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Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

#367 | Here We Go, Down That Same Old Road Again

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies, Games

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 262 minutes

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Summary

If you're tired of The Last of Us, well, it's really too bad. That's because Naughty Dog has updated The Last of Us: Part II yet again, this time with a so-called Chronological Mode that orders the game's chapters and subchapters sequentially. It's easy to mock this many updates, of course, but in reality, is Sony going above-and-beyond in keeping some of its older games alive? Shouldn't we applaud the years-long dedication to not only The Last of Us, but to God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone, Horizon, and others? We discuss. Then: Twisted Metal's second season on Peacock gets a new trailer, STALKER 2 is finally confirmed for PlayStation 5, Final Fantasy IX Remake may be in trouble, Capcom acknowledges Mega Man, and more. Plus: Listener inquiries! If we could only play a single game-as-a-service, which would it be? Could gaming be entering a more serious phase, as the industry finds itself fused more with education? Is it crazy to play sequels without having experienced the original? What are the percentage odds Colin is on the precipice of becoming a Kingdom Hearts superfan? Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:25:36 - Favorite color and number0:26:16 - Furries0:35:30 - Hot dog advice0:48:36 - Sacred vernacular0:53:57 - Fawn-ta0:58:34 - Kingdom Hearts Stockholm syndrome1:05:21 - Upcoming Games list1:07:14 - Last of us Part II Chronological mode1:18:00 - Twisted Metal Season 21:22:34 - STALKER 2 is coming to PS51:28:26 - Is FFIX Remake canceled?1:38:32 - Capcom comments on Mega Man1:48:25 - SAG-AFTRA strike is over1:57:14 - The industry's statement on Stop Killing Games2:13:08 - New PS+ Games2:23:42 - May Circana2:30:55 - May PSN sales2:37:01 - PS4 Firmware update2:42:39 - What Are We Playing? (Death Stranding 2, Peak)3:15:17 - Gaming attention span3:28:38 - Picking one live service game3:33:23 - Sequels that clicked3:39:15 - Does our jobs make us enjoy games less?3:51:11 - New concurrent player count record3:59:35 - Video games in education Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Greetings and salutations, welcome back to Sacred Symbols a PlayStation podcast. This is episode number 367. My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my son Chris Ragan. Chris, good to see you today, my friend. How are you? I'm good. You know, it's another day. Got up early, went for a little walk, got some coffee. It's good. No complaints. It's one of these days where it's just kind of like, yeah, this is a no complaints kind of deal. Wow. Nothing exceptional. Nothing bad. Just exactly as minimally interesting as it needs to be, which is good in my view. That's nice. I don't think I've ever not had a complaint. So that's an interesting mentality. Good for you. Good. Good to see you. Dustin Furman, executive producer, good to see you today, my friend. How are you? Good. I am, well, I was talking to you, Colin, about Holly's gone this week.

1:13.8

And so I am the lone, well, human in this house.

1:15.0

I have frisk with me, of course.

1:20.0

And I've never lived, but I lived by myself for like a month before I got married.

1:21.8

And it's the only time in my life.

1:27.2

It's the only time I've been alone, uh, like without Holly in our marriage in this house.

2:52.4

I've gone away on trips without her, uh, but she's never gone anywhere without me. So, you know, I've just been hanging out with Frisk. I bought a few days, like, I don't know, over the weekend, I bought a key lime pie from Sam's Club. I've just been chipping away at that all week. Yeah, that's kind of been the thing that's keeping me going is the key lime pie. Yeah. Cool. So. Cool. Yeah. I'm doing fine, though. You're a single man this week. Single man. Yeah. A hot dogs for dinner. Nice. So definitely keeping it real. You know, I have no food for tonight. Absolutely none. Uh, we didn't go shopping before she left. And I don't want to do that, uh, which we do grocery pickup anyway. So it's not like I am forcing her to go to the grocery store. Oh, you, you have, you pick it up. Yeah. Yeah. We do the all the pickup. Oh, interesting. Yeah, I don't like trusting all the. I guess it would work because they have like one of everything. But in my experience doing that at like a safe way back in the day or like publics here in the South, it's like the replacement stuff and they just don't do it right. And you see all the stuff about people complaining that they want women to be able to do this because women are way better. Have you seen this this conversation about it? I believe it. So there's like this whole thing with Instacart where it's like people get really fucking disenchanted and disappointed if they get a man. Because they seem to be so much more careless and there's like entire threads on it. And stuff. It's so funny. I got to, Micah does all the shopping. But like when I would, I, when I lived here by myself, I would get some things delivered, but really shopping in person is, is the nice premier experience

2:58.1

in my right.

2:59.6

Yeah.

3:00.4

Yeah.

3:01.0

Some of the, sometimes Aldi pickup, you're right.

3:04.4

It is mixed because I've had situations where it's like, I want chicken thighs. And I put the one chicken thigh, whatever. They have like a few selections. They have like regular organic or some other bullshit. You pick one of those. They're like, oh, we're out of those. Sorry. And that's it. And then they don't replace it with anything. Or they don't even offer because they're supposed to send you a text that's like, Would you like to select a anything or they don't even offer because they're supposed

3:24.3

to send you a text that's like would you like to select a replacement they don't even offer that

3:28.1

so I go and pick up the fucking groceries and then I have to go in the store and they have fucking

3:33.7

chicken thighs it's just not the exact one I selected I'm like you have a whole system for this

3:39.3

what are we doing here yeah it's frustrating What are we doing here? Yeah, it's

3:41.6

what are we doing? It's frustrating. So, uh, dude, the other thing that, dude, this, this pisses me off.

3:47.5

This is like my Karen level anger, uh, boomer anger is that there are four slots for a grocery pickup in

3:54.6

front of Aldi. And so they're in theory. You Should never be anyone parked there that isn't in a car because you should be waiting there for the pickup. Right, right, right. These motherfuckers, though, there's people parking there all the time. There's one time where there's only one spot left and I thought, I need to pick up groceries. And what if all these fuckers here

4:14.2

are just parking here like, oh, it's no big deal. I just got to run in and grab something.

4:18.8

I don't care. This is not for you. Right. Why is everybody entitled to something? Especially when

4:23.5

they're clearly not entitled to that spot. That's what you get for supporting a German company,

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