The State of Gaming - Game news from October - 2022

00:00:00Okay, it is once again time for one of those. One of those recaps of the month. And it's been a while. We were on a hot streak for about six months. And now we're on a cold streak. Which is fairly fitting because it's October. Yeah, it's cold. Did we not do one for September? Maybe we didn't. I'm not sure. Let's say we did. Yes, I think we did actually. So we are in the beginning of a new hot streak. Yes. Yes. We had, in our defense, it was summer and we were officially on a break. So that hot streak was bound to die. Yes. It was a more real life hot streak during the summer. We knew about that. So I'm not totally bummed out about it, but I think maybe, can you have like a past hot streak? I think so. Because then that's what it is. So we're back on the hot streak after vacation.

00:00:59So second episode in the prolonged hot streak of State of Gaming, because that's what we're talking about. It's the State of Gaming October edition 2022. And we have a list. Yes, we like that stuff. Lists are great. And I think we did actually tell that we do put these lists together ourselves. We don't go out and find these lists. So even though we like lists, we put some effort into it. Yeah, once in a while. Once in a while. No, we buckle down and we pluck some of the best news out there and put them in lists. So before we get started, we should officially get the show on the road. Get some progress. Yes, we got a little something. We did? Yes, we did. Nice. A little progress. That wasn't just a thing we said. The name of the beverage is progress. It is actually progress. And it's really hard to tell what they mean because... It's a guy in a black trench coat and a COVID mask holding a drone. On a leash. On a leash. And it says progress. Yeah. And it's brewed by one of my favorite breweries called War Pigs. I like that name. So it's Danish.

00:02:26Yes, so it's Scandinavian. Yes. Which works well in October. Not going to explore that further. No. No. Better not. Better not, because there's really no sense to it. But yes, I also have a beverage. It's not... I mean, it's rum and coke. But, you know. I just wish it was summer. Oh, yeah. But then again, this summer was really, really hot, so maybe I don't. No. No, it's actually kind of... Okay. Yeah. Or lagom, as we say in Sweden, which is neither good, not bad. It's just... It's a hard okay. Yeah. You go outside and it's like, all right. Yeah. But I take that any day over the 35 plus we had during summer when it was basically a death sentence to go outside. And even to be inside because we don't have ACs. That was even worse. I had forgotten about that.

00:03:25But that was horrible. But the list we have for October is not horrible. So the format, a very short recap of that is that we have assembled the, I was about to say the best, but maybe not the best, but to our mind, the most interesting list of what happened during the month of October. And we put that in a list. And we might mention things that we have already either talked about in length. or briefly in our weekly news podcast. But that's in Swedish, so you might miss that. So, you know, if you did, no hard feelings. Here's the recap. And for those of you who actually already heard it, you know, it's still a recap. Yes, we all need to be reminded of things once in a while. Once in a while, it's good to be reminded, especially of some awesome games out there. Yes.

00:04:21First thing, though, is not really a gaming news thing, even though it sort of is. It's adjacent. Yes, it's game-ish. Yeah. So, Henry Cavill, isn't he the dude who is Superman? I... Yeah. I'm going out on a limb and saying that that's also Superman. Yeah. But then again, I don't really watch the DC movies, so I'm not 100% sure. He kind of looks like the guy who used to be Superman, you know, way back. Oh, yeah. The classic Superman. Exactly. But I think maybe he is. So he picked two of the hardest dudes out there. Superman and Geralt of Rivia. Like, shizzle dudes. Who would win in a fight? Well, Superman will always. Yeah, because he has laser in his eyes and he can fly. Yeah. And as far as I know, Geralt didn't have any kryptonite. No. That's the only way he could win that fight. Yeah. He could run away, though. Yeah. But that's technically not winning it, I suppose. No. But yeah, so he... Anyway, he has been Geralt of Rivia in the first two seasons of the show The Witcher. But for some reason, he has decided to step down in season three. He's not doing that anymore.

00:05:48Did he give a reason why? No, I think they did. They did bundle this news up into the same blurb where they told the general audience who would step into his shoes. It was like, he's not doing it anymore, but this guy, he's doing it. Who's even better. Who's probably better. Hopefully better. Maybe. We'll see. Maybe worse. I don't think this is going to go down well. It never... And especially not for a character that is as big as... Yeah. And a lot of people, even though the second season was divisive, some people liked it a lot. And some people thought it didn't really... It wasn't about Geralt anymore. It was more about Ciri. Which I haven't seen the second season. But a lot of the books do circle around Ciri as a character. So I'm not sure if this...

00:06:44Just has to do with people not having read the books, but only played the games. Probably. And in the games, the focus is like squarely on Geralt most of the time. And the sheiks is banging, but you know. Yeah. But Ciri is not one of those. So maybe she isn't in it there too much. No. It's kind of weird because Geralt as a character to, I would say 90% of the gaming audience is Geralt from the games. Yeah, definitely. But in the books. Like, that's the original girl. And that's the girl that they based the show on. I think that's something that must have been really tough making this series. Because they made it because of the games. And he looks like him. But then they also really want to make them true to the books. Which is going to be really confusing for a lot of people who just play the games. But we'll see. I mean, this kind of ties into...

00:07:43CD Projekt. Yeah, it kind of does. So we'll see what happens. Will they change the way he looks in the upcoming games? Oh, maybe that would be interesting. Yeah, or would they... I mean, probably not, because the old games are iconic, but maybe they will do one of those things where you can actually switch between several faces. Yeah, maybe. They've done that in a few games. Like, you can play as this face. Or this version of the same guy. Yeah. That'd be cool. They should do that. Yeah. I mean, they did do a dong slider in Cyberpunk. They did. So this is... Never actually used for anything. No, it was so unnecessary, but I guess it was... I wonder who actually thought that would be a cool feature. Like, yep. Wouldn't it be cool if you could randomize your junk and...

00:08:39And then never see that again. But you know deep inside that you're well endowed. And that's a good feeling. When you're out there shooting people. I'm thinking. If there was a group of young boys. Like 14 year olds. Making a game. This is exactly what they would do. Yes. But I would think. That the average age. In the studio. Was well above that. Also featuring a lot of women. Yeah, which is, did they think that that was? Maybe it was their idea. Yeah, it could have been. I mean, that's a lot of work for nothing. Especially when they could have put that work into other parts of the game. So what I was trying to say was, if they could do that, having two faces actually makes a lot of sense. Oh yeah, that even makes sense. Yes. To begin with. True. That actually does make sense. So anyway, we'll see what happens. And if that...

00:09:37affects the game in any way which would be cool but probably not probably not i think something that they definitely have to think about yeah yeah yeah for sure assume also seeing as they did have the not great launch of cyberpunk maybe they will go like above and beyond with this game in order to please everyone Yes, they kind of feel like they have to. And everyone who is waiting for a new game definitely feels that they have to. So it's a lot of pressure on them. Oh, yeah. That would be the smart thing to do with this game would be to do absolutely everything and just make sure that everything works. Even take like a small hit and profit just to make sure that it's a AAA game working on launch.

00:10:27I hope that's what's going to happen. It's so weird that we live in a world where we're not expecting games to work from launch. Sad, but very true, unfortunately. It's been like that for a number of years now. I would say at least almost 10 years, I would say. I hope the same thing does not happen to the next GTA, though. Oh, yeah. We'll see. Yeah. In its defense, I was about to say, but it's also kind of sad because they'll probably re-release the next GTA like 15 times as well. So eventually it will work, I think. Yeah, it worked on launch, just not the first one. Exactly. We did get it right in the fifth. Or was it the seventh? Anyway. Who's counting? Who's counting? Well, I'm counting all the... No. Next game on the list is...

00:11:18A bit of a sleeper hit. Well, the series is a bit of a sleeper hit. Because no one actually thought it would be a hit. Even though it does have one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time in it, which is Super Mario. But Rabbids is not... I mean, people probably knew about it, if reminded. Like, do you remember those Rabbids games? The raving ones? Yeah. Then they would probably say, yeah, I think so. I think if you see the little rabbit or whatever he is, you'd recognize him. But the mashup was not... I don't think a lot of people saw that one coming. So the first game came out in 2017. And it was a cutesy version of the XCOM games featuring Mario and a lot of rabbits. And it was surprisingly good. Even though...

00:12:16It's not... I mean, it looks kind of cutesy, but it was actually kind of a tough game. A lot of people were like, what the hell? Mario's not supposed to be hard like this. But it was. It was a bit of a challenge. And it wasn't surprising that they decided to do a sequel, but it took up until now. And now we have Mario plus Rabbids Sparks of Hope. And they have done some new stuff. You get free movement, which you didn't have in the first game. I'm not sure exactly how that impacts the gameplay, but from what I understand, it impacts quite a bit because you can interact with other characters on the board and do a lot of stuff with that. So that's cool, I guess. Also, I think from what I've seen, people like this one at least as much as the first game. Yeah, well, it definitely, I think, looks very much like the same game.

00:13:14It's on the Switch, so I mean, obviously it will look kind of like the whole game. So I hope they eventually release a new console that makes the games look as good as they actually do look. Yeah, but they should definitely do that. But on the flip side, though, you can play this game, Sparks of Hope, and then if that's the first game you're playing, and then go back and play Kingdom Battle, and it will feel like it's... It's not as big of a shock. It's like, yeah, I can see this. So I would probably say that if you like the first one, the second one will be in your ballpark. I haven't played the first one. I looked through Let's Play, and it looked really good. But I think I would actually probably get the first one first, because if that was slightly worse, it's nice to get...

00:14:10Slightly better version that is. To be on the updraft of positive gameplay. It's like, yeah, it was good. And this is even better. So if I go down the road and play this series. If you go down the rabbit hole. Oh, very good. If I go down that hole, I'm going to go original. Yes. For some reason that made Alabama sense. Everything makes sense in Alabama. It does. So moving on. We actually have, there's a lot of, I was about to say, a lot of sequels or almost sequels in this list. But this next one is a proper sequel. And once again, it's for a game that surprised a lot of people when it came out. So it's Plague Tale Requiem. And it's a sequel to A Plague Tale Innocence from 2019. And this is a direct sequel.

00:15:08sequel right yes yes very much so so it's a weird concept it's basically uh a sibling couple that are trying to survive during the plague in the 13th century and there's sneaking and action supernatural stuff involved i think as well i actually looked at this game quite a bit when it came out in 2019 but I didn't look at the end because I actually wanted to play this game. And now the end is not the end. Yeah, so I know for a fact now that the first game probably ended on a cliffhanger or a very open end. It must have. Because they're back. And from what I could tell, people really liked this game up until the end. Oh. Yeah. But the end wasn't bad. They just didn't like how it ended. So I would think, because I have done the same thing once again, I haven't looked at the ending. But if people were okay with it being well written, then I guess it's probably a bad end. Yeah. Someone died. That's my take on it. Someone died and they were not pleased. No. Well... I mean, they did live during the plague, so maybe they just died. Yeah. Yeah.

00:16:36I think I kind of remember how it ended. Oh. Oh, no. But that's... No spoilers. Because they're... I'm not sure about the age. The sister is young, and her little brother is even younger. I think his name was Hugo, or something like that. Yeah, and he's really small. Like, short. Little dude. So, I... Yeah, they probably killed him. That's my take on it. Or he's all alone in this world now. Yeah, little Hugo. All alone. But yeah, this game looked great. And it had that mix that I usually like. You get to sneak through a level and try to avoid action when possible. Also, there's like the horde of rats that you have to fend. Yes, which is this. It's creepy. Yes, I would imagine that they are supposed to represent the plague. Yeah. But I would also be very much surprised if that was ever the case during the plague, that you were out on the marketplace and then 10,000 rats came along and gave everyone the plague. No, I don't think that's how it happened, actually. But it's one of those things, game logics. You kind of have to have the plague be represented in some fashion. Otherwise, it's hard to... I mean, you can obviously tell.

00:18:03by having people being sick, but it's much more dramatic if it's connected to the... Was it the black rat or the brown rat? I don't remember. I think it was the brown rat. Either one of those. Some rat was responsible, and they... It's easier to just have a rat, because a lot of people are already not loving rats. Exactly, and they need to make it... really visually yeah it's very effective to have it this way it's like trying to convey that it's really silent in a movie then it has to be like sounds of like leaves blowing or something so rats are good for that because a lot of people are freaked out by just seeing them when they're not having to play and when they're one or two but when there's thousands of them coming at you with

00:18:53disease and it's i mean i don't mind that well i do mind the really really big ones but the standard right i don't really mind that much but if i had 10 000 of them coming at me i would be like okay i'm fine that yeah that'd be horrible i mean i had a gerbil when i grew up so and if he if i would have had like a thousand of them i think i'd be scared all the time so i One of you guys, so where did you find the 900 bodies? And they can't come in. I don't have food now. Go away. Please stay away. But anyway, I hope this, even though, I'm not sure if this end was the end, so to speak. But if not, I don't think, I mean, it's a big world out there. So they could probably do more tales in this world. Yeah. If they didn't kill off everyone at the end. And even if they did.

00:19:48Maybe they could do more tales in this world with other people. Who knows? Yeah, I think so. I mean, and also this went on for a really long time, didn't it? Yeah. Oh, and it came in waves as well. So I think if you were lucky enough to survive the first one, you might have had to weather out the second and the third as well. Imagine actually living through that and then getting hit by it. A drunk driver. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, I hope this game does well. I think it's actually on the Game Pass. Yeah. Oh. Mm-hmm. So if you have that, why not give it a try? The old college try, as they say. Yeah. There's no need to be sad about the ending in a sense. I'm not sure if the first game is there, though. I think it was, but...

00:20:44A lot of games only stay on the Game Pass for like a year. But you can probably get it for like no money. Probably, especially in every Steam sale. Yes. It feels like one of those Steam sale games. Get this awesome game for six euros or something like that. But it's not that old because the last one came out like, I don't know, four years ago, maybe? It's not old at all. No. So, talking about... games that are sequels. And from old games, we have the third Bayonetta game by Platinum Games. And it's on the Switch. And people are really upset about that. But you should... I mean, memory's short. I get that. But the reason that it's on the Switch is that no one else wanted to continue the franchise. After Bayonetta 2, no one wanted to pick up the license when that company was trying to cruise around with it.

00:21:42Because Microsoft wasn't interested. They turned it down and everyone else did. And then along came Nintendo. We'll do it. We can do that. And people were much surprised because it's action and it's kind of gory and it's violent and it's not Mario. It's definitely not Mario. Which is the reason I think that they actually picked it up because they want to broaden their user base. So now they could say like, yes, we do have cute stuff, but we also have this witch. That shoots stuff with guns. And there's angels and demons. And you can hack them to pieces. And that's awesome. Somehow. I don't know why. But when you describe it. It doesn't feel like the girly game that I feel that it is. For some reason. It's definitely. But no. Not girly. No. It's very action based. It's a weird one. Because the action is solid. The gameplay in this year has been solid. It's a tough challenge.

00:22:41But it's very sexualized. Yeah. Because her special power, if I remember correctly, is that she can transform her super long hair into different suits. Oh, yeah. So the transformation scene always has her being nude. Yes, of course. And strategically covered by very, very long black hair. Because it's Japanese and they are into long black hair. Them and Alanis Morissette. Yes. But wouldn't the first thing you would do if you were her... I would like make my eyes work so that I don't have to wear glasses. True. But I think she does that for the coolness. Oh, it's an image. I think so. A window glass. I think it might just be. Because if you have glasses like shades, you can always take them off and then put them back on and say something snappy. That is true. Yeah. Caruso style. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:23:39So I think that's plain. I'm not sure. Maybe she actually has an eye impairment, but I'm not sure. I just assumed that they were shades. Yeah. But anyway, she is badass even with it. And even on Switch. Yes, even on the Switch. I've seen some streamers that are working their way through it as we speak. So I think a lot of people are on Twitch day one, which is kind of cool. It's one of those series, I actually played the first one. I didn't play the second one. But if I try out the third one, I still think I would want to play the second one first. Because, I mean, this is not one of those series where the story is the most important part in any way. But I still think that maybe you want to at least know where all the characters come from. If they are recurring characters. Yeah, it's also cool to, if you have...

00:24:38the opportunity if it isn't a series that has been going on for a long long time if you can actually play them on the same console or almost the same console it's often worth doing that because you get a little some extra nuggets of information here and there that might make the experience slightly better if you only played one of the games so next one in the list is actually not a sequel but it is in a series that has had a lot of games yes yeah So we're talking about Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed. And I don't know. I think we saw some blurbs about this during the summer shows. Yeah, we did. But they didn't really go into much detail. No, they didn't. I just, my, you know, the first thing I'm thinking of when I hear this title is like Spirits Unleashed is so like not, it's not a good title.

00:25:33No, it's not. Because it's just what it is. That's always been what it is. It doesn't really sound like a Ghostbusters thing. No. I'm not sure what would sound like a Ghostbusters thing. Maybe Ghostbusters is enough. I think so. But then again, I can see why a lot of companies wouldn't want to have just a number because people want to have it more defined than that. Did you play Ghostbusters 4? It's like, which one was that again? But if you say... have you played Spirits Unleashed? Then people might be, yeah, that was that one where you did the thing with the, and then you got caught up in the, yeah. No, yeah, exactly. That's like when you're talking about Silent Hill or Resident Evil, and now you can say, did you play the village or did you play the room? And then you know exactly what game you're referring to. So that's probably the main reason why it actually has a name. But the game in itself is slightly different from, I think, most other Ghostbusters games in the,

00:26:33In the way it's set up, it's a co-op game where you play as, I think, four Ghostbusters. And one of you play as the ghost. Oh, that is... Oh, yeah, I remember. And I think it rotates around. If you're a group, it rotates around. And if you are just playing random online games, you get matched up with people. And you level up. So I think you can actually... Because I watched a group play this as a team. And they got their asses handed to them when they went into a lobby where there was an experienced ghost. Because he had level up, so he had a lot of powers and he could break free almost all the time and stuff like that. So they... How it works is that you go into a level and you arrive with all your hot stuff and gear. And I think they have a... I think it was a... If I'm remembering this correctly, they have a status bar that tells you how haunted the place is.

00:27:30And the mission for the ghost is to haunt the place so hard that it reaches 100%. And if that happens, the Ghostbusters lose. So then everyone else loses. Yeah, because all of these maps have NPCs. So as a ghost, you can go around and harass them and scare them. And if they panic, the meter goes up. That is, it's a good premise. I like that. I think I kind of remember this because I played a Ghostbusters game a long time ago for Nintendo Wii. And I think that was also... I mean, my memory might not serve me correctly here, but I think that was co-op also. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, do you mean the one where you could play as two people? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was two people, yeah. Yeah, definitely. You could play that in co-op. It was a good game. That was really good. But this one, I wouldn't say it's a... Yeah, well, it's...

00:28:28It's good, I think. Because it's good fun. But it's more a fun game than a good game. Because I think this would have worked equally as good if you were hunting ghosts without being the Ghostbusters. It's just fun to have a team trying to capture something and some person trying to destroy that. Yeah. It's a good... Yeah. So I'd say it's probably a good mold for a lot of games. But it... did work with the Ghostbusters settings. So if you are one of those people that like games with groups of friends or randoms, I suppose, this might be a good one. And I always get a little bummed out when you're not playing as the Ghostbusters. Yeah. Just some Ghostbusters. But then again, them dudes are old now. Yes. So maybe it's one of those, this is the next generation of Ghostbusters. But I don't like that. I mean, this is a game. You could have them, yeah.

00:29:27But then again, that costs a lot of money. Oh yeah, that's true. Oh yeah, because in the Wii game, I think they had the real actors' voices. Oh yeah, they did. Because it was Dan Aykroyd who was behind that game. Oh, explains a lot. I think he actually talked the other guys into doing it. But I would imagine just having them voice every line in the game, especially actors like Bill Murray, must cost a lot of money. If you don't have a big reason for doing it, I think... I can understand why they went this route instead. Like, yeah, this is the new guys, and you can make them look slightly like yourself. So there's some upsides to doing it like this, but I miss the old guys. Well, yeah, and also because it's a hot take, but seeing as one of them, Harold Ramis, is actually dead in real life. He could be the...

00:30:25Yes, exactly. But it's... You have to do it the right way. Or it could be a thing. But we'll see. I think it did okay. So we'll see. We actually have... This is also... I should have had this higher up in the list because this is also kind of a sequel. Next one in the list, it's New Tales from the Borderlands. And it's not done by Tattletail. Because they went belly up and then they went belly down because they kind of came back. Is belly down a good thing? I'm not sure. They went belly up, but then they thought better of it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure that's how it works. But they came back, damn it, in some form. Because someone bought the remnants of the company and took over some of the staff.

00:31:25And then they renamed that into Telltale Games again. Yeah. So it's maybe the 2.0 version of that studio. So a lot of people thought, naturally, they would be the ones to do this game. But it's actually, I think it's, I don't know. Or maybe it's Gearbox, the ones who did the other Borderlands games. It's probably Gearbox. Anyway, for those of you who... aren't familiar with the new tales or the tales the first game was actually just called tales so it's not like the borderlands games the classic borderlands games where you have a looter shooter this is more of well a telltale game if that makes any sense so it's a interactive adventure game basically with the quirky humor because that's well that's also borderlands yeah yeah and i

00:32:23I watched, I think, an hour or two of this game, and it was touch and go. Some of the stuff was really, really good. Like, that's spot on. And then there were some cringy try-hard jokes that just fell flat. And the weird thing is that it was almost 50-50. Oh, no, that's not good at all. So it was like, ah! And I was like, oh! But, oh! Oh, no. That was awesome. So you couldn't stop watching because you didn't know when a good thing was coming along. So I'm not sure. Maybe it was some of the writing that was really good and some were really bad. Or they tried to please a lot of people and it just got too diluted or something. Maybe they just kind of switched teams doing it. So somebody wrote the first part and then somebody else wrote the second part.

00:33:21But then it would have been a great part and a bad part. Not mixed. Maybe they did it kind of like when you draw a person, somebody draws the head and then somebody else draws the shoulders. True. Yeah, I'm not sure how they managed to make it so mixed. Because it was like, this is so bad. And then the next thing was, this is really good. That is very interesting. That's almost like an achievement in itself. Oh, yeah. So I would probably say, for me, it landed on a 3 out of 5 or something like that. Well, that's kind of good. That means it's worth... Oh, yeah. If you like the first one, you will probably end up liking this slightly less. But you will probably not hate it. That's kind of where I land with this one. Oh, probably not hate it is good enough. It's decent. Because the first one was really, really good. So it's hard to live up to the hype.

00:34:18But it's not a bad game. It's just not a great game. That's probably where you end up. It's also slightly longer than I thought. So that might be a good thing. I'm always a little iffy when it comes to humor games. Because they can overstay their welcome if they're too long. And I think this was getting there. But I think it ended before it was like, okay, come on, guys. Enough with the jokes already. Save some for the new new tales. They're almost as new, Tales. So, yeah. Why not give it a try if you like the first one? That's probably where I land on this one. We have some more games and not a lot of time. So I think we should just mention that Gotham Knights is out. And it's actually not a sequel to the Arkham Asylum games. But it looks almost exactly like those games. So a lot of people were...

00:35:16were either thinking that it was a sequel or wished it was a sequel. Because I don't really know why a lot of people hated this game. But a lot of people hate this game. And I'm not sure why. Because I looked for like an hour and to me it looked almost exactly like the Arkham games. But maybe they hate it because you are not Batman. The story in this game is that Batman is dead. Or they think he's dead. Yeah. So you're playing as those sidekick peeps. Which is not as interesting. But I guess it could be good. I only remember the owl something from when we from some summer show. Yeah. So I think you get to play like Robin and Redwing and who's it's Batgirl probably. Yeah. I mean they don't sound as cool. But they actually look pretty good. And their world look pretty beautiful. And they do have the classic

00:36:15Well, some of the classic villains in there. So I'm not really sure. I don't really know why people were down on this game. The world is beautiful. I mean, it is. It did look good. So once again, I will not recommend this game. But if you are into the world or the comics, maybe you will get something out of it. For me, I would probably go back and play the Arkham Asylum games first. Because they were all, I think, almost all of them. were greatly loved by the community so and they were are probably i'm just taking a wild stab here but they're probably not very expensive these days no because they've been out for a while and this is they have cool names like gotham knights and yeah it's yeah they have they have cooler names for sure so do you have any news flash that you want to have before we wrap this up

00:37:11Well, I think we definitely should mention the Silent Hill transmission, even though I'm not really sure if it was during October or not. I think it might have been, yeah. Yeah, it might have been. And we haven't talked about it, not even on our Swedish show, I think. No, we have not. It's worth a mention or two or three. Yeah, because they actually had a lot of news. They had this first time thing, I think, called Silent Hill transmission on YouTube. And they, well, a lot of it's, since there's been a lot of rumors surrounding this IP, I guess a lot of them were kind of, we knew what was going to happen. We hoped. Yeah. Yeah. And they first announced a remake of Silent Hill 2, of course, which has been really, really much talked about. It looked amazing. Yeah.

00:38:07And especially when you got to see the side-by-side of him standing looking in the mirror. Exactly, because it's one of those things where you actually remember it looking better. Yeah. So it's like, I mean, oh, oh, wow. How bad was it, really? And then you see this, and it's like, oh, wow. But on the other hand, it was like 20 years ago it was released. But it's funny how the brain works, because it always touches up graphics. Yeah. Oh, that was awesome. And then you looked at it and said, I mean, I didn't see a difference. There's a difference. But it looked great. I mean, it's a classic. And as long as they stay faithful to the old game, I'm not sure if I want to have all of the mechanics. No. Because a lot has happened in gameplay since they were launched. But if the world is the same and the story is the same,

00:39:05then it's going to be an awesome game. Yeah, and I hope there's going to be some touch-up on the puzzles as well. Yeah. But I am assuming this will be a really good game to play, especially if you loved Silent Hill 2, which I know I did. The biggest thing here is probably that Konami has had a change of heart. Yeah. Because this franchise was considered dead only a couple of years ago. Yeah. And now it's almost 180, where they're not only remastering games, but they're doing new stuff. Yeah. So they announced, I think, three more games. Yep. Sort of games. It's cool. It's really, really cool. I mean, obviously, we are a bit biased. Obviously, yes. And we have a series about the Silent Hill games themselves. So we are on the bandwagon.

00:40:01The positive bandwagon. But even if we weren't, it's always cool when a classic series comes back and does well. Yeah, definitely. So we'll see. But we don't have a release date, I think, on any of the games that were announced on this show. But I'm of the mind that I don't really care if it's a couple of years down the road, if it's done well. No, no. I mean... Take your time. Yes, because now I feel like I've been promised new Silent Hill games, and I'm going to be really disappointed if they... Yeah, exactly. Especially the remake, because we've actually played the old game already. We know the hype is not for, oh, what's going to happen again? We know that. The hype is how good of a game could it be if made today? And I want to have the best version of that game. So make it happen, people.

00:40:55I think that's a good positive note to end the month on. We had some games, but to be fair, this is probably the biggest newsflash for me, that this franchise is coming back, which feels pretty good. An honorary mention is that another horror franchise did get a DLC, and that's Resident Evil Village. Yes. And it looked pretty good. It definitely did. I mean, the village did look good, the original game. So it's going to be really interesting to play the DLC also. Yeah, you haven't done that, right? No. Did you finish the game? Almost. I think there is like an hour left. So then maybe now is the time because then you can just jump on into the DLC. Yeah. Anyway, that's all we have for this month. Obviously, there's a lot of other.

00:41:49gaming news out there, but these were our main picks and things that we thought were interesting to talk about. We will obviously be back. Well, obviously, that's pushing it, but hopefully we'll be back in a month with the next month's recap. But until then, we do have some English shows on the old bucket list I was about to say, but the old program list maybe? Yeah. The old podcast vault. Exactly. Or something like that. We have some English shows with varied content and some of it might be of interest to you. But until we don't really see you, I think until you hear from us again, have a good one and do try out some of those games. Bye for now. Bye-bye.