got to get X a different Christmas gift.
47:28.62 Carl Like we don't want the the story. Yeah yeah.
47:29.30 expat2020 Yeah, state of de call. Yeah, we got to get Carl this for his Christmas
gift because state of decay and all of those and like horrific deaths that's too much.
Yeah. 47:39.55 Carl They don't They don't want to
end up on Cnn where there's some terrible story about somebody some Iraq War Veteran
who's like got or is it iraq or yeah, right? who who guessed this as a gift beca
use somebody
doesn't realize like it could be insensitive. 47:44.14 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,
yeah. 47:54.16 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay
guys, let's jump into the the topic of the show now. So there's been a lot of crap going
on this week you know 47:56.73 Carl Terrible News story.
48:05.26 Carl Now nothing important happened. 48:11.68 expat2020 Lot of talk on social media
about what's been happening with the game awards and with the game of the year selections
you know and how the
game awards should be done me honestly. I'm going to I'm going to
just throw this out there because I threw it up on Twitter and carl you and Burley you
saw this? Um first I was debating whether or not it should be like a you know, ah a
data type of ah collection when it comes to you know considering game of the year but
then again I thought. And some others you know, ah replied to me and say well what about
the smaller games and the games that come out, you know, like in the fall you know peopl
e
don't have the whole year to play those games. So so then I thought well Jeff keeley why
don't you. Make the game awards or show the game awards in the summer like right before
opening night live like make it a double header event and so that you give the gamers the
actual people who play the games. Chance to vote, not the journalists. The journalists
aren't the ones that are going to you know decide the game of the year give the gamers
6 months to vote or at least 3 months to vote on every ga
me that came out in that calendar
year and then come out with the the awards. Ah you know right? before opening night live
and have their game of the year show for the previous year. So then there wouldn't be any
controversy about well this game it. It it couldn't be nominated because you know it
didn't it didn't get into that window or a game like force a horizon five that it it
just barely made the window or whatever but you know these you know these journalists
they didn't really have enough
time to to play and to assess the game so to speak you
know. If you if you bring out the nominations like in March then everybody has a chance
to vote you have like say 3 months to vote and then. They give the awards out in June
and then the next day they do opening night live for e 3 that's just me what do you guys?
think. 50:44.65 Carl Well, there's lot to say here
you know I'd like I hear what you're saying with ah the date moving it I mean there's
merit to that it makes sense right? Why why
did keeley choose this time of year I'm sure
there's good reason right? I'm sure. 50:47.58 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
50:53.16 expat2020 Now. 51:03.91 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yes of course
yeah. 51:04.62 Carl Marketing value right? There's
so I'm sure there's a lot of reasoning timing. You know you don't want to get too close to
Christmas obviously and and in January I don't know I think maybe nobody cares to do anything
in January I don't know whatever the deal is right that there's gotta be a reason
and
it does. It does stink for some games right? there. But yeah I think that that's a pretty
small window right? There's not a lot of games that are falling in late november and to December
I think we're seeing that right now. But that's because there's been a lot of delays and things
getting pushed and ah. 51:29.87 expat2020 Yeah.
51:37.10 expat2020 Yeah, and they're already let me just say this carl they're already
starting to talk about Starfield for next year if it does hit that November wi
ndow.
It's going to be in the same situation. Probably yeah yeah, yep.
51:48.56 Carl It's very close It's a very big game. You here's the thing is and this
is what I was checking to say is that you know if if you care if if Microsoft cares
and they want their games to be nominated then you need to get your release copies out.
Well ahead of that date or you need to move your date. Well ahead of that if. If you don't
care then then that's it is what it is like you know when these dates are they're
not
It's not a secret right? It's like I can't say that there's like there's just someone.
There's some sort of conspiracy or there's some. You know, like people are getting screwed
I mean yeah, they sort of are but like they do know this is going to happen the the publishers
before it happens. It's not It's not a surprise. 52:33.30 expat2020 So burly What are your
thoughts ma'am. 52:35.89 Burly Yeah, like I agree the earlier
voting and kind of doing it around e 3 but I've always thought do thi
s in mid to to late
January and because that way you give anyone that can't get a game out till December they've
at least gotten a few weeks for people to try play.
52:53.16 expat2020 Rap Rap. Oh. 52:55.27 Burly And that early November do
it the whole calendar year but I get it. They want to put it in December because they're
also trying to sell these games because they also want to oh you did buy buy it for christmas
everyone buy here copies of whatever whatever whatever games
53:04.29 expat202
0 Yeah. 53:13.20 expat2020 Now now. Yeah.
53:14.81 Burly Your game pass subscriptions for some of this stuff.
53:19.92 Carl Yeah, um I think the process is always going to be viewed as unfair by
someone no matter what you do, um the the thing is like there is a transparency in how
this process works right? You can go to game awards website and you can look at.
53:39.87 expat2020 Now. 53:39.91 Carl List of the jury you can look
at the faq and they tell you how the process goes now you're not seei
ng the inner side
of it from everyone's from every outlets angle from Media outlets. But I mean you can't create
a perfect system. It's never going to happen. 53:55.13 expat2020 No, of course not yeah.
53:56.99 Burly Yeah. 53:58.27 Carl But you can make changes like
I do think there's a place to change this um the you know I mean game of the year I
did have the the 1 idea where I'm like I think maybe game of the year could be split into
2 separate categories because like your narrative driven ga
mes seem to be the ones that are
always winning right. 54:17.36 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
54:18.30 Carl Be nominated. It's like if you split that into 2 like narrative driven and
maybe like gameplay driven and you know how you decide that and whatever you want to name
these categories I don't know how you would do it right? But then maybe you could potentially
get other things like. 54:26.93 expat2020 Yeah.
54:34.55 Carl Even a strategy and or a sim game. You know if it's good enough. Um, you
know.
54:35.00 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, or a horror
game I mean you know you have all the different genres of a video game that they could just
have a specific this is the game of the year in the horror genre. This is the game of the
year in the narrative genre. You know. 54:39.79 Burly Yeah, yeah.
54:51.19 Carl Yeah, it is weird that they single out certain categories like there's
strategy sim and there's racing sports. But maybe the reason for something like that and
there's also family right is becaus
e they know those games will never get nominated
right? So like they. 54:53.27 expat2020 Something like that. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. 55:07.34 expat2020 Yeah, oh.
55:09.96 Carl They already had the idea like what we have we want to honor these other
games because people aren't looking at it that way like why do you think those categories
exist I mean because look sports games racing games. They can be amazing but you know they
really are the same thing every year and that's not a dig at these games is
because.
55:15.65 expat2020 Yeah. 55:24.53 expat2020 Oh.
55:29.20 Carl You know basketball is basketball right? Like you're not changing. You're not
reinventing the sport the next time you make the next game you know racing is racing right?
I mean forza is doing something amazing and different. But it's not compared to like last
year it's still the same sort of fortza and if you're looking even.
55:34.70 expat2020 Grant. 55:39.61 expat2020 Rap.
55:47.20 Carl Even I think in a worse situation is
your track racers like Grandimo and and
fort tomotosport I mean they're using the same tracks a lot. They may have new ones
but I mean these are real world tracks right? They're not going to change so you're going
to see a lot of the same stuff in these games and they're iterative that.
55:51.40 expat2020 Ah. 55:59.59 expat2020 Right? yeah.
56:05.10 expat2020 Right? yeah. 56:06.20 Carl Games you know you can't you
can't say a lot. That's why a lot of people just won't vote for that for game of
the year
56:12.20 expat2020 Now well let me just go over the game of the year nominations here
I'm not going to go through any of the other nominations for all of you listeners and viewers
if you want to go to the game awards site. They have the whole list of nominations. But
anyway game of the year death loop there you go Burley yeah you play death loop. Yeah,
it takes to metro dread psycho nots to ratchet and crank riff ah clank rift apart and resident
evil village those are the nomination so
I was. The biggest surprise for me with these
game of the year nominations here was resident evil village I was surprised that that made
it in there. Yeah yeah, so yeah. 56:57.38 Carl Yeah, did not expect that either
now. Yeah interesting on that you know actually of note I thought it was cool that rpg of
the year yeah cyberunk twenty seventy seven is is a nominee.
56:57.88 Burly Good enough. 57:10.28 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, and it's not
even a 2021 game yeah yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, 57:13.61 Burly
Of god.
57:16.24 Carl Hey for all those people who yeah well because it missed the cutoff. So
like that's the reason I bring it up right? is that is a game that missed the cutoff and
they can still be nominee and then here they have and and honestly like looking at the
choices. That's the 1 I vote for because. 57:29.17 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
57:33.89 Carl It's her that it is at its core a very good game like a really really good
game like there's a good story. There's a lot of cool stuff to
do in that game. So like
I would I like that 1 57:39.94 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh oh
I was just going to say 1 more thing with that that you know piss me off more than the
resident evil village thing the the content creator of the year expat was not nominated
god damn it. 57:54.35 Carl Ah, no.
57:54.72 Burly I wasn't nominated either. So how do you feel? How do you get that give
me a nomination a list. 57:58.22 expat2020 Yeah, bely a Berlinman
gaming on twitch man. He should have been nomi
nated. Damn it.
58:01.47 Carl I was yo I was surprised when I saw that list I was like I don't know any
of these people I'm like I don't understand. 58:05.64 expat2020 Ah, yeah, yeah, Burly dido
any of those people. Yeah. 58:11.25 Burly Um, I've heard the names I've
I'll be honest I've not watched here's the thing like I don't watch a lot of the high
bake top streamers nothing against them I just I don't fucking have time like I'm supporting
other people I'm doing my own stuff and everything it
like.
58:19.53 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
58:27.48 Carl And 1 of them their picture was was like a a little almost like a stick
figure drawing. What was that think a really crude like just this like yeah I guess you
don't show I guess that person doesn't show their face I'd imagine right? that's.
58:29.40 Burly And have time. 58:34.45 Burly At.
58:35.74 expat2020 Oh. 58:42.61 expat2020 Yeah, okay, carl so ah
for the game of the year topic of the show here. You had your own id
eas for the Arena
podcast here. 58:44.10 Burly So very.
58:46.60 Carl I don't know I don't anything about him. Sorry.
58:58.91 Carl Yeah. 59:00.11 expat2020 Of how we would ah come
up with nominations. Do you want to? ah ah, describe that to our listeners and viewers.
What were you thinking of? yeah. 59:06.14 Carl Yeah, so I came up with an exercise
just because I want to show people how this can happen right? Like why isn't forts a horizon
five nominated right? That's the big story and I get it
like people want it to be nominated.
A lot of people do. But there are a lot of great games that come out every year and every
obviously every publication has going to have their own system. So like ah what is that
system and they put out their their nomination so like okay I came up with 1 just because
if we were to gonna do it. We would have to come up with them. So we every each 1 of us
put in 2 games right? to a total 6 different games that were nominated and and those games
were we've got
Psychonauts 2 got gardens of the galaxy got fors horizon five got lost
judgment. 59:57.53 expat2020 Ah, ah, ah, ah yeah, yeah.
01:00:05.20 Carl Kennna and Ratchet clank driftftpart and then we did what we did then
was ah we we had to come up with a way to get the a certain number of nominations now.
Actually I originally going to get to cut it because numbers wise you got to think that
another publication's going to have more staff right.
01:00:21.94 expat2020 In. 01:00:24.17 Carl They have more
people putting
weighing in so I was going to cut the numbers but actually the way the numbers worked out.
It worked out to go along with what the game award's saying and I actually want to read
the the game Awards official faq thing where they say here that each voting out like. Completes
a confidential unranked ballot based on the collective and diverse opinion of its entire
editorial staff listing out its top five choices in each category and then it says Ballots
are tabulated and the 5 games
that appear on the most ballots are put forth as nominees
in the event of a tie 6 or more nominees will be announced.
01:00:45.33 expat2020 E. 01:01:00.81 Carl And a category. So what happened
with ours based on our ranking is that we had ah we had a 3 hree-way tie for for third
places right? So originally I was going like all right? We'll just throw out 3 nominees
but what we ended up with was that psychonauts 2 and ratche and clank.
01:01:05.13 expat2020 Well ah that. 01:01:19.80 Carl Where a
re like official like
those were top tier. Those were the winners those were getting nominated but then you
had 3 others tie in our rankings and that was Kennna guardians of the galaxy cana and
and lost judgment. 01:01:23.37 expat2020 Right.
01:01:30.12 expat2020 Yeah, Dana guardians. Oh.
01:01:31.88 Burly If. 01:01:37.90 Carl So even in our ranking poor
little forts Horizon Five got kicked to the curb and and you know it's.
01:01:38.68 Burly Um, hey we at least we at least got it up in the top
like we tried.
01:01:39.81 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01:47.71 Carl Yeah, and and you know what happened itch very interestingly was that
so I had made um I had done this a mock way just assuming what you guys would vote for
just because I wanted to see I wanted to come up with the system something that would work
right and I got I got expats. 01:01:58.55 expat2020 Oh oh yeah.
01:02:07.37 Carl choices right his 2 choices I got Burley's wrong but 1 of them of cou
rse
was right? which ration clang. And yeah, but the other 1 he went with guardians of the
galaxy and and because he chose that and because I changed my ranking to put guardians.
01:02:16.68 expat2020 There? yeah. 01:02:17.22 Burly Me. Ah.
01:02:25.29 Carl Above four Horizon and five now this is all ah you know hypothet or right
I didn't play most of these games So like I'm just trying to say like if I was really
looking at this and let's say I played with these games right? How I might vote rig
ht?
because none of this is real. So obviously it doesn't matter but because I put guardians
above Fora in my list. 01:02:28.49 expat2020 Right now. Right.
01:02:43.73 Carl That made for it to get kicked out so like I sort of killed it even though
I was the 1 who put forts and rights in it and it's because Burley gave me another choice
and that's like net right? There is exactly my point. Okay, if we look at this list of
games. 01:02:46.37 expat2020 Um.
01:02:49.81 Burly Ah, river. 01:02:53.68 e
xpat2020 Yeah, yeah.
01:03:01.83 Carl And the list of games that everyone is sort of putting out there for
nominations and the I think the average gamer is going to say like yeah I I prefer something
like guardians of the galaxy I think that is more worthy of game of the year than forts
horizon five. Even if you love that forts horizon five like you know that.
01:03:17.21 expat2020 Now. Yeah. 01:03:21.70 Carl A lot of the gamers Just
that's how it goes I mean and and and it makes sense when you
play so many games That's the
thing is you if you play enough of these great games. It becomes a hard choice. Something's
got to go. 01:03:22.62 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
01:03:32.29 expat2020 No yeah I agree. Yeah yeah.
01:03:37.84 Carl Yeah, ah one last note on the the fort to Horizon thing I and ah and
a you you rib on me every time I bring up ign but I was listening to 1 of their their
shows and. 01:03:45.20 expat2020 Oh. Yes, ah.
01:03:53.21 Carl And ah ryan mccaffrey did say that forts horizon
five was on their ballot
for game of the year so and will be they said 1 of their game of the year nominations so
don't blame them. That's for sure. 01:03:57.72 expat2020 Okay, um.
01:04:04.26 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay so.
01:04:10.21 Burly I'm curious. What what was the other game. You thought it was going to
pick Kinesthetic guardians. 01:04:13.90 Carl Oh ah, actually.
01:04:19.26 Burly I'm just curious I got to see what oh you thought it would be dread.
01:04:19.72 Carl Yeah, what wai
t where do I Oh Metro dread. Yeah yeah.
01:04:23.39 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So what do you guys? think of this list for the
game awards of Death Loop. It takes to metro dread Psychonauts to Ratche clank rift Apart
Resident Evil Village What do you think is going to win I think Carl I think I know you.
You think Psychonauts too is going to win right of this list. Yeah know no.
01:04:44.85 Carl Ah I mean I Really it's my my bias I want it to win and I and I but do
I Legitimately think it has a
chance. Yes, will it though. It's tough I mean if you look
at the total number of nominees in different categories Death Loop has the most.
01:05:01.23 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:05:04.38 Carl Across the board. So there's
a good chance that it wins that doesn't necessarily mean and it takes to and and psychonats do
also have several other big nominations. So. 01:05:08.21 expat2020 Yeah, and.
01:05:13.95 expat2020 Right? And with death loop. It's right now. It's exclusively on
playstation to
o I'll just throw that out there too. So yeah, yeah.
01:05:19.54 Carl Um, yeah, if if you if you're implying that matters.
01:05:24.54 Burly I. 01:05:28.37 expat2020 I'm not implying anything
man I'm just saying it's exclusively on playstation right? now you know, but yeah burly What do
you think man? Yeah yeah. 01:05:32.40 Carl Yeah I think those those
are the front runners those 3 01:05:34.41 Burly I I would love I would love
ratchet to win that that that's been my game of the year I've been s
aying that for months
but it it ain't gonna win I just know it in my heart. It'll either be death loop or knowing
just to kick me in the balls by capcom. 01:05:43.69 expat2020 Yeah, you.
01:05:54.16 expat2020 Now are yeah I'm. 01:05:54.23 Burly Are you village.
01:05:54.53 Carl Now they ain't got no chance come on now get that out of here.
01:05:58.17 Burly I Want to say you're right man I Really do but I just know my dumb luck
at these kind of eggs. 01:06:07.72 Carl I Wonder how it got in there
man I'm surprised really really surprised. 01:06:12.46 expat2020 Yeah, okay so I'm I'm
goingnna say I'm gonna I'm going to go out there on this 1 I think there's gonna be a
surprise I think it takes 2 is goingnna win it I really do yeah it I think ah.
01:06:23.34 Carl No I got I so that's 1 of the front runners I like I said yeah.
01:06:31.96 expat2020 So many people had fun playing it and of course obviously you know
the the free friends pass you can get with it. Ah yeah, it's just ah from I p
ersonally
I haven't played it yet. Ah but I know a lot of people who have and they've just said it's
an amazing game. Ah, the art style is amazing just this the narrative is amazing as well.
Um, yeah I wouldn't be surprised and then ah that joseph ferris guy he'll jump on stage
and say f the Oscars again. Yeah yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, he'll say something like that.
He'll be. 01:07:00.73 Carl Yeah, right, something like
that I I think there's a. 01:07:06.31 expat2020 He'll be on his spiritual
opium
when he goes on stage I'm sure. Yeah. 01:07:08.65 Carl Yeah, if if I was like voting
I would kind of want to like spread some stuff around right? You kind of want to get some
representation from different things out there and I could see let's say like ah you know
it takes who's nominated for best family game and best like multi type multiplayer I think.
01:07:14.50 expat2020 Oh yeah. 01:07:27.74 expat2020 Yeah co-op yeah on yeah.
01:07:28.62 Carl Um, like that right? which I think kind of yeah
because it has co-op
which I don't know if that's the spirit of the multiplayer ah nomination there. But I
mean technically? yes. 01:07:33.47 Burly Your present.
01:07:33.68 expat2020 yeah yeah I think it should be 2 completely different categories
I think multiplayer like you know and co-op should be different. So.
01:07:41.41 Burly Take yeah. 01:07:43.31 Carl Yeah I cause I kind of feel
like it takes 2 is more. It's it's basically a single player game that you're forced to
play with 1 other pe
rson right? It's not not not multiplayer in the sense that you're I
think most people are thinking when you say it.
01:07:50.26 expat2020 Right? right? right. 01:07:57.43 expat2020 Yeah, yeah.
01:08:00.59 Carl Um, but family game I mean maybe you could argue. Let's say you wins
that right? and then let's say you want to give psychonats to game of the year just because
that's what I want and I could I could see you then giving best direction to a different
game like death loop because I think dea
th loop is doing a lot more a lot of more a lot
more unique things with with. 01:08:06.85 expat2020 Yeah, like. Now.
01:08:20.67 Carl Gameplay with even you know performances and and you know the time looping
stuff. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in that game that I could say takes
ah quite the bit of directing to to pull off versus like a more traditional type of game
like psychonats 2 which maybe you could say is you know is the best overall for other
reasons. 01:08:38.60 expat202
0 No.
01:08:40.60 Carl Right? But not direction and they do that in the oscars right? Sometimes
a best picture doesn't doesn't win the same as best director. So.
01:08:45.24 expat2020 Right? right? 1 other thing I want to point out about the game awards
too is and it's people been talking about this and a lot and I have too that a lot of
the japanese games and japanese developers were were snubbed this year as well. Obviously
lost judgment was not in any category. Um a game like tails. Yeah, ah
tails of a rise.
Yeah, okay, carl. Okay. 01:09:06.46 Carl Small tier small 2
01:09:12.46 Carl That was nominate that was nominated for yeah right rpg of the year I
think what tells of arise. Yeah. 01:09:17.39 expat2020 What game? what.
01:09:17.55 Burly Yeah, was T tells Rise I'm pretty sure with yeah it was going up with
bravely default to and Subpro you. 01:09:25.39 expat2020 Yeah, but a lot of people
thought it should have been nominated for more. So.
01:09:27.46 Carl Cyberpunk. 01:09:33.20 C
arl Nah get that out of here
get that jar pg out of here. 01:09:38.68 expat2020 I will allow that. Okay,
so but you know what I'm talking about. Ah there was not much japanese gaming representation
in this year's awards and but then again, a lot of people out here in Japan don't even
know much about the game awards. Anyway. 01:09:41.21 Burly A Fox fuck.
01:09:43.91 Carl This Scarlett Scarlett Nexus man. Yeah.
01:09:46.17 Burly And yeah org. 01:09:58.37 expat2020 So um, yeah, but yeah,
yeah, but
in the other categories and whatever. Well, it's insulting that lot.
01:09:59.12 Carl Yeah I look best rpg is all japanese games except for cyberbu. So that's
that's their category man. That's their category now it would be maybe be insulting if they
if they don't win that 1 01:10:15.19 expat2020 Lost judgment is not
in the game of the year category I'll just leave it at that. Yeah, so okay, so yeah,
very sad. Ah, okay, now it's time for the new game releases for the week of november
twenty seco
nd through the 20 eighth. 01:10:17.63 Carl Nah now.
01:10:31.85 Carl Just still releasing games huh none of these games can be nominated for
game of the year how rude 01:10:33.34 expat2020 My pick this week and
still yeah, still releasing games. Yeah well yeah, well some of these games have been out
for a while but they're being released on another platform. so yeah so ah my pick for
this week and this is from ah releases dot com so you can go and check out the site and
you can see all the games
that are coming out in November but for the twenty second
through the 20 eighth I'm picking and maybe you guys would probably agree with me on this
death's door. Yeah, ah. 01:11:07.75 Carl We had the playstation race
and switch right. 01:11:10.14 expat2020 I'm picking. Yeah, that's
right I'm picking death store as as my pick for this week's release so reaping souls of
the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous, but it's honest work for a crow. The job gets
lively when you assign your as
signed soul is stolen and you must drag down a desperate
thief to to a realm untouched by death where creatures grow far past their x bar expiy.
So on playstation 4 playstate five and switch on november twenty third. So yeah, um, it's
gotten rave reviews and I really want to play it myself so death's door is my pick of the
week burly do you have another pick or is yours also death store this week
01:11:59.73 Burly No I do have another pick 1 that may shock you my ah mine is a gummy's
life like t
he the art style alone I don't know why warning.
01:12:03.90 expat2020 Oh. 01:12:08.92 expat2020 Okay, alright.
01:12:18.17 Burly And Gummy's life gummies have come to life and they are unmanageable.
Choose your favorite gummy along a great variety customize it to your taste enjoying playing
and laughing with your friends on or your family showing who's in charge of the sugar.
It's coming on. 01:12:30.44 expat2020 Okay, okay.
01:12:34.33 Burly Thursday november twenty fifth it was already out on
pc for early access
but it's coming to your p s four p s five switch xbox 1 xbox series.
01:12:36.41 expat2020 Oh. 01:12:42.10 expat2020 Cool all right? Carl
What's your pick. 01:12:46.19 Carl I mean I'll pick something
silly here. How about dear simulator your your your average Everyday deer game actually
because I saw a trailer for this once and it's just like it is it is the most absurd
looking simulator game. It's like goat simulator but like.
01:12:53.23 expat2020 Okay. 01:13:04.20 expat20
20 Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
and come into game pass. Yeah come to game pass. Yep.
01:13:05.96 Carl Cranked up to eleven with deer. It says put yes is yeah, it's game fast.
Yeah so ah, ah, put simply deer simulator is slow life town destruction came.
01:13:06.20 Burly I. 01:13:20.54 Carl You can spend your days enjoying
a nice relaxed frolic here and there together with other animals around town where you can
choose to relive some sorry Relieve some stress and absolutely destroy the town and everyth
ing
in it and that it says number Twenty third for pc and xbox and then it is.
01:13:30.60 expat2020 Um. 01:13:39.74 Carl Some reason number twenty
fifth for playstation four and switch. 01:13:45.51 expat2020 Yeah, okay, so those
are our ah picks of the week for the new game releases for november twenty second through
the 20 eighth and now we have a new little segment. We're doing for the the episodes
called the game pass passageway. So our new segment which we look at new titles coming
to xbox
game pass for the week so for this week of november twenty second through the
twenty Eighth carl this 1 ne's on you man so you just already went over 1 of the games.
01:14:11.74 Carl My god not not prepared was it ready. There is only 1 other? no no this
week 01:14:15.30 Burly Um, but ah.
01:14:17.68 expat2020 There is only 1 other game besides dear simulator that's coming
out. Ah this week yes yes and what is it? Yeah, that's right, that's why it's called
the game pass passage way. Yeah. 01:14:
27.00 Carl Ah, we can do this on a week
to week basin next it's just so many games. Yeah.
01:14:33.29 Carl Um, I know I don't even I don't I don't have it where is it? Oh oh,
it's mortal shell. 01:14:36.38 expat2020 Ah, okay, I'll give
you a hint. It's it's ah it's a souls type game. That's right? Yes, yeah.
01:14:48.30 Carl I Got it see like it was in the isn't in the brain it was in there.
01:14:52.30 expat2020 Um, Burley man you shouldn't have gave him so much spiritual opium you
shouldn't ha
ve laced his arizona. 01:14:58.40 Burly No, it's It's not the I
I haven't sent any yet. It's all the state of decay remember people. This is why it was
really why I was gone I I had to go I went to a thing meeting for people that.
01:14:58.80 Carl Um, your more. 01:15:02.52 expat2020 Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, state of decaral. Yeah. 01:15:15.84 Burly Get obsessed with stated
decay to help people in case Carl ever gets to that point because I care about Carl I
don't want to stay just stay State
thecay too. Yes.
01:15:22.12 Carl Ah, we became a counselor for for people with addictions to specifically
stated k 2 Yes, yes. 01:15:28.80 expat2020 Yeah, that.
01:15:31.71 Burly If you're if you're addicted to state of dk 1 I may be able to help any
other game I'm I'm out. 01:15:35.34 Carl Um, yeah I've got I get brain
rock going on. Why do you think I know come on now. It's a game. It's ah it's a It's a
cheap knockoff of dark souls. How about that? No, that's that's wrong. It's mean to say.
01:15:37.45 expat2020 Okay, Carl So what's mortal shell. What's mortal shell all about
man. 01:15:49.80 expat2020 Okay, okay.
01:15:54.72 Carl I Know people like it. It looks it looks good. Um I don't I don't have
like a a thing ready to read here. Um I know I'm terrible a terrible person Expat you know.
01:15:55.95 expat2020 M. 01:16:02.58 Burly I've got something to ready
ready to read I'll take I'll take this 1 I got it up. Mortal shell is a deep action rpg
that tests your sanity and resilien
ce in a shattered world your adversaries spare no
mercy with survival demanding superior awareness precision and instincts.
01:16:03.52 expat2020 Okay. 01:16:18.52 Burly Possess loss Warriors track
down Hidden Sanctums of the devout and face formidable foes and this has been on ah a
lot of platforms I did see this with another streamer. It's got a very interesting art
style but it's a souls game. So. 01:16:24.25 Carl 1
01:16:31.48 expat2020 Um, yeah, yeah, yep, it'll drive you crazy. Yep, it'll
drive you
crazy? Yep yep, that's for sure. 01:16:37.80 Burly Bring your patients bring
your patients. 01:16:38.53 Carl Yeah, souls. Yeah I mean
you know it looks really pretty and I would like to try so generally I don't play the
souls games. But if I'm going to be able to play 1 without paying for.. Additionally yeah,
then that's a good. To try because it is a game where like the other games where where
I get it I get so mad and I you know depending on the game. How much time I want to put into
it that I'd like I'm not going to keep playing it I'll feel like I've wasted my money if
I if I don't put enough time into it. 01:17:09.63 expat2020 Yeah, yeah, okay, so
now I want to ah tell all you viewers and listeners out there about our announcements
for patreon this coming week. We're going to be ah of course doing our Marvel show the
marvelous marvel discussion arena where will we. We will be discussing the ah the last
spider-man no way home trailer as well as the eternals movie. We're g
oing to be giving
our reactions to that as well. So please stay tuned for that. Um, so yeah, that's ah, our
only announcement for patreon shows this week ah our ah warp factor ten star trek show is
going to be starting up pretty soon so ah, stay tuned for more information on that. So
we're going to be ah, we're going to be reacting to the discovery season four episodes as they
come out. So ah, please stay tuned for that. So ah, now it's on to what we will be playing
this coming week. So I'll sta
rt with you Burley what are you going to be playing or streaming
this upcoming week. 01:18:12.83 Burly Ah, pokemon well let's be
honest that just came out and I'm just getting into that so that's mostly gonna be on the
what'll be playing for the next while onstream and I'll be working on judgment off stream.
01:18:24.99 expat2020 Cool, Cool Carl What about you ma'am more state of de Carl Yeah,
yeah, okay. 01:18:28.67 Carl Ah I don't even know yeah
you know I've watched I know I you know I haven'
t played a K probably a while a couple
couple maybe a week you know I don't think I've turned it on although I did see update
twenty eight coming and they're they're doing. Weirdly, they're doing some graphical updates
for 1 of the maps which I'm like okay that's bizarre. But and then they they're they still
adding stuff so like that makes me want to always jump back in. They try to hook me but
actually I have a list of tv shows I got to catch up by.
01:18:48.10 expat2020 Ah. 01:18:55.92 expat20
20 Oh okay, go.
01:19:03.25 expat2020 Okay, okay, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah on Amazon yeah.
01:19:04.46 Carl Just so much out there like okay obviously I'm still watching Arcane Cowboy
Cowboy Bebop is out the the anime you know, live action adaptation wheel of time is out
also with that. Yeah, ah. 01:19:17.38 Burly Yeah, yeah.
01:19:23.18 Carl Dopeak is something that I wanted to check out. Um, oh shit. Well okay,
we just watched shang chi last night me and my wife ah the great season 2 if you've e
ver
seen the great. It's fantastic show on on hulu the witcher season 2 is coming up ah
day. 01:19:23.44 expat2020 Ah.
01:19:29.65 expat2020 Cool. 01:19:40.92 expat2020 Yep, coming soon.
01:19:42.67 Carl Dexter Of course already has new episodes out the new. Whatever they
forgot the whatever subtitle they give that new version of the show I haven't checked
that out yet like I feel like I need to catch up on a lot of Tv and games. Maybe I should
just keep it a little casual and and just stick wit
h the fortza and the.
01:19:45.88 expat2020 No yeah. 01:19:59.41 Carl Maybe a little darkest dunge
to ah there. So there's 1 youtuber I watch who like um, who's actually playing halo I
put on on his channel and and he describes a strategy.
01:20:02.39 expat2020 Halo Multiplayer Maybe my yeah.
01:20:17.97 Carl Of of playing that game so well where I'm like oh yeah, that's why I'm
terrible I've never thought about the game this way never actually put that much thought
I'm like and then the watchin
g him like makes me want to play it but I will eventually I
don't know when um I'll jump into it I get tempted I feel like I still want to wait till
just. Play the campaign but we'll see. 01:20:36.93 expat2020 Okay, yeah for me I'll
just ah I'll be continuing ah Marvel's avengers the Kamalacon storyline and then I might play
a little more of the halo multiplayer just to get my feet a little bit more wet and to
that. So ah, yeah. So yeah, so kind of a light week again yeah so anyway before we con
clude
the episode I want to let everybody know where you can find me on social Media. You can find
me on Twitter at Expat underscore gaming. Our youtube channels of course at expat twenty
twenty gaming and the Arena citadel and of course ah the link to all of my links at linktree
that's l I N k t r dot e e slash expat twenty twenty so that does it for me. Burley where
can people find you on social media man. 01:21:29.53 Burly You can find me ah t Twitter
on Twitter at early men gaming. You can a
lso find me on twitch at twitch dot tv slash be
man gaming. 01:21:38.51 expat2020 Cool, cool and ah good
to have you back man. So yeah, we missed you last week so ah yeah so carl where where can
people find you on social media. Okay, all right? So to end the episode our indie recording
artist spotlight. 01:21:42.12 Burly Great to be there.
01:21:47.15 Carl Oh just on Twitter at turn based carl.
01:21:58.20 expat2020 So This week's spotlight is on Michael shines 1 of the most sought
after acousti
c performers and singer-songwriters in the american midwest michael shines is
1 of the hardest working musicians on the scene with his deeply personal songs soulful
voice and signature phrasing. Has built a loyal fan base that stretches across the us
Michael can be seen live throughout the year on 1 of his many national tours from his album
titled home for the holidays and the song is called home to you so ah. Ah, for me expat
and burley and carl we want to wish all of you here at the Arena mult
i-platform gay news
podcast all you listeners and viewers a wonderful thanksgiving out there in the us and if you
are going home to visit family. Please stay safe and protect yourselves. Okay. So. Thank
you so much and this has been the Arena a multi-platform gaming news podcast episode
63 I've been your host expat along with my co-host Burley a burleyman gaming on twitch
and turn base carl we hope to catch you in the next 1 so happy thanksgiving everyone
and take care peace. 01:23:07.17 Burly O
kay.
01:23:07.85 expat2020 Out.
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