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I’m not in marketing but I sure do have opinions on movie and game trailers!
- 0:00 – Spaceships, aliens, and laser swords are neat but Tales of the Empire is not very good
- 34:10 – I was ding-dong dashed by a religious person in a grocery store
- 40:50 – The trailer for the new Assassin’s Creed has no gameplay but it’s like the 15th game in the series, does it really need any at this point?
- 51:47 – Have you seen the trailer for Wicked? Then you don’t need to see the movie!
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Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
Chat Transcript:
7:00 PMHow has everyone’s weekend gone? I’ve just been deep diving into new music from Collective Soul, Lindsey Stirling, Ra, and Bon Jovi.
7:04 PMhello
7:07 PMHi all7:11 PMGrand Admiral Thrawn. To get a good sense of him read the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Starts with “Heir to the Empire”7:12 PMAll of the Timothy Zahn Star Wars books are quite good.7:12 PMHe is interesting in the books.7:14 PMIn fairness, Disney hasn’t used Star Wars very well.7:14 PMI only know Thrawn through Star Wars Rebels and he was annoying7:15 PMIt has been very hit and miss. Rogue One = Hit. Rise of Skywalker = Miss
7:16 PMhey look I finally made it to another one of these7:18 PMDisney has handled Star Wars the same way Microsoft has handled Halo after Bungie stopped making them.7:27 PMhopefully you haven’t forgotten my beautiful face that you’ve never seen lol7:28 PMAt least prior to Disney, Star Wars was made by people who liked Star Wars, now about 65% of the time it is made by people who strongly dislike it.7:31 PMglad I remind you of metroid 🤣🤣🤣7:32 PMyup Cooler said as you know in his first dbz movie7:38 PMbro met a magic jojaba witness 🤣7:42 PMI can’t wait for Sparking Zero to release7:42 PMpricing7:44 PMI’d rather see a remake of Samurai Western than another Assassins Creed.7:44 PMapparently it has something to do with shitting on historical accuracy but my main problem is they’re charging you 130 fucking dollars for it. pardon my french. needed to make my point.7:46 PMSamurai Western was a PS2 game.7:47 PMSamurai Western is kinda pricy these days, goes for at least $150.7:48 PMyeah apparently Yasuke was originally Japanese and they made him black or something. I thought he looked cool but 130 dollars is way too much Deluxe edition or not.7:48 PMI don’t know for sure7:49 PMI’m just going by word of mouth7:49 PMNo, Yasuke was a Black Man, the dispute is whether he was really a Samurai or just a servant for Nobunaga Oda.7:50 PMI care way less about the “woke or not” argument and more about the fact that these people can get away with this price point.7:50 PMlike why is that not what people are talking about?7:51 PMYeah, I’m not paying anywhere close to what they are asking for a game.7:51 PMI think another guy named asmon covered the 70$ base price and literally stated “This is why people pirate games” 🤣🤣🤣7:52 PMI think the only game I’ve bought for 70 bucks that I DONT regret spending that much on is WWE 2K247:53 PMI hate paying 60 bucks I sure as hell ain’t happy about buying the base game for MORE7:53 PMjust cause the technology is newer doesn’t increase the price on a game.7:53 PMHeard of Wicked by name only.7:56 PMimma call it here. I’m very tired from work but its been fun. take care man.7:56 PMWhat is your most anticipated game for the rest of the year?7:57 PMSo many game companies need to keep their budgets in check. Not every game, needs to cost all the money to make and they don’t all need to make all the money.7:58 PMPhil Spencer is still better than Don Mattrick.7:59 PMXbox’s problem is Game Pass, for all the money it brings in, it isn’t enough to cover the costs of these AAA games. It isn’t close to being sustainable.8:02 PMSony has the same problem right now. Their current view is games that cost $100,000,000 to make is a mid-tier game. Spider-Man 2 cost over $300,000,000.8:02 PMIt seems of the big gaming companies only Nintendo knows how to budget properly.8:06 PMYes, DECA POLICE. I haven’t heard anything about it since it’s announcement.8:07 PMSame with Professor Layton and the World of Steam8:08 PMPeter Parker, Miles Morales, Miguel O’Hara from Spiderman 20998:09 PMJessica Drew, is think was Spider-Woman.8:09 PMJessica Drew is Spider Woman8:09 PMAmazon had the Silk show but it seems like it may be going elsewhere.