Our Reactions to the 2026 Xbox Showcase

This episode of Good2Game Radio dives headfirst into the Xbox Showcase like a kid smashing the “A” button through dialogue. The crew breaks down the biggest reveals, spicy surprises, and the “wait…was that actually gameplay?” moments with their signature mix of hype and side-eye. From cinematic trailers that made us emotional for characters we just met, to sequels we definitely saw coming but will still preorder anyway, the hosts keep the energy high and the jokes even higher. Expect playful roasting of vague release dates, cautious optimism about ambitious promises, and at least one host declaring something “Game of the Year” way too early. It’s part analysis, part chaos, and all gamer enthusiasm—basically like your group chat during a live showcase, but with better microphones and slightly more informed opinions.

Transcript

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00:26:51.45
Jaime G
I sent you guys a picture showing that one monitor's dead and the microphone has like the green lights on.

00:26:57.18
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:26:57.85
Jaime G
but But you know how you can get into the green room and do like an audio check?

00:27:02.07
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:27:02.94
Jaime G
Nothing. No audio. So I must have been in the green room for like 10 minutes before, but I was just like, so finally I just i got rid of the, what's that mixer, Motiv Mix software.

00:27:08.79
Tony Sisk
Yeah, you were in there a while.

00:27:16.73
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:27:18.17
Jaime G
Once I took that out of the equation,

00:27:20.15
Tony Sisk
Oh, whoa yeah. I

00:27:23.06
Jaime G
I don't know, man. Producer Vance, you have to help me out, man.

00:27:26.65
Sentfrmheaven
I don't have that mixer either.

00:27:28.96
Tony Sisk
don't have it.

00:27:30.97
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

00:27:31.07
Tony Sisk
I don't even mess with the one that comes with the Shure. Is that one you're talking about?

00:27:35.18
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

00:27:36.66
Jaime G
Yeah, that's it.

00:27:36.70
Sentfrmheaven
Oh yeah, that one. Yup.

00:27:38.52
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I never mess with it.

00:27:40.14
Sentfrmheaven
Yup.

00:27:40.34
Jaime G
But it's it's worked fine forever. It's just today where the monitor and this, nope, I already ruled that out.

00:27:44.24
Tony Sisk
You probably needed an update.

00:27:50.08
Sentfrmheaven
Yup,

00:27:50.18
Tony Sisk
Huh.

00:27:51.93
Jaime G
Anyway, I am so sorry for being late. I have brought shame upon myself and my family.

00:27:58.47
Tony Sisk
That's all right.

00:27:58.60
Sentfrmheaven
that's two points. I'm gonna give you no shout out.

00:28:00.12
Tony Sisk
Yeah, we already gave you a no-show. ah ah All right, cool.

00:28:03.54
Sentfrmheaven
yeah

00:28:07.93
Tony Sisk
Well, I mean, yeah, we started 28 minutes ago, but we haven't but we haven't talked one lick of video games. We've been talking about work. It's just, yeah.

00:28:16.90
Jaime G
We have scratched the surface.

00:28:16.92
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, so this is going to a separate episode of the New Work Podcast.

00:28:20.02
Tony Sisk
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:20.60
Sentfrmheaven
but

00:28:22.30
Tony Sisk
Welcome to Days on the Ramp podcast.

00:28:25.38
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

00:28:25.62
Tony Sisk
ah

00:28:27.93
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, working for...

00:28:28.73
Jaime G
I could still drop off if you guys want me to.

00:28:29.05
Sentfrmheaven
a ah working for Ren and Stimpy.

00:28:31.24
Tony Sisk
No, we're good. All right.

00:28:34.48
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

00:28:35.02
Tony Sisk
All right, Well, you're ready. i mean, we're we're talking Xbox showcase. Did you get to see any of it?

00:28:44.95
Jaime G
I mean, bla

00:28:47.83
Tony Sisk
Okay. Yeah, then you saw

00:28:50.58
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, I'm saving all my commentary for when we go live.

00:28:50.97
Jaime G
yeah

00:28:57.45
Tony Sisk
it. All right. Well, okay, let's go. Let's get started.

00:29:00.14
Jaime G
We're live.

00:29:01.14
Tony Sisk
Yeah, we are live.

00:29:01.46
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:29:01.94
Tony Sisk
We've been live for 29 minutes.

00:29:03.26
Sentfrmheaven
Right, right.

00:29:03.33
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:29:04.50
Jaime G
ah

00:29:04.83
Sentfrmheaven
Hey, you know, this is like one of them shows that you would watch it for like 20 minutes and it's like an hour or so and then they hit you with the intro. You're like, man, I forgot they didn't do the intro. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:29:18.08
Tony Sisk
right. Hi, folks. Welcome back to Good Game Radio. I'm here with Vance and Jaime, and we're going talking some Xbox tonight. So you guys ready to get into it?

00:29:30.54
Jaime G
Ready.

00:29:31.48
Tony Sisk
Awesome. First of all, how are you guys doing?

00:29:36.24
Jaime G
I'm happy to be here. Finally got all my so my rig working.

00:29:39.47
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:29:40.22
Jaime G
I thought I was not going to record tonight.

00:29:40.25
Tony Sisk
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, he was battling the computer and the audio um mixture and ah those little gremlins that live in his system were giving him a fit.

00:29:43.51
Sentfrmheaven
we're doing good, doing good.

00:29:53.59
Jaime G
Holy smokes.

00:29:53.62
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:29:54.51
Jaime G
and And they get you. They get you when you when you're like, I'm about to, I'm running late for something. Bam. That's when it happens.

00:30:04.41
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so we ah Vance and I were just talking work. I figured you'd figure it out. I mean, you're an electrical engineer. um like i There's a high probability he'll figure it out sooner or later. 29 minutes later. Yeah.

00:30:20.82
Tony Sisk
ah

00:30:21.34
Jaime G
qui Yeah, for an eternity later.

00:30:25.11
Tony Sisk
yeah So ah yeah, you got it fixed.

00:30:28.18
Jaime G
ah Sorry.

00:30:29.64
Tony Sisk
We're ready to go. And our topic tonight is the Xbox showcase. Our last episode was the PlayStation showcase. This episode this is the Xbox showcase.

00:30:38.71
Jaime G
Right?

00:30:41.91
Tony Sisk
All the major companies are putting out their June shows. You know, they used to be live. Remember? Remember when they used to be live in l LA? What was the name of that event?

00:30:56.47
Tony Sisk
That everybody went to E3.

00:30:57.29
Sentfrmheaven
E3.

00:30:58.34
Jaime G
Dude, I'm making hand signals right here.

00:30:59.06
Tony Sisk
Yeah. e three

00:31:00.38
Jaime G
It wasn't like that.

00:31:02.23
Tony Sisk
Yep.

00:31:02.51
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:31:02.65
Tony Sisk
Then everybody decided, oh, we could just do it digitally and stay home and save money. So.

00:31:08.46
Jaime G
Well, it's not only the saving money.

00:31:09.14
Tony Sisk
the

00:31:10.70
Jaime G
gets That is a big part of it. But if you remember, there was like so many times when stuff just didn't work. I remember that they did a showcase where they were like, here's the brand new... um brand new Assassin's Creed and the guy who was playing it, the game just froze on him.

00:31:31.54
Jaime G
And you could tell like the producers in the background are like scramming like, cut to the next game, cut to the next game.

00:31:39.16
Tony Sisk
Yeah. But there, I mean, i miss the live shows, having a live audience there. The only only time we get it nowadays is when we have the award shows at the end of the year, Jeff Keighley's award show.

00:31:53.08
Tony Sisk
But the June E3 event was always something to look forward to. And, you know, you you could feel the excitement from the crowds and when they, they showcase the upcoming games and the stuff that they were working on.

00:32:10.20
Tony Sisk
And now we just kind of like watch the, the 30 minute to an hour, of pre-recorded feed, you know, and we don't, you you don't, you get like a couple of minutes of like an intro from, the CEO, which, you know, Xbox has the new CEO. What's your name? Sharma?

00:32:30.00
Jaime G
Asha, something like that.

00:32:30.95
Tony Sisk
Asha Sharma or something like that. um yeah she gives us an introduction at the beginning and then we go into the uh the the games so xbox showed a lot of games uh and but they led off with probably their uh the big title that that's coming up in october with the october 6 release gears of war e-day what'd you guys think

00:33:01.62
Tony Sisk
yeah Have you guys played Gears of War?

00:33:01.86
Jaime G
I got to say that

00:33:05.24
Tony Sisk
Vance?

00:33:05.53
Sentfrmheaven
Never interested me.

00:33:05.98
Jaime G
one one, two, and three, yes. At that point, I moved on because that was the last one that came out on the Xbox 360.

00:33:16.45
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

00:33:16.89
Jaime G
um I enjoyed them back in the day. And I don't know. I mean, now he has like a daughter. This is like ah a prequel. I mean, I don't know what they do. They don't know what to do with this franchise at this point.

00:33:34.20
Tony Sisk
so So this is a prequel, right? So this is like before number one. Like in in in one, you kind of get introduced to them already.

00:33:39.19
Jaime G
Yeah, this is this is the the day that the they emerge.

00:33:43.67
Tony Sisk
The wars with these aliens or whatever they are has been going on for while already. And you kind of just get dropped into it in in the squad and you you're battling through the city. This one apparently like...

00:34:01.53
Tony Sisk
They had just finished up a war and the guys were just relaxing at the bar and

00:34:12.41
Tony Sisk
all of a sudden all heck breaks loose in the city and then they go out and, you know they're dressed in civilian clothes and they're... yeah They're helping fight back against whatever this these creatures are that are coming up out of the ground. so Gears of wars gear of gears of War

00:34:35.73
Tony Sisk
i guess is short for emergence day

00:34:41.17
Tony Sisk
So, yeah, it's a prequel. I thought it looked pretty decent, know, for the environments. I was telling Vance earlier, like,

00:34:52.89
Tony Sisk
A lot of these games that we saw in this showcase had a very, you know, distinct look to them. It's different than from the PlayStation shows, uh, exclusive wise. Anyway, like, I don't know what it is about the technology between the Xbox and the PlayStation, but there's, there is a, ah to me, anyway, I don't know if you see it, Jaime, um, a difference in how the graphics look, um,

00:35:21.17
Tony Sisk
but they're all running like a the Unreal Engine 5, right? So I thought it looked pretty good, but you know it's almost like

00:35:28.09
Jaime G
Yes. Yeah.

00:35:33.56
Tony Sisk
almost like a too clean look. I know there's like a war and stuff, but it's like almost like a little too clean, but what did you guys think about that?

00:35:49.19
Jaime G
It's Xbox, man. Eh.

00:35:52.97
Sentfrmheaven
it's a I mean it it definitely looked like you know good game good graphics you know just uh I don't know why like I never it's never been like my cup of tea like my brother-in-law he loves it like swears by it I'm just like like I don't know like like I just felt like it's uh it's all guts and no glory you know the like like that's how I feel there's no yeah

00:36:15.48
Tony Sisk
thought guts there There's guts.

00:36:17.54
Jaime G
Oh, yeah.

00:36:17.59
Tony Sisk
There's chainsaws and and stuff like that, you cutting people in half.

00:36:18.88
Jaime G
The chainsaw, dude.

00:36:22.59
Tony Sisk
it Was this was this thank you ah the game that introduced cover shooters? Mechanic?

00:36:29.29
Jaime G
I don't think I don't I think that this was one of the ones that made it big. I don't know if it was like the first one.

00:36:36.35
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I've never been a huge fan of that mechanic where you're like sticking up against, uh, you know, some cover and then like your guy's shooting over the top of it or around the corner.

00:36:51.38
Tony Sisk
um it was a really big mechanic in, uh, in that one game that, uh, fans, you and I played, what was it? Uh, it came from people. People can fly outlet out, outriders.

00:37:05.19
Tony Sisk
Remember that?

00:37:05.98
Sentfrmheaven
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:37:06.81
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah.

00:37:07.43
Sentfrmheaven
Outriders, outriders.

00:37:08.76
Tony Sisk
Outriders had that That same type of movement and And cover mechanic going on um But yeah I mean The combat looks like It looked good I mean I thought it looked good I mean I'm not a huge fan of the franchise Just cause like You know the It's kind of the over the top Dudes that are like built like You know Oversized like wrestlers You know

00:37:38.61
Jaime G
Dude, even even like their necks were like bulging with muscles.

00:37:39.38
Tony Sisk
ah Yeah, they have no necks.

00:37:43.51
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

00:37:44.02
Tony Sisk
There are no necks in here, okay?

00:37:44.21
Jaime G
Right.

00:37:45.74
Tony Sisk
Neither them or the enemies have necks.

00:37:46.16
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:37:48.18
Tony Sisk
of So, I mean, maybe that's too hard to do and in the in the graphics department.

00:37:52.88
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

00:37:55.35
Sentfrmheaven
So, fun fact, one of the earliest cover shooter games was Time Crisis, 1995. But, like Jaime said, the one that revolutionized it.

00:38:05.13
Jaime G
That's actually exactly

00:38:07.49
Sentfrmheaven
Go ahead.

00:38:08.63
Jaime G
when you were goingnna When Tony was asking, like was this the first one? In my mind, Time Crisis came came to this just popped in. I was like, I'm pretty sure Time Crisis was so was one of the first ones I played, but I was like, I'm not going to say

00:38:23.96
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, Gears of War 2006 made it popular. But yeah, Time Crisis, it's funny, I remember, yeah, they made it amazing, yeah, I remember the arcade, you had to step on the pedal, release the pedal, step on the pedal, yeah, Time Crisis, huh?

00:38:28.79
Tony Sisk
and Okay. They made it they made it mainstream.

00:38:40.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So anything else stood out for you for the Gears of War?

00:38:48.06
Tony Sisk
Then,

00:38:48.49
Jaime G
Meh.

00:38:49.40
Tony Sisk
Okay. Okay.

00:38:50.94
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:38:51.99
Tony Sisk
ah Then we got a cinematic trailer for fable. It was one where like, uh, you had the female character just kind of talking about what heroes were.

00:39:06.26
Jaime G
Haley haley Atwell, did you know did you pick up on that?

00:39:09.40
Tony Sisk
Hmm.

00:39:11.30
Jaime G
It's um Captain... er Cap Peggy Carter, the character from like the original Captain America movie.

00:39:20.69
Tony Sisk
Oh, really?

00:39:22.07
Jaime G
Yeah, that was a yep.

00:39:22.10
Tony Sisk
That's who that was? Okay. Cool.

00:39:26.50
Sentfrmheaven
She's the antagonist.

00:39:29.75
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So this is a really ah big franchise. I mean, I played this on a 360 way back in the day. Number one.

00:39:40.66
Jaime G
One and two for me.

00:39:42.17
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:39:42.36
Jaime G
Actually, one came out on the original Xbox.

00:39:45.27
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I really, I mean, I enjoyed it. Um, and But this one is more, this one's like an open world, you know, you make a hero and you go out and you just quest.

00:40:00.75
Tony Sisk
And apparently there's a, I mean, they they're really pushing like their morality system in this game. have Have you seen, did you see anything on that system?

00:40:11.48
Jaime G
it's It's, I mean, the morality gauge has been there ever since like Fable 1.

00:40:16.95
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:40:16.98
Jaime G
ah

00:40:17.27
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:40:18.16
Jaime G
it' and And I remember specifically when Fable 2 was around, I had a roommate. And him and I were doing like the same playthrough around the same time. But he was doing like everything evil. I was doing everything good. And we would just like see kind of how how the the the story was different. it It ultimately was the same story. It didn't change much.

00:40:39.35
Tony Sisk
Yeah, didn't change the story.

00:40:41.21
Jaime G
Nah.

00:40:42.14
Tony Sisk
But yeah, they're they did like a 30-minute demo um in a separate video where theyre you know you make a character and you go over and they show you the kind of the open world feel for the game. and I thought, I mean,

00:41:02.46
Tony Sisk
it looked okay. To me, it's like, um as as long as this game has been in development like it it looked kind of just plain and the morality system the morality system did not seem anything new like they tried to use a bunch of words to sell it like you know

00:41:17.82
Jaime G
I concur.

00:41:27.77
Jaime G
I mean, it was OK 20 years ago. You got to give us something new now.

00:41:34.97
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So in a demo, I'll just say real quick. So the guy, he's walking you through and he's like, you know, Oh, here we're in this small town and it's got every character has a job and they have a life and they live the life and then you interact with them. And since you've never been to the town before, they're just neutral towards you. Like they either, you don't have a good notoriety or a bad tradition neutral. So yeah.

00:42:03.77
Tony Sisk
But when you start engaging with them, then you start affecting how they view you and stuff. So of the very first example he gives is like some guy is is yelling at this kid who's standing next to your old pig.

00:42:19.93
Tony Sisk
And you go up to him and he's ah in your character's like hearing the discussion and like and they and they and they stop and they see your character. and they And this is like the argument over the pig was One guy was the butcher and he was like, I want it. We're having a big festival. I need that pig so I could butcher him.

00:42:42.55
Tony Sisk
And we have pork for the festival. And the little kid's like, you can't kill Wilbur or whatever his name is. He's like, he's a he's a special pig. and And then the pig goes, yeah, I'm special.

00:42:56.14
Sentfrmheaven
You

00:42:58.90
Tony Sisk
and so And your character goes, did I just hear that pig speak? And the the butcher's like, I'll ignore him. He's just um trying to overplay himself. you know So it gives you the option. a little option comes up.

00:43:18.20
Tony Sisk
Tell the butcher, kill the pig. Because they're like, settle this argument for us. like And your choices are kill the pig. don't kill the pig or ask a couple of questions, right.

00:43:32.34
Tony Sisk
To continue on the dialogue. And the guy playing, he's like, don't kill the pig. He's in the, and the guy's like, what? i put, know much time and effort I put into this? What are we supposed to eat?

00:43:47.26
Tony Sisk
And, um, <unk>s say I have to be compensated for this pig, not killing him. So um your character is like new option comes up.

00:44:01.40
Tony Sisk
Pay the butcher 2000 gold coin to save the pig, right? To buy the pig. So the guy choose, he's like, I want to save the pig. So he pays the 2000 gold coin.

00:44:15.54
Tony Sisk
And the, Of course, the kid the guy goes away. The butcher goes away. The kid's like, thank you, sir. And then they leave. And then your morality or your notoriety goes up into town. Like, big words pop up. Like, there was two them. One was shrewd.

00:44:33.18
Tony Sisk
And two was like, ah

00:44:40.73
Tony Sisk
what what's the word for like, you know, not, kind or something like that right so i wouldn't argue that if you paid 2 000 gold coins to save that pig when you had a sword on your back and you could have just take it pulled out the sword and told the butcher no the pig lives right wouldn't cost you anything

00:45:07.80
Sentfrmheaven
Right. Right. Right.

00:45:10.90
Tony Sisk
I like, I would not, I would not say that that is shrewd to pay 2000 go the save the pig.

00:45:11.77
Jaime G
See that.

00:45:19.93
Jaime G
Now that would be actual choices. Like, like really like you can leverage the abilities around you to do something.

00:45:28.89
Tony Sisk
Right. So now you, you go into the, to the local vendor and it's got that old school where the vendors just kind of stand in there.

00:45:39.26
Tony Sisk
And then you have a conversation. I'm like, how is this pushing new boundaries? This is like in every video game ever made in the last 20 years. It's exactly what a vendor interaction looks like.

00:45:52.88
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

00:45:52.86
Tony Sisk
Um, there's nothing new here. um So they're like overselling themselves and their stuff. like When you say like AI or or NPCs that are like living their real lives and stuff i i i'm thinking like no they're like you can just they're actually doing stuff you know these guys are pre-positioned there to have this argument over the pig right that's not living real life that's a but that's the push scenario to forward i i'm you know understand that but don't try to sell that oh yeah they're living their real life um so that was my thing and the fact that i left this part out when i was explaining it to you

00:46:39.99
Tony Sisk
when they were talking to your character, both characters are referring to you as hero. Hero, make help us make a decision, or a hero, step in here, or hero, pay me $2,000 and go, or whatever.

00:46:47.56
Sentfrmheaven
Thank you.

00:46:55.77
Tony Sisk
To me, you can't use the word hero, right? Because the hero is Well, I mean, that's like a very positive connotation, right?

00:47:07.96
Tony Sisk
Like you're the protagonist. The story revolves around you. You're Superman or you're Batman or whatever. That's already like the characters are already giving you ah like a super positive impression.

00:47:24.06
Tony Sisk
So how can you say like you have no you have a neutral stance when the characters are calling you hero in the dialogue. I think these are the little attention to detail things that make me go, make me question the game.

00:47:40.82
Tony Sisk
Something small like that. it makes me question the art, the the direction of the director of the game. It's like, just say, dude, you know, Hey, stranger,

00:47:55.29
Tony Sisk
You know, stranger, right? You got to earn the title hero. And here you're like, you're just giving it out. Like I'm just going to walk up. It's like me walk walking up to somebody named just, instead of going, yes, can I help you? They just go, Hey hero, what can I do for you? Hero?

00:48:13.65
Tony Sisk
like, it's not natural. It's my argument. ah

00:48:19.41
Sentfrmheaven
That's a good argument.

00:48:19.90
Jaime G
that game That game is not natural because it's so scripted and that ultimately the decisions don't, I mean, back in the day, they didn't matter at the end.

00:48:20.01
Sentfrmheaven
I can see that.

00:48:31.74
Tony Sisk
Right. Okay, so what games stood out to you guys?

00:48:36.92
Sentfrmheaven
You don't want to know.

00:48:38.20
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah, do want to know.

00:48:38.52
Sentfrmheaven
Hey,

00:48:39.22
Jaime G
Now I want to know.

00:48:42.23
Sentfrmheaven
the game that stood out to me like, you know, I was watching it at the Bay and the game that made me was taxi. I was excited for the reboot of the taxi.

00:48:51.67
Jaime G
Crazy. and Dude, and and they and when as soon as the original song started playing from The Offspring, I got hyped up.

00:48:53.18
Tony Sisk
Crazy.

00:49:01.73
Jaime G
I had like high school memories, but like flashbacks, like, oh, yeah.

00:49:07.67
Tony Sisk
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember playing that game a long, long time ago. just crashing all over the place.

00:49:11.55
Jaime G
Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm.

00:49:13.59
Tony Sisk
um And doesn't look like it's been upgraded very much. It looks like the same game.

00:49:22.90
Jaime G
i I mean, all all you got to do is just pick up people people and take them to their destination. But doing it in wild and crazy ways, that was a fun game.

00:49:30.13
Tony Sisk
right.

00:49:33.43
Tony Sisk
Um.

00:49:36.88
Tony Sisk
Jaime, what about you? Anything stand out to you?

00:49:42.30
Jaime G
so i think I think the only thing that really stood out for me were the two persona announcements.

00:49:50.31
Tony Sisk
I knew it. I knew it going to say Persona.

00:49:55.29
Sentfrmheaven
four and six.

00:49:56.66
Tony Sisk
That Persona 4 remake, I guess it's a remake, looked pretty good.

00:49:57.08
Jaime G
Well,

00:50:01.29
Jaime G
yeah.

00:50:03.77
Jaime G
Well, right. So so they they they did Persona 5, and then they did like multiple iterations of it.

00:50:05.45
Tony Sisk
I...

00:50:11.22
Jaime G
About two years ago, they did like a Persona 3 remake. I never picked it up. But this one, I was always wondering, like, they're going to do a Persona 4 now, just just before they launch Persona 6.

00:50:23.32
Tony Sisk
Yeah. yeah

00:50:24.76
Jaime G
And then here it is, Persona 4 revival, and then a little quick teaser for Persona 6.

00:50:32.02
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Literally quick teaser. It just said persona six.

00:50:34.72
Jaime G
Right. Right.

00:50:38.39
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

00:50:38.77
Tony Sisk
It

00:50:40.82
Jaime G
But imagine, that was a highlight for me.

00:50:43.98
Tony Sisk
was literally somebody riding on a but a piece of black poster board with a yellow marker or green marker. Persauda 6. Putting it up to the camera.

00:50:55.35
Jaime G
and and And the fanboys, like me, go wild, man.

00:50:59.61
Tony Sisk
It went wild. Yeah. um

00:51:06.58
Tony Sisk
So we saw some of the other things we saw. We saw ah

00:51:12.92
Tony Sisk
another Senua game. State of Decay 3.

00:51:20.50
Tony Sisk
I saw somewhat lot of DLC for games.

00:51:24.10
Jaime G
Yeah, what's up with that?

00:51:26.14
Tony Sisk
Yeah, there was a lot of the middle part of the show was very heavy in DLCs.

00:51:26.62
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

00:51:32.95
Tony Sisk
And I, this is where I'll say, and I'm not like, you know, trying to be a like a Sony fanboy here, but Sony bookended their show with two huge titles, but they also didn't drag out the middle part for an hour, you know, with DLC content. It was like 20 minutes of Wolverine, 20 minutes of God of War, and maybe...

00:52:10.62
Tony Sisk
15 minutes of like some other game drop in the middle, but it was the the middle portion didn't take away from the the games that they were showcasing. And I felt like this Xbox video dragged really long in the middle.

00:52:31.67
Tony Sisk
And I started for to forget. the problem is, it's like all these games are running Unreal Engine 5. And what I was talking about earlier is like, you know, Xbox having that Unreal Engine 5 look.

00:52:46.97
Tony Sisk
Like, well, they're showing all these games that also have that same look. So you, nothing, by the time you're seeing the third middle game, what made Gears of War stand out visually has now blended in with the rest of the show.

00:53:06.94
Tony Sisk
Like, I don't, I don't think that, they did a good job with the composition of this particular video. Like if they did, they tried to impress everybody with just like, look, we just have a ton of games and they're still stuck on that day one game pass marketing that they had five years ago.

00:53:30.20
Tony Sisk
Like,

00:53:30.55
Jaime G
which is part of their big problem right now.

00:53:36.50
Tony Sisk
yeah. Yeah. Like, they did they're still running at day one on game pass you know and then know it's like they just took a whole bunch of pieces of different video games and threw them together and like oh here's our video you know

00:53:54.49
Sentfrmheaven
right because you can't tell me that one that one gang with the bird that can't fly you can't tell me people were looking for that game i don't care like you can you can poll every person in 50 states they're not saying yeah man oh what is a magpie or something like that like oh you know look for that magpie game no you're not no you're not like

00:54:18.28
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Well, the problem is, it's like they every time they would show a game at the end of the trailer for that particular game, it shows on what systems that game is on.

00:54:31.15
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

00:54:31.77
Tony Sisk
And then you sit you would see Xbox, PC, PS5. Like, why showcase games where...

00:54:42.74
Tony Sisk
and you're trying to highlight we're going back to console exclusives, but all the games that you're showing in your video are showing your competor competitor's logo at the bottom along with yours.

00:54:59.03
Tony Sisk
Like...

00:54:59.37
Jaime G
Dude, that's crazy.

00:55:02.55
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:55:03.96
Tony Sisk
Like they can't make... they They are still in this realm of they cannot make up their mind of what they want to be.

00:55:12.39
Sentfrmheaven
And, you know, just like you said, it's like that doesn't help because you and I were talking about Steam games and PC games. So if there's a game that I'm interested and you showing Steam at the end of it, oh, that's another game. OK, yeah, I might get that on Steam or PC.

00:55:29.02
Sentfrmheaven
like I'm not going to use the game pass. I'm use, you know, sting, you know, like, like, yeah, why show me that? Why give me that option?

00:55:37.98
Jaime G
part Part of what I think is interesting is that and under the new CEO's leadership for, I guess, their console, I thought that there was a lot of discussion about going back to exclusives, going like, hey, it matters if this root game released on the Xbox because you're not going to find it anywhere else.

00:56:01.78
Jaime G
But yet, I feel like I didn't see, I'm not getting a lot of that right now. And that's that's a problem. i think I've been saying this for for months now.

00:56:15.58
Jaime G
Microsoft Xbox is in free fall. I don't see this. Anything in here was a parachute, if I may, to help them get out of this.

00:56:30.26
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, because I think what they only have with two exclusives, the Gears of War and. What was the second?

00:56:35.82
Jaime G
Fable. Fable.

00:56:37.52
Sentfrmheaven
No, not Fable.

00:56:38.39
Jaime G
Senua,

00:56:39.86
Tony Sisk
So they have Clockwork Revolution.

00:56:40.50
Sentfrmheaven
Work Revolution. Yeah.

00:56:43.96
Tony Sisk
So that is an Xbox exclusive. It's also something new. um Which, again, most almost the entirety of the show was ah games that have IPs that have already been around for a while.

00:57:05.34
Tony Sisk
right Gears of War, Fable, Halo.

00:57:10.73
Tony Sisk
Spyro the dragon you know there's a clip with that in there I like uh crazy taxi everything is been around this clockwork revolution is the something new um but they put it in the back of the like not even in the back I get like maybe it isn't very bad right but right before the Gears of War direct segment but like ah They should have really led the show off with this, this one.

00:57:42.78
Tony Sisk
You know what I'm saying? like i don't want ah if If I was putting the video together, I would not have put this game all the way 40 minutes into the video.

00:57:54.82
Tony Sisk
like Most people are not even going to stay watching your video long enough to see this game.

00:57:59.66
Jaime G
Yeah, you're right.

00:58:01.43
Tony Sisk
Like, it this should have been at the front.

00:58:02.00
Sentfrmheaven
right right

00:58:04.66
Tony Sisk
Especially if you're trying to say that you're you're focusing on being Xbox exclusive again. put your Put your exclusive games up front. You know?

00:58:15.67
Sentfrmheaven
right right

00:58:18.30
Tony Sisk
Like, and the fact that this is in the back also kind of like, makes you wonder. It's like, I'm not so sure they're even sold it on this game.

00:58:31.18
Jaime G
Right?

00:58:31.61
Tony Sisk
ah

00:58:35.99
Tony Sisk
Like, you know.

00:58:39.22
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, because I mean, two games that they announced and you figure five, six years ago, I would have been like on the edge of my seat was what they announced Halo and then the Call of Duty announces again.

00:58:52.22
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, like don't know why you're the Call Duty Party of y yourll showcase like. you That's the everybody game, you know, like. You know.

00:59:01.43
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah. I mean, they're not going to put it on game. Have they? Nobody knows, right? Nobody ever knows until he comes and goes.

00:59:08.52
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

00:59:09.97
Tony Sisk
to

00:59:10.01
Jaime G
I had read that there were not they were going to drop drop that for Call of Duty.

00:59:14.44
Tony Sisk
They're losing too much money by putting in Game Pass.

00:59:16.41
Jaime G
Right, of course.

00:59:17.94
Tony Sisk
um

00:59:18.46
Jaime G
They were. Now, have you guys read or done any digging into this whole controversy ah around showcasing Senua?

00:59:20.57
Tony Sisk
But

00:59:20.64
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

00:59:32.95
Jaime G
Yeah. There's a lot of rumors on the street that Xbox, some of its studios are like in dire straits of being shut down.

00:59:44.22
Jaime G
Double Fine, Compulsion Games, Arcane, Ninja Theory. And actually Ninja Theory is the one that is going to be doing the Senua game. So under like a big looming threat of being shut down,

01:00:00.24
Jaime G
They're still like saying, like hey, here's a new game, but like are is there going to be a studio behind it in a couple of months that is yet to be seen?

01:00:10.39
Tony Sisk
First of all, I'll just say this. I don't like any of the Cinewon games. um That's just me.

01:00:16.57
Jaime G
Maybe that's why that studio is in the chopping block too.

01:00:19.64
Tony Sisk
but

01:00:21.31
Sentfrmheaven
Right. They need your contribution.

01:00:23.80
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:00:27.51
Tony Sisk
There's just... I don't know. There's there's something that's just not appealing about it I know he has great scores and stuff, but I don't feel like this is one of those games. It's like one those, it's like movies, right?

01:00:42.49
Tony Sisk
You have movies that get high critic scores, right? In the theater. oh, this is masterclass in filmmaking. and The director really outdid themselves and the actors were so you know in into their characters and whatever. I'm like, oh yeah, let's go watch this movie. And you go and it's like, this is awful.

01:01:07.67
Tony Sisk
there's no There's no entertainment here at all. It's like you go out worse and than youve feeling worse than you went in, right? It's like

01:01:18.09
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

01:01:18.39
Tony Sisk
ah like that did not entertain me that made me depressed

01:01:23.34
Jaime G
That's happened a couple times.

01:01:23.67
Sentfrmheaven
who Yeah.

01:01:25.33
Tony Sisk
that's sinwa to me right like they are so focused on the mental aspects of this character like all the voices and all the you know i don't want like i'm not into a character that just hearing voices all the time i work with a ton of people like that i don't

01:01:44.37
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

01:01:45.20
Tony Sisk
i'm like I don't want to go and play a character like that.

01:01:46.81
Sentfrmheaven
he Right.

01:01:50.23
Jaime G
Tony, do you do you find yourself recording podcasts by yourself every once in a while?

01:01:55.99
Tony Sisk
All the time.

01:01:56.64
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah,

01:01:57.98
Tony Sisk
They never make air though.

01:02:00.25
Jaime G
ah

01:02:01.08
Tony Sisk
ah

01:02:02.90
Sentfrmheaven
yeah but I mean, but just like just like like the feel of the showcase, you know, depending on when they release these games, I mean, we just just what you're saying, like, I felt like Gears of War.

01:02:16.15
Sentfrmheaven
Metro 2039 and State of Decay were all like one big trailer. Like they just kind of like mess like mess together. Like, i don't know what i was doing.

01:02:27.49
Sentfrmheaven
It's okay. I don't know.

01:02:29.91
Tony Sisk
Right, yeah. um I mean, I still, I think i think Gears of War you know alone by itself, if they just did like the trailer for Gears by itself,

01:02:46.23
Tony Sisk
um would have been great for Gears. But combining all these other games with it, I think i actually think it brings down Gears. Yeah.

01:02:56.09
Jaime G
would have been great for Gears. and Just nothing else.

01:02:59.80
Tony Sisk
yeah

01:03:00.06
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

01:03:00.63
Tony Sisk
yeah

01:03:02.36
Sentfrmheaven
Right. It's like you start off, yeah, we give you gears. Woo. Followed by Spyro the Dragon. Whoa, what? Like, like you instantly just hit me with the bottom of the roller coaster when you talk about Spyro and Magpie.

01:03:15.83
Sentfrmheaven
Like, like, you good got gears. Yeah.

01:03:20.41
Jaime G
Right?

01:03:20.74
Sentfrmheaven
Fable.

01:03:21.01
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:03:21.13
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah. Magpie. Whoa. Yeah.

01:03:26.34
Sentfrmheaven
Oh, man. That's why they probably stop doing live shows. They don't want you to see the disappointment when they announce these games. Oh, man. Right? I'm like, man.

01:03:33.94
Jaime G
Yeah, when when when they have to like put the blinkers on, like, applause now. Yeah.

01:03:38.49
Sentfrmheaven
right

01:03:42.07
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:03:43.19
Sentfrmheaven
ah yeah

01:03:43.67
Tony Sisk
It was right after the 2018 God of War live band with the vocalists up there, going you know, making all kinds of like crazy ah ah noise noises, you know, on stage. They had full orchestra, Sony did. And then Xbox had to follow that up with, you know, something like this.

01:04:10.90
Sentfrmheaven
Right, right. I'm like, the the only other game I forgot that I was excited for, and it's just, you know, because the kids play is the Minecraft Dungeons 2. That's it. I'm like, okay, all right.

01:04:23.19
Sentfrmheaven
You know, kids ah kids enjoy that, you know, to get a high score from the kids.

01:04:26.84
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:04:28.13
Sentfrmheaven
But, yeah.

01:04:28.28
Tony Sisk
I mean, it looked interesting. um I mean, don't play Minecraft, but it looked interesting.

01:04:32.57
Sentfrmheaven
Me neither. Yeah.

01:04:33.64
Tony Sisk
interesting

01:04:33.75
Jaime G
Me neither, actually.

01:04:35.61
Sentfrmheaven
yeah

01:04:36.47
Jaime G
yeah

01:04:36.47
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah. I didn't see... Was there anything else?

01:04:41.34
Jaime G
Now, in and in all honesty, you know what did get me really excited? And this is this is the crazy part.

01:04:48.76
Sentfrmheaven
See if these.

01:04:48.94
Jaime G
I'm a collector. That green transparent 25th anniversary console,

01:04:56.60
Sentfrmheaven
Yes. Yes.

01:04:57.82
Jaime G
um um I'm interested.

01:04:59.83
Sentfrmheaven
Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. I said, oh, it dropped to November.

01:05:02.81
Jaime G
What I'm not interested is the price tag that that it it carries. It's so like $640?

01:05:09.84
Tony Sisk
Isn't that what all Xboxes cost nowadays?

01:05:12.34
Jaime G
Well, then this is going to be a lot more than that because they want to make it more attractive for people to buy.

01:05:12.42
Sentfrmheaven
Well.

01:05:20.79
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, because I was in Walmart. Yeah, because they have, what, a 650 PS5, and they also have the, what, I think it's like $5.99 or something like that, a PS5 now.

01:05:29.66
Tony Sisk
Target is selling Xbox Series X gaming console right now for $573.

01:05:29.93
Sentfrmheaven
Like, yeah.

01:05:37.45
Tony Sisk
And that's down from $650.

01:05:39.38
Jaime G
and the And that's got to be with a discount.

01:05:40.53
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

01:05:40.54
Tony Sisk
Xbox, I mean, Best Buy, yeah, that's with a discount.

01:05:41.41
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:05:43.96
Tony Sisk
best Best Buy in Murfreesboro has a one terabyte Series X for sale for $650. Walmart has a Series x for

01:05:54.52
Jaime G
okay Okay. So every time that console makers come up with like some special anniversary edition or something, you know that this is the one time that they can get a little bit extra money for the same exact console.

01:06:10.84
Tony Sisk
Yeah. What is the... it called? The X25 something?

01:06:16.56
Sentfrmheaven
X-25, something like that.

01:06:17.66
Jaime G
Yeah, the X 25th anniversary.

01:06:17.76
Tony Sisk
X25? Well,

01:06:20.34
Sentfrmheaven
Mm-hmm. I guess didn't have it.

01:06:21.91
Jaime G
Again, again, don't have an Xbox. I really don't think I would play it. But man,

01:06:31.27
Sentfrmheaven
But, yeah.

01:06:31.99
Tony Sisk
but you went to the store to go buy one and you came home with a Switch 2.

01:06:35.77
Jaime G
and I do not regret it.

01:06:36.15
Sentfrmheaven
Oh, that's terrible.

01:06:37.21
Jaime G
Not one day do I regret that.

01:06:39.83
Sentfrmheaven
there

01:06:43.35
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, but you know what? I mean, I'm right with you. saw that and I was like, you know what? I'll start counting the months away. I came in. It's like, OK, come on. So what I was a month like, say, right? Yeah. Yeah.

01:06:55.80
Sentfrmheaven
i mean, it looks cool. I'm not going live playstation. I got to come out with something.

01:06:59.74
Jaime G
I mean, PlayStation has not come out with anything other than white.

01:06:59.75
Sentfrmheaven
All right. That looks like a cool console. All right.

01:07:04.76
Jaime G
I mean, like the black covers have been like third party.

01:07:07.49
Tony Sisk
Yeah. What happened with the removable sides and all these custom sides that they were going to put out and stuff? And they won't let anybody do it as a third party.

01:07:19.07
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

01:07:19.21
Jaime G
That's exactly the thing.

01:07:19.60
Sentfrmheaven
That's right.

01:07:21.14
Tony Sisk
Like, they were they were suing everybody that was making custom sides.

01:07:26.40
Jaime G
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

01:07:29.09
Sentfrmheaven
And now nothing.

01:07:29.19
Tony Sisk
I don't get it.

01:07:29.30
Jaime G
So I personally think that if I do have some extra extra cash flows, I would buy this only from a collector standpoint because this is probably going to be their last console, man.

01:07:43.99
Jaime G
they They can't survive another another generation.

01:07:47.82
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah. Yeah, and they need the and you know what? It's probably somebody who who either works for Microsoft that had a good idea that they turned down, or like a good game, a good concept that they turned down that they need to go back into archives and pull out.

01:08:07.22
Sentfrmheaven
You know, so you know what? This might work.

01:08:12.44
Jaime G
but What do I always say? Nostalgia sells.

01:08:15.46
Tony Sisk
How do they buy all these studios and there's like no original games coming out?

01:08:15.70
Jaime G
This.

01:08:15.71
Sentfrmheaven
Correct.

01:08:20.14
Jaime G
Right. Spiral? Really, dude?

01:08:23.80
Tony Sisk
but

01:08:23.90
Jaime G
That?

01:08:25.50
Sentfrmheaven
Right, Spiral.

01:08:27.70
Jaime G
Magpie?

01:08:29.69
Sentfrmheaven
like i mean i mean Like, I mean, just think about this. Before today, or before the showcase, when was the last time you even heard of Spiral? Like...

01:08:40.30
Tony Sisk
On the PlayStation Digital Marketplace.

01:08:42.74
Jaime G
Dude, back in Mexico, when I when i used to when i used to ah ride public transportation after like finishing like a day's school and I would take you know a bus to get back home, people would like you know hang like things on their rear view mirror.

01:09:00.85
Jaime G
So you know people had like the the occasional, what was it, like ah pine for for it to smell good. People would like sometimes hang CDs.

01:09:13.05
Jaime G
And just like, just they'd be just dangling there. Like, okay, sure. I kid you not. One time I got into a bus, dude had a spiral PlayStation 1 CD hanging.

01:09:24.54
Tony Sisk
ha

01:09:25.66
Sentfrmheaven
That's funny.

01:09:26.36
Tony Sisk
Hey, I mean, I can buy a Spyro from a Steam Deck.

01:09:26.78
Jaime G
Dude.

01:09:31.77
Tony Sisk
It seems like it'd pretty good Steam Deck game.

01:09:36.63
Tony Sisk
um

01:09:37.62
Jaime G
You know what? It'd be a pretty good thing too, Tony.

01:09:40.09
Tony Sisk
What's that?

01:09:40.44
Jaime G
A Sony exclusive game.

01:09:42.65
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, you're about to get Wolverine.

01:09:48.31
Tony Sisk
but

01:09:49.31
Jaime G
Well, but in all honesty, I don't think...

01:09:50.04
Tony Sisk
We're two months away from that.

01:09:51.79
Jaime G
Spiral's not moving the needle for anybody.

01:09:52.34
Tony Sisk
Two and a half.

01:09:55.26
Tony Sisk
No. No.

01:09:56.86
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

01:09:59.29
Tony Sisk
That's... um Yeah, that's very... Well, you know, I won't say a small segment. I guess... I think there's i think there's a segment for that type of game.

01:10:16.20
Tony Sisk
There's a market for it.

01:10:16.63
Jaime G
Yeah, dude.

01:10:17.60
Tony Sisk
I think there is.

01:10:17.78
Jaime G
and it's and it's And it's all the people that are buying Minecraft.

01:10:22.23
Tony Sisk
But the... Yeah, I mean, here's... I consider it like a kid's 3D platform, right?

01:10:31.74
Jaime G
I agree.

01:10:33.07
Sentfrmheaven
hmm. Right.

01:10:33.18
Tony Sisk
um Where are you going to find more of those? Nintendo, right? Nintendo is the master of that of that market. um This is kind of like... And you know Spyro is going to be on PlayStation and Xbox. It's not even exclusive, right?

01:10:53.82
Tony Sisk
ah So, like, this is kind of like for the very small segment of the player base that needs that type of game for their kids.

01:11:07.67
Tony Sisk
ah You know, like, yeah, very small.

01:11:09.62
Jaime G
very Very small.

01:11:12.44
Tony Sisk
so

01:11:13.75
Jaime G
At this point, Spyro to me makes sense of it being like a a Game Pass game. Not a full release.

01:11:23.58
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:11:23.74
Jaime G
Because you have a lot of kids that you want as a parent, you'll be like, hey, I feel comfortable you playing this game. Go.

01:11:29.66
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:11:30.76
Sentfrmheaven
And it better be no more. I'm like, because of technology, no more than 30 dollars. If it's more than that, it can't be no more than 30 dollars.

01:11:39.01
Tony Sisk
Oh, no. Yeah, it can't be more than $30.

01:11:40.79
Jaime G
Right, right.

01:11:40.98
Tony Sisk
I

01:11:43.06
Sentfrmheaven
It better not be no more than 30 dollars, you know? But I'm like, you know, I'm just looking at the list of games, and I'm like, thing I think Wolong 2 is going to be pretty decent.

01:11:57.46
Sentfrmheaven
ah do I do. I think it's going pretty decent. But the other ones, I'm just like, y'all could have kept that in the vault, you know, like.

01:12:04.95
Tony Sisk
No. i I disagree with you on Wolong.

01:12:09.56
Sentfrmheaven
You don't think so?

01:12:09.74
Tony Sisk
Wolong, that game stinks.

01:12:15.00
Sentfrmheaven
Hey, right. Give me your rule on, hold on.

01:12:15.62
Tony Sisk
That game stinks.

01:12:17.85
Sentfrmheaven
I think that's the 2027, I think that's the 2027 game, right? Yeah, early 2027. Yeah, February, I think.

01:12:23.45
Tony Sisk
The original Wolong, yeah, it stinks.

01:12:23.61
Sentfrmheaven
What's your prediction? Yeah. Yeah, what's your, what's your critic score? What's your critic score on it? Oh, let's do it.

01:12:30.50
Tony Sisk
Out of 10, I give it 5.5, maybe.

01:12:32.45
Sentfrmheaven
Yep.

01:12:33.97
Tony Sisk
maybe

01:12:34.21
Sentfrmheaven
Five and a half. 7.3. 7.3. seven point three

01:12:36.18
Tony Sisk
Five and a half.

01:12:36.74
Jaime G
That's actually a decent score for an Xbox title.

01:12:42.78
Tony Sisk
I think, I mean, look, Wolong, Metacritic score.

01:12:42.90
Sentfrmheaven
seven point three

01:12:47.15
Tony Sisk
Wolong is probably like in the Metacritic in the 70s probably. Yeah.

01:12:55.06
Jaime G
Okay, so so so I think in general, here's what I here's what i got out of this showcase. Other than maybe Gears of War and the Persona games, there's no WoW.

01:13:08.79
Jaime G
I mean, Metroid 2039? Who do we know, really, that plays those games?

01:13:14.49
Sentfrmheaven
nobody

01:13:16.38
Jaime G
And there's a ton of them. there's I mean, it's a series of games that I have no idea. like Is there just like a niche niche cult of people that like like to play these games?

01:13:28.25
Sentfrmheaven
like hey there has to be because i'm like there's like you know like those uh what do they call them like what they do like um you like the crowd testing or whatever like that i'm like there's no way you like y'all did some poll and people were like, yeah, you know, like, yeah, we want that. Like, no,

01:13:49.78
Jaime G
I mean, so so so check this out. I just i just did a quick search. Metro 2032, 2033, Metro Last Light, Metro Exodus, Metro Awakening, Metro Redux, Metro 2039. I mean, what?

01:14:07.93
Jaime G
I mean, in all seriousness, what? Who plays these games, man?

01:14:14.23
Sentfrmheaven
So on Metacritic, never mind, that's Metroid. was about to say, Metroids get some kind scores. But that's Metroid.

01:14:25.11
Jaime G
That's a completely different franchise, man.

01:14:27.03
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, ah like man, Metro gets some pretty good scores. Oh, that's Metroid.

01:14:33.40
Tony Sisk
So on the wool long,

01:14:34.90
Jaime G
Hey, maybe that's why people keep buying him. They're like, hey.

01:14:38.90
Tony Sisk
so the, the, the wool long Metacritic score is 80, but the user score is 6.7. Um, um So, yeah, I'm close to that. I mean, like, I think that...

01:14:57.59
Sentfrmheaven
All you Metro lovers, me all you Wulong players, get in there.

01:15:03.53
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I mean, not a fan of that game.

01:15:09.95
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:15:10.04
Tony Sisk
um And Metro, Metro is famous because it's based on a book series. um

01:15:18.05
Jaime G
Right.

01:15:18.68
Sentfrmheaven
Mmm, a lot of readers out there, okay.

01:15:19.10
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

01:15:20.57
Tony Sisk
But, I mean, it's, I, I have, I've played a couple of Metro games, not all the way through, because they,

01:15:32.78
Tony Sisk
they're okay. Post-apocalyptic Russia, you know? So, you can imagine, like, Russians are already, like, depressing is there

01:15:45.94
Jaime G
ah

01:15:46.10
Sentfrmheaven
We love Russia.

01:15:47.62
Tony Sisk
Hey, hey, no.

01:15:47.67
Sentfrmheaven
you

01:15:47.89
Jaime G
Yo, shots fired.

01:15:49.37
Sentfrmheaven
if

01:15:50.23
Tony Sisk
ah

01:15:53.27
Tony Sisk
yeah in in in Yeah, yeah, we love Russians.

01:15:54.90
Sentfrmheaven
We love wrestling.

01:15:58.14
Tony Sisk
um But like, it's very heavy. but You know what saying? It's post-apocalyptic and they really lean into it. um But the gameplay is not as good as you would think.

01:16:13.98
Tony Sisk
Post-apocalyptic, you know. Warzone should be. Needs needs better weapons. I think better weapons would have.

01:16:25.76
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

01:16:26.10
Tony Sisk
And the better gameplay would help that series out.

01:16:26.58
Sentfrmheaven
Castlevania.

01:16:32.58
Tony Sisk
Though I understand it's pretty popular series of games.

01:16:39.06
Tony Sisk
But, oh, did you see the, Jaime, did you see, I know you like Castlevania games.

01:16:46.10
Sentfrmheaven
<unk>van

01:16:47.15
Jaime G
Castlevania.

01:16:48.44
Tony Sisk
Did you see the new side-scroller Castlevania trailer?

01:16:51.64
Jaime G
us saw it, but I feel like there's been like another Castlevania reveal not too too long ago for like a different system.

01:17:01.21
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I don't know. can't remember what this one was called. It looked pretty good. It wasn't on the showcase. It was something separate.

01:17:07.37
Jaime G
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. It was Castlevania, some type of Belmont's curse, maybe?

01:17:14.52
Tony Sisk
Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

01:17:16.38
Jaime G
yeah

01:17:18.58
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, that's more from the ah showcase.

01:17:18.60
Jaime G
I saw it. Right. But I saw it. rat thought I thought it was OK.

01:17:27.29
Jaime G
ah nothing I do like the Castlevania games, but I don't know. is this is Is this the one that kind of looks like all retro?

01:17:35.93
Tony Sisk
yeah

01:17:37.11
Jaime G
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did see it.

01:17:41.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah, it didn't look too bad. Side-scroller, you know, like those.

01:17:46.42
Jaime G
Yeah, I do.

01:17:48.17
Tony Sisk
Metro style, I'm sure.

01:17:52.57
Tony Sisk
um All right, well, anything else on the our showcase reaction?

01:17:57.24
Sentfrmheaven
Um, the, yeah, the Plague's Tale, uh, you play the one with the rats, right?

01:17:58.65
Tony Sisk
it

01:18:01.66
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah, yeah, I played the first one.

01:18:01.80
Sentfrmheaven
Is it, is that the one?

01:18:04.76
Tony Sisk
um

01:18:05.13
Sentfrmheaven
yeah.

01:18:07.70
Tony Sisk
And the second one.

01:18:07.74
Jaime G
What do you mean the one with the rats?

01:18:09.72
Tony Sisk
I played the first and the second one. Yes.

01:18:12.05
Sentfrmheaven
Oh, you, you control rats, right? Or something like that? Mice rats or something like that?

01:18:15.41
Tony Sisk
A Plague's Tale.

01:18:16.76
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, Plague's Tale, yeah.

01:18:17.05
Jaime G
Oh, Plague Steel, yeah.

01:18:19.13
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

01:18:19.45
Tony Sisk
Those are pretty good.

01:18:21.53
Sentfrmheaven
but Yeah, I saw that and I was like, yes, maybe Tony play one because i know he's played the other

01:18:25.37
Jaime G
Yeah, it's it's one of those that when you see it, you're like, oh, Tony's going to be so into this one.

01:18:29.94
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

01:18:30.01
Tony Sisk
I don't know, man. It wasn't called A Plague Tale Residence or something.

01:18:34.55
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah.

01:18:34.58
Jaime G
That's the right name. Mm-hmm.

01:18:35.61
Tony Sisk
um I don't know. It seemed like it was far off from the original trip game, though.

01:18:41.84
Jaime G
Well, I mean, every game by their third sequel has departed some from the original one.

01:18:49.84
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

01:18:50.08
Tony Sisk
No, this seemed like it had departed very far away from the original.

01:18:55.10
Jaime G
I mean, think of Assassin's Creed. Like, you're starting from Desmond, who's trying to figure out his past so that he can learn how to be an assassin. Fast forward three games, and you're like the pirate...

01:19:07.08
Jaime G
You're like a pirate ship.

01:19:10.55
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

01:19:11.51
Tony Sisk
Which is their best game, by the way.

01:19:13.05
Jaime G
Yeah, right. It is actually.

01:19:16.34
Sentfrmheaven
Was that a black sale?

01:19:17.78
Tony Sisk
Black flag. fight

01:19:18.28
Jaime G
Black flag.

01:19:19.10
Sentfrmheaven
Black flag.

01:19:20.17
Tony Sisk
There's a remake coming, by the way.

01:19:22.39
Sentfrmheaven
Ooh.

01:19:22.90
Jaime G
It actually looks pretty. It looks quite good, to be honest.

01:19:24.80
Tony Sisk
It looks I mean, the original game was good. So.

01:19:29.51
Jaime G
Yep.

01:19:29.85
Sentfrmheaven
So they should have had that on the showcase, you know?

01:19:30.29
Jaime G
Yep.

01:19:30.90
Tony Sisk
It's my favorite Assassin's Creed.

01:19:34.71
Tony Sisk
um

01:19:36.57
Sentfrmheaven
yeah a chat Y'all can't see, but Tony's smiling. He's smiling in the ear. his favorites That's it.

01:19:39.90
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:19:41.30
Tony Sisk
Black flag.

01:19:41.46
Jaime G
He's like, ooh pirate ship.

01:19:43.31
Tony Sisk
Yep.

01:19:46.04
Tony Sisk
r r Yeah. All

01:19:50.49
Tony Sisk
right. Well, that's all i got.

01:19:55.06
Tony Sisk
Go.

01:19:55.59
Jaime G
That's a lot. They're trying.

01:19:57.62
Tony Sisk
Yeah, we did quite a bit of of bashing of the Xbox showcase.

01:19:57.72
Sentfrmheaven
We have beaten this dead the horse of a game show.

01:20:03.29
Tony Sisk
ah ha

01:20:07.45
Sentfrmheaven
I feel like we are in, right?

01:20:07.73
Jaime G
they're they're trying

01:20:10.09
Sentfrmheaven
It's like, I feel like we're in winning relationship where it's like, like we are trying to love Xbox and Xbox just keep pushing us away, you know? Like.

01:20:21.27
Jaime G
I will tell you this, man. i will I will try to get me that that console from a collector's perspective, but ug there's there's nothing that I think I can play.

01:20:30.42
Tony Sisk
ah

01:20:31.31
Sentfrmheaven
Let's do it. you

01:20:34.62
Tony Sisk
All right,

01:20:34.71
Sentfrmheaven
Hey, Spyro. Okay, Spyro.

01:20:36.98
Jaime G
Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:20:42.16
Tony Sisk
Dan. um That's all I got. so thanks yeah

01:20:46.91
Sentfrmheaven
That is it.

01:20:48.12
Tony Sisk
Thanks, everybody, for joining us here on Good Game Radio as we continue our game coverage. Oh, House of the Dragon came out last night.

01:21:01.62
Jaime G
Dude, did that shadow shadow release?

01:21:02.05
Sentfrmheaven
I have a scene.

01:21:03.62
Jaime G
Because I had no idea that it was coming out.

01:21:06.89
Tony Sisk
don't think so.

01:21:07.13
Jaime G
i

01:21:07.43
Tony Sisk
they've been There's been trailers for it all summer.

01:21:09.18
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, yeah, trailers and everybody's been talking about it.

01:21:10.80
Jaime G
Holy smokes.

01:21:11.67
Sentfrmheaven
Yep.

01:21:12.13
Jaime G
I woke up this morning and usually like as I'm catching up on my daily emails, I'm going through the feed and different some of my usual go-to websites.

01:21:12.41
Tony Sisk
Yep.

01:21:23.67
Jaime G
And then it said, House the Dragon season, whatever, premiere episode scores 10 out of 10. I'm thinking to myself, like, say what now?

01:21:36.16
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I'm going to go to watch it as soon as I get off here. So, um yeah. So thanks, everybody, for listening to the show. We'll catch you guys on the next episode.

01:21:49.85
Tony Sisk
And Naomi, hopefully your computer won't crash on you.

01:21:50.04
Sentfrmheaven
later

01:21:50.42
Jaime G
Oh, it's a pleasure.

01:21:54.04
Jaime G
I don't know what, I don't know how you have fixed it, to be honest, man.

01:21:54.71
Tony Sisk
ah

01:21:58.26
Sentfrmheaven
hello moto

01:21:59.64
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:22:02.55
Tony Sisk
See ya.

01:22:03.74
Jaime G
See guys.