Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our video game show here
at Geek Versus. I'm your host, Sam hardcaster Dyl Muss, and I
have with me the full house. We got the clown Prince of draft.
Travis Snell's a going, my friend, very good. I'm very excited.
This is my year, Diln. I can feel it. You know,
I'm gonna take down like Kirklen's two years agow tears on two years of a
row. It's time for a change of both those drafts. This year.
I feel like I'm the most prepared than I've ever been. Like, I
feel like unless I've one or two picks go wrong. I'm not saying we
get all picks, but I have a good strategy going on right now,
so I'm ready. I love to hear that. We also have the feels
good to win again. Taylor Field, how's it going, Oh, it's
going pretty good. My name is based on the fact that I don't actually
know if I came out of the gate winning that last video game draft.
I'm just last year's you won, Yeah I won? Okay, what I
think? I think every every game you had on your list was like above
ninety Metacritic or like at lois An eighty eight, you had like and All,
you had all five games released, you had a very very strong list.
Okay, so wait is Taylor one? That is Kirkle that previously one
two years of row and just kirk on Kirkling one two years ago. Okay,
I forget if we did we do it the year before. I feel
like it. If we did, Kirkland won the first year as well,
Like I can say that for sure. But there he is the golden boy,
Kirkling Patzer. How's it going? Very good? I'm happy to be
here. I'm not. I don't know. I feel like I'm not as
confident coming into it as maybe I should be. Who knows, Yeah,
your name is. Yeah, it's been a rough start. I went to
the wrong room too before we did this. I feel like I'm just all
out of whack. But yeah, it's rough for you. I was getting
ready to record and my fucking headphones just half the first listeners will have seen
for almost a decade now, So I'm a little rattled by that personally.
So if I lose the drafts, the headphones fall, we should just just
moments silence. There we go. That's great. Podcasting right there, wait
for the trump pit to come in. Honestly, I was like doing it
because I know someone scrambling like, what's going on? Did I depose it?
Did my headphones on blog? But no, just ALRP to the headphones.
You know they go run. I'm gonna try and fix them. I'm
gonna get some tape on there, a little super glue. But I'll report
back on how that goes. But yeah, today we are doing the twenty
twenty four video Game Draft. We had an extra episode of side Quest this
week as me and Kirklan talked about a bunch of the games we've been playing,
so you can go check that out. And then in next week's episode
is gonna be all about the Xbox directly. That is happening on the eighteenth,
so by the time this is out, it might be out. So,
Travis, what did you think of Indiana Jones? And that demo is
pretty great? Hey? I loved it was the best. I can't wait
to talk about more in depth. When is this actually releasing? I don't
know when is this? I don't know, maybe maybe maybe Thursday, maybe
Friday. I left it. I left the week clear for you whenever you
want to. It might Yeah, it can drop whenever. So yeah,
that's what we'll be doing next week. Who's joining me for that, Travis
Taylor, guys both in the power. Remember last week I was complaining,
I was like, where is the details on this? All we got it
was that stupid videyette. They listened to me over there at Bethet they did.
It's good to know. So I will definitely be there barring critical life
situation. So I love that. This is just you're the Xbox guys,
save me, save me a seat, good stuff. So yeah, that's
that's that's what side Quest is looking like. Yeah, joined the Patreon get
episodes early and ad free, such as this draft will be at least a
couple of days early up on there, so fun stuff like that. I
mentioned this on our episode earlier this week as well. But yeah, I
finally went back and made a playlist on YouTube for all of side Quests.
You can easily get all those episodes one spot, so that's nice and convenient.
I've had the I'm starting to put the uh the time stamps in the
audio version as well, which might get screwed up a bit just because the
ad. That's why I haven't done it previously, so people let me know
if it gets totally screwed up. But it's at least roughly in there,
so you can do that. I mean, if an episode like this,
there's not really time stamps, as we are just kind of set on one
topic, but you can look forward to that and uh yeah, joined the
discord to chat with us and all that good stuff. So yeah, we're
gonna we're just gonna get into this draft here, so we're changing things up
slightly, but well not really, but here's here's here's what's going on.
We kind of decided that after the preview, especially from last week, like
we don't have a ton of information right now, like we are good for
January, February, March, and after that, we don't really know what's
going on for the rest of the year. We have ideas. We know
those Xbox things are gonna give us some info later this week, but that
hasn't come out yet, so it's a bit in the up in the air.
So we have kind of decided that we are gonna have a part two
to this later in the year. I'm gonna say just July or June,
after after summer Gamefest and stuff. When we have more info on release dates
for the second half of the year, we're gonna kind of reconvene. Anything
that we've picked today that gets delayed out of the year, we can repick
those, and then we'll probably add two or three extra picks each kind of
just depends. We'll see, uh, what kind of announcements you have at
that point. So a little bit up in the air, But for today,
I think our goal should still be pick things that are that you have
a good reason to believe are coming out this year. Obviously, things that
either have a release date or things that, like they have said, are
twenty twenty four, but we don't have a month yet. I think we
should try and stick to that, right rather than just like me picking GT
six knowing that it's not coming out this year, so I get a repick,
Like no medi gaming like that, Like, try and pick things that
you think are coming out. Yeah, I'm sacrificing this year's draft in order
for next year. Yeah, hopefully that wasn't your strategy, Travis, but
I think we should for the sake of this draft, Yeah, try and
try and keep it to things that we once again have a reasona believe that
it is in fact coming out this year. So uh but yeah, as
for today, we're all gonna pick five games, and uh yeah, then
we'll reconvene a layer in the year and get more games in there and repick
anything, and then once again, the rules for this are, we're we're
all picking five games and then or more and then at the end of the
year, whoever's game has just games have the highest collective Metacritics score, add
them all together. Who has the highest number there they are the winners.
So obviously if you have a game that doesn't come out, that massively hurts
your points. So yeah, you gotta make sure you're picking games that come
out. Any other weirdness to the rules, I think it's pretty simple,
like it's a it's a I guess you have to kind of specify the console.
If it's a multiplatform game, you want to make sure you're picking that
because Metacritic could have different ratings depending on the console and whatnot. So yeah,
pretty straightforward. We've done this now for a couple of years. So
who's who's got the wheel. Let's get the wheel loaded up and figure out
the order we're gonna do. A snake draft as we always do. Ready
for the wheel, all right, ready, yeah going, it's gonna be
that slow shitt again, or it's going to be slowing on my name.
You got to blow on it. Keep going, keep going, keep going.
Kirkling really wanted that first round pick. Okay, so I'm first.
I'm first, which I'm happy about. I'm going to say I'm very happy
about that for a specific reason. So mine, keeping keep going, keep
going. I want to My theory is right that when they switch the color,
it always ends in the Pokemon colors, the red and blue. It's
crazy, is that what you wrote? Taylor and nice? That's why were
there? No? I was green yellow. I don't control that. Jeez,
is Pokemon red and blue? Isn't the pokebon just red and white?
On the multiverse? I guess there's like the Great Ball, the Great Balls
red and Okay, okay, I'll take last pick. I kind of like
that. There's the worst, second, the best. They're the Golden Bird,
and they had nothing for the fourth fourth, the Golden Boy. No,
there's the rules. Yeah, no, okay, so we got the
order there. I mean, I'm not going to waste any time. I
think the first round pick is probably pretty obvious. I think anyone who had
first probably would have gone for it. But I'm picking up Final Fantasy seven
rebirths. That is uh, that is my number one round pick. I
don't even know what the first Final Fantasy seven remake got. I met a
critic, but I'm sure it's pretty freaking high, and I think this is
going to be high the same heights or higher. And from all the trailers.
As someone you didn't even play the first part, it looks amazing.
So I think that's gonna hit with a huge slam. And I think that's
it's coming on. What ape was it February, March February. It's very
early on in the year, so even if it gets delayed, you still
got lots of time for it to come out. So I think that's a
very easy first round pick for me. Yeah, no, that's I think
I had that as well. I don't know about tayo Aska when we get
to them, but Tay, you're writing these names down, yep, yep,
I got them all right. This is easy one for me. I'm
gonna go. I just always feel like they got a good barometer. Rarely
do these games come out and choke and get some bad ratings. Rarely are
they even like in the orange or yellow or red, whatever it may be.
I'm gonna go Peach Showtime. I don't know it's gonna be like a
nine or something, but I don't see it not being green. I feel
like I intend to always delivers quality. Like I said, it's a pretty
good track record. Like there, you could count, like the past probably
five years, you'd probably count on your hand, your one hand, how
many time they've had a game under green versus that. So, yeah,
Peace Showtime. I think that's like a least a solid eighty for me.
So that's where I'm That's where I'm sticking the bum right now. I feel
like Nintendo games don't get dinged for being too simplistic. Yeah, so that's
something that will that'll work for you. And then yeah, that game is
absolutely coming out this year as well. Yeah, so I think that's I
think that's a solid pick. No. One that I had super high.
So it's interesting that you went for that, but I like to see it.
Nonetheless, I just feel like it between I got now four picks until
it comes back to me, it's one that could easily be snakes on these
two. If I go, oh, you know, my pick got taken,
take it. So I want to guaranteed win, and that's what I
think is gonna give me. All Right, my number one pick for this
evening is Mario versus Donkey Kong. I'm like you, tra this is the
same pecks. I was looking at a few other Nintendo Switch like there's original
games like sequels and went out, but I was looking for the remakes.
And I think the su Mari RPG even it was hit. I think it
was like the eighties around there. It was in the green. So I
felt very confidence saying, okay, you know this is a remake. I
feel great that this is going to be at least a safe green pick.
So the the original game that it's a remake of has an eighty one on
Metacritics, so that's pretty solid. Yeah, I got that was that your
original first pick here would have been Final Fantasy. I was gonna do something
else, but I wasn't. I didn't even have fancy in my last I
was gonna do something else. But then you say, Peach show time instigated
my Mario Dokey Kong pick. Now, so damn, it's always safe to
bet on Mario for those sorts of things. Okay, what do I want
to double up here? I think my first pick, I'm gonna go South
Park snow Day on PlayStation five. Yeah, high high on metacritics. And
I don't know. This one's very different than the other genres, so it
could be risky, but I'm just gonna trust in the south Park name for
that one, and the sorry PlayStation five, I feel like that it's just
the least buggy potentially. Yeah, I feel like pupports are more buggy these
days than the opposite used to be true for a long time, whereas the
three to sixty version was always super borked at launch. But it seems to
go the opposite way. The day in your lips over here, Metacritic looked
like Xbox had the higher score than the PlayStation ones. I think that fits
with the fan base. But I mean, we'll go PlayStation than it's already
been done. You can't grab that pick bat, I'm gonna be honest.
I am surprised by all of your first round picks, so I don't know
what that means. I don't know if that means that I'm out of touch
or if or if we all just have a different read on the year.
It is a weird year, so I think that's uh, maybe part for
the course. But I definitely had South Part somewhere on my list, but
that was a that was a bottom bottom one for me, so that's interesting.
I had bottom three for me, but it was there, so right,
And my second pick, I'm gonna I'm just gonna stick in the PlayStation
game here. I'm gonna go Last of Us Part two remastered. Yeahs go
with that? Does that count? I don't think it counts. I've tried
this, I've tried this year Is before and I got dinged on it.
So there's no it's it's not a remake, it's a remaster. Or just
like here's a new Code of Payton, Okay, so like we've never gotten
Resident Evils in here. These are remakes. Oh, we've had this conversation
before because I went, you had a great strat I'm going it's definitely it's
definitely a weird marcale. But yeah, there you go, that's a remake.
That's a remake. A remake. Yeah, I sure. I had
a couple of like, no, they gotta make sure and they like they
have a new mode, but like whatever, whole new game. But that's
fine. Down the list here, so many picks have been taken already.
At least it wasn't your first round pick. I would have felt bad,
but we have it. Probably not, Oh my gosh, let's go stick
to the PlayStation. Let's go Rise of Ronan March twenty second release. Nice.
Yep, that's a nice pick. Hopefully it hits hard. Yeah,
that's what I had on the list too. I was gonna maybe grat one
point, but that is a anomaly, like it should do well because the
PlayStation. But you never know, right, so I think that could be
one that sinks you or wins you. Like, that could be the decider.
It's my strategy this year. All my picks are gonna be Sinker wins
all December release points. Yeah, December thirty first, he wins it the
night before twenty twenty five, number two, second eight. I feel like
it's in a very very reliable, safe pick. All right, So in
the vein of remake versus remaster, I'm picking another remake four, the Nintendo
Switch Paper Mario and the thousand Year Door. Now this doesn't have a date
yet, but it has a date of twenty twenty four. It is a
remake. So I looked into it. Is it? Is it a really
remake? And that's what it was, just a like HD with like widescreen.
I swear when I did the Google. No, you don't even know
anything. To you, I'm prepared if not. But I swear that when
I looked it up, it is a remake. Let me see what's your
source? Where you looking it up on? Well, it would have just
been Google takes on travel on Twitter right now. Yeah, I tweeted it
out, hang on, I'll see if I can find it, because I
don't think it's a I don't think it's a port. Let's see where is
man? Like? I look at like Metroid even though it's called Metroid Primarymaster,
like that was actually a remake last year and something like that. I
think it is fair game. But this, this to me looks like a
remaster. I've ever seen one. Is it getting a remake? Let's see
the company now, Okay, So here you go with a verge as of
two thousand I was. In twenty three September, the company announced a remake
of Paper Mario one thousand year door beloved RPG that first came out on the
GameCube. Okay, I can't. I can't argue with the Verge. I
mean what am I I don't know about the most I was trying to find
even there's a Reddit post remake versus original. I'll kick it. But you
know, I'm just saying, if it comes out and we get a bunch
of remakes dureing the conference, everything like that, there's some tom foolery here.
Where are you guys at Kirkland, Taylor, what's your stance on this
one? We know we can obviously, I don't want to let him pick
it. So that's my that's my suggestion. I mean, if it says
it's a remake, I the Verge, the Verge says its remake. Verge,
Let's see how reliable is the verb it's the most reliable. I just
kind of see on their website what they even listed as paper switch. How
reliable is the Verge there? Taylor, it's pretty Apple biased in my honest
opinions, that's something Nintendo is not reliable. Does that help us with slide
Well, I will it's a fifty to fifty, so I'll kick it because
I don't want if it gets more clarification, though, I should get like
first DIBs when we redo this later on. Yeah, sure you can have
you can. Yeah, it's in your back pocket, ready to get pulled
out for I think if we get a bunch of conferences and they demon remake
and in July one were repicking, no one should get to pick that at
all, and I should get to have that, in my opinion, because
no game for that, Okay, sure, No. Do we decide for
something that those games or games that got delayed I couldn't remember. Uh,
I think we'll I think what we'll do is anything that's visually delayed repick and
then we'll all I'll probably pick that two or three maybe more games. Yeah,
I'm not getting rid of my low score cirk. It would be an
addition off. So it's like I gotta keep, we gotta keep the red
Falls, the red Falls, keep everything. I agree. So that's I'm
fine to franchise, franchise saga. We'll revisit it in July, revisit it.
I'm gonna pick like a Dragon infinite wealth. I looked at those all
those qu's games, they did pretty well. I think there was one in
the past five or six years that was under eighty but the rest roll eighty
two to eighty one. I guess I should see it's on multiple consoles there,
right, I'm guessing I don't pull this up here. Should be on
everything except for Switch. I can't let me google Stadia of course. Oh
Switch, that's the one I was gonna pick. Uh, which, God,
what what month is it coming out here? It's January, It's coming
out this month right there? Okay, so PC, oh, just PC
is all. I'll just go PS five. I'll just go with the sony,
yeah, you know, because PC usually if it's the best, then
it's always with those high rings. But something's wrong with it crashes. But
yeah, no, I'm pretty confident in this. It seems like they got
a good brahm or they know what they're doing. So I think this at
least is like a seventy five plus one. So I think this is another
good I guarantee shot unless they just nice crash and burn so like a dragon,
Okay, nice, Okay. I think this game has let me down
before because it got delayed and that resulted in me losing. But I'm gonna
pick it again. They've said twenty twenty four. We're getting info on it
later this week, which I think means that anytime Xbox do these January directs,
I think those games are all gonna come out in the same year.
So I'm picking Senua's Saga hell Blade two. Oh yes, get her on
the list. I think that game, I don't. I didn't look up
what the first one did. I think this one's gonna be bigger and better.
Uh. And I just feel like it seems like one of those kind
of even though it's an Xbox game, it feels like one of those Sony
like third persons, very narrative focus action adventure games. So I think in
that way it's gonna do pretty well across the board. That was on my
list. I felt like it was coming out, So I'm gonna stay in
that same realm and go another I get another pick here. I don't want
to reveal that I got a bunch of I was ready this year. I
don't know. There's no scrambling I got yeast year. It's not like you're
picking remakes or anything. No, of course not. I'm gonna grab I'm
gonna grab another one that technically I guess we have no idea if this is
twenty twenty four other than this Xbox conference. So I don't know if that's
scummy if I pick it depends the game. Yeah, it depends the game,
like you know. Yeah, it's just straight up allowing it. Yeah,
he's allowing a vowed. Is that what he's allowing? I don't know
if I it's probably freaking coming out this year, but I don't think there's
ever been a twenty twenty four written on its name. We're getting bout details
next week, right, so we're getting it's yeah, which makes me think
it's definitely not coming out. That's the first thing they're going to say,
we've seen gameplay for it before. So okay, if you guys are happy
with that, then I'm gonna go with a vowed as my next pick here.
I think this one is gonna be a solid in the eighties. I
don't really think it's gonna rise up to the nineties. I think Obsidian is
a very consistent studio. They're kind of I've always thought of them as like
the Insomniac for the Xbox studios. They're just releasing so many games. They
are always quality, but they're not necessarily that game of the year, although
Grounded was my game of the Year in twenty twenty two whenever that came out.
So I yeah, looking at the Older Worlds, which I think that's
the same team that did this, I think it's just gonna be a solid
kind of mid eighties sort of game. I do think it's coming out because
it's part of this Xbox conference. And yeah, I also am very excited
for It's one of my most antispaid games at the moment. So also it's
a heart pick for me, So I can't go wrong with a vowed on
the list. Nice. I always respect when you can, you know,
repick a previous year one like Dune in my movie Draft. Mm hmm,
yeah, there's something special about that pain. Don't count them out. Yeah,
as I was saying, which luckily done one another route speaking of dealing
with something about hell Blades while I'm gonna do some hell Diving, because I'm
gonna do Hell Divers two that's coming out. I was surprised and looking at
it. The first one's like an eighty one in the green. I feel
like it can't hopefully take like a massive plummet. I'm picking the PS five
version so yeah, and like Dylan said, I feel like they've been trying
to pump it up a little more lately. So maybe that feel maybe they
feel they're very uber confident. Maybe it's gonna be something that will make it
a nice five point jump or ten point jumping like Okay, Hell Divers one
with something of the Hell Divers too, Jeff, Wait, this is the
one the kids are gonna be talking about. But uh uh so again,
this is more based on the past and as far as okay, previous iterations
have reviewed, well, so let's go with that. And it's earlier in
the year. I think it's Q one like March or something. So another
thing that kind of feel a bit safer because there's probably some bigger games that
could come out here than in the year, like Dylan's avowed. But you
never know. It's the crash and burn and picks. They could wait you
or lose you. So March Predecessor reviewed, Well, that's a Travis pick
right there. Nice. Oh, I'm gonna go with a safe pick here.
I'm gonna go with Dragon's Dogma, the first one. You know,
I was sitting around the seventy five, but I like my chances of it
being seventy five to eighty five somewhere in there. I think this one will
do better than the first one that was on my list. I don't have
any sort of sign because that It just feels that way, mostly because it
was in my head from Dylan talking about the other day. I was I
was banking on that. What are you banking on now? Oh? Yeah,
you don't get two picks. I get two picks. Okay, that's
good. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go down maybe a little mythological route.
I'm gonna go blackmth Wukong got the August release date, like that,
pick this one like it could disappoint, But if even if it disappoints,
I feel like it could be still in that high seventies range, just because
there is such high expectations on it. Obviously that would still be seen as
a disappointment, but you know, that could add some stats at some stage.
But hopefully it just delivers my second pick. I'm gonna go with a
banger here. I'm gonna go Microsoft Flight Simulator twenty twenty four. Now,
the previous one had a ninety one on Metacritic, and it doesn't have a
release date, but it does have a year, so I'm thinking that it's
actually not a new game four What is that? Yeah, it's a new
remastered I don't know. PC. Yeah, definitely PC. I think it
is like they do come out on console, but they always come out on
PC. Is the last one? The black myth is that Sony h that's
gonna be PlayStation? Yeah? Wow? This this completely uh went off my
radar. But that's a sequel. A sequel, so good, good,
good, fine on that. You did some sleuthing to get that, So
I like, were you pretty confident? No one else was, Like imagine,
I thought I thought Taylor might mention it. I was gonna late like
leave it to my last pick, but then I was getting nervous, especially
because a lot of my pick's already been taken. It's like, okay,
we're going into the I thought I was discovered here essentially a live service game
where they're just gonna keep updating it, making it better and improved in it.
So that's what I'm surprised to see a sequel. I wonder what new
features that's gonna have. I feel like it's probably just gonna be maybe like
technically the current Gen exclusive version. Maybe the last one is on Xbox One
or something. So that's so interesting. That takes us back to mister Field.
You look like you're grinding the gears over there. It took this Brandon
broke for a second. What am I doing here? So is Luigi's Mansion
dark Moon a remaster or a remake? That's a remaster, that's a remaster
because I've seen the term remake being thrown around here by the Verge or game
rant says it's via via the Verge. To me, that's a no.
But there's other people who can. I think it's as well. It looks
if we said no one on a what's it called Mario Mario? Yeah,
Like honestly, going back to mariovers don Kong that might have been a stretch,
but honestly it's that's a remake for sure, though, Like graphically that's
like super Ma RPG. I think there's a big jump up with mariovers don
Kong. No, I'm not, I'm not taking it away. I'm just
uh, if it's over nineties, we take it away. Remasters. Come
on, let's get some fresh, Let's get some fresh blood in here.
Yeah fresh, Okay, I'm gonna go Warhammer forty thousand, Space Marine two.
That's a timber release. Risk. Yeah, it's got The first one
has a seventy six. I've never played it, but I mean that could
be an eighty six. I love that you're aiming for like the seventies,
Like that's the greatness of nineties this year. So yeah, if I can
get a seventy on the board, happy. It's a pretty orange yellow on
Metacritic. I'm pretty sure, and that that numbering. Yeah, no,
it's a green. Okay, six, that's an A. That's what that's
that's his parents a lotos straight as fuck. Yeah. I would always kill
myself for a C plus. If that was A, I would be looking
like Nathan Fielder over their heads. Emily bugs me because I laugh at that
every time. She's like, why you know what's coming? It's like,
I want to watch Nathan you opening credits? Great stuff? How many picks
we got left there to? Uh? This is you're on your fourth?
Okay, so the penultimate here I want to I have another picks, So
if not, it's fine, I want those because I don't think it's been
dated and I can't remember if Dylan said his game was dated. But within
the ad, Jones that's getting the showcase next week come out this year.
I think that's fair game. That's the one that I'm wanting because it has
a showcase next week. I feel like if it's getting a showcase the first
month of this year, at least that's the design. Maybe it won't come
out this like, maybe they'll give it a date and then it gets delayed,
but I feel like that's their goal. So if that meets the the
charges, that would be my pick is Indiana Jones and The Circle of the
Doom or whatever it's called. Yeah, I mean rumors are pointing to this
year the game that the studio hasn't released a game in like eight years or
something, so like it's probably coming. Plus, I mean we only have
last year as a reference point with the Xbox January Direct, but all those
games came out last year as well. I think that's what they're planning to
do with these January cool showcases, like here's our big game for each quarter
essentially of this year, and then obviously delays can happen. But I think
Indiana Jones is a totally fair pick, even though we don't know if there
is a subtitle or what the game's actually called. I think it's a fair
game. Pick okay too? All good, Yep, it's locked. You
agree. I was looking for a little Crummers Jones. That's my penultimate pic.
Nice okay, last year? Or we don't, aren't we all in
our You guys all have one more? I have two more? R Yeah,
okay, so okay, so I don't have to worry about anyone taking
mine at this point in time. You got good power. Let's see,
there's a there's sculling Bones, There's there's Taylor looked up. He's excited,
excited for it. I think I'm gonna go ahead with and grab two indies
for my fourth and fifth pick here first one I and these are all games
that are have been slated for twenty twenty four, so I think I'm in
the rate. I'm not gonna do the Hollow Night thing again, and I
picked that previously. We still have no freaking clue when that game is coming
out, so I'm not gonna pick that. I'm gonna pick up first.
Here is Mina the Hallower. This is the next game from the Shovel Night
Team Shovel Night Games I think all are getting like ninety or above, like
really huge. This game looks amazing. I think it's exactly what people want.
It's very like top down Zelda style game looks great. I can't wait
for it. So it's another heart pick for me. And yeah, definitely
a twenty twenty four window on it. We've seen a lot of gameplay as
well, so I feel pretty solid about that coming out this year and doing
like at least eighty five. But I honestly think it's got ninety written all
over it. I think it's gonna be a big deal for good resume.
Yeah, I guess it's probably multiplat Hey, I'm seeing a switch PS five
Linux and more. No one's Microsofts best ground to well run not known to
run well on Linux. So you didn't say Xbox though, just just PS
five switch No Xbox is there under the more category, it seems, I
think I will. I'm pretty i'll go with the PS five on this one.
I'll go on that one, and then for my final pick, I'm
gonna go with I'm gonna go with one is maybe a bit more of a
known quantity, but I don't know if it's as certain to come out this
year. So I'm gonna go with the game that I think is absolutely coming
out this year. Of the two, I'm gonna pick up The Plucky Squire,
which if you guys don't remember this, if you look up a trailer,
you will hopefully instantly remember it because it's a freaking beautiful game where it
starts out kind of the storybook two D adventure game, but then at some
point you jump out of the book and then you're exploring this kind of child's
bedroom and doing all sorts of crazy stuff. Very Zelda inspired. It has
like the art director that worked on Pokemon for like twenty years, like a
really great art style to it, great color palette, gameplayot was a really
fun ton of variety. I think this game is gonna be a really big
deal, and yeah, I feel very I listen to an interview at some
point with the creator of it, and after that, I feel very confident
that this game is gonna and and be pretty great. And yeah, we've
seen a lot of game play and I I'm pretty sure we have the twenty
twenty four window on it. So yeah, that's my that's my last pick
there. I'm glad you picked it. So then I can remember about throughout
the year because it's definitely one I'm probably get my hands on. Not necessarily
the most memorable, but yeah, I think it's gonna be really good.
Yeah, just seeing them with all the landscapes, just feeling, like I
said, some toy story nostalgia there or toy Soldiers as we've talked about many
times. Or was it what was that game? Sarge's Army, That's what
it was. He whatever the fuck it's called. Uh, yeah, good
pick that. I'm excited for that game. So, Okay, I got
a couple of indies and a bigger title, but it's more risky. Oh
yeah, I want to I want what at the very end the really I
want to hear what these indie picks are that you have on your radar here.
Well, I can say it right because they can't pick them, right,
They can't steal them like you did. Right. Well, they can
pick the they go after you, so they could pick the game, true,
I guess so, but they can't steal it. So no, they
can't. Ah, that's next year's draft. We can uh, we can
jump in if you take too long, that's true. Anything you put in
the back of our head we could pick in the second half part two of
the draft. Let me just confirm which ones which because they're pretty similar.
So I'm sure you'll figure it out. But just because just because the the
the bigger game, it is a further outdate. So it's that thing of
like do I want to I don't know, So let's let's do it.
Last year, did' replaced? This will be last one. No, I'm
not doing replaced. You're pulling the hell blade like me. Yeah, I
just grab my my game that got delayed again. No, No, I
think that's uh, that's gonna be like the Solo Night or whatever. It's
never gonna come out. I'm gonna I'm gonna pick Specific Drive on the PS
five. Fuck you took my pick that. Yeah. Yeah, I'll reveal
if the other game doesn't get picked what it was. And then there was
another indie game. But yeah, there's you know, like I liked it,
you guys speak highly of it. It's also February, so I think
even if it gets delayed, we're in a good realm of it's still coming
out this year. So I think they did previews recently and from what I
saw, people were liking it. So perfect. Yeah, so again I'm
I'm excited. This will maybe get me to actually play the game too,
and it's on my LISTA it's a little more of a sentimental pick, so
yeah, no, I from what I see from it, I have good
vibes and I like that date. So Pacific Drive is rounding out the the
clowns list. I was definitely either that was one on ones that's considering for
my last pick. So nice, nice pick, good, thank you?
All right, Taylor, Now that I took your pick where you you know
me in good position here, I think you should follow your heart for the
last pick. You want me to pick that, don't you. I can't
trust that though, it's so risky. All right. I was looking at
Metacritic for Avatar just because I want to kind of get like a gauge on
their games as of late, and that one's sitting in the yellows, so
I'm not feeling too hot. I thought you meant you were going to try
and pick Avatar like that. That definitely an Avatar too. Yeah, think
about all those years of work Tailor and they had to make something great.
I believe that they've made it into a pretty good game and just don't.
He's baiting you out in February. Another good one would probably be like Suicide
Squad. That'd be another good one. They've been working really you know,
maybe it will be ah Unloved Darling like Midnight Suns, you know, mm
hmm, great game. I love It's my darling and I love it.
Yeah, yeah, hmmm. Oh this is well Taylor's sinking. Don't you
think not that we could revisit the summer? You think we're gonna do stranding
to this year? Oh? Man, I did not even think about that,
to be honest, like I would because it's no date, but you
know I would say no. But we also don't really know anything of PlayStation.
So I feel like next next showcase they do is gonna have probably like
two or three surprise things, and that definitely could be one of them for
some reason. Do you feel like that or O D would come out first?
Like what is Kojima like right now in the final few months of working
on You know, I feel like O D might be might be that if
OD is shorter and smaller than yes, but at least with desk stranding,
like some of that has to be already done right, like lots of the
builds and characters, and I'm sure you already have a story ideas. So
I think if OD is the same type of uh huge like same like size
as Desk Stranding was, then I'd say death Stranding. But if it's a
smaller one, then I could say maybe O D. Maybe in the summer
was If it was is this year, it would have been at the game
wards, right. I don't think so, because maybe it's not a lock
that it's this year. Maybe it's like really hopeful. That's why, because
you still got Summer games Fest. So I think that could be you know
where a GiMA walks out and what's he talking about? This podcast? But
man, I I can't wait for that game very hyph which one I can
wait for O D. But I will play it. What if you get
that first tray? It looks great too, you know, maybe there's some
potential there. I don't know, but yeah, I just the the weird
mixed media part of it is. It's exciting but also fearful for me.
All right, tare we kill some time for you? That's that's definitely and
that's definitely a lot of time there. There's a lot of time Kirklan.
Should I go with a risk or should I go with my heart risk?
Risk risk? Because that's no risk to me. The fans will lose respect
for you if you go for the safe one. Now you know, yeah,
what's your safe one? I feel like there's no safe picks anymore,
just like Fight similar to three Oh, I didn't I didn't say say if
I said it with my heart, which also could be a risk. It's
a Star Wars title. I've ever heard it Star Wars. That could be
the risk. Yeah, I can't do that one. That's it. You're
Hunters Hunters. I'm not doing Hunters, but the Dark Forces remaster you pick
Hunters once before. You're Lucky didn't come out. Just picked that like two
years ago. I think I did. That was I think our first year
we were doing it. Yeah, they were talking about Outlaw, but I
don't't think Law ever got dated for this year. I thought we heard something
about it getting pushed, but I forget if that was pushed later this year
or just out of the year, but it was not even be a top
fiver. I don't know what this game will do overall, but I'm just
gonna you know, maybe maybe it'll maybe it'll do something nice. I'm gonna
go with Howell next series. Howell. What the This is the first time
ever that a game I don't know has been mentioned. I think we brought
that up in the video game preview because I think did we house this title?
Yeah? Because how did we talk about it last week? And I
already forget that's not a good sign for the because it's a bad title.
How Like have you played? How like? A release date November fourteenth,
twenty twenty three. That's not the one I'm talking about? How old?
January twenty third? Are you sure it's not just a port from like a
a port to a different console? Which twenty three? Who's the developer on
it? Let's see me me games? GM game came out in December?
Thisial release stage January twenty fifty twenty three. What the fuck? Okay?
Well, fuck Polygons and it. Well, you're lucky, dude, got
a seventy. It's in the yellow on Metacritics, So you're you're lucky.
You got aways picked it, and you have the metacritic available to you.
Polly gone not as good as the Verge, so that wasn't your heart pick
that was your pick, So that can't be my pick thing because it's no,
it's already a hard pick. Okay, so that wasn't my heart pick
that was That was definitely the risk lucky. I googled that dead thank you.
He just likes to go out the moon and the howl outside. All
right, gotta go with the other pick. Now, Okay, you know
what, let's pick. Let's fucking do it. Let's do Terminate or dark
Fait. Let's see what this is another game? I don't know. Is
that for sure? The first time it's out. You've been talking about that
for years. February twenty first, and can you just search terminator Dark Fame
just comes out. I just feel like we had talked about this and maybe
there's like a version out there, but that is a real talk about it.
How was your risk pick? Doesn't have anything out yet, so i'll
you havent, but like, how was your risk pick? And this is
your non risk PICKSK was calm bones? Okay, all right, it's an
arts coming on February DC RTS games. I like my answers. There's something
coming out, that's for sure. I'll give you that. Let's let them
have it all right, Okay, you had a lot of time to think
too. Round us off. Not a lot of picks left though, not
a lot of crazy ones to pick from. There's a lot of great Indians
in my opinion. Yeah, come on, I'm staring at one. I
know what's going to be coming out because the studio said this is the final
release date. It's supposed to come out last year. I'm gonna go Stalker
too. Heard of Chernobyl first one. You know, it's been a long
time, I think since that that other that last Stalker game came out,
So I think the fans are frothing. And yeah, that's the one that
I was going back and forth because it's it's just got moved to September now,
so that's what it's like. I think they said that's the final release
date. That's that's what they say. But I do believe it could come
out, but you never know. That's it and I don't even know what
that's gonna do wise, But that's the other one I was looking at.
So I think lowest seventy nine on Metacritic, so I think it's I think
as the lowest it could possibly get. A seventy nine oh, I don't
know how high I can go, though I could see a seventy really wow?
Yeah, I could looking like howell over here Yeah yeah, yeah,
the piece here Xbox. Though the ogs came out on PC. I feel
like a lot of the fan bases on there, but maybe they're like the
critical ones that will just tear it apart if it doesn't deliver. I'll go
PC. Okay, okay. The only thing I need, Travis, is
from you. Infinite Wealth. What was that Xbox or PC or like a
Dragon game that? Yeah, Infinite Wealth did you require No, you did
not. I think that's on everything. Let me double check, but I'll
put everything. The other game I was looking at was open I would love
that collective all knew, Well, you said that you're looking at too,
and you said specific Drive something like that. Yeah, Open Roads is the
other one, because I thought so it might snag Pacific. Yeah. It's
like, okay, this is my last last pick here. So everything other
than we talked about Open Roads, everything that I put down my list.
I had a list of eighteen games. They all got picks. I was.
I was prepared. I'll go with them. I'll go with Xbox on
that one. I'm excited for Pacific Drive. It's gonna be awesome. I'm
excited for those reviews. Yeah, I get Travis in there. What Taylor
soon enough, we'll get a four man review going on for that. That'd
be a big surprise. I won't commit, but I don't know it.
Yeah, well you know the date, right, the drive? What is
it? Okay, we're twenty second? Okay, here we go. Here
is my list as it stands. I have Final Fantasy seven Rebirth send you
with a Saga hell Blade two avowed mean to the Hollower and the Plucky Squire.
So uh, I'm feeling good about that right now, I'm feeling I'm
feeling good about it. I thought at first you said mita the Hall or
like meat. Yeah, and then you can also turn to Howler you know
Meana the howlur oh true? Yeah, Taylor's game. Yeah, I wouldn't
approach on his degree. Here is my list, the twenty twenty four Audio
Game Dress winning list. Actually, what it's going to be Peach Showtime on
the Switch, Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth, PS five Hell Divers,
PS five Indian Jones in the Circle of Doom Xbox Series X. Specifically,
you know, I don't want anything out there. I don't like Taylor having
the controls here at number five Pacific Drive PS five, so I'm lik in
that. So yeah, I'm very happy at that list. A lot of
good games coming out earlier in the first year. I'm set up for success.
I think just waiting for that Indiana Jones delayed. That is the most
risky one on here. I admit that we got the one, so we
got three picks. You can it could also just be ship too. It
could come on and just be like in the It could, but I don't
think it'll be sweet. So my list consists of Number one Marvis is Donkey
Kong, number two Taken eight, Number three Dragons. I guess Dragons Dogma
too. Definitely not dog Man And that sounds like a cryptic episodes about Dragon.
You've typed that a million times on your other podcast. Yeah, the
chat Warhammer forty K Space Marine two. What a tight then Terminator, I
can't wait to see how that one does. Which one Terminator? That's for
sure? Yeah, I kind of forgot was an RTS game, So you
got me really hyped. Twin Dy'lle mentioned that because like it looks great.
Honestly from the Steam screenshots at the very least. Yeah, like I love
Ternator, I love rts's so funck like that that could be I could be
touching the hose, touching the toes those al right in my list? Uh,
Starting at number one, I went with south Park snow Day for the
PS five, follow by Rise of the Ronan for PS five, Black Myth
Wukong for PS five, Microsoft Flight Simulator twenty twenty four for PC, and
Stalker two Harder Chernobyl for PC. Nice solid games there to start us off.
It's all twenty mm hmm. Yeah, very uh, very interesting and
kind of I'd say a bit of a weird, weird list's going on at
the start of the year here just because of what twenty twenty four is looking
like. But yeah, like I said at the top, we will be
back at some point in the summer to uh repick any delays and pick some
other fresh games that get announced in those summer directs as they do. But
yeah, this is this is as fun as it always is, And thank
you everyone for listening. We'll see you in just a few days to talk
more about Indiana. Jones avowed hell Blade. Let's just look like shit,
Indian Jones. They just show this, but it just looks awful, just
that Cung game, those graphics in that con game. Yeah. Or it's
like remember when Halo also is Halo that came out Infinite Infinite Remember that's for
showing you had like that that goal, Yeah, Greg, yeah, yeah,
yeah, you got you get that Jones Harrison four and he's just looking
like that and likes or it's actually just like Lego Indiana Jones two and this
whole time, it's like, Okay, well I'm happy with that. Though.
Lego makes some good games, so I think I think I don't know
if I want that from machine games though, make to be a three because
there was Legoingones too. Oh sorry, I didn't know. I didn't mean
to offend any Next week personally, we'll find out. Thank you everyone for
listening. We'll see you in just a few short days. By bye mm hmm