 All right, here we are. Here we are. Hello. Lance, Bryce. Hi. We're back for another episode of Gaming Rainbow. This is episode number? 108 or 109. 108, I think. Yeah, and if you haven't seen the earlier ones, there's a good reason for that. But we'll have those up soon. So what are we talking about today, Lance? Today we're going to be talking about just 514. Yeah, just 514. I think you're going to give us a review on ridiculous fishing for the iPhone. Exactly, yes. OK, Bryce, you're going to be talking about? I'm going to talk about the Xbox One. The Xbox One. And then we'll round it up with a little PlayStation 4 discussion. So I guess we should start off with, what do you want to start off with, Lance? What's your call today? I guess we can start off with just 514. All right, so just 514 is a free first person shooter on the PlayStation system. It's a PlayStation 3 exclusive. Who knows whether it'll be on the air conditioning kicking on. That's good. We forgot about that. It might be on PS4 and Xbox One. I'm sure they're actually planning on expanding it as it gets more successful. But what it is is it's a first person shooter, and it's tied into the MMO called Eve Online. And Eve Online is like a big galactic space settling game, like you conquer planets. You have international stellar corporations. It's been around for a long time, I think, 10, 15 years, right? I think it may have just gotten a big update recently. But it's been around a long time. It has, I think, some real money exchange that goes on in the game. Every once in a while, in some of the game magazines, they do a summary of what's happened in the last six months in the game because there's all sorts of machinations between the players and alliances form and crumble. And this dust game allows you to be a mercenary on the ground actually fighting for control of the various planets that the other players are all playing at the interstellar level. So you're a corporation, and you say, I want to take over that planet. You hire some mercenaries. And then the people are playing Dust 514 actually go in there in first person shooter mode, and they're actually shooting it out for control of the planet. So we'll take a look. I've got some footage here, and I cover kind of getting into the start of the game and my impressions of it. And then we'll come back, and I'll give you a little summary. I'm going to give you a reflection to the apartment here. Welcome, soldier. You're about to jump into a galaxy of opportunity, wealth, destruction, and death. If you are adequately prepared, you are far less likely to die violently on the battlefield. Your war begins long before the first shot is fired. The equipment you choose, including your drop suit, weapons, and vehicles, will determine not only your odds of survival, but also your role on the battlefield. This equipment must be purchased from the marketplace and will not be returned to you should you lose consciousness or life in battle. We are now on planet. The graphics are special, I'd say, because the heck is causing me to stick here. As you can see, I wasn't too happy with the tutorials. I thought we're kind of a little rough. They didn't really explain what you were spending money on. And I think there'll be a slight amount of confusion with some people. There's two different currency systems. There's the real money system, which is called Orem, which is a play on gold, and everything's yellow. And then there's the virtual in-game currency, which is blue. And so when you play in the game, you earn blue currency all the time. And the game's free to play. You can use that by equipment and everything. But if you want to get all the good stuff, you've actually got to go buy some real money currency, which is the gold stuff. And then you can use that to get the best weapons, the best stuff. So it tends to be free, except you're pretty much wasting your money anyway. Yeah, exactly. And the other aspect that I didn't really seem to get a grip on or see what was going on was the interaction with the actual Eve online players. So supposedly you're working for all these real people playing space empires or whatever. But there was no chat with them. I didn't see messages or there wasn't a job board where you're like, oh, I want to go work for this guy and conquer this planet or whatever. So that was all kind of vague. The game's been out for, I don't know, since fall of last year. So the game's actually pretty smooth. I will say that. It plays fine as a shooter. They're just, I think it's still got a ways to go before it really finds its character, I guess. Interesting because this is really the first free to play game that's actually been on the console. It's one of the first, at least. Yeah, I think so. I think Realms Online, which is one of these little free RPGs is available on the PSN and the Xbox. But this is certainly no huge first-person shooter. I mean, the graphics is a regular shooter, like Call of Duty or whatever. And the graphics are pretty nice. I did experience a ton of slowdown at the end of an afternoon of playing. And I don't know if that was a bug in the game or it was just a network congestion or what was going on. But it dropped into the single digits the frame rate. It was really bad. And so I stopped playing. Of course, the rest of development came. I think that was hitting Netflix at that time. And it was Saturday evening, Sunday, or something. I don't know wherever you are in the world. So it could have been that. If a lot of people jump on your network, it's going to bog down. But anyway, I would say it's worth checking it out. If you're into EVE Online, you definitely want to check it out. If you want to play a free first-person shooter that's actually, it's pretty good. It's got good mechanics. You just have to put in the effort to learn what's going on because it is a bit confusing. I would have to say it first. So that's the wrap up of Dust 514. Very good. All right, Lance, should we go to it? We don't have commercials, so we can't cut to a commercial break. You want to talk about ridiculous fishing? I guess I could. All right, so give us a brief summary of what ridiculous fishing is about. Ridiculous fishing, in a way, it's ridiculous, actually. So it shows the best name for it. That's good. Once you start playing, you figure it's a game where you have to wait to catch a fish, and it goes around. But instead, you're pretty much pulling your line into the water. You have to dodge all the fish once you're in the water. And if you accidentally catch a fish, which that will happen a lot in the game, you'll have to go back up, and you'll have to catch all the fish. And once the line catches up into, see, well, where your boat is, then you have to start fish shooting them in the air with any kind of weapon that you can afford from the in-game shop. Weapons, huh? Yes. So you start blowing away the fish when they get up to the surface? Exactly. All right, I think there's a screenshot we've got of what the graphics look like here. And at the end, yeah, there it goes. It's actually kind of a neat style of graphics. Yes. Good stuff. So once you start the game, you start at the home waters, which is the first part of the map that you're going to be at. As soon as you start playing the game, you get lots of upgrades and fish types. And you can also view the fish types in your fish or pedia on your wooden iPhone on the game. There's also a social media thing on the game, but that's only for less, technically. So you can also get stuff at the store to help you in your game, and there's lots of stuff, and also customization, which you can achieve in the store by collecting all the fish. And then once you go farther in the game, you can view the map, which you have, and you can see all the places that you can start fishing. It takes a lot of time to load sometimes. But once you start actually playing, you start diving into the game, and then that's where the game gets hard. And you start to try to dodge all the fish that you go through while you're trying to dive. And so if you've achieved this in the store, you can actually get a drill type of thing, which takes oil. And then if you accidentally catch a fish, you'll have to go all the way back up, because once you catch a fish, then you'll have to go all the way up since the fish is going to be biting on the thing. And then I guess your fishing instincts will want to lure the line back up. And so on your way up, you have to capture all the fish so you can get a bigger outcome of money. And then once you get the fish up there, you have to start shooting all the fish. So now you can achieve new stuff at the store, like all kinds of things that help the fish float in the air more, or types of guns that help you shoot the fish better. So there's a lot of choices that you can use. And that's basically the view of the game. I wonder if this game will appeal to fans of standard average fishing. Oh, what do you think? They would find the game hilarious. That's no manner of fishing. Because every time you go into a Target, a Walmart, or wherever, they always have fishing games there, like big bass fishing and hunting games. Exactly. They're everywhere. And they sell a lot. So you would think this is not a game category, but it's actually, fishing is a big game category. And I think in the real world, actually, fishing is considered the third biggest money sport there is after football and some other thing. Because there's so many fishing tournaments around the nation. We're talking real fishing here. So it's actually, people forget that fishing is a big American pastime. All right. So the Xbox One. Yes. It's looking decent. Yeah, it's looking all right. I think we've got some photos of what it looks like. Microsoft actually announced it on. What was it, the 21st of May? So they had a big press conference. You've got a funny video about that, right? Yes, I do. Yeah, you should bring that up on your phone while we're, let's see if we see the photo of the Xbox. We've got photos that show what it looks like and with the back. So there it is with the Kinect, which is now a standard part of the Xbox package, the Kinect 2. And apparently they've gotten rid of all the lag on it. Here you can see all the connectors on the back. It looks pretty much like a PC. It's got HDMI in, so you put your cable box into it. HDMI out, right? Ethernet, all the usual stuff. It's nice to see them pushing towards a more PC-like. Yeah, you approve of that. Yes. You approve going more PC-like as opposed to console. Yeah. Yeah. So the two machines, we're going to talk about the PlayStation 4 in a minute, but they're very similar. The specs are almost the same, in terms of amount of memory and speeds and all that other stuff, the kind of ports they have on them. So it's going to be interesting to see who comes out on top when they're kind of. I think it's going to come down to who's got the better games on there, console. So Xbox has the Halo, has the Gears of War, has fours of motorsports, and what other big exclusives? I'm not the Xbox guy, so it's all for you. They're actually mainly based on TV. Watch TV, TV, TV, TV remote, TV experience, TV, TV, TV, TV, sports TV, TV, TV. Anybody? TV, TV, TV, TV, TV, TV. You think the main emphasis of Xbox One is TV? TV, TV, Xbox Go Home, TV. Or the graphics, actually. Yeah. I heard they're trying to improve, big lay on the graphics. Mainly on the graphics. Yeah, because the Xbox is already pretty close to a PC as it is from the beginning. Wow. Well, the underlying operating system is like a stripped down version of Windows. It's just not as powerful at the moment. Right. Well, I think if they bring this out, it'll be more powerful than most people's. Unless you've got a super-duper gaming wig, it's going to be more powerful than most people's PCs. And of course, a lot of people are saying, this could be the last set of consoles ever, because the phones are getting so powerful, and the iPads, like, you know, who's going to spend all the money on a separate game machine? But I don't know if I agree with that. What do you think? You think there's consoles in your future after these? It'll be like a five and an Xbox, what, two? Xboxes, or an Xbox 360. I mean, people were originally thinking that the name of the new Xbox should be Xbox 760, because of the original name, Xbox 360. Yeah. So they decided to go with one, I guess, as a unification, right? Say everything is all one. They picked a number out of a hat. They picked a number out of a hat. It just happened to be one. So maybe we'll throw up some stats, and if we can find them about what's going on with that Xbox. Do you have any other impressions off of the? They've invested a billion dollars in games for there. A billion? Yeah, $1 billion. So this is a billion dollars of development money that they're going to put into various games. They're getting exclusives for their system. They did have a lot of exclusives on the last Xbox. There were a lot of things that only came out. Well, they're exclusives for like six months. Yeah. So they've got, I believe, what is it, about eight or nine new games? Yeah, like completely exclusive new games. Possibly. And I'm pretty sure they're going to have a lot of add-ons to it as well. You mean like accessory-type add-ons? Yes. DLC, you know that? Oh, DLC, yeah. Including, I believe, a possibility of, I think, video game killer instinct? You're going to bring that back? They might be bringing that back. That's legendary. Look up Killer Instinct if you have never heard of that game. What other games have you heard might be exclusives? Uh, just that one. They've announced that they're going to have some new IP. I don't know if that means rebooting old things or bringing out brand new stuff. Yeah, you never know when they claim something's new. It isn't always. Well, E3 is next month, and that's when they're going to, everybody's going to unleash all the rest of the details, which brings us to PlayStation 4. So we know what the Xbox looks like. PS4, we don't know what it looks like. We know what the controller looks like. And there's a picture of it right there. It's got a little touch surface now. You can see that this is the first, actually, probably substantial redesign since they introduced the, actually the analog controller back on PS1, because the DualShock was really just a little bit of a change from that. This is very different. And you can see that where that blue bar is, they've integrated, that's where the motion control color thing. So now instead of waving a wand around, it sees that strip and will detect it. You might have actually originated from the PlayStation Move, because they're starting to implement like gyroscopes into the controllers, like they did in the PS Vita. Yeah. Oh yeah. So when you swing the controllers around, you'll be able to get a lot more sensitivity. I've also heard on the side itself that because they put the light there, it also shows like if it also changes color, like if you got hit or something. Oh, so it'll flash red if you got hit in the shot in the head. Exactly. Maybe I shouldn't say that. You got to keep this the appropriate age level, right? All right. So I can't give some of my usual commentary. Actually, that's just a joke. So the PlayStation 4 is going to be pretty similar in horsepower, right? I think people are saying it has a little bit more powerful graphics processor, but nobody's really sure because everything is kind of customized and nobody's really revealed all their information yet. Exactly. At E3, we will know what it looks like and probably more specific on the actual stats because they can't keep that hidden forever. Yeah. And we do know that Sony owns like at least 12, I think, development studios that pretty much make only games for PlayStation and good ones. Yeah. So they've always had a strong lineup of games. The question is, how many will be ready at launch? The PlayStation, I think, has always suffered from having a weak launch lineup, not enough good games ready when the console came out. But I think this time around, they've kind of figured that out and they're going to have more games just ready to go right at the start when it comes on. And then, of course, the big question is price. So what do you think is a fair price for the next console? I'd say 400. 400? 200 to 500. Yeah. This is like the price is right. I think that's about right. If they go much higher than that, there you go. I don't think it will get down to 200. Even the current ones are still over 200, right? So I'm not sure if they're that expensive still, but what was the PlayStation 3? 600. Yeah, it was super expensive. Nobody could really afford that. If you're going to charge $60 for a new game, charging 600 for the console, I mean, that was, I think, a big mistake. Probably they had to do it because the money they invested in the last one. But that's a mistake. The market, I don't think, can support 600 bucks for a console. I'm not sure about that either. So I mean, if you're going to be paying $600, you could probably then just buy a really nice gaming. And get Steam. Yeah. But there is a small rumor going around that Valve somehow will develop a Steam, basically, console that's a Steam console. Yeah, they've got a couple of those coming out. And I guess what we'll talk about in a future episode is that Ouya, which was the little open source Kickstarter cube. They're actually opening Fez on that as well. Yeah, also they're bringing that over. They actually have a YouTube channel where they show all the games that they're going to feature on Ouya. Yeah. Like on the available store. So but that isn't, I mean, when's it supposed to come out? Summer. This summer? Yeah. All right. Well, we'll cover that in probably the next show. We'll have a big roundup on what's actually coming out and not coming out. So PlayStation 4, I don't think there's much left to say on that. PlayStation 3 is going to end the year quite strong with a lot of good games that are coming out. I'm not sure what's in the release cube for Xbox, the current Xbox. I'm sure they'll have a few games. But I think this is also going to be a kind of an interesting, awkward transition for them because they have a lot of strong momentum going into the fall with the current lineup. PlayStation and Xbox. And then they're bringing out a new console. And I think there are some games that may be released on both just to kind of transition people. And also, we know that there's no PS4 backwards compatibility. So they're going to sell both for the same time for a while, just like they did with the PS2. In Xbox One, have you heard anything about whether you can play old Xbox games on it or not? It might be possible, too. Yeah. Because I think their architecture hasn't changed that much. PlayStation is moving to an x86 architecture away from their custom cell processor, which was PowerPC based. So there's not going to be any backwards compatibility. I'm pretty sure they will have a PS2 chip maybe in there for some of the older or PlayStation 1 chip. Then again, all that stuff can be emulated a lot. I don't know. They base it all on sales, which is a shame. Steam is going to have a summer stale, and a lot of people are going to lose their money on Steam. Lose their money on Steam? That's mainly the logic of it. Yeah. Well, we'll see. All right. I think that about wraps it up. Maybe we'll kick out with one last game trailer here on the way out if we've got time. And I think that pretty much wraps it up for today. Anybody got any final comments? That's some concept. Oh, yeah, we forgot. We have concept art here. So people are imagining what PlayStation might look like. Obviously, the controllers, now we know what it looks like. But one person thinks it's going to be a nice white box like this. That's kind of futuristic. And then there's a couple. This one, I don't understand. I mean, it looks cool, but everything that you couldn't put anything on top of that. It would all slide off. And then there's this one that kind of looks like a Mac Mini almost. It looks like a Roku actually. Or a Roku, yeah. It'd be kind of cooler, actually, I think, if it looked like that. And I don't know if there are any other ones. But oh, this is one that came out very early on. This is pretty far-fetched. Maybe PlayStation 6 or 7 will look like that. And my guess is that it's, oh, and this is the stereo PlayStation I. So they don't have a connect in that type of technology. But they have the PlayStation I, which has microphone arrays and speakers and stereo cameras. Which makes it so that you can actually place your picture in 3D, because they can also do that with the 3DS. Yeah. Oh, OK. So you'll be able to position things in 3D space within the room? Yes. I don't know, there were a couple of games that made use of the I that were these sort of VR games. There was one where you had these little battle tiles and little monsters would appear and it looked like they were on your living room carpet. I don't think the resolution was that great, if I recall. And there was one with a pet sort of furby monkey thing. I saw that one. You saw that one? Was it something iPad, right? iPad, yes. Yeah, I don't know how well that. I tried that with my family once. It was awfully hard to get the eye camera in place, so it was all messed up, it kept going everywhere. I remember, yeah, I remember having a lot of trouble with the demo, trying to just get the camera in the right spot so it would see what the floor was. Believe me, it was hard even trying to pet the monkey. Well, you know, they're wild animals, so they really should stay out there in the wild. Well, I think it's time to wrap this show up. Yeah. So that's all for this episode of Gaming Rainbow, and we will be back with another show probably once E3 is finished and we hear all the juicy details. And a special thanks to our new technical director. That's right, we have a new technical director. Tyler, he's in there, an actual switcher. We have a real switcher now. Yeah. So the fact that you've been seeing different camera angles and things is all thanks to Tyler. Yeah. Because we were not doing that well last time. And Lance is here now as a permanent part of the hosting staff, and he'll be covering all sorts of cool independent games and giving us another perspective on everything and keeping us in line, so that Bryce and I behave. Yeah. All right, that's it for today. Where's the camera over there? All right, we'll wave goodbye to everybody. Have fun out there.