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Episode 240: Top five games of 2025! · WASD and Beyond

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  Are we cutting that? Fucking. 2026 Off to the races.
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  WASD and beyond is back everybody.
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  Welcome to 2026 with your hosts Nick and Brody.
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  What's up, dude? Hey, man.
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  That was a That was a great intro I've.
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  Never be able. To fucking killed it my guy,
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  I'll. Never do that like that ever
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  again this year. It it was good though.
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  Fuck. Yeah, cheers to a good.
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  Point. I'm just taking it all in.
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  I mean, cheers. Oh man, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  We are back though we're still, we're stoked to be here.
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  This year we aim to be a bit more consistent.
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  Hope to get more interviews this year, hope to do a lot more on
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  the YouTube. I need to be that is on me.
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  I did upload. I make videos, I don't upload
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  them and Brody goes, where'd that video go and I go, oh, it's
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  in the pipeline for sure. And then I upload it right after
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  you text me. So we're going to be more
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  consistent there. Streaming.
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  I think streaming is niche. I was talking to final boss
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  about that and he's like dude streaming is no point.
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  Yeah, it's, it's hard to break into that at this point.
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  I didn't. I just don't care.
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  Like the only thing we're going to stream probably is our unless
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  I'm like drunk and going live, which I don't plan to be
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  drinking this much this year because my weight loss journey.
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  Yeah, I'm on that kick and I'm you're going to hear about it
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  and it's going to be annoying anyways.
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  But I think for our like fantasy critic stuff, that'll be
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  definitely live stream because that's just fun.
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  We're down there getting fucked up and razzing each other,
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  picking games, which that'll be happening in the next couple
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  weeks, correct, Because we have to wrap up and then start the
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  season. Yeah, we should definitely get
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  that done soon. I'm hoping there's more razzing
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  this go around. I feel like I was the only one
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  that was ever like fucking poking at people.
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  I'm a protag. I'm an antagonist.
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  I know and you didn't. You hardly talked any shit.
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  But yeah, because I was in tactician mode.
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  And. Then I got I got fucked every
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  step of the fuck away. I was just going to say you
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  might want to come up with a new approach this year.
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  I'm digging deep this year. That way I'm going into the
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  trenches. I am.
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  I like how we were halfway through the year, all of a
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  sudden Nick picks up more games than he could actually purchase.
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  I started getting denied for games because I didn't
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  understand how the system worked.
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  Everyone's like, you can't just buy everything.
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  And I went why? There's like 51 people on a
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  football team. I'm trying to get as much as
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  going. As.
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  Possible. And I was like, no, dude.
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  Yeah, there's, there's a, there's a lot of good things to
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  talk about there. I'm, I'm looking forward to
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  that, that recap episode and then get our new fucking draft
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  on, man. But boy, I have not even looked
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  at a whole lot of what's coming out this year.
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  So I got some some research to do here.
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  Everything's so fucking up in the air these days that it's
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  like, I don't know, man. Well, I don't know.
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  I don't know. You would think GTA would be a
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  safe lock this year. Like I'm not taking it if I'm
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  not going to take it, I'm. Going to let Evan take it again,
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  you know. What I'm going to take, you know
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  what I am going to take this year.
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  Tell me so I can take it. You're not going to take Half
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  Life 3. Oh yeah, I'm not going to do
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  that. I'm, I think, I think I'm going
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  to roll the dice on it. I'm not going to go into it, but
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  I'm going to roll the dice. It's not, I'm not even doing it
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  like as a meme. I'm just going to, I'm just
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  going to be like, you know what? I'm just going to try.
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  I'm going to put my money where my mouth is.
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  This is its ear. Would it do it?
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  Last year it was your brother, along with like four other games
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  that I'm like, holy. Shit, he got oblivion.
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  He did get Oblivion. That one had been actually
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  heavily rumoured for a little bit, but yeah, he did get that
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  one it. Would probably be who of a
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  couple people to maybe. Pick up Skyrim the 12.
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  That's the Skyrim edition. Fucking.
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  I'd say Fallout, anything from the Fallout universe that you
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  could pick up. I think there's a good chance
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  here we might see something remaster remake type thing.
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  You would fucking hope so. It's nothing quite like just
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  putting a show out there when you have no games to release
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  alongside it or any any sort of content.
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  Like fucking what are we doing? Don't worry though, because it
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  ties into the Fallout 5. They're like, it's kind of like
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  Fallout 5 and I'm like, no, it's not kind of like Fallout 5.
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  This is Fallout season 2 of the show.
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  Where's Fallout 5? Yeah, you know.
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  We've had good news though, this year, man.
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  Wolfenstein 3 is in development. Like that's spreading like
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  wildfire. Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas
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  seems to be coming as remasters. What else, man?
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  It was. This is all over the news
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  yesterday. Fucking it looks like AIDS
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  software is working on something other than Doom.
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  And people are speculating this came from like Windows Insider.
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  The the Wolfenstein thing dropped from like Windows
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  Insider as well. And they were like, oh,
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  everyone's like, oh shit, OK. Quake, Hexen or Heretic is in
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  the works over there. Yeah.
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  Well, they just did. What was it?
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  They just remastered what was it, Mist and.
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  Heretic and Hexen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  They just remastered those not too long ago.
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  That's why it rang the bell. I was like, something fucking
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  missed. Bro, I I remember seeing that
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  game for the first time. I was like, what is this?
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  This is like a like it literally is a fucking screensaver.
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  I get it. I guessed Mitt.
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  I get somebody who likes dude. I know somebody who likes missed
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  heard that one. This fat idiot does not know
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  what he's talking about. Listen, you're going to get.
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  Fucking 5. But yeah, I, I, I as far as the,
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  the ID thing goes specifically, right.
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  Like to me, I think it is time that they work on something new
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  for a little while. I think this, this Doom trilogy
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  that they put out has been really, really awesome.
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  But I, I, I, I think there's a touch of fatigue there.
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  Like I went into the dark ages and I just like couldn't really
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  get into it. Really.
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  OK. But I also kind of got that way
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  with the other two. I, I don't, I don't do well with
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  the like, I don't know. This one wasn't so much that
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  way, but the, the second one was really heavy where you had to
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  like constantly be switching between how you kill things.
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  I just want to kill things. I I'm the epitome of a blunt
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  object. Which is the Dark Ages.
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  I know and I that one should have been my shit for sure, but
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  I made it through. I I think I played like 3 or 4
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  levels and I was like. You got to be it.
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  It gets way gnarlier. Yeah, I need to, I need to go
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  back and do it. I just, I'd for whatever reason,
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  it didn't hit me at the time it came out.
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  I it, it should be my shit. Like it should absolutely be my
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  shit. And I imagine we'll talk about
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  this game probably a bit. I would assume so.
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  Yeah. Oh.
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  Fuck well buddy to. Do this thing, my guy.
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  Yeah, dude. You know what, guys?
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  We thought, I'm going to call myself AI started this year off
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  by saying, Brody, why don't we do it like this?
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  And I met said, let's talk about the bad and good.
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  Brody said, why are we going to start the year depressing
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  people? And in my head I'm like, it's
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  click baity, let's do that. And I went, you know what?
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  We're not a bunch of click baity people like IGN and Kotaku and
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  all those cool guys that we don't have money like they do.
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  But that's fine. We do actually have fun on our
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  shows and talk about things we love.
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  But. But on on top of that, that text
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  came through prior to everything that's already happened. 02026
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  is awful. We're off to a really rocky
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  fucking start. And yeah, I was like.
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  As an American, I don't say I am so sorry to the rest of the
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  world that you deal with this. It's.
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  Bad. It's it's not good.
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  Oh man, I've, there's been a couple of times where I was
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  tweeting about to tweet, you know, my Twitter fingers were
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  going hard and I was like on the WASD page and I went, Nope,
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  almost just told ICE to go fuck themselves on the WASD page.
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  Delete that for right now. But also do I delete that?
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  You know, it's like that inner battle.
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  It's like those guys suck. But but yeah, we should have
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  wore our fucking our fuck ice shirts tonight.
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  Brody and I next episode, well, we'll match Brody and I have the
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  best white gold industry Batman shirts and they just, this is
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  Batman. I mean, he's powerbombing a
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  cop's head into the That cop's dead.
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  Yeah, well, not by Batman rules, Batman.
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  This is absolute Batman. Just seriously maimed.
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  Dude, absolute Batman ain't no one.
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  We'll get to that another time. Huge shout out to White Gold for
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  that shirt though, by the way. I think it's dope.
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  I've worn it a couple places. People are like, and I'm like,
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  yeah, OK. You think you get that bad in in
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  Detroit? I wear that shit around here.
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  Yeah, dude, I wonder. Yeah, how are those like people
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  around there when you wear that? Probably not stoked, Eh, They
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  they. They've.
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  Been pretty quiet lately. We're in all of that.
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  Yeah. This is good.
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  Well, this. Is what we did again.
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  It's like we told yeah, we don't, we're not Yeah, video.
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  Games. I know, I know.
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  I'm. Just so upset with the world.
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  But anyways, yeah, it's not. Great.
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  So we're focusing on good things, yes.
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  Even if AI is inevitable and we're.
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  Not stoked. On it.
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  Let's make that clear, because apparently what we said in our
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  one episode wasn't clear. We're not stoked on it.
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  We're. People pissed.
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  People were like, come on. And it's like, we're not stoked
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  on AI. I'm not saying that I don't.
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  I don't think you've. Listened.
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  You heard AI and fucking flew off the handle but people
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  listen. To better when I was peeing in
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  bottles on the episode. Oh my God damn it.
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  You know, it's listening comprehension, reading
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  comprehension, all out the fucking window.
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  We don't do that anymore. We got the.
• 11:51
  Best viewers, but guys, I promise don't like.
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  I don't like the robots. I don't like the.
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  Robots. I don't even got an.
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  Alexa in my house. God.
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  Damn it. Like.
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  Anyways, these were these were our top five games of 2025.
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  I have no honorable mentions because I really none.
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  No. Well, I might have, I might have
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  a couple I'll bring up, but I really wanted to focus on these
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  five games because I felt like they were shining moments in the
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  industry this year or last year rather.
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  Would you like to start or do you want me to start I?
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  Have 4 honorable mentions but I feel like they're best served at
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  the end guarantee. Our Honor Honorable mentions
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  link up. I.
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  Doubt it. Oh.
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  Doubt it. OK me too.
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  I I was testing you out. Yeah, sure.
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  I will start out. So I want to preface this list.
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  This is not mainly for this first one my #5 I am not going
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  to sit here and say this is the best game of the year or even a
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  top five game of the year in in the way of quality or anything
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  of that nature. This is a game that I have
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  enjoyed a lot and spent a lot of time playing with friends and
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  having a good time in and that's why it made it here.
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  Battlefield 6. Very good I.
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  If if. You have listened to this show
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  or you listen to Diggity at any point in time.
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  I avidly. Hate.
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  EA with with a burning fucking passion, right up there with
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  Ubisoft. But that being said, I I have a
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  lot of love for the Battlefield franchise.
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  Do I think this is the best battlefield?
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  Absolutely not. Do I think this is a good
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  battlefield? Yes.
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  I, I think a lot of what it does, it does decently well.
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  Does it play more like a cod? Yes.
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  But at the same time, you got to remember that a lot of people
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  playing games the the the younger generations, their
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  attention span is very short and if they are not immediately
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  shooting at someone, they are going to fall off.
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  It was a I, I believe it was a tactical choice in order to keep
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  players interested in the game. Do I love that?
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  I don't know. I I'm kind of iffy on it.
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  I also enjoy getting into firefights quickly if I want to.
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  And if I don't want to, I fuck off and go off to the side and
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  try to find a a sniper nook or whatever it may be.
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  Yeah, I I think what this does, it does fairly well.
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  Some of the maps are pretty lackluster.
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  There's a couple of maps I just absolutely hate, but I I've had
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  a good time in this game. I've had a lot of fun playing
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  this game with friends. When we get, you know, 2 full
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  squads running together and we try to link up in the same game.
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  And when it finally fucking works, it's it's a blast, right?
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  Running around, capturing points and you know, reviving people,
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  bringing it's, it's just so much fun when it's working.
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  When you get those Battlefield moments, there's less of them
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  then there were in like a Battlefield 3 or Battlefield 4
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  for sure, but there's more of them than what we've seen in
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  some of the other Battlefields that we've had recently, like
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  2042 right there. There's actual destruction in
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  this one and, and it works fairly well.
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  It's somewhat predictable to some extent, but I think it's
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  it's fun. There's a lot of different game
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  modes in it. The maps are kind of what's
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  holding it back at this point in time.
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  The California map that they added is actually really cool.
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  I enjoy that map a lot, but I I I think overall like.
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  This. Was the battlefield that we
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  needed? There's there's problems.
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  I think the AI slop for name plates and shit like that is
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  abysmal. That shouldn't be there, but
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  it's there. There's some questionable things
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  that have not been fixed yet. There's, there's quite a few
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  bugs. The challenges are buggy, like
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  the, the battle pass takes fucking forever to get through.
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  Like it's just, it's, it's awful, man.
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  Like I, I played quite a bit today just trying to, I, I
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  always like to buy the first battle pass of, of a game that I
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  feel like I'm going to play for a while because I'm like, Oh
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  yeah, I was there for, for the beginning of it, right?
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  It's a whatever thing. And I know a lot of people hate
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  battle passes, but I I typically will buy a battle pass for a
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  game I am playing because I'm already playing it.
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  I might as well get some shit from it and it's like 10 fucking
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  dollars. Like I whatever any who.
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  If you don't like battle passes, that's perfectly fine.
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  I don't want to argue about it. It is.
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  I don't buy battle passes. I'm that guy.
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  Yeah, yeah. Like in.
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  Two sides of every. Coin right but.
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  I think. This is egregious how poorly it
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  is laid out. Like the only way to progress
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  really through it in any meaningful way is to do
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  challenges. I think you get some XP
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  essentially for completing matches but it's not much.
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  It's like 1 square out of the like 8 you need to unlock the
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  thing you're working on. It's fucking insane in a game
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  that has like 30 minute timers. Like, OK, so that I think the
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  battle passes shit, I think there's a lot of things that are
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  shit. The monetization is shit.
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  The skins. I've talked ad nauseam with with
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  Evan about this. I I think people are blowing it
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  out of the water. If you don't like it, don't buy
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  it. Guess what?
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  It's a first person game or and you don't ever see your fucking
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  character anyway. So why buy skins?
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  Who cares? Yeah, yeah, you, you, you see it
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  in the loading screen and when you are in game, you don't
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  really notice people's skins either because.
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  It's a fucking. War Zone, whatever, But I, I, I
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  think it's a competent enough multiplayer game.
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  It's a competent enough Battlefield game.
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  It was one of the best Battlefield launches we've had
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  in fucking decades at this point.
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  I. I.
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  Enjoy it. I I have a good time with it.
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  I take breaks from it. I don't play it for like a week
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  or two at a time sometimes. And then when I come back I'm
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  like, yeah, cool battlefield. I'll play it for a couple days
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  and then bounce out again like if you were playing it.
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  Stupid. Amounts of hours every week,
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  Yeah, you are going to get sick of it, but it's that perfect
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  bounce in. It's the same game you fucking
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  knew. Play a few rounds and then go do
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  something else. And it scratches that itch for
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  me. And it almost didn't make this
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  spot. But I was thinking back on this
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  year, which this was a weird year for me.
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  I did not play as many new games as I normally would.
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  I kind of got sidetracked with a lot of older shit or just kind
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  of doing like larger games that took up a lot of my time and I
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  did not have as much time this year.
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  So it was very much look back at the year and look at what I
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  enjoyed playing, especially with friends, and what I had a great
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  time with in that regard. Not necessarily speaking to the
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  quality. So Battlefield 6 just.
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  Barely snuck in. And honestly, if I had put a
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  little bit more time into one of my honorable mentions, it would
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  have been fucking gone. Oh man, no I I can't agree more.
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  Battlefield 6 was my #5 as well. Oh no.
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  Shit, I honestly. Didn't make it.
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  I did not expect it to to crack your top five here.
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  So that's I love Battlefield. Games, man, I've been playing
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  since like fucking Bad Company and shit like that, dude.
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  I've always loved these games. This battle again, Battlefield
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  does what Call of Duty don't, right?
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  And this certainly does the same thing.
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  And Brody is right there. It plays a little bit more like
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  a Cod, but it is still that fucking Battlefield DNA that
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  you've come to know and love. It looks great.
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  It feels great. There are problems, but what
• 20:18
  game doesn't in this in in this time, you know an age.
• 20:22
  I wish for the AI slop shit not to be there.
• 20:26
  I wish the maps were better but. The moments.
• 20:29
  I've had with my friends in this game are phenomenal and I
• 20:35
  haven't had moments in a battlefield battlefield game
• 20:38
  like the the ones I've had here since 3:00 and 4:00.
• 20:42
  The beta and alphas were great. In my opinion.
• 20:46
  And then I mean, just the moments, like I said, dude, like
• 20:49
  there was that whole tank thing we talked about on the show
• 20:51
  where we literally dominated the entire map by circling it with
• 20:55
  two tanks rotating with Julian and Evan dropping in and out to
• 20:59
  heal the tanks. Someone twisting, I forget it
• 21:03
  was Jules or Evan who got it was Evan who jumped out fucking RPG
• 21:07
  to tank, fucking got back in and we drove off until we got
• 21:11
  destroyed. It's those moments you don't get
• 21:13
  in the Call of Duty. It's it's, it's, it's wide open,
• 21:17
  big scale warfare. And I love Battlefield for that.
• 21:20
  Now I will say there are certain maps where it's spawn die, spawn
• 21:23
  die, spawn die. But.
• 21:26
  That's Battlefield as well, right?
• 21:28
  It's something you've come to, to learn with these games.
• 21:31
  It's trying to. Figure them.
• 21:33
  Out. I love it.
• 21:35
  That's why it's on my top five, Brody said.
• 21:37
  A lot of what I could have said, and I think you really nailed it
• 21:40
  on the head here, dude. I would have.
• 21:42
  Let. You talk if I knew it was your
• 21:44
  number. 5 Sorry. No, it's good.
• 21:47
  No, it's fine. Yeah.
• 21:49
  It's a cool game. It's fun to play with friends.
• 21:52
  Playing it by yourself is fucking borderline.
• 21:55
  I won't do it, but that's what I did today.
• 21:58
  But I was grinding out challenges and playing game
• 22:00
  modes I knew nobody would want to play.
• 22:03
  And I was like, yeah, fuck it, I was at the.
• 22:05
  Office and I was like I could I could load up here.
• 22:08
  I'm not going to. Fucking #4 is another game that
• 22:15
  is solely on here because of the time that I have had with my
• 22:20
  friends in this game. Friends that you could also have
• 22:24
  you joined our discord just throwing that up.
• 22:26
  You should. It's.
• 22:27
  Free it. Do be free repo phenomenal.
• 22:32
  Pick repo. Is my #4.
• 22:35
  This was one that almost could have been slotted out for peak,
• 22:40
  which is I Spoiler alert, that's one of my honorable mentions I'm
• 22:43
  literally throwing. These in my honorable mentions
• 22:45
  right now just. Discuss them.
• 22:48
  At the end repo is. One of I.
• 22:52
  I I heard a term called friend slop and they mean it in a
• 22:57
  positive way and this is for me the epitome of what friend slop
• 23:04
  can be. I it is there's something about
• 23:09
  the way that your character moves their mouth that just
• 23:12
  makes everything 10 times fucking funnier.
• 23:15
  It is hysterical to crawl into a cabinet hiding from a monster
• 23:19
  and you look across and there's someone sitting there that just
• 23:22
  goes hi, Brody and their fucking head moves like a like a
• 23:26
  Canadian from South Park. Everything about it is just so
• 23:32
  comical. They've the support that repo
• 23:35
  has gotten has actually been incredible too.
• 23:37
  They've added new like variants of the maps, they've added new
• 23:40
  monsters, new items that do all sorts of crazy things.
• 23:46
  It's. Just so much fun.
• 23:47
  But the fact that you can now possess your body after you are
• 23:50
  dead and give people information or like tell them to do
• 23:55
  something or like that was something I just experienced for
• 23:58
  the first time Saturday a week ago.
• 24:01
  Yeah. And it's just such a.
• 24:06
  Such a fun. Little game that it in, in the
• 24:11
  the way it's generated it, it has all these different maps
• 24:15
  with different layouts and different hazards in the map as
• 24:18
  well as different monsters and you never really know what to
• 24:22
  expect. There's different items that you
• 24:24
  can purchase to make certain things easier or different.
• 24:28
  I guess like not even necessarily easier all of the
• 24:31
  time, but it it's a fun game, even when it is pure chaos.
• 24:36
  And you know, we typically will use a mod to throw more people
• 24:39
  in there, not because we want to yeah, not because we want to
• 24:44
  break the game and make it easier.
• 24:45
  If anything, I think it makes it fucking harder.
• 24:50
  It's so much easier with the, the, the base number of people.
• 24:54
  But yeah, when you add, you know, fucking 8910 people into
• 24:58
  the game, it's just chaotic. It's pure chaos.
• 25:01
  It's. Miserable at times, but yes.
• 25:05
  It can be a lot. Of fun I love repo.
• 25:07
  Good pick. Yeah, you look.
• 25:09
  Over. And you see Nick's character
• 25:11
  over there shouting Fetty Wap. Yeah, it's just it's one of
• 25:19
  those. No one did that. 1st, I want to
• 25:21
  give him his comeuppance right there.
• 25:22
  Yeah, that, that. Was very much a Noah thing
• 25:24
  initially, but having it's one of those games that the game
• 25:30
  itself is fun, but the game is made better by the moments you
• 25:35
  have in the game playing with people and you make your own
• 25:39
  fun. You make you make the the like.
• 25:43
  The game is not inherently funny, right?
• 25:46
  That the game is funny because of what your friends do.
• 25:50
  Your your check ass friends just doing dumb shit constantly.
• 25:55
  Like we can't even make it through buying things in the
• 25:58
  store without eight people getting fucking blown up.
• 26:01
  Oh, we're killing each other. Oh.
• 26:03
  Immediately like we purchase what we want and it's a fucking
• 26:06
  free for all to see who can kill the most people and then until
• 26:10
  somebody, usually me, gets fed up with it and sends us to the
• 26:14
  next level I also like. The king of the losers thing.
• 26:17
  The king of the losers. Is good, Yeah, great stuff.
• 26:20
  Dude I I thought it's the support they're putting in is
• 26:23
  the new content they add constantly.
• 26:27
  It's just a fun. Time with your friends?
• 26:29
  Yeah, you're absolutely right. The repo fucking rules it it we
• 26:33
  it probably should play tonight. I'd be down.
• 26:36
  We played yeah, we played last week a little bit.
• 26:39
  It got it's just so much fun. Like I've I've played a lot of
• 26:43
  like these these friends slop games, right, like.
• 26:46
  Lethal company we. Played the hell out of it and it
• 26:48
  had a great time doing it. But unfortunately though.
• 26:52
  What's that? Was that during?
• 26:53
  Quarantine No. That wasn't a couple.
• 26:56
  No, it was only a couple years ago.
• 26:59
  OK, I thought for some. Reason I thought that was the
• 27:01
  game we were all playing in quarantine, that the whole
• 27:03
  couple years was a blur. Yeah, but the the problem with
• 27:09
  lethal company is it didn't really seem it was like a one
• 27:12
  dude team like he just could not support it fast enough And but
• 27:17
  repo seems to be getting a little bit more support for sure
• 27:19
  and they're adding more shit and I I just I it's my favorite
• 27:23
  friends lab game of the year by far Peak was a great time too,
• 27:27
  but I I enjoy repo more than I do peek.
• 27:32
  We've played RV there yet and that's been a lot of fun as
• 27:36
  well. I'll.
• 27:37
  Play that, I'll play RV there. Yeah, honestly.
• 27:40
  If that's another one, it needs the support to continue on which
• 27:44
  it just came out. It's it's fairly new like but
• 27:48
  more maps, more things going on and that game will be fucking
• 27:52
  killer like if they can support it like repo has been supported
• 27:58
  it it go. Fly absolutely be up here on my.
• 28:00
  List. But yeah, repo's so fucking fun.
• 28:04
  And that's my I love that game. I love that game.
• 28:07
  I love those little robots so much to the point where it's
• 28:09
  like. I would get a.
• 28:12
  Repo tattoo on my gaming leg. Oh yeah, my, my little.
• 28:16
  Robot with the arm? I would do it.
• 28:18
  You know that'd be cool. Tattoo him holding a little
• 28:20
  spawn camp flag. Oh, that'd be.
• 28:22
  Cool. Yeah, I would.
• 28:23
  I would do. That I love those little repo
• 28:24
  dudes. I might I might talk to Kyle
• 28:26
  just placing a little repo guy holds this one can't like great
• 28:30
  pick. I love that game great time.
• 28:31
  If you haven't played repo go play with your friends.
• 28:33
  It's super fun just such a good time that's definitely an
• 28:36
  honorable mention. I know I said I didn't have any,
• 28:38
  but now Bertie's talking about someone like.
• 28:41
  So they're typing. My #4.
• 28:44
  Might be shocking. That it's this low, but it's.
• 28:47
  Death. Stranding too.
• 28:50
  OK. I figured.
• 28:52
  I figured probably like. The the three slot, but yeah,
• 28:55
  OK, it's it's it's in the. Four slot, there's three other
• 28:58
  games I think that are just. They, they, they.
• 29:02
  Scratch that itch more. Not that this didn't, though I
• 29:04
  can guess. Two of them, the third one I'm a
• 29:06
  little puzzled on so I I'm I'm interested to see what you got
• 29:10
  there over. Under we'll we'll figure that
• 29:12
  out. OK.
• 29:13
  We'll see if you but all right from here on out.
• 29:17
  We we're going. To guess each other's.
• 29:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, I, I have no idea
• 29:20
  what you're going to pick. I'm not guessing.
• 29:23
  Oh, you. Should know me better than that.
• 29:25
  I do know you well. You should at least know.
• 29:27
  Two of them. Well, yeah.
• 29:29
  I know, I know, it's going to be the same.
• 29:30
  Two that I know of yours. Yeah, probably so.
• 29:35
  So with Death training 2. This was.
• 29:39
  One of the most beautiful games I have played visually and story
• 29:43
  wise, story wise. I mean, if you are a parent
• 29:47
  playing this game, you know what Sam's loss is like.
• 29:53
  You don't have to have lost a child to imagine what that would
• 29:55
  feel like and the great lengths that you would go on to either
• 30:00
  save your child or revenge type of thing.
• 30:04
  Right? This game explores every emotion
• 30:07
  somebody can go through while sticking to the same mechanics
• 30:10
  that made me love the first game and others really hate it.
• 30:13
  And really expanding on that though and adding the combat
• 30:17
  that people wanted, adding kick ass fucking mobility around the
• 30:23
  map with the vehicles. You can like hoverboard around
• 30:26
  the map and the different biomes are so pretty and this game is
• 30:32
  so rich in just everything. Every little Pebble, I feel has
• 30:37
  a story right that's just waiting for you to uncover it.
• 30:40
  And little secrets that Kojima puts in there are just awesome,
• 30:43
  especially with like doll man, like I mean, before I even like
• 30:47
  figured out how to do like that Bom Bom.
• 30:49
  BOM BOM BOM that video. Everyone's seen them do in the
• 30:52
  fucking video. Yeah, on TikTok I saw like an
• 30:55
  old man in the video, but I discovered that by myself.
• 30:59
  I discovered the Kojima stars by myself.
• 31:01
  Like I was like, Oh my God, this is there's just Kojima.
• 31:03
  Would put. Himself in the stars, yeah.
• 31:06
  I I I thought that would be a bit arrogant, but no.
• 31:12
  He's up for some. Kojima I.
• 31:14
  I. You know, we're going to pause
• 31:16
  here. I expected better of him at the
• 31:20
  Game Awards. He seemed a bit crabby that he
• 31:23
  didn't win. Well, his best.
• 31:26
  Friend Jeff didn't give him a fucking award.
• 31:28
  Well. Maybe he didn't want to give him
• 31:30
  some figures. Jeff Keeley, we're not just
• 31:32
  saying. Death Stranding too.
• 31:35
  Though is an amazing experience, it's one that I would say even
• 31:39
  if you didn't like the first one, I would still give this one
• 31:42
  the time of day just as a great recap.
• 31:45
  Oh, OK, I was. Just going to say, do you think
• 31:47
  you can go into Death Stranding too without playing the first
• 31:49
  one? It's it's difficult because it
• 31:52
  does have a recap but there's still so much and it has a
• 31:55
  library in the game for you to look through.
• 31:58
  Like it constantly is updating a codex of sorts.
• 32:00
  I forget what it's called but it's like at least.
• 32:02
  Watch a pretty good YouTube video.
• 32:04
  I would assume you could, yeah. It it it it hopefully, if you
• 32:09
  could even. Find it.
• 32:10
  Yeah, I mean. Fuck their algorithm.
• 32:12
  But anyway I. I would, if you want to play 2,
• 32:15
  watch the events of 1. Figure out what's actually
• 32:18
  happening here. 2 takes one and then goes fuck it, let's make a
• 32:23
  game and let's make it something that everybody could enjoy.
• 32:26
  Fixing the roads is a blast. Watching coming, turning the
• 32:30
  game off, coming back and loading into a new road built by
• 32:35
  like Brody, for instance, is incredible to see because I'm
• 32:40
  putting resources to this road so I can get to the next part of
• 32:42
  the map easier. And I come back and someone's
• 32:46
  left, someone's built the road left at emoticon going.
• 32:51
  You're welcome. And you can like that.
• 32:54
  And then they can like back and it's, it's cool.
• 32:58
  I, I love this game. I think maybe the third one
• 33:02
  needs to be the last one. If it happens, I am excited for
• 33:06
  the movie. I think that's a 24 is doing the
• 33:09
  death ranting movie and I don't think it's going to follow Sam
• 33:12
  if it does it. I.
• 33:14
  Guess just get Norman. That's an easy get.
• 33:17
  I mean, it's just the easiest casting in the world.
• 33:21
  And then I'm excited for the animes that are coming out too.
• 33:23
  Those are going to be sweet. That's.
• 33:27
  I didn't know they were doing an anime.
• 33:29
  I knew about the movie, but that's.
• 33:32
  Anime and movie, yeah, it's it's the it's getting its own cinema.
• 33:36
  It's getting its whole universe dude.
• 33:39
  There's books the DSU. The Death Stranding universe.
• 33:43
  That's such a sad. Universe that's so depressing.
• 33:47
  But. Like it's beautiful man, the
• 33:49
  ending of that game is so pretty I.
• 33:52
  And it made me cry. Twice, three times I cried. 3
• 33:55
  times on my couch quietly I wept but I I did weep and I was like
• 33:59
  Oh my God Kojima stuff I. So God I I.
• 34:05
  I see so many people talking about this game and I want I, I,
• 34:10
  I like a lot of the tones and things they're going for here.
• 34:18
  I get, I get so lost when it comes to the Kojima Ness of
• 34:24
  everything. He's so weird.
• 34:26
  Bro he's. It's.
• 34:29
  Even a Metal Gear it was. Like this, though, it was, yeah.
• 34:32
  I, I also was not a Metal Gear guy.
• 34:35
  Like part of that is I, I, I'm not the person that is going to
• 34:40
  go sneak around the world. Like again, I told you, blunt
• 34:44
  object. I Barbarian.
• 34:46
  Yes, yeah. Yes, yeah, they're like.
• 34:48
  Oh, do you want to spear? I'm like, what about a hammer?
• 34:51
  I want to kill you. I want to kill.
• 34:54
  With Hammer. But yeah, I, I can't, I cannot
• 34:58
  sneak in games. I'm fucking terrible at it.
• 35:01
  I don't have the patience for it.
• 35:03
  I, I, I, I appreciate art, but I am not the type of person who
• 35:09
  plays games centered around art. Like very much this.
• 35:12
  This is very. Avant-garde this is, you go into
• 35:16
  the restaurant, you see the guy making your burger and he went,
• 35:19
  fuck, this burger is going to be 30 bucks.
• 35:21
  Oh yeah. Yes, and it's not going to be
• 35:24
  that. Good, yeah.
• 35:26
  But I, I I want to play. I still have no.
• 35:30
  Desire to go play the first game I.
• 35:32
  Don't think you should. I did.
• 35:34
  You, you know me, I the the first game would not be my jam,
• 35:38
  but from what I have heard about the second one with like, you
• 35:43
  know, a a much higher focus on combat and all of that, it does
• 35:47
  seem like it could be closer to a game that I would enjoy.
• 35:51
  It is, but man, I, I, I, I am jealous of people that can enjoy
• 35:58
  this kind of game though to to some extent, right?
• 36:00
  Like as much as I should on Kojima and like give you a hard
• 36:03
  time about loving Kojima. Like I, I, I am jealous that I
• 36:09
  know how I am and I would pick this game up and play like 4
• 36:13
  hours of it and just be like, I don't think I could do it Nick.
• 36:17
  I don't think I have to train. This game.
• 36:21
  Like. Hours and hours.
• 36:22
  And but again, I feel like it's like, it's like my crowd.
• 36:26
  The weird thing about gaming is like, different crowds hang out
• 36:29
  with different crowds, Yeah. I'm a old.
• 36:32
  FPS boomer half life guy who hangs out with guys who don't
• 36:35
  give a fuck about that. And I also game on their.
• 36:40
  Game, you know, like I love gaming.
• 36:42
  It's such a it's not like like a like the metal scene where it's
• 36:44
  like you're a hardcore kid, but then you also got the metal
• 36:47
  kids, but the metal kids can't mosh with the hardcore kid, you
• 36:50
  know, shit like that. You're like, yeah, it's like,
• 36:53
  yeah, gaming is not like that. My bread and.
• 36:55
  Butter is like tactics and JRPGES like that's what I enjoy,
• 37:01
  even though I you know, only finish half of them that I
• 37:03
  started. It's fine.
• 37:05
  Stop those games tend. To be very long, they're a
• 37:08
  little. Long in the tooth, for sure.
• 37:09
  Yes, yes. But Yep, that's right in too.
• 37:13
  Very good. All right, fucking #3 would you
• 37:18
  like to take a shot in the dark as to what my number 3 is?
• 37:22
  Silk Song. God damn it.
• 37:26
  Nailed it. Yeah, Silk Song is 100% my #3
• 37:31
  and that I I put it at #3. Which is kind.
• 37:37
  Of a weird place for it. So I, I had like 20 something
• 37:41
  hours in this game, which is not very much in the grand scheme of
• 37:45
  what this game is, but it, it, it happened at the same time I
• 37:51
  cancelled Game pass. And so I, I, I have now since
• 37:55
  purchased the game again on Steam and I just don't, I have
• 38:02
  not found the interest to go back and do it yet.
• 38:05
  Do you have the? It's like having the energy to
• 38:09
  just redo it. It's like a muscle.
• 38:11
  Through everything I have to resubscribe the.
• 38:13
  Game Pass, big guy, Yeah. I have to I I purposely
• 38:18
  purchased it on Steam again so I would have it on my Steam Deck.
• 38:22
  That was the intention there. I I've been playing a lot more
• 38:26
  of my Switch lately, could have probably done it there.
• 38:29
  It doesn't fucking matter. Regardless, I repurchased the
• 38:32
  game on a platform. I no longer have my save file
• 38:35
  and I cannot find the energy to go back and fight tooth and nail
• 38:41
  to get back to where I was. This game is gorgeous.
• 38:45
  It is beautiful. Everything about this game I.
• 38:49
  I. I am not the.
• 38:51
  Metroidvania guy. I tend to fall off of these
• 38:54
  games very quickly when I figure out like, oh, I don't know where
• 38:58
  the fuck I'm going. I don't know what the fuck I'm
• 39:00
  doing because I take I jump from game to game to game to game.
• 39:05
  Against my better judgement. I do it time and time again,
• 39:09
  especially in games like this, where it helps to know what the
• 39:12
  fuck you were doing the last time you were playing.
• 39:15
  Yeah, but this game is beautiful.
• 39:18
  It is amazing in so many ways that make no fucking sense
• 39:24
  coming from a team that has like 4 fucking people.
• 39:27
  I adore this game. I adore everything that they're
• 39:32
  doing in it. The the unwritten stories that
• 39:36
  they tell without having heavy narrative necessarily around.
• 39:40
  It's crazy. It's.
• 39:42
  It's. Insane what they are have been
• 39:44
  able to accomplish. They were able to take a beloved
• 39:49
  game like Hollow night, expand upon it and make it better than
• 39:54
  what people were even expecting. Like we always talk about I I, I
• 39:58
  jab you all the time about half life 3 not being able to live up
• 40:01
  to expectation. This game got delayed so many
• 40:04
  fucking times or not even delayed necessarily.
• 40:07
  It's like just. Up in the air as to when it
• 40:09
  would come out. And then they go, hey, by the
• 40:12
  way, it's coming out in a week and everybody lost their
• 40:14
  collective. That's what Valve.
• 40:16
  Is going to stop. Yeah.
• 40:18
  Go on, I, I for. Your sake.
• 40:19
  I hope it does happen. All right.
• 40:21
  I'm feeling generous tonight. I'm on your side.
• 40:24
  The whiskey. Yeah.
• 40:26
  But Silk Song came in and did what it was supposed to do.
• 40:34
  It did it in a way that actually captured me where Hollow Knight
• 40:38
  did not. And I loved playing through this
• 40:41
  game even every time I fucking died and had to run for a God
• 40:45
  damn mile and a half to get back to where I was because they put
• 40:49
  they put all those benches in places that are very precarious
• 40:52
  to get strategic. I hate it.
• 40:56
  Yes, it it is. It is like one of the highest,
• 41:02
  like how do I want to say it is one of my most hated and loved
• 41:07
  games all at the same time. A simple fucking battle can just
• 41:13
  absolutely kick your ass in a heartbeat.
• 41:17
  They can take a couple enemies you've killed 1000 times and
• 41:20
  throw three of them into a room and all of a sudden hell has
• 41:23
  opened up and you have arms reaching up and grabbing you,
• 41:27
  pulling you fucking down. Like this game is just wild it.
• 41:32
  Is. I I love the art style, I love
• 41:35
  everything they're doing their everything.
• 41:37
  So doom and gloom does black, grey, white and then your
• 41:41
  character has this red Cape and you stand out like a sore thumb
• 41:44
  and and just. It's such a.
• 41:49
  Phenomenal game that I don't know when I'm going to build the
• 41:53
  courage to go back to. That's why it's. #3 that's.
• 42:00
  And. That that's not why it's smack
• 42:03
  dab in the middle of my list here, right?
• 42:05
  It it's not because of the difficulty.
• 42:07
  It's not because I didn't get enough time into it necessarily.
• 42:10
  It is more so just because the other two games stand in a
• 42:16
  completely different sphere for me and really hit home.
• 42:20
  That's not to downplay what Silk Song has done, what Team Cherry
• 42:24
  has done with Silk Song. This game is truly a a a fucking
• 42:29
  masterpiece and they should be so proud of what they've done
• 42:32
  here and holy shit. And it's what $30?
• 42:38
  It's 30 fucking dollars and it's.
• 42:42
  And it's. Across the board, whatever, you
• 42:47
  know, channel, podcast, whatever, you listen to it.
• 42:50
  Maybe like this song or Silk song will appear in their list
• 42:55
  somewhere. Like it's in everyone's list for
• 42:58
  a reason. Because it is an incredible
• 43:00
  game. Yeah, I don't.
• 43:03
  I don't know what else to say about it other than go play this
• 43:07
  fucking game. If you haven't, you should.
• 43:10
  Everyone should play this game fucking good.
• 43:15
  Go ahead, guess my #3 dispatch. Nope, Silk.
• 43:20
  Song. Nope.
• 43:23
  Oh shit. OK, well, I don't know.
• 43:26
  Then Dune awakening Oh. Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed
• 43:32
  that. Yeah.
• 43:34
  So dude. Awakening captured Noah and
• 43:36
  myself. We're really big in the Dune,
• 43:39
  right? We're we're the Dune guys.
• 43:41
  I know Evan likes Dune too, but like Noah and I are also like
• 43:43
  the, in the books Dune. Guys, this game is Dune through
• 43:50
  and through. I loved it.
• 43:51
  I, I, I, it's up here because of how good they treated the world
• 43:56
  and how much fun I had within the world, even if I didn't stay
• 43:58
  as long as I wanted to. I feel like this game's bones
• 44:02
  and what they're doing is so awesome with that universe.
• 44:07
  And I think if you're a Dune fan, this is your game.
• 44:11
  I love my time in this game. I love playing with everybody I
• 44:14
  got to play with, especially Noah.
• 44:17
  We had a blast in this game. Ethan had a blast in this game.
• 44:20
  Building your bases and really learning a Rackus was amazing.
• 44:24
  I never thought I'd be able to experience a Rackus like that.
• 44:28
  Now, this game has its downsides.
• 44:30
  It's, it is a multiplayer online all the time game and you are If
• 44:35
  you don't like Rust, if you don't like Daisy, if you don't
• 44:39
  like anything like that, this is not your game, because the
• 44:43
  elements will destroy your shit if you're not logged in
• 44:47
  constantly like my base that I spent hours building with Noah,
• 44:52
  it's gone. I've logged in fucking.
• 44:55
  Hate that it's. Gone.
• 44:56
  You have to pay taxes in the game.
• 44:59
  Like it's. It is about the politics of a
• 45:03
  rakus, and that's just what it is, right?
• 45:08
  So dude, Awakening is up here and it wasn't a modern marvel.
• 45:14
  It wasn't a masterpiece, but it was something that I needed in
• 45:17
  my life at that point in time to really get kick start, kick my
• 45:22
  ass into gear for gaming. Because I hit these lulls
• 45:25
  throughout the year where it's like, I'll play games like
• 45:27
  Indiana Jones or whatever and I'll go through them and I'll
• 45:31
  play them and I'm done. I'm like, what do I play now?
• 45:34
  I well, I have all these games, right?
• 45:36
  Dude was on those games where it's like when World of Warcraft
• 45:39
  came out and I was playing Wow. It's what I was doing.
• 45:43
  That was my entire life. I was a wild player.
• 45:45
  Play all right, that's what I do.
• 45:47
  I couldn't tell you the thing about Wow now, because other
• 45:49
  things came out and I just stopped playing Wow.
• 45:52
  Luckily I stopped playing Wow, but do an Awakening game, that
• 45:57
  feeling again. And there's also there's no
• 45:59
  subscription fee. It's just a good fucking time,
• 46:02
  like. If.
• 46:04
  You like Frank Herbert's World of Arakis and Dune, and you want
• 46:08
  to play something in that universe.
• 46:11
  This is your game. Absolutely.
• 46:14
  Oh yeah, we're old man by man. Sorry.
• 46:17
  Yeah, dude, I was trying. To hide it. #3 did.
• 46:20
  Someone buy me something on steam no.
• 46:23
  I mean, I get steam. Notifications.
• 46:24
  I thought someone bombed me. Thank goodness you're here.
• 46:26
  I'm like, why? I watched Brody play all of
• 46:28
  that. I don't need.
• 46:30
  To play it, I liked it. Well, yeah.
• 46:34
  Damn. Yeah, I honestly did not expect
• 46:37
  that to sneak into your top five.
• 46:39
  I know you obviously you are a huge.
• 46:43
  Dune. Fan but I didn't I didn't know
• 46:48
  because I hadn't seen you play it for a little bit.
• 46:49
  So I was like, he fell off of it.
• 46:51
  Maybe it's, you know, recency bias type of thing.
• 46:54
  Maybe it'll fall off, but fair enough.
• 46:57
  It's just those. Moments I had with Noah, dude,
• 46:58
  that I'll never get from another game unless it's something like
• 47:02
  that. Yeah.
• 47:02
  Like those moments with, like, everybody you play, I play with.
• 47:05
  Like I've said though, especially Noah, like they were
• 47:08
  just like, incredible. Evan, too.
• 47:09
  Evan played. They were just incredible
• 47:11
  moments, dude. Running away from Shihalud.
• 47:14
  Is. Insane dude.
• 47:16
  Yeah, that's. Crazy.
• 47:17
  I we had talked about it quite a bit before it came out and I
• 47:23
  explicitly said this is not a me game.
• 47:26
  Like they start talking about, oh, you got to, you know, watch
• 47:29
  your water intake and you know, all of this shit, like all of
• 47:33
  the survival aspects. I'm out.
• 47:35
  I'm so fucking out. Can't be in.
• 47:38
  The sun, you have to stay to the shadows.
• 47:40
  You're in a steel suit and then that steel suit and get upgraded
• 47:42
  so that it's a lot. It's a lot it's.
• 47:46
  So far beyond my scope of what I do when I get Manage a party?
• 47:51
  Absolutely. Manage a whole fucking army?
• 47:54
  Sure, why not? Have to worry about eating and
• 47:56
  drinking? I'm out a singular.
• 47:58
  Person, are you serious? You got to take a dump too.
• 48:00
  Fucking kidding. This is work.
• 48:03
  I just got off. I do that for.
• 48:04
  Myself, I do that for my children.
• 48:06
  I'm good. I'm.
• 48:08
  Done. Oh fuck no, that's awesome.
• 48:11
  I I am glad that you enjoyed that game as much as you hoped
• 48:14
  you would like I. That's.
• 48:17
  I I was hoping it would live up to the expectations that you had
• 48:20
  there for sure. It did.
• 48:23
  And had it not, you would have known that would have been
• 48:26
  pretty I I get depressed really easy over video games.
• 48:28
  I'm like a chilla dude. I'm so sad.
• 48:31
  I think I'm getting congested. Live on the show.
• 48:33
  So if I have a fever or the flu tomorrow, that's gonna be so
• 48:36
  cool. That's.
• 48:37
  Yeah, that's really neat #2 Dispatch.
• 48:43
  Yeah, fuck yeah. You already know what my #1 is,
• 48:51
  so it's you don't have to do that now.
• 48:54
  But yes, dispatch don't do it. Don't do it.
• 48:57
  Don't. Ruin the surprise for anyone
• 48:59
  that doesn't know me, but Dispatch is absolutely my #2
• 49:06
  this game is fucking special to me.
• 49:10
  I am not the typical fan of these kinds of games.
• 49:16
  I am not the one who wants to sit down and play a a story
• 49:21
  based game with QuickTime events and and kind of go through that
• 49:24
  whole rigmarole. But this one hit, I don't know,
• 49:31
  I don't know what it was about it necessarily.
• 49:34
  It's like an amalgamation of so many different things, right?
• 49:37
  That that tale, the tell tale formula, but flipped and turned
• 49:44
  and just just the right way. And it's not just because it's
• 49:48
  superheroes, right? Like, yes, I am a huge Marvel
• 49:50
  fan. I'm a huge like superhero guy.
• 49:53
  Sure, I get it. But.
• 49:55
  If this was. Something else I still would
• 49:57
  have been into it like if this game was.
• 50:01
  I don't know. Fucking wolf among us too.
• 50:06
  Yeah, right. Like if if it was something else
• 50:09
  that Telltale had done before, if it was fucking Batman, I
• 50:12
  guess it's still superheroes. Fuck, if it was Borderlands,
• 50:15
  right? But I had these same mechanics
• 50:17
  and things like it, it still would have hit for me.
• 50:19
  I think the biggest thing is they they knocked.
• 50:23
  All of these. Characters out of the park.
• 50:26
  Like yeah, slight spoilers for Dispatch, but Chase's whole keep
• 50:33
  up thing like fucking who? Oh my God.
• 50:37
  Like that shit hit. It's a cry fest.
• 50:39
  Dude, oh it. Hurt, it hurt.
• 50:41
  I felt that shit man. Dispatch though God, now I'm
• 50:46
  losing my fucking voice. Dispatches, I know both of us
• 50:51
  are like fucking falling apart. They they captured all of these
• 50:56
  characters in such a way that you feel connected to them.
• 50:59
  You feel connected to Robert, the main character that you are
• 51:03
  playing as you I I'm normally not the guy who loves when they
• 51:09
  get like celebrities or streamers or things into games
• 51:13
  because it feels. Icky.
• 51:17
  Like gimmicky. As well.
• 51:19
  Yeah, yeah. Like typically it's like, OK, I
• 51:22
  don't, I don't particularly care.
• 51:24
  Like I think the best case is like, you know, Cyberpunk with
• 51:28
  Keanu. Like, that worked out
• 51:31
  exceptionally well. I enjoyed that a lot.
• 51:32
  But in this case, Aaron Paul fucking kills it.
• 51:37
  As Robert. Yeah, he's so.
• 51:39
  Fucking good and all of the streamers that they brought in
• 51:44
  fucking kill it, like who would have thought?
• 51:48
  Yeah. Who would have thought Young
• 51:49
  Gravy would be good in a video game?
• 51:51
  Fucking kills it. He's my boy like.
• 51:55
  My dude, fucking Alana Pierce did great.
• 51:59
  Moist Critical did fucking great.
• 52:01
  Like all of these people did a exceptional job.
• 52:06
  It was moist, right? Moist was yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 52:11
  And fucking the the Irish guy Jacksepticeye.
• 52:17
  Thank you. Jacksepticeye did a good job in
• 52:22
  this, right? Like fuck, everyone killed it at
• 52:26
  what they were doing here, which could have easily been a huge
• 52:30
  mess. Bringing in streamers could have
• 52:32
  been the the biggest miss in the world.
• 52:35
  And that to me speaks volumes about the the directors on this
• 52:40
  game who were telling them, hey, do a little bit more of this or
• 52:44
  this and that, right? Like leading them in the right
• 52:46
  direction, The story itself. Can.
• 52:52
  Be a touch cliche at times right where it is that that trope of
• 52:57
  like the superheroes in this situation, or this guy's the
• 53:00
  fucking hot head or whatever it may be, but the way they draw it
• 53:04
  all together and bring it all together in one collective
• 53:07
  package is so good. Like works to its advantage.
• 53:11
  It it. Does like the the tropiness of
• 53:14
  it? Actually seems to.
• 53:16
  Help it in a way that I would have never expected, right?
• 53:19
  And even then, like these stories.
• 53:21
  In a comic book, yeah. And it's still refreshing here.
• 53:24
  It's like how? To do that, it's it's taking. 60
• 53:30
  years of comics, 7080 years of comics and putting them into
• 53:34
  like 1 collective story where you're like I've seen that
• 53:37
  before, but for some reason I still like was hoping that
• 53:41
  wasn't what happened. But also the fact that it
• 53:43
  happened was so good and it, it works so well and it doesn't
• 53:46
  make any fucking sense why, but it did.
• 53:50
  The the gameplay itself, while on its surface is simple, right?
• 53:57
  And you know, everybody kind of really dove into all your
• 54:01
  choices matter. And they do to some extent,
• 54:03
  right? There's there's certain things
• 54:05
  that like obviously aren't going to affect certain outcomes,
• 54:09
  right? But that that illusion of choice
• 54:12
  as you go through it is so good. And they do enough things that
• 54:16
  do change that it it works and you, it keeps you believing
• 54:21
  until the very end that every single little thing that you
• 54:24
  have done has led to this point, even if like some of the smaller
• 54:28
  things don't matter. It's more so your larger
• 54:31
  experiences. But even the small things do
• 54:34
  kind of play into it because it'll affect your dispatch,
• 54:37
  dispatch missions. Sorry, no, just can't talk.
• 54:46
  But even the damn it, I'm sorry, but even the dispatch missions
• 54:53
  themselves, for some reason that combination of 2 words does not
• 54:56
  work in my mouth. Dispatch.
• 54:58
  Mission, yeah. Even the the Dispatch mini game,
• 55:03
  you did it again. Why would you try it?
• 55:05
  That's fine, I changed. It just a little bit and it
• 55:07
  almost pissed. Me off.
• 55:08
  I was like, why do it again? Like, why don't you even do that
• 55:12
  that? Mini game in and of itself is so
• 55:16
  much fun and it's so cool to see your team synergies working
• 55:20
  together or against itself in some way, shape or form.
• 55:25
  It it that I I would play a whole game that is nothing but
• 55:28
  dispatching, so I want it 11 that.
• 55:31
  Every day, every Tuesday or Wednesday after Thursday,
• 55:35
  because it would come out Wednesday, right?
• 55:38
  Yeah, I believe. So OK, so Thursday.
• 55:40
  At work I'd be like, I just give me a stand alone of that.
• 55:44
  Oh, it was so good. And and this amounts of just
• 55:47
  the. Dispatching let me pick from a
• 55:49
  roster or depending on how good I do, like let me get better or
• 55:52
  worse heroes like Yeah. If I kill a hero, I.
• 55:55
  Get a worse hero and like like just.
• 55:58
  We have. Ideas.
• 55:58
  I just give me more of that, oddly.
• 56:01
  Enough a game that I have actually been playing a lot of
• 56:03
  is kind of in that same vein. It's called Unicorn Overlord and
• 56:07
  you literally are like creating a group of people and then you
• 56:11
  send them into combat like you're you're controlling like a
• 56:16
  whole army. It's actually really kind of
• 56:18
  cool. But anyway, it it it's as close
• 56:22
  to that as I have like really seen in a meaningful way, even
• 56:26
  though entirely different still. But man, I the the the hacking
• 56:32
  mini game itself is also very fun.
• 56:35
  It's so good. It's so good.
• 56:37
  It has no. Reason to be this good?
• 56:39
  The the QuickTime events are mostly good.
• 56:43
  I had a couple problems with some of them, but even then it's
• 56:46
  like whatever like it was, there's a input.
• 56:48
  Lag here and I was like really like fuck me like that I.
• 56:52
  Love the combination of seriousness and humor that they
• 56:56
  have here. It's not the there's a touch of
• 56:59
  that like humor that people are starting to get sick of, but
• 57:03
  like the. Deadpool, yeah, but it's.
• 57:06
  Done in a way that I think actually works here.
• 57:10
  I know some people were kind of up in arms about the, like,
• 57:13
  workplace humor, the, like, jokingness.
• 57:16
  And I'm like, listen, that happens.
• 57:19
  That is very much a real thing. Yeah, dude.
• 57:23
  It. Made it feel real.
• 57:24
  It made it feel like a a person going into their job with people
• 57:28
  that they kind of despise at the beginning and then at the end
• 57:31
  they like, hey man, we're we're here together, go and grab a
• 57:35
  beer. After work, I guess I'll see you
• 57:37
  there. Yeah, absolutely.
• 57:39
  The the the final scenes of it, I won't spoil it in case you
• 57:42
  have not played this game, but like how it all comes together
• 57:46
  works very well and does tie into what you have decided
• 57:50
  across the course of this entire thing.
• 57:53
  But I, I mean like picking one moment from this game that this
• 57:58
  this game has so many of those one moments here and one moment
• 58:01
  here. There's always like at least one
• 58:04
  or two moments in each episode that you can look back at and be
• 58:07
  like, that was fucking incredible.
• 58:08
  That was so well written. It works so well for what it was
• 58:12
  trying to do. But I mean, the the chase scene
• 58:16
  with the the keep up was that's too much.
• 58:18
  It's it's. The perfect fucking scene that
• 58:22
  everyone could see coming from a mile away and it was still like
• 58:25
  what the fuck? Like why?
• 58:27
  Everyone knew it was going to happen, but when it happens, it
• 58:30
  still happens in such a way that it's just fucking heartbreaking.
• 58:35
  And on top of that, there's like a little thing I didn't even
• 58:40
  realize at first, but he doesn't even go directly there.
• 58:44
  He knows it's his last time running and he takes the long
• 58:47
  way. You're like, fuck, goes around
• 58:50
  the block a couple times. You're like, God damn it, man.
• 58:53
  Like what the fuck? It's so good, so good.
• 58:57
  I adore this game. I don't know how you follow it
• 59:02
  up with a Dispatch 2. I hope they do.
• 59:05
  I hope they find a way to do this story or do something in
• 59:10
  the same world or or something at least comparable.
• 59:14
  I would watch this on. TV.
• 59:16
  Oh, it yeah. Yeah, it would have made an.
• 59:18
  Excellent show, but playing it, I was invested.
• 59:21
  I was, I was fucking Robert man. Like I was there so good.
• 59:26
  But yeah, this is, this is a solid 2.
• 59:30
  And if #1 wasn't the game, it was this.
• 59:33
  This very well could have been my #1.
• 59:36
  I will say release all the sex scenes.
• 59:42
  Fucking. Power watch them, yeah.
• 59:45
  Yeah. I it, it's somewhere, you know
• 59:48
  it. Somewhere they I think.
• 59:50
  They're waiting. There's a director's cut.
• 59:53
  Release this Release the dispatch cutscenes I.
• 59:56
  I, I will say like even all of that was tasteful in a way,
• 1:00:03
  right? Like it not, it wasn't
• 1:00:04
  egregious. It wasn't sex for the sake of
• 1:00:07
  sex. Like, no, it made sense based on
• 1:00:09
  what was happening in the world, in the game, in the situation.
• 1:00:13
  Like it wasn't it wasn't. It wasn't Baldur's Gate where
• 1:00:19
  you can have sex with a bear just because.
• 1:00:20
  Why the fuck not? Why wouldn't you?
• 1:00:23
  No shot at Baldur's Gate by any means.
• 1:00:25
  Because I fucking adore that game as well.
• 1:00:27
  It was everyone's game of the. Year a couple years ago, yeah,
• 1:00:29
  that, that. Game fully like jumped into my
• 1:00:32
  top five without ever even like all of the games I have so much
• 1:00:36
  nostalgia for. Meh, I'm.
• 1:00:38
  Going to play through, right? Now with BG3 and I got the Duke
• 1:00:43
  out of the I-1 flown. What do you think of that?
• 1:00:46
  Oh. Look at you, I got 7.
• 1:00:49
  Gaudians out too, but. Yeah, you know, I as somebody
• 1:00:53
  who played a lot of Stellar Blade, which didn't have sex
• 1:00:55
  scenes but had obviously a lot of damn near.
• 1:00:59
  A lot of. Things happening.
• 1:01:02
  I I feel like this was tastefully done.
• 1:01:05
  Yeah, yeah. One of the episodes fully starts
• 1:01:08
  with something a masturbation. Scene, Yeah.
• 1:01:12
  An. Imagination scene that you're
• 1:01:14
  like Nah. OK.
• 1:01:17
  But somehow it still worked. Like it didn't feel, it didn't.
• 1:01:23
  Detract. From anything it it did.
• 1:01:24
  Not. This game's a fucking
• 1:01:27
  masterpiece. I need to apply.
• 1:01:28
  After that, walk away. From it, but that's.
• 1:01:31
  Fine, I am so. Excited to see what this team
• 1:01:33
  does going forward and how they continue to elaborate on what
• 1:01:38
  this game is and what this formula is.
• 1:01:40
  A formula that was tired and old, given, you know, Telltale
• 1:01:45
  fucking died and then kind of came back and then died again.
• 1:01:51
  Dead again. I don't know, because where's
• 1:01:53
  the wolf? Among us too.
• 1:01:55
  I don't know. OK, I'd like the first.
• 1:01:59
  Game. Me and Perry played that
• 1:02:01
  together. I'm pissed.
• 1:02:02
  I. Never I.
• 1:02:03
  Never played it I I remember trying to get into these and I
• 1:02:07
  just like could not like it was just not my jam.
• 1:02:10
  Play the wolf among. Us I'll I'll give.
• 1:02:12
  It a go, I'll give it a go. Surely you can pick that up for
• 1:02:15
  like fucking $0.99 I I probably own it on like 6 different
• 1:02:19
  platforms that just don't even know it at this point but
• 1:02:22
  absolutely do. If if this.
• 1:02:24
  Is the future of what this kind of game is?
• 1:02:27
  I'm fucking here for it man. Like this was, I like the
• 1:02:30
  episodic. Release so good too.
• 1:02:31
  I I. It was something I shit on
• 1:02:33
  initially and I was like, I'm going to wait.
• 1:02:35
  And then everybody kept talking. I was like, listen, I'm going to
• 1:02:38
  pick it up like a week or two early and I'm going to start
• 1:02:41
  working through it and it'll work out.
• 1:02:43
  By the time I get through it all, it'll be here and we'll be
• 1:02:46
  good. And I'm so glad that I did.
• 1:02:49
  But man, I can see how some of those episodes ending where they
• 1:02:52
  ended, Oh my God, that that would have been the longest week
• 1:02:56
  of my life. But it felt.
• 1:02:58
  Like going to your local comic shop on a Wednesday.
• 1:03:01
  Like, that's the other cool part.
• 1:03:02
  Like it leans into what it is. It's a comic book that you can
• 1:03:05
  play. And I loved every second of it.
• 1:03:08
  Good fucking choice, dude. Hell yeah, your turn.
• 1:03:13
  Oh, I got to. Guess so I I I'm it might be
• 1:03:24
  tough. I'm going to say your. #2 is
• 1:03:26
  doom. No, really.
• 1:03:30
  Really, really, really. OK, well.
• 1:03:33
  Then I would have guessed that your number 2 is fuck, I don't
• 1:03:39
  know. I don't know.
• 1:03:40
  I I already made my guess. I I I guess the song.
• 1:03:44
  OK. Yeah.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, Silk. Song for every reason, Brody
• 1:03:48
  stated. I guess I'll just elaborate a
• 1:03:49
  little bit further from my end. I found this game to be
• 1:03:53
  incredibly beautiful. It was a game I needed at that
• 1:03:57
  moment to kind of break up the monotony everything I was
• 1:04:00
  playing. This game killed every online
• 1:04:04
  marketplace. And I.
• 1:04:07
  See. And I went home and I said I'm
• 1:04:10
  going to play the game that killed every online marketplace.
• 1:04:13
  I did not play Hollow Knight. I am getting sick live on the
• 1:04:17
  show. Holy fuck.
• 1:04:19
  I did not play. Hollow Knight, but I played the
• 1:04:22
  fuck out of Silk Song and I still want to go back and play
• 1:04:25
  more of that. I want to learn more about this,
• 1:04:28
  this world that we're in. I loved finding new equipment
• 1:04:33
  and finding new ways to traverse and finding new ways to find
• 1:04:37
  puzzles and like exploring and helping the other bugs and
• 1:04:42
  getting my fucking beads and all of that.
• 1:04:45
  I love this fucking game so much.
• 1:04:48
  I found it to be incredibly enjoyable.
• 1:04:51
  It was incredibly fun. Frustrating, but in a good way
• 1:04:57
  at times. Not every.
• 1:04:58
  Just because it's good doesn't mean it's perfect.
• 1:05:00
  I don't think everything about this game is perfect.
• 1:05:03
  I think there are frustration points for the sake of being
• 1:05:07
  frustrating at times, and that's fine, it happens.
• 1:05:11
  But Brody hit it on the head as well with Silk Song.
• 1:05:15
  This game is just it's just beautiful.
• 1:05:17
  It's 30 fucking dollars. You're you're you're taking no
• 1:05:21
  loss playing this game. Just learn how to.
• 1:05:23
  If you've never played a Metroidvania, learn here.
• 1:05:26
  It's difficult, but man, you'll kill every other game that comes
• 1:05:29
  out. And it's just.
• 1:05:32
  Amazing. This game tells its own story
• 1:05:33
  without having to even really speak to you.
• 1:05:36
  It's it's, it's, it's incredible.
• 1:05:38
  And the art style, the music God, I I could, I could just
• 1:05:42
  drone. I could fucking drone.
• 1:05:44
  Go play silksong. And again, it killed every
• 1:05:47
  online platform. Why would you not want to try
• 1:05:49
  this game? Yeah.
• 1:05:51
  It killed Steam, so yeah, it killed Steam.
• 1:05:53
  Which is crazy. Because that never happens.
• 1:05:56
  It's Steam. They go down when they have to
• 1:05:58
  update, yeah. What is it?
• 1:06:01
  Tuesdays. Tuesdays.
• 1:06:03
  Yes, all. Right.
• 1:06:06
  Well, Silksong, I'm. Not.
• 1:06:07
  I'm not going to. Guess I'm not going to guess
• 1:06:09
  you're #1 why you don't? Know you don't know I know it I
• 1:06:12
  want. You to be able to say.
• 1:06:13
  It because I know you're excited.
• 1:06:14
  To say what your number 1 is. Everyone knows what my number
• 1:06:18
  one is. Anyone who has ever heard me
• 1:06:21
  talk about any games in any point in time across various
• 1:06:25
  different podcasts knows what the fuck my number one is.
• 1:06:29
  Clear, obscure, Expedition 30s Very.
• 1:06:32
  Good, Brody I. Don't even know where to start
• 1:06:37
  with this game. I.
• 1:06:41
  I remember. Seeing this game for the first
• 1:06:43
  time and it was a trailer at Summer Games Fest during the
• 1:06:48
  Xbox present. I guess technically not part of
• 1:06:51
  Summer Games Fest, whatever, however it works out.
• 1:06:54
  It was a couple years ago at Summer Games Fest during the
• 1:06:58
  Xbox keynote presentation thing. And.
• 1:07:04
  I remember being like hey that looks fucking cool, like it's
• 1:07:08
  turn based, something I enjoy, but it also looks more involved.
• 1:07:12
  And then we start to hear more and more about it, and I get
• 1:07:14
  more and more excited about it. But I also.
• 1:07:18
  Remember being very concerned, right?
• 1:07:20
  Like it's, it's just one of those things that anytime I get
• 1:07:23
  excited for a game, there's that that that voice in the back of
• 1:07:26
  my head being like, hey, what if it sucks?
• 1:07:31
  You're like, damn it, yeah, what if it sucks?
• 1:07:35
  I am happy. To report that this game does
• 1:07:38
  not suck, I in case you did not watch the game, if you did not
• 1:07:43
  watch the game of the year awards where it won like fucking
• 1:07:47
  12 awards or 11 awards or whatever it was, it was a lot.
• 1:07:51
  Turns out a. Lot of people like this game and
• 1:07:54
  what's crazy about that is a lot of people don't like turn based
• 1:07:57
  games and this game is a turn based fucking game.
• 1:08:01
  But it has taken that, that that sort of formula that, that, that
• 1:08:06
  I adore because I grew up playing a lot of these turn
• 1:08:09
  based games, the the old Final Fantasies and things of that
• 1:08:12
  nature and made it more involved, made it to where
• 1:08:18
  people who don't play turn based games can still enjoy the, the
• 1:08:22
  combat and the, the strategy that goes into a turn based
• 1:08:27
  game. I.
• 1:08:29
  Fucking love every single thing about this game, AI fucking
• 1:08:36
  newspapers be damned. I really don't fucking care at
• 1:08:38
  this point. You forgot to take out the
• 1:08:42
  placeholders. I'm not going to crucify you for
• 1:08:44
  it because. Yeah, that's what it.
• 1:08:47
  Was that was what the whole AI stink was about This game was
• 1:08:50
  that they forgot to take out placeholders and they patched
• 1:08:53
  them out within like a few days and people were still.
• 1:08:56
  It's fucking crazy. Anyhow, what a time to be alive.
• 1:09:03
  From the very. First moment of this game.
• 1:09:06
  It tells. You exactly what the fuck it is.
• 1:09:10
  It is a depressing ass ride through the most.
• 1:09:15
  Like. Horrific.
• 1:09:18
  Events. That you could ever.
• 1:09:20
  Ever. See in a game or and I guess I
• 1:09:23
  take that back, but that that might be a stretch too.
• 1:09:28
  Far. It's incredibly sad.
• 1:09:29
  It is so. Fucking.
• 1:09:31
  Sad every. Every.
• 1:09:34
  Time something new happens in this game that is just
• 1:09:38
  depressing as fuck. I was still.
• 1:09:42
  Shocked I was still taken back. I remember talking to Steve as I
• 1:09:46
  went through this game because he had the time to power through
• 1:09:49
  it a little bit quicker than I did.
• 1:09:51
  And we would talk about moments of this game where you're like,
• 1:09:55
  what the actual fuck? Like the initial part of this
• 1:09:59
  game, you were literally going to meet the love of your life to
• 1:10:03
  watch. Watch her get turned into rose
• 1:10:07
  petals that fly across the sea. Banos.
• 1:10:10
  Instantly, yeah. So I'm not going to.
• 1:10:15
  Go through the premise of this game or anything of that nature,
• 1:10:18
  but the the second thing you see in this game you land on a beach
• 1:10:24
  and everyone that you just met prior to this is now dead.
• 1:10:29
  Yes, almost. Everyone, I guess, just brutally
• 1:10:33
  fucking murdered on this beach and you're like, holy fucking
• 1:10:39
  shit. It, it does not pull its
• 1:10:41
  punches. It, it goes for what it is
• 1:10:44
  trying to go for and it does it so exceptionally well.
• 1:10:47
  The, the, the story overall is, I think, beautiful.
• 1:10:53
  It tells the story of tragedy and and dealing with grief.
• 1:10:57
  And there's a decision that you make at the end that I will not
• 1:11:02
  spoil because I anyone who is playing through this game
• 1:11:06
  deserves that moment, deserves to to feel that holy shit moment
• 1:11:12
  at the end of it. But you're presented with a
• 1:11:18
  decision, a decision that has no upside.
• 1:11:23
  And I think it's. The.
• 1:11:25
  Perfect. Into a game like this, both,
• 1:11:28
  both decisions feel bad in some way shape or form.
• 1:11:36
  Like there's pros and cons to either of them right?
• 1:11:40
  But they at the end of the day, regardless of what you choose,
• 1:11:45
  you're going to sit here staring at your screen going fuck like
• 1:11:51
  fuck. And it's the only decision in
• 1:11:56
  the game. It's the only time you were
• 1:11:59
  presented with a decision. And it is.
• 1:12:03
  The most lose lose situation I have ever seen in a video game
• 1:12:09
  to to to put the bow on it of like Oh my God we're French.
• 1:12:16
  Yeah. Right the the end of Act 1 is
• 1:12:20
  horrifying in a way that I just like I have to play.
• 1:12:24
  This I I have you do. You do you absolutely feel like
• 1:12:28
  I. Feel like this would be like how
• 1:12:30
  I felt about Death Strand and when I first saw it I went.
• 1:12:35
  I, I, I play, I want you to. Experience this I I I truly do.
• 1:12:41
  Evan needs to finish this fucking game.
• 1:12:43
  He's he's a couple hours from the end, if he even and he still
• 1:12:47
  has not finished it. I'm going to call him out as
• 1:12:49
  soon as we jump over there. Yeah, like this is his shit, I
• 1:12:54
  said. I'm well, he is too.
• 1:12:56
  It's fine. He's a movie douche.
• 1:12:57
  I'm an art douche. I was going to say.
• 1:12:59
  He's the movie douche. He this should be his shit but
• 1:13:03
  my God it just. The the boss.
• 1:13:06
  Mechanics in this game the the side stories, the way you
• 1:13:10
  interact with all of the different party members, the way
• 1:13:13
  you interact with other people in this world is just it's.
• 1:13:17
  So. Wild for a game where you know,
• 1:13:22
  normally in a JRPG you get the tropes, you get the fucking
• 1:13:25
  mage, you get the fucking wizard, you get the fucking
• 1:13:28
  fighter, whatever barbarian, whatever it may be.
• 1:13:31
  And you're like, yeah, we know what the fuck they are.
• 1:13:33
  The Barbarians angry, the Wizards are stuck up asshole,
• 1:13:36
  the fucking clerics. This goody 2 shoes this game is.
• 1:13:40
  Yeah, like this game? Is not that they don't lean into
• 1:13:43
  those tropes, Whereas, you know, we were just talking about
• 1:13:45
  dispatch where the tropes worked in its favor.
• 1:13:48
  The fact that they did not lean into any of these tropes in this
• 1:13:51
  is amazing. All of the characters are.
• 1:13:56
  They feel very real. They all have this like
• 1:13:59
  horrifying past of watching everyone they've interacted with
• 1:14:02
  disappear. It's.
• 1:14:08
  It's. Tragic it's it's one of the best
• 1:14:11
  stories I feel like I have ever played in a video game in I
• 1:14:16
  think in ever right like yeah in the entirety of me playing video
• 1:14:21
  games. This is the story that will
• 1:14:24
  stick with me for as long as I continue to play video games.
• 1:14:28
  Like it is truly that good and. All of the.
• 1:14:34
  Other gameplay stuff is just the cherry on top.
• 1:14:37
  Right. Like if I experienced this story
• 1:14:39
  as a movie, I'd be like, that was a fucking, which you will
• 1:14:42
  be. Fred a movie.
• 1:14:43
  Yeah, right. I, it was an incredible movie,
• 1:14:45
  which I hope they don't do the same story.
• 1:14:47
  I want something new, right? Like do do somebody else's
• 1:14:50
  story. But everything here is so
• 1:14:55
  fucking good as a story itself. And then you add in top tier
• 1:15:01
  fucking turn based combat where you can completely negate an
• 1:15:06
  entire bombage or barrage of enemy onslaught by just dodging
• 1:15:12
  or pairing and it keeps you engaged.
• 1:15:15
  It keeps you involved, It keeps you.
• 1:15:17
  And you have to for certain bosses, right?
• 1:15:19
  Like certain bosses it's like you have to parry him like 1000
• 1:15:24
  fucking times right? Like not not literally.
• 1:15:27
  I mean I there there was a story recently where some guy beat the
• 1:15:31
  hardest boss in the optional boss in the game by literally
• 1:15:36
  just. Dodging and.
• 1:15:38
  Parrying like it was like 1000 and something odd times in her
• 1:15:42
  bro it's fucking you're. Gonna give me a fucking aneurysm
• 1:15:44
  thinking about that. Yeah, I was like.
• 1:15:46
  I no, I'm good. I I can't do that, but at the
• 1:15:50
  end of the game, before you go on to the final area, it opens
• 1:15:54
  up a bunch of side content where you can go and level up.
• 1:15:58
  And some people were complaining about, Hey, the that makes the
• 1:16:02
  final boss too easy. There's ways around that.
• 1:16:05
  There's there's literally an option.
• 1:16:09
  An. Item you get later or at some
• 1:16:11
  point in the game that takes a certain amount of damage cap off
• 1:16:17
  and you have to equip that item in order to do that so you have
• 1:16:21
  the option to handicap yourself if you want like it's it's crazy
• 1:16:27
  it's. A beautiful.
• 1:16:27
  Way to like just be able to make the game harder for someone if
• 1:16:32
  they wanted. People to finish the story.
• 1:16:34
  That's cool, because like they're giving Bill the option,
• 1:16:36
  like, hey, this is going to be hard.
• 1:16:37
  Why don't you go do this for like a while?
• 1:16:40
  Yeah, come back, beat his ass. It's going to still be hard, but
• 1:16:44
  you could beat his ass. Yeah, or there.
• 1:16:46
  I don't know. I don't know what it is.
• 1:16:48
  Yeah. So the.
• 1:16:49
  But that's cool. If you go and.
• 1:16:51
  Do a lot of the side can't or side content.
• 1:16:53
  The the final boss is pretty trivial, right?
• 1:16:56
  Like it's not a huge deal, but I don't think, I don't think it
• 1:17:01
  needed to be hard because that's not the major impact that you're
• 1:17:05
  looking for at that point. The major impact comes from the
• 1:17:08
  the story that you get from it. But I, I did a bunch of the side
• 1:17:14
  content and then I went into the the final area because it opens
• 1:17:19
  you up immediately and but it tells you exactly where to go if
• 1:17:22
  you want to go straight to the story content, which is great.
• 1:17:25
  And you can go do that. And then you can get to the
• 1:17:28
  final boss, get to their little flag, and then jump out into the
• 1:17:32
  world and go do the side content if you want.
• 1:17:34
  Or you can beat the final boss and after you beat the final
• 1:17:36
  boss, it takes you back to that flag right before the final
• 1:17:39
  boss. And then you can jump out to the
• 1:17:41
  world and do the side content without losing any progress or
• 1:17:45
  anything but. God damn.
• 1:17:48
  Man, this game is just, it's, we've had a handful of games in
• 1:17:54
  the last couple years that like completely take my top ten list
• 1:17:57
  and flip it on its fucking head. And this is one of those games
• 1:18:01
  for me that is just so special and something that I am jealous
• 1:18:07
  of people that can experience this story for the first time
• 1:18:10
  because it is that fucking good. It's something that on
• 1:18:15
  subsequent playthroughs, I'm not going to get the same impact.
• 1:18:20
  I mean, it it, it's still impactful, of course, but you're
• 1:18:23
  not making decisions that change the story drastically.
• 1:18:25
  Other than that tale in there. Boy, this, this is such a
• 1:18:32
  special game and I'm so glad that it exceeded the
• 1:18:37
  expectations that I had for it by miles.
• 1:18:40
  Exceeded. Everybody's expectations.
• 1:18:42
  Oh, it's. Crazy.
• 1:18:44
  So fucking good. So good.
• 1:18:48
  But yeah, that's that's my number one dude do.
• 1:18:52
  You want me to tell you mine or do you want to guess it?
• 1:18:54
  I. Listen, you're.
• 1:18:56
  A bit of a wild card here because I expected Doom and
• 1:18:59
  Dispatch to be on your list here and neither of them have popped
• 1:19:03
  up, which means one of those is not on your list.
• 1:19:06
  Which you're a massive fucking Doom guy so I can't imagine it's
• 1:19:11
  not your number one at this point.
• 1:19:13
  Well, guess. What?
• 1:19:14
  Motherfucker, get that French pussy shit out of my face
• 1:19:17
  because we're talking about Doom the darn age.
• 1:19:20
  That's my #1. It was so good.
• 1:19:23
  Dude, I no, no, no shade. I am.
• 1:19:27
  I think about dispatch did not make your list.
• 1:19:30
  I'm shocked as. Well, and it it didn't, I am
• 1:19:33
  shocked as well. I also have been trying to like
• 1:19:35
  take shit in and out of my list. Also, I hope that sounds good
• 1:19:37
  for audio. I've been thinking about that
• 1:19:38
  like Randy fucking Savage or whatever fucking wrestler bit
• 1:19:42
  that was supposed to be for like a minute.
• 1:19:46
  No, I love dispatch. I want to I want to touch on
• 1:19:48
  that Dispatch is a game that I will always hold near and dear
• 1:19:50
  to my heart, but I just feel like it.
• 1:19:54
  It was hard because 2025 was a good year for games.
• 1:19:57
  It was. It was a.
• 1:19:58
  Very good year, So. It not being it's on, it's it's,
• 1:20:01
  it's spiritually on my list. It's #1 fair enough, put.
• 1:20:04
  It that way. Let's put it that way because
• 1:20:06
  that I cried during dispatch as well.
• 1:20:09
  Doom the dark ages though there. This game in the Doom franchise,
• 1:20:15
  in my opinion, is one of the best Dooms to come out in the
• 1:20:19
  trilogy that we have. This.
• 1:20:22
  Very much feels like RIP and tear and stand your ground and
• 1:20:26
  fight and I loved every moment of it.
• 1:20:28
  This game looks beautiful, it is snappy, it is responsive.
• 1:20:33
  You are going into the mouth of hell full well knowing.
• 1:20:38
  That shit's going. Wrong.
• 1:20:40
  And this is the start of the Slayer's journey and I love
• 1:20:44
  that. I love that this is right before
• 1:20:46
  2016. I love what that we're seeing
• 1:20:49
  exactly what started to happen with the Slayer himself.
• 1:20:53
  I love that it's canonically in line with 1-2 and 64.
• 1:20:57
  I love that it's it. Like, I love it, dude.
• 1:21:02
  It's just so wild to take. Something that came out so long
• 1:21:07
  ago and still tie it in, it's that that's that's impressive.
• 1:21:11
  It's. But it's the franchise that you
• 1:21:13
  will never die. Doom.
• 1:21:16
  It is an eternal game and it has to because it's important.
• 1:21:20
  And this game was important to FPS because it shows you that.
• 1:21:23
  I wish there wasn't a multiplayer but for a single
• 1:21:27
  player fast-paced FPS. This is what Doom is.
• 1:21:32
  And people bitched and moaned, Oh, it's slow.
• 1:21:35
  It's fucking barely dude. I was.
• 1:21:37
  It wasn't that slow. Like no.
• 1:21:40
  No, comparatively speaking to the Doom Eternal, sure.
• 1:21:44
  That game was breakneck action. This was we want you to kill
• 1:21:49
  everything in your path. How will you do that?
• 1:21:52
  And this game let you do that. There was a design here and
• 1:21:55
  there that wasn't stoked on like, you know, the Kako demon.
• 1:21:58
  I was like, the fuck, why does he look like that?
• 1:22:00
  He shouldn't look like that. But I'm a doom purist.
• 1:22:02
  I literally have the Kako demon tattooed on my knee and a helmet
• 1:22:06
  on my on my leg. But this game?
• 1:22:09
  The story was awesome, I loved it.
• 1:22:12
  There's a twist in the middle and I was like what the fuck?
• 1:22:15
  And then it happens. You're like, what the fuck?
• 1:22:18
  And it's so cool playing through it and it it's just to.
• 1:22:22
  See. That Doom is not just as and it
• 1:22:26
  never was, but to see that people are understanding that
• 1:22:29
  it's not this dumb mindless game.
• 1:22:30
  It has a brain, it has a story. This character you're playing is
• 1:22:34
  important. And he's driven by hate because
• 1:22:38
  of what was taken from him. Yes, he's hates hell.
• 1:22:42
  Got it. But there's a reason he hates
• 1:22:44
  hell, right? And like the doom guy story, if
• 1:22:47
  you don't know it, go look it up.
• 1:22:49
  It is quite interesting. You know, like him getting, you
• 1:22:52
  know, shipped to Mars for Dis disobeying orders and punching
• 1:22:56
  an an official in the face to his family being killed to then
• 1:23:01
  his pet Bunny being killed. And that's really the last
• 1:23:04
  straw, right? So it's like that carries over
• 1:23:07
  into Eternal and Sean Whipped. Him, yeah, and the.
• 1:23:10
  Dark ages, dude. Like this, the the aesthetic
• 1:23:14
  here is also pleasing to me because you could have gotten
• 1:23:17
  more future instead you went like barbarian medieval times
• 1:23:24
  and I love that. I think for Doom it works.
• 1:23:28
  It felt very Quake as well for me and I I'm a big Quake guy,
• 1:23:32
  right? Quake was very much AD and D
• 1:23:34
  Quake was their D&D campaign. Like that was a character.
• 1:23:37
  Quake was the character of Romero's D&D.
• 1:23:40
  That was D&D character's name, I believe.
• 1:23:42
  Yeah. And that's what Quake was.
• 1:23:45
  It was like their D&D thing. And then it turned into what it
• 1:23:48
  is. But it's it's awesome, dude.
• 1:23:50
  I love Eternal and it, it kills it.
• 1:23:53
  Like I loved the fucking mech fights.
• 1:23:56
  I loved the dragon fucking flying.
• 1:23:59
  Like, it was so fucking good. And then the collector's statue
• 1:24:04
  that I bought that was 200 and goddamn dollars.
• 1:24:07
  I shouldn't have bought. It looks so fucking good.
• 1:24:10
  It's all just looked really good.
• 1:24:12
  Oh, it's it. Looks.
• 1:24:13
  So I'll give you. That it's a steep price, but it
• 1:24:16
  was pretty cool. There's another one on.
• 1:24:18
  Sale right now for 109 and I'm like, I I'm going to buy that.
• 1:24:22
  I just don't know when I'll strike eventually.
• 1:24:26
  But like if you're a doom guy and you or a person and you
• 1:24:30
  haven't played Dark ages, what are you doing?
• 1:24:33
  This is my number one of the year.
• 1:24:34
  I was engaged every day after work playing this game.
• 1:24:38
  I almost took time off of work. I think I took a day or two off
• 1:24:42
  to play Doom and I just sat in my room like the fucking Wow guy
• 1:24:45
  from South Park going. Like dude.
• 1:24:49
  I I love Doom I can't wait to see where they take this
• 1:24:52
  franchise next. I I'm hoping they take a break
• 1:24:55
  from the game and do a show or a movie.
• 1:24:58
  Starring The Rock, we don't have to go back.
• 1:25:01
  To it you know what I watch it every year though I'm a part of
• 1:25:04
  the problem yeah I watch it every year I have a blast I get
• 1:25:08
  fucked up and watch that movie every year it's a good that and
• 1:25:11
  Super Mario Brothers it's probably the.
• 1:25:13
  Best way to experience those two movies?
• 1:25:16
  90s Mario Brothers movie fucked up and Doom fucked yeah Oh yeah
• 1:25:20
  Oh yeah, there was a sequel to that movie too, The.
• 1:25:25
  The Doom. Mario Brothers.
• 1:25:26
  Oh, I did not. There's a sequel to it.
• 1:25:29
  It was straight. To blockbuster baby.
• 1:25:32
  I did not. I did.
• 1:25:33
  Not know. Yeah, we're got.
• 1:25:34
  We're got to get fucked up and watch that.
• 1:25:36
  It's. So bad.
• 1:25:39
  It's so awesomely bad. The rock's not.
• 1:25:42
  In that one, right? Oh.
• 1:25:43
  Fuck no, he knew. What he did was wrong in the
• 1:25:45
  first one. He he fucking.
• 1:25:48
  Knew what he did was fucking wrong dude like.
• 1:25:52
  Yeah, I, I it's a game that on paper should absolutely be my
• 1:25:58
  shit. Yeah, no.
• 1:25:59
  Shit, I I. Just I don't know why.
• 1:26:03
  I think it must have been a timing thing, like something
• 1:26:06
  about the timing and I just was not feeling that kind of game at
• 1:26:10
  the moment. I will go back to it eventually
• 1:26:13
  because especially hearing you talk about it like I, I need to
• 1:26:17
  go back to it for sure every. Every hit on an enemy feels so
• 1:26:23
  impactful. Yeah, every shield, the shield
• 1:26:26
  itself. I'd be remiss if I didn't bring
• 1:26:28
  that up. The You are like Captain America
• 1:26:31
  with a bladed shield, cutting demons in half, throwing it at
• 1:26:36
  Mankubis's stomachs and it grinding its way up.
• 1:26:40
  You know, it is gruesome. It is bloody.
• 1:26:43
  It felt more tame than the other two when it came to the gore.
• 1:26:48
  But yeah. I could see that it.
• 1:26:51
  It it really did, but. I'm not going to.
• 1:26:54
  Fault in on that because of just how good the game is and it came
• 1:27:00
  out in a flawless, in my opinion state.
• 1:27:03
  That's another important thing. Same with Expedition 33.
• 1:27:06
  It's one of those games where it's like they didn't fuck it
• 1:27:09
  up. It just came out and you got to
• 1:27:11
  enjoy it and you got to enjoy your time in that world.
• 1:27:14
  And for me, my time spent is killing fucking demons.
• 1:27:18
  Oddly enough as a Satanist killing demons.
• 1:27:22
  In a fucking. Awesome invited world where I'm
• 1:27:25
  this dude who's just so fucking mad.
• 1:27:28
  And big and I'm. Small and mad.
• 1:27:30
  So it's like polar opposites here, but it works for me and
• 1:27:34
  that is why Doom the Dark Ages is my number one game of the
• 1:27:37
  year. It was just it was that game for
• 1:27:40
  me. Hell yeah, I.
• 1:27:42
  I'm so happy that it did live up to your expectations because
• 1:27:45
  again, I know you are the Doom guy and I know like.
• 1:27:51
  Yeah, all of the doom shelf. Yeah, I.
• 1:27:53
  Couldn't tell right? I feel like they would have had
• 1:27:57
  to fuck this up pretty pretty majorly in order to turn you
• 1:28:01
  away from I'm a little nervous. When I first saw it, I was like,
• 1:28:03
  this looks good, but really, we're going there, Yeah.
• 1:28:06
  But I am so glad that it. Lived up to there.
• 1:28:09
  Yeah, it it's absolutely quake like, like how many?
• 1:28:12
  Times I go this is just Quake, why didn't we just make Quake?
• 1:28:16
  And then I played this. I was like, OK, This is why we
• 1:28:18
  didn't make Quake yet. Yeah.
• 1:28:21
  I'm I'm going to have to go through that.
• 1:28:22
  I really need to like go back and because I I don't.
• 1:28:27
  I don't think I. Finished two.
• 1:28:29
  I streamed a little bit of two at one point in time.
• 1:28:31
  Doom 2. Or Doom Eternal Eternal.
• 1:28:35
  Sorry yeah the oh I was like 2 of this trilogy.
• 1:28:38
  Sorry, you should start. Here, start at dark ages, yeah.
• 1:28:42
  I I then go to 16. Then finish. 2016 I think that
• 1:28:47
  game opens. Up like an ass beater out of
• 1:28:50
  hell. Dude, you just fucking end that
• 1:28:51
  sarcophagus. Yeah, Oh, you're in.
• 1:28:54
  It was so cool. So cool.
• 1:28:56
  So. But no, I, I'm I'm very happy
• 1:29:00
  that this lived up to your expectations and and possibly
• 1:29:03
  exceeded them because God damn man.
• 1:29:05
  Like it is a cool fucking game. Like everything I did play of
• 1:29:09
  it, I was like, this is really cool.
• 1:29:11
  It's just not what I want at this exact moment.
• 1:29:14
  Well, the upgrade system. Too.
• 1:29:16
  I was like, oh, this is even better.
• 1:29:17
  I was like, holy shit, look at all this.
• 1:29:20
  Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
• 1:29:23
  Damn Doom. And.
• 1:29:24
  Expedition 33 Who could have? Ever seen this coming?
• 1:29:29
  Yeah, everyone's sitting. Going how do they do it every
• 1:29:31
  year? I never knew they can't keep.
• 1:29:33
  Getting away with this. I'm pretty sure Metaphor was
• 1:29:37
  mine last year in Balder's Gate before that.
• 1:29:40
  So yeah, I'm. I'm fucking.
• 1:29:43
  You can. I'm a fucking book, dude.
• 1:29:45
  You can write write things. I try to be squirrely.
• 1:29:47
  Here and there. I, I do have a couple honorable
• 1:29:52
  mentions that I would like to bring up.
• 1:29:56
  So the probably the number one honorable mention on my list.
• 1:30:02
  If I would have had more time with this game, it didn't put
• 1:30:05
  off playing it. Digimon story time stranger.
• 1:30:09
  Oddly enough, really, yes, this game's good.
• 1:30:13
  OK, I, I, it takes it, it, it's Pokémon, but better.
• 1:30:22
  Is it more brutal? Yeah, I don't know if I'd.
• 1:30:25
  Necessarily go that far. Digimon have guns.
• 1:30:28
  Sometimes, yeah, they do. That's so dangerous.
• 1:30:32
  Yeah, they have. Guns and half naked Digimon like
• 1:30:37
  well, hold. On how are these anthropomorphic
• 1:30:40
  beings? Oh.
• 1:30:42
  That's. That's where they, you know,
• 1:30:45
  where they reel. Us in.
• 1:30:47
  They might. They're they're they're awfully
• 1:30:50
  humanoid. Time out.
• 1:30:52
  You keep talking about. Look some stuff up.
• 1:30:55
  No, this game's just, it's, it's a simple concept taking, you
• 1:31:03
  know, Digimon, the Pokémon esque formula and just doing it
• 1:31:09
  exceptionally. Well, the you OK, did you just?
• 1:31:15
  Google sexy Digimon I typed the. Naked Digimon and I got sent to
• 1:31:20
  rule 34 and it was just a bunch of Digimon porn.
• 1:31:22
  I did it wrong. Oh.
• 1:31:24
  Yeah, you, you didn't actually have to go just full naked right
• 1:31:28
  off the get go. That's you deserve that.
• 1:31:30
  That's on you. I might.
• 1:31:33
  Go back later but. No, this, this is just a really
• 1:31:37
  good kind of trip down. Not, not necessarily memory
• 1:31:41
  lane, because I was not really a Digimon guy by any means, but it
• 1:31:47
  it's a formula that most people should be somewhat familiar
• 1:31:50
  with, with a lot of quality of life things that are really
• 1:31:53
  nice. Like honestly, you can stand
• 1:31:57
  still in a dungeon for like 10 seconds and fully heal your
• 1:32:00
  party and get all of your SP back so you can.
• 1:32:02
  That's so nice. It's so.
• 1:32:04
  Fucking good. Like something so simple that
• 1:32:08
  just makes it so much more enjoyable to play because I'm
• 1:32:11
  like, I can go all out all of the time and then just stand.
• 1:32:15
  Here for a. Minute and be fine.
• 1:32:19
  There's like an. XP share thing.
• 1:32:21
  So you're levelling up other Digimon in your fucking?
• 1:32:25
  Box your storage. Box without having to like worry
• 1:32:29
  about Oh well, I got to use this piece of shit no, they just get
• 1:32:33
  XP like they make it so accessible that it's it's just
• 1:32:37
  so nice it's so refreshing It's it's a.
• 1:32:41
  Cool. Game I want to play a lot more.
• 1:32:43
  I'm not very far into it currently.
• 1:32:46
  I will definitely roll credits on this and play the DLC like
• 1:32:52
  this is. This is going to be my jam for a
• 1:32:54
  little while, but my next honorable mention is Monster
• 1:33:00
  Hunter Wild. OK.
• 1:33:03
  Oh I'm surprised I didn't make your list.
• 1:33:04
  Holy fuck I didn't think about that.
• 1:33:07
  I enjoyed this a lot from what I did play of it.
• 1:33:12
  I didn't make my lists. I personally did not really have
• 1:33:17
  any performance issues with this game, but I know a lot of people
• 1:33:19
  did on PCs especially like it was real, real bad for a lot of
• 1:33:25
  people. But it's it's a good Monster
• 1:33:31
  Hunter game that suffers from pretty poor in game and which
• 1:33:37
  is. 90. Percent of the game, like the
• 1:33:40
  whole joke about Monster Hunter is once you finally finish the
• 1:33:44
  story, now you can actually start the game, right?
• 1:33:46
  And this didn't have that. It was not there, especially at
• 1:33:51
  launch, and I think it's gotten a little better, but it's still
• 1:33:54
  not where it should be as far as a Monster Hunter game goes.
• 1:33:59
  And even then, like the story was fine.
• 1:34:02
  Like whatever, nobody gives a fuck about the story in a
• 1:34:04
  Monster Hunter game. I just want to big ass monsters
• 1:34:07
  and fucking feel cool as shit. And it did those moments pretty
• 1:34:11
  well. I just couldn't.
• 1:34:15
  I I, I couldn't stay after I finished it.
• 1:34:17
  Like I I played for a little while after I was trying to get
• 1:34:20
  all the armor and just like fuck around, do some cool shit and it
• 1:34:25
  just, it didn't have the fucking juice to keep me there, which is
• 1:34:29
  unfortunate. I do I I have actually thought
• 1:34:32
  about going back to it recently, just something different,
• 1:34:36
  something unique to try out that I haven't played for a little
• 1:34:39
  while. And I did enjoy what I did play
• 1:34:41
  of it, but it just. Between the.
• 1:34:45
  Poor PC performance, I and the the lack of end game.
• 1:34:49
  I just I couldn't justify putting it onto this list.
• 1:34:53
  Plus I've also played it solo like I didn't nobody else was
• 1:34:55
  playing this game in the server, so I couldn't even justify being
• 1:34:59
  like, oh, we had cool, cool moments with friends in it.
• 1:35:02
  No, we didn't even have that. Like it was just like I was the
• 1:35:06
  guy. I already mentioned peek peek is
• 1:35:10
  up there as one of my friends slop games of the year.
• 1:35:12
  It was just a really good time and I had a lot of good moments
• 1:35:15
  in that game playing with the with the and my last one that I
• 1:35:21
  wanted to mention more from a nostalgia standpoint was Tony
• 1:35:25
  Hoff Pro Skater 3 and 4 Hell. Yeah, it was.
• 1:35:27
  Really. Cool, definitely a big upgrade
• 1:35:30
  over the old games as far as the graphics.
• 1:35:34
  Don't necessarily love that they changed how 4 played in kind of
• 1:35:39
  time. It was not my favorite way to do
• 1:35:43
  that. But also it wasn't the worst
• 1:35:46
  thing in the world. Like I still had a good time
• 1:35:47
  with it and still enjoyed playing Tony Hawk again.
• 1:35:51
  And I really enjoyed one and two remaster and now having 3 and 4,
• 1:35:56
  it's my fucking childhood, like just kind of and I enjoy it a
• 1:36:02
  lot, but it it just couldn't quite hang as one of my top
• 1:36:05
  games of the year, but definitely worth mentioning.
• 1:36:08
  And it was a great trip down like memory lane, right?
• 1:36:11
  Like being on that fucking cruise ship again and the music
• 1:36:14
  playing. Oh.
• 1:36:15
  The music's so good and the new music they added is so good, so
• 1:36:19
  good. Like every.
• 1:36:21
  They fucking kill it every time they release a Tony Hawk game
• 1:36:24
  where you're like who the fuck is this and you listen to
• 1:36:27
  release it on vinyl. They just didn't release all of
• 1:36:29
  it on vinyl. I can't even tell.
• 1:36:31
  You how many times I've like, don't know what to listen to on
• 1:36:34
  Spotify and I'll just go to like a Tony Hawk Pro Skater playlist
• 1:36:37
  and just let it play, Yeah. It's so good.
• 1:36:39
  No skips, no skips a fucking great.
• 1:36:42
  Game chill game just fuck around and play the game and skate.
• 1:36:46
  Listen to dope ass music and hang out with friends like it.
• 1:36:51
  I can't complain, but it just, it wasn't quite where it wasn't
• 1:36:56
  that it didn't meet expectations or anything of that nature.
• 1:36:58
  It just wasn't a new experience. So it didn't quite justify
• 1:37:02
  making it to that list yet. So yeah.
• 1:37:05
  No, I get that. I have a couple.
• 1:37:07
  I'm. Going to start with ARC.
• 1:37:10
  Raiders, Oh yeah, yeah, this game was awesome.
• 1:37:13
  I think for that genre looter shooter S game, you know
• 1:37:21
  extraction shooter, this helps to revitalize it it the
• 1:37:27
  community for this game for the most part is pretty cool to
• 1:37:30
  watch yeah and. They're pretty.
• 1:37:33
  Cool to play with tons of great moments.
• 1:37:35
  I know final boss is playing the shit out of it.
• 1:37:38
  Evans playing the shit out of it.
• 1:37:39
  I have played a good amount of it.
• 1:37:41
  Not enough Mario's played a lot of this awesome time arc.
• 1:37:46
  It looks good, it feels good, it sounds good, the animations are
• 1:37:50
  just stellar, the game itself is just fun to play, the enemies
• 1:37:55
  are cool, the aesthetic is great.
• 1:37:59
  Arc Raiders is a fun online time.
• 1:38:01
  Repo obviously is on this list. What a time dude.
• 1:38:05
  This friend slop game is just so charming and loving with your
• 1:38:10
  friends because of what you're doing and the moments you're
• 1:38:12
  making. That's why this is awesome.
• 1:38:14
  Being scared with your friends has never been this fun before
• 1:38:18
  and I'm glad I'm playing this game with my friends.
• 1:38:20
  Peak is just hilarious. It's just so funny to like put
• 1:38:24
  people in bad situations while trying to scale a mountain with
• 1:38:27
  your friends and you know the person is going to fuck it all
• 1:38:29
  up so they died. You have to carry them up.
• 1:38:31
  The it's just it's so good because I'm that guy.
• 1:38:35
  So I love beak. Also Bing Bong for life.
• 1:38:40
  And then my last honorable mentions.
• 1:38:43
  Well, technically dispatches the first, right?
• 1:38:46
  But I've already talked about dispatch.
• 1:38:47
  It's on the list. It's like my pseudo #1 game like
• 1:38:52
  it's the ghost one, but dispatch I've said a lot about it, but
• 1:38:55
  what a beautiful experience go play this game.
• 1:38:59
  You need to experience dispatch. It is incredible and I would
• 1:39:04
  love for them to make more of these so go by and play this
• 1:39:07
  game RV there yet is a blast of a time.
• 1:39:12
  This is awesome. I love just walking around while
• 1:39:15
  everyone's working. I don't do anything in this
• 1:39:16
  game. I literally don't do it.
• 1:39:18
  It's. Surprise you?
• 1:39:21
  I smoke cigarettes and I conversate.
• 1:39:26
  I don't do anything in this game that is helpful.
• 1:39:29
  I was a. Designated driver after Evan got
• 1:39:32
  kicked out from destroying our RV twice.
• 1:39:35
  I was like, listen, motherfucker, everybody sit in
• 1:39:37
  you buckle the fuck up. I went full.
• 1:39:40
  Dad mode on that shit. It's a.
• 1:39:43
  Blast. Go play this game.
• 1:39:45
  It is so fucking fun and again, it's one of those charming
• 1:39:49
  little games you're going to play with your friends.
• 1:39:51
  The whole server is going to be dedicated to it.
• 1:39:53
  It'll die and then it'll come back on the server.
• 1:39:55
  It's so good. So yeah, that's it.
• 1:40:01
  Solid. List it was a fucking good year
• 1:40:04
  in gaming like I I cannot complain we got some absolute
• 1:40:08
  all time great games here and I had a lot of fun playing games
• 1:40:13
  with friends and that's I mean that's all I can fucking ask for
• 1:40:16
  yeah. Keep keep these awesome memories
• 1:40:18
  alive and I hope going into 2026 we get to create tons more
• 1:40:23
  memories. 2026 though, looks like it's going to be the year
• 1:40:26
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• 1:40:30
  Fire Emblem is a big one for me. We got.
• 1:40:33
  Grand Theft Auto, possibly. Tons of shit.
• 1:40:38
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• 1:40:43
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• 1:41:55
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