On this episode we discuss the new Ghostbusters trailer, the Mass Effect x Destiny crossover, the Xbox Developer Direct and the forthcoming State of Play.
[00:00:00] What's up?
[00:00:14] Before we talk about Jerry's reoccurring nightmare of Mario Kart, welcome to Crashing
[00:00:18] Game Night.
[00:00:20] My name is Matt DiWario, your host, as always.
[00:00:24] I am joined by the...
[00:00:26] Who owns True? the man with a couch, the matriety services, the lion's mane. Jason Bledio. How's it going out? Yeah. Stress that one out, man. I want to. It was a, it was a, it was a doozy. I just pictured with big fuzzy paws and flowers coming out.
[00:01:41] What is that, dude? You miss some, what feeling whenever I see a cat or like a lion like stretch like, Oh, man. Yeah. I want to like, I want to stretch too. That looks good. It's like it's like it's always relaxing, I guess. So Theo Hessel was his kids swim coach. No way. That's awesome. And we're getting a lot of familiar faces back. We're getting the OGs. I Janine Melnitz is actually suiting up for this one. That's great.
[00:06:46] Yeah, so it'll be, I can't wait for that to actually drop in May and come out and I will be going to see that in the theaters. Because it's Ghostbusters. It's fucking Ghostbusters.
[00:06:49] Oh yeah.
[00:06:50] Yeah, and it's just, it's good seeing them back like the whole crew.
[00:06:55] And it'll, and I loved how they ended the trailer too.
[00:07:01] Where the older brother gets completely slimed by Slimer. with that. Let's talk some destiny news for Theo. Oh, cause it's on technically, it's on the outs now, isn't it? It's just destiny destiny. What do you mean by the outs? Well, after these, like, like it's, it's almost like to its end.
[00:08:20] Like it's there.
[00:08:21] Well, yeah, but let's, you know, let's find out the end.
[00:08:24] Let's talk about this though.
[00:08:26] Oh, yeah It's usually about
[00:09:40] Okay, I just I just want to say this her I kind of want to just fire up
[00:10:42] to do a massive effect crossover. Because it seems like it fit.
[00:10:43] I'm kind of surprised it took them this long
[00:10:45] to do crossovers, period.
[00:10:47] I mean, it's been 10 years
[00:10:50] and they're only now doing any crossovers
[00:10:53] because the Assassin's Creed and God of War,
[00:10:56] all those crossovers happened first started last year.
[00:11:00] There was no crossovers beforehand.
[00:11:02] Oh, wow.
[00:11:04] That's right.
[00:11:06] I totally forgot about those. to 2023 anyway. 2022 you had Assassin's Creed. Okay. So nine years. Yeah. Assassin's Creed, then you had got a war horizon, goes to Shashima, last of us. And then you had a cosmetic for witchers. Yeah. So.
[00:12:21] So yeah. So that's why I'm surprised it took him so long to do any
[00:12:24] crossovers.
[00:12:25] Correct.
[00:12:26] But man, those look sweet.
[00:13:23] directors is going to be leaving at the end of final shape.
[00:13:29] So it'll be interesting to see where Destiny goes from here because the director of the PvP is going to be taking over.
[00:13:33] Yeah, because I thought like this was like this upcoming DLC is like its final.
[00:13:43] Well, yeah, by the final from a game director perspective, right?
[00:13:46] You're still going to have a game director for three.
[00:14:45] tiny red one that you're staring at. It pushed the button. Try not to push the button. Don't push the button. Hey, now I'm just thinking
[00:14:49] you're guarding the other sea volume two where he's like, it's grew holding the
[00:14:53] boss is like, which button are you pressing this one? Or this?
[00:14:56] I'm thinking more fanboys.
[00:14:58] I was thinking ready player one.
[00:15:00] Oh, yeah. We're all thinking different movies.
[00:15:05] Yeah, all on this all different 10% of the size? Probably. I don't think it's that. It doesn't. Well, this one's only 921 pieces. So yes. How much is the regular? We can go look that in a second. Okay.
[00:16:20] So they're doing an R2D2, a smaller scale version.
[00:16:23] And you've got the TAN, Man, the R2 looks good. Yeah. It's a smaller one than the one that's already out there. Yeah. How come the small million Falcon doesn't come with or most of the other ones will come with a little figure either because they're doing, uh, it's a new series.
[00:17:40] It's a Starship series.
[00:17:42] So it comes with the special 25th anniversary of, Martin and Falcon right there. But yeah, that one's that one's amazing. This is the one I want like I want the executor. Dude, have you seen that like the the UCS one? Oh my. UCS one's massive.
[00:19:00] That's huge.
[00:19:01] And somebody put lights to it.
[00:19:03] So it looks super super cool. and X cloud. Well, yep, Game Pass Day one. So about is coming from Obsidian. It's their new kind of action adventure game. So I wouldn't expect. I honestly with how good a city and is with their RPGs. This one I would say is probably going to be pretty decent.
[00:20:22] You know, they usually put a Jason not being passive aggressive whatsoever.
[00:21:41] You know what agreed? I also deserved that.
[00:22:43] just it was next dude. You were supposed to go to next to that was like the other thing you were going to go to next. Yeah, yeah, but I even even then I can I had to.
[00:22:49] Jason, I feel like you told me once that you you don't like next as much. I'm not I'm not I'm not
[00:22:54] as hard as you guys are. No, okay, difference is we get it like once a year. Yeah, but I'm like,
[00:23:01] right? I'm like, I get it once a year when you guys come in. That's how often I go to.
[00:24:01] Switch. Yeah, that they release secrets of man.
[00:24:03] Yeah, they really have and it's also on the
[00:24:07] piece.
[00:24:08] I know too.
[00:24:09] So I do remember they started in Super Nintendo.
[00:24:13] Okay, cool.
[00:24:14] So there this is a continuation of that.
[00:24:17] I don't know if it's a continuation of might be just like straight up like it's their
[00:24:22] mainline.
[00:24:23] Yeah, it's their this is a game like game.
[00:24:25] Okay, so it's associated with the other games. Nintendo's in Kyoto. Sony I think is in Tokyo. So it'll be interesting to see how the Square Enix entries onto the console help boost sales in Japan, right? I think everyone's going to be kind of watching that as much as we can get data on it. Yeah, it's like the world ending, you're the hero, you gotta save the world kind of things. It's not, it's not, yep, anything insane, you know. Super, like how some, some of the final fantasies are like super political or like. Yeah, yeah. Like, can you just type deal like, yeah.
[00:27:01] Or like this, like, it's like so wild out there, you know?
[00:27:05] Like not like this, the earth building your community. Yep. And then lastly, you had Indiana Jones and the Great Circle announced. Mr. Troy Baker is playing Indiana Jones. Yes. Yeah, I say unbelievable performance, just even based on the trailer.
[00:28:21] Because like there are times when you can catch him.
[00:28:25] But there are moments when he would be right. of games where you get to kill certain things. Yes. I saw a video on this. That's what they can find of it. I think you and I both saw the same video on TikTok. Yeah, it's just like, oh, we spy this guy. Like, like, make games that play Nazis. But is it like changing it up? Like the guy making Andy and a Jones. Where you get to kill Nazis.
[00:30:44] Secondly, though, with that is I I fear that if you go third person on that
[00:30:51] You were gonna get it so many Tomb Raider and Uncharted references. They're gonna be like, yeah, this is just some comparisons Yeah, even though is that even though he is technically the OG
[00:30:56] But you are very you're very correct. Yeah
[00:31:00] Yeah, yeah
[00:31:02] Unfortunate too because like I would really like a well done
[00:32:07] Here's my thing Bethesda themselves have not had a great track record as of late. Well, I have a question though, but are they have they done all of the Wolfenstein games?
[00:32:16] Yeah, they did all the Wolfenstein games.
[00:32:19] Yeah.
[00:32:20] So I would say those have been their most consistent game because it does have its own
[00:32:24] fan base.
[00:32:25] But when it comes to like fall out and those others. So the Doom series, that's what it is. So ID software started off with the original Wolfenstein games and then that moved over to machine games. They've been doing Doom, Quake and Rage. That's the one I was thinking of as Rage and Doom. That's ID software. But as a whole, right, unless you're just a die hard a studio that's really kind of used to those like in your face kills. Whereas like Indiana Jones is kind of more like an FPS
[00:35:00] if you're gonna do first person.
[00:35:02] You're doing the whip, you're doing the gun.
[00:35:05] I'm not really in your face.
[00:35:07] I go over the shoulder. like, oh yeah, right? We sick. You know, I just, I think you could have done better with a third person. Yeah. Especially because I want to be. Agree. Right. Yeah. All of us, you know, I mean, I, me being the elder statesman of the group, I mean, I grew up on indie, like, you know, seeing those growing up and, and always kind of wanting
[00:36:21] in the beat Indiana Jones and like the arc why I keep going to the whole Wolf and Stein references because I feel like that is I feel like that fan base is going to kind of give it an okay like opening. But I think it's going to have a lackluster lifespan.
[00:37:40] I don't think it's going to do like as good it like it really
[00:37:44] kind of looks.
[00:37:46] I don't know. really in a venture game. Like how many adventure games do you really see in first person? That's not, it's not just that. You can, you can have plenty of first person adventure games. It's not, that's not the thing. The thing is that the, the tempo of the game is going to be dramatically different if you have it first person and third person.
[00:39:01] If you have it with a buttload of, buttload of enemies,
[00:39:05] like a whole bunch of Nazis or whatever, In this case, a game like indie Lucasfilm really should have just belonged on multiple platforms. True. Yeah. And by a studio who can really do adventure games like Bioware. I mean, like maybe, you know, I'm different.
[00:40:24] I'm indifferent about that.
[00:40:25] I'm indifferent.
[00:40:26] But again, it's a tempo an adventure game. It's not an adventure game. Well, we're working on it. Neither is... Neither is... I'm next. Missed. I'm sorry. For its time... This is hustle solving. Or it's time. Okay, holy puzzle solving. But the first one. Go back dishonored. What would you classify that then? An action?
[00:41:40] Yeah, definitely.
[00:41:42] Also, a first person action game?
[00:41:45] Yes.
[00:41:46] Oh yeah.
[00:41:47] I mean, they even...
[00:41:48] I think that's... I mean, it's like, you know, where I'm going to be and then back to But what's the on it? It's like high intensity and then you have a lot of like mid-level like Oh, like investigate. We're all investigating and do all that stuff. And then you go back up and then you have like some downtime of story. So again, it's just you got to juggle it correctly.
[00:43:01] It's a bold.
[00:43:02] I mean, it's a bold choice, right?
[00:43:04] We can agree on that.
[00:43:05] It's bold.
[00:43:06] It's risky, right?
[00:43:07] Yeah. So at the risk of receiving hate, do you think a success would be in the lines that they stay with the the mark because they're selling this as a high-intense first-person action-action game. But like you said, Indiana Jones needs to have those certain elements like Uncharted and Tomb Raider. You need to explore, you need to be able to see
[00:45:43] the character move and yeah.
[00:45:45] Yeah, so like, I mean, so I'm gonna put it out there I don't know. I think I totally agree. It misses the mark on on what it should have been, especially at being a no-gee adventure type of game and birthing, Tomb Raider and Uncharted are some of our favorite. But I do respect the companies sticking to what they're good at rather than trying to do a third
[00:47:04] party. Well, well, it's going to be a lot of teasers. They're looking at yes five VR two games are coming this year and beyond. So it's not just going to be just games this year. It's going to be ones that are cooking in the oven. So we'll see what a PlayStation's got cooking. There's now rumors that we may be getting a Nintendo Direct soon. Just kind of go over what they've got going on. Some new rumors have started dropping not only. We'll refill your prescription for memory. So for me, though, give me a, give me a switch. That's the power of a PS4. Cause then you're going to be able to get more games, better games on it.
[00:51:01] Um, hopefully third party developers are going to get more out of it.
[00:51:05] Cause right now, I mean, really, as be honest, the switch is more powered like a.
[00:52:01] of games. Oh.
[00:52:02] Um, okay.
[00:52:04] In the game.
[00:52:05] I have two little ones that are now showing interest in some of the games that I've been
[00:52:11] playing and they want to play them as well.
[00:52:13] So it's either A, I get physical copies or B, let them use my switch.
[00:52:22] One of them already asked about playing the wrestling island.
[00:52:25] So was it a six years ago?
[00:52:28] Was it six years ago? for me. Who would have thought that I'll share my name as your saying Jason I mean, I know I'm selfish as hell because I only want to play my games not share it come on Oh my goodness like you know, they're just not collectibles, bro. They're just no collectibles Anyway, actually you just you just a purpose. He just needs to be kind and rewind. That's all bro
[00:53:42] like you know, you know, I was kind the whole all of Yeah. Well, I mean, still, they just got a price drop. Anyways, so soapbox. What are you even playing?
[00:56:05] like two weeks ago did my first Crota's and raid and all of and surprisingly I did not realize how short of a rate it was.
[00:56:09] It literally only took 20 minutes for them to teach me how to do it
[00:56:12] and complete it, which is kind of sad.
[00:56:17] But otherwise I've kind of been getting into like learning some
[00:56:21] power, Microsoft Power Apps and trying to do some stuff with that and just kind of messing around.
[00:56:27] Very nice.
[00:57:24] So I've been keeping myself a little busy, but yeah, I'm still in the process. I'm getting like a little portable monitor that I'm going to have as a second screen.
[00:57:29] And so I'm still working on a little bit.
[00:57:32] Come on, Jason.
[00:57:34] No, for me, nothing.
[00:57:38] What have I been playing?
[00:57:39] You know, I've just been playing teamfight tactics, trying to like.
[00:57:43] Trying to rank up a little bit, a little bit of League of Legends.
[00:57:47] Voice noise. Hold on. Jason, Jason, I'm going to defend you on this one. Jason, I'm going to defend you on this one. Okay. Jerry, Jason will go for the platinum. Once you start playing the game again. I have platinum, Sekiro. Like it's all you did. Yeah. Well, that's right. I totally forgot. Oh, yeah. I've planted it. I was like, you know, I've got, I'm a halfway through the last major world before going to Bowser's Castle essentially. I have all but one of the special world entrances and initial levels done. I now just have to get to the second
[01:00:23] product challenge to finish off special world. And So he's never had any ways with that. I wanna thank everyone for crashing Game Night tonight with us. I feel like with you, solid, what you heard. Please make sure to drop us a follow on the platform of your choice.
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[01:03:00] Really dude?
[01:03:01] Really?
[01:03:02] Okay. All right.
[01:03:03] All right.
[01:03:04] I got to tell you that.
[01:03:06] I feel Jerry, that's how you.
[01:03:07] It's a wanting joke at this point. I want to surprise Matt. He's like, oh, yeah, he's on the ready. He's on the ready. He's on the ready. So, you know, it's going to be a part of, you know, like turn off your camera so that way he doesn't know that your mouth is moving and getting ready to say it. No, no, no, no, no, just like, just like all of a sudden, bam, like, oh, we got to get it. Got to get it, you know. So what else is there?
[01:04:23] I feel like there was something else that I was forgetting, though, but, you know, it'll come to me.