Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly
video game show here at gig First and I'm your host,
Hill Musk and I got with me the two boys here.
We got the shadows. Taylor Field, how are you doing tonight?
Speaker 2: My friend doing good?
Speaker 3: You know it's uh, it's chilly, but we're inside.
Speaker 1: That is true. We do usually have we ever podcasted outside.
We have a couple of videos that record outside. We've
never podcasted outside, have we? We really got to set
up a patio.
Speaker 2: Show all the time. We can, Travis Squad and we
can do it now.
Speaker 4: We can make our own rules. Yeah, he's always containing
us in the indoors, but no, we can go outside.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's no potential for loud noises outside like
horn freeze into crickets, things like that. We can have
natural crickets, not like a classic movie edited in crickets
that always happens.
Speaker 4: I feel you need a tent to like, you know,
limit some of like the wind and just other yeas
that could be messing with the audio. But plus, like
I guess, just setting up all the chords and everything
that's a hassle with Make sure you gotta go internet connection.
But we can we can figure it out for the
podcast eyes we'll have to do a outdoor.
Speaker 1: Cast at least once. We also have the upcoming Kirkland
Pats are with us. Who's about to take a nice
big swig of that tea? How are you doing?
Speaker 4: This is actually coffee? But I'm doing great. This is
a big thing. This is a big thing for me.
I just got decaf. This is my first decaf brew.
So I can you.
Speaker 1: Tilted down that it looked pink, But maybe that's just
the mug.
Speaker 2: I don't want to pink.
Speaker 4: I don't want to pour it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't pour it on your computer.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's not pink. It's just probably the lighting effect.
It's a little bit of orange tint on for my
light right now, so that might twist it around. But no,
I love coffee, but I'm like trying to not that.
I find I have like a caffeine problem because I
don't have like a lot of them in a day.
I don't do energy drinks or anything like that, but
I just like, I just love a good cup of coffee,
especially at night time. It's like, oh, I could totally
go for a nice hot beverage, and I prefer coffee
over tea most of the time. So I just straight
up bought a ten of dcalf and like, that's just
gonna be my thing. Now. I'm gonna have like a
little like afternoon decaf and uh, I mean the first
one's hitting good. I like it a lot. Just don't
mix up the batches. I guess that's an important factor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, or else we'll be up till till two am.
Speaker 4: But I'm doing good. I'm happy to be here. I mean,
I got not brew. I'm excited to talk about twenty
twenty five games. Yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's the first episode, a first side Quest episode
of the year, and as usually we like to start
off the year. Usually we either do like one, what
are the games you played over the winter kind of
break quote unquote, or we do like a preview first,
and this year the preview is coming first, but we'll
also talk about some of the games that we have
been playing. Uh yeah, So we're gonna go through look
at every month everything that's coming out, and then some
of the things that kind of have been announced but
they don't necessarily have a month or date yet, and
then we'll pick our top five most anticipated for the year,
so it should be a fun episode. Really plugs wise,
you know, a lot of TV shows still going on,
movies and not Soperrato reviews out there last year. Go
check out the Game of the Year episode if you
somehow missed that. That was a really good time. And yeah,
I don't know, there's gonna be a lot of exciting stuff.
I think we're doing a newscast this week and other
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wants to kick it off? Maybe? Well, Taylor did tease
something that sounds that I'm very curious about, and Kirkland
is too, So Taylor tell us about this Call of
Duty update.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I it's squid game. I'll just put that
out there now into the either he said it. I
just came hot off finishing season two of Squid Games,
so I was definitely in the zone for it, and
they just dropped it and they added a whole bunch
of multiplayer modes, and they added a bunch of multiplayer
games I should say, like a playlist that has squid
Game based rules, which I don't exactly understand that because
I haven't tried it, but the only thing I have
done just don't know it. I did try the Red
Light green Light, and then I did try the Squid
Game war Zone.
Speaker 2: Which excited to talk about that. That's quite something.
Speaker 3: But the Red Light green Light, so that's basically the
classic uh game that they have in the show where
the dolls up front and it spins its head around.
It's like green light, and then you go spins the
head around to face you. It's this red light. You
gotta stop and if you move it all, then you
get shot and you're eliminated in that set, and it
keeps going round after round after round until there's just
I think one person left or the whatever.
Speaker 2: There's a few rounds, so, uh, I've beaten the first round.
Speaker 3: The second round I haven't beaten yet, and I keep
it just because it caught me off guard. I almost
made it to the finish line. But there's things that
pop up. There's gold piggy banks that pop up which
increase your score, and there's.
Speaker 2: These blue Oh yeah, they're trying to bait you. It's all.
Speaker 3: It's in third person. You can't sprint.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no omni, no omni movement this time.
Speaker 3: Around, no omni. No, You're just you're just you're just moving.
And if you move your right stick at all instead
of just move like, if.
Speaker 2: You move it all, you're done. You get shot.
Speaker 3: You can't move period, you can't look left or right.
So you got to really really pace yourself now in
the second time. I can't remember what the name of
the other game is, but there's usually like a red
folded paper square that goes on the ground and you
have a blue one and you throw it and you
have to make that red square flip over.
Speaker 2: It's one of the other games. And squid Game.
Speaker 3: So these those blue things, those blue paper things, they're
floating around on round two and so you get the
piggy banks, and you got the blue squares, and I
didn't know what they were because I was just playing.
So a guy got a blue square right in front
of me, and he turns.
Speaker 2: And he's facing me.
Speaker 3: Turns out that as soon as you get a blue square,
you activate and you get a knife that you can use,
and so it's green light and I move and he
charges at me a knife to me and eliminates me.
Speaker 2: So it's like you.
Speaker 3: Have to deal with the Yeah, you have to deal
with the pressure of other players getting weapons and like
knifing you, like kind of like happens in Squid Game,
where people sabotage and knock you down.
Speaker 2: So that's just that, and people are so toxic.
Speaker 3: Like regionally, when I go into Breaks multiplayer, there's not
a lot of people on their microphones. But every time
I go in there, it's a full roster of twenty
seven people.
Speaker 2: It is the toxic, most brutaliss fun.
Speaker 4: It really is.
Speaker 2: It's so so bad.
Speaker 3: Oh, people are so nasty and mean, but it's it's
it's a it's good mean.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Now for the war Zone, this one was actually a
lot of fun. And I think, Dylan, I think you
would really really do well.
Speaker 2: In this because it's it's really just.
Speaker 1: You need not your Kirklan.
Speaker 2: No, let me right.
Speaker 3: If there's the killing objectives, then you and we'll bring
you in Kirklem. But no, I think I'd love to
play with all you guys because it's it's so much fun.
So basically you drop in and you have you got
the full map and you got the smoke coming in.
Just like regular war Zone, it's resurgence, so you do
respond in every so often, which is great when you
die and then that ends when you get closer to
that final circle. So as you're playing, there's challenges and
each challenge that will appear will be like, okay, do
the most damaged as a team to vehicles and you
have to do that, and if you don't do it,
your team is eliminated, and then that that'll be a
course of like one minute, and so you're surviving them.
To do things, you have to use the most, use
kill streaks, activate them, Oh, throw pieces of equipment down,
jump from the highest building, climb to the highest building,
and be as like gain as much elevation as you can't.
All these little minor objectives do the most damage to
an enemy team.
Speaker 2: Oh, pick up the most supply crates, like just all.
Speaker 3: These miscellaneous little things, and it's a lot of fun
all in between. All of a sudden, you'll get a
red light green light warning where you have to stop
everyone in the maple lass to saw because it's red
light and you got to freeze.
Speaker 2: If you don't, you.
Speaker 3: Get shot and eliminated. But it's resurgence so you can
come back. So there's a whole different dynamic going on
where you really have to just focus and.
Speaker 2: Be aware of everything.
Speaker 3: And it's it's so crazy because there are some instances
where I'm playing and you just like you just by
the like the split second you're at like twelve on
the board, you're gonna get your team is up for elimination,
and then you like you get the crate or you
spend one more like dollar on the store and you
jump up like three spots and you're in, and.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just crazy. It's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3: It's it's a lot of fun, and I really do
recommend it, but I don't recommend getting in to the
vehicles because black Ops has not patched that yet.
Speaker 2: So there's a few times I got into vehicles and
you can't get out.
Speaker 3: There's so much bullshit, and black Ops has definitely gone
down as one of my It never was my favorite
cod game. I guess I enjoyed it, but I'm definitely
having problems with all these more later updates that they're
putting in, so I'm hoping that they fix it.
Speaker 2: Especially too, I.
Speaker 3: Didn't realize when I was booting into Wars and that
I have to redo all of my load outs.
Speaker 2: That was very annoying.
Speaker 1: That's annoying.
Speaker 3: That's very very annoying, very annoying. But so far, all
the squad game stuff is pretty cool. It's enjoyable, and
I do recommend it, So, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Did you play anything else over the It's say a
holiday break, but I feel like you two were going
ham on podcasting, so there's no really break for you,
even though you're all work for a few days, you
working overtime on the podcast, But any other games that
you played a little bit.
Speaker 3: Anya Jones didn't get in the Halo Reach like I wanted.
I did redownload on my another mobile game back in
the day when it first came out, Jurassic World Park Builder.
I went ham on that and I built this huge
park and so I thought, you know what I'm seeing
the ads, I'll get back into that. I got back in.
I got my Spinosaurus, all my Dino's coming in.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's good, cool, good stuff. I just have
one very quick highlight, which is I'm bringing it back
the UFO fifty game of the Week. So I talked
about UFO fifty a lot on the game of your episode.
You know, go back tune in find out why. But
one of the games I hadn't talked about because I
hadn't played yet is a game called Quibble Race, which
I have now played. This is a weird game where
it's the one three player game in the in the collection,
you can play with up to two friends. I only
played it with one friend, so I didn't take advantage
of that feature. But yeah, I finally checked it out
and had a really great time with it. It's probably
the one of the wackiest games in the collection, which
is saying something. There's a lot of really wacky games
in there, and it is like the most like dice
roll the rang just mess ever, but it's like a
super fun time. So it's called quibble race. You're racing
or you're you're betting on these quibbles.
Speaker 2: Who are racing.
Speaker 1: Quibbles are like these cute, little blobby looking guys. It's
pretty much horse racing, but with like these goofy guys
called quibbles instead, And so it kind of goes back
and forth, like my turn, my opponent's turn, and then
the CPU does a turn as well, and on your turn,
you kind of have your budget and you can choose
what you want to do with it. You can either
like pay to get intel on one of the racers.
You can pay to like pretty much. You can get
like a huge ass syringe and like inject your quibble
to give them steroids essentially, or you can buy like
a cheaper like a banana peel to try and get
something to slip. You can like sponsor different racers as well,
and there's all sorts of other things on top of
it that I haven't even figured out yet, So I
don't know how you're like supposed to play the game
it's supposed to get wins, because I haven't. I'm just
getting destroyed by the computer so far. But I had
a really good time playing that with my friend Patrick
from the super Switchheads podcast. The other night we played
a bunch of other co op things, and they're like
playing more hyper Contender, which is like the smash leg game,
which was super fun. But yeah, I'm a quibble race.
I still three more unplayed games in the UFO fifty collection,
but that one is a super good time. So that's
the gift that keeps on giving, is uf fifty? How
about you hurt them nice?
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mostly spent my gamy time playing Death Stranding,
which I think I told you a little bit about
on the Game of the Year. I was like picking
it up at that time, and then I just never
put it down since that episode, it seemed because I
think in that episode I was on episode or sorry,
actually yeah, they are episodes. I was gonna say chapter three,
but episode three, Fragile which is probably the last of
like the long chapters. So I felt like I was
on that chapter for like a really really long time.
But it makes sense because it's like a really long area.
And then after that, I think it was you that
told me, like you just really start flying through them,
and that was the case. Like I I'm I think
I'm entering like the last part, Dylan, if you remember,
I'm like passing like the tar ocean right now, if
you remember.
Speaker 1: Okay, that does sound pretty late. I would.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So like I like I finished like all the mountain
stuff in the snowy area, and I.
Speaker 1: Just freaking since we talked.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh yeah, no, I I was not exaggerating. I
was going super hard. It would be like one of
those things where it's like two in the morning and
I'm like, okay, I gotta go to bed here. I'm like, okay, well,
let's just finish my root here and then I do
some things and I'm like, okay, well now I know
what I want to do, so let's just go this area.
And then like another hour and a half goes by,
and yeah, I got so hooked on that game. And
once you get into like episode four ish, I feel
like the I feel like the plot really starts like
not really unraveling, but just like revealing more of like
what is actually going on in the universe. Like I
had no idea what the hell was what the desk
strain was there any of these characters, what the BB's
were with the BT's, Like, I just had no idea
anything until they really started having these like heavy dialogue
sequences with just these like fun nominal mo cap of
these actors that are like doing and there's just wild
things in this cut scenes. People are always giving me
a thumbs up, like in the cut scene and then
like you get the plus twenty likes or whatever, and
I just I don't know. I I love that game
so much, Like I'm it's crazy. It took me so
long to finally jump back into it. I haven't completed
it yet. I was kind of I wasn't really struggling
to get through like the ocean, but I'm like, Okay,
this is kind of annoying, so I'm gonna maybe just
go back to building some roads. So I spent a
long time on my last session just like building the
roads up to where I was kind of at, especially
once I unlocked, like the truck and like just fully
loading my cargo and just carrying so much more stuff,
and then like really planning out my routes like I
had like a pen and paper, like doing math, so
I knew exactly the materials that they needed to like
actually like mid max my deliveries, and like it was
so satisfying when it worked out. There was a couple
of times where I was short, like forty ceramics, and
It's like god, damn it. Okay, then I'm like scann,
I'm just looking around in the wilderness these forty ceramics.
I know they're around somewhere. But yeah, I I'm loving
the game. I'm loving the game so much. I'm a
little bit nervous for it to be over, but I'm
glad I'm like getting through it now now that we're
getting Destraining too next year, like it's on the horizon,
so I'll be I'll be ready for it to drop.
I'm I'm pretty happy that I made some some good
headway into it. And I really wasn't like rushing through
it either, Like I just felt like I was at
like a normal like a natural pace. But I mean
clearly I was advancing pretty pretty quickly. But the mountains
are insane. Man, Like once you go in those snowstorms.
Speaker 1: It's such a fun sandbox the area, like replace the
sand for snow and it just yeah, it just feels
like such a wild West out there. It's so fun.
Speaker 4: I felt like much fellowship. I feel like the Fellowship apart.
It's just getting defeated by coraddres, like we have to
go under the mountain.
Speaker 1: We can't do this. Yeah, there's a foul voice in
the air. The way you get like so intimately familiar
where you're like, oh okay, I know that that. Yeah,
there I can do Like if I get really close
to it on the bottom left and then I sneak
up just around the right side, I should be able
to get around it like every time, or like oh
I got a ladder and like the per it took
fifteen minutes to get this ladder set up, but now
it just changes the whole game. I I just and
then like going down is such a fun thing there too,
like using the wagon thing and just like snowboarding down to.
Speaker 4: Get I've never even really used that one because I
got to do it.
Speaker 1: It's so I mean, you know, it's recipe to get
your ship flying all over the island.
Speaker 4: I'll do it with no cargo. Made so much fun.
Just just yeah, because I was talking to good old
Holdalgo about this because he's a big distraining fan. But uh,
like I haven't even used like the cargo cannon yet,
Like I haven't even used like the zip line or anything.
Like there's a lot I've never used the zip.
Speaker 1: Line in my time in that game. I I cause
it always it's like you have to get to the
two places to set up a zip line, right, So
it's like, well, I've already been there now, I don't
need like the zip line anymore. I'm sure there is
points if you're gonna keep doing runs over and over again,
But yeah, there are as we talk about my episode,
like there's so much in that game. I like, you're
just you're such a good hype man for the games
you're passionate about, Like I just want to get back
in there. But I also know, like, well, one, I
don't know if my save would transfer from PS four
to PS five, and also I have des Stranding physical
and I didn't get the physical PS five and then
it's like a dest Rand two's coming out, like next
year probably so or this year, I guess at this point.
So I feel like I'm just gonna wait at this point.
But yeah, I definitely I missed that game. It's it's
been a few years now, so I mean I played
in twenty nineteen, so I's been a long time, right.
I'm I'm pitching to get back in.
Speaker 4: There, No, one hundred percent. I'm just so curious at
what mechanics and stuff they're gonna introduce for the next game.
I imagine it's going to be like just major quality
of life things.
Speaker 1: We haven't really seen much of that from trailers, Like
we don't really have much mon idea. I don't think
of like new equipment. We've seen some new types of environments,
but you know, I think that stuff won't really affect
a whole lot.
Speaker 4: It's more like the equipment something that like I was like,
I wasn't really thinking about it while I was playing
until I was like getting through the mountain areas, I'm like,
oh yeah, there's not like a day and night cycle
in this game. Like this is like like they have
such like dynamic weather with like the rain and everything,
but there's never like nighttime like sequences, which I feel
like that game could just gets so much scarier if
there was night time sequences. So maybe that's the only
that they get remembered.
Speaker 1: But that's a great thing to add into a sequel.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, And like they already have such big emphasis
on the weather right with like, well, when you know
the mountains, it's snow, which at first I didn't think
it was actually time fall. I'm like, this is perfect,
it's not wearing down my cargo, and then like the
little hint pops up. It's like it actually is worse
than regular rain, Like god, damn it. So I'm always
packing like five plus contained repair sprays and uh no, man, like.
Speaker 1: Sorry, quick question, isn't there Isn't There a lot of
stuff in that game, though, it's like you have five
days to do this quest or it's gone, or you
have to deliver things in like a certain amount of.
Speaker 4: Time, Like there's priority shipments, but they're usually like an
hour or something like you like you have to get
this to this place in an hour max. Sometimes there
are less than that. There's a couple of times when
I like actually had to like gun it to my destination,
which is always dangerous in the snow. But yeah, I
don't really remember like a multi day one. Maybe that's
like a premium contract. I don't think I've really done
many of those. But there was two different times in
my hardcore over the Christmas break binging session of this
game that I literally just like quit the desktop, like
I'm done with this game. I was so mad. I
just climbed like the top of a mountain and I
had like my two carriers with me, like full of cargo,
and then I went to climb up a rock and
it like sling shotted my one like cargo thing. Like
I don't know. Sometimes it can be a little bit
weird with the elasticity of like your your tethers on
your it literally just shot it down the mountain. And
then I like like quickly turned my character around because
I was just like trying to process what was happening,
and then in doing that, I like fell off the
cliff and then just like started rolling and lost everything
that I had, like all of my cargo just went
all the way down to the mountain, and I just
turned off the game. Was like, yeah, fuck this, I'm
so mad.
Speaker 1: Or like a couple things falling into the river and
then you're like just trying to catch up to it,
but then you start floating.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a couple times where that happened. It's just
so mad. I'm like, no, I can't, I can't like
redo that. I can't even load the same, Like I
just have to come back tomorrow. I need a break
right now. This is too much. But no, I'm I'm
truly truly loving the game. It's it's so fantastic. And
the first time I actually had like a Mad's sequence,
like other than just like like the you know, the
little glimpses that you have like through BB's eyes. It
like I totally forgot about the early teaser trailer for
like des training where you see him like as a commando,
like with a gun, and I was just like, holy shit,
I can't believe how long ago that was, Like that
teaser trailer for Distraint, Like I remember we're at three
or you know, covering our E three that we would
do back in the day resting PC three. But uh man,
it's just yeah, like this game.
Speaker 1: It's crazy eighteen at the latest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had no idea what it was, and like
I still don't really know what's going on. I kind
of have a better glimpse, but like it's still like
just crazy world building and everything that Kajima is able
to make, Like it's just it's just mind blowing, like
like the world crafting of the environments is amazing and
the mechanics are amazing. But then like once you actually
like have these characters breaking down the science of like
what's happening with the beaches, and you're just like, man,
this is like a deep sci fi writer here. This
is like this is some like Dune prophecy type world
building that he has. Like I'm just so impressed. And
obviously you know, he's well well renowned with like his
mel gear, solid like world building and everything, and just
like the plots and characters in that is always so fascinating,
but just so much depth to like a lot of
the characters that you meet, which is just so so interesting,
and even like a lot of the side characters that
you just meet them at like the depots, Like sometimes
you'll get like like a male or something and they
like follow up like I don't remember if there's like
a couple that like got married and then like later
on they're like, yeah, we split up, and like I'm
moving back with my Mom. It's just like, oh, man, like,
that's that's crazy. And if I didn't read that male like,
I would have no idea. I would just would assume
they they married forever. So there's just some like.
Speaker 1: I definitely read a lot of emails in that game. Yeah,
because there was interesting tidbits in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I'm just so fascinated by like the level of
depth that they have to all the characters. And then
of course when you get introduced to characters like Mama
or Hartman and yeah, it's just touched the chord. Sorry,
you have to see me. And with that, I'm done.
I'm done, my destract.
Speaker 1: The connection has been severed, just like indes drending right on. Yeah,
that's some good highlights there. Let's take our first head
break and we'll be right back. Okay, we are back
to do the twenty twenty five video game preview. We
are going to go through and take a look at
not every single game that's releasing, but we're gonna go
through this calendar and point out the interesting things that
are relevant, and then at the end of that, we're
gonna come together make our individual top fives for most anticipated.
I'm gonna go off game spots list. I used to
go off Game and Former, but Game and Former got
shut down last year by game Stop. Not to be
confused at game Spot, so very confusing. Now that all works,
but now game spot has the best one, whereas Game
and Former had the best one for a few years.
So that's that's how I'm going about this, all right.
So and also, you know, if I skip past the thing,
guys feel free to you know, just showed at me
and we can we can go through it. But I'm
just gonna call the things that I think are the
most interesting. I think the first kind of major release
of the year, and it's maybe not even that major
is is Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. So this was
originally a WI game, and then it came to three
DS with like a different version there, and then it
now it's coming to switch finally with I believe it
or was a WEU game. I think it was a
WE game. Actually yeah, we into three DS. Maybe there's
a WU version in there, and now it's coming to
switch finally with I don't know, I guess kind of
an amalgamation of the two versions of the game. And
this is a game I actually talked about on Side
Quest last year. I'd picked up for three DS and
was playing through, and I played through maybe like half
the game. Do you guys have any interest in this one?
It's been a lot of time since we've got a
new DONKEYCLNG game, and it's unfortunate that this is kind
of the best we're going to get. Maybe the Switch
too will have a little more delights for us, but
any interest in this one?
Speaker 4: Someone's not hitting the needle for me. I don't know.
I was. I mean, I was peeking for the Peach
release last year. That's kind of more more of the
Mario character that gets me excited for a new game.
But I don't have like a lot of nostalgia with
Donkey Kong Country. The one, the one that has nostalgia
for me is the one with the bongos. Which one
was that from the game Jungle Beat or Bongo Jungle Beater.
My cousin had that one Donkey Konga Yeah, yeah, and
then DK Racing, like those are kind of like my
DK experiences other than just Smash Bros. Of course, But yeah, I've.
Speaker 1: Never actually played those rhythm games. I've only ever just
like tried to play melee with that controller, which is
of course a total people do that, just not like
in tournament, but like if you're at a friend's house
and you're drunk and you're only play melee for five years,
like what I did? You know, you're trying to find
new ways to engage with the game because it has
like there's a there's like a little button, a little
buttons on it and.
Speaker 4: It's like the guitar Hero guitars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sort of thing, I think, if I remember correctly,
if you clap, because it has like a microphone or something, right,
if you clap it like that's how you shield, which
is not great because like it will shield for like
a frame, so you have to get like a perfect shield.
It was. It was a mess, but you know, good times.
Uh nice, Yeah, okay, moving uh moving on here. I
actually picked out this game I've never heard of, but
just looking through the list was a game called Things
Too Ugly. I was like, that's such a weird name.
I wonder what that game is. And that actually looks
really cool. Like the prem I watched. I watched like
the trailer on Steam and the premise of it, it
looks like you're kind of it's first person. You're going
to this place, which is like this weird night shift,
and you're going in to do some work. I don't
feel like a security guard or something like that, but
it seems like there's a lot of like you're navigating
like a computer terminal, computer screen. There's a lot of
like weird devices and stuff, and it seems very mysterious
and weird. So I threw it on my It looks interesting,
looks kind of weird and cool, So that one's on
my list that's called Things Too Ugly. Don't forget that beautiful,
beautiful title. Skating along a little bit to Final Fantasy
seven Rebirth is coming to PC on January twenty third.
I don't know if there's much to say on that,
but it's coming over. I feel like that game did
it come out? I thought it came on like February
last year, so like less than a year's exclusivity, but
like just barely seems kind of weird. Maybe there wasn't
that long when exclusivity window on or something. That's like
a two parter game, right, that's the second one. Yeah,
that is the second one. Okay, Yeah, no, I it's
weird because like I have a select few friends on
my friends list that are like always playing these Final
Fantasy games. I feel like I haven't seen anyone play
Final Fantasy seven, oddly enough of all of them. But yeah,
I kind of just forgot about that, Like I thought
Part one came out like a while ago now, and
then it's actually my PS plus thing. I gave it
a download because I subscribed to that, and I have
some things I've been playing from there. I'll share next week,
I think, but I might, I might finally jump in
and check out. I mean, it doesn't have rebirth, it
just has Part one, but I'm sure Part two will
be on there eventually.
Speaker 4: So yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Did you guys, Have you guys ever played this Star
Wars game? Star Wars Episode one Jedi Power Battles game
I had never heard of.
Speaker 4: Come on, come on, I had that image saved in
the in the GV drive that was the one with
what's his name is it? Plocoon? And then because because
I was saying that he had like an orange lightsaber,
this came up on like a Star Wars cast and
it's like, no, he doesn't actually, and then I pulled
up the screenshot from that video game. I got this
for a birthday party, like for my birthday at Scandia.
My sister got me for this for PS one. So yes,
I have nostalgia with Jedi Power Battle.
Speaker 1: Enough nostalgia to pick up a new rema a remaster.
I don't even know if that's what you'd call it,
probably just port.
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: Sorry n sixty four PS two situation.
Speaker 4: Yes, so in sixty four PS one, I mean like
on because I have like the premium PlayStation catalog which
gives you PS one games, and they have Jedi Power
Battles on there. Like I thought about just downloading it
to get just a nostalgia itch, so I won't be
buying this since I have access to that older one. Yeah,
just peculiar that this is even out. It just seems
like it was a co op game, so maybe that
was like a big thing back then. But I don't know.
I I have nostalgia for it, but like, this wouldn't
be my Star Wars game that I'm like pitching to
get a remaster. It's just kind of odd. But so yeah, Taylor,
word about you. You jump into Power Battles.
Speaker 3: I'm never I never played it. Before I was just
looking at a trailer. They got thirteen new playable characters,
so yeah, couch co ops. There's some cool things in here, bonus.
Speaker 2: Levels and whatnot.
Speaker 3: So it looks Arcade cheets big Head Mode. It looks
like they've added a few different, few different things, which
I can kind of I can get behind, but I'm
always leary about these Star wars ports, I gues, especially
because Battlefront was supposed to be the Bee's Knees and
that just had a really rough launch that battle Sorry
Battlefront one and two kind of combo redo.
Speaker 4: So mhmm. Yeah, it's definitely like an Arcady game like it.
It feels like like like those Arcade tmn T sort
of things, or like the Simpsons. I remember the Simpsons
had a game at the Arcade, like you get like
a pick up, like a power boost thing that extends
your lightsaber, so like a really long lightsaber, so when
you're swing you like hit more enemies. It's just kind
of goofy stuff like that. I remember.
Speaker 1: M hm. Cool. Moving along. The next one that stands
out to me is a game called Warside, which I've
seen some clips of this one over the last few weeks.
This is kind of like an Advance Wars like game.
It actually looks like what you'd expect a new Advance
Where is to look like. When they did the reboot camp,
they for a more chib three d art style, but
this game looks fantastic. The pixlart is insane. It looks
almost too close to Advanced Wars for me, where it's
like I want you to have like a little bit
of your own personality and not just like a coffy
and one to one of this, but like, my god,
look at that pixelart. It is unreal, so it looks
really cool. I still haven't even gotten to War Groove two,
which is also Advanced Wars like in terms of gameplay,
but with a more fantasy setting, so I don't think
i'll be picking this one out. I still have stuff
to do, and what Advanced Wars one plus two reboot camp?
That game is huge because it's two games and one
so I don't think I'll be picking this up at
launch unless it like hits a streaming service thing. But
it looks fantastic. So if you're looking for Advanced Wars
U and Nintendo's not making new ones, then go check
out Warside looks pretty cool. Yeah, because Kirklan, you've never
really played any of these types of tactics games, right,
You've more just stick stuck in the fire of the
realm at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it would be
I don't know. I would maybe recommend that one plus
two reboot Camp or war Groove before this, But I
don't know. Maybe this game will be the next best thing.
I just have to wait and see. And then on
the thirtieth of January we have Sniper Elite Resistance. So
this kind of seems like one of those games that's
like a bit of a half step. It's not quite
the next Sniper Elite six, but it's, you know, maybe
gonna be like half a cheaper price or something like that,
like a forty dollars game, shorter campaign. That's at least
what my read on it is. I think you play
as a different character in here. I believe this game
is confirmed to be coming to Game Pass Day one.
It's also coming to PlayStation X and PC and all that.
Not Switch but everything but Switch. I I'm gonna play this,
be playing this day one. I've been really loving Sniper
Elite lately, especially Sniper Elete five was such a fantastic game,
so I'm definitely gonna pick this one up very much
looking forward to it. I'm not even gonna write I
haven't decided on my top five for the year yet
write that down. I don't know if it's gonna make it,
but I am very excited for that. How about you, Kirkland,
I know you've played some Sniper Lead in your day.
Any interest in this in this new one?
Speaker 4: I mean, it looks enticing. I haven't really played any
of them other than the third though, and on PlayStation
catalog they actually have four maybe five as well, so I'm.
Speaker 1: More on there.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure they have four, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: I bought I bought Sniper Lead four like a three
sixty version, and it's not backwards compatible on Series X,
but Sniper Lead two is, so I'm like, what the
older game is back like? That doesn't make any sense.
So so if it's on there, I'm gonna check definitely.
Speaker 4: I remember on PS three my PS one games were
backwards compat but my PS two games would like they
just wouldn't work. It's it's weird sometimes it just doesn't
work with the previous chain, but so yeah, maybe one day.
I'm I don't know. I feel like hit Man is
kind of taking the priority on like a stealthy sniper
light game over the.
Speaker 1: What am I doing? I don't want to play it
away from Hitman? I just shut up.
Speaker 4: Let me have thre does training the focus I have
mad then we'll, you know, go back to the tactics vein,
We'll do that. You gotta play the Hakaido mission before
Winter's up. Okay, Yeah, it's still snowing on the ground.
You know, we're still skiing, so we're good.
Speaker 1: And then Spider Man two comes out on the same day,
January thirtieth, on PC. So that's where the port's happening. Taylor,
you're gonna you're gonna pick that one up and jump
into Spider Man.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I've I've got Spider on one and the miles and
miles on my Steam wishless, and I'm just waiting for
there to be a really, really good sale.
Speaker 2: And I just like the sales that I see.
Speaker 3: It's true, they've gone fifty around, no, around fifty bucks.
I feel like I've maybe have like thirty forty percent off. Yeah,
I haven't seen it go anything lower than that. If
it gets to be around like the thirty dollars range,
I feel like I feel comfortable getting it, just because
it's a much older game now to get that first
Spider Man, and I do want to play more of it.
Speaker 2: Ah, but I.
Speaker 3: Didn't realize Spider Man two was gouldn't be coming to PC.
So that's that's pretty enticing and hopefully that on that
just the first one down in price a little bit
more so maybe had Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does seem a little soon for me, honestly,
because I think that one came out in was it November,
Kirkland when that game came out November of twenty twenty three, of.
Speaker 4: Course, yeah, I think so because the first one was that's.
Speaker 1: Like pretty much a year in two or three months,
which yeah, seems pretty fast for the ports. But I
mean it's doing well for them clearly if they keep
doing it. So that's good to see anything in January
that I miss or shall I keep moving?
Speaker 4: I thought Magic In looks kind of cute. Uh, not
like the biggest fan of like the three D animation,
but uh, this type of game that like I wish
it was on console because I think Shae would really
like it, but it's not really a PC.
Speaker 1: Game or some people, Oh yeah, coming to early access,
so I don't know. Maybe with the full release it'll
hit console.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I like the little whimsical character. Yeah,
like a little magic broom like guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looks cute. Someone in the chat, which I can
only assume is some crazy Roman numeral asd what's coming
February first and hate to breed you? But nothing? According
to this there's nothing, which probably means it's like a
Monday or Tuesday or something, or maybe a Saturday. But
the earliest thing in February is kicking it off with
Kingdom Come Deliverance too, which this game looks like a
lot of fun. It just looks so weird and wacky
and interesting, like medieval setting. I don't know much about
the first one. I think the first one was like
just okay, but this one does seem like visually looks
like a big step up. So this is one I
really want to play. I just don't know if I
can justify ninety bucks on a big question mark, but
I'm I'm very excited to hear reviews for it and
see if it's lives up to the hype because if so,
it's definitely one that I would want to pick up eventually.
It just looks looks cool and unique. Honestly, even in
it's crowded like genre, it actually looks like it stands
out in its own way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I played the first one a little bit. It
was It was funny. It was one of those games where,
like way back before side Quest was even a thing,
you know, early days of pod maybe even before podcasting,
when I would just watch like the video games that
are coming out, maybe like E three had like a
little preview something or someone like compiled all the all
the E three releases and I remember just seeing like
early videos for what Kingdom Come was, and I just
thought it was so cool. It was it looked like
very realistic in that medieval setting. And then like years,
like probably five six years later, I eventually got the
first game, and I I really did enjoy it. But
it is a slower paced game, like it is definitely
more realistic. There might have been fast travel, but like
I never really did that, so I just remember it
like taking a while to like do a lot of
like the fetch quests and stuff, but a lot of
cinematics and everything, but like the combat was really strange too,
because it's not just like a hack and slash, like
it's very like slow and it's.
Speaker 1: Like chivalry a little bit in that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely pretty similar to that, like when you're
going for like pokes to the head and stuff like,
it's really like about the timing of that.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I I enjoyed the time I had with it. I
just it felt maybe overmed by just how big it
was and maybe how slow it was. But I don't know.
I haven't really seen too much about the second one though,
but it is cool that they are releasing another one,
because yeah, they had like mocap actors if I remember
correctly for the first one, like they did, they had
really great cinematics and everything, and of course there's betrayal.
Speaker 1: In the storyline, of course, but yeah, always some of that.
And then we have on February fifth, we have Rift
of the Necrod Answer, which I feel like I've not
heard this announcement of this game. I'm sure we talked
about side Quest and I just forgot, but this looks
like the next game from the team who makes Crypt
of the Necrod Answer. And then After that, they made
Cadence of Hyrule, which was like that rhythm based dungeon crawler,
and then Cadence Rael was the Zelda kind of skin
version of that. And this is their next game, and
it looks a lot different. It looks like more of
a guitar hero type setup with the classic notes flying
at you. But still I'm sure some of that rhythm
game seems like there's a lot of characters and story
element to it as well. I gotta say, I don't
really like the art style as much as the pixel
art from their other two games, but that's cool that
they're coming back. I know Briggs is a big fan
of crypt of the Necro Dancer, so I just picked.
Speaker 4: Up Crypt of the Necro Dancer. Actually, like over over
the holiday, it was on It's been on my wish
list for a very long time, you know, shouts A Hidalgo.
He was a fan of that first one and was
showing it to me, so I think at that point
I just wish listed it, and then over the holiday
it was on really good sales, so nice excited to
jump into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I played Cadence of I Rule the Zelda one
and I just found it really hard. I was just
so bad at it. I'm sure if I spend a
few more hours with it. And obviously with the Zelda
version you get some more like Zelda E type music,
which is which is always cool. So yeah, really unique,
interesting game. This one looks a little less unique. I
got to stay just because it's more a little more
guitar hero coded. But maybe that'll help them reach a
wider audience. Taylor, You're gonna be picking up Ambulance Life,
a paramedic simulator on February sixth for your Xbox Series X.
Speaker 3: You know I'm always down for a good simulator.
Speaker 2: Uh, probably the last simulator.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Ruben used to always hook me up with simulators. I
go to his house, be like, Taylor, check this out.
We'd be playing like semi truck simulator simulator with.
Speaker 2: Our headset.
Speaker 3: He had me play one of the hunting simulators. It's
just like a hunting game, and they can be a
little slow. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Just this one seems like it could be. It could
be traumatic to play this game, but unless it's supery
and like if you get someone, if you let someone die,
that's not like traumatic. But instead it's just like funny,
but like, I don't know, we'll have to see what
the tone is of this one.
Speaker 4: So there's definitely like a spectrum of those simulator games
where like Surgeon Simulator, you know, is just ridiculous when
you're just pulling guts out and stuff like controls are
very goofy. But then there's like American Truck Simulator, which
like people take very seriously realize people make like giant rigs.
It's just like, just be a trucker, man, if you
like it that much, just be a trucker. But I digress.
Speaker 1: I don't know. As I've said many times before, like
doing video game chores, love it doing real life chores,
and don't want to do an It's more fun when
you're getting points and you can turn it off at
any point. Anyway, we don't need to spend more time
on ambulance life. So let's move on to I think
my first and maybe even my number one most hyped
game of the year on February eleventh is sid Meyer's
Civilization seven. One thing that I'm very excited about with
this is that it's coming to everything at the same time,
including Switch, which I'm very curious to see what goes
on Switch, But like, my PC sucks and I don't
think it could run this game, but I'm glad that
I can play it on I mean, if it can
run on Switch, maybe it can run on my computer,
I guess. But I can't wait for this game. I
think they're going in some really interesting directions. I didn't
love six necessarily, but I saw someone say this recently
that like the odd numbered SID games are the best,
which I actually agree with because I also love three, three,
and five are like my favorite ones, So maybe seven
will be the next one for me here. But yeah,
I think they're doing some really interesting mechanics. I love
the visuals of it, and I think some of the
things that I didn't like about six, not that they're
undoing them, but they're just kind of evolving or going
in some different directions. So very very exciting for this.
I feel like that's gonna be a game that I'm
gonna spend just way more hours than I should, with
probably hundreds of hours into it, hopefully because six, you know,
it wasn't quite there for me, but I still played
a lot of it, So that is super duper big
hype for me, and you you guys, and I want
to pick it up and play with me and run
run a campaign together.
Speaker 2: I got SIP five.
Speaker 4: I think it was literally like one point nine dollars,
Like that's how cheap it was. Like it was like
a ninety five percent off sale, and I just had
to do.
Speaker 1: It as a robbery.
Speaker 4: I just couldn't really get into it. I don't know,
because I play a lot of turn based game like
Total War. Warhammer is half a turn based game. It's
probably eighty percent of turn based game, honestly, So I
do like games like that. Tactics as well.
Speaker 1: Are Obviously they've made a lot of changes to the combat.
It looks like in this if that was one of
the things you didn't like about, because I think Civ's
combat has never really been great. But yeah, I don't
even know what they've changed, but some from the clips
I've seen, it seems like that's something they've tried to
make more interesting and engaging.
Speaker 4: I think it's just because of my arts roots. I'm
just such a like I need to see the battles
actually happening, you know, Like I got to see combat
going on. I can't just put my army block or
hexagon whatever it is, whatever shape they use out out
in front of the city, and just just went it
that way. But I don't know, like I was even
looking at six because it was on again like a
it was probably a dollar ninety. They keep getting these
dollar ninety sales. I'm like, jeez, I feel like I
just have to get this, But no. The CIV game
I played the most is Beyond Earth, which is probably
like one of the worst ones everybody says, But for whatever,
I was doing a lot of co op campaigns with
a friend at that time, so the power of friendship
can really boost a game.
Speaker 1: It's true. That is true, Taylor. I'm sure you're gonna
be picking up seven Screed Shadows and I probably will
too because of Ubi soft subscription service. Where are you
at with that one? Where's the hype level?
Speaker 2: The hype is there.
Speaker 3: I just bummed out that I got delayed, bummed out
that it's going to be dropping on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: Madison's like, yeah, I called Dibbs before you be.
Speaker 4: Soft, So sorry, baby, but my hype is there.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it. There's there's a lot of
things in here that are get me excited. Some mechanics
that they've been highlighting, and yeah, they're just they're taking
a little bit of extra time just to polish off
the game.
Speaker 2: So nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3: In the long run, after the kind of soft reset
with Mirage, just kind of going back to formula, it
has got me really really pumped to see what this
game is gonna entail. Just the two different storylines as
well the narrative.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just all in all, I'm super superjuiced for this, and
I'm excited to see and get word of the other
titles they announced too, like hack Code, Name Hacks and stuff.
Speaker 2: This is the things and the works. But I'll take this.
This is gonna be It's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 3: This is the one than the one that the fans
have been asking for for a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I reason I wanted to play it, but
now I'm looking at this release day and it's pretty brutal,
I gotta say, so, we'll see. I would like to
check it out because it's a little more accessible with
this subscription, but it's wedged in between Sieve, as we
just mentioned and avowed, which is out on the eighteenth,
which is also another one of my most anticipated games.
It's a game that I've I've tried to keep my
expectations low, but there's been a lot of previews for
a lot of people have played the game, and I
don't know just even like Xbox has done a bunch
of different showcases talking about it some more and like
everything I hear about just make it sound like it's
kind of gonna be a little bit of a step
up from recent Obsidian stuff. Obsidian always makes consistently good stuff,
but I think this one could be great. So that's
another one that I'm very much looking forward to. You know,
I like Outer World's enough, but I think even just
switching to the fantasy setting is gonna do a lot
for it. And uh yeah, so very very excited for Avowed.
Do you guys see yourself picking up that game at all?
Interested in Skyrim? Boys? I know you guys love your Skyrim.
Do you want to play a Skyrim that's only twenty
hours long instead? And you don't have to invest three
years if your life too.
Speaker 4: I don't have an Xbox Series X and I won't
have an upgraded PC by then, so I want to
have access to it. Unfortunately, but yeah, they one day.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm on game pass.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm definitely down.
Speaker 3: It's all games past, and I mean I'm gonna pop
it on and give it a whirl and see what
it's like. Because Sky our Older Skull six is non
existence at this point, so I need I could use something.
Speaker 2: I keep going back to.
Speaker 3: Skyrim, you know, that's the one that just like it
pulls me back every so often for years.
Speaker 4: So I was playing a little bit of Skyrim. Actually,
you just reminded me over the I just got some
snowy I think it was when I was playing Destranty
over the Mountains. I'm like, I just want to be
in Skyrim right now. So I played a little bit
of that. But while I was playing it, I made
me of that E three when Elder Scroll six was announced,
or that they're working on whatever the hell they even
said at the time, and maybe I want to like
go back and re listen to us talking about it
and like what our prediction.
Speaker 1: I still lived in Colona at that point in time.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was bonkers, but I was just like curious
of how hyped I was and like thinking of, like, yeah,
we probably won't even see nil, like twenty twenty four, you know,
like whatever our dates were that we were kind of
shouting out. Though, Yeah, we still have no idea when
that game, if is ever coming out. Yeah, there's been
at one point.
Speaker 1: It's not uncommon for these rumors to pop up, but
there's been more and more rumors of an Oblivion remaster
happening or not a re I guess I don't know
if you'd call it a remake, but like a I
think remasters maybe the best way to put it. And
I really hope that's true. I would love to jump
back and do and that'd be cool dated version of Oblivion.
I mean, I'm sure there's the mods have been insane
for it over the years. I could probably just go
do that on my PC, but.
Speaker 4: Well, Sky Oblivion is like the big one that they
have where yeah.
Speaker 1: It look's insane. That's almost done, I saw, which I
don't know if that means like only three more years
or if it's like, oh, actually this year kind of thing.
Speaker 4: So it's not saying it so we can actually put fathe.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's easier to download than follow London, because that
was impossible Lost Records, Bloom and Rage tape one. What
a mouthful that one. So the tape one part, I
haven't heard about that, but I'm guessing that means that
this is gonna be split into multiple stories. I don't
know if it's gonna be episodic, because I know don't
Not has done that with their other games. So this
is the Life Is Strange team, where I think there's
two separate teams making Life is Strange games right now,
and this is one of them. This is their next project,
which looks a lot a lot of the same, but
new characters, new setting, not as much tied to the
baggage of Life Is Strange and all that. So that
one's coming out on February eighteenth. Moving ahead on the
twenty eighth, we have Monster Hunter Wilds. So this is
the next big one because you know, we had Monster
Hunter World and that's like a lot of people's favorite
game of all time were like up there, you know,
it's a huge game. And then we had Rise come
out the Switch exclusive and I got ported elsewhere, and
I think people really enjoyed that game, but it was
not quite on the realm of world. But it seems
like wild it's going to be. It's going to be
that for a lot of people, and I really struggle
with this series. It's just so hard to get into
and I don't think this will be the time for me.
But it looks great visually, so I'm happy for those
fans out there.
Speaker 4: We have a movie review as well on the feeds
for a Monster Hunter movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my god, how did you know?
Speaker 4: How I listened to that episode?
Speaker 2: That's how I know.
Speaker 4: I was excited about that review.
Speaker 1: That's so low tailor review. Nothing, I like it right on.
All right, we're getting into March now, and starting off
with March fourth, we have Two Point Museum. I would
love to check this game out. I don't know if
it'll be in game Pass, because I played Two Point
Campus and I had a really great time with it.
I think it's like I've always loved Builder games and
like Rollercross, the Tycoon and stuff, and this just takes that.
It really embraces the goofiness of it, but like it's
also just really well designed and that you know, they
did Two Point Hospital and the campus and now Museum,
so I think this looks like fun. I would potentially
see myself picking that one up at some point and
moving along to March sixth is Split Fiction. So that's
the next game from the studio that I forget the
name of, but they made it Takes two. They made
a way out, they made Brothers a tailor of two Sons,
but they're back, so split Fiction. We talked about that
on the Game Awards episode we broke that that trailer down, Taylor,
or rather Kirkland, Sorry, I forget are you picking that
game up?
Speaker 4: Is that like A yeah, yeah, I've already told Shade
a clear schedule that day. We're jumping in that one.
Because I was really excited to play It Takes two
with her, and then she just didn't like the game mechanics,
and I'm like, Okay, this one probably will be similar
game mechanics wise, but I think the aesthetic is just
so much more appealing to her, Like the worlds and everything.
She really didn't like, like the animation a lot of like
like the not cartoon characters, but just like the puppet
type characters, Like she didn't like a lot of that stuff.
But uh, I have hope. She's a big dragon fan,
so you know, big how to train a dragons, So
there's some dragons in there. We're we're gonna be jumping
into this one and uh yeah, report back it'll be
amazing or just devastating, and I'll just.
Speaker 1: Looking forward looking for a friend to play with. I mean, yeah,
their last game one Game of the Year, the Game Awards,
so for what it's worth it and it popped off
there March and they beat Death Loop, which you know,
one of the greatest games ever made, so must be
a pretty good game. March sixth, sug it In one
and two HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars.
What a fucking mouthful of title. Do you guys know
anything about sucan in JERRPG series? No, I don't think, Okay,
suc In Yeah, it's an old JERRPG series. I think
most of the PS one and PS two. Maybe there's
a PSP game in there or something. I think there's
like maybe five of them or something like that. But
it's kind of known for having just like a hundred
playable characters and buddy attacks where each characters have like
unique buddy team up attacks with each other. It's a
game that one of my good friends, Nigan, is like
a huge fan of and he's I've just watched him
play it and like I just love the vibes of it.
I might I might pick this one up because I
think Sukin looks really cool. I know he's probably gonna
be picking it up and it'd be fun one to
talk to him about. So h yeah, it's it's a
series I've been very, very curious about. It's definitely a
blind spot for me, so I might. I might see
myself checking that one out. And then on March eleventh,
we have a wonder Stop. I believe that is the
studio who did Stanley Parable could be wrong, and yeah,
it's like it looks like you're a little brew master.
I don't know if you're making potions or other brus
in this little fantasy town, so very different setting than
what they did previously. Then there's like a darker twist
to it, and that is that's kind of where they
left it so far. With the trailers of it, it's
very mysterious, but it's coming out soon. I'm really curious
about this because I think Stanley Perez was like a
very very smart game and this looks really cool. I
like the art style, like the vibes making potions. Obviously
that's my vibe. So yeah, I think this I don't know,
looks really really good. I could see myself picking that one.
I actually write that down on my little ongoing list
that I'm keeping track of here of hyped games. Oh
and then we have lost Records Blooming Rage tape too,
so I guess it's episodic and they're really seeing I
don't know. I wonder if it's episodic beyond that, or
if it's just those two tapes. It looks like this.
Only one's on the calendar right now, so maybe it's
just split into two parts. But anyway, that's coming out
March eighteenth, and then moving on to the world of
Middle Earth, we have Tales of the Shire the Lord
of the Rings game on March twenty fifth. I didn't
know what had that subtitle, but I guess it makes sense. Uh,
you guys picking this one up. We've talked about it before.
I don't think any of us are particularly hyped about it.
Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 4: I do love Lord of the Rings, but I don't
know it not for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it looked fun, But the more I
kind of learned and talked about it, I just thought, Oh,
this isn't really my kind of game. I was curious
and looking at a few other Lord of the Rings games,
and obviously we have.
Speaker 2: The Gollum one that bombed a couple others, I'm sure,
but the Return to Moriah.
Speaker 3: I looked at the reviews, and a lot of people
almost every review is like yeah for this price point
of what you're getting, Like you can tell that there's
a lot of passion put into this game. All I
was seeing was great things, and it's kind of making
me think, like, oh, maybe I should pick that up
at some point and try it, because people were just
raving about the amount of detail and like good vibes
that it had.
Speaker 1: So so you're gonna pick it up and I can
shock you down for a review on that one.
Speaker 2: I mean, when did it come out?
Speaker 1: Like, Okay, yeah, I shifted with only twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Three, only twenty twenty So yeah, when whenever I do
get around to getting it, if it goes on set,
I'll let you know and I'll give all give a little.
Speaker 2: Review for it.
Speaker 1: Two five years later, the next a game called Ai
Limit on March twenty seventh, which looks kind of like
a stellar blady near thing, which is why I wanted
to bring it up. I don't know if you've seen
this one, Like I don't know who the developers or anything,
but I know you just loved Stellar Blade and yeah
your fan as well, So I don't know. It looks
like all these maybe it's Kerklin coded. It's funny, all
these like PS five PC with.
Speaker 4: Like a weird name. I'm just looking at now because
I'm like, I like Stellar Blade. I remember kind of
seeing but I'm like, okay, whatever, and like I just
feel and tell it like actually crosses my path. It's out,
and I'm just I'm just looking at it on the
PlayStation store.
Speaker 1: That's what makes the game preview like demo thing and
you're like, oh, I'll give that a go.
Speaker 4: So then so then of course I looked at that
one I tell You Yumia the Alchemist of Memories in
the Envision Land. That was the other one.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, they released like four of those
games every year, and there's all these A tellireams.
Speaker 4: So as right now, nothing really doing it for me.
It's just like a cool design anime character with a
with a weapon. It's kind of all these games are
like like I'm sure the first time I saw Near
Atom and I didn't really think much of it until
I actually saw gameplay, so it'll probably be the same
thing for me or as we get closer to but
as of right now, it wouldn't be on my list.
Speaker 1: Mm hm, fair enough. March twenty seventh also has two
other releases. One is the first Berserker Kazon, which looks
like a kind of souls like type thing neo situation,
so there you go for those fans. And then adam
Fall is This is the other game. So Rebellion, who
are the developers of Sniper Elite. They have of course
Resistance coming out in January, but they also have adam
Fall coming out, which is kind of their next major release,
so it's pretty crazy that they're releasing two games so
close to each other. Adam Fall is switching up. It's
still like a stealthy game, but it's kind of like
an alternate reality World War two setting. I believe, so
I believe the some mechs in there, but they're still
still focused, but it's first person. I love the look
of this game, and because of how much I love
Sniper le five, like I'm I'm pretty hyped for this one.
Another one's coming to game past day one so I
am very much loking forward that that is another one
that is kind of top of the pile. Actually, it
probably kicks out It probably kicks out Sniper Leite Resistance
from my top five hype list. Yeah, very excited for
Adam Fall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this one. This one's kind of surprising, honestly, Like
I like the name of it, and then when I
search out, like the first time I just saw the
the phone booth, I'm like, doctorry, doctor Huey.
Speaker 1: And then you know, interesting, you mentioned that some of
those games are on PS plus. I don't know if
these the guys might also be coming a PS plus
along with game Pass. So if they are, that'd be
fun when to check out.
Speaker 4: I mean, if it is, I would definitely be checking
that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely your cup of cup of tea.
Speaker 4: Oh, this might be a fake thing. I just see
it with a PS five cover on it. We'll do
some digging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was coming to those consoles. I just don't know.
It's on the on the service.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Fatal Fury. Then we're jumping into April here.
Fatal Fury City of the Wolves on April twenty first,
So that's kind of a legendary fighting game franchise that
I think is pretty has been dormant for some time,
so getting new one coming out there looks cool. And
then only actually one more dated thing for the year
at least on this list, which is Double Dragon Revive.
I don't really know much about Double Dragon, another kind
of old school franchise coming back, so that's interesting for
the for that fan base there.
Speaker 4: Did I skip anything on the dated things or yeah,
there was one I wrote down, wizardne March fifth. I
don't know if you saw that one, Dylan. It's only
I think it might be early access right now, just
because I've seen some like reviews. But cool, it looks
really cool. It's very like original Doom or like Quaky,
but with a total like Fantasy Element or Your Wizard,
and like the price point says fifteen dollars right now,
Like if that remains like, I might just be jumping
on that honestly on release, Like it looks like I
would get an easy fifteen dollars worth of fun.
Speaker 1: It's in early access right now, so I don't know
if that release date. Oh yes, leaving early access March fifth,
so that's when it's officially hitting one point. Oh so
that's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I mean I'm gonna I've I've wish listed
it now and that I've seen it, so I will
be calling it. But yeah, it looks pretty cool and uh,
I don't know, just some fun times in there.
Speaker 1: I can't tell if it's a roguelike or if it's
level based situation, but.
Speaker 4: I imagine it's the story looks great.
Speaker 1: Good show out there. Uh okay, let's take our next
break and we will be right back. All right. We
are in the shadow realm, no man's land, and these
games might be coming out, but they also might not
be coming out. Who the heck knows. A lot of
them have had a twenty twenty five number on them,
but I didn't fact check every single one of these.
I'm just a guy, you know, I'm just I'm just
some guy. So let's go through these and uh, I guess,
I guess if I skip a letter, maybe that's the
way you guys will know that I have looked at
the thing and chose not to talk about it. They're
with the a's look at that. We got two Italia
games see Karklin. Two other Italia games.
Speaker 4: Heap there.
Speaker 1: I think one of them is actually the same game,
but just maybe coming to other platforms. But one game
that's been on my radar for a long time it
is called Agent sixty four. Spies Never Die. This game
is like a modern GoldenEye, Like it has the exact
same low palt the aesthetic, but just like you know,
glass and stuff like that, looks a little bit better.
It's like made to look old but still looks new.
And so I don't know if it's gonna be a
campaign based thing or like multiplayer, maybe a little bit
of both, but like, I'm totally down for a more
modern Golden Eye because the worst thing about Golden Ey
is that the controls suck in a modern day, and
this game I'm sure just gonna have like good most
and keyboard or just like twin stick sort of situation.
So I don't know what the price point is on
this one, but I'm always down for good nostalgia hit.
I love GoldenEye, so I think I could see myself
picking that one up. Looks and it looks like it's
embodying like Golden Eye wasn't intentionally supposed to be goofy,
but it is just kind of goofy because of when
it came out, in the level of technology and the
fact that it's an N sixty four game, and when
we look back on and you have slappers only and
all this stupid stuff, and so I feel like this
game's kind of embodying that goofiness too. So shout outs
to Agent sixty four and jumped down to the bees
we got. Baby Steps is the next game from Bennett Foddy,
who made Quop and Getting Over It. He makes games
that have like really weird controls and you know that's
part of the experience, and Baby Steps is like just that,
but it's like four K pretty much like it just
looks insanely good and you're playing this big baby boy
and you're like walking through the i don't know, English
country side or something. It looks so dumb, but like intentionally.
So I'm pretty intrigued by this one. And I've heard
the creator on a bunch of He's been on the
Eggplant podcast recently a bunch of times, and he's just
a funny guy. So yeah, I'm I'm pretty intrigued by
this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, I remember when we first saw like
a teaser trailer or something for it, and I was
just intrigued as well, and I've actually went like it's
on the PlayStation store now, like coming next year or
whatever it was, so I've wish listed it there. I
am following this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and actually a similar game called Big Walk. Well,
I don't know if it's similar, but it looks kind
of similar in that it seems like it's a bit
of a journey travel game. Instead of this you have
like weird, freaky looking polygonal characters. This is from the
developer of untitled Goose game. This is their next follow
up to that, which that can come in like twenty eighteen,
I think. So it's been a while since they've released something,
and it looks interesting and it looks silly, and I'm
also pretty curious with this one, so we'll see what
happens there. Eh. Moving along Borderlines four, Taylor, you're gonna
be You're gonna be picking up Borderlines four. Are you
interested in that?
Speaker 2: I am interested.
Speaker 3: I've not played Borlands three again. I played Borlands two
like I get it again and again. I yeah, world
credits like three times on that game. Play a bit
of Borderlands one presequel play A little bit wasn't very
hot on it. So I'm hoping that this one is
kind of like a return to four, but I'm.
Speaker 2: Excited for it.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, I mean I was talking to Jessica recently.
I think she's I mean, she's always been a huge
Borderlands fan, but she might be picking out up. So
I'll probably bring around to side Quest to talk about that,
which'll be cool.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Moving along, Capcom Fighting Collection two is coming out to
some more other Capcom Fighting games. We'll see what's in
that bundle. And yeah, this one looks really great. Claire
Obscure Expedition thirty three. I gotta look up a trailer
again for this, but this is a I believe a
Day one game pass venture, or at least it was
announced with Xbox. Maybe I made up the game pass
part of it. But really interesting game aesthetically, I mean
beautiful just first of all, looks I don't know y RPG, Like,
what's that?
Speaker 4: What the hell? Charlie Cox is a character in here?
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's Gustave so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 4: The circus is in here?
Speaker 1: What is quite the cast? Quite the cast? It looks
a little persona esque a little final fantasy, crazy good graphics. Yeah,
it looks looks really cool, looks really cool.
Speaker 4: This looks really cool. I'm jealous of Xbox users, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it looks like it's coming to PS
five as well, so check it out.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I think you said games or I guess
just game.
Speaker 1: I believe it is game Pass, or at least it
was announced during an Xbox conference, which I always just
assume that means it's game Pass. But oh shit, there
you go. Okay, Claire obscure. Uh, coffee talk Tokyo. I
I love the talk coffee talk games or I don't
know if I maybe loves a strong word. I quite
like them. The second one was a little bit of
a step down, but I I'm actually very down for
like a switch up of the setting because the first
two games take place in the same same spot. So
h I'm I'm I'm excited for that one. That's gonna
be cool. Moving on long too, to the D's Death
Stranding two on the Beach over Under? Is this is
this happening? Is this coming out this year?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's my heart speaking more than my brain, But yes.
Speaker 1: I think so too. I think so too. I mean
we I don't know. The marketing cycle around Death Stranding
one was pretty lengthy, like it took it took a while,
but I don't know. I feel like this one is
not going to be quite the same thing, and I
really hope it comes out because if so, that is
definitely a top five hype for the year for me.
And I'm very glad that you will be on that
hype train too, Kirkland. And I'm sure Travis will be
picking that one up day one because he love I
think Death Stranding is like top ten all time game
for him, so I'm sure he'll be picking up that sequel.
So look look forward to a spicy review on that one.
I'm yeah, very much looking forward to that game. It
was one of the main reasons I got a PS five.
When I did, I was like, I don't want to
miss that game. I decide I can skip Spider Man,
I can skip whatever other games I had skipped, but
I can't skip Death Stranding two. I gotta be on beach.
Speaker 4: Gotta be on the beach.
Speaker 1: Still hate the title, but you know whatever, it's just
the title.
Speaker 4: Who cares?
Speaker 1: Okay, Directive eighty twenty. I'll quickly shout out that one.
That's the next game from the people who do the
Quarry and Mena Madonna and all those games. Taylor, if
you help me out, and I forget the developer's name,
you play all those games.
Speaker 2: But oh, wasn't it super Massive?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think that's the one Massive games. Yeah. I
think that's one that is more sci fi setting for
this one, but looks cool. So people should check that
one out. Doom the Dark Ages, which yeah, interesting. This
is of course an Xbox first party game, but it
is coming to PlayStation as well. It's gonna be of
course on Game Past Day one, but it's Doom, but
it's in the Dark Ages. What else? What else could
you ask for? For me? Absolutely nothing? That sounds perfect.
I can't wait for this game. I think it's such
a fun idea. The trailer has all sorts of crazy
weapons in there. I love, you know, high fantasy medieval settings,
so mixing that with Doom is just like mash made
in Heaven. I cannot wait for that. I think that's
near the top of my hype list as well. How
about you, guys, are you interested in that one at all?
Speaker 4: I kind of forgot about this one. Honestly, I feel
like I haven't seen a trailer for it, but I
just remember seeing the title. I have a lot of
nostalgia with Doom, like I played like the Ogs on
floppy disc way back in the day on the Family PC.
I really like like the newer Xbox era ones, like
Doom three. I think that was a three sixty game.
Maybe maybe it was even the original Xbox Like, I
feel like I've always dabbled in these Doom games. I
played a little bit of the first one and I
really liked it, but I was playing on PC and
then it's all and then I don't know, just some
frame drops, you know with the old PC not hold
on and some it's a very chaotic, intense game. And
then I boot it up on because it's on PlayStation Catalog,
and the controls felt so clunky on game pad, which
I was very disappointed about. Definitely I could probably yeah,
I could probably tweak around with like the sensitivity, but
it just feels like one that I really want to
play with the mouse and keyboard because it's just, I
don't know, it's it's satisfying, like when you're actually able
to like hit stuff, so and I don't know. It's
it feels fast and like fun to play, so I
don't want to be you know, limited by my controller,
but I want to get through maybe at least the
OG one before I would get this. So it's a
it's an interest level, but not like a day one,
I think for right now, unless I just power through
those games before then, because we don't have a date yet,
you know, it could be some time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: I've never gotten into the old dooms h It interests me,
it really really does, and maybe I can get around
to trying this one out. I think Wolf and Stein
like the old ones and the floppy disks. That was
my OG floppy disc game Curkling, not the.
Speaker 4: Multi time I had that one too. Okay, we can
double dip Quake as well. Come on, there's there's a
trifecta of them.
Speaker 1: All right. It looks like there's a game called dragon
Ball Project Multi, which I have not heard of this
until this second. But it looks like a dragon Ball
mobile sort of thing, which Android so I don't seem
as well, I guess, so like a Marvel Snap thing.
You like dragon Ball, you're gonna be picking this one up.
Speaker 4: You can to check it out. Oh okay, mobia. Yeah,
in my mind I thought it was a different genre
when you said that, and then you said League that
I don't know. I I'm playing like the League Mobile
on the on the PC or sorry, oh my god, I.
Speaker 1: Haven't played.
Speaker 4: You haven't played that League Mobile the handheld one. I
don't know. I just I'm not really a handheld gamer.
But if it's I don't know, on PC, maybe five,
I'm slacken on my.
Speaker 1: Dragon vibes that you're very passionate about this one. So
that's okay. You don't have to love everything dragon Ball. Okay,
it's fine.
Speaker 4: I don't forget. That's good.
Speaker 1: Dying Light the Beast is coming out, which is a
standalone game. I guess i'd to like the Sniper Elite Resistance,
where it seems like maybe a smaller follow up to
dyne Light two but a little a little cheaper to
produce than like a full on dyn Light three situation.
So we'll see it happens there. That's cool, good for them.
And then we have eldiner Ring Night Rain, the the
three player exclusively three either one or three player, not
two player. Elden Ring multiplayer thing coming out. I think
the more I've heard about the game, the less excited
I am, just from when we talked about a Game
Awards to where we are now. Just knowing you can't
do two player kind of weird, and I like, me
and Travis were talking about maybe playing together, so maybe
we'll find a third but otherwise it just feels like
a weird limitation. And then it seems like it's a
lot of reuse, like, Hey, you want to fight this
elder Ring boss again, but with your friends this time,
And for me it's like, no, I'd rather do like
some new stuff or different stuff. So I'm not I
think I've lost a lot of the hype on this one,
but I'm curious to see where it ranks up, because
if it's like if it's as good as people or
if it's as if people feel as strongly for it
as they do about Shout of the urg Tree, or
even like a quarter of the how much hype they
have for that base game, then it's gonna bound to
be one of the best games of the year, and
maybe for the third or fourth year in a row
it'll be Elden Ring as a nominee at the Game
Awards game of the year. So we'll see what happens there.
But yeah, I think my hype has faded a little
bit on this. I'm not sure anymore for Ick gonna
pick it up, just also depending on the price. So
yeahhipes died a little bit, but it could. I could
see it being revived, and I think that's definitely coming
out this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree it's releasing. Uh, I don't know.
I don't know about this one. I think it'll really
depend on friend hype level. You know, if you and
Travis get it and you're just swaying me over, you
will need a.
Speaker 1: Third or else we can't play the games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. I might be persuaded. Sometimes I get persuaded
pretty easily. So we'll see what happens. But yeah, I
feel like it peaked when it was announced of the
idea what it was, and then as the dust settled,
I definitely lost a lot of interest on it.
Speaker 1: M all right, we got Fable. I'm gonna put like
a forty percent chance I think that comes out this year,
which is maybe high even I don't know. I don't
know if it's ready yet. I guess Playground was our
last game. It was like forty five years ago. Maybe
it was a longer Togo and they're the ones making this.
It's hard for me to put an excitement level on
Fable at this at this current juncture. Fables a weird
series where I'm so deeply nostalgic for that first one,
one of my favorite games of all time. I love it,
but I've also I've never even rolled credits on the game.
I've never beaten it. It was a game that me
and my cousin would just like kick chickens and like
buy houses and mess around with you know, uh, and
then like I play a little bit two three, like
it's just never really my thing. So I it's game passed.
So I'm definitely picking it up. And I think I
just need to see more actual gameplay because we haven't
seen any actual physical gameplay yet. We've seen things that
look like gameplay. We can get an idea of what
the gameplay will be like, but once again made by
people who made have been nothing but racing games for
twenty years. You know, got to kind of wait and
see what happens and see. But if it hits I
think this could be one of my favorites of the
year for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, depending on what the gameplay looks like. I could
be convinced to get it on PC potentially, you know,
if it can maybe have a new computer by then,
or it can it can run it. I Fable one
is one of my favorite games of all time. I
played the shit out of Fable Anniversary Edition. That was like,
kind of them that retro's happening when this game comes out.
That retro is happening one episode. We're not gonna do
two and three?
Speaker 1: Maybe no, but I'm gonna say unlikely, but I need to,
especially after we did that Snow Levels discussion last year
and you were and I'm like, man, I've never seen
that area like that, and the fact that I've never
rolled credits on it, like I'd never beat that game,
So that that retro is happening for sure, Well, I'm
kind of just waiting to see when this game is
actually coming out first.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be so fun to do, though, just to
see your reaction to some of the story stuff that happens,
because I know, I like I It's one of those
games where I remember it so fondly because of the
vastness of your choices. And then replaying it, it's like, oh,
this is actually a really linear game, and like the
areas that you go through are very linear, But that
still didn't take away from my enjoyment at all.
Speaker 1: A lot of backpacking, Yeah, I make I feel a
little full.
Speaker 4: I've done like multiple playthroughs though on Anniversary Edition, Like
I think I have like eighty plus hours on that remake,
and I've played a shit ton of the original back
in the day. So I love that game so much.
I feel like I could do a retro episode without
even playing it again, just because I've played it so much.
But I am very much looking to that.
Speaker 1: Retro cool good stuff. Where's your hype level on that one, Taylor?
I kind of you to remind what your Fable connection
point is. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, I played a bunch of
Fable two and that is it. I never got into
that series. I was in that, but I've only ever
heard good things.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is the Fable that was
now so a while ago.
Speaker 3: If it's dropping this year, I'm gonna go fifty five,
No forty five, yes, okay, okay, well see what if
it does come out?
Speaker 1: This is completely firing from the Hippie. You guys think
this is like one of the best of the years,
that the Game of the Year contender the Game Awards
or is it kind of just float float by, you think?
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna hit.
Speaker 4: I feel like it could be a major stinker that
nobody remembers or just actually gaming.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's gonna be nowhere in between.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just wonder if it's gonna be like you know,
Playground making Forza for all these years, Like, are they
gonna have their Horizon moment where like, you know, they
went from Kills on the Horizon, which is a maybe
easier leap than a racing game to Fable, but like,
you know, not having the original writing team, I feel
like the writing was such a core part. I think
the team is based in the UK for Playground, which
is a good fit because obviously that's where like a
lot of the Fable humor comes from. So we shall yeah,
oh yeah. Guards they're so iconic, man, They're like dope
y faces and their broad shoulders.
Speaker 4: They're all the exact same look and then like the
bigger ones are red.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, I wish I could pull more quotes off
the top of my head, but I need to play it.
Speaker 4: I'd show it's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 1: It'd be some good memes in that one. Speaking of simulators,
fast food restaurant simulator. That's the kind of simulator I
want to play where it's like that's a menial task.
I don't want to work in a fast food place.
But I think that could be a really fun game.
So I've just there's been a hundred of those games already.
But anyway, Uh, that's a nope fear. I wasn't waiting
for you to respond that. I just look at it.
Football Manager twenty five, Kirkland, you've been deep on the
college football manager mode. What about this because I'm guessing
this is something like actual NFL.
Speaker 4: No, this is European soccer. Oh it's soccer, Okay, European football.
But no, I've never dabbled in that one. I've heard
it's phenomenal. There's like a big I remember in high school,
there's a big thing where like someone got a job managed,
like actually managing a team because they were like one
of the highest ranked F one or that's amazing football manager,
which is of course you always love to see as
a gamer like that could be me one day, but
I'm sure he had some other prerequisites. But no, I've
never dabbled in Football Manager. They have like console versions too,
and they have one of them on the PlayStation store.
But it's just so daunting to jump into games like
that with fresh mechanics, because, like I don't know, without
a YouTube tutorial, you usually spend the first couple hours
just kind of ruining your first season. I did that,
of course, I f one Manager. I've done that on
all the Manager of games that I've done. The first
season's kind of the learning one, but m.
Speaker 1: Might be skating along all the way up to the
g's here. Game of Thrones and Gangs Road. We talked
about them on game Wards episode. I don't know if
we have any new thoughts, so just you know, it
looks interesting. But it's also in mobile games, so it'll
probably be passed on that one Ghost of Yotai, the
squol To Ghost of Tushima. I don't know where my
hypher level. I guess my higher levels is a lot
as high as it could be. But I am very
much looking forward to this. I'm really curious. But it
has the multi player mode because I think I'm really
itching for that. I really love Legends. I yeah, I
think the weird bitter taste in my mouth Ghost is
just like that. I didn't really love the DLC that much.
I'm really curious to see whether things happen here when
there's like guns, and I don't love that inherently, but like,
maybe it'll be really well done or maybe it's like
somewhat optional. We'll see. So I'm looking forward to this.
It almost feels like, I guess that game is pretty
old now, but it's still like feels too soon, like
I almost want like another year or two to ruminate,
I guess. So I don't know. Maybe maybe they'll get
promoted and closer to maybe because I haven't actually seen
a trailer yet, and that's probably what it is. We
got like the teaser, but we haven't seen like a
gameplay trailer. I'm sure when I see that and I
see that wind blowing through, and I see the new
visuals and I see the new character move around attacking,
I'm sure I'll fall in love with it and be
super hyped. But I think at this current juncture, I
do need to see a little bit more. I'm still
gonna pick up day one probably no matter what. But
I don't know. I guess I just want to put
my woes out there. Interested in this one Kirkling.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, for sure, I think this would be a
one for me. Honestly. It's I I still remember like
that first night that I had with Ghost Hashim. It
was just so special. I preloaded it so like right
at nine pm. I just like booted it up and
just blown away, Like I was just so in awe
for like so many portions of that game. And I'm
mostly curious if it meets or exceeds my, like my
hype level though, and just like what my expectations was
for how much I loved the first game, and definitely
intrigued by the multiplayer additions or maybe just tweaking what
they already had with Legends because it was such a
great formula. It was lots of fun. So yeah, and guns,
I don't know, I'm usually ify on I'm I'm a
big fan of Total Wars Showgun and specifically follow the
Fall of the Samurai. It's kind of like a subgame
kind of how we've been talking about like a half
step up, but that one introduced guns, and they're OPI
and but not like a full on Tommy gun or anything.
They're very much the musket era, which I imagine this
would be the same. But we'll see. Because even Ghost's
Shima I they're not really machine guns, but they felt
like they had machine guns with like those ballist of
things that the Moguls would have sometimes like it felt
like they already had guns. So like, I don't think
it'll be that much of a mechanic difference, but we'll
wait and see. Obviously for a gameplay release.
Speaker 1: Yeah definitely. And uh yeah, I think Assassin's screen shadows.
I don't think it has guns in it, So if
you want that, just go play that instead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will. You'd be Soft Plus is on the
PlayStation catalog, so there's no reason why I shouldn't be
able to get that also release, So I'm might be
on there with you boys.
Speaker 1: We'll see nice. Yeah, I didn't know that. Actually, that's cool. Okay,
the big one GTA six. Is this coming out boys,
or is it getting delay? That's the big question of
the hour, And tell me right now, as of January sixth,
twenty twenty five, what do you think.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent coming out? It's got to be right.
Speaker 1: That's that is a certainty of.
Speaker 4: Un a certainty putting all my chips.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I read an article earlier that said, uh, Rockstar reaffirms
twenty twenty five release for GTAI.
Speaker 4: Read an article, what do they just announce a release
date if they're reaffirming that.
Speaker 1: It is you know, interesting? Okay, I didn't hear about
that article. That's that sounds great.
Speaker 2: I don't know how reliable it is.
Speaker 3: It's from a site called airy News, which doesn't sound
I've never eerie news.
Speaker 1: I don't like that at all. I'm not one. I
don't know if I'm gonna trust that thing. I would
I'm pretty fifty to fifty right now.
Speaker 2: Uh but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna'm gonna go hopeful. So I'm gonna go
glass half full and say that it does come out
this year. And if so, I mean, I don't even
know it's it's it's like it's the same thing with
Skyrim right where it's like it came out so long
ago now, and and you know, I'm not somebod who's
playing GTA online anymore. It's been a long time that
you kind of you kind of forget a little bit
of like the Mint minute of why you love playing
the game so much, or at least I do. But
I like, I'm sure I'm just gonna fall absolutely in
love with that game and just have so much fun
with it. But we shall see. I mean a lot,
there's been a lot of turnover at Rockstar. It might
be a very different team releasing that game. I'm really
curious how I'm gonna feel about the story and the vibes,
because I think a lot of people were maybe turned
off by some of the story stuff with GTA five
even to feel like some of the characters and whatnot.
So I just I just can't wait to see one
that game and then just hear people talk about it,
hear what people do in that game. And also Minor
showed out one of my favorite YouTube channels right now
is this guy named Annie Austin, who's the funniest guy ever.
I think I've sent you guys, or at least Kirkling
like some of his videos, and he's been making a
lot of just weird ass GTA five videos recently, GTA
videos in general, and I'm I'm low key just super
excited to see I know, like first week, you'll have
a video on like the power Lines and GTA six
that video. You just released the new GTA five video today,
so shouts to that guy, Taylor. Whe's your hype level this?
Speaker 2: Uh? For g t A, it's pretty high.
Speaker 1: I was like, number one? Is it just like easily
number one?
Speaker 3: Or is there like it's not it's not number one,
but it's I mean it could be number one.
Speaker 1: What what's what's your number one? If it's not g
t A, I feel like I haven't heard the juice
from you today. So was it something else we haven't
talked about yet?
Speaker 2: Well, it was Assassin's Creed.
Speaker 1: But get into g t A, Like you don't even
beat those games anymore? You just kidding?
Speaker 3: G t A could sneak in there, Like I never
beat the storyline for g t A five, but that multiplayer,
Oh my god, I can't tell you. I sunk the
hours into that. Holy shit, I sunk it. I sunk
at God damn I I that was so much fun.
That dominated my life for a very long period of time,
just the online just running with my crew and everything,
and oh god, that was that was a good time.
Speaker 1: If g six was two hundred dollars at launch, would
you guys buy.
Speaker 4: It not launch?
Speaker 2: I probably I might be inclined.
Speaker 1: They said it's two hundred dollars that launch and we
will not price drop it for five years. Would you Yeah,
yeah I would. I probably would, honestly, which.
Speaker 4: Is I'd probably have to. The fomo would hit me,
you know, if you're missing out, Like the pomo.
Speaker 1: Is real, definitely real for this, It wasn't this episode
and and here ideas, Like I remember for the midnight launch,
I was in line, all my all my friends were
in line getting it for midnight.
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure I was going to get it at
the time because like I played a little GTA four
and I had fun, but I wasn't like super invested
in it. I played San Andreas as well. That was
a lot of fun. But yeah, when I was in
line at the I was just hanging with my friends. Finally,
when it came push comes to shove, Yeah, I bought it.
And god, that's just yeah, just the high level for
this is just astronomical. I can't wait to get into
the multiplayer world and just mess around with you guys
and just be friending heists or missions whatever they got
going on here, and just doing things. There's gonna be
so many hell hilarious moments with you guys.
Speaker 2: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: And that's just one of the things that I loved
with GTA five was so many freaking funny moments and
just buying up different properties and buying like the huge
cargo plane and loading it up with vehicles and just like, yeah,
just everything, like there's so many fun scenarios to play out,
and I can't wait.
Speaker 2: It's this is gonna be a good time.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, I am so excited for that. I feel
like I'm not really thinking about it, like subconsciously, I'm
peaking on my excitement for this game, just because you know,
the trailer came out what feels like five years ago now,
and it's just like, okay, yeah, no, don't think about
the release date. Just keep focusing on making it to
next year, you know, do your rate day to day,
and then the time will come when it eventually happens.
And I played the shit out of GTA five on
every console that it came out on other than PC,
I guess, like PS three. I remember going out. I
was in high school and I like went out on
my spare to like future Shop. I think Future Shop
was still around and then went there and bought it
maybe a best buy. I can't remember when Future Shop
closed down, but yeah, I know I had on PS three,
PS four, and PS five and I played through the
whole story. I think on PS three and PS four,
like I just I just I just did it. I
just played that game so much. And then, uh, the
online mode was a whole new like a whole new game,
and yeah, I think my favorite memories from that game
are just online and like me and a couple of
my friends, we would just do the dumbest shit, like
we would just go like the tattoo parlors. We're just
like getting tattoos because we when they have like the
Biker Gang DLC, We're just like ride around our Harley's
going to going to get tattoos. We'd like go to
like just the bar. We're just like virtually drinking. Like
it's just the dumbest stuff. If you guys think I'm
a wild card on war Zone, wait till we played
GTA together, Like I am, just I'm so excited to
be in there and just being a wild man.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, that was a good time. I remember
spending like I got my car in GTA on line
stuck in a really awkward spot just like between like
yeah two pillars that you know, could not the car
like just barely wedge inside. And I spent like an
hour with my friend trying to like get it out
of there, probably with a series like bombs and like
him pushing another car into mind and just like trashing
this vehicle. But like I just really wanted to get
it out of that spot. And that's like the kind
of stuff I remember, is just like the nonsense moments.
So I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, yeah, that game,
I yeah, I really hope it comes out this year.
That's gonna be great. Okay, moving along to the letter I,
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is coming to PS
five this year, so that's cool. I'm excited for that
to have a little second wind, and I hear people
talk about that some more. I you know, actually that's
a good point.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 1: One thing I was thinking about with that game is like,
of course it came out after the game game the
game awards like cut off thing, and I feel like
we haven't had a case yet where like a game
that came out in the Year in twenty twenty four,
but then like after the cutoff, has like still been
nominated the year after, at least in Game of the
Year like in other categories. But I think this one
has a chance and maybe that will help boost it
is the fact that it's gonna have a little bit
of a second win when it comes to this other console, right,
So yeah, that'll be cool to see. I'm excited to
hear more people play that. And I'm sure the DLC
will come on next year too, I would imagine. So yeah,
a bunch of Nana Jones stuff. Did John Carpenter's talksic Commando.
That game looks like dumb fun I'm kind of into it,
So we'll see what happens with that. If that ends
up went out Judas, So Judas to you sare with that?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 1: That is Ken Levine, who's the original mind behind BioShock,
and he came back for BioShock Infinite. This is his
new game from his new studio that he's been working.
He's been just hiding away, buckling away on this one
for years and years and years, and it looks like
it's finally gonna be coming out somewhat soon. Here and
it looks very bioshocky. He's going back to the well
on that one. But yeah, I think there's a potential
for this game to be fantastic, to be great. He's
talked about some really bold things and just relation to
the development of it and some tech stuff. So I'm
curious to see what happens there and if it can
kind of live up to the hype of BioShock, because yeah,
BioShock has been pretty it's been dormant for a long time,
so there's I think people are fiending for that kind
of thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know about this one. This is really exciting.
I love bioshocks, so I mean even like like Prey
and like those Arcane games, like they remind me of
that that was the feel of those Bioshot games.
Speaker 1: So well, don't forget that Arcane did do some level
design on BioShock too, So I did the most forgettable
BioShock game. That's just how it goes. Little Nightmares three
is coming out, that's cool. Shout out to that series
just going along crushing it and Metroid Prime four beyond. Okay,
so maybe we'll use this to spin out a little
bit on on this. So Nintendo has announced that they
are going to make an announcement on this switch Seql
console before the end of March. That's what they've said.
Does that mean that it's coming out this year? Doesn't
mean it coming out before that. I mean they could
to announce the announcement next week and then the console
could come out in March. We don't really know with it.
We have to imagine that there's gonna be some launch
title juice. So I guess two questions for you guys.
One is switch to I mean, it's it's coming out
this year, right, like, whether it's early in the year
or like later, it's it's got to be coming out
this year, right. Finally, I'm tanning to announce it. Possibility
I'm gonna go even higher because if they're planning to
announce it by March, like, they wouldn't announce it March
and then release it the year after right like, that
would just be insane. Nintendo's done some insane things before.
But I think one hundred percent coming out this year
for me, one hundred percent, I'll go there. I'll go
as confident as you are Kirkling for GTA, I'm gonna
go to that confident for the switch and so with it.
There are some things that aren't gonna be on this
list because they aren't announced, But like, I don't know,
what do you guys just off the off your dome.
What do you think are like launch title type things?
And where do you think Metroid Prime for falls into that?
Like is this something that I imagine it's going to
come out on the regular switch that they have, but
like maybe they'll push it as like this is what
you want for the launch of switch to as well,
because it's better, stronger looks, has a better frame rate
four K whatever it is. So I know I had
pitched like multiple questions there, but yeah, what do you
guys think about just general launch title stuff for switch
and then metro prime for specifically for.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna answer your question after I asked you a question,
which is for our Breath of the Wild that came
out on the WIU first, right or was the switch
out at the same time? Okay, I just couldn't remember
if it came out before the switch, and then like
I was just wondering why.
Speaker 1: I think it was same day situation.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't think it's gonna be I always.
Speaker 1: Forget that that game came out on the on the WIU.
Speaker 4: Because Travis had it on the Wii, like he was
one of the seven people that don't Yeah, because he
just had to get on there. He had the Fomo
you had the Fear Missing note, but um.
Speaker 1: In terms that he didn't love the least much like
did just fine.
Speaker 4: Hated the Horse Horse Mechanics. Yeah, I mean Metroid would
be a really fantastic release. Uh for the switch to
like Mario Kart is always something in my mind. But
because they've been like doing the DLCs, it's not like
they're completely dormant on that. Like if if they didn't
do the DLCs, I would have been like, Okay, it's
going to be Mario Kart. Like there's no way that
they haven't released anything for Mario Kart since like that's
something that came out before Switch, right, Mario Kart eight, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because that was also a WEU game. Then that got
market a Deluxe and then I got the DLC.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so then yeah, I would say, I mean, I'm
not very confident on it, but I think that would
be really hype if they if they announced at least
like the Yeah, I don't know I still feel like
it's a little bit of ways for Mario Kart. But
Metrod would be a great title. What I mean, we
got DK HD remake. I don't think that would be
like a launch.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be it, man I I that's my
pipe dream is I would love a DK sixty four,
just like a three just a three D Donkey Kong
to come back, ideally with multiple characters, but just like
I would, I would love if that was the thing.
I don't. I don't think that's where the resources are going. Unfortunately,
I don't know why they just cares a little bout DK,
especially when they just release like DK World as part
of the thing, and he's a big part of the
movies or it seems like he's going to be, so yeah,
he's like, where's where are the games? Where are the
meaningful games for Donkey Kong? So hopefully this is the year,
But yeah, I don't know, But yeah, I think Mario
Kart is a really likely one. Just the next three
D Mario Mario Odyssey two. I think that's a very
likely one. I do think they're gonna cook on some
Zelda stuff for a while, but I think they'll release
some port of something like they win wake Er one,
Twilight Princess, something like that. Something they haven't released is
kind of what I would expect around that, like launch
window situation. I think there will be some random new
ip in there, so of course that's kind of an
unpredictable thing, but yeah, I think it will be pretty predictable.
I don't think we're gonna get any like I don't
think star Fox is coming back for that. I don't
think Zero's coming back for that. I think it's gonna
be like a main a Mario thing, a Mario Mainland
Mario or Mario Kart, and then like maybe there is
a chance at dog Count. We've heard those rumors, but
I just I just don't want to get disappointed, I
guess so I'm trying to buy too deeply into it.
But yeah, I think it'd be really cool if Prime
four was like a big push for them, is a
launch title. I think that's you know, maybe they want
something else as well, but I think that's definitely gonna
be coming out this year finally, at least on the
old switch. So uh yeah, Taylor, same questions, ste you,
what are your kind of what do you expect for
the kind of launch either launch dair, launch window stuff
for a switch too, and then like does Metro Prime,
how does that fall into that equation?
Speaker 2: Oh, Metro Prime.
Speaker 3: I I don't have a lot of presusing experience to
address it, but I mean, I know that a main
line Metroid game is something that Ruben has wanted and
he's been excited for, and I think this is.
Speaker 2: Something that it has a big there's a big rally.
Speaker 3: Behind it, and I think that would be cool if
they kind of pushed it and gave a little bit
more bizaz with the next Switch. I did not realize
that the Breath of the Wild and Switch released on
the same day and there were switch shortages. Weren't there
when it first came out, So I can see why
because I remember Ruben was playing Breath the Wild on
the WIU as well. I thought, okay, yeah, this is
it is more common on on WEU.
Speaker 2: I guess at first.
Speaker 3: But as far as launch titles go, I think you're
gonna get just Mario. It's a safe play. Mario Kart
would be very fitting. I don't know what they would
necessarily do different after everything that they've done with Mario
Kart eight I guess, uh, just.
Speaker 2: A bigger roster on top of the already large roster.
Speaker 3: They have more maps on top of already the large
amount of maps that they have. The only other thing
I could think of is just different mechanics, more multiplayer,
different mobile. Well yeah, triple Dash do like the Double
Dash kind of like components in there, like get fun
with it, more like battle mode stuff. Yeah, just maybe
even like a build your own racetrack kind of mode.
I could see something like that, just something to really
change it up. That's that would be a pretty big
That would be a heavy hitter. I think that the
when they announce the new Mario Kart, that's going to
be selling like fucking hot kikes.
Speaker 2: I really do think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't. Maybe it could match
Card eight that's like one of the best selling games
of all time now, right, But we'll see. I mean,
it did help that it had two console generations, not
that the WU numbers could really bump it all that
much considering the few people who owned that console in.
Speaker 4: The first place.
Speaker 1: But how about with that, we take a quick break
and we'll see if Nintendo announces the switch. In our break,
we'll be right back.
Speaker 2: We are back.
Speaker 1: They did not, so we're still waiting. Sorry about that.
I hate to break it to you, Monster Hunter Wilds.
We talked about scrolling through this list. We got NASCAR
twenty five. Cool, I didn't. I wonder if that's an
annual thing in NASCAR game. I feel like I've not
heard anyone talk about the I had one on the
n sixty four and I've never heard anyone talk about
one since then. Um ooh, Nirvana Noir? What is that?
Speaker 4: Sounds cool?
Speaker 1: Oh? Is this actually a sequel to Oh? Okay, I
like that. I searched this up. So Genesis Noir was
a weird o game that came out a few years ago.
It was on game Pass. Don't even know how to
describe it. It's just like an odyssey. It's a crazy
mostly visual like I don't know visual. I don't even
know if you call it visual novel. This's is a
visual experience wild game and looks like there's a sequel
coming out called Nirvana Noir. So, uh, that's really interesting.
I wonder if that one will be on game Pass.
So definitely keep an eye out for that. They didn't
know that was a thing, So there you go. That's
why we do this. We learned about things all the time.
One again, it's been on my wishes for a while.
It is a game called nivalis interesting aesthetic. It's kind
of a cyberpunky world, a little bit like Vauxel sort
of graphics to it, and it seems like a bit
of a life sim like you can like own a
restaurant or different businesses. You're going fishing, you're talking to
people falling in love. I think it says on the
Steam page like some goofy stuff like that. It's been
on my wishless for a while. I guess it's just
a big game. They're just taking their time to cook
with it. But I feel like it looks pretty cool,
It looks interesting, and I feel like in some way,
like not that it's comparable to Cyberpunk, because that's a
very different style and different goals as a game, but
it seems like less combat and more just like vibes
in that kind of setting, and I think that's something
I'm definitely down for. So have had my eye on
that one for a while. Moving along Pokemon Legends, Za Taylor,
what is that? Do you know what that is? I
must have missed that announcement. I have no idea what
this game is.
Speaker 3: This has been like the heavily rumored, like semi leaked
kind of Pokemon Next. I guess mainline game kind of
in the works.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not officially announced.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's very convoluted at this point, and I've had trouble
keeping up and discerning between what is actually fact and
what is not. I just know I don't even know
if the title is actually like the official title.
Speaker 1: I think it is a logo. I think that I'm
on the Pokemon website and on that on web website.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think so okay, because yeah, I just it
got it just got so convoluted I was not able
to keep track with it. I'm not sure if it's
a sequel kind of similar style to uh, Pokemon Legends Archaeus.
Speaker 1: Wow. It was announced back in February of last year
during a Pokemon presents. I don't usually watch those, which
is why I missed it. Like, if there's Pokemon stuff
in an attended direct, I'll see it, but otherwise I
usually kind of some of that stuff. But anyway, and
that's that's cool. So you're getting a new Legends game.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, And I never played Legends Archias, and
I mean to it's on my list. I really want to.
I've always been more into uh the I guess, like
the Scarlet and Violet. Yeah, and those ones really disappointed
because it's just like the graphics and whatnot. They're still
very popular, but there's just there's so many things that
just did.
Speaker 2: Not work for me very well.
Speaker 3: But Legends is just it just seems like it's doing
its own thing and just creating that open world concept
for what I feel like it is much more in
line with Pokemon than what Scarlet and Violet was trying
to do. Again, I haven't played Archias, but I just
I've watched a lot of videos. I talked to Ruben
about it, and yeah, so this is something that I'm
keeping my sights on because I'm eagerly awaiting a new
Pokemon game to play.
Speaker 4: On the Switch, I listened to a side quest review
of Archaeas featuring the Great Jessica and the ge.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that the first I Quest episode?
Speaker 4: Might think it was. I just had a weird experience
through the way you just said that, Dylan, I just
had a flashback to my old boss and like shivers
behind my ears.
Speaker 1: I did not mean to do that. I promise it was.
Speaker 4: I was like, sorry, sir, that's crazy. That's up to
the first side Quest episode. That's why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I think I I it was like a
full episode with Dante, I think, and then I like
edit in because I talked to Jess Gott like a
different time and so like I edited in that conversation.
So I don't know if it's kind of a weird thing,
but I think that was the first episode of si
Quest to shout us out. Moving along too, there's a
new Professor Layton game cool Beans Rematch. That's the seafood
developer making the soccer game replaced the legendary replace that
Travis had on his draft and never came out, and
he lost some points for that. Still, who knows when
that game's coming out. We will wait and see. Guys,
go over to steam dot com and look up Rodent Rumble.
I just looked up this game. It's like soccer, but
with like squirrels and chipmunks, and instead of soccer balls
you have like acorns, but then they're also on the highway,
like knocking vehicles over and stuff. And this game just
looks absolutely insane. And it's from a developer called down
Smash Studios, so I'm guessing they're Smash Bros. Fans. So
I mean, hell yeah, this game looks hilarious. I'd play it.
Give me a code, I'll play it. I'll pass fair enough.
Speaker 4: Give him a code, though, don't let me to turn
the code access.
Speaker 1: We got Shovel Knight's Shovel of Hope, DX. Don't know
what that is new Shovel Night situation. Skate Story is
coming out. Skate Story is a really cool looking game,
and who knows how long skate two or Skate three
or four, whatever the heck we're on. Is it gonna
take Skate four? Yeah, he's gonna take to come out.
So in the meantime, Skate Story might be feeling the niche,
but yeah, I feel like that's not again that keeps
getting kicked down the road. So we'll see when it
actually comes out.
Speaker 4: Dylan, I wanted to ask you as a someone. I
don't know why. I'm just assuming that you've played Shovel
Night in your days.
Speaker 1: I played the first one I've heard.
Speaker 4: Shovel Night overrated from some friends of that genre.
Speaker 1: I didn't love it, so okay, I would go to that.
I didn't play all of it. I didn't even play
like the Treasure Trove edition, which has like all the
different characters that seems fun. Yeah, I don't know, it's weird.
It's like I'm nostalgic for the NES to some extent
because that's my first console, of course, but as I've
mentioned many times, when you go back to those games,
they're not really fun, and like Shovel Knight is like
trying to be that, but like more modern version. So yeah,
I don't know. I don't know if i'd say it's
overrated just cause I personally didn't like it, But yeah,
I guess I would agree with that personally.
Speaker 4: Okay, i'd ask you.
Speaker 1: Had to put me on the spot. Now the Shovel
night heads are gonna be coming after me with their
shovels and pitchforks. Oh yeah, moving on, Stick It to
the stick Man is a really funny looking game. I
think that's a Devolver Digital published situation, and it's just
like crazy stick Man battles, which as someone who loves
Stickman videos and like making and Stickman drawings and stuff
as a kid. That's very satisfying. So like, it looks cool.
Speaker 4: It's another stick Man game in here too. It's like
like an RTS or which one is that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I saw it on this list. Keep going, I'll find it.
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good And as I look at this list,
we're running out of things pretty quick here. Troublemaker two
beyond Dream. That sounds like it could be a porn situation.
I don't know what it's going on. I think that
might be it. That might be it for the things
that are standing in a winter Winter Burrow is a cool,
cute looking game. A World of Stickman Classic? Is that
what you're thinking of?
Speaker 4: That's probably it because I just saw that. That's a
very good list. Yeah yeah, World of I don't know.
They didn't look anything amazing, but looks fun.
Speaker 1: I like to look at that stick Man Yeah, uh yeah,
Winter Winter Brew. I think that's the game I'm thinking of, right,
that's the game where you're playing that cute little mouse. Yeah,
that game looks very cute. I want to check it out.
I think it's coming to game Pass as well, So
check that one out. Did I skip anything because I
did skip a lot of things here in the back half.
Speaker 4: I wanted to shout out two games, first one being
The Altars. I don't really know too much about this,
but from what I've seen, it looks cool. And read
the little caption synopsis thing and I don't know, it
kind of looks interesting.
Speaker 1: Some cool visuals are insane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't really know too much about it. Like
what you're doing. I imagine it's pretty narrative.
Speaker 1: Explore an emotional sci fi game that features a unique
blend of adventure, survival, and base building elements. Play as
these people and do things.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, caught my eye. The other one I wanted
to shout out is a game called Sulfur. Really really
cool visuals and it's like a first person shooter and
just some of the screenshots really caught my eye.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, another great esthetic on this one. Oh yeah,
I've seen this game at some point. I forget where
I saw it, but the weapon that you're using looks
really cool. It's like a crossbow but like gun, pistol
nerf gun situation.
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of different weapons with different attachments,
so I imagine there's like a lot of customization. There's
a screenshot of a guy driving reminds me of a
Pacific overdrive, So what's called Pacific drive drive? Not overdrive?
We were close? Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 1: Already had this game on the wish list. That's hilarious.
Sometimes I forget the things I've seen before and thought
looked cool, and then I just forget about them. But
that's why it's good to wishless people's games, because if
you forget about them and then they go on sale
and then you get reminded, So go wish problem right now?
Very cool, great shout out.
Speaker 4: Those are the Those are the two.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I know there's there's other games that like I
don't think Men of the Hallowers on this list, but
I thought that was supposed to be coming out next year.
That's also the Night Teams like next Zelda like game.
I'm very excited for that. That originally was like I
had a twenty twenty four release date on it, So
I'm kind of surprised that's on this list. Maybe I
missed it somewhere, But uh, Taylor, did I skip anything
of yours that that was exciting you?
Speaker 3: I mean that Marvel nineteen forty three game, When is
that coming out this year?
Speaker 1: I don't think it was on this list. I don't
think it's been announced. I think this list is like
things that were specifically announced for twenty twenty five, so
that's why it's not on there. I don't know. I
could come up this year. I guess I could see
that happening, but I don't think it's no reason to
believe that to be the true the truth.
Speaker 2: I guess Mafie Old Country. That's not the one that.
Speaker 1: Uh oh that's coming in the summer. Yeah, how come
that was not on this list? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Once again, I probably missed it, but that's definitely coming out.
I didn't see it on the list either, so I
don't know that those just snucks the cracks.
Speaker 2: That's one that I'm looking forward to, though, I'll get
back into.
Speaker 1: That word great showdown. Man. I'm feeling like I don't
even trust this list anymore.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to my backlog page and I'm gonna
look at my wish list on backlog, and I'm gonna
make sure that we didn't skip anything else. Trying to
be thorough here. You know, all right, American Arcadia, that
game looks cool. I might come out this year Uh,
Beastie Balling. That's an early access that could come out. Contraband,
that's Taylor that was announced like four years ago. Where's Contraband?
Remember that one? That's like the just Cause team making
that game with Xbox and they had the Steely Dance.
They had a Steely Dan sung on the trailer, which
maybe that's why I remember it so well. Karen is
a cool mountain climbing game. I think that's coming out
this year. Dead Static Drive has been an any game
that's been on my list for years at this point,
looks amazing, Kirkland, have you heard of that one? Dead
static Drive?
Speaker 4: No, give that one to give that one a Google
Dead static Drive.
Speaker 1: This game called Dome King Cabbage looks amazing. DOKV might
be coming out. Earth Blade, the Celeste team there might
their Night Next game might be coming out this year
because I mean Celeskian on twenty eighteen, So like, come on,
what are you guys doing? Release the game already?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: I guess here's a good one. Hello and it'silk Song.
Is that coming out this year? Guys? Is it finally
the year? Or is the meme gonna continue?
Speaker 4: I'll let the meme continue Okay.
Speaker 1: Continue Jurassic Park Survival. I forget if that. Do you
think that's coming out this year? Taylor, I'm the first
person one.
Speaker 3: I was holding on to hope so we get something,
but I don't think it's going to I mean, they
announced that a year ago and all we got.
Speaker 2: Was a cinematic. We didn't get anything else.
Speaker 3: Maybe the little snippets of gameplay within that cinematic, but
nothing else.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, and then Lonely Mountain snow Riders. That's
probably gonna come out this year, So I'm looking forward
to that. Killer Bean. I know that Travis is looking
forward to that one. Just Killer Bean, And is there
anything else on my list that? Oh? I guess we
should have mentioned this with the Avout thing, but the
Other World's Too is also announced for twenty twenty five.
At this current junctures, that would be two big Obsidian
RPGs in the same year. Because of that, I'm gonna
just venture on the safe side and say Outer Worlds
two gets pushed, because let's say it isn't that that
Fall slot. I think that slot's gonna be potentially really heavy.
I could see Pokemon thing dropping, I could see GT dropping,
so I could see them just launching Outer Worlds, and
you know, they haven't already have an Obsdian game coming out,
so that's one that is announced for this year, but
I could easily see getting pushed the inscription developer. I
believe his next game, Pony Island two, is supposed to
come out this year, So that's shit. That might even
be a top five for me. Like, I'm very excited
for his next game. And do you think Skate's coming
out this year? Boys or later on down the down
the halfpipe.
Speaker 4: For that one, we're getting close to some info for it,
but hopefully full on gameplay. I'm gonna give it like
a thirty chance, though, you know, some little incline of hope.
But that's.
Speaker 1: Wonder woman that that game might maybe maybe you're ready
this year. Who knows, see you stars thing's coming out
this year?
Speaker 4: Ever? Coming out that one?
Speaker 1: Yeah see if Stars Dalc. I mean, I'm gonna play
that and likely love it. It was my game of the
Year in twenty twenty three, so it's of Midnight. I
think that's supposed to be coming out this year. It's
that other Xbox game kind of in the in the Bayou,
and I got kind of the lower frame rate, really stylish,
cool looking game. I think that's supposed to come out
this year. So yeah, this list flawed. And there's other
things on my list too that I'm less sure of
coming out this year, but definitely a lot of games.
This could be an all timer. I think if if
certain things do hit and come out, I think we
could be looking at like a really really big year.
And I'm sure there's I mean one gonna be some
Nintendo surprises for sure. I think Sony probably got some
surprises up their sleeve there. I don't think Xbox has
many surprises, but they already have so many things announced,
so yeah, I think they're good to go. And so
before Taylor falls asleep here, give me your top five,
buddy boy, what are your top five most anticipated?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Number one, I put GTA six in there.
Sod it, I did it, Yeah it deserves it. Number
two Satisfied Shadows. I'm I'm very much anticipated for this title.
It's going to be a lot of fun roaming around
in this time period. Number three Mafia Old Country. I
am really looking forward to just getting around there and
going back into that world.
Speaker 1: I honestly it depending when that, because that's summer, right,
I think it was. I think they just don't know.
I don't know if they gave a month, but I
believe they did say summer.
Speaker 3: That might just be my tie over while I wait
for GTA six, which is probably gonna be dropping in
the fall or something like that. Borlands four has been
number four, looking forward to that giving it a whirl,
and then number five if it releases. Marvel nineteen forty
three Rise of Hydra. I've not really been able to
indulge in a good Marvel game since Ultimate Alliance three
on the Switch.
Speaker 1: Because boy, you gotta get Midnight Sun Midnight right, and
you have ghost Rider in there.
Speaker 2: I have ghost Righter on there. Yeah, yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 3: That's then I got no proper excuse. Then you have
no I got no excuse. I want more Marvel games,
but uh night suns off to get into it.
Speaker 4: I want more Marvel's Tactics games, you know that have
Ghostwrider in it. That's what I want very specifically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about you hirt on what's your top five?
Looking like?
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I wanted to shout out to here Adam
Fall just because I feel like I peaked while we're
talking about it, like I kind of forgot about how
interesting it looks. So that one's on my radar, not
enough to be on my top five, but definitely on
the radar. And then Indy, I'm very much looking forward
to getting my my grimmy little hands on that. I've
just only heard fantastic things, you know, good ol, hold allgo.
He's whipping his whip and he enjoyed. I think he
just beat it. So I had a good time with
that one. Starting at number five, I'm gonna put Judas here, actually,
I yeah, this is another one that like didn't really
think about it too much before this cast, but god
damn it looks good and big BioShock nostalgia, So I'm
very very much looking forward to uh to this one
for sure. Yeah, and then after that, I think I'm
gonna put Ghost of Yotai here. It's funny because like
it doesn't feel like it's like my top five list
right now, but like I just I just know it's
gonna be like as we are close to that release date,
like I'm gonna be jumping on it right away. I
truly love that first game, and yeah, no, I'm looking
forward to it. Can't wait for that win to just
take me to where I gotta be going. Guide you, okay,
And then after that this is where it gets kind
of tough. I think I'm gonna put split fiction here.
It's pretty high up there, and it's a big if. Obviously,
you know my partner, she better freaking love this game
because I really want to play with her.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: These games do such a great thing though, where because
they are like co op centered games they release I
think it's called a fast pass or like a buddy pass,
where like you can get a friend that doesn't have
a game to play with.
Speaker 1: So she hates it, let me know and I'll yeah
up there with you.
Speaker 4: I will play with someone else. I still want to
play that away out game as well. That's like the
prison one. You don't need to Oh no, you did it?
Not rememberable.
Speaker 1: It's super janky and fun. Yeah interesting, I mean it's
fun because it's bad. It's like it's so bad. It's
good in that if you're playing it with a friend,
which you would be and like make fun of how
stupid it is. But it's it's not like it takes
two was a whole other climb for them yeah, they
definitely popped off on a deserving the game of the year. Yeah,
way out. You can leave that one on the way out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I will remember that. And then this one
is it's pretty wild. I'm gonna do just recency bias here,
but I'm gonna go GT six is my number two
and the Death Stranding two is my number one over
GTA six. I'm just I'm just my umbilical cord is
attached to the Death Stranding universe right now. That's a
reference to the game. But yeah, no, I I cannot
wait to get my hands on desk Straining two. Yeah,
it's gonna be a day one for me, and I'm
gonna be in there right away. Well, I've got the
same top two as you, but I I have the
real trip proper order, Yeah, which is GTA six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's number one. Uh, it's it just is. What
else is there to say? And then desk Randing two
as my number two there, Yeah, I like I said,
that's probably the primary reason why I got a PS five,
even though there's many good reasons. So I cannot wait
for that game. And number three for me is gonna
be Civilization seven. I am a sieve head. I'm liking
what they're showing here. I'm excited to jump jump back
into this, excited to spend some time. And it's also
very soon, so that's an exciting thing for me. That
it's like just a month away. That's kind of crazy.
I don't think I'm ready for that. Actually, I just
realized that in this moment. Number four for me, I
am gonna give it to a vowed I think I
have more hyped games, but maybe not necessarily ones that
I know are twenty twenty five where has Avowed. I
mean they even said, like, yeah, the game was ready
last year, but we kicked it because we want to
separate from Dragon Age Vailguard. In hindsight, like they probably
didn't need to do that, and then they wouldn't have
screwed me in the draft. But I'm very excited for
that game. I think I'm gonna have a really good
time with it. And then, honestly, the fifth slot is
really hard. It could be in any number of things,
could be Pony Island as I mentioned there, but I
think what I'm gonna give it to is I gonna
give it to Adam Fall. I am very excited for
that that's another one because it's game passed. I will
playing a day one. Really really loved to Sniper Lead five,
and I think the first person some of the switch
up with the setting just seems really interesting. I'm happy
for this team to like branch out because they did
like Sniper Lead for so many years, and then they
did like Zombie Army, which is like a zombie off
shoot Sniper Leaf that's kind of the same thing, and
so I think it's it's cool that they're really branching
out a different direction with Adam Fall. So that's gonna
crack it into my top five as well. But yeah,
many many games look forward to It's gonna be a
fun year of reviews and covering all the big games
and the small games that come out along the way.
Let us know in the comments what we are looking
forward to the most, and let us know if we've
missed anything too. I feel like we tried to be
pretty thorough, but there's just so many games that not
even this website that gets paid, these employees get paid
to make this list. They forgot things, you know, So
obviously we're gonna forget things to everyone's gonna forget something,
So let us know what we forgot. Let's know you're
most anticipated and we'll see you next week. I have
a good one about it.