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That's Okay Man, 'Cause I Like the Abuse | Sacred Symbols, Episode 373

For prospective PlayStation 5 owners, America's new tariff regime has struck at a most inopportune time. Having carved through their backfill of PS5 units in America, and seemingly moving at least some of the console's manufacturing process out of China, Sony still has to foot the bill to import the machine. A $50 increase across the board -- on standard and Pro units alike -- has led to much consternation. What do we think about the whole situation? Beware: It's impossible to talk about this issue sans politics. Plus: Hollow Knight: Silksong gets a surprise release date in literally two weeks, storied 'closer' Rod Fergusson joins Cloud Chamber to help ship the beleaguered fourth BioShock, Triangle Strategy randomly launches on PS5 (but not PS4) three years after its Switch debut, long-time studio lead Pete Parsons leaves Bungie after more than 20 years, PS3 JRPG Tales of Xillia is finally being remastered, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! Is there a desire for more modern and grounded military shooters? Should Guerrilla abandon Aloy as Horizon's protagonist? What's our hype level (if any) for Borderlands 4? Is Dustin's hometown well and truly haunted? Follow the hosts! Colin: https://x.com/longislandviper Chris: https://x.com/ChrisRGun Dustin: https://x.com/DustinCanFly A new episode of Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast launches each Friday morning. To receive instant access, as well as other perks, please support the show on: https://www.patreon.com/LastStandMedia 0:00:00 - Intro 0:31:02 - Is Last Stand in trouble? 0:50:48 - Car totaled while listening to Sacred 0:53:46 - Our relationship with comments 1:13:53 - PS5 price increase 2:16:15 - Silksong release date 2:30:21 - Gamescom announcements 2:41:04 - Ghost of Yotei is getting a Legends mode 2:47:44 - Helldivers 2 x ODST 2:54:24 - Rod Fergusson is moving to Cloud Chamber to save Bioshock 4 3:09:49 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launches November 14th 3:17:18 - Triangle Strategy is out on PSN 3:21:10 - Tales of Xillia Remastered launches in October 3:27:34 - Callisto Protocol sold 6-7 million copies 3:28:26 - Sony unloads EVO shares to a subsidiary 3:29:54 - Bungie leadership change 3:38:13 - What We’ve Been Playing (Doom: The Dark Ages, MindsEye, Mafia: The Old Country, Battlefield 6, Indika) 4:10:16 - Is the podcast parasocial relationship unhealthy? 4:17:20 - Is FPS culture shifting? 4:23:14 - Hype level for Borderlands 4 4:28:29 - Killing Alloy 4:32:55 - Spouses interrupting game time 4:38:06 - Colin doesn't play driving games because he doesn't drive

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Anthony Palerino

Never stop the song lyric titles. I don’t get most of them because I’m 25 but it’s fun when I do notice them!

Born-Blind

luckily my politics fall square in between Colin and Chris. I also enjoy hearing new perspectives and ideas. Being challenged is good for you even if it makes you a little uncomfortable sometimes.

Dualshocked Your Mom

Offspring fired their original drummer because he couldn't get the covid 19 shot due to a medical condition.

Born-Blind

I agree with Chris about the changes to the medic class in Battlefield 6 however the player base is starting to become accustomed to the new mechanic and the timer based system that they have in place. I'm seeing more and more that people will give that 30 second timer at least 20 seconds before skipping to go ahead and respond. It's not a perfect system but I do think that as the player base adjusts it annoys me less and less. As someone that mainly switches between combat engineer and medic I'm super excited for Battlefield 6 to launch. I've got tons of old school Battlefield friends that are coming back, some of them haven't played Battlefield in over 10 years.

LastStandMedia

No, their original drummer is Ron Welty, and he left after Conspiracy of One. They jettisoned their third drummer over COVID. -Colin

Germanos

Ehh, Colin again with the Bungie talk... Who does know more about how to make the games and keep them running? The guys who didn't join creative meetings for the past 5 years or didn't see code for at least 10? Sure. They bought the company for THEM, and their fat paychecks. Sure.

Germanos

For those interested in Indika: check out the Noclip Crew Cast, where I think Jeremy played it and talked about what the game is actually about.