Speaker 1: You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello,
Speaker 1: and welcome to another edition of Video Games to the Max.
Speaker 1: This is a special one as we're going over talking
Speaker 1: about reviewing whatever you want to call it. The Game
Speaker 1: Awards twenty twenty four. It was quite a show here,
Speaker 1: ran about three and a half hours long, y ish
Speaker 1: at least three, and you know, had all the kitten
Speaker 1: Kaboodo Awards announced with all the stuff you'd expect. And
Speaker 1: of course it's pho big. I can't just have Mark here,
Speaker 1: I gotta have Randy as well, so welcome back Randy
Speaker 1: as well. How are you feeling.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad I didn't like live stream this. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have a voice. It was, yeah, quite the wild
Speaker 2: ride that Jeff put us on.
Speaker 1: That's so they you know, the rumors going around the
Speaker 1: four of the shows thought it was there was supposed
Speaker 1: to be two huge announcements that are gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, and I think we know now which
Speaker 1: ones they are. There were more than two, Yeah, there
Speaker 1: were more than two exactly, but definitely you can you
Speaker 1: can kind of see what they were talking about there.
Speaker 1: But probably the opening and the ending I think is
Speaker 1: maybe what they were hardly reflecting on. But I guess
Speaker 1: my first like thought of that is this when I
Speaker 1: got done like just thinking about everything and all the
Speaker 1: announcements and all that, is like this finally felt like
Speaker 1: it took him ten years. Maybe it's because it's the
Speaker 1: tenth anniversary and he's got the cache now, he's got
Speaker 1: the pull a little bit more than he did many
Speaker 1: years ago, or whatever, But I think this is it.
Speaker 1: This is what he wants this show to be. It
Speaker 1: finally feels like E three mixed with an award show
Speaker 1: mixed with you know, a little bit of something else.
Speaker 1: I thought this was his best one he's ever done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the closest he's gotten to exactly
Speaker 2: what he keeps saying that he wants it to be.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a celebration of the past, president and
Speaker 2: future of gaming, and that's exactly what we got here.
Speaker 2: I mean, he brought up a lot of people that
Speaker 2: have been in the industry for a long time that
Speaker 2: they had that special award that they gave out as well,
Speaker 2: which is kind of the behind the scenes industry stuff. Obviously. Yes,
Speaker 2: if you're just looking for awards, some of the awards
Speaker 2: go by it pretty quick, but I thought they gave
Speaker 2: extra time for some of them and they weren't rushing
Speaker 2: them off the stage, which was nice to see. So
Speaker 2: everyone kind of got their moment. And of course the
Speaker 2: reveals were insane as well. And yes, this thing went
Speaker 2: well over three hours, especially if you count their pre
Speaker 2: show or whatever they're calling it. But other than maybe
Speaker 2: an hour in the middle, it felt like the whole
Speaker 2: thing flew.
Speaker 3: By mark that one hour.
Speaker 2: Well it usually other than the first ten minutes. In
Speaker 2: the last five minutes, but the show felt like at
Speaker 2: drug for or so we're improving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I still just don't like how
Speaker 3: it doles out the awards. That's still the biggest issue
Speaker 3: of this thing. He bangs up like five awards in
Speaker 3: like thirty seconds, and then he has like a performance
Speaker 3: not just by Snoop Dog, by some white man I
Speaker 3: haven't never even heard before, and last the orchestra twice right,
Speaker 3: And I like, I had a film critic friend going
Speaker 3: like legitimately asking like why is this thing longer than
Speaker 3: the Golden Globes? And it's like, do you want a
Speaker 3: joke ancer or the real answer? Like I you know, like,
Speaker 3: there's no reason this thing should be as long for me.
Speaker 1: I don't The length doesn't bother me necessarily, because that's
Speaker 1: the only way you're gonna get the dev's getting to
Speaker 1: be able to talk. I think he had to make
Speaker 1: that sacrifice of if I want everything that I want
Speaker 1: else on the show and I don't have to do
Speaker 1: the wrap it up stuff, I have to be okay
Speaker 1: with the show being close to four hours or whatever
Speaker 1: like the oscars would be, and you can decide to
Speaker 1: turn it off. And I think, to me, except for
Speaker 1: the Soup Dog one, which that one was obviously you know, hey,
Speaker 1: I got a chance to have Soup Dog do a
Speaker 1: do some some music, you know, why not get him
Speaker 1: out here whatever, The other ones kind of felt like
Speaker 1: almost like commercial placement, like here's like, here's a break
Speaker 1: from all the announcement flourish that you had. Especially that
Speaker 1: first opening thirty minutes when when the SIPs seven Orchestra
Speaker 1: came on, I was like, oh great, I can like
Speaker 1: take a breather. I don't have to pay attention for
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know. It didn't feel so much
Speaker 1: like here's imagine dragons to waste our time for ten minutes,
Speaker 1: you know so.
Speaker 3: But then it was weird, like he had a Eela
Speaker 3: Pernell like on stage for the best adaptation and she
Speaker 3: didn't even speak. Yeah, awkward, like she didn't want to. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was the whole point.
Speaker 2: Like he Todd Howard pointed to her to go up
Speaker 2: and she's like shook him off. It wasn't like Day
Speaker 2: said go up there and don't say a word. She
Speaker 2: didn't want to.
Speaker 1: I think he even like did the thing where he's like,
Speaker 1: I forgot the name of the other the tall the
Speaker 1: tall guy. Yeah, he kind of like did that thing
Speaker 1: where he's he's trying to push his hands to go, okay, Ella,
Speaker 1: your time, and she kind of the same thing she
Speaker 1: does with Todd, kind of like I don't know well
Speaker 1: to me as some of the like I get why, right,
Speaker 1: because she still has the whole thing he wants, the celebrity,
Speaker 1: So I get why some of the decisions, like the
Speaker 1: ongoing game thing, I would have been more upset about.
Speaker 1: But I feel like Hell Divers too deserves to have
Speaker 1: its moment because it got robbed from being a Game
Speaker 1: of the Year, you know, depending on what you feel
Speaker 1: like game of the Year should be. Like I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you're such an important game to that year, you
Speaker 1: kind of deserved to be in the category. But again,
Speaker 1: this is voted on by a million other people and
Speaker 1: other countries and whatever. I didn't mind that so much.
Speaker 1: The adaptation thing is kind of like I get it
Speaker 1: they wanted to have a reason to have Aaron Paul there,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like, did we really is that
Speaker 1: that's the one we're gonna choose instead of a one
Speaker 1: this about an actual video game, you know, But I
Speaker 1: think I feel like that's being nitpicky to me, Like
Speaker 1: the most of the decisions he made, even the Muppets,
Speaker 1: which he's had them uppets before and they were terrible,
Speaker 1: and this time it is actually good because he's making
Speaker 1: fun of himself and he's making fun of like the
Speaker 1: stuff from last year. Yeah, but he recognizes that he
Speaker 1: he kind of did wrong there.
Speaker 3: But they took up a lot of time, and it's like,
Speaker 3: why this bullshit here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's there. He's trying to he's trying to play
Speaker 1: Kate to other people, not just the gamers that are
Speaker 1: gonna watch this, right, because every year it keeps growing
Speaker 1: this uh you know, you're having MPR and other outlet
Speaker 1: that are not gaming related covering this thing. That's what
Speaker 1: he wants. He wants it to go beyond just gaming
Speaker 1: for that one night of the year, you know. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Literally called the Game Awards though it's not. But I mean, like,
Speaker 3: like I would rather to cut down that bullshit and
Speaker 3: had like, you know, you know, best narrative, have like
Speaker 3: an actual ceremony.
Speaker 1: I mean it did they had Sam might go out
Speaker 1: there and talk right and do his bit and look
Speaker 1: look like I said, this is never gonna be perfect.
Speaker 1: There's always gonna be something you're gonna complain about, right,
Speaker 1: But I feel like of all the ones that we
Speaker 1: could last year, we had way more complaints and more
Speaker 1: legitimate complaints than we do. I feel like this year,
Speaker 1: because he chalked this thing full of really what we
Speaker 1: come to this thing for? Right? The announcements, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: can talk about the awards all we want to. That's cool.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that after about one I know,
Speaker 1: Mark probably you don't.
Speaker 3: I'm uh neutral on it, Like I'm it's fine. I'm surprised,
Speaker 3: you like, because you hate it at one level, you know,
Speaker 3: you have more.
Speaker 1: I love the game It's just okay. That one level
Speaker 1: frustrated me. But I love that game. I'm plattinum the game.
Speaker 1: It's the only platinum I ever have. Is is that game?
Speaker 1: So you know? But and and the fact that they
Speaker 1: released that Christmas level actually right, you can go play
Speaker 1: that right now, which is cool, like the fact that
Speaker 1: they keep releasing stuff for this game. Also. But I'm
Speaker 1: glad Rebirth didn't get horizoned and won something.
Speaker 2: He won the one award I thought it was going
Speaker 2: to because Metaphor could have won that award.
Speaker 1: Man Metaphor could have easily won that award.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've heard like two songs from like Legit, so I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say it didn't deserve it or did
Speaker 2: deserve it, because I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean all those soundtracks in that that whole thing
Speaker 1: were so.
Speaker 2: I mean from that developer, for sure, I can't. I'm
Speaker 2: not into Persona, but Persona music is fantastic, so I
Speaker 2: get it. I just haven't heard it.
Speaker 1: And shout out to Neva for winning Games for Impact
Speaker 1: and Balatro winning Best Indie. I mean that kind of
Speaker 1: felt like a shoe into me. Blotro was just too popular.
Speaker 1: I feel like in our win. But all right, let's
Speaker 1: get to the actual announcement stuff, which what a way
Speaker 1: to kick off your whole thing. Well, I guess we
Speaker 1: can start with the pre show, which they had some
Speaker 1: cool bangers like for me and personally two of my
Speaker 1: favorite franchises. In the first seven minutes, Ninja Guiden gets
Speaker 1: a new game. That's the first announcement that they make,
Speaker 1: which and it's being made by the dot Mu folks,
Speaker 1: which is you know, Turtles in the Shutter Revenge and
Speaker 1: Streets Rage four, two games that I think we all
Speaker 1: loved here, So that was a cool surprise.
Speaker 3: It's not going to face on Ninja guid in Yaiba.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, please, let's not do that. I don't know
Speaker 1: how big of a fan of a Ninja guy and
Speaker 1: you are, Randy.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad we're back to the two D stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, I'm an old man, so I grew
Speaker 2: up with the OLDES games, and yes, the three D
Speaker 2: games were just as hard, and we're wild for the
Speaker 2: Xbox and stuff. But it looked awesome. This was one
Speaker 2: that you can kind of tell us like we're starting
Speaker 2: off with this, we're gonna have it we're gonna have
Speaker 2: a fun show.
Speaker 3: So I sent this.
Speaker 2: Message to you Sean near the about near the end
Speaker 2: of the show. It's like, basically the Game Awards was, Hey,
Speaker 2: do you remember these games from like twenty thirty, forty
Speaker 2: years ago? They're all getting sequels and get.
Speaker 1: Ready does that concern you at all in a way
Speaker 1: that like, yeah, but we're getting too many.
Speaker 2: But we're getting sequels now. We're not like we've gone
Speaker 2: through the remake washing machine for far too long. These
Speaker 2: are sequels, like we're going back to old franchises that
Speaker 2: have been dormant. Maybe it give us hope for other
Speaker 2: franchises that have been dormant, But these are not well
Speaker 2: you know, here, here's your Ninja guiden Nes trilogy collection
Speaker 2: or here's your Rock collection.
Speaker 3: No, these are like new games.
Speaker 2: For all these different franchises, and that's what I'm more
Speaker 2: excited about. I was like, all right, we're you're actually
Speaker 2: going back to franchises, but coming up with new ideas.
Speaker 3: I'm so hyped to that.
Speaker 1: I want to mention Slight Aspire to. Getting a new
Speaker 1: trailer was awesome for me too. I love to slay
Speaker 1: the spire. And also the fact that slow cap is
Speaker 1: making a multiplayer soccer game. Uh that looked like legit,
Speaker 1: Like I've won an Arcade soccer game since they stopped
Speaker 1: making the FIFA street games.
Speaker 3: So like apparently forgets.
Speaker 2: I mean, that wasn't that great that I will give
Speaker 2: blessing from kind of Funny the NOD for best joke
Speaker 2: about that game and calling it a FIFU. That's so
Speaker 2: as well done.
Speaker 1: That was anything from the pre show that stood out
Speaker 1: to you guys at all or.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch it, so okay, I mean at the
Speaker 3: eight hour pre show or the fact that very and it.
Speaker 2: Was the same as the Game awards. Nothing was different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Shadow Labyrinth game where they're doing
Speaker 1: like a I don't know if I guess he is
Speaker 1: like apparently this is also on the Secret Level episode
Speaker 1: where they have pac Man, so I guess I haven't
Speaker 1: watched Secret.
Speaker 2: Level yet, but I mean neither, but it looks wild.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if this is like pac Man.
Speaker 1: It's telling the other character what to do for him
Speaker 1: or whatever, but that looks like ridiculous. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is this is not what I spent when they
Speaker 1: said alternate take on you know, pac Man or whatever.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was that was really cool.
Speaker 2: I need to see more of it. But it's an
Speaker 2: interesting take on pac Man, especially because like halfway through
Speaker 2: the trailer you're hearing classic pac Man noises and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a mind trip of.
Speaker 1: Well, uh you know, Robert, you could always I could
Speaker 1: always put you in here. I didn't know you were
Speaker 1: awake and do.
Speaker 3: A show Man.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I mean Witcher four you start that
Speaker 1: off with, that's your first announcer from the actual show.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that the Grifters are going to complain about
Speaker 1: Siri being the main protagonist.
Speaker 3: Gold when he said I I always ever gonna play
Speaker 3: this game because he play as a woman.
Speaker 1: But I mean, like, isn't that pretty much? They made
Speaker 1: that very clear at the end of three that she
Speaker 1: was to be the protagonists basically, or the one that
Speaker 1: carry the torch.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, finish three okay, I mean sure, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean look cool like her fighting that
Speaker 1: big monster. Yeah, and the setup for it, like it
Speaker 1: took me a while to figure out, oh okay, this
Speaker 1: this is Witcher And when I figured out before they
Speaker 1: put the C PUBJCT RED logo on there. But still it's.
Speaker 3: One two swords. You know the score.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about a big get for Keeley to get
Speaker 1: them just announcing it there, that's that's pretty great to
Speaker 1: get that at the beginning. So to show up though,
Speaker 1: Reverse finally coming is coming to PC a month before
Speaker 1: it would have been the one year anniversary, and this
Speaker 1: time it's actually coming to Steam at the beginning. It's
Speaker 1: not coming to Epic and then getting a year exclusive.
Speaker 3: So they want to sell some copies of those things.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the mods will be coming very quickly after that.
Speaker 1: The other like the this gen Design game that looked
Speaker 1: like Mecca Shadow of the Colossus. What did you think
Speaker 1: about that? Already? I don't know how much of a
Speaker 1: Shadow of the Colossus.
Speaker 2: Oh no, get that out of here. I'm not a
Speaker 2: team I don't I don't care. Okay, I don't like
Speaker 2: that that franchise at all. It gives me bad memories
Speaker 2: from my backlog busting project days are playing those? No, No,
Speaker 2: I'm not interesting.
Speaker 1: I thought it school. I will have to wait and
Speaker 1: see on that. I don't know, Mark, are you?
Speaker 3: I mean it looked neat, but I just don't know
Speaker 3: what the extual gameplay is. If you're gonna be controlling
Speaker 3: that big thing or you know, just Polly and that
Speaker 3: ship around or with you know, if you're trying to
Speaker 3: find like build another body or with what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like, as long as he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be the mech version of Trico, then we're good. I
Speaker 1: was good with Last Guardian for a while until Treco
Speaker 1: just started becoming like I get that was the point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's like, oh god, you know, out of Worlds too.
Speaker 1: They finally got like a big reveal for that. That
Speaker 1: was awesome.
Speaker 3: It looked more of the same. I mean, it looked better,
Speaker 3: but I was like, yeah, this is kind of what
Speaker 3: I expected. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Their trailers are always just fun. Yeah, you know you're
Speaker 2: gonna get from that kind of game. But I like
Speaker 2: that they have fun with the trailer.
Speaker 3: I'd like to Fallout three to Wine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a good one. It's like what wait, wait,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, uh got Long Dark two? Getting enough smart?
Speaker 3: I know you like the long It looks cool because look,
Speaker 3: there are actually other people in the thing or you know,
Speaker 3: the survivors, so yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, people wanted another Final Fantasy character in Techan,
Speaker 1: but they got Clive and they got the best sixteen
Speaker 1: in tech and eight and he's coming next week. Does
Speaker 1: this make you want to go get tech in right now?
Speaker 2: But I know a lot of people are wanting teeth
Speaker 2: in it. Tifa wouldn't have.
Speaker 3: Got me to do. He's like the teeth is like
Speaker 3: the obvious choice because she's an actual like martial arts mark,
Speaker 3: you know, fighter like Clive, He's a sucking sword and
Speaker 3: techan is not a weapon. I mean he'd fit in
Speaker 3: like soul caliber but not teching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like not made sense because he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: use his sword technic right.
Speaker 3: Well, no he did, but yeah, like he wasn't like
Speaker 3: married to it necessarily.
Speaker 1: It like warps in and out, so like you could
Speaker 1: technically like punch and all that stuff like Clive is.
Speaker 1: It's all about I guess, especially because he hardly uses
Speaker 1: his magic and it's not very effective.
Speaker 3: You can it's just pitiful.
Speaker 1: Right. Also, they had what is it? They had a
Speaker 1: lot of ads and I said tur Rock not being
Speaker 1: made by its original developers, thinking of a saber interactive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it original developer is long gone.
Speaker 1: Right, but I'm just saying, like, uh, and it's called
Speaker 1: Turk origins, So I guess this is them kind of like,
Speaker 1: if we can make this work, it'll become a series
Speaker 1: to start from here. This was the first one that
Speaker 1: was kind of like, Okay, we're going in a different
Speaker 1: direction here.
Speaker 3: I think has some name recognition of you know, in nostalgia.
Speaker 3: And the weird thing about Tarak is the only Turak
Speaker 3: game that actually is a dinosaur game is the first one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you excited about Turrock at all?
Speaker 2: I will see, I know, I mean, but like Mark said,
Speaker 2: like the name was there where, the game's very good
Speaker 2: not so we'll see what they kind of do with it.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they can have the whole franchise.
Speaker 3: But like one was cool, two had kind of cool weapons,
Speaker 3: but wasn't a good game, and then the rest of
Speaker 3: them were crash.
Speaker 1: Right right Annie Moosha way of the Sword.
Speaker 2: Oh man, So I'm very excited about that one.
Speaker 1: But if there's a time the thing is like twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, I wonder if that's gonna be, like how
Speaker 1: are people gonna be feeling about those games after we
Speaker 1: already have another Ghost game by then, and also the
Speaker 1: Assassin's Creed Shadows by then too.
Speaker 3: By twenty twenty six, still won't be out, so that's
Speaker 3: kind of a misnomer, like U Onnie mush better have
Speaker 3: genre know back in it from Onia three. God damn it.
Speaker 3: That's all I can say.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be cool if he was there,
Speaker 1: like a you know, cameo.
Speaker 2: That franchise people are we going? Are we going? Kind
Speaker 2: of in order? I feel like we've missed one. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Ring needs to be talked about, so go and talk
Speaker 2: about other Rings. But you still haven't gotten to the
Speaker 2: second biggest announce one of them.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I told Jens about elden Ring and he was excited
Speaker 3: until I read up on it and told him what
Speaker 3: it was, and then that excitement dissolved instantly.
Speaker 1: But he gets he now it's a game where he
Speaker 1: plays with you, and that's the whole win of the game.
Speaker 3: I mean, elden Ring had online co op. I'm just saying, like.
Speaker 1: Now it's a co op game, so like, I mean,
Speaker 1: he can't play without you, but he can play with you.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's also a roguelike.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I didn't I didn't see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a roguelike with like thirty minute long like
Speaker 3: missions because I don't think there's an open world necessarily
Speaker 3: like he like looked like a mission mission list.
Speaker 2: The biggest you're missing the biggest point that they brought
Speaker 2: up like five times. It's a standalone game, so it
Speaker 2: could be nominated without anybody throwing.
Speaker 3: A freight.
Speaker 2: To like they brought that up more than like you
Speaker 2: had to read the press release I figure out what
Speaker 2: kind of game it was. But I knew it was
Speaker 2: stand alone because I sure brought it up.
Speaker 3: I mean you, it was obviously it's kind of standalone
Speaker 3: because of all like the different ship they had in it, Like.
Speaker 2: Just the fact that they kept bringing it up just
Speaker 2: because of the controversial.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the controversy of of uh tree. It looks cool,
Speaker 3: but I don't really grint or get you in to
Speaker 3: play it hopefully.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And also the Joseph Fairs Yes game, the split
Speaker 1: fiction that to me was like looks so good. Yes,
Speaker 1: Like and you thought.
Speaker 2: Coming out in March, it's out in March.
Speaker 1: I'm February and March are going to be ridiculous again
Speaker 1: this year. It's it's insane. And like also the fact
Speaker 1: like if you thought it takes two was like too
Speaker 1: childish or something. This is definitely like hitting that different
Speaker 1: level on that and I love the fact that it's
Speaker 1: like it's going to change between fantasy and sci fi
Speaker 1: every time.
Speaker 2: And the fact that it sounds like it's a lot
Speaker 2: like it takes you where they have just ninety different
Speaker 2: Yes things, John, at every level is gonna be different
Speaker 2: and ever you're gonna just get all sorts of stuff
Speaker 2: and who knows what else are hiding from it. That
Speaker 2: whole company just kills it every single time. I've been
Speaker 2: waiting for what comes next from grossept Ferris and his
Speaker 2: and they did not disappoint with that.
Speaker 1: That review, I mean also his introduction to the the
Speaker 1: announcement also didn't disappoint. He was definitely so he's insane.
Speaker 1: Oh man, he's.
Speaker 3: Uh, what's your second most important thing? Randy?
Speaker 2: That was it? That was yeah, we know was my
Speaker 2: second favorite game announced to the whole.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny that guy has a brother named
Speaker 3: Faris Ferris.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yes he's an actor, but yeah, it's like what.
Speaker 1: And the two the two characters to his daughters with you,
Speaker 1: I knew a guy named Alan Allen. Yeah, Borderlands poor
Speaker 1: more Borderlands didn't do it.
Speaker 3: I saw a tweak from I think rock Kick or Shotgun.
Speaker 3: Who was like, oh, it's like the mean Venerator from
Speaker 3: twenty eleven. In my response was the fact that this
Speaker 3: that they're eighteen, you know, a thirteen year old joke joke,
Speaker 3: you know, environment speaks about a lot about borderlines of
Speaker 3: the franchise.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that was the problem of Borderlands three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just so played out. It's like, get out
Speaker 3: of their randy, not you. But you're like sense of
Speaker 3: humor is so awful in those games, and it just
Speaker 3: poisons all of it. Like the first game, it's arguably
Speaker 3: the best, even when I had the best gameplay, but
Speaker 3: it had like the least in one of that shit
Speaker 3: in it. It played it like fairly straight compared to
Speaker 3: like three or Tiny Tinas wonder Wonderland, what the hell
Speaker 3: that thing is called?
Speaker 2: Like come on, well, it's one of those things. I mean,
Speaker 2: we can get into a whole crazy discussion about it.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, the game play got a little bit
Speaker 2: better in like Borderlands too, But you're right, like that
Speaker 2: whole team went, oh, look at like everyone loves clap
Speaker 2: trap for the couple of jokes he did, and then
Speaker 2: they just run that one thing into the ground thinking, yeah,
Speaker 2: the only reason we played the game was for his clips.
Speaker 3: No, it was a.
Speaker 2: Breath of fresh air at the time, but you can
Speaker 2: run that to exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they went went completely in the wrong direction as far. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he got way overexposed, and like Tiny Teena got overexposed
Speaker 3: and Moxi got overexposed. These are characters that were best
Speaker 3: in very limited scenarios, not like I'm having their own game.
Speaker 1: Yea ye, yeah, no, for sure on that. Also, the
Speaker 1: talk about another FRA, I mean they hit. So there
Speaker 1: have been rumors for a while that there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a new virtual Fighter, but the fact that they got
Speaker 1: RGG to do the virtual Fighter and it looks really
Speaker 1: freaking cool, I don't I'm not like a fighting game
Speaker 1: versus that the way they made the look before we
Speaker 1: got to the fighting game for it looked awesome.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch the highlights of Maximilian watching
Speaker 2: this live stream for that moment because they kind of
Speaker 2: just hi hit the fact of what it was for
Speaker 2: a bit and you're trying to figure out what it is,
Speaker 2: and those that are into the fighting games, which I
Speaker 2: am not, probably lost their mind on the big reveal.
Speaker 2: So I was not watching his stream, but I'll be
Speaker 2: watching his highlights. I'm very excited for that moment, especially.
Speaker 3: You know they're going to put in uh kure you
Speaker 3: and Mama from youkuz in that fucking thing.
Speaker 1: I mean they need to you know, you can't do.
Speaker 3: They're just going to you know, you can't you.
Speaker 1: Can't do our DT. You're not going to put at
Speaker 1: least one Yakuza put in it. Yeah exactly. I feel
Speaker 1: like also, it's just like of all the people, I
Speaker 1: would have thought we're gonna have them do this, like
Speaker 1: talk about spot On because that's at first I thought
Speaker 1: was like, was there another like Hidden Lack a Dragon
Speaker 1: game that never got released and we're doing like the
Speaker 1: Cowboy version of this or like Cowboy version.
Speaker 3: Of that's a game that they announced product.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the yeah exactly, the project probably Century that
Speaker 1: was like nineteen fifteen Japan or yeah that looks cool too.
Speaker 1: So you know, uh, anything else you guys want to
Speaker 1: mention besides the the two big ones we haven't talked
Speaker 1: about yet.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember it. There's so much stuff. Out
Speaker 2: of all of the revivals and stuff, Double Dragon looked
Speaker 2: the worst.
Speaker 1: Oh that's that's been Uh, that looked that's been bad.
Speaker 2: And I have to say, I mean, for somebody that
Speaker 2: that dabbled in Telltale games from time to time, that's
Speaker 2: the best looking Telltale game I've ever seen. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: oh my god, this tell Tale Yeah, holy crap?
Speaker 1: Is that for one way? Like the one thing that
Speaker 1: worries me is like, are we going down this road
Speaker 1: again where we've been delaying Wolf among Us? But then
Speaker 1: here we are working on another game? That are we
Speaker 1: working on it? Because now we got all these stars
Speaker 1: and here doing voices, and so now this is going
Speaker 1: to take press Wolf among Us because we will wait
Speaker 1: down that Wolf among Us game among Us two for
Speaker 1: a while, you know. So like I'm just worried about
Speaker 1: are we creeping into the old Telltale again? But uh, dude,
Speaker 1: that game looked amazing.
Speaker 3: You know, I thought that game she looked really good
Speaker 3: until I found out as a mobile game.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's I got so disappointed.
Speaker 3: Man, because I was like, oh, this looks like Shadow
Speaker 3: Mordor that's a Game of Thrones, and it's like I
Speaker 3: want to take get any any of the TV actors back,
Speaker 3: or you know, like yeah, and then you see looks
Speaker 3: the developer and it's like nope.
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, I thought we had finally licensed
Speaker 1: out a console game, you know, and then I guess,
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 3: Making a new Screamer game is hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was another one I was kind of like, really, Also,
Speaker 1: the new game from the overcook devs stage ply look neat.
Speaker 3: Yeah as well too, so.
Speaker 1: Uh and that first Reserker Cason game from the Resent
Speaker 1: Brothers looks pretty cool also.
Speaker 3: To play stuff in this thing games, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Those are the ones that bring in the money to
Speaker 2: be able to do you know, like a bunch of
Speaker 2: ads in there.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that Withering Waves game is going to be
Speaker 1: very similar, even though it looks more like traditional RPG
Speaker 1: or whatever. But but yeah, let's let's get into like
Speaker 1: the two, because he basically did to one more things, right.
Speaker 1: He did the one that like right before game, He
Speaker 1: did the one like before he was going to get
Speaker 1: to the game of the year, and then and then
Speaker 1: he stops and goes, oh, well, it's a tech diniverse,
Speaker 1: We've got to have one more So. The first one
Speaker 1: is though kamed they call it o'camedy sequel. They don't
Speaker 1: call it o'camed too. Officially, and then it has the
Speaker 1: Decky Kamiya on there as he's got I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's he's gonna be involved with development or he's
Speaker 1: gonna be consulting or exactly.
Speaker 3: What he's running that Clover's team.
Speaker 1: So okay, So yeah, I mean that looks that's gonna
Speaker 1: be awesome. I loved Okami, so I think.
Speaker 3: I'll have some like dumb subtitle like whatever Japanese is
Speaker 3: for sequel, or it won't be guided into that side story.
Speaker 1: But right, but that's cool that that's happening. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then of course the huge reveal which Tarany's credit. I
Speaker 1: think he was just putting out there hoping that when
Speaker 1: they first started showing stuff, he goes Naughty Dog please.
Speaker 2: Mostly doing it as far as like the reveal, because
Speaker 2: they brought up Naughty Dog's name, as far as who
Speaker 2: was going to be there, and I knew just the
Speaker 2: voice actresses that were presenting was not anything. And we
Speaker 2: never got a Last of Us season two trailer, so I.
Speaker 1: Just they did do the Last of Us to remastered
Speaker 1: on PC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was like, that's not gonna be a
Speaker 2: reason why you say Naughty Dog would be there, So
Speaker 2: I just felt it's like it has to be at
Speaker 2: this point, man, especially once you kind of saw the faces.
Speaker 2: It was very Naughty Dog.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know a lot about the game. They showed one slight attack,
Speaker 2: but that was it. It looks amazing. Obviously Naughty Dog
Speaker 2: has never done me wrong in any other franchises. So
Speaker 2: very excited that we get another un dive into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not think that when you see a
Speaker 1: space game, Naughty Dogs be the one doing that.
Speaker 3: So X all.
Speaker 2: Right, never mind never mind that they did they do X,
Speaker 2: but then did they give out they.
Speaker 1: That's that's when they were kind of like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: done with this, but now but I mean, it's so awesome,
Speaker 1: like I think, yeah, no, I mean, so you go.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, I think it shows that obviously,
Speaker 1: in some other year, Sony really had a lot to show.
Speaker 1: They probably would have done their own play station showcase
Speaker 1: and I had that here. But maybe it maybe it
Speaker 1: does show like how much Jeffs has been able to
Speaker 1: get a lot of people to kind of come together
Speaker 1: and understand that like, hey, let's make this a big thing,
Speaker 1: and for Sony to give this game that like nobody
Speaker 1: knew what this game was that was working on. We
Speaker 1: just knew they're working on some new I P and
Speaker 1: then for this to be like your one life thing,
Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing and I'm going.
Speaker 2: To be with everybody else. I'm going to give credit
Speaker 2: to Jeff for being able to get all of these
Speaker 2: reveals and have such a fantastic E three feeling show.
Speaker 2: But it also kind of shows that at least you
Speaker 2: know some of these developers and Naughty Dog and CD
Speaker 2: projects right and everyone else, Microsoft and Nintendo, we're kind
Speaker 2: of we're pretty quiet as far as this goes, but
Speaker 2: it's starting to the developers or at least are realizing
Speaker 2: that when you're revealing a game and just showing a tease,
Speaker 2: you need a live audience. Like it's fun for us
Speaker 2: to watch a PlayStation showcase or a Nintendo Direct and
Speaker 2: be shocked by a big reveal and we have that moment,
Speaker 2: but being able to watch that and hear the crowd
Speaker 2: in the background. That's what we loved about E three,
Speaker 2: the reveals and then the hypness of the crowd when
Speaker 2: it happens, like what was it twenty seventeen where Sony
Speaker 2: had all of those games that they were like shn
Speaker 2: Mu three and Fall Fast seven, Rebirth and all that stuff,
Speaker 2: and to the crowd going bonkers and bonkers throughout, that's
Speaker 2: what you needed. And that's when they noticed the witcher
Speaker 2: in the crowd going nuts, or they brought up the
Speaker 2: developer of those games, and you can kind of hear
Speaker 2: the crowd in the background start to get excited, like
Speaker 2: that's what Jeff is is bringing back, which we kind
Speaker 2: of lost after COVID and obviously E three was dying anyways,
Speaker 2: but since then, we weren't getting a lot of these
Speaker 2: live performance reveal shows other than what Jeff does, and
Speaker 2: I think a lot of these developers went we trusted
Speaker 2: Jeff plus just to be able to hear the crowd
Speaker 2: to react about a reveal we're going to go. It
Speaker 2: kind of gives us the goosebumps that were missing from
Speaker 2: the directs and the showcases and then whatever Xbox culs
Speaker 2: their stuff. So yeah, I think that was a big
Speaker 2: part of it, and it nailed it here as well,
Speaker 2: and that I mean hopefully that means that we'll get more.
Speaker 3: Stuff like this.
Speaker 2: But it was fantastic.
Speaker 3: This whole show is great. If you want that stuff,
Speaker 3: just Tono means to do this fake it, yeah, pump
Speaker 3: it over the audio?
Speaker 1: Well, Mark, do you have did you have any thoughts
Speaker 1: on Intergalactic as your.
Speaker 3: My only problem? And I imagine Radio will disagree when
Speaker 3: I say this is and this isn't an insult to
Speaker 3: the actress. Don't get I looked her up. But why
Speaker 3: are they having you play as an unattractive chick?
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty I mean.
Speaker 3: I mean just use the model from uh, from Last
Speaker 3: of Us Part two, the one wasn't it like a
Speaker 3: bald kid in that one?
Speaker 2: Oh? I know you're talking. Remember what the brother and
Speaker 2: sister's name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, there may be other characters, and I'm sure this
Speaker 1: is not the only game we're going to meet in
Speaker 1: the entire.
Speaker 3: I hope so. But you know, I'm actually fantastic what
Speaker 3: you're talking about it. I mean, yeah, like I had
Speaker 3: a friend who measured to me like a trailer what's
Speaker 3: the ball check?
Speaker 1: There might be a reason for that. We don't know, right,
Speaker 1: We need to get more of the more of the story,
Speaker 1: more of what is actually this, you know, like maybe
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a dead diary next year that explains
Speaker 1: all this stuff.
Speaker 3: I just don't.
Speaker 1: Like, you know, I've learned time and time again, like,
Speaker 1: don't be judging things just by that revealed trailer because
Speaker 1: the game can change so much throughout the development. We
Speaker 1: don't even know where this game is in development when
Speaker 1: we're gonna see it.
Speaker 3: You know, that's fine. But I've also learned that most
Speaker 3: people like to play if they're gonna play as someone,
Speaker 3: they like to at least play as not maybe not
Speaker 3: overtly sexual, but at least aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 2: I hate that's not horrible. I'm sorry, it's a horror
Speaker 2: to take.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's your case.
Speaker 2: Then why didn't celebrate.
Speaker 4: Win Game of the Year, Because I mean, that's that's
Speaker 4: that's exactly what was my thank you Randy for for
Speaker 4: making that point for me, because like I feel like,
Speaker 4: you know, metaphor wouldn't have you know, nobody complained about
Speaker 4: Hopenberg looking a certain way.
Speaker 1: Whatever? Why Because that whole cast is right, We're we're
Speaker 1: pointing fingers at a character that it's the only real
Speaker 1: character we've seen in the whole game. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's really fair to to be pointing that out. You know,
Speaker 1: there could be a whole there could be a party
Speaker 1: for all we know. You know, I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: feel like that's kind of unfair to do you know,
Speaker 1: to me, it's the same as to me, it's the
Speaker 1: same as complaining that you are playing as as somebody
Speaker 1: besides playing as a male in general.
Speaker 3: Why did they'll be looking sex appeal? There we go.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's like the primary thing. I'm just
Speaker 3: saying it is an aspect for some people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure it's the same rifters that are gonna
Speaker 1: complain that Siri is, uh, you know, the main character
Speaker 1: Witch are for. So to me, like, is there anything
Speaker 1: that you take away from this and go anything that
Speaker 1: Jeff can because he always tweaks something right. He really
Speaker 1: did go one eight from the police wrap it up
Speaker 1: to make sure we let them have time to talk too.
Speaker 1: I loved I know you mentioned it, Randy, but the
Speaker 1: Game Changer Award removing that I mean not saying that
Speaker 1: they don't deserve their time, but they always felt like
Speaker 1: such short shrift on the show. The future class stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and especially the way that gaming journalism and gaming media
Speaker 1: is going where it's like almost disappearing for the most part,
Speaker 1: that's like really not needed anymore. We don't need to
Speaker 1: highlight that necessarily having somebody that is it's kind of
Speaker 1: the this person did a good thing in the industry
Speaker 1: this year, and he talked about layoffs. He talked about, Hey,
Speaker 1: this industry is going through a bad time right now,
Speaker 1: here's somebody that was helping people find jobs, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna honor that person. It's not like a I'm not
Speaker 1: they probably I wouldn't mind them going back to having
Speaker 1: like a Legends award also, but I think this is cool, Like,
Speaker 1: this is way better than having they still had it,
Speaker 1: but this is way better than having Creator of the
Speaker 1: Year and all that junk, like honor somebody that actually
Speaker 1: did something to help people in the industry that year
Speaker 1: and make that something worth almost kind of like that
Speaker 1: the NFL Man of the Year thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Jimmy Vee Award, and yeah, it creates more credibility.
Speaker 2: But to answer your question, the only thing that really
Speaker 2: still sticks to me, and it's tough to do because
Speaker 2: you have so many reveals that also blend in with yourmmercials,
Speaker 2: so it would almost and I honestly like, if I
Speaker 2: think back and try to remember, there were times where
Speaker 2: he said after this, we will have this in this
Speaker 2: So it kind of made it sound like, all right,
Speaker 2: here's a commercial break. But it would be nicer to
Speaker 2: basically even have the game awards returns in three minutes.
Speaker 3: Yea more have it more like formulaic or more so
Speaker 3: then you then you understand.
Speaker 2: So it's like, you're not going is this a reveal now,
Speaker 2: this is just a commercial for yeah, because some of.
Speaker 1: The commercials they kind of go between sneak.
Speaker 2: In and stuff, and I would like that, and obviously
Speaker 2: I'm sure those games are would be like, no, I
Speaker 2: want you to pay attention and hope I get it.
Speaker 2: But it's like, obviously those are what pay the bills,
Speaker 2: and it would be great, and I do think that. Again,
Speaker 2: they they hinted at it a few times of hey,
Speaker 2: after we pay the bills here, but just hey, hey
Speaker 2: we'll be back at three minutes. Here's some stuff that
Speaker 2: will pay the bills now, you know, and we'll be
Speaker 2: back kind of stuff. Because it is a very long
Speaker 2: show and I don't think you can really shorten it
Speaker 2: because what are you going to get rid of. We
Speaker 2: have to have their awards, we have to have the
Speaker 2: commercials to pay the bills and everyone. Well, but that's
Speaker 2: I mean, you want to say, it's in a word
Speaker 2: show Award shows all have the music stuff. One thing
Speaker 2: that the Oscars and stuff don't have, and the reason
Speaker 2: why they're not as long is because they don't have
Speaker 2: these big reveals. You don't get new movie trailers that
Speaker 2: are showing up on the Oscars. They do it, that's
Speaker 2: true differently, So it is one of those things where
Speaker 2: you're trying to make it as entertaining as possible. It's
Speaker 2: a very long show, so just to go, hey, commercial break,
Speaker 2: be back in three minutes. Here's your warning. Let us
Speaker 2: fay some bills. I think that'll be the best way
Speaker 2: to kind of clean things up. But other than that,
Speaker 2: I don't thought this was the best one by far
Speaker 2: that he has ever been able to put together. And
Speaker 2: even with that hour where once again he kind of
Speaker 2: front loads a lot of the reveals and then he
Speaker 2: saved the two at the end, we kind of had
Speaker 2: that low as far as the big reveals go. I
Speaker 2: was entertained the whole time, even during that section.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that last hour kind of dragged for a bit
Speaker 1: until we got to the the end with the reveals
Speaker 1: and then kind of like the the two Awards and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Mark anything.
Speaker 3: He could have actually had a credits at the end,
Speaker 3: just like thanking the crew like that of a nice
Speaker 3: for the people like you working the goddamn thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of weird considering that, like it's a
Speaker 1: YouTube thing, like you could literally just have credits scrolling
Speaker 1: at the end. It doesn't really, yeah.
Speaker 3: Instead of like when the ticker tape is like literally
Speaker 3: raining out from the ceiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the same thing they do at other awards,
Speaker 1: you know, like when they when that final thing is happening,
Speaker 1: they're doing the credit stuff at the at the end.
Speaker 1: Like that's I like something he could put in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah for me, Like that's that's the main thing. It's
Speaker 1: like he did that. Well he he kind of told you, oh,
Speaker 1: coming up next, we're gonna have this and whatever to
Speaker 1: kind of get you to stick around. That's my one thing.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, really, do give more pronounced? These
Speaker 1: are commercials so that I'm not going, oh, is this
Speaker 1: kind of revealed? Do I need to take notes for this?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: The Intel cu Yeah, well, but those were.
Speaker 1: Kind of like when they showed like you know that
Speaker 1: this is an Xbox thing, or they had a new commercial.
Speaker 1: I think they hadn't shown that second.
Speaker 2: One, but so spread them out a little bit.
Speaker 1: No, I just would want more, like I'd love for
Speaker 1: him to kind of go maybe behind the scenes a
Speaker 1: little bit and explain why he chooses certain awards over
Speaker 1: other ones. And maybe it has to do with the
Speaker 1: guests that he can get to represent, right Like, obviously, okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna do Best Game directtionally because you got Goujima
Speaker 1: to show up, right or we didn't talk that, but
Speaker 1: Harrison Ford showing up to do to you know, be
Speaker 1: the surprise with at the beginning with with uh.
Speaker 2: Bringing up, Harrison Ford reminded me of one more thing
Speaker 2: we can fix. Get get a teleprompter that works. Obviously
Speaker 2: that it was not working for Harrison Ford and he
Speaker 2: got lost for a minute. They made jokes about it
Speaker 2: throughout the show, so obviously it's just a tech issue
Speaker 2: in it obviously had been tested.
Speaker 1: He also doesn't like doing the award shows or whatever
Speaker 1: anymore either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one thing I'm gonna say get. I mean, hey,
Speaker 3: he showed up. It's good for him, but get rid
Speaker 3: of these old actors showing up.
Speaker 1: No, but he makes sense. Okay, like when he when
Speaker 1: they had al Pacino, that.
Speaker 2: Was a total oh yeah, I can.
Speaker 1: Get al Pacino to show up. Like this actually made
Speaker 1: sense because he's Indiana freaking Jones and the game.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to be like, hey, we're releasing
Speaker 3: some DLC. Right, I voiced the character. But the game.
Speaker 1: Literally just came out like three days ago, Mark, so
Speaker 1: that it makes sense. They're promoting the game and Troy
Speaker 1: Baker's there.
Speaker 3: You know, having Troy Bakers there is good enough, haven't
Speaker 3: That'd be fine.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm good with it. You you still
Speaker 1: need the like that helps legitimize that show, regardless of
Speaker 1: whether you know, like I'm good. I would have been
Speaker 1: fine without the Soup Dog performance. I think Snoop Dogg
Speaker 1: being there with his son and talking about how they
Speaker 1: have a game dev studio whatever. I think that's great.
Speaker 1: I think that's cool for you to for people to
Speaker 1: know dogs just that dude.
Speaker 2: I think him being there and then just you know,
Speaker 2: revealing that would have been.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't need that. We didn't need the performance
Speaker 1: for Sue do. It just kind of felt like totally like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're just doing this because we can get
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg to say to do a new uh song
Speaker 1: that like, I don't think anybody really wanted to say.
Speaker 3: Was chanting for a second. That was awesome. Ye, but yeah,
Speaker 3: just taught you to came out and said, hey, we're
Speaker 3: bringing back fun respect that two thousand and four game
Speaker 3: that got canceled.
Speaker 1: But I think overall, I said it already at the beginning,
Speaker 1: like this is the best game awards. He's done, hands down.
Speaker 1: I want to see what happens. Also, it helped a
Speaker 1: lot that like it finally felt we have removed the
Speaker 1: shackles from most games that we announced that this thing
Speaker 1: has to be coming out next year. Now it's like
Speaker 1: it doesn't give up. It doesn't matter when they're coming out.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna try to the best games that we
Speaker 1: can show you.
Speaker 3: I think the only game that actually had like a
Speaker 3: firm release date, unfortunately was that Double Dragon thing.
Speaker 2: Now the Drift Affair.
Speaker 1: Kaz had a twenty seventh.
Speaker 3: The one year okay, a far out release date, let's
Speaker 3: say that then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I.
Speaker 2: Was talking to my wife when I was showing her
Speaker 2: some of the trailers afterwards that I it's one of
Speaker 2: those things and I'm sure it was somebody. I'm kind
Speaker 2: of funny that that brought this up within the last
Speaker 2: day or two that everyone is just waiting for Grand
Speaker 2: Theft Out of Six to say their release date so
Speaker 2: then they can figure out when they're going to release
Speaker 2: their game. I think so many of the release dates
Speaker 2: that we got on there was twenty twenty five because
Speaker 2: they feel like it's going to come out this year,
Speaker 2: but they don't want to say a date, and then
Speaker 2: Grand Theft at will go we're out that day too,
Speaker 2: and then you have to say we delay our game
Speaker 2: because we need to fix the bus.
Speaker 1: And it's like you can't. Not every game could be
Speaker 1: moved up right, So like you then have to delay
Speaker 1: out of the entire year because they're going to release
Speaker 1: the like November or October probably.
Speaker 3: Hopefully that'll be fun announce its in like October. Oh,
Speaker 3: we're delaying GT six twenty six instead. Sorry, they could.
Speaker 1: They very well could, because they've done that. Redwood, Red
Speaker 1: Deverdempshire two got delayed twice, so it's not out of
Speaker 1: the for them to delay it again. Even though the
Speaker 1: industry is gonna get gonna get upset because they're doing this.
Speaker 1: Will survive till twenty twenty five thing, and the Switch
Speaker 1: team's gonna do amazing, but they need GTA six. So
Speaker 1: that's I was surprised how quiet Nintendo was, like, this's nothing.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Microsoft, I'm a little.
Speaker 2: Bit more surprised by Microsoft. Nintendo is full on in
Speaker 2: until we reveal this, whatever the new system is going
Speaker 2: to be called. I'm not calling the switch too, because
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be called the Switch because that's not
Speaker 2: Nintendo doesn't do numerals. But they are basically until until
Speaker 2: we reveal this, we are in just quiet mode.
Speaker 1: Now we're inportant mode.
Speaker 2: We have dumped out every possible thing we can put
Speaker 2: on the switch.
Speaker 1: We we we've.
Speaker 2: Hit the back stop, the backlog, and now it is
Speaker 2: just we're waiting for the switch.
Speaker 1: They literally get the backlog. They've even got Chronicles X
Speaker 1: Finally Donkey whatever the tropic whatever that is.
Speaker 3: That's coming on Metroid Prime Remastered two and three. But
Speaker 3: they did.
Speaker 1: They they finally revealed Metro Prime four, Doctor con Country Returns.
Speaker 1: Don't play Chronicles act like they literally are at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the barrel at this.
Speaker 2: We got a Peach game, we got a Zelda game.
Speaker 2: We're hitting everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've only got like what if the Zelda remasters
Speaker 1: are true and the other two Metroid Prime games, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, in the Pokemon game that's out there,
Speaker 1: the z A whatever game, you know.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this, I'm kind of glad we
Speaker 2: didn't get Nintendo because if they would have showed up
Speaker 2: and said, we have a new Star Fox game coming
Speaker 2: out on the Switch, I would have came on here
Speaker 2: and said that the next system's not coming out for
Speaker 2: another ten months. And they're desperate. Yeah, they got to
Speaker 2: fill out some space. So they're they're they're digging into
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: They have like till March. Every month has something big
Speaker 1: and then like March is where they're kind of like, okay,
Speaker 1: we might reveal the switch to like an April or
Speaker 1: May or.
Speaker 2: Something trailer to me, you're all excited about all these
Speaker 2: games here, here's whatever our system.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we let everybody else, you know, Day of the
Speaker 1: Devs and Postle Snack and now Game Awards like, oh
Speaker 1: now we got to be the final thing you get
Speaker 1: excited about the end of December. But no, just it
Speaker 1: is a pretty cool, like just okay, that's it. That's
Speaker 1: the last big show of the year, and it really
Speaker 1: feels like, Okay, we got some things to get excited
Speaker 1: about for whenever the heck they're gonna come out. But
Speaker 1: they delivered on that, and now everybody else can do
Speaker 1: their game Awards, game of the Year things, you know,
Speaker 1: game spot of what he did there was a metaphor
Speaker 1: I gn I think, did their nominees or whatever. But
Speaker 1: any any issues with who won awards, I guess before
Speaker 1: we get out of here, or do you feel like
Speaker 1: somebody got wrong?
Speaker 2: Honestly not. I mean, you know, obviously I am a
Speaker 2: big champion for Silent Hill two and the audio design,
Speaker 2: but I've not played I Held Wade two. I haven't
Speaker 2: downloaded on my Xbox. I just haven't gotten to it.
Speaker 2: I showed Sean my games I've played on Xbox this year.
Speaker 2: It's one game and it was back at January. My
Speaker 2: poor xboxes collected up. Yeah, so I thought that was
Speaker 2: the one that Silony Hill could win. Same with the
Speaker 2: voice actor, but again I haven't played help Blade, so
Speaker 2: I don't know her performance. But I thought the guy
Speaker 2: that played James and Silon Hill two absolutely killed it.
Speaker 2: I have no problem basically with the rest of them. Again,
Speaker 2: Metaphor is not my kind of game, but it sounds
Speaker 2: like it was absolutely fantastic, so giving it best RPG
Speaker 2: I have no problem with. Again, I'm still under that
Speaker 2: impression that they're kind of waiting for the third final
Speaker 2: Fantasy come out to give it the Lord of the
Speaker 2: Rings treatment unless the third one completely bombs and fails
Speaker 2: at everything it's been building up for these two games,
Speaker 2: and then it will not get any of that treatment.
Speaker 2: So honestly, out of all the awards that were given out,
Speaker 2: there was not one where I went, Wow.
Speaker 3: Really and look how wealth le interturn did man? Come on?
Speaker 3: It's gonnallow that pattern.
Speaker 1: I mean it came.
Speaker 2: Off of a bad game, all right, I mean just
Speaker 2: as well as thirteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be fair, thirteen two might be the best
Speaker 1: of the bunch in that and that was the middle game,
Speaker 1: so you know, yeah, I mean, do you have any
Speaker 1: did you have any issues that all mark with the
Speaker 1: award winners?
Speaker 3: Or for me, I don't mind, uh asked about winning
Speaker 3: Game of the Year for this thing. I mean I
Speaker 3: would disagree with it. I don't. I don't like the
Speaker 3: winning game direction. I would prefer probably metaphor or even
Speaker 3: Rebury to me.
Speaker 2: Game Direction a Game of the Year are almost hand
Speaker 2: in hand. It's one of those awards where it's like secretly, yeah,
Speaker 2: which one's.
Speaker 3: Going to Game of the year. But that doesn't necessarily
Speaker 3: track for like the Golden Globes because there are occasional
Speaker 3: like differences there, or like movie director versus like, you know,
Speaker 3: Movie of the Year. So I would have been happier
Speaker 3: if something like that kind of happened, because my iad
Speaker 3: my problem is Astrobot is just like it doesn't. It's
Speaker 3: celebrating this history of Final or celebrating the history of PlayStation,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't have anything in it aside from the.
Speaker 2: Mechanics are great if you want to call that direction,
Speaker 2: I guess, but no, I I do understand where you're
Speaker 2: coming from. You could kind of give your second place
Speaker 2: off Game of the Year to game Direction because there
Speaker 2: were several fantastic games that could have deserved that.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Milenni Jurgen's becomes the first two time winner.
Speaker 1: Best performance by the way too for winning both times
Speaker 1: for Hull Blade. I feel like the hell, god, do
Speaker 1: I need.
Speaker 2: To play the first Hilpblade to enjoy the second HLP Blade?
Speaker 1: You do need to kind of understand the story, but
Speaker 1: you could also just watch a YouTube video.
Speaker 2: I might just do that seems like too much.
Speaker 1: So like the thing is like, you're gonna the only
Speaker 1: cool thing if you go straight to hell Blay two
Speaker 1: and you don't have played hell Bay one is all
Speaker 1: the stuff that hell Blay does with the audio design
Speaker 1: that it won for You're gonna get the shock to
Speaker 1: the system that you won't get if you've already played
Speaker 1: it with the first game, because it's still a lot
Speaker 1: of the same stuff. It's just bigger, grander, you know,
Speaker 1: so the graphics are prettier that kind of thing, whereas
Speaker 1: hell Blay one was really an indie game. Uh, and
Speaker 1: they did all that stuff, and that's what was so
Speaker 1: amazing about it. That's where I'm kind of like, I'm
Speaker 1: fine with it winning because obviously it does have amazing
Speaker 1: audio design, but what they do with Silent Hill two
Speaker 1: is just it's such a like to me, it felt special.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to get to the Yeah, and if
Speaker 2: you're wearing headphones that I thought they absolutely killed the
Speaker 2: audio design. But that was I mean, now it's just
Speaker 2: my personal taste. I haven't played that play, so again,
Speaker 2: there's not one that I went, wow, really that that's
Speaker 2: the winner. But what about you, Sean, did you have one?
Speaker 1: No, Like I figured as soon as everybody was lauding
Speaker 1: metaphor and it was getting the the critic, the metacritic
Speaker 1: and Open Critic were like right there next to rebirth,
Speaker 1: I knew that it was gonna win all the categories
Speaker 1: rebirth was in because it was a lot newer, it
Speaker 1: was more recent, people didn't have a problem with the
Speaker 1: Metaphor doesn't have the bloat problem that rebirth gave people.
Speaker 1: And and yeah, I know what you mean, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that did have the bloat. And
Speaker 1: then you know, the whole thing of like reverse story
Speaker 1: is not technically concluded, right, whereas metaphors is a whole
Speaker 1: story from the beginning to end. So I can kind
Speaker 1: of understand all that. I am glad the rebirth won
Speaker 1: for me music at least, where like I felt like
Speaker 1: sixteen got robbed last year. So you know, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that pop fantasy just didn't get er for on everything.
Speaker 1: That's the only to me, that was the only thing,
Speaker 1: and I honestly, to me, can we get rid of
Speaker 1: the most anticipated category? It is the most ridiculous category
Speaker 1: that exists, Like, can we could do something else with that,
Speaker 1: like give it to something else that actually deserves to
Speaker 1: have a category. I don't know, like best Expansion or.
Speaker 2: How about something. Well, you can only be nominated for
Speaker 2: for most Anticipated Game if you're going to reveal a
Speaker 2: big trailer that that will then be announced right after
Speaker 2: they give out the winner. So it's like most Anticipated Game,
Speaker 2: Grand Theft Thought of six and here's the trailer.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, what they should have done is had
Speaker 3: Sam Howser come out in GTA six win and him
Speaker 3: to go, yeah, I'll try to have it out next
Speaker 3: year and we'll see.
Speaker 1: Right, that's the thing. I think everybody will win. An
Speaker 1: it's like, is it really gonna come out next year?
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know from here, Uh, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a record episode on Monday. I just wanted to go
Speaker 1: ahead and knock this out because by the time we
Speaker 1: get to Monday, everybody's kind of you don't really care
Speaker 1: about hearing about the actual show. You're just like reveling
Speaker 1: in the announcements, and you know it is what it is,
Speaker 1: Like we've already had all the big releases at this point, essentially,
Speaker 1: so go play your Indiana Jones, go play whatever you want.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go playing them and join the crap out
Speaker 1: of Indiana Jones. It actually made me go watch Rais
Speaker 1: the Last Arc again.
Speaker 3: Because I'll go back to playing the true game of
Speaker 3: the year Infinity Nikki.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one you should have. I'm telling you should have.
Speaker 1: Addie and and and your wife played that together. But
Speaker 1: they would enjoy it probably.
Speaker 2: I watched that trailer. I had not even heard of
Speaker 2: this game until also it was getting a bunch of
Speaker 2: buzz or two ago. I watched that trailer that they
Speaker 2: showed on the game Wars. I what I don't understand,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it has a lot of cute stuff, so
Speaker 2: maybe Audi would be into it.
Speaker 3: It's weirdly like Mario Odyssey when you just played Dress
Speaker 3: Up a Lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you played Breath of a Lot. It's like it's
Speaker 1: got platforming, so she's so you know.
Speaker 2: To look into it.
Speaker 1: And it's free. You don't have to buy anything, so
Speaker 1: I mean, it.
Speaker 3: Hasn't gotcha game, but it's very limited. It's very like
Speaker 3: kind of off to the wall or off to the side,
Speaker 3: like you don't necessarily have to do that crap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's never gonna get to a point where she's
Speaker 2: your credit card number.
Speaker 1: The plan I think is probably going to be I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait until after Christmas at least to do the
Speaker 1: Game of the Year stuff. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I have a big backlog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I have a big backlog that I'm
Speaker 1: hoping I can get to even though I don't get
Speaker 1: the days off that a lot of people do to
Speaker 1: go just play all day. But you know, still it's
Speaker 1: fool to be able to do that during the holidays
Speaker 1: or whatever. And then we'll do our probably like most
Speaker 1: anticipated for next year, somewhere probably before then, now that
Speaker 1: they've added more things for us to be excited about
Speaker 1: for next year, and then we'll go from there. So
Speaker 1: thank you Randie for being on this one, thanks for
Speaker 1: inviting me, and you know, we'll see y'all later on Monday. Everybody,
Speaker 1: enjoy what