What's up, guys? Welcome to the first ever E3 2019 Game of the Show Recap. I'm Tim Yetis, joined by one of the coolest dudes in video games, Greg Miller. What's up, Los Angeles?
And for the first time ever on the Kind of Funny Gamescast, the master of hype's a princess himself, Snowbike Mike. Tim, Greg, thanks for having me on. No, I've been bringing the hype all E3 long, having a total fun in the sun here in L.A. It's been a good time.
We've seen many, many games. Greg and I have been doing a bunch of behind-closed-doors demos. We're doing all that stuff. We're the fancy people with the monocles and stuff.
Snowbike Mike, the man of the people, he's out there waiting in lines. He's got the experience on the inside of E3, so this is going to be interesting thinking. I'm the man in the streets. I'm in the lines.
We're the people out there. Here are what type in the world. I'm having so much fun. What was your E3 like?
Oh, the blast. An experience of a lifetime, some would say. We went from the Microsoft Theater down to E3 proper between both halls. It was a blast.
I love every moment of it. What E3 is this for you? This is E3 number one. Wow.
Ladies and gentlemen, his first E3. Will you be back? I will be back every single year from this point forward. I love it.
I don't ever want to do anything but it. What was your game of the show? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't kick it to him.
We already know where we're at, ladies and gentlemen. For the first time ever, for Kind of Funnies, game of the show for an E3, we're split. Tim and I are arguing different sides of the coin here. Usually, we have a full team down here.
We have at least Andy. We had Colin back in the day. We have something. I would say a full team.
I mean, like Nick Sarpino's actually subtracting from the team. All right. Kevin plays one Switch game, says that's the best thing he's ever touched. No, no, no.
We have enough people to split a vote. Sure, sure. This is the first time that not only do we not have someone to split the vote, we also have just me and you here. Right.
Different kind of E3, smaller E3. About what the game of the show is. Right. So, Tim Geddes, what's your game of the show?
Let me tell you. I just got out of the Cyberpunk 2077 demo. Look at the jacket. If you're not even listening, he has a very nice Cyberpunk jacket he's wearing.
Is it reversible? Hey, you, ask me. Is it reversible? It is reversible.
It is. I'm not going to show you now, but I might show you later. He's really bribed me with a bomber jacket. The yellow side of the bomber jacket is the bomb side of the jacket.
Oh, it's so hot. It's great. I love it. So you're saying Cyberpunk is your game of the show?
I think Cyberpunk is my game of the show. We don't need any snowmobile. Cyberpunk was one of the most impressive video games I have ever seen for the second year in a row. We gave Cyberpunk 2077 our game of the show last year.
But this year's gameplay, as amazing as it looked, and when I still say it was a 10 out of 10, I probably would. Yeah, you're not crazy. But I think last year's was better. For that reason.
Final Fantasy VII Remake, baby. Can I get an amen? Don't listen to him so like that. Look at your heart.
Here's the argument for it. Everyone that I've talked to that has played that game has walked away being like, wow, this is something special. The Final Fantasy hardcore, the people that love these games, they are like, wow, this is good. The people that don't care about Final Fantasy are like, wow, this is good.
The people that love Final Fantasy VII specifically are like, wow, this is good. And I'll be honest with you, all three of those demographics should not have liked to this game by default. All three of those demographics should have been manned for some reason or another. This game accomplished the unimaginable, and it did things right.
This is the game that, when I talk about Kingdom Hearts 3, and I'm not trying to be mean, but a lot of it felt like a game from another time. Story-wise and character-wise, there's a lot of moments that weren't. What about the trailers, though, without sound effects and stuff? That's not as modern.
That's a whole other thing. But what I'm talking about is the fact that that game felt like a PS2 game that looked like a PS4 game. This game feels like a late PS4 game, maybe a PS5 game. That's exciting to me.
Playing through this, see the ways that the music interacts with the characters and the dialogue and the gameplay, and it all feels like it means something. And these are characters that I've grown up loving, and they're doing them justice. That's impressive to me as a Final Fantasy VII fan. It's impressive to me as a Final Fantasy fan, where XIII had its issues, but its battle system was awesome.
The staggered system, all of that was so great. Someone cares. There we go. The other guy in the kind of funny pressure.
Final Fantasy XV, elements of the way that the characters talk together, the bromance between them was awesome. But all of it didn't come together, right? I feel like Final Fantasy VII is the answer to that. They're taking what we loved about the original game, but applying the best parts of the last generation of Final Fantasy games, last decade, and making it into, honestly, what I think is the best Final Fantasy game that I've seen since X.
Wow. And this man hosted Final Fantasy XV on cover. Here's what I'll say. Of course, I did not yet to get into Final Fantasy VII.
Tim Yates could not pull any strings. Some say he has no power, Snowback, Mike. You know what I mean? In that yellow bomberjack?
I know. He's got power looks. No power accounts. Don't show the power looks.
Turn off the power looks. What Final Fantasy VII did to C3 is incredible. It looked amazing. The trailer was amazing.
You came out of it watching that Pizza Hut demo, and you said, Greg, I think this is a game you would like. And that has me excited. You have me hyped for Final Fantasy VII. In a way, I've never been hyped for Final Fantasy before.
And I was the other guy who hosted Final Fantasy XV. They brought me in, if you remember, because Tim was the fan they wanted, and then they wanted somebody who wasn't a fan, Mike. And so they brought me in and showed me, and I was like, oh, yeah, maybe this would work. But jumping into the story, I was like, why are they wearing leather in the desert?
This is a weird mashup of things that are going on. Dude, passion over function. Why are they wearing a bomber jacket in Los Angeles? Because you look great.
Thank you. It's hype. It's hype. The trailer, what you talked about, obviously, the reputation of Final Fantasy VII has me excited.
But here's the interesting point, young Tim Yates. You keep saying that Final Fantasy VII remake, right, is bringing it and making it a modern game, right? Something that feels here. So, like, Cyberpunk 2077 feels like it's from the future.
Tell me about it, Greg. Like, from 2077. I won't go that far. I think it'll be different, but it'll be like maybe 2023.
But the thing about this game is that it's doing so much right in such a way we wouldn't expect. I won't belabor the point. I ranted and agreed last night on the game stats that's now available on YouTube. But the short version is that, like, I'm seeing the character models, right, for the jacked-out, muscly dudes, right?
And I'm like, oh, it's like Rocksteady's versions. And then, you know, you get into fights with them, and they drop. It's like, oh, it's like Fallout. But then all of a sudden, you take out your wire, you're lopping off limbs, you're lopping off heads.
It's like, oh, my gosh, like, they're actually destructible. You're in this RPG, and we're so used to. It's a great Fallout game, which we know means it's going to be buggy, which we know means it's going to be stiff. You start applying that to this game, this game doesn't do that.
This game is frenetic movement, like dying light, you know, running, sliding. It's using cool weapons and cutting things in half in a way you've never seen a Fallout. It is destructible environments, right? When you're in that shootout, in that space, now that you've seen it, and they take down a tree by happenstance.
It is an RPG in a way of how do you want to build out your character? Do you want to invest all your points into them being cool? Literally, being cool is one of the options. It's like, oh, speed and stealth and cool.
Straight up, body, yeah, exactly. Like, it is such an amazing game because of everything it's bringing together. All these different touchstones from different games we know, genres we know, and putting them into this one game that I think, if it delivers on the fact that last year's demo was great, this year's demo was great, Keanu Reeves is in this game. If it can deliver on this, it is going to be a video game on, like, anything we've ever seen before.
And you're absolutely right, and that's what tears me apart here in deciding where does this go? Because, honestly, what's going to end up being the better game, I would argue, Cyberpunk. Yeah. I really would.
What I saw from this demo, what I saw from the demo last year, everything I've seen about this game is, it looks like Cyberpunk 2023. It looks like a game from the future right now. Right. It looks very impressive.
But I think the game of this show is Final Fantasy VII because, because it, last year, the talk of the town was Cyberpunk. If you didn't see that demo, you weren't at E3. You missed out, you know? This year, I think if you didn't play Final Fantasy VII Remake, you missed out on what this E3 was all about.
Oh, oh, right. I got the weebs on my side, dude. You got nothing. I have the truth.
This man said Cyberpunk will be a better game than Final Fantasy VII. Look within you, ladies and gentlemen. Look past the stupid hand saying Remake. And look to the future.
Look to Keanu Reeves. Will Keanu Reeves save us? You know he will. Johnny Silverhand is his name.
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I watched it, Tim. Give me your thoughts on both. Are you guys ready? Don't give me a straight answer.
I want to hear you set them both up. Okay, let's set them both up. I'm a man of the people, Tim. I was out there with a gamer pass.
We were striping. We were fighting. We were out there just to get a chance to stand in another line to go check out Final Fantasy VII. And Greg, wow, it's beautiful.
It's fun. The combat continues to evolve. And it gets people like me on the outside saying, oh, wow, I liked that. That was fun.
This is beautiful. And I can get into it. And then I say to myself, man, did I wait in line for three hours to see a 30-minute demo of Cyberpunk 2077? Yes, I did, fans out there.
And it felt great, guys. Did I get a swanky bomber jacket like Tim? No, I got a visor. Okay, it looks like I'm in the 70s to see a blackjack.
Let me show you something. Oh, he's reversing it. Oh, watch out. He's reversing it.
They literally gave him a one shot for him to reverse it. Then he walked out with me. Now he's walking back into it. This kid's crazy.
It's for the reveal. And so there I was, a man of the people, enjoying both. There I am, in a beautiful air-conditioned room, finally, out of the sun, saying, man, Cyberpunk 2077, take me to Night City. Keanu, take me away and steal my dreams.
So I got to say, guys, you both brought up great points. And I'll let you get in one last thing before I go and give you the hype report. I give you the final judgments. Go ahead, Timmy, start.
Final Fantasy VII is one of the greatest games of all time. We know this. If you look at any top list, at any credible games website, IGN, GameSpot, Kind of Funny, GameRanks, Slash Films, I just, literally, yeah, it's going to be there, right? I think that this remake is going to be better than the classic.
And again, I go back to this. This comes from people that think it's one of the greatest games of all time, from the people that have never played Final Fantasy VII, and from people that aren't even Final Fantasy fans. I think there's something very special about this. The production value is through the roof, and they showed it off, and it was playable.
This game, sure. Did we have to wait? What was it? Three decades?
Too many, too many. Since we last saw it, E3. Will you have to wait? Three more decades for Episode 2.
Will this game, will Episode 1 stand alone and be amazing? The answer to a lot of these questions are yes and no. Wow, wait a minute. But that's the thing.
It's hard for this, because Cyberpunk is so close to me. I want to give it this. We have two of these, and I want to give it to both of them. Can't do it.
We refuse. We don't do that. We don't do that here. I just really believe that Final Fantasy VII Remake proved something that we all thought was impossible.
Square Enix, I'm not going to lie, it's seen as a joke in a lot of ways. They named their games very silly, right? The last couple releases, questionable. There's people that love them more than anything, and there's people that scoff at them more than anything.
Final Fantasy VII Remake is going to be one of those games, and they proved that at DC3, that people, whether you're a fan or not, this is a good game. This is a good story. These are good characters. This is good voice acting.
This is good writing. This is good gameplay. They got that going for it. Greg, I've been looking at those baby blues.
He reversed the jacket. He's talking right to my heart. I need you. I need you right now.
The people need you. Ladies and gentlemen, go to the mirror. Wash your face and look at yourself. Cyberpunk 2077, single-handedly saved E3 2019.
Look back, and you've washed your face now in that mirror. Ask yourself, how are these press conferences? How many megatons were there? How many oh-shit moments were there?
How many things were there to get fucking lost in? The answer is one, and they're Keanu Reeves' dreamy eyes. Now that, of course, is me just telling you about the reveal of the trailer. Excuse me, I did not interrupt you.
I did not interrupt you. The answer would have been seeing a release date for Final Fantasy VII, because nobody would believe that that game's ever actually coming out. Here it was playable with a release date, but they decided, no, no, no, we're going to show that release date at a concert that only a couple hundred people are at, and there's an orchestra, and they're not even going to play all the songs. There's going to be mini compositions just playing in the background.
We're going to do that instead, deflating the hype. They messed up their own game. They're proving me wrong. I'm trying to give this to you, swear.
Counterpoint, if you believe that Final Fantasy release date, you are an idiot in a bobber jacket that's reversible. And if you believe the release date for Cyberpunk 2077, you're probably right, because they think they want to do 2019, and they made a very wise decision of choosing the date. I also think Cyberpunk will be delayed. That's not simply my point.
I'm not even just talking about the hype levels that were in the trailer. The fact that it's the only thing that made a conference worthwhile. I'm talking about getting in there and watching a game that is on another level. I did watch Nintendo.
I did see Banjo-Kazooie. Hey, that thing we've always wanted, that we thought was going to happen, finally happened. And what I will do is, once again, when I said on the GameSpot stage inside, right? I, for one, am glad Reggie's gone.
For his entire career! His entire career! Reggie couldn't get Banjo-Kazooie in there. Doug Bowser doesn't even have a parking spot yet.
He's like, you know what? Make it happen. I respect that. Cyberpunk saved E3.
It was a great trailer. It was an amazing demo. The gameplay was better than the amazing trailer we saw. The hype continues to roll.
Cyberpunk saved last E3. No, last E3 was great for a million reasons. What? In one.
I don't know. What happened? Did they not do that? You two are going back and forth, and I'm loving it, right?
The baby blues. I'm feeling the connection. Greg, appealing to me in Night City. I'm loving that.
Appealing to the people out here. Having some fun winding down E3 with us. But I think it's time, guys. Are you ready?
Sure. Are you guys ready, Los Angeles? I'm not ready. He's not ready, y'all.
I want to talk about all the other games we play. Oh, you. Oh, wow. I'm going to save this for the end, baby.
What is, of course, worth pointing out? We talked about the game's cast the last time around, which is last night for us, whatever for you guys. We said we had three awards to give out personally. We actually had four, it turned out, because Matt Scarpino printed too many.
So we do need to recap what awards we've given out personally. That's why I'm going to save this for the end. Let's talk about it. Yeah, we've made 30 more minutes of the podcast.
I didn't know how long it was. I don't know what I was saying. It's not you. You got to understand what he's doing.
You know what I mean? This morning, I got to play Star Wars. Ooh. Fall in order.
And it got one of my awards. Wow. And I did not expect that. For the record, this is the guy who watched the EA play demo that I had, right?
Spoiler alert. I had it earlier. I got to show him the demo. It literally was like, this doesn't look good.
And walked away. Walked away. I thought we lost him. To the dark side.
Something about it. I talked about this on both the games cast that we did and all of the E3 coverage. It looked loose. It looked like.
The story seems very interesting. The graphics seem great until you see the character models, especially like the Chewbacca. Yeah, the whoopies don't look good. Not doing too well there.
But everything else, I was like, something about this doesn't look right for the type of game it's trying to be. God of War happens, and we all need to deal with that. It is a masterpiece. So when I'm seeing a camera behind a character pretty damn close, and it's an action game focused on combat, I expect it to feel perfect because we know that it can.
And looking at the gameplay of Jedi Fallen Order, I didn't believe in it. Playing the game, I believe in it entirely. That's awesome. It is so fun to play.
You feel like you're in control of the character, and every single thing you're doing is intentional. The demo, when we watched it, it seemed like the AI was kind of dumb. A lot of people said that. Stormtrooper just standing around.
You're just walking through, slicing through them, and going through. They knew what they were doing. It reminded me a lot of God of War, where it's not the hardest game in the world, but it's a challenge. Every enemy counts.
And the force pull and push mechanics. Pull is on L2, push is on R2. And bringing one guy in, looking at another, locking on, throwing the first guy at him to knock them out, it's satisfying in the way that throwing the axe in God of War is. Yeah, that's what I hear.
The lightsaber isn't, but that's not the core gameplay. The core gameplay is the force moves. And that's when I was like, oh my God, I'm loving this so much. The story stuff seems great.
The droid, classic. We already knew that from watching it, but playing it, the things that he does, he never gets in the way. It reminds me a lot, again, of God of War. The Trace, yeah.
He never gets in the way. One sec. Out here, GameSpot. You guys are breaking the hype right now.
I need to push all of you just a couple steps back. We're going to bring in an emergency vehicle, because Tim, you got my heart spread right now with Final Fantasy VII. I'm going to step back really quick. I got a bit of bad news.
Tim, you were listening on the podcast, and the sirens are on our end. I saw them starting to push the fans around. I was like, wow, I thought it was a big deal that they let us close the show and they're like moving the equipment out. No, you need an emergency vehicle.
Look at it, come there. The hype ambulance is here. But no, so Star Wars, it's something special. Come on, the emergency vehicle coming through.
That's the lower third of your audio listener. Oh man, there's just too much hype here. I did not expect to be getting one of my awards to Star Wars. Yeah, I was incredibly surprised when you said that.
When you said that to me, that that's where your final awards was going. That's unheard of in so many ways. Yeah, no, it's legitimately good. Can't wait for November, man.
It seems like a very special game. And it's honestly best case scenario because I knew the story was going to be good and the production value was great, minus the Wookiees. But real talk, music, there's nothing like Star Wars music. It gets you in the mood, creates an environment.
All that stuff was set in stone. The gameplay, how it feels, I worried about that looking at it and I was totally wrong. I need to admit that. Wow.
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Dot com. All right, worth recapping again. If you didn't listen to the last night's game cast, maybe you're in the audience while they're holding on that shop. So you've given your, so your 410 faces.
Your 410 approved go. Final Fantasy, Link's Awakening, Star Wars. What's your final one? Cyberpunk.
Exactly, okay, because again, you understand it's quality in season. Got it. Dude, Cyberpunk, again, it's so close. But for this year's E3, I gotta go Final Fantasy.
Cyberpunk was last year's. Get it with the show. It can be twice. I remember IG and The Witcher went two twice in a row.
The game turned out pretty well. Who's the developer of The Witcher again, by the way? CD Projekt. Oh man, that's weird.
Last night I only gave one to Cyberpunk. It was pretty much as far as I had gone with the personal Greg Miller Awards. Today I had to fill in the rest of the three slots. First thing I do when I woke up, started running through the games in my head.
I've seen great things in the press conferences. I've seen great things along the way. But what is the standout story so far? And of course, as I'm watching my hair thinking about it, it's Google Stadia.
And I started thinking, my awards aren't, the face awards aren't, one of Greg's games of the show, whatever. It's kind of funny approved, right? It's something here that is incredible. And for me that was Stadia.
Again, last night I ran and raved about it. And again, I understand, I was under the best circumstances possible, right? I have an Ethernet line going into a PC, I'm playing with this thing there. Of course, Doom's going to be running great.
But Doom was running great. Doom Eternal was running fantastic last night. It's such a great game, right? Yeah, of course.
I had them today hit up them and be like, hey, I want to give you one of the kind of funny approved ones. Go that way. Have them have it. And, you know, enjoy it.
I think that, for me personally, the streaming race that we're in right now is a big part of what made E3 2019 exciting. And I think, as I said last night, playing both xCloud and Stadia, I think Stadia had a better presentation and a better demo. Again, you can listen to yesterday's game sketch for more on that. Today, though, I went and played a game called Watch Dogs Legion.
Went behind closed doors and they handed me a controller and I literally was like, oh, do I get to play? And they're like, yeah, of course you do. Why? I'm like, oh, you haven't been to the rest of E3.
That's not what Mike struggle is. He's just watching it. Jump cut to you and you're like trying to play an asteroid's cabinet. People are like, get out here, get out of here.
And literally, it gets, it got my obviously kind of funny approved thing, which I think after even seeing it at Ubisoft during the press conference, we knew, damn, this looks really special. It's really cool. And for me, already being a Watch Dogs 2 fan, jumping into that, having that ability and seeing what it was, the controller literally was like, all cool, yeah, we're starting you here and we're going to talk to you while you do it, but you can go do whatever you want. You can take over whatever people you're trying to recruit whatever people you want.
This isn't a canned demo where we're telling you specifically what to do. So what I started doing for it was when you're out in the world, walking around it was, all right, cool, you can look at anybody you want, you walk the street, you hold one of the R1s over, you scan the person, scan the person, and then it slowly builds up, you get the basic information, it slowly builds up, and then it builds a profile on that person. So then if you want to really get into trying to recruit them to the team, because it's not like, oh, I choose you, you take them over, you have to get them out of something, you have to have them on dead sex side. So I started doing this and I was like, oh, I'm like, what is happening?
Because how is it doing this? How are you making that game like this where I can scan anybody, even bad guys you're fighting and try to figure this out. Do you really want to know? I'm like, yeah, so we started going through magic, but no, the subsystems and sub levels and the way they group people up in terms of like, oh, this person's like this, and then it's like, okay, well, this person lives in this part of London, so they'd probably be like this, it's not the business part, they'd be more like a doc worker, and like, the way they've done this, they can sit there and generate this stuff.
So as you're scanning the person, it's building a deep profile for them. So when you click into it, it is, cool, this old, they have this as a spouse, they have this friend, they do this, they enjoy this, they don't enjoy that, they have a criminal record, they have this over there, there's a loan shark that needs them. And so I just started walking down the street and eventually found one of my favorite forms of entertainment, a street performer. You know the type, spray paint itself gold, stand like a statue, you know what I mean?
Art, art as they say. When you go to the theater, that's what you're saying. I scanned this guy, I'm like, clearly I want the street performer moron in my group, you know what I mean? Just a whole crew of moron street performers out there.
Exactly. And so I was that, alright cool, here are the three options, right? I saw that he had a girlfriend, I saw that he had this, he had a loan out or something like that, and you can try to take it from whatever avenue you want to get on your team. I was like, I want to do the girlfriend option.
He's like, cool, that's the most random, who knows what's going to happen, but do it. I'm down, I'm like, alright cool, chose it, and it was, okay, he's going to, you can see the schedules, right? I can see he's going to have a dinner with his girlfriend at seven o'clock or whatever. I was like, alright cool, and he's like, oh, love is love, I'm not trying to take away from it, and I'm getting the demo from a developer, and he's busting out, he's like, we have this thing in here where there are sugar mama and sugar daddy relationships, and we looked at it, and it was like, it defined her as girlfriend, not sugar mama, and he's like, so this is a real thing, they're in love, and this is how it is, and so I was like, alright cool, and it turned out that she had information that people were hanging over her head, right?
So now, to get on the good graces of the street performer, I'm instead of directly helping him, I'm going to go help his girlfriend. So then it was that I found her in the street I need to stop right now, Greg, you're giving game of the show to Cyberpunk 2077, a game that allows you to attribute cool points over Watch Dogs Legion, a game that allows you to be a sugar mama. You're a monster. I am a monster, I know.
Always right. I went and talked to her, the thing about her was they have the meter of what they think of Densek, which is a hacker group obviously from Watch Dogs. She had a very bad opinion, and so I approached her and she's like, I hate Densek, I'm like, well what about, we can help you in the things, like, if you could help that, that would change my mind. They were very clear, like, this is an E3, we're boosting this, it would take more than one job if you could do it though.
So I was like, cool, there's incriminating evidence on her in Scotland Yard. So I went over to Scotland Yard, I'm playing as a hacker, I got a little robot spider I'm tossing out, he's doing stuff, I'm in there, I hacked the thing they showed, the Amazon delivery drone, I'm riding that thing around just for hell of it, you know what I mean? But eventually I get in there, I delete the thing, I come back, she's like, cool, I'm in, she's on the team. You can recruit 20 different people to your team, that's your squad, right?
What's interesting about it is, everybody brings down the three classes, right? Enforcer, which is like, you know, shooting and fighting and all that stuff, hacker, which is more like Marcus and Squatchbox 2, and then infiltration, which is a stealth class melee. So everybody brings down the class and then as you get them and start using them, you level them up and that unlocks three perks, but I should say unlock three perks slots, there are way more than three perks. So the idea here is, you know, I want to only recruit in my real game, elderly women, and I want to call up the stealth performers, but for the old women I'm going to right?
I want to be the Salgette gang. And then it's this idea that I can do that, and even if they were all enforcers, even if they were all hackers, going in and assigning their perks would give them different abilities and make them actually mean more to me in terms of, oh, is this kind of job? I want this and Salgette's. And then it's, you know, that's why permadeath matters now because I have a relationship with this, blah, blah, the world is beautiful, the cars are, you know, futuristic and awesome.
We were in London for RTS London last year, and just even then, he was like, where have you been in NPC, right? Until they aren't. There's only so much you can do with facial animations. So like when I was recruiting a random ass person, and I've seen them put into the cutscene, there's five different main storylines in the main game, like seeing them put in and having a conversation, like, oh yeah, you don't look great, like, you look fine, it's not taking away from it, and I get why, because literally anyone in the entire game can be that person.
What's that do with the Incredibles? Oh, when everybody's special, nobody's special. I thought you were a Disney fan, I guess I was wrong about that. I wonder if he's wrong about Final Fantasy VII.
We lived it back in there, guys. The Incredibles was good, though, right? N2 was good, too. I don't know what he's talking about.
Animations are great. Characters are great. Anyways, it was awesome, it was great. I think the one thing is facial animation, and I don't think at all, it's one of those games that when I was playing it, it was like, wow, this literally is that sandbox toy box game.
How do you want to do this? Oh, I think one of the storylines they did, right, was one of the hackers got contacted through this, like, you know, dead drop. Come here, you go there, there's a trap, they blow it up, you know, oh my God, they blow up the Canadian embassy in London to make it look like it was a dead stack that did it, all these dudes come out, it does not have, for the record, does not have the same controls as the division, so I immediately am trying to crouch, I'm standing up, I'm trying to take cover, I'm getting shot to death, I get killed, right? They then kick me back to one of my other members and start me there, and even though the guy I was playing with is dead, my person just had to leave the mission area, they didn't know who she was, so the person who just put the hit out on my character, they think, it's over, I killed the stuff against the glass, please sir, get out of here, you gotta get some love to Watch Dogs, right, Ubisoft really took care of us, we got into the line, and then at the end when I get a sweet Halloween pig mask, then now I have to fly, back to Lake Tahoe Whip, people are gonna be asking questions, but you know what, that's how you win the people over, you give us merch, right, we want the merch, yes, give us a swag, give me the swag, give me your jacket, Tim.
So that was, that was, yeah, what is that, that's my final, no, I didn't say my final award, right, sorry, I had my things pulled up, so then Tim, I went to play a bunch what I saw in the trailer, watching, it's a Battle Royale, Gang Beast, right, and is it 100, or what's the number they are shooting for 100 right now, right now what we were playing was there was four of us playing together, and then 60 bots, so if you played Human Fall Flat, I actually think that's a bit more apt to what it is, but Gang Beast I think is a bit more universal for people understanding what I mean here, physics-based, just like goofy looking characters, goofy music, goofy look, but you're going and the Human Fall Flat aspect comes in, it's obstacle-based, you're running through, doing a bunch of stuff, you have to work together for some things, others are winning against each player here, what they were telling me about when we started playing it's very evidence, all these video game comparisons are good for looks, it is based on the idea of all the crazy Japanese game shows you see, where the things are swinging around, hitting you the legs, knocking you down, like in America we had like a hole, yeah, exactly, it is those kind of things where yeah, there's hopefully 100 of you at launch, right now 64 of us going, and it was the idea of, cool, five more, it was multiple rounds, we did three, they want a game I think what I wrote down, they want a game to be something like five or six rounds be about 15 to 20 minutes, and what it is that as you go, what you're talking about with the battle royale the numbers start dropping so for me in round one what it was with everybody we all start in line and start running and as you're running there's a solid wall and then doorways that are blocked with cardboard bricks and so you have to jump through them or run through them the idea being that some of the bricks are real so you run up and hit them and then they hit red and then you have to run around and go to the next one so now suddenly there's a logic of maybe I don't want to be the first person to hit a new wall maybe I want to be the first person in the back if you hit enough if you hit I think it was four four times if you hit a solid wall maybe five you're eliminated you're done and then people who get to the end then move on to the next round and the next round was this tail game where there's only so many raccoon tails in the game that a character can wear and so if you're running around with a raccoon tail while the others run around diving you trying to grab it off you and again the game beast comparison the human fall flat one of the reasons this game works so well I think and why it's I think a great pick because it's just different and cool it's so simple it's jump, it's dive, it's grab and then when you grab you can mantle and it's not like a game beast where it's always that thing of like you're hanging on the wall after having not played for a month like how do I pull myself up? what do I do? this is meant to be a party game meant to be something you jump and go after the tail one it was the big one that it was like the run to the crown right where there's a fall mountain you're running up and down this mountainside and the way distance is this golden crown the first person you get to grab it wins but as you're running there's all these different like you know triangles in there that are being used to deflect these giant boulders that are falling at you and none of this all looks like nerf stuff that's hitting you none of it's like scary it's all meant to be very kid-like and that's why it's interesting the devolver thing crazy enough right you go over there on the media side you go to these like Winnebago's to play games in them this one I walked up to like all right cool take off your shoes I was like all right take off my shoes and open the thing and it's made up to be like a preschool room where they have all those multicolored like swatches of like little rubber stuff and like we sat there and played this goofy game but it went way too quick it was a game I would have played way more of but they just had those three things to go run and do PlayStation 4 it's PC early 2020 again they're targeting 100 players at launch like the Battle Royale thing the idea they're talking about in there is they want to add rounds every month they want to do like they already are testing Tuck of War stuff they're already doing things like you're tied together to other people it's the idea that they want I got to see another game that surprised me so Star Wars was one of them that like looking at it I'm like oh I have issues I don't think it's going to be great playing it I was like oh this is pretty good Contra what? the game we all universally bought?
the game that literally the Nintendo Direct I was just like oh my god this looks like trash I played it and I'm like this still looks like trash but it's kind of fun wow it's a weird twist on the shmup twin snake shooter because it adds a role playing element where as you're going through you're advancing your weapons you're changing characters you're advancing to augments to yourself they're going all in on the crazy aesthetic of like yeah you're a woman who is like crying from Ninja Turtles with like a brain in her stomach because the aliens invaded and they won and like it's just it's not comedy like apocalyptic stuff but gameplay wise it felt kind of frustrating to play but that felt the entire time because I didn't have the right things I needed so constantly as I'm shooting enemies I'm like oh man my overcharge to do my next shot is taking too long if only I had it a little faster then I'll be able to take this guy down much easier it's not going to be a hassle and immediately I was realizing as I'm playing it like they got me in the loop like I'm hooked in this way where I would like to keep playing this to get better to get stronger weapons to get all the different enhancements to be able to play through it it's such an airplane game and the moment that lost me though was the price point if this was a $20 game I would have been like hey it looks like shit but it's a lot of fun it's $40 and I was like at least it's not $60 but I'm like oh that deflated my hype a bit from playing it because it looked so bad that I was so surprised by it and then afterwards I was like whoa okay it's pretty good what's the price point it's like $40 and I couldn't even hide my shock where I was like oh man it would have been good at $20 it would have been real good at $20 but yeah but I was surprised that it wasn't as bad as it looks but still it's not one of these I can tell you that don't deflate the hype it happens you know what I mean you have to run the price point that's what happens it's 10 months away Tim's a man with people too you know what I mean sure he's wearing his free bomber jacket sure not only is he campaigning against the game but the jacket he's wearing because he has no ethics to know like you know moral compass no we don't you know it's just how it is no he's reversing it again even though he came back on Final Fantasy 7 bomber jacket alright good burn got me got me at the end I played Monster Hunter Iceborne it's great my big thing with Monster Hunter has been me the wife and then Kevin Coelho and they both were over 102 and since then there's always been that thing oh we should play again Kevin and Jen it's always like jumping back in how do we play where were we jumping into Iceborne it was immediately like oh muscle memory I'm like oh I remember what I'm doing in terms of where I left off and whatever crazy armor I was trying to get it'd be a different story but the gameplay itself here the world is still beautiful the new monster seems cool they've added what fire clutch claw which basically helps you close the gap on them now where you can target shoot like basically the grappling hook and then pull yourself up there so if it's like I'm targeting a horn or I'm targeting a tail as we get up there and actually attach it to the back of and then it's like it'll automatically sniff the monster and it'll take you to the monster rather than you have to go out there use the scout flies investigate yourself I think when you're grinding when you're just trying to get something out of a monster now it's way easier to hop on you can still you can drink your hot drink you can go through your equipment you can sharpen your swords you can also check Twitter it's a good way of like cool Monster Hunter World is such a success because it took out so much of the BS of what Monster Hunter was before I think on top of that adding this in oh you're playing 500 hours this game you don't need to constantly try to figure out how to do this that was a great move while you were playing that I got to play Killer Queen Black oh my god I mean I've already loved this game for years now I talked about it on Gamescast literally it feels like four years ago arcade only game back then now coming to consoles and PC not the PS4 yet they're thinking about working on it they're not working on it it's a game pass Xbox and let me tell you I got to play it today for about 20 minutes that was about two three rounds it is such a good game it is going to be a multiplayer classic for years to come it's already hitting arcades and once you look at their hands on it it's going to be something really special it's a 4v4 game where there's two teams blue and gold and there's three different ways to win it's a 2D platformer but there is a lot of strategy involved where it all of a sudden becomes a tactical thing of the three ways to win one of them are being the queen and killing everyone else so if you destroy it if the queen dies three times you're done there's a snail at the bottom of the level that you can ride it's very slow if you get on that snail and get to the goal post you win there's a bunch of berries on the level if you take the berry and get it back to your home base you win so let's capture the flag give me those black berries give me the berries any three of those ways wins and at any moment both those teams are trying all three things at once and you start focusing on what you're doing and what the opponent's doing the strategy that amazing teams are going to have and talking to the developers of the console versions they told me something really cool the introduction of the black team that's where the killer queen that black comes into play where every day there's going to be one team playing online that gets the black outfit that's neon looks super dope probably a cool bomber jacket and what they get to do is anytime they win they get to keep wearing those outfits if someone beats them they get it whoever wins is on killer queen black's main twitch channel for the whole day winner stays on just like the arcade but bring it into modern times of twitch and live streaming it is the old thing of putting the quarter on the machine waiting for your time and winner gets to stay on the next person pays it's that idea but you get to wear the outfits and everyone knows oh this team is dominant who's going to take them down and that's very exciting I think that's a really cool way to take the arcade multiplayer experience to consoles and I gave it one of my awards last year and it would have gotten this year but it's so soon coming out that I'm like I'm just going to give a date no date yet this is the next couple months so definitely look forward to it it's coming to everything except PS4 so cowards that's too bad we got some hot controllers coming up with that collection edition as well just something to keep out very vibrant very vibrant loving it then what else did you see after Monster Hunter? the other thing I saw today I saw Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 I'd heard nothing what was that? it's good I was going to get to that I was going to get to that part of it no it's a game I'd heard nothing but good things about from Kind of Funny Games Daily you know Amanda when Amanda came in and hosted with us she came in after the day after the event and was like this game is something special it's a crazy RPG where you're a vampire and I was like okay so I came through like do you want to come see that and I was like yeah and I went in sight unseen I did not know what I was getting into and it is a first person vampire RPG where you there's been what they call the mass embrace has happened which is a no no vampire culture apparently where basically they made a whole bunch of baby vampires and then nobody was around to take care of them well no there's a lot of that going on this game for sure that is a lot of this it's set in Seattle Seattle is not only beautiful in the game it is very very very well realized where like literally they kept coming back to this it's set in Seattle? yeah with vampires?
yeah this reminds me of something they're in downtown though it's cool oh they're not glowing? it's different no no no but like literally they came back they got a mission quest from this woman went off came back and I stopped them like what do you want to do if they were asking what choices to make I was like I want to do this but don't do it yet is this the Hard Rock Cafe rooftop? because my wife is throwing parties there and I was like this is the Hard Rock Cafe and they're like yeah I already took a lot of reference shots from around I'm like cool because this is the exact layout of that plays that's how it's like real or being to Seattle right? but it was another one of those I mean this is like I think a great E3 for really cool RPGs to see whether it be something like Borderlands whether it be something like Cyberpunk whether it be Bloodlines 2 where it is you're watching this thing and playing this game and it's the choices you're making and how it's going on and what faction you want to side with and it's something you know with limited amount of game time I like a game that I don't want to see through something which it didn't do for me where it's just too much right there's too much to do I knew I could finish it a playthrough here they're aiming for it to be like 25 to 30 hours and like there are so many different factions there are different archetypes you want to be which will give you different abilities right because I wrote it down when you choose which kind of vampire you want to be in the front it gives you special abilities whether it be turning into bats which you can use in combat you can use for traversal having telekinesis being able to move things along that way or have this weird mist to travel as right that's like you have to make that choice at the beginning you go on that way and it affects the powers you have the things you act that was all cool I think combat is maybe it's not the weakest but like using the special abilities like I chose to be a bat of course that's what I'm using the bat swirl and it was attacking people it was like cool this doesn't look great but it's also it doesn't look terrible it was more of the abilities it was more of the choices you're making the relationships right this one woman that we were using who apparently she was one hanging out at the hard rock she was like hey go chase down go find this guy Slug he's from this different faction of vampires the Nosforakus and because they're a bat clan their vampires make them disfigured so they live in the underground and all sort of stuff talked to one of them he tried to get me to sell out the woman I didn't do it he's like good call great ran after Slug ran into Slug turns out this Slug guy clearly misunderstood dude seems like a nice guy looks like Killer Croc from the Oscar winning movie Suicide Squad and he's there and he's saying the right things he's being a nice guy he's talking about the bad rap he gets I'm like I get it here's what I want to do I'm with you they're like what do you want to say I'm like I'm with him say the top line and literally I'm like Slug I hear you man people are in trouble and he goes I never told you my name and I was like and he's like rats come get your cheese look how we're fighting all these dudes or whatever that's first rats no they were just people I think he was calling the humans he employed rats beat all them and then Slug again came out and he's just like yo man don't kill me and I'm like I'm like no Slug you're cool I'll help you if I ever can and they were like you know what Slug might come back to help you one day I was like this is my kind of RPG friendship exactly got my boy Slug out there so there are more gamescasts coming up on Monday youtube.com slash kind of funny games we'll see many more E3 impressions of things real quick we are very limited on time here because we're doing a live show I want to say a couple things one I realize why I love this jacket so much I look like Luke at the medal ceremony of A New Hope and I got to see Lego Star Wars I was super impressed it doesn't look like just a Lego game it looks like a modern Lego game wait for more later what else did you see really quick real quick what did you see give your Twitter version responses and then give us our game of the year between Final Fantasy and Cyberpunk let's jump in from your E3 correspondent what was hot in the streets Gears of War 5 escape mode so much fun couch co-op we were screaming out there will it be Cyberpunk 2077 the game that saved E3 or will it be a remake of another game Final Fantasy 7 remake baby Mike the nation turns its lonely eyes to you everybody looks at the man in the streets now I've been out and about the show floor I've been hearing the hype is it Watch Dogs Legion is it Borderlands 3 is it Final Fantasy 7 remake or is it Cyberpunk 2077 you two have major choice and I'm here for the deciding factor right now Cyberpunk they give you a sweet casino hat you get 20 minutes in the fan shaded area you loved it right on the opposite side Final Fantasy booth activation there's smoke machines there's a giant geyser out in the background and guess what twice every evening they give away free t-shirts for select lucky group who was in that final group I was did I get a free t-shirt yeah I did merch for Final Fantasy 7 but that's not what we're talking about we're not talking about merch here we're talking about game of the show for E3 2019 I'm here to split the vote kind of funny best friends game spot everybody here at E3 2019 you're kind of funny game of show we're taking it to Night City yeah well deserved I'll say I'll say it was close in my heart I would not have been upset at Final Fantasy 1 but Mike I love you so much who loves Snowbot Mike let me hear it get loud right now where can you find him Tim you can find him at twitter.com slash snowbikemike twitch.tv slash snowbikemike manythings.com slash snowbikemike you can find us on kindoffunny.com thank you all so much I hope you all had an amazing E3 did you?
we'll see you next year thank you game spot for always being so amazing to us believing in us allowing us to have amazing guests on the show until next year video games are cool man