Speaker 1: You're listening to episode seventy four of GameSpot After Dark
Speaker 1: aka the After Dark Awards Special.
Speaker 2: Let's get going.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to episode seventy four of Game Spot
Speaker 1: After Dark, the first episode of twenty twenty one. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it's a better year this year, but we'll we'll find out,
Speaker 1: I guess, but we're right. It's actually not twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one yet for us. We're recording this on December twenty first.
Speaker 1: We're trying to close off, tie up all those loose
Speaker 1: ends we can before we go on break. But anyway,
Speaker 1: joining me this week is Cali Plagy. Hello, shenleigshypeke Hi,
Speaker 1: and Ben Jenka.
Speaker 3: Howdy, Ben, you have a magnificent beard.
Speaker 4: It's looking it's gone out of control. I've been doing
Speaker 4: a wild test to just not shave it the whole
Speaker 4: time we've been locked away. I'm tired of it. But
Speaker 4: it's here and I'm living with it, I guess, But yeah,
Speaker 4: thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: This is the first time I've seen your face in
Speaker 3: a really long time.
Speaker 4: It has been a while. I'm happy to see all
Speaker 4: of you guys. It's been a bit, it's been a while,
Speaker 4: but we're we're here.
Speaker 1: Well, if we didn't have a very specific goal, I
Speaker 1: guess for today's episode, I would definitely title this episode
Speaker 1: Ben's Beard. Unfortunately, we have the Game Spot after Dark
Speaker 1: Awards to get through. How this works, I honestly couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you. We kind of came up with this last minute.
Speaker 1: But the idea is is that we've picked a bunch
Speaker 1: of categories with the help of our Discord community, and
Speaker 1: we were going to go through these and give out
Speaker 1: Game Spot after Dark Awards. Now, a couple things to remember,
Speaker 1: this is completely unofficial. We've already done our Game of
Speaker 1: the Year awards. Half Flight Folex are Game of the Year,
Speaker 1: we have our Top Tens, We've done our Best Movies
Speaker 1: and TV Shows and Entertainment awards as well on the
Speaker 1: universe side.
Speaker 2: This is just for fun.
Speaker 1: The other thing to remember is that we're not gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and deliberate what game wins each segment a lot.
Speaker 1: We're just this is more just so we can highlight
Speaker 1: a lot of these games that may not fit your
Speaker 1: traditional Game of the Year categories or awards necessarily. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird because Game Spot we don't even
Speaker 1: really do categories, we just do best games on each
Speaker 1: platform rather than like best voice acting and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So this will allow us to get into a little
Speaker 1: more nitty gritty, I guess you could say. And then
Speaker 1: the last thing is that there's a lot of categories,
Speaker 1: so we might have to burn through some of these.
Speaker 4: A bit quickly. It's understandable.
Speaker 2: But anyway, what do you think should we get started?
Speaker 3: Let's do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Callie, do you still want to be
Speaker 1: our announcer, lady, Yes, I would love to.
Speaker 2: All right, well, then take it away.
Speaker 3: For the award for Best Character Creator, the nominees are
Speaker 3: Demon Souls, Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, Saints Roe, the Third
Speaker 3: Remastered Immortals. I didn't play this one.
Speaker 2: Complete that and.
Speaker 3: Black Ops question Mark, Yeah, we're gonna scrap Immortals because
Speaker 3: I don't think we played that one.
Speaker 5: I played Immortals. It's pretty basic that character creator. There's
Speaker 5: not much to it. There's nah, all right scrapped.
Speaker 2: I will say.
Speaker 1: I put Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven on here. Cally said
Speaker 1: she wasn't super impressed with it, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it should be the best Character Creator. But I did
Speaker 1: appreciate the fact that I finished Cyberpunk's Character Creator in
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes. If that, I figured I'd be in
Speaker 1: there for two hours, and it just got me right
Speaker 1: into the game. So I thought that was kind of nice.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like it didn't go super in depth,
Speaker 1: like how wide do you want the bridge of your
Speaker 1: nose to be and that kind of stuff. I just
Speaker 1: like slide a bunch and I'm like, okay, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: good and move on.
Speaker 5: That's why I respect it. An hour in it, I think,
Speaker 5: oh damn, go through it. Well. Like Georgia, my girlfriend's
Speaker 5: like loves character creators, so it's like every time there's
Speaker 5: a character creator, she's like, hand me the controller. We're
Speaker 5: doing this, And so it was like an hour of
Speaker 5: like comparing noses. We took notes like, okay, we like
Speaker 5: nose seventeen and six, and now let's compare them with
Speaker 5: mouths seven and two.
Speaker 2: Oh my argument falls flat then.
Speaker 5: But I also don't like Cyberpunk's Character Well and not
Speaker 5: I don't like it. I found it disappointing. I put
Speaker 5: Saints Throw the three Remastered in here because that game
Speaker 5: is ten years old and it still has a better
Speaker 5: Character Creator than cyberpunkt a good character It is amazing
Speaker 5: because that game lets you pick your body size, you
Speaker 5: can you can like it. It has a level of
Speaker 5: body customization I think Cyberpunk lacks. Also, Cyberpunk's colors are terrible.
Speaker 5: There's like the.
Speaker 2: Hair is good though, the hair is good.
Speaker 5: But then they have color options. They're all gradients. There's
Speaker 5: no like solid black. Like the black in that game
Speaker 5: is like a black green. There's no pure black. It's
Speaker 5: like infuriating. Like I know they're going to add more
Speaker 5: to that game, add more color combos.
Speaker 2: I think they got a long list of things to
Speaker 2: do first.
Speaker 3: I did, like I wanted to talk about Cyberpunk because
Speaker 3: I think there's definitely things to shout out about the
Speaker 3: character creator. Ash Parish at Kotaku did a review of
Speaker 3: the Character Creator where she highlighted the hairstyle options, so
Speaker 3: I think the actual hairstyles themselves. Ash called it like
Speaker 3: the best corn rows in any game. So there's like
Speaker 3: definitely some bright spots to that character creator. I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: the body stuff. I understand why there's only one body
Speaker 3: type because I think there's a lot of moving parts
Speaker 3: in Cyberpunk. But that's a little disappointing. I think, like
Speaker 3: the flexibility with how you create your characters disappointing, And
Speaker 3: I I do think like there's some issues with gender
Speaker 3: and gender non conforming and being gender not performing because
Speaker 3: I mean for multiple reasons. But I also think like
Speaker 3: Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven has gender locked options. Not even
Speaker 3: Animal Crossing does that. So I just wanted to say that,
Speaker 3: but I left Black Ops on here. John neu Grote
Speaker 3: be non binary for Ronald Reagan, which is funny, but
Speaker 3: I also think, like shout out to Black Ops for
Speaker 3: letting you be non binary. The only the extent of
Speaker 3: that is that characters will call you by the correct pronouns.
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan actually doesn't refer to your character at all,
Speaker 3: I think, so he doesn't Ronald Reagan doesn't respect the
Speaker 3: queers anyway.
Speaker 5: So it's one of those things where it's like it's
Speaker 5: compared to other game maybe like there's not actually much
Speaker 5: to it, but it's like for a Call of Duty game,
Speaker 5: it's pretty interesting, but it.
Speaker 3: Is interesting because did you pick in that character creator
Speaker 3: You can pick like, like, first of all, I think
Speaker 3: it's really cool just for a first person game that
Speaker 3: like you can pick your skin tone because you'll see
Speaker 3: your hands, which I think is just like not super
Speaker 3: like maybe quote unquote important, but I think it is
Speaker 3: a nice gesture. And then I think it's really cool.
Speaker 3: You can pick like characteristics for your character at the
Speaker 3: beginning of that game that affect like how you play.
Speaker 3: So you get to pick two characteristics like professional or
Speaker 3: like I forget the names of them, but it's like
Speaker 3: unhinged or whatever.
Speaker 2: They're basically like Little Survivors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like Little Perks where it's like, oh, I
Speaker 3: I my bullets have FMJ basically, or like I picked
Speaker 3: the one I always go with Gung Ho and Call
Speaker 3: of Duty. So I was like, yeah, I want to
Speaker 3: be able to reload all I'm running because I don't
Speaker 3: know how to not do that. So shout out to
Speaker 3: Black Ops for those options.
Speaker 5: No, I agree.
Speaker 2: I like that stuff for me, though.
Speaker 1: The true winner here is Demon Souls because you can
Speaker 1: make that Kanye West faith build and it looks really good.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that game's character creator is real good yep.
Speaker 1: Or or you can make PP men as as Griffin
Speaker 1: and a Ppe person as Griffin, and Justin did in
Speaker 1: Monster Factory, which.
Speaker 2: Was pretty good.
Speaker 5: That's a very good atmos factory.
Speaker 2: Then how about you wish one of these stands out?
Speaker 4: So I think I've actually been like directly quoted at
Speaker 4: some point saying, man, I can't believe a Soul's game
Speaker 4: came up with a better character creator than a Giant rpguh. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because Demon Souls definitely outdoes Cyberpunk for me. But I'm
Speaker 4: I'm always gonna go to Saints Troke because I can
Speaker 4: make literally whatever I want in it and it's really neat,
Speaker 4: and beyond that, you've got all the different closed customization
Speaker 4: options too that you can see down the road unlockables.
Speaker 4: Even I just like making character in Saints Rowe a
Speaker 4: lot too. Yeah, so that's where I am. I think.
Speaker 5: Also, Saints Row does actually acknowledge if your character is trends.
Speaker 4: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 5: It's it's not as maybe overt as you'd want it
Speaker 5: to be, but the game because not to get to
Speaker 5: it ended, but in the original game you could only
Speaker 5: play a guy. There was no female option, and then
Speaker 5: they added a female option in two. But they canomically
Speaker 5: make it like, oh, your character had a sex change,
Speaker 5: like in surgery. So like they they actually the most
Speaker 5: woke game.
Speaker 3: Of well, I wonder, Yeah, I haven't played it myself.
Speaker 3: I'd be curious to hear people's thoughts on how that works.
Speaker 3: But yeah, at least like Cyberpunk doesn't acknowledge any of
Speaker 3: those things, which feels a little weird for sure.
Speaker 2: So Demon Souls or Saints Row the third.
Speaker 5: I put it in Saints Row, but it's like it
Speaker 5: should be Demon Souls, like.
Speaker 4: I can give it to.
Speaker 5: Like Saints Row. It's like I like the amount of options,
Speaker 5: but like, visually that game hasn't aged the best like
Speaker 5: de minesels look so good as far as like a
Speaker 5: next gen character creator, It's like, wow, you can make
Speaker 5: some really amazing or horrifying characters in this game.
Speaker 2: All right. Next one we have is Best Music.
Speaker 1: This one's a little weird because it's not really best
Speaker 1: original soundtrack or best licensed music. It's just like I
Speaker 1: put best music in there, and I just let people
Speaker 1: throw in whatever that they liked from this year, or
Speaker 1: just entire full length soundtracks as so, our nominees are CALLI.
Speaker 3: The nominees for best Music are Final Fantasy seven remake
Speaker 3: Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, Tony Hawk's pro Skater one and two,
Speaker 3: Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the Last of Us Part two. Yeah,
Speaker 3: becau is it like a Dragon? That one combat song
Speaker 3: with the Strider in Half Life Alex Animal crossing New Horizons, haities,
Speaker 3: This is the longest category. Virgil's Theme from DMC five. Uh,
Speaker 3: what is SP Special Editions?
Speaker 5: Why is it sp SP just special? Sorry? I guess
Speaker 5: I should have Special Special Pedition Virgil Special Package, and.
Speaker 3: Finally the Eleventh Hour Edition Final Fanish.
Speaker 4: I was just thinking about music a lot, and I
Speaker 4: was like, man, this should probably be there.
Speaker 2: Ben Ben added that as Calli was.
Speaker 4: Reading, I tried to do it before she got too
Speaker 4: close to the end of the list, but it's it's there.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't even know how to start this.
Speaker 1: I will say ones that I am okay with kind
Speaker 1: of eliminating. I really like Tony Hawk's pro Skater one
Speaker 1: and two soundtrack, but I don't like I haven't listened
Speaker 1: to that since, and I don't know if I will again.
Speaker 2: Assassin's Creed Vahaala.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of songs I really like on that soundtrack,
Speaker 1: but I don't think.
Speaker 5: It is I think Tony Hawk. I agree with you
Speaker 5: on Tony Hawk. I would say it like does deserves
Speaker 5: a shout out for like the fact that they did
Speaker 5: get most of those license songs that people have a
Speaker 5: lot of nostalgia for in there, Like that's the one
Speaker 5: I was like Superman such a hit or miss thing
Speaker 5: when it comes to like remakes and like bringing in
Speaker 5: old tracks like or you know, you always hear stuff
Speaker 5: about like ah GTA had to patch out this one
Speaker 5: song like that kind of thing. Like, so I guess
Speaker 5: just shout out to them for like able to get
Speaker 5: all that stuff, like even though yeah, I agree, I
Speaker 5: don't necessarily listened to it all that much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not only that too, but they did add a
Speaker 1: bunch of new tracks that that fits surprisingly well. Like
Speaker 1: I remember playing through that and being like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember this in the original, and then I looked it
Speaker 1: up and I was like, no, this song came out
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: There's no way it was in the original.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know where to go from there.
Speaker 5: Uh you put cyberpunk. Cyberpunk's weird to me because there's
Speaker 5: like two different soundtracks. There's like the like proper like
Speaker 5: game score, and then there's like the original all like
Speaker 5: songs that they had people make that like play the radio. Uh.
Speaker 5: And I would say for me, the I really like
Speaker 5: the original soundtrack, Like I say, like V's theme and
Speaker 5: like Johnny's theme. The theme is the theme that plays
Speaker 5: on the main menu. If you let that menu sit
Speaker 5: long enough, it's like, Oh, it's banger, absolute banger. The
Speaker 5: the radio stuff is like, I love that they made
Speaker 5: custom songs to like fit for night City, super hit
Speaker 5: or miss. For me, some of them are really good
Speaker 5: and some of them I'm like, nah, this is bad.
Speaker 1: The one I linked, though, has been in my head
Speaker 1: for weeks, and I think it's very good and that
Speaker 1: that song sound's good. There's even a Run the Jewels
Speaker 1: song in there that I really like. But I still
Speaker 1: think that song I linked is the best track I've
Speaker 1: heard on the radio so far. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you're right. I think the thing that really shines is
Speaker 1: the original soundtrack or the original score. But even then,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would call that my favorite
Speaker 1: sound No.
Speaker 5: It's just got a couple of like really good standout ones.
Speaker 3: Can I add one more? The Black Ops cold War
Speaker 3: menu music, It's dope.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's actually pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we could probably eliminate Animal Crossing, Like
Speaker 3: I really like animal Crossing music, but I feel like
Speaker 3: it's a known quantity.
Speaker 5: Five PM theme slaps though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the.
Speaker 3: Two PM theme is Garbo.
Speaker 5: Have you heard Georgia was telling me about it. The
Speaker 5: three AM themes, yeah, where it's just like, yeah, it's
Speaker 5: like the game knows like you are delirious and decides
Speaker 5: to just join you.
Speaker 4: That's that's what all the weird stuff happens with the
Speaker 4: aliens and all that on TV though.
Speaker 5: Oh that's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just imagine like a bunch of offbeat and like
Speaker 1: like out of tune instruments playing.
Speaker 5: Like basically that it's it's wild you should go a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I put Haites on this list because I think
Speaker 3: but like the music that plays when you start a
Speaker 3: run is still like it really pumps you up, and
Speaker 3: then like the battle music with different against the different
Speaker 3: like bosses is really strong. It's just like it's a
Speaker 3: good like kind of like rock soundtrack that doesn't come
Speaker 3: across as like too edgy or like we're trying to
Speaker 3: be too cool and metal like it's just like a
Speaker 3: good rock soundtrack.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, Doom Maternal on this list.
Speaker 5: Do Maternal Soundtrack didn't speak out to me the way
Speaker 5: twenty sixteens did, like they're like twenty sixteen. I'll still
Speaker 5: listen to a couple of tracks. I'm like, ah, Spider
Speaker 5: Mastermind or you know, like BFG Division and like Do Maternal.
Speaker 5: I like that get quite a bit, but nothing about
Speaker 5: the soundtrack really stuck out to me, or the ones
Speaker 5: that did hit me were like remixes of twenty sixteen songs.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say it says a lot about Do
Speaker 4: Maternal Soundtrack for me when the standout soundtrack moment was
Speaker 4: pulling a song from twenty sixteen into that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's a little WellPoint.
Speaker 1: Well, Ben, you added Final Fantasy fourteen here last minute,
Speaker 1: let's hear it.
Speaker 4: It's still a lot of really good themes that they added,
Speaker 4: especially this year, and a lot of the patches with
Speaker 4: closing out the main story for Shadow Bringers that not
Speaker 4: as bad as like the ending credits theme for Near.
Speaker 4: But I can't listen to a lot of soundtrack without
Speaker 4: tearing up. They're very, very good songs. They not only slap,
Speaker 4: but they're emotionally charged, and that's what I looked for
Speaker 4: in my favorite type of music.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of fourteen, then we also have Final Fantasy
Speaker 1: seven remake here, which might be my favorite.
Speaker 4: Wall the wallbangers for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the music and that game is really good.
Speaker 1: Either that or Last of Us Part two I think are.
Speaker 2: The ones for me.
Speaker 1: But even Last of His Part two soundtrack doesn't hit
Speaker 1: as well as the original.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1: I will say I really did like the songs they
Speaker 1: pulled because there's a Pearl Jam song in there, which
Speaker 1: of course I'm.
Speaker 4: A fan of.
Speaker 1: But also it introduced me to Crooked Still, which is
Speaker 1: an excellent group that I've been listening to quite often,
Speaker 1: and I just thought that music choice is really good.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know what are we gonna call
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 3: It really seems like Final Fantasy seven remake is like
Speaker 3: the runaway winner on this one.
Speaker 5: Well, I want to give a couple quickly, a couple
Speaker 5: of shoutouts to one. I want to say the Yaka
Speaker 5: is like a dragon soundtrack is fancy.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good.
Speaker 5: Uh, there's a lot of variety to it too, like
Speaker 5: the battle like like the battle music's great, but then
Speaker 5: you'll go to like a boss theme that has just
Speaker 5: like straight up dubstep in it, and you're like, what
Speaker 5: is happening? And then there's one track that people in
Speaker 5: the comments YouTube comments say is apparently just like a
Speaker 5: remix of like the Dragon Quest five battle theme or something.
Speaker 5: Really that's when people in the comments were claiming, and
Speaker 5: I was like, that sounds crazy and awesome.
Speaker 4: So I sears like the old old style song for
Speaker 4: when you fight some certain fights.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like there's that soundtrack has a ton of variety
Speaker 5: to it that I think is super cool.
Speaker 3: We forgot Person of five Royal, oh shit.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. The new music A percent of five roils
Speaker 5: real good.
Speaker 3: New battle theme is so good.
Speaker 5: The battle theme is I think I like that battle
Speaker 5: theme better than.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'll add I'll add persona five Royal here,
Speaker 1: but we got to make a call, okay.
Speaker 5: Also, I just want to say Virgils theme from GAMEC
Speaker 5: five is amazing, very I don't know if you guys
Speaker 5: have heard it. It's it's Bury the Light. It's like
Speaker 5: it just sends you back to that like two thousand's
Speaker 5: middle school, like Edgy the Lincoln Park nonsense, and it's
Speaker 5: so so good, Like I love it, and and it
Speaker 5: that that game does the thing where like the music's
Speaker 5: all dynamic, like so it like kicks into different parts
Speaker 5: of the song as you get a better score. So
Speaker 5: when you get like your S rank, that's when like
Speaker 5: the chorus kicks in and you're like, yeah, you're like
Speaker 5: really feeling it, and I love I love that ship.
Speaker 5: It's so good.
Speaker 4: It's also a very good representation of that character. Yes,
Speaker 4: a lot of thought probably went into Matt.
Speaker 5: Matt Espinelli in our group chat wrote up like a
Speaker 5: whole like multiple paragraphs about how that game is like
Speaker 5: a good representation of Virgil's like backstory that I thought
Speaker 5: was like so good.
Speaker 3: Music too, He'll write, he'll write like an essay about
Speaker 3: music like just d MS.
Speaker 2: Get him to review soundtracks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, great, Okay, what are we feeling. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm good with still feeling. Go ahead, Ben, it was
Speaker 1: the same still feeling final Fantasy seven remake.
Speaker 5: If I was to say overall soundtrack, that's probably what
Speaker 5: I'd go for.
Speaker 3: That's fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good at that. Yeah, Fantasy remake.
Speaker 5: Congrats Square real unofficial talk about on this list. I
Speaker 5: don't know who put it on here.
Speaker 4: I did a little bit.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I said there's there's a couple of tracks
Speaker 2: that I really like, but yeah.
Speaker 5: The only track I can remember in Assassin's Creed games
Speaker 5: now is.
Speaker 4: Just the because they just put it in every game
Speaker 4: from Soul Caliber.
Speaker 2: Uh, Kelly, take it away.
Speaker 3: The next category is best Confidante from Persona. Five royal
Speaker 3: nominees are Sogi Osakra he Fumi Togo, doctor Maruki, and
Speaker 3: tarnos Ky Yoshida aka Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I threw this in there.
Speaker 1: I don't know what we're really judging this on, whether
Speaker 1: or not they're useful in the grand scheme of the
Speaker 1: game in terms of abilities you'll knock or if you.
Speaker 2: Just like them. Uh.
Speaker 5: I mean for me, it's weird because it's like, I guess,
Speaker 5: like Maruki was the one that stood out to me
Speaker 5: because he's one of like the new ones. But he's
Speaker 5: he's one of the cases where it's like you just
Speaker 5: are like a little like, okay, they're putting in these
Speaker 5: extra confidants to fill out the game. I feel like
Speaker 5: people have talked about this before where like you're a
Speaker 5: little hesitant of like okay, but then like it ends
Speaker 5: up his confidant, I feel like ends up adding feels
Speaker 5: very like important to the story in what they add,
Speaker 5: so it's more like, I guess shouts out for them,
Speaker 5: like doing that so well in a way where like
Speaker 5: I kind of wasn't expecting him to be so important.
Speaker 3: Yeah good, uh wow, I can't talk. He gives good bonuses.
Speaker 5: He gives good bonuses.
Speaker 3: He fu me is like the first thing you in
Speaker 3: lock with her is like getting to switch out a
Speaker 3: character mid battle, like as a party member mid battle,
Speaker 3: which is super super good. But also I love no
Speaker 3: good Torah because he believes in his beliefs.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: And the award goes to everyone.
Speaker 4: They're all the best.
Speaker 2: I'm cool with that. They're all They're all the best.
Speaker 3: Except except use k wait. Actually, can that be the winner?
Speaker 3: Everyone but you?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the winner, everyone but you?
Speaker 4: All right? Next up, nailed it.
Speaker 3: Best Celebrity at a Game. The nominees are Keanu Reeves Cyberpunk
Speaker 3: twenty seventy seven, Norman Retis, Death Stranding, I see we
Speaker 3: didn't abide by the this is not twenty twenty at all,
Speaker 3: Kit Harrington, Call of Duty, Infinite Warfare, Sean Bean, Oblivion,
Speaker 3: Sean Bean, hit Man two, Mary old Man, World at War,
Speaker 3: and Black Ops, Miracle Johnson, Yax of Zero, Ariana Grande,
Speaker 3: Final Fantasy, Brave x x Vus Sure, and Keith's David's
Speaker 3: Saints Bro. I get more confused the longer this list goes.
Speaker 5: First off, you can cut Miracle Johnson from becauses because
Speaker 5: that's not a real person.
Speaker 4: In our lives.
Speaker 3: I feel like we just give it to Keanu and yeah,
Speaker 3: can I just say, uh?
Speaker 5: Kit Harrington I actually thought was terrible at Infinite Warfare personally.
Speaker 5: I thought he was like really miscast in that game
Speaker 5: and like didn't bring anything to the table.
Speaker 1: I feel like whenever they get a celebrity in a
Speaker 1: Call of Duty game, it's usually.
Speaker 5: Kind of well, the best celebrity they've ever gotten is
Speaker 5: Kevin Spacey in Advanced Warfare, But Kevin space is canceled,
Speaker 5: so he doesn't deserve any awards.
Speaker 4: I don't know Sean Bean in Oblivion though, or hit
Speaker 4: Man two or hit Man David played two characters in
Speaker 4: the same franchise.
Speaker 5: That's nuts he played, Yeah, he did, one of them,
Speaker 5: being himself.
Speaker 4: Burt Reynolds is also in Saint's Row, which is as Burt.
Speaker 3: Reynolds did we what about Jack Black?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Tony Hawk in Tony Hawks this year and Tony Jack.
Speaker 3: No one told me Jack.
Speaker 5: He's an unlockable character to Hawk. That's actually we should
Speaker 5: actually add that because that came up with last minute.
Speaker 4: Definitely put it in.
Speaker 2: He plays Officer Dick.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, last second submission. Taking the show, guys, I.
Speaker 3: Might actually play Tony Hawk's Pruce Skater.
Speaker 5: Is it able? Are you able to? Because he's really
Speaker 5: hard to unlock? Right? Can you just like to use
Speaker 5: a cheat code or anything?
Speaker 4: Together? I hope they.
Speaker 3: Grew up at the time the peak of skateboarding, so
Speaker 3: maybe you'll figure it.
Speaker 4: All you gotta do is just get it on PC
Speaker 4: and then download like a safe file, and you're set
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 5: Don't do anything easy. The virus surprising twist, Jack Black,
Speaker 5: best celebrity in a game. Let's go sorry?
Speaker 4: I love it all right?
Speaker 2: Are we gonna do this?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 2: Maybe two? Spoiler?
Speaker 1: We just have to avoid spoilers, but I think as
Speaker 1: is there's nothing spoilery just by reading it.
Speaker 5: Think it's okay? Yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 3: Favorite moment. The nominees are Storm King Fight, Demon Souls,
Speaker 3: Museum Trip, The Last of Us Part two, Wallmarket, Final
Speaker 3: Fantasy seven remake, Jeff half life Alex, I don't know
Speaker 3: what that means. First death, fasmophobia, the ending Man Eater
Speaker 3: Karaoke in Yakuza seven, and leaving the first Final Fantasy fourteen.
Speaker 4: Just till I did all the zip stuff.
Speaker 5: Then did you beat Man Eater? Right? Did the ending
Speaker 5: of that game also like blow you away the way
Speaker 5: it blew me away?
Speaker 4: Like yeah, uh, that game's got some real shark like shark.
Speaker 4: It's got some real shark political commentary, Like I messed
Speaker 4: that up, and I'm like, no, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep it.
Speaker 5: That whole game is wild. It's maybe my favorite, Like
Speaker 5: it strikes a perfect balance of being like social commentary
Speaker 5: but also like, hey, this is a dumb game where
Speaker 5: you're a killer shark that eats people.
Speaker 4: It was actually on my personal top ten, like I
Speaker 4: loved it that much.
Speaker 5: The ending of that game is just like so abrupt
Speaker 5: and insane, and it's just capped off by a Chris
Speaker 5: Parnell who's like the narrator of that game, who's like
Speaker 5: doing his like like wildlife doc type like it's like
Speaker 5: wildlife slash like like I don't know, like a duck
Speaker 5: dynasty kind of like thing, it's like it's so weird,
Speaker 5: and that game's ending is just out of nowhere, in
Speaker 5: like weirdly sad and dramatic for just how dumb that
Speaker 5: game is. I don't know. I still think about that
Speaker 5: game's ending. It's weird.
Speaker 2: It's pretty short, right, isn't it like eight hours or something?
Speaker 5: It's yes, I beat that game in like seven hours.
Speaker 5: I didn't hundred percent it, like, I just played it
Speaker 5: until I felt like I was good and beat it
Speaker 5: and I had a great time with that game anyway.
Speaker 1: Well, I put I put the storm King fight in
Speaker 1: Demon Cells because that like absolutely blew me away. I
Speaker 1: I don't I didn't really know what I was expecting,
Speaker 1: having not played the original Demon Souls.
Speaker 2: But when I walked into that fight and saw that
Speaker 2: thing fly.
Speaker 1: Over me, and like when you get that weapon too,
Speaker 1: Having played Dark Souls three, I got it reverse, but
Speaker 1: seeing that was like, holy shit, I get it now,
Speaker 1: and yeah.
Speaker 5: Why that moment would happened in three?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And then like actually fighting the thing I thought
Speaker 1: was really satisfying. I thought it was a way more satisfy,
Speaker 1: satisfying fight than your the Giant, I think, and Dark
Speaker 1: Souls three like they did a much better job of
Speaker 1: using that. I kind of spoiled the weapon, but you know,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I really liked that fight in particular,
Speaker 1: and especially with like three.
Speaker 2: D audio, d and stuff. It's so cool.
Speaker 5: I think the stuff like Bluepoint added like visually just
Speaker 5: like because it's mechanically the same fight, but like the
Speaker 5: storms and like the visual effects happening in the background,
Speaker 5: the crdential rain like enhance that that fight and really
Speaker 5: make it something special in a way that it was
Speaker 5: like it was. It was special when it first came out,
Speaker 5: but it feels like even better.
Speaker 3: I didn't put this one, but I think Jake did.
Speaker 3: But this is probably my favorite is the museum trip
Speaker 3: in the Last of Us Part two. That sequence is
Speaker 3: so special, like it's one of the more like positive
Speaker 3: scenes in the game. And even then, like there's some
Speaker 3: there's darkness to it. But I had way too much
Speaker 3: fun going through the museum and looking at all the.
Speaker 2: Dinosaurs, putting hats on dinosaurs.
Speaker 3: And putting hats on dinosaurs.
Speaker 5: I missed the hat I had. I feel bad I
Speaker 5: didn't get the full hat experience when I when I
Speaker 5: did that level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it it does. It just It really spoke to
Speaker 3: me because like it's the kinds of interactions I would
Speaker 3: probably have with my own dad at a museum, because
Speaker 3: my dad was always trying to foster like a love
Speaker 3: of science in me and like space and stuff. So
Speaker 3: there's just a lot of good I thought this category
Speaker 3: was going to be cut, so I didn't add any.
Speaker 2: But we can come back around you if there's one
Speaker 2: that comes to you that you want to add.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I well I did. There's like some stuff in Hades.
Speaker 3: I actually I just want to shout it out.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to do it justice. It's not even
Speaker 3: it's not really a spoiler. I don't think it's a
Speaker 3: spoiler at all. But there's one exchange in Hades that
Speaker 3: blew me away with how horny it was. Uh there's
Speaker 3: a point where you can interact with Meg's sister and
Speaker 3: she says something about like making Zagaria scream, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm sure I would have thought Meg would have told
Speaker 3: you all about what that was like by now, And
Speaker 3: I was like, wow, I use the switch's thirty second
Speaker 3: recording function to record it for myself because it's just like,
Speaker 3: oh my god.
Speaker 5: So that one also, yeah, I didn't put anything ben
Speaker 5: you put karaoke from Yacha and seven. There is so
Speaker 5: many kids in seven.
Speaker 4: I think. I think karaoke specifically for me because one
Speaker 4: of the weird things when you first see Yakaza and
Speaker 4: hear about it is that there's a karaoke minigame and
Speaker 4: you think that's silly, and then you go and do it,
Speaker 4: and then you mess around with it more and you
Speaker 4: get to the songs where you can't sing because kirie
Speaker 4: are the protagonists only can do backup for it. So
Speaker 4: it'll just take you to this picture of a lone
Speaker 4: man sitting in a karaoke room by himself, like banging
Speaker 4: a tambourine and yelling just random things. And to have
Speaker 4: that experience be flipped because now you have party members
Speaker 4: and not only are you actually cheering on people who
Speaker 4: are singing themselves, but to have other people finally cheer
Speaker 4: you on when you sing it was really nice.
Speaker 5: The English, the English in particular, when you do passionate karaoke,
Speaker 5: when you do backa me tie for Nanba, like, he'll
Speaker 5: be just like singing and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: eachi band in the background will just be like.
Speaker 2: You're killing it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: It'll just like yell that and it's the funniest fucking
Speaker 5: thing to me. It's so good. I uh, I love it.
Speaker 5: I love it. I love his passion. I want eachiban
Speaker 5: to do karaoke with me because I would maybe actually
Speaker 5: want to sing because he's just like, hey man, you
Speaker 5: got this uh okay.
Speaker 1: One here that I added that I thought was I
Speaker 1: put first death in fasmophobia, But I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's actually the death that I thought was so exciting.
Speaker 1: But I think it was just the experience of pasmophobia
Speaker 1: once it clicks and when you do lose someone or
Speaker 1: like you and your team are like, okay, we gotta leave,
Speaker 1: and then the door slams shut and the light starts flickering,
Speaker 1: and you just know you're like, all.
Speaker 2: Right, someone's fucked. Who's it gonna be?
Speaker 1: And people like like push people out of the way
Speaker 1: to get in the closet and hide in the.
Speaker 2: Closet and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just that whole every Man from Shell motion that
Speaker 4: happens right when the door slams and the lights go
Speaker 4: out and it's like, oh uh good.
Speaker 5: When we first played, I think like Timoor died and
Speaker 5: we all like opened up the door and Timor's body
Speaker 5: was just stuck in the wall, and it was like
Speaker 5: the funniest Oh my god, learning.
Speaker 1: That if you look up in the air, your character's
Speaker 1: back bends and then they can walk around with like
Speaker 1: a broken back. That's a pretty good moment too. That
Speaker 1: might be up there for me. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I wrote about fasmophobia for my Editor's Choices year because
Speaker 3: like my favorite moment is very similar to what Jake
Speaker 3: was describing, where like we were like, okay, let's go
Speaker 3: back to the truck, and then everybody was out of
Speaker 3: the house but me, and then the door locked and
Speaker 3: then I saw a little baby ghost walking at me.
Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure we were playing with like in
Speaker 3: game chat rather than discord chat.
Speaker 2: That's the best way because it cuts out.
Speaker 3: Because when you die, people can't hear you, and but
Speaker 3: you couldn't hear me through like I didn't want to
Speaker 3: make any noise, like because the ghost was right outside.
Speaker 3: I was in a closet hiding, like and I could
Speaker 3: hear all the boys pounding on the door, like Cally.
Speaker 5: Are you alive. I remember watching the screen and it's
Speaker 5: like you can like see the baby like moving around and.
Speaker 3: Kelly, get out of there, Kelly, stay in the closet,
Speaker 3: and I was like, I can't tell them I'm still alive,
Speaker 3: and like they weren't sure. You guys weren't sure if
Speaker 3: I was alive or not. And then there was a
Speaker 3: time where we were playing with Peter and I did
Speaker 3: die and then Peter's like a couple of minutes later,
Speaker 3: Peter's voice came through and he was like, CALLI, we
Speaker 3: miss you. I couldn't reply because I was dead, And I.
Speaker 5: Was like, that game is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that game is really good. I'm super excited to
Speaker 1: see what they do to that game. I hope they
Speaker 1: keep a little bit of the jank though, because I kind.
Speaker 2: Of like it.
Speaker 4: It's charming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, enhances the fun you can do, like you can
Speaker 3: run at your friends like in The Exorcist, like like
Speaker 3: where she runs down the stairs with a backbend because
Speaker 3: of how the character models look.
Speaker 1: Another standout one here that I think Johann Luke added,
Speaker 1: this is Jeff in Half Life, Alex.
Speaker 2: That one's really good. That one is probably easy to
Speaker 2: spoil though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's like multiple moments in Half Life and I
Speaker 5: was like, what's the one that's like the because it's
Speaker 5: like there's also the ending is like a crazy moment.
Speaker 5: Jeff is basically like a level in that game, and
Speaker 5: it's like, I don't know, I don't want to like
Speaker 5: spoil it too much, but like mechanically that level is
Speaker 5: just like so cool, and it's like that's the like
Speaker 5: that's the standout like sequence in that game as far
Speaker 5: as like showing like VR and like how absolutely terrifying
Speaker 5: it can be with that level, like it's without going
Speaker 5: to I still don't want to spoil it, so I
Speaker 5: still want people to experience that game for the first time.
Speaker 5: That that part's really cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I also just because I think it's the last time. Well,
Speaker 4: I swear I'll bring up Final Fantasy fourteenth.
Speaker 2: But go crazy keep going.
Speaker 4: The end of the shadow Bringer storyline when you finally
Speaker 4: leave the first left a very big impression on me.
Speaker 4: And it's still wild to me that a game that
Speaker 4: is an MMO has a story that's as good as
Speaker 4: that does. Like the whole expansion is just a giant
Speaker 4: in each episode away from the actual like main plot
Speaker 4: that has a lot of things that tie back to
Speaker 4: it later on, but it it was just I felt
Speaker 4: the emotion and the weight of everything that was happening,
Speaker 4: and finally like having all all this stuff build up
Speaker 4: to the one point where you finally get to go
Speaker 4: back to your original world was really nice and I
Speaker 4: like that game a lot. Please play fourteen.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for sixteen just because i know it's the
Speaker 1: similar team, right, and I'm curious to get that I
Speaker 1: don't know, storytelling experience without having to play fourteen. It
Speaker 1: is kind of putting the cart before the horse a
Speaker 1: little bit, or the horse before the cart before, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm trying to say, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm really excited for sixteen. Anyway, that being said,
Speaker 1: we got to make a decision here. We haven't we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about Walmarket and funny.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's just like the whole section of Final
Speaker 5: Fantasy was that Really it's like really good, Like it's
Speaker 5: it's maybe my favorite section because it's got the most
Speaker 5: like levity and charmed to it. Like you're wandering around
Speaker 5: this like kind of like Kabooki Chow style like district
Speaker 5: and they introduced all these like really fun characters. The
Speaker 5: whole like arena fight, Like the announcers in the arena
Speaker 5: are like hamming it up and you you fight a
Speaker 5: literal house in that game. Uh. And then they capital
Speaker 5: off with Cloud doing like his his dance sequence the
Speaker 5: honey at the Honeybee in perfect Uh. Like that was
Speaker 5: the moment where I like truly fell in love with
Speaker 5: that game.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: So that moment really really stands out for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I also like how they took the Wall Market
Speaker 4: theme and then rearranged it like seven different Oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like it changes depending where you're standing. It's It's
Speaker 5: very cool. I mean, if I had to pick one,
Speaker 5: I the museum trip one is a really good one
Speaker 5: to maybe go with. I don't know that one stands out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Museum trip is really excellent. But I agree, Horny,
Speaker 3: that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't that.
Speaker 4: It's a very good argument.
Speaker 5: You definitely sold me on it.
Speaker 3: I didn't even explain it well, so I'm glad. Uh No,
Speaker 3: I would say the museum trip is just like a
Speaker 3: really special part of the Last of Us Part two
Speaker 3: and something that I still like think about in a
Speaker 3: game that like, it's hard to think about, so I
Speaker 3: don't think about it very often.
Speaker 4: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, So are we doing Museum Trip?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, John Luke is adding a category. We'll
Speaker 1: come back to this one later, Most Wholesome. Oh no, Kelly, go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Oh this is actually John Luke's category should go
Speaker 3: right after this one. I think that'd be funny. So
Speaker 3: this is a category. We asked our Discord members to
Speaker 3: nominate some categories and some games in those categories, So
Speaker 3: this is from just a box on Discord most Wholesome Game.
Speaker 3: The nominees are Animal Crossing, New Horizons, Spirit Fairer, and
Speaker 3: Bug Snacks. Sort Of.
Speaker 5: I added sort of because if you get to the
Speaker 5: end of the Bug Snacks, that game takes a weird turn.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I haven't really played much of Bugs Next, but
Speaker 4: you don't want to tell right from the first thing
Speaker 4: you do that there's something not right going on.
Speaker 5: I think I loved it. I just love that they
Speaker 5: commit to it because you're like, yeah, something weird is
Speaker 5: going on, Like they really commit to that weirdness at
Speaker 5: the end of that year.
Speaker 4: Thank goodness.
Speaker 5: I love that ended up in my personal top ten.
Speaker 5: I love that game.
Speaker 3: I really am excited to play Bug Snacks's Break.
Speaker 5: It's really good. It's really it's just like I flew
Speaker 5: through it, like there's something about like mechanically it's so satisfying,
Speaker 5: like catching the different bug snacks and like figuring out
Speaker 5: like it. It hits that same like kind of Pokemon
Speaker 5: like animal crossing part of your brain where you're just like,
Speaker 5: I just want to keep playing this and like collect
Speaker 5: all the bug snacks.
Speaker 3: Jake is adding yakaz A seven.
Speaker 5: It's pretty wholesome.
Speaker 4: It's very wholesome.
Speaker 3: I think we should give it to Yau seven.
Speaker 2: Should we should we give it to you to seven?
Speaker 2: Move on, let's do it.
Speaker 4: The power of friendship it's there. Sorry, and now and now.
Speaker 3: For John Luke's eleventh hour category hornist game or character,
Speaker 3: We're most thirsty four, So is it a the game
Speaker 3: that's horny or the game that we're that's away. The
Speaker 3: nominees are Hades, and that's it.
Speaker 4: So I think we're gonna to slow down and talk
Speaker 4: this one out. I'm not sure what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I think we should just really quickly talk about the
Speaker 3: best characters in Hades. Obviously, Zagriass is good. There are
Speaker 3: a lot of people on the zag Man. There are
Speaker 3: a lot of people on the internet who are doing
Speaker 3: a Sands undertail with hypnose people are really horny for hypnos.
Speaker 3: I personally don't get it. Whatever floats your.
Speaker 5: Boat, Yeah, I don't get that one.
Speaker 3: I would say Megara, which confused me because you know
Speaker 3: in the movie Hercules, they pronounce it Megara, you know,
Speaker 3: the Disney movie. Which but the Disney movie Hercules has
Speaker 3: a lot of issues because Hercules is the Roman name
Speaker 3: for Heracles. So but but Megara is Greek, not Romans.
Speaker 3: So there's some inconsistencies Disney. So I keep.
Speaker 1: Patter make a live action Hercules movie.
Speaker 2: They can fix this.
Speaker 3: I really like Nix. I like her design a lot.
Speaker 5: Nix's design is really cool.
Speaker 3: I like Artemis.
Speaker 4: A lot.
Speaker 3: Aphrodite is too obvious.
Speaker 5: Achilles Achilles is good, is very.
Speaker 3: I like his email. I like your itty.
Speaker 2: I haven't played enough Hades to make an informed decision
Speaker 2: on this, so I'm gonna leave it to you guys.
Speaker 3: I like Alecto too.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: You know that was just an excuse to talk about Hades.
Speaker 4: I think, so gonna maybe there maybe there's a possible
Speaker 4: addition to that.
Speaker 5: Go for it.
Speaker 4: Please wonder if you put Smash Brothers in for Shirtless oh,
Speaker 4: because he is that's the first time he's ever been
Speaker 4: represented with nipples and any canon. Uh, I think he's
Speaker 4: been in that's a fun fact for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3: Can we also nominate Zelda with the silhouette of her
Speaker 3: fat ass? Have you seen that? Have you seen like
Speaker 3: in the like you get the silhouette of her under
Speaker 3: her dress? She has like this bubble button.
Speaker 4: It's dangerous. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was joking that they took Snake and Zero Samus's
Speaker 3: asses and gave them all the Zelda.
Speaker 4: That's where they're hiding it. No, I can't.
Speaker 2: I found the picture. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, finally, I think we gotta we gotta
Speaker 3: get Judy Alvarez in here as well.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep, Judy sure, wife of Judy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Judy here. And that's that's the category.
Speaker 5: I think that's the category.
Speaker 3: We gotta. We've got to give it to Hades.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like it's.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Should we uh?
Speaker 3: Should we try to do a uh proverbial cold shower
Speaker 3: and switch category?
Speaker 2: Wait, one more thing.
Speaker 1: The most Wholesome game was from Just a Box on Discord.
Speaker 1: These are some of our You didn't say that, well, okay,
Speaker 1: but I do want to say that we're getting into
Speaker 1: our categories that are Discord. Are Discord folks submitted to us,
Speaker 1: so a lot of these aren't ones that we came
Speaker 1: up with going I'll make.
Speaker 3: Sure to say which categories are alright from the Discord.
Speaker 3: The next category is from Jeremy on Discord. This is
Speaker 3: best social game or I think Jeremy described this as
Speaker 3: like the best game for socializing with people during twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: The nominees are among Us, Deep Rock Galactic, Balder's Gate three, Fasmophobia,
Speaker 3: and Overcooked All you Can Eat.
Speaker 1: I put among Us here because it seemed obvious I
Speaker 1: haven't actually played among Us, so uh. I did add
Speaker 1: Deep Rock Galactic, which I've played a lot of, which
Speaker 1: I think is a lot of fun. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if I think I think it really Phobia it does.
Speaker 1: I think Phobia is my favorite social game.
Speaker 3: I gotta give it to Fastmophobia because I don't like
Speaker 3: lying to my friends, so I have not really enjoyed.
Speaker 2: Among Us at all.
Speaker 4: Oh, the disgusting person in me loves among Us just
Speaker 4: for that reason.
Speaker 3: I love the concept of among us, but I'm I
Speaker 3: just can't lie. I I don't I can't do it.
Speaker 3: So Fasmophobia, I'm not lying I'm just just hunting ghosts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, do you like hunting ghosts?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree, Fastmophobia. I put I added Overcooked
Speaker 5: just because that's the next gen version of overcook that
Speaker 5: includes Overcooked one and two and all the DLC like
Speaker 5: in one package. And they like read did the visuals
Speaker 5: of Overcooked one. It's a very good package and I
Speaker 5: just wanted to shout out how excellent it is and
Speaker 5: that if you've never played Overcooked, you should pick it
Speaker 5: up because it's very good. But it is just more Overcooked,
Speaker 5: so yeah, I mean Fastmophobia.
Speaker 4: That got the Sweetish chef in it, though.
Speaker 5: If they added the Swedish chef, that is true.
Speaker 4: Thanks Jeff Keeley.
Speaker 5: Thanks Jeff Keeley for that one.
Speaker 4: It himself.
Speaker 5: He did it himself, he coded it him and himself. Dude,
Speaker 5: fast me Phoiby is like so unique of a concept
Speaker 5: of a game, and like the way they gamify, like
Speaker 5: ghost hunting is a super cool and I feel like
Speaker 5: that game has like so much more potential that it
Speaker 5: could still reach.
Speaker 1: So excited to see what they'd do with that game.
Speaker 1: But the other thing too here is Balder's Gate three,
Speaker 1: which is a lot of fun, but I didn't play
Speaker 1: a lot of because.
Speaker 2: I kind of want to wait for a full release.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how I feel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would not like, I would not vote for
Speaker 3: Balder's Gate three simply because I'm the person that's like,
Speaker 3: I want to read every single piece of information and
Speaker 3: I don't want to click through any dialogue. I just
Speaker 3: want to hear it all and take it in and
Speaker 3: read it. And then I'm the person who slows down
Speaker 3: the entire crew. It's not a good group game for me.
Speaker 2: So what are we thinking? Pasmophobia phobia?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm afraid of no ghosts.
Speaker 3: Although Overcooked is very fun, I agree.
Speaker 2: All right, Kelly, all right.
Speaker 3: This next one is from NBZ on Discord. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's like ambizz like I'm lame. This is
Speaker 3: best animation, specifically like a bet, like a sequence in
Speaker 3: a game. The nominees are Blaze Fielding hair flick from
Speaker 3: Streets of Rage four, Shearing Sheep, Spiritfair flicking blood off
Speaker 3: your sword, and Ghost of Tsushima Miles Morales is Backwards
Speaker 3: Jump and Spider Man Miles Morales the Unarmed rapost In
Speaker 3: Demon Souls sitting down in Animal Crossing New Horizons. That
Speaker 3: was me, Nancy, summon Yakas are like a dragon and
Speaker 3: we mule one next.
Speaker 5: We Melwin is how you say it. We have another
Speaker 5: category for bug snacks later. But he just like whenever
Speaker 5: you click on him, he like does this little like shiver.
Speaker 5: He's like this little orb. It's just really cute. It's
Speaker 5: the cutest of all the bug sacks. I don't know
Speaker 5: if it hangs with the rest of them, but I
Speaker 5: just wanted to Georgia wanted to make sure I shout
Speaker 5: it out.
Speaker 3: We know animation, it's not in the game, but the
Speaker 3: animation of Zagarias coming out of the pool of sticks, the.
Speaker 5: Hair thing, the hair thing, oh yeah, and that like video.
Speaker 5: They yeah, that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't count because I think this has to be a game,
Speaker 3: but I just wanted to say it that's fair.
Speaker 1: I put in the unarmed or post because that's when
Speaker 1: you just punched the ship out of a demon or whatever.
Speaker 5: And I put in the links so if you click
Speaker 5: on that you can see it's like Captain America, Like it's.
Speaker 2: Over the top.
Speaker 1: It's like when I when I think I was streaming
Speaker 1: with Matt when we first saw it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, and that's all I did for the rest
Speaker 1: of this stream was just punch or post because it
Speaker 1: is so over the top and brutal. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: my contribution here.
Speaker 5: I put the Nancy summon from Yakuza. But actually thinking
Speaker 5: about it, I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 5: the humble apology that you do in the shareholders meeting.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys have seen this, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna link it. You should watch it. It's like not
Speaker 5: that long. It's like the level three one is just
Speaker 5: yeah yeah, like it like you only have to watch
Speaker 5: like the first like fifteen seconds of it. But like
Speaker 5: for context, it's in the business mini game. You have
Speaker 5: like at the end of like your your business period,
Speaker 5: you have to do like a shareholders meeting where you
Speaker 5: have to like appeal to the shareholders and you have
Speaker 5: this like level three like move you can pull out
Speaker 5: where Ichibond gives like the most Japanese like humble apologies
Speaker 5: like please accept them, and like you all this like
Speaker 5: stat boost and he basically like does like a straight
Speaker 5: dive out of his chair, lands on the ground and
Speaker 5: then just like does like the deepest bow and then
Speaker 5: like puts his face up and he's giving like the
Speaker 5: most emotion in his face, and it's it's really good.
Speaker 5: It's really good.
Speaker 4: Also, just want to do a general shout out for
Speaker 4: like all of the tac animations in that game. There's
Speaker 4: some very very good ones.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, a lot of good animations. Any other animations
Speaker 1: on this list standout that you think could could win?
Speaker 3: Just sitting down? An animal crossing, an animal crossing finally, yeah.
Speaker 2: All the animals could do it, but you.
Speaker 3: Couldn't, right, No, Yeah, and now you can just take
Speaker 3: a seat wherever you please.
Speaker 2: Sit next to Apple and read a book. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: are we thinking?
Speaker 3: I mean, I was kind of sold with the unarmed
Speaker 3: report because that sounds great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, either the apology from Yakiza the unarmed post or
Speaker 2: from me.
Speaker 4: Hmmm, I feel like I have to go with. But
Speaker 4: I do love a good unarmed post.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 2: All right, yeah Yakuza. Yeah, but we don't have it
Speaker 2: on here. We have Nancy summoning. But I'll just say
Speaker 2: I'll just tell you that unarmed.
Speaker 3: For posts And speaking of Yakiza. The next category is
Speaker 3: game that we talked about way too much in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: This is from Forrest l on the Discord and the
Speaker 3: award goes too Yakaza's Cabaret Club, specifically from Yaxas zero.
Speaker 5: So I know this is like it's supposed to be
Speaker 5: like a positive, Like we talked about this game way
Speaker 5: too much because we loved it. But if I was
Speaker 5: to go for like a game we talked about way
Speaker 5: too much, I would say Cyberpunk.
Speaker 3: You had to do all of those videos.
Speaker 5: Well, just just I'm I'm kind of done talking about cyberpunk.
Speaker 4: That's fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still got more gas in the tank about cyberpunk,
Speaker 1: but I can see that.
Speaker 2: I think there is some things that we probably talked
Speaker 2: a little too much.
Speaker 3: About, probably animal crossing.
Speaker 1: Oh, animal crossing is a good one to We've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about animal crossing.
Speaker 5: I do. I did really enjoy your your animal crossing
Speaker 5: minute though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks good. But it sounds like you should probably
Speaker 4: talk more about ya in the Cabaret Club. What everyone's saying.
Speaker 3: The award just goes to the Cabaret Club. I think
Speaker 3: we have a lot more awards to go through, so
Speaker 3: we should probably.
Speaker 5: Probably all right.
Speaker 2: Next one, Kelly, The.
Speaker 3: Next category is the best bug Snacks. The nominees are
Speaker 3: sure be Bunger baby cake, Legs, Daddy Cake Legs, Masa Supreme,
Speaker 3: Scoopy Banoopie, Weeniworm, Shy, we mel One, Queeble, and sent
Speaker 3: A snail.
Speaker 2: I snacks, So I have put I.
Speaker 3: Picked a lot of these specifically based on the names.
Speaker 3: But Mathsa Supreme is a pizza moth flies around, Yeah,
Speaker 3: And Weeniworm there are two versions, wieniworm and weeniworm shy,
Speaker 3: which is the shy version. It's a hot dog.
Speaker 5: Yeah. There's like for me because it's like, is it
Speaker 5: like how cute it looks? Is it like how good
Speaker 5: the pun of the name is. I feel like there's
Speaker 5: you could really we don't have time for it, but
Speaker 5: I feel like you could really break down the science
Speaker 5: of what makes a good bug snack.
Speaker 3: It's the name it goes to. Scoopy Banoopie.
Speaker 5: Scoopy is like the funniest one the characters say it.
Speaker 5: I like email in because yeah, I just like.
Speaker 1: I don't know the baby and daddy Cake Legs Combo
Speaker 1: is pretty good from from where I'm sitting.
Speaker 5: Visually, even I was gonna say visually, I like que
Speaker 5: bowl because it's actually got like a spark in it.
Speaker 5: It's like a Kiwi with a spark and the spork
Speaker 5: is like its nose. Oh. I just think that is
Speaker 5: a really cool design.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say I haven't even actually played the game,
Speaker 4: but I watched Michael stream at like three am and
Speaker 4: he went to go order food from some place like
Speaker 4: right next to where you first meet the Bungers. So
Speaker 4: just heard it over and over and over and it
Speaker 4: got stuck in my head and didn't leave for like
Speaker 4: a week and a half. So I got like secondhand bunered,
Speaker 4: and I don't know how to deal with that, but
Speaker 4: it I like that one a lot.
Speaker 2: At least you can't get first hand bunered.
Speaker 4: You never want to get first hand bungered.
Speaker 3: I have to vote for maths U Supre because I
Speaker 3: really like the design as well as the name. But
Speaker 3: I could also go for a scoopy Banoopie.
Speaker 2: I like skoop.
Speaker 4: I got a scoopy.
Speaker 5: Scoopy Banoope's name is just really fun.
Speaker 2: To say scoopy.
Speaker 4: I want to I want to hear us say scoopy
Speaker 4: banoopie more times.
Speaker 5: I also like pecantis uh, just because the way he
Speaker 5: says his name does pecant pc. I just like that.
Speaker 3: Baby cake legs and daddy cake legs are two spider
Speaker 3: cake spiders. Yes, I don't know what's the verdict? Do
Speaker 3: we just go with Scooby Banoopie.
Speaker 5: Scoopy Banoopy with a scoopy name wise, Scoopy Banoopi. Scooby
Speaker 5: Banoopi in the game is an asshole and sucks, but
Speaker 5: the name's real good.
Speaker 2: All right, So.
Speaker 1: Scoopy Banoopi wins name wise? Who wins cute wise?
Speaker 5: Oh? We melon? Okay, for sure. It's It's just a
Speaker 5: little melon with giant eyeballs and it's adorable.
Speaker 4: A Banjo kazoo character, yea Collie Wobble.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of banjo energy actually, and bug snacks.
Speaker 3: I feel that's because that's what the names of Banjo
Speaker 3: Kazooi enemies are like. Like the cauliflower enemy is called
Speaker 3: Collie Wobble. Yeah, yeah, okay, cool I Still the one
Speaker 3: that wins my heart is Massa Supreme.
Speaker 1: But all right, well then Scoopy Banuopi best name, we mean, cutest,
Speaker 1: and Massa Supreme is Calli's favorite.
Speaker 5: There you go, all right?
Speaker 3: Moving on?
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: This is from jigs On Discord Guilty Pleasure Game of
Speaker 3: the Year. The nominees are SpongeBob, square Pants Battle for
Speaker 3: Bikini Bottom, Rehydrated Mafia Definitive Edition, and Man Eater.
Speaker 5: I think I'm the only one who added any I
Speaker 5: put all of these down.
Speaker 3: I couldn't guilt for anything.
Speaker 1: I thought about adding Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven because I've
Speaker 1: played that game one hundred hours now despite all the bugs,
Speaker 1: but I was like, uh, maybe it's too soon for that, right.
Speaker 3: I think Spongebub's Guarepants Battle for Bikini Bottom is such
Speaker 3: a good pick because we gave that game of two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like, what our lowest score of the year.
Speaker 3: I think that is our lowest score of the year.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Funky Joseph.
Speaker 5: We be able to absolutely nothing against uh Funky Joseph
Speaker 5: for that review. I think he's his reviews on point,
Speaker 5: like in terms of you know, but for me personally,
Speaker 5: I had a really fun time playing it.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's the thing is you don't have to I mean,
Speaker 3: you can like any game of any score. You don't
Speaker 3: have to only play nine and ten.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's plenty of sevens and six's that I really
Speaker 3: quite enjoy. Five season and sometimes twos.
Speaker 5: I will tell you. It made it an interesting review
Speaker 5: to edit because I had to edit that review, and
Speaker 5: I like, really he liked the game, and I'm like cutting,
Speaker 5: Like Autumn, I'm like.
Speaker 3: This point is good. I don't know why you're trying
Speaker 3: to read a good point, but counterpoint, I have fun.
Speaker 5: I had fun.
Speaker 3: That's the thing is, like I feel that way about
Speaker 3: some movies too. Like I I don't revere Roger Ebert
Speaker 3: the way a lot of people do. But he had
Speaker 3: a review of The Mummy nineteen ninety nine in which
Speaker 3: he talked about how like he can't really say anything
Speaker 3: for the script or like anything about the movie, but
Speaker 3: that it was just a fantastic time. And I would disagree.
Speaker 3: I think everything about that movie is perfect.
Speaker 4: But it's true.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of movies that are just
Speaker 3: a fun time, and I think that can be true
Speaker 3: for games that are not maybe the highest caliber of game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And so for those reasons, I think we should give
Speaker 3: it a Bungebob score pants butt for rehydrid That.
Speaker 4: Works for me.
Speaker 2: Man Eaters seems too good to be guilty pleasure.
Speaker 1: Like, I get why it's there, but after hearing you
Speaker 1: guys talk about it, I'm like, that seems like slightly.
Speaker 2: Above where you'd put a guilty pleasure game.
Speaker 1: And Mafia Definitive Edition just just kind of existed.
Speaker 2: I guess, like I enjoyed that game, but like, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 5: I put it on there because I think again, like
Speaker 5: the review, I think we gave it a six. I
Speaker 5: forget who reviewed it.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the score for that one, actually.
Speaker 5: But I thought that the review was on point where
Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, like the mechanics of that game are
Speaker 5: not really aged gracefully or brought up in a way
Speaker 5: that you would feel satisfying. But as somebody who had
Speaker 5: never played the original Mafia and like played it for
Speaker 5: the first time, I really liked that game story and
Speaker 5: characters a lot. I was like compelled to play that
Speaker 5: game the whole way through for that reason alone, even
Speaker 5: if mechanically it was it was kind of yeah, like
Speaker 5: not not that great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed it. It made me really want to
Speaker 1: play Mafia too again. But I'm good with SpongeBob Let
Speaker 1: Me Go, Yeah, SpongeBob all right, Guilty Pleasures, SpongeBob SquarePants,
Speaker 1: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated.
Speaker 4: I love to see it all right.
Speaker 3: The next category is most Underrated Game of the Year.
Speaker 3: The nominees are Star Wars, Squadrons, Doom Eternal, Lol Bug Snacks,
Speaker 3: Deep Rock Galactic, Spolunky two, Ghost Runner, Man Eater, and
Speaker 3: Fall Guys.
Speaker 1: So I put Doom Maternal here because no one talks
Speaker 1: about that game despite it being really good.
Speaker 5: I like that game. I didn't even bring it up,
Speaker 5: like get to in the weeds, like it there is
Speaker 5: like a I didn't even bring it up in the
Speaker 5: Game of the Year discussion because I just was like,
Speaker 5: I know, this isn't gonna go anywhere. I like totally
Speaker 5: understand why that game is like so divisive, I guess
Speaker 5: or like mixed feelings on it, Like I do think
Speaker 5: that game demands something very specific of you, and if
Speaker 5: like that's not your thing, like you're not gonna you're
Speaker 5: gonna bounce off her enjoy it. But like I totally
Speaker 5: get it. But personally it's like for me, like it
Speaker 5: was exactly what I wanted and like I I gave
Speaker 5: myself over to the Doom and I had a very
Speaker 5: good time with it. So I like that game quite
Speaker 5: a bit, but I totally get it. I know, I know,
Speaker 5: Ben maybe a throw to you. I know you, Uh
Speaker 5: it didn't work for you?
Speaker 4: Yeah it I mean, I'm glad I played it. It's
Speaker 4: it's just I still feel like twenty sixteen was just
Speaker 4: a bit better.
Speaker 1: For me.
Speaker 4: But I like a lot of what it tried to
Speaker 4: set out to do. Like apparently they were like, we
Speaker 4: need to we need to tell a story. There needs
Speaker 4: to be plot, and we need to know what is
Speaker 4: going on with the Doom guy.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that was a bit weird.
Speaker 4: They they really did it. They really went way out
Speaker 4: of their way and the story.
Speaker 5: They went like deep into the lore in a way
Speaker 5: that I was like, it was weird. It was weird
Speaker 5: how deep into the lore they went in that game.
Speaker 5: I feel like they watched like all those people who
Speaker 5: make like Dark Soul's Lord videos and they're like, what
Speaker 5: if we do that for Doom. It was like really weird,
Speaker 5: but like I was kind of into it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was weird though, because I feel
Speaker 1: like one of the big compliments Doom twenty sixteen got
Speaker 1: was how it just took its story, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's was so ridiculous with his story and like that
Speaker 1: famous scene at the beginning where he just like breaks
Speaker 1: the machine you're supposed to like turn on, and in
Speaker 1: this they kind of straight away from that, which I
Speaker 1: definitely get what you're saying. My standout here though, is
Speaker 1: Pelunky two because that game came out at the same
Speaker 1: time as Hades and no one, no one talked about
Speaker 1: it really at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think that's a really fair point because
Speaker 3: I started Haites super late because I had got Splunky two,
Speaker 3: had gotten its hooks in me, but all anyone could
Speaker 3: talk about was Hades on Twitter, and so I was
Speaker 3: really late to the Hades conversation. But I really enjoyed
Speaker 3: my time was Plunky two. It was just like it
Speaker 3: was so hard, very hard, and I but I like
Speaker 3: there were there were a good couple of weeks where
Speaker 3: like that's all I could think about doing.
Speaker 2: Then you added a You added one pretty late here.
Speaker 4: I did, I've read that the name of the category again,
Speaker 4: I was like underrated. Yes, Soccer Wars is a game
Speaker 4: that I played this year that I feel like a
Speaker 4: lot of people should probably look at a bit more.
Speaker 4: It's it's a visual novel, which makes it kind of
Speaker 4: difficult to recommend to a lot of people, but it's
Speaker 4: really really well done, and it also has its main
Speaker 4: like gameplay. Outside of that is Muso stuff, which is
Speaker 4: just the perfect combination for me, if you want to
Speaker 4: get my attention a visual novel Muso. But it has
Speaker 4: such good characters and it's like the first I think
Speaker 4: it's the first time that series actually got like localized
Speaker 4: and brought over here, and it's really neat and colorful,
Speaker 4: and I like it a lot.
Speaker 2: Did you play Thirteen Sentinels been?
Speaker 4: I did? I was.
Speaker 2: That's a game that people have been talking about a
Speaker 2: lot recently.
Speaker 4: Hold on, I got you, Jake, let me just eighteen cents,
Speaker 4: let's go.
Speaker 3: When you put in soccer awars, I the first thing
Speaker 3: I thought of was, oh my god, thirteen Sentinels, because
Speaker 3: I feel like that game got overlooked a lot, but
Speaker 3: is like everybody I'm seeing talking about it now is like, Wow,
Speaker 3: this game is amazing, and like, I think people really
Speaker 3: slept on it. I personally haven't played it. It's it's
Speaker 3: on my list of things that I really want to
Speaker 3: play because I also slept on it.
Speaker 4: It's ye, it's a difficult game, I think to talk
Speaker 4: about other than just being like play thirteen Sentinels. It's
Speaker 4: really wacky and weird and wild and crazy, and it
Speaker 4: does something you'll never expect literally every like hour and
Speaker 4: a half you're playing it. It also is not too long.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent of it in thirty hours. Oh wow, OK,
Speaker 4: it doesn't It doesn't take too much time. The fighting
Speaker 4: is kind of fun.
Speaker 3: But what kind of game is like an hours?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I thought, and then I sart like
Speaker 4: getting through it, and as I realized, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: I've only got three trophies left in this. This is whatever.
Speaker 4: I'll just keep going and finish everything off. But it's
Speaker 4: it's wild what they managed to pull off in that game.
Speaker 4: Story wise, You think you know what's happening in it
Speaker 4: at any given moment, and they'll disprove you and then
Speaker 4: throw like fourteen other things in that make you think
Speaker 4: of other things and then tell you that all that's wrong.
Speaker 4: And a real dog and Rapa situation is what we're.
Speaker 3: Talking about, because I talked over Jake's question what kind
Speaker 3: of game is it?
Speaker 4: It's another kind of visual novel, but it's got like
Speaker 4: a really kind of if you took what Fireblam did
Speaker 4: like gameplay wise with its strategy stuff and kind of
Speaker 4: watered it down a lot. It's kind of what the
Speaker 4: combat's like. Okay, yeah, it's it's very good. Highly recommend it,
Speaker 4: Definitely check it out.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I feel like, I mean, we have like some some
Speaker 3: good shout outs on this list, but I feel like
Speaker 3: it kind of seems like it's between like Spelunky thirteen Sentinels.
Speaker 3: I can definitely see a case for Doom Maternal.
Speaker 5: I would probably can't do Maternal, Okay. From that, we
Speaker 5: could cut Doom Eternal.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is a tough one.
Speaker 3: I just feel like I want to give it to
Speaker 3: thirteen Sentinels now.
Speaker 4: Thirty Sentinels is where I'm at.
Speaker 3: When I looked at the list and when you put
Speaker 3: in for some reason, Soccer Wars, I was like anime,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 4: I weird game has been likes, ah, yes, this is it.
Speaker 3: And then I was like, oh shiit thirteen Sentinels so underrated.
Speaker 3: We forgot to put it on the underrated list.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I would agree. That makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: Thirteen Sentinels it is, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: The next category is best Localization. The nominees are Animal Crossing,
Speaker 3: New Horizons, Persona five, Royal Yakaza like a Dragon and
Speaker 3: Final Fantasy seven remake. The clear winner is Yaxil like
Speaker 3: a track and we don't have.
Speaker 4: To do it is let's just saying you gotta look
Speaker 4: forward to the next category to kind of rule one out.
Speaker 5: I think, right, yeah, I added Final Fantasy Remake to
Speaker 5: that just because well, it is good, and I feel
Speaker 5: like it's kind of expected to be good, because like
Speaker 5: I think a Square kind of has their their stuff
Speaker 5: together with localization. But I put it on there because
Speaker 5: I after I played the remake, I went back and
Speaker 5: played the original. That game's localization is terrible. It's so
Speaker 5: bad to the to the point where I was like,
Speaker 5: this is like hurting my enjoyment of some of these
Speaker 5: scenes and characters. Everyone calls it the enra in that game,
Speaker 5: and it's like they there's just some really weird, bad
Speaker 5: localization in that game. So like, even though at this
Speaker 5: point is like it's expected that remake would be good,
Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, no, it like a good localization really
Speaker 5: enhances that game story and characters.
Speaker 4: The original also had some stuff that definitely wouldn't fly
Speaker 4: today and is kind of effensive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not too yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, I think the easy ones for
Speaker 1: me to cut it would be Persona five Royal and
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy seven, just because I feel like there were
Speaker 1: conversations in both of those games many times where I
Speaker 1: was like, huh, that doesn't that no one would say that, Like,
Speaker 1: no one would respond that way, and like it was
Speaker 1: definitely less so in Final Fantasy seven remake, but I
Speaker 1: definitely remember that happening Persona.
Speaker 2: Five Royal though a lot.
Speaker 1: There's like a lot of conversations that end and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, wait, what, Well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Personifi Royal I put on here just because they
Speaker 3: rectified a lot of the issues with base Persona five
Speaker 3: with like tests and like quizzes in the class because
Speaker 3: there were like kanji related ones that weren't translated well,
Speaker 3: and so there's there's stuff that they improved. But yes,
Speaker 3: I will say, like at the very beginning when I
Speaker 3: think I should talked about this on the podcast before,
Speaker 3: when you say please take care of me to Socra,
Speaker 3: is like, that's just I don't that's not how It's
Speaker 3: just a really hard thing to translate, but like no
Speaker 3: one would say that. Yeah, and the constant for real.
Speaker 2: We'll get that, not just the point where I.
Speaker 3: Love that I know I know I love for real now,
Speaker 3: but like Royal.
Speaker 5: Kind of ended up in a weird situation where I
Speaker 5: think that team knows that that original localization wasn't what
Speaker 5: it could have been, but they probably they didn't have
Speaker 5: the budget to like redo Royal, like like they know
Speaker 5: better now or like maybe have the ability to improve it,
Speaker 5: but uh, I couldn't with the budget.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like to the credit of the team, the
Speaker 3: localization team, Like, you don't want to overlocalize something either,
Speaker 3: because you don't want to turn And I've talked about
Speaker 3: this before, so I won't go on about it too much,
Speaker 3: but like you don't want to turn something that is
Speaker 3: inherently Japanese like too americanized, because then you're losing a
Speaker 3: lot of the meaning. So like it's a tough uh,
Speaker 3: it's a tightrope for sure.
Speaker 1: I think to to Yakuza is like like something that
Speaker 1: helps youkus is like a dragon is.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of expecting the writing to be stranger and
Speaker 2: off the wall.
Speaker 1: I'm not like like when something doesn't quite add up,
Speaker 1: I just think it's funny.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's just me.
Speaker 3: But yeah, because it has that soap opera kind of quality. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I mean Animal Crossing I think has always had
Speaker 3: really strong localization. I love, like there's a lot that
Speaker 3: sounds so natural in Animal Crossing, a lot of great jokes,
Speaker 3: like great puns, which of course you have to write
Speaker 3: the puns yourself when you're localizing because those don't translate.
Speaker 3: So shout out to new horizons. But as we talked
Speaker 3: about before on the podcast, like a Dragon's dual localization
Speaker 3: is like incredible, absolutely blew me away when I read
Speaker 3: that that was in the game, that you would get
Speaker 3: a different version of the localization. Localization based on the
Speaker 3: voice track you pick is that's just like that's above
Speaker 3: and beyond.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and and they went the extra mile to to
Speaker 5: properly the Elsh and it's really good, Like it feels
Speaker 5: like natural.
Speaker 3: Yes, so correct me if I'm wrong. But like the
Speaker 3: understanding I got is that like you get more westernized
Speaker 3: version if you use the English voiceover, and then if
Speaker 3: you're using the Japanese voiceover, it's like less localized because.
Speaker 5: That's how it was pitched to me kind of. I mean,
Speaker 5: I would have to like really compare, but I would say,
Speaker 5: to me, it's more like the localization in the for
Speaker 5: like the Japanese vo is like more faithful to the
Speaker 5: perform the Japanese performances, and then it's like with the
Speaker 5: English performances, they like take more liberties to kind of
Speaker 5: make the characters their own and then like yeah, so
Speaker 5: it's like it feels like they were able to have
Speaker 5: the best of both roles because I feel like normally
Speaker 5: you're kind of like weirdly restricted where it's like, wow,
Speaker 5: we can't really adapt this character because we have to
Speaker 5: be very faithful to how they are in the Japanese performance,
Speaker 5: and maybe that limits you as a voice actor. So
Speaker 5: that's at least my interpretation of how they did it.
Speaker 1: All right, so we got to move on because we're
Speaker 1: well pasted an hour now and we still got quite
Speaker 1: a few categories.
Speaker 2: So I got to call this one yeah because of
Speaker 2: like a dragon. Everyone's cool, easy, yeah, all right, next one.
Speaker 2: We can do this one very quickly, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Yes. This is the Cali Award Worst pronunciation of a
Speaker 3: Japanese name in persona five royal. The nominees are Makoto.
Speaker 2: Wait do the correct pronunciation too.
Speaker 3: Which I would pronounces Makoto so comado, which I think
Speaker 3: most English speakers would just say Sakamoto easy, That one
Speaker 3: is easy, and then to comedy, which I think an
Speaker 3: English speaker would probably say Takamaki. I included this because
Speaker 3: it's not that I want them to over pronounce the
Speaker 3: Japanese names in English. But Sikameda, we already have an
Speaker 3: americanized version of that. Everybody says Soka Poto.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that one has to win, because it's just like,
Speaker 5: why did you change and everyone already has a way
Speaker 5: to Yeah, exactly. It's like you said, so.
Speaker 3: I'm giving it to Sicamado because why all right?
Speaker 1: And that's it fair category. This next category is all
Speaker 1: you too, Cali. You'll have to You'll have to make
Speaker 1: the decision here.
Speaker 3: This is also a Cali category best game my dad
Speaker 3: played this year. The dominees are Battlefield five, Call of Duty,
Speaker 3: Black Ops, Cold War, Metro Last Light, and Spec ups
Speaker 3: the Line. I'm gonna eliminate speck ups the Line because
Speaker 3: my dad has played that game like twelve times. He
Speaker 3: plays it on the hardest difficulties upsesing.
Speaker 5: I mean, that might be the best game though.
Speaker 3: But he played it last year as well. He's just
Speaker 3: going to be playing it. The game that I want
Speaker 3: to give this to is Metro Last Light because now
Speaker 3: my dad is really into the Metro series. Yeah, because
Speaker 3: on a whim he got it because it was on
Speaker 3: sale or something, and now he's really into it, even
Speaker 3: though he didn't understand how the gas masks worked.
Speaker 2: For his new Xbox, his Christmas Xbox.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I need to give him Exodus because because
Speaker 3: he told me, he was like, yeah, this game is
Speaker 3: really hard, but I'm really into this series. Now I'm
Speaker 3: definitely gonna play the newer one. And I was like, heck, yeah, dad, so.
Speaker 5: Metric the books does he read?
Speaker 3: My dad can't read, I know.
Speaker 5: Read.
Speaker 2: No, he.
Speaker 3: Probably would be like, I can't shoot anything in this book.
Speaker 5: That's fair.
Speaker 3: The next category is best Early Access Game. The nominees
Speaker 3: are Fasmapho, be a Baller's Gate three, and Oubletz.
Speaker 5: Have to give it to.
Speaker 4: That's that's where it's this.
Speaker 5: I feel like Bouldersgate doesn't get it for the reason
Speaker 5: we talked about earlier, which is that like it's really
Speaker 5: good what's in there, but like just that's not the
Speaker 5: kind of game that I want to like play in
Speaker 5: early access. Like like I checked out a little bit
Speaker 5: and I'm like, yep, this seems like it's gonna be
Speaker 5: amazing when it's done. I will play it then, So
Speaker 5: at least for me, it's like, I think it's cool
Speaker 5: that it's an early access and that you know, they
Speaker 5: get to play it and they get all the fan feedback,
Speaker 5: and I think it makes the game better. But at
Speaker 5: least for me personally, it's not the kind of game
Speaker 5: I want to play.
Speaker 3: Early totally, all right, Ubletzite. I didn't play ableets, so
Speaker 3: didn't play I just put it on there because we
Speaker 3: reviewed it in early access, so fast a phobia.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: All right. Next category, Character of the Year, non protagonist.
Speaker 3: The nominees are Tifa, Jesse, and Title Fantasy seven remake.
Speaker 5: So I wrote Jesse and then Jake like added a
Speaker 5: suggestion that crossed it out and replaced it with Tifa,
Speaker 5: but I think that got deleted.
Speaker 4: So that's yeah, Esse.
Speaker 2: A Glitchen the Matrix, Tifa and or Jesse. No, just Jesse,
Speaker 2: who just leave it at that.
Speaker 3: Eris from Final Fantasy seven remake, Meg from Hades, Isabelle
Speaker 3: from Animal Crossing, Doctor Maruki from Persona five Royal, Consume
Speaker 3: Me from Persona five Royal, Judy Alvarez from Cyberpunk twenty
Speaker 3: seventy seven, Namba and Yakaza like a Dragon, and Stanley
Speaker 3: in Spirit Fair.
Speaker 5: So I haven't even gotten to like the main stuff
Speaker 5: with Judy, but just hearing everyone talk about Judy, I
Speaker 5: feel like it has to go to Judy.
Speaker 3: It has to be Judy. She's amazing, very good.
Speaker 4: I I do really like Judy. But also I'm a
Speaker 4: tee for Guy in Final Fantasy like two, but specifically
Speaker 4: in remake, Erith's is a really big deal and that,
Speaker 4: without spoiling anything, she's different in a big way, and
Speaker 4: I think, especially in remake, it's it's worth calling her
Speaker 4: out for that.
Speaker 5: I would agree, yeah, yeah. Also I didn't play Spiritfair,
Speaker 5: but I added Stanley because my girlfriend wanted me to
Speaker 5: put Stanley because she says that's the best character in
Speaker 5: Spiritfair in that game is all about the characters, so
Speaker 5: I take her word that Stanley's probably pretty good. I like,
Speaker 5: like a mushroom child that's like really adorable and cute,
Speaker 5: and they give the best hug. So if we were
Speaker 5: to go back to animation, best hug goes to Stanley,
Speaker 5: the Georgia Award goes to.
Speaker 4: Isabelle.
Speaker 2: I put Isabelle there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you actually think isabel is one
Speaker 1: of your favorite characters of the year.
Speaker 2: But I like Isabelle.
Speaker 3: I like her. I really want her winter sweater. It's
Speaker 3: like a brown card again with flowers on it. I
Speaker 3: don't know why that I can't buy that.
Speaker 5: I'm bummed. She is just stuck behind that desk all
Speaker 5: the time. There's like, like when you do like Turkey Day,
Speaker 5: I'm like, where's Isabelle. She's like sitting in there, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, girl, come out, have some pumpkin Pieve.
Speaker 3: For fourth for the Fireworks Festival.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Fireworks Festival.
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't play fan of Fantasy seven remakes,
Speaker 3: so like I would have to give it Judy, but.
Speaker 2: I did. I would give it to Judy, I think.
Speaker 4: But I did just finish Judy's like main story yesterday
Speaker 4: and I'm still thinking about it a lot, so I
Speaker 4: could definitely probably go that way.
Speaker 2: I think if Timoor was here, he'd be fighting very
Speaker 2: hard for Earth.
Speaker 4: I think you would too.
Speaker 1: Earth is very good, but he's not here, So it's Judy.
Speaker 5: I'm more than happy with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: The next category is Best Protagonist. Nominees are Zagrias from Hades,
Speaker 3: Alex from Half Life, Alex, Abby from the Last of
Speaker 3: Us Part two, Ichi Bond from Like a Dragon, Miles
Speaker 3: Morales from Spider Man Miles Morales, and Tyler and Allison
Speaker 3: from Tell Me.
Speaker 1: Why Well, we all know who number one is, baby.
Speaker 2: Like, I can't argue he's number one number one name.
Speaker 3: I feel like he wins on a technicality. I think
Speaker 3: we just have to give it to each.
Speaker 5: Bond Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 3: Probably be Abby, but I mean it's in the name, in.
Speaker 1: His name, all right, ITCHI Bond Best Protagonist and the
Speaker 1: last one.
Speaker 3: The last category is the best game you played that
Speaker 3: didn't come out this year. The nominees are Star Wars,
Speaker 3: Jedi Fallen Order that was Man twenty eighteen that was
Speaker 3: also me, Final Fantasy seven.
Speaker 5: That was me, then two.
Speaker 3: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Me. I played it, Stardoo Valley
Speaker 3: that was me. Among us, I played it Persona three.
Speaker 4: I played it.
Speaker 5: You beat it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I beat it?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: I the Somnium files or AI the Somnium file.
Speaker 4: You read it either way, it's it's not wrong.
Speaker 3: Whatever the Somnium file. I did it near Automata.
Speaker 4: I did it again.
Speaker 1: Automatia, Automata, I Thinkdasa.
Speaker 2: I think it's near Takamoto there.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: Black and Dark Souls, so.
Speaker 1: I put Black Mesa there kind of because it's the
Speaker 1: first time I played Half Life one, but I played
Speaker 1: Black Mesa, which did come out this year, so I
Speaker 1: don't really know if that one counts, but I think that's.
Speaker 5: A weird one. Play the game. It came out, but
Speaker 5: it's been in early access for like five years, and yeah,
Speaker 5: that's weird. It's very good though, if you haven't played it,
Speaker 5: you should play Black Mesa. Yeah, really good.
Speaker 1: This one's also a little weird because, like, not all
Speaker 1: of us played these games this year, so it'd be
Speaker 1: hard to come up with one in particular. So I
Speaker 1: think we all can just yeah, we all can just
Speaker 1: say the one that we added that we think is
Speaker 1: the winner. Yeah, okay, I'm going with Dark Souls for sure.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to get through that game for a
Speaker 1: very long time. I started on three sixty, got the
Speaker 1: blight Town stopped, and like, I've had so many tries
Speaker 1: to get through that game, and I finally did it
Speaker 1: this year and it was great.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to give it to Stardy Valley because
Speaker 3: that's the only one I added to the list. But
Speaker 3: Stardi Valley is just excellent. I regret not giving it
Speaker 3: a higher score when I reviewed it way back when
Speaker 3: it just got a massive update with like new options
Speaker 3: on PC. So it just continues to live a wonderful
Speaker 3: pastoral life. I love it so much, John Luke.
Speaker 5: Even though I didn't play it and I didn't put
Speaker 5: it on this list, I'm going to give it to
Speaker 5: Persona three there go. I liked that came a lot.
Speaker 5: It's a really good game. I've actually been thinking about
Speaker 5: replaying it because I really really liked that.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 4: Put it on Switch Yeah for real.
Speaker 5: Yeah for real, Yeah for real.
Speaker 4: I put a lot of games on here, but I
Speaker 4: think for me the Finals Fantasy seven because I played
Speaker 4: not just Final Fantasy seven but also everything around it,
Speaker 4: and it was just a big like. It took a
Speaker 4: lot of convincing to get me to actually go for
Speaker 4: it and start it up, but once I did, I
Speaker 4: played through the original, then I played through Crisis Core,
Speaker 4: which is fantastic, and I played through Dirgias Servers, which
Speaker 4: is not Other people like it, but I liked it.
Speaker 4: And then I actually I even watched Advent Children and
Speaker 4: actually enjoyed it, like I fell into.
Speaker 5: It really bad.
Speaker 1: So damn, I have a question for you, Ben Oh No,
Speaker 1: I knew this is gonna come at some point. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about Cloud in Super Smash Bros. Because
Speaker 1: this was a sticking point for a very long time.
Speaker 1: You said he did not deserve to be in Super
Speaker 1: Smash Bros. Because he wasn't on an Nintendo console. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about this now? I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: like prove you wrong. I just I just want the
Speaker 1: evolution here.
Speaker 4: The whole the whole year. I was prepared for this
Speaker 4: very moment. I was like as soon as I finished
Speaker 4: fint A Fantasy seven and I'm like, this is a
Speaker 4: great game. My life has changed. My flippant eyes have
Speaker 4: been opened for the first time.
Speaker 2: You can't run off the edge with him anymore, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Can't run off the edge with him anymore because I
Speaker 4: understand him well. I still think Cloud himself is not
Speaker 4: as good as like half of the other Final Fantasy
Speaker 4: characters that I've I've run into and met. But uh,
Speaker 4: I played it specifically on Switch just to kind of
Speaker 4: like together and and and do that but uh he
Speaker 4: was still the first character in Smash that broke down
Speaker 4: that barrier of like there are no rules now you
Speaker 4: can have anyone from anything, like he was in Theorism.
Speaker 4: But that's not even like.
Speaker 5: He paved the way for Joker.
Speaker 4: He did. He really did. Joker is still only in
Speaker 4: also one weird spinoff game too, But uh yeah, I
Speaker 4: I've played with him a bunch in this year and Smash,
Speaker 4: and I was actually I got really excited about Sepharroth
Speaker 4: being put in, which was dumb and stupid.
Speaker 3: Wow that's the character.
Speaker 4: Did you do the cannon fight?
Speaker 2: Did you beat SEP's cloud?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I went in with a snake because I hadn't played
Speaker 4: them while, so I was really rusty. But like eat
Speaker 4: my grenades, separate U C four over here, grenades over here,
Speaker 4: cardboard boxes everywhere. But uh yeah, no, it definitely was
Speaker 4: a wacky character arc and I still think about it
Speaker 4: every day and I feel I feel silly for what
Speaker 4: I did in the past, and I like to throw
Speaker 4: me all now. I'll still run him off the control
Speaker 4: times sake, though, just because he deserves it every now
Speaker 4: and now he does. He's a jerk, you know, Zach's
Speaker 4: a better protagonist than Cloud anyway, So that's where I am.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: On that note, we should probably wrap up episode seventy
Speaker 1: four of Games But after Dark, the first episode of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Anyway, thank you all for listening the
Speaker 1: past year and a half or so. We're very excited
Speaker 1: to keep this train going and we haven't missed a
Speaker 1: week yet. Don't plan on missing week for the rest
Speaker 1: of time.
Speaker 4: That's a long time. It is a long time, it is,
Speaker 4: but you know, gotta do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Jean Luke, where can people find you? And what
Speaker 1: do you plan on playing over break?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna play. Oh, I don't know. I've been going
Speaker 5: back and forth. I want to finish Cyberpunk. I also
Speaker 5: want to finally do a Witcher run with Georgia. Been
Speaker 5: meaning to play that, so I think that would be
Speaker 5: a fun one to do over the break. But yeah,
Speaker 5: you can find me on Twitter. It should definitely be
Speaker 5: up at this point. But please go check out our
Speaker 5: top ten Games of twenty twenty video over on our
Speaker 5: YouTube channel. It's a video that I put it together,
Speaker 5: but like it's a collaborative video that everyone worked on, so, like,
Speaker 5: you know, everyone from editorial in video each got to
Speaker 5: talk about a game they really loves, Like how I
Speaker 5: gotta talk about Animal Crossing ja I got to talk
Speaker 5: about demon souls and so on, And on top of that,
Speaker 5: every one on the video team both edits that section
Speaker 5: and then does their own montage for it. So it's
Speaker 5: like this really cool video that's kind of like the
Speaker 5: culmination of the hard work of everyone at game Spot.
Speaker 5: So I love working on that video. I think it's
Speaker 5: such a cool representation of us as staff. So please
Speaker 5: go check that out. And here are fine thoughts on
Speaker 5: the year of twenty twenty in video games.
Speaker 2: Kelly, how are you?
Speaker 3: You can find me on Twitter at inky dojico I
Speaker 3: n k y d o j I kko And of
Speaker 3: a break, I plan on playing Yaxta like a Dragon.
Speaker 3: That's probably like the big one. I'm still playing Haities
Speaker 3: because I haven't cleared it yet. I got really wrapped
Speaker 3: up in Boon Hunting, so I haven't actually cleared it,
Speaker 3: so I need to do that. And I really want
Speaker 3: to play Paradise Killer. I think I'm going to try
Speaker 3: to prioritize that as well.
Speaker 2: Ben how are you Uh?
Speaker 4: You can find me on Twitter dot com at Ben Jenka.
Speaker 4: It's just my name. Please find me, But I guess
Speaker 4: for overbreak. What I'm planning to do is I actually
Speaker 4: wanted to play Final Fantasy eight is my first Final
Speaker 4: Fantasy game, and I still haven't gotten around to doing it,
Speaker 4: so I'm gonna try to find time to do that.
Speaker 5: I started eight Ben, let's talk about it.
Speaker 4: Definitely should and we will. I am looking forward to
Speaker 4: also finishing Persona five Royal because I'm really enjoying that
Speaker 4: going through it again. And I want to finish Half
Speaker 4: Life Alex at some point because I also kind of
Speaker 4: got sidetracked on that as well. But yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 4: the last bit of dragon Quest too, because that game's
Speaker 4: got like a forty hour posting. There are a lot
Speaker 4: of games I'm playing. I don't it doesn't stop. Help me.
Speaker 1: Please you find me at Jacob Deck and I want
Speaker 1: to finish Dragon Quest eleven. I'm very close to finishing
Speaker 1: that game and have yet to do that. I'm playing
Speaker 1: it on Switch and part of me is like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to play it on Series X though, because
Speaker 1: it just came and it's free with game past. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, Nope, can't do it. I gotta gotta stay
Speaker 1: the course, gotta finish the game on switch. I want to,
Speaker 1: for like the sixth time in the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: I want to try near Automata Nakamata again, see if
Speaker 1: I can make it through that game.
Speaker 2: Every time I've fallen off, so hopefully it sticks.
Speaker 1: And there was Oh, and I want to try to
Speaker 1: beat Spelunky two, which won't happen because I'm terrible and
Speaker 1: that game is too hard. Well it's not too hard,
Speaker 1: but it's too hard for me because I'm just a
Speaker 1: game journalist and I'm not good at video games, so
Speaker 1: you know how it goes. Anyway, that's been Episode seventy four,
Speaker 1: and we'll see you all next week.
Speaker 5: I don't know why I wave.
Speaker 4: He was soon curl