Speaker 1: Hey, everyone else, say four.
Speaker 2: Giant bombs.
Speaker 3: Game of the Year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Folks, we've made it all the way here.
Speaker 3: I'd like to thank everyone for this wonderful journey.
Speaker 4: You've had four.
Speaker 3: Four four, four lovely days of deliberating all culminates.
Speaker 4: Today we're going to crown our game of the year.
Speaker 3: I'm your host, Janahoa, joining me as always co captain
of the ship.
Speaker 1: Jeff Grubb, let's pick a game of the year.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, all right, Lucy James, let's do it.
Speaker 5: Tim Moore, we say nice, pick ten games.
Speaker 6: Mike Manati, I want to do that too, Jeff Grebb,
Oh yeah, I'm still ready to do it.
Speaker 4: The caffeine is working his way.
Speaker 5: Jacklar, I would like to pick games as well.
Speaker 7: I have also in my pocket written down what I
believe our three we.
Speaker 4: Think your dream of the year.
Speaker 5: Yeah we did university.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we tried to guess what one was based on.
Speaker 1: How bar really good one?
Speaker 5: What do you mean I'm the boring one?
Speaker 3: D yes, that's right. We had a lovely lunch altogether.
Oh god, I had no I wasn't making anything, but
I felt all of the pressure in the world. Grayson, Hello,
and last, but not least, Turbo Shawn Sean mc.
Speaker 2: Each mango pies changed my.
Speaker 7: Life turns out fried pastry good.
Speaker 8: Yes, you made a multi cultural sandwich.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm boring, you said, based on how boring you are.
Speaker 8: Just tell people about your sandwich.
Speaker 7: Okay, I mean the sandwich that involved all kinds of
cuisine from around the world.
Speaker 9: Non UB's spaghetti sandwich, week for it with chips in there.
Speaker 5: Put some chips in there. Okay, what did you put
in there? Bravy just attitude?
Speaker 1: Okay, Mom and me.
Speaker 5: Gravy, but like real gravy.
Speaker 9: Note I don't like the Colin red sauce gravy thing.
Speaker 5: The we're making the pinch.
Speaker 4: Pinch mango pie. Grandma used to making the home country.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 3: This is a season of celebrating because we're going to
crown Game of the Year. But we thought we'd do
a quick little secret, Sanna.
Speaker 2: We drew names two days ago.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh yeah, we drew. We drew most names ago.
So we'll see who was the last person not drawn.
And yeah, we'll figure out. Jeff Grubb, you're going to
kick it off. So how we're going to do this.
You're telling to give your present to your secret Sannah,
and then that secret Sanna is going to give their
gift unless we reach a dead end.
Speaker 4: All right, question Zach has Yes, I.
Speaker 10: Thought the whole point of secret science was that you're
not supposed to know who.
Speaker 4: You don't know.
Speaker 5: Eventually this.
Speaker 11: Give the gift and you still wonder.
Speaker 5: That's the British version.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I want credit for.
Speaker 1: My good gimming. I would never agree to all.
Speaker 4: Right, who's going to get it? Who's gonna get it?
Speaker 6: And Zach is prepared to shot if ye, And we're
gonna need to put this one up there, all right?
Speaker 4: Can you get this dand for me?
Speaker 5: Sorry, that must that's rough for you to process.
Speaker 11: Anything fun things that the same?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: That means I'm not the one who didn't put my
name in the it, right, that's right, You're not going
to do it.
Speaker 6: He's gonna put it on the.
Speaker 11: Person who I got is the person who didn't buy
that name in the bucket.
Speaker 12: Yes, that's right, okay, I just I don't even know
what it is.
Speaker 4: You have to take it home.
Speaker 9: Its not going out, and everybody has to go not
going what it is for the audioist float girls, it's
an anime.
Speaker 4: Ladies, that's is that a wife?
Speaker 1: Let me see, this is not going on their place
with you? Just what's it from?
Speaker 5: Wha present?
Speaker 1: Embarrassing you search? They're gonna think I'm a weirdo and
bring me in for search.
Speaker 13: But he's never left lax one of these that you've done.
Speaker 5: It's weird.
Speaker 13: This is this is perverted.
Speaker 1: Oh god, you're.
Speaker 5: Such a weird.
Speaker 2: And how he's handling this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, Wolverine, awesome.
Speaker 6: If you're taking me the red solo cups, it's really composition.
Speaker 4: If you don't take this, I will. He's taking it home.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be offended.
Speaker 5: Yes, don't do that.
Speaker 4: You're ready to be offended.
Speaker 1: You're crazy. I would bring that on my carry on
looking and you could throw it away.
Speaker 4: But when you put in your luggage, you take awesome.
Speaker 3: No Backlar's got it already doing the holidays.
Speaker 1: Crazy. You destroyed the box like ash, Yeah, this is awesome.
All right, Hey, give me my drink.
Speaker 4: You're welcome back over.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: At least, at least we've had an opportunity to prove that. Jeff,
our adventure is going very well.
Speaker 4: Know you give your gift. I'm going for Jeff Backler.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you gotta go.
Speaker 5: You gotta go, hold up.
Speaker 1: And explain it by this thing over here, so we
don't have exploit the kitten is a little bit closer.
Examination of this one benefits I have I.
Speaker 4: Have a wired something.
Speaker 7: Oh there, oh god, okay, like Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones swap.
Speaker 5: That's pretty good?
Speaker 4: Was good?
Speaker 2: There we go?
Speaker 4: Yeah all right then that then.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a gift.
Speaker 4: This is going well.
Speaker 1: Just press fine. I mean he was you over.
Speaker 2: Ready back yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, approach the day off.
Speaker 5: Just no, you disappear.
Speaker 1: Dan needs a mic examined.
Speaker 13: This show it to the camera.
Speaker 4: Get down there the.
Speaker 1: Further examination. Who does that?
Speaker 4: You know it's a bowl.
Speaker 1: That's sick. We were at to smoke last night.
Speaker 6: I walk in, I'm like, that's a goku and immediately
dance like it's fifteen dollars.
Speaker 5: So it's so okay.
Speaker 13: But you wait, in the back of his mind, I
know how bulls were.
Speaker 4: Here's the problem that I had.
Speaker 1: This is lovely, it's a key chair. The problem I
see with this is that there's rubber weight. Yeah to
where fires it's.
Speaker 4: A microplastic between friends. Yes, true, it might be.
Speaker 1: This is really cool.
Speaker 4: Can you descrit it for the audio listeners.
Speaker 1: It's like a little rubber goku and young goku.
Speaker 5: I don't know the difference.
Speaker 7: And it's disguised as a goku, but it's a real
it's a it's a bowl for smoking weed.
Speaker 6: And the boys head there's a little carb up in
his hair.
Speaker 1: Is there a car? Oh, there is a car.
Speaker 2: Look at that?
Speaker 5: That is really cool?
Speaker 1: Like this might be the coolest thing you ever done.
I don't think smoking weed is bad for you, but
I'm just saying no.
Speaker 4: I mean, Jesus, you don't give a present though, Thank
you buddy. So now I have to do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, So am I just going to put
it on the okay, because I got something for Sean.
Close your eyes, Sean.
Speaker 2: Okay, six it's a six foot sub.
Speaker 5: Past this the shawn please okay, now stand up.
Speaker 4: Now you have to stand out.
Speaker 1: Closed down there.
Speaker 4: Ok we can.
Speaker 1: We can look at the president and then put it
on the pedal.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's that's kind of the whole idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay, right, you're good.
Speaker 1: You get to hear what little.
Speaker 13: Stuff curving grad where you graduated.
Speaker 3: From, because he has you graduation.
Speaker 4: President damn.
Speaker 1: I first college.
Speaker 4: I dropped out a long game of the year.
Speaker 8: There you go about Johnning, Giant boone would be finished.
Speaker 4: Here around here.
Speaker 13: I like it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, was.
Speaker 3: Done my turn.
Speaker 4: So far the circle has been broken.
Speaker 2: It has not.
Speaker 4: About the change.
Speaker 2: Who gets this circle?
Speaker 4: Be on bro By Tam.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's go fifteen bucks. You know it's gonna be
a little chance. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I'd done good.
I think you're I'm excited because I didn't just a passage.
Speaker 4: You're starting to worrybout it. I didn't get it in
your bucket.
Speaker 2: I didn't just buy you something. I need you something.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm gonna.
Speaker 8: Get it out, Okay, looking at it.
Speaker 14: Oh.
Speaker 4: My god, it is a gang.
Speaker 1: That's incredible, the Lego Gang.
Speaker 2: There's a little stand in there too.
Speaker 1: The best Pokemon.
Speaker 5: This is fantastic. Genuinely believe.
Speaker 8: I just readid my desk and there's a spot for
him right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could smoke out of him too.
Speaker 2: What's a little plastic?
Speaker 8: My present is for Jeffy Grub. Grub got back at
the book, all right, so some explanation. Obviously, we all
went to Nicky Necho, which means the kind of scope
of what we can get texture wise is limited, so
it might not fit. So this is a physical present
and also potentially an emotional presence. You can either keep
this for yourself and enjoy whatever it is, or you
can create it as the gift of giving and give
it to other people and potentially make them happy. So
you're My gift to you is the ability to make
happy for you. You gave the gift of gifting and
also the most hypocritical gift I've ever bought.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: His face.
Speaker 4: His face is.
Speaker 1: It's a pacas and Pokemon cards.
Speaker 4: Christmas. I really got chills.
Speaker 1: That is what you did for me, so we broke
the circle.
Speaker 11: Go to you, I guess jan.
Speaker 5: I'm kind of sad I didn't get you.
Speaker 13: Anything to take back.
Speaker 4: I have enough stuff please.
Speaker 1: That was awesome thing.
Speaker 3: So this is just like placeholder gift placeholder because I
couldn't find something at the shop yesterday and the smoke
shop was not open at nine am like they said.
So I will add the fifteen allotted and maybe another
fifteen because this person is an award winner.
Speaker 4: Thanks, I am taking this. I feel like this. I
will take you they kind.
Speaker 1: Of know it was fine.
Speaker 4: That'd be sick if you did.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 9: I thanks Jan getting really worried that my name.
Speaker 4: Was Okay, that means it's my turn. Yeah.
Speaker 12: I think I had the hardest person here. I don't
know this person very well. We've never spoken before. I
don't really know what this person likes. But they're into
the kinds of things that they do in their free time,
the things that they talk about.
Speaker 4: So I gotta get from Mike.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 15: Such a media I just got it.
Speaker 9: Okay, let's se let's say it though.
Speaker 4: Mony. Yes, there's what of these like for you?
Speaker 9: Okay, Now, I'm not saying that there's one I'm gonna
be most excited to get, but Scrooge McDuck is a
possibility here, and that's my favorite Disney character. They're all
gonna be good. They will all be good. But we
got there's more. Oh well, I think it sounds are
popping them.
Speaker 1: Pats in a good sound.
Speaker 13: Ash, Yes, could.
Speaker 2: He be.
Speaker 5: He's the of Disney.
Speaker 1: Wow, I wasn't because I walked there.
Speaker 4: It's like I would like this, I would like I
had many options.
Speaker 8: I had, Lucy, thank you.
Speaker 14: Welcome was like plashing.
Speaker 11: She had the passag whose name wasn't I'm so excited.
Speaker 13: Today?
Speaker 4: Thing s yesterday you were like.
Speaker 5: Did you put your own name and there?
Speaker 8: And you went yeah the.
Speaker 4: Way he said it.
Speaker 10: Yeah that's weird, but you were doing the team whatever,
just because so what the flat thing is that the
second gift?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, is the first.
Speaker 10: Gift because it's the worst one.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I got red face.
Speaker 4: Fantastic, but use this tonight headache?
Speaker 1: This one?
Speaker 11: Why do you think I picked this?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: I think this is just me. There we go.
Speaker 11: It's like a little collectible. It's like a blind box like.
Speaker 1: Kind of looks like a lot like.
Speaker 4: So much.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, we were at a different shop because we
were waiting for all of you, and I walked in
and I picked it up and I was like, oh,
that's it.
Speaker 1: Put it back down.
Speaker 11: No, I can't get the first thing I saw.
Speaker 1: I will get it.
Speaker 5: That's awesome, which is like, which red beanie.
Speaker 4: Are you going to get?
Speaker 1: All right, a pactable?
Speaker 2: Let's go seriously, look at this little guy.
Speaker 3: Looks like a tiny terry pose almost like that's cute.
Wait wait, nothing better than a figure.
Speaker 5: Need more of those?
Speaker 4: Yeah, tam.
Speaker 2: Did you see be a little stand supposed to hear bag?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we can we.
Speaker 1: Just circle back?
Speaker 5: Uh, how this motherfucker freaked out about his gifts?
Speaker 1: Can we just like talk about that?
Speaker 4: Where's the box?
Speaker 5: I wanted to protected?
Speaker 6: I was under the pressure you would have to take
it home, and now just feels like I'm being cheated
out of my pressure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're taking I'm doing.
Speaker 5: What do you think is going to I'm unsure you
know what's illegal and what isn't.
Speaker 4: Late and sex toys.
Speaker 1: A lot of stories about committing fraud and like like.
Speaker 6: Also, you could have an entire suitcase filled with dildo's
and no one's going to stop you.
Speaker 4: Do you know sex toy is okay?
Speaker 13: That's that's wrong. Whack off with.
Speaker 2: I don't know She's all right?
Speaker 3: All right, Now that everyone feels great, let's all tear
each other apart by telling choices suck. Let's get two
Game of the Year the top ten. We're going to
do it differently this year because Sean pointed it out.
We like each other too much, right, we got to
add some boof to this mix. And also, since we're
not doing this in front of a live crowd or
a live internet studio audience. We're not going to do Eurovision,
so we're going to right going to get down and dirty.
Speaker 2: That was the big one. I was like a people
kind of want see an old fashioned top ten, and
you know we have the capacity to do it this year,
so why not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're going to go around in a circle,
one by one, name a game that's going to go
on the list for now, and then we'll eventually start cutting.
Speaker 2: Would you say two three rounds by two and.
Speaker 6: A half round because we'll see how we start peter down.
If people like don't have anything after two and a
half rounds, then we'll figure it out. But you know,
people have a couple are like actually have like three more.
At that point we can just ram all on and
Nikki is the arbiter of the I'm the computer.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right right, Jeff, you know what ladies first.
Speaker 11: Lucy James, Rise of the Golden Idol.
Speaker 5: Huh hm. So when we do this, like first one,
is it like your is it like your dark Horse
or it's like your whatever you want to.
Speaker 4: Make sure is on the list.
Speaker 2: However, you want to talk all this out, So I
just want to talk about.
Speaker 1: Sukey for edit access. Wait haven't you been added?
Speaker 2: What do you do.
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it says viewer by bad look at that all
right now it's everyone.
Speaker 4: Should be an editor, youn not have to refresh.
Speaker 2: I love this little guy, Lucy. Look at him.
Speaker 7: It's like he's so he looks like he belongs and think, goodness,
your goodness your what's the what do you.
Speaker 2: Have with him?
Speaker 10: The flat like I did, look for some coffee or something,
but I appreciate damn mm hmm game.
Speaker 8: I was like just thinking about gango.
Speaker 9: I can see f k oh wow, Bold just like
you metaphor Refontasia.
Speaker 4: Pick butta, I gotta find my list.
Speaker 16: Jeff Beckler, lore Line and Dan Wild bastards Wild, shut
up what I'm kidding.
Speaker 4: We're already fighting. We're old Nikki. Whenever you're ready, you
know what fucking I can do it.
Speaker 2: I can do what I want.
Speaker 4: You want content warning? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Is it updating very slowly?
Speaker 4: Or is it just I think.
Speaker 1: We're updating the other dock instead?
Speaker 4: I can't tell. No, I'm doing both. Okay, let me
get handle one.
Speaker 5: You're doing both of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Maybe I should just go all right, whose turn is
it sean Persona three reload okay, Jennifer.
Speaker 4: Silent Hill too, It's a good choice.
Speaker 2: Jeff Greb.
Speaker 4: Let's go with Prince of Persia the Lost Crown, shall
we do?
Speaker 2: Serpentuine Yeah, background, yeah, sure, let's see here.
Speaker 1: Well then Astrobot.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, at a thousand X resists taken eight hold
the fucking okay?
Speaker 2: Okay? Uh huh, because Prince of Persia is the longest
time ever?
Speaker 4: What did you say?
Speaker 2: Teken eight.
Speaker 4: Subway surfers.
Speaker 17: To teck in eight one thousand X resist in my turn,
give me, give me, Thank goodness.
Speaker 8: You're here.
Speaker 5: Sure you can have it.
Speaker 4: Many shoot adventures, check Ackler whenever you're ready, Animal Well,
Final Fantasy, ZEVN Rebirth.
Speaker 8: Okay, we'll see how this one goes. I might have
to define some rules, held and ring Shadow of the
Wet to some rules.
Speaker 1: That's a video game, so it can go on again.
Speaker 2: No, it's not a video games an add on for
a video.
Speaker 4: Are you tying it's not all right?
Speaker 2: I showed me where I can launch Shadow of the
Archery on my Tonel game and jump right into it
and experience the video game.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Why is it why is that a distinction that matters.
Speaker 2: Because it's an ad on to a video game, so
we need to find this.
Speaker 1: But then you play as a video game, you play
elden Ring.
Speaker 8: Are we are we deciding what is a video game
or what is the best video game experience you had
this year?
Speaker 1: This is the section worth having?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's not like it's just trying to say
what is the best video game experience that you can
have this year's and that's words words.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we doing that.
Speaker 8: But I'm like millions and millions of people elder Ring
Shadow of the Trees viable, Like people have played elder
Ring available out there, they could buy it, they could
play some people could buy elder Ring now and decide, oh,
I've heard this tree game is real good.
Speaker 5: I'm going to play it.
Speaker 8: See I get there. Ultimately, it's a game that was
released this year and like going saying, oh this is
it's not a game because it's not on a disc,
or I can't put a disc in and have that
version of it work, or a click and executable diminishes
all the work that it's done. Are we saying that
we if I don't have an executable, the developers that
worked on that do not get recorded.
Speaker 2: So if I want.
Speaker 3: Unless no, no, I as someone who's look, I'm not
an elder Ring guy, I'm actually asking here, can I
just play Shall the Urgery right now, right here, right now?
Speaker 8: No, you ain't got no PC.
Speaker 2: If I had a machine that could theoretically play elden Ring,
can I just play Show the Urgery and nothing else now?
Speaker 5: Not without playing elder Ring.
Speaker 2: That's what I do.
Speaker 5: What I'm saying is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't feel any if.
Speaker 8: If that's the thing, you're disqualified unless you can, unless
you unless you can actively play it immediately. Yes, why
should all the work and all the effort that goes
into making that thing be disqualified from a list that
is designed to recognize the effort and work of a
video game experience created this year's it is like a
arbitrary bullshit. It's a very annoying game. I think I'm
just not saying you're it's an annoying.
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna want to have this conversation.
Speaker 8: So it's an annoying game of conversation that feels like
it's designed to just get people balked.
Speaker 6: It's because, like games are going to the way we're
going to ask access games going for it's going to change.
The kids go play Roadblocks and they play a little
game inside of Roadblocks, and that's a video game.
Speaker 4: It's a video game.
Speaker 1: If you can play, it's a video game. I don't
care where it exists.
Speaker 3: Every year, we could dominate Fortnite for this, Yeah, because
it becomes like a new game.
Speaker 5: I know someone that did Yeah, of course, and I.
Speaker 6: Think it's And I also think that's completely fine because
it's like it's a video game and they had new
stuff this year.
Speaker 1: It's like a fifty hour Like this is longer than
most of the games on this list. There's so much
that goes into this and it is pretty self contained too,
Like yes, you have to launch it through Elden Ring,
but like once you go into that an area, it's like, well,
here's a whole new a whole new inside of Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's be.
Speaker 5: Honest, we were just doing this that Nikki can catch
up typing out.
Speaker 3: I appreciate anything. This is tangential conversation. But it's also
the same thing that I have with Haities two.
Speaker 1: It's a video I know, but.
Speaker 2: It's the thing of talking about the same video game,
the same package, the same release from a developer multiple years.
Speaker 8: I have I have no issues. We've talked about Hades
two for this year.
Speaker 3: I know, no, no, no, But the thing is, what
if we all love Hades two when it's at one
point oh, we just have to like agree how much
we can talk about the because it is it is
a single release. Like, if you want to discuss it
for the merits that brings to the table, I'm totally
cool with that. We just need to define it because
just like with Haities two, I see it in the
same boat. Where are we going to say, like this
game is eligible for top ten on multiple years?
Speaker 1: It may just work, work got that way, and it's
just not the end of the world.
Speaker 5: I mean like it's not like I feel like we
get there.
Speaker 8: And if I had to predict it and we're playing
one point oh and we're having a discussion, we would say,
Hades was discussed last year. Is everything that has happened
this year meaningfully different?
Speaker 5: Right enough? And if it is conversation reassessing you.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm getting at here?
Speaker 4: Is that? Okay?
Speaker 3: So then we just need to run the definition a
little bit to say like best video games here, it's like, yeah,
we're saying the best game of a year or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, that's what we're trying.
Speaker 8: The spirit, okay is and I think that's a lot
of why it's so frustrating to see it. People just
look at the words and they're like that it doesn't
count because it's not. It wasn't a game releasehip.
Speaker 4: I just it's a video game I played this year.
Speaker 8: How how many millions of people play that game and
talk so much about it? How many thousands of developers
spend all that time and we're not like, you know,
big time in the way that you know it's going
to change their lives.
Speaker 5: But it still means there about it.
Speaker 8: People care, like some people will consume our content, and
if we say, hey, this is one of the best
games of the year, there's a decent chance a few
people out there will go, I'm going to go and
play this because jan Bomb said it was good. And
to exclude a game like Eldon Ring or Hades just
because it's a technicality, I feel like undermines everything that
gaming is about.
Speaker 1: It's just less fun.
Speaker 2: And that's why I wind out the conversation because it
is a fact. Shell the Archery is not a video
game in the traditional but it's our list We do
where hell we want if you guys feel passionately enough
about it. We can't spand that definition. I just want
on the record that we are doing that. And hey, yeah,
that's awesome. Right, it sounds good.
Speaker 4: That's good. Yeah that works.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, we got it out of the way there.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Indica.
Speaker 8: How is that? It's good?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Would I like Indica?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You love India.
Speaker 5: I've played the wrong ship this year.
Speaker 2: I think, uh Lucy one more. Let's go back.
Speaker 11: Let's go back one more time, Yami.
Speaker 5: Path of the Gardens.
Speaker 4: O know what you just said? So gone me cool
and Riseth.
Speaker 8: God Batman alcome shadow? Oh yeah, I wrote my listens Batman, O,
come night.
Speaker 2: We can put that on there.
Speaker 4: My key our that jewel of fairmore.
Speaker 8: M hm he just made that's not real again.
Speaker 5: Mullet mad Jack.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Danny boy, whatever you're ready, I'm flying really fast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, of course. Wait sorry, what did you say,
mullet bullet mad Jack? Oh yeah, for sure, all right,
we're typing on mullet mad Jack right now. We're waiting
for Okay, okay, damn, and I'll fight for the little guy.
Speaker 1: Call of duty, black ops.
Speaker 12: I'm really y'all really gotta fucking come come on this
journey with me.
Speaker 4: Everybody, Okay, and if the three of you.
Speaker 12: Fuck up, then I think we still have to maybe
go our won't work, no pride. Sure, I'm going to
say college football twenty five Okay, I think.
Speaker 4: I'll talk about it. Yeah, fair, I went to college.
Yeah we did say one. You have a degree five
and a half years of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he went to college for five and a half years.
Speaker 4: You just gotta watch movies for a long time.
Speaker 11: I have that history, minor.
Speaker 1: I have that history minor.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I didn't actually watch the movie, but about that
thing's overrated.
Speaker 3: Stellar Blade Stellar bla on there.
Speaker 4: Hard anyway, right.
Speaker 2: Uh, maybe we'll just get through this, just put on there.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure. That's why I was gonna Jones.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Indiana Jones, there's fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, Uh, tactical breach Wizards.
Speaker 4: I'll do a tiny Terries turbo trip please.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, is there anything grub?
Speaker 4: Oh? I just did one. I did two actually, so
we'll obvious was going.
Speaker 3: To say, is there anything that has already one a
category that we also haven't Yeah, let's take a look here.
Speaker 1: So let's there's Hades two, is Haities two on there?
Speaker 6: Doesn't want okay? Yeah, Frost Punk two. That was one
that I think we kind of gave it. It's it's
oppressive games specifically.
Speaker 4: So well, yeah, I don't know if we.
Speaker 1: Do Ladies to Eat Super Steam will Heist two, Steam
World Heists two. Yeah, there you go, UFO fifty. Yeah,
like a Dragon, infodant.
Speaker 11: Wealth, I have a couple.
Speaker 4: Or et.
Speaker 11: A Ranger was cute?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 11: I like the Ranger A lot still wakes the deep
little Kitsy big city.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sorry, I'm not gonna allow that.
Speaker 11: Treasure. Oh yeah, it was Botany manor this year that
was Great Tails of Zarazo, Children of the Sun. Yes,
Suicide Squad killed Justice League?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, wait sorry, what was the one that
still wakes the deep?
Speaker 1: You children of the.
Speaker 5: Children of the Sun.
Speaker 11: It was Pepper Grinder as well.
Speaker 2: M hmmm mm hmm.
Speaker 9: Okay, do we want Persona three reload on there? I
do want thousand yard Door on there. I don't think
that's on there yet.
Speaker 5: Nikki I think you're missing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll get Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 11: I liked Farewell North.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we can have a conversation.
Speaker 2: Marvel Rivals.
Speaker 4: Oh oh right, yeah ship.
Speaker 8: All right, Buck short Roulette.
Speaker 4: That game came out last year.
Speaker 8: I did it, It did It was out for a.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 3: Currently we're standing at forty eight games.
Speaker 5: Damn.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can do a soft cap at fifty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just want to add more.
Speaker 3: We'll do that later after we start cutting the sun
Hill on the Hills, on the Silent Hills on.
Speaker 11: There, tailor conseras on that twice.
Speaker 2: Mike. Should we do Son Show Generations?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 9: I mean, we don't have to just throw it talk
about your song show generations, especially just because Sego is
doing so good.
Speaker 2: I think there's some obvious ones that we can just
talk about in serapiece and then it gets sure that's
that's why we're doing that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I really need to do it for
a compilation like Mars Capoy Mars cap.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, one more for me, Tetris Forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was gonna say, okay, thank you, Nikki.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cap Calm Marvel versus carm.
Speaker 2: Fighting Collection.
Speaker 5: I feel like we should add this game.
Speaker 8: It's not one I personally want on there, but I
know that if we don't add it or speak about it,
there's going to be a lot of like we'll just
set people black myth woukong.
Speaker 4: Oh I never played it? Yeah for sure?
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, I fell off hard on that game.
I mean, yeah, I don't. I'm not a super fan
of it. But if we're I think acknowledging it and
saying like, hey, I didn't didn't work for any opinion,
or like no one played it. Yeah, yeah, I didn't
like it that much. Yeah, it wasn't on anyone.
Speaker 6: That's what I just nothing we could do about that, yeah, right,
But if we didn't say something about it, then.
Speaker 3: My closest exposure was watching a video of Bailey get
a concussion from a monkey.
Speaker 2: Yeah while playing this Dan.
Speaker 4: In this very room, Yes, on this couch.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay for sure?
Speaker 8: For shoot, is it?
Speaker 12: I read the whole all of them, and then if yeah,
go for it. Nicky Rise of the Golden Idol, Legacy
of Caine, Metaphory, Fantasio Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Wild Bastards,
Content Warning Persona three reload, Silent Hill two, Prince of Persia,
The Lost Crown, Astrobot To ten eight, one thousand times Resist,
Thank Goodness You're here. Mini Shoot Adventures, Animal Well, Final
Fantasy seven, Rebirth, Elden Ring, Shadow of the Urd, Tree, Indica, Kugami,
Path of the Goddess, Batman Arkham Shadow Or is that jewel.
Speaker 4: Of I wrote down? Faramore? Is that that's right? Let's
go Mullet, mad.
Speaker 12: Jack, Call of Duty, Black Ops six, College Football twenty five, Balatro,
Stellar Blade, Indiana Jones in the Great Circle, Tactical Breach, Wizards,
Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip, Back to Back, Hard Words to Say,
Haities two Hell Divers two Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth,
UFO fifty at Tay Still Wakes the Deep, Little Kittie,
Big City, A Ranger, Another, Crabs, Treasure, Tales of Canzera, Zao,
Suicide Squad, Killed the Justice League, Children of the Sun, Shadow,
Sonic and Shadow Generations, Pepper Grinder, Paper, Mario one Thousand
Year Door, Farewell North, The Legend of Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom,
Tetris Forever, Marvel Rivals, Marvel Versus Capcom Fighting Collection, and
Blackmith Wucon.
Speaker 4: Congratulations, You're all game, of the year. Yeah, all right,
Space Marine two please?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I don't think we had TCG Pocket on
there either, Pocket Monsters.
Speaker 2: I'll do a quick ad. Removed to because Zendless Zone zero,
a game I was really really looking forward to. Love
the style. That game is way too shell to be
anywhere nearest list.
Speaker 1: On that note, I will say echo point Novode, just
saying the name out loud, but it's.
Speaker 4: Not going to be anywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have a fun time. But I really like it,
but I'm not.
Speaker 3: Okay, now that we've thrown a bunch of stuff onto
the list, is there anything you want to immediately remove
from the list?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Can I talk about college football please, and so we
can take it off.
Speaker 12: I don't think that there has been a game that
has like broken out into the regular people, Like people
who do not play video games were like, oh, it's
time for me to go buy a PlayStation five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the best selling game of the year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that has not been something other than Call
of Duty or Grand Theft Auto or a Rockstar game
in decade decade.
Speaker 4: What college is the best selling game of the.
Speaker 5: Year, the best selling the United States in college football sports?
College football twenty five am.
Speaker 1: It's really We've got a physical therapist I've seen for
a couple of year, and like he knows what I do,
and he never asked anything about video games, and then
he just excitedly told me a couple months he was like, oh,
I'm good at PS five college football like that absolutely, it's.
Speaker 15: A mainstream what you remember when it came out, we
were like, we should totally like do a whole season. Yeah,
we know what you're saying, Like we should do something
with it, because the same thing happened to me, like
on my normy friends.
Speaker 5: Really, oh yeah I care, I care again.
Speaker 12: Yeah, And I think like, as a return to this franchise,
I think they did a lot of things right. I
think there's a lot of stuff that is not right,
but that is endemic not to the game or that team,
but it is endemic to the fact that they have
to make a video game using a football video game
in Frostbite. Still, but I don't think that there is
a team that does presentation in a sports game better
than EA Sports, especially in this college football situation.
Speaker 4: So great, great game, great return to form.
Speaker 12: Hopefully next year the football is better in it, But
does wanted to talk about it because I do think
it was huge.
Speaker 2: It was it was just big.
Speaker 3: I want to nominate something and then immediately take it
down because we didn't add it to the little list.
Speaker 2: Can we call the little littler list the spoon?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, thank you for reminding me until then.
Speaker 3: It was a visual novel game made from folks in
the Philippines, a lot of imagery straight.
Speaker 4: From the islands. Made me feel like I was back home.
Speaker 3: Uh, definitely a year where I played a lot of
games that have made me have an existential and emotional crisis.
Speaker 2: So that was fun. It was cool.
Speaker 3: I don't think it has enough juice to make it
onto everything. I just wanted to shout it out.
Speaker 2: It has been.
Speaker 6: Shouted, all right, should we go Do we want to
go around in order and take stuff off or a
challenge to be taken off?
Speaker 4: Or do we want to like maybe because we have a.
Speaker 6: Big list and then we have a space here where
get start maybe in like here's once a week on locks.
Speaker 2: Does anyone does anyone have some that they added that
they just want to talk about? And yes, yeah, I
think we should do.
Speaker 8: That because you are more familiar with what you take
them down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we can take out black myth will
call Yeah for sure.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I want to add Mars's Captain Fighting
collection because it is such a good collection.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy with that. Ultimately, it's a it's a collection, right, yeah,
so you know I do.
Speaker 9: I would rather give a shout out to original Games here,
but still, I was so happy with that.
Speaker 4: It is something I played a ton of. Really glad
we got it.
Speaker 11: I was joking about adding Suicide Squad what I've.
Speaker 12: Already moved that to the column I've called locked Spoon Lockspoon,
but I can take it off.
Speaker 2: If you would like.
Speaker 1: Make Spoon the lockspoon, we could. We could make that
like the final over there.
Speaker 2: Speaking of collections, Pokemon TCG Pocket is more of a
collection app, and I think it suffers because of it,
definitely that That's why a lot of people love it.
They like opening the pack and seeing what they got.
The actual playing the game in there is dimish. I
think I'm not a fan of some of the things
they did to simplify the card game. I think it
suffers because of it. So it's it's a fun time.
It's something that's sort of like a daily routine thing
for a lot of us. But I don't think it
belongs almost. I think the problem with simplifying.
Speaker 3: It they still haven't figured out how to make the matches.
Speaker 4: Small or shorter. No, they're so like actually frustratingly long.
Speaker 2: They are so much shorter than Sanity.
Speaker 4: C No, for sure, and I still think they're too long.
They're not short, yeah, exactly like. And also it's a
really I do.
Speaker 3: Think that's I do think that's perception though, because you
shouldn't compare it to Snap. You should compare it to Horrorstone,
is what I think I see, and I think it
is in the realm of a hearthstone. Sure, but again
just yet, not for sure.
Speaker 11: Did anyone like Pacific Drive.
Speaker 4: I didn't like it.
Speaker 2: I didn't play enough of it.
Speaker 4: I want to for a minute.
Speaker 11: I'm glad you said it, though, give it a little mention.
Speaker 6: The Legend of Zelda Because of Wisdom is a game
that really grew on me in a way that I
didn't think it would. When I first started playing, it
was like, I'm not sure. It's got a lot of
cool stuff.
Speaker 2: I really like.
Speaker 6: When we were breaking it in a variety of ways,
that's like my kind of stuff. It's not going to
make this top ten. I don't even know if it's
going to make my top ten.
Speaker 4: Either like ten or eleven on mine.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of, like, oh wow, we're doing
a mainline Zelda game that is like willing to try
something different with a different character, things like that, So
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see more stuff like it. But I
don't think this one like not a strong idea game.
Speaker 8: I think it's a really good translation of the newfound
freedom that they found with Breath of the World and
Tears of the Kingdom into the other format of.
Speaker 5: The smart expression, very similar ideas. Yes, when you do
you use that you have, it's like you're eleven or twelve?
Is that what you said?
Speaker 4: A neither right now? It's probably like ten or eleven
for me.
Speaker 5: How many games do you list a year for yourself?
Speaker 4: We do top ten lists.
Speaker 5: I understand, But you said, do you like do like
twenty for yourself?
Speaker 1: He just wasn't like he's got as many games as
you played?
Speaker 5: No, I understand.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I just wonder if like you have like
your personal ranking of like everything you've played all year?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, as I beat games. I put it on
a dock and kind of shifting around as I play.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was just asking I do that too, so yeah, yeah,
I think people always just I'm looking for a way
to make fun of you, but understandable.
Speaker 4: Why are you for the gift? I liked Ata.
Speaker 10: It's a very beautiful game about creating art in Montreal.
I just don't think it's enough to stand in the
dark ten.
Speaker 4: I agree, cool game, though we can remove tactical breach Wizard.
Speaker 3: No, it's a good game, though I don't think it's
going to make it onto the spoon to top ten
because it's such a packed year. It's definitely a high
up on my personal top ten list. It's a very sharp,
very smart tactics game, very witty. There's a specific quest
where your healer. This is spoilers, but you've got this
far so whatever, don't.
Speaker 2: Be mad.
Speaker 3: Where your healer character isn't really a healer. She can
resurrect people by shooting them and killing them, so she
goes on this sequence where to avoid the big bad
she shoots herself, so she winds up in a limbo
world where she has to constantly revive a dead version
of herself. You just have to move her along the way.
It's really smart. It's really cool.
Speaker 2: If you want the challenge of like a really tough
tactics game, it.
Speaker 3: Gets up there. If you want to like pull back
and skip all the story, just do the straight up missions.
It's really good. Also, maybe we should have more tactical
shooters with wizards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that it was really cool.
Speaker 10: Yes, so you should defenestrate people more, always thinking, and
I'll defenestrate tactical.
Speaker 1: Breach wizards out the window with you?
Speaker 4: Is anyone but me in two Wild Bastards.
Speaker 1: I didn't so what you liked about it? And I
get there myself. Okay, I really really enjoyed it. That
it was an excellent sceme back game and a real
cool rogue light approach. But yeah, we can, we can
take it off.
Speaker 2: That was a sequel, right, sequel.
Speaker 4: Too, Well, it's a spiritual suit. Yeah, I'm good to
kill content warning.
Speaker 6: Also, I don't interesting like that does feel like a
giant bomb number two?
Speaker 1: Okay, cute, so does tiny terries and you.
Speaker 13: I'm with you.
Speaker 4: I'm not right, so like okay, so let's let's let's.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm so confident that they could be like top
twenty that like doing it right now? Early?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 2: It seems way too early.
Speaker 4: What a fun little I put my toe in the water,
said no.
Speaker 5: No yet, Okay, I'm too cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, put out on the spoon, Nikki, Okay.
Speaker 11: I could lose Fowell North.
Speaker 10: I mean, I think it's a very sweet game game,
but grief, I think the overall message is the.
Speaker 11: Thing that I took away from it rather than like
the moment to moment for.
Speaker 4: Sure, but get a little dog play.
Speaker 2: That's the one with the border collie.
Speaker 4: Are we gonna?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna put hell Daverage two on the top ten?
Speaker 8: That's an interesting one because it is.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 8: It's obviously a a very good quality game, like any
one here going to be like I think it's I like.
Speaker 4: It a lot. I like not on my top ten.
Speaker 1: I don't know if would be at my top I
not on my top ten.
Speaker 2: These three are saying I was going to say I
could see it there, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 8: Yeah, those are the three probably biggest advocates, and I
really do And again, so it's not representative of us.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how you put it in the top
three for games would like to stream.
Speaker 4: Maybe I think it didn't make it.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't make it.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's still really good, there's no way to know.
Speaker 2: I would like to move infinite wealth onto the spoon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or movie things in a spoon now, yeah, kind
of how much? How many a spoon? Yeah, then the
little spoon is getting cleared up. How much space in
the next spoon, I'm sorry, we're gonna probably have around
twenty ish.
Speaker 1: Okay, getting smaller, yeah, okay, still enough for a mouthful.
Speaker 11: I mean I was going to say things like, we
don't know what the metre.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nikki moved over bilatro astrobot in metaphor should probably
move over Indy in Indiana.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, we're going to have.
Speaker 1: A conversation and he's not going to get cut here now.
Speaker 2: No, I think we will be talking about File Fancy
Sun a Red Birth.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about it.
Speaker 9: It seems like Sean and I Sean really likes it
and I really really like yeah, and then a lot
of people are like until the end, right, I.
Speaker 13: Think I wouldn't say.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't say I liked it until a certain I
would say, over the course of playing the entire game,
flaws emerged continuously different parts of it, and it will
culminated in a poorly paced ending.
Speaker 9: I would say for me, like I get where people
are seeing flaws. None of that felt that way to me.
I really enjoyed the pace of the game. I thought
there was a good mix between these larger combat sections,
the story focused section, and the goofs. And the goofs
include things like the mini games and sometimes yeah, you
have to do them, and that's this ten minute thing
that you do, and it's kind of a fun, wucky.
Speaker 4: Thing, and I enjoyed that break.
Speaker 1: You know, the end is the end.
Speaker 9: It's more than anything, whether it's good or bad, it's
a lot. And I think that's where it loses me
a bit. It's always hard to have that at the
end because that's the last impression you leave with people,
so it becomes this big talking point. But for me,
I kind of am able to put it to the
side a little bit because it no issues with the ending. Yeah,
it doesn't really match up like overall feelings of just
how memorable and how much fun.
Speaker 4: Again, like that battle system is amazing.
Speaker 9: So freaking good. Each character has their own unique things
going on there. They added a lot of depth to
it with so many more playable characters. I care about
Kate Sith now right, no one cared about Kate sifting
the original voundin.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 9: So yeah, that's just my you know, That's why it's
one of my favorite for the year. But a lot
of people don't feel that way.
Speaker 4: I think it makes it to the next spoon, That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: As someone who's never played the original, I found it
Rebirth to be utterly tedious. I think it's one of
the interests one of the worst paced games I've ever played.
Speaker 2: Do you mean that for main Quest too? Like the
main storyline? Okay, interesting because I thought that was good,
but you both over remake. I like to remake, but
this one, oh yeah, remake.
Speaker 3: I like more than Rebirth personally because it is brisk, okay,
But I think I do like reb.
Speaker 4: Before because I just love the expensiveness of it.
Speaker 9: I love that I am playing a JRPG, a game
where I can actually wander around. Right, It's like the
closest we got to actually translating a JRPG like Overworld
into a real three D space.
Speaker 1: It's funny the overworld stuff in the mini games, like
the stuff I hear people complain about, like, those are
easily my favorite parts fit and that's what makes me
like it more than Remake. And also there's more variety
in just the environments than everything. I feel like Remake
was all that midguar at night stuff, and I liked
the openness.
Speaker 2: Of the same visuals and they go so it can
get a little tiring.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I really liked the overworld stuff and like I
thought it contextualized the menial, annoying over open world activities
that everyone uses in all their games in an interesting
way that made me care about and it feeds into
the whole like live stream and connecting with the planet
as well. I thought that was really really cool. And
the mini games on them as they are, I don't
have an issue with playing them. Sure, I have an
issue with how they spread out when they're added, and
the kind of where they're placed tonally is pretty.
Speaker 4: Poor for me.
Speaker 8: And then the fact that every part of it is modernized,
which is really really cool. They looked at a game
and they kind of took the the rough edges and
smoothed them down to be modern and cool, except for
forcing you to do these sections where I would think,
like modern I it for me would be like, oh,
let's figure out a way that people who don't want
to get stuck, you know, doing these minigames can like
get around it. And I understand that. I also like
by doing that it potentially causes problems with characterization and
relationship building and that kind of stuff. But there is
a way to, like, I feel like lessen that stuff.
And I feel like because of the pacing of it
and the minigame stuff, and also like you know, even
the bikini share, it's like you're watering down the experience
as a whole. And that was the issue I had
with it.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair. I think for a lot of what
you would you were saying there, I think if you
cut some of that stuff, it's not final Fancy seven anymore.
Speaker 5: I think it definitely is.
Speaker 8: I feel like that it is good at maintaining its
personality and its spirit. I don't think it is crucial
to you know, make people walk around these areas slowly
picking up these certain like items to get everyone go
in and then standing on a beach for a absurdly
long time. That kind of stuff is like that that
isn't that's not final offense. It's it's poor storytelling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some of that stuff that, Yeah, I agree
with you, where the pacing could have been just.
Speaker 2: Picking up a little.
Speaker 6: I think this one stays in the little spoon and
we get this out in the wash and that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think we have to have these conversations.
So that's yeah, Tetris forever. I just want on.
Speaker 6: Like, I know we're kind of going back and forth
and stuff, but I just say, I love this game.
I've loved a lot of what Digital Eclipse, yes, Digital
Clips has done where where they take these games turn
them into little museums. There's some of their best stuff
where it's like the history of the people that made
Tetris and brought Tetries to the world, and you know,
Mike Michael will then reprogram like one of these guys's
first games has nothing to do with to do with Tetris,
and they'll put it in the timeline and you get
it in the context, so it's way more meaningful than
if you were just to go find the rom somewhere
and play it. And he does a great job recreating
it as all though fun little features on top, it's excellent.
It's probably the best one of these they've done, but
I don't think it's going to have a chance of
getting on the top ten.
Speaker 11: Sure, I would like to move Rise of the Golden
Idol to Little Spoon.
Speaker 4: Yeah s got it, you got it, chefang it.
Speaker 8: Little Spoon is like twenty the next.
Speaker 2: Question, right, Yeah, top twenty ish maybe twenty also.
Speaker 11: Kind of in not really in that vein, but like,
well in that vein, Larelei.
Speaker 10: But also I feel like there's gonna be fewer people
arguing for Indica, and it's so good.
Speaker 5: I do like Indica.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wound up checking it out because you you
were glowing about it.
Speaker 5: It's very little Nuneah.
Speaker 6: I think when it's a situation like this, if it's
like one person this this what's happened in the past
is if you feel passionate enough, you can still get
it on there.
Speaker 4: You have to be super passionate for the old Austin Walker. Yeah,
the old Yes, in that I got thirty one.
Speaker 8: In the spirit of that, I would like to move
Legacy of Canova.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 4: Wow, I don't think i've ever heard you talk about
this one.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you about it.
Speaker 11: It's like I love Fields of Mystery, but it's it's
only it's great.
Speaker 4: I like it a lot.
Speaker 11: They're adding a lot of big dates to it.
Speaker 10: I think it will be more in the running next
year because like right now you can't even go to It's.
Speaker 1: Really good though.
Speaker 4: I just home Silent Hill to Astro moved and thank
goodness you're here.
Speaker 5: Always some doubles double dip there.
Speaker 4: I've never done many shoot adventures.
Speaker 1: I would like Mini Shoot to be. I don't necessarily
expect on top ten, but it's like my number five.
Speaker 9: It's going to be my top five, six, seven, Yeah,
I love it, so I'd like to be like ten,
but it will be on mine. Persona three reload that
going over. That's you's favorite and I like it a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Duck Detective for Big Spoon, I like it so much.
I think it's a really cute game.
Speaker 2: The Big Spoon Duck Detective.
Speaker 4: I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 11: I put it in.
Speaker 9: Sorry, I personally would really like our z Jewel fairmore
to move to the Big Spoon sure or Little Spoon.
Speaker 2: Sorry for now, at least now. I added this because
I want I haven't had a chance to play it,
and I hate that having because of why her about
Mike tell me about Shower Generations.
Speaker 1: So Song Show Generations is actually very well done.
Speaker 2: Like it's that.
Speaker 9: It's a good remaster the Song Generations, which was definitely
one of the better ones for that era.
Speaker 1: That Shadow campaign is actually really good.
Speaker 9: It's some of the best level design that they've ever
done for three D Sonic like his like Shadows levels
are more fun than Sonics are in that game. Now
it's kind of made me like Shadow just a little
bit for the first time ever.
Speaker 4: That's impressive. He's always had a gun in a motorcycle.
You sunshine and rainbows both things individually not cool.
Speaker 1: Now it's pretty impressive. I don't know if it needs
to go over.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, does.
Speaker 4: Pepper Grinder make it into the Little Spoon.
Speaker 2: Like I played it?
Speaker 4: It's good, it's challenging. I like a little diversal stuff
for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh Indica for Little Spoon, I think, yeah, yeah, we're
almost a twenty other Little Spoon and then we'll reveal
what is made.
Speaker 12: Over UFO fifty over. Can we talk about Marvel Rivals?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 4: Oh? Sorry, go ahead?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I think in my short time with it.
Speaker 3: I've grown to really really enjoy it, and maybe it
is like it's the honeymoon phase because it is a
brand new game, so everyone else is also on the
ground floor. But I think maybe it's not even appealing
to like my Marvel pilled brain because I wind up
enjoying characters I'm not super duper familiar with, Like I
haven't really touched Captain America. I played a lot, even
though it's one of my favorite comic book characters, Like
I want to hang out with Jeff the Shark a lot.
And then it's just like the abilities and how they synergize.
They do that really well, and like the I really
love being in the discovery zone right now. Of Like
one game I was playing is Rocket Raccoon, and then
I just like jumped in, like jumped onto a wall
and realized.
Speaker 4: Like a wall crawl that was dope.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, I see someone playing his iron Fist double jumping
and then he completely whiffs it and jumps off the map.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 8: Is Scarlet Spider in a classic Genji mind?
Speaker 2: I don't know if they have that skin. Yeah, I
think we can move it.
Speaker 8: We can move it.
Speaker 12: It's a little shameless so okay, so that's exactly where
I'm at. I think it's very good. My pushback is.
Speaker 4: That it is just Overwatch again.
Speaker 12: Yes, and the way that I feel is the way
that I felt when I played Overwatch almost a decade,
which is worth as good.
Speaker 4: Yes, which is great.
Speaker 1: I feel really good.
Speaker 2: I do think they remix it enough that doesn't feel
like just a reskin.
Speaker 12: Sometimes I feel like I'm might as well just be
playing Overwatch.
Speaker 8: I mean, also, it's worth pointing out that Overwatch was
a a like Golden Egg. Yes, and to lay one
of those is impossible. Deeply, it is not easy to
find a make another chicken.
Speaker 2: You can do it.
Speaker 8: If they looked at that game and went, let's recreated
enough to recreate that magic, that's pretty impressed.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I like that. I mean they tried to make Overwatch too, Yeah.
Speaker 12: And they could write and I wouldn't say that this
is better executed than Blizzard executed over.
Speaker 8: Their own too cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now that being said, as the person who added it
to this point, I do think we could cut it
here because I'm really liking it.
Speaker 2: I'm also not completely in love with in part because
of what you just said. I do feel like I'm
kind of just going back to open.
Speaker 6: It definitely feels like the one that's like most on
the bubble at this pat Yeah, I have a less
controversial probably shift anyways, with tech and aid right to
go to go over that tech go over.
Speaker 4: The spoon's getting crowded.
Speaker 1: Called you because I want to about Batman.
Speaker 8: I would love to have Batman over there.
Speaker 4: I could take it on the animal Batman, Batman?
Speaker 3: Do you I think we need to start having these conversations?
Do you think Batman makes top ten unlikely?
Speaker 5: Unlikely?
Speaker 2: But that I think maybe we talk about now and
maybe it's.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like that's that's fine.
Speaker 6: Well, I think what we could do is let's read
what we have in the Little Spoon and then read
what's left over in the Big Spoon.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure, Okay, Nikki, would you mind reading the
little Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 12: On the Little Spoon, we have balatro Astrobot menaphor, ref Entausio,
content warning like a Dragon, infinite wealth.
Speaker 4: Indiana Jones in The.
Speaker 12: Great Circle Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, Thank Goodness You're here.
Speaker 4: Rise of the Golden Idol, Legacy.
Speaker 12: Of Caine, Silent Hill two, Prince of Persia, The Lost
Crown Ring, Shadow of the Urd Tree, Persona three Reload,
Mini Shoot Adventures, Tiny Terries, Turbo Trip, Ufo fifty, Indica,
are Zette, Jewela, Farymore one thousand Times, Resist and Call DDI,
Black Ops six.
Speaker 2: Techn eight and tech In eight.
Speaker 4: Jeff Greb would you mind readyeah big spoon on it
in the big spoon?
Speaker 6: Right now we have left Animal Well Kiditsugami, Path of
the Goddess, Batman, Arkham, Shadow, Mullet, mad Jack, Stellar Blade,
Hades two, SteamWorld Heist two Still wakes the Deep, Little Kitty,
Big City Arranger, Tales of Canzera Zoo, Children of the Sun,
Pepper Grinder, Paper, Mario, the thousand Year Door. I'm scrolling
down just in case.
Speaker 4: I see Duck Detec Detective Yes, hanging out over there
on his own.
Speaker 1: Yep, black quick quick.
Speaker 4: The things stand up to me. They are still in
the Big Spoon.
Speaker 6: Mullet, mad Jack, maybe Steamwerl Heist two Hades two. I
like Little Kitty, Big City, not going to try to
move it over. Mike would probably want us to mention
Paper thousand Years.
Speaker 2: I can make a cut right now, because I think
I'm the only person I really loves Stellar Blade here okay.
Speaker 4: So, so anything you want to say about it.
Speaker 2: I think it is a great game. Again, like the
review casts, I think it's an eight, a very very
solid first attempt for this new IP. It is very
reminiscent of some stuff that's done before, but I think
they execute it on well. Does a lot of like
the Bayonetta stuff of having these big set pieces set
to cool music and stuff. But it does really feel
like a good first entry and I really am looking
forward to Stellar Blade two. I don't think Stellar Blade
one makes sense and.
Speaker 12: I think, oh no, I was just going to say,
I think it is really important to make note of
you got to start somewhere so deeply you have to
show somewhere, and like it is easier to rely on
tropes when you are beginning because it allows you to
get your footing so that you can end up the Yes.
Speaker 2: Sure, and they went from making, you know, like a
gotcha mobile game to now making like a very very
solid action game with like Soul's almost y Yeah, good
solid first.
Speaker 3: I think we talked about it on the review cast,
but I think I mentioned like this is one of
those games where I am very excited to eventually see
the second entry. Yes, also very unfortunate that this game
got consumed by the fucking chuds of the internet.
Speaker 4: Ye go fun for blackmith go yea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the thing, Like it's not their game.
It's not their game anymore, that's ours. So like a
big Spoons game. Yep, that's right, Mike. You want to
talk about bowsing your door?
Speaker 13: Yeah, gosh.
Speaker 9: I do just think it's incredible how well that holds up.
And they did a very smart remastering Slash remake care
they generally knew what needed touched up, and it wasn't
much A lot of it really.
Speaker 4: Is more aesthetic things.
Speaker 9: I think the new music's great, but you can still
listen to still do the old stuff, which it's fantastic.
Just an amazing cast of characters. Shots like Vivian right,
all sorts of these guys.
Speaker 4: Are super memorable.
Speaker 9: It, you know, And I know I'm like a big
remake defender and last year was no for was my remake.
But when you are more of a one to one
remake like this, I feel a little bit less like
really in a badge.
Speaker 2: Or rather, when you're more of a remaster, right, like this.
Speaker 9: Is like so yeah, and that you know, that's more
of a gradient than a line remaster and remake anymore
of these days. But it's in a certain spot there.
So Yeah, that was Your Door was a fantastic game.
I think it's an even better game now and that
is great. I'm so glad that they did this project
and this game is just now easily accessible forever doesn't
necessarily have to move over.
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's on my own personal list of first party
Nintendo games that I was like desperate, desperate, desperate for
Nintendo to bring up to date for the switch, like
bring it to the switch, thousand year Door in Windwaker.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and when Thousing your Door got.
Speaker 12: Announced, I think it was earlier in the year, right
when it was announced questions like that.
Speaker 1: Or late last year and then like this last year.
Speaker 12: Okay, but then the thing that was like interesting about
it was that it was like they had three RPG beats, right,
it was a thousand year Door and RPG and Brothership, right,
and the one that they made twenty years ago is
the one that hit the hardest, which I don't know,
maybe make another one of.
Speaker 4: These, gang, Yeah, you're good, I'm good to take it off.
Speaker 2: I think I want to move Hades two to the
Little Spoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's the one that's yeah, yeah, yeah, like it.
Speaker 11: But it does feel like a weird given how highly
mules both.
Speaker 1: Yes right and what about animal Well enough. I liked
it a lot, and there were definitely some amazing aha moments,
like at the disc when you realize, you know, like
it's it's very cool. It nails that thing of like
not really having to tell you a lot and super
not holding your hand like cool in terms of like
metro Venus and stuff. It is about one of the
most open ones I've seen in forever, and not even
being traditional like you know, someone running around with the
gun shooting enemies type thing. I think it's it's worthy
of a lot of praise. I didn't quite love it
enough to do the like, you know, all the different
endings and all that that'saw credits once and I was like,
I feel satiated with that. Sure, So I don't think
it goes to a little I agree.
Speaker 3: Is there anything else in the Big Spoon that still
remains that people feel very strongly about to want to
move over?
Speaker 10: There are just so many games in that I really enjoy,
but I will put my bets on other horses, So
I mean shout out to Kinisagami. Yeah, Little Key Big
City and Duck Detective.
Speaker 6: Big City is also just a very good game that
my kids are loving all the time that I enjoy
helping them out with because I enjoy playing it.
Speaker 11: It's a game that my cats love.
Speaker 1: They just watched it just with me now.
Speaker 8: And Tales of Canzera Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely beautiful, and another one where it's like a
perfect video game.
Speaker 4: No, you got to start somewhere and it's great.
Speaker 1: It's a solid metro a venue.
Speaker 6: And then for me as someone who's like I come
to these metro venues for a reason, I want to search,
I want to get some action, and that's so solid.
Speaker 4: And then I was like, oh my god, I love
this story.
Speaker 5: It was so it's got so much.
Speaker 4: It was so mony.
Speaker 8: Yes, you can see this seems give it more personality,
right because you know this is the first game and
this team who have not a lot of experience and
they just wanted to well, especially Upbuboka, like he just
desperately wanted to tell his story and he has a
love of the medium. Yeah, and guys like against an
against all odds story like we all wish that we
have ideas that we could translate into the medium we love,
but none of us have so a lot of us
don't have the ability, the talent, or the resources to
do that. And this feels like a sheer force of
will game, like I made this happen, and it might
not be amazing.
Speaker 5: To you, but I needed this to exist in this world.
Speaker 12: It's a piece of art, yeah, like legitimately, and actually
so I think it is important.
Speaker 4: Two quick Children of the Sun was very cool.
Speaker 1: It's getting it looks like it's like stylish cyper verse
and it's like a puzzle game, you know. It's really cool,
and it's got very such a good gimmick. The whole
game is this kind of one gimmick and then it
kind of adds to things where it's like, oh, you
can stop the bullet in mid air and turn around
and redirect it and kind of gave me a little
bit of that neon white, you know, kind of small
trying to like, what's the word I'm looking for, Just
optimize your route through it and everything. Really cool stuff,
but I'm not gonna make it to the I think.
Speaker 5: That and Mullet mad Jack are the most like stylish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like just blew my eyeballs.
Speaker 3: If I had like the Soldier Boy category this year,
think mullet Man Jack would definitely fit that.
Speaker 7: It's just so wild to see like such a very
specific vision, Like like I look at that game and
I only played it maybe for like three hours right
before I was just like, I'm going to flop around
the floor if it just just like you know that,
like no sacrifices were made in that where you're just like,
that's such a specific vision, really really cool. Those two
games I think for me were like very important stylistically
for sure.
Speaker 11: Sorry to bring up one more game, but Mouthwashing Gen.
Speaker 5: Mentioned it to him.
Speaker 2: The thing is, I just don't know how much.
Speaker 11: How much you can talk about it without.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how much I can talk about it.
Speaker 3: There are portions of the game though, that were very
frustrating where I almost wanted to put it down because
I think they try and just make it too much
into a game that it doesn't need to be. Like
they had a very awkwardly paced stealth segment that didn't
really need to be there.
Speaker 2: You could continue.
Speaker 3: I feel like they should have just stayed with the
weird perspective of the story that they were trying to do.
They also add a weapon later in the game, which
was very frustrating and was another time I almost stopped
playing the game completely. But I highly do recommend checking
out Mouthwashing if you're looking for like more existential dread.
If we had an existential dread category, I'd fill up
everything on that list.
Speaker 10: I wanted to give a shout out to the Operator
as well, which is a fun game and played over
the summer.
Speaker 11: A couple hours long. You play as the man in
the chair basically for.
Speaker 2: Like the FBI greb. Do you want to talk about
that game that looked like Windows in eighty five?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, Safety Home Hotline. Yeah, that was actually
surprisingly interesting. I didn't get to play enough of it
to put it on any list like this, but it
was one that when you call in, you get all
this like the normal things, ie, your house is infested
with mice, let me help you out with that. And
then eventually it opens up and starts having monsters, hob goblins,
things like that, and it's very interesting to just like
get the call and that's all the information you get,
and they give like little keywords and they could be
you know, positive keywords or negativecute keywords, and that if
it's a positive, it means it's like going to positively
identify something it could be and then some other stuff.
It's like, but it's not like they're leaving droppings or something,
so I don't know what it is. It's like, well
then it can't be mice. It has to be something else. Oh,
it is a hob goblin. It's one of these games
you play in your head. It definitely fits in that
category with with Duck Detective and Rise of the Golden Idol.
It probably just just like if you like the vibes
of it. It's Home Safety Hotline.
Speaker 5: Call it a process of elimination games.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's it's they're really satisfying.
Speaker 1: It's very satisfying.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's that was good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: The operator gets you to do.
Speaker 10: Like you're running labs, you're running fingerprints, you're scrubbing through
uh like CCTV camera footage to get suspects. It's really
it's cool, it's tactile.
Speaker 11: It's fun.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, is it time to say goodbye to
the Big Spoon?
Speaker 4: You can get it, Big Spoon, good night. Uh, maybe
we start proposing eliminations where we can move a few.
Speaker 2: We have a we have three low clock loss for
the next round. I think right, because the latro, Astrobot
and Metaphor arem going anywhere.
Speaker 4: I think Indiana Jones isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think Britz of Persia's going anywhere.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, listen, if we just do ten right now,
that we're good, we probably will probably do more than that.
Speaker 13: Is blood.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's any other for sures.
Speaker 8: I was going to say Sun and Hill too, is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I thought so.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I think we might need to discuss a
small at Black Hop sucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like my number three of.
Speaker 2: The It's very it's like top five for me as well.
Oh okay, So I'm wondering how everyone else feels about it.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it will be my time. The multiplayer, Yeah,
I think that's where it's really good.
Speaker 12: It's one of the best ones of these I've played.
Speaker 2: But also do a campaign and that's that's my lost right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love what do you like more of the
campaign and multiplayer?
Speaker 1: I'm normally a campaign guy, but this is the first
one in a while that I got super Duper into
the multiplayer I proceed for the first time. Preper did too.
Speaker 5: Really, thank you for your service, yeah yeah yeah, and
that's my brain up.
Speaker 4: I don't do it for the compliments, right, yeah, you
do it for the hardware. Thank you for the hardware.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like some of us here are hooked on this game,
and that's that's not nothing like that.
Speaker 9: I am not a call of duty person really never was,
even like that Prime three sixth year.
Speaker 4: I just played a bit.
Speaker 1: It's definitely the most I've been playing the multiplayer mode.
Speaker 4: I don't I mean, you're not a lock for the
tiny snoll.
Speaker 1: That's not I want to say this though. I still
think the game is hideous. I think it has some
episode does look like like ever Yeah, yes.
Speaker 13: I think it was grounding.
Speaker 5: The fortnitification of it, like all that stuff.
Speaker 2: There's like goofy zombies as like.
Speaker 7: Excal like the way they try and cosmetic it up
the way for like it's just selling skins, but it's
all ugly and ship.
Speaker 1: I don't mind selling skins. I think that all the
skins look very stupid, like literally this gross. I think
they are stupid in a way that I made like
I buy all the dumb Peter storm Ayer and now
I got a raccoon. They're stupid.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite movie.
Speaker 5: There's one where it's like you're just like veins and bones,
like it's yeah, very stupid.
Speaker 1: Is not a lock for the Tiny Spoons, Not for me?
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: I did not think it would be on my top
ten this year and it's number three.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't are there any our locks?
Speaker 4: I think we're.
Speaker 9: When we all talked about thank goodness you're here, Yeah.
Speaker 11: Thank goodness?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 4: Is it weird for me to assume that Infinite World
is also a lock.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a lot. It's close, it could be,
but like it might be in the Call Duty's own.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah's call duty and if it walth on here
because these are the ones, we're going to definitely have conversations.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 8: I just think that them is the Tiny Spoon. I think,
do you think that should be the mouth?
Speaker 2: Well to the mouth we need to put mouthwashing.
Speaker 5: And there's these others.
Speaker 8: I think the games that we want to discuss further.
Speaker 6: These are the games that we're trying to get to
a top ten, very likely going to be in the
top ten or conversation for the top ten.
Speaker 2: And then we can start whittling away at the little spook.
Speaker 4: Yeah haities two.
Speaker 9: Okay, so I am not like, I don't want to
be like a big strickler about that whole early access
saying I ultimately don't care too much, but boy like,
why not just wait till the.
Speaker 4: Game And that's kind of where I'm at. I love
it a lot, so he does not need to do.
I think it would be it's.
Speaker 6: Really service one of the closest ever for an early accents.
Speaker 4: Yes, right, it's because it is. It is a full game.
Speaker 12: But I do think it will be a disservice to
the other games that we are trying to get onto
a top ten list to give it to a game
that is deeply, by their own admission, not ready or
done yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have no doubt it is great right now,
but I do want to wait until it's at one point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this may be one of the games
I've spent the most time.
Speaker 1: And when is it going to want? When is it
gonna want?
Speaker 4: Sometime next year? Next year Switch To comes out. It
is I think the best game that I'm going to
be deleting off of this list.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 8: Is like a dragon on the next thing.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's nothing's locked.
Speaker 2: Tice one is not locked.
Speaker 4: Nothing's binding.
Speaker 5: I feel like UFO fifty is. I didn't play it.
I just know I can read the room here a
little bit. I want to play it. I don't think
enough of us have.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: For me, it's more that I did play UFO fifty
and I found like one game and then yeah, I
was as incredibly impressive.
Speaker 1: I love the concept of it so much. It's like
a ten out of ten concept for me playing through it.
And I played all fifty games, not the completion, but
like it played them all. There's maybe like five to
ten that I was like, oh, yeah, these are good,
and like maybe two or three where I was like, oh,
I want to play a bunch of this one. Yeah,
So I think, yeah, concepts of ten out of ten.
The games themselves ranged from you know, two.
Speaker 12: To eight, which is like that does kind of lead
into the concept some of the games in the past
use to fucking exactly.
Speaker 1: That's why the very first one when I grab Beat, yeah,
I like that that one suck because it's like I
remember renting games based on box art and they sucked,
and like it felt like an accurate portrayal like the eighties.
Speaker 2: You know. It's almost like with something like a Tetris Forever,
where not every game that is included in there is
going to hit, but the concept of what it is
as experience is very fun. I would still recommend has like.
Speaker 4: Hattress and all that stuff. Yeah, this is just an
interesting part of this history.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, where did Laura Lai go go?
Speaker 5: Where did she go?
Speaker 2: Oh? Mystery?
Speaker 4: All right, probably wrong, wrongly.
Speaker 11: Rise of the gold Il is Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: It is okay, so well smart.
Speaker 11: It made me feel so smart up against everything else.
It's like it's high on my list. I think it's
sure three.
Speaker 10: It's like it's so many quality of life improvements to
the first game, and it's continuation of that story.
Speaker 6: It's one that's like I love it. We did give
like I feel like we gave the first game flowers.
Speaker 1: Dimly like yeah, yeah, yeah, but I really really loved it.
Speaker 6: And so it's like when I'm thinking about like the
kind of slot that that's going to fit into, there
are other games that I'm like, I'm more excited to
push those on because people now know about right, so.
Speaker 8: People should be playing both of those games. And I
didn't know until Lucy told me they are on phones.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, alright, and like that is.
Speaker 8: You should play these games.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they're really good.
Speaker 10: In the Indica as well is another one where I'll
talk about it now because I don't.
Speaker 11: Think it's going to make it onto the Tiny Spoon.
Speaker 10: So Indika is a game where you play as a
nun who literally has the Devil on her shoulder, who
talks to you. It's a meta commentary about video games, gamification,
about religion, oppressive governments and regimes, identity, identity.
Speaker 11: It's a really really interesting game.
Speaker 10: It's a wickedly funny game as well. You get into
some really surreal situations with this devil with you know,
there's one particular one of the very beginning where there's
a nun and then she opens her mouth and all
these little tiny nuns kind of spill out. There's kind
of elements of horror in there. There's also I mean
I'll put a content warning on there too. There's like
depictions of some pretty.
Speaker 11: Rough stuff in there.
Speaker 10: I think it's one of the most interesting games I've
played for years, very aware that it's not for everyone.
There's I mean, there's a point in it at the
very beginning where you're just getting you're filling stuff some
water from a well. You're just going back and forwards,
back and forward to it's super tedious, but you're doing
it because someone in a position of authority told you to.
And then when you do it, you get arbitrary points
and those points that you put into.
Speaker 11: How religious you are.
Speaker 10: Basically you're leveling up your religion, and it's it's very funny.
It has some really cool puzzles, but I think towards
the end it kind of like some of the puzzles
is just not that good.
Speaker 11: But overall just such an interesting game and I think
more people should play it.
Speaker 8: A very David Lynch game in terms of like it's present,
I'll be it will like transition into the scene and
it's the most confusing, fucked up like a cinematic choice
angle like and it's like you're like, what the.
Speaker 10: No one listens to me, so you put like there
are puzzles where you basically pray to change the settings.
Speaker 5: You guys have to like nail me down and say
you just listen to it exactly. Not about that.
Speaker 8: It's just like I need.
Speaker 19: I just need to be told sometimes yours. Yeah, I
just need like you know, dress me right, like play,
tell me what the player so Indica off off?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I just yeah again, there's just a lot of really.
Speaker 4: Good this year.
Speaker 9: As much as I love Fount Fantasy seven Rebirth, and
I've talked about how much I love it, I may
be getting the sense that it is not this group's
top ten.
Speaker 5: It's not my cup of tea.
Speaker 8: I feel like Sean likes it enough that it shouldn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I still I think we should talk about
our games first, for cutting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because I was going to say, like I
thought we'd be higher on Infinite Wealth, but it seems
like it's around the same area.
Speaker 4: That I.
Speaker 3: Think Infinite Wealth has. You want to talk pacing issues, Yeah,
that game.
Speaker 6: That got pack That game, oh yeah, is okay?
Speaker 2: Don't we say even more in that I fell off
of the previous like a dragon because I was in
a sewer for like an hour and a half and
I was bored out of my mind. There are.
Speaker 4: It's a building the building site.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I don't know's I still think the game
overcomes all that and is awesome because the characters in
the setting and like didn't didn't dund Island.
Speaker 11: And Lovely Moment were visiting.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, all these characters with you.
Speaker 9: You know what turn based game is on this list
that hasn't gotten moved over yet. It is persona three reload.
I feel like that game has been overshadowed it because
Metaphor came out and it's like that same studio and
it's somewhat but personally reloaded.
Speaker 4: It's not the same studio technically the same publisher. Yeah yeah,
real quick? Were we taking Rise of the Golden off? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, is just not putting it on the tiny spoon?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 11: I got it, So leave it in the big spoon.
Speaker 4: So keeping yeah, just for.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's maybe maybe I'll bring up I think, grab
a couple of bar babies. Here are mini shooting tiny terry?
Do we feel like does anyone I think there's like
I think three of us Mini shoot is like on
the lower part of our lists, right like.
Speaker 4: My number ten? Yeah, I on mind really never mind.
Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, I like a lot and I
would be happy to seek go over.
Speaker 4: I'm not super attached to it.
Speaker 1: I would fight for Mini Shoot before Tiny Terry. I
really like Tiny Terry almost is like a fun, novelty throwbag,
you know, different take on that GTA open world style.
But with Mini Shoot, I felt like within seconds of
playing it, I had one of those like, oh shit,
I'm gonna love this feelings, like the way I do
with like Vampire Survivor. It's like you can instantly grab
the controller and be like, oh, I get it.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 4: You know, it's super fun.
Speaker 9: I wish it had a little more juice somewhere, like
there's upgradation wise or like something aesthetically right.
Speaker 1: The aesthetic is not great. And then outside of like
the upgrades, it's some pretty standard going around pressing buttons
and stuff unlock parts of the map, dungeon like it.
So I loved every second of playing that game.
Speaker 2: Percent of it.
Speaker 1: I think the realities neither of these games are gonna make.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that seems list. I'd be fine with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Tiny Terry, and I just people should go
check out, like I said, three.
Speaker 20: Hours, Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Lucy Laura, I yeah, and
the laser eyes it's such hard fucking cakes.
Speaker 5: I need to go back to you need a moleskin.
Speaker 2: But the thing is I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really like the last time I felt that
I needed a moleskin to play game with.
Speaker 11: Not sponsored but.
Speaker 5: No, actually I'm not a fan of them, so for
like calling notebooks, but there's.
Speaker 4: Was Tunic and Baba is you just like replaying those.
Speaker 3: My one knock against Loralai is not really on the game,
but it's just how I approached it. It was near
impossible to go back to it understanding something.
Speaker 5: I had to start it two times.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I fell off. I'm playing, but I had
to do other things I wanted to carry on playing.
And then I came back a few weeks later and
I was like, I can either I have to restart,
and I was just like, I cannot restart. I'm not
doing all that over again.
Speaker 7: I think if they had really figured out a way
to keep that, yeah, stay above water a little bit
without sinking to the bottom, this would this, This will
be on my top ten for sure.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think, like, uh, what's that good game?
Speaker 8: Good?
Speaker 5: Good game?
Speaker 7: Love when you can show me a unique visual style
that I've not seen before that is very uniquely that
game and nothing else that's everything for Laura.
Speaker 1: Giving its flowers.
Speaker 4: Now, this is like.
Speaker 1: Laura di nic Yeah, and.
Speaker 5: Like fixt camera stuff, it's like sort of dead, but
this kept it alive. And yeah, I'm I'm into it.
Speaker 6: Should we let's move that go? Maybe we want to
go through the little spoon. Everyone say the game they
want to.
Speaker 9: Click about to add something so annoying late, But did
anyone else play Dragon Quest three HD two D I did?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 1: Sorry, Oh that's okay. I freaking love it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I have another time time.
Speaker 9: I think that is just one of the best ways
to present an old school style JARPG.
Speaker 2: It's just such an amazing year for JPGs.
Speaker 1: Yes to me, it's one of my favorites though, and
I'll find another way to talk about it.
Speaker 3: But oh, something that I totally got overlooked fucking Unicorn overlord.
Speaker 1: You know what, And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9: I overlook it and I beat that game, yeah, the
whole thing, and I somehow don't think about.
Speaker 2: It solid shank and it just didn't stick with me,
which is weird because Willaware, you know, look at that game.
It's pretty, but just so much about it just felt
a little standard to me, So we have.
Speaker 8: A few transactions I'd like to make okay. I was
going to say, make a withdrawal.
Speaker 5: Okay, can I see your card please? I was talking
to the bank guy, not you fucking man in the
line behind me.
Speaker 8: I'd like to withdraw sadly. Batman Rockham Shadow. I think
that it is very, very very good as a VR game.
It is one of the best implementations of a bunch
of VR familiar VR mechanics but re imagined for Batman,
and like that is the that is the spirit of
what Rocksteady did, Like they created a game that was
familiar parts of other things, but thought, how would we
do this for Batman, and then put that together to
make the greatest Batman trilogy ever created, may never be topped.
And for Camouflage to come along and do basically the
same thing again, it's like that capture lightning in a
bottle second time, It's like it should be impossible. This
is someone else's magic that you've rebottled, and for them
to do it in a format that is completely different,
and not to rag on it. I love the Batman
Arkham origins, but the general consensus is they couldn't it's
not as good as the Arkham games. And that is
a format assets and a lot of design elements that
are basically the same shared within the game that they're
trying to you know, be a version of whereas the
VR version is a completely different medium. It needs to
be rethought in so many different ways. The fact that
they pulled it off and it's so authentic, and I
also love that they didn't go with like obvious storytelling choices.
They leaned into the detective part of it. They put
Matches Malone in there. They like did some real deep
cut Batman shit, And that is the other part of
it where it felt authentic because rock Steady cares about
Batman and they care. They show they cared through the
choices of characters, how they depicted them and like how
they use them. And again that's something that Camouflage did,
which is they know how to make a Batman game,
but like rock Steady, they also know what makes a
Batman game, which I think is super super cool. And yeah,
to borrow the words of John Drake, iron Man walked
so Batman could run. But like it's a hell of
a hell of a game box and and that Camouflage
it might not be on many lists, I mean won
of the Game Awards. It might not be on many lists,
but they should absolutely be proud of that achievement. As
a Batman fan who like is very critical of Batman
related stuff, I think that they should be super proud
of it.
Speaker 2: Carrying VR this year, Yeah, it's giant bombs VR Game
of It is.
Speaker 4: That was my withdrawal. I gotta say I've been winning
in line. This is very.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 5: Usually usually there's not stories being tried.
Speaker 2: A down read the small life.
Speaker 8: I have two deposits i'd like to make.
Speaker 2: I like this.
Speaker 6: Maybe we could all pick the two that we want.
I want to see there's a lot of common analogy.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, uh. These two deposits are entirely selfish. They're
an uphill struggle.
Speaker 4: They're probably getting I want to hear them.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 8: In both cases, I'm going to try my best to
make them. And if I don't at least try, I
think I'd regret and let down a bunch of people.
Speaker 5: And that's legacy of Kane and elder Ring.
Speaker 6: Oh my two are content warning warning and shadowed the
ar tree we're going on.
Speaker 11: I was going to say, you shadow the Tree.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm also going to say Shadow.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, do you have another one to write?
Speaker 4: My other one would be taken eight Okay, okay.
Speaker 5: I didn't play Shadow of the or Tree, but I
too am voting for Shadow.
Speaker 11: I like this guy behind.
Speaker 8: A bank.
Speaker 11: If you don't have any money, that there is anyone
I don't have it.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, let's fucking rip the band aid off.
Speaker 2: Y'all.
Speaker 4: Straps are coming down this year, all right, kidding, don't
worry about it. More and more.
Speaker 3: If I could do an Indiana Jones style swap seas,
perhaps removing like a dragon.
Speaker 1: Yeah for a thousand extra.
Speaker 4: Hold up, might not do a call duty.
Speaker 1: I think you might have a better chance there.
Speaker 8: But because.
Speaker 4: There's some logical conversations that day.
Speaker 8: Everything was doing on the discussion pop I'm sorry everyone.
Just a bunch of people just said, yeah, Tree should
be there, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hang, hey, we need to resolve some things.
I just yea, I think Tree just moves over.
Speaker 8: I would like to make the the case for like
what legacy of kine.
Speaker 9: I want to say first before you do that, that
I did sacrifice a couple of darlings because one of
your door was a remastered or another one.
Speaker 4: Marbs's cap Fight collection is a collection. Cool.
Speaker 14: I know I'm just saying.
Speaker 5: I mean, I didn't make you sacrifice. No, I'm not
doing that.
Speaker 1: That's terrible.
Speaker 11: That makes a whole wortle blind.
Speaker 2: Hang on, I think there's another one we need to
talk about here, content warning.
Speaker 1: Let let's maybe stay on where we are before we're
jumping around a lot.
Speaker 13: Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: I think everything else has left is I'll get to
another one, but I think everything else has left is
kind of babies that we're trying to move on. I
think content warning is one where collective.
Speaker 4: I say content warning, Dan, you said maybe content warning.
I enjoyed my time with it, but you know it's
not one that I'm like sitting around.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to gage your ass feelings.
Speaker 4: You like it, super pro content warning. My argument for
is that I do.
Speaker 12: It's our list, and I think that we should have
a thing that we all had.
Speaker 4: On there. I know that it's not which is sentimental there,
I think Darling, Yeah, yeah, I just think it does.
Speaker 12: It takes the Lethal Company moment, and obviously they were
working on them concurrently.
Speaker 4: Like, it doesn't mean ideas have not come out, and
they did not come in a vacuum, right, But.
Speaker 12: I think it it is such an interesting and fun
and timely spin that for the job that we do
and the ways that we play games, I think really
allowed us to have fun in a space together.
Speaker 2: And I think that that is really important.
Speaker 4: Medium wise, because you can't do that with a book.
Speaker 11: I'm going to ask, because I have played it, I
wasn't on that. I have zero connection to it. Did
y'all go back to it?
Speaker 4: Did you think.
Speaker 1: Stream I appreciate what it's doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it's like I feel like it's like I
went to a house party and they had this fun
drinking game and I did it once, so I'm like
that was a fun time.
Speaker 5: And yeah, like I'm at home humanity.
Speaker 2: I think that the way we think about that game
is more the other categories we've had where we talk
about like best game we stream.
Speaker 4: That's why we had that category exactly.
Speaker 2: I think that that one fits more there.
Speaker 3: So I think for the top ten and like as
a game, you know, they're doing cool stuff, but I
think it's maybe not the greatest, so I think, but
it's like I don't.
Speaker 4: Know it is what we brought to it, and that's
still part of the game. So I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think dropping it because of it was going to
be hard and not enough people really feel too strongly
about it.
Speaker 1: I'm fine, let's got it. I would be willing to
drop a thousand times for sist.
Speaker 2: I would not be willing to drop a thousand.
Speaker 1: Is there any reason techon It's not moved anything against it?
Speaker 5: I okay, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Okay, Tech and eight has phenomenal presentation, it has a
very very fun story mode a game. The more I
play it, the more I hate it because it's horrifically
imbalanced in a way that's not fun. My fighting games
should not be balanced for the sake of you know,
like esports and everything like that, and like, let's make
it fair. But this game is in many ways broken
in a way that is not fun. And more and
more I want to play with friends and I don't
because there's so many issues with the actual fighting in
Tech and eight. If it maybe gets me some points
a little bit here, I'm saying, maybe this is the
end of the journey for tech and eight.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I also feel like it is a lot of
what makes techn eight so makes it good. Is this
stuff around the core of the game, which is quite
familiar in terms of it's Tech and seven in a
lot like I trade a movement of Tech and seven,
even of Tech and seven, and like Tech and seven
was great, techn A isn't a weird place. Everything around
it is cool. But I feel like there's a disparity
between the stuff that is good and the stuff that
is questionable that is big enough that it kind of,
like Shahn said, it might be the end of the journey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think that. And again this is you know,
I was talking about our experiences, but in such a
multiplayer focus and community focus game, it is hard to
get over the funk that's in techn A and how
people can't just don't want to play it right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't feel good.
Speaker 5: It plays a lot of.
Speaker 2: Like then I think that's it for teching community into
the volcano. Dan, throw it nice.
Speaker 8: You made not at the exact moment, go deleted.
Speaker 1: Amazing we planned that actual, so okay, And then three.
Speaker 13: How do you spell that?
Speaker 2: After that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, we have five left here on the little spoon,
and I feel like we need to cut ahold of them, maybe,
like we have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, old idiot, Mike, how hard do we want to
fight for rebirth?
Speaker 9: I kind of I'm already kind of over it again,
Like it's very important for me. I can tell it's
not important to pretty much everyone else here, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: Where's our that on your Game of the Year. Why
don't we talk about PERSONA three.
Speaker 10: For because I have seen bits of it, I have
no connection to really stuff.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, right, it's funny in its own right.
Speaker 6: It is there are It takes those games and makes
them playable in a way so it's fun and makes
it fun to get to the stuff that's.
Speaker 4: Bad on purpose, and doing that is actually super impressive.
Speaker 13: It is.
Speaker 4: Probably not going to make the.
Speaker 1: Probably right, that's what if it's like your number one game,
you're not.
Speaker 4: Line in my top five.
Speaker 1: I know I admire it.
Speaker 9: I admire it more than maybe any game I think
in terms of having a vision and having passions see
that vision through, Like I feel that on the screen
more than maybe anything else this year.
Speaker 1: It tickles me more than a my.
Speaker 12: That crazy thing I'm going to say, as a person
who has mostly watched our is that is that in
my brain it occupies the same zone as Thank goodness
year here.
Speaker 2: Shut up.
Speaker 5: I think that they are.
Speaker 4: They are.
Speaker 12: I think that's what I think I think we should
do because we can get a thousand times and.
Speaker 1: Set has actual game mechanics. Yes, that's a real game.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 1: A little more interactivity with It's a slap format, sure,
but I think you can jump. You could jump it
slop you.
Speaker 12: In regard to I think that they both nailed the
very hyper specific niche thing that they are trying to do.
Speaker 11: Okay, being British is not niche.
Speaker 18: I think it is.
Speaker 2: Going in.
Speaker 8: This room. It is currently a niche.
Speaker 11: I think we count backlours one of ours at this point.
Speaker 1: Really know, because the people who wanted minders it anyways.
Speaker 5: I mean Jewish people use words right, sound different?
Speaker 4: Why is it lile?
Speaker 1: British boom? How to dig my heels? The fact that
I could do a little bit of a stinker about
it is good enough for me.
Speaker 6: If you if we want to cut it, goodbye, I'm
going to make a stink taking a cane.
Speaker 8: Man. Listen, a lot of people have said you're only love.
They want to cut their babies.
Speaker 4: They're not going to.
Speaker 13: You got to stop.
Speaker 8: They're going to dig their heel in, and they've chosen
they're not going to dig their heal in, and they've
chose to sacrifice it. I will dig my healing.
Speaker 5: I will not kill my.
Speaker 1: Really, I'll kill me.
Speaker 5: I'm not doing it.
Speaker 4: I'm doing I'm not doing it. I'm doing.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, I'm not doing it to the point where
I would take off shadow of the Tree for it.
Speaker 1: That's listen, That's what I'm.
Speaker 5: Saying, though, how I'm willing to fight for it.
Speaker 8: Wait a second, I would cut Tree behold ship.
Speaker 5: So you're still in line at the bank.
Speaker 4: You are too, I know.
Speaker 8: Like I mean, like, if this is the point where
I have to make a case for it, I'll make
the case for it.
Speaker 1: Make the case the case being I want to is.
Speaker 4: This your game of the year.
Speaker 6: No, it's not my game of the year. It's gonna
be in my top top three. Yeah, that's pretty good.
But I mean I kind of like, gett even your
one darling on there. I just I need to know
what's your favorite game this year.
Speaker 5: It's the most important game, to be sure.
Speaker 4: I get that.
Speaker 5: That's the reason is Tim do you play You played
through the whole thing already, Both the chunk of both games. Yeah,
it's been out for like four days.
Speaker 1: I know, you got em. Like that first one that
came up, the Assembly.
Speaker 8: Legacy of Kine not a very well known franchise, so
weather it had a small glimmer at his time, and
since then it's just been forgotten. And it's like that
franchise that's been like treated shitty its entire life. It's
gone from like owner to owner. While others have been
like pulled out of the vault, you know, reassessed and
put back into the vault. Legacy of Kane has never
even a Soul Reaver hasn't had that same kind of
treatment after they did it dirty with like nas golf
and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: So Ever, the world moved.
Speaker 5: On from Soulriva.
Speaker 8: And the thing with that game is it's so good
that the community is it exists and it has remained
healthy and they are self sustaining community. It's like alcoholics anonymous,
like we keep each other going in just for the
hope of it. And this is a game that has
had like an uphill struggle always. It's never had its
time in the life. We didn't when it came out,
We weren't making like lists no one ever was doing
as far as I remember.
Speaker 2: Just commandments here, I think.
Speaker 5: I think it's when you see your meeting like where
where like your meeting.
Speaker 7: I'm serious, Like you talk about it being like aa,
it's a metaphor, I understand, but I'm serious because you
have the Communitians together.
Speaker 8: Somewhere, there's legacy of kine websites that people go away archives,
there's YouTube videos, there's discords and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like, no, we didn't.
Speaker 8: We didn't award games their flowers in the way that
we do now back then, right, And it is like
a game that is so important to me and to
a lot of people that I feel like right now
is probably the only time that it will have. It
has had past and present where it could get something,
you know what I mean, And for all intents and purposes,
it probably is going to die from here.
Speaker 5: It will never be seen again because what was it?
Speaker 11: So I was gonna say that I know how much
you love it.
Speaker 10: I want to know, because that's that's along a lot
more zone how the game has been treated, what makes
the games games?
Speaker 8: The game is as worthy worthy of that love from
the is is as good today as it was back then,
and with the new changes, if not better, it looks better.
They added a new camera like controlled finite camera controlled.
More than anything, the thing that makes that game good
is and I'll say this and you'll be like, oh,
of course. For me, it was my first souls like,
it was the game that The reason I love from
software is because of legacy of Kine Soular even it's
like your story, it's my origin. It's my origin game.
That is the game that made me who I am
as a gamer. Now, I think that the reason is
so good is because the writing is fucking out of
this world like it is. I wish that you could
like more people that played it. Like from the very
first word that that fucking intro is I was telling
down about it, like it pops off. It's really so
hard that and then every line that is spoken is Shakespearean.
They hired theater actors to give it the gravitas it needs.
Those actors are either retired or dead now and like
they never got to be told, like you fucking killed it, man,
you were unbelievable. The dialogue in that game, the way
it's delivered, the actual story. It's a game that looks
like it's about vampires, but it's about like destiny. It's
about your ability to take hold of yourself, how you
can be manipulated by people you trust. It's also at
the same time a time traveling game, a game about
a necromancer, a game about literal how a soul can
be used and abused and find a place within this
world of its own. And it's in the framework of
a game that looks like is very forgettable because we're
looking back at it. It looks like just a platformer
where you pay up some blocks pushing it around. It
was the first game that was doing a lot of
that stuff. It's a game where you're in an environment.
You go to environment, you press a bun and Rozio
moves his hands and the entire environment, without loading, completely shifts.
The geometry change is not indeed, by these days, by
our measures. Now, it's not complicated, like it's just some
you know, verses or whatever about moving. But back then,
when you press that button and everything around you just changed,
and you're like, this is a different game, this is
a different level. It was jaw dropping, and even now
when you do it, you're like, this is pretty fucking awesome,
like it's really cool, and then you think about it
did it back then? And you're like, how did not
Why wasn't this game treated the way it deserved to
be treated, Like it did things that were so far
ahead of its time and got nothing for it, And
like I said it, it probably is dead from here.
Speaker 9: Like I've not heard one thing I wanted in like
you know, i'd not push back against. But it's somebody
like likes retro games a lot and was there skiking out,
Like I don't know if I ever got that sense
that like this game wasn't appreciated like at its time,
I still was.
Speaker 8: I don't, like, I don't think it was appreciated. I
mean it got it got it got some love because
obviously there was a sequels, but it's no one when
in the last ten years have you ever heard someone
say Legacy Ken is really important too, Like it's one
of the best written games ever.
Speaker 1: I do, But again, I follow a lot of retro
channels a lot.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Like I've been talking about it for years and
now people are like playing it and coming back to
me and being like I don't understand, Like I've thought
you were like doing the internet hype thing where you're like,
you're a stand for this thing, and you know, you
go overboard. But the stuff that you're saying is true
is like really fucking good, And like now I feel
like I've raised the expectations so hard because it is
a great I think it has the greatest opening ever
created for a video game, and I take that over
every from soft game, every metal game game, every every
game that I've played. I think it's the writing is here.
It uses it has an economy of words that is
like beautiful. It is like it's every line is poetic
and it's not written to be a pretentious either. It's
not like while you're listening to these characters you're like, fuck,
I hate these fucking people. They are having conversations that
are both understandable when you hear them. You're like, the
way he expressed that is crazy. There's like this, there's
this you speak to. Kane Kin is like the antagonist
of this game, the protagonist of the previous game. He
had to make a decision, which was do I sacrifice
myself to save Nosgoth or do I not do that?
And Cain is a fucking selfish dickhead, and he was like,
I am not sacrimvising myself. I'm going to let this
world crumble and I will rule it. And then you
play this game and you're Rosiel, You've been betrayed by Kane,
you're finding Kane, and then not to spoil it, but
as you go along, you start to realize Kine had
something he was working towards, and there's way more going
on than you realize. And as as a player, the
writing is so good that you only start to make
the connections when Raziol does it. So it's not like
a story that's predictable. It goes in some weird directions
at times, but the way it presents and like the
way it executes on the story, I don't think any
game has had that kind of like good relationship between
the way the characters speak, the way they evolve, the
way they change, and how it unfolds in the end
like it doesn't. These two games are probably if I could,
like Fire best written game's most enjoyable experiences onto the Moon,
so future generations could pick it up and try and
make games based on these, that would be it like
one of it would be one of those games. And
it is, like I said, rudimentary. It's block puzzles, combats
not great. It's that it's early stuff where it's like,
you know, circling enemies and attacking them, waiting for your moments.
Don't overcommit all the frum soft stuff it's there. But
it's also got some really fun ideas. Like vampires, you
beat the shot of them, they don't die. They will
just stand there in a stun state. You give them
enough time and they'll come back. And what you have
to do is like you have to pick them up,
throw them in sunlight, you have to haale them, you
have to throw them in water. And then if you
let their souls. If you don't immediately or quickly reave
their souls, another enemy could like eat it and become
more powerful, or they could go back into the body
and you can like it will be resurrected. It's got
interesting mechanics that it hasn't been done yet, but that
that whole world is so rich. It's why I keep
saying it's the IP with the most unrealized potential in
all of games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that you know that I see everything
you're saying, and it stretch about its importance to you
and how it's kind of been forgotten every time because
you're right, like back in the day it was on
magazine covers and things like that, and then it's when
they kind of died off and you never really heard
about again. But I feel like almost everything you just
talked about, despite it being you know, so important to
you and all this stuff it was doing at the time,
if this is for a conversation about the best games
of all time, I think.
Speaker 4: All of that clients I agree.
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, with it being best games
of twenty twenty four, we look at other games thousand
Near Door, the Caslvania Dominance Collection, Dominance Collection, which you know,
these are beloved games that you know, weren't really you know,
remand there's quality of life improvements and things like that.
I think it's one thing if this got like a
big you know, this is like a remix situation where
it's like a new game. But I think we are
looking at a hidden not a hidden gym, but a
game from the past that is getting another light shine
on it in twenty twenty four, like Caslvania Dominance, like
Paper Marito a thousand near Door with some quality life
improvements to the camera and things like that.
Speaker 6: But I just don't think it's just that there are
a lot of classes. It's just like right there, and
it's like, yeah, I guess it's a remaster. That is,
it's an okay, remaster of really great games.
Speaker 8: That's where it like, yeah, I mean, like I I
don't think of it in the same way that others do,
so I understand that. Like for me, it's not like, oh,
this is a game that came out and compared to
other games is good. I can't do that. This is like, right,
I got test my friend one last time before he
goes away forever. So I realized that's just for me though.
Speaker 4: So I for I get it.
Speaker 2: But this is it's going to be impossible.
Speaker 8: It's a franchise that has never got the respect it deserves.
This was my attempt to at least okay, some of
that you.
Speaker 1: Got into respect for sure, and maybe it comes back.
Everything comes back commed, He's coming back, Righting.
Speaker 5: Happened, Anything can happen.
Speaker 6: One thousand ext resists. That's times resist excuse me, Uh,
it's it's time now.
Speaker 3: I think it's time to uh to say hecky grace
hair to hair to my sister in the sky.
Speaker 2: Uh everyone, what the fuck? Yeah, Square, I get you,
I get you.
Speaker 4: Dan knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're gonna make me cry.
Speaker 3: Chan A thousand times Resist would have been my number
one game of this year. It's my number two if
metaphor Defense has you didn't come out.
Speaker 2: A thousand times Resist.
Speaker 3: Tells the story of some now dealing with generational trauma
and choosing what you bring with you to the next
life and realizing that you are an amalgamation of all
of your experiences and even if you try and forget,
you try to erase the bad parts.
Speaker 2: And you only want to include the good parts.
Speaker 3: You need everything to be a complete version of you,
because trying to do that erasing process and the deleting
process of your soul or your being kind of erases
who you are as a person. And not to get
too personal, I'll get personal real later, but A thousand
times Orsist one of those games that really just like
made me really just stop and examine of like, okay, cool, yeah,
maybe I should make some decisions on shit and really
reflect on where I've been, where I want to go,
and what I feel like defines me as a person
I don't think it's going to be enough compared to
every other game on the tiny spoon already, but I'm
glad that I've been able to be quiet enough for
it to make it this far. So goodbye to a
thousand times resist hecky grace.
Speaker 1: And we cut Persona three before.
Speaker 4: Three before, so I'm just counting that came of the year.
Speaker 12: Yeah you want to, I'm joking, you want to get
on the pedestal that these two event on.
Speaker 5: We cut our zet again.
Speaker 2: Like ten times for a.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, You're s is actually really good.
Speaker 13: It's just insane that he thought he'd get it. This
one got pretty far.
Speaker 5: You taking good work, Thank you, Nikki.
Speaker 21: Oh yeah, yeah, good mouthful. Watch look at how red
it is inside.
Speaker 13: Why you do just take me instead?
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: All right, Sean, take PERSONA three and take it up back.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, put my foot down.
Speaker 4: Uh, game of the Year.
Speaker 2: I have not finished metaphor. I wassperately racing to try
to before this discussion. I was trying on the airplane.
I was trying, like the past couple of nights didn't happen.
So I don't know how metaphor if it does stick
the landing at the end. So it is my number two.
Persona three Reload is my gamely year right now, because y'all,
I've had a year.
Speaker 4: I uh.
Speaker 2: I have not talked about this publicly, but just stuff
that I don't want to talk about still I'm not
going to All I'll say is, in a year where
I've gone through a lot of ship, I need to
see some friends again. And Persona three Reload was revisiting
friends in a better way than they've ever been. They
fleshed out these characters and the journey that they take
all the way to the end, and everything we talked about.
A little spoilery, every thing we talked about. At the
end of that game. I was crying the whole night.
And I need to see that game on the top
ten because I love it so so much, and we'll
do what I have to get on that top ten.
Speaker 1: Jeff, yep, sounds good.
Speaker 4: Let's cut Call of Duty.
Speaker 13: Then I'm not going to be good, all right?
Speaker 2: Sure, I think that.
Speaker 5: I think it makes sense to get rid of Call
of Duty.
Speaker 4: Let's before to show the three over there and then
mu's just figure it out.
Speaker 5: Let's figure out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of Wealth into the.
Speaker 8: Call of Duty.
Speaker 2: I like what.
Speaker 8: I don't know why infinitely so called that you will
put our that back?
Speaker 3: Okay, Mike, if we convince them to cut two more games,
you get our is it?
Speaker 2: I get a thousand times?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 4: Jones is racist.
Speaker 1: That's fun almost working for a while.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I feel like Black Ops six and Infinite
Wealth are kind of on the same level.
Speaker 1: Yes, I really like both those games a lot. Yeah,
one we like where is a little bit of Wealth
with the pacing and kind of the length and everything
and somethings dragging.
Speaker 4: I did fall off.
Speaker 1: After like forty hours of that game, and I was
loving it, and then Call of Duty. I've only gotten
more into him. Yeah, yeah, you can cut infit. Well,
I think I might like it better than anybody. But
there's like we got five.
Speaker 4: We did it all right, and that's the order.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be close to it, damn.
Speaker 4: Okay, So let's read the Tiny Spoon.
Speaker 2: This is not ordered, but this is just how it.
Speaker 4: Is might be ordered.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4: On the tiny Spoon.
Speaker 12: On their way into the mouth, we have blatro Astrobot
metaphour Reefantasio Indiana, Jones in the Great Circle, Prince of Persia,
The Lost Crown, Silent Hill two, Thank goodness you're here,
Call of Duty, Black Ops six, Elvin Ring, Shadow of
the Urd Tree and Persona three.
Speaker 4: And that's how you eat.
Speaker 1: You take a big spoon, You put in a little
spoon the.
Speaker 4: Mouth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you go from the left end.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh you see that right below that it says spider heck.
Speaker 4: So we technically have a ten.
Speaker 2: Do we want to take a quick bricky all right?
Books stay two owned.
Speaker 3: We're going to crown and order the top ten right
after this, and we are back with the top ten.
Now we've whittled everything down to the tiniest, most precious
of spoons. It's encrusted with diamonds and pearls and a
little bit of rust because we've left it in the sink.
Don't leave your spoons in the sink, gosh darn it.
And then we're going to take all these ten games
and we're going to make an order of them, and
number one will be our game of the year for
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: May I propose we take the top.
Speaker 3: Three here and just immediately push them over and we'll
later a second control.
Speaker 5: You're in the mouth, kind of like sitting on the tongue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see, it's like when you get a crumb
on your mustache.
Speaker 1: How about the top four?
Speaker 4: We leave Indiana jud at number four? No, I mean
print some yea, okay, just a tough three then okay.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the bottom.
Speaker 4: That's yeah.
Speaker 21: Yeah.
Speaker 6: We'll put the three over to deal with them later,
and then we work from our way up from the bottom.
Speaker 4: Now one all right, okay, okay, okay, from the tin.
Speaker 2: Now it's ranked, so oh yeah, so mouth is supposed
being just the number one.
Speaker 4: We're no, no, no, the top those three we're gonna work.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're trying to figure this out.
Speaker 4: Do we want to order them in the mouth?
Speaker 6: No, not those top three, not yet. We're going to
deal with those in a second. But move them over
the mouth that those are not?
Speaker 2: Why don't we just rank?
Speaker 8: You make it.
Speaker 1: The mouth and the tiny number one.
Speaker 2: It's a joke, Mike, it's a metaphor.
Speaker 13: Only number one is ranked.
Speaker 4: So we never said that. Oh yeah, okay, we were
scheming while you all were gone.
Speaker 6: Yeah we were, Yeah, there was to be number one. Okay,
we're just going to order the list. Okay, let's start
with number ten, Shadow of the Tree.
Speaker 11: I was going to say, shadowed the Yeah, I know it.
Speaker 9: I'm really glad it made it because it deserves that,
Like you know that earlier conversation. I don't necessarily oh,
it's not getting his account, but there's.
Speaker 4: A little bit of meal.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's more on a ring and.
Speaker 9: That's great, and they did an incredible job with it,
and it deserves so much recognition for that. But I
only want to get it so many more flowers on
a ring has so many flowers, it's basically a garden.
Speaker 8: There is an arguments put it at ten?
Speaker 4: Why is there funny? Now, well that's where the games
have to go.
Speaker 8: Okay, there's an argue to put it at ten, right, yeah, yeah,
why why why is it at ten?
Speaker 4: For what he just said?
Speaker 5: He just said, I it's got fall and I don't
want to give it any more.
Speaker 11: Credit because in the context with this ten, yeah, like this.
Speaker 8: Ten Shadow of the Trees not better than put on
a three to reload, which means a lot to him,
but is a remake of the game.
Speaker 2: I'm so here's the thing.
Speaker 8: Why you two, there's a bunch of games on here
that you could make a case for like S two
is amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm agreeing with so YouTube were yelling about this ship.
Speaker 2: If we are redefining what the top time means that,
I'm sorry, my argument holds zero zero.
Speaker 13: I was agreement with you.
Speaker 4: What are you talking about it? Of?
Speaker 2: Like I only want to give it so many flowers.
If we're going to three like a game, we are
saying gain experience, you need to pick a lane. Dude,
there is no no, we don't. There is no defined
anything here. We're feeling this out. It's our list.
Speaker 1: I'm still hey, wait real quick, Oh this is made up.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 8: At the moment I leave this room, I don't give
a show by any of the I don't get care
of this list.
Speaker 4: Or you don't care about this list.
Speaker 6: But it's also we're just making it up and and
so we don't need to pick a lane, define anything.
Speaker 9: Okay, the more important play What I said is I
do think it is ultimately more out and you know
there you Yeah, let's say that.
Speaker 8: You can say this PERSONA three is more PERSONA three
from PERSONA three days.
Speaker 4: I agree with.
Speaker 8: Two from Sunny Hill too. There's two remakes at least
here that okay.
Speaker 5: You could make it a.
Speaker 4: Three learning is fifty hours of brand new content. I'm
agreeing with Tam on this.
Speaker 3: Like even I will say, like trying to get into
the top ten and there we go. That's not what
we're doing here is we are ranking the equality regardless
of anything else.
Speaker 2: So if shallow their tree is number.
Speaker 3: There's nothing about quality regardless.
Speaker 4: And if you like Ray good quality be regardless of
anything else.
Speaker 6: No, it's like all these little things do matter, but
they matter as much as they matter in quality in
the grand scot.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not I'm not trying to give a
review score here. I'm saying we are deciding what we
like the most.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to say, if shadowy ur tree, if
what we're doing here is like you know, it's it's
eligible as much as anything else, there can just be
zero qualifiers yelling to discuss.
Speaker 2: And I think I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Three game as if it started at the beginning of
our tree and its last boss. It is like, forget
about where it sits and what executables.
Speaker 4: I think it's just like here is.
Speaker 10: That all.
Speaker 5: I make you can make the observation that it is
more elder ring.
Speaker 8: But you can't use that as a disqualifier unless it
is unless it is a negative. Are you saying that
as a negative?
Speaker 7: Just like.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you always in a sense that ownering was already
a lot, and it was maybe most of that I needed.
And I don't really mean that even as I say it,
I'm glad we got more of it. But even here
towards the end, you can kind of see it taper
off a bit. There were some biggish areas towards there,
especially where those like hur Old Furled Hands were.
Speaker 4: They were very empty areas.
Speaker 8: There wasn't much stylistic decision. That's the point of that area,
most beautiful, stunning, there's nothing like what you're saying is
like we've had you know this kind of thing, Sami?
Speaker 4: Do we want shadow the tree even higher than nine?
Is that what we're saying. I loved it. Yeah, I
loved it too, But okay, but I would I grew.
Speaker 1: With tam On like Silent Hill too, is like a
really good remake. I would put or Tree above Silent Do.
Speaker 8: We play about Silent Hill. I'll put it off. Cold
of duty that is scraped on by and it is
again more cool of very good more.
Speaker 4: Here's here's what I'll suggest, then we move Call of
Duty to ten.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's fine. Yes, I look at Dan Scrimmace. I
hate to see.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm surprised to hear that, because it
seemed like numerous people were like surprised at highlight.
Speaker 4: Call of Duty. I'm enjoying a lot. If it disappeared tomorrow,
I wouldn't think about it all that much.
Speaker 2: On that level. It is five for me.
Speaker 3: But it's like, again, you're talking about my baby here,
which is that number one?
Speaker 8: So I yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just like I am someone who like very much
does not play online multiplayer games at all. So I
feel like it's it's always like surprising to me when
something is exceptional enough for me to really want to
dive in andity that, Okay, I'm just going to play
this for hours and the last time I hate putting
a headset on and playing games online. And I've done
with you a bunch.
Speaker 8: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Oh, I guess it was the last Call of.
Speaker 1: Duty, but we do when we're streaming, you know, No,
I mean the last time you nineteen one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a ton of it together.
Speaker 4: We've had a good amount of that before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then before that, it was many many years
before the other one, and so it's it's rare, and
I think that this one is just so between, Like
I don't know, I think I even like the maps
more than a lot of people do, because some people were,
you know, criticizing that.
Speaker 12: And can you talk a little bit about the campaign
at about the multiplayer on them?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So the campaign I really loved both, Like
the variety is the best I've ever seen in a
Call of Duty because all of them, even though the
individual games would have their things like okay, Advanced Warfare
is the mech suit and Infinite Warfare is the space one.
I feel like Mission and Mission a lot of it
had those games had the same tone throughout, especially the
like Modern Warfare ones and certainly World War Two. Yes,
this is one where it's like I felt like I
was going through like several Mission Impossible movies throughout this,
you know, where it's just like huge, crazy set piece
stuff and it's not just the obvious military stuff. You know,
it starts with the standard like I think you're in kuwait,
you know, it's a Gulf war, it's like, okay, yeah,
this feels like your standard call of duty mission. But
then there's one where you went through casinos and the
ones where you're going through was in France with the
like that's there's early nineties where you get picked up
in a van and nine inch Nails is playing.
Speaker 2: Like really, we mentioned the stuff is very activated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's this huge writing and then it even
try stuff with the format they usually don't see, where
there's a couple open areas. One of them is like
standard desert going around to outpost, you know, kind of
fire cry style, but like open world call of duty,
even if it's a pretty contained area. The other one
is this very stealth focused thing where you're just on
the ground. It's like this snowy military installation like Russia
or something. You're sneaking around getting pass codes and using
like social stealth stuff and like talking to guards and
having to like examine the photos and stuff in the
background of his office to be like oh, yeah, yeah,
you and the kids. Yeah, I get like the things
that you don't.
Speaker 4: Expect from a call of duty at all.
Speaker 1: And every time it was doing that stuff, I was like, wow,
this is so cool to see them really shake it
up and make it feel like a fun spy caper.
Then it is just like, hey, I'm going to Afghanistan
and killing a bunch of soult.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's probably my favorite Call of Duty campaign ever.
Speaker 8: I think, yeah, okay, I spy that, And you can
correct me if I'm mischaracterizing how it happened. It did
just kind of scrape in, didn't it this title?
Speaker 4: No, I think it was higher. Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 2: I think there was.
Speaker 4: Goodness you're here at ten?
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's Yeah, that's what I was going to say,
Thank goodness you're here.
Speaker 1: Whoa that's all three games.
Speaker 11: That Jeff has played.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like the Game of the year list is six games.
Speaker 5: Man, Okay, No, I actually found found, I foundain.
Speaker 2: You found ten?
Speaker 8: What is it?
Speaker 5: I played twelve games?
Speaker 3: So based off of the discussions we've had so far,
I think perhaps we put thank Goodness you're here at ten.
That's fine, Persona at nine, call of Duty at eight.
Speaker 4: Alan during seven, and Ring seven.
Speaker 2: I would like to discuss this a little more as
someone who has both Call of Duty and Persona in
my top five of the year. Persona is such a
higher number one than like you know where Call of
Duty is on top five.
Speaker 1: Somewhere by three. I mean, the thing is, it is
tough to argue that, like I mean the way you
talked about that, and it obviously.
Speaker 4: Was a very important thing for this year.
Speaker 1: I don't want to sit here and tell you that
because I thought the like sniping was good or something
that that overrides your feelings, like you know.
Speaker 2: It's still your feelings.
Speaker 1: Boy, Yeah, I'm not like, but I enjoyed it in
a way that I know a really good video game.
Speaker 2: Me. It's here, here, here, here's what we'll do. Silent
Hill eight?
Speaker 1: No, okay, where's call of Duty?
Speaker 2: Go?
Speaker 12: I think Call of Duty would have been gone just wait,
hold on, is Silent Hill at eight? Move eleanering up
to six? Called Duty at seven?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Son and Hill was amazing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's brilliant, But like I feel it is Son
and Hill done again?
Speaker 5: Well yeah, but I don't remember the first.
Speaker 1: It's what you can just do.
Speaker 6: It's literally twenty years ago.
Speaker 4: Man, you remember what you did twenty years ago? I
sure shouldn't.
Speaker 13: Games I played twenty years ago, I argued.
Speaker 1: For you played it since then?
Speaker 2: Mike.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, so one year I'm talking twenty.
Speaker 9: I think I was Redone exceptionally well, right. I think
that the level of performance and acting they brought.
Speaker 1: In so that you can it's very impressive. Right, Like
I played the originally, maybe it was just who I
was at that time.
Speaker 4: It hit me a little bit. It all hit me
way more.
Speaker 1: This time around.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 7: I think you could argue that it's like almost unrecognizable.
I just think like when I've seen that game, like
try to go back to GET or you're just like
with the PC emulated version with like the hack together graphics.
Speaker 5: And you're like, I guess like budget as my way
through this and I bounced off and I'm like, no,
I'm not. And I remember this getting announced like maybe
did You're right?
Speaker 8: Did it play okay for you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Great for me.
Speaker 8: I was one of those people who got the annoying
hitching thing. Why I'm not, Yeah, hitches like every five seconds?
Speaker 5: Don't we all have the same computer?
Speaker 8: I know, that's the way.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we're not by anything anymore.
Speaker 5: Anymore.
Speaker 8: And it has that on console as well, I believe
a couple of them. Yeah, it's just like it would
every five seconds, it would like hitch for like, and
it was like stop playing because I was like, driver,
can I.
Speaker 4: Make a proposal?
Speaker 2: Already?
Speaker 4: Put it in the computer? Okay, all right?
Speaker 3: So currently the proposed order would be six, Call of Duty, seven,
Silent Hill two, Persona three at eight, Elden Ring at nine,
Thank goodness you're here at ten.
Speaker 4: Swap swapped ring, and call of Duty.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, that's when I.
Speaker 2: Think for call of Duty.
Speaker 13: God damn, I love as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: That's you do you trust me?
Speaker 3: It's a bad Persona is better at being was trying
to be than Call of Duty?
Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
Speaker 2: Trying to be?
Speaker 1: That something like comparing like apples and snickers.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, I want you know.
Speaker 8: That it is.
Speaker 2: It is not my list, it is our less. So
I am trying to compromise here. I do think that
Persona is a better game than Black Op Sex. I
don't know how far that takes.
Speaker 6: It with you, guys, I know, I honestly I think
this looks right. I think call of Duty at nine.
I mean normally, normally the one game that like, it's
the Person's Patch project. Getting higher than nine is pretty tough.
But you're gonna eight and called duty totally.
Speaker 9: I mean out of yeah, out of Persona three or Tree,
so t is one I like the least. Yeah, And
I'll say, like the campaign understand reasons hit for you,
it just didn't hit for me.
Speaker 5: I felt yeah, I mean I played for the campaign.
Speaker 8: It is definitely doing interesting things with what you're doing
as a Call of Duty game, but it feels like
different shadow puppets trying to chill.
Speaker 4: Never I'm not one.
Speaker 5: It's the same thing as if I'm not.
Speaker 6: It's like we got to hold back the whole game
because the campaign, like I played, called for the multi
show for sure.
Speaker 1: But let me I think I'm okay with this. I
just I do want to know because you know, we've
talked a lot about remakes to sign you know, legacy
and everything, not knowing Persona, but well, what is the
level like if you have to compare it to another
reass like.
Speaker 4: This is uh, sex is terrible? Yeah? Is this a
S report?
Speaker 2: Is this.
Speaker 4: It's like a step down from Mari four?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say it's not just below are even
close to that?
Speaker 1: It's really.
Speaker 4: It's not.
Speaker 2: It's not residable too, where it's like, oh, this is
the game completely reimaginedn't evel four is like the best
version of four.
Speaker 4: This is like a little below that word graphically, graphic
stuff music.
Speaker 1: This is an extensive remakes.
Speaker 2: It's extensive remate.
Speaker 4: It's just extremely disagreeable.
Speaker 9: I agree with the placement of like Princeton and three
being above culture may say two steps below like and
how much of a remaker RESI before it?
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, like gradient, it is like, Yeah, I think
thank goodness your hair is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do think we kind of throw that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say it's controversial. I put thank Goodness
your hair above quality black op six, Personing.
Speaker 4: Three, load, reload and hotel.
Speaker 1: I would you know what, I would back you on that.
I would one.
Speaker 8: I feel like originally he pushes it way high.
Speaker 11: It's also very confident. It doesn't overstate. It's welcome, genuinely funny, transcends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, again, you know what, I am fine with that
because I do think that thank Goodness you're here deserves
to be.
Speaker 4: It all worked out in the hand.
Speaker 8: It's an unbelievable encapsulation over culture.
Speaker 1: Let's bring over.
Speaker 3: No, let's not read the list, because I think we
can take what is currently sitting at four and five
and move it over to the left so it is
cemented at four and five.
Speaker 4: We have a conversation.
Speaker 6: I'm surprised by that we can have a conversation what
order they going because I think these guys are disagreeing
with that, and I'm willing to hear this.
Speaker 5: Because I don't know what they are.
Speaker 4: That's over there now, that's what we're talking about. Yeah,
so what is currently.
Speaker 3: Sitting at four and five on the tiny spoon that
I'm suggesting to move into the mouth? Indiana Jones in
the Great Circle and Prince Apperge of the Lost Crown.
Speaker 1: Can I I'm surprisitions, Yes, maybe those positions.
Speaker 7: Maybe I'm surprised, like I'm surprised that this group has principle,
would be a okay with principle.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm also that high I get tender for one.
Prince Persia is in the top three.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 11: The one thing that we.
Speaker 10: Talk the one thing that we have not said about
Prince of Persia that I think we're all glossing over,
is the fact that the story is absolutely shite.
Speaker 1: It is it is true, there's nothing going on there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think some of the characters, but
I don't care.
Speaker 10: This is.
Speaker 5: This doesn't excuse it.
Speaker 8: But like, I can't think of very many metro video
games that's true, have a story that many means true
anything to me, even something like Hollow Night, I'm not.
Speaker 10: Yes, fine, well, I think Indiana Jones sticks all of
that stuff.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, this is this is where is? Yes, Yeah,
I do feel like this is one. Like staring at this,
I could see an argument for either one two. They're
both so good at what they do. Yeah, but Lucy's
totally right. The story is absolutely forgettable. It's just it's
does every other Metro Advedea I think incredibly well the
Escape patch there is. I never felt like the story
was getting in the whale.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't consider it and no, Yeah, for a
moment did I think think I'm missing something here?
Speaker 10: Yeah, although I mean that's true, but I mean you
are if you're comparing it against India Jones, where I
think there isn't a week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm looking for like I think any of
Jones stuff have a weak element.
Speaker 6: I think I think that those opening areas are too
big and there's too much The things that you're doing
are too routine.
Speaker 4: They are and none needs to find a book.
Speaker 5: Some need to find a book.
Speaker 10: And there's a lot of stuff like they were the
ramblings of a mad priest from the fourteen.
Speaker 6: It's funny if like the first couple of times and
then the tenth eleventh time, it's like it is very saemy.
Now you get out of those areas eventually, and you
could do less of that stuff if you want to.
Speaker 9: So some of it's in your control. Uh, but it
is weak in terms of pacing. Early on, we sack,
what do you forget about?
Speaker 1: You just get behind me?
Speaker 22: Yeah, he's still in line of the bank played Indiana Jones.
I haven't finished a good chunk to know what's going on?
Speaker 5: What's your what's your fault?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 7: I didn't you know I was gonna talk about like
the stuff that's like trivial, like getting the book for
the nun I thought that, but I felt like it
was impressive how it it made me feel like, oh,
this is the thing that is very crucial to Like
that's storyline there, like as much as like Antonio's model
and all that.
Speaker 6: Too, Like it's do a good job of couching that
stuff was just going back and forth the way.
Speaker 4: You may doing nothing totally the way.
Speaker 11: And you know it's back and forth in a metrove.
Speaker 8: That's fun when you're jumping in for indies.
Speaker 5: You know, it really worked out for him that that
place had a lot of scaffolding. The other instruction going.
Speaker 3: Here's some maneuvering. I think it may be presumptuous to
assume that Blotro.
Speaker 2: Was in the top three.
Speaker 1: Maybe I will offer I think it's let me dissess
this metaphor A five.
Speaker 4: Nope, no effort.
Speaker 1: Someone who I will not play that.
Speaker 5: I will suggest.
Speaker 1: Someone who cannot play that I was told to not
play that.
Speaker 8: I will suggest, I'm goodness, you're had one.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Stranger of Paradise.
Speaker 4: Let's Astro bought it too? I agree? Chaos, Okay, question joke.
Speaker 2: Do we think that the three we've been talking about
are just top three? And that is like jokes aside.
Speaker 1: Seeing anything else moving?
Speaker 4: I can see metaphor moving, but yeah, obviously.
Speaker 7: Straight up, I thought we were going to land at
current of Persia at like a two or three.
Speaker 4: That's what I was hoping.
Speaker 2: Pretty interesting metaphors, Yes, that's why I was good at Forest.
Speaker 4: How much is Persia to be at like three.
Speaker 2: Let me finish what I was trying to be forest.
I was wondering if Prince of Persia is like another
one of these three guys things, or if it's all
of us the more we talked about and so just
making sure, let me do it.
Speaker 1: Test here, real quick show of hands, and we'll say
for the audio listener, who here would put Prince of
Persia above metaphor.
Speaker 4: That is five? He took it back.
Speaker 1: He took it back. Okay back, you're the deciding, here's voting.
Here's why I say I wouldn't.
Speaker 9: I think that almost everyone seems to like Prince the
person here, and there are some people here who do
not care about metaphor. Yeah, and look the other seems
like the other. I'm going to be number one. Like right,
it's if metaphors five, if it's three.
Speaker 8: At certain points, like we all have our ideas of
where we think it should be, we have to also
fill that through what way it should be For giant bomb? Yeah,
figure out and like for me, metaphor should be high up.
But what Mikey is saying is for giant bomb, maybe
Prince of Preasure should be high so so.
Speaker 12: Like and in a way where like the my involvement
with the website at the beginning of this year was
different relative to my involvement with the website prior to
me obviously being here. But like, so, we were so
fucking high on that video game. Yes, we came out
at the beginning of this year.
Speaker 9: I love it pure Yeah, eleven months ago, and sometimes
it's hard to remember.
Speaker 5: Just exactly twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like we all like this Prince of
per If someone said Game of the I would yeah,
so high on it and we were all surprised.
Speaker 4: Should we make it our game of the year?
Speaker 8: Said I listen, I did this last year, Like I
put my my elder ring aside, Like I think another
game is better, deserves it. This is where I started
being like, I think it deserves it, and I think
it deserves it partly because each one of the games
underneath it have so much recognition in all of our
other awards.
Speaker 5: And it's not just that, and it's not just that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: At the same time, it is an incredible game that
is only diminished by circumstances. It has no control release date,
you know, other things, and you play, is right, Lucy's right.
The story sucks, but it's a metro venu even that
it's it's that not even that it's a metro venue,
it's that everything else is so good that it elevates
it beyond. It's not even a thought that you have
while you're playing the game.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, can I.
Speaker 1: Can I say some think please.
Speaker 3: Prince of Persia, Astro, Indye Blatro metaphor whoa Okay, times
I'm not.
Speaker 13: Think Okay, you start with five metaphor Indy, Yes, I.
Speaker 4: Think that's yes, there's always been four to me.
Speaker 8: I love metaphor, but it is like a many Atlas games.
The onboarding takes a while.
Speaker 11: It's also a very good evolution of everything that doesn't
fix there. It's nothing about it that is like damn.
That is like a new awesome.
Speaker 4: It's very good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, give its fires a little bit like before we
put it on that number five. I think it does
a lot of things better than almost any Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but it couldn't do those without doing the other stuff.
Speaker 6: I'm okay with, Like if you people are fighting for
it metaphor at for Indy at five, okay.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that's what's happening.
Speaker 3: Given like how everyone has been talking and like we've
kind of been skirting around metaphor.
Speaker 1: There's been a skirt.
Speaker 3: Uh, there's been more fervor with Indie, even though that
came out so recently.
Speaker 11: And that's not even punching in the dick.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Nazis in the dick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nazis.
Speaker 1: And that's I don't.
Speaker 11: Forget the Italians.
Speaker 4: Keeping in mind that this is Giant bombs list.
Speaker 5: Sure we hate fascists, right, And with that said, I
do think we've got one to three?
Speaker 4: Correct, is Indiana Jones? YEA three is Bulatro.
Speaker 11: Yes, that feels good.
Speaker 8: That feels good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we can do. I think that sounds
I was so worried I was gonna have to like.
Speaker 1: There was a very good choice.
Speaker 4: What's happening? Yeah, okay, okay, So three proposed proposed three
is Bulatra.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that.
Speaker 4: Proposed number two is Astrobot Go Ahead, would be the one.
Speaker 7: I don't remember a game as popular as astro even
I played two months ago, let alone twenty years. I
remember a game ever that came along, and I know
Astrobot has gotten its flowers time and time again.
Speaker 5: It won a killes.
Speaker 7: It's ever, right, I don't think I've seen a game
impact this group. Well, Nicky's in the way that Astrobot
did you like almost you, I would say, like almost universally.
Speaker 8: Across the board here, I agree, and I think, yeah,
I don't want to diminish it four as a lot
of that comes from us, from activating nostalgia, and.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see I think that's a.
Speaker 4: Thing.
Speaker 5: I think, No, for me, it's a big part.
Speaker 8: Of it, right, Like the platforming stuff is fun, but
it is good platforming, like good and other people have
also done really good Platforming's.
Speaker 1: Mario on this level, I would say, yeah.
Speaker 8: It's it's it's the first game that feels like it's
Nintendo quality that isn't. But the stuff that I don't
want to lose sight of the fact that there's some
part of it that is like activating on nostalgia, which
nostalgia being nostalgia pushes it so much higher just automatically
just by being there. Like for me, it's like I
see the Bloodborne Hunter, It's it's just there and I'm like,
this is fucking amazing. And then I go back to
a level which is okay, sometimes cool fun that kind
of stuff, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like, I think there's a million great ideas in astrobat
I think it is except Monkey Hands.
Speaker 1: Except for Monkey Hands.
Speaker 6: I think the thing with Astrobot is it's so surprising
because it is the one platformer that is on the
level of Mario.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, but that got me.
Speaker 6: But I don't think I ever was sitting there being
like any that makes it so much better than everything else.
It is just like, oh, I'm so glad this exists
and that Sony can do this now. I felt very
similar to Prince of Persia of the Lost Crown this
entire year.
Speaker 1: And let me yeah, no, no, go ahead, I was
gonna say that astrobot Is probably haven't cemented it yet,
but Astrobaut is probably my number one game of the year.
Speaker 4: You've heard me talk about it. I think one of
the best platformers of all time. Means a time to me.
Speaker 1: You love that genre so much, and I don't say
it's as good as Mario lately, but just taking the
read of this room and the enthusiasm levels and everything,
I kind of feel like there's maybe more for Prince
of Persia. I feel like, really good about Principia.
Speaker 13: But yeah, because I never thought I had a chance
I would have.
Speaker 9: I've always considered that so happy if it did, but
I just didn't think it could happen because I don't know. Again,
I don't know if many game comes better, and like,
I love Astrobot and it might.
Speaker 4: Be my number one. And I felt that really when
I saw it win at the Game Awards and.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know what my number one is,
and I realized how happy.
Speaker 9: I was to see it when they're like, oh, it
probably is this. That game makes me just so happy.
But no game makes me feel more alive, maybe.
Speaker 1: Than I agree.
Speaker 8: No game feels like it has the spirit of Giant
Bomb in the way that Giant bomb Is has always
been like we're owned, this is gonna, this is like
getting we're owned by a corporation, whatever it may be,
But like this is this is a website that started
as an underdog story, right is. It's this little game,
not even little game. It's this game that was up
against all odds like Giant bomb is, and everyone here
gets behind that story. We're all here because we eat
that connected with us in so many ways, and it's
what it's the energy we put out there into the
world as well. In everything we do, like we are
trying to put that kind of like we are underdogs.
We're doing our best hair, We're not trying to play
by all the same rules. We have our our way
of doing things, and we're going to stick to our
way of doing things, because once we start doing things
that aren't entirely us, we're not giant bomb anymore. And
for me, I look at that game Prince of Persia,
I'm like, if we put that at number one and
then put out there Prince of Persia Lost Crown is.
Speaker 5: Game of the year, I that in my mind is
like the fucking most giant bomb.
Speaker 9: Move Ever, I agree, it's somebody has to give this game.
Speaker 2: The credit deserves.
Speaker 4: It's moving the team onto other things already.
Speaker 1: They're not going to make a sequel, even though that
would have been amazing.
Speaker 8: And before we like make any decisions, I think we
should spend some time, a little bit of time just
talking about that game a bit, give it its moment,
not so we just don't say like it's game of
the end to move on, like I think it is
such a it feels so good in that game, and
like I talked about the combos as well. With that
kind of stuff. I love hitting buttons and oh my god,
there's no game this year that makes hitting buttons feel better.
And there's been fighting games out this year, and that
game is unfucking believed.
Speaker 4: There's a little challenge rounds, like.
Speaker 1: When they make you play Celeste in the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, despite being two D, it's the Devil may Cry.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, it's it's And then like maybe it doesn't
hit for some people, but the style of the game,
like that, it was bold. They got shipped for it,
and they went they took Prince of Persia in such
a different direction that I mean, they made it striking.
They gave Prince of Persia a personality that it hasn't
had in many, many many years, even when they tried
to do it by making it cell shaded, Like, this
is a cool Prince of Persia game. Again, it hasn't
been one of those in sounds of time.
Speaker 9: This is an important point to me, Like this game
is optimized to hell right, This game runs fantastic on
switch and a where nothing runs well on switch.
Speaker 1: It had the thing where you know, everyone's favorite thing
and every Metroadvenea is like, oh you get the double
jump and oh ship everything. I tried that like seven
different times.
Speaker 6: Oh ship, I can do the emotional when I got
to double jump, that was gonna be my one of
the best moments or sequence.
Speaker 1: I almost cried when I got the double.
Speaker 4: Jump because it was so good.
Speaker 6: You like put it much later in the game than
you thought it would be, and so you get all
this awesome cool stuff, get to mess around with it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, am I even gonna get a double jump?
Speaker 4: And get it?
Speaker 1: It's like, holy shit, this is what you do? And
a grapple whatcall?
Speaker 8: And the amount of times I've gone into like a
really big tricky platforming thing, I've put one of my
recall posts don and then like gone upwards it and
they reached like a middle point where I'm keep falling
and stuff like that, and I'm like, fun, how am
I gonna get this? And I get higher and take
a jump and fuck it up and I'm falling and
I'm like, oh, I'm so pissed off.
Speaker 5: And then on the phone, I'm like, I have to
recall it.
Speaker 9: Is like checkpoint exactly the boomerang chakrum type, so good fucking.
Speaker 11: Taking pictures on the map is Metridia.
Speaker 13: You know what we haven't really done in the last.
Speaker 1: Few hours is actually talk about Bilocho.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think because like it has dominated so much.
Speaker 4: It came out fourteen times this year.
Speaker 6: So every time, every time is going to be the game.
I think in ten years, I'm still playing the most.
There's definitely something to be said for that.
Speaker 8: It's like it's it's become I think it's come out
and whether it gets on or not, but in my mind,
it's like it's become Peggle like it always. It's going
to be like anything that gets released, it's going to
be the future's mind sweeper, like it's going to be
everywhere and true, it's gonna be it's going to be
as enjoyable years from now as it is today because
it forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's part of the.
Speaker 8: It's in the dna O video games in a.
Speaker 9: Similar way, just like how my favorite Metroit Van is
like Super Metroid Siphony Night. I'll go back to those
every five you know, so years I will be playing
Prince of Persia.
Speaker 1: Iime, I'm talking about this. I'm it's all coming back.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to play this again.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's more of that game, and it's.
Speaker 12: Right too, and then a thousand times resist, gag.
Speaker 5: I think we have a ten.
Speaker 2: I like this.
Speaker 3: Agree, yes, all right, so pull up the doc I
have listened names, and then we'll all read them together,
all right, Yes, your name is next to the game.
Yes here you know, all right, Dan, if you could
do with stee owners by starting.
Speaker 2: Number two in Call of Duty, Black Ops six, number nine,
Persona three, Reload number eight.
Speaker 11: Silent Hill two, number seven, Thank goodness you're here.
Speaker 23: Number six, elden Ring, Shadow of the Tree, number five,
Metaphor Refuntasio number four, Indiana Jones in the Great Circle
number three, Bloctro number two, Astrobot one.
Speaker 18: Number one, Brace Persia. You have now found your crown.
Speaker 4: You might not get to make.
Speaker 5: You made them for fucking amazing.
Speaker 13: Bombs.
Speaker 2: This is the game of the year.
Speaker 5: I handed Dan a piece of paper five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: He says, Prince of Persia is number one. Okay, it
says number three, Balatro number two, Prince of Persia. As
we were another game, we.
Speaker 13: Were guessing back of ours. Game of the year.
Speaker 1: We find out we can't find out. Now we can
find out right now, just say your game of the year.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 4: I don't really.
Speaker 1: Big one now it's extra.
Speaker 3: I said that too.
Speaker 4: Yes, Number two, it's probably I got my phone.
Speaker 1: Number two is selling close.
Speaker 8: I went down Jones because I thought you'd like to
white colonize.
Speaker 1: Told Jones, you said, after I said call of duty,
I thought it was gonna be bioho.
Speaker 8: I was like.
Speaker 5: The same thing.
Speaker 13: All right, all right, folks, what a season?
Speaker 4: What a season.
Speaker 13: I wouldn't want to argue games with any other.
Speaker 2: Group than all y'all.
Speaker 13: I love all of you to death. Oh sorry, thank
you everyone.
Speaker 3: For hanging out with us, for all this stuff for
GB at night, during the Game awards, the countdown to
the game awards.
Speaker 2: I hope you've enjoyed everything.
Speaker 3: I hope you've enjoyed a Game of the Year days one, two, three,
and now four for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: That is giant bomb.
Speaker 13: We will see you in twenty twenty five. Bye bye, guys,
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