Final Thoughts on Narrative Ambition

If you want to get our shows ad free and our exclusive shows, go to patreon. com slash kind of funny. What's up everybody? Welcome to the kind of Funny Games Cast for Thursday, july second, twenty twenty six. I'm one of your host Greg Miller alongside the Hispanic Carthrop Texas Street Latino Heat, clicking heads and ripping them to shreds, Globe trotting, head shoting, rooting tooting, three points shooting. I keep you on your toes. But I like the ball fake, the pump fake,, you know what I mean? He's The niturro r twwitch.tv. Andy Cortz. I Duckg me Ruts Oh Why think he' so scared of you? becausecause he knows you're better Um, I mean, I legitimately We're trying to figure out ways how to make this three point shooting competition even a little bit fair. And I was like, Roger What if we did like Every One of yours counts for like ten of mine. B damn. You know what I mean? Like Dn What's the quickest way we could sort of even this out? I just don't I don't know if there's, I mean, it's it really is the hydrogen bomb versus the coughing baby meme You know what I mean? Like there's just there's not even a semblance of a comp of a competition here. So ye whyy did he think he could do better? Why did he make this decree? I don't know I really don't moves like an old man as Nick has talked about. I think this was I think this is maybe on the heels of last year's NBA finals or NBA playoff where he was just like, K of in a basketball, maybe, you know Get ready for me in the year. Yeah U The thought was always, you know, quite in the western front now though. Yeah, it's been really, really quiet. So you know, initially we wanted to rent out a gym to have me go out there and see how fast it would take me to make one thousand three pointers. as a lot of other content creators have done.. And you know, I was like, man, I'm kind of worried about that. I've seen and apparently like some really shitty players took them like eight hours. I was like, oh, I could definitely do that in like four or something like that Um And then we talked to the people and they were like, was is this for commercial use? And Mike's like, No, And it's like, no, it is. And he's like, we're not filming it. We're not filming commercial. I was like, that's what meant by I remember that story. I didn't know it was about this. that told that story Yeah. I didn't realizeed that's how it looked far back was. Yeah, it's not commercial use. So we're not he' wass like, we're not you know, filming an ad for AT ands was like, it's not That's not what they mean by my commercial. W you use Mike? No I't mean at all. Of course everybody We're not here to talk about how bad Roger is at three point shooting or walking to the bathroom at the movies. We're here to talk to you about video games because. That's what we do. We and every weekday on the games cast, reviews, previews and the big topics we need to talk about. If you like that, usually be part of the show with the super chat on YouTube dot com slash kind of funny games. But today we're actually prereording because schedules are getting hairier and hairier. So you can't do that. But luckily people over on patreon dot com slash kind of funny use Qip which is their social media platform inside of Patreon to answer my question When I asked them, what do you want out of a mass effect clone? What do you know about Exodus? I got a whole bunch of responses. Thank you so much. and thank you so much to everyone who's a Patreon producer on patreon. com slash kind of funny Like Carl Jacobs and Megabuster Deliny, the Som Twiny and Lacks Noomad For now, let's begin to show with what is and forever will be topopic of the show. Andy Let's talk about heir to the mass effffect throne. Let's talk about it. Is it Exodus is it the expanse? There's a lot to dive into. But we'll begin with the one and only exodus. As you know, Andy, we have just come off of SGF, as the kids call it old people call it summer Game Fest, where there were a million different games, conferences, previews, all sorts of stuff happened And right before SGF I got to go watch in Exodus demo behind closed doors on the internet And then they just publish the whole thing out there for everybody else. But I feel like it got buried in the insanity of SGF and the million other things going on. Do you agree? For sure because this was not even something I was aware that you did Yeah until I had watched the shorter trailers that they kind of break up and you know, eventually what we're about to see here. I was like, did you get a chance to check this out? And you're like Oh yeah. it seemed like was just one of those kind of passing things that didn't but I was supremely blown away by what they're working on here with Exodus. If you don't know everybody, this is the Steam desescription. Exodus is a sci fi action adventure RPG where you become the traveler, leading humanity's fight for survival against the celestials. Face our evolution forty thousand years in the future, explore extraordinary worlds and confront time itself to shape the fate of generations You step forward into the role of June Aslan, a salvager turn traveler, a renegade among the stars and hunter of ancient secrets. Embark on interstellar missions to recover celestial remnants that may hold the key to humanity's survival Return to a changed world where time dilation has amplified your choices and reshaped the future of humanity. This is targeting twenty twenty seven. The developer is arrchetype, Entertertainment, publisher, Wizards of the Coast. You might remember this one as the Matthew McConaughey game That is the deal Of course, december twenty twenty three. It was the game awwards and all right, all right, all right. Matthew McConugh himself came out on stage talk about this and show the game and since then That's what people knew it as, but I felt like it's been quiet. but then you turn out, you go to their YouTube page they've been putting stuff all over the place. It's just so hard to get any mind share for what I lovingly call a AA game. This clearly this is archetype is a small developer. You might not know who they ares because they've never made anything. We go to Game informer where Kyle over there wrote the follow paragraph You probably know Exodus as the Matthew McCaughe game as the actor's involvement was the pillar on which the game was promoted when it was revealed in twenty twenty three. McConaughy plays CC or Lev in Exodus, but his role seems ultimately minor in the larger universe in story. parentheses, though we could be wrong, time will tell An arguably more interesting and affecting involved party in the game is James Olen Oolen worked at BiowWare for more than two decades, had his hand on every franchise BiowWare worked on and created and was the developer's senior creative director at the time when he left to lead archetype Entertainment with Wizards of the Coast and help build the universe of Exodus. We of course, right now are watching the that we just saw aon Hey on stage, Hey, hey, all right, all right and then jumping into this trailer Again, Ay twenty twenty three. withith the clip of news we get in twenty twenty six might as well have been a decade ago. I remember people talking about Exodus here and there over these past three years, but then trying to pin it down and what you watch this trailer. It's a great trailer Setting up some interesting stuff here as we are in this protagonist boots, he's a traveler, leaves this person behind and then starts getting into time dilation and the fact that you know hundreds of years are going to pass while he has to leave this woman who loves him behind. Millis planet Miller's playing it.cony makes a reference it when he's on the gameard stage if you don't remember. I'm Not shocked that I don't remember it better or I guess more Because again, at the clip in which games are being announced and released, if you aren't giving me a firm date you know what I mean? like your're announced trailing can be hot as hell and I just forget about it. Rud kind of thing. We've seen so many games that these showcases just get cancellled. Yes, Jesus Christ. J appppearing to nothing. And then also the fact that I think sometimes they have that that can blend together And I think to me talking about this being a AA mass effect is kind of what it's going for. And maybe I'm wrong. mayaybe we far out strip those things, but I think those are the ambitions and I like that about it, Andy. You know I also think of the expse of Cyrus reborn which we previewed back in April here on the Games Cast when we got to play that beta that launched on the preorder thing and dive into that. And I can understand for me and give myself some credit as to why it all kind of got went out with the wash in terms of what we were doing. But again, all that said, three years later, hopefully in knock on wouldood, you know how the industry goes a year or less than a year before the release of this I'm so impressed with what we are about to watch again and go through with the audience Yeah, same, Greg. I I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that when the first time we saw it, like we just saw right there on the video It was a It was a Cinematic. It was a pre rendered cutscene cinematic. Yeah Not in the game. This is just all it's Like when you hear Blur stududios they made the trailer for something or whatever. And those always look a certain way. They're always super impressive. But then When we saw the first gameplay trailer of it Mbe I don't know year or two ago or whatever I was decidedly less excited for it. Yeah. Now, obviously game development takes a while and things take time to develop and watching a lot of the animations in the first sort of glimpses of gameplay and obviously, you know game not being optimized. it was very It was very framy, but it looked very stiff and very like you know, hey, we don't have the strongest animation team, right or, you know, whatever., you know, it looked very much lower budget. Yeah. and Ever since then, I'm like, okay, this could be cool. However I'm not going to expect the moon. and I'm still telling myself, don't fucking expect the moon at. I don't expect the moon is the big thing about it. You know, I right now I'm on my AAA tear Coming of that vampire game I played. You know what I mean? six point five had a great time. O game, but a great time. ennjoyed what it has. Looking at this, I'm getting especially coming off the expse. of Cyrus Reborn. If you missed it, the expanse of O Cyrus Reborn is a third person action RPG set in the expanse universe. You're no hero, just a merk caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, trying to hold your crew together and keep your ship up and running. Your choices shape your story. That's going to be developed and published by AlCat Games Q two twenty twenty seven. Like I said, we previewed in April. That one Playing it I what you and me were like, oh, yeah, it's stiff, But it's got that feeleing of mass effect. I like and if they can pay off with choices, which you don't really see in the demo, but there is a choice in there or whatever. let's go. I'm interested in it. Coming with that interpretation to then go and see Exodus, I was impressed how much better Exodus looks and seems to be doing what I want out of my mass effect clone, if that makes sense. Right Yeah. I mean, it's definitely a lot more in the spirit of what we're used to. Yeah with you know when I think of When I think of Mass E, I think of like an awesome world of Star Trek style alien life forms in here it seems to be these awakened creatures that are real life animals that you Yeah an elephant via who knows what sort of technology they're using. And that allows for a lot of I think cool characterizations. I think of anyt timee I'm in Mass effect and I I'm at a vendor and I see a Hanar and it's one of those big jelly Yeah jelly fish ye, they you know Hello Sepherd. I you know br song. Yeah Yeah, exactly.. And it's like, wow, what a cool way to kind of personify these alien life forms. Yeah. Even in the trailer that we arere about to see, you get that cool glimpse of the elephant. Um, but yeah, I uh With the expse play it. was I was wellmed. yeah I was less disappointed than I thought I'd be with it Now it has, you know whole lot of AI stuff going on with, you know, you know them using AI to kind of help concept how certain things might look which was a bummer, but it still looked more impressive than I thought it'd be visally. Yeah. just wasn't super stoked with some of the writing and some of the characters. Well, they were they fired the voice actor. They They sure. Devil went out. They sure did. but I certainly liked it more than the first time we saw Exodus gameplay. Okay. Okay. Now with this more recent one, I'm like, oh. Exodus is like er on the charts. It is higher up the charts, right? And when we talk about like, yes, it is a double avers Well so, you know, mass Eect one was very much a small It just had so much heart with Yeah it had so much like great so many great writing moments that are memorable and And you just go, man, you don't You don't need to sell me the You don't need to give me the biggest budget video game Give me Great moments. like when I think of all of the amazing times that I'm blown away by by the writing and characters in Citizen Sleeper. Yeah. Like if you could give me that on a third person shooter sort of realm Yeah. holy shit. we could be cooking here and and Hopefully with the help of Drew Carpishian Carpian carpian. never d Brown's the last name Um who is one of the writers of Exodus. who was also the senior writer for Cotor Kights of the oldld Republic And the was lead wrider on the first two Mass effect games And that's like, that's the lineage you want to hear. Yeah. Whenever people get excited about Holy shit, Casey Hudson iss making a Star Wars game. It's like that's the type of stuff that the Mass effffect nerds go. Oh my god. Could we be back In some sort of way, you know So yeah, if you A here with us congratulations. I want to jump into this exodus demo that we saw that they released after the fact. We'll pause it. we'll talk during there's lots of talking during it as well. So if you're an audio listener, obviously you're not going to see the visuals, but I think you're going to get enough out of it and we will be stopping enough to make you ass sure you're enjoying it and rolling with it as we talk about what we're seeing, go through it and then obviously talk about it after the fact. So you could skip ahead if you really wanted to if you're that kind of person in your audio car. but otherwise bart, let's roll that beautiful bean foot And right off the bat it's like, that's so massive. it looks so much better I think than L did, which I'm not trying to knock it, but bringing up your wheel, flipping around, having your UI. when we played Osiris reborn, it was very much like, okay, I see what you're working with. And granted, neither of these games are out yet. so anything could happen. but I was happy with the style of that. and I didn't expect that. Leaning more towards the King a fantasy in the sci fil. we get more audi out here Exodus, you play as a travel. Th a bear, venturing on dangerous missions deep into space in search of powerful alien remnants that can save your dying homeworld. You'll journey to deadly planets, derelict ships, and the remains of losts Just those environments, all three of those environments we just saw look fucking awesome. don't like again, when we use AA, some people want to get in their head that means it has to look cheap or bad or whatever, right? I just mean team size and budget size usually independent third party stuff. The fact that I think that looks so good already. Things can still look amazing Yeah, but I in my mind go, all right, I'm not going to be able to interact with all of this stuff on on a way that like may that I don't even necessarily need for this type of game. I'm okay with getet into a place And yes, there may be invisible game dev walls, but if the people there that I'm there to meet have cool shit to say and things to talk about and relationship like, Ohh man, that's I want. That's what I my conversation with you and obviously all of you on Greg awayay about in defensive AA and bloodlines to vampire, the Mass Gade Bloodlines to in particular, where it was like That cast is so small, but I got to know everybody I dealt with where it wasn't one of those things of like in fallout where I meet someone I'm like, what was your? Wh were you again? What am I doing?m like, Oh, I know you I know you Thank you, Bird. Us your wits and teamwork to survive the terrifying creatures that try to stop you Along the way, you'll choose who to fight beside, who to fall for, and who to leave behind. your You playonl slowly salvager living on the outskirts of Leiden This is where his story begins alongside his awakened friend Houston The big fucking dog Houston Fox Is it a fx f W I sl my best. Very similar Yeah Yeah, I think so. Big dire will. Die, right? June was orphaned from a once powerful family He has a unique and mysterious genetic trait that lets him interact with ancient celestial technology. And it's this trait which might be the key to saving your home planet. It really works Salvaged street You'll be able to customize your June as a male or female with several options to adjust your appearance. Can you pause here? start of the game, you'll also because I have a good little breakdown here from The homie Shinobi Hey two on social Well, I've hung with twice, No big deal. Do you know what it looks? Met a Marle. N deal. Yeah. Did you try to take a photo The first time I did was at the Dragon Age Vilguard event and it was me and Lucy James and Shobi and I was like, Hey, I'm here with the crew but I cut off his face likeice before he was revealed as was there thing know They put me in the photo You weren't there the next day. you left early. Remember that you did stay over. Exodus, I had to stay in that hotel. You lived forty minutes. I had to experience the culture of Radwood, you know? Exodus, character customization will focus on curated options rather than full slider based character creator which leaves some people disappointed Naturally so June will be a more ote unquote defined character with an established look, says deeveloper arrchetype. Customizable options include male, female, hair colors and styles, facial hair, eye color, makeup, tattoos. as long as we have beard and a muststache that can be disconnected then you'll be happy. You won't hear any complaints from me. Okay. And I totally understand wanting to create your RPG character completely understand that Um I think the fact that This character is still named June Asalin And it's not just tain Aslin and you name the first name whatever you want. sure you know, I named always like Andas Shepd or Andy Shepd or whver the hell in Mass effffect I think that totally makes sense that like Hey, we got a budget and we got time for what we to do And, you know, a lot of those things take a lot more time to do, obviously. What I love for then the drop the bag for Wizard of the coast to say, hey, here's another two million giveive us an awesome. Of course I would, but I'm happy knowing that Everything else that we are about to see seems really well thought out. and it's still at its core, its still June Aslin Um, it's just like it was dang a freakaking Star Wars Jedi. what's his name? Cal Kestis? Cal Kest like Yeah Yeah, you could give him hairstyles, but it's still Cal Kestis. Yeah is their story for Junas. I agree one hundred percent. I think the more and more I play U RPGs, the more and more I get away now from doing myself for Taylor Swift or Jen, you know what I mean? I try to make I've been using the name Vx a lot s kind of pulling like sid from Falantasy I'm playing. I'll make a Vvex whos world and choos. Thank. stole from Lura Bailey Critical Rule. Oh, Destiny I thinking of Destiny the Vex. No, no, no, I would never do that. I don't wantan to get sued by Budgie. Stupid. What's that? not how many people work there anymore? Oh, no. The other thing I want to point out before we jump back in is to listen to the narrator here is Chris King, game director. And he sounds, I would mean this lovingly, like a huge fucking dork. And when I'm hearing about my RPG, that's the kind of guy want talking to me. I don't I don't want I want Chris. you sound like a fucking nerd like me. Tell me why I would to like this game. Well, I mean, it's funny you bring that up because when I reacted to this fucking photo of Chris too? No, I was like, hey, this is a really, really limited refference, but if you get it, you get it It reminds me of when dowite tot makes a call pretending to be Toby. And he go wases things are getting really bad around here. That's exactly what I thought of. He's like he's imitating every employee in the office on the phone and he calls as Toby. Yeah. Things are getting really bad around here. Yeah That's exactly what he wre of me of. Oh yeah You can' like Christian, don't work. choose your character's initial alignment, either a virtuous paladin or an ambitious immortal. Paragon renegades get on the ground Lev, donon't be stupid. They've got combat mech Your weapons now. These choices will shape your character and change how the world responds to you. Listen to your friend and let this go. Not gonna happen merary scum I just love it third person sh.ose g sound good. workk in progress gameplay, so you can get a feel How a love system Rutation talking different voices and characters that make up Exodus. Wh. Sticky grenades Those two companions you meet are Elise and Tom Elise is an impatient M mech pilot that loves to blow stuff up and leans into brute force Tom is an experienced traveler who helps teach June the ropes. He tends to be more cautious and provides June with moral perspective Let's join them as they start a new salvage mission. All loaded up Here's the storage Here' Tom Last minute prep. orre drinking Probably both Drinking before a job, great. That's what I do every day offten. Drinking right before a job. Mat's got his vices, but he gets shit done, okay hing else to say Good Re it It up Throughout your journey, you'll team up with a diverse crew of companions like Salt and Awakened Octopus. We got your back, June. You too, Slt It's not necessary. If you die, I leave. Contrast Boyd You don't miss words, do you? It's an noto thing. You'll get used to it. All right. Time to move out. I want you to pay attention to other interesting characters, The mouth sync. Okay The mouth synink in a lot of these scenes are so awesome. Yeah And we usually in big budget games, we see The cutscenes perfect mouing because they are facial captured one to one and obviously animators go in there and clean things up. And then you'll get I'm just talking to an NPC and we see The mouth syc lookook a little wonky because it's usually The u It's usually just like the automated mouth sync where you tell an animation a syllable. You tell a face of just yeah, here's all these mouth sounds. tryry to just match that and we'll try to clean some stuff up And maybe all of these scenes are facial captured, but like The mouse sync seems so good in a lot of these and I'm like Damn if if I can accept this level of quality or expect this level of quality for the most unimportant of just a moments like Damn, you may have like just one of the best mouth sync the automated mountings ever. And how do you feel about the art style? Be that's I I think what lends itself is they're not trying to be photore realalistic. Yes. You know what I mean? And I think that also then lets them out as we're talking about a AA game, you know I mean because like even when she's very stiffly standing on the wall when they cut to the wide of people walking around like It doesn't look real, but it doesn't need to because they're trying to give you an overall world vibe. Yeah, I think if you're a smaller team, you will only hurt yourself trying to go for ultra realalism Yeah because your animations and your budgets will never match up to the quality of a real life looking human. And when a real life looking human moves and his mouth moves in a weird way There's a clear disconnect there U The only problem I have is I don't love the main the look of the main character. the male June Aslin. Okay. And I always thought that I had an issue with how all of these characters looked, but the characters we just saw In this sequence After seeing them, I was like, you know what? I think it's only the main character I have an issue with. You got to be I like the way all these characters look except there's something about the main dude and it's maybe the hairstyles they're choosing. I might just like go for a completely shade look or something. I don't know. I just I'm not looks like who's the guy who played Elvis in the Elvis movie? Austin somebody Aesome Butler. Yeah, he looks like that down to me I don't know. Well, you're off., Okaykay. All right, let's go rejink The mysterious CC or Love Voiced by Matthew McConaughy Howdy friend strange times we find ourselves in. Name CC Olev in the same cost CC G out J G It's awful. It's Like for real. I've watched this nineteen minute demonstration twice. It's our worst part of the fucking gig where like it is not even that it's Matthew McConughy pulling you out. Matthew McConughe's got a great voice. It's whatever weird alien thing they're telling him to do, right? Like In one of the maybe Game Informer article, maybe it was something else maybe it was the Q and A I watched with the developers. They were talking, you know, like CC or like your mentor in this, like, you know,'s going to be giving you guidance and things like that. So it's like I'm kind of feeling maybe he's ghostly, mayaybe he's only in your head, mayaybe he's in I don't know, but I've like I brought up like I love it He's theames like Johnny Silverhand. Yeah. like Yeah, yeah, my sererious thing. But whatever direction they gave McConughe on this side is I bring him back in the booth and say, just read it. Yeah you Just talk is Matthew McConaughe. So I don't know why I was always under the assumption that Matthew McConaughe was helping fund this. like he was like an investor in the studio. I don't know where I got that in my head from Um And I guess like I always knew Magy Bani was involved in this project. I just wasn't sure if he was actually in the game until this video I was like, oh shit, he actually is in it. Yeah. And yeah, that's what I mean I immediately think of the rough voice acting for Bucky and what if Yeah where sometometimes like Dude, as amazing as you could be mean you're a fucking Oscar, not multi nominated Oscar. You won an Oscar for acting. And sometimes there's just that translation that doesn't quite work into the vocal booth But yeah, don't love that. Hopefully, you know, things improve. We'll rejoin it. Giving him a recycler upgrade The new modification added, let's see how we can put it to good use in combat There's something about the UI that's so a lot of mer. Simple, but not It's so clean cheap. Yeah, I guess It's so clean is the way to do it. It reminds you of No man's skky. Yeah. It's got a good style to it. goodood font.age the enemy is up to you. Readability encounter, June has to deal with the deadly turret, along with Lycan, the leader of the fire Eaters. He's heavily protected and things could get out of hand quick Let's use this new recycler mod to stealthily take out some enemies and make things a bit easier. Get me in there. And shot Next let baby Rramble cloth to sneak up onon some enemies. First step, Coney on the de Oh'm gonna start bing it. If this turret is protected with heavy armor, let's toss a thruster grenade to deal massive damage. Fuck yeah, let's do it, Chris. Chrisie Good audio. Good gun sound This this is where I went. Oh, you could jump. Oh you could j. So cool. I love that Combat looks fun. Oh yeah. L I want to do this. It looks like what we wanted from Any sort of newer version of a mas textile game. Yeah, when I put out, you know, tell me what you think about Exodus on the Patreon quip, Shiv wrote in Exodus looks very good. Gameplaye fluidity of Andromeda Front se' huge compliment because it was great with a whole new world of cast of characters. We now catch up to the team having made it to the salvage. However, rival mercenaries have already staked their claim a hand looks like off but. I never thought you bricks would make it this far. Too bad you reached the end of the road. Shoving up your ass. Let's gonna get started. Making it past your friends was a breeze. I hope you're more of a challenge. We've got control of the auto cannon. How's that for a challenge Okay, that is going to be difficult June and team have managed to push through the enemy defenses to the control room and now face a pivotal choice choices, time to do your thing. Here we go, baby The Sorrow returnal method stick your an in the alien offline now Thereould be a way to open the airlock doors. She looks so fucking awesome in that suit. I hate the light on her. No, the light looks great. Yeah. This suit look weird. I like the suit. I like it. can't just vent the airlock There's a zealent dock worker who might just kill us on the site anyway Oh shit, Craay, what are you gotta choose? Purple or red I mean, a blue Pause it. Like they argued this in clerks, of course When they blew up the second Death star that there were plumbers and just contractors working on that They know what they did. They know who they're working for. I purge the fuck p. All right. You and the Zealots could get the fuck out of it. Shn't have taken the job, Bob. Go ahead Bhit. Tom's right We can't be reckless when lives are at stake But you don't mind putting our lives at risk. Exactly, lady Pase I'd rather die in a fair fight than risk killing a single innocent bystander. Never been a good elice. Whatever. I don' think that's true. I could use some more target practice anyway. Tom approves, though, look at his gettings T. You're drinking before the job, Tom. Don't judge me. Why are you judging? As you travel across the cluster, you will hear stories of those who have been affected by time Like Tom's account of why he can never go home You know the strangest part of being out here? Let the oven on I'm not sure if I can make it back. Years have already passed on Liden Exactly. Spend a few hours on this world, a few days, a few weeks. It's all the same for the people back home In between missions, you'll journey back to Persepolis, your primary hub and a major city on Leiden for both humans and awakened Good morning. afternoon. Look at his gacket. Reardless. Nice to meet you. You forget? Ah, you're doing the thing. The elephant forgot something. Is it better or worse if I notice or not? Here, you'll embark on new missions that experience how your choices shape the world around you and meet new companions like Phedra Napp, Ya' Junius scientist and te This is one of the things I think is most exciting about it where especially coming off of addventures of Elliot, U before that when I was playing Dragon Quest seven, re imagine at the beginning of the year. The narrative behemoth Aventure Rebellion. But the conversation of when you introduce time travel And you in this case, time dilation and choice, I want to see my choices actually do something E in something like more akin like Vilguard where there wasn't that many giant choices and then they'd be like lock you out of an area, Oer worlds too crashing something into a city if you didn't do the right thing. I want to see I make this choice and then yeah, a decade later. what does that do to how we've been going to and I think that again gets me excited for hopefully the replayability of a A A because I'm not expecting one hundred fifty hours if it's going to be a thirty hour campaign to run it back a different way and see what would happen here and there like that. I like seeing Yeah if it makes sense. I like seeing instant Time spanning choices. R Before we get any further, 'cause we're having good time here. I do wan to remind you, we could' do this without your support. 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It's just In the doggy dog video game world we exist in right now. when something cool comes around and doesn't get the juice it deserves, I think it's our duty to stand up be like, Hey, if you missed it, this fucking awesome and it definitely is an Andy and Greg gave Yeah. So I want to be there for Jice about this shit. Yeah. Let's keep all going Barret thank you for being on the ones and twos T technician, who's eager to help. Oh, Im sorry, the lights, you need them, don't you? And you don't? No, no. The eyes they don't work. So I built my own spectrum's different. External light sources are irrelevant, but it's close enough to what you would call your website. Give me a casting. She sees a drone.ic's cool . People call it radiation, decay, but it's so much more than that. The rod. It rewrites celestia. prorogramming. There's always a rod. adaptively, intelligently, like it's alive Your homeworld of Leiden is facing extinction due to a celestial virus called the Rot. Ohways needle across the Centauri cluster. If you have two slur you cover possible. Vader's grandfather was a legendnder that confident name of Lend. donon't have to show Leiden to investigate No Pause right here Ber That looks like that Harry Potter guy. He looks like AI My first time seeing this guy. I'm like that just that looks like That looks generated. and again, there compleomte just like out of the blue. I could just be completely wr about be like the guy who plays the the Malfoy. Yes, thank you. Oh my gos. just Malfoy. Holy shit. you're his son looks like L Yeah, he looks too real For world. I agree with Yeah. It almost looks like Tom Cuise, I' just wondering if it's like all these like stylized people and then just it's like stop park a photo of Tom Cruise. It's your dad. is it? I don't remember. Thank you Bar. You travel with Phaedra to a planet called Sang, hoping to find some trace of his discoveries. I must thank you for this opportunity, tooud for allowing me to be part of this. No point in waiting around. Next stop, Sang. Sang is a rocky exoplanet covered in a sulfurous atmosphere. You'll need to traverse across the deadly terrain to discover the ancient ruins where Elijah's ship crashed. ad moon at all. Okay, there were celestials here once. remarkable. Along with Phedra, we've decided to bring salt, her long range sniper and abilities that specialize in confusing enemies should come in handy. Livestone. Salt is a sniper. That's so cool.. Friday Lister' Salt is a fucking octopus inside of a mech. And Being awakened is a state of like You know, I guess animals they could talk to you. Yeah, do ideal for civilization even during the age of the Detaner Iroduction clearly shapes the livestone itself, but but what dictates the extent? Oh so many questions and possibilities We are a vibbe, Peter. This is already shaping Salt or the woman talking about Oh yeah, yeah yeah the woman who sees with drokes report anything of interest. I feel about his ass. He's gonna fly. O course r S ain't doing him anything just Should we get some stitching down the middle? Yeah I don't know, but I'd wager it's not friendly Oh yeah, there's that sniper shot. Oh cool. G going up find a sword Good sign Yeah, I love how you're in this focus mode that the audio kind of gets all like wow, intensified, I guess And it was this combat sequence that I' really popped off on. Even though it shows the same move from the intro, The intro was just it kind of went by really, really fast. and it was a sh moment that or sh. We see just abilities mixing with awesome shooting. Yeah This is thing too. It's not meant to be that you look at this video and hear us talk about this today. It's not an us versse ent thing with Exodus versus No Expse. But I do want to say this, after playing the expse. I feel like they don't have the rest of the game built around. You know what I mean? That felt like a vertical slice and like that's what's polished. Whereas you look at this demo and how diverse they are, how far we are, all the different things, like I believe I'm playing this early next year, like the trailers say, the expanse, I'm like, am I really playing that next year? Is that slipping into spring twenty twenty eight This is an incredible discovery. When we see that early move of the ground pound quake move, getet all the enemies there in a row. It' coolest teechnologies that upgrade his Gauntlet. A powerful artifact passed down to him from his father Once upgradated, it unlocks new possibilities for both traversal and combat Any idea what this is I can't decipher it, but clearly this artifact was held in great reverence June, be careful. Celestial technology can affect human bodies in unexpected ways Everyone have a Sepherd cest, I think. Shit Sid Remember what happened to Samus? touch that. Are, Are you allright? I' fine And Celine from Returnnal? be by surprise, Raul Kohen Th what happened to Michael Rosenbaum and Dark Sector? touch that thing? past that down Here we see June acquiring Glance, a powerful new gauntlet ability that can pierce and destroy Bramble, a byproduct of the Rot. Bramble and Rot. Brambleble and Rot, they do go together May this isn't the Kan of forg of Sirit world After pushing deeper into sayang, they learn a shocking truth. Phaedra's grandfather is still alive. The Eth is flattering a terrible secret You were warned. I told you to turn back. I told you there is nothing here for you but death. You've seen too much now Stupid, stubborn children Elijah has unleashed a corrupted and extremely powerful war machine on the team. Badass, man And he unleashed in an area where this place is to get cover Oo, Dodge roll to get out of the way The sound effects just sound so good, man Oh I'm coverred with the powers H a little drone out there doing shit H's very H's a very lax throat. He's like he's throwing beers to somebody on a boat. I don't mind it.'s I gotta give you. you toss me one he's shooting a ghost kid. It's like he's hitting the weak spots. Yeah, he's crushing. The whole baby. That was nice throw that spear now Oh, you silly ass you should have gotten out of the way That's how you know Chis K cameamet play he would do. Yeah, exactly Oh, we're getting some power team ups right there Man for real fuck they hate us Vilgard is awesome, man. Thank you. Just fuck they hatere You're always my rightest allg. come on, Vilgard I've ever been more like disappointed by people That's where you get a walpeated, June and Phedra must now confront Elijah, hoping to persuade him to share the secrets contained in Sang, Without this information, Leyden will be destroyed by the rock. This place is forbiden warns you not to come here. threw away your legacy , please whatever you are afraid of, the answer isn't more bloodshiftting Ling is awesome. soomost I' to stop you from claiming the secrets of this world My dynasty will be no part of this Elijah. How are you doing? The math bloodline ends here, my child. With me with you I will take our dynasty to the grave rather than a perform fall to the sprait of Orion. Yeah, a great faceial capture I don't want to kill you Drop your weapon and this doesn't have to end in bloodshed. My dynasty ends here shhoot be. Shoot him. Shoot his bitch Jad This has been a sow I' not do Gooy. Yeah, we don't. We select the other one. Development now and we'll be sharing more details all the way. if you were winding the video at that point, it's like reloading a save and we could p the other one platform now I'm a traveler today. This show looks fucking awesome. It looks awesome. And it's crazy that it's so crowded in our world that this dropp twenty minutes. You know what I mean, we talk about God of warar and state of play, you know playthrough. They drop twenty minutes of this narrated amazing stuff. There's all these trailers up and nobody's like, I feel like talk about it. And I should't say nobody because I'm not putting down the audience It needed to be surface to more people. that's we're here to do, on kind of funny Can you rewind just like ten seconds in the past in the video like rewind just ten seconds ago? What's the word I'm looking for Just ten secondswind it ten seconds,? Yeah if that'sue. I guess I could have said that Just the way some of these abilities look just for I mean I just get so excited seeing the this there's a vortex a little bit maybe here. mayaybe it was maybe I should have said fifteen seconds, my bad bear. But like you see an ability of a vortex with stuff getting sucked towards it and that's like obviously the get enemies to get him in one spot then you can hit him with the big AOE We see right here very, very soon. Here we go. So it's not only that awesome one But there's that Vorte. I just like Itind. It was mass effect that really made me realize like If you're If your shooter has any sort of gravity or manipulating of objects or people and having Lara with her biotics make somebody float from behind cover then I'm shooting them and And the way that they kind of evvolve that formula and then linking up enemies for dance like all that stuff just perfectly speaks to me in this This shot up way higher than I would have wanted it to just because of my own expectations for it, but I think it looks awesome so far. and I've had on my laptop here, I've been looking for the first Gameplay trailers of it. I just haven't been able to find the one that I'm thinking of where it looked way more rough around theedges because it was earlier in development And it's just so awesome to see where it's at now. holy goddamn. they are put it in the work and things are looking really awesome. How do you feel about the time dilation? Does that excite? You can sh who I read earlier about the fluidity of gameplay looks great, but then ended their comment with, I'm a little hesitant on how they'll make the time dilation stuff work storywise, but overall it looks awesome U I think it's a I think it's a cool variable, but I don't novel. It's not It's not really why I like care about this game. you know, I think it could be a cool thing to play with repercussions and Holy shit that character is you know, dead now because of whatever happened. but I I just want to meet characters that I fall in love with or hate and want to you know, have a rivalry with. That's what I'm here for, you know I asked again on quQip over on patreon dot com slash kind of funny, where you can sign up for a free account to see all my quips and of course get the weekly schedule from Joey. Paul, I said, you know, what do you want from mass effffect successor or aboutad Exus, yada y yada. Paul says great writing and meaningful choices. I think that's a big part of it. Fungime. I want those interesting romance arcs. Also, I forgot Exus was coming out Early twenty twenty seven, the trailers say, we'll see if they hit it. Yeah posted on TikTok and Reels of me reacting to that video for the first time and I think one of the first responses was uck, dude, I love the expandan, can't wait for it. I'm like, hey totally easy to get them mixed up because they are two mass effect style video games and they both start with the X. Yeah. this is you know, this is obviously the exodus is a different video game. Yeah, it's one of those that like I want meaneingful writing I want you know I love being surprised by stuff. I think that's one thing that The witcher first and foremost has showed me that I care about the most. The things that wow me the most are the unexpected moments the You're doing a side quest you you're saving somebody and it turns out that person has been holding a family hostage for months and you're like, what are the how do I I'm supposed to be I'm supposed to be in the grreay as the witcher. I'm not supposed to favor either side, but Shit, You shouldn't be doing this, but You have good reason because the woman and the family that you're holding hostage killed your family. and it' and I just love that shit in games and it's like, goddamn the if I could just experience the witcher a million times, I would be great. But give me stuff that makes me Give me the unexpected. You know, always find a way to to surprise me with your mission structure Yeah every you know, signing off on what they want out of this one of course is choices this, that the other they, you know, they they want to be making choices that matter. And I really do feel For me As somebody who's played so many of these games and I think lives in this genre of this kind of RPG, the idea of time being dilated so you can come back and see what the choice you made actually pays off into rather than what I get a lot in these kind of games and hate where you roll credits and then you get the just the single frame slow pan on a drawing and it's like, o, because he did X, Y, and Z, these people are mad and they're on the run forever. It's like, all right, well, you know, I'd rather see them be on the run, which it seems like youll get here if this pays off. also it's also a bit scary because it's like that's a that's a variable that You know, you might want to that's a challenge you might want to take on with a massive AAA budget team. That could be a really tough thing to try to tackle and be satisfying. Well, that's the thing about it, right where you really do think about like again, I'm rusty now, but Vail guuard when we reviewed that, I remember talking and when I did the spoiler cast like There was like three big choices. I want to say that like ch influenced the world you were in. And so you figure for a smaller AA game When I'm going out and dilating time and coming back, you figure there's got to be maybe five of those. You know what I mean? where you're getting ready to go and you go off and you come back to see what's happened. I feel like that's when it gets into Well'll replay it to do this to see that. Well, if I would have done that ear mayaybe it leans up that way But again, if you're making a shorter RPG out of it I think that works towards your favor. Tell me tellell me your linear story by giv me all these different branch points to make it my own. Make your Jreun, Asla I will make with a Mache and a beard disconnected. Thats Sandy's only remind Beard No connection Your mouth. Mthy McConugh's year A Strange times we find ourselves in final one here is going to go to Mr. Hawks, o Okay. It's vague, but I want to feel like I'm hopping into a universe that existed before I got there with plenty of history there for me to find. Yeah. And I think they do In terms of teasing us with that ability, I think you look at this and you go, o Like when he makes this the Walkway, she mentions like, o, this is the whatever age of whatever. you're like, okay, so clearly there's something going on there. But then mr. Hck says which one is Exodus? Is that the one based on the book series? I think I'm excited for it And there you go, rightight back to it. if this game is underneath a lot of people's radar right now but I'm very excited for it, Andy Hopefully, u Hopefully get some more momentum. I'm sure there same thing L time. I mean, like, you know, I think Right now this is kind of what you want. probably. you have a passate audience who knows about it, although small, that'll spread the word. And then as we gear up to twenty seven where it's like They're shooting a safe for early twenty seven in that one. Great. that that came out before Fable picked that as well Where who knows what's going on the expanse. If all three of these games come out next year, who? We're eating good. Oh my Oh, we're, don't start a fable., donon't start. We' start on a fable. You know what I mean? That's. Start with me. don't do it don't gohead to headad with fable because fable. don't you start Don't start. I'll stop it Everybody this has been another episode of the kindind of Funny Games Cast. Each and every weekday, we come to talk to you about the biggest topics in video games, whether they be reviews, previews or just things we need to talk about. We do it on YouTube d. com slash kind of Funy Games Twitch. tv slash kind of Fny games podcast services around The globe. If you like that, pick up a membership Patreon dot com slash kind offuny YouTube. com slash kind of Fy games, Apple, Spotify. Get all of our shows, ad free. getet your daily dose of me, Greg Miller. and of course, get good karma for supporting an eleven person eleven year old Business We will keep our eye on Exodus as we keep our eyes on everybody getting laid off in the video game industry. But for now we're done. So until next time and been our pleasure to serve