The State of Gaming - Game news from March - 2022

00:00:00Alrighty then, it's time for a new episode of State of Gaming. It has turned March into April and we are here to enlighten yourself about the games, I guess. Yes, I, you know, we could have had like a wow effect. Ta-da! It's time to recap the month of March with like a bass voice. The movie trailer voice. Oh, yeah. That voice. Three persons out on a mission. It's March. They've been gaming. Let's talk about it. Good. Is that... Do you have to pay someone for that? I don't think it's... It's not like the... It's time. Does someone own that guy's voice? Wasn't that the first real guy? Wasn't he like someone that worked in the metro in the UK? and someone just oh that's a nice voice when you're calling the stations and stuff feels vaguely right i think i've heard something similar must have been exciting to travel on the subway next stop out here daily circus we're just about to hit the train and like kind of as you said he tried to change his voice and do funny stuff for each station or whatever maybe ah anyhow

00:01:30It's a pretty good, if you were allowed to do that, free base. As long as you stuck to the correct names of the station, if you were able to add a little something, that could be kind of fun. Unless someone got like really upset. People get really upset. Then you would probably get fired. Especially these days when people are upset about almost everything. If you didn't have a chance. So anyway, this is, we are on a hot streak. Because we have two state of gaming shows in succession. It's not half a year between them. We're making progress. So we had episode three on schedule and now we are on episode four. And that's, well, to be fair, probably the most well-stacked gaming month of this year so far. It was a lot of stuff. February was good as well. And March was really good. And now in April, it's more like...

00:02:28easter leave in the gaming space not a lot of games coming up so the next show state of game we'll probably just talk about chickens and foods candies pope yeah the pope and jesus obviously jesus yeah because he's sweet baby jesus sweet baby jesus and all that easter vibe or something like that we'll see we could potentially find some games but this show we do have some games But before we jump into our well-stacked list of things, we have to kick this off, hopefully with a bang. No. With a fizzle and a bongo. But we had a good little streak for the correct beer can opening sound for a while. But then you configured your microphone. But now it works. So now it works. So it cancels that sound 100% now.

00:03:31But it did happen because we have visual evidence that the can was open. Yes. It looks pretty cool. It is. But my room is so dark today. Is it a hand grabbing something? Yes. Lightning bolt. Yeah. It kind of looks like the logo for the Thunderfall game. Yeah, it does. Is it Thor's hand? Might be. Could be. It's a very... very big ham and i think this beer is called equilibrium equilibrium equilibrium and what's a nice movie yeah yeah it is it did it's um you said with equalizer which is not a good no no no let's not even go there let's just say one of those are good and the other one is Not as good. The other one is a classic revenge Leonisan movie. Yes. But this one is actually a Finnish beer. Is it also a classic revenge beer? It might be. Revenge beer. Is that a brand? Could that be my brand? Revenge beer. Was it delicious? It was both delicious and the can looks nice.

00:04:52Which hasn't happened for a very long time. Do you want to wage revenge on someone? No. Okay, so revenge beer is in the making. That one didn't qualify, is the truth of it. I could counter your brand with a pacifist beer. Okay, we have something cooking here. So, Oskar, what do you have brewing? It's basically just grog. okay i mean that's cool i wouldn't put someone down who has a solid grog in their glass you know and it's always five o'clock somewhere that's you can always fall back on that one which feels pretty good i myself is i have a cider ingrid marie trick tanks yes apple cedar i'm not sure how to translate that into english but something pressurized apple cider dry The apple Ingrid Marie called in other languages. And it's also vår finaste, so our finest. It's not the shit cider. Exactly. What is the worst cider? So if I actually went to that facility, I'm not sure if it's a brewery, if it's cider. Is it? It might be. It might be. The apple place. If I went there and said, give me your worst, what would I get?

00:06:21You would not get that one. I would probably not get that one, no. But this one, though, it was pretty good. It was pretty good. I can't fault her for that. Ingrid Marie did good. We good. We cool. So how about talking some games? We have a pretty serious list. And if we have some time left over at the very end, we might cram in a few indie games that we want to give a quick mention. but so we could have any of you played the previous games in this franchise we're talking about Kirby and the Forgotten Land I think I might have but it was a long time ago yeah I think I played the first one right because he has he's one of those weird is it a Nintendo franchise or is it just a Japanese franchise I think it's Nintendo Nintendo because

00:07:21If it is, and it probably is, it's one of those, yeah, let's see what the Nintendo does. He has a lot of games where he does other things and on a lot of platforms. I wouldn't be surprised if it's like Kirby Puzzle and stuff like that. Oh, there is. Oh, there is? Yeah. Okay. How am I not surprised? Kirby is also in Smash. Yeah, he is. And he has a few good pinball games. And I think he has a cousin that is in Pokemon Go or Pokemon. Oh, yeah. Derby. Derby. What's the cute round pink Pokemon called? Oh, yeah. There is actually one of those. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. I think that must be Kirby's cousin. They have to be related. Anyway, Kirby is, of course, that weirdly cute round pink little thing that is always happy.

00:08:19He's very cute. He looks kind of stupid, though. Like, in an innocent, friendly way. Like, hello, people. And people would look at him like, who are you and why are you here? And he couldn't answer. Because he's Kirby. Is Kirby the kind of the friendly version of the Japanese slime? Yeah, maybe. Even though I think slimes are pretty, you know, they're not bad or good. They're just slime. But yeah, Kirby is a friendly little dude. He kills a lot of other creatures. He does. He kills and kills. He sucks them. Yeah, he can suck in a car. I mean, come on. Yes, he did. He did. Oh, damn. Not again. Where's my car, damn it? Dude! Dude! You gotta stop, man. You suck, man. It's getting seriously weird now. Would you just...

00:09:14Spit my car out so I can drive home. Or even worse, can I jump inside of you and drive home? Because he transforms into the car. Yeah, but he's also sort of kind of like a layer on top of the car. There's no door. He's a multi-layered dude. Oh, snap. If Kirby and Yoshi met, then I would say that Yoshi licked it and Kirby sucked it. Oh, God. Did we just go PG-18? maybe yeah did we just get cancelled in some country where catholics are on the rise are catholics on the rise in any country um well that's a good question but i would think that a certain state where the pope is commander-in-chief might be on the rise maybe or are they always on the rise yeah so it's one of those successes that never fails because they rich you know

00:10:14data's quo i i've always said that um the people state should have games made because they would have the money to make some pretty serious games yeah i mean definitely they would but i i would hope that if they if they decided to start to use their money for something else in the story i can just see the like the franchise jesus the story wow yeah that's well it's that's true and then you have like a stardew valley thing when he's a kid and he's working out in the carpentry making stuff there are a few jesus games out there yeah and then and then you have the the obvious zombie game resurrection oh yeah for sure and also the the office management games when he has his disciples and he's talking to them like hey dude what are you doing today have you have you done your homework holy scripture is not going to write itself we got potential that would be

00:11:12really fun game i think could be could be we we're trying to manage people yeah we have to uh give the pope a call and right you managed to get us kicked out a few more countries yes we can work on it anyhow back to this funny little dude kirby he is in the forgotten land this time around and from all the like spontaneous reviews i've seen people like it but I have a beef with this game because it's 30 FPS. And that stuff is starting to age now. I mean, compared to the last generation of PS5 games that are on solid 60 or even better. 30 FPS is starting to look pretty slow these days. And the Switch is a pretty old console by now as well. I think it came out in 2015 or something like that. And the hardware is not top notch even then. No. So I would be super pleased if they, when they, I should say, when they announce their next console, maybe do a new version of this game. That could be cool. And I think it will probably sell decent enough for that to be worth their while. I think so. These are the games you want to play on a... Yeah. It's one of the main franchises and it's a...

00:12:39It's sort of a Mario game without Mario, from what I can tell. And also he can eat stuff. But then again, we have Yoshi, so, you know. I might give this, like, a soft recommendation to people that like feel-good adventure games. If you can put up... Colorful adventure games. Oh, yeah. So if you can put up with 30 FPS, I think it's a solid experience. And I will be getting it at some point. I just don't know when. next one on the list is also very colorful yes and also you know a bit out there seeing as it's almost borderlands but not quite borderlands it's the wonderlands yeah it's very close it's it's very close so it's tiny tina's wonderlands and she's back because she had a dlc in borderlands 2 and she might have had another appearance in i think she was in borderlands 3 as well

00:13:37But Borderlands 3 is later in franchise timeline. So she's about 20 years old in Borderlands 3. But Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is shortly after Borderlands 2. So she's only 13 in this game. She's tinier. She's much tinier. But she's still Tina. So she's Tiny Tina. And she's having a D&D session. I always forget what they call their version of D&D. But it's... It's very much a D&D session. So she's basically role-playing this adventure and making things up as she goes along. And the player is one of the players having to put up with this. And weirdly enough, a lot of people love this game. I shouldn't say weirdly enough because Borderlands 3 was probably the only game in the franchise that people felt was a bit lackluster. And now they're kind of back where they should be. So the humor is back on point.

00:14:35it's a big big game it's a looter shooter so there's well you shoot something and pinata 10 weapons pop out so you have to kind of like the gaming loop that hasn't changed but everything else is pretty solid and tiny tina is a quirky very special person yeah definitely and it's so weird because the voice actor for tiny tina is the same voice actor that does aloy in horizon yeah and you wouldn't think it's not the same person it's not the same it's very different and she and the voice is pretty different as well so good work on ashley birch for making that happen and yeah i think it was it was fun when she at the what was the award show she was presenting oh yeah yeah yep the streamer awards she got to do some of the voices yeah it's always fun when voice actors do that

00:15:34Like they can talk to themselves. I don't know why. So it's I think it's because you see something that you you hear something and you see something and you don't expect. You don't connect because even though you've seen the characters in game and obviously you can tell that they're not real people, you still connect the character to the voice. So when someone else steals that voice, it feels weird, even though you. it shouldn't really feel weird but it always does and it's kind of cool because even though these people often have like 10 or 15 voices to their worksheets they for me it would be hard to not blend the voices if i was having a dialogue with myself so to speak so they have to be really disciplined for that not to happen maybe it does happen at times but we never get to hear the blurbs

00:16:26but no probably probably that's true but i guess the the like classical example of that is is uh dan castellanata yeah yeah and also family guy i think he has half of the cast i think he's done by i can't remember his name just now because of that but we all know who we're talking about anyway She did good work. And if you have any sort of interest in the Borderlands games, this is one to get. And it's... I'm not sure if it's on any game service. But I think it's still worth the price. If you are into this. Because it's a full game. And all the side content is also very well made. And has a lot of fun stuff added in there. Yeah, and I think as we discussed in our Swedish show, this is a game you can play even though you haven't played Wonderlands. It might help to have played them. It does. Just to know that. But it has a different name. So it's Wonderlands for reasons. It's sort of a sidetrack game. Something that I didn't really... I think we talked about this at some point, but I kind of forgot about it.

00:17:50Weird West is... It's weird. It's weird. It's so weird. But it's also kind of good. Or even really good. It's sort of... Call of Cthulhu goes wild, wild west. And, I mean, that sounds pretty good when you think about it. Cowboys and weird monsters and zombies and the occult. And pigmen. Lots of pigmen. Yes, and... It's weird. It's weird. and it's a big game um so i think there's four or five main characters and they all have a main story and you switch i'm not sure if you can pick the order yourself or if they if it's on like rails but you do share some of the equipment i think so there has to be a connection at some point but they're very different one was a native indian one was a pig man i think one was an ordinary person or like a cowboy and they have a lot of weird quests and a lot of weird people they burned a tree in the underground and a witch turned a man into a pig a piglet yeah so this is basically a bit of comedian style of wasteland no it's it's not a funny game it's just a

00:19:15bizarre game um it it's very much a blend of horror and western but it's it's presented in a wasteland-like view so it looks a bit like wasteland for sure but it has the occult ingredient there as well so i would say it's probably the game that's most like it is probably wasteland but the difference is still enough for it to have fans that probably wouldn't be into Wasteland, I would think. And Wasteland is also much, much bigger, I think. That's a huge game. This is a fairly big game, but I don't think it's as big. But if you are into all of those things we just mentioned, I think you might have a good and weird time in Weird West. Yeah, it's living up to its name. Even though I'm not so sure the name really explains a lot. No.

00:20:13it is weird it could just be a weird guy out in the west and it would still be 100 a name that would fit the bill so could be will smith yeah yeah will smith that's a thing that happened this month as well yeah he went slap happy and well we'll just leave it at that um the next game we were kind of into this at was it e3 It was some gaming show that we watched the trailer and was like, this looks pretty good, everybody. It's ghosts and stuff and it's Japan and Tokyo. And then we didn't really see much more of the game for a long, long while. And now it's out. And a lot of people seem to like it. I only watched it very briefly because I think this is one of those games that you, I think the story is a big part of the game. And even though I don't care.

00:21:12immensely about having stuff ruined. If the story is almost like the entire reason for playing the game, I probably don't want to spoil it. If I think that I will eventually play it. So I only had like a brief half an hour spoiler cast, if you will. And it looked pretty good. yeah when i watched it i had some feelings from like a few anime series oh yeah talk your girl yeah darker than black it has that feeling it definitely has that somber feeling and very much is is there such a thing as japan noir yeah well yeah i think this is it because this is probably the closest you would get to it so yeah i will, and this is once again going on my list, but I think at some point I will get this game. So we'll have to get back to it when some of us or all of us have played it. Next game on the list though is cute as hell, even though it's not Zelda, but it's kind of Zelda. But it's not Zelda. It is definitely kind of Zelda. It's also a foxy game, you know what I'm saying?

00:22:23Now everyone should be able to guess which game we're talking about. We're talking about Robin Hood. Oh, wait, no. The Disney movie. This is Robin Hood. It kind of is. It kind of is Disney's version of Robin Hood. It's a little fox in a tunic. In the game tunic. And he's doing adventuring stuff. I haven't thought about Robin Hood, but you're still right. It kind of is. This one is a little shorter and a little bit more... Cuter and a little bit stockier. Because the Disney version of Robin Hood is pretty lanky. And he's pretty tall as well, if I remember correctly. But yeah, this little dude is cute. And you just want him to have a good adventure out there. Because he's trying. And he's doing it for you. Or something. And it's also in Game Pass. So what the hell? If you have it, it won't cost you any extra money. Then you should definitely play it. No, it's...

00:23:20It's the kind of game that you could just... You really want it to be summer now, but it seems like the summer isn't really... It is 100% a summer game. I just have that, you know, open up a beverage of your choice, sit back on your sofa with the windows open so you get that nice breeze from outside. And the birds chirping outside. And just play through the entire game in one session. That type of stuff. I might actually save this game for summer and do that. I don't think it's super long from what I can tell. It's an okay length, but it's not 50 hours or anything like that. I actually played the demo of this in Paris at a game show. I just remember. People talking, running around. So it's a straight up adventure game in the style of SNES era games, I would say.

00:24:19Or at least the way you can remember them. Or PS1. Yeah, PS1, definitely. So a bit vintage, for sure. But the good type. Not the type that aged horribly and would now scare small children. It's not E.T. It's not E.T. anymore. Next game, though, that might scare small children. And it gets all the wang in the world. We get wang. Big wang, action-filled wangs, wangs that have an attitude, wangs all over the place, wang on a dragon. This is not a good game. It's not. It sounds like. It's really not. It's Shadow Warrior 3, and it has wang. Wang's back, doing what only a wang could do. So, Oskar, have you played the previous games in this franchise? I played the first one. did you play the the very old one from 89 yes that's cool because we mentioned this in one of the swedish shows the first game came out way back and then they did a remake and that's also pretty old now because it's i think it was 2010 or something like that but these are very special games over the top gore fest with sassy asian guy who does one-liners all the time and he has

00:25:45Irony cranked up to about 200% at all times. And on top of that is a pretty serious story. So that's a little weird. So he's killing thousands of things and joking about everything. And then you have this revenge story about fallen gods and Chinese mythology in the background. So it's a weird mix. But the games are super fun if you are into fast-paced action. because that's yeah that's basically what these games are especially if you as for me it was like um extension of really old games like uh heretic oh yeah and uh blood yeah and a few of those oh yeah for sure and also it has a touch of of doom i i would say run and gun And a little bit of humor like in Duke Nukem. Oh yeah, definitely. I would say Duke Nukem, the same amount of humor, but a different type of humor, because this guy is much more sassy, and Duke was more a hardcore, badass man, man's man. This guy is just not... He doesn't take anything seriously, basically. And in this game, he has... The game starts with him...

00:27:06being depressed in a rundown shed, and he's down to his boxer shorts, and he's talking to the remnants of his dead friend from the previous game. And for some reason, he has doomed the entire world, and the only thing left is that effing dragon, to paraphrase him. And of course, he has, I wouldn't say chance, but he has the opportunity to try and fix everything. And that's basically the entire game. him trying to fix everything and most people liked it or really liked it but it got a lot of flack for being really really short five hours and it's done yeah and that is uh it's a short price game so i i wouldn't i wouldn't want to pay that amount of money for five hours of gaming i think even if it's really good but they they have to hopefully they'll add some dlc for free

00:28:06hopefully because then it might eventually be a big enough game to warrant the price tag but right now it's a bit pricey then again there's no other games with that much Wang so if you you know just pick it up even though it's uh it's short it's more than you get I mean it's fulfilling but it's short and if you're in for that long really deep experience this is not for you right now it's not but there it has a dragon so it got it got that going for it we'll get back to that um when they because they they kind of said that they would add on to it and when they do we'll get back to it and cover that wang style next game is weirdly enough and i'm saying this weirdly enough a final fantasy game but it could have been neo3 because it's the same dudes that did neo and now they slapped the final fantasy world into

00:29:03the mold and we got stranger of paradise final fantasy origin on the ps5 and it looks pretty sweet yeah oh yeah it looks really good and um if we're gonna go deep into the lore it's some dude coming through a portal and he's angry and he's about to kill chaos and that's it sounds like kingdom of hearts it does oh god it does the only thing lacking is you know, Goofy and Donald Duck hanging out in a room. Yeah. It didn't go full crazy, though, so that didn't happen. But this game, the story is wafer thin, and a lot of people basically said that it's kind of trash. But the same people also said that the gameplay is pretty solid. I mean, it's from the same people that did Nioh. So if you like those games, and a lot of people did, the combat will be super fulfilling and fun.

00:30:01And if you're a Final Fantasy fan, you have the added bonus of having finally a place where you can get down with 25 different jobs. So you can finally be that blue mage and that paladin. I would say that in that case, in my opinion, then just go for Final Fantasy XIV. Yeah, but, you know, it's... You're true. They have all those, but Final Fantasy XIV is still very much a classic Final Fantasy game. This is an action-based game, 100%. That's my point. You shouldn't play these kind of things. But shouldn't you? No. Okay, fine. Whatever. Not with the title. The title is kind of weird. I obviously got the game day one, but I haven't played it yet. But I got it because it looked really good on a PS5. And there's not a lot of games on the PS5 yet. So.

00:30:58I had to have it, but I haven't played it. And I'm not doing it for the story, so we'll see. A game that is in it for the story, though, is Triangle Strategy. That's also out. It's a lot of story, to put it mildly. And if you're a fan of reading, then it's definitely up your alley. Yeah, but we kind of knew that would happen, right? It's one of those games. action strategy right yeah it's crazy good just to put it in there but there is like you need to be brace yourself to like think of it like more of like yeah like the first time you played metal gear solid 2 or something it's uh it's that good it's a yeah no yeah but it's good it's really good but more of that it's uh let's say it like this it could be 45 minutes of text between battles

00:31:56well that's it's sort of what i figured it would be but i also kind of have to have it at some point yeah then of course you can of course mash it through and skip a lot of it but is it hard is it hard um depends it depends because like you don't really get that much experience if you just play the game so but there is like um you can't train Virtual combat, basically. Okay. And it's a lot of grinding. It's kind of true. It's like with Final Fantasy Tactics. So it's a classic tactics game. Or Tactics Org or something like that. Battle Ogres. That game was a tough game, though. Let's cling together. Yes. So we give it a... a soft recommendation for people that are into tactics game then yeah yeah definitely i would recommend it to anyone that has feelings for like tactical rpgs especially if you like trying offensive tactics and just with that little note of saying that there if you want to get involved in the story at least you got to have a minute or two when you get done with this game

00:33:17Nothing wrong with that, but it's not a game you play for 30 minutes and get places. So that's how it is. A game you could play for 30 minutes and get places is the next on the list. WWE 2K22. I would imagine that Linda got this game day one and created it yourself. I'm not sure. What would your brand of wrestling be? Would it be the Japanese crazy wrestling or the old school? American style on a Harley-Davidson entry kind of style? The Mexican... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The luchador. Ay, caramba! Yeah, I can see that. I would be crazy with a taco in one hand and my hand around somebody's neck. So what would your artiste name be? Loco Linda? Oh, that... Yeah. Loco Taco. El Taco Loco. There we have it.

00:34:15Or it would be, even though that's not Mexican at all, but maybe it would be Cuban Linda. That works. It's still Latina. Yeah. I think that works. You could be Cuban and still get down with the Latin crew, I think. Then I already have a bag, because I have a little bag that says Cuban Linda on it. So the big thing with this game is that you can actually recreate yourself to a fairly thorough degree. If you have... the tech stuff needed you could scan your face and get it in there and actually create yourself and Then you can spend like two or three hours creating your avatar and hit the wrong button and it's all gone I've seen several streamers do exactly that Because they it's it's confusion when you have to say because the layout is garbage

00:35:07when it comes to the actual buttons and what they say so a lot of people so if i copy this here i save and it's gone yeah it's it's bad i would say that's how you're getting to the wrestling yes because the the anger will grow exponentially yeah and and the weird thing is that and i think this was the same in which every year had the last wwe entry but the fans and there are a lot of fans out there still i mean wrestling it's weird right but yeah a lot of those fans create every wrestler imaginable like any wrestler that has ever lived are in the game about half a day after release every time because people have their favorite and they go in there and they create it and then they add it to the open library so to speak so everyone can download it and they have all their special moves because you can they have

00:36:06hundreds of moves you can pick and choose from them build like that i don't even know what they're called but the the mighty fist of whatever dude you could probably create that by using small piece of other moves and then you can have that wrestler recreated in the game so that's pretty cool i would say from my point of view that's probably the coolest thing about this game is that i could make a cool wrestler and then never play again yeah Exactly. That's what I was going to ask. Like, do you actually play this game after you've created your wrestler? Because this is kind of, it feels kind of like, I think this is fun. Yeah. Like creating your own wrestler or whatever character thing you're, whatever game you're playing. Like with Sims in the beginning, you couldn't customize your avatar or whatever too much. But then like in the later installments of the game, it's like,

00:37:03it took me an hour to create my family and then i i didn't want to play anymore that stuff's fun creating stuff is fun but then you have to like get in the ring and and do stuff and learn something how do you create them do you like just flip uh bars and it's it's a classic uh character creation think just to shoehorn it in think cyber cyberpunk yes so you have about 250 things you can tweak and then you can scan your face in there and get and you can also for instance if you wanted to have your company logo you can have that in there okay you could so if i scanned kirby you could then it would be just a face yeah it would be you could probably be kirby the wrestler but i don't think you have a move where you can swallow other people

00:37:57So he would be a pretty bad wrestler, probably. He can't bounce either, so it's bad. Did he just eat that dude's face? I knew this was a cage match, but come on. That can't be right. So anyway, for those of you who actually like wrestling games, this is probably a good one. And for those of you who just like to create a wrestler and never play the game, this is also the game for you. this is the game for everyone albeit a somewhat shorter game because you only you'll only unless you want to create depends yeah you could probably create like hundreds of people and then it's a big game but yeah maybe not as wrestling focused uh just a very quick mention we should say that mario kart 8 deluxe booster course pass which is about what was it was it 25 additional tracks or something yep i got it uh so that's out

00:38:55And it's classics from ye olde games. And that's it. It's nothing more to say, really. But it's a good package. And if you like the game, then it's more card. Yeah, it's a fresh thing to have a few new courses. A booster doesn't have anything to do with boosters. No, I don't think so. Unfortunately. But I still think that this is a Slightly cheap cop-out because this game is old. They should just make the next one instead. But maybe they want to hang back until their next console is out and have that as one of the launch titles. That's my pet theory right now. So we only have, only have, this is not just a little thing, but we have run out of games. So we have some gaming things. One thing we will not be talking about this summer, though, is E3 because it's cancelled. It's just straight up cancelled. Everything. They're not going to even have a digital event this year. Nope. It's gone. It was basically them saying, yeah, we know it's been on the downhill slope for a bit. We haven't really mentioned how that other show that will not be named with Jeff Keighley has kind of replaced us.

00:40:18and everyone want to be a part of that now and even if they don't want to be a part of that a lot of companies have their own shows instead yep microsoft have the shows nintendo have the shows and they've sort of reached the conclusion that they don't need to pay e3 to be a part of that anymore it's a bit sad it's very sad i still like it's a good thing i've been following e3 since 1992 i still think even though a lot of people said it's it's been going downhill and it's not as good but it's still two weeks of solid game focused content every summer when you have time to actually look at things and you usually have even though you might not get what you want there's almost always a couple of games that you didn't know about beforehand that you will have like oh that's pretty cool and it's so easy because you have all the studios like yeah

00:41:17so together hopefully this week yeah so hopefully this gap year will give them a chance to refocus and come back stronger than ever but if not we will have to you know hope that something equally as good comes along so it it's at least 30 years of legacy that goes into the grave they could also go back to the roots when it used to be a a an industry only show yeah may have so i i don't think it it will not happen probably not probably not but yeah do you want to add something else to this freaky adventure before we start to wrap things up is there an indie game you want to have an honorary mention oh yeah i would love to mention chinatown detective agency oh yeah oh cool Mention it away. That's a cool little game. Yeah, it's like that old school noir crime investigation game. The vibes are like... What's the name of that NES game? The detective game? Oh, wow. Anyhow, it's something like that in a cyberpunk world. Okay, that's cool. What could go wrong? Come on, what could go wrong?

00:42:42No, it's a pretty cool game. Yeah. And now that you mentioned Cyberpunk, we should add very quickly that we did have an announcement from our Polish friends. And they will do a new Witcher game. Oh, yeah. Not Witcher 4. Don't even try it. It's not Witcher 4. God damn it, people. You heard me. It's not Witcher 4. He's not doing it. He's not back. There will be no more Geralt. Basically, that was the main focus of their... It is Witcher, but it's not Witcher. And don't you dare say it. But the good thing about this is that it's a big world in the books. And there are other Witcher schools. So the theory right now is that this game will be focused on another school. I'm thinking prequel. It could be a prequel. Yeah, it could be. Anyway, if they do it right, and by saying that, everything that Cyberpunk didn't do would probably be a good...

00:43:41Hallmark. If they do that, it could be pretty good. I mean, the Witcher games were pretty solid, which was why Cyberpunk kind of let us all down a little bit. A little bit is nice to say a little bit. Yes. It was very much not a Witcher game. Even though we have talked about this on multiple occasions that they have a legacy of janky releases. It's never been rock solid. on the first day never breathtaking no it's not it's not breathtaking but it could be it could be and with that unless linda had an indie game to mention very quick today very briefly mentioned one of the indie games that i've been talking about this month yes which is uh corpus or corpus i don't know how to pronounce this corpus is that corpus buried over the black soil

00:44:40That sounds pretty, you know, dark and gritty. It is pretty dark. It's a little bit of a horror game. A tiny bit of a horror game. Okay, I'm with you. And it's very cool because you play as a realtor. You've been called out to a house somewhere in Eastern Europe to, you know, assess it, but also partly to figure out what... really happened in this house and the way the story progresses is that you you read things so this is also read heavy but not 45 minutes that i mean we we've said it sure reading isn't necessarily a bad thing it just has to be worth it yeah and in this case it actually is because if you find note that for example says that oh i can see a guy outside staring into the house, and he's just standing there in the woods, all still, just staring. And then all of a sudden, this guy just, he's there, daring. So you make the story progress by reading notes. So if there is something in the way of a door, you have to find a note where it says that there is this cabin never, this little thingy never existed. Mechanically speaking, that is a very cool feature. Yeah. I like that. Although.

00:45:58I would be a bit upset if you willed a monster into being and then you couldn't get rid of it. Exactly. You might do that in this game. Can you die horribly? You can die horribly. Okay, well, I kind of like that, but... There is no real fighting. You have to, like... Oh, it's one of those. It's one of those. Okay, that's... I'm not sure if there's a sub-genre in horror games for that. Yeah, there should definitely be because this is a very special kind of horror because you know you can't fight it. It's always like, okay, I'm screwed unless I find a cabinet to jump into or hide behind a bookshelf or under a table. Exactly. It's the alien isolation style. Exactly, which is so horrible. And like Silent Hill, Frozen. Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:46:52think it's called where you also have to run away you can't yeah there's there's a lot a lot of the really good horror games where you are just useless as a hero and yeah Luigi's Mansion definitely one of the big horror franchises out there that will scare you possibly never but anyway it's cute damn it um it's very it's also a solid game um yeah i think we are about done for as we said we didn't lie so you know no need to sue us we had a well-packed list of things so if we don't have that the next month you know think back on this episode and say things were better back then yes so much better and with that i pushed the nostalgia boat over to oscars harbor and i just remember what the game name was and it's the chevy oh yeah of course yeah

00:47:51On point. All right. Anyhow, it feels good to that we actually keep the pace and probably we'll be there next month or we will be there. So just hang tight. Hopefully the spring will be here and see you next time. Bye bye. See you when you see you. Bye bye. Bye bye.