Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly
video game show here at Geek. First, I'm your host
El Muss and I'm with me the R and D
Travis Snell. How are you doing, Welcome back to side Quest,
Welcome back to the podcast in general. It's good to
have you here, my friend.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is actually marking the first because I was
hoping for news but then everyone abandoned it, so it's
just stuck with Taylor.
Speaker 3: How awkward. A couple of.
Speaker 2: Days, a couple of days before I assault the band
and then I gotta do podcasts with them. But yes,
this is the first side Quest. I'll be on next week.
Lots of catchup we can do. It's the first foreman
cast of it on, so I'm excited to do it.
Speaker 1: So let's do the gv quads are back. We got
also the better luck this year. Kirkle Patzer, how's it going.
Speaker 4: It's going very very well. I'm uh yeah, no, it's
it's going very well.
Speaker 5: I'm excited to kick off the new drafts.
Speaker 1: Yet I did not sound well, Yeah that was a
sketchy very well. That sounded rehears I don't like that.
And we have the field of Fields. Mister Titterfield, how
are you doing, my friend? Well, I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm here looking for a.
Speaker 1: W looking for a WL see if you find it.
This is this is, of course, the twenty twenty five
video game Draft. We do this every single year. We're
here a little late this year because Travis was away
and then I didn't have internet for a bit, so
you know, this week's episode's a bit late. It also
probably should have been back in January, but that's just
how things go sometimes. I think we're just gonna skip
kind of right to it because we're doing a lot
of these drafts tonight, so we're just gonna get ready
to do it. As Travis mentioned, next week, we will
have like kind of your standard side quest episode. Travis
is gonna join. We're gonna talk about all the games
he's been playing while he's away, among other news and
all that good stuff as you normally can expect. But yeah,
we're getting into the draft here. So the way this
works and the rules change a little bit before the
most other pre consistent all of us, all four of us,
are gonna pick five games to go on our draft,
and at the end of the year we're gonna look
at all those games that release. We're gonna tally up
all the metacritics scores, so the review scores for those games.
Whoever is the highest overall number wins the draft. We'll
take a quick look back at last year where we
have the results. The results are coming in hot and heavy.
Here in last place was taylor Field with four hundred
and eighty six points. You had one game get delayed
out of the year, that was Assassin's Creek Shadows. We'll
see if you go to pick that one up again.
Speaker 3: Ghost is coming out.
Speaker 1: And then in third place, this is crazy, actually a
nail Bier Kirkland with five hundred and twenty five points.
And then I had five hundred and twenty six, so
I literally had one more point than you. That what's
funny about that is I had a game delayed and
you had all of your games. So even with a
game getting kicked out and me lack you know, whole
games are the points, still beat you by one point.
But yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 5: Do you think given all the details, you could have
just left it out.
Speaker 4: You could have just left it you know, you beat
me by one point, But I appreciate you got all
the details, then.
Speaker 1: I won't yeah, rub In south Park snow Day any anymore.
We could leave that fort again.
Speaker 5: I've never picked a south Park game again.
Speaker 1: And then in first place was Travis Snow with five
hundred and sixty five points. Really clean performance overall. Are
you feeling confident this year? You think you're gonna do
it two in a row?
Speaker 3: Here, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2: I think this in many drafts now I've won. It's like,
can should I play it safe and go for the double?
But I think I'm gonna make some wild picks.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm not. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see how goes. I haven't decided the play
style yet. But I'm feeling pretty good, especially in these
lady years, because this is the third two.
Speaker 3: And twenty two. This is the fourth year we're doing
all these drafts.
Speaker 2: So now I feel like all those early strategies that
we've pulled out are out there. They're free, Like, I
don't think there's anything else people gonna pull it back. Oh,
I didn't think of that, So now I think it's
really even playing field. I wanted to win the video
game one because I think one year I was really
close and had a delay. So I'll be curious when
a vowed comes out, Dylan and see that score and
see like if it would have came out, if you
would have beat me or not.
Speaker 3: I don't know, because there's a good shot I eat it.
Speaker 1: So I think I would have. I mean, if I
was forty points before, I don't think that game was
gonna be less than fifty. I think it would at
least get a seventy five or seventy two or something
like that.
Speaker 2: I don't say it much, but thank you Microsoft for
making that those right moves.
Speaker 1: So I'm still very excited for that game. So even
though even though they burned me with that, so of course,
congratulations Travis, We're gonna go through this. And then, of
course we had did this last year. I think it
was the first time we did it where midway through
the year we kind of all four of us got
back together, we all drafted I think three more games,
maybe it was two. I forget if we went up
to seven or eight, but we all drafted a bunch
of more games. Because of of course, a bunch of
things go get announcedroughout the year, and then everything that
anything that was delayed officially we kicked those off our
lists and kind of refreshed them, and then of course
in the final hours, me and Taylor both got screwed
with some delays there with a vowed and Assassin's creed.
So it can always happen. A vout happened super late
in the year. That's just how that's just the way
it goes. You know, you can try and pick games
that come up earlier and try and be safe, but
then maybe you're getting less points. That's kind of part
of the whole game of it. So at some point,
probably in the summer, we will come back and do
the not even necessarily second half, but just kind of
the second part of this, I guess you could say,
and then we kind of check in throughout the year.
In terms of rules, we of course do the classic
Snake draft, so one of us is gonna go first.
We'll go back and forth. Things that are not allowed,
anything that is currently in early access. So if it's
out right now on Steam and early access, something like
that not allowed, you can't pick it because that game's
already out. We already kind of know about it. No ports,
so you know, I think Final Fantasy Rebirth or something's
coming on in PC soon. You can't pick that because
it's already it's out. It's the same game. This is
where it gets tricky. We've said no remasters in the past,
but like remakes are allowed, and that's a slippery slope
because it's such a like you know, back and forth.
It's very close in terms of what makes what. So
we'll just have to do that on a case by
case basis. I guess if someone tries to pick a
game that is nebulously in between, then we can do
a little on the fly call if that game is
gonna be allowed. Am I missing anything? I guess we've
talked about LC's. Are DLC's allowed.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not. I don't think so. I don't want
the Elden Ring thing going on.
Speaker 1: I don't, yeah, because we didn't have Eldon Ring on
our draft last year, right that was considered a band pick,
you know.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm firmly against the no DLC.
Speaker 1: I mean, last year, Taylor had a World of Warcraft,
the war within that sounds like DLC to me. I
didn't play it, but no matter I lost, So I'm not.
I just want to get us all on the same
page before we start picking things if.
Speaker 2: Someone feels like that, because in that situation, I know
nothing about world of warcraft. If something comes up that
someone feels hey, that could be DLC, same thing as
a remaster remake, I'd say bring it up and let's
discuss and take a look at it, because I don't know.
I didn't know if that was like a warcraft like
a sequel or whatever, because there's some stuff that I'm
blind on.
Speaker 3: So I'd say, if there's an iffy, throw a hand up.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, we will decide that when it comes up.
Can one one one of the three of you pull
up the famous Maddy Saggs Wheel of fate for us
to determine the order. I forget actually even the past
that we've done, like Winter picks, like I like the
wheel the wheel.
Speaker 3: No, it's always in the wheel. That's always in the wheel.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay. I don't know. How are you guys feeling.
I guess just confidence level when you did your research
preparing for this. I did a little quick re listen
of our preview that we did like a month ago,
just to see if I forgot anything. I'm feeling Okay.
I think there's easily twenty games worth of juice on here,
and maybe at least like fifteen of those. I'm like, Okay,
I think these are actually very solid picks, So I'm
feeling good. I feel like there's a deep roster that
we have of announcements this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel I feel alright because I feel like
there's two that people might not pick per se. I
could be wrong, but I feel like there's two those.
So though, if that goes good, then I figured out
my three. If those other two or maybe other people
are sniffing around them, then maybe maybe some.
Speaker 3: Some new moves will have to be made.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, spin that wheel, baby.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it's gonna end on random.
Speaker 5: The poke.
Speaker 1: The fake Pokemon got Taylor Field the perfect chance for redemption?
Is that what you wanted? Taylor? Did you want first
this time? Okay?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 1: He has a pretty juicy pick on the cusp. It seems.
Speaker 6: Next up right between me and Travis looks.
Speaker 1: That was like in Smash Bros. When you're so close
alleged that your character starts like falling off. It was
it was like that number two that's looking like you, Travis.
You don't like that spot I like the.
Speaker 3: First of the whatever.
Speaker 2: I think this is actually the worst spot to get
because at least with number one, if you don't get,
you like, well, they'll miss something, so I can pick up.
Once you get to three, it's like yeah, probably.
Speaker 3: Second will get stuff. Yeah, don't hate the player, I
hate the game.
Speaker 1: Okay, Taylor Field, you are the first one to make
a selection.
Speaker 6: Oh here I got. I'm happy I got first. But
now I'm torn because there's two picks that I feel
like I need to put on the I want on
my list. I definitely want on my list because I
feel like there are already picks that you guys are
gonna go for. One is a little bit more bolder
than the other. So maybe, just just just to be safe,
I'll just say the stranding too, just.
Speaker 3: To be safe. To release date that is five.
Speaker 2: No, you said it it's too late, but like it
doesn't have a date, I thought. And there's even I know,
like because you guys said this comment day but I
don't know, even hit Day last year said something and
they're like what percentage that he's like thirty percent done.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, everyone's like this game's twenty.
Speaker 4: They going hard over Christmas. Okay, he got a good
sixty percent for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean when I googled it, it says twenty twenty
five right there. But I have no idea that's just.
Speaker 3: Never been dated, never been dated.
Speaker 5: I'll take my chances he's not one the date thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, Wikipedia says it's supposed to come out this year,
so he is. I trust Wikipedia more than I trust
any of you three. I think that's I would wager
that's coming out this year, but who who the heck knows?
I guess that's a rule I didn't mention, but like,
technically you should try and pick things that are coming
out this year and not play for like picking things
that are intentionally gonna come out in the futures that
you can drop them when we get to the second half.
If that makes sense, you know, don't try and game
the system in that way. If you pick something that
has literally announced twenty twenty six, you're not allowed to
pick it. That's against the rules.
Speaker 3: I picked sky Fall Elder scroll six.
Speaker 1: That's sky Fall Elder scroll six. I haven't heard about one.
It's gonna be great, Okay. On the beach is off
the beach here? That goes over to me. Now, Okay,
So here's the thing. Every year we've done this draft.
I think this is the fourth year. Could be wrong.
This fourth year, I've never won, even though on the
Video Game Guy, but I will claim that I have.
I have had the highest average score. My my review scores,
Medical Rectors have been the best. I just have always
had games get delayed, which has dropped my number. That's
my excuse. So I'm gonna switch up a little bit
this year. I'm gonna go for what Kirkland has done
in the past. We're just like pick things that are
coming out in like a few weeks, you know, the
things that are least likely to get kicked. And so
I'm gonna go for Monster Hunter Wilds, which is coming
out pretty soon. I would be shocked if that game
got delayed. It's already had a bunch of previews and
things like that. People have played the game. It's coming out,
and I think March April or something like that. Mounts
under World's last mainline game had a ninety uh. People
really like this series. I think this game is gonna
be great. I probably won't be playing it, but I
will happily see it crack up some points on my
list here, So I'm gonna go monster Hunter Wild's my
first pick.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be clear, Kirkland won the first two years
and then I won this year. So I broke Kirkland
street because he had that stupid little trophy. But you
know what, next time you see me hand it over, buddy,
that trophy is that trophy's mine?
Speaker 3: Is even there? Do you still have it?
Speaker 5: Any of my horseshoe trophy?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Every year vehicle looka trophy.
Speaker 5: Well, next recast, I do.
Speaker 3: Look at this in a spot right next to Golblin.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be so get your name on it.
Speaker 3: Okay. So I'm very happy about this.
Speaker 2: So this is where I said I didn't know if
I was gonna where I was going to get a
little safe or some bold picks, And now I'm film
bold based on those two picks. And some people might think, oh,
like what Dylan said, can he pick this game because
for their out? But no, because take two confirms this
was today statement confirms that DJ six is still in
track for a fall twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Wikipedia posts there, well, yeah it is, it is.
Speaker 2: Uh so No, it's an actual statement for the company,
not fucking just some gamer that loves Hi.
Speaker 3: Jao Hideo.
Speaker 1: Going to jail.
Speaker 3: So I'm going with GTA.
Speaker 2: I think there's a risk to it, but if you
look at all those scores, majority of them are all
like ninety five ninety like if it and I that's
the thing, if it hits, unless something argantuine happens. I
think it's like a minimum ninety minimum. So I'm taking risk.
But the thing is, maybe that is when I could
drop in the future. But I'm picking it because I
want it, because I want to come out obviously, but
they've this like the third time this year they said
it's coming, so I have to believe them.
Speaker 3: And if they do, I want that. That's when I
want my team.
Speaker 2: Maybe they'll screw me down the road, but I want
the big like the Meg La Dawn you.
Speaker 3: Know on my roster.
Speaker 5: So that's the meg right there, That is the Meg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I respect that pick. I was just a little
too worried of the even though I saw that post today. Yes,
they did say, but that also seems like something you
put out there so your investors are happy, you know who.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's not like they put a trailer out there that
confirmed it. They're just trying to pease those suits, you know,
And I'm here for the gamers. I'm not here for
the suits. Kirkling, you have two picks back to back,
so there's a lot of power in your field here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be power.
Speaker 4: I feel like I don't normally get the back to back,
so this is an exciting time. I'm kind of surprised
GTA made it all the way down. I feel like
I was gonna take it no matter what, even though
it is a risky pick, just because it is.
Speaker 5: That big megaladon.
Speaker 2: Right here.
Speaker 5: Yeah you so yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm kudos to you, Travis forgetting that. I think I'm
gonna take Doom the Dark Ages here as my first pick.
So impressed, play all the gameplay trailers and everything I've seen,
I'll take it on PS five, I'll stick to the place.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I guess. So medic has Metacritic has like
an aggregate thing now, so it just like combines all
like averages version, So I think that's cleaner. We'll just
do it that way.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, I'm happy with that. So yeah, I'll take
Doom there. And then for my second pick, I'm gonna
go with a heart pick here. I'm gonna go split Fiction.
I'm gonna really just will this game to be like
a perfect you know, tan experience, and uh yeah, I'm
happy that I'll be drafting it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it Takes two has really great reviews. I
think it's in the nineties right or the high eighties
at the very least, and it's coming out hundred PC,
coming out like there's no way that's getting delayed out
of this year. So two really great picks once again,
and Kirkling, you pick the kind of first quarter early
year things, and these are two really great picks. So
those are definitely my my s tier picks for the night.
So nice, nice word.
Speaker 4: GTA was there though, I would have taken that for sure,
so I'm sorry split Fiction would have dropped a little bit.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well yeah, getting back to that now. Early games
just confirming some numbers. I'm pretty happy with them. It's
gonna go with SEV seven.
Speaker 3: You take that doesn't seem like there's anything I can't take.
Speaker 1: Is already out. The game's already out.
Speaker 3: Since February eleventh.
Speaker 1: Over here, well, it already has reviews.
Speaker 3: All right, Oh does it okay?
Speaker 1: That's fine, Yeah, because there was like early acts that
you can like pay and then it's out now kind
of thing. I will, Honestly, I think you're maybe like
it has a decent score now, but I think it
might drop because like it's been a pretty controversial launch.
Speaker 2: So I will as long as it hasn't I'll take
I'll take some other release kids, dude, as long as
this hasn't been released, I'm gonna I'm gonna steal avowed
you know, the win last year because it was delayed.
Speaker 1: It's dead to me, so you can have it.
Speaker 3: I do feel good about it.
Speaker 2: The play test has gone well and that, so yeah,
I'm gonna take a vowt uh. And I just don't
feel like that's gonna get delayed into twenty twenty six.
If it does, then that stud has bigger issues than
I would think. But yeah, I feel good with the
valve there, so very nice.
Speaker 1: Okay, I guess that takes it over to me. I'll
let you guys crack the code on this, but I
have three more games in my S tier picks and
I'm gonna go with uh. I think this one has
a potential to drop on the Metacritic compared to its predecessor,
but I still think it's clean ninety. I'm going Eldon
Ring Night Rain, the three player co op DLCs. It's
not DLC, it's its own games, so that's where it's. Hey,
you know what, if they want to sell it in
a separate box, I will pick it for my list.
Kind of a boring pick, but I do think this
is definitely coming out this year, and I mean it's
Eldan Ring. What are you gonna do not pick Elden Ring?
Speaker 3: So yeah, no good pick. I kind of forgot about
that game.
Speaker 1: So if you guys need me to pull up it,
pull up the visual here. Let me know. At some
point I'm writing this down.
Speaker 6: So I got two picks, right, and you do.
Speaker 1: The snake is in your favor. Here, let's go with.
Speaker 6: I don't think that the reviews are out for this,
because it's still fourteen days away. I'm gonna go with
like a Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Yeah, Kuza games
got high ratings, so I like Rubens always show me
this Yakuza games, so I.
Speaker 5: Did not even called that anymore, did they likering?
Speaker 1: They got a variety of this one, especially like Dragon,
But this one has the word Yakuza in the titles.
Speaker 3: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: That insane game title. Yeah, that's solid pick though, I
think that's clean.
Speaker 6: And then in addition to that, I'm gonna go with
Anno one one seven. Those games are pretty popular and
it's interesting has I think it's got some steam behind it.
Speaker 1: So one one seven you say with those.
Speaker 6: One spartan one one seven, is.
Speaker 1: That actually what's called one one seven?
Speaker 5: One one seven?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wow, that's crazy interesting pick is I don't like, personally
didn't have that on my radar, so I feel like
that would have been a freebieing a later round, but
I don't know, maybe uh, some of these other boys
had scoped it out.
Speaker 5: That's my next pick.
Speaker 1: Okay, two ways I could go here. I'm more guaranteed
kind of release state scenario or a riskier one that
maybe has a little more potential. M But I think
this year I'm being born, I'm playing it safe. I
don't grab Ghosts of Yo Tai.
Speaker 3: Does that have a date?
Speaker 1: Not a date, but it has twenty twenty five on
the trailer for it.
Speaker 2: That's I'm just surprised by safe. I feel like just
the year dates those can sometimes be the unsafe. I
feel like any day we could wake up to that,
you know, black page white text, like we're working really.
Speaker 1: To me, you can't see to me. I I think
there's a higher chance of that happening for GTA than
for that happening for a Ghosts. But we'll see.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm gonna pick up the other side that coin.
I'm just gonna go with Assassin's Screed because the same way.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting, it's.
Speaker 3: What I think.
Speaker 2: It's dated in spring, right, But it's the same thing
as a valid Like if this game gets delayed from
twenty twenty four to twenty five twenty six, there's big
problems over there at you'd be soft. So I'm gonna
trust them to hit this. So I'm taking Dylan's delayed game,
taking to them, taking the fallen Soldiers, and I'm hoping
they're gonna get me to uh win, because yeah, I
don't want to go too far out GT.
Speaker 3: Is my one. Hell, Mary, I don't want to get
too all far off the recreations.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you think for a number
on that bad boy? I think it's risk like you
just looking for an eighty and then you're happy or.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping for eighty.
Speaker 2: My hope is that the delays are genuine and is
gonna come out and hopefully be one of those.
Speaker 3: Higher tier Assassin Creed ones, right because.
Speaker 2: I feel like we get the okay, seventy eighty, it's fine,
and I'll take it like hey, look at South Park
last year, right, like sometimes the seventy is even.
Speaker 3: Not too bad.
Speaker 2: But I'm hoping my minimum, i'd like like a seventy
eight to eighty. My maximum maybe like an eighty five.
I think there's potential to stretch there, but you know,
hopefully those delays help me out.
Speaker 1: Okay, Taylor, are you just fuming at that?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: No, he can have it.
Speaker 6: I think because I've read a few, just a few
things that comments about the game, and I think maximum
you're gonna get probably like low eighties, but I think
minimum you're gonna get high seventies for sure. I think
it's a safe pick.
Speaker 2: That's why I'll take a low eighty over just a
fucking goose egg zero, you know, like that.
Speaker 3: That's that's what Taylor.
Speaker 1: He's taken our delayed scraps from last year and avowed
and Assassin's Creed just are just remember leftovers.
Speaker 2: Maybe should have gave those scraps another chance. That is
a strategy because they're coming out early. Maybe should have
given another chance. You know, it's like the ex girlfriend
you no, not specific, the general.
Speaker 3: Nondescript Taylor Field. What's your next two picks? It's not I'll.
Speaker 1: Go I don't like these rules. Yeah, we're going.
Speaker 3: Back to ta I insulted them, so I'm giving them
the picks.
Speaker 5: Hm hmm. I got a couple I could pick here.
Speaker 4: I'm getting a little cautious around the release dates on them,
just for the uncertainty on some of them. I think
I'm gonna take Adam Fall as my next pick. I
was thinking of that medium wild card, I feel just
because I don't know what it's gonna do. Like Radiance wise,
I think everything I've seen it looks really good. Another one,
I'm just kind of hoping, you know, in due existence
those Metacritic points, I'm.
Speaker 5: Hoping it's really good. So yeah, I think I'll take
Adam Fall there. That one.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm very excited for that game. But I
was looking at like Sniper League five, phenomenal game, seventy
seven on Metacritic, Like you know, a solid score, But
I feel like I don't know what it is, maybe
about rebellion, but I just feel like maybe this could
be the one that really climbs. But I feel like
it's bound for another seventy seventy something, hopefully not, because
I'm taking I'll be there day one.
Speaker 4: Love to get those points for my next one. I
feel like every year I usually go with these like
just random PC games that are usually like my best picks,
Like last year frost Punk Too that was my number one.
Speaker 1: Really eighty five, the Commando three one year and three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go Football Manager twenty five here the
newest installment, sure go.
Speaker 3: What they now say? That game is canceled?
Speaker 1: Legit literally today?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, wow, okay, we should have got you guys.
Got you.
Speaker 2: Guys told me that I want to win honorably, but yeah,
literally today put out a post that's.
Speaker 1: Uh there's a I saw there's like a new preview
for WW two K twenty five, So that's on the board.
You could pick that.
Speaker 5: Uh No. I looked at those medic critics and they're
they're awful. It's just they're inconsistent.
Speaker 2: Hey, we'll talk about side quest. I'm gonna first time
ever Gmode Online.
Speaker 3: I mean, the.
Speaker 2: Gimmick boys are very excited. It's it's a big day
for the wrestling fans. So that could get you some
big numbers right there.
Speaker 3: Kirkland, I hope for for you Mode Online.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think I'm gonna take put on the back
foot here, I definitely am.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Take WW and looks so bad now I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna take Mafia the Old Country one. I really don't
know if it's even gonna release. It says summer of
twenty twenty five, but they haven't updated like anything on
the game in a very long time.
Speaker 1: Really impressive long since last summer.
Speaker 4: It's not that long, it feels like a long time,
just with details that we've gotten on other games between
now and then.
Speaker 5: So a little bit of an Asterix pick. But I
don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm hoping that it's a fresh start on
the the series. That the ratings in the past haven't
been the greatest on you know, all the games, but
I'm hoping this is a wild card.
Speaker 2: You gotta love this man dogs on w W. The
last three w W games were higher rated than the
last Mafia game. Mafia games like in the sixty seven
w's all like eighties.
Speaker 5: That's really Mafia three, though we don't talk about Manfia.
Speaker 1: This is the old country, Okabe.
Speaker 4: We're going to Italy, baby, Okay, sure take it with that.
I'm not taking Football Manager though, so I'll take that.
Speaker 2: Imagine, just imagine though, if Dylan's WiFi didn't go down,
we did this on Monday, you would have Football Manage
right now, and then three days later.
Speaker 1: That would have been done.
Speaker 5: That would have been unlucky.
Speaker 3: You should be taking Dylan's Wi Fi provider right there.
Speaker 5: It was me, Dylan that was the one that hacked
your It was all alone.
Speaker 3: So it's me.
Speaker 2: Hey, okay, so I think I'm gonna go for another
I'm because this is pick.
Speaker 1: Number four, right number four, Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do one more wild card because I got
a couple more safer ones not as wild this GTA
and this is a bit more unknown territory for me
because I've never played a single one their games. But
I feel like people are very excited. People are overly
excited point where I see the game playing like, okay,
looks good, but you know, they're very excited. The games
that these people have been a part of in the
past have done really well.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna pick Judas. I'm gonna hope that that
could be a breakout this year.
Speaker 2: And because those BioShock games, like even BioShock infinites like
ninety four, so it's like fucking nuts like those are good.
So that's why I obviously thought the exact identical people,
but if they can kind of in a way become
like the Outer Wilds, because I was even looking like, okay,
what's fallout.
Speaker 3: An Outer Wild's comparison? Outer Wilds is like eighty six.
Speaker 2: Again, I'm just making the comparison of like the Way,
thank you, Yes, yes, yeah, So I'm making the comparison
of a bunch of people from Yeah so it's me
the list, but a comparison to one studio, some people
leaving creating something similar but having good success. And I
think Judas will I don't even know if I'll be
playing it, but I feel like, uh, this could be
a risk, this could be like a and like could
be a disappointment, but I'm gonna just have some faith
and uh, maybe snag a sleeper pick here.
Speaker 3: So I'm going with Judas.
Speaker 1: Uh March twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Apparently that's what Take two said, but like that's where
I feel confidently enough. I think it's gotten the official
twenty twenty five. Like Sticker and Take two, I think
they just said in this quarter. So people think that,
But I think if it's expected March, even to a
couple of delays, I feel like we can get this
this year. So and if not, maybe by the summer,
then I kick and go, Okay, it's been quiet. It's
like I did with God. What's my game that's never
coming out Dome that I'm excited for all the time?
Speaker 1: Replace?
Speaker 3: Replace? Yeah, never doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: It might not. It's more real than Football Manager Town
twenty five. That's that's all I know. Okay, back to me,
I still have an S Tier one that I think
is gonna get a really high number, but I just
I'm not certain of its release date, and so I'm
gonna go for a safe one. This game we talked
about last week on Sidequest because it was part of
the Xbox Okase or was that two weeks ago? We
talked about it recently. I'm gonna pick up South of Midnight,
so I think it's compulsion games that people who made
we happy few are on this one. It looks good.
I think it's gonna get maybe low eighties, but I
think it's one hundred scent coming out. It's dated in April.
Even if it does get pushed, I think it's still
sticking to this year. So I don't think this is
gonna be a huge money maker. It's not gonna be
a ninety's unlikely for that to be the case, but
I think it'll be solid enough. So I'm gonna go
with South of Midnight.
Speaker 5: Ooh.
Speaker 6: Back to me for my last two picks. Ah, this
one they confirmed the year its release, but it's not
devoid of being delayed whatever. But the company confirmed it
for twenty twenty five, and you know, with the recent
unveilments of the Switch to Whatnot, I feel pretty good
about picking Metroid Prime four. I think that there's gonna
be a high chance so that's gonna slide into consoles
near you this year. So I'm gonna go with that.
Speaker 1: That was the last one I had in my asked here.
I just I just am worried of a potential delay.
I do think it's coming out this year. I wager
higher on the percentage that does come out. But in
just trying to switch up my strategy GTA or Metro,
I think Metroid Prime is more likely to me, honestly,
I think GTA because I feel like there's no way,
there's no way the Switch two is not coming out
this year, and there's no way Measured Prime comes out
after the Switch to launch in my opinion, So that's
where I factored, Like, even if that game was getting delayed,
I think they would delay the Switch too, or like
they wouldn't have announced it back in January when they did.
That's kind of where I'm at with that one.
Speaker 3: Because has there been like a real full re re
revealed that game.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, last last summer, like Nintendo's Showcase I think,
or maybe in a Nintendo Direct in September or something.
But yeah, we saw some gameplay and all that.
Speaker 3: There's just too much question mark and also question marks.
Speaker 2: Usually the town doesn't put off crap quality, but if
both can't come out, that's why I made my wild
card gtake, because we don't know. With Metroid, it's been
through a lot, so I don't think it's a guaranteed
like yeah, High ninety or anything.
Speaker 1: So what do you guys, cause that game's I definitely
want a Switch to exclusive. I think they just advertise
it too much for the Switch one. But you guys
think that they would could position it as like a
switch to launch title game that you can like kind
of like how they did with Breath Wild when that
came out still in the weed. Do you think they
would do that for metroc Prime. Would that be a
good release date for it to get a lot of
eyes on it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Possibly, It's always.
Speaker 1: Like that and Mario Kart, you know, not just it
on its own something else as well.
Speaker 3: The Mario Kart's released with the new Switch.
Speaker 1: I mean it was in the trailer for it.
Speaker 2: So maybe I feel like I feel like I'm more
confident on a Mario three D platformer and Metroid than
I am with Mario Kart and Metroid.
Speaker 1: Really, even though they showed Mario Kart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just like a little snippets though, right,
Like it's not like it wasn't like a It's just
that could be like here here's like.
Speaker 1: It's more than a game then Mario three D.
Speaker 2: I know, but like they always got one cooking in
the back. They're like what do we go back there?
Speaker 1: We got Mario, uh, I mean yeah, Odyssey was twenty
seventeen or twenty eighteen or something, so it's it's yeah,
it's big.
Speaker 3: That they can just whip one together in a week,
and then that's the.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's easy copy paste, Yeah easy, Okay, Metro
Prime four and you got one more there, Taylor.
Speaker 6: Last one is going to be uh wander stop. I
was just looking through indie games and this one popped up.
I thought, this one, it's uh just feels.
Speaker 1: Like this one could do it. I think that's a
fantastic pick.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it gave me, oh my goodness, not Animal Crossing,
but it little makes similar to that for GameCube. I
remember my cousin playing it almost thank you, Harvest Moon.
This game gives me kind of Harvest Moon vibes. And
I know Harvestman is very popular popular title as well,
so I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, their last game has a nine deal Metacritic
because they they are the makers of the Stanley Parable.
It's a very different kind of game, but like this
team and studio is super creative, super interesting. I think
it's more than just like a cozy game. I think
there's something more under the under the surface. I think.
I think it's a fantastic pick. I definitely had it
in my I don't think any of you guys are
gonna pick it. So if like things get dire, I
can go to Understuf. But I think that's a really
good grab tailor nice nice work. I think that's coming
out very soon too, so I think you're like avoiding
any delayed chances. Yeah, that looks pretty pretty, pretty clean. Yeah, okay,
back to me now, nice try. I got one more
pick here. Okay, Metrick Prime got grabbed. Let's see, I
might go for it. Okay, Okay, I think I'm gonna
go for a boring pick that I think is once
again just in the eighties. It's it's here's here's my
analogy for this one. You know, like when you're when
you're in the game of baseball, you can go for
a huge, you can go for that home run, but
you can also just like let the whatever guy strike
out or whatever and then you just get a walk.
I don't know that in terms of baseball very well,
but you know what I'm talking about. So I'm going
so I'm going for MLB The Show twenty five. Oh, okay,
these games always do well. It's gonna come out unless
it gets canceled like Football Manager. So it's boring, but
it's gonna you know, get me some good, clean family
fun points here.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna make a boring pick as well, and
I'm you know, meaned upon it. I've talked myself into it.
I'm putting dot B two K twenty five on the roster.
Reason why I think it's gonna do higher is because
you know, clowning inside Gmode Online is legitimately a very
big thing. They have two new features this year. There's
that and there's this thing called the Island. It's the
first it's an open world mode the first time ever. Now,
it could be disastrous and sing the game or cause,
like we know, this was sports games. It's like they
release it's the same game for the same game four
years in a row, and then something new comes out, right,
And this is one of these years where there's double
new stuff happening with online GMOD and the Island.
Speaker 3: So I'm banking on them both being good.
Speaker 2: Hopefully GMO runs well and the island's fun where you
you just go on this island and you're fighting other
wrestlers and you're unlocking stuff, like it's it's this weird mode,
like it's this mod that not even the okay, good,
we're not picking the gents because they don't they're not
even allowing it on ps F four and like the
last shit and stuff, so it's just like huge Island
or rolling Rains in the middle. But so I'm hoping
these two modes anytime Doody tries to put some new
fresh stuff in there and it works, usually the meta
score like bumps up a little bit. Instead of like
an eight like I saw one, there was like an
eighty five. Like, okay, I could I could see this
being a year if these new things work out, well,
it's like, oh they put a little bit more effort
in the game this year. Here's an extra point. So
and I think it's just like the lowest score it
had was like forty three, but that was like in
twenty twenty when they had bad developers before that's like
seventy three like in the past like six seven years.
Speaker 3: So I'm pretty happy with that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, good, good, good good my pick now, right, Okay,
I'm gonna take potential Spicy one. I saw an article
that had a potential data leak release date on it,
so I'm gonna trust that and go with middle Gear
Solid Delta Snake Eater supposed August twenty eighth, the release
date according to my files I'm seeing here, But yeah,
I don't know. I just don't see this not popping
off and being like at least an eighty eight plus.
Speaker 5: So yeah, with eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Plus, really think it's a minimum?
Speaker 5: That's minimum? Yeah, it's not there. I don't want any
points if they're not all radiate.
Speaker 3: You were the first eight or zero for Kirk?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Would you pick? Sorry?
Speaker 5: Middle Gear Solid Delta Sneak Eater.
Speaker 1: Okay, How does everyone feel about the remake remasterness of that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Right, I I'm fine that because I feel like it's
gonna be I won't say I top the bottom remake
pretty close too, because it has been so long and
I feel like there's gonna be new features and stuff
added from some of the other games, like Phantom Pain.
But so I'm on the side of I give it
the thumbs up for allowing it.
Speaker 5: I forgot it was even a remake.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I do not know the games well enough, but
in that case, I think it's.
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, Yeah, I I I guess I don't know
enough about it either. But to me, it seems like
a seems like a remaster. But oh but I don't.
Speaker 3: Call a remaster. They're calling a remake.
Speaker 1: They're calling it the Mental Gear Solid Delta had a
title or Delta is pretty ambiguous because aren't the.
Speaker 3: Ones that you played are those labeled remasters.
Speaker 1: That's like a port that's like a port collection, Like
there's no changes to that. It's just like putting the
games on the switch, like they look like garbage, you know.
Oh yeah, yeah, but uh yeah, I think we kind
of I think we have to roll with it because
I mean, none of us really know.
Speaker 5: Plus it's really bad, I'll swap the pick and.
Speaker 1: I think you're good to go. We'll just hope it
gets delayed and then make you read because I because
I think the only thing that I mean, I'm also
bias because I feel like if that does come out, uh,
it's gonna get great reviews because it's just like a
pretty faithful remake of a game that people are remaster
remake whatever it is of again that people like love
a lot. And I think it's hard to mess that up,
you know, I do.
Speaker 3: But it's like the best.
Speaker 1: Looking version of some people's like favorite game of all time,
Like you know, it's gonna get ninety plus.
Speaker 2: I think I just also wonder, because people do love Kajima,
if that might factor into some of those reviews and
some people might be a little like.
Speaker 3: A little stickler about it. I feel like that last time.
Speaker 1: That would be, that would be that would really make
me question the journalistic integrity reviewers if they're like, this
game is a ten, but because Kojima didn't okay it,
I'm gonna give it a seven. Like that seems wild
if they would do that.
Speaker 3: I don't put it past I don't put it pass anyway.
Speaker 2: When we learn like oh, yeah, I people vote for
video Game Awards but they don't play everything, it's like, yeah,
I don't put it past them, be like, yeah, continue
to make this though some Now I can't get this
that high, So I.
Speaker 1: Wait, sorry, what's this video Game Awards? People don't play
everything things?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't last year, but this year before when
we were on there was like things where we talked
about like multiple people that vote on these things. Yeah,
I didn't play that, and it's like, well that, Like
if I was a voting body, even if I have
no interest in some sort of game, I beg I
feel like I gotta play this to make a vote.
The same thing happens with the Academy, right, like, well,
I don't want watch all the movies. So for me,
it's like if they're voting on best game of the
year and they have played like three out of the
ten nominees.
Speaker 1: Is this for Game Awards or something for Game Awards?
Speaker 3: For game awards?
Speaker 1: But there the Game Awards. It's not like they're like,
here's the nominees and play these five games. Like there's
thousands of games you could have in a year that
would be eligible. Yeah, wouldn't you expect someone to play
every single game?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: The winner vote? Like don't you revote with the winners?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you just pick your five favorite games
of the year and then all of those going to
bucket and then they churn out the winner and then
the fans have ten percent of it.
Speaker 3: That's a terrible way because then I feel like if
they're because.
Speaker 1: To me, yeah, I mean it's a weird system for sure.
Speaker 3: That's awful.
Speaker 2: I just feel like if there was a game that
like i'd want to play and see man keeli man DLC.
Speaker 1: Now this news yeah, I mean, and and as we've
mentioned before, like there's no limits on what they can
pick either, Like you can pick games that didn't come
out in the year, because that's not even a part
of it. You don't have to pick games that came
out of that calendar. You can pick whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Ye got to win some people overkn on me because
I think people are always ready to ship on them
because they like took to task one of the gaming gods.
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's like a confound eighty eight,
like Kirkling saying, you know.
Speaker 1: Interesting, yeah, we shall see. Okay, uh go one more, right,
do you?
Speaker 5: I think?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: I count I count that as your fifth but my
fifth Okay, I mean I got I got picks if
you guys want to do one more round of this
merry go round.
Speaker 5: But I was miscounting.
Speaker 3: Let's see. Of course I can always find a pick.
Speaker 1: We always got the second and half part that we
can do later.
Speaker 5: That's fine. But I'm okay with.
Speaker 2: This, kay, okay kirk Kirk's worried abow what was that pick,
Kirkle that you had.
Speaker 5: I'll wait till the next next chapter of this draft.
Speaker 1: Okay, Travis, you want to recap your list and how
are you feeling about it?
Speaker 3: Do you have the thank you? There's a document right there? Okay?
Speaker 2: So I got Grand Theft Auto, six Fingers Crossed, There Avowed,
Assassin's Green Shadows, the Duo Scraps, Judas, another hopeful Homery
and then W two K twenty five GMO will bring
me to the Pearly Gates and let's make it two
years in a row. Got to catch up with Kirkland.
Speaker 1: So good stuff, Kirkland. How's your list looking?
Speaker 4: My list is certain off pretty fiery with Doom the
Dark Ages, and then below that I got Split Fiction
number two, slots number three Adam Fall, number four, Mafia
The Old Country, and number five we got Meddle Gear
Solid Delta.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did I forget a word of that title? I feel
like there's an extra word. Okay, it's too many, too
many letters and words, Taylor. How about you.
Speaker 6: Look at that Death Stranding two one question?
Speaker 3: Taylor? What made death Stranding to the number one pick
for you?
Speaker 2: I'm not saying, don't have to pick your anything, Like,
I'm just surprised out of all those why was that
like you had picked anything? Why did desk Stranding jump
out at you?
Speaker 6: Because of you guys, just and everyone I have spoken
to that has played this game, I just feel like
it's a's the.
Speaker 1: There's a very divisive game though, like we're a we're
a rare few that love that game. I feel like
rare few.
Speaker 5: Credit you guys are like.
Speaker 3: It's like eighty three or something. So it's pretty good.
Speaker 5: But it's seven right now. When I looked on medical, I.
Speaker 1: Would have four seconds ago, say eighty two. But maybe
we're looking at over the things just over just in
the last hour draw.
Speaker 3: People are putting right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just think my association without playing the game
has just been positive. So I thought, well, and I
thought be dealing with you guys. One you guys was
absolutely gonna pick it. So I thought, I just need
to pick that for my list.
Speaker 3: Well, and here's a reverse I thing for Tao.
Speaker 2: I think there's no shot that game was under eighty
because I think people have a bias for Kajima, and
even if they don't like the game, they oh, well,
there's a lot of craft behind it, and I love
Kajima so eight, so it works both ways.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, I don't understand it, but it's amazing. So
high score. There you go.
Speaker 6: Number two like a Dragon Pirate, Yeahkuza and Hawaii Snake Eater.
Speaker 3: You forgot Snake.
Speaker 1: Delta, Old Country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Omega Alfa.
Speaker 6: Number three and one, one seven, number four, Metroid Prime four,
four and four.
Speaker 5: I like that. That's a lucky, lucky spart right there.
Speaker 6: Number five, wander Stop.
Speaker 1: I just can't believe Ano just used the master Chief number.
It's so wild to me, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: I just can't wait.
Speaker 2: So next year these indie games come, when they sucks,
is gonna be so pissed, Like I'm gonna pick one
ever again, the only one.
Speaker 1: Is wander Stop.
Speaker 6: That's the only indie game I picked for my list.
Speaker 1: That's an indie game. But it's like, okay, this team
has made just amazing games every time. Yeah, okay. I
have Monster aroun Her Wild's elder Ring, Night Rain, Ghost
of Yo, Taie, South of Midnight, and MLB The Show.
I feeling good about this. I feel like, you know,
look at look At from Soft with Elden Ring. These
guys just churn games out. Okay, they may be. I
think they may be delayed elden Ring originally, but like
their output is insane, the amount of games they put out.
In the fact that this is a thing that's using
like the same engine as Eldering, even the use same
bosses and stuff, it's just like a co op thing.
I don't know why it's not a DLC, but to
me that makes it strongly strong contender that it will
in fact come out. And then ghost is another wild
card pinship. It's like, if that doesn't come out, what
is what does PlayStation have this year? They're dead in
the water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, but all they need to do is just
like Astro, just drop one game late into the year.
Speaker 1: The year they've closed all their studios and fired all
their workers. They have no one to make games except
for Insomniac and Ghosts here. That's the only thing they
have left. So I feel like they need it this year,
so they'll put all their resources there.
Speaker 2: I think Ghosts will be out, but I'm still think
there's always a chance that I could get the death
dreading them.
Speaker 3: I'm the one that's more iffy on Ghosts.
Speaker 1: I think is more likely yeah, and then South of
Midnight MLB the show. Think those are clean eighties months around.
I think I'm getting a ninety on that. I'm pretty good.
Happy with that. One is my number round, number one pick.
But there you go. There's the draft. Any final thoughts here, boys.
Speaker 3: No, I'm feeling good. I can't wait to see what happens.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm hoping for the spirit of competition that there
are zero twenty twenty six delays.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 2: That it's a clear, fair game and that would be
ideal winner winner. But if it makes means I have
to get a win, then final.
Speaker 4: Ticket, Dylan, you got the South game. I had the
South game last year, so hopefully you're South of Midnight.
Speaker 1: Oh God, the South, the South Curse. Yeah, I'm gonna
watch out for that coastal South. Honestly, South Midnight. If
any of my games do tank, it could be that one.
Let's let's be real, I think games. Yeah, the first
thing coming out is avowed because that comes out like
literally next week. So we're gonna get some points on
this board. Travis is gonna take the early lead with
a certainty. Thank you ever for listening. Let us know
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Speaker 5: Bye bye bye