The First Berserker: Khazan’s Ben Starr Joins Us! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.21.25
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Who is Ben Starr and what’s his official title?
Today's stories include, is Steam coming to Xbox? A split fiction movie is in the works and Adam Fall reviews are in. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Friday, March 21st, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Blessing, Addy Elliott Jr., and joining me is the first Berserker, Ben Starr.
Thank you so much. That's my official title. I always wondered how you do the cold open.
Oh yeah, we just go for it.
You flew through that.
Thank you. It's really good. I pride myself in 95% of the time getting it. And then there's that 5% where I just flub it like crazy. Yeah, but you've got to style it out. You've got to like... You're a voice actor. You're a performer. Since when? You're an actor. You're an artist, right? So, you know, I think there are those days where you might just not have the energy or you might just not have like, you're not as sharp as you are on your peak days. And every now and then I wake up and it's just a random Tuesday where I try to read a thing and it just doesn't go my way.
It is so embarrassing when you have those days. where you think you're absolutely it and you just biff the whole thing. You just strip over yourself. I get nervous now because I'll go. You get nervous? I get very nervous.
I get very, very nervous. I saw your GDC Awards performance from a couple of days ago.
People are calling that a performance. Yeah.
It was incredible. I mean, listen, it was a performance to me, David.
I didn't see that back until you guys showed it back to me. And I went, oh, no, what did I do? I think I reacted to, I think Stella posted something on X about it.
Yeah.
Thank you so much. Thank you, Barrett. Thank you. Stella posted something on X and I went, oh God, did I really do that? I just, I blanked out and then I just ended up presenting the award.
I watched it. So I'm assuming Tim showed that, played that back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw it. I saw it and I went, oh, okay, cool. Because I did add it to the doc here and I was like, ah, Tim's probably already doing it and so I'm glad I didn't double dip. But I did watch it back like 10 times this morning. Wow, thank you. Yeah, just because I was like, this is such a, Ben, let me tell you, I admire the fact that You know, I became aware of you after Final Fantasy 16. Much of the gaming world, I think, became aware of you after Final Fantasy 16. And you've done the thing that I always dream of. It's the Eminem lyric of, if you have a shot, take it. That's not how the lyric goes, but that's essentially the energy of it, right? You were put on the map, and then from there, you're like, I'm going to show the world who Peak Ben Starr is. Yeah. And you were just that over and over and over again.
Yeah. And I love every second of it. Thank you so much. I love it. I love video games. I love the community. I listen to you guys every day. I love... being able to engage with a community that has given me so much. So I'm staying in this sandbox. People have given me a playground and I just want to stay there. I love that when they asked me to host the Golden Joystick Awards, I went, cool, but I want to make it weird. And I think that's cool. I'm trying to kind of be almost shamelessly authentically myself. And if you like it, great. If you don't, I totally get it. There's other people.
What I think works about it the most, though, is when I see you, when I hear you in games, you're often these very serious, very gruff characters. We're going to talk about the first Berserker Kazan in a second because, of course, it is GDC week. That's the big reason why you're here, right? You're here showing off and talking about the first Berserker Kazan. Yep. Which I guess while we're here, we do have a clip.
We do. We've got a first look, which is just a really cool trailer. I mean, there have been a lot of First Berserker Kazan trailers come out over the past week or so. But this is, I believe, called the Masters of War one, which we play Bob Dylan over the top. I play Bob. I'm Timothy Chalamet. No, it's just a really cool trailer and a really cool game.
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