Brett Deister dives into the latest gaming news, starting with the bizarre feud between Elon Musk and Asmongold over gaming hours, highlighting how trivial such disputes seem in the grand scheme of gaming. As the conversation unfolds, he praises Nvidia and AMD for their impressive GPU shipments this year, signaling a healthy market for gamers. The episode also explores the Steam Deck's growing compatibility and its significant impact on the PC gaming landscape. Brett discusses AMD's sharp criticisms of Intel's Arrow Lake and provides updates on the anticipated features of the game 'Manor Lords.' Wrapping up, he offers a candid critique of Western game developers, emphasizing the need for more engaging and escapist gaming experiences that resonate with players.
Takeaways:
- Brett discusses the absurd feud between Elon Musk and Asma Gold over gaming hours.
- Nvidia and AMD have had a remarkable year with GPU shipments surpassing 251 million units.
- The Steam Deck's compatibility with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth marks a significant milestone for PC gaming.
- Brett critiques Western game developers for failing to create games that resonate with players.
- AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 970 XT is expected to compete closely with Nvidia's 5070 card.
- Brett emphasizes the importance of providing escapism in games rather than political commentary.
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Elon Musk
- Asmogold
- Nvidia
- AMD
- Intel
- TSMC
- Steam
- [00:00:19] - Gaming Drama Alert
- [00:02:29] - Elon Musk's Game Account Drama
- [00:03:46] - Changing the Game
- [00:07:11] - AI's Role in Gaming
- [00:07:48] - Discover Fresh Medieval Gaming Fun
- [00:09:09] - Next-Gen GPU Showdown
- [00:10:43] - Nvidia's Dominance in AI Market
- [00:12:18] - AMD vs. Intel’s New Chip Drama
- [00:14:56] - What Happened to Bullfrog?
- [00:20:24] - Why Games Lose Popularity
00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 And welcome to a new episode of the Digital Coffee
00:00:03 --> 00:00:06 Gaming Brew, and I'm your host, Brett Deister.
00:00:06 --> 00:00:09 If you could please just subscribe to this podcast
00:00:09 --> 00:00:10 on all your favorite podcasting apps, it really
00:00:10 --> 00:00:13 does help. But anyways, this week I'm going to
00:00:13 --> 00:00:16 be talking about a little bit about the ridiculous
00:00:16 --> 00:00:19 view between Elon Musk and Asmogold because apparently
00:00:19 --> 00:00:23 we need to fight about how many hours you play
00:00:23 --> 00:00:26 a game because that's the most important thing
00:00:26 --> 00:00:31 in 2025. Also, NVIDIA and AMD have an excellent
00:00:31 --> 00:00:35 year as GPU shipments have gone up. Manor Lord's
00:00:35 --> 00:00:42 new update AMD's Radeon RX 970 XT in the remember
00:00:42 --> 00:00:44 prices and everything since it's not coming out
00:00:44 --> 00:00:52 until maybe next week the 23rd I think is supposedly
00:00:52 --> 00:00:54 supposed to be that but we're not really even
00:00:54 --> 00:00:58 quite sure about that one but we do know that
00:00:58 --> 00:01:03 Nvidia's 55090 and 5080 is coming out the 30th
00:01:03 --> 00:01:08 of this month. And also how AMD sees Intel's
00:01:08 --> 00:01:11 Aero Lake and why to them it's a horrible product
00:01:11 --> 00:01:17 compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X 3D shortages because
00:01:17 --> 00:01:20 they blame them in a way. And then also what
00:01:20 --> 00:01:22 I'm going to say is the more hopeful thing and
00:01:22 --> 00:01:25 my main thing is about how Game developers can
00:01:25 --> 00:01:28 start 2025 off correctly with how to make their
00:01:28 --> 00:01:32 games to their customer. I know it's a weird
00:01:32 --> 00:01:37 thing to do. Anyways, let's get on with the show.
00:01:50 --> 00:01:56 That's good. Alright, so the most ridiculous
00:01:56 --> 00:02:01 thing in 2025 so far is Elon Musk and Asmogold
00:02:01 --> 00:02:04 going after each other, Asmogold claiming that
00:02:04 --> 00:02:09 Elon didn't really play Path of Exile 2 and has
00:02:09 --> 00:02:11 just bought the account and is just playing the
00:02:11 --> 00:02:16 high level gameplay and Elon saying I'm a top
00:02:16 --> 00:02:20 Diablo 4 player and then releasing the DMs and
00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 then just calling him names. It's all pretty
00:02:23 --> 00:02:26 stupid. I'm just going to say it bluntly. It's
00:02:26 --> 00:02:28 all pretty stupid. Both are wrong in their own
00:02:28 --> 00:02:31 separate ways. Asmogold, who the hell cares if
00:02:31 --> 00:02:33 he bought his account or not? Dude, he makes
00:02:33 --> 00:02:37 fricking rockets and electric cars that people
00:02:37 --> 00:02:40 drive and he's going to be doing dough. I don't
00:02:40 --> 00:02:42 really care if he bought his game or not. Who
00:02:42 --> 00:02:45 the hell cares if he bought it or not? Is it
00:02:45 --> 00:02:47 really that biggest, big controversy that he
00:02:47 --> 00:02:52 does or doesn't? And Elon, seriously, who cares
00:02:52 --> 00:02:54 if you bought your account or not? You're making
00:02:54 --> 00:02:59 rockets and electric cars and you're running
00:02:59 --> 00:03:04 X. So who cares? Is this really the hill you
00:03:04 --> 00:03:08 want to die on? As my goal, is this really the
00:03:08 --> 00:03:12 hill you want to die on out of everything? It's
00:03:12 --> 00:03:17 stupid. Who cares? Y 'all can just go, okay,
00:03:17 --> 00:03:20 he bought it. Who cares? I'll move on to. The
00:03:20 --> 00:03:23 bigger things about gaming, like why Western
00:03:23 --> 00:03:26 developers can't actually make games for gamers.
00:03:26 --> 00:03:29 That's our biggest thing, not this. This is dumb.
00:03:32 --> 00:03:36 Anyways, moving on to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
00:03:36 --> 00:03:39 is verified or officially verified on the Steam
00:03:39 --> 00:03:41 Deck. So you can actually play the game on the
00:03:41 --> 00:03:43 Steam Deck, which is a really good, great thing
00:03:43 --> 00:03:48 because let's be honest. Steam Deck has changed
00:03:48 --> 00:03:51 the PC gaming world. Before that, no one was
00:03:51 --> 00:03:54 really trying to make handheld PC devices, PC
00:03:54 --> 00:03:56 gaming devices, and now everybody's trying to
00:03:56 --> 00:04:00 make it after them. And it's great that Steam
00:04:00 --> 00:04:03 is actually looking ahead towards the future.
00:04:05 --> 00:04:09 And I can't fault them for doing great things,
00:04:09 --> 00:04:12 especially with now releasing their Steam OS
00:04:12 --> 00:04:16 and basically taking a bite out of Windows because
00:04:16 --> 00:04:18 Windows has been top dog in the gaming scene
00:04:18 --> 00:04:22 for forever. Mac lost out because they were just
00:04:22 --> 00:04:24 weren't really interested in an open ecosystem.
00:04:25 --> 00:04:29 So I'm all for this, makes Linux look a lot better.
00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 And maybe people write more programs, softwares
00:04:32 --> 00:04:35 and everything for Linux. So I'm all for it.
00:04:36 --> 00:04:40 I think this is a great thing. And so more power
00:04:40 --> 00:04:44 to you. All right moving on to Nvidia and AMD
00:04:44 --> 00:04:46 and it looks like it's been an excellent year
00:04:46 --> 00:04:51 for them because GPU shipments has hit over 251
00:04:51 --> 00:04:58 million units that's quite a lot of units being
00:04:58 --> 00:05:03 sold and it's no wonder because Nvidia makes
00:05:03 --> 00:05:05 some of the best GPUs in the market. I think
00:05:05 --> 00:05:08 Intel is actually doing a pretty good job of
00:05:08 --> 00:05:11 trying to match performance for price. I think
00:05:11 --> 00:05:14 AMD is trying to do that now. We'll see with
00:05:14 --> 00:05:17 the 9070 XT or whatever else they're going to
00:05:17 --> 00:05:21 come out with. But with that and with the CPUs
00:05:21 --> 00:05:26 from AMD with the APU, it's just looking like
00:05:26 --> 00:05:29 a bright future for that. I'm hoping to see the
00:05:29 --> 00:05:31 card sizes go down when they're going to be heavily
00:05:31 --> 00:05:37 reliant more. AI type uses with DLSS4 and everything,
00:05:37 --> 00:05:39 but just the shipments and everything just looks
00:05:39 --> 00:05:45 great. And since TSMC has now a foundry in Arizona,
00:05:45 --> 00:05:47 it looks like it's working. We should be seeing
00:05:47 --> 00:05:50 a lot better shipments and a lot faster shipments
00:05:50 --> 00:05:54 into the U .S. instead of Taiwan, since Taiwan
00:05:54 --> 00:05:57 and China aren't really besties right now. But
00:05:57 --> 00:06:00 it looks like we're going to be... Probably seeing
00:06:00 --> 00:06:03 a really healthy market in the GPUs, as long
00:06:03 --> 00:06:06 as Nvidia and AMD and Intel can make the price
00:06:06 --> 00:06:09 point good enough for gamers to be like, all
00:06:09 --> 00:06:14 right, I'll upgrade. Nvidia did a great job of
00:06:14 --> 00:06:17 not making it too expensive. Actually the 5080
00:06:17 --> 00:06:21 is cheaper than the 4080, but we'll see if it's
00:06:21 --> 00:06:23 actually a really good boost. I've been seeing
00:06:23 --> 00:06:26 some murmurs that it's not as good of a boost
00:06:26 --> 00:06:30 from the 3 series of the 4 series as
00:06:30 --> 00:06:36 the 4 series of the 5 series. But we'll
00:06:36 --> 00:06:40 see, we'll see what actual official ones are,
00:06:40 --> 00:06:45 but I'm not, I'm not hopeful that it's going
00:06:45 --> 00:06:48 to be as great of a leap from the 3 to the
00:06:48 --> 00:06:52 4 series as it was now. But I do think that
00:06:52 --> 00:06:59 with DLSS4 and with the more guessing or AI computing
00:06:59 --> 00:07:03 more frames. You're not going to have to have
00:07:03 --> 00:07:05 a beefy card to play really great games at a
00:07:05 --> 00:07:08 really good, great price point. So that's what
00:07:08 --> 00:07:10 we're going to be looking for the future now
00:07:10 --> 00:07:13 is that AI does have its uses and this is one
00:07:13 --> 00:07:18 of them that could actually help. All right,
00:07:18 --> 00:07:20 the fourth major update of Manor Lords. If you
00:07:20 --> 00:07:23 don't know, it's like the spiritual... successor
00:07:23 --> 00:07:25 of Lord of the realms, which is way back in the
00:07:25 --> 00:07:28 nineties. I played the second one way, way long
00:07:28 --> 00:07:31 ago, forgot about it now. Now they're adding
00:07:31 --> 00:07:34 like a new map. They're adding roads and well,
00:07:34 --> 00:07:36 bridges. So you build a road. You can build a
00:07:36 --> 00:07:38 bridge because there is a new map that basically
00:07:38 --> 00:07:42 has waterways. And so you kind of have to have.
00:07:42 --> 00:07:45 Bridges to get across the map, but you have that.
00:07:45 --> 00:07:48 You also have experimental changes as well. This
00:07:48 --> 00:07:50 is just a fun game. If you kind of like the medieval.
00:07:51 --> 00:07:54 side of it but you want a different type of strategy
00:07:54 --> 00:07:57 game than age of the empires or civilization
00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 because it's still a real -time strategy game
00:08:00 --> 00:08:03 but it's different from age of the empires like
00:08:03 --> 00:08:08 the ingenuity of it as it being a little bit
00:08:08 --> 00:08:12 more hardcore so if you haven't played you can
00:08:12 --> 00:08:16 build houses or burgesses and then you can actually
00:08:16 --> 00:08:22 grow things if you need to through either chickens
00:08:22 --> 00:08:25 or vegetables or something like that. So it is
00:08:25 --> 00:08:30 an interesting way of doing things. I'm still
00:08:30 --> 00:08:33 trying to figure it out to really optimize play
00:08:33 --> 00:08:36 style, but it's interesting to see like just
00:08:36 --> 00:08:38 to play a little bit and just have fun and not
00:08:38 --> 00:08:40 actually have to worry if I'm actually good at
00:08:40 --> 00:08:45 this game or not. All right, moving on to AMD.
00:08:46 --> 00:08:51 Our Radeon RX 970 XT looks like it'll be around
00:08:51 --> 00:08:56 the same price as the 5070. So like 500 to 550
00:08:56 --> 00:09:00 area. Not really quite sure. It's supposed to
00:09:00 --> 00:09:05 be better than the 4080 Super, but that doesn't
00:09:05 --> 00:09:07 give me a lot of hope because I'm like, I don't
00:09:07 --> 00:09:10 care about this generation of GPUs. I want to
00:09:10 --> 00:09:13 know how well you'll do with the one coming up.
00:09:13 --> 00:09:17 because that is the deal breaker of which one
00:09:17 --> 00:09:19 am I going to get? Am I going to get AMD or am
00:09:19 --> 00:09:23 I going to get Nvidia? And if you cannot keep
00:09:23 --> 00:09:27 pace with even the 5070 right now, that is a
00:09:27 --> 00:09:31 problem. I know AMD basically gave up on the
00:09:31 --> 00:09:36 high end market is basically leaving it to Nvidia
00:09:36 --> 00:09:40 to dominate and continue to dominate until somebody
00:09:40 --> 00:09:44 else figures out how to actually Don't allow
00:09:44 --> 00:09:49 AMD Nvidia to dominate, but I'm hoping it will
00:09:49 --> 00:09:55 keep pace with the 5070 and maybe trade blows
00:09:55 --> 00:09:58 with the 5080. If they can do that, then they
00:09:58 --> 00:10:03 have a, and it's, it's 500 below the 5080. They
00:10:03 --> 00:10:06 may have a really great product on it. If they
00:10:06 --> 00:10:09 can't and is struggling to keep pace with the
00:10:09 --> 00:10:14 5070, then they have an issue. And they'll probably
00:10:14 --> 00:10:17 have to figure it out. But like I said, we will
00:10:17 --> 00:10:20 see once they officially announced everything,
00:10:22 --> 00:10:25 which. Rumor has it supposed to be the 22nd of
00:10:25 --> 00:10:27 this month and then the 23rd supposed to come
00:10:27 --> 00:10:29 out. Not really quite sure if that's actually
00:10:29 --> 00:10:32 the real timetable because they didn't announce
00:10:32 --> 00:10:34 anything at CES because they wanted to quote
00:10:34 --> 00:10:37 unquote have it spot on the limelight. But I
00:10:37 --> 00:10:39 think they're just trying to figure out what
00:10:39 --> 00:10:42 Nvidia was going to be doing. And they got their
00:10:42 --> 00:10:45 answer because NVIDIA doesn't care what AMD really
00:10:45 --> 00:10:47 does. To be honest with you, they're on their
00:10:47 --> 00:10:52 own little trajectory or orbit by themselves.
00:10:52 --> 00:10:54 It doesn't really matter what the competitors
00:10:54 --> 00:10:57 do because they are dominating basically the
00:10:57 --> 00:10:59 GPU market and the AI market for the most part.
00:11:00 --> 00:11:03 But it should be interesting to see when we actually
00:11:03 --> 00:11:08 get official word or official announcement of
00:11:08 --> 00:11:10 these graphics cards, if they will be good or
00:11:10 --> 00:11:15 not. Now moving on to AMD accusing Intel's arrow
00:11:15 --> 00:11:19 lake of being a horrible product and Why you
00:11:19 --> 00:11:23 can't really buy the 9800 x3d quite yet, but
00:11:23 --> 00:11:26 eventually it'll smooth itself out especially
00:11:26 --> 00:11:31 with the new x3d chips coming out the 9 950 950
00:11:31 --> 00:11:35 and the 9900 x3d coming out so it should be interesting
00:11:35 --> 00:11:39 to see it because once when the 9800 x3d was
00:11:39 --> 00:11:43 announced It was a really great product. Like
00:11:43 --> 00:11:46 people, it was, it did a really good job of being
00:11:46 --> 00:11:49 really good at gaming and not bad at content
00:11:49 --> 00:11:51 creation, not so much, but it did a really great
00:11:51 --> 00:11:55 job of that. And so became a really great product
00:11:55 --> 00:11:57 for gamers because they saw the efficiency of
00:11:57 --> 00:12:01 it in gaming. And it's basically a solely really
00:12:01 --> 00:12:06 good gaming CPU for gamers. It still does a really
00:12:06 --> 00:12:08 good job with content creation, but mostly gaming.
00:12:09 --> 00:12:12 You did a really great job with that. So I'm
00:12:12 --> 00:12:15 not surprised that this is sold out really quickly,
00:12:15 --> 00:12:20 but apparently AMD is not happy because the product
00:12:20 --> 00:12:23 has sold out so quickly because of AMD's Aero
00:12:23 --> 00:12:29 Lake and just it's okay. CPU of it. It's just
00:12:29 --> 00:12:33 okay. It's not great. It's not horrible as they
00:12:33 --> 00:12:35 claim. It's just Okay, does content creation
00:12:35 --> 00:12:39 better than the AMD one, but gaming it's lacking
00:12:39 --> 00:12:43 in the gaming department. So we'll see what Intel
00:12:43 --> 00:12:45 does. Cause man, they've been not doing well
00:12:45 --> 00:12:50 for the past almost decade. I would say once
00:12:50 --> 00:12:55 Ryzen came out, it, it hurt them quite a bit
00:12:55 --> 00:12:58 before that they were dominating. They didn't
00:12:58 --> 00:13:02 care what AMD was doing. Bulldozer was terrible.
00:13:02 --> 00:13:06 It was interesting. CPU that just did not do
00:13:06 --> 00:13:10 well. It had an ARM architecture with it, and
00:13:10 --> 00:13:13 so it was trying to be like, it was trying to
00:13:13 --> 00:13:15 do that before Apple and all them actually figured
00:13:15 --> 00:13:18 out how to do it well. Didn't really pan out
00:13:18 --> 00:13:24 very well, but you live and learn, but we'll
00:13:24 --> 00:13:27 see what happens. All right, moving on to my
00:13:27 --> 00:13:33 main thing I want to talk about is how gaming
00:13:33 --> 00:13:35 developers, especially the Western ones, can
00:13:35 --> 00:13:37 set up for success for this year. Because the
00:13:37 --> 00:13:39 problem is that they've been taking a beating
00:13:39 --> 00:13:41 because they just haven't been making great games.
00:13:42 --> 00:13:45 Now there have been a few kind of shining ones.
00:13:45 --> 00:13:51 Stalker 2 was pretty good. King of Tunk Deliverance
00:13:51 --> 00:13:53 2, when it comes out in February, in the beginning
00:13:53 --> 00:13:56 of February, will be good. We got Final Fantasy
00:13:56 --> 00:14:01 Rebirth, that's supposed to be really good. Maybe
00:14:01 --> 00:14:04 civilization seven, really not quite sure about
00:14:04 --> 00:14:08 that one quite yet. We have two points. Which
00:14:08 --> 00:14:11 one is it museum? That's what it was two points
00:14:11 --> 00:14:13 museum, which I find to be like an enduring thing.
00:14:13 --> 00:14:16 If you don't know two points is hospital was
00:14:16 --> 00:14:18 the first one that came out and it was the spiritual
00:14:18 --> 00:14:21 successor of bullfrogs theme hospital, which
00:14:21 --> 00:14:27 was a bombastic. It wasn't a city management.
00:14:27 --> 00:14:28 It was kind of like a building management type
00:14:28 --> 00:14:33 of a game where you create rooms for specific
00:14:33 --> 00:14:37 weird and crazy like symptoms or diseases or
00:14:37 --> 00:14:39 whatever. And then you cure them and then you
00:14:39 --> 00:14:41 do that. And it was a fun game when theme hospital
00:14:41 --> 00:14:43 came out and then they just never did a second
00:14:43 --> 00:14:46 one, which was weird because they, I think the
00:14:46 --> 00:14:50 next one was actually dungeon keeper, which was
00:14:50 --> 00:14:54 kind of like you play the bad person. And they
00:14:54 --> 00:14:56 made two of those and then Bullfrog was ceased
00:14:56 --> 00:14:59 to exist almost because EA doesn't know how to
00:14:59 --> 00:15:05 manage these studios properly. I'm looking at
00:15:05 --> 00:15:10 you Dice and any of the storied ones that did
00:15:10 --> 00:15:12 a really great job before EA bought them. And
00:15:12 --> 00:15:14 then it's kind of, yeah, he probably shouldn't
00:15:14 --> 00:15:18 be bought out by EA, you know, Bioware. Anyways,
00:15:19 --> 00:15:23 what I'm hoping is that you understand what the
00:15:23 --> 00:15:26 gamer once. We don't want to be lectured to.
00:15:27 --> 00:15:30 We don't. Look at Helldivers 2, look at Kingdom
00:15:30 --> 00:15:33 Come Deliverance 2, it looks like it's getting
00:15:33 --> 00:15:36 a really great buzz. These are the people that
00:15:36 --> 00:15:39 said, look it, gamers don't want to be lectured
00:15:39 --> 00:15:44 about modern politicalness. We play games to
00:15:44 --> 00:15:48 escape, not to be bashed over the head with your
00:15:48 --> 00:15:54 weird political ideologies. Most gamers are male.
00:15:55 --> 00:15:57 So hating on males does not help your bottom
00:15:57 --> 00:16:02 line at all. And quite a few of them are white
00:16:02 --> 00:16:05 males, including myself. So that doesn't help.
00:16:06 --> 00:16:12 So you might want to stop doing that. Maybe just
00:16:12 --> 00:16:15 maybe stop with the trans stuff because no one
00:16:15 --> 00:16:18 likes it. Gay thing. Fine. I don't really care.
00:16:20 --> 00:16:24 No more pronouns. No more pride flags. No one
00:16:24 --> 00:16:29 cares about those Make a game that lets me escape
00:16:29 --> 00:16:32 whatever it is. I'm trying to escape from if
00:16:32 --> 00:16:35 it's a fantasy game Don't have top surgery scars
00:16:35 --> 00:16:39 or bash me over the head about how to properly
00:16:39 --> 00:16:43 pronoun somebody because I don't care And plus
00:16:43 --> 00:16:45 it's a fantasy game and if you're a guy you want
00:16:45 --> 00:16:46 to be you really can do it anyway So it doesn't
00:16:46 --> 00:16:49 really matter or vice versa doesn't really matter
00:16:49 --> 00:16:55 but Make a game that's fun. Look at Marvel Rivals
00:16:55 --> 00:16:58 versus Overwatch 2. Overwatch 2, we don't need
00:16:58 --> 00:17:01 6v6, it doesn't work. We're gonna go with 5v5
00:17:01 --> 00:17:03 because it's a lot better and blah, blah, blah,
00:17:03 --> 00:17:06 blah, blah. And it's not been great. They said
00:17:06 --> 00:17:12 they're gonna have PVE. Didn't happen. They had
00:17:12 --> 00:17:16 a lot of missing features from Overwatch to Overwatch
00:17:16 --> 00:17:20 2, which was weird. And then Marvel Rivals comes
00:17:20 --> 00:17:23 out and completely trounces Overwatch 2 in player
00:17:23 --> 00:17:28 count, and still is trouncing them. Look at Delta
00:17:28 --> 00:17:32 Force. Delta Force is pretty close to a carbon
00:17:32 --> 00:17:37 copy of Battlefield 2042, but way better optimized.
00:17:39 --> 00:17:43 There's still a few issues with it, but all in
00:17:43 --> 00:17:45 all, it's actually a really solid game, plus
00:17:45 --> 00:17:47 with a really great extraction shooter. Which
00:17:47 --> 00:17:50 Battlefield 2042 couldn't even do. It had its
00:17:50 --> 00:17:58 own and it was terrible. Does a better job. Hands
00:17:58 --> 00:18:02 down. And DICE basically made the Battlefield
00:18:02 --> 00:18:08 style like genre what it is today. And the quality
00:18:08 --> 00:18:10 has gone down. People keep on saying, I wished
00:18:10 --> 00:18:13 for the old Battlefield 4 era. And I'm like,
00:18:13 --> 00:18:15 oh, so you wish for the game to be broken for
00:18:15 --> 00:18:18 a year? and then eventually fixed. They're taking
00:18:18 --> 00:18:20 better steps now because it got drowned so bad
00:18:20 --> 00:18:24 in 2042 that they had to take a step back when
00:18:24 --> 00:18:27 you look at it. We need to have play tests. We
00:18:27 --> 00:18:29 need to have a longer development cycle. We need
00:18:29 --> 00:18:33 to make sure this game runs as well as we can
00:18:33 --> 00:18:37 make it run with the time we have and within
00:18:37 --> 00:18:41 reason. No more operators. Everybody hates operators.
00:18:42 --> 00:18:45 Like just give us normal soldiers. and just have
00:18:45 --> 00:18:48 them as attack like gadgets. That's what I wish
00:18:48 --> 00:18:50 Delta Force did. I don't care about the operators.
00:18:50 --> 00:18:53 I could care less. It's weird to have operators
00:18:53 --> 00:18:58 like just normal faceless soldiers like battlefield
00:18:58 --> 00:19:03 used to do. And let me just pick the gadgets
00:19:03 --> 00:19:09 that I want to pick and there you go. But. Hero
00:19:09 --> 00:19:12 shooters man, they're great. I love them. But
00:19:12 --> 00:19:14 sometimes they bleed over into other genres and
00:19:14 --> 00:19:18 it's it doesn't work Stop it. I know apex legends
00:19:18 --> 00:19:22 was popular and it popularized like the loose
00:19:22 --> 00:19:26 shooter hero shooter type dynamic and it did
00:19:26 --> 00:19:27 a pretty good job in the beginning and now it's
00:19:27 --> 00:19:34 lost its way, but I Tell you like it's not hard
00:19:34 --> 00:19:37 Western gaming developers to figure out the modern
00:19:37 --> 00:19:40 gamer. It's like the previous Gamer or the older
00:19:40 --> 00:19:44 ones. It's not hard. Look at your older games.
00:19:44 --> 00:19:49 What made them fun? player choice good design
00:19:49 --> 00:19:55 good sound a way of Playing a game without you
00:19:55 --> 00:19:59 monitoring what I'm saying because that's stupid
00:19:59 --> 00:20:02 Found me to say retard and faggot and all that
00:20:02 --> 00:20:07 other stuff Stop nannying me. I'm an adult. I'm
00:20:07 --> 00:20:10 not something and add block features and stuff.
00:20:12 --> 00:20:16 That's all you need to do. Like the reason why
00:20:16 --> 00:20:19 the golden era of gaming was when you didn't
00:20:19 --> 00:20:21 care about policing people on what they said,
00:20:21 --> 00:20:24 and that's why it got so popular. Businesses
00:20:24 --> 00:20:28 forget on why they got popular and they basically
00:20:28 --> 00:20:33 lose it all because they can't understand why
00:20:33 --> 00:20:36 no one wants to play their game. Stop insulting
00:20:36 --> 00:20:39 your player. your customer base, understand your
00:20:39 --> 00:20:46 customer base, base your game around good design
00:20:46 --> 00:20:49 and make a story around that. Give player choice.
00:20:49 --> 00:20:51 The reason why boulders gate three was so popular
00:20:51 --> 00:20:54 is because yes, it had gay things and trans thing,
00:20:54 --> 00:20:57 but you didn't have to be a part of it. If you
00:20:57 --> 00:21:01 didn't want to, you could completely ignore it.
00:21:02 --> 00:21:04 If you're a simulation game, make a simulation
00:21:04 --> 00:21:07 game and make it about that. Kingdom Deliverance
00:21:07 --> 00:21:10 and it's one second one that's coming out is
00:21:10 --> 00:21:14 a good game because it stuck to what it was and
00:21:14 --> 00:21:17 didn't try to cram in modern stuff. It was a
00:21:17 --> 00:21:24 game about dark medieval times in Europe. And
00:21:24 --> 00:21:26 even though the press was trying to lambast it
00:21:26 --> 00:21:28 like, why isn't there more diversity in it? The
00:21:28 --> 00:21:31 developers like, because it's Europe in the medieval
00:21:31 --> 00:21:33 times, there wouldn't be that many black people
00:21:33 --> 00:21:40 there. or of any Travel wasn't as convenient
00:21:40 --> 00:21:47 as it is now plus it was highly dangerous So
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 just do that like seriously you don't have to
00:21:50 --> 00:21:56 push in modern politics. I don't care I escape
00:21:56 --> 00:22:02 it And Ubisoft for the love of God just make
00:22:02 --> 00:22:05 good games like I swear when you say it's a quadruple
00:22:05 --> 00:22:11 a game it's gonna be a terrible game it's gonna
00:22:11 --> 00:22:15 be awful actually skull and bones awful Star
00:22:15 --> 00:22:18 Wars awful you are delaying Assassin's Creed
00:22:18 --> 00:22:22 shadows for the second or third time now probably
00:22:22 --> 00:22:25 gonna be awful too I don't buy your games anymore
00:22:25 --> 00:22:27 I think the last one was Prince of Persia the
00:22:27 --> 00:22:31 side -scroller one that actually was good no
00:22:31 --> 00:22:37 avatar which isn't that good You also had a really
00:22:37 --> 00:22:42 Not bad multiplayer shooter with x -defying,
00:22:42 --> 00:22:44 but you pulled the plug on that one. I don't
00:22:44 --> 00:22:50 know why You probably could have built it back
00:22:50 --> 00:22:52 just Kept on doing it, but you pulled the plug
00:22:52 --> 00:22:56 on that one for other games like Star Wars Star
00:22:56 --> 00:22:58 Wars was bad. No one wanted to play that game.
00:22:59 --> 00:23:01 No one cared when he brought to steam That's
00:23:01 --> 00:23:04 how bad it was. There was too much bad press
00:23:04 --> 00:23:08 and too much of you guys doing weird stuff, like
00:23:08 --> 00:23:10 making sure that the YouTubers you sent it to
00:23:10 --> 00:23:14 made sure that they were making positive reviews
00:23:14 --> 00:23:16 on it instead of saying, you know what, here's
00:23:16 --> 00:23:19 the game. If you like it, cool. We love positive
00:23:19 --> 00:23:23 reviews. If you don't, that's up to you. That's
00:23:23 --> 00:23:28 how you do it. But you cannot make girl boss
00:23:28 --> 00:23:30 things anymore. We don't want it. Girl bosses
00:23:30 --> 00:23:34 are annoying. Make it about trans issues. No
00:23:34 --> 00:23:38 one cares. Make it about Marxist issues or Marxist
00:23:38 --> 00:23:43 ideology. No one wants that. Make a game more,
00:23:44 --> 00:23:47 I would say more conservative now because the
00:23:47 --> 00:23:49 normal things when I was a child is now very
00:23:49 --> 00:23:52 conservative now. Make it like that in the 90s.
00:23:53 --> 00:23:56 Look at the 90s games. Look at why they were
00:23:56 --> 00:24:00 popular. If your target audience is male which
00:24:00 --> 00:24:04 gaming is mostly male majority male might want
00:24:04 --> 00:24:11 to Do that For the love of God just make it about
00:24:11 --> 00:24:18 escapism make it fun don't make it a chore It's
00:24:18 --> 00:24:21 all we want really like I'm giving you a blueprint
00:24:21 --> 00:24:31 for the love of God just use it Anyways What
00:24:31 --> 00:24:32 do you think do you think I'm off base or not?
00:24:32 --> 00:24:34 Let me know in the comments below with YouTube
00:24:34 --> 00:24:36 or Spotify because apparently you could do on
00:24:36 --> 00:24:41 Spotify to anyways Thank you for listening to
00:24:41 --> 00:24:43 a digital coffee gaming proof as always appreciate
00:24:43 --> 00:24:46 you listening and giving me feedback as well.
00:24:46 --> 00:24:50 It's always Helpful and join me next week as
00:24:50 --> 00:24:52 I talk about what's going on in the gaming industry
00:24:52 --> 00:24:54 I'm changing it up to go back to Friday's I feel
00:24:54 --> 00:24:56 like Friday's a good way of enjoying your weekend
00:24:56 --> 00:24:59 anyways, but Enjoy your guys's weekend play the
00:24:59 --> 00:25:01 games you want to play if it's hell divers to
00:25:01 --> 00:25:05 Marvel rivals Delta Force or whatever Even fortnight
00:25:05 --> 00:25:07 doesn't really matter to me. Anyways, have a
00:25:07 --> 00:25:09 great week guys. See you next week later