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Sacred Symbols, Episode 315 | Beta Energy
🕑 Added 2024-07-12 16:00:15 +0000 UTCThe next PlayStation Studios game in the pipeline is Concord, and we're all interested to see how it pans out. But by opening up its imminent beta weekend to all PS+ subscribers instead of those who pre-ordered the game, it's obvious that the pre-release energy for this title simply isn't there. Will a mass of people going hands-on change its trajectory? Or do things seem a little bit dire for Firewalk's maiden voyage? Plus: Bloodborne for PS5 appears on PlayStation Stars in a cruel tease, Zenless Zone Zero hits 50 million players in only a week, Arc System Works is toiling away on a 3D Double Dragon game, Sony gets into bed with PalWorld studio Pocketpair, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! What do we think of the extensive changes Microsoft made to Xbox's Game Pass program? We've talked a great deal about AI, but how do we feel about its distant cousin procedural generation? Which changes do we want to see instituted most in Firaxis' Civilization VII? Will Chris trade his PSVR2 to a listener for standing room concert tickets?
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Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:22:41 - Happy Birthday Emily
0:28:45 - Lockmort's patronage
0:30:40 - Stretch our legs
0:34:00 - Heat
0:35:11 - Chingers
0:44:55 - Marriage advice
0:54:53 - New team name
0:57:02 - Trade offer
1:00:51 - Concord beta
1:16:55 - Bloodborne PS5
1:22:24 - Double Dragon reboot
1:26:18 - Zenless Zone Zero success
1:29:58 - Ys X release date
1:32:43 - What the Sigma Star Saga?
1:33:54 - What we're playing
2:02:07 - Pocketpair’s Sony Partnership
2:10:23 - Software and hardware sales data
2:19:55 - New PS Plus games
2:26:25 - Xbox Game Pass price increase
2:44:53 - Stigma to lower difficulties
2:52:15 - Legendary fights
2:56:01 - How much AI is ok?
3:12:56 - Civ VII dreams
3:20:09 - Right-wing grifters
Comments
fork
Serious artists actually do make their own paint lol
David P
Chris actually seems like a social butterfly so it makes sense why he doesn't use apps I met my now-wife on okcupid in 2015, now it seems like the apps are all worse
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Colin’s yankee fantasy that he lives “in the South” is hilarious. Like, yes, Virginia is technically part of the Southern US. But no one from VA walks around calling it “the South”. You’re an hour and a half from DC, dude. Might as well be mid-Atlantic.
Dennis
I think "gaming pundits" would be a better description for a lot of these people. They have narrative and there always needs to be something new to feed that narrative.
Josh Lucas
“It’s like a gotenks of slurs” 😂 💀
Piston Pants
Weren't going to cover the gamepass story? The fuck would you have talked about then. The show was thin enough already you would have thought it was on ozempic.
