Why Xbox Had The FINEST Summer Showcase (Gi Podcast Ep.156)

[@GiUpdates]

Just a heads up. This episode was recorded before Shadow of The Erdtree dropped. Elden Ring will be discussed on the next episode which is coming soon. We MIGHT also have a special announcement. TURN NOTI'S ON!

[@MetalGearBlack]

Yoooooooo

[@NexusJake97]

0:00 Intro 3:27 Destiny 2: Final Shape (Ethos contributes) 21:55 XDefiant release 36:33 MultiVersus full launch 43:51 Flintlock: The Seige of Dawn demo 51:41 Xbox Showcase 1:21:52 Summer Games Fest 1:28:34 Ubisoft Showcase 1:47:52 Sony State of the Play 2:02:04 Are console gamers broke? 2:11:31 Dragon Age: The Veilguard 2:19:06 Dragonball Sparking Zero 2:28:15 Wonder Woman game development hell 2:33:10 Are gamers getting dumber? 2:44:37 Smurf accounts 2:49:46 Esports Olympics 2:52:53 SBI rumored extortion of wukong devs 2:59:51 AC shadows backlash 3:08:40 Closing statements

[@daniels4833]

"babe wake up, new GI podcast episode just dropped."

[@konnorspencer902]

No I wanna go back to bed

[@Dkmo94]

​​@@konnorspencer902 * Pulls gun from under pillow * I SAID-

[@TheScepter25]

2:21:10 That feature you’re talking about isn’t just for making battle cutscenes. The reason people are hyped for that feature is because you get to set up custom fight scenarios and set fight conditions and share them online. So like for instance you could have a battle scenario where you have to 1 v 5 the Z warriors and have conditions to where if a character’s health gets lowered to a specific amount they could get a buff or their health come back or a custom made cutscene plays of a character pulling up to the fight to save them etc. People are basically hyped to see what scenarios the community can come up with, whether challenging or just funny, and from what they’ve already shown it looks like you can go pretty in depth with it. So just wanted to shed some light on that.

[@whokilleddelly4356]

it feels like they purposely arent trying to inform themselves with this game idk though

[@TheScepter25]

@@whokilleddelly4356On one hand I kinda get that they’re desensitized to anime games at this point with all the bad anime games that have come out in recent years. But this is one of the most promising looking anime games in awhile and Ik TBH is starting to warm up to it but JG and the others just won’t give this game a chance or won’t pay it any mind.

[@UncoloredPageGaming]

@@whokilleddelly4356definitely, it’s disappointing that they don’t understand why people who haven’t seen Tenkaichi in 20 years or at all would be excited for these What Ifs and the ability to make your own scenarios in modern day, but they are 30+ year old dudes groaning about an anime game so they may not realize how jaded they come off on some of these topics smh

[@gloverjonathon]

Ethos was on point with his opinions on the new Star Wars trilogy and I have the same feelings towards the last two. The Last Jedi felt like we were finally moving in a new direction for Star Wars and Rey not being linked by lineage at the time to past characters should've been the way to go.

[@JR-jw4yu]

It just sucked how she was just talented and powerful without training in the force, and fin? Forgot his name just pick up the light saber and held kyli ren for whatever amount he did just made it weak

[@epsilontheadvent477]

I think Xbox had a really good showcase, and had a lot of things I was interested in, and Im glad a lot of it was on Game Pass. I think Nitendo's direct got me very hype too. I was really excited for another Mario and Luigi game, as well as Prime 4, new 2D Zelda, and the DQ HD2D remakes. I think there was a bit for every Nintendo fan in there, and I couldnt be happier on that front. Sony...oh Sony lmao

[@SuperAverage]

Thanks TBH for asking Ethos about Destiny 2 DLC and shout out to Ethos with the knowledge of it. Haven’t played in like 3 years but glad to come here and learn about the new DLC. 🔥

[@Super_Broly]

"If you really feel like everything is being DEI'd tf up, then find a new hobby" CLIP THIS

[@stanleyc2978]

My bet is WW was going to go the way of Suicide Squad with live service and after the failure that was, they are probably revaluating the whole thing.

[@DBDax93]

I'm someone who enjoys Xdefiant, but I'm not oblivious to the issues that are holding this game back like the hit reg, cheaters, etc. I know ppl have brought up that Xdefiant could die the second BO6, which is very possible. My only question is, are you sure BO6 will live to the already received hype that's it getting. Keep in mind that this is Activision we are talking about. I know the presentation of the game showed a lot, but will it work day one? I know it's treyarch, but let's not act like treyarch in RECENT years have been putting out some mid, copy and paste with a new coat of paint games. I hope im wrong, I'm just pointing out things ppl might not have given thought to.

[@dontejones4400]

Yeah people forget Activision finessed them recently with reboot MW2&3 and Warzone and now they're excited for this? Gotta keep expectations real low.

[@supermugiboy]

Nintendo won it for me (more games that i'm actually interested in), but Xbox's showcase was really good. Their new IPs like "South of Midnight" and "Expedition 33" have my attention. Hopefully those deliver.

[@Super_Broly]

I own a switch but don't play it, what's they announce?

[@Super_Broly]

DLC can't be game of the year, literally shits on every new release when you doubled back to glaze a game for doing more of the same. Oscar bait is practically what gets the GOTY everytime. A fighting game is not even getting close to GOTY, so why even entertain the trolls?

[@JoePippin.]

Yea I am not Sony twitter fraud but I did just get my P5. Took me 4 years cause my job situation at the time. Finally got one with my new job/Career and been playing nothing but Elden Ring 😂

[@froman_215_2]

Y’all should try and get theradbrad on a podcast. Great podcast btw 🔥👍🏼

[@devinecummingsvoiceacting]

1:51:18 | Ethos said, let me say that I’m the biggest hater.

[@kingghidra3854]

Notification bell on point!

[@OffixialGem]

Always is!! Perfect timing

[@souljiagrey]

andor writing and visuals were amazing. i’m with ethos

[@kurtcounty8703]

Absolutely, andor is the best series of star wars.

[@cloud6531]

i like the longer episodes more then the short. more content lol

[@bikowalker1156]

Multiplayer shooters wont be great again until we get a straight up gun v gun experience. No gimmicks (classes/heroes, scorestreaks, "tactical" equipment that hinders return fire, etc.). Only exceptions would be a revival of Unreal Tournament or remakes of Agent Under Fire and Nightfire. Until then everything is gonna be a clone (COD, CS, Rainbow 6, Tarkov) Doom Dark Ages is gonna be dope; Doom 2016 mixed with some old school sensibilities, less zipping around.

[@MrStash1992]

They just need to stop making PS4/Xbox One games. What they can do is release just a portion of the full game. Black Ops 3 did it when they cut out the campaign and released the multiplayer/zombies section only.

[@zeke9950]

Sony State of Play and the Sony showcase is once again two different things. And before I’m called a Sony pony. The Xbox showcase was dope af i have both consoles including a PC. I just hate misinformation

[@donnyl19]

First time listener wow good show and discussion and I love that there is no console war talk I will be back 😊

[@Bytesthedust]

people probably expect games to be bad or dead on arrival due to it happening to frequently over the past decade. Espcially the younger people growing up around the mediocrity. For every elden ring there's like 5 other god awful games

[@youngmaestro]

I think @Mightykeef or @AfroSenju might be good people to have for the Elden Ring discussion.

[@RoninTheBlackFox]

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[@WussPoppinJimbo]

I would love to see @Bricky join you guys on the next podcast

[@TWYOP]

All this PS4 owner slander is crazy Idk about everybody else, but I know I still play my PS4 'cause I got games on there I'm still playing. I also have a PC, so I don't NEED to get PS5 outside of getting exclusives, and I ain't so desperate for Playstation exclusives that I'll pay up for a new console that's about to get cycled out in a few more years

[@velmacrutch9480]

So they’re not talking about you if u have a gaming pc lol

[@thewolfinart3484]

I like how the description says Ethos Contributed in the description 😂😂😂

[@zeke9950]

I really wish yall did in-depth research on certain things before speaking on them.

[@billy_cross]

Bar shit nobody cares about and not enough about the subject matter not to mention the Clickbait title

[@bxp6860]

23:45 the body flew into the air after the kill on Xefiant

[@roninhubbard9059]

I been loving the guests but the big 3 only aint bad either 😮‍💨

[@Trocify225]

most of destiny are not expansions, some are dlc which you also have to get just to play the "competitive" mode trials

[@justifano7046]

Not to mention half of it was removed from the game entirely

[@HeroOfJusticeYT]

finally i been waitin for my fix

[@icytangus6683]

To counter that article about gamers not likening strategic thinking and planning is BG3 and Elden ring doing great numbers and critics

[@jaxsonburch-eo1vz]

I get you but it’s kind of true. It’s not me and you, but just look at KZbinrs like Asmongold. He has no attention span for games with a good story. He’d never play Witcher 3 and if he did then he’d drop it after an hour. And that’s fine but the problem is that the millions of people who watch also feel that way and then they complain and say that games are bad today. Instead of saying that it’s not for them, they say it sucks. A lot of people enjoy different types of games. I like BG3 and also like Tekken 8. But that’s not everyone. The difference is that some people understand that and others don’t.

[@gregoryfeast2600]

We already knew anyone could be a Jedi.

[@hikupptheoverthinker]

Really makes me sad Rebirth sales didn't meet expectations. Genuinely love that game as a FF7 being apart of my childhood and the reason I write. But then there's the fact that Sony fans don't buy their games. I have a PS5, Xbox one and OLED switch, I'm just here to play good games man

[@pboogity8309]

1:19:31 Shaq and Kobe were publicly fighting. We knew for sure. It rode for years because three peat. Good point, TBH just selling his example short lol

[@ODDiSEE_]

Summer games showcase cost is really telling. Why pay 250k to advert your game, when Microsoft will pay you to show off the xbox port of your game.

[@JoshValdez1996]

Hot take: Multiversus was better than this “full” release. I can look past the loss of modes and the slower speed but they made it 10x more of grind for free players and while the netcode isn’t as bad as when they pulled it offline last year it’s much worse than the original release. They took it offline for a year for this? Don’t believe that “it was in beta” nonsense either. They did two fully paid seasons and had no intention to go offline between the beta and full release until they realized the community died.

[@LyriaAstralius]

Dragonball looks like nostalgia heaven. If you aren't excited it is most often because of lack of that nostalgia for the series. Which is fine. I want more gameplay breakdowns

[@jole097]

I absolutely agree with Ethos on the last 2 Star wars films. The direction of the Last Jedi did not deserve the level of hate it got. I thought it was decent until TROS dropped and it was just a piss poor attempt to walk back the themes established in TLJ making it unwatchable. 1:37:59

[@Super_Broly]

Ehtos eating, Xdefiant is DOA but just something to play for the moment. Cheaters definitely made me uninstall, got me considering playing Elden Ring.

[@capcomman1]

Btw the Nameless Puppet didn't get nerfed. The pre patch version was the easiest version. I found that out from many videos. Well that and when I beat him earlier this month. Malenia from 2 years ago was easier than stage 2 of the Nameless Puppet fight imo.

[@JTxTHExCLEANER]

I would love to see @ACGreviews on the pod! Y’all are the only two gaming content creators I listen to with a lot of different opinions but a equal love for gaming culture

[@afroninja3322]

HYPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Te257]

I feel like the reason that the DB community gets so upset is because you go give me something new or different and then complain about. Xenoverse came out its trash. Kakorot came out trash. fighterz came out its trash. so what kind of game for Dragon Ball do you want a side scroling beatem up like what.

[@codred84]

Who even said kakarot or fighterz was trash?

[@whokilleddelly4356]

@@codred84 lmao hes saying thats what they say

[@princemwamba5230]

But they never said that at least for Fighterz he gives Fighterz mad respect he just hated the online which made sense​@@whokilleddelly4356

[@CYGOD_]

I think reading comprehension and the ability to articulate yourself in general will probably drop because of ai but not more hard skills like doing math

[@Super_Broly]

Id imagine with the nature of SSKTJ, WB has a contract with the devs to constantly support it even if it had went well and they wanted to do something else, a portion of them would be tied to this game as long as WB wants them to.

[@NexusJake97]

I think you can get more selling your last gen console on backmarket. Still not a whole lot but it's better than like the $12 you're gonna get at gamestop.

[@SavagexRaccoon]

@SiggysTea gotta get LeMickey Gunnz in the elden ring talks and GI tier list cause these last streams have been real hilarious

[@jaxsonburch-eo1vz]

TBH Black Hokage-PLEASE READ. The SBI and Black Myth Wukong thing is legit. Go look up some videos about it. IGN is making slander videos calling the studio behind this game misogynist and the tweets that we saw in this video are what they are referring to. But the thing is that those tweets are in Chinese and were misunderstood by IGN and other journalists and so their claims are false and ill informed. That’s why there is controversy. And all of these false claims started coming right out after this rumored $7 million dollar deal was rejected by the wukong devs. So people think that SBI and these journalists are on a hate campaign and it’s kind of looking like that’s true. IGN keeps hating on this game. Then there’s this black game artist lead who worked for Naughty Dog, Rocksteady, and another studio I forgot. His name is Del, and he confirmed that this stuff is happening where he would create a design with an attractive black female and then he would try to get it approved and then it would be rejected and come back looking like a grocery store auntie. His words, not mine. So there is a real problem here.

[@Kurisu2Far]

Round based zombies is good but its always online which is a stupid choice

[@xSoporific1]

Lol

[@ayytrolling]

Have me for the next podcast the lord of slander and love the pod 😂

[@Jumss]

tbh was on one this podcast, hilarious rants

[@Dboi9449]

Bruh get ethos off the pod he dont plan anything and just be negative all the time

[@engirish1977]

Well most of the good games are multi platform, but good for them

[@Super_Broly]

Mo 💰

[@powpow50cal24]

ETHOS

[@zikame1332]

Yes sir, that showcase sure was FIINE 😍😫

[@RNICJay]

3:05:55 Fucking thank you!

[@oiyile1971]

🔥🔥🔥💚

[@muppetbehumble101]

Let's go BIG podcast 🔥🔥🔥

[@TruInferno]

Kai Cenat on the show discussing elden ring would be crazy XD

[@vDanzo]

🙌🙌

[@uriah1]

Nice a new pod ep

[@JohnnyMartinez]

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂👍😎😎

[@marquisbush8985]

new episode, isntanty like🎉

[@ajanimandara9048]

Yes 3 hours 👏🏾

[@mrgarcis]

Yessiree

[@414KMac]

First!

[@taylerholdnersburnerphone]

you said wait for bo6 fuk ubisoft?

[@taylerholdnersburnerphone]

i concur

[@Xavier__]

Let’s Gooo🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@rahahtheking6160]

❤

[@zaya993]

I think @Maximilian_Dood would be a fire guest for the Elden Ring talk

[@kobebrown3410]

Please get max on the pod

[@robertfrancis3752]

@skumnut for the elden ring talk!

[@napostrophen]

We need @TheRadBrad on the show

[@somecallmekevin]

@afrosenju

[@Super_Broly]

King of scream? Hard pass😅