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Sacred Symbols, Episode 317 | Cater to the Hollow
🕑 Added 2024-07-26 16:00:17 +0000 UTCAnything can happen, but it seems likely that Firewalk's upcoming hero shooter Concord is essentially dead-on-arrival upon launch in late August. But with less than a month to go until release, what more can really be done? Making it free-to-play in the pre-release environment is an admittance of defeat and a sacrifice of what paying customers you managed to garner at all, while delaying it just... well... delays the inevitable (just ask Kill the Justice League). Does this game have a chance? Did Sony make a mistake by buying Firewalk at all? Why don't publishers pursue projects that fill a specific need, as opposed to copying what already exists? Other news this week includes details about Helldivers 2's Escalation of Freedom update, more tantalizing rumors concerning PS5 Pro, College Football 25's meteoric success, Ubisoft's fumbling Assassin's Creed Shadows statement, three fresh China Hero Project announcements, and more. Listener inquiries wrap things up, per usual, on topics like the best time of day to game, catching up on series you may have missed, forgetting games you've already played but don't remember, and the preposterousness of defrosting bread and there somehow being no water left behind.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:09:50 - Frozen bread again for some reason
0:13:39 - I vs. Me
0:31:24 - Political secrets
0:40:00 - deadass
0:46:51 - Colin goes to Vegas
0:48:31 - Summer Olympics
0:57:25 - Entertainment during delivery
1:08:27 - PSVR2 PC app
1:12:47 - PS5 Pro settings appear
1:20:47 - New PS5 beta firmware
1:23:37 - NCAA is huge
1:32:07 - Ubisoft's statement on AC Shadows
1:48:53 - WB buys Player First Games
1:52:13 - Humble Games closing?
1:59:57 - More Mega Man coming?
2:07:08 - SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos
2:08:08 - Capcom physical games
2:10:12 - Tales of Xillia Remastered?
2:11:36 - What are we playing?
2:41:32 - Helldivers 2 update
2:54:32 - Concord info and woes
3:09:27 - New games from China Hero Project
3:17:07 - Space Marine 2 gutcheck
3:23:20 - Favorite time to game
3:29:35 - Games we forgot
3:34:52 - Loot lexicography
3:40:51 - Series to get into from scratch
3:45:46 - Staggered release dates
Comments
Taylor kazemba
Borderlands had the item rarity before destiny 1
Marco Maluf
Imagine a AC in Africa and a blonde man with blue eyes as the MC, imagine how the reaction would be… come on, its not too hard to connect the dots….
Jason Thompson
Item rarity I noticed from trading card game like Pokemon which was before Diablo
Misko 1023
How do I connect to the last stand/sacred symbols discord???? 🙏
Kevin Garcia
“Homophobia is… kinda gay” is certainly a Mount Rushmore moment in the pods history.
fork
Condensation is called that because the water has condensed… you know, from the air. It doesn’t come from inside the can lol Freezing bread has nothing to do with condensation. But the water Colin’s imagining would form, just on the outside of the bread package not on the bread itself Bread indeed freezes very well, you can’t just keep it frozen for too long or it’ll get freezer burn
Jimmy G
Nobody really cares about the historical inaccuracy in Assassin’s Creed. The real point of contention is that it’s fucking annoying when the same asshole archetype lecturing random, innocent people on the Internet to “stop Asian hate” make a game where a 7’ tall foreigner goes to an Asian country and starts ripping and slicing the indiginous people in half…as if it’s something we should be celebrating now, I guess? Or something. They obviously don’t give a shit about universal cultural respect — it’s really obvious and flies in the face of the “this game was made by a diverse team…” message at the beginning of all their games. It’s conspicuous and it’s not racist to call it out. It’s fucking weird!
Chris Adams
Many congratulations for Dustin on being Donald Trump's running mate.
