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Speaker 1: I'm your host Jeff Grubbin with me is Mike.
Speaker 2: In today's episode is Half Life three real?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just did this for the clicks. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Eminem wants you to kill slim Shady and uh yeah,
we're gonna do the.
Speaker 1: Game of your predictions. That's what we're doing today. Cool, Mike,
how you doing. I'm good. I accidentally called the cops
to the Borrows at just now what I uh? I what?
My friend No. I was at the bar and my
friends we were getting they we got some drinks. We're eating
and like my phone, my watch actually was my watch
was like I it's like I could see it was
kind of working, but only like the very bottom was on.
So I was trying to restart my phone, so just
holding out buttons and sliding stuff and then like nothing worked.
But then like fifteen minutes later, the one bartender knew
me was like, so the cops showed up. You accidentally
dialed nine one one Apparently, you're okay, right, I'm like, yeah,
I'm fine, all right, they'll go home.
Speaker 2: Then, I guess, so do you think it was like,
you know, like when you can't get in your phone
and there's the emergency contact.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it was. I was holding out buttons
and I thought maybe I saw the slide to turn
off button. It was one of those slides to like
call emergency services because I'm dying buttons.
Speaker 2: So when it does that, like, did it like give
them your information because they knew it was you?
Speaker 1: Or was it your fuckus? It was your phone number?
It did because, like you know, the watch is tied
to the phone, so yeah, just called nine one one
and be like it's like, Mike manaughty's in danger and
here's where he is. So they came for me, did
they Did you have to talk to him at all?
Or did the bar in the handle with Oh no, no,
they took care. They liked me there. They're like they
laughed about it. I was like, do I need to
talk to them anything? Don't worry about it, precious, Mikey.
You just keep sipping on your Christmas beer.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you had an exciting night. Then that's
sounds like something fun. You gotta get the story out
of it.
Speaker 1: And then when I was driving home this is not
really related, but it happened tonight too, I was behind
a mini van and the license plate was Missus DP,
and I was like, I don't think photography. I don't.
If I do this person, I would tell them not
to get a license plate that does missus.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, we're also not here to shame anyone.
Maybe she's very proud of it. No, I don't think
she knows.
Speaker 1: He gets like initials, Yeah, I bets her initials or something,
or her nickname or something. She's like, ha ha, I
think exactly what it sounds like. I think she knows
exactly what she's doing. I don't think she knows about porn.
Speaker 2: Wow, she's gonna be surprised when she goes on the internet.
Then all right, hey, let's get started with this show.
Let's do some stuff. We have plenty to talk about.
Although Thanksgiving this next week?
Speaker 1: Is that right? It's crazy? Yeah, no episode next week.
Thanks Giving next week.
Speaker 2: Everyone, We're gonna take Thanksgiving off as we usually do,
So let's make it a good one this tonight or
or not I don't know, you know.
Speaker 1: Let's just play it. I mean, look, I came in
with a pretty hot story. I justly call nine one
one all right, I'll be downhill from there.
Speaker 2: But no, you did your part, so yeah we can.
We can get started with this. Thanks everybody for joining us.
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Speaker 1: Did you have something like, yeah, I got a Claire
because I say what some of the chat said. Oh,
maybe it's mister SDP like so on tuble with pods. No,
it was miss Mrs Space DP, like that's the I
guess I shouldn't be like, you know, but that was
the license plate.
Speaker 2: Maybe that applies that she is in holy matrimony with
the act of double penetration. Yeah, there's a mister DP
and she married him and she took his name and
we don't.
Speaker 1: Know who the third party.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, yeah, I'm like, oh yeah, there asks me
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Speaker 1: To everybody who supported us. It means the world. All right,
let's get on with it here.
Speaker 2: I don't know, people keep on talking about halfway three
remote shut the fuck up about it, but it hasn't
happened yet.
Speaker 1: Have you been keeping up on this at all? This
kind of got to the point where like my brother
was like, Mike, why is everybody talking about halfway three?
And I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 1: There's been rumors flooding around for a while now. I
think right now the current deadline is something supposed to
happen before December green of some people will see but like, boy,
what like what next Week's a weird week to announce
something in the US, So maybe the week after that then,
I don't know. I like Half Life a ton. I
hope something happened soon. It's one of those weird things
that are sure it sure doesn't feel like a halfway
three is about to be announced at any moment, but
I don't know what that would feel like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I still don't quite know what to expect here.
Of course, there's been a lot of like reporting on
something half Life related.
Speaker 1: I think there was a.
Speaker 2: Code name h l X half Life X for a
while now. It's been poking around in VR and non
VR stuff. You know, I got some let me just
read through some of the things here. I think Rebecca
Valentine over at ig and did a pretty good breakdown
of all of the signs and indicators and the tea leaves.
They've been people have been reading leaves of tea, Mike,
So let's go and read through some of these valves.
New hardware happened, but there was no game of company
with that.
Speaker 1: There were.
Speaker 2: Data mining clues suggest that Valve has been working on
a non VR Half Life game internally code named HLX,
and that has been since twenty twenty one. It may
not be the same project leaked by a voice actor
in twenty twenty four that was known as Project White Sands.
G Man's voice actor posted a cryptic tweet in early
twenty twenty five teasing unexpected surprises, sparking intense speculation. Industry
insiders and leaguers with solid Valve track records claimed Half
Life three is playable end to end and planned for
a twenty twenty five announcement. The Game Awards tweet commemorating
Half Life's twenty seventh anniversary on November nineteenth added fuel
even though it's a yearly tradition.
Speaker 1: Jeff Keeley's wish list tease.
Speaker 2: He posted an eyes emoji and asked about a mysterious
Steam wish list entry, which fans obsessively linked to Half
Life three. I think it's possible that Jeff Keey would
know about Half Life three he was involved in like
the release of the previous Half Life games by reporting
on like what it was like for the studio to
launch those games. Look, it's not a lot, it's not
a lot, but I get the sense that there's something
happening here why it didn't happen this week, and really
why people thought it would happen in this week in
the first place. I'm not if I really fully understand,
but I think we probably still will get something about
Half Life before the end of the year. Do you
think it's gonna be really what people want? Like full
on half Life three?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you do another kind of cute
little side project. I think the next thing is half
Liy three. Like, I don't know when it's getting announce
I don't if it's getting announced this month or this year.
I do fully believe they are working on a video
game called Half Life three, and I yeah, I kind
of believe that they are pretty far along in it.
It's like not maybe that far away, you know. Again,
Alex kind of leads into that directly. They don't have
any kind of any reason to make any kind of
awstoot things like it did, Alex, because you were making
the big VR game, so it made sense to not
make that game be Half Life three. But now, yeah,
the game you make is just Half Life three, and
I believe they've been making it, and I just I'm
so excited to see what that possibly looks like.
Speaker 2: I guess just the last thing here, and this is
more reiteration. It's just there are quite a few of
these Valve insiders who are saying something will happen before
the end of the year, at the very least, like
before the end of December. One of the bigger insiders
said that the date he was told, which he's not
been able to verify through a second source, but the
date he was told was twenty twenty sometime in twenty
twenty five. He says, he knows an exact date, but
he's not been told it yet or he hasn't said
it publicly, and he hasn't been able to confirm that
with the second source. But then he did say in
twenty twenty five, So hey, really, you got about five
weeks to figure this all out. Oh my god, there's
only five weeks left in this year.
Speaker 1: Right, And again, like three of those weeks are basically
holiday weeks. Yes, like you know, there's not that many
days when this can happen. Yep, exactly, so I I
imagine will know soon enough. All right, let's keep going here.
The Steam Machine price.
Speaker 2: There was a bunch of hubbub about this yesterday Linus
from the Linus Tech Tips did his podcast, The Wind Show,
and he he had previously talked about like, oh he
heard that we would have PC pricing. He wasn't the
only person that heard that. Jan and Dan basically got
told the same thing when they were there, and that
was the basis of the conversation we've been having about
price of this thing. I think one of the things
that maybe got added here was well, I just said, hey,
you know, it's this thing going to be priced like
a console. They asked, what is console pricing? He said
five hundred dollars, which is wrong, that's not console pricing anymore,
but that's.
Speaker 1: What he said. And he said.
Speaker 2: They didn't say anything in response to that, but the
energy in the room changed, and yeah, because that thing's
not going to be five hundred dollars right, No, no, no,
as like that's like the super low end of what
is possible, and maybe not even in the end, right, like,
h that's not Lincoln Park, that's not.
Speaker 1: That's not within the realm of possibility there. Six hundred
is maybe the lowest, and even that seems unlikely to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know, they have put out quite a bit,
quite a bit of hardware now and the steam Deck
was subsidized. I don't think they subsidized like the VR hardware. Ever,
if they did not move your hart.
Speaker 1: Was pretty expensive, like an index was like a thousand
dollars or something, right like it was.
Speaker 2: Like you know, depending on what model you got within
depending like what you got like with it, it was
between like seven fifty without the base stations because maybe
you had your own from a previous thing up to
like nine.
Speaker 1: To fifty to one thousand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So they've had a variety of price points for
a variety of products, and this is a PC, and
so them pricing it like a PC, it won't be surprising.
People do seem like they're kind of like, oh, if
it's you know, if it's not fine one hundred dollars,
this thing, I don't want it.
Speaker 1: It's dead on arrival. I don't really think that's going
to be the case. What do you think, No, I
think there's still I mean, this is still going to
be a bit of an enthusiast product, right, similar to
the Steam Deck, even though again, like you said, they
subsidized that and that was pretty cheap. I don't think
this thing is meant to be quite as by on
site as even that. I think the the eight hundred
dollars range is much more likely. Like you know, again,
give or take maybe two hundred from there, A thousand
is work. It's still a point, like I don't know,
that seems kind of like a lot. Now we're at
four digits, but six hundred dollars that's very optimistic. Five
hundred dollars incredibly optimistic. This is still a PC with
all the things that a PC can do, and I
know a steam Deck is basically that also, But there's
more going on here.
Speaker 2: There is, Yeah, there's more. And you know, I've said
it before and I still think it factors in. I
don't think it's the reason, but you know, they could
sell a bunch of these to enterprise, and a bunch
of companies could buy a thousand of them and never
buy a single game for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but what's not a car rental people need with
seam games?
Speaker 2: Yes, well, what's the other car rental place I could
have said is to complete that joke there, Yeah, Mike,
everyone needs computers, even people with cars. I think that
the real reason for this is hardware pricing and hard
component hardware components have been so volatile over the last
few years that they kind of can't come in on
the low end all that much. They certainly can't subsidize
because they don't know what this thing's gonna end up doing,
and if they have to raise the price later, that
would only hurt. So you come in with the safe price.
If you can lower the price later, great, that's always
something you could do very easily. So I would expect
them to come in on the high end out of.
Speaker 1: The gate, right you know, you know that there are
some kind of issues with the word of PC's RAM,
especially keeps getting more and more expensive. That makes being
competitive with your pricing difficult. Right now, Yep, we'll get
a price. This thing's supposed to come out early next year.
It feels like the kind of thing where we actually
get the price next year. There's no reason to rush
on that, and they'll want to kind of see where
things settle with the RAM market. Honestly, it could get worse,
It could get more volatile between now and when that
thing comes out. So if that's the case, they'll definitely
want to continue to wait. So yeah, we probably don't
get a price and exact release date for this thing
until maybe January, possibly even later. Okay, a couple other
things here.
Speaker 2: Did you watch any of that Microsoft Xbox Partner direct
showcase thing today?
Speaker 1: No, I didn't get a chance to. It's pretty busy today. Yep.
It wasn't bad.
Speaker 2: I was pretty breezy and brisk. I thought they did
a good job showing off stuff like double seven first Light. Again,
we've seen that a bunch of times now, but.
Speaker 1: It looked good. It was well. Here, I just dropped
my mouse.
Speaker 2: There was a new Elusive target added to Hitman. Eminem
will reprise his role as his alter ego Slim Shady
and will be a part of Age forty seven Slusive
Target missions. Yeah, what's that Christian go ahead?
Speaker 3: Well, the premise is pretty funny, is Eminem's he hires
you to kill Slim Shady, So it's going to be
two ms.
Speaker 1: But who's the real slim shady, he'll probably have to
stand up.
Speaker 2: I bet there's gonna be a gags like that where
it's like you actually can kill him by making them
stand up, and the one that stands up is the
real some shady. Maybe the one that stays sitting you
actually end up killing. I don't know, they'll come up
with a bunch of gags. I am happy to see
that Eminem is okay with being killed, like that's cool,
that's fun, you know, it's it's not there was the
reason one of the Bruce Lee estate was like, no,
don't kill Bruce Lee, just put him in your game.
It's fun that Eminem is willing to do this. Although sure,
I don't know, strange collaboration. I don't quite get it,
but whatever, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of those hit man it's kind of whoever's
game for it? I guess, yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 2: They've previously done like Jean Claude Van Dam and stuff
like that, and that's I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess this is a Sean Bean, Sean Bee.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a very eclectic mix of dudes that they've
put into this game. And I'm for it because otherwise
it's suddenly kill Bill shows up in Fortnite, and I
don't quite understand that this is just like, oh, whoever
we can get to work with, because we're Hitman and
we're weird like that, I'm all for it. The rest
of that show, I don't know. I'm trying to think
of anything else really stuck out.
Speaker 1: There was there's a new Vampire Survivor's sequel that's kind
of a turns based card battling game.
Speaker 2: Vampire Crawlers announced that Xbox Partner's preview game is a
first person Dungeon Crawlers spin off. They still working on it.
They're still working on a sequel to the Vampire Survivors
that is a proper one. The idea is to take
some of the core pillars behind the development of Vampire
Survivors and to apply them to existing genres. I'm talking
about accessibility, immediacy, affordability, replayability, and sparkly stuff, tons of
sparkly stuff. With regards to a sequel to Vampire Survivors,
we're working on something, but we're not talking about that
just yet, said Punkol founder and CEO Luca Galante.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, there you go. This is good. This is
just you know, gonna help continue to convert Dan Reikert
to a turn based gaming. And we already worked, we
already got going on that with the UH with Projects
Expedition thirty three, Phase one of the play in Jeff. Now,
now we're taking his precious Vampire Survivors and we're turning
that against him.
Speaker 2: What is the like nerdiest turn based a dungeon expiration
game right now?
Speaker 1: Atrion Odyssey, I was gonna say it was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, well, we'll get on We'll get down on
that eventually. That's the real goal. That's what we're all
going for here. Man, he would he would not like
Atrian Odyssey.
Speaker 1: Right, No, you have to like draw your own map.
You'll be real upset about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Yeah, I like this idea of Hey, we
had a success, and we we know many of the
reasons why we had a success with Vampire Survivors.
Speaker 1: Let's see, we're.
Speaker 2: Gonna apply those ideals to other genres. That's fun. Even
if it doesn't go anywhere whatever, try some stuff and
then make a new Vampire Survivors and no harm, no foul, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely like the idea of taking that format, putting
it on more abuse. My concern here really is that,
like it's because it's sturve based undercalling, but it is
also card based. I'm not one those people who see
cards and I'm like freaking out, But I guess I
would have liked to see the idea just as Dungeon
Crawler turn based. But you know, maybe the cards are
a big part of where the randomization stuff comes in.
Speaker 3: Do you see the trailer is insane? The cars, the
amount of cars that you're holding. Idea of that trailer
is Crazy's like the entire bottom road. She is stuck
on top of each other.
Speaker 4: It's so hot. Yeah, it looks really fun.
Speaker 2: There was there was some other cool looking stuff that
Total Cast game shadow dropped.
Speaker 1: I'd heard like they reached out about that. I have
that game.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's something could show off on Giant but I'm
here for get some time. There was a game where
you played as like a mech rabbit called zoo Punk.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it looks pretty neat. Rabbot, Yeah, rabbot
I did wore hair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a spin off of another of those like
four reaction games that I don't remember the name of it.
Speaker 1: It looked familiar but I was I didn't. I couldn't
place it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, I've seen this before, and it
turned out I kind of did. Because it's a spinoff
of another one.
Speaker 1: It's a prequel to FIST. No way, that's wild.
Speaker 2: So FIST was that a couple of years back, I
want to say, a PlayStation network, like a PlayStation store
metro Vania game. I think it came to other stuff eventually,
but I think that's where I remember seeing at first. Yeah,
it was pretty good. I know people really liked it.
I tried it very briefly. I should go back to that.
Speaker 1: It seemed good. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The one, the one that really cut my attention was
the Roadside Research. This one where you're like a bunch
of aliens managing a store, and you had to do
it well because otherwise people is gonna like, yeah, you
have a paper as face and you have to draw
your face.
Speaker 2: They drew a human face on a piece of paper
and taped it to their alien faces and that's their disguise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had to like manage the store really well.
Speaker 3: Otherwise people's gonna start like realizing that you're alien. You're
gonna call the many black and kill you that type
of stuff.
Speaker 1: It looks fun. Do you want to know what kind
of game it is.
Speaker 2: It's the kind of game that when I was watching
and I had Chat on, I had to turn off
chat because they were just like, this is in a
real game. Oh cool, yeah, huh oh boy. I don't
know why anyone wants to make video games for these fuckers.
Speaker 1: I just don't get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't like calling this because I don't think they're slow.
But there's like because there is like friends Lab, but
I don't like.
Speaker 4: I don't like all that. You know, to play with reference.
Speaker 2: We we use that term endearingly, like when we say
anything sloped, we mean it with the hashtag or hashtag
parentheses positive over here, Yeah, I saw the guy was uh,
it was Lucy and Tam. We're talking about like, oh
the slop moniker is that? Or do kids mean that
in a nice way these days? And I'm like, well
I do, I bet kids do too. Kirby air Riders reviews.
It's I think it's it's settling around like a seventy
eight this morning last time I checked.
Speaker 1: Let me take a looky eighty, it's in eighty, right, now, Okay,
that's a huge improvement on the original, which was in
the sixties sixties.
Speaker 2: Like a Metacritic at least it was like at in
like sixty one or something like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, massive, massive leap.
Speaker 2: And I the sense I get from reading all these
reviews is it's a good video game that people really
like playing, you know.
Speaker 1: Not that's not that you couldn't.
Speaker 2: Say that about the original, but a lot of people
didn't say that about the original. So I've not picked
this one up yet. I will probably end up doing
it this weekend. I the more I think about my
time with that play test, the more I want to
go back to it. It was just visually arresting and
that was the big appeal for me. And yeah, although
I'm playing that sectory game, maybe the most visually arresting
game of the year, So maybe I don't need it,
but I will anyhow, Are you going to pick it up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I'm going to pick that up tonight. Honestly, Uh,
I'm like pretty close to the end of Dragon Quest one,
even though I can use like a little bit of
break and even once I beat one, I don't want
to go right into two. I I want to spend
some time just playing through these courses, even just kind
of solo. I was enjoying that quite a bit during
the test. The tracks are just so pretty. I kind
of like just moving through them. I like looking at them.
I like hearing the pretty music. I like being King
d d D or Gooey or whoever I can be.
So yeah, I'm excited to dive and see how it
feels as this package. Maybe get some friends over, try
some autie player stuff. I don't I still don't really
know about City Trials. I guess I'm curious to try
that some more on my own. But ye know, I
like Kirby, and I like high end Kirby. It's real
fun of me when Kirby has high production values. That's
what's this weird? Yeah it so yeah, I'm definitely going
to be giving it more of a go. I think
it's a really nice thing to have this sort of
lead up to Metriprime, for which sure is here soon.
There were commercials for it at when I was at
the bar. So I want to hear people who don't
watch TV anymore and be like, why aren't they advertising
metro Prime for they are? They are? They're being advertised
and it's coming soon. Yeah, I feel exactly the same
way where it's. Uh.
Speaker 2: I just those courses look so gorgeous. I want to
go spend more time in them. Okay, go read Jake
Decker's review. I think he did a good job. He
was a longtime fan of the original game, so he
reviewed this one and he seemed very happy with it.
Speaker 1: Over there, Game Spot.
Speaker 2: Uh Okay, I think that's going to do a for
the headlines we're talking about. Let's take a break, we'll
come back talk. We'll go to the super chats and
see what y'all want to talk about. We'll do that
right after this. All right, we are back, Mike Manatti.
Let's dive into those superchats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry for the Skatchewan, says Mike. Do you know
an episode of D Space nine season two, episode eight
was written by Colombo writer Odo even says Colombo lines
while investigating top five DS nine characters. Okay, what episode
is this? Then? Season? This is necessary evil? Odo relives
some terrible and tragic memories of pass investigation when he
was the constable on Kurdassian occupied D Space nine, then
named trek Nor. I do remember that episode? That is
a good one. Top yeah, top five. Defase nine characters
are Garrick, Odo, Caldecott, Quark, Gosh, a lot of the aliens,
and Cisco. We'll say Cisco gets in there about jed
Za Decks. Uh, there's so many good characters. There's a
lot of good characters in these basin that's difficult.
Speaker 2: I've still planning to get around to Deep Space nine
at some point. I watched all of the Next Generation
a little bit ago, and really I loved it. Of
course I loved it. I always loved it, but finally,
like really watched it. Now it's time, It's time, I
gotta make time.
Speaker 1: There you go. Well, if we finish Columbos, make you
do a de Space nine podcast with me next. That's
so sounds good, all right? Uh, Kevin b uh Haitia Esquire,
says Troy Troy File. Remember it as the year of
I enjoyed watching games that I would have never played.
Between Night and Rain, Silksong, Arcuators, Battlefield's Battle Royale. Are
there any games you enjoy watching but wouldn't normally feel
compelled to play. It's difficult for me because I like
to play a lot of games. I like to watch
people play games too, but I just like play us
though usually I will also play though, so I usually
just like to do both of those things. Like I
don't know, Like I tell you what, I think. I'd
rather watch somebody play a moba than play them these days.
I rather watch people be really good at DODA two
sure lea of legends then actually play one of those.
Now that's a that's a good answer, because I will.
Speaker 2: I would still occasionally watch the uh the like a
big Esports Championship or something like that, and I'm probably
not gonna play a mobi.
Speaker 1: James Pie says the Golden Joystick Awards tonight, duly care I,
I mean not a ton I heard that especially thirty
three one a lot unsurprisingly, so you know, there you go.
It's a decent in It's kind of like the Golden
Globes is a decent indicator of what's probably gonna win
at the Game Awards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it had a I noticed it had like better
categories than the Game Awards. There was like a the
game we're still playing award in Minecraft one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's that's good. That's just better.
Speaker 2: It's like more suited for the world of video games
instead of trying to apply the way movies work to
video games.
Speaker 1: Dance playing Minecraft. He's a Minecraft tuber.
Speaker 4: His friend with Chivy Donkey.
Speaker 3: Now the most insane centers I had to say in
like years, the don Rikery's friends with chiv Donkeys.
Speaker 1: It's so Dan. Dan was like so skeptical YouTubers, weird
out by them. Then like as soon as he like
just meets one, it's like, oh, this is they're funny,
Like yeah, yeah, uh huh, assumes it's a scary sex thing.
Speaker 3: The loudest motherfucker out there shout out to Chivy Donkey.
But she is so loud, it's crazy that she became
dance friend.
Speaker 1: I mean the two loudest people then there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Next up is Big Frush Storty seven. I think Dispatch
might be the first game that is genuinely sexy and
not just in a dumb ass video game way, grub,
what do you think? Wait? What? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I would say that the first video game that was
genuinely sexy is probably Leisure Toute Larry, Box Office Bust,
and then Dispatch clearly obviously.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm so sorry I have because Bonetta is like
straight up the perfect sample of sexy.
Speaker 4: But good, you're not in the video game way.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, but I think that's what he means a
big game. Wait, it's aggressively sexy to Yeah, it's over
the top. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Dispatch feels very natural and human in its sexiness,
and uh, you don't get a lot a lot of
that in video games.
Speaker 1: I've certainly found video game characters sexy before. I'm a
grown man. I'm a red blooded American.
Speaker 2: I can say that it's cartoons, but I think that
I get what a big fresh is putting down here
about Dispatch. It is characters that feel very real and
all of their sort of conversations come from an authentic
place that I reckonize. You get me my Dispatch code yet,
Like I said, I just used my magic x Steam accounts,
so I never even I don't even know who to
reach out to for it.
Speaker 1: That's all right, I'll just maybe buy it. I should try.
Super Blastic says much love, fellas. Hang in there. We've
got a break coming, sound Yeah, yeah, we sure do.
We're getting some of our last stuff figured out. I'll
be in Disney World soon too. It's like, right now,
it's not honestly even too bad, Like I actually already
feel relieved being past the bombathon and even extra life,
Like I already feel like, eh, this is a bit
more chill even right now. Yeah, yeah exactly. That's uh.
Speaker 2: You know, well we have a Game of the Year
stuff coming up and we'll figure that out. But we're
not trying to kill ourselves with that. So yeah, feeling
pretty good about all of it. It's it's just kind
of exciting fun times.
Speaker 1: Zombie Porn says Mike's a Blake game is so bad
he's leaving the state to get away from it. Is
this the worst biddy game writing you guys have seen?
Blog it? Boy? It might be. It might be leisure
Suit Larry Box Office Bus is just a very different level.
It's something new and scary. Yes, it's uh, it's pain.
Speaker 2: Every line of Diggs pain, uh, and that makes it maybe.
I do think that there is certainly an argument for
it to be the worst Blake Club game because it
is blighting everyone who is participating and watching.
Speaker 1: I hate it, and it's unrelenting it. It does not see
what it's going to be over anytime soon.
Speaker 2: Just it keeps going and going. Every interaction keeps going
and the game itself has just it doesn't feel like
it's going to end.
Speaker 1: Next up is from Chronosstinman, Hey dogs, if you're skinned
by Samus, what would be your name? Uh? And what
would it say in your description? And Donkey Kong should
be in Best Music wasn't. We'll be looking at those
categories soon. I think for me it'll say Mitch Tolkoto
and the description will be coded in the goat sauce.
Speaker 2: M Mine would say, uh, midwestern man, and my description
would be like he is sleepy.
Speaker 1: Lex Letty says bought a nso N sixty four to shore,
should probably play something with it. One N sixty four
games might I like other than Ridges or sixty four
trans Day of Remembrance for sure? Check check out Cider Punishment.
Actually that's a very good video game. Yeah yeah, And
I've been playing a lot in sixty four games because
the Analex three D was playing some multiplayer stuff. Uh.
Pookemon Puzzle League is actually like one of my favorites.
I love that game. It's one of my favorite puzzle games.
It's super cool. So if you like drop down puzzle
games at all, actually look at Pookimon Puzzle League.
Speaker 2: Yep, there's a don't know, there's a bunch of you
don't play, but jors mask on the on on that
go play it that way.
Speaker 1: Got just really enjoy that game. Chris Pratt says, But
I thought gen Z canceled Eminem.
Speaker 2: You can't cancel Eminem and gen Z they forgot I
don't know. Listen, they listened to his music and they
got horrified. But hit Man's not for gen Z, It's
for us the old men.
Speaker 1: Dan Charwf says, Jeff, are you a fan of the
Coen Brothers. They're quickly becoming my favorite directors. Beg Lebowski,
No Country and Fargo are Alzheimer's for me allready.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Cohen Brothers are fantastic. They are some of
the best directors ever. Let's see they I mean, obviously,
big Lebowski is a great one.
Speaker 1: Fargo's fantastic.
Speaker 2: The Ballad of Buster Scrugs on Netflix is as a
holiday favorite. I think it's only a holiday favorite because
it came out during Christmas one year, so I just
associated with that now. But I watched that just about
every other Christmas Christmas at this point.
Speaker 1: Raising Arizona. God, that's a fucking classic. I'm a little
bit because I actually I like a lot of Cohen
Brothers movies. I liked their true grit actually quite a bit.
YEA true, it's fantastic, yes as well. But I'm a
little embarrassed to say that I did not get Raising
Arizona when I saw it quite a while ago, maybe,
And you.
Speaker 2: Can see that that happened with me with with Big
Lebowski the first time I saw it.
Speaker 1: That's true, and I love Thelbski now. The first time
I was literally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first time, I was like, wait, I'm not laughing
at this comedy?
Speaker 1: What's happening?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh now, it's like, oh, that's the
most perfect script ever written. Raising Arizona, I think is similar.
It takes a time or two burn after reading is
a really fun one that's worth checking out.
Speaker 1: I've ever read after reading, But I like the final
scene where JK. Simmons is just like, what do we
learn today? Palmer? And I say the words what did
we learn today? Palmer all the time like I don't know, yep,
I'm like, boy, that's that's amazing.
Speaker 2: I guess I learned not to do it again. If
I know what it is that we did in the
first place. It's like, yeah, perfect, I guess we learned
not to do it again.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Next one here is from Grant NP.
I need a few emergency Fantasy critic picks, please, boy, Like,
at this point, you're winning for the Game awards. See
if something's like Gang announced and Shadow dropped or announced,
it could come out soon.
Speaker 2: Someone probably already has Marvel, Cosmic Invasion, Toxic Crusaders.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe all these feel like they're gonna be taken.
Let me look here real quick. I like my big
thing is just like I probably have the Giant Bomb
one on lock, but i'd have been to The Hollower
and that game. It's got delayed, and like maybe it's
come out to here, but it seems like it's not.
So I just gotta hope, like it'd be great if
it came out this year. I just have to hope
it not coming out this year doesn't hurt me too much.
Even without it, though, I think I'm actually gonna be.
Speaker 2: Pretty I think, right, I think without it, because like
I'll have Metroit Prime four, so it'll depend on that.
But it's like even that, I think I would just
barely I'll be right behind you. I also have a
game that's not coming out this year, so and they
have not confirmed that it's not coming out this year,
so I can't drop it. I think it's more likely
to be confirmed to not be coming out this year.
In that case, you would be able to drop it
and replace it with something else. Last minute, I've been.
Speaker 1: Like sneakily mildly competitive in our game mess one. I've
been making rooves where I can there. I don't know
if I've got it on, you know, I know I
it's gonna come together and happen for me, But I
have a shot.
Speaker 2: Every time I have an idea, there, I go and
go and find out that someone had the same idea,
like in the last week and Dinner thing already.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh god, un announced mainline halfway game is
still available. I mean, pardon me? Is like that's I
shouldn't be saying anything like loud Uh that'xt up is
from Zombie Poring. I can't wait for Backlar to play
just tomorrow. Yeah, I guess we're gonna have to do that.
You're the one who can actually have the game. We're
just gonna kind of dance along with you, I guess.
I guess. Yeah, see if I can learn how to
do the duggie from that? Actually, okay, yeah, tal will
teach Mike how to dougy. Uh. Conan Casama says, have
you all seen the pictures from the New Hunger Games?
The characters look like the Gruber They've always kind of
looked magrub Risk in the Hunger Games. I'm kidfed. I
didn't know there was another New Hunger Games. I know
they already did, like the one New Hunger Games after
the main ones are done, so I guess they're just
going to keep doing that. I have very little interest
in the Hunger Games. I don't want to shock you, Jet,
but it's true. Oh no, is that? Oh man? I
don't my estimation of you has been diminished. Yeah, I don't.
I think I tried to watch the first one. It
seemed it seemed alright.
Speaker 2: I bet that's something that seems like the kind of
thing where it's like five years from now. I find
my kids are like super into reading the Hunger Games
or something, then I have to get in to it.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. I'll wait until then. Zz the X says,
can I get a bouch from the crew peeness. I
can do byoch, but I'm better at my That's just
what they want, you do. I think that's what they want. Yeah. Absolutely,
let's see here now. I think that one's redected so
that we can do this one instead. Mad Maddie says, Hey,
Jeff and Mike, today's trans Day of Remembrance. Thank you
for all the trans support you and the community show
you're cropping up so much. Of course, Matt Maddie, trans
lives are amazing and wonderful, and we love all of you.
Trans Rates are humans rights.
Speaker 2: Yeah we yeah, we would never forget you. So yeah,
you're always remembered here and all the people who have
pushed the line forward and ensured that you have safe
spaces and places where you feel like you belong like here.
Speaker 1: We remember everyone that made that possible and isn't with
us anymore. Cottie bitch sevs. I recommend watching Welcome to
Darry Hbo Max not you, Mike too spooky. Oh and Mike,
how do you feel about grapes bursting juice in your mouth? Oh?
I don't like it. I don't eat grace, absolutely not.
I eat a whole and uh I said I would
eat them wol if I had to, and then Samoa
Joe laughed at me. Weird Life. That's Weird Life. Yeah,
I think that's an IT show, right, the Hit, the Clown.
Speaker 4: The Welcome to Dry Yeah, it's a sequel.
Speaker 2: And lex you has seen it called Londonderry. I thought
it was called Londonderry. Please don't kill me. I'm just joking,
Please don't kill me.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Then Ryan Allen says, why did you mention a Trian Odyssey?
I just saw that. Uh, atriodys Or is on sale
right now. Damn you even I've never actually played like
an actual Atrian Odyssey. I've just played the Persona game
that was made by those people, and it's exactly liked them.
But with the Persona characters. I liked that.
Speaker 2: Okay enough, Yeah, I know I've I've never touched in
a tres It's a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're cool. Jason's I think, God, we bring
up Jason here a moment ago, Jason Lake. It was
a lot. I remember over at a games beat he
is in there. That's right, That's where he would review
him and stuff. That's where he loved him. They made
a bunch of them for a while and like now,
I don't even know where that series is. I feel
like they made six of them real fast, and then
I don't know if they made more after that or not.
I always conflated him for a while.
Speaker 2: I conflated him with the Eternal Sonata and then sure,
and then I learned that your brother really likes Eternal
Sonata and that's about Chopin.
Speaker 1: And is Chopin? Right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Now I will
always remember Eternal Sonata because of Chris Manati. Yeah yeah,
he Chris would never touch in Austria. See, I don't
think gross, of course, not the two japy gc he
has played is Chopin and the Chapon one God? And
what's it called? I immediately forgot the name of Eternal
Sonata and Expedition thirty three? Right, okay, what's so Chapon French?
That might explain. So I'm going to see Chopon. Probably
not French. I don't think that's a French.
Speaker 2: No, it sounds like Eastern Yeah, okay, it's Polish. That's
Central Europe close enough.
Speaker 1: I guess I could just say he likes Europe mainline European. Yeah,
he loves Euroslop, Euroslop, I said, mainline. I met mainland mainline.
I like the idea of mainline continence. Yeah, yeah, that's good.
That's good. All right, that's it for super test for Duff.
You all want to say, aymore, We will read them
before the end of the show, and you can just
see pick terminator two D. Actually you might be able to.
That's one of mine. I have that one. We'll see
if that one got delayed a little bit too. This
was that actually comes out and is any good? All right,
we're gonna take another break.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we will be doing our Game
of the Year predictions. And this is for like the
TG for the Game Awards, right, okay, so we will
look at the nominees.
Speaker 1: We'll make some predictions.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna keep track of those, right Christian,
and we're gonna see the who's the best that remember, Okay,
we're figuring this stuff at all right, we'll figure it
all out after this break, every one, we'll be right back,
all right. The Game Awards, it's it's a show where
you award games for being video games. There are various
categorical categorical organizations here. I got lots of words in
my mouth, right, now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're doing great, Bud. Thanks man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go through the categories and we are going
to select who we think is going to win, and
then we're going to keep track of that. We even
have a fancy doc, and you know what, I'll bring
up the doc right now so people can get a
good look at it. We're gonna pick who we think
is gonna win, and then we're gonna come back and
check and see who did best. And we're gonna include
the community on this, right, Christian, why don't you explain
that side of things so people who might be listening
and haven't checked the discord can maybe get in on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're not in discord, go to the discord.
If you support us of any way, shape or from,
you should have access to it.
Speaker 4: So go there.
Speaker 3: Go to the thread part of it where we publish
all threads about, like the topics and stuff, and there
you're gonna find the TGA for thetion thread and in
there you're gonna find a form to fill up and
you have to pick the thing you think is gonna win,
and whoever gets I'm gonna closet the voting on December second,
so we can we see we check those results before
the actual TJA happens to see if the community, like
you know, to see what's going on in the community.
And then after the TJA happens, I'm gonna cut all
that down and see who got the most right answers,
and that person introducer is gonna get a special role
for the whole year into next year.
Speaker 4: Okay. If it's multiple people, multiple people is gonna get it.
That's it.
Speaker 2: You broke up a little bit, but everyone, I think
everyone got the gist, so it's not a problem. But yes,
I think we're good now. And real quick question, Am
I breaking up for you?
Speaker 1: Christian?
Speaker 4: No, you're not bringing up problem?
Speaker 2: All right, great, fantastic. Okay, then we have the list
in front of us. Let's let's just go through it. Mike,
should we save Game of the Year for last maybe
work our way up instead?
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to, I don't think it's
all that suspenseful to be friends.
Speaker 2: I agree, you're right, it's probably just like pretty obvious.
Let me adjust that real quick, make sure that'll.
Speaker 1: Be are good.
Speaker 2: Uh, Okay, let's go ahead and start with Game of
the Year. Then Mike, why don't you go ahead to
fill in your choice for what you think is going
to win Game of the Year at the Game Awards.
Speaker 1: Well, my buddy Jeff looked me in the eye like
halfway through this year when I was talking about maybe
something maybe deaf stranding too winning It is a Mike,
look at me. I guarantee that Claire Up's characters are three.
He's gonna win, boy, now that we're here. Uh, he
was right. I think it's absolutely Claire up Skiers Game
of the Year. It would be it would be an
upset at this point if it's anybody but them. Uh.
They seem to have all momentum. It was a incredible game.
It has this great story of coming into the years,
this really small game that people didn't have many expectations for,
and it has kind of just completely stunned everybody. It
has maybe changed the course of turn based RPGs forever.
It's kind of embarrassed companies on a Lake Square Enix. Yeah,
it's could be clarimb Scare.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I still feel it's claib Scare Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 1: It was a great year for video games.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good games on this list, there
are games with like higher metacritics scores. I think Kati's
two as hire metacritics metacritics score. I just think claib scare.
Expedition thirty three checks all the boxes.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It's fresh, it revitalizes a genre, It does things that
people have been asking that genre to do for a
long time, does it with flourish and in its own way.
It has a strong story, strong characters, a strong look.
It's not a direct sequel to anything that's been awarded
before in any way. Yeah, it really just has all
the kinds of things that you would see from a
the kind of game that could win this award. You know,
there's always a chance something surprises surprises us, but I
don't think this year. I think this year it's it's
definitely locked down by Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not even sure what Like the possible number
two is maybe Silk Song, maybe like keenan Comdolivitz two
is this dark horse, but it's it's almost certainly clear obscure. Yep.
Speaker 2: All right, for Best Game Direction, I will go next,
and I think I'm just gonna I don't think people
are gonna get too cute.
Speaker 1: No, you know what.
Speaker 2: I think, because he's mister director. I think they'll give
it to desk Randing two on the Beach.
Speaker 1: There we go. I think Kojima goes up and gets
the award for Best Game Direction. Mike. I could see
that the Split Fiction is in this category, so it's like, oh,
Joseph Ferris is up for an award here. Yeah, right,
there's the thing. Maybe there's enough people out there who
are a little tired of him too. I think Cleariupscare
just actually also gets this one.
Speaker 2: I just want to say, for the record, it's it's
fucking insane Silk Songs not nominated for Best Game Direction.
That game has such a strong like sense of authorship,
like you could just feel the people who made that
game knew exactly how you should feel while you're playing it.
Speaker 1: And to me, that's what game direction is.
Speaker 2: But I bet everyone has a different definition of what
game direction is.
Speaker 1: Surely we should probably say what's nominated for people who
to know was Culture three, Destraining two on the Beach,
gost of Yote, Katie Suit, Split Fiction, And if you
didn't know it was on for Game of the Year,
Clear Obscure, Destraining two, Donkey Kong, Bonanza, Haites two, Soak Song,
Can of Coume, Deliverance too. Yeah, going for it. I'll
just I'll read them all and then we'll go back
and forth and choosing.
Speaker 2: All right, so best adaptation, this is the best movie
or television show at the Game Awards, but it might
be based on a game, a Minecraft movie, Devil May Cry,
The Last of Us Season two, Split Their Cell, Deathwatch,
or Until Dawn. Mike, you're up first, but before you go,
I also want to protest this award. Where the fuck
is Sonic three? That is the best adaptation of the
year by far?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that movie came out last year, Jeff, are you
sure really Sonic three? I thought it was. I thought
it was earlier, earlier this year, Ronic the head Shock three.
I'm pretty sure it was last night.
Speaker 2: I was twenty it was. People are saying it's eligible,
but also twenty twenty four. Oh it's it was late
to say it was one of those. It was December
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I still think it should have been nominated in but
I could see why it wasn't. It's better than all these,
but it's just yeah, it's just that twenty twenty four problem. Then, yeah,
what the fuck is Splinter Cell death Watch?
Speaker 2: I think that is a well received Netflix show, okay,
but I think the people actually like people did not
like the Double May Crist show though, right, No, I
don't think so.
Speaker 3: I heard I heard either way, Like I heard people
who loved it and I heard people.
Speaker 4: That didn't like it. So I don't have no idea
what's going on with that show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just remember people showing me someone like the
dial from it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people I've ever read.
Speaker 1: Part of me is like it's mincrap movies most popular,
but like do adults and those are people who are
doing for this thing to adults, like the Minecraft movie,
but also like everything else here until Dawn. Again, I
don't think people like that very much. Last of A
Season two and people don't like as much as one,
but still it's the last of us. It could be that.
I think I will just say Minecraft movie though, I
think the popularity is going to carry it here. Yeah,
I think that's a fair guess.
Speaker 2: The Last of A Season two is such a tough
one because I think critics early on liked it, and
I think people who actually watched the show, hated it.
People did not seem to like. They did not seem
to like Season two.
Speaker 4: I don't like at all.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're alone on that in that, but
it's like, who's voting on this thing. It's critics. I
you know what, I'm just gonna go with splinter Cell
death Watch. That's when I think it's I think it's
a real dark horse. It's not popular, it's probably a
bad choice, but I legitimately think it might be the
most well liked show out of all these things. All right,
best narrative Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three Death is stranding
too on the beach, Ghost of Yote, Kingdom Come Deliverance
two or Silent Hill f I think I go first
this time.
Speaker 3: Shift to scrawl to show the list thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think, yes, I could see it, but I
forgot others cannot. There we go, There we go. Okay,
so well now it's kind of poking off the top
of the screen for me.
Speaker 1: There we go. I am god, there's a lot of
possibilities here.
Speaker 2: I think this is where Kingdom Come Deliverance to win. Well, no,
because I wouldn't just be clear it's going to be
clarip Scare Exhibition thirty three. I gotta just be mindful
of that, like that game. When that gives it a category,
it probably has a strong chance of winning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I think it's a clip scare which
has a very good story, right it is got Solhill.
If it's like one category you could win, like partly
thinks it could be this. It stort was very good
before we heard all these games good stories. But yeah,
I think claireb Scier clears this one as well.
Speaker 2: I'm a JD Camp Baby Steps would be my right
end vote. Best art direction Claire Obscurer Death Stranding two
goes to Yota, Hades two, Hollow Night, Silk Song.
Speaker 1: Mike, it's you. Oh, this one's rough because claireb Skier
does have very good art direction and it's in the category.
But Hades two and Silk Song are both such gorgeous
games and they have such I think they each have
like a more unique style except from their prequels that
look pretty similar, right, Like, there is something about claib
Sceared that's still a little bit like it is only
a little bit like Unreal Engine and like store bought
assets there's a little bit that because there it is
like they did a little bit then, and that's fine,
but you know, it's a bit of it. The art
style is kind of realistic, and there's like a Painter
League quality to it, for sure, but there's still a
little bit of that that doesn't sing to me as
much as just the gorgeous two D art we have
in something like a Hades two and a Silk Song.
And boy do I love the way Silk Song looks.
It's art direction is so ridiculously good. Maybe I think
I will I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna say
Silk Song for this one.
Speaker 2: I'm leading in a different direction, just based on like
the you know, it's a global vote, and I think
I do think the realistic visuals help in even a
category like this. I think I'm gonna go Ghost of Yota.
I think I think people love the way that those
games look, and I also think there's something's gonna happen
to where that's a game people will be will still
be playing like run it running up right to like
the time when we're actually submitting the vote, which I
get maybe that or did that already hapen? Do we
already actually smit the vinyl vote. I can't remember, but
I don't know. I still I still think Ghost of
Yota is going to be the thing where it's like, uh, yeah,
that's the one's gonna stand out to the most to
the large variety of.
Speaker 1: The kinds of people who are actually voting in these awards.
Speaker 2: All Right, Best Score and Music, Hollow Night, Silk Song,
Hades two, Clear Obscure, Expedition thirty three, Ghost of Yote, Death,
Stranding to on the Beach, ah Man, Best Score in Music.
This is tough because I like silk songs so much.
I know that's not necessarily something that people are like
turning on the tracks.
Speaker 1: And listening to. I am, but I know everyone else says.
Speaker 2: But instead I think I'm gonna say Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Expression of thirty three. So because it has it
has incredible music, it also has so much use. Yeah,
it's like obviously quality bess worth in quantity, but it's
it's bizarre just how many battle things are. Like most
games you get three basically, and here it's like every
fight it's some new song and it's amazing. Yeah, and
it's all really good quality too.
Speaker 2: Good all right, and now we are on best Audio
Design Attlefield six, Expedition thirty three, Death Stranding two, Ghost
of Jota, Silent Hill F.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, yeah, this is one where I'm like, it's again.
Clare of Scare is just a safe bet in any
category it's in this year. God, I thought sound hill
F's audio design was really good. I think spooky games
usually do pretty well in these kind of categories too.
People notice that stuff here. Yeah, I'll be a slightly
interesting person and say Silon Hill F for this one.
Speaker 2: H I think I think I was supposed to go
first that time. But also I'm not taking this that seriously,
so it's fine with me.
Speaker 1: I think I was going Was I wrong ding it?
I think maybe I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I thought I went first last time, but who cares.
Oh god, yeah that's that's someone first last time. Then
I would go first this time. Uh you're right? Wait
is that right yet? Okay, fair enough, let's see here.
Silent Hill F is a really good answer, Mike. I
think that's probably it as well. I'm just trying to think,
is there a chance Battlefield six is like the kind
of thing that stands out here people like the way
guns sound and video games a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that plays with this audience too much.
As Call of Duty won this category.
Speaker 4: Before, Yeah you did. I'm pretty sure I think it has.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure it has. You know, I am
going to go with Battlefield six.
Speaker 2: That's fair, all right, So then I will go first
next time on best Performance. Ben Starr, Charlie Cox, Erica Ishi,
Jennifer English, Konatsu Kato, Troy Baker.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I forgot to cope and pace the game. So
Ben Star is from Expedition, Charlie Cox as well, Erica
Issh is for Ghost of Jota, Jennifer English is for Expedition,
Kanasukato is from Silent Hill f and Troy Baker is
from Indiana.
Speaker 1: Jones, Oh India. Oh really man?
Speaker 2: Okay, because that was the somber last of course. Yeah,
it was the December thing.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's a chance the expedition thirty three
people will cancel each other out a little bit.
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, there's three of them. That's a lot.
Speaker 2: There's three of them, and you know there's also like
Charlie Cox is like a celebrities name. There's a chance
that that could affect things a little bit there where
it's like maybe he takes up some of the votes
that Ben Star would have got otherwise for English.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit over the internet when when telling
Hill f came out because she was playing the game,
and maybe that plays a role into the boat in
being till present.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go for a long shot here.
I'm gonna say Troy Baker. I'm gonna say like this
is where he gets the love for Indiana Jones here,
and I think there's gonna be people.
Speaker 1: That show up for him. Think just for that, you
think Kochin was furious that he didn't get a nomination
in this category with test Stranding two.
Speaker 2: I was assuming Troy Baker was nominated for death strand now,
so yeah.
Speaker 1: He scanned all those people, uh being poor Dollman actor.
Even this one's difficult because like parties like, oh maybe
like Ben Starr because he didn't he didn't win for
his Clive here. Maybe now he gets it here say
that with Jennifer English didn't win it for Botersgate three
because the Asterian actor did. Maybe Troy Baker is a
really good darker story people that Indian Jaila Reforms was
really fun. Everybody remembered that even afterwards. I think you're
right that it could easily be Troy Baker. I think
it might be Ben Star Jennifer English. So I don't
think it's Charlie Cox for Excision thirty three. I'm gonna
go with Jennifer English, who was a delight when I
got to meet her at night, by the way, so.
Speaker 2: That would be that would have been my My next
guest is Jennifer English.
Speaker 1: So yep, I'm with you, all right.
Speaker 2: Innovation in accessibility, you're up first, Mike for Assassin's Creen, Shadows,
Adam Fall, Doom the Dark Ages EA Sports FC twenty six,
or South of Midnight.
Speaker 1: This is it. This is a really funny category to
see Doom the Dark Ages for the first time tonight. Huh. Yes,
it is very very odd. Boy. I'm not sure. I
can't personally remember hearing a ton about you of these
games having insane accessibility of options. In fact, that South
of Midnight, which hasn't I haven't heard much of before
until this point of the same Doom showed up here.
It's like, I don't know, maybe that one gets something here,
so why not South of Midnight.
Speaker 2: South of Midnight is like maybe the most There's no
way that game came out this year.
Speaker 1: Game I've a long time like that. That's gotta be
a twenty twenty that are avowed, which, by the way,
were avowed not getting much lovier. Yes, is no love
at all, man, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Okay, my god, I I wonder. I think it would
be Assassin's Creed Shadows. I think I had a ton
and it's like, I think it's got to pick enough
name people recognize that, and I think it'll be a
thing where enough people actually tried that one to.
Speaker 1: Know about the accessibility options.
Speaker 2: All right, games for Impact, I'm up first for consum
to Me, Disploday, Lost Records, Bloom and Rage, South of Midnight,
Wander Stop I am. I'm split between two of them,
Despoloda and South of Midnight. South of Midnight because it
was on game Pass, so again, I think a lot
of people who have played it. But also it does
deal with like it represents a culture that we don't
see a lot in games, but so does Death Belote
and Displote has the whole thing of like there are
probably I think there's a lot of voters in the
game awards from South and Central America, and that game
represents that.
Speaker 1: To a certain degree. I can a little bit. By
the way, Yes, yes, thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 2: I think it might be a little bit more cynical
and be like I think I'll go to South of Midnight,
even though I personally think I would choose Despelo Da.
Speaker 1: Yeah, consume me sticks because I heard Dan talk about
that one so much. It seems so it just seems
like it actually is pathful by I think it did
really well. Yeah, I think I've heard a lot about
this pulled from a lot of people, So I think
I'm going with that one. I think that's going to
clear that we'll be very excited to lose that.
Speaker 2: I love, all right, best ongoing game, Mike, You're picking
first four, Final Fantasy fourteen, Fortnite, Hell Divers, two Marvel Rivals,
or No Man's Sky.
Speaker 1: Huh. That's this one's difficult actually because soft Final Fantasy fourteen.
I think it's kind of not been doing boards a
smitche down on that one at the moment. Fournite's interesting,
but I'm trying to remember, like was the Simpsons thing
going on? People were voting at the time, because that one,
I don't know. If it did, I feel like that
would have a pretty good choice. People really still like
Hell Divers to Marvel Rivals just keeps doing well. No Man,
No Man Sky? Is that picking too much? M between Fortnite,
Hold Divers two and Marvel Rivals. Actually, hmm, gosh, it's hard.
I yes, it's a tough one. This is Uh, this
is really really difficult it. I guess I'll just say
Hell Divers too, why not Heldivers two?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm also split. I don't think this is I
don't think there's a clear cut winner here. I was
leaning toward hell Divers two. I'll probably still end up
picking it. No, you know, I'll go with Marvel Rivals
and just hope maybe, uh, because I think it's probably
a coin toss between or a three sided coin toss between.
Speaker 1: Some of these.
Speaker 2: So I think I have just just a good chance
of winning this one with Marvel Rivals. All right, best
community Support I'll go first. The nominees are Boulderskate three,
Final Fantasy fourteen, Fortnite, Hell Divers two, or No Man's Sky.
Speaker 1: Hmmm. Uh, okay, Best Community sport for this one. I wonder.
Speaker 2: I wonder boulders Gate three made enough waves to get
I don't even know if that matters. This one really
is just about people who are super into these games. Fortnite,
Hell Divers two, No Man's Sky, you know.
Speaker 1: No, this is where I'll go Hell Divers too. Yeah,
not to be born, But I think I'll just also
go hell Divers two on this one. I think right
with the best so ongoing game they see these two
usually seems somewhat connected anyway, so I'll just stick with it. Yep,
all right, let's keep going here.
Speaker 2: Best Independent Game nominees Absolute Ballpit, Blueprints, Claire Obscure Expedition
thirty three, Hades two, Hollow Knights, Silk Song.
Speaker 1: I think, Mike, you're up first, but I don't think
it matters this. Yeah, I mean it's funny because like
this could be the game of the year Categori. These
are all such incredible bangers, and I've played all of these.
I'm actually playing a bit more Ballpit right now. I
was playing it right before we went live. It's kind
of been my since I've gotten Homer unlocked a Fortnite,
that's been my go to just kind of kill fifteen
minutes game. It's fantastic at that gosh, I would like,
I'd actually kind of love Blueprints to win this one.
I think it's so freaking good. But boy, Claireubscare accounts
as an indie game, apparently we've all decided. Uh. Now,
the thing is, like, are there gonna be a lot
of people who kind of roll their eyes ahead a little? Because,
like my inclination, Jeff, even though I think clarib scares
the three is maybe the game of the year is
to not vote for it in this category for whatever? Now,
are other people gonna agree with that? I don't think so.
And then even if it does, and it becomes like
a real toss up, like well does what soak song
win this? Then?
Speaker 2: Or that's exactly right, That's yeah, that's my thinking too, Exactly.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be Blueprints, even though I probably I
think it would be neat if at one I am gonna,
I think people are still just gonna vote for Clare
up Scare, So I'm just gonna pick that one again.
Speaker 2: Me too, for all the same reasons that like, if
I don't pick Expedition thirty three, what am I gonna?
I'm gonna guess the right one that's actually gonna win here,
I don't think so. So the safe bet is Expedition
thirty three Best Debut Indie Game four nominees here, Blessed, Blueprints, Clear, Obscure, Despolote,
and Dispatch. I go first, and you know what, I think,
maybe this is the one where I'll like, I'll get
a little cute and maybe think it won't be Expedition
thirty three and I'll choose one of these other ones.
I'm gonna go with Dispatch on this one because I
think that one just hit it stride right at the
right time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting that it did show up here, so
it was like for something. It's probably just only an
episode or two was out. Yeah, I feel like it
would have done very well in the awards otherwise if
it had a little bit more time to cook. I
want to vote for Mega Bonk. Where's that one? What happened? Yeah? Right?
Him weird? I don't know, could have sworn it got
nominated for this. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I was this, I noticed on the on the
TGA page there was like an empty space on this
on this charter was like, oh right, that guy really
ilicious was like no, actually made another game too, fore
so sorry, please take me on this.
Speaker 1: Thanks for thanks. Yeah yeah, oh, I mean I think
it's just also Claire Obscure again, which I if it
counts as an indie game, then this is their first game,
so I guess it's a debut in the game. This
category seems kind of a bit pointless to meet, Jeff.
I wonder if we'ven see yeah again, Like I love
to see blue Prints winning warn but I think it's
just Claar Scare.
Speaker 2: Best Mobile Destiny Rising, Persona five, the Phantom X, Sonic
rumblemusame pretty derby Wuthering Waves.
Speaker 1: I think you go first this time. Yeah, all right,
you can fucking take it all, you horse perverts there.
I mean, I forgot there was a Destiny mobile game.
Don't know what Whethering Wave is for. Mixed things about
Sonic Rumble, and like, I don't know if I haven't
heard that much buzz around the Persona game. So yeah,
I've heard Horse, I've heard.
Speaker 2: Bad things about Persona five, the Phantom X, bad things
about Sonic Rumble, and bad things about Wuthering Waves.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe not maybe that when I was wathering
Raids a sequel to Wuthering Heights that we all had
to read in high school. That's right, I made that
joke before.
Speaker 3: Probably probably the Destiny writing thing I heard is kind
of good from.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, that that, I was thinking, maybe i'd go
for that one. But I'm I'm gonna wrap the Horse
Girls for our fans. Of course, Wuthering Waves has been
good lately. Okay, well, I'm still going with Horse Girls,
Best VR ar game, Alien Rogue Incursion, Arc and Age,
ghost Town, Marvel's Deadpool VR, the Midnight Midnight Walk, and
I think I go first this time. Okay, Deadpool VR
just came out, right, that's weird.
Speaker 1: Too long ago? Not too long ago. Let's see, I
don't you know I'm going Deadpool VR. What the fuck?
That's that's got a name in it? So does Alien.
I'm sorry, remember if anyone liked Alien? Uh, I think people,
you know what, I'll go with the other owned by
Disney property here, I'll say Alien Rogue Incursion boy to
pick that out of a hat.
Speaker 3: This guy they wanted to like make like make you
win or either loose like because they're so random, it
could be anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe I should try to think a little
bit more cleverly about this, But I really don't know
how best action game Battlefield six, Doom, The Dark Ages,
Haites two, Ninja, guide In four, Shanobi Art of.
Speaker 1: Vengeance interesting here because yeah, especially because like Doom, Ninja
Got In Shouldoby they're such action game, right that's how? Yeah? Yeah, so,
and like Shouldnoby is such a good action game, saying
that Ninja Got In, like Haities two is probably the
best game on here, But you told me, like, how
explain this game? I don't know if I'm like, it's
an action game, even though, by the way, the define
games that it is the battle six is Battlefield six,
so it could actually do well. This could be this
could be a lot of things. I don't really think
it's giving be Ninja goud In four. Part of me
thinks Shanoby is a fun dark horse here. I do
just have to kind of go with, like, well, what
do I think is the most popular game in this category,
and that would be Hades two, and I'll say Haites two.
I agree that it's Hades two.
Speaker 2: Can't see each other out there, but whatever, I just
think it's gonna be Hades two, all right, and Best
Action Adventure Game. Let's stick with the genres. Everybody, Death
Stranding two on the Beach goes Toyota, Indiana Jones in
the Great Circle, Hollow Night, Silk Song or Split Fiction.
I'm up first. Yeah, let's see here, ghost To is
nominated for Game of the Year, right, so it's like
it's not it's not okay, wow, not gonna make it.
Death Straining two is Silk Song is I'm I want
to go with Silk Song. I'm gonna go with Silk Song.
I think Silk Song is gonna pull it off here.
I Death Training two feels like it'd be a good
good choice here, but I'm gonna believe in the power
of Silk Song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was gonna I gotta pick Silk Song here.
Also the same reason for any two, but also this one,
like you know, metro Venion always turns into action adventure
as far as this the Game Awards is concerned. And
it's so freaking good. This is very strong category this year.
These are all very very good games, so they all
could deserve it, uh in Indanda Jones like that's like
so like you would explain and described as action aventure.
So easily, but gosh, I love so song.
Speaker 2: All right, best RPG avowed Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three,
Kingdom Come Deliverance to the Outer World's two or Monster
Hunter Wild's I think it's you, Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well we see a vowd in Monster Hunter and
Outer World's two for the first time ever here, so
that's something only to be destroyed by clareup Scare or
maybe Kingdom Come delivered to as a dark horse but RPG,
that's yeah, Clairebscurer is standing out switch because it is
this RPG. I think that's a big part of it.
I think it dominates this one relatively easily. Again, U
cant to go delivered It's a small chance, but probably
just Claire.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's it's claib Scare Expedition thirty three for sure.
Best fighting game too.
Speaker 3: All right, now, before we continue, people in chant need
to chill with the Monster Hunter Wild Hate. Like you say,
really good games you didn't like to deliver you know,
y'll chill out.
Speaker 1: Come on, I think you need to chill out defending
Monster Hunter Wilds anytime? Somebody? How about that for chill?
Speaker 4: Shut the fuck up, Mike.
Speaker 2: Best fighting game to x scale, Capcom Fighting Collection two
Fatal Fury, City of the Wolves, Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection,
Virtual Fighter five are a revote world stage.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna have to go with two x
KO just because they involved. It's the the e sports
he courts the esports vote, and also that's a new
fighting game, like a fully new fighting game. I don't
think Fatal Fury is gonna win. That's also new. Yeah,
I'm going to x kale.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like three of these games are uh collections or
just remasters. Uh, some of them very good, Like I
got you know, if it's me voting, I'm just gonna
vote for Capcom Fighting collectioning too, because I liked it
so much. But I don't think that's gonna win against
a new game Fatal Fury. Just I think there's a
lot of reasons to not be super excited about that one.
So two x KOT does a win by default. A
lot of people are excited about it, and it's very
spiffy and it's you know, ry and all that's. Yeah,
let's to be born. I think we've matched each other
in the genre ones here for a while. But I
do have to also say two x K yeah, right,
and so what can we do? Yep? All right?
Speaker 2: Best Family game Donkey Kong Bonanza, Lego Party, Lego Voyagers,
Mario Kart World, Sonic Racing, Cross Worlds.
Speaker 1: Or Split Fiction. Like you're up first. Uh, it's a
tough one for me. Yeah, It's like it's like, what
do we mean? Are we just saying best multiplayer game?
Because likena doty kok Bonanza? Isn't that just as a
came for that's rated E for everyone? Right? Like I
think Lego Party is the best family game, Mario Kart's
Mario Kart, and here it is showing up for something
so hmm. Maybe split Fiction though, which again, like that
didn't get on Blaw of Love despite really strong reviews
and despite it takes two doing really well at the
Game Awards the year it came out. So Mark Art's
so weird because it is a great, failing game. I
think a lot of critics are kind of there on
Mario Kart a little bit, a little bit just enough,
perhaps not enough to like give more votes to the
Sonic Racing, but enough that doesn't win this category. Gosh,
it should be Lego Party, it should be Lego Party.
I just don't know. I just haven't heard that many
people outside of our circle talking about Lego Party, Right,
I'm gonna say split Fiction.
Speaker 2: I think I think that I was between Mario Kart
World and Split Fiction. But I'll deviate here and I'll
go Mario Kart World. I think split Fiction is a
really good like call there. I think I think there's
a strong chance it could win best sim slash strategy game,
The Altars, Final Fantasy Tactics, The Evil East Chronicles, Jurassic
World Evolution three, sid Meyer Civilization seven, Tempest Rising, or
two Point Museum.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the.
Speaker 2: One that has Final Fantasy in the name and assume
that will go the furthest for it. But I hope
two point Museum wins for my friend Mike Manatti.
Speaker 1: Gosh it deserves. I mean, there's been a good year
for just for Simmons Strategy. Like I think Anno and
Europa Universalist both kind of missed the cutoff here in
those games have both been received really well pop Basic Tactics,
Fam Fantasy in the Name, and I think the strategy
games are just always going to be more popular than
the sem games would makes it hard. This is the one, Jeff,
I'm gonna follow my heart though. I'm just gonna put
it out. There's a chance, there's a chance deserves an
award so badly, such a great game. There's one game
this year that I want people to check out that
maybe they have it. It is two Point Museum. I gosh,
I'm in love with it. I kind of wish I
could go back to it. I wish I had the
time to do that because they have been updating it.
They've been doing things to it like silly even crossovers
and whatever, and it's so much fun. Mike.
Speaker 2: I think the fact that it's even nominated is a
really good sign for it. The fact that it's nominated
suggested to me that it has a really good chance
of winning.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, civilizations have a course. Looking
at nominated, it's not gonna win this.
Speaker 2: Well, it could still happen, just because again the name.
Speaker 1: But I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Best Sports Slash Racing, EA Sports Football Club twenty six
f one twenty five, Mario Kart World Rematch or Sonic
Racing Crossworlds.
Speaker 1: This is this me or you a camera, This is me.
This is me, boy, I don't. I don't know if
people liked the the FC game this year f one
on the huh, this is the one where I'm like,
Rematch seemed like it had some excitement right away, and
then I have not heard people talk about Rematch very
much since. Jeff, I don't know.
Speaker 2: My views were also pretty middling, and I know because
I took it in fantasy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was the one where I think it's just
going to be more a card.
Speaker 2: Actually yeah, oh god, I think I might be with
you on that. Let me look here again. Yeah, I don't,
I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I'm I'm gonna go Mario cart World as well,
not brave enough to.
Speaker 2: Pixanic Best multiplayer arc Raadors Battlefield six, elder Ring night Rain,
Peak or Split Fiction. God, this is another tough one.
This is a really tough one.
Speaker 1: It is. I'm glad you're going first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, look at I'm like, every time I think,
oh no, it's got to be that, it's like, well, no,
there's arc Rators.
Speaker 1: It's like, well there's our Graadors, but there's.
Speaker 2: Elder Ring night Rain that was massively popular and it's
got the words Elden Ring in the fucking name. Battlefield
six is the best selling, the fastest selling game in
like years apparently. Uh and like again, that matters for popularity,
meaning a lot of people who are voting in these will.
Speaker 1: Have voted for it.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying popularity and it means it's good, but
I think people get it. I'm gonna say that it's
gonna be r Gradors. I think this is the one
where it's like, oh, Our Creators is the game of
the moment more so than like stuff like even because
Peaks moment, it's passed slightly, even though obviously it's still
massively popular Battlefield six. I think between Arc Graders and
Battlefield six, I think it goes to Our Graders.
Speaker 1: Elder Ring Night Rain really is.
Speaker 2: The dark horse there where it's like that could easily
just be the thing where it's like, oh, I don't
even necessarily like multiplayer games, but I like an Elder Ring.
I'll vote for the one that says that. And a
lot of people did like that game, so it's it
stands a strong chance. I don't know, Mike, I'm interested
to see what.
Speaker 1: You go with. Yeah, my heart says peak. My heart
says peak. My brain definitely says rats though especially it
has a lot of momentum and other is that AI conversation.
I think the people of on these things are a
little that's good point, worry of that stuff. I'll fall
my heart one more time here and say peak. Actually,
let's go. I think I would love to see I
think it has a little momentum, perhaps a little chance.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's see here, going to win?
Speaker 1: Most anticipated game?
Speaker 2: Is it Double O seven, First Light, Grand Theft Auto six,
Marvel's Wolverine, Resident Evil Requiem or The Witcher four. I
went just selected mind because it doesn't matter what you
say when you're going first year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really fucking and god, these people with Grand
Theft Auto that time I get to thick. Yeah, I
guess it's grand. I am more just I am more
excited for all four of those other games over Grand
the ootto six personally. But you know, people drove over
a hooker when they were twelve in an old video game,
and they still are laughing at that joke. So here
you go, just.
Speaker 2: Right, My most anticipated all these is actually now Double
seven First Light I think is really going to cook with.
Speaker 1: That game, Resident Evil Requiem for me last year, Monster Hunter,
biggest category of the year, content creator.
Speaker 4: Of the Year.
Speaker 1: Do we have to do the sports Kai Sinat, Moist
Crew One to cow secure a Mico, the Bert Peanut?
What the fuck ah startss are here? Maybe we should
have picked these ones because we're just gonna be really
picking them in a ski league.
Speaker 2: Or I think I think this is where. I think
this is where the money's made.
Speaker 1: Mike. I think this is where this is going to
be the tie breaker. Okay, yeah, I think I think
you're up first only because you preempted me last time.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're you're right, right, You're that was not cheating.
That was me giving up my advantage there. But you're
right now I have to go first here.
Speaker 1: Ship funk.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the one that I don't recognize
the most. I think I got's my strategy because if
I am aware of them, they can't be relevant or
as relevant as they maybe once were.
Speaker 1: Moist Critical it was in dispatch.
Speaker 2: Kai Sinnat is uh you know, he's been massively popular
for years. I'm gonna go with the Burnt Peanut.
Speaker 1: Okay, Kai is the only person here I reckon, So
I will go with that.
Speaker 3: Might win it because he's a funny if he's a
funny guy, so maybe you got in the money there, Chef.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: That's the sports game counter Strike two DODA two, League
of Legends Mobile Legends bang bang.
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Valerie Mobile Legends bang bang? What the
fuck is that? I don't know, depressing that there's a
category where I saw it. The pick between the options
of counter Strike DODO two or League of Legends.
Speaker 3: Mobile Legion bang bang. Is League of Leasien but mobile.
But it's not Riot, it's another company they use. They
just were like, what God, she's gonna do League of
Legion and Mobile years before, like a decade before Legal
of Lision actually got a mobile version of their game.
Speaker 2: I loved Harris Foster's skied about this. It's like the
best esports game is insane. That's like, oh, this year
basketball won Best Sport.
Speaker 1: So yeah, good point. It's real stupid. It's so fucking stupid. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 2: Fuck you, Valorie, Okay, Yeah, yeah, I think it's gonna
I think it's Valerin as well.
Speaker 1: I think it is.
Speaker 2: We'll see Best Sports Athlete brock Jovi f zero er
Sakan Kakeru Menard zero.
Speaker 1: Zero.
Speaker 3: Oh, put some respect on mend motherfucker.
Speaker 2: That's my movement, all right, My bad Mike. I think
I'm gonna go first this time, right?
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? I'm going I'm going brock. Yeah,
I'm gonna find great savings A it's spelled the same too.
Speaker 3: That's crazy because he's a real Dominican.
Speaker 1: Come on, oh okay, see well that's cool. Good for him.
Best sports team? Uh? Is it?
Speaker 2: Jing Legal Legends n r G Valerie Team Falcons go
to two? Team Liquid pH Mobile Legends Mame Bang or
Team Vitality counter Strike two.
Speaker 1: Where's the face clan? Are they? Aren't they cod Goat
Sauce for this? Yeah?
Speaker 2: They're too busy, like trading in Goat sauce. Yeah, were
talking to Alexa for validation.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know energy because it's just it's like
that song I played before I stream the Valerie team.
Apparently I was the best Football Team award exactly, gram,
I'm going Team Vitality there you go, right right? Fantastic
we did it. We ended up obviously on the strongest
categories there. Glad we did it that way.
Speaker 2: That that's everything, though, Mike car are you feeling about
your selections?
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good. Some of this E sports shit
could really throw a loop in the plans that we'll
see that certainly was a gamer issue, Batman.
Speaker 2: I think we'll get the results on what is it,
December seventh, something like that.
Speaker 1: I think tenh. I think it's a it's a good
it's a bit after my.
Speaker 2: Birth December, that's correct, Okay, it's right, a bit after
Mike Minati's birthday.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait to find out who won during
twenty or twenty of these commercial breaks or twenty of
these awards during commercial breaks.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of categories. We'll see.
Speaker 2: I still hope we somehow end up tying. That's what
I really want. I want everyone to lose.
Speaker 1: All Right, we are going to take one last break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back, we'll talk about what we've been playing,
and then we'll clean up the super chets and get
out of here.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. All right, let's uh, let's do this, Mike.
What have you been playing? Yeah, like I've been back
into ballpit just uh, it's the progression feels really good
there where it's not about just like unlocking levels, but
the way that you do that weird kind of like
bouncy other Arcanoi game to unlock the upgrades and you
get to play that game each time you do a run.
So I'm like excited to do a run, so like
an unlock more upgrades that way and unlock more characters.
Even like even if I am doing old levels, like
there's I can kind of get bonuses from the buildings
because oh I've beaten this level with this many characters
and I have a bonus. There's just always it's like
that Haiti seem there's always a progression happening, right, even
if I lose, So Ballpit going back to that quite
a lot. Uh, Dragon Quest one still is my switch
to game. Like I've been making very good progys on
that one. So I'm gonna maybe take a small break
tonight to try out some Kirby instead. But they play
Luminess on Mega Man for Giant Bomb Luminis Arise, And
I've talked before here about how I never I never
necessarily got it with Luminous. It always sort of confused me,
Like I felt like I got that I was making blocks,
but they didn't feel as satisfying or didn't. I didn't
feel like I could plan for that as easy as
I could have making lines or just making pairs and
some other games. I wasn't fully there, but I was
definitely getting it much better. I was understanding it a
bit more. And then just like all the visual audio
stuff is just so good that it almost like it
almost doesn't matter what the game I'm playing behind it is.
They just want to keep experiencing that stuff. Yep. Yah.
Speaker 2: It does the thing of like really just bringing the
interactions to the audios and the visual visuals altogether and
that intersecting point and that's where you get to play at.
And it's one of those games where it's like, if
I were any worse at this game, I probably would
just play it on like an experiential mode and be
like no fail state. And they kind of give you that,
give me that option anyhow with that continue button, so
I could pick up from where the beginning of the
section that I'm at. So that's that's the I'm taking
advantage of that because I do want to see all
the cool stuff they have in here.
Speaker 1: It's very moving.
Speaker 2: It's like it still works in the way all the
ways that Tetris affected. I'm playing dr so it's you know,
maybe even like one notch up from that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really well done.
Speaker 2: I am in the exact same spot though, Mike, where
it's like I never really got it. I get it now.
I'm still not I'm still not good at the game.
I'm still not doing the layers, deep planning ahead, seeing
that there's three pieces on the side, understanding what I'm
going to do with those pieces. That's not happening. And
I got there with Tetris obviously, I've been playing Tetris
for forever. That helps, but not there yet with Luminous
anything else that's.
Speaker 1: I think those are the big ones for me. I mean,
I got the Analog three D. I talked about that
on last Nintendos. But I did have my brothers over yesterday.
We were recording nineties Disney, so we played a bunch
of multiplayer games together and that was fun. Using all
those eight bit Doo sixty four controllers who played some
Barmberman sixty four Gauntlet Legends was fun because it hell, yeah,
that one gets a bit of a performance boost when
you overclock it, so that would me that was really
neat seeing that working, we did some Smash Brothers. We
did them around of going to nine in at exactly
like I remember, you just kind of wand around to
you you find someone that it's kind of poorly shoot
at each other until somebody dies and everyone lost their
minds for that. Back even back then, Jeff, I was like, yep,
this is just like what you guys forced me to
play this back then, and I hated it. But yeah,
you know multi player on N sixty four, good time.
We're doing some Pokemont Puzzle League matches against each other,
just kind of you know, de side. I still have
all these cards so just easily putting them in, and
I do like in the Analog, when you put a
card in, it gets like added to your library. It's
not like you can play it without the cart now
by still just like seeing that, I'm I almost kind
of like want to go there for all my cartridges
and just like put them all in and see them
all get added to that thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's those the cartridge art that they have in
there was added by one of their engineers or something
like that. For people who get their own Analog three D,
you'll have to go down go download your own library
of image art. But some of the community is certainly
going to do that. So you just go find that
and add that to your SD card.
Speaker 1: So that's that's little.
Speaker 2: That'll be cool and people will do a lot of
fun stuff with that. Yeah, min find shift. I got
my notification that mind shipped. I'm still really looking forward
to that one white one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought Dan had the white hose fetching. I
had a I have a black.
Speaker 2: I was very when I saw a person. I was like, oh,
that looks that looks real nice. I you know, I
had a black and sixty four. So I'll get the white. Uh,
the white analog three D. That'll that'll work.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: I've it's kind of been all sectory since Tuesday, Mike.
I've told you about that on last ning ten Dogs.
I've kind of that the go that's called like Geometry
Wars Rogue light sort of thing. It's got perks and stuff.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: It does a fun thing where it shows you the
very basics of like how to move and how to
change your attacks together so that like if you dash
into one of these pickups, that you immediately get that
dash back and you have I frames during the dash
shows you all that stuff, but then it's like, all right,
that's all we're going to tell you. Figure out the rest.
And I'm figuring out the rest slowly, but surely. There's
a a one of the pickups changes. It's the letter
that's on its icon frequently, and you're supposed to spell
out a word in the easy mode.
Speaker 1: It's mirage on the.
Speaker 2: Difficulty I'm playing on right now, which is the challenge difficulty,
which is the intended difficulty.
Speaker 1: You have to spell its secretory.
Speaker 2: When you spell out the word, you get like super
hyper rainbow powers, and that's really cool. Basically your just
attack is super powerful powerful for a limited amount of time.
That's just like one of the things. There is this
perk system where I guess I'm getting, like I don't.
I still don't fully understand it. I think I'm getting
card packs that like I can select them and then
they go into my deck. But then I get one
of those randomly assigned to my ship and then I
can either keep them or discard. If I discard them,
it's not like I can replace them. I don't know
either way. It's like sometimes I get a thing where
it's like, oh, I had the missile upgrade. Well, now
I can upgrade the missiles more, and I might have
like a drone that shoots two missiles now, and it's
I don't either way. I'm that's like, it's fun to
have this this mysterious aspect of it because I am
so into the way the game plays that it's like,
if it was just this stuff, if none of this
extra stuff was here for me to explore, I would
still be desperately into this game. So it's fun to
have something to go alongside with alongside that to like
piece together with each new run or as I'm doing
now talking to Chris Person a little bit. We just
started chatting about the game, but I'm planning to be like, hey,
what do you think is happening here? It's one of
those games where I can have a game buddy and
we can sort of go back and forth, like what
do you think is happening? What do you think the
best strategy is? And I enjoy that for this sort
of thing. Really though. It's just awesome to have a
game that understood what made Geometry Wars cool and then
add stuff on top of that in terms of the
abilities that your character, that your ship has and mixes
up the variety of the style of enemies that you're
you're dealing with, because it's not just waves of enemies.
Speaker 1: There are boss battles, and those boss battles are bullet hells.
Speaker 2: So it goes from being a Geometry Wars game where
it's like, yeah, it's waves of waves of enemies and
there's you're dealing with a lot. But I would never
describe Geometry Wars as a bullet hell because the attacks
were pretty you know, light from your enemies for the
most part. Yes, sometimes some of the enemies that were
a little bit more difficult to deal with than others.
But no, now there's just massive bosses that shoot out
giant beams and they give you warnings that they're going
to shoot them out so you can dodge them because
you need to dodge this bullet hell. And moving the
little ship like weaving and bobbing and weaving through all
these these obstacles feels fantastic. It like overwhelms the senses
and the game just just really gets it. It's a
former said it on Tuesday show Former Housemark People, and that.
Speaker 1: Degree is immediately visible.
Speaker 2: They understand how to use particle effects and how to
use bright you know, shimmery lights, lots of sparkly things,
as the Vampire Survivor's deb said, And it's it's just
it's super working for me. It's it's a million percent
of me kind of game, and I'm really happy with
it so far.
Speaker 1: Nice. You What I just realized came out today? We
gotta track out the Outlaws remastered from Night Dive.
Speaker 2: Oh that's that came out today. Oh I did see
people talking about that. Oh yeah, we were excited about that,
and I want to I want to play that from
cold on.
Speaker 1: This was Lucas Starts using their the engine that they
had for Dark Forces to make a Western shooter. Yeah.
Night I've just remastered it, so let at track that.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that soon everybody. Yeah, maybe maybe we
can play some of that and do like do like
a quick look. That'd be fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't been able to do. We haven't done
a quick look in a moment here because yeah, I'm
thinking about maybe ways. Yeah, by the way, I have
a I was wondering, uh, you know, Fantasy Critic was
talk about thinking about it, and I was like, looking
at what else is coming out this year? O Octopath
travlor zero. I bet that's gonna do good reviews. Oh
somebody Jack bum already got it. I was like, oh,
who got it? Imagine my chef when I see Dan record,
whose team is named no RPGs allowed? Oh, desperately crawling
to Octopath Traveler zero to try to get some points
on the board no RPGs. Imagine imagine naming your team
no RPG's allowed. The year that fucking Expedition thirty three
came out.
Speaker 2: I will be so you basically you get to win
twice here, you win it, and then you'll get to
rub this in Dan's face when we do the recap episode.
Speaker 1: Right, because I mean, I guess who did have Expeditionary three?
It was me quite a bit, man. I should pick
that game. I knew it was going to be good.
I don't know why I didn't. All right, don't forget
I threw away my first pick. My first pick throw away.
Speaker 2: The first round obviously doesn't matter all that much. Clearly
the first pick doesn't matter that good. I'm just that good,
all right. Anything else Mike that you've been playing that
we should touch on it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's story. We got a few more
super chats.
Speaker 3: By the way I played that, I've been playing some
of that Caddo of duty. Is the multiplayer is I
don't Yeah, I don't know how to describe it because
it is kind of you know, it's the same game,
but it's just it's an amount of little changes that
make the gameplay feel kind of weird when you're playing
the multiplayer. It's not that you yeah, it's not like
you can dive, you can run backwards, you can do
all the movement stuff. But it's if it's a sluggish
in a weird way, in which last year's didn't.
Speaker 1: If it was like a little incoherent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you had this double chump.
Speaker 3: You see people double chumping all the time because it
looks like shit, I'm sorry, but that chump in the
world looks like people. It's like air hoping the area.
This doesn't make any sense and issues. I don't know,
it's there's I don't think it's a bad game. I
think that last year's game, she was so good. That
makes this one, which is kind of mediocre in terms
of like gunplay, and she just in general makes it
makes it look horrible.
Speaker 4: That's why I think people it's like this ship is horrible.
It's not that horrible issues. Last year's was.
Speaker 3: Really really good, and she's you know, it's like that
now they gave the because if you finish the campaign,
the cop campaign, they don't look like a new mode
in the multiplayer, and they're like nobody is playing the
campaign apparently, so we're gonna shooes open up that thing
for everybody. Yeah, you play more because we play on RPF.
Do you play more of that multiplayer?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I haven't played more since then. Yeah, I kind of
want to. I don't know, but I'm not going to
just get to be a waste of time.
Speaker 1: Yes, I kind of want to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's.
Speaker 2: Really happen is that that I got that in I
think it was the M one five or the fifteen,
and that gun felt good.
Speaker 1: So it was like I would like to go back
and just use that because I was getting some kills
with that. But we'll see.
Speaker 3: Oh, people still asking about Demon School. I'm gonna play
it this week and I'll report back next Thursday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll see if I can make time for it.
Speaker 2: I got it, Like I look at it, it doesn't
super appeal to me, but I could see like, Oh,
this is going to appeal to a lot of people,
So I'm gonna be curious to see you. Like I
think Jan wants to play it. I'm gonna try to
make that happen for him. So kind of hear what
he has to say, what Christian has to say.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh oh any other super chats Mike, Yeah,
a few more here. Think good at Grant MP for
joining the Lincoln membership tier. Here on YouTube, Snor Relaxing
says hello, Jeff time Strangler grub and Mike wide Left Minati,
I think traditional Thanksgiving food sucks shit. How do you
feel about it? Pingus. I'm a big fan of brown
food in general, so I like Thanksgiving actually quite a lot.
I think the whole turkey is not great thing is.
I mean, yeah, it's a lean meat. That's why we
invented the gravy to douse it in. That's where the
flavor is really coming from, actually, right man.
Speaker 2: And that's not like crazy for meat, Like a lot
of meat is pretty tame in terms of flavor. You're
supposed to add a bunch of seasoning and other stuff
on top of it to get flavor out of meat.
Turkey's no Day. Maybe a little bit more guilty of
that than others.
Speaker 1: I guess. But you know, you go get like the doubt.
You know, you go get the rotisserie chicken. You just
are literally picking breast meat off the bone showing your mouth.
There's not a lot of flavor there. Actually, that's why
you do other things with it. Yeah, but you know
I'd love stuffing. I'm not. I've never been the giant
mashed potatoes guy. I like it fine, but it's almost
just kind of another gravy delivery vessel.
Speaker 2: Really recently, I've been like super into mashed potatoes, which
is a weird sentence, but that's where I'm at in
my life.
Speaker 1: It's a nostalgic thing. I grew up on mashed potatoes,
and it's.
Speaker 2: Oh, some of my favorite foods right now are mashed
potato based. So I I love all the Thanksgiving basics.
I was just talking to stuff tonight. It's like, I
think I like Thanksgiving more than my birthday. Thanksgiving is
like one of my favorite holidays. I just I like
the food, I like the vibes, I like I like
the you know, my team plays like football, even though
they usually lose and they'll probably lose gun. Yeah, it's
it's just it's fun and I like the parade. I
like the grade girls like. There's some traditions of like that.
When I was a kid, Star Wars would play in
on a marathon on USA. Later it was like Mystery
Science Theater three thousand would play in marathon. I would
play video games all weekend, four day weekend. It's awesome.
Uh so, yeah, that's not your question. You're like you said,
the like the basic thing or the traditional thanks and
food suck.
Speaker 1: I get it for me.
Speaker 2: It's very nostalgic, and I love all of them. I
guess I don't like Cranberry, so there you go. I'm
not yet Cranberry saw Skuy Italian. So we do this
most of the time. We'll usually have a lasagna also,
which doesn't really go with anything else, but yet I
like having a little lasagna too, So why not Big
Crest story, Sem says, you see that story that ber
She was going to quit music, but after episode six,
dispatch fans got her music so many clicks she was
reinvigorated to keep going.
Speaker 1: So rad that's awesome, that's cute, is uh is Burchie the.
Speaker 2: Licensed music that played during the very climactic scene at
the end of the episode that I didn't get to
hear because I was playing on streamer mode.
Speaker 3: Probably I'm gonna teach you how. I'm gonna show you
how to make a pound cake. You mean I think
that's the person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Marino says, yes. Marino noted in that moment
that the licensed music was very good there. I need
to go back. I'll see if I could like see
that that scene on YouTube or something with the actual
licensed music.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh. And then Ja l A Knap
says Mikey doing a great work on the dump truck today.
Do better, Grub, enjoy the holiday and play some games. Homies.
I'll never thank you. We had a good time with
Lisa Walan did a fun show. Grub definitely not pulling
his weight around lately for sure.
Speaker 2: Sure you know doing while you guys were doing that,
I might I might have been laying down. There's a
chance I was laying down.
Speaker 1: I think we told you not. You didn't have to
because we've been working so hard. As what there was.
We missed the one from uh earlier. But you can
get to that after that, Oh my bad, says rest
in peace, Burger Becky trans Rights forever. Yes, that's Rebecca Heineman,
who was a very notable video game programmer, works on
games like Bard's Tail three, worked on that. Yeah, it
was like that was the one who had the program
that three dal Portal Doom by herself. Basically, it's a
miracle that it even happened, had an incredible career and
he did sadly pass away. Uh, it's big lost the
tire and so yeah, Rebecca Heineman, she will be missed.
Uh then haimo hemo, hemo goblin, hemo goblin, hem a goblin.
You always get mad at me. I say this wrong.
That's I got the hemo goblin, amagabin hemo goblin. It's
got to because it's like it's a joke of on hemogloblin. Glo.
Now you messed me up here. But yes, did you
play Edder Lilies two Strong Rev? Steam Metroid? I never
played the first Ender Lilies or actually so was There's
Ender Magnolia and then it's Ender Lily. Yeah. I think
that's right. I think yes, that's that's right.
Speaker 2: I started this one because I heard really good things
about the combat system did not click with me all
that fast.
Speaker 1: So I put it down and it wasn't like.
Speaker 2: Oh I think this is bad. I just I needed
it to uh, I needed to click a little bit fast.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So yeah, Eddard Lilies is the first one,
and then Ender Magnolia is the one that came out
this year and like, gosh, it has like really get
on in January. I got good reviews.
Speaker 2: I would like the people love it, yes, yeah, the
what's the Maclroy's gaming podcast Besties the Besties?
Speaker 1: Yes, they loved it on there.
Speaker 2: I think Russ Rushneck, who's like, you know, as into
Metro a Venus as you and I I think he
says it's his favorite one.
Speaker 1: See that's the thing like that, I'd be shot if
I liked this better than Silk Song. But of course
me too, and I know I don't. Yeah, all things
are possible, for sure. And then brander Esensis Game Award Conspiracy.
Why do some categories have six noms this year while
others have five that had six last year? Best Strategy
of six Direction had six last year. I do think
it's a matter of like there is like a bare
minimum amount of votes or something. There's no conspiracy. Yeah,
I think it's I think it's just math. I think
it's just the math. Yeah, there is a method to
the manness. So there's lots of things to credit size
the game awards for like, but the people who think
there's like something fishy that goes on with the voting process,
at least from what I see, is somebody is a
part of it. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there we go. That's that's all of them,
all right, Thanks, Mike MINAUGHDI appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Uh let's see here.
Speaker 2: Mike, Mike's ray said this earlier, but no episode next
week of this show. Mike, should we just take last
Nanten Dogs off next week as well? We don't have to,
but it's gonna be kind of a busy travel week.
Speaker 1: A little bit. Let's let's say we will unless let's say,
you know, it's like day on Monday they announced some
other threes coming or something. Maybe we'll bomp in. Maybe
we need a week off. It is a holiday week,
and it's a holiday week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know we just had a week off
recently because we were traveling and stuff.
Speaker 1: But uh, well it wasn't necessarily a week off for us.
It was just we couldn't do this show.
Speaker 2: Exactly, so we're gonna we might actually take our holiday
break here and uh but there's a chance for a
last thing ten dogs for sure, though decides we'll be off.
We'll get back to thanks the week after that though.
Just appreciate everyone. Yeah, bandar, did I call you brander?
I'm sorry, it's that's what happens on this show. We
stopped knowing how to say the English language words yeah,
come falling out of the mouth.
Speaker 1: However they happen hemo, goblin destroy, yes exactly. All right, Uh, Mike,
what do you got going on? We should tell people
about I Bomb stuff and nineties Disney stuff. I guess. Yeah,
there's the new Nightties Disney outs where we were exciting,
hard hitting stuff. Or we ranked the lobbies of the
hotels at Disney World with everybody, so if you're curious
about that, you can check that out. We've been having
lots of fun on Giant Bomb. They have the the
the voice bailt dump Truck that we did with Lisa
Long was a ton of fun today, so please check
that one out. Boy Blake Club has been as blady
as ever with this leisure suit. Larry game. Yes, yeah,
we're playing. Yeah, we're just dancing tomorrow, apparently in UPF.
So you don't want to miss that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you want to see the boomers dance, here's
your chance. We're going to Uh, I meant to do that.
I'm sure I need to go actually tested and make
sure I have it downloaded.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine it wouldn't work. I mean, they sold
it to me on the shop, but I'm gonna go
test it. So go dance by myself tonight. Sad dad dancing.
Bye everyone, We'll see you next time. It's Danna got so.
It was adorable, it was perfect. I'm glad. I'm just glad.
They're best friends. Down hot doggies coated with the goat sauce.
Oh but cocky, right,