WSJ article this morning: Blockchain has flatlined at 92% down. Me: GOOD.

@mikekazz5353

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like almost everyone just cashed out at the best golden moment, that or the one guy that made the currency just took everything and ran.

@tomisabum

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikekazz5353 Nailed it more with the latter take than you might realize, pretty much, and it didn't even require any shenanigans beyond the original bamboozlement of 'worth'.

@tsarzamancorpdna

2 жыл бұрын

Me looking at mg cryptobro friends: Aint that a bitch

@BigFingerRo

2 жыл бұрын

Cue the cryptobro coming in with a thread he made on twitter about how it's not true and they're actually doing amazing. Throw some "UGH IGNORANT"s in there, maybe even some "UR JUST JEALOUS!" too.

@AsleepAura

2 жыл бұрын

Nature is healing

Square selling all these companies for NFT money is like the living room big screen TV disappearing and the family dad being suspiciously high on meth not long after.

@BurninatorXIII

2 жыл бұрын

I like the idea of being "non-suspiciously" high on meth.

@robovinefilms1811

2 жыл бұрын

A "Literal" gallon of PCP

@chillhour6155

2 жыл бұрын

No it's like selling you're 8K tv and hanging a children's painting where it once stood

@charleswisconsin9196

2 жыл бұрын

@@chillhour6155 i suppose, but then again i feel like anyone who spends money on an 8k TV deserves to get ripped off.

@anonymous71207

2 жыл бұрын

​@@robovinefilms1811 ...Wow! A gallon! T-That's illegal, isn't it?

"FFXIV pays for every mistake you see." - Pat 2022 Man what a quote.

@iller3

2 жыл бұрын

yet it's not even a proper Whale-MMO.... simply astonishing what it says about it's COMPETITION.

@TestAcct46

2 жыл бұрын

FF9?

@charleswisconsin9196

2 жыл бұрын

roman numerals are hard.

@Michael-bn1oi

2 жыл бұрын

FFXIV*

@DarkPlague20

2 жыл бұрын

@@TestAcct46 ff9-5 like 10-2

Fun fact: days after Square Enix’s IP sale, the Wall Street Journal reported that NFT sales have declined by 92% compared to last year.

@vivamexico254

2 жыл бұрын

Thats a good thing right ?

@gdhuertas07

2 жыл бұрын

@@vivamexico254 Not for Square Enix, that’s for sure.

“An eternity passed, and my license receded, bringing me back from the precipice of cancellation. The nearly two decades under Squenix had destroyed me, and yet… I lived.” -Raziel hearing the Legacy of Kain series might be free from being stuck in limbo forever.

@jeangreffsbp

6 ай бұрын

And then Embracer proceeded to go under Rip Dude Sex and Legacy of Kaine

@Comkill117

2 ай бұрын

@@jeangreffsbp”ONLY THIS TORTURE, AND A DEEPENING HATRED OF THE HIPOCRACY THAT DAMNED ME TO THIS HELL.” -Raziel, again.

Jim put it best: "Square sold Tomb Raider for magic beans".

It’s hard to think of a company more haphazard and frustrating than Square Enix. They have so little consistency, it’s astonishing.

@Mr.Faust3

2 жыл бұрын

Square is always trying and willing to shoot themselves in the foot even if there chances for success were none or just 1%

@randomd00d19

2 жыл бұрын

The fact that they are still afloat astounds me.

@li-limandragon9287

2 жыл бұрын

I think Capcom are bit like that too, for every RE2make and DMC5 there’s a Marvel vs Capcom Infinite and a RE6 (though that game has its few charms). Either it’s incredible highs or real lows. Nintendo being able churn out good quality games at consistent rate is incredible. They’re all better than Sega at least.

@leithaziz2716

2 жыл бұрын

@@li-limandragon9287 Capcom can be moreso summed up as being stuck in a a period where most of what they released was not liked by most people, as an attempt to "appeal" more to the western audience. Which is how you got DmC and Bionic Commando to name a few. Also, SEGA isn't just Sonic if you're gonna be that guy. May I introduce you to Yakuza? ^_^

@fenris5932

2 жыл бұрын

Actually they've been remarkably consistent, the only issue is that there's the heads of the company who are a bunch of gambling addict old dipshits and then there's the FFXIV team and about 3/4 of the FF7 Remake team who are carrying their asses along as they kick and scream and shit and piss and burn money

always a fan when they post an entire third of the podcast as a clip

@Mr.Faust3

2 жыл бұрын

That’s how you know it’s a good podcast

I adore the imagery of all these mistreated characters finally breaking free and being taken in as refugees being offered warm blankets and coffee.

@li-limandragon9287

2 жыл бұрын

I see it as Lara and JC lounging on their butts on sofas doing nothing and some executive comes along and tells them to pick up their stuff and move out. If was Konami, yes it’d be like giving the characters warm blankets after rescuing them from a Nazi Death Camp named Pachinko.

@Idontevenwanachannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@li-limandragon9287 Yeah, it's not like their most recent outings were offensively bad or anything... they've just been sitting there.

At this price I'm surprised they didn't just leave all the stuff at Embracer's doorstep in a swaddle and basket

@Mr.Faust3

2 жыл бұрын

Like a Charles dickens novel “please take care of my poor dear western division”

I feel so conflicted about all of this. The fact that Square is willing to throw away classic IP's for essentially chump change hits hard. On the other hand the fact that these games are possibly gonna thrive again is fantastic.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, if/when the next Daus Ex, Tomb Raider, Theif, or so on comes out and makes more profit on it's own then the whole bundle was sold for will make a CEO force whoever made this choice rage quit...

@jerryjezzaberry5009

4 ай бұрын

So this one didn't age well

@TheDestroyer354

4 ай бұрын

@@jerryjezzaberry5009 no it really didn't

I'm fully convinced Embracer made a typo with their offer and forget a couple zeroes, and then Square accepted it anyway and they just kept their mouths shut.

@NEEDbacon

2 жыл бұрын

Basically pulled a Diablo 2 trade scam.

This is like when someone starts selling their wordly possessions at the pawn shop to fund their new drug addiction

@RipOffProductionsLLC

2 жыл бұрын

Multinationalmegacorp sells infinite money pile is quest for more money

Well, the Thief franchise may finally be in good hands. About time the projenitor of all stealth games made a return

@K_Bone

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe this time bring back Stephen Russle as Garret.

Ever just see a company make decisions and go: “How are you still alive?” It feels like Squeenix embodies that right now. Without FF14 and it’s stellar staff it’d be a corpse by now

@franzhopper7631

2 жыл бұрын

YoshiP is holding that company together

@somethingcool1533

2 жыл бұрын

Literally the only company doing worse than them is Konami, which is a terrible thought. I'm surprised that Bandai Namco, the company dedicated to shilling out the latest anime game while still coasting on the longevity of Tekken, Soul Calibur and Pac-Man, hasn't made their own terrible business decision related to crypto. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was in the cards prior to the terrifyingly huge success of Elden Ring. Makes me wonder if Drakengard/Nier is also on the chopping block. I sure as hell know that The World Ends With You is since Square can't sell off Kingdom Hearts just yet due to Disney's involvement.

@franzhopper7631

2 жыл бұрын

@@somethingcool1533 Coming soon to platforns Crypto Warriors where you can defeat entire armies and mine for Crypto at the same time. Y'know I'd thought It'd be funny to type that but actually thinking about it makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

@corruptdropbear

2 жыл бұрын

I think FFXVI will end up being the last great game Square Enix makes before they're bought out by Sony due to an internal collapse

@Dantarn

2 жыл бұрын

@@franzhopper7631 One time I installed an add-on for FF14 and Yoshi P appeared behind me in full Reaper Cosplay and banished me to the same pit they keep the MCH developer for the past 5 years and now I can't escape

It really seems like the failure of Marvel's Avengers was the last straw for SE.

@pyropoyo

2 жыл бұрын

It's so weird considering GOTG came out unscathed and was really well received, you'd think they would reconsider. Maybe negotiations were already under way.

@leithaziz2716

2 жыл бұрын

I'm still sad about how Square barely marketed NEO: The World Ends With You. Fantastic sequel that most people weren't aware even existed.

@EbonMaster

2 жыл бұрын

@@pyropoyo I think it reviewed well but didn't sell well at all. Many people (like me) were likely put off because of the last Marvel game that looked like that and unlike people like me, didnt keep up with the release to see if it was actually good or not. I think its fair to assume that the Avengers game REALLY poisoned the waters for many. And thats not even to mention that apparently even when games from those studios DID make money they didnt make much compared to how much they cost to develop.

@dennisl9176

2 жыл бұрын

Squenix lost a LOT of money over both Avengers and GotG, two IPs which should have been easy successes for them. So yes its not hard to see that was the last straw. Sucks to see them deciding to drop stuff and go NFT

@Geneolgia

2 жыл бұрын

Avengers, GotG, Babylon's Fall, etc. they didn't had a last straw, they had a haystack of blunders.

The creator of Dragon Quest tried to make Dragon Quest 9 as an action RPG wtih 4-player online co-op of his own desire. The fan backlash was instant and intense, so they backed down and rebuilt it as a traditional turn-based RPG. With 4-player online co-op. A few years later they made Dragon Quest 10 as an MMO... with turn based combat. (Well, ATB.)

@ultraspinalki11

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds interesting. How does the multiplayer work with the plot? Like, can a player just join my story quest whenever they like? Or is it a separate, unique mode with its own story?

@Coinspinner2

2 жыл бұрын

@@ultraspinalki11 They join your game and can accompany you on the main quest. They can run around independently. I didn't really play it much,not sure of the details. Episode 6 of Saigancat's LP shows multiplayer. Also it has local co-op over wifi, not online, sorry.

I'm starting to regret my first ending decision in Deus Ex Human Revolution. It is where you have to lie at how it wasn't the corporations fault at the end and let them not take the blame. It was something along those lines

@DannyJPCW

2 жыл бұрын

Whereas I blew myself up because I was a fucking seer and I knew nothing would get better.

@meteorjohnson139

2 жыл бұрын

@@DannyJPCW Same we blow it all up and leave it to the people.

@bobobsen

2 жыл бұрын

Change never comes without pain

@Pak_Industrial

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer the secret ending where you just get to that room, turn the game off and go play the first one. Do not pass mankind divided, do not pass peace walker or mgs5. Go directly in a straight line to the first game and let the continuity just fill in the blanks.

@TychoHoward

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the one where Serif does damage control on the conspiracy making Augs go crazy? Like everyone else, I went with sinking Panchaea. Seemed to be the canon ending too, judging by Mankind Divided.

I see the headline now, "Chinese software conglomerate Tencent buys Square Enix"

Certified smooth brain moment from SE

Square Enix's capacity for botching is like their own personal Sephiroth. Just the concept of ridiculous failure perpetually leaning over their shoulders, licking their earlobes and whispering how it will never be a memory.

@NEEDbacon

2 жыл бұрын

Are we sure SE's CEO isn't Sin Cara?

@li-limandragon9287

2 жыл бұрын

@@NEEDbacon SE’s failure is like Sin, always comes back no matter how much you best it down with Automata or a FF7r

I’m gonna be petty here but I hope that one game alone in any of those acquired franchise recoups the cost of the purchase and makes Square Enix look like giant fools Either that or just give me a new Deus Ex that is good and doesn’t have micro transactions

@TheAssassin642

2 жыл бұрын

That would feel pretty good

@lolrus5555

2 жыл бұрын

And have JC Denton return.

@charleswisconsin9196

2 жыл бұрын

Invisible War 2 baby!

Desk-mounted Pat is new and foreign to me and as such I've deemed it unnatural.

@adams3627

2 жыл бұрын

Pat is smol, him taking up this much of my screen is unnatural

@BelldandyMan

2 жыл бұрын

@@adams3627 he even looks like normal sized man! Gotta get a good view of his stumpy legs

@yanipheonu

2 жыл бұрын

The idea that Pat is *mounted* to the desk, like some sort of ornament, is definitely an image 😶

@brokentower3148

2 жыл бұрын

pat is unnatural

@humphump88

2 жыл бұрын

Sussy Pat

Yoshi P is the only thing keeping square alive

@vaan_

2 жыл бұрын

the mobile (gambling) game division makes so much money for a fraction of the effort, I highly doubt and SE has fingers in more pies than just videogames

@Mr.Faust3

2 жыл бұрын

@@vaan_ Maybe for all we could know they might have a pachinko business unknown to us westerners tho I guess what I mean is square has lowered my hype for there releases when it’s just one guy holding the greed bags back

@lulcy95

2 жыл бұрын

Factually wrong. Read their finantial reports.

@ToasterDsG

2 жыл бұрын

@@vaan_ Only in their home market.

@iller3

2 жыл бұрын

...and possibly Cup O noodle marketing

In the good timeline Konami would do this to their IP and Castlevania, Silent Hill and Metal Gear would be resurrected and in safe hands.

@ricardomiles2957

2 жыл бұрын

No. Let these ips die. Move on. Kojima sold his soul working on MGS, ended the story and the whole world in it just so people wouldn't mess with it like the other two mentioned

@Makr0ss

2 жыл бұрын

The only metal gear game I would've accepted, maybe 5 years ago, was a sequel to Rising.

@WillTheGreatest

2 жыл бұрын

I mean I would like a new castlevania game. They did what a couple remasters as the show came out and they had like 4 years?

@ShayneRawls

2 жыл бұрын

@@ricardomiles2957 You must be fun at parties

@ricardomiles2957

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShayneRawls shut up if you don't have anything to say related to the topic

I'm starting to think someone put a curse on Square Enix that every suit that gets hired there is either already or becomes a driveling moron. They consistently fuck with shit and make it worse, don't market games then whine when they don't sell 10 million copies or just make idiotic investments. No matter who is in charge it never changes.

@NEEDbacon

2 жыл бұрын

The issues is those types of management types are worryingly common.

Final Fantasy only exists because Square is a poorly managed company that needs a critical success to bankroll everything before they fuck up horrendously and restart the process again. It feels like every good decision and game they DO make is a fucking fluke.

@thelaughingrouge

2 жыл бұрын

100% accurate. No other game company makes such insanely great games and also the biggest flaming dumpster fires at the same time.

@ultraheaven8968

2 жыл бұрын

@@thelaughingrouge Their luck is running out , FF isn't as hot as it used to be . Maybe the MMO game is going strong, but I give no shits about that one

@PatrickTCAPIreland

2 жыл бұрын

I’m still shocked (pleasantly so) that Final Fantasy 7 Remake came out as good as it did (ending shenanigans aside)

@li-limandragon9287

2 жыл бұрын

@@PatrickTCAPIreland Even the ending as questionable as it is, is still more interesting than anything else FF7 related that SE put out. Dirge and Crisis are crappy and we gotta stop pretending they’re not.

Square doesn't need dead properties like Deus Ex or Avengers to be successful, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins is the first game to sell over Chaosillion copies launch week, and the number keeps growing! #GARLANDSWEEP

@Dante45p

2 жыл бұрын

i mean kinda true

@loganwernicke7604

2 жыл бұрын

"Chaos ate my wife and fucked my dog"

@harlannguyen4048

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it the 4th worst selling FF spinoff?

@kapkant6197

2 жыл бұрын

@@harlannguyen4048 that's fake news audiences LOVED Stranger of Paradise, critics put out the hit! Who do you trust? Yourself? Or some Chaos supporting troll behind a keyboard?

@SonplaysMinEcraft

2 жыл бұрын

dirge of cerberus remake confirmed

Nice to see they got Pirate Woolie for this podcast

This entire section can be summed up like this. Square Enix: "Hmmm, this ONE live service is doing so well it is literally bankrolling our entire company, WHAT IF WE HAD ANOTHER THOUGH?" *Every other one fails.* Square Enix: "MAYBE IF WE KEEP THROWING AWAY MONEY, ONE OF THESE WILL HIT."

@Dirtyboots3strikes

2 жыл бұрын

They're the kind of company who thinks NFT is a good thing. Them selling off their western IPs (with exception of Life is Strange. which is, er, strange) and studios says a lot.

@sharkodile22

2 жыл бұрын

This is factually the universal business strat of all bankers, hedgefund managers and corpo executives. Just throw your cash into as many potential winners as possible and let the one winner of many failures bankroll not only that, but your next venture. It's why they're all rich daddy's boys completely disconnected from reality; it's literally a job requirement.

@PokeBattlerJaze

2 жыл бұрын

@@sharkodile22 Depressing, but you right.

@janematthews9087

2 жыл бұрын

@@PokeBattlerJaze Reminder that a study shows that 98%. of CEOs in Business today can be classified as high functioning sociopaths. They just have enough humanity to function in polite society, but not enough to factor in humans in their decision making. And being carried by their charisma through bad times. It's scary.

@theotherjared9824

2 жыл бұрын

The gambler's fallacy. If you keep rolling the dice, you are statistically guaranteed to get a favorable outcome. Sure, you go bankrupt in the process, but get 5% of it all back in the end is worth it.

Remember when they turned the LoK series- a narrative heavy, deeply philosophical franchise- into an online multiplayer deathmatch ripoff? And canceled the actual narrative, single player game mid-developement? That was a neat trick. Like spinning.

@Sutairu_Masuta

2 жыл бұрын

From what I've seen, Dead Sun was going in the DmC route, so we don't really know if it was going to be well-received.

@goldlight1322

2 жыл бұрын

For a half second I thought you were talking about Legend of Korra and I was super confused.

@versebuchanan512

2 жыл бұрын

@@goldlight1322 Soul Bender

@versebuchanan512

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sutairu_Masuta As I understood it, they were drawing pretty heavily from like, Shadow of Mordor, at least in terms of the MC abilities and controls. But then I didn't even know about it at all till well after the cancelation, so I might just be overhyping a what-if in my own head.

@Pak_Industrial

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh I remember playing the beta of nosgoth. It's still in my steam library. It was fine. Inoffensive at best. Felt like every other FTP shooter on steam during that time period. There were so damn many back then.

Coming back to this after embracer basically started falling apart is so depressing rip

My main concern is that IF we get a new gex game it'll kill the meme completely like the last bubsy game killed the bubsy meme. Everything else is a net positive for the most part. Here's hoping for a new legacy of kain or Deus Ex 5.

@KnightLineArtYT

2 жыл бұрын

I mean probably. But Gex's games, memes aside weren't Terrible like most of Bubsy's.

@GIZMONDO987

2 жыл бұрын

You cannot stop the inevitability of New Gex Game. You *Cannot* Stop Tail Time.

@1Synner

2 жыл бұрын

But, the Gex games were actually good... and honestly, the character himself was basically a meme factory with all of his stupid jokes, one-liners, and references. A new game would only solidify that.

@josh-oo

2 жыл бұрын

@@1Synner Imagine Gex making modern references. I dunno if my old brain could handle the shock.

@1Synner

2 жыл бұрын

@@josh-oo Lol, that would be terrible in a beautiful way. The perfect amount of cringe, just as Gex used to be.

the problem with the "just let the people who do the thing do the thing and do it right" is that for the big AAA publishers, the numbers and good games that we view as big slam dunk timeless classics are often *not good enough*. You got a lot of this with Capcom, too, during that period where they were burying franchises for selling gangbusters but not selling gangbusters *enough* Not that that excuses the blockchain nonsense, but still.

@alexc6088

2 жыл бұрын

This, the problem is not that they want to have a lot of money, but that they want all of the money. Which really is the bedrock of modern economic and business philosophy.

@ivanlopezjr.2137

2 жыл бұрын

It’s like you made a lot and more, but you didn’t make the more we wanted to it’s time to get old yeller.

@Idontevenwanachannel

2 жыл бұрын

It's literally the "killing the goose that lays the golden eggs" analogy.

@Shadest

11 ай бұрын

Line must go up.

Like FF14 is the best and worst thing to ever happen to SquareEnix. It has absolutely intoxicated their higher ups into not feeling the pain of their incredibly stupid ideas

Woolie looking kinda pirate.

@li-limandragon9287

2 жыл бұрын

The dude needs to read or watch One Piece.

to be clear baz has a ryu number of 2 because shovel knight is in smash as an assist trophy

It is honestly shocking that Squeenix didn't at least hang on to fucking Tomb Raider, a property that was obviously still successful and was probably singlehandedly worth the price of the whole deal.

the only thing that concerns me about all of this is how these decisions will impact the development of the ff7 remake parts

@kapkant6197

2 жыл бұрын

The ability to revive Aerith is an NFT

@danielr.7062

2 жыл бұрын

No JC Denton costume for tifa.

@li-limandragon9287

2 жыл бұрын

@@kapkant6197 You’ll have provide micro transactions to SE if you want her to live.

@originalscreenname44

2 жыл бұрын

@@li-limandragon9287 considering you had to pay for a GameShark to do that in the original, that tracks.

@ClasticOne

2 жыл бұрын

@@kapkant6197 The item required to save her is limited to seasonal winners of the live service multiplayer version of the chocobo racing game.

On the subjuct of good prequel-era Star Wars games, did Pat totally forget about the original Battlefront titles? Or the Episode 3 game? Or the Lego games. The pod racing game is a weird one to think of first.

@nackskott12

2 жыл бұрын

Or Republic Commando?

@As_Expected_of_Pieck

2 жыл бұрын

Pat cannot criticize the Disney drought as a liberal, lest he be aligned to the anti-party chuds that hate the flawless The Last Jedi.

@ethicalcheeze1407

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I immediately thought of Battlefront 2 as well, as someone else mentioned, Republic Commando is another total classic

@NEEDbacon

2 жыл бұрын

As a fan of racing games, I totally stan Star Wars Racer Episode I (as unwieldy a title as it is). Good thing Tim Schaffer didn't actively try to sabotage it.

@pyropoyo

2 жыл бұрын

Dude's brain completely fried considering he forgot BOTH KOTOR GAMES

In other news: Deus Ex 5 announced to thunderous applause

It's insane how much work the fans have put into keep the Legacy of Kain series alive and playable, while Square Enix just stuffed it into a hole to never speak of it again.

I like Gex. Gex Was mentioned, this is a good video.

I see that the podcast was pre-NFT market crash news cause Pat isn't giggling like a school girl, giddy with schadenfreude.

We need to put some things into perspective about the avengers game. We ALREADY HAD a good avengers game, that marvel heroes omega game, the Diablo style one. That game rocked! Squenix HAD THAT GAME KILLED so the avengers game wouldn't have competition. AND IT STILL FAILED, so they not only released a bad game that instantly died, they KILLED a GOOD game before hand

If Square ever did fuck with Dragon Quest someone would die. And it wouldn't be a "the Enix/DQ fan ninjas got them" type death, it would be a very public message driving death

@dano8902

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man, I have no doubt that would happen. Some quiet Japanese salaryman who literally grew up playing the games as his only escape from the crushing pressure of society would lose his mind and toss some molotovs through a bunch of windows.

Honestly this is great news for fans of those franchises, there's a chance of new games coming out and we get to see Squeenix blow up in real time for crypto bullshit

Worth mentioning that Square Enix's business operations also extend into arcade hardware, print media (magazines and manga), toys, and high end merchandise, which I'm sure also has a mitigating effect on their seemingly endless bad video game decisions and unrealistic performance expectations.

Square Enix doubling down on NFTs is the equivalent of Austin Powers trying to win at Black Jack with a 5 of clubs. I guess Square Enix also likes to live dangerously.

You guys gotta accept that Babylon's Fall was Platinum's fumble, considering recent interviews and that new branch they opened up to focus on GaaS.

@kapkant6197

2 жыл бұрын

If Platinum decided to make a generic military FPS game instead of Transformers Devastation 2 I would spend my every waking moment blaming an Illuminati Deep State PsyOp instead of them

@pyropoyo

2 жыл бұрын

@@kapkant6197 I mean... I'd much rather a generic military FPS from Platinum over Babylon's Fall...

@kapkant6197

2 жыл бұрын

@@pyropoyo Get Platinum on Call of Duty, it would probably be less of a fucking embarrassment than Vanguard or Warzone

@ricardomiles2957

2 жыл бұрын

@@kapkant6197 shooters with story died. As a fun mindless shooters they are okay. Warzone was the first battle Royale game that I actually felt like investing time getting good at ir

@LargeInCharge77

2 жыл бұрын

@@kapkant6197 whats embarassing about warzone. I thought it was ok and seems successful.

Legacy of Rain being taken away from Square Enix may be just what it needs to finally get a new game made.

@Lunarice98

2 жыл бұрын

just gotta hurry before raziel's VA dies so we can have a voice in kain's head bitching at him and being bros, while he fights the enemy.

@garrettcarter5622

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lunarice98 The death of a VA should not signify the end of a franchise. Recasting happens all the time.

@slifer875

2 жыл бұрын

@@garrettcarter5622 No, legacy of kain is nothing without the original voice actors and amy hening. It would be an empty shell...

@garrettcarter5622

2 жыл бұрын

@@slifer875 I would argue Amy is significantly more crucial than the other. Don’t be so close-minded to what other actors could bring to Kain or Raziel.

Not even Konami randomly tossed their shit for pocket change to fund their Pachinkos lol There's this character in Borderlands 3 in the Handsome Jack Casino DLC where she's a gambler and each time you beat a challenge she says "I'M DOUBLING DOWN!" so that seems apt in this situation, eventually Square Enix will die and their last breath will be that they're once again, doubling down.

@Maioly

2 жыл бұрын

God I wish they had

@li-limandragon9287

2 жыл бұрын

@@Maioly I’d cry with joy. There’s chance they’ll get greedy enough to sell their IP for a high price and then those franchises can be free.

@Mr.Faust3

2 жыл бұрын

They may as way throw them out give em to good will

@ricardomiles2957

2 жыл бұрын

@@Maioly no. People never learn the lesson. let these ips die. Move on. Replay the old games.

@NEEDbacon

2 жыл бұрын

Difference Pachinko is lining Konami's pockets. Meanwhile SE is out here tossing out big names to fund FUCKING NFTS and more flops.

Glad Pat is also dancing over the thematic dystopian bullet that got dodged with Deus Ex sliding away from that mess.

Great podcast and conversation as always❤️

I'm a long time fan of LoK (ever since SR1), and Raziel is one of my all time favorite characters ever. I am SO glad muh boy is finally free of Squeenix's greedy, gambling hands. Him and everything else Eidos and Crystal Dynamics ever did while under the big Enixbox. Finally free.

They have done Destroy All Humans 1 and 2 and Battle for Bikini Bottom Remaster/Remakes. Legacy of Kain, Gex, Tomb Raider all have a actually pretty good chance of returning if only for remasters. Lesser Known ones like Anachronox as well.

@Entropic_Alloy

2 жыл бұрын

Embracer group has a record of actually caring about video game preservation and (at least above board) not screwing over their devs via layoffs, even when a game does not become as successful as they'd like. They just want their teams to learn from poor experiences and then make a better product, which they typically do.

thanks for covering this..

When the Guch stepped down, SqEx lost the focus on everything. When they acquired Eidos, they flipped to trying to be a AAA publisher. They have not been succeeding particularly well.

@SylemGistoe

2 жыл бұрын

It would be a WILD alternate history had Square never made that freaking movie, Spirits within. They never would have merged with Enix- the Guch wouldn't have had to step down, which wouldn't have caused the internal chaos it did with FF12's development. Maybe they wouldn't have spent an entire console generation on 13. Massive ripples in time.

@GoodlyPenguin

2 жыл бұрын

@@SylemGistoe What's the internal chaos that happened for FF XII's development? I heard a story of like the director stepping down but I honestly never delved into it.

@SylemGistoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@GoodlyPenguin oh yeah, apparently Sakaguchi's being ousted threw the development of the game into chaos- with the director of the game becoming violently Ill over it, massively delaying things, burning bridges, and ending some working relationships with the teams. Anyway, just thinking about how things could have been different.

@GoodlyPenguin

2 жыл бұрын

@@SylemGistoe Sounds just like Square Enix. Do you have a link where I can read more about this?

@SylemGistoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@GoodlyPenguin ah, sorry- not off the top of my head, it's been years since I last looked into it, but I know it caused a lot of trouble that resulted in ff12 essentially having a filler arc in the second half, where almost nothing happened until the very end.

in another timeline embracer has mysteriously hired amy hennig for an unannounced project on a newly acquired IP

The podcast hasn't even been released on SoundCloud and they already release the first hour on KZread. Not that I'm complaining

Woolie the Pirate stole my Pie

trimming the fat? you mean getting rid of ALL the flavor?

@superstarman9001

2 жыл бұрын

More like stripping down to the bones.

"inevitable nft game" Damn, they called symbiogenesis

Embracer / THQ Nordic managed to resurrect Destroy All Humans very successfully. I think they realise how powerful of a market force nostalgia is right now, and they know how to capitalise on dead IPs much better than other publishers do. So yeah this is pretty good news.

Aged like the 3 B's 😭

3:00 nah woolie That was all platinum They always wanted the game to be live service

@ricardomiles2957

2 жыл бұрын

Nooo Plat can't ever be bad bc funny fun hak n slash games rising netta transformers

@leithaziz2716

2 жыл бұрын

@@ricardomiles2957 To be fair, those games are why the inconsistency between games can be so jarring. You KNOW they can make more of those, but then Babylon's fall happens :/

@Dirtyboots3strikes

2 жыл бұрын

where's the evidence?

@ricardomiles2957

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dirtyboots3strikes I won't post any links because idk if it will be auto deleted but just make a quick search "Platinum games as a service". In case you don't want to here a bit from the first article that appeared: "Atsushi Inaba, PlatinumGames’ co-founder, president, and CEO, recently spoke of a potential future for the celebrated action game development studio in an interview with Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. He hinted at titles “that are different from the past,” with a focus on larger games and live service systems."

@lylatfox4

2 жыл бұрын

Square enix was the publisher that funded the project, it's their responsibility to make sure the game is hitting all it's marks and coming out in a timely matter and knowing when to give the devs proper advice and criticism, in the end, it's all on square

I like when these are 10-20 minute clips. 1 hour I might as well go watch the podcast vod.

@gameb9oy

2 жыл бұрын

Not a bad choice, I only come here to read comments on each part. Course I’m also the type to skip the Woolie fighting game talks in the podcasts, so maybe I should consider changing that

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

The corpse of eidos continues to be shuffled around

PAT'S ONLY 36?

I thought Human Revolution and Mankind Divided were both awesome. Hopefully Eidos gets to finish Jensen's story

Square refuses to listen to the SINGLE point of advice EVERYONE is telling them. That is STOP MAKING LIVE SERVICE GAMES!!!! That and drop the NFT bs. Why do they think that will work when EVERYONE has told that is an idiotic idea. As a Business Consultant I just don't get how they keep making these bone headed decisions.

@Dante45p

2 жыл бұрын

because that all makes them money

OMG! QUICK CALL AMY HENNING! ONLY SHE CAN GIVE US A CONCLUSION AND A REBOOT/CONTINUATION AT THE SAME TIME!!! This might be the coin falling on his edge

Is Yoshi-p the only thing keeping square-Enix alive?

@corruptdropbear

2 жыл бұрын

That and probably Mobile Gatcha Games. Also I would assume FFVII Remake made back budget.

Deus Ex 13: Lightning Returns

I would love to see a remake and continuation of the Soul Reaver games.

I got tomb 2 and shadow on PSN and oh boy the drop in quality was so noticeable that suddenly the lack of marketing when the game was announced started to make sense.

@jocarlos2010

2 жыл бұрын

Tomb 2??

@ricardomiles2957

2 жыл бұрын

@@jocarlos2010 sorry I meant shadow of the tomb raider. Rise is the second one

@li-limandragon9287

2 жыл бұрын

@@ricardomiles2957 I really enjoy the Tomb Raider 2013, but it has biggest one of the biggest cases of ludonarrative dissonance ever.

This is a god tier thumbnail though fr

Something must've happened with Woolie and the QA/upper management department ar Square if he was holding his anger when Thief (Thiaf) was being play tested. I'm insanely curious as to what happened to Woolie during that time

This just makes me terrified for the future of FF. Is 16 gonna be an empty Ubisoft open world with NFT gear instead of lootboxes?

@FuryXDMGS

8 ай бұрын

Well fuck me with a baseball bat covered in white-hot barbed wire

Sublte hint, Woolie. I catch the message, argh!

Oh my fucking God. I JUST GOT A NFT GAME AD. I'M NOT KIDDING

All I want is a Legacy of Kain series Remaster. Split the 5 games into 2 different packages if need be (Blood Omen and Soul Reaver/Defiance.) That series still is great.

This is one of those situations where I'd almost want the higher ups of a company to be focused solely on profits because pride and jealousy are the worst kinds of neighbors to have to deal with. You can convince some CEO or board member to not do microtransactions because while it might make them shitloads in the short term the long term damages to the brand have far worse consequences monetarily. It's a difficult path to convince someone like that, but if they really care about the cash you can make that argument and know generally how it will be perceived. It's just about impossible to make someone who has attached themselves to something admit that it's going wrong, even if it's demonstrable by facts and through multiple other people with common sense. When your disagreeing it's subconsciously an attack on that type of person's identity, at least in their own mind, and when you understand this you'll know the futility in pressing that type of argument. At that point it's more about emotional appeals. It's irrational and stupid, but you have to reach someone in that state of mind through their heart.

man, just remake LoK using the original voice lines, that shit would be so cash in a sea of tripleA narrative corridor games with subpar writing, it would sell like hotcakes

@Lunarice98

2 жыл бұрын

new game that continues the story with kain and the reaver and just have raziel be a voice for kain to talk to. And then have it payoff everything that was being built up. I just want want kain and raziel to bitch at each other some more but also be bros when it matters.

@slifer875

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lunarice98 at this point i would take an audio book with the voice actors reading the script for the final game...

No shit, I think they might have held onto Just Cause because all the sudden people are speedrunning it, and someone with a mechanical apparatus instead of a brain went ‘we can shove crypto into this.’ Just you wait.

I find it weird Squeenix will keep Life is Strange but sold off a more well known title like Tomb Raider, but I forgot who we're talking about.

Microsoft got so fucking ROLLD for Rise of Tomb Raider exclusivity.

Can someone actually explain to me what an NFT game would look like? Like would it be a game that’s just a jpeg?

@bioforce5

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't looked deeply into it, but my understanding is that you would "own" stuff in game and there would be a dollar value placed on everything you have available creating an economy where the developer would then skim a little off the top of every transaction. So you would "play to earn" and then trades and sales generate revenue. To me it sounds similar to CS:GO skins or Steam trading cards, but unlike those where Steam and Valve make it clear that you don't own shit and they can pull the plug any time they want, NFT games want you to think you actually have legal ownership of your nonexistent virtual items that disappear the moment somebody unplugs the server.

Honestly, between Spirits Within and the decade of trash mobile games, SE deserves to lose 70% of their company every few years, keeps 'em humble. It's just that they make the best employees suffer because of CEO decisions. I;m sure that him eating all the money is gonna cripple every one but him as he severances packages himself out.

Y'know I'd take a guess there are more people playing Modern Warfare 3 on the Xbox 360 servers (which are still up) than there are people playing Bablyons Fall lol.

1:00:05 I died at that bit.

Triangle Strategy is like the one thing SE has put out recently that I care about. Just about everything else has been embarrassment.

@sprmax87

2 жыл бұрын

Sad part is Triangle Strategy isn't getting the attention it deserves and will most likely be considered a failure by the bigwigs at Square (despite selling well for a tactical RPG), pretty much sealing the deal on them continuing the IP outside of adding characters to one of their gacha mobile games. R.I.P. to the closest thing to a new FF tactics game we will ever get.

@leithaziz2716

2 жыл бұрын

@@sprmax87 It did sell over 1 Million copied from what I remember. Seems like a success, but maybe not in SE's eyes.

@Pak_Industrial

2 жыл бұрын

It's weird to me how they actually marketed Triangle Strategy. a "brand new" IP that definenetly pushed some copies based on visibility alone. But they barely marketed neo: twewy at all. A game that had an anime put out and a recent re-release of the first game. It must have been the nintendo publishing. Square sends its games out to die unless someone else foots the bill for life support. Pats right. They just BURN money.

@originalscreenname44

2 жыл бұрын

@@leithaziz2716 that’s definitely a failure to them. These are the same people that considered 3.4 million copies sold of the Tomb Raider remake in the first month as a failure.

@zynux8252

2 жыл бұрын

@@sprmax87 Triangle Strategy sold more in Japan then Chocobo GP & Strangers in Paradise, both which bombed.

Look, i i gave hope for a final legacy of kain video game along time ago........just give me an audio books with the voice actors narrating the script at this point......

thing is games have changed production wise a lot over the last 10 years alone. Hence why some companies are trying to branch out from videogames alone to other avenues, because game development has turned into kind of a gamble again. Back then then you could take 20-30 people round about and get a game out in a reasonable amount of time of maybe 6 months to a year, and if you get lucky, it becomes a massive hit that brings in over triple the amount you invested in. Nowadays though? You need small armies to make a modern tech level game, and even then, this process takes up at least 4-5 years, if you are lucky and nothing goes wrong. Then, on top of all of that, thanks to how complicated coding has turned with modern engines and what not, there is also the potentiall issue of bugs ruining a game right on launch, regardless of if it is otherwise a great game or not. We have now seen, in the last years alone, many, many high profile games that just crashed and burned the moment they hit the market, which, in turn alarmed the owners of those companies. Add in the current state of the world, and yeah. More DLC. More random forced online connectivity. More and more absurd anti-piracy tactics. And now this whole NFT nonsense. As silly as this might sound, but stuff like this is considered a saver bet then to just publish a good game, because, statistically, it kinda is, like it or not (at least if you aim to make billions, but this is anotehr topic again).

@originalscreenname44

2 жыл бұрын

“Nowadays though? You need small armies to make a modern tech level game…” Or, how about this: make a series of smaller games that cost less and could possibly be a hit thus forming another franchise that you could build on. Smaller games make money when the effort isn’t solely put into how to pull more money out of people’s pockets. They even used to do this before the online gaming era, but every company now just wants to do Call of Duty numbers and nothing else.

@charleswisconsin9196

2 жыл бұрын

@@originalscreenname44 you could have tried phrasing without condescending to OP like it's their fault publishers are like this now.

@originalscreenname44

2 жыл бұрын

@@charleswisconsin9196 “Condescending” like the person who thinks it’s helpful to tone police people? Nothing about what I said was condescending. I was making a point to what was said by the OP because it’s not just the publishers that believe that nothing matters but AAA.

Why wasn't the avengers game just x-men legends

Also I have to say my brain is poisoned, I saw the thumbnail and thought "holy shit these guys watch NorthernLion?"

I just want another Deus Ex game.

its been a while since i have watched when did paige let pat out of the basement??

22:20 I thought Squeenix still owns Hitman but apparently they don't? Yeah FF14 is the raft that is keeping Squeenix up and running.

@leithaziz2716

2 жыл бұрын

They got sold off to WB before Hitman 2 came out

@ZeOHKay

2 жыл бұрын

@@leithaziz2716 Not WB, but io, the developers. They got to keep the IP after they split, and WB published Hitman 2.