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Jeff Grubb with me is mc benaughty. I'm sorry, Nick, you was
saying I was tall. I got distracted, of course, yeah you are
tall. In today's episode, we got our Metacritic results and predictions for the
year. So that game that we played with last quarter, we do it
quarterly. We have the results for that and then and Indiana Jones is a
first person and everyone's freaking out. And that's that's it. That's what's happening
right now. But first, Mike, how are you doing. I'm doing
good. Yeah, I'm pretty good. I I'm supposed to go to Games
Done Quick tomorrow with my brother's weather permitting, so I should get to be
there for a good part of the early half of the day is the hope.
So that's what I am looking forward to. But yeah, I'm pretty
good. Had fun, had fun today, had fun yesterday dressing as quantchie.
I suppose the mess up thing is like I want to get back in
there, you know, I'm like a boxer had a bad round, just
like I was getting so good, you were so close. Yeah, yeah,
so I want to, like, I want to go beat that level
very badly. So I almost can't wait till Wednesday. And I think Dan
thinks the opposite. I think once you get past that level, I bet
it's going to be mostly clear sailing. I honestly have no idea, no
idea what to expect, and I, like I said I was, I'm
gonna kind of play along with you, but I'm gonna wait till you beat
the level before I even try them, just like that. So I don't
want it comes. That's a big part of it. And then I don't
want to be sitting there like, well, well this is what I did.
I don't want to do any of that. So yes, yeah,
so if you actually told me what you did, I wouldn't mind if you
actually gave me tips, if it was just you saying well I did this,
yeah, to avoid that too, yeah, yeah, I don't want
to be a dick about it as all, especially for that level. You
already know what to do, so it's not going to be helpful. I
guess my question is, what the hell do we do about fugion is my
concern right now. But this apartment just wants to like watch a long play
and just watch what people do a fusion. But somehow Dan will claim I
broke some rule that doesn't exist, and I don't know it. Probably Yeah,
just paunch you right in the dick. Huh. Just fly over to
Ohio and just absolutely whack me. Uh Billy Joels? Okay, sure,
yeah, yes, he loves to whack you. That's what. That's one
thing I do know about Dan by the first person ever use a Billy Joels
as a phrase for testicles. Listen, the way you said it made it
sound like it must have been done a lot. I just accepted it.
My bray was just racing. What's a funny thing for balls? By Jewels?
I say, by Jimmy Johnson's is what I say. So Philly Joels
is pretty good. Yeah, I like that a lot. Yeah, I
don't know. It was a busy day for me, A lot of a
lot of giant bomb stuff, kind of NonStop. We talked over that Xbox
Direct four things today, weren't you. Yeah, it was kind of NonStop.
Yeah, I should have had you do the dump truck for me,
but no, it was It was fine, it was a good time.
But yeah, I mean busy. I wish I did. I heard I
watched most of it, but apparently I missed Jan besmirking the Disney version of
robin Hood, all versions of robin Hood, but including that one, including
that one, and he even called that one. He called that one out
specifically. I think he said that he doesn't like he thinks robin Hood is
nerdy, and I agreed, but I like many of the robin Hood is
a nice boy in that one. The thing is like, Jen is the
most robin Hood coded definitely right. Yeah, well he's nerdy, doesn't he
likes cyclops Robino is very psychoed. Jan, bring me Jan, I got
questions, bring me this boy right now, bring me Jan show up and
then nothing happens. It's not like we actually have people that do these things
for us. But it's fun to say. Probably very busy, Yeah,
probably, Jeff. I'm knowing that all my non white friends don't like Indiana
Jones said. I don't get it, like everyone want to see these takes.
Really, I don't really like idiot Jones And sure as all my non
white friends like him. Guys, he's trying to your culture for you and
white people's music. I do get it. Nikky likes Candy, Christian likes
Cindy. Oh that's good. It's they're fun movies. But I get it,
and I still do. Hope I don't. I mean, based on
the trailer we saw and I guess you know, let's yeah, go ahead.
I bet that The Jones and the Great Circle is going to be good.
So I think it's gonna be good. And I think it's going to
be very though very by the numbers for Indiana Jones, which is completely far
yeah, completely fun. Well, you know what, let's get into it.
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all right. The big topic of the week, you know, the
one we're going to talk about, actually is Xbox Developer Direct. We watched
that today. I enjoyed it quite a bit. A lot of good games
in there, and I think they did a good job of presenting those games.
I'm excited about a Vowed, which was I think the first thing they
showed right that is correct, and I think a Vout had a little bit
of something to prove because it had a pretty weak are very like unnoteworthy showing
at their summer show last year, right completely overshadowed by Starfield, which it
should have been. I suppose, right, that was definitely the mission last
time we Starfield, But now it is about guineas excite for a vowed I
thought this looks good. Yeah, it's I get why some people are still
like unsure about it, But for me, I'm like, ah, they
showed more of the stuff that I'm like, I just needed to see from
Obcitian, Like, no, here's how the characters are going to interact with
one ano another when you're not shooting magic out of a wand. And then
the wand magic looked pretty fucking sick. I don't know, it looked like
there's just something flair to it that works for me in a way, Like
I watch Immortals of Avium and I'm like, that looks stupid. This looks
stupid, and you know, I bet Mortals of Avium is just fine,
but just there's something that clicks here that doesn't and that taste test that immediate
like oh, I like this as soon as I'm looking at it. No,
and you know, hey, do wielding once that's fun or having like
a wand in a flint lock pistol just the world itself looks really cool.
The monster designs look cool. I am just so ready to have some kind
of Skyrim s game. Right. We've had a few kind of Fallout likes,
it feels like, but it's been a long time since we had something
really scratch a bit of that older scroll, which I know this is going
to be doing its own thing, but those vibes are definitely there and it
looks pretty I'm excited. Yeah, and we I mean we know that there's
a deeper lore. This is based on the same world as the Pillars of
Eternity games. That's the one that's the franchise. Yeah, so it's like
they already have a ton to pull from. That likely means that they'll have
a lot to like dive into if you so care if to do that.
I don't know how much Obsidian is interested in the you know, just walk
in that direction and bounce into something and have fun exploring that. You know.
There's a little bit of that in the the outer worlds, right,
It's just not as much as in a Pathesta game, no, but there's
a good amount of that in Fall seventy six. Yes, yeah, and
that's me on my question is what what's the scale here? Is it more
Fallout seventy six or is the scale much more like the Outer Worlds? Sure?
Sure? Why is why use Fallout seventy six to the point of comparison?
Well, because I meant to say fall Out New Vegas. Ah,
okay, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't. I was confused there
for a second, and now I understand why Okay, Yeah, all right,
My bad, my bad? Yeah, no price, Yes, In
my mind, I was like, it's a lot of numbered ones, so
seventy six. I'm good. Listen, if they approach anything close to New
Vegas, I think people will be very, very excited. I bet there
is some amount of that, Like somewhere between Out of Worlds and New Vegas
is probably correct, and I hope that's where they are able to land up
with this. And then I think we got Help blay Too. Next.
I believe Help Blay Too got a confirmed release date of May twenty first.
In the confirm Becker avowed they said a fall of twenty twenty four, so
that's coming out this year. So is Help Blade. Help Blade has a
date May twenty first. I think you and I both this game's not for
us, you know, I'll try it maybe maybe Help Blaye two actually is,
but we found out some more details. It is going to be about
eight hours. It's going to be a fifty dollars game if you were to
buy it and not get it on game pass. So it sounds like it's
still relatively within that scope of what Help Blade one was in many ways.
So I'm a little bit surprised by that. But I think I'm only surprised
by that because I think we just all assumed they would try to go up
to that level of like a God of War, and they never they never
said anything like that, They never even suggested it. So I think we
just assumed, and now what I like, have the hindsight of actually seeing
them confirm that it's gonna be a lot like Helblaid one. Of course it
is, why wouldn't it be. Yeah, that is good, I mean
yeah, I think I also just completely assumed, like, oh, well,
this is the one with the Microsoft's money, It's going to be bigger
and longer and all this stuff. But eight hours is right. Even the
even those do God of War games that I like about like three fourths through
it, I am so ready for them to get wrapping up, right,
so eight hours, Hey, maybe that I'll have enough I don't say patience,
but I'll have enough drive to uh to get through that. But yeah,
it's you know, it is still a little difficult for me to get
super excited about it. It's good for Microsoft to have something in the prestige
third person action genre. I suppose they're gonna have some representation there, and
I'm sure that that gets people excited. We know that these are very popular
kinds of games. I'm sure that this is good for the brand. It's
gonna be good for the console. I don't know. Part part of me
is like, not, pardon me, the way is not looking forward to
the next few months of me being like I don't really care about Sanuela and
then getting yelled at for it. But yeah, yeah, sure, I
suppose we could just shut the funk off about it, but eh, I
don't care. I'm gonna say it. What else you want from me?
Uh? You know? And you know, with that trying to be like
God of War whatever, trying to be more you know, bigger hell Blade,
you can get a lot of that without having to have the I call
it craft I'm sure. I'm sure some people just call it like the meat
the stuff that they're actually there for. But you don't need to have all
of this extra stuff and all these systems and all this bullshit on top to
like get across what a lot I think a lot of people want from these
games, which is a cinematic experience. I think this is one hundred percent
going to have a very cinematic experience. Oh I think I gues it's going
to be razor focused on that. So for a lot of people, I
think this might be the ideal form of what this game looks like. I
think as soon as you start talking about like, oh, well can that
game win game game of the year, for all these other games are doing
so much more, were doing it so well, it's like, well,
I don't get a shit about that, Like jerk off hand motion to all
that conversation. This I'm very happy that this is the game they want to
make. They're not trying to like staple on extra things just to justify some
other thing. And maybe this goes back to like the benefit of game pass,
where I, yeah, it's a fifty dollars game, whatever, you're
going to probably try and game Pass, and you don't have to necessarily bend
it to what it needs to be for the market for it to make sense
in the marketplace, which I think goes a little bit against what like Sven
Viinque from Larry and was saying this week, although I definitely appreciate I understood
what he was trying to get at. Yeah, but also a story driven
game that takes itself super seriously and talks about a mental illness, and it's
very expensive, it's going to have a shot at Game of the Year if
it's good. You're right, You're absolutely right. And then we got the
weird game. Nick on Xbox Era was saying this, Nick, you're seeing
the chat. I do agree that this was a little weird, although I
don't think it's quite as weird as I thought it could have gotten. When
I first heard you say that, visions of Mana showed up, and part
of me it's like, yeah, Microsoft's been trying to make these like relationships
feel bigger and more important to them to Xbox. Then one way you do
that is to say, hey, yeah, you can stand right alongside our
games in an Xbox Developer direct and we'll let you talk about your game,
and I think Visions of Mana showcase really well. That's a game that looks
very cool to like just be playing in. It looks very pretty, and
it's kind of funny seeing it like right after hell Bade right because visually two
very separate games. I am. I'm pretty excited for this. It is
a little surprising in its inclusion here, just because it's not like, oh,
Microsoft has some special deal here with this one. It's not even coming
to game passically thought was maybe happening if it had to be on this presentation.
It's just, hey, here's a game from Square Enix that's going to
be on our system. You know, I like Mana. Mana hasn't exactly
been like a top tier Square Enix franchise. Maybe they're trying to get it
a little bit closer to that. So yeah, showing it here making it
seem important. I am all for it. It's definitely something speaks to me.
I can understand maybe some people were not super pleased to buy it,
but this is good exposure for it. Hopefully it leads to more people checking
it out. Yeah, and again I think it showcased really well, so
in terms of like judging this developer direct. It fit in really nicely in
terms of what is Microsoft's strategy here. Well, I think it's just like,
hey, we're hanging out with our friends and letting them show off their
game. Isn't that cool? Yeah? I guess it is cool, right,
It's something that's very different from everything else they were showing, so absolutely,
yes, we're right. Also, it broke up the pacing really nicely.
Then Aura History Untold, which is launching this fall. Visions of Monda
by the way, coming up this summer are a History Untold, which is
a Grand Strategy for X. So it's like Civilization plus like Grand strategy elements,
which is like obviously the trend for strategy games these days be more like
paradox games. I think this looks really neat, it's got. It seems
like they're doing a lot of hardcore simulations stuff in the in the environment,
in the world that will kind of just be happening, and I think it
can affect like how you play your game, or like the choices you makee
seem like they're going to affect the world. But then I think it's like
gonna be a feedback loop and then the world will inform the kinds of decisions
you can make, and it seems like it's dynamic. Who knows until actually
get my hands on it whether or not that one works and two makes a
difference to how I feel about the game. But I think I am still
kind of keeping my eyes open for the next one of these that I truly
love and the way that I love CIV five, And you know, I'll
give a shot. I've given most of these a shot at this point.
A big part of it's just it is hard to commit to one of these
at this point, but I'm going to at least give it a shot.
I don't know, you like some CIEV games, but I don't know if
you're like necessarily out there looking for another one. Maybe you know, Steika
had like their attempt at doing a civilization game. It seemed like that came
and went, well, I forgive that was called humanity or something like that.
But yeah, so you know, I'm a little bit like, Okay,
here we go again. It looks nice what they showed. You kind
of really need to play it to really grock these kind of games. It's
a little it's a difficult genre to show off, right, Yes, definitely
but you know osegas was called human Kind. Yeah. Humanity was that game
by the uh whatever, yes, enhanced, yes, the Hands, Yeah,
which was a game I regret not being able to play. But yeah,
I want to try this out for sure. I've been playing more strategy
at sim games, not necessarily for X maybe a little bit of that,
but like you know, I was playing Tropical six recently, right, stuff
with that nature. Generally, I almost prefer stuff more like a tropical or
even an Ana where the military stuff is really unemphasized emphasized even yea, even
SIV has too much of that for me. Like, I'm really not very
interested in making troops or units or like defenses and things like that. I
kind of just want to make my trade routes in my city and do diplomacy
and stuff like that. There is one maybe worth checking out then, called
Before We Leave, which is just a game about It has no military aspect
at all. It's just about building up the resources so that you can leave
a planet and go colonize another planet. Basically. It's which in good way
is still kind of militaristic. Yeah, even like when I used to play
like Warcraft two and like StarCraft, I liked base building, and I like
sending out my peons to the gold mines and all that stuff. And then
like I would always just get attacked in and lose because I would never build
enough military force. It just wasn't that interested. Yeah, this game looks
like it will have like a lot going on for people who aren't just interested
in military. But it seems like one where you're still gonna have to build
up defenses and all that stuff. So yeah, not maybe the game for
you. I'm gonna give a shot. I'm gonna give a shot. Yeah,
we'll see for sure. And then Indiana Jones in the Great Circle.
The name confirmed, it is the Great Circle. That's weird. We complained
about the name for a little bit. Yeah, sure it's a bad name.
I think the trailer sold me on it most like I'm not gonna sit
here in blind rich well get over it. But I also know what the
circle is, I suppose, but it's just like this ambiguous circle, Like,
what the hell do you mean? The Great Circle? But you know,
I think it's a little weird to just like the name of Rayers Lost
Arc, is it India Jones and the Arc of the Covenant, you know,
you could dress it up a little bit, right, Yeah, it
could be like, I don't know, the Circle of something of life,
India Jones and the Circle of Life. But the sure whatever, I'm already
used to it. That's not a big deal and they own that. So
they could have just used Circle of Life. That would have been fine.
Sure, absolutely, why not? Uh yeah, okay, So then the
game is first person. It's from Machine Games, so kind of no ship
at a certain point. But I think a lot of people were hoping it
would just be uncharted, and I was like, yeah, I think that's
the smart move. Make it. Make it a look uncharted. And now
that I see it, my god, that looks like a lot of fun.
They you know, it's gonna be a Machine Games first person game,
so you're gonna see Indy a lot, just like you saw bj Blaskowitz a
lot in the Wolfenstein games. The trailers make that very clear. There's even
it seems to be a gameplay sections where you've got the third person, like
when you're climbing rope or something, the camera will pull back at points.
Yeah, and cool, cool, whatever. But those first person combat segments
and the puzzle solving segments, like having the whip, using the whip to
like trip someone up and pull them to the ground, and then bringing your
gun out and shooting another Nazi. It looks really dynamic and fun, and
I'm very very excited about this game now, Mike, how about you?
Oh yeah, I mean I wanted to be hopeful anyways, but I thought
that this trailer looks great. I mean, it's basically everything that you want
and almost expected. It looks very expensive, looks very faithful, It is
absolutely you know it's doing with the movies. Can't really anymore. Even though
the new one did trifle flashback sequence right to take us back to prime Indiana
Jones in this way that feels pretty authentic, right, Like the story is
slotted right in between the plots of Raiso loast Ark in the les Cercede,
and it really does feel like it just kind of slots right in there.
There's that part of the trailer you had the punching to the beat that that
was running up these big set pieces. Just say, I edited a Indiana
Jones video in high school once, and it's like impossible not to edit to
that music. It's like so it's so like, oh my god, this
is so good and obviously punching the beat was a really good moment, But
I mean, how are you feeling like beyond like the uh the initial reaction.
Is this something where it's like, yeah, this makes a lot of
sense and I bet I'm going to really enjoy this or is there any part
of you that's still like, oh, I kind of wish this was a
different kind of game. Nope, this is this looks great. I mean
Machine Games is great making first person games. Why wouldn't they make a first
person Yeah? You know, I know that. You know, there's where
there was talk at their Red Fall and then like Redfull being negative example of
a developer try something new in it not working, and then High Fight Rush
being an example of a developer to try something new and it really working.
But hey, if you're you have two choices and the one is something you're
really good and familiar with, and then the other one like, oh,
let's try a third person game, Well it's what end why we know it
could do the other one really well, just go for it. I think
it's gonna be fantastic. I mean, even certain things like first person punching
is just kind of different than third person punching it sometimes better. I really
like punching people in first person, or there's even a moment where they kind
of grab the guy or some of the whiff stuff. I mean, remember
how good throwing dudes around as RoboCop felt, And that's right, exactly.
Yeah, there's something to first person absolutely. I mean, and I really
love first person. You know, I don't really think I have a preference.
It's not like I think it's a weird thing to have a preference on.
No, I don't have a preference at all. It's like, yeah,
absolutely, not like having a preference for shirts or pants, like I
like both. Yeah, exactly, I'm glad and I'm glad we have a
space for both. That said, some people do have a preference that you
know. That's fine at a certain point, though, Man, makeup make
room for your heart, and you make room in your heart for first person
games if you haven't so far. Now, if you're someone gets motion sick,
I know a lot of people do with first person games. Hey,
I'm sorry. But if it's just like about like, hey, I like
seeing my character, I guarantee you this game is going to serve up what
you want in terms of that and you're missing out on some stuff, like
if you haven't played their Wolfenstein games, go play those. You'll see that
this studio really knows what they're doing when it comes to building a strong relationship
between the player and the character, of the action and the character and having
all that be very meaningful. They nailed that stuff in the Wolfenstein games.
So I'm I'm pretty excited about it here. The reaction has been you know,
a lot of people are excited, but you go look at the comments.
A lot of people are just like, why isn't this third person?
Do you think that's going to have any effect on how the game does?
No? I think that's mostly noise. I think you're probably right. I
You're probably right. Yes, Especially if the game is high quality, comes
out and it's like you know, getting reviews, people will show up for
it and honestly like, like, maybe it turns like a huge hit on
PC, where first person games are right at home. You could sell a
ton of copies on PC, and then console gamers should be like, well,
I don't want to be left out, and then they show up and
actually start playing it. They had that games coming out twenty twenty four.
Do you believe that, Mike. Yeah, though obviously most likely to be
delayed. If anything's going to be right, it's always a little concerning with
when in the same presentation there's a game marked for fall right and then another
one that just is way more vague than that. But if it does come
out this year, so capstone to what looks like a pretty good lineup,
especially these days when it's hard for a Microsoft or Sony to get too many
first party games out. A couple other things about any of Jones, I'm
a little sad my buddy aj Locasio's not the voice of any of Jones in
this Well. You know, people are worried about AI taking over all the
voice acting jobs, and it turns out we're just going to give them all
the Tray Baker. Yeah, And like I want to be snarky and mad
about it, but he's doing a good job. In the trailer. He
does a really good job. I am not some kind of like, oh
my god, Troy Baker fan. I just don't have that experience. But
the man knows what he's doing clearly, and he did a very good job
in that in that trailer. I bet that carries over to the game How
do you feel about them getting the Harrison Ford model. Yeah, I think
that's good. Yeah, it looks just like him down to the scar.
It's pretty cool. I think that, along with like a pretty good sounded
like makes it very convincing. I'm just like, yep, that's Indiana Jones.
Good to go, Yep, same here, and well I love Indiana
Jones. I really really do. I love those movies a ton. Yeah,
yeah, it's fun. I was kidding. I saw some comments with
people like, man, you know we had we had a chartered all that
long, not that long ago, and and you know, Tumer, do
we even really need these games right now? I'm like, man, we
have fifteen million Nordic mythology games. Ye, zombie things. We got like
our third action adventure like franchising, it's Indiana, So we're like do we
need this? We have a tomb Raider. Do we need this? It's
like, what the fuck are you talking about? Like the last two Raider
wasn't very good? It was a long time ago now yeah. Oh yeah.
Also the last two Raiders and a chart it's quite a while ago now
yeah, both are a while ago. Yeah, Oh yeah, I don't
Yeah, I saw some of those things. I was a little blown away
by that, but oh, well, yeah, do you think that this
by the end of this year, a let's say twenty two year old looks
at Indiana Jones, their first thought is a, Oh, that's that character
from the Indiana Jones game, or b that's the character skin from Fortnite.
I don't think it'll be that. Look. I think this is going to
do more to potentially create new Indiana Jones fans in the last movie did,
of course, the last movie is an eighty year old Indiana Jones kind of
just just there as a nostalgic send off one lesson dip into the well,
and for that it was mostly fine. Some weird things with that movie.
Is this me being a baby. I don't like seeing civilians die in an
Indiana Jones movie. That bummed me out. In Dial of Destiny, it's
like, no, yeah, no, this is Indiana Jones. No,
if you're a good person, you get to live, unless you're getting sacrificed
to colle ma or whatever. Yeah. I think you know, the whole
point of having Nazis in your franchise is so you have fodder to kill and
not feel bad about right, like that's the whole purpose of it being there.
I'm with you. I don't think that makes your baby. I think
that the popcorniness of those films should be first, front and foremost. And
yeah that they sosgious as that Harry Potter movie that killed two babies. But
whoa listen, you gotta do that because Hitler, you know how it coming
weird fucking thing. Yeah, but I'm excited for this, Jeff Gosh,
this and that first person Jurassic Park game. We're getting some good and we
had Avatar. We have some good first person franchise games. Yep. Yeah,
that's uh. And for me, like, that's that's fantastic. I'm
glad we're getting all kinds. There is not just one way to do this
stuff. And I know I said first person, just not because it's a
coincidence. I don't ever actually think of it like that, except for this
noise. I look at that and I go video game. Yeah, right,
so here's the first person once and here's the third person one whatever.
I did reinstall Phantom Abyss though, because of this, which is a first
person whip one. It's the whip one. That's it's kind of a it's
a rogue light Indiana Jones sim sort of thing, and you you have a
whip and use that to break things open and attack things, but you can
also use it to like swing on everything, and it just feels so good,
and it's like that's the one where like, Okay, if Indiana Jones
comes out and it is a first person game, I bet it's going to
own because this really works. I didn't get you on the Indiana Jones ride
in Disneyland. Hopefully I will be able to next if we go again,
which hopefully you will. I've got to get you on that. That ride
absolutely rules. Yeah, yeah, I've never never done that. I've seen
the Indiana Jones stunt spectacular at Universal and that was I really love that.
Universal. God, you're making me die, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney Hollywood
Studios, whatever, you know, it's all the same today. Yeah.
They got rid of the audience participation in that one, though, which is
sad since I really COVID. Yeah. I used to, like used to
pick people from the crowd. You would sign waivers and you would get to
be like in the background during the scenes. Me and my brothers figured out
how to get picked every time we wanted to. It was a lot of
fun. But they know, man, no more. That's a shame.
Yeah, like love Adiana Jones. I really liked what I saw from that
trailer, and I think I agree with you that this is a pretty decent
sort of showing in terms of, like, hey, let's set up Microsoft's
Xbox twenty twenty four. If these are the games, I think that's pretty
decent. I hope they have a couple of surprises, but I hope everyone
has a couple of surprises. Well, I mean, you say you agree
with me it's pretty decent. I think it's more than decent. I think
this is very good. That's right. Yeah, you're very happy with it.
I'm very happy, are you not? Are you more on the like
it's decent kind of? I just okay, So I don't care about Hill
By two. And then to that point, it's just that no big release
at least as far as we know, in the first half of this year
to be dry, right, so that I think that's where most of it's
coming from. And then you know avowed in our ara kind of both are
like I need to play those to know for sure whether or not I'm pretty
good avout I put I'll put money on a vout right now. I like
that showing a lot. Granted, I was like all in after the Starfield
chilling at that once summer event, right, So but you hope they learned
from that, right yeah? Yeah, of course we're unreally a year removed
from that, or we're not even removed from that, but you hope that,
Like, well, it can never be like that again, not like
Starfield is some complete piece of shit, but I think people get what I'm
getting at there. How much worse would starfieldould have had to perform critically before
Todd Howard would have been embarrassed to have his big producer credit in the opening
credits for the Indiana Jones trailer. I don't know if there is, because
I think he seems very excited to be right there, right next to ste
Yeah. Of course, of course, if I became like a super well
known like Vidian developer celebrity, I would become involved in the franchises I liked
as a kid too. And to be clear clear, I mean that is
the exact job. It seems like he's done here. He has produced this
game into existence. Seems like he was like one of the main facilitators of
this entire thing. So good for you, Todd Howard. Thanks for seeing
Happy birthday to me. Yeah, you were one of the best singers I've
ever heard. All Right, that does it for our big topic of the
week again, if you have anything you want to bring up, super chats
are open. Get those sin in. We're going to get to those right
after a quick break, and then we're going to hit a couple of our
big decisions of the week, including our Metacritic results and the best games of
twenty twelve. We'll do all that right after this, and we're back and
we are going to do the super chats. Mike, if you're ready for
those, go ahead and hand them off. I am ready, sir.
I guess it just starts. I don't know why I thought you would say
something, adamgcs. It's so hard to name an Indian at Jones nowadays.
Yeah, dial Destiny wasn't exactly a super exciting name. It's fine. The
Crystal Skull is an okay, names, it's kind of long. Yeah,
I think you know, I think George Lucas has a certain kind of magic
with that stuff. Where he did he just grew up steeped in pulp fiction
like he was. That was his entire life as a kid. And so
I think he knows a good like what a good one of those sounds like
when he hears it. And that's not necessarily a skill other people have developed.
Much. We know what we know some good Star Wars stuff when we
hear it, but we also don't know when we're hearing bad Star Wars sounding
stuff. I think that obviously applies to like Indiana Jones and some of these
other things as well. And who knows, maybe we get on the other
side of this and this starts sounding normal. I'm doubting it with the Great
Circle, but who knows, maybe we'll get it. It's already almost there
for me, it's fine, right. Some of the games did have good
names, though, Fate of Atlantis I think it's i'd link Lucas is involved
in those at that point. Indiana Jones in the Infernal Machine, that's rue.
That's real good. I like that one a lot. That's it.
It's like you could you could get Great Circle somewhere closer to Infernal Machine,
right, you can, like you know, the the Gods Shape or something
like that. No, that's terrible, don't do that, but like something
along those lines, Yeah, this is better or worse than India Jones and
the Emperor's Tomb. Like that was a little generic. I don't like it.
Burst toom no, but not the name of the name. Next one
here is from Carlos Lopus, who says, homies, Happy New Year.
Happy you do you do you think Nintendo will leverage all of Nvidia's tech to
make the switch to a good place for Placeation five and series ports. I
don't know. It's tough to say. Uh. I think it's relatively safe
to assume that that could happen and probably will happen, But there's no guarantee
and no Nintida will be choosing between kind of going the direction that Nvidia says,
hey, maybe do this and do that and maybe saving some money.
And Nintendo so they very easily could choose saving some money. I think that
they will at least have some magic tricks built in to get them a little
bit closer. Yeah, we'll see. Preny dude says, I truly believe
Sony has ruined the perception of games that come out of big publishers about and
some of Indie got slandered because they don't look like a big budget game in
one way or the other. And I can maybe see why, like wrong
people would say that, But about how could you even think that about Indiana
Jones looking like a very expensive game? Is it just because Sony doesn't have
a big first person franchise anymore? Is that all it is? Yeah?
I mean, why don't they have a big first person franchise anymore? Because
the ones they had weren't that good with kill Zone and Resistance, so yo
at mean, I know some of you like them, right, and but
I mean some of them were like decent or decent to good and some people
think they're great. Uh, And I just think that people didn't buy those
ones as much as they buy the third person games. I think kill Zone
and Resistance were both good enough to get four or five entries in their franchises.
That, Yeah, I'm fair enough. That makes sense. I play
it like that. Then just nothing else ever kind of came up to the
plate there. Jason Fulton says, I just felt like I should say something
after watching that Blake Club episode. I know it's like we all saw something
important, right, Yeah, we were all there if you were there,
Definitely tell your grandchildren don't forget that memory. I want to get back in
there, man, I want to beat that freaking level. Freaking fujin god,
that is a wait. When you played it, were you like stunned
by the way the game feels. It feels pretty So I went from the
N sixty four version to the PlayStation version, and that was actually quite a
big upgrade. The INN sixty four versions kind of fucked in some ways.
It doesn't feel right at all. It's still like as soon as you get
for me, as soon as I start getting into the shit, it's like,
oh wait, how do I turn around? Oh my god, I'm
jumping over them. Oh god, look at this. This is like this
is so stupid. I'm completely discombobulated here. It happen th real fast.
So yeah, it feels very strange the platform, and it's also just it's
broken. You should be able to run and jump and jump off a platform
in a way that makes sense. It's not even like a cinematic platform or
like Prince of Persia where it's like easy to gauge when the jump should happen,
and just like encode, that is part of your run up to the
ledge. It's like, no, it's just good. You're just gonna fall
off the ledge if you try to run toward it. So yeah, it's
a fucked up game. Jacob bench here be. Travis says, Wow,
that Blake Club was something. Please tell Mike that my culture is not costume
with Scandinavian right. Oh gosh, man, I told you, Jeff,
I didn't. I don't like face paint, but I went through with it.
At least it was easier to apply than I thought. Yeah, it
looked like I mean, it looks like you did a good job and everything,
so I must have been not too bad. But I was in the
shower. I was getting concerned about it coming off, but with a good
amount of scrubbing, it got there eventually. So if, like, if
we get to a point where it's like the last episode, could we get
you back in the face paint, we'll see, Okay, see again.
The thing that I really don't like, don't like the way mouths and teeth
look with all like that. Sure, the face paint stuff, I don't
know what it is. Fine though, I think it was more of a
self reflection sort of. Oh it's it's a me thing. For sure.
Now let's see here. Now, Jacob Bench says, I haven't seen the
indie movies. Should I be excited for the game of good Weekend? You
know you should go watch Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Arc. It's
like, what hours long. It's a fun, breezy movie, and then
you'll know if you like Indiana Jones or not. Yep, agreed. I
think you just go watch the movie. You'll know it's and then maybe even
if you don't like the movie, I bet the game might actually still be
a good time. We'll see, Hello, Davis says, fuck Mary,
kill Steve from Minecraft. Part the next and audist these are very random characters.
Is part the next? The dragon that marls a voice in Skyrim?
Is that something else? Uh? Part the next is the dragon that I
think Charles Martine voiced in Skyrim? Yes, pretty sure that's what? All?
Right? Then that's part the nex. Okay, I guess I'll kill
Steve from Minecraft. Fuck Parthanax and very oddish. Uh I am going to
kill Steve from Minecraft. I'm going to uh uh fuck oddish and I'll marry
Parthenax. Okay, we're all killing Steve from Minecraft. Man yes, Adam
Stein says, started playing Kobalt Corps. It's a wonderful game. You're still
playing Cobalt Cord Jeff, This is that the game is a little it's a
roguelike with some strategy omens. Right. Yeah, it's gets similar to ftl
uh and a little bit into the breach and it's about more about ship battles
than into the breaches, and a little bit different than how FTL works.
But it's it's it's really good. I have not had much more time for
it, mostly because of all the review stuff that's been happening at or ep
idiot boxes. Mike saying, I suppose makes me think of the fan club
mini game from a rhythm Heaven. Hmm is a rhythm heaven the opposite of
a bullet hell? Grammatically yes, it maybe even wise Actually it's interesting.
Big Fresh says, it's been a few hours. Has Mike been canceled for
staying the help Blake Dev's know nothing about our psychosis yet, that's not I
probably shouldn't have said that, but I don't really mean it, But I
still I don't know. I guess I'm gonna have to take the word for
it. What the hell do I know. But I guess I'm a little
surprised that just like having like voices and headphones is like a good replication of
a mental illness. But I am an idiot, and I think it is
because people who actually have it has said that, So I apologize for my
right. They've imagination and empathy, right, they've like worked with people.
It's like, yeah, I still don't I don't know if it's like replicating
the way it feels for me, but I get if they're trying to represent
it, it's still how they're expressing themselves. So yeah, I'm fine with
that. It's fine. That's not my issue with help late Next up here
is from Reservoir Dougs. It says Hi Beef and Cheddar boys curious to know
what is going on with the Metro franchise. It's been a while. Thanks,
Yeah, I don't really know. I wonder how well that last Metro
did that. It seemed like a really kind of a chance for it to
be a breakout series, and I don't know if it necessarily like took off
in a major way, But I don't know. It feels like if they
did another one of those now ish and it was kind of very similar to
that last one, maybe spruced up just a little bit, maybe had a
little bit more refinement to the gameplay. It could actually take off at this
at this moment when it didn't account When was that back in like twenty fourteen,
twenty fifteen, I don't know, never played a bunch of Maybe they're
like twenty seventeen actually my bed. Yeah, I selt like I should.
Aren't They kind of a bit half Life esque? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
they're you know, I think they try to be a little bit stalker
asque little bit immersive Sam, but yeah, it's it's mostly a shooter,
mostly an action shooter some time. Yeah, before I get to next year,
we're I had along the same path here about dormant franchises. I don't
know if you've ever heard anything about what might be going on with the Ridge
Racer series. What's that sources? I've heard a game franchise from Bandy Namco.
Okay, so I'll put the birdies on it, all right, thank
you appreciate the problem. Oh, Greg says, what is a Greg Miller?
But Greg was having fun today. I don't know if you were to
following him on Twitter, a little bit. Yep, since like this weekend
he had that one where he's like, hey, what if we all like
recorded ourselves saying Andy thirty times it posted as a reply to this, It's
like, okay, but yeah, yeah, he's having What is the one
he was harassing people about today. I was, uh, it's going on
about Starfield being game of the Year and it was better than games where you
lose sticks together or roll dice. And then he was going, he's saying
that Last of Us is Roguelike mode is better than God of Wars, right,
so say it out loud, like whoa, he's really out of good
throw somebody does something. It's totally just the way like he plays it up
like in your face about it, just clears it and like he knows what
he's doing, of course, yeah yeah and so and then he like stopped
replies. So the people are quote tweeting and he's like, stop quote tweeting,
and that gets more people to quote tweet of course. He's having a
great time. Good for great Big Fresh thirty seven says Tower Born and Flight
Slim for Xbox this year. Also, what is Tower is me? Tower
Born again? Tower Born is that side scrolly beat him up the action RPG
ish kind of thing. Yeah, from the people that did Banner saga.
Yeah, and it looks really good, looks really really pretty. I'm gonna
do this one now. And at ten, Derek says, what's the controversy
about what Greg Millers said? He's just correct, well as as I believe,
Blessing point it out. He only experienced Valhalla by watching it on YouTube
for one day. But you know whatever. Next one here is from the
Inchire wolf Is says this help a two skipping physical a sign of Xbox's future
regarding physical or releases. So High Eye Rush also did not have a physical
version, right, I guess I just never thought that this game was closer
to that tire than a game that you could buy at a Walmart. Yeah,
I mean I think it's a sign of like where everyone's going, because
this is I mean, I will wake two right, So yeah, this
is clearly a sign of the future. Like that's what this, that's what's
happening here, You're right, Uh, Mike E O'Leary says, Anya Jones
and the Muppets take Manhattan. Now that's a proper pretty good. That is
probably my all the ways you can like name a franchisees. I do like
the so and so and the yeah convention. I don't know why. I
think that's fun. Maybe that's why I liked Harry Potter in the first place,
because they also did that or things should Mike Benatti and the Fight against
Grub Yeah, Mike Manatti and the Fight of the Fucos. Yeah, Mike
Manatti and the Healthy Jimmy Olsen's I forgot what I called him the first time.
Billy Joels, Billy Joels, Billy Joels, Jimmy Olsen's piano Man's Burrito
says, Hey, Mike, you did really want more to combat, but
look up, it's at the end. Also, here's some cold hard cash
that raised the friends. You should get a safe state checkpoint. Keep plunk
keeping on. Thank you, Burto. It's all right. Well, first
off, I can't because I'm playing it on original hardware, so we can't
do It's not an option. I want to beat it for real. Z's
yeah, yeah, I think you're gonna it's and I think you're gonna do
it. I think you're gonna do it very early on the next episode.
I promise I wasn't as depressed as I looked. Just looking like Uncle Fester
while your concerts. Eating makes you seem like you have some kind of a
poor metal state, but it never really amplifies the distressed look there. It's
like putting up an American flag upside down if you look like Uncle Fester.
If I do that again, I either need to like not get my eyebrows
in the white or put the black on them too. I think that will
make me look a little bit less Uncle Fester. Yeah, okay, I'm
glad we have new strats, new new face paintstrats. Connor Woods has heard
about Embracer closing Piranha Bytes, which was Pana Bites' job. I couldn't remember.
I was. I saw this earlier today and I was kind of running
around. I'm like, I'll look that up later. Let me see hear
Piranha Bytes. The German video game develop Yeah, let's see gothic. Oh
this is the goth the old but not that man. So they released the
game in twenty twenty two called Elex two. Oh yeah, the Elex series.
Okay, yeah, I think that's the one that. Let me see
here. It's an action role playing video game. Okay, yeah, I
remember this, but I never played them. Well, I'm shot that Embracer
is just closing down on our studio. What a disaster, What a just
absolute mess that that is. And uh, this is the one you gonna
get worse over there. Yeah, they suck. Embracer's terrible. Uh lurking
with my girt g and says, how about Indian Jones and the Great Circle
Jerk? Please pass the cracker? How about Indian Jones and the lurking with
my girt getting man, that's that's a mystery. I got to get to
the bottom of the bottom of They made those Indian Jones like novels that they
would sell a lot of places, and my younger brothers into him. One
of them was just Indiana Jones and the dinosaur ex What happens? There's a
dinosaur hatch? What's going on? That's very good? Yeah, uh,
Todd Howard, it says, just a reminding chat of a couple of undeniable
facts. Space is objectively exciting, spaces, empty space could be tedious,
and astronauts work board. Yeah. You know what's more exciting, Todd Howard
is wielding once. Yeah. Also, shooting Nazis is pretty cool. Or
punching them maybe even better. Yeah, god, Ali miracle, says Atari
Hotel. Huh sure, why not. There's weed lounges here, so nothing
surprising me anymore. What the fuck are they gonna put that thing? Uh?
Where the fuck? Thank you boys who are the best. It's still
going in La Vega, yeah, parent, it's gonna be Las Vegas and
they I think I'm in Phoenix too. I guess we'll see I still like,
of course they say they're doing it again. I'll believe it when I
see it. Same, same, same. That's it for the Supertestment.
Now, thank you so much everybody. Oh hey, one just came in
from aerod Gan, says Indie. Holy fuck, I'm hyped. I'm pretty
hyped too, I too. That looks cool. I'm yeah, that's yes.
You know, it's a big budget in the Jones scheme. We haven't
had one of those, uh and like forever, even like the last few
ones when they tried like Emperor's Tomb or Infernal Machine, they weren't that big
budgety. They're kind of after thought. Ee. So yeah, this is
really cool. I'm glad we're getting this. I think you could tell like
there's there's hype out there for it, because as soon as that was over,
we all went and tried to put a bid on it in a fantasy
critics. Yeah. Yeah, I'll be interested to see how much it goes
for. I think it's going to go for a pretty pace. It's everyone's
trying to fight over it. Yep, absolutely, I'm excited. All right,
that's going to do for the super chats, We're going to take another
quick break. Won't be long. Everybody will be right back to play our
little game where we're going to see how we did on Metacritic and maybe make
some new predictions back after this and we're back, Sean, what are we
doing now? Well, first of all, I'm going to tell you about
something wild that just popped up on my timeline. I think Listeners Show would
be very interested in. Apparently, if you crash a game Boy Advance after
an hour and a half, it'll start leaking cartridge data through the speakers,
and that's just data if you record it so you can reverse engineer ROMs using
no way that rules. This is wild. I saw it at Katie may
K a T y underscore m A Y Y. I don't know if she
also did the YouTube video that accompanies this, but I just like watched it
while you guys are talking on mute and it is why and it works.
That is so cool. That rules. I love that. First of all.
I love anytime data is audio. Anytime data is recorded as audio,
that is my favorite, like Commodore cassette voading games or cassette tapes on Commodore.
Yes. Yeah, so I just thought that was your fun fact of
the day or like when like people like the like with like broadcast like games
and and and programs and you could record them and stuff. Yeah that ruled.
Okay, wild science anyways, Yeah, we have a I guess results
and then we're going to play another game here. So this is the uncharreed
Wolf's shouts to him in the community game Mess metacrec predictions Q four results and
twenty twenty four Q one predictions. So game Mess cleaning the boys here was
given a list of fifteen different games coming out in the last quarter twenty twenty
three, and they want they need to predict the metric score. I thought
you switched to opencric. Maybe not. I don't know. The score was
determined by the platform with most reviews, so on and so forth. You
get the idea there, whoever was the closest to the final score gets one
point, and if you predicted the score exactly right, you had two points.
And if you didn't think a game would come up at the end of
the second quarter or I think that's how they did there by the end of
the fourth quarter, you would say, we'll not release and get double points.
So I'll further ado. You guys want to see how you did.
But yeah, I've been doing rough in this I feel like lately, so
I hope I had a good showing. I'm not sure. Okay, okay,
Well, Game number one was Assassin's Creed Mirage. Uh. Grub predicted
a two, Mike predicted eighty four very close there. It ended up with
a seventy six. So we got pretty high on that one. Huh.
I was too optimistic on that one. Yeah, way too optimistic both.
I think I thought other people wanted a smaller skill they did. It sold
very well, and I think the fans actually mostly are pretty happy with this
game, but critics are different and shouts too disposable content for getting it with
seventy six in the community, So right on, nice A bad start.
Game number two was Detective Pikachu Returns. Mike predicted seventy three and Jeff predicted
seventy one. It was a sixty six, so Jeff gets the point there.
I was so down on this game. Why did I go that high?
What's wrong with me? I had no idea because the first one wasn't
particularly good either. I don't know what I was thinking. Community winners were
Villain Mack and Jackie g which both predicted sixty six. Game number three was
Forts and Motorsport. Jeff said ninety Mike said eighty nine. It ended up
at eighty four, So Mike gets the point there, is it? Uh,
what do you do you consider for some Forts Motorsport a kind of disappointing
game? Jeff, Yes, a little bit. It's in a better place,
Yes, it's in a better place now, but yes, it's definitely
disappointing. And shouts to Disposable Content and Moon, who both predicted eighty four.
A lot of people somehow gag exactly right. I know we had a
lot of people participating this, but that's still impressive. Game four was Lords
of the Fallen sequel to the video game Lords of the Fallen Mike predicted seventy
five. Jeff predicted seventy six. It was seventy five, so Mike gets
two points there. I didn't even know what this game was. Oh yeah,
this is horseshit. That's Hell and red O, Ski, Epic Open
World, Ben seven, and beef Hammer all predicted seventy five. Also gag
exactly right, heh yeah. Game number five was Sonic Superstars, which,
for some reason Jeff said eighty three because he's a moron. He went first.
He went first, and Mike went with seventy seven. Much more reasonable.
It was seventy three, so Mike was clearly much closer there. Sorry,
I'm sorry. I thought you guys said silent games were good, all
right, I don't pay attention to this yet. We knew this one was
gonna be okay, you know what's seventy three? That is? That is
good on most scores, most scores probably deserves maybe even a little generous,
maybe even a little generous. I would say, user score, that's ridiculous
Sonic Film, Sonic fans, right, yeah, no, yeah, Hailstate,
Ben seven, Sleeve, and Barspeckel all predicted seventy three. So congrets
there. Game number six was Spider Man two. Mike predicted ninety one,
Jeff predicted eighty nine. It came down right in the middle and a ninety
you both get point. We're friends, look at that, and crept people
predicted ninety as well in the community, So shouts to everyone listed on the
screen right now on the video version. Game number seven was Super Mario Brothers.
Wonder predicted ninety Mike predicted ninety two and it was ninety two, so
Mike wats again gets two points seventy Mikey Boy, Otto, Warren disposable content,
a lot of disposal content INUFE and barsback all predicted nine two. Game
Uber eight was Ciity Skylines two. Mike predicted eighty three, Jeff predicted eighty
one. I don't know if performance waight into this, but it definitely did.
Got a seventy four. I mean see for the user score as a
three point seven, but Jeff was closer there, so Jeff gets the point.
Whoo and then again several people getting it right on that one. Game
number nine, nobody got it right. Looked like there's a couple of people
flat oh gain sorry, gain the point. Game the point. Yeh yeah,
we had several people on seventy three and seven people on seventy five,
So yeah, on either side of and no onman got seventy four. Game
number nine was all on white two. Jeff predicted an eighty eight and Mike
predicted an eighty seven. Came out on top with eighty nine, so Jeff
gets the point there, shouts Kaki blues Viez villain. I'd come back and
seven five predicted it had been worse for me, could have been worse.
Shit g Marten was warriorware moved Jeff spoiling it for the audio listeners. Mike
predicted eighty one, took the over with eighty two. It came out as
seventy five, So Mike gets the point. I could have been a victory.
Shit running out of time, Jeff're running out of time. It came
ye, not looking great. I try to remember what we both thought for
Avatar. We probably both overshot that one. Oh I think we overshot that
one. Yeah, Razzle Jazzle then Ben seven both got exactly right with seventy
five. Game number eleven was like a dragon Guy done. Jeff predicted at
eighty four, Mike predicted eighty five. It was actually a little bit lower
at seventy eight, so Jeff gets the points. I assume the community predicted
it would do rather well, So Alex was the only one who got it
with the exact seventy eight. That's what just mostly got deep for being pretty
short right the very game. I think so, and I think I think
for like like you definitely had to play the last games, and I think
they're like, this is only going to be for these people. Yeah,
uh, there we go. Gamar twelve was Call of Duty Modern Warfare three.
Here we go. Mike predicted an eighty three, Jeff predicted an eighty
four. Uh, well, what you are historically a Call of Day fan?
It got a fifty six. Yi, man, listen as someone who
has played that game a lot and likes it for what it is. Yeah,
it sounds all right. The complete passage there is fucking awful. I
think neither should get a point there, but whatever, But actually kiss the
points bench was the closest. The community was seventy so geez geez. Game
number thirteen, Persona five Tactica. Jeff went with the eighty two, Mike
went with eighty one, and it went considerably lower than that at seventy four,
so Mike gets lower than I was expecting. Yeah, and people seem
to be mostly pretty cool on it. I think it seems more spinoff fee
than you would even want from a spin Yeah. I didn't put much time
into it, but it was like, this is pretty basics. That sounds
about right. What's the score so far? I'm not Let's see. Let's
see. So Mike has ten points on the board, Jeff has six.
Great yes in the community, I rate Observer and Cranes both got right with
seventy four Super Mario RPG. Mike went with eighty six, Jeff went with
eighty five, and it went under at eighty four, So I guess there,
we're both close. Damn crew got up in eighty four. Game.
Our fifth teen is Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Jeff predicted seventy eight. My
predicted seventy nine. I know this. It went under at seventy two.
Interesting, huh. So Jeff gets the point and Disposable Content got it in
the community with their seventy two. That was all the games. So Mike
wins ten to oh man, that's exciting. Done. You're about the pretty
good there. I think there's somehow, and I think honestly like that kind
off. We go by quarterby quarter and we count the quarters up. I
think we tied well, okay, never mine first and foremost. The full
community results are on the screen in the video version. Now if you want
to see how you did, I'm not naming off all these freaking people,
please check out the via version disposable content and Ben seven well done. Good
congratulations to both of you. Yeah you get you get Miamoto thumbs up gifts.
So there it is. It is now I would like to play this
year that's been included here. Come on, I don't hear Jeff. I
need you to tell me what you think Assassin's Treed. Okay, yah,
yeah, you need it? Get started over. Okay, you have the
stream audio pulled up. Yeah, I can hear it. Yep, go
ahead, Jeff, I need you to tell me what you think assassins Treed.
Morage will get Okay, I am going to google Assassin's Creed. No
you know what, Actually you won't. No more of that, No more
of that. Ok you can't look at pat scores that we did that last
time. That was the whole thing. Bullshit. You're a gammy journalist.
You're one of the biggest gimmy persons in the lone more. You have enough
knowledge inside you game Assassin's Creep. Now guess it's fucking meta critics for whatever
it is. I'm just saying, somebody ain't happy. Ain't nobody happy?
Yes, sir? A few moments later, Okay, game number four,
Lords of the Fallen, not the Lords of the Phone Lords of the Fallen.
Wait at the Google that was though, right on all accounts, all
right, So that means that the final scores in twenty twenty three, quarter
one Mike got it, Quarter two, Jeff got Quarter one Mike got it
in the community, Alex and super Harmon got it. Quarter two Jeff got
it in the community screaming Madden got it. Quarter three Jeff got it in
the community, Snuffking got it. And in quarter four Mike Manatti got it
and the community disposable content and Ben seven got it. So, as you
can see, there was a tie between Jeff and Mike. So as Weill
said he would do to break the tie, he added up all the points
Jeff and Mike gained across every core and the winner is Jeff Club win the
war. Everybody he cheated. He googled that one quarter, he said,
cheating. Oh boy, that one quarter. He gave it to me early,
and I looked at all the stuff before and then cool. It was
in the rules. It was in the rules, explicit the rules. He
literally said that, you literally told you guys that that would happen. We're
not doing that no more. That's clearly because you lost one time when we
did it, so we can't do that again. One might changes the rules
to someone else's. It's like a little like a little kid kicks the ball
to the puts the soccer net where he kicked it accidentally. Yeah, talking
about changing the rules to me. Congratulations, Congratulations Jeff. Yeah, and
congratulations on that last win too. Okay, so we'll, by the way,
remind me of chat. He did use met Craig for the entirety of
twenty twenty three. To remain consistent in twenty twenty four, we will be
using open critic insteads Why the switch A because the met Creik hurts him now.
B makes it easier to average scores from all systems rather than just one.
And see three. I forget which one I'm doing here. Same rule
says it before but now we will be predicting the open crik for twelve games
in quarter one twenty twenty four. And you know this brings in line with
the all benj you Bob stuff as well being said gentlemen, I need you
to tell me what you think. Like a Dragon infinite wealth, we'll get
who goes first? Uh you know what? Yeah, Mike, no,
no, no, no, so yeah, if we if we follow,
goes first, if we follow consistency, yeah, Jeff should go first as
the winner. That seems right, so over under all right, I'm gonna
go with let's see if I remember what Guiding Guy was like mid seventies,
this is definitely gonna do better than that. You want to google it?
Yeah, of course I want to google it, but it's not out yet.
Well, I mean, like the even if I did the last games,
I don't know. I think this game is going to do a little
bit better. I'm gonna go with an eighty five. Hey five, okay,
Mike, I think people are going to be more happy with this one
than that. I'm going to go like how high can it go? Though?
I wish I could google like a Dragon of the seventh one, but
I'm not a cheater, so I won't. So I'll say I'll be a
little save, say eighty six. I think better if I don't know how
much. Okay, got it Game R two Teken eight, So we'll swap
here, Mike, you go first. Yeah, this is interesting. It
did. Unrelatedly, actually look at Tech and seven's review score not that long
ago because I was just curious and it wasn't amazing. And I'll tell Jeff
it was like low eighties have historically an off all of the Teken series super
well. I was at a preview event for this one. I think fighting
games in general at a very good place right now. For what I played
on this, it seems really good. It's gonna be compared to Street Fighter
six a lot. Maybe some of that might be unfavorable in certain ways.
I'll say eighty for for Tech You me, okay, Jeff. Yeah,
that's tough because it's like probably like the lowest I would have gone, And
I'm like, but I'm also hesitant about going much higher than that because I
think every point above eighty four is like tougher and tougher to get. I
think I'll just have to I think I'll just have to go with eighty three.
I'll go with eighty three, okay, Game Narder three, Persona three
reload, Jeff, Yeah, I'll go with God. People could just be
bananas for this shit. I wonder if there will be enough, like sort
of enough Persona fans out there to maybe split the feeling a little bit and
they're like, yeah, yeah, this this, this is great, but
I still like the original better or I wish it had this thing that I
like from some certain version. I'm gonna go with a ninety, I do,
okay, it's also what I was thinking. Yeah, I think I
don't want to say a lot of that is noise. I bet a lot
of the people who wish Fez or the female protagonists were there. I don't
think that's really going to factor into review scores. That much higher than a
ninety is a lot, though maybe I'll be a little bit less. I
don't know. I thought Jeff was gonna go lower than ninety. I thought
nineties were album going, So I'm feeling a little weird going under him.
But I think that's what I'm gonna to do here. Higher, thank you,
fantastic. Oh God, this game could be. But that's right,
though, people could go absolutely bananas for this, But I have to remind
myself, like people did go bananas for Allen Way two, and it's like
ever scores at eighty nine, So I'm this eighty nine. Okay. Gimner
four Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League, Oh boy. I don't think it's
gonna be an absolute disaster. I think there's gonna be to some people who
do like it and have some nice things that's to say about it. But
I think a lot of people are going to have problems. I will I
will predict the sex number. Sixty nine. Nice, that's tough. I
wish you went like low seventies because that would have been really easy to go
lower. But I think I still have to go lower. Yeah, I'm
gonna go sixty eight. I'll go sixty eight. That's tough. That's real
tough. Givener five Hell Divers two. Yeah. Yeah. People love these
games, well love the first one, and this one's like seems to be
kind of blowing up in a big way. I think it's going to hit
pretty hard. I think it's going to do a round. I'll say eighty
two. Okay, Yeah, this is kind of hard. I do wonder
a little bit. How well is going to transition into something a bit more
expensive, right, I still want to believe. I will say eighty Okay,
get in our Sex Mario versus Donkey Kong, the remake coming out for
a switch. Yeah, there's a there's lack of excitement on this one.
I think it's going to play well. I think it's going to be aesthetically
not super interesting. I'll go like seventy two on this one. Okay,
Yeah, I think it's going to be higher than that, but not much
higher than that. I think seventy twos are kind of a I get anywhere
in the seventies is pretty safe. So I'll go with seventy three, just
kind of hope, hope that it like surprises people, all right. Game
number seven Skull and Bones allegedly for real this time, Jesus Christ, I
will go I'll go with the sex number sixty nine. Nice, I will
go lower with a sixty five. Ooh, nobly lower? Okay? Okay.
Game number eight Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, the game that allegedly came out
in December of last year. Mike, Oh my god, he doesn't let
go of a grudge. It's hard because I mean if obviously, if a
remake was incredible, it's it was reviewed well, but it's not like it
was reviewed and I'm trying to remember. I think it was more mid eighties
it's reviews than like super high eighties or definitely wasn't in the nineties. This
game's going to have something's going forward with maybe a bit more the big open
world and more characters. I don't know what that necessarily makes is going to
make it better inherently than remake, except that people are more invested in this
vision. It's also probably going to have more plot deviations that might really get
certain people upset or make people feel differently. So that's a concern. I
will I want to go eighties, and since this is Final Fantasy seven,
maybe I will just say in eighty seven, okay, okay, I'm happy
because I was thinking like eighty six that entire time, and that means I
could do eighty six. But let me think here. I wonder if there's
more selection bias because there's fewer people or like the people that like Final Fantasy
seven remake will really want to review this one. Sure, but I don't
know. I don't know if that's enough that it would take a lot of
that to like push it into the higher eighties. I think so. Yeah,
I think I'm comfortable sticking at eighty six. Please eighty six. I
can tell you're right, Mike has gained the point because I'm going to slip
a twenty to everyone to give it a ten out of ten. Oh,
well, that's in your metacritical league choice choice. What all right? Game
number nine is Alone in the Dark Jeff, Yeah, I am gonna go
with a flat seventy. Interesting no faith in this one or not a law
of faith? Right? Yeah? I think it's gonna be a game that
some people like and most people dismiss. They haven't have they showed much of
this yet? I don't remember. There's a part of we wants to be
like, is this really coming out? But uh, I don't know.
This one's real hard. I mean it's been has been doing so good.
Who's even making this? I don't know. They try they try to bring
back Alone in the Dark like every fifteen years or so, like God demands
it. I think it's THQ who's making it. Wasn't it them? HQ?
Yeah? Yeah, I mean the one? What the hell? Great?
Uh? I will say, sixty eight. I don't feel it.
I don't feel I feeling the sex number of this time not feeling. No,
I can't go to that. Well again, No, it hasn't earned
it. Okay, fair enough, getting over time Dragon's dogma too. This
is Mikey Yeah, sorry, Okay, that's interesting. Interesting. Capcom has
been on a roll. I've gotten over excited about that before and gave like
exo primal prediction in the eighties at one point. So I think this is
going to do very well. I think it's still it's not going to feel
like the most expensive thing in the world, which I think is going to
bump some people out or bother some people. It's going to be cheesy and
hokey. Some you're gonna enjoy that. I think it's gonna be very fun.
I think it's gonna be very big. I will go with in eighty
five Okay, and Hollywood, Jeff, what do you think? Uh?
He called me next. I have sunglasses now on audio listeners. My glasses
are for the week. Yeah, while wearing sunglasses, regular glasses for a
vision, I don't need I never wear sunglasses. I don't need them.
Well yeah, yeah, but you're saying that your vision's week eighty five?
Is that what he did? He said eighty five, Yes, And that
sucks. It's like a good that's a good guess, Mike. I think
that's a really good guess for tracking stalk. But yeah, this sucks because
I don't want it, Like eighty four doesn't feel right, but eighty six
feels too high. And every it felt like, you know, we just
had that results, and it felt like every time we had one of these
where we're like back to back, the person that went lower I won every
time except for once maybe twice. But you know, I'll just go with
my gut and I'll say eighty six, Okay, Game Nuarer eleven, Princess
Pete Showtime. This is tough. That's tough. I want it to be
good, and I don't have no idea what to really expect. Yeah,
it's good. I mean it's very easily could be them farting out a game
at the end of the generation that they don't really care about. But maybe
it's good. I think it's gonna get a seventy nine. Okay. I
hope it does better than that, though. Yeah, I guess I gotta
make the optimistic play here, even though I think that's very that's a very
good guess. I'll go eighty one, eighty one. Alrighty game Narber twelve,
Rise of the Ronan, Mike, Uh yeah, sorry about at that.
Ugh, the snake is confusing me. Rise of the Ronan literally thinking,
I'm glad just doing this one. Guess what, I'm glad Mike's doing
this one. It's just like this is like, you know, Soul's like
number five hundred two. This was the one that I think a lot of
people have thought looked good and I was more dismissive of So I think it'll
be okay. I think it's gonna be like a seventy six. Okay.
If there's one thing I've learned from doing this one thing, it's that when
Mike underrest or has low opinion of a game before it comes out, always
go lower. Seventy five you're right, really right, Always go lower because
mikel usually Mike's actually usually right about these, and then he's not right enough.
Like that's what happens. I don't see that happening. I don't see
if going seventy five it's probably gonna be better than that. I don't know
how much better, but yeah, I don't see it. I'm gonna believe
in this strategy because it has worked before. Okay, sorry, I screwed
up the frame. Mike's always like there are a lot of games. Mike's
like, I don't feel this at all. And then and then we could
we get through the results and it's like, how did Mike put have a
higher score than Jeff? And Jeff got the point. I'm like, yeah,
I don't know either. People are wondering. Yeah, everyone's wondering.
Well, that is it. That is all the games we have. Nice
thank you here from Wolf for letting him dude. Thanks you will be games.
Thank you so much, He says, thank you to Jeff, Mike,
Sean and Bop for all of our participation in good luck to the dogs
and the community in twenty twenty four. Now, a quick reminder, let
me see if I got this framed up right so it shows up on stream.
It's a little small, but uh, I might go fix that.
Hang on, nope, no, no, no, oh there it is.
You don't know about control the whole ConTroll? Oh yeah, it doesn't
really work on Google docs. Mike. Anyways, A quick summary here is
that for like a Dragon Infinite Well, Jeff got eighty five on the board.
Mike is predicting an eighty six Tech and eight. Jeff goes eighty three,
Mike goes eighty four. Persona three Reload. Jeff says ninety. Mike
says eighty nine. Suicide Squad. Jeff is going sixty eight, Mike is
going sixty nine. Nice Hell Divers two. Jeff says eighty two. Mike
says eighty Mario versus Donkey Kong. Jeff says seventy three. Mike says seventy
two. Skull and Bones. Nobody has much faith in that. Jeff says
sixty nine. Nice. Mike says sixty five. File Fantasy seven Rebirth.
Jeff says eighty six. Mike says eighty seven. Alone in the Dark.
Not much faith here either. Jeff says seventy, Mike says sixty eight.
Dragon's Dogma two. Jeff is going with an eighty six, while Mike goes
with eighty five. Princess Peach Showtime. Jeff is predicting seventy nine. Mike
is predicting eighty one and closing out Rise of the Ronin. Jeff will go
with a seventy five, while Mike will go with a seventy six. So
at the end of the quarter we will see how everything shakes out and where
all the scores land on open critic. All right, thank you for doing
that, Sean Wolf again, thank you so much. This is a lot
of fun. The worst part about this game. So now we got to
wait three months before we get the results, and I hate that. I
wish we could do it right away, but obviously we are bound by linear
time. It's a good way to remind me of what the big games coming
out the next few months are. Yes, it's very useful for that.
All right, let's go ahead and get back into here. There we go.
All right, what we're gonna do now is we're going to take one
more quick break, at least one more quick break, and then get back
into the rest of the show doing the best games of twenty twelve. Back
after this, and we're back and it's time to decide the best games of
twenty twelve. My voice cracked older today, Mike. I should have told
you guys that my voice cracked. It was weird. That hasn't happened to
me in a very long time, even when you do it though, it's
not that bad. Your voice is pretty deep. When I by voice cracks,
it's rough. It's a rough time for everybody. Yeah, it makes
everyone uncomfortable. And it was even quite a great It was more like my
voice just kind of gave out for a second. It was like, oh
no, please just stop. So yeah, it wasn't quite as bad as
it has been like when I was a kid or a teenager. I should
say, all right, well, here's what we do. Me and Mike
come up with the list of games from the year twenty twelve that came out
in the United States. We decided the top five. We order them from
one to five, one being the best. Mike, where do you want
to start? Yeah, this is a bit of a weird year. It's
not one of the guests. But there's plenty of good games, definitely good
games. There's a lot of like sequels that are like, well, that's
not as good as the one the right before. Right. I think we're
we're kind of at a period where a lot of the like Xbox three sixty
era franchises that had started then were getting kind of long in the tooth.
But there's still some exciting things happening. My actual game of the year this
year, I remember was Fire Emblem Awakening on the kind of three DS,
A giant turning point for that series. I was, you know, I
liked Firebom. Okay, but this one really guy took some to meet man.
This had a ninety two medic critic I don't know if Firebom was ever
getting a ninety Metacritic again, what t in the US? Oh my goodness,
we just had this conversation right before you you know, Okay, well,
good oh, Sean. This is why I'm glad that You're always having
like good conversations while I'm away to help I do what I can't Mike,
just for you, I guess, well, Firemake You must have been my
game the year twenty thirteen. Then well, then shiit twenty twelve sucks.
Yeah, twenty twelve is rough. It is fire Mom Awake, and it
hadn't been on this list might have been like the biggest game on the tarlest
number one. It would have been number one for sure, without a doubt.
Okay, well, you know what was my game of the year this
year? Actually it's still a portable game. It's Gravity Rush. Actually,
yeah, I figured Gravity Rush would come up into this. I have never
played Gravity Rush. There's a remastered version of it that is good. Gravity
Rush was a Vita Launch window game, perhaps maybe if not launch. It
is an open world kind of in the superhero side. But the gimmick here
is that you can reorient the gravity whenever you want to make it so you
basically can fly or run up walls. It's a really pretty art style.
It's a little Miyazaki esque that's also doing kind of its own thing. It's
like a sort of a floating steampunk city. Just a very unique aesthetic with
likable characters and just that simple gameplay loop and the mechanic of messing around with
the gravity and then the combat that's there also works really well and you can
fling box and stuff. I loved Gravity Rush. This was again an early
Vita game, so having this kind of experience as an exclusive on the Vita,
and like you know, we were used to having some open world games
on portals before, but this was a different level for that. I absolutely
adore Gravity Rush. Yeah, I there's a lot of games that I do
think will probably make this list that I like. There's no one that like
just stands out as the obvious one, and they are like all games that
I like, you know, using that fire moment Awakening again not on the
list. All these games are smaller and just about every way than that game.
So to keep that in mind, I think I'll probably start here with
FTL. Faster than Light. I adore FTL. It is a really good
idea of like ways to express the Rogue Light genre of like of making runs
and trying to get better each time and trying to make some improvements and figuring
out the way it works. It also has incredible music, and I just
really like the core gameplay of managing the ship and having a certain number of
people and the feeling of getting attacked in parts of the ship but coming under
attack and having to like you know, put out fires figuratively speaking and literally
sometimes Faster than Light is a very good game. Something I haven't played in
quite some time, but boy, during those years when I was playing it,
it was like all consuming. Yeah I played a bit of it.
I didn't get super deep too it, but it was definitely good. I
don't dispute that at all. So Person of Wore Golden came out this year,
not even in the US. I had to look, but we gave
normal person of four kind of the level already. I don't know if we
really need to give the updated version. I'm gonna write it down here,
but we'll see again. I think it'll be hard to even in a lighter
year, but we'll see Persona four golden still. I know a lot of
people love that an actual twenty twelve game Journey. Journey was super fun,
definitely, I think the best of that game company's output, because like stuff
like Flower was cool or even though it would flow, this one felt not
that those aren't games, but this one was more of a game in a
lot of ways, and there was something pretty incredible to just be partnered up
with some random other player in going on this actual journey with them, and
you find kind of unique ways to communicate with them, right, you don't
just have an open mic. You kind of have to figure it out.
The aesthetic is incredible, it still looks gorgeous. Journey is a pretty hard
game to forget. I this is my I think my favorite of this series
as a franchise. I love it's up there. I think it probably is
on most days number one for me of this series a Trials evolution in Yeah,
this is when they really kind of figured out how to expand on Trials
HD in a major way, with like a ton of tracks. And the
tracks were so inventive and really really hard, but in a way that felt
like it made a lot of sense. And the ways that they got difficult
over time obviously just a nice difficulty curve, and then you would like just
would just keep going the difficulty curve would just keep going to the point where
it's like, Okay, I can no longer actually do any of these tracks
in one run. Now I'm just trying to see if I could even get
to the end and hitting these checkpoints. The way I normally play Trials is
try to actually set a time with no faults, and that's that's cool up
to a point, and then you get to some of these expert stages and
you have to just be like, Okay, this is a challenge to see
if I can even figure out how to do this one jump and then get
to the next checkpoint with is right there, but like getting my bike to
do the bunny hop over to this sheer cliff and not bounce off it,
being able to actually grip under the wall and climb up. When it actually
works, it's a huge, huge accomplishment feeling that you get, and Trial's
evolution sort of nailed that right away, and those those tracks really are very
very good. Oh, Sticker Star came out this year, No wonder,
it's such a curse in I was gonna at my joke when I was going
to make a joke like paper Mario Sticker Star just to see your action.
But I know I knew you wouldn't buy it, So I don't know why,
Like that's the game that gets under my skin. They're definitely worth Why
is like that's the game that pisses me off. I had to review it,
so I think that's a big part of it for me. I hate
that game, despise it. I get mad. I give it a six
point five, and I get mad at myself because it should have been way
lower. Okay, Borderlands Too was actually pretty pretty great. Yes, Like
they took what was a good game at the first Borders Lands, and the
sequel expanded on it in all the right ways. You had a very memorable
antagonist with handsome Jack. All four of those classes felt good. It was
a fun campaign solo or multiplayer I think this is still the in terms of
games that are just trying to be Diablo, but as a first person shooter,
nothing has done that better than this. Yeah. I like Borderlands two
a bunch. I played way more Borderlands one, but Borderlines two was still
very good. I God, I'm like sticking with the indies for now.
I do want to get out of the indies eventually. But Mark of the
Ninja is a game that I love. I love Mark of the Ninja,
a two D stealth action game that has really, really really smart stealth features
in terms of giving you all the data you need about what the enemies can
see and where the shadows are so you could be safe and so you could
just do, like just feel like super hardcore ninja shit, and then when
you do pop out of the shadows to kill somebody, it's super satisfying.
It's from It's from Clay kl k l e I, and their artwork and
animation is top notch, and it always was and it definitely was in Market
the Ninja a game that looks really nice. It just plays fantastic. How
do you feel about Farcai three in the year twenty twenty four. I'm not
someone who thinks too fondly on Far Cry three personally Mike. But I don't
hold anything against it either. Yeah, I liked it at the time.
It's kind of not its fault that like a ton of other games borrowed from
it. Probably maybe the most influential game of this year in a lot of
ways. Yeah, almost certainly became a bit farc Cry three. I liked
it. It's not something I think about too fondly these days. Yeah,
and also just feels like I don't want to be a far Cry on the
list. I know. Well, but Dragon Mike actually have a shot,
so yeah, it might for sure. For sure. It's weird seeing this,
like because yeah, like that game was reviewed super well. Mass Effect
three is critic was a ninety three, which is pretty wild for outside of
Andrameda, a game most people will say is the worse in that series.
It's that trilogy. It's still very good, I guess, but there is
something about it that I'm just nonplussed about in terms of like giving a word.
This series never did anything for me. Jeff, I'm curious because this
was the game most people gave Game of the Year two. I remember said
a telltale Oh oh, yeah, we did give a Game of the Year
games Beat Mike. I like this still at the time, I loved it.
I don't know if I'm like in a mood to like argue with you
to get it onto the list and I's going to be room on this list.
Yeah, I means, let's put it up here. We'll see.
I don't know if there's actually going to be a room at the end of
the day, now that I'm like looking at things. This was a moment
where everyone went like, hey, wait a second, games can do this
stuff. And of course there's a huge audience. It's like, listen,
we've been playing visual novels for a very long time. But the writing in
The Walking Dead season one actually legitimately is very very good. A lot of
great writers worked on that stuff, and and yeah, I I really did
enjoy that game. Let's let's keep it here. Let's keep it on the
list, the shorter list, and see where it goes from here. Do
you want you want to pick another one that you actually care about? I
guess I picked that one. You go ahead, h X comm out of
me unknown. I was wondering, Yeah, I was kind of hoping you
bring that one up. Uh, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I
love X comm Enemy Unknown. It's fantastic for Axis Strategy combat. Uh,
you know, get in the cover. It's all very easy to understand.
You feel like you have a good grasp of the battlefield, but everyone is
always in danger. You have that like tough for Axis math where they're not
going to fuck around and pretend like ninety percent doesn't mean one out of ten
times you're gonna get got uh And I like that. And then like the
main managing of the base, and then the managing of your your your your
crew, and then like you know, being able to name your crew after
your friends and stuff, and then one of them dies and then you got
to like bring in a different friend or whatever. It's a good game that
has a good combination of, you know, a decent narrative and then a
lot of cool emergent storytelling that happens kind of similar to what we were doing
Tail of the Sun earlier today. Yeah, X commented me. Unknown does
a really stand out one for me? Yeah, I think that's pretty much
a lot, to be honest. Yeah, I think I always want to
play even more of this game. I never did complete a run, and
I kind of feel bad about that, but it was clearly very good and
it felt refreshing, you know. I think this was doing a thing that
which was smart at the time, like really giving you interesting things to do
between the battles, and I did like exactly the stuff they really nailed that.
They nailed that stuff right out of the gate with that. I mean,
it's what worse with firemon Awakening also, which is kind of this year.
We'll thought about it more. But yeah, I think everyone was really
figuring that stuff out, thanking some lessons from perhaps the Persona games which hit
a few years before, a couple of years before this. Mike, do
you do you want me to go to the to the podcast producers or do
you have a mores go? Because like there's few I bet I know some
that people are gonna suggest. Let me say one that I don't know anyone
else cares about. I think PlayStation All Stars Battle Royal is actually really good.
I think I think a lot of people are wrong about that game.
I thought that was a lot of fun. I wish I could play it
right now still, Thank you, Sean. I thought I had a really
fun roster. They even added Captain gravity Rush to it. And DALC which
was fun. God, I wish we could get another one of those.
It bums me out. What percentage number do you put on us ever getting
another one of those? One of those a zero like maybe some other PlayStation
like crossover fighting game. Okay, maybe more. But it's so it's so
weird, like like what ownership does place? You should really have to things
like eight Escape or some of these other franchises that were represented there anymore.
Like last even kind of heard about them was all the cute cameos in uh
in ash in the in Astros rest Mission not Rescue Mission play Road, Yeah,
and like that game was like, man, yeah, places you shouldn't
have used to have a lot of great friends that they would do anything with.
Now, all right, let's start with these podcast producers recommendations Hospital drops,
Hotline Miami on us. Mister Buller said, Dishonored. Let's do with
those two real quick. I've played hot Hotline Miami. It honestly just never
did much for me. I don't know what it was. Yeah, I
never felt much drive to try that. I do. Like the first Dishonored
Man twenty twelve is so weird because when you first say I'm like, that's
not that long ago, and then I do math it's twelve years ago.
Yeah, this one was really one is weird. It's one of the best
games that I don't think about ever. Yeah, I I I legitimately have
never really gotten into Dishonored. I played a lot of them, and I
just have never gotten into them. I don't know what it is. I
like blinking, that's cool. Yeah, the bilities were fun. Yeah,
it's busy as are cool. But like even like when Disorder two came out,
I was kind of like, no, I don't need to do that
anymore. Being part of it for me is like the whale oil setting,
where it's like it's so overbearing it's hard for me to lack processive. It's
oppressive. Yep. It is a bit much like it's like Gatherre's rats everywhere
because there is diseased and gross and I'm like, now why I'm coming to
games. Actually, I don't want to see rats here. You're right,
this is pretty unpleasant. I agree. I would consider it, but you
see more down it than me, So listen, if you want it on
the top five, I'm not going to stand in your way all that much.
On it because I know people love Dishonored. It's just it's one of
those ones that's not for me. I don't think it's bad in any way.
Put it on the list the case we look at him, we're really
like, oh, maybe actually dishonored. But I don't know. Okay,
we'll see that sounds right, okay. Craws MC basketball says far Cry three.
Bench JC says mass Effect three a game. I like, I don't
want to put it in a top five. Yeah, me neither. It's
not even just the ending, which was a whole thing, but no,
no, you know it's the thing that's No, it's not as good as
Mass Effect two. It's just not it's just this just not plays better sometimes
sure, but whatever, it's just not like it's not what I came to
Mass Effect for. And I don't think they did a very good job with
it overall. It's kind of the poser chot of like escalation isn't always better.
Like they they felt like, well, this is the third one,
and trilogies are a thing, so this is like the big finale and it's
gonna be the biggest, highest stakes ever and it's kind of exhausting in a
lot of ways. Yeah. Yeah, it's like that funnel of like you
start with mass Effect one and they set up the world and then they're like
mass Effect two so much more as possible now, and then mass BAC three.
By its nature, it's got to be like, well, we got
to conclude you get you to a conclusion, so we're gonna like sort of
squeeze you back into this like possibility space that's a little bit smaller. Gonna
just I don't like it. Uh. Nick Turbo says Persona four Golden.
I'll tell you what, it might be the best game release this year.
It's just we are I think we already had Persona four like as number one,
maybe even or at least pretty high before. So just making a better
releasing, the better version of that. I don't know if we need to
give it a spot for that. I love Persona for Golden. It is
fantastic, but it is the director's cut basically of a game we already gave
a lot of love to. Hammond of Texas said Counterstrike Global Offensive. God,
I remember when that came out and it was like, oh, the
new counter Strike is counter Strike more of an og counter Strike guy and now
more of a counter Strike two guy. The vanklish Wolf of five says Kiddikerus
uprising. I really want to play this game. I hope oday happens.
I hear good things about it. I just couldn't. I think initially I
was just too weirded out by the control setup. Yeah, I think,
you know, if it doesn't get a remaster, I will just find a
way to play that game on like a Steam deck or something. We'll see.
Adam GC says the Simpsons tapped out. I guess that mobile game that
was very popular, right, Yeah, that game was fun until it was
one of like big mobile games where it was literally just like you can't play
anymore for now, and it was infuriating. I was thinking about this game
recently. I actually watched some old Simpsons episodes not too long ago, and
uh, we watched You You Only Move Twice, which I hadn't seen it
forever, which is the one where Homer works for like that James Bond villain.
But he's the nicest guy actually, Yeah, And I'm like, man,
Hank's Scorpio is the best Simpsons character. This is actually maybe the best
episode of the Simpsons and there's a whole bit there where Holper's asking where you
can get like ham mixed, and they talk it out and it's like,
oh, the Hammick district and apparently you can build a Hammick district in this
game. And right, have you told like parts of that story before on
other podcasts recently? Because I had the weirdest a javous there. Maybe I'm
wondering if I did now. I told my friends recently Nay Sistney, already
go out, I talk about it on that. I don't know, Okay,
it's fine. It was just like weird, all right, always be
clothing Corgie. I think here's dropping Azura's Wrath's Wrath. I've heard things about
this game. I haven't actually played it myself, but I've heard things.
I've I've played a little bit of it back when I was like trying to
dip it in a bunch of games, and I always meant to go back.
This would be fun for a stream. I would like to play this.
Yeah, get to find a way to get the DLC and just play
through the whole thing. Wardencliffe says faster than light or FTL faster than light,
and I'm right there with you. Michael Riley says, hit Mike,
Absolution. I never played this one. I'm very excited that I think it's
blood Money is coming out to the Switch this month. Honestly, it might
have just came I think it might have just came out, actually, and
I might play that. Which one was the one that was like much more,
just like a cinematic third person shooter. Is that Absolution or Blood Money?
I don't know. Absoluttion might be it. Yeah, Razzle Jazzle drops
Journey on Us. Super Harman also says Azua's Wrath. Eden Lamenter of Women
says Gravity Rush, Snuffkins says Mark of the Ninja, Alex says Borderlands to
Fusion says Call of Duty Black Ops two. Uh God, that was a
that's a really good game. I was checked out at this point, so
I had to leave that up to you. I'm going to put it on
the list at the very least, because I did have a lot one of
the first because this one was like slightly more modern, even slightly futuristic,
right, it wasn't Cold War anymore. I just remember the trailer. At
one point the guy from the first game finds the villain from the first game.
It says something dramatic to him. I don't know why. That is
a weird, vivid memory for me. This one is the one with the
different endings and different timelines, isn't it You had to take make decisions in
your future? Is this is this? Is this the decision one it might
have been? It was it is where you like you can't shoot a guy
on the like on the leg or like it will change like the next and
then Black Ops three, Black Ops three is more like far future, and
then Black Ops four is the one. There just wasn't a campaign and that's
what it was. Yeah, there was like that miss stuff and they had
like had that weird zombies mill with those four ocs with like really expensive Yeah,
that's where I definitely started to release DLCs full games. Yes, yeah,
it was weird. Jeff, Yeah, I'm back. I'm back.
All right. Let's see here, Yeah call Duty Black Ops two. I
did remember really liking that one. Input name here says Fez, Mike,
do what you love for Fez. I know people who swear by fes and
I started a couple of times. It never got into it. It's okay,
I don't have any great love for fez. Okay, let's see here,
swsp says ft l U, Boshi's cookie says Kiddick or as Uprising Moonlight
one fifty drops Kingdom Hearts three D dream drop distance on you. Yeah,
it's okay, uh. I like that it has launched back and oh Dom
level it is surprisingly a full Kingdom Hearts game, like that's that is always
something interesting about Kingdom Hearts is when you expect something to be real spinoffee.
It's like, oh, this is a game that is just actually continuing the
story from Keenum Hearts two and is leading up to Kingdom Hearts three, which
was surprising at the time. Matt Rare Monkey gives us thirty flights of Loving
another one. I've always heard great things about Never Tried and Sleeping Dogs,
a game I played a lot of enjoyed. Yeah, I always meant to
go to Sleeping Dogs because it would always come up for a long time as
an underrated and underappreciated game. Right, Yes, definitely still want to go
play Sleeping Dogs at some point. Do you really like it? Do you
think it's worth considering? I really like it. I don't know if it's
worth considering because I never fell in love with it or anything like that,
but it was like, oh, yeah, this is definitely a really good
GTA clone in an era when we were well beyond getting GTA clones, so
it was always kind of impressive. Tommy Pencil says Dragon's Dogma the first one.
Man, that's a twelve years and we're getting the sequel just now.
Famously not famously. I would it be famous, and I haven't played Dragon's
Dogma, but I haven't. World's famous is not Dragons Dogma player. Yeah,
that's almost like Alan Wake levels of gap between the first and the second
there. That's that's cool. I feel I feel more bad about not playing
as sure as a raft to be honest. Yeah, sure, twenty twelve
games. Uh, Jet Jetpink says Lego, Batman, two DC Superheroes.
I know this was supposed to be one of the good ones. I was
pretty over Lego games at this point. I have to admit I might start
hopping through these pretty quick. Slide says xcom Atomy Unknown. Adam Asleep says
the Walking Dead test. She says Pokemon Conquest. That was the like strata
like tactics game. Yeah, I have no memory ambition. Yes, I
feel like I feel like Gandolf looking at those three doors in what the FDA's
ambition. But Pokemon, well, I don't know what the fuck nobun his
ambition is. It's a strategy gamee what the hell is Pokemon conquests? Low
rule says Zeno Blake Chronicles, and Okay, Tiers of the Boomer says Teers
the Boomer robs Bank. Excuse me, says spec ops the line they don't
want to talk about Zeno Blake Chronicles. Huh, I mean listen, I
figured it was gonna cut up. It came up. I mean yeah,
look, I'm like, I think Zeno Blake Chronicles is fine. I don't
think it's some some masterpiece. It wouldn't make my list. No spec ups
the line is impressive. It didn't have the intended effect on me. I
don't think, not really. I'm like, yeah, I get it.
I walked out of it thinking that, not like, oh my god,
that blew me away. That they have something to say about the effects of
war. What I was doing this year, I feel like, more years
more than any other year. I'm like, I didn't play that. I
didn't play that. I didn't play that. What was were you playing,
miss of Pandaria? No, I actually didn't play that expansion. Were you
to doing that? Well? That was I doing? In twenty twelve?
You were doing? You were doing Exploding Barrel. We go back and listen
to the episode to find out what the fuck you were doing. I wasn't
in college anymore. I was definitely just a bum who barely had a job.
I was in the industry already, But like, yeah, what the
fuck was I doing in twenty twelve? Yeah, because I this is one
where I'm like, feels like I played significantly, significantly more than you did.
This game is than me, and it's like the years before that were
the ones where I was like, like in a tough spot and wasn't playing
much. Uh yeah, I don't know was it because if it was an
expansion after mister Pandaria, I was definitely playing World a Warcraft and probably too
much of it. Uh No, but it is mister Pandaria, so wasn't
it's mister Paria. I didn't get back into World Warcraft until twenty fourteen,
so I don't know what the hell was doing in twenty twelve. I think,
is this a sleepy Dogs. Yeah, it looks like a sleepy dog.
Yeah, sleepy dogs again. Yeah. Uh, Doctor Ryan says ZOMBIEU
got that this is the Wei you launch here, right, because the New
Mario Brothers to you, Nick, Nick keeps bringing up New Super Mario Brothers
for you. How do you feel about that? Listen? I love New
Super Mario Brothers we way more than I love New Super Mario Brothers. You.
I might like you more just because We's uh, visual fidelity is pretty
terrible, so at least sure, I guess the WEU one is an HD.
But I was just very over the New Super Mario Brothers games that Yeah,
first first HD Mario and it's fucking I'm a new Super Mario brother.
I played through it twice now because it got re released on Switch. And
I remember there's a van Go inspired level and that's about if you like,
if you asked me, like, what's the bowser fight like in that one?
Oh no, I don't remember and don't remember anything. Yeah, it's
those about the flying Squirrel power ups. That was fun. That's yeah,
that's cute. And Addie had her Luigi Squirrel around here earlier today, so
yeah, I like that part Jamie h Christmas e us is binary domain.
This is one I kind of always meant to check out because people seem to
have a a little bit of a sarcastic tongue in cheek love for this.
I saw this at one of my first E threes in a clay closed door
session. I remember Jim Sterling was there back when he was at Destructoid,
and so I was very excited about just like I was like, oh,
I know who that person is. I've made it right. Yeah, absolutely,
Gerbert says spelunky. I like splunky, but I just like other rogue
lights that are similar to this way way more splunky. It just never felt
great to me. Guys. I'm sorry I for yeah, Stephanie Sterling now,
and I didn't mean to do that, my bat yep, yep,
let's see. JD. Camp says Candy Crush annual revenue from twenty twelve to
twenty twenty one, where most ears it's made more than a billion dollars and
some years significantly more than that. Yeah, buoy, that was this year,
jeez man, twenty twelve it only made seventy seven million. I bet
they were like, holy shit. And then two years later and made one
point one three billion dollars. Screaming, Madden says, x Calm Enemy unknown.
We said images only. This is it. This is all you get,
everybody. If anyone else does this, you're gonna get in trouble.
But he includes here on the picture. Madden thirteen was the first time in
the series to have Phil Simms and Jim Nantz at commentary. I'll give you
a laugh there. Thank you for that little tidbt. Weezman says Mario Party
nine. That was what That was the first one where you're all in a
car together. Oh that's rough. I hate that. Rember defended that.
Adam Juice is saying Resident Evil revelations, which I really really liked. I
remember every one like this at this time. I feel like now people seem
slightly not as impressed by it. Perhaps I think parv it was. It
was just cool having this on the three DS. I would have brought back
Joe Valentine. It was on a boat, right, that's a good setting
for a resident Evil partially right, I think, yeah, that's right.
You're like going through like a big ship. Yes, yeah, so I
think it was pretty neat. It may be worth considering. I'm in my
Resident Evil era, but Athlet actually played. I haven't played this one either.
What the hell was I doing this year? I don't know? Lots
of border Lands too. Apparently I did play borders Lands two. Villain Mack
dropped that one. Joy Z has what's her name's but and their boyfriend's head
from God? What is called chain saw? Yeah? I like lollipop chainsaw,
thank you? Yeah that was God. That was like, it's like
a twenty twelve somebody made a two thousand and seven game, right, Yeah,
yep, absolutely that makes any makes sense. Days in Man two says
Pokemon Black version two. But you know, as much as I love Black
and White, for some reason, Black Too and White Too didn't do it
for me. I would have rather had Pokemon Gray ed says called Duty Black
Ops to Isaac Clark drops Skull Girls. Yeah, Skallgirls was twenty twelve because
I just played this game like last year. Finally it was supported for forever,
right it was. Yeah, they like they like, you know,
like fighting game sequels, right, like we're fighting game sequels or sometimes just
more content like what Grahand Blue recently had. Right, Lenny Cool Dick dem
versus Max Pain three I've still never played any Max Pill. Well, I've
like messed around in the first Max Pain when it came out. I like
Max Pain three. I feel like it's in a weird place. Now it
doesn't seem to be remembered super fondly by right. People seem to like prefer
Max Pain one and two. Yeah, but at the time it was neat.
I remember it was very impressive technically and graphically. Uh Klink says Tokyo
Jungle. This is what I've always intended to check out, never played,
never played. Fuck me that Pomeranian. Yeah, loosen Tokyo. You plays
a bunch of different animals in this game. I'm gonna play that. Uh
teach. QC says Forts a Horizon, the one that takes place in Colorado.
Well, the first Sports a Horizon. Do you feel like any drive
there? Well, maybe you do because of the Colorado, but do you
really feel like a drive to go back to the first Forts of Horizon When
it got Xbox backward compatibility and it got like, you know, all the
fidelity improvements because of that, that was pretty cool. It was nice to
go back to that game and be like this still mostly holds up. It's
not as good as like three and four on five, but it's still it's
one that like holds up if you have it. I don't think you can
buy this anymore. I can't remember the Forts of Horizon games get delisted,
like the Forts and Motorsport games. Do I think they do? Diogo says
a Clash of Clans, Jesus Christ. Ye, the other twenty twelve mobile
games. Yeah, all the mobile games we still play apparently came out of
twenty twelve. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean I say that
all the time. It's like, twenty twelve is when these games came out,
and it's been the same games ever since. Willow Davis says Halo four
on a picture of Mike mccwon. Gee, I don't remember the bucks.
I like that. Oh my god, this is christ you know what.
I remember being really impressed by how good Halo four looked, Like it looked
noticeably better than Halo three, even though it was on the same system.
God, I wonder if it would have helped them out a lot if they
just kept that in their pocket for another year and had Halo four as a
big Xbox One launch game and maybe spent a little You know that you're a
polish on it. Right, what is I can't remember what Halo fans say.
Halo four multiplayer was good and the campaign was bad, and Halo five
the campaign was good and the multiplayer is bad or people don't like the campaign.
Five. I think people like, ok yeah, it cane. People
like the campaign in this one. Actually, oh got sure, it's the
reverse okay, Right, there's a lot of excitement because it was the start
of the new thing here and like those some of that new alien gun stuff
looked okay. But yeah, people don't talk about the multilayer. Right.
This is the one where the multiplayer was chasing cod Right, this is the
one where they went hard after Call of Duty. Yeah, that's right,
load outs and all that jazz. Yeah, that's the It was it this
one or maybe Halo five. I think it might have been Halo four.
Dan said he was at that preview event and they talked. They used the
word clamber like one hundred and fifty times, and that's when he started using
the word clamber a lot because he liked it. Oh yeah. Vision forty
nine also says binary domain oh Man, Fluffy Cloud Gamers is Rhythm Heaven Fever
for the Wii, which is an incredible game. Big Tony, the Final
Fantasy Guy says persona for Golden You see this image, Mic, Yeah,
used looking a bit sexier than I remember him. Yeah, used, look
at a little kwan chiafied Uh. I know his cannon name? Okay,
Buggy Dillis says Arrowporter. B Traven says Oryan. What's Aeroporter? I don't
know. It looks like simulator. It's probably one of those games where it's
like you have to like draw the lines for their airplanes to like land,
like your air traffic controller or something. I have a better question for be
Travan, what's Oriyan Diano beat down? Who knows? Nobody knows, So
you guys are just making ship up now. P Chance says The Last Story
for the Wii. This is another Project ray Fall game, And once again
I didn't play, and I wish I would because this was Saka Gucci in
his studio and like the boom Anster doing the score. I definitely want to
play less story at some point, like this is long before Hearthstone. What
were you doing this year, Mike, I'm trying to figure it out.
Jeff, I was like playing video games. This is what I discovered alcohol.
Oh, that's it. Persona four arena. This might have been my
party. I think this was when I was going out like four times a
week. I think this was me socializing at that party. I think it
took you want to be like, what did I do that year? Oh?
I talked to people. I was like staying out to like three or
four am every night. Good time? Uh sasquatching? Uh sat what excuse
me? Sasquatch crossing says Happy Action Theater. I never touched this. Yeah,
I don't know this one. I think that's I should have said about
Persona four Arena. That is I like that fighting game a lot. The
story most kind of interesting, although it's a really long and ultimately maybe isn't
important to quote unquote. Even though it kind of connects Persona three and four
in some ways, I don't think it actually really goes anywhere. It's not
like it's not like percent of five continued the threads of that one or anything.
But I did like Persona four, you know, and then and then
yeah, Happy Action Theater is the Double Fine connect game. That's right.
That's the first time I think we've had a connect game recommended for our top
five list. Adam says ps Vita Vita's Virtues Last Reward. Yeah rules,
this is Sparta. Yeah yeah, it's part of the games and all of
those Wait we Hitter says Indiana Jones in the Fate of Atlanta's thinking might be
a little late to that one, man, I mean, I know it's
probably too much always going, but it'd be fun to get somebody to do
a play through of this. That's a that's a neat video game. I'm
listen. I've never played most LucasArts games, so this would be like the
one I wouldn't like. Maybe make you play honestly because you like Indiana Jones.
It's fine. I mean, you know, it can't be like a
wacky like Giant on stream because there's a lot of dialogue and it's got it
must be read. Listen, we're gonna do some of that here soon.
Like that's going to be one of the shift in some of that stuff where
we pay attention. Like if I played Meddle Gear Solid, I would want
to watch all of the cut scenes for real. So yeah, for Shoot
for Shoot, excuse me, Papa Quest three with Great Taste says Trials Evolution
absolutely pretty good shot. Yes, yes, definitely, Crirosis says Dragon's Dogma.
Christian says gravity gravity Days. Excuse me, somebody more impartial? What
name do you like more, Gravity Days or gravity Rush? I'm used to
the gravity Rush name. I think I prefer gravity Rush sounds better than gravity
Days. Well, I think they made it change because gravity Days. What's
the original name? And then they made it change because like the change it
for some reason because their thing is, like you get daisy with this game.
Like this game, they kind of confuse you at the beginning, and
then you get used to it. If you if you get sick playing a
first person game, maybe look out for gravity Rush. Uh. And then
he also says Persona for Golden and then Turboshan says Pokemon Black version two.
Look, I already give you guys that Pokemon bone. You're all very excited,
but yeah, I'm not gonna do it for Pokemon Black and White too.
And now, why did you just put in low Bunny just because Pokemon
because and and just to help out our friends in the community that are reacting
very okay, never mind, we got to take it down because are it's
mostly sean. I know, it's a lot of people mostly always always be
clothing. Oh my, oh incredible. All right, let's see here,
are we adding anything else to the list, Like we're getting blackout drunk?
Actually, I never got I couldn't get blackout drunk. Other people would.
I would just get drunk. You're just you're like Superman. You're too strong
to get drunk. Yeah, I'm too powerful. I don't need sunglasses.
I don't, right, I mean, I get got drunk. I'm blackout
drunk. I never understood that. I never got I never woke up from
day. Drek is like, oh, I don't even know what I did
yesterday. That never happened. I don't. Yeah, I mean that's happened
to me like two or three times. But you're a yeah, yeah,
and that's definitely like, well, the one time is because I think Michigan
Beatlehouse State and I won a bottle of tequila and then we just drank it
all way, drink it all night, and I did like every shot with
every other person. So basically half a bottle of tequila and that's enough to
make me apparently jump into a dumpster and then wake up in my room.
Without remembering anything. All right, here's what we have Gravity Rush, FTL
Persona for Golden Journey, Trials, Evolution, Borderlands Too, Mark of the
Ninja, The Walking Dead Season one x Colm, Enemy Unknown, Dishonored,
and Call of Duty Black Ops two. I feel pretty good about that list.
I don't feel the any dad anything else. Really. I thought it
was interesting how little love Walking Dead got from the community. A game about
that year seemed to be the one that got the most awards and got the
most recognition, at least from what I remember. You're yeah, it was,
but it was a game of its moment, and then that moment kind
of faded pretty quickly because Formula got ran into the ground and that's what people
remember about those games. Yeah, yeah, you're right. I mean the
Far Christ three kinda has the same problem. Right again, that game,
like we looked as a silk anthemtic critic was like in the nineties at the
time, and now nobody really wants to talk about it. Nick, you
were trying not to be live anymore. We're trying to finish that time.
Just try to warn us. And they both were like, Okay, you
guys got to like be fast with the stuff here we are though, Okay,
I'm listen, let's move up. Uh yeah, Trial's evolution is the
one I really want up there, and I really want gravity Rush up there.
I really want Gravity Rush up there. There is I think x Kom
Enemy Unown feels like it should definitely be up there. Lock, Yeah,
definitely, So then we have two more spots. As it stands right now,
I think Borderlance two would go up there. Personally for me, I
am, I think that's probably right. Borderlands two is definitely a standout one.
I would probably God, this is tough between like Mark the Ninja and
FTL, and then that's not even like like all of these games are pretty
good. Journey and Dishonored called douty Black Ops two even I don't know what
are you thinking? Journey would be my next one, but I've already had
a good amount of stay here. Yeah, I feel very very strongly about
FTL and Market the Ninja, So I probably would want to move one of
those up. I'm gonna go with FTL. FTL is actually the one that
looks right up there, all right, So then what we have in the
top five right now this could still change FTL, Gravity Rush Trials, Evolution,
X com Atam Unknown and Borderlands too. Uh, And then that means
we are not including Persona for Golden Journey, Mark of the Ninja, The
Walking Dead, Dishonored, and Call of Duty Black Ops two. Any any
swaps you feel very strongly about. No, uh, like there's a part
of me it's a little bump, b like a Journey on there, but
not that. Not that. Yeah, I mean Journey seems to be the
one I'm chat seems the most upset about for. Yeah, I know people
really love Journey, but I mean I'm not I'm not getting rid of any
of my kind of babies and I'm not getting rid of Gradurush for it.
And yeah, I would do it. It's funny because I was about to
say maybe it's number one, and now I'm like, the only one I
would change for is x COMB. But I don't think that's right. I
don't know if I don't think yeah, I don't think that's right. I
don't know. Do we bully Borderlands two out of there to get Journey instead?
I'm definitely okay with that, Mike. Honestly, both those games are
kind of occupy a pretty similar space for me. Where it's like, yeah,
those are yeah, good guys. I feel a little bad about it,
but let's do that. Let's get Journey In and Borderlands two out there.
Okay, that sounds right. Uh's that's okay? All right? So
then, hey, look at this, Jeff, you know you noticed something
about this list? No, notice what's missing on this list? Nintendo games.
There is not a single Nintendo came in this list. Everybody is that
the first time that's happened. All it took was for them to watch louiiuse
we got here, Oh ship Nintendo l let's get it on there. Look
at that. We almost had Fire from Awakening didn't quite happen. Wow,
Okay, incredible. God Like, I'm okay with this list as it is.
Kind of no, not number one. I would like number one one,
but okays, number one, it's not. That's why I think x
com is going to probably be a compromise choice at number one. Yeah,
that that works for me. Okay, let's do that. Then. Do
you like FTL more than Trials? I think I think FTL is the one
that like stands the test of time more. I love I love Trials Evolution,
but I'm also really like Trials. All the Trials games after that I've
loved. So it's like, hey, yeah, of course, but this
is the one that started it for me. Really. I like Trial's HD
a ton. The Trials evolution is the one where it became a very good
game. I'm okay with Gravity Rush being number two, as long as FTL
is number three and Trials is number four, and then Journey at five.
Can we do that? I know people want Journey higher. Yeah, I
was gonna say that seems low. I would put Journey above Trials, but
okay, I could do the Trials as five. Well, you can't have
FTL at two grab Rush at three, but put put Journey at four.
That works for me. That looks right, okay, all right, okay,
So all right, so then what we have then is number five,
Trials Evolution, number four, Journey number three, Gravity Rush number two,
FTL Faster than Light, and number one x com Enemy Unknown. Mike.
Does that sound right? That sounds right to me? Fantastic. All right,
we're gonna take one more quick break. Everybody, let us know how
much you're mad about this list. Can't wait to see it, can't wait
to hear it. We'll be right back after this and we're back, all
right. I tweeted out the list. We'll see how people react to it.
But in the meantime, Mike, what have you been playing? Yeah,
some things that I cannot talk about, but I did start Golden Sun.
Actually, oh yeah, how you finding it? Yeah? It's you
know, like like all these games, the start can be a little like
yes, because you know, you know, we gotta get the lord dumps
out of the way, and like also at first, there's not much to
the combat except you know, attack. But I do like this This game
encourages you to use magic quite a bit. You do have some passive manner
region and pretty much everybody is magic. It's not, it's not. You
definitely have some people who maybe more suited to it. But at least what
I see, there's not a magic stat, like a magic strength stat.
It's just MP. So that's the difference between people who are maybe more suited
towards magic. And everybody will have like a good amount of spells, even
good amount of AoE spells. And then there's like this gene system where genie
is kind of like summon. It's a little bit like Guardian Forces and Fantasy.
Sure, that they make your stats stronger. Also, there's this kind
of dance between like just having it give you the act of stats, or
you use it to attack and you lose the stats, but now you can
then use an even more powerful attack. You're kind of juggling those stances a
bit. So I'm getting my grasp on all of that. I think the
comm system is pretty fun. I'm excited to delve deeper into it. I
still love the way just the battles look with that sweeping camera and the sprite
scaling. That's fantastic. There is a little bit of a h you know,
we're playing an RPG that, like once again, is written in a
kind of that first grade level. Yeah, definitely definitely my first video game
sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, you know, it has a little
bit that Camelot thing right where like the yeah, Camo makes very good games.
But sometimes it's it feels like the audience is always younger than you actually
are the attended audience anyways, It's like people are talking a lot about things
that they already had gotten the point across already. But I am digging it
quite a bit. I want to see it through. Yeah, I'm enjoying
it. Yeah, I played just a little bit of it. Yeah,
also playing stuff we can't talk about. Yeah, looking forward to doing that
very soon everybody. But it was most just like, oh, yeah,
the battle, the combat actually does look as good as I remember, these
really awesome sprites kind of big and rotating and having different angles and the camera
moving around on the game Boy Advance. It was always like, oh wow,
this looks really unique, and that still it still looks pretty unique for
one of these games. I definitely did notice. Also it's like this game
looks a little bit muddier when it's blown up like this. So it's like
I was having trouble like seeing the stairs in that very very beginning part and
like why where am I supposed to go? That was I mean, I'm
usually pretty okay with the way these games are blown up, but even I
was having trouble with those stairs. The thing. Yeah, I think it
was just like that stuff just like probably looked better on that LCD screen and
then stuck out more and it just did not hear it all. But yeah,
then the rest of my time is just uh into things that we'll be
able to talk about next week, other than continue to set up that I
in Neo Retro MINIPC and uh, I think I got most of the emulators
running at this point. It's just like occasionally run into something that doesn't work
and it bothers me. I just wish everything would just work right away.
I guess that's why most people play on consoles. I get it, but
yeah, I don't know. Mike, you got you want to get these
super chats and get out of here. Yeah, we've got a couple more.
Let's do that. We got, uh, Fox McCloud server said Ben
around since damn near the beginning, but first time super Chet love you guys
to keep up the good work. PS Mortal Kombat Michtology's ruled and I laughed,
so damn Harden, thank you so much. Fox McCloud definitely remember your
name for going way back, so really appreciate the super chat and the support.
And then El Grugg says, what do we have to do to have
Turbo Stwan b on screen but have him do his best AJ impression and never
actually incredible? All right, I'm at the button. Let's get out of
here. Mike. Where can people find you on the internet? Yeah,
Tokodo everywhere, Twitch and Twitter, and all that stuff. Hopefully weather premitting
going up to Games Done Quick tomorrow Friday, first half of the day,
so I'm looking forward to that. But yeah, that's it. There's a
lot of trouble like us are figuring out for upcoming months. It sounds like
you guys have figured out some idea of pa Seas. I have to talk
to you and see what's going on with that. Yeah. Yeah, things
are starting to take shape there. It's exciting. So we'll be a pack
seast. Giant bumb will be there for sure. We're gonna try to get
Mike out there as well. We'll figure that stuff out. We'll figure it
out. We will figure it out. Let's see go watch Mortal Kombat Migetologies,
the latest Blake Club episode. It's a ton of fun that's up on
Giant Bomb right, Tale of Grub Watch Tail of the Grub. That was
an an experience. You could see the exploits of Lucy James and then two
sy caves and two more who cave and uh and next episode we'll start start
with Mike mc McK what is it, Mike mcch well, that's that's the
Blake Club character. I can't remember what we came, Mike, Mitch,
oh yeah, mitche to cave to Yeah, Midge to cave too. That's
what it was. It's there's a lot of fun. We're keeping track of
all these different cavemen and how they perform in the game. It's all this
is nonsense to you. Uh. It still will be once you're watching the
game, because it is kind of a nonsense game. But it's also a
pretty cool experience. I've been enjoying it so far. Dan, Dan's played
it before, and he's having me play through it, and that's a good
time. Nicky or Shawner, which one of you were responsible for this tweet
with the Great Circle and Halo? There there you are, Niki, good
job, that's good stuff. Stop sorry, hey you the big bucks,
Nikki. That's right, Oh yeah, Great Circle. I'm gonna retweet this.
There we go. You should, uh, Mike, I would love
to go to uh uh a fucking much of well call it a g d
Q myself. We'll see if I can. I'll let you know, like
first thing on Friday night or whatever. We'll see and I'll drive out there
Saturday and we'll go out there together. That'd be cool, all right,
everybody until next time. I have a good one. Take care of yourself.
Goodbye. All right, Jess, Well let's do each other here.
Okay, I have to poop. That's fucked up that he eats so many
sunflower seeds that his butthole stopped working. My penis works, sadly. We're
back to stick with us. If you're watching live, we are going to
be getting right back into it. I think, do you need a little
breaky break or anything? Mike, No, I'm good. Let's go.
All right, the game we got, we got chat arguing about star phone.
Now look what we did. No, I'm just I'm ignoring you all
there you go, all right, here we go, let's go. What
is that? What is our our? Is that something that every every everybody
says, uh Mike, Camilla from Fire Album would say. She will say
like the oh my oh my is like oh my, oh my. Yeah,
this is something like people who's you know how like some of the anime
girls last specifically like they put like that, that's it. That's what.
Do Different aur auras have different cup sizes? All right, listen to Camela.
I know their cup size. Yes, okay, because Camilla's cup size
is backbreaking, gravity disturbing. All right, let's get back into this.
We're good. Just how much? Man? How much should I bid on?
All right? Uh freak? Then I'm gonna tweaks. I never did
that. I didn't tweet either. Actually, I forgot to ship. You
know, there's like five hundred people. There were like five hundred people.
Yeah, we're good, yo podcast, All right, I am what are
we going to do next? We're gonna do the metacritic thing. Basically,
we're gonna just hand it over to Sean. Yeah, if we get to
two hundred likes, Mike will do I think I have no chance of getting
in again. Joe's because other people in this league who haven't done before are
gonna make my mistake and bet, like, bid one hundred dollars on it.
Somebody's going to really overbid for it. Oh absolutely, Dan totally put
down like eighty bucks on that thing. All right, let's let's get back
into it. Let's go okay, all right, yet the problem? All
right, Mike's gona take any out, and I'm gonna look at what came
out in twenty twelve, twelve games. I didn't submit one. Let's see.
The one is to do in London, Sark, I believe there you
go. No, I didn't believe myself. I was like it, thank
you, all right. This is the one where I was like, there's
some good stuff in here. And that's why I wanted you guys about P
four Golden. I know how well it would fly as if we make with
you guys, and Mike's not gonna let me get the Walking Dead season one
on there, and I don't know if I'm really in the mood for that
fight. That would be weird. It won our Game of the Year at
Game Speed back then. So entirety of it released in twenty twelve, I
think so. Yeah, it won a lot of game of the year.
It won a Game of the Year awards, Okay, because I see the
episode. The entirety of it was within twenty twelve. Okay, yes,
yeah, I was. I liked I like that. I like me through
the episodic release stuff. I don't know, man, tent twelve. It's
one twelve. Kind of a weird year and was a great year. As
much as I love Pokemon Black Too and White two, Fire on Bloom Awakening
was this year? Oh was it? Shit? Okay? All right?
That helps oh no, no, no, no, no to band only.
Okay, there we go, all right, man, I and I
should play Fez. I've never really played Faz. I should I bet up
a dig? And if I started getting into it, I don't know if
that's true. You know, I'd like, you know, the Witness so
much in all these games with like abstract puzzles, but I haven't been to
I have tried it before, so maybe not. Do you think we could
fight for Black Ops too? Do you think they would fly? I think
this year, I don't know. There's so many games that are like,
well, yeah it's good, but it's like it's not like the best of
that that series, even at that time. So maybe Black Ops two could
maybe happen. We'll see once we get started. I don't know. Well,
but right now a weird year with a lot of good stuff, a
lot of just odd stuff. It's yeah, I'm ready, all right.
Actually I should have done this stuff. The link by the way, right,
I just need to get the document up. I forgot to do that,
and I was forgetting something. Wow, John, were you distracting him
again? What you did? He's a father, he can't forget stuff,
you know, this man? Has been on camera for like nine hours a
day or something. Shot, it's all gone good. Missed on that one,
and I guess all that. Yeah, we're proud of you. I'm
sure you keep on camera. That's impressive. Nobody can do though, Yeah,
I agree. Cool. Remember that whole thing where like he was like,
this is like an impressive thing. Nobody does. I still think that.
Yeah, the poker chips, the open in the opening in the canon
holding the poker chips thing, I'll have you know, I what okay,
the shuffling the chips, what is it? What is the you take two
stacks and you make them one with one hand? Shot, Like, shut
the fuck up. You know interlaced televisions, It's like that with chips.
He's interlacing each chip into one another. Now, Jeff, do you know
how interlacing is bad? And we tried to not think about it anymore,
and we try to move it as far away as as a society, of
course. But yeah, that's what I'm trying to do with Mike's stupid poker.
You came in here. I was like, what the fuck did Sean
do? Now? You know what Sean? I know. I came in
here and Sean was yap and yap and yep, and like, oops,
I forgot to do something. Shot Crops fault. Yeah, because Jeff grub
existed, as I like it when I'm not in trouble, Rainys fucked up
and somehow he's got a ship Briting. Oh wait, we're talking about me?
Raid is fine? No, it is today, It's pretty yeah,
Shot, it was too many video game podcast you know. I will say,
if you can get really fast at that, like that always looks cool.
Yeah that I'm working on it. I'm much much faster than when I
started the Johnny Depp Right now, let's just do this. Let's let's let's
get going. All right, I'm bringing us in, Okay. Are we
ready to go back him? Yeah? I think so. Mike, you
good. We have one super chat if you guys have any more super chats,
get him in now super quick. I was just curious, was Diaplow
three mentioned like at all? No, but if you nought but whatever,
I I just thought that might have been the thing you were doing. Definitely
wasn't good yet. It wasn't definitely good yet. In twenty twelve, anyways,
the community brought it up either that's that's a little surprise. I totally
forgot attention. I didn't sell it on the community thing. Okay, okay,
yeah, okay, they account for some reason. Let's go back.
Okay, I should pay you, alright, let's get back into him.