Hey everybody, and welcome to the Giant BombCast. Happy holidays, Welcome to
the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and twenty. Holy smokes, that's a
fun number to say. The Giant BombCast is powered by nzi XC and I
am your host Chiana Choa Coke Captain of the ship, King of Cozytown Jeff
Grubb. That's right. What number was it? Eight twenty eight twenty,
Yes, smoke them smokee you got him? That's right. You gotta smoke
them twice. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that'd we know. Sorry,
I'm in a math kick this week. Ambassador of Math litigator of the
Smoke Jeff Beckler is also here. It's true. I'm the weeds are we'ed
sezar? Yeah, we I'm wearing our joggers and they're they're really comfortable too.
How comfortable these joggers, Like listen, I am trying to always be
closing clothing and closing. Yeah, but they're really good. They're super comfortable.
I put them on and I was like, well, I'm not taking
these off for like two days. I'm really proud of us. We made
we made these with our hands. Yeah, and they came out really cozy
like, So get yourself some joggers. Pro tip. Definitely tie a knot
in the end of the drawstring so that Detroit drawstring doesn't get like pulled into
the pants. Yeah, that's a jogger pro tip coming in. Just do
that right away. Need that hot, hot, hot jogger strat. Jagger
strats? What's your jogger strat for twenty twenty four? Click blow? We
are underwear under them? Okay, Uh, I gotta backler. I'm gonna
ask you about the code for my thing because I don't think I've replaced an
order. But anyway, that is besides the point. Uh. You can
get your own joggers and other assorta Giant Bomb stuff store, Giant Bomb dot
com. But hey, it's the holidays. This isn't live, this is
pre recorded. What's happening? How is the how is how do you think
Christmas is gonna go? How do you think the Holidays are gonna go?
Oh? By now I'm long dead? Oh shit, oha, wow dark
man, No, it's gonna go great. Let's see what one of people
listening to this? Is it the day after Christmas? Twenty six? Yeah?
Okay, so by then you've had Uh, let's see here. Uh
top ten lists from people like Jesse Fortelli. Go read the one from Dan
Schue that's on the site right now. There's a bunch of great guest lists
on the site. Go ahead and read that stuff. That's more, more,
more coming in the days to come. Yeah, let's Steve Kim.
There's a list of his is on the site. Drew Scanlon, we give
that to you as a Christmas present on Christmas Day, So yeah, go
read those. Read so nice of us that we did that. Yeah,
I think it's really nice of us. We're so nice. And the content
doesn't stop there, folks. More stuff slowly, periodically drippy dropping as the
holiday week progresses as we are away on holiday break. Uh, Christmas was
great. Yesterday, or as I call it, Monday. Sorry, I
just got my double Express, so thank you Staph. Thanks. It was
a lovely Monday. I do not say thank you. I say no,
uh would I? Oh, I will have gone skiing. I'm going we're
recording this, so you're long, Dad. Never mind whoa chill till chilly
bad omens into the first day. If you're guarantees your safety, No,
that hard. I don't go that hard. I'm not like a double black
diamond guy anymore. I'm like maybe single black at the hardest. You you
probably wear a helmet. What do you, of course I wear. I
don't know. In the early two thousands, we absolutely were not wearing helmets.
Okay, we definitely have had this conversation before something happened in skiing culture
where literally, overnight, I'm not joking, overnight, the entire winter sport
community all universally agreed that we were all gonna wear helmets. Like, yeah,
something happened on the Thursday and Friday, everyone on the hill was wearing
that's how we'd in hockey where someone got hurt and like we should have maybe
wear a face mask. I think neck guards kind of overnight are popping up
in a way like that, but not as explicit as the helmets on the
mountain. Like straight up, I think it was a celebrity dying, I
really do. I think like a celebrity hit a treey bone, like someone
hit a tree started, not Spano died and not like we made joggers and
then we killed bottom, no, like something. I'm telling you. It
happened in like six or eight or something like that. And then the next
season, everyone on the hill wearing wearing a helmet. And I also think
snowboarding is also going the way of the buffalo. I think, saying it
back in a big way, skiing's like the people are just like, no,
I don't need to like try to look cool. I still really like
snowboarding. But there was a time where like you didn't ski because snowboarding was
the cool thing to do, And now that's just an absurd thing to think.
Well, it's just a snow Snowboarding is like so uncomfortably inconvenient on a
mountain, Like, yeah, it's cool going down, but like every other
element of like getting up the mountain and all that bullshit. It's like the
hardest thing to do on a snowboard is dismounting from the ski lift. Yeah,
like it's you have to It's an art that literally no one could teach
you. You have to fall down twenty five times, and you're like,
Okay, I guess if I hang my foot halfway off and I keep my
toest here and I dig my heel into the snow a little bit, there's
like an eighty percent chance I'll still be standing when I ski, When I
still work five feet away. It's absolutely crazy. I love you guys are
really selling me on holiday winter sports. Wait, but you don't do any
of that, you know, ski you don't snowboard, you know no,
no, yeah, my body, you're closed to tahoe, You're you're closest
to time. What do you guy saying about this? Snow biking like snow
bike Michael? Apparently that's like a thing where you sit on a bike that
has skis on them and you ride down the hill on Basically it's a bike,
but it's got two little skis for the wheels. Listen, mountain biking
already sounds terrifying. Adding snow and removing the wheels from the equation. No,
thank you. Yeah, what are we doing down and doing extreme sports?
Very much jibs with me. If I could sit down and do anything,
I'm gonna do it. So this sounds like my jam. You know
what's actually fun? Going snowshoeing? Done it a couple of times, snow
Isn't it just walking up a mountain with tennis rackets on your feet? Yeah?
But then like you fall back, you fall back, and then like,
oh man, I could have died in the oh geez, because it's
so deep, Like it's so deep, but your weight's being distributed and everything,
you know, Like I like weight distribution. I do think about that
a lot, how like, hey, yeah, if you're on a bed
of nails, but you put your whole body across it, it's not gonna
hurt. I'm always me too, I really am why I have because it's
weird. I have a cousin who's about ten years older than me, and
he's a big, hardcore like backcountry ski guy, and he's getting a little
up there in age and it's sort of like, I don't know how much
longer I can do like the completely like ungroomed terrain of backcountry hell skiing.
And he's like, yeah, last time I went, they made me carry
a beacon and they said if I fall, and I fall and I don't
know where I am, the first thing I should do is drool. And
I was like what. He's like, yeah, you drool after a big
crash because then you know where the ground is. And I was like,
wait, why drooling for like a of gravity right like you could be that's
deeply upsetting. I do think about like if I suddenly found myself, like
if someone put me in a coma and then and then took me one hundred
feet underwater and woke me. I don't know, And they take me one
hundred fet underwater and woke me up, and I had like no oxygen or
whatever. Would I know which way was up? What? I wouldn't know
which way to start swimming to get back to the surface. That's such a
weird thing because when you're in a coma, you are most certainly breathing.
And yeah, yeah, so like how did they put the face mask on
there? And then they take it off once I was one hundred feet underwater
and they're like, okay, we got them, release release them. Yeah
exactly, And now does he know which way to swim? Is like to
go up? And I'm like, I would probably start panicking before I would
be able to do a thing where like just relax and see which way you
start floating. It would be the path of least resistance to go up,
Like diving would come a lot harder than this to youbackler, then, since
you know what to do, can we do ten feet feet? But at
midnight? All right, that's the best thing. Someone's pool, not the
ocean. Yeah, I found myself on a boat last week that I forgot
to talk about this and it was probably the most honest it was the most
oddest thing in the world. My partner's teacher friends were like, let's go
have a turner on a boat. I'm like, that sounds terrifying. I
don't want to do that. But then I wound up doing it and it
was buffet style, right, And it's been a while since I've been to
a buffet. And seeing people operate at a buffet, I just love I
love it. It's like it's like someone's boat, or it is like a
boat you go to. It's like a boat you go to. I was
under the assumption we would just be on the boat and I was thinking like,
oh, that sounds fun, but then it was a whole bunch of
different groups of people on this boat. It's like a restaurant. H yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah. And man, it's been it's been a minute
since I've been to a buffet, right, and just seeing people just like
the the greed that kicks it automatically, and then seeing people finish, you
know, they go through the line, they get their sal they get their
bread, proteins, et cetera. Et cetera. They'll put their plate down,
they'll immediately line up again and like continue to re feel and restock.
I do that for my kids, and I never would be able to do
it just for myself. But I'm like, okay, I went. I
went up for my kids first, and now I'll go up for me,
and even then I feel bad. It's it's one of the two situations where
a human raw emotion is on display. It is a buffet and also at
a music festival, well, and you're playing lethal company right exactly, the
rawest of human emotions are on display. Where you claim territory, you claim
ground, and you eat like you're never going to eat ever again. Yeah.
Getting your your spot at a music festival is truly is my blanket.
My blanket died is the perimeter of my area. It is now jeff Tonia.
The more the other terrifying aspect of finding your spot at a music festival
are the people that just sit down, right, They sit down in a
very heavily traffic area and like, I don't want to step on you,
so I'm gonna do my best to avoid you, but I'm gonna step on
your blanket. And oh I'm sorry, I may have kicked your drink over,
But then other people know, no, they no care in the world.
We'll just march over where you guys? Where are you guys at?
With? Like when you're walking in a like a crowded sidewalk and you're walking
forward, and you're on your side of the sidewalk, and maybe you're with
friends, but you're you know you're going, you're using up the appropriate mount
of the sidewalk, and then a group of like five people are coming at
you the opposite way. Someone's gonna have to move. I'm at a point
now where I'm like, I'm just gonna keep walking because I know we're doing
like we're on the right, and I'm gonna let them move around me.
But I think there's a time where I would been like, well, I
guess I'll make myself really small and screwed over the side so these people can
be more comfortable. I don't know, where are you guys at? With
that, I'll do either the scoot to the side. I'll I'll also gauge
where I'm going, and if I'm closer to my destination, then I will
take precedent and keep walking, or I'll throw my hands up and be like,
excuse me, and just make a big deal out of it. Make
a big deal out of it. That's good, that's good. I'm now
I'm just like looking straight ahead, not moving and let them sort of scoot
around me. No one. The person who's walking on the on the right
side of the sidewalk, to my understanding, has the right of way.
That's how I'm viewing it. Yes, I think you're right. Yeah.
Sometimes they'll do a fun little spin. I'm gonna interfuse everyone though, sure.
Yeah, sometimes I will jump over them and leap frog all five feet
in the air over a person. You're up, really impressive. You know
what I love doing. The side of TikTok that I've loved seeing is people
posing with people for a picture and just seeing what they do. You know.
So they'll walk up to a bunch of strangers, right, and then
they'll suddenly pose for a camera and then like, I just love seeing the
stranger's reaction of like, am I gonna pose? What the fuck is this?
I'm just gonna walk away. Yeah. It's a tough position to put
somebody in, but it's it's mostly harmless and fun. Yeah, mostly.
Yeah. What's the go to post if someone suddenly like be like, oh,
take a picture. Is it like a peace sign of thumbs up or
it's muscles? Yeah, muscles peace sign, heavy metal horns pointing, you
know, all the go tos. Okay, okay, my go to whenever
someone says take make a funny face for a picture, I just turn around
and show them the back of your head. And how's that for a funny
face? Yeah, it's a mystery now, like what was I doing?
All right, folks, it's gonna be a short BombCast because it's a holiday
week and somehow we've already gone ten plus minutes. When when we decide,
it's gonna be a little little little small boy today shouts out to the short
kings out there. We see you, all three of you. Anyway,
they're all they're all in a trench coat and trying to buy a movie ticket.
It's an a you know, a proper bobcast. Today. Grub came
up with the idea of looking at the twenty twenty four calendar and seeing which
games we're excited for. So we went, oh, go ahead, I'm
sorry, no, no, no, go ahead, grab go ahead.
Uh yeah. It was like there's a there's a calendar on game spot that
it seemed to have most of them, and I kind of just picked it,
picked and chew and chose some of the ones off of there that like
I'm at least aware of to the point where I'm like, I might check
it out and then we can talk about any of these a little bit more
if we want. But I figured we'll just go through the ones to have
dates. And then there's a list of TBD games that haven't had dates and
probably are coming out next year, or some of them are confirmed but they
just don't have an exact date. But yeah, let's let's start here in
January. This is actually one of my most anticipated games of next year.
Prince of Persia the Lost Crown. I had a really good time of this
at Summer game Fest, and that's coming in fast. It's like, oh,
no matter of weeks. Actually, we'll probably get this as soon as
we get back next year. We will probably get code for this, So
I'm really looking forward to play this. Coming to PS five, PS four,
Xbox Series X and S, Xbox one and P Did you guys ever
get a chance to touch this one? I did not nice very jelly.
Yeah, so it really is impressive. It's a Metroidvania, but with Prince
of Persia, it's got a new Prince. I'm really interested in sort of
the what they do with the setup where it's like, you're, Okay,
you're playing this this cool dude Prince who's on a team of other people who
are like going through these excursions in the world, and then all of a
sudden, like things go bad, and now those dudes who of your friends
are now going to be the bosses throughout the game. I'm like, oh,
I like that setup. That's always pretty cool. January twenty fourth,
We like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth. This is the franchise I am most
like, I need to be into this. I really enjoyed what I played
of Like a Dragon. I liked what I played of Yakuza Zero. I
don't know, how are you guys feeling about Like a Dragon these days.
I'm pretty pumped. I feel like Like a Dragon was a good injection into
the series to reintroduce all other people, and some folks just don't jive well
with the brawler nature of the original titles. I yeah, that's me.
Yeah, And I'm a big fan of Turn based stuff, as y'all know.
And I'm glad that this gives people a different opportunity to explore the hijinks
of like a Dragon infinite wealth and the Yeah, it seems like there's gonna
be yo. Like a Dragon is always uh infamous for having an obscene amount
of side stuff, like all the parlor games you can play and crap.
But this one, like the specific farming island management aspect of it, it
seems like they're going all the way in. I also need to know what
that Palm Tree freaks deal is. Yeah, I want to find out all
about that. Uh. Absolutely, Uh, this is a I'm just like
appreciative of any game that keeps turn based combat going and strong and the fact
that they're like, no, we this is going to be like a Dragon
going forward turn based combat. I'm always I appreciate that. Like I said,
Uh, then techn eight on January twenty six, fighting games are in
a good place. I am very excited to see what tech and eight is
going to be doing that. This is like the one three D fighter out
there in terms of like actually being able to move around in a three D
environment. Virtual fighters not really going Soul Caliber is not really going. Yeah,
Battle Arena toshin Den was never really going. Uh, I'll be checking
out the ring exactly. We did get our guys back. Yeah, I'll
be checking this out looking forward to it. Yeah, I want to see
who's gonna get thrown into a volcano this time? Absolutely? Yeah, right,
there's a ton This will have a ton of good story stuff, or
at least fun absurd story stuff. So that's good to get. I've been
trying to just care about that. I did all those techn ending ranking stuff.
We think that we'll have to update it. I didn't realize like at
some point they just I think they attempted to like stop being so absurd,
and they kind of they're like, you know what, this is actually a
serious story we're trying to tell here. Uh and that's when it became a
little less fun, I think. Uh So, Yeah, I I don't
really plan on playing this game, but I will certainly watch the cut scenes
at the end. Yeah, hopefully they go back to being completely absurd.
There's a chance just do that. We might have influenced Harada. Who knows,
Yeah Heradas listening right now. February we get Suicide Squad killed the Justice
League on February second, This is actually happening. I'm sure it is.
This is you know, it's rock Steady. At a certain point, it's
just gotta be fun to play, right listen? Well, yeah, listen.
I think I may have been one of the most vocal people on this
website about how dog shit I thought it looked. Yeah, that's right.
I don't know why I am suddenly taking a turn and why am I excited
for this? No? No, what are you doing? What are you
doing? I don't know. I'm squad curious. I'm curious. I suicide
squad deep, I am deeply uninterested in suicide Squad. I don't care.
I don't care about like the bad guys ganging up. I don't think that's
fun. Well, hey, what if? What if this time Superman is
a bad guy exactly like Look at the same time, I am a bit
of a mark for Batman. But whatever, It's just if the game is
fun, right, then I care. And that is the the sort of
glimmer of hope I'm holding onto with the pedigree of rock Steady going into this.
That's what I like a lot of their games. I like the best
majority of their games. Let's let's have a rock Steady game that just happens
to be a suicide squad. Uh being a Batman? Mark, did you
watch that The Littlest Batman Christmas movie that's on Amazon Prime. It's about Damian
Wayne, right, and then his dad is a Batman obviously, and it's
Luke Wilson. And it's a really sweet movie. And it's like a full
actual Christmas movie. Now like some short, it's like a full movie.
Would love. My girls do not care. I think it seems like it
might have been like a comic book at some point that they adapted it like
feels very much like a children's story turned into a Christmas movie. My kids
don't really care about Batman. They have watched it four times. It's called
The Littlest Batman. I think that's what it's called. It is, Mary
Little Batman. Sorry, Mary Little Batman. There we go, thank you?
Yes, yeah, I got it all right, I will check it
out. This looks very cute. Yeah, so you'll you're gonna you're gonna
dig it all right. February second, also persona three reload. Let's go,
I'm gonna I am gonna check this out. Although let's see, like
a Dragon. It's only like a week before. I wish I had a
little bit more time. It's messed up, but yeah, that's that's kind
of super messed up. I want to get in the persona. Uh it's
not exactly for me, but I think there's a world in which I can
make I could force it to happen. I want to force it. Yeah.
I've only checked this out like a couple of hours, and I've had
some friends say that Persona three has always been their favorite amongst the the newer
Persona games. Yeah, I don't know. There's just a certain vibe to
it. I kind of like how they summon their personas where they just hold
up a gun to their head and like, you know, it's like that's
pretty metal. It's metal. Yeah, it's cool. It just is and
it looks really good. It's like a full on remake. They're putting a
lot of work into it. I'm ready to check it out. Then February
eight, Hell Divers too. We had a good time with Hell Divers.
I know people who played a ton of Hell Divers and really enjoyed it.
Hell Divers two is going to be sort of that kind of upgrade where people
don't know. Hell Divers is like a four player cooperative action game where you
go into these instances and you have to accomplish something and then get to the
exit. And it's a top down, top down like dual stick shooter sort
of thing. Hell Divers two kind of brings the camera in close, makes
it look look more like a modern day PlayStation game, and so it's like,
okay, like there's improved presentation, but it looks like the core gameplay
is still the same. I think this could be one that really wins us
over if we go in there and play something together. So yeah, and
I think the appetite for like a four player game, like there's just more
of the gaming community is more well versed than when the original Hell Divers came
out right agreed, we're just we're very much accustomed to, like we're going
from game to game as like groups of friends in a way that we weren't
even back then. A big part of that is discord. But I console
gamers now are like, yeah, you have PlayStation Plus and you have game
Pass, so like a lot of these games you're just going to get let's
just play it together. And even if it's like Okay, well this one
isn't on those services. We already played games together because of PlayStation, PlayStation
Plus and game Pass. Let's just all buy this one and have a good
time. We know that when we do that, we have a good time.
So that's definitely been a big thing in gaming recently. I also think
the benefit of Hell Divers too, and the original Hell Divers is that despite
the kind of future space marine ish vibe of it, it's still it's still
funny, right, it doesn't get help from seriously, Yeah, it's very
similar to Lethal Company right where in tert lyast in terms of the possibility for
high jinks to ensue. You know, we had those experiences with the original
Health and I think they know that that's part of the magic of that of
that series. Tomb Raider one through three Remastered is coming out when on lawer
Cross's birthday Valentine's Day, February February fourteenth. I don't know, I listen.
I never loved the tomb Raider games. I just didn't. Oh sorry,
what, yeah, I didn't. I don't know what they weren't good.
What do you have against women? Yeah, what do you have against
triangle boobs? Yeah, listen, I'm just saying you, a real game
for real men is what I need. I played a lot of tom Raider
two. It was it was fine. I just it was like maybe the
tank controls, but tank controls never really bothered me in other games, So
I think it's just like it was tank controls in a game that overall I
didn't think was very fun, but I appreciate it's like place in gaming history.
Yeah. I mean, look, it's been a minute. It's been
a very long minute since I did all this shit. I'm watching a bit
of the trailer now, and I'm like, man, is this it?
Like? Is this what it's just gonna look like? Like? Didn't they
do this right? Didn't they remaster these games on PN, we re released
them with some upgrades. I think I don't really know. I think there
is something. I have a very warm and fuzzy nostalgic place in my heart
for playing tomb Raiders one through. I'll even say four. What was the
What was the one that premiered on Dreamcast? Was that four? There was?
Yeah, there was like the fourth one at least there was a pretty
good tomb Raider on Dreamcast. Yeah, I think, Oh, maybe it
was the last revelation, yeah, which is not a numbered one. I
don't know. I guess ultimately it does not matter. What does matter is
the feeling I used to get of, like getting lost in this box.
Like that was all the tombs, right, Like all the tombs that you
rated were just like these weird boxes with no direction whatsoever, and you just
had to figure out that, Like, oh, one little ledge is like
the thing you have to jump off of and catch. Yeah, and there's
something awful and terrible but also great about that. I don't know why I
played all. I finished every single last one of those one through four games,
and yeah, like I don't think I've done it again since that time
in my life, but like just to pick it back up and maybe capture
some of that once again. You mean, like those games could only exist
in that time in that way, and there's something special about that. At
the very least. I like, things change for a reason, but that
doesn't mean like the way things used to be, I want to completely throw
out even if things have gotten better in gaming overall, some of the squiggliness
that we used to have to put up with, quote unquote, there's something
magical about about some of it. Now, let's you know, let's not
ignore the lessons we've learned in the last few years. Like if you go
back and play through all of Eternal Darkness, I think you'll have a worst
time with this than you even did with the t A game that is much
more new than to Raider. Actually, it's like it's like two years later
one. It's not too Raider one. It's like five years later though,
it's not that much. Oh okay, all right, it's okay, it's
in that range. I mean five to eight years. It was like ninety
six was Tom Raider one? Yeah, but GameCube was like two thousand.
Through Tarnal Darkness is oh four, I think it's always a late GameCube Okay,
I can't remember. Okay, that's that's almost ten years fair enough.
Maybe, I'm wait, when was the Turnal Darkness was? When the fuck
were you? Now? I need to know? Yeah, gohe and look
it up while I do this one here. Gun Volt excuse me, gun
Volt Records, PSI Chronicle. I like the gun Volt games. Yeah,
these are uh Mega man X like games or or you're in that thing.
Yeah, they will be coming out for a while. This one's out February
fifteenth. I'm at least gonna check it out just because I've enjoyed gun Bolt
games in the past. It's oh two, uh oh two, okayness,
I'm trying to look to suck. I was confused as to why everything was
so anime lady adjacent, and I thought you put this on here as a
goof to me was successful. Hey, listen, anime ladies deserve rights too.
Mario Versus Donkey Kong is February sixteenth. This is a remaster slash remake
of the Game Boy Advance Mario Versus Donkey Kong, which is actually a sequel
to Donkey Kong ninety four, one of the best games ever made. Plays
a lot like that. I never loved it on Game Boy Advance. I've
tried it a couple of times recently as well, and it was just like
the visuals on the Game Boy Advance were weird. I didn't like the way
it looked, but they're redoing them here, so who knows. Maybe I'll
give it a shot and like it this time. Final Fantasy seven Rebirth then
is, happened in February twenty ninth. PlayStation five exclusive You guys love remake.
I really liked remake. I never finished it, but I really liked
what I played of it. I liked remake a lot. Yeah, I
liked it a lot. The combat was absolutely compastic. Combat's really really good.
It just is so much fun. Every character he plays in that game.
You have a really good time with Tifa especially. It's extremely fun to
play as So I'm really you know, I'm looking forward to Rebirth even I'm
like, I'm won't be following the story that close, so I don't care
too much about it personally, but at least the presentation is great, and
they're promising forty hours for this one, so we'll see. I know a
lot of this one either. Yeah, I know a lot of people were
thrown off by the adjustments being made towards the final Fantasy seven Remakes story,
but I welcome all of it. I welcome the Nomora bullshit here, right,
I'm like, this is a perfect place for bullshit, for Nomura style
bullshit. Like a remake that knows it's a remake. That's interesting. Yeah.
Let that takes us into March with Home World three on March eighth.
I was a big home like in the early days of PC gaming, my
parents would have an e machine from Best Buy, and I didn't have any
money, so I was pired and everything, and I pired Civilization and Home
World and I played a ton of those games, and I'm like, okay,
I'll check back down a Home World three. Home World three is like
a time strategy game, but in a three D space like so it's like
you can go up, down, left, right, you know, zxs,
y axis, x axis, all at the same time, and you're
controlling these like legions of ships flying around. It always looked really cool.
Yeah, almost three March eighth. Then we get yeah, any machine.
Yes, listen, my parents didn't spell a lot on those PCs. I
got a three eighty six and then a four eighty six. March twentieth gets
us Alone in the Dark, that other horror game that's not Allen Wake two
or Resident before or a Dead Space two or Dead Space remake. I should
say Alone the Dark got delayed. It's now coming out March twentieth. This
has David Harbor in it and that other person whose name I can never remember.
But I'm so curious about this. What why I am too? No,
I am too? What do you mean? I am, I am
too. No, No, I'm saying, why does it have David Harbor
in it? What did he do? Yeah, I don't know, because
actors need to work. I don't know. Sometimes people can't say no,
or they have agents that can't say we're talking about this, right, But
like, the strikes must have impacted a lot of actors to branch out into
video games, right, That's that's what we saw at the Game Awards.
I think this happened before the strikes, but but at at the Game Awards,
we saw a bunch of actors being like, I'm in a game,
and so Matthew conne is like I'm in a game, and it's like,
okay, we know why. That's because of the strikes. I think David
Harbor likes video games. I think he's a closet freak about video games.
Yeah, he's not that much. I mean look, also, I kept
thinking this when fucking McConaughey came out of the Game Awards. I'm like,
video games are not niche, They're not like, you're not doing something wacky
and kooky and under the radar. Now, Okay, it's like come on,
uh, yeah, I'm sure David Harbor, who is of our generation
maybe you know, ten years our senior, give or take. Is it's
entirely possible. He's like, yeah, you know what I'm gonna be in
a video game. I've always be. I've always been this series. I
don't need to know anything about it. Yeah, he's forty eight. David
Harber's forty eight, eight years old. Yeah, there you go, wreating
no sound. Yeah, well in the dark, I played the game Boy
Color one when it came to nintend to switch online. That was weird.
Oh Jody Comber, I love her? Right? Who's Jody Comber? She's
been in stuff. She was in that, uh, the Ryan Reynolds movie
that wasn't Ready Player one but was pretty much Ready Player one. Oh,
free Guy, free Guy? I thinks, sure, yeah, no problem,
all over it. Yep. Do you guys, You guys can understand
the pun of that title, right? This was a big conversation at the
time. Free Guy. Yeah, Why it's called free guy? No?
Is it because like a free guy is like a one up kind of thing?
Yes, yes, exactly, because it's a like his his character name
is guy, and so the the like the stated meaning is oh free guy,
but it is a reference to getting a free guy back in the Arcades,
which would meant you got a one ups you in an extra life people.
I feel like phrase is kind of lost on a on a generation very
much. It's of its time and we stopped using it definitely, which that's
probably the only good thing about that movie. Was that a good movie?
I mean it wasn't. There's a scene at the end where he gets like
a lightsaber that like got went viral about how like cheesy it was. Like
in context, this is probably better, but on Twitter it looks like dog
shit. I can't really tell. All right, then, Yeah, March
twenty second, my birthday, Dragon's Dogma two, your birthdays this week as
well? Back lar right, what are you the twenty fifth, twenty four,
twenty fourth of March. Okay, well, March twenty second, my
birthday. We get three big ones, Dragon's Dogma two, Princess Pete,
Showtime, and Rise of the Ronin Dragons Dogma two, Catcom is promising big
things with this. It's probably gonna be a pretty big game. I only
played a very tiny bit of Dragons Dogma. You guys, weren't Dragons Dogma
heads? Were you? No? It was not a d D boy.
Yeah, so I mean maybe we'll go into this one. I do want
to check out the first Dragon's Dogma still before this, But who's going to
half the time? No? Uh, Princess Princess Peach Showtime one of the
probably gonna be one of the final big Switch games. This stars Peach and
she the Showtime mechanic is that she could take on all these rolls of being
like a chef or a ninja, and then she has all these other abilities
that will probably be an improvement over Super Princess Peach, a game where she
had emotional powers like crying oh so much, she would flood the thing.
Right, So she's not gonna She's not gonna barge into a subway and start
break dancing around the subway cars. That's not what this is. That Showtime
is the reference to. Is that can you imagine like a little toad coming
in clapping like a show yeah, especially with that voice. Is it mes
like also this mechanic like very odyssey adjacent to oh yeah yeah right, yeah
totally. It feels like leftover ideas. This is what you get Princess Peach
to let her wear the bad ideas from the Mario game that we didn't use,
uh, and then Rise of the Ronan a PS five game. This
looks really good, look at kind of a from software software y kind of
thing, but I don't know, I think it just looks fantastic, So
I'll be curious as we get closer to it. Then in August, and
there's a big gap there because we don't have many dates for games. After
March. August, we get Black Myth Wukong. That is that viral Chinese
game that is based on Journey to the West or Journey into the West.
I can never remember how to actually Journey to the West. I think that's
right. Most games we're trying to are based on that, and the same
way that most games in America are based on sad dads. This is kind
of like an action y again, a from softwarey sort of thing. But
this studio has also had a lot of news come out about how they might
be a pretty bad place to work and how they have a lot of bad
views. So we'll see. I wonder if this one's going to come out
and actually be like, oh, this is what we were excited for because
it just shows off great in gifts, but they're going for a big game
and we'll see if it out there actually able to pull it off. Hey
quick you for you boys? Is Horizon a play on Journey to the West.
I don't think so. No, yeah, because it's like like Dragon
Ball is like the one that's like a really loose adaptation of it, right,
Yeah, I don't Yeah, I don't know. I don't think so.
So he I have a one of these, like, I don't know
what it's called. When you conflate two things and you always mix them up.
What is that? Is there a word for that? A mixing mix?
A mixing mix? I have a mixing mix with Black Myth Wu Kong
and Phantom Blade zero zero. The Phantom Blade zero is just another Black Myth
Wukong. I don't know. I don't know how to describe it. Like
they they both are like mysteriously teased in similar capacities, and they're both a
PlayStation or showed up at PlayStation shows. Yeah, they are also like both
Chinese developers. Yeah that sort of get clouded up in that fog of whatever.
I don't and they seem very similar. Am I crazy? Am I
the other person complaining these? There's another game that came out this year that
I thought was Black Myth Wukong and it's you're thinking of Wolong oh. Oh,
Like, now what it's happening, Like what is happening? Because I
think there's a lot of clips happen, like you know, right, like
I don't know, Well, I think what's happening is a lot of Chinese
developers have looked at the success of from software they probably very much enjoy from
software games, and they're like, we're gonna make one of those, and
we're not going to stray too far from it, and the stuff where we
do stray, we're gonna go to pretty familiar territory of Journey to the West.
So it's you're gonna end up with a lot of games that are I
mean, this happened like the Chinese development scene has. I mean, I'm
not joking. There are like twenty five games that are Journey to the West
in one way or the other. It is very very popular. So you
end up with a lot of games that do look very similar. So I
think that's kind of accepted and normal in a way that like some games here
like oh we got to try to stand out. And I think it's still
in China. They're like, no, we're happy. We want to be
like Jurney the West because that's what the players want. They want more of
that. And so I think we're we're looking from the end from the outside
and going like why all these things pretty similar? Because well, that's what
sells really well in China. And I mean, like there's an obscene amount
of like Call of Duty mobile clones, League of Legends and like Doda clones
that pop off on mobile. I'm curious as to why there aren't a lot
of clones of like the first party Sony games out in China, you know,
like where is the clone of Spider Man or God of War? Yeah,
maybe just don't hit well like on maybe. Yeah, I don't know
those markets, you know. I think you know, the one that we
saw that was trying to ape some of the hype for those Sony Sony games
was the day before, which was very much trying to look like or something
like the Last of Us. But that thing was slapped together by people who
didn't know what they were doing, and maybe the people that do you know
what they're doing or like that would be very expensive and we wouldn't be able
to match that making an action game these days probably feels like something that's easy
to tackle. Making a big narrative, cinematic experience probably would require like one
hundred million dollars, even in territories where labor's a little bit more affordable.
Long story short, Phantomly zero feels like a real game, just maybe a
lot further out than Black Men. I think my I'm trying to remember,
because again I was conflating these as well, Jeff. So this happened to
me. There was a lot of interest in this from the PlayStation community,
and then they were like, why aren't we hearing more about this? But
this will be in the next this is going to be the next PlayStation showcase,
This is going to be in the next state of play. And then
it kept not showing up, and I think there was news of like,
oh no, that is like super far off and you shouldn't expect to hear
much about it for quite some time. So yeah, we'll see, uh
Okay. Then in September Warhammer forty thousand Space Marine two. Space Marine is
a pretty good game, Space Marine two. Yeah, I'll check out Space
Marine two again whenever Warhammer forty k comes up. I just love that there's
so many Warhammer games and Warhammer forty K games because I think that's the right
way to do it with a with an IP. I am so scared that
I may eventually become Warhammer pilled. It's gonna yeah, it might happen.
Henry Cavill just got like confirmed he's going to take on the Warhammer forty K
Cinematic Universe with Amazon Prime Video. Henry, what do you do? We?
So that's that's our that's our gateway drug right there. I do think
about that music from what was what was that flour player Warhammer forty K one,
like Necro Death whatever it was, But that like wor In music,
that that's space organ music that they played when we were in like the Space
Church. It's like, man, have some good music, all right,
yes, Sperch Church of Space. Uh all right, we're into the TBD
games. Now. I could just go through these alphabetically. You should we
just do that? Or you yeah? Okay? Avowed? So these are
like there are several Xbox games that have been announced that either we know a
little bit about or we haven't heard about since they got announced. Avowed is
in that space of we've heard a little bit about it in that it was
at the State Are the summer game fest from them, and they showed a
little bit more gameplay, but people came out of seeing that gameplay being like,
huh, this is what this game is. I'm not really sure if
I'm driving with this, I'm gonna need to play it. And I think
it's fair to say that because I saw so many people having that response to
it. Do you guys remember that that trailer? I remember the bear?
Okay, yes, yeah, uh so avow who knows? But this is
Obsidian. It's their sort of like hand magic fantasy realm game, and they
made it pretty clear that yeah, it might look like they're doing their Skyrim,
but it's not exactly going to be their Skyrims. So I'm not really
sure what to expect from it. Baby Steps is a new game from Bennett
Foddy and a handful of other people. But I am I am definitely Foddy
Billed. I love everything that anything but Foddy does. I love Quop,
I love Girp give me those games. I play them all the time.
Still, I'm so glad that they're still available online after Flash died. So
Baby Steps is okay, let's take that the idea of quop and put it
in a three D platform or where you're walking around and said an adult man
that walks like a baby, and it looks very funny. This is another
one that was like in a PlayStation showcase. Yeah, and then people are
like, what is this. This isn't like a real game, Like this
is the realist fucking game I've ever seen. You People don't know what you're
talking about. It popped off like a long time ago. Yeah didn't.
It has like a very very early announcement or something like that, right,
And then we just got another that this was in the PlayStation showcase. I
think it was one of the first in that, or maybe it was a
state of play. It was one of the first games in the recent one.
And so it's like, yeah, this is happening next year, Beastie
Ball, this is mine, This is mine. I believe this comes from
the same developer that made Chickory. But this is a turn based Pokemon like
volleyball game. Oh boy, Oh that's interesting. It's right up my alley.
Very excited for anything involving tiles, tactics, and little creatures. I'm
not so much into the volleyball aspect, But that sounds like a fun twist
on doing the turn based combat is yeah. Is it like instead of doing
attacks on the opposing team, you're doing attacks on the ball and it's like
elemental stuff. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That is then it has a
neat look to it. It kind of does like the two and a half
D stuff. I just want more people to keep trying to attack game Freak
to take the Pokemon crown because someone has to be successful eventually. No,
they don't, but they can. They should keep trying though. Uh.
Contra op Operation Galuga. Uh this is yeah. Then I love Contra.
I hate it is it's g A l u g A. I'm like Galuga
Galuga. I love Contra. They've tried to make a bunch of Contra games.
Most of the time they are dog shit. This one. I think
this one looked pretty bad. But I hope Konami because listen, I'm just
kind of glad that Konami is making games in these franchises I love again.
Hopefully that means they're also putting some love into it. That is not a
guarantee, though, there's a strong chance that we won't see quality from this
game. Uh, then cook serve delicious Remustard and really I just included this
because what is the best sort of play on remaster in a game? Is
it this or is it the uh? What was it? A Red Faction
Gorilla remastered edition? I love it's this. No, Remustard is like that
mean? Come on, says Funny and Delicious. Yeah, if they do
Red Dead Redemption, they can be a remarstoned edition. Remarked they don't have
to do that. Shut up Jacobs. Game of the Year Expeditions a mud
Runner game. Let's fuck it go. I'm a huge, huge fan of
the mud Runner series. I love mud I've been a fan of this since
it was called Spin Tires, which was like this weird little game, yes,
because the tires would spin in the fucking mudd sit there stuck for like
an hour. You got mud boy? Is that my ship? This game
looks like the most sort of gamey ass game version of mud Runner yet,
where it's like, Okay, you and some friends go out in the world
and accomplish these smaller goals. Don't worry about trying to rebuild the world and
rebuild these bridges and taking some logs to this gas station so they can open
back up. No, it's just like go drive in any vehicle to this
spot and then that's gonna it's gonna be like a Ubi Soft game. Now
you're up there, you can see the rest of the world. Here are
a few more expeditions to go on. It looks very good. I'm very
excited about it. I'm so happy for you, Grub, thank you so
much. Foam Stars. Yeah, it's coming next year as well. And
did any of us play Fun Stars? I know some people. Okay,
you did. Yeah, how are you feeling about this one? It doesn't
quite feel like it's a ripping Splatoon off enough for my taste. Sure,
I did have a lot of fun with it when I did check it out
at UH Summer Games. Yeah, it's doing different things where like where Splatoon,
when you're splatting the plant paint around, you're just sticking to the surfaces.
Here, they build off verticality with like the foam bouncing on or building
on top of each other. The classes felt okay enough. I'm just I'm
excited to see where this will go and if this will actually have legs versus
Splatoon since it's only on the switch, right, Yeah, I think twenty
twenty three is going to be or me, twenty twenty four Jesus is going
to be an interesting year for multiplayer shooters. I think. I think it's
I think some of these are going to pop off in a big way.
I think Finals is going to keep getting bigger and bigger if they can that
game. Yeah, I think it's gonna because one of you said it,
I think there is a chance for them to keep adding new modes to keep
things interesting in it, like like cycling them in and out, and then
one of them is going to pop off and be like, no, this
is just what the Finals is now, everyone's playing this mode and if big
and steward that I think it's going to end up like by the end of
next year. It's yeah, we played a ton of Finals and everyone did.
It's growing in the charts of like popular streaming too, Like it's it's
start, it's starting to parcolate, it's starting to happen. I'm so surprised
seeing that some some UH circles that interact with ours are down on the game,
because I just love it a lot. Really yeah, yeah, I've
just seen I've seen some like negative sentiment about not enjoying it, thinking it's
pretty sparse, when you know, I feel I feel completely the opposite way.
I feel like there's a lot. Yeah, despite the does happen though,
like all these games where it's like this one didn't like hit me right
away, it's not exactly what I was thinking. Then people check back in
on later, okay, you know, And now that I understand what this
is, I'm down with it. Hades two that was originally supposed to come
out this year in early access, Thank god it didn't. Oh my god,
I can actually play other games. But now it's coming at early next
year is what they're promising. Boy, I am going to play the hell
to that. I don't care if it's Early Access or not. I'm gonna
be all over Haites two. I cannot wait. Yeah, yeah, what
Harold said exactly, Harold hawibit. This was yours right back of lar.
Yeah. This is another one of those games that gets announced incredibly early and
has a very striking it Trailered really well, what can I say? It
just trailered really nicely, has a Wallace and Grom and sort of like stop
motion acclaymation vibe to it seems very narrative based. I'm in it just for,
like, you know, the vibe of what this thing is teasing to
be. Beyond that, I don't really know much about it, but I
do recall twenty twenty four being the year that they are targeting, so definitely
a raider a radar looking at for this one. I looked it up and
I'm like, oh, yeah, I do remember this, and that's twenty
twenty one, and it looks very cool. I'm man, how have we
not gotten more claymation style games before Chance fares well? So this one I'm
down with. You know, Okay, this, I think because it's more
stop motion than like Walls and Grommet claymation. Sure, I think, yeah,
I know that that grosses you out and you don't want to hear that.
I think, like the I think the thing with this that I find
troubling is like a lot of games take this path where they where they do
have a very striking debut and they have a very clear envisioned art style or
whatever it is, and then they just sort of like can't match the momentum
or hype of how they Yeah, I do love sable so and that's okay.
Like, that's totally fine. I'm not like, oh, this is
a bad game. It just wasn't for me when I ended up playing it,
right, And that's my worry is that like it has this striking debut
but can never really match or cultivate the always it is better to have that
like strikingness than not. Right, totally, I'm with you, but I
know exactly that feeling of being like, I hope playing it matches the way
I feel when I first saw it exactly doesn't always work out that way.
What's Henry Halfhead? Henry Halfhead is another one of these that I when the
hell did this get announced? I'm not sure. I think earlier this year,
and is a just like strange sort of definitely in the in the same
the thing that reminded me of is like, who who did like Kutchull?
What was that game? Yes, chucoll got My kids loved Chuche. Yeah,
like this definitely scratched credits. Yeah. I think it's a Swiss developer,
and it's another one of those Odyssey games right where you're taking over different
objects. Yeah. So yeah, I I just remember like seeing the reveal
and being like, wow, this seems really dope. I love crap like
this. Where will it go? What is it? It's just been a
bit radio silence since that first debut, but you know, fingers crossed,
you get to see it in some capacity. It's hard to move around when
you're just half ahead, That's right. You know I want to be I
want to be a knife and crawl around on the floor, you know,
That's what I want to be. This This looks like it first popped off
in January, so it will be at about a year since it got announced.
Maybe we'll hear about it soon. Maybe not holding my breath, but
we can help, uh metaphor Refuntasio. This is a another game from Atlas
that looks, you know, kind of like in the vein of their Persona
games, but it's I think it's more fantasy. I think it's implied by
Fantasio. It looks really good when we saw the trailer for it at Summer
Game Festival. I know a lot of people have been looking forward to it
for a very long time. What do you think. I don't know if
I am, because it seems a little bit too close to the shin Magami
tense series, and those are notorious for being obscenely difficult, and I'm not
that I'm not looking for a challenge when it comes to an RPG, but
I would like to have fun and not feel the need to grind or bash
my head up against the wall. But that being said, I do like
all of the menu presentation. It's very stylistic from what we've seen so far,
yes, but also just a ton of style. Is this a switch
only game or am I imagining that this was the Xbox the presentation? I
think it's on game Pass in fact, Oh okay, yeah, I believe.
I believe that's the case. I'm completely miss taken then, because I,
for whatever reason, I'd conflated that this was a switch only game,
and hey, you know that thing's so at the end of its life cycle,
right, mm hmmm, Yes, it is. Mullet mad Jack,
Backglar. What's with Henry or Held Harold Halibit, Henry Halfhead, Mullet mad
Jack? What's going on here? I don't know why these two name games
come to me, but here they are. I am inexplicably drawn to them.
This is something that got announced earlier this year as well. I want
to say, Oh, I was just looking at this one and yeah,
it's a it's a real small team has very much like almost like No More
Heroes meets a Finn FPS kind of anything. Yeah, like one of those
recent new Blood first shooter games that are trying to be a throwback to like
Quaker Duke Nukem. Totally definitely style first for me for sure, but seems
like it would be a lot of fun. I don't know, again,
going only off of what this thing looks like, I don't even know if
twenty four is a realistic release year for this one. Theme the release date
says coming soon, which developers do all the time, and it means like
in the next five years. Yeah, so uh this one. I'm like,
I'm just I think it looks great. And then I'm like, are
mullets still like a funny thing or is that like Chuck Norris jokes. I'm
already with that here, Bull and are seem to be staying Bullets are huge,
like huge, yah. I think bullet's a style. But if mullets
is like your default, your attitude, I guess I don't know. I
think the moment, yeah, okay, it's it's emphasis on the mad jack
We'll do here. And also like developer calls itself a hammer ninety five,
like, okay, sick, I want to I want to fuck around with
that. And they're younger than me though, if we're going by like screen
game ages, totally. Oh then Pacific Drive. This is one I've been
very interested in for a while. It is a rogue light but you're in
a beat up, old like station wagon and you drive around the world and
it's like wild stuff happening in the Pacific Northwest, aliens in the sky or
big electric clouds, and there's seems like there's a ton more going on.
And I watched Lucy play a bunch of this. I think we both did
drank and we watched a Lucy play this at PAX. Were you there,
yeah, oh Pacific Drive, Yes, yes, yes, yes, we
drive. Yes. And I'm like, okay, very into what they showed
here. And when I talked to the developers at the GB at night show
they were on there, they were like, yeah, we're kind of like
really condensing the loop to that point just to get to the fund but like,
there's so much more going on in the world. So very interested in
this one. I love the idria, I love the entire idea of roguelike
and being in a beat up ble cars like the way to explore the world.
That's pretty cool. Papa Mario the thousand Your Door. They are remastering
that one release sooner for the Switch. Definitely in the top three for Mario
RPGs. For a lot of people, it's number one. For me,
it's like number it is number three, but it's because I like Mario RPG
and then Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga. But no, this game is a
delight and it's really awesome that a whole new generation is going to get a
chance to play it. It's also like encouraging because for a while people were
worried that Nintendo wouldn't let Mario games. Even the RPGs have kind of expressive,
different kinds of characters, they all had to be like a default look
model for a goomba or whatever, and this one has all these like funky
characters that look very different, and it's like, well, if they're going
back to this game again, maybe they've softened up their position on that.
And when we get new paper Mario games in the future, if we do
they can be more expressive again, then that would be nice. Goomba's a
lady a Lady Goomba. Finally, Goombat goom Hilda is actually the one in
Super Mario RPG. Actually Penny's Big Breakaway. This is the three D kind
of Saturn dreamcast a looking era platformer from the team that did Sonic Mania and
bechar you put this on here and I went to go look at the trailer
again. It looks so cool. I'm very happy with the way this game
looks. Hell yeah, It's like, man, it seemed like he was
the most competent like platformer thing, right, Like you just sort of like
got that. Is that what we're talking about? Yes, yeah, yeah,
yeah, Penny's Big Breakaway? Yes, yeah, sorry, it seems
like the most competent like platformer, you know, demonstration that you could like
ask for, right, there's something so I like, buy whatever it's selling
right away, do you know what I mean? So many other three D
platformers, like they get close, they want to be inspired by that era
platformers, and then it's like there's something missing. I am confident that this
team has the competency to pull this off after playing Sonic Mania and knowing how
much they understood that game, how deep into Sonic they got so that they
could extract everything that was fun about it and make the best Sonic game ever.
I am very confident they're gonna be able to pull that off. With
Penny's Big Breakaway, it just seems like, again, I know, we
are inferring a hell of a lot out of a trailer, but like,
there's just something that I just believe about this game. It's got a great
visual style too, Like the color scheme is way different than a lot of
other games like this Hell Yet the Plucky Squire, that one where you places
the little squire who like us around the world and they can hop into books
and hop onto the side of mugs in the real world. I'm very excited
about this one. It's got It just has such a good you know idea
right, It's real cute. Yep. Absolutely another Xbox game that we've heard
about a bunch. We don't have a date for necessarily, but seems like
it could be the next big Xbox games. Saga is a Sinua or Sinwa
Sinua Saga, hell Blade two, hell Bay two. Listen. I'm not
a big hell Blay guy, but I always think hell By two looks really
magnificent. In terms of visuals. Agreed. I just for the life of
me can't get into these games. I couldn't play Hillblade. I tried.
It was not for me. I do. When I played hill Blade,
I knew that I could do it if I gave it more time, Like
I saw again, it's an old game now, it's like, what is
it like six or seven years old now? Yeah, And I just remember
being you know, I never went back to it for better or worse.
For I'll definitively call it four worse. But I I think an inch of
Theory just does something that I am just They are a developer that I am
like constantly sort of in awe of. And I think their pedigree over the
years has just been like maybe undervalued in a big way. I think it's
gonna be there, Like this has a chance to be their big statement game,
right, their big breakout in a lot of yeah, because I do
think this one's going to be more accessible. Imagine that's the case. I
think I think they'll pivot and maybe accommodate to a more general audience, uh,
without compromising the integrity of like what the original sort of game dealt with
thematically, and and and kind of like the spirit of that. You know,
this feels way larger than life of what they're sort of teasing. I'm
I'm deeply excited for it. I actually I gotta I gotta move the original
up to like the top of the priority list to uh for backlog, like
we came back from breaking Yeah, to talk about that'd be cool, but
yeah, this feels big. Jan was it you that had the Phoenix down
moment with this where that's like hell Blade from the makers of Heavenly Sword Sword
now heaven Sword Swords Awesome. Yep, oh yeah, give me some more
Heavenly Sword, Heavenly Sword enslaved forget the did Odyssey of the West, which
is also really fucking good. Uh A d m C. I mean yep,
that's a yeah, that's a cedigree right there. And they seem to
have like Andy serkis on retainer. Yeah, they got they're running circ deep
definitely. Uh speaking of running deep still wakes the deep. Uh. I
think this is the one that uh had that trailer. It takes place in
an oil rig and had a trailer at Summer Game Fest or somewhere that Dan
saw and Dan was like so extremely bored by it. Yeah, but I
like, I like oil rigs. Something about an oil rig? You just
like isolation? Yeah, maybe I do. Yeah, I do like the
idea of just like being alone somewhere. That rules this I don't. This
game looks like it could be really cool. It is a person exploring what
looks like an abandoned oil rig on the ocean, and that's really cool for
me. Like, I just like the kind of mystery about that, because
I do think that's what this game is. And also the Chinese Room like
does a lot of good stuff. Like I was really into what the fuck
was that? It was like, Oh, no, they weren't the Swan
game they where everyone's gone to the rapture? Yeah, yeah they do.
Yeah what else did they do? And which is also which is a very
strange and fun game they did the first Was it the first Amnesia game?
No, they did Amnesia a Machine for Pigs. Oh so that was like
the second one, right, Yeah, yeah, you're sling Okay. I
think they have an interesting enough kind of pedigree that I will check this out.
And they are making Vampire the Mass Great Bloodlines too, which is also
coming out next year. Apparently we'll see though. How does one play Heavenly
Sword in twenty twenty four. I'm doing it three. I'm doing it on
a steam deck. Oh yeah, there you go. We'll get you hooked
up on your steam deck. Jam. Okay with that, all right?
Squirrel with a gun. It's a game where a scroll has a fucking gun.
Cool gun too, well. I mean it's it's a normal sized gun
and a normal size squirrel, So it looks like a big gun, but
he's just carrying it and shooting people and it boiler. This is the one
where you go like shoot a gun down and it like pushes you up in
the air, right because you're a little squirrel, I think. So there's
like part of the platforming that's the game. Just like I just laughed my
my head off when I first saw it. I'm just like, oh yeah,
okay, like do this and I'll check it out. And it's like
it's like a kind of like a realistic looking gun too. You're just like
this squirrel get this. It's like it's got got goat simulator vibes. Yes,
I love that's exactly right, yo. This squirrel can't hear for ship
after blowing its ear drums out for sure. Uh and then thank goodness you're
here. Is another one I played at PAX. I think, oh you
did play it, yes, yes, oh guy, this is the one
where I played it. And I'm like, I think I get these jokes.
And then I like talked to Lucy and Tam later and like, yeah,
it's from the North. We got all of them jokes. They are
hilarious. I'm like, okay, good, I'm glad. I'm glad you
got them because I think I got them, but I'm not exactly sure.
It's very cartoony. You explore these scenes, these like vignettes, and like
each one leads to another one and another one, and then sudden you get
to like a wall and it's like I need meat from the store and you
have to like go to break into a deli and get meat out of the
back and give it to a guy to open up the new scenes so you
can keep moving along. A lot of it's like okay, like go get
some water and you follow a hose and it leads you down a well and
that leads you into like a secret sewer city or whatever. There's a ton
going on and it looks very nice and it's got it does have a strong
sense of place and humor. Yeah. I love the look of this.
It reminds me of something and I can't place it. Yes, No,
we're gonna get to it. It's like it's Regular Show adjacent, Regular Show
adjacent. Yeah, yes, it's I believe it's called like adventure, like
City Town or something like that, Big City Green. Is that? Oh
it's like a It's a Max show, isn't it. No, it's I
think it's like some sort of like Sesame Street adjacent cartoon where like a snake
has a hat on and it's teaching you about math and stuff like that.
Oh, I have no idea what you're talking about. That's just that's your
speculats dreams. No, it's a it's most certainly a thing. Speaking on
Regular Show, we were we were talking about something that has a Regular Show
alumnus involved in it. Yeah, that was it. Now, I can't
remember anything. We can't remembering. It was Warhammer forty K, Space Marine
two. Of course, it wasn't Alone in the Dark. It was something
figured out. Let's get this last one that zimless Zone zero. Of course,
there's anime in it. It's a gotcha game. Oh you know what
This is actually one of those instances where I think Asian developers may be trying
to ape Spider Man, because if I recall correctly, there is a strong
platforming grappling component to this game. I could be completely mistaken and be thinking
of something completely different, but I think that's what this is. Yeah,
I don't know a visual novel to me, but that's just because it's got
to look to it. I enjoy the look. I enjoy the anime and
oh you do, oh this is this is from ho Yo verse, so
ho Yo verse, a me Hoyo game to me Hoyo Joint and you know
those There is more to those games than people give them credit to. Oh
definitely, Yes, there's a reason they're massively popular other than the Wi fus.
Yeah all right, Uh that does it. I don't know what do
you guys? What's the what's the big ones for you? Maybe Final Fantasy?
Yeah? Haities two is definitely the one of my I can't stop thinking
about. I don't think there's anything that I can't stop thinking about. Definitely
excited for Hades two. I'm a big dumb asshole because the thing that was
the regular show person was the Littlest Batman was a Merry Little Batman regular.
Okay, that's the regular show connection. Well that explains the quality of that
thing. Okay, there you go. Yeah, I don't know, there's
not like I don't know, is there anything that like it's like, well,
this is kind of a Jeff Backlark gang because for me, obviously,
that's that's Expeditions, a Mude Runner game, Like really I will be throwing
myself into that that I'm gonna go wild for that one. No, I
don't know. Obviously, twenty and this year there were like a dozen games
that had me written all over it, and I think this year is hopefully
a year that I'm surprised by. Well, yeah, let's let's talk about
that. Do you like, do we think that next year is going to
be able to like get close to matching twenty twenty three? Are we worried
about Okay? Yeah, sure. We have a couple of things from Nintendo
that seemed to be send offs to the Switch, and we have things that
were previously announced from Xbox but not a ton that are confirmed for next year
and PlayStation kind of crickets. I mean we you know, we saw the
week that maybe there's going to be Spider Man two online from Insomniac, but
that's like a new mode sort of thing. How are we feeling about the
games that are announced next year and then the games that aren't announced. I
love to be surprised and I love to be wrong. I think twenty twenty
three I was wrong a lot of the time, and I was pleasantly surprised
and happy about that fact. I'm also excited about the potential for stuff to
get stealth dropped. I mean, we saw nothing about Hi Fi Rush this
year, and then that's right, came out of nowhere point and yeah,
just who knows what will pop up from like the indie scene, what'll blow
up and take over like the cultural zeitgeist? Right, yep, totally.
I'm excited to see how some get twenty twenty three games are going to grow.
Like I'm really really excited and hopeful about the potential of the finals.
Yeah yeah, and I uh and for me, it's gonna be the way
the way this year went was, Yeah, a ton of huge, massive
games and then some of the most fun is here's Lethal Company out of nowhere
on Steam, and we're gonna go play that and have a great time.
I'm expecting that to be even more the case in twenty twenty four games out
of nowhere on Steam that take over the world. That's as long as that
keeps happening, I'm gonna be good games. So yeah, that's that's twenty
twenty four as it stands right now. I guess the next time we talk
to everybody, it will be twenty twenty four, right, Jim, Yeah,
it'll supposedly be January second is when we when we come back, I
may ask for a couple of days off before or that week, because you
know, just I could use some more decompressed time. But hey, gents,
I hope you had a fantastic holiday break. I hope you at home
had one as well, RESTful. I hope you uh stayed warm, stayed
love, played some games that you missed, or replayed some games that you
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