Episode #962 - Weeb Week Returns, Plus Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Intro: Weeb Week !

The Disc-to-Digital scheme / Talking over each other

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 This week, win :
• Echoes of Aincrad: Sword Art Online
• Fallout Gunnar Glasses

10 sec. spotlight:

Michelle (aka, @CoastalMichelle)

• Echoes of Aincrad – didn’t hit the mark, but looks cool
• Dragon Sword Awakening – interesting history / cheaply priced
• Over-the-Top, never ending content / 1 2 Watch
• Palworld 1.0 released – more hand-holdy / hard to go back
• The quality of Gotcha games
• Japan needs to step it up
• Drinking: ???

John (aka, @blkdog7)

• U Play + subscription / Black Flag Resynched
• Best 2 hours in the last year / “Fun as fuck” – John
• Assassins Creed repetitiveness / Combat revamped
• 6 hours of new stuff, but no old DLC / Got off the dock
• Ubisoft pivots / Microsoft Kills
• NTE Neverness to Everness- best cross progression
• It’s not a Tycoon game!! / what’s a tycoon game?
• Quest for dogs, with glasses, in the middle of the road
• A bus that turns in to an octopus, but was really a Kraken
• (Switch2) Daman and Baby – You’re a demon with a kid on your back
• “This looks retarded” – Michelle / A renown designer!
• Why don’t we do a lore episode?
• Drinking: ???

Weeb News:

• Watching Sword Art Online
• Steins;gate (english dub) –  waiting for reboot (GAME)
• Ghost in the Shell – influenced the Matrix / Hard to follow
• The 1995 movie was cool as fuck
• Solo Leveling Karma / Movie
• Anibiz licensing platform
• Star Wars Visions – The 9th Jedi
• No Dune animated series
• Persona Live action in the works
• Netflix unveilings
• Get Crunchyroll for a month!
• Purchase warnings and Sony’s pivot

Game News:

• New Ubisoft games / This year quieter than most
• Asha leading taskforce on jobs – “I don’t trust her” – John
• Hire good people and leave them alone
• Sony CEO sells 56% of his stock
• Micro-managing game companies
• Blue-haired activists are too much for Michelle
• Smart for Sony to make more money with digital
• John wants generational leaps
• Always looking for exclusives
• Depriving people of Spider-Man joy / boycotting Sony
• Crybaby topics
• PS One ornament with light and sound
• Gaming’s supposed to be fun
• Who’s buying Xbox discs?
• Sony banking on GTA6 / Choosing joy

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