Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Luke Explains Why Gaming Rocks Right Now”.
Uh Victor asks: can we sponsor Luke to gush about games on air? I mean given how much he mostly hates games hates games. I hate games, I mean you seem to hate a lot of them B. Skate 3 is pretty good, got him, let’s go so. If your name is larryan Studios, then zero doar um.
No, I mean I I gush about games all the time. Hell divers is fantastic. Ballers. Gate 3 is really good. Batro came out of nowhere uh as a slay. The Spire hyper nerd. That game is awesome very excited about. That games have been pretty good for quite a while, though, I feel like we’re out of the slump. This is kind of what I was talking about.
I feel like the old big companies honestly people just kind of ignore them. Now, like Assassin’s Creed, Mirage came out, you didn’t hear people hate on it. You also didn’t hear people like it a lot just nobody cares.
Even sea of thieves was in the news for like two days see if these lasted a little bit. Three days then yeah I saw, as someone Summit like single-handedly, kept that game relevant for a decent amount like one twitch streamer was like able I’m seriously, though cuz twitch streamers can kind of do that they can like drag a game on, but other than Summit, like People didn’t really seem to care um yeah, but to talk about another pirate game. I don’t even remember the name of it right now. The one Ubisoft just released the quadruple, a game, uh scullin bones there we go. People were like, including myself.
Sorry, I meant Skull and Bones. I totally fled that yeah Skull and Bones. So yes, I completely agree that not CF thieves, CF thieves stayed relevant for kind of that was for a while yeah I meant Skull and Bones yep skull and B yeah. It was. It was like 3 days in my newsfeed and then it was gone completely gone uninteresting and before, like you know, Halo 5 comes out and people are mad for like months yeah yeah infinite people are still mad for a long time, but I think people are getting To the point where they’re, just like whatever shut up just indifferent, now all these new companies are stepping up making really good games. Some Indies are coming out and just killing it battle bit was a huge success. Batro is a huge success. Uh Dave the diver massive success, there’s other ones that I’m forgetting right now but they’ve been killing it Ballers Gate 3 killed it hell, divers killed it uh Elden ring massive amazing. Just now. Po World insane games are just like over and over and over again breaking player limits on Steam breaking sales limits on Steam.
It just things are actually very good right now, and I think it’s largely Studios that are not in the original big grouping are releasing bangers and players are more willing to buy games that aren’t just from like these original big companies. The funny thing for me is even that some of the big traditional players are doing great, like when Sony and announced those layoffs. They also announced, like record profits in certain areas, though, if I remember correctly, the layoffs that happened were with a studio that did not have record profits um. I think that was the, for. I think it’s for spoken.
That’S the name of the game did not do very well as far as my understanding goes um and I think they laid off like that studio, um or disperse them within the. I don’t necessarily know what happened um. What is your take on City? Skylines? 2? Uh? It’S not really so much my game, my type of game, but the city, skylines fans are really hardcore.
I I’m assuming they like it, but I don’t know they’re pretty mad. Oh okay, the game’s super demanding and in a lot of ways it doesn’t live up to the full experience of the previous game because it had like 10 years of modding. This is a rough point of those types of games and, if you’re a fan of that type of game, it’ll get there sort of just have to get used to it. This is the thing with Civ when a brand new Civ game comes out, it’s probably not as good as the last one, but then they’ll release a couple expansions and then it’s like really sick, like the next ano game’s in trouble, because ano 1800 is outstanding and It got like six seasons of DLC or something like that, which compellingly added to the game very good DLC, not just cosmetic crap or whatever you want cuz. It’S great that, like dramatically, improves the game like the the first expansion. The new world is awesome. Amazing.
It’S a whole new world, the whole new world. The Arctic expansion is sick, the uh, whatever that jungle kind of one is, is great, um and so ano. Whatever is coming next, it it’s going to suck by comparison yeah for probably a while.
I like playing snowrunner with my dad uh they’re, releasing a game, called Expeditions, a mudrunner game and like yeah, it’s probably not going to be very good for like a while and that’s okay, because it’ll get there. I I believe, it’ll be all right. Civ, 5! Greater than Civ 6, I also believe this, but I think that’s a preference thing. I think you and I we probably don’t like the districts. That’S the only reason why I don’t like civ6 is I’m not so into the districts, but I also know people that love civ6, so it is what it is yeah and it’s one of those things where everything we’re saying is kind of a generalization like there. There are going to be preferred entries in a series absolutely, but we just mean in general, when you follow up something that had many years of bug, fixes and optimization and and in some cases, mods extra content content. You can’t like GTA, 6 man, no matter how good that game is the online experience is going to be. It will not live up to GTA 5 online or GTA online. I guess they call it, but you you know what I mean the online experience that that GTA 5, ultimately morphed into that, is far beyond what I certainly I expected pit boy saying: give us a little Feeder on the Starfield revieww vid. This is it actually, the Starfield review vid I’m going to talk about Starfield, almost not at all the that’s a closed book. The Game’s garbage um got him. What I’m going to be talking about is, is this stuff um is the industry is moving and as much as I’m going to sit here and mourn the the loss of some of my like Favorite Things um like I do not expect the next Elder Scrolls game? Will be like worth playing at all, which so sucks that’s bold, but unless they make dramatic changes in that studio, it’s not going to happen like I I don’t know um, but there’s sick games coming out that are really fun, I’m having a great time playing new Stuff, my my era of like I played morind.
I went back and played the games before mowind. I played Oblivion all like this. Oh my God.
All of these things are amazing, and I can just like guarantee that the next one coming out is going to be sick, that’s kind of over, but that doesn’t mean that good games are over. So are you ever going to finish Final Fantasy? 6? Yes, I will. I’M trying to right now figure out uh why my computer is blue screening multiple times a day, what it’s having problems again new, completely new problems, raid Port, zero, some something something yeah I don’t know very confusing. Did you get moss in your fan? It doesn’t seem to be related to over overheating. That’S weird yeah, okay, still trying to figure it out all right! Well, bummer AMD drivers, no he’s on Nvidia. Now, unless they’re talking about the CPU – oh I mean that’s yeah, that’s possible, but unlikely is cursed with personal PCS.
I wasn’t until the AMD challenge started. I never had any problems. .