Is 2020 The Year of Indies? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.03.20

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Note: This episode ends abruptly during the "You're Wrong" segment due to a technical error. Our apologies! - Blessing. On today's episode, Blessing and Tim answer your questions about The Last of Us Part II's delay and what that means for indies. Time Stamps - 00:08:42 - Housekeeping Troy Baker comes to We Have Cool Friends today! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Al Tribesman, Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:09:58 - There’s a new Final Fantasy VII trailer, don’t watch it. 00:12:02 - The Last of Us II and Iron Man VR have been delayed indefinitely - Jason Schreier @ Kotaku 00:17:53 - I'm writing this almost immediately after the indefinite delay of the last of us 2 to ask this. Why not release it purely digitally? - Best Friends Q:Frankfurtter 00:22:43 - Do you think this will end up being a sort of boon period for digital only games that might otherwise be overshadowed by big AAA games? - Best Friends Q:Anakinjmt 00:26:58 - Xbox also showed off a ton of indies and it got me thinking, is this the best time for Indie games? - Best Friends Q:The Nano Biologist 00:32:38 - Game X Change remains open despite COVID-19 and sends workers debunked health advice - Rebekah Valentine @ GIBiz 00:36:48 - Outer Wilds Wins Best Game at BAFTA Game Awards 2020 - Jordan Oloman @IGN 00:38:49 - Twitch breaks 3b total hours watched in a single quarter for the first time - Rebekah Valentine @ GIBiz 00:45:03 - There’s a fifth Platinum Games Announcement Coming In 2020 - Jordan Oloman @ IGN 00:47:02 - A quick one for Bless: Rogue Legacy 2 Officially Announced - Jonathan Dornbush @ IGN 00:48:37 - Out today Reader mail - 00:56:50 - I got an email from Atari last night, probably because I gave them an email for a game somewhere in the past. They are opening A CASINO! - Shawn Valloric 01:00:25 - As we inch towards the next generation I was wondering are we in for a cornucopia of sequels? - Parker Petrov 01:06:08 - You‘re Wrong Next Week’s Hosts: MONDAY: Blessing and Tim TUESDAY: Greg and Blessing WEDNESDAY: Greg and Gary THURSDAY: Greg and Blessing FRIDAY: Blessing and Greg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Yeah, what's up? Welcome to kind of funny games daily for Friday, April 3rd, 2020. I'm one of your host, blessing Adioli, a junior and joining me is Tim, Ma, Bion, Getty's.
0:48.0	What's up, man? Wow, Resident Evil 3 day.
0:51.0	Yeah, dude, I don't realize it. That's crazy. I'm very curious to see what people think about this one.
0:56.0	Yeah, me too. Me too. I think that the general consensus of the people playing is that they're going to enjoy it quite a bit.
1:04.0	Yeah, I think it's going to be a lot of people that are very vocal about how much they love this game.
1:08.0	I think that some of the hardcore fans of the original can be really vocal about how upset they are about how much was cut from the original game.
1:16.0	Was there a lot cut? That's a conversation we didn't really have too much of.
1:20.0	Yeah, we kind of held back a little bit by some embargo stuff, but no, that's up.
1:25.0	Yeah, there was like a whole, there's a boss fight, a pretty major boss fight cut and a dungeon, essentially, that was cut.
1:33.0	However, in my opinion, those were good, good cuts, good emissions, because that boss fight was not fun.
1:39.0	Oh, and the original? Yeah. I feel like this game kind of made the right calls with where it cut things, but it does end up, you know, as we were talking about in our review, that you can find on youtube.com slash kind of funny games.
1:50.0	It kind of just feels weird that it's a $60 title that would be over in between five and seven hours for all of us.
1:58.0	Yeah, I have a feeling that people are going to be generally positive on this game, like seeing the reviews, seeing how split the reviews are.
2:06.0	We were so wrong.
2:07.0	Knowing that the people who are going to buy this game are going to be fans of Resident Evil.
2:12.0	Like I have complaints as somebody who's coming into the franchise at Resident Evil 2 remake, but still, I feel like every company is this game with the expectation set, right?
2:24.0	You're still going to have a good time.
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