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Summon Sign, Episode 25 | Elden Ring is Back!

🕑 Added 2024-06-18 16:00:19 +0000 UTC

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Gooch Gobbler

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "convenient writing"?

David P

Boy, as a Sly lifer, I'll tell you what's fucking wrong with sly 4 >:(

Mark ?️

1hr 30 Gene saying PlayStation struggles to have multi generational IP; God of War started on PS2, had PS3 titles, and obviously PS4 and 5 titles. Gran Turismo has also literally been on every generation. I think they balance franchises and new IP relatively well (even if The Last of Us has 2 unique games between 5 releases 🥴)

Johnny Lamotte

Such a great episode. This trio is perfect lol

Glen Yelenovic

Maid Marion was a stone cold fox!

Kevin Cooper

Man... the ending of The Last Guardian is a total mindfuck if there ever was one. #Barrels

Joe C

Every time someone references Trails in the Sky and doesn't make a joke about the acronym I get a little sad inside. 😭

Michael Mashpotato

It’s 5:50 in the morning and there’s already Blackgaol Knight memes for Elden Ring 😫🤣

Josef Barker

Gene gran Turismo has been on every PlayStation console.

Robbie Cooper

Elden Ring looks interesting but sadly it’s another souls game and will never play it until I get an easy mode. The get good community are toxic and not worth my time. Also, Dustin is correct in that Ico is trash and so is Mario 64 and Mario in general. Love you Gene but hot take.

Dick Stillhard

I completely disagree with Matty’s leak assessment. Lets not forget Jason Schrier got his stardom by being EXACTLY that, a leaker that ruined several announcements for years(actually the company of the guy he interviewed). Tom Henderson is only famous for leaks, but bet you theres more talented journalists out there. The confusing thing about leaks is it can all be avoided; literally do not follow these people or look for content regarding it. I had 0 knowledge regarding the direct because I dont follow any Nintendo news; it was all news to me. I really dislike the idea we have to protect team’s hype. When Scorsese, Eggers or whoever is making a movie they dont make it a mystical thing, they just tell you Im making ____ and let the work speak for itself. Why must gaming be different? Who cares about a company’s hype?

GameSimp

“Game Development is hard but so is everything” — shoutout to Gene for always keeping it real

NeO JD

“At least tell me you’re jerking off to this.” 😄

crybaby

Matty should be on Sacred 🤷

Tristan Kimball

Skadoosh

Breno Bezerra Bluhm

As someone who heard every summon sign ep so far this one had the best “sort it out” by far lol

Pianopower

lol wtf are you even talking about . At least give a criticism that’s well founded

The Rose Experience

With respect, Sony has nurtured many IP for multiple generations, Gran Turismo and God of War are as long running as Ratchet and Clank from the PS2 era. This supposed problem is a mirage, Sony has no issue making, nurturing and selling franchise titles, if anything they’re the most careful of the big 3 in being mindful of not overdoing them. Sure we miss Jak and Sly, but like Colin has said, the last thing I’d want is ND to go back to making Jak and Daxter games. I don’t agree with Gene’s sentiment at all in this respect.

Samurai Costanza

Dude, Gene's anti Dustin energy is off the charts this week 😂😂

Mr. Scott If You're Nasty

I played LOU2 without seeing any spoilers. The story still sucked. It was convenient walking dead style convenient writing.

Joseph Gedgaudas

Maybe they didn't, but I love Ico because of the environmental storytelling and music. The castle is unsettling and eerie yet beautiful. Something about the atmosphere and ambiance gives me a sense of vertigo during the platforming sections, which I believe held up when I replayed it back in 2022.

Bat

Sorry

CobraCodex

Tbf the return pillar was in the base game afaik, so this just saves the extra step of warping back if you're gonna be overly meticulous about saving anyway

Derek Hart

Gene you should definitely go back to The Last Guardian. Sure, it's got it's flaws, but the story is so damn heartfelt. Not to mention how impressive ( if at times unweildy ) the programing for Trico is. Love that game!!

Lunar Tear

As a longstanding SMT fan, I'm enjoying Vengeance a great deal. I do think some of the QoL improvements take things a bit far in terms of trivializing the game's difficulty - at least, by contrast. Specifically, the ability to save anywhere is a bit much in my personal opinion. With that being said, the changes by in large are excellent and I think this version will do a lot for people who have historically found the core series intimidating. In the interest of seeing the core SMT series continue, I think it's important that the games become more accessible for a broad spectrum of players.

Zac

I've never played Ico or even seen it, but after hearing Gene and Brad talk about it I'm kinda believing Dustin when he says it's trash. The only thing either of them said to defend it was that it inspired other people they never actually talked about what made the game itself good

Gene Park

how so? it's literally on record that Ico inspired all the games we talked about.

Kolton Krenzelok

Sweet, I just finished sly cooper for the first time

Dank Yharnam Nugz

Exactly my concerns too. Will come back to this after I'm done with the game, just to be safe.

Dante B

Massively overselling the Ico influence here, and I fucking love Ico.

Bogey

Gene, I hate to ask you this but I’m going to cuz I’m such a huge fan of her. Do you think you can convince Suzi Hunter to show up on Summon Sign some time? Just wanna throw that out there.

A Hind D

“AAHHJOIIINN. THE LSM FAMALUEEHHHHHH”- Serpent King Matty

Big titty drinker

I hope this elden ring DLC lives up to the hype. The base game really fell short to me when I finally played it. Stiff janky combat , google/ YouTube videos for a story , repetitive enemies / poorly designed bosses and a lack of reward for exploration really killed this game for me and made the final stretch of completing it a chore.