In this episode of Digital Coffee Gaming Brew, host Brett Deister covers a range of topics in the gaming industry. He discusses the upcoming content and sequel for 'Hogwarts Legacy,' the removal of denuvo from 'Immortals of Avium,' and the release of 'Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.' Brett also shares his thoughts on 'Civilization VII,' Paradox's acquisition of a game studio, and the price hikes for Nvidia's RTX 50 series. The episode also addresses the demand for AMD's Ryzen 9800 x 3D and critiques EA's handling of 'Dragon Age.' Finally, Brett talks about the negative impact of USAID funds in gaming and his disappointment with 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.'
🔑 Key Themes
- New game releases and updates
- Gaming controversies and responses
- Hardware updates and pricing issues
- Game studio acquisitions and impacts
- Development and reception of Civilization 7
- EA's perceived failures and criticisms
- Government influence on gaming industry
🌟 3 Fun Facts
- Hogwarts Legacy is reportedly getting new content and a sequel due to its unexpected success despite initial controversy.
- Civilization Seven is playable on the Steam Deck, and Brett Deister is enjoying his experience with it despite some player criticisms.
- Paradox Interactive has acquired a game studio, I month Games, which is known for Jagged Alliance 3 and Surviving Mars.
- [00:00:48] - Rising GPU Prices Cause Stir Among Gamers
- [00:02:34] - Hogwarts Legacy Sequel Announced
- [00:03:15] - Hogwarts Gaming Experience
- [00:08:25] - Reviving Strategy Games
- [00:09:34] - Tech Launch Struggles
- [00:11:27] - Upcoming AMD GPU Battle
- [00:18:43] - Debating Pronouns in Signups
- [00:20:36] - Challenging Stereotypes in Friendship Dynamics
- [00:25:37] - The Media's Hidden Agenda
00:00:01 --> 00:00:04 And welcome to a new episode of digital coffee
00:00:04 --> 00:00:07 gaming brew. And I'm your host Brett Deister.
00:00:07 --> 00:00:09 If you could please subscribe to this podcast
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00:00:12 --> 00:00:14 a five star review really does help with the
00:00:14 --> 00:00:15 rankings. Let me know how I'm doing, but this
00:00:15 --> 00:00:20 week we talking about Hogwarts legacy. Immortals
00:00:20 --> 00:00:24 of Avium. Apparently they remove something from
00:00:24 --> 00:00:27 that, which I don't know like anybody plays anymore.
00:00:27 --> 00:00:31 Also Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater and the
00:00:31 --> 00:00:35 updates on that one. Civilization 6 .7 is out
00:00:35 --> 00:00:38 and I'll tell you my reaction to it plus with
00:00:38 --> 00:00:43 what actually is going on. Paradox actually bought
00:00:43 --> 00:00:45 a game studio so it should be interesting to
00:00:45 --> 00:00:49 see what goes on with that one and Nvidia Geoforce
00:00:49 --> 00:00:54 RTX 5080, 5090. Oh they're already raising prices
00:00:54 --> 00:00:57 and it apparently was a paper launch. And also
00:00:57 --> 00:01:02 the AMD Ryzen 9800 X3D, what's going on with
00:01:02 --> 00:01:06 that? And also EA not learning his lessons from
00:01:06 --> 00:01:10 Dragon Age, the Veil Guard, and why they are
00:01:10 --> 00:01:12 completely useless about what's going on with
00:01:12 --> 00:01:18 their actual game. Battlefield actually was teased
00:01:18 --> 00:01:20 in a way announced, Battlefield Labs specifically,
00:01:20 --> 00:01:22 but we'll talk about a little bit about that.
00:01:23 --> 00:01:26 And then Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. actually
00:01:26 --> 00:01:29 came out telling my reactions and why I'm actually
00:01:29 --> 00:01:34 not playing it. And the talking about the USAID
00:01:34 --> 00:01:38 issue in gaming and why it actually matters because
00:01:38 --> 00:01:42 it seems like we've been lied to from every walk
00:01:42 --> 00:01:45 of life. And it looks like it's pretty bad. It's
00:01:45 --> 00:01:50 not going to lie. It's really bad. Anyways, let's
00:01:50 --> 00:02:08 get on with the show. Hmm. That's good. All right.
00:02:08 --> 00:02:11 So Hogwarts Legacy is reportedly getting a new
00:02:11 --> 00:02:15 content and a sequel. So it did very well when
00:02:15 --> 00:02:16 it actually, if it was first released, there
00:02:16 --> 00:02:19 was a lot of controversy, which was funny when
00:02:19 --> 00:02:21 there was controversy because they said it wasn't
00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 woke enough or whatever, but then they had a
00:02:24 --> 00:02:26 transgender character in it and then it actually
00:02:26 --> 00:02:28 was fun to play. And so it actually did really
00:02:28 --> 00:02:30 well because the controversy kind of made it
00:02:30 --> 00:02:32 do well because everybody was like, there's nothing
00:02:32 --> 00:02:35 wrong with this game. Now, Avalanche Studios
00:02:35 --> 00:02:39 is going to be making new content and a new game
00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 for this one because it actually did so well.
00:02:42 --> 00:02:45 It's actually a fun game for the most part. I'm
00:02:45 --> 00:02:47 not really excited about the transgender person.
00:02:47 --> 00:02:49 I think next one, they should just leave it out
00:02:49 --> 00:02:52 because we're just tired of it. So if they don't,
00:02:52 --> 00:02:56 it probably won't sell well. But it seems like
00:02:56 --> 00:02:59 the game has been stuck in this like Halloween
00:02:59 --> 00:03:02 forever and they just didn't really remove any
00:03:02 --> 00:03:06 of the stuff. It's funny, but all in all, it's
00:03:06 --> 00:03:09 a good game all for getting more content in a
00:03:09 --> 00:03:12 new game because it was just a really fun game.
00:03:12 --> 00:03:14 If you love Hogwarts, if you love Harry Potter
00:03:14 --> 00:03:17 on those books, it was a fun game to actually
00:03:17 --> 00:03:24 be a wizard in. Moving on to Immortals of Aviam,
00:03:25 --> 00:03:26 the game that was supposed to be like the Call
00:03:26 --> 00:03:29 of Duty of Magic that didn't really quite hit
00:03:29 --> 00:03:32 its stride and There were a lot of pacing issues
00:03:32 --> 00:03:34 with it, which didn't really make much sense.
00:03:34 --> 00:03:36 It slowed you down, but made you want to switch,
00:03:36 --> 00:03:40 but there were issues. It was a, it was fine,
00:03:40 --> 00:03:44 but not great. It was one of those games where.
00:03:44 --> 00:03:47 And it needed more time in development. It actually
00:03:47 --> 00:03:49 just needed more time in ideation phase and figuring
00:03:49 --> 00:03:51 out what was in development phase to figure out
00:03:51 --> 00:03:53 what was actually going out. But I think they
00:03:53 --> 00:03:56 ran out of time and money, so they just released
00:03:56 --> 00:03:59 it as it was, but they're really, they are removing
00:03:59 --> 00:04:03 the Nuvo. Which every gamer hates because it
00:04:03 --> 00:04:05 does slow down games, even though Dinovo's no,
00:04:05 --> 00:04:07 it doesn't. And every gamer is like, yeah, it
00:04:07 --> 00:04:11 does. And they're finally removing it after a
00:04:11 --> 00:04:14 few years of being released. They're finally
00:04:14 --> 00:04:19 removing it. All right. Moving on to Metal Gear
00:04:19 --> 00:04:23 Solid Delta Snake Eater, the remake of the original
00:04:23 --> 00:04:28 Modern Metal Gear Solid 3. Basically what it
00:04:28 --> 00:04:33 was. It is finally coming out this year in August.
00:04:33 --> 00:04:37 So you have time to wait, but we're finally going
00:04:37 --> 00:04:42 to get this actual remake. It's going to be on
00:04:42 --> 00:04:46 PC obviously because no gaming development is
00:04:46 --> 00:04:51 going to actually do that, but we'll see. We'll
00:04:51 --> 00:05:00 see how it is. Hey, moving on to Civilization
00:05:00 --> 00:05:04 7. So I actually did get this one. I love Civilization.
00:05:05 --> 00:05:07 I just love, and plus you can play it on Steam
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09 Deck, which is a huge bonus because I just love.
00:05:10 --> 00:05:13 I'm not on my PC. Just use my Steam Deck instead.
00:05:13 --> 00:05:16 I'm enjoying it, but a lot of gamers aren't enjoying
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18 it because of issues. And there are some issues
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 that I've had with it, but it's nothing like
00:05:20 --> 00:05:23 game breaking for me. It runs really well. I
00:05:23 --> 00:05:26 played it for several hours on my Steam Deck.
00:05:27 --> 00:05:32 It has never crashed so far. So I'm happy with
00:05:32 --> 00:05:34 it, but there are some things that needs to be
00:05:34 --> 00:05:37 cleaned up. There needs to be more met variety.
00:05:37 --> 00:05:40 There needs to be more cooperation within it.
00:05:40 --> 00:05:41 It probably needs a little bit of a touch up
00:05:41 --> 00:05:44 as well. There are things that they need to actually
00:05:44 --> 00:05:47 work on, but from all in all, on like a gaming
00:05:47 --> 00:05:50 optimization standpoint, it's actually really
00:05:50 --> 00:05:52 good. I don't mind getting rid of the builders.
00:05:53 --> 00:05:55 I think that needed to go eventually. I do like
00:05:55 --> 00:05:58 the way they're going with this. I don't mind
00:05:58 --> 00:06:02 the ageist thing. I do think that leaders should
00:06:02 --> 00:06:04 change with age. I think just having one consistent
00:06:04 --> 00:06:08 leader, but your age changes is a little weird.
00:06:08 --> 00:06:13 There's some issues, but from like the hyperbole
00:06:13 --> 00:06:15 of everybody hating on it, it's not that bad.
00:06:16 --> 00:06:19 Is it an unfinished game? I don't know. I played
00:06:19 --> 00:06:21 a little bit of it and I don't feel like it's
00:06:21 --> 00:06:24 unfinished. I feel like I've gotten like a robust
00:06:24 --> 00:06:26 game, but I guess I'm not that harsh as they
00:06:26 --> 00:06:30 are on it. It's a 4K strategy or a 4X strategy
00:06:30 --> 00:06:36 game. So you can replay it several times to your
00:06:36 --> 00:06:38 heart's content. I feel like a lot of like RPGs
00:06:38 --> 00:06:40 and stuff, you can replay them, but you want
00:06:40 --> 00:06:43 to take time to go away from them and come back
00:06:43 --> 00:06:46 to them. Cause once you beat the story you're
00:06:46 --> 00:06:48 gonna beat the same story all over again with
00:06:48 --> 00:06:50 strategy games you just you get there's a replayability
00:06:50 --> 00:06:53 in these games i'm not having issues but i guess
00:06:53 --> 00:06:57 a lot of people are so we'll see when all this
00:06:57 --> 00:07:01 comes about paradox is buying the owner of jagged
00:07:01 --> 00:07:06 alliance 3 and surviving mars developer imont
00:07:06 --> 00:07:11 games so yeah So it looks like they're just going
00:07:11 --> 00:07:13 to be acquiring them, which actually makes really
00:07:13 --> 00:07:15 good sense with paradox because paradox is mainly
00:07:15 --> 00:07:21 known for its strategy type games and this company,
00:07:21 --> 00:07:25 which I did do tra I think we did tropical as
00:07:25 --> 00:07:31 well actually makes a lot more sense because
00:07:31 --> 00:07:35 of Just the way each one's synergized together
00:07:35 --> 00:07:39 plus with paradox actually not really I don't
00:07:39 --> 00:07:40 think they're ever going to be releasing the
00:07:40 --> 00:07:44 bloodlines too, and just city skylines too. Not
00:07:44 --> 00:07:47 doing very well. First one, original one was
00:07:47 --> 00:07:49 great, but the second one had a lot of issues.
00:07:49 --> 00:07:52 It looks like they needed more time to actually
00:07:52 --> 00:07:55 work with it, but they actually didn't do that,
00:07:55 --> 00:08:02 which is very weird. Very weird. But we'll see
00:08:02 --> 00:08:04 how this all ends out. I hope. This actually
00:08:04 --> 00:08:07 is a good thing. I hope that they actually continue
00:08:07 --> 00:08:08 to make great games. Jack of the lions three
00:08:08 --> 00:08:11 is a fun game. It's fun because it's like a funny
00:08:11 --> 00:08:16 type of game in its own right. And it's in the
00:08:16 --> 00:08:21 vein of commandos and those types of genre of
00:08:21 --> 00:08:23 games aren't really made as much anymore, but
00:08:23 --> 00:08:25 probably should be made a little bit more. I
00:08:25 --> 00:08:29 really hope that this RTS and type of strategy
00:08:29 --> 00:08:32 type games resurgent really does hit its stride
00:08:32 --> 00:08:37 because We've been on the first person shooter
00:08:37 --> 00:08:40 dominance for a little too long, in my opinion.
00:08:40 --> 00:08:45 All right, moving on to the Nvidia GeForce RTX
00:08:45 --> 00:08:49 5090 and 5080. Apparently prices are going to
00:08:49 --> 00:08:53 go up again because of the tariffs on China and
00:08:53 --> 00:08:56 we're going to be paying more for it unless they
00:08:56 --> 00:08:58 actually start building it here, which there
00:08:58 --> 00:09:02 are a few foundries, I think. TSMC actually does
00:09:02 --> 00:09:04 have Foundry in Arizona and the United States.
00:09:05 --> 00:09:11 So we should see more price hikes on that, which
00:09:11 --> 00:09:14 I'm just saying, just stick with the Founders
00:09:14 --> 00:09:17 edition, which it looks like from the 5080 purpose,
00:09:17 --> 00:09:20 there is a lot of headroom to actually overclock
00:09:20 --> 00:09:23 it to make it actually faster than what the base
00:09:23 --> 00:09:25 clock is, which is weird that Nvidia would leave
00:09:25 --> 00:09:29 so much headroom for that, but I guess they're
00:09:29 --> 00:09:31 trying to be conservative about it. I don't know.
00:09:31 --> 00:09:33 It just seems like this launch has been weird.
00:09:34 --> 00:09:36 It was a paper launch because there is no cards
00:09:36 --> 00:09:39 you can get, which is funny because I was looking
00:09:39 --> 00:09:43 at new monitors online and Micro Center and a
00:09:43 --> 00:09:44 lot of their bundles were like for monitors was
00:09:44 --> 00:09:48 like via 1580 or 1590 and get a hundred dollars
00:09:48 --> 00:09:50 off. I'm like, but you can't find any of them.
00:09:50 --> 00:09:52 So how are you going to get the deal? If you
00:09:52 --> 00:09:54 can't actually find the product, a little weird
00:09:54 --> 00:09:56 Micro Center, just a little weird. Probably should
00:09:56 --> 00:09:59 have pulled that back until stocks came back,
00:10:00 --> 00:10:04 but you're just going to be paying more from
00:10:04 --> 00:10:06 third party ones. They're also a lot thicker
00:10:06 --> 00:10:08 than the founders edition, which I rather take
00:10:08 --> 00:10:10 the founders edition because it's only two slots,
00:10:11 --> 00:10:15 especially for the 50 80 and the 50 90. Plus
00:10:15 --> 00:10:22 you. You can overclock it. It looks like there
00:10:22 --> 00:10:24 is a lot of headroom, at least for the 50 80,
00:10:24 --> 00:10:27 I think the 50 90 as well. to actually overclock
00:10:27 --> 00:10:28 them on the founders edition. So I would just
00:10:28 --> 00:10:31 look at that instead and just overclock it. And
00:10:31 --> 00:10:34 you may actually finally beat out the 4090 if
00:10:34 --> 00:10:38 you overclock it now base. No, you can't 4090
00:10:38 --> 00:10:42 beats it out all the time, but. That may be what's
00:10:42 --> 00:10:44 actually holding you back is the base clocks.
00:10:46 --> 00:10:50 All right, moving on to the AMD Ryzen 90 hundred
00:10:50 --> 00:10:54 X3D. Stock demand is so high that they're ramping
00:10:54 --> 00:10:57 up production. Yes, it is a very good CPU to
00:10:57 --> 00:11:00 actually get. It does a really good job at being
00:11:00 --> 00:11:03 efficient for gaming. And to be honest with you,
00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 I don't understand why I just aimed. He just
00:11:05 --> 00:11:08 doesn't do the rise in X3D as the line to do,
00:11:08 --> 00:11:10 because it seems like every time they release
00:11:10 --> 00:11:13 the base one and then do the X3D is always better
00:11:13 --> 00:11:18 than the original one, but we'll see how this
00:11:18 --> 00:11:24 goes. It seems interesting. And the new ones
00:11:24 --> 00:11:28 are supposed to eventually come out March. I
00:11:28 --> 00:11:31 know we finally got actual confirmation that
00:11:31 --> 00:11:35 the new AMD GPUs are coming out in March, early
00:11:35 --> 00:11:40 March. The 9 series or 9070 is the only
00:11:40 --> 00:11:42 ones that we know about. So it should be interesting
00:11:42 --> 00:11:46 to see how well these do against the 5070 series
00:11:46 --> 00:11:48 that's supposed to come out in March as well.
00:11:48 --> 00:11:53 the 5070, 5070 Ti I think. So should be interesting
00:11:53 --> 00:11:55 to see how well they do with that, how they stack
00:11:55 --> 00:11:58 up against the 5080, if they can actually beat
00:11:58 --> 00:12:00 the 5080. I know they're not going to touch the
00:12:00 --> 00:12:02 5090, which everybody's been saying, huge mistake
00:12:02 --> 00:12:04 for you guys to get out the high -end market
00:12:04 --> 00:12:06 because you probably might've been able to dominate
00:12:06 --> 00:12:09 that this time around, but we'll see. We'll see
00:12:09 --> 00:12:12 what the updates with FSR4 is, if it will do
00:12:12 --> 00:12:16 better with ray tracing, even though I'm still
00:12:16 --> 00:12:18 not convinced that ray tracing is all that It's
00:12:18 --> 00:12:20 cracked out to be, I think we just been forced
00:12:20 --> 00:12:23 upon a good ray tracing, path tracing, all this
00:12:23 --> 00:12:27 tracing. Apparently we're all artists now. Anyways,
00:12:27 --> 00:12:32 moving on to EA and Dragon Age. It looks like
00:12:32 --> 00:12:35 from their earnings call, they just have not
00:12:35 --> 00:12:38 learned their lesson yet. They're basically blaming
00:12:38 --> 00:12:42 Dragon Age on not a failure or not having a quote
00:12:42 --> 00:12:45 unquote shared world. It's no. The reason why
00:12:45 --> 00:12:50 it failed is because it had a cringe -worthy
00:12:50 --> 00:12:55 tirade on how to properly pronounce or properly
00:12:55 --> 00:12:59 use someone's pronouns. No one wanted to do that.
00:12:59 --> 00:13:03 No one wanted to pull the brava scene. And everybody
00:13:03 --> 00:13:06 was like, this is stupid. I shouldn't be lectured
00:13:06 --> 00:13:09 to about this stuff. First of all, pronouns don't
00:13:09 --> 00:13:12 exist. It's all in your head and you are stupid
00:13:12 --> 00:13:16 if you have some. Second of all, no one cares,
00:13:16 --> 00:13:20 which I will actually be talking about the dumb
00:13:20 --> 00:13:23 signup form for battlefield labs and EA, you
00:13:23 --> 00:13:26 need to drop all this stuff. No one likes it.
00:13:26 --> 00:13:28 No one cares about it. It's annoying. And we
00:13:28 --> 00:13:32 all hate it. Listen to gamers. The reason why
00:13:32 --> 00:13:35 we didn't buy this is because we didn't like
00:13:35 --> 00:13:38 the top surgery scars from the character creator.
00:13:38 --> 00:13:41 Cause it made no sense. We didn't like the pronouns
00:13:41 --> 00:13:44 made no sense. And you all need to drop them.
00:13:44 --> 00:13:47 We all know that you took money from USAID. So
00:13:47 --> 00:13:51 let's please move on from this. Drop it all.
00:13:51 --> 00:13:53 It doesn't work. Get back to making games. Get
00:13:53 --> 00:13:58 back to actually creating games for men because
00:13:58 --> 00:14:05 men will mostly buy this stuff. He also announced
00:14:05 --> 00:14:10 EA CEO also announced Apex 2 .0 since it won't
00:14:10 --> 00:14:13 happen until next battlefield. But this will
00:14:13 --> 00:14:16 not be the final incarnation of Apex. So we're
00:14:16 --> 00:14:19 going to get a 2 .0 version of it. Hopefully
00:14:19 --> 00:14:21 it does better than what it is right now. No
00:14:21 --> 00:14:24 one's really playing Apex anymore. Just too many
00:14:24 --> 00:14:26 different weird things they've been doing with
00:14:26 --> 00:14:29 it. I stopped playing with it a while ago is
00:14:29 --> 00:14:33 when they only had one map. And I, after a while
00:14:33 --> 00:14:36 I was like, eh, I don't know. I just, is Battle
00:14:36 --> 00:14:38 Royale, me and Battle Royale games just don't
00:14:38 --> 00:14:42 mix. I just don't like them that much. They're
00:14:42 --> 00:14:45 fine. You love them by all means. I just don't
00:14:45 --> 00:14:49 prefer them. I prefer just like battlefield or
00:14:49 --> 00:14:54 Delta Force or hero shooters or Old -school shooters.
00:14:54 --> 00:14:57 Those are fine. I just I play them then I stop
00:14:57 --> 00:15:00 playing them It's just like when you die, you
00:15:00 --> 00:15:03 have to go and get into a new match and just
00:15:03 --> 00:15:09 I just don't want to do that Alright finally
00:15:09 --> 00:15:13 announced battlefield Battlefield six or whatever
00:15:13 --> 00:15:15 they're going to call it. They announced a whole
00:15:15 --> 00:15:19 slew of things. Luckily portal 2 .0 is coming
00:15:19 --> 00:15:22 or portals coming back as 2 .0. Hopefully this
00:15:22 --> 00:15:24 time around they utilize it a lot better than
00:15:24 --> 00:15:28 they did with 2042. It was the, and I said this
00:15:28 --> 00:15:31 when it was having its issues. I like, I said
00:15:31 --> 00:15:35 focus on portal. It's you're saving grace right
00:15:35 --> 00:15:37 now. Nothing else works really well. No one's
00:15:37 --> 00:15:40 having fun with the regular stuff. Focus in on
00:15:40 --> 00:15:43 portal because portal is the thing you need to
00:15:43 --> 00:15:45 focus on and they didn't do it They focus on
00:15:45 --> 00:15:48 fixing the game and then they left which is always
00:15:48 --> 00:15:51 EA style. I don't understand You don't understand
00:15:51 --> 00:15:54 live service games, but you Winch and complain
00:15:54 --> 00:15:56 that games don't work because they don't have
00:15:56 --> 00:15:58 live service while you don't understand live
00:15:58 --> 00:16:02 services You have one live service game. It's
00:16:02 --> 00:16:05 apex legends and that's it Sims. I wouldn't consider
00:16:05 --> 00:16:08 a live service game at all. It's just been updated
00:16:08 --> 00:16:13 because Why make a new one? And Battlefield 2042
00:16:13 --> 00:16:16 wasn't a live service game at all. It was, oh
00:16:16 --> 00:16:19 right, we messed up and we need to fix it. All
00:16:19 --> 00:16:22 right, we're moving on. It's like, you could
00:16:22 --> 00:16:25 have kept on doing things with it and it may
00:16:25 --> 00:16:28 have a longer development cycle. I know that
00:16:28 --> 00:16:34 specialists were not loved. And fair enough,
00:16:34 --> 00:16:39 but here's my problem. If you're going to be
00:16:39 --> 00:16:44 doing the next battlefield game, expect low pre
00:16:44 --> 00:16:46 -orders because we're all very skeptical about
00:16:46 --> 00:16:53 what you're going to do. Then the other thing
00:16:53 --> 00:16:57 is make sure there's destruction in this game
00:16:57 --> 00:16:59 because a lot of the other games are now doing
00:16:59 --> 00:17:01 destruction. Make sure this is worthwhile destruction
00:17:01 --> 00:17:06 and actually is good. Make sure you just have
00:17:06 --> 00:17:08 a class system. No more specialists. We're done
00:17:08 --> 00:17:15 with that. It just didn't work. If you'd want
00:17:15 --> 00:17:17 to do 128 players, which I don't think you're
00:17:17 --> 00:17:21 going to be doing, make the maps work for 128
00:17:21 --> 00:17:25 players can work. You just didn't do the right
00:17:25 --> 00:17:29 maps. The maps did not work. That was the issue
00:17:29 --> 00:17:34 with it. And only 128 players can only work in
00:17:34 --> 00:17:39 conquest. Or Titan mode. I think that actually
00:17:39 --> 00:17:42 could work, but it cannot work in rush. It cannot
00:17:42 --> 00:17:46 work in. I forget the other one, but the one's
00:17:46 --> 00:17:48 similar to rush. It cannot work in those modes.
00:17:48 --> 00:17:50 Those modes need to be small. 64 is actually
00:17:50 --> 00:17:53 a good spot. 128 players only works for all out
00:17:53 --> 00:17:57 warfare, but you need to like press into the
00:17:57 --> 00:18:00 multiple objectives and maybe make it more interesting.
00:18:00 --> 00:18:03 Like this needs to be the next evolution. And
00:18:03 --> 00:18:06 it's been stuck in this weird. We're going to
00:18:06 --> 00:18:09 follow it. We're going to. chase trends. And
00:18:09 --> 00:18:12 it needs to stop. Stop chasing trends. Do an
00:18:12 --> 00:18:15 extraction shooter. I think it can work if you
00:18:15 --> 00:18:19 guys actually make it work. It didn't work because
00:18:19 --> 00:18:23 on 2042, because it just wasn't good. You didn't
00:18:23 --> 00:18:27 have enough time to make it work. Battle Royale's
00:18:27 --> 00:18:29 fine. Like I said, I just don't like them. So
00:18:29 --> 00:18:32 I probably will never play it. Or I'll play a
00:18:32 --> 00:18:36 few times. But this needs to be hit out the park.
00:18:37 --> 00:18:38 I know you had battlefield labs I know you're
00:18:38 --> 00:18:40 gonna be started testing it and this is gonna
00:18:40 --> 00:18:42 be like a testing phase and figuring out what
00:18:42 --> 00:18:44 it works and what it doesn't But please for the
00:18:44 --> 00:18:46 love of God if you're going to be doing sign
00:18:46 --> 00:18:50 up stop with the pronouns I Already gave you
00:18:50 --> 00:18:52 my quirky pronoun, which was like this isn't
00:18:52 --> 00:18:55 real stop this crap I want to use more colorful
00:18:55 --> 00:18:57 language, but that's basically what I said because
00:18:57 --> 00:19:01 I was like look it I don't care your sex male
00:19:01 --> 00:19:05 female pronouns That should have been eliminated
00:19:05 --> 00:19:08 because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
00:19:09 --> 00:19:13 Nobody is anything else but male or female. The
00:19:13 --> 00:19:19 crazy ones, I'm sorry, but this is reality. Can
00:19:19 --> 00:19:22 we all stop this? Please for the love of God.
00:19:23 --> 00:19:25 I just want to play games without all this stupid
00:19:25 --> 00:19:29 political stuff in there. All right. Company
00:19:29 --> 00:19:31 heroes three, the game that we're all happy when
00:19:31 --> 00:19:33 it came out, but then when it came out, we were
00:19:33 --> 00:19:37 like, very good. They're coming out with a new
00:19:37 --> 00:19:42 DLC later this month and it's called fire and
00:19:42 --> 00:19:45 steel. It's going to be specifically more about
00:19:45 --> 00:19:48 tanks, which is fine. It's going to be priced
00:19:48 --> 00:19:52 at $25. So this better be a really good DLC or
00:19:52 --> 00:19:56 people are not going to buy it. Just saying.
00:19:59 --> 00:20:03 Now coming to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 I was
00:20:03 --> 00:20:05 excited when this was coming out and then too
00:20:05 --> 00:20:07 much controversy and too much weirdness About
00:20:07 --> 00:20:10 this game now. I know everybody's so amazing.
00:20:10 --> 00:20:13 It's so great First of all, I don't understand
00:20:13 --> 00:20:16 why you can romance Hans as your main character
00:20:16 --> 00:20:19 when the original game you guys were friends
00:20:19 --> 00:20:23 and y 'all liked Girls and there was actually
00:20:23 --> 00:20:27 one quest where you helped out your bro Basically
00:20:27 --> 00:20:36 being a girl Best way of saying it. So now, why?
00:20:36 --> 00:20:39 Like, why is it that guys can't just be best
00:20:39 --> 00:20:40 friends without the, oh, I guess you're gay.
00:20:41 --> 00:20:44 Like that was weird. And then the black guy in
00:20:44 --> 00:20:47 there when his, the main guy of Warhorse Studios
00:20:47 --> 00:20:50 basically said that Henry was a straight white
00:20:50 --> 00:20:52 Christian male, which apparently now he is not.
00:20:53 --> 00:20:55 And there was no black people in there, but now
00:20:55 --> 00:20:58 we're like, yeah, there's a black person. Like
00:20:58 --> 00:21:01 it was like a weird like turn around where I
00:21:01 --> 00:21:04 was like, yeah, I don't really like this and
00:21:04 --> 00:21:09 now you can romance Hans. Come on guys. Seriously.
00:21:11 --> 00:21:15 I'm glad that you made $1 million. I'm glad you
00:21:15 --> 00:21:18 chastise the industry for whatever reason, but
00:21:18 --> 00:21:21 you're no better. You tried to hide it. You tried
00:21:21 --> 00:21:25 to, it's not that bad. It's skippable. It's an
00:21:25 --> 00:21:28 interesting story thing. I'm like, look, if you
00:21:28 --> 00:21:31 want interesting story pieces, how about he still
00:21:31 --> 00:21:36 continues to be a straight white Christian male.
00:21:37 --> 00:21:39 And you deal with repercussions of maybe some
00:21:39 --> 00:21:41 of your friends or your companions being gay
00:21:41 --> 00:21:44 and you deal with that. But don't already establish
00:21:44 --> 00:21:48 your character from the first game. as not being
00:21:48 --> 00:21:51 gay and then all of a sudden go, yeah, he's gay
00:21:51 --> 00:21:56 now. It makes no sense. It makes no logical sense
00:21:56 --> 00:21:59 on this one whatsoever. And don't give me the,
00:21:59 --> 00:22:01 it's an interesting story thing. No, it's not.
00:22:02 --> 00:22:05 It's a hype, it's hypocritical. Like people,
00:22:05 --> 00:22:07 that's what people are calling you out for. It's
00:22:07 --> 00:22:10 like, you're being hypocritical about this. And
00:22:10 --> 00:22:11 I'm glad that people, a lot of people didn't
00:22:11 --> 00:22:14 care and they bought it, but I only buy it on
00:22:14 --> 00:22:17 sale because I'm, that's stupid. Like you should
00:22:17 --> 00:22:22 have known better. Stop with this. I know you're
00:22:22 --> 00:22:24 owned by Embracer Group and I'm pretty sure they
00:22:24 --> 00:22:27 were the ones behind this telling you what to
00:22:27 --> 00:22:30 do. But seriously, that was the dumbest thing
00:22:30 --> 00:22:33 I've ever seen. Cause I canceled my pre -orders.
00:22:33 --> 00:22:36 I was like, I, you know what? I don't really
00:22:36 --> 00:22:39 care for this. It's an RPG. I love, I love the
00:22:39 --> 00:22:42 first game. The game was great. But this is an
00:22:42 --> 00:22:45 RPG. I don't understand why you're changing around
00:22:45 --> 00:22:48 characters, sexual identity or whatever, sexual
00:22:48 --> 00:22:51 orientation, whatever it's called. I don't get
00:22:51 --> 00:22:56 it. I don't understand it. I do not like it.
00:22:57 --> 00:23:03 So please stop. But you just want to do this
00:23:03 --> 00:23:07 for clout or whatever reason. I guess you hate
00:23:07 --> 00:23:12 that the media was against you. It's dumb. Anyways,
00:23:12 --> 00:23:15 moving on to USAID. So this is an interesting
00:23:15 --> 00:23:18 thing because once Trump got into office and
00:23:18 --> 00:23:21 then once Elon Musk kind of got into like how
00:23:21 --> 00:23:26 much money our government was wasting, then it's
00:23:26 --> 00:23:28 quite a bit. It's quite bad. It's really, this
00:23:28 --> 00:23:30 is like one of the worst scandals in American
00:23:30 --> 00:23:34 history right now. And it looks like EDI also
00:23:34 --> 00:23:39 hit gaming pretty much too. Like to the point
00:23:39 --> 00:23:42 where. Feminist Frequency from Anita Sarkeesian
00:23:42 --> 00:23:49 took money from the US government to basically
00:23:49 --> 00:23:52 tell gaming companies that you shouldn't be making
00:23:52 --> 00:23:56 a game secure to males because sexism. She was
00:23:56 --> 00:23:58 a grifter before, and we all found out that she
00:23:58 --> 00:24:01 was a pretty bad grifter, but it's bad when you're
00:24:01 --> 00:24:04 taking money from the government to tell American
00:24:04 --> 00:24:09 males that they're terrible. That's just dumb.
00:24:10 --> 00:24:13 Plus you pay, they paid political and all of
00:24:13 --> 00:24:18 them to basically have negative stories about
00:24:18 --> 00:24:23 gamer gays. So this was all not actually like
00:24:23 --> 00:24:28 reporters weren't just dumb. They were paid off
00:24:28 --> 00:24:35 to do this. And even sweet baby ink looks like
00:24:35 --> 00:24:40 it was through another. company was used the
00:24:40 --> 00:24:44 money from USAID to tell gaming companies to
00:24:44 --> 00:24:47 make their games woke. And then the woke games
00:24:47 --> 00:24:51 failed miserably. And that's where we're at right
00:24:51 --> 00:24:59 now. I don't under stand why you would do this.
00:25:02 --> 00:25:05 But apparently, and I'm pretty sure a lot of
00:25:05 --> 00:25:08 these games took money. to do this, a lot of
00:25:08 --> 00:25:10 these game companies took money to do this stuff.
00:25:10 --> 00:25:19 It is not good. I'm pretty sure Kotaku and all
00:25:19 --> 00:25:23 of them are, are just as culpable of taking money.
00:25:23 --> 00:25:26 Just like AP took money, political took money,
00:25:26 --> 00:25:28 BBC took money, which I don't understand why
00:25:28 --> 00:25:32 we were funding the BBC, but All of those companies
00:25:32 --> 00:25:35 that somehow were against normal Americans saying,
00:25:35 --> 00:25:37 Hey, look, there's something not right about
00:25:37 --> 00:25:39 this. They're like, don't believe your lying
00:25:39 --> 00:25:42 eyes. Cause we're paid to tell you to lie to
00:25:42 --> 00:25:44 you. We're not going to tell you the truth. We're
00:25:44 --> 00:25:46 going to lie to you because we're paid to do
00:25:46 --> 00:25:52 that by these weird leftoids. And it hit gaming,
00:25:52 --> 00:25:56 it hit almost every industry. And now we're seeing
00:25:56 --> 00:26:00 just how bad it was. And it was bad. And I hope
00:26:00 --> 00:26:03 that this is finally like the way it will come
00:26:03 --> 00:26:06 back around and we'll just get games that are
00:26:06 --> 00:26:11 fun to make and fun to play. No more DEI stuff.
00:26:12 --> 00:26:16 Just make fun games. People will love your game
00:26:16 --> 00:26:20 if it's fun and we're not just being bashed over
00:26:20 --> 00:26:25 with these weird Marxist ideologies. That's the
00:26:25 --> 00:26:29 problem that we've all had is just... No normal
00:26:29 --> 00:26:31 person liked it, but it was being pushed. Like
00:26:31 --> 00:26:33 it was this popular thing that everybody was
00:26:33 --> 00:26:36 like, yeah, this is, this is totally what I like.
00:26:36 --> 00:26:39 Yes. This is good. Yeah. No, it wasn't. I hope
00:26:39 --> 00:26:45 this is finally the turning point because it
00:26:45 --> 00:26:49 needs to stop. Our needs, our need of Sarkeesian
00:26:49 --> 00:26:54 needs to go away forever. Grifter and all these
00:26:54 --> 00:26:57 companies need to. to really look into this.
00:26:57 --> 00:27:00 Even Google is dropping their DEI because they
00:27:00 --> 00:27:03 know it's not good. They know it's not doing
00:27:03 --> 00:27:06 well for them. It'll eventually hit the gaming
00:27:06 --> 00:27:10 companies. Once they start losing enough money,
00:27:10 --> 00:27:12 they'll figure it out. They'll be like, okay,
00:27:12 --> 00:27:15 maybe this doesn't actually work. And they'll
00:27:15 --> 00:27:19 come crawling back. But right now they just,
00:27:19 --> 00:27:21 apparently they still need to learn their lesson.
00:27:22 --> 00:27:24 And I hope And for all of you that just didn't
00:27:24 --> 00:27:27 like it, you weren't crazy. You were just like
00:27:27 --> 00:27:29 me going, this doesn't make any sense. Just make
00:27:29 --> 00:27:49 games that I want to play. See you next week.
00:27:49 --> 00:27:51 Let's talk about what's going on in the gaming
00:27:51 --> 00:27:53 industry. All right guys stay safe Get the games
00:27:53 --> 00:27:56 you want to play that don't lecture to you and
00:27:56 --> 00:27:58 just are fun to play and see you next week later