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We've been talking about it for years, the All digital future 's finally happened The countdown has been set basically eighteen months from now Playtation goes all digital Surely you've heard about this. This is just announced today on Wednesday when we're recording this. PlayStation disisck production will end in january twenty twenty eight After that, PlaySation is not printing any moreore discks thereare. So you know, I know Justin doesn't allow it, but in case there are any listeners or viewers who are watching this revisiting this sometimes in the future. Yeah if you're watching this in like twenty twenty eight or something. I don't need to be catching strays right now. So this is I'm holding up what we call a disk. Oh we a dis is l. It's for the PlayStation console. And when you open it inside, you will find This is what It comes with a book. I don't think anybody knows what this book was that came with it but. Wow. It also has a little foam pad Free foam. Y, free foam. every copy of doom for Play station one. And then this this is what the disc was guys, if you remember this. And you would take it out of the box and put it into your playsttation. And then you install it and never have to use it again, right? That's it. You install. Everything that you need is on this disk. Oh and this foam pack. What about the day one patches pair? There's no such thing. Anyway, this was in my days when discs replaced cartridges We had to wait for these games to start up and it was like five minutes sometimes But you know, like this is what it used to be. And then This is the amazing thing Damon. If you w up a Playsttation right now and you put this game in, it would just work, It will work. I don't believe it just works. Damon can you can think whatever you want. I think that this is bad news. Okay. Ilike what you said before the show. I don I don't like it one bit. No, it's terrible. Like look, it makes me really sad and I do think do I think it's going be walked back, I don't know, maybe. but now there's rumors that we have a rumor on the site that Xbox is going to do the same thing and Project Helix is going to be digital only So let's recount all the ways in which this is bad for consumers. Okay. It means your PlayStation six won't be able to have PS five or PS four PS three discks put into it and be playable. And know they'll sell them to you as part of a subscription service or digital download. But the old discs become worthless It means that you don't own your games anymore. So the audacity of Sony, and again, I say this is a longt timee PlayStation fan But the audacity to say we're going to go all digital only where less than one week ago, they removed a bunch of movies from people's libraries You would purchase the movies and then it turns out now you didn't actually purchase the movies. You purchased a license to watch the movies at our pleasure and as long as we sort of allow you to. So That That's what I think some people, maybe that are slightly less informed, don't quite know is that. It's not just Oh, we're not offering this movie for sale anymore, or we're not offering this game for sale anymore. But they can remove it from your library remotely even after you've purchased it. So this era of like our console is probably going to cost one thousand dollars. You can't sell or trade this game to your friends anymore. U, you know, and and you never own anything anymore. You only rent it from us at our pleasure and our discretion is So blatantly anti consumer that you know, the government's going to have to be gotten involved and this is going to have to be made illegal. Yeah, And there was, you know, we got a scare in in the entertainment sector when services like ultraviolet that were supposed to handle your your digital licenses to movies that you bought, right? Like the digital code you could enter with a Blu ray or something. They were supposed to handle that in perpetuity. And then some of those programs went down R? Like platforms like Voodoo that would authenticate were like sold to Walmart and that went down. It's still around and it's still working. It's just centered around, you know Apple. And surely Apple would never do anything evil to anyone. But yeah, it's getting a little scary when when you're purchasing something it could go away. I will say like I brought up Voodoo. Voodoo was a platform that was purchased by Walmart and then the movies, including like adult entntertainment that Walmart would not carry wouldn't carry over under the new ownership. And so Walmart refunded everyone. I have no idea how much money they paid out, but like they actually refunded people for the ownership that they lost, whereas Sony obviously didn't for the movies that they removed What will happen with games? I mean, I was just playing the crew the other day Oh wait, no, was even was But like that's a sort of a rare example of where an all always online game runs into trouble and could go away and they obviously address some of that, but yeah, this could be the future for everyone. I mean, we've seen this on a case by case basis with as you said, games like the crew, but having it happen at this magnitude is I think the thing that's the most shocking for a lot of people. When I woke up to that news this morning, I just was genuinely bummed for a bit, kind of sat around and bed I was like, damn is this Is this how it all starts? Is this how it it's all unfolding? And you know, I was thinking being the unusual folk that I am. and I'm sure everyone watching this is also probably in a similar vein as me as the other day, I got the itch to replay Draacon Guard three. I have two options. I can buy it digital on the PlayStation three storefront by connecting my PS three, downloading it that way or using a disk copy. Granted, I know we have a disc version here in the IGM library. borrow that bad boy. but Looking forward twenty years from now. and this is a kind of a repeat of Ne gen console watch. We go in all in on the next gen console watch, talk about it so check that out very soon. But apart from that, Looking forward twenty years from now, that option is not even going to exist because the second handand market for something like Draacon Guard three is crazy. tryrying to get a physical version of that game is nuts. It's eighty dollars minimum for a physical version of that game as opposed to whatever the digital price is currently. with the physical version going away very soon in the near future. Do that mean that my God of War twenty eighteen, when I want to play that on my Playsttation eight? will no longer exist and I have no way of doing that outside of paying Sony whatever they want to charge me for it. And think I think the difference in the entertainment space because there's so many studios that sold Blu rays with digital codes and all of that, right? Like it's sort of You feel like someone's going to be around, some servers is going to be around. Apple is going to be around for authentication and other services. The scary thing here is Without legislation or without you know maybe the ESA leading the charge and saying, the concept of digital ownership has to become real and it has to span all of these platforms. You could be looking at something like, you know, like if Intlevision had sold you digital codes for games There was no guarantee that that system would be around in the future and that might happen again, right? Yeah. And is what things things do change. You know, companies do like whoever is on top may not be on top in a decade or two. So if anyone is kind of okay with this, hey, I don't care whatever. I'm happy to pay seventy dollars to get a physical copy. I'm happy to pay sev dollars to get a digital copy. I just want to buy the game and play it. Like the reason that if that's your attitude, the reason that that's a short sighted attitude is you know, a decade or now or twenty years from now You know, when these new games that are digital only are old could just be gone. You know, Xbox or PlayStation room ever could say, we don't want to be in the video game business anymore. Our business is shifted. Whas films this is the only time maybe ever that like they're more progressive and kind of more advanced in kind of their consumer protections than than other mediums or other art form is like a movie like this It's a wonderful life is eighty years old and is still just as accessible and findable and downloadable and you can own it and you can have it on your shelf. Whereas video games go away, right? Like any game that has an online component The servers can go down and can be offline And then I guess even if you have a disk copy on your shelf, then that still doesn't predict Yeah that mean the e shop the game. L Look at the e shop. Nintendo is now selling you little authentication plastic cartridges that don't have the game on them. And it's like, we think Nintendo is going be around. And so we're like, we're cool with it. But what if they shut down the switch To eS shop in, you twenty years. And so suddenly all of those little plastic things can no longer be authenticated and the games can't be downloaded. How many video games are just going to be lost? The lack of artistic preservation in this industry is just absolutely heartbreaking. Well look at mobile. Well, there was a Frank Sefali over at the Videoogame History Foundation. He put out a big statement on behalf of the Video Game History Foundation Basically TLD are' saying that most games that era of PayStation three games weren't even compleplete on card anyway or complete on disk anyway. But that's besides the point. in terms of preservation is where the true loss of this is. And he kind of ends his entire statement by saying, what do you expect museums to do? buy a copy of Grand Theft Auto six and hope it works in eighty years? And I mean, that's a nice little period to put at the end of that sentence. It's a little bit scary Yeah And there is, I mean, I mentioned it at the very top of the call, but at the show, but there is an element of you, a physical game being a fungible asset that like if you spend five hundred dollars hundred on games, you can turn it into three hundred dollars in cash by selling them on eBay or whatever you want to do, right? Whereas like if they're digital copies, it just you literally have fewer rights you know, or I have a video game collection that I can pass on to my kids and technically, like my scene collection and my digital game library cannot be passed on to my kids. So, you know, This this kind of rental you know, you'll never own anything again sort of model of capitalism is, you know, it's really been bumming me out today in particular. I foresee, you know, everyone always likes to joke that there is a Nintendo tax for first party and Nintendo titles. But I think in the near future, it's just going to be the first party tax for whatever console manufacturer' going to be buying because PlayStation and Xbox, Microsoft and Sony will be charging you the full price of whatever their Marquee AAA title is for the foreseeable future. I hope that's not the case, but with the digital only future Wh's going to stop them No discounts. But speaking of Nintendo, they're just they're turnurning into the place if you if you want physical games, Nintendo' the platform to go on 'ause they still have the cartridges? Yeah, but there's nothing on them anymore. Well sometimes. Yeah. There's still some, but the games are now it's expensive to make the bigger the game size, the more expensive the cartridge would be. And so they've been slowly like most games don't actually fit on the cartrs. And so they still require the connection to a eShop server and download all that stuff. Yeah. And to Par's prior point too, like what happens when the eShop goes away and you can no longer download that game anymore with your game key card. And by the way,' I love I have an old game collection. I've got lots of carts and discs and all of that, but I buy a lot of games digitally because of the convenience I don't think about it. I don't want to go out to the store and get it And you sort of hope that ownership's going to be okay and it's going to be transfer over. Like on Nintendo platforms, it didn't famously transfer over. Remember, right? Like virtual console used to pay for individual classic games. and then they're all locked to the old platform. And now you subscribe to Nintendo Switch onnline to basically rent them, right? And so yeah, can you can never rely on that being true in the future Now in the real world If you own property and own a house. you know, in the olden days you had a piece of paper that said you owned it We've adjusted to that and now that there's, you know record keeping and if you lost that piece of paper, you can obviously reclaim your property and say I own this and the government has a record of it. like I wonder if This is where we need to head with legislation that there is a concept of ownership without the piece of paper or the disk Doid you guys know movies anywhere Yeah yeah. no, that's it. that's a replacement for ultraviolet and that system Yeah.. Movies anywhere is amazing. If anyone doesn't know, it sounds like something that's fake and a scam, but it's real. Whereas if you buy a digital movie from the Microsoft store or the Apple store or you know, any number of online storefonts Connect it to your movie's anywhere account and then you can download and watch that movie in any other streaming service. know the associations have an agreement with each other reggardless of where you bought it you now own a license to watch that thing anyway. Like video games need There's kind of a multifaceted solution here. There There's the you know, stop killing games initiative that has you, momentum in the UK and I think in California of like if you have an online enabled game, if you're going to take your service offline or that piece of art iss going to be unaccessible forever, they have to patch in a version to like play and download the game offline R? So there's a preservation of art aspect and then there's the digital ownership aspect Both are going to need, you know, they're going to need the voices of like, you know gamers and other people to kind of like rally behind and say, hey, this is why this is important to us and make it a priority. Yeah. And maybe if a provider can no longer offer the asset for download or install, then it goes into the public domain Correct. Yeah, or some some are some equivalent We like we the real like the real pipe dream version of this would be like buy a game on one platform and then you can download and play it on another platform, you know, like I I don't know how realistic that is, but like, you know, if you buy a game on Steam and that game is also on your PlayStation seven, why shouldn't you be able to download and play it on that too? That's how moovies anyywhere works before it sounds crazy. I'd love to hear what third party publishers think Like how they cught this Like the way I understand is that PlaySation or Sony manufactures all the discks for PS five. So that's why they can be like, nope, we're not manufacturing anymore Likes consider a capcom what maybe they would like There to be a physical edition of Resident Evil ten or whatever it probably kneecaps. I mean, for some time collectors ditions have not actually had the disc in them. They've been kind of like fake, but like it'll make even Collectors' Editions that much less appealing, right? of like now it's not a collector's edition of a game at all. It's just a weird statue and you know, cloth pin and whatever company, you know, CapcOom has to pay for box, the disc, the shipping to the stores, you know, the distribution, all that and then the stores take a cut Whereas if they just send a digital asset, a digital code to Sony There is very little cost, right? And like famously during the Nintendo sixty four age, I mean, Square switched from Nintendo sixty four because of that problem. and some publishers went out of business because of the cost of physical product that sat on store shelves and was never liquidated and turned into money to actually pay for the manufacturer, right? I mean, I remember the days where companies making N sixty four games, they had to guess. They had to say, we think one hundred thousand people in the US will buy it. And so we will pay Nintendo a lot of money to manufacture one hundred thousand cartridges If they sold out and they didn't have enough, they were screwed because it took months to restock byy then the momentum was gone. This happened multiple times. And so they lost some money on that or they didn't sell out and they had all this, you know, basicallys just supp some cash I think, you know, if it's not clear, I'm angry about this. but like you're kind of touching on this a little bit, but it's probably worth like why is this happening? Like it's happening because the seventy or eighty dollars video game on store shelves costs way more than the seventy or eighty dollars to download digitally, right? Like it's just it's margin you know, it's eating into their profits. likeike it's expensive for them to do. So it's like I understand why, but that doesn't mean that I don't think it's a mistake and a bad idea. I even think that's only one part of it, Justin. L another thing is that After you buy a physical disk There could be any number of transactions that happen down the line that PlayStation doesn't get to participate sure don't like that. There was When I lived in Japan, there was a big initiative to stop resale of games and it was everywhere. It was advertisements in public. It was on the discs on the back, no resale and stuff like that. And then obviously everybody still sold their games. were It wasn't enforceable, right? Like in Akiabara all these stores where it showed the price of a re of a game in the window for you to resell. And that's how I kept playing suuper Fumic Kong games when I left lived there because I wouldn't have been able to afford to just buy and keep Obviously, that is gone with the system. One thing that I thought was interesting is like Nintendo introduced this pricing model of saying digital is cheaper. That's not right. physical is more expensive because they didn't actually drop the price of the game, right? They did increase prices overall This was talked about many, many years ago, but publishers could not and the platform holders did not go for a digital versus physical price difference because the lobby of the retailers was too strong. There was I remember all the conversations. They were The retailers had so much power that they just would not put out in cap. so they wouldn't promote a game and put it visibly on store shelves if they if the publisher was trying to underprice them with digital. And so that's obviously gone now. Yeah. The retailers have lost their power. and so Um, this is This is the world we live in now I do wonder like you know, being sensitive to video game consoles and just the video game industry in general being under so much stress, economic stress, right? So expensive. that's why they're doing this is to save money. you know, what if and I wouldn't be surprised if this happened is, you know, because of the negative outcry today that like they walk and like just charge the premium that they need to charge, right? Like look, the disk based version of the console is going to be hundred and fifty dollars more and the games are going to be fifteen or twenty dollars more. And you know now you have the option, right? Like pay it if you want to pay it or don't if you don't want to. but least at least it gives consumers the choice. And I have to admit like I'm a little bit hypocritical because I actually mostly buy digitally me too. But you have that option, but it's the option. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Yeah. You can make more garbage if you want to.. We look, there are all sorts of considerations and the concept of Content being really readily accessible and downloadable and preload is freaking awesome, right? Like start playing the moment the game comes out. All of that is positive. The step that is missed is the user the consumer facing one, that is a guarantee that the thing you bought will be around in some fashion. No company can say we will forever be able to offer this product. not possible. But then there needs to be either a legal right to their content in a public domain form or something. Like honestly, I mean there needs to be There needs to be consumer facing legislation around this. And I bet Europe is going to do it. L Europe might already be doing it. That's why you have a USB C charger in your iPhone now, right? Like somebody in Europe said, Hey, what is this lightning thing What does it mean? So it's like, okay, let's let's, you know, PS six digital only. They're going to stop making, you know, Playsttation disks It's like what about the PS seven right? Like what's the difference between a PS seven game and a PS six game then right? Like okay, so it's more powerful hardware, but it's not a different just you know, it just It just like surely this is just going to push everyone to PC because Steam just does it better than all these console manufacturers anyway, right? Like And it gives you at least you still have some control over the spec of what you want and some sense of being able to like you know, preserve, you know, play these games offline and so on and so forth.. And then maybe PlayStation will walk back its first party titles on Steam stance. I do think that like to Justin's point, I was thinking this is evoking the Xbox one and Don Matrick all over again in terms of just how they' saying this is how it's going to be and having the public outlash Be so great that Maybe they do walk this back. I just, I don't know. there's something about it that I'm not getting that vibe this time around, but then again, it was just announced today. Yeah. I mean, there's a concept of DRM free games, right? where you can install something and it can sit on a disk and you can transfer it to other storage media and keep it in perpetuity. and even if the store is gone, as long as there's no DRM or other online authentication or networking like that. Aog. good old games. Yeah, it can exist in perpetuity. It's a little little more difficult with a Playsttation where you know after downloading four games, that thing is full And it becomes very, very costly to d store. storage is now eight times the price that it used to be. Yep, there's that. So we have no solutions, Daamon, have we're all complaining there're with you Yeah. didn't we didn't form this council to come up with a solution. We just we're just We're lamenting. We're lamenting Alienware's Back to School event is the perfect time to score top gaming gear with incredible features and intntel core processors to go beyond performance. 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Initial plan term only, greater than fifty gigs may slow when network is busy, includces up to twenty gigs hotspots Capable device required, availability, speed, and coverage varies seMitMobile. com Well, let me lighten the mood by saying two words Metroid Ravenous. Yeah, I'm raven for it, David. Let's go bab. What a title. What a title. Metroid Ravenous. Well, that's because the b and the last one was Ravenbe Ravenbe, right? So it's Ravenous That's a leak. This is a leak from the Brazilian Ratings board. Which yeah, Well, then again, Dread was a leak for a decade plus, right. So maybe we'll see this in twenty thirty. Yeahes. Yeah. Dad is not the same project, right? L they made the game because they originally teased a Dread game. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, is this a twoy metetroid? you want want metetroid Dread basically? this is dd too. She's a big gre lobster spoilers. and Yeahah, she's a metroid. She's more metroid than than human Yeah. And then she gets new suits. like red lobster. Yeah. Spoiler So just to say out loud, because I don't know the we had. Like the Brazilian ratings board, that's a rumor that they've leaked the name of, you know So it's in Portuguese, obviously, like that the next metroid game is metroidravenous Unconfirmed rumors only, but seems very plausible and also seems hype as hell. So it's like super happy super happy to just sort of hope in a prayer that it's the real thing. That's why Dreb is so good Dread is great. and I still I really enjoyed Prime four despite all its awards as well. And I'm so sad when you like sign into the e shop and you see the games that are trending, what's actually selling and Prime forge just is never in like the top twenty five or something. That's why I was going gonna say I'd be a little bit crazed surprised that they're going back to the metetroid well again. Considering Frime Fordon there's like, you know, Hnti Farmmerers Club is like in the top thirty. I'm like I think Metro Prime four is better than because's a little compelling gameplay there. Yeah Yeah's's it's a bummer. But, you know, this is sort of the story of Metroid over the years. It's not like they sell terrible, right? Like there are, you know, there are millions of people who have played Metroid games, but like pound for pound. it's so strange that they never sell as well Yeah. desespite Sam as being in In the Smash Bothers. We'll see what happens with Starfox. If Star Fox outsells Smash, that's crazy. That tryed to make a great movie though But it would be could make would? I don't know. It's such it's supposed to be a solitary It's like I know they they There's a lot more people to interact with in Prime four than normal, right? I would say two the more chatty games are, the atmosphere is not as good as in the sort of she crashes and then just finds her way back right. Predator Badlandands, but with Samus, there you go. Yeah. I wrote the movie for you Yeah. I mean, alien, much of Alien was pretty solitary too, not very chatty is right. But are we expecting a two D metroid on this or is this another first person? What What's the speculation? I think it's Mercury Steams next. I think it's Mercury Steam as well. Basically Yeah And I think that's probably why it's been greenit like I was probably pre green lit before Prime four came out for better worse is just my guess. and you know, relatively inexpensive ish to make and market, so kind of why not My hope is that, you know, this is just pure gameplay speculation on my part. But one thing that's always stood out to me since Metroid Fusion and moving forward is that Samus has frequently been on the run from some sort of entity that is unstoppable. So the fact that it's called Ravvenus makes me think maybe she has become the entity to some extent and there are bouts of the gameplay where she just becomes the terminator and is just mowing things down in her way and she can't really control it. Yeah, maybe she can it happened in Metroid before consume the energy of the enemies she slays, right? like in And maybe upgrade a suit that way or become more powerful that way, very, very exciting. Especially since we've seen what Mro Mercury Steam can do with boss encounters.. I thought the boss stuff in Metroid Dread was just incredible, includluding one of the most satisfying final bosses into transition into a final cinematic sequence that you get to quote unquote control. That stuff is just Yeah So tasty. These old hands had some problems beating dad that boss and so it was frustrating until just sort of like it's that moment in the Matrix where Neo can just see all the green st stuff falling. You're just hing it with one hand. Once I beat the boss, I could just do it again. rightight? And' what fantastic game design. I love that game. Yeah.. hopefully. Metro Ravenous is a very nonintendo title and I love it It's good. Very cool He Pareon Justin, last week, Nick and I did a Game of the Year Watch episode without you I picked res evval Requiem as my game in the year so far and Nick picked Marathon Actually, so I wanted to get your take on Par, what do you think is the Game of the Year so far? If we're voting today. My Game of the Year hasn't come out yet. Which you don't know. You don't know. We're voting today.. So really I don't know if you've heard of this. It's indDC, it's called Grand Theft Auto. Really really liked the last one, really enjoyed it No, like so far the year, I like Rake Wam. I think it's a good game, but it's not my kind of game. I told you that before I'm too old to keep running away from stuff. I like stealing cars and exploring worlds and being in control. driving cars like in Fz Horizon six Fortz Horizon six? I'm still playing it. I'm a big Fortza guy and five was my game of the year. I voted for that Six, It's just not as fresh and the same This is what we've been saying. It does not feel as Japan as I wanted to do This is exactly what we've been so I think it's really good. and it's like it's really hard to compare that racing game to other racing games because it has so much cool stuff in it. But for me, it's like stuff I've already done before. and so it's just a different flavor of that No, look, I haveve high hopes for Black flag. I really like Assassin's Creed the original Black flag. so replaying that one. I really enjoyed Star Fox, the remake. I thought that was a strong game but not game of the Year material. and same with Resident Evil Rewam. I don't have one. Double of seven. You jump in I I really like double of seven could become one of my game of the Ye, yes. No Mina the Hollower? I like Mina the Hollower, not my Game of the Ye y. Okay. I'm just picky. It's too early. Okay. You mentioned a couple that I would that could become them, but then I'd be really disappointed if it were any of them.. Yeah, get I understand you. L my games of the year are like a Tears of the Kingdom, a Grand Theft Auto, a big amb games. Yeah. All of the games we mentioned were great games, I would say, but they're not I mean, look at this. Well, this is a seatic.. And I'm not going I'm not going to say it's definitely going to be Grand Theft Auto. I don't know. Maybe maybe it's not going to be as great as I hope it will be, but I feel like there' not going to stand out for Pair yet is what he's saying. No saying Double of seven was good though U Justin, how about you Yeah. So you're going to patch this into last week's show, then Yeah Yeah, we'll go back to'll re uppload.. Got it. cool. We will do a re upload. My game of the years so far I have to search my feelings for this, but I think it's Pkopia Oh go That' help for a little bit. Yeah. ye I mean, like I really like I like, you know, sort of grindy crafty style of games, but where they lose me sometimes is they get a little bit they get a little bit aimless they get a little bit make your own fun and make your own challenge, which like look, that's amazing. That's great that it's a sandbox. G forth and make it your own And so Pkopia completely solved that of like, it is this hundreds of hours of grind and you know, collect the materials and do this and do that. But it's not aimless and it's not pointless. And it's sort of directed of, you know, you're trying to recruit all these Pokemon and you're trying to make habitats for all one hundred fifty of them. And so like it gives you kind of a purpose behind the grind that like really sunk its teeth into me and I took I had spring break week off and this was like this was like all I did that entire week was just kind of no life to picopia. And like it was fantastic. L I you know, beat it and I didn't it is a little bit of a badge of shame for me because I did not end up completing the Pkedex and getting all hundred fifty. But I came pretty darn close. I put dozens of hours after the end game into D don't wantna spoil it if anybody hasn't played it yet, but it has a really fun and really satisfying, well done kind of post credits end game that is super compelling. Yeah, loved it not a Not not a Minecraft like it, is a Dragon Quest buildilders like as we've talked about on the show which is incredible. Not enough of them. You have kids make them catch them all That's what they have kids for, right? But like they were a little bit bored by Piccopia. See what were your game on the U picks Reson Evil and Marathon. Marathon. That's right. Marathon. Yeahah. like all of these games are good, but it's like usually halfway through the year. I'm like, oh yeah, this is my game of the year. There's nothing coming out. that That's going to beat it. We've got a Ocarino of time remake and a Grand Theft auto coming and then other stuff that's not an There's definitely more stuff. and I'm like there's no way my Game of the Year has come out. I know That chosen just because he me his game. He made me choose al right. He made me choose. I can't make pair choose. He's too powerful. No, ble zero seven would be my top pick so far. Doublez seven is great. Yeah. You heard it here first. His Game of the Year is zble zero seven. It's not gonna be my game Okay, last year, or I'm sorry, last episode, we heard from Joel in San Diego And Justin said if couldvewhere in the world he'dick San Diego. That's a good spot ton I heurard that part That's u that's weird, Justin. Where there's like what' I like I think don' have anything. Italy exists. Spain exists. I don't know if I said anywhere in the world. I may have said anywhere in the country. there is anywhere in the world There's nothing that I like about San Diego. Okay. Nick May, let's bring up the tape for Mat Well, we hear from Joel in San Diego again this week. who says we celebrated my son Zach's birthday this past weekend and got a wonderful surprise while listening to Game sccoop on our way to his favorite place Legoland. Not only did Damon choose our game Toy Story three for twenty Qions, but you all also gave a shout out to our hometown and the place we were literally pulling into. So thank you for making an already special day even more special. That's what we do here. That's exciting. And you said your favorite land was Lego land, right You could live in one land. now, Which one would it be We're basically we're like the makeake a Scoop foundation here. That's sweet. Yeah, it's good. Toy Story three do you know this game? ye. That was one I'm well aware.ory three. They needed your help last week.. You know, I have thought Toy Story two was gonna be. I heard you were mean and askking questions to. I heard you were being mean to Mark, Justin. Yeah Justin very mean to Mark. Workplace bully, I think somebody said. All right, is the comments are very mean. I like Mark a lot. I want to say on the show, I think Mark is great and I enjoy working with him and I enjoy having him on Gabes Group. Thankk you. I mean, most people don't know that Mark and Justin regularly don't actually interact in the workspace at all. It's probably because of Justin This is not true. They're gonna not believe you. They're gonna believe you. It's not say st. It's also curious that Mark isn't here to hear this. Yeah. So No, this is not true. It's actually people are very nice to each other. Yeah. Okay, now this is Steve from Maryland, who says, longime Listener, watch, I'm married and the father of two young kids Because time is limited, I mostly game on Steam Deck. I watch Game Scoop on Fridays, on YouTube. I'll even watch sccoop while wearing a metaQest just so I can blow up the screen and feel like I'm sitting in on the show. Oh Anywways, quick Story I picked up running with my wife as an activity we could do together. All was great until I slipped off a curb and twisted my ankle. It took me out for about three weeks just to heal. By the third week, we went out to see if I could run. My wife asked me, so how's your ankle And with Nick's voice in my head, I look at her and I say, I'm back, baby. Anyways, I'll see you guys on Friday That's nice. That was Steve from Maryland. Come on, T take a se right here with your Maests. Right here. Yeah ye And this is Aiden Sahhone, S HO N. Not sure I was pronounced. Hey Goosecamp. My name is Aiden from Austin, Minnesota. Whoa, what a twist And I have both a question and a video game twenty questions suggestion. I've been listening to Games scps since I was in sixth grade., and I just graduated high school. I'll be attending the University of Northern Iowa in the fall I Since I know I will be busy and want some good games to wind down to, I was wondering what all of your favorite chill games to relax to are My personal go to is powerower watchatch simulator, but that gets a little stale after you play the same levels enough times So chill games to relax to Pick cross. I mean for mes like I love. So when I'm on an airplane, I don't want to bother putting in you know, headphones or anything, just pick cross because you don't want to listen to that music too anyway. Yeah. There's a hundred different pickCross games. It's just relaxing because you can also go like I can do some easy ones or you can go for the hard ones, you know, the higher levels. Yeah alwaysways I feels like Justin is going to have a good relaxing game recommend This a bunch There's if you like Power Wash simimulator, although I guess you said it gets a little bit boring, but it has spawned like an entire genre of sort of like organize and clean up your space games.'s Tadju cleanup and house fllipper and there's a I can't the librarian Google Yeah, that's one I was going to shout out. Well, there's a beach cleanup game and then the librarian is the one that's really cool where there's this arcane library. It's like a mages library. and there's just ten thousand books everywhere and then you have to put them back up on the shelf in the right order and The reason it's an arce library, like a mages library is you get magic spells and whatever to make it a little bit less tedious of just like you know, doing a few of them at a time. And so So those are good really relaxing games. I mean, what relaxes me is factoro. So your mileage may vary on that, but like You know, conveyor belts laying out the conveyor belts and ordering a little automation factory is sort of like defragging my brain. So I've been enjoying doing that lately Um, You know, I think Minecraft can be very relaxing. I think Poopia could be very relaxing. Animal crossing quest shoulders Yeah Animal crossing, all the cozy g I take a little bit of a offense like I would say on balance, most cozy games are relaxing, but it's like They don't have to be like I wouldn't I personally wouldn't describe Stardy Valley as particularly relaxing. I think there's some time pressure in that game to sort of get things done in the sort of seasonal deadlines that you have, although I'm aware, nothing's technically missible So you know, but yeah, lots and lots of really relaxing chill cozy games about running a booksop or running a tea shop or basically whatever you want. like I'm so happy that like that style of game has sort of really found, you know, just taken off over the last few years as a counterbalance to just Gabes that scream at you all the time, although I like both right like both bothoth have a place in the market. Yeahep. I agree JRPGs for me, that's like I get to dictate the pace at which I enjoy the game. I've been replaying Final Fantasy six the peak pixel remaster. I' never played the pixel remaster. I've been playing it via the Game Native app on my AYN Thor. So I've been using my steam copy of the game on my handheld and it's just been a delight to watch TV, watch some of the World Cup while grinding some Final Fantasy V. Yeah, I think that's like perfect like of a game. I can, you know, advance a dialogue box or not and just kind of close my device, watch some TV and then open it back up. Yeah wonderful My steam deeck is a relaxing game machine. For me, turn base games are relaxing, so Yeah. My steam deck, I'm horizontal in bed, playing Belachro or Black jacket or Gambinanza. Actually, I recently restarted Discaciia five. Nice. Again, and I've already put like twenty hours into Discaua five. That's a very relaxing game for me turb based strategy where there's, you know, story missions, but then every item in the game has an entire world in it that you can just go dive there. basasic sword has a ninety nine dungeon floor ninety nine and just I just I can just do it forever. It's great Car shopping shouldn't be a game of twenty questions. 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I watched it on HBO And oh, I almost don't want to show the trailer because I think this is a good type of movie you want to go into knowing as little as possible. but The premise is that Zzie Beat. It's a woman who takes a job at a memers's only hotel. And she learns quickly that the people who live and work there are Very weird. There's a foot. Yeah. That's all I need to know. But I can comment on its style. It's very derivative. I think this director saw Killbill twenty years ago and was like, I want to do that. Oh, but it is It sounds very a fuz whereere it's like there's a layer of a weird sort of We It's much more like violent Yeah Hook. It's violent like Kill Bill is it's a little bit of John Wake and a little bit of the raaid But it's a totally fun watch. It's good. I recommend it. it's on HTBO. It's a great trailer. I watched the trailer before the movie had come out and it was like, this' a good trailer. Well Zy Beatz is likeable. I liked her in Deadpool too Shese Domino U And then also on HBO is everybody watching The House of the Dragon Yes. I have. yeah. I watching it.es Justin, you're with us No The house of the Dragon never heard of it I've heard of it. I watching it. Okay. leaps and bounds better this season than it has been. Well just yeah, so we won't get it disposed, but it just right from the eo. It's just like, okay, this is good game of Thrones.. I predicted episode two would be two people in a dark room talking because all the budget was gone. But I mean the first episode has more action and like than moments. It's like mastering commander and dragon battles, you know It was awesome Really cool. And then the second episode was really eventful. Really great things happen in the second episode. In fact, I'm a little bit like I don't really know how much there is left to wrap up here. How Yeah How do How can they keep it up? Yeah my wife read the book. Okay and keeps saying like, ye, keep watching Yeah, obviously' nearing the end, though, 'causeuse it's what conffirmed for five seasons, I believe. Wait, this is only season three. Yeah, I believe it's confirmed for five seasons.on be wrong. two stays. They Really? We've run out of books before. Y, this is true. But this one was already been written there Yeahow. okay. I'm shocked by that much more story After the last episodes I like, what do they do next? This is pretty wrapped up here.. Anyway, that's good. Okay, and that brings us to video game twenty questions. Aiden, our friend in Minnesota provides Back to backs. Game this week And with that Let the questioning begin. Thissescape from the seventies eighties or nineties? No. modern Can you play this game on the switch? No. Is this game on a disk? Yes. Remember those Is this game from Play station Nope As just say you werere gonna go with theming there Is this from a Japanese developer? No. seeee if it's not Playsttation, then it's got to be That's five. It's gota be it's gonna be. What do we have left? I mean I guess there's a gs box in thebe a game cube in the weeah. And you? Oh yeah, I forgot about that age Nobody remembers any WiU games though But it was not made in Japan. so it's not, I mean, I guess, except unless it's metrade prime Deild for the wee. Yeah. ye, exactly Okay, Was this game exclusive to a platform when it came out? Yes Come on, this is got to be Microsoft Xbox, right Yeah, I think so. It's I don't agree with that at all. Why are you saying that? It could It could be a wee game. It could be a detects the vibe. he detect. Could be a dreamcast game. Fair good Wi games are from Japan It could be a UMD game, Vita Was this game on a Microsoft console at launch? Yes.y face Justin Davs. Don't be meanarent was really mean to Justin. This is how we always talk Justin and I. That's right Okaykay, you want to You guys wan to get a genre then Maybe console and then genre, Like which Xbox? Okay. Yes Was it exclusive to the Xbox series consoles? No Just now would require them to have exclusive. Is this Xbox three hundred sixty era? Yes. Great. Okay. So two thousand six to like twenty thir twelve ish So the late late ish three hundred sixty, actually pretty late three hundred and sixty game But why is it late through sixty? I don't we know it's twenty ten or newer Oh okay I missed that one. Do we know that? Did I dream that? I think I think you dreamed that 'cause I wasm like, was I not paying attention. Yeah Yeah. Nickas seventy sevies eighties or nineties Okay, my bad, my bad, my bad.. Okay, is this game a first person or third person shooter or action game? No. Okay, that's ten But Is this game a vehicle based game Yes, Okaykay. So we're talking about racing or flight And's for sixty. Maybe the rare boat game there's a rare it's hundred nine sequel. Well we know it's on a disc though. Yes. So it's not an Xox It's good M. Is this a car game? Yes. C game. It's project it's project. Project Gotom racing is project got the racing three. We have Fortza motorsports. We We have Fza, we have Project Gotham, we have Need for spepeed, but that was on PlayStation. There was a three hundred and sixty launch game where the cars had machine guns on them and it was like Reckless No Re No not. Reckless was later, right Yes, it was. but what was the name of that game? Do you shoot guns while hold on. I don't want to ask that question. That's such a niche thing. Yeah, because that's like Is this a game in the Forza series? Yes. Wow. Which one? which one? I don't know which oness are on the three hundred sixies. I mean the original motor spport Is the original motorsport at three hundred and sixty Yeah, because Project gototh them racingXb Project Goth them racing was Xbox only. So foots of motorsport or two Is this a first of its name Yes. So it's either,old hold on. hold on. Oh, yeah, is was there was the first horizon on the three hundred and sixty or did that not start till the next generation? That I don't remember. I know it was our Foto horizon was our first IGN first. Justin, when did that series kick off Nobody knows twenty twelve. It's impossible to tell. Did okay, is this an open world racing game? Yes, that's fifteen Wait, okay, that's it's Yeah and got the first of its name It's Horizon. I don't know, I mean, I don't know if Horizon two was also on the three hundred and sixty. No, but we know it's the first of its name. So it has to be Foza Horizon? Yes.. Fz Horizon. I don't even remember what this game looks like. Wh I guess It wast England, right? Let's see it. Yes, it's England. wasasn't Foza Horizon? Four also in England? No. I don't think that's Australia? four was Australia or was four Mexico? Yeahah, yeah. was Mexico. Yeah So this is twenty twelve. Yeah was Mexico. was wasame it was Australia. Aelix. No was one wasn't England. One was Colorado, wasn't it? And then two was England Well, if this is one That is definitely not England. Yeah, it looks like Colorado. Yeah. Yeah, that's the I think that was I think one was Colorado and maybe two was England, and then I can't remember That's right. It's drunk they're showing a dodge. Yeah. You can't get a dodge over the ocean.' too heavy. I I never play these early Fza games. What's interesting is this looks from what you're doing moment to moment, it looks exactly like Fza five and six. look. mean for twenty twelve, this looks great It looks fantastic. I played all of them in every game hundreds of hours and I'm embarrassed that I don't remember the countries. I mean, honest It's been so long. If youre Tokyo tower in the back I' be like, ye Yeah, that's Fortza That looks really good. Yeah fourteen years old, man But it didn't have all the sort of crazy mini games and online stuff that crept in later with There is no drive aitars yet.. No drive aars Is this one just as positive? Relentlessly positive? Yes No, no You mean like just in its vibe like the friction experience for the player