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Monster Hunter Wilds DOMINATES Steam Charts Despite PC Issues - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.28.25
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the main news of the day?
Today's stories include Monster Hunter Wilds has climbed the Steam charts, the final Minecraft trailer is here, and Pokémon DCG Pocket has surpassed 100 million players. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of funny games daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Friday, February 28th, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Blessing, Addy Oye Jr.
Joining me is the master of hype, Snowbike Mike. Good morning, Bless. Happy Friday, big dog. No, give me a better one. There we go. That's better.
That's better. Bless, happy Friday. It's great to be with you. Great to see you. How are you feeling heading into the weekend?
Ich fühle mich gut. Ich denke nicht, dass ich diese Woche so viel auf KFG war. Ich denke, dass ich heute energisiert bin. Ich bin bereit, über die Nachrichten zu sprechen. Du hast gestern die Pokémon Direct gemacht. Du hast es nicht am Montag gemacht.
Nein, weil ich auf Dark Souls war. Du bist seit Montag hier. Es ist verrückt, weil ich am Montag und Dienstag auf dem Assignment war. Also hatte ich einen extremen Trip.
Du warst in Magikon und dann warst du woanders. Und jetzt bist du wieder da.
Das ist verrückt, Bruder.
Yeah, I've been here the whole week. I've just been chilling, doing my thing. Me and Bear have been spending time together.
Spending time together is nice. Welcome in. Thank you so much for having me on the show. I'm excited to talk some video game news with you, Bless. I feel good. I'm looking good. It's Friday. Monster Hunter Wilds is out. Me and Greg are just going to stream it all day long.
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Chapter 2: How is Monster Hunter Wilds performing on Steam?
Du solltest Mythic Quest sehen. I've been watching it. I need to start. I haven't started the season.
It's in season right now, so I'm watching it. This season is better than the last one.
I agree with you. I didn't dislike the last one, but I liked this season a lot better. We're back to the good stuff.
You know, Bless, we're going to talk about it on Monday for Mike and Nick in the afternoon. We brought up Magic the Gathering and Anime. I saw TikTok. People talking about the most unattractive hobbies men can do when dating. And I'll tell you, Magic and Anime, 6 and 5. Let me tell you, where's gaming at on that list?
Surprisingly, not on the list. Interessant. Das ist, weil jeder Games-Out ist. Wenn ich sage, ich spiele Videospiele, werden Leute denken, er spielt Madden. Ich sage, nein, nein, nein. Er spielt GTA oder NBA 2K. Nein, nein, nein. Ich spiele Outer Wilds. Ich streiche das Ding aus.
Was ist das?
Comic-Bücher. Nein. Was seltsam ist. Das ist seltsam. Ich denke, das ist nur ein... Weil du lernst. Ich finde, dass man inhaltlich attraktiv lernst. Ich bin nach Hause gekommen um 1-2 Uhr. Ein paar Wochen vorher. Ich bin nach Hause gekommen, Mago Haim, ich sitze auf dem Kühlschrank, lernst. Und ich dachte, das ist der heißeste, den du je gesehen hast, mein Bruder. Oh, wow.
Ich dachte, wir sollten alle lernst. Wenn du attraktiv sein willst, hol dir ein Buch.
Hier ist ein verrückter. Funko ist auf der Liste. Ich verstehe das. Ich glaube, wenn man Funko Pops sammelt. In der Box oder aus der Box? Ich meine... Einer. Wähle deine Wahl.
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Chapter 3: What are the PC performance issues with Monster Hunter Wilds?
I always turn to Andy Cortez and of course Digital Foundry for the vision and the know about, hey, what should I be looking for? Is this running the way it should be optimized in the way that I as the consumer want it? I think as a consumer, you should be mindful, right?
If it's not running up to snuff, if it's going to give you poor performance and you're going to question your 60 to 70 dollar purchase an hour to two hours in, you should definitely be mindful of this kind of stuff. Because, yeah, I want this game to be optimized. There's Vielen Dank. 20, 20 80 and still trying to put together with super glue and duct tape, you know? So, yeah, I don't know.
It depends on the rig. We're kind of blessed here in this office to have the very best. And so I see it on that side. So it's tough. I don't really get to see the worst of the worst.
Ja, das ist eine Sache, die ich kenne, die auf der Entwicklungsseite schwer ist, weil wir alle die verschiedenen Builds und alle diese verschiedenen Dinge unterstützen. Und du hast vielleicht nicht all die Fälle da, wo man sagt, oh Mann, okay, diese Person wird das mit dieser bestimmten Sache mit dieser bestimmten Sache runnen.
Ah, Scheiße, es scheint uns, dass unser Spiel nicht so gut läuft auf dieser Plattform.
I do think that the turnaround on how quick can those fixes be, how much can you communicate with your audience as far as the specific kind of fixes that they're looking for and the stuff that you are prioritizing and the stuff that you think are going to fix the most for the biggest, I guess, priority of people. You need to Get in front of that and communicate very actively in these moments.
I honestly think that's the thing I look at more in these cases than anything else. I think the rough thing as far as, well, why release on PC? Why are you releasing day and date on PC if the PC stuff isn't up to snuff? But then you go back to story number one, those million concurrent players, it's that thing of, well, we're going to get that money, so...
I mean, out of the 1.3, how big of a piece of pie is having issues, right? If you were to break down that 1.3 million, that is on Steam right there. So that's PC players. What portion of the percentage of players is having issues on this? How big is that? And you also, you know, thankfully with Steam, you can refund the game. You can wait for it to be in a better state and then jump back in.
It's day one. Everybody's feeling that FOMO. They want to come in. So you're going to jump in. If it doesn't run well, now you get put up with the question of, You can refund this and stop right now. You can push through and just keep playing. Of course, you're going to wait until it gets patched. Now the question is, how fast can the development team get on this, right?
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Chapter 4: What are the reactions to the Minecraft movie trailer?
Es ist mobil. Es ist, weißt du.
Ja, genau.
Geschichte Nummer 5. Der Direktor von The Witcher 4 antwortet der Spekulation, dass CD Projekt die Gesichter von Ciri verändert hat. Oh nein. Das ist Wesley Himpool von IGN. Der Direktor von The Witcher 4 hat klargestellt, dass ein neues Video die gleiche Endgame-Modelle von Ciri bezieht, nachdem manche dachten, dass ihre Gesichter anders aussehen.
Gestern hat CD Projekt einen hinter den Szenen Blick auf den cinematicen Reveal-Trailer von The Witcher 4 veröffentlicht und Fans haben zwei kurze Clips bemerkt, die neue Gesichter von Ciri nahe ansehen. These clips zoom in on Siri's face as the camera spins around her character model.
The comments are packed with fans highlighting how Siri looks slightly different in the face in these moments that she does in the cinematic reveal trailer itself. One commenter called Siri at the 547 mark the perfect representation of a slightly older Siri. I'm well happy. She looks fantastic, says the quote.
Diese initiale Spekulation schlug in eine Antwort von einigen Körnern der Internetseite ein, dass Ciri in The Witcher 4 schrecklich aussah, basierend auf ihrer Appearance im Reveal-Trailer. Die Antwort auf die beiden neuen Clips war überwältigend positiv von Kommentaren. Und einige Berichte suggerierten, dass CD Projekt Ciri's Gesicht nach dem sogenannten Backlash verändert hätte.
Nicht so, according to CD Projekt Red. Talking to social media, The Witcher 4 Game Director Sebastian Kalemba said the developer had not modified Ciri's in-game model and clarified that these new looks were a snapshot taken before the developers applied the cinematic touches we see in the reveal video. Quote, Quote, we have not modified it.
What you're seeing is raw footage without facial animation, lighting or virtual camera lenses. While it's still an engine, it represents a work in progress snapshot taken before we applied cinematic touches for the purpose of that video.
It's almost like people look different at different angles.
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