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I'm sensing the Destiny review will be sponsored by Manscaped so that Ralph can say 'The Final Shave'.

29:22 that's my twitch stream! skillup has no idea I've been watching every one of his videos for years, i spit out my drink when I saw it! Thank you guys this is so funny

Okay, Skillup posted his week in review now, let’s see what breaking news comes out within the next 4 hours.

Holy shit, I thought you were serious with Dino Crisis. God damn it, Skillup, you gave me hope and a purpose for a second just to take it away and I will never forgive you for this.

Let me use Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant (not a bad job at pronouncing that at all btw Ralph), to teach you why German words are so long sometimes. It's because that word is actually 4 words combined into one. Planet = planet, Verteidigung = defense, Kanone = Cannon, Kommandant = Commander. So instead of saying "Commander in charge of the planetary defense cannon", we just combine nouns to make it one word. Works with pretty much everything, which is why you keep seeing long German words on the internet, that actually don't make sense or no one would use. Like Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant, who would actually be called Artilleriekommandant = artillery commander

GRRM doing everything he can to avoid finish Winds of Winter

Hey just a correction, Deck Nine is the studio making the new Life is Strange, DontNod made the first LiS but Deck Nine has been making the sequels

Honestly that pronounciation of Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant was pretty damn good. The accent was noticable of course but I would have understood that without much trouble even without being able to read it on screen.

Once Human actually had like, 5 or 6 betas already and i think its pretty solid

Ralph, Once Human has had a few betas now and it looks really good. I played the first beta and loved it. Didn’t have time for the second one though. It’s definitely been tested and I think it’s going to surprise a lot of people!

It is Wednesday my dudes !!!

Ubisoft: "There are worlds in our past that need monetising, Expect remakes"

Correction on the Zenless Zone Zero exclusivity to Epic. Hoyoverse have a standalone launcher and the game plus other Hoyoverse games are available non-exclusively to Epic.

Definitely agree about Space Marine 2. All the gameplay I've seen (even in THIS video!) I keep seeing frame drops, and that's just for the single player stuff, can't even imagine how multiplayer is. And with people cooling off on helldivers, they might move on to Space Marine to get their bug shooting fix. I'm in disbelief they are still choosing to launch in a few months rather than just delay it. Fans have been waiting over a decade, we can wait a little longer. Alot of people have their first impression on a game be their only impression so I hope the launch goes well.

AC1 needs the remake treatment the most.

Damn, RE7 director for RE9? This’ll be good.

Always looking forward to your weekly recap on gaming news. But I'm surprised to see no mention of Supervive.

What do you mean "Ironically enjoying" Street Fighter movie?

Been waiting for this to drop, my Wednesday just isn’t the same without your show.

Once human did have a demo out where pretty much the whole game was showcased

Dawntrail definitely starts off slow, but does ramp up towards midway. Square Enix had an impossible task of satisfying players coming off the heels of the epic finale that was Endwalker. So Dawntrail definitely won't be liked by all, but for me, damn is it fun!

I am SO BUMMED to hear about that Street Fighter movie. Those brothers were seriously the perfect directors for it >:-/

Oh wow, thank you so much for showing Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant, that is a highlight for us! I love that you went for it and pronounced it, quite well too. It was one of our joys, imagining people doing their best to say it in a language they don't speak. Respect :) Also thank you for the love for Dome Keeper! We are still working on that in parallel, huge content update hitting in july. After that we'll finally tackle multiplayer :D

Just a small note on PVKK, It is a german name, and V in german will be pronounced as F, so Ferteidigung 😊

Will anyone from the SkillUp team cover The First Descendant? I would love to see some objective criticism on it and what better place than here? \o/

Pretty sure Ralph was really proud of that PVKK quick pronunciation 😅

btw, ZZZ is also available on pc through hoyo's own launcher, no need for the EGS

Massive RE fan here- tbh I wish that companies would save these announcements until they have actual content to show us. Even the cinematic reveals rub me the wrong way when there’s no gameplay shown but even that is better than nothing. Still glad to officially hear that something is in the works!

I feel like the Zenless Zone Zero part in upcoming releases had a bit of info just missing that some people who aren't in the know about the game would like to know, such as the fact it is launching on PS5 at the same time as PC, as well as the fact that while it's Epic Exclusive by nature of major PC store platform, you can just download the game from Mihoyo themselves and go through their own launcher (which is yet another launcher, the shock and horror of it all) which I know PC players dislike, but it's a big enough note that should be mentioned since people don't actually need to use Epic at all to play it. Edit: Yea the Epic Exclusive part may not be the biggest issue due to all the people who only use the Epic Store to claim free games that they will never play at all, but it's still misinformation claiming it's only playable via Epic on PC when it isn't, which is the main thing I was addressing. Also yea yea yea "Gacha Game = Bad Game", but both Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail are both gacha games from Hoyo that players have been able to clear endgame content without interacting with the gacha system at all, it just requires a bit more thinking and planning about your teams and builds, so take that as you will. The only actual content one might struggle with if they decide to ignore the gacha system completely is the hardcore endgame mode, which only rewards more gacha currency, so why would a player who doesnt gacha at all, care about more gacha currency anyway?

Don't Nod is not the studio working on Life is Strange 4, it's being made by Deck Nine

For FFXIV/Dawntrail, A LOT of those reviews came out with only like 4-5 hours of gameplay when you are still meeting most of the cast and things are kicking off. Dawntrail had basically ZERO lead in from previous patches (something very common for prior Expansions). So the expansion is required to do way more in the realm of exposition compared to the previous saga which just ended.

Kunitsu Gami and Flintlock are out this month if you are looking for games to play/review. I think they look neat.

I'm surprised about the reception to Dawntrail because it's been explicitly spelled out to people by CBU3 for a year that it would be more self-contained, smaller in scope and more experimental.

Have recently noticed a few small slip-ups like this so I thought I'd say something - Life is Strange is NOT developed by DON'T NOD but by Deck Nine, who have developed LiS: Before the Storm, LiS: True Colors, The Expanse (along with Telltale) and LiS: Double Exposure. DN have no ties with the franchise and Lost Records: Bloom and Rage is not being published by Squenix like Life is Strange, Don't Nod are publishing it themselves.

@SkillUp just an FYI about the ZZZ on PC - Mihoyo has their own PC launcher so Epic isn't actually necessary

I'm sure others have said it, but Once Human most definitely did a ton of public testing for months at a time. Was really good and fun in all those tests and hoping the full release is great too

Best part of my week. Thanks as always Mr Up.

Cricket 24 on Game Pass was perfect timing since Cricket T20 World Cup just concluded last weekend

im german and ur pronounciation of planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant was not bad, just the v was a bit soft and the e´s in planeten were a tiny bit too short. 8/10

Man, you got me with the Dino Crisis AND Onimusha double-fake. I audibly gasped, sighed, gasped, and sighed again 😂

its still so frustrating that capcom determined that players found resident evil 7 too scarya and stressful, like isn't that the point of survival horror. its still my favorite followed by the re1 remake

This month is quite a busy 1 for me. Got first descendant this week, once human next week and stormgate at the end of the month. And Xdefiant has season 1 released this week and then finals season 3 is still going. With my division 2 addiction I still have enough to play this summer

@SkillUp about that controller stat, I recently got myself a really cool new wireless mouse, has all de DPIs, weights nothing, but when I tried to test it, I realized there are not many games that play great with m+k anymore. Most games in my library play vetter with a controller and I don’t know when this happened. I ended ip testing it on Power Wash Simulator, btw.

Guys who play the high-school girl coming of age games need to have thier hard drives checked.

On the topic of FFXIV's new expansion, most of the negative feedback I've seen has been people who frankly had their expectations set incorrectly. We were WARNED that the scale/scope of this expansion would be smaller, so I just don't have sympathy for those who are complaining when it's just that. I've seen so many comparisons to how it doesn't stack up to Endwalker, when the entire reason EW was so good is that there were 4 expansions before that set up the story it resolved. You don't get a Shadowbringers or Endwalker without A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, and Stormblood to lay the foundation. And I'd say Dawntrail lines up fine with the quality of those first 3 expansions. Definitely has its faults, and I'd agree a step down from EW, but not nearly as far of a step as many are implying.

I have now 41,696 games on steam wishlist

Resi 7 on phones?! Thats nuts. What a time we live in.

yeah so having played thorugh Dawntrail I can confidently say that this is the weakest story they have delivered since stormblood. besides the story though we have a good addition of great new combat content and some very cool looking new zones. still I cannot say that I am not a bit disappointed with what was delivered. we got the same amount of dungeons and trials at the same points in progression as always. we got the same dailies and weeklies as always and we are going to get the same raid progression as always. even the class changes were a bit lame especially for the healers which all just got yet another heal at lv 100 with no meaningful dps rotation.

I think the Dead Rising game can be classified as a "Rebuild". It's the same game, just new engine.

I love the frost punk devs. They really said “8/10” isn’t good enough. Love that.

What the hell is Capcom thinking? Everyone wants the Code Veronica remake! Where is it?!

Choice of pronunciation for "ROG" and "GOG" unhinged

Ironically enjoying the original Street Fighter movie? Raul Julia's performance as Bison is still amazing to this day. Rest in Peace you beautiful man.

why would anyone install zzz on epic, when they also have a standalone launcher lol, everyone is going to just do that, just like their other games lol

5:55 - 7:45 Shillup's obligatory weekly Destiny dump segment, so everyone can skip.

ZZZ is an Epic exclusive ??? I had no idea. Fuck. Edit - Nvm, apparently you can just use their launcher.

while ZZZ is a epic launcher exclusive, you can just also install it standalone (a standalone launcher), or through the new combined hoyoverse launcher

Zenless Zone Zero is only technically exclusive to the Epic launcher as all Mihoyo games have their own launcher outside of any separate storefronts.

Watching this while not at work feels strange😂

Would love you to add chapters in the future!

If they remaster/remake AC1, I hope they do more than just a visual facelift. I feel like there is so much potential there enhance the story and gameplay, my boy Altair deserves some of that Resident Evil remake treatment

I am not thrilled about the cancelation of the Space Marines 2 beta. I was really looking forward to that to try and get my roommate into it

Resident Evil 9: RE6 Reloaded

Kind of a dead month for gaming. Aside from maybe one or two games coming this month I'm interested in, it's a quiet month.

Spoilers for Assassins Creed Valhalla: Didn't Valhalla basically tell the audience that at minimum AC3 was getting remastered? At the end the consciousness of Desmond was found within a computer, with him working on finding a way to stop the world ending events that killed him and the isu, with no luck. So then layla came alone and said "maybe it's because your death caused a ripple effect. Let's see if the events could stop if you didn't die.", before layla died to stay with Data Desmond to help him search timelines. I assumed that this meant that AC1-3 were gonna be being the remake treatment, not blackflag.

Surprisingly today I didn't notice any news that skipped this week's video

Release date for Trails into Daybreak 2 is being announced on Friday.

this is the only chanel in RU-vid that speak about destiny lol give up skill up no one like that garbage

Dawntrail is a slow burn, but it's also a huge reset. It's a great Final Fantasy game IMO, and I think it sets up a ton of potential futures. I really enjoyed it.

I just wrapped up Dawntrail and really loved it. The graphic update is amazing (love all the new zones), some really cool dungeons and trials, and of course the music is 10/10 as always. The most divisive part seems to be the story, but I really liked it and don't understand where the hate is coming from. Seems at least on par with the quality and pacing of previous expansions, if not better (there was no "Labyrinthos part 2" moment for me like there was in Endwalker). Oh well, people are allowed to dislike things, I'm just glad it met my expectations and I'm looking forward to the future patches.

Thank God Destiny isn't actually ending. We need it to exist to keep its fandom contained.

Once Human did loads of promotions a beta over Christmas and one that just finished. It's fun game

The First Descendent / ZZZ releasing 2 days apart: Woooo! Skill Up: There are no major releases this month.

Still wish we got a Baldur's Gate 3 Skill Up review 😪

Ff14 dawntrail is really good, in the last 3rd and the reviews are so dumb honestly, those people I assume either skipped all of the cut scenes which I know people for sure did and then complained but didn't pay attention to anything going on, as well as if you only look at the first 3rd of the expansion it's a little slow but it's setting up a whole different culture and nation basically with alot of new characters, and then in the half that I'm in it's pretty damn crazy in terms of story and there is alot of head spinning stuff, as well as I think all of the dungeons and raid fights are really well done. I tend to now a days lean towards 2 out of 3 people leaving reviews have some sort of mental health issues or need to get some other hobbies or things happening in their life sadly. If all of your enjoyment in life comes from a single game or just a game in general you are gonna be mad and angry no matter what

Love listening to this on my commute. Even on a slow news week, you still make this an interesting show!

I suspect that the people who are grumping about Dawntrail are the ones who blasted through the main story and want something to complain about online. I'm halfway through the MSQ, and the vibes are excellent, and not having universe-ending stakes is super refreshing.

Cattle Country just gives me HARDCORE Stardew Valley vibes

Hey, you're missing the Oxford comma in your title. (Yes, you need it.)

Bro, you had me psyched for that Onimusha remake. Curse you, SkillUp!

At least in my region, Prime Gaming is actually giving away Baldur's Gate 1 and not 2 - Also, they'll only be available at 18th and 25th of July

Love black flag but that would literally be the worst one to remake. AC1 and the Ezio Trilogy needs to come first

18:15 This is incorrect. DONTNOD worked on the first two Life is Strange games but have since handed off the franchise to Deck Nine. What's funny about this whole thing is that DONTNOD are delaying their next release to make room for the franchise they created themselves.

This why capcom/fromsoft is one of my favorite companies, there willing to take risk and do ORGINAL Ideas instead constant remasters or only keep churning the same ip aka like cod etc

"You don't walk away from a player base that large and engaged" Halo fans: 😢

Please let RE9 be like RE7 and not like RE8

your german skills reading that title were pretty decent 😂❤

I don't understand all the fuss about AC blackflag. It was a great game. Not really a good assassin's creed. But since ubisoft is on low quality mode for a lot of their games I don't want to see an ugly a** remake of AC II.

idk how but your a mainstay in my household now and im the only one who really plays games, see you next week.

if Ubisoft insists on things like crazy pricing/monetizations and insisting on linking my steam account and using their launcher to play single player games, i'll stick with the older version of the AC games

10:20 - The President of the United States: Guy Beahm

I'm really annoyed that ZZZ is stuck on the epic store on PC, might have to stick with PS5 to give it a try

I plan on plugging my PC into my TV too. If the power supply ever arrives…

No Betas for Once Human?! Skill Up, c`mon ?!

I have a 32" Samsung 4K TV in my bedroom and it's GREAT as a secondary Xbox system that allows me and my friends/family to play Co-op/multiplayer Xbox games without needing a 2nd console.

No more remasters and remakes! New IP please!

I hate you for the .03 seconds I was pumped for an Onimusha remake

When Final Shape review?!

It’s really wild you suck destiny off yet trash borderlands when somehow destiny has worse writing and worse monetization, and that’s hard to do.