What's up guys, welcome to the Kinda Funny Gamescast special, but we are going to break down and analyze our thoughts, review if you will, the Ubisoft E3 2019 press conference. I, I'm Tim Geddes, this is Andy Cortez, that over there is Greg Miller. How you guys doing? Hi!
Doing pretty well though. Yeah. Aside from the weather in San Francisco. We do not in San Francisco.
I, you know, I feel like I was a little bit underwhelmed by that. Sure. Yeah, yeah. But, there was some cool stuff, Sean.
Pretty excited, you know? The real quick, quick thing, Greg? Yeah, I thought they started really strong. I thought Watch Dogs Legion looked great, we all were into it, and then I don't, I think they stumbled from there on out and never got in the momentum back up again.
I thought it was a classic UB press conference. It's consistent. We know what we're going to get. We got all those things.
A couple new games announced. See, I'm still surprised that Assassin's Creed Odyssey, arguably one of their biggest games, right, in terms of what's going on in an ongoing thing in the Assassin's this year, they announce and drop this Create Your Own Quest thing for story. It's free, it's out right now, apparently, but they put it in the pre-show. Yeah.
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But let's just get right into it. Like, our real in-depth thoughts on the Ubisoft 2019 press conference. I'm depressingly underwhelmed. Depressingly underwhelmed.
Give us more games before you get to that. That was such a hard stop, weird thing. I didn't think the other person looked that great. And I like Always Sunny.
Like, I did not make me at all go, man, I look into getting Apple TV+. No, I'm fine. I won't be part of that. It was just talking about, like, you know, Brawl Hollow and this Adventure Time stuff.
The Ghost Recon Breakpoint isn't my kind of game. I thought that presentation was pretty good. It was a stirring speech from Jon Bernthal. Then it was weird to have Jon Bernthal come out and kind of give the speech again, but as Jon Bernthal, not as his character with his dog Bam Bam.
But it was cute to have a dog out there. Sure, why not? The Elite Squad that came thing. There it is, guys.
There's Splinter stuff. You know, Sam Fisher not dead. Ubisoft acknowledging he exists in their mobile game, Smash Bros., whatever they want to call it. How many other franchises do they put Sam Fisher in before a new Splinter 5?
I don't know. And that's why, like, how many are left? I mean, the jump to the fact, again, like, I'm a Division fanboy, right? I love the Division.
They showed, they came out, they talked about the Division. I was like, yes, awesome. More Division stuff. Here we go.
You know, Episode 1 for July. Great. New main mission, brand new game experiences. We're going to the zoo.
I like all that. We're going to college. Great. Episode 2 is coming to fall.
You guys had no idea why that was a big deal. I think the build-up in the reveal there was, hey, we're going back to New York in the summer. Tim, do you understand that that's a big deal because Division 1 was set in the snow in New York? Yeah, I do.
I feel like that's more exciting to you. That's why I was like, because I made a reference that it's kind of like in Pokemon when at the end of the second game, you face yourself in the first game. Sure, that's cool. But in Division, that's not exciting to you at all.
I mean, the way they didn't frame it correctly, right? It seemed like they were building up to you and we're going to go after this person, this celebrity, this star, this whatever. But I mean, isn't that, isn't that, you're going after yourself? No, you're not going after yourself.
We won't be your character. I mean, they're not going to dial into my... How would that work in terms of if you went after... The implication is not like the actual character, but just like the idea is like, it is your agent or whatever.
Yeah, but if it's not my agent, why would I care? You know what I mean? It's not my Taylor Swift from the first game. I mean, I didn't really love many of the announcements, but I feel like they didn't spend too long on anything.
I remember a couple years ago for Ubisoft, but even just comparing it to themselves in the past couple years. Watch Dogs 2, they did the briefing, then a long demo that was way too long, and then a trailer, and then they had someone else talk again. And then when they did the celebrity stuff, they'd be like, there's always like one segment too much. I feel like this, they didn't do that.
At least everything had a pace to it where it was kind of, someone's going to come out to announce it, the show's something, someone talks about it, and then just rinse and repeat it. I wish we would have started off with Just Dance. I know that maybe they wanted to break the mold and do something different, but I would have loved to have gotten that out of the way and then banned immediately to watch Dogs Legion. I thought that would have been a cool one-two punch.
Mostly because a lot of us don't care about Just Dance, and kind of putting that in the middle was a little bit weird, kind of threw off the... You went to the restroom, like that's sort of the typical Just Dance thing. I understand what they have to do. You were talking to me about when we were doing rehearsals, the tech guys were running stuff for EA, like how this is a broadcast, like we're going broad, like you need to cover all your bases.
We understand that we talked about this with Bethesda's last night, their mobile properties. Are we going step-by-step on this? We will go step-by-step right now. I want to keep it kind of broad.
I want to tell you the things that I did like. I liked the new game of the show, Gods and Monsters. I'm interested. I think that the February 25th, 2020 release date is a lot sooner than I expected the way they were talking about it.
I thought there's a project we're working on, and that was going to be more of a Beyond Good People 2 situation where it's like, here's an idea trailer, we'll see when we ever actually get to play it. But remember, it's not that far away, right? Working backwards from that, I thought, um, Roller Champions. Watch Dogs Legion looks cool.
Right? It's like, that's the thing. This was kind of a, it reminds me a lot of the Bethesda conference where it's like, here's updates. There's a lot of updates on games that you're already playing.
And that's kind of UB's mantra the last couple years. We've been building for this, right? We've got Rainbow Six, um, Core Team. That was an excellent option.
That was cool. Free player co-op going into what looks like a zombie or monster kind of thing. Sure. It seems a lot less throwaway than the past, um, I forgot what the name of the expansion was, but you were fighting Red Monsters, remember we did that in Let's Play?
In Siege? Not exactly what the name of it was. But yeah, then coming out to make a point and saying that, hey, this thing is its own standalone thing kind of thought from the ground up. We're thinking the way we approach three-player co-op.
Sure. Pretty neat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Top of the room in the chat said, I thought it was Zombie 2 for a second.
Well, so did I. That's what I thought it was going to be, too. And because I was trying to run through what, what zombie franchises did they have? Like, what would they actually be going to?
I mean, Core Team seems cool. I'd be about it. I'd be done by that. Yeah, I'd be, I'd be, especially, you know, with, uh, Rainbow Six and Siege over the last couple years is really finding its footing in the same way that For Honor did, in the same way that Division 1 did.
Like, Ubi kind of has been fostering these, these projects and growing them. And with Rainbow Six Siege, they did a really good job with PvP, but also PvE. And it sounds like with this, with Quarantine, it's like they're kind of focusing more on the PvE thing. So I wonder if they're going to try to keep the Siege fanbase growing and then have this game come out as well and once more PvE and once more PvP.
I definitely think that's the case. You saw there was a news story recently about how they were saying they want Siege to go into the next gen. Like, they plan to continue on that way. And also, when they were talking about Ghost Recon on Breakpoint, they came out and said, like, this game's going to be going for years.
And that is very good for the communities of people that are investing in these games. But I do feel like it's going to lead to these E3 press conferences being less and less exciting here after a year. Because at the end of the day, all the games are old. So when you are having Assassin's Creed Odyssey being talked about, or Division 2, which is even three months old, it just doesn't feel as exciting as if it's a new thing.
I hear you, and again, for a broad term, sure. But I feel like there's a way to deliver that information to those fans that get them hyped. I think there's a way to hype that stuff up and have a cool cut trailer and have better descriptions than... If this was it, I don't know that it is.
I think the content dropped for Division 2 in particular, right? stuff they talked about after the game launched, then they came out and did the whole, all right, agents, here's what's next. Yada, yada, yada. It's almost like save a play for PlayStation Cuts of what's going on.
And that was better showdown than hell. But I feel like that's for people that are fans of Division, right? This is for the general audience. I mean, I disagree.
I mean, that presentation was not for the general audience. That was patch notes, right? We're going to Zoo. Do you give a shit?
Do you understand? Like, when they showed the slow montage of, or not even slow, but the quick montage of new places that doesn't ring to you, that's new, that's different, that's exciting. I mean, I just don't know how they could have shown that otherwise unless it was just a CG trailer. There's a balance between dumbing something down so much so that everybody understands it and having it be exciting to people that are already invested.
But I just feel like we're just going to hit a point that year after year, UB's house conferences are going to get less and less focus on new experiences and more just like, well, here's some incremental updates to things. We're continuing to serve it. And that's E3 in general, right? We've talked about it.
But I mean, it's UB3 in particular, right? UBM does that, I guess, too. But no, EA, dude. Like, I mean, what?
The Battlefield 5, Battlefront 2. Like, that is literally them bringing up these devs and big feet for us. EA didn't have a conference. EA was like, we're just updating these.
We're giving you updates on these games. And we're going to do that in a much more deep dive developer way. Whereas this was, hey, we're going to make announcements. We're like, this is, UB, I think out of all of them, was straight up like, this is a traditionally free press conference.
And I don't think that works anymore. If you're going to have it like this, right? Like, this is the thing. And granted, if you're new or just want to talk about, because we're trying to be so clear with ethics, obviously I hosted EA Play.
I got paid for that. So if you don't take my opinion about it, I understand 100%. However, if you're comparing UB and EA that way, I prefer EA. I would have preferred Division to come out and be like, cool, we have three minutes of whatever, five things we're going to show you for a 15-minute demonstration of running three minutes, not even explaining, maybe showing us.
I'd like to see what it looks like to fight in the zoo. I think it sets expectations differently, where we see this giant stage, we're expecting these kind of giant reveals. And I just don't think it worked out for UB this year, unfortunately. I can't think of a year that worked out better, though, like in the last couple of years.
I feel like it's always been the same thing. All the high moments, all the younger people too, great. We see this thing that isn't even here. And that was two years ago that we were all surprised to see it.
The people started giving that fucking game to the show, so you don't do that. That game's not coming out forever. It's just like a 2021 game. Especially with how they're talking about it.
Adventure Time for Hallows is a weird call. Again, I made a joke that the show's kind of been over for five years, and Chad was like, no, the show ended last year. Yeah, but at its highest kind of popularity, it was like 2013, 2014. So I just don't really see the relevancy in introducing characters like that.
I guess it's cool for people who care about Adventure Time, and the fact that it's a free-to-play game you can play as your favorite characters or whatever, but I just think it's a weird call. I guess we're judging all this kind of based on the fact that Cyberpunk introducing Keanu Reeves is like the hottest thing on the market right now is Keanu Reeves. And I guess comparing that to Adventure Time, I guess what could have been the hotter commodity? I do talk about it on the stream when we were reacting to it, YouTube.com, such kind of funny games.
The John Berthal stuff, right? Like, Wildlands didn't click for me. I want to know more about this. If it is a narrative-driven thing, he's actually in there and they're telling us more of a story about it, I'm interested enough to give this Ghost Recon a shot breakpoint, right?
I think that the Watch Dogs presentation was the best presentation of the game we've seen so far, D3. Yeah. I mean, that was fantastic, right? That game looks incredible.
And again, just the ambition of this game, where if you were to have heard this game as a content, you would have said there's no way that's possible. Gameplay in it. Like, actually, let us see the games. And I understand we've talked about this in each one of these reviews for Gamecasts, that we're in a weird part of the life cycle of these consoles right now, games in general, where it is.
Ongoing games as a service, and then it's a bunch of stuff we're ramping up for 2020 as we get closer to that console life cycle switchover. And so, to see a game come on, be like, here's all this gameplay of it, that goes a long way, and that's what I want to see. Yeah, see, I think that not all games can be treated exactly the same, because, especially where all the developers are at, all the console manufacturers are at, and I've seen a lot of people criticize us in our feedback yesterday to different conferences on, like, oh, if it doesn't have gameplay, they don't like it, and it's like, oh, they're hypocrites if they like this CG trailer, but not that. It's like, for game announcements, like things like Deathloop, it's like, we can just see a CG trailer and understand, like, this is a brand new IP, and it's exciting.
Yeah, it's exciting there's a new IP, and we're excited about that, we're not excited saying it's going to be the best game ever, you know? But then, for games that are, like, closer in release, like Gears 5, it's like, I'm disappointed we didn't see gameplay, because we should have seen what we just did for Watch Dogs 4 Gears, right? And we did see all the games. But I feel like, with all the games, it's different, I think the Watch Dogs really nailed it, where they had a trailer that looks cool, they showed gameplay that backed it up in a moment-to-moment way, that you're like, alright, I believe this.
This is how the game works. Yeah, and so I think that that was really cool. But yeah, it's just weird, because so many of these announcements, it just kind of feels like, oh, okay, we're just doing it, this is copy and paste, as usual, and I feel like this is the first E3 in a while, where conference after conference is just like, the question isn't, oh man, who won? It's like, did anyone win?
I don't know, sorry. It's just like, the only way to win is by not playing. Yeah, everybody kept posting a meme of, like, you can't disappoint if you don't have a conference. Yeah, it's, I don't know.
I don't like that necessarily either, though, because it's like, these people are showing up, and there is cool stuff. Yeah. So it's like, just because there's a lot of next stuff around. There's a lot of next stuff.
We're two hours away from the kind of funny game showcase. It's kind of funny about the best press conference. We'll see. We'll see.
We'll see. I invite you all to live stream it, and then I do a post show where you just tear it apart, like we do every one of these things. I don't like that game. No, no, game play.
Too much game play. Yeah, I don't know, so far, just ranking the conferences for you guys. What do you think? I think Bethesda's a far and away one.
I think it was the one that had the interesting reveals, went through everything quick, it's the best pace. I'll see them stuff. Wonder book moment in the center, right? The iOS stuff they did last night.
I think that's the only thing where I was like, come on, you're like, okay, are you counting the eight players at the conference? So then I think it's Bethesda, then I think it's Microsoft, then I think it's UB. Yeah, I agree with that, yeah. I think the fact that we got really awesome stuff that we knew about already, right?
We got cool Doom-looking stuff, we got Wolfenstein, Youngblood, Newblood, Youngblood, but then the fact that they introduced these brand new IPs that look incredible, I think that sets them apart from the other conferences where a lot of the unknowns that we weren't that cool. They weren't as cool as what we got from Ghostwire Tokyo, or from Deathloop. Man, I'm never going to remember that name. I agree, too.
There goes Bethesda, Microsoft, and UB, but I don't think it's far and away. I think it's a lot closer than that, where it's a fantastical moment, but they're just nothing more like that. I mean, they had the best moment, the counter moment. But even that, that's just such a, it's a weird thing that we're just excited about the matches in the game, because how often does that turn out well?
I feel like this is the example that it will. I believe in CD Projekt Red, I believe in Keanu, and them working together. They're seeing him come out on stage and the energy, and that was the direction they let him go. I'm like, all right, I'll buy this.
It's just the fact that it is the most anticipated game, probably, of the whole conference. Probably for all of E3, right? This is the game that people are looking forward to the most. I'd say, like, this is the one of the most hype around it, and the fact that they got, you know, the hottest commodity on the market right now in Keanu, I think it's...
It's always one of E3, right? It is a crazy left-field surprise. And I feel like we used to get more of those, and it's very easy year to year. But in the further back you go, you know what I mean?
In the fewer leaks there were, and it was a bigger deal of what this shit was happening. And here we are, and it's like, okay, cool. Like, this is an E3 that feels predictable, which is never fun. Like, it's cool to see the games you love updated, right?
But it is the things that you don't see coming that you're the most excited. It's always the same way of, like, as a kid, you want to, you know, peek in your parents' closet and find out what your Christmas presents are, but then that ruins Christmas morning. It's when we are here, and it is what you think, and it's a little bit different. It's like, okay, like, you could not pay.
If you were to take out the, you know, the Gatorade get hype moment you like to insert and dream about, right? I think we could plan most of these things. Pretty much beat for beat, right? And understand where we're going to get out on it.
Yeah, I take you on, it was like the biggest surprise. Second biggest surprise, the fact that Flight Simulator was on stage. How is this game? It was great.
The chat's very divided about ranking the three that we're talking about. It's fairly evenly split on what we're doing. People are insane, Ubi. So, yeah, that's interesting.
I wonder, so we have two more. We got Square and we got Nintendo. Square's going to be interesting. I'm very interested in the format of it.
So Square is live, so I wonder if they're going to have an on-stage press conference, and if so, is it going to have this kind of flash and grandeur that we've seen from Microsoft and Bethesda and Ubi? Because as far as I know, Square's never done that. They've always used the other guys, like PlayStation and Xbox, to time those big moments. They've done live stage shows, but it kind of just looks like they rented out a hotel and sort of a stage awkwardly presented things.
That's a great point. I didn't think about it. I don't think I ever got an invite for a Square thing. Is it just going to be direct?
Last year was a direct? Last year was straight up a... I assumed it was... No one was even on camera.
It was just kind of like trailers and stuff, right? It was horrible last year. But this year we know we got Avengers. We know we got Final Fantasy VII Remake, baby.
Let's go. Yeah. Wow, that's interesting. I haven't thought that through.
I've been getting so much. Of course, kind of... funny correspondents, no Mike, also on Twitch. He's out there for us, beating the pavement, going to these things, of course, I didn't even think about it.
Is there one for Square? Very interesting. What if Chris Evans shows up? That would have been a cool moment if an actor of that sort of caliber goes like, pitch-whacking is your Avengers, and he comes out so much, assembled.
Hey, everybody, I'm Chris Evans here to talk to you about this game that is not tied to the MCU at all this very confusing. I'd cry, dude. I would cry. That'd be awesome.
Not gonna happen. Not a snowball chance. What if Stan Lee comes out to take his own death game for this? You know what I mean?
Bang, anything happened in 3. So now let's just go step-by-step. Will you be back here for a little bit? Yeah.
Number one, we start off with the Assassin's Creed Symphony. At this point, we've seen it before. Zelda did it back in 2014, I want to say, for Zelda's 25th anniversary. That was hype.
PlayStation did it for 2016, with God of War, and throughout the entire show. That press conference was pitch-perfect. I don't think we'll ever get that magic again. I agree.
Where the entire thing was hype, there was big surprises, Crash Bandicoot was there, and they had the orchestra playing all the music, and every single major game had a big set piece on stage that was like a production. That was really cool. I hate to say it about Ubisoft Symphony, but I mean, it was bittersweet. There you go.
It was bittersweet. I thought that it was very poorly liked, and it just kind of felt Yeah, but you got something wrong. Yeah, it just didn't sound great. I thought the video didn't start the video on time.
The composer's kind of waiting around for a bit. Waiting for his cue. Not my favorite thing, and I like those musical interludes and stuff. I do appreciate UB's kind of love for it, not just the games of video games, but the culture of video games.
They always do these type of things to celebrate music in different ways, or their communities, or their developers and all that. So that's just cool. Come on, when they got to the SEO team, though. Now, again, it's like in Hale 5, it's like hearing Hale 2, like, this is cool, this is cool, but let's move on.
Unlikely, I forgot the name, unlikely something on Twitch chat says, Kind of Funny Showcase, save my E3 with a Splinter Cell reveal. No, I want to do that. I want to do that. It's 430.
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Confirmed. No Splinter Cell. No Splinter Cell. No Death Stranding.
A lot of roadblocks. Again, I like what I saw. On paper, when Jason reported on it, Kotaku, and we read about it, it was like, so there's no main character? You're controlling NPCs?
Like, I don't get what's happening, but like, Bagley talking to them, kind of like Charlie, and they're all your angels, like, okay, so Bagley's the main character. Like, okay, I get what we're doing. Nice direction. It was a interesting way to go with it.
I was when all the leaks were happening in the scowl about what this game is. I was like, how is this going to work story-wise? And having that kind of voice be the driving force could be very interesting. I like the varied characters that they showed there, the amount of NPCs that you can make PCs.
It's cool. But yeah, the London aesthetic is never my favorite thing. Oh, yeah. The racist, I mean, whatever.
The race of Europeans. It was a direction that I didn't expect because I think, I might be wrong about this, but in our predictions, I think I predicted that it was going to not be as technically advanced looking as Watch Dogs 2 was. And I was totally off. It went way further.
Yeah, yeah. It does at least give it a unique look for the world that they're showing off there. Yeah, it was like going from advanced warfare, or modern warfare to advanced warfare. Suddenly the technology is just so, at least 50 years in the future it looked like.
So, looking at that, from what we saw of Watch Dogs Legion, do you think that it can be the Watch Dogs that breaks out? Great question. I don't know. The problem with not having an anchored main character is that then you just lose already a narrative threat to it.
So it's interesting how they go through it. When I'm watching that, it's giving me vibes of Peace Walker, or Metal Gear 5, right? Of recruiting people and bringing them back to my base and finding different people with it. If that experience is fun, if they are varied enough, if it is just something that you're having whack.
I mean, because I was joking around about it, but for real, I'm going to try to build a team that's just old women. Just find me a bunch of old women and what can we do in a very specific way? If I'm already thinking that, all the many, many people who are way smarter than me on Twitch are also thinking about it. What does Doc Disrespect's crew look like, right?
What is he going to try to run through and have? There's going to be people. Noble gamers, for sure. There's definitely going to be teams that just want those MI6 operatives, that they just want people who can be crazy acrobats, that they just want hackers.
I think it's a really interesting way of putting up against what you want and what kind of team you want to be. Yeah, so ladies and gentlemen, they're watching the Twitch chat. Thank you very much for following along with us. We will be back later for the pre-show for Square Enix.
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I don't think it will. And I don't know if the casual gamer who's playing Call of Duty all the time sees a game like this and buys in. I don't think it's a breakout hit. I do think it's weird that not having a main protagonist that I feel like that takes away It just becomes hard to sell, right?
And look at it the opposite way. We're like now, granted, not the exact same, but we're looking at Breakpoint, right? I know I didn't like Wildlands enough to play two Wildlands really deep, but I don't get John Brickle. He's cool.
I like him. What does it like to chase these guys that are like, you know, renegade soldiers? You give me an air to put it that's interesting there. Random computer voice vaguely giving us orders.
I'm in for it because I love Watch Dogs. I love Watch Dogs too. I want to see what this evolution is. I'm excited to run around and do all this stuff, but how hard is that going to wrap your head around and get people going?
That's interesting. Then, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, we have, what's his name come out? Rob McKelani. There we go.
And he talks about Mythic Quest, the Apple TV show. It's not a trailer of it. It's video game in Silicon Valley. But it doesn't seem like it has a production quality of it.
Definitely not. No, no, no. That's what I'm watching. That's the first shot of him walking out into wherever he was.
I'm like, wow, this looks like a cell phone or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks very good. Yeah, we were talking first impressions off.
Yeah, I feel like everybody in this game has helmets like this sledge guy does on screen. All these characters have a certain aesthetic and this guy totally doesn't fit that. I think that's really neat. I think that's a smart move for them.
Kind of branch out. I think that's a problem with me because as a big fan of Overwatch, I play Overwatch all the time, you have these very different distinct looking characters. When I watch our friend Alfredo play Rainbow Six Siege, they obviously know all these characters because of how much they play, but to me, they don't really stand out from one another. And so I think this guy with a mustache and looking like James Bond, there was a very James Bond vibe there.
I think that's a smart move for them. I hope we see a little bit more diversity in how the characters look. Like you're just wearing weird shit, you know? Totally interesting.
And then Adventure Time in Brawlhalla. We talked about this a bit. Didn't do much for me. Didn't know that game was free to play.
Well, Brawlhalla, if you remember, it's been a weird journey. That thing was a pack for years and years and years and then you saw it bought it and then it came out and it just didn't seem to set the wrong fire. Because it was back in the day it seemed like they had a tiger out of the tail because it was, hey everybody, it's a multi-spideform smash. And everyone's like, oh, this is awesome.
They played events like, oh, this is cool. And then it never came. It was like, the numbers they showed were ridiculously impressive. Yeah.
I mean, it's like every game, right? People are playing it. It's always a thing when you're like, you don't think it's a thing, but it is a thing. But those overs were like, a lot of people are playing.
It was like 60 million or something like that. That's insane. Yeah. The quiet side of video games.
You know what I mean? We just don't know about it. We talk about all these NPD numbers so we kind of have our finger on the pulse of that. Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Jon Bernthal, Jon Bernthal, Jon Bernthal, Bam, bam.
Spareak that jumped off the stage. Ghost Recon Terminator. All right. A lot of money being grown around for...
Terminator, man. He's everywhere. When did the... I don't know.
Don't already come back in anything. Then Tom Clancy's Elite Squad mobile game. It looks like a strategy RPG. It's like a Go series.
Visually, it does look like a Go series, but it looks like a game. It's similar to the Rabbids game. No Nintendo collaboration. That's fine.
Then... We had a too good last year with... Star Fox. Yeah, with Mario...
Star Fox last year, Mario Rabbids was two years ago. Star Fox was great because it was so unexpected. Then, yeah, Just Dance 2020. Oh, that was a fun little commercial for it.
That was like the best way and you can make a montage text. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. Middletown, Middletown, Roberson's Place. Just another team out of team Payton type.
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That's going to be awesome, dude. I can't wait to play that game again. You know what else? What?
Not as exciting, but it's exciting to me. Today I go supposed to pack the Rocket League. I'm going to try to pack the Rocket League. People always say it's an obtainable platinum, and now I go supposed to pack the and I'm actually going to try it.
For Honor. Limited time game event. Shadows of the Hoto Kiri. Until June 27th.
Cool. Go get a For Honor. Yeah. Rainbow Six quarantine.
Three-player tactical co-op PvE. Spring 2020. Cool teaser trailer. Yep.
The woman from UB Montreal seems like she's got a good head on her shoulders. Cool hair. Cool hair, dude. I like the idea that they, what she said, right?
Like, Rainbow Six Siege, what Siege did for PvP, we're going to do for PvE. And I'm like, as a person who really only wants to play PvE, 100% it. Yeah, that'd be awesome to sit there and actually get into an Andy over here. Or should I say, National Rifle?
So let me steal that man's glasses. He's still the man's footer where he got them. Where is he? He wasn't even on camera anymore.
Well, he was when he sent out. Oh, yeah. Then we got New York Social. So this is two.
June 13th through 16th. It's free. And then I just wrote expansions. Yeah, hold on.
Let me get my dog in my lap and then I'll give you a whole rundown here what you need, okay? New Mian missions. Brand new game experiences. Oh, yeah.
So you play for free June 13th through 16th. That'll be interesting to see how many more people get in there, how many new people in there. Of course, there's a confine clan if you're going to be committed all the way to the end. Let us know we need to boot some people and the coupons out.
You better not boom, man. I'm not playing. Are you ever going to come back? Look, I didn't boot you or Jen from the Destiny clan.
Oh, shoot. You better not boom, man. You better not come back to Destiny. Whoa.
You heard about this. Are you coming back to you? Episode 1 coming in July. It's got a new Mian mission.
Brand new game experiences. It says, of course, this is D.C. outskirts expeditions taking us outside of the city. We had known that was happening, though we know that was episode 1.
We didn't know where we were going. Now we know National Zoo, Kenley College. National Zoo seems like it's more the same stuff. Kenley College seems like it's exploration, combat, a mix of more things.
Hopefully more like the quarantine zones that are currently in the game, which are more like little narrative puzzles than are actually getting into the shit of it. Do you want me to fill up a water for him? Sure. He's got a bowl.
He never drinks. You want me to fill up a water for the dog? You know what I mean? Thanks, big bear.
We love you. Episode 2 is coming this fall. We're going to the Pentagon also known, but we did not know that this is when the second rate will drop as well. I want to clear, if you didn't watch us through the watch along, you can go to youtube.com slash kind of a game to watch that.
When they showed the Pentagon, Greg clapped and then said, it looks like an anus. Right. Pull up a picture of the Pentagon. He got it right here.
Here's what I wanted to do, Kevin. Pull up an overhead image of the Pentagon and tell me that doesn't look like an anus. And if you say, I don't know, afterward, I'll show you my anus and you'll tell me if that looks like the Pentagon. I'm glad we're not on Twitch.
You know what I mean? I got on that. And then episode three is a manhunt. It's happening in New York.
It's in the summer. I thought it was an awkward buildup for that trailer. Just because the way they made it sound, we all talked about it. It made it sound like it was going to be a reveal of a real person, an actor or something.
You know what I mean? Wow, that is an anus. What is wrong with your anus? Yeah, that's an anus.
That's an anus. That's an anus I've ever seen. Thank you very much. You guys are all popular.
And so then it was a reveal that it's in New York. Of course not. It's in New York. He's personal.
He knows how he is. New York in the summer. So we're going back to New York for the first time in Division 2 timeline. He won't be in the winner anymore.
And when we were like, oh man, it sucks not building up to a real person. Everyone in the chat is shouting out that it's Aaron Keener, who's a person in the division that is in the lore of the division of Division 1 and how this all happened. Yes, guys, we get that. I understand.
That is an even more obscure reference that isn't getting people excited. The way they built off that, how we were talking about it, was going to be another person, like a John Bernthal thing, which clearly in the year, John Bernthal and fucking Keanu Reeves isn't unheard of. That's what we're talking about or what it seemed to be. All this news is good and interesting and I'm in for it.
I just feel like it should have been a teaser trailer and this guy coming out talking about us going back and forth. It should have been a polished usual division. Like, what's up? Hey, agency, what's happening?
Have Isaac fucking say it. I'm in for all of them. Super excited. Like I said, the movie is still going on.
Jake Gyllenhaal is a good chess game and it's coming to Netflix. Cool, guys. Yeah, great. Then you play Plus on PC.
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And that's becoming less and less of a thing because you're going to have full-time services and you're going to be paying $140 a month anyway. But that's, you know, still not buying multiple $60 games. Yeah, sure. Of course, it's early access to the games.
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In 2020, it will come to Stadia. I wonder how long, or I should say how long, I wonder when it'll actually come to Xbox PlayStation because you know that EA, obviously, that is the idea. That's already come over there. It's coming over there.
It'll be interesting when it's successful enough to go that way as well. Wow, Team T-Pain won. Team Yachty is giving $10,000 to Girls Who Code. So I guess second place gives a certain amount and first place gives a bigger amount.
Girls Who Code. Very cool. 10K. Look at Yachty.
With a Latin Braise hat. Then we got Roller Champions, PvP, Team Sports, out today. Cool. Sounds exactly like...
The alpha demo is out today. You go to the forums and talk about it if you go to RollerChampions.com. Okay. It definitely looks like it's trying to do a rocket weekend.
Which is fine, great. When you look at them now, they kind of just want to have every vertical that video games have to offer in our ongoing platforms. We have this, we have this, we have this. Fine.
We have Rollerball, we have a really fantasy cool looking game and then we have a bunch of dudes and guns. And so then... New project, Gods and Monsters February 25th, 2020 It's Breath of the Wild But it's not We'll see It's Gods and Monsters It's from the City team Is who all the people gave you Assassin's Creed Odyssey Which is exciting for me February 25th, okay But yeah, I'm looking at it It was a CG trailer Looks cute It looks like a cheesy version Of Cassandra That slow zoom up Just looked like the intro To Breath of the Wild Where it eventually looks over The whole world And you get the title It looked a little too much like it But I still think it's gorgeous I love that art style I'm in for a different experience From UB that isn't Again, this is the team that did Which is Assassin's Creed Odyssey So yeah, I'm excited for them They got to see a little bit of it But check it out If you want to see some words I think so I saw a little bit of gameplay Well there you go Ladies and gentlemen This has been our Kind of Funny Gamescast Post-show analysis Of Ubisoft's press conference But our day is far from over Later we will be back live on Twitch Doing the Square Enix Press conference pre-show Doing the show, post-show Before that, Greg, what can people do? At 4.30, an hour and a half from now Ladies and gentlemen You go to youtube.com Slash kind of funny games For the kind of funny games E3 showcase More than 60 indie games For your viewing pleasure It's a YouTube premiere So that means if you want that right now It's already up You can click on it And just wait in the chat With other people We will not be streaming on Twitch We're letting other people handle that Easy allies do a watch along If you want to watch with people That'd be a great place to do it If you want to have it open Or at least a YouTube chat open You can be talking to Kind of funny best friends over there as well There's already 761 people watching right now Please promote this Get it out there Get the link shared and stuff We're obviously just a bunch of people In a non-AC condition department here Trying to do this I don't even mean to like Hey, promote us and stuff and shit I mean like these are 60 independent developers That I can't tell you the amount of times I've gotten emails and tweets back From these people talking about We've never dreamed of being in any three showcases Or any three press conferences This means the world to us So I'd like to take care of all of them Shout out to Dr.
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