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Sacred Symbols, Episode 399 | Step Back From That Ledge, My Friend

🕑 Added 2026-02-20 17:00:24 +0000 UTC

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Jacob Lesperance

Dustin... I hear you about the snot sucker. The mouth one us the best, the bulb one dosnt always get those boogers

Titan

Sons of Sparta is a game that does get better with time cause it has the usual tropes all metroidvania have which is the full capabilities are introduce slowly. In the beginning, yes it’s clunky and the combat seems one note until you get all the items + upgrades. I had the same issue with Prince of Persia and actually never beat (I need that damn double jump which felt like it took forever to get). Once people get passed this 2-3 hour mark I think it catches on. But like Collin said it’s just an okay/good game.

Justin Goetz

As someone with three kids that sucked out snot. I can assure you that when you’re in the thick of a sickness that won’t go away for your kid. You will do anything in your power I can assure you and I hate getting sick. Normally (90% of time in my experience) what gets them sick at that age is nothing against a built immune system in an adult.

Bailey Callis

I'm pissed about the bluepoint news, but to play devil's advocate, what if they kept bend and media molecule open because they're working on something worthwhile after all? That's my copium for the week

Subeg

I am a nobody but I’d love to be someone’s backup 🥺

Mark ?️

If the PS6 doesn't have a disc drive, I'd simply jump to PC at that point

RIPIT

Neil Druckmann would be a terrible leader of Sony. He’s already bad at leading his own studio

Jay Bay

As someone that DOES care about achievements, I would never retire from my favorite hobby if I lost mine 😂

Drunk Crusader

As a father of 2 children. Trust me that bulb sucker doesn’t work for shit when your kid is sick and can’t sleep. You will use the sucker that works with ur own lung power … trust me. It’s 1000% more effective

Jose

Fire Hermen.

@mermelman

Host Asmongold, co host Mbkhd and Chase from CATRP crew

Dan Flynn

Have I missed it or have they discussed Crimson Desert and its reveals on the show yet?

Allen Crenshaw

I think girls our age, Colin, are not as into games. My daughters, however are very into games even with me being a bit conservative about playtime. I think it’s more a generational thing vs gender thing. More genres they find appealing these days also.

Wayde

The problem with being locked into a digital marketplace with no competition is they could just charge you whatever they want. I hope you enjoy paying full price for first party games for a decade. Over 85 percent of games on disc are playable without any updates or internet. The elitistism from colin is pretty wild. Not everybody has access to high speed internet, or unlimited funds, or they have restrictions on data etc. Colin obviously has never tried to game anywhere outside of america and it's obvious, by the way, he talks

Aaron

What if Barlogs game is just Atreus\Loki from the GOW games like a GOW but isnt

Johnny Lamotte

Single player games would still work.., idk why Colin keeps saying stuff like that… there would be like 4 yotei’s a year if they weren’t stuck making LIVE SERVICE BS. Lol Nintendo does it. Imagine if Sony made a few E:33’s a year? Thats gold!! There will never be another Fortnite .. I’m sick of acting like live service is the right move. Sony was making bank in ps4 just doing their own thing. If another company does make a fortnite it will be on PlayStation consoles ANYWAYS.

Aaron

Colin goes on about his lack of love for disc based, does he not realise its cheaper to buy disc than on the Playstation store. Why would people wanna throw away good money to a big corp when they can use that money for something else

Hozi

"Some what brisk, 4 hours" 😂

Big Booty Latinas Can Stay

Chris, thoughts and prayers!

Dustin's Avatar Fetish

As someone that doesn't care at all about trophies/achievements, it is wild to hear that Colin would retire from video games if he lost all his trophies. It's a level of obsession and OCD that I can't even comprehend.

Austin Evans

I rarely want to see games fail, but at this pint I’m so annoyed with Sony, I just want to see fair games and hunters gathering fall flat. And yet they still had to get rid of bluepoint

Austin Evans

Big old middle finger to Sony for this one. The ps5 is cool but Sony as a first party studios have been so disappointing this gen. Demon souls has been a great bright spot and somehow they force them to do a live service and shut them down. What a joke

Owen S

I wasn’t thinking that the bluepoint news happened live during the episode so I was thinking the whole time “damn they’re really taking their time to get to this huge news” lmao

Deemac

That's on their closest comparable competitor in the space being a far bigger fuck up in this gen, and overshadowing PS's incompetence. Xbox should have been pushing PS at this point, but they've completely fucked themselves internally and allowed PS to get complacent and for it not to matter much

NeO JD

I listen to the streams after just to hear you guys chillin. Don’t care about the gameplay usually.

NeO JD

They canned Spidey’s MP, they’re not gonna do that to X-Men which would have a worse chance to succeed.

YP-Berserk

They closed BluePoint but Fairgames still hasn’t been cancelled.

Big Booty Latinas Can Stay

“My tastes are pretty impeccable” is a thing Colin Moriarty said on this episode.

Aaron

Getting rid of Bluepoint is so fucking backwards. Hermann needs to go. He has no clue how to run Playstation. Damn they could've give GOW remakes to Bluepoint

Daddy T

You’re a fucking donut man

Big Devin Energy

Colin that Prozzak reference didn’t go unnoticed and the “Milo” reference was muttered by me simultaneously while driving and I died laughing. Way over Dustin’s head hahaha

Big Devin Energy

Nah no propensity either way it’s about influence. I have a 9 year old daughter and she plays everything from Zelda to Pokemon to Persona and Final Fantasy with me and she loves it all. I have a new born son and I’m excited to have and see the contrast.

Big Swingin' Rick

Sandeep and Rhys Eliot for sacred 2.0

Drew B

Talking streams >

Ryan Harvey

I think the audience is more interested in taking livestreams because we are the hardest of hardcore gamers who want to play games instead of watch and if anything just listen while gaming.

Bogey

Colin dude you gotta play Silksong. Silksong did to GOW what TW3 did to Fallout 4. After having played the absolute pinnacle metroidvania that is Silksong, GOW feels absolutely pedestrian in comparison.

Kingston’s Hotep Arc of 2026

Colin is a fake BSG fan.

hey Siri. text my mom and tell her I'm gay

When Herman Hulst says "Rising development costs. Slowing industry growth. Changing player behavior" Colin: it's true. When Phil says the same thing Colin: "well for you guys that's true. Let's not act like this is an industry problem" Colin was right is a thing that gets tossed around a lot and while he is right on a lot, I feel like we really really often brush over the wrongs.

Evan Westendorf

All of what? Genuinely curious what youre referencing.

Tony Fettuccinne

Once again Colin, Roger Moore is the James Bond actor not the guy involved with the God of War project lol.

BigDumbStupidIdiot

Bro, what the fuck is happening??

Evan Westendorf

Man, first the Bluepoint news, and then the Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond exits at Microsoft. These companies are so poorly managed its insane.

KYisLife

The snot thing is gross theoretically but not a big deal with a little baby

Cory Knudsen

If you still want a PS5 go get the Fortnite Digital Edition. It's only $399. You get some free shit for Fortnite that you don't even have to download.

BigDumbStupidIdiot

PlayStation should do what the Jags (a NFL team in Jacksonville) did to Urban Meyer; fire Hulst with cause. Hulst sucks so fucking hard it's actively hurting the brand. Sony has justification to fire Hulst and give him zero severance or payout his contract.

Kony 2012 Fun Run

Sony is lucky they're a platform holder because their dysfunction as a publisher would even make Ubisoft or Embracer blush

Zarathushtra

I love the history talk. I have a BS in Archaeology, minor in History, and a Masters in Psychology, and I have the same thoughts as Colin on academia. The certainty that the scientists and academics speak on matters, as if they were present for the event itself, is actually humorous. Taking Archaeology courses in 2010, the dates on the first peoples in the America's was just being updated, just like Colin said. Academics have so much pressure to "publish or perish" that upending or even challenging the paradigm could have them isolated and barred from promotions or tenure.

Cubes

Another reason to hate the Dutch.

Risen

Colin I highly recommend watching the old frontline doc on the early Christian’s, you can find it on YouTube easily. Fantastic stuff that got me into reading from featured scholars like Elaine Pagels.

Chris

Just wanted to say thanks for the thousands of hours of entertainment over the years. We're just at a point where I can't abide anyone giving of all this a pass, no excuse will suffice. Vote with your wallet.

Trump employs his own personal Dr. Steinman that gives everyone Mar-a-Lago Face

I assume it’s Episode 359.

Hozi

I did not expect family force 5 to come up in an episode 😂

Chaos Zwei +5

I always hated blue point kind of glad they're gone now cosmic justice for the roll they had in raping classic Japanese games

Colins Gay Little Cup

Sony doesn't deserve the dominant position they are in if they are going to make such colossally stupid moves like shutting down Bluepoint.

Hozi

What an absolute fuck up, even if it for the teams to come up with the ideas. But when they are a bit lost, it is your job as their leader (Sony) to show them a way forward.

Trickster Mickster

Hey can someone please share Colin’s original coverage of the Fair Games playtester leak/feedback? He references it pretty often but I can’t find anything on the Patreon or YouTube

MnTwinsfan92

I thought Marathon might survive, honestly I could see people being that petty to boycott that game over this closure as a rejection of any GaaS from Sony

MnTwinsfan92

I've gone down that thought process as well, but land on - your boss approaches you and says they need 12 GaaS titles by 2026, there are ~ 20 first party studios... Just about everyone pitches their ideas. Leadership needed to say no to some ideas and say why don't you work on xyz? Your team isn't built to sustain a GaaS. It just isn't their DNA and I would have loved to see them try their own IP. It's like asking me as a food scientist to go build an engine.

Kyle Day

Who else went to Spotify to listen to some P.O.D? Haha, forgot that they have some bangers

start a infection

Don’t know why I haven’t seen anyone else saying it but bluepoint was the one shut down because remasters/remakes are the most likely to be able to be done by AI, wouldn’t be surprised if the live service god of war was actually bluepoint idea for a strategy to avoid the inevitable

John

How is it POSSIBLE they shut down Bluepoint. They are a UTILITY studio with a specific purpose. There’s always demand for high quality remakes of beloved games. Just get them started on one? Why is PlayStation so fucking insistent on giving us shit we don’t want and not giving us stuff we DO want. You could grab a random non-gamer off the street and he would run circles around PlayStation’s leadership team. Fuck em dude

Vanzant

Colin, don’t worry. They’re going to absorb that talent and put them on creating skins for Hunters Gathering.

Shadi Haddad

My takeaways from the BluePoint shutdown: Bend will be shut down after they release another failed live service game. Insomniac's X-Men game is almost certainly going to be a live service game. Media Molecule hasn't put out a game in a longer span of time than BluePoint. Why are they still around?

Jay Rafferty

Media Molecule must have some dirt on Sony. My god

Borat Sagdiyev

Very Nice!

Trump employs his own personal Dr. Steinman that gives everyone Mar-a-Lago Face

Man, I haven’t thought about or even seen the words Project 86 since 2009. Thank you for reminding me about them. One of those bands I didn’t care for much at the time, but just now checking them out again, I dig it. Think I wasn’t a fan of the vocals back then.

Chaos Zwei +5

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The Rose Experience

Fire Hermen Hulst

Big titty drinker

Yeah good luck Sony trying to get your fanbase not to hate your GAAS plans after the bluepoint shutdown. This is exactly why so many of us are against GAAS. Dear god I hope my beloved guerilla games isn’t next.

Dante B

Long time Frank Turner fan. He can be a bit corny at times I agree but high high recommend on the albums, especially the first 4 or so.

Joshua

Silence is one of my favorite records. If anyone digs Blindside you should check out Truthless Heroes by Project 86.

Jack Wittich

Speaking of stage craft....do y'all listen to Meshuggah? They sync their lights to the chugging of the kick drums and guitars, it's so sick

Millsauce

“Welcome to the CLOSED!”

Colin’s And all the rest counter

And all the rest

Envydiel

Thoughts and prayers to Chris.

Kyle Phegley

Frank Turner is a fucking legend.

Andrew Morgan

Man that’s fucked up (Bluepoint)

BigDumbStupidIdiot

I'm starting to think Sony having its 1st party, single-player focused studios make multiplayer live-service games MAY have been a mistake and Hermen Hulst MIGHT not know what he is doing. (This is sarcasm. The LSM audience knew from day one degeneratively gambling on GaaS was fucking stupid and Hulst shouldn't even be in charge of planning an office Christmas party.)