1:10:30 Hello, listeners from 2030 Genius game developer Jonathan Blow was complaining that the PS Store makes it hard to find new stuff, forcing you to scroll through dozens of other games first It was because he was trying to find his own Braid: Anniversary Edition while the list was sorted by best selling
In México (and latam I guess) it's called the indestructibles los indestructibles, and kinda make more sense, at least actor wise, later seeing the original title was weird
I laugh every time TimDog is brought up on BTD. 95% of people will have no idea what's even being talked about but, man, you know it's a good BTD when the Dog is unleashed.
Context on the french City Hunter from a french fan of the original manga/anime and the movie is that when they brought over the show in the 90s they renamed the characters and redubbed it to tone down some of the grimier crime stuff like prostitution rings and whatnot and turned every vilains into goofy goobers with silly voices (even though the original show is goofy enough) and they renamed the main character "Nicky Larson" and that is kind of a legendary cartoon over here. It's the same story anyway, but the tone is lighter and so the french movie taps more into the energy of the french tv version (even setting the story in france, but it works) while still paying hommage to the japanese original. Imo it's a really funny and cool movie but it might come across as weird for someone who's not familiar with all that history
Dan talking about how most action games with two types of attack (light and heavy attack, usually) don't have great combat is like the most seen I've ever felt listening to a podcast. I played Devil May Cry 1 for the first time in 2018 and went "oh my god instead of a list of 30,000 combos that all do the same fuckin thing every move you have has a very specific purpose and functionality so I actually feel like I have any incentive at all to experiment with the different moves, why aren't more action games like this" and to this day I still don't have an answer (beyond just "making good action games is hard")!
I am going to say it. Matt Booty Telling Double Fine to focus on making the game you already have is unfortunately needed to said to Double Fine SPECIFICALLY. You can Moonlight when you are not juggling and having problems getting one game out. These people made and, I believe, closed down a whole Crowdfunding Business for Psychonauts 2.
Hades 2 despite the amount of content trouncing 1 already, is still undeniably unfinished, theres still at least 2 whole ass areas missing, and theyve said the early access is moreso to get direct feedback loop from players gameplay wise (like the recent dash/resource gathering changes), so im gonna have to disagree with kris' notions that this is just an extended marketing campaign. Also, fact checked the Triangle Strategy stuff because I love that game, it launched on March 4th 2022 on switch, they announced on March 18th that sales were nearing 800k, the PC port launched on October 13th the same year with no real marketing (it peaked at just under 2.5k players (which is still ten times more than neo twewy)), then they announced it hit 1m sales on December 21st 2022. Sales slowed down sure but I think Kris mightve internalized the time gap as way bigger than it actually was.
The thumbnails have been so good lately ahaha Edit: Regarding the SMT5 DLC, it will be included in the Vengeance game by default (I think except the money/exp dlc I believe?) and since the OG story will still be included in the game, I can see why they'd delist it. P5Royal has quite a lot of differences to the regular version so it's nice both still exist.
Man, I hope someone makes a compilation of Gigaboots Being Right about XBox throughout the years. If they start now, they might even get it done in time for Microsoft leaving the console market for good with minimal crunch.
Square’s report said they’re still going to make mid tier games, so I think the thinning out refers to “we won’t release as many like we did in 2022” For KH4 I could see Square pulling a “we’ll focus on releasing what we have as a PS5/PC only release and then work on a Switch 2 port.” I imagine that could work for KH4 & FF7 Part 3
If you're more of a day-trader kind of person: Nintendo managed an annual Return on Investment of 36% vs 6.8% for Sony. What an excellent use of money the whole massive budget live service initiative has been.
It’s almost like the big 3 need to release more than just 2 or 3 games in a year to keep people on their consoles, and not just massive budget money-sinks that they’ll barely make their money back on even with 10 million+ sales (*cough* Spider-Man 2 *cough*). Here’s hoping Helldivers 2 makes Sony realize that not every game they make needs to be an overly expensive photorealistic “cinematic experience,” just make actual games that are fun to play.
@@BatterskullIronically, in terms of cinematic-ness Helldivers tends to produce a lot of cool looking action movie moments on the cheap simply through its mechanics. It's just much more Saving Private Ryan or Aliens than Sony's usual HBO fare.
Outdated smt versions used to be just jp only. They happen to come localize stuff more quickly and thus the usual song and dance of better version that completly replaces old version comes to the international stage.
21:58 while the shields are intended to be broken by peppermint you can actually just spend a super, I think a majority of them are able to break through clean. the green armor plating that require macaron to break are, I'm pretty sure, explicitly only broken by him but thankfully those are so few and far between it didn't bother me.
Star Wars the Clone Wars is legit a pretty cool game on PS2. It's not really a movie tie in as much as you'd think, it's basically a precursor to the Battlefront games actually. Way more focused on vehicle missions. I played it on GameCube back in the day but I'm sure the PS2 port is fine as well. (I looked it up while writing this comment and it's legit the same devs as Battlefront 1 on PS2 so I was dead on)
Indies have been crazy lately been putting like all my time into them with Another Crabs Rreasure, 1000xResist, Crow Country and Rabbit and Steel man and all of those are like up there on my game of the year list easy recommendations if you like any of the genres of them
i feel like the division is one of the only franchises that instantly wouldve justified an extraction shooter spinoff because the first division had an entire segment of the game that was an extraction shooter before that genre had a name
isnt that "the clone wars" game the single player one made by the battlefront guys right before they made battlefront? if it is i think that's the one where the plot is that count dooku found the soul stealing machine
@@DushananTM yeah i think a lot of the things they introduced in that game made it into battlefront. i was gonna call the devs out by name but i wasn't sure if youtube would want to suppress my comment for using the word "pandemic" lmao
My friend and I, both Divisionheads for a while, tested Heartland. While my friend seemed to enjoy it, i tester it once, got killed, and saw that it just Would Not Click once it released. Extraction Shooter would be the closest genre, but something about the way they approached the standards of Extractshoots was definitely weird (negative). That being said, with Tarkov shitting the bed, markets for more extractionshooters would be nice
To Kris' comment on soulslikes, yes but also please play Lies of P. More people should play Lies of P. Its like an 8, its a soulslike that goes what if we just added some basic QoL features. What if consumables were busted good and fun to use.
I really recommend the french City Hunter movie! It's real fun but not as good as the new one obviously. A lot of it is rooted in nostalgia for France's toonami equivalent (Club Dorothée) and its somewhat different interpretation of the original anime that the movie sticks to and I'm interested in seeing you guys react to this weird love letter to that whole era.
I'm not sure where the idea that Unreal 5 won't support the Switch 2 comes from. They might have to dial the effects down a mite from the PS5/PC versions but that's not a huge struggle.
Of course UE5 can make games for Switch 2 but if you’re pushing all the bells and whistles currently (nanite, Lumen), the switch 2 isn’t capable of running a game designed like that so scope would have to be pulled back.
The YIIK playthrough's coming at the weirdest possible time. A partial overhaul patch released three years ago, and a full remake seems to only be a couple months away. However, despite some marketing implying the remake would be ready spring 2024, all we've got right now is its demo, Nameless Psychosis. That has been better received than the vanilla and patched base game, so there's hope for it - but not for this deathstream, I'm afraid. I'm fascinated by this weird disaster of an indie RPG that may-or-may-not be rising from the ashes. I want to know how its IRL story ends. I just hope it gets revisited by enough people once it's truly done.
I think the big issue with Square’s middle tier stuff is releasing too many games on top of each other with little to no fanfare (anyone even heard of Paranormasight or The Centennial Case?), so ideally maybe they take Capcom’s approach of focusing on one or two big games a year and *some* smaller stuff in between. If anything the news around Square could just be the new CEO finally being able to enact his policies and being done with what was set in stone before. Idk I hope they can turn shit around (they probably could when the Switch 2 comes out lol)
I’m stuck on the idea that the Sky Trilogy will see a release on modern consoles one day and I should wait for then to start Trails. But every time Aggro and Kris talk about Cold Steel my will saps a little more to not just bite the bullet.
Dan if you ever do end playing World of Final a fantasy make sure it is the Maxima version as it not only contains all the prior DLC,(minus Sora), but it has even more content, post game story content, and some quality of life fixes.
I love ff8s story but the way that game is just like structure with the junction system being confusing and then breaking up party members multiple times makes it harder to go back to compared to other ff games but man that story is so good
If someone's never played survival horror, but was interested in trying one, would you recommend Crow Country? Or would you recommend to start with a different game?
1:45:33 I'm sorry, what do you mean Chugging Bleach could end this year?! Are we doubling the episode coverage, doubling the release schedule, and/or skipping the filler arcs? Or is this just hyperbole? This month's Chugging Bleach isn't out yet, so I can't tell what's going on with it!
i think the mid tier of square is probably gonna start getting thinned out but like, the team asano stuff and the hd-2d stuff are gonna be fine i think. Most titles they've released recently have done well so im not worried about them
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1:10:30 Hello, listeners from 2030
Genius game developer Jonathan Blow was complaining that the PS Store makes it hard to find new stuff, forcing you to scroll through dozens of other games first
It was because he was trying to find his own Braid: Anniversary Edition while the list was sorted by best selling
My favorite part was the reply someone made saying "I guess someone else at your studio designed the puzzles for you, huh?"
Last week: three hours of bad MS news
It can't get worse, right?
This week: the YIIK deathstream is announced
It feels like it would be false advertising for a franchise named "the expendables" to *not* change its cast regularly.
In México (and latam I guess) it's called the indestructibles los indestructibles, and kinda make more sense, at least actor wise, later seeing the original title was weird
I laugh every time TimDog is brought up on BTD. 95% of people will have no idea what's even being talked about but, man, you know it's a good BTD when the Dog is unleashed.
Context on the french City Hunter from a french fan of the original manga/anime and the movie is that when they brought over the show in the 90s they renamed the characters and redubbed it to tone down some of the grimier crime stuff like prostitution rings and whatnot and turned every vilains into goofy goobers with silly voices (even though the original show is goofy enough) and they renamed the main character "Nicky Larson" and that is kind of a legendary cartoon over here.
It's the same story anyway, but the tone is lighter and so the french movie taps more into the energy of the french tv version (even setting the story in france, but it works) while still paying hommage to the japanese original. Imo it's a really funny and cool movie but it might come across as weird for someone who's not familiar with all that history
Dan talking about how most action games with two types of attack (light and heavy attack, usually) don't have great combat is like the most seen I've ever felt listening to a podcast. I played Devil May Cry 1 for the first time in 2018 and went "oh my god instead of a list of 30,000 combos that all do the same fuckin thing every move you have has a very specific purpose and functionality so I actually feel like I have any incentive at all to experiment with the different moves, why aren't more action games like this" and to this day I still don't have an answer (beyond just "making good action games is hard")!
I am going to say it. Matt Booty Telling Double Fine to focus on making the game you already have is unfortunately needed to said to Double Fine SPECIFICALLY. You can Moonlight when you are not juggling and having problems getting one game out. These people made and, I believe, closed down a whole Crowdfunding Business for Psychonauts 2.
Hades 2 despite the amount of content trouncing 1 already, is still undeniably unfinished, theres still at least 2 whole ass areas missing, and theyve said the early access is moreso to get direct feedback loop from players gameplay wise (like the recent dash/resource gathering changes), so im gonna have to disagree with kris' notions that this is just an extended marketing campaign.
Also, fact checked the Triangle Strategy stuff because I love that game, it launched on March 4th 2022 on switch, they announced on March 18th that sales were nearing 800k, the PC port launched on October 13th the same year with no real marketing (it peaked at just under 2.5k players (which is still ten times more than neo twewy)), then they announced it hit 1m sales on December 21st 2022. Sales slowed down sure but I think Kris mightve internalized the time gap as way bigger than it actually was.
I’m not gonna pretend Secret Rings was made well, but it’s crazy how I have zero hate for it and kinda miss the story book idea. 😂
I feel the same about Black Knight. Secret Rings, I saw the tutorial a decade ago and said "no, I can already tell."
The thumbnails have been so good lately ahaha
Edit: Regarding the SMT5 DLC, it will be included in the Vengeance game by default (I think except the money/exp dlc I believe?) and since the OG story will still be included in the game, I can see why they'd delist it. P5Royal has quite a lot of differences to the regular version so it's nice both still exist.
I actually like The Wuthering Waves' devs other game specifically for the combat, so I'm still excited for it.
Picturing Hot Fuzz in the funko pop game has got me staring at the wall without hope for the future of the human race
Man, I hope someone makes a compilation of Gigaboots Being Right about XBox throughout the years. If they start now, they might even get it done in time for Microsoft leaving the console market for good with minimal crunch.
Square’s report said they’re still going to make mid tier games, so I think the thinning out refers to “we won’t release as many like we did in 2022”
For KH4 I could see Square pulling a “we’ll focus on releasing what we have as a PS5/PC only release and then work on a Switch 2 port.” I imagine that could work for KH4 & FF7 Part 3
If you're more of a day-trader kind of person: Nintendo managed an annual Return on Investment of 36% vs 6.8% for Sony.
What an excellent use of money the whole massive budget live service initiative has been.
It’s almost like the big 3 need to release more than just 2 or 3 games in a year to keep people on their consoles, and not just massive budget money-sinks that they’ll barely make their money back on even with 10 million+ sales (*cough* Spider-Man 2 *cough*). Here’s hoping Helldivers 2 makes Sony realize that not every game they make needs to be an overly expensive photorealistic “cinematic experience,” just make actual games that are fun to play.
@@BatterskullIronically, in terms of cinematic-ness Helldivers tends to produce a lot of cool looking action movie moments on the cheap simply through its mechanics. It's just much more Saving Private Ryan or Aliens than Sony's usual HBO fare.
Outdated smt versions used to be just jp only. They happen to come localize stuff more quickly and thus the usual song and dance of better version that completly replaces old version comes to the international stage.
21:58 while the shields are intended to be broken by peppermint you can actually just spend a super, I think a majority of them are able to break through clean. the green armor plating that require macaron to break are, I'm pretty sure, explicitly only broken by him but thankfully those are so few and far between it didn't bother me.
Star Wars the Clone Wars is legit a pretty cool game on PS2. It's not really a movie tie in as much as you'd think, it's basically a precursor to the Battlefront games actually. Way more focused on vehicle missions. I played it on GameCube back in the day but I'm sure the PS2 port is fine as well.
(I looked it up while writing this comment and it's legit the same devs as Battlefront 1 on PS2 so I was dead on)
37:45 I can confirm that the French film adaptation of City Hunter is really good, I watched it without any prior knowledge of the anime or manga.
Love the new thumbnail format for BTD!
In sad thing it also came out a gdc video with the making of hi fi rush
Yea, that hit me a little rough when it happened.
Indies have been crazy lately been putting like all my time into them with Another Crabs Rreasure, 1000xResist, Crow Country and Rabbit and Steel man and all of those are like up there on my game of the year list easy recommendations if you like any of the genres of them
1:15:45 As someone who lives in Huntsville, TX this made me audibly go "wait what?"
HA!
1:41:41 Azumanga Daioh mentioned
Time for Gigaboots to bring back movie fightclub with a City Hunter Chinese vs French vs Japanese movies.
i feel like the division is one of the only franchises that instantly wouldve justified an extraction shooter spinoff because the first division had an entire segment of the game that was an extraction shooter before that genre had a name
I'M YIIKING OUT
This crow loved the start of this podcast...just don't eat me, jerry over there tastes better.
isnt that "the clone wars" game the single player one made by the battlefront guys right before they made battlefront? if it is i think that's the one where the plot is that count dooku found the soul stealing machine
I had to double check that, but I didn't realize Pandemic developed that game! Explains why it's so peak
and yes, that is the plot of that game.
@@DushananTM yeah i think a lot of the things they introduced in that game made it into battlefront. i was gonna call the devs out by name but i wasn't sure if youtube would want to suppress my comment for using the word "pandemic" lmao
@@hammerheadshark45 it took me a second to think about why, but you know, that makes sense!
(thank you youtube)
So Kris commands and so it shall be:
Ham
My friend and I, both Divisionheads for a while, tested Heartland. While my friend seemed to enjoy it, i tester it once, got killed, and saw that it just Would Not Click once it released.
Extraction Shooter would be the closest genre, but something about the way they approached the standards of Extractshoots was definitely weird (negative).
That being said, with Tarkov shitting the bed, markets for more extractionshooters would be nice
To Kris' comment on soulslikes, yes but also please play Lies of P. More people should play Lies of P. Its like an 8, its a soulslike that goes what if we just added some basic QoL features. What if consumables were busted good and fun to use.
I am really sure both Bob & Kris tried Lies of P and talked about it on the podcast last year.
@GigaBoots Did they? My bad, I must have completely forgotten. Its been a long year
I really recommend the french City Hunter movie! It's real fun but not as good as the new one obviously. A lot of it is rooted in nostalgia for France's toonami equivalent (Club Dorothée) and its somewhat different interpretation of the original anime that the movie sticks to and I'm interested in seeing you guys react to this weird love letter to that whole era.
French Fist of the North Star is still a masterpiece.
I'm not sure where the idea that Unreal 5 won't support the Switch 2 comes from. They might have to dial the effects down a mite from the PS5/PC versions but that's not a huge struggle.
Of course UE5 can make games for Switch 2 but if you’re pushing all the bells and whistles currently (nanite, Lumen), the switch 2 isn’t capable of running a game designed like that so scope would have to be pulled back.
The YIIK playthrough's coming at the weirdest possible time. A partial overhaul patch released three years ago, and a full remake seems to only be a couple months away. However, despite some marketing implying the remake would be ready spring 2024, all we've got right now is its demo, Nameless Psychosis. That has been better received than the vanilla and patched base game, so there's hope for it - but not for this deathstream, I'm afraid.
I'm fascinated by this weird disaster of an indie RPG that may-or-may-not be rising from the ashes. I want to know how its IRL story ends. I just hope it gets revisited by enough people once it's truly done.
I think the big issue with Square’s middle tier stuff is releasing too many games on top of each other with little to no fanfare (anyone even heard of Paranormasight or The Centennial Case?), so ideally maybe they take Capcom’s approach of focusing on one or two big games a year and *some* smaller stuff in between. If anything the news around Square could just be the new CEO finally being able to enact his policies and being done with what was set in stone before. Idk I hope they can turn shit around (they probably could when the Switch 2 comes out lol)
I’m stuck on the idea that the Sky Trilogy will see a release on modern consoles one day and I should wait for then to start Trails. But every time Aggro and Kris talk about Cold Steel my will saps a little more to not just bite the bullet.
Jim Ryan censored the One Piece game for US releases but not UK releases
What was changed?
@hassanico9999 they removed an entire DLC mission from being purchased for the game because it featured Nami,Robin, and Tashigi at a hotspring
@@loganwernicke7604 God, Sony is pathetic.
The great Kris Wolfheart Prophet of the Trails series has asked me a favor so I oblige
HAM
Dan if you ever do end playing World of Final a fantasy make sure it is the Maxima version as it not only contains all the prior DLC,(minus Sora), but it has even more content, post game story content, and some quality of life fixes.
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I love ff8s story but the way that game is just like structure with the junction system being confusing and then breaking up party members multiple times makes it harder to go back to compared to other ff games but man that story is so good
If someone's never played survival horror, but was interested in trying one, would you recommend Crow Country? Or would you recommend to start with a different game?
Crow Country is a pretty good entry level survival horror. It's not very difficult and even has an exploration mode.
1:45:33 I'm sorry, what do you mean Chugging Bleach could end this year?! Are we doubling the episode coverage, doubling the release schedule, and/or skipping the filler arcs? Or is this just hyperbole?
This month's Chugging Bleach isn't out yet, so I can't tell what's going on with it!
Hearing you guys talk about Crow Country makes me wanna go back and finish signalis real bad, there is way too many things to get to right now -_-
In my darkest hour of unemployment and illness, YiiK has finally arrived
i think the mid tier of square is probably gonna start getting thinned out but like, the team asano stuff and the hd-2d stuff are gonna be fine i think. Most titles they've released recently have done well so im not worried about them
Ham & cheese
The Industry Burning Down Block will continue until all the Rot is burned out.
I beat The Secret Rings as my second wii game ever. To all fans: IT WAS THAT BAD.
Edit: Good podlords. Love me some squishy rats just living
Wow that Sony profit chart is brutal.
Also Kris that YiiK story downplay was monstrous.
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9:33 enable
1:42:05 Nah. I'd Plan.
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Song during the Funko pop mental breakdown?
Bean Bandit IS so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!
Salami
(Wanted to be different)
Bob will be happy to know that instant kill stealth attacks are now a toggle in the menu for Assassins Creed Valhalla, so deathstream when? ;)
Can't believe KZ killed Triangle Strategy
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Ig it hasn't been long enough that they can play roguelikes after whatever the hell bad spot hit them. Real shame.
Rambo last blood is the most vile racist film I've ever seen
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