Get ready for a packed episode of Digital Coffee Gaming Brew as we dive into the exciting return of the Normandy in No Man's Sky, allowing players to relive the Mass Effect experience. We also tackle the ongoing debate surrounding Six Days in Fallujah, exploring its controversial single-player missions that shed light on a real historical battle. On the tech side, Nvidia's cloud gaming service is now capping playtime, raising questions about the future of gaming on the go. Plus, we're buzzing about the leaked Warcraft 2 remastered, which could bring nostalgia back to life as we celebrate its 30th anniversary. Lastly, we'll discuss the state of Warner Bros' gaming strategy, the new Manor Lords update, and why it's an excellent time for gamers to take advantage of free-to-play offerings.
Takeaways:
- The return of the Normandy in No Man's Sky is a nostalgic treat for fans.
- Six Days in Fallujah's single-player missions raise questions about historical representation in gaming.
- Nvidia's GeForce Now imposes a 100-hour monthly limit, challenging casual gamers' usage.
- Warcraft 2 Remastered could be a nostalgic revival, but expectations are cautiously low.
- Warner Bros is focusing on successful franchises while neglecting the Shadows of Mordor series.
- Steam's new recording feature offers gamers more options for sharing gameplay highlights.
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Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Nvidia
- GeForce
- Mass Effect
- Warner Brothers
- Take Two
- Private Division
- Obsidian
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Marvel
- Delta Force
- Overwatch
- Counter Strike
- Ubisoft
- Monolith Productions
- Diablo
- Starfield
- Steam
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 And welcome to a new episode of a digital coffee
00:00:03 --> 00:00:07 gaming brew. And I'm your host Brett Deister. If
00:00:07 --> 00:00:09 you please subscribe to this podcast and only
00:00:09 --> 00:00:11 favorite podcasting, absolutely five star view
00:00:11 --> 00:00:13 where it does help with the rankings. Let me
00:00:13 --> 00:00:17 know how I am doing, but this week we got a whole
00:00:17 --> 00:00:19 slew of things to talk about. We got to talk
00:00:19 --> 00:00:21 about six days of flu shit because apparently
00:00:21 --> 00:00:24 it's, it's got single player missions and it's
00:00:24 --> 00:00:27 controversial because it talks about the battle
00:00:27 --> 00:00:30 and flu show when we were actually in Iraq in
00:00:30 --> 00:00:35 a war. We also got new no man's skies. No, no
00:00:35 --> 00:00:40 man's sky. Excuse me. Mass Effect Normandy is
00:00:40 --> 00:00:42 back again. So if you want to actually get it,
00:00:42 --> 00:00:44 since you missed it last time, you have a chance.
00:00:44 --> 00:00:47 They also have a new feature for cross save as
00:00:47 --> 00:00:50 well. So if you're playing on PlayStation five,
00:00:50 --> 00:00:54 Xbox or PC, you can cross save all that and that'd
00:00:54 --> 00:00:58 be fine. Nvidia. Well, it's going to be limiting
00:00:58 --> 00:01:03 you to a hundred hours per month on their GeoForce
00:01:03 --> 00:01:06 cloud gaming service. So have fun with that.
00:01:06 --> 00:01:09 I don't know if you can actually game more than
00:01:09 --> 00:01:12 a hundred hours a month, but I guess you can
00:01:12 --> 00:01:14 if you play every single day for quite a long
00:01:14 --> 00:01:17 time, but be prepared for that. There is a rumor
00:01:17 --> 00:01:21 that the Warcraft 2 Remastered is coming, which
00:01:21 --> 00:01:23 is great because I love Warcraft 2. That was
00:01:23 --> 00:01:28 one of the best RTS games back when Westwood
00:01:28 --> 00:01:30 and Blizzard were fighting each other out for
00:01:30 --> 00:01:33 who was the most popular real -time strategy
00:01:33 --> 00:01:36 game with Red Alert or Command Conqueror and
00:01:36 --> 00:01:38 also Red Alert as well and Warcraft and Warcraft
00:01:38 --> 00:01:41 2. Warcraft 1 was not that great because you
00:01:41 --> 00:01:44 can only actually, spoiler, you can only click
00:01:44 --> 00:01:47 one unit per time and Warcraft 2 you could do
00:01:47 --> 00:01:49 a whole bunch of units. That was a game changer
00:01:49 --> 00:01:52 right there. Also, we're going to talk about
00:01:52 --> 00:01:55 Warner Brothers games and whether what games
00:01:55 --> 00:01:57 are actually doubling down on and why they're
00:01:57 --> 00:02:00 missing one that I do not understand why they
00:02:00 --> 00:02:02 keep on just ignoring, especially with a patent
00:02:02 --> 00:02:07 they have on it as well. And why take two actually
00:02:07 --> 00:02:11 sold off private division and the reports on
00:02:11 --> 00:02:14 that as well. And the new banner Lords update
00:02:14 --> 00:02:19 and the release of steam in game recording. And
00:02:19 --> 00:02:21 if it's going to be great or terrible, or if
00:02:21 --> 00:02:23 you actually should care about it, And then my
00:02:23 --> 00:02:26 main thing is going to be talking about why it's
00:02:26 --> 00:02:30 great to be a cheapskate. Let's get on with it.
00:02:43 --> 00:02:47 That's good. All right. So Six Days of Felucia
00:02:47 --> 00:02:49 actually has the first single player missions.
00:02:50 --> 00:02:54 up and ready to go, which enables AI teammates.
00:02:54 --> 00:02:59 It kind of helps bring into focus just what went
00:02:59 --> 00:03:02 on in Fallujah with the battle, because the battle
00:03:02 --> 00:03:05 was pretty intense at that time. And it's been
00:03:05 --> 00:03:08 controversial because people want to make it
00:03:08 --> 00:03:09 controversial. It's not that really controversial
00:03:09 --> 00:03:12 that you want to make a game about an historical
00:03:12 --> 00:03:14 battle that actually happened. But apparently
00:03:14 --> 00:03:19 now it is because it's more recent and people
00:03:19 --> 00:03:21 want to make it controversial. I guess it is,
00:03:22 --> 00:03:25 but it happened 2004. It was to recapture the
00:03:25 --> 00:03:28 city from Al -Qaeda and the Ba 'ath party occupiers
00:03:28 --> 00:03:32 in November, December of 2004. And you've gotten
00:03:32 --> 00:03:35 these co -op missions that you can do. Cause
00:03:35 --> 00:03:36 six days of evolution is still in early access,
00:03:37 --> 00:03:41 but you had these like, Co -op missions that
00:03:41 --> 00:03:42 you should play with other people I try to play
00:03:42 --> 00:03:45 by myself and I kept on dying in like the first
00:03:45 --> 00:03:47 two minutes, which is fair It's a very realistic
00:03:47 --> 00:03:49 type of a game. So it's fair, but I just don't
00:03:49 --> 00:03:52 understand why it's controversial only because
00:03:52 --> 00:03:58 it's talking about the Iraqi war but It's a battle
00:03:58 --> 00:04:00 it actually happened. Yes, they may have actually
00:04:00 --> 00:04:03 killed some citizens because you couldn't tell
00:04:03 --> 00:04:06 the difference between Al Qaeda and regular citizens
00:04:06 --> 00:04:07 because they would dress from regular citizens,
00:04:07 --> 00:04:14 but This is just one of those things where. It
00:04:14 --> 00:04:16 actually happened. It should be something that
00:04:16 --> 00:04:20 you can actually play, but the first two single
00:04:20 --> 00:04:22 player campaign missions for six days solution
00:04:22 --> 00:04:25 that will be released. Actually it's already
00:04:25 --> 00:04:27 been released. You also can, you can play solo
00:04:27 --> 00:04:30 with AI controlled fire team. Also, you can try
00:04:30 --> 00:04:32 to start a co -op match with three other players,
00:04:34 --> 00:04:36 but are struggling to populate. So. The lobby
00:04:36 --> 00:04:39 so you can now fill the gap with NPC soldiers.
00:04:39 --> 00:04:41 So if you're having issues with finding people,
00:04:41 --> 00:04:45 you can just play it by yourself. And the game's
00:04:45 --> 00:04:48 visuals have been improved with additional detail
00:04:48 --> 00:04:52 to character models, environments, effects, textures
00:04:52 --> 00:04:55 with new option to enable ray tracing, lighting
00:04:55 --> 00:04:59 and shadow effects. So there you go. That's what
00:04:59 --> 00:05:01 you have it. I'm actually excited for it may
00:05:01 --> 00:05:04 actually reboot it up and see what it's all about.
00:05:04 --> 00:05:10 But there you go. No man's sky. Way back when
00:05:10 --> 00:05:16 in 2021, they actually had for the N7 holiday
00:05:16 --> 00:05:19 for mass effect. They, you could actually get
00:05:19 --> 00:05:27 the normity for playing the community type thing.
00:05:27 --> 00:05:29 Now they brought it back. So you can actually
00:05:29 --> 00:05:32 do that plus with cross play. So if you're actually
00:05:32 --> 00:05:34 playing on the other consoles and PC, you can
00:05:34 --> 00:05:36 cross play between all those two, which is a
00:05:36 --> 00:05:39 good thing. And I like that. So if you missed
00:05:39 --> 00:05:41 it, like I did, you can come back and actually
00:05:41 --> 00:05:44 get the Norma D, which is actually pretty cool.
00:05:44 --> 00:05:47 I actually do that. You can actually come back
00:05:47 --> 00:05:49 and actually get it. And this is a good partnership
00:05:49 --> 00:05:52 with N7 day with the mass effect celebrations
00:05:52 --> 00:05:54 for the next two weeks. So you've got two weeks
00:05:54 --> 00:05:56 to figure out how to actually get it. And if
00:05:56 --> 00:05:59 you don't, there you go. But It's great that
00:05:59 --> 00:06:03 I also support cross saves. It's a limited beta
00:06:03 --> 00:06:06 form to begin with, but at least you can be able
00:06:06 --> 00:06:10 to transfer all your console saves to PC where
00:06:10 --> 00:06:14 they belong. And the blurb is, in addition to
00:06:14 --> 00:06:15 the ability to transfer saves between platforms
00:06:15 --> 00:06:19 via the server, it's especially difficult for
00:06:19 --> 00:06:22 No Man's Sky as the work involved increases with
00:06:22 --> 00:06:24 each platform support and how long. Folks have
00:06:24 --> 00:06:27 already been playing for it. Both of those numbers
00:06:27 --> 00:06:30 are large for our tiniest team. It's very common
00:06:30 --> 00:06:33 for players to rack up thousands of hours and
00:06:33 --> 00:06:36 saves exploring across space, building elaborate
00:06:36 --> 00:06:40 bases and cataloging their discoveries with incredibly
00:06:40 --> 00:06:43 detailed saves. Adding cross saves for us is
00:06:43 --> 00:06:46 a little bit like moving houses. The longer people
00:06:46 --> 00:06:49 have lived there, the more complicated it is
00:06:49 --> 00:06:51 to move them. We also have players who have played
00:06:51 --> 00:06:54 once at launch eight years ago. suddenly loading
00:06:54 --> 00:06:57 up the save on a platform that didn't even exist
00:06:57 --> 00:06:59 back then. For those reasons, we have secretly
00:06:59 --> 00:07:02 been introducing technology for this update for
00:07:02 --> 00:07:06 over six months. We now are ready to start rolling
00:07:06 --> 00:07:08 cross -stakes out first to a small number of
00:07:08 --> 00:07:12 players from today. All No Man's Sky players
00:07:12 --> 00:07:14 can connect their different platform accounts
00:07:14 --> 00:07:18 together through the cloud. No man's sky .com
00:07:18 --> 00:07:21 backslash cloud save a subset of players will
00:07:21 --> 00:07:24 then be admitted to the beta participants in
00:07:24 --> 00:07:27 the beta will be able to upload and download
00:07:27 --> 00:07:32 saves for any current connected platform in game
00:07:32 --> 00:07:34 save screen in the coming weeks. All players
00:07:34 --> 00:07:37 will be invited to do so. You can get, try to
00:07:37 --> 00:07:39 get into it. If you can't just wait for it, it'll
00:07:39 --> 00:07:42 eventually roll out, but it's going to be so
00:07:42 --> 00:07:44 far, but I'm just really excited for the normally
00:07:44 --> 00:07:46 to come back to my sky. So if you actually missed
00:07:46 --> 00:07:48 it, like I did You can have another shot at actually
00:07:48 --> 00:07:56 doing it. All right. So Nvidia Geoforce, their
00:07:56 --> 00:08:04 cloud gaming platform is limiting you. Instead
00:08:04 --> 00:08:07 of it just being a limited, they are limiting
00:08:07 --> 00:08:13 you to a hundred dollar hour cap with The 299
00:08:13 --> 00:08:18 tier being 15 hour cap per month. So an additional
00:08:18 --> 00:08:20 to that, it's going to be interesting to see
00:08:20 --> 00:08:23 how players manage this. If anybody's actually
00:08:23 --> 00:08:27 doing it. I was on the cloud gaming wave or tested
00:08:27 --> 00:08:29 it out for a little bit. It just, it just didn't
00:08:29 --> 00:08:32 really care about it. It's not that big of a
00:08:32 --> 00:08:35 deal to me and it's, you have to have a good
00:08:35 --> 00:08:37 internet connection. And so all those factors
00:08:37 --> 00:08:40 just make it not that great anyways. So It's
00:08:40 --> 00:08:43 cool that you can pay as monthly service to get
00:08:43 --> 00:08:45 games and play these games anywhere you want,
00:08:45 --> 00:08:48 even with not very great hardware. That's cool,
00:08:50 --> 00:08:55 but it just never moved me to actually want to
00:08:55 --> 00:08:58 do it. I tried both of them. I got like six months
00:08:58 --> 00:09:01 for free for Nvidia GeForce and it didn't really
00:09:01 --> 00:09:06 matter to me. So have at it if you want to, but
00:09:06 --> 00:09:10 I just don't really think it matters very much.
00:09:10 --> 00:09:12 And they just don't think the technology is there
00:09:12 --> 00:09:16 quite yet to actually really matter either. So
00:09:16 --> 00:09:20 either way, I just think. And just wait it out,
00:09:21 --> 00:09:24 just wait out for a little while that let each
00:09:24 --> 00:09:27 other go after it and then see which one actually
00:09:27 --> 00:09:31 stands out. I don't think Nvidia's is as popular
00:09:31 --> 00:09:36 as Xbox, but Xbox is a lot more expensive. as
00:09:36 --> 00:09:39 well so like I said you can figure out if you
00:09:39 --> 00:09:44 want to but all these monthly services are just
00:09:44 --> 00:09:46 getting annoying and a lot and I'm just kind
00:09:46 --> 00:09:51 of over it all right so it looks like there's
00:09:51 --> 00:09:56 a leak of Warcraft 2 remastered and it could
00:09:56 --> 00:09:59 be happening in November with the Warcraft 30th
00:09:59 --> 00:10:05 anniversary as well so I'm wondering what it's
00:10:05 --> 00:10:07 going to be like. Is it going to be more like
00:10:07 --> 00:10:09 the Diablo two remastered is going to be more
00:10:09 --> 00:10:12 like the Warcraft three reforged remaster or
00:10:12 --> 00:10:15 remake or whatever they said it was going to
00:10:15 --> 00:10:18 be. I never really knew what it was. If it's
00:10:18 --> 00:10:20 a lot of the Diablo two, I'm all for it because
00:10:20 --> 00:10:24 that was a good remastered. If it's the Warcraft
00:10:24 --> 00:10:29 three reforged. Yeah. Not so good. I mean, they
00:10:29 --> 00:10:31 were, everybody was confused about what it is.
00:10:31 --> 00:10:35 Now, would I like to see Warcraft 4? Of course.
00:10:35 --> 00:10:39 Will it happen? No, probably won't. The reason
00:10:39 --> 00:10:43 why is RTS to a lot of publishers don't sell
00:10:43 --> 00:10:47 well, even though if you did it right, it could
00:10:47 --> 00:10:49 actually be a really good revenue source. It's
00:10:49 --> 00:10:51 just you have to figure out the right way of
00:10:51 --> 00:10:54 doing it. And no one's really figured it out
00:10:54 --> 00:10:57 quite yet. And there have been some tests for
00:10:57 --> 00:11:03 it in StarCraft 2 with Different announcers like
00:11:03 --> 00:11:06 different skins different like ways of customizing
00:11:06 --> 00:11:10 your Layout for a fee. I think those are ways
00:11:10 --> 00:11:14 you could do it. The problem is that In the long
00:11:14 --> 00:11:16 run people just play it to play it and then eventually
00:11:16 --> 00:11:20 they move on to something else. It's not like
00:11:20 --> 00:11:22 First -person shooters where it's easy to figure
00:11:22 --> 00:11:26 out the monetization scheme. So I do appreciate
00:11:26 --> 00:11:31 the remastered Getting out for Warcraft 2 because
00:11:31 --> 00:11:33 I feel like it does need I feel like what really
00:11:33 --> 00:11:35 needs is just a remake of Warcraft the original
00:11:35 --> 00:11:40 I Know it wasn't as popular as the this number
00:11:40 --> 00:11:43 two But it still was a groundbreaking thing back
00:11:43 --> 00:11:45 then when I was released now I did say that you
00:11:45 --> 00:11:49 could only actually Click on one unit at a time
00:11:49 --> 00:11:53 to move them Which is very annoying to do because
00:11:53 --> 00:11:55 if you have a bunch of units just clicking them
00:11:55 --> 00:11:59 one at a time Yeah, I just it just doesn't work
00:11:59 --> 00:12:02 you're moving like a few inches each time just
00:12:02 --> 00:12:05 to get the enemy base because You couldn't drag
00:12:05 --> 00:12:08 click and then drag clicking became part of Warcraft
00:12:08 --> 00:12:11 2 which was amazing and there we're at it now
00:12:11 --> 00:12:14 I'm interested to see once it's finally been
00:12:14 --> 00:12:17 announced What new features will be getting?
00:12:17 --> 00:12:20 How the graphics will be on this one if it's
00:12:20 --> 00:12:21 gonna be a huge change or if it's just gonna
00:12:21 --> 00:12:24 be a regular change Like what is it going to
00:12:24 --> 00:12:28 be? about should be the interesting part that
00:12:28 --> 00:12:32 we're going to see. And I do know that StarCraft
00:12:32 --> 00:12:35 remaster and StarCraft 2 are now on Game Pass
00:12:35 --> 00:12:38 because Microsoft does own Blizzard, though that's
00:12:38 --> 00:12:41 not a big surprise. But I want to see what it's
00:12:41 --> 00:12:47 going to be like for Warcraft 2 and what they're
00:12:47 --> 00:12:49 going to offer, because we still don't really
00:12:49 --> 00:12:52 know what it's going to be like. And we still
00:12:52 --> 00:12:57 have Warcraft 2 technically. on battle net. It's
00:12:57 --> 00:12:59 the battle net edition version, but that's not
00:12:59 --> 00:13:03 really a remaster. It's just the old games. You
00:13:03 --> 00:13:05 can just play the old games. That's really about
00:13:05 --> 00:13:09 it. So I'm excited to see it. I'm excited to
00:13:09 --> 00:13:11 see where they're going to go. And they just
00:13:11 --> 00:13:13 remastered the original Diablo and Warcraft while
00:13:13 --> 00:13:17 you're at it as well. It's relatively low on
00:13:17 --> 00:13:20 the budget. You need to actually remaster them
00:13:20 --> 00:13:25 as opposed to making a whole new game. And us
00:13:25 --> 00:13:26 old school gamers really appreciate it because
00:13:26 --> 00:13:29 that's what we grew up on. All right. Moving
00:13:29 --> 00:13:32 on to Warner Brothers games and they're doubling
00:13:32 --> 00:13:35 down on Hogwarts legacy, Mortal Kombat, Game
00:13:35 --> 00:13:40 of Thrones and DC, particularly Batman because
00:13:40 --> 00:13:45 Batman, the Arkham series did very well because
00:13:45 --> 00:13:47 it was revolutionary for the time. It actually
00:13:47 --> 00:13:50 was a good superhero game. It was the only good
00:13:50 --> 00:13:54 superhero game. It was before Spider -Man. And
00:13:54 --> 00:13:56 they prove that you could actually make a really
00:13:56 --> 00:14:00 good superhero game. And then Insomniac did Spider
00:14:00 --> 00:14:03 -Man, and then that proved that you really can
00:14:03 --> 00:14:06 do a great job of it. The one thing that they're
00:14:06 --> 00:14:08 missing, which I don't understand why they keep
00:14:08 --> 00:14:12 on not even mentioning, is the Lord of the Rings
00:14:12 --> 00:14:17 series by Monolith. The Shadows of War. That
00:14:17 --> 00:14:21 one. That was a really good series. People love
00:14:21 --> 00:14:24 that series. I don't understand why it's missing.
00:14:24 --> 00:14:29 Like they keep on like retconning their own games.
00:14:31 --> 00:14:34 Like why? Please work on a new one. I'm waiting
00:14:34 --> 00:14:38 for the third one of the Shadows of War series.
00:14:38 --> 00:14:41 Shadows of Mordor, that series, the Shadows of
00:14:41 --> 00:14:45 series from Over the Rings. It was a great series.
00:14:45 --> 00:14:48 Shadows of Mordor, Shadows of War. We're great.
00:14:48 --> 00:14:51 They were fun. They have the Nemesis system,
00:14:51 --> 00:14:54 which you patented. So why aren't you actually
00:14:54 --> 00:14:57 making a third one of this one? Come on, Monolith
00:14:57 --> 00:15:00 Productions. I know you have it in you. Please
00:15:00 --> 00:15:04 make the third one. We're missing the trilogy
00:15:04 --> 00:15:08 ending. You left us hanging on the second one,
00:15:08 --> 00:15:13 Shadows of War. Like, why are you, why, why is
00:15:13 --> 00:15:16 this just completely just not even discussed?
00:15:17 --> 00:15:19 I get that they're making the Wonder Woman game,
00:15:19 --> 00:15:22 but I want the Lord of the Rings game that you
00:15:22 --> 00:15:27 came out with. It's a good series. I just don't
00:15:27 --> 00:15:28 understand why you still haven't made it yet.
00:15:29 --> 00:15:32 But here we are. It's just... Hogwarts Legacy.
00:15:32 --> 00:15:34 Yeah, it was a fun game. There's going to be
00:15:34 --> 00:15:35 a sequel, and then it has a Wonder Woman game
00:15:35 --> 00:15:39 in the works on Monolith Productions, which...
00:15:39 --> 00:15:42 Fine. You're making the wrong game to me because
00:15:42 --> 00:15:45 you still have the Shadows of War, Shadows of
00:15:45 --> 00:15:50 Mordor. Trilogy that I'm waiting for. Still waiting
00:15:50 --> 00:15:53 for it. It's been a while. Been a long while.
00:15:54 --> 00:15:56 It was a fun. It was a fun series. I still go
00:15:56 --> 00:15:58 back and play it every once in a while because
00:15:58 --> 00:16:01 it was that good. I still understand why you
00:16:01 --> 00:16:05 haven't made a new one. Get on it. Stop. Stop.
00:16:06 --> 00:16:08 Which leads me into Warner Brothers saying that
00:16:09 --> 00:16:11 games lost enormous amount of money this year.
00:16:11 --> 00:16:13 CEO blames lack of consistency. It was a lack
00:16:13 --> 00:16:16 of consistency. It was just, you made really
00:16:16 --> 00:16:19 bad games. The only one that was actually good
00:16:19 --> 00:16:22 was Hogwarts legacy. And even that had controversy
00:16:22 --> 00:16:27 for some odd reason. But justice league was just
00:16:27 --> 00:16:29 terrible writing, not very fun, which is weird
00:16:29 --> 00:16:31 because rock study usually is pretty good at
00:16:31 --> 00:16:34 what they do. It just, that one was terrible.
00:16:34 --> 00:16:37 And then you just made terrible decisions like
00:16:37 --> 00:16:40 Mr. Freeze was Mrs. Freeze and I just didn't
00:16:40 --> 00:16:43 understand that one whatsoever. Like that just
00:16:43 --> 00:16:46 didn't make any sense to me whatsoever. And the
00:16:46 --> 00:16:50 only few that stayed true was Mortal Kombat and
00:16:50 --> 00:16:53 Hogwarts Legacy. And even then I was like, it's
00:16:53 --> 00:16:57 all right game. It's not the best, but it wasn't
00:16:57 --> 00:17:00 terrible. And then you're going back to Batman
00:17:00 --> 00:17:03 because guess what? The Batman games were fun,
00:17:03 --> 00:17:06 but then you crapped on Batman on Justice League.
00:17:07 --> 00:17:10 It just didn't make any sense. And I played justice
00:17:10 --> 00:17:12 league. I finished it and I was like, I'm done
00:17:12 --> 00:17:16 with that one because it just wasn't that good.
00:17:16 --> 00:17:20 There was no reason to go back to it. And all
00:17:20 --> 00:17:22 the new stuff that you said, look, we got new
00:17:22 --> 00:17:24 stuff. I'm like, yeah, I still don't want to
00:17:24 --> 00:17:27 go back to it. Still don't want to go back to
00:17:27 --> 00:17:33 it. Anyways, moving on to private division. So
00:17:33 --> 00:17:36 take two has decided that it is closing role
00:17:36 --> 00:17:39 seven intercept games and selling private division,
00:17:41 --> 00:17:42 which is unfortunate, which is very unfortunate
00:17:42 --> 00:17:48 because private division was part of just making
00:17:48 --> 00:17:52 small indie games really successful. It also
00:17:52 --> 00:17:55 had one of obsidian games that they came out
00:17:55 --> 00:17:58 with outer, outer worlds. That was a fun game.
00:17:58 --> 00:18:02 That was kind of like. The fallout of our space
00:18:02 --> 00:18:04 before starfield came out and it's still better
00:18:04 --> 00:18:11 than starfield in my opinion. We also had the
00:18:11 --> 00:18:14 outer worlds. Like I said, we also had panchayas
00:18:14 --> 00:18:18 ancestor of the humankind, Odyssey. Also after
00:18:18 --> 00:18:21 us evening star pennies, big breakaway. What
00:18:21 --> 00:18:24 is workshop tales of the Shire, lower the rings
00:18:24 --> 00:18:27 game and a bunch of others, but they decided
00:18:27 --> 00:18:29 to like, Nope. We're done. We don't want to do
00:18:29 --> 00:18:32 this anymore. We're, they're just focusing more
00:18:32 --> 00:18:37 on their core catalog. It means bore lands. It
00:18:37 --> 00:18:42 means. GTA really any rock star games. We got
00:18:42 --> 00:18:45 rated redemption filing on PC and we got written
00:18:45 --> 00:18:48 redemption too, which it's there now. It's still
00:18:48 --> 00:18:50 a great game. I'd go back and play it every once
00:18:50 --> 00:18:53 in a while, but that's where we're at on this
00:18:53 --> 00:18:56 one. It's just, it's unfortunate because It did
00:18:56 --> 00:18:58 really good. But the problem was, is that Grand
00:18:58 --> 00:19:00 Theft Auto, the trilogy, the definitive edition
00:19:00 --> 00:19:05 was just not very good. That was a big issue.
00:19:05 --> 00:19:08 Had a lot of issues on that. Sorry for hitting
00:19:08 --> 00:19:14 the microphone. And it had a few good hits, but
00:19:14 --> 00:19:18 that's really about it. And you aren't making
00:19:18 --> 00:19:21 money. You're probably going to be closed. Oh,
00:19:22 --> 00:19:26 it's unfortunate. All right, new banner, Manor
00:19:26 --> 00:19:30 Lords, Manor Lords update targets one of the
00:19:30 --> 00:19:33 strategy games, biggest problems. The vital update
00:19:33 --> 00:19:38 is on the way for Manor Lords. Answer the community
00:19:38 --> 00:19:41 with fix for water and ale production. Apparently
00:19:41 --> 00:19:45 just doesn't create enough. It's a great game.
00:19:45 --> 00:19:48 I played it. It's fun. If you like Lords of the
00:19:48 --> 00:19:52 Realm, I'm dating myself again. Made in the 90s.
00:19:53 --> 00:19:56 It was a very good strategy game. It was made
00:19:56 --> 00:19:57 in the 90s. I don't think you can play it right
00:19:57 --> 00:20:00 now. I don't think it works very well, but it's
00:20:00 --> 00:20:03 very similar with all the good updates for Manors
00:20:03 --> 00:20:06 of the Lords, Manor Lords, Realm of the Lords.
00:20:06 --> 00:20:09 Now I'm mixing up my games. Realm of the Lords
00:20:09 --> 00:20:13 was in the past and this is a spiritual successor
00:20:13 --> 00:20:15 of that Manor Lords. It's actually a really good
00:20:15 --> 00:20:19 game. It's fun and you figure out how to create
00:20:19 --> 00:20:23 this medieval city. with all the nuances and
00:20:23 --> 00:20:25 everything. And they keep on like adding more
00:20:25 --> 00:20:27 things to it. It's a very fun strategy game.
00:20:27 --> 00:20:29 You haven't played it. I mean, you love strategy
00:20:29 --> 00:20:35 games and love what they do. It's really good.
00:20:35 --> 00:20:38 Like hands down, one of the better strategy games
00:20:38 --> 00:20:42 to come out with and one that's been sorely missing
00:20:42 --> 00:20:45 for a while because Lord of the Realms, like
00:20:45 --> 00:20:48 after the nineties, there was no more of it.
00:20:49 --> 00:20:53 find anyone doing it anymore. Stronghold was
00:20:53 --> 00:20:55 like, like the closest we came to it, but it
00:20:55 --> 00:20:58 really wasn't like a, it was more of a defense
00:20:58 --> 00:21:04 game over actual like strategy game. So I'm happy
00:21:04 --> 00:21:06 that they came out with this and someone decided
00:21:06 --> 00:21:10 to take a risk and actually make something pretty
00:21:10 --> 00:21:13 good. And they keep on adding more things they've
00:21:13 --> 00:21:16 added fishing crossbows and a bunch of different
00:21:16 --> 00:21:18 things and they keep on adding more to it. So.
00:21:20 --> 00:21:24 I'm loving where they're going with this. And
00:21:24 --> 00:21:26 newest update to Steam is their built in gaming
00:21:26 --> 00:21:29 recording is now live to everybody. So now you
00:21:29 --> 00:21:32 can actually do it. I've tried it out. There's
00:21:32 --> 00:21:33 still some issues with it. So I can't actually
00:21:33 --> 00:21:36 save it to my external hard drive. It will always
00:21:36 --> 00:21:38 error out every time I do it. But if I save it
00:21:38 --> 00:21:41 to an internal drive on my computer, it works.
00:21:41 --> 00:21:43 It's very weird because ShadowPlay, I can actually
00:21:43 --> 00:21:47 save it to my external hard drive and not worry
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 about it. But this one I cannot. But you can
00:21:50 --> 00:21:53 say you can also do Steam Deck recording as well,
00:21:53 --> 00:21:56 which is great. It also has a way of either doing
00:21:56 --> 00:21:59 it manually or doing it for 120 seconds. Gives
00:21:59 --> 00:22:04 you like the quality you want it for it as well.
00:22:05 --> 00:22:07 It also seems to have some like AI tools to like
00:22:07 --> 00:22:10 show. I'm not really sure what games actually
00:22:10 --> 00:22:13 do this, but it shows like kills, deaths, like
00:22:13 --> 00:22:15 good highlights to it. Like what a lot of AI
00:22:15 --> 00:22:19 would do. I think this is more specifically to
00:22:19 --> 00:22:23 like their own games are doing it. I tried to
00:22:23 --> 00:22:25 do it with the finals. Didn't really work very
00:22:25 --> 00:22:28 well. I tried it with a single player game, Horizon
00:22:28 --> 00:22:30 Zero Dawn. That actually worked pretty well.
00:22:30 --> 00:22:33 It was a little sluggish. It seems like shadow
00:22:33 --> 00:22:37 play does work a lot better still, but I am hopeful
00:22:37 --> 00:22:39 for this. Cause I think this is a really good
00:22:39 --> 00:22:42 thing, which goes to the naysayers are like,
00:22:42 --> 00:22:46 Oh, Valve charges too much for their cut on steam.
00:22:46 --> 00:22:48 I'm like, but they make really great things like
00:22:48 --> 00:22:51 this. So I can't really fault them for the 30
00:22:51 --> 00:22:55 % cut. I get that it sucks for developers, but
00:22:55 --> 00:23:03 I ain't hurting. Not at all. So moving on to
00:23:03 --> 00:23:08 cheapskates and Why right now is the best time
00:23:08 --> 00:23:12 to play free to play games and specifically first
00:23:12 --> 00:23:16 person shooter games. But also third person.
00:23:16 --> 00:23:18 I'll put it in there. You've got deadlock is
00:23:18 --> 00:23:21 still being developed. You've got Marvel rivals,
00:23:21 --> 00:23:25 which is the third person. You've got Overwatch
00:23:25 --> 00:23:26 to put in there because they're trying to bring
00:23:26 --> 00:23:28 back six V six. So I'll put it back in there.
00:23:28 --> 00:23:33 Seven played in months. You've also got Delta
00:23:33 --> 00:23:36 force. Which is a really fun game. It kind of
00:23:36 --> 00:23:39 does better what Battlefield should have done.
00:23:39 --> 00:23:41 It doesn't have the great destruction yet, but
00:23:41 --> 00:23:43 it has that. And also, you also have the finals.
00:23:44 --> 00:23:46 You also have Counter -Strike 2. It's a really
00:23:46 --> 00:23:50 good time right now to play these free to play
00:23:50 --> 00:23:53 games. Because seriously, you have a whole bunch
00:23:53 --> 00:23:55 coming out. Marvel Rivals and Delta Force coming
00:23:55 --> 00:23:58 out in December. And you also have stuff already
00:23:58 --> 00:24:01 out. You have Counter -Strike 2. You have the
00:24:01 --> 00:24:06 finals out. as well. You also have deadlock,
00:24:06 --> 00:24:09 which is eventually will come out. We'll see
00:24:09 --> 00:24:11 when it actually comes out, but you see a lot
00:24:11 --> 00:24:13 of influencers playing it. I watch it occasionally
00:24:13 --> 00:24:15 just to kind of figure out how to play this game
00:24:15 --> 00:24:18 because that's the only way I know how to try
00:24:18 --> 00:24:20 to figure out how to play this game since I can't
00:24:20 --> 00:24:25 do it. But it's a great time to be a cheapskate
00:24:25 --> 00:24:28 because you have all these companies making all
00:24:28 --> 00:24:30 these free to play games that you don't really
00:24:30 --> 00:24:32 have to spend any money if you don't want to.
00:24:33 --> 00:24:35 and you get really good value. The finals is
00:24:35 --> 00:24:37 still a really great game and they've done a
00:24:37 --> 00:24:39 really great job of adding more things. I still
00:24:39 --> 00:24:42 think they need to fix and adjust some things.
00:24:42 --> 00:24:44 I don't know if they'll fix and adjust. I do
00:24:44 --> 00:24:47 think that the lights and I'm, I play the light
00:24:47 --> 00:24:49 class, I guess the best way of saying it quite
00:24:49 --> 00:24:52 a bit. And I think that the stealth should just
00:24:52 --> 00:24:54 be the vanishing grenades and that's it. But
00:24:54 --> 00:24:56 that's my opinion on that one. They've added
00:24:56 --> 00:25:00 a lot of new weapons. It was like, Another shotgun
00:25:00 --> 00:25:03 for the heavies. There's the chain pull thing,
00:25:04 --> 00:25:07 kind of like Roadhog's chain that you can do.
00:25:08 --> 00:25:11 The mediums have a dematerializer for one of
00:25:11 --> 00:25:14 their abilities. They have a bunch of new weapons.
00:25:14 --> 00:25:16 The mediums now have two swords that you can
00:25:16 --> 00:25:20 block bullets with. You also have lights having
00:25:20 --> 00:25:23 a bow and arrow, which is actually pretty difficult,
00:25:23 --> 00:25:24 but pretty satisfying when you actually get a
00:25:24 --> 00:25:28 kill with it. You also have heavies having...
00:25:28 --> 00:25:32 Basically a spear that they can use, shotguns.
00:25:32 --> 00:25:33 There's a bunch of different things. They have
00:25:33 --> 00:25:39 an anti -gravity gadget where you can lift the
00:25:39 --> 00:25:41 blanket off the ground and just the destruction
00:25:41 --> 00:25:43 itself. It just makes it interesting every time
00:25:43 --> 00:25:46 you play because you never really know what's
00:25:46 --> 00:25:50 going to happen. You also have different types
00:25:50 --> 00:25:53 of timed events within the game, like mega damage.
00:25:54 --> 00:25:56 If you stand in one spot for too long, you'll
00:25:56 --> 00:25:58 have orbital lasers hitting you, which I think
00:25:58 --> 00:26:02 is a genius thing to get campers moving. You
00:26:02 --> 00:26:05 just have a lot of good things happening with
00:26:05 --> 00:26:07 this game that a lot of people have overlooked.
00:26:07 --> 00:26:09 You do have X -Defiant, which I forgot about,
00:26:09 --> 00:26:11 but X -Defiant, but unfortunately that's only
00:26:11 --> 00:26:15 on Ubisoft. I do think, and I still think you
00:26:15 --> 00:26:17 need to bring it over to Steam and you'll see
00:26:17 --> 00:26:21 the numbers go up. because there's this hesitation
00:26:21 --> 00:26:25 to do it, but I'm like, you should just do it
00:26:25 --> 00:26:27 because it's free to play anyways. And you still
00:26:27 --> 00:26:30 get a cut of the money. It may not be as the
00:26:30 --> 00:26:35 full cut, but it's some cut and Ubisoft right
00:26:35 --> 00:26:39 now needs every goodwill it needs because it
00:26:39 --> 00:26:42 keeps on just crapping on itself all the time.
00:26:44 --> 00:26:48 But If you're just looking for new games to play
00:26:48 --> 00:26:51 and have fun, you don't want to spend 60, 70,
00:26:52 --> 00:26:55 80, 90, a hundred dollars to play the game. This
00:26:55 --> 00:26:59 is a really good time to go back and play those
00:26:59 --> 00:27:02 games because once December hits, I don't know
00:27:02 --> 00:27:04 when deadlocks coming out, but once December
00:27:04 --> 00:27:07 hits, you've got the Marvel rivals, which is
00:27:07 --> 00:27:09 basically competitive to Overwatch. You've got
00:27:09 --> 00:27:11 Delta Force, which is a competitor to battlefield.
00:27:12 --> 00:27:14 and escape from Tarkov because it's got two games
00:27:14 --> 00:27:17 in one basically and a single player one, which
00:27:17 --> 00:27:19 may cost money. Not really sure about that. But
00:27:19 --> 00:27:22 then you have the battlefield style of conquest
00:27:22 --> 00:27:26 or attack and defend, which is break point, I
00:27:26 --> 00:27:30 think. But you have those and you have specialists,
00:27:30 --> 00:27:34 which I don't really care about. And then you
00:27:34 --> 00:27:38 have the finals, which is very traditional, almost
00:27:38 --> 00:27:42 like Call of Duty. In some ways, Call of Duty
00:27:42 --> 00:27:47 matched with Overwatch, matched with Battlefield's
00:27:47 --> 00:27:50 destruction and better destruction than Battlefield
00:27:50 --> 00:27:54 has done in a while. You have all that with a
00:27:54 --> 00:27:59 kind of game show flair to it. And so you have
00:27:59 --> 00:28:02 like your itches resolved within these free to
00:28:02 --> 00:28:07 play market, I would say. Doing okay. Not all
00:28:07 --> 00:28:08 the games are doing really well. You can't all
00:28:08 --> 00:28:11 be the Fortnites of the gaming industry, which
00:28:11 --> 00:28:13 I don't play at all, but apparently you have
00:28:13 --> 00:28:15 that. I also forgot to mention Apex legend, which
00:28:15 --> 00:28:18 is coming back to the original. You have Fortnite,
00:28:18 --> 00:28:19 which is coming back to the original. So you
00:28:19 --> 00:28:23 have a whole bunch, even more now. A free to
00:28:23 --> 00:28:26 play options to play without really breaking
00:28:26 --> 00:28:28 the bank. I forgot to mention first descendants
00:28:28 --> 00:28:32 as well. If you like that type of a thing. Just
00:28:32 --> 00:28:35 a myriad of different things to play with very
00:28:35 --> 00:28:39 little to no money to actually play these games.
00:28:40 --> 00:28:42 And if you want to, and if you want to support
00:28:42 --> 00:28:44 them, you can, if you want to, but if you don't,
00:28:44 --> 00:28:45 you just keep on playing the game to help their
00:28:45 --> 00:28:48 numbers go up. But I do think a lot of these
00:28:48 --> 00:28:50 free to play games are being slept on because
00:28:50 --> 00:28:53 of the call of duties, the battlefields and everything
00:28:53 --> 00:28:56 else that comes out. And don't get me wrong.
00:28:56 --> 00:28:59 I love like also premium games like Stalker 2.
00:28:59 --> 00:29:01 I'm very excited about it's coming out this month
00:29:01 --> 00:29:03 as well. I'm very excited about that one. So
00:29:03 --> 00:29:07 I would say it should be interesting to see what
00:29:07 --> 00:29:14 that's going to be about. But we're in a really
00:29:14 --> 00:29:16 great time where everything is going well. And
00:29:16 --> 00:29:22 if Overwatch 2 comes out with 6v6 again, that's
00:29:22 --> 00:29:24 another one because 5v5 is not working, hasn't
00:29:24 --> 00:29:27 worked since launched. And I want it 6v6 back
00:29:27 --> 00:29:30 because I miss playing tank with another tank.
00:29:31 --> 00:29:33 Cause I actually installed it months ago cause
00:29:33 --> 00:29:36 I was tired of it and I was tired of playing
00:29:36 --> 00:29:38 tank or anybody other characters that decided
00:29:38 --> 00:29:42 to nerf or rework my poor Sombra, rip Sombra.
00:29:43 --> 00:29:46 But anyways, it's always good to see that you
00:29:46 --> 00:29:48 have options now to which games you want to play.
00:29:48 --> 00:29:51 And you have a ton of options and they always
00:29:51 --> 00:29:53 want your business either playing the game or
00:29:53 --> 00:29:57 spending things because they need that. So to
00:29:57 --> 00:29:59 my cheapskates out there, to the people that
00:29:59 --> 00:30:03 are looking to save money, to my people that
00:30:03 --> 00:30:05 have been hit economically through inflation,
00:30:06 --> 00:30:08 it's a great time to be playing free to play
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00:30:30 --> 00:30:32 guys, stay safe and get to play your games. Even
00:30:32 --> 00:30:34 if it's free to play, go play it. Your heart's
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