E3 2018 Predictions and Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller

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Geek. Hello and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm

your host, Steve Megatron Phillips. And joining

me in this episode is Mike the Birdman Dodd.

What's up, you glorious motherfuckers? Sorry,

I've decided that's what I'm calling all my fans

from henceforth. So now this podcast is rated

not family friendly, but hey, I got my one swearing

and that's all you'll get from me. So So yeah,

what have you been up to since it's been a couple

weeks? I have been doing a crap ton of reading

as you guys know I run a roleplay podcast with

a bunch of other guys called terrible warriors

and my subset Cambridge Chronicles, which was

our first spinoff show in six years We just wrapped

our Dungeons and Dragons session On there as

of this episode is recording. I think there's

one episode left in that particular story arc.

Boy, do the dice hate those guys, holy crap.

So that was a thing and just... It was an experience,

to say the very least. I've been reading a book

called The Fall of Delta Green, which is a new

RPG being put out by Pelgreen Press. And it's

Cthulhu in the 1960s. And it's really, really

interesting. But my god, this game is dense.

So I've been doing that. I've rediscovered my

love of anime, because I've discovered some of

my old press accounts I had for some streaming

websites still work. So I've been watching a

show called High School DXD, which some of you

people, if you Google that, will immediately

call me a pervert. And you know what? I'm OK

with that title right now, because the artwork

is gorgeous. The storyline is cool, even if it's

ridiculous. It's high school, this kid likes

boobs, and there's devils, and it's weird. But

it's one of the cooler ideas I've seen in the

anime in quite some time. I'm also watching another

show called The Devil is a Part -Timer, where

the devil works at McDonald's. And it's really

ridiculous. I'm just starting that one probably

in the next day or two. Other than that... I've

been playing Far Cry 5 on the Xbox One. I just

got the Sega Genesis collection today, which

is like 50 classic Sega Genesis games. So that

was a really good value for like 40 bucks. And

what else have I been doing? I just finished,

I can't say too much more. Actually, Steve, what

day does this episode come out on? This one is

out on June 5th. Okay, then I could talk about

it briefly. I just watched Luke Cage season two.

And in terms of an online feature, I can preview

it. All I can say is, wow, I liked this way more

than I liked the first season. There's some really

good villains here. It's a great storyline. Luke

Cage is a really cool character when like you...

dig into them. And yeah, I can have a full review

here on Altered Geek after the 15th. The full

series comes out sometime after that, I'm pretty

sure. So yeah, I've been watching that and...

God, I wish I could just gush about Luke Cage

for the next like 20 minutes, but I can so If

you can tell from my excitement, there is my

preview of Luke Cage season 2 right there That's

a that's a twig and geek ass radio exclusive

right there betcha very few people have this

right now. So ha It's exciting good times good

times But yeah, so I figured with Everything

going on and since we're talking gaming here

a little bit I think we'll talk gaming in this

one Yeah, I mean it's an exciting time e3 is

coming up next week. So a lot of the big companies

are getting like some teaser trailers out, they're

announcing some stuff. Nintendo last week started

talking about Pokemon Let's Go, which is an integration

with the Switch and Pokemon Go. And there's gonna

be a Pokeball controller you can use to catch

Pokemon in the wild. Though there are no wild

Pokemon battles, which is kind of a letdown,

but still you get to explore the Kanto region.

So it's kind of like a remake of Pokemon Yellow,

I think. I don't know too much about it because

I'm keeping myself in the dark until after the

Nintendo releases more info about it. But there's

Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu, which is the little

yellow mouse guy. And then there was Pokemon

Let's Go Eevee, which looks like this little,

it looks like a little Pomeranian for lack of

a better description. And you get to walk around

Kanto and catch different Pokemon with this little

Little Pomeranian looking thing on your shoulder

and it looks it looks fun I'm actually really

looking forward to it just from what I've seen

so far because it'll be the first Pokemon game

proper for the switch Because all we've gotten

is like Pokemon Tekken or Pokken tournament or

whatever which was like the Pokemon fighting

game, which is weird to say the very least In

other news Bethesda or released the trailer for

Fallout Vault 76, which a lot of people are theorizing

is an open world survival RPG, sort of like DayZ

and Rust have come together. So it's like Fallout,

but with multiplayer. So don't know how I feel

about that one just yet. I mean, it's Fallout,

so it's got my attention, but I don't want to

be constantly defending my settlement. I don't

want like... friggin' Preston Garvey coming by.

Your settlement needs your help every five minutes.

Nor do I want to be killing radroaches for levels.

So I hope it's not like Fallout meets the Elder

Scrolls online. That would be, in my opinion,

a disaster. I don't like that idea. But if done

proper, things could be okay. So. I figure, I

don't know, like it's one of those games I wanna

be excited for, because like I said, I love the

Fallout universe. I love everything about it.

I love the setting. I love the idea of this retro

1950s, 60s science fiction aesthetic, but I don't

like the idea of my Fallout being multiplayer,

because it's a world in my mind that doesn't

translate well to that kind of idea. And... Don't

know I'm super super leery about it. But then

again that being said we'll find out more at

e3 at their press conference in like a week and

I Shouldn't be afraid to try new things right

like everybody's afraid to try broccoli the first

time. Maybe it'll be amazing for all I know right

Other gaming news. I know battlefield five had

its big reveal a couple of weeks ago. I know

you talked about that Extensively. Well, I talked

about some of it and then At the same time, there's

been more stuff that's kind of come up since

then, and one of them being the fact that, well,

one, I love that there's no premium, like you

literally just pay for the game and that's it.

There's no people playing on different tiers

based on how much money you have. which is the

nice thing. Also, the minimum requirements for

the game is the same as Battlefield 1. Which

is good. So it's a similar engine. Yeah. Yeah.

A lot of people complaining because there's a

female on the cover. Oh my God. Have you seen

that? Oh yeah. The amount of butt hurt people

are having about that. Like, okay. It seems like

the internet is just full of butt hurt for the

last like three years. It really is like, it's

always something and - It's moving on from something.

Like we had Star Trek, then we had Reboot, then

we had - Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters, we had -

Star Wars. This, Star Wars. It's just, it's one

thing to the next thing, to the next thing. I

mean, right now there's also like TV shows, which

we'll get into in another episode, but - Yeah,

it's sort of like, is there nothing that can

make you people happy? Isn't, isn't entertainment

supposed to like tune you out? Yeah, I mean,

it's weird. I mean, with the whole Battlefield

V thing, I mean, there are some people saying,

well, women never did that. Actually, I saw this.

There were, there were. Yeah, I mean, and just

because it's not historically accurate. Well,

it is actually. Well, no, I'm saying not. super,

super to the very last detail. You know what

I mean? It's a game. Yeah, it's a game. It's

an interpretive piece of art while maintaining

historical elements to it. See, for me, if it's

ruining you that bad that the game isn't keeping

to history, it's not the History Channel. It's

not a documentary. It's a game. I literally do

not care what my character looks like when I

play a game for the most part, unless it's a

game where you're going to see the character

in front of you. Like like Star Trek online or

something, but like the same token You're there

to blow blow people up essentially like there's

no People complaining over a character that shows

up that talks to you in a trailer that's like

boy blah blah blah blah blah Who cares? I saw

the best response to this on Twitter and it says

okay America you want a fully accurate World

War two game fine. You don't get to play the

game for two years Because you didn't enter the

world war until two or three years into it so

bite my ass But they I guess they did the V Well,

they did the Roman numeral five of V instead

of five because of the fact that It was kind

of popularized like from a phrase and sign that

Winston Churchill used amongst the Allies for

much of World War 2 with like the Roman numerals

of 2. So I guess that's why they're doing it.

Plus the V for Victory Day. Exactly. I mean,

if the game is called Battlefield 2 aka Battlefield

Victory, I'm cool with that. I just want a good

shooter because I love Call of Duty and I don't

know what to make about this year's COD. I really

don't. How much do you know about it? Not enough,

but I've not been a fan of Call of Duty for years.

I remember when my brother started playing it

on the GameCube, and we had Battlefield as well

on the PC. Well, there's your problem right there.

You're playing a console versus a PC. Well, he

played it. I never played it. I mean, I played

it on there, and then I played it on the PC,

and I thought it kind of sucked, so I never went

back to it. I kind of started on Battlefield

like originally when I first started playing

but I was also playing Unreal Tournament at the

time. So for me, Battlefield was extremely slow

and clunky compared to... Well, yeah, because

you're playing arcade versus simulator, simulator

versus arcade, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, Unreal

Tournament is like insane speed. It's faster

than those people that are playing Fortnite or

what's that other game that Blizzard has? PUBG?

No, it's the other... Overwatch Overwatch. Yeah,

it's faster faster pace than than those. Oh,

yeah like Now I want to give you the brief history

of black ops 4 and I'm gonna try and do it in

one breath Okay, Black Ops 4 is the current title

for this year coming out on October 12th. What

sets this one apart is there is no single player

campaign. This is completely multiplayer only.

You will have the typical team deathmatch, dominion

modes, war modes, et cetera, et cetera. But what

sets this one apart is it's got a battle royale

mode called blackout. It will have vehicles similar.

to Battlefield, however, we don't know too much

more about that, including this. There's also

gonna be specialists, much like Overwatch. So

this has become yet another hero shooter, which

a lot of people weren't too happy about this.

People did want this game to be boots on the

ground. This game does have 99 % boots on the

ground. There's one person who has one ability,

which does allow them to trend first. Walls,

I'm out of breath. Which does allow him to grapple

hook around the stage, but that. ability only

comes up infrequently and It's basically you

get more health. So gunfights last a little bit

longer So they're getting a hundred other you're

getting 150 so gunfights feel a little more chunky

Kind of as opposed to say Call of Duty ghosts

when people would literally melt you when they

came around the corner So it'll be more keen

to black ops 3 which a lot of people are saying

this game is a reskinned black ops 3 And you

know what? You're not wrong Um, but that's okay

because the engine only gets incremental updates

year to year kind of like battlefield Battlefield

five and battlefield four have such similar requirements

because it's built more or less upon the same

engine They what's funny is there's there's battlefield

like 1942 then battlefield two and in battlefield

three battlefield four then battlefield one then

battlefield five Yeah, I mean so I have I have

optimism that the team deathmatch part of Black

Ops 4 will be fun, however, because it's built

on specialists and only one team can have one

specialist. If you don't get the specialist you

want, I don't see a lot of people working together

for teamwork or playing. the objective, which

is a lot of problems you see in casual Overwatch.

People just go for kills, not to play the objective.

Well, and that's the problem with Battlefield

1 as well. They had team deathmatch and they

had people that would essentially just cowboy

up. Well, because like as people would, you know,

not get the role that they're good at, they would

have to be forced to take something on that they

don't normally play. And so yeah, I mean it kind

of ended up that way and as unfortunate as that

is, that's kind of what happened. What's funny

is Battlefield 1 had a lot of thumbs up compared

to COD and Battlefield 5 has a lot of thumbs

down. It's good. It's because once again people

are focusing too much on the little issues Like

no one has got hands -on with this thing just

yet. We'll wait until people get hands -on. We'll

get a firmer idea We'll know a lot more by Gamescom.

Well, I'm sure it'll be playable on the floor

at e3 Oh, I'm sure it will it was last year or

two years ago when when one came out and honestly

I'm hoping I get the alpha and beta again like

I did for battlefield one Just so that I get

a kind of a heads up to kind of play in there

because I enjoyed it so much. It was a lot easier

for me to acclimate to one as opposed to four,

because four took a lot of getting used to, and

I had to learn the maps. Battlefield 1, I didn't

have to learn the maps per se, I did, but it

was more a learning to use the weapons. And I

was a lot better because it's a lot faster -paced,

which is what Unreal Tournament is. In Unreal

Tournament, I could almost no -scope somebody

clear across the map just by looking and not

even take a second glance. And that's kind of

the difference for me on the two. But since I'm

talking Unreal Tournament... I kind of went back

and I saw something about It had to do with Star

Wars and they were doing this this thing with

EA and the unreal engine Mm -hmm doing something

with virtual reality It was something something

to that degree and I was like, huh unreal and

then I remembered like, you know unreal tournament

and so And I didn't realize that they produced

Fortnite. So I installed Fortnite Unreal Tournament

and because Unreal Tournament is technically

like Unreal 5, but they just retitled it just

strictly Unreal Tournament. Yeah, it's very polished,

very, very, very, very, very, very. And I say

that a lot of times for emphasis because it's

very fast paced as opposed to any of the other

FPS games that are out there right now. because

it's almost too fast. And I tried doing Fortnite.

I enjoyed the hang gliding and the destructive,

but it almost seemed too slow and clunky for

me. Fortnite is a game that'll kick your ass

really friggin' fast. It did. I didn't last very

long. It seems clunky at first, but that's a

game where literally playing it on consoles versus

playing it on a computer. The difference is night

and day where literally you have like I've seen

people where they have specific builds mapped

to their mouse so they can instantly build a

fort around themselves on a on console. You have

to press a button and hold down one of the triggers

to do your building, which is not as fast as,

say, just clicking. down on your center mouse

scroll wheel to build a wall or to build a ramp

or something like that. I really enjoy Fortnite.

I really enjoy high level Fortnite videos. Like

there's a streamer I watch. Her name is Fuya

and she plays for Team Caliber. She's one of

the streamers. Yeah, her watching her play is

phenomenal. Especially when she goes on these

like 10, 12, 15. Street kill tears and she'll

win a game in duos or in squads even solos. I've

like seen her win a couple of times But since

we're talking fortnight The amount of people

on YouTube that make low -tier fortnight videos

just pisses me off Like I saw one guy Recently

do a fortnight video and I wanted to reach through

the screen and kill them because they were so

terrible. I'm like, oh my God, are you even trying?

And there's a difference between being a scrub

and not knowing what you're doing and not willing

to play the game as it's meant to be played.

I mean, sure, you could hide out in the building.

You might not get found, but that's a wimpy way

to play. That's no way to play a combat game,

to sit in the corner and be a camper. That just

bothers me. Well, that's the common case of someone

who is learning how to play that type of game.

Because when I was in high school and we had...

You would camp? Well, it wasn't even that. I

didn't camp because it was boring. The teachers

would camp. Because back then in 2003, 2004,

you could have teachers play a shooting game

in school and it was okay. Because it was the

reward for like the straight -a students and

and they would set up like 60 computers in the

computer lab at our local skill center and Three

of the teachers would you know, like order pizza

and then we'd have like this this all -day land

party and we would play Half -life to you know,

the the deathmatch mode in that Can't remember

what it was called But yeah, I can't remember

either but it was it was insanely fun and you

can use mods and you can do all this other stuff

and it was a lot of fun to sit there and play

and so I I learned how to play by doing that

and it made it Easier like because I was terrible

at the game and I would camp when I found a good

spot Or if I picked off one of the teachers See

camping I don't have a problem with if you're

watching a lane But if you're spawn camping,

then y 'all need to get your balls kicked in.

Yeah, but um, but yeah, so like, I don't know,

like that's kind of what I think of when when

I hear, you know, somebody doing that. It's the

fact that they really don't know how to play

first person games like that. And so they're

just sitting where they fall. And see, I'm the

type of gamer who's like, OK, got to find a gun.

Let's friggin rock and roll. And I'm like, ah.

And I just run right in the combat like fortnight.

I am dead in the first two minutes guaranteed

every time Yeah, but I do not go down without

a fight. Yep I usually get picked up from the

back. I I ended up uninstalling it and playing

unreal tournament and There was a couple maps

from the old game like way back to the 99 game.

Yeah, which I loved even when it was in 2004

and unreal tournament 3 and I played the Kramp

out of that level like so much I would kick up

the difficulty as high as it would go and like

just sit there and just play that because it

was a capture the flag on like a basically an

island type thing and that you have a castle

on one side castle on the other and a big hole

in the middle of the map and you had to go around

the hole and so like but it moves so much quicker

in this version that you have to be on top of

it and I got used to playing on console at the

time and then but now that I've got this like

laser gaming mouse it's and I customize the game

more so just the controls it's so insanely easy

to play now but I can almost do everything like

without a second thought or paying attention

and yeah it's but it's still like high high pace

There are a few games where I'm that good. The

last game I was that good in was probably Call

of Duty Advanced Warfare because I played the

shit out of that game. I've been doing that with

Unreal since 99. I'm trying to think of other

games I was really, really, really good at. I

wish I could say Street Fighter, but that's a

different, entirely different genre when it comes

to that sort of thing. Don't know to talk about

fortnight again for just a second Steve you need

to get good at it because there's a hundred there's

literally they're putting in a hundred million

dollar prize pool right now or something or or

It's some ridiculous number Right now the company

that makes it. Oh Epic games. Yeah epic games.

I love that games. They made Jed's deck rabbit

and in unreal tournament and They're like, hey,

here's a hundred million dollars for tournaments

this year and I guess MLG and All the other eSports

organizations will be handling it. So You should

get good because you you you can get paid son.

Um Man, I never thought I'd ever say get paid

son. I'm literally doing the make it rain motion

right now You can probably hear it on my microphone.

Yep Yeah, because I'm like 12 and I'm on fleek.

Hey, there's a phrase we haven't heard since

2016. I don't even have a clue what that means.

Don't worry about it because you know what, I'm

just throwing out catch phrases right now because

that is what I do. I'm trying to think of other

really interesting gaming news. Mega Man 11 is

coming out in October. That looks cool. The collector's

edition that has the Mega Man amiibo. That's

tempting. And I'm just thinking, I want this.

I don't want it for the switch. I wish it was

like Mega Man X and I wish it was for the PC

Although this doesn't look as bad as like previous

Mega Man games So like it's it's almost on par

with Mega Man X Well, I like how they're updating

the graphics to it and the engine is gonna get

an update too Like if they're gonna bring Mega

Man more in line with modern gaming as long as

it isn't like that piece of dog shit, Mighty

Number Nine. Although there was another one that

was sort of the spiritual successor to Mega Man.

It was called Gunstar Volter. I can't volt it.

Something volt. Gunvolt, I think it was. It was

quite good. It was dumb. What? I thought Gunvolt

was great. Well, I'm saying like the Mighty Nine.

Oh, Mighty Number Nine was hot dog crap. Holy

crap. Christ. But yeah, Mega Man 11 looks legit

pretty good. I'm really excited for that. I'm

trying to think, well, I guess since we're talking

gaming, what do you want to see out of E3? It

comes up in a week. What do you want? I'm not

really sure. Like I don't really, I don't really

keep up with too much of the console stuff because

I just don't care about consoles anymore for

the most part. and it's more so because I've

got a PC, it does everything I need it to, and

I've got an Xbox controller. I can upgrade it

later. It's still a PC. Like, I can do everything

I can do on a console on a PC because that's

all they are now is a glorified PC. And most

games get, like, ported anyway, so. Yeah, so,

I mean, it's not a big deal. Like, it took them

two years to get... Batman Arkham Knight or something

to the PC after it hit console and by then I

didn't even care because I watched the trailer

so I Don't know like I'm kind of Just waiting

to see what they do like I don't know like I

want to see how they're gonna kind of approach

some of these dilemmas where They're they're

trying to sign people up for all this, you know

loot box clickbait crap You know gambling boxes

essentially Which is funny is I just spent 20

bucks on loot boxes today. Actually, I was buying

overwatch skins because I I love overwatch and

I'm okay with buying that I'm saving up my gold

in that game so I can buy the one skin that I

want which costs 3 ,000 gold I realize I can

buy skins are as little as 75 but well, this

skin makes my character look awesome That's almost

like me with with Star Trek online But because

I have the Kelvin Constitution Class Starship

Enterprise as our future imperfect, and then

I've like decked out everything on it to the

maximum level of anything that you can get, plus

the characters pretty maxed out on some awesome

stuff. So, but no, I didn't know if you knew

about this. since I really don't have anything

on E3 concepts until it comes out. Like, I'm

sure something will catch my eye when it comes

out, but, uh, right now I just, I can't think

of anything that I'm looking forward to. Not

even Red Dead 2? No, not really. Like, I don't

- What? Yeah, there's certain types of games

I get into and certain I don't. Like, Star Trek

Online I like. Uh, I like, like, Mega Man stuff

or Sonic. I like, you know, pretty much the traditional

stuff from, like, the 90s. If it was around during

the 90s, I'm kind of good with it. But like beyond

that, I just don't want to learn something new.

I'm pretty sure it's like you and like 3000 people

keeping Star Trek, Star Trek online alive right

now. I hear no news out of it. Sure, there gets

updates every now and again, which I'll talk

about in future imperfect. Yeah, I've got a lot.

I hear no one talking about it. Well, they've

got a ton coming. This will be the first major

expansion of the game in like four years, so...

Gotta keep that premium money coming in, but...

Well, yeah. They give you stuff for being a subscriber.

They still sell premium passes to that game,

which I can't fathom why people do that. But

they also have Zen, which is like, you pay money

for it. That's a thing though, right? Because

people for that franchise are stupidly loyal

to it. Star Trek fans are as bad as Star Wars

fans. You can crucify me for saying that. No,

you're correct. Because they have loot boxes

in the game, which are basically gambling boxes.

Basically an infinite money hole for these gambling

boxes. And you buy keys to open them. And you

may never see the ship that you're trying to

get. Because I was trying to get the Constitution

Class Tier 6, which is the highest level of ship

in the game, of the Enterprise A Constitution

Refit ship. I was trying to get that. if you

buy it in the exchange, it's like 1 .5 billion

credits, which takes you forever to save up.

And it's not much better. It's just the appearance

that you're paying for. But like Paramount's

got it on this pedestal. So like you literally

cannot get it unless it's it's by chance. And

it's an extremely high chance, just like the

USS Discoveries and they're like now for that.

And it's a high chance. No, I don't get me wrong.

I love the effect that I see with it and then

they have like the Enterprise J which is insanely

difficult to get to but I ended up going on the

exchange saving up of enough bartering of playing

the market after a while and I got the Kelvin

Universe Enterprise and honestly it's got the

same pretty much the same stats as the other

ship it's just the appearance is different so

I just doctored it as much as I could and it

just settled because it was like 300 million

Credits compared to 1 .5 billion. So I was just

like I'm good and then I just focused on other

things after that so Because I realized it was

an infinite money hole, but I don't know if you've

heard of this website microtransaction .zone

Nope Essentially it and I covered it probably

a couple months ago because it had just launched

beginning of like April and Essentially, you

can search for any game, and it will tell you,

because these are things that people have submitted,

of what kind of a money hole it is. So there's

multiple options. There's free to play, so no

upfront purchases, expansive expansions, paid

DLC. Horse armor, they call it, is minor DLC

with no randomization. New items, equipment abilities.

It's not gambling, we swear. Loot boxes with

randomized contents. Buyable with real money.

They've got infinite money hole. No upper limit

on in -game purchase. Changing the game content

with gameplay altering effects with real money.

Time is money. Paying for speedy instant access

to things instead of playing. But first you'll

need a contract, a specific paid subscription,

batteries not included, so like physical real

-world items like the Amiibo, and then table

for one multiplayer contains additional monetization

that single -player doesn't. So like they've

got like all these different light -up things

that you can toggle for games and it's funny

to look at the amount that pop up for things

so like like Pokemon Quest or has like the free

-to -play Like the the minor DLC the the infinite

money hole The the change in the game time is

money like highlighted So it's just funny to

look through and just see what games have on

them Yeah, I mean like one of my favorite games

is overwatch and I don't like how It's super

random, but at least when you get duplicates

you get some money back. So just like money like

in -game currency back So you're not totally

getting ripped off. In terms of E3 predictions

for me, just going back to that for a moment,

obviously looking forward to more information

about Fallout Vault 76. I hope it's got a traditional

story component to it and it isn't turning into

some MMO thing. I really hope so. I suspect we'll

get some kind of an announcement on the next

Elder Scrolls game. I hope, anyway. I'm guessing

there'll be a Fallout 4 port to the Switch or

there'll be Fallout 3 remastered for the Switch.

That's a prediction. Red Dead Redemption 2, we'll

see a lot more game. It'll probably be playable

on the floor. It comes out in October, if it

doesn't get delayed. I'm predicting Grand Theft

Auto 6. We're going to see something for Grand

Theft Auto 6, at least maybe. say, hey, we're

working on it because although Grand Theft Auto

V is still printing money years later, like that

game pulls in a stupid amount of money every

month. It's still on best selling charts every

month. Steve, have you had a chance to play it?

To play what game is that? Grand Theft Auto V.

No. You really need to. It's probably one of

the best games I've played in the last 10 years.

Just from a storyline. and it's just it's fun

plus the multiplayer is supported it's completely

free you don't have to spend money if you don't

want to um which is great um other e3 predictions

um i'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's

gonna be a really cool license property kind

of like how we saw transformers devastation a

couple years ago i'm gonna predict and this is

So good luck. You're going to be right with this

one, Mike. I'm going to predict a high level

Power Rangers game because it's the show's 25th

anniversary. The Hasbro merger just went through

in the last couple of weeks. And I got a feel

and something's brewing because there was a common

rider game that came out last year that was imported.

And as far as I know, it did pretty well. If

you told me there was a Power Rangers game that

was built around the same engine that was a fighting

engine, I think you'd have a real winner on your

hands, especially with the show's 25th anniversary

coming around and with the comic's successive

shattered grid. I think you could have something

there. I really think so. I really think there'll

be something in the licensed property. I'm hoping

Power Rangers, but only because it's 25th anniversary.

I think we'll see our first peek at Halo 6. which

should come as a surprise to nobody. I think

we'll see Metroid 4 gameplay for the first time,

or at least a proper trailer. Trying to think

of what else I'd really want to see out of this.

That would be interesting. We'll see more Spider

-Man gameplay for the PS4, which should be pretty

cool because that comes out in September. The

last of us two will have gameplay and I'm gonna

say I'm gonna guess late fourth quarter 2018.

So probably next February, that'll be right at

the end of the financial quarter. So they can

boost their sales. And let me make one more bold

prediction. I'm going to say there'll be some

kind of an announcement for backwards compatibility

on the PlayStation They'll be they'll do something

or maybe you can download your old PlayStation

games and they'll work Like for example for me,

for example, if you had marvelous is Capcom to

and it worked on the ps3. It'll work now Because

they do have that streaming service which can

play PS now if you have games you own Maybe they'll

play native I don't know because that's a firmware

thing as far as I understand. If I'm wrong, well,

I'm wrong. But those are my predictions right

now because Sony has been lagging in the backwards

compatibility department and Microsoft. kills

it there. They do backwards compatibility so

well. You'll see more original Xbox titles coming

to stuff like I know they put out Knights of

the Old Republic a couple of months ago. My guess

is you'll probably see something more expansive,

maybe like MechAssault or something like that.

We'll have to wait and see because the MechWarrior

license has just had a big release with BattleTech

from Harebrained Schemes a couple of weeks ago.

So yeah, that's what I think is going to happen.

Awesome, awesome. Insight! Well, I don't really

know what to expect. I don't keep up on games

as much as I probably should, and that's why

it's beneficial that you're here. I keep up with

the games, I play, and then that's about it.

However, I did see a few things that are worth

noting. There was a couple... Well, it was about

a month ago now, at this point. Atari is planning

on a new system, the VCS. Yeah, ooh, you get

to play Asteroids in HD. What a waste of time.

What a waste of time. Well, I'm wondering if

it's going to be the old stuff, or if there's

going to be actually new things on it. Because

I know that it's going to completely... Well,

I know it's going to come preloaded with the

Atari Vault of like 100 plus game collection

of classic games, but they're also going to have

a full range of popular modern titles as well,

though they haven't said what at this point.

There'll be something around E3 coming out for

it. You'll see it'll be on the show floor. Unless

they get something popular like a PUBG or an

H1Z1, if they get a battle royale type game for

it and That's me playing pie in the sky because

I expect any console to have online modern capabilities.

I think that'd be cool. If I could play Fortnite

on the Atari, I think that'd be interesting.

There's another prediction for you folks. The

Switch is getting Fortnite, calling it now. I

want to see joy cons, but yeah, I could definitely

see it going into Nintendo only for the fact

that it's very cartoony. So it wouldn't be that

hard to fit out of their wheelhouse. Oh, yeah.

I mean, you're going to see a lot more violent

games coming to the Switch, but you're also going

to see titles you didn't think you'd ever get

for the Switch. They'll send the Sims over there

and stuff. That would be a really good idea.

Like the Sims 4 or whatever. I actually played

that recently on like the trial, the two day

trial on like EA Access or like Origin. Yeah.

Just because like periodically I try out different

things that are on EA's service because it's

on there. And I tried it out. It wasn't. that

bad. Like I was like, OK, I kind of get it. I

figured out how to build a house and like do

everything. And like I was kind of like, OK,

I kind of get the gist of it with my my free

trial. I don't have any need to sit there and

actually get it. But I've also like by discovering

things like that, I was also able to get like

the entire like Command and Conquer line like

downloaded like the entire collection. And I've

got like Mass Effect 2 on it now. because periodically

they'll give away a full game for free. So I

usually just stay in tune with that so I can

pick those up when they come out. I kind of try

things out when I see them, but at the same time

I don't go out of my way to get something. I'm

always willing to try something new. That has

been my thing in life. I do that too. Always

got to try something weird, especially when it

comes to food Mike. That's weird. Eat it. Okay.

No, not not food will not do it. Nope But there's

also well, I'm not gonna do a ghost pepper because

that's just for that. That's just stupid Well,

I would do that before some weird food. So that

tells you where my mind is. Um Intellivision

is planning on bringing back a new console with

some of the original games system developers

involved Yeah Yeah, yeah. And they're gonna,

they're hoping for another shot at glory. It's

gonna be the Intellivision Entertainment system,

but they're not sure what it's gonna be called,

because they're gonna use the name. Oh, and Tommy

Tallarico is involved with this, right? Yes.

So, yes, and numerous of the original designers

and executives are taking on leadership roles.

Mattel's not there, but yeah, they're vowing

that they'll continue a company tradition of

firsts, hinting that it's kind of banking more

on the name than replaying the old games, so

they're not trying to play the Atari game with

it. I think it'll be interesting, because everybody

has this wave of nostalgia now, and you see how

successful things like the Nintendo Mini have

been, the Super Nintendo Mini, the Genesis Flashback,

which comes out soon. I see a lot of these companies

trying to recapture their old glory. I don't

see it happening. Neither do I. I mean, like

I said, with the Atari VCS, I think that's what

it's called, I don't care. It's the Atari. Who

cares? You can play Atari games on your phone.

Your phone can take people to the moon right

now. And the Atari had more processing power.

You can cancel virtual reality Pokemon. Exactly.

So what the hell do I need an HD Atari for? I

mean, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Mean I'd rather see them developing better games

or consoles or do more stuff for the PC hell

Let's make you know virtual reality more affordable

as opposed to hey want to put it put out a second

mortgage on your house Um stuff like that. That's

what I'd rather see but I'm probably in the minority

there because virtual reality is Accessible but

not for six to eight hundred dollars accessible.

No, um, and even for consoles. It's not worth

it Well, because honestly, I would love to try

out bridge commander And you can now play that

without VR support, although I'm very curious

to know how that would work. Well, to me, I would

rather play it with VR, so why? Yeah, same here.

I'd like to be able to look left and see Picard's

ready room, or to look to the right and see the

turbo lift. I mean, they have the Kelvin Enterprise

bridge, but they also have the TNG now. Which

is the new DLC. Yeah, which I would be all over

that. Yeah, see now I give a crap because oh

it's that now To me you really want to impress

me. You give me Voyager. Um, I want the defiant

and Voyager and the enterprise II like Hopefully

that game will have seasons, but we're getting

off topic. Yes topic but But yeah, I mean ultimately

there's a lot of X there's a lot of exciting

things to look forward in gaming hell I'll even

make another bold prediction Ghostbusters is

celebrating, I think, a big anniversary this

year. I want to say 35 or something. So maybe

there'll be something in the Ghostbusters. I

know there's a bunch of licensing coming out

in the next couple of days, because I think Ghostbusters

Day is June 8th, I think. So I don't know. I'm

going to predict there'll be something there

on the electronic front. Maybe a new pinball

table, who's to say? I know you can get... The

will not the Williams, the Stern pinball table

on pinball arcade right now for like 10 bucks.

So check it out. It's totally worth it. I know

I am loving the fact that Microsoft decided to

do something for people that surprisingly no

one else has thought of. Do you know where it

goes? No, I don't. OK, Microsoft has a new controller.

Hmm. Yes. For those with disabilities who have

been left out of modern gaming. See, this is

something that I think is a great leap forward

in terms of accessibility, because I know, for

example, Blanchard has to play in a very unique

way because he's got cerebral palsy. And they

actually touch on that in the video. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know how he plays a game like Grand Theft

Auto. I have no idea. I have no idea either,

but - I'd be curious to know how good he is,

but at the same time, yeah, this is a great leap

forward for people who have difficulty accessing

traditional video game controllers. Like, there

was an adaptive controller years ago, and this

thing was some bizarre Frankenstein looking thing.

This thing looks sleek, it looks professional,

it looks accessible. It's got different types

of plugins and adaptability Add -ons for the

main controller that plugs into the device So

like they can still use the regular controller,

but they can also use this other device to You

know if they have like limited motor functions

or unable to move, you know a hand or Just whatever

it may be it's They've got a thing so you can

plug in headphones USB like directly to this

this little controller slash box that's sitting

in front of them, but the fact that it opens

up all these doors of different possibilities

for games or for, you know, emulators or for

really anything for those that are unable, it's

really a leap forward when, you know, you look

at Nintendo who doesn't really have anything

for people with disabilities. It's like for fully,

you know... Like I think for example the Joy

-Cons are some of the poor of the most poorly

designed controllers Especially for people with

big hands. I haven't liked a Nintendo's controller

since They had the GameCube honestly and like

I've hated every controller. They've had since

Even the Wii U I thought the Wii U's pad was

accessible, but it felt awkward That's what my

point is is like if you want a good controller

like the GameCube is really their last good controller,

which is why whenever I played Smash on any of

the modern consoles, I used that controller.

I would argue the Wii U's Pro Controller and

the Switch's Pro Controller are worth it, but

then they're basically 360 pads. Yeah. And the

360 pad is one of the best design controllers

of all time. Oh, I know. I use that for my PC

still. I have a USB 360 controller. Yeah, I just

got the radio controlled Xbox one controller

and I love it personally. I would do that except

I don't have the money. Well, it's only 30 bucks

for the receiver and then the controllers. Yeah,

they're a little expensive. 70 bucks. Although

if you look on Facebook, sometimes you find them

cheap. I saw one guy selling the Minecraft controller

for 30 bucks and I really thought about it. I

don't play Minecraft. That's a cool looking controller.

Actually, no, you wanna talk about stupid money.

Last two years ago, when Michael had money, once

upon a time, I bought myself one of those Xbox

One Elite controllers, because I wanted to bring

my shooting game to the next level, because I

was playing Call of Duty Black Ops 3, and I was

playing a lot of Advanced Warfare. Yeah. Don't

spend that much money on a controller, kid, unless

you're getting like a scuff. And I'm not saying

it's a bad controller because it's not it's a

wonderful controller, but holy shit No one should

spend that much money on anything that isn't

like a fight stick or a really awesome mechanical

keyboard Come to think of it all my craps expensive.

I should probably shut up now Thank God for being

media But anyway, I think this is a huge step

forward for Microsoft to create accessibility

controllers so everybody can play. There'll be

more at E3, I guarantee you. I wonder if we'll

see more from HoloLens as well. I was just thinking

about that because that's a technology we haven't

heard from in a year. If Microsoft is really

playing up the accessibility game, I just wonder

what more they've got coming. And I think we're

going to be surprised. I think they'll dedicate

an entire section of their press conference to

accessibility. Because that's something no other

company is talking about right now. And that's

something that they could get the leg up on Nintendo,

get the leg up on Sony, and outside of PC. And

hell, Microsoft stuff works with PC. So this

opens up a whole new realm of games, too. Especially

if some people start developing the drivers for

the success ability controller for steam games

Like that's a whole new realm and that's something

that I think should be commended Obviously people

like money and yay. Well, they should but this

is something for people once again like Blanchard

Hey, dude, you want to play Red Dead Redemption

2? Well, if your rigs powerful enough, we got

the controller for you. Mm -hmm So that's so

that that is pretty badass. I'm actually really

happy to hear about that. Yeah, me too. I was

like, oh, that is awesome. I just couldn't wait

to talk about it because it's such an inventive

new thing that just kind of helps include everyone.

So I still want to see Blanchard play Grand Theft

Auto. I'm still really, really confused. On a

side note. You're like demanded on a video on

a live stream. Exactly. I just want to know how

people with that disability do it. And I'm not

saying that like, oh, look at you. I want to

know how you do it because I just I can't wrap

my mind around that. And man, wouldn't it be

awesome if someone with a disability entered

the competitive scene because now they've got

this controller and now they can be super accurate

and everything. It would be hilarious if they

just decimated people and then they were like,

yep, number one. Yep. What are you going to do?

Scrub? Get good? I think that would be awesome.

That would be hilarious, honestly. But I think

this episode's run its course and just wonder

what you guys think about all of this awesome

gaming news and what you're looking forward to

for E3 as that approaches. Exactly, guys. Tell

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