Why We’re So Hyped for Star Wars: Galactic Racer & Zero Company - Beyond Clips

[00:00] There's two really cool looking Star

[00:01] Wars games that are coming out like

[00:03] soon.

[00:03] >> Yeah.

[00:04] >> Crazy. Uh and they're they're doing two

[00:06] They're I love that they're exact

[00:07] opposite mentalities, but they both

[00:09] sound like they are kind of mixing it up

[00:11] in the best possible way. Uh Star Wars

[00:13] Zero Company is [snorts]

[00:15] the it's got the it's at a glance you're

[00:17] like, "Okay, it's XCOM." The thing that

[00:19] I think they're burying is that that

[00:20] it's also very Mass Effect 2.

[00:23] >> Mhm.

[00:23] >> Where you are basically trying to get

[00:26] this whole like ragtag crew together and

[00:27] you have to like do you have to build

[00:29] relationships with them. So, there's

[00:30] there's that. You also have like you'll

[00:33] also have kind of, you know, your own

[00:34] customizable

[00:36] dis- not disposable, but you'll have

[00:38] like a non- non-bespoke scripted

[00:40] characters, but then you'll have a

[00:41] handful of like

[00:43] thoroughly written out NPCs that you

[00:45] have like on your squad and you can pick

[00:46] and choose who you want to take into

[00:47] battle. And you know, then the rest of

[00:49] it s- seems like it's just Star Wars

[00:51] XCOM, which like

[00:52] no problem with that. That sounds like a

[00:54] good time. I would like to play that. Uh

[00:57] I love a good tactical game. I XCOM was

[00:59] was uh that was Enemy Unknown was my my

[01:01] first and I was always

[01:03] prior to that was like I just didn't

[01:04] really

[01:06] Yeah, I didn't really give a [ __ ] about

[01:07] turn-based stuff and I don't really know

[01:09] why. I don't know what made it click,

[01:10] but that just suddenly was like, "Oh,

[01:11] wow. I actually enjoy strategy on some

[01:13] level. This is neat." And

[01:15] [clears throat]

[01:16] I think also just the amount of the

[01:17] amount of personality that XCOM had

[01:19] where you like go back to your little

[01:20] base and you like talk to people and

[01:22] there's like a sense of kind of you're

[01:24] again going back to the whole like thing

[01:25] about I like a robot game where you feel

[01:27] like you get in the robot. I like that

[01:29] you can you feel like you're in this

[01:30] world. You're not just looking at grids.

[01:32] >> Mhm.

[01:33] >> And this one sounds like they're just

[01:34] kind of they're they're

[01:36] music to my ears. And it comes out in

[01:37] like August, I think.

[01:40] >> Mhm.

[01:40] >> When is this out?

[01:41] >> Yeah, this is this is like not my

[01:42] favorite genre of games, but this is one

[01:46] of my favorite IPs and I realize that

[01:48] that does a lot of hip heavy lifting for

[01:50] me. Um that Alien one that came out,

[01:52] what was the name of it, Max?

[01:54] >> Oh, um

[01:56] >> You talking about the

[01:57] >> The like tactical one where you're like

[01:58] marching the guys down [clears throat]

[02:00] through.

[02:00] Um

[02:01] >> That was really awesome. It was like a,

[02:03] you know, tactics based alien game that

[02:05] did really good survival horror and

[02:07] people went insane from space madness.

[02:10] Um there's like prominent characters.

[02:12] >> Descent. Yeah, I really I really dug

[02:14] that one.

[02:14] >> That one That one was was real Was that

[02:16] real-time combat? I think it was.

[02:18] >> That was technically I believe it was I

[02:19] think it was like pseudo real-time to

[02:22] where it kind of things moved while you

[02:24] moved kind of aspect. It's been a while

[02:26] since I played it, so I could be wrong

[02:28] as well, but

[02:28] >> Yeah, it was

[02:29] I was sort of hoping it would just be

[02:30] like a more straight XCOM thing and it

[02:32] was it was cool, but it wasn't exactly

[02:34] what I wanted. But yeah, this is looking

[02:37] I don't know this is looking neat. And

[02:38] you know, for for the impatient among

[02:40] us, there's also Star Wars Galactic

[02:42] Racer, which is I don't know I love that

[02:44] you're like, okay, there's a turn-based

[02:45] tactical strategy thing. You wait your

[02:47] turn, you're planning your next move.

[02:48] Here's one where you go 300 miles an

[02:49] hour and try to make other things blow

[02:51] up instead of you. And I'm into it. I

[02:53] can't wait.

[02:54] >> Yeah, keep going. I'm more excited for

[02:55] this. This reminds me of like the old

[02:57] school

[02:58] like early days where like we were

[03:00] getting stuff like Extreme G and Wipeout

[03:02] and like this whole like hey the year is

[03:05] 2022

[03:07] and

[03:08] >> [laughter]

[03:09] >> the world has gone apocalyptic and the

[03:10] only way to save it is to drive these

[03:12] stupid things really [laughter] fast.

[03:14] I'm like, yeah, sure man, it's great. I

[03:16] love it. And they were always like such

[03:17] graphical showcases and stuff like that.

[03:19] Um

[03:20] this one looks really cool. Reading

[03:21] about like the rogue light elements for

[03:23] the story mode. Also, I realized they

[03:26] they put a what's his name Max Rebo?

[03:28] He's like a in Solo and he's voiced by

[03:31] Jon Favreau and there's another one of

[03:32] those four-arm monkey guys who's voiced

[03:34] by Scorsese in in Mandalorian and Grogu

[03:37] and they have one of those guys in this

[03:38] game and I hope they got a director for

[03:40] it.

[03:41] >> [snorts]

[03:41] >> It's Wes Anderson. It's Wes

[03:43] >> [laughter]

[03:43] >> Heard it here first. No, it's not.

[03:46] I wish these cars would stop going so

[03:48] damn fast.

[03:48] >> I think if you tried to talk to Wes

[03:50] Anderson about pod racing, he would

[03:52] [laughter] just burst into flames.

[03:56] That pod racing is basically the

[03:57] opposite of all of his sensibilities.

[03:59] >> Mhm. I am so hyped for both of these.

[04:02] This like the trailer for pod racing

[04:04] here or racers is just straight up

[04:07] burnout for me. Everything from the

[04:08] cinematic when you run somebody into a

[04:10] wall like it's just

[04:12] calling my name. That is going to be a

[04:14] day one easy easy easy decision for me.

[04:19] Uh and

[04:21] Zero Company as well. I I just finished

[04:24] up Midnight Suns with Platinum like last

[04:27] year.

[04:28] >> Oh, hell yeah.

[04:28] >> I played that for so many hours. Like it

[04:30] was I probably put a pumped a good 200

[04:32] hours into it.

[04:33] >> With second wind shorter. That game was

[04:34] too long.

[04:35] >> I mean, but I loved it. I loved all the

[04:38] interactions with all the your your

[04:40] teammates and everybody that you could

[04:41] like, you know, take Storm on a a little

[04:44] date up to the roof and

[04:45] >> Yeah, that was the part I liked.

[04:47] But then it Yeah, you then you get stuck

[04:49] fighting like zombie juggernaut for 3

[04:52] hours or whatever, but

[04:54] >> [laughter]

[04:54] >> No, that that that was Yeah.

[04:56] >> Yeah. I I just hope they take what

[04:58] everybody loves about like the the

[05:00] original XCOM games and they take in a

[05:02] lot of that pseudo relationship stuff

[05:05] and put it into Zero Company. If so, I

[05:07] think they've got a a winning

[05:09] uh hand.

[05:10] >> I asked them if there's romance options,

[05:11] they wouldn't tell me, but I hope

[05:12] there's romance options so I can do

[05:14] kissing when I'm not engaged in like

[05:16] tactical permadeath mode. Uh

[05:18] So the the human side of the racers is a

[05:20] thing I'm also excited about with the

[05:21] human alien whatever. There's

[05:23] bits where you're in between races where

[05:25] you get to like walk around a little a

[05:26] little area.

[05:28] Uh I was immediately on board with this

[05:29] one when they first showed it off and

[05:30] then I heard the roguelite thing and I

[05:32] was kind of iffy about it, but the more

[05:33] I think about it, the more I really like

[05:35] it because it's it sounds like it's kind

[05:37] of roguelite choose your own adventure

[05:38] like it's very it's very

[05:40] wrapped around the story. It's not just

[05:42] not just the gameplay side of it, but

[05:46] uh yeah, I guess between races you get

[05:48] to sort of hang out. Yeah, you get to

[05:49] hang out in that place where like

[05:51] like, you know, where Qui- Qui-Gon and

[05:53] Watto play dice or whatever. [laughter]

[05:56] That paddock area.

[05:57] >> The junkyard, yeah.

[05:58] >> Yeah, and it's just Yeah. How cool would

[06:00] it be by the trash?

[06:01] >> How cool would it be if you like those

[06:02] conversations like led into like

[06:04] somebody tampering with your vehicle

[06:05] before a race or something like story

[06:07] elements?

[06:08] >> hope that's the case.

[06:09] >> That would be really cool.

[06:10] >> Yeah, I think just That is That is a

[06:11] great gameplay idea.

[06:12] >> This doesn't It doesn't need Again, this

[06:15] game doesn't need to get weird. It

[06:16] doesn't need to be a roguelite. It

[06:18] doesn't need to have, you know,

[06:19] character interactions. It could just be

[06:21] a straightforward racing game and people

[06:22] would probably be excited for it, but I

[06:24] really like that they are actually

[06:25] getting They're trying some new stuff.

[06:27] They're getting a little bit a little

[06:28] bit creative with it.

[06:29] >> Yeah, they're doing a little world

[06:30] building. It's cool.

[06:31] >> that creative world building is what's

[06:32] going to would make will help take this

[06:34] game from being a cool, I've played it

[06:36] for 3-6 months to playing people playing

[06:38] it for a year or more.

[06:39] >> Yeah.

[06:40] Also, can I just say how extremely happy

[06:43] it makes me that we are getting

[06:45] two Star Wars games within months of

[06:47] each other instead of

[06:49] multiple Star Wars game cancellations

[06:51] within months of each other. Like, we

[06:54] got so used to just like hearing about a

[06:55] thing, oh, it's not happening. Hearing

[06:57] about a thing, it's they're not doing

[06:58] it. And like

[07:00] I don't know, EA I don't know how they

[07:01] do things over there, but we got like

[07:03] They had that franchise for 10 years and

[07:06] I think we got

[07:07] I don't know, we got the Jedi games out

[07:08] of it. That was cool. Battlefront had

[07:10] its moments, but it was largely

[07:12] it felt like they were just

[07:14] overthinking it.

[07:15] >> Yeah, and these these are not these are

[07:17] not small games by any stretch of the

[07:18] imagination, but they're definitely

[07:20] smaller than Battlefront 2 was, right?

[07:22] It like there isn't there aren't 600

[07:25] maps here from what I can tell or like 6

[07:27] years of planned content. I don't know

[07:28] what the long tail looks like for for

[07:30] Galactic Racers, but something tells me

[07:32] that this is not at the same budget as

[07:34] something like that. And this is what

[07:35] This is what I think you need to do,

[07:37] like, you know, and like do this and do

[07:40] even smaller stuff, right? Bring back

[07:41] Yoda stories. Give me

[07:43] Give me small games again.

[07:45] >> Oh [snorts] man, yeah, modern Yoda

[07:46] stories.

[07:47] >> Mhm.

[07:48] >> I play that.

[07:49] >> Make it a roguelite.

[07:50] >> Yeah.

[07:51] >> Add romance options. You can go kiss

[07:53] Yoda.

[07:53] >> He kisses He loves to kiss that snake

[07:55] that he's always

[07:56] >> His little forehead.

[07:57] >> I'm not shooting, I'm smooching.

[07:59] >> [laughter]

[07:59] >> Anyway.

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