 This is game chat one episode 138 it lurks in the shadow bringers. I Don't know game chat with one up. Welcome to the show Now here's your host born on McCall with all the gaming news of this week by the way, that's me We spoke to welcome to episode 138 of game chat one We're in a great show lined up for you. It's been a couple weeks, but I've been busy We had our 12-year anniversary on twitch the This past Wednesday, and I think the Wednesday before something else came up. Oh, I think I was sick Yeah, that was what was going on. I was sick Two Wednesdays ago, but we're finally able to produce another episode. It's been a couple weeks, but We got four great stories to talk about I may dig up another we'll see So it's good to be back on game chat want to check out my other podcast tech talk with one and also be rants The last be rants I put up was about twitch money and about how the earnings of twitch casters and twitch live streamers Is just so wild so much. So there's some huge dollar amounts. So I ran to a little bit about that I did that on the live stream. I think that was a Sunday Livestream so we got a great show lined up for you. Let's get right into game chat one episode 138 And for our first story, we're gonna talk about death stranding. I haven't talked about this very much I think I mentioned it. Let me mention it when it was first released Hideo Kojima's latest project death stranding got a release date reveal trailer released today on May 29th 2019 and we actually have a release date for it November 8th That's gonna come a lot faster than you think November 8th 2019 I've been given I've been given this a hard time because up until now we've been seeing some really really trippy and creepy It's just weird. I Know it's Hideo Kojima. That's what people say. Oh, it's Hideo Kojima. That was my problem with it It was just like they were dismissing all this vague nonsense with always Hideo Kojima. It's going to be great. Well, we'll see We'll see about that So I had a big problem with that with all the hype it was getting because it was just a bunch of confusing mumble jumbo with babies and What is going on? So this latest reveal trailer. I'm happy to report that they actually showed quite a bit It's not almost nine minutes long. So it's a lot of stuff They actually show in-game UI and things you can do and how you operate and Give some context to what the problem is and a little bit about the world that's being explored so it answered a lot of questions and I think the conclusion that came to was that it's going to be a very very creepy horror stealth based game With a lot of story-based elements in it, which it sounds like Hideo Kojima, you know It sounds like his style of game, you know, if you play any of the Metal Gear Solid games It sounds like his style that the whole stealth story-based stuff is definitely down his alley So it looks decent. I'm not convinced though. I want to buy it on day one It's a lot of weirdness with the other side and tapping into babies to detect these creatures and I don't know some of the story elements kind of bother me and I don't say that off the way video games It's just the story theme just bothers me quite a bit If it were a movie I definitely definitely wouldn't watch it, but there's a lot of you out there go. Oh my god That's so cool. There's dead people and Babies and weirdness. I gotta watch it. See I'm the opposite that doesn't attract me So I don't know Death Stranding looks a little bit too weird for my taste But I'm gonna be following that maybe I'll play it. Maybe it'll be a little bit more than what this trailer has intended it This trailer has shown me and I formulated my little opinion about Death Stranding. Check it out guys the nine-minute trailer Release date reveal trailer. I think there's some other trailers out there, too Which may be short. I'm not sure. I saw some titles pop up, but I don't know if they're from Hideo's Studio or not PlayStation exclusive Death Stranding release date is November 8th 2019 Check out the very very weird Release date trailer and for our next story. We're gonna talk about a new game release It lurks below from the creator David Brevik He has created a game which is kind of like a dungeon crawler side-scrolling pixelated base Game in the vein of terraria and starbound it has the same type of art style and movement systems But at its core if you've ever played this game, which I have I played in the alpha in the early access It feels very much like those types of art styles and games mixed With the looting and the progression system of a Diablo like title So a lot of people like to call it terraria and Diablo, but you know, that's that's a very very high level summary If you actually get a chance to play this game, you'll probably see that. Hey, there's there's a little bit more to it It's a survival. This is what it's listed as on steam just so you can get the official word It's a retro styled 2d. So that's the art style. I was talking about action-oriented survival RPG So you can call it an action RPG. So there you go A lot has happened. I'm not going to speak too much as to the contents in the classes. It has several classes Lots of survival elements But they have done a lot of rebalancing in the early access thanks to the the wonder of support that has gotten During early access David Brevik was able to add more content than originally originally planned But some things did have to get pushed to post release So while the game is going to be less than what he intended, you know a few months ago It is more than the original plan from when I gather from his post in updates So there's multiple classes. Let me read these. There's Bard Which is a melee you wield the power of song and screaming to beat your foes and battle There's a cleric, which is a melee plus range Come prepare for battle with heavy armor and plenty of healing power And then there's the enchanted the gene. I'm sorry the enchanter which is a range stun and lightning Stun and lighting. I'm sorry are the enchanters Chanters tools of choice. I don't know. I want to keep calling it enchanters. It's enchanter Then there's the necromancer, which is a range class She willed wielding the skulls of the dead as undead minions marks the necromancer As the game's resident pet class And then there's the paladin, which is a melee Dashing into combat wielding a powerful two-handed sword or hammer makes the paladin one of the most formidable melee characters in the game There's the rogue, which is a melee class Slip past enemies by hiding in the shadows and then stab them in the back like a rogue Warrior you decide between defensive and offensive stance both making the warrior incredible beast and battle and defensive stances for tanks And then you got the the wizard, which is also a range class and you harness the power of the elements to powerful area of effect tax Area effect expels that make there was an unstoppable elemental force There's hardcore survival descent hardcore descent creator survival a bunch of different words That mean different game words. I was gonna say a bunch of different modes Creative is basically what you think it is. It's just you there's no dying. You just have access to everything And it's more relaxed setting. So if that's your your cup of tea you can do that descent Has the same difficulty as survival But no survival aspect. So anyone just interested in just thrashing the monsters and getting on the loot There's no survival tree no hunger and no fatigue Survival has all the above but with hunger and survival tree and fatigue and other things you have to worry about cooking food and eating food And then there's hardcore Both survival and descent have a hardcore option. It doesn't change anything except you get perma death There's a lot going on in this game there's a lot of hours potentially that you can spend and Needless to say by me talking about it. You can figure out that I'm recommended it. It's 20 bucks For 20 bucks, you're gonna get you're gonna get a lot of hours of a lot of great entertainment So if the art style the 2d retro's art style doesn't bother you and you've played these types of games And you've ever played any Diablo title with the looting and progression system of that This game is for you. Check it out guys. This is it lurks below By David Brevik check it out on steam It is $20 and you'll find a link in the show notes to check it out. All right guys, you should definitely Check out the lurks below and for our next story. We're gonna talk about Final Fantasy 14 Final Fantasy 14 recently put out a live letter a producer's live letter which has to do with their upcoming expansion Shadowbringers which I've been playing a quite a bit of Final Fantasy 14 on my live stream at twitch.tv Slash one on which we stream every day set Wednesdays and Sundays from 3 p.m. The Olympian Um, and I've been I pretty much got re-addicted to the game I'm I'm hooked on and I play it almost every day pretty much every day And uh, there's a lot going on So there's a lot of hype leading up to Shadowbringers, which is going to come out the first week of July early access the last week of june And today was the embargo release the embargo was lifted on the recent media event that happened last week so a bunch of streamers and um Influencers I guess you can call them And media were invited to san francisco to meet with the final fantasy developers and their team to get all excuse me to get all the juicy bits on um On Shadowbringers and today has just been an overload of information. I'm not going to cover everything because there'll be a three hour podcast But let's just say there's a lot of good information a lot of new good information on the two new classes dancer And gunbreaker gunbreaker is a gunblade wielding class that is a tank. That's intriguing enough for you And dancer is a DPS class with a lot of buffs and dances Some cool mechanics coming But if that was the you know, if that was it it would be kind of like luster But I think the biggest thing about this final fantasy update is that they're going to be revamping about four or five classes tremendously The uh dragoon the dark knight uh The machinists Those are three that come to mind And the monk Are going to be revamped big time To where if you were a fan of the class based on the information that's been put out You're going to be even more of a fan and if you didn't like the class before you're probably going to love it now Because there's a lot of great things coming On top of the fact that they're adding things like a trust system where you can do some of the new 5.0 content with NPCs That are story driven So you know how in the past final fantasies where you get ready to do a dungeon You're talking to alpha now you're talking to all these different people And then you go into the dungeon by yourself Or with other people in the story you go in by yourself, but you're actually part of it. So this trust system seemingly is going to bring all those NPCs That we're talking to you before you got to the dungeon. They're going to be probably going in the dungeon with you Optionally, of course because you can go with players like you do normal dungeons so Final fantasy 11 has this kind of a feature already and final fantasy 14 Tried to do something with something called squadrons Which is a barracks system, which is very very similar to wow's garrison system You would essentially have a base And you would recruit people and you would train them and with the squadron system pre Pre squadron, or I'm sorry pre shadow bringers You could take them into the dungeons with you To do the dungeons to level them up and to you know level use it level you up to get xp But it was kind of a Now I wouldn't call it a failed feature, but the ai the ai wasn't all that smart What this trust system and shadow bringers is hoping to bring is a smarter way of doing this Based on the early Uh The early impressions from these influencers and the videos they've shown Everyone has agreed that the ai is better In the new trust system, but it's not perfect The player driven Dungeons and you know doing dungeons with your friends is always going to be better But if you play the dps like I did in storm blood You get to those dungeon queues. You don't want to wait 30 to 45 minutes It's just crazy. How long you have to wait in those dungeon queues. So this trust system hopefully Will allow us to level up dps classes without waiting in queues forever That's just some of the stuff that's come out today. There's so much information So much information. I highly recommend you check out. I have the subreddit thread the final fantasy 14 Subreddit thread which has a great summary of everything in one spot And there's a ton of influencers out there That that have provided great information, but I like this one because it's consolidated and it's very well organized And it's a lot of information I'll put the link in the show description. Check it out guys final fantasy 14 shadow bringers is coming And there's a lot of information a lot of changes and a lot of good things Which I think is going to make this a very very cool launch. Let's hope we don't have a rubon EX or rubon savage again Where the servers crash Let's hope we don't have what we had in storm blood this time around If our final story we're going to talk a little bit about overwatch the overwatch league, which is their esports competitive league their commissioner Has resigned from blizzard And he is going to work for epic games on the fortnight esports. This is big news His name is nat nan sir nan sir So why is this big news? Well I don't know if you've been noticing, but overwatch has been making big strides in the esports arena For quite some time just in the short time have been a lot Uh Overwatch is a fairly young game compared to things like dota compared to things like uh counter strike Call of duty big titles that of old halo But overwatch is making appearances on the espn like like like easily espn 2 on the main espn channel There's commercials about it on tv They have made big strides. They have gotten Real sports commissioners and real sports executives on board to create these teams Based on their cities much like you see in real sports They've got this massive arena out in california and now they're moving a lot of their esports to different the different home cities So they're going to have home games It's crazy How much they've done in a short amount of time while everyone likes to hate on overwatch and hate on Uh, just to hate on blizzard in general. They don't really have an idea what they're talking about because From a overall blip perspective overwatch league has been killing them There isn't another esports out there that's doing what they're doing That includes starcraft that includes legal legends. They're not doing what they're doing now They may have the numbers They may have more more numbers in overwatch league in certain respect, but these guys are reaching out to media and teams and branding Like no one else has ever done No one else has ever done like this So to see the the commissioner of this masterpiece Resigned it's kind of a big deal. Here's his tweet He says a hey overwatch league family. Hey I want to share that soon. I will be leaving blizzard for a new opportunity This has been the toughest decision of my life because it means I won't get to work with the best staff players teams owners partners and fans In esports anymore. I can't emphasize Excuse me. I can't emphasize enough how proud I am of what we've all accomplished together It has been an honor of my life to have been part of the team to help build the league a breakthrough burn blue he's got a bunch of Different hashtags here He didn't say that he was going to epic games in his tweet But the studio his farewell tweets, but the studio confirmed to espn Which first broke the story espn broke the story now again This is what i'm talking about that he will be joining to work on competitive fortnight It's already one of the biggest esports around according to pc gamer The fortnight world cup currently in the seventh week has a hundred million dollar prize pool So he's moving up. He's not going down But he's made great strides at blizzard and I think the epic games probably offered him twice or maybe three times What he makes now he probably couldn't pass it up um Here's just parting remarks. I get way too much credit for the success of the Overwatch League has been awesome To be our public face, but too many overestimate my role and making the league great. It isn't about me It's never been it's all about you That's why i'm confident that the league is in great hands I can't wait to see where the team where the team takes the Overwatch League in 2020 and beyond And i'll be cheering right there alongside you every step of the way Congratulations, Nate Nazar, but I don't know what blizzard is going to do Like he said he's he's not He shouldn't take credit for what um for what Overwatch League is does but doing but If epic is going to take him away, he's doing something right Check it out guys over on pcgamerant.com. They got the details. Nate Nazar is leaving Overwatch League As his commissioner to go to epic games for the fortnight competitive e-sports and that concludes episode 138 of game chat I want to thank you for listening. It was so short and sweet one, but uh, we got it done I apologize for my sinuses. This is I got this really massive post nasal drip today Uh, the seasons have changed and uh, you probably if you've been listening to my podcast You probably know I have several podcasts where i'm just like controlling a cough Or trying to deal with nasal stuff. So thank you for listening and thank you for suffering Through my suffering over here. Why don't that tv slash podcast? 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I don't know what to do videos on Like I sat around for three hours one day and I couldn't think of anything to do so Kind of got a little bit of creators block over there But I'll get bit again I was on a good streak for like a month or two. I was putting out a couple videos a week, but now i'm kind of I think I see that I see people are doing the same stuff and it demotivates me when I first started my youtube channel Nobody was doing what I was doing and it was very motivating to do it Like I was doing stuff that I didn't see anybody else do it, but now it's like youtube is so big It's like people are doing stuff that you plan to do and I just i'm not motivated to do it if somebody else Is already done I don't know something I got to get over because people are like hey boy And we'll watch whatever you do in that It probably right But thank you so much for listening to game chat with buana episode 2. I'm sorry 138 I'll see you guys next week. Take care. Have a great week. Bye. Bye