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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly

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video game show here at Geek Versus. I am your host,

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Dylan Muss. Night with me the full House of Geek. First,

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right now, the Poblows I got the Predictor, Taylor Field,

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how's it going, Oh, it's going good.

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Speaker 2: The Pavlos, I totally forgot about that.

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Speaker 1: Master Cheeks, Master Cheeks. And then I got the Survivor

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over here at Kirkland patz Or, how's it going, my friend.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Good, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun to have the three of us here.

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We're gonna be doing some game Awards predictions. Of course

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that's happening on December twelfth, So we're gonna make predictions

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for all the categories, who the winners are, We're talking

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about maybe a little bit of the announcements we hope

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to see, and then we're gonna enlist our good friend

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mister chat Gpt to give us some interesting game announcement predictions.

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We'll see how wacky those end up being, if at all,

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we'll see what we get. And then before that, we're

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just talking about some of the games we have been playing.

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So yeah, some good time, just a quick shows here Patreon, Yeah,

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have to listen to advertisements. No one likes any of that.

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You'd also still get a bonus episode of Side Quest

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up there right now where I did a kind of

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rerun of my twenty twenty three Game of the Year,

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and then that's gonna go up on the main feeds

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this Saturday, So if you want to listen to it

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earlier you can. Also this episode, we're recording it a

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day early, which means you get it a day early

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on Patreon, So always good benefits to go there. Next

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week is me and Taylor. We're gonna be talking about

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Indiana Jones. Can you believe that comes out this week? Taylor?

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It's kind of snuck up on me.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: I have a pre downloaded on my my library and

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when I see it there, it just reminds me like,

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oh my god, yeah, that's coming up already.

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Speaker 1: I saw there's one hundred and thirty gigs, says Spicy Size.

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Is that how much your space to your.

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Speaker 2: Mine was like two hundred megabytes? So obviously.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's just one of those like placeholders. Yeah, I

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hope it's more than two hundred megabytes. That would be.

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Speaker 3: It's just called dude creep over into other games, like

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other games.

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Speaker 1: Like two times the size of potion problem pretty much.

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That would help other things. You know, it's it's TV

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show City. This month we got Creature, Commando, Skeleton Crew, Dexter.

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For that, I will very least talk about this Splunky episode.

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That's my only guarantee. That's my only guarantee here. And

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then next week I have a bunch of reviews, Lord

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of the Rings, the movie War of Row, here them

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and Craven And yeah, we did a newscast last week

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that was fun. It was a fun, good time. Everyone

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go back check that out. And after we were done

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recording that, Kirkly you said that there's a potential game

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that you and your buddies were gonna play the week

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over the weekend. To do end up playing that game?

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Speaker 3: I did end up playing that game, lost a few

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of the buddies along the way. It ended up only

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being me and Patreon Tyler Hdalgo himself, but he still

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a good time. I feel like it was a good

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like Session zero for any like D and D players

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out there, they know, like session zero's usually like you're

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setting up the rules and like setting up your character

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and like get an idea of how everything's gonna go.

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because this game is like it's kind of like it's.

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Speaker 1: Super I don't think we said the name of the game.

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so yes, Project Zomboid. I think it's like probably like

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just the most like hyper realistic type of like zombie

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game you could do. But it's it's set up like

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a sandbox. And with sandbox games, like sometimes they come

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up with just like insane customizable options that you can have,

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which is great because you can really just make it

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and whatnot. And I had like a template that I

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used for my own like single player experience. But it's

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very different in online because there's just so much more

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things to be doing with multiple people and like for example,

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like to get skill increases and stuff like that, you'll

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your character will be reading, but in like single player mode,

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learned that you can actually like change like the amount

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of pages that are read like per hour, so you

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it like that much more. And like there's there's great

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just a great like community supported game, Like I feel

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like the community for product example, it is just so fantastic.

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base I think around that game.

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speeding up the time there when you're reading a book,

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like that that's just one little minor thing. Like another

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one was Product Zamboid. I feel like the whole point

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of it is to like have one run, like one character,

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much more rewarding because you only have one life and

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you can die in so many different ways. So when

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you make it a long time, like, it is really satisfying.

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of a hinder, especially playing with like Tyler that was

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never played Product Zamboid, so of course it led to

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just some hilarious interactions where him and I were like

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running away from zombies and then all of a sudden,

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he just drops dead and he's like, oh, I'm dead.

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I don't know what happened. He was just like bleeding

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there's these little moodles that basically showed like your status effects, right,

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and he had no idea, but there was like seven

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just flashing red because like you'll just bleed out unless

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you actually like bandage yourself. And surely enough, that's what happened.

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just gone. It's like, oh man, what happens? Like, oh yeah, no,

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character and you have like, like the character creation is

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kind of unique because you have to choose like negative

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for like pure enjoyment, because like there were just so

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man now, like changes his his his occupation, whereas he's

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adventuring and by the end of the session, him and

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great moments because in that game, if you get bitten

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zombie at some point. And when he first was bitten,

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just like no, man like you Like it was almost

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like a Walking Dead situation where he's like trying to

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hide his trust the guy. I'm like, no, man like. Yeah,

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my guns, and just like go on a shooting spree

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just to just like go out with a bang. But like, technically,

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if my character does die, I could just make a

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new character and then go back in that world and

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find my zombie character and take all my stuff, which

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new world because I feel like the whole point is

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someone else's base even though it's my own. So but yeah,

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buddies that I was telling you about, like they did

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get it, they just ended up getting busy, one of

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the weekend. But no, I'm very much looking forward to

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jumping in, especially now that we like kind of have

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a bass idea. I'm hoping Tyler will be practicing a

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moving speed just walking is actually faster than the zombies,

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but like the zombies are so opie, like like do

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not ever take on more than like one or two

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a little bit cocky and takes two or three and

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he's just getting mowed down. But no, it was really

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really funny, and I feel like it's just a type

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like we're just exhausted, played for.

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Speaker 1: An hour and a half.

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next session for sure. And uh I see it's in

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your wishless Dyllan.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if you're because is it max four

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me know. I would definitely join you and

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your your pals there, even though I don't know them.

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I mean, yeah, I've met Tyler, I think, yeah, riding horseback. No,

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probably on sale right now because of like all the

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that's why they picked Winter sales and stuff. So yeah,

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I'm definitely down to check that game out. It looks great.

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I love the art style, even though it's like kind

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of old and janky, like it's actually I just love it.

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definitely new Grounds just that website in general. There's just

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something about it. It reminds me. But uh no, that

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that's and then like since that session, like even before

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cast now, like I was playing a single player run

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just because I'm like so much more motivated jump in there.

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the country club. I'm like moving into this like big base.

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a great game. I like, oh, it's it's especially for

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like the zombie genre. I just feel like it's perfect

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having like the hyper really like you gotta like siphon

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other cars to fill up your car with gas, and

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like there's just so many customizable things that you can

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do your bass and your character and vehicles and whatnot. It's, uh,

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it's pretty it's pretty amazing.

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that reading the book, because I feel like that reminds

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me of of Long Dark, which is also like a

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survival game where finding books is like a very rare thing.

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this book about gun skills because that's like the only

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way you can get better at that stat But yeah,

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and like since you're always just getting hungry or cold

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I'm gonna throw a hunk of meat on the stove

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with the fire I gotta heat up here, and then

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I'm gonna like read a half an hour of this

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book and like get just slowly chipped through it, and like,

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like reading a book can be such a fun mechanic

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in a game, a game that's like so time dependent

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like that, and you can't just be screwing around. It

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actually feels like such a big strategy thing of like

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when can I have downtime in this world.

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Zamboid is there's kind of a time like a racing

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because that's when the power and the water is still

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turned on. But then once that stuff's cut off and

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you kind of are able to like you got rain

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collectors or you found like a well or something like

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you you're kind of self sufficient, you know, you got

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your cops growing. There is actually a lot of downtime,

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and that that's where like some people kind of have

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complaints with a game, where as of right now, like

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you're settle, like it just kind of gets boring for

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some people. So yeah, but you know, they're got billed

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forty two forever on the horizon, So that'll apparently incorporate

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a lot of different things apparently like NPCs and stuff too,

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which will be really really interesting. But like there's so

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many mods like in the game that people have just

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made throughout the community. Like there's they already have NPC mods.

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of like a like a Last of Us situation where

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there's like bad humans, which that just sounds so stressful

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for me. Like I'm playing on Vanilla base game like

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least the winter, but before I start doing crazy stuff

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like that. But yeah, I know there's kind of a

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time rust like and time rush initially, but then once

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the power and everything's off, like you just have time

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to kill and you can find like generators and stuff

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to kind of get some backup power. And then they

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also have like skill VHS tapes that you can also find,

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so you go rate like a VHS store and then

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load up your vehicle bring it back to your house. Yeah,

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it's it's it's so fantastic but nice.

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Speaker 1: Anything else you've been playing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, really quickly, I'll shout out. Kashane and I were

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going hard on Could the Lamb as you've heard, and

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we kind of tapered off on it. We're like, oh, yeah,

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let's just get like every trophy and there's just like

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so much repetitive type of things that you have to do,

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and we've gone really hard in that game, Like I

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feel like we've beaten the game like three times over

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because it's kind of like a new game plus sort

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of thing like you still you just still keep growing

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your cult, but you can just do like endless runs

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to just get like more unlockables and stuff like that.

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but we're we're kind of burnt out on it. We

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went really hard. I think the time on the PlayStation's

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like fifty hours or something on the game. I think

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we beat the game, like the main game at like

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twenty or something. So like it's it's a nice game

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that has, you know, endgame content for that reason, especially

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if you enjoyed as much as we do. But no,

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we were picking. We were looking for another game like that,

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and we actually picked up Stardow Valley.

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Speaker 1: Cool.

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Speaker 3: So I had it on Steam like a long time ago.

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Well I guess I still have it on Steam. But

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early days of Shane and I dating, I got that

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game for her and she just like played it on

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her laptop and went like hard, like it's one of

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my most played games on Steam just because her she

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she I feel like she really loves those types of

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games though, where it's like Animal Crossing or Starduo Valley

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just What's the Harvest Moon That was an one that

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she loved back in the day on the game cube,

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and but now they have co op, which is fantastic

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and started it's a future we always wanted. But they

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got couch co op on there, so picked it up.

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I think it was like twenty bucks on the play

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Shape PlayStation store and yeah, we were pretty early in

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on that, but that'll be the next like on the

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Go game or not on the go just I guess yeah,

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on the Go game that we just always are jumping

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back to. And yeah, it's nice. It's peaceful, it's it's

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just chill, like the animation like a little eight bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, beautile art and music's amazing too, yea, yeah, yeah,

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and it's nice. It's nice that it's co op because

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it's split screen, so like I could be in the

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city doing stuff and then she could be on the farm,

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whereas you know some titles, Wow, you're putting her to

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work while you get to go shopping in going drinking

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with all the local farmers.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, no, definitely not. It's funny my character. I

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kind of styled her like Jinks and then Shade kind

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of made her like VI because we're hot Arcane hype

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Train and.

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Speaker 1: Finally watched the first episode of that finally.

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Speaker 3: Started Our Farms titled is the Last Drop as the

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Old Tavern, and right, okay, yeah, but I know it's

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going good.

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Speaker 1: So it's we got a couple of games on the

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go and nice though cool Taylor, you've been playing anything lately?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I have been trying to do the

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Black Ops six multiplayer grind, trying to get in there.

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Speaker 2: But while my my mum has.

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Speaker 4: Been staying with me. Uh the other day she was like, Oh,

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where's that Halo? Just play that Halo.

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Speaker 2: I was like, you know, maybe there's something to that.

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Speaker 4: So I popped on the master Chief Collection because I

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always have it installed, and I was just going through.

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And it's weird because I when I got the Master

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Chief Collection back in the day and I had beaten it.

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At that time, it was Halo one Anniversary, two, Anniversary

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three four.

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Speaker 2: And I think that was it.

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Speaker 4: ODSD came later, and then Halo Reach came much much

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so even though I've beaten those other Halo games and

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I have the achievements on my profile, I go back

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and it's weird because it says that I've not completed

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any missions in the actual game itself, which is kind

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of annoying, but I've got the achievements to prove it.

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So in retrospect, like, did you play that on Xbox

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One or something you're saving, Yes, oh I did. But

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it's just it's very very weird. I mean, it's I'm

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not pissed off about it. You can select missions, you

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can play whatever you want, and I'm an achievement hunter

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and I have the achievements, so that's that.

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Speaker 1: But that being said, I.

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Speaker 4: Went back in and learned the breach and playing through

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those missions the campaign, and it's just I'm really having

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a good time playing through it. It's such an amazing game,

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amazing story, and it's kind of tempting me because that's

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the first one in this whole storyline. I'm kind of thinking, Ah,

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you know what, once I complete Reach, I'm probably gonna

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go through combat of all the Anniversary and just slowly

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progress through all of them because theyre's such great games

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and I've been kind of like itching to get back

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into that world after that show just sucked. So yeah,

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but Reaches so much fun. I'm not really gonna be

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touching the multiplayer, I don't think as much, but uh yeah,

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just the campaign is great and always do Legendary.

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Speaker 2: I always gotta do these campaign.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, like, since you don't have to

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go for the achievements, is that I feel like if

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you're just going back to like for a little nostalgia hit,

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play the greatest hits. But I don't think I would

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do that on Legendary. I feel like that would be frustrating.

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I think I always have heroic or normal.

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Speaker 4: Just to I always always have to ever since I

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did it, like because yeah, I've been them on Legendary

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a few times and it's just it's once you kind

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of like once you do it, do you kind of

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just know to play it safe and know like, okay,

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just shill and if I really want, like there are

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some skulls like a turn on to make it a

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little bit more of a fun dynamic and maybe a

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little bit easier.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know, I don't really use the skulls

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too too much.

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Speaker 3: But I forgot about the skull mechanic in those Halo games.

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What did that start? Was that Halo three?

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Speaker 4: Halo three, I'm pretty sure is when you could find

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them throughout the.

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Speaker 1: Did they add them in the anniversary collections of one

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and two, like the later versions as.

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Speaker 4: Far as I'm aware, Yeah, you can toggle them on.

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Oh okay, yeah, and they're fun ones too, like some

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of them like you shoot grunts and like confetti blasts.

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Speaker 1: Oh the birthday party one whatever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I.

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Speaker 1: Feel like that was the only one I would put on.

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I wouldn't want the ones that like change the game

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at all, like take your radar or whatever it was.

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But like, yeah, I would always just use the confetti one.

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's kind of an older like game

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type of thing. Like I noticed the previous ratcheting Clank

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had that where you could turn on like big Head

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or little Head mode or like the same thing, like

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you could turn like confetti goes off when he kills

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off enemies, and I don't know, it's a like old

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games had that as like a cheat, like you would

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input like a couple of things and then you would

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have I don't know, little heads.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now you gotta pay five dollars to get each

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skull to.

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Speaker 3: Get a little head. I'll keep the regular size head.

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Speaker 1: I miss big head mode. That it was the good

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old days, the good old days. Nice. And then else, Taylor,

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just just your halo grinding, just the Hit Grind.

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Speaker 4: Pardon, I'm still going through uh Pokemon and Pocket on

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the Great Mobile, so still trying to I've actually been

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I've been building my decks and I've actually been doing

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a lot more of the battling and it's a lot

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of fun I'm actually having. I'm finding it actually be

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a little bit too addicting actually building my decks, encountering

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what other people are are doing, and just like evolving

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your Pokemon and just setting up your plays. Uh some Pokemon.

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Like back in the day, I thought like, oh okay,

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I got moultrust in here. This is great, but he

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sucks ass because you have to put you have to

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put I think it's three or four energy on him,

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and then you have to flip a coin and if

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it lands on heads, you deal the damage. If it

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lands on tails, you deal no damage. And I'm never land.

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Speaker 1: That sounds horrible, It's fucking terrible.

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Speaker 2: It's terrible.

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Speaker 4: So but there's so many fun little combos and dynamics

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you can work out in that game.

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Speaker 2: It's great.

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Speaker 4: And just ripping the packs. I opened up ten packs today.

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Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, yeah, oh Char's already.

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Speaker 4: X let's go just yeah, crazy.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard of that game, Kirkland, have you seen

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anything about that yet? No, it's like the Marvel Snap

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Pokemon version from same same situation. Nice, So yeah, I

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can definitely understand that addictive nature.

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Speaker 3: Definitely.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was.

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Speaker 3: I was actually just like looking through my like collection

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of cards and like, man, there's just some there's some

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nice content in there. I'm just so proud of my

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00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,000
my collection that I've had. I feel like I'm still

473
00:20:28,039 --> 00:20:30,599
so far behind, like you know, some of the big

474
00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:34,680
head haunchos and our our our Marvel Snap discord chat there,

475
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,839
but still like I just I've come a long way

476
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,839
from from my early days of my Marvel Snap career.

477
00:20:39,839 --> 00:20:42,400
And I jumped in late, so I don't regret jumping

478
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,480
in late, Like I feel like it's especially just when

479
00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,799
I've been grinding as much as I have, Like I've

480
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,799
really got some some nice tasty cards in there, and yeah.

481
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,000
Speaker 1: Nice good stuff. Uh yeah. As for me, just a

482
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,319
couple couple of games to show out here, Taylor. I

483
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,240
don't think you listen last week's episode, but I mentioned

484
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,480
that Kirklin and I bought a PS five over the

485
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,240
Black Friday Deals. So I've been just playing a shit

486
00:21:05,279 --> 00:21:06,680
ton of PS five, you.

487
00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 2: Know, disc version or digital.

488
00:21:08,279 --> 00:21:11,200
Speaker 1: I went I went digital digital. I went digital because

489
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,960
it was one hundred dollars cheaper and justifies it. Yeah,

490
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,920
so I don't know, maybe you can't get the add on,

491
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,319
you can plug it in the side there, but yeah,

492
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,279
for now, for now, I'm all digital, So we'll see

493
00:21:22,279 --> 00:21:24,640
how that goes. But yeah, just I've been playing a

494
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,519
lot more Hitman kirkl and I just I'm addicted again

495
00:21:27,599 --> 00:21:29,480
to hit Man. I'm playing so much and I'm so

496
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,359
bad at it, but then sometimes I just have moments

497
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,200
of brilliance. It's just like, even though I've played it

498
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,359
for so long, it's still just and and you can

499
00:21:37,559 --> 00:21:39,799
always get better at it or always learn new things.

500
00:21:39,799 --> 00:21:44,359
So that's been good. I talked about last week Astrobot.

501
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,799
I have now a platinumed Astrobot. I went through beat

502
00:21:47,799 --> 00:21:50,359
the whole game. And after I beat all the levels,

503
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,200
and I was being pretty thorough like if I was

504
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,680
getting all the collectibles in each level, all the bots,

505
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,400
and all the puzzle pieces, it was restarting. So once

506
00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,599
I had got through the whole game, it only took

507
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,839
me like an maybe half an hour forty minutes to

508
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,839
pop out. The last few trophies, which were a lot

509
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,240
of them, were just like around the base, like doing

510
00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:10,079
funny little like at some point in your base, you know,

511
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,000
you're covering all these bots from all these different IP

512
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:13,880
and they just go in your home base there and

513
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,240
like a couple of them are like Ken and Rio

514
00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:16,839
from Street Fighter and you just have to go punch

515
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:18,720
them and then they'll punch you back and that gives

516
00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:20,200
you a trophy. So it's just a bunch of dumb

517
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,839
little things like that. So yeah, it was it was

518
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,119
just a great time. I could not put the game down.

519
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,519
I absolutely loved it. And yeah, there was even near

520
00:22:27,559 --> 00:22:30,079
the end you unlock some like harder challenge like kind

521
00:22:30,079 --> 00:22:33,279
of platform platform challenge levels which were really great. But

522
00:22:33,319 --> 00:22:35,480
I think my favorite levels were the ones that were

523
00:22:35,759 --> 00:22:40,039
like distinctly themed after a certain IP, Like you know,

524
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,480
in one levels you get a Sam Porter Bridges bought

525
00:22:43,519 --> 00:22:45,079
and he's in like a snowy level, but it's not

526
00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:47,920
really death Stranding themed level. Then there's certain ones that

527
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,000
are like, oh this is a it's called Bot of War,

528
00:22:50,039 --> 00:22:51,839
so it's just a God of War themed level where

529
00:22:51,839 --> 00:22:54,640
you get Krados's axe and it has the same mechanics

530
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,440
as God of War and God of War Ragnarok, which

531
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,799
is really fun for the puzzles and stuff, and some

532
00:22:58,839 --> 00:23:01,640
other the other big ones like Uncharted, there's a Horizon one,

533
00:23:01,759 --> 00:23:04,880
so those levels were super super good. And yeah, it's

534
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,240
just fun collecting all these crazy little bots. And for

535
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,400
all of them, you can, like once you collect them,

536
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,240
you can go and you spend coins to get upgrades

537
00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:14,440
for them, and they get like a different not really upgrades,

538
00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:16,400
more just like a little prop that they get with it.

539
00:23:16,759 --> 00:23:17,960
So like you know a lot of people have like

540
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,920
a sword that they'll get or things like that. Kirkland,

541
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,039
I got the what's her name, Eve is the Stellar

542
00:23:23,039 --> 00:23:26,160
Blade character. Yeah, she's one of the bots, and her

543
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,839
prop is like the vending machine and then you like

544
00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:31,119
interact with her and like a bunch of cans pop

545
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,200
out and she like fumbles the ground and stuff. So

546
00:23:33,559 --> 00:23:35,200
it was just after I got all of them, I

547
00:23:35,279 --> 00:23:37,240
just like walked around the home base and interacted with

548
00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:39,200
all of them because it was just funny to seeing

549
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,799
all the like all these little besmoke animations they made

550
00:23:41,839 --> 00:23:43,680
for what it has no gameplay purpose, but it's just

551
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,640
a fun little thing to find at the base. So

552
00:23:45,759 --> 00:23:49,400
just has such a joyful game. Can't can't recommend it enough.

553
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,319
It's super duper good. And then yeah, the other the

554
00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:54,839
other game I went to talk about I hinted at

555
00:23:54,839 --> 00:23:58,000
this last week is Pacific Drive. I picked this up

556
00:23:58,039 --> 00:23:59,640
when I got the PS five and I've finally been

557
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,599
playing it. For anyone who forgets what this game as

558
00:24:01,599 --> 00:24:04,200
it came out earlier this year, it's like a first

559
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,000
person driving horror game. It feels weird to call it

560
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,279
a straight up horror game. It's symore. It's like first

561
00:24:10,319 --> 00:24:13,440
person driving scary game because it doesn't it doesn't. It's

562
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,319
not framed like a horror game, but it's very mechanics focused,

563
00:24:16,319 --> 00:24:18,799
and I feel like horror games are usually more simple

564
00:24:18,799 --> 00:24:21,000
on the mechanics. Uh, So it does feel like a

565
00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:23,519
little bit of a distinction there. But yeah, the way

566
00:24:23,519 --> 00:24:25,400
this game is kind of set up, there's kind of

567
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,160
two phases to it. You're either back at your home

568
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,480
base upgrading doing things like that, or you're out driving around,

569
00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:32,599
which is like the main gameplay loop. And so for

570
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,480
that part of it, it's first of all, like very

571
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,279
it's a very simulatory and the way it comes across,

572
00:24:38,279 --> 00:24:39,799
which I is don't think I don't think it's something

573
00:24:39,799 --> 00:24:42,319
I really understood when I was watching trailers about the game.

574
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,119
But for example, as I'm doing like kind of the

575
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,319
intro teaching to the basic controls, I'm driving through and

576
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,799
then Kirkling very similar to Zomboid there, I had to

577
00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:52,359
siphon some gas out of a car because I was

578
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,079
running low. So I go stop my car right near

579
00:24:55,079 --> 00:24:58,519
this other car, get out, go siphon the gas, go

580
00:24:58,599 --> 00:25:01,000
to put it in my car, turn and because I

581
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,400
didn't put the brake on in my car, my car

582
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,960
rolled all the way down the hill. So it's that

583
00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:09,119
level of like simulatorness to it, Like every time you

584
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,960
get in your car, you have to turn it on

585
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,319
with the you know, turn the key, turn on the engine,

586
00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:16,160
put it into drive. You know the lights you have

587
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,960
to manually do that, the windshield wipers if it's raining out,

588
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,519
you have to manually do all that stuff, which I

589
00:25:21,839 --> 00:25:23,440
really like that, like there's so many people getting in

590
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,279
the car looking over, turning the key, put it into drive.

591
00:25:26,559 --> 00:25:27,960
And then even sometimes if you want to be quicker,

592
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,319
it's like I'm just gonna leave the car on and

593
00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:31,319
maybe go do this thing. So it's quicker to get

594
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:32,799
in and do it if you know you're on like

595
00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:34,119
a flat surface, you don't even have to put it

596
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:35,960
in park. But it's always a risk because if there's

597
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,480
any hill, as I mentioned, it'll just like fly down

598
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,160
the hill and be long gone. You don't want that

599
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,880
to happen because if you lose your car, you are

600
00:25:42,039 --> 00:25:44,720
f't in this game. But yeah, you're you're driving around,

601
00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:49,200
you're looting buildings, You're trying to find maybe specific resources,

602
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,599
like for example, my recent play session, I needed a

603
00:25:51,599 --> 00:25:54,160
bunch of rubber to like build some new tires at

604
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,640
my home base, and so pretty much like I was

605
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,119
ignoring a lot of the houses and things, and I

606
00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,559
was just looking for cars on the side of the

607
00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:02,400
road so I could chop up their tires get some rubber.

608
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:03,799
And so it's kind of that sort of thing. You're

609
00:26:03,799 --> 00:26:06,920
looking for specific ingredients. You're going around doing not even

610
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,920
really quest it's very simple. Sometimes you just have to

611
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,599
like activate a tower or something like that, and then

612
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,279
meanwhile you're kind of just dodging all of the threats

613
00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:16,880
that are being thrown. Yet there are some enemies, but

614
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,279
I'd say most of the threats are actually like the

615
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,039
environmental stuff, like for example, you might get like a

616
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,079
dark level where it's just extra extra dark, and you

617
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,640
gotta really be careful with like how much battery usage

618
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,279
you're doing with your head lands, and like try and

619
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,079
keep them off as much as possible and just turn

620
00:26:29,079 --> 00:26:31,720
them on when you need them, or levels with like

621
00:26:31,759 --> 00:26:35,160
heavy fog, or levels with like electrical storms, or you know,

622
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,440
there's all this game's all about. Like this, You're in

623
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,759
this weird zone where things are constantly changing and shifting

624
00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:43,039
and so like thing things are just popping out of

625
00:26:43,079 --> 00:26:45,960
the earth like huge platforms. Things are moving around, and

626
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,079
there's of course tons of debris all over the road,

627
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,160
so you always have to like drive around things or

628
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,839
drive over things, which is very risky because a couple

629
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,319
of times I got my car stuck by going on

630
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,559
for ramp and having not enough speed, so I just

631
00:26:56,559 --> 00:26:59,400
like get stuck in the crevice, which just totally screws

632
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,279
you over. So that's kind of part of it. And

633
00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:04,920
then I think the really really intense scary part about

634
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,559
all this is you're going through these areas, maybe you

635
00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:08,200
have to go like through multiple areas out of time

636
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,920
kind of more distinct levels, and then to leave, you

637
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,000
have to grab these kind of orbs I forget what

638
00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:16,240
they're called energy orbs, and they are the thing that's

639
00:27:16,279 --> 00:27:19,079
like keeping the zone intact. So as soon as you

640
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,079
grab it, the place is already starting to deteriorate around you.

641
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,119
It's like almost like a battle ral, Like there's smoke

642
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,279
coming in from around the edges of the map. Things

643
00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:29,079
are going crazy, more enemies are spawning, your controls are

644
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,319
f like your car might just be veering hard left

645
00:27:31,319 --> 00:27:33,839
and you're kind of like having to battle that while

646
00:27:33,839 --> 00:27:35,720
you have to escape. So once you grab that orb,

647
00:27:35,799 --> 00:27:37,720
like a big light on the map, like if you

648
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,240
look at the box art for the game and how

649
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:40,960
it's like this big light kind of in the rise

650
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,680
in the mountains, that's kind of what it looks like.

651
00:27:42,759 --> 00:27:44,480
It's like this huge light and you're like, Okay, I

652
00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:46,279
just got to get there as quick as possible. So

653
00:27:46,319 --> 00:27:48,279
it's usually like planning out your route a little bit

654
00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:50,559
before you grab that orb, of like is it safe

655
00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:52,000
for maybe I should leave my car over here and

656
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,640
then I can run up to get to it, that

657
00:27:53,759 --> 00:27:56,039
kind of thing, And it's just super fun and man,

658
00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:57,799
those moments at the end of the level when you

659
00:27:57,839 --> 00:28:00,920
grab that orb are so intense all the time. Even

660
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,960
if I'm on like the most basic easy part of

661
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,880
the map, easy level, it's still like my heart is racing.

662
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,880
The music gets intense. It's just always scary because there's

663
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,160
so much unpredictable stuff that's gonna happen. So that core

664
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,240
gameplay with the car stuff driving around is super engaging.

665
00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:17,400
It's just I just love driving games and so having

666
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,880
again that's like all about the driving and like no

667
00:28:20,039 --> 00:28:22,039
combat really is. It's just really fun.

668
00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:25,039
Speaker 3: I love it that. I mean, you're convincing me. I

669
00:28:25,079 --> 00:28:26,759
feel like I was already so on the fence, and

670
00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:29,039
then I think I was mentioning to you last time

671
00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:30,640
I was on it. I was like watching some more

672
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,319
gameplay and I'm like, I don't know, I don't know

673
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,480
if I'm still so hot on this game. But after

674
00:28:34,519 --> 00:28:36,319
hearing all that, I feel like it's right up my alley.

675
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,559
I was gonna ask though, like, since the game is

676
00:28:39,559 --> 00:28:41,720
basically just you driving, like how does it feel like?

677
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,240
I feel like there's different levels of driving games where yeah,

678
00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:47,400
you know, like GTA driving, it's like it just is

679
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,559
so smooth, it feels so good. And then sometimes other

680
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,920
racing games, Like it's really blocky and like sometimes it's

681
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,920
not always like the most responsive, like is it does

682
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,079
it feel good? Like especially when it's chaotic and you're

683
00:28:56,119 --> 00:28:58,640
trying to escape these these areas you get the orbs

684
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,279
like I I've seen gameplay and you're I'm assuming it

685
00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:04,000
is those moments, like it seems pretty crazy and every

686
00:29:04,079 --> 00:29:06,680
little uh split decision kind of matters when you're going,

687
00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:08,400
you know, buck twenty down the highway.

688
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: It does, Yeah, I mean it, it does. Like the

689
00:29:12,039 --> 00:29:14,720
controls by default are really good. The weirdest thing about

690
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,559
it is like how many first person driving games does

691
00:29:17,599 --> 00:29:20,319
anyone play? You know, unless you're like in an arcade

692
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,319
and you have like the stick, you know, like the

693
00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:24,799
whole setup, Like in that situation, you might play as

694
00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:26,839
a first person perspective, but for the most part, like

695
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,200
most driving games even GTA like have the first person mode.

696
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,920
You can do it, but like I don't know a

697
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,880
single person who actually uses that, right, So it is weird.

698
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,559
It's weird to feel like, oh, I can't see anything,

699
00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:39,960
and like if I want to look behind me, I

700
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,599
can't just click. You know, mostion games, like you can

701
00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:43,000
click in the stick and you can see the back

702
00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:45,160
vision right any racing game, but unless you have like

703
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,839
turn your head around and then who knows what you're

704
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,519
driving into, or you have your rearview mirror, but like

705
00:29:49,519 --> 00:29:51,039
it's kind of hard to see in it. It's a

706
00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:53,559
little and it also runs it like a lower frame rate.

707
00:29:53,599 --> 00:29:56,039
I noticed, like the render in the rear view is

708
00:29:56,119 --> 00:29:59,480
kind of JANKI So that's like the most disorienting part

709
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,960
about it. That you're driving through trees, tight gaps sometimes,

710
00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:05,759
but since you don't have that like full sense of

711
00:30:05,759 --> 00:30:07,640
how big your body is, it kind of throws you off.

712
00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:09,319
Especially once again, you're in a car right, so you're

713
00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:11,279
in the left side of it, so it's like, okay,

714
00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:13,160
there's a bit I'm a bit chunkier on the right

715
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,440
side of my vision, you know, So like that part

716
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,880
of it kind of throws you off a little bit.

717
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,000
The controls, though, are great. I think a big part

718
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,680
of it is that you're upgrading you can change your

719
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,759
car in specific ways. But then also part of it

720
00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:26,880
is that you're like, you know, part it's it's kind

721
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,440
of a roguelike game. I don't actually know how it's

722
00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:32,599
working or how much these levels are predesigned. Or if

723
00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:35,160
there's random generation to them. I can't really tell that

724
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,279
so far, but there are things like there are quirks

725
00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:39,200
that happen to your car. So as I mentioned, sometimes

726
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,839
when it just these crazy electrical storms and your controls

727
00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:44,720
are getting messed up. So that's a part of it.

728
00:30:44,799 --> 00:30:46,720
But then you'll have other things like a funny thing

729
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,759
that's happened in my car, every time I close the trunk,

730
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,279
my horn honks, which doesn't seem like a big deal,

731
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:54,839
and it's not that one's just like a visual one.

732
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,920
But then another thing is every time I reverse, my

733
00:30:57,039 --> 00:30:59,680
hood like flies up out of my car until i'm

734
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,240
driving forward again, which I'm driving backwards. I don't normally

735
00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:04,440
need to see forward at that point. But those are

736
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,000
like things on top of it that I feel like

737
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,240
your car gets these weird little abilities or disabilities to

738
00:31:09,279 --> 00:31:11,119
it that kind of throws off your ability to control

739
00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:13,359
it as well. So yeah, but I think in terms

740
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,759
of the actual driving, it feels really good. But then

741
00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:17,359
in part of it too is I'm still I feel

742
00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:19,079
like I'm fairly early on. I don't have a ton

743
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,480
of upgrades, and a big thing is like you have

744
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:23,519
all these different tires, you know where you start with

745
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:25,880
like spare tires, then you can get summer tires. I

746
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,279
just unlock like all seasons or I just unlocked off roads,

747
00:31:29,279 --> 00:31:31,359
but then there is all season tires as well, and

748
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,279
so so far right now, when I'm like on a

749
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:35,799
dirt road, the controls are like pretty rough. It's hard

750
00:31:35,839 --> 00:31:38,359
to control intentionally so right, but it's because I still

751
00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:39,799
have a bunch of summer tires in my car and

752
00:31:39,839 --> 00:31:41,640
it's not really designed for that kind of thing. So

753
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,559
there's also that part of it. You can customize it

754
00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:46,519
that experience as you're going along, and you know you

755
00:31:46,519 --> 00:31:48,920
can choose because there's a downside or pro pro or

756
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,680
con summer tires are better on the road than these

757
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,359
off roads that I have, Right, So it's kind of

758
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,319
like what do I want to prioritize And you won't

759
00:31:55,359 --> 00:31:57,039
always know like what the map is going to look

760
00:31:57,039 --> 00:31:59,480
like that you're gonna have to go to I guess

761
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,759
Kirk before you just straight up go to the store

762
00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:04,079
and buy it. I think a big part of this game,

763
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,119
and like it's even more than I expected, is the

764
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,960
customization and like the maintenance of your vehicle. This game

765
00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:13,960
is like a very much like a resource gathering, building

766
00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:17,200
crafting sort of game at the same time, where usually

767
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,480
it's like after every level you go back to your garage, which,

768
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,000
first of all, I love the garage. Every time I

769
00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:23,839
get there, I go over, I turn on the radio system,

770
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,079
I check my fax machine to see if I got

771
00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:29,160
any messages, which are like weird messages. They don't make sense.

772
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,359
I'm trying to figure them out. Right now. I go around.

773
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,440
There's this mysterious dumpster that shoots freeing resources, so I

774
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,680
still grab my resources, and then I, okay, I go check.

775
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,079
I go check my car status. I look around. Okay,

776
00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:42,240
we got red on the head lamps, we got read

777
00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:44,960
on the right back door. Okay, let me decide do

778
00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:47,400
I want to destroy this door and build a new

779
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,319
one or do I want to repair this one? And

780
00:32:49,359 --> 00:32:51,519
I feel like that balance of it. I love it.

781
00:32:51,599 --> 00:32:54,400
I love that moment, that downtime, especially after the stress

782
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,720
of like the scary parts. Yeah, but just hanging out

783
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,559
in the garage, like I'm spending a lot of time there,

784
00:32:58,799 --> 00:33:00,960
upgrading my vehicle, seeing what I can upgrade, what kind

785
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,160
of skill tree thing can I go down, deciding with

786
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,000
the resources I have. Okay, I'm not gonna be able

787
00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:07,799
to build this thing. Maybe I'll just repair it here,

788
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,119
or actually I want to save this resource for the

789
00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:12,400
repairing stuff, so I'm actually gonna just build it from scratch.

790
00:33:13,079 --> 00:33:14,440
Or maybe I just want to risk it and say,

791
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,000
you know what, I'm not even gonna put a hood

792
00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:17,799
on my car for this mission. My engine's gonna be

793
00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:20,039
more vulnerable. But like, maybe I just want to save

794
00:33:20,079 --> 00:33:22,160
some resources at this point in time, or maybe I

795
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,799
want to take my right door off and put it

796
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,759
on my driver door so I'm more protected there because

797
00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:29,000
I only have one at a time. So I really

798
00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:31,000
like that part, But I feel like some people might

799
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:33,440
not if they just want to drive around. I think

800
00:33:34,079 --> 00:33:35,400
you would like that kind of thing.

801
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 3: I feel like that's I mean, it sounds like zomboid.

802
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,799
Speaker 1: It actually does a lot of things you're saying. Sounded

803
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:42,720
very similar to Pacific Drive in that way, but there

804
00:33:42,759 --> 00:33:44,519
is a lot of that, and I feel like it's

805
00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:46,759
gonna get more and more tears and layers and levels

806
00:33:46,759 --> 00:33:48,440
to it as it goes along, and then like the

807
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,160
strategy and when you get to scarier areas that require

808
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,839
more precise kind of building of your vehicle. On top

809
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,079
of all that, there's all sorts of cosmetics you can

810
00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:59,079
do right for your car, getting bobble heads, things hanging

811
00:33:59,119 --> 00:34:02,880
from the rearview mirror, putting decals and stickers on, and

812
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,440
that stuff's really fun as well. But yeah, there's a

813
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,880
lot of like mechanical stuff of like how your car

814
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,559
is operating at this point in time. So yeah, I

815
00:34:09,559 --> 00:34:12,039
don't know, if you're into that, then I think you'll

816
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:13,960
If you like the driving and you like that building part,

817
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,599
then that's that's pretty much what the game is. It's

818
00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:16,559
really just those two havels.

819
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 3: I mean, I was very impressed, Like the first time

820
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,239
we even saw the game, it just seemed really unique

821
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,400
and to have a survival game wrapped around or like

822
00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:28,519
just focused on driving a vehicle, especially first person, it's

823
00:34:28,599 --> 00:34:31,639
just really unique concept and so you to hear that

824
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:34,239
you're really loving it, So yeah, I'm definitely it's gonna

825
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,119
be more of my focus.

826
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, a couple couple last points on it, Like,

827
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,480
as I said, to like the cars mechanics very in depth.

828
00:34:41,559 --> 00:34:44,159
I really really like that. Like even sometimes midway through

829
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:45,880
the level, in your trunk you have of course a

830
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,920
big storage box and then you also have a crafting

831
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,159
bench there, so a lot of times, like mid level,

832
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:51,599
you'll have to like, Okay, I gotta get out and

833
00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:53,840
I gotta fix my car, and you like that. There's

834
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,440
a time crunch of that too, of like sometimes this

835
00:34:56,519 --> 00:34:59,320
place is the instability, here is growing, this place is

836
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,440
gonna did hear second? But I really need to get

837
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,320
a new tire on because I have a flat, So

838
00:35:03,599 --> 00:35:06,039
like the decisions like that are really fun too, and

839
00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:08,480
even like yeah, like just to keeping making sure you're

840
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,880
not burning your battery and leaving your lights on too much.

841
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,559
But sometimes these levels are so dark and I don't

842
00:35:12,599 --> 00:35:15,320
have like a flashlight yet, so I'm like angling my car,

843
00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:17,480
so the headlights are like aiming at this thing that

844
00:35:17,519 --> 00:35:19,719
I'm gonna go scrap. But then it's like, okay, I'm

845
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,760
risking the battery here. But it's like I don't know,

846
00:35:22,039 --> 00:35:24,800
a lot of really fun little decisions, but then also

847
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,719
bigger decisions mixed in there. And then, Kirklin, if you

848
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,159
weren't already sold, here's one more thing that I absolutely

849
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:32,119
love is like, as I said, you can like rip

850
00:35:32,159 --> 00:35:33,599
off maybe like the pane off the side of your

851
00:35:33,599 --> 00:35:35,559
car or a hood or attire, and you can go

852
00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:38,039
put it in this thing that is exactly like the

853
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:41,119
recycler from Prey where you stick it in and gobbles

854
00:35:41,159 --> 00:35:42,840
it up and then it shoots out things all over

855
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,159
the ground that make fun little clinking noises that they

856
00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:49,280
bop around on your on your garage floor there. It

857
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,039
also has a bit of a like death Loop Dark

858
00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:55,119
Messiah kick in it, which is very weird because there's

859
00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:57,440
no animation, like there's no visual for your foot. It's

860
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,480
just like it is a mechanic thing. And at first

861
00:36:00,519 --> 00:36:01,519
I was like, I don't even know what to do

862
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:03,440
with this, Like there's not really enemies that you're kicking.

863
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,440
And then eventually I accidentally kicked my car and it

864
00:36:06,559 --> 00:36:08,800
like moved it a substantial amount, and I was like, oh,

865
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,920
if I get my car stuck, I'm supposed to like

866
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,079
boot it out, and I'm sure I'm like denting it

867
00:36:13,119 --> 00:36:15,920
and stuff as I'm doing that. But yeah, it's it's

868
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,599
it's very satisfying when that happens. But yeah, then like

869
00:36:18,599 --> 00:36:20,440
all the like the scrapping features, like you have like

870
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,280
this big chainsaw type thing, and that's when you're going around,

871
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,480
you're ripping up a car, so you're like this is

872
00:36:25,639 --> 00:36:27,920
drilling through like the tires to get the resources out,

873
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,840
and then like yeah, all the little ingredients as they

874
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,159
pop out, because very much like Prey in that way.

875
00:36:32,159 --> 00:36:34,800
And then you also have like a shop shop shop

876
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,960
like vacuum whatever those are called, and that's really trying

877
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,039
to like yeah shop back to like suck up all

878
00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:42,760
the like ingredients off the ground too. It's just it's

879
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,199
just very like very satisfying. I think this game as well,

880
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,400
Like visually, it's not blowing me away necessarily, Like it's

881
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,679
good vibes, good atmosphere, and there's a lot of like

882
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,039
pop into So it's not. No, don't expect like a

883
00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:57,320
Triple A level experience. I kind of maybe expected it

884
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,480
to be that because it's not on PS four. It's

885
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,639
only on PS so I maybe expected a bit more.

886
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,000
I don't know. Maybe it's a very complicated game and

887
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,719
it couldn't run on the PS four. We're not sure,

888
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,360
but yeah, I guess maybe set your expectations there. It's

889
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,039
definitely not a Triple A like millions of dollar budget game.

890
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,440
But I'm like eight hours in so far loving it,

891
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,719
and I feel like I've really only scratched the surface.

892
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,280
There's like tiers of difficulty the areas you're going to,

893
00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:22,800
and I haven't even gotten to like the second area yet,

894
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,440
so yeah, it's it seems like there's a lot to it,

895
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,320
and even like my skill trees and stuff, there are

896
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,360
so many things I need to get on there still,

897
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,079
So yeah, it's it's a really great game. Really loving it.

898
00:37:33,079 --> 00:37:35,400
It's just weird and unique and different. Like I just

899
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,280
love the mix of genres that it has here. It's

900
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:39,960
kind of feels like something I've never played before, and

901
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,920
that's cool. In the year twenty twenty four, whenever that happens,

902
00:37:43,159 --> 00:37:43,519
I feel like.

903
00:37:43,559 --> 00:37:45,119
Speaker 3: That's another thing I was curious about was just the

904
00:37:45,119 --> 00:37:47,119
overall length of it, just because it's it is like

905
00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:50,519
a more indie game, so sometimes those games are usually

906
00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:52,719
a little bit shorter, but sounds like, yea, all lots

907
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:53,400
of content there.

908
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know how long. I'm gonna guess,

909
00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:59,480
like maybe twenty hours if you're playing at the rate

910
00:37:59,599 --> 00:38:02,679
I am, mm hmm. And I'm also on like maybe

911
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,320
not the lowest. I think I'm on like the second

912
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,559
difficulty and there's like seven like there's like a lot

913
00:38:07,599 --> 00:38:09,559
of them, and so I wondered if, like I thought

914
00:38:09,559 --> 00:38:11,079
it would maybe it was going to be maybe a

915
00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:13,239
shorter game, and then the idea is that you beat

916
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,760
it and then okay, I'm gonna pump up the difficulty

917
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,599
now and try it again on a higher difficulty. I

918
00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:19,039
definitely want to try that at some point, but I

919
00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:21,840
feel like it's already giving me a solid amount of

920
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,639
challenge at just this one right here, So I don't

921
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:26,920
know what will happen when I when I get there.

922
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:31,840
But yeah, really really good game. Pacific Drive. It's on

923
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,039
sale right now, go pick it up.

924
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,039
Speaker 3: Hell YEA curious how like speed runners are gonna tackle

925
00:38:36,079 --> 00:38:36,519
that type.

926
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: Of Oh yeah, I definitely. Uh it's funny. As soon

927
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:40,840
as I beat Astrobot, I'm like, well, I want to

928
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,480
see some like speed run stress. I want to see

929
00:38:42,519 --> 00:38:44,559
people have blasted these levels because it is kind of

930
00:38:44,599 --> 00:38:46,519
a speed runner friendly game. But yeah, I definitely want

931
00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:48,800
to see what people do with Pacific Drive, because I'm

932
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,599
sure if you take huge risks, you could pump through

933
00:38:51,639 --> 00:38:53,719
that story. Because right now, it's like I maybe having

934
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,559
a main quest, but it's kind of further away, and

935
00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:57,679
I'm like, I'm just gonna go to a safer, closer area,

936
00:38:58,039 --> 00:39:00,000
maybe get a new road unlocked, and I'm just going

937
00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:01,920
to go for some resources right now. And I kind

938
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,400
of like that decision of like I'm gonna go for

939
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,880
a harder main quest or just like an easier one

940
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,599
to get some get some resources right now. So yeah,

941
00:39:08,639 --> 00:39:10,079
I think I think you could bust through it a

942
00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:12,360
lot quicker than I am. But yeah, there you go.

943
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,880
There is a Pacific Drive. Let's take a quick ad break.

944
00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:17,480
We'll be We'll be right back and talk about the

945
00:39:17,519 --> 00:39:24,239
Game Awards. Okay, we are back. The Game Awards is

946
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:29,079
coming up on December twelfth. These things have been going

947
00:39:29,079 --> 00:39:30,880
on for a while. The Jeff Keeley Awards, I feel

948
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,639
like the last few years they've really been growing and growing.

949
00:39:32,679 --> 00:39:35,360
They're kind of the biggest award show for games that

950
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,960
happens every year. We're gonna start out with some predictions

951
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,559
here of the awards, and then afterwards we'll do some

952
00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:44,360
predictions or maybe talk about some announcements that we would

953
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,079
like to see. Can one of you pull up the

954
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,239
do maybe a screen share and pull up the website

955
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,840
and go through the categories. I'll write down the predictions,

956
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,079
but if one of you could do that, that would be great,

957
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,239
thank you, And I think we'll go with a reverse

958
00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:00,480
order reverse order. Rather, we'll start with most anticipated and

959
00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:02,679
then we'll go all the way up to game. Game

960
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,320
of the Year will be the last one that we do.

961
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,840
I'll remind you, guys, how this works for the Game Awards.

962
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,920
How this jury, like, how these things get picked, is

963
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,239
that the Game Awards has selected a jury of like

964
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,000
I don't know, it's like one hundred or one hundred

965
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,760
and fifty something like that. Outlets, which are things like

966
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:24,719
IGNA Game Spot. There are things like video game podcasts

967
00:40:25,079 --> 00:40:27,679
and random news sites. So those are the jury members.

968
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,000
And for each category here, so game of the Year,

969
00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:33,840
best Sports, best sim for each category, all these outlets

970
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,880
they individually pick five games that they want to submit

971
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,239
for each category. It is not ranked, so it's not

972
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,159
like they pick, our game of the Year is Astrobot

973
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,760
and our fifth Game of the Year is Eldon Ring DLC. Like,

974
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,599
they just pick five and they throw them all in

975
00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:49,960
the hat there, okay, and then all of those things

976
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:53,840
get tabulated up. That's equal to ninety percent of the vote.

977
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,760
And then the other ten percent of the vote is

978
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,000
the fan vote. So anyone including you the listener or

979
00:40:59,079 --> 00:41:01,000
US three on this podcas here we can go on

980
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:03,559
the website, make an account, and then we pick one.

981
00:41:03,679 --> 00:41:05,239
So this is a bit different here where you can

982
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,960
only pick, of course, one of these nominees, whereas the

983
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,000
people on the jury can pick whatever games they want.

984
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:12,519
But yeah, everyone can go on do that. You pick

985
00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:15,119
one game from the list for each category, and that

986
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,000
overall gets added together and that's ten percent of the vote.

987
00:41:18,639 --> 00:41:20,480
So I think it's I like to bring that up

988
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,280
because I feel like it is a bit different than

989
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,079
what maybe people expect. And and then in the case that,

990
00:41:26,159 --> 00:41:29,119
like you know, there's sixth Game of the year nominees,

991
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,679
maybe out that it didn't even pick any of those games,

992
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,719
you know, like it's possible that it happens. It kind

993
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,480
of becomes a popularity contest. But also it can mean

994
00:41:36,519 --> 00:41:39,039
that it doesn't necessarily matter what people pick as their

995
00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:41,760
individual game of the year. It's more of like what

996
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,119
is the game that ends up in most people's top five?

997
00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:47,800
So I don't know, that's just kind of how it goes. Yeah.

998
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,159
Another thing too, is like the jury is, I'm sure

999
00:41:50,159 --> 00:41:53,159
there's most or if not a lot of them are

1000
00:41:53,199 --> 00:41:57,400
like American companies, but it is worldwide. There are outlets

1001
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,360
and stuff from all over the world that vote on this.

1002
00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:02,320
So I think that's maybe there's a couple of games

1003
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:03,519
in here that you might be like what I feel like,

1004
00:42:03,519 --> 00:42:05,400
I haven't heard people talk about this, but maybe it's

1005
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,280
just like huge in China or huge in Japan or

1006
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,239
huge in South America, something like that, right, So that

1007
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,480
can be part of it. Are you guys ready to

1008
00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:13,000
go some predictions here? Let's do it.

1009
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 3: I'll pull it up here.

1010
00:42:14,519 --> 00:42:16,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, do a little screen share. Yeah, let's start with

1011
00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:18,760
We're gonna skip the esports categories because we don't know

1012
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,920
anything about that. We're gonna spick skip Content Creator because

1013
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,679
I don't know who these people are. Every year they

1014
00:42:24,679 --> 00:42:26,079
pick people, I'm like, I've never heard of them. I'm

1015
00:42:26,079 --> 00:42:28,400
sure they're doing great, not sure who they are. Let's

1016
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,639
start with most Anticipated and then we'll go backwards. So

1017
00:42:33,119 --> 00:42:40,639
the nominees you're good for most Anticipated game are Death

1018
00:42:40,679 --> 00:42:45,400
Stranding two. Uh oh, yeah, I forgot the subtitle on

1019
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,239
the Beach, Death Stranding two on the Beach, of course,

1020
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,639
Ghost of Yotai, Grand Theft, Auto six, Metroid Prime four Beyond,

1021
00:42:52,199 --> 00:42:57,039
and Monster Hunter Wilds. Is this if this is not

1022
00:42:57,119 --> 00:42:58,920
the most obvious category? I don't know what is.

1023
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,559
Speaker 3: I would put my chips on GTA six for this vote.

1024
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, I would as well.

1025
00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:08,519
Speaker 2: I would third that as well.

1026
00:43:09,159 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 3: What do you guys think? I think it's an interesting

1027
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:12,440
I was gonna say, I feel like it's an interesting

1028
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,440
discussion for the second game. Perhapsah, you know, a couple

1029
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,920
of those are like PlayStation exclusive, so obviously that like

1030
00:43:19,079 --> 00:43:20,920
cuts out a lot of the audience.

1031
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: But potentially, yeah, I think I would say maybe that's

1032
00:43:26,079 --> 00:43:30,760
I don't even KNOWE.

1033
00:43:29,159 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 3: Like two as well, but I'm just not sure how

1034
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:32,840
big that popular.

1035
00:43:33,679 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: I might say number two is Metroid Actually that would

1036
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,920
be my my potential guess, but I don't know.

1037
00:43:39,079 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 3: I like Monster Hunter anything anything, but I don't know.

1038
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: I feel like that would be the number five on

1039
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:45,480
this list.

1040
00:43:46,079 --> 00:43:48,159
Speaker 3: I feel like Monster Hunter could be like a surprise

1041
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,880
like Eastern Pick though that's just like a million people

1042
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:51,599
are playing that game.

1043
00:43:51,639 --> 00:43:52,079
Speaker 1: Potential.

1044
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 3: That's really where those rookiere numbers come in.

1045
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, true, true, Okay, cool, we can move on

1046
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,000
to the next week. You can hit previous at the time.

1047
00:44:00,559 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 3: Just take you at first, I was just pulling up

1048
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:03,119
all categories.

1049
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's that's a mess. All right, best adaptation

1050
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,559
recognizing outstanding crative work that faithfully and authentically adapts a

1051
00:44:09,639 --> 00:44:17,360
video game. Of course, Knuckles. We have Arcane, Fallout like

1052
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,840
a Dragon, Yakuza, and tomb Raider the Legend of lore Croft,

1053
00:44:22,079 --> 00:44:25,000
which showed out to my friend David from the Switchheads podcast.

1054
00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:31,519
He's works on tomb Raider, so shows too. Shows. Yeah, Knuckles.

1055
00:44:31,519 --> 00:44:34,239
I feel like this is a category always where it's like, well,

1056
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,320
there aren't that many adaptations. But it's funny that like

1057
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,760
Knuckles beat out border Lands for example, Like that's what

1058
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,559
kind of comes to my mind when I see that.

1059
00:44:41,199 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 4: I think it, Yeah, Knuckles beating Borlins.

1060
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:44,519
Speaker 2: This makes sense.

1061
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: It makes sense, really, Taylor, you don't like either of those,

1062
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:51,719
I guess, but you'd still put Knuckles above Borderlines.

1063
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 4: I'd put Knuckles over Borderlines for Sureorlans. I just yeah,

1064
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,800
I mean it's not here for a reason, but at all.

1065
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,159
I'd put my money on Fallow all of these. But

1066
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,519
I haven't seen Arcane. I haven't seen or tomb Raiders,

1067
00:45:04,559 --> 00:45:05,519
so I'm very limited.

1068
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,679
Speaker 1: Arcane is so fresh right because I it's like mid

1069
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:13,639
November when the cutoff happens. M I feel like, when

1070
00:45:13,639 --> 00:45:16,280
did Arcane come out like it came out like mid November, right,

1071
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:17,960
Like I'm sure some of these outlets would have had

1072
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:20,679
access maybe, but even then, like I don't know, is

1073
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,679
Netflix give early access to people for things.

1074
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,039
Speaker 3: I don't think so, I wouldn't imagine.

1075
00:45:26,519 --> 00:45:28,559
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna follow and Taylor footeps here.

1076
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,079
I think I'm gonna go Followed as well, just because

1077
00:45:30,079 --> 00:45:33,800
I feel like that might be a bit bit against Arcane.

1078
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,480
I feel like Followed is still talked about, Like it's

1079
00:45:35,519 --> 00:45:37,480
not like a show that came out and people forgot about.

1080
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,239
I think people are still pretty hot on it. And yeah,

1081
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,000
people loved it across the board.

1082
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put all my chips on Arcane for this one.

1083
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,079
I respect that bias pic and I don't know, I

1084
00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:49,920
just feel like it's a it's a nice juicer right

1085
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:51,920
on the Netflix. I feel like that's the biggest, the

1086
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,719
biggest streamer out of all these guys.

1087
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, yeah, yeah. For me, I think it's

1088
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,239
it's really just down to the release date of that one,

1089
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,039
and then I think maybe screws it a bit. Okay,

1090
00:46:02,119 --> 00:46:07,800
next category is best multiplayer. We have Call of Duty six,

1091
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,760
Call of Duty Black Ops six rather Hell Divers two,

1092
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,440
Super Mario Party, Jamburee tech and eight and Warhammer forty K,

1093
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:19,960
Space Marine two. Any anything jumping out at you guys

1094
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:20,199
on this.

1095
00:46:24,079 --> 00:46:27,199
Speaker 3: I feel like for me, it's between Tecan and Call

1096
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,320
of Duty. Call of Duty is just like always a

1097
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,960
nice relevant one. I Tecan's like the more relevant of

1098
00:46:35,039 --> 00:46:38,679
the Arcade Fighters, I would imagine, But I don't know.

1099
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,760
I feel like Call of Duty's just everybody's playing Call

1100
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,760
of Duty and they didn't they release the whole game

1101
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,760
on Game Pass as well, Like that's a lot more

1102
00:46:46,039 --> 00:46:49,360
audience exposure. Sure, a lot less people are gonna be

1103
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,559
playing something like Techan, but again, like I don't know

1104
00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:55,039
if that really affects the overall numbers if people just

1105
00:46:55,119 --> 00:46:56,000
are judging it on.

1106
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I think about like that would be

1107
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,599
relevant to me for like the ten percent fan vote

1108
00:47:01,599 --> 00:47:05,559
of it, but like the ninety jury vote, like I

1109
00:47:05,559 --> 00:47:08,400
would imagine most of those. Oh, let's have like someone

1110
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,400
on the team was a tecing fan or a fighting

1111
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,480
game fan, you know. Yeah, yeah, I feel like it's funny.

1112
00:47:13,519 --> 00:47:15,639
I find it funny that Mario Party is in here.

1113
00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:17,960
So this is this is normally the category for like

1114
00:47:18,039 --> 00:47:21,679
first person shooters, just like I have Mario Party in there,

1115
00:47:21,679 --> 00:47:23,960
although it did you know, come up with some new

1116
00:47:24,039 --> 00:47:26,440
multiplayer mechanics for a Mario Party game this time around,

1117
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,199
with the kind of battle reality sort of element or

1118
00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:32,239
that that game mode to it. I'm gonna sorry, curtain,

1119
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:33,199
did you pick.

1120
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:38,119
Speaker 3: Your I'll go, Taytor. How is that multiplayer? Are you

1121
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:39,760
enjoying it?

1122
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:40,159
Speaker 1: A buggy?

1123
00:47:41,599 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 3: I haven't had any movements the city.

1124
00:47:43,599 --> 00:47:45,599
Speaker 1: The omni movement is fucking annoying.

1125
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:46,519
Speaker 2: I hate it.

1126
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,679
Speaker 4: By the time I'm turning around a corner, the guys

1127
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:50,960
already like gliding.

1128
00:47:50,639 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 2: Through the air, popping me. I can't move that fast.

1129
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,559
Speaker 3: Glide and popper, glide and popper. I think I'm gonna

1130
00:47:57,559 --> 00:47:59,599
side with the Gliden popper though, I'm gonna go call you.

1131
00:48:01,679 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: I am gonna go with uh. I'm gonna go with

1132
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:05,320
hell Divers too.

1133
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:05,599
Speaker 2: Here.

1134
00:48:05,679 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: I feel like this game it's just loved by everyone,

1135
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,440
like it really just it was huge, and I feel

1136
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,840
like people talk about the multiplayer part, whereas I feel

1137
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:16,960
like Call of Duty. You know a lot of people

1138
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,559
were like in the single player, or maybe they were

1139
00:48:19,639 --> 00:48:21,960
kind of if you on the multiplayer, they like the multiplayer.

1140
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:23,320
But I feel like Hell Divers is just like that's

1141
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,280
a multiplayer game and people love and I think beyond

1142
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,880
just like the actual four player co op, just like

1143
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,559
the overall community part of it and like, oh guys,

1144
00:48:32,559 --> 00:48:34,559
we got to send people to like these freaking robots

1145
00:48:34,599 --> 00:48:37,039
on the Western map. I don't play the game, but

1146
00:48:37,079 --> 00:48:38,199
you know something like that. I just feel like it

1147
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,920
was a big community multiplayer aspect to it as well.

1148
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,599
So I'm gonna go with Hell Divers on this one.

1149
00:48:45,159 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going Hell Divers as well. I just I

1150
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,280
that was dominating my feeds when it came out, and

1151
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,239
just seeing beyondgoing support for that game.

1152
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,039
Speaker 2: I think like the rallying and the.

1153
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 4: World events just conquered it. Especially when I compare it

1154
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,199
to all these even Call of Duty. I think it's

1155
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,079
just got that that stamp. Although yeah it's not on

1156
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:07,519
Xbox is PC? Was it PC first and then PlayStation

1157
00:49:08,639 --> 00:49:09,239
very same time?

1158
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:09,639
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1159
00:49:10,639 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 2: And okay PC.

1160
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then there was that debacle right where held

1161
00:49:17,119 --> 00:49:20,800
I on PC. Eventually they were like, oh, you gotta

1162
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,800
have like a Sony account now to like log in,

1163
00:49:24,039 --> 00:49:25,719
and people were really mad about that and like review

1164
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,119
bombed the game on Steam, and then I think they

1165
00:49:28,199 --> 00:49:31,480
undid it, right, Kirk rolled it back. Yeah. Yeah. So

1166
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:33,880
I don't know if how that makes people feel about

1167
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,480
it overall. I don't know if they're still salty or

1168
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,920
if they're like, yeah, I guess you undid the annoying thing.

1169
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,400
Uh But a lot of people were pretty salty about

1170
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:46,719
that at the time. Let's move on. Next category is

1171
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:51,719
best sports slash Racing. We got F one twenty four,

1172
00:49:52,119 --> 00:49:55,199
EA sports FC twenty five, NBA two K twenty five,

1173
00:49:55,679 --> 00:49:59,000
Top Spin two K twenty five, and w w E

1174
00:49:59,079 --> 00:50:00,760
two K twenty four. So of course all of us

1175
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,920
here play a little WWE on the twenty four hour stream.

1176
00:50:04,679 --> 00:50:08,079
Uh Man, top Spin, I feel like that's not one

1177
00:50:08,119 --> 00:50:08,679
you hear about.

1178
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,079
Speaker 3: There's a reason it was really good this year.

1179
00:50:14,119 --> 00:50:16,159
Speaker 1: Man, I'm really out of my depth on this one.

1180
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,239
I I don't know what to say. I think I

1181
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,480
might just do eya sports FC.

1182
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:23,280
Speaker 2: That's a safe pick.

1183
00:50:23,639 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 4: It's a shot between racing and soccer. I mean, it's

1184
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:28,400
got down to those two.

1185
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with the Spinner. I'm

1186
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,000
gonna go top Spin two K twenty five. I feel

1187
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,320
like I keep like FIFA for me peaked in like

1188
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,920
twenty thirteen, and I feel like, now I just get

1189
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,320
videos of just like the ball going right through a

1190
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,800
defender or something, and it's just like the same glitchy

1191
00:50:46,119 --> 00:50:49,840
game that I like, I remember, and uh, I don't.

1192
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:51,800
Speaker 1: Know, it's just a strikers you're thinking of the.

1193
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 3: Both fuck both of those games. Give me Fifa Street,

1194
00:50:56,039 --> 00:51:00,280
give me a modern Pifa Street. And then I love fun,

1195
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,079
but I feel like it's just a niche audience. But

1196
00:51:03,199 --> 00:51:06,760
I don't know, maybe not maybe maybe more more numerous

1197
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,079
than I think. And then two K has just got

1198
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,320
It's like it's a weird one where like the game's great,

1199
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:19,159
but it's just like mungery whoa which developed THEA? Sorry?

1200
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 1: Or the top?

1201
00:51:20,159 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 2: Which?

1202
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:20,760
Speaker 1: Two K?

1203
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,199
Speaker 2: Yeah there's three two ks?

1204
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, I forgot you guys, aren't two K fans.

1205
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:27,599
I feel like two K is just what's known as

1206
00:51:27,679 --> 00:51:30,400
NBA two K. So there you go, NBA two K

1207
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,320
twenty five. That's what I'm saying for.

1208
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:38,039
Speaker 1: Not costly Kirkland. I recently learned about just how savage

1209
00:51:38,039 --> 00:51:40,159
the monetization is in NBA two K.

1210
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 3: It's insane, and I was.

1211
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: So mad, even though I don't play or care about it.

1212
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:49,159
I was like, this is just I people are just

1213
00:51:49,159 --> 00:51:51,320
getting juiced and squeezed for all their worth on this

1214
00:51:51,519 --> 00:51:51,960
every year.

1215
00:51:52,199 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 3: Every year they get juiced. Yeah, I know, Like I

1216
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,280
I love that game, Like I I think I have

1217
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,039
like over one hundred plus hours on like two K

1218
00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:00,800
twenty one. I think it was like the first one

1219
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,039
on the next gen, just because it looked so good

1220
00:52:03,119 --> 00:52:05,239
on like the new consoles and like I just really

1221
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,679
really got into that one. But like, I don't understand

1222
00:52:07,679 --> 00:52:09,599
how people can just buy these games every year and

1223
00:52:09,639 --> 00:52:12,320
then like buy the virtual currency because you start at

1224
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,079
like a base level and that's like your character for everything,

1225
00:52:15,119 --> 00:52:17,079
and the only way to get higher is by the

1226
00:52:17,159 --> 00:52:21,239
virtual currency, which is just yeah, it's it's atrocious.

1227
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,639
Speaker 1: All right. Is the college football game that you've been

1228
00:52:22,679 --> 00:52:25,320
playing with that? Did that come out this year? It did.

1229
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 3: I'm actually surprised that it's not on here.

1230
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,280
Speaker 1: I thought I was expecting to hear like maybe over

1231
00:52:29,559 --> 00:52:31,440
did you actually hear stuff about top soon or are

1232
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:32,239
you meming on that?

1233
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 3: I know it's meaning I'm still I'm picking it. I'm

1234
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,559
going with Topspin. I like the two people on the

1235
00:52:39,559 --> 00:52:40,079
front there.

1236
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh but yeah, I was kind of surprised not

1237
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,360
to see yell like even maybe over W tow B

1238
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,239
as much as we had fun with GM mode there, Like,

1239
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,480
I feel like I heard kind of mixed things about

1240
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,000
the actual game itself, Like I don't know, I feel

1241
00:52:54,039 --> 00:52:56,800
like they just WB games in general, people have a

1242
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,320
lower bar. The GM mode is sick.

1243
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 3: I love it mode is sick. I know, I completely agree,

1244
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,000
because I feel like college football was like the one

1245
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,280
where a lot of reviewers were saying, like, like EA

1246
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,320
Sports actually made like a good football game for the

1247
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,159
first time in forever, which is funny because they came

1248
00:53:14,159 --> 00:53:15,599
out with that game and then like shortly after they

1249
00:53:15,599 --> 00:53:17,440
came out with just the Madden game that comes out

1250
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,400
of this year, and like the reviews were terrible on it,

1251
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,679
like it's like it's barely improved from last year. So

1252
00:53:21,679 --> 00:53:23,280
it seemed like a lot of the focus was on

1253
00:53:23,559 --> 00:53:25,760
the college football game, which feels a lot different from

1254
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:30,639
the other Maddens. It's actually fun to play, not super frustrating.

1255
00:53:30,679 --> 00:53:32,639
Speaker 1: But I saw you were playing some more of that

1256
00:53:32,679 --> 00:53:33,519
the other night.

1257
00:53:33,679 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 3: Oh you're still still Travis message he said he's been

1258
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:37,880
playing more Madden, so like.

1259
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 1: Oh, I gotta keep training up for next year.

1260
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,079
Speaker 3: Joy Sticks Cooking. Yeah, exactly, joy Sticks Cooking.

1261
00:53:44,119 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: I love that, Taylor Resard. Did you pick EA sports

1262
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,360
as well? Yeah, I'm picking any A sports. People love soccer.

1263
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,800
People love soccer. It's true. They also love football. And

1264
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,440
we're moving on to best sim and strategy game. All right,

1265
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,440
So we have Age of Mythol Retold aka the game

1266
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:07,559
that doesn't work on Kirkland's Unfortunately, we got Frost Punk two, Kanitsagami,

1267
00:54:07,639 --> 00:54:12,199
Path of the Goddess, Manner Lords, and Unicorn Overlord. This

1268
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:13,719
is a This is a tricky one because I feel

1269
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:15,480
like we're even though these are all kind of in

1270
00:54:15,519 --> 00:54:18,360
the sim strategy sphere, I feel like they are all

1271
00:54:18,519 --> 00:54:20,679
quite different in terms of what they're going for in

1272
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,000
different scale, in different style. So this is a This

1273
00:54:25,079 --> 00:54:27,159
is a tricky one. Anything jumping note at you guys.

1274
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,599
Speaker 3: Here M Yeah, Asian mythology hurts me because obviously I've

1275
00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:33,920
never been able to play that new version. I actually

1276
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,599
had to refund the game, which is awful. Yeah, especially

1277
00:54:36,599 --> 00:54:38,239
because I just got so excited for I was looking

1278
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,639
forward to it, and I feel like because it's just

1279
00:54:40,679 --> 00:54:43,039
betrayed me in my system, and it probably is my system,

1280
00:54:43,199 --> 00:54:45,800
just something on my on my computer's end. But I'm

1281
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,320
not going to vote for it, even though I think

1282
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:51,159
it is a likely contender, because they've actually brought in

1283
00:54:51,199 --> 00:54:53,960
like a lot more of a kind of competitive online scene.

1284
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,360
So I kind of was lurking on the subreddit for it.

1285
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,679
It seems like it is fairly active, like people just

1286
00:54:59,679 --> 00:55:04,320
talking different strategies. Centaurs are incredibly overpowered apparently. I don't

1287
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:05,079
know if they've since.

1288
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 1: They deserve to be. Many years of oppression for the Centaurs,

1289
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:09,800
you know, is a fight back.

1290
00:55:10,199 --> 00:55:14,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, go watch Harry Potter, and they're hard people. I

1291
00:55:14,199 --> 00:55:17,119
think this game came out in console as well one Xbox.

1292
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,639
Speaker 1: Is that true? It just so yeah, because with all

1293
00:55:20,639 --> 00:55:23,760
the Age of Empire stuff, they've been making the console versions,

1294
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:25,199
so I think they're pretty good with it making it

1295
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:26,760
having the console parody there.

1296
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:30,280
Speaker 3: These days, so again, like that's more, that's more audience

1297
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:32,639
I guess that could be playing it. That might affect

1298
00:55:32,679 --> 00:55:37,199
the votes. I don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna go

1299
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,039
with Kanitsu Gami though, pafter the Goddess because I love

1300
00:55:40,039 --> 00:55:41,440
that name. It looks really cute and I like the

1301
00:55:41,519 --> 00:55:43,480
art style. I don't really know anything about that game, but.

1302
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you would be potentially into it. It's

1303
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,800
on game Pass as well. I actually played it recently

1304
00:55:49,199 --> 00:55:51,480
and didn't really play it long enough to feel like

1305
00:55:51,519 --> 00:55:54,519
I should bring it up on side Quest. The controls

1306
00:55:54,519 --> 00:55:56,320
were just a little wonky to me, but like it

1307
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,360
also is more of a strategy game. But I think

1308
00:55:58,400 --> 00:55:59,800
you'd like it because it's kind of like an action

1309
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,519
and I don't want to call it tower defense, but

1310
00:56:02,519 --> 00:56:05,039
it's kind of tower defense that you have homies coming

1311
00:56:05,079 --> 00:56:07,079
through these portals and you got to set up your

1312
00:56:07,159 --> 00:56:09,119
villagers and different spots, and you can move them on

1313
00:56:09,119 --> 00:56:10,559
the fly, So that's where it's a little bit different

1314
00:56:10,559 --> 00:56:12,800
than a standard tower defense. But then also you are

1315
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:14,559
like an action guy and you can run in there

1316
00:56:14,599 --> 00:56:17,039
and slice guys up too, and there's other ways that

1317
00:56:17,079 --> 00:56:19,920
it gets evolved on. So it's it's a really interesting,

1318
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,719
cool game. I just found the controls the little stiff

1319
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,639
for my liking. I don't know. I also know the game,

1320
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:28,920
Like I just an article today it was like didn't

1321
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,360
sell very well or didn't hit their sales target at

1322
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:34,559
very least. I also I remember hearing some stuff about

1323
00:56:34,559 --> 00:56:36,519
Frostbunk too, some like negative stuff. I don't know if

1324
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:39,519
that like happened because of the delay, so I don't

1325
00:56:39,519 --> 00:56:42,280
know if it's in a good spot now. Unicorn Overlord

1326
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,039
heard really really good things about and I actually played

1327
00:56:44,039 --> 00:56:46,199
the demo for it and really enjoyed it. But I

1328
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:50,440
just feel like it's pretty niche. People loved Manor Lords.

1329
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:54,159
But it also is like an indie pick in here,

1330
00:56:54,199 --> 00:56:57,280
so it's kind of risky. I think I'm between Frostpunk

1331
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,159
and Manor Lords, and I'm just gonna go with the

1332
00:56:59,199 --> 00:57:01,840
indie pick here and go with Manor Lords somewhere a little,

1333
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,519
a little little left field nice. It's also on game

1334
00:57:05,559 --> 00:57:07,079
Pass PC. I want to download this one and check

1335
00:57:07,119 --> 00:57:09,519
it out at some point. Looks looks really cool. How

1336
00:57:09,519 --> 00:57:10,079
about you, Taylor?

1337
00:57:10,079 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 2: What do you?

1338
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:11,079
Speaker 1: What do you think it for this?

1339
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,280
Speaker 4: I'm putting my chips on Manor Lords. I feel like

1340
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,039
I've out of all these games. I mean again, I

1341
00:57:17,079 --> 00:57:19,559
have don't have the experience of playing them, but Mannor

1342
00:57:19,599 --> 00:57:21,480
Lords is the one that's been popping up on my feeds,

1343
00:57:21,519 --> 00:57:23,519
so I feel like that's got some of the.

1344
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 2: Attention right now.

1345
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:28,159
Speaker 1: Right Taylor, I think me and you maybe have picked

1346
00:57:28,199 --> 00:57:30,039
everything the same so far, so we'll see if that

1347
00:57:30,639 --> 00:57:31,039
you can.

1348
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:32,559
Speaker 4: Let me go first on the next one in case

1349
00:57:32,679 --> 00:57:35,239
I feel like I'm no, I stole one from you,

1350
00:57:35,239 --> 00:57:36,159
you stole one from me.

1351
00:57:37,199 --> 00:57:39,679
Speaker 1: All Right. We got Best Family for the best game

1352
00:57:39,719 --> 00:57:44,280
appropriate for family play, irrespective of genre or platform. We

1353
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:48,639
have astro Bought, Princess Peach, Showtime, Super Mario Party Jamboree,

1354
00:57:48,639 --> 00:57:53,559
The Legend of Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom, and the Plucky Squire. Yeah,

1355
00:57:53,559 --> 00:57:55,119
why don't you take away first year Taylor? What do

1356
00:57:55,159 --> 00:57:56,840
you think about this this cropa games?

1357
00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:58,559
Speaker 2: I feel like.

1358
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, Mario Party Jamboree, you switch it up,

1359
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,280
but I feel like ultimately it's probably gonna be Astrobot.

1360
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:11,119
Speaker 1: Okay, I've actually played all of these games a little bit.

1361
00:58:11,199 --> 00:58:14,159
I mean, Princess Peach, I just played the demo for

1362
00:58:14,239 --> 00:58:16,039
like a half an hour, so maybe it doesn't count.

1363
00:58:16,039 --> 00:58:19,800
But the rest of these I've play. I've beat Astrobot,

1364
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,000
Zelda and Plucky Squire and Mario Party have played quite

1365
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,559
a lot of as well. And yeah, interesting, this is

1366
00:58:25,599 --> 00:58:28,519
It's funny. This this category, we jokingly say, is like

1367
00:58:29,199 --> 00:58:31,000
best Family might as well just be called the best

1368
00:58:31,079 --> 00:58:33,960
Nintendo game category because it's almost always a Nintendo game

1369
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:35,320
that sweeps it. But I think this is the first

1370
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,159
year where that's not gonna be the case. And I

1371
00:58:38,199 --> 00:58:41,480
think actually Sony is swooping in here with Astrobot. I

1372
00:58:41,519 --> 00:58:43,559
mean so many I feel like every review for this

1373
00:58:43,599 --> 00:58:45,679
game was like, this is the best Mario game, or

1374
00:58:45,719 --> 00:58:48,800
this is Sony, you know, Sony did Mario better than Nintendo,

1375
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,679
all these kind of things, And I know Plucky Squire

1376
00:58:51,719 --> 00:58:53,760
didn't quite reach the heights that I think a lot

1377
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,639
of people wanted from it. Zelda is great, but I

1378
00:58:55,639 --> 00:58:56,960
also don't really think of it as much of a

1379
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,760
family game, even if even it has a cute aesthetic.

1380
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:01,559
And Mario Party I think is a great pick and

1381
00:59:01,599 --> 00:59:03,840
it is maybe the best thing to play with your family.

1382
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,599
But I'm gonna go with Astrobot here just because I

1383
00:59:06,679 --> 00:59:08,440
know there's a tendency if like a game is in

1384
00:59:08,599 --> 00:59:11,599
Game of the Year contender category and then it's in

1385
00:59:11,679 --> 00:59:14,280
other categories, it usually just wins that category, and I

1386
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:16,480
feel like I'm gonna go with that rule here for Astrobot,

1387
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,199
which is of course one of the six Game of

1388
00:59:19,239 --> 00:59:22,039
the Year contenders. So and I just finished it and

1389
00:59:22,039 --> 00:59:25,280
love it as well, so it deserves it.

1390
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,679
Speaker 3: Nice. Yeah, I think I'm just gonna go Astrobot here

1391
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:30,920
just to I don't know, switch it up from a

1392
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,800
Nintendo pick in this category. I was thinking Pete Showtime

1393
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:36,800
because it was a really cute, fun game, but there

1394
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,239
was just certain levels and stuff that I didn't like

1395
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,119
as much as others, kind of brought down some of

1396
00:59:41,159 --> 00:59:44,039
the enjoyment, like some of the tempo killers. I feel

1397
00:59:44,079 --> 00:59:45,440
like those missions were for me.

1398
00:59:45,559 --> 00:59:48,679
Speaker 1: But no, I think reviews were kind of middling ish

1399
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,159
on the game too, so it might not hype you risky.

1400
00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:54,519
All right, cool, Let's move on to the next category,

1401
00:59:54,519 --> 00:59:59,039
which is best fighting Game. We have Dragon Ball, Sparking Zero,

1402
00:59:59,239 --> 01:00:05,920
Grand Blue, Fantasy Versus Rising, Marvel Verus, Capcom Collection, Arcade Classics,

1403
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:09,199
a lot of mouthfold titles here, and then Too Easy Ones, Multiverses,

1404
01:00:09,239 --> 01:00:12,199
and tech In eight. So I wanted to bring this

1405
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:13,960
up because I mentioned this on our episode a couple

1406
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,639
weeks ago. Taylor when the nominees got announced that this

1407
01:00:16,719 --> 01:00:19,719
is really weird for me because Multiverses was nominated in

1408
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:23,559
one when it came out two years ago originally and

1409
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,519
it you know, went offline and then relaunched this year,

1410
01:00:26,599 --> 01:00:27,880
and here it is again.

1411
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:30,679
Speaker 3: Which just collecting best fighting game away.

1412
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: I just it's just so dirty. I don't like that

1413
01:00:33,559 --> 01:00:35,559
at all. But it's like, I don't know, do I

1414
01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:37,760
just go with it because it won before, It's won

1415
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,239
the game word for this exact category, Like, who am

1416
01:00:40,239 --> 01:00:41,360
I to say it's not gonna do what you goes?

1417
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:46,639
I think it was two years ago, so twenty twenty two, Yeah,

1418
01:00:46,639 --> 01:00:50,039
that sounds correct now. I don't know if any other

1419
01:00:50,079 --> 01:00:51,800
big fighting games come out that year. I can't remember

1420
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,519
what the competition was off the top of my head

1421
01:00:53,639 --> 01:00:55,639
because I know last year. Last year was Mortal Kombat

1422
01:00:55,639 --> 01:00:57,000
and Street Fighter, right, So I'm trying.

1423
01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 4: To dnf dual JoJo's bizarre adventure All Star Battle are

1424
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:05,000
King of Fighters actually multiverses and Seafo looks.

1425
01:01:04,719 --> 01:01:07,199
Speaker 1: Like yeah, so, I mean that's like kind of an

1426
01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:09,480
easy win for multiverses in my opinion, Whereas I feel

1427
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:12,159
like this year actually has some more competition. People like

1428
01:01:12,239 --> 01:01:15,519
dragon Ball, people like the Marvel Capcom collection. But I'm

1429
01:01:15,519 --> 01:01:17,440
gonna go with techn eight here. I think it is

1430
01:01:17,519 --> 01:01:20,519
just the legacy fighting game in here, and I've heard

1431
01:01:20,559 --> 01:01:22,159
really great things about it. It is a bit more

1432
01:01:22,199 --> 01:01:24,840
of a niche fighting game in my opinion, maybe more

1433
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,519
niche than Multiverses. But I also think Multiverses came out

1434
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,760
and not flopped, But it didn't have the splash that

1435
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,480
it did originally when it came out because it came

1436
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,000
out for the second time. You know, it's less less

1437
01:01:36,079 --> 01:01:40,320
less fun when it has already released once before. And

1438
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,239
I also don't think it like the new features are

1439
01:01:42,239 --> 01:01:45,280
added were like amazing compared to where it was at

1440
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:47,039
when it went offline. So I'm gonna go with Tech

1441
01:01:47,079 --> 01:01:48,079
and eight here for myself.

1442
01:01:53,559 --> 01:01:59,719
Speaker 3: I think for me, I'm gonna stick. Yeah, definitely not Multiverses.

1443
01:01:59,719 --> 01:02:02,920
I feel like it's grimy for that to even be

1444
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:08,840
in there. I didn't want to go Dragon Ball here.

1445
01:02:09,159 --> 01:02:11,320
It's gonna go with the heart pick. It could be

1446
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:15,920
Teching Marvel versus Capcom. I feel like there's just some terrible, terrible,

1447
01:02:16,039 --> 01:02:19,360
terrible like quality of life features in that can yeah,

1448
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,639
like just you have to make a quick save just

1449
01:02:21,679 --> 01:02:23,280
to like go back to the menu.

1450
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 1: That would hold me back from voting for it for sure.

1451
01:02:27,599 --> 01:02:32,039
Speaker 3: Yeah and then yeah, no, I looked up Grand Blue Fantasy.

1452
01:02:32,079 --> 01:02:33,679
It didn't seem like the reviews were the best for

1453
01:02:33,719 --> 01:02:38,239
that one. So dang dragon Ball Sparking zero is my pick?

1454
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:40,239
Speaker 1: Very nice? Have you Taylor?

1455
01:02:40,599 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 3: Oh?

1456
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 2: Techn eight for sure?

1457
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 3: Okay, Tiken eight.

1458
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: Lock it in, take an eight and we can move

1459
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:50,679
on to I believe best RPG is Next. We have

1460
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,880
Dragons Dogma two showed up for the first time, Eldon Ring,

1461
01:02:54,159 --> 01:02:57,519
Shadow of the Tree, Final Fantasy seven Rebirth Like a Dragon,

1462
01:02:57,559 --> 01:03:02,400
Infinite Wealth, and Metaphor ree Fantasia. I guess, Kirkle, I

1463
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:03,760
don't think we've talked about this yet, but how do

1464
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,360
you how do you feel about the whole Elden Ring

1465
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:09,440
DLC being eligible in every category?

1466
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 3: Technically, if you would have asked me at the end,

1467
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:14,519
you would know that I'm not going to be voting

1468
01:03:14,519 --> 01:03:17,719
for any of these titles that are re released. So yeah,

1469
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:19,719
I don't like it at all. I think it's I

1470
01:03:19,719 --> 01:03:22,840
think it's stupid. Honestly, it should be like if you

1471
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:24,960
want to have a category best like add on for

1472
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,480
the Year or like best Deal, that is a category.

1473
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:29,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, that ongoing game.

1474
01:03:29,639 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 3: I mean, I like, I get it, it's well received,

1475
01:03:31,559 --> 01:03:34,440
but it's it's not It's not a game. It's like

1476
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:37,119
Miles Morales. Yes, that's a game that you could put

1477
01:03:37,119 --> 01:03:39,239
in this category if you, if you will, not really

1478
01:03:39,239 --> 01:03:42,000
an RPG game. But you know, it's not just a

1479
01:03:42,079 --> 01:03:46,320
deal a skill train, it's an RPG game. It's yeah, no,

1480
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:50,159
I I don't like the idea that the deal season there.

1481
01:03:50,519 --> 01:03:52,119
Speaker 1: So are you Are you gonna not vote for it

1482
01:03:52,119 --> 01:03:52,880
out of Spike.

1483
01:03:53,719 --> 01:03:56,039
Speaker 3: Out of Smite? Yes, exactly, out of Smite, out of

1484
01:03:57,119 --> 01:03:58,679
a cool game. I'm gonna smite my vote.

1485
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: I'd this is actually a really strong category here. I

1486
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,480
mean you have elden Ring, Final Fantasy, and Metaphor are

1487
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:09,079
all games that are in Game of the Year nominee

1488
01:04:09,079 --> 01:04:11,719
category as well, so obviously all very strong. Like a Dragon,

1489
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,559
I feel like it maybe came out a little bit

1490
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:15,639
less hyped than the last game in the entry, but

1491
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,480
still people really love that game. And then Dragon's Dogma

1492
01:04:18,599 --> 01:04:21,679
is more like action heavy of the RPG games of

1493
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,920
the of the pack here. I guess elden Ring is

1494
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,239
a pretty action heavy game as well. But yeah, I

1495
01:04:26,239 --> 01:04:30,480
think that that makes it a difficult, difficult decision. I

1496
01:04:30,519 --> 01:04:32,559
think I do have to side with my rule once again,

1497
01:04:32,559 --> 01:04:33,760
of like it's gonna be one of the things that

1498
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,719
are in the Game of the Year I'm pretty split

1499
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:40,199
between Final Fantasy and Metaphor to be honest. So I'm

1500
01:04:40,199 --> 01:04:41,960
gonna think about it a little bit while you guys.

1501
01:04:43,159 --> 01:04:44,320
How are you guys feeling about this?

1502
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 3: It's interesting how it brings up like for the best

1503
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:54,960
game design with rich player character customization. Well, like some

1504
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:57,599
of these titles, you're playing as like a character that

1505
01:04:57,679 --> 01:05:00,679
I imagine you're not changing, You're not customizing the care much.

1506
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:02,719
I guess maybe like the skill tree. That's where it

1507
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:05,760
kind of comes down to, Yeah, I think that's I'm

1508
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:11,920
gonna go. I'm gonna go Metaphor here.

1509
01:05:12,719 --> 01:05:13,079
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

1510
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:15,559
Speaker 3: May or may not spoil where I'm thinking game of

1511
01:05:15,599 --> 01:05:18,280
the Game of the Year stuff is, but uh yeah,

1512
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:21,280
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Metaphor here, and like

1513
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,280
a dragon, I don't know, it's a wildcard to me,

1514
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,599
Like I just feel like I never really knew about

1515
01:05:26,599 --> 01:05:28,480
this universe and these games just keep coming out and

1516
01:05:28,519 --> 01:05:31,159
they just keep doing well. But like I still it's

1517
01:05:31,159 --> 01:05:32,679
just such a blind spot for me. I'm like, is

1518
01:05:32,679 --> 01:05:34,480
this like a G G T A game? You know,

1519
01:05:34,599 --> 01:05:35,320
like like what.

1520
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: Kind of is a little bit and then some of

1521
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:38,920
them have turn based comback some of them have real

1522
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:43,440
time combat, so that's always hard to follow. Yeah, yeah,

1523
01:05:43,519 --> 01:05:45,840
I think I'm gonna copy you here, And I think

1524
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,880
the reason for me is like from what I've heard

1525
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,199
of a Final Fantasy, you know, another great entry here,

1526
01:05:50,639 --> 01:05:52,119
but some people were a little let down with some

1527
01:05:52,159 --> 01:05:55,199
of the story elements of it, Whereas I feel like metaphor,

1528
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,719
I haven't heard a single issue anyone has, and I

1529
01:05:58,719 --> 01:06:03,280
feel like RPG is the category for it specifically, so

1530
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:04,840
I'm gonna go with metaphor as well here.

1531
01:06:06,719 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 4: Oh, I feel like I'm gonna say Dragon's Dogma two.

1532
01:06:14,159 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, why are you going for that one over

1533
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:19,760
some of these other Game of the Year contender ones.

1534
01:06:20,119 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 4: That was one of my go tos for my video

1535
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:24,800
game draft, and I had good feelings about it. Did

1536
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:27,119
not do too bad score wise, so I think maybe

1537
01:06:27,119 --> 01:06:27,880
it's gotta.

1538
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:29,719
Speaker 1: Potentially it's earned some goodwill for you.

1539
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 2: Yes, respect respect that.

1540
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: That's an interesting way to predict what's gonna win an award,

1541
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:41,800
but I like it alright. Next category is Best Action Adventure.

1542
01:06:42,039 --> 01:06:44,559
So for the best action adventure game combining combat with

1543
01:06:44,599 --> 01:06:48,760
traversal and puzzle solving, we have Astrobot Prince of Persia,

1544
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,760
The Lost Crown, Silent Hill two, Star Wars Outlaws, and

1545
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:57,239
the Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom. Uh, interesting category

1546
01:06:57,280 --> 01:06:59,760
like Silent Hill in Action eventually, like there is no

1547
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,239
best Horror game category, but that does seem like an

1548
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:04,480
odd spot for it.

1549
01:07:04,599 --> 01:07:04,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1550
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:06,679
Speaker 1: I also feel like Star Wars Outlaws being in here

1551
01:07:06,719 --> 01:07:08,719
is funny to me, just because I feel like from

1552
01:07:08,719 --> 01:07:10,440
when I heard not I was, I was like the

1553
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:13,760
most positive person I know about that game, and I

1554
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,320
was not expecting that from myself. Heard great things about

1555
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:19,239
Prince of Persia. But is it to Niche I'm not sure.

1556
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,719
Always heard to go against Zelda and then Astrobot. I

1557
01:07:23,719 --> 01:07:27,039
don't know. I guess Action Adventure just feels like a

1558
01:07:27,079 --> 01:07:29,360
weird category name for this game, but I guess it

1559
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,440
does technically have all of these things that are in

1560
01:07:32,519 --> 01:07:34,360
the category description, right.

1561
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,039
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go with the big goliath Astrobot here.

1562
01:07:38,119 --> 01:07:42,719
I just feel like it's it's a nice ripe, juicy fruit.

1563
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,840
That's just it's probably the movie you pick for like

1564
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:48,679
almost any category that it's a part of, So I

1565
01:07:48,719 --> 01:07:53,800
don't really know too much about these other ones. I

1566
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,800
don't know, So yeah, I'm gonna go Astrobot Team Sony.

1567
01:07:57,679 --> 01:08:00,679
Speaker 1: I'm gonna copy you here once again. My rule, if

1568
01:08:00,719 --> 01:08:02,880
it's in the game of your category, it's got the

1569
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,559
sauce and uh yeah, it's a great game.

1570
01:08:06,599 --> 01:08:07,199
Speaker 2: Mag it hat.

1571
01:08:07,119 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 3: Trick Hatrick.

1572
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:14,199
Speaker 1: Patrick Patrick all right, next category is just best action

1573
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,039
game for the best game in the action genre.

1574
01:08:18,199 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 3: Focus best action slash adventure, wasn't it? And that we're

1575
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:21,560
just best action.

1576
01:08:22,039 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: You're not wrong. Why do they have these two categories?

1577
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,680
Not sure, but I guess the difference being that these

1578
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:32,720
games don't have traversal or puzzles. That's the difference. I

1579
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:34,239
don't know, it's very it's kind of weird to me.

1580
01:08:34,279 --> 01:08:38,279
That also, none of the games crossed over actually in

1581
01:08:38,399 --> 01:08:41,000
both genre. That's very odd. But that is very odd.

1582
01:08:41,039 --> 01:08:41,439
Speaker 3: Actually.

1583
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:45,640
Speaker 1: Anyway, our contenders here are Blackmith, Wukong, Call of Duty,

1584
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:50,000
Blops six, Helldivers two, Stellar Blade Rikland's Favorite, and Warhammer

1585
01:08:50,039 --> 01:08:56,520
forty K Space Marine two. So games primarily focused on combat.

1586
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:01,319
That's an interesting, interesting description, and I don't know, I

1587
01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:04,880
don't know how close the jury members read that verbatim

1588
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,960
before they pick these. I'm I think I'm gonna go

1589
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:11,600
with Hell Divers again here and I think it's maybe

1590
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,199
a bit of a risk. I'm kind of between that

1591
01:09:14,279 --> 01:09:16,119
and Black Myth. I feel like those are the kind

1592
01:09:16,159 --> 01:09:18,720
of the two front runners here, very different kinds of games.

1593
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:20,199
But I heard with Blackmith is that it's kind of

1594
01:09:20,199 --> 01:09:23,039
more of a boss rush game rather than like fighting

1595
01:09:23,039 --> 01:09:24,800
a bunch of little guys and then fighting and then

1596
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:26,439
making it to a boss and fighting a boss, and

1597
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,720
maybe that could turn some people off, whereas Hell Divers,

1598
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:31,520
it's just what else do you do in that game

1599
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,600
other than fight? I feel like nothing right like here,

1600
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:36,760
just you're fighting bugs, you're fighting bots, or or the

1601
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:38,399
games off, you know. So I'm gonna go with Hell

1602
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:39,079
Divers on this.

1603
01:09:39,039 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 3: One interesting interesting category for me. I think it's between

1604
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:52,479
Black Myth and Stellar Blade, just because they're the most

1605
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,479
like hand to hand combat focused ones, and in my mind,

1606
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,279
I just feel like it fits the category a little

1607
01:09:57,319 --> 01:10:00,600
bit more Stellar Blade, as I would imagine, And I've

1608
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:02,960
only played Stellar Blade versus Black Myth Wukong, but I've

1609
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:06,000
seen a lot more just dedicated combat gameplay from Black

1610
01:10:06,039 --> 01:10:08,680
Myth Wukong, whereas Stellar Blade you got the fan service

1611
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:12,119
aspect to it, which could be a positive or negative

1612
01:10:12,319 --> 01:10:13,199
to the voters. Who knows.

1613
01:10:13,279 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no best Fan Service category unfortunately, stellar game.

1614
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 3: I think I'm just gonna go with my heart pick

1615
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:27,520
here though. I'm gonna go Stellar Blade just because I

1616
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:31,319
don't know, hopefully, because if if I went elsewhere and

1617
01:10:31,359 --> 01:10:33,119
it won, I feel like that would hurt a lot

1618
01:10:33,359 --> 01:10:35,159
that I just lost faith in my mind.

1619
01:10:35,199 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 1: It's not in a lot of categories, so this is

1620
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:38,640
one of your few chances to vote for it. Yeah,

1621
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:39,399
I respect that.

1622
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:44,840
Speaker 3: Support, my my my baby there, so Stellar Blade even

1623
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:45,479
gets my vote.

1624
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, and how about you, Taylor, I'm going hell

1625
01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:49,479
Divers too.

1626
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 4: I just think that you said it fighting the bugs

1627
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:54,479
and the like the bots and stuff like that, and just.

1628
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,720
Speaker 2: The combat where people like their teammates drop.

1629
01:10:56,560 --> 01:11:02,079
Speaker 1: In, like just it's combat everywhere combat, Taylor. Can that

1630
01:11:02,119 --> 01:11:03,079
game run on your PC?

1631
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 3: Do you think?

1632
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:06,159
Speaker 2: I think it probably could?

1633
01:11:06,159 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, we should. We should be booted up. What

1634
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:11,479
are we doing? Why did we wait until? Well, I'm

1635
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:12,960
waiting because I didn't have a p S five until

1636
01:11:13,159 --> 01:11:15,680
weeks ago. But but we should definitely do that. It's

1637
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:17,159
on sale right now. I might pick it up.

1638
01:11:17,399 --> 01:11:20,279
Speaker 3: Hell, yes, I'm well downloaded. I'm getting in right in there.

1639
01:11:20,279 --> 01:11:22,560
We even got Hidalgo if we need a fourth if.

1640
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:25,359
Speaker 1: Travis, yeah, so absolutely cool.

1641
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:29,079
Speaker 3: It's basically just later Starship Troopers the game, like it's

1642
01:11:30,279 --> 01:11:32,399
that great and even just like all the marketing or

1643
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:34,399
not the market just the in game I guess, yeah,

1644
01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:37,600
in game advertisements for what they're doing. It's very much

1645
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:40,600
just feels like it's rip right of Starship Troopers.

1646
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 1: Very nice. Okay, we got best VR ar game here.

1647
01:11:44,399 --> 01:11:48,159
We have Arizona Sunshine Remake. I read this game a

1648
01:11:48,159 --> 01:11:50,880
few weeks ago when I was reading the nominees. This

1649
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:52,960
is a I swear I've never heard of this game before.

1650
01:11:53,039 --> 01:11:55,720
Right now, it looks like a zombie game though, as

1651
01:11:55,720 --> 01:12:00,680
Guards Wrath two, Batman, Arkham, Shadow Metal, Helsinger VR and

1652
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,640
Metro Awakening, which, yeah, it really surprised me when that

1653
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:05,359
game came out or when that game was here, because

1654
01:12:05,359 --> 01:12:07,159
I was like, man, I did not hear anything about that.

1655
01:12:07,199 --> 01:12:08,680
It's not a good sign. I feel like it kind

1656
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:10,800
of came and came out and no one talked about it.

1657
01:12:11,279 --> 01:12:14,439
This is tricky. I think Askard's Wrath one, like the

1658
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:17,680
first game won the award years ago when it came out,

1659
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,600
and it's one of those like Herald the best VR games.

1660
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:23,840
But then I also heard really good things about Batman.

1661
01:12:24,359 --> 01:12:26,359
And then obviously I've never heard anything about Arizona, so

1662
01:12:26,359 --> 01:12:29,159
I'm not gonna be voting for that one. Interesting Vertigo games.

1663
01:12:29,159 --> 01:12:32,039
So Metro Awakening and Arizona Sunshine were both made for

1664
01:12:32,159 --> 01:12:35,039
the same developer here, I didn't realize that. And then

1665
01:12:35,119 --> 01:12:37,640
Metal Heal Singer didn't even know that had a VR

1666
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:39,520
version that came out this year. That game originally came

1667
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:42,000
out a couple years ago. I'm gonna go with Batman here.

1668
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:45,640
I'm gonna go with the Dark Knight himself because yeah,

1669
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:47,600
I heard people just really really enjoyed this game, and

1670
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:50,319
I think it's a good popular one, right, because really

1671
01:12:50,319 --> 01:12:52,800
that's what the game wards is. It's like, whatever the

1672
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,520
most popular game is, that's gonna win. And I feel

1673
01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:57,399
like that just naturally is gonna pull people in who

1674
01:12:57,399 --> 01:13:00,640
aren't normally VR players or like who haven't whipped their

1675
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:02,279
headset out in a couple of years, but they'll come

1676
01:13:02,399 --> 01:13:04,880
check out this Batman game, and so maybe they like

1677
01:13:05,119 --> 01:13:07,279
just vote for one game and it's just Batman, and

1678
01:13:07,279 --> 01:13:09,920
that just climbs to the top here. So that'll be

1679
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:11,319
my reasoning for that pick.

1680
01:13:11,359 --> 01:13:16,039
Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with Batsy as well.

1681
01:13:16,119 --> 01:13:19,920
Here a big Batman from Arkham Shadow. It's funny. I

1682
01:13:20,039 --> 01:13:23,319
just randomly get like on my feeds, just like VR gameplay,

1683
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:26,600
and this was one where I got. It was just

1684
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:29,159
like it's usually just people doing like the most ridiculous

1685
01:13:29,199 --> 01:13:33,640
kills and just like really excessive violence through their VR headset,

1686
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:36,680
and Batman was on there and just seeing with the

1687
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:40,640
Batman gauntlets just piercing people seven things and areas you

1688
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,720
don't want to have shoved. So I'm gonna go Batman

1689
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:44,960
for those reasons.

1690
01:13:45,199 --> 01:13:46,359
Speaker 1: Great reason, great reason.

1691
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will put my vote down on Batman as well.

1692
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:52,239
Speaker 4: But I will say I have played a little bit

1693
01:13:52,239 --> 01:13:55,680
of Arizona Sunshine. Oh yeah, of the VR rooms the

1694
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:57,439
v arcades here in town, and so me and my

1695
01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,359
dad we go there a few times and play a

1696
01:13:59,399 --> 01:14:01,359
few games, and Arizona Sunshine was one of the ones.

1697
01:14:01,279 --> 01:14:04,039
Speaker 2: We played a little bit of. And holy shit is

1698
01:14:04,079 --> 01:14:04,560
that fun.

1699
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:06,600
Speaker 4: Just like me and him in the world, like moving

1700
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:09,520
around and just like the zombies coming, I'm like goll

1701
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,279
throwing grenades, just like coordinating in this in this like

1702
01:14:12,359 --> 01:14:13,640
with our with our guns and stuff.

1703
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: That was.

1704
01:14:14,359 --> 01:14:19,239
Speaker 4: That's my favorite father son gaming times. Just playing Arizona Sunshine.

1705
01:14:19,399 --> 01:14:21,640
Speaker 3: Is it kind of like or the original one?

1706
01:14:22,279 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 4: I was playing the original one? Okay, yes, I'm assuming

1707
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:26,960
this is this is just a remake of that.

1708
01:14:27,279 --> 01:14:30,319
Speaker 1: Is it kind of like a Dead Island style game?

1709
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:32,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like you have objectives. You gotta get from point

1710
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:34,520
A to point B, and you have little objectives that

1711
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:38,119
you're doing it between, and so you just you're not actually, like,

1712
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:41,079
if I remember it correctly, your character isn't walking and

1713
01:14:41,159 --> 01:14:43,319
moving like you see where you have to you see

1714
01:14:43,319 --> 01:14:45,079
where you want to go, and you click like a

1715
01:14:45,079 --> 01:14:47,119
button in your remote and your character just like appears

1716
01:14:47,159 --> 01:14:49,600
there within range. So you got to like keep doing

1717
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:51,960
that to move, and the zombies just keep like slowly

1718
01:14:52,039 --> 01:14:55,640
walking towards you. It's it's a lot easier than it sounds.

1719
01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:57,479
It sounds a little bit complex, but once you get

1720
01:14:57,479 --> 01:14:59,760
into that groove, if you're you're moving pretty good and

1721
01:15:00,279 --> 01:15:02,439
it's fun, just like pulling the pins.

1722
01:15:02,159 --> 01:15:04,319
Speaker 1: On your nade, throwing your knades, reloading your.

1723
01:15:04,159 --> 01:15:07,039
Speaker 4: Guns and shooting like it's it's so freaking awesome.

1724
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:11,720
Speaker 1: Awesome either way, though, what is the Batman hat trick? Here?

1725
01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:14,199
So we'll move on to the next category after our

1726
01:15:14,279 --> 01:15:21,039
next break. We'll be right back. Oh look, okay, we

1727
01:15:21,079 --> 01:15:24,600
are back for best mobile game. For the best game

1728
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:28,359
playable on a mobile device, we have AFK Journey, the

1729
01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:33,560
Latro Pokemon trading card game, Pocket Wathering Waves, and Zenless

1730
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:38,119
Zone Zero. This is a uh, this is a tricky

1731
01:15:38,159 --> 01:15:40,439
category because you have Pokemon which just came out recently.

1732
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,760
You got a lot of Pokemon heads. Ten million downloads,

1733
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,159
that's not a small amount of downloads. People love it too.

1734
01:15:47,199 --> 01:15:49,199
I haven't heard a single negative thing about it. People

1735
01:15:49,199 --> 01:15:52,199
feel like it's pretty generous for a mobile game, which

1736
01:15:52,239 --> 01:15:54,520
is always a good thing. Blatro, you know, kind of

1737
01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:57,359
got ported to the mobile stuff later and is one

1738
01:15:57,399 --> 01:15:59,079
of the Game of the Year contenders. And then I

1739
01:15:59,119 --> 01:16:01,359
feel like Zendless Zones Zero just we're like factoring in

1740
01:16:01,399 --> 01:16:03,520
this being like a world worldwide pick. I feel like

1741
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:07,199
that game is really huge, like in China and other places.

1742
01:16:07,239 --> 01:16:10,079
I don't know how many outlets are specifically from those

1743
01:16:10,119 --> 01:16:12,239
countries where the game is big, but I feel like

1744
01:16:12,239 --> 01:16:13,840
that's a really big one. And I don't know much

1745
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:17,520
about the other two games in here, so I think

1746
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:21,000
I'm really down to Bloch from Pokemon. But what do

1747
01:16:21,039 --> 01:16:22,920
you go, Taylor're going to vote for your baby? Your

1748
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:24,520
baby here, I'm voting for it.

1749
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:28,239
Speaker 4: I think it's that's a million downloads, ten million downloads.

1750
01:16:28,239 --> 01:16:29,079
Speaker 1: Look at the numbers.

1751
01:16:32,319 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 3: How about you, Kirkland, I annoy did Bloto was released

1752
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:36,039
on mobile? That's interesting?

1753
01:16:36,239 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it was like a like maybe five

1754
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:40,840
or six months afterwards that in the summer.

1755
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:43,279
Speaker 3: I think you introduced me this game. You did a

1756
01:16:43,319 --> 01:16:46,880
review on on side Quest one of these days amazing games. Yeah,

1757
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:49,479
and it's just been popping up all over the place,

1758
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:52,119
like like tons of different friends on like Steam or

1759
01:16:52,119 --> 01:16:54,800
places or whatever like that. I just see them on Bolato.

1760
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:02,199
It's also Game of the Year, which is actually crazy

1761
01:17:02,279 --> 01:17:06,399
for a potential mobile game. Well, it's not a potential

1762
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:07,880
mobile game, it is a mobile game.

1763
01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:10,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually a good point. I don't know if

1764
01:17:10,239 --> 01:17:15,079
that has happened ever before. Maybe, like would Gains an

1765
01:17:15,119 --> 01:17:16,640
Impact have been a Game of the Year. No, I

1766
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:18,600
don't think so. I don't know. I can't think of

1767
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:21,079
another time where a Game of the Year contender was

1768
01:17:21,119 --> 01:17:21,760
a mobile game.

1769
01:17:22,239 --> 01:17:25,359
Speaker 3: You do bring up some hesitations for me when you

1770
01:17:25,359 --> 01:17:29,279
bring up like again, like the like the Asian countries

1771
01:17:29,399 --> 01:17:33,960
and like China specifically, Like how how much mobile gaming

1772
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:36,640
is like a thing in in like some of those

1773
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:40,840
Eastern countries just blows my mind.

1774
01:17:43,279 --> 01:17:46,039
Speaker 1: But Balacho's game of the Year, Yeah, I I'll say

1775
01:17:46,039 --> 01:17:48,560
that I'm gonna go for Blatro once again. My rule here,

1776
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:51,199
But I also do think that that game, like it

1777
01:17:51,239 --> 01:17:53,199
got a second win when it came to mobile. People

1778
01:17:53,279 --> 01:17:56,840
were popping off about that, and uh, I mean it's

1779
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:59,399
just a it's probably just the best game on this list,

1780
01:18:00,399 --> 01:18:02,119
you know, outside of it being a mobile game and

1781
01:18:02,159 --> 01:18:04,479
the fact that it's also just casually a MOI mobile

1782
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:06,720
game as well, Like, I don't know, I feel like

1783
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:10,319
that's insane. Yeah, I'm going for that one for sure,

1784
01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:13,359
And it's true and I love it. I have like

1785
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:18,159
seventy hours in it. It's fantastic, so cool. Speaking of

1786
01:18:18,199 --> 01:18:20,520
indie games, let's talk about some best debut indie games.

1787
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:24,479
We have Animal, Well, Balatro, Manner, Lord's Pacific Drive, and

1788
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:28,399
the Plucky Squire. So really strong list of like debut

1789
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:31,039
indie games from this being new studios making these games.

1790
01:18:31,039 --> 01:18:35,039
Hell yeah, congratulations to all these all these developers. Uh

1791
01:18:35,279 --> 01:18:37,279
played all these except for Manner, lords. As I talked

1792
01:18:37,279 --> 01:18:40,600
about earlier, Animal Well is a really really great, interesting

1793
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:42,920
weird game. I think Pacific Drive has a bit too niche.

1794
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:44,640
I don't think that one's gonna make it unfortunately, even

1795
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:46,920
though I clearly love it. Pluck the Squire I talked

1796
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:50,359
about that earlier, how it's iffy for me. It's really

1797
01:18:50,359 --> 01:18:53,800
between Animal Well and Blatro, And I'm boring, but I'm

1798
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,039
just gonna go Belotro again here. And I don't really

1799
01:18:56,079 --> 01:19:00,880
think next to maybe most senttis paid it of GTA,

1800
01:19:01,039 --> 01:19:03,079
this might be like the next most slam dunk in

1801
01:19:03,119 --> 01:19:03,640
my opinion.

1802
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm getting Balatro.

1803
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take your word for it and go Blatro.

1804
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: Okay, I convinced you, And then we have best Indie

1805
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:17,279
game we once again here at animal Wel Blatro, Loreli

1806
01:19:17,319 --> 01:19:21,239
in the Laser Eyes Never and UFO fifty my baby,

1807
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,399
so happy to see it in here for this category,

1808
01:19:25,159 --> 01:19:28,159
but it stands no chance against Blotro and is gonna

1809
01:19:28,199 --> 01:19:30,239
wipe the floor. When I go on the website and

1810
01:19:30,279 --> 01:19:32,720
I log in and pick my votes, UFO fifty is

1811
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,159
getting my vote, but my vote is only worth like

1812
01:19:35,279 --> 01:19:38,520
zero point zero zero one percent, so it's not gonna

1813
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,119
not gonna move the needle. I'm going Blottro here again.

1814
01:19:41,840 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, Palatro, make it a trick nice?

1815
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:54,640
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah. Best Community Support recognizing a game for

1816
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:59,680
outstanding community support, transparency and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity,

1817
01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:04,920
and game updates slash patches. So here we have Buldersgate three,

1818
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:10,479
Final Fantasy fourteen, Fortnite, Helldivers two, and No Man's Sky,

1819
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:13,560
which is funny to see that one still here after

1820
01:20:13,600 --> 01:20:15,239
all these years. I don't know. Did they have a

1821
01:20:15,239 --> 01:20:17,279
new big update this year? Probably, I don't remember what

1822
01:20:17,319 --> 01:20:17,880
it was, but.

1823
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:26,159
Speaker 3: They're always tweeting. Good for tweeting to their fans. I

1824
01:20:26,199 --> 01:20:29,159
think I'm gonna go balders Gate three here just because

1825
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:32,720
they're bringing cross like cross play to the game finally,

1826
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,920
which is just amazing. So now I can I could

1827
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:39,039
play with friends that aren't on the same console as me.

1828
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:43,680
You know. Me and Hidalgo are already potentially scheduling a

1829
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:47,039
campaign start over the Christmas holidays, so very nice. I'm

1830
01:20:47,159 --> 01:20:50,199
very much excited by that. And I feel like they've

1831
01:20:50,239 --> 01:20:54,119
also been pretty well. They're nominating this category, so they

1832
01:20:54,199 --> 01:20:55,960
must be. But I feel like they're pretty good at

1833
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:58,439
communicating with the community on like moud support as well,

1834
01:20:58,479 --> 01:21:01,279
Like that's the thing that was brought tooles, which usually

1835
01:21:01,359 --> 01:21:03,640
takes a long time, and I'm mostly just pulling that

1836
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:09,760
knowledge from like Bethesda Games, so and like unlike Bethesda

1837
01:21:10,039 --> 01:21:12,000
mods where you have to pay for them like that,

1838
01:21:12,119 --> 01:21:14,640
you don't have to do that at all for Bulgerskate three,

1839
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:16,800
which is fantastic and obviously.

1840
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:18,399
Speaker 1: They added a lot of content to it as well,

1841
01:21:19,239 --> 01:21:23,039
just random little things or some even bigger things. This year, Uh,

1842
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:25,840
some of that might bleed over. And it's kind of tricky,

1843
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:29,039
right because also the game came out an Xbox like

1844
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:33,359
in December, so that was like after the voting period

1845
01:21:33,399 --> 01:21:35,319
of last year for game warts, so it's kind of tricky.

1846
01:21:35,359 --> 01:21:37,079
But in that sense too, it also came to a

1847
01:21:37,079 --> 01:21:40,439
new platform this year, so maybe that's a well this

1848
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:43,039
year quote unquote, So yeah, a lot of a lot

1849
01:21:43,039 --> 01:21:44,560
of points for Buldersgate for sure.

1850
01:21:45,199 --> 01:21:46,079
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1851
01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:47,239
Speaker 1: Is that your vote?

1852
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:48,159
Speaker 3: That's my vote?

1853
01:21:48,199 --> 01:21:52,039
Speaker 2: Yes, Cal, I'm gonna slap mine dead on Fortnite.

1854
01:21:52,079 --> 01:21:54,600
Speaker 4: I think it's just they just got the Godzilla update

1855
01:21:54,640 --> 01:21:56,680
now and it gets on everyone's minds, so I think

1856
01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:58,880
it's and they had a snoop Dogg Concert in there too.

1857
01:21:59,039 --> 01:22:02,319
Speaker 1: Like was the Lego update this year and the Rocket

1858
01:22:02,359 --> 01:22:03,439
League thing this year?

1859
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:05,680
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, Yes it was.

1860
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:07,119
Speaker 2: I believe it was this year.

1861
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 3: I all I know about that game is they're bringing

1862
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:12,159
back like o G Fortnite, which whenever they do that,

1863
01:22:12,199 --> 01:22:15,119
people seem to get pretty frothy around the mouth area,

1864
01:22:15,239 --> 01:22:17,159
So I think that's gonna.

1865
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:22,159
Speaker 1: Be leg update came out in December, so tricky, but

1866
01:22:22,199 --> 01:22:25,279
once again after the last year's voting period. Yeah, I

1867
01:22:25,279 --> 01:22:27,439
hope Evers. I think is a tricky one where it's like, Okay,

1868
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:30,000
they had that PlayStation thing on PC, but then they

1869
01:22:30,239 --> 01:22:33,279
took it away, but it's still like, okay, are you responsive?

1870
01:22:33,319 --> 01:22:34,800
But also you did this thing that no one wanted

1871
01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:39,039
in the first community. Yeah. Yeah, it's tricky. Yeah, I

1872
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:43,199
I also I didn't really even acknowledge that Final Fantasy

1873
01:22:43,199 --> 01:22:44,479
had a new thing come up this year. I feel

1874
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:48,159
like that update didn't have the same Wait, moved the needle,

1875
01:22:48,159 --> 01:22:50,439
like the last deal se was in multiple categories, that's

1876
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:53,079
how big it was, where this one didn't even know

1877
01:22:53,119 --> 01:22:56,119
what occurred or wait fourteen that's the art. That's the

1878
01:22:56,600 --> 01:23:00,119
MMO one, right, my crazy Yeah, yeah it is to

1879
01:23:00,119 --> 01:23:03,319
remember these numbers sometimes. I think you guys make both

1880
01:23:03,359 --> 01:23:05,520
make very good points. I'm gonna go with Fortnite here

1881
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:07,720
in a copy tailor. I don't really have a good

1882
01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:09,399
reason why. I just feel kind of iffy and like

1883
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:16,479
wind doubt Fortnite. You know, there you go, best ongoing

1884
01:23:17,359 --> 01:23:19,720
or worded to a game for outstanding development of ongoing

1885
01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:22,000
content that evolves the player experience over time. We have

1886
01:23:22,039 --> 01:23:26,399
Destiny two, Diablo four, Final Fantasy fourteen, Fortnite, Hell Divers two,

1887
01:23:27,239 --> 01:23:30,159
and I find this hilarious Kirkland that in this category

1888
01:23:30,279 --> 01:23:33,600
the Elden ring DLC is not here. The category that

1889
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:38,279
is or should be fo DLC Olden Ringing is not

1890
01:23:38,319 --> 01:23:41,279
in this one. So just just weird the way that goes.

1891
01:23:42,359 --> 01:23:45,119
I do feel like I guess Hell Divers had updates

1892
01:23:45,119 --> 01:23:47,199
and like things constantly changing in the world map and

1893
01:23:47,239 --> 01:23:49,479
like new attack zones and things that were coming out.

1894
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:51,039
But I don't know if I really think of that

1895
01:23:51,039 --> 01:23:53,640
as an ongoing game at this point in time in

1896
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:55,760
that same way that these other games do be able

1897
01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:58,359
Ford DLC, Destiney two had its I think Final DLC,

1898
01:23:59,279 --> 01:24:00,680
Fortnite had some stuff.

1899
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:03,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.

1900
01:24:03,239 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 1: I might just copy my own vote from last round

1901
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:09,920
and go Fortnite again. Uh yeah, sign Uh.

1902
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 3: If air Tree was in here, I would have voted

1903
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:12,439
for it, but.

1904
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna vote. I know me too, Just weird the

1905
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:18,720
way that works. Yeah all right. Next category is Games

1906
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:22,199
for Impact for a thought provoking game with a pro

1907
01:24:22,279 --> 01:24:26,920
social meaning or message. We have closer closer the distance Indica,

1908
01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:30,239
Never Life is Strange, Double Exposure, Send you a Saga,

1909
01:24:30,239 --> 01:24:34,439
Helpblad two and Tales of Canzarazau. Always a tricky category

1910
01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:38,680
in my opinion, I would always Games Indica. I was

1911
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:40,000
surprised to see you because I thought it was like

1912
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:45,039
a horror game. I didn't realize it had eat some

1913
01:24:45,119 --> 01:24:46,840
Games for Impact element to it, So I'm curious to

1914
01:24:46,840 --> 01:24:48,039
see what that is. I do want to check that

1915
01:24:48,079 --> 01:24:50,279
game out. It's on I'm my wishless waiting for the

1916
01:24:50,359 --> 01:24:54,199
right time to pick it up. Uh, this is a

1917
01:24:54,239 --> 01:24:59,479
tricky one for me. I might Neva's is it too niche?

1918
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:06,479
Send to Saga. I'm gonna go nev here. Just kind

1919
01:25:06,479 --> 01:25:07,920
of a shot in the dark, to be honest. But

1920
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:12,239
people really like that game and it seems to fit

1921
01:25:12,279 --> 01:25:13,680
the category, so I'm gonna go with that one.

1922
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:16,960
Speaker 3: You played Send to a Saga.

1923
01:25:17,239 --> 01:25:22,399
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, I didn't like it that much. It

1924
01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:25,039
does some of the stuff it does for like psychosis,

1925
01:25:25,079 --> 01:25:28,640
in terms of turning that into gameplay mechanics and treating

1926
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:31,399
that very thoughtfully, I think is really well done. I

1927
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:33,159
didn't really love the story of the game, but I

1928
01:25:33,159 --> 01:25:35,279
think that element of it, like the games for Impact

1929
01:25:35,319 --> 01:25:37,720
part of it, I think is well done. I just

1930
01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:39,359
I don't really love the game that much. Go check

1931
01:25:39,359 --> 01:25:44,399
out our review if you want, people, But yeah.

1932
01:25:43,119 --> 01:25:48,840
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go never as well. Oh

1933
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:52,199
kind of it looks really cute. And unfortunately I haven't

1934
01:25:52,199 --> 01:25:53,920
played any of these titles, so I can't really pull

1935
01:25:54,079 --> 01:25:55,399
from that knowledge.

1936
01:25:55,199 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 4: Right, I have no pile of knowledge to source rum

1937
01:26:01,039 --> 01:26:02,439
for the year. But I'm gonna say life is strange.

1938
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:03,279
Speaker 2: Double exposure.

1939
01:26:04,039 --> 01:26:08,239
Speaker 1: I think that's a great pick, great pick, well done.

1940
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:12,960
Innovation inaccessibility recognizing software and or hardware that is pushing

1941
01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:15,720
the medium forward by adding features, technology, and contact to

1942
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:18,640
help games be played and enjoyed by an either wider audience.

1943
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:22,640
Interesting recognizing software and or hardware. I don't think I've

1944
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:25,560
ever seen hardware in this category like I think of

1945
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:27,239
even like it was like last year the year before

1946
01:26:27,239 --> 01:26:31,520
where PlayStation released their innovation or accessibility controller, the kind

1947
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:34,600
of circular controller that's better for people who maybe have,

1948
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:38,359
you know, difficulty with their hands or missing fingers, things

1949
01:26:38,399 --> 01:26:40,159
like that. So I'm kind of surprised that didn't shop

1950
01:26:40,199 --> 01:26:41,560
in this category. I wonder if that's like a change

1951
01:26:41,560 --> 01:26:43,279
where people just don't think about that kind of thing,

1952
01:26:44,079 --> 01:26:46,079
or maybe that's just super niche that the people are

1953
01:26:46,119 --> 01:26:48,640
gonna use. That is such a small amount of people

1954
01:26:49,119 --> 01:26:52,319
where these other games are more popular. Yeah, I guess

1955
01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,479
the category of the games here. We got Battle called Doom.

1956
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:57,319
I don't know where that came from. Call of Duty

1957
01:26:57,359 --> 01:26:59,159
Black Op six? Do you have the four Dragon Age,

1958
01:26:59,199 --> 01:27:02,159
the Veilguard, Prince of Persia, Lost Crown, Star Wars Outlaws.

1959
01:27:02,239 --> 01:27:04,439
So interesting, this is the first time at Dragon Age

1960
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:06,840
is making an appearance. You would think it maybe would

1961
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:08,720
have been in Best RPG or something like that, but

1962
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:13,600
it is not. I I have no freaking clue. I

1963
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:15,800
feel like usually I vote for like a PlayStation game,

1964
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:18,920
but there aren't any in this category this year, So

1965
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:20,079
I don't know.

1966
01:27:20,399 --> 01:27:23,880
Speaker 3: You feel like the big at like the big like

1967
01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:26,640
studio games usually have the best options for this. That's

1968
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:28,800
why I'm like kind of just getting pulled towards Call

1969
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:31,239
of Duty just because they always have air pup line

1970
01:27:31,239 --> 01:27:35,399
modes and just like just audio things that you can change,

1971
01:27:35,399 --> 01:27:37,520
like they're usually pretty good for that. I feel like

1972
01:27:37,560 --> 01:27:39,840
Diablo would probably be pretty similar. I've never played that game,

1973
01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:41,319
so I never got a glimpse of what the set.

1974
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:43,359
Speaker 1: That's social a weird one too, Like the DLC came

1975
01:27:43,359 --> 01:27:45,039
out this year, but the game didn't come up this year.

1976
01:27:45,119 --> 01:27:48,279
Is like, did the DLC add a ton of accessibility

1977
01:27:48,279 --> 01:27:52,239
options or something. It seems really odd to me accessibility

1978
01:27:52,319 --> 01:27:53,239
DLC or something.

1979
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like this could be a category that they

1980
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:01,960
just I don't know, a little bit of a smaller

1981
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:03,760
one might just sneak in here and win it. I'm

1982
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:04,880
gonna go with just Prince of Persia.

1983
01:28:05,159 --> 01:28:08,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it on it, Okay, I'm gonna go cod

1984
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:10,199
for no reason in particular.

1985
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:12,880
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Star Wars art Laws because I remember

1986
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:14,960
doing a review. We're talking about how they had a

1987
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:17,680
lot of different menu things you could interchange with you

1988
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:20,159
even the size of the screening and stuff. There's lots

1989
01:28:20,199 --> 01:28:22,960
of cool point after our features. I'm not going cod

1990
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:24,960
because the omni movement's fucking horrible.

1991
01:28:25,399 --> 01:28:28,239
Speaker 3: You can't turn it off. You can't.

1992
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:29,359
Speaker 2: You can't do it.

1993
01:28:31,359 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: No omni movement servers. People probably have a PC. All right,

1994
01:28:36,039 --> 01:28:39,319
moving along, we have best Performance or to do an

1995
01:28:39,319 --> 01:28:42,800
individual for voice over, acting, motion and or performance capture.

1996
01:28:43,159 --> 01:28:47,560
We got Brianna White from Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, who

1997
01:28:47,640 --> 01:28:49,439
plays a character that I'm not sure of. We have

1998
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,479
Hannah tel from Life a Strange Double Explosure playing a

1999
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:56,000
character I'm not too sure of. Humberly Gonzales Star Wars Outlaws.

2000
01:28:56,039 --> 01:28:59,399
I'm guessing that's the main character. Whose name? Oh God, Taylor,

2001
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:01,199
what's the prote his name in that game?

2002
01:29:03,119 --> 01:29:04,600
Speaker 2: Like Kai or something like that.

2003
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:07,359
Speaker 1: Yes, Kai, thank you for that. We got Luke Roberts

2004
01:29:07,359 --> 01:29:11,359
from Silent Hill too, were playing mister Silent. I don't

2005
01:29:11,399 --> 01:29:14,199
know what that characters name is. Got Milina Jurgan's playing Selena.

2006
01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:18,039
Selena send you Asaga helpt to. My words are fumbling here.

2007
01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:18,960
Speaker 2: Uh.

2008
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:21,640
Speaker 1: This is a tricky one because I haven't played most

2009
01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:23,399
of these games, but I'm gonna go with Malina. She

2010
01:29:23,479 --> 01:29:25,560
won the award last time when Helblad one came out,

2011
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:28,840
and I feel like there's just so much that goes

2012
01:29:28,840 --> 01:29:32,119
into the mo cap of that, and like in their advertising,

2013
01:29:32,159 --> 01:29:35,399
they advertise the mo cap and things like this, So

2014
01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:37,159
I just feel like it's more top of mind for people.

2015
01:29:37,239 --> 01:29:38,920
So I'm just gonna go with I'm gonna go with

2016
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:41,479
that one. It's probably a boring pick, but I also

2017
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:43,880
think it deserves it. Like she her performance is amazing.

2018
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:45,279
That's not my issue with that game.

2019
01:29:46,279 --> 01:29:49,279
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna ride that train with you, Melina.

2020
01:29:51,199 --> 01:29:52,039
Speaker 2: Let me get a hat trick.

2021
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 1: The hat trick over here? Cool? Do you think it'd

2022
01:29:57,000 --> 01:29:58,640
be fun if we did this as like a competition

2023
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:01,199
and like if whoever goes first like picks the game,

2024
01:30:01,279 --> 01:30:03,159
then you can't pick that and it was like a

2025
01:30:03,239 --> 01:30:04,000
draft and a way.

2026
01:30:04,159 --> 01:30:05,840
Speaker 2: Oh that brutal.

2027
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:09,640
Speaker 3: That is like the most fraud interesting I've ever.

2028
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:14,279
Speaker 1: One year one. We will try it.

2029
01:30:15,079 --> 01:30:15,199
Speaker 4: Uh.

2030
01:30:15,600 --> 01:30:17,680
Speaker 1: We got best Audio Design here, recognizing the best in

2031
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:20,920
game audio and sound design, Astrobot called you Black Op six,

2032
01:30:21,079 --> 01:30:23,560
Final Fantasy seven Rebirth send you a saga, hel Blade

2033
01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:28,159
two and Silent Hill two. Uh boy, I think I'm

2034
01:30:28,199 --> 01:30:30,840
gonna go with Wow, this is actually tricky. I don't

2035
01:30:30,880 --> 01:30:34,319
know anything about Silent Hills sound call Duty. It's called Duty.

2036
01:30:34,319 --> 01:30:37,359
You know they record gun sounds. Cool. We've seen that before. Uh,

2037
01:30:37,439 --> 01:30:40,319
Final Fantasy. I don't know why that's in here. I'm

2038
01:30:40,319 --> 01:30:42,560
sure it has people like the music, but I don't

2039
01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:45,159
know does that good sound Design'm not sure. Hell Blade's

2040
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:47,399
interesting one way because they another thing and they put

2041
01:30:47,439 --> 01:30:48,960
in the marketing is so much of a focus on

2042
01:30:49,079 --> 01:30:51,600
like the three D audio and like wear headphones with

2043
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:53,640
this game because the sound is crazy and like it is.

2044
01:30:54,119 --> 01:30:55,960
Then I also like Astrobot, like with the sounds for

2045
01:30:56,119 --> 01:31:00,439
coming from the controller and like the sound of different

2046
01:31:00,439 --> 01:31:04,760
movements and things like that kind of goes both ways.

2047
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,039
I think I'm gonna go with Astrobot heres because it's

2048
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:09,600
I'm between held Blade and Ashbot, and Ashrobot's a more

2049
01:31:09,640 --> 01:31:12,600
popular games. So yeah, that's why I'm going here.

2050
01:31:13,079 --> 01:31:15,560
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go send you a saga. Every time I

2051
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:18,319
see this in the first game on my steam list,

2052
01:31:18,359 --> 01:31:21,439
it says like we recommend with headphones, We recommend with

2053
01:31:21,479 --> 01:31:25,119
you know, like the surround audio. It's like, okay, hopefully

2054
01:31:25,159 --> 01:31:27,479
it wins the audio category if it's going all out

2055
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:28,960
on on those aspects.

2056
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, good point, good point.

2057
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:33,840
Speaker 2: I always see videos of Call of Duty.

2058
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:36,359
Speaker 4: Them like flying jets and shooting guns and holding the

2059
01:31:36,359 --> 01:31:39,520
microphone next to it, and they're like flaunting their sound design,

2060
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:42,359
but they never win this category. I feel like, so

2061
01:31:42,399 --> 01:31:45,039
I'm gonna go with sendu a saga with you, Kirkland.

2062
01:31:45,359 --> 01:31:48,640
Speaker 1: Nice, nice, Kirkling. You want to read off the next one?

2063
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:50,159
Give my vocal cords the rest.

2064
01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:53,279
Speaker 3: Here, Yes, I'd love to. We got Best Score and Music.

2065
01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:58,319
This category is for outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song,

2066
01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:07,920
and or licensed soundtrack. We got Astrobot, Final Fantasy, Sei Rebirth, Metaphor, Refantazio,

2067
01:32:09,159 --> 01:32:15,640
Silent Hill Too, and Stellar Blade My beautiful yeah, Stellar Blade.

2068
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:18,439
I'm going Stellar Blade here. I'm not wasting any time

2069
01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:20,640
the music in this. You know, if you listen to

2070
01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:23,319
her last week's side quest, I went off on the

2071
01:32:23,359 --> 01:32:26,920
soundtrack here, very reminiscent of Near AUTOMAA, which I don't

2072
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:32,399
know if it wanted that year, even if Near was nominated,

2073
01:32:32,399 --> 01:32:34,199
but I feel like it must have win, Like it's

2074
01:32:34,279 --> 01:32:36,720
just such a beautiful soundtrack. I've been listening to it

2075
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:42,079
throughout the week and uh, yeah, no, it's beautiful sounding game.

2076
01:32:42,319 --> 01:32:44,199
I'm sure a lot of you know, the other ones

2077
01:32:44,239 --> 01:32:48,199
on here are worthy of that as well. But uh yeah,

2078
01:32:48,359 --> 01:32:50,439
just pulling from my own memory.

2079
01:32:50,079 --> 01:32:53,720
Speaker 1: Bank, near did win in twenty seven nights. Yeah, awesome,

2080
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:57,000
So that that gives me home hell Blade one best

2081
01:32:57,000 --> 01:32:58,000
audio design that year.

2082
01:32:58,079 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 3: There you go, I'm winning both. These last two categories

2083
01:33:01,640 --> 01:33:02,000
could be.

2084
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:05,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about this last week, as Kirkla mentioned,

2085
01:33:05,119 --> 01:33:08,560
because well because you were playing Stellar Blade. But then yeah,

2086
01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:10,680
I went on Spotify, I listened to all these soundtracks

2087
01:33:11,159 --> 01:33:13,199
and then while Astrobot I've been listening to in the

2088
01:33:13,239 --> 01:33:16,840
last week here. Uh, Stellar Blade is my pick in

2089
01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:20,239
terms of the best music of the pack here, but

2090
01:33:20,760 --> 01:33:24,039
since it's popularity contest, I'm gonna go with Final Fantasy

2091
01:33:24,079 --> 01:33:27,000
because Final Fantasy is just one of those series that

2092
01:33:27,079 --> 01:33:28,640
is known for having the best music of all time.

2093
01:33:28,640 --> 01:33:31,479
And I'm sure Rebirth soundtrack was absolutely killer and it's

2094
01:33:31,479 --> 01:33:34,960
a Final Fantasy game, so hard to beat that. So

2095
01:33:35,359 --> 01:33:36,239
that's my vote there.

2096
01:33:38,199 --> 01:33:46,279
Speaker 4: Hmm, let's go astro Oh okay, copyright music in Astrobot

2097
01:33:46,399 --> 01:33:46,640
at all?

2098
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:50,319
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. I'm trying to even think

2099
01:33:50,319 --> 01:33:50,760
that there's like.

2100
01:33:51,159 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 3: Brooklyn or something comes on. We need to hear the classics.

2101
01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:57,199
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm wondering. I couldn't tell if like, oh,

2102
01:33:57,239 --> 01:33:58,840
this is like a God of War theme they're playing

2103
01:33:58,840 --> 01:34:00,119
in the God of four level. I didn't really like.

2104
01:34:00,159 --> 01:34:05,119
I think they everything is its own individual song, even

2105
01:34:05,159 --> 01:34:07,600
if it's maybe got some vibes of that. But you

2106
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:08,800
can read the next few categories.

2107
01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:13,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, next week got best art Direction for Outstanding creative

2108
01:34:13,479 --> 01:34:18,359
and or technical achievement in Artistic design and Animation. We

2109
01:34:18,439 --> 01:34:22,119
got Astrobot, Black Myth, Wukong, elden Ring, Shadow of Air

2110
01:34:22,159 --> 01:34:26,520
treea DLC metaphor, Refantasio, and.

2111
01:34:26,840 --> 01:34:33,199
Speaker 1: Never Who Tricky category here very different art styles for Yeah, Well,

2112
01:34:33,199 --> 01:34:36,399
I guess Blackmith and Eldering similar, but I think I'm

2113
01:34:36,399 --> 01:34:38,840
gonna go with Black Myth. I just feel like that game,

2114
01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:41,399
I don't know, at least from the trailers, it just

2115
01:34:41,439 --> 01:34:44,039
looks unreal. I didn't even think it. I literally did

2116
01:34:44,039 --> 01:34:45,359
not think it was a real game. The first couple

2117
01:34:45,399 --> 01:34:46,640
of times I saw it. I'm like, this can't. This

2118
01:34:46,720 --> 01:34:50,479
has to be like Pixar Animation making this crazy thing.

2119
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:52,680
It just looked way too good. So even if it's

2120
01:34:52,680 --> 01:34:55,359
not like as stylized as a neva or a metaphor,

2121
01:34:56,039 --> 01:34:57,800
I'm gonna go with Black myth on this one.

2122
01:34:59,239 --> 01:35:02,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's it's like movie quality. I think I'm

2123
01:35:02,279 --> 01:35:05,079
gonna go Metaphor though, just for the really uniqueness style

2124
01:35:05,119 --> 01:35:08,279
of it. I guess it's kind of similar to something

2125
01:35:08,319 --> 01:35:10,640
like Persona, but even then it's.

2126
01:35:10,279 --> 01:35:12,359
Speaker 1: Well it is. But I mean, I think people like,

2127
01:35:12,359 --> 01:35:16,119
I'm sure the UI looks really cool and interesting screenshots

2128
01:35:16,159 --> 01:35:19,159
and it looks just yeah, amazing, So that's something that

2129
01:35:19,199 --> 01:35:20,840
really stands out to people. I feel like when you're

2130
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:23,720
voting on this kind of stuff. So I'm sure, I'm

2131
01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:26,199
sure it's a top contender, no doubt. I mean, obviously

2132
01:35:26,239 --> 01:35:28,720
it's top five. Taylor, what do you think?

2133
01:35:30,079 --> 01:35:36,239
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, gracious, best our direction.

2134
01:35:36,439 --> 01:35:39,880
Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go Neva. That just looks so nice.

2135
01:35:39,920 --> 01:35:45,359
Speaker 3: Pick Oh it was me again. So we got best

2136
01:35:45,439 --> 01:35:50,520
Narrative category. Next this is for the h oh yeah,

2137
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:54,039
for outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game. We

2138
01:35:54,119 --> 01:35:59,479
got Final Fantasy Vin Rebirth Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth Metaphor,

2139
01:36:00,039 --> 01:36:03,720
and Tazio Uh send you as Saga Hill Blade too,

2140
01:36:03,880 --> 01:36:05,399
and Silent Hill Too.

2141
01:36:06,760 --> 01:36:09,640
Speaker 1: Interesting to see. Silent Hill, I feel like, I don't

2142
01:36:09,640 --> 01:36:12,479
I don't know why. That just seemed surprising in this category.

2143
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 3: I feel like I always see Silent Hill games as

2144
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:17,640
like a movie that you're going through it.

2145
01:36:18,319 --> 01:36:20,119
Speaker 1: I guess it's that's a good point. I yeah, I

2146
01:36:20,119 --> 01:36:23,239
guess I always see the mores like atmosphere and I

2147
01:36:23,319 --> 01:36:25,079
think a but less of like the actual story more

2148
01:36:25,119 --> 01:36:26,920
but just the general vibes of it. But I guess

2149
01:36:27,000 --> 01:36:28,760
that's something you could factory.

2150
01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:30,560
Speaker 3: It just seems like every Silent Hill game you're like

2151
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:33,319
going to the town to find someone and then and

2152
01:36:33,319 --> 01:36:35,960
then like as you're doing the journey, you're like unraveling

2153
01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:36,680
the tale of kind of.

2154
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:40,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, your memories are coming back. Yeah, yeah, what do

2155
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:42,439
you think, Taylor, where are you going on this one?

2156
01:36:43,399 --> 01:36:46,960
Speaker 4: I'm feeling like how Blade Too has the best narrative.

2157
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:49,399
I just remember seeing the cinematic trailers and thinking, oh

2158
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:52,479
my god, this is just seeping story right now.

2159
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:56,159
Speaker 1: Seeping seeping story, a lot of sleeping occurring in that game.

2160
01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:07,079
Speaker 3: For myself, I'm thinking Final Fantasy here. I think I'm

2161
01:37:07,119 --> 01:37:09,640
thinking Final Fantasy because I don't think Final Fantasy is

2162
01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:11,520
gonna win Game of the Year, even though when we're

2163
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:14,279
coming into here, I was thinking pretty strongly that was

2164
01:37:14,279 --> 01:37:15,600
gonna be my game of the Year. Pick, but as

2165
01:37:15,640 --> 01:37:17,560
we're going along, I feel like I've kind of wavered

2166
01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:22,800
and seeing that it's well, actually Metaphors in here as well.

2167
01:37:23,680 --> 01:37:25,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, that could be a juicy Game of the.

2168
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:28,199
Speaker 3: Year as well. Yeah. No, I'm gonna go Final Fantasy

2169
01:37:28,239 --> 01:37:30,760
because I feel like out of my top three, Final

2170
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:32,399
Fantasy might be in there for Game of the Year,

2171
01:37:32,479 --> 01:37:35,680
but it would probably be the third slot, and I'm

2172
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:37,760
gonna put it here for that reason.

2173
01:37:39,039 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 1: Alrighty, I'm gonna I'm gonna walk in Metaphor. I feel

2174
01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:44,760
like it's kind of got this category on lock. You know,

2175
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:47,760
for all the praise Final Fantasy like a Dragon Get,

2176
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:50,560
I feel like criticisms if any of her for those

2177
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:52,880
games is like I didn't love the ending, or like

2178
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:57,199
this story beat thing didn't work for me and Senuel.

2179
01:37:57,239 --> 01:37:59,000
I don't know if everyone feels the way I do,

2180
01:37:59,039 --> 01:38:00,840
but I feel like generally people were kind of middling

2181
01:38:00,920 --> 01:38:03,319
on the game. I'm kind of even surprised it made

2182
01:38:03,319 --> 01:38:05,079
it in the top five, which is maybe a sign

2183
01:38:05,159 --> 01:38:08,399
that it is the winner. Silent Hill, as I mentioned,

2184
01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:10,399
kind of seems like an odd ball in the mix here.

2185
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:13,760
But I think Metaphor is just a game that Firmy thing.

2186
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:16,760
I've heard about it like it's I don't know, it's

2187
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:21,079
it's tackling society and politics in all these different ways,

2188
01:38:21,079 --> 01:38:24,760
which feel very prescient right now, especially post election. I

2189
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:27,079
feel like it's, uh, I don't know. It just feels

2190
01:38:27,079 --> 01:38:30,119
like a game that makes people think and rethink things

2191
01:38:30,159 --> 01:38:33,760
and talk about philosophy and famous writers and all these things.

2192
01:38:33,760 --> 01:38:35,039
I feel like it's one of those things that just

2193
01:38:35,279 --> 01:38:38,239
inspires so much because of it's a narrative, and I

2194
01:38:38,239 --> 01:38:40,000
don't know, I've heard maybe some people talk about the

2195
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:41,920
combat or other systems, but I feel like people just

2196
01:38:42,560 --> 01:38:45,199
praise that narrative of that thing. So I'm gonna go

2197
01:38:45,279 --> 01:38:47,920
with metaphor. And hey, it's from the persona developers and

2198
01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:51,319
people love those stories as well, So locking in metaphor

2199
01:38:51,319 --> 01:38:55,680
on that one nice. And yeah, Taylor went for help lade.

2200
01:38:57,239 --> 01:39:01,239
Speaker 3: Okay. Next, we got the Best Game Direction Order for

2201
01:39:01,319 --> 01:39:04,920
Outstanding Creative Vision and Innovation in Game Direction and Design.

2202
01:39:07,159 --> 01:39:11,880
We got Astrobot, Part of Me, Bilatro Black Myth, Wokon,

2203
01:39:12,159 --> 01:39:16,880
Eldon Ring, Shadow of the Air Tree, DLC, Final Fantasy seven, Rebirth,

2204
01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:20,640
Subtle Dig. We got six six in this.

2205
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:23,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I guess I didn't mention this at the top,

2206
01:39:23,359 --> 01:39:27,159
but for any category, if there's ever a tie for

2207
01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:31,319
I guess, any spot, then yeah, I guess for any spot,

2208
01:39:31,359 --> 01:39:33,920
then they will add a sixth game in Me and

2209
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:35,560
Taylor were talking this a couple of weeks ago actually

2210
01:39:35,560 --> 01:39:38,800
that that is technically what they say, But I think

2211
01:39:38,840 --> 01:39:41,800
Game of the Year every year has always had six games,

2212
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:44,680
and that just seems a little weird to me that

2213
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:47,079
it's like there's a tie every single year. Really, that

2214
01:39:47,119 --> 01:39:49,680
seems kind of whack. So, I mean, it might not

2215
01:39:49,720 --> 01:39:53,960
necessarily be a tie for any particular If there would

2216
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:55,720
be a tie for first, for example, then obviously the

2217
01:39:55,760 --> 01:39:59,800
fan vote would break that tie. But in this case, yeah,

2218
01:40:00,159 --> 01:40:02,600
as a tie for fifth, I guess, and then there

2219
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:04,800
was two games that sneaking in there. So I don't know.

2220
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:06,800
It does seem odd to me, but that's just what

2221
01:40:06,920 --> 01:40:10,039
happens sometimes. Also note here that these are the exact

2222
01:40:10,079 --> 01:40:11,640
same games in Game of the Year. I don't think

2223
01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:13,800
it's ever happened before where game direction end Game of

2224
01:40:13,800 --> 01:40:16,279
the Year have the exact same Usually there's like one

2225
01:40:16,319 --> 01:40:19,720
or two swaps that happen, but yeah, in this case,

2226
01:40:19,760 --> 01:40:25,039
it's the exact same game. So game direction Boy, really

2227
01:40:25,079 --> 01:40:27,479
really tricky one because who knows how the jury is

2228
01:40:27,520 --> 01:40:29,880
gonna be picking things for this. In this case, it

2229
01:40:29,920 --> 01:40:31,560
looks like they just picked the same thing things that

2230
01:40:31,600 --> 01:40:34,159
they felt for Game of the Year. So I kind

2231
01:40:34,159 --> 01:40:35,920
of feel like whatever game of the Year is gonna

2232
01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:39,880
be is gonna be the winner for Direction maybe mhmm.

2233
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:45,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a tricky one because I don't think

2234
01:40:45,159 --> 01:40:48,479
I'm gonna pick like the same for these next two categories,

2235
01:40:48,520 --> 01:40:50,600
Like I don't think I'm gonna double down on game

2236
01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:53,720
to respect that Game of the Year. So it's kind

2237
01:40:53,720 --> 01:40:55,319
of a matter of what my Game of the Year

2238
01:40:55,359 --> 01:40:57,439
is right now. And as I said, coming into this,

2239
01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:01,279
I thought I had my my my might pick done,

2240
01:41:01,319 --> 01:41:03,359
but I don't know the way I look at these

2241
01:41:04,079 --> 01:41:07,039
because I feel like Astrobot, from everything I've seen, is

2242
01:41:07,079 --> 01:41:11,640
incredibly creative and just like innovative in the sense of

2243
01:41:11,720 --> 01:41:13,800
using the hardware of the PlayStation. Like you and I

2244
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:17,199
were talking to discussing that last week, still haven't done

2245
01:41:17,199 --> 01:41:21,199
in Astro's playroom.

2246
01:41:19,920 --> 01:41:22,119
Speaker 1: Time going anywhere, Yeah.

2247
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:27,920
Speaker 3: Exactly, But I think I'm gonna go Astrobot here actually

2248
01:41:28,119 --> 01:41:30,119
as not my game of the Year, So a little

2249
01:41:30,119 --> 01:41:31,840
bit of a spoiler there, But yeah, no, I think

2250
01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:32,319
it's just.

2251
01:41:33,840 --> 01:41:34,119
Speaker 2: I don't know.

2252
01:41:34,199 --> 01:41:36,199
Speaker 3: I guess you could make an argument for pretty much

2253
01:41:36,239 --> 01:41:38,319
all of these in this category, but I'm gonna just

2254
01:41:38,359 --> 01:41:43,279
stick to the big goliath, Astrobot himself. Team Sony. Yeah.

2255
01:41:43,399 --> 01:41:46,840
Speaker 1: I find this category really tricky this time around, because

2256
01:41:46,840 --> 01:41:50,399
I don't really think of any of these games as

2257
01:41:50,520 --> 01:41:54,840
terribly innovative, except for maybe Blotro. Like, Astrobot is just

2258
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:58,000
like a really great three D platformer. You know, it

2259
01:41:58,039 --> 01:42:00,479
has transformations, but so many three D platform have that.

2260
01:42:00,479 --> 01:42:02,840
Black Myth is like a Soul's like kind of game.

2261
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:05,199
Elton the Ring is, Yeah, why would that be in

2262
01:42:05,279 --> 01:42:08,760
game direction? It's just like there's some new boss fights, okay,

2263
01:42:08,760 --> 01:42:13,000
but it doesn't really change the core formula anyway. Final Fantasy,

2264
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:15,119
I don't know. It's a remake and it's part two,

2265
01:42:15,279 --> 01:42:18,039
so it's like, what else, Why is that innovative? And

2266
01:42:18,079 --> 01:42:19,600
then Metaphor, I don't know. I feel like maybe that

2267
01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:22,159
one is for what it's doing narratively, perhaps, but it

2268
01:42:22,199 --> 01:42:26,520
also seems very similar to its other contemporaries, So I

2269
01:42:26,520 --> 01:42:28,520
don't know. Blatro is like the one that actually genuinely

2270
01:42:28,520 --> 01:42:30,920
feels innovative, even if it's like, okay, deck builders have

2271
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:34,560
existed before and poker exists before, but that kind of

2272
01:42:34,600 --> 01:42:36,359
is the one that comes up to me as like

2273
01:42:36,439 --> 01:42:38,159
most creative. But I also think it might be more

2274
01:42:38,199 --> 01:42:42,199
niche than some of these other games. Really really tricky.

2275
01:42:42,239 --> 01:42:45,000
Once again, always comes down to the popularity contest element

2276
01:42:45,039 --> 01:42:52,039
of it, and I'm just gonna go with my heart here. Actually,

2277
01:42:52,039 --> 01:42:54,399
I'm gonna go with Blatro, which would be so cool

2278
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:57,560
if Local Thunk the developer won this because it's a

2279
01:42:57,560 --> 01:42:59,680
solo developed game. It's him and then like the guy

2280
01:42:59,720 --> 01:43:02,079
who the music, so it's a two man team overall.

2281
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:03,159
Speaker 3: That's crazy.

2282
01:43:03,159 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 1: It's like super duper impressive, and I don't know, it's

2283
01:43:06,960 --> 01:43:11,039
also very innovative on like the visuals, like the the

2284
01:43:11,079 --> 01:43:13,119
effects and things like that as well. Like I just

2285
01:43:13,159 --> 01:43:15,840
feel like it's a really really genius game. I'd love

2286
01:43:15,880 --> 01:43:17,880
to see him win, and I don't know everything else,

2287
01:43:17,920 --> 01:43:20,560
I feel kind of weird giving it. Not that this

2288
01:43:20,600 --> 01:43:23,840
is my pick personally, just none of them really stand

2289
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:26,720
out to me for this particular category. So I don't know.

2290
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:29,640
I might be regarding this later because because of the

2291
01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:32,439
popularity element, but I'm gonna go with Blotro for today.

2292
01:43:34,119 --> 01:43:40,840
Speaker 4: H just to keep things different, I think I'm gonna

2293
01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:42,600
go elden Ring.

2294
01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:52,479
Speaker 1: Oh, you dirty little best to Spike Kirkling. Yeah, we

2295
01:43:52,479 --> 01:43:54,600
can scoot into Game of the Year now, which, as

2296
01:43:54,600 --> 01:43:57,399
I mentioned, is the exact same games so Astrobot, Blotro,

2297
01:43:57,479 --> 01:44:02,760
Black Myth, elden Ring, Final Fantasy in metaphor. Again, I

2298
01:44:02,760 --> 01:44:04,680
don't know, Taylor, are you picked elder Ring last time?

2299
01:44:04,680 --> 01:44:06,039
Do you think that's gonna be the same case for

2300
01:44:06,079 --> 01:44:07,600
Game of the Year? Do you think things are gonna

2301
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:08,079
change up?

2302
01:44:08,479 --> 01:44:09,920
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be the same. I'm gonna stick

2303
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:11,039
with that as my vote.

2304
01:44:11,159 --> 01:44:12,520
Speaker 1: Wow, why do you think that?

2305
01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:14,199
Speaker 3: Do you say elder Ring?

2306
01:44:14,600 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 2: Yeah?

2307
01:44:15,199 --> 01:44:15,640
Speaker 1: I think that.

2308
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:18,600
Speaker 4: I think people are just hyped on it. And again,

2309
01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:22,199
I have not played any of these titles, but I

2310
01:44:22,279 --> 01:44:25,560
just feel like alden Ring just has it. Lock Stock

2311
01:44:25,640 --> 01:44:26,479
and Barrel.

2312
01:44:26,319 --> 01:44:28,119
Speaker 1: So Lockstock and Barrel.

2313
01:44:29,079 --> 01:44:31,520
Speaker 3: Sorry, Kirk, I fucking hope that's not the case. I'm

2314
01:44:31,520 --> 01:44:35,319
going to scream they better rush the stage. If that happens, I.

2315
01:44:35,279 --> 01:44:37,800
Speaker 1: Think it would be I think it'd be a bit

2316
01:44:37,800 --> 01:44:40,760
of a farce if that wins. I think that would

2317
01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:44,000
not be a good look. Even if I've personally come

2318
01:44:44,039 --> 01:44:46,039
around on it a bit. I think it's fine that

2319
01:44:46,079 --> 01:44:50,039
it's in here. Personally, it's not that good for me, Like,

2320
01:44:50,079 --> 01:44:52,199
it's good, but it's not Game of the Year good.

2321
01:44:52,239 --> 01:44:56,119
It's not not on that caliber. But I can definitely

2322
01:44:56,159 --> 01:44:58,399
see the frustration. I think it would be really goofy

2323
01:44:58,439 --> 01:45:01,520
if it won a gain the Game of the Year war. Uh, Kirkland,

2324
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:04,159
you picked Astro for direction, do you? But you said

2325
01:45:04,199 --> 01:45:05,760
you're gonna pick differently? So where are you gonna go

2326
01:45:05,800 --> 01:45:06,720
for your game? To your pick?

2327
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:08,760
Speaker 3: I am gonna pick differently. I feel like since we've

2328
01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:11,560
started this cast, I've changed my mind on every game

2329
01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:16,720
that's that's come up on my initial I'm gonna throw

2330
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:20,840
it in the Fantasio zone. I'm gonna go metaphor for

2331
01:45:20,960 --> 01:45:21,680
my Game of the Year.

2332
01:45:22,079 --> 01:45:22,399
Speaker 1: Okay.

2333
01:45:23,640 --> 01:45:25,600
Speaker 3: It's just, uh, I feel like I just heard about

2334
01:45:25,640 --> 01:45:28,000
this game, like not that long ago, and it's just

2335
01:45:28,079 --> 01:45:31,039
kind of been everywhere in my in my heads up

2336
01:45:31,079 --> 01:45:33,960
display of my life. It's just it's it's popping up

2337
01:45:34,119 --> 01:45:39,800
in different yeah, PlayStation Steam. So it's a lot of

2338
01:45:40,000 --> 01:45:41,920
a lot of positive talk around it. And I know

2339
01:45:41,960 --> 01:45:45,079
how popular Persona five is or not. Persona five like

2340
01:45:45,159 --> 01:45:48,279
just Persona series in general, I feel like that one

2341
01:45:48,640 --> 01:45:52,079
is like globally like a lot of like thought compared

2342
01:45:52,079 --> 01:45:54,079
to all of these. I feel like globally it's it's

2343
01:45:54,079 --> 01:45:57,319
a really big one. I mean Final Fantasy Japan as well. Yeah, yeah,

2344
01:45:57,399 --> 01:46:00,560
yeah for sure, but yeah no, I'm I'm gonna throw

2345
01:46:00,560 --> 01:46:01,720
that one into the mix.

2346
01:46:02,199 --> 01:46:05,239
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, this is really tricky for me. I do

2347
01:46:05,319 --> 01:46:10,720
wonder how many outlets would have had an internal rule

2348
01:46:10,960 --> 01:46:13,399
ish of being like, ah, Eldon Ring is DLC, We're

2349
01:46:13,399 --> 01:46:15,680
not gonna put it in here. Clearly, it got enough

2350
01:46:15,720 --> 01:46:17,920
love from enough outlets to even be a nominee, which

2351
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:20,079
means it has a chance at the win overall. But

2352
01:46:20,119 --> 01:46:21,840
I'm gonna say that that's going to be a detractor

2353
01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:23,520
a little bit for it, where it's just gonna have

2354
01:46:23,560 --> 01:46:25,720
some outlets not even have it at all in their list,

2355
01:46:26,640 --> 01:46:31,760
and Final Fantasy maybe metaphor maybe. I feel like those

2356
01:46:31,800 --> 01:46:33,479
two are gonna split votes a little bit in terms

2357
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:37,640
of category, But once again, splitting votes doesn't necessarily matter

2358
01:46:37,680 --> 01:46:40,359
for the jury who are submitting five picks, So we'll see.

2359
01:46:41,199 --> 01:46:42,960
I don't think Blackmith has it. I was kind of

2360
01:46:42,960 --> 01:46:44,640
surprised to see it in here at all. Honestly, I

2361
01:46:44,680 --> 01:46:46,920
thought Hell Divers was gonna be a Game of Year contender.

2362
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:49,600
I'm kind of surprised Blackmith beat it out, But then

2363
01:46:49,640 --> 01:46:51,800
I kind of remember the global out factor of this,

2364
01:46:51,840 --> 01:46:53,680
and I feel like Blackmith is much bigger in other

2365
01:46:53,720 --> 01:46:56,479
places in the world that we're not necessarily provy to.

2366
01:46:58,079 --> 01:46:59,560
But loutro I would love to see it when I

2367
01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:05,199
think that'd be so cool, but I don't think. I

2368
01:47:05,199 --> 01:47:09,199
think just the popularity. Once again, game wards is popularity contest,

2369
01:47:09,199 --> 01:47:11,279
and for that reason, I'm gonna go with Astrobot because

2370
01:47:11,319 --> 01:47:13,600
I just feel like it's a game that even if

2371
01:47:13,640 --> 01:47:15,560
it's no Outlets Game of the Year, it's gonna be

2372
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:18,039
in every Outlet's top five just because it is such

2373
01:47:18,079 --> 01:47:21,239
a fun, joyous game. Name a single person who plays

2374
01:47:21,239 --> 01:47:23,119
that game who doesn't just have a fun time like

2375
01:47:23,199 --> 01:47:24,600
it is just it is.

2376
01:47:24,560 --> 01:47:28,600
Speaker 3: Just a fight that review, just that one individual.

2377
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:30,960
Speaker 1: I can't think of a single negative thing to say

2378
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:33,359
about it. Like my only negative would be like, I

2379
01:47:33,399 --> 01:47:35,319
want more harder levels, but I think that's just me

2380
01:47:35,399 --> 01:47:37,439
wanting more content in general, because I didn't want to

2381
01:47:37,439 --> 01:47:39,000
put it down. You know, It's not even like, oh,

2382
01:47:39,039 --> 01:47:40,920
the game was too easy, it's just that I just

2383
01:47:40,960 --> 01:47:43,039
want more to do in it, even though I just

2384
01:47:43,119 --> 01:47:45,199
plattened admit, So I feel like a lot of people

2385
01:47:45,199 --> 01:47:47,760
are gonna feel that way. It's just such a freaking

2386
01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:50,840
fun ass video game. And like people have platformers, they

2387
01:47:50,840 --> 01:47:52,399
don't we don't think of them as like Game of

2388
01:47:52,399 --> 01:47:55,239
the Year winners anymore, but people love platformers and this

2389
01:47:55,319 --> 01:47:57,279
is like one of the best. And I also find

2390
01:47:57,319 --> 01:47:58,680
this funny because like I remember, at the start of

2391
01:47:58,720 --> 01:48:01,880
the year, like late last year, Sony was like, Yeah,

2392
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:03,760
we don't really have any games coming out next year,

2393
01:48:03,880 --> 01:48:06,479
so you know, we'll see you the year after, and

2394
01:48:06,560 --> 01:48:08,520
what they meant was like first party games, but like

2395
01:48:09,119 --> 01:48:11,920
you know, they didn't mention Astrobot wasn't announced at the time.

2396
01:48:12,199 --> 01:48:15,239
But I find it funny that game can kind of

2397
01:48:15,279 --> 01:48:16,920
be like place and can just say, oh, we don't

2398
01:48:16,920 --> 01:48:18,199
have anything coming out, and then they just have this

2399
01:48:18,279 --> 01:48:20,199
game come out, which turns out to game of the

2400
01:48:20,239 --> 01:48:21,920
best games of the year and like one of my

2401
01:48:21,960 --> 01:48:24,359
favorite games and maybe the game of the Year winner overall.

2402
01:48:24,359 --> 01:48:25,760
And I think it has a good shot at it

2403
01:48:26,199 --> 01:48:28,199
and I would love to see it. I mean, Blatro

2404
01:48:28,239 --> 01:48:29,960
would be my preferred pick. I think that'd be so

2405
01:48:30,039 --> 01:48:33,439
cool if that one. And it's personally I prefer Balatro

2406
01:48:33,479 --> 01:48:38,199
over Astrobot, but they're both great, and I would I

2407
01:48:38,239 --> 01:48:40,000
would not like a Feldon Ring one. I'm in your

2408
01:48:40,039 --> 01:48:42,000
I'm in your camp, I think for any different reasons.

2409
01:48:42,039 --> 01:48:43,520
I just yeah, I would not like to see that.

2410
01:48:43,640 --> 01:48:46,199
But uh yeah, kind of an interesting, weird crop of

2411
01:48:46,239 --> 01:48:48,199
games and not an obvious front runner like we've had

2412
01:48:48,239 --> 01:48:50,760
for some other years. So m hmm. There you go.

2413
01:48:50,800 --> 01:48:55,359
There are the nominees. Now what we're gonna do is

2414
01:48:55,359 --> 01:48:57,439
we're gonna take one last break and then we'll do

2415
01:48:57,680 --> 01:49:01,079
just talk about some little predictions on some of these announcements.

2416
01:49:01,119 --> 01:49:06,159
We'll be right back. Whoa, you guys are so big

2417
01:49:06,199 --> 01:49:09,960
on the camera. We are back. You know, I was

2418
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:13,000
thinking about ash. We all picked like multiple predictions of

2419
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:14,840
what we think announcements are going to be, but I

2420
01:49:14,840 --> 01:49:17,319
think kind of sided against that. Is there anything you

2421
01:49:17,319 --> 01:49:19,479
guys are really hoping to see in terms of announcements

2422
01:49:19,560 --> 01:49:21,000
at the game boards, because of course that's kind of

2423
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:23,800
what it's more about. It's more about showing off things

2424
01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:25,800
than an awards unfortunately name and it's just kind of

2425
01:49:25,840 --> 01:49:27,680
the way it goes. But anything. You guys are really

2426
01:49:27,760 --> 01:49:30,000
really hoping to see here a new trailer for something,

2427
01:49:30,119 --> 01:49:32,479
or or a developer on stage to tell us about

2428
01:49:32,520 --> 01:49:33,199
a cool game.

2429
01:49:34,640 --> 01:49:36,239
Speaker 3: I don't know if it counts as like an announcement

2430
01:49:36,359 --> 01:49:38,840
more so just like a follow up like something.

2431
01:49:39,319 --> 01:49:41,239
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a new trailer a new game.

2432
01:49:41,279 --> 01:49:43,079
It could be a follow up for a previous name.

2433
01:49:43,119 --> 01:49:44,800
Speaker 3: I think I think the big one for me would

2434
01:49:44,840 --> 01:49:46,479
be something on the Wonder Woman title.

2435
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:51,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been rumored. I really hope we see that, like.

2436
01:49:52,800 --> 01:49:55,359
Speaker 3: Or GTA trailer that's coming in before that, right, like

2437
01:49:55,399 --> 01:49:56,720
they're they're kind of doing their own thing.

2438
01:49:57,520 --> 01:49:58,239
Speaker 1: Did they announce that.

2439
01:49:59,319 --> 01:50:01,119
Speaker 3: I maybe he was a rumor. I saw like a

2440
01:50:01,199 --> 01:50:04,079
random tweet where it's like this day, g TA trailer's coming.

2441
01:50:04,239 --> 01:50:07,199
I also just kind of assume Rockstar like they just

2442
01:50:07,279 --> 01:50:07,520
kind of.

2443
01:50:07,560 --> 01:50:09,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think they're gonna put a trailer at

2444
01:50:09,399 --> 01:50:11,960
the Game Awards. They like they don't need to, you know,

2445
01:50:12,079 --> 01:50:13,479
like that costs a lot of money to get a

2446
01:50:13,479 --> 01:50:16,760
trailer there, and if anything, I would think Keeley would

2447
01:50:16,760 --> 01:50:18,279
want to pay them to get a trailer. I don't

2448
01:50:18,279 --> 01:50:20,159
think he's real to do that. Maybe he'd have to

2449
01:50:20,199 --> 01:50:21,760
show out a lot of money. I just think they

2450
01:50:21,800 --> 01:50:24,079
don't they don't need him. They can post on YouTube.

2451
01:50:24,079 --> 01:50:26,039
I mean, what the GTA five trailer they put out

2452
01:50:26,359 --> 01:50:28,239
or six, I should say, yeah, is like what the

2453
01:50:28,279 --> 01:50:30,239
biggest video game trailer of all time or something in

2454
01:50:30,279 --> 01:50:32,399
terms of numbers on YouTube. So they don't need the

2455
01:50:32,399 --> 01:50:34,359
game awards. So yeah, I don't. I don't think we'll

2456
01:50:34,399 --> 01:50:34,960
see that there.

2457
01:50:35,359 --> 01:50:39,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it would be so yeah, wonder Woman's title.

2458
01:50:40,119 --> 01:50:43,359
I would say, I'm not gonna not even gonna think

2459
01:50:43,399 --> 01:50:48,760
about an Elder Scrolls thing at all. Maybe another Witcher

2460
01:50:49,439 --> 01:50:52,800
announcement or something like that could be really exciting. I

2461
01:50:52,840 --> 01:50:53,079
don't know.

2462
01:50:53,159 --> 01:50:54,920
Speaker 1: I think we get something about the remake of One

2463
01:50:55,119 --> 01:50:57,039
Before four at this rate, maybe.

2464
01:50:57,000 --> 01:50:59,640
Speaker 3: M okay, I don't know how credible it is. I

2465
01:50:59,640 --> 01:51:01,720
just feel like I've been seeing some like murmurs and

2466
01:51:01,800 --> 01:51:07,119
rumors about them like starting or working on then it's okay,

2467
01:51:07,159 --> 01:51:09,800
there you go, So like that could be fun little

2468
01:51:10,159 --> 01:51:13,159
I don't know, hint to just get people really getting

2469
01:51:13,199 --> 01:51:16,319
hooting and hollering. But the big one for me would

2470
01:51:16,319 --> 01:51:18,159
be that one rooman title. I just think the idea

2471
01:51:18,159 --> 01:51:19,960
of what it is and when it first announced and

2472
01:51:20,359 --> 01:51:22,560
just thinking of how they're going to introduce like that

2473
01:51:23,359 --> 01:51:26,640
was it the Nemesis system from the Shadow of War games,

2474
01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:29,680
So that one would really get my juices full. And

2475
01:51:29,680 --> 01:51:32,039
I feel like if we had like some nice combat

2476
01:51:32,079 --> 01:51:35,119
gameplay of like seeing one room and just popping off,

2477
01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:38,239
that would be really really exciting. So yeah, that would

2478
01:51:38,279 --> 01:51:40,479
be the big one for me. And in terms of

2479
01:51:40,520 --> 01:51:44,000
like any other wild announcements, I feel like everything that's

2480
01:51:44,039 --> 01:51:46,159
kind of already been announced is like the most exciting

2481
01:51:46,159 --> 01:51:49,680
stuff for me, Like Destoining too. Obviously, that's exciting that

2482
01:51:49,720 --> 01:51:51,600
we're getting close to that, And then.

2483
01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:54,720
Speaker 1: That seems likely right because of Kajima and Jack Keely

2484
01:51:54,760 --> 01:51:55,600
being best buddies.

2485
01:51:55,760 --> 01:51:58,199
Speaker 3: Oh, I could definitely be in the gameplay trailer, you know,

2486
01:51:58,279 --> 01:52:00,439
because he was in the first one, right he was he.

2487
01:52:00,399 --> 01:52:02,239
Speaker 1: Was he was in there. Yeah, I think that one's

2488
01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:04,560
very likely, especially that game is supposed to come out

2489
01:52:04,720 --> 01:52:08,079
this year. We haven't got a trailer for it super recently.

2490
01:52:08,079 --> 01:52:10,439
It's been like a bit cool on that front, so

2491
01:52:10,520 --> 01:52:12,920
I think the time for that is is ready to go.

2492
01:52:12,960 --> 01:52:15,439
And I do think Sony, who don't have a ton

2493
01:52:15,479 --> 01:52:17,479
of like first party games announced right now, like we

2494
01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:19,000
don't really know what a lot of the big studios

2495
01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:21,159
are working on. I think they want a couple of

2496
01:52:21,199 --> 01:52:24,239
things here, and at the very least that death Stranding trailer.

2497
01:52:24,279 --> 01:52:26,840
I think we'll definitely be here and I'm looking forward

2498
01:52:26,880 --> 01:52:29,439
to that. Yeah, and then I would like to see

2499
01:52:29,439 --> 01:52:32,560
like more ghosts of Yo Tie Max game Player or.

2500
01:52:32,520 --> 01:52:33,920
Speaker 3: Something, so it would be cool, exactly.

2501
01:52:34,520 --> 01:52:36,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if it's too soon for that. I

2502
01:52:36,319 --> 01:52:39,159
don't really know what they're aiming for because I don't

2503
01:52:39,159 --> 01:52:40,199
think it's coming out next year.

2504
01:52:40,239 --> 01:52:40,319
Speaker 3: Right.

2505
01:52:40,319 --> 01:52:43,520
Speaker 1: They didn't announce that, they just dropped the name, right.

2506
01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:45,520
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not sure. I think I was just under

2507
01:52:45,520 --> 01:52:48,760
the assumption it was because of the timing of that

2508
01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:51,880
that little to me. But I didn't really look too

2509
01:52:51,960 --> 01:52:54,119
much further into it. So maybe like we get a

2510
01:52:54,199 --> 01:52:55,199
date here, that would.

2511
01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:57,960
Speaker 1: Be cool, that'd be cool. Yeah, Yeah, I think I'm

2512
01:52:57,960 --> 01:52:59,279
in the same boat. I really just want to see

2513
01:52:59,319 --> 01:53:01,960
a big Sony things. I feel like they've been holding

2514
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:04,199
back on a couple of studios and what they've been

2515
01:53:04,199 --> 01:53:06,920
working on, and so I want to see something like that,

2516
01:53:07,119 --> 01:53:10,199
or like maybe an update for like Star Wars Eclipse,

2517
01:53:10,199 --> 01:53:12,479
for example. It's been a long time that's just been

2518
01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:14,239
waiting in the wings like that could be another big

2519
01:53:14,279 --> 01:53:17,720
Sony thing there. Nintendo wise, I don't think they're gonna

2520
01:53:17,760 --> 01:53:19,800
do much because I think they want to save all

2521
01:53:19,800 --> 01:53:21,840
their big announcements for the switch to announcement, and I

2522
01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:23,199
think they're just gonna do that on their own time

2523
01:53:23,239 --> 01:53:25,960
with a Nintendo Direct in like January or February or something.

2524
01:53:26,399 --> 01:53:28,119
So I don't really think Ntendo's gonna have a big

2525
01:53:28,159 --> 01:53:32,000
presence Sony. I think should Xbox. I don't really know

2526
01:53:33,039 --> 01:53:34,720
Taylor's anything that just kind of like goes on the

2527
01:53:34,720 --> 01:53:36,479
tip of our tongue for Xbox.

2528
01:53:36,159 --> 01:53:38,800
Speaker 4: Like I guess they the K three just fucking drops

2529
01:53:38,960 --> 01:53:39,760
something for that.

2530
01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:42,159
Speaker 2: I know it's not a big game, but maybe.

2531
01:53:41,920 --> 01:53:45,119
Speaker 4: Gears six or actually know its Gears E day Emergence

2532
01:53:45,159 --> 01:53:45,560
Day at that.

2533
01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:51,119
Speaker 1: Day, Doom Doom Doom Dark Ages might be ready for

2534
01:53:51,199 --> 01:53:52,319
a new trailer too.

2535
01:53:52,399 --> 01:53:52,880
Speaker 2: That's right.

2536
01:53:52,920 --> 01:53:54,680
Speaker 4: So there's a few things there on the plate that

2537
01:53:54,680 --> 01:53:56,199
they could they could drop and give us a little

2538
01:53:56,199 --> 01:53:56,960
bit more information on.

2539
01:53:57,039 --> 01:54:00,399
Speaker 1: I expect to see at least one big juicy Xbox

2540
01:54:00,439 --> 01:54:04,560
trailer there. Of course, game pass logo everywhere that kind

2541
01:54:04,600 --> 01:54:06,600
of thing. But yeah, I think I'm in the same

2542
01:54:06,600 --> 01:54:08,199
boat as you. Kirkland, I really want to see that

2543
01:54:08,199 --> 01:54:11,000
Wonder Woman trailer. I'm just so curious about that game,

2544
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:13,520
and I hope it it's been so long in the oven,

2545
01:54:13,520 --> 01:54:15,600
and I hope when it comes out it's looking nice

2546
01:54:15,600 --> 01:54:19,039
and nice and crisp. So that's that's I think maybe

2547
01:54:19,159 --> 01:54:22,000
top pocket for me. Any anything that you're hoping to see, Taylor.

2548
01:54:23,039 --> 01:54:24,439
Speaker 4: I mean, I know it's not gonna happen, but I'd

2549
01:54:24,439 --> 01:54:27,479
love to see Halo Wars three. That would just be like,

2550
01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:32,279
that would be so great, so great. Yeah, I already said.

2551
01:54:32,159 --> 01:54:33,319
Speaker 2: Stated to k three.

2552
01:54:33,680 --> 01:54:37,880
Speaker 4: I would also take yeah, you said eclips and I

2553
01:54:37,880 --> 01:54:39,560
think that's a great, great pick.

2554
01:54:39,960 --> 01:54:42,119
Speaker 2: I would take a Fallen.

2555
01:54:41,840 --> 01:54:45,000
Speaker 4: Oord, like a Jedi fallen order, a three something on there,

2556
01:54:45,439 --> 01:54:47,159
because we know there's a third one in the works.

2557
01:54:47,359 --> 01:54:49,159
Speaker 1: Oh is that announce Actually I didn't know that.

2558
01:54:49,239 --> 01:54:51,079
Speaker 2: I believe it was announce. Yeah.

2559
01:54:51,079 --> 01:54:54,479
Speaker 1: Sweet, good for them. I wasn't sure how well done

2560
01:54:54,640 --> 01:54:57,000
big the sales were second one, but that's good for them.

2561
01:54:57,319 --> 01:55:01,319
Speaker 4: They announced it back in February.

2562
01:55:00,800 --> 01:55:03,079
Speaker 1: Twel Okay, that seems primetime. Then to get it like

2563
01:55:03,079 --> 01:55:05,119
a maybe like a not necessarily a gameplay, but maybe

2564
01:55:05,119 --> 01:55:08,000
like a little story sizzler of like here's the setup,

2565
01:55:08,039 --> 01:55:10,600
show off a villain or something like that. Maybe, yeah,

2566
01:55:10,800 --> 01:55:15,039
that's gouna be good something Star Wars nice? Uh? Okay. Well,

2567
01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:17,159
as I mentioned at the top of the episode, we

2568
01:55:17,239 --> 01:55:20,880
enlisted our friend mister GPT to give us some some predictions.

2569
01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:22,520
How did you do this tailor do is it like

2570
01:55:22,560 --> 01:55:24,840
a trailer format? Is it just a game description? How

2571
01:55:24,840 --> 01:55:26,039
did how did ho was this working out?

2572
01:55:26,079 --> 01:55:26,239
Speaker 2: Here?

2573
01:55:26,319 --> 01:55:26,399
Speaker 4: So?

2574
01:55:26,760 --> 01:55:27,199
Speaker 1: I did?

2575
01:55:27,319 --> 01:55:27,479
Speaker 4: Uh?

2576
01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:28,880
Speaker 2: I did five predictions.

2577
01:55:28,880 --> 01:55:32,520
Speaker 4: I did four game announcements, and it's listed what the

2578
01:55:32,520 --> 01:55:34,600
prediction is and then how they're going to announce it

2579
01:55:34,640 --> 01:55:38,079
and okay, and then I asked it to actually give

2580
01:55:38,119 --> 01:55:39,760
me what it thinks is going to win Game of

2581
01:55:39,800 --> 01:55:41,600
the Years if it's interesting.

2582
01:55:42,119 --> 01:55:43,800
Speaker 1: That's someone I've aways wonder about because I feel like

2583
01:55:43,880 --> 01:55:46,720
I always hear people say, oh, Chad GPT's info is

2584
01:55:46,720 --> 01:55:49,079
like four years old or something, but like that's not true, right,

2585
01:55:49,079 --> 01:55:51,000
like it's pulling current information or it can.

2586
01:55:51,119 --> 01:55:53,079
Speaker 4: Well I try and check it too, so like I

2587
01:55:53,159 --> 01:55:57,039
usually to see if I can get it to be current.

2588
01:55:57,439 --> 01:55:59,560
My first question was do you know the annual Video

2589
01:55:59,600 --> 01:56:00,319
Game of War Show?

2590
01:56:00,359 --> 01:56:01,279
Speaker 2: And it's like, yes, the.

2591
01:56:01,239 --> 01:56:03,079
Speaker 4: End of the game awards show not a major event

2592
01:56:03,159 --> 01:56:09,279
with Jeff Keeley, so it I do that to kind

2593
01:56:09,279 --> 01:56:11,319
of set the tone. And then after that, I'm like, okay,

2594
01:56:11,319 --> 01:56:14,760
give me like your predictions for like four possible games

2595
01:56:14,760 --> 01:56:16,199
that could be released during this time.

2596
01:56:16,279 --> 01:56:20,000
Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha, gotcha. I did say mainline games like big titles.

2597
01:56:20,479 --> 01:56:25,399
I didn't do anything small scale. No, no, all right,

2598
01:56:25,439 --> 01:56:27,000
Taylor take it away. However you want to do this.

2599
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:27,600
Speaker 2: Go ahead.

2600
01:56:28,159 --> 01:56:30,319
Speaker 4: Uh So the announced I'll start with the announcement before

2601
01:56:30,319 --> 01:56:34,880
the predictions. So the announcement Xbox exclusive. Jeff Keeley is

2602
01:56:34,880 --> 01:56:38,479
on stage and suddenly the lights go dim. A massive

2603
01:56:38,479 --> 01:56:43,760
holographic Halo ring and circles the stage. Cortana's voice echoes

2604
01:56:43,800 --> 01:56:45,760
through the venue, saying, this isn't the end, It's just

2605
01:56:45,760 --> 01:56:49,479
the beginning. A pelican drops from the ceiling via drone tech,

2606
01:56:50,199 --> 01:56:53,159
and the trailer plays, revealing master Chief in a sleek,

2607
01:56:53,239 --> 01:56:59,359
upgraded armor design. Okay, this is Halo Ascendants. New Halo

2608
01:56:59,359 --> 01:57:02,680
game designs is spiritual success sor to Halo three, focusing

2609
01:57:02,720 --> 01:57:05,239
on a darker galaxy, why conflict with heavy RPG and

2610
01:57:05,279 --> 01:57:09,119
exploration elements showcasing master Chief.

2611
01:57:09,119 --> 01:57:12,119
Speaker 1: You're talking to me there, Yeah, Halo three has my favorite, Like,

2612
01:57:12,359 --> 01:57:15,159
let's forget the other stuff, let's just go straight to three.

2613
01:57:15,239 --> 01:57:18,319
Speaker 3: Already being in the crowd, it's like Jeff's standing there,

2614
01:57:18,359 --> 01:57:20,439
you know, it's it's amazing. They have like the hologram,

2615
01:57:20,760 --> 01:57:26,359
like Pelican just starts coming like Dafoe looking up, you

2616
01:57:26,399 --> 01:57:26,920
know the Yeah.

2617
01:57:28,560 --> 01:57:31,039
Speaker 1: Okay, so we got some RPG elements too. I'm into

2618
01:57:31,079 --> 01:57:35,720
that because Halo Infinite Campaign like, well, you're getting to equipment,

2619
01:57:35,720 --> 01:57:37,359
but there's no like skilture anything.

2620
01:57:37,119 --> 01:57:38,319
Speaker 2: Right ta there No, not that.

2621
01:57:38,560 --> 01:57:40,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so that would be new for the series.

2622
01:57:41,479 --> 01:57:48,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, so number two Nintendo Switched exclusive. Jeff Keeley starts

2623
01:57:48,119 --> 01:57:50,800
talking about gaming legends, and then a giant warp pipe

2624
01:57:50,880 --> 01:57:55,159
rises from the floor. Chris Pratt's Mario voice emergers, and.

2625
01:57:56,680 --> 01:57:58,840
Speaker 1: You uh sorry.

2626
01:57:58,880 --> 01:58:02,640
Speaker 4: Chris Pratt emerges in a Mario hat to introduce a

2627
01:58:02,640 --> 01:58:06,439
live orchestral performance of the game's new theme. A three

2628
01:58:06,520 --> 01:58:09,079
D animated Kappi zips around the venue in real time,

2629
01:58:09,439 --> 01:58:11,760
ar projecting the games trailer onto the ceiling.

2630
01:58:12,119 --> 01:58:14,720
Speaker 1: So sorry. The pipe, though, is a legit pipe. It's

2631
01:58:14,720 --> 01:58:17,960
an actual pipe, so it's not it's not a hologram.

2632
01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:21,840
The capy is okay, cap and I like that, Chris Pratt.

2633
01:58:22,359 --> 01:58:24,239
He's not wearing the suit, he's not wearing the overalls,

2634
01:58:24,359 --> 01:58:26,159
just a hat, just going.

2635
01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:28,359
Speaker 3: Bare minimum, just that I didn't pay theim enough.

2636
01:58:29,119 --> 01:58:31,600
Speaker 1: Maybe doesn't even have a mustache, just like clean shaven, like,

2637
01:58:31,640 --> 01:58:32,439
come on, buddy.

2638
01:58:33,239 --> 01:58:35,720
Speaker 4: So this is Super Mario odysty two, the long awaited

2639
01:58:35,760 --> 01:58:38,479
sequel that takes Mario and Kappy to brand brand new kingdoms,

2640
01:58:38,479 --> 01:58:42,000
including a fully explorable Bowserland. This time, Luigi joins as

2641
01:58:42,000 --> 01:58:44,960
a playable character with his own set of cap related powers.

2642
01:58:46,119 --> 01:58:48,600
It leans into throwbacks to Super Mario sixty four.

2643
01:58:49,760 --> 01:58:52,359
Speaker 1: Well now you're talking to me again, Halo Free Mario

2644
01:58:52,399 --> 01:58:54,479
sixty four. Were talking about my top ten favorite games

2645
01:58:54,520 --> 01:58:57,279
of all time. Here is speaking to me. Okay, I'm

2646
01:58:57,319 --> 01:58:58,800
into that. I like Luigi. I think that would be

2647
01:58:58,800 --> 01:59:01,359
a good addition to that sequel. That would makes sense too.

2648
01:59:01,479 --> 01:59:03,680
In the title, you finally get two characters in there.

2649
01:59:05,399 --> 01:59:07,920
I like it. Bowserland cool Bowserland.

2650
01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:08,279
Speaker 2: Yes.

2651
01:59:09,600 --> 01:59:14,920
Speaker 4: So Number three PlayStation exclusive Jeff Keeley is casually chatting

2652
01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:17,560
on stage when a sandstorm effect fills the venue.

2653
01:59:18,600 --> 01:59:22,520
Speaker 1: Sorry, casually chatting on stage, chatting on stage, like to

2654
01:59:22,560 --> 01:59:24,439
the microphone or like he's just having a conversation with

2655
01:59:24,479 --> 01:59:25,920
someone on the side that's so weird.

2656
01:59:26,399 --> 01:59:27,640
Speaker 2: I'm not sure we'll never know.

2657
01:59:29,159 --> 01:59:31,600
Speaker 4: The cat rezooms in on a mysterious desert setting, with

2658
01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:34,159
the audience hearing Credos say.

2659
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:35,640
Speaker 2: The gods have spoken, but so will I.

2660
01:59:36,520 --> 01:59:40,520
Speaker 4: Suddenly Christopher Judge appears on stage in a full Credos cosplay.

2661
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:42,520
Speaker 2: Shutting Boy is the trailer.

2662
01:59:43,239 --> 01:59:45,359
Speaker 1: My God.

2663
01:59:46,319 --> 01:59:48,960
Speaker 4: God of War Twilight's veil, a new chapter in the

2664
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:51,680
God of War franchise, picking up with the Treyis exploring

2665
01:59:51,680 --> 01:59:54,680
his destiny the new realms of mythological creatures while Credos

2666
01:59:54,720 --> 01:59:57,640
wrestles with us past. This time it's Egyptian mythology taking

2667
01:59:57,680 --> 02:00:00,800
center stage, with the Nubis as the main anti.

2668
02:00:00,920 --> 02:00:05,239
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm into that. I love the snow setting, but like, okay,

2669
02:00:05,279 --> 02:00:07,319
we did our two games there. Let's go somewhere new

2670
02:00:07,920 --> 02:00:10,239
and see that sand I feel like the snow Tech

2671
02:00:10,359 --> 02:00:13,840
could very easily be converted to sand Tech and they

2672
02:00:13,880 --> 02:00:15,479
had Tray his part. That makes a lot of sense

2673
02:00:15,600 --> 02:00:18,000
that from, especially where Regnarroc leaves off. I feel like

2674
02:00:18,000 --> 02:00:20,600
that makes sense. But once again, like the Cause play,

2675
02:00:20,640 --> 02:00:23,079
I don would not I can't imagine Christopher Judge doing

2676
02:00:23,119 --> 02:00:25,279
that it's a pretty hefty costplay for.

2677
02:00:25,239 --> 02:00:27,600
Speaker 3: That man painted white. Yeah, I guess that's kind of

2678
02:00:27,600 --> 02:00:29,359
old Crados. I don't know how he looks in the

2679
02:00:29,640 --> 02:00:30,319
newer titles.

2680
02:00:30,359 --> 02:00:32,319
Speaker 1: He's Yeah, he's a little.

2681
02:00:32,159 --> 02:00:33,960
Speaker 3: Like the Ghost of Sparta and the old ones where

2682
02:00:33,960 --> 02:00:35,319
he's like literally painted white.

2683
02:00:35,720 --> 02:00:38,479
Speaker 1: So well, isn't it it's like the ashes of his

2684
02:00:38,680 --> 02:00:40,800
daughter or something, right, because.

2685
02:00:40,760 --> 02:00:44,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's probably more than just paint, But yeah, I

2686
02:00:44,439 --> 02:00:46,359
don't see the ashes of his daughter on that.

2687
02:00:46,560 --> 02:00:48,479
Speaker 1: He's a little more gray this time around. I feel

2688
02:00:48,520 --> 02:00:51,920
like that's just classic classic Sony. It's dark and gritty,

2689
02:00:51,960 --> 02:00:52,119
you know.

2690
02:00:52,399 --> 02:00:53,239
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.

2691
02:00:53,800 --> 02:00:54,079
Speaker 1: Uh.

2692
02:00:54,479 --> 02:00:58,239
Speaker 4: Prediction number four Nintendo Switch Exclusive.

2693
02:00:59,239 --> 02:01:00,399
Speaker 2: So Jeff begins.

2694
02:01:01,079 --> 02:01:03,279
Speaker 4: He begins a segment with what seems like a generic

2695
02:01:03,359 --> 02:01:06,800
underwater theme. Water starts pouring onto the stage, pooling at

2696
02:01:06,840 --> 02:01:11,640
Jeff's feet. Jeff says, weight, this wasn't in the script.

2697
02:01:11,680 --> 02:01:15,600
He says, as a glowing try for symbol appears under

2698
02:01:15,640 --> 02:01:19,880
the water, uh, a diver emerges from a real pool

2699
02:01:19,920 --> 02:01:22,359
that's appeared in the middle of the stage, holding a

2700
02:01:22,399 --> 02:01:24,600
glowing Master Sword trailer.

2701
02:01:25,520 --> 02:01:28,039
Speaker 1: There's no water until now, and then there's also a

2702
02:01:28,119 --> 02:01:29,479
diver in the diver.

2703
02:01:30,159 --> 02:01:31,840
Speaker 3: The diver was there all the time. He was just

2704
02:01:31,840 --> 02:01:32,600
waiting for the water.

2705
02:01:33,279 --> 02:01:33,720
Speaker 2: Uh.

2706
02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:36,840
Speaker 4: The Legend of Zelda Dreams of the Depths a follow

2707
02:01:36,920 --> 02:01:39,960
up to Tears of the Kingdom. This game explores underwater

2708
02:01:40,039 --> 02:01:43,199
realms and the mysteries of high Roll seas. Link gains

2709
02:01:43,239 --> 02:01:45,560
new powers tied to the ancient marine technology, and the

2710
02:01:45,560 --> 02:01:48,199
game introduces dynamic weather and underwater physics.

2711
02:01:49,319 --> 02:01:52,399
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't love that. I mean, as I like,

2712
02:01:52,479 --> 02:01:54,960
water levels are always people's least favorites. Like, I don't

2713
02:01:54,960 --> 02:01:56,720
know if we want a whole game of that for Zelda.

2714
02:01:56,760 --> 02:02:00,159
That sounds a bit much that, you know, it's funny

2715
02:02:00,359 --> 02:02:03,119
hearing that description. The first thing that came to my mind,

2716
02:02:03,159 --> 02:02:05,720
Kirkland is just like, oh, that just sounds like something

2717
02:02:05,800 --> 02:02:07,319
that would be set up and hit Man, where there's

2718
02:02:07,319 --> 02:02:09,159
a guy on stage he has to give a presentation

2719
02:02:09,159 --> 02:02:12,239
where water comes down. But then forty seven has somehow

2720
02:02:12,279 --> 02:02:16,199
electrified the water or he puts some in scuba diver

2721
02:02:16,880 --> 02:02:19,840
he's the scuba diver. Yeah, and he goes up steps.

2722
02:02:19,520 --> 02:02:21,640
Speaker 3: Again in the back of one of the endings.

2723
02:02:21,680 --> 02:02:26,439
Speaker 1: For sure, Oh my god, that would be so so funny. Yep,

2724
02:02:27,880 --> 02:02:28,560
but yeah, there you have it.

2725
02:02:28,600 --> 02:02:31,119
Speaker 4: Those are the four games are gonna be unveiled for sure,

2726
02:02:31,279 --> 02:02:32,800
Big Cheepchi.

2727
02:02:33,199 --> 02:02:36,239
Speaker 3: Like Spiders to the most. I think Halo was my favorite.

2728
02:02:36,520 --> 02:02:37,479
It was my performance.

2729
02:02:37,880 --> 02:02:38,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good.

2730
02:02:39,680 --> 02:02:42,800
Speaker 4: So I asked chat cheept what will win Game of

2731
02:02:42,840 --> 02:02:46,399
the Year? Based on these following choices, Astrobot, Blatro blackmth

2732
02:02:46,439 --> 02:02:49,600
Alton Ring found fantasy and metaphor, and so chat cheepy

2733
02:02:49,600 --> 02:02:51,520
t was like, this is a stacked line up of contenders,

2734
02:02:51,560 --> 02:02:54,680
each representing excellence and different genres and experiences, and then

2735
02:02:54,880 --> 02:02:58,560
it gave at like brief analysis for each one of them.

2736
02:02:59,079 --> 02:03:02,640
But it's pret I'll say Its runner.

2737
02:03:02,399 --> 02:03:04,159
Speaker 2: Up was Final Fantasy Rebirth.

2738
02:03:04,960 --> 02:03:06,640
Speaker 4: It said Rebirth could pull off a win if and

2739
02:03:06,720 --> 02:03:09,079
nails its ambitious goals and resonates deeply with fans and

2740
02:03:09,119 --> 02:03:09,800
critics alike.

2741
02:03:10,520 --> 02:03:14,760
Speaker 1: But its number one pick was elden.

2742
02:03:14,520 --> 02:03:15,159
Speaker 2: Rings shut.

2743
02:03:18,520 --> 02:03:18,760
Speaker 1: Swear.

2744
02:03:19,199 --> 02:03:22,279
Speaker 4: It says elden Ring remains a cultural juggernaut and if

2745
02:03:22,279 --> 02:03:24,640
the expansion hits the high bar set by the Bass game,

2746
02:03:24,680 --> 02:03:26,439
it's most likely Game of the year winner.

2747
02:03:27,680 --> 02:03:31,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting, that's what the robot thinks.

2748
02:03:31,920 --> 02:03:34,720
Speaker 2: What the robot thinks, Kirkln, what do you have it?

2749
02:03:35,239 --> 02:03:38,439
Speaker 1: I would describe. I'm curious if you still have that up.

2750
02:03:39,479 --> 02:03:42,119
Speaker 4: Why it could win as an indie Darling BLATERO might

2751
02:03:42,199 --> 02:03:45,840
bring fresh, innovative mechanics or unique narrative twist that captivates critics.

2752
02:03:45,840 --> 02:03:48,199
Indie success stories like haities have proven Game of Your

2753
02:03:48,239 --> 02:03:49,920
voters love creative risk taking.

2754
02:03:50,279 --> 02:03:51,319
Speaker 2: Why it might not win.

2755
02:03:51,640 --> 02:03:54,279
Speaker 4: It's going against some massive Triple A titles, and smaller

2756
02:03:54,319 --> 02:03:57,119
scale games often struggle to outshine them in the main category.

2757
02:03:58,720 --> 02:04:04,720
Speaker 1: Honestly, well said, I can't deny that very good. H

2758
02:04:05,760 --> 02:04:08,119
I love that. That was very fun, man, is it

2759
02:04:08,159 --> 02:04:10,439
gonna be right? That would be crazy if Eldon Ring

2760
02:04:10,760 --> 02:04:11,479
truly took it off.

2761
02:04:12,520 --> 02:04:15,680
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be I think that would be the worst one. Like,

2762
02:04:16,159 --> 02:04:17,640
you know, we do these every year and they're fun

2763
02:04:17,680 --> 02:04:20,079
to you know, just having some bragging rights between you

2764
02:04:20,119 --> 02:04:23,000
guys and whatnot. But like never really been like hurt

2765
02:04:23,079 --> 02:04:26,079
by picks or like overjoyed by picks. I don't know.

2766
02:04:26,079 --> 02:04:27,239
I just feel like I don't have too much skin

2767
02:04:27,279 --> 02:04:30,920
in the game. But yeah, eld Ring, gilc come on, Jeff,

2768
02:04:30,960 --> 02:04:32,960
we gotta have a talk. This isn't this isn't okay.

2769
02:04:33,640 --> 02:04:38,359
Speaker 1: Shut Usually I don't have too much, Like it doesn't

2770
02:04:38,399 --> 02:04:40,159
really matter to me what ends up winning. I really

2771
02:04:40,239 --> 02:04:42,439
really wanted Death Loop to win against it takes two

2772
02:04:42,479 --> 02:04:44,520
in that year because it's like, ah, this is kind

2773
02:04:44,560 --> 02:04:46,319
of a weaker year, Like if Death Loop or our

2774
02:04:46,359 --> 02:04:48,119
kids ever gonna win it, this might be their chance

2775
02:04:48,119 --> 02:04:50,640
and they couldn't quite pull it out. But yeah for

2776
02:04:50,680 --> 02:04:54,079
the most part, so yeah, whatever, whatever wins wins. But cool.

2777
02:04:54,800 --> 02:04:57,000
Any other thoughts on the game boards? Boys, is coming out?

2778
02:04:57,119 --> 02:04:59,079
Like I said, the twelfth, we're gonna be covering it

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that I presume them after on Side Quest because I

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think we're all pretty busy that night. That's when like

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both those movies come out, Lord of the Rings and Craven,

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So we're gonna be busy that weekend, so we'll probably

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cover on the regular Monday. But any any final thoughts?

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Are we all done here? Cool? Thank you guys for

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joining me. This is a nice spicy three man cast,

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long one here. Thank you everyon for listening. Let us

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know what you think is gonna win in these variety

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of categories, and what you think about the Elden Ring

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inclusion in there, what announcements you want to see, all

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that good stuff, And we'll see you again next week

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for some Indiana Jones in the Great Circle, have a

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good one. Bye bye

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Speaker 3: Bye,