Frame Trap - Episode 167 "Caught In a Direct"

[@notjefflee]

Appreciate the cuts to gameplay footage and even the specific clips that they are referring to

[@blakeandcamp]

Just a heads up/correction since Damiani brought up Destiny 2 vaulting content, Bungie announced with the Lightfall showcase a few weeks ago that they will no longer be vaulting expansions.

[@DraKon2k6]

Really glad that Huber is enjoying Cyberpunk

[@jacoblief8263]

My favorite announcement from the Direct was Fatal Frame 4 finally coming to the west. I played the fan translation many years ago, and I think it's one of the best in the series. I also played the next gen version of Cyberpunk 2077 this year after getting burned at launch. It's my second favorite game of the year.

[@nagihoko]

Really appreciated the cyberpunk segment, as someone who also waited until 1.6 to start the game.

[@sashazyryanov]

Huber, I highly recommend getting a PC monitor that supports FreeSync (aka variable refresh rate). It completely hides frame-rate instability and allows you to push for higher fidelity settings (the game that fluctuates between 45 and 55 fps will look just as smooth as locked 60fps).

[@Kmaitland89]

It definitely doesn’t completely hide frame rate issues, but it is important.

[@Hazz3r]

Yeah, I wouldn't buy a monitor for Gaming that doesn't support G-SYNC or FreeSync anymore.

[@tuliobednarczukpecinemisko5606]

I think the sort it out segment needs more direction, but Don's answer was awesome.

[@InnerRise]

+1

[@gregcadman6559]

Radiant Silvergun is backwards compatible on Xbox. They actually put it on Games with Gold a few months ago.

[@SaladXIV]

Great discussions on this episode! Loved the Friend Code segment and think thats a great idea. Keep up the awesome co hosting Damiani and Brad you guys are really coming into your own

[@gamemasterbob9]

I'm right there with you on the food. That was the moment I realized what this game missed on

[@melodydiagames]

An open dungeon where you can walk everywhere in it but have to do a few core things to activate the ability to get to the boss... Is that... Is that not exactly how the Divine Beasts worked???

[@milesdyson7429]

Divine Beast were a decent concept but definitely too short and visually samey. Applying the same concept to longer and more interesting dungeons would be great.

[@paumariesteve3829]

Hey, guys! You forgot to mention Pikmin 4 appearing in the Direct! It was huge!

[@FrothingFanboy]

I thought I was skipping over it, but they realized in another segment that they didn't talk about it (and still didn't even then, except for Don shaming Miyamoto for a too-low-key shirt reveal). HUGE miss from the panel.

[@sugs0377]

@@FrothingFanboy what's there to talk about?

[@FrothingFanboy]

@@sugs0377 The typical context and analysis you give to any announcement.

[@rallymonkey150]

They just needed to have X of the Y so people knew it is related to breath of the wild but Tears of the Kingdom is such an awkward phrase in English. Breath of the Wild just brings to mind the infinite open possibilities of first open world Zelda whereas this is a mouthful. That said Ocarina of Time is GOAT and before playing it seems like an insane title

[@lystic9392]

We just need some time to get used to it ^__^ TOTK!

[@hdmewtwohd]

1:45:07 Never change Don 😂😂

[@AlexanderArts]

1:36:11 Thanks for including comment and it was interesting to hear Alexander Zyryanov's alternate opinion right before it.

[@sashazyryanov]

I think, visuals and ray-tracing make this world look so real, that my mindset changed from "I'm playing a game that should provide me with fun stuff to do at every corner" to "I'm inhabiting the world that doesn't revolve around my wishes". Kinda a shift of expectations you've talked about.

[@AlexanderArts]

@@sashazyryanov for me, I wasn't using raytracing, the graphics were nice, but not really standing out THAT much on my 1080ti, so I wasn't really marveling at the world. I really expected a lot more interactions and random events like you'd see in other open-world games and I had really high expectations because of the hype.

[@sashazyryanov]

@@AlexanderArts Digital Foundry did a great video on what Ray-Tracing adds to Cybepunk 2077. I've recommend watching entire video, but if you're short on time, just check this segment: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJPUcmt8a6dphLM

[@AlexanderArts]

@@sashazyryanov cool - yeah, that is pretty impressive!~

[@MellowFelloh]

Idk I couldn't get into Cyberpunks story or characters much. The dialogue was very flip floppy like one moment you're best buds with Keanu, the next you're at each other's throats. It happened multiple times. Wish the dialogue choices were more consistent or would evolve depending on what choices you made before.

[@dcashley303]

Don's take on Zelda was spot on!

[@elitedrigo3400]

Important thing to note about the classic Mario party games. Yes the new one is great with some flaws but for example Mario Party 3 still has way more items to play with for example. So I’m still excited about this. The new one is still missing so many items that were in Mario Party 3.

[@danieljerosch5602]

The titular tears might maybe refer to the liquid Link is using to traverse upwards in the last trailer they showed? There are also seven „drop-like“ amulets shown on the mural. Just theorizing :)

[@stayinthepocket]

Glad Huber has seen the light. Cyberpunk good game fun game. And Edgerunners was a fun watch that's got me itching for another go through and I've done it twice. Also it's probably just me but I'd rather have the Xbox Goldeneye that'll be technically superior than the regular Switch version with the online that I'll only play maybe a couple/few days.

[@omensoffate]

Is cyberpunk still in beta?

[@LordlyWeeb]

New FE protag looks good

[@melodydiagames]

I haven't really kept up on the Zonai fan theories. But what if the Zonai ARE the Twili? Like, what if the Zonai are the advanced magical race of Hylians who were banished to the Twilight realm by the godesses. And only started being called the Twili after that?

[@Acarinn]

I heard some speculation that the tears of the kindgom may refer to the bits of the kingdom that have fallen from the sky. Link rides this rubble back up to the sky kingdom by using that new reverse-time rune they have shown a couple times. I thought that made some sense, sky kingdom crumbling and the pieces that fall are "tears". Or it could rjust refer to those gem-like things dipicted in the stone carvings I just really want to see more! :(

[@abxy2257]

It would be sick if huber and brad can join up for a splatoon 3 multiplayer stream

[@geneticjen9312]

It can be a double entendre but the official pronunciation is definitely tears as in tear drop.

[@geneticjen9312]

Not sure I’d be so quick to say there’s no time travel in Tears of the Kingdom. Not only are all the new abilities using time reversal but you only ever see shorter haired Link in the usual BotW attire and long haired Link in what looks like more ancient attire. It’s been looking like playing in different time periods since the first gameplay teaser imo.

[@Grief_Jerky]

I cant go back to Cyberpunk till they fix the cops, there is nothing more immersion breaking then said cops teleporting behind you all the time.

[@xenadu1]

Good episode. Thx friends l&r

[@MaRkVdV310]

love the show!

[@NickBLeaveIt]

1:01:54 *Hello Darkness, my old friend*

[@glass12]

2023 is full of games

[@mattlandry]

PS5 still hasn't fixed rest mode after 2 years. I lost an hour of Yakuza progress because of the sparse save locations in the dungeons. Sony... SORT IT OUT

[@trinity31409]

2:32:27 It's not the length it's how long it feels. Juvenile brain giggle.

[@paulsmith9192]

blood,Isla needs to know Suikoden I & II HD Remaster coming in 2023

[@CRedd9830]

1:01:53 That aged very quickly lmao

[@MrXmoda]

wow it really did haha (coming to ps4)

[@siberianskip]

Love the early fade in of the outro 😲 Anyone else?

[@BasketCase-rr7tx]

I thought Cyberpunk's characters and story were god awful. The dialogue and the side stories were so poor compared to Witcher 3 and there was such a disconnect between the main missions and the side missions. You'd do a main mission where a character would seem to hate you, then do a side mission where they were magically your best friend now, and then another main mission where they hated you again. It was very immersion breaking and you could tell they rushed it and just threw all that stuff together without much thought.

[@kingofthesharks]

I do enjoy the theory that it might be "Tares" of the Kingdom instead of "Teers..." since we've been getting a lot of multiverse/dimensional fiction as of late. But I feel like it's the liquid meaning because of previous game's title. Breath of the Wild was a personification of a setting. The open Wild doesn't literally "breathe" but it did at least set the mood. Likewise, a Kingdom doesn't literally cry, but it makes me think of the lore possibilities this time around and wtf happened to hyrule

[@___IG]

I agree that would be a lot cooler, but I believe the Japanese title is tear as in crying :/

[@tonyrivera8996]

Recently I like more this show than the podcast, Bloodworth is great but there’s one ally that keeps speaking over him rudely and that ruins things for me.

[@Iamcorrupt91]

Destiny 2 is no longer vaulting old content, and has been adding old content back via destiny 1 raids coming back. But huber is 100% right with the flow of the game being totally a mess for "new light" or even returning players that have sat out for an expansion or two.

[@milesdyson7429]

You can't play Forsaken which sucks, but the bigger issue for catching up on story is you can't play seasonal content from 2020 or 2021. How can anyone get invested in these characters if they don't know who they are. Destiny isn't really an MMO, it's a live game that you either play or miss.

[@4kvids191]

Do you think the long wait and development for BoTW 2 was an intentional move by Nintendo in order to give the game map/world a reason for drastic changes? The 5-6 years in between games could correlate to time passing in BoTW's world.

[@charoleawood]

2:32:59 I think it was around 2013 that I picked up Final Fantasy Twelve. I was at a used games shop to find Final Fantasy Ten which I had only played a little back in the day. Well, the store didn't have FF10 but it did have FF12 and I was shocked because I'd never heard of it before, I had no money to pay attention to new games for much of the oughts and so I was playing a lot of catchup. Of course I knew there was a Thirteen at that point and I'd played a little of it thanks to the local library, I also remember being bummed out that Eleven was an MMO, so naturally there had to be a Twelve but I'd never heard or seen it brought up before. It might as well have been an obscure Japanese import. I thought about going to a different store to find FF10 but the art on the FF12 box drew me in and I decided to purchase it --- one of the happiest accidents of my life as FF12 quickly became one of my most favorite games of all time. When FF10 and 10-2 were remastered on PS3 I was able to give them a shot and I really didn't like them much at all (though 10-2 interested me more) so I felt doubly lucky that FF10 wasn't there that day but FF12 was.

[@chariotgoblin8060]

Remember Friend Code Podcast?

[@obba40]

the last was xenoblade and they dont care for splatoon 3 so they skipped it. I with Friend Code was more like Frame Trap where they just talk about the game they are playing but it seems they are barely playing anything. Also i get it thats the point of frametrap.

[@PrincessAmanda2290]

there is 100% co-op

[@ChichiNaka]

BOTW was the blandest rendition of a game people hyped up for me imaginable, it felt like 90% of the enemies were goblins or the machines Taking down a few of the big dragons was enjoyable, but it felt like a far lesser experience than even Minecraft has been giving for years

[@Kmaitland89]

Huber, you never had to read the quest to know where to go in Wow. I’ve played since release and almost no reads quest text. You just grab it and look at the quick tip on the right. You’ve got rose tinted glasses on for that one.

[@obba40]

some people actually care for a dialogue and story

[@Kmaitland89]

@@obba40 The quests provide very little of that. ESPECIALLY in classic or vanilla wow.

[@obba40]

@@Kmaitland89 i guess i never played WoW

[@andyclouser5139]

The Legend of Zelda: Dominion of the Fallen Kingdom

[@ChrisWTube]

Resident Evil 4 (2023) is going to be on PS4 but not Xbox One, thankfully we’ll get a proper SeriesX only disc.

[@Kmaitland89]

I cannot get into ff14. I just am not interested in how it presents itself and the story does not do it for me at all.

[@twiztidradio]

Anyone from EZA gonna play steel rising?

[@christianhansen1272]

L&R!

[@y_magaming9798]

The breaking weapons in breath of the wild are what ruined rhe game for me. Hate the game just because of that lol if it's the same thing with this game it's a hard pass for me.

[@CRedd9830]

BOTW2 needs to have more music

[@notenoughcoffee]

I'm catching up on these so i'm late but it sure is getting hard to listen to Huber every week spreading fake news about the new PS subscription. It's like he doesnt even knew what PS Now was. Sure he is right about the lack of Classics which was the new sparkly thing for the Premium but everything else he talks about its just wrong

[@thewhitewolf4968]

I prefer the Witcher 3 combat! The cyberpunk damage output against is way to rough and not fun. In the Witcher they take into account the weakness and what not it's more detailed

[@hododod246]

I really wish Nintendo to put some budget to Fire Emblem. Three Houses is one of my favorite Switch game but when I look at menus, character costumes, backgrounds etc... it looks like a cheap mobile game. Look at Persona. Three houses game play and lore way better, but that game oozes style. It has extra ordinary packaging and it adds so much.

[@obba40]

Engage looks significantly better than Three Houses idk what you are talking about. How does it look like a cheap mobile game lmao. Literally anything looks plain in comparison to Persona. You comparing a regular Jrpg to a strategy rpg where the point is about the characters, strategy military etc. Weird comparison. Its not supposed to look like Persona. Why does everything has to be compared to Persona nowadays.

[@ChichiNaka]

I wish the missions played like xcom and less like a chess board with GBA level sprites running around

[@hododod246]

@@obba40 In case you didn't see, main character looks like clown.

[@obba40]

@@hododod246 no

[@obba40]

@@ChichiNaka its literally like that since the NES ? play mario rabbids then. Besides they are not gba sprites anymore on the map

[@milesdyson7429]

Friend Trap

[@louisebrown103]

Zelda direct in February

[@obba40]

they can drop trailer whenever they want. Why do people are against the idea that trailers can appear outside of a direct. Why is it always why wasnt this in the direct ? Who cares if it was or not. The content is the same and makes barely any difference. If people care they will watch it.

[@xandypunk7350]

Framecode

[@grizzlybearking1878]

How is the price of plus doubled? If you were paying a yearly for + and psnow, you were paying $120. Now its still $120. Yes ps premium sucks but its not doubled.

[@charoleawood]

1:45:59 Miyamoto is the Mr. Rogers of the game industry, not Jack Black

[@VG-fr2vy]

No

[@charoleawood]

@@VG-fr2vy I'm only saying that I can't see him whipping off his blazer and twirling it around his head during a t-shirt reveal. Cliffy B might have done that in his heyday.