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Season Four Wrap-Up & Awards · Replay Reviews

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  It's the last episode of the season. It feels
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  so good. I know, right? It feels so good to be
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  able to say that we're wrapping up our final
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  episode of the season. It's a new year. Great
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  things are here to come. Thank you for coming
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  back from our replay reviews. My name is Leah.
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  And my name is Kathy. We are two friends who
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  are here to replay, review, and analyze your
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  favorite video games. And since Kathy has never
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  seen the games before, it helps me view them
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  through her fresh eyes, almost like I'm discovering
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  them again for the first time. We hope it will
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  be a similar experience for you. By far, one
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  of the best things to help summarize the season
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  is our favorite moments in each game. In our
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  first game this season, which seems so long ago,
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  was Red Dead Redemption. I really liked noticing
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  Reyes at Olende's villa. That was just a fun
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  little moment. My favorite moment has to be the
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  Mexican standoff scene where I'm like, there's
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  a phrase for this. And you're like, just wait,
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  just wait. And yeah, I love the subtle jokes
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  and the lighthearted moments of this. Any moment
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  that brought out John's personality is what I
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  liked. But the Mexican standoff scene is by far
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  one of the best. Or even things like Abraham
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  falling off the horse, like small, subtle things
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  like that. Yeah, well, even the game just has
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  a great sense of humor. Even somehow it has physical
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  comedy in the game. Mafia 2. Peaches. Obviously.
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  That's my favorite moment. On a more serious
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  in -game note, though, I love it when Vito finally
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  gets mad at Joe, as short -lived as it was. I
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  still like that's the most I liked Vito's character.
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  For me, it's the overall favorite moment is just
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  how much we genuinely hated Vito or just complete
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  not hated, but just got annoyed with him. The
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  specific moment in this game that is one of my
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  favorite is the lady that we hit and she does
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  a full 360 like a corkscrew turn and just flops
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  around. And then her saying, excuse me. As if
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  it was her fault at all. Moving forward. The
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  Forest. This one's a bit hard. Specifically about
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  the game, it's really hard to pinpoint a certain
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  scene. Maybe our genuine disgust with the human
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  flesh in a container. Why were there so many
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  nipples in that room? Yeah, just pure flesh.
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  And why was it just only one? color skin tone
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  and not a mix of different bodies in there anyways
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  yeah if there's more than two nipples to me signifies
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  more than one body unless who knows it became
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  like some kind of feeding thing and it's like
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  into pig mode with multiple nipples i don't know
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  do pigs have multiple nipples Okay. We got it.
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  We got it. Whoa. Okay. Okay. Reign it in again.
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  Is that your favorite moment? No, my favorite
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  moment is another tangent, which is when he talked
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  about your experience working in imaging and
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  how the patient didn't notice you until one moment
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  where you're in the corner. The man is with this
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  wife who is experiencing the best moment in her
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  life. And he turns and sees you. Mortifying.
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  That random tangent was my favorite moment. That's
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  come up so many times. I think we've cut it out
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  multiple times. It's so good, though. Man. Okay.
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  Well, my favorite moment from the forest. Just
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  the start of the game. I like the feeling of
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  desperation. It just expertly makes you feel
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  desperate. You have nothing. You're just frantically
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  grabbing everything you can from the plane. And
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  you just set out, not really knowing what to
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  do or how to survive. And I love it. I love that
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  feeling. Uncharted. Do you want to know my favorite
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  moment? Was it the finger guns? The end credits.
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  Oh, Leah. Oh, no. Honest, real moment, though.
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  Real pick. When Nathan wants to quit and he and
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  Elena argue. We talked about it in that episode,
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  but I liked how realistic it was. showing a fault
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  in his character i do too i like that i have
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  two one of the not so serious one is when you
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  compared my finger gun motion to nate doing it
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  and us having the same stupid look on our faces
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  when we did that but within the game one of my
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  favorite was when elena told him to be careful
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  and he's like oh yeah of course he turns around
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  and just smacks his head into the edge of the
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  wall i really like that It was the first kind
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  of lighthearted, quirky, and it kind of set the
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  tone of like what we can expect the rest of this
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  game. Last game, which is Undead Nightmare. Yes.
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  Not about the game, but our recording is my transition
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  from he's going to have hemorrhoids to you being
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  like, yeah, because he swallowed a whole eyeball.
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  He's gonna. Yeah. Just the overall. vibes of
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  this game was just a fantastic way to end up
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  to end the season i just said the start it's
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  an impeccable feeling of cozy nostalgic horror
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  mixed with comedy it's delightful it's so well
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  done i was immediately invested and excited to
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  play this game it's just honestly it's so well
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  done it's like whistleblower level dlc so overall
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  what was your favorite game this season i was
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  gonna say Speaking of, I think Undead Nightmare
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  might have to be my favorite game of the season.
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  I like Red Dead Redemption better. But there
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  was something about just the lineup this season.
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  Undead Nightmare was just the perfect way to
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  end it. That makes sense. I also had similar
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  thoughts to it. And in terms of plot, it would
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  have been maybe Red Dead Redemption. A lot of
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  it is because I didn't play it. I think Uncharted
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  might have been my favorite game. And I know
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  you're going to get mad at me because you suffered.
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  No, I get it. Playing this. I get it. But from
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  my perspective where the only experience I had
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  playing this game was just the jet ski scene.
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  And I was frustrated. But it wasn't enough. I
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  got to go through this game without being frustrated
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  from playing this. And it just had this similar
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  to Undead Nightmare. It had this wholesome feel
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  to it. It's so early 2000s nostalgic. Yeah, I
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  get it. I mean, if I just watched a compilation
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  of the cutscenes, I would love it. The issue
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  is just strictly with the gameplay. But it's
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  such a big issue that I can't get over it. Should
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  we move on to the next topic? Yes. Alright, this
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  is the IMDb scores where I guess what the scores
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  are. These are not the scores that I give it
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  personally. These are scores that I think they
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  have on IMDb. All right, so my guess for Red
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  Dead Redemption is 8 .7. Ooh. It's actually more
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  well -loved than what you think, which is 9 .4.
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  I am happy to be off on that one. Yeah. Kate?
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  All right, Mafia 2. I have a feeling people don't
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  dislike it as much as we do, so I am guessing
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  7 .2. Ooh, it's actually 8 .5. surprisingly higher
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  than what i would put it i don't agree honestly
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  nor do i someone said a game you won't forget
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  smooth gameplay lovable characters smooth gameplay
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  yeah not to be offensive but are they deaf did
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  they did they listen to the audio issues okay
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  my guess for the forest i i have a feeling it's
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  going to be higher than this but i gave it 7
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  .5 Right on the money. 7 .5. Really? Yeah. Oh,
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  my gosh. Oh, Uncharted. This one's hard because
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  I know it's a beloved game. I know I'm going
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  to be wrong, but I'm going to guess 6 .7. That
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  low? Wow. Yeah. 8 .4. Doesn't deserve that. Not
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  going to lie. Those are nostalgia ratings. Although,
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  did you write this? Great opening game for a
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  pioneer franchise, but really flawed? Agree.
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  That is my consensus. Does Undead Nightmare have
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  its own IMDb page? Mm -hmm. 2010. I'm going to
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  give this one, my guess, 9 .1. 8 .4? I'm surprised
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  it's that much lower than Red Dead, though. 8
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  .4 compared to 9 .4. So, whole point difference.
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  Well, I agree with a lot of them. I understand
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  people rating Uncharted high because I do think
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  there's a lot of nostalgia to it. I think the
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  most outrageous one is the Mafia 2. It doesn't
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  deserve that. I mean, I guessed 7 .2. I don't
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  think it's a terrible game. But I think for a
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  definitive edition, they should have tried harder.
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  Let me double check if I chose definitive version.
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  I didn't even think about that. Oh, definitive
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  edition. Hold on. 7 .8 compared to the non -definitive
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  one is 8 .5. So that seems a bit more in line.
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  Well, on that note, should we move on to the
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  next topic? Yes. KFC Awards. In our first category,
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  we have the Extra Crispy KFC. So out of all the
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  KFCs I chose this season, I'll let you choose.
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  But a quick reminder, in Red Dead Redemption,
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  I had Abigail. Mafia 2, Henry. The Force, Jessica
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  Cross. Uncharted, Elena. It's obvious, and if
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  it's not, you're purposefully picking someone
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  else to spite me. Because if it's not Elena,
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  I will flip my desk over. I was actually really
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  nervous that you would say Abigail because you
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  are correct. It is Alina. They're very similar
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  in terms of having a strong female character,
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  which you know I love those. But there's something
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  about how empathetic she is, especially in the
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  scene that you talked about. And she's quiet
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  when she needs to be and she's sassy when it
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  gives room for her to do so. So yeah, you are
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  correct. Okay, moving on. Stalest Biscuit. Stalest
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  Biscuit. So for Red Dead Redemption, we have
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  the Professor. Mafia 2, we have Vito. The Forest,
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  we have the host at the end of the game. And
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  for Uncharted, we have Navarro. I know we had
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  some back and forth about Navarro. And I might
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  have made a point or two that would maybe make
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  you pull back a little bit on him. Vito is a
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  good option. I think the professor is too much
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  of a D -bag. And the host at the end of the forest,
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  I feel like, is too freaky. My gut is telling
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  me it's Vito. Mm -hmm. Wow, two for two. I mean,
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  like, if six episodes of us complaining about
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  him isn't enough, like, I don't know what to
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  tell you. He's blamed as heck, man. And then,
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  ultimate Kentucky Scorcher. We have Red Dead
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  Redemption, Dutch. Mafia 2, Henry. I crave Henry.
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  Yes. The Force, The Pilot, and Uncharted Nathan.
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  Well, you know who I would pick, but my brain
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  is telling me you picked Nathan, but my gut is
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  telling me you picked Dutch. I'm going to go.
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  It's Nathan. No, it's Henry. No, I thought you
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  were going to get three for three. I thought
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  I was going to start celebrating until you heard
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  Dutch. I'm like, wait, wait, what? No, it's actually
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  Henry. So it was actually going to be Nathan.
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  But then I just for a moment, I couldn't quite
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  remember their faces because it was just so close.
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  I Googled both of them. And then I saw an aged
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  up Nathan Drake, which I know it's not his fault.
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  But it coming up on Google being the first few
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  images that I saw. I'm just cracking up, but
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  it's not his fault. I know. I mean, it's on me
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  for not specifying when I want to see Nathan
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  Drake. So I saw the guy, Nathan Fillion. That's
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  not my generation, so I didn't crush on him like
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  those people who watch Firefly. So it was either
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  someone a bit too sleazy and someone who's aged
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  up and who looked too much like an actor I didn't
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  care about. So it was Henry. Nathan Fillion is
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  getting roasted in this conversation. All right.
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  Well, with all that done, let's get into what
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  to expect for next season. There's no reason
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  to keep it secret, is there? I think we should
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  just get into it. Yep. I mean, it's season five.
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  It's a big deal. So we're going to do something
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  a little different. And we're going to devote
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  the entire season to Red Dead 2. Unsurprisingly.
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  If you asked me, nine times out of ten, this
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  would be my favorite game. It's got insane detail.
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  It's got a lot of depth. And we want to be sure
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  we do it justice. What exactly the season will
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  look like? We're not sure. We've got some ideas,
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  but we don't want to commit to anything yet.
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  But once we do know, we'll release a season announcement
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  trailer like we normally do and probably post
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  on socials. But yeah, I'm really excited for
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  season five. Milestone season. Me too. We're
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  going back to the basics in a way where more
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  focus on a single game and less distraction about
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  getting through as many games as we can within
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  a season. So we're hoping to bring back some
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  of the OG vibes that you got from season one.
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  We're slowing it down a bit. And we're going
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  to carry that momentum into season six and do
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  fewer games, but give more detail to the games.
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  Thank you for all your support these last four
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  years. I appreciate all the positive feedback
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  we've received. It means a lot to us. Like you
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  said, we appreciate the feedback. Old and new
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  listeners. Toast is tearing up paper behind me.
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  He just had to make one more appearance this
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  season. And we're very thankful to have surpassed
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  100 episodes. It's been an extra special season,
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  and we're hoping to follow it up with another
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  special season. I'm really looking forward to
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  what... 2026 has for us season 5 of this podcast.
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  For those of you who've been there from day 1,
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  thank you and happy new year. Plus we'll be 30
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  next year. Oh god, don't mind me. Oh gosh. On
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  that note, should we end it? Yes, we have to.
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  Audacity on 1, 3, 2, 1. Thank you for listening
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  and don't forget to send in any questions, comments,
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  or game suggestions. You can find all our contact
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  info on our website, replayreviewspod .com, or
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  contact us directly through our site. Did we
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  completely miss something? Are we way off the
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  mark? Or do you just want us to take a deeper
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  look at anything from the game? We'll tackle
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  any topics you all want to hear in our season
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  wrap -up episode. We also have a Reddit where
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  we discuss anything we're curious about. Go take
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