TripleJump Podcast 275: SGF 2024 - What Were The Highs And Lows?

The first 20 seconds contain an unbridled fear and discomfort in Ashton's eyes, the likes of which I've never seen before

I feel like whenever I finish a game, I get in this weird post game depression, and bumble about for a while. I jump from game to game not having any idea of what I want to play, until my brain finally settles on something. I think part of my issue is having too many games to choose from. After FF7 Rebirth I had that feeling, and didn’t settle on anything till Stellar Blade came out. Happens to me every time I roll credits on a game.

No update on The Plucky Squire sucks. No release date or anything.

Hmm. Somethings off. These guys haven't been here for a few years but they know how to pronounce the patreon names. And they even say some of it the same way Ben and Peter did. Hmm. Sus.

Everyone went nuts for the Xbox show, including myself when I watched it, but since I’ve had time to reflect and let the hype wear off I’ve got some serious questions. Xbox really needs to prove themselves this time. We got no concrete dates, even for games releasing this year, like Indy and Avowed. Perfect Dark stole the show, but it’s no secret it’s had a troubled dev cycle so far, and that trailer looked a little too perfect. I’m not convinced that it’s real at all. All I can say is I’m cautiously optimistic, and hope Xbox proves me wrong. So far they’ve been a real shit show this generation.

The most impressive thing about Stellar Blade is how good the game looks, despite being only 30 GB.

Defintley felt like Xbox has been dying over the last few years. And yet Xbox seemed to have been the best part of SGF. So good to see honestly. Also looking forward to info about their next console/handheld thing they are talking about. Not that I'd buy it, I'm mainly a PC gamer now.

I was looking for video game podcasts to listen to, and that super closeup of Geoff Keighley's face as a thumbnail really helped me decide to move on to something else.

Lols, in the olden days you could just put in a cd and it would run, now you have to install it for an hour......how long did it take to actually get a physical copy before? Go to the shops, queue, buy it, go back home 😂

The highs were from the Xbox showcase while the other two floundered.

While the colour palette being used in Monster Hunter Wilds is more muted/brown, I just watched a game play trailer and it looks really good. Not at all something that would be on a PS3.

Glad to see Xbox has some interesting titles coming up, I just hope they're good and playable. And that the studios making them survive to release. A bit disappointed to see Fable moving away from a stylized look to more generic realistic fantasy. As a PC/Switch owner I (eventually) get to enjoy it all, so it sucks to still see so much tribalism over toys.

The only feasible solutions re: game install sizes versus slow download speeds that I can see would be using SD Cards to make physical editions. A consumer can buy a 400gb SDXC storage card for about £30 individually so bulk production and buying would drive that down in the long-run. Unfortunately, short-term this would push up the costs of games, which as we know, gamers react so well to and we all know that the eventual savings would never be passed back down. Or, you could have each console company open a direct super-speed download option through what remaining high-street retailers there are. This would necessitate you to have additional storage for your PS5/Xbox Series. So, for example, you take your extended storage (PS5 M2.nvme stick or Xbox Storage Card) to the store and they download encrypted game files and give you an activation code that you input on the publishers website, this sends a notification to PSN or XBL to match up with a key in the downloaded files, decrypts them to confirm purchase and then it's available to play.

Games shown on XBox are way better than what Sony had shown for PS5. However, the sad part is that there is still no guarantee that Xbox won't shut their studio down even if these games hit it big in game pass.

I think it’d be great to have mock-up game covers for all the fictional games that get discussed on the outset of every podcast

I’m not upset they haven’t announced many dates, because It suggests that they’re not ready to commit to a date yet. I’d rather wait for a date than it keep getting publicly delayed.

Tbf a few cod games have had texture streaming as for the online stuff then 🤷 it can be a pain but Ashton said most people are always online anyway

Killer bean was a short video that circulated on school computers more than 20 years ago

I loved the original Delta Force games. Hawk Ops is fan initiated project also cause Novalogic went bust. The Black Hawk Down missions aren't related to the film other than being about the same operation.

To help clear thing up concerning Metaphor for Dick Mycinko, and possibly Ben Potter as well wherever he is: 1 Metaphor is like Persona in that there is a real-life time management system, just possibly not using the months as we know them, (the name of the months are different,) but it should include 7-day a week month by month calendar system. 2 It will include social sim elements ala Persona but you will not be able to romance female characters/party members because they wanted to do something that did not have romance elements for once 3 Persona is actually the spin off series of Shin Megami Tensei (SMT) No worries though I, like Dick and Ben, prefer Persona vastly compared to mainline SMT.