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But first, GGA six, we know how much that'll cost. Find that long last G six coming later this year in November priced at eighty dollars . Yeah, I mean I think I think it was I think there was some speculation of like would they do seventy dollars , would they do eighty? Maybe they would go nuts and go even higher. But like realistically , when Nintendo's charging eighty dollars for Fire Emblem Fortune's Wef, then it was probably pretty safe to assume that GTA, base the edition of GTA would also be eighty dollars . Yeah. Yeah Marikar World was also eighty bucks. So yeah, and ostensibly, there'll probably be more content and things to do in GTA six Mario Kart World, just a few things. Some people thought maybe they go for seventy because they want to get as many people in there into GT online as possible. But in the end, some analysts thought they could get away with charging a hundred, they went with eighty dollars . So I think that's interesting. One way to look at is that that is the absolute ceiling. And even GTA does not dare to try and break the eighty dollars ceiling. Yeah, they had or and we talked about this on the show last week or two weeks ago of like the opposite could have also been true if GTA was seventy no game would have been able to get away with eighty again. Yeah . I don't know. I think it's fine. I mean, I think what you were alluding to a second ago, Mark was that some people are a little bit there's some negative sentiment around the one hundred dollars edition, the ultimate edition and that it gives you character customization and some vehicles and gives you access to some shops with cosmetic items and stuff like that for an additional twenty dollars. You get these digital in game extras and that's that's made people a little upset. I have seen people upset about it, but I've also seen a lot of people being like a once in a generation kind of game. Like one hundred bucks is nothing. Like that's I'll spend that on Grand Theft o because we don't know when we're going to get the next ones. I mean, it's it's more than a once in a generation game 'cause a new GTA skipped last generation. It's a once in two generations game. It really is. Almost didn't make it out this generation . Yeah, yeah. I don't think it bothers me either, not necessarily for that reason because it's generational, but just, you know, like , you know, I don't want to concern police anybody. Like, you know, I certainly don't need to defend rockstar games. They're big boys and girls. They'll be all right. But it's it's like just my personal perspective for me. It just doesn't bother me because it just doesn't seem that different like we've seen digital collectors editions often come with you know, yeah, you get an outfit and you get a new sealed and shield and you get a different sword and you get two different hairstyles and we're going to charge you ten bucks for that. And like GTA just feels like that. That's what it feels like to me . But to paraphrase some of their arguments, it's like, well, when it's a single player only game and there's certain shops that you can't go in that are just closed if you don't have this collector's edition that maybe it sets a little bit of a bad or weird precedent of, you know, what if I want to go get Lucy's nails done and I can't because they only bought the base edition of the game? But I don't to me it doesn't feel that different than like the Digital Collectors Edition in Crimson Desert or like any video game basically . Yeah, what a lot of games do that I like , which is if you buy it for eighty bucks , that tab will still exist every time you launch the game it'll show you on PS five. I don't know what it looks like on Xbox, but on the bottom right it,'ll be like upgr ade to deluxe. So I think I think it's totally fine to jump in, play eighty bucks, you know, pay your eighty dollars, get the game. And if you're like, you know what, nah, I can't live without the extra thing, then pay the twenty buck s and then you'll get access. It's not like it's not like it's one or another and you've made that decision forever. Yeah, that's true. And I think, you know, GTA , none of us have seen it and played it, but based off the description, it sounds like they integrated these digital extras into the game in a really diegetic way, right? Like it's not other games sometimes like you buy this digital collector's edition or ultimate edition, whatever you want to call it. A thing pops up and says, you know, thank you for buying this edition of the game. Your cosmetic items have been sent to your stash, right? And then you go recruit you can just get them from your stash. Whereas in GTA , they did something that's more clever and more cool in my opinion and smarter of like, you know, these shops and these NPCs and go customize your truck and go do this. You just can't enter those buildings if you don't have the ultimate addition. So on the one hand, it's more immersive and kind of more clever , that but' thens part of what makes it feel worse that like there's these closed doors that you just can't go in if you don't have that addition compared to just something popping up and items appearing in your inventory. Feels like maybe that's a little bit easier to ignore . You don't feel like you're, you know, second class if you don't have that item. Yeah. Yeah , I would agree with that. Some people are wondering now , does this build up the floodgates for eighty dollars games . And there's a quote from Reese Elliott, he's head of market analysis at Alina Analytics. This is a good quote, but it's a little long, so bear with me here. He says, GTA six has more pricing power than any game on Earth, and it still didn't go above eighty. If the biggest release in the industry's history looked at the ceiling and chose not to break it, that should tell everyone else the ceiling is real and they'll smack their head on it. The danger is that publishers read GTA is eighty as a green light and push their own run of the mill or new IP games to eighty dollars when the lesson is the opposite, even GTA didn't think it could go higher. The handful of publishers who can charge eighty dollars based share one trait a captive, price inelastic audience that won't shop around or wait for a discount. That's why Nintendo gets away with it. Its players are locked in, first party, famously, discount averse. Playstation could probably manage it on a Marquis first party title. From software has the brand strength to do it, even if they've historically priced more modestly than they could. Elden Ring is eighty dollars on Switch though. Maybe the big yearly sports games as well. Final paragraph. Almost nobody else has that. For everyone else, the maths is brutal. It's always adorable when British people say maths. It's brutal and not raising your base eighty to dollars just sheds the price sensitive buyers you can't afford to lose in this economy. That's why I reckon most publishers will correctly stick to a seventy dollars base with eighty one hundred dollars premium addition layered on top, early access, a few cosmetic perks and stuff. That model lets the FOMO prone superfans pay more for early access while everyone else pays seventy or waits for the inevitable discount. You capture the whales without raising the floor on the people most likely to walk. , I would I would agree with that. I mean, I would maybe sum that up as like, you know, it's not necessarily a signal of just, oh, every game is going to be eighty dollars now, but it's a signal that, you know, yeah, like this analyst said, you know , GTA has been, you know, it's got a unlimited budget and unlimited time and money to make whatever game they want to make and they're charging eighty for it. So like then it makes the price comparisons to Fire him forestun weave look less favorable in the other direction, right? When these kind of I certainly don't want to describe them as worse or lesser games, but you know, smaller and scope games are also trying to charge that price . Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think people will speak with their wallets. They always have. We saw it with Outer Worlds two. I believe that game was supposed to be seventy and then they changed it and made it sixty because they kind of saw that people weren't going to pay that for that game . I agree with Justin that. I think what they'll keep doing is something like Soros, which was seventy bucks or eighty if you want to pay it two days earlier , just to give them that. It's something Xbox has been doing for a long time to kind of get rid of that day one on game pass thing where it's like if you pay eighty dollars for Fortza, you can, you know, play it five days early or something like that. I think that's where they'll continue. But if they want to go the crazy route of paying eighty bucks, they need to be okay with it selling fewer copies . I love the I love the hoops that these companies go through to like, you know, they call it like get the game get access to the game on day negative three on day negative five and it used to drive Dan Stapleton crazy like no, your game is out and they're like no it's not. It comes out next week and he's like, No it, is out . You can download and buy it and play it. Like so but just the mental gymnastics of like you're like, it's not that everyone else is playing on day five. They're playing on day one. You're just playing on day negative five. Yeah well it also doesn't help that they call it early access . So then when you play something like slay the Spire two, you're okay with a lot of the art being hand drawn or maybe there's a bug or there's no actual final boss because you're like, oh, it's fine. It's early access. But like when you get something like a Fortza, people get confused because you're like, Oh, I fell through the world and they're like, well, it's still in early access. And it's like, no, it's not that kind of I just have early access . It's not in early access. There is a difference. Yeah . I do like maybe you were about to get into the statement, but like with the stuff that they announced about GTA, like, you know, I'm not really like a digital extras kind of gu ide normally . But I think it looks really cool. Like I really like all the retro stuff, all the callbacks to just classic Vice City. Like it all seemed very well done and you know, it may be I haven't decided which edition I'm going to get, but it made me more interested in that fancy edition than I would normally be . I am part of the crew that I it's a once in a generation game. I'll pay a hundred bucks. I mean, I understand that I also work for IGN on the guides team. So you know, we'll see we'll see what I pay. But like if I were a consumer, I would probably pay the hundred bucks for it because it seems like it'll be worth it if you want to do that whole like time, you know, dollars per hour thing, which I hate, but some people do. So yeah, yeah. I mean , how many like how many millions would would Rockstar make a billion dollars if they said, No, the hundred dollar edition gets to play the game three days early. Like everyone on the planet would have played it paid it, right? Yeah . Yes. What? And we actually don't know for sure if that's still not a thing or not. It could be. I guess we'll find out . Because there's this weird thing that a lot of people I'm seeing on social media where they're saying and I know we're going to talk about the prices of the consoles and stuff a little bit later, but they're saying we should buy the Xbox version because the Xbox version will get a day early because on Xbox is very easy to just go to New Zealand change your console to New Zealand. You get it a whole twenty four hours early. And so that is, you know, for streamers and stuff like that that want to be their day one , it could be a thing. But Market's gonna play best on PS five . That's what I heard. I heard and then it went away and then it came back. Well, that's into our next topic because I think what a sign of the times that the biggest game of all time will not be available on a disc . Yes If you buy the physical edition, what you're buying is an empty game case that has a download slip inside , which is, I mean, you know, Alamike two did that. It's not completely unprecedented . It is it is sad on a couple of different levels, like just on a on a consumer, like look, like, yes, we work for IGM, but we're also video game fans and video game players first. And like that means that you can't sell the game used for what it's worth. Like that download code gets redeemed and so it completely nukes any used game sales for GTA six, which , you know, feels pretty bad, like that's removing consumer choice. Like part of the thing about video games is that it's a fungible asset that like you can turn back into money if you want to. And like to be clear, take two does not care . Game stop is pissed . Take two is glad that every copy you have to buy from them. Yeah. Why just like, you know, gamers should just feel bad, right? Like a physical video game that has a disc inside is worth more than a physical video game that doesn't. And not just because of the disc, but because you can turn that game back into cash if you wanted to and needed to . So like so many people, I haven't bought a physical game in a long time. But I was surprised because GTA is about as massive market as like mainstream as any video game could possibly be and it will reach a lot of people in retail spots, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Costco. A lot of people will be buying these physical boxes for themselves and for gifts at Christmas. And I think a lot of them will be surprised to not find a disc inside. Yeah, I mean the fact that it has to be downloaded , you know, look, every year this becomes less and less of a thing. But we've been talking on GameScoop for like a decade. Not everybody has fast internet in their home still to this day. And so , you know, for most video games, it probably doesn't matter that much because Damon to your point, like, you know, anyone that's buying and playing triple A games, they're online enough to know, you know, there's going to be a day one patch, to down drilveoad it , I have to do this or that. But like GGA is so mainstream and so mass market that it's kind of like, you know, it's the biggest thing on the planet. And so for the one thing of like they need maximal reach, right? That like that every single copy of the game all you know, we don't know how many gigabytes it's going to be, but you know, a hundred or a ton like they're all going to have to be downloaded by every user . That's that's that's intense. Yeah. That's why they've already announced the preload date because just like Silk Song, which crashed the Steam Store, they know that the servers are for PlayStation Xbox are going to go crazy. I saw a lot of discussions about this and I agree. Like not having a disk is a bummer. It's removing choice, like we mentioned before. Game preservation, it's always a weird sticky thing because the person I saw made the post said like , you know, put any game, take cyberpunk and put it in your PS five. And I don't have it hooked up to the internet and explain to me how that that's game preservation. Like you're getting a broken day one version of the game that's like completely messed up, right? Like you need those patches. And so like owning that game physically isn't game preservation when it is required to have the internet to be able to play the real version of Cyberpunk, so unless you already have the patches downloaded . And that's also you picked an example of a game that was shit at launch. Like what about a game that was like, you know, functional at launch and didn't, you know, didn't need years worth of patches. Yeah. I mean every g,ame gets patches. Sure. Yeah . Not always Well , in spite of everything we're talking about, I am getting excited for GTA six. No, yeah. I'm not the biggest fan of GTA five, but I love Vice City and is getting me really stoked for six teen. No, I completely agree. I mean, even just from I am a GTA guy and I'm an open world guy. I really liked four and five But like even if you're not, even if it's not your thing, just from a I talked about it a little bit earlier, just from like a cultural commentary level of like they have like there's there's no other piece of commercial art on the planet that they had un limited time and unlimited money to make whatever they wanted, just to make this thing. Like no movie has ever been like that, no other game has ever been like that . Just unlimited budget. Like, and that fascinates me so much just from a creative pursuit standpoint, even if, you know, even if even if like, you know, the story that they're telling or whatever, the type of gameplay doesn't appeal to you. Like, I'm just I'm just fascinated by it as a as just a piece of just as a thing that exists . I also oh sorry go ahead's it . I love cultural moments and this, you know, Pokemon Go was a cultural moment Barb enheimer . And then every time there's cultural releases releases those are those are cultural moments. And this is one. We're getting one this year. that's always exciting. Yeah, it's so fun. Like, you know, we just like the monoculture and this is probably for the best, that there is not a monoculture anymore. Whatever you're into , you know, you can find a little community of people that are into the same thing, but it's still nice when there's something. It's just hype. Like it feels like this kind of old school thing. And also, I mean the game was handmade, the game was not made with AI, right? Like this big handcrafted world where every single object in every single store and home and all the dashboards on the cars and just all that stuff was like, you know, made by people. Like I'm not , I don't know, man. Like it might be kind of like the last of its kind. Yeah . I do kind of miss, maybe this is the boomerom, but I do kind of miss the modern culture. It's like, yeah, a celebrity will pass away and everybody's sad. I'm like, I've literally never heard of this person before in my entire life. How is this possible? No anyway. Yeah, I like I mean, midnight launches, all that stuff, right? Like, you know, look, it is nostalgia. Like we're not like, it's better that you don't need to go to a midnight launch and that you can just preload and download the game and play it like undeniably. But like that doesn't mean that there wasn't, you know, something that was lost in the transition. Yep. Yep. I get a lot of TikToks where it's like buying a PS two on launch day and it's like people have that footage of them sitting in line and or going to the Halo three release date. I'm like, you know, I did that launch and I'm like, man, me too. I worked at it was called Game Crazy, but it was it was part of Hollywood video type deal before they all went down and I, worked there in Hal o three and GGA four came out and those were really fun times. We used to cover them on IGN I think it was Halo three. We went down to the game spot or game stop at Union Square in San Francisco . Bring back Vendite launches. Yeah , yeah . Okay, let's move on to the Steam machine . Our review is out this week. We gave it an eight out of ten. We liked it, but most critics did not. Are really as much as me. As us as IGN. I just refer to myself as IGN now. Is that normal? Yep Just considering just the machine itself, it is a very it's a very like appealing. It's very well designed and it's cool, it's so small , and it works well, but that price is like whoof . And it leaves me wondering who the audience really is because it's about the same level of power as a PS five, but more expensive than a PS five. Yeah, I mean a little bit slightly less powerful than a PS five. Yeah. Somewhere between a switch to an a PS five . Yeah, I mean the whole promise and premise of the Steam machine was, you know, it is a PC. It plays PC games and you can install your own software on it and your own operating system on it. But giving you a more console like experience of it's portable and you can plug it into a television or a monitor and it'll just go, right? And it's small and quiet . But then that's so undercut by, you know, we're in this hardware component crisis and then this device value even said it. It's like three hundred dollars more. So they didn't say this exact quote, but like they implied that it's costs about three hundred more than they really wanted it to. And so that's a bummer and you have to take that into consideration when you're when you're a consumer. So who's it for I mean, you're exactly right Damon. Like it's it's not for the hardcore because they'll just build their own PC or buy a more powerful one for fifteen hundred dollars or whatever . But it's not really for the casual audience either because they're probably better served by a game console instead . Yeah, it's for the people who want to play PC games and want that on their entertainment center and not a big mid ATX RGB thing heating up your living room. Computers are hot. There is an underrated and that's something that we talked about in our review of like, you know, the small form factor and the vents it's actually the BROLs matched up perfectly. Like the way that this thing vents out hot air is like my PS five, it cannot go in my entertainment center. It overheats and turns off. Like it has to sit outside of it. And the steam machine is kind of like custom built to like you actually can put it in and it'll be fine. Go into a little cubby hole. And so some of the some of the arguments of like, you know, you could build a computer that's way more powerful for less money and who cares if it's a tower, just put it next to your entertainment center. I'm like, that doesn't that's a little bit disingenuous because Because yes, like, yes, that is true, right? Like you can build a more powerful computer for the same amount or for less money , but it will be bigger and that does matter. Like not everybody wants that in their living room . Yeah, my house is set up in a way where the big, ugly electronics are in the offices and the living room is like the aesthetic. You know, we watch movies there and stuff, but it's got the entertainment center and stuff and I don't want a giant RGB giant computer in my sitting in my living room. I don't want that. I mean this thing is one thousand fifty dollars. What a bummer without a controller. Without a controller . It's the wild. Luckily , luckily you can use any controller by it be a steam controller. And that's for the five hundred, what five hundred twelve gig. Yeah, the smaller model thirteen hundred and fifty dollars for the version with more storage and no controller. Yeah . Yeah, that's a lot. Hey, that was a game server controller. I want one of those two. The thing looks awesome. Eric songs always' talking about how good they are. Yeah, he likes them a lot . Like I love my Steam Deck. I use my Steam Deck every day and it's been it's not like a huge runaway success. I think they've sold like five million units, but it's like a modest success for Valve that isn't traditionally a hardware company, and I think people that own their Steam Decks really like them . But this I don't really see like taking off like that there's an element of like look, hopefully this hardware component crisis isn't going to last forever. I hope this isn't just the new normal for the rest of our life, but it's certainly going to last like the next year or two or three . And so like I think I mean whatever everyone's entitled to like or not like whatever they want and everyone score is their own and I read some other reviews and you know the positive reviews and the negative reviews were both well justified. But I think some of the more negative takes on the steam machine are a little bit in denial about like do like sticks of ramp cost like three hundred and fifty dollars now. Like this is just this is just what like you, know the, PS five Pro is nine hundred dollars and you know like the PS six and Helix and all these game consoles like this is just what things cost now and you don't have to like it but that's it's become the new normal . And I don't really I mean, that's that's kind of it. Like that's kind of just my whole statement . Yeah, I there was something you said earlier that I was gonna somewhat question, but without having done any rese arch, which is that you can build a PC that is more capable and cheaper or around this price. And I actually don't know if that's true because RAM and hard drives are crazy expensive. Yes, not at all in this form factor. But if you don't Oh definitely not this form factor. I'm talking about even if you didn't care about form factor to something like this. Jackie did it. I mean, it's not like it's not like a one to one the exact same compon ents and exact same power in price, but like for roughly the same price you can build something that's like this but it just doesn't look like this yeah yeah so you know that was her justification for the eight, which I thought was well argued, but you know, we were we were definitely one of the higher reviews. Most hardware reviewers say, look, this thing's too expensive and too weak for what you get for your money . Yeah , I would mostly agree with that . Neither of you are getting one . No , no. Because I'm a big fan of Steam OS as well, but like I use my Steam Deck exclusively for ND's and stuff like that. Like and when I even say indies, I don't even mean I mean like card games, you know, slay the spire, Belachro, vampire survivors. Like I've been playing a lot of risk of reign too, and I don't even really like risk arr twoaying on Steam Deck because you have to do too much like that's more of a traditional shooter and I don't like that. I'll play Megabalk because I don't have to I don't have to pull the trigger. So I'm just using the sticks so no and then especially with Steam OS three point eight, which makes it where you can turn any computer into a Steam machine . Yeah, I don't see an appeal for for this little guy . And I know I'm aware with the Steam machine you can install it again a it P'sC , you can install whatever you want on it. But I also decided I'm not getting one because it is Steam OS out of the box and what I decided I'm going to do instead is my gaming PC is too old to use. It has a ten seventy in it. And so it's like it's finally like I'm like and so I decided I'm just going to bite the bullet and buy an actual gaming PC instead because the windows like I need to be able to install BattleNet and Lord of the Rings online and install other stuff and not be one hundred percent locked into steam even if even if ninety percent of my PC gaming is going to be in Steam. Yeah. Yep. I'm the same way . You try to launch 'cause I have a gaming PC hooked up to this TV. It's got a fifty seventy TI. It's a very capable computer. And I was like, what if they just announced three point eight? And I was like, what if I turn that into a steam machine? Like I just turn it on and it just boots up right into steam. That sounds great . But then like , yeah, we don't, especially being at IGN, we get PC codes for Ubisoft Connect and Gog and stuff like that. And I have an account with the Eva game store, so it's like, I don't want to like just be locked to steam, even though same. ninety percent of my PC games are on steam . In the late nineties and early two thousands, there was this console announced called the Phantom. And Mark, you might not even be aware of this. Remember that? It was called the Phantom and it was a steam machine back then. It promised to be a box that you'd put hook into your TV, be easy to up and sit it would play P C games like a console on your TV. And I was so excited for this thing because back then there were all sorts of PC games that didn't come to console. They were just PC games. But today, that's not the case. Like unless it's an indie dev that just put their launch their game on steam out of just because it's the easiest thing to do , every game, you can just buy a PS five, it's cheaper and every game, every AA third party game, you can play plus the exclusives . So that's why it makes any sense. And a lot of games have controller support like Slay the Spire two and stuff like that is oh there it is. There it is. I was so excited for this thing. What an appropriate name for a console like this. But it wasn't autoicious at the time. It's like, this is like, you know, this is what game consoles this Xbox sixty year . It was rad. Yeah . I do remember when they did their big push for steam machines where it was the first time around anybody could make yeah, yeah, whereas like anybody can make one and they were they were called that. But what I was going to say is like when I watched Bose review of the Steam Controller, he was like , I have this game I think it was Crusader Kings or whatever. 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You know, okay, two that I think you'll like, Damon, there's one called Restory, where when I say there's two games, there's two games that are about , you know, restoring and cleaning up kind of old electronics . And this one that we're looking at is called Restory and it's sort of like Japanese themed. I think it's in Tokyo and I think it's like I don't think it's like modern day. Like I think it's like kind of historical and people bring in these old electronics and then you sort of clean them up and dust them off and the other one is called cozy game restoration Well on the nose, but okay? Yeah, and cozy game restoration is the same where you're kind of taking old like someone will hand you like a psychenesis cart and then you have to like really carefull y peel like stickers off of it and kind of like , you know, yeah, you're seeing the footage here. Just like these are these are scratching a similar because they had to come up with like fake games, right? Yeah. And so you're cleaning these games up and getting the crud off them with Q tips and stuff like that. And it's scratching a similar itches like a what do you call it like a power wash simulator? Like that same vibe of like, you know, I really enjoyed both of these demos because work is a little bit stressful. And so it's fun and satisfying to just sort of like clean , right ? And there actually is one more that is similar . Oh my god, I forgot the name of it now. I want to play that restoration game. I followed two companies on TikTok. It's the actual ARI logo they got in there. Oh yeah The last one, oh my god, I feel so rude because I want to shout out these games because they're all indies, but someone made basically it's like a two D power wash simulator and I can't remember the name of it , but it's top down and two D and then you run around and you know, clean up parks and clean up things and that one was really cool . But the other game I wanted to shout out was it's called about fishing and it has this kind of like retro PS one, maybe like late PS one, early PS two era three D graphics . And it is a fishing game. Like the main thing you're doing in the demo is like, you know, you're going around and you're catching fish , but it's very kind of like twin peaks. Like there's like a mystery and like everything is kind of weird and unsettling and you're meeting these NPCs and talking to them and you know kind of kind of trying to solve this like central mystery that's in the game . So it's really cool. Like the demo's really cool. Like my seam wish list just keeps getting longer and longer and longer as I'm like all of these games are just so neat I see what you mean about the PlayStation one art style. It's obviously much it's like higher fidelity, but it's very jagged polygons . And it's got that weird strobing thing that they used to do , that's it's hitting me in the fields right now. Well, that's very in right now, right? Like we saw pixel art like pixel art was gone, it was dead. And then as these kids that grew up with pixel art got into their thirty, you' knows, and forties and twenty, you know, started making art of their own pixel art made a comeback. And now we're seeing the same with this PS one and PS two aesthetic as like kids that were eight when that was contemporary are now adults and are making commercial art and now we're seeing it make a come back . And then I also want to shout out Corsair Cove , which is basically it's like a pirate city builder, like pirate town builder. But what's cool about it , there's nothing cool or special about it except that like the pirate villages you make are really cool and vertical and these cool little like jagged mountains and then you have to like build bridges that go from one area to the other. And so just the space that you're kind of building on is really, really neat. If you're watching the show, you're gonna see a cool moment in the trailer here because I just watched it before the show. Like watch your town kind of like build up . You could just like place things on the side of cliffs and stuff like that. And I just think that's neat . It looks like Mad Max , like where they just kind of , you know, water , you know , the water level dropped and so they just kind of built towns around the things that are left . I like it. I just like the ramshackle , you know, sort of like, you know, pirates of the Caribbean ramshackle pir ate chaotic pirate town is just like a really cool aesthetic. And that's what really appeals to me about this game. And this demo I actually haven't played yet, but it's on my two playlist and it looked really cool. Then it comes from publisher Hooded Horse, who has never made a video game that I didn't like. Nice . I have two. Okay. I played black jacket. I don't know if that was necessarily a woah whoa next dress game. Mark, I've been singing the phrases of black jacket. . I played during next vest . Yeah, it's great. The whole game is out . Oh, that's right. Okay , I think I just got confused because I saw it. It was recommended to me during Nextvest , but it's a it's a blackjack rogue like game with stellar voice acting. Yeah, it's very good. We're talking about you're playing blackjack in hell against people and having these conversations while you play and learning about your relationships with them, it's really, really good. But it's got that kind of like slay the Spire stuff where it's like you're playing blackjacket, but or you're playing blackjack, but then it'll have like this card exhaust or this card does this and whatever. It's very fan, very fun. So not an XFS game, but a game people should check out. The other one was Arcane Eats. If you're a fan of Slay the Spire , it's very much kind of in the same vein where it's kind of acute, you're running a cafe and the people that they hurt you because they're complaining because their food took too long. But other than that, it's the same as slave the Spire except for you usually battling three enemies instead of just one and it's very much it's different enough from Slay the Spire for it to feel fresh and new but samey enough to know exactly what you're going into the moment you start playing it. It was very, very fun. That looks good. That was a good one. This looks great. I miss this one. I have one more. Okay . There's a game called Desktop Explorer, where it's sort of like a point and click adventure game, and it's another one where there's a mystery you're trying to solve and it's kind of like psychological horror themes, but you're you're using clues in the operating system like opening the file explorer and finding some file and then finding a note that leads you to a website and then the website's like really old and like nineties looking because this is like a Windows ninety five or maybe even older, like Windows three point one like interface and all that screensaver . Yeah, so it's just it 's really, really cool . And so that was another one that really stood out to me. That is cool. How long is NextFest going ? It's over. It's over and so some of the demo still there? Well, they're coming like it's up to the developer . Some are like, you know, Next Vest is over. We're taking our demo down and then some are making them still available. 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I thought it was going to be, you know, yeah, we have a smaller team now blah blah blah and it's like nope we if you were to read this you would assume that there will never be a Destiny three which, is wild to me. Wild , considering how successful Destiny two was Marathon . Yeah, it's tough because there's the new season starting and they're coming out with a PVE mode that I'm very excited about. It's kind of barred off from the rest of the PVP mode, but like they're doing things. I don't know. They're they're trying. I mean, you know, marathon is in and this isn't going to sound like it. I do mean it as a positive, not a negative. Like they're clearly in a little bit of like desperation mode . And so what I what I mean about that being a positive is like, you know, they're taking big swings, right? They're like the game they're like, let's try a PV mode. It reminds me and I saw this comparison online, so I can't take full credit for it, but like, Fortnite didn't start as a Battle Royale game, right? It started as Fortnite saved the world. And then they're like, let's try a battle roy Raoyleal mode. And like, you know, if Marathon, you know , with Destiny , the engine was famous for like being so inflexible that it was just almost impossible for the bungee team to make changes. Like, you know, they had to rebuild the entire game to like, you know, move the location of like one item and just like it was just really, really hard for them to build and iterate and try things. And so if they fixed that and got it right with Marathon, if they're able to kind of pivot and like, let's try the PVE mode. Let's try this mode. Let's try that mode. Like that actually is really encouraging and exciting to me. And I hope that they're given enough runway and time to sort of like see what sticks and see what the audience responds well to but I mean what a what a management failure that like to buy this company for three point three point se bvenillion dollars and then you know , you're right, it's not been that many years Daniel. Four years. Only four years to just flounder and then say oops our bad. Especially since it's Bungee, one of the most notable studios of all the developer of Halo, the creator of Halo. I mean, I think they're the greatest, you know, greatest FPS developer ever as far as I think in terms of gunplay, I think they're completely unmasked in terms of the feel of their gunplay. Yep. I totally agree with that. But I feel like Bunchie's whole history, like, I feel like there's never that very long a period where they aren't on their heels or something 'cause they're independent in the nineties. They make marathon, they get bought by Microsoft to bring Halo to Xbox. And they spent a long tenure at Xbox, but then they won out. I don't know what the story is. They were burnt out, they're unhappy under Xbox, whatever, they spin out. They're independent again. They make destiny, then they make a deal with activision. It's a ten year deal, but they dissolve that deal five years in. And then they publish Destiny to themselves . And then there's all this like, I mean, workplace harassment issues . They went through that whole thing . And then they get purchased by Sony and then four years later got it. So there's, I don't know, a long running developer that just seems to always be running into some kind of problem . Yeah . But speaking of Microsoft , over on their side, they have raised the price of Xbox again for the third time I think in just over a year . So let me throw some crazy numbers out there now. A five hundred twelve and gig Xbox Series S is now five hundred dollars And just the regular ass launch Xbox Series X with one terabyte is eight hundred dollars. I thought it was seven hundred fifty. Is it eight hundred digital digital that's the digital. Oh yeah. It's eight hundred dollars now. That's what is this world see. What is this world that we live in? When you when you talk about when you look at this, you look at the steam deck sw,itch two price goes up, playstation five price goes up. You start to think is it over ? Are video games over? Or maybe it's just time to reset. While they sort this all out, let's all just play retro games for a while. Yeah, we're just gonna play retro games for a while. Dude, I'm good. I like I'll stick I'm in factorio man just getting my conveyor belts. eight hundred dollars for the regular series X that's that you know if you want to get yours after it like and like so but then that makes me think like the PS five being six hundred fifty, it's like yeah, but for how long? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Oh yeah, they'll definitely mean the PS five pro is now nine hundred dollars.. Yeah Yeah . Which when you look at a value proposition, right, you would compare the Pro to the series X one terabyte digital because the PSY Pro is digital with the option to make it disc, but I'm not going to I mean we give it to that. But it's two terabytes. This one's only one terabyte. For the moment, like, look, and I'm Xbox first in my household. I don't even I'm not even sure my PS five is hooked up right now. Like I'm playing everything on Xb ox , but there is absolutely no reason to buy this console. The fact that it is it is it is one hundred fifty dollars more than the equivalent PS five is absolutely untenable. Like there's no reason. There's no reason to buy it and that makes me sad as an Xbox fan. Like, you know, I want to I want to root for them and I want them to do well. Anyone who wants play to Gear's War E Day already has an Xbox So yeah, I mean I understand that it's like needs must, right? Like if they're taking a bath on each console sold, they're doing what they have to do, but like they have to know like they're not they're not they're not dummies. Like they know that by doing this, like Xbox hardware sales are going to fall to a trickle, right? And they're already in a trickle. Yeah, that's the crazy thing. So I guess their rationale is like they'd rather sell that many fewer consoles than sell consoles at a loss or at that much of a loss. I think what was always kind of strange to me is I thought, okay, well maybe they're just kind of washing their hands of the series platform and gearing up for Helix , but now there's so many rumors swirling that Helix and PS six are much farther out than people think they are. I think people were thinking that Helix was next year and I'm not sure that that's the case anymore. I mean, they said twenty twenty seven, but that may be changing. Yeah, maybe that's changed. Yeah, I mean, you know, the thing the thing about PlayStation, this is , you know, when you're in last place trad,itionally , and this is coming true with Xbox, you need to move first to launch the new console generation. You need to reset the board and have new more powerful hardware and get a chance to like excite your core fan base. Whereas if you're in first place, you want to slow down the console generations and you're in no rush. And so there's no PS six buzz yet, whereas Xbox is kind of trying to get things going . So if Xbox delays the project Helix, can they hold on for the two years or whatever it'll take them to get a new console out the door? Yeah . I've also read a lot about them changing the strategy of what the Helix ends up being because when you think about it, the Helix was supposed to be a hybrid PC Xbox, right? But the Steam machine just showed what a PC console type of deal and it's far weaker than what the new platform should be . And so the Helix is set up right now to be a twenty five hundred dollars machine easily , in my opinion. So I can't do that . They can't launch it for two thousand five hundred dollars. That thing will sell a million in its life. So that's my that's crazy. Yeah, baby. a I have I have aiPhone , what is it Pro Max, whatever the nice one is called ? And you know, that phone was a thousand dollars, but it wasn't a thousand dollars. What it was was like, you know, eighteen dollars a month on my phone bill for two years , right? And that is what game consoles are going to be now is you buy PSN Pro and you buy a Xbox Game Pass and then your console is least to of it's added to your bill, you know, it's a subscription. You know, you're paying for your subscription and then you get the console for free and then you pay it off over three years two to three years. That's that's how they're going to work. And that's how console is going to be twelve hundred dollars . The PS six is going to be twelve hundred dollars, but it's not actually . It's going to be nineteen dollars a month for, you know, two or three years. That's I think that's in our article with the Xbox stuff is that they're doing the Xbox access stuff where you can finance it. They are, but they're not quite doing it the way that a phone contract works. Now, they're allowing you to console on LAWAY. I'm just doing the Klarna. Yeah, yeah, they're doing the Clarna. So I don't think it's going to be a never ending subscription. I think that you buy the console bundled with a game pass subscription and then it's one thirty dollars a month subscription or forty and then you pay that for three years or whatever. That's how I think it's going to work. , I it's going to work like your phone bill works . Yeah, it's I think it's tough because it's like that is how phones work and people just have accepted that . That's how cars work. Very few people own their cars . They, you know, everyone most people are that true. I think a lot of people are making car payments. Oh, I mean , they're yeah, they don't know. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's like, you don't own your phone. I don't own my cars. They're owned by other things . But I own my consoles. And now we're going to live in a world where I also don't own my consoles. No. And he's getting a little crazy. Yeah, to be clear, I'm not defending like I think this is terrible. I just want to be explicit . Like, but I think it's bad, but I do think that that's the future we're heading to. And like, you have the option like look if you're mister Moneybags and you want to buy your PS six for twelve hundred bucks, feel free in the same way you can buy out your phone, but just most people choose not to, right? Yeah, I did do it for my I have the seventeen pro max and it was the first time I ever did it. I was like, how much is it? And I think it was like fourteen hundred and I was just like screw it and I just bought it 'cause I was like, I don't I don't wanna deal with it. And my last phone lasted me five years . So my plan is that this one is going to last me another five years. I hope this is R slash true off my chest. It's it's really starting to feel like the alien universe Weyland Yutani like just five corporations that own everything and yeah we're completely beholden to them. Yeah. It is crazy how the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties like understood that like, oh, the corporation, the multinational corporation is going to be more powerful than like the government like Yeah, it's it's that chart that's always existed, right? Where it's like you have all these trillions of different companies but it's all a pyramid and you find out that you know Pepsi owns the shampoo that you're using . You know, you just don't know it. Yeah , so that's where we're at. A quote from Microsoft says in the past several months storage and memory prices have increased by more than two and a half X , and we expect another doubling by the fall of twenty twenty seven. Yeah, I do like, and in the same way, you know, we don't need to carry water for Rockstar. We also don't need to carry water for Xbox. But I do like these statements. I do like that they're being transparent about like, you know, they're not sugarcoating it, right? They're like, you know, like we're charged like it's it's costing us double to make this thing. Like, you know, so that kind of transparency is , you know, at least respected and welcome for me . Yeah . My advice is to hold on to your hardware. Two years ago, my series X broke because I've had it since launch and it started doing that thing. You know how sometimes when like mainly when we were kids, you had a controller and it was like it would only work if you held the controller a certain way, like the wire, you know, like you'd have to like hold it back or like maybe a power cord would only sit a certain way or it didn't work . My series X started doing that with my with my HDMI. It had to be tilted upwards. And I think putting something under it made it where it eventually just broke it. And now I don't own a series X That's pretty much cancel. Probably a fairly easy fix if you would have pulled the back off that thing and like messed with the HDMI port a little . Someone get my hammer. Yeah, but I do take an error apart. I do remember at game consoles, we do in some ways we have it nice now . Like everything's just a lot more reliable. Like that shit used to break constantly. Like my PS one , my version of that story is my PlayStation one famously the little laser that would read the disks would get old. And so mine only worked when I kept my PS one upside down . Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like your regular Nintendo, you'd put it down, like the little lip would break on the motherboard, so you'd have to put the game, you'd push the game down and then put another game into it hold to it down . Yep . Don't blow on your carts though. That doesn't work, whoop. There was a glitch in the matrix. Yeah, there was. I changed something. Yeah. I'm AI this episode. It's just a Justin Bott. Like what would he say about the Xbox right now? So far they're nailing it. This is why ramp prices are so high though. 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Listeners, remember you can always reach us at the email address gamescoop at iGen dot com just like Glenn Kirby and Barnesley . Mary Old England did have water. Mary Old England. I heard he says maths. I didn't understand the maths thing. Is that a is that a thing English people say? That's what they say. Maths plural. Instead of math. Yeah. Huh ? Yeah. Okay . It's adorable. Yeah . Glenn says I have recently been purchasing some games to play on my tablet Dan s like you're playing games on a tablet. Get out. Okay . All right, I'm going to edit that out . Okay , I've recently been purchasing some games to play on my tablet when on my break at work with the caveat that they must play well using the touchscreen. I've purchased Blottro, Slay the Spire, into the Breach, and Stardew Valley, which are all games I already play on my switch. I've also purchased Gumbonza, that's the chess rogue light, geometry dash and the amazing Bad North. Haven't heard of that one. And I was wondering if you guys could recommend any games that you can purchase and own outright, no ads, et cetera. So just what I'm assuming he's saying tablets, he doesn't have an iPad doesn't have Apple Arcade available. I mean, it's interesting I would not actually characterize the tablet version of Starde Valley drove me crazy Um , oh gosh, off the top of my head. I mean Balloons TD six is very, very good on iPad. I probably played a hundred of hours of that on an iPad before I switched. I got the Steam version . You know, Minecraft is actually very playable on tablets, I would say. Vampire Survivors is very good on a tablet . I mean, this is old school, but like if you know, like Monument Valley were really puzz good le games back in the day on tablets . I played through, it sounds insane, but like the classic ismometric RPGs like Baldersgate and Baldur'ates G two and Plainscape Torment . All the tablet ports of those were extremely well done. Like the modern version, like the enhanced editions that you can still download and play today on PC and other platforms . Those they were redone first for tablets and the touch controls are really good on them . I don't know. Those are some off the top of my head. Balloons. Bloom Bloons is like the one where like, man , that game' sos underrated and so good and I played it I played it a lot on my iPad. Speaking of Tower Defense, there's a million Kingdom Rush games and they're all good. They're all basically the same quality. You can't go wrong with any of the Kingdom Rush. And then if you like Slayerspire, I would recommend Monster Train It's great. Yeah. Great robot car game. Both one and two are great, but two contains the entirety of Monster One inside of it, so just go with that one. I like the one free to play game. I was gonna say the one free to play game I've gotten hooked on. Not true. There's been many over the years, but the one that's like been consistent in my life is Battlecats . I was just I go through phases of, you know, like I'll be really into the battle cats for two or three months and then kind of fall off it, but then I don't delete my account when I come back, all my cats are still just waiting for me. Mark, do you play any tablea games? No , not at all. No , okay . Well, there's a battle. There it is. It's so good . Look at those little guys go. They're gonna get the base Alright, that brings us to video game twenty questions. Our suggestion this week comes from Joel in San Diego who says what is going on in Mega Caps for Turning Questions, I wanted to propose a gem I only recently discovered in the redacted genre. But what is the genre? Oh, it's oh got me almost got me. And with that , let the questioning begin. Don't don't screw me on this, Mark. There's it's it's so rare that I'm on the show and Sam 's not that like I have a very rare chance to increase my win loss ratio . Got it. Okay . No, I got this. This is sounds easy . Okay, hold on, I need to pull up some info. Okay, I got the info ready. Okay , fire away Man, San Diego. By the way, if there was one city on Earth, you could live anywhere, you could live on the Earth. I would probably pick San Diego. Really? Anywhere? I think so. I'm not knocking Santiago. I'm just yeah, like beach beach vibes, like Legoland? Legoland Legoland. Fish fish tacos, man. It's like fifty percent the fish tacos and then fifty percent everything else. Lego Land has a new indoor roller coaster. It's called the Galactic Coaster. It's closest analog to Disneyland is Space Mountain. I dare say Galacticoaster is better than Space Mountain. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's fighting worse. It's really, really good. It's really good . Anyway, yeah. I heard you were just there and I heard it was very expensive . If you want to skip the lines do all the fancy stuff it's lord , did this game come out in the seventies , eighties, or nineties? No . Hidden Gym in a very specific category of I feel like we should he say hidden gym or just a gymem a. g Okay. A gem in Redacted in a Redacted. Yeah. I kind of like a genre . There's so many genres that it's terrifying to try to nail down what genre it could be. Is this a puzzle, platform or role playing game ? Yes . Puzzle platformer or role playing game. Puzzle or platformer or role playing game. Okay, I mean, is it a platformer? Yes. There we go. Sick . Okay . Let's see. Did this game come out ? Is this game exclusive to a platform? No Is this game two D ? No. That's five. I think it's a hat in time . Could be a hat in time. What was that really good two D platformer? I know it's not that because it's three D. The one that came out a few years ago Pizza Pizza Tower. Did you play Pizza Tower? Yeah. Yeah,, ye yeahah, the warrior type game. Yeah. Game of sick . Okay, but three D three D platformer did not come out in the seventies, eighties or nineties . So you know, you got Hatton Time, you got Ukulele, you got you got corn kids. Have you ever heard of Corn Kids, Damon? No, that's a that's a platformer. Yeah, there's a there's this growing movement. There's fewer them that I would like, but more than I would expect of I guess you would call them like supermario sixty four likes , like that era of like chunky three D graphics , but you know, but just kind of like pure three D platform ing Is this game part of a series ? Yeah, I guess you would say yes. That makes me think it's Ukule . Yeah . Because there's only one but then there's like all these spinoffs and there's not more there's not one. There's at least two . Is there two? I thought the other one was just replay or whatever win. No, they made a two D one. They made a two D one and now they're making the cart racer . two point five they're two point five D one. They're just going through all the genres. That game was really clever because you could go to the final boss like right at the beginning of the game you could try, the final level, but it's this long gauntlet and it's really hard and impossible. And as you're playing through the game and playing through the levels, what you're doing is earning more lives and more tries to complete the final level. So you can decide whenever you're ready. Like I have twelve lives now. Maybe that's enough to get through the final level and you can just keep building up the number of lives you have. Got it. Okay, I mean , let's just go for it. Was this game developed or published by Playtonic? Nope. Not Ukulele . And Hatton Time, I'm think it's a one off one and done Great game though? What about BubZ four D? That's the new one. There are Z. Or what's that other developer demon turf they made their Yeah, yeah, school ones. Yeah, demon school, demon turf . Mhm . I forget what the new one's called. I don't remember either . Yeah . Is this is that Indie game? No . No Let's see . Okay , but not exclusive . So yes, I guess it's part of a series , not indie, three D platformer Not exclusive to a console. So we're not it's not like it's like, you know, Mario or like something or ratchet or Yeah , not any of the like really obvious ones platformer Yeah, yeah this is did this game come out within the last fifteen years? Did it come out in year is it ? Did Damien was twenty one? Let me ask what I'm actually asking. Did this game come out after I started working at IGN, which was july twenty eleven No . Okay, okay. So we're in the early two thousand . So we're two thousand to twenty eleven . Well two thousand to twenty eleven, June . That I mean, I know that's a very just in specific clue, but Mark, hopefully that still helps us get placed in a specific era. Yeah , yeah . I mean, okay, so now we're looking at I don't know PSR , PS two PSR but not it's not like Jack and Daxter any of those because those are all those PS two exclusives Was Slai Cooper , PS two exclusive, or you know, PlayStation Exclusives . And Ratchet, you're right. Banjo Nut and Bolts or whatever. But what about what about INIja? That was a cool three D platformer from that era. I don't even know what that is. I knew . Did this game come out on the gamecube? No , that's ten . Okay, we still have a lot of questions. Psych oonauts, did that come out on the gamecube? It could be Psychones one. It could be psychones one . It's true . And it's on everything and it's technically double fine is not indie. Was this game made in the United States? Hold, please. Let's see. Yes. I feel like he would know that double fines in San Francisco . They were right down the street . Yeah, but you can't you can't play that game with Damon because you just never know . Yeah . Okay, so there was , you know, what else is part of part of a series not on the gamecube. 'Cause then I was like, okay, like maybe you know, maybe it's like Prince of Perger or something, but a lot of those games came out on the GameCube. , yeah. Psychonauts might have come out on the GameCube. I honestly don't even know Made in America . I feel like I just need to know more about the game because I'm just yeah, that's what we're doing here. That's the entire game. That's the entire game . I mean, if only we knew more about it . I meant. I meant one full game? I mean, what you do in the actual game? Ask some guy there . Ask some questions. How do you give any hold on Ask what you do. What about like Spyro was there multiplatform Spyro games back then? Shit . That's true . Did Spyro ever come to like Xbox? I don't know. I don't know if there are PS two exclusives. Yeah, yeah, probably PS one exclusives. Well, so they were PS one exclusives, but then they do like the Crash Bandicoot thing and then go multi platform later. Yeah . Would like Activision picked him up? Okay, okay, so Activision has crashed as well. So let's go with was this game published by Activision? No . Shoot . I mean, if there's no reason it can't be psychoones by the way. He did say yes, it was developed in the United States . Yep . Yeah , okay I don't know. How many questions do we have Damon? You've asked twelve . Okay, I mean, was this game developed by Double Fine? No . Okay, let's figure out how you when you attack , are you using a is it primarily melee Maybe you don' t attack Maybe it's like Monkey Ball, although that was obviously on GameCube. But you know, something like that like a Kula World or like a marble blast ultra . Yeah, I don't know. I haven't personally played this game. I don't know. I am aware of this game, but haven't played it myself Platformer . What about like what about like I don't know it's a stretch to call ited a platformer but what, about like a jet set? Like a jet set radio? Mhm . I don't know, I guess I would call it a I don't know what I would call that game . Yeah . I think yeah, I think you could call it. I think you could . What would you call Tony Hawk? Is Tony Hawk a platformer? No . Were they making were they making three D rayman games back then? Although this was developed in the United States and their Rayman games were probably still made in France back then . Yeah the United States one is I guess it could be a sonic game . Yeah, except they were made in Japan . Yep. And they were probably platform exclusives back then if they were on the Dreamcast Late era Dreamcast game . Well, Sonic Adventure like one and two are on GameCube. Damon, is this a first person game? No. I thought I was I thought I had a flash of Inspo and I thought it was Mirror's Edge. Oh , that would have been good. That would have been sick, right? Platformer of that era not on the not on the gamecube, probably next question , are you sure it's not Mir Zhish? Yeah, just say just say just say it is . Yep, you got it . The show could have been over. Yeah . Yeah. The Ape escape games were exclusive to the PlayStation, right? Playstation. Yeah . twenty eleven. That doesn't necessarily, I'm picturing like PS, like it could be expands generations. It doesn't have to be PS two. It can be like PS two three PS three, wee and yeah, maybe that's what's tripping me up. Maybe this is like a Wii Box Is this a Lego game ? No, that's fifteen . God . And the series is oh, I just said is it part of his game ? Yeah, I guess so. It's like yeah is there a game in development for this series right now that's just like not out yet . Yes . Yes . Okay , it's not Spyro . Unless Spyro wasn't published by Activision back then, but I can't imagine. Well, Spyro was I also don't even know which one it would be. Spyro, two and three are PS one games and then, you know, they obviously kept making them, but I'm not the PS two era Spyro games are not to be spoken of . You've got three questions in a guess. Since you're down a man, I'll say there's just there's one common question you always ask that you have not asked yet. Have we mentioned have we mentioned the game? That's not the question I mean. That's not the question. Oh, well, what's the common what is the common question ? Does your character wear a hat? That's not a common that's a question. Now we have to start asking questions to find out what the common question is. What's a common question that we ask that we haven't even asked yet . I mean, sometimes we ask if multiplayer is like prominently featured I don't even know. I don't even know Damon, you twisting you',re twisting us up . Yeah , the the it's it there's one of development that hasn't come out yet that's part of the series is totally tripped me up because I mean, I think of every game that's coming out now. I don't know if I'd call it a platformer, but like there's like, you know, there's like Tomb Raider . Yeah, it's Tom Raider. I'm percent. It's got to be. And that might trip them in up with like if there's if there's punching or kicking in it . What does that face mean? I wouldn't know the answer to that question. I know she's shooting her dual guns all the time, but you might be kicking raptors in the face and tomb raider, I don't know . I can't remember punching your butler, locking them in the fridge . That must have been the Tomb Raider haven't played . Yeah, because the thing is so it's like for as far as platformers go, we have we have Tomb Raider , we have with Spyro We do ask if you play as a human. Maybe that's the question. Acomi Yeah . Although that's a gay? No, that was a weak it's super Japanese . Oh yeah, you're right . The tomb raider . Does this we have three questions and a guess? Yes. Do you play as a human? No , no , no, you do not. Maybe as your hint, you do not play as a human. Absolutely not. No, understood. Maybe you play as a bandicoot ? Or bald dragon? Or a dragon ? Or it was not exclusive to a console so it's not like conquer . Yeah . It's not nineties though. Does it not help us at all to ask if it's like a mascot platformer? I don't think I think we know it is 'cause you play as some weird animal . Or a zombie? Are zombies humans? Or a vampire ? I don't okay, okay, okay, okay, we can pull this out. We can do it . I'm not sure how do you I know we're not allowed to I'm going to look something up on my computer but, it's not related to No, I'm talking about platformers in twenty twenty two. I'm looking up does Spyro walk on two legs ? No. He's a young dragon who runs primarily on all four legs. Do you walk in on two legs in this game? Yes . Okay . Shoot. So no, that's super that's helpful. That means it could be a crash PS two era crash bandicoot game maybe although I think they were all published by Activision. I feel like they were published by Activision. I also don't know two legged crashes that are in development. Two legged animal. That means it's an anthropomorphic animal. Like it's not like Sonic's not a real hedgehog. He's like a boy that's a hedgehog, like Hello Kitty is a human girl. Yeah . One question, one guess. I feel like we have to I feel like we have to do the have we have we mentioned the game . Have we mentioned this game ? No . Or scrambling that . Didn't I just reveal it? Sorry, Justin , it's all my fault . I mean, we mentioned we mentioned a lot of games so many. So it's like, what are we missing ? And 'm missing . I know this is sometimes a question, but like, are we going to be pissed off? I'll just since you just have a wild guess to make, I'll reveal the redacted and it's related to the question you usually ask. Craig and San Diego said, I want to propose a gem I only recently discovered in the licensed movie tie in genre . Licensed. If you can guess it off that God that no , that actually doesn't help me. I mean, we asked if it was a Lego game which were all licensed. No, that doesn't help. All right. Are you ready? Yep. Yes. Toy Story three. Put it over two. twenty ten. Never It was nowhere close. That's the game. Got it. I've never even seen this game. I know that there's a well liked like toy story, like I think PS one era like toy story tie in game that people are secretly like, yeah, those game's alright. Never heard of Toy Story three . The complete edition is coming this year from Joh face, yeah. The complete Toy Story complete edition is coming this October of Toyota . Yeah, I didn't even think about like I mean, we said no game cube, but like SpongeBob Battle for Bikini Bottom would have been a good guess , but not GameCube. Yeah, it's your question about is it mostly melee combat I don't I don't know, I don't know if there's any combat at all. What's Woody doing? Yeah. This looks cool dude. It's supposed to be good. I mean, Craig says it's a gym. We gave it a seven point five. Anthony Galliagos forget gave it a seven point five. , I miss Anthony. Yes. Now he's making some nod a catoura. Is that true? That's the journey. He's outside the studio, I believe. He's like the design director for it.. Well, already Nicely attempted. Thank you for the suggestion, Joel in San Diego, viewers, listeners. If you have your own suggestions for video game twenty questions, email them to me at the email address, gamescoop at iGen dot com and that's all the scoops that we have for you this week . Thank you, Mark. Thank you, Justin. Thank you to Same, who was keeping me company this whole time here. For those following along at home in the life the life of Damon, my daughter graduated preschool today so che checkckppoointint, . We have no kids in preschool anymore. We have kids in public school now, so that's exciting. Yo ho ho, it's a pirate's life for me this weekend. My name is Damon, and this is IJ Games What does that mean ? I know what that means