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