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2023 Favorite Games · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all? And welcome back to Danny's to
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  Talk. I'm your host Robert and today
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  today we are taking a trip down memory lane for the year 2023 to
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  discuss my favorite video games that came out this year.
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  And so this year overall was a insane year and many aspects
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  from the the amount of games that came out this year and on
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  the flip side also kind of being one of the worst years for for
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  people that work within the gaming industry.
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  So layoffs and things like that and we had just so many other
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  just like crazy and headlines the stuff that happened which I
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  get to 2nd. But before I get into all that,
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  as always, if this is your first time here, then welcome, but if
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  you're a returning listener and or watcher then welcome back.
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  Y'all know here at dance and talk it's all about fatherhood
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  and family manga, anime, TV shows and of course today's
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  subject video games. So if you're into any of that
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  stuff, make sure. You.
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  You know, you're following your boy Rob on all social medias.
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  You know, everything's available on YouTube for video stuff or
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  everywhere you can find podcasts for the audio version of this.
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  So like I said, 2023 was a exciting year as a fan, as a
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  lover of video games. And so I kind of want to take
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  some time today to just kind of look back on the year and just
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  kind of shout out some of my favorite games that I got to
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  play. And some of, like, the big
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  headlines of the year and just big moments in general, 'cause
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  like I said, like when we kind of look back on it or just kind
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  of like looking, looking at it on paper, 2023 is definitely one
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  of the historic years in gaming history, kind of up there with
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  1998 and 2007. And I think 2012 was another
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  kind of big year as well. But yeah, so just kind of just
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  shouting out because I kind of got this article pulled up with
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  some of the a few, like, big headlines I'm gonna read off in
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  a second. But even though, like me
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  personally, I didn't get a chance to play.
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  As much stuff as I wanted to just cause life was busy and
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  different stuff going on, but it was definitely a fun time as a
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  fan to just. Kind of hear all the different
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  conversations in the buzz of things going on throughout the
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  year because there's a lot of games that I feel like were kind
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  of like dark horses that a lot of people didn't expect to be
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  good, that exceeded expectations.
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  Stuff that kind of came out of nowhere.
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  And then a lot of games that going in going into the year
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  people thought, Oh yeah, this would be a Bangor knockout
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  knockout the park. But some stuff just kind of came
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  and went or stuff came out and was worse than expected.
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  A whole gambit of things. And so like, so I kind of want
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  to just browse through like some of these just like different.
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  I'm trying to think no, I I I'll save the headlines and stuff for
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  a little bit later. So I guess I kind of want to
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  just start off by just like shouting out.
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  I got Game of Farmers Gaming calendar for the year and I kind
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  of just want to shout out some games that I know we're kind of
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  at least like big releases in general, even if I didn't
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  personally play them myself. Let me see.
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  So. Just kind of going through and I
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  I forgot this game even released this year, even though I didn't
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  really play it. But Fire Emblem Engage on the
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  Switch for spoken. And this is in January, so I'm
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  going to go month by month by month, so Jan.
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  So I'm starting off in January. So Fire Emblem Engage for
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  spoken. A awesome shadow drop that I
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  really enjoyed. I'm talking more about later
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  High Fire Rush. Death Space Remake season.
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  A Letter to the Future. That was another one that I
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  really enjoyed. Let's see February.
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  What did we get in February? I made sure The Prime
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  Remastered. I stand over the plenty of those
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  games. But a Hogwarts legacy?
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  That was a huge one this year that I'm going to talk about
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  more later on on my personal list.
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  Wild Hearts, man. It's so it's going to be
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  interesting reading through this list because some of the stuff I
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  forget even came out this year. So yeah, Wild Hearts came out
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  back in February. Atomic Card.
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  That kind of came and went like a dragon Asian.
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  Of course. We also had the release of
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  PlayStation VR2, which also seemed to kind of come and go
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  this year, but that release back in February, so there's a whole
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  host of VR games and stuff for that.
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  Let me see. Octopath Traveler 2.
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  Destiny Two Expansion Light Fall nothing that's too much there
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  that sticks out to me. Let's see March.
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  Wow, Long falling Dynasty man. I can't believe that that was
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  this year as well the dead Cells return to Castlevania.
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  Let's see. Just seeing where the stuff that
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  Bayonetta kind of spin off game Remnant from the Ashes allows us
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  to switch release Chia. That's when I still want to kind
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  of get back to and check out. Let me see, oh, Last of Us Part
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  One on PC. That was a doozy because that
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  game came out with so many issues and stuff.
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  But I think they got it fixed. But I know that was kind of a
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  rough release dredge. That's when I still want to go
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  back and check out. Let's see, We're going into
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  April. So for April, let's see.
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  Nothing too much coming out that's catching my eye.
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  Ghost War Tokyo released on Xbox finally after the year of
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  exclusivity. Minecraft Legends Horizon
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  Forbidden W, Burning Shores Expansion Advanced Wars wanted
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  to reboot camp. Dead Island 2.
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  That's one that my wife Super had a lot of fun playing earlier
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  in the year. And Star Wars Jedi Survivor.
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  That's another one I'm gonna talk about a little bit later on
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  on my personal list. So going on to May started off
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  with probably a humongous disappointment for a lot of
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  people, which was Red Fall, Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom.
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  That was a huge one. I didn't play it myself, but
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  that of course can't go through this without talking about that.
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  Lord of Rings, Gollum. That travesty that came out?
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  OK, let's see. Moving on to June.
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  Street Fighter Six. That was a big one.
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  Diablo Four. What is something else I heard
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  this Aliens Dark Descent was a solid game.
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  Pickman One and Two got a RE release on the Switch.
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  Dave the Diver AW wrestling game.
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  That's kind of it for for June. July, I know.
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  Oh, oxen free too, man. I I still need to go back in
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  check out that game man, 'cause I really enjoyed that first oxen
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  free game that came out many years back.
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  So I definitely want to kind of check that out.
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  So oxen Free to pick me for viewfinder was an interesting
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  pros again, I played a little bit of it, didn't get it, didn't
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  get too deep into it. Remnant too.
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  I know that was like a really big hit during the summer.
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  When that came out, the Telltale game, The expense, I had bought
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  that and I started it. I want to go back and finish it.
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  Oh, that Disney Illusion island. That's a game that I still want
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  to check out for me and vast to play.
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  OK, I look like our type of game and then but that's another one
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  I want to check out too. Let's see.
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  Moving on to August. So one that definitely kind of
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  came out of nowhere for a lot of people was Balder Skate Three
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  was a big release. Then this Atlas Falling game
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  looks like it might become like a mid tier OK game, but that one
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  came and went. We kind of got these poor RE
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  releases of Red Dead Redemption, Bomb Rush, Bomb Rush.
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  Cyber Funk. I know a lot of fans of just
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  that radio enjoyed that one that Texas Chancellor Massacre game
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  my wife enjoyed playing that for solace looks interesting.
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  But that kind of came in when same thing with the Immortals of
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  Avium. That one kind of was in such a
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  shape that the studio pretty much like laid off half the
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  people out there that came out unfortunately Armored Core.
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  Armored Core 6 Fire is a Rubicon.
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  That was a dope looking one. I still maybe want to check it
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  out someday. Goodbye Volcano High.
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  I want to get back to you and check out See if Stars, one of
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  my favorite games I played this year that I'm going to talk
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  about later on. Same with Under the Waves and I
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  think that's kind of it for the big ones for August or
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  September, Let's see. Chance of Sonar was one that I
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  enjoyed checking out the demo for.
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  Oh, hold on. How did I miss?
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  Because I just realized I've gone all the way down the list
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  Back in June, our Final Fantasy 16.
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  I don't know how I missed that one, but yeah, so going back to
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  September, Starfield was a big one that I think they kind of
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  go. It wasn't as big in some sense
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  as a lot of people was expecting, but still still did
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  good. But you know, just I think
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  didn't didn't reshape the industry like a lot of people
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  thought it would. Eternites was an interesting one
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  that I checked out. It was that that studios first
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  game. So look forward to checking out
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  more from that studio Gun umbrella.
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  That was a very fun demo I'm going to talk about later on.
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  Sir Thunder Ray was interesting, kind of like a modern take on a
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  punch out game, punch out style game.
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  Lies of P was super dope. Mortal Kombat One came out,
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  Payday Three came out, but kind of was met with a lot of, you
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  know, people want to find out how to launch with like a lot of
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  server issues and stuff. What else?
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  I was just looking at Cyberpunk 27 Seven.
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  Phantom Liberty expansion came out.
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  A lot of people dug that one. A Sonic Frontiers expansion,
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  which I I started that game is pretty good.
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  Cocoon one of my favorites I'll talk about later.
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  Now moving out to October. Assassin's Creed Mirage still
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  want to check that out at some point.
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  I know a lot of people weren't too hot on it, but I think it
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  did pretty good. Detective Pikachu 2.
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  Can't think see too much else in October.
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  Let's see. Sonic superstars.
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  Mario Wonder, of course, was a big one.
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  Spider Man 2 Of course, of course.
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  Spider Man 2 access. That was what I'm going to talk
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  about later on. I'm just kind of just right
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  blazing through this list. Ghost Runner 2 Dusant is another
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  one I really want to check out at some point.
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  November the Invincible is one that really speaks to me that I
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  want to get back to and check out and just going through a
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  like a dragon guide in the man who has his name.
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  Yeah Super Mario RPG remake. And yeah that's kind of it.
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  And for December we got that avatar Princess of Pandora
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  release and those are kind of like some of like like the main
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  ones that I wanted to kind of just shout out like she just
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  quickly going through that list whatever.
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  So, but yeah, overall, yeah, this was a pretty.
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  Interesting year or so. I'm gonna go ahead and just kind
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  of dive into some of my favorite games this year.
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  So I so I kind of broke this up in a few different sections.
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  So I got the games that I played and finished, games that I
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  started but hadn't finished yet, and stuff from this year.
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  I have a bunch of demos that I checked out, 'cause that was one
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  thing I was happy about. This year was a lot more games,
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  putting out quality demos for their games and stuff, whatever.
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  And then I have a few older games that I finally started for
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  the first. Time that I want to shout out
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  and stuff as well, so. I guess I'll start off with the
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  just running down like a. Few how do I want to do this
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  list? Let me see.
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  You know what, OK, I'm I'm going to shut out the demos first
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  'cause this would be just something, just some quick shout
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  outs. So Gun Brella was super fun and
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  I hope that it adventure comes to place in and stickers right
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  now, somebody on PC and Switch. But I play the demo for that one
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  and there's gameplay of it on my YouTube channel of me.
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  Playing I think there's gameplay for most of these demos.
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  I took that I think, on my YouTube channel, but Gun Brella
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  is kind of like a side scrolling.
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  Kind of like action type of game to where you can.
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  Basically play this guy this kind of I'm trying to think.
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  I think he is trying to try down his missing wife.
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  If I remember correctly. Like I said, it's been a many,
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  many months, a lot of it's happened, but the cool mechanic
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  of the game is that you have this item that is called a gun
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  brother. So it is literally a umbrella
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  that is also a gun. It is super fun.
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  I loved the couple hours I got the plan, video, whatever.
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  So that was super dope. Next up is a Chance of Sanar.
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  That's another one. I have video of my on my YouTube
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  channel Love, But this one was super interesting because it
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  kind of focused on. You kind of deciphering this
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  language in the game to kind of solve these different puzzles,
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  so you kind of go into the world.
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  There's no speaking dialogue. A lot of the dialogue is kind of
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  done through these kind of like hieroglyphic type of images and
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  you have to figure out what those different images mean word
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  or phrase wise and then you put these words and phrases together
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  to. Figure out you know how to solve
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  puzzles, what the different conversations stuff are.
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  Definitely very interesting and unique game.
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  So like I said, one I want to get back to and play the full
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  game of at some point. Next up, Eternites.
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  Eternites is a game that's kind of like a kind of like a Persona
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  style, like romance turn based RPG, kind of like like a action
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  RPG kind of or whatever to where you play this main character who
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  ends up getting this kind of like super powered arm and
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  you're fighting these. It affected monsters people
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  wanted. Like I said, once again, it's
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  been many months so my memory is fuzzy on it or whatever, but it
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  was just like a very interesting game and you have a core like a
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  lot of like romance options and some of like the dialogue and
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  stuff was like very fun it. It was just like a very.
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  Fun game. I enjoyed playing the bit of the
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  demo that I did for it, so I definitely look forward to
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  checking out more of that game at some point.
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  Next one is a Final Fantasy 16. I'm glad that they put the kind
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  of like the opening, a couple of hours and the demo, because I've
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  never really played a Final Fantasy game too much and so I
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  really dug this demo and. Kind of made me interested in it
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  at some point, playing the full game.
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  But that demo was super awesome because it showed the beginning
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  of the game and then it had kind of like a challenge thing that
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  set up like way later in the game.
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  So you have more of the abilities and stuff to kind of
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  play around with this stuff. So shout out to them for that.
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  Next one is a Lies Lies of P That's this is another one that
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  was the playing, the very beginning of the game and I
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  guess all of these I've named so far Gun Brother Chester, Sonora
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  Eternites, Final Fantasy 16, Lies of P These are all the very
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  beginning of the game, which is super dope.
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  But but yeah, Lies of P was like immediately from just like,
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  'cause I thought this, looking at the trails, whatever.
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  But I actually getting to play it, it immediately was like, Oh
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  yeah, this is definitely kind of like very heavy, all the
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  Bloodborne vibes, but with that Pinocchio world and setting and
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  aesthetic. Put on to it or whatever.
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  So that was a very fun one to play the demo for.
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  The next one is Diablo 4. I've never played a Diablo game,
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  so, so playing the demo for Diablo Four was very interesting
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  and I really liked. I put in like a handful of hours
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  into that demo and I was OK you know, I might open up my
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  thoughts and possibilities to maybe playing a Diablo game in
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  the future. And then the last demo I want to
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  shout out is Street Fighter Six. Once again, I'm not too big into
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  fighting games, but this was still very fun to dive in and to
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  try out and stuff. So Saya selects a shout out to
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  all those games and these companies for putting out actual
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  meaty gameplay demos. Actually, there was another one
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  called the First Descendant that I played a kind of like a demo
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  for whatever that I really enjoyed.
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  And then there was another game that I got to play.
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  But this is more of a beta 4. Or alpha axis, whatever that I
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  can't talk about. If you know of games that are
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  coming out in early 2024, they had a beta four in the last
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  month or so. You can probably guess what game
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  I'm talking about. And I'll leave it at that, so.
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  OK, so moving on, I want to just shout out.
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  A few old games that I played for the first time this year, so
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  and I'm kind of doing this for myself, so I kind of know.
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  Old games that I checked out. So the one that I play that I've
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  put the most time in so far is Cult of the Lamb Man.
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  Ever since I heard about this game last year, I was kind of
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  like that sound like something I might be interested in, but I
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  don't know. And Cult of the Lamb is
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  basically kind of like a dark take on Animal Crossing in a
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  sense to where you have villagers, quote UN quote, and
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  you get like, you know, plant crops, you know, make little
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  homes and stuff for them. And you also are like gathering
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  resources. Like I said, you're planting
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  crops and stuff for food because you got to cook and feed the
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  villages and stuff, whatever. So they stay happy so that
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  they'll go and pray to the altar and stuff to give you more
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  powers and abilities and skills and stuff.
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  And you're also going on like dungeon runs and stuff because
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  basically you're trying to get more, get more resources and to
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  get stronger so that you can take out these kind of like 4
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  like demon lures or whatever. And I don't know, I I think it
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  was just the perfect time for me to play this game because it
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  like really, really hit and has been a lot of fun.
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  I've put in well over 10 hours of it so far, if not more.
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  And so I'm definitely looking forward to playing more of that
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  game. But yeah, Coach of the Lamb.
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  Super fun, super addicting. Next up, the other game I
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  finally played a few hours of was Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
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  Now like I mentioned earlier, with 16, I've never really
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  played any Final Fantasy games. Like I had some close friends in
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  college shout out to my friend Bree, who is really big into
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  Final Fantasy, so I got to watch her a lot back in the day play.
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  Some of the games and stuff, whatever, and hear her talk
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  about them and stuff, but I've never really played many of them
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  myself. But I know this 7 remake has
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  been like highly coveted and praise and stuff and so.
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  I will say like out the gate, the presentation and this game
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  remake. This remake came out, what, two
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  or three years ago at this point.
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  So even now this was still like one of like the best looking
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  games I've seen in recent memory.
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  And just like the presentation from like the cinematics, the
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  cutscenes and the voice acting, all that stuff, whatever were
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  super, super top notch. The only part that they kind of
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  slowed down on me whatever was kind of like once you kind of
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  got. Out of like that.
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  Those first couple hours and stuff, whatever, where you kind
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  of like walking around that town or whatever, doing little cycles
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  and stuff, That's when it's kind of like, OK, you know, but like
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  the big set piece and story moments and stuff, whatever.
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  That stuff was super dope and super fun and like I look
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  forward to. Hopefully getting back to
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  getting back to it in the near future, especially with the
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  sequel Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth coming out early in 2024.
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  So yeah, and the last one I wanted to shout out for.
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  Like all the games that I got into this year is Hyper Light
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  Drifter. Now this game is one that I've
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  heard the name of for many, many years, but I just never really
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  knew too much of what it was and stuff.
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  And so recently they announced, what is it called, Hyper Light.
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  I think it's Hyper Light Breaker.
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  It's the sequel that is coming out in the next year or two.
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  Yeah, Hyper Light Breaker. So they announced that recently.
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  Whatever. And I was like, man.
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  Maybe I should check it out or whatever.
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  So just like coach to the limb, I got this and coach to the limb
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  at the same time because they were both on like a really good
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  sale. And so I was like, you know
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  what, let me let me give this game a shot.
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  And so it's kind of like a kind of like an open world, kind of
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  like top down asymmetric kind of view or whatever towards your
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  plant. This, as this character is kind
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  of like going through this, like kind of like wasteland.
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  Trying to gather from what I remember, I think like these is
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  it artifacts or it's something that you're trying to find
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  basically. And I don't know, it is just
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  like like my type of game, my type of vibe, 'cause you're just
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  kind of like just like toss that into the world and you're just
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  going around and exploring like so you got your different powers
• 25:10
  and stuff. You can, unlike different areas
• 25:11
  and stuff, lots of secrets and stuff, which I love.
• 25:16
  But yeah, Hyper like Drifter, really dope game like, so I'm
• 25:19
  very glad that I finally gave it a shot.
• 25:23
  Now moving on to the games this year.
• 25:28
  Now I'm just kind of just shut out a few games that I started
• 25:34
  playing but didn't get a chance to finish yet.
• 25:38
  So starting off with with these games, hold on.
• 25:47
  Oh, so the first one, which was kind of shadow dropped earlier
• 25:51
  this year, High fire. Rush now how?
• 25:56
  Fire Rush is a new game that surprised in so many ways
• 26:00
  because for one it is from Tango.
• 26:03
  I think Tango Studios Tango game works the studio who did the.
• 26:07
  Horror games Lord Evil Within if you have the name of Evil
• 26:15
  Within. So seeing them go from this,
• 26:18
  from that to this very colorful action, rhythm type of game,
• 26:24
  whatever, like some of like the most unique and beautiful art
• 26:30
  styles, 'cause it looks like it looks like a freaking cartoon
• 26:33
  cause like when my wife passed by or was in the room watching
• 26:37
  me play whatever she was like. Is that a show or a game?
• 26:41
  And I was like, that's a game. And then my son Bash, he loved
• 26:45
  playing and that stuff as well. He he just loved sitting next to
• 26:49
  me and just like you listen to the music and stuff, whatever.
• 26:52
  Because like I say, it's just like a super fun and colorful
• 26:54
  game That was super dope to play through and stuff.
• 26:58
  So, but yeah. It it it.
• 27:00
  It was like a really unique game.
• 27:02
  So yeah, so shout out to half hour rush.
• 27:04
  I definitely go back and finish it because I think I'm like on
• 27:06
  like just like the last little couple hours left on it or
• 27:08
  whatever next. Up is a season.
• 27:13
  A letter to the future. This is another one.
• 27:16
  There was just super up my alley.
• 27:18
  Super soothing. Just like putting on my
• 27:20
  headphones. Diving into this game into this.
• 27:23
  World, because you basically follow this young lady who is
• 27:29
  basically basically it seems like the world is about to end
• 27:36
  and so you're traveling around the country, around the world
• 27:41
  recording. Things for the future.
• 27:44
  And so you're capturing, you have like a like a voice
• 27:48
  recorder. So you're capturing sounds from
• 27:52
  like animals to just like nature and stuff from like no rain and
• 27:57
  thunderstorms and just different things you're recording the
• 28:00
  sounds for and you're also have like a camera, so you're taking
• 28:03
  pictures of different things, whatever.
• 28:06
  So it is just just like such a peaceful and kind of like
• 28:10
  Melacolic situation because like I said, you know that this is
• 28:15
  seemingly going to like the end of the world or at least maybe
• 28:19
  like the end of this era because you're creating like a journal
• 28:23
  and stuff for somebody in the future to see what the state of
• 28:28
  the world was at this point in time.
• 28:30
  So that was really dope. One that I want to get back to
• 28:34
  next one is Under the Waves. Now Under the Waves is kind of
• 28:40
  like another like really good like tone setter type of game
• 28:44
  tour. You're basically playing as this
• 28:47
  former deep sea diver who seems like he's going through some
• 28:53
  type of like life stuff. I don't know if whether he lost
• 28:57
  his, his wife or partner left him or I don't know what really
• 29:02
  is going on with that. But basically he's taking a job
• 29:06
  to go deep sea diving and do some research and things like
• 29:11
  that or whatever. And so you basically just like
• 29:14
  you're living in this like deep sea kind of like a facility or
• 29:18
  whatever. And you have your submarine that
• 29:20
  you kind of go out on expeditions and missions and
• 29:23
  stuff on from, you know, finding stuff to do on repairs on stuff
• 29:27
  underwater. You get out the submarine and
• 29:30
  you guys get to swim around and stuff.
• 29:31
  But you have oxygen tank that you have to kind of monitor and
• 29:35
  stuff, whatever it is, just like really didn't really push you in
• 29:38
  that setting because like I said, like you're in the deep
• 29:41
  sea. So there are like stretches of
• 29:43
  just like emptiness and no sound and likes like having my
• 29:48
  headphones on. You just kind of hear like, like
• 29:50
  the sound of the water passing by.
• 29:52
  And like I said, just kind of like seeing the story of this
• 29:55
  guy trying to overcome some type of like life hardship that he's
• 29:59
  gone through, whatever. What's really, really
• 30:02
  interesting and last one that I want to shout out for just like
• 30:05
  stuff I didn't finish from this year is Super Mario Brothers
• 30:10
  wonder. Now that is one that truly was
• 30:16
  something magical in so many ways.
• 30:18
  Because not only because it's one of like the first like
• 30:22
  really new new. 2D Mario games in a long time, but just like
• 30:32
  how? Trippy and unique, the game
• 30:35
  isn't stuff from like the wonder scene mechanic to where well
• 30:39
  first of all there is so much new stuff in this game from like
• 30:43
  them having a wider and bigger roster of characters for you to
• 30:47
  play as finally that you could play.
• 30:49
  Of course all you know the classics.
• 30:50
  Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach. All like a few different Toad
• 30:56
  and Toadets and a handful of Yoshi's and also Princess Daisy.
• 31:02
  Very cool cast that you can play as or whatever.
• 31:07
  Got a handful of new power. Ups and stuff.
• 31:10
  And the personal thing for me, whatever is just like getting to
• 31:14
  play with my son Vash. Because while me and him have
• 31:19
  been playing games and stuff here and there over the years
• 31:22
  and this is just something special like this is kind of
• 31:24
  like one of the first like Mario games, kind of sort of that we
• 31:27
  can like truly play in Co-op and stuff.
• 31:30
  So, and he's pretty much taken over he many like a couple
• 31:33
  months back he pretty much took over the switch from me,
• 31:35
  whatever. So he's played way further.
• 31:38
  He's only six. He just turned six a month ago.
• 31:41
  So he was playing it and got super deep into whatever.
• 31:46
  He's playing through levels and stuff that I hadn't even seen
• 31:50
  yet and stuff, but he's in love with this.
• 31:52
  So I love it for the fact that this is going to be like a core
• 31:55
  memory for him. Hopefully, you know his kind of
• 32:00
  like really big first like 2D Mario game will be this one at
• 32:05
  the age of five turning into six and stuff so say.
• 32:10
  So I love it for that extra layer of having that memory with
• 32:14
  my son bash on playing this game and stuff so.
• 32:18
  So yeah, so that's for the stuff I didn't finish.
• 32:20
  Now I'm gonna try to attempt to put these in a order of sorts
• 32:28
  for the games that I play this year and finished that, I
• 32:37
  really, really enjoyed so. Yeah, so let let's let me take a
• 32:42
  quick break and I'm gonna dive into that.
• 32:48
  OK. So starting off, so I have six
• 32:54
  games, so let me No, No 5 ones. Yeah, so five games.
• 32:59
  So the five games that really stuck with me throughout this
• 33:04
  year for a multitude of reasons, Number 5, Star Wars, Jedi,
• 33:13
  Survivor. Now this one.
• 33:19
  So I really enjoyed following Order when that came out like
• 33:24
  2019 or somewhere around there and so but you know it has some
• 33:31
  some clunkiness stuff whatever but it was a solid foundation.
• 33:35
  Well Jedi Survivor they took that core element from that
• 33:43
  first game and like really wrapped it up to the to the next
• 33:52
  level. They made everything bigger,
• 33:54
  more in depth and and all that stuff.
• 33:56
  For every tour you you're, you know, you have multiple multiple
• 34:01
  planets you're going to and exploring and stuff.
• 34:04
  You're getting more abilities and more upgrades and unlocks
• 34:08
  and stuff and yeah, it it was just like just like really dope.
• 34:12
  I really enjoy like the big set piece moments and just how like
• 34:17
  all your different powers and abilities you were just you're
• 34:20
  just getting more and more stuff and you're like you know,
• 34:23
  running through environments, training and like wall running,
• 34:27
  air dashing, phasing through stuff.
• 34:30
  Like it was super dope and super fun.
• 34:35
  And I look forward to whenever they come up with a the next
• 34:40
  Star Wars Jedi game because like I said, Falling Order was a
• 34:44
  solid foundation. And Survivor, they just took it
• 34:48
  up another notch. And so, yeah, I'm definitely
• 34:53
  looking forward to plan another one of these.
• 34:56
  And who knows how many years now we'll say I hope that they do
• 35:00
  kind of maybe like better iron out some of, like, some of like
• 35:03
  the technical stuff, 'cause like overall the game was pretty
• 35:07
  smooth for me. But there were a couple of, you
• 35:13
  know, kind of like frame rate starters and stuff.
• 35:16
  And like I said, this is me playing it, you know, at lunch
• 35:20
  or whatever. So maybe they might have found
• 35:22
  some of that stuff, but you know, that was kind of like kind
• 35:23
  of like my only complaint. But I enjoyed also that they had
• 35:28
  a wider variety of customization and stuff from like the
• 35:32
  different hairstyles and haircuts and facial hair stuff.
• 35:35
  For that you can give cow and the different outfits and cloaks
• 35:42
  and jackets and stuff, whatever. So I just enjoyed that.
• 35:45
  They really expanded a lot of the customization options and
• 35:50
  stuff in the game. So yeah, so shout out to Jedi
• 35:53
  Survivor, my #5 game. So Next up and I'm debating on
• 36:04
  which way to put this one because I kind of have one game
• 36:07
  with #4, but debating on switching it now.
• 36:12
  I'll leave it like this so. #4 for me is Hogwarts legacy.
• 36:21
  Now this game. So first of all, we knew it was
• 36:29
  coming, you know, from a while back.
• 36:32
  You got announced and stuff, whatever.
• 36:34
  But myself, on paper, I'm not necessarily like a super
• 36:38
  humongous Harry Potter fan. Now I watched all the movies and
• 36:43
  stuff growing up, you know, from childhood up until, you know,
• 36:46
  adulthood and stuff, whatever. And I enjoyed the movies, OK,
• 36:50
  whatever. But I would never call myself
• 36:52
  like a die hard hardcore fan or whatever and stuff.
• 36:57
  So. So I was kind of like, I don't
• 36:59
  know about a game of it, but I'll never forget.
• 37:04
  I think it was like fall of last year, and I think this is kind
• 37:07
  of when I first started following this guy named Okami
• 37:11
  on on Twitter. I think he was the first one I
• 37:15
  saw. He shared a link or he showed
• 37:21
  like like like an extended gameplay clip to where it showed
• 37:27
  the character running around and then like summoning their broom,
• 37:31
  just flying around the world, them getting their mount and
• 37:35
  stuff and like flying around through the world and fighting
• 37:38
  enemies and stuff, whatever. And I'm like, I was looking at
• 37:42
  like looking at the game plan. I'm like man on paper.
• 37:48
  I'm not like a die hard Harry Potter fan, but I am a fan of
• 37:54
  fun open world games where you can just kind of just go around
• 37:57
  and explore at your leisure. Of course, you know, like your
• 38:00
  ghost of Tsushima's and Assassin's Creed, you know
• 38:04
  Spider Man type of games, you know those type of games are Mad
• 38:09
  Max, shout out to Mad Max. So yeah, so that's kind of like
• 38:13
  my bread and butter type of game.
• 38:15
  And then kind of like the final thing that like really really
• 38:20
  sold me is shout out to the homie Polo from from my Check
• 38:26
  Waifu the anime podcast. He streamed it on Twitch because
• 38:31
  he got the the Early Access copy, and so I'm watching him
• 38:37
  play it. He's like a few hours in.
• 38:40
  And so first of all, the first day of the game came out or
• 38:44
  whatever. He put like over 12 hours in the
• 38:48
  first day because I had checked out the stream like later in the
• 38:51
  day and I saw he had already played like six hours earlier in
• 38:56
  the day. He took a break and he was back.
• 38:58
  And he was a few hours into the second stream or the second
• 39:01
  stream or whatever. And I'm like, so I'm guessing
• 39:04
  you like in the game, he's like, dude, I'm loving it.
• 39:06
  And as I'm watching him play it and just the way he's playing or
• 39:10
  whatever, I'm like, polo is playing how your boy Rob plays.
• 39:14
  And I was like, OK, I'm gonna get this game.
• 39:18
  And literally, like I said it once again, not just like a
• 39:22
  broken record. As somebody who is not like a
• 39:24
  super hardcore fan, I was blown away by this game because the
• 39:32
  size, scope and the attention to detail in this game was
• 39:39
  jaw-dropping on so many levels. Because like first of all that
• 39:45
  opening. So first of all, get to
• 39:47
  customize your character and them having a variety of
• 39:51
  customizations from you know, from faces to skin color to
• 39:56
  hairstyles and stuff. I was like, OK, they really in a
• 40:00
  bag. And putting some love and care
• 40:04
  and attention into this character customization and
• 40:06
  stuff. And so that was something that
• 40:08
  stood out. And then the kind of like
• 40:11
  opening section of the game and kind of like the craziness with
• 40:14
  that was super dope. And then and then the other
• 40:20
  thing I really appreciated from that is when you first get into
• 40:24
  the Hogwarts castle and I got a a mission mark or whatever, you
• 40:31
  know, wake up in my room and there's OK, hey, go to this, you
• 40:35
  know, objective or whatever. When I left my room and I saw
• 40:40
  I'm going down multiple flights of stairs, I'm like, can I go
• 40:44
  into all these rooms? So I went floor by floor and I
• 40:48
  was able to go into every bedroom, every bathroom, turn on
• 40:52
  every faucet, going to every bathroom stall, flush, every
• 40:55
  toilet, everything. And I was like the level of
• 40:59
  detail and just the Hogwarts castle.
• 41:01
  Like, honestly, they could have just did a game just in the
• 41:04
  castle because like I said, it was literally sculpt out for the
• 41:09
  actual size of that building in the movies and stuff.
• 41:15
  And so like all the hidden chambers and secret rooms and
• 41:20
  all the little secret nooks and crannies and stuff, whatever.
• 41:23
  And then you get outside of the castle and it's just like a huge
• 41:27
  world with so many secrets and hidden areas and things to fight
• 41:31
  and encounter. Stuff, whatever.
• 41:32
  And yes, on paper, after a while, the combat and stuff is
• 41:36
  pretty basic. You're kind of just like
• 41:38
  spamming a text and stuff, whatever.
• 41:39
  But it was still just so fun to just be in that world, live it
• 41:44
  and explore and stuff, whatever. So.
• 41:46
  That's what Hogwarts legacy made it up onto the number four spot
• 41:50
  of my favorite games that I played this year.
• 41:53
  So Next up. Is a game that I had some faith
• 42:01
  would be good when it came out, and I'm happy that it was so
• 42:07
  good. So #3 is Cocoon now.
• 42:12
  Cocoon is a game by some of the some of the developers that
• 42:18
  worked on some games that I enjoyed back in the day, Lambo
• 42:23
  and Inside. Now if you've never checked out
• 42:26
  those two games and you want nice short sweet games that's
• 42:31
  kind of like kind of like a small kind of like adventure
• 42:37
  kind of like more more so kind of like puzzle type of games to
• 42:39
  where like you're going puzzle platformers.
• 42:43
  I guess it's the best way to kind of describe those or
• 42:44
  whatever but really enjoy those back in the day.
• 42:48
  So when I heard that, hey, some of the people that made that
• 42:51
  started a new studio and made this new thing called Cocoon, I
• 42:55
  was OK. I got to check it out and I
• 42:58
  really enjoyed this game. So this is also kind of like a
• 43:01
  side scrolling kind of kind of kind of like a isometric view
• 43:06
  puzzle type of game to where you kind of play it as this
• 43:09
  character that kind of looks like a like a type of bug.
• 43:12
  And basically the hook of this game is that you are basically
• 43:17
  kind of like going from worlds within worlds to solve these
• 43:25
  different puzzles and stuff. And like I said, it has like a
• 43:27
  really cool and unique aesthetic to it.
• 43:30
  And the setting is very interesting and like I said, it
• 43:33
  is just like a really good looking game.
• 43:36
  The sound design is super fantastic and the puzzles are
• 43:41
  super. Fun and interesting.
• 43:44
  So yeah, Cocoon is one that I really enjoyed and definitely
• 43:47
  really stuck with me. And I look forward to seeing
• 43:52
  whatever the next game that this studio puts out is.
• 43:57
  And also, if you're interested to see what the gameplay of it
• 43:59
  looks like, there's some gameplay of it on my YouTube
• 44:03
  channel, so go check out my YouTube channel at.
• 44:05
  Danny's to talk to see what the gameplay of this looks like, so
• 44:09
  cuz it is super dope. So Next up, #2 for.
• 44:16
  Me is kind of a no brainer. And that game is Spider Man 2.
• 44:26
  Now this one and #1. Could have been interchangeable
• 44:29
  or whatever, but Spider Man 2 lands at #2 for me.
• 44:34
  First of all those y'all watching the video, y'all see my
• 44:36
  very dope controller limited edition controller I got for the
• 44:41
  game when it came out. But yeah, but, and, and I'm not
• 44:45
  going to go into any story stuff, whatever, because I did a
• 44:48
  whole podcast episode talking about the story and stuff with
• 44:51
  the game, whatever. But I'll just say Insomniac
• 44:55
  continues to impress and knock. Things out of the park I love
• 44:58
  Spider Man 2018. I loved Miles Morales that came
• 45:02
  out in 2020 and Spider Man 2 continues that tradition of
• 45:07
  fantastic games to where they just continue to build upon.
• 45:12
  The foundation that they have set with the last two games and
• 45:14
  stuff and I just really enjoyed, even though, yes, it is the same
• 45:20
  city. They expanded out some more and
• 45:23
  get into play as both Peter and Miles and them both having that
• 45:31
  core foundation of their old abilities and then both of them
• 45:34
  getting new branches of powers and abilities and stuff.
• 45:40
  And I loved how this game you get to play as more.
• 45:45
  I won't get it too into the spoiler, but you get to play as
• 45:47
  more than just Peter and Miles, so get into play as some other
• 45:53
  characters and stuff. Whatever was super dope.
• 45:56
  The set piece moments were fantastic and I feel like like
• 46:02
  the game kind of took place in kind of like three story arcs or
• 46:05
  whatever. They were pretty dope and
• 46:07
  interesting. And the game was like way more
• 46:10
  brutal and violent than I expected it going into it or
• 46:12
  whatever. But overall, I really loved and
• 46:16
  enjoyed that game. So yeah, Spider Man 2 freaking
• 46:20
  loved it and can't wait to play more.
• 46:22
  And of course, looking forward to to seeing what they cook up
• 46:26
  with The Wolverine whenever that comes out in a couple of years.
• 46:29
  So #1 the number one game, the number one game.
• 46:39
  So the game that stuck at that stuck with me the most and why I
• 46:43
  made it. My number one is Sea of Stars
• 46:50
  now this is another one. I have lots of gameplay video
• 46:54
  and stuff on my YouTube channel. Go check it out.
• 46:56
  But this game was just so freaking awesome.
• 47:03
  Now this is from a Sabotage studio, the same studio who
• 47:07
  created the Messenger. The Messenger wanted to This
• 47:11
  game takes place think thousands of years before and it's a whole
• 47:16
  different style and type of game compared to those two games.
• 47:20
  So CF Stars is like a in. Granted I'm not like a super
• 47:26
  expert on on term based RPGs, but I can tell that it is a love
• 47:32
  letter to those old school turn based RPGs.
• 47:37
  Kind of like a Chrono Trigger which is one of the few and rare
• 47:41
  ones that I whoops sorry that I played back in the day and so
• 47:52
  and so say yes, so CF stars and I did.
• 47:56
  I also got to say shout out to them because they I don't know
• 48:00
  how they work their magic but. They.
• 48:06
  It was on all platforms, but they also put it on Xbox Game
• 48:10
  Pass and PlayStation Plus Extra at the same time.
• 48:16
  I don't know if I've ever seen a game that has been on both
• 48:18
  services at the same time at launch, and so that definitely
• 48:23
  kind of helped put it on more radars and give it easier access
• 48:28
  to to to try out or whatever. But I see If Stars was fantastic
• 48:33
  and just like everything from the visuals of it to the sound,
• 48:42
  the music was awesome. The cast of characters, because
• 48:46
  you get to meet and have so many characters across the game that
• 48:50
  join your party and stuff. I think it ends up being made
• 48:52
  like 6 or 7 total. They're kind of like come and
• 48:55
  go, so to speak, the variety of locations and enemies and stuff
• 49:02
  that you go to. And I talked about it in an
• 49:05
  episode, how I feel like somebody at that team might be a
• 49:11
  fan of One Piece, because literally there are so many
• 49:15
  like, areas and stuff. Whatever they feel like One
• 49:19
  Piece I'll catch, 'cause it's like, it's like we freaking went
• 49:22
  to, like underwater, like freaking Fishman Island.
• 49:26
  There's like a A. Future island area There's this
• 49:31
  freaking, like egghead There's like a.
• 49:34
  You know, ancient Kingdom thing like alabaster and a water
• 49:39
  Kingdom like water. 7 And just so many.
• 49:43
  Cool. Places that, like I said, just
• 49:46
  like, just like spoke to my heart as a One Piece fan as.
• 49:49
  Well, but yeah. All in all, like, it was a
• 49:52
  fantastic and meaty journey. I think it took me like about 30
• 49:57
  hours to play. Which I feel like for like most
• 50:02
  of these games that I that I played or that I listed is like
• 50:05
  my favorite games whatever for the most part were just the
• 50:09
  right lengths cuz I think cuz even kind of going back I like I
• 50:11
  said I see of Stars was about 30 something.
• 50:16
  Spider Man 2 is about 30 something.
• 50:17
  Cocoon that was under 10. Hogwarts legacy.
• 50:22
  I think I put like 40 plus after hours in that and Jedi Survivor
• 50:26
  I think I also put like 30 plus and that so by also Sea of stars
• 50:30
  man just top to bottom was such a fantastic game ported the
• 50:38
  heartstrings and somebody like twists and turns with characters
• 50:42
  and things that happened and moments and stuff.
• 50:44
  So that is why it is my favorite game this year and one of the
• 50:48
  most most. Favorable things that I played
• 50:51
  this year, so. Yeah.
• 50:54
  So that's kind of it for my quote, UN quote kind of like
• 50:57
  game of the year kind of rundown or favorite games that I've
• 51:00
  played this year. So before I wrap up, I kind of
• 51:07
  want to touch on a couple other kind of like gaming related
• 51:11
  things. I do want to take a second to
• 51:15
  just kind of I I guess kind of just speaking in general look
• 51:20
  into like next or whatever. I didn't want to do better about
• 51:26
  playing more games through completion.
• 51:29
  Like I'm just like focusing on fewer games at a time and just
• 51:33
  kind of playing through them and stuff.
• 51:35
  I'll be able to. I'll just kind of keep better
• 51:37
  track of my gaming time and stuff, whatever.
• 51:40
  At least on PlayStation because this year, this year I finally
• 51:47
  kind of so I kind of like locked down my PS5 to where my son Vash
• 51:56
  can't play on my account no more whatever.
• 51:58
  So I made him his own offline account so he can still access
• 52:03
  whatever stuff I've downloaded onto the onto my PS5.
• 52:07
  And that's worked out because for one I had once many times
• 52:10
  where he for some reason sometimes he just loves starting
• 52:15
  games over. And so there are some games,
• 52:18
  particularly my Rayman Legend save that I've had for over 10
• 52:21
  years now that he almost deleted and overridden.
• 52:25
  But luckily I had a backup cloud save that I brought back down.
• 52:28
  But yeah, I was OK, you need your own profile that you can
• 52:31
  play around with or whatever. So, but it's hopefully next year
• 52:34
  going forward, I'll be able to have more consistent and better
• 52:39
  look at my gaming stuff, whatever, at least on PS5
• 52:43
  switches to kind of over the place because of how that
• 52:46
  profile stuff works man. So Next up I kind of want to
• 52:52
  shout out this year. I feel like they kind of knocked
• 52:58
  things out of the park with with game adaptations and like shows
• 53:06
  and movies and I'm not ranking these or anything whatever, but
• 53:09
  just kind of just shouting them out because most of these I
• 53:11
  think I had talked about in review this year.
• 53:14
  Now one I will say I have not watched yet, which is crazy to
• 53:18
  think about, but I have not watched the the Super Mario
• 53:22
  Brothers animated movie and stuff.
• 53:23
  I haven't checked that out yet. I plan to soon.
• 53:29
  But we got the Last of Us HBO series which is super fantastic.
• 53:36
  Like me, my wife and my oldest son, we kind of was enjoying
• 53:41
  that as a family and stuff, whatever.
• 53:43
  So my oldest son, he was like, yo, when is season 2?
• 53:45
  Come and win the Season 2. But but yeah so that was done
• 53:50
  fantastically and I'm and I'm I like how they kind of changed
• 53:56
  and switched up some stuff. Whatever kind of make it its own
• 53:59
  thing. So I loved that the Twisted
• 54:04
  Metal TV show actually ended up being pretty decent as somebody
• 54:08
  who has no affinity or connection with.
• 54:12
  The. Twisted Metal games from back in
• 54:15
  the day. It was pretty solid and so I
• 54:18
  definitely will check out the next season whenever that comes
• 54:22
  out. The Gran Turismo movie was
• 54:27
  really interesting as well. That's another one.
• 54:29
  I'm not too big into driving games and stuff, but because it
• 54:34
  was based on loosely based on a true story, that was like a
• 54:39
  really cool, interesting way to approach that and so.
• 54:46
  I'm glad that they did it that way or whatever, because it was
• 54:48
  a it was pretty good and then. What was the last one?
• 54:55
  Oh, they they did more Castlevania seasons of the kind
• 54:59
  of like the animated series. But I still got to go back and
• 55:04
  finish up the last like couple seasons of the first run before
• 55:07
  I even dive into this one. So, but yeah, so I I just want
• 55:11
  to just give a quick shout out to to those shows and stuff for
• 55:16
  how they were adapted. And last thing is I just kind of
• 55:20
  want to give a shout out to just someone kind of like like the
• 55:24
  big kind of like other like headlines and just stuff that
• 55:28
  kind of happened in the industry this year.
• 55:31
  So this year we also got a PlayStation reveal like some new
• 55:35
  hardware and stuff. So we got the new PlayStation 5
• 55:39
  Slim models and stuff, which we feel like if with that stuff
• 55:44
  being revealed to be real, then it kind of more or less confirms
• 55:47
  that we're going to get a PlayStation 5 Pro version
• 55:50
  probably next year. Because these Slim models and
• 55:54
  the Portal and other stuff was leaked a year plus ago, so they
• 55:58
  ended up being real. So we'll see.
• 56:03
  PlayStation Portal came out and that is like high on my list of
• 56:07
  things that I hope to get when I get some extra money and stuff
• 56:11
  saved up. Because while some people are
• 56:15
  fussing and complaining about or whatever, it's like, hey, if if
• 56:18
  you don't want the device, then don't buy it.
• 56:21
  But for me and my living situation and stuff, this is the
• 56:26
  type of device that I want, a streaming device that I can use
• 56:30
  in my home or somewhere else. I'm going to be stationary with
• 56:34
  a good Internet connection and stuff.
• 56:36
  So I'm look forward to getting my hands on that and give him my
• 56:40
  own thoughts and review on it someday in the coming months
• 56:42
  hopefully. So yeah, so that came out.
• 56:46
  Along with that there was also a new steamed Echo lad, but Mario
• 56:53
  from the games got a new voice, so Charles Martin a kind of more
• 56:57
  or less retired as the original voice of Mario.
• 57:01
  He's been the voice since with the early 90s and stuff.
• 57:08
  So they got a new voice actor for that.
• 57:12
  So shout out to them. Let me see what other stuff for
• 57:16
  Jim Ryan. He's leaving Sony as the
• 57:19
  PlayStation as the CEO. Don't really care too much.
• 57:22
  We finally got closer. Closure on the Xbox slash
• 57:27
  Microsoft ABK deal, the Activision Blizzard King
• 57:32
  purchase. So.
• 57:34
  That whole company is now part of Microsoft Studio.
• 57:36
  So after the last like 2 years of seemingly or at least over a
• 57:41
  year of court cases and stuff, whatever, that deal is finally
• 57:46
  done. But of course there was a lot,
• 57:47
  there was a lot of collateral damage from, you know, product
• 57:54
  line leaks to corporate emails and stuff and just all type of
• 58:00
  documents and stuff got leaked from this stuff, whatever.
• 58:02
  So yeah, it was a crazy event, but I'm glad that the court case
• 58:07
  is done so we can all move on to other stuff.
• 58:16
  There were other big leaks and stuff, whatever.
• 58:18
  Like Insomniac just got hacked a few days ago and leaked a lot of
• 58:22
  stuff with Wolverine Game plan stuff got out there and a lot of
• 58:27
  their potential road map for like the next 10.
• 58:30
  Years got leaked and stuff. Whatever.
• 58:33
  So that kind of sucked. We finally got the reveal of
• 58:38
  Grand Theft Auto 6 finally. So that was very dope and cool
• 58:43
  to finally get that game revealed, but very sad that it's
• 58:47
  not coming out until freaking 2025.
• 58:53
  What else? We got The official confirmation
• 58:57
  that E3 is dead. So E3 is done, not coming back.
• 59:01
  So, end of an era. But we kind of knew it.
• 59:04
  You know, it's kind of been slowly dying over the last few
• 59:08
  years, but just kind of like the ESA finally came out this year
• 59:11
  and was like, hey, we're done. We're not going to try to bring
• 59:14
  it back anytime soon. So that's it for, you know, E3.
• 59:18
  So, and yeah, that's kind of like it for like like like in
• 59:21
  like a general next year, like some of like the biggest news
• 59:23
  stories this year. Like I said, All in all.
• 59:27
  Speaking as a fan, as a gamer, I feel like there was something
• 59:33
  for everybody to play. There was some type of game for
• 59:37
  every type of gamer out there. Regardless of if you play on
• 59:40
  PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC, whatever case may
• 59:45
  be, there are so many games to play and so many ways to play
• 59:49
  them and stuff. So because technology is
• 59:52
  steadily advancing, so now we're able to, you know, play stuff
• 59:56
  through through streaming and more on mobile and yadda yadda
• 1:00:00
  yadda, so, but yeah, All in all. Very dope, very memorable year
• 1:00:06
  and I hope that y'all enjoyed going on this trip down memory
• 1:00:12
  lane with me as I kind of like said.
• 1:00:14
  It just kind of like took time to just look back and reflect on
• 1:00:18
  this wild year in gaming, but I think that's going to do it.
• 1:00:24
  Like I said, I have some stuff I'm gonna kind of finish playing
• 1:00:27
  as we kind of wrap up the year. But yeah, and you know, I'll
• 1:00:33
  probably do like a future episode.
• 1:00:37
  Or you know what? You know what?
• 1:00:38
  I'll. I'll go ahead and do it just
• 1:00:39
  really quickly, Whatever. Oh, actually I'll also kind of
• 1:00:43
  give a quick shout out to God of War, God of War, Ragnarok
• 1:00:51
  Valhalla DLC that they came out a couple weeks ago because this
• 1:00:57
  was a free update, free release. And a lot of people when they
• 1:01:01
  saw the trailer was like they're just doing another rogue like
• 1:01:04
  that. They're doing in The Last of Us
• 1:01:06
  remaster, but I've only played like a couple hours.
• 1:01:11
  So far whatever. But man, this has been so much
• 1:01:14
  more than meets the eye and it is a must play addition to God
• 1:01:21
  of War Ragnarok that you definitely need to play.
• 1:01:24
  So I definitely look forward to continuing to chip away at that
• 1:01:28
  and stuff, so. But yeah, so I think last thing
• 1:01:32
  I want to do whatever, just kind of like looking ahead.
• 1:01:34
  Might as well, since since I'm already, I'm already here.
• 1:01:41
  Oh, let's kind of take like a few moments to kind of look at
• 1:01:47
  some sorry, I'm kind of trying to keep track of time stamps and
• 1:01:51
  stuff of some of like the big games that at least have dates
• 1:01:57
  on them. That I'm looking forward to
• 1:01:59
  early next year that like I said, maybe to put on Y'all's
• 1:02:02
  radar like so just kind of just quick shout out some of these so
• 1:02:06
  that Prince of Persia the lost Crown now I.
• 1:02:11
  Don't know if I'll fully buy that one day one, but they are
• 1:02:16
  putting out a demo for it January 11th.
• 1:02:18
  So I just talked about earlier in this show about me loving
• 1:02:22
  some demos, so Mama checked that out and that may or may not sway
• 1:02:27
  me to maybe picking up that game, or at least maybe seeing
• 1:02:30
  if it might be something worth purchasing later on down the
• 1:02:32
  road. January 19th, Last of Us Two
• 1:02:37
  Remastered. Now, one thing I appreciate with
• 1:02:43
  them is that if you already own Last of Us Two, it's just $10
• 1:02:49
  and I don't care about like the visual updates, whatever.
• 1:02:52
  I'm interested in checking out that rogue like mode, and also
• 1:02:59
  I'm interested in checking out these kind of lost levels so
• 1:03:05
  they're adding in some. Levels that they had cut from
• 1:03:08
  the game originally with commentary and stuff of like,
• 1:03:12
  hey, this is what that what this level was or what it was
• 1:03:15
  supposed to be and why we cut it or what what what our plan stuff
• 1:03:18
  was for us. So that's something like very
• 1:03:20
  interesting to me, so. Looking forward to checking that
• 1:03:23
  out. Might not be day one or
• 1:03:24
  whatever, but maybe at some point I'm gonna check it out.
• 1:03:28
  These next two are games I don't really plan to play myself for
• 1:03:31
  that, but just to put on Y'all's radar like a dragon.
• 1:03:35
  Infinite wealth. So pretty much the 8th Yakuza
• 1:03:38
  game. That's a series I still hope
• 1:03:40
  someday to maybe. Try out and play.
• 1:03:43
  But yeah, so that's coming out that day.
• 1:03:46
  Tekken 8 is also coming out that same day, so we'll see going
• 1:03:51
  into February. Now, the first one that I'm
• 1:03:57
  looking at that I'm interested in checking out, and Y'all might
• 1:04:03
  be able to put some clues together from the conversation
• 1:04:05
  from the show, but that would be on on February 2nd, Suicide
• 1:04:10
  Squad killed the Justice League, yeah?
• 1:04:16
  That that's all I kind of say on that or whatever is that I want
• 1:04:19
  to give it a honest fair shot and I don't know if I'm if I'm
• 1:04:24
  going to get it day one or not. But if I have money to spare I'm
• 1:04:30
  going to give it a shot. So Suicide Squad kill the
• 1:04:32
  Justice League coming out early February.
• 1:04:37
  Another one I'm very interested in checking out is Banishers
• 1:04:41
  Ghost of New Eden. Now this is a game from.
• 1:04:46
  Don't nod the studio who originally created the Life is
• 1:04:51
  Strange series. And so I look.
• 1:04:54
  Forward. To seeing the story that this
• 1:04:57
  game is going to have, but this is this game is going to have a
• 1:05:00
  lot more action focused than a lot of their previous games.
• 1:05:06
  So that's something else. I'm kind of interested in
• 1:05:07
  checking out for that reason. So this and then the other one
• 1:05:12
  that came out recently. You saw it.
• 1:05:13
  That one. I'm choosing to check it out
• 1:05:15
  too. But yeah, Banishers.
• 1:05:16
  Banishers. Ghost of New Eden, Hell Divers
• 1:05:20
  too. Probably won't play it, but just
• 1:05:22
  to put it on people's radar and stuff.
• 1:05:25
  What else? Skull and Bones is finally
• 1:05:29
  getting a release. I have no interest in playing
• 1:05:31
  that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth coming out end of February.
• 1:05:37
  Let's see, brothers, until the Tucson's remake, I might go back
• 1:05:41
  through that game. That's.
• 1:05:42
  I haven't played that since it came out over 10 years ago.
• 1:05:45
  Some of it maybe get my heart heart broken in 4K4K because it
• 1:05:51
  originally came out on PS3. So And then let's see March.
• 1:05:57
  So let me see March, March, March.
• 1:06:04
  Rise of the Roman. A Rise of the Roman.
• 1:06:08
  Is the top game for that month probably like the top game
• 1:06:11
  probably early next year that I'm looking forward to the kind
• 1:06:15
  of action, open world, action type of game from a team ninja
• 1:06:20
  and stuff. So kind of like Samurais open
• 1:06:21
  world I mentioned. How much?
• 1:06:23
  Before how much I love goes to Tsushima, so right up my alley.
• 1:06:27
  So look forward to playing that Dragon's Dogma 2 coming out the
• 1:06:31
  same day. So a lot of people been waiting
• 1:06:34
  many years for for a sequel for that game to come out.
• 1:06:40
  Alone in the Dark, I don't know. Not to be on spooky type of
• 1:06:44
  games or whatever, but who knows.
• 1:06:46
  I know there there's like a like a prequel demo that I still plan
• 1:06:50
  to play at some point. So yeah, I think the last one
• 1:06:54
  I'm a shout out is in April and that is that of Tales of
• 1:06:59
  Kenzara, Zal. Now this was one that spoke to
• 1:07:04
  my heart because of The Game Awards.
• 1:07:07
  The one about the creative minds behind this game is the guy who
• 1:07:12
  is the voice actor of Baek from Assassin's Creed Origins, the
• 1:07:17
  main character, one of my favorite games, one of my
• 1:07:20
  favorite Assassin's Creed main characters.
• 1:07:23
  It's a game that he did as a tribute to his father and to
• 1:07:26
  his. Cultural background.
• 1:07:28
  And it's kind of like a kind of like a like a 2D action type of
• 1:07:34
  game. Kind of like like like the Ori
• 1:07:37
  and the Will of the West brought like a hollow night style type
• 1:07:39
  of game, but kind of with maybe like an African flair.
• 1:07:43
  So yeah, and that's kind of it for like stuff that has dates or
• 1:07:48
  whatever. And like I said for like early
• 1:07:51
  next year. So there'll be plenty of time
• 1:07:52
  for me to talk about more stuff that's coming out later in the
• 1:07:55
  year, but it's getting late. For me and I want to kind of get
• 1:07:59
  this wrapped up and chill before I got to go to bed.
• 1:08:03
  So thank y'all so much for listening and or watching.
• 1:08:08
  Like I said, it's been a super great year as a fan of gaming
• 1:08:13
  this year and I look forward to, you know, finishing up some
• 1:08:18
  games I've already been playing. And then playing some of the
• 1:08:20
  stuff I've talked about. But yeah, y'all.
• 1:08:24
  Let me know what were some of your favorite games this year,
• 1:08:27
  regardless of if it's stuff that just released this year or.
• 1:08:31
  Like me? You discover some art, some
• 1:08:33
  older games. For the first time this year.
• 1:08:35
  Let me know what was your what was some of your favorite things
• 1:08:38
  that you play this year? Whether if you're on YouTube,
• 1:08:41
  just comment in the YouTube comments, or if you're on other
• 1:08:44
  platforms, you can find me everywhere at that needs to
• 1:08:46
  talk. Feel free to DM me or tweet at
• 1:08:50
  me, message me on IG, whatever the case may be.
• 1:08:55
  Respond to your messages and stuff.
• 1:08:57
  I'm always down to talk with people and stuff, so but yeah
• 1:09:00
  this has been fun and look forward to seeing how things go
• 1:09:06
  next year. So but that's going to do it for
• 1:09:10
  me for now. Thank you so much for watching.
• 1:09:14
  And as I always say, treat yourself to something nice.
• 1:09:18
  Watch them. Treat yourself to something
• 1:09:21
  nice. Read some manga, watch some
• 1:09:24
  anime and TV, play some video games, and live your best life.
• 1:09:28
  And what that I'm out. Check out the rest of my 2023
• 1:09:34
  favorites episodes. This week I'll be doing Episode
• 1:09:39
  or Pakis episodes for my favorite anime and manga, as
• 1:09:43
  well as my favorite TV shows and movies as well.
• 1:09:47
  So check out all that stuff. Lots of Denny's talk content
• 1:09:50
  coming out as we head straight for the end of the year.
• 1:09:54
  But yeah, y'all have an awesome day and I'll catch on the next
• 1:09:59
  one.