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Gary Whitta

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3877 total appearances

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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

When I was a kid growing up in the UK and it was all, like, Spectrum and Commodore 64, Ultimate Play the Game were... I guess kind of like the Rare of... Remember Rare's Golden Age? They were the guys. I mean, they made all the best games.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

We don't. Because a lot of people don't know their history. I think it's only when the Rare Classics Arcade compilation came out, and I was very glad to see they did include all of the old Ultimate 60... All the old Ultimate player games. Saberwolf, Nightlaw, Underworld, Jetpack, Attic Attack. Um, Lunar Jetman.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

We don't. Because a lot of people don't know their history. I think it's only when the Rare Classics Arcade compilation came out, and I was very glad to see they did include all of the old Ultimate 60... All the old Ultimate player games. Saberwolf, Nightlaw, Underworld, Jetpack, Attic Attack. Um, Lunar Jetman.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

They've been at this for so long.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

They've been at this for so long.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

Yeah, I mean, they were, like, the insomniac of the Nintendo for that era, right? Or Naughty Dog. They were, like, the... the biggest third-party developer.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

Yeah, I mean, they were, like, the insomniac of the Nintendo for that era, right? Or Naughty Dog. They were, like, the... the biggest third-party developer.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

Best console game as well. Which I was glad to see. Oh, on a personal note, guess what? Is that my Helldivers news? I'm going to hit the level cap today.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

Best console game as well. Which I was glad to see. Oh, on a personal note, guess what? Is that my Helldivers news? I'm going to hit the level cap today.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

I don't know how long it takes other people. It took me almost a thousand hours. I had 980 something hours played in that game. So I was going to play... I actually briefly came out of streaming retirement early this week to play some of it because I could see I was going to hit the level cap. I should do it on stream just for fun. I haven't streamed in ages. So I put my stream back together.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

I don't know how long it takes other people. It took me almost a thousand hours. I had 980 something hours played in that game. So I was going to play... I actually briefly came out of streaming retirement early this week to play some of it because I could see I was going to hit the level cap. I should do it on stream just for fun. I haven't streamed in ages. So I put my stream back together.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

And last night I was playing off stream and I was like, I'm at level 149 right now and I can tell there's a little sliver of XP left, but the next mission is gonna ping me. And so, after I get home later today I might stream some this afternoon and we'll hit the level cap.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

And last night I was playing off stream and I was like, I'm at level 149 right now and I can tell there's a little sliver of XP left, but the next mission is gonna ping me. And so, after I get home later today I might stream some this afternoon and we'll hit the level cap.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

I play mostly on PC. Sometimes I play upstairs in the living room, but until they add cross-progression for the PlayStation 5, I'll run it via Steam Link, and it runs beautifully.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

I play mostly on PC. Sometimes I play upstairs in the living room, but until they add cross-progression for the PlayStation 5, I'll run it via Steam Link, and it runs beautifully.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

No, I really don't care about trophies or achievements. They don't mean anything to me.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

No, I really don't care about trophies or achievements. They don't mean anything to me.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

I've got the same vibe. I didn't want to bring it up because I don't want to open that door. But it does feel like a lot of the people who love Black Myth Wukong are the same people that downvote other games for being too woke or whatever. You know what I mean? I feel like there's a bit of an overlap. Are we touching on dangerous territory here?

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

I've got the same vibe. I didn't want to bring it up because I don't want to open that door. But it does feel like a lot of the people who love Black Myth Wukong are the same people that downvote other games for being too woke or whatever. You know what I mean? I feel like there's a bit of an overlap. Are we touching on dangerous territory here?

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Black Myth: Wukong is 2024โ€™s First Game of the Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.22.24

And you see that with the Star Wars fandom, you see it with all over, right? A few rotten apples in the barrel can really stink up the whole band.