From Ghost of Yotei to Battlefield 6: Chaos, Katanas & Callouts

Tony and Jaime dive headfirst into a whirlwind of samurai showdowns, emotional stoicism, and the eternal struggle of not getting revived in Battlefield 6. Tony passionately explains why Ghost of Yotei turns you into a multitasking sword-switching ninja, while Jaime battles childhood flashbacks triggered by long reload times. Together they compare Assassin’s Creed, gush over beautifully crafted open worlds, and recount battlefield tragedies—like accidentally gifting the enemy team a tank. By the time the conversation shifts to the chaos, glory, and accidental helicopter crashes of Battlefield 6, you’ll be laughing, nodding, and reconsidering your life choices… or at least your game queue.

#GhostofYotei, #playstation, #Battlefield6

Transcript

00:00:00.00
Tony Sisk
mean It doesn't even have to be old samurai movies. You see it even in Hollywood today. Like Kung Fu movies and stuff like the hero would fight and he'd be surrounded by like five or six guys.

00:00:12.64
Jaime G 
Of course, John Wick.

00:00:12.93
Tony Sisk
And he would fight this guy and then back to this guy and this guy and that guy and this guy, whatever. Right? And he's he's fighting all six guys at one time.

00:00:19.01
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:00:20.76
Tony Sisk
Right? That's Ghost of Tsushima. You have to be able to go between all the different fighters. But As you advance in the game, the game spoon feeds you like these combat scenarios.

00:00:36.58
Tony Sisk
But as you get deeper into the game, you're going to be going up against guys that...

00:00:36.86
Jaime G 
Right.

00:00:42.37
Tony Sisk
All six guys, and you have to respond to all six in a different way. All while this is going on, right? There's no lock-on, so you have to like ah flow. and The reason there's no lock-on is because you need to be able to quickly go between targets.

00:01:01.42
Tony Sisk
right because they're all coming at you like in a sequence whatever random sequence it is and you have to adjust on the fly right so that's why the combat is really good and really challenging the deeper you get into the game and ghost of yotai is the same other than

00:01:16.93
Jaime G 
Right?

00:01:25.86
Tony Sisk
ah instead of stances, you you are ah specialist in different weapon types.

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Jaime G 
Exactly.

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Tony Sisk
Right. so right

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Jaime G 
That's what I heard somebody saying, like like, we can finally tell the difference because it's it's an actual weapon versus a stance.

00:01:43.98
Tony Sisk
Right. So, yeah. So, for example, if you go up against somebody... who has a katana you have a katana right you would generally fight them katana katana but but if somebody it comes at you with a spear um you want to go dual uh you want to put out your second whatever katana there's a term for it i don't know what the second sword is but you you basically become a dual wielder and um

00:02:18.14
Tony Sisk
then you can, it's easier for you to take out the guy with spear. You could still take out the guy with the spear with one sword. um It's just going to more efficient if you switch, right? It's not like, oh, this guy's using this weapon. There's no way for me to defeat him.

00:02:37.26
Tony Sisk
You can still defeat them. It's just going to be way more efficient if you use the weapon that best counters their weapon, right?

00:02:44.28
Jaime G 
Right.

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Tony Sisk
So a lot of the quests, a lot of the main quests, ah center around going and getting trained on a new weapon type but so

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Jaime G 
so Something around going like the temples too or.

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Tony Sisk
yeah that's something like uh

00:03:03.82
Tony Sisk
Temples are where you get you can go to a temple and you know pray to the temple ancestors, whatever it is that you're praying to, to get additional... What is it in this game?

00:03:19.54
Tony Sisk
In this game, it is weapon technique points. right So each of your weapons has a skill tree.

00:03:23.19
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

00:03:29.72
Tony Sisk
And by going and praying, you get a skill point and then you can allocate the skill point to unlocking additional moves or combos within the weapon trees.

00:03:42.40
Tony Sisk
So that's how you get your skill points. You don't get skill points by just fighting. You have to go and typically do like ah platforming to get to the points where you can get these points.

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Jaime G 
OK, OK, OK. What is the comparison here with Assassin's Creed?

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Tony Sisk
So Assassin's Creed, um

00:04:16.14
Tony Sisk
ah I played a little bit of the the newest one that was samurais and stuff. And I can't remember off the top of my head.

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Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

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Tony Sisk
You get skill points and you allocate them into different things, you weapons and combos and stuff, kind of similar. But the way that it's done is like any other ah Assassin's Creed, right? You know, you can go complete a quest, you get experience points and other points and you just allocate the points that way.

00:04:50.22
Tony Sisk
so The difference is just that

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Tony Sisk
Ghost of Yotai is it just does it better right like the narration the story like when I played Assassin's Creed you had two main characters you had like a girl who was like a ninja and then you had a you guy who was like you know very large European samurai and you you switch back and forth and there's

00:05:02.66
Jaime G 
okay

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Jaime G 
which Which is very, which is historically inaccurate, by the way.

00:05:27.05
Tony Sisk
Right? So there's a story there's there's a story and you bounce back and forth between all this stuff and it's like and in that one you also are trying to get revenge against like a group of outlaws which is almost the same as it's basically the same as Ghost Yotai but they're not technically outlaws.

00:05:46.47
Tony Sisk
They're basically like the ruling group of the island. Right? they They control everything.

00:05:54.33
Tony Sisk
But The seamless nature of how

00:06:01.93
Tony Sisk
Sucker Punch, you know, crafts a narrative and implements it into all the, like, the quests and the open world.

00:06:14.15
Tony Sisk
It's so seamless. It's like... it's It's like you can like, I like you, I ride my horse. Like when I purposely go slow on my horse.

00:06:25.70
Jaime G 
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Right. And just because like the environment is so well crafted and like in this particular game, the main character has can play shimisei or that.

00:06:39.99
Tony Sisk
It's like a guitar. Right. And I love this because this harkens back to like what I loved about the Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag is when you could go and you could get the shanties, the songs that your crew would sing when you're on the ship.

00:06:57.37
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

00:07:00.48
Tony Sisk
this has a similar ah mechanism where you learn new songs. and And I'm just, I'm just strolling down the the country road to just let my character play a song on her, on her Shemisei.

00:07:17.20
Tony Sisk
And like, you know, there'll be somebody that'll pass by and then you can talk to them and they're like, oh yeah, you should go check out. There's something going on up here. You go, you should go check that out or whatever. I think, you know, somebody needs help, whatever. And you go and then,

00:07:30.13
Tony Sisk
help them and then that may lead you to on to something else. It just seems like a more of an open world where Assassin's Creed is it's so busy just jumping back and forth between all these different viewpoints and the open world is very, Oh, I come up to the same guy, same looking NPC character that I just saw down the road.

00:07:48.36
Jaime G 
Right. yeah

00:07:56.90
Tony Sisk
And he's going to tell me, Hey, go, I need you to go over here and get me this stuff. And you go do that. And then you come back and you, then you run into the exact same looking NPC character, another mile down the road. That's like,

00:08:10.86
Tony Sisk
But in Ghost Yotai, like every character, every NPC, I mean, they're just so well crafted.

00:08:11.92
Jaime G 
So. oh

00:08:19.99
Tony Sisk
And there's just so much cultural stuff going on and the world looks so great. And man, it's just, and I just take my time playing the game.

00:08:32.58
Jaime G 
All right. So, so we're, we're like almost nine minutes into this conversation. And for anybody who's listening into this, you know, Tony and I talk about ghost of Yotai, which is a game that recently released by developed by sucker punch productions.

00:08:49.69
Jaime G 
And it's really, it's a Sony, Sony exclusive right now, right? This is like one of the few that they've released this year. It's a, it's It's a sequel to the awesomely received Ghost of Tsushima that Tony and I were talking about.

00:08:59.57
Tony Sisk
Right?

00:09:05.65
Jaime G 
Like, when did it release? We were kind of spitballing 2018, 2019, and it was actually released, Tony. 2020. twenty twenty

00:09:13.36
Tony Sisk
Okay. 2020. Yeah.

00:09:14.54
Jaime G 
So five years in between Ghost of Tsushima and this one.

00:09:14.86
Tony Sisk
um

00:09:19.97
Jaime G 
Okay.

00:09:20.05
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:09:21.43
Jaime G 
So in review wise, this game is, i'm not going to say it's topping the charts because it's, I mean, we've seen other stuff that's big, that's come out and everyone's just going crazy.

00:09:32.09
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

00:09:34.30
Jaime G 
However, he did general reception for this game is quite positive here. I'm not hearing anybody slam it. I mean, there's like people on YouTube that are going and interviewing. Apparently, this game, the location for this is an actual place.

00:09:54.13
Jaime G 
And people who grew up in that area who've played the game, they're like, wow, this kind of like brought me back to my childhood. um i can't, I don't know the actual location where this is, this is at, but.

00:10:06.66
Tony Sisk
ah It's called Ezo in the game. I don't know if it has a different name now, but it's like the large island that's that's like ah north of like the main Island portion of Japan.

00:10:10.35
Jaime G 
Okay.

00:10:19.62
Tony Sisk
It's like hook.

00:10:20.57
Jaime G 
Uh-huh.

00:10:20.77
Tony Sisk
I think it's like Hokkaido or something like that. I'm not sure might I um might be butchering that but in the game it's called Ezo

00:10:23.39
Jaime G 
I think so. I think so. Yeah.

00:10:28.97
Tony Sisk
And like the context of it is there's a kind of like a ruling clan. They're not necessarily a clan. It's a, it's a guy.

00:10:40.05
Tony Sisk
His name is so Saito.

00:10:40.32
Jaime G 
The Ronin.

00:10:42.91
Tony Sisk
He's like the Lord Samurai, but he's like a bandit. Like, like the Shogun would consider him like an outlaw, basically.

00:10:53.72
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:10:53.97
Tony Sisk
Yeah. And so the Shogun has a clan that's in the area, Matsumai, that are trying to rein this outlaw group in.

00:11:07.56
Tony Sisk
But the outlaw group, even though even though they're kind of like a brutal group, I mean, like they're very brutal, right?

00:11:15.23
Jaime G 
yeah

00:11:16.03
Tony Sisk
But there they're opposing the control of the Shogun onto the island, and that's what they're telling people on the island. You don't get a whole lot of that backstory, but but you know that that's going on.

00:11:30.80
Tony Sisk
But...

00:11:33.92
Tony Sisk
So like not to spoil lot of the oppose the Shogun the main character's father refused to fight and and in so doing so kind of sealed his fate.

00:11:52.89
Tony Sisk
So now you're playing a character who and that happened when they were ah as a child. Now as an adult you are her her character is out for revenge, right? for the fate For the fate of her family when she was a child, so...

00:12:11.49
Jaime G 
Of course. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a game.

00:12:14.31
Tony Sisk
Right, so... ah And this this is the one area I would say, like, it's slightly different. I mean, to me, that's different between Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotai.

00:12:28.82
Tony Sisk
In the original game, you have Jin. who is like the adopted son of of the samurai that runs the area in Tsushima, the island of Tsushima.

00:12:43.89
Jaime G 
yeah

00:12:43.92
Tony Sisk
um And you get a lot of the whole honor, samurai honor stuff, but he, in the story, you youre as you're playing Jin and you kind of break away because you have no choice, right? Because the the Mongols have taken over the island.

00:13:02.83
Tony Sisk
So you rely on a lot more stealthy things, which is not honorable.

00:13:08.05
Jaime G 
ah hu

00:13:09.32
Tony Sisk
So the story is, is that like you're doing this at the same time, you're trying to be honorable, but your actions are not honorable.

00:13:20.16
Tony Sisk
And even though you're trying to help the island, you're kind of viewed negatively because like you're like, not being a samurai. you're doing You're doing your own thing.

00:13:31.16
Tony Sisk
So you're not fighting with honor.

00:13:31.42
Jaime G 
right

00:13:32.83
Tony Sisk
like If you're going to fight, you've got to fight with honor. That was Ghost of Tsushima. In that story, Jin is a...

00:13:45.83
Tony Sisk
He has a lot of moments that are way emotionally more impactful in the storytelling.

00:13:53.34
Jaime G 
Right.

00:13:55.61
Tony Sisk
And...

00:13:58.19
Tony Sisk
when yeah when I'm comparing the two games, like, I have not felt that emotional impact from any of the narrative in this particular game.

00:14:10.49
Tony Sisk
It's solid storytelling, but I think it has a, it it has two things that, so far, I'm 33 hours into the game, is that, yeah,

00:14:22.46
Jaime G 
Holy moly.

00:14:26.38
Tony Sisk
is that early on in Ghost of Tsushima, you have several moments that are like, ooh, wow, that's that's really some really good storytelling. And it's like you're getting a really emotional connection with the character of Jin.

00:14:44.95
Jaime G 
yeah

00:14:46.56
Tony Sisk
In this particular, in Ghost of Yotai, the main character is Atsu. And... and

00:14:58.11
Tony Sisk
there were some moments of like, oh, you know, that could be close to that ah emotionally emotional connection between the player and the character.

00:15:10.35
Tony Sisk
But she's so single-minded in her revenge drive. And some of the flashbacks to when she was a child,

00:15:22.87
Tony Sisk
And I think this is purposeful. So i like I haven't finished the game yet, so maybe at the end of the game there's going to be this huge emotional thing that all brings it back together. But like her Her as a child is it really an annoying kid, right?

00:15:41.62
Tony Sisk
She's like, you know, she's not likable, in my opinion, as a child ah as a child.

00:15:41.84
Jaime G 
Right.

00:15:52.82
Tony Sisk
And her character as an adult, she's so single-minded in her revenge that she has a wall that she's built up so there's no emotion.

00:16:04.10
Tony Sisk
at all, you know, with any of the characters that she interacts with, even in one portion the storyline ah that, you know, I played through. And it could be, you know, also Japanese culture where they're not very emotional, right?

00:16:21.69
Tony Sisk
um

00:16:21.99
Jaime G 
Well, you would have gotten some of that already in Ghost Tsushima.

00:16:27.69
Tony Sisk
Right. So...

00:16:32.22
Tony Sisk
It's so standoffish with how she keeps everybody at arm's length.

00:16:38.44
Jaime G 
yeah

00:16:38.45
Tony Sisk
Like, so it's hard to like really, really like her. Right. So, which I think is important for your main character at some point.

00:16:51.56
Tony Sisk
We have to get over that wall. You have to get over that, right? At some point, the player and the character have to make this emotional connection. I just don't think that's happened yet. And I'm 33 hours in.

00:17:04.02
Tony Sisk
I like, and I love everything about the game. It's just that one aspect in comparison to Ghost of Tsushima, right? Like i like i said, if I think this game dropped in 2020,

00:17:19.24
Tony Sisk
Instead of Ghost of Tsushima, everybody would rave about it, right?

00:17:24.50
Jaime G 
ah

00:17:24.66
Tony Sisk
Still. And people are still raving about it. But knowing what Ghost of Tsushima was able to accomplish in the storytelling aspect... I think I still give Ghost of Tsushima a slight edge in that department, unless something changes in my playthrough as I hurtle to the end.

00:17:47.17
Tony Sisk
But the combat is good. ah It might be better. it probably is better than Ghost of Tsushima. Like the

00:18:00.22
Tony Sisk
the the scenario I was telling you where you're confronted with groups of enemies and stuff, like, it's way more difficult to deal with because the guys are, they seemingly are way more aggressive.

00:18:14.52
Tony Sisk
These guys are way more aggressive.

00:18:18.47
Tony Sisk
And they, yeah, and they have, you know, the variety of different weapons and it's harder

00:18:18.88
Jaime G 
Better AI, man.

00:18:25.03
Tony Sisk
It is harder to switch. It might have been easier to switch stances versus switching weapons, which would make sense, right? Because like I have to put this weapon away and put out another weapon, right?

00:18:36.98
Tony Sisk
It's harder to do that in the flow of things. oh So it makes sense.

00:18:42.82
Jaime G 
You just reminded me of something.

00:18:43.28
Tony Sisk
like Yeah, so it's it's it's it's more difficult. and the combat I feel like the the combat is way more difficult. Yeah. But, there you know, there's all you have all these, like, one-on-one fights with, like...

00:19:02.02
Tony Sisk
you know, these bounty, you you have bounty hunts that you do. um and so you can go and find all these different guys to fight. And there's a lot of like, uh, stories like, uh, from culture, Japanese culture or whatever that, that also present fights.

00:19:19.05
Tony Sisk
So there's a lot of layers to the world that you can go do.

00:19:24.63
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:19:24.68
Tony Sisk
And the armor, i mean, visually with the graphical improvements since that we've had then,

00:19:32.13
Tony Sisk
you know and just like all the new armor types and stuff that i can put put on my character. She looks cool. I'll say that.

00:19:43.45
Jaime G 
okay

00:19:43.98
Tony Sisk
so Graphically, the game looks great.

00:19:44.67
Jaime G 
OK.

00:19:46.08
Tony Sisk
Combat is better, but

00:19:46.69
Jaime G 
OK. OK.

00:19:47.83
Tony Sisk
but

00:19:48.20
Jaime G 
Why do you think about the statement that was put out that this game cost as much to produce as the original one?

00:20:01.72
Tony Sisk
I mean, that's five years ago that game came out, Ghost of Tsushima.

00:20:05.21
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:20:07.81
Tony Sisk
And so production was what, probably 2015, 2014 to 2020, probably.

00:20:07.83
Jaime G 
Uh-huh. 60 mil.

00:20:15.43
Tony Sisk
So you're really looking at, i mean, ah no increase in production costs.

00:20:25.39
Tony Sisk
Everything has gone up.

00:20:26.26
Jaime G 
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00:20:26.89
Tony Sisk
So they managed to do it at the same budget.

00:20:30.36
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:20:31.61
Tony Sisk
Pretty good. I mean, great job by the development studio because they made a flagship game for PlayStation without costing like $300 or something like that.

00:20:33.48
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:20:48.89
Jaime G 
Right. I mean, think about Spider-Man 2 versus Spider-Man 1. Horizon Forbidden West. right The sequels were like incredibly a lot more expensive to produce than the original games.

00:21:03.66
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:21:04.71
Jaime G 
And this one's coming out you know from what some leaks are saying and some analysts, roughly around $60 million to to produce, which was the same as the first one.

00:21:17.83
Tony Sisk
Yeah. It could be, I mean, technology has gotten more, has improved where it's easier to produce, you know,

00:21:25.42
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

00:21:28.20
Tony Sisk
these things with AI. i mean, how much AI, how much has AI gone into this? We've talked about it in the past. Like instead of having, you know, a hundred programmers, you can, you could do the same stuff.

00:21:40.03
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:21:42.42
Tony Sisk
If you use some AI to like, uh, take on some of the more, uh, tedious parts of programming.

00:21:55.29
Tony Sisk
Like, up you know, we've talked about like, oh, you can go in and tell AI to, hey, do this and do this and do this. and This is like, this is what I want and they can crank it out. So

00:22:07.83
Tony Sisk
no, no degree required.

00:22:12.00
Jaime G 
Don't say that out loud, man.

00:22:14.00
Tony Sisk
ah I know. I know. Hey, but that's the facts of, that's just the way it's going.

00:22:19.54
Jaime G 
Okay. So, all right. so So, Ghost of Yotai told me tony a seal of approval. He's 35 hours. Did I hear you that?

00:22:30.73
Jaime G 
Did hear that correctly?

00:22:31.62
Tony Sisk
33. Yeah, about 33.

00:22:34.01
Jaime G 
Okay.

00:22:35.57
Tony Sisk
Yeah, that's good. I've talked to a couple guys at work that are playing it. They are enjoying it too. It's really, really good. It's a quality game. is a ah it's

00:22:49.84
Tony Sisk
yeah It's a must-have in your collection for sure.

00:22:52.72
Jaime G 
So i was i I was playing, what was that game? Silksong.

00:23:03.02
Tony Sisk
Yeah. OK.

00:23:03.34
Jaime G 
And i got the bad ending intentional intentionally. I got ah the worst ending, which is like an achievement. um And it clocked it at like 40 hours and like 15 minutes.

00:23:20.91
Tony Sisk
and okay

00:23:21.40
Jaime G 
and And I only have done two of the acts. you have There's like a series of side quests and activities you have to do to unlock the proper third act.

00:23:32.59
Jaime G 
And this opens up like a whole new slew of bosses and and you know the good ending. But before I was able to complete that, Battlefield 6 dropped Tony.

00:23:51.23
Tony Sisk
Battlefield 6.

00:23:53.16
Jaime G 
Battlefield 6.

00:23:53.44
Tony Sisk
Yep. Yep.

00:23:54.85
Jaime G 
All right.

00:23:55.83
Tony Sisk
You want to get into some Battlefield 6?

00:23:58.21
Jaime G 
i am I was trying to segue into it, you know.

00:24:00.77
Tony Sisk
Yeah. yeah Okay.

00:24:01.98
Jaime G 
Out with the old and with the new.

00:24:02.32
Tony Sisk
I'm ready to talk about Battlefield 6. we ah you know We did an episode, I think, ah i mean maybe a month and a half ago, i think, of talking about we're looking forward to Battlefield 6.

00:24:10.23
Jaime G 
Yeah. Yeah.

00:24:13.20
Tony Sisk
I talked about how I played some of the beta for it.

00:24:19.09
Jaime G 
I was talking how this year i was going to support Battlefield instead of Call of Duty.

00:24:19.32
Tony Sisk
I mean, I enjoyed

00:24:23.29
Jaime G 
okay

00:24:24.36
Tony Sisk
Right. And there's a lot of talk about Call of you know, everything that's going over on Xbox and the impact that, the that you know, the Activision acquisition has had on Call Duty and the Game Pass situation and, you know.

00:24:38.97
Jaime G 
Man, there was a trailer that was released for Call of Duty and people were like putting down in the comments section in YouTube like, this trailer just made me jump ship to Battlefield.

00:24:50.04
Tony Sisk
Right. Well, and every time Battlefield has an iteration come out, you kind of hear this sort of, you know, conversation of like, oh, man, when Battlefield drops, I'm dropping Call of Duty.

00:25:06.02
Tony Sisk
You know, because Call Duty has had a chokehold on the the first person shooter genre for a long time.

00:25:12.00
Jaime G 
Oh yeah.

00:25:14.07
Tony Sisk
And they have just taken advantage of people and their wallets and they don't do anything like, I mean, I don't know necessarily. I think they've rolled out some different ideas and stuff, but but people are tired of call duty, right? and And they want another choice.

00:25:34.77
Tony Sisk
And Battlefield has, in the past, offered them that choice back when it was really had some really good versions like Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Battlefield 1.

00:25:46.57
Tony Sisk
But then we had you know but some consecutive Battlefields that were not good. World War and 2042.

00:25:53.96
Jaime G 
2042. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:25:55.38
Tony Sisk
And it felt like... and you know it felt like they had they they They had run their course and they couldn't get back from that what the situation. And then the betas started dropping and the early trailers and people started getting excited because you didn't see like some crazy stuff going on. like

00:26:19.60
Jaime G 
yeah

00:26:19.68
Tony Sisk
People wingsuiting through tornadoes and stuff like that.

00:26:20.32
Jaime G 
ah yeah

00:26:23.14
Tony Sisk
um But yeah, so I played the beta and I liked it. I wasn't, still wasn't sure though. You know, I'm like, okay, it, it felt okay.

00:26:40.58
Tony Sisk
I'm like, but what's it, what's the final product going to be? So it dropped what, almost two weeks ago now.

00:26:49.09
Jaime G 
That's right.

00:26:49.82
Tony Sisk
And, um, I, uh, I am really, really surprised at how well this game runs. It just blows my mind. Right.

00:27:02.55
Jaime G 
I'm going to say this, man. and And you know that I was literally the first time I ever played it. i was i had no idea what was happening. I mean,

00:27:13.80
Jaime G 
I couldn't figure out how to unmute myself.

00:27:17.44
Tony Sisk
right

00:27:18.55
Jaime G 
I was playing with people and I kept on texting him saying like, yo, know I don't know what's going on, but you know, just be patient with me because I don't know what's up with this game.

00:27:30.31
Jaime G 
And Holy smokes, man, that this is, this game has gotten my attention in a really positive way. Um, And if I may say this, I've shared that this game to me 100% does not feel like a Call of Duty game.

00:27:54.04
Tony Sisk
Definitely not. It is not a Call Duty game.

00:27:55.67
Jaime G 
And I, it exactly.

00:27:56.45
Tony Sisk
You cannot play this game like a Call Duty game.

00:27:59.75
Jaime G 
and And I mean this in a, and I say say this in a very positive way. It's like, if you're picking up this game and itd be like, oh, watch me. um watch me use all my Call of Duty experience and play this game, you are in for a big awakening as soon as you play your first match.

00:28:22.82
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:28:23.15
Jaime G 
um

00:28:23.83
Tony Sisk
Running and gunning does not work because you would die.

00:28:26.28
Jaime G 
No.

00:28:27.67
Tony Sisk
You die instantly. I'm like, if they can see you, they will kill you.

00:28:30.36
Jaime G 
ah I've had people screaming at me like, this is not Call of Duty, man. Don't play it this way. that Like, we're defending.

00:28:41.74
Jaime G 
Defend.

00:28:44.38
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah, exactly.

00:28:44.89
Jaime G 
Right.

00:28:45.42
Tony Sisk
And even like it really, if you want to win, like, like, It's about winning the game modes, right? Depending what game mode you're playing, it's about winning. that It's not about like trying to dominate the board by yourself, right?

00:29:03.16
Jaime G 
Right.

00:29:03.68
Tony Sisk
With killstreaks and stuff. There are no killstreaks. You're not earning points or kills toward killstreaks.

00:29:07.77
Jaime G 
I remember that that that game. I was like, wait, are there no killstreaks in this? What the heck?

00:29:14.31
Tony Sisk
Nope. There's no killstreaks. oh The kills are something you accomplish yeah that you have to do on your own. but ah But... Yeah, it's ah it's a team-based game. like even

00:29:33.10
Tony Sisk
Even though it's a team-based game, that the there hasn't been a lot of people flaming each other. I know it's like With Call Duty, it's like all you hear is people just attacking people, you know, verbally and stuff like that with how they're playing or what they're doing.

00:29:48.89
Jaime G 
Oh, yeah, the toxicity.

00:29:51.78
Tony Sisk
It's its it's so toxic.

00:29:52.11
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:29:53.68
Tony Sisk
That hasn't really been, i haven't seen a whole lot of that in Battlefield, um even though it's more of a team-based game, right? And usually, like, If you come on there and you're just bad, like nobody's like, oh, dude go find something else to play.

00:30:07.94
Tony Sisk
you Because you can do something else to help your team, right? You don't have to be the debt top of the scoreboard because you're the best killer.

00:30:12.85
Jaime G 
Yes.

00:30:20.76
Tony Sisk
you can be You can play your role. and help, right? Like you can play support and you can help hold a point because you're healing the guys and keeping them up, right?

00:30:26.97
Jaime G 
So true. Right.

00:30:33.58
Jaime G 
right

00:30:35.04
Tony Sisk
Even I was playing a match and I didn't feel like we were going to win. It was a breakthrough match and didn't feel like we were going to win. We were getting pretty low on tickets and I pulled out the UAV.

00:30:53.48
Tony Sisk
the ua The little scouting UAV that the recon class comes with.

00:30:57.37
Jaime G 
Right, right.

00:30:59.62
Tony Sisk
And I flew that sucker up to the top of the hill where all the enemies were. And I just started pinpointing every single guy, you know, with a ping, which is like, you see all those people on your map.

00:31:13.71
Tony Sisk
And that map is crucial, right? Because that map is really like what makes you more effective is seeing where the enemy is.

00:31:22.40
Jaime G 
Yeah, situational awareness.

00:31:22.59
Tony Sisk
And and you could, you could literally see, i like while I'm flying the little scout UAV, I'm literally seeing the people on the ground. React to the fact that I'm pinging to these people right like they were hunting the guys down right and moving in in ways that you could tell that they had the advantage in that situation and we won the match right um And it made me feel like we won that match because I did simple something as simple as just fly that UAV up there and ping everybody.

00:32:01.56
Tony Sisk
Right? I know dudes had to go and actually, you know, kill the enemies and do it. But I felt like I had a significant impact in that situation.

00:32:14.71
Jaime G 
yeah

00:32:14.72
Tony Sisk
Just like taking on an enemy tank, right? you're you're looking to try to get a side shot or a rear shot and you might be the only person that if you take out the tank that's that's a huge impact that you're impacting the game with so it's like there are moments where you can feel like uh the hero right um but it's just a uh

00:32:38.51
Jaime G 
Right, right.

00:32:44.08
Tony Sisk
And it's just it's just a really good system, you know, that they have set up. Yeah.

00:32:51.78
Jaime G 
Now, it's not without its faults. I'm going to kind of jump in here. i I will echo the things you've shared, the sentiment, the gameplay. There's a bunch of things that it does well, and I really want to recognize that.

00:33:09.23
Jaime G 
Where I think I've struggled with, and this is ah ah a real significant struggle for me, is the fact that every once in a while, like I find it so hard to level up weapons.

00:33:22.26
Jaime G 
I find it very hard to level up my characters. um and some, I need to share this video with you. Like somebody posted this video, like what my experience played in battlefield six is. And like you, the guy falls down and dies and he's like, all my squad is around me, but nobody will revive me.

00:33:43.11
Jaime G 
And then I was like, I completely agree with that. And then there was another one one where he's like crashing a helicopter. He's like crashing my helicopter. Cause I have no idea how to fly this.

00:33:55.35
Jaime G 
Um,

00:33:55.74
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:33:56.79
Jaime G 
That hasn't happened to me because I haven't flown a helicopter, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't agree with it the moment that I do.

00:34:08.27
Jaime G 
and and And at some points, this game is, I mean, it's not a Call of Duty game, and I think intentionally my mind was wired for Call of Duty.

00:34:20.76
Jaime G 
And, um man, I was playing with you this one evening, and I remember that I was like, what? No no skills, no this, no that, no killstreaks. And then, ah ah man, I'm still, I could still laugh about this, but the we were playing with Isaac and silence.

00:34:39.59
Jaime G 
And I was complaining. i i remember, I totally remember. And I said, it takes forever to reload this gun.

00:34:51.66
Jaime G 
And he's like, have you ever reloaded a gun in real life?

00:34:59.50
Jaime G 
ah like I was like, no. He's like, exactly.

00:35:03.99
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:35:07.98
Jaime G 
ah But I don't, even the people that ran, like I'm playing with people that I've never in my life played with before. And I think that's cool.

00:35:17.11
Tony Sisk
Right. Right. Yeah, I mean, sir i will say and there is a here's a learning curve to the game.

00:35:26.67
Jaime G 
Yeah. Yeah. ah yeah

00:35:27.92
Tony Sisk
I feel like I can jump into of Duty match have not having not played in a year, right? And after, like, a couple hours, be back up to speed, right?

00:35:42.46
Jaime G 
yeah

00:35:43.17
Tony Sisk
You know, um

00:35:46.86
Tony Sisk
in this, like, in Battlefield, like, there's a real, like, learning curve to the weapons and stuff, like, like, I was using a sniper rifle last night, and man, I'm like,

00:35:57.42
Jaime G 
Oh, yeah.

00:36:02.02
Tony Sisk
I'm trying to adjust for some bullet drop at the ranges. And I'm like, how can I get better at this? And I just, it's just, you have to just continuously use it and use it and use it and use it and use it until you, you get it

00:36:13.19
Jaime G 
ah Remember those matches and that I was like so adamant about getting like sniper vifer kills because that was like one of the daily challenges for me?

00:36:22.52
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:36:23.16
Jaime G 
and i And I was just like screaming like, I can't hit these guys. But finally, at the end, if I remember, I was like, hey, you know what?

00:36:28.76
Tony Sisk
ah

00:36:34.23
Jaime G 
When you finally hit somebody and you get the head shot, I tell you, it's so satisfying.

00:36:43.35
Tony Sisk
ah Right?

00:36:47.09
Jaime G 
After like 50 fails in one match.

00:36:50.30
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:36:50.99
Jaime G 
and And you get the one and you hear the helmet cracking.

00:36:54.69
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:36:55.15
Jaime G 
You're like, yeah, I did that.

00:36:56.94
Tony Sisk
But there are similarities in the two games. Like, ah you know, learning the maps, you know? like You're going learn what areas are going to give you an opportunity to get an angle on somebody.

00:37:03.57
Jaime G 
ah That's always, that that always happens, man.

00:37:12.60
Tony Sisk
right so like I just discovered, like I can't remember if was one of the city maps or whatever, and you' see so these there are these white vans that are parked in the street in a lot of places.

00:37:13.00
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:37:25.89
Tony Sisk
And they have their back doors partially open. Right? I discovered like, wait, I, if I position myself behind this van, I can literally see, see through the crack of the door out the front windshield, right down the street.

00:37:46.48
Tony Sisk
And I can fire on these guys and they don't even see where I am. I'm like, this is awesome because every time I get killed, i mean, not every time, but I die so many times to a guy, I don't even see where they're at.

00:37:59.58
Tony Sisk
It shows me like a replay spot and i'm like i don't even see where this person's at

00:38:06.17
Jaime G 
Yeah, um I do miss sometimes the replays, man. I really do.

00:38:11.07
Tony Sisk
right so i'm like it's learning the the this to the spots on the map where you can get an advantage because that advantage is so important but yeah i'm enjoying the game a whole lot

00:38:27.73
Jaime G 
Oh, oh, totally. I mean, i am definitely thinking that. This has been such, such a treat ah for me coming into this game.

00:38:42.49
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:38:42.74
Jaime G 
Didn't know what to expect. I said, okay, air everyone's hopping on this bandwagon. Let's jump on, right?

00:38:50.06
Tony Sisk
Yeah. And as you go along and you play the game more and more and more and more and you get a better feel for it and and learn the secrets and all that stuff, it's like then you then you you start having like better scores and stuff. like The object is like, oh, to be the biggest contributor to the gameant team's win, whatever. so with What is your favorite mode?

00:39:14.27
Jaime G 
Okay, i I have started going, I don't care what the mode is. I look at for the the ones that say that it's a 10-minute match. day There are some that are 20 to 40 minutes, if you're lucky.

00:39:28.48
Tony Sisk
Most of the Conquest maps are in that range, right? They're pretty long games. um I like Breakthrough.

00:39:33.95
Jaime G 
yeah

00:39:39.58
Tony Sisk
that's where in breakthrough you're moving and you're trying to capture typically two points, right? It's like conquest points where you can capture and then the other team can capture them back.

00:39:46.43
Jaime G 
Right.

00:39:51.99
Tony Sisk
If you don't have anybody there to defend it. And once you capture the second point in the sector, um it closes the sector down. And then anybody, any of the enemies that are still in the sector,

00:40:04.75
Tony Sisk
You have to hunt them down and and kill them before the next sector opens. Right? So then you, and there's, I don't know, typically three sectors or four sectors on depending on what map you're playing on.

00:40:19.47
Tony Sisk
So that's a breakthrough. That's probably my favorite. but And something similar is called Rush. And Rush is where you, if you're the attacker, you're,

00:40:31.29
Tony Sisk
It's the same, but instead of capturing a point, you activate like a comm station and there's a timer.

00:40:37.91
Jaime G 
Right.

00:40:38.61
Tony Sisk
And then when it runs down, it blows up. And the other team, the defenders can come back and ah deactivate what you activated.

00:40:45.46
Jaime G 
And like reclaim it or disarm it, right?

00:40:47.24
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So it's similar.

00:40:48.38
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:40:50.66
Tony Sisk
think those are typically on a little bit smaller maps and breakthrough. game time a little bit quicker.

00:40:57.61
Jaime G 
I don't know.

00:40:57.64
Tony Sisk
so I like those.

00:40:58.09
Jaime G 
They they say 20 to 40 minutes. and

00:41:01.13
Tony Sisk
They feel quicker, though. ah I don't feel like there's as much armor in play in some of those Rush matches.

00:41:11.03
Jaime G 
Right.

00:41:11.03
Tony Sisk
like um And the armor can really make things, can really swing the momentum of a team either way. Let me tell you, oh, man, oh, gosh. Let me tell you this game i was playing last night. it was It was Rush, and it was on the map that's in, like, the Mountainous Valley.

00:41:32.82
Tony Sisk
And I jumped in the tank, like an M1, and I was the gunner. not Not the main cannon, but like the machine gunner.

00:41:40.89
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:41:44.74
Jaime G 
The little machine gun that's on top.

00:41:46.65
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so I'm operating that. And the other guy's driving and operating the main gun. And he's cautious, right? So it's like... And like everything, it's best to be cautious.

00:41:58.92
Tony Sisk
So he's cautious, is waiting for infantry support and all that stuff. And, you know, back and going up and pulling back and going up and back until he made a break for the flag on like the second sector or third sector we're on, the furthest flag, right? So you had...

00:42:16.87
Tony Sisk
One flag that was closer. And then one flag that's further back. He went for the flag that was further back. He drove the tank off like down straight down the hill. All the way to the bottom. And then went like toward the second flag.

00:42:32.96
Tony Sisk
And we killed some guys defenders on the way up there. And he pulled the tank right. up to comm station, right? And I'm thinking, I'm watching this. like i know a ah know this is the area is clear.

00:42:47.37
Tony Sisk
um And I'm thinking, okay, if he pulls the tank all the way up to the comm station, I'm going to jump out. I'm going to activate the comm, right?

00:42:57.32
Tony Sisk
So he does that. I jump out. I go activate the comm. Well, he also jumped out to activate the comm.

00:43:06.00
Jaime G 
yeah okay

00:43:06.50
Tony Sisk
Right? And when I saw that he jumped out and tried to activate after me, I knew it was a fatal mistake.

00:43:17.00
Tony Sisk
An enemy player came up and jumped in the tank while we were both outside of the tank. And he started, that other player started to whoop our butt, man.

00:43:29.69
Tony Sisk
hey Because ah the defenders weren't supposed to have a tank. There was no tank um for the defenders in this particular map for them to have.

00:43:39.92
Jaime G 
right

00:43:39.98
Tony Sisk
We gave them a tank.

00:43:40.46
Jaime G 
right so They got the power up.

00:43:45.39
Tony Sisk
They got the power up because we gave them our tank. um And I'm like, oh, no. And that guy, whoever, the guy that took the tank, King Texas or whatever his name is,

00:43:59.62
Jaime G 
Oh, a shout out to him.

00:44:00.07
Tony Sisk
He held that right flank with that tank, man. Because nobody, I don't guess anybody was really equipped to go anti-tank. Because there's not supposed to any tanks.

00:44:12.18
Tony Sisk
So I ended up switching to an engineer so I could use my RPGs. I died like five times trying to kill this guy in his tank.

00:44:21.32
Jaime G 
yeah

00:44:21.36
Tony Sisk
But finally, me and ah another Bradley rolled up for us, and we both managed to take it take this a tank down. We ended up winning the game, but I thought for sure that we had done like a critical error and cost us the game because like this guy was could nobody was killing this guy, and he was holding down that right flank with that in one tank.

00:44:46.54
Jaime G 
um Oh, Tony, one thing this game does amazingly well versus the last Call of Duties that I've played is, since you're talking about the tank, right, it's the this environmental destruction.

00:45:05.09
Jaime G 
It is just like, wow.

00:45:05.23
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:45:07.02
Jaime G 
Sometimes I decide, I'm like, I'm going to go hide in this house. Well, some dude will come up with a tank or an RPG or something.

00:45:18.05
Jaime G 
And theyll this house is just like blown apart, man. The floors are falling apart. The ceiling's coming on top of you. Several times I've been like, what is going on? Like there's just too much destruction.

00:45:33.45
Jaime G 
But it's fun, man.

00:45:36.45
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:45:37.04
Jaime G 
You're thinking you're and inside of the house where, you know, most and and in your normal Call of Duty game, the only thing that breaks are like windows.

00:45:37.20
Tony Sisk
with it Well, right.

00:45:47.13
Jaime G 
No, not here, my friend. Everything is fair game.

00:45:51.23
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I got killed the other day. ah was running along the street and somebody blues top of a building off. And ah the rebel fell down on top of me and killed me.

00:46:05.04
Jaime G 
Yeah, i I know the feeling, man.

00:46:06.17
Tony Sisk
Uh-huh.

00:46:08.20
Jaime G 
And was it you that I was playing with that I was like running behind you and I said, and I saw that they you're you you basically wiped, like you you died.

00:46:22.15
Jaime G 
And I was like, oh, I'm going to revive you. But your body had like flown and landed on top of a building or something. I don't

00:46:31.71
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:46:32.82
Jaime G 
i don't know if it was you or maybe it was Isaac. But I was just like, there's no way that I can get up to where he's at and not die.

00:46:41.90
Tony Sisk
Right. Well, I mean, I think it kind of goes back to, i mean when you were talking about earlier about like being surrounded by people and not getting revived, like one, it's hard to see.

00:46:44.25
Jaime G 
So.

00:46:55.72
Tony Sisk
sometimes when somebody's down behind you so like if we were all on headsets or in comms you could say hey turn around and revive me but a lot of times you're surrounded by people that you don't have communication with and also I've noticed this more often than not when you go to revive somebody you're dying yourself

00:47:08.27
Jaime G 
Right.

00:47:16.19
Jaime G 
Oh, dude. Dude, for sure.

00:47:19.68
Tony Sisk
So you have to make sure that the enemy is gone before you can actually revive.

00:47:24.74
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:47:24.73
Tony Sisk
And that's your whole thing is just go and revive. Like if you're a support guy, if you're a support guy, all you have to do is do the defibrillator and it's instant revival.

00:47:27.57
Jaime G 
You have to slide and tap, man. if Yeah.

00:47:34.56
Jaime G 
That's what I'm saying, slide and tap. Bam.

00:47:36.76
Tony Sisk
But if you're trying to go grab somebody out of the middle of the street and drag them back to cover. Yeah.

00:47:41.88
Jaime G 
Are you dead?

00:47:42.92
Tony Sisk
Yeah. You're dying. Yeah.

00:47:44.74
Jaime G 
Yeah. now no No questions asked. You're you're done.

00:47:49.25
Tony Sisk
Right. So yeah, there's a time and a place. Usually there's more options out there's not a time.

00:47:58.84
Jaime G 
See, and this is and this is kind of what what I'm really digging about Battlefield 6 is that it's fun. and And you know what? Honestly, in Call of Duty, sometimes when when you're playing with random people,

00:48:12.42
Jaime G 
I would just like shut off the microphone and I don't want to hear people about complaining or, you know, just, you know being toxic. I've had such a fun time with just like people that I can't even talk to too man.

00:48:26.40
Jaime G 
Cause there's some people who have managed to like break the sound barrier, if I may, they like you don't have to be talking to them but you know, they got your back.

00:48:36.00
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:48:37.15
Jaime G 
It's a weird way to explain it, man.

00:48:37.29
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah. Right. And you kind of want to be that player, right? You want to be the player that has like doing your job or doing something to help, you know, another player.

00:48:46.02
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:48:51.90
Tony Sisk
like ah Like the thing with the UAV or being on the spot with the heels.

00:48:57.18
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

00:48:57.56
Tony Sisk
Right. um And that's so critical. Like holding a point it can come down to somebody who's just healing people.

00:49:08.12
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:49:08.35
Tony Sisk
Right. Because it's like

00:49:08.89
Jaime G 
I mean, you're not giving away points is really what but you do at the end.

00:49:11.56
Tony Sisk
right ah The only issues I've had with the game is some of the spawns can be kind of crazy. I have noticed that they have improved.

00:49:22.65
Tony Sisk
So ah they have addressed, I think they have addressed some of the crazy spawns where it to puts you right in the middle of the enemy team.

00:49:30.74
Jaime G 
It's, I'm, the last time I was playing, it's happened to me.

00:49:30.90
Tony Sisk
ah

00:49:38.16
Jaime G 
Or, or you know what, the opposite actually happened to me where I was playing and then like, all of sudden, two, do two random dudes, opposing team just spawned in front of me and their, and their backs are facing me. I'm like, pop, pop, down.

00:49:52.51
Tony Sisk
that happened in one of my games. I'm like, uh, two you guys just spawned right in front of me and like, you know, easy enough. lot of times I, I'm not quick with the reaction. Like what color uniforms are we wearing?

00:50:05.03
Tony Sisk
but Is that the, I will say, I wish there was more of a distinguishing thing with the uniforms. Cause sometimes I'm like, like there was a, a game I i was playing and that's like,

00:50:19.33
Tony Sisk
There's like five of us on the same team. Right. And we're all like, you know, shooting up the hill.

00:50:22.13
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:50:24.56
Tony Sisk
And then there's this guy right, in right in the middle of us. And he's like going the opposite direction. And I'm like, I just shot him because i was like, something was off about it. Right. So I shot him. I'm like, it was an enemy because he gave me the points. I'm like, oh, that was an enemy.

00:50:44.02
Tony Sisk
He's like, he what was he doing standing right here in the middle of us all and not killing us, right? Like he he like was running through to get behind us. And then ah just like, oh, you know, I've learned my lesson.

00:50:57.86
Tony Sisk
Anything that looks odd, I'm shooting.

00:51:00.71
Jaime G 
yeah Yeah, I know i know that. So that that is one thing I do miss on on a Call of Duty is the fact that all the characters looked very... Is is the word unique?

00:51:13.16
Jaime G 
Different?

00:51:14.30
Tony Sisk
Well, you have the nameplates, typically, that are different colors, right?

00:51:19.37
Jaime G 
Uh-huh.

00:51:21.34
Tony Sisk
I don't think...

00:51:21.80
Jaime G 
But, I mean, they they just...

00:51:22.68
Tony Sisk
Does in Battlefield, do they have nameplates? They don't have nameplates. Only your teammates have nameplates to you.

00:51:31.10
Jaime G 
Yeah, and it's it it really looks really different. like I feel like there's no customization to your characters.

00:51:40.83
Tony Sisk
No.

00:51:41.98
Jaime G 
Everything everything is like the same.

00:51:44.73
Tony Sisk
Well, I will say there is customization. It's just that you have to do so many challenges to unlock them that, yeah, like getting different characters and stuff like that that are dressed differently and stuff a little bit differently.

00:51:55.06
Jaime G 
you Even play the campaigns.

00:52:04.61
Jaime G 
who

00:52:04.63
Tony Sisk
Like, you remember I told you the other day, I'm like, um ah had I was trying to get like repairs on vehicles, right?

00:52:15.48
Jaime G 
Yes.

00:52:15.76
Tony Sisk
And it said, oh, need 5,000 heals, right, for to unlock this achievement. And I'm thinking, I'm like, I went into a game and I started healing this.

00:52:24.86
Jaime G 
Yes.

00:52:28.60
Tony Sisk
I mean, started repairing every vehicle I could get close to whatever. and I'm like, and I'd look and I'd say, man, I'm not getting anything.

00:52:38.59
Tony Sisk
I just misunderstood the challenge. The challenge, when it said, 5,000 heals,

00:52:46.83
Tony Sisk
Heals means heal 5,000 separate vehicles.

00:52:55.00
Jaime G 
oh

00:52:57.62
Tony Sisk
Right? Because I looked and I was like, it says I have four out of 5,000. I'm like, I'm like, then it hit me.

00:53:05.27
Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:53:08.75
Tony Sisk
i'm like, that means repair 5,000 vehicles. that means repair

00:53:11.99
Jaime G 
i was yeah

00:53:13.79
Tony Sisk
five thousand vehicles

00:53:14.16
Jaime G 
i was I was trying to do one with that was like get brave vibes on teammates. And it was like, there's no way that you can do this because you know who were just talking like if you're going to revise something you're dead.

00:53:31.21
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:53:31.55
Jaime G 
um So I've been like slowly getting points towards that one whenever I accomplish it I'm just going be like so happy man.

00:53:37.48
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:53:40.49
Tony Sisk
Yeah, and these are like the class or weapon objective ah unlocks and stuff. they're They're like...

00:53:46.33
Jaime G 
yeah

00:53:48.49
Tony Sisk
They're significant. like These are like... how much How long is it going to take me to repair 5,000 vehicles? many games? Like... how many games like

00:53:59.03
Jaime G 
Right. Like some some of these challenges, man, you got to be committed to.

00:54:05.84
Tony Sisk
Right? And I'm like, I'm like level 29 right now. Right? And it's like,

00:54:13.65
Tony Sisk
i I was in like several squads last night where I was the highest level player.

00:54:18.02
Jaime G 
Dude, 29, man, I'm like in 18. Yeah.

00:54:22.81
Tony Sisk
And I'm like, man.

00:54:24.53
Jaime G 
I wasn't here this weekend. That's probably where I lost ah lost a couple steps against you.

00:54:30.20
Tony Sisk
Like, I think like,

00:54:33.31
Tony Sisk
there So there's customizations, just like the weapon customizations, right? You have to level up the weapon to unlock the different attachments, right?

00:54:40.20
Jaime G 
oh Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

00:54:42.33
Tony Sisk
It's like, well, it takes a while. Like, you can level up a Call a Duty weapon in, like, no time.

00:54:48.86
Jaime G 
Absolutely.

00:54:48.86
Tony Sisk
And this? This is taking a while. Like, I'm...

00:54:52.69
Jaime G 
Absolutely. Call of Duty, i can hop in and match a zombies or shipment or rust, like something that's close quarters, and you just come up with like a really powerful weapon right out right out the gate.

00:55:08.59
Tony Sisk
Yeah. But, you know, it's like they didn't, there's no, yeah, there's not, the customization is very basic when it comes to like at least a character customization, which is cool

00:55:24.89
Tony Sisk
that it takes some effort to get these things. And I think there was like a debate, because I remember in 2042, I don't, I didn't, I don't remember like how you got like skins and stuff like that but like everybody was kind of going to the call of duty model or the fortnight model like where you would just buy your skins and stuff like that so it's like so you want to look different you could just buy some ridiculous skin and i know in 2042 the customer it got ridiculous like people were running around in bunny rabbit outfits and stuff i don't remember for a like a for a game that's supposed to be rooted in like

00:56:05.82
Tony Sisk
like actual battle simulation. he So they got heavily criticized. So it's like, it looks like they've learned learned a little lesson there and they went back.

00:56:17.02
Tony Sisk
ah

00:56:20.14
Tony Sisk
But like they have been rewarded with the number of sales that this game has gotten. like I think it was, is it 7 or 12 million copies have sold?

00:56:33.82
Jaime G 
I saw that. I saw that somewhere. I thought it was like and it was like 10, maybe the last time I saw it, but it's selling, right?

00:56:46.51
Tony Sisk
Yeah, and it's at the $69 price tag.

00:56:47.08
Jaime G 
And right and ah the other day i was I tried to log on to Just Play, Tony, and it said, you can't log on your player your number 3600 queue. I was like, what? What?

00:57:02.72
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So Battlefield 6 has sold... I'll use a past tense here. Over 7 million copies in its first three days.

00:57:14.62
Jaime G 
yeah and this is two, weeks were we're two weeks out.

00:57:17.21
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Now we're two weeks out. So this number has gotta be, I think I, it's gotta be way higher now. Um,

00:57:25.46
Jaime G 
Yeah, and and obviously word of mouth, everybody, this podcast, we're going to drive its sales numbers up like crazy too, right?

00:57:35.47
Tony Sisk
right.

00:57:38.32
Tony Sisk
Yeah. It's the highest sales number ever for the franchise. Uh,

00:57:45.53
Tony Sisk
Which is pretty crazy because there wasn't a big lead up to this game, right? Because it was just like, here's a trailer. All of a sudden, I think it was in July, ah trailer dropped. And it got some hype.

00:57:59.93
Tony Sisk
And then they dropped the betas like, you know, in August and it's like, Oh wow, this is just coming out of nowhere. And, um, yeah, I mean, it's a financial success, right?

00:58:11.27
Tony Sisk
It's 7 million copies in three days. It's probably 12 million by now. Like I said, think, I think I heard that 12 million somewhere, but, um, that's a huge, that's a huge success for them.

00:58:25.79
Jaime G 
That's a big number, dude.

00:58:25.87
Tony Sisk
I mean,

00:58:28.45
Tony Sisk
Yeah, in that short a period of time.

00:58:34.09
Jaime G 
Now, I mean, um um I'm liking it. I would recommend this game to anybody. ah Fortunately, I lost this weekend because i was I had to go to like a family's soccer thing.

00:58:50.65
Jaime G 
which was not a good idea. i mean, I would rather stay play, but that's neither here nor there.

00:59:01.26
Tony Sisk
But yeah, I mean, it's great.

00:59:01.55
Jaime G 
But yeah.

00:59:05.46
Tony Sisk
It's cool game. um Before we we sign off, did you you didn't get a chance to play...

00:59:14.32
Tony Sisk
Well, first, before we finished Battlefield, I recommend in Battlefield 6 for a shooter. it It's not... like If you like Call of Duty and you want to get your Call Duty...

00:59:28.97
Tony Sisk
That's great. I mean, they're not the same type of shooter, right? You know, they're like, you can own both. I think you could, you you still want to get your call to fix. You could definitely play call duty and it's a separate type of a play style. So yeah.

00:59:44.87
Tony Sisk
It is what it is. Though I don't like the... I haven't liked what I've seen of this year's Call Duty and of the trailers. So there's that. ah But I recommend Battlefield 6.

00:59:58.35
Tony Sisk
and And think as more people play, um to more people on our friends list get more and more people in there. We can squad up maybe some private matches or something. That'd be pretty cool.

01:00:11.66
Tony Sisk
And we didn't even talk about

01:00:15.28
Tony Sisk
the one feature of the game that's really like innovative, which is allowing people to create their own customized battle scenarios and stuff, right?

01:00:27.05
Tony Sisk
Like people built shipment, which is a Call of Duty staple, right?

01:00:27.79
Jaime G 
Yes.

01:00:31.54
Jaime G 
I haven't found it, man.

01:00:34.02
Tony Sisk
I have to find it.

01:00:34.78
Jaime G 
I have not.

01:00:34.90
Tony Sisk
i haven't really actively searched for it, but that was the thing. Like people somebody created the shipment map in Battlefield. So, there There is that.

01:00:47.99
Tony Sisk
So that gives it longevity, right? So you can come up with some different different things. But I recommend Battlefield 6. Give it a try. Or jump in and and play it.

01:00:59.94
Tony Sisk
ah There was a game I played over the weekend while you were in Knoxville, wherever you were for the soccer tournament. um

01:01:07.94
Jaime G 
Gatlinburg, man.

01:01:09.51
Tony Sisk
Gatlinburg. So...

01:01:11.32
Jaime G 
Knoxville was halfway there.

01:01:14.79
Tony Sisk
There is a game coming out on October 30th called Arc Raiders. It's going to cost, I think, $39 on all platforms.

01:01:24.03
Jaime G 
why I keep hearing about this game.

01:01:24.25
Tony Sisk
And it, right, it is an extraction shooter. So they had their final beta this past weekend called their server slam.

01:01:38.33
Tony Sisk
So they wanted everybody to jump on and and test their servers, basically see if they can hold up. um So I played it this weekend and I will say I am very, very intrigued by this game.

01:01:53.48
Tony Sisk
Basically the premise is it's the future post it a postapoculytic future. future. Humanity has been driven underground. The service of the Earth is basically basically under the control of, i i don't know, like robots or some sort of super AI.

01:02:14.82
Jaime G 
so so So Gears of War is just backwards.

01:02:18.47
Tony Sisk
Right, so...

01:02:22.83
Tony Sisk
You are a character that has taken refuge in the city called Spirinza, I think. And...

01:02:32.05
Tony Sisk
the object of the game is for the city. The city sends out raiders or individuals who are not afraid to go to the surface and scavenge for resources to bring them back to the city.

01:02:45.76
Jaime G 
Uh-huh.

01:02:45.95
Tony Sisk
um So you, that's what you do. You go to the surface and you, uh, there you scavenge for loot and The object is to get to the extraction point, which there are multiple extraction points on the map, but they're all on timers.

01:03:06.43
Tony Sisk
So they'll be closing down basically in sequence. And the longer you stay on the map, obviously, the better rewards you could probably get.

01:03:19.40
Tony Sisk
And then you go to the extraction point.

01:03:19.73
Jaime G 
Okay.

01:03:21.81
Tony Sisk
It was kind of like that Call of Duty mode DMZ. Remember that? We played that.

01:03:26.28
Jaime G 
I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:03:27.44
Tony Sisk
that It's like that, right? so it's not Well, it can be squad-based because you are able to squad up, I think, ah for a couple other people. But think DMZ from Call Duty.

01:03:40.35
Tony Sisk
And so you go up, ah get the loot, and if you run into other player teams or individuals, they can kill you and take your loot, right? And then you're done.

01:03:51.12
Tony Sisk
Okay.

01:03:51.80
Jaime G 
That's totally DMZ. Dude, no. You just... ah ah plate People ruin games, man.

01:04:01.86
Tony Sisk
Well, I don't know. I really enjoyed it. It was definitely a fun experience. You got back down to the city. You turn in your loot. You have a skill tree where you can put points in to make your character better.

01:04:21.28
Tony Sisk
You have all your character customizations. It's kind of got a battle pass system, kind of like Helldivers. um And then

01:04:32.52
Tony Sisk
yeah like but your own room or space that you're supposed to be able to modify or something like that but it it sounds it played pretty good i i really enjoyed um the time i spent playing the beta so i'm probably going to pick this one up just because it was it was pretty cool actually and i would think i would prefer i i mean Especially you like solo play, baby.

01:04:57.57
Tony Sisk
ah feel like it's more of a solo play game, but I could be wrong. I haven't squatted up with anybody, but it felt pretty good.

01:05:01.09
Jaime G 
Yeah.

01:05:03.72
Tony Sisk
as ah It's just kind of like wandering around the ruins of civilization and, you know,

01:05:10.01
Jaime G 
So who's who's attacking you? Just other players?

01:05:14.34
Tony Sisk
Well, ah so you have these like UAVs that are flying around and that is controlled by the enemy AI system. that They haven't put a name to it, so you don't really know who it is, who who the big enemy is that everybody is against.

01:05:33.08
Tony Sisk
And he has certain varieties of like Sentries Sentry bots and stuff like that That will come Hunt you down or or guarding areas And stuff like that so You deal with them and then You don't want to encounter and ah Other human players because Usually the first reaction is to shoot first Like there would be players I'm sure that would not shoot you if Maybe wave at you and Say, hey, we're all here together.

01:06:03.60
Jaime G 
now that

01:06:05.09
Tony Sisk
But you know that's not going to happen because I'm to shoot them first.

01:06:05.76
Jaime G 
No, but

01:06:08.69
Tony Sisk
Ask questions later. ask questions later

01:06:10.71
Jaime G 
you are you are totally noob in gaming if you're thinking that.

01:06:16.63
Tony Sisk
right That's not going to happen. People are going to shoot you if they see you because they want your loot.

01:06:18.64
Jaime G 
No. Yeah.

01:06:23.54
Tony Sisk
Fortunately, you can store...

01:06:23.56
Jaime G 
Mm-hmm.

01:06:25.37
Tony Sisk
like i like this feature. is like You go in with a free loadout. like You can choose to kick in Take the loadout that you've earned, basically.

01:06:36.91
Tony Sisk
you've pet you Stuff that you've found, you've upgraded, you've paid, yeah or you've paid to and then upgrade or whatever. that would That would be your loadout, right?

01:06:48.11
Tony Sisk
You can use that or you can use a free loadout. The free loadout just generates you ah randomly generated loadout the computer just gives you randomly, right?

01:07:01.15
Jaime G 
isn it

01:07:01.56
Tony Sisk
So there's no loss if you go up and you lose that loadout because there's nothing really special there. But with the customized loadout, they have what's called a secure pocket. And a secure pocket is you put your best item in that and that ah and that slot,

01:07:16.03
Jaime G 
Oh, and you get to keep it probably.

01:07:18.18
Tony Sisk
yeah and if you die you don't lose it so that's it's a it's a spot for an item that you don't want to lose yeah

01:07:24.37
Jaime G 
So. So you and I played DMZ once a couple of times. And I remember that the AI was hard. It was really hard. I remember that day that the characters could go and revive their own characters.

01:07:40.39
Jaime G 
That was just like, what? What's going on? um But I remember playing DMZ with a buddy of mine. and And several rounds, dude, several rounds.

01:07:55.07
Jaime G 
We went, we did whatever we needed to. We would try to exfil. There were human players just camping at the exfil sites.

01:08:04.87
Tony Sisk
Right, yeah.

01:08:06.10
Jaime G 
And usually there are like some wide open areas and these people would be like hiding in like a high ground or places where you're just like not thinking about this.

01:08:15.45
Tony Sisk
Right. That's why I'm thinking like I'm just grabbing myself and I'm going to... Well, in TMZ there was only... Were there multiple Exfil sites?

01:08:26.78
Tony Sisk
like There are multiple Exfil sites here.

01:08:28.04
Jaime G 
Yes, yes. It's just there were multiple.

01:08:29.62
Tony Sisk
they So just go for one that's leaving earlier.

01:08:34.35
Jaime G 
but but But the thing is that people were camping.

01:08:34.99
Tony Sisk
don't know.

01:08:36.55
Jaime G 
And so you've done you spent a lot of time trying to survive, fill do some of the missions. And when people just gun you down as you're trying to leave, man, you lose faith in humanity.

01:08:51.56
Tony Sisk
Right. Well, this is type game. So I'm going to buy it though. I think i'm um'm it was really good. i What I played, I really enjoyed, even though it's going to set me up for ah bunch of anger.

01:09:09.96
Tony Sisk
So.

01:09:10.44
Jaime G 
It set me up for a bunch of anger too, Tony.

01:09:13.38
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Are you going to get Ninja Gaiden?

01:09:17.72
Jaime G 
ah I don't know. i might it's ah It's on my wish list, but because of...

01:09:25.38
Tony Sisk
It dropped today, didn't it? is it tomorrow?

01:09:27.20
Jaime G 
yeah yeah I think it's... Was it today? I thought it was like Thursday this week.

01:09:32.97
Tony Sisk
ah thought I thought it was on the 21st. That'd be tomorrow, right?

01:09:37.20
Jaime G 
I guess tomorrow.

01:09:37.22
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:09:39.10
Jaime G 
I mean, I'm expecting solid the gameplay, very poor story.

01:09:45.87
Jaime G 
I mean, intruding in true Ninja Gaiden fashion, right? I just described every every every entry. I don't know.

01:09:51.88
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:09:52.38
Jaime G 
i um I told you that earlier that I might want to set an example here for for the kiddo. um Playless kind of thing.

01:10:04.62
Jaime G 
So I don't know.

01:10:04.68
Tony Sisk
Gotcha.

01:10:07.85
Tony Sisk
Okay. All right. Well, fortunately you got that switch too. You can take to work with you. Just kidding.

01:10:16.68
Jaime G 
yeah Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's true, right?

01:10:24.49
Tony Sisk
All right. Well, I think that's all I got for this week. But yeah, Battlefield 6, Ghost of Yotai. Man, we got some good games right now.

01:10:36.42
Jaime G 
I told you, man, September September I do have to go to Tsushima.

01:10:36.71
Tony Sisk
And I have Ghost of Yotai on physical discs, so I can loan it to you. Did you ever play Ghost of Tsushima?

01:10:44.42
Tony Sisk
But you haven't played it.

01:10:45.98
Jaime G 
I haven't played it.

01:10:47.26
Tony Sisk
Okay, well you need to play that first.

01:10:49.52
Jaime G 
Yeah, I got it. My backlog is just insane.

01:10:54.96
Tony Sisk
Alright, that's all I got.

01:10:57.93
Jaime G 
Cool.

01:10:58.73
Tony Sisk
All right.

01:10:59.10
Jaime G 
Cool, cool.

01:10:59.39
Tony Sisk
So thanks again for everybody listening to the podcast. Just appreciate you support and listen to the show. And so we saw a nice good bump last week in ah and listens.

01:11:13.62
Tony Sisk
That was nice to see.

01:11:14.59
Jaime G 
Yeah. What was the topic?

01:11:17.38
Tony Sisk
I don't know. ah Last week, the topic, oh, I remember what the topic was. Overall listens. It's nice to see when you get in the hundreds in a week. Right? So,

01:11:29.41
Tony Sisk
um

01:11:29.88
Jaime G 
I was thinking millions.

01:11:31.59
Tony Sisk
oh, I wish.

01:11:34.76
Tony Sisk
But thanks, everybody, for listening to the show. Keep it up. and we got We got more episodes coming your way, and we'll catch you on the next one.

01:11:44.39
Jaime G 
See you, man.