Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Christmas. Very Christmas Holidays as well, folks.
It's day two of Giant Bombs Game of the Year
twenty twenty five deliberations. We're over here at main Gear
shouts outs, We're homeies at main Gear for letting us
use the space. It's great, it's festive. There's a Christmas
tree outside. There's also a lot of snow. I still
don't know what to do. That's why I've blocked all
of my best friends in this room to podcast continuously
until we have crowned a winner. And today we have
a couple more categories for you folks at home. My
name is Channa Choa. We have Chef Crub Turbo, Shawn
Sean McDow, Chuck Towski, Dan Record is here, Jeff Backlar
as well, Mike Manatti. We got Will Crosby running the
ones and twos in the back. Thanks. Well, you've seen
snow though before, right, Yes, I've seen snow before in person. Yeah. Okay,
he didn't know about salt trucks, right, there's so much
I did. I don't know about the Midwest Hamfest No, yeah, yeah,
I bought my tickets for next year's.
Speaker 2: Okay, guy it's a good time. Yeah, you showed to
bring some some some pork knuckles.
Speaker 1: Oh so the first category of a two that's gambling,
and this category is brought to you by click click Bomb.
The nominees are the Flick Game in Yota, clover Pit,
q Up, Unfair Flips, the Blueprints, slot machines, slots and daggers,
and then Uma Musume. All right, this flick game, this
is good stuff. It's cool. Have you showed it to me?
And I loved it?
Speaker 3: Fun as hell and also in the like special edition,
it gives you a bag of the actual coins, and
so I took the coins home and played the actual
game with Kayla over thanksgivting. So it's just like there's
a certain amount of coins on the table, it's like
eleven or something like that, and the point is to
get six of them. And so it's one on one
and it's like a big round table and there's a
bunch of candles or you know, plates and just like
obstacles basically. And so what you do is the first
person picks a coin on the table and you want
to flick it to where it hits one other coin.
If it hits more than one it goes to the
other person's turn. If you knock any off the table,
they get those coins and it's their turn. So you know,
you got to really it takes just a very deft flick.
And the way they do it is with the you know,
the analog triggers and stuff like that, so you can
choose the amount you want to pull back on.
Speaker 1: I like the adaptive triggers. I think they're fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's super fun. It's unique and in the
way that like I love open world games that have
like their own like like Liar's Dice in Red Dead,
where it's like, oh, this makes a lot of sense
for this world, and I thought this was such a
cool thing. Whenever you get to like a new town
own or a new inn or something like that, or
bar Arisaka house just like, Okay, well here's the guy
here who's really cocky and I'm gonna take his money,
and then he also has like a special charm that
I can win, and you know, so there is actual
stuff other than just you know, getting money for it.
Speaker 1: You wind up betting currency in the flip game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you've got two thousand and one. It might
be like, oh, it's you know, five hundred for this
round and they'll put the same end. So yeah, puer fun.
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I know that we've all played
a lot of uma musume, right, yeah, and the most.
I don't do the most, But I don't specifically remember
there being a gigantic gambling component. I mean the horse. Yeah,
but you're on the horse, so like no, no, no, no, no,
you don't own the horse. You u ghost dog. You
don't own a girl. You are a mentor for the horse. Okay.
Speaker 2: Point is that there's there are people gambling on these races,
but we're not them.
Speaker 1: Well, you know that's a gotcha game, right, Yes, yeah,
so there's gambling there, But like, is that you know,
and that is gambling? Is that good gambling? Is that
the kind of gambling we're excited about right now?
Speaker 4: I think that the gambling that click click bomb would
want to bring to you the audience.
Speaker 1: These things has a reputation. Yeah, correct.
Speaker 5: Horse racing does not exist without gambling. It is only
around and popular because of gambling. Just to have a
bit of backstory, who's.
Speaker 1: Going to the track and not putting bets. There is
no reason it exists other than gambling. But the it
is just pure relationship and team building. You're really there for. Yeah,
of course nothing else. It is not sullied with with gambling.
So I if we don't want to.
Speaker 4: Cut it yet there So there are like the obviously
the card packs where you're pulling and you might get
the horse garler looking for or whatever. And then there
is the wheel use of right and that you but
that's not I'm looking for, like a push your luck
kind of the thing when we're talking about a gambling
game that doesn't impress your luck, push you're pushing your luck.
I pushed my luck?
Speaker 1: Will you push your luck? I pressed my luck like
a Panini bars Let's go, dude, Ham guy's got bars.
Speaker 6: Lin.
Speaker 1: He's the headliner. Okay, I want to back. I was
wearing thing dam what chance? But I never actually used
the casino tile in Blue pas So, yeah I did.
I didn't even remember there was one.
Speaker 6: It is, it's in there. And so the thing about
there's a couple of things. So I think it's against
this category in one because when you're gambling, the last
thing you want is to lose and then be told
you have to leave and maybe you can come back
tomorrow you get the itch, you want to just keep
gambling right away. And so it's like in a lot
of ways, it's the antithesis of this category. But it
does have one thing where if you get you can
get a lever that you can like break off of
something I can't remember where, but when you get the lever,
you could take that and go put it on like
there's a big special slot machine and you can kind
of rig it up if you get the lever. So
carrying that around all day, it's like, I can't wait
to go gambling.
Speaker 1: I think that.
Speaker 6: I think the fact that you can't like do this
every day, it's kind of hard to access. Most people
won't see it. Probably not going to win this category.
Speaker 1: I don't know, grub. I think that might be the
best kind of gambling. Is that you're thinking about it
all the time. Yeah, because they're teasing, keep them wanting more.
You're selling me on it with that.
Speaker 2: Put that phone number on the screen during this category, yeah, problem.
Speaker 5: And whatever you think. Also, by the way, counts seven
times whatever the time take away, I can get it.
Speaker 1: I say we bowled the blueprints one okay, sure?
Speaker 4: Those levers by the way, or what you use to
to open some of the doors you need to get
to the end of the game. So it's really funny
if you decide use it there, because then you can't
open those.
Speaker 3: Deal books and if we're doing that slot machine one.
I don't know like clover Pit. I like a lot
of things about it, but I really don't like the
fact that, like there's so little.
Speaker 1: If any, that you can do to influence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually because the other day just a slot machine
and slot machine suck.
Speaker 1: Like Plato, you're.
Speaker 3: Playing poker, you are making decisions, you are like crafting
a hand and stuff like.
Speaker 7: That's that's why I didn't like clover Pit is because
Balato has sort of like the trading card game feel
to it, where you have influence over the odds and
that is the game. It's not just a game of chance.
You are playing into the odds and you are actively
affecting the odds, whereas a clover Pit, because it's still
a slot machine. At the end of the day, you
can't say, oh, there's x amount cards in the deck,
and therefore I can come up with this strategy to
play into those odds. Ultimately, you can change how many
you know, like symbols the percentage chance of the symbols appearing,
but you can't actually like get a strategy going there,
and clothing is just random.
Speaker 3: When the least interesting part of the game is playing
the game part, that's not a great sign. Yeah, like
everything around clover Pit, I think the aesthetics are great.
Some of the ideas for the charms and stuff are cool,
but like it's it's a slot machine.
Speaker 7: At the end of the day, you are overall like
playing into the percentage, but not necessarily moment to moment
figuring out, okay, like how can I progress in a
way that will benefit now? You know, I feel similarly
about slots and daggers, and I think it's very telling.
This is another slot machine game and you are kind
of doing a slave the spire of getting a build going,
whether it's melee spell focused, you're accumulating armor, but it
the slot machine mechanic kind of gets in its own
way because there's an option in the game to just
speed everything up, where you kind of completely skip over
the whole anticipation of getting your spin going. It's a
really fun game, it's very short, but I just don't
see the even a gambling aspect to it. Being too
much sure where it's like a big part of the game. Okay,
so we dan it sounds like after talking about the
flip game, I think we should.
Speaker 6: And when he showed me in the quick look, that
was one of the things that stuck out to me,
like this looks like so much fun. I want to
play this game just for this thing.
Speaker 1: Guys, I'm gonna say I think we should also bowld
q up, not just because I'm big into the esports
sports star all that counts seven times, that's true, I would.
Speaker 4: I want to point out in this list we had
like half of these are parodies of gambling games, right
like clover Pit, Unfair Flips, q up too, not slots
and daggers so much. But they're sort of like critiquing
these mechanics and games while also doing a really good
job of implementing that well, you know.
Speaker 6: Work worth critiquing. So he's just being monitored.
Speaker 7: Well, Jan, I am curious though, because q up is
all skill. You know, there's like there's no chance involved
in that game. Are you sure that belongs in best Gambling?
Speaker 1: You describe what QUP is for everybody. So QUP is
a competitive eastport where the team behind. It has formulated
in such a way using quantum physics that it is
a team of five v five where the first to
three wins and the first to three is determined by
flipping a coin. You see, and if the lines on
the Q side, the Q team wins, the lens of
the upside, the upside team wins. It's just it's just
team based has or tails. Yep, what just what I mean?
I think you should bolt it? He always downplaying, J.
You can't leave k fape, So I want to talk
a little more about this.
Speaker 4: Definitely uh parodying Yeah, games like this, and you're adding
these like nonsense modifiers to your team and you're playing
with like real other players, right J.
Speaker 1: That's the other aspect is that like you, I don't
know if it's you were syncing with them live, but
you were at least sinking with their profile and whatever
character they're rolling with, and it actually kind of matters
to your own success based off of how you were
creating and leveling up your character.
Speaker 2: Like are you getting like bonuses like, oh, you're not
going to you know, hit Q more times?
Speaker 1: No, because then that would be unfair.
Speaker 3: Mike, have such daggers out for jams.
Speaker 1: No, don't worry. Support Mike is gonna save me at
the end of the post. It's a real will They won't.
They made out in the bathroom early. That's right, that's right.
But with like, yeah, you have these nonsensical abilities that
play no part in affecting the game at all. It
is mostly just to give yourself more currency or experience.
I haven't checked out Unfair Flips as much, so I
can't speak to it, but it is that's bullshit. That's
not any sport all. I think it's about flipping a coin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's bullshit, So I think we should just cut it. Okay,
Can I talk about Unfair Flips a little bit. Yeah,
So this game is you're just flipping a coin over
and that's over and over and uh, it's very stripped down.
You're increasing the odds how many flips you can do
a second. It's like it's that kind of game. It's
so mindless. It really is like a it's a clicker's
appeals to my sensibilities. But I think it's really fun.
I wouldn't call it gambling. Actually, it has that where
you like have your currency and your you can gamble it.
But it's I don't know if it.
Speaker 6: It's a progression game, it's a it's a it's a
I always view these games is like capitalism games. It's
like like you get resources and then you use those
resources to make it so you can get resources faster.
Speaker 1: That's the whole loop. Yeah, I am cutting unfair flips.
I'm bowlding, q up. I have a I have a problem.
What is your problem is gambling? I think we crossed
out Cloverpit way too early.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, we've talked it through because yeah, because you
you were making the case about oh, Blotto is different
because it's almost like a trading card aspect, and you're
collecting these jokers that but I'm thinking about Cloverpit and
you've got this like cabinet of different choch keys and
stuff that you get that might make activiation activations trigger more,
or might make certain items show up or if they
do in certain patterns, and you can like really lean
into those different things in that game and like really
strategize and like prioritize those things and go to the
store and refresh until you get the things you're looking for.
Speaker 1: And in that way, I'm like, that's just blocked.
Speaker 3: So to that point, Chuck, so like, yes, you are right,
and that the charms and Cloverpit are akin to like
the jokers in Blactro, where it's like, I'm getting these
passives that are existing in the background. They're gonna help
me and I can help craft my odds and you
know what shows up and percentages and all that stuff.
The difference is when it comes to the actual game
part of it. Cloverpit is there is nothing you can
do other than.
Speaker 1: Pull, pull pull.
Speaker 3: Occasionally you can time that button, you know. But with Blatro,
it's like between all the hands and everything, you are
making more decisions. You are strategizing more. You're like, okay,
I'm going to go for two pair here ooh, and
if I played this one, I can get rid of
this car and burn this one, and I'll put a
token on this one because if this pops up. More like,
there's just way more actual strategy you're doing. Yes, you're
just getting random cards dealt to you, but you are
making decisions.
Speaker 1: Whereas a clever Pit it's pull pull pull.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's more picking at the idea that there isn't
strategy and clover Pit, which is not true.
Speaker 1: But if it was just like the Jokers.
Speaker 7: Basically, the thing is in clover Pit, a run can
die because you did absolutely nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: Gambling, zach Lar said.
Speaker 7: It is, and you know, like if we want to
bring it back into contention after everything we discussed, that's cool.
I just don't think it's fun gambling because it kind
of is at the end of the day ultimately kind
of just pulling that lever and seeing what happens, which
I get is gambling. That's what a slot machine is.
But I also think that's why slot machines are the
most boring form of gambling. If I go to a casino,
I'm playing poker, I'm playing black jets and complaining these
things that I have more control over it because I
can play into the ods more as a poe to
just well, let's see what happens. So, I personally don't
like clover Pit that much and I don't think it's
best gambling.
Speaker 4: I I'm defending it as part of this list. I
don't actually like this game did a really good job
at like the slot machine prison fuckery that it's doing.
Speaker 1: Was trying to do. Well. I'll give it that. Yeah, yeah,
it doesn't. It doesn't rise to the occasion.
Speaker 5: For someone does have to do like a craps one
of these, like a.
Speaker 1: It's going to blow up is dice bingo? Yeah, game
like buff on bingo. Yeah. I think because I like
my friend Jan, thank you, Mike and Mike, you hate gambling,
especially with friends.
Speaker 2: Kind of I like gambling. I have to keep myself
from it. I think I have an addictive personality. Would
be a big problem.
Speaker 1: I kind of like what Grub was saying about the
Blueprints lot machine and then the general gamble of playing Blueprints.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like that is like one of the
things about like carrying that lever around is maybe you
find a room where you could use it. I was
trying to get in the casino. Use it there, and
like if you use it, then you do find the casino.
It's like you lost before you got there.
Speaker 1: It's a good game. Whether or not it's worth it
to use your precious resources of steps and coins actually
so much.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess it depends on if we're talking about
best gamblings and the gambling itself or best gamblers and
like the experience you have around it. Because I think
q up is very funny what they did there, with
the concepts, but Blueprints sounds like it's a much more
interesting implementation into a greater game.
Speaker 1: I will say, there's more that you were doing in
Blueprints versus q up. The esports scene actually is not
popping off as much. That's where no money in the
esports I hear, So, yeah, that's what it is. Are
we okay with that? Yeah? Yeah, all right, Blueprint? There
you go. You were so ready to cut. I was like, here,
let's get rid of this. But there, all right, all right,
best gamble. He goes to blueprint slot machines with q
up and the Flick Game and Yota as the runners up.
That category is brought to you by click Clickbomb. Steve.
Speaker 4: I just want to thank you guys for allowing us
to sponsor this round.
Speaker 1: A long time.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the mine, dude, Yeah, you would balk at
those k right, so you went for it.
Speaker 1: The male motherfuckers. Actually it isn't. I think we need
to talk about that. That's where we're gonna have a
booth at next summer game fest. Hey, Chuck, can you
make a booth bomb? I'll just program we should actually
just set up a laptop outside the parking yea, all right.
Next category is best Ninja. This is gonna be rough, y'all.
We have Joe Musashi from Shanobi, Kenji from Ninja Guide,
and Rage Bound You from Ninja Guid in flour now
a Assassin's Creek, Shadows, Mega gri Ninja from Pokemon Legends
as Ghost of Yota, the Ninjago Map. Yeah, like Party,
the Turtles in t m n T Tactical Takedown, Daredevil,
Marvel Rivals, Ninja mart World, the Insane Clown. But wait,
I think that I remember what you guys told me.
What that We're just gonna delete that? Delete it? So disappointed?
I forgot about pizza.
Speaker 3: Wait, wasn't there like you don't players for you for
the first like numerous hours of Ninja Get four? Who's
the Ninja Gaho players before?
Speaker 1: We don't like him as much?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna tells some one out there tm n
T go go.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, y'all know me. I love Tiles. This
was not a good tactics game this year. Year.
Speaker 6: I just enjoy seeing the turtles, but this, this was
not it. Yeah, and I agree with Sean. I don't
think we have to have a strict no Goku role
but here it makes He's right.
Speaker 7: It almost feels unfair because, yeah, the turtles fucking rule.
But it's like, compared to these video game characters don't.
Speaker 1: Going along with other stuff that I really like. This year,
I thought Daredevil h was really cool. His implementation in
the game is actually fun because they obscure your vision,
much like the comic book character. Oh but not the
most super Ninja compared to everyone else.
Speaker 2: Right, you find him a bit more in that game.
But yeah, all right, I don't think Ninja has a soul.
Speaker 6: No, he thinks it's like basically only Mario and Sonic souls.
Speaker 1: In every Koopa, every blooper.
Speaker 2: I don't like these like generic enemies as characters that
you don't get costumes from.
Speaker 1: That's all I love you. You don't like the Ninjas
are great? I like Ninjas has an enemy and Marto
games Ninja is under appreciated that Mario lineage. It's great
that there. I wanted to say my piece about their souls.
Now the category is best Ninja, Yes, and I like
Lego Party a lot. Are there Ninjagos on?
Speaker 2: I guess this is also a little bit of a
Surprisingly enough, a map does have a soul.
Speaker 7: Are the Ninjas on a Ninjago map, like, you know,
totally interesting?
Speaker 1: Are we? Okay?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sure fine, it's fine. I still don't like
Mega evolutions. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Dog, Okay, this one's really cool because he's holding a
giant shirt can Will.
Speaker 7: Crosby, can you please pull up a picture of Mega
Ninja for me?
Speaker 1: Please? New Mega g Ninja coming out soon? Right, this
is right?
Speaker 7: No, there's a new Mega Lukari down't going out on
the first one, the first one, the first one?
Speaker 1: Please? Well?
Speaker 7: Now see look you see how they took her Ninja,
the coolest Pokemon, and they turned.
Speaker 1: Him upside It's just great. Now hang on, but he's
upside down on a giant sur Can. I'm gonna search
Blue Sky for you. Don't do that, Dan, are you
punking me? What that is? He's just turned upside down? Okay? Also,
they changed his design. We're going to keep it for now.
I think the lock is Joe. I don't know how
Joe doesn't win. Yeah, there he is? Yeah? Yeah, no, no,
I mean we thought was a walk. Yes, what happened
two days ago?
Speaker 2: Joe is Joe has always been a cool ninja and
this is his best design yet. The white and the
red looks so great and definitely only grunts back at people.
The animation and the design just so freaking runs.
Speaker 6: They like, ask him questions that require a sentence respond
and everyone's like, you're right, Just what they wanted.
Speaker 3: Way better than Rage found Ninja.
Speaker 1: Yes, in terms of the character, I like. I like
Joe massa game a lot. I do like Kenji as well. Yes, yeah, yeah,
are we going to keep Kenji? I think we. I
think for now, let's let's make it. Yes, yeah, you
guys are cutting for you right, yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's had his time. I mean, his his
return is as exciting as Joe's. It's it's for you again.
Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Now it was pretty cool. Now, it was very cool.
I definitely liked her a little. She was a little
bit more of a stronger character for me when I
was playing playing through Assassins. Definitely shadows. Also, you know,
a very important part of Assassin's creed is the verticality
and as yaske because he was a big bulky character,
they took away his ability to climb. So uh, but
then I don't know if I want to reward that
to now way, because you're just stripping mechanics from other characters. Yeah,
I mean, I get why they're why they made that choice.
Speaker 6: I don't know if that necessarily is a positive for
Noway as much as it's a negative for what's his
name now is a full ninja.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 3: I don't really know what is the determining factor. A
little stealthy Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: You're climbing around roofs, you're throwing kunai, you're yeah.
Speaker 2: I think she's okay, okay yeh, because well, because in
the last game, you're straight up a samurai. Even though
you could do that stealthy stuff, you were a samurai.
That's why I asked you, right, So I guess I'm
just like, it's not like a stealth leaning samurai.
Speaker 3: They don't say ninja or samurai in the game. I
don't really know what the deciding factor is, right, she's
sneaking around throwing.
Speaker 7: Well, is that an option or is like are you
also doing sword play or.
Speaker 3: You're doing oh, you're absolutely getting like katana battles and
stuff like that a lot.
Speaker 1: That's not a ninja though, Okay, And why are you
putting that so Ina Box?
Speaker 6: I mean I actually it was like that was the
whole thing with the first one, right, where like you
could be a ninja ors right.
Speaker 7: Well, I think when I look at them, I'm like
more clearly, oh, like they're a ninja character. Is just
the genre. We have the fact that you can use
multiple weapons. If you can, if that's one of the
styles for then yeah, I think that can belong all.
Speaker 1: Right, What's what's pizza chef's whole deal? He's a pizza,
pizza and a ninja. Yeah, you go down, you think
he's like an older guy.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't think he's even a guy that fights or anything.
And you deliver some crap to him at his little
like a pizza cave and he's like, hey, you want
to come in the in the kitchen, and you go
in there and he starts like doing all this. The
pizza dough is his like his technique, Yeah, pizza dough.
And he's just like hitting you with the oven doors
and throwing dough at you. And then like if you
he gets impressed at your prowess in battle, and he
decides to start teaching you the ways of pizza dough.
And as you deliver more things to him and your
star ranking goes up, and just learn like you're learning
like by some psycho crushers and stuff, and like Pizza
Do is flying off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that's fun. I like it.
Speaker 2: I feel like this could literally be from like a
Deadpool movie and then you would hate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as long as you agree, again, that's great.
Speaker 4: The real problem I think with his character in this
category is he's not a ninja.
Speaker 1: He is a martial artist. Sure, sure, sure, okay, okay,
who are you to say what Pizza Do is? You're right,
You're right. What if Pizza Do Dan crossed out pizza
chef from Death Training? Wow, that's rough losing to people
without souls. We'll speak about no souls. I think.
Speaker 6: I think it's uh Atsu Mega Green Ninja and Joe Musashi.
Speaker 1: Seems a lot more interesting than now A. Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 7: I'm going to played the most shadows of all of us,
and I played like five Yeah, I got like fifteen
ish and and I just didn't think.
Speaker 1: Now he was.
Speaker 7: Super interesting, not superstellar, like some interesting moments, but the
character herself, I'm like.
Speaker 1: Eah, you know what motivation is? It? Also revenge? Yep?
Any case for Kenji from Ninja guided raging.
Speaker 6: So I thought, for a character that's not real, Hyabasa Yabusa,
I was like, I'm surprisingly tolerant of them.
Speaker 1: I don't have that. It's enough to get on this list.
I've always thought Joe Musashi is so funny, cool. He's
always been cool. This is the coolest he's ever been. Yeah.
I think being part of like the Best Ninja is
just like a swag factor and Joe Musashi's just got
in spades. It also sounds like the best ninja game.
Speaker 8: This Yeah, and playing it feels like a cool Yeah,
rides a wolf dog and I was cool, he's a
lot right, He's like, I love.
Speaker 1: That all right. So we have our winner for best
Ninja That is Joe Musashi from Shnobi, with the runners
up Mega Gri Ninja and Atsu Ghost of Yote Gang.
Our next category is the best z teamer from Dispatch.
We have sonar Upe, Punch Up, Plombey, Prism, Malevola Gollum
and Visigal water Boy Phenomena Phenomenon Phenomenal man okay okay,
I nominate that we cut in visig out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because she's not the best she like, yeah, anything
any warm feelings I have towards in Visigo is not
about her contributions to the team. She like messes up
the team. She makes choices on her own that like, yeah,
I agree.
Speaker 1: Even though she is the cause for one of the
best moments in that game. I think she's great. Yeah yeah,
but it is category best Z Team teammate. It doesn't
have to be, but it's a big market that it's
one of the things we're considering. Okay's the factory because
I mean team asspect.
Speaker 7: Because I mean, I almost feel like that's unfair to
the character. Her point is that she sucks for most
of the game, and but she's a great character, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, but I don't think that.
Speaker 6: Yes, I get what you're saying, but I do want
to see like someone be like they encompass what the
Z Team is to be the winner of this category.
Speaker 1: We don't have to cut her necessarily, but I think
so hmm, so many interesting things here.
Speaker 2: Punch Up like was doing very little for me, seemed
like such a background character. Then there was that scene
where you just punched a bunch of people in the
dick and that was very.
Speaker 6: One of the best lines of the year. And then
and it comes back and they pay that off again.
Speaker 1: Like he's like, my beautiful dick. Now did you all
get the dialogue that flambay Uh is just openly and
aggressively gay. Yeah, yeah, well if I did, I didn't
come across that. And then it's like, oh, you just
want to bang robber. Yeah that makes sense. He still was.
Speaker 2: I like him as a character, but he's still pretty
rough and it's a joking unlikable in a lot of ways.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's got he's very funny. Yes, he's a
karaoke scene of the best songs of the year. I
see sings a lot like some people I know, but
I don't know.
Speaker 1: The voice actors first, like game they've done really yea.
Speaker 2: Very useful like for dispatching too, because of the flying
he doesuff so fast. Yeah, and mobility is such an
important stat for a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: I like Sonar.
Speaker 2: I was getting the impression earlier. Some people didn't know.
I never said I I like Sonar a lot, and
I just cut him because I like how he sucks.
I think he was actually in last place, and I'm like,
it's only fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. I think that's what I'm like I'm.
Speaker 2: A friendly fair Yeah, his character sign is so cool, right,
Like I don't know something about the Harvard graduate batman
who like his cars are all like mostly financial ones,
so like you like that, but it's like he's a
crypto bro and I don't like that.
Speaker 1: God, it's just like a really interesting characters.
Speaker 2: That's why Kimley, I gotta see what this bat freak does.
Speaker 6: Even when you do kick him off, he becomes he's
still very.
Speaker 1: Still one of the better characters. Yeah, he was my
most used z teamer when I sent out because when
he transforms after he heads back to home base is
stat's completely changed, so then he becomes someone that's very
offensive based, So he was useful in that aspect as well.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 7: I on that point, though, I will say my most
use was Golam because he gets an ability spread thin
where he can be sent out as a one man team,
the best ability in the game, and he's a bro.
Like within the story, you know, he's kind of an
asshole Robert in the beginning, but then he like actively
defends Robert at that moment.
Speaker 1: Stuff. Like, he's kind of just a cool character. He's
not one who like the first like maybe half of
the game, like he's not doing much, and then I
really liked him by the end. Yeah, I'll I'll bold go. Okay,
I agree. I know you're supposed to have sympathy and
really like water boy, I don't if you're supposed to
like him. I love him. I love him. He's my
little doufis. Yeah, but then like the idea that someone
is throwing up on my keyboard to clean it, I will.
Speaker 2: Say, I thought it was unrealistic that he was even
offered to be in the team.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm gonna cut him, Okay, only if we cut
Phenomenon is so fun? I agree, But pressed phenomenon so
fun it is? I liked well. Also, like he's not
introduced from the very beginning and everything.
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel quite a Z team, but by the
end he does, and I like how they kind of
accept him. Yeah, gosh, she's a good character. Maybe a
Z team ness isn't the most important part.
Speaker 4: Could we could we cut Coop because and I really
liked Coop. I had her on the team used all
the time, she's so in the background, doesn't do it,
doesn't make a lot of jokes are like contribute a
lot and dialogues the way the other characters.
Speaker 2: That's that's one reason why Condor is like, well, she
just doesn't seem like too much of a character yet,
and I'm sure missing out on something. Yeah, I guess
that's my question for people who kept her, Like, did
she have like nice character moments?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would send her and punch Up out together
all the time, and they became like one of those dynamics.
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Yeah, I think I think I forget.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's baked in, just like how so Gnar
and the level of right, Like their relationship became a
lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So I had a great time.
Speaker 6: But like we can cut her, Yeah she I would
be unpunched like Puntah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do like punch Up to PRIs prison didn't
have too many stand up moments as.
Speaker 1: She's got like some of the best line she blinded
from that. She also has one of the best songs
in the game, and the name of the song is
these Hoes Depressed And you know what.
Speaker 7: Different also second best of a building in the game
because she copies.
Speaker 6: Yeah, very and you know I like her in the
break room with Malevola and then be like I didn't
have a dad or something like that, or like that
whole conversation was really witty and good.
Speaker 1: But that's supposed to mean you told me speaking of
can we bowled my level the rules because we haven't
talked about her at all, I assume because we realized that.
Speaker 2: That's when I like that there's almost not too much
green time for her, Like, I like that she's not
like a third romance option or something, and I kind
of serious is and the hints of it were like
when you know, at one point where like somebody might die,
she's like, uh, they'll be okay, Like, well, how do
you know?
Speaker 1: What are you? Also, she's one of the only ways
to heal your team. Yeah, but she's the same outfit
that Cindy Crawford was wearing in that one commercial.
Speaker 8: Yeah, she's a red devil girl.
Speaker 1: It's better. Yeah, kind of like what was that Brendan
Fraser movie. But that's a good movie, the Dazzle Button.
Compared to the two that we've already bowlded, I think
I would be okay cutting Sonar at that point.
Speaker 2: I think I would like to cut fom Bay two.
At this point, he hangs, uh, maybe we can cut Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Like in visig Out more off of the interpersonal one
on one relationship versus like right in the team.
Speaker 2: I like her as the kind of secondary protagonist in
the game for sure.
Speaker 4: But you guys noticed in this game that sexual harassment's
funny because it's happening to Robert.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's I don't like this game a lot.
I think it was the beginning of episode two where
like I met three kars in a row who like
talked about my dick or something, and I was getting
a little bit like, this is a bracelet.
Speaker 1: This is all becoming too much.
Speaker 6: It was like I think for me, it's like that's
when I established like this is almost like a sports
team locker room and reality. Yeah, and they're trying to
establish that.
Speaker 7: But you're right, it's very aggressive, like some people were
talking about online though, like it's it's not supposed to
be an endorsement necessarily as much as like, yeah, this
person is doing something that sucks, you know, like you're
you're kind of supposed to view it as, hey, this sucks,
Maybe don't do that.
Speaker 2: It is perhaps punch Up's ability to punch people in
the dick a bit one dimensional.
Speaker 1: And then the dimension is penises. But I really, I
really like Jack sept the guy's accent. I think it's
fun to I think, yeah, I like him a lot.
Punching in the dick. It's the best thing in the game.
Speaker 4: Is he the least problematic teammate? He's always just like
Kay for me.
Speaker 1: He wound up also being the most charismatic. He's he
was my most huged.
Speaker 2: Actually, he harassed me in my workplace. He put pop
up porn on my computer because he was friends with
a coop one.
Speaker 1: I wait, really cool out? Yeah yeah, embarrassed and harassed me.
Do you know what happens when you cut sonar assume
a level they had.
Speaker 4: Your computer, so it just like makes his sonar screaming
noise come out of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 2: Ours was hacked to have porn pop ups and they
were very visceral.
Speaker 1: Yes, so wait, we're cut. If we cut punch up,
then we're keeping Prism.
Speaker 6: I'm okay with that, I think so yeah, Yeah, I
think I like Prism a tone.
Speaker 1: Okay, same, all right? Gang. The final three here for
best Z teamer is Prism, Malevola, and gol Of. I
lean towards Golam I interesting I leaned towards I like
Malevlo's power, So like the combination of the portals with
just giant sword, I think that's an interesting Yeah, heating
the two whiskey glasses.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh yeah, when the bar fight scene happens and
like someone gets tossed through Malevla's portal and he just
like looks up from us and smiles, his rock dude smiles.
Speaker 1: That's such a good moment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my favorite is Prism the bunch, but Golam GOLs
right up there too.
Speaker 2: Only one of these characters did we give the voice
actor a giant sandwich? That's which one's a.
Speaker 1: She kills it in this game. Yeah. With Golam, though,
I feel like you go through an actual well now
you go through that journey with all of them of
like them fucking hating Robert, but I feel like with
Golam and Malevola, you wind up being closer to them
at least. Maybe that's how.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not a lot of there's not a lot
of prison Robert time.
Speaker 1: Huh. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Golan is a very loyal character and it doesn't
show up early on. Yeah, and that's what's great about
Like he and he already is very loyal to some
of the characters, and like you cutting a character for example,
is what makes him not like you more than like
you're the new guy, I think. And then there's like
a big turning point in this game right where Robert
reveals who he is and stuff, and Golim's the one
that's like got You're back immediately and then to the
rest of the game locked in, and I think he's.
Speaker 1: I also felt comfortable hitting him with a chair because
like he'd be okay with it. That's that's kind of.
Speaker 7: A good moment early on. If you put him in
time out, he's like, oh, you're talking down to me.
That kind of sucks. But the him with the cherry
is like, oh, okay, you can kind of hang with us.
I respect that I put.
Speaker 1: Him in time out. I didn't know, you know, I
guess I feel chair in him and he was cool.
It was like get the fuck out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you heilme with the cherry is kind of
like like I deserve that or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And also Sean, just readering your point, he
became a one man army.
Speaker 2: For Yeah, definitely a better dispatch character than Yeah, prison,
you can hang there a little bit, but gosh, basically,
any mission towards the end that's a forest laughter. You
just send them on.
Speaker 7: And his his alternate ability is interesting as well. The
fact that you can reroll his stats every time you
go to dispatch.
Speaker 1: That's cool. I also like that his uh I forget
what they're called in the game, but it's not necessarily synergy.
But the character he works with the best is in Visigal,
and I just thought that was an interesting wrinkle in
their relationship where it's like he's a gigantic clay Man
and in Visigal. Okay, YouTube fuck with each other, all right?
Uh winner for Best Z Teamer is Golam, runners up
Prism and Malevola. They're a lucky Royd wasn't a Z
teamer so true? Oh my god. Yeah, I just had
to double check Roy's name. I will kill for Roy. Yep.
He could have been in one of the best New CAU.
I don't think he would have won Best New Character,
but he could have been. Is he supposed to have
powers or was he just like I think? I think
he's just smowing like yeah, and which is the power
of its own?
Speaker 6: That's true, true, He's a genius. Yes, yeah, he's a
super genius. And well he's engineering and science.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The point of a lot of people who were there
is that they don't have power, so they help out
the heroes.
Speaker 1: Right. Yes, Roy was just a complete broka. Explain how
he doesn't wash his hand. He's like, no, I just
take my pants, don't do anything. All right, folks, We're
gonna take a quick bricky break and we will be
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Speaker 4: What's do you get the clip clop of hoofs on
the roofs?
Speaker 1: Is that? When is the Santa supposed to come to
your house? Lady twenty fourth? Okay, all right, okay, uh
you know what what is a good about teamwork? We
were just wrapped ast Z teamer. It's all the Reindeers
working together and I feel like they're kind of playing
a game, just like the next category best multiplayer game.
We have Margot Kart world Saunic Gracing, Cross Worlds, Jackbox eleven,
Lego Party Peak, Split Fiction, Night Rain, Absolum Arc Raiders, Abysiness,
Battlefield six, Dragon Drive Legends Z. That was a game
this year? Should we just cut Dragon.
Speaker 6: Think, ma, you can't party up with your friends and
one of the worst multiplayer experience it's actually bad. Multiple
taking the piss with this one being in this last I.
Speaker 1: Have fun playing that game, but that's Nintendo standards. Even
it's real, it could have been so interesting figure it
out late edition. But Danke talking.
Speaker 3: Business was fun when we did that stream. Uh, there's
just a lot better games on here, and there's a
lot of games like that. And what did Randy Pittchford
say about a business?
Speaker 7: It's like it's like myth but twice is meths.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, what's it Callederlandes? Yeah? No, I have a
better category for that one later. I'm gonna say Lego
parties at instant Yeah. I've enjoyed it like crazy. I
don't think either Kurt Racer is going to make it No.
Speaker 3: I think I really do like Mario Kart World for
the private room like Knockout Tour stuff. Like, for all
the criticism World got, the Knockout.
Speaker 1: Tour is a lot of fun to do. I agree.
Speaker 7: I mean that's the best part of the game. I
agree because it felt new and fresh in a way
that most of Mario kartt World. I think drops the ball.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. And I think though that there's a lot
of stuff on here that's doing more than that, So
I don't think either cart Racer is going to make it.
Sonic Racing also not anything substantial this year.
Speaker 3: It's it's good that it existed this year when people
were kind of down to Mario Kart World and it's
more of a traditional cart racer.
Speaker 1: It's a solid game, but.
Speaker 7: I know Sean like said, though, yeah, I put it
there just to talk about it is like the alternative
to Mario Kart because I think where Mario Kart World
drops the ball, those of us who want that traditional
experience got it on a Sonic Racing, which is pretty
cool that a sonic racing game did actually keep up
and in many ways is better than World. But going
down the list, yeah, I'm not sure I'm gonna be
able to make the argument for.
Speaker 1: It absolute how have that this is a run poison, right.
Speaker 3: It's really fun, it's really well done. I do I
wonder if it would be an even better experience if
it because we are just doing some test run on
the site now. Yeah, one at a time, basically one
a day, and it's been very fun. But like, I
can imagine how much fun it would be to like, hey,
you want to come over to night. We're gonna sit
down and like let's just like knock out like hours
of I'm solum. I think it could be even better
that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I've.
Speaker 6: Really enjoyed playing it the way we have been, and
I think you're right that if we, like, if a
person had like a full night to play with someone
else in person are online, Yeah, yeah, it would be fantastic.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really good. It's it's fantastic. It's it's a
great rogue light it's a great like it's doing that
thing that I'm loving more and more where it's like
taking the old beat them up style and like adding
more depth to it and rogue light elements and stuff like.
Speaker 1: It's just really one of the best one of those. Yeah,
I've I've had a very lonely experience playing abslom, and
I just enjoy watching y'all run.
Speaker 2: I still liked playing it by myself. It's still work
like that. But I bet yeah, Killop is maybe even
better other than obliterating kind of funny. Did we check
out Night Rain or it did not speak to me?
Speaker 4: I played a good chunk of this. I do really
like I was mostly like pairing up with like Randos
and stuff like that. I have beef with it as
a multiplayer game because it's like rush rush, Rush, Rush Rush. Yeah,
it really encourages that when you go in multiplayer and
like lobbies and stuff, everyone's just running sprinting. You don't
have time to stop and learn or look at your
gear and pick your bills. And it might have made
some updates and fixed that, but it was just kind
of like rough and frenetic, and I wanted something that
let me slow down once in a while, and this
didn't do that for me. I still I really like this.
The boss fights are phenomenal. If you're like a Souls fan,
I think this is like a great game, but kind
of let me down in that way.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think there are a few we could maybe
take off for just being like because this is year
where there's like a lot of novel new multiplayer experiences
and there are some really good games on here that
are just kind of like better or same versions of
stuff we've seen before. I would say Split Fiction being
similar to It Takes two Battlefield six being a good
battlefield games Jack, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I think I think
we can cut all those all really good games, but
not necessarily anything we have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did like plod fiction.
Speaker 2: I think it's funny because I think it's probably better
than it takes two, but it takes you just.
Speaker 1: Being definitely better than it takes it got a lot
more kind of love. Yeah, I get it. Remember heading
to the preview event and being partnered up with our
dear friend Nikki Grayson and them and I probably being
the most annoying to playing the game and the loudest
because we were having such a good time playing it together.
The early bit where one of you is controlling the
motorcycle and then the other person has to like do
the are you a robot picture? Yessing? The capture stuff
was really novel. Also, you know you could be a
hot dog with your friend. That's so you do that
in Lego party. You can do that whenever you want.
That's true.
Speaker 2: Battlefield six yeah, like Dan and I played for one night.
We had fun, and we have not tried to play
it again.
Speaker 1: I've not thought about this. Yeah, I mean it was fun.
Speaker 2: It's fun, but it's also depressing to be I'm like, yeah,
this is the experience I had playing battle in nineteen
forty two. Really value of like having a modern version
of that, of course, but it doesn't excite.
Speaker 1: Me that much, Sean. I haven't checked out much of
the multiplayer in Legend z A at all is there.
Speaker 7: That is why I put it on a list. I
didn't know how like the people who have played it felt.
Speaker 1: About such a single player Pokemon, And that's fair.
Speaker 7: It's such an interesting new addition to a Pokemon game
because so for so long has been like you strategize
and build this team for like competitive turn based battles. Yeah,
and in ZA it's four player battle royale real time combat,
which is just so far removed from what Pokemon traditionally
is multiplayer wise, if I'm the only one who really
got into it, then I'm not. I'm not going to
push super hard for it, because even I like some
of the games that the rest of y'all put on there.
Speaker 4: So I think it's like an excellent multiplayer experience for
a Pokemon game, And it's like really novel how it
makes certain moves that have been in Pokemon forever since
Gen One made them useful all of a sudden, stuff
you would never think about using. But I I don't
think it hangs on this particular list.
Speaker 1: Right all right, I am cutting Pokemon legend z A.
I'm gonna say our readers should probably be a lock here.
That's how I feel. And I haven't even checked out
a lot of it. Uh yeah, I think I made
at least bowlt it for now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're done to the heavy hitters here. I think
Kirby air Riders probably needs the biggest defense here.
Speaker 1: I think it's super fun. I think the multiplayers.
Speaker 7: Cisco's really got into it.
Speaker 2: Where when we were playing that beta of City Trials,
I was like, what is this nonsense? This is disgusting
That first, like, okay, I like just racing, Okay, I
like the tour. Then we like played a little bunch
of City Trials and I'm like, I can't kind of
understand this too. Now there's an appeal to all of this,
and I love how wacky and weird is and that
it's as far away from being a Mario Kart cloon
as possible.
Speaker 1: And each time we played City Trials, no round was
exactly like the other one, Like there was one where like, uh,
Mike became super big and then I was super big
as Rick and then just getting into a lobby with
like up to sixteen of your friends if you can manage.
It is just pure bedlam. I also like it. I
don't know if this is a slight against the game
that after you complete City Trials you go into a
voting process with which mini game you want to end with,
and well, crucially not a voting process, not a voting
you do just pick, oh, you just pick right right. Yeah,
So it's like you may not even get paired with
a bunch of people, or if you were on like
a discord call with all your friends, it's like, well,
I guess we'll go over here. And I don't know
if that helps the game out, but like playing it
with people really threw it up there on my own
personal list.
Speaker 6: I think the thing is like it is, especially within
City Trials. I still don't know what the purpose of
it is. And yet I'm like at a certain point
that stopped mattering where it was like, oh, it is
just a lot of nonsense, but like you get into
the flow of nonsense and it all culminates in this
mini game and yeah, maybe you picked the one that
no one else picked and so you automatically win it,
and like that was not a negative or detrimental experience
in any way.
Speaker 1: I had a good time the whole time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's almost the lack of structure like makes it
more of a hangout funt excuse me, fun time.
Speaker 1: I liked also, like the little world events that would happen,
like all right, come on over here, everybody, we're gonna
have a very small race, or like now it let's
just go fight each other, very very chaotic fun that
I still don't quite understand. You Also, if you have
sixteen ricks, that's hell of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You notice how this game was like so quickly relitigated positively,
Like people are like, actually, it.
Speaker 1: Just takes a little bit to kind of get a
grip on it.
Speaker 2: I think that's why it's even received so much better
than the original was, because like when we had that
first game on the GameCube, a lot of people were
really thrown off, and I think this.
Speaker 1: Time there's enough of those people who love that game
to kind.
Speaker 2: Of convince us all to stick with it a little bit,
and sticking with it really paid off.
Speaker 1: The more I play it more, I like it. It's
that second button they added must be Yeah, that said
it's gonna be tough to get up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to talk about peak yet that's probably.
Speaker 7: Like they they named it that because that's kind of
the joke. You know, everyone's saying Peak, something's good, it's Peak.
But they actually did make the Peak of Friends slop
when when you get in there and we've we ev
all played it, I think you missed them or something,
but yeah, we've played Peak. And it's just the way
the prox chat works and the way you know you're
yelling up to your friends because you fell down the mountain.
The way you can interact with each other with even
simple items from like the balloons to the cannon to bugle.
The bugle is so funny because it's just like, what
was the bugle?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 7: You play some music, but then also there's a bugle
that does something, And there's so many moments, so much
emerging gameplay that can come from the smallest thing in Peak.
Speaker 5: I don't know because of physics, doesn't I don't know
how it gets beat for that's.
Speaker 4: Kind of the great best games to play with Kayla.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Peak is just so novel in a
way that is like, well, I know what we're getting there.
Speaker 1: I guess i'd be Peak is prey novel, but it's
not exactly on an Island. Right, there's another.
Speaker 6: I'll say for for Peak, like it's become like indie
gamings Fortnite, where it's like there's like a Baby Baby
No Money concert in there now when yeah, there's a
bit like where you go in the game and all
of a sudden, a giant Baby No Money and his
dancers all pop up on the horizon are singing and
dancing and you can get like specially like it's turned
into quite a thing, and it can withstand that because
it is such a good multiplayer hangout, anything can happen
game that people are going back to it over and
over again and discovering this stuff.
Speaker 1: Uh. I think before by the way, I think we
can cut Kirby. Yeah, not hanging.
Speaker 3: With those Even with that, I don't know if it's
all I'm going to hang again, I don't think.
Speaker 6: So it's rough because it's like also a really good
single player game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My argument for Lego Party is a couple of things.
Speaker 3: So like one, like just the party game format is
great and a lot of games have tried it to
varying levels of success. Mario Party probably the biggest one,
but you know, as the biggest Mario Party fan, I know,
it's filled with bullshit and stuff that is laborious and
takes it's just the way Lego Party. Immediately when we
play to this, she was like, Oh, this feels so
much snappier. It's so much better. Like obviously that's great,
but then there's this also added layer of like I
love a game that when I go home for the holidays,
I can play with anyone, you know where. It's like
I peak is fucking great, but also it's like it's
just on Steam. You kind of got to know how
to just play games in general, and like there's no
way my dad or my sister Katie would play that
or anything, but Lego Party. I can go home and
everyone's kind of played Mario Party that was always so
accessible for casual gamers and stuff like that, and any
one can figure out these Lego Party mini games. It's
also cross platforms, so like I can play on my PC,
Kayla can load it up on our PS five, and Katie,
who's very very casual, just has a switch one. She
can like sit down with her husband and they can
both be local and play against me and Kayla remotely.
Like it's just so much more accessful to a wider
group of people. But I also just think the game
itself and all the quality of all of the mini games,
the maps, the way that even the individual maps feel
different each time, the way that like I have done
that theme park map probably six or seven times, and
every time it's different based on what you build out
and everything. It's just I think it's maybe the best
party game ever.
Speaker 2: I think it's so impressive that they went they kind
of went after Nintendo and beat them at their own game,
which is a hard thing to do. Granted, they didn't
exactly go after their strong bunch, Like who do we
ever say, like, oh they this, this did a better
job than ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they've tried crashed bass Onic Shuffle ye friend right.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, it's kind of the year for that because
like SONK Racing is arguably better, and now Lego Party
kind it just is better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: Uh party a lot too, Dan, I think I constantly
want to play more of it. I use my birthday
as an excuse to make you.
Speaker 1: All play more of it with me. I'm glad you did.
That was pretty much a grief as we gave you.
Like I was super happy to play it, and like
I found myself like around like because we only did
twelve turn yeah, rights like an hour ish we we
got to turn ten and I'm like, oh, we're only.
Speaker 3: Doing twelve and that feels like every time you've ever
played Mario Party, it's like pause the game.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're only at turn six. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's just so snappy as not as like go to
the shop and talk to them for five seconds and
then the.
Speaker 1: Big thing is just like it's so so simple the
changes to make.
Speaker 6: I'm sure when you said up at this point, but
the mini games that happen on the board instead of
taking whiskey away, one of the characters to go do something.
Speaker 1: Their own tutorial screen after start.
Speaker 6: Sits there and we're just gonna spin at the board
here right in front of you on the board.
Speaker 1: Just do it real quick and get back to the action.
Speaker 3: Tiny tweet of just like the winner of the mini
game gets the role first. That is huge as far
as if you're two people going next to it going
for a star. The brick battles, the two B two
where it's like, oh my god, this like really matters.
Speaker 2: So many games themselves, they're really fun, but they're also simple,
like sometimes in Mario Party, they're so complicated that you're
stuck in that previous screen for like ten minutes, or
someone's like, I don't really get it, and then they
started immediately fail and they feel bad.
Speaker 1: Everything here. You kind of get a grip on pretty quickly.
Speaker 5: The best part of Lego Party is that it makes
you realize how terrible Mari It kind.
Speaker 1: Of is a funny part of it. I've been a
Mario Party defender.
Speaker 5: It's terrible, and I'm like, I'm like, it's never been good.
It's like you all were just introduced to one type
of thing.
Speaker 1: You're like, I guess this is all I can. I
guess it's hard to fusion frenzy. Yeah, so bad.
Speaker 5: Lego Party just had to put its name on the test.
It is somehow light years ahead of that.
Speaker 2: They really did such a They did an amazing job.
I can't imagine another like Party game being as good
as this. I think every time they had an A
B decision they picked the right one in terms of
making this kind of game fun.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't care if either of these win.
I just think we have it's a wide brush that
we are painting with with Like Party, and multiplayer. I
think they're even you know, I know party is a
very maybe smaller sort of category, And I kind of
get what you're getting at because like Peak is like
such a multiplayer game, especially like we you know, I
think we installed maybe some mods to let more people play,
but whatever. Yeah, like legal party is I guess it's
it's not multiplayer in the way that we're talking about it.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like multiple people playing. I don't think
this matters. We have ten different genres on this list.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we've got Ranks, and we've got Party,
we've got Extraction Shooter, we've got multiplayer.
Speaker 6: There is something to be said for Peak's ability to
get everyone to work together well and and like to
like help each other out and like other people's mistakes
become the consequences you have to figure out, and it's
like really good at like presenting those up.
Speaker 1: I'll argue that there are moments during Peak where you
kind of just wind up getting isolated because you fall
behind in the sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that that's its own like aspect to it,
where they can hear people off on the horizon and
he makes it feel even.
Speaker 7: And also they thought ahead because if you die, you're
a ghost that can like hang out and you can
even there's even gameplay there because you can relay information between.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really funny. I guess I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I think this is one where always have played both
of them to like maybe do a quick like hands up.
Speaker 1: Between when you're saying both, are you talking about Lego
Party and Peak or so we're not including ARC Graders and.
Speaker 6: I think ARC Graadors might be my choice. Oh really,
okay everybody, but but I'm not not. I like all
of them pretty close, like they're all right there, so
this it's not running away with it or anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I like, I like our Graders as
the third personally that's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm fine with except with ARC Graadors. I think.
What's so?
Speaker 4: I think I maybe played more of it than most
of us, but probably so as the first season when
these quotes on that like went on, you know that
like the first couple of weeks of like that friendly gameplay,
emerging gameplay, like we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna shoot each other. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: No, we're good, Okay, we're gonna do the squad like
crouch button and like we're good that as the weeks
went on and the season got longer, then it became
more like shoot first, ask questions later, and people devolved
and it's like, of course you expect that. So that's
that's what almost like makes it that third slot for
me out.
Speaker 1: Of these cool I kind of want to give a
super quick shout out Marvel Rivals during this season introduced
eighteen versus eighteen and that's just funny. Yeah, that's crazy. Wow.
Yeahs Also mini.
Speaker 5: Mini shout out to Cosmic uh mar Cosmic Invasion, just
like a super.
Speaker 1: Little mini like amuge Bouche. Yeah. I think that's great.
Speaker 2: Absolute kind of like takes the cake for them ups
this year.
Speaker 1: But yeah right, yeah, I you know what I think,
because we were all able to play Peak together slightly
edges it out for me because we could just uh
you know, all of us there plus Kayla plus some
other folks could just try and climb a mountain together
and then if one of us died, like you said, Sean,
we could be alwaukie talkie or just guilt trip someone
for being the reason why we did it.
Speaker 7: Out for me because I think Lego Party, we've talked
about this a couple of times with a couple of
things throughout these discussions, Lego Party is kind of just
like what Mario Party should have been all along. Yeah,
so it's not the most original thing in the world,
whereas Peak is like they actually are doing something different
with this thing that you know, other games have done before,
like Lethal Company and stuff, and they just made a newer,
interesting version of it that I think, like, I'm still
I still play it every week.
Speaker 1: With my friends and still a great time.
Speaker 2: I definitely like that Peak gamifies the friend swap a
bit more like I like things like Lethal Company at
like point with you guys, I'm not always opposed.
Speaker 1: To like we make our own fun.
Speaker 2: There's not necessarily an objective or it's kind of a
loose objective. It is just a bit more engaging for
me when it's like get to the top mountain, Okay,
I get that, let's go, and then all the on
silly like animated faces and cooperationllows kind of work around,
there's marshmallows.
Speaker 1: It's a very natural comedy game. I like Lego Party more,
but if it's like just me and Dan on that team,
I lean towards Peak.
Speaker 6: I think I don't want to like, like minimize Lego
Party by making the point of like that, I agree
with that we are kind of rewarding it for fixing
all the problems that Mario Party had. It also is
just a great game, Yes, it is, right, it really is,
and they all these games are super close.
Speaker 1: For me, I think I'm probably just a little bit
closer to Peak. It would be a bad look if
we rewarded a game that features me also, so Peak wins. Yeah,
all right, congratulations to Peak for winning Best Multiplayer, and
then Lego Party and Arc Raiders for the runners up.
Very that was a harder category than I thought. Yeah,
there's a lot of really great games. Yea deceptive all
right gang final category of Day two Game of the
Year twenty one nominees are Resident Evil Village, Psychonauts, to Metroid, Dread,
Eternal hit Man, Halo Infinite, It Takes Two, Death Loop,
Guardians of the Galaxy, Wilder, Myth Inscription, Vampire Survivors, Death Store, Ratcheting, Clank,
Rifted Apart. So many good games, a lot of great games.
I'm gonna I almost want to immediately cut Ratchet and Clank.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of the most by the numbers.
Speaker 1: They don't that the numbers one. Oh yeah, that's inane
that I just it.
Speaker 6: Was awesome to play. I heard one city that was
so good I could not one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's much more interesting.
Speaker 2: I think the only wratching clink that's better than it
may be is a cracking time.
Speaker 3: See I think, like to me, like a cracking time
and like up your arsenal are like, you know nine
plus you know score games, you know, this was a
solid eight. I think it's just like there's nothing surprising.
Really had the mechanic everything.
Speaker 1: It looks tremendous, especially when it came out, you know,
early in the place. It's so much fun to play.
It's really Yeah, I design was incredible.
Speaker 2: I think the weird hacking man game, but the spider
Bot was super switching. I mean there's you know, the
one where you can kind of ride that dragon around.
Some of these worlds really open up and are super.
Speaker 6: Cooling to be funny, and I think it's scene is like, so, well,
look you are bouncing these things pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just it's all that's that's cut
Halo almost like something had something happened there. Huh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a shame because I love it's fun as hell.
Speaker 1: I love Halo Infinite. The campaigns fun as hell, and
the multiplayer actually played good amount of multiplayer is awesome.
It's a tough list. Really enjoy it takes. Enjoyed, it
takes too. It was good to start and.
Speaker 8: Then way over we're not talking to though, right.
Speaker 1: Going to make it. I do like it, I don't
like where it takes, that story, where it lands. So that's.
Speaker 5: And honestly, I I probably enjoyed Death Loup more than
most I love, but I know it ain't gonna have so.
Speaker 1: Much potential, and it wound up being good, but not imagine.
I thought it was fun to play once and never again.
The multiplayer aspect where someone is invading your world just
wound up being more of an annoyance for me. I turned
it off.
Speaker 5: The game had the style and all the right like
you know, characteristics, and then just kind of yeah.
Speaker 6: The thing about Death Loop is it's like one of
those games. It's a kind of a very light m
sim but because you are reliving the same days, it
kind of gave me the confidence of like, oh I
know how things work now, so I could be a
little bit more bold with my ideas or the things
I'm going to try, and so it's a kind of
I think it's kind of a baby's first m and
I think that's why it doesn't hold up very well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything we want to lock.
Speaker 9: I mean.
Speaker 1: Like three Villain is good. I loved Return Philage is good.
I think it's hard to I think it's a tough lock.
I gotta be honest, Sure, I think. Yeah, I really
like Syche Vampire Survivor. I mean I think that. I
think I may lose Death Store. I think that game.
I like it. Yeah, I don't like that store. I
know we're all hit Man phrase, but it's like hit
Man three, the one out of the new trilogy. Three
is the weakest past Startmouth and that's amazing.
Speaker 3: Is great that the Winery place is great. I Dubai
is great. I just I hate the way it ended
so much.
Speaker 1: Bad Last Level very bad. Oh yeah, the Last Brain.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wish they would have done more with the
train with like DLC, but they when it became World Assassination. Yes,
that's when it's like, oh okay, now it all is
like perfect toy Box's hit Man three. Yeah, we can
go it's a great game still, but it is.
Speaker 4: Can I talk about Inscription a little bit because I
don't think it I don't think it hangs with I
don't think it gets bolded for this. Inscription was my
twenty twenty one Game of the Year. I'm a huge
Daniel Mullens fan. I think what he He made a
really amazing card game.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna say, you're like, click click is like
I know, like he's one.
Speaker 1: Of my direct inspirations. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, he made this amazing card game with like really
great like themes and vibes, and if the game was
only that, it would be a phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's exactly so much more. Yeah, and it's such
a strong game shock that they spun it out into
its own thing where you could just play the.
Speaker 4: Game absolutely like yeah, Casey's mod you can like just
turn the game into the shack and playing like that
version of the game, and the way this thing unfolds
and it has an arg in it and yeah, just amazing.
I'm waiting for Pony Island two to come out. I
was hoping it would be this year. It's gonna be
early next year, I think, But holy fuck, what a game.
Speaker 5: I like, I'm trying to realize twenty twenty one might
have been the last year I had a lot of
time to play games.
Speaker 1: Description. Yeah, yu Geo style dual discs. Yes, I was like,
oh my god. But I was like, oh no, it's
not letting me play that a bunch. I want to.
I think we can cut Guardians of the Gallaxy love
Guardians of the Galaxy as well, But I think you're probably.
Speaker 9: Right, Dispatch, right, Yeah, it's so far above it's that
and it's you that has to do this.
Speaker 1: I know it's me that has to do this out
of like you know, all of the Found Family style games.
I really like and enjoys this. We all know. I
really like Marvel, and this does that specific team very well,
really well. I'm very generous towards like all of the characters.
Have you played it more than once? Uh No, because
no I have. I rebooted it up just because I
just wanted to relive a couple of scenes. Yeah, I
get that. And also, I don't know if Chris Pratt
affects your enjoyment of things at all. Kind of hampers
some of my time revisiting the movies. But the game
I think is very charitable to how it treats the
character of star Lord, where the movies kind of just
making the butt of all the jokes rather than the
like kind of hard is the most likable star Lord. Right, Yeah,
but we can cut it based off of like everything
that I'm remembering from twenty twenty one. I should play
this play Yeah, yeah, I love it. You will occasionally
go on sale for ninety nine. The only game I
have not played here is Wilderman Touch wild.
Speaker 4: Wilder Ith is one of mine here on this list too.
I've never seen a game do like the ideas shouldn't work,
but essentially like you have sort of like these randomly
generated characters and why I say randomly generated that that
has filth attached to it in twenty twenty five, right,
But in this game, it's like you're just telling this
story and it's almost like you're pulling together ad libs
and you're you're going through and doing these fights, and
you're you're sort of on a timer because there's this
like stuff creeping across this map and you're managing trying
to fight off that stuff that's creeping across the map.
Your characters will die and then they're they're gone right,
and you have to get new characters that enter the story,
and they all might be like interrelated. It's like super fascinating.
The art styles charming, but like not not like amazing,
yeah like style, it's it's like sneaky, deep, really fun
emerging gameplay to the max.
Speaker 1: That's what that That's why I always meant to check
it out. It's so much fun. I love it and
now well I liked they didn't want to speed Psychonauts too. Yeah,
I love that. The only Double Fine game I like
to play. It's really good. That's a crazy thing to say.
I haven't played. I was with them.
Speaker 2: I played One not too long ago, and I'm like,
you know, and one is a classic, but it's almost
a little hard to go back to after two.
Speaker 5: But I do think one is also not to like
make it about one, but like I think one is
such a great time capsule too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 7: But it's not a great platform and is too tremendous,
too sick to genuinely think two hangs with like some
of the best three D platforms we've talked about how
much Strobot. Finally someone made a game as good as
like all the Mario Games. I think Psychonaws too gets
slept on for being like up there as well, maybe
so white on that level, but it's like it's right,
that's right there for me.
Speaker 4: This is like this is when you bowled in this list.
I also like, we're not even talking about the story.
It tells how fucking.
Speaker 1: Good the first game pay it all off? Yeah, so original,
It's so god.
Speaker 2: It still has this kind of funny little moments. I
went from a shape game like we're just on the fenticular.
He's like, yeah, particularly just really intular. I love that
kind of crap rolling around the ball and all the
psychic abilities and the progression of it feels really good.
Speaker 1: The levels themselves are great. The Iron Chef level, I
think I'm gonna play this game again.
Speaker 6: That's where the game bugged out on me and I
gave up on it.
Speaker 1: The bug followed me from Xbox Series X to that
Sounds skill issue. Did you watch Psychotasy?
Speaker 4: I feel like that documentary colors my perception of this
game in a really positive way. But I know it
colors it, but I'm like, oh my god, the fact
that this game got made is incredible, Like that the
Iron Chef level, the fact that that level was designed
by he like wasn't one of their level designers. It's
just they do that thing where they come together as
a as a group and pitch like game ideas and
they do like a game jam. Essentially that came out
of a game jam and then became part of PSYCHONATS
two and now he works as a level designer for them.
Speaker 1: Games are jam, isn't it. I'm suppose you all like
I was trying.
Speaker 5: I feel like I told everyone I know about this
game and no one listened to me.
Speaker 2: But it seems like we don't have the votes for
Rift apart the sense I'm getting unfortunately.
Speaker 1: I know you're a good person. I know, thank you.
It's nice to be nice. Okay, I'm going to say it.
I think Vampire Survivors has to be the third block here. Yeah,
I think I want to say, but I don't want
to say. I don't get it. I get it, but
this boy, this game does not mean nearly as much
to me. It doesn't do nearly as much to me
as it does a lot. I think it is. I
think it is. I'm trying to think it's.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say it's aging better than it is maybe,
but it's obviously influential, I mean.
Speaker 9: Genre, you know, yeah, you know, I think compared to
what's left, I think you could I think villages like
Village is obviously fantastic, but like I understand where what
we're rewarding here.
Speaker 3: I've put more time in a Vampire Survivors than any
other game, and at least the last five or six years,
across multiple platforms, like three different platforms. Yeah, I love
it every time, even like there are so many unlocks
and challenges, and like anytime I started on like a
new file, I'm not like I got to do all
this again. I'm like, hell, yes, I get to start
checking this list off.
Speaker 5: I think it deserves it more than Eternal, and I
think you can make the case for it deserving it
more than Village.
Speaker 1: I like Village a lot.
Speaker 2: It's still kind of a mid tier, right, Village has
a lot of highs and it kind of has some
more figurable.
Speaker 3: And now, like I am a huge Eternal mark more
than most people, I think. But I could see Psychoonot's
Dread and Vampire Survivors three.
Speaker 1: The best Survivors is the blattro of this year? Sure, yeah,
did you ever check out like the multiplayer stuff in
Returnal I've always wanted to.
Speaker 3: I'm just bad at going back to games once they
add stuff later, but I would love to try that sometimes.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, our final Our top three
as of right now is Psychoonots to Metroid Dread and
then Vampire Survivors Bangers.
Speaker 6: Screw me on this grub, don't you screw me on this?
Speaker 1: Well? Is this collusion we haven't talked yet. Yeah, it
around it like crazy. It's so good. It's so good,
It's tremendous. Okay, I love the Metro games.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, obviously such good van as movement has
never necessarily been Metroid's strength. It's usually exploration, it's atmosphere.
This is the game that made the movement of Metroit
feel super goodtle. Yeah, the way you're kind of zipping
around and just jump around like crazy and dashing, even
like the inverse of that where there's these kind of
stealth sections and your movement matters in this different way. Gosh,
just just super cool at that. Definitely the best boss
fights the series has had, Like with Craig, if you
have the bombs early, how it changes that fight.
Speaker 7: The way she interacts with Craig, She's just like, I
am done with you.
Speaker 1: Don't do this again. I feel so good to play you.
Ever witness someone that is incredibly proficient and extremely good
at their job that it just comes off as like
you are hot? Yeah, I watch you.
Speaker 8: I WoT your work every day but everywhere.
Speaker 1: But like y'all know me, I am not the biggest
Metroid fan. I didn't have a lot of history playing
any of the series, but like playing through Dread, I
was like, Wow, Sam is as cool as fuck, that
little uppercut pery thing that she has.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really learning more and more every year how
much I love pairing it. I'm sorry, I know, I
know like some people can't stand it, but boy, I'm
into the pair There's a reason it's so many games.
Speaker 1: It's because it rules. I personally didn't really enjoy the
segments where you have to like run away from the
Emmys that much. It kind of like killed my flow
of the game. But like everything else, I really did
push me over the top to like really really want
to check out more of the series, check out other
m I Jesus Christ.
Speaker 7: I love the Emmy sections because it is a like
two decade long payoff because the game is called Metroid
Dread because of a canceled project that was gonna be
on the Nintendo DS. It's gonna be the follow up
the Fusion, which which this game is. It is Metroid
five yep, And it's the game that I was looking
forward to as a kid so much because I want
that next Metro game. And this Metroid Dread project was
flown around forever, and I wish I had a recording
of this. Watching the E three presentation where they showed
this game off and they showed everything that is, I'm
like sick and new two de Metroid, and then the
word Dread pops on screen and I screamed like a banshie.
I couldn't make that sounded if I want to, because
I'm like, oh my god, they're paying this off what
they built up Infusion now they are going to do
in this game that they're reviving after all this time.
And I think it works well because it plays off
of what Fusion did and what a lot of Metroid is,
which is that unease that like you know, like like
these guys talk about with what they like of Metroid,
the isolation, the loneliness and everything like that. You feel
like you are in danger in those segments and that's
what that's why I like them a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you were saying that Jan Samus has never been
as cool as she is in this game, and they
were like, really like nail it. And she has one
line of dialogue maybe two. I guess she's too if
you count the stream I do, yes, it is. Yeah,
And honestly, all those moments hits incredibly hard and it's
surprisingly cinematic when it does, like oh yeah, the camera
will cut in when it needs to, and it all
this stuff is done sparingly, which is like something I
think Metroid does when it does it well, it does
it very well. Of like you like, use the tech
that you have for this game just when you need
it to really emphasize these points, and it really does that,
like very.
Speaker 7: Very It is wild because at this point it is
the end of Samus's journey, and it's wild how much
it pays off so many like plot points, gameplay points
and everything from previous entries in a series that doesn't
really show you much story, Like all these things pay
off in a really big way. That is like, it's
just cool. As a fan of the series and just
a person who likes games that feel incredible to.
Speaker 6: Play, and and they for all those kids I used
to call her Metroid, They like she fully becomes Metro.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Sam's Bird Yeah yeah, partly basically, yeah, she has
Bird DNN big.
Speaker 1: Good Bird fight, Bird on Bird Action. Okay. Also, I
don't know, like with a game like Silk Song, I
eventually got super frustrated, bounced off of it, didn't want
to play it anymore. There are points where it took
me a long time to get into Dread, but like
once I beat those segments, I felt like a fucking
g I think.
Speaker 3: The balance is is better in Dread because it's like
I feel like that last boss fight is very difficult
and you really got to learn all that, and like
Silk Song is great, but this is kind of exhausting
having like twenty of those types of boss fights where
it's like I'm getting my ass kicked over and over.
I really memorized all this. I thought Dread was perfect,
and I had a lot of challenging boss fights and
that last one of the end is the one where
it's like, yeah, you really got to lock in.
Speaker 7: It ramps up and then like Raven Bee kicks your
ass a little bit. We've taught you so much, like
you can do this, learn and you do, Like I
don't hear anyone get stuck on the final boss. It's
like eventually you get it, even to try a few times.
Speaker 6: But it's a really good pattern boss fight, which every
boss fight in Silk Song is a pattern boss fight
and very difficult, right, And it's like, yeah, I you know,
it's a very minor criticism of that.
Speaker 1: It's like a one note sort of thing.
Speaker 6: But I think you're right that this sort of making
a mixtape of boss fights is done a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's authored a little bit better a metroy dread. Yeah,
I'm going to say this because we taught meant you
mentioned him earlier. Joe Musashi, Uh looks fly as how
I like this looks for and it's so very smart.
Like the majority white of her costume.
Speaker 7: Again plays off a fusion how she had the fusion suit.
Speaker 1: It's like used to her body.
Speaker 7: It's like, well, no, now she has the suit of
armor again, but the fusion suit is actually like beneath
that it's they ran with it.
Speaker 1: It's cool stuff, true do I second two a lot though, Yeah,
I yeah, yeah, these three like dread a lot.
Speaker 5: I For me, the memorial memorable game of that year
is Psychonauts.
Speaker 1: But I can't I don't think we can go wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm these are all great. I'm firmly in camp dread
what one akili?
Speaker 1: It takes two? It takes two, right, yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 4: It takes two for this second US two is like
my favorite of these three games. It's like my second
favorite on this list. I think for Giant Bomb twenty
twenty one. It's Metro Drift for me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because how I make sure the loudest voices in
the room aren't the one like overpowering for all of us.
So like if you know, as long as you guys are, like, yeah,
the passion here makes it ours so much.
Speaker 1: Say that Metroid is our game of the year.
Speaker 2: Yes, you almost got there. I did play through this
game like six times in a row. By the way
you did, Yeah, I got like to make sure I
beat it on harder because you got those different splash
screens for different past Metroid games when you did it.
It's like I beat it on hard mode in the
time to get the super Metroid screen or whatever. So
because even though that raven big fight like did get
harder at that point, I fought him so many times
that I knew the patterns and it was so satisfy.
You know, you know the shortcuts, you know the map,
even though it's on hard mode now you're kind of
racing through it now, it felt so freaking good.
Speaker 1: Kind of all of these, I think, I, well, I
do now want to replay Metroid Dread. I do too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I feel that it's like for it's
up there with a link between worlds of like, so
it's like I could replay that at any moment.
Speaker 1: Metro in general, you guys are so good at selling
Metro tread like. I'm like, God, all right, I think
we got our winner for Game of the Year twenty
twenty one, and that goes to Metroy Dread, Runners Out, Psychots,
To and Vampire Survivors. Let's quickly recap the winners categories
before we dip out of day two. We gotta go
make check on Santa. He hasn't popped it at all.
Do you think we're on the naughty list? There's no way.
The monatilist, I'll read the first winner here best gambling
brought to you by click Clickbomb goes to blue Prints
and the Slot Machines, runners up, q up and the
Flip game in Yota Dan. Would you read the next
category please? Yes?
Speaker 3: Ninja, your winner is Joe Musashi from Shnobi, with runners
up Mega Greninja from Pokemon Legends Za and Atsu from
Ghosts of Yota Grub.
Speaker 1: Would you mind reading the next one? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Best z teamer, your runners up were Prism and Malevola,
with your winner Golem mister Backlar.
Speaker 1: Would you mind reading the next yeah, I can do that.
Speaker 5: Best multiplayer you had, your runners up being Lego Party
and Arc Raiders.
Speaker 1: The winner Peak Sean read the next one and final
category of Day two.
Speaker 7: Game of the Year twenty twenty one runners up were
Psychonaus two and Vampire Survivors. The winner is METROI dread
Finally some respect for Betroit Vanius.
Speaker 1: Finally let the record show Giant Bombs.
Speaker 3: Game of the Year twenty twenty one is Metroid Dress
as it ever was.
Speaker 1: Yes, folks, that does it. For Day two, We're gonna
go celebrate the holidays, and I hope you at home
are having a lovely holiday season. There's two more days
of Game of the Year coming up. Gang. They'll hit
you next Tuesday and next Thursday. Until then, I've been Janed,
he's been Mike, he's been Jeff. He's been Jeff, he's
been Dan, he's been Sean, he's been Shuck, he's been
well behind the scenes. Thanks to you. Next week. That's
for you. That's right, the mistletoes above all this.
Speaker 6: Right now, you're my mother, Candle Mitch, missus