Fable Gets Delayed, GTA 6 Owns the Calendar, and the Anime Awards Are a Mess

Gregory (00:02.152)
Summer showcase season is here, and the gaming industry has handed us five stories before a single press conference has even started. We've got a delayed comeback RPG, a leaked protagonist blowing up the internet, a classic game locking out millions of fans, and an anime awards night that proves fan votes are still pretty much chaos. But before we dive in,

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Ty (00:55.458)
Wellity, wellity, wellity. Looks like Fable, unfortunately, for all of my RPG fans, has been delayed. So the delay originally, well, originally Fable was supposed to come out towards the end of this year, right? Beautiful time. Everybody was gonna be happy. Right? You know? All the joy in the world. Now, instead of fall 2026, it is now February 2027. Because somebody does not like us.

Gregory (01:25.34)
Yeah, there's a lot of speculations around this too.

because what was it? Xbox officially confirmed via social media on May 29th, so right after we aired our last episode, that Faith was moving from, like you said, the end of this year to February 2027. And they're saying, I'll put this up for for everyone to to see, but I'll also I'll also read it for you guys. They are saying that the the year is packed with incredible games.

and we're moving Fable so it can have the dedicated moment it deserves. And everyone's pretty much like, so basically, you don't want to compete with GTA 6 and call.

Ty (02:08.854)
No, I keep it simpler than that. People scared, right? So

Capcom's the only studio, not to bring up Capcom, that I know has no shame putting out a game, a major game release, in February. Right. For some odd reason they like to put out Resident Evil in February. Does it make any sense? No. But it happens, right?

Gregory (02:26.523)
Mm-hmm.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (02:31.394)
Perfect Valentine's gift.

Ty (02:35.212)
You have a game that you were set to release third quarter, going into fourth quarter, going into the holidays, right?

What you being scared for? Just drop it. Make make the money, right? You had a bunch of new fans and old fans waiting for the holiday season that would have shelled out the money during the holiday season and call it a day, right? Take the win for what it was. Now, if you're saying if the real reason is because of crap, there's too many games out there.

We don't want to put out and let people miss out on these amazing games. Y'all never cared before. Why care today? What I think it is, is there's bugs.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (03:24.394)
No, a hundred percent.

Gregory (03:24.741)
Yeah, that's possibility. especially because Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty came out and said the game is in great shape. so they're you know, it's a marketing decision and not a crunch panic. But at the same time, how many times have we had someone like, you know, in his position come out? And not him specifically, but in other games? We've seen this before with Cyberpunk. They're like the game is in great shape, it's ready for release, and then it keeps getting pushed back and then force them to release the game like

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (03:49.965)
that's Bethesda's main line right there. The game is in great shape.

Gregory (03:54.523)
this was not in great shape at all. So yeah, possibility.

Ty (03:58.04)
Then the game looks like Mississippi twerk win on a fucking Friday night.

Gregory (04:02.59)
Yeah, but you know, but you're but you're probably right. and they probably GTA gives them the perfect out because everyone is dancing around the potential GTA release that is supposed to be November 19th. I don't think it will be, but I hope I'm wrong. so a lot of games that probably aren't ready, that wanted to come out during the holiday, have the perfect out.

By saying, we don't really want to release around GTA, because we kind of see this mildly when Call of Duty comes out, but that's usually for like other shooter games. Like most every other game that's not in the first person or third person shooter genre usually doesn't care about Call of Duty. They're like, hey, we're not even in that genre. We're still gonna drop our game and we'll be fine. but a game that is totally unrelated.

to GTA going, hey, we want it to get the highlight it deserves. We're gonna move our date is a little weird. But it they're not the only one a lot for moving because of GTA. I mean Pragmato moved up because GTA backed out of their date. So Pragmato

Ty (05:04.63)
A little?

Ty (05:12.096)
No, no. Pragmata was originally supposed to be a twenty twenty five release.

Gregory (05:18.46)
Yeah. And then when it hit twenty twenty six, there was also it was it did still get moved up a couple month like a month or two early because its original date was a little bit later and they were like, Hey, we want to bring it to you sooner. And I think that

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (05:31.572)
Or they just wanted to ride the Resident Evil Nine. Like they knew it was gonna be good. It did really well. Now you can move up.

Gregory (05:37.662)
Yeah. So there there are people dancing around the ghostly GTA date.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (05:46.08)
I would be laughing when they delayed GTA to the same date as Fable. Just perfect.

Ty (05:52.194)
Don't be bitches. That's all I'm gonna say. Don't be bitches. Just drop your shit. Right.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (05:58.102)
GTA like like October comes in, GTA says, Yeah, we're gonna have to delay it a few months to twenty twenty seven. And then you're gonna hear a month later, Fable now out.

Gregory (06:08.446)
Bright, like a shadow drop. But what makes this whole thing ironic is Playground Games denied a delay rumor just one month ago and then confirmed it two weeks later. They were basically telling everyone there's no delay, it's not gonna happen. Which makes me think while the possibility that the game is probably not polished is a possibility, I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate and say that.

Ty (06:18.678)
Yeah.

Gregory (06:36.58)
It is ready. They were ready because they were super confident. They kept signing off on all their posts with twenty twenty six, twenty twenty six. They were and

Ty (06:46.702)
I think Microsoft told him fuck no.

Gregory (06:48.998)
Yeah, and I think Microsoft yeah, basic Microsoft basically came and said, Yeah, no, because here's the thing Microsoft is doing right now. They're in a complete revamp state and they need all the money they can get. Where I'm thinking GTA's affecting them isn't even a popular it it's partly popularity, but they just see money going somewhere else other than what they probably want to be a flagship game.

Ty (07:12.258)
Yeah.

Gregory (07:13.756)
And they're like, okay, they they want to maximize their profit. They could still have dropped Fable, but everyone is and they'll still make money, but GTA doesn't belong to any one particular studio. Microsoft can't take a huge portion of the GTA revenue. Sony can't take a huge portion, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Whereas Fable, that's Xbox. So they would make more off of that IP. It's theirs. And they're like, Yeah, we can make money off of GTA six, but nowhere as much as if we could from

own IP. And they probably just want to double dip, make the money from GTA, make the money from Call of Duty now that it's not a day one anymore, and make the money from Fable. They want to do it all individually because that month is

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (07:57.874)
Just spread spread the income.

Ty (07:59.992)
I don't wanna mm, there's something I wanna bring up about Cop, but I'm gonna leave that alone for right now.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (08:05.12)
No, bring it up. I know I cracked down that one. bring it up. I want to hear what you want to say.

Ty (08:15.456)
Okay. So, my beef with the whole COD situation, right? If there if this is true, like, hey, we're make we're trying to avoid the whole COD situation. Well, if anybody has paid attention recently, Black O not Black Ops, Modern Warfare 4 is already discounted. For its highest tier. That's all I'm gonna go into about that.

Gregory (08:36.796)
Yes. Mm-hmm.

Ty (08:42.37)
That is a whole other situation in itself.

Gregory (08:45.352)
Okay.

Ty (08:48.278)
So I don't feel like the excuse being, hey, let's make room for COD to have its runway and we'll go from there is right. Like this textbook sounds like we're afraid to launch this shit since the last time we launched a fable was however long ago.

Gregory (09:16.626)
Yeah. Well, like I said, it it could be heck, it could be both. and the twenty twenty-six Xbox holiday lineup is well, for them stacked. They've got Halo Campaign Evolved, which is supposed to drop at some point during the holiday season, Gears of War E Day, Modern Warfare 4, as we just mentioned, Control Resident, and Star Wars Galactic Racer. which actually looks pretty good. I'm not gonna lie. I'm pretty excited for Galactic Racer. I'm thinking

I definitely do feel though that marketing is a huge part because Halo Campaign Evolved, that is more of a pitch for the PlayStation community. So they don't care if that doesn't succeed. As a matter of fact, because they're giving it to PlayStation, they they they won't care. They'll release that whenever they're ready. Gears of War E Day, they can still make money off the PC community because they won't have to compete with GTA. GTA six, even if it drops, is not dropping on PC anytime soon.

Ty (09:59.148)
No, I'll never say.

Gregory (10:14.48)
So they'll still make their money from Gears of War E Day. So that hasn't been pushed back. Mono Warfare is going to come out pretty much a whole month before GTA 6. So they're like, hey, we can still soak up some of that oxygen the month before. We can make that work. And Control Resident and Star Wars Galactic Racer, that's niche.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (10:23.914)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (10:27.864)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (10:33.72)
Super niche.

Gregory (10:34.664)
Super niche. So they're not gonna push those because they're super niche. They're like, hey, the audience that wants them are gonna buy it, they're gonna play it no matter what. So their only main flagship game is Fable. And if it's not ready, that really sucks. That doesn't bode well. If it is ready, that's the only reason I'm saying I will see it from the marketing perspective that they're they might be intimidated by.

GTA six because they're not the only ones that have been shifting games for this end of year because of GTA Six. And the way GTA Six has been setting itself up to do a sweep for the game awards by putting their release date literally, I think like a day or two b right before they can the last nomination window. It's a whole marketing, it's a marketing battle right now. Like that's what we're dealing with. There's a whole marketing battle. And it's it's it's ridiculous.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (11:30.764)
Gone.

Ty (11:31.712)
It is ridiculous. But we live in a age where H H Jesus Christ, it sounded like I said something else. We live in an age where marketing dollars is more important well, day one marketing dollars is more important than long term.

Gregory (11:51.059)
Yeah, than the long-term product itself. Yep. And especially since we've gotten into an era where we've okayed games being fixed over years instead of launching finished, you know, they can launch a game in a broken state. And don't get me wrong, some of the games that have been fixed over years have become my personal favorites. But that's No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk, they become my favorite.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (12:12.684)
Cyberpunk.

No more heads guy, that one.

Ty (12:16.76)
For every No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk, there is about a th hundred other games that Anthem evolve.

Gregory (12:27.774)
Why don't you need started on that game?

Ty (12:30.944)
Which one? 'Cause I'm so mad at you about it, Volve.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (12:34.07)
Why what?

Gregory (12:34.212)
Evolve had potential. The problem was they d 2K just abandoned it. I don't know if it was they didn't want to put the work in for it or or what. But you know, and it wasn't even the community wasn't playing it. The community was invested in it. Developers just abandoned it because I guess that they'll they'll that was during the like years of live service really picking up and we were still resistant to it.

Ty (13:01.144)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (13:01.982)
Basically, they were like, well, okay, until we can conform everyone to the live service model, games get abandoned and just thrown to the to the wayside. That's a whole conversation for a whole nother time. We don't even want to talk. You're not gonna we're not gonna go into that one. another thought that just crossed my mind with Fable. It might not even be that the game's not ready. It might even be that they're scared of GTA six. The other thing is if they

Ty (13:14.326)
Yeah, maybe I'm not growing into that.

Right now. Deep dark abyss.

Gregory (13:30.128)
released next year and if they have inside knowledge on what might be coming out in twenty twenty seven they might be trying to position themselves for a game of the year.

Ty (13:40.802)
Maybe.

Gregory (13:42.394)
And you know, be in one of the forefront games early in the year, solidifying themselves, being highly talked about for pretty much the entire year, they pretty much guarantee themselves a spot somewhere in the game awards.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (13:57.772)
That's a fable upholds whatever hype they're keeping.

Gregory (14:02.066)
Yeah. And that's if they if they position that they launch themselves early in the year, they give themselves a whole year to overwhelm their player base with whatever content, whatever they might have planned out. As compared the end of the year, they only have like a month, if that, to leave an impression. That's not gonna be enough time, not for an RPG. So if they launch in February, they have the entire year.

Ty (14:02.754)
That part.

Ty (14:26.241)
No.

Gregory (14:30.354)
And the summer, which is the slow season for games. So most people are just going to go back to a game they already have during the summer. For a lot of people, that's going to be fable if they get it. So then they have the entire summer to revitalize their crowd and then going into the holiday season. I promise you, if they launch, it'll be a DLC by the holiday season to bring back people who may have drifted, to get their name back at the top of the list. And

pretty much just push forward into the game of the year. That's just my hypothesis. And you know

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (15:06.966)
I think Fable has been one of those games that are is so uphold. how do I say it? It's like it's on high regards in such a way that I think this one might fail. People are just gonna go back to Skyrim or Oblivion or any other kind of game like that.

Gregory (15:14.846)
It's all

Ty (15:25.71)
Problem with this one, and I will say it right, I'm excited for Fable. Do not get me wrong. I am actually excited for this game.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (15:30.591)
Yeah.

Ty (15:34.122)
It has been well, by the time it's released, it will be seventeen years since we last had a fable.

RPGs have changed a lot since then.

And fable, being fable, what it's known for, isn't like a turn-based RPG, which has been the RPGs that have been picking up a lot more lately in the last like six years. Six to eight years, right? Turnbase has really like stamped itself and solidified itself as a lot of people's go-to in RPGs, right? Because

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (16:00.148)
Three I won't see.

Ty (16:16.202)
As fast as people are gonna praise Fable, you had Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which was a very well-loved game, but hit a niche and it wasn't as it wasn't as praised as it could have if it was the early 2000s or 2010s when those type of RPGs were rampant.

Gregory (16:30.163)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (16:44.826)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (16:47.276)
Which is why I'm more concerned about them delaying 'cause it's like, mm, do this while people want it.

Gregory (16:53.822)
Yeah. And I was gonna say they're probably gonna be they're trying to ride the wave of the resurge of single player game demand. It's still on the rise. We're not quite there. We're that's where we're back in that era you're talking about, but we're steadily working there, and they might be trying to gauge when it it's safer so that they can be one of the forerunners for like when it's at its peak. So they're probably trying to gauge it like, okay.

Ty (17:00.215)
Yeah.

Gregory (17:19.472)
Yeah, 2026 has a high demand for it, but let's be honest, live service is still the thing, online is still the thing. Let's, you know, hedge our bets on next year being like single player focused because a lot of single player games are coming out and they're creeping up. So they're like, all right, well, let's just jump in when it's at the peak and steal the thunder. Like that could be their their end game goal right there, too. but yeah.

Ty (17:45.432)
Could be.

Gregory (17:47.495)
It it sucks that it's delayed, but hey, it's not delayed for like two years, three years, you know, it's delayed, you know, out of till early next year, which yeah, it's not it's not terrible. It could it could be worse. It could be GTA six. So hopefully it doesn't but what do you guys think? Or yeah, at least as long as they don't count it'd be good, but what do you guys think? do you think

Ty (17:56.386)
Like six months.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (18:04.543)
Which will be delayed again.

Ty (18:06.718)
Could be scale bound, you bastards.

Gregory (18:13.362)
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Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (18:48.906)
They comfortable.

Ty (19:05.73)
Mm-hmm.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (19:05.75)
Look at this. Look at this giddy motherfucker right here. He's happy. He's excited. I know.

Gregory (19:08.998)
Yeah.

Ty (19:09.016)
Listen, listen. It's a turn based. We just had this conversation about my love for turn based RPGs. And Persona is Persona. Right? Now granted Granted, I'd be more in love with the fact if they announce that this character is in college, so I don't feel like I'm trying to hunch on a teacher as a sixteen year old. But blonde hair.

Gregory (19:20.072)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (19:33.31)
Yeah.

Ty (19:40.426)
And a bow cut in twenty twenty seven.

Gregory (19:46.066)
Yeah. And you know, we've been every I will say the persona community has been pretty much salivating for a while for a new entry. Like

Ty (19:58.38)
Yeah, Persona Five Vanilla came out in twenty sixteen. Persona Five Royal came out in twenty mm twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. I actually know it. Let me look this up before somebody says some shit. That's gonna make me mad.

Gregory (20:02.653)
Yeah.

Gregory (20:13.918)
Yeah, reading the comments. But yeah, so basically what's got this ball rolling is there was concept art that surfaced from Chinese forum on May 28th, confirmed by Credible Sega Atlas Insider. I'm not even gonna try to pronounce that Lolia name. It's just a lot of Lolia in there. And 2019, source leak, an outsource animation studio that was working with Atlas on.

Ty (20:34.2)
Twenty nineteen, by the way. In Japan for Royal.

Gregory (20:41.544)
Persona six, the leaker was reportedly fined, a hundred thousand RBM for distributing the images. And

Ty (20:50.031)
Hold on, say real. But he got sued.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (20:51.562)
Whoa Whoa.

Gregory (20:54.302)
Put it out.

so this year is the 30th anniversary for the series. And I you would think that Persona 6, I like they're missing a huge opportunity here. If this is the year, the 30th anniversary, I feel like this should have been the year for Persona 6. Not saying that it can't shadow drop. We've seen shadow drops.

Ty (21:22.294)
So I will I will say this, right? Persona has a habit in Japan, not in the States, in Japan strictly, dropping in third or fourth quarter. Right? Cause like, for instance, Persona, Persona 5, Vanilla dropped on the PS3 and PS4 in September 2016.

I am almost positive Persona Four dropped in a similar state in a similar time frame, like right at the end of the year.

Gregory (22:05.192)
So there is a possibility. I mean, it's still early in. There could be a thing. And it seems like the protagonist, this is a first for the series, a possibly blonde male character, first in the mainline persona history, bowl cut with green eyes, as seen in early character production sheets. They also rumored a female character also leaked named Yoko Kusukabe or Renko.

Short black and red hair bob cut confirmed as a side character, not dual protagonist. and it seems like which sucks because I'm like, this is their 30th year, it should have been this year, but it says the release target is September 2027. according to the same leaker who got fined, who acted early

Ty (22:52.83)
You're sounding real every time.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (22:54.774)
Damn money.

Gregory (22:55.922)
They're a reliable source because they accurately call past persona and Yakuza info. So they'll they're reliable. Whoa, were until they got fined.

Ty (23:00.876)
Yes, I have.

Ty (23:04.684)
Yeah. They were the person that dropped the leak for the updated Persona Four that's gonna be released, I wanna say it's still this year. For the PS five remake.

Gregory (23:18.642)
And that's probably where they're gonna go with their thirtieth. That's probably what their focus is, is the you know, we got the Persona Four remake, which personally, okay, you know, Persona Four is a lot older than a lot of us realize. Like you just pointed out how long it's been since Persona Five Vanilla came out, and Persona Four obviously is before that. So, you know, having a remake is good. And and a lot of people are probably taking a page out of Capcom's book.

Because their remakes have been eating for the last few years. So if Atlas it has put in that much love and care and Persona 3 reload did well. I know a lot of people had gripes with how the DLC was handled. and that some things from the PSP version didn't transfer over to reload, which, you know, I get. but overall, it was a for the most part, well received remake.

And if you got Persona Four coming, I get it. They obviously aren't going to drop two Persona games in the same year, but two back to back that, you know, mainstream, I think that would be a first. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Ty (24:27.326)
It would be. So they usually okay, so I'm gonna give you prime example. You had Persona 5 Royal that dropped in like we just discussed 2019, then the update dropped in like 2022 for the PS5 update, right? Then you had Persona 3 reload drop in 23.

Gregory (24:55.038)
I believe so.

Ty (24:58.378)
Early twenty three. Which is one of those weird another weird thing that Atlas likes to do, right?

Mainline original. yeah. February twenty fourth. Sorry. So twenty no, I should have known better. Twenty-three is when metaphor dropped.

Gregory (25:17.244)
Yes, that's right. Yeah.

Ty (25:19.298)
23 is when Metaphor dropped, and they cleared everything for Metaphor to drop.

And a twenty-four reload drop.

25 ha didn't have a major release of that particular engine, but

Gregory (25:40.806)
Mm.

Ty (25:44.69)
Atlas Atlas is Atlas and Atlas likes to do unique things. So I will never ever ever

discount their like work and what they do. Right. Again, I can't I could probably count on one hand the amount of games I hate from Atlas compared to what I love.

Gregory (25:59.091)
Mm.

Gregory (26:12.634)
I don't think I've had a game that I haven't liked from Atlas. But then again, they do have pretty more expansive library than you would realize, too. Yeah. so if this is something they're gonna do, this will be you know good. Like I say, we get four and then we get six if they stick to the date, which I I think I strongly believe they will. because

Ty (26:20.342)
Yeah, they do.

Gregory (26:41.562)
On the heels of their 30th anniversary, it would be in their best interests to have six come out sooner than later.

Ty (26:50.637)
sh i I was wrong about Metaphor also. It came out in twenty four as well. It came out the end of the year twenty four.

Gregory (26:55.644)
I was thinking thinking, I was like, was Metaphor really that far like that long? It just doesn't it gets a

Ty (26:59.278)
Nah, so yeah. Atlas releases blend for me because I end up playing them all. Cause Soul Hacker 2 came out in 22. with the major releases. Reload came out in 24, February 24. Unicorn Overlord came out in March of 24. Technically an Atlas release.

Gregory (27:08.231)
Yeah.

Ty (27:26.06)
Magumi Tensei for Vengeance came out in 24. God, they cooked that year. Metaphor came out in 24. And then the Remaster of Rido came out in 25.

Gregory (27:33.534)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (27:38.781)
Yeah, they have been putting they have been putting out a lot of stuff. Yeah, actually they have because I remember when they redid when they did the update of vengeance for PS five and I got sucked into that real quick. So yeah, Atlas has a plan. It looks like they're trying to be the it looks like they looked at Capcom and were like, you know what?

That's a good formula. We're gonna follow that leading up to our new game, which is what Capcom did leading up to their new games. so yeah, we might have a new persona. Now, my only concern is Atlas is partnered heavily with Xbox in re recent years. and at the time of this recording, it hasn't happened yet. So you know, June 7th is when Xbox is gonna be doing their showcase. So we probably won't.

We probably will see things for Persona at the Xbox showcase. if we hadn't seen it at the which will have happened by the time this episode has aired. but I would be surprised if we saw something. but yeah, June seventh will be the Xbox Showcase. So we'll probably maybe get some more updates then, since they're heavily partnered with them. But needless to say, I'm ready. I'm excited for it.

Ty (28:40.269)
State of play.

Gregory (29:02.062)
I know Ty is excited for it. Like the Persona fandom needs another persona to tie them over. And and and you guys are patient too. Like like well over like almost ten years.

Ty (29:04.385)
Yeah.

Ty (29:16.93)
Bro, I just last night I was thinking about replaying Metaphor for the what, fifth time?

Gregory (29:23.344)
Yeah. Yeah, that was me. Yep. I'm actually getting that metaphor itch again. I got that one daggone trophy. I talked to my talk to my doctor about my metaphor itch, because I'm pretty sure that's not normal. That's not normal itch. All right. Moving on to our next next segment. which

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (29:29.014)
Probably call your doctor about that.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (29:38.252)
It's not a normal age.

Ty (29:42.178)
Is it

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (29:46.812)
How the hold up. Sorry, sorry. It's just dude, okay. The next topic was that fuck I I well I'm trying not to say so many swear words in like three three st

Ty (30:00.494)
Come on, let it all out.

Gregory (30:02.069)
Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (30:02.294)
How is Witcher 3 getting another DLC?

Gregory (30:07.91)
When I first heard that, I thought it was a joke.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (30:09.83)
I thought it was a joke too. And then I looked and it's like it is. I'm like, look. when did Witcher 3 come out? It was God. 20 2015. Thank you. It was it's 11 years later, you decide, yeah, we're gonna release another DLC for this game, another banger. It's like guys, I don't know how many times I could replay this game.

Ty (30:12.767)
I didn't.

Ty (30:19.756)
Witcher three came out in twenty fifteen. I know that for a fact.

Gregory (30:35.58)
Yeah. And and not even just that they're suddenly and the thing is, okay, you guys are working on Witcher Fort. I have two concerns. first of all, is this DLC now? I think the rumors are it's supposed to be a tie-in four four.

Ty (30:35.928)
Well

Ty (30:57.08)
Four. Yeah. It's the rumor is it's supposed to be a tie in for four. however, for you witcher fans sweet mother of Christ, I hope you got your updates in your systems. Cause i i if you were lacking my my ma not gonna get a chance to play.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (30:58.102)
Yes.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (31:12.561)
All right,

Gregory (31:27.25)
Yeah, because for those who don't know, you're not gonna be first, even if you're on PC, before you chuckle, they're they're not crazy, but there are updated requirements. So you need to check to make sure you can still play Witcher Three, even though it is a almost twelve year old game. but for those of you who have it on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

Ty (31:48.046)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (31:57.073)
And you do not have one of the current gen consoles, you are SOL because it is for current gen only, which is a very strange choice. And like, how could you not make the current DLC that's coming in accessible? Gen.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (32:16.896)
Work on everything. Work on everything. Like is is it

Gregory (32:24.715)
I know Yui did something because Yui always does something.

Ty (32:28.526)
What made you say he did something?

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (32:29.41)
I didn't do anything. No, that's one thing that I was like, dude, I have Witcher 3, I think, on my PS4, PS5, and my PC, and I think I also bought it for the Switch. And I'm yeah, I'm finding out that I probably can't play the new DLC on my four. I don't know why that bothers me, but it does.

Gregory (32:42.366)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (32:43.086)
Jesus.

Ty (32:51.32)
So I don't remember with Witcher if if you played it on the four, if you can transfer your save data to

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (33:03.7)
I didn't try.

Gregory (33:03.824)
It is but I don't know like if they main t I know like if you play on PC you can cross save to PS five and vice versa. But I don't know if they still support that for the PS4. If anyone who's listening, please let us know in the comments if you've tried it. If it has, because they usually are a little weird about old to new gen. they rather you just start over.

Ty (33:28.534)
Uh-huh.

Gregory (33:31.6)
If you're able to transfer your game from the four and you have the five, you could pretty much just upgrade your game, I believe. Then you might be okay. It's on I think it's like 10 bucks. but if you only ever had it on the PS4 and you've never gotten your hands on a PS5, hopefully you've got a PC that can play it if you don't mind setting that up and seeing if you can get your save over. I I

Ty (33:43.393)
Boss yeah.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (33:56.02)
Also at the same time, the game's always on sale. It's on sale for ten bucks here and there. On PC.

Gregory (33:59.753)
Yeah. Then that's the thing. And I would say that too. Like, if you haven't bought it already and you've been like on the fence, like, I'll get it eventually, like get it now because when that DLC drops, it'll probably be like a good year before it goes on sale again. They're gonna want to run But

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (34:14.88)
l let me let me check on Steam right now. Witcher nope, yeah, it's forty dollars right now for the game and all the DLC looks like yep for the game and DLC fifty dollars.

Ty (34:15.203)
Yeah.

Ty (34:26.646)
Which is actually a really good deal.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (34:29.196)
Really a good deal.

Ty (34:31.788)
Doesn't sound like it, but if I remember right, the DLC was like twenty or thirty bucks.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (34:37.084)
Blood and Wine was like another thirty, forty hours of content.

Gregory (34:41.426)
Yeah. Yeah. So

It's it's crazy that they're doing it. You know, supporting a a twelve year old game across five they they can't do it across five hardware tiers forever. And and it's good that they're

Ty (34:56.502)
I don't think it's so crazy just because of the show. Ended up getting new fans and everything else like that. So let's ride that pony while it's still still strong. Almost has something super improved.

Gregory (35:10.013)
Yeah.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (35:10.112)
Netflix ruined it, but we'll save it.

Gregory (35:12.71)
Yeah, they're like that four horses getting beaten to oblivion. Good lord. But are you guys getting the DLC? If not, you know, let us know why. Can you get the DLC? Can you play the DLC? There's a lot of people that are gonna be asked out on that. But moving on to our final topic for this week. A little bit of anime, Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Just wrapped up. Twenty twenty-six voting controversy returns. Will it will ever not be a controversy though?

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (35:20.833)
Yes.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (35:24.406)
Sucker.

Gregory (35:43.23)
Like

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (35:43.484)
Look, I will say this. I think one of the one of the things I heard was that my hero didn't deserve the award. It did.

Ty (35:50.402)
What? I did not hear that. This is the one time I think my hero deserved every praise that it got. Because it's one of those series where how the manga worked it was didn't feel as great, but how the anime worked it for the final arc was beautiful. It translated so well.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (35:52.98)
I heard that. I

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (35:57.522)
It did, yes.

Not only it was a build up, it was the ending.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (36:11.852)
P.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (36:16.52)
If you didn't feel emotion throughout the this sea final season of My Hero, you'd you're not you're not you're not living. You're dead inside. You're Greg on Tuesday.

Gregory (36:24.414)
Yeah.

I will say too, I think that for this year, which worked out in my hero's favor, is they didn't have anything come out that was like they didn't have solo leveling really breathing down their neck. And like, I like the I like solo leveling, but I do feel that the the

Team, not I don't want to say the team, but I guess like their marketing or whatever. Whoever's behind it that really got like a big head. they didn't have any studio like that. So I feel like this anime awards was actually pretty level, like a lot of serious consideration.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (37:12.736)
What about the biggest one? It was the movie of the year.

Gregory (37:15.826)
Yeah.

Ty (37:16.33)
I will argue against that. And the reason I'm gonna say it, unfortunately, is us in the West have a style that we love.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (37:18.271)
Okay.

Ty (37:32.288)
Japan has a style that they love. This is where all of this comes to head.

Ty (37:40.662)
Cause it and this will coincide with the whole movie of the year piece. Japan only made up how much of the percent of the votes?

Gregory (37:53.598)
That's actually good question.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (37:55.43)
god I no, it wasn't. I think it was like t under yeah.

Ty (37:55.845)
It it's not a big percent.

like ten? Huh? Whoa.

Gregory (38:01.148)
Well, you know why though, right? You know why. Because Crunchyroll is not Yeah, Crunchyroll is is Crunchyroll is actually banned over there. So like even though this is the anime awards and there's like 73 million participants, that's pretty much everyone that everyone else.

Ty (38:05.88)
They don't get crunchy roll like that.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (38:21.698)
Yeah. looking it up, it says essentially zero percent. Most of the voting came from Brazil, Germany, India, Mexico and the United States.

Ty (38:21.699)
Yeah.

Gregory (38:31.782)
Yeah. So yeah. The 'cause I'm pretty sure they have like their own they have their own awards. While Crunchyroll is the largest, it's not the centrist central hub for Japan at all.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (38:44.78)
Think of it like won't I mean if people don't how it's their public TV basically. th for us it's a paid premium. For them it's like it's on Tuesday nights. Just turn on the channel.

Gregory (38:50.93)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (38:51.404)
Yeah.

Gregory (38:56.156)
Yeah. Yeah. I'm actually glad you brought that up because a lot of people probably don't realize this, but what we get on Crunchyroll, a lot of people when people complain and be like, you know, why are certain things about the show off or yada yada? That's because we're getting what aired for them on TV. Getting the TV version of what aired in Japan. We're not getting the

Ty (38:57.005)
Yeah.

Ty (39:12.609)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (39:17.896)
Blu-ray version where like high dive, they get the Blu-ray version. They buy the rights for the the uncut and the, you know, uncensored and all that, which is why sometimes it'll take them longer. Crunchyroll was like straight from the minute it aired in Japan, they just cut the commercials out and then they s get a translation and then they spit it out to us.

Ty (39:37.368)
Which is why I'ma use JJK as the best example of this. The Maraga versus Sukuna fight, when it aired on Crunchyroll, was different than what it was on the Blu-ray. The Blu-ray version is what they ended up putting out later. But the T V version that Mappa originally released is why the fight seemed a little bit shorter. But then they dropped that Blu-ray version like

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (39:48.325)
Gregory (39:51.144)
And

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (39:53.345)
Was cleaner.

Gregory (39:55.379)
Yep.

Ty (40:05.238)
Two months later is whatever the hell it was, I'm not looking it up.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (40:10.08)
No. That's not priority. It it is it is one of those things where you gotta understand that the votes come from us. That doesn't come from them. They should have their own awards where people of in Japan vote and like less votes come from the Western world. But that's that's difficult in itself to do.

Gregory (40:14.323)
Yeah.

Ty (40:33.502)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (40:35.175)
Yeah.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (40:35.394)
'Cause you're you're trying to v get the votes of maybe at most six million people compared to the seventy million across the world.

Ty (40:47.416)
Yeah.

Gregory (40:48.478)
And you know, in like Ty mentioned earlier, there's a certain style that we like in the West. There's certain stories we prefer in the West, because a lot of people were surprised at certain snubs, like Takopi's original sin, Critically Beloved, Emotionally Devastating, went home despite seven nominations.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (41:08.61)
That is that is putting it lightly. Emotionally devastating, that is putting it lightly. No.

Gregory (41:12.03)
I'm just gonna Yeah audience cannot handle bad endings and that's just fact because

Ty (41:13.272)
Yeah, I don't wish that on nobody. I watch the fuck out of it. But

Ty (41:22.22)
I don't even think it was a bad ending. that ending was happy compared to the rest of that anime.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (41:22.922)
I think it was a bad ending.

Gregory (41:24.518)
Well, I mean like like sad things and sad stories. The reason I said bad ending is because I don't know if anyone remembers when the dissent came out. years ago.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (41:27.487)
Yeah.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (41:36.907)
yeah. Then they had the horror movie descent. You know what, yeah.

Ty (41:37.656)
You talking about the horror movie The Descent? yeah, there's the happy American ending and then there's the other ending. That only aired in Europe at first.

Gregory (41:39.947)
There's two

Yeah. Yeah. Well, the true ending did not test well with American audiences. So because for our culture, we're always come out on top, you know, always always the happy ending. so it didn't test well with American audiences, so they wound up cutting the film at what became the good ending. They just basically cut out the part where

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (41:45.174)
Yeah.

Gregory (42:12.53)
You know, she wakes up and realizes she's still in the cave. They just cut it at her escape and left that as the ending for us. So I knew when Original Sin aired, I was like, this is n it's going to be beloved, but it's only going to be beloved by people who can handle not everything being a peachy keen, happy go lucky story. They have the emotional maturity to understand the you know, there's darker shit out there. So

Ty (42:36.311)
Of an egg plant.

Gregory (42:43.238)
While it was nominated, and while there was a huge, there's a lot of people that loved it. Overall, you got to remember remember 73 million, that's a lot. That's a lot of votes. And then you've got the judges. And like I said, Crunchyroll is mostly a Western thing. I knew I said this isn't gonna sit well for for the most part, the Western part of anime.

Ty (42:48.044)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (43:11.908)
Even if like this everyone who did watch it and was like fifty million people loved it, at the end of the day they're gonna be like, Yeah, but over here, it's all happy, happy, joy, joy. Flashy fights. That's the only reason Soul Loveling swept last year. And I say this as someone who liked Soul Loveling, but I knew what Soul Loveling was.

Ty (43:31.266)
Well, it goes back to remember the whole controversy that Japan had. Granted, granted, I don't like using Japan as a litmus test because these are the same people that were upset that Nayoya Nayoya was killed because they found he was a they thought he was a great They thought he was a great character. They were like,

Gregory (43:54.895)
Go on. Yes. Yeah.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (43:56.16)
Hey.

Ty (44:00.172)
We love Nyoya. Huh? But for us in the West it was like Brad is a w one foot into the red pill community.

Gregory (44:12.638)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (44:16.452)
Just dip the toe in there.

Gregory (44:20.7)
Also another snub that did surprise me, but the same time didn't, because once again I knew the Western audiences feel d Dandadon.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (44:30.198)
No No, I'm not surprised either.

Ty (44:30.479)
I'm not surprised.

Gregory (44:35.1)
Really?

Ty (44:35.2)
A lot of people got really uncomfortable with Donadon in the season one, right?

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (44:35.766)
Yeah.

Gregory (44:38.29)
That's what I mean. That's what I mean. That's what I mean. That's the only reason it killed it.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (44:42.944)
No, I I'm I'm on the line of like Dandan, their arcs are so it's it's a weird way to do their arcs that you technically don't finish like the first season doesn't finish an arc, it starts a new one. And then it's like, yeah, now I have to wait to the new new season. Like it doesn't just end an arc, it ends it and starts it and then cuts it.

Gregory (44:56.616)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (44:56.652)
Mm-hmm.

Gregory (45:04.648)
Well, the I w I wouldn't so much blame this the the story. They probably were making sure that they could get a s another season. Because a lot of people forget anime isn't the main market. It's a huge market, but it's not their main focal point. It's meant sir it's meant to sell the mangas.

Ty (45:05.198)
Yeah.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (45:13.654)
Yeah.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (45:21.059)
no.

I gotta get I gotta get something out with my chest. You motherfuckers are lucky right now. Because how the how do we get an anime season two within two years? That doesn't happen. Money, yeah. But it's you guys are lucky because you guys are getting new anime that get a season every two years. Us, most of us here, had to wait five, maybe ten years for a season two.

Ty (45:34.049)
Money.

Ty (45:45.08)
This is gonna sound messed up, but I need to turn on a light because I'm too dark.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (45:52.034)
Ty was disappearing with the black with the black background.

Gregory (45:52.671)
Ty (45:56.366)
Not not to be I was sitting there looking the whole time, I was like

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (46:03.89)
It doesn't help that you're wearing that that sweater as well.

Gregory (46:04.19)
Yeah.

Ty (46:06.047)
Yeah. I was like

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (46:09.076)
I thought you were shirtless this whole time.

Gregory (46:11.297)
my goodness. So anyhow, yeah. but you know, I will say that this this crunchy roll might it

Ty (46:11.65)
Hold on now.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (46:20.142)
I'm s I'm still laughing that Demon Slayer outbeat Chainsaw Man and I'm like I a lot of people like Chainsaw Man, but Demon Slayer still holds out as a lot of people's favorite.

Gregory (46:30.407)
Yeah.

Ty (46:30.786)
Which is weird. Which is weird. Because I know more people that complain about Demon Slayer than praise it.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (46:32.715)
Right?

Gregory (46:32.99)
Well you said,

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (46:42.06)
But a lot of people go for it. It's it's one of those things where they love it so much they complain about everything and they still go and support.

Gregory (46:49.342)
Here's the thing about Chainsaw Man, even though it has action, it has all of the stuff I figured would get people going, you still need to think a little bit with Chainsaw Man. There is a plot under all of it. You have to figure out who the mastermind is, how all of the demons are connected, and and there's there's thinking involved. And a lot of people when they watch anime, they're not watching it to think.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (46:57.27)
Dids.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (47:16.406)
Solarly.

Gregory (47:17.542)
And and it's I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. Not at all. If you come in after a hard day, you want to turn your brain off, you're gonna find something that you can turn your brain off with and watch mindlessly. I totally get that. that's why soul leveling was so popular. And no one had to think about it. But and Demon Slayer.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (47:26.068)
Overlord.

Ty (47:33.998)
Y'all gonna be upset in the later seasons if they decide to go for it. I'm just telling y'all now, it it it drops bad.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (47:38.462)
Ooh. Dude, the I got a question how the people would react when Chainsaw Man finally reaches its ending. How they're gonna react to that ending. it's gonna be so bad.

Gregory (47:40.06)
Yeah, yeah.

Ty (47:49.09)
They're gonna write. It's gonna be bad.

Gregory (47:51.455)
It's gonna be bad. But no spok. Yeah. so a lot of the people that keep these things going, the complex animes are the manga readers. And a lot of people who don't mind having a little bit of critical thinking in their shows. but Demon Slayer, I love Demon Slayer. I do. and I like what they do with the anime, and the music's on point and the animation's on point. But at its core, you don't have to think with Demon Slayer.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (47:54.346)
I like the ending. I'm one of the weird ones.

Ty (48:19.902)
No. God no.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (48:20.736)
No. You have to feel 'cause they will explain every demon's past and make you feel sorry for.

Gregory (48:27.614)
Exactly. They explain everything. Chainsaw Man does not do that.

Ty (48:32.928)
It does not handhold you at all.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (48:33.918)
It does not I have to pull an encyclopedia sometimes. So like what did I miss? Let me go back three chapters. no, I gotta go back 20 chapters. I gotta go back to the beginning.

Gregory (48:34.694)
That's all so.

Ty (48:43.192)
Like what? Rize and Ninji would have been a perfect couple, but Rize is Rize?

Gregory (48:50.718)
Honest on the fact too. And here's the other thing I think worked against the Chainsaw Man movie is even though it makes sense for her character, once again, the Western audience gets we do get on our soapbox a little bit too much. And I'm guessing like they probably didn't like how Rezay was portrayed. Because honestly, due to her power set, she spent a good portion of the movie pretty much running around naked. And that's why I said I think that's that's why I know season one of Dandedan.

killed it off for any awards because once again we have the West mentality not realizing where this stuff is created, where it's made. You know, a lot of people can't separate the two. So I think that plays a role in it as well. also I think the Zenitsu scene skyrocketed Demon Slayer to the forefront of everyone's mind when he was fallen in the castle.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (49:45.409)
Which one?

Yeah.

Ty (49:48.704)
his lock in moment. Yeah.

Gregory (49:50.246)
Everyone was talking about four months.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (49:53.396)
Also, do you guys understand that the English voice actor for Zenitsu is also the voice actor for Jung Sin well I for I can't say his name. So Lovely. Yeah.

Gregory (50:03.646)
For who? S Songjin Woo?

Ty (50:08.276)
shit. Why did I just forget your name?

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (50:11.158)
Same same person.

Gregory (50:15.91)
I mean, there are certain there's just certain icons out there in the anime community that are in everything. But

Ty (50:23.542)
Alex Lee because no, it was gonna kill me because Alex Lee has this very unique voice to where he will play someone very meek sounding and he'll do the meek voice really well, and then when they are quote unquote having a badass moment, he can flip that voice, hence why. Yep. He's like, like stay away from me, sir.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (50:24.3)
Thank you.

Gregory (50:25.096)
There you go.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (50:27.988)
I want him.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (50:34.346)
And then turn it on.

Gregory (50:45.052)
It's the base. Yeah.

Ty (50:53.528)
Goes from I'll have her home by by nine AM, sir. we nine PM, sir, to

Gregory (51:00.944)
A rise. Yeah, he hits that base. But what do you guys think? Anime is very debatable. I'm pretty sure that somebody wants to come at me with pitchforks and their cosplay sword. But what do you guys think? Do you think the their cosplay sword? Do you think the crunchy roll awards were fair? Did your f do you think it's returned to form? What are your what are your thoughts? But

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (51:15.212)
The cosplay sword and you have a stick of deodorant.

Yeah, you like that one.

Ty (51:26.796)
I think Japan has a right to have their own.

Gregory (51:29.224)
They probably do and we might not just be aware of it. 'Cause why would we? We don't have their vast options of anime. Yeah. Anyway.

Ty (51:32.706)
Yeah.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (51:38.412)
Which I'm jealous of. You know how many when we when we were staying there, how many times I flipped the channel, I watch an anime, I'm like, damn, I don't where is this? And then I don't find it anywhere else. I'm like, Where the this was dope.

Gregory (51:47.654)
Right.

Gregory (51:51.378)
Yeah. Also, I'm jealous of their anime prime video because they get all those animes. I was trying I I tried to be slick and like bookmark to see if I could hold on to when I came back. And I came back and they were like, buddy, you left. They're gone. Buddy, you thought you could watch the new case clothes movie? No. No. You went home, sir.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (51:57.536)
Yep.

Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly Uly (52:07.98)
You have to be buddy. Good luck.

Ty (52:16.759)
Huh?

Gregory (52:22.067)
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