[0:00] There's two really cool looking Star
[0:01] Wars games that are coming out like
[0:03] soon.
[0:03] >> Yeah.
[0:04] >> Crazy. Uh and they're they're doing two
[0:06] They're I love that they're exact
[0:07] opposite mentalities, but they both
[0:09] sound like they are kind of mixing it up
[0:11] in the best possible way. Uh Star Wars
[0:13] Zero Company is [snorts]
[0:15] the it's got the it's at a glance you're
[0:17] like, "Okay, it's XCOM." The thing that
[0:19] I think they're burying is that that
[0:20] it's also very Mass Effect 2.
[0:23] >> Mhm.
[0:23] >> Where you are basically trying to get
[0:26] this whole like ragtag crew together and
[0:27] you have to like do you have to build
[0:29] relationships with them. So, there's
[0:30] there's that. You also have like you'll
[0:33] also have kind of, you know, your own
[0:34] customizable
[0:36] dis- not disposable, but you'll have
[0:38] like a non- non-bespoke scripted
[0:40] characters, but then you'll have a
[0:41] handful of like
[0:43] thoroughly written out NPCs that you
[0:45] have like on your squad and you can pick
[0:46] and choose who you want to take into
[0:47] battle. And you know, then the rest of
[0:49] it s- seems like it's just Star Wars
[0:51] XCOM, which like
[0:52] no problem with that. That sounds like a
[0:54] good time. I would like to play that. Uh
[0:57] I love a good tactical game. I XCOM was
[0:59] was uh that was Enemy Unknown was my my
[1:01] first and I was always
[1:03] prior to that was like I just didn't
[1:04] really
[1:06] Yeah, I didn't really give a [ __ ] about
[1:07] turn-based stuff and I don't really know
[1:09] why. I don't know what made it click,
[1:10] but that just suddenly was like, "Oh,
[1:11] wow. I actually enjoy strategy on some
[1:13] level. This is neat." And
[1:15] [clears throat]
[1:16] I think also just the amount of the
[1:17] amount of personality that XCOM had
[1:19] where you like go back to your little
[1:20] base and you like talk to people and
[1:22] there's like a sense of kind of you're
[1:24] again going back to the whole like thing
[1:25] about I like a robot game where you feel
[1:27] like you get in the robot. I like that
[1:29] you can you feel like you're in this
[1:30] world. You're not just looking at grids.
[1:32] >> Mhm.
[1:33] >> And this one sounds like they're just
[1:34] kind of they're they're
[1:36] music to my ears. And it comes out in
[1:37] like August, I think.
[1:40] >> Mhm.
[1:40] >> When is this out?
[1:41] >> Yeah, this is this is like not my
[1:42] favorite genre of games, but this is one
[1:46] of my favorite IPs and I realize that
[1:48] that does a lot of hip heavy lifting for
[1:50] me. Um that Alien one that came out,
[1:52] what was the name of it, Max?
[1:54] >> Oh, um
[1:56] >> You talking about the
[1:57] >> The like tactical one where you're like
[1:58] marching the guys down [clears throat]
[2:00] through.
[2:00] Um
[2:01] >> That was really awesome. It was like a,
[2:03] you know, tactics based alien game that
[2:05] did really good survival horror and
[2:07] people went insane from space madness.
[2:10] Um there's like prominent characters.
[2:12] >> Descent. Yeah, I really I really dug
[2:14] that one.
[2:14] >> That one That one was was real Was that
[2:16] real-time combat? I think it was.
[2:18] >> That was technically I believe it was I
[2:19] think it was like pseudo real-time to
[2:22] where it kind of things moved while you
[2:24] moved kind of aspect. It's been a while
[2:26] since I played it, so I could be wrong
[2:28] as well, but
[2:28] >> Yeah, it was
[2:29] I was sort of hoping it would just be
[2:30] like a more straight XCOM thing and it
[2:32] was it was cool, but it wasn't exactly
[2:34] what I wanted. But yeah, this is looking
[2:37] I don't know this is looking neat. And
[2:38] you know, for for the impatient among
[2:40] us, there's also Star Wars Galactic
[2:42] Racer, which is I don't know I love that
[2:44] you're like, okay, there's a turn-based
[2:45] tactical strategy thing. You wait your
[2:47] turn, you're planning your next move.
[2:48] Here's one where you go 300 miles an
[2:49] hour and try to make other things blow
[2:51] up instead of you. And I'm into it. I
[2:53] can't wait.
[2:54] >> Yeah, keep going. I'm more excited for
[2:55] this. This reminds me of like the old
[2:57] school
[2:58] like early days where like we were
[3:00] getting stuff like Extreme G and Wipeout
[3:02] and like this whole like hey the year is
[3:05] 2022
[3:07] and
[3:08] >> [laughter]
[3:09] >> the world has gone apocalyptic and the
[3:10] only way to save it is to drive these
[3:12] stupid things really [laughter] fast.
[3:14] I'm like, yeah, sure man, it's great. I
[3:16] love it. And they were always like such
[3:17] graphical showcases and stuff like that.
[3:19] Um
[3:20] this one looks really cool. Reading
[3:21] about like the rogue light elements for
[3:23] the story mode. Also, I realized they
[3:26] they put a what's his name Max Rebo?
[3:28] He's like a in Solo and he's voiced by
[3:31] Jon Favreau and there's another one of
[3:32] those four-arm monkey guys who's voiced
[3:34] by Scorsese in in Mandalorian and Grogu
[3:37] and they have one of those guys in this
[3:38] game and I hope they got a director for
[3:40] it.
[3:41] >> [snorts]
[3:41] >> It's Wes Anderson. It's Wes
[3:43] >> [laughter]
[3:43] >> Heard it here first. No, it's not.
[3:46] I wish these cars would stop going so
[3:48] damn fast.
[3:48] >> I think if you tried to talk to Wes
[3:50] Anderson about pod racing, he would
[3:52] [laughter] just burst into flames.
[3:56] That pod racing is basically the
[3:57] opposite of all of his sensibilities.
[3:59] >> Mhm. I am so hyped for both of these.
[4:02] This like the trailer for pod racing
[4:04] here or racers is just straight up
[4:07] burnout for me. Everything from the
[4:08] cinematic when you run somebody into a
[4:10] wall like it's just
[4:12] calling my name. That is going to be a
[4:14] day one easy easy easy decision for me.
[4:19] Uh and
[4:21] Zero Company as well. I I just finished
[4:24] up Midnight Suns with Platinum like last
[4:27] year.
[4:28] >> Oh, hell yeah.
[4:28] >> I played that for so many hours. Like it
[4:30] was I probably put a pumped a good 200
[4:32] hours into it.
[4:33] >> With second wind shorter. That game was
[4:34] too long.
[4:35] >> I mean, but I loved it. I loved all the
[4:38] interactions with all the your your
[4:40] teammates and everybody that you could
[4:41] like, you know, take Storm on a a little
[4:44] date up to the roof and
[4:45] >> Yeah, that was the part I liked.
[4:47] But then it Yeah, you then you get stuck
[4:49] fighting like zombie juggernaut for 3
[4:52] hours or whatever, but
[4:54] >> [laughter]
[4:54] >> No, that that that was Yeah.
[4:56] >> Yeah. I I just hope they take what
[4:58] everybody loves about like the the
[5:00] original XCOM games and they take in a
[5:02] lot of that pseudo relationship stuff
[5:05] and put it into Zero Company. If so, I
[5:07] think they've got a a winning
[5:09] uh hand.
[5:10] >> I asked them if there's romance options,
[5:11] they wouldn't tell me, but I hope
[5:12] there's romance options so I can do
[5:14] kissing when I'm not engaged in like
[5:16] tactical permadeath mode. Uh
[5:18] So the the human side of the racers is a
[5:20] thing I'm also excited about with the
[5:21] human alien whatever. There's
[5:23] bits where you're in between races where
[5:25] you get to like walk around a little a
[5:26] little area.
[5:28] Uh I was immediately on board with this
[5:29] one when they first showed it off and
[5:30] then I heard the roguelite thing and I
[5:32] was kind of iffy about it, but the more
[5:33] I think about it, the more I really like
[5:35] it because it's it sounds like it's kind
[5:37] of roguelite choose your own adventure
[5:38] like it's very it's very
[5:40] wrapped around the story. It's not just
[5:42] not just the gameplay side of it, but
[5:46] uh yeah, I guess between races you get
[5:48] to sort of hang out. Yeah, you get to
[5:49] hang out in that place where like
[5:51] like, you know, where Qui- Qui-Gon and
[5:53] Watto play dice or whatever. [laughter]
[5:56] That paddock area.
[5:57] >> The junkyard, yeah.
[5:58] >> Yeah, and it's just Yeah. How cool would
[6:00] it be by the trash?
[6:01] >> How cool would it be if you like those
[6:02] conversations like led into like
[6:04] somebody tampering with your vehicle
[6:05] before a race or something like story
[6:07] elements?
[6:08] >> hope that's the case.
[6:09] >> That would be really cool.
[6:10] >> Yeah, I think just That is That is a
[6:11] great gameplay idea.
[6:12] >> This doesn't It doesn't need Again, this
[6:15] game doesn't need to get weird. It
[6:16] doesn't need to be a roguelite. It
[6:18] doesn't need to have, you know,
[6:19] character interactions. It could just be
[6:21] a straightforward racing game and people
[6:22] would probably be excited for it, but I
[6:24] really like that they are actually
[6:25] getting They're trying some new stuff.
[6:27] They're getting a little bit a little
[6:28] bit creative with it.
[6:29] >> Yeah, they're doing a little world
[6:30] building. It's cool.
[6:31] >> that creative world building is what's
[6:32] going to would make will help take this
[6:34] game from being a cool, I've played it
[6:36] for 3-6 months to playing people playing
[6:38] it for a year or more.
[6:39] >> Yeah.
[6:40] Also, can I just say how extremely happy
[6:43] it makes me that we are getting
[6:45] two Star Wars games within months of
[6:47] each other instead of
[6:49] multiple Star Wars game cancellations
[6:51] within months of each other. Like, we
[6:54] got so used to just like hearing about a
[6:55] thing, oh, it's not happening. Hearing
[6:57] about a thing, it's they're not doing
[6:58] it. And like
[7:00] I don't know, EA I don't know how they
[7:01] do things over there, but we got like
[7:03] They had that franchise for 10 years and
[7:06] I think we got
[7:07] I don't know, we got the Jedi games out
[7:08] of it. That was cool. Battlefront had
[7:10] its moments, but it was largely
[7:12] it felt like they were just
[7:14] overthinking it.
[7:15] >> Yeah, and these these are not these are
[7:17] not small games by any stretch of the
[7:18] imagination, but they're definitely
[7:20] smaller than Battlefront 2 was, right?
[7:22] It like there isn't there aren't 600
[7:25] maps here from what I can tell or like 6
[7:27] years of planned content. I don't know
[7:28] what the long tail looks like for for
[7:30] Galactic Racers, but something tells me
[7:32] that this is not at the same budget as
[7:34] something like that. And this is what
[7:35] This is what I think you need to do,
[7:37] like, you know, and like do this and do
[7:40] even smaller stuff, right? Bring back
[7:41] Yoda stories. Give me
[7:43] Give me small games again.
[7:45] >> Oh [snorts] man, yeah, modern Yoda
[7:46] stories.
[7:47] >> Mhm.
[7:48] >> I play that.
[7:49] >> Make it a roguelite.
[7:50] >> Yeah.
[7:51] >> Add romance options. You can go kiss
[7:53] Yoda.
[7:53] >> He kisses He loves to kiss that snake
[7:55] that he's always
[7:56] >> His little forehead.
[7:57] >> I'm not shooting, I'm smooching.
[7:59] >> [laughter]
[7:59] >> Anyway.
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