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You need to do some research on the financial side of the gaming industry. Console market has been stagnate for over 15 years. Exclusives and console sales are irrelevant in 2024.
Most of them have been pretty interesting, at least for me. The ninja theory one was bad, but that wasn't their fault. The guy just evaded all of their serious questions about Microsoft's shitty moves as of late and overhyped his game.
I don't think that's an unpopular opinion, judging by the usual comments. I like some of the interviews they've done but feel they'd work better as separate videos.
I agree, for example the Senuas Saga 2 interview that lasted a while and felt exceedingly corporate. Then one day later everybody was trashing the game for sucking. Unless it’s a game I really care about, probably not going to watch the devs sit there and complain about the horrible state of the industry. I really like when this podcast discusses the actual content of the video games themselves, not necessarily everything that surrounds them all the time.
I think most people feel this way. I listen to this podcast to hear *them* talking about stuff. I usually skip through the interview segments, very rarely do they have anything interesting to say.
@unleashedbread6146 very true, they get a little too journalist and not game critique mode. Like hate to break it to them but most people really do not care about the industry.
You don't understand what that quote means. It doesn't mean people find something that works for them and stick to it. It means they find the best possible build for a game and stick to that regardless of whether or not it is fun.
Written word died when we started having to see ads above, below, on the side of and inside of every article. I dread looking up information on games websites because it’s such a horrible experience to just surf the web these days.
@@DonutSwordsmanso to refute this person complaining about the state of gaming websites, you’re saying his mistake is not downloading an extension that blocks the creator from making any revenue. Problem solved I guess
At the age of two or three, he accompanied his father, Germanicus, on campaigns in the north of Germania. He wore a miniature soldier's outfit devised by his mother to please the troops, including army boots (caligae) and armour. The soldiers nicknamed him Caligula ("little boot").
Lucy is a legend for being a loud, proud How It’s Made fan. I’m so excited for her to get to season 10 and find out how ice cream cones and pliers are made
Lucy, don't worry about Interview With A Vampire being cancelled. It is only two seasons so this one is the final season! I worked on the first season and they always said it was going to be two seasons. Sad fact, the first week we started shooting, Anne Rice passed away. Very sad day. But it was nice knowing she was going to be involved and was excited for it. I think they really did well in this adaptation.
My favorite e3 memory of all time is the MGSV:TPP reveal. That game was ahead of it’s time, it came out 9 years ago and if it came out today it’d still be impressive.
@@magicalwisp1489it felt half finished. Like the open world only had Russians in it. Not one Afghan. I loved how in 4 you had to sneak through war zones with two warring factions.
The “being conditioned to expect a game on Game Pass”, is definitely a thing. I have friends on Xbox who don’t buy games at all anymore and are frustrated when something they want to play doesn’t come to GP. I remember a lot of them complaining when Stray didn’t come to Game Pass. Not every game needs to be a GP game though and when I discover a game via GP I really enjoy, I’ll buy it anyways. Vampire Survivors is a good example. I bought it on every platform I own after discovering it via GP.
I guess I’m in the same boat but different reasons. Unfortunately a lot of us are on a budget, mine especially so, it’s extremely hard to buy a game on sale especially a full priced game. I’ve been “burned” where I buy games that a publisher/dev will specifically call out no game pass but then less than a year later they show up on there. Other times they just happen to show up unexpectedly. It’s really hard for me to describe the pit in my stomach feeling but I feel absolutely dreadful when something I bought comes to game pass. With that being said I don’t necessarily expect game pass, or maybe a better way to word it is I don’t “demand” it to come to game pass. But I will never buy anything day one ever again unless it’s a PlayStation exclusive or game pass loses its foothold significantly.
I might have a different perspective on this. I’m console agnostic so I have all three systems but like my Xbox the most. Before game pass I couldn’t really afford games, being a student (and still am). I maybe bought a game when it came on sale 1 year after release if i were lucky. With game pass I can actually play loads of games and even though I still don’t buy that many new games, I didn’t before either.
I supposed it depends on the ratio of how much money CoD makes off sales v microtransactions. It seems a risk on paper to put all their eggs in the basket of Game Pass growth when they'd probably make more money selling it at full price, or by introducing a premium Game Pass tier.
Putting it on Game Pass = more people in the CoD ecosystem More people in the CoD ecosystem = more people looking at the cash shop More people looking at the cash shop = more people spending on that cash shop CoD made over a billion in MTX alone last year This is not a gamble
@@dragonriderabens9761 and im sure that bazillion financial analysts at MS/AV/Blizz/King made calculations on how MTX sales will skyrocket thx to the GP release.
@@dragonriderabens9761 This is exactly right, it also brings more people into the xbox ecosystem as a whole, even if out of the entire percent of new players are going for cod, if just 20% of them look at what else gamepass and xbox has to offer, I'm sure that is a win for cod, a win ofr xbox, and gamepass
I haven't been in the COD community for a decade, but my impression was that microtransaction/cash shop revenue is primarily from Warzone, which is already free to play. So if the actual COD games are coming to GamePass, does that mean Microsoft believes that the COD single player and multi player will drive people towards Warzone?
After the whole Tango gameworks fiasco, I cancelled my gamepass sub for the first time since launch and don't intend to re-sub. I've won awards and lost my job before, it's the worst feeling in the world, busting your ass to produce magic, only to get screwed. I don't wish that on anyone... Microsoft/Xbox is gonna have to do something magical to get me to sub back, no amount of COD is gonna make me come back.
With Hellblade 2. Loved it, wish it had another couple hours in the last two chapters. The forest section was too short, the final village was a tad too short. I feel like more character development could have definitely been made in that forest.
haha I just made a similar comment. They are seriously underselling how good this movie is. In my opinion it's up there with Fury Road and adds to it. Very fun watch
I just wanna say that Ralph, like most other people on the internet, are unaware that Hellblade 2 didn't start full production until roughly 2020. After Hellblade 1 the studio worked on a live service game that bombed, and nobody seemed to know about this. The studio clarified this with some journalists last week I believe. So the prevailing assumption that Hellblade 2 was in development for 6-7 years is incorrect
Oh wow! Thanks for the information. Here I was thinking they made one hour of gameplay per year, but the real number is actually slightly better than that. Amazing!
@@JBrandonMercer123 I think you misunderstand, it's not an excuse, it's just accurate information. The length of the game was obviously not a focus for them either way
They announced Hellblade 2 in December 2019 and showed a full trailer for it. Are you saying development didn’t start until they had a full blown trailer for it already? That doesn’t seem accurate, I feel like they would have been working on it for several months prior to that.
I don't use Spotify as it's a cancer on the music industry. As a musician myself, a guitarist, Dj, and flautist, I love BUYING MY MUSIC and OWNING IT. That's why Juno, Bandcamp, and Indie Labels are still the best way to buy music digitally.
@@shaggytoph They are all websites/marketplaces. Bandcamp is the home for most indie music, any band worth their salt has a 'Bandcamp' (Kinda like a Myspace, but for music exclusively) and will sell you their music direct to you. 'VLC' media player (think winamp) will play almost any media file, it is what you want to be playing your music/movies with it. Juno is also a marketplace that has a wide variety to browse through.
I also don’t know if you know this shill up but my first video that I saw for you was warframe the sacrifice review it’s one of my favorite videos of all time on the platform and I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you Austin fps and everyone else here do it’s been a pleasure to be a part of this in whatever small way
Over the years CoD transformed more and more into a f2p model. It being on GamePass is a good PR move. They make most of their profit from "micro"-transactions sucking whales dry, who would have bought the game anyway. But now the less enthusiastic player base will be retained, gamepass numbers will go up and execs will be happy.
Last years COD was the second best selling game of 2023. They definitely make a lot of money on microtransactions, BUT a large part of their revenue is the box cost of $70+. MS is throwing that away by putting it on gamepass, an already failing service that isn't profitable in the slightest lol
@gylduran9217 But they're clearly not really throwing it away completely though are they? Either it will cause a big subscriber jump which they'll be happy with, or it will just be business as usual with most people buying it as usual as a one off sale.
@@alexlyster3459 People subbing to gamepass to play COD have to stay subbed for 7 months for MS to recoup the loss of them not buying COD. This model doesn't work because for games development to be sustainable, the most amount of people need to be buying the game at full price. As soon as COD is no longer on Playstation, it will die because MS gamers don't buy games
@@oscaroska7613 Because of the gamepass failure, Xbox will have to pivot to being just a publisher who manages studios and puts their games everywhere else. They've totally bungled the last two generations and effectively destroyed their competitiveness in the market with Sony and Nintendo
Call of Duty numbers are easy to track via achievement/trophy sites that track all the platforms (yes, it will only be achievement/trophy hunters... but the percentage of each platform of hunters will probably be the same). So the last CoD that was on all platforms; PS had ~47%, Steam had ~30%, Xbox had ~21%, and Microsoft PC store had ~1%. This also doesn't include sales through Blizzard's Battle Net because they don't have a public facing API to track achievements on that site... so wouldn't be surprised if there is a similar amount of PC and PS players in the long run.
maybe because Ninja Theory is more of a legacy studio with a larger following than the other two? i have no real idea, just guessing. who really knows, maybe someone at Ninja Theory is just really tight with a MS corpo. people always forget about nepotism but its rampant in almost every industry, at least the ones i've ever been a part of.
Gamepass could be a response to market oversaturation too much supply. Declining demand. compensate tiny devs and offer services to them in exchange for exposure
Yooo Lucy’s story is totally relatable. I have a very full beard but at one point I had 3 quarter sized bald spots on my jaw and neck. Mine has also fully resolved itself. Mad props for sharing that story tho. ❤ you guys
Jake talks about what game he is playing and Ralph takes over.. Lucy showed her notebook so he showed his and took over.. like bro sometimes it’s ok to let people have a full 30-60 seconds
Cod on game pass is just proof that Xbox invested way too much in it. They basically sacrificed their biggest money maker just so that the needle on game pass goes up slightly
@@De1usionsofGrandeur for us ya, but for the business its dumb because ALOT of people payed 70 bucks for the new cod every year just to play its multiplayer for a while and never touch it again, now that its on gamepass microsoft is gonna lose alot of money
@@De1usionsofGrandeur It might be good for the consumer, but not in the long term by the very fact that if people aren't paying full price for games, developers don't make their money back and thus studios lay people off and cancel games.
@@De1usionsofGrandeur You have to look at it from a business perspective As mentioned in the COD section of this video which one do you think sounds more reasonable and profitable? profit gain over an (x) month time period or profit gain after a couple of weeks to a month? If I was running a business I would like to see the profit sales after a couple of weeks to a month versus: "Hey let's see how this product is doing after a couple of months"
If the needle on Gamepass only goes up slightly, then surely they also won't actually be sacrificing all that much either.... the usual crowd that buy will either join GP, or buy it as usual. They'll be happy with either.
i'm so glad yall are continuing the conversation Lucy and Tam started on On The Spot. I'm working on a movie and just got off set at 8AM so thank you for this relief from work on the drive home!
It's the "damn monkeys" part that made it from the Simpsons. But on that note I watched a playthrough of ME2 and the streamer said "Lazerus project, that's familiar!" And chat says "it's from interstellar!" I'm like... you mean the bible?
At 20:00 Ralph is clearly saying "They were the best of times, they were the BLURST of times" and that makes it a 100% Simpsons quote. It's the a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewrites to create the greatest novel known to man scene from the famous "Stonecutters" episode, hence the "stupid monkey" bit from Lucy. You Zoomers need to get your facts straight before "cringing out".
The AI answers in search engines situation is kind of a catch 22 for them though. I think they'll need to figure out a way to keep these other sources of information running, because the AI doesn't just generate information out of nowhere, but rather looks at all this information that's out there and generates something out of that. If the only source of video game information becomes IGN, then literally the only thing the AI will be able to generate is IGN articles... Or maybe it will take from Reddit posts, in which case God help us...
Fury Road is one of the best movies of the last decade. Furiosa is a different movie and is better than 95% of the movies that have come out in the last few years. So, saying Furiosa is a bad movie because Fury Road is better doesn't make much sense.
The whole sequence of Ralph and Jake talking about Furiosa was almost painful to watch. A try hard attempt at having a deep take on the film while clearly lacking the competence to articulate one... Just to be followed by Ralph stating that Mark Ruffalo gave a better performance than Emma Stone in Poor Things. Lol.
I loved Furiosa but after seeing it a couple of times, in my opinion, I like Fury Road better. I know its a different film, and part of it is me wanting it to be more Fury Road. its impossible not to compare the two, mainly because Fury Road is one of the greatest action movies in film history. What i'm appreciating more about Furiosa is that it feels a little more like the original films. You get to see more of the world through the lens of wacky, weird characters that he creates. I love that aspect of these movies. It really reminds me of Mad Max 1 and 3, just for the world building parts and focus on side characters. I think it was always going to be hard to have a Mad Max movie without Mad Max because of association. And making Furiosa such a similar film in tone and themes, it wasn't different enough to be its own thing without comparisons. It is still the best action movie of the year so far. It just has such lofty expectations to live up to that it would never reach. I'm glad it exists and i really like it as and extension of the franchise. but i absolutely hate that if it doesn't do better at the box office, we might never get another Mad Max film from George Miller. that in itself is an entirely different conversation but i hate the implications its performance brings to the franchise.
The problem for me with Hellblade 2 is why is it a videogame? I don't know the budget for this game but is it worth 5 years of development? I already finished that game and I was thinking why isn't it a movie instead of a videogame given that they wanted to make it so realistic but in my opinion it doesn't work as a videogame. Then Microsoft will close the studio and everyone will be asking why it happened.
They're not closing ninja theory, they already gave them the green light to make their next game. But the next game from Ninja theory is it for sure, so it better succeed critically and commercially.
I like Ralph, and I know this is his channel but I do think he talked over both Jake and Lucy a bit much here. Love you guys as a whole, just want to hear more of the others opinions.
Honestly, I massively value the input and perspectives of you guys on games and the industry as a whole. Listening to you is a breath of fresh air, so honest and genuine, and it really feels like sitting down with some mates for a chat about games. Thanks for doing what you do. (Oh and I'm really happy to see GameDiscoverCo getting more props! I created their branding, and they were really cool to work with.)
Wanna say that this episode was plenty good even without an interview. Hope you guys don't feel pressured to do them every episode, an episode like this feels nice with friends just chatting the whole time.
As a huge Mad Max fan since the 80s, I feel expecting something at the level of Fury Road was asking to be disappointed. As Ralph said, Fury Road was perfect. It was lightning in a bottle. Furiosa was great in its own way, but it was never going to even get close to the level of Fury Road.
This is my 4th year on Gamepass and it helps me discover games I would have never tried before like roguelikes and caused me to chased them in both console and PC like Ember Knights.
The Bungie Halos did a great job of gently forcing the player to mix up their playstyle because you’re always running out of ammo and picking up the nearest weapon you can find. Big difference between a Needler and a BR and a plasma pistol and each requires a totally separate mindset to use well. And it just felt organic because of course you’d have to scrounge the battlefield after a fight because you can’t keep heading back to base to resupply. It never felt heavy-handed like BotW’s fragile weapons, which I never personally had a problem with but I understand why someone would.
Also, this episode had some really good energy and was charming, i feel like you're all getting your chemistry down. It's really becoming a bunch of video gaming nerds talking about video games with humor and insight. Kudos!
I don't understand why you'd think they wouldn't put COD on GP day 1. Every first party game is on GP day 1. MS has made it clear that GP is their number 1 priority. There was no shot they keep the most popular game in the world off of it.
So in lorelai and the laser eyes, the character is established to have a photographic memory...yet the player is required to write everything down themselves?...
Loved this episode, I think these episodes of you all just chatting are my favorite (still love interviews though) Also, I found the Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Notebook on Annapurnas website. I think it was like $16 USD with shipping, I can't wait to dive into that puzzle adventure.
Definitely feel the same as you guys about the IGN acquistion and the importance of written media. The Sunday Papers that RPS does that rounds up great pieces of writing from across the industry is one of my favorite reads during the week. I really hope it doesn't go away or drop in quality.
Stepping up to defend hellblade 2, I personally found it just as exceptional, enjoyable and meaningful as the first one, especially where the story is concerned. SPOILER WARNING: that Senua defeats the first two giants through the power of empathy is a powerful and compelling character arc. The way to defeat the enemies ultimately being naming them? Equally powerful. The - simple but effective - final twist that the final boss is neither god nor supernatural monster, but just The Man, I.e. plain old fashioned oppressive government leveraging myths, lore and lies to their advantage? I find this more meaningful than the first one, although on a less personal level, but this one goes beyond Senua’s personal journey with grief, and lets her find her place in a community that is initially not even her own. The true hero is the one who of his enemy makes a friend and all that. That said the game does really lack a final scene to wrap it all up. End rant 😅
I enjoyed Hellblade 2 but I understand the criticism. If it was a quickfire sequel, I would understand the lack of combat progression but after so many years of development, I honestly don't know if the simplified combat was a creative choice or a compromise after failed attempts to make it better. I think it's great that more high quality games with short playtimes are coming out. I have so many massive open world games on my list to play, but I just don't have time to play all of them! This is really the strength of a service like Game Pass though, I can't see many people paying full price for a 5-7 hour game, even if the graphics are incredible.
Last I checked, Ralph, Evil Empire spun off of Motion Twin, so some of the original devs would still be there. The word at the time was that one of those original devs wanted to expand, but the employee cooperative made that more difficult to do.
CoD wasn't an Playstation exclusive before, it was available on xbox, just cause xbox own it now doesn't mean people will buy the xbox version, Microsoft didn't pay 70billion for Activision to not put CoD on gamepass.
If anyone of yall are fans of board games, Thunder Road Vendetta is a recent game that has really good Mad Max x Fury Road vibes and i think yall would love it
@SkillUp At around 55 minutes into the video you put out a question about how can a Game Developer produce a game that doesn't live up to players' expectations. Talking from my own management/development experience the issue with why something doesn't work out is typically the result of three things, the first is that there is some large speculative entry cost that puts the project in a financial hole that then requires the team to perhaps raise the price of the product or cut costs or the speculation works out and it isn't issue, the second possible issue is the Directors or Officers during the planning stage just don't get it right, their idea just isn't correct and they can't see that it isn't going to work, so everything that comes after is doomed to fail, not each piece on its own but collectively, and the third thing is the project manager or team just doesn't properly oversee the project, and that may mean things cost more or they take longer and that means resources aren't most efficiently used, and the Owner(s) aren't experienced enough to see this happening and don't make the necessary changes so that resources (i.e., cash) is appropriately spent. To make a final point, I gather, given this is a creative industry and run by creatives, they are perhaps not the best Directors or Officers so that is possible a key reason for the above issues occurring to begin with. Hope this answer perhaps give some insight into the answer to your question.
I agree with Jake. Absolutely loved the first game. Loved the message about loss and letting go. Still think it’s perfect as a single experience and doesn’t really need a sequel
Pertaining to what star wars media to watch, I highly recommend Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2020). This animated show is some of the best star wars has to offer
You guys are spot on with this "conditioning" behaviour. I play on all platforms, but only buy games on PS5 or Switch. For game pass, I would only play the "free" games.
COD on Gamepass is not a "big roll" at all. Instead of only getting money from disc/store sales from their Xbox store and some of the microtransactions money off their storefront, they now get all the profit from their store, majority of profit from Playstation storefront, majority of profit from Steam storefront, and soon to be majority of profit from Nintendos storefront. There is nothing but upside here. Boosted subscriptions as well. The idea that "they can't afford to put it on Gamepass" is beyond false.
Saying How It’s Made is for boomers is sad. It’s all about being curious and learning about what needs to happen for the modern world to exist. It especially should be for kids.
Ralph is trying to get on the Kimmel monthly supercut again with his "Can you believe it's already June?" Also, Interview with the Vampire... technically more walking dead.
I'm starting to think that Ralph is talking too much, there is no room for the others to express longer ideas because Ralph just continue to interrupt them or taking the spotlight quite often. Love you all, just starting to note this, could only be in my mind.
That vege shop granny in Little Kitty was like the terminator, chasing me down when I kept stealing her bananas😂truly terrifying, she even phased through the iron bars by the racoon to get me
Fun pod. I, for one, never understood the "X didn't need to be made" type of critique when it comes to creators revisiting/further exploring worlds and characters they've established. But maybe if I were a Professional Critic whose job it is to constantly consume and critique art, I'd feel differently? The rest of us only have so much opportunity to experience novel concepts and we also take more time with them when they resonate so much with us; I have 300 hours in Hades 1 and I fucking LOVe what Hades 2 has to offer. I really like Ralph, but just like a lot of voices in games media his perspectives are so unique to how he is 'forced' to engage with video games. Don't get lost in the meta sauce y'all
During the FTC trial Call of Duties daily player count was split between: Mobile- 50% PC- 24.5% PlayStation- 15.7% Xbox- 7.8% Also even though the yearly COD sells 20+ million copies every year the majority of their revenue is micro transactions. I know I’ll be buying the battle pass and some skins this holiday because I’ll be getting it “free” through Game Pass and happy to spend a little on it for that reason. I’m curious to see how the next year or two goes for Game Pass with the addition of COD. They better market the absolute fuck out of it.
CoD battle pass is technically free tho, you get CoD Points to "buy it" in-game & if you complete it, you can re-earn the coins to buy it again the following season. That's what I've been doing since World War II, which still gives you 1000 CoD Points if you buy it digitally, I have never spend real money on the game aside from winning all those CoD Points from Battle Passes. I have like 15k
we've already been getting the game version of "JLo's Atlas" for years now ESPECIALLY from the huge companies that pump out the majority of the $70 games. That's more due to the live-service model's monetary success than it is due to gamepass
lucy and tam have a short conversation about it at Gamespot. i wish she had elaborated more on that conversation because as a vetted games journalist, she probably has the most accurate insights into this matter. but then again, this stuff is a lot of speculation in unknown territory. its about to become the wild west of gaming very soon.
People don't engage with video games the same way they do movies/music/TV. They take longer to finish and require active engagement. You can load up your favorite TV series as background noise on Netflix while you do anything else but you can't load up a video game to do the same. Since the average video game buyer only purchases 5 games or less a year and most never finish those games, the value proposition of GamePass is dubious for the average consumer. You have to play an above average amount of games for an above average number of hours for it to be worth subscribing to.
Makes no sense. You either buy one $60-$70 game or get 5+ months of Gamepass. The value in worth is there just from one full priced game alone. Not to mention if you complete several games within that 5 months you can extract far more vaule from you GP sub monthly
Not sure how it's considered a roll of the dice. Xbox first party games coming day one to gamepass has always been the strategy. They will likely sell early access to COD like they did for Starfield to try and recoup some of the lost sales revenue. They will probably need to offer more perks through Gamepass for COD players as well, which will probably evolve over time. Just getting people in and being able to sell more microtransactions will end up making them a ton of money. But it's sort of a no-brainer. COD is one of the few games that could really move the needle. I think it would he disappointing if it wasn't on there.
When talking about games, movies, user questions lol etc. there should be some sort of visual on the screen, maybe windowed or full but it would get the point across much better, I think.
It's true what the indie developers said for me. I haven't bought a single game on my Xbox S Series and don't see it happening. I'd rather buy it on PC.
Very interesting discussion surrounding game development. I hope you all get Danny O’Dwyer from noclip on. I think he would be awesome to have on the pod at some point, especially surrounding game dev.
What suprises me is people still thinking COD is just this "big franchise/IP" like so many other in the industry. COD Vanguard was considered a "dissapointment" and "failed to meet expectations" according to Activision... It went on to sell 30M copies, it outsold Elden Ring, was the best selling game of the year, despite everybody thinking it was shit inclunding reviewers AND the hardcore fanbase. It's a 1 of 1 franchise across all media, more people have fallen off COD over the years for whatever reason (I'm betting the 70$ price tag plays a massive role in a lot of those people leaving), than other so called "big franchises/IP" have fans/copies sold lmao! 🤣🤣 People are in for a rude awakening if they think this is a gamble in any way.
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Why is it spelt out like that instead of the link...
You need to do some research on the financial side of the gaming industry. Console market has been stagnate for over 15 years. Exclusives and console sales are irrelevant in 2024.
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I like the interviews, but it is nice to not have any this episode
I personally click off when yhe interviews start lol
Sometimes I like the guests. When they had the CDPR guys on it was fun. Nacobjacob was good too, but yeah I usually tune out
They take up so much of the show most of the time. I always feel like the 3 don't have enough time to talk to each other.
I don’t like the interviews
Most of them have been pretty interesting, at least for me. The ninja theory one was bad, but that wasn't their fault. The guy just evaded all of their serious questions about Microsoft's shitty moves as of late and overhyped his game.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I think I prefer episodes without an interview, I'd rather just listen to these three talk about whatever
I don't think that's an unpopular opinion, judging by the usual comments. I like some of the interviews they've done but feel they'd work better as separate videos.
I agree, for example the Senuas Saga 2 interview that lasted a while and felt exceedingly corporate. Then one day later everybody was trashing the game for sucking.
Unless it’s a game I really care about, probably not going to watch the devs sit there and complain about the horrible state of the industry.
I really like when this podcast discusses the actual content of the video games themselves, not necessarily everything that surrounds them all the time.
I think most people feel this way. I listen to this podcast to hear *them* talking about stuff. I usually skip through the interview segments, very rarely do they have anything interesting to say.
Agreed
@unleashedbread6146 very true, they get a little too journalist and not game critique mode. Like hate to break it to them but most people really do not care about the industry.
I am so incredibly appreciative that you took the time to answer my question Lucy, Jake, and Ralph. FPS is my favourite podcast. I am starstruck.
Absolutely brilliant question man🖖
@@Secret_Takodachi I’m happy with where my standards are. But thank you for taking the time to express your concern for me. Have a good one.
You don't understand what that quote means. It doesn't mean people find something that works for them and stick to it. It means they find the best possible build for a game and stick to that regardless of whether or not it is fun.
@@JBrandonMercer123 I meant it as a jumping off point for my “which do you prefer” question. But thank you for clarifying.
Written word died when we started having to see ads above, below, on the side of and inside of every article. I dread looking up information on games websites because it’s such a horrible experience to just surf the web these days.
Hahaha boomer, please install adblock on your Firefox on pc and phone. So sad to see this comment fr fr
ever tried adblock?
Brother that’s also newspapers and magazines
@@DonutSwordsmanso to refute this person complaining about the state of gaming websites, you’re saying his mistake is not downloading an extension that blocks the creator from making any revenue. Problem solved I guess
@@PJMack068 sigh. Thank you.
At the age of two or three, he accompanied his father, Germanicus, on campaigns in the north of Germania. He wore a miniature soldier's outfit devised by his mother to please the troops, including army boots (caligae) and armour. The soldiers nicknamed him Caligula ("little boot").
Lucy is a legend for being a loud, proud How It’s Made fan. I’m so excited for her to get to season 10 and find out how ice cream cones and pliers are made
Yess!! Please no spoilers
Lucy popping the cheeky "reading is.... fundamental" and waiting for the guys' reaction. Loving it 😂
thank YOU
Lucy, don't worry about Interview With A Vampire being cancelled. It is only two seasons so this one is the final season! I worked on the first season and they always said it was going to be two seasons. Sad fact, the first week we started shooting, Anne Rice passed away. Very sad day. But it was nice knowing she was going to be involved and was excited for it. I think they really did well in this adaptation.
My favorite e3 memory of all time is the MGSV:TPP reveal. That game was ahead of it’s time, it came out 9 years ago and if it came out today it’d still be impressive.
Good game, bad MGS
@@magicalwisp1489fucking spot on.
@@magicalwisp1489it felt half finished. Like the open world only had Russians in it. Not one Afghan. I loved how in 4 you had to sneak through war zones with two warring factions.
Mine is the 10-minute MGS2 trailer from
E3 2000. When I got DSL, the first thing I downloaded was the 98MB file of that trailer.
TPP 2015 gameplay reveal was damn mind blowing. I still play it casually!
In my head canon Escape from New York and Mad Max exist in the same universe.
Coping through humour is basically the UK motto
The “being conditioned to expect a game on Game Pass”, is definitely a thing. I have friends on Xbox who don’t buy games at all anymore and are frustrated when something they want to play doesn’t come to GP.
I remember a lot of them complaining when Stray didn’t come to Game Pass.
Not every game needs to be a GP game though and when I discover a game via GP I really enjoy, I’ll buy it anyways. Vampire Survivors is a good example. I bought it on every platform I own after discovering it via GP.
I guess I’m in the same boat but different reasons. Unfortunately a lot of us are on a budget, mine especially so, it’s extremely hard to buy a game on sale especially a full priced game.
I’ve been “burned” where I buy games that a publisher/dev will specifically call out no game pass but then less than a year later they show up on there. Other times they just happen to show up unexpectedly. It’s really hard for me to describe the pit in my stomach feeling but I feel absolutely dreadful when something I bought comes to game pass.
With that being said I don’t necessarily expect game pass, or maybe a better way to word it is I don’t “demand” it to come to game pass. But I will never buy anything day one ever again unless it’s a PlayStation exclusive or game pass loses its foothold significantly.
I might have a different perspective on this. I’m console agnostic so I have all three systems but like my Xbox the most. Before game pass I couldn’t really afford games, being a student (and still am). I maybe bought a game when it came on sale 1 year after release if i were lucky.
With game pass I can actually play loads of games and even though I still don’t buy that many new games, I didn’t before either.
@@FideritiPlayStation exclusives are not worth buying day one
@@daksans6764 I do not regret either of my God of War purchases, or Ghost of Tsushima. Spiderman was a great decision as well.
@@Fideriti Those games are knock off of Ubisoft games
I supposed it depends on the ratio of how much money CoD makes off sales v microtransactions. It seems a risk on paper to put all their eggs in the basket of Game Pass growth when they'd probably make more money selling it at full price, or by introducing a premium Game Pass tier.
Putting it on Game Pass = more people in the CoD ecosystem
More people in the CoD ecosystem = more people looking at the cash shop
More people looking at the cash shop = more people spending on that cash shop
CoD made over a billion in MTX alone last year
This is not a gamble
@@dragonriderabens9761 and im sure that bazillion financial analysts at MS/AV/Blizz/King made calculations on how MTX sales will skyrocket thx to the GP release.
@@dragonriderabens9761 This is exactly right, it also brings more people into the xbox ecosystem as a whole, even if out of the entire percent of new players are going for cod, if just 20% of them look at what else gamepass and xbox has to offer, I'm sure that is a win for cod, a win ofr xbox, and gamepass
I haven't been in the COD community for a decade, but my impression was that microtransaction/cash shop revenue is primarily from Warzone, which is already free to play.
So if the actual COD games are coming to GamePass, does that mean Microsoft believes that the COD single player and multi player will drive people towards Warzone?
COD will make Xbox defacto platform for casual gamers
After the whole Tango gameworks fiasco, I cancelled my gamepass sub for the first time since launch and don't intend to re-sub. I've won awards and lost my job before, it's the worst feeling in the world, busting your ass to produce magic, only to get screwed. I don't wish that on anyone... Microsoft/Xbox is gonna have to do something magical to get me to sub back, no amount of COD is gonna make me come back.
New Friends Per Second AND Godzilla Minus One on Netflix/VOD? It's gonna be a good Saturday!
Thanks love Minus One
What's new friends per second is that a sequel to 5 cm per second?
You just made my weekend by informing me about Godzilla!
You are a legend! Thank you for letting me know!
My exact reaction this morning 😂
With Hellblade 2. Loved it, wish it had another couple hours in the last two chapters. The forest section was too short, the final village was a tad too short. I feel like more character development could have definitely been made in that forest.
Furiosa is awesome, they're underselling it. VERY fun action movie. It's no Fury Road, but still very good.
Movie was brutal. I almost threw up when her arm got wedged between the cars.
haha I just made a similar comment. They are seriously underselling how good this movie is. In my opinion it's up there with Fury Road and adds to it. Very fun watch
I just wanna say that Ralph, like most other people on the internet, are unaware that Hellblade 2 didn't start full production until roughly 2020. After Hellblade 1 the studio worked on a live service game that bombed, and nobody seemed to know about this. The studio clarified this with some journalists last week I believe. So the prevailing assumption that Hellblade 2 was in development for 6-7 years is incorrect
Oh wow! Thanks for the information. Here I was thinking they made one hour of gameplay per year, but the real number is actually slightly better than that. Amazing!
@@JBrandonMercer123 I think you misunderstand, it's not an excuse, it's just accurate information. The length of the game was obviously not a focus for them either way
They announced Hellblade 2 in December 2019 and showed a full trailer for it. Are you saying development didn’t start until they had a full blown trailer for it already? That doesn’t seem accurate, I feel like they would have been working on it for several months prior to that.
Source on this?
I don't use Spotify as it's a cancer on the music industry. As a musician myself, a guitarist, Dj, and flautist, I love BUYING MY MUSIC and OWNING IT. That's why Juno, Bandcamp, and Indie Labels are still the best way to buy music digitally.
I'm an amateur casual user would you like to recomend any videos or guides on how to use those apps you've mentiones? I'm sick of spotify
@@shaggytoph They are all websites/marketplaces. Bandcamp is the home for most indie music, any band worth their salt has a 'Bandcamp' (Kinda like a Myspace, but for music exclusively) and will sell you their music direct to you. 'VLC' media player (think winamp) will play almost any media file, it is what you want to be playing your music/movies with it. Juno is also a marketplace that has a wide variety to browse through.
Bandcamp is incredible. I buy most of my music from them.
I also don’t know if you know this shill up but my first video that I saw for you was warframe the sacrifice review it’s one of my favorite videos of all time on the platform and I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you Austin fps and everyone else here do it’s been a pleasure to be a part of this in whatever small way
Same here! His enthusiasm sold me on that game, and his future content. I'm so glad I've been following him for years.
My kid was up allnight with tummy problems and me with her. This podcast is a godsend, gonna go get some coffee to go with it
Over the years CoD transformed more and more into a f2p model. It being on GamePass is a good PR move. They make most of their profit from "micro"-transactions sucking whales dry, who would have bought the game anyway. But now the less enthusiastic player base will be retained, gamepass numbers will go up and execs will be happy.
Last years COD was the second best selling game of 2023. They definitely make a lot of money on microtransactions, BUT a large part of their revenue is the box cost of $70+. MS is throwing that away by putting it on gamepass, an already failing service that isn't profitable in the slightest lol
@gylduran9217 But they're clearly not really throwing it away completely though are they? Either it will cause a big subscriber jump which they'll be happy with, or it will just be business as usual with most people buying it as usual as a one off sale.
@@alexlyster3459 People subbing to gamepass to play COD have to stay subbed for 7 months for MS to recoup the loss of them not buying COD. This model doesn't work because for games development to be sustainable, the most amount of people need to be buying the game at full price. As soon as COD is no longer on Playstation, it will die because MS gamers don't buy games
Nah, no one going to waste money on the new console Xbox instead of buying the game on their default one
@@oscaroska7613 Because of the gamepass failure, Xbox will have to pivot to being just a publisher who manages studios and puts their games everywhere else. They've totally bungled the last two generations and effectively destroyed their competitiveness in the market with Sony and Nintendo
Call of Duty numbers are easy to track via achievement/trophy sites that track all the platforms (yes, it will only be achievement/trophy hunters... but the percentage of each platform of hunters will probably be the same). So the last CoD that was on all platforms; PS had ~47%, Steam had ~30%, Xbox had ~21%, and Microsoft PC store had ~1%. This also doesn't include sales through Blizzard's Battle Net because they don't have a public facing API to track achievements on that site... so wouldn't be surprised if there is a similar amount of PC and PS players in the long run.
Yo history is cool as hell. It helps us learn from past mistakes. Plus the mindset of people in different eras is interesting to look at
Don’t understand Microsoft closing 2 awesome studios yet green-lights Ninja Theory’s next game before the release of Hellblade 2.
Yeah Redfall was amazing
maybe because Ninja Theory is more of a legacy studio with a larger following than the other two? i have no real idea, just guessing. who really knows, maybe someone at Ninja Theory is just really tight with a MS corpo. people always forget about nepotism but its rampant in almost every industry, at least the ones i've ever been a part of.
Gamepass could be a response to market oversaturation
too much supply. Declining demand. compensate tiny devs and offer services to them in exchange for exposure
Mildly disappointed Stu didn't use puppet Lucy as the place holder
Yooo Lucy’s story is totally relatable. I have a very full beard but at one point I had 3 quarter sized bald spots on my jaw and neck. Mine has also fully resolved itself. Mad props for sharing that story tho. ❤ you guys
Jake talks about what game he is playing and Ralph takes over.. Lucy showed her notebook so he showed his and took over.. like bro sometimes it’s ok to let people have a full 30-60 seconds
i think thats a normal thing friends do
@@crome2sniperexactly. People don’t realise that when you are between friends, that happens and it’s normal.
Cod on game pass is just proof that Xbox invested way too much in it.
They basically sacrificed their biggest money maker just so that the needle on game pass goes up slightly
What do you mean sacrifice... consumer options are always a great thing
@@De1usionsofGrandeur for us ya, but for the business its dumb because ALOT of people payed 70 bucks for the new cod every year just to play its multiplayer for a while and never touch it again, now that its on gamepass microsoft is gonna lose alot of money
@@De1usionsofGrandeur It might be good for the consumer, but not in the long term by the very fact that if people aren't paying full price for games, developers don't make their money back and thus studios lay people off and cancel games.
@@De1usionsofGrandeur You have to look at it from a business perspective
As mentioned in the COD section of this video which one do you think sounds more reasonable and profitable? profit gain over an (x) month time period or profit gain after a couple of weeks to a month? If I was running a business I would like to see the profit sales after a couple of weeks to a month versus: "Hey let's see how this product is doing after a couple of months"
If the needle on Gamepass only goes up slightly, then surely they also won't actually be sacrificing all that much either.... the usual crowd that buy will either join GP, or buy it as usual. They'll be happy with either.
i'm so glad yall are continuing the conversation Lucy and Tam started on On The Spot. I'm working on a movie and just got off set at 8AM so thank you for this relief from work on the drive home!
Saying "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" was from the simpsons actually a part of the little English lit major in me
It's the "damn monkeys" part that made it from the Simpsons.
But on that note I watched a playthrough of ME2 and the streamer said "Lazerus project, that's familiar!" And chat says "it's from interstellar!" I'm like... you mean the bible?
lol, I'm not even English nor is it my first language and I cringed a little lol
At 20:00 Ralph is clearly saying "They were the best of times, they were the BLURST of times" and that makes it a 100% Simpsons quote. It's the a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewrites to create the greatest novel known to man scene from the famous "Stonecutters" episode, hence the "stupid monkey" bit from Lucy. You Zoomers need to get your facts straight before "cringing out".
The AI answers in search engines situation is kind of a catch 22 for them though. I think they'll need to figure out a way to keep these other sources of information running, because the AI doesn't just generate information out of nowhere, but rather looks at all this information that's out there and generates something out of that. If the only source of video game information becomes IGN, then literally the only thing the AI will be able to generate is IGN articles...
Or maybe it will take from Reddit posts, in which case God help us...
i loved that Atlas movie personally
History documentaries to wind down from all that "How it's Made" excitement
Fury Road is one of the best movies of the last decade. Furiosa is a different movie and is better than 95% of the movies that have come out in the last few years. So, saying Furiosa is a bad movie because Fury Road is better doesn't make much sense.
The whole sequence of Ralph and Jake talking about Furiosa was almost painful to watch. A try hard attempt at having a deep take on the film while clearly lacking the competence to articulate one...
Just to be followed by Ralph stating that Mark Ruffalo gave a better performance than Emma Stone in Poor Things. Lol.
I loved Furiosa but after seeing it a couple of times, in my opinion, I like Fury Road better. I know its a different film, and part of it is me wanting it to be more Fury Road. its impossible not to compare the two, mainly because Fury Road is one of the greatest action movies in film history. What i'm appreciating more about Furiosa is that it feels a little more like the original films. You get to see more of the world through the lens of wacky, weird characters that he creates. I love that aspect of these movies. It really reminds me of Mad Max 1 and 3, just for the world building parts and focus on side characters. I think it was always going to be hard to have a Mad Max movie without Mad Max because of association. And making Furiosa such a similar film in tone and themes, it wasn't different enough to be its own thing without comparisons. It is still the best action movie of the year so far. It just has such lofty expectations to live up to that it would never reach. I'm glad it exists and i really like it as and extension of the franchise. but i absolutely hate that if it doesn't do better at the box office, we might never get another Mad Max film from George Miller. that in itself is an entirely different conversation but i hate the implications its performance brings to the franchise.
They didn't say it was a bad movie. Jake literally says its a good time at the movies.
Have a lot to say about Furiosa, but I think the least people can do is appreciate Miller is 80 years old and making stuff that bat shit insane still.
Bandcamp & Beatport is what I primarily use for the music I download locally.
Tidal is what I use for streaming on the go.
The problem for me with Hellblade 2 is why is it a videogame? I don't know the budget for this game but is it worth 5 years of development? I already finished that game and I was thinking why isn't it a movie instead of a videogame given that they wanted to make it so realistic but in my opinion it doesn't work as a videogame. Then Microsoft will close the studio and everyone will be asking why it happened.
They're not closing ninja theory, they already gave them the green light to make their next game. But the next game from Ninja theory is it for sure, so it better succeed critically and commercially.
I like Ralph, and I know this is his channel but I do think he talked over both Jake and Lucy a bit much here. Love you guys as a whole, just want to hear more of the others opinions.
As a corporate spy I can confirm I’ve written down all of the names of independent platforms you’ve mentioned and I’m buying it all. You’re welcome
Best cold open to date. It truly felt like we were experiencing Friends Per Second ❤️
Lucy needs wind down TV from the exceptionally exhilarating "How It's Made"
Honestly, I massively value the input and perspectives of you guys on games and the industry as a whole. Listening to you is a breath of fresh air, so honest and genuine, and it really feels like sitting down with some mates for a chat about games. Thanks for doing what you do. (Oh and I'm really happy to see GameDiscoverCo getting more props! I created their branding, and they were really cool to work with.)
Wanna say that this episode was plenty good even without an interview. Hope you guys don't feel pressured to do them every episode, an episode like this feels nice with friends just chatting the whole time.
As a huge Mad Max fan since the 80s, I feel expecting something at the level of Fury Road was asking to be disappointed. As Ralph said, Fury Road was perfect. It was lightning in a bottle. Furiosa was great in its own way, but it was never going to even get close to the level of Fury Road.
This is my 4th year on Gamepass and it helps me discover games I would have never tried before like roguelikes and caused me to chased them in both console and PC like Ember Knights.
The Bungie Halos did a great job of gently forcing the player to mix up their playstyle because you’re always running out of ammo and picking up the nearest weapon you can find. Big difference between a Needler and a BR and a plasma pistol and each requires a totally separate mindset to use well. And it just felt organic because of course you’d have to scrounge the battlefield after a fight because you can’t keep heading back to base to resupply. It never felt heavy-handed like BotW’s fragile weapons, which I never personally had a problem with but I understand why someone would.
Also, this episode had some really good energy and was charming, i feel like you're all getting your chemistry down. It's really becoming a bunch of video gaming nerds talking about video games with humor and insight. Kudos!
Jake stressed alopecia not being a joke like Jada Pinkett Smith was watching 😂😂
I don't understand why you'd think they wouldn't put COD on GP day 1. Every first party game is on GP day 1. MS has made it clear that GP is their number 1 priority. There was no shot they keep the most popular game in the world off of it.
So in lorelai and the laser eyes, the character is established to have a photographic memory...yet the player is required to write everything down themselves?...
Loved this episode, I think these episodes of you all just chatting are my favorite (still love interviews though)
Also, I found the Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Notebook on Annapurnas website. I think it was like $16 USD with shipping, I can't wait to dive into that puzzle adventure.
Here is a breakdown of who plays COD where.
Mobile - 51%
PC - 25%
Playstation - 16%
Xbox - 8%
Source - Bobby Koticks testimony to the FTC.
Definitely feel the same as you guys about the IGN acquistion and the importance of written media. The Sunday Papers that RPS does that rounds up great pieces of writing from across the industry is one of my favorite reads during the week. I really hope it doesn't go away or drop in quality.
Stepping up to defend hellblade 2, I personally found it just as exceptional, enjoyable and meaningful as the first one, especially where the story is concerned.
SPOILER WARNING: that Senua defeats the first two giants through the power of empathy is a powerful and compelling character arc. The way to defeat the enemies ultimately being naming them? Equally powerful. The - simple but effective - final twist that the final boss is neither god nor supernatural monster, but just The Man, I.e. plain old fashioned oppressive government leveraging myths, lore and lies to their advantage? I find this more meaningful than the first one, although on a less personal level, but this one goes beyond Senua’s personal journey with grief, and lets her find her place in a community that is initially not even her own. The true hero is the one who of his enemy makes a friend and all that.
That said the game does really lack a final scene to wrap it all up. End rant 😅
I enjoyed Hellblade 2 but I understand the criticism. If it was a quickfire sequel, I would understand the lack of combat progression but after so many years of development, I honestly don't know if the simplified combat was a creative choice or a compromise after failed attempts to make it better.
I think it's great that more high quality games with short playtimes are coming out. I have so many massive open world games on my list to play, but I just don't have time to play all of them! This is really the strength of a service like Game Pass though, I can't see many people paying full price for a 5-7 hour game, even if the graphics are incredible.
Loving the movie review! Friends per Scene podcast ep. 1 when?
I love this crew, “we’ll talk about Hellblade later” *talks about it now*
Last I checked, Ralph, Evil Empire spun off of Motion Twin, so some of the original devs would still be there. The word at the time was that one of those original devs wanted to expand, but the employee cooperative made that more difficult to do.
Great to have an episode without interviews where it’s just the friends 😊
CoD wasn't an Playstation exclusive before, it was available on xbox, just cause xbox own it now doesn't mean people will buy the xbox version, Microsoft didn't pay 70billion for Activision to not put CoD on gamepass.
If anyone of yall are fans of board games, Thunder Road Vendetta is a recent game that has really good Mad Max x Fury Road vibes and i think yall would love it
Apple Music is so much better than Spotify
@SkillUp At around 55 minutes into the video you put out a question about how can a Game Developer produce a game that doesn't live up to players' expectations. Talking from my own management/development experience the issue with why something doesn't work out is typically the result of three things, the first is that there is some large speculative entry cost that puts the project in a financial hole that then requires the team to perhaps raise the price of the product or cut costs or the speculation works out and it isn't issue, the second possible issue is the Directors or Officers during the planning stage just don't get it right, their idea just isn't correct and they can't see that it isn't going to work, so everything that comes after is doomed to fail, not each piece on its own but collectively, and the third thing is the project manager or team just doesn't properly oversee the project, and that may mean things cost more or they take longer and that means resources aren't most efficiently used, and the Owner(s) aren't experienced enough to see this happening and don't make the necessary changes so that resources (i.e., cash) is appropriately spent. To make a final point, I gather, given this is a creative industry and run by creatives, they are perhaps not the best Directors or Officers so that is possible a key reason for the above issues occurring to begin with. Hope this answer perhaps give some insight into the answer to your question.
Adding my support to the "no interviews" crowd. They are usually the worst part of wb episode with a few exceptions, very skippable. This was great!
I agree with Jake. Absolutely loved the first game. Loved the message about loss and letting go. Still think it’s perfect as a single experience and doesn’t really need a sequel
Going to binge how it’s made in its entirety - brb.
i really do wonder if Microsoft will de-prioritize gamepass in the future if bringing CoD day 1 fails to bring in a sharp rise in subscribers
Pertaining to what star wars media to watch, I highly recommend Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2020). This animated show is some of the best star wars has to offer
This will be the first COD game I’ve played in like 10 years. Since I already have game pass might as well try it. And I really enjoyed black ops 2
You guys are spot on with this "conditioning" behaviour. I play on all platforms, but only buy games on PS5 or Switch.
For game pass, I would only play the "free" games.
Ain’t no way this man Ralph ragged on the Sopranos ending
Dude thinks Destiny 2 is good. 🤷🏽♂️
COD on Gamepass is not a "big roll" at all. Instead of only getting money from disc/store sales from their Xbox store and some of the microtransactions money off their storefront, they now get all the profit from their store, majority of profit from Playstation storefront, majority of profit from Steam storefront, and soon to be majority of profit from Nintendos storefront. There is nothing but upside here. Boosted subscriptions as well. The idea that "they can't afford to put it on Gamepass" is beyond false.
A Diablo 3 update did indeed add a loadout system, had a wardrobe you could interact with and saves everything you're wearing with like 5 slots.
Saying How It’s Made is for boomers is sad. It’s all about being curious and learning about what needs to happen for the modern world to exist. It especially should be for kids.
Ralph is trying to get on the Kimmel monthly supercut again with his "Can you believe it's already June?" Also, Interview with the Vampire... technically more walking dead.
I'm starting to think that Ralph is talking too much, there is no room for the others to express longer ideas because Ralph just continue to interrupt them or taking the spotlight quite often.
Love you all, just starting to note this, could only be in my mind.
im glad to hear the technology of hellblade has caught up to the technology of uncharted 4
My favorite E3 moment was sitting at my grandparents house over summer break from school and seeing the halo 2 reveal. I lost my mind.
That vege shop granny in Little Kitty was like the terminator, chasing me down when I kept stealing her bananas😂truly terrifying, she even phased through the iron bars by the racoon to get me
Jake doing his best Deniro while thinking about the Interview with a Vampire show.
Fun pod. I, for one, never understood the "X didn't need to be made" type of critique when it comes to creators revisiting/further exploring worlds and characters they've established. But maybe if I were a Professional Critic whose job it is to constantly consume and critique art, I'd feel differently? The rest of us only have so much opportunity to experience novel concepts and we also take more time with them when they resonate so much with us; I have 300 hours in Hades 1 and I fucking LOVe what Hades 2 has to offer.
I really like Ralph, but just like a lot of voices in games media his perspectives are so unique to how he is 'forced' to engage with video games. Don't get lost in the meta sauce y'all
Ineffecitive, is the best description I have ever heard of Chris Hemsworth!
During the FTC trial Call of Duties daily player count was split between:
Mobile- 50%
PC- 24.5%
PlayStation- 15.7%
Xbox- 7.8%
Also even though the yearly COD sells 20+ million copies every year the majority of their revenue is micro transactions.
I know I’ll be buying the battle pass and some skins this holiday because I’ll be getting it “free” through Game Pass and happy to spend a little on it for that reason.
I’m curious to see how the next year or two goes for Game Pass with the addition of COD.
They better market the absolute fuck out of it.
CoD battle pass is technically free tho, you get CoD Points to "buy it" in-game & if you complete it, you can re-earn the coins to buy it again the following season. That's what I've been doing since World War II, which still gives you 1000 CoD Points if you buy it digitally, I have never spend real money on the game aside from winning all those CoD Points from Battle Passes. I have like 15k
we've already been getting the game version of "JLo's Atlas" for years now ESPECIALLY from the huge companies that pump out the majority of the $70 games. That's more due to the live-service model's monetary success than it is due to gamepass
Year of the Indies so far for me. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes joins Animal Well and Balatro to form my top 3 so far in 2024. Love to see it.
Skillup is now Moonface! Lore confirmed! 😊
Damn, Ralph talked the entire podcast
lucy and tam have a short conversation about it at Gamespot. i wish she had elaborated more on that conversation because as a vetted games journalist, she probably has the most accurate insights into this matter. but then again, this stuff is a lot of speculation in unknown territory. its about to become the wild west of gaming very soon.
People don't engage with video games the same way they do movies/music/TV. They take longer to finish and require active engagement. You can load up your favorite TV series as background noise on Netflix while you do anything else but you can't load up a video game to do the same. Since the average video game buyer only purchases 5 games or less a year and most never finish those games, the value proposition of GamePass is dubious for the average consumer. You have to play an above average amount of games for an above average number of hours for it to be worth subscribing to.
Makes no sense.
You either buy one $60-$70 game or get 5+ months of Gamepass. The value in worth is there just from one full priced game alone. Not to mention if you complete several games within that 5 months you can extract far more vaule from you GP sub monthly
I too murdered the defenseless dragon and stunlocked the little dudes in Caelid. But it was FOR my Guts build haha.
Not sure how it's considered a roll of the dice. Xbox first party games coming day one to gamepass has always been the strategy. They will likely sell early access to COD like they did for Starfield to try and recoup some of the lost sales revenue. They will probably need to offer more perks through Gamepass for COD players as well, which will probably evolve over time. Just getting people in and being able to sell more microtransactions will end up making them a ton of money. But it's sort of a no-brainer. COD is one of the few games that could really move the needle. I think it would he disappointing if it wasn't on there.
When talking about games, movies, user questions lol etc. there should be some sort of visual on the screen, maybe windowed or full but it would get the point across much better, I think.
It's true what the indie developers said for me. I haven't bought a single game on my Xbox S Series and don't see it happening. I'd rather buy it on PC.
Very interesting discussion surrounding game development. I hope you all get Danny O’Dwyer from noclip on. I think he would be awesome to have on the pod at some point, especially surrounding game dev.
Ralph’s face on hearing Jermey clarkson named #1 😂😂😂
You’re missing (with CoD) that mtx sales through gamepass still will have big impact.
These are my favorite episodes with no interviews.
What suprises me is people still thinking COD is just this "big franchise/IP" like so many other in the industry.
COD Vanguard was considered a "dissapointment" and "failed to meet expectations" according to Activision... It went on to sell 30M copies, it outsold Elden Ring, was the best selling game of the year, despite everybody thinking it was shit inclunding reviewers AND the hardcore fanbase.
It's a 1 of 1 franchise across all media, more people have fallen off COD over the years for whatever reason (I'm betting the 70$ price tag plays a massive role in a lot of those people leaving), than other so called "big franchises/IP" have fans/copies sold lmao! 🤣🤣
People are in for a rude awakening if they think this is a gamble in any way.