Speaker 1: Hey cup, Please, everybody, It's Friday.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Bobcast Revengeance.
Speaker 3: January twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. I'm your host. Find
Speaker 3: postings about me on next door. Just gallivanting and squatting
Speaker 3: and loitering in all the abandoned buildings. Janet Shoa co
Speaker 3: captain of the ship. He is no longer perceiving his
Speaker 3: children until three thirty Eastern.
Speaker 2: Jeff gruh. That's right. I'm gonna dodge this draft, going
Speaker 2: to Canada. Everybody bye, That's right.
Speaker 3: He's your favorite coworker, your favorite boss, your favorite father
Speaker 3: of the group.
Speaker 1: We call him Daddy. Jeff Beckler, Oh, the daddy.
Speaker 4: I'm the daddy. I'm the big Daddy. Hi all, happy
Speaker 4: to be here.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: She arguably actually has the most daddy energy.
Speaker 5: Lucy James, you know what, I'll take it. Thanks.
Speaker 1: The roof is not his son, but he will raise
Speaker 1: it to more. Hussein.
Speaker 6: I'm playing click clickbomb. I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eleven,
Speaker 6: twelve cards and none of them are me. Okay, my
Speaker 6: fame is complete. Fucking ass?
Speaker 1: How many here met? Too many? Speaking about ass? We
Speaker 1: got the bad.
Speaker 3: Boy of games media, the pub slatterer Mike Manatti.
Speaker 7: What am I doing down here with all the Jeffs.
Speaker 7: Welcome to the Jeff All.
Speaker 1: We don't have a layout with nine people, so I
Speaker 1: had to make do.
Speaker 8: Is Jeff dot Hole taken?
Speaker 1: We are checking he's a master. I want that, so
Speaker 1: he's the master of his domain record.
Speaker 8: Hello, Hi, I'm also playing Click clickbomb. I have twenty
Speaker 8: nine cards now, but a lot of them. I've been
Speaker 8: combining the cards for the rarity situation, so it's more
Speaker 8: than that really.
Speaker 1: Speaking about rarity, combine the cards, We've got.
Speaker 8: The rarest two of them have the same art and border.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got the rarest person on the staff, thinky Grayson.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know you could combine the cards. Also,
Speaker 1: a hole is not ATLD damn it unfortunately.
Speaker 9: So speaking about Hole, we're gonna throw all our audio
Speaker 9: files into the digital hole and he's going to start
Speaker 9: them out like he's Stanley yell Natz in the Lewis
Speaker 9: sacker Ya novel holes Terble Shawn Sean mcdell.
Speaker 10: I have been informed that there is no Sean and
Speaker 10: is no tam card like Bomb game. Awesome, so thanks Chuck,
Speaker 10: But I have heard money back I have for there's
Speaker 10: a Sean Easter egg somewhere. I'm looking forward to see
Speaker 10: why you put it in there.
Speaker 2: Scout, Please, there's a whole game in this game. I
Speaker 2: don't know how far I just gott.
Speaker 1: I just fucking so toss.
Speaker 4: There's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, itally sold the cards.
Speaker 3: We've gathered here today, all nine of us, because last
Speaker 3: year we participated in the Fantasy Critic Draft twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four that Dan Reikert won.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I'm still waiting on that. Venmo all right, all right, well,
Speaker 8: well we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: Everyone.
Speaker 3: Just Venmo me first, and then I'll make sure it
Speaker 3: gets over. And unfortunately, Lucy James, you wound up really
Speaker 3: losing bad.
Speaker 5: Yeah so and also, okay, good, no, I I realized that.
Speaker 5: So I'm having to use my phone as my camera here,
Speaker 5: and I wrote my list of games on my and
Speaker 5: I can access them. Okay, that's good. Yeah, so I
Speaker 5: lost really terribly. But I really put that down to
Speaker 5: the fact that I completely forgot that we did this.
Speaker 5: And also I'm British and I don't really care about
Speaker 5: sports unless it's tennis, and even then I'm such a
Speaker 5: fair weather friend to tennis, and I only really enjoy
Speaker 5: it when I am listening to the Challenges sound.
Speaker 3: That's right, folks, we're actually gonna be talking about how
Speaker 3: Challengers was snubbed this year.
Speaker 5: At snubbed, I just think it.
Speaker 10: Gigs.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: I genuinely think it's because Trentsonaticus won too recently and
Speaker 5: the Academy is like, look, they'll win again for this,
Speaker 5: we can't put them up.
Speaker 1: So this year, twenty twenty five, we were gathering together
Speaker 1: again to do the Critic Fantasy Critic Draft again. Sean,
Speaker 1: you were the commissioner yet again, as you are probably
Speaker 1: arguably one of the more organized people that I know
Speaker 1: in general.
Speaker 3: So shouts out to you, Doug, Sean, has do we
Speaker 3: have to do anything? Or has Grub made his team?
Speaker 10: No, Grub mays team. He was on top of things.
Speaker 10: Kind of okay, so we're all good to go. I
Speaker 10: have set the draft order, so maybe you might have
Speaker 10: to refresh the page in order to see it take place,
Speaker 10: but we should. We should remind everyone, even though we
Speaker 10: just went over an episode or two ago, what exactly
Speaker 10: we're doing here, if nothing else, so everyone the call
Speaker 10: remembers what we're doing here. Fancy Critic is a game
Speaker 10: where you put together a It's like fancy football but
Speaker 10: for video games. Is how the creator describes it. But
Speaker 10: put more simply, basically, you're just coming up with a
Speaker 10: list of games that you think will perform the best
Speaker 10: as opposed to your opponents in the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 10: That's all we're doing, putting together a list of the
Speaker 10: best games. And like fantasy football, like drafting a fancy team,
Speaker 10: once a game has been picked, you cannot pick that game.
Speaker 10: It only goes to one team. So we're just gonna
Speaker 10: go down the line and each pick a game that
Speaker 10: we think will perform well in the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 10: For each point over seventy it scores an open critic,
Speaker 10: you get one point, and each point over ninety is
Speaker 10: additional point. Dull the points there. So yeah, just pick
Speaker 10: good games like Dan did last year and Lavas did
Speaker 10: not do last year.
Speaker 4: Right, So, I think it's important to call out the
Speaker 4: fact that this is not over today, and I think
Speaker 4: that was maybe something that was not enforced to the
Speaker 4: rest of the group, and I think it.
Speaker 2: Probably was pretty well understood.
Speaker 10: I think we did multiple summaries and stuff.
Speaker 4: So just let me finish the thought here. I think
Speaker 4: like there were certain things that I didn't understand. I
Speaker 4: know what fantasy sports are, so I was able to
Speaker 4: sort of piece it all together. But I think the
Speaker 4: not the the the what's it called the bidding, That's
Speaker 4: not what screwed me up. I think it was like
Speaker 4: how many games I could have and what the counterpick
Speaker 4: situation was. And I just didn't realize if I didn't
Speaker 4: do a counterpick, I would be penalized.
Speaker 5: So that's the thing that I also didn't know we
Speaker 5: could we could do stuff throughout the year. I thought
Speaker 5: it was a set it and forget it, which is
Speaker 5: where Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well that's a huge tactical error there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's not a tactical error if it's not
Speaker 5: playing the game. Yeah, it's just I just didn't play
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 2: So here's the boring Remember.
Speaker 5: Calendar, and you guys gonna on this to day.
Speaker 6: I don't understand how any of this books.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's the port thing to remember. We're gonna pick
Speaker 2: a couple of games today. Then you're gonna get a
Speaker 2: budget one hundred dollars that you can get games later
Speaker 2: by bidding. We will. We'll go over that probably at
Speaker 2: the end as a reminder, just so we can go
Speaker 2: maybe do an example of that because I can maybe
Speaker 2: we can like share a screen or something, and you
Speaker 2: guys can see me doing another another league. But it's
Speaker 2: pretty straightforward. As games get announced or as you get
Speaker 2: a hunch that maybe a game that didn't get drafted
Speaker 2: actually is going to come out, or you feel better
Speaker 2: about it than you did during the draft period, you
Speaker 2: can bid on it. That's and and that bid is
Speaker 2: going to be if you win that one percent of
Speaker 2: your bid will be taken. So like Dan got what
Speaker 2: astrobot last year, I bid like thirty five dollars of
Speaker 2: my one hundred dollars on Astrobot, and I felt pretty
Speaker 2: good about that. Dan bid seventy dollars, thinking that, oh,
Speaker 2: it's just going to go use as much like he
Speaker 2: thought it would work, like eBay where it's only going
Speaker 2: to go as high as the next highest bid or
Speaker 2: something like that. It's like, no, if you bid seventy,
Speaker 2: it's going to take all seventy dollars and you'll only
Speaker 2: have thirty dollars left, but you will have Astrobot, which
Speaker 2: won you the entire year.
Speaker 10: So it's a risk reward. So yeah, yeah, this is something.
Speaker 10: This is the song I was getting to. I was
Speaker 10: getting to this because there is a change from last year.
Speaker 10: So last year, what we did is we each picked
Speaker 10: five games in the initial draft, and then you could
Speaker 10: add five teams later throughout the year through the bidding system.
Speaker 10: So we're doing a little bit differently this year. I
Speaker 10: think that there's not quite enough confirm for twenty twenty
Speaker 10: five for us to do it this that way this year,
Speaker 10: So instead today we're each going to pick four games
Speaker 10: today and then throughout the rest of the year you
Speaker 10: will be able to bid on up to six games
Speaker 10: to add to your team, right, Bill, Jason's up in
Speaker 10: a slightly interesting way, and also keep people playing in
Speaker 10: the long term hopefully.
Speaker 4: Yes, question, Yes, do we have to pick so we
Speaker 4: don't have to pick counterpicks?
Speaker 10: Then they pick one today, Okay, just like last year,
Speaker 10: you will need a one by I believe it's September first,
Speaker 10: got it. Yeah, Because that way you can counterpick one
Speaker 10: thing that was picked today, and then you will counterpick
Speaker 10: something that someone picked up later on in the year. Now,
Speaker 10: counterpicks we didn't really explain yet, right, So a counterpick
Speaker 10: is a required thing that you have to do for
Speaker 10: your team. You are calling someone out, You're saying, no,
Speaker 10: I think that game won't perform well or will not
Speaker 10: release this year. Is a required thing that each of
Speaker 10: us must do, is to make sure that things are
Speaker 10: kept in check, because if we all have really really
Speaker 10: good games, well, then you you know, it's a way
Speaker 10: to make sure that things are balanced out there, because
Speaker 10: especially especially because as we go through the dres we
Speaker 10: will go in reverse or for the counterpicks. Right, a
Speaker 10: person who gets a really good game, we'll have to
Speaker 10: also counterpick statistically a good game.
Speaker 2: Because everyone else will have already chosen all the obvious
Speaker 2: games that aren't going to come out or might not
Speaker 2: perform or something like that exactly. And people get it.
Speaker 4: And because I've never been able to really save face
Speaker 4: in any kind of like public space, I would just
Speaker 4: like to go on record and say that when I
Speaker 4: picked Silent, He'll remake last year, the group was really
Speaker 4: all in agreement that this was a pretty good pick,
Speaker 4: just on the merit that it wasn't going to come.
Speaker 1: Out last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just want to know, like at the
Speaker 4: time it was an intelligent pick. Certainly when it came
Speaker 4: out and end up begging number two on a top
Speaker 4: ten list.
Speaker 1: Didn't really help.
Speaker 10: It was a risk pick. It's like when what three
Speaker 10: years ago in a different league, I counter picked twos
Speaker 10: of the Kingdom because I was like, I don't think
Speaker 10: Tears of the Kingdom is coming out. That was a
Speaker 10: huge risk, but it didn't come out, and so you know,
Speaker 10: my risk glow reward.
Speaker 1: Something like that.
Speaker 2: It's almost certainly going to happen because I think were
Speaker 2: going to see by the time we get up to
Speaker 2: the last counterpick of our group, there's not gonna be
Speaker 2: there's gonna be slim pickings in terms of you're probably
Speaker 2: you have the counterpick like GTA six hoping it doesn't
Speaker 2: come out.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 10: Okay, so that that probably all sounded like a lot.
Speaker 10: But yeah, again, I want to keep it simple for
Speaker 10: everyone here today. So just remember today we're just going
Speaker 10: to take turns picking games. We're gonna finish four games each.
Speaker 10: We're gonna counterpick one game, one game that we say
Speaker 10: I don't think that game will do well or I
Speaker 10: don't think it will come out. Then everything else comes
Speaker 10: later in the year.
Speaker 3: Uh steaks, Okay, I have I have two things to
Speaker 3: propose real quick before we get the steaks. Yummy yummy money.
Speaker 3: No uh oh. I am currently on crowndesigners dot com
Speaker 3: and they're running they're running a sale on crowns, and
Speaker 3: I think perhaps we should get a crown that we
Speaker 3: give to the winner.
Speaker 8: So, Dan, I think you should do that. Send it
Speaker 8: to my house. Yeah, I can wear it until till
Speaker 8: the next one, and then if I will peacefully transfer
Speaker 8: the power to whoever get or keeping.
Speaker 1: If it's.
Speaker 6: Get him the small princess.
Speaker 8: I have a big, fat head, So keep.
Speaker 6: That small princess.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to look good on him. There is
Speaker 2: no rule that says it has to look good.
Speaker 5: On I have ty head, so if you get on
Speaker 5: the it will go around my neck.
Speaker 4: There's snap backs.
Speaker 6: Head is pretty big.
Speaker 1: There's snap backs. Crown please.
Speaker 3: So currently the categories for crown sizes are men's small
Speaker 3: princess slash bridle, Medium queen slash Princess, or large Queen.
Speaker 2: I think we add a medium queen.
Speaker 10: I think we can solve this.
Speaker 6: I think we can solve this issue by getting a
Speaker 6: sceptor instead.
Speaker 8: I want to crown.
Speaker 1: All as we are the on Yeah.
Speaker 9: Every.
Speaker 8: Crowndesigners dot com. I want the men's imperial medieval gold
Speaker 8: rhinestone king of course.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we're going for the large queen section and
Speaker 3: we'll get a matching scepter.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair, sweet, there we.
Speaker 5: Go, very reasonably priced.
Speaker 10: Yeah, these are going to.
Speaker 6: Be the most dogship quality. Get diseases the moment they
Speaker 6: put them on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be the guinea pig for that, so they
Speaker 3: can't It can't be bad.
Speaker 1: It's on sale. Damn, it can't be bad.
Speaker 4: They're using princess dye to help sell the crowd.
Speaker 1: What maybe we get that one?
Speaker 2: Did you know that I had Dandriff? They found her
Speaker 2: head and shoulders in the glove compartment. The second thing
Speaker 2: I proposed.
Speaker 3: The second thing I proposed is we will do a
Speaker 3: fantasy critic draft check in every joke.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: Christ More for us that.
Speaker 8: Sitting on that one.
Speaker 2: I don't think about it every time I see her.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Okay.
Speaker 3: The other thing you're gonna you were gonna say before
Speaker 3: my two proposals, but.
Speaker 2: I remember we were gonna talk talk about steaks, but
Speaker 2: that I think the stake should Yeah, this is a
Speaker 2: good thing to win. Comes great, and then I think
Speaker 2: the loser Steak was perfect? Right, the worst game that
Speaker 2: we all collectively picked, or do we want to do
Speaker 2: even worse than that, like worst game reviewed on Open
Speaker 2: Critics or something like that.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, is gonna be fun? Yeah, awesome, and we're good,
Speaker 11: I think, all right, I give it to the commissioner.
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right. From the reminder, this is an audio podcast,
Speaker 10: So as you pick a game, make sure to announce
Speaker 10: it to everyone. And how about as we go down
Speaker 10: the line for the first pick, here, we can each
Speaker 10: say what our publisher name is.
Speaker 8: So I'm last pick?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 10: Is the random one?
Speaker 8: Do I get the devil as it snaked back?
Speaker 10: Do get to in a row and give to you?
Speaker 7: What a different naming your publisher that when your first
Speaker 7: pick last year was Final Fantasy Sevin Rebirth?
Speaker 1: But whatever has here?
Speaker 11: Manati speaking, guess who's first wat.
Speaker 8: Was that sound? Can you isolate that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, we got that, we got that, Mike, what's your
Speaker 10: publisher name? My publisher name is nonsir Hunter Wiles. Yeah,
Speaker 10: all right, there is.
Speaker 7: Okay, and with the first pick, okay, and uh all right, wait,
Speaker 7: let me know when I should draft? I think no
Speaker 7: refresh here it is all right, everybody. Yeah, oh my god,
Speaker 7: I were going to pick No, I'm still gonna go
Speaker 7: with this. Yeah, my first pick will be the unannounced
Speaker 7: Mainline three D Mario platformer.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 8: Okay, well, who decides what mainline is?
Speaker 1: Tell you?
Speaker 5: M hmm okay, Then do I wait for you to
Speaker 5: refresh or do I refresh it?
Speaker 10: It should it should like notify you at the top
Speaker 10: of the page. That's your turn to draft. If it doesn't,
Speaker 10: just refresh and should up.
Speaker 2: If it says the draft is currently in progress, you're
Speaker 2: probably finding won't have to refresh.
Speaker 5: It says the draft is currently in progress.
Speaker 8: Cool refreshing because there should be a button there for
Speaker 8: you to draft down.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, it's because it logged me out. That's why. Okay, okay,
Speaker 5: now I'm in. Now, I'm okay. Draft game. So my
Speaker 5: publisher name is jam Hot Games because they're going to
Speaker 5: be games so hot it's difficult to touch them. But
Speaker 5: I hope okay, my uh, my first pick is going
Speaker 5: to be Monster Hunter Wilds.
Speaker 8: Maybe I should have gotten that my team name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really thought you were going to do that
Speaker 5: considering your name, But I.
Speaker 10: Am up next my team this year shouts the GB
Speaker 10: chat for bringing it up something that I've used in
Speaker 10: the past. I didn't think of PlayStation is what we're
Speaker 10: going with today.
Speaker 8: I don't get it nice.
Speaker 10: You gotta do what I think is probably the safest pick,
Speaker 10: Doom the Dark Ages.
Speaker 8: I don't get the draft for a while.
Speaker 10: This sucks. Yeah, I'm the last to do it.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I didn't think it was gonna be like.
Speaker 5: This, friends them.
Speaker 1: Oh so no one told me it was going to
Speaker 1: be this way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I my publisher name is even more important
Speaker 4: game company and Okay, and it's like, I'm surprised this
Speaker 4: game wasn't taken already. But I guess there's a hesitation
Speaker 4: that it will slip into twenty twenty six. But I
Speaker 4: don't give a shit because I think there's way too
Speaker 4: much writing on not just Take two, but also the
Speaker 4: entire industry that GTA six has to come out this year.
Speaker 11: I'm taking GT I think that's a good Okay, that's
Speaker 11: a good picture, and that game gets delayed twice.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not coming out till twenty seven.
Speaker 1: We all know.
Speaker 10: But let me tell you, if it does come out,
Speaker 10: those are points for Jeriff right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was going to say everyone. I was waiting
Speaker 5: to see who was gonna who was gonna do it?
Speaker 5: I did think about.
Speaker 4: It by them, happy to do it, Happy to do it?
Speaker 3: Okay, I am up next, and my publisher name is
Speaker 3: ESPN eight A the O showers nuts. You know what,
Speaker 3: all my first picks were taken. And given that this
Speaker 3: game won Game of the Year at the Game Wards
Speaker 3: one time, or like the lineage of it.
Speaker 2: You're really going to go for this already? Damn split ficture.
Speaker 2: I think that's a good call.
Speaker 1: It's a good bet.
Speaker 10: I was eyeing that one.
Speaker 2: Yep. I mean yeah, you're right, it takes two.
Speaker 1: What would we say that?
Speaker 2: Did Sean like an eighty eight?
Speaker 6: I think maybe?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Very good?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: I started playing that with divin either he's got too
Speaker 4: many questions that we got to stop.
Speaker 1: The divorce thing about divorce.
Speaker 8: He doesn't know what divorces.
Speaker 4: He knows what it is, but it's just, you know,
Speaker 4: it's different angles, different different points of view there. It's
Speaker 4: you know, it's a lot for his friend a little mind.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, I think I'm next. What's my watch list?
Speaker 6: My My publishing name is Bombay Mixed A lot of games.
Speaker 6: It's good. That's good. I'm gonna do Pokemon Legends Z
Speaker 6: you Okay, okay?
Speaker 1: What what is that?
Speaker 6: A switch game?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: See what to put my legends ARKI? Oh, I that's
Speaker 8: a gamble.
Speaker 10: I feel like that one could go either way, but
Speaker 10: could be really really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Man, when have you seen people say this Pokemon game
Speaker 6: sucks out of ten?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know, no one's ever said that before. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: you you fools. Absolute rubes. Untitled next Mario Kart parentheses
Speaker 1: switched to on the board for publisher.
Speaker 5: I don't understand how these games can count when we
Speaker 5: don't know what they are.
Speaker 8: That's the risk. That's the risk.
Speaker 1: That's the risk.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Remember last time I took Power World as a joke.
Speaker 2: Try I'm on the clock.
Speaker 1: In a way, sir, I have to do that's rye.
Speaker 2: All right, let me make sure that this is still good.
Speaker 2: All right, I think I will probably go. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with Ghost of Yota.
Speaker 1: I kind of like that.
Speaker 10: Did do you say your team name grew up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I'm the hubb a Grubber Games.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Gubber Games is on the clock, and I have selected
Speaker 2: Ghost of Yota.
Speaker 10: Good call.
Speaker 5: Question. Can we if a game was out in ALI access?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 10: I got a mention, We're yeah, we're so we're doing
Speaker 10: no early access games. But I believe if it gets
Speaker 10: a confirmed one point zero release for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 10: it will change into an eligible game.
Speaker 8: So I clicked draft game right, yeah, draft game, yeah,
Speaker 8: and I get to right confirmed yeah, okay, health during
Speaker 8: night ring top available games.
Speaker 2: Who's on the clock me? But what the publisher?
Speaker 8: Oh, I am no RPG is allowed.
Speaker 10: To pick an RPG for a first one? I can't wait?
Speaker 8: Is Matroid Prime going to come out here? Is this
Speaker 8: a time thing?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 1: You mean yeah?
Speaker 2: Family, just abating.
Speaker 8: If I want to do a two for with Metal
Speaker 8: Kajima two for with Metal Year and Desk Stranding, you well.
Speaker 2: You do get you do get synergy points if they
Speaker 2: are themed.
Speaker 10: Fire guys go together.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, I am going to draft Meddle Year,
Speaker 8: Solid Delta Snake Eater draft game. I think you know
Speaker 8: I played that of the preview event. It was quite good. Uh,
Speaker 8: and I think information And I'm also going to review
Speaker 8: a game I've been looking forward to for a long
Speaker 8: time and times a sequel one of my favorite games.
Speaker 8: I think I was one that got it on the map.
Speaker 8: I think I sold a lot of copies that I'm
Speaker 8: talking about this. I'm going to pick a Hollow Nights
Speaker 8: Silk song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really good for you. Is exactly what I wanted.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you didn't take it. It's well, let me
Speaker 2: double check here.
Speaker 1: Okay, now it's back to grub.
Speaker 2: Yes, so uhb a grub back on the clock. Take
Speaker 2: a look here real quick and see what I have
Speaker 2: on these other pages. See if there's any deeper cuts
Speaker 2: I want to go for no. I think I feel
Speaker 2: pretty good. I'm gonna go Metray Prime for no game
Speaker 2: that's been in development for twenty five years gonna be bad,
Speaker 2: right or whatever?
Speaker 1: Out So yeah, alright, it's my tendo freaking turned Intendo
Speaker 1: two is on the clock. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: every time a civilization comes out, people are mad and
Speaker 1: then people are like, civilization isn't actually good until two
Speaker 1: and a half years after the civilization.
Speaker 2: That is correct, that's true?
Speaker 10: Ye, So that.
Speaker 1: Feels like I'm kind of a burn of a pick.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that feels frough, fristy.
Speaker 1: Y'all are gonna lose your fucking minds over elden Ring
Speaker 1: is kind of how I feel.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they will, So.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take elden Ring Night Rain. Finally, that seems
Speaker 1: about the right.
Speaker 2: Time to pick elden Ring Knight. And I think that one's
Speaker 2: gonna do a little bit under but I don't think
Speaker 2: it's good.
Speaker 1: I still yeah, I think it'll still go good. People
Speaker 1: are gonna be like, remember Eldon Ring. It's like that
Speaker 1: strong man.
Speaker 2: Uh sid sip six didn't got an eighty nine?
Speaker 10: Fuck up?
Speaker 6: I am next. I would like to pick Civilization seven things.
Speaker 1: Good job.
Speaker 2: There was no chance it was gonna get back to me.
Speaker 2: So I don't mind running pretty.
Speaker 10: As I can, just like your team for more poop.
Speaker 6: Maybe some people have that game already. I don't know. No, man,
Speaker 6: I'm not saying I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Some people hypothetically might have it.
Speaker 10: Love's up next.
Speaker 1: I'm up next the show, Uh Infinity. So the one
Speaker 1: that you're looking for right now, Jen is Assassin's Creed Infinity.
Speaker 1: That's the next you try and mislead me. Uh this game?
Speaker 1: According to Games Mornings this morning, Assassin's Creed Shadows previewed well,
Speaker 1: So I gotta draft the Shadows.
Speaker 2: Some people don't like it apparently.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'm surprised I'm going to get to
Speaker 4: pick this one.
Speaker 1: Six again. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I'm gonna pick a game that I personally have
Speaker 4: next to no interest in playing.
Speaker 1: But I think this get his ass? What a sick burn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna pick Death Tranning too. Oh, because that
Speaker 4: game is gonna review well even if it's bad.
Speaker 2: M h true, Yeah, probably not wrong.
Speaker 10: Nice, okay, Okay to me, I have been looking at
Speaker 10: my watch list trying to think of what to pick.
Speaker 10: Let me let me search something real quick.
Speaker 1: You ever think about how there are things that we
Speaker 1: will never receive credit or like people will never get
Speaker 1: credit for. We're gonna die before we know who did
Speaker 1: that chime. Yep, We're gonna die before we find out
Speaker 1: who took this picture of the clownfish on Apple devices,
Speaker 1: which was the first image shown on an iPhone. We're
Speaker 1: never gonna know who took that picture of the snow
Speaker 1: leopard that was the background of snow Leopard the mac
Speaker 1: Os version because people don't write it down.
Speaker 6: The NBA drap jingle was made by Nate. You can
Speaker 6: die happy, thanks.
Speaker 1: Well, see you later.
Speaker 10: Gang okay.
Speaker 3: Bye, just out on an ice flow, all right, be
Speaker 3: real awkward when it gets back to their turn?
Speaker 10: Where did it go? Shoot on web page? Bugging out
Speaker 10: a little bit something.
Speaker 2: You can't combine these cards? What do you guys mean?
Speaker 2: How do you combine cards?
Speaker 1: You write?
Speaker 8: Well do you write? When you write border and art?
Speaker 8: You can combine them?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, I think that I am going to lock in.
Speaker 10: Let me find it because I have to search for
Speaker 10: it because not the top.
Speaker 1: Uh make it drop?
Speaker 10: Frank Quist one and two HD remix m okay, okay'll
Speaker 10: be a solid eighty something. So is that not time?
Speaker 2: It just came out.
Speaker 10: That's three. They're also doing a one two as HD
Speaker 10: two D remix.
Speaker 5: Time for jam Hot Games and we going for Blueprints.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 5: It's a puzzle game that has had a couple of
Speaker 5: demos on Steam Next West and it rocks.
Speaker 12: Basically like Royalty, not like oh no building, No, so
Speaker 12: like you're in this you're in this house of leaves
Speaker 12: ass house and rooms get added as you progress through
Speaker 12: the game.
Speaker 5: So it's a pun blueprint.
Speaker 1: Oh I.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, I get too.
Speaker 7: Now one of them is going to be Claire Obscure
Speaker 7: Expedition thirty three's week. Okay, I think the game showed
Speaker 7: very well yesterday and I am a believer. And speaking
Speaker 7: of games shown yesterday, my other man going to be.
Speaker 1: No guid and I was hoping this. I remembered the
Speaker 1: thing that happened yesterday.
Speaker 10: That's not that's cheating, I think because I'm puffident, I
Speaker 10: guess delayed.
Speaker 1: Does it mean.
Speaker 8: Everything's going to get delayed though? Right? But I will
Speaker 8: be fine.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm back to drafting.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: I you know what, if it comes out of early
Speaker 5: access this year, then jobs are good and haities two
Speaker 5: it's not well, it says it's not ultimate because the
Speaker 5: currently and early access tag has been banned.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that's one release, is what Sean said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, after this draft if the and I guess, I'm
Speaker 1: also talking it out loud so we can confirm if
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it correctly.
Speaker 10: Reviews, So that's why it would also.
Speaker 5: Not be And like I am going to change my mind.
Speaker 8: To a game.
Speaker 2: What it's interesting, it's a football where don't wry but
Speaker 2: the football term, don't worry.
Speaker 5: I'm going to change my mind to wonder.
Speaker 10: Stop that.
Speaker 5: Now, change what is that being published by Anna. It
Speaker 5: is a game it's all about burnout, but you run
Speaker 5: a tea shop. I played it at the Game Awards
Speaker 5: and I really enjoyed it. I think it might do pretty.
Speaker 4: Nice Okay, very good.
Speaker 10: Okay, So this one doesn't have a confirmed ass release
Speaker 10: date yet, but if it does come out, this is
Speaker 10: another one that I think is just safe easy points.
Speaker 10: So I'm going with Trails in the Sky first chapter.
Speaker 2: Oh choice.
Speaker 8: All the people who are going to review that game
Speaker 8: are probably gonna love it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just going to be an easy like twelve
Speaker 10: ish points there if it comes out.
Speaker 4: I have chosen my third pick. I'm surprised that lasted
Speaker 4: this long as well.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people are into this highly
Speaker 4: anticipated the Outer Worlds too.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, I can a review.
Speaker 2: Better than the last one. So yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 3: People like two D stuff. People also like Ninja Guy Den.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Raggae bound.
Speaker 6: Damn do I not get a pick? Is that a thing? Now?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 1: You you're after jan Is it?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 4: Now? It's your turn?
Speaker 6: Why is it not telling me that I couldn't pick
Speaker 6: re Fresh? Nope?
Speaker 9: Damn?
Speaker 1: Are you logged?
Speaker 8: Out.
Speaker 6: No, I'm logged in. I remember, fresher, did.
Speaker 1: You trade your pick for a twenty twenty seven first?
Speaker 6: Oh, it's back, it's back back backs back.
Speaker 1: We did it good for refreshers?
Speaker 10: Is how you get done?
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm, yeah, I'm gonna pick, uh, this is available.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna pick Sleight of Hand.
Speaker 10: Okay, oh yeah, Light had not familiar.
Speaker 6: It's a hard boiled detective noir game, steff game that
Speaker 6: is card based.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. I like these picks.
Speaker 4: Known gambler to more mussine.
Speaker 6: I do gamble sometimes.
Speaker 4: All right, very good?
Speaker 10: Is up next?
Speaker 1: Now what I'm trying to figure out?
Speaker 10: Mhm uh huh.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of things right, all.
Speaker 6: Right, it's Harry.
Speaker 4: You're just logged out, aren't you.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I didn't lock me out, so I'm
Speaker 1: walking back in. No, no, no, I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out if I think some of these games that they
Speaker 1: say are twenty twenty five are real? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of tough right now.
Speaker 1: It's so tough to figure out because if I'm the
Speaker 1: two K Corporation, right, and I know in my bones
Speaker 1: that grant the thought of six isn't coming out this
Speaker 1: calendar year that I'm making sure that Borderlins four comes
Speaker 1: out this year. Yeah, sure, right, Okay, Well, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to think about Borderlands four for any longer than
Speaker 1: I'm currently doing it. I think people are gonna like
Speaker 1: that one, because apparently they gave it big numbers when
Speaker 1: the last one came out thirty years ago. However, Borderlins
Speaker 1: is cold. It's cold, food wants it.
Speaker 6: You'll be surprised.
Speaker 1: That's but that's the other part, right, is I could
Speaker 1: I might be surprised, And that's why I'm gonna pick
Speaker 1: like a dragon Pyriyozan. Oh wait, I didn't pick it
Speaker 1: select draft game. I've done it. Wait it's not working.
Speaker 1: Did it work?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: It worked? All right, let's see here. I think I'm
Speaker 2: safe not to pick that one yet. I can do
Speaker 2: that on the on the turn around.
Speaker 1: How does he know though, because it's only Dan's good.
Speaker 1: He's good.
Speaker 2: It's only Dan between me and my next pick. All right,
Speaker 2: so you picked it? Did you pick Borderlands for?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Just do that. Yeah, you should probably pick word
Speaker 1: Lands for. I try to plan the swerve that I
Speaker 1: was like, I should just pick Borderlands for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm gonna go border Lance for I think
Speaker 2: that'll be.
Speaker 1: I haven't solid mid eighties.
Speaker 2: Actually I and by selected, I mean added to my
Speaker 2: watch list, all right, now.
Speaker 1: That's what I did with I was like, that's weird.
Speaker 8: All right, there we go, all right, Dan, Yeah, I
Speaker 8: got two again.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but these are your last two.
Speaker 8: These are oh it's my last to holy Ship. South
Speaker 8: of Midnight looked pretty good, that's.
Speaker 1: Kind of framey.
Speaker 8: I'm going to pick South at Midnight one of them.
Speaker 10: Good pick, good pick, good pick.
Speaker 8: And I'm also going to pick let me see if
Speaker 8: this is on here? Good answer, call of duty?
Speaker 2: You got call of duty last year, right, yes, I
Speaker 2: might have.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's another huge tactical error they never put out
Speaker 4: too bad.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's very risk.
Speaker 10: But you know what it is this year or what's
Speaker 10: supposed to be black ops to follow up. They're gonna
Speaker 10: like they're gonna continue the black ops thing here two
Speaker 10: years in a row. But apparently it's a sequel to two.
Speaker 10: Is the word on the street, so that black ops,
Speaker 10: black ops.
Speaker 1: That bang. They'll never do it, but can you imagine
Speaker 1: turning on your x Box and it says black ops
Speaker 1: to dance to your ex box.
Speaker 10: Number two hyphen Roman numeral to yea.
Speaker 8: And you're like a girl group and you're dancing. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 8: put in its.
Speaker 6: I would play that.
Speaker 8: I would play that.
Speaker 2: M okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just doing some research
Speaker 2: for the audio.
Speaker 1: Listening to your own research.
Speaker 2: No, you were hurrying me. I could tell Jane.
Speaker 8: Like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take a vow. Then no one else it
Speaker 2: last service, Thank you everybody. I didn't want to say it,
Speaker 2: all right, ni.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Now it's time for me to pick a
Speaker 1: game that I like, I don't think is real.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, this is the that's the pick.
Speaker 1: Again two point Museum. Like the nerds love that ship.
Speaker 2: And it's out soon.
Speaker 1: It's out soon. But I don't think anybody else here
Speaker 1: is going to pick it. So I could spend a
Speaker 1: dollar on it and sure get it and get out.
Speaker 2: That's actually true, probably right. Wait, what is the minimum
Speaker 2: of bid for for a one dollar?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm? How did college football review?
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, I don't think that would be eligible because
Speaker 10: now it would be a yearly installment intament, like just
Speaker 10: updated rosters every year.
Speaker 1: Finally, No, let's see people love Kingdom Come Deliverance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm picking Kingdom Come deliverance first one two.
Speaker 8: Thank you for clarifying, am I though?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 1: Oh no, just kidding. Nobody chronicles X fuck never getting
Speaker 1: in a car with you again.
Speaker 6: Damn I was holding onto that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, gag. All right, Cam, Charlie x X this
Speaker 1: way I could have dreaded Charlie.
Speaker 2: She's sag that Mario song.
Speaker 10: I watched. This is just all taken, take and taken.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I just want to check something real quick.
Speaker 4: Sure, take your time, take your time, but hurry up.
Speaker 1: What if we do like a shoot fantasy football one year?
Speaker 6: Who is making this?
Speaker 1: We should do shoot fantasy.
Speaker 4: I'll have Stacey as my proxy because she plays.
Speaker 2: Let's do fantasy some other obscure sport.
Speaker 1: Do they do the US? We should do it? They do?
Speaker 1: They do one and confusing.
Speaker 6: We should do professional tag.
Speaker 4: Okay, fantasy is ultimate.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Jeremy win again.
Speaker 6: I'm going I did uh again.
Speaker 10: I'm k BHG.
Speaker 1: That's a great Yeah you go, Cam.
Speaker 6: Draft Little Nightmare is three.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: That was on my list there, Bud, look at you
Speaker 4: a little spooky boy.
Speaker 1: I like the uh little beet boop. It gives you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, all right, let me consult my personal list.
Speaker 4: I mean, what other list are you gonna?
Speaker 1: Uh, you know what? You know what what? I feel
Speaker 1: like this is a little bit of a risky risky
Speaker 1: click here. Yeah, Halo two is not coming out this year.
Speaker 1: It's Halo one, so yeah, just.
Speaker 4: Do fable like that's gonna come out.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have a release date yet, but they did
Speaker 3: say it'll eventually come out. Oh oh, it's time to
Speaker 3: slay the Spire again, slaying their fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me, let me, let me draft it.
Speaker 7: Warning, it's not eligible five all right, sorry, in early access,
Speaker 7: I will go with a sleep Wait, I can please
Speaker 7: say this fire too right now?
Speaker 8: Well, it's not it's planned for early access.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I'll go for a sleeper pick.
Speaker 1: Citizen sleeper too. I get it.
Speaker 2: That's a really good pick.
Speaker 1: All right, all right over to you, Jeff.
Speaker 4: It's my turn, and I'm really happy I'm able to
Speaker 4: pick this game.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 4: I'm very very selfish with it, very biased with it.
Speaker 4: I'm just very happy it survived this many rounds so
Speaker 4: that I'm to be my own I'm going to do
Speaker 4: all the collusion necessary to bring this games score as
Speaker 4: high as possible.
Speaker 1: It must come out this year. It's been way too long.
Speaker 1: No game, in my.
Speaker 4: Opinion, has trailered better.
Speaker 1: H I don't know if I can pick it.
Speaker 2: Can you just tell us what it is?
Speaker 1: I want to pick skate Story.
Speaker 10: I'm that.
Speaker 2: Why am I not able.
Speaker 1: To do it?
Speaker 6: Instead?
Speaker 1: Speak skate Ford are eligible?
Speaker 10: The search bar?
Speaker 4: Hold on everyone. Okay, now we're good.
Speaker 1: The first story.
Speaker 4: Thank you, let's go Sam, you and me.
Speaker 10: Okay, we are really running out of the obvious choice here.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, there's only a few games left on my
Speaker 10: watch list. There are some that again, I think I
Speaker 10: can get later off of bidding, especially since I'm going
Speaker 10: as one of the last people here.
Speaker 2: Just so everyone knows, if someone bids on something, there
Speaker 2: is a way to see that it was bid on.
Speaker 2: So you could see everything that would be bid on,
Speaker 2: and then there's a chance for you to counterbid against it.
Speaker 1: You have to like log in right, like yep?
Speaker 6: Can you get like email notifications?
Speaker 4: You should a commissioner. Can you arrange that?
Speaker 10: I don't know if it's a site thing.
Speaker 1: The product here and let's get it done.
Speaker 2: You can stack like a visual come from a visual
Speaker 2: ping thing on your Google Chrome or whatever.
Speaker 10: Dates don't just make it. Just make a Google calendar thing.
Speaker 10: Just remind yourself on Fridays, yeah, that's when they are alive,
Speaker 10: like Thursday night. So I think I don't think it's
Speaker 10: gonna do particularly well. But since I'm running out stuff
Speaker 10: that's like guaranteed to release, I am going to pick
Speaker 10: where can I find it here? I'm gonna pick a
Speaker 10: Fatal Furious City of the Wolves.
Speaker 8: Okay, that's good brand too.
Speaker 1: I beat Mike in that game a couple of times
Speaker 1: over over the summer.
Speaker 10: I think, yeah, well it's a very like Third Strike
Speaker 10: adjacent thing.
Speaker 1: So that you ever beat me, I beat you twice
Speaker 1: once they figured out how to tell me how to
Speaker 1: do the baby mode.
Speaker 5: All right, it's Jam Hot games time. I played this
Speaker 5: for a couple of hours last year. I really enjoyed
Speaker 5: the demo. I'm going to pick the Altars.
Speaker 8: Yeah wow, yeah, wow.
Speaker 5: The jam game that John didn't pick. But yeah, friend
Speaker 5: of the show, Alex Jordan playing multiple ends. So if
Speaker 5: if this doesn't review, well then that's on him not
Speaker 5: kidding it all.
Speaker 4: You come down to Minati here.
Speaker 7: I am the last pick, and boy, there's a part
Speaker 7: of me that really wants to to.
Speaker 8: Be funny and pick half Life three.
Speaker 9: I know I.
Speaker 2: Considered it.
Speaker 1: I consider it.
Speaker 7: I what what's getting me now is I'm like, man,
Speaker 7: are they really gonna I think they might announce Halfway
Speaker 7: three this year? Are they really going to like release
Speaker 7: it anywhere near Craft six coming out?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: Did you say you think they're going to announce half
Speaker 6: Life three this year?
Speaker 8: I think they are.
Speaker 2: It is a funny thing to say.
Speaker 4: Regardless though this guy would have bet a thousand dollars
Speaker 4: that it was coming out of the game Boy.
Speaker 8: I was wrong about that. I think it's happening.
Speaker 2: But I actually have a question.
Speaker 6: If they announced a game that is half Life but
Speaker 6: not half Life three, does that count?
Speaker 2: What is it say?
Speaker 8: If it seems like a main line half Life two
Speaker 8: episode three, it's I don't think Alex wouldn't have counted.
Speaker 10: I think I think Alex who have been like unannounced
Speaker 10: half Life game, I don't think we have counted for
Speaker 10: half Life three.
Speaker 2: But this is half This is half Life three parentheses
Speaker 2: unannounced is how it is.
Speaker 9: Is.
Speaker 8: Yeah, due to this point, they would just call it three,
Speaker 8: wouldn't they. I mean, unless there's.
Speaker 7: An Alex two, right, But I'm not gonna do it anyways,
Speaker 7: because there's actually a couple here that I feel pretty
Speaker 7: good about that are still here as I'm trying to
Speaker 7: this side between them and part of it, like I
Speaker 7: just I'll just say it, even though people could bid
Speaker 7: on them like I could do meant of the Hallower,
Speaker 7: which I went for last year, it actually didn't come out.
Speaker 8: I'd be shocked if it also doesn't come out again.
Speaker 8: Could happen?
Speaker 7: But also Professor Layton in the New World of Esteam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that. Honestly, I think if I were
Speaker 2: in your position, that's the one I would be picking up.
Speaker 2: That should make you feel better.
Speaker 7: But yeah, that feels like a relatively safe pick at
Speaker 7: the two point Museum not taken.
Speaker 8: Actually, uh, actually think that'll do well.
Speaker 7: I looked at the reviews for two point in Hospital,
Speaker 7: and I'm surprised how high they were.
Speaker 2: How about Camp on Campus? Is their eighty three as well? Okay,
Speaker 2: what about your pick something?
Speaker 7: Oh right, God, I've been a pick two point museum.
Speaker 7: Actually no, I've been to pick Professor Late and screw that. Okay,
Speaker 7: let's go.
Speaker 10: Are you sure?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: I'm sure?
Speaker 6: Soon?
Speaker 8: Is that coming out this year? It's got it? That
Speaker 8: one is just estimating if it doesn't come out this year.
Speaker 8: Two point is definitely coming out this year.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, you haven't selected yet this?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 10: This is good radio. Yeah alrighty, No, we are going
Speaker 10: down the line for a counterpick. Since Dan got to
Speaker 10: pick last going the first time round, now he gets
Speaker 10: some counter pick first to make out for it.
Speaker 8: So if I just picked something that doesn't come out,
Speaker 8: is that as good as zero points?
Speaker 2: And that's good?
Speaker 10: Okay, so let me let me explain it. Now we're
Speaker 10: at the counterpicking section. So here, what you want to
Speaker 10: do is, like I said, you want to pick games
Speaker 10: that don't perform particularly well or don't come out. It's
Speaker 10: a reminder of the scoring system. So seventy points is
Speaker 10: the baseline you are predicting that game. Our game will
Speaker 10: either do under seventy points average on open credics or
Speaker 10: will not come out.
Speaker 1: Can we pick Silk Song?
Speaker 8: Oh shit, I can't pick. I built a whole watch
Speaker 8: list of like unannounced Bloodborne sequel and Donkey Kong platform game,
Speaker 8: but it has to be ones that people have to be.
Speaker 10: It has to be one, and so what's the fun in?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 8: That changes my whole important to.
Speaker 10: Note it's important to note, if the game actually does
Speaker 10: well for each point that it's earnings, you actually lose
Speaker 10: those points if you counter pick it. So like see,
Speaker 10: let's let's say a game does like seventy five. So
Speaker 10: the person who picked the game that does seventy five,
Speaker 10: they get five points. You'll lose five points by counterpicking it.
Speaker 10: So you're you're trying to like mitigate it. You're trying to,
Speaker 10: like off the games that we've draft to pick the
Speaker 10: one they think will at least do the worst out
Speaker 10: of all of them.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, how did Pokemon Archeus Real eighty four?
Speaker 1: Damn?
Speaker 6: Pretty good?
Speaker 10: Yeah, we got a lot of here.
Speaker 1: That game was really good, though, is the thing yeah
Speaker 1: about it is that it might be the best Pokemon
Speaker 1: game they ever made.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so that's the hard part here is like I
Speaker 10: actually don't know if we haven't here that we'll do poorly.
Speaker 10: So we're kind of picking games. Everything won't come out
Speaker 10: because they will just break you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be will hurt you the least. It's
Speaker 2: going to get to that point. Probably.
Speaker 8: Kurt and I played Little Nightmares three at Games Calm,
Speaker 8: and it was not good. Leaning towards that I think
Speaker 8: Mario is going to come out. Mario Kart is obviously
Speaker 8: going to come out Borderlands Ship one pick here on
Speaker 8: one right now.
Speaker 10: Just one today and then one later in the year.
Speaker 1: Man, there's GTA.
Speaker 4: I think repick No, no, well, the pick you have
Speaker 4: to make by September is still within the limitations of
Speaker 4: what everyone else is picked.
Speaker 10: Correct, correct, Yeah, but people have more games on their
Speaker 10: roster obviously, exactly.
Speaker 8: I see, I see, okay, Metro Prime.
Speaker 1: Four, go for it?
Speaker 2: Do it?
Speaker 1: Do it?
Speaker 10: Do it?
Speaker 2: I dare you go ahead? Dude, I don't know.
Speaker 10: A d d A. This is tough.
Speaker 1: It's so hard. It really is a coin flip. I
Speaker 1: think was you g t a Borderlands.
Speaker 4: Which is way harder than last year.
Speaker 8: I'll say that between Little Nightmares and Metrod Prime four,
Speaker 8: go with a safe one, Dan, Yeah, Metrop four probably.
Speaker 5: Not coming out.
Speaker 8: I'm going Metrod Prime four. You fool, that's that's not
Speaker 8: coming out this show?
Speaker 1: What what what are you talking about?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You're crazy?
Speaker 4: They did, Yeah, you're where's undo.
Speaker 1: Con Do you remember that.
Speaker 4: I ever seen anyone guarantee themselves a loss?
Speaker 8: So this year.
Speaker 2: Blue Prints we talked about about it definitely coming out.
Speaker 2: Other games at counterpick.
Speaker 4: Like you just got got I thought that was the
Speaker 4: same as I.
Speaker 8: Wow, I can't believe I first pick on metroc Print.
Speaker 1: Is a way better. Pick is a way better coming
Speaker 1: out this year.
Speaker 8: I didn't know they said. I was like, I was like, wait,
Speaker 8: talking about see.
Speaker 13: We got to take our dubs where we can get it.
Speaker 13: Hell yeah, alright, good, I'm drinking in here. I'm on
Speaker 13: on the clock now. It is tough already at the
Speaker 13: second pick, I don't I'm gonna.
Speaker 8: Go counter big Ship.
Speaker 2: What was what was the name of that the man
Speaker 2: who erased his name? How did that do?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: The spinoffs don't review?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but I mean, god, which better it wouldn't
Speaker 2: come out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it just feels like this one is gonna
Speaker 2: be dumb, fun and I think it might do better
Speaker 2: than the man who erased his man Race did an
Speaker 2: eighty on Open Critic. Okay, that's not great. Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: just probably gonna go with the game. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's going to come out most likely that is Grand
Speaker 2: Theft Auto six. If it comes out, I am completely
Speaker 2: fucked right, so risky, but that's that's.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I don't think it's coming out this year. I
Speaker 2: feel pretty good.
Speaker 10: That game comes out. I'm assuming it gets at least
Speaker 10: a ninety five, So yeah, you would lose thirty points. Yes,
Speaker 10: if that's bad, that's bad, negative thirty five points.
Speaker 1: Oh, gang, this isn'tary prime for Can we trade? Somebody?
Speaker 10: Should?
Speaker 8: I should have watched the trailer.
Speaker 10: You have the direct talk remember it? I know you know,
Speaker 10: that's why it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: We trade counterpicks?
Speaker 2: No, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 10: I don't know if you can trade counterpicks. So yeah,
Speaker 10: we do allow trading in this league, but I don't
Speaker 10: know about counterpicks.
Speaker 1: So the default is seventy, right, Yes, the starting spot
Speaker 1: is seventy.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, right, seventy's that would be twenty five right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Oh man, jeez, double points over nineties.
Speaker 1: So this isn't one of the options. But I did
Speaker 1: just remember that the video game to a T is
Speaker 1: coming out, which is a video game about that by
Speaker 1: the guy who did kinda Mari about that kid who's
Speaker 1: stuck in the toes forever.
Speaker 2: Now, oh, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: And that game looks great. I think I've got a
Speaker 1: pick of out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, it seems like a fut could really underperform.
Speaker 2: That feels correct. It's just one of the games that
Speaker 2: is certainly going to get counterpicked by someone.
Speaker 6: So yeah, oh, it only has to be games that
Speaker 6: have been picked.
Speaker 4: By us, correct, Yes, okay, I.
Speaker 6: Was gonna pick Marvel's Wolverine.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's that's the reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, So I'm like just thinking out lauds.
Speaker 2: I think South of Midnight when I heard it was
Speaker 2: forty dollars, I worry about that one Borderlands for might
Speaker 2: not come out. I picked that though, So I don't know,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't.
Speaker 6: Why should I pick?
Speaker 2: There is just no great option. You could hope that
Speaker 2: Civilization seven has a bad launch and just gets crushed
Speaker 2: it and reviews because of that.
Speaker 1: But Tam picked it.
Speaker 2: Never mind, my game, it's gonna do great, Tam door.
Speaker 6: Uh. We want to try and pick a game that
Speaker 6: we think is going to do bad or just not appear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just like not do as well as as it
Speaker 2: possibly could, because you're trying to minimize damage at this point.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 6: Let me check one thing.
Speaker 10: We all have some pretty good lists this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, chat is saying pick Pokemon and bank on it
Speaker 1: being a technical disaster that has not stopped my game. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: for it is Sam's game, but just as like it
Speaker 1: has never stopped anybody from giving it a big number.
Speaker 4: Forgive me if this was covered. If you're if the
Speaker 4: game you counterpicked does below seventy, do you get plus points?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 6: Ah, yes, Actually I am going to pick either either
Speaker 6: I will get off like a bandit or I will
Speaker 6: absolutely get fucked sure and manifest something that people have
Speaker 6: wanted for age. I'm gonna pick holl of Night.
Speaker 1: So that worked out for me last year too.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think there's no more bad picks in this
Speaker 4: sort of category unless you picked Metroid. But yeah, like
Speaker 4: I don't think it exists.
Speaker 1: We're gonna where's Dan.
Speaker 4: He went to Japan on some sort of sabotage mission.
Speaker 1: You don't know what Dan.
Speaker 2: If Dan luck somehow happens and makes that game either
Speaker 2: come out and be terrible or come out and or
Speaker 2: not come out, I'm gonna be angry you did it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's no way Nintendo lets that game come out
Speaker 6: and it's bad.
Speaker 10: Yeah, ilay that game?
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, My California Pizza Kitchen is Borderlands for.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 4: Jan you're the best.
Speaker 6: Jan This is another Pokemon situation though you know it's
Speaker 6: another post games. Come on, they just all right, so
Speaker 6: bad and people are like, this is the greatest game.
Speaker 4: Of it's my turn, and I don't know what everyone's doing,
Speaker 4: not choosing anything that Lucy chose based on.
Speaker 1: No offense.
Speaker 4: Lucy, you know I love you, But what the fuck
Speaker 4: is the Altars? I have no idea.
Speaker 7: This is coole as ship, dude.
Speaker 10: Let me do it.
Speaker 8: Trying to trick you.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know what the Blue Prince is either,
Speaker 4: what is happening?
Speaker 6: There's there's more.
Speaker 5: Sorry that I've got my ear to the ground more.
Speaker 1: Than you, jes.
Speaker 4: The funny thing is like, the funny thing is like
Speaker 4: I can the best I can hope for with this
Speaker 4: is like I want to pick like a game that
Speaker 4: gets like a sixty nine, you know, like or seventy one,
Speaker 4: all exactly exactly.
Speaker 7: Here's a suggestion, though so far three of Greb's four
Speaker 7: games have been counterpicked.
Speaker 8: You could just make it even spread.
Speaker 2: Their Yeah, do that? Come on?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I think I think the Ghost games
Speaker 4: coming out for sure. All right, I'm gonna pick the blueprints.
Speaker 4: I don't know I don't know enough about it. I
Speaker 4: want to count of pick it.
Speaker 6: That's a mistake, is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It could be. It just could be a huge mistake.
Speaker 1: Who is to say huge? Miss uh?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 1: Now do it? Do it? Stick to your guns?
Speaker 5: Because I got a pee.
Speaker 4: Everyone's talking so fast. No, I I took it.
Speaker 10: Yes, blueprints, Okay, so I'm next up. Yeah, not a
Speaker 10: lot of options. Let me actually do the list here,
Speaker 10: which I think will do the worst out of all these. Boy,
Speaker 10: there's some good looking games on this list. Hm hmm.
Speaker 10: It's a matter of if it comes out.
Speaker 1: Listen, that's a great three dollars game.
Speaker 14: Tam uh was I gonna We're just we're just mitigating
Speaker 14: damage here, And based off of something someone said, I
Speaker 14: do think I'm gonna go with Little Nimers three, not
Speaker 14: just because of what Dan said, but because they those
Speaker 14: games scored like high seventies to eighty.
Speaker 10: So if I lose ten points, that's not like the
Speaker 10: end of the world. Yeah, and I'm not going to
Speaker 10: cough day about our stuff not coming out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're an awkward triactuary though.
Speaker 8: Okay, it's me.
Speaker 5: I again to what Sean said, This is about mitigating damage.
Speaker 5: I think this game will probably be in the sevens
Speaker 5: and eights based on what I played, or at least
Speaker 5: it's just not a game for me. Assassin's Creed Shadows.
Speaker 2: Wow, I could easily be high seventies.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was thinking about as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 5: Was just I don't know. I think some people will
Speaker 5: really enjoy it, but I also think that like they're
Speaker 5: trying to cater to both sides of Assassin's fans and
Speaker 5: they're not really doing it very well. And also like,
Speaker 5: so yeah, where Ghost of Yota is coming out, I
Speaker 5: don't know that. I think they really have to do
Speaker 5: something special.
Speaker 10: Mikey doesn't have a lot to work with here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: By the way, yeah, like I don't know much about Wonderstop,
Speaker 7: but when I look at it, it doesn't you know.
Speaker 8: It's because of games of course.
Speaker 7: I'm like, I don't think that's very interesting, but it's
Speaker 7: projected to earn ten points on this site, which scares
Speaker 7: me a little bit.
Speaker 8: Slight of hand.
Speaker 7: That's like, it seems like a pretty ambitious game of
Speaker 7: a lot of things. It looks cool, but I could
Speaker 7: see that like just not all coming together somehow. So yeah,
Speaker 7: I think I will go with that I think I
Speaker 7: will go with Sleight of Hand as my counterpick.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's that's a Game of the year favorite, Mike,
Speaker 2: you really messed up bang It Ship.
Speaker 5: Wait wait, what was your counterpick of hand? Okay, well
Speaker 5: I was gonna I was gonna say, because Wonder Stop
Speaker 5: is being done by the Stanley Parable guy.
Speaker 8: Oh, that would have.
Speaker 10: Been such are we did? Everybody? Draft is over. That's
Speaker 10: all of our initial picks, while we just quickly go
Speaker 10: down the line and say what we each picked, and
Speaker 10: then our one counterpick sounds good? All right? Mate?
Speaker 7: Uh Midnster Hunter Wilds has unannounced mainline three D Mario
Speaker 7: platformer Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three, Ninja Kite in four
Speaker 7: two point Museum in the counterpick of Sleight of Hand.
Speaker 5: Jam Hot Games this Year has a packed slate of
Speaker 5: Monster Hunter Wild's Blueprints, Wonder Stop and the Altars, and
Speaker 5: the counterpick is Assassin's Green Shadows.
Speaker 10: All right, play stay Sean, coming in hot with the
Speaker 10: nerdy games for you' all. We got some Doom The
Speaker 10: Dark Ages, Dragon Quest one and two HD two D
Speaker 10: remake Trails in the Sky first chapter, Fatal Fury, City
Speaker 10: of the Wolves, and we have counterpicked Little Nightmares three.
Speaker 4: All right, uh, my publisher even more important game company.
Speaker 4: I'm also currently now getting Google ads for Crowndesigners dot com. Uh.
Speaker 4: My picks are Grand Theft, Auto six, Death Stranding two
Speaker 4: on the Beach That Makes You Old, the Outer World's two, uh,
Speaker 4: Skate and Skate Story, and my counterpick is Blueprints I.
Speaker 1: Get It eight A The Show. Uh.
Speaker 3: My games are Split Fiction, Assassin's Creed, Shadows, Ninja, Guy Den, Raggae, Bound,
Speaker 3: Citizen Sleeper two, star Ward Vector. My counterpick is border Lands.
Speaker 6: Oh so Bombay mixed a lot of games. We have
Speaker 6: Pokemon Legends, The A Civilization seven, Light of Hand, and
Speaker 6: Little Nightmas three. My counterpick is Hollow Night, Silk.
Speaker 1: Song Nintendo to run by me Nicky Grayson. I have
Speaker 1: selected untitled Next Mario Kart for the switch to, which
Speaker 1: is very funny that they put switched to after it,
Speaker 1: Elden Ring, Night Rain Like a Dragon, Pirate, Yakaza in
Speaker 1: Hawaii and Zeno Blade Chronicles ex Colon Definitive Edition. And
Speaker 1: my counterpick Foolish is avowed.
Speaker 2: Hubb A grub of games selected Ghost of Yote, Metroid
Speaker 2: Prime four Beyond Borderlands for and avowed, and I counterpicked.
Speaker 2: I believe Jeff Backlar's Grand Theft, Auto.
Speaker 8: Six no RPGs allowed as middle Years, Solid Delta, Snake Eater,
Speaker 8: Hollow Night, Silk Song, South of Midnight, and Call of
Speaker 8: Duty twenty twenty five. My counterpick is Metroid Prime four.
Speaker 8: What there's no evidence, I said, twenty twenty five Champions, he's.
Speaker 1: Been so quiet?
Speaker 10: Lutes All right, friendly reminder that so now we have
Speaker 10: our four games of the ten that you have on
Speaker 10: your list this year. I didn't mention this at the top,
Speaker 10: but if a game gets confirmed to not come out,
Speaker 10: I think it makes a little easier on everyone. If
Speaker 10: it's confirmed not come out, you can drop it from
Speaker 10: your team just freely. You just do go and do that,
Speaker 10: and you get one unconditional drop as well, but only one.
Speaker 10: And from here on out, we each have a fictional
Speaker 10: hundred dollars to use on the bidding process. Every week
Speaker 10: you can bid on a game, and then I believe
Speaker 10: Thursday night it gets revealed what games have been bid on.
Speaker 10: In case you forget about something and you're like, oh,
Speaker 10: I want to try to grab that, and you can
Speaker 10: put a bid in for that or a bid for
Speaker 10: a counter pick as well. So yeah, there we.
Speaker 1: Go the fucking eugenics.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, Fantasy critic, We're gonna try and check
Speaker 3: in on this a little bit more regularly.
Speaker 1: Nikki, I believe it was you that ran a pole
Speaker 1: and I won that fucking pole.
Speaker 10: Dominated it, ray lest Nikki, thank you.
Speaker 1: I decided to do it right this time.
Speaker 7: We all came up with some good lists, yere, I think,
Speaker 7: and this could be anybody's game right now.
Speaker 10: Everyone's looking pretty well. We'll see what everyone picks up
Speaker 10: throughout the year.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I mean now that we know that a
Speaker 3: shoot crown is on the line, Yeah, a motivation all right,
Speaker 3: that's right, all right, folks. That does it for this
Speaker 3: week's episode of BombCast Revengeance. A lot of stuff going
Speaker 3: up on the website. Anyone got anything they're particularly proud
Speaker 3: of or want to plug?
Speaker 8: I don't know of the ninety nine dragons. Blake Love
Speaker 8: has begun. It's the worst feeling game. We're halfway done, right,
Speaker 8: I've heard the back half is where the real horseshit is.
Speaker 8: I'm really looking forward to that. So check out that
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Speaker 1: Draftings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, yep, big on draftings.
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