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Welcome to Save Point Sass, where every checkpoint
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comes with hot takes, chaotic tangents, and a
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little bit of shade. Two queer gamers, wildly
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different play styles. Breaking down what we're
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playing, what's going on in gaming culture, and
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what deserves a health potion or a rage quid.
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This is Save Point Sass. Load in, level up, and
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stay petty. So beyond Mario Kart, there has been
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a lot more in gaming news. There's a couple pieces
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in particular that have caught your attention.
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Do you want to kick us off with one? Yeah. There
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was some rumbling that we might be getting Elden
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Ring. For the Switch 2. I think there was an
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ESRB rating published. And honestly, I think
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that it makes sense. Elden Ring is one of the
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biggest games of... previous generation, it helped
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to launch PS5. Because it's the game. This game
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was a PS5 game, right? It was a PS4 game. PS4
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game, okay. Yes. And I actually remember I had
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bought it for PS4 and this was back when it was
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super hard to get a PS5 and I finally had gotten
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a PS5 and they announced a next -gen upgrade.
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And the game had a lot of performance issues
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on PS4. So a lot of people are really excited
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to see how we'll perform on PS5 and it did perform
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better and it became the, you know, the main
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player experience. But I think that it's an interesting
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game to get because it will show us. It'll be
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another showcase of what Swiss you can do. Right.
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Right now we have Mario Kart being Nintendo's
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showcase. We have Cyberpunk being the overall
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showcase. of what graphics can be on the switch,
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too. And I think this will be maybe a nice third
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pillar, especially because we know that from
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software doesn't have a good track record on
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doing optimization. So it will really push the
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system. So what do you have? What is you think
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it'll run successfully on the switch, too? Honestly,
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I'm all question marks. Yeah. I really don't
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know. And for me, that's the exciting thing,
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right? I mean, I'm not excited to see what the
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price is going to be for Switch 2, because I'm
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sure it's going to be a great price. But I am
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excited to see something that I know has pushed
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systems before. I mean, this game pushed PS5.
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It doesn't have perfect performance on PlayStation
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5. So I'll be really interested to see. what
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it does. How do you think the audience is going
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to react? Well, I think the reception has been
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huge. Yeah. I mean, his soul's likes and soul
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games are a phenomena. And, you know, when Elden
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Ring came out, I think in the first three months,
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it sold 20 million copies. Yeah. So I think that
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there's a lot of excitement there. People love
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to replay dark souls, demon souls. So I think
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that the players were really excited to see it
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come to Switch 2. I do think, though, that a
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lot of players who are on Switch 2, who maybe
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aren't into Souls games or Soul Likes, are going
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to be surprised at the challenge. I remember
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playing Demon's Souls as my first entry into
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the series. I think Dark Souls had already come
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out. And my friend was like, you should play
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Dark Souls. And I went to the video game store
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and I couldn't remember exactly what it was called.
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And they had Demon Souls. Yeah. And so I ended
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up buying Demon Souls instead of Dark Souls.
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And that game was for PlayStation 3. And it was
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so difficult for me. especially since kind of
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like I've explained before, I used to be like
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a fighting game player and, you know, play racing
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games, boxing games, wrestling. And as I've gotten
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a little bit older, I've veered off from those
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genres and now I play RPG. So much easier on
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the reflexes. So I got this game and I was like,
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oh my goodness, what is this? And I was enjoying
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it. But I think I only made it to the second
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or third boss. So it stopped me dead on my tracks.
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It's a notoriously unforgiving game. But I think
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the other thing is, you know, for me, performance
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probably made it more difficult. And that will
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be the thing probably on Nintendo Switch too.
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Yeah. That is a determining factor. Have you
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ever played a Souls -like game or a Souls -like?
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I have not. Definitely. What's been the reason
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you haven't played? It feels like a bit of a
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challenge. Definitely combat and style my forte.
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Right. Really? These quick moves are quick hack
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and slashing. Really? Yeah. I'm surprised to
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hear that. Since you are such a great player
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of Mario Kart and you be up there with the best
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of the best. Yeah. I mean Mario Kart is a little
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bit different skill than fighting games and battle
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games and stuff like that. Right. But you're
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right. Maybe this will be the opportunity for
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me to try. Right. Or maybe when they bring it
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to the switch, they'll know that their audience
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is a little... The Elden Ring Challenge is coming
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to shine! Alright, let's see what happens. Well,
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I mean, I would definitely be interested in playing,
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right? Knowing that it's going to be a pretty
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big challenge, right? And that's part of the
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fun. So this might be the opportunity. It's also
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a very beautiful, beautiful game. I think I have
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played it maybe between 12 and 15 hours on PlayStation.
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Yeah. And it is a beautiful world, open world,
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with lots of fantastical set pieces. So I think
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in that regard, there's a lot there for you outside
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of the crazy combat. But no, that kind of is
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interesting to me that you say is a different
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skill set. between Mario Kart and Souls games.
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Both rely on reflexes, though. So I think you
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probably have an advantage. Well, I will say
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it was there. They got a bullet dollar or something.
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And there's no easy mode. No easy mode, no items.
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Yeah, there's no difficulty. There are items.
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Yeah. And that's how a lot of people actually
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get through it. They'll over level or they'll
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get some of the items that give you great advantages.
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Yeah. There are ways to like kind of cheese it.
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So, you know, that's always an option. That's
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definitely the option for me if I ever finished
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a game. Yeah. So you tell me if the game does
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release on Switch 2, would you buy it? I think
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it's definitely an instant buy for me. Really?
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Yes. Even though you have the game already. I
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have the game already, but I'm interested to
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see its performance on Switch 2. And also, I
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think that I'm excited because, you know, this
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game also has an online mechanic. of intrusion.
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Yeah. So people can enter a game. And I'm excited
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to see what the Nintendo community will provide
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with that type of dynamic where you can leave
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notes and, you know, you can intrude into other
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people's games. You can help people or you can
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sabotage them to steal their items. So I'm kind
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of excited to see what that will turn into on
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a Nintendo platform where online is usually a
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little more friendly, a little bit more decrepit.
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No! We'll see if there actually is an online
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component. Right, they announced the game and
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they're like, and there's no online. Yeah. I
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mean, wasn't there something you just played
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where they had to change it a little bit for,
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was it fantasy life? Where they changed the online
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component for Switch or something like that?
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I don't believe so. Or you were playing a recent
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game. It can be fantasy life because I play fantasy
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life on the Steam Deck. Oh, okay. I didn't play
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it on the Switch. Well, anyways, I mean, I will
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say that there is there is pattern for those
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switch to versions being slightly different than
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Oh, of course, and because online infrastructure
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is so different. Yeah. And also because Nintendo
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is so new to now this online environment being
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the way that it is. Yeah. It was a bravely default,
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I think. Oh, yes. So OK, that's a that's a different
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thing. But also that's an interesting thing to
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bring up. So bravely default. was integrated
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with Street Pass because it was initially a 3DS
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or a DS game. And so their mechanics in the game,
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which relied on you going out and countering
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other players and you would kind of pick up their
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players and be able to use them and to build
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your town and to do a whole bunch of stuff. And
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so Obviously on Switch 2, sadly, we do not have
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Street Pass. Look, I love Street Pass. Me and
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you both. We've like gone on vacation, gone to
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events and we've tried to get Street Passes.
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We've taken our 3DSs and we've gotten nothing.
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We miss Street Pass, definitely. But now they
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just have this like an online thing with whoever
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friends you already having your list will come
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to you. you know, help you in battle or whatever,
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or rescue you if you get killed. But, you know,
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I think that Elder Ring's gonna be an exciting
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one, and it's also gonna be a mature game for
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a mature audience. And I think Switch 2 needs
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more of those experiences that are showcases
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for Switch 2's power and capability. You know,
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that kind of... make me think of another game
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that has a potential to come over to switch to
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kind of because everything that's going on with
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GTA 6. Yeah. So GTA 6 was supposed to be coming
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out this year. They announced a major delay and,
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you know, for a moment before switch to launch,
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people were debating, well, can GTA 6 come to
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switch to? Could it do the game? And, you know,
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obviously we've now had a press event on GTA
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6 and learned that Rockstar itself is only aiming
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for 30 frames per second on PS5. So that kind
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of closed the door on Nintendo Switch 2 as a
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viable platform. But I think that we could potentially
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get the next best thing, which is GTA 5. Yeah.
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Have you played GTA 5? I played a little bit
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of GTA 5. Definitely. Is that your type of game?
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I think it's more of my type of game than Elden
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Ring. Obviously Mario Kart is more of my type
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of game than GTA, then Elden Ring. And level
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of how much it bashes you in the head when you
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do something wrong. Yeah. I mean GTA V is very
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forgiving in the offline experience. Yeah. But
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yeah, I mean GTA V seems like the type of game
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where almost like... Minecraft at this point,
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where it's just so universal, right? You just
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see it on every platform, everything, right?
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Or like Microsoft Solitaire, right? Where it
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just is, it is what it is. So we're gonna come
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to Switch 2, right? Another platform for us to
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buy it on, right? I'm excited for it to come
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to Switch 2 and I hope that it does because one,
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we have to wait longer for GTA 6. Yeah. And that
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weight is a little bit unbearable at this point.
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Yeah. And two, while I've spent probably more
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than 50, maybe 100 hours in GTA V online with
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my family and friends, I have never beaten the
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main story, the offline experience. And I was
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talking with some of my friends about it. And
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I think it's the same for them. A lot of people
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start GTA V, they get about halfway through or
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they get to the mission where it's like online
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is unlocked. Yeah. And they make a B line to
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online. Yeah. So I'm excited to have another
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opportunity to finally make it through the story.
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And I'm also excited potentially to have the
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opportunity to get the game with all the DLC
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included because it has tons of DLC. Yeah, offline
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DLC. I think, well, both online and offline DLC,
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I think. But my hope would be, I mean, probably
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not knowing Rockstar, but my hope would be that
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we can get it for a reasonable price with all
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the DLC. I'm feeling 99 .99. So I think that,
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you know, we've come to the conclusion that for
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you, you will be getting, if it's between those
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two games, GTA V over Elden Ring? Maybe. I think
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I'm very interested to see the discourse from
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the implementation of the games. If it's released
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and people are saying, this is garbage, I'm not
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going to put my money into a port that doesn't
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work. But if people are saying that the ports
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are working, that they are strong, that they
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are giving you value, then I think GTA probably
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would be my choice. I think that's really interesting
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that you say that because Rockstar did outsource
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a company to do the, what is it, GTA remasters.
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People are not a fan of that. Yeah, they were
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not good ports, apparently. So, yeah. Actually,
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after you saying that, maybe I will be a little
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more hesitant on both games because in both of
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these cases, the developers are notorious for
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releasing games with problems. Yeah, and what
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was something else was just released? Was it
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Skyrim? Yeah, Skyrim, but that was Bethesda.
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Yeah, but they had released. Was it Skyrim? And
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people were so excited, and you had the core
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demographic. Oh, no, no, no. It was Oblivion.
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Oblivion remaster in Unreal Engine. So if you
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took that initial impression, you'd be like,
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oh my god, this remaster is amazing. I need to
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get it. And then people start playing into games
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literally like melting their PC and like saves
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are being broken. Yes. So maybe I won't be there
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day one. But I am very excited to play Eldem
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Ring. on the Switch 2 with a different community
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than a PlayStation community. And I really, really,
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really hope that we get GTA 5 coming to Switch
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2. A lot to see. A lot to see.
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Welcome to Save Point Sass, where every checkpoint
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comes with hot takes, chaotic tangents, and a
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little bit of shade. Two queer gamers, wildly
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different play styles. Breaking down what we're
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playing, what's going on in gaming culture, and
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what deserves a health potion or a rage quid.
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This is Save Point Sass. Load in, level up, and
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stay petty. So beyond Mario Kart, there has been
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a lot more in gaming news. There's a couple pieces
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in particular that have caught your attention.
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Do you want to kick us off with one? Yeah. There
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was some rumbling that we might be getting Elden
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Ring. For the Switch 2. I think there was an
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ESRB rating published. And honestly, I think
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that it makes sense. Elden Ring is one of the
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biggest games of... previous generation, it helped
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to launch PS5. Because it's the game. This game
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was a PS5 game, right? It was a PS4 game. PS4
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game, okay. Yes. And I actually remember I had
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bought it for PS4 and this was back when it was
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super hard to get a PS5 and I finally had gotten
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a PS5 and they announced a next -gen upgrade.
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And the game had a lot of performance issues
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on PS4. So a lot of people are really excited
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to see how we'll perform on PS5 and it did perform
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better and it became the, you know, the main
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player experience. But I think that it's an interesting
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game to get because it will show us. It'll be
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another showcase of what Swiss you can do. Right.
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Right now we have Mario Kart being Nintendo's
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showcase. We have Cyberpunk being the overall
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showcase. of what graphics can be on the switch,
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too. And I think this will be maybe a nice third
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pillar, especially because we know that from
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software doesn't have a good track record on
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doing optimization. So it will really push the
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system. So what do you have? What is you think
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it'll run successfully on the switch, too? Honestly,
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I'm all question marks. Yeah. I really don't
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know. And for me, that's the exciting thing,
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right? I mean, I'm not excited to see what the
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price is going to be for Switch 2, because I'm
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sure it's going to be a great price. But I am
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excited to see something that I know has pushed
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systems before. I mean, this game pushed PS5.
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It doesn't have perfect performance on PlayStation
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5. So I'll be really interested to see. what
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it does. How do you think the audience is going
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to react? Well, I think the reception has been
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huge. Yeah. I mean, his soul's likes and soul
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games are a phenomena. And, you know, when Elden
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Ring came out, I think in the first three months,
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it sold 20 million copies. Yeah. So I think that
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there's a lot of excitement there. People love
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to replay dark souls, demon souls. So I think
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that the players were really excited to see it
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come to Switch 2. I do think, though, that a
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lot of players who are on Switch 2, who maybe
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aren't into Souls games or Soul Likes, are going
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to be surprised at the challenge. I remember
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playing Demon's Souls as my first entry into
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the series. I think Dark Souls had already come
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out. And my friend was like, you should play
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Dark Souls. And I went to the video game store
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and I couldn't remember exactly what it was called.
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And they had Demon Souls. Yeah. And so I ended
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up buying Demon Souls instead of Dark Souls.
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And that game was for PlayStation 3. And it was
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so difficult for me. especially since kind of
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like I've explained before, I used to be like
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a fighting game player and, you know, play racing
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games, boxing games, wrestling. And as I've gotten
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a little bit older, I've veered off from those
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genres and now I play RPG. So much easier on
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the reflexes. So I got this game and I was like,
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oh my goodness, what is this? And I was enjoying
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it. But I think I only made it to the second
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or third boss. So it stopped me dead on my tracks.
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It's a notoriously unforgiving game. But I think
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the other thing is, you know, for me, performance
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probably made it more difficult. And that will
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be the thing probably on Nintendo Switch too.
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Yeah. That is a determining factor. Have you
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ever played a Souls -like game or a Souls -like?
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I have not. Definitely. What's been the reason
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you haven't played? It feels like a bit of a
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challenge. Definitely combat and style my forte.
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Right. Really? These quick moves are quick hack
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and slashing. Really? Yeah. I'm surprised to
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hear that. Since you are such a great player
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of Mario Kart and you be up there with the best
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of the best. Yeah. I mean Mario Kart is a little
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bit different skill than fighting games and battle
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games and stuff like that. Right. But you're
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right. Maybe this will be the opportunity for
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me to try. Right. Or maybe when they bring it
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to the switch, they'll know that their audience
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is a little... The Elden Ring Challenge is coming
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to shine! Alright, let's see what happens. Well,
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I mean, I would definitely be interested in playing,
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right? Knowing that it's going to be a pretty
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big challenge, right? And that's part of the
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fun. So this might be the opportunity. It's also
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a very beautiful, beautiful game. I think I have
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played it maybe between 12 and 15 hours on PlayStation.
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Yeah. And it is a beautiful world, open world,
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with lots of fantastical set pieces. So I think
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in that regard, there's a lot there for you outside
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of the crazy combat. But no, that kind of is
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interesting to me that you say is a different
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skill set. between Mario Kart and Souls games.
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Both rely on reflexes, though. So I think you
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probably have an advantage. Well, I will say
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it was there. They got a bullet dollar or something.
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And there's no easy mode. No easy mode, no items.
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Yeah, there's no difficulty. There are items.
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Yeah. And that's how a lot of people actually
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get through it. They'll over level or they'll
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get some of the items that give you great advantages.
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Yeah. There are ways to like kind of cheese it.
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So, you know, that's always an option. That's
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definitely the option for me if I ever finished
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a game. Yeah. So you tell me if the game does
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release on Switch 2, would you buy it? I think
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it's definitely an instant buy for me. Really?
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Yes. Even though you have the game already. I
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have the game already, but I'm interested to
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see its performance on Switch 2. And also, I
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think that I'm excited because, you know, this
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game also has an online mechanic. of intrusion.
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Yeah. So people can enter a game. And I'm excited
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to see what the Nintendo community will provide
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with that type of dynamic where you can leave
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notes and, you know, you can intrude into other
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people's games. You can help people or you can
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sabotage them to steal their items. So I'm kind
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of excited to see what that will turn into on
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a Nintendo platform where online is usually a
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little more friendly, a little bit more decrepit.
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No! We'll see if there actually is an online
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component. Right, they announced the game and
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they're like, and there's no online. Yeah. I
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mean, wasn't there something you just played
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where they had to change it a little bit for,
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was it fantasy life? Where they changed the online
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component for Switch or something like that?
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I don't believe so. Or you were playing a recent
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game. It can be fantasy life because I play fantasy
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life on the Steam Deck. Oh, okay. I didn't play
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it on the Switch. Well, anyways, I mean, I will
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say that there is there is pattern for those
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switch to versions being slightly different than
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Oh, of course, and because online infrastructure
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is so different. Yeah. And also because Nintendo
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is so new to now this online environment being
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the way that it is. Yeah. It was a bravely default,
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I think. Oh, yes. So OK, that's a that's a different
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thing. But also that's an interesting thing to
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bring up. So bravely default. was integrated
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with Street Pass because it was initially a 3DS
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or a DS game. And so their mechanics in the game,
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which relied on you going out and countering
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other players and you would kind of pick up their
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players and be able to use them and to build
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your town and to do a whole bunch of stuff. And
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so Obviously on Switch 2, sadly, we do not have
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Street Pass. Look, I love Street Pass. Me and
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you both. We've like gone on vacation, gone to
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events and we've tried to get Street Passes.
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We've taken our 3DSs and we've gotten nothing.
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We miss Street Pass, definitely. But now they
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just have this like an online thing with whoever
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friends you already having your list will come
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to you. you know, help you in battle or whatever,
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or rescue you if you get killed. But, you know,
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I think that Elder Ring's gonna be an exciting
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one, and it's also gonna be a mature game for
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a mature audience. And I think Switch 2 needs
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more of those experiences that are showcases
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for Switch 2's power and capability. You know,
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that kind of... make me think of another game
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that has a potential to come over to switch to
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kind of because everything that's going on with
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GTA 6. Yeah. So GTA 6 was supposed to be coming
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out this year. They announced a major delay and,
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you know, for a moment before switch to launch,
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people were debating, well, can GTA 6 come to
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switch to? Could it do the game? And, you know,
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obviously we've now had a press event on GTA
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6 and learned that Rockstar itself is only aiming
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for 30 frames per second on PS5. So that kind
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of closed the door on Nintendo Switch 2 as a
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viable platform. But I think that we could potentially
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get the next best thing, which is GTA 5. Yeah.
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Have you played GTA 5? I played a little bit
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of GTA 5. Definitely. Is that your type of game?
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I think it's more of my type of game than Elden
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Ring. Obviously Mario Kart is more of my type
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of game than GTA, then Elden Ring. And level
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of how much it bashes you in the head when you
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do something wrong. Yeah. I mean GTA V is very
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forgiving in the offline experience. Yeah. But
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yeah, I mean GTA V seems like the type of game
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where almost like... Minecraft at this point,
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where it's just so universal, right? You just
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see it on every platform, everything, right?
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Or like Microsoft Solitaire, right? Where it
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just is, it is what it is. So we're gonna come
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to Switch 2, right? Another platform for us to
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buy it on, right? I'm excited for it to come
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to Switch 2 and I hope that it does because one,
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we have to wait longer for GTA 6. Yeah. And that
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weight is a little bit unbearable at this point.
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Yeah. And two, while I've spent probably more
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than 50, maybe 100 hours in GTA V online with
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my family and friends, I have never beaten the
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main story, the offline experience. And I was
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talking with some of my friends about it. And
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I think it's the same for them. A lot of people
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start GTA V, they get about halfway through or
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they get to the mission where it's like online
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is unlocked. Yeah. And they make a B line to
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online. Yeah. So I'm excited to have another
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opportunity to finally make it through the story.
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And I'm also excited potentially to have the
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opportunity to get the game with all the DLC
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included because it has tons of DLC. Yeah, offline
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DLC. I think, well, both online and offline DLC,
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I think. But my hope would be, I mean, probably
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not knowing Rockstar, but my hope would be that
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we can get it for a reasonable price with all
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the DLC. I'm feeling 99 .99. So I think that,
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you know, we've come to the conclusion that for
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you, you will be getting, if it's between those
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two games, GTA V over Elden Ring? Maybe. I think
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I'm very interested to see the discourse from
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the implementation of the games. If it's released
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and people are saying, this is garbage, I'm not
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going to put my money into a port that doesn't
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work. But if people are saying that the ports
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are working, that they are strong, that they
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are giving you value, then I think GTA probably
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would be my choice. I think that's really interesting
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that you say that because Rockstar did outsource
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a company to do the, what is it, GTA remasters.
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People are not a fan of that. Yeah, they were
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not good ports, apparently. So, yeah. Actually,
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after you saying that, maybe I will be a little
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more hesitant on both games because in both of
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these cases, the developers are notorious for
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releasing games with problems. Yeah, and what
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was something else was just released? Was it
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Skyrim? Yeah, Skyrim, but that was Bethesda.
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Yeah, but they had released. Was it Skyrim? And
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people were so excited, and you had the core
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demographic. Oh, no, no, no. It was Oblivion.
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Oblivion remaster in Unreal Engine. So if you
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took that initial impression, you'd be like,
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oh my god, this remaster is amazing. I need to
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get it. And then people start playing into games
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literally like melting their PC and like saves
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are being broken. Yes. So maybe I won't be there
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day one. But I am very excited to play Eldem
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Ring. on the Switch 2 with a different community
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than a PlayStation community. And I really, really,
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really hope that we get GTA 5 coming to Switch
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2. A lot to see. A lot to see.
