Sacred Symbols, Episode 208: Bobby Kotick's No Skater (Video)

LOL.

Colin Moriarty

Perhaps, but that 'wacky' shit came with a new expectation.

Colin Moriarty

"You can make up anything about war, because it isn't real" - Chris Maldonado 2022

Greg Dawson

Regarding your discussion about games being so colorful and wacky at the moment, I'm surprised y'all don't remember the industry we just passed. For YEARS people were complaining about drab, grey and brown, serious and gritty linear shooters and action games. 'Linear' itself was treated as a dirty word. So is it ANY surprise we're now flooded with overly colorful, wacky open world games and battle royales? And now everyone's 'tired' of open world games... Gamers need to be careful of what they complain about and ask for.

JusticeSoulTuna

That particular story was so bonkers and interesting.

Colin Moriarty

Thanks! It's custom. (The shirt that is, though the shelves are, too.)

Colin Moriarty

Another great episode. Agree with your takes regarding Xbox and in relation to Rise of the Tomb Raider specifically. There is a difference between supporting a fresh game off your own back (Spider-Man) and tying down the direct sequel to another game for a year. I don’t begrudge Xbox for doing this by the way, being platform agnostic and being fortunate to having access to everything, I don’t mind a timed exclusive to give a bit of extra value to one over the other. And let’s be real for a moment, another reason why there is more noise about timed exclusives when Xbox do it is because it impacts more people in the console space. Head-to-head against PlayStation, including this gen and last gen, they have about a 30% market share. So you’re potentially freezing out 70% of the community. If you add Nintendo to the mix it’s 80%. I’m not sure people understand how big the gap is and was.

OTTAPPS

Digging the Wonka shirt.. and I may be late to the party on this, but I really am digging the vibes of the room now. Nice cozy couch, and those lit shelves are dope. Well done, Mr. Moriarty. A tip of the hat, if you will.

Tony Rivera

We shall see!

Colin Moriarty

Thank you!

Colin Moriarty

I think all of you but Dustin are way off when it comes to your predictions on god of war ragnorok, the series as a whole averages around a 91-92 on metacritic (except for ascension which is around 80 which was made by a side team and had a terrible tack on multiple player). Personally I think it'll get around a 91

Peter Long

Colin is spot on at the end with that gamers being burnt out topic. Great show as always guys.

Good!

Colin Moriarty

I was just listening to this and switched to the YouTube app mid sentence. Holy fuck the audio quality on the video playback is awful on the Patreon App. I never realized it. Anyways great show! I’m gonna finish it on YouTube!

Matthew Foley

All first party games will be $70.

Colin Moriarty

$70 for Last of Us Part 1 is more expensive than I thought it would be. I was expecting a PS5 version of Parts 1 and 2 to be announced for that price. I'm still going to buy Part 1 on launch, so I can't claim that it's overpriced. The way things are going we might accept the $70 price tag right before we see it change to $80.

Matthew Cooper

There's also just way more PlayStation owners, so it makes sense what gets more coverage

BusterSwordBoy

Yeah, that's workable.

Colin Moriarty

There just doesn't seem to be as much PlayStation coverage, mostly because I think a few shows have cleared space.

Colin Moriarty

It's exceptional. He definitely will.

Colin Moriarty

Thanks. =)

Colin Moriarty

I would say: Remaster: polishing an existing game to look or run better on more powerful hardware (PS3 HD collections, GTA V iterations). Remake: recreating the same game with new assets (Shadow of the Colossus, THPS 1+2). Maybe some quality of life additions which didn’t exist previously, or new controls etc Reimagining: new game with same setting/plot/characters (FF VII remake) It’s not going to happen, but I would still love a ‘remake’ in this sense of the original FFVII as I never played it all the way through. I can’t bring myself to play it now. Also Naughty Dog should ‘remake’ Uncharted Golden Abyss. It would surely make its money back given 95% gamers haven’t played it. It’s more uncharted for minimal effort.

Rich Price

The media Sony vs. Xbox bias is easy to understand; there's more nostalgia for Sony and a lot of video games media is based on appealing to 30+ year old adult children who miss the days of playing their PS1. Sacred Symbols is absolutely a more fair show in terms of valuing objective opinions over pandering, but to say broad media isn't pandering is to be in denial.

NotJack

Shredder’s Revenge is sooooo good. Recently played/beat it with a few buddies and had a great time. Can’t recommend it enough. Dagan will love it.

Brandon Soto

This is the first episode I've watched since Colin's gotten the new cam, the video quality is 👌 Keep up the great work guys!

Ricardo Lopez