Sacred Symbols, Episode 170: Getting to the Point (Video)

Right, but it wasn't publicly marketed as such. One person saying "AAAA" in a single job post and then deleting it isn't them marketing the game as a "AAAA". It would be different if Phil Spencer or Darrell Gallagher said that.

KevinFausch

That would be fun.

Colin Moriarty

Yes, the job poster working for Microsoft.

Colin Moriarty

Me neither, it's embarassing.

Colin Moriarty

Get LGR on as a guest? I bet he'd be down!

lazer_josh

To my knowledge Microsoft never marketed The Initiative as a "AAAA" studio, that all came from a job post from one recruiter which was promptly deleted. If you look at what the studio leaders have said they actually say the opposite.

KevinFausch

Im glad you guys make the conscious effort to not just fanboy for sony and actually be honest about the good and bad they do. Cannot imagine being a fully grown adult and arguing with other grown men over which box of plastic is better lmao

Nygile Oliver

Dude, everyone knows them! But I appreciate the thought.

Colin Moriarty

So they can't sell them, but they're buying more?

Colin Moriarty

Just got want to say maybe the people saying the PS5’s are sitting in a scalpers garage are just pointing out the fact that you can go out and buy a scalped ps5 right now. The scalpers aren’t out of stock which means there are ps5’s sitting in a garage somewhere still waiting to be purchased at a mark up.

Take on Me is a great song and I noticed it’s been featured quite often in media lately, including video games (TLOU 2, MGS5, Just Cause 4). Colin, a-ha is a cool band and they actually have a pretty good and eclectic discography, even some in more recent years. Highly recommend as a fellow 80s music fan.

Chris Fazio

I never even played Jak X, though that was certainly the time when licensed music was crawing all over games.

Colin Moriarty

Yes! Cool moment.

Colin Moriarty

Kojima certainly doesn't benefit from such an arrangement, but certainly it's possible.

Colin Moriarty

About the write in on licenced music in games, I've always loved the intro to Jak X with "you think I ain't worth a dollar but I feel like a millionaire" by queens of the stone age came to mind. Such an awesome track fitting with the energy of the game. That game first exposed me to the band and became a big fan ever since. life is strange has a fantastic collection of indie music as well!

Zack Apuzzo

Why isn't Kojipro on the small list of studios that fit the Sony acquisition framework.

BM

Red Dead Redemption crossing into Mexico has an incredible song.

brody_low

I love it, too! The PS4 version.

Colin Moriarty

Yes, but again, Nintendo is a first party. Microsoft's studio announced the collaboration. It's different.

Colin Moriarty

Interesting!

Colin Moriarty

That could be cool... but I think doubling-down on Horizon is just gonna run it into the ground.

Colin Moriarty

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Colin Moriarty

That's a totally different pronunciation!

Colin Moriarty

Interesting memory.

Colin Moriarty

Interesting.

Colin Moriarty

Very great.

Colin Moriarty

Is this the right link?

Colin Moriarty

Been playing Death Stranding again myself with the PS5 upgrade, had my old save so it only took about 15 hours to get the platinum again for the upgrade. Had so much fun that I started the game from the start after getting the platinum. This game is a masterpiece and my favourite game of last generation.

Liam Mcnulty

Just wanted to mention another situation where a third party developer helped make a first party game, and it's Bandai Namco with Super Smash Brothers, they've been the lead developer for the past two iterations of the franchise. I agree this isn't normal though, and in fact worrying that they've brought Crystal Dynamics on.

Cash

Hey fun fact colin cloud was so close to being the ps2 fighter for soul caliber 2 but they couldn't get square enix to sign off on it so they went with heihachi instead

Peter Long

Spider-Man 2 being a bit more dark makes sense given the cast revealed, Kraven and Venom. I don't think this is the "Playstationism" of Spider-Man, as Dustin said on the show, Spider-Man has a ton of dark runs and storylines and tragedy really is a hallmark of Spider-Mans lore. That's kinda the beauty of Peter Parker is how light he can be in the face of the situations he is in. Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man films definitely leaned into that. Also-- your guys thoughts on Horizon multiplayer is interesting. Has me thinking, they've already done a crossover with World, what if if this is a Monster Hunteresque Horizon experience they're cooking up? It makes a lot of sense.

Julian Zhu

You guys to listen to the duke podcast about the crystal dynamics story makes more sense

Hose A Contra Razz

I say Naroodo. Annunciating Na-Ru-To properly is what the kids call being too extra. Ily boys this was a great episode :)

Denver Walker

I took my girlfriend to see the South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut movie in 1999. Some kids outside the theater asked me to buy them tickets since it was rated R. I said no, and my gf was surprised. It just didn't feel right.

four24twenty

The Witcher family show reminds me of when WB had a Mortal Kombat show in production for young girls. It was called MK Ultra Girls, no joke, and it's art was being done by YouTuber Rebel Taxi. It's pretty strange go look at the leaks. They didn't move forward with it though which I doubt will be the case for the Witcher series.

Kaleb

Oh yeah I look forward to this day. Also, how great is it that Seinfeld is on Netflix now.

Derek Alcott

Hey Colin, I think when you described a guy who trolled people by taking their Photoshop requests very literally you were referring to this: https://27bslash6.com/missy.html Haven't read this in years but it came to mind right away.

Evan Bederman

I'm happy for them, too.

Colin Moriarty

Yeah, it's just not the people I want to be involved with, nor do I want them watching our stuff. They suck.

Colin Moriarty

=)

Colin Moriarty

LOL.

Colin Moriarty

Very happy for New World. I did some rough numbers but the peak player base was 700k, if we assume all of those players purchased the game at 40$ it means the game has already made 28 million in the first few days of launch. If you ever decide to do a sacred plus episode on when Sony used to have MMOs as Sony Online Entertainment, I highly recommend interviewing TheNerdSlayer. He’s done amazing detective work on how MMOs started, where they went wrong, and why the ultimately shut down. He’s done quite a few videos on Sony Online Entertainment

Kenneth Oms

What was even weirder about the fanboying on Twitter was the other type of people it brought out. The people who just couldn't wait to pile on the crew out of basically nowhere. Do these people honestly sit there watching for any sort of perceived negativity towards other companies? Colin and Dustin were still very much correct in what they said during that episode but to remove it from the fair handshake they gave in return is what sucked. It's okay to point out the dissapointing moments of non-Sony gaming companies, but as the crew always says, no one (very few) Playstation fans are equally as hard on them as they are to everyone else.

Heathen James

Go on git! Lol

Frank G.

Us Naruto fans are standing down (but standing by!)

Stephen Forgione

Indeed.

Colin Moriarty

Shocker of the century said No one. They really should of announced it along with Housemarque.

Frank G.