The State of Gaming - Game news from November - 2022

00:00:00All righty then, let's say hello and welcome to State of Gaming. It has been November and we are summarizing, as usual, everything that has happened during this month. And I guess our sweet current record of number of this show in a row still counts. Does it though? Yeah, I think. I think... Didn't we talk about this in the last episode? That we had a summer break? But that was planned. Yeah, it's all in the planning. It doesn't count. We gave ourselves an out. Because strictly speaking, we haven't been there every month. But according to the plan, we have. So hooray for us. Anyway, November is gone. The grayest, dullest month of the year, some would say. And snowiest, I guess. Yeah, well, at least as of yet. Yeah. At least in this part of the world, I would say. Yeah, we should make that clear that we can only focus on where we are at. So we're talking about Sweden, and Sweden in November is usually quite cold, quite gray, or if you are in the far north, maybe cold and white. Yeah. So what's the weather situation in Kansas these days?

00:01:25Yeah. I mean, I would imagine that the situation in Kansas is slightly less wintry. Well, my nephew lives in Oklahoma, and it was snowing there, like before it started to snow here. Yeah. Thinking about it, you're actually right. I think they do actually have winter. Winter, winter. So let's rephrase that and say we're not in Florida anymore. We're definitely not in Florida. We're so far from Florida. I would be very shocked if they had heavy snows in Florida. I never heard Will Smith, before the slapping, rap about the winter in Miami. No, it was always sunshine. Always sunny, yeah. Always sunny in. Florida? Yeah, well, that's a new one. Anyway, for those of you who tuned in thinking we were talking or gonna talk about games, we are. This is just the intro, the warming up, so to speak. And as Oscar mentioned, this is the State of Gaming format, which means English. And it means that we're summarizing the month of November and what has been on the gaming radar, or our gaming radar. Mostly we summarize what we have talked about or what we are thinking about.

00:02:47Or what we are kind of looking forward to that we have gotten to know about during the month. But before we get down to all of that good stuff, we have some other good stuff to get down to. Let's start Christmas. Oh, yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah. We had a little something. So that little something was a can. Yes. And it is a Swedish beer from... southern parts of Sweden, and it's called lyselele, which I don't really know how to pronounce, but the picture on the can is of a saffron bun called lysekatt, which I'm not sure if I can translate that either. The feeling of the phrase would probably be something like jingle bells. Yeah. So it's a happy thing. I love saffron. And it does taste like saffron, which is weird, but also kind of good. Is it delicious? It is. I think for like one of these, it's delicious. Yeah, I can see that. Usually the case with, I would say, special brews is that they have a short staying power, if you will. You have one or two and that's great. And then something happened and it becomes less good.

00:04:10Yeah. To be diplomatic. But it's interesting. It does taste like Christmas and also like a sour beer, which is a good combination. It tastes like Christmas. That's the tagline for the episode. Christmas came early this year in the form of a can. In the form of alcohol. Well, yes, probably. But that's true almost every year, I would think. Oh, yeah, it is. So, Oskar, what are you? swirling in that cup? I have Glögg, or a slight variation of Glywine, I would say. Also very Christmassy. Very Christmassy. I haven't a Christmassy drink. In a way, I do, because they are heavy in commercials around Christmas, but it's Coke and Rum. And, I mean, they usually have the Christmas times a common jingle thing, and they have the trucks and all that, so...

00:05:07Maybe I have now stuck with my drink so long that it's once again in season. I think so, yeah. Have you ever tried Pepsi in Rome? No. No. No, sir. It just doesn't flow as well, Pepsi in Rome. I mean, everything about it feels wrong. Yeah. It could be right, because Pepsi is sweeter, for sure. But I... I don't feel like venturing into unknown territory. I know, right? On that topic. Because the drink I have is pretty good. But if we're feeling adventurous, you know. Then maybe. It might happen. Maybe you can put Pepsi in your rum. Yeah. So this is a bit special because on this list we actually have. A live esport event that two-thirds of this podcast were away on just a week ago in Copenhagen, Denmark. And it's called The Blast Premier. Yeah. And it was supposed to be three days. But then we got there and they had stolen one day. Yeah, that was really old. It's weird. So it was supposed to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And then it just became Saturday and Sunday.

00:06:30What should we say about this event? It's CSGO. We should probably say that. And it's eSport and it's live. So it's in a big arena called the Royal Arena. And we have been there once before and we enjoyed... Well, we enjoyed that time as well. I thought this time was actually equally as good in some parts, but a little bit weird seeing as it was shorter. And I would say that the seedings we had last time around were better. But the seedings we got ourselves this time, but not through our tickets, might have been even better than those. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Did you steal seats? Yes. Well, no and yes. They were someone's seats, but they weren't theirs, so we took them. Oh, yeah. But they were further back than the official seats we had, so we basically downgraded into something.

00:07:25But the thing was that they were elevated, so we had on the floor, but the thing is that everyone was on the floor, basically, and that made it kind of hard to actually see the scene. So this was kind of in the back row, but elevated, and then you get the perfect view. Higher up, and the seats we had were at the, like, furthest away from the main stage on the floor. And they also had, like, a weird camera beam in front of us. So they were a little bit more sucky. But yeah, in short, did we like this? And should people go and be a part of this event? I would say that if you're just looking for a kind of an average experience during the professional thing that is going for CSGO, definitely. It's not Katowice, it's not Cologne. But it's...

00:08:20Yeah, it's well-dressed. The things that I would say that is a bit negative is that they don't make a big fuss about the actual event. The event is CS, yes, of course. But in the other events, there are more things happening around. The sponsors are having both. It's the competitions, it's yadda yadda. It's a lot of things going around. But here it's just... Yeah, I 100% agree. This is held, as I said, in a big venue called the Royal Arena, which is like a modern arena. They had a lot of space to do things outside of the match stage, but they had none of that. They had no... Well, they had a little shop for merchandise, but not a lot. And outside of the arena, there was nothing. If you didn't know that the event was happening inside, you would probably not have noticed anything at all. But if you're only there for the sport, it's...

00:09:16perfectly fine. I'm still a bit baffled that they still have this humongous amount of technical issues. But that's not exclusive for this event in any form or shape. It was bad in this event though. Especially during the Friday remote showing of the content. It was... I think we had three or four official technical pauses. And at least one of them ran over 25 minutes. And that's not good. Is that how the Friday was stolen? Because of technical issues? No, I think we only have our theories on the matter, of course. But we actually think that they cancelled the live show, so to speak, in the arena on Friday due to... being too costly because they hadn't sold enough tickets and with prices going up because of the current crisis in europe it probably wasn't you know worth it anymore on a financial base to to have that it's kind of weird though because we definitely paid for three days so i'm not sure if you could sue them if this had if this was the old united states someone would have sold for sure oh definitely yeah but i mean we were

00:10:38We still had a good time, but it was weird. I'm not going to deny that it felt weird. Let's, to be frank, it was like 1,800 crowns for 14 hours of pro CSGO tournaments. I'm not saying that we got ripped off. It's just, I don't think it's legally gray area to change the event after people have paid for it. When did they cancel Friday? Was it like when you were there on Friday? We don't actually know. But I got the information updates like, let's say, I think it was a week or so before the event. And then it was not really mentioned. It was more like, here's the timetable. And then I was thinking, where is Friday? And I only noticed it when you told me. went into their ticket page and tried to look if you could actually buy tickets to go there on Friday. It was like, nope. Saturday and Sunday tickets only. It was like, okay, so somewhere something happened, and we didn't notice that. So for us, it was only when we kind of got there or were on our way there that we realized that we had missed a date. Yeah, strange thing, anyhow, and I think it's... I think if we go back next year and it's three days again, then our theory probably shakes out.

00:12:00that this year became too costly. But I would say that if you are going for your first event, you should probably choose Katowice or Cologne. Due to that, you will get the premium experience. Having said that, though, it's much, much harder to get tickets to those two events. So if you're not able to do that, an event such as this is good enough, certainly. I guess also for us living in Stockholm, it's so easy to get to Copenhagen. Very comfy. We should mention who won the competition for those who are actually interested in the eSport event. It was a Swede. Yay. But we had a sort of a good run with NIP this time around. Yeah, for a change. They were actually playing better than I've seen them for many years, actually. But mostly Danes were happy at the end of this event.

00:12:57And I mean, good for them because it was in Denmark and it's always sort of fun when the home team or one of the home team does well. So yeah, we'll probably return to Blast at some point, I would imagine. So yeah, that's all we have to say on the November esports front. We usually say that some months are lacking in gaming content and... Usually those months are the summer months, but this year that wasn't really the case. There was a lot of games released during summer, but November has been sparse. Is that a good word for it? Hasn't been a lot. Not a lot. We have a few, though, but just so you know, I thought there would be more. And to be fair, if COVID hadn't happened, there would have been more.

00:13:51A lot of big games got pushed back into next year that should otherwise have been out in November and December of this year. So there's that. I mean, we still have some. And one of those we have talked about at least once or twice before, and we were all looking forward to it. And it's the Callisto Protocol, which is kind of Dead Space, but not really Dead Space, but very much Dead Space. And they haven't really tried to... don't play that at all because it started as an homage game kind of i think actually some of these people were former devs that worked on that space and they felt that the niche that that series had hadn't been filled since that series came to an end after the fairly lackluster dead space 3. so they started this callisto protocol as an indie project and then it got traction and

00:14:47Sony showed up and gave them $200 million. Yes. Yes. Because they can do that. Oh, they can do that. But that also, of course, made the expectations much higher. All of a sudden, they were supposed to deliver a AAA game as, I think, when they started out, maybe they were aiming for the almost extinct section of AA. like a good solid game not super indie but definitely not a hundreds and hundreds of dollar million dollar game but that happened and the trailers that we have seen previously were really really good but when the game released it was a mess on pc it usually is the consoles that act up but this time around was the pc platform and it suffered from really really bad stuttering And it didn't really matter that much how you tweaked the settings. It still happened. So the Steam reviews had, I think, 1,500 views, and it was mostly negative. Refund, please. This game is shit. So I would imagine that the devs had a very stressful week, having seen all of that. Yeah. Unfortunately.

00:16:12unfortunately yeah no that was super sad because as you said this was a game that a lot of people was looking forward to yeah they were they were definitely hoping for a much better game and especially i mean on a console it it is still the console has been running butter smooth according to everything i've seen which is weird because i just saw a little news blurb about an hour or so ago that they had found the cause of the problem. And it was, as they said themselves, a goddamn error. So someone kind of screwed up somewhere. Yeah. But I think they also are fixing it or did fix it already. They are fixing it. And they're pushing a patch soonish. And to be fair, though, the people that stuck with the game and managed to tweak it somewhat are...

00:17:10overall so basically if you can push past the stuttering or if you're not massively choked with it it's a really good game i haven't heard anyone who says otherwise about the actual game so no if they can just fix the stuttering i think they have a a really good game and a hit on their hands but obviously this will hurt the early sales Yeah, and it will also impact... We all remember Cyberpunk and the release of that, and it will still impact the overall feeling you have for the company. And the goodwill. Yeah, and the goodwill, definitely. But I mean, it is still a good game, and hopefully... I think that they had like 22% positive reviews on Steam, so hopefully that will... That will change. Yeah. Obviously that will change, but...

00:18:04I think the main difference between this and, say, Cyberpunk is that this is a glitch that is impacting an otherwise good game. Yes. But when it came to Cyberpunk, it was a bad game delivered as being a good game. Yes. So there's a much more finished product under the story. So hopefully this is the only big issue with the game. Other than that... I hope there's enough. I haven't heard anything else, to be fair. So, yeah, I hope they can get that sorted out quickly. I would still say that if you are one of the people that were looking forward to these games, you know, hold off for a week or two. Yeah. And then get in on the action. Or if you have a PS5 or an Xbox X, get the game on console, if you are okay with that. Because those versions seem to be doing just fine.

00:18:57Maybe now the expectations have been lowered for a lot of people. So when it's actually fixed, it will be a really good game for those people who waited. I'll definitely jump in on this at some point. I would have done it early, but now I'll probably wait for a little bit. But it might be a good game to slog our way through during Christmas or something like that. So what would you recommend while waiting for this? If people listening to this are anything like me, you have 500 or 600 games in your backlog. Yeah, but I was thinking something that's similar to this. Maybe Dead Space? I mean, if you have, I would say that any day of the week, though. If you're into action horror and you haven't played the Dead Space series, then, sir or madam, you know, what the hell are you doing listening to me? Get in there and stomp things in the face.

00:19:53Those are excellent games. Even the third one is good. It's just absolutely trash when it comes to the story. But mechanically speaking and gameplay-wise speaking, it's a great game. Talking about games that should have been here though, Starfield should have been released about this time if the original plan had still been up and running. It isn't. And we talked about this in an earlier show that we're actually a fan of this. Because they pushed it back so that they could actually make a really good game. And that's not something that Bethesda have been known for the last couple of years. But they're not in charge of that anymore, because now it's Xbox or Microsoft that's calling the shots on this, which we appreciate. So Starfield is now a 2023 game. I think they actually, in their apology blurb that they did, they actually mentioned Cyberpunk.

00:20:51They did. I mean, that's always going to work now. We don't want to be a cyberpunk. And people go, yeah, that sounds about right. Sounds about right, yeah. I read an article that said that Starfleet might be like a prequel or a snack to what Star Citizen might become. Is that good or bad? I mean, snacks are good. Yeah, but they were more thinking and saying that this will be more contained and will actually be released. Well, that's true. But that they have kind of the same vibe as what Star Citizen is going for, but in a much bigger scale. Yeah, I can definitely see that. And I have somewhat high hopes for Starfield, even though the action trailer they showed last was kind of generic. But, you know, Bethesda, to be fair, aren't known for their great action gameplay experience. It's not what they're best at. Gaming worlds and, to some extent, story making is probably more their forte, to be fair. But anyway, we are looking forward to Starfield, a game that is also in space, also very dark, and has a Swedish hint to it, is Warhammer 40.

00:22:12thousand dark tide and it's out now and it's by the chubbiest sharks in the water the fat shark yeah yeah yes and they are for anyone who just thought hey that sounds fairly familiar yeah they did the vermintide games before doing the dark tide game yeah someone is lacking in the like imaginatory department at the chart but yeah so In short, this is Vermintide in the 40k universe. And Vermintide was, of course, the fantasy version of Warhammer. So they are very, very solidly working through the Games Workshop library of worlds. And the 40k is the sci-fi version of their strategy. Miniature strategy game? Yeah, you could probably say. If you want to get into the lore of 40k, we would have to spend about 5 billion hours. But yeah, it's been going on for a long, long time. And there's just a crazy amount of lore out there. But to cut it short, you are basically the drakes at the bottom of the barrel, working for the good guys, I'm air quoting, the Imperium of Man, which is sort of a religious celity cult.

00:23:37by the 40k universe timeline, thousands of thousands of years from now. And you are in the Hive Cities. And the Hive Cities are basically gargantuan cities with a lot of city under your belly to it. And you're down there killing, well, everything really. Because both Darktide and Vermintide has you, I think it's you and three other people or maybe four people. Against everything else. So you will not see any friendly faces down there. Everything that you'll see, you should bash in the face. You can kill. Yes. You should kill. You should kill, actually. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't played this yet. It is on Game Pass, though, if you are one of the lucky, I would say. But that's wrong. But if you are one of the Game Pass holders, you can get this game as part of that service. And why not?

00:24:33So if you have a group of friends and you want to do some solid action gaming, I think this could be a game for you. Even better if you all have Game Pass, of course. Yeah. Something not at all like that, though, is the next one on the list. And we talked about this game in one of our weekly shows. And yeah, Sonic Frontiers is out. And it's the latest of the 3D Sonic games. And it is in a semi-open world setting this time around. And, well, it's one of those weird games because the Sonic community is kind of loving this game. And everyone else is not hating it. That's not fair to say. But lackluster? It's like, it's okay. And I have watched a lot of this game because... The week it came out there wasn't really much else happening. And it is a well done game in the way that it looks good. It does have Sonic in it. But to me it felt like a game made for something else. And then they just dropped Sonic and some rings in it. And that's Frontiers. So I never really vibed with the world.

00:25:57Maybe that's just me as a non-Sonic fanboy talking. Maybe. Also, I don't think I've played Sonic since I don't know when, and I still remember it as this really fast 2D game, which was fun, and that's what it should be, I guess. The open world thing, I mean, I like it. I think it's... fantastically nice to play that kind of game. Exactly. It's not meant for Sonic, for me. Yeah, I think for the casual fan, and I think all of us three are probably in the category. When someone says Sonic, I think of Sonic 1 and 2. Like the old school platforming, run as fast as you can kind of games. And even though this game has Sonic running really, really fast, it's in an open environment, so it doesn't feel as fast to me.

00:26:50And it doesn't feel as the classic Sonic experience. But I think that may have to do with us not having played the newer games. There's a lot of games not in 2D. But I haven't played those. I'm thinking, how do you keep him going in a... If you want to go really fast, how do you keep him going in a straight line? Because it's a 3D world, so you can... The camera has to be really, really good. Yeah. If you want a newish Sonic 2D, it's Sonic Mania that we'll say that is the creme de la creme. It's rated the top one, actually, Sonic. But wasn't that game made to be like the old ones? Yeah, it's still ones, but it's a new one. So I would say the casual fan who wants to have a newish Sonic game, that's a good choice. And if you are looking at Sonic Frontiers, I would suggest going,

00:27:50to Twitch and looking at a stream to see if it's for you. And if you like what you see, yeah, why not? Because as I said, a lot of people do like this game. It's not that it's bad. It's just that for me, it didn't feel very Sonic. And one of our good friends I was about to say, but one of the people that we actually watched doing a speedrun event, Argic, has been playing Sonic Frontiers a lot, and he is loving it. So yeah, that kind of just proves my point. that fanboys are loving this and other people are scratching their heads. Talking about loving it, we have a new God of War, Ragnarok. Or, as we say in Sweden, Ragnarök. The way it's supposed to be, damn it. And the boy strikes again. We could probably dedicate an entire show to this game, but people are loving this game. They are. Is he still a boy, though?

00:28:45He is. He's a young man. A young man on a mission. Yeah. I don't think we need to actually get down into this more than to mention that if you played the last God of War, the last of the new ones, I should say, this one is just better at everything that game did. And that game was loved by pretty much everyone who had a gaming console or a PC. And, I mean, obviously it has to do with if you like action games, this is for you. If not, I mean, why even go to God of War? But I watched a few hours here and there, and this game is massive. And it has a lot of side content, and it's good. I heard a lot of people say that this is the best game when you consider side content and side quests since Witcher 3.

00:29:46Hmm, that's saying something. Oh, yeah. I saw a stream with one person stating that, yeah, I've played eight hours today, and I haven't moved one minute forward in the main story. Only side content, and we had a great time. So it's one of those games that I think you can get lost in for a good long while, especially if you're trying to beat it on the harder difficulties. Because as the last game in the series, this one is tough as nails when you... I don't even know what they call it, like ridiculous mode, but it's Nightmares Plus or something like that. It's tough, really tough. So this is perfect for Christmas. We have a very short news that there's a new Pokemon game. Isn't there always a new Pokemon game? I think so. It feels like it's like twice a year they have this new. And it's always two games. And there's always, yeah. I actually had...

00:30:45Is it time to jump into this? Because I never know. And where and when and how. Are they in any way connected? Or is it just a new thing? I know. That's what's so hard to grasp. Because if I want to start playing. Since now I'm into Pokemon. Because I'm playing obviously Pokemon Go. But if I want to start playing the real games. Do I start from the beginning? Do I need to get a Game Boy? Or do I have to, even if we are on current generation, is this the Switch game? Can I just jump into the Scarlet and Violet now and it doesn't really matter? Yeah. Someone needs to explain this to me stat. Yeah. Yeah, and I don't think any of us can do that. We need to actually invite, we've said this a number of times, but we need to invite a person who can break this down. Yes. And tell me where to start.

00:31:44Because these might be good games. I just have no idea how to get into it. Yeah, but that's the thing also with these games. People like it because they obviously like Pokemon games. They buy them and they like them because they're Pokemon games. And the people who do usually play all the other games. So for them, it's no big deal. They just buy this year's game and then they do it. Yeah, it's interesting. But anyway, I think it is kind of popular. And, you know, someone please tell me why. Something that I had missed, 100% missed, is that World of Warcraft actually had a new DLC or an expansion or something right now. Dragonflight? Yep, it's out. Was that just me missing out on everything concerning that? Or has it been sort of under their radar? No, I think you just missed out. It's a thing. It's a thing.

00:32:41So this upcoming expansion pack will introduce a massive new world to explore and will also allow players to embody their own dragon forms with the new Drag Fire Evoker class. So is it Skyrim in World of Warcraft? Kind of. But I think World of Warcraft has had their days, so to speak. Yeah. Is it dying? the eternal dying is probably the wrong word but it's going in that direction i suppose introducing a massive new world to an already massive isn't world i think that's kind of on par with what they usually do when they have an expansion that they bring in a new part of the world is that correct kind of it's like they have introduced If you go old school, they had Outlands, and then they introduced, like, North, and then they have done a lot of things, but... Was Pandaria an area? Or was it just the 10 years? Yeah, it was an area, but it was an area within the world, still. Yeah, I have...

00:33:56I probably outed myself already, but I'm a total novice when it comes to World of Warcraft. But the thing was that they rebooted the world with Cataclysm. So basically they killed the world with like a Ragnarok thing. Oh, they blasted everyone? Yeah, and then they rebirthed the world once more. Oh, that's interesting. Somehow now I'm interested in World of Warcraft. I will dedicate a few hours to actually try to grasp what the hell's going on in there. Because I see a lot of streamers talk about this. But for me, it doesn't really, you know, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to just watch a stream because I know nothing. The thing, I guess, is that it's the same as with 40k or with anything that we need a billion hours to go for all the stuff. Yeah.

00:34:54Anyway, I'll just say this. For the ones who are enjoying this, good on you. And I hope the dragon is awesome. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Talking about big old franchises, we actually have Marvel back at it with Midnight Suns. And it's an action-based card game. It's not a deck-building game, but it's a card-based action game. And it's good. It's good. It's good. Which is kind of a surprise. Yeah, it's not the thing you would think of when someone says Marvel and gaming. Because, well, I mean, Spider-Man was good, to be fair. But more often than not, they're not that great. But this one has been worked on for a long while. They made the sensible choice of involving quite a few Marvel fans. A bunch of streamers that are heavily into Marvel content as well. So I think they picked their brain, which probably ended up making this game a lot. It also is a big old game, I think. Someone said like 70 hours. That's a massive RPG. So if you are a Marvel fan, I think this might be a really good game to jump into. As long as you like the card aspect of the game. I have never really been a fan of that.

00:36:19Because it feels so very RNG because you draw cards and that determines what you can do. And in my mind, it's like, yeah, but you have the people. Shouldn't they be able to pick what they want to do? If I want to beat someone, I usually can decide on how. I don't have to draw a card. It's like, yeah, I can only kick him in the knee. It's like, but I want to slap him. No, you can't do that. You don't have the card. You don't have that card. We can't afford that card, Peter. back off son it would be fun to do that in for real like bring you a card deck yeah this is a classic example of game logic but that's for that entire genre it's like yeah you can't do that but you can do this and you can also redraw cards and how that would work in real life is super weird it's like i was about nah can i redraw the card because i kind of want to kick you instead of it yeah but anyway and that aside this game looks

00:37:18Very well made. Yeah, because this is one of the games I think we saw on one of the shows that we've seen this year or last year. It had an exclusive show as well, so they probably spent a dollar or two on this. And back then it looked like it was fun. Yeah, fun action is probably a good way to describe this game. Graphically speaking, it's a solid hey-okay experience. It's not going to blow anyone's mind, but it's not ugly. I don't think Marvel sells itself on the coolest new graphics anyway. It's more of the lore and the characters. But I would say that if you enjoy board games and like Marvel, this is kind of it for you. So yeah, this might be a good one. On the rumor side of things, we have Team Ninja.

00:38:15Out there saying that they want to reboot. Two of their biggest franchises. And we're talking Ninja Gaiden. And Dead or Alive. So those are on the way back. Bouncing their way back. That's going to be so interesting. To see how that's going to be received. These days. To be fair though. Dead or Alive is as it's biggest. In Japan. And they haven't changed at all. No. So maybe. Maybe, will we get a boob slider? Yes. So that the West can make it more realistic. And the Japanese can bounce away as always. Oh, yeah. Well, it's been done in Tomb Raider. It has. Yeah, that's true. I mean, Lara these days is human-sized. Yeah. But anyway, Dead or Alive 3 was an excellent game. Good fighting. Yeah. I mean, it was just excellent. It was actually excellent. I loved those games. Yeah, we all did. I'll just leave it at that. Anyway, Ninja Game, of course, is a classic franchise as well. So we'll see. That franchise, though, has had some hit and miss. So hopefully they are on to a good one this time around. We haven't really a lot of time left, so I'll...

00:39:42Just skim through the rest of the list and we have Valheim. It's out with a new update, Mistlands, and it adds a new bio. So a lot of people have been returning to that game to experience all the new goodness. And I think this is probably one of those games that if you enjoyed it previously, you'll enjoy it still. And it looks and runs great from what I can tell. Yeah, if you want to get your Viking vibe on, then just head on back. It is a big Swedish game that they seem like they release new content and new stuff all the time, or very frequently at least. It's the first one where they add a new biome. They added the home building thing, the hearth or something, whatever they call it. That was the last big one, I think, where you could just expand on the building aspect.

00:40:38Building a home aspect. Which was pretty cool. But this is more adventuring. I think. So. If you didn't return for the last update. Maybe now is the time. Because now you have both. A new area. In the outside world. And you can also build a cool building. Which. Is usually. Fun to do. In these type of games. Last thing on the list. Is. A bit of a crisis. Over to you Oskar. So. We have. Updates. For the upcoming. Crisis Core. Remake. And they have. Turned it. Into something that actually looks really awesome. Because to be fair. The original game was interesting in terms of lore. But not maybe the best gameplay mechanics in any shape or form. But now they have fully voiced. Graphical updates of course. And a really interesting combat system. Where for example.

00:41:33you have this bar so that when you're fighting bosses, you can lower the chance of them making these huge attacks. As in the original, these attacks were kind of random and made a lot of damage out of the blue. But now you can control it, so if you are effective enough, they will not happen at all. For example, they have been recomposed music with the original... composer so that it will be awesome according to the ones who have listened to it and of course that it the story wise it has been aligned to match the upcoming part two of this final fantasy 7 remake so that it will actually make sense yeah kind of they they have that expanded final fantasy 7 world yeah and a lot of games will tie into that world uh eventually or when they

00:42:31they end the project so that's really cool 13 of december it's out yes this is uh this will be something okay yeah i think so as well so keep that date in mind and maybe you know pre-book if you are if you really really want to play this game you might as well like do a little booking somewhere And with that, it is time to wrap up another State of Gaming. This time around, I think I'll pass over an icy cold whatever thing you want to have. Snow cold? Snow cold, yeah, that's good. Snowball. Take away. I would say that enjoy Christmas, be safe, take care, and hopefully we will be back with fresh new uh eyes and ears and then it will be 2023 so until then bye bye bye