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Happy holidays, and welcome to geek
First. Side Quest, your weekly stop

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for video game news, reviews,
rankings, and more. You're in the

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geek First podcast network. I'm your
host, the interloper Dell Musk, and

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I have with me the ice Cold
kirklem Patzer. How's it going with my

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friend? It's going very good.
Yeah, no, it's going very good.

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Just December's here, it's already almost
I guess we're still within the first

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week. Whenever it like starts in
the month, at the end of a

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week, starting the next week.
I just feel like I'm already two weeks

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in. But I'm sure I'm gonna
blink be blinking, and then it's gonna

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be Christmas right around the corner.
But yeah, no, I'm doing Yeah,

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you're shattering the fourth wall because for
the you know, free feed,

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the audio listeners, the Spotify listeners, this is gonna be dropping like almost

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likely on Christmas Day. I think
the side Quest Tuesday falls like on Christmas

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Day, so it'll really rely on
that time. But of course, if

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you support us over on Patreon,
you could have got this episode, as

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Kirkle has mentioned, like a good
twenty days early. But yeah, this

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is gonna be a fun episode here
where we're just doing a ranking of ranking

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the best snow levels in video games, the best winter levels, the best

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snow levels, whatever you want to
call it there, but this should be

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pretty fun. We've been doing a
lot of rankings recently. I mean,

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me and Taylor did a ranking of
all the Mario Kart courses, and then

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before that, me and you did
a ranking of the best video game titles

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of all time. So I'm liking
doing more of these rankings and I plan

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to keep that going. Obviously to
the arcane rankings. The game of the

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year stuff's were releasing this month,
so tons of ranking stuff recently, so

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hopefully people are into that. I
think it's you know, rankings are always

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easily digestible, good fun content,
and this is this is a fun topic

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we have here, so I think
we should just get right into it.

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Because, as I said, we're
pre recording this well in events, so

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I don't know, I don't know
what's going on in the world when this

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episode's going out, but yeah,
here we are. We're gonna be talking

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about our favorite the best winter levels, snow levels. And right before we

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started recording, you kind of mentioned
that you know, going through a lot

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of these, like a lot of
them kind of have that holiday, that

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Christmas vibe. Maybe a lot of
like levels tend to have kind of more

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sleigh bells in the soundtrack things like
that, so it puts you in that

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vibe. And so I think it's
interesting looking at this because there is kind

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of these For me, there's kind
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that where it's like the cozy Christmas
vibes of a snow level, and then

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there's also just like the cold,
cold, kind of calculated aesthetic of it.

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You know, it's kind of more
a simple color palette usually, and

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when whatever there is in a level
that like stands out more because of just

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the rest levels all white or you
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a wholesome thing generally, but also
like a lot of games that have violence

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and like blood, like oh blood
on snow that's like prime right there,

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that lights up like Christmas warden right
there. So yeah, I know that

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that's kind of the way I was
looking at I feel like most of my

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kind of either following these two separate
camps, but I think there's all sorts

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of things in between those but yeah, when you were going through this list,

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like, was there a bunch of
things that immediately came to your mind?

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Did you have to do some research? How did you go about making

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your kind of short list here?
Yeah, I had just like quick fire

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off the top of my head,
like just certain ones that I've always just

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thought of when I think of a
snow map and not necessarily like a festive

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one. And looking at my list
now, I feel like majority of them

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aren't aren't like they don't have anything
to do with with a festive theme or

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anything like that, but they just
feel cold. They feel very atmospheric,

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maybe like when I'm playing them,
I just feel like my character is frozen

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in those moments. And that's That's
not necessarily true for all of the list,

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but that's I would say like the
underlining factor for the vast majority of

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them is just really encompass what it
feels like to be cold. And Yeah,

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so unfortunately, no major I don't. I can't really think of too

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many like festive games actually that like
I could have pulled from. Maybe there's

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something, Yeah, I feel like
a lot of games that are very seasonal

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based might have like a a Christmas
event you know, like even in like

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Marvel Snap they have like a bunch
of Christmas variants, or like Overwatch,

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I feel like always used to do
that where they would, right, I

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don't know if they would do snow
variants on their maps or just like all

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the characters have their like stumes,
and I'm sure road Hog is like Santa

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or something like that. It's actually
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there, But yeah, I feel
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But there isn't too many like just
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I'm sure there's a few out there, but in the way that like there

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maybe isn't a ton of Halloween games, but there's a ton of horror games,

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so they kind of are one and
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of where these snow levels come in. And and just to open it up

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here, we're not just talking about
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game or something like. We were
kind of going pretty vague with this.

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So there are a lot of like
open world games on my list, but

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I think the goal for me and
for you as well should be just like

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try to be very specific if we're
talking about a big open world game that

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is mostly snow. Then we're like, we're trying to zoom in. We're

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trying to zoom that scope in and
get like one specific section or area down.

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Uh, So we can talk about
that as we as we go through

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it. But yeah, any any
other preamble, anything that you want to

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I guess the how we're doing this
is we're kind of doing in a similar

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format to how we did the video
game titles one, where we're both gonna

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just keep lobbing out suggestions. We
don't have a limit like we did for

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that where we all did we both
had to stick to fifteen. I have

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twenty five on my list and a
few honorable mentions. I think I'll mention

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all of them. Will see,
I might might skip a couple, but

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I think a lot of them might
be just kind of quick mentions. And

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then we're gonna once again, once
we have that big list of stuff,

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then we're gonna shrink it down to
a top ten and then and then a

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rank it. And I gotta say
too for me on the ranking side of

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things like this list of twenty five
whatever games, I really have no idea

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which ones are gonna be top or
bottom for me here and the way that

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we came into that titles one and
there was a couple that I'm like,

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there's no way, SPLUNKI it's not
making in the top ten. Like I

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will not end the broadcast until I
convinced Kirkland to put that well on there.

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I don't think I have that for
this. I don't know what are

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my like easy slam dunk ones and
which ones I need to deliberate on.

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So I think it'll be a fun, way to fun one to go through.

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I actually have twenty three on my
list, so we okay, similar

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numbers, so that's kind. I'm
sure we'll have some overlap as well.

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Yeah, so this is this is
very exciting. But yeah, you wanna

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you want to start us off?
You want you throw it, I'll start

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us off. Where do I want
to go? Okay, this is one

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that immediately I just knew it was
gonna be on the list. I'm taking

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the sky Rail level. I believe
that was the level, or at least

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the maps called from a double seven
night Fire. That's the one with a

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gondola that goes. We played it
on Geeker's gauntlets, so there is footage

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I do remember that map? Actual, Yeah, I don't know. Is

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there actually gondole? I don't remember
a gondola. Yeah, there's a there's

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a gondola that just is constantly moving
from like there's two bases, one that's

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kind of at a higher elevation and
then you can ride that down. And

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I played that one so many times
playing I don't know, just multiplayer or

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against bots or whatnot, but just
I've always loved the aesthetic of that.

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I feel like mostly back in the
day, I just liked it because of

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the gondolas. It's like a moving
a moving variable. That's that's new to

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have it on a level like that. But yeah, this one, it's

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it's completely winter theme. Oh there
you go. That hat's coming off.

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Are you getting warm? Yeah?
It just did the sand hat over the

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headphones. It's just not no anesthetic
I'm vibing with. So for the intro,

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I'm glad it is also very warm
in this room right now. Yeah

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it's winter, you look warm.
But yeah, for this one, there's

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two different skyrail maps actually on double
seven Night Night Fire, and I believe

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they're both wintry as well, So
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there, but yeah, kind of
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or three variants of each map,
like the certain aesthetic. They just have

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like a couple of different configurations.
I guess. Yeah, I think they're

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a lot more different than what the
the Golden Eye variants are because those ones

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are basically the exact same. It
seems at least a handful of them.

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What was it was like Library and
another one that was all these ones that

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I look pretty much the exact same. Yeah, Double seven, Night Night,

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Night Fire, Skyrail. There we
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names there. Nice. I will
throw in then another first person shooter competitive

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map here. I'm gonna thro one
Snowbound from Halo three. I feel like

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Halo there's a lot of these sort
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one snow level in their midst and
Halo three or I guess the Halo series

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in general, I think is no
stranger to that, and this is probably

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the best one. And honestly,
Halo three is such a strong game where

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like some of my favorite all time
like multiplayer competitive maps in that game.

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So I don't know if Snowbound is
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But it's it's certainly a really nice
Snow level. I think it kind

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of has that element that I alluded
to earlier, where you know, a

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lot of snow everywhere it's like one
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Covenant bases that are like bright purple, right, and so they kind of

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like are sticking up as the snow
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and a couple of these structures just
like rise above it. So it

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has like this really nice esthetic to
it. And then even then there's like

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ghosts and other vehicles on this map
too that are kind of cruising around,

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so I feel like it just really
decorates it nicely. But yeah, it's

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it's kind of got like you know, you can go inside and that's like

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a bit of a reprieve from the
cold, so to speak. But yeah,

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it's always been just like a solid, a solid map and a good

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classic snow level. That's funny.
This is actually specifically the map that I

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was looking for earlier that I wasn't
able to find. I wasn't sure what

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Halo game it was from, but
I remember playing a specific Halo Snow made

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or like, I don't think this
was a Halo two one that was brought

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over to Halo three, and I
don't know if it was in like Reach

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or anything else, so I feel
like it might have just been in Halo

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three and that was it. Okay, So yeah, I'm glad. I'm

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glad you thought of that one because
the other Snow level that I had brought

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up from Halo this is from Halo
one, Sidewinder. This is the level

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where you're in the tank. I
think you're you're in like the Scorpions for

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basically the entire level, and uh
yeah, I just remember playing through this

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one so many times, really just
loving it because I feel like that was

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the first time I could like play
in a tank like that in the Halo

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game. So it was really great
just introduction to that vehicle as well as

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uh, I mean the whole maps
it's snow, so there you go.

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I don't know if I remember it
because Halo one and two, like,

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I've really just played the campaigns and
so when it comes down to the competitive

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maps like Halo two, I think
a lot of those are brought over and

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I played a little bit of that
with friends, But yeah, I don't

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think I've ever played on Sidewinder,
but this looks well. Sidewinder is the

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that's like the name of the mission
itself. So okay, it's a single

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mission. Okay, yeah, yeah, I don't remember this one, but

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since I played Halo one, oh
yeah, absolutely, I remember that one

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so vividly because back on the original
Xbox there was like a glitch that you

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could like skip a checkpoint, so
certain mobs just wouldn't spawn. And like

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a friend who had it just showed
it to me, and I just thought

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it was I thought it was like
hacks, like I didn't understand how those

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But is that one going on the
list too? Is that a top?

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That was the one on my on
my list because I couldn't think of the

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other one that you mentioned, So
yeah, I wouldn't mind throw it in

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there, got the nostalgia factor for
me. Why don't you throw another one?

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All right? Out of here?
I will bring up the Northern Wastes

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from Fable to last chapter. Now, this isn't like a set level.

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I just think like the overall aesthetic. I believe it was in the expansion

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DLC, like the Lost Chapters portion
of Fable. Yeah, because in my

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mind I was like, I feel
like I've seen Snow and Fable, but

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like I went through all the areas
on a wiki and I was like,

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there's no Snow level. But I
was definitely not as much of a player

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of the Lost chapter. So is
that that's where the Snow area was?

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Yeah, yeah, so that's like
the final portion of that expansion DLC and

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I just think they do is such
a great job with capturing like the aesthetic

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to it, very dangerous enemies there. Obviously it's like a later game area,

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but yeah, I'm I wanted to
throw that one on. The amazing

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aesthetics just from the images here.
Oh yeah, and the town, I

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forget that what the name of the
town is, but snow Aspire. Now

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Aspire there you go. Yeah,
oh my god, that looks so cozy,

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dangerous place. Spoilers for the future
of Sideques. I think we will

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probably do a Fable retrospective Fable four
comes out, So I'm very excited to

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finally jump into that DLC an experience
Snow Aspire. I love that name.

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That's great. It was such a
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from like the main area, they
make like a big emphasis that it takes

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a long time to get to where
you're going, and then when you get

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there, your character has like a
big beard now like it's got grays.

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that, just your character changing based
on your oh yeah, actions and overtime

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and whatnot. Shot outs a Fable. Let's see, I think maybe I'll

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go with my with my nickname here
the Interloper. So this might be a

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bit of a weird one, but
in Outer Wild's one of my favorite games

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where you know, you're just playing
around in this one solar system. In

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the solar system, there's a comet
that's going around. It's kind of going

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on this weird elliptical motion and it's
just like an icy comet that's going around,

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and it's it's something that you see
all the time early on in the

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game, but it just is moving
so fast and it's so small and it's

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not such a weird angle that you
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And then eventually you can figure out
triangulate location Ryan land on The Interloper

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and Slate spoilers here for one of
the puzzles on here, but I always

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thought it was really cool that when
you're on the Interloper, it's this big

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icy colmet and you have to like
get through the top of it somehow,

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but it's like so many thick layers
of ice. You're like, I don't

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know how I can possibly do that. But the trick is to just like

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land on the Interloper and just wait
on its cycle for it to get closer

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to the sun and then it like
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can go through and get into it. So, yeah, this is like

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maybe a pretty small and probably the
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so far, but yeah, I
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really cool area, and uh yeah, I always one that you just kind

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of see and every once in a
while you won't even be trying to get

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to it and then it will just
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you because the game, you know, because of the game scale and whatnot.

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So shout outs to the Interloper,
that's awesome. I like that little

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puzzle hint or the yeah, just
how you figure out. Yeah, it's

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a funny one because like if you
can't solve it, you might just accidentally

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solve it, because if you're just
like spending fifteen minutes trying to figure it

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out, you might just be on
the planet or on the comment long enough

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for it to solve itself. Which
that game has a few of those and

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always feels cool when you discover something
like that. Awesome. Okay, I

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will mention which one should I go
for here? Okay, I'll do the

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Cliffhanger level from mon War for two. Yeah, that was another one that

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was just okay, gotta bring up
this one. I feel like that's probably

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I mean, All Gillied Up is
like the renowned, like one of the

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best Call of Duty single player missions
of all time, but that one I

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remember just getting, like that first
E three trailer from Montar for two.

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I remember being in the basement watching
with my cousin and just like just loving

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what we were seeing from that game. It was the first time they had

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like the heartbeat sensor and everything on
it. So yeah, I think the

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excitement for that game and the fact
that that was the level that they showed

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off it was it was so comparable
to that All Gillied Up mission, just

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with like the stealth sequence to it. So yeah, I love that one.

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Yeah, I had to watch a
YouTube video for that because it's been

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so long since I've played through it
myself. But like, I think the

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started level starts with you just like
climbing up the fac side like some ice

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picks, and then you are your
weapon has like this a white kind of

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camel over it, and that whole
level like there's so this is like the

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epitome of just like Full Blizzard,
where you can't see ten feet in front

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of you, so you're just relying
on the heartbeat sensor. Uh so,

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yeah, like really well designed level. But then also the aesthetics and the

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snow, the snow, that whole
vibe of it makes makes the whole level.

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So oh you shouted this one out? Yeah, such a such a

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fun stealth sequence, and like your
camera is just frosty all around it,

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like your screen that you're seeing.
So it just really captures I think that

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immersive of feeling absolutely cold. Yeah, how to say, I really want

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to just like boot the game up
and play that mission. Uh, you

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got kind of a nostalgic for it. While we're talking about Modern War War

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two, there was two competitive maps
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I should say that were also snow
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Bass. I think Derails, I
just want to kind of shout it out

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because you know, it's a Any
map in that game is fun, but

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I think it's definitely falls below.
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my favorites I think for like free
frawls or teams, just like very vertical

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vertical focus, like the kind of
different hallways, you kind of ways you

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can sneaker on the outside of the
map, or just like the huge altercations

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that would happen in the middle.
It was always one of my favorites in

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that game, and the snow aesthetic
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to the intensity of it. So
yeah, that one's list as well.

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I'm glad you mentioned you brought up
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vivid memories with each of those maps. On Derail, that was the first

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map I ever got a nuke on
Comatay, and then a little bit before

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that on sub Base, that was
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on, which was like the second
highest. Man, I don't know if

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I ever got a nuke on Derail. That was definitely was I was definitely

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more of like an afghan or wasteland. Guy, those were like my two

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places where I got the most.
I don't know if I ever I would.

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And the thing with the Derail is
like I had to watch the YouTube

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videos because like I couldn't remember the
exact layout of it or a sub base.

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I feel like I could still go
on that map and just give you

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a guided to or of every room. I just remember it so well.

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But that's so cool that it was
your first Yeah, I I it was.

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It was one of those situations where
I camped the entire game. I

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was in like the very center of
the map. There's like a two story

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building or something. Maybe it's a
three story I can't quite remember, but

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yeah, I had like no death
that game. I had probably one man

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Army or Scavenger Pro whatever it was. They like the Ultimate campaign. Uh,

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A good level to hide on because
of the it also has like the

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Blizzard stuff going on in terms of
the visibility of it. That's right,

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Should that one go on the list? It sounds like it should for the

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time being. Yeah, might as
well. I didn't have it on my

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list, but we're bringing up some
fond memories, so yeah, of course,

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we'll make a huge list right now, go ahead. And I had

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another one here, Okay, I'm
gonna bring up I had to find a

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way to get a Warhammer map on
here. Now, with Warhammer it's usually

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just one giant map. There is
some snow areas, but this is very

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uh specific. Uh. It's actually
the prologue for Warhammer three. So it's

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like a shorter little campaign that you
do, pretty linear. But what that

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prologue is is you start in the
northern regions and you're just traveling into in

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the Warhammer world, the Chaos realm
is in like the far North, so

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you're you're very very north, and
then as you keep going further and further,

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things just start getting weird and it
goes from being like icy level to

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just like full on, like you're
entering Hell. So they did such a

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good job at just like thematically just
getting your character feel like they're going crazier

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and crazier as they go deeper into
into the wastes and just the whole overall

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map. It had some really really
fun battles that they had set up,

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and like the campaign map itself,
it was just changing as you got farther

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north and your character was getting crazy
and crazier, making like more rash decisions.

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It's a pretty short like intro to
the game. It's probably like an

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hour total to finish that little prologue
sequence. But I just thought they did

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such a good job at capturing the
overall sthetic of what that game is of,

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like bringing in like the chaos factions
into the game, but also just

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immersively. It just it was so
well done. I remember when that game

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came out, you know, midnight
release, so it was like nine pm

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our time, and I was just
like waiting for this game forever, and

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that was the first thing I'd played. I just thought they nailed the nail

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on the head with that one.
So yeah, I wanted to bring that

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one up. It's kind of a
niche pick. I don't know how it's

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gonna make it in the long run, but I just, yeah, I

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thought they did such a good job
on it. I want to bring them

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into this list. Come on,
got to get a Warhammer title somewhere,

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you gotta, how about I think
now is a good time maybe to bring

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in one of my open world game
picks. And I have a handful of

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these, been not too too many. The first one here I'm gonna shout

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out is the town of Bruma from
the Elder Scrolls for Oblivion. So this

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is this is the most northern town
in on the world map, and it's

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kind of very close to the border
of Skyrim. Unsurprisingly that it's the snowy

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place, but yeah, it's always
been one of my favorite towns in that

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game. Every city, every town
in that game is is really great,

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and there's like a good like eight
or nine of them. They're all really

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awesome. But I've always just loved
the aesthetic of Bruma. Just yeah,

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the snow piled top, high on
the roofs, the rooftops, and it's

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always kind of been like a cozy
place for me too, which is the

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the kind of log cabin style aesthetic
of the buildings there. There's like a

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giant church kind of in the middle
of the town. But yeah, I've

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always always loved Bruman. I think
it's always more a bit more of a

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low key spot in the game.
It's not really where any of the main

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quests or any factions are. There's
I think there's probably a Fighter's End Major's

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Guild there, but I feel like
that's not where any of those guilds kind

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of center around, so it can
kind of ends up being this more special

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place that you just go to every
once in a while. And then I

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think one of the main quest areas
like that nearby is like where their big

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hideout is, so like near the
end of the game, you're spending a

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lot of time there if you're doing
the main quest stuff. So shout outs

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to Bruma just just a great,
great aesthetic. It's funny because it looks

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totally like a town right out of
Skyrim, right, so it makes sense

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that it is so close to Skyrim, just looking very different from the overall

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like the other Oblivion talents, at
least the ones that I'm familiar with,

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because when I think of a believer
and I really just think of like like

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the cyrillic capital. Yeah, so
no, good shout out like that.

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Okay, I'm gonna go. I'm
gonna go. Another strategy title here.

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This is from Warcraft three Reign of
Chaos, one of my favorite arts games

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of all time, And this I
don't know what the area is called,

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but the specific level is just called
Frost Morne. It's a really badass key

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moment. I'm sure you're aware of
the character the way I almost called the

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Witch King. My gosh, the
lych King. There you go, Yeah,

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Arthur, when he he finally claims
frost Moren, that's like the blade

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that corrupts him and then he becomes
the lich King. But it's just a

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great like climax because up until that
point, I actually think that is the

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final level on the Human campaign,
so you're you're finally at like the end

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of the journey. It's very similar
to actually to the situation I was mentioning

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from Warhammer three where your character is
just going so far north and he's kind

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of like forgetting the main reason of
like why he's doing this. He's just

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going so crazy and by the end
of it, he's just trying to take

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his his final uh his air sorry, his main enemy out and he doesn't

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really care who has to sacrifice for
it. So I just love that level

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so much for the build up of
the actual overall story as well as Yeah,

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it's just esthetically it feels like you're
in the most northern region of the

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world up until that point because of
like the levels leading up to it.

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It's it's kind of wintry, but
that is definitely like the pinnacle of it

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and yeah, I mean you get
the blade in ice, you know,

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so it's it's it's just a really
yeah. So that's a big nostalgia title

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for me too. I just I
remember playing that as a wee lad and

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loving it lots, and I still
think of it when I think of a

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frost you know, icy life.
I feel like there's there's also like kind

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of two categories of the snow levels, where there is just straight ups covered

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in snow, like the blank of
snow. But then there's also the really

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icy levels. I feel like they
have a very different tome where the ice

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is kind of like this teal blue
and I feel like this is kind of

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more icy, and it's obviously it's
got a lot of both, but for

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me, it's one of those like
very strong icy places, which is such

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a striking thing, right, all
these sharp edges and whatnot of the ice,

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So totally I really like that.
I really like that. Shout out

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let me bring in Summit. This
is a stage in Super Smash bros.

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In I think it's pretty much an
all them brawl onwards. This is the

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kind of ice climbers stage. They've
always had two ice climber stages. One

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is like the one that scrolls up
and down as you're playing through it.

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Fuck that stage. Ye, not
a big fan of it whatsoever, but

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some it has always been a really
fun one where you start out where you're

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just like this big iceberg essentially the
top of a mountain, I think,

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and then you you like start sliding
down the mountain, so that's kind of

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like one hazard part, and then
it just drops into like the deep waters

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and then it's kind of just floating
there and then there's like fish and whatnot.

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But I think in terms of as
far as Smash Bros. Stages go,

406
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,599
this one's always had an interesting structure
to it where it's kind of got

407
00:24:06,599 --> 00:24:10,799
that classic almost triangle shape of a
battlefield, but instead there's like a huge

408
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,519
chunk of snow or ice whatever it
is, and like the very center of

409
00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:15,799
it, so it ends up being
like a giant O shape, and so

410
00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:18,440
it makes like this chaotic thing.
Or you can kind of run in circles

411
00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:19,920
or chase someone, or you can
kind of camp and I don't know.

412
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,440
It's definitely not a competitive stage by
any means, but it's always been one

413
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,039
of my favorites in terms of just
casual play. And I was surprised too

414
00:24:27,039 --> 00:24:30,079
when I was looking through the list
of stages in like Smash Ultimate, which

415
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,960
has you know, every almost every
stage that's been in the whole series,

416
00:24:33,599 --> 00:24:38,279
and there's only two like snowy maps
of any kind, and it's it's these

417
00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:41,880
two. It's it's the two ice
Climber ones, which is surprising to me.

418
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,559
I thought there would be like at
least another one or two snow levels

419
00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:47,519
that sneak in there. But I
guess if they're having a Mario level,

420
00:24:47,519 --> 00:24:51,039
they're not gonna pick the snow aesthetic
Mario. They're gonna pick the more kind

421
00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:56,440
of classic mushroom Kingdom sort of aesthetic. So yeah, I feel like that's

422
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,640
something I didn't think about until now. But the next Smash Bros. Game

423
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:02,000
needs like a new fresh snow level, like, not a nice Climber's one,

424
00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:04,200
give us a new just difference,
not a moving one either. We

425
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:10,359
don't want we don't like the moving
maps. There you go, something good

426
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:15,000
mention. Yeah, I was trying
to think of a specific one from Smash

427
00:25:15,079 --> 00:25:18,400
but I because I knew the ice
Climbers obviously would have had a level,

428
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:23,759
but nothing really peaked my nostalgiasms enough
to really want to go out there and

429
00:25:23,759 --> 00:25:30,400
search for it. But okay,
I'm gonna mention I believe the level is

430
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:36,319
called a Train to Catch from Uncharted
two. This was the sequence that's actually

431
00:25:36,319 --> 00:25:40,519
on the cover of the game where
you have Nathan Drake like hanging on it's

432
00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:44,880
hanging on off of like the cliff. I think it was kind of like

433
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,839
the E three level as well.
Maybe it's not, but I just remember

434
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,200
that that level or sorry set piece, but yeah, that overall set piece

435
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,519
and sequence just so clear before I
even got my hands in the game.

436
00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:56,680
And then that was one that as
I was playing the game, I'm just

437
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,440
waiting to get to that point because
I knew it was coming and I knew

438
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,720
how pick it was. But when
you actually play through it, it just

439
00:26:02,799 --> 00:26:06,680
delivers so much, so much bigger, I think than I already had my

440
00:26:06,759 --> 00:26:10,799
expectations set, because you don't actually
start like in the mountains on it.

441
00:26:10,799 --> 00:26:14,799
It's it's your pretty low elevation,
you're close to some water, and then

442
00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:18,400
as the level gets to the climac, like the climac climactic moment where you

443
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:25,839
go off the rails and then it
gears into another level that is set I

444
00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:27,559
think in like the Himalayan Mountains,
So I could maybe pick that one,

445
00:26:27,599 --> 00:26:30,480
but I wanted to go for the
train one just because, Yeah, I

446
00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:34,119
think that is the more iconic sequence, and uh, by the end of

447
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,880
it, like Nate is just so
like busted and bloody, and then you

448
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,359
just find yourself like in the snow, just freezing, and you just feel

449
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,440
for the character, like you feel
his pain and his cold in that moment.

450
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,440
Uh, and so much snow that
level is so much snow in it.

451
00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:52,680
So definitely knew that that one was
gonna be on the list, So

452
00:26:52,839 --> 00:26:56,960
I just wrote train sequence from Uncharted
too, because like I said, there

453
00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,680
there is like a later level that's
actually set like in the Himalayan Mountains.

454
00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:04,000
But I don't know, I thought
this one was a little bit more iconic.

455
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:10,200
Sounds good, Okay, I'm gonna
go with this one is probably gonna

456
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,680
be a favorite of mine, just
putting that out early. This is Hokkaido

457
00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:17,640
from Hitman twenty sixteen. I guess
we can call it which I feel like,

458
00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:19,279
have you played this map? I
know you like you've dabbled a bit.

459
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,680
I know, I know you've mentioned
this map before. But maybe we've

460
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,880
just talked about it in passing.
I remember it very clearly from your Hitman

461
00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:30,599
map rankings that you Okay, I
checked that out and then I was looking

462
00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:32,920
at the maps that way, but
no, I haven't played it. Yeah,

463
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,880
So this is the the hit Man
level set in the mountains of Japan,

464
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:38,559
and it's it's great because you're like
you can go out on the on

465
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:45,240
well essentially it's like a it's this
high class hospital, but then also like

466
00:27:45,279 --> 00:27:48,680
there's this spa resort area, there's
like this high end sushi bar, and

467
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,759
then of course there's all like the
employee areas when you get behind the closed

468
00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:55,720
doors, the locked doors. But
if you just go out to the balcony,

469
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,480
you can just look down and see
like this beautiful like winter landscaping,

470
00:27:59,519 --> 00:28:03,799
and see this like city out in
the distance, these beautiful like mountain Fiji

471
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,160
level mountains going on. One of
the escape routes you can use is just

472
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,160
to hop on a gondola and like
cruise down the mountain, which is always

473
00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:14,240
very fun. I love gondolas.
Yeah, but this this map is like

474
00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:17,920
perfect because you kind of have like
the little terrace area that has almost like

475
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,720
a little koy ponds and whatnot,
and I feel like it's like very steamy

476
00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:23,799
and the way you would like in
the you know, winter place, like

477
00:28:23,839 --> 00:28:26,599
go into a hot tub and then
you know you get out. All all

478
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,119
that has that that whole feel to
it. But yeah, this is just

479
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:36,279
like an all time great hit Man
map and it's got that beautiful winter esthetic,

480
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,559
the mountains, the gondola, all
all the ice, all that kind

481
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:41,279
of stuff you could want from it. So I feel like this in terms

482
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:45,640
of just raw like best levels of
all time, Hokkaido's up there, just

483
00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:48,039
regardless of aesthetics. So the fact
that it's also snow level, it's gonna

484
00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:52,039
make it a favorite for me here. But yeah, this is definitely one

485
00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:53,400
of my favorites too of the whole
trilogy. I forget where I put it

486
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,279
on my ranking, but off the
top of my head and say, it

487
00:28:56,319 --> 00:29:00,480
is like top five, top ten
somewhere in that in that pocket in a

488
00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:03,680
game that has just amazing levels the
whole way through. So yeah, that's

489
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,160
a beautiful looking level. Just hooping
at some of these images, I think

490
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:14,839
I'll follow your very heart pick with
my other very heart passionate pick. This

491
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,039
is from one of my favorite games
of all time. Journey literally any game

492
00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:21,720
that I bring up all the time. I feel like I've played through this

493
00:29:21,799 --> 00:29:23,559
game no less than five times.
It's just such a good sit down.

494
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,599
There is a winter snowy part of
this game. Yeah, so once you

495
00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:30,119
I mean, when you continue on
the journey, there's a certain section that

496
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:36,279
you get pretty high up in the
mountains and your character like just feels like

497
00:29:36,319 --> 00:29:40,920
they're freezing up. Like your movements
get super slow, you get frost over

498
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,799
all your character, and it actually
starts like like damaging sort of your character

499
00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:48,200
a little bit. And I just
think that they did it. I mean,

500
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:49,720
I love that game so much.
I feel like they totally tear your

501
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,160
heartstrings. They immerse you in this
world without any like words in it whatsoever.

502
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,160
But specifically this section, you just
really feel like you've been on this

503
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:02,640
journey for very very long time.
You've you've made all these like kilometers of

504
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,319
treks up this mountain, and then
at this point, it's just like guss

505
00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:10,400
of wind that's blowing snow on your
character and you just really freeze up.

506
00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:12,440
I won't say what happens after it
if anyone hasn't played the game, but

507
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,720
I just yeah, I think that
this section they really just do such a

508
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,880
good job at making you feel I
think the length of the journey that you've

509
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,920
already been on and it feels like
you're right at the end, but you're

510
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,839
like still not quite there, and
it almost just feels like you can't you

511
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,599
can't keep moving on. But yeah, I think they did such a good

512
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,720
job but just capturing that that that
well, there's tons of snow, but

513
00:30:34,759 --> 00:30:37,599
also just like the cold, that
harshness of it. Yeah, I think

514
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,720
that's a good thing to bring up. I feel like there's a lot of

515
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,240
survival games that don't incorporate that too
in terms of their mechanics, which I

516
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,079
think is always good. But even
like we didn't have to talk about this,

517
00:30:48,119 --> 00:30:52,559
but a lot of snow levels tend
to have like slippery blocks if you're

518
00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:56,039
thinking about like a Mario game,
which I don't think is necessarily a good

519
00:30:56,039 --> 00:30:57,720
thing. You know, often that's
very annoying, and that might be why

520
00:30:57,799 --> 00:31:03,759
some of the like Mario levels don't
get super high on my list. But

521
00:31:03,799 --> 00:31:06,200
so yeah, I think there's like
different pros and cons to what a snow

522
00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:10,039
level could be. What should we
call that section, or that it's actually

523
00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:15,480
just called snow. I guess,
like the example, speaking of Mario,

524
00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:18,680
let's get Mario on the list here. So Super Mario sixty four has two

525
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,799
snow levels you can go to.
There's one called Snowman's Land, which is

526
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:26,920
not one of my favorites. I
think it's probably maybe even just the individually

527
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,160
weakest map in the whole or course
in the whole game. Then the other

528
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,240
one is Cool Cool Mountain, and
this is one of my favorites. It's

529
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,839
one of the very early ones.
I think it's maybe the second or third

530
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,680
door you have access to. And
this is just all about like that snowboard

531
00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:42,759
fantasy kind of There's like the huge
slide outside, there's a slide inside where

532
00:31:42,759 --> 00:31:48,200
you can race against the penguin down
down the whole mountain. There a lot

533
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,839
of ice, a lot of snow
on this one's just obviously one big old

534
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,160
mountain. Uh. And you know
there's like a snowman that you can you

535
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,400
can repair him on this map and
whatnot. So it's got all of those

536
00:31:56,599 --> 00:32:00,279
snow things too. And I think
for me too, out of all these

537
00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:02,279
like this is the music I can
instantly picture in my head, and it

538
00:32:02,319 --> 00:32:06,480
has like a little sleigh bells in
there, and it's just it has that

539
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,359
that holiday wholesome vibe to it.
So yeah, shout outs to Cool Cool

540
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,039
Mountain. That one was on my
list as well. I'm not even a

541
00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:16,200
big like Super Mario sixty four player. I think the fact that it is

542
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,359
early on in that game it helps
because I actually have played that one,

543
00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:23,039
and I think it also just kind
of captures. I don't know how festive

544
00:32:23,079 --> 00:32:25,440
it is, but in my mind, I just think kind of Christmas Eve.

545
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,960
The music, it's music man,
that like that just throws the layer

546
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,000
of the aesthetics like way over the
top. Yeah, oh, one hundred

547
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,599
percent. So yeah, good,
good shout out I was I think I

548
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,039
was. Oh yeah, it was
lower on my list, but I had

549
00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:45,559
that one on there. Okay,
I have I'm gonna mention the opening prologue

550
00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:50,960
for Red Dead two. You didn't
play Red Dead, did you? Not

551
00:32:51,079 --> 00:32:54,319
yet? Not too? Not too? Yeah, red Redemption two. This

552
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,720
is probably one of the best looking
snow I think if any video game has

553
00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:00,920
ever done ever. I mean,
it's stars, obviously you would expect big

554
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,000
quality, but that one there's people
freezing and dying and you just feel like

555
00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:07,960
you're gonna be one of them,
like they do such a good job.

556
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,799
There's a section where you're on a
horse with like a lantern and you can

557
00:33:09,839 --> 00:33:14,440
barely see like anything in front of
you because it's just like nighttime and the

558
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,400
blizzard's hitting through. And yeah,
this one, I knew it was gonna

559
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,799
be on here because it's just such
a well done sequence. So just prologue

560
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:25,000
for Red Dead two, which yeah, I've definitely heard about that before and

561
00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:28,880
I kind of forgot, But it's
funny to me that both Red Dead two

562
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,440
and GTA five have like the snow
prolog that's right, Yeah, I guess

563
00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:35,640
GK five is probably lot like I
think that section of Red Dead's like it's

564
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,319
an extended sequence, you know,
yeas GT five it's essentially like the tutorial

565
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:43,119
mission that takes you probably no more
than well even that probably takes a good

566
00:33:43,119 --> 00:33:45,200
like twenty five minutes, thirty minutes
something like that. That's an iconic one

567
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,920
too. I don't think for me
it's on the list necessarily, but definitely

568
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,559
worth a shout out. But was
that on this by the way, should

569
00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:54,839
we put it on there or for
gg GTA I had it as an armable

570
00:33:54,839 --> 00:33:59,279
mentioned just because I think it was
much shorter like the Red Dead sequence.

571
00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:00,920
Like you said, like she do
missions and stuff, it's not just one

572
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:07,880
yeah set mission. So yeah.
And then so this is also a funny

573
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,199
theme but like the two GTA ones. And then here's my next pick is

574
00:34:10,519 --> 00:34:15,599
the tutorial from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
is also like a snowy area. So

575
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,320
I've just been playing this recently and
I'm very excited to talk to you about

576
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,239
this game. I want to play
more of it, and I'll bring it

577
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,719
up at some point inside Custlin Fugu
because I want to have a full discussion

578
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,679
about how weird and interesting this game
is from like the fire Emblem fan perspective.

579
00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:30,760
But just a very quick setup for
this game is that you know,

580
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,360
it's it's a fantasy setting game,
but the actual way that's contextualized within the

581
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,760
game is that you're a bunch of
kids like playing like a D and D

582
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,159
campaign, and so like the actual
game is like that D and D campaign,

583
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,920
But then the prolog of the game
is like you and your friends hanging

584
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,440
out in your town and it's winter, and the tutorial of the game is

585
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:51,920
like done through a snowball fight that
you're having like in the backyard before you

586
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,960
like go into Whoever's house and set
up the game, and then like go

587
00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:58,480
into the actual game itself. So
I just think that's such a funny and

588
00:34:58,559 --> 00:35:02,039
weird idea. But also just like
how many games have like snowball fights or

589
00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:06,480
snowball throwing mechanics as a thing,
it just doesn't happen very often. So

590
00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:09,519
this is obviously not going to be
the most engaging tactical level in the game

591
00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:15,360
because it's the introduction of the mechanics, but at least for the aesthetics of

592
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,159
it, it definitely is worthy of
a shout out. So I'll just call

593
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,199
I'll just call it the tutorial.
I don't know if it has an actual

594
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,440
chapter title, but yeah, that's
awesome. I like how it kind of

595
00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:27,679
I would say it breaks, well, kind of breaking like the fourth wall

596
00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:30,599
of just your character. Is it's
weird? Yeah, yeah, it is

597
00:35:30,639 --> 00:35:35,480
weird for sure. And it's kind
of like Tiny Tina's Adventure, right where

598
00:35:35,639 --> 00:35:38,159
like that, isn't that game they're
playing like a board game? Isn't isn't

599
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:40,559
that? I love your rendition on
the titles that, but I think it

600
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:45,280
is. I think it is that
my clothes. I think Tiny Feen is

601
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:51,800
Wonderland, so adventure wonderland. But
yeah, whatever it is. Okay,

602
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,400
moving on, what do I got
here? Okay, this this was a

603
00:35:54,440 --> 00:36:00,960
big one for me of I completely
forgot about this this level until I was

604
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,519
doing some research for it, and
I'm so glad I found it because this

605
00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:07,719
one, I truly think it has
a place in the top ten list.

606
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,760
This is a boss battle from middle
Gear Solid four. It's called the Crying

607
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,079
Wolf Boss Battle guns in the Patriots. I believe it's the subtitle for that

608
00:36:15,159 --> 00:36:21,119
game. Man, this is I
remember playing this at the time on like

609
00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:24,880
the PS three and I just I
couldn't believe of how like well made this

610
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,280
boss sequence was. It's it's a
boss battle, but it's not like you're

611
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,840
in a closed room. It's a
very open outside area. It's a massive

612
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,039
blizzard going on with tons of snow, and there's like this there's there's just

613
00:36:37,079 --> 00:36:40,559
this like super sniper that's like trying
to hunt you down and snipe you.

614
00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:45,079
But there's also like tons of enemies, so you have to be really creative

615
00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:49,679
with stealthying around the area while dodging
like sniper fire from this thing. That's

616
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,679
hunting you. You have like a
like a camouflage mass. You can kind

617
00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:59,000
of go like perfectly camouflage with some
thermal vision, so you can like kind

618
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,760
of see the enemies. But you
just I don't know, I just think

619
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,559
the fact that there's so many different
things going on as opposed to you just

620
00:37:04,599 --> 00:37:08,000
fighting like a single boss those games, I think that's actually like the main

621
00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:13,199
Middle Yoursel, Like the most that
I put time into a middle cost game

622
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,639
was The Middle Yoursel at four,
And I just thought throughout that entire game,

623
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:20,320
all of the boss battles were very, very different and unique, and

624
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,239
I'm sure that just carries over with
all the other titles, maybe beforehand after

625
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,679
that one, but for that specific
boss battle, they just did such a

626
00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:31,239
good job at capturing again, like
you just feel super super vulnerable, even

627
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:35,119
though you do have some tools to
your advantage to kind of hide in the

628
00:37:35,159 --> 00:37:37,840
snow. But there's like just this
sniper somewhere on this map, and then

629
00:37:38,199 --> 00:37:43,039
it's a pretty long like ball like
it's probably like a thirty minute fight because

630
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,280
like you're not just fighting the enemy, you're taking out the other guys while

631
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,079
dodging them, and then you have
to eventually get up to this big tower

632
00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:52,599
to try and find the enemy that
you're fighting, and I just remember dying

633
00:37:52,639 --> 00:37:55,280
a lot and then feeling very satisfied
by and like by the end of it.

634
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,800
And it's it's not even like a
Soul's game or anything like that.

635
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,800
It's just early in my gaming career. I just felt really accomplished from that

636
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,360
one. So, yeah, it's
called Crying Wolf Boss Battle middle Gear Solid

637
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,880
four. Yeah. I think I'll
be fighting for that one later on.

638
00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:15,440
I love it. I'm gonna bring
in the next one here after our first

639
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:21,719
break. We'll be right back.
Okay, we are back. I'm curious

640
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,159
how this one's going to hit your
ear because I feel like I'd be surprised

641
00:38:24,199 --> 00:38:27,800
if you had this on your list, but hopefully you're like, oh shit,

642
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,559
I totally missed that. And this
is the it's called the Battle of

643
00:38:30,639 --> 00:38:35,960
Blizzard Bridge from Kirby and the Forgotten
Land. I don't know if you remember

644
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,679
this one. I don't. I
assume you got. Did you get to

645
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:43,079
the whole snow area in that game? Yeah, So this one really stands

646
00:38:43,079 --> 00:38:46,159
out to me. One it just
has like the most banging music ever where

647
00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:51,920
it's just like a seven minute long, like just intense jazz fusion track.

648
00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:55,199
Oh yeah, but this level is
pretty You're just going across this snowy bridge

649
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:59,559
and you're going ducking into the doors
and like doing little battles or puzzles in

650
00:38:59,599 --> 00:39:01,360
different rooms and then just going across
the bridge. More so, it's a

651
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:07,079
very simple level. But I just
I love the aesthetics of this map in

652
00:39:07,119 --> 00:39:09,039
general, the look and like I
said that music, the music is not

653
00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:13,079
traditional like once again, not a
lot of sleigh bells, not a lot

654
00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:15,480
of that wholesome vibe. Yeah,
but it is just a level with an

655
00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:19,719
amazing aesthetic. And when I think
about that game, that is the first

656
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,239
level that pops into my head always. I really really love that level.

657
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,880
So yeah, to show us to
that game in general, I feel like

658
00:39:27,559 --> 00:39:30,559
it kind of got forgotten a bit, you know, title are intended there,

659
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,480
But man, I love that game. It's it's great. Oh it

660
00:39:32,559 --> 00:39:35,599
was super fun. Yeah, I'm
really glad that you brought that one up

661
00:39:35,599 --> 00:39:38,559
because yeah, I completely forgot about
this, but oh there's just such a

662
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:44,840
such a well made like sequence and
definitely captures that snowy cold aesthetic. So

663
00:39:45,119 --> 00:39:50,840
yeah, good, good shout out
there. Okay, what else have I

664
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,679
not mentioned here? Let's go Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it.

665
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:57,920
I'm gonna move over to Skyrim here. I feel like I could mention so

666
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,679
many different places in this one.
I think the main one that popped out

667
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:07,320
to me is the throat of the
world, like the high Croth Guard section.

668
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,239
But I molsto just wrote down like
the seven Thousand Steps, because I

669
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:15,360
think that the first time that you
make that ascent, you just really feel

670
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,519
like you're like, it's I don't
know, maybe it gonna last forever.

671
00:40:17,599 --> 00:40:21,320
That's where you run into the frost
troll, I think for the first time

672
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:22,920
in that game, at least if
you haven't found one in other places.

673
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:27,679
Got absolutely messed up by it.
But they did just such a great job

674
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,079
with just the snow coming down on
you as you just keep going up and

675
00:40:30,159 --> 00:40:34,800
up. You got snow just all
over the stairs, and yeah, it

676
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,719
just it looks very cold for a
game that doesn't have like those sort of

677
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,400
elements that you really have to care
about, like your character could be technically

678
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:44,320
naked running up that hill. It's
not too much of an issue. But

679
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,519
I still think they did a good
job at making it feel cold, probably

680
00:40:46,679 --> 00:40:51,880
just the music and the sound of
the wind. So yeah, yeah,

681
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,159
definitely. I mean, I think
in terms of other stroll stuff in general,

682
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,280
usually it's like the more dungeon areas
are the ones that are those more

683
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,960
hand crafted levels that we think of. In there, you're kind of sent

684
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,679
through it in a very specific way. But that's the time when they get

685
00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:06,000
to kind of do I mean,
I'm sure there's all sorts of ways you

686
00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:07,599
can glitch around and do it in
all sorts of different ways, but I

687
00:41:07,599 --> 00:41:12,199
think it's it's just a very intentional
climb. And yes, it's like they

688
00:41:12,199 --> 00:41:14,719
talk about how this is like some
impossible climb that no one's ever done,

689
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,159
and you can do it in like
fifteen minutes or whatever, but it's I

690
00:41:16,199 --> 00:41:20,199
always like doing it. I did
like multiple times in that game, and

691
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,599
it was always a always a delight
and a nice fun assent for me.

692
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,400
So I had two from Skyrim,
so we'll get through all of them,

693
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,599
but the one that stood out to
me the most, and I don't know

694
00:41:30,639 --> 00:41:34,440
you all have, just is this
weird that wind Helm is the first place

695
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,719
that comes to mind when I think
of like winter aesthetic and Skyrim, not

696
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,639
at all, because they even say
in the game that that's the coldest region

697
00:41:40,639 --> 00:41:44,960
in all really okay, like it
is the snowiest act like it is the

698
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,840
snowiest city. I believe they say
that some of the ens, so I

699
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,599
didn't. Yeah, I totally missed
that that loreer Beat. I guess it

700
00:41:51,639 --> 00:41:54,559
makes sense. It's kind of more
north northeast on the map, like maybe

701
00:41:54,559 --> 00:41:58,599
not the most northeast spot, but
it's like it's up there. But yeah,

702
00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:00,760
I feel like for me, it's
one of those places that I don't

703
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,440
know if you're wrong about this,
but I feel like you can never see

704
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:07,199
the sky because it's always just overcast
and snowy and you can't see too far

705
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,480
ahead. Snow is always on the
ground, and I think for me definitely

706
00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:13,840
like the walk up to the city
for the first time, when you're going

707
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,360
across the bridge and that whole area
is just absolutely covered in snow. Because

708
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,960
obviously tons of Skyrim is like there's
a bit of snow on the tree,

709
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,639
but then it's like a grassy area. You know, they obviously mix up

710
00:42:22,639 --> 00:42:25,519
the environment quite a bit. But
yeah, windh Helm is when I think

711
00:42:25,559 --> 00:42:29,840
of that deep snow aesthetic or whenever
I get nostalgic for Skyrim. It's like

712
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,199
the first thought of my mind is
like, I just want to walk around

713
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:36,039
Windhelm for a half hour, and
sometimes I'll just loaded the game do that,

714
00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:38,440
and then I'll just go do something
else instead. That was definitely the

715
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,159
top top mind, top of mind
for me. And some of those cities

716
00:42:43,199 --> 00:42:45,199
in Skyrim, like once you're inside
of it, it feels cozy, you

717
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:49,400
know, like you mentioned there's not
necessarily snow all over the ground, and

718
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,960
like Solitude, for example, like
it very much feels like a serialdyllic city.

719
00:42:52,639 --> 00:42:55,480
But wind Helm, like it feels
like you're on the throat of the

720
00:42:55,519 --> 00:43:00,119
world when you're in that. Ye, there's streets and they're complaining about how

721
00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:01,360
cold it is, right, so
that adds adds to that. Yeah,

722
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:06,119
and that one really feels like when
you enter I forget the name of the

723
00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:08,599
inn, like right when you walk
in through the city gate, it just

724
00:43:08,639 --> 00:43:12,719
feels like you're like, Okay,
I finally got a break from it from

725
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,320
the cold here, Like they did
a good job with that city. So

726
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,400
yeah, that that's a very solid
shout out there. I think the other

727
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,039
city that I might have mentioned is
winter Hold, which is just the one

728
00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:25,880
north of it. I didn't like
it, Like, I mean, it's

729
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,480
Skyrim, so basically all these cities
are gonna have snow everywhere, but for

730
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:32,159
that one specifically, you're like right
off of the Sea of Ghosts, which

731
00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:37,519
is just like icebergs. Yeah great, great, you looking down from up

732
00:43:37,519 --> 00:43:40,440
there really like scary and and yeah
beautiful at the same time. And then

733
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:45,199
you just have like the Calla is
just floating there like like undisturbed by the

734
00:43:45,519 --> 00:43:49,000
great tragedy that happened. Then no
one, no one can really explain what

735
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:52,440
happened. But I yeah, that
one, I think for just the the

736
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,079
overall looks. But I think if
I had to compare the two, I

737
00:43:55,079 --> 00:43:59,199
would give it to wind Helm just
because it is, like they say in

738
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,719
the game, it is the this
region. There you go. Uh,

739
00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:07,280
you can pitch another one because I
brought up or way you brought up Skyrim.

740
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:12,840
Someone, I'm gonna go now,
Uh, this is another I'm gonna

741
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,559
go for this. So Splunky and
Splunky two both have the ice Caves.

742
00:44:15,559 --> 00:44:20,079
So this is a bit different right
where it's not a specific hand crafted level.

743
00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:22,800
Instead it's a it's a roguelike,
So the configuration is always gonna be

744
00:44:23,159 --> 00:44:28,079
a little bit different each time around. Between the two games, I'm gonna

745
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,039
I think they're both fantastic areas in
their respective games, they're very differently where

746
00:44:31,039 --> 00:44:36,519
they're structured. I'm gonna go with
Ice Caves from Splunky one. I think

747
00:44:36,519 --> 00:44:39,079
that's the more maybe interesting area,
and for me, it's like the music

748
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:45,679
is really fantastic there. There's certain
special levels that will pop up to that

749
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,800
changes the aesthetics. Sometimes it'll be
snowing, sometimes not. And I think

750
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,599
this is like the perfect example of
where a slippery surface is like a fun

751
00:44:53,639 --> 00:44:59,639
additional challenge to the game rather than
like some annoying element of not having control.

752
00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:01,559
And then the there's like also ways
to get around that. And then

753
00:45:01,599 --> 00:45:06,960
it also I feel like there's a
part of like snow levels where it's like

754
00:45:07,039 --> 00:45:09,760
kind of like sparse, right because
everything's kind of this monotone color. And

755
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,679
that feels very much like the case
in Ice Caves, because that's the only

756
00:45:13,679 --> 00:45:15,440
area in Splunkie that doesn't have like
a proper ground to it. Like there's

757
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:19,559
platforms you're jumping on, but if
you fall off a ledge, you just

758
00:45:19,599 --> 00:45:24,320
will tumble down into you know,
an eternal abyss and just die rather than

759
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,639
the opposite, which you know,
take fall damage, smashing into the ground

760
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:30,800
or something like that. So a
lot of great vibes to the ice caves.

761
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:36,719
But the music too is also just
sparsely kind of decorates the landscape and

762
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:42,079
all that. So definitely a great
esthetic there. Nice, I was curious

763
00:45:42,079 --> 00:45:45,360
if a spunky was gonna be brought
up in here. Yeah, it's a

764
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,280
tricky one because of the roguelikeness of
it, but it's definitely a very standout

765
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,559
zone. Nice. Okay, I'm
gonna pull another title from that's near and

766
00:45:53,599 --> 00:46:00,400
dear to my Heart. This has
come from the Sly Cooper Franchisely two episode

767
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:06,880
seven, Operation Canada Games. This
is definitely one of my favorite I think

768
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,719
episodes in the entire game, and
it's not just because it is Canada,

769
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:15,760
but just the actual I think mechanics
that introduced because Sly, you know,

770
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:20,320
the thevious raccoonist that he is.
He's very nimble and agile, he can

771
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,519
run on lines and whatnot. But
this was the area, or I should

772
00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:25,880
say this, this was the first
area that they brought in that you can

773
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,559
kind of change your because he is
a hook for you know, pickpocketing and

774
00:46:30,599 --> 00:46:32,679
doing other things with it. But
he like can switch it into two to

775
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:37,239
ice climb on it. So like
so it captures that element to it,

776
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,320
and like it's got the Northern lights
in it. You got polar bears here.

777
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:45,159
Like this entire level I say level, it's it's an episode because it's

778
00:46:45,199 --> 00:46:49,760
kind of open world once you're in
the episode, and then you do set

779
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,840
missions inside of it. But the
final mission on that episode is literally it's

780
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,960
called the Canada Games and you're like
competing in this competition. So there's like

781
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,119
barrel running where you're like trying to
balance on the on the on the on

782
00:47:02,159 --> 00:47:05,159
the barrels of the water. I
don't know what that's called. I guess

783
00:47:05,159 --> 00:47:09,079
just barrel barrel roll or something.
It's like the lumberjack games that that they

784
00:47:09,119 --> 00:47:13,480
have in certain areas, but there, yeah, and there's just a bunch

785
00:47:13,519 --> 00:47:16,320
of different games that you're competing in
and they're all again with that cold,

786
00:47:16,639 --> 00:47:21,440
snowy aesthetic to it. And the
boss battle is really fun. You're you're

787
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,320
in a lumber yard for that one, and it just yeah, it's it's

788
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:29,599
it's cold, it's snowy throughout the
entire sequence and I thought they nailed it

789
00:47:29,639 --> 00:47:32,079
with the aesthetic of that one and
very different than the other levels that you're

790
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:38,039
just coming across in that game.
And I think that's the only Snow.

791
00:47:38,039 --> 00:47:43,639
There might be one Snow level I'm
trying to think now in the first game.

792
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,480
Yeah, I think there is a
snow level in the first game.

793
00:47:45,519 --> 00:47:50,559
It's one of the earlier ones there. But yeah, I thought they did

794
00:47:50,559 --> 00:47:52,400
such a good job with this one. Yeah, man, that game,

795
00:47:53,159 --> 00:47:57,400
well after you talked about I think
you mainly talk about Sly one, uh

796
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,039
Sly Cooper like on side Quest a
few months ago. And yeah, whenever

797
00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:04,800
I do get that PS five and
get that that collection of all those backwardsatical

798
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,760
games. Very excited to jump in, but now even more so now at

799
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,039
this level. That sounds great.
I can't wait for you to play it

800
00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:14,079
and hear your experience, especially for
a first timer, because like for me,

801
00:48:14,119 --> 00:48:15,159
I have so much nostalgia on it, But then I play it,

802
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:17,239
I'm like, this still holds up, this is this is, this is

803
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:22,559
great. But I'm curious what you're
gonna think. Well, speaking of Canada,

804
00:48:22,639 --> 00:48:27,079
let's bring up this next one.
So this is I'm just gonna this

805
00:48:27,159 --> 00:48:29,760
is the whole section here. This
is the Mario Kart section. So obviously

806
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,519
me and Taylor just talked about a
lot of these maps on our ranking episode

807
00:48:32,519 --> 00:48:35,840
there, but these are some great
snow levels, so I got to bring

808
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,559
them up again. There are so
many in Mario Kart, so i've I've

809
00:48:38,599 --> 00:48:42,119
toned it down to four, but
that already still feels like too many.

810
00:48:42,159 --> 00:48:44,320
But you know this, this is
still the early stages of this. We

811
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:45,960
can have as many things as you
want here, so this one of the

812
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:50,000
things more than honorable mention. But
Vancouver Velocity, of course, I'll show

813
00:48:50,039 --> 00:48:52,599
this map out anytime I can.
There is the kind of snow section for

814
00:48:52,679 --> 00:48:54,639
a little bit, but it's only
a small part of it, so I

815
00:48:54,639 --> 00:48:58,519
don't think I'll bother putting it on
there, but just that one can exist

816
00:48:58,519 --> 00:49:04,519
more as a shout out. But
then there are two different ski hill maps

817
00:49:04,599 --> 00:49:07,840
that really stand out to me.
One is a Mount Warrio. Now I'm

818
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,599
not gonna spoil where me and Taylor
put this on our ranking, but I'll

819
00:49:10,639 --> 00:49:14,280
say that it's pretty high up there. That is one of my favorites.

820
00:49:15,079 --> 00:49:17,440
So Mount Warrio, this is just
one long course rather than having laps,

821
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,880
and you're just going through there's a
certain area where you're going through the moguls,

822
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:23,840
the kind of race area section where
you're going through a bunch of trees

823
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:29,760
and jumping off logs and whatnot.
Just a really really great map. I

824
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,840
love that one whole lot. And
then the other one is I guess from

825
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:36,840
Mario Kart we but is in Mario
Kart eight as well, And this is

826
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:38,760
a DK Summit, so it's a
similar vibe where it's a ski hill,

827
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:43,159
but this is the Donkey Kong themed
one, So show us to that one.

828
00:49:43,199 --> 00:49:45,239
And then the last one for me
is one that we didn't talk about

829
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,119
in that episode because it's not in
it. One of the very few maps

830
00:49:47,119 --> 00:49:52,800
that is not in that game is
Frappe Snowland from Mario Kart sixty four.

831
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,400
And this is just a level that
I would play endlessly as a kid,

832
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,920
and it's one of those ones where
I wouldn't even do the race sometimes I

833
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,079
would just load the map up just
a cruise around in the snow and there's

834
00:50:01,119 --> 00:50:05,519
like huge snow banks and I've always
loved the aesthetic of it. So,

835
00:50:06,119 --> 00:50:08,000
yeah, show us some Mario Kart
tons of snow levels in those games.

836
00:50:08,159 --> 00:50:12,480
Yeah, the good mix of like
icy ones like even you know shows to

837
00:50:12,639 --> 00:50:15,199
Roslyn and his Ice World, which
was recently added, which is also great.

838
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,639
There's so many, uh and so
I tried to pick just a handful

839
00:50:17,679 --> 00:50:21,519
here, but yeah, there there's
like three or four or five other ones

840
00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:23,519
that I could showed out because they're
all really great. So I think you

841
00:50:23,639 --> 00:50:28,119
got the big ones for sure,
because I think if I had to pick

842
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,320
certain snow levels from Mario Kart,
those I DK Summit definitely, just because

843
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:37,280
I love that that level a lot. In the Vancouver one, just for

844
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,280
recency because it's the top of my
head. But yeah, Warrio Warrio,

845
00:50:39,519 --> 00:50:44,000
Uh, what's it called wart Mount
Warrio Mount Warreo. There you go.

846
00:50:44,119 --> 00:50:46,119
That one's so fun. It just
feels very epic too. When you're racing

847
00:50:46,159 --> 00:50:49,559
to the finish line. You just
feel like you're you're actually doing like a

848
00:50:49,639 --> 00:50:52,599
yeah, I got last rush to
the end. It is really exciting.

849
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,599
Oh yeah, she's gotten some some
clutch wins on me or against me rather

850
00:50:55,639 --> 00:50:59,519
on that. Yeah, there's like
that last little two bends right after you

851
00:50:59,559 --> 00:51:05,119
get to the the hill. Oh
yeah, yeah, go ahead, okay,

852
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:13,599
let's go okay, Yeah, I'm
gonna bring up Metro twenty thirty three.

853
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,559
That one takes place. You know, you're basically in the Metro for

854
00:51:16,599 --> 00:51:20,719
the majority of the game, but
you do go to the surface and it's

855
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:27,639
kind of like apoc apocalyptic snowy,
just cold dead land, like there's no

856
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:31,679
life up there, and it really
feels frozen and just cold and dangerous when

857
00:51:31,679 --> 00:51:37,599
you're up there. I love Metro
so much, I imagine in the later

858
00:51:37,679 --> 00:51:38,880
games. I think even the last
one is more of an open world.

859
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,199
So I do think you go to
the surface quite a bit more than in

860
00:51:42,199 --> 00:51:45,280
that early title. But I think
that the fact that you you go to

861
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,960
the surface so little in that first
title, it just feel like you keep

862
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,280
hearing stories of the surface and how
danger it is, and when you actually

863
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,880
go up there, it is terrifying. It is it is cold, and

864
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:59,719
there is like these just giant demon
type things that are hunting you from the

865
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:04,119
sky. So that one, I
don't know where it's gonna last, you

866
00:52:04,159 --> 00:52:06,199
know, by the end of our
rankings, but I definitely wanted to bring

867
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:10,039
it up here just because they really
hit home on just the snowy coldness of

868
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,440
what the world is. Because I
don't know, I think early on in

869
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,480
the story too, people are like
hopeful in dreaming that like someday you can

870
00:52:17,519 --> 00:52:20,199
return to the surface, and then
when you actually go there, you're like,

871
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,920
this is no. We're living in
the subway, so the rest of

872
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,599
our lives here, folks. That's
what would happen in Arks Fatalis if we

873
00:52:25,599 --> 00:52:30,880
ever got that sequel, we went
what is the Is there a name for

874
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:35,599
that? I just wrote the surface
for Metro twenty thirty three might be a

875
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:37,239
cheap answer there. It's pretty bag. Oh that's good, that's good.

876
00:52:38,119 --> 00:52:43,400
Great. I'm gonna bring up this
one next, which is mid Guard from

877
00:52:43,679 --> 00:52:46,320
God of War Ragnarok, and I
guess even in God of War twenty eighteen

878
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,800
you would also have this section,
but it's definitely more snowy because it's kind

879
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,280
of the the Thimble Winter that ever, the never Ending Winter has kind of

880
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:57,159
been going on at the start of
Ragnarok. But this is kind of where

881
00:52:57,199 --> 00:53:00,599
you and or by you, I
mean Crados and a Treys live at the

882
00:53:00,639 --> 00:53:01,960
start of the game, and it's
you know, that game is very much

883
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:06,159
about revisiting the same areas over and
over again. You're exploring new paths along

884
00:53:06,199 --> 00:53:08,159
them where you know, all these
things are happening there, So that's like

885
00:53:08,199 --> 00:53:10,719
the kind of the home base of
the game, and you return there multiple

886
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,519
times, but then all it branches
out and that's like it is kind of

887
00:53:14,519 --> 00:53:15,440
a huge area. So this might
be a bit of a call out for

888
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:19,280
me picking one level, but it
is kind of one continuous area, so

889
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,000
it's hard to declare one place to
start and one not. But I'm thinking

890
00:53:22,039 --> 00:53:27,440
about the section where their houses,
the areas that branch out from around there

891
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,440
and down into the what should be
like this giant water lake area but is

892
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,400
instead just like completely frozen over,
and then you can like kind of go

893
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:39,719
across it on your your slow snow
sled whatever it's called dog dog sled wherever

894
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,679
they what is that called. I
feel like it has one same name,

895
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,880
sleigh, Yeah, sliy kind of
going around that area. So whatever.

896
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,280
There's tons of snow in that game, so it's it's hard to uh,

897
00:53:50,559 --> 00:53:52,840
you know, there's so much you
could showed out. But yeah, I'm

898
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:57,039
gonna go specifically the mid guard area. Nice. Yeah, yeah, I

899
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,639
figured God War would have been brought
up. I only played a little bit

900
00:54:00,679 --> 00:54:04,280
of minutes of that first one,
so I didn't really experience too much snow.

901
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,920
I guess there is snow in there, but not enough for me to

902
00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:14,960
mention. Yeah, okay, I
got kind of the honorable mentioned section sort

903
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,000
of just because these are in my
mind, I'm almost out of my yeah,

904
00:54:19,039 --> 00:54:23,280
a little like general area, so
one of them being Assassin's Creed three.

905
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:28,199
Uh. Basically that whole game is
like set in in the the wintery

906
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,440
wilderness, and I think they just
did such a good job at certain areas

907
00:54:31,559 --> 00:54:36,039
of it feeling a lot more snowy
than others. Like you really feel like

908
00:54:36,079 --> 00:54:42,960
you're I mean in that era of
just un like unexplored wilderness, I can

909
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,960
say, like going through the trees
and just snow falling and the big deep

910
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:50,280
snowy sections that you hit. I
yeah, it just really feels cold and

911
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,679
snowy and somewhat festive. Actually,
even though they don't really mention Christmas,

912
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,079
I don't know what it is.
Maybe I just remember playing that game around

913
00:54:55,119 --> 00:54:58,559
Christmas. I think I actually got
it for Christmas. So that's probably some

914
00:54:58,599 --> 00:55:01,320
one dollar micro transaction where a cent
a head or something. So yeah,

915
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:06,679
Ubi Soft Crossover amongst other games that
you do that. So is there an

916
00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:12,360
area to to shout out now?
I just wrote like the wilderness of Assassin's

917
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:19,039
Screed three. Yeah, yeah,
okay, you sure I'm gonna go with

918
00:55:19,079 --> 00:55:21,960
this is my I had one more
Call of Duty map here, it's from

919
00:55:22,159 --> 00:55:25,159
Call of Duty Black Ops. Uh, And this is Summit. I love

920
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:29,519
some and I've talked about this on
on side quest or geek first in general

921
00:55:29,559 --> 00:55:30,679
before. This is one of my
just go to as. Me and my

922
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:34,679
friend would just destroy on this on
this map. But I feel like even

923
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,639
the little thumbnail picture for it,
and the loading screen is like a gondola

924
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,280
I think is kind of the main
picture in the center of the image.

925
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:44,559
Yeah, it's right, but yeah, just just a classic. I feel

926
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:45,840
like I've kind of said anything I
could about a Winter level through the other

927
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,800
call ones we talked about, and
this is, of course like a multiplayer

928
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,159
map, not a not a single
player level. I can't remember if there's

929
00:55:52,159 --> 00:55:53,519
a single player level that goes through
a snow area. I'm sure there is,

930
00:55:53,679 --> 00:55:55,960
I can't remember off the top of
my head, but yeah, show

931
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,800
us too. Summit was always one
of my one of my favorites, and

932
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:01,840
that's funny because that's the same name
as the Smash Pro stage. Now we

933
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:06,079
have two summits on the list,
and we have DK Summit. There's yeah,

934
00:56:06,159 --> 00:56:08,000
oh, a variety of sums.
So the snow is so it makes

935
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:12,800
sense. It does make sense.
Yeah, I'll bring up a summit here

936
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:19,199
here. I don't think it's called
summit. But this is a kind of

937
00:56:19,199 --> 00:56:22,119
a reoccurring level, meaning like you'll
go back to that certain area a couple

938
00:56:22,159 --> 00:56:25,960
of different times throughout the game.
Far Cry four that's the one that's set

939
00:56:27,039 --> 00:56:30,440
in Kiat. That's the fictional world
that they have, but it's it's it's

940
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:35,960
in the Himalayans, so I think
like Nepal and that aesthetic. There is

941
00:56:36,039 --> 00:56:38,679
a section that you actually get flown
like basically to the summit of a mountain

942
00:56:38,679 --> 00:56:43,559
and it's like all super snowy.
I believe that game even had like a

943
00:56:43,639 --> 00:56:45,960
YETI DLC that you're probably like hunting
down a yetie. I never ended up

944
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:50,559
getting that one, but I just
thought they did. I mean, throughout

945
00:56:50,559 --> 00:56:52,920
that game, you are kind of
on the mountains, so you do see

946
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,199
some snowy sections, a couple avalanches
here and there, but for that specific

947
00:56:55,280 --> 00:57:00,639
level, you actually are on the
peak and it's it's like a lesser version

948
00:57:00,639 --> 00:57:06,199
of the Cliffhanger from Montor for two
level where it's kind of blizzard y,

949
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,960
you know, like it's kind of
emphasized that you can sneak around, and

950
00:57:09,159 --> 00:57:12,920
I mean the stealth mechanics are much
better in that game than what Monar for

951
00:57:13,039 --> 00:57:15,960
two probably has. But I yeah, I really want to mention that one

952
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:21,239
just because there's a lot of snow
on the summit of the Himalayan mountains there.

953
00:57:21,559 --> 00:57:24,320
So yeah, nice. Speaking of
Nepal, I got another one here,

954
00:57:24,559 --> 00:57:28,480
and believe it or not, the
map is called Nepal from Overwatch.

955
00:57:29,079 --> 00:57:31,400
Also map that has a couple variations, right for the different game modes,

956
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:35,519
there's like slightly different variations of it. But yeah, you're just in this

957
00:57:35,679 --> 00:57:39,199
kind of beautiful Himalayan town snow.
It's it's kind of a little more sparse,

958
00:57:39,239 --> 00:57:43,039
it's not like just layer deep in
snow, but it adds like this

959
00:57:43,159 --> 00:57:46,239
nice aesthetic to it. And yeah, I've always been you know, I

960
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,400
think differs depending on which game what
we're talking about here, but always been

961
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,159
one of my favorites in that game. I always liked just the gameplay of

962
00:57:53,199 --> 00:57:59,280
it itself, and it's got that
really nice just Nepal kind of Himalayan aesthetic

963
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,880
to it, So shout outs to
uh Nepal. There. It's got the

964
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:07,880
the Zenyata statues right that right,
Yeah, and that's my main guy,

965
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,079
so you know, hell yeah,
it's getting Bose points from me. I

966
00:58:10,239 --> 00:58:15,480
like a good shout out. I
definitely forgot about that one. Don't think

967
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,119
about that game too much these days, but yeah, I mean, unfortunately

968
00:58:17,159 --> 00:58:21,599
there's some very great times in there, but I'm also some bad times.

969
00:58:21,639 --> 00:58:28,199
Okay, what I got here?
I have one more non honorable mention for

970
00:58:28,239 --> 00:58:31,519
what it's Okay, you go for
that one, sure, Uh this one,

971
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,480
I say the best for last because
when I was thinking about doing this

972
00:58:35,559 --> 00:58:38,159
ranking, this was the first thing
that popped into my mind. And it

973
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:42,079
is a section of an open world
game. So it's not a specific area

974
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:45,480
but mountain not or not mountain whatever
you want to call it. From Death

975
00:58:45,519 --> 00:58:51,840
Stranding, which is yeah, just
kind of later on in the second I

976
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:53,840
guess second open world of that game, you would say, uh, you

977
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:58,800
just eventually get to this this mountain
not city I think is what the city

978
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,280
is called, and then there's this
huge just huge snowy mountain behind it,

979
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:06,159
and this is like what you mentioned
with the Red Dead Redemption two or like

980
00:59:06,199 --> 00:59:09,599
you know, Horizon or going like
all these newer huge PS four ps five

981
00:59:09,639 --> 00:59:15,920
games all just the most beautiful aesthetics
of walking through the snow, and this

982
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:19,559
is like the peak of that where
just the reaction or like how I don't

983
00:59:19,599 --> 00:59:22,400
know, just all the little physics
going on with walking through the snow or

984
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,559
sliding down the snow, or your
items falling in the snow and you don't

985
00:59:24,559 --> 00:59:27,159
know where your stuff went, but
then you can see, like it just

986
00:59:27,199 --> 00:59:30,280
a little patch in the snow where
something's missing, so obviously that's where your

987
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:34,559
briefcase fell down. But this was
my favorite section in that game. It

988
00:59:34,639 --> 00:59:38,079
was so fricking challenging because of the
slipperiness of it, because of the harshness,

989
00:59:39,239 --> 00:59:43,679
but it just made for some of
the most fun problem solving in terms

990
00:59:43,679 --> 00:59:45,119
of okay, where do I put
a ladder? How do I set up

991
00:59:45,119 --> 00:59:47,639
my path here? And then it
was so satisfying too, where you spent

992
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:52,039
all this time to climb up the
mountain, and then in that game,

993
00:59:52,079 --> 00:59:54,480
you can just hop on that little
cart that follows you around and you can

994
00:59:54,559 --> 00:59:59,360
just ride it like a fucking snow
a snowboard and you can just cruise down

995
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,199
the whole mountain and I would even
do just climb up one little hill,

996
01:00:01,199 --> 01:00:05,320
hop on the snowboard, cruise down, get a little speed. A game's

997
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:08,039
obviously all about traversal and trying to
get places efficiently, and that was such

998
01:00:08,079 --> 01:00:13,119
a fun challenge in that game.
So I just absolutely love that whole area.

999
01:00:13,199 --> 01:00:15,039
It was a place that once I
beat the main game, and I

1000
01:00:15,079 --> 01:00:17,239
was just like wanting to do more
side questers to play more of the game.

1001
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:21,239
It's like, I just want to
do everything any quest possible in these

1002
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:23,719
mountains. It was just so good. That's awesome. I never got there

1003
01:00:23,719 --> 01:00:27,880
in the game, but I was
at I was at my buddy Tyler,

1004
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,119
you know, shouts out of Patreon
Tyler's house, and he was actually on

1005
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:34,400
that mountain, and I was just
shocked because I didn't know that there was

1006
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,320
like snow in the game up until
that point. And yeah, they definitely

1007
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:42,000
do a good job at bringing in
the harshness of it, and yeah cool.

1008
01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:45,199
I was curious if it diss straining
title was gonna get brought up here.

1009
01:00:45,039 --> 01:00:51,519
I got two other ones to mention
here. I think it's the final

1010
01:00:51,599 --> 01:00:57,639
act of Ghostussushima, like the third
part. The way that that act kind

1011
01:00:57,639 --> 01:01:00,199
of opens up, like that's when
you're getting I guess, to the snowy

1012
01:01:00,239 --> 01:01:05,480
area and you just feel very cold
and down and out and not everything's not

1013
01:01:05,599 --> 01:01:09,000
going well for your your main character
Gin up until that point. But and

1014
01:01:09,079 --> 01:01:13,840
kind of like from that point like
onward, that is a snowy area.

1015
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,079
So it's kind of a wide range
I guess that you could use, but

1016
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:22,039
for me, it's mostly just like
that opening I think of that third act,

1017
01:01:22,119 --> 01:01:28,320
you just really feel the snowy cold, just horribleness that your your main

1018
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,159
character is kind of feeling in that
moment. But that game did have some

1019
01:01:31,239 --> 01:01:37,400
fun snow elements to it. Although
it's not like a main mechanic of the

1020
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:38,960
game, I still think they did
a good job at incorporating that, and

1021
01:01:39,559 --> 01:01:44,840
it just makes it feel like the
environments are a little bit colder because of

1022
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:46,360
it. Yeah, yeah, I
know that definitely popped into my mind too,

1023
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:51,360
but I just I couldn't think of
a specific location, so yeah,

1024
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:52,400
ended up leaving it off. I'm
glad you showed it out, and I

1025
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,800
think that's what's like Hooper and goes
to Shima. Your big shout outs to

1026
01:01:55,920 --> 01:02:00,840
soccer punch over here, right,
yeah, big sucker punch stand. The

1027
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:06,320
last one I wanted to mention for
just an honorable mention is the game called

1028
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:13,320
COLT so K h O l A
T. This is an interesting little survival

1029
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:19,840
horror game and it's actually narrated by
Sean Bean. Interesting enough, it's it's

1030
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:25,280
you're basically following the story of like
I think it's actually based somewhat loosely off

1031
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:29,559
of like a true story of these
like Russian hikers that went missing in the

1032
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:36,320
rural mountains. And I must say, like the game mechanics wise, it's

1033
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:40,920
kind of repetitive and it's not like
insane. It's not the most fun game

1034
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:46,480
to actually play. But immersive lee
that's a weird thing to say esthetically,

1035
01:02:46,679 --> 01:02:51,920
and just immersing you into this world. I think they they knocked out the

1036
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:53,760
part like ten and ten. I
think the opening fifteen minutes of this game

1037
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:58,000
is some of the best immersion that
I've ever gotten out of a game,

1038
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:02,000
Like you just really feel of being
alone. On sale for four dollars right

1039
01:03:02,039 --> 01:03:07,199
now, might I might just buy
this game to jump in there. You're

1040
01:03:07,199 --> 01:03:09,360
a big horror guy, now,
No, this is exactly what I need

1041
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:15,559
right now, Sean Bean, I
would love to hear thoughts on it,

1042
01:03:15,599 --> 01:03:21,400
because yeah, I think the overall
gameplay cycle isn't the most fun to play

1043
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:24,119
through, but man, those opening, those opening like ten minutes of it

1044
01:03:24,199 --> 01:03:29,039
are just a knockout of the park. It's there's no like real talking like

1045
01:03:29,079 --> 01:03:30,960
because you have Sean being kind of
narrating and opening, and then it just

1046
01:03:31,039 --> 01:03:36,920
goes to you were in this location
completely alone and you're just wandering and then

1047
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:40,559
you like it's just snow, blizzard
going off, tons and tons of snow.

1048
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:45,360
You got some really ominous beautiful music
that kind of just like I don't

1049
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:47,320
even want to say too much,
but just at at a certain point,

1050
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:51,599
I'm playing this game this month.
I promise you that I will share my

1051
01:03:51,679 --> 01:03:54,360
thoughts in January. I will definitely
play this game. That's like amazing.

1052
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:59,199
Hey man, maybe we should we
talk about it. Maybe I should plug

1053
01:03:59,239 --> 01:04:03,920
it back in and do it a
little little retrod this game before, Like

1054
01:04:04,119 --> 01:04:08,960
these guys. Absolutely, there's a
certain moment though where the music just dies

1055
01:04:09,039 --> 01:04:13,000
down and all you hear is just
the wind, like the wind and and

1056
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,519
and the snow just hitting you so
really really wanted to shut it out mostly

1057
01:04:16,599 --> 01:04:20,639
for Snowy Wind is a great a
great combo we talked about in the Arc

1058
01:04:21,079 --> 01:04:26,199
Arcs Retro as well, like Wind
in terms of aesthetic strong yeah, very

1059
01:04:26,239 --> 01:04:30,920
strong, very strong s t here
aesthetics. So yeah, I'm that's kind

1060
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:32,079
of a hidden gym. I didn't
think I was gonna get anything out of

1061
01:04:32,119 --> 01:04:34,199
that, but there you go.
Now you're gonna be picking us on up

1062
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:38,760
great price. So sorry, So
I put a name for a level,

1063
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:44,519
or should I something? Because everything
else I'll say, I'll say the opening

1064
01:04:44,639 --> 01:04:47,599
to to Co Lot, so just
the opening sequence just because it really immerses

1065
01:04:47,639 --> 01:04:50,280
you into it and then from that
point on, like you're just in the

1066
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:55,559
cold mountains, so like you're kind
of used to that game looks incredibly like

1067
01:04:55,599 --> 01:04:59,119
the the visuals are amazing. Now
I could just be screenshots. Is gonna

1068
01:04:59,159 --> 01:05:02,239
run on my computer or do I
gotta get my lap I think it runs

1069
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:06,239
on fifteen pretty strong. Yeah.
I remember when I bought it, I

1070
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:09,880
was very excited to play it because
I think I got it like really close

1071
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:13,519
to the actual release and it did
not work like at all on my laptop.

1072
01:05:13,599 --> 01:05:15,880
Like I was getting like six frames
per second on my old computer.

1073
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,079
So bummed because you're like really looking
forward to playing a game and then it

1074
01:05:19,159 --> 01:05:23,679
just cannot run for shit. So
I can learn my lesson there. But

1075
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:27,920
it's yeah, cool, should we
get into some honorable mentions here? Let's

1076
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,639
do it. So I think maybe
we'll just kind of go one at a

1077
01:05:30,639 --> 01:05:32,719
time and just rifle off our list
and we can stop on it and if

1078
01:05:32,719 --> 01:05:35,599
we want to. This one.
I have not actually played this level,

1079
01:05:35,639 --> 01:05:39,199
but I had to show out because
every single list I looked up of like

1080
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:42,480
people ranking their favorite Snow levels and
whatnot, always had this on there.

1081
01:05:42,719 --> 01:05:45,400
And if it's anywhere as good as
the quality of the TV show from this

1082
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:47,679
year, then I have to agree
that's probably really great area. But the

1083
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:51,920
Last of Us has like a I
guess a pretty iconic snow Winter. I

1084
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:55,360
guess just the season, right.
It is like the whole section of that

1085
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:59,199
game, So shout outs to Last
Us. I'm sure that Snow level is

1086
01:05:59,239 --> 01:06:01,800
pretty fantastic. Yeah, there's there
was. I'm sorry, go ahead,

1087
01:06:02,239 --> 01:06:04,920
No, I was just gonna mention
it because I know a certain point of

1088
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:10,239
that game. It's it's kind of
considered like the Winter portion. I didn't

1089
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:12,400
I didn't play that one. I
was kind of thinking of the back of

1090
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:14,519
my mind. I'm like, someone's
gonna be listening to this. They're not

1091
01:06:14,559 --> 01:06:15,840
gonna hear a last of us mentioned. They're just be like, oh,

1092
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:18,559
zero to ten rank, Yes,
exactly. I'm trying to trying to keep

1093
01:06:18,599 --> 01:06:23,360
those of five star reviews coming,
you know. Of course, there was

1094
01:06:23,519 --> 01:06:27,679
so many kind of open world or
games that are like completely winter themed,

1095
01:06:27,719 --> 01:06:30,239
and it's like hard to pick a
specific spot. So I haven't once again,

1096
01:06:30,239 --> 01:06:32,239
not when I've played, but I
want to shout out Journey to the

1097
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,480
Savage Planet, you know. I
think it's a very snowy game. The

1098
01:06:35,519 --> 01:06:40,679
Long Dark is all about like surviving
in the northern Canadian wilderness. I love

1099
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:44,920
that game, but it's like it's
so interconnected and it's all kind of the

1100
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:47,519
same with little variations. I can't
really pick like a specific spot, so

1101
01:06:48,239 --> 01:06:51,159
that one's gonna exist as a shout
out. Uh. The first tomb Raider

1102
01:06:51,199 --> 01:06:55,920
reboot is like a very snowy game. But I also I can't like pick

1103
01:06:56,119 --> 01:06:58,119
a level, you know, So
it's hard for me to go back to

1104
01:06:58,159 --> 01:07:00,480
that because it's been a while since
I've played it. Because I mean,

1105
01:07:00,519 --> 01:07:03,519
what came out in twenty thirteen at
this point, so hard to remember,

1106
01:07:03,519 --> 01:07:06,079
but I'm I'm sure if I play
that more recently, that would be in

1107
01:07:06,079 --> 01:07:11,079
there. I just love the season. Season of winter and animal crossings always

1108
01:07:11,119 --> 01:07:14,880
say a good vibe, you know. So that's all about like the holidays,

1109
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:16,559
and there's all these events and things, so it's very Christmas Eve.

1110
01:07:16,639 --> 01:07:21,280
So show us to that, Kirkland. If I say mirth in reference to

1111
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:25,159
sea if stars, is that a
thing that you'd be familiar with yet,

1112
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:28,159
I don't know if you've got no, okay, no, not familiar,

1113
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,079
I won't say anything, but I'll
just say show those to that one.

1114
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,800
I feel like there's got to be
some great hawf level that exists, right.

1115
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:39,039
Oh yeah, I had that on
my Honorable mention specifically just from Star

1116
01:07:39,039 --> 01:07:42,519
Wars Battlefront two because that was the
one that I played the most, and

1117
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:46,559
that one had like different mounts and
different costumes for the actual troopers and everything,

1118
01:07:46,639 --> 01:07:49,760
so that they did a good job
at capturing that. Yeah, I'm

1119
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:54,719
sure I had tons of fun with
the Hawk areas in Lego Star Wars back

1120
01:07:54,719 --> 01:07:56,880
in the day, but yeah,
I haven't played those in so long.

1121
01:07:56,960 --> 01:08:00,920
In the remake, you know,
whatever, edition just absolutely sucks, so

1122
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:04,119
I didn't play much of that game. Shout outs to the Village section of

1123
01:08:04,119 --> 01:08:06,800
Resident Evil Village. That's kind of
like the hub area of the game.

1124
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:11,360
So you like very early on get
to the village and it's all this beautiful,

1125
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:15,480
kind of well beautiful but desolate,
scary, snowy town, and then

1126
01:08:15,519 --> 01:08:16,720
you go off to the different areas
of the game, and that's kind of

1127
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,359
where you keep reuniting with, so
it's kind of a familiar happy place after

1128
01:08:20,359 --> 01:08:23,079
a while. The first time you
go, that's terrifying, but then it

1129
01:08:23,119 --> 01:08:26,399
becomes a place that you're familiar with
and you understand, and it's like that's

1130
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:29,399
your territory, your domains. Even
if more enemies show up, you know

1131
01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:31,760
how to take them out. So
shout us to that area. Shout outs

1132
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:35,159
to the Riker's Prison level from Serial
Cleaners, which is a game I shouted

1133
01:08:35,199 --> 01:08:39,600
out pretty highly in me and Dante's
like best levels ranking of last year.

1134
01:08:40,239 --> 01:08:44,600
I don't know if it's super that
game takes place like there's Christmas lights.

1135
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:48,640
I think it takes place on like
New Year's Eve is when the characters are

1136
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:51,880
kind of sharing the story and they're
like flashing back and that's what the levels

1137
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:56,199
are. But that game has a
good kind of wintery aesthetic in general.

1138
01:08:57,039 --> 01:09:00,159
Celeste as well, it's a great
platformer all about climbing a mountain. So

1139
01:09:00,199 --> 01:09:01,520
like that whole game, not the
whole game, but most of the game

1140
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:04,640
is snowy. So it's hard for
me to pick one, but shouts to

1141
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:09,840
Celest. And then my last honorable
mention is this is very much just like

1142
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,119
I'm just trying to sneak this in
in any way I can, because I'm

1143
01:09:13,119 --> 01:09:15,520
like, there's got to be some
great arcane snow level, but there really

1144
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:20,720
isn't. But the closest is that
at the nighttime on the freestad Rock level

1145
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:25,880
of Death Loop, and so like
it starts to get snowy right as the

1146
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:29,600
game progresses, like a snowstorm comes
in at night and it's never like full

1147
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:31,560
snow level, but it's kind of
just like starting to sprinkle snow and whatnot.

1148
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:34,479
But I just remember the first time
I like walked out of the I

1149
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:38,920
guess the bunker and freesad Rock at
night time, and there was like no

1150
01:09:39,039 --> 01:09:41,920
enemies there. Normally there's a bunch
of enemies in that little area, but

1151
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:45,399
instead it's just like desolate and it's
kind of dark and you can't see too

1152
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:46,960
far because of the fog, and
there's just like snow coming in at like

1153
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:50,800
a beautiful angle, so really beautiful
esthetic there. But I feel like this

1154
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:54,399
would be me cheating and then like, you know, it's arcane, so

1155
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:57,039
obviously it's like an amazing level,
so it's it'd be I feel like it

1156
01:09:57,039 --> 01:09:59,760
would cheat and get too high on
the list. And it's really more of

1157
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:01,279
just shout out for me. But
obviously there's a lot of there's actually a

1158
01:10:01,319 --> 01:10:03,800
lot of snow and death loop,
but it's never really the main thing.

1159
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:06,479
It's more on like the edges of
the map. Yeah, things getting a

1160
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:10,640
bit snowy, so oh yeah,
good shout out. Though I'm glad you

1161
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:13,399
you found one arcane one because I
have the same thought. I'm like,

1162
01:10:13,399 --> 01:10:15,239
there's got to be an arcane snow
level somewhere in the in there. But

1163
01:10:16,079 --> 01:10:18,520
even arcs, I'm like, is
there a snowy section? I guess where

1164
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:21,039
the dragon is. There's some ice, but yeah, there is that area,

1165
01:10:21,079 --> 01:10:26,680
but that's not my favorite area,
not a fun section. Man does

1166
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:29,840
does not have any snowy areas,
Like that's shocking to me, But it's

1167
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:32,840
like, surely doesn't it doesn't have
a single snowy area. It's wild,

1168
01:10:34,279 --> 01:10:39,960
very wild. Those are shout them
out here. Yeah, I got oh.

1169
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:44,359
I threw like Essex tricky on there, same thing with like steep.

1170
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,840
That's the other Ubisoft snowboarding one.
There's probably some other one that was the

1171
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:53,279
main one. So my top of
my head Lost Planet. I never actually

1172
01:10:53,319 --> 01:10:55,800
owned this game, but I remember
being at a friend's house way back in

1173
01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:58,760
the day and seeing him play it
and just lots of lots of snow so

1174
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:00,319
I figured out at least bring it
up in honorable mention. I think that's

1175
01:11:00,319 --> 01:11:02,800
why when I said Journey of the
Savage Plant, I think I was thinking

1176
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:08,279
of Lost Planets. Okay, thank
you for correcting mine. That was another

1177
01:11:08,319 --> 01:11:11,359
one, similar to Alan Wake,
where I saw it on like the Xbox

1178
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:15,279
three sixty magazine. Like in the
I always watching YouTube videos or trailers of

1179
01:11:15,319 --> 01:11:18,319
this game. I never played it, never rented it. This seems like

1180
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:21,079
an easy blockbuster rent. I don't
know why I know that back in the

1181
01:11:21,159 --> 01:11:28,000
day I mentioned the Oh no,
I didn't mention Arundelle from Kingdom Hearts three.

1182
01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:33,319
This is like the Frozen World from
Disney's Frozen, so obviously there's lots

1183
01:11:33,359 --> 01:11:38,880
of snow and ice in that section
there. Didn't love that specific level actually

1184
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:42,399
when we played through it, so
I didn't want to fight for it on

1185
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:45,159
the on the best ten list,
but at least a shout out. My

1186
01:11:45,239 --> 01:11:47,800
last shout out here. Oh,
I also had Nagarnt. That's that's another

1187
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:53,000
northern section from Total Ward Warhammer.
That's where the Dark Elves are. It's

1188
01:11:53,039 --> 01:11:59,439
kind of like Canada. So they
usually like compare the the the real world

1189
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:04,279
to the war World, which is
actual areas because there's it's like loosely inspired

1190
01:12:04,319 --> 01:12:08,600
by by the actual geography of the
world. So I would call that Canada

1191
01:12:09,239 --> 01:12:13,199
very snowy, very icy, and
very dangerous. And then my last honorable

1192
01:12:13,279 --> 01:12:17,720
mention is Project Zomboid. That whole
game it just goes through seasons, so

1193
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,520
at some point if you make it
to Christmas time, like, there will

1194
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:24,840
be a lot of snow and it's
that much more deadly. I have not

1195
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:28,039
gotten there, but I just know
from watching YouTube videos there is a section

1196
01:12:28,119 --> 01:12:30,680
in there that's great shouts out to
that game. That's a great like because

1197
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:35,520
even like hogs Meat and Hogwarts Legacy
in the Winter specifically, like that's an

1198
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:39,840
amazing desty, but it feels like
that's narrowing in almost like too much to

1199
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:43,000
a certain road. Yeah, any
game that has like the seasons going through

1200
01:12:44,039 --> 01:12:45,520
the winter, Winter is always a
fun season when it comes down, even

1201
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:48,920
like Starry Valley. I guess I
could bring that one up there changes the

1202
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:56,279
gameplay usually in games like that.
Yeah, especially cool. Uh that's our

1203
01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:00,479
that's our list, which I just
was counting, and I I think we're

1204
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:02,880
at thirty seven games, thirty seven
levels. I should say, not thirty

1205
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:06,720
seven games, thirty seven levels.
So this is gonna be well, I

1206
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,720
don't know. I have no idea
how hard or easy this is gonna be.

1207
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:11,399
We'll have to just see when we
get there. But how about we

1208
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,119
take a quick break, catch our
breath, you know, drink, I

1209
01:13:14,119 --> 01:13:16,439
got some hot coco. Here's warm
up a big get toasty, and then

1210
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:19,960
we'll go down here and we'll break
down and this top ten list will be

1211
01:13:20,239 --> 01:13:27,880
right back. Okay, we are
back. We gotta start with a quick

1212
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:33,279
recap here. So how about you. There's my ad break numbers. I'm

1213
01:13:33,279 --> 01:13:38,039
gonna I'm gonna put the block right
here. Do you want to read all

1214
01:13:38,079 --> 01:13:41,600
of these these bottom ones here,
sure, yeah, just quick recap.

1215
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:44,680
Yeah, so start at the top. We got the Crying Wolf boss battle

1216
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:47,159
from End of Your Solid four,
Battle of Blizzard Bridge on Kirby in the

1217
01:13:47,159 --> 01:13:51,199
Forgotten Land, the Throat of the
World from Eldert Gull's five Skyrim cool look

1218
01:13:51,239 --> 01:13:55,920
at this Elder Strolls and Siraum Elder
Schrolls five Skyrim section. We got wind

1219
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:59,199
Helm as well as a winter Hold
all great noms. So we got the

1220
01:13:59,199 --> 01:14:04,319
ice Caves from Plunky episode seven,
Canada games from Sly to Mount Warrio from

1221
01:14:04,359 --> 01:14:10,159
Mario Kart eight DK Summit from Mario
Kart. We Frape Snowland from Mario Kart

1222
01:14:10,159 --> 01:14:14,520
sixty four, Just the Surface from
Metro twenty thirty three. We got mid

1223
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:19,239
Guard from God of War, Regnarok
Wilderness from Assassin Screen three Summit, Call

1224
01:14:19,239 --> 01:14:24,199
of Duty, Black Ops Map Summit
from Far Cry four, and we got

1225
01:14:24,159 --> 01:14:29,359
Apaul from Overwatch. Mount Mountain Knot
that sounded weird. Mount Knot from Death

1226
01:14:29,399 --> 01:14:31,199
Stranding. Yeah, I don't know, like that's when they called it when

1227
01:14:31,239 --> 01:14:34,439
I was googling it, but I'm
gonna I'm gonna go with Mountain Not because

1228
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:38,560
it sounds cooler. But yeah,
that's weird. And then we just have

1229
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:42,199
Act three from Ghosts Shima Nice Blanket. Oh, and then of course the

1230
01:14:42,239 --> 01:14:45,960
opening for co Lot Maybe not Mountain. I think that Mount mountaknot rings the

1231
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:49,319
best off the off the tongue.
It's like Knox Mountain from here in Colonia,

1232
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:53,560
very close. Yeah, exactly.
And then we also have the tutorial

1233
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:58,640
from Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced prologue from
Red Dead Redemption to Cool Cool Mountain from

1234
01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:02,840
Supermaro sixty four, know from Journey
Hokkaido from Hitman A Train to Catch Uncharted

1235
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:08,399
to Summit from Super Smash Bros.
Brawl and Smash four and Smash Ultimate,

1236
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:11,800
Frost Moore and from Warcraft three,
Reign of Chaos, Bruma from The Elder

1237
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:16,279
Girls for Oblivion, the prologue from
Total Warhammer three from Calldomorrow for two.

1238
01:15:16,319 --> 01:15:19,880
We have Cliffhanger the single player level, then sub Bays and d Rail from

1239
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:26,640
multiplayer. We have the Interloper from
Outer Wild's Northern Wastes from Fable, Sidewinder

1240
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:30,600
from Halo Combat Evolved, Snowbound from
Halo three, and Skyrail from Double seven

1241
01:15:31,359 --> 01:15:36,960
Night Fire. So we have a
huge list here. I feel like we

1242
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:41,439
should Oh man, I feel like
we should probably start with a few cuts

1243
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:45,199
just to make things a bit easier
on ourselves. So let me duplicate this

1244
01:15:45,279 --> 01:15:49,439
down here, like for something like
the like the Summit for Metro twenty thirty

1245
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:53,840
three. I'm totally fine with with
cutting that because it is a pretty point

1246
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:58,119
cut one. Yeah, click quick
cut there, and I'll even Yeah,

1247
01:15:58,199 --> 01:16:00,840
Mario Kart, I think I'm okay
to cut sprap By Snowland for now.

1248
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,840
The Mario kit's sixty four to one, so you can keep DK Summon Mount

1249
01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:05,960
Warrior in the list for now,
but I think you can drop that one

1250
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:12,239
out. Let's see. I think, oh, the also the tutorial from

1251
01:16:12,560 --> 01:16:15,199
Final Fantasy Tactics, I'm happy to
kick that one out at this time.

1252
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:18,920
Same thing with the prologue for Total
War Warhammer three. I'm glad it's on

1253
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:26,159
there, but uh, it's it's
a pretty short section and yeah, cute.

1254
01:16:27,159 --> 01:16:30,359
Let's see, we can't already get
him to the point where it's hard

1255
01:16:30,399 --> 01:16:38,039
to make. I'll cut God of
War Ragonrock at this point, okay,

1256
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:42,560
and then we could do Act three
for Ghost of Sushima. I think that's

1257
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,199
another just big blanket one, right, it's a too too vague. I

1258
01:16:45,199 --> 01:16:47,560
was gonna say the opening for Colat, but the more I think about it,

1259
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:50,800
I'm like, man, that's snow
and that sound of the snow is

1260
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:54,680
just so good. So I haven't
played it, and I already love the

1261
01:16:54,720 --> 01:17:00,399
game. Sean Bean's voice too,
that's so powerful. Let's see where can

1262
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:06,840
we go next? For Okay,
I was going to bring up Halo.

1263
01:17:08,159 --> 01:17:12,600
I think Sidewinder. I have like
a a lot of nostalgia memories for that

1264
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:15,359
map, but I think out of
the two Halo maps, I do like

1265
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:18,399
the Snowbound pick purely for like the
replayability of it, for being a multiplayer

1266
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:24,520
map. But I love that name, by the way, Sidewinder Yeah,

1267
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:29,560
okay, definitely the name of a
transformer. I don't know which one,

1268
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:31,000
but just it's just coming to my
mind. I'm like, that must be

1269
01:17:31,039 --> 01:17:39,359
a transformer name. Uh looking at
looking at Skyrim, do you want to

1270
01:17:39,359 --> 01:17:42,079
say, big ones? Do you
want to knock at least one of these

1271
01:17:42,119 --> 01:17:44,800
off right now? Or is the
Skyrim just too snowy and it's hard?

1272
01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:47,359
It is too snowy. I was
going to say, out of all of

1273
01:17:47,399 --> 01:17:50,920
them, maybe winter Hold, Okay, I would be I'd feel the same.

1274
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:53,840
So if that's the weakest link of
the three, then I think we

1275
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:59,560
can we can team up and get
rid of that one. Now, not

1276
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:01,159
to not to poopo on your pick
here, but it's has screwed three.

1277
01:18:01,199 --> 01:18:04,199
It sounded a bit vague. I
was just gonna say, yeah, I

1278
01:18:04,279 --> 01:18:05,720
just saw it on there. I'm
like, oh, we haven't cut that

1279
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:11,199
one yet. Okay, get that
out of there. There, Let's see

1280
01:18:13,079 --> 01:18:16,439
where are we going to go next. We got some model work for maps.

1281
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:21,399
Do you want to look at those
right now? Yeah? So sub

1282
01:18:21,399 --> 01:18:28,199
Base is my preferred from the multiplayer, but I I think I'm happy just

1283
01:18:28,199 --> 01:18:30,479
going Cliffhanger actually and dropping both the
multiplayer maps. That's kind of how I'm

1284
01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:34,000
feeling at the moment. Yeah,
I would have to agree. Do we

1285
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,319
could at least drop sub base for
now if you want to keep Derail.

1286
01:18:36,399 --> 01:18:41,000
I'm okay with that. I mean, we got a lot to get to

1287
01:18:41,039 --> 01:18:45,079
work through here. I'm pretty one
yea, let's do that, and then

1288
01:18:45,359 --> 01:18:51,680
you know what, I also think
that since we have I was gonna I

1289
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:56,920
was gonna say, potentially Bruma just
because we have Skyrim stuff. But they're

1290
01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:02,600
pretty different, so maybe it's a
bit slightly early on that I might.

1291
01:19:03,319 --> 01:19:05,720
I might even you know, we
just got rid of Sidewinder. I might

1292
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:10,840
even be okay to get rid of
Snowbound two. If it was my favorite

1293
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:14,920
mapp in Halo three, it'd be
a different story. But but it's not

1294
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,720
quite, so I think I'm okay
to drop that one. So unfortunately an

1295
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,199
early drop for Halo. I feel
like Halo is one of those shooters that,

1296
01:19:19,279 --> 01:19:24,920
like every game in the series has
snow areas or se levels of a

1297
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:33,319
staple shout outs to uh Snowbound Uh. I was gonna mention frost Morn right

1298
01:19:33,399 --> 01:19:39,279
from Warcraft. Yeah, I just
feel like I might have a hard time

1299
01:19:39,319 --> 01:19:42,840
defending it. I couldn't find too
many images. It seems like it's like

1300
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:45,079
I could see this part with the
sword and like that little zone, but

1301
01:19:45,119 --> 01:19:47,800
it's hard for me to get a
two total vibe that if because whenever I

1302
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:49,840
started Frost Morn, it just shows
me the pictures of the sword, So

1303
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:54,399
it's hard to find like pictures of
an actual area that we're talking about.

1304
01:19:54,399 --> 01:19:58,119
I guess. So I'm putting a
lot of faith in you on that one,

1305
01:19:58,159 --> 01:20:00,479
but I trust you, So I'm
just pulling up an image of the

1306
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:05,720
actual map. See there is a
lot of snow on the actual the gameplay

1307
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:12,119
of it right right, Oh my
god, it's got commentary. That's not

1308
01:20:12,159 --> 01:20:15,399
good. I'll just do a little
share screen here, okay, yeah,

1309
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:18,039
do I have to kick mine off
here? I just drop Yeah. Maybe

1310
01:20:18,199 --> 01:20:21,279
look at that snow. Oh yeah, that snow effect. That's classic right

1311
01:20:21,319 --> 01:20:25,319
there. Yeah, this is a
good game. As I mentioned the ice

1312
01:20:25,359 --> 01:20:30,479
aesthetic, like I love those icy
walls. I love that just teal ice

1313
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:34,119
blue like that is that is classic
to me? I think you know what

1314
01:20:34,159 --> 01:20:36,399
to do it for me? If
these if these buildings had snow on the

1315
01:20:36,439 --> 01:20:39,760
roofs, that would be a little
bit better. But no, that's fair.

1316
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:42,960
I was gonna say, like an
easy cut just because you brought up

1317
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,800
a good point of being a lot
more icy than snowy. But then when

1318
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:47,960
I pulled it up and there actually
was snow fall a lot of icy forward

1319
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:51,279
ones on here, So it's yeah, it's good, it's valuable to have

1320
01:20:51,359 --> 01:20:56,920
that in there. We can we
can leave it for the time being.

1321
01:20:57,279 --> 01:21:02,680
Uh, I think I I'm okay
to drop Spelunky only because only because it's

1322
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:06,680
a bit vague as well, it's
not a specific design level. It's kind

1323
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:11,159
of just the aesthetic of it.
So I love it. If this is

1324
01:21:11,199 --> 01:21:14,079
my personal top ten, it might
be on there, but I respect that

1325
01:21:14,119 --> 01:21:16,039
this is a collective list, and
so I'm gonna I'm gonna be okay to

1326
01:21:16,119 --> 01:21:20,880
drop that one. I'm I just
got a glimpse of some of my powerful

1327
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:28,039
picks on there, and it kind
of dwarfs uh the the Summit for for

1328
01:21:28,039 --> 01:21:30,760
for Cry four in comparison. So
I'm pretty okay with getting rid of that

1329
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:34,119
one right now. Now, are
you feeling like it's time to maybe make

1330
01:21:34,119 --> 01:21:36,479
a couple of locks here? Do
you want to keep? Because I think

1331
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:40,000
for me it's gonna start it's gonna
be hard to do some cuts until I

1332
01:21:40,079 --> 01:21:44,880
kind of yeah, I'm I'm yeah, let's let's do some Well, actually,

1333
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:46,600
I'll make one more. I'll cut
my namesake Care, I'll cut the

1334
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:51,720
Interloper. It's really cool, really
great. It's very unique in terms of

1335
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:57,199
how this list goes. For sure, maybe I'm not. I don't know.

1336
01:21:57,439 --> 01:21:59,800
I was. I was gonna mention
the Northern Waste and Fable. It's

1337
01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:03,960
an are like super big area.
There is some great snowy aspect to it.

1338
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:06,840
But I think it might be more
icy than snowy, not even that

1339
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:12,720
town though the snow Snow Stars fire
cool. You can keep it if you

1340
01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:15,640
want. Yeah, I dropped the
Interloper. It's it's a tough call,

1341
01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:19,079
but uh, you know, it
made it far. I think as far

1342
01:22:19,119 --> 01:22:24,640
as a lock goes, like,
there's no way in any world that Hakkaido's

1343
01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:28,079
not on this top ten in my
opinion, get it in there, so

1344
01:22:28,159 --> 01:22:30,680
I would lock that one. So
let's move it up to the to the

1345
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:35,880
locks here, I would think.
I think I counter that one with the

1346
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:41,279
what's your topic? The cring Wolf
boss battle. Actually, yeah, there's

1347
01:22:41,359 --> 01:22:45,000
some really powerful picks on there,
and I still think that is higher than

1348
01:22:45,039 --> 01:22:47,920
at least my picks on there.
Highly recommend you at least checking out that

1349
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:51,439
that boss battle. No I I
I was gonna mention this earlier, but

1350
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:57,640
I have officially downloaded the Metal Gear
Solid Volume one collection. Oh my switch

1351
01:22:58,159 --> 01:23:00,359
and as soon as Game of the
Year stuff is done, and I can

1352
01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:02,600
well, I mean technically that is
a new release this year, but it's

1353
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:05,159
downloaded, and I, like I
said when me and you and Taylor were

1354
01:23:05,199 --> 01:23:09,520
doing our backlog episode, that's my
big goal for December. That and earth

1355
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:13,039
Bound or my big backlog on So
I'm gonna I mean, i'll probably take

1356
01:23:13,079 --> 01:23:15,359
me out before I get to four, but and I don't think it's at

1357
01:23:15,399 --> 01:23:16,920
that collection, but I will get
there at some point. I'm gonna go

1358
01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:20,640
through them chronologically, So starting my
metal gear journey pretty soon here, which

1359
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:26,840
I'm excited about. Awesome. What
about Cliffhanger, because in my mind,

1360
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:30,960
I think that's a top ten.
Yeah. I The only the tricky part

1361
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:34,439
for one, for that one is
that we're not for me watching a YouTube

1362
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:36,760
video or familiarize myself. It'd be
like, oh, it's hard to remember

1363
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:40,439
like details. And so I did
watch the YouTube and it's like, okay,

1364
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:43,920
that is great. I do remember
this, but it's like it's not

1365
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:45,840
as tactile as some of these other
ones for me that I've played recently,

1366
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:49,199
you know. So I feel like
there's a good chance. But when I

1367
01:23:49,199 --> 01:23:53,039
look at this list that still has
like twenty five games on it or twenty

1368
01:23:53,199 --> 01:23:56,720
games wherever we're at, I don't
know if I'm quite in the lock territory

1369
01:23:56,760 --> 01:24:00,000
with it, but I if I
had to guess, i'd say it's probably

1370
01:24:00,079 --> 01:24:00,399
going to make it. And I
think, you know, to make it

1371
01:24:00,399 --> 01:24:04,000
a bit easier. I'm okay to
drop Summit as as the other only other

1372
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,720
call of duty pick at the moment, so that leaves that as the final

1373
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:09,760
call of duty watch. I think
gives it a higher chance to make it

1374
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:11,479
all. Yeah, for sure,
but I can get rid of it.

1375
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:13,840
Or you've also played Summit too,
right, So how do you feel about

1376
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:16,159
that? No, I'm fine with
that in that I think if I had

1377
01:24:16,199 --> 01:24:24,199
to pick one or the other,
it would definitely be cliffhanger. So let's

1378
01:24:24,239 --> 01:24:28,840
see. Oh, man, this
is this is hard. Do you have

1379
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:33,359
another any thing that you just feel
like you can't be happy unless this locked

1380
01:24:33,399 --> 01:24:36,720
on the list? This is in
the top ten at the very least.

1381
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:47,479
Uh, I would say, Man, I would say probably the prologue for

1382
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:53,560
Red Dead two. I just think
that's like, again, like some of

1383
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:56,520
the best snow I've ever seen in
a video game done, and they do

1384
01:24:56,760 --> 01:25:00,319
just a good job at emphasizing the
harshness of it, the danger that the

1385
01:25:00,319 --> 01:25:04,840
cold brings. There's a lot of
characters just dealing with that early on as

1386
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:09,399
well as I think like once that
section is kind of over, you really

1387
01:25:09,439 --> 01:25:12,640
just feel the warmth of like not
being in the Winter, So it's like

1388
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:16,239
does a great job of just comparing
the like the two start contrasts of the

1389
01:25:16,279 --> 01:25:21,079
harsh winter as well as the warmer
elements. So probably that one. I

1390
01:25:21,399 --> 01:25:25,640
do have a lot of love though
for like that snow section of Journey.

1391
01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:29,319
It is a very small section,
so I don't know how that's gonna last

1392
01:25:29,319 --> 01:25:30,960
when we get down to the top
ten, but I'm I'm at least happy

1393
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:35,079
that it's still there for now.
Have you played Journey, I'm not sure.

1394
01:25:35,199 --> 01:25:39,399
No, that's that's definitely a big
backlog one as well, And every

1395
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:41,600
time you mention it, I'm like
want to play it more and more.

1396
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:43,800
And I didn't even realize there was
snow level, so that makes me want

1397
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:46,840
to play it even more. So
at some point, at some point in

1398
01:25:46,880 --> 01:25:49,600
my life, I will get to
it. So yeah, I think right

1399
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:58,279
now Red Dead two is probably like
my next number one. The way that

1400
01:25:58,279 --> 01:26:01,079
that Journey Snow section makes me feel
though it's still it's still higher, I

1401
01:26:01,079 --> 01:26:04,119
think we should make some more cuts
then for perhaps let's do that. And

1402
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:10,239
I think this is a spot where
I'd be okay to drop Nepal from Overwatch.

1403
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:14,359
Overwatch only because to me, it's
not like it's not the most snowy

1404
01:26:14,520 --> 01:26:17,760
of these, which is kind of
sounds reductive, but that's the rank and

1405
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:23,960
we're doing here. Yeah, so
I think I'm okay with that one dropping.

1406
01:26:24,039 --> 01:26:27,760
And then I kind of feel like
Mario Kirk should only have one rep.

1407
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:30,279
Yeah, it would be Mount Warrior
for me. Well, then it

1408
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:33,039
be that for me too, So
let's do that. We're just a nice

1409
01:26:33,039 --> 01:26:38,479
one two punch there. It's good, chops, we're making good progress.

1410
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:45,079
I'm looking at Skyrail. I feel
like that might be a little bit of

1411
01:26:45,079 --> 01:26:50,720
a lower one as well as I
mean, yeah, I think I'm okay

1412
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:56,520
with cutting that one, and like
even comparing that one with Warcraft three Frost

1413
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:59,000
Moorne again, I feel like I
might actually pick Skyrail over that. So

1414
01:26:59,079 --> 01:27:00,079
if we already geting rid of that, and I think I'm okay at this

1415
01:27:00,119 --> 01:27:05,640
point too, Cross Morn Frost worn
Hungers, as Arthurs would say, let

1416
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:08,760
me do account here. One,
two, three, four, five,

1417
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:11,640
six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,

1418
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:14,560
fourteen, fifteen. So we need
to get rid of seven of these

1419
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:15,960
in order to make a top ten. Pretty good, so far, would

1420
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:19,920
we really get thirty two thirty seven? I think oh, I actually got

1421
01:27:20,039 --> 01:27:23,600
rid of a like, look at
a here's that list originally. Oh my

1422
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:27,119
god, I thought you just scroll
down there's more options. No, I

1423
01:27:27,199 --> 01:27:30,000
like to duplicate it so I don't
lose them. Smart man. H Let's

1424
01:27:30,079 --> 01:27:33,880
see. So looking at this list, we still have two Skyrim picks,

1425
01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:38,159
but of course it's Skyrim. So
that feels like if there's any game that

1426
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,119
is potential to have two picks,
that feels like the one. So I

1427
01:27:41,119 --> 01:27:47,319
don't think that's necessarily the next Jenga
block. But I it's hard for me

1428
01:27:47,359 --> 01:27:50,159
to make this decision. I think
if you had, if you had a

1429
01:27:50,199 --> 01:27:56,399
played Oblivion and knew a rumor yourself, maybe I could. I just feel

1430
01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:59,399
like, if I'm already considering it, I've considered it before, Yeah,

1431
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:01,000
Elders, I know is. I
know it is gonna be represented. I

1432
01:28:01,039 --> 01:28:03,439
guarantee at least one of these skyrom
maps it's going to make it, make

1433
01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:06,800
it. So I think I'm okay
to drop Bruma. And you know,

1434
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:11,079
honestly, if it was a more
like crucial part of that game that had

1435
01:28:11,119 --> 01:28:14,000
a lot more like big quest going
on, I'd probably feel differently about it.

1436
01:28:14,039 --> 01:28:16,479
But it's almost more of like a
holiday, you know, which of

1437
01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:23,800
course is different, different energy to
it. I was kind of thinking a

1438
01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:26,560
train to catch, but I also
kind of want to keep that now the

1439
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:29,439
more I think about it, Just
like the ending sequence of that level is

1440
01:28:29,479 --> 01:28:33,399
so strong when it comes to the
snow element. What about cool Cool Mountain.

1441
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:36,880
We haven't really brought that one up
much, but I still like entering

1442
01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:40,279
this, I would have imagined that
that would be an easy lock in the

1443
01:28:40,319 --> 01:28:46,600
top ten. I thought so too. I thought so too. And I'm

1444
01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:49,560
not even like necessarily like against it
or anything. It's just I don't feel

1445
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:54,600
as strong for or against it compared
to some other ones on here. There's

1446
01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:57,399
just yeah, there's not a weak
link on this on this list anymore.

1447
01:28:57,479 --> 01:29:00,319
Yeah, that's you know, I
haven't played all these games either or don't

1448
01:29:00,319 --> 01:29:03,479
know all these levels offhand, but
yeah, it's to me, it's officially

1449
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:08,359
at that point where it's like it's
really hard to make any cuts or Okay,

1450
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:12,880
I'll put this out there that my
one, like my next lock for

1451
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:15,399
me, my personal one is definitely
not Mountain from Death Stranding. As I

1452
01:29:15,439 --> 01:29:19,039
said, that was the person that
came to mind. I'm totally fine with

1453
01:29:19,039 --> 01:29:21,359
with locking that you want to put
it up. Okay, that makes me

1454
01:29:21,600 --> 01:29:25,199
a happy man, and that that
makes it easier for me to do other

1455
01:29:25,239 --> 01:29:30,600
stuff because now I got my baby
on there, the snow baby. I

1456
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:33,600
think I'm like jumping off of what
you just said there. I think I'm

1457
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:39,279
pretty confident in my want for the
prologue of Red. Did to hear?

1458
01:29:39,359 --> 01:29:44,560
Actually? Yeah? What us?
That one's another one that's got amazing just

1459
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:47,840
Blizzard audio. That was I feel
like that was the first big you know,

1460
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:50,960
next gen at the time games too, with the snow physics of walking

1461
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:56,920
around. I remember all of the
the chatter of that snowflakes coming through your

1462
01:29:56,960 --> 01:30:00,479
earbuds, just like right, yeah, all that all that, it's four

1463
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:04,720
D gaming. That's a good one. Are we over hoping over hyping Colon

1464
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:06,920
or is that like a top ten
or for you? I have not played

1465
01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:10,640
it before, so it's like,
are we over hyping it or is it

1466
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:14,600
is the snow element thing? I
don't think I'm over hyping that opening element

1467
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:17,039
of it, like the audio and
the actual aesthetic of the snow. I

1468
01:30:17,199 --> 01:30:19,760
had to ask, just had to
as at least right now, at least

1469
01:30:19,880 --> 01:30:24,880
right now, which that wasn't even
like a main pick. When I brought

1470
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:27,359
it up, I think it was
like the tail that was like just sneaking

1471
01:30:27,399 --> 01:30:30,319
in there. I love that it's
working. We haven't since we've started cutting,

1472
01:30:30,359 --> 01:30:33,439
we haven't talked about sly to that. To me, it sounds like

1473
01:30:33,479 --> 01:30:38,840
a really high tier pick based on
the description it is. It is for

1474
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:41,439
sure, that's a nostalgia game for
me as well as like one of the

1475
01:30:41,479 --> 01:30:45,520
best sequence of sequences of it.
And if we're making the best Snow levels,

1476
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:48,960
I'd be kicking myself if I didn't
at least keep it in the talk

1477
01:30:49,079 --> 01:30:54,239
for like top fifteen, which I
guess we're in that area. Now,

1478
01:30:55,359 --> 01:31:00,239
what about Summit from Smash, Yeah, that's the one I've been looking at

1479
01:31:00,279 --> 01:31:02,359
here. I'm looking at only because
like I feel like a lot of my

1480
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:06,399
personal picks of I don't have a
I still have quite a few here.

1481
01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:11,840
Ah man, I don't know.
It's it's hard for me. Here's what's

1482
01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:15,640
hard, is that comparing a call
of due to campaign map versus a Smash

1483
01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:18,720
pro stage versus a Super Mario sixty
four, you know, level versus a

1484
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:24,920
section of Skyrim versus this level structure
of Kirby versus a Mario Kart course,

1485
01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:28,479
like these are so different and all
these other rankings we've done in the past,

1486
01:31:28,760 --> 01:31:30,840
things are more in a bucket where
this is so much more vague because

1487
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:35,600
of the descriptor of it. So
it's really hard for me to say,

1488
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:40,600
like I, yeah, well only
have six spots left, like a summit

1489
01:31:41,119 --> 01:31:45,039
in those six spots, Like,
I don't I'm not ready to cut it

1490
01:31:45,119 --> 01:31:46,600
yet, but I yeah, if
I had to guess right now, I

1491
01:31:46,600 --> 01:31:49,560
don't think it'll make it. But
I'm still not ready to cut it,

1492
01:31:49,640 --> 01:31:54,119
just because God damn, this is
hard. This is really hard at this

1493
01:31:54,159 --> 01:31:57,520
point, it's very, very hard. What about the Battle foot Blizz of

1494
01:31:57,760 --> 01:32:01,479
the Battle of Desert Bridge, Man, I think that's probably the next one

1495
01:32:01,520 --> 01:32:05,920
to go. I'm glad it's made
it this far, but I think it's

1496
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:09,600
the time for it to go.
But seriously, Kirkland, after we've done

1497
01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:12,359
this, Iauld, it's probably on
Spotify, hit up YouTube, just listen

1498
01:32:12,399 --> 01:32:15,720
to the music for that again.
Is so I would put it onto the

1499
01:32:15,720 --> 01:32:19,000
background here where we get copyright.
It is so freaking good, so freaking

1500
01:32:19,079 --> 01:32:21,800
good even just put it on in
your headphones while we're going through this.

1501
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:27,840
Yeah, you need to listen to
that music again. Now that we're getting

1502
01:32:27,880 --> 01:32:31,079
down to it, I and with
how many strong picks we have, I

1503
01:32:31,119 --> 01:32:35,600
think reducing Skyrim to one is maybe
the move, and for me win Helm

1504
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:39,920
would be the one. How do
you feel about that? Do you feel

1505
01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:44,920
opposite? We got a couple of
mountains, we got out mountain, we

1506
01:32:44,920 --> 01:32:51,600
got Hookaido. I think I think, yeah, I had through the world

1507
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:57,520
higher than it. But like that's
also not like a specific city. And

1508
01:32:57,560 --> 01:33:00,520
if you think of like the coldest
city in all of Skyrim, it definitely

1509
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:03,479
is win Heilm, And just the
amount of snow that's in that in that

1510
01:33:03,560 --> 01:33:08,760
city, like there's there's not any
like areas on the ground that aren't snow

1511
01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:13,960
in the in that city. And
if you're not ready to cut, you're

1512
01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:16,640
not ready to cut. It's it's
like I am ready, but I just

1513
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:19,119
I can't say it out loud.
I can't, you know, I can't

1514
01:33:19,159 --> 01:33:23,079
cross. Let's let's do it different, Let's put it right here. So

1515
01:33:23,119 --> 01:33:26,600
it's okay, it's still on our
screen, but it's not it's not in

1516
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:30,279
that in that tier anymore. So
now we need we have one, two,

1517
01:33:30,439 --> 01:33:32,640
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

1518
01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:36,279
ten, and we need, So
we need to cut four more here,

1519
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:43,159
oh man, and now that we're
doing now, or that we're down at

1520
01:33:43,279 --> 01:33:46,159
this stage a bit, I think
some of it can go. And it's

1521
01:33:46,199 --> 01:33:51,279
sad for me to say. I
think I can drop Summit to be clear

1522
01:33:51,359 --> 01:33:56,319
though smash bro stage because there's one
hundred summits right, big list, But

1523
01:33:56,720 --> 01:34:00,359
I was going to ride off what
you just did. I think I'm okay

1524
01:34:00,399 --> 01:34:05,319
with dropping co Lot. I still
think it's one of like again, I'm

1525
01:34:05,319 --> 01:34:10,159
gonna play it open, we revisit
co Lot. Yeah, you're gonna play

1526
01:34:10,159 --> 01:34:12,239
anything like why did you? Why
did you let me get rid of that

1527
01:34:12,279 --> 01:34:16,159
game? It's such a powerful snow
level? Maybe maybe what's our numbers at

1528
01:34:16,239 --> 01:34:21,159
right now? So we have four
locked, it's six more, so we

1529
01:34:21,199 --> 01:34:25,439
need to get rid of two more. Uh okay, and then well if

1530
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:27,239
you if throw the World is a
contender, we need to get rid of

1531
01:34:27,279 --> 01:34:33,000
three more so so we have fable
let's yeah, recap for the auto listeners.

1532
01:34:33,279 --> 01:34:36,399
I guess. So the ones we've
locked Tokaido from him Man, Crying

1533
01:34:36,439 --> 01:34:41,760
Wolf from MGS not Mountain Dust Stranding, and the prolog from our Red Dead

1534
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:46,000
and then our contenders right now are
the Northern Wists from Fable, Cliffhanger from

1535
01:34:46,199 --> 01:34:50,800
One War for two, Trained to
Catch Uncharted Too, snow from Journey Coo,

1536
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:57,199
Cool Mountain from SM sixty four,
wind Helm from Skyrim episode seven,

1537
01:34:57,239 --> 01:35:00,319
Canada Games from Slide to Mount Warrior
from Mario Carti eight, and then kind

1538
01:35:00,319 --> 01:35:03,239
of on the edge, on the
on the edge of the cliff here is

1539
01:35:03,279 --> 01:35:11,720
throw the world for for Skyrim.
Yeah, I guess, well, if

1540
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:14,720
you have a cut, please then
go ahead. I think I I think

1541
01:35:14,760 --> 01:35:19,960
I'm ready to cut a train to
Catch from Uncharted Too. I think in

1542
01:35:20,079 --> 01:35:24,560
my mind I had remembered that being
a lot snowier than it actually is.

1543
01:35:24,680 --> 01:35:27,479
Maybe it's just because of the way
that it ends like it like it really

1544
01:35:27,479 --> 01:35:30,079
does open you up to like the
peak of a mountain that you're kind of

1545
01:35:30,079 --> 01:35:32,319
on, but like just looking at
like screen, like you're you're kind of

1546
01:35:32,319 --> 01:35:36,079
at like a jungle at some section
because you're like lower down. So it

1547
01:35:36,279 --> 01:35:40,960
is not the best no, exactly, it's not even like a snowy jungle

1548
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:45,600
either. So yeah, great,
great, absolutely one of the greatest levels

1549
01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:49,560
of video made it super far,
but yeah, I'm okay with And I

1550
01:35:49,600 --> 01:35:55,600
was also going to ask about Northern
Wastes from Fable that was the other one,

1551
01:35:55,840 --> 01:36:00,079
only because I haven't I mean,
there's three on this list that snow

1552
01:36:00,119 --> 01:36:03,960
in episode seven slide too, that
I haven't played, so it's hard for

1553
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:06,039
me to make a call on any
of those, course, but it sounded

1554
01:36:06,039 --> 01:36:11,199
like Northern Waste is the one that
wavering only maybe because of some vagueness of

1555
01:36:11,239 --> 01:36:14,239
it. I'm excited to check it
out when we do that retro someday.

1556
01:36:14,239 --> 01:36:19,800
But it's it's another one that I
feel maybe aligns more on the icy side

1557
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:24,279
of snow because I feel like the
fact that it is the Northern Waste,

1558
01:36:24,319 --> 01:36:29,000
it's so cold usually it's just like
permafrost as opposed to you know, snow

1559
01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:33,319
falling all the time, very very
cold. But I think there's a little

1560
01:36:33,359 --> 01:36:35,960
bit more snow and some of these
others that we're looking at. It's not

1561
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:41,680
the coldest place in Skyrim. So
no, it's so if we do that

1562
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:46,319
and we assume that throw of the
world is removed, and I think that's

1563
01:36:46,359 --> 01:36:50,880
a list of ten games. How
do you feel about this list? Looking

1564
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:56,399
at it, I am actually very
very happy with this list. I'm kind

1565
01:36:56,439 --> 01:37:00,720
of impressed and surprised that Snow from
Journey got on there. But honestly,

1566
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:04,319
I think it's so deserving of it, Like it is such a like when

1567
01:37:04,319 --> 01:37:08,079
you compare the overall scale of what
that game is, it's a very like

1568
01:37:08,479 --> 01:37:12,640
short ish section of like feeling the
harshness of the snow. But I think

1569
01:37:12,640 --> 01:37:15,960
it just does so much for the
little amount of time that of the game

1570
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:21,119
that it really covers that it like
it's got to be on there for me

1571
01:37:21,239 --> 01:37:26,439
at least. So yeah, I'm
very very happy with that. Mount say

1572
01:37:26,479 --> 01:37:30,119
goodbye to Throw to the World for
Skyrim. What do you want or do

1573
01:37:30,119 --> 01:37:32,039
you want to make? I am? I think comparing like if I do

1574
01:37:32,079 --> 01:37:35,880
a one on one v one with
any of the other titles on this list,

1575
01:37:35,920 --> 01:37:39,520
I think Throw of the World is
ten. By the end of the

1576
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:41,960
day, it's number eleven, for
sure. It is. It is the

1577
01:37:42,039 --> 01:37:46,800
highest of honorable mentions that are possible
in this world. Uh So, here's

1578
01:37:46,840 --> 01:37:49,079
our here's our ten, and we're
going to order this. But we got

1579
01:37:49,159 --> 01:37:55,039
Hakkaido from Hitman, Crying Wolf,
not Mountain, the Prolo from Red Redemption,

1580
01:37:55,159 --> 01:38:00,359
Cliffhanger, Snow from Journey, Google, Mountain wind Helm, uh Canada

1581
01:38:00,399 --> 01:38:03,760
Games, and Mount Warreo. So
yeah, I love the eclectic just genres

1582
01:38:04,319 --> 01:38:08,439
that we got here. I love
that we have I feel like some more

1583
01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:13,720
modern games versus some some early two
thousands sort of games totally, so we

1584
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:17,159
have a nice mix here. Uh
wow, I don't know which way to

1585
01:38:17,159 --> 01:38:20,119
go with this. Is there a
clear bottom or clear I think I have

1586
01:38:20,159 --> 01:38:24,840
a couple that are in like a
lower range. I'm very glad they're in

1587
01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:29,680
the top ten. But something like
the Canada games from sly To I think

1588
01:38:29,720 --> 01:38:32,560
it has so many I mean the
Canada isms in it. It's very cold

1589
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:36,039
and it's got all like like just
the polar Bears and things like that,

1590
01:38:36,079 --> 01:38:43,399
but no major Snow comparison, Like
if I compare it to like Snow from

1591
01:38:43,479 --> 01:38:46,880
Journey, like it's it's not going
to win any ratings there. So happy

1592
01:38:46,880 --> 01:38:53,000
with that one being a little bit
lower. Who was the other one?

1593
01:38:54,039 --> 01:38:56,600
I like? Again, like I
think the Snow from Journey, it is

1594
01:38:56,720 --> 01:39:00,560
very, very impactful for me.
I would love to see it round that

1595
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:03,119
number five range, But I get
like, you haven't actually played the game,

1596
01:39:03,159 --> 01:39:08,479
so it is tough to judge it
there. I'm okay with that one

1597
01:39:08,520 --> 01:39:13,479
being lower because it is on the
top ten already. Mm hmmmm, so

1598
01:39:15,159 --> 01:39:17,800
yeah, obviously such an eclectic group. Hard to make a call here.

1599
01:39:18,399 --> 01:39:23,319
This is something I'm I'm struggling with, is I mean, if we're talking

1600
01:39:23,319 --> 01:39:27,960
about just individual level design, like
quality of actual level, like hit Man

1601
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:30,079
without a shadow of a doubt in
my mind is like number one on this

1602
01:39:30,119 --> 01:39:32,680
list. But that's not exactly what
this list is. We're not just ranking

1603
01:39:32,760 --> 01:39:36,840
like the best individual levels that happen
to have snow on them, right,

1604
01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:41,199
It's right, it's the whole esthetic, it's the whole vibe of it.

1605
01:39:41,239 --> 01:39:44,520
Completely good point. But to me, that feels like it's got to be

1606
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:47,399
like still at least top five just
because of how quality that is as well.

1607
01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:50,640
So I mean, maybe for the
sake of now, we're just gonna

1608
01:39:50,680 --> 01:39:54,880
like break this up in little groups
here, so we'll say that there's like

1609
01:39:55,399 --> 01:39:58,199
kind of the mid tier, the
top tier, in the bottom tier,

1610
01:39:58,239 --> 01:40:01,039
so to speak. For now,
I feel like, ah, what do

1611
01:40:01,079 --> 01:40:04,720
I feel like? What do I
feel like? I think if for teering

1612
01:40:04,800 --> 01:40:09,840
them, I would put Red Dead
two in like the upper tier for sure,

1613
01:40:10,520 --> 01:40:14,800
as well as the Crying Wolf Boss
battle. For me, Okay,

1614
01:40:15,359 --> 01:40:17,840
I don't want to just say those
are gonna be top five no matter what.

1615
01:40:18,359 --> 01:40:20,760
We leave the Mountain in that group
two. Then in that way,

1616
01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:25,600
I'm happy. There you go.
And I think out of all those,

1617
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:30,199
I could possibly put Journey below them, like below a tier amongst all those

1618
01:40:30,279 --> 01:40:34,479
titles. I'll do that for now. When I look at this, it's

1619
01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:38,880
so when I'm looking at this,
I feel like when I'm talking about like

1620
01:40:39,039 --> 01:40:42,079
the level or the area itself,
like I feel like cool Cool Mountain is

1621
01:40:42,079 --> 01:40:45,119
the one I want to put the
lowest, like I guess number nine.

1622
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:47,159
But then I also feel like out
of all of these, even out of

1623
01:40:47,159 --> 01:40:49,199
all ten of these on the list, I feel like it is the most

1624
01:40:49,640 --> 01:40:54,039
Christmas y. Yeah, with its
music, with its snowman, with its

1625
01:40:54,159 --> 01:40:58,960
lightheartedness, with its color palette.
And so that's what I'm struggling with.

1626
01:40:59,039 --> 01:41:00,439
Where do you think that, where
do you think you fall on that element

1627
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:02,760
of it? Like, yeah,
is this something that we can just happily

1628
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:08,479
saw it at ninth or because of
its like more cheery vibes, like should

1629
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:12,239
that carry it up a couple spots? Maybe if there's other stronger areas than

1630
01:41:12,239 --> 01:41:16,600
it, maybe, but like personally, I don't know, I feel like

1631
01:41:16,640 --> 01:41:18,479
it's one of those things where I
just knew it was going to be on

1632
01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:23,720
here at some point, but I
don't have like a lot of powerful arguments

1633
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:28,039
into like make it break through into
that upper echelon sounds like at least ninth

1634
01:41:28,079 --> 01:41:30,960
right now. Yeah, it is
where we should put it. I'm happy

1635
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:33,079
with that, and that brings us
to that kind of means like Canada Games

1636
01:41:33,079 --> 01:41:36,479
and Cooliole Mountain would be in that
kind of ninth intense spot. And then

1637
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:40,720
we kind of have this tier of
Mount Warrior wind Helm. I feel like

1638
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:45,640
wind Helm should probably I think Cliffhanger's
look so good too. I feel like

1639
01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:47,479
I think I'm pretty okay with Mount
Warrio being eighth on this list. I

1640
01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:54,039
think so as well. It's great
again Winter Vibe actually being a ski hill.

1641
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:58,000
But I know you make some good
like I don't feel like I'm frozen

1642
01:41:58,079 --> 01:42:00,760
while playing. Uh, you know
that's not what you want to feel playing

1643
01:42:00,760 --> 01:42:03,159
a racing game. You want to
be you want to be de lazing around.

1644
01:42:03,520 --> 01:42:06,920
So so that leaves that kind of
middle tier of Cliffhanger and wind Helm,

1645
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:11,960
which really I just want to collapse
them into that top too, Like

1646
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:15,600
I feel like that's such a just
great mix of levels right there and like

1647
01:42:15,680 --> 01:42:20,880
so distinct. Maybe how would you
feel about Cliffhanger at seventh? Does that

1648
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:30,760
make sense to you? So we
got ten and need seven Cliffhanger. I

1649
01:42:30,840 --> 01:42:33,119
kind of feel like I just I
feel like Windhilm needs to be higher in

1650
01:42:33,159 --> 01:42:35,359
some way to me, And I
don't know if that's Cliffhanger moving down or

1651
01:42:35,399 --> 01:42:40,520
something else. I feel like Cliffhanger
is the easiest one to to be the

1652
01:42:40,880 --> 01:42:48,079
victim. I think I am willing
man. It is tricky the area of

1653
01:42:48,079 --> 01:42:54,600
an open world game versus like a
distinct level it is it becomes difficult.

1654
01:42:55,199 --> 01:42:59,439
Like I was gonna say, I
think I'm okay with letting Journey fall down.

1655
01:42:59,439 --> 01:43:02,199
A couple plays to that seventh spot. I'm surprised, however, I

1656
01:43:02,279 --> 01:43:08,359
just think for like the emotion that
like you feel in that moment is more

1657
01:43:08,399 --> 01:43:11,560
than what I would have gotten from
Cliffhanger. From wind Helm. Yeah,

1658
01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:15,039
So it's like personally I have it
in that top five easy, but a

1659
01:43:15,079 --> 01:43:20,119
collective top ten list, I think
me like Cliffhanger when that blizzard comes in

1660
01:43:20,319 --> 01:43:24,279
and like all you can really see
is your red dot, Like that's just

1661
01:43:24,319 --> 01:43:28,520
such a you got snowmobiles too.
In that level you got a crazy jump.

1662
01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:30,720
Oh yes, snowmobiles. That's a
good point for U. Yeah,

1663
01:43:30,840 --> 01:43:33,840
a lot of different factors in there. I mean, I obviously I'm okay

1664
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:40,000
with dropping snow below the two that
I've played, of course, so that's

1665
01:43:40,079 --> 01:43:43,119
I'm okay to make that change.
If you're at that point, What about

1666
01:43:43,840 --> 01:43:47,199
what about snow above wind Helm?
How do you feel about that? So

1667
01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:53,720
just Cliffhanger moving. I'll happily move
it. Move Cliffhanger up just because of

1668
01:43:53,920 --> 01:43:57,640
Yeah, because I have personal attachment
to it. I'm okay with this,

1669
01:43:57,680 --> 01:44:00,600
Tanta. Yeah, at least right
now. I don't know if we have

1670
01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:02,640
to. I don't hate it,
Mark, Yeah, I don't hate it.

1671
01:44:02,720 --> 01:44:05,279
Yeah. It's it's funny looking at
our top four because it's four games

1672
01:44:05,279 --> 01:44:10,039
that two are my picks, two
are your picks, and they've kind of

1673
01:44:10,079 --> 01:44:14,399
floated to the top of the list, which I think makes sense. I

1674
01:44:14,399 --> 01:44:16,199
also, I think I'm okay to
move ho Kaido to like the bottom of

1675
01:44:16,239 --> 01:44:21,760
these four. Okay, once again, not because of the quality of level

1676
01:44:21,760 --> 01:44:27,720
design, but because of because of
the snowiness of it. So I'll do

1677
01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:30,640
I'll do that for now. At
least I can make that. I'm sure

1678
01:44:30,640 --> 01:44:32,039
you're happy with that change because it
moves two of your picks up a lot.

1679
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:36,479
Yeah, but I don't. I
don't see it dropping below anything else

1680
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:40,840
for me. So I think that's
like a good line in the sand or

1681
01:44:40,880 --> 01:44:45,159
line in the snow. How do
you feel about twin Helm right now?

1682
01:44:45,720 --> 01:44:46,920
Like, are you okay? I'll
still look at it and I feel like

1683
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:51,800
it should be higher, But then
but then I know that's at the cost

1684
01:44:51,840 --> 01:44:58,920
of some other like insanely good snow
level. So I it feels weird to

1685
01:44:58,960 --> 01:45:00,359
me still, but I think I
I think I can be okay with it.

1686
01:45:00,399 --> 01:45:05,159
I think I think I'm starting to
I think something else too, to

1687
01:45:05,239 --> 01:45:08,760
like just have the argument of where
it's at right now, which is very

1688
01:45:08,840 --> 01:45:11,079
high, you know, comparing to
the thirty seven that we already had on

1689
01:45:11,159 --> 01:45:15,680
here. But the snow in Skyrim
is ever ever. You know, it's

1690
01:45:15,720 --> 01:45:18,960
everywhere, But I don't really feel
like it's alive like some of these other

1691
01:45:19,399 --> 01:45:26,399
snow mechanics that these other games have, like like from Red Dead, from

1692
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:30,640
like snow specifically from Journey, Like
I just feel like it's it's cutting through

1693
01:45:30,720 --> 01:45:34,039
your armor and in in Elder Schools
games, like you know, there's certain

1694
01:45:34,079 --> 01:45:38,239
things that like I mentioned, like
if you're climbing the seven thousand steps through

1695
01:45:38,359 --> 01:45:41,479
the world and you're butt ass naked, even if you're not anored, like,

1696
01:45:41,520 --> 01:45:44,000
it doesn't matter. You're not you're
not taking like cold damage by it.

1697
01:45:44,039 --> 01:45:46,359
There might be some good audio,
but it doesn't feel like it's really

1698
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:49,800
chinking your armor or anything like that. So I think the fact that it

1699
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:53,920
doesn't feel alive makes me want to
put it lower than some of these other

1700
01:45:53,920 --> 01:45:58,680
ones, even though you know it's
the coldest place in all Skyrim line.

1701
01:45:59,399 --> 01:46:02,079
Yeah, I mean you've sold me. I think I'm happy with it at

1702
01:46:02,680 --> 01:46:09,880
what is that Tenney seven seventh there? Which uh? And are so are

1703
01:46:09,920 --> 01:46:13,239
you okay to walking snow at six
at this point? Yeah? From Journey,

1704
01:46:13,239 --> 01:46:15,119
I'm happy with that, okay.
Sure. So then Cliffhanger is in

1705
01:46:15,239 --> 01:46:17,800
fifth right now. Do you think
it's going to climb up at all or

1706
01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:20,800
do you think that's where it caps
out? I think that's where it caps

1707
01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:26,439
out ice caps Yeah, I think
it caps out there because I'm not moving

1708
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:29,479
it up on my on my picks
there, So it would be on you

1709
01:46:29,520 --> 01:46:32,319
if you want to put it above
Hakkaido, which I doubt that no obsolutely

1710
01:46:32,399 --> 01:46:36,079
not. Yeah, so so we're
getting down to it. So it's essentially

1711
01:46:36,119 --> 01:46:40,680
the top four right now is looking
at prologue from Red Dead, Crime World

1712
01:46:40,720 --> 01:46:45,319
from MGS, Not Mountain, from
destranon Hakkaido from Hitman. I think I'm

1713
01:46:45,079 --> 01:46:48,479
Hokkaido. We can we locked that
in officially at number four. I would

1714
01:46:48,479 --> 01:46:53,680
love to see not Mountain maybe climb
up one spot just and I don't I

1715
01:46:53,680 --> 01:46:55,600
don't know which one of you of
your two, by the way, is

1716
01:46:55,600 --> 01:46:58,960
the higher of the two. I
was actually gonna propose a very very similar

1717
01:46:59,000 --> 01:47:02,359
trade of allowing Red Dead to take
that number one spot just because it is

1718
01:47:02,640 --> 01:47:06,479
the most modern game. I like, well, I mean, when did

1719
01:47:06,560 --> 01:47:10,640
Dastranni come out, yeah before Red
Dead? Right? Or they similar time

1720
01:47:11,520 --> 01:47:15,000
for DESTRANI I think Red Dead was
twenty eighteen, right, so so crying

1721
01:47:15,640 --> 01:47:19,760
Crying Wolf. I think it's the
fact that it's like a PS three era

1722
01:47:19,920 --> 01:47:23,800
game. It does feel a little
bit more dated, even though it's so

1723
01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:27,520
ahead of its time at that era. But I wouldn't put it above Red

1724
01:47:27,520 --> 01:47:30,600
Dead two. And if you feel
really strongly about uh, not Mountain,

1725
01:47:30,720 --> 01:47:34,239
I'm okay. With putting that one
above it just because of it, you

1726
01:47:34,279 --> 01:47:36,840
know, it's a little bit dated, a little bit dated. Yeah,

1727
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:43,119
I mean not Mountain is just a
just overwhelming the snowy mountain playground. You

1728
01:47:43,159 --> 01:47:45,319
know. It's like to me,
it's like the epitome of what this list

1729
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:49,399
is looking afterwards, just playing in
the snow in the way that I mentioned

1730
01:47:49,399 --> 01:47:54,760
that Final Fantasy Tactics even throw snowballs. You can't throw snowballs in like any

1731
01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:57,800
other game. For some reason,
every game that has snow you should just

1732
01:47:57,800 --> 01:48:00,159
like have an infinite AMMO going on
there. But yeah, like that's what

1733
01:48:00,159 --> 01:48:03,520
that Ara in Dust strinon is for
me. It's just this big snowy playground.

1734
01:48:04,319 --> 01:48:09,640
So so yeah, it's got that
on the lock so nice. When

1735
01:48:09,680 --> 01:48:12,960
I look at this, like,
I think, I'm pretty happy with this

1736
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:16,199
top to I'm very happy with this
list. Whan you read it off from

1737
01:48:16,239 --> 01:48:19,279
ten down to number one, on
ten down at number one, okay,

1738
01:48:19,760 --> 01:48:24,399
starting at number ten, I'm so
glad this made it on here we got

1739
01:48:24,880 --> 01:48:30,279
episode seven the Canada Games from Slive
Sly two in the Band of Thieves I

1740
01:48:30,319 --> 01:48:32,520
believe the titles called. And then
we got Cool Cool Mountain from Super Mario

1741
01:48:32,560 --> 01:48:38,199
sixty four, Mount Warrior from Mario
Kart eight, wind Helm, the colest

1742
01:48:38,239 --> 01:48:44,359
city in Old Skyrim on Elder Skulls
five Skyrim. We have Snow from Journey,

1743
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:47,039
and then we're entering the top five
here with Cliffhanger Call of Duty Model

1744
01:48:47,159 --> 01:48:51,399
for two Hookaido from Hitman. It
was up from the first hit Man.

1745
01:48:51,439 --> 01:48:55,640
I know they're like collective now,
but was at in the twenty sixteen I

1746
01:48:55,640 --> 01:49:00,039
think I was the DLC for the
nice and then top here we got Crying

1747
01:49:00,079 --> 01:49:05,199
Wolf Boss Battle from Metal Gear Solid
four not Mountain desth Stranding, and the

1748
01:49:05,239 --> 01:49:11,119
prologue from Red Dead Redemption two.
Amazing. We've done it. We have

1749
01:49:11,159 --> 01:49:15,520
officially ranked the best snow levels in
video games. This is a fun This

1750
01:49:15,600 --> 01:49:20,239
is a fun list, very fun, fun, weird list. We both

1751
01:49:20,279 --> 01:49:24,920
had some kind of good surprise picks
there and then some of some shared love

1752
01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:27,880
going on there. And I even
learned about this game called Colad that I'm

1753
01:49:27,880 --> 01:49:30,880
gonna go buy after this podcast and
play in the next month here, So

1754
01:49:31,039 --> 01:49:35,079
thank you everyone for listening. You
know, if you're listening to this around

1755
01:49:35,079 --> 01:49:38,680
that holiday, I hope you have
a nice, nice, fun holiday,

1756
01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:42,760
stay warm inside, have some I
don't know what do people do? Hang

1757
01:49:42,800 --> 01:49:45,760
out with their family, chill or
just do whatever you want. Play some

1758
01:49:45,800 --> 01:49:50,159
video games, play some snowy games, play some winter games. What if

1759
01:49:50,159 --> 01:49:54,600
you want to just scare yourself.
But yeah, thank you everyone so much

1760
01:49:54,600 --> 01:49:57,960
for listening. And I guess this
one. We'll see you again next year.

1761
01:49:59,039 --> 01:50:02,399
I have a good one. Bye
bye bye mhm.