I'm your host Max cobalt. This is episode 797 of this very long running show. I'm joined today by Jadie Griffin. That's a 796 episodes to many max. Hey man. That wasn't my idea.

Joining us remotely Colin Colin Stevens. How's it going man?

I'm not how to respond to that. I don't think anyone's ever actually called me Colin before. No call in.

Like calling it. I call it. Colin is calling. Colin. That's like. Well, I mean, there's a lot of people that misspell Cologne. Colin and I love to smell of my partners. Colin.

Really up with this episode going right here going real good. Actually, just fun fact. Me. Whenever I pick up a Colin from a restaurant, it genuinely is a nightmare. Oh yeah.

Even if I'm picking up an online order, I'll be like, oh, I had an online order for Colin and I'm really like. Yeah. What's a new guy named Void who couldn't write checks. They would just always. Anyway, we're going to get into some PlayStation stuff.

There was that big huge final fantasy 16 at state of play last week, which of course got announced literally minutes after we finished recording a big episode being like, what should we talk about?

Dreams has announced it is sort of ending its live service support type thing, which is, well, I guess kind of a recommend for a dream there. We want to talk about some other bizarre PlayStation products that maybe didn't really take off or maybe they did, but we don't talk about them.

And then you know, some stuff is going to be leaving PlayStation Plus. But first one of the biggest things going on right now is dead Island to reviews are up.

This is a game that we've been talking about for almost literally a decade, I think maybe literally a decade. I can't even remember I'm losing track, but yeah, sounds right. Let's call it an even decade.

Let's call it a decade. You know, the first dead Island came out what 2011 it was it was kind of kind of came out of left field. I had this amazing trailer that set up this incredible cinematic experience.

And then it proceeded to be a pretty fun four player co up RPG where you hit zombies in the face with an or or maybe an electrified machete. That kind of thing.

And you got to get that shame Pagna. You got to get you. Yeah.

Champagne. That was one of the most memorable memorable thing was that there was like side quest where you like there was this NPC was like Champagne.

Yeah, Champagne. I can't remember 10 days ago, let alone 10 years ago, but I'll take your work for it. But yeah, I don't know, it's dead Island to it got I played a version of this at PAX 2014.

And it's very weird to sort of be sitting around and waiting for something like this to happen to finally come out. And I feel like a lot of the times we hear about games that have this much time spent in the oven.

And the result is either sort of a just unmitigated disaster out the gate like something like I don't do Nukem forever, which was I think in development for like 12 or 13 years.

Or I mean cyberpunk 2077, which admittedly should have been a development a little bit longer. But dead Island to is getting squarely just good, good reviews, not great, just good seven out of 10. It is like across the board sevens and eights.

Some people love it. You know, few people are a little more sour on it. But it's like 75% on metacritic for both Xbox and PlayStation 73 on PC.

You know, that's I feel like that's that's pretty good. You know, I mean, I mean, I don't know if they could have hoped for better like at this point, like coming out and getting a seven out of 10, like after 10 years of development.

And like, okay, that's that's solid. That is a good enough score where some people will roll the dice and pick it up and play it.

You know, those are the people that are not already sold on it. Obviously, there are some people who've been waiting for this game for 10 years.

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