GameVerse Pub : Crafting Game Talk
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GameVerse Pub : Crafting Game Talk
Episode 39: Upcoming Game Releases 2026
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Shawn, Platinum J, Olive, and Shane gather around the table at the GameVerse Pub for Episode 39 to talk about some of the biggest upcoming game releases we’ll all be watching over the next year! 🍺🎮
In this episode, each member of the crew takes turns bringing up a game they’re excited, curious, or cautiously optimistic about as we dive into what the future of gaming could look like 👀
From massive open worlds to long-awaited sequels and exciting remakes, the crew reacts to and discusses games like:
🎮 007 First Light
🚗 GTA6
🦖 Jurassic Park Survival
🧙 Fable Remake
🏎️ Star Wars Galactic Racer
🎭 Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
⚔️ Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynched
🐺 Marvel’s Wolverine
As each game gets brought to the table, the conversation naturally branches into hype, concerns, memories tied to past entries, and what we’re hoping these upcoming releases deliver 😄
🍻 Whether you're counting the days for GTA6 or just looking for new games to keep an eye on, this episode is full of fun discussions and upcoming titles worth watching!
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Hey everybody. Hi, friends. Hey everyone.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Shane's late to the party, but at least you showed up. Always a little slow, but there you go. You're writing in the little booklet. Oh, you have the store sock today. Yeah. You both forgot your little notepad, so you're writing in the store sock.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Store sock.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Hey? Some games to talk about?
SPEAKER_01Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Welcome to Game Verse Pub. Today, very special episode. Very. Because we will talk about upcoming games. Games to watch out for, right? Yeah. Let's go. So we thought that there's a lot of games coming out all the time. But right now we're in a phase where there's a lot coming out that might interest us. Yep. So we just wanted to get together and talk about them.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_03Very easy, very laid back. We're not there to educate you on these games. We're just there to be part of your conversations too. And uh maybe entice you, uh, help you figure out what your next uh upcoming games uh excitements will be. Yeah. So we're here with Shaney Baby. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Welcome back.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Pizza. Pizza.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Uh, because we just we just finished recording another episode on stealth games. I don't know which one will come first. No, I think this episode will be the next one we publish. Oh yeah. So the stealth game would be in the future. But yeah, so one to look look forward to. Oh, yeah. Stealth games to play with PJ. Yeah. Um, which brings me to PJ, Platinum J next guest on the line. Thank you, thank you. We've got Olive Branch. Oh, yeah. Except not Branch, just Olive. Just Olive. Just Olive. Olive. Who today, I guess it's in two episodes now that we're gonna be saying this. Today, we just published your player profile episode. Did yeah. So uh you can go watch it. It's episode 38.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_03Olive's player profile, where we get to learn all about you and your gaming history. Yeah. Uh so you can see uh see how uh she got in our heads and made us get the wrong answers every goddamn time. That's clever.
SPEAKER_01Can we get a few? Uh the first answer you got right, but you already knew about it. Yeah, and then the the trick question everyone got right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So which one's your favorite? I don't have a favorite. Anyways, go watch the episode, you'll get it. No, it's just stupid. But anyway.
SPEAKER_01He's already upset about it. He still lost sleep over two.
SPEAKER_03I lost sleep, and I do not lose sleep on anything. So I just goes to the show. Uh, and I'm your host, Sean, of course. But who cares about that? It's about these guys and gals. We cares. Gal. You're part of the family.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. Because he didn't press it for himself.
SPEAKER_03Thank you. I did it for all of you though, right? Yeah. Okay, that's what counts. So, yeah, I just want to. Oh, wait. The most important thing in the world is churching. We got a mute.
SPEAKER_00Diversity and inclusion.
SPEAKER_03We don't gotta mute. Sign language the whole time. I'm just gonna zap you with a voice.
SPEAKER_00There we go.
SPEAKER_03Oh, jeez. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. Got him back.
SPEAKER_03We got him back. Uh so uh you're still drinking the beer from the last episode. That's fine. You're still nursing uh uh a migraine headache, but my god, you're such a trooper to be here with us today. Yeah, and you barely know because on the last episode I thought it was you st we still had your your lively charm in there. I tried. Success. Thank you. Lively, it was more deathly charm. Yeah, yeah. If you know, you know. I guess no, you'll find out because that episode's gonna come after this one. After this one. Yeah. Something to look forward to. But so for the two guys remaining, I do have a special beer for us, Shane. Ooh. Yeah. Ooh. It's a it's a seasonal beer. Okay. Uh that we passed the season, but I think it's a great you'll understand. It's gonna be dark. Not really. Oh?
SPEAKER_01Oh, we don't know what season.
SPEAKER_03Okay, right.
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SPEAKER_04Hey, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Look at this. An maple. This is typically Canadian. Yeah. It's so good, dude. Did you ever taste this?
SPEAKER_04No, I haven't had this one.
SPEAKER_03This is a dessert beer for this dessert podcast. So sweet. Podcasts like this are my favorite. Oh, oh, and we have a Can the Canada dry. Let's go. Oh, Canada is just represented everywhere here. Let's go. With the ginger ale. Here you go, Olive.
SPEAKER_01I don't want to risk it getting worse.
SPEAKER_03No, no, exactly. So um, yeah. So this is delicious. And like I said, these episodes are my favorite because they require no preparation. They're just four friends getting together and talking about what games are coming up and what we're what we're excited to see or play or curious about. Go with the flow. And I have my list of games that uh I'll bring up as we go, but I can't wait to see which ones we have that are the same and which ones that I don't have that I didn't really think about, and see how what what gets you excited about them. But before that, we need to get a crack stuff. That was a beautiful sound.
SPEAKER_00Did you just make it until you make it, baby?
SPEAKER_03Nice. I love the attitude, PJ. I love the attitude. Oh, yeah, we need the ASMR of the poor, right? That's so cool. I need the bee. We didn't go for B break after the other podcast. Let's not break the seal. Let's not break the seal. The maple.
SPEAKER_00The maple. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It reminds me of like those little sassa. Yeah. Oh, it sounds good.
SPEAKER_04It's like a celebration in your mouth. The the never wins invited.
SPEAKER_01You do you. It's like if you know, you know.
SPEAKER_03No, no. I hate that.
SPEAKER_00T-shirt.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03You do you, and just my face, super mad about it.
SPEAKER_01And me going. Anyways, I was gonna say it reminds me of those like uh hard candies you can buy the maple ones.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I don't know. I just got that. Same color, the amber.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Super sexy. Um guys, Gal. Yes, thank you for being here. I appreciate you all. And this is not a pre-recorded thing that I say. I really feel it and I mean it. And thanks for being here. Hey, press that button. The second we touch, you'll see you'll feel better. Awesome. No, it gives you a jolt. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.
SPEAKER_00Right?
SPEAKER_01That was good.
SPEAKER_02The jubilation is unmatched.
SPEAKER_01I taste the maple in here. Oh yeah, but I taste the maple, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Anyways, yeah, I think I'll be good with this, but my god.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. You know the origin of cheering, cheersing?
SPEAKER_01Uh no mess.
SPEAKER_04I I thought it was so that you would like spill some of your beverage into the other person's beverage. That way you'd like to make sure no one was poisoning the drinks. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, that's more interesting the way I think you're going with it. Yeah, yeah. So you cheers if you're you trust you to build a trust. To build a trust with your your fellow drinkers. Well, that's cool. Yeah, I think I I'm doing that somewhere. That might just be coming out of the rear end. Hammerspace.
SPEAKER_03No, but I I that's sounds like it sounds too real to not be true.
SPEAKER_01It's interesting. Yeah, it would make sense. Fun facts.
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SPEAKER_03Fun facts which are. Fun facts insane. Oh my god. We need a song for it, too. And you have to wear the pizza outfit.
SPEAKER_00Fun facts which be extra silly.
SPEAKER_03Extra silly. Yeah. Just like we like it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Alright. Guys, games that are coming up. Uh we're in uh beginning of May right now. Okay. This episode will come at the mid-May.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Okay. So from then on, for the next year, let's not just go past that. What's coming up that excites you?
SPEAKER_00Oh God.
SPEAKER_03Right? So I'd like to start with um with uh Shane. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Since he sent us the whole list, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you're you're the one who you're the one who sparked this episode because we were supposed to do an episode on the good old days of gaming, which we will do. Yeah. Like this is a brilliant episode. It's just you brought this up, and I thought that would it was a great idea and a great conversation to have.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, for sure. Well, it was in speaking about the good old days that I thought this list was kind of relevant. A lot of the games on this list are kind of callbacks to older games and some re-releases too. So the first one that's coming out pretty soon is the 007. So right away.
SPEAKER_03So that's your game you're talking about right now?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. That's the number one. That's yeah, that was that was my my top game.
SPEAKER_03Yes! Wait, did I put it?
SPEAKER_04I I put it in the middle of the code.
SPEAKER_03Oh, it's not even on there. Oh! No, because okay. You wouldn't have to be. I had one spot left, and I wasn't sure which one between and and I'll I'll say that later, but Goldeneye, uh the 007 one was one of my three. Just didn't fit. But I knew you had it on, so I'm like, okay, maybe I won't put it, but I did it.
SPEAKER_02Because you're like for the podcast and I posted.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you posted it. I'm like saying that. I was gonna that was one that's the reason why I didn't put that one on mine either. Because he already posted it.
SPEAKER_04We knew it talking about it's it's yeah, Goldeneye, right? Yeah, yeah. I don't know if you guys played other 007 games growing up, but there was Nightfall.
SPEAKER_02No, no, we lived under a Nightfire, Nightfire, Nightfire, Agent Under Fire, Russia with Love. PJ played them. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I was just gonna say the 64. Oh, it's the Goldeneye.
SPEAKER_01I I haven't played any, but I watched the trailer to this one and it looked pretty cool.
SPEAKER_02And one of them, I think, like I think there's one or two of them with Daniel Craig in it. Okay, okay. I think one of them is like the Quantum Insolace one, and then the other one I forget what it's called.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it might have been an like off story, not like a movie, but just an additional story.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't think it follows the movie, but it just has Daniel Craig in it. Yeah. Uh but it has that uncharted feel, eh?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. And uh a bit of stealth, bit of uh shoot 'em up, fun games. So I I wonder what this one's gonna be like. Honestly, like I I after Goldeneye, I wasn't always over the top about the 007 games. Um but this one, yeah, let's let's give it a try.
SPEAKER_02Do you know do you know what I think is gonna be? It's gonna be indistinguishable from an uncharted game.
SPEAKER_01I do feel like they say that it's like between an uncharted and like a hitman kind of.
SPEAKER_03But Uncharted isn't it a lot of parkour like climbing? Like that's what I remember of Uncharted, so I don't see that being a main thing in the 707. Well the controls and combat, close combat. Okay, okay, okay. Uh one thing that when I looked up about that game that interests me is was there's a specific word. Oh okay, yeah. And I want to see if just by me saying this, you'll know what that specific word is. If you're thinking of some way to sell what it's what golden what 007 is going to be about, it's a specific word that me uh caught me caught me. So I want to see if there's something that comes up, if not, I'll just say it.
SPEAKER_01I don't know.
SPEAKER_03A specific word.
SPEAKER_01Just one word?
SPEAKER_03One word.
SPEAKER_01I have no idea. Oh my god, just tell us. Well, what do I say?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. Nothing. We got nothing. Not even a wild guess. Like the word horse or something.
SPEAKER_01Um it's horse. I'm assuming mystery.
SPEAKER_04Gadget. Gadget. Oh yes.
SPEAKER_01I actually have that in my notes.
SPEAKER_04It's Q, right?
SPEAKER_03No, that's yeah, Q is the word.
SPEAKER_01We have a lot of use of gadgets in that game. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, I'm assuming besides Golden, I have never played a 0007 type uh game, right? Okay. Watch movies, but never played that. Uh, and when I was looking it up, the fact that it says it's gonna have cool gadgets. I'm like I told you I just want to see a cool watch, it does something cool, or yeah, you know, so so it's just gonna be a normal smart watch.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, your heart rate is at 10,000 steps.
SPEAKER_03That was always fun though. Yeah, so for the gadgets part, I think that's gonna be cool. So you're saying Uncharted. I I I played one of the Uncharted's back in the day. I can't recall enough, uh, but I hope it's not.
SPEAKER_04I think it's a cinematic progression that's like Uncharted. Okay, maybe you you play and then you get to a cutscene and you just it it's very follow a story, yeah, very linear in that way. I think it's gonna be like that, not necessarily the all the game play, like the handling of the of the character might be a little different.
SPEAKER_02Because there's a lot of uh the combat combat is very similar to Uncharted, but also there's comparisons on on Twitter I saw where you saw Uncharted and then you saw uh 007 First Light, and there's like specific scenes that it's almost like frame per frame in terms of like what you're doing. So it's like if they didn't have the name there, you probably wouldn't be wouldn't be able to know the difference between which game, uh apart from the characters, obviously. There's a lot of stuff, but it's the good quality of the good parts of the game, I think.
SPEAKER_03Like that either so you don't think see that as a bad thing, you see it as a good thing, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Cause Uncharted, like it was successful because of that, the the un like the dramatic environment that like gets destroyed or flipped out or through the window. Yeah, and a jet ski and this year, yeah. So that's in there. So that's that type of thing is in there. So I think that's what is gonna draw people. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_01The flow from cinematic to yes, just the trailer that I watched, I was like, hmm. It's pretty good. But trailers are easy to get. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But I don't think a lot of the trailers with games are not gameplay, are not gameplay. Like there are no if I want to play a game, I yeah. Uh but when I'm watching a trailer like of a movie, yeah, I want it to be cool. But for a game, no, I'm watching it because I want to see if I want if if I want to vibe with that gameplay. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it looks cool, but yeah, if I want to watch 007 movies, there are a lot out there that I can watch.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but also like I watched trailers for like other games that you sent me, and some of them I was like, I watch like two seconds, like nope. No way, yeah. So I mean, yeah, you can tell like you can which games you'll vibe with and which ones you won't for sure. Yeah, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but that one there's gameplay clips, so you can just look it up. Okay, yeah, you'll see. Good job, yeah. Good job, trailer.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah, so I think I think that'd be cool. So who had it on their list? Oh, you had it? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I did I it was like he had it, but it would have been on my list because he does know how to read rules. Stop ruining things. You're fired. You're fired.
SPEAKER_04Uh okay, cool. That's first light, 007. Yeah, right. And um, I'm not buying it full price. Personally, that like it's on my list, but it's not uh I agree.
SPEAKER_03It's not a full price game for me right now. In all of these, I'm gonna tell you right now, there's one that I'm gonna buy full price. Oh, yeah. I already know what it is.
SPEAKER_02I already know what it is.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so so can we just go to that game right away? GTA six Okay, okay. GTA six is I'm buying full price, two coffees.
SPEAKER_00Two TV every of them.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Um the reason I'm buying full the reason I'm buying full price is because I'm pretty sure. Tell me if I'm wrong. You're wrong. I'm pretty sure I'll have at least three more friends that will buy it because I Shane, you brought this idea up where I want to do a podcast of a month after playing, six months after playing, a year after playing. That's bad. I want to do a lot of uh few podcasts on this game because it will change. Yeah, what we do after a month of playing will be completely maybe a week. Like I don't even know. I'm ready to brainstorm this with you. Whoever is in my if in our group, the sphere.
SPEAKER_04The game verse sphere. The game verse.
SPEAKER_01I heard it's gonna be like 40 to 60 hours easy that game apparently game. It's gonna be the biggest one. And they also said like no AI that's gonna be used. Oh, that's it. So everything that's gonna be like mountains, cities, whatever, it's all gonna be like from a designer, artist, whatever. That's awesome. So no AI, no sloppiness. Yeah, everybody has their own story. Like let's say you I don't know, you rob a store, the store's gonna be closed for a little bit for investigation and stuff like that. If you set fire to a forest, the forest will stay messed up until like wildlife starts taking over.
SPEAKER_04Oh my god. That's a little different.
SPEAKER_01Oh man, I want to play this game even more. It looks really cool. Definitely.
SPEAKER_00You know how people are gonna call it. The game's gonna crash.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, as soon as it comes out, it's definitely gonna crash or something. The world is gonna crash. No one's gonna go to work.
SPEAKER_03Is it uh is it is it the most anticipated game of all time so far?
SPEAKER_01Because of how many times they like, yeah, we're gonna release it.
SPEAKER_03You think that was a marketing strategy or it was really for purpose?
SPEAKER_01I feel like it was a marketing strategy to really get people like pissed off and then like wanting to get it, because they even had people like to us saying it was most certainly was not or it could be just because they're led by a British person.
SPEAKER_02Dr. Games, Dr. Games, yeah, help us. If the if the delay is so long because the people are overworked, then they could extend it, but they use it as a strategy itself, even though maybe it's both at the same time and it's serving itself.
SPEAKER_01It's pretty cool because like every action you have in this game or you do, you have like an echo to it. So like actions have consequences. Kind of like a butterfly effect, yeah, actions have consequences. Oh man, I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_03If this game brings that I have to play more than one character, I'm telling you right now, I will be pissed to death off. Like, that's why I didn't play GTA 5. Yeah, like for me, and whatever. Just jumping around to different. No, I want to invest in my character. If I'm doing one thing, like make me choose if the because obviously I think the cover has a guy and a girl. Like, whatever, make me choose. Tell me who I don't know. But the whole game. But I I want to be able to play and invest. If there's m an economy, I want right or something to go get some cards. Like, I don't know what if it's online.
SPEAKER_04I think that's online for you then.
SPEAKER_03So I know, but I don't like to play online. No, no, no, no, no, no. I know it exists online, it's not my thing.
SPEAKER_04It's the story that attracts you the most.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I want to even with after the story or before the story or during, I want to live in this world and live my own life. I don't want to go bounds between different ones. Yeah, I guess. I agree. Right? You can play stock. Yeah. I heard you can do that in GTA 5. What I like, yeah. Right? But I don't want to have like if I hit something good with one character, then it moves me to the other. I'm like, oh man, I had a Porsche.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01Now you're driving a Volkswagen Beetle. No.
SPEAKER_03If I want to play multiple different lives, I'll I'll start multiple games. Right? Yeah. Anyway, so that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01I I hate when jumping around to like different characters.
SPEAKER_03Did you play GTA 5?
SPEAKER_01Um, I think my husband did. I they're not games that like I'm super attracted to. Okay. But my husband will probably pay full price for it, or I'll buy for him full price. I don't care. Like if he wants it, I'll buy it for it.
SPEAKER_03Are you gonna play the six?
SPEAKER_01Um, I don't know if I'll play it. I'll start off by watching him play it for sure. And like hang out with him while he plays it if he does.
SPEAKER_04Yeah rob a bank together. Oh my god, it's so cool.
SPEAKER_03Dude, um you know how I said in the last podcast that um that uh what Game Versus Pub, the our little trans community is is doing, is it it's making me be open-minded on different games. But maybe at some point, like it'll get me a little bit more open-minded on online co-op right situations. I just I need to be exposed to it. The problem is I don't have the same schedule as you, as you, as you, so I don't I'm never in a situation where I can co-op. Yeah, yeah, right, and by the time I can game, and it's so goddamn limited, like I just want to be in my own little pool and do my thing, doing all the setups. Or I'm I'm in the basement and I can't co-op and start talking out loud in the house and waking everybody up. Like my kids will uh will sleep very you know, the time has to be so dedicated to the game.
SPEAKER_04If you're gonna game with friends, you don't want to let them down, right?
SPEAKER_03So I do that. I do a thing where hey, every for the next whatever, every Thursday at from eight to ten, yeah, we're gaming together and we're doing this. Like I'd plan that if I can do that. Nice, but just randomly, like I won't start a co-op with somebody if if we never know when we're gonna get back to it.
SPEAKER_01My husband does every like Friday nights is his games night, like with his boys, and they just play games all night, and I'll just like read or I'll get onto like one of my games, but like every Friday night is like his time and it's his game night, and I go whatever.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, if you plan it, like with a busy life, you g I guess you gotta plan it. So hopefully I get to I get to live that point at some point. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Like this game is gonna be big. Like Grand Theft Auto Five, they've been adding to the online content since it came out. I've got friends that have just started playing it now. Okay. And it's it's been out like it was out on how many consoles?
SPEAKER_02How many re-releases?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I think I bought it on PS3, PS4, PS5. I bought it again or which one the the last Grand Theft Auto. Oh yeah. And they keep adding to the online content.
SPEAKER_01And it it's do you think they're adding to keep you busy for six? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Kind of. Yeah, I I guess. People just keep on playing, though.
SPEAKER_03So what do we know about six? When is it coming out? Do we is is there a new proposed date?
SPEAKER_01I thought it was November. Maybe I'm wrong.
SPEAKER_02It got moves too many times, but I think right now the date is November something.
SPEAKER_01And then November they're like, psych? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But I think before Christmas. Initial release date, November 19th, 2026.
SPEAKER_02Before Christmas? That's huge for them. Yeah. That's like the theory. What we still thought of. Yeah. Right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Oh man. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_01It's kind of like Call of Duty. Call of Duty does everything in November, too.
SPEAKER_02Yes, that's true. Okay. But November 19th or the 20th, everyone's going to be calling.
SPEAKER_03So we're doing an episode on this game. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. Near the end of December. Book it. That we're that will be the first episode out in 2027.
SPEAKER_01Oh, damn.
SPEAKER_03We got group stumps. Are we down?
SPEAKER_012027.
SPEAKER_03Are we down?
SPEAKER_01Well I'll see. We'll find somebody else. Maybe we can get your husband to be part of the episode.
SPEAKER_03That'd be cool. Okay. So GTA 6, super excited. Yeah, that's probably my most excited. If I'm willing to play full price, and I told that to my girlfriend uh earlier today, I think if there's one game I'm going to play full price, it'll be that one.
SPEAKER_01I'll definitely buy it for my husband full price.
SPEAKER_03You're so sweet. Lucky to have you. Lucky to have you, Yez. Okay, cool. Let's go. So since I'll I'll take this as if I uh I was the one that brought it up. So would you uh like to bring one up?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um there's a few, but like this one really got me. Jurassic Park. Oh yeah. Jurassic Park.
SPEAKER_04There you go. Yeah, I use I I've enjoyed Jurassic Park games before.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, like nostalgic, and then it's like more of a survival thing, so you have to like sneak around and stuff and like survive and get off the island.
SPEAKER_03Okay, not Jurassic Park evolution where you get to develop your theme park.
SPEAKER_01No, no, Jurassic Park survival, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_01I looked at the trailer and I was like, I'm like, yes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So what is it? Survival, but like what's the main You have to get off the island. The goal is that, and then the game ends?
SPEAKER_01I suppose so.
SPEAKER_03So you survived so you survive it.
SPEAKER_04Isla Dublar. I think that's the island name. Okay. I was laughing at my the way that I didn't articulate. I thought it was the beer.
SPEAKER_01Four hours of sleep two years later.
SPEAKER_03Are you liking this? But I think it's really delicious. Yeah, yeah. It's a perfect dessert beer for this dessert podcast.
SPEAKER_04Sugary, it's but it's nice. Great. Wouldn't drink more than one of them. No, exactly.
SPEAKER_01No, no, but definitely glad I didn't take one then. No.
SPEAKER_04If it's sugary. Kind of like your amber, typical almost amber, but with the very sweet note there. So um enjoyable.
SPEAKER_02I'm good. Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, Jurassic Park. Yeah. I'm glad we're on the same page.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay. So but so what do you know about it besides what we're doing?
SPEAKER_01Uh I just watched the trailer to be honest. So I don't know much about it, but the trailer like it got me, and I was there like you have to survive and get off the island. I was like, I want to survive and get off the island, but like first person.
SPEAKER_03I think it was just like Oh, it's called Jurassic Park Survival. Yeah.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01Somebody wasn't listening.
SPEAKER_03Hey, maybe there's you were just saying it's a survival.
SPEAKER_01No, no, it's called Jurassic Park Survival. No, like the the the the it was like, anyways, I think it's just more the like the nostalgic part of it, like whatever kids like Jurassic Park, but like the survival part, like Isla Nublar.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's like evade prehistoric predators, survive the island. Good book, by the way.
SPEAKER_01Sounds a lot cooler now, and you have to like dodge the dinosaurs, you know. Yeah, if you can dodge a ball, you could dodge a dinosaur. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So I wonder if it's stealthy too. Like, is it you're sneaking around?
SPEAKER_01I think you kind of have to sneak around because of the dinosaurs. So I'm kind of super excited. Is it an overhead view? Shit's gone down. The trailer I saw was not no.
SPEAKER_04No, I okay. That was like the old there was an old one that I played on Super Ness. My dad played a lot, and we'd watch him. My brother. Pistol Pete? Yeah, Pistol Pete. You gotta get that guy on the podcast, man. Yeah, maybe you can talk about the for retro games. Yeah, let's go.
SPEAKER_03Super Star Wars and Super Jurassic Park.
SPEAKER_04Let's get him on. That one used to have like you had to get collect all the eggs to be able to get off the island. I don't know what but that was a great, super fun game. Okay. The super nest, yeah. Nice. So that's really what's got me hyped about this one. Yeah, it's not the evolution type game where you're you're building your park. Um I got those games, didn't enjoy them because it's just not for me. And uh, but this yeah, Jurassic Park stuff. Love it. Let's go. Love it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, nice.
SPEAKER_02I'll definitely check out the trailer on that.
SPEAKER_03Um, yeah, I'm I'm curious about that now. Oh my god, I gotta write it down in my little book.
SPEAKER_02Now I have the theme song in my head.
SPEAKER_03Who was at the last podcast?
SPEAKER_01Um uh me.
SPEAKER_03GPL?
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, GPL.
SPEAKER_03Hey, we won a free participation on this one. I I I looked at it the other day. So, yeah, so we need to redo something. Okay, so yeah, so I'll write. Oh, that's not it. So I write it here Jurassic Prime Pass. Yeah, it looks cool. Don't judge my writing. I'll be looking for trailers on that one. Yeah, I want to watch it so you had mentioned like, oh, it could be fun, like in the past, to watch trailers and then and comment on them. So I thought that that would the experience of it would be really fun. But for a podcast, like people are listening to it in their car too, right? So we can't watch watch videos and what a comment. Yeah, absolutely. Like if we want if you want at some point to do something like this, like it could be a fun um uh video uh that we do for the channel, right? Where we do that specifically for the channel, but uh in a podcast format, not really can encourage people to watch even before a podcast, sit down and watch them. Sit down and watch them together so we have that you know popcorn. Yeah, we have popcorn with popcorn, maybe pizza or pizza. Popcorn pizza!
SPEAKER_00Popcorn pizza trademark, another t-shirt.
SPEAKER_03We've got too many t-shirt. We'll have a clothesline at this point. Let's let's start this GvP clothesline trademark. Okay, stamp it. Oh, I thought we were high fiving. Sorry, sorry. Okay, cool. Jurassic Park, thank you very much. Your turn, my friend. So Fable remake. Oh yes, yes, yes, dude, it's right here. It's right here. Don't leave me! Hey! No, it's sorry, dude. Fable right here. Okay, so that's what I wanted to know. I purposely did not look anything up on this game. I saw the word fable. I'm like, do you know? Have you heard about Fable? Have you heard? Have you heard the bird? Bird is the word. I've played when I was young. Yeah, it was um again, something I was explaining to my wife earlier. Um, or girlfriend, I don't remember which skills which one I was talking to. Um kidding. Uh so which Fable in our day, correct me if I'm wrong, was like that first game that came to kind of give consequence to your decisions. Yes. Where if you went evil, even the look of the guy changed. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_02Start having horns, red eyes, or some reason.
SPEAKER_01You seem to like having consequences too with your games.
SPEAKER_03No, but I always I still always played the good guy. Oh, no, I can the first time I cannot the first time I cannot play the evil. No, I mean I have to help the the person that's help what needs help. Like I it's it's stronger than me. And even if I start a campaign with the intention of being an asshole, you can. Yeah, no, it's stronger. Yeah, but the second playthrough, I think that's a flaw. Then the second playthrough, you're like Yeah, but usually uh there's so many games out there that I don't know. There may not be the second playthrough. I'll just go to another game, right?
SPEAKER_02But I yeah, I would like I did good guy for one, bad guy for the second one something.
SPEAKER_01You don't have a heart like Sean.
SPEAKER_03So there's the um lately, which G, uh Genius, yes, uh, has uh has been playing the anniversary edition because it came on sale on Steam. I got it too, which I didn't buy, then I regretted it. Then it came again on sale, and I still didn't buy it. And I'm like, and right now I'm realizing why didn't I buy it? It came again on sale. But uh so that's what I wanted to know. This version of Fable, it's a remake?
SPEAKER_02Remake of the first one.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay. What's the anniversary edition then?
SPEAKER_02Uh it's the it's the same. I don't know if it's like a remaster, but it's the same like game essentially. But like so now there may be like some special bonuses in there that you I don't know.
SPEAKER_03But it's really a remake of the first one.
SPEAKER_02Ground up. Ground up. Really? Yeah, dude. I know super excited. If you're paying full price for this, I'm 100% paying full price. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03You're a full price. Yeah, even the tax. Yeah, you can't say that.
SPEAKER_00I'll pitch in for the taxes.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so absolutely paying full price. So it's a remake. I love I love this. Uh yeah, I'm super excited uh about this game when I saw it coming. Uh, I think it's gonna dive into a nostalgia period, but make it better. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But you're right when you mentioned like that was like one of the first games where there's actually consequences that like last long, like the butterfly effect, right? It'll yeah the that the dirt deterministic part that's like it's not it's not gonna change. It's it's just like the fact that like whatever you do, it seems random, but it's not because it's all your choices, yeah. Right? So I I love that aspect, and it was as a kid in high school, yeah, you know, playing that game, it was just so good. So I'm I'm kind of glad that that was the game, too.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, for sure. Fables got Fables on the list.
SPEAKER_04Was it on your list? Yeah, it's uh no, it's not on my list, actually. Oh shit. Was it on yours?
SPEAKER_00No, no, okay.
SPEAKER_04You're like what a tape.
SPEAKER_00Definitely nerd.
SPEAKER_03Okay, you're a nerd. Whatever. That's a nerd. You play more games than all of us. Oh, maybe not Page.
SPEAKER_02Maybe not Pee. Well, maybe, maybe.
SPEAKER_03No, no, I don't know. Okay, okay, cool. Yeah, so hey, yeah, great, great game. Awesome, yes. Yeah, yeah. Um, let's go back to Peege. Uh no. What's your name again?
SPEAKER_00Siege is not Siege.
SPEAKER_04Um so again with the nostalgia, like with this list, I saw a lot of games pop up there and going back to Star Wars. So just my love for Star Wars games. I'm more of a Star Trek guy. Trekky? The Star Trek Trekky for Klingon. Just admit it. First step is admitting it.
SPEAKER_01Save space.
SPEAKER_04But I I just there's something about the the campiness of of Star Trek that I love. Yeah. And uh but then the Star Wars games are definitely much better than Star Trek games. Um so now there's two games coming out, right? So there's the Galactic, which is kind of like Pod Racer, right? Yeah. Yeah, someone else. So used to love playing the pod racing game on 64 as a kid.
SPEAKER_02Like a Star Wars Podcast?
SPEAKER_04Star Wars Pod Racing, yeah. So it's not it's not a remake, but it's another pod racing game. Yeah, exactly. So there we go.
SPEAKER_02It's actually on discount, eh, right now?
SPEAKER_04I brought my copy too.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_03Well, go get it, Shane.
SPEAKER_04We got two copies in the house right now.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, I've never been in a house with two copies of the two copies of Annie. Every episode needs a friend's reference all the time. Yeah, for sure. Sorry. Can you stop yelling at us, please?
SPEAKER_04So you've got Galactic on your list? Yeah. Do you have Zero Company? No. What's that? I don't know. A mystery. So there's another Star Wars game coming out. It's a downgrade from Zero Company.
SPEAKER_03Before we get to that, can we take two seconds to talk about the Galactic? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Hey, was it on your list? No, no. Was it on your list?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_02The mocking. I mean the mocking latch. Oh my god. I didn't even try to hide it.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. She sees us like this. Meh, meh, meh, meh, meh.
SPEAKER_00We just push his consumers. Always have been. Okay. Hey. Okay.
SPEAKER_03So did you play episode one racer?
unknownUh yeah.
SPEAKER_03Star Wars episode one. Oh yeah, that was still good. Isn't that awesome? Like the It's still good today. Okay, so May the 4th was yesterday. Yeah. Like we're May the 5th, Cinco de Mayo today. Yeah. So uh you wanted to say that word from the beginning of the video. Say my word for so long. Yeah. Um so uh so in the whole Star Wars franchise, yeah against what a lot of people think, but I don't care. I'm my own person. Uh Phantom Menace was my favorite one of the whole vibe and world of this and and seeing young Anakin like doing the pod racing. Like, I remember going to see that in theaters. I remember living that movie. I loved it so much. Yeah, that and then that game came out when I was a kid too, and I got it, and I got to, you know, do my own thing, and you can even build if you do the campaign part, you can build your own like and put your upgrades. I I was just it was just a great game. I loved it. So I know Galactic Racer is not about the pod racing, but uh, I don't think it's pod racing, is it? Okay, he doesn't want to play.
SPEAKER_04I thought it was, but it's not like Anakin or no, it's not related to that. But I thought it was mainly pod racing. Uh me too. Umactic racer. Well, hey, right?
SPEAKER_03Pod racer is different.
SPEAKER_04If galactic does sound like it's out of uh off planet, right? If you're saying galactic, but maybe it's not pod racing.
SPEAKER_02No, it's not pod racing. Tomato tomorrow. It's still fun. It's not tomato tomorrow. Is it not pod racing?
SPEAKER_01It's trying to piss people off. Is it racing?
SPEAKER_03Is it a racing game? Is it pod racing in galactic racer? AI will tell us. Yes, pod racing is officially in Star Wars Galactic Racer, folks. Okay. Which is a good thing. Yeah, yeah. Confirm as a playable vehicle type. Pods will feature in the game alongside speed racers, speeder bikes, okay, and new skim speeders when it releases on October 6, 2026. I'm dude, I just got three times more into that game. Full price?
SPEAKER_01October and November, but they're gonna be. I don't know, man. Yeah. Kids are not getting Christmas presents this year. So so far we got this.
SPEAKER_03These are the presents. My presence. Yeah. Yeah. That yeah. My kids' gift is my presence. That's what I just thought. Jesus two times today with somebody to tell me something, and I take credit for it. You're wrong. One of those days. One of those days where I just need to listen to others. What a host. Um okay.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's hard with the Princess Leia muffs here, right? Yeah. If only we could hear each other.
SPEAKER_01It's just the man ears, that's all. Probably.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, did you say something?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so so you yeah, really excited about that. Yeah that. And then Zero Company, I don't know about.
SPEAKER_02I haven't heard that one.
SPEAKER_04I recently played Outlaws. I don't know if you guys. Did you? Yeah. I was this close to buying it. It's on sale right now. Like I would give it maybe like a C plus, B minus. I had, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I love that we don't go on 10, we give it like you like about it, though.
SPEAKER_04It was a little glitchy. I got it when it was released. Um, a game I paid full price for. Oh god. And I bought the expansion. I still enjoyed it. Yeah. Uh it's it's a stealthy game, relatively speaking, but you can run a gun too. Um but yeah, you've got your little pet and you infiltrate different things through the galaxy. You're a thief. And you're an outlaw. And uh so Space Pirates. Yeah, it's uh are you kind of like Han Solo? Um, not solo, you have a pet with you. Yeah. Pet Nyx. I forget the main characters.
SPEAKER_03Will we get through this episode?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. You can pet your pet, you can feed it.
SPEAKER_03Who invited the heckler today?
SPEAKER_04All right, you can go to the restaurant with your pet.
SPEAKER_03That's like the heckler at the back of the room, just we're trying to have a conversation here. Alright, sorry. Can you continue speaking, please? I'm I'm always pumped for Star Wars games. Yeah, that's yeah. Are you a Star Wars fan, like from the like all did you watch it all?
SPEAKER_04Did you yeah, of course, yeah, yeah. But I again I'm more of a trekkie in general. I'd say you don't need to compare, you can be both. Well, no, you can't. Apparently, you can't. People get offended. I just really have to state that. Like, I want a good Star Trek game. Um is there one that exists? There was like First Class, which is uh MMO RPG, I think. Okay.
SPEAKER_02What does MMO mean? Uh a massive multiplayer online game. Oh, okay, okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_04You wouldn't like that. Kind of World of War Crash is the c the classic game. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Um but uh yeah, that's not so much my pace for that type of game. But yeah, the Star Wars games have all been good, especially the Risa Jedi ones. Uh a lot of fun. Uh played them all? Only the first one. I didn't play the survivor.
SPEAKER_02The one with the redhead there that you're maintaining protagonist?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he's uh he's the I guess the joker in uh Batman uh in Gotham. Is he? Yeah, he was showing Gotham there, yeah. He's the Joker. Oh yeah. Right. As soon as I saw him like, dude, that's that that's that guy. Uh what's his name in the Gotham? Is um Joker. No, no, no, no, no, no. Uh oh man, I forget. But anyways. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, well, he looks the exact same, right? He's it shameless too. I don't know. But uh he has that face. Oh, yeah, that guy. Uh next!
SPEAKER_01Me? Um the other ones I think everyone will know. Uh Renaissance a plague tale legacy.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I missed that one play.
SPEAKER_01Did you? Okay, so I looked it up. Hold on, I have to find what page it's on, page five.
SPEAKER_02The third one?
SPEAKER_01Uh it's I don't know if it's on the page. Because there's two other ones. Oh, um, so this is they apparently like if you love Laugh Last of Us. If you love Laugh of Love, Last of Us, it's kinda kinda the same vibe. Um, but yeah, so you're just like trying to Avoid the plague. Yeah, avoid the plague.
SPEAKER_02But like the plague. It's like it's like uh it's like rats there from the like the plague that are going around, and they like the only way for you to to move around is by using uh puzzles to try and get light, fire, light, this and that to move the rats away from the light and the fire, because they don't like that. And then you move around. So you're trying to like it's a puzzle game in terms like third person, but puzzle to try and move around to uh not get eaten by the rats because they actually overtake you.
SPEAKER_01Which is crazy because that's what's happening right now on a boat.
SPEAKER_04Oh really? Oh yeah, I heard about that. So there's rats on a boat?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they're actually killing people. Is it about is it rats? Yeah, apparently it's rats. That's a good uh so the boat's just docked in the middle of the ocean right now.
SPEAKER_02In real life, or again? I think there's a few Canadians on that boat.
SPEAKER_01Uh three people that already died, one's in critical condition. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Okay. Where exactly is a part? That's crazy. No, that's just crazy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Okay. But yeah, so this is uh yeah, I looked at the trailer and it looked pretty it's like it kind of looks dark and like it is, yeah. So I'm really down your alley. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or up your alley.
SPEAKER_02I think it's like middle ages front stuff like that. Up and down your alley. Up and down. Yeah, let's go.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, no, it's uh it looks interesting. Um I definitely try it. Not full price, no.
SPEAKER_02No. But those ones usually don't start at the actual full price. It's like the $59.99. Usually, like the two other ones. Oh, okay, okay. It's not gonna be a $79.99. It's not a triple A title, but it's so cool and unique. I just thought it looked nice and like really cool.
unknownHonestly.
SPEAKER_02Is it still a female pract protagonist? Is still there?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. I've never I never played the other one, so I just uh I literally went through the list that uh Shane sent. It's Residence.
SPEAKER_03A plaque tail list. Yeah, okay. I thought she said Renaissance. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, maybe. Maybe I just don't ask.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Because I wrote Renaissance and then it says Resonance, but Plague Tale Legacy, so I'm like, oh, it's probably that.
SPEAKER_02So maybe that's a prequel to the first one. Maybe. I don't know. It's fun that you use so much. Like I spend a lot of time just looking at well, the the first time I heard it was like middle uh uh medieval times, like in France and stuff like that. The lady and the plaque, and and then I saw that like getting overtaken by the rats and stuff. Oh my god. I would die.
SPEAKER_01And and they're there, and you see you would die actually.
unknownYeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But if you have a torch and you're going like this, they actually move wherever you go, and the minute you move it back, they come right like at you. So you actually feel the urgency of this. Oh, there's so many rats.
SPEAKER_01I would literally die because I love rats so much. I like want to pet them all. I mean, some are used to have some.
SPEAKER_03If you tell me you love cockroaches, this is over this whole thing you're doing.
SPEAKER_01I love rats. I used to have rats.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Yeah. Well, having a pet rat is different than finding out you have rats in your home. I always said, if there's ever a rat in my house.
SPEAKER_01Careful what you're saying, you're gonna have to cut this off.
SPEAKER_03I'm moving.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03Why?
SPEAKER_01So if you burn the house down, insurance is gonna know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, no, I wouldn't burn the house down. I'd move. Yeah? Yeah. I would definitely move. Like I could not do rats.
SPEAKER_01I could not scared of rats?
SPEAKER_03Uh I really don't like them. Okay. I'm not scared of many things except mice. It's not a good sign.
SPEAKER_01Anything that that's not supposed to be there and just pops up like a pet mouse, I won't be uh like it won't but I went for a walk once and there was a mouse that was sore, like had a bobo, so I picked him up and put it in my pocket and brought him home. Fuck's sake. Rat tatouille. Ratatouille. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Make me food. So so okay, cool game. Uh I'm not interested in it because it has rats, but it's cool that you had.
SPEAKER_01I just won't I wouldn't pay full price, definitely wouldn't pay full price for it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, what's your price?
SPEAKER_01Maybe around like the 30s. Yeah. Okay. 2030 for me too, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah, you'd you'd play that too? Yeah. I play the two first ones, so I would definitely play that one. Oh, okay. Not a full price either. Okay. Oh, that's cool.
SPEAKER_03So so you you're what you were saying about this game is based on the other games you played, but you don't know this gameplay.
SPEAKER_02No, but I I I haven't even seen a trailer. But if it's like the first two, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03It should be kind of similar in some way.
SPEAKER_02What about you?
SPEAKER_03It's not your thing. That's okay. That's okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's okay.
SPEAKER_03You're not a failure.
SPEAKER_01I know I'm not.
SPEAKER_03You're too confident. You might be a failure. All right, Peach! Is it your turn? Uh yes.
SPEAKER_00Wait, did you did you go? I'll go after Peach at this point. All right, sorry.
SPEAKER_03He'll probably tell one of the like I don't have many left anyway. Well, maybe. Okay.
SPEAKER_02So Assassin's Creed Black Flag. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Again? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, for sure. The reset, dude. Okay. Yes.
SPEAKER_01But Dell, this is not a remaster. They literally rebuilt it from the ground up.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's a remake. Yeah, yeah. From the ground up. That's amazing. What?
SPEAKER_03Yes. I did. That's what I want because I put it on there. I'm like, for sure, somebody's going to talk about it. I knew you like all the Assassin's Creed, and we've talked about this before. So I'm like, he'll tell me more about it. So I purposely didn't look anything up. Yeah. So I want to learn about it. And the reason is I played my first Assassin's Creed game this year, and it was Origins in Egypt. And then everybody, including you, was really hyping up Black Flag. So I got Black Flag for like seven bucks. Started playing it, could not play it. After you play a modern Assassin's Creed and how hands-on every parkour, everything is like you cannot go play an old Assassin's Creed. I wanted to shoot the game. Yeah, is it like that? So so so so I was disappointed because I knew this game would be fun because I was up talked this game by more than you, by a lot of people. And I'm like, no, no, I can't. So I'm like, one day maybe. Uh, but the fact that I just saw that and I oh, and at that time I looked up, is there something? Is there something coming in it? And there was nothing, but there was a leak about the guy that plays that the main protagonist, okay, that during a signing, there was a video of him saying something about oh, like there's there's something coming up. He hinted to something that was coming up, but that was all when I looked at the time, that was all we had, but people were like really like there's something coming up, yeah. Randomly, when you sent your list, is when I understood, holy shit, it's on there, it's there, like it's there and it's coming up. Like when it is there. I didn't see I didn't see the date either, but I but it exists and it's there and it's happening, and that freaking excites me. That's probably that's maybe a that's maybe a not as high as GTA 6, obviously, but no, no, but that's maybe a pay full price, but I'll see. The remake, I I would pay full price too. Yeah, you pay full price for everything.
SPEAKER_00That's not even that's even a question. That's not even a yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03The real surprise is would you pay not full price? Would you wait for a sell for a game? Sometimes I do, yeah, obviously.
SPEAKER_02Um but yes. So what do you know about this? Uh obviously it's like the the time, uh, I'm not sure I forget with the time era and stuff, but it's obviously the time of the pirates and stuff like that. Uh and um there's probably the Blackbeard, whatever, you know, all the names there, all the guys there's but we're there for the naval battles, which is just like so epic, and it was so good back then when they made it in what 2010, 14, I forget what it was. Way back there, and but now with those graphics, a remake, the naval battles, everything. I just like it.
SPEAKER_03It's a remake, but it's called Resynced, which yeah, which was what was getting me to not really know what it was. Was it a remake? Was it a re a remaster? That's a workplace. So they of course it is.
SPEAKER_01They also like redid like all the facial expressions so they're more like accurate and like you can really see them. So you can get more into the game. Uh they even did like uh for the weather changes, like they're even more intense, like so when you're in the water and there's actually like waves coming at you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh shit so they redid like everything like so much better.
SPEAKER_03That's one of the the things you've looked up there. It definitely seemed like you just learned this.
SPEAKER_01I looked it up.
SPEAKER_03Does this mean that did you ever play the first ones?
SPEAKER_01I watched my husband play the last one. Oh, yeah. Okay, would you play that one? I love backseating because I don't know. It's just yeah, it's like a movie you're watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I probably would play that one, yeah. Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_02So, does this mean that Ubisoft may be on the rise after that game?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, is it Ubisoft that did it?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think so. Yeah, Ubisoft is Assassin's Creed. The redemption game.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03People have been raving about Black Flag, like I've rarely seen this. Yeah, so much hype fun in a yeah.
SPEAKER_02If they do well with that one, it wouldn't surprise me if they redo the trilogy of the Ezio trilogy, which is the time of the the Renaissance uh in Italy. And I wrote like that was my favorite one after Black Flag was those ones because I just love the Italian Renaissance and went there. And I when I went to Italy, I was like, I was like, the Palazzo uh Palazzo Vecchio, and I was like, I was there, I climbed that in the game, and I was like, that was it, right? I climbed that people are like uh I don't think you were supposed to, dude. Crowned upon again.
SPEAKER_03Um, so that that's what I told myself about the damn pyramids and origins. I'm like, one day I'll go to Egypt. It's like the place I want to visit in my life, my dream place. Not in Greece for some reason. But I want to go see that pyramid and say, but you're like, what you doing? You're not like that.
SPEAKER_02You failure.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Yeah. What about you? Did you ever play Black Flag?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. I I didn't finish it, but I got pretty darn close. Probably three quarters through. Loved it. So much fun. But there were I played it late. I probably played it, I think, in like 2019. I'm not a completionist. I I give up on games like way too often. Yeah. Really? Just because I want to play different games.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I was gonna say is it because you didn't have time, but you just get bored and I'd rather play something else.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, if you had all the time in the world, you'd probably do it.
SPEAKER_04But yeah, you're just like I go like how life goes. I'd love to play this remake though, just because yeah, when I played it, it was still outdated a little, and like you're saying it's not super smooth. There was a certain clunkiness with you're trying to turn around and your guy gets kind of jammed up. Yeah, it's just it's old age. Yeah, so back. But yeah, the stealthiness and the all that in that setting is is quite fun. Like on boats and in jungles, and uh the historical fiction is always good about Assassin's Creed.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I just I just imagine myself like literally yesterday, my kid climbed two of my kids climbed the top of a big tree, and at some point one came down, and and my daughter was still up there, and I'm like, you know I can come up there and within 15 seconds get to the top, right? And in my head, I'm like, holy fuck. Like, I used to be able to do that. I haven't climbed a tree in years. I'm like, what did I just do? And she called me like a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, I would tell you.
SPEAKER_03So I just went and I and I tell you, within 10 seconds, I was at the top of the tree to see.
SPEAKER_01Did you feel like a spider monkey?
SPEAKER_03I thought I would hurt more. Really? I thought it would hurt more as an adult to climb. But if you got the right shoes that can that that don't hurt you when you, you know, like I didn't it only hurt when he fell down. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01It doesn't worn about that part though.
SPEAKER_03But going down, going down always sucks, yeah, right? But it's true. But being at the top of a tree, knowing you're like on some good, you know, the good solid branches, and the tree going like this, I oh, that's a good feeling. Yeah. And being an oldie, you know, with back problems and and and all that stuff and hurting everywhere. And like, yeah, no, I was pretty uh pretty impressed. Uh well done. The parkour tree. Yeah, thank you. I needed to mention that to the public of the world.
SPEAKER_01He climbed a tree, like a spider monkey. It's out there now.
SPEAKER_03No, no, you said that. I never said I felt like a spider monkey. I felt like Spider-Man.
SPEAKER_01A Spider-Man doesn't climb trees, he's better than that.
SPEAKER_03I can just get up. Climbed. Yeah, what a spider monkey it is. You should go climb that tree. It's the one right in front there where you guys go pee when we do this. Oh, that tree. It's another one. But okay, yeah, okay, cool. Cool. So black flag resynced, super psyched. Yeah, yep. Yeah, okay, so um who who oh, I think it's my turn. Yeah, because I wasn't even brought up. Yeah. So I'm gonna go with the only one left because you've we've mentioned a lot of them. Marvel's Wolverine. Oh, yeah, okay. Cool, cool. I saw.
SPEAKER_01Can you please just go in the back of the room and I didn't even say anything?
SPEAKER_03No, that is true. I'd be very good. The non-verbal is loud. Um so I just saw the trailer of this. I'm a big fan of Woolrey. Logan. Um Logan was amazing. Yeah, oh my god.
SPEAKER_02Just every pool three with the Hugh Jackman.
SPEAKER_03For me, like, he's one of my favorite dudes. Like, like, I love that guy as an actor. Uh, he did he and Bobby's dog. Yeah, and and he comes from a um a uh musical um musicals background, really?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, musical theater.
SPEAKER_03He's a great singer, he did the the greatest showman. Uh he's a great singer, a great performer. He went into acting, and and he's just the guy. Like how you feel about Arthur Morgan, okay. That's what he's doing. Wolverine's my I I have a man crush on Wolverine, all right. Like and Hugh Jackman, like, is just so fucking cool. And just seeing that trailer, in the same sense that I've I thought that um you know how modern game games, it feels like they click. It feels like like um Assassin's Creed Origins. I feel like I'm doing the action, yeah, right? And just saw that trailer where he right through a guy's chest. I felt like if I'm playing this game, I'm gonna feel that like it's gonna be hands-on. I'm gonna like I'm gonna feel it in the in the PlayStation 5 controllers triggers that I grab someone and like oh yeah, those steel bones.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, by Insomniac, right? Like Spider-Man's the same thing when you do the combat, it's it's the same company that made the Spider-Man's, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I think so. So yeah, and it's so hands-on. So yeah, really looking forward to that one.
SPEAKER_02And it reminds me of also Batman Arkham the Arkham trilogy, yeah. The the the fighting in terms of like impact, not necessarily the type of fighting, the like uh the sync the sequence, but the impact. And I think that's you're that's what's gonna make it uh I played a little, I didn't play as much.
SPEAKER_03I don't know why. I twice I tried to play these and I liked it, and for some reason I stopped playing. Really? Yeah, I don't know why. I can't even explain.
SPEAKER_02So it's worth playing just for the environment and flying around with your your cape and stuff like that, but also fun. The Joker. I think Mark uh Hamill is the one that does the voice for the Joker in that series. So good. That's why I played it. It was just for each scene of The Joker. That's all I did it. That's why I played. Not Star Wars. Full price?
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, Star Wars.
SPEAKER_02Full price? Mark Hamill.
SPEAKER_01Oh, uh if you only paid full price just for those scenes.
SPEAKER_03I'm not gonna pay full price for that because I know like there's so many in even if I said full price on others, like I don't know. We'll see how it goes. Yeah, there's a lot of old games I want to play. Like, we're doing this podcast, there's retros, there's Wolverine's not on my top list, but it's a game I want to play. Yeah, yeah, but I'd be willing to pay full price. I don't know if that's what's gonna happen because by the time I play other games and then GTA 6 for sure full price. Oh, yeah. By the time I do all these things, maybe these games will have you know went through a cycle and started being on sale, and I'll see where where I'm at at that point. But Wolverine is one of these games where uh I want to go feel I want to be Wolverine. Yeah, and with the technology these days, you can feel like whatever is in there. That's what you would no, I I'll get C sick. C sick. Yeah, no, I can't do uh that's right uh uh RPG uh thing in VR. Can't do that. That's fair, yeah. But I would if it's a stat you're just standing there and people are coming towards you, and I can just be Wolverine and I'll fucking do it. I know you wouldn't, but it'll get boring after like two minutes.
SPEAKER_01You'd be tired after two minutes, like oh my god. Yeah, it's a lot of work.
SPEAKER_03I just take it off and see my stupid, boring hands have no metal in it.
SPEAKER_01I won't play anymore.
SPEAKER_03I wanna go live in this game.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, anyways. So that's uh that's it for sweet. Yeah, it looks cool. Looks cool. I might play it. I'd love like it's a game I would probably want to just give it a try, but I'm not pulled in by it. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I pay for like 30 bucks that one.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay. So um we're we're nearing the end, but if there's a game that you really, really, really want to bring forward to the table, you can do it.
SPEAKER_01Do it.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I got two.
SPEAKER_01I wonder if it's the same ones as mine, because I have two too. Okay.
SPEAKER_04GTA 7. I'll let you go. I'll let you go first. Go ahead. No, go, go, go, it's fine. 2043. The first one for me, the must is Slay of the Spire 2. But it's already out. No. This is that's Slay of the Spire. No, Slay the Spire 2 has been out for a little while.
SPEAKER_03Really? For a little while. It's even on sale. Look at it. Oh, it's been on sale. Start the car! But it was on the list of it was on the list of games to come, I thought I didn't see the oh my god. Slay of the Spire 2. Well, the one now is 75% off. The two is 10% off. Okay. It's only 30 bucks. Start the car. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Slay the Spire 2. So it's not an upcoming game, but it's still worth a mention. Okay. You played Slay the Spire 1? Love it. Yeah. I want to play Slay the Spire 1 because I want to do an episode on it.
SPEAKER_04But I haven't played it yet. It's one of those good vibe games where yeah, well, it's less about the vibe, but it's you can play that while listening to a podcast, watching something. It's yeah, it's just chill. It's a laid back game. Yeah. Gotcha. I I I play it on uh the PS4 right now, PS5, but I I'd love to have it on a tablet or a phone. Need a Steam Deck but don't sell them anymore.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well yeah, well, they're sold out, but they will sell them at some point. In the future.
unknownFuture.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so Slay the Spire 2. It's already out. So that's cool.
SPEAKER_03Hey, that looks good.
SPEAKER_01It's good news for you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's great news for you. Great news. You can get to play well in all the games we talked about today. Dude, the only one who can literally play one of these games today. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's true. That's true.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_03What's the second game? Yashi. You mean Yoshi? Mystery book?
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, I saw that too. It looks cute. Yoshi game would be fun. Yeah, it's it must be a Switch 2. Do you have a Switch 2? Uh I don't know if it's a Switch 2 game though. I I it might be.
SPEAKER_01So this is supposed to be like a super chill game though, and it's super chill. Yeah, it's not like if you're used to like Mario and all those, it's not as fast as like those ones. It's more like slow and like more like Yoshi Cookie? Laid back.
SPEAKER_04Don't you have that game? The old uh puzzle game.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's exploration puzzle. Okay, yeah. It's like slower than all the other games.
SPEAKER_03So Yoshi and the mysterious book is an upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game. It's releasing May 21st where players explore uh talking books page, interacting with creatures.
SPEAKER_04Um because they did come out with uh a Yoshi game years ago. I remember going to the Nintendo store in New York City in uh 2019. Okay. I think there was a Yoshi game that came out around then that you could play at the store. And it was yeah, it was crazy.
SPEAKER_01With your head like up like this while you should do it. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_04I think the screen was below you or something.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so the Yoshi book. But do you have a uh Switch 2? No, just Switch 1. Are you gonna crazy?
SPEAKER_01Um it's I find it crazy that they made only Switch 2 games and you kind of Okay, we'll see.
SPEAKER_04Once the Zelda comes out, that's exclusively on the Switch 2. Yeah, the Switch 2.
SPEAKER_03The thing with like so okay, so the Switch 2 is there's something about Nintendo, right? I love Nintendo, I love everything related to it. But then I have the Switch, but I didn't play it enough. I feel like PlayStation is where I want to do my gaming, and now with Steam in my Steam Deck, I feel like there's so much on here that I can take a long break and wait for like I cannot play Nintendo new Nintendo games for a long time until things start going down because the thing with Nintendo is they are very greedy. Yeah, I find they're very greedy in their prices and their the sales they they have for their the Nintendo specific games.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like it's very expensive because they know it's majority for kids and the parents will buy it for the kids.
SPEAKER_03Exactly. And and I don't think it's consumer uh thought even like for the tiny bookshop.
SPEAKER_01I was gonna buy it on Switch, but you say I don't play on the Switch often, like uh very rarely, but I found it on PlayStation uh last Friday, so I'm probably gonna I'm gonna buy it off PlayStation. I'm not gonna uh I think it was like 25 bucks. Okay. So I'm not gonna buy it off of uh Switch at all. I'm just gonna go straight to PlayStation buy it off of that.
SPEAKER_03It's uncomfortable to play on a Switch. Once you've played on a Steam Deck, you will never touch a Switch in your life. Even the Switch. Okay. Like I'll I'll go get it just so like I know you I think you've you've held it before. Just so you feel it, and and it's a kind of thing where and I had that with my iPad in my Bellatro days. Yeah, like when I went in my Bellatro phase or Stardew Valley phase, my iPad was with me all the time. That was my gaming device. Yeah, because it was yeah, so part of my ignorance, but like a Steam Deck, is it like portable? Yeah, I'll show you. Okay, yeah, you can so it's you you have your device in your hand, kind of like a big switch, but molded to your hands.
SPEAKER_00Oh sure.
SPEAKER_03Okay, and it's but it's your computer. You can dock it and like so when I want to play games that uh are more computer based, well I can I can do that. Dock it.
SPEAKER_02And how much is that on the Steam Deck?
SPEAKER_03Uh well now it's sold out, so there's Oh yeah, so you could have the LCD version, which was the base version for like 400 bucks on sale, which is what we cheaper than our stretch, too. Yeah, yeah, so which what we got, but now that's discontinued, so they're not selling any one of those anymore. Um but they have new ones that are like eight, nine hundred bucks, but they're they're sold out like because of the shortage on uh RAM, even their short sold out, so you can't even get one of these anymore lately, which sucks because like and I got it as a Christmas present probably the day before they went sold out. Oh god, I was super lucky. I'm so grateful to have it because now uh like like I was saying before, I would just I had my Facebook, my iPad would follow me everywhere. Yeah. Now, even if I don't play, when it's time to like not go to sleep but go to bed where we just want to hang out, put something on TV, relax. If you want to be on your cell, you're on your cell. Like if you want to watch that what what's on, where we put uh Formula One, something like we're just hanging out. Well, my Steam Deck is what we know because I get everything with that, and with the Steam cells, like I get everything with that. It's crazy. I just got roller coaster tycoon the what right for two bucks a month ago and I can't play it on the on the Switch, but when I dock it, I can play it. Yeah. Right? And and like nostalgia, like through the roof. So yeah. That was pretty cool. But your two games Uh Tomb Raiders.
SPEAKER_01Tomb Raider. Um yeah, Tomb Raider, the uh Legacy of Atlantis and the Catalyst.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Two Tomb Raider games? Yeah, the two Tomb Raiders games. I love games. That are coming.
SPEAKER_03Tomb Raider releasing two new games at the same time.
SPEAKER_01Why not?
SPEAKER_03Well, and it could be a couple years apart, who knows? Is it still Lara Croft? Yeah. Okay, they didn't change.
SPEAKER_01It looks really nice. I was watching the Travis film and it looked really nice. My husband has played them before. Okay. And I've obviously backseated, watched him play, and I'd like to definitely play these ones.
SPEAKER_02And both of them could be coming out like different years, like one one year, the one next year kind of thing. Oh okay. Oh, because like, for example, like Splain Yourself, they did that when the second one came out in 2004. The Shanghai, Ubisoft Shanghai uh was working on that while Ubisoft Montreal was working on the the Chaos Theories next year. So it just helps so because sometimes people get overworked, right?
SPEAKER_03So it's like that the F1 game you were saying, one year is one team and and you always know which year is the good one because one team is better than the other. Yeah, yeah, okay, cool.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, so that it could be that for yeah.
SPEAKER_01I didn't check the the the release days, but the f uh the legacy one is uh like the remake of the one from like the 90s.
SPEAKER_02Oh that's gonna be amazing. Oh, cool. Yeah, because if they do it like the Tomb Raider from like the last couple of years or whatever. And it's it seems like overworld to me, I think, if I'm not mistaken.
SPEAKER_01So it's definitely like I don't know.
SPEAKER_02I've I've loved looting, so it's definitely gonna be Did you like how she could die too? Like in the older ones. Oh god, not the old, old ones, but like the yeah.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, dude, spoilers. That looks good. I don't know if I again would pay full price for them, but yeah.
SPEAKER_04But maybe I wouldn't. I'd pay full price for those polygons.
SPEAKER_01I think they're more rounded out now, sorry.
SPEAKER_03They went from Madonna took me back to them. Our generation loves them pointy tits, right? That great fairy, eh? Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah. Okay, okay. All right. Do you have last ones that you can only have one more? Yeah, go. Oh, did you ever play the control games? No, no. You no, got control one at when I first got my PlayStation. I think it was one of the games like I didn't pay for it. Like, I wouldn't pay for it. I think maybe it came with it or something. Uh, it didn't trip on it. So talk to us. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Well, I don't know much about the story, obviously. But all I know is that like when I first saw the cover, people were talking about that game, like big ratings, this and that. I saw the name control. All I saw was the logo was like a triangle, and I'm like, that looks stupid. I didn't even look at anything else, didn't even bother.
SPEAKER_01Is it the triangle that made it look stupid?
SPEAKER_02Well, it just said I was like the Triforce, man. You need something more than that to for me to like three triangles.
SPEAKER_03You need some polygons, man. Like, know your audience.
SPEAKER_02Two triangles, maybe three triangles, right? Four is too much. Um yeah, so uh then I saw that then I decided to look at trailer. I'm like, that actually looks cool. And I'm pretty sure all you're doing is like you're using telekinesis, okay, and you're picking up literally anything, like from like wall, like not walls, but like you know, objects, anything, and you can just take them, throw them at your enemies, this and that, whatever, and it was just a blast. I played it the first game, I don't remember like uh how long it took me to finish it, but I played the whole thing and I was hooked. Oh, and just by the options of taking almost anything around you and throw it at your enemies, kind of thing, you know? It kind of reminded me of the Matrix game on the PS2 at some point, you know, like just everything seems destructible too, you know? Yeah, so yeah, playing with your work and it's so like it's repetitive, but it's fun. Like, I'm not I wasn't there for the story knowing like if she died or not, I I could care less. I just wanted to I just wanted to play. I don't care, I just want to throw shit. Play with the environment. It was fun, it was just funny.
SPEAKER_03It says the guy in the horror episode where you're like, I like this game where you can rip off a limb and throw it to him.
SPEAKER_02What's that game? Uh um uh Dead Space. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it hangs on the wall. So cool.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was cool. You weren't in that episode. No, no, no. Okay. Did you listen or watch it? Yeah, okay. Thank you for watching.
SPEAKER_04I wouldn't mind trying that the other scary game with an O out.
SPEAKER_03Out of the that's the one clip I was able to pull off for that. I wish I would have made more, man. I just didn't have that time.
SPEAKER_02No, it's okay. But yeah, control too. I wouldn't pay full price. I wouldn't like I'd pay ten bucks for free. You know, kind of thing. Like, I want to play it because it you know it looks cool, but not desperate enough. No, gotcha.
unknownNo, cool, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Alright, cool, cool. Hey guys, thank you so much. This was really fun. I this was exciting. I like the um I like the relaxed vibe of us just going through and talking about what's coming up, what excites us, and uh I've been really uh set on playing older games because there's so many that are that I want to play, but talking about these newer games, fuck this gonna make my life complicated. Yeah, so thank you for nothing. You ruined everything. Cheers, I love you guys so um joking. How'd you yeah how'd you like this type of uh episode?
SPEAKER_01That's good. That's good, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Free roam, like it felt like just uh just talking. Yeah, it's like my games like by default were just the the the main ones, I guess. I guess the main ones are the main ones, they're the big titles. The big titles, yeah.
SPEAKER_01But did everyone have GTA 6 on the Did you have GTA 6? I didn't put it on because of him. Oh, that's true.
SPEAKER_03Oh, there's yeah, yeah, that's true. Okay, what'd we miss? That did we miss one of yours? We we we covered them all. Okay, you did you no? You said them all?
SPEAKER_04There's a few other games like the Metal Gear Solid collection that looks cool. Oh yeah, but uh it was more the original collection. This seems to be part two collection.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's part two, it's just Metal Gear Solid 4 and then another uh one that's probably crap, but four is the one that people will buy it for, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Tons of games coming out. Subnautica 2 intrigued me. It's an open world underwater. I cannot do anything under the water.
SPEAKER_01But then I can't swim underwater. Like if we play a game, I have to get to my husband because I cannot swim underwater. Exactly. Everybody hates the water levels.
SPEAKER_03It goes back to the Mario days. Everybody hates the water levels, so like, is it the yeah, but is it is it the that was cool. Yeah, the music of that was so I would just have the music of that to meditate. Anyways, yeah, yeah, there's something about that music, but no, no, the and I don't I never minded the water levels personal personally, but I wonder, like, at some point you get bored of just swimming in fucking water, like what the fuck's up with this? It's anyways, it still intrigued me, and but I didn't put it there. But uh I'll I'll I'll be intrigued.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but Donkey Kong, the roller coasters levels were my favorite.
SPEAKER_03Did you watch our Don where the the episode we did uh with before where we uh talked about the Donkey Kong? With them bananas, with them bananas. There you go. You did watch it. Cool.
SPEAKER_04Hey, fun stuff.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.