Hello and welcome to episode fifty two of game Spot after Dark, GameSpot's official
video game podcast. Joining me this week is Lucy James, Hey, Kelly
Plaguy Hello, and our editorial intern James Carr. Hello. How are y'all
doing? Wow? Thank you? It's four th eight pm on a Wednesday.
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cracked a white claw. Man. This is like the white Claw cast.
Look if we let's get sponsored by white clall likes I'm drinking ruby grapefruit.
I'm not like other girls. I can't have that one. I'm not allowed
grapefruit really because I have high cholesterol genetic It's you know, it's fine.
A four point brand ambassador followed me on Twitter and I saw it and I
was like, oh man, here we go. He know that, like
I don't know our first twenty five episodes, we were drinking four point in
the studio. That's true. I miss that. I missed that so much
right just being in the studio with you guys. But also, I mean
Greg's this is a UK listeners only. The Greg's community manager followed me on
Twitter. Greg's is like pastry sausage. Rolls Steak Bakes like iconic Northeastern food,
and they followed me on Twitter and I was like, here we go.
I think you're talking about your roommate. Yeah, I thought you were
Miller of Greg's community manager, Jake when you were an intern. When you
started as an intern, were you twenty one? It was twenty two?
Remember in my interview, that was a question that they asked and me were
like, how old are you again? I was like twenty two and they're
like, oh, good because we kind of drink a lot. And I
was like, oh, that's good to know. They don't ask that question
anymore, or at least they didn't ask me. I don't think they're allowed
to. Yeah. I don't think they are either. Yeah. I actually
I shouldn't sare that Sorry? We shouldn't move on. So normally we start
this show off with what we've been playing. However, James, this is
your first time on the podcast, so we're gonna start with the Chris from
Dayton, Ohio segment. But up there it is anyway, James, who
are you? Tell us about yourself? What kind of games do you play?
Tell us how you found your way to game Spot, and so on,
So, yeah, I'm James Carr. I'm the editorial intern. I'm
a journalism major at Arizona State University. I found the game Spot internship by
just consistently, just like once a week googling for like internships at like pretty
much every video game news outlet I could think of, and eventually the game
Spot one popped up and I was like, oh, hey, I know
them. This is cool. I'll take a crack at that. So it
is working in the video game industry something you've been wanting to do for a
long time. Yeah, it's It's actually the reason I got into journalism in
college. It was the main goal to do writing. It's awesome. As
for games, I play just about everything I can get my hands on.
I got a strong preference for like two D platformers and first person shooters and
farming sims. Yeah. I never played a farming sim you know. I
keep like which is a shame because every time you go to games Calm the
farming simula, it booth is always the most popular, Like by a long
shot, do you have really? Yeah, seriously, it's so popular.
Are the super big in Germany? Like farm? Okay, we're just talking
about Farm. The actual game. All right, actual game. I mean,
like I mean technically animal crossing Stade you is kind of fomming sim where
you played Stardo, I do, But I mean I have game. It's
like she doesn't played the game farming simulation. Yeah, I haven't played farm
or whatever. I haven't got behind the wheel of a giant tractor and plowed
some fields. You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying the Steam reviews
for that game are actually really good. I kind of want to play it
because I just curious. The only one, the only like fombing simulated knowledge
that I have is or like awareness of it that I have is a that
games come thing. But also that video of someone putting SQUIRRELX over it and
just doing like the three sixteen domesco bill that stuff. It's very good.
Again, this will be a meme that I share in the chat after,
just like gold Yeller that we were all treated to last week. Yeah,
so on the topic of Farm, Sims, Story of Seasons, Friends of
Mineral Town was your first Schemes fire review, James. So it's like it's
it's interesting, it's a fun eclectic mix of things to be like, oh
yeah, I play first person shooters and also games where you find and Mary
townsfolk and talk to fairies. But that's how I am too. Yeah.
No, it's definitely just like like two very relaxing experiences for me in two
very different ways. So I do have to ask you because this is a
question we get. I don't know, we probably get it at least once
a month. Everyone always asks, like for tips to get into the video
game industry, tips to get internships, tips or anything. So I was
just curious if maybe you could break down how you got to game Spot,
maybe like what you did before that, to help prepare you for the interview
for I don't know, any anything you find relevant, because I know that's
something that people are always curious about and we try to help them out as
much as we can. Yeah, I would say a big thing for me
is that I when I applied for the Game Spot internship, I had maybe
only spent a couple months freelancing writing for games, and that was like almost
exclusively riding listicles. But I had already done a bunch of time just writing
other types of news. I spent a couple of months for Arizona PBS do
It and covering sustainability, and then I worked in my state newspaper covering breaking
news prior to that, So I would say just like covering whatever you can,
because like you might not assily get to cover games right at the gate,
but like the skills transfer, you're still learning the writing techniques and all
of the ap style and the skills. So I think it's probably my biggest
piece of advice tool. It's a really good piece of advice too. I
think that's something we talk about a lot here, is like make sure you
cultivate other skills. And I think like we've talked about too, like everybody
at GameSpot comes from like different backgrounds, Like some people have journalism degrees,
but some people had, you know, Lucy studied psychology, and like,
uh, you know, we have a lot of film degrees, people studying
different things, and those backgrounds all inform what we do and that's what gives
us a kind of a broader net to cover things from. Like one of
my proudest moments was in QA being able to say that Patton Oswalt's wife like
her name was spelled wrong. And I know that because I like true crime.
Well, that documentary on HBO by the way, is harrowing. I'll
be on in the Dog, but her book is fantastic. Sorry, but
to jump on the Michellemore say, we train. But yeah, I think
that's really solid advice for anybody. All right, good pick. Before we
move on, one last question for you, James. Is there a game
that you always come back to or a series that you'll play no matter what?
I guess more or less a favorite game? I will say either your
Stardeo Valley or just the Halo series in general. Yah. Either one of
those I will return to at any moment when I'm particularly like stressed out,
I will open the Master Chief collection and I will just start playing Swat just
like endlessly. It's very relaxing experience for me. I feel like Cali gave
that same answer when we first started the Christ from Dayton couple. I was
gonna say, I didn't interview you, James, but if I had,
I would have been like salt. All right, Well, then with that,
let's move on to what we've been playing. Lucy, do you want
to kick it off this week? Uh? Walk got my Ghost of Sashima
platinum, Very proud, nice shout out to the guy who I tweeted out
my like trophy list and the guy. First of all, I'm very happy
that no one called me out for getting trophies at like two am on Saturday,
because that was a real dark time for me. But we'll see,
it's not like we can go to bars on Saturdays. Saturdays for the boys
and in this case the boys Jin say Lord Shimura no, someone like oh
Kage my boy. Yeah, okay, yeah, it's well too, but
okay fair uh no, So like a guy dreaming, he was like,
I highly doubt you did this all by yourself because you work a game spot.
And also the game has only been out for ten days unless you had
an advanced copy. I just replied like, actually I had it a few
weeks before release, and he deleted his tweet cough, no prick anyway,
like why be needlessly antagonistic anyway, And other than that, like I kind
of not taking a break, but I started watching Dark. I think I
talked about it the last week that I was gonna start watching it, or
that i'd watched like a couple episodes. It's really really good time travel,
which normally I'm not really that big a fan of. Honestly, time travel
as a storytelling mechanic because I think my brain kind of really Oh dude,
I must sucker for time travel. You'll really like anything, you really like
it. Although I will say it is the show that I will skip the
title sequence on the fastest out of any show I've ever seen. And usually
I watch the title sequences, but the title sequence for Dark is just like
it's weird. It doesn't Yeah, it just kind of sticks out to me.
I don't really enjoy it. But the show itself is phenomenal, and
they have like it kind of feels like it in a way because it's a
time jump that happens, you know, and it's like every twenty something years,
and this is every thirty three years. A bit stranger things y.
You know, people are kidnapping kids, and you know, there's a a
weird, weird undercover I don't know if it's like the Nuclear Power people or
just like a weird shadowy organization that hasn't been explained yet, but that's very
clear from the get go. And it jumps to twenty nineteen eighty six and
fifth D three and like, it's really cool the way that they've cast.
There are these four key families and the way that they've cast the younger versions
and the older versions and they all look perfect, like the guy who plays
Uric present day Auric and like Uric as a kid, is unbelievable. The
one thing I will say is that obviously I would suggest subs not dubs,
but that's probably just because I'm a purist. Friend of the show. Andrew
Goldflub's watching was actually with subs, but he said it's really good. But
I just the disconnect for me is too much. I can't do He's Andrew's
watching it dubbed. Yeah, he's watching it in English. But to be
fair, I want to know, it's a really complicated show, Like there
are these four families that are all connected, and like obviously it's not in
English, and so like genuinely I took notes as to who was in each
family. So that's the level I love that. I'm definitely gonna watch it
Big Lost vibes too. There was a hatch okay really yeah, I was
like, okay, I really quick aside, I've been watching. I don't.
I didn't really want to talk about it too much because like, it's
just kind of a guilty pleasure show for me, right, now. But
I've been watching Outlander and I'm on the last available season, and that is
a show that is in English, but I watch it with subtitles because there's
some thick Scottish accents in that show. Uh. But that is also a
time travel show, and I'm super a sucker for that. But it's like
time travel is really some white people shit, like like you can't really get
away with going very far back in time, and like even like like I
can't get away with like I would not be able to go back in time
with my name. They'd be like, what the fuck are you? Whereas
like everybody in that show is like, oh, I'm Elizabeth, and it's
like, well, yeah, everybody is named to Elizabeth, so it's convenient.
I was gonna say that time travel if it's like the story is about
time travel, that's fine. I don't like time travel when like Avengers is
like actually time travel time. Yeah, and like you know, Star Wars
is going to do that at some point, like they're going to have the
time a little when it just feels like a plot device in their back pocket
to just solve all their problems whenever they feel like it exactly, Kelly,
what have you been up to. I began a new business venture on so
if you have been following for the last several months, I've been slowly getting
more and more intense and neurotic with animal crossing as the time goes on.
Recently, I've been going to people's islands just a catalog pieces of furniture.
I've now collected every main piece of furniture in the game, all the house
plants, all the instruments, all of the bathroom furniture, and almost all
the kitchen furniture. So what I'm doing now is I am scheduling a series
of advantageous trades in order to complete the gaps in my catalog. So,
for example, I have collected complete sets of clothing items people like to come
and like catalog them. Cataloging is when you like pick up an item and
put it down and then you can order it yourself. And it's like something
that I'm trying to one and so I'm like, oh, I have all
of the princess dresses. Come to my island and you can catalog them,
and then people give me stuff. And that's how I've been collecting all the
Kicks exclusive shoes. So I'm working on bags and shoes. Andrew just sent
me all the samurai gear which he had because his island is modeled after Ghost
of Tushima. So now I'm complete on the Samurai. I only have one
pair of gesture shoes left, and then I'll have all the gesture outfits,
which is good because I have both Pietro and Astrid on my island. So
it's becoming clown town, so you know, because that's one guarantee that I
will never visit. Yep, I got. I got two clown villagers.
There's another clown looking one, a dog named Marcel who's kind of clownish,
so I might try to get him. There was a clown cat in the
past, but they cut him for new horizons, so oh well. And
then earlier I was like, somebody was like, oh, can I come
to your able sisters because there's this like whole thing where people will be like,
come shop of my able sisters. These are the items I have,
and uh, you know, just pay me like a nook miles ticket or
whatever. So I was like, oh, no, entry free, like
just come, tips are appreciated, come shop with my able sisters. And
somebody paid me two hundred grand. What shop of my able sisters, So
business adventures, that's that's like I've seen in that TikTok series about celebrities that
I have served, that's like ten out of ten to Beyonce because she tips.
Well that's that person. Yeah, getting right with This person was wearing
a complete LaBelle outfit, by the way, like the designer outfit, like
head to toe, the hat, the sunglasses, the shirt, the shorts,
the shoes, and I my able sisters was selling shoes, the sneakers.
So this person was like, I need to buy all the sneakers and
then gave me two hundred thousand bills for that. So that's the life that
I'm living. Yeah, how about that update? Though, I'm very excited.
Are we gonna talk about Do you want me to talk about that?
You guys, we'll talk about it now. Yeah. It's so we're recording
this before the update goes live, unfortunately, but if you're listening, it
will be live by the time this goes up. But it added a lot
of stuff that was discussed in like data mining, and it's it's a lot
of like returning content, right, so the the dream Suite is returning from
Newly that's really nice because you can have people tour your island and not worry
about them trampling your flowers. I think they took precautions and new horizons to
prevent people from damaging your islands. But with what suits kind of allowing you
to circumvent some of those precautions, it's really nice that you can kind of
upload your island and be like, here's the ideal version of my island.
How does that work exactly? Like do you I guess you wouldn't know entirely,
But in previous games, was it like you just send a code to
people and they can like visit your island or was it I'm curious how you
interact with people, Like could you in theory just like tweet out like here's
my island and then anyone could take that code and visit it or something.
Yeah, and it's a carbon copy of your islands, so you don't have
to be online. You're not there. It's just so they can tour it
and see like what you've done. So it'll be really cool for people who
are really big on like doing creative things with their islands to let people tour
them. And it'll be really cool to get inspiration from going to people's islands
like that, I think right now. One of the things that I don't
like about Animal Crossing Twitter is people will post like the cool screens of like
cool stuff they've done on their island, but they're like highly edited and they
look way better than they would in the game because I feel face tuning Animal
Crossing. Yes, people are putting crazy filters on their Animal Crossing screen shots
and they look like cottage core people are really into this and there they look
good. They're like good photos. But if you want to like cottage core
people, they they have there's a whole subculture. But basically the dream Suite
will allow you to like upload, here's my whole island. People can tour
it and that'll be really cool to see. Like people have like entire themed
islands, like Andrew Goldfarb. His island is a Sushima theme, so he
has like cherry blossom pathways and stuff, and you get a code and then
people can Uh. I guess the way it would work is you go to
sleep on a bed and then you can enter the code kind of the way
you would a creator code is how I assume it would work. The other
thing is fireworks in the summer. That's something that's been in previous Animal Crossing
games. And the thing that gives me hope about this part of the update,
and I really don't want to be wrong, and everybody who's listening to
this is going to be like, Oh, we're so sad for Cali because
she was wrong. But you can use custom designs to make fireworks, and
I'm really hoping that means we get more custom design slots because I have run
out and I don't want to use my pathway designs as fireworks because that would
look stupid. So yeah, what was there was one other thing in oh
the save data backups. So actually, what's important to note about this is
this is separate from the transfer. So the update. This update is like,
if you lost your switch, you'd be able to recover your Animal Crossing
save. A later update is going to contain the necessary data for you to
transfer your island to another switch, like if you wanted to transfer it to
a switch light for example. They clarified that on Twitter. So yeah,
you have to rechet to Nintendo support right in order if you lose your switch
and you want to back it up, which is pain seems like a lot
of work. Yeah, so the transfers coming later. They also announced with
the end of that trailer that there will be a Fall update, so I'm
imagining that's for September. I really hope that has like cafes and like cute
Fall stuff. I'm really excited for Falling Animal Crossing it has the best items.
I want to put a pumpkin on my head all time. Yeah,
so that's the Animal Crossing minute. There we go. I've been playing some
Dark Souls. I've actually never finished Dark Souls before, even though I've played
through Bloodborne, I don't know, almost a dozen times, Secure, almost
a dozen times, Dark Souls three, I think twice, but I've never
finished Dark Souls one. So I decided now's the time I should finally finish
this game. And I started from scratch on PC because I was originally playing
on Switch. I mean, I've played on so many different platforms, but
I was origually playing on Switch. But I just couldn't get myself to play
on that tiny screen when I've got a PC here with the nice monitor,
and you know, getting nice frame rate is good too, especially the game
like that. So I've just been chugging away at Dark Souls, I think
I'm almost done. I am at I just beat Seeth, so I'm like
kinda kind of exploring trying to collect the souls for the Lord Vessel. I
think I need to do two more, but I also want to do the
DLC too, which terrifies me because according to Matt, it's much harder and
apparently a lot of the enemies move a lot quicker. Tomorrow has talked about
this before, but what From Software typically does with their DLC is that they'll
kind of tease their next game, maybe not tease their next game, but
they'll try out ideas for the next game. So an example is Bloodborne's DLC.
Of some of the bosses you fight are very reminiscent of the bosses you
fight in Seciro, and you can kind of see those parallels. So with
this game with Dark Souls, the DLC, apparently the enemies are more like
Bloodborne bosses. They much quicker. That's cool, except I'm I'm I'm a
tank. Like I've I've got a giant axe and I'm a tank. So
like every time I swing, I at least have to wait a second before
I actually connect with anything, and it is tense, and I'm very concerned
that I'm gonna get mad and frustrated and have to Like, I don't know,
there's ways around it. I can switch to a faster weapon or whatever,
but I want to use my giant axe. It's just a big axe.
I gotta use it. But yeah, I mean, I'm I'm enjoying
it. I don't think I'll be replaying this game once I'm done, though,
just because the game's got a lot of bullshit in it. He's got
a lot of bullshit. Yeah. I feel like it's I mean, with
every from game because if they like, I don't know if I'm going to
say that Soekro is the best feeling one, but I mean, it's difficult
to go back after you've played Soakoro and Bloodborne to you know, turtling and
shield management. And I think especially with Sacroo removing stamina, kind of like
going from Sacro back to bloodbe was like, oh crap, yeah, gotta
I gotta remember this. I don't just jump around and whatever the whole time.
But yeah, I get what you're saying because even like I started up
Dark Souls three and that it's just night and day compared to one like,
it just feels so much better. The movement is better, the combats like
punch here. Uh that said, I mean the combat is still pretty satisfying,
but yeah, it's there's a lot of bullshit that came. Like there's
an area that's completely dark, so you're just blindly walking around this area with
skeletons, and there's lots of like narrow pathways and since you can't see anything,
you're probably gonna walk off them a lot. And I was getting frustrated
doing that. But I mean, I don't know that's the point, right,
I'm supposed to get frustrated while playing Dark Soul. I'm supposed to get
mad. I don't get that mad. But I mean, you know when
I'm like, all right here, I go, oh, I got to
walk through this entire area again. But you know, it is. It
is great. I'm really enjoying it. I'm very happy to like check it
off the list because I feel like a fake fan having not done Dark Souls
one. But anyway, that's pretty much all I've been doing. James,
what about you? So I reviewed Destroy All Humans for game Spot that went
up on Monday. That game is a remake Slash remaster the I think it
was two thousand and six, the PS two Xbox game, and I think
running around and like blowing stuff up and like shooting humans and just kind of
having a good time was like that was a lot of fun for me.
It was like nice to have a very like casual like sandbox experience. It's
like building up GTA and just kind of like going nuts and running around.
But I there are just some parts of that game that just they didn't really
do anything to and feel very old, like the stealth mechanics, like they
didn't really touch and you're just basically just like grabbing a human disguise and just
kind of like wandering through areas like trying to like not get too close to
people. And that's pretty much it for the whole game. And then some
of the audio they pulled over just kind of doesn't hold up very well at
all. So it's like it's it's like a fun experience, but it's not
like super great by modern standards. I watched the review and when I heard
audio like character audio in that game, I was like, holy shit,
this is really bad. It sounds really rough. And to clarify, it's
like the fidelity of the audio more more so than the acting, right,
Like they just didn't update how it sounds. Yeah, they just like they
just straight pulled the audio out of the original version that game and the foot
Hill just like didn't lost fidelity or something like they didn't have like the original
recording files or something like. It sounds pretty rough. That's such a strange
decision. I wonder if it was like we don't want to have to re
record this, or we like the original performances enough to sacrifice the quality.
Like I I wonder what the thought process was there. Yeah, I mean
I wonder if like it had something to do with the fact that HQ kind
of went under and then HQ Nordic kind of took it over. I wonder
if when that happened, they just kind of like all that all those audio
like the original audio files of Distrallo Humans probably weren't you know, something they
wanted to keep, oh like a like a square on next Kingdom Hawks joint.
Yeah. I wonder if it's like that sort of deal where they're like,
we don't what was it where they just couldn't find the source code right
for the game or something. Kingdom Hans I think didn't they delete it accidentally
because they had to remake the entire thing for them, which is that's insane.
Sel didn't fix the damn cameraout, did they? And I say that
as a kingdom Hans. So would you end up giving Distrell humans? I
gave to six because, like you know, it took me about ten hours
to I go through like all the campaign missions and side missions, and I
felt like a good length and like it, like legitimately have fun like running
around and shooting stuff. It was just all the other stuff that I had
to do, and like some of the quality problems were just enough to knock
it down. It's just kind of weird that, like they took him to
overhaul the graphics and update some of the movement systems and shooting systems and then
kind of left the rest of it alone. Strange decision. Yeah, sounds
like it. I totally get that though, where you're like, this isn't
this isn't great, but there's fun to be had for sure. Yeah.
Yeah, it's definitely not like a total loss. Uh. And then you've
also been playing some paper Mario, right, Yeah, I haven't spent a
ton of time with it. I think I'm on the like halfway through the
second streamers area, But I'm having a lot of fun with it. That
game's like writing is just legitimately funny, like one of like the actual like
a lot of video games like to say they're funny and then not really pull
it off most of the time. I say that as someone who likes Borderlands,
but I think that's pretty good. The combat is like I wasn't super
into it to start with because it felt really easy and basic. But as
I've continued playing, the puzzles, even for like the basic enemies have gotten
much harder and I've definitely been stumped a few times, and they change it
up a lot for boss fights where they like put arrows on the ground you
have to like coordinate the spends to like run through a map to get to
the boss. So I think that the combat is much more interesting, even
if it's not like the classic paper Mario RPG system that people want. Yeah,
I get that I've played it. Sounds like I'm probably a little bit
further than you in it. But the combat I find interesting because I started
out with the exame exact same thought room I'm like, yeah, this is
a little too easy. I don't know if I want this, And then
the further along I got, I was like, Okay, this is actually
a really clever and fun system. But then I got to the point where
I'm like, all right, I'm tired of fighting these enemies over and over
again and lining enemies up and stuff like that. So I plan on playing
more. But uh, but yeah, the combat system has been a wild
ride in terms of emotions. I guess you could say, yeah, I
plan on playing more. Is just we'll see, We'll see how long it
holds its novelty, I guess, for lack of a better word, yeah,
yeah, that's kind of my thought right now. Anyway, should we
move on to topics. First thing we have here is the secu Row update,
which is something I am very excited for. The first thing I did
when I saw this was message to more and being like, Yo, we're
doing a boss rush. Let's play, because that is something I've been wanting
to do in Seciro for very long time. Also, it came out of
nowhere. Yeah, Like I woke up this morning and there's all this news
about a second new Sakoro update, and I was like, the game came
out like eighteen months ago and the teeth is good too. I don't know
if you read it from Software's sweet, but it's like, I hope you
find some small enjoyment in this update or something like that. I was like,
small enjoyment, I'm gonna spend, like I have played through the game
at least two or three more times just because of this. God, I
still can't believe that's coming out on STADIU. I know, right, yeah,
but I mean sw So what is it. It's like a boss rush.
You can change form to three new outfits and like, the thing I'm
interested in is remnants, like send the recording of your actions to the world
of other shnobi. So I'm guessing it's Dark Soul's Bloodborne Assue. It's kind
of what I figured, like the Bloodstains, where you can like it sounds
like it works a little differently and that you won't they won't show up and
you die for other people. There's something you can more control, Like maybe
if there's a way you fought a boss that you think is really cool or
that could help people, you could, like, I don't know, maybe
press a record button and then people could click on that and watch watch that
play out. Well, Dark Soul's right. If you die, there's a
bloodstain. You click on it, you can watch them die, which is
usually hilarious. So I'm curious to see how that works. I'm definitely most
excited to see what these different forms are, and of course the boss Rush,
because like I was saying, I mean the highlight of Sekiro are the
bosses for sure? Yeah, Like I'm looking at the new films and I
don't understand what they're going to do. Yeah, they just seem like skins,
Like I don't know if they're going to do any changes. That'd be
cool if maybe there's some slight difference, but yeah, I don't know.
But the boss Rush though, Yeah, the Boss Rush is gonna be fun.
I'm just excited to have an excuse to revisit it because I never finished
it because I I don't know. It was a hard game to play when
there were other games I had to play. That makes sense because it was
like every time you start a new game, you forget how to play Securro.
So it's like I was. It was very slow going, and the
last thing I did was the Blazing Bowl, which I had such a hard
to I did not have a good time with that one, so I'm excited
to have like a justification to play it again, because you know, with
our jobs, it's kind of like I should probably be playing the other Samurai
game, Ghost of Sushima, but I really want to play Secura. I
mean, I want to play both. But that was a bad example.
But it's just hard to find reasons to play games that aren't out this year
sometimes, so I like to have justifications so I don't feel like I don't
know. I don't know about you guys. It's like I better, like
really feel like I'm being productive, Like, yeah, I get it.
It's mostly I put the way that I can see meteors that I just have
this never ending list of things that I want to watch, read, play.
So I'm going to myself just because we have a question that's kind of
similar. Okay, oh, you don't want to see my mind as well
mine mine genuinely, Like, it's not even a list of enjoyment at this
point. This is the list of things that stressed me out. You can
continue. I didn't mean to cut you off. I just don't want you
to get into like backlog and stuff, because that's something we will be talking
about later I'll kind of pivot back to sort of Cally's point and that,
like I feel less pressure to play stuff that's newer. I definitely used to
feel that though. I think that was especially you know, when I was
working on guides and more feature content. But now I'm just like, oh,
I didn't do this, or I should go back to that. I
mean, now that I finished Ghosts, I'm gonna go back to Persona five
Royal because Greg is also playing it, and I'll be damned if he gets
the platinum before I do. But other than that, like, seriously,
he's been putting in some time, and because that man is like the king
of getting platinum, so competing with him to get a platinum sounds really intense.
Good luck. Well, no, it's it's I have. I have.
Like he's got a wife to take it, he's got gen to take
into consideration. That's true, he has a wife and they actually I don't
have a wife. Isn't like they do stuff like they go out and do
hikes and stuff they have. I'm like, this is this is platinum time.
This is the platinum time. But actually Greg gets up quite early sometimes
and just plays games, which is the thing. That I do not have
in my Oh yeah, I'm physically incapable of doing that. I've thought about
doing that, like, man morning, if I could get up early in
the morning and like knock out some games that I've been trying to do,
that'd be perfect. But like when it actually comes down to it, nah,
I can't get out of bed. Yeah. Left left alone, I'll
roll out of bed at like noon, just naturally every time. Even I
worked. I worked like three years at a job where I had to go
in at six am, like four days a week, and I still never
acclimated to it. Some people were just some people are just like that.
I have been fighting my night owlness my whole life. Uh securo right,
Hey, I was I was half expecting, like, as as I was
scrolling through the update, I was expecting there to be like an easy mote
or something like that. If there was not. Uh, that's the last
thing I had to say about the Secure update. I just wanted to say,
I just want I just wanted to get that in. It's not even
funny, but I was like, you know, left. The next thing
that we want to talk about a little bit, I guess is the Avengers
War table stream, which happened earlier today. They showed off what we can
expect in the beta, and they showed off Hawkeye, which is going to
be a post release character. Uh who looks like it looks like a game
protagonist. So are you a big Advengures? Yeah? Sorry? Oh no,
I was gonna say who were throwing this to? Because I they don't
have a lot to say. I don't have too much to say. I
mean, I'm interested in the game and I'll play it, but that's more
because like I'm interested in like the comics and Avengers stuff, and like,
yeah, nothing about this game looks super enticing, but you know, I'll
give it a shot. You like the comics and the movies and stuff.
Yeah enough. The Hackey thing was weird because like they've made a joke at
the front about how everyone keeps asking where Hawkeye is, and then at the
end they're like, our big reveal, it's Hawkeye. They're like the fans
have asked for them, and I'm like, I think it's more like you
included five of like the six Avengers from like the first movie, and everyone's
like, why did you exclude Hawkeye? I think maybe they were waiting to
see if Jeremy Renner was actually a wrong and or not. Jerry's still out,
but they were just holding that whole guy back just in case. I
know it's not I know it's the movie. It's the movie version, but
you know, maybe. But no, I mean in terms of Avengers,
like I was talking about it with like the group that I play over Watch
with, and we recently have been trying to play other games, like we've
moved to watch Daniel Dirty. No, it's just at this point, you
know that Moira update. I tried it. Oh my god, I don't
understand. I mean, I know it's just an experimental right now, but
it's like, oh God, fix the shields maybe first before you anyway,
And like we've been trying to play other games, like we played some Diabo
three play war Zone. I think we're gonna play Grounded this weekend. Actually,
so Avengers is one that we all are gonna play together, but personally,
and don't tell Greg I said this, I'm a little bit burnt out
on Marvel in a minute. I think I think it's it's more like where
it was left in at the end of of God. What was the second
one called it was Infinity War and Age of Ultron, No, the endgame,
endgame. At the end of Endgame, I was like, this is
a good place for a break. And now it feels like marvels Avengers wants
me to go back to twenty twelve, or maybe that's just because of the
association with the costumes and stuff, and I'm just a bit but I do
want to. I do want to see you know, Kamala Kahan and because
that's that's a whole like area of Marvel that I've never read. Really,
I my Marvel. The stuff I like in Marvel is actually like X Men,
and god knows, x Men fans have been done dirty when it comes
to movies and video games, and I just I don't think they're going to
be in this Onana unless I've missed something. O, Hey, we got
Logan though. Logan was great. Logan was great. Okay, Logan was
fantastic, But then, god, did you watch the first two minutes of
New Mutants. I didn't even know that was available. I'm president coming out
like they're trying like what eight years or something absurd, and then they're like
it's coming out, and then Coronavirus happens. Well, no, it's still
I think it's still slated for end of August. And then at Comic Con
everyone was fully expecting them to be like, okay, and now here you
can watch New Mutants now, and instead what they did they reaffirmed the August
release date and they put the two minutes online and I watched it and I
was like, oh, this is gonna be an absolutely train right of a
film. Like it's been five I think it's five years since they've filmed it.
None of the cast. Yeah, like it's it's a big yikes.
Anyway, My whole point is I will play Avengers, but I'm not you
know, like eagerly anticipating every war table. I know I'm gonna play it.
I'm a little burnt out on Marvel. Like right now I'm listening to
Sandman, and that's kind of my comic du jour, so to speak,
like something a bit darker. I just want, I think. I mean,
it's like if I want a comic book video game, I just want
another Batman. Yeah. The Kamala con announcement actually like set my expectations up
to not be met, because when they announced her as the character, I
was like, Oh, they're gonna do something like really different. We're gonna
get see a bunch of cool characters that we haven't gotten to see yet.
And then during this they're like the first one out's Hawkeye, and I'm like,
oh, just you just snuck the one in there. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, I I'm kind of in a different boat where like I probably
like I almost definitely won't play this unless it like totally blows everybody away because
I have never been a big comics person, like definitely not a big superhero
person. I like, uh, the Nolan Batman movies because I'm an edge
lord. And also the Nolan Batman movies are fantastic except for the Dark Knight
Rises. Except for the Dark Knight Rises, and so I this is just
like really not like if they did something interesting with uh with I keep wanting
to say, Kamala Camala con is Kamala She's Mabel, right, and then
yeah, because I don't want to, Like, I didn't know if it
was the same as Kamala Harris or if it was pronounced differently, and I
was like, my brain is going to betray me here. Yeah, so
that does something interesting with her character? I think I would be more inclined
to play it, just because that's something like that we haven't seen, like
James said, But like otherwise, I'm just like, I'm a Slice of
Life person, I'm a detective stories person. I'm not really a big save
the World adventure action person. So it's just not my cup of tea.
Great use a cup of tea, though, thank you. Yeah, I'm
kind of in the same boat as Cali, except I will play it because
I'm a sucker and I'll be like, ooh, new shiny video game,
I better play this. Uh so I will probably play it. I have
a feeling I won't get super into it. It seems like they're really pushing
that like live service approach, which you know that that's cool for people who
get into it, but like, man, if I'm gonna play like a
live service game, I probably just play Destiny at this point. I mean,
that's that's my thing, right. It's the like I've said this before,
I know I missed the boat on keeping up with Destiny, and I
wonder if I'm if I start Avengers, if I'm gonna just like miss the
boat on that too. As in, like within regard to the time investment
and doing dailies and stuff. I can't see myself doing that. But if
it's something that's easy enough to drop in and out of, you know,
do a couple of missions by myself or with friends, I do that.
But I think that's just pop parcel with being a service title these days.
Yeah, I I think I've said this before in the podcast, and this
may sound kind of bad, but I I really liked Crystal Dynamics Tune Raider
games, like really, like I thought they were really good. And I
was a little bummed when I found that they were making a Marvel game and
I was like, Okay, well, they could still do something interesting.
And then when I found out it was a live series game, I was
even less interested, just because like their's story, like the two major games,
the stories weren't great, Like they definitely like a lot of the characters
besides Laura, weren't that interesting. The story took weird turns, but there
was usually something there that I really liked, and what they did with Laura's
character that was really good, And I just don't I don't know, like
it's the issue with all these service games is that the stories just always seem
to fall flat, and you know, this could be different, Like it
seems like they are really focusing on this side of the game that is story
solo based, so that could be interesting. But like right off the bat,
it's just like I don't I don't know about it. I don't think
it's for me, But like I said, I'll play it because I'm a
sucker. Anyway, that's it for topics. Shall we move on to listener
questions? Unless anyone's got any last minute things to say about Secro or Avengers.
Oh, go on then, and now moving on to listener questions.
If you've got questions, you can email us at after darkpodcast dot com.
Wow, mess that up. You can email us at after Dark podcast at
GameSpot dot com, or you can join the discord and we have a nice
little channel in the discord that let's just ask questions directly. But anyway,
Kelly, do you want to start with the first one? Sure? This
one is from Kevin from West Hertford, Conneticut. Hey, after darkers.
If you are playing a multiplayer turn based game and each turn is on a
timer, is it considered bad etiquette to use up all the time you're given?
There has been an ongoing debate for years in the Hearthstone community about players
using more time to make decisions than they quote unquote should and unnecessarily slowing down
the game for other players. For the other player, some say, if
the time is given to them, then they have every right to use it
and play how they want. I would love to hear your thoughts. I
actually do have thoughts about this, because the timer is a thing of competitive
Pokemon, and you can definitely use the timer, like it's been a strategy
in the past, depending on the length of the turntimer and the overall match
timer to run it out and stall would be what you call the tactic,
and you would win by having the most Pokemon alive, or if you had
the same amount of Pokemon alive, having more HP, so Pokemon that could
restore HP, you could have a cleric Pokemon on your team to heal.
And it's a pain in the ass and it's not exciting to watch, and
so I would consider it to be like, just just play the damn game,
And especially for something that is competitive where people are gonna watch it,
or like a turn based game, can already be kind of difficult to watch.
If you weren't super invested in the strategy. I think stalling out the
timer is kind of like just like like it's not bad, like I wouldn't
be like you're a bad person for doing that, but it's just lame.
Yeah, I mean, like I think in Hotstone, because you don't have
those like Pokemon healing over time or anything. As far as far as I'm
aware, I haven't played Holstone in years, but like, what are you
doing in that point? Are you just like checking Twitter or something? You
just like if you on stream what you're doing to I assume you like talking
to chat or something. But at the same time, that's not a fun
experience with the other person. I mean, I don't play a lot of
turn based stuff, but I can't like, what are you getting out of
that? Like Pokemon, I can see the advantage there, but like for
everything else in my mon, are you doing? Yeah? From my time
playing Herderstone, I think the strategy there is just like, especially if you're
ahead, to just make your turns last as long as possible, to like
try and ice the other player into just conceding. I spent a lot of
my week off playing Magic Arena, and they're there's a timer in that game,
and most of the time it's fine, but I've noticed if you start
to beat someone and they're salty about it, they will let the timer run
out every single turn. And like that game in particular, I think gives
way too much time to come up with moves, like especially early on,
Like all you can do early on is like throw down some manna and play
a card or two if that. But like I find that so frustrating because
it's like I don't want to concede because I'm gonna lose if I concede,
even though I'm clearly winning. What this person is trying to do is baity
to concede. So he's just going or he or she is just going to
sit there and just let the timer run out every time. And I think
if they do it enough times, it'll automatically concede them. But they can
at least go like I don't know, it felt like three or four turns
where they were just sitting there and it'd be like every single turn it would
be like, Okay, well, I guess I'm gonna check Twitter, respond
to all this stuff, see what's going on here, and then look back
and it's still their turn. It's like I can kill me man. Come
on, thank you for not assuming that all magic players are men. Had
to correct that there, Lucy, do you want to take the next one?
Sure it is from Robert Burns, Robbie Burns. I probably probably not
that one. Hello after Doug Crew. Sorry, I really made that dramatic.
I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. So how do youse
feel? I really enjoy that? How do you hottie is feel about the
video game trope of intentionally unwinnable fights, like a fight where the enemy is
so strong slush you are two week that they take no damage, or a
fight where, regardless of how you're doing, when a cutting kicks in,
your player character is suddenly on the losing end. Playing Ghost of Sushima,
which has one of these fights, reminds me of how tired of grown of
games using this trope to establish a villain as a real threat. It's like
the game telling you, oh, no, watch out for this one.
They're better at the game than you, but don't worry, you'll get their
wink. I just started the game. I don't need to attempt to fight
in futility and get whooped. Just to know I've still got a lot to
learn, and that the villain is too strong for me in my current state.
You can't handle my potions. They're too strong for you. I totally
get that. I think in Ghost it sets up that revenge story, so
I can see why it's done in a lot of cases. I like it
when they give you the option and you actually beat the boss and you get
like the secret ending. So there's a bit in I know it's not a
boss fight, but there's a bit in far c c eye or yeah,
if he says he just wait here for a minute, but obviously the game
prompts you to get up and leave the table and explore. But if you
just wait there for I think fifteen minutes, he comes back and you sort
it out and you get the credits, and I like stuff like that,
but I totally get it. I'm Secoro stocks with one of those I don't
remember what happens if you beat same thing like you still, I think the
cut scene is slightly different if you beat Ginning cheer out at the beginning,
but it's still you know, Jonathan Securo loses his arm and then you and
I wake up next to the old man and same thing. Yeah, I
personally. I also I'm with Robbie Burns here with Roberts. Sorry I'm gonna
say your name the way, but I like Robby Burns a lot. I
hate this trope because it I'm the kind of person that like, I'll have
an item in my inventory the entire game and never use it, but I'm
always like, maybe I'll need it later, and when I get to those
fights and I like, I'm like, oh, I can win if I
use this item I've been holding onto, or like I can really like I
can, I know I can do this, and then I don't do it.
I'm like I wasted all those items for nothing, and then I get
really upset. So I don't like those because they really don't mesh well with
my compulsive hoarding style, but I get I understand their inclusion stylistically in certain
places. There's an example I can think of that's not exactly this, but
I also don't want to say it because I think if I even say the
game name, people will be like, that's a spoiler. Yeah, I
mean I personally think when games do that, it is like one of those
examples of where gameplay and story are just like clashing really hard and it just
doesn't work. I find it pretty frustrating when you get unless the game makes
it very clear up front that hey, you should lose, like you're gonna
lose this no matter what. But even then I still find it frustrating because
it's like, well, then why am I fighting this person? Like there
should at least like like I kind of like se how Seco does it,
and that like you can actually beat him. But I think the problem then
is that the same thing happens. So I'd be much more interested if,
like, you know, if you replay the game and you know how to
play the game and you're really good at it, then you can actually beat
this boss that you're supposed to not beat, and that could maybe just like
do something like Farkrad did, like what you're saying, you're just like all
right, real credits, you beat it, congrats. Like to me,
that would be far more interesting than just like, all right, here's the
boss that you can't win no matter how good you are at this game.
Undertailed does a good job at that, because I don't think there's anything in
the game that you can't win. But obviously Undertail is known for giving you
other options to approach a battle scenario, and there are extremely difficult fights in
that game, but there is something you get a reward, a narrative or
a lore reward for doing that. So yeah, I did want to add
real quick is that, like I also don't really like it when games do
that. Then I can think of like an example of a time when,
like they were a game was able to like display that a boss is powerful,
even though like in a different way, and it's like it's at the
end of the game. But for a Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, like
at the very end of the game, like you encounter a boss, it's
like, hey, you can't win this fight. You are absolutely not capable
of winning this fight, and you just have to like run and just dip
out, like and I think that's like a much better way of like trying
to convey that power level than just like having you go at it and like
either get cut off or just like just get destroyed. And yeah, that's
a good point. Like that in particular, I think is more interesting like
just Okay, you figure out it's no good, I gotta run, I
gotta leave this arena boss arena. I also really like wing games do something
like Breath of the Wild did, where it's like, you can fight the
boss right now if you want. You're probably gonna get screwed, but you
could actually beat the final boss, but you're probably not. Like that to
me is superb will but maybe you will, but you could lose, but
maybe maybe you'll beat them. But that is something I'm interested in it.
I'm excited to see if breat the Web to do something similar because I think
that was a very important part to that game's direction and style. So I'm
curious to see. But I don't know Breath the While too. That's a
discussion for another day. Last question, well, last question we have here,
but it's two parts. Hey, gscrew. During the quarantine, I've
had plenty of time to finally play through my gaming backlog. Doing so,
however, I noticed something. Many of the games that I previously bought uh
with the intent to play, the intent to someday play, I no longer
have any desire to do so. So I was wondering if there are any
games in your library that you have lost all interest to ever try. I
think I read that wrong. If so, what are they? And then
there's a part two that was from Cadbury on Discord and then Wholesome. Jacob
added, can I ask a part be as a follow up? How do
you track your backlogs? If you do? So, there's the backlog question,
Lucy, do you want to kick it off on this one? I
have a very long Google keep list. I used to have different lists.
I used to have a game so that's a books, the comics list,
the movie and TV show list, and then I just realized that that's too
many lists, and so I'll consolidate them all into one where basically I just
keep jotting down things. You know, I really really want to watch Prisoners
by dnivel Nu. I'm just yeah, and like, I hear that all
time. I loved The Rival. I loved Blade Runner twenty nine and it's
on my list and it has been for maybe over a year now, and
I just it's weird because I like having a list. I like being organized.
I'm big into o Cali. Look, I've got a new bulleted all
like see, it's beautiful. I've started doing time blocking, very into it.
But at the same time, like having a list of stuff that I
need to get to feels like my time is not really my own because I'm
just going from one thing that I've wanted to do to the next drop my
phone. But that's how I keep track of everything in terms of like I
I don't typically buy things and without playing them immediately. I'm pretty good at
like holding off on buying or renting media unless I'm just about to do it.
But I totally get that. I think comics is where I do that,
Like that Comics Ology sale. It gets me every year, and I
buy a ton of stuff and then I never read it. Like there's some
like I don't think did I ever read I bought all of Grant Morrison's Batman
Run, for example, all of it. That's a lot, and I
got through like eighty percent of it. But then there's some stuff that I
just never touched and it's just been sat there, and now that I'm kind
of like I've had some space from it, I just have no interest in
going back to it because I feel like to get it, i'd have to
go back and read everything again. Yeah, that's kind of yeah. I
just I don't know. I feel like I have in my mind in a
Google calendar of oh, well, November is going to be fib A Punk
and Assassins and let's put July and August decide to finish Persona five Royal,
And you know, I kind of make little time blocks in my mind.
Yeah, cool. I do something similar, Like I feel like I typically
try to play most games when I get them. A lot of that,
though, is because of work, like we need footage of this game,
or we need I don't know, cutting review, or we need a guide
or something like that. So so I typically right when I get a game,
I start playing it, and usually I'll try to finish it unless I'm
really not into it. I would say where I falter is when it comes
to Steam, because I buy on Steam that I'm like, one day I'm
going to be in the mood to play this, and then that day never
comes. One day it might though, one day it might, yeah,
probably won't. Like I'm I think there's like there's a website that tracks all
your Steam statistics, and I'm curious to see, like what percentage of my
games I've actually played, Like it's got to be I don't know, twenty
five percent, maybe lower than that. Yeah, I'm probably around there too.
Like I went through a phase where I was buying like a lot of
like quote unquote classics on Steam that I hadn't played, just because like there
was a period of time where like I just couldn't play a lot of games
because I was really busy with school. And yeah, you got Bioshocks spoiled
for you too. Oh yeah, I was building up to that. I
uh, oh, I'm sorry I took the wind out of it. She
she had it spoiled, and then you spoiled the retelling of her story that
she got. I feel believable. I was editing a review recently. This
is not the writer's fault because like it like, you know, there the
moratorium on it has expired. Is that the right word? Ye? You
know, Like, I can't fault anyone for thinking that I would know the
twist and BioShock. But I had commented on something in the review about the
story, and I was like, oh, you should be a little bit
more specific here, maybe expand on this as I usually do. Those are
common notes that I write. And the writer was like, oh, well,
I didn't really want to expand on it because it's basically a BioShock style
twist where blah blah blah blah blah, and I was like, cool,
I have a plea shock, and then I met like, please stop talking,
and then the writer was like, oh, well, to be more
specific, I was like an invitation. So now I'm I mean, like,
I'm really upset. There's a lot more to BioShock than the twist.
Honestly, like that world, the inhabitants, the plasmids, the combat is
really fun, and like, I think it's definitely worth visiting. Go if
you know how it ends. Because also there's some bad shit about that ending
too that just like even Ken Leavin has come out and said, yeah,
I probably wouldn't have done that. Yeah, so there's there's way more to
it. I thoroughly I still encourage you to play it. And then Minerva's
den well, I mean played bios track two is fine. Actually I enjoyed
Vitric two, but Minerva's down the DLC is fantastic. I really want to
play it. Kind of this is kind of what I was I was building
too. It's like, I really want to play one and two in nervous
DN still, but I started Infinite and I have no desire to play Infinite
anymore. I'm absolutely no desire to play Infinite but I feel has like I
loved Infinite when it first came out. I played it a bunch of times.
I tried to do the same thing last year and I was like,
oh, I just can't. I don't know what it is. I just
couldn't get back into it. But maybe I just wasn't in the place for
it. Yeah. I felt the same way when the bios collection came out
and I went back to play through like all three of them again, like
one and two. I'm nervous. Dan. I was like, yeah,
this is great, this is like, this is good. I'm having a
good time replaying these. I got the Infinite and I'm like, I kind
of feel like I'm slogging through this just because it's here, like lower.
Yeah, I think Infinite has the best opening hour. I think one of
the strongest opening hours of any game I've ever played. And I think it
has so many good themes and some like great writing, and the new plasmids
are different. I really enjoy them. Sorry vigas them a plasmids in that
one, and I love so much about it. I just don't know what
it was. But then last summer was a weird one. So yeah,
it's been a weird couple of years, hasn't it. I feel like it's
peaked on twenty sixteen when do we peak? Twenty sixteen was definitely a downturn
in the UK maybe since then? Listen, Yeah, I would say,
I guess to answer the question about like tracking it, I I definitely don't.
I have. I have toyed with the spreadsheet idea or with a bullet
journal layout of like here's what I want to prioritize. But I basically came
to the conclusion, like I my time. You know, you only have
so much time, and I want to spend my free time doing the things
that I want to do, and I don't want to feel like I have
to force myself to do things. To some extent, you kind of have
to do that in this job, you know, to be prepared for Game
of the year, Like I'm gonna have to bust my ass playing a bunch
of these games so I can actually participate in those discussions because I've been I've
just been trading shit on nookas on for the past five months or whatever.
But like to for that, I do need to do some stuff that like
maybe I'm not like feeling like I really want to play, but generally when
it comes to my backlog, like I will own like I haven't played Half
Life, and that's fine, Like I don't need to play Half Life to
be in this job, like or you know whatever it is, because time
is precious, and I would I just want to do the things that I
feel like doing, and that keeps me from a lot of games, because
there's games where I'm just like, you know what, this is just not
this is not my cup of tea. As I said earlier, it's not
a thing that I feel like I will enjoy. I'm gonna play some Starry
Valley or or like I really want to play, like I'm excited to play
Ghost of Tushima. I'm kind of winding down on the nooka is on trades.
I was doing like hours per day last week. I've calmed down a
little bit, so now I'll have more time to play some other games.
So and Paper Mario, I'm really that's something I really want to play.
So I guess the way I prioritize is just like what do I feel in
my heart and my my hot mind, my mind and my brain. I
don't have a backlog either, like I don't. I don't keep up with
it just because I found that like when I had it, but it just
felt like, I don't know, it felt like more of a chore.
I guess when I had like a list, a working list of games that
I was like checking in to see if I played or see what I should
play next. Meanwhile, I have real chores, like trying to get a
fucking COVID test which has taken. It's just not happening. I have real
shit to take care of. Yeah, I'm gonna play backlog games. I
feel that. I so I do have a spreadsheet, but not for backlog
purposes. When I buy a game, I'm pretty good at least like at
least putting a couple hours into it, and I just track like everything I
played throughout it out the year, just so I like have a reference point
and I have a little Marx category. It's like story completion yes, no,
and it's like color coordinated. But I love that. That's more just
like for my own knowledge about like what I have and when I haven't played.
But like there's no prioritizing stuff to go back to or anything like that.
It's like I'm gonna play whatever I feel like playing, and a lot
of time it's going to be new stuff, even games that like I would
really enjoy playing that I just like put an hour or two and then stopped.
It's like I probably just won't get to it time wise. Yeah,
I might steal that spreadsheet idea. I like that a lot. Yeah,
that's a lot more useful I found in like this industry than keeping a backlog,
just because at the end of the year, when everyone's talking about their
favorite games, it's very easy to forget a lot of those games that you
may have liked in January when we're in December. So throughout the year,
whenever there's a game that I play really like, I just added to a
list, just so when we have to submit our top tens or whenever you
know, that conversation comes around, I've got a list right there, and
I think I've got a list all the way back to like twenty fourteen or
something of all my top tens. So I recommend that. Yeah, that's
I wish I yeah, Like that's the difference between a backlog list and like
a tracking Like I really like that idea, because I do wish that I
could go back and look at like, what was my top ten in twenty
fifteen? I don't remember, like I remember like games that I liked in
twenty fifteen obviously, but I'm like, if I had, like in the
moment, what did I list and how has that changed now? Like that
kind of stuff is cool and I wish I had that. Well. Anyway,
that's been episode fifty two of Game Spot after Dark. Thank you all
so much for tuning in, and thank you all for joining me. Lucy,
I think you'll find you on Twitter. I'm on Twitter at Lacy James
Games. It's a new episode of Audiologus talking to the story and voiceover director
from Another Realm about the mind bending time travel storyline and what will combat eleven
and f Moth. Please be excited, Kelly. You can find me on
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I have lots of stuff. If you're looking for stuff in your catoc
I would love to be a benefactor. Toe and James, how are you?
You can find me on Twitter at James the Car with two RS,
and you can check out my Destroyal Humans review or the video version of it
voiced by Lucy. Yeah, that was me. It was very good review.
It's fun to voice over. Thank you, and you can find me
at Jacob Deck. And I think by the time this is up, or
maybe later today, the first video of this Cyberpunk low series should go up.
It's all about night City. It's very good. I've seen a couple
edits now. Jean Luke and I put that together. He did most of
the work. I edited like the first two minutes of it and he did
the rest. But it's really good. If you're excited for cyberpunk but you
don't know a lot, keep an eye on game Spot because we're gonna have
a lot of videos like that, Like I'm already working on one about Johnny
Silverhand and yeah, we've got like we've got like thirty or forty video ideas
of what to cover for this low series, So definitely keep an eye out
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