Game Scoop! 620: Want EA to Adjust Your Game Difficulty for You?

[@discostu1uk]

At this point it just feels like I'm being lured into a Yakuza cult on a weekly basis and i love it

[@danielmbeng4903]

ikr i jus bought it while watching this episode

[@mattshoemaker4105]

Tina must have been playing Yakuza during the PCM segment.

[@Pandatech_]

Looking at Tina being all silent and awkward during the PSM segment gave me social anxiety...

[@NintendoSphere]

A bit of a correction and a funny story: The "Playstation PDA" Is actually called the Pocketstation. If you look at the new trailer for the "Legend of Mana" HD Remaster. You will see a quick shot of "Ring Ring Land" This was a Pockestation game you could play that was tied to your save data on Legend of Mana on your PS1. Now that HD Remaster will be available on Switch so your old handheld Pockestation game is coming home 😊

[@stevesanterre]

So many IGN shows to watch!! Thanks for your engaging content and commentary keeping us all in the loop 👍

[@oghomelesskid]

which other ones are good

[@carpetfresh9278]

@@oghomelesskid Nvc is great. there's an xbox and playstation weekly podcast on this channel aswell. they're all great

[@gregcord3886]

It’s officially Friday, people....SCOOP!!

[@timeteaser]

9:28 They did that in ‘Assassins Creed Black Flag’ as well.

[@zclegg]

Justin's water bottle looks like a tall boy of Miller High Life

[@tyronjasonhuff]

I want EA to not ruin things if that's possible.

[@AustinMacho]

Are you guys planning on going back to in person Game Scoop soon?

[@IGNGames]

California will let people go back to the office on June 15, but our parent company, Ziff Davis, will set its own return to work date. No word on when that will be, yet.

[@MRBINKY85]

Transparency is awesome! Thankyou!

[@manu19lt]

i was laughing so hard hearing about Sam's stolen money in Hollow Knight, you actually come across what happened to it later on lol. Great Game Hollow Knight

[@Eldur0]

Remember that E3 is digital for most of us gamers as we have already been watching from home for years

[@cheukbunchan515]

Re: Tina's comment about Yakuza's battle arena, the weapons and rewards you get from there do not render the crafting equipment useless. They will carry you through the main game. But for the post game dungeons, you want the ultimate weapons crafted from the Romance workshop. Not mandatory, but the crafting helps more with the post game content.

[@cronos12_psn]

I hope the arc system works not being around any longer was a joke! They made dragon ball fighterz and have a new guilty gear game coming out that has been through recent betas and has an awesome song that goes along with it 😀 great episode as always all!

[@freiteez]

I love Guardian Legend! Great childhood memories. Thank you for the music

[@brendonmarks8677]

I heard Daemon heart breaking when Tina is telling him about the game yet he's just started 🤣

[@_natedunn]

i started Like A Dragon because of this podcast and I VERY much appreciate it

[@guip1408]

How does Justin think Arc System isn't around anymore? They're having their best stretch ever

[@Ahmed94996]

Tina is definitely not tuning in and reading something on her computer for half of time lol

[@carpetfresh9278]

she's engaging in the conversation just as much as everyone else. they're all on the job and probably have a lot of work on their hands

[@quantumjet253]

She's playing Yakuza!

[@Ahmed94996]

@@carpetfresh9278 im not bashing her at all, im just pointing out something weird about her engagement. Tina is great!

[@_natedunn]

I'm assuming she had nothing to add and that's fine. retro games isn't her field cause she is younger. her knowledge in current industry is pretty impressive tho

[@dunfeeja1]

When you are as drop dead gorgeous as Tina, you do whatever you want and others adapt. It's the American way.

[@gjones86]

Always enjoy the magazine retrospective segments. I'd love to see you check out some of the UK's old magazines from the 90s, if possible. Keep up the great show!

[@kanzerace]

Daemon's background. Has that been discussed?? I mean that's amazing. :-D

[@deeejaaay8518]

Justi hasn’t done shit in his new home slacker

[@alvarocn7996]

Great show as always! Beautiful red dead mug Tina!

[@ParadoxalDream]

42:54 there's a silent hill remake on Wii that I know of.

[@DougyFreshGames]

Yes! Nearly the whole crew is falling into the Yakuza scene 😜

[@Bigwave3K]

Sometimes I feel like they all secretly hate each other lmao and then they all laugh and I’m like nah I’m trippin

[@tranwc]

“A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a handheld PC,[1][2] is a variety mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. PDAs have been mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android.”

[@Abefroman3]

What if the difficulty patent worked similarly to the Tomb Raider Reboot series where they had different difficulty for specific gameplay categories puzzle, navigation/platforming, and combat

[@mattdevico5747]

Hate to be that guy, but photons do not have mass. So by Sam's definition a laser is not a projectile. Love the podcast!

[@Digdugduggie101]

Justin, if you’ve already played Yakuza Kiwami, go play Kiwami 2 instead. Kiwami 2 summarizes all of the events of the first game to catch you up.

[@hugoboss917]

The adaptive difficulty or "script" has been in Fifa franchise for years!

[@stuartleckie]

And yet, I’m still rubbish at it 🤪

[@ParadoxalDream]

57:30 The End is Nigh has tons of really good 'games within the game'

[@USMCbrantley]

Sam keep a look out for the Banker when exploring and you'll find her again AND be able to get your money back MAYBE more.

[@Grief_Jerky]

You need the class weapons from the Sotenbori Battle Arena to then upgrade at the Workshop to get the best weapons in the game!

[@jawwadccc]

1 more week of holidays and now gs. Lovely ones

[@aaronjones6798]

Many fond memories of playing Wild 9 on the PS1, you had a energy whip which you used to grab enemies and then bash them on the ground to kill them , puzzled how that relates to pouring salt on a snail, but nonetheless a fun enough game - it also was a game that had audio tracks on the CD. I tend to think E3 is a digital event for 99% of people anyway, so won't be much difference to me, I don't imagine I'll ever get to attend an E3 - hell I probably wouldn't want to.

[@traviskloss9123]

I love all game genres. I use to be a try hard in CoD since CoD4 with BLOPS2 being my fav. I'll say this... skill based matchmaking has absolutely destroyed competitive fps/CoD for me. I don't have the will or the time to play competitive shooters EVERYDAY anymore to keep the skill up to compete. Single player experiences though probably wouldn't become that difficult with a skill base system. But still, I'd rather be in control. Beating a game on normal them pumping up the difficulty can be its own reason to keep playing. Like Doom Eternal for example. Idk... id rather be in control of my single player difficulty to cater to my personal experience. We out here :p

[@ambrosiajam8008]

I agree, dynamic matchmaking makes me quit playing games sooner as well...I always leave games when it starts to feel like it's more about eating up my time rather than just having fun. One of my biggest peeves is when games just simply don't respect your time

[@danielbenton4977]

Sam! You can get geo back from the thief who stole it, eventually! I was cringing as you said you were giving to the bank guy 😂

[@xCaroI1435]

I unknowingly missed a month's worth of Game Scoop and I'm guessing it's because I scroll pass the videos. Is it possible to add the "Game Scoop" onto the thumbnail? That way we can spot it more easily? It's easy to miss if you only subscribe for Game Scoop and not the other videos. Thanks for your consideration!

[@IGNGames]

Game Scoop is on the thumbnail!

[@SpicyRedditDaily]

Save the game scoop Playlist

[@xCaroI1435]

@@IGNGames Ah, it is! Quite small though, compared to the video title on the left of it, in addition to it being white, made it easy to miss that it's a Game Scoop vid :( Perhaps it can be made bigger or have added color, so it pops more? Like the same Game Scoop logo design at the beginning of each video!

[@finallyjeremy8217]

@@xCaroI1435 dude it's big enough

[@xCaroI1435]

@@finallyjeremy8217 I've been watching Game Scoop for the past 7 years and I've never missed over a month's worth of episodes...never even missed one. Nothing about the thumbnail differentiates it from the other podcasts aside from that small plain white Game Scoop logo. I don't know why they aren't using the colored version (which makes it stand out more so people know at an eye's glance it's Game Scoop and not the other podcasts I have no interest in) I'm glad it's big enough for you though.

[@davidswick8571]

When systems started to have hard drives or some sort of on system save memory for digital games (since PS3/360/Wii in 2005), I have never understood why companies have not made their e3 demos available for consumers. We have the means to download and play directly with minimal cost, and since the demos are already created, it is not like the demos would take more work to create. I think having an "e3 from home" would be ideal.

[@wickedss9160]

I still have my Ganeshark and the PS version which is compatible. 😁

[@Joshua_Tymchyn]

Journey of the Prairie King I actually new right away, but Hard Corps...never heard of it...

[@SofaKingOverThisIsh]

Great Episode!

[@_Mr_Sinister_]

Loved hollownight, one of my favs ,for me, last year, picked it up when it was included with ps plus last summer

[@Blamkrotch]

5:55 If implemented properly, everyone will be playing it on hard difficulty regardless of your skill level... just not so hard that you can’t progress.

[@keithknows1809]

They should give the netflix response for game when your doing particularly bad "Are you still playing?"

[@bradcuster]

One and down vaccination today and my favorite podcast with some of my favorite people in the gaming community...There’s no better way to start the weekend!

[@HypeVectorPrime]

Activision already manipulates matchmaking in multiplayer games for exactly the same reason.

[@thewirv]

everybody's so ready for E3

[@Dorff_Meister]

Similar with games (RPGs) that scale enemy difficulty to your level - I'm not a huge fan. I like to be able to grind to where maybe I'm a bit OP. I prefer to be able to change difficulty, even for part of a game.

[@tunaphish09]

Lite guns looked real back then as that Magazine and the peripheral was made a year before Columbine, and school shootings, sadly, became ubiquitous

[@aflashylege]

I am an xbox gamer, have not had a PlayStation since PS1 but I still feel bitterly disappointed that Sony don't attend or support e3. Its such a shame, its like a family member missing at Christmas. EA not attending as well is another disappointment. I support what Phil said, E3 is an opportunity to show unity as an industry and bring everyone together.

[@karmenh8844]

Medievil is a great game.

[@monkeyspice2010]

What is this Next Gen Console Watch you speak so elegantly of? I thought Game Scoop was the ONLY gaming podcast!

[@nathanlake78]

Sounds like the first game I am going to play on my new PC is Yakuza Like a Dragon!

[@Itachii-89]

Omg Guardian Legend. Best Nes game and love the music.

[@Eldur0]

I think EA is referring to the overall player base when they look at how much people are playing. I don’t think it’s going to change on the individual level. For instance, let’s say only 30% of people finished Fallen Order because it was too hard, they would make the game easier overall not just for those players that couldn’t beat a boss

[@lags7164]

Imagine the 'Surprise Mechanics' that could be applied to Time!? Pretty sure I'm done with EA just as I'm pretty much done with Ubisoft (unless Beyond & Evil 2 is good).

[@USMCbrantley]

Downfall of E3 is the bigger companies know they can do their own live streams to have full control pretty much of their stuff. At the same time they know both fans and gamers alike will more then still flock to watch their live streams. If anything E3 should try to court more smaller companies "indies" developers and be more favorable towards them. Cause obviously you have Nintendo and Xbox still helping out the support for E3 like how "anchor stores" are to malls.

[@USMCbrantley]

I don't think it makes it easier. I think it will help the AI know what "skill level" you are and then adjust accordingly. Now I can't get behind the wording of getting you to play longer but I can get behind it if this technology helps you become a better gamer overall.

[@ryankelly9167]

I think it’s a bad idea. What is the point of playing a game and getting better to beat higher difficulty levels if I have a system that constantly adjusts to how good or bad I am at a certain game? It’s a good feeling to know you beat “hard” and even “normal” in some games and you won’t get that same satisfaction with a dynamic difficulty system. Maybe for an “easy” mode this would be acceptable but please don’t mess up my “normal” and above difficulty levels and the endorphins released when completing them.

[@ChemyNoSurfea]

I really dislike having to do more work just to find Gamescoop. I know it's just a small thing but can't deny it's still an incovenience

[@Anotherperson81]

Sam, how could you NOT have played any of those PSX games!?!? Suikoden 2 was one of the best on the console..... Silent Hill was genuinely difficult and terrifying at that age..... Tomb Raider 3 was one of the hardest and one hell of an achievement to complete You missed out! Suikoden 2 might actually be worth revisiting, I doubt many of the rest would be playable these days. No idea how you'd get a copy though, I got £100 for mine a few years ago on eBay. They should update or release them on the PS store online and copy Nintendo's strategy

[@tjwest90]

Lol I mean Capcom started doing this back in Resident Evil 4 days with adaptive difficulty

[@deademcee]

35:23 to skip yakuza talk 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@crackcorn0404]

One time Netflix recommended The Shining because I watched Wayne's World. Lol

[@FastBowtie388]

Ea scaling difficulty has other issues I am surprised you didn't mention being in the industry. How do you review something that has no continuity? Of one person gets cheese mode and another insane difficulty their experiences may be entirely different.

[@theVoltan]

How do you not know that Arc System Works are still around? ;) They’re big in fighting games.

[@zeastburg]

This self aware relationship we have to “the algorithm” is stupid. Bring back the “map+Sherpa” and let me decide. Theres too many algorithm silos of info and experience. The hoops we jump through to manipulate the algorithms (or hide from them) is just dumb from the human experience perspective, and manipulative of a tech companies.

[@ambrosiajam8008]

☝️☝️☝️this guy gets it 🙌

[@Culbjay]

I never thought I'd sound like my dad but damn, video games are too easy nowadays.

[@PhinneusPrune]

The Silent Hill collection XBox360

[@LoveFactorySweatShop]

Hard Corps on PSNow (Don't know if that's true)

[@GoSabresLive]

Fable 2 had some of the best games within games

[@mecharobots]

Dancing man aka Nathan barnett love his videos

[@jsanchez60]

PSM was my jam! Had a subscription to PSM, Gamepro, and EGM for 2-3 years. They're all lost to the sands of time...

[@quantumjet253]

I've nothing against adaptive difficulty. However, this won't affect me because I don't care for anything EA makes, and even if I did I would likely not purchase the game, because EA! As far 'making me play for longer'... I adopted this attitude a long time ago. For example, single player only, campaign, games are near worthless to me as they don't last long enough. For games I do play I always play on the hardest difficulty for a few reasons; first to make them last longer, games are always more atmospheric when they're not simplistically easy, and importantly because the gaming industry is so atrocious at AI, a game on its hardest difficulty is (kind of) as close as the industry can get to making a game 'realistic'. This only applies to shooting and racing games. Personally I want the industry to stop p***ing about making games look pretty and concentrate on AI, physics, game mechanics, gameplay loop and animation! The problem though with the hardest difficulty is because the industry is generally so incapable of making decent AI it takes the dumbest route by reducing your 'health', increasing that of the AI, and/or reducing the effectiveness of your weapons, and usually making the AI ridiculously accurate in its aim. Anyway, no one will read this, but I'll end on a positive note; excellent show as always (...watched on the website, as usual, as I refuse to be forced to watch adverts on KZbin every few minutes!!!).

[@SkeletorTclaws]

There are youtube tutorials on how to get your money back from the banker in hollow knight. You get 50% interest.

[@lennywright5655]

(Spoiler Alert!) During 20 questions, I could’ve been the only person thinking “why do you keep talking about PS3? The game is backwards compatible!!”

[@lokifeyson]

Rival schools does still hold up, my man edge rules. Another thing Justin arc system works also rules and makes only incredible games, if they ever stop I give up on videogames lol

[@hanzo90]

SCOOP!!!!

[@TimDahHuman]

Tina is a wordsmith.

[@ambrosiajam8008]

The thing that really pisses me off about this patent and the direction gaming is heading : they are treating their consumers as the product. Are you playing the game or is the game playing you? This is the problem with the whole thing and It really pisses me off ... If they spent a FRACTION of the money they spend on R&D for all this data collection bullshit and instead put that money into (I dunno, maybe ACTUALLY MAKING THE GAMES GOOD and FUN?! Is that too much to ask? Instead YOU are the product and they will sell your info or use it to no end. At least make all the games free if that is going to be the case. Making a gaming business model that thrives off of trying to parasitically milk the gamers sense of addictive personality by how much they compulsively grind in a bad game mechanic is just terrible and I think it should be considered a crime. Nothing is more valueable then your time and the way these companies handle our info sickens me beyond belief. It's been a long time since I've ever wrote an 'old man yells at cloud' rant such as this, but it just had to be said. As gamers I can't believe we even put up with this shit. Thanks for bringing this up, Scoop. /End rant

[@_Mr_Sinister_]

Stay with it sam, you might find that shifty banker!! Will she be the last hustle in the nest though?

[@thefearmakerlive]

Arc System works makes the Guilty Gear fighting games (new one coming out in May) and Blazblue fighting games, as well as doing the popular Dragon Ball Fighter Z game. So they are definitely still around. Also, all you Yakuza lovers, play Judgement, and Daemon, play Hollow Knight.

[@_natedunn]

Daemon said he doesn't like the art style. maybe other reasons he doesn't play too

[@PhinneusPrune]

I do not want games to dictate how easy or hard it should be. I pick my setting. If it is too easy. I change my setting. Too hard. I change my setting. But if I am happy and EAs new system says, "Yeah. He is doing too good and hasn't died" only to have 5 impossibly large bosses pop out that keeps me frustrated. I will stop playing the game and vow never to buy another EA game again. Mind you ... they are already on thin ice with the Microtransaction BS. So the decision would be a quick one.

[@ambrosiajam8008]

I mean it can't be that hard to "just say no" amirite?

[@keving402]

OK i scrolled a while but was anyone else hearing someone write with a pencil throughout the episode? It was super distracting when Tina was making a point about E3. I couldn't tell who it was or if anyone's mic was rubbing against anything. I was driving me insane!

[@greenraven22]

Level scaling ruined Oblivion. You get to a certain point in the game where mudcrabs are as just as strong as daedra.

[@mickael486]

Justin feels exactly how I feel with games since Resident Evil 4. I wonder why I liked it so much? Here I'm thinking that I'm a badass. turns out they were playing with my emotions.

[@erickorduno3569]

Mappy is good Daemon c’mon now

[@atomicddt]

CO-OP MAGES!!

[@otogigamer]

The golden years of E3 is dead when there are so many companies doing their own things and having their games shown outside of the convention center. Also E3 is nothing more than giant line of nothing to play compared to the years before the public was allowed entry. I've been to the E3 7 times and seeing it then compared to now it's a damn shame and they should just kill the show.

[@LloydNance]

Tina! Scoop!

[@yel408]

I feel like the difficulty adaptability is a good idea if it happens in a very subtle way and, more importantly, without the player knowing.

[@andrewcullinane8112]

I can't stand when the level scales with you. What's the point of leveling up if everyone else also levels up each time. Just keep it one level for everyone at that point

[@joshrogers6669]

i am wired to believe whole heartedly that any idea EA has/had is terrible. Even if its the greatest idea ever, if it came from EA it's a god awful, complete trash idea.

[@Garoth4582]

Sam is explaining a souls like, as if every one doesn't know. Then he goes on to say in hollow knight it's nothing like souls because you drop your money. Souls are your money in dark souls. Every invigorating thing you claimed to enjoy from hollow knight is exactly like that in souls/bloodborne. 2d and 3d is the only K real difference.

[@B1G_BLaK_YT]

The patent shit in the gaming world stunts creativity and is bad for gaming. WB with their nemesis system and now EA with this that noone asked for is just becoming a horrible trend in the gaming world.

[@MasterCleife]

Best game within a game? No riddles, just a big hmmmmm.

[@budakaimaster3]

Did Justin really just say he thinks Arc System Works is no longer around? The developer behind Blazblue? The developer that made Dragonball Fighterz and just finished its 3rd Fighter Pass Season?The developer that has Guilty Gear Strive coming out later this year?!?!?!

[@_natedunn]

not everyone knows everything. it's going to be ok, i promise

[@budakaimaster3]

@@_natedunn I just found it shocking, that's all 🤷

[@eX8jbn]

They've been doing this for years nothing new. Most people dont even know.

[@duanen2337]

Um, Resident Evil 2 was and still is WAY better than Metal Gear , PERIOD!!!!