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Episode 237: The nominees are in, The Game Awards 2025! · WASD and Beyond

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  Whoa, whoa, hold the fuck up. Uh.
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  Oh, we're starting YouTube drama this early in the episode.
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  I'm sorry. Whoa.
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  I was just playing around. So I wanted to capture my
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  microphone but not really sound back to me.
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  Yeah, that's fine. We're already recording this.
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  This is the episode brother. Oh, OK, this is.
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  Oh, we're just talking 20. Seconds. 29 seconds.
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  Oh yeah. Oh, look at that.
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  Yeah, we just started. I don't know how much of this
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  will last in the actual episode, but you know, that's fun.
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  Good. Y'all ready?
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  I'm ready, brother. I'm ready.
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  I was ready. 37 seconds ago. We got, we got racing at what,
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  like 11, right? F1's at 11. 11 and I mean I
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  think we're going to be able to get through this whole yeah
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  your. Brother, your brother, said.
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  Evan Better be back by then. Yeah, otherwise, I mean, he's 5
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  minutes. He's a moment of silence for the
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  boy. He doesn't listen to me, so he
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  has no. Idea yes, he does.
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  Oh yes he does. He messaged me last the other
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  last time I was so much horrible.
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  Anyway, welcome back to the episode of the WASD and Beyond
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  podcast. We're your host this week, Nick,
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  Evan and John. We are doing a pretty fun
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  episode. It is Game Awards season.
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  So with that being said, we have our nominee announcements then
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  goes into the actual like game of it all where Evan Brody and
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  myself usually will sit and kind of place fun little wagers on
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  the the nominees themselves. We kind of run through them very
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  fast and we talk about who we think's going to win and then we
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  think we talk about who we want to win and then who we who we
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  think is actually. Going to win, yeah.
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  That is coming up and then we have The Game Awards stream
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  coming up as well where we get way too drunk on a work week day
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  and it is no good for anybody, but we have a blast.
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  Can I raise my hand here real quick, Jeff, if there's any, if
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  there's any moment where I can speak to a member of the, the
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  public that that is on, you know, the, the host of this
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  show, Jeff, for the love of God, man, put it on a Friday, a
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  Saturday or a Sunday, because I can call off Monday.
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  I can call off Friday, but I prefer not to.
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  So if you could just like move it to a better day.
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  Earlier in the week call offs, yeah, Wednesdays, but it's but
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  it's still so early. You got to time it right.
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  I don't like calling off like a Friday normally unless it's a
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  Friday and a Monday, but I don't want to do that.
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  I don't want to do that for this.
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  God I love 5. So like, if you do it, he's
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  making noises. I I I can see him making noises.
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  I personally don't mind, you know this is important to me.
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  Who is? I called off today.
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  You are, you don't. You didn't call off today.
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  Oh my God. Anyways, we want to thank our
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  or the nominations. And then next week, our
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  predictions and our picks, please e-mail us at
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  Check all that out. Anyways boys, you ready to just
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  roll right into the shit? I am ready, Nick.
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  Let's go. I will take this fast and then
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  swirl so we got. We slow down for the fun stuff.
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  Yeah, we'll slow down for the fun stuff.
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  This is fun for me, kind of. So we got the best E sports
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  team. I'm not going to read the
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  description. If you want to read the
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  description, I'm not Brody, OK? I'm not fucking Brody.
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  Let's just do this best. E Sports Gen.
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  Dot G League of Legends NRG NRG, sorry Valorant team Falcons Dota
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  2, team liquid pH mobile legends Bang Bang team vitality counter
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  strike two. All right, there's some pretty
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  good picks in there. We got best E sports athlete.
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  We got Brock from he. He plays Valorant, Chovy, League
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  of Legends, Forsaken, Valorant, Kakaru, Street Fighter, Menard,
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  Street Fighter. I wanted to say Menard's so bad
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  right there. And then we got the legendary
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  Zaiwu. OK, so you know who he's voting
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  for on that one, folks. I gave myself away.
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  Do you want me to do this or do? You do you want to go ahead.
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  I got a couple more, I got a couple more, so we got best E
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  sports game that is counter strike 2, Dota 2, League of
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  Legends, mobile legends Bang Bang that and valorants.
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  All of these. We don't have to like talk about
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  the games themselves, but this is a really, I don't really know
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  what Mobile Legends Bang Bang is, but this lineup of games,
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  even with Valorant there, I think it's a pretty solid like
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  stack up for esports in my opinion.
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  Yeah, I mean, I think. Maybe like no Rocket League or
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  something like that, but. Rocket League is kind of free
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  there to obscurity a bit. Yeah, Rocket League was there in
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  years past, but I, I really have AI have an apprehension towards
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  letting something be an E sports game when it's a mobile game
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  like I do. I do too.
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  Maybe we don't get it, I don't know.
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  No, but like. Just gaming platform though.
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  It is, but like I feel like that's like trying to like it's
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  like trying to call like like like EA makes like a flag
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  football in your backyard video game and like they nominate that
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  for best E sports over Madden. Like I don't, I don't know,
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  like, does that make sense? Different.
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  I'd be willing to vote for it over Madden.
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  Well, I mean, I'd be willing to vote for a lot of things over
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  Madden, but like I'm, I'm saying that like like like you have
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  Valorant, League, Dota 2 and Counter Strike two.
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  All all four of those require either a console or a PC of some
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  sort or a laptop. I feel like you should not
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  include something that like a phone in that I don't think an E
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  sport can be played through a phone.
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  I feel like it should require a bit more.
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  Could you? Imagine going to that.
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  Arena. I don't know, watching that.
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  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's not.
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  Just those are a couple of chuds that they're going.
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  Like just like just having on their phone and like I don't
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  even understand what's happening because it's probably like
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  mobile legends also sounds like just a knock off of league.
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  So it's like it is it probably should everything gameplay.
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  It's probably just a knock off of league that is for your phone
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  and like I right then and there. I feel like that also is a
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  conflict Avengers because now you have two leagues on the
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  board. So like I don't think that.
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  I have not a clue what this fucking thing is.
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  This looks so stressful. It is a MOBA.
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  At the very end of the day, it's gonna be like, I'm this isn't
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  the prediction episode, but it's like Counter Strike too, like.
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  Fucking who cares? Yeah, Counter Strike or Dota?
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  All right, I'm gonna take this next one because Nick cannot.
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  He just want to do it because of the one guy on here.
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  No, you always get angry at like 1 of them.
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  So I'm not actually angry at anyone on this list.
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  I'm actually and I'm also going to do this in the way that Brody
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  would appreciate. Rest his soul, he's perfectly.
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  Fine, Brody's fine, he just worked 6 days.
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  He's perfectly fine, perfectly healthy content created the
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  creator of the year for a streamer or content creator who
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  has made an important and positive impact on the
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  community. In 2025 we have Cadrel, Kai
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  Sanat, Moist Critical or Charlie Sekura, Amico and the Burnt
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  Peanut. Bura Amico.
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  I think this is actually like a pretty great lineup, and I say
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  that pretty much because I know three of these people I have I.
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  Know the burnt. Peanut I have not known most of
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  the previous content creators of the year like nominees in the
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  past. That being said, I do like the
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  burnt peanut because we just saw him a lot more, but suffice it
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  to say. He's unhinged.
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  He's crazy, but there's something about, I don't know, I
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  can't really. I feel biased in saying that I
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  like Charlie for this because I just listened to him play Sonar
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  for like 4 weeks straight. Yeah, yeah.
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  So like, I don't feel like that's fair.
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  But yeah, those are your content creator of the year nominees.
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  The next one up is most anticipated game.
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  Do you want to take this one back, Nick?
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  Do you want to take the the reins on this one again or do
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  you want to give it to John? Do you want this?
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  I'll do this 12345, I'll do these four and then I'll let you
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  guys start up top because up tops where it start, I think
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  starts to get really spicy. OK, All right, let's go.
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  I mean, most anticipated games are pretty spicy one, I'll say
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  that. It's pretty spicy, but then
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  we're all sharing the wealth at that point.
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  We are all right. Go on.
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  So. All right, so most anticipated
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  game recognizing an an announced, not unannounced,
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  almost an unannounced an announced game that has
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  demonstrably illustrated potential to push the gaming
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  medium forward. We have Double O 7 First Light
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  by IO Interactive, Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar Games, Marvel's
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  Wolverine, Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment,
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  Resident Evil, Requiem, Capcom, The Witcher 4 CD Project Red.
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  So that's a. Crazy.
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  List. So this is this is a crazy list.
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  And if it's OK, I'd like to spend just some time giving each
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  of us a little bit on this. John, would you like to go
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  first? You've spoken the least so far.
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  Do you want to talk about any of these?
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  I am very much so looking forward to Marvel Wolverine.
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  I'm not going to address the elephant in the room, but I
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  would like to that's. That's.
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  Totally there. I I I've enjoyed all the other
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  Insomniac Spider games, even if I am disappointed by the lack of
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  Spider Man 2's post launch content.
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  Yeah, not a lot of TLC about that.
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  Yeah. Or none.
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  None actually, Sorry. Yeah, yeah.
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  But that said, I'm still looking forward to Wolverine because I
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  love Wolverine. Oh yeah.
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  Yeah, I I agree. Fuck it, I'll address the
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  elephant in the room. Yeah.
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  Wow, delayed again? Hashtag not shocked.
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  Hashtag almost kind of need to go against Rockstar hashtag
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  because bad turning out to be a. Very not good company.
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  I mean, I'm I'm not very like it's one of those things where I
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  I relate to. So I I typically would never,
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  not never. But like typically I don't agree
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  with this because I don't mind being told about things prior to
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  them happening. Like for instance, obviously all
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  these games are most anticipated.
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  None of them are out yet. The closest one to coming out is
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  Resident Evil Requiem and then I think it's double O 7 after that
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  and then it's probably Wolverine.
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  If GTA 6 doesn't get delayed. It's that and then Witcher 4
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  will be the last one to come out on this list.
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  That's my prediction on that in terms of how these get released.
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  But like, I don't know, like at this point I'm one of those
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  people who is like, I've known about GTA six since I was
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  probably 17. We all.
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  I am, I am going to be 26 in 2 1/2 months, three months.
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  So like, sorry, I'm not damn indeed.
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  Like that's what I'm saying. So like it's like I would rather
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  not even know about it. You know what I'm saying?
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  Like, like just tell me. Like I would, I would probably
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  be more hyped if I didn't hear anything from Rockstar for like
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  10 years and then all of a sudden they announced say a week
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  from now and they went, I don't even stop it.
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  I know what you're doing the the listeners can't see it, but I'm
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  looking at your camera. I walk the fuck?
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  It pop feel it. I feel like they can feel it.
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  They can probably blown. They can probably feel it like
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  it was supposed. To be this week.
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  All all I'm saying is like noises.
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  I would rather and this is to to, if anything to your benefit,
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  Nick, like I appreciate if Valve is working on anything that
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  they're not talking about it until it's ready.
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  Whereas I have seen 2 trailers for GTA6 with two different
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  dates. Shit, Wolverine was announced
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  how long ago? That wasn't even that long.
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  Yeah, it was like 2-3. Well, oh, no, I'm sorry.
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  Yeah, no, you're right. Originally, yes, Like the the
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  original trailer was Yeah. That was probably like what,
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  2223 maybe. Yeah, like, yeah, like, and even
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  then that's still less like, that's only like 3-4 years.
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  It's like GTA, we've known, we've known GTA 6 is going to be
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  a game since 2018, since Red Dead 2.
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  Yeah. So like, at the very least
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  you're at, you're nearing, you know, seven years at this point.
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  And I, I just kind of questioned like, what's the benefit in
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  telling people you're working on it at all until it's ready?
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  Like it would be, it would be like I said, it would have more
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  hype if you didn't hear anything from Rockstar from Red Dead 2 to
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  December this year. And they said, hey, GTA6 is
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  this. Here's the page.
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  It's live. Like, we got a page.
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  We got a page with hundreds of images and a detailed
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  description of all six, like, locations.
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  Yeah, a couple trailers. Like they were ready to release
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  it, if not at the end of this year, sometime at the beginning
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  of Next. And yeah, something's happening
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  where they have to keep delaying it.
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  So like, yeah, like, I don't know.
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  That being said, I'm actually excited for all of the games on
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  this list. Wolverine probably being the
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  most exciting one for me because as excited as I am for GTA6, I
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  have a sour taste in my mouth now.
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  I mean. Wait.
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  To to bring that up, yes, while as a fan of that.
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  What's that it? Sucks half Life.
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  As a fan of half life it sucks not knowing anything.
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  But then you see what 1 little thing can do for an entire week
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  on Twitter every news cycle it was like OK, Valve released new
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  hardware. You'd have to.
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  Assume it would be so half life that's.
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  Our game too, not worse, but like on the same level.
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  It was on the same level, but now people, now it's been
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  delayed again. It's the Half Life train.
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  Now everyone's like, OK, when's that coming?
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  Because that's what we want anyways.
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  And we also want that. But like, when's that coming?
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  You think it'll launch with the console itself?
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  Half Life 3. Not just be announced, but like
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  launched, yes, like the shadow dropping because I want to.
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  Predict if they if they have some release with I don't think
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  they'll shadow drop it, but if they have some sort of.
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  Tactical thing. If they have a release package
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  with it where you get some sort of game I believe yes it would
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  be half life or whatever HLX or. Whatever Half Life is doing.
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  Next whatever that thing is going to be will probably be
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  yeah, I mean cuz that's inherently that's the way that
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  you bought an Xbox 360 back in the day, right?
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  You bought that. What'd you get?
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  You got like Forza and you you've got Gears of War like and
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  with an Xbox 360 Halo, you got you got like a burnout paradise
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  and a Halo or something like, you know, you got something like
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  that or you know, you got APS 4 and you got the next uncharted
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  or the you know, something like that.
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  Like. A couple years, I think you have
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  to have something. Buying graphics cards, getting
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  bundled with whatever game was hot at the time, Yeah.
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  That's exactly right. So yeah, I I do think they'll do
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  like that, but to really focus on this list, it's a it's a it's
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  a power. No, it, but this is a
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  powerhouse. This is a great place alone for
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  20, for 2026 alone. I mean, you got the Witcher 4,
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  you got the next resumes. Fucking Wolverine is going to
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  tear into everything next year. Wolverine's going to be
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  fantastic. You know, and just like in a in
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  a universe that's perfect, that also releases alongside all
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  these games. The the weakest list in my
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  opinion or the weak? The weakest one in my opinion
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  across this list is probably a double, probably double O 7
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  because we saw a lot of early footage of it and it did not
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  look very like. The interesting thing about the
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  subtitle of this category is that pushing the it's the
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  potential to push the gaming medium forward where I think
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  first like does has not really showed that it can push the
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  medium forward. It's just, yeah, it's just a
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  James Bond game which has not come out in a very long time.
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  But like, yeah, I'm telling you, if it was a James Bond game and
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  it came out and it played just like a Hitman game, it wouldn't
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  really be that much of A pushing it forward sort of thing.
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  It's just more of like it's a rebranding and in essence.
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  But yeah, to move on from it. I think this list is going to be
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  great though. I'm very excited for Resident
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  Evil. That's a huge, big game for me.
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  So yeah, I keep forgetting that we're so close to it.
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  I'm excited. To watch you.
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  Can I take this one real quick? Yeah, I know what you're about
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  to do. So yes, I.
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  Don't think you know what I'm about to do but.
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  I don't think. This is.
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  Jockey. This is for best adaptation,
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  which is recognizing outstanding, outstanding
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  creative work that faithfully and authentically adapts a video
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  game to another entertainment medium.
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  Pay attention to those words, folks.
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  Faithfully and authentically. A Minecraft movie by Legendary
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  Pictures, Mojang and IT. Was faithful.
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  Devil May Cry by Studio Mirror, Capcom and Netflix.
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  Splinter Cell, Deathwatch Didn't even know that came out by
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  Faust, Sun Creature, Ubisoft and Netflix.
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  The Last of Us Season 2 by HBO, PlayStation Productions and
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  Until Dawn by Screen Gems and PlayStation Productions.
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  Here's what I'll say about this list.
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  Other than a Minecraft movie, Devil May Cry, and potentially
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  Splinter Cell Death Watch, I really question why you have
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  most of these on the list. They're bad.
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  Like I actually, I'm sorry, I take that back.
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  I take the other three off of this.
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  Why do you have any? I don't even know like where,
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  why? Devil May Cry is sick.
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  Sure. Well if it was good then OK,
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  I'll take that back. But I have to ask where it
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  didn't on the Hedgehog 3 come out this year?
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  No. Yes, it did.
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  Wait, did it really? I know it came out 2020. 4 came.
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  Out 2024 never. Mind my bad.
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  OK, all right. But like I gotta say, I feel
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  like this is. Not worst twisted metal.
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  Twisted Metal season? Twisted Metal is not on here.
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  I feel like there's a couple other things we're missing that
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  aren't on here that should be. I don't think the last of a
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  season 2 should be on here at all.
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  I don't think Until Dawn should be on here at all.
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  That's also awful. I don't think either of those
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  should be on here. This is the most obvious thing
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  of we paid for these to be on here please.
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  OK, so the thing with Minecraft though, culturally as a moment,
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  it did its. Thing it was like it.
• 20:19
  May not be a good movie. I don't care.
• 20:22
  That thing came to theaters and went boom.
• 20:25
  I'm here, right? If it was made for children and
• 20:28
  children really liked it, which it was, then it succeeded.
• 20:31
  You know, as much as I personally might not like the
• 20:33
  movie, it wasn't made for me. Yeah, no, yeah, no, it just
• 20:37
  wasn't made for us. No, I still had fun watching the
• 20:41
  unfinished version. Yeah, yeah, that was fun.
• 20:44
  That was that was a blast. I mean out of all these I'd
• 20:48
  probably vote for Splinter Cell or a Minecraft movie because I
• 20:50
  actually watched the Minecraft movie.
• 20:52
  But I do want to watch the Splinter Cell Death Watch series
• 20:56
  because I feel like that has some potential but I could not
• 21:02
  care about the rest in this list.
• 21:05
  Sorry you. Know like I actually watched the
• 21:07
  Minecraft movie. But I mean, I did because
• 21:12
  everything else in here I did not watch other than the first
• 21:14
  two episodes. I think of season 2 and like I
• 21:17
  didn't really like there was a moment I think somebody told me
• 21:20
  so sorry, it was it was sorry, spoilers if you haven't seen it.
• 21:24
  But like the the moment when I saw that Ellie in the season 2
• 21:28
  or in season 2 of the Last of Us went, I'm going to be a dad.
• 21:32
  I was like, you've lost the entire.
• 21:33
  Time it's not even like a woke thing on our end we just.
• 21:36
  Really. No, it's not.
• 21:37
  No, it's not. It's actually completely.
• 21:39
  It's actually just very honest or sorry.
• 21:42
  It's her. Saying that, in my opinion, is
• 21:46
  very dishonest to the original idea of the character.
• 21:50
  She was pit. We're not gonna dive into it.
• 21:52
  I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get into the whole thing, but in
• 21:54
  essence, in the game, when Ellie learns that fact, she is less
• 21:59
  than pleased. She's very upset about that.
• 22:01
  She's very, very disappointed. She's very disappointed in Dina
• 22:05
  and very mad at Dina for lying about that the whole journey.
• 22:08
  So like that's all I'll say on it.
• 22:10
  So like that. But that was the moment where as
• 22:13
  a longtime fan, I just, I heard it and I went, OK, you're not
• 22:15
  doing anything fun or new or interesting.
• 22:19
  You're changing things because you're just changing things.
• 22:22
  It doesn't really have a further point to it I guess, if that
• 22:25
  means. Trying to put yourself into a
• 22:27
  box, man, It's like, come on. Right.
• 22:29
  So anyway, that's a pretty fun category though.
• 22:32
  I think that's going to be fun when we when we predict them
• 22:35
  next. Week if Minecraft doesn't
• 22:36
  fucking when I'm going to freak the fuck?
• 22:38
  Out I'm voting for Yeah, no, I. Won't but anyways.
• 22:43
  Predictions next week. Yes.
• 22:45
  Whatever. Who wants to take?
• 22:47
  Who wants to take best multiplayer?
• 22:48
  Who wants to do that? I haven't done 1 yet so I guess
• 22:52
  I will. There you go.
• 22:55
  Cool. So best multiplayer Oh God,
• 23:00
  where'd it go Oh God, where'd it go?
• 23:02
  Oh God, where'd it go? We.
• 23:06
  We professional podcast. Punk cast.
• 23:09
  Someone else say someone else say I can't.
• 23:12
  R Raiders, Battlefield 6. Yes, the.
• 23:16
  Elden Ring, Night, Rain Peak and split fiction.
• 23:21
  This is tough. This is a great list.
• 23:24
  This is a great list, and that's why it's tough.
• 23:27
  I have an idea to wrap this. I keep going at them.
• 23:29
  I had strolled on the website. I don't, I don't think I wish.
• 23:34
  No, no, no, no, no, because I understand they don't want to.
• 23:37
  They don't want to muddy the the waters and making like a bunch
• 23:39
  of different categories. But like I feel like split
• 23:41
  fictions at a disadvantage here because it's not multiplayer,
• 23:44
  it's coop. It's coop that's.
• 23:46
  Technically. It is.
• 23:49
  But but like, yeah. Yeah, OK.
• 23:51
  You think multiplayer? You think big PvP games or or?
• 23:56
  Battlefield say well. Larger multiplayer games like
• 23:59
  Peak has like 6 player. Lobbies but like even looking at
• 24:01
  this right like peak has six player lobbies, split fictions
• 24:04
  2, Elden ring night rain is 3, battlefield 6 is 64 and arc
• 24:08
  Raiders is probably like 40 to 60 maybe depending on the map.
• 24:13
  So like Battlefield and ARC have little?
• 24:15
  Robot game. Robot game.
• 24:18
  Yeah, what's our little robot guy game?
• 24:20
  Astropot. No, no, no.
• 24:23
  What are you thinking? Of repo.
• 24:25
  Repo. Could have done great here I
• 24:26
  think. I think if you had two of the
• 24:28
  friend slap games and then the rest AAA that'd be great.
• 24:32
  Friend slap. I think it was last year though.
• 24:34
  Yeah, it was probably last year. Fuck.
• 24:38
  I just feel like split fiction's at a disadvantage and so is Peak
• 24:41
  because they don't really. No peak not so much, but split
• 24:44
  fiction is also that's part of what I guess probably the, the
• 24:47
  better way to put this is that split fiction is 2 people on a
• 24:51
  linear story, whereas peak has different biomes and like sort
• 24:56
  of, you know, variants of the maps.
• 24:58
  Eldon Ring, same way you can have varying different night
• 25:02
  Lords and all that sort of stuff depending on the days and who
• 25:05
  you pick. There's a lot more coming back
• 25:07
  to peak as opposed to split fiction because it's different.
• 25:11
  Everyday like like split fiction is a game where you finish it,
• 25:13
  you you play with a buddy or two and you I yeah, I had a blast of
• 25:17
  it with you. It was it was a total like just
• 25:19
  joy to play like a like all those like all those games from
• 25:23
  Hazlitt studios are like a way out.
• 25:25
  It takes 2. I didn't play it takes 2, but
• 25:28
  like I've known them all to be very, very fun.
• 25:31
  So like, that's why I feel it's just not fair to it because like
• 25:35
  it's a great game. I don't want it to lose in this
• 25:37
  category if it's in the only category it's in because it's
• 25:40
  just not like the others. That being said, this is a
• 25:43
  really hard choice for me to pick and I'm glad that I'm
• 25:45
  looking at it now because I'm not.
• 25:46
  This is a very tough pick. This is very, very good.
• 25:49
  Like this whole list is great. Yeah.
• 25:52
  Oh, yeah. All right.
• 25:55
  All. Right.
• 25:55
  Who wants the boring one? I'll take this because I know I
• 25:59
  know none of y'all will want it. The next one is for best sports
• 26:03
  and or slash racing games. For the best traditional and non
• 26:06
  traditional sports and racing game you have EA Sports
• 26:10
  FC26-F-125, Mario Kart World rematch, and Sonic Racing Cross
• 26:15
  worlds. A decent list.
• 26:20
  I'm sure Mario Kart will probably take it because it's
• 26:23
  just widely loved. However I'm an F1 fanboy and I'm
• 26:28
  just if anything I'm very happy to see it nominated again
• 26:31
  because that just kind of shows it's staying power even though
• 26:34
  Forza didn't get released this year.
• 26:35
  I think even if a Forza did it probably wouldn't have kicked
• 26:39
  off F1 from the list. I feel like if anything it
• 26:42
  probably would have kicked off rematch, which for those I don't
• 26:45
  know if you 2 have played it at all, rematch is.
• 26:47
  Soccer. Game rematch is pretty fun.
• 26:49
  I cannot play. Rematch.
• 26:51
  Rematch feels like a very it's like almost like sort of like a
• 26:56
  fun rocket league, like in terms of the ease of access to it,
• 27:01
  like, but it's there's no obvious like boosters or
• 27:06
  superpower. You know, you don't have
• 27:07
  anything like that. You're just soccer players.
• 27:09
  But like it's just arcade D and like I prefer that over I mean,
• 27:12
  honestly, the other one on this list, which is FC-26 like that's
• 27:15
  like if anything feels more simulatory to me.
• 27:21
  Best same strategy. Anyone want to take this or I'll
• 27:23
  run through it real? Quick.
• 27:25
  John, do you want? To try, yeah, yeah, you.
• 27:27
  Got your page ready? Yeah, I I got it, I got it.
• 27:29
  Shut up, shut up, shut up. Best in strategy game.
• 27:34
  The best game focused on real time or term based simulation or
• 27:38
  strategy gameplay irrespective of platform.
• 27:41
  I'll be so honest, I don't know most of these names.
• 27:45
  I do however, know Final Fantasy Tactics.
• 27:47
  It was a game from my childhood. Loved the hell out of it.
• 27:50
  Glad it's getting a remaster. Sid Myers, from what I heard,
• 27:55
  didn't do fantastic. Yeah, it's not very well
• 28:00
  received when it when it dropped in like February of this year
• 28:03
  too is very early. But yeah, I I'm not sure what
• 28:13
  the altars or Tempest rising even is.
• 28:16
  I'll be, I'll be honest, I I guess I'm a piece of shit for
• 28:19
  not knowing that. I mean, I didn't play any of
• 28:22
  these games. This isn't my game though.
• 28:25
  These aren't my games. The the authors I heard was kind
• 28:28
  of a very interesting story. 2 Point Museum is another nominee
• 28:31
  as well as I mean, I don't know, I think like Jurassic World
• 28:37
  evolution 3 is probably the big one, right?
• 28:40
  Like that's like, I mean they I. Would think so.
• 28:42
  They've made so many of them in just the past year, like or two.
• 28:46
  Like it's and they're they're doing good.
• 28:47
  They Tempest all flown under my radar.
• 28:49
  I didn't know about the first two games.
• 28:51
  Tempest Rising looks like some sort of Command and Conquer
• 28:53
  clone, I'm not going to lie, just like looking at the artwork
• 28:55
  on the page. Fun.
• 28:56
  Then you. Know, I mean, yeah, that that
• 28:58
  could, yeah. Like that could be actually
• 28:59
  pretty, pretty exciting. Like, yeah, I would actually be
• 29:02
  about that. I wish I'd played any of these.
• 29:05
  The only one I played was Sieve 7, and yeah, it was.
• 29:09
  It felt like a mobile game, like the UI, and like it felt very
• 29:13
  cheap, which was not a very cool thing to feel after you spent a
• 29:17
  minimum $70 on it. Yeah, just to play again.
• 29:21
  Which I won't tell, I won't say, but like I paid like I think 85
• 29:24
  or 90 to play it early. So like, you know, I want to
• 29:27
  talk about it. Yeah, fool.
• 29:28
  Yeah, don't do that. I've told you over and over.
• 29:30
  Again, I know I keep falling for it.
• 29:32
  They keep getting me. They keep getting me.
• 29:34
  Nick, I feel like you. Nick, I feel like you should do
• 29:36
  this next category because you're the only one here that
• 29:39
  has a family. I was gonna make the joke as to
• 29:42
  I'm taking this because I have a child and a wife.
• 29:45
  This is the best family category.
• 29:47
  For the best game appropriate for family play, irrespective of
• 29:51
  genre or platform, we got Donkey Kong Bonanza.
• 29:55
  Fuck yeah. Lego Party?
• 29:57
  Fuck yeah, dude. Lego Voyagers.
• 29:59
  Yeah, buddy, That's the game we all looked at last year or a
• 30:03
  year and a half ago. We're like, we gotta play this.
• 30:05
  I don't go party was. No it.
• 30:07
  Was bold. It was bold cuz Lego party
• 30:10
  looked like the Fortnite type Mario party, Lego whatever.
• 30:15
  Lego Voyagers was the game. We were like, I have to play
• 30:17
  this game. Lego Voyagers had like the a lot
• 30:20
  more building involved. It seemed like you you ended up
• 30:22
  build like together or something.
• 30:24
  I'll look it up. But yeah, that looked.
• 30:25
  Like a lot of fun. Fucking awesome, dude.
• 30:29
  Dude, I look like a fucking ghoul in this camera right now.
• 30:31
  What the fuck? It's like I'm stroking out.
• 30:35
  Oh sorry, Lego. Lego Voyagers is also only two
• 30:38
  players. Just wanted to point that out
• 30:39
  before you started reading anything else off This funny
• 30:41
  birdie is on his wish list. Wow, dude, I want to play that
• 30:44
  game so bad. We got Mario Kart World and
• 30:47
  Sonic Racing and Split Fiction. All all great games, man.
• 30:53
  Yeah, like, these are all games that I would love to play with
• 30:57
  my son. They're all games I should be
• 30:59
  playing with my son. Don Kong Manza, Split Fiction.
• 31:06
  I, I I'd, I'd play. I would play that with Perry
• 31:10
  Bonanza though is the game. I would.
• 31:13
  Would you say bitch? You should you should play split
• 31:15
  fiction in front of Landon with Perry as like you 2 together
• 31:19
  playing and then you should play A way out with Landon.
• 31:23
  So you're like you and me are in jail, son.
• 31:25
  How are you gonna? Help me get out of this boy.
• 31:29
  Yeah, how are you gonna help me get out of here?
• 31:31
  All great games. This is a great category.
• 31:33
  It gets better and better each year.
• 31:35
  Tons of good stuff here SO. I'm still confused why they
• 31:38
  didn't call it Donkey Kong Bananas.
• 31:41
  I feel like that's. Such a huge issue.
• 31:42
  I feel like, I feel like it went to the drawing board and they
• 31:46
  went. That's just too much.
• 31:47
  Here, I'm gonna run through the next one real quick cuz I know
• 31:51
  none of us have played any of these, and then John can take
• 31:53
  the next one. Yeah, so this is the next one.
• 31:57
  The nominees for best fighting, which is the for the best game
• 32:00
  designed primarily around head to head combat.
• 32:02
  We have two XKO, Capcom Fighting Collection 2, Sorry.
• 32:07
  Two XKO is by Riot Games, Capcom Fighting Collection 2 is
• 32:10
  obviously by Capcom. Fatal Fury City of the Wolves is
• 32:14
  by SNK Corporation. Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection
• 32:18
  with AK for collection 'cause they're going to be cool.
• 32:22
  Digital Eclipse Slash, Atari, Nick's side when I said that.
• 32:26
  Virtua Fighter Five, Revo World Stage by Ryuga, Gotoku Studio
• 32:33
  and Sega. Like I said, I don't think any
• 32:37
  of us have played any of these. I know for a fact that Birdie
• 32:40
  has. Birdie and Steve have both
• 32:42
  played I think 2X KO. I think they played two XKO.
• 32:46
  I've only heard things about two XKO.
• 32:48
  I've heard that's something. I've heard good things.
• 32:50
  Yes, I've heard it's good. But by default I've only heard
• 32:53
  things about it. Yes.
• 32:55
  I have not touched a single one of these.
• 32:57
  So yeah, I figured we'd just run through those, John.
• 33:01
  The sex top The sex category. G for the best game designed
• 33:06
  with rich player character customization and progression so
• 33:10
  the nominees are Avowed Expedition 33, Kingdom Come,
• 33:14
  Deliverance 2, Monster Hunter Wilds, and The Outer Worlds 2.
• 33:18
  I have the benefit of playing most of the games on this list.
• 33:21
  I actually played about through and enjoyed it a lot.
• 33:25
  I have the hour rolls too. Haven't played it very much but
• 33:30
  I've been on a kick on something else.
• 33:33
  Everyone I know you played KCV 2 and Birdie who is not here
• 33:37
  played Wilds and I've played the shit out of Expedition 30.
• 33:41
  Three, you and Birdie both have played that and I've played
• 33:44
  around, it sounds like, I think nearly 30 hours or something
• 33:49
  like that now. So I mean, yeah, this is a great
• 33:53
  list. I like this this.
• 33:56
  Is so stacked. This is Monster Hunter's a long
• 33:59
  running, beloved franchise. Yes.
• 34:03
  And the rest are, you know, somewhat newer to the scene.
• 34:07
  You know, Monster Hunter's definitely the veteran here.
• 34:10
  Yeah. Yeah, I mean Claire, I know
• 34:12
  Claire. Obscure Expedition 33 and Avowed
• 34:15
  are completely new like. New new IPS from I believe.
• 34:19
  No, not new from new studios, but new IPS.
• 34:23
  I I don't know if sand fall interactive is like completely
• 34:25
  new or if this was just like a new IP.
• 34:27
  Stand all their first game. This is their first game.
• 34:30
  This is their first game and Obsidian obviously has created
• 34:32
  like Fallout New Vegas and yes, the Outer Wilds one, which is
• 34:37
  interesting actually just to see now they're both they're they're
• 34:39
  nominated twice on this list for both their games, which is very
• 34:43
  impressive. For that a little bit.
• 34:44
  Yeah, they are very impressive for for both of them.
• 34:50
  This is tough for me. I like, I'm not going to say
• 34:53
  like everything about this, but obviously I'm partial to KCD 2
• 35:00
  because wow just like even looking at the list like if I
• 35:07
  really look at this list, the only two games on on here that
• 35:10
  are from like indie or first time studios would be Sandfall
• 35:13
  Interactive in War Horse studios.
• 35:15
  War Horse studios has the benefit of making KCD one, but
• 35:18
  they did not have the budget for it for what they wanted to do.
• 35:22
  They have like they they were So what really stuck with me was
• 35:26
  how honest they were and that Kingdom come deliverance 2 is
• 35:30
  not some sort of grand remake of the first game or some sort of
• 35:34
  completely new system or new way of understanding things.
• 35:38
  They were very much just like this is how it's going to to
• 35:43
  work in this and that we've had more time and money to improve
• 35:46
  on these systems and you're going to enjoy the rest of Henry
• 35:49
  story and like that felt great. You know, that felt incredible
• 35:54
  the way that Expedition 33 does, which I'm still not done with,
• 35:59
  but. It's a.
• 36:01
  It's a stacked list. It is a stacked.
• 36:03
  This, this is a stack. I truthfully could not be upset
• 36:08
  if any of these won. I don't think if I had to pick
• 36:11
  out one, I don't think Eval's gonna win.
• 36:13
  You know, a lot of people really didn't fuck with it.
• 36:16
  I think I passed. I liked it personally.
• 36:19
  I would be surprised if KCD 2 won just because it was so early
• 36:22
  in the year. Yeah, I guess it does have that
• 36:25
  debt to his detriment. A lot of people loved it.
• 36:28
  I feel like E 33 wins this though, because I think it, I
• 36:31
  feel like just there's some sort of there's some, there's
• 36:33
  something around in the culture of games where where Expedition
• 36:37
  33 seems to be talked about more than anything else.
• 36:40
  Like when people bring it up, it is not brought up as like, Oh
• 36:44
  yeah, it was a fun game I played this year.
• 36:46
  It was brought up as this is single handedly the best game
• 36:49
  I've played this year by far out of all the other games I've
• 36:51
  played, including Outer Worlds 2, KCD 2, Monster Hunter Wilds,
• 36:54
  Avowed, Battlefield Arc, whatever.
• 36:57
  You know any other any of the other games we've passed on this
• 36:59
  list so far. I feel like it's just going to
• 37:02
  sweep that that. I don't want to talk too much
• 37:05
  about it because it's this is not the episode for that, but I
• 37:07
  feel like E 33 is going to win. Me too.
• 37:11
  We'll talk about it. All right, We got best action
• 37:17
  adventure. This list is incredible.
• 37:21
  We have Death Stranding 2 on the beach.
• 37:25
  First Ghost of Yo Tie is Yep, first nomination for it.
• 37:29
  Ghost of Yo Tie, Hollow Night, Silk Song, Indiana Jones of the
• 37:34
  Great Circle, and Split Fiction. Any of these could win, and I
• 37:39
  mean any of them could win and I'm happy here.
• 37:46
  Yeah, I'm I'm honestly happy with any a single one of these
• 37:49
  winning. I'm probably more partial to
• 37:51
  Indiana Jones cuz it's the one I've played the most other than
• 37:53
  Death Stranding too. But Indiana Jones had more
• 37:59
  puzzle solving I feel than Death String.
• 38:02
  No, I take that back. They're just different types of
• 38:03
  puzzles. Yeah, so.
• 38:05
  That's all I'll say on that. But like, yeah, I'm happy with
• 38:09
  any one of these winning. Like I could not feel bad about
• 38:14
  any one of them like, or feel like one of them didn't deserve
• 38:16
  it, you know, like they, they're all incredible.
• 38:20
  I personally hold a little bit of a personal grudge towards a
• 38:22
  sucker punch. Nothing to do with the ghost or
• 38:24
  Gute itself, but they abandoned my my one of my favorite series
• 38:28
  ever. Infamous.
• 38:29
  Yeah, I want. Infamous.
• 38:30
  Back left it in the dust. I would love infamous an
• 38:34
  infamous, an infamous game on like APS 5 pro.
• 38:36
  Dude, I can't even imagine that would be incredible.
• 38:41
  But yeah, no, as you both have said, this list is huge.
• 38:45
  Any of these could win. They all kind of deserve it in
• 38:47
  their own ways. Yeah.
• 38:50
  They all do. Yeah, I agree.
• 38:52
  They all deserve it. All very incredible games.
• 38:56
  All right. Is this me for best action?
• 38:59
  If you want it. I'll take it.
• 39:01
  Best action game for the best game in the action genre focus
• 39:04
  primarily on combat. We have Battlefield 6 from
• 39:07
  Battlefield Studios and EA Doom The Dark Ages, the first
• 39:10
  nomination for it on this list, Hades 2 or Sorry Doom the Dark
• 39:16
  Ages by ID Software and Bethesda Softworks, and now Hades 2, the
• 39:20
  first nomination for it on this list from Super Giant Games.
• 39:23
  Ninja Gaiden 4 the first nomination for it on this list
• 39:26
  from Platinum Games, Team Ninja and Xbox Game Studios, and
• 39:30
  Shinobi. Art of Vengeance, the first
• 39:32
  nomination for it on the list of nominations from Lizard Cube and
• 39:35
  Sega. To be perfectly honest guys,
• 39:39
  I've only played Battlefield 6 in Doom so I can't really speak
• 39:42
  about. This there is one clear winner
• 39:45
  on this list. You think it's doom?
• 39:48
  It's Haiti's doom. What?
• 39:52
  Whoa, I can't. I feel like it was wild.
• 39:55
  There's a communication breakdown here fellas.
• 39:57
  Do we have different opinions on this?
• 39:59
  What do you think? Static.
• 40:01
  The biggest blood in my ears. You.
• 40:04
  Should probably check that. Fucking mad.
• 40:06
  What's what's your prediction or not prediction but like what did
• 40:09
  you mean by clear winner? Oh dude, come.
• 40:14
  On no, I'm waiting for you to answer it.
• 40:16
  Dude, that's. Our deficient.
• 40:18
  That's what I thought. That's what I thought.
• 40:19
  I'll, I'll, I'll be honest. I OK.
• 40:21
  So we all have a different pick here I guess.
• 40:25
  Nah, cuz like, in my opinion, if I had to choose a multiplayer
• 40:30
  game, it probably would have been Battlefield.
• 40:32
  So like Doom would fit an action game for me on this list.
• 40:35
  That's the only other one I played in.
• 40:36
  Like Battlefield's a great game, but I wouldn't consider it an
• 40:39
  action game for sure. Does that make sense?
• 40:41
  Like like it's a shooter. Yeah.
• 40:43
  It just has a lot of other shit going on.
• 40:44
  But like, Doom's an action game. I haven't played 82.
• 40:48
  I want to though. I feel like that'd be a lot.
• 40:50
  Of fun. Battlefield is an action game as
• 40:52
  a sub genre of being a multiplayer shooter game.
• 40:56
  Right. Exactly.
• 40:57
  Yeah. The nature of the.
• 40:59
  Doom is a single player action game like that is what you're
• 41:03
  there for. Adventure.
• 41:04
  Not even a part of it like you kind of like.
• 41:07
  Adventure's definitely there now.
• 41:09
  Though I mean it's there, but it's not in the same.
• 41:11
  Well, actually, I would call it more of an action adventure game
• 41:14
  than most other publications would probably consider it
• 41:17
  because you got to think how many times if you're, if you're
• 41:20
  trying to 100% it right, you're going back there maybe a couple
• 41:22
  times trying to get every armor piece or whatever, you know, all
• 41:26
  the little things they had you collect.
• 41:28
  So yeah, I mean, I give it that for sure.
• 41:30
  I mean, yeah, I love this list. That's pretty great.
• 41:34
  Yeah, it's good. All right, you got this one,
• 41:37
  John, or you want me to take this one?
• 41:41
  ERAR right? Yeah.
• 41:43
  Yeah, I got it. I got it.
• 41:44
  I got it. So for the best experience
• 41:48
  playable and virtual augmented reality alien rogue incursion
• 41:52
  from Servios ARC and AIDS from Virtu Virtuvuous VRI.
• 41:59
  Hope that's how you pronounce that.
• 42:00
  Virtuvuous, yes. My bad, first time I've seen
• 42:03
  that. Word I've never seen.
• 42:06
  It Ghost Town you are an English major Ghost Town, Fireproof
• 42:09
  Games, Marvel's Deadpool, Twisted Pixel Games and Oculus
• 42:13
  Studios and The Midnight Walk, Moonhood and Fast Travel games.
• 42:18
  These are all being nominated for Simon the List.
• 42:23
  I. Haven't played any of them.
• 42:26
  I haven't played any of them I I rogue.
• 42:28
  Incursion your headset. Rogue Incursion is out, and
• 42:31
  that's the only one I've actually heard of other than
• 42:35
  Marvel's Deadpool, so. I have roses to give you, Evan.
• 42:39
  You have roses to give me. You were right, I did try
• 42:43
  playing Alien Rogue Incursion, the non VR version.
• 42:47
  Oh yeah. Didn't enjoy it one bit.
• 42:50
  Really. That sucks it.
• 42:52
  Just it just felt it. You could tell I'm I'm like, oh,
• 42:59
  I'm supposed to be actually interacting here.
• 43:02
  Right, right. OK.
• 43:04
  Like, like I know, like the reviewers, like it's great.
• 43:07
  And I'm like, you're lying. Yeah, so like I, I, I feel very
• 43:14
  bad about that because that's a lot of time and I'm certain
• 43:18
  money wasted on making something that I'm sure people who played
• 43:21
  the VR game did not feel good about.
• 43:23
  And obviously like yourself, like you noticed it.
• 43:27
  I have not played it, so I can't speak as to how it feels to play
• 43:32
  in the VR version. I, I, if I can make the room, I
• 43:34
  will probably try and get it and play it this weekend.
• 43:39
  I'm partial to Deadpool VR on this list because of our fantasy
• 43:42
  critic. So that's.
• 43:45
  Midnight Walk, I really wanna play that.
• 43:47
  That looks interesting. So it's more doing down.
• 43:49
  I'm excited for Deadpool VR because I think it's gonna be
• 43:53
  very well voice acted and I think it's gonna have some
• 43:57
  pretty fun combat. It's just more or less how
• 44:02
  optimized it is and how good it looks for me at that point, you
• 44:05
  know? Patrick Harris, right?
• 44:07
  Yes, he is the voice of Deadpool and he does a very good job just
• 44:10
  from the trailer. So I'm very interested to see,
• 44:13
  very interested to see that. Boy, I did not like that.
• 44:16
  I'll take this one for the team if.
• 44:18
  I have to speed run. I'll speed run this one.
• 44:23
  Best mobile game for the best game playable on a mobile
• 44:25
  device. Destiny rising from net ease
• 44:28
  games Persona 5 the phantom X from black wings game studio and
• 44:32
  Sega, Sonic rumble from Rovio entertainment and Sega Uma
• 44:37
  musume. Pretty Derby from side games Inc
• 44:41
  and weathering waves Curro game from Curro games.
• 44:45
  I have heard of none of these. Congratulations and or sorry for
• 44:49
  your loss to whoever wins and or loses this one.
• 44:51
  Uma Musa may I already know. I only know.
• 44:54
  It's like anime horse girls. Good luck, Sonic.
• 44:59
  I agree. Good luck, Sonic.
• 45:01
  Here's one we'll go through real quick.
• 45:04
  Best debut indie game? Yeah.
• 45:08
  For the best debut game created by a new independent studio,
• 45:11
  Blueprints Dogu, Bomb and Raw Fury, Claire Obscure Again,
• 45:16
  Expedition 33, Sanfel Interactive and Kepler
• 45:18
  Interactive, Dust, Beloat from Julian Cordero and Sebastian
• 45:24
  Val, Buena and Panic, and then Dispatch from Ad Hoc Studio.
• 45:31
  Think we all know. I think we're all partial to to
• 45:34
  one on there, but maybe not John.
• 45:36
  Well. You know, I hold the opinion
• 45:40
  that Expedition 33 should not actually be on this list.
• 45:44
  OK, backed by Microsoft or? No, no, no.
• 45:48
  Kepler Interactive is a publisher that makes Expedition
• 45:53
  33 a not indie game in in of its definition.
• 45:57
  I agree. Yeah, as much as I love, as much
• 46:01
  as I love Expedition 33, I just don't think it's fair.
• 46:05
  To point out on this list, Ad Hoc Studio for Dispatch is the
• 46:08
  only one that is not presented with a slash for another
• 46:12
  developer, publisher, whatever there it is.
• 46:13
  Just ad hoc. It is just ad hoc.
• 46:16
  Ad hoc, yes. Not Hawk.
• 46:18
  Hawk West. All right, next one, who wants
• 46:21
  to take this? Best independent game.
• 46:26
  We got Absalom guard crush games, super monks and dote MU
• 46:34
  dote MU MU. I don't know ball ball X pit,
• 46:38
  Kenny son, Devolver blueprints again, really quick to to touch
• 46:43
  on blueprints. This game took the Internet by
• 46:45
  storm for a minute there when it released.
• 46:47
  So look into blueprints. That's dogu bomb and raw fury,
• 46:52
  expedition 33, sandful interactive and Kepler hades 2
• 46:58
  super giant games and hollow knight silk song.
• 47:01
  Team cherry. Great list.
• 47:04
  Also we should we should note Megabonk took itself off the
• 47:08
  best indie game. Yes.
• 47:10
  List yes because the the developer said hey this tekli is
• 47:15
  not my first game so no good on. It independent debut though, or
• 47:22
  is that the same list? That that was best.
• 47:26
  Let's see. It was it was the indie game
• 47:28
  best. Debut indie game Yeah.
• 47:31
  So yeah, no, I mean, this is a great list for these independent
• 47:36
  games. Like I said, Blueprints really
• 47:40
  had its moment in the sun and people were like, holy shit,
• 47:42
  this game is wild. If you want like something crazy
• 47:45
  to check out that you're not expecting, go check that out.
• 47:47
  Silk Song is fucking. Silk Song literally crashed
• 47:51
  everything. Yeah, it did.
• 47:53
  Literally. And I mean, every game here is
• 47:56
  just awesome. So go check these games out.
• 48:01
  Who's got this one? John, I think you should take
• 48:03
  it. I'll go for Best Community
• 48:04
  Sport, Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios, Final Fantasy 14.
• 48:13
  Thank you. Evans.
• 48:14
  Great Enix, Fortnite, Epic Games, Hell Divers 2, Arrowhead.
• 48:22
  I'm gonna need you to go back. I got an Arrow 405.
• 48:27
  He'll never sue Arrowhead. No man's guy from Hello Games.
• 48:33
  I have never ending love for Boulders Gate 3 don't get me
• 48:36
  wrong, but Hello Games is really kind of just knocked it out of
• 48:40
  the park consistently update after update.
• 48:43
  I think we have said, I think we have all said that Brody, Mick,
• 48:47
  myself, you and anyone else who's been on these, like at one
• 48:50
  point or another, for the past and for every time it's been and
• 48:54
  for every time No Man's Sky has been nominated, we have always
• 48:57
  pointed out how hard those guys are.
• 49:00
  Like that entire studio works to make No Man's Sky better.
• 49:04
  And I, I, I hope I don't remember how many times they've
• 49:06
  wanted, if they've wanted at all, but I hope they get their
• 49:08
  flowers this time because man, the world's updates, they do the
• 49:13
  like, they've just completely transformed it.
• 49:15
  It's been really impressive. And that's saying something
• 49:17
  compared to Fortnite, Hell Divers and Baldersgate.
• 49:22
  Those are the only other three I play on the list.
• 49:24
  And Baldersgate has given us some pretty great stuff.
• 49:27
  Larian's been. And I wish I could say more
• 49:30
  about Hollow Divers too because I love that as well, but with
• 49:33
  the current state of the game it's damn near unplayable.
• 49:37
  It's very damn. In good conscious, vote for it
• 49:42
  because of that. No, that's totally fair.
• 49:46
  Wow, running into the next one. Yeah, this.
• 49:50
  Yeah. Let's say the next couple may be
• 49:51
  fast. You get it.
• 49:53
  I'll run through them if you want.
• 49:55
  Best ongoing we have Final Fantasy 14 from Square Enix,
• 49:59
  Fortnite from Epic Games, Hell Divers 2 again from Arrowhead
• 50:03
  Game Studios, Marvel Rivals from Net Ease Games, which is the
• 50:07
  first time on it. This for for them being
• 50:09
  nominated in the Game Awards and No Man's Sky.
• 50:12
  I feel like it's a little unfair just to get right out of the
• 50:16
  gate. I don't know if it's fair to say
• 50:17
  that. Why was Marvel Rivals not in
• 50:19
  best multiplayer? Like I feel like it should be in
• 50:22
  best multiplayer and not in best ongoing because didn't it just
• 50:25
  come out? Yeah, well, no earlier.
• 50:27
  This year, that's a really good question.
• 50:29
  Yeah, that's not really ongoing thing, considering that
• 50:32
  everything else on this list has been around for, well, when did
• 50:35
  Hell Divers too come out? It wasn't at the beginning of
• 50:37
  this. Year.
• 50:37
  No, no, no. It was like.
• 50:38
  Last two years ago. Two years ago now.
• 50:41
  Yeah, no, man, this guy's been around since 2016.
• 50:43
  Fortnite's been around since. I don't.
• 50:45
  Even know it's almost 10 years. Yeah.
• 50:47
  Yeah, exactly. Final Fantasy 14's been around
• 50:50
  for a minute. So like, yeah, I just don't feel
• 50:52
  like it fits here. Yeah, that's stupid.
• 50:54
  Jeff, That being said, I don't really know what I would give to
• 50:57
  this because like they're all pretty good for the fact that
• 51:00
  they've survived this long. So anyway, moving on to the next
• 51:05
  one. We have games for impact.
• 51:07
  Anyone want to take this? Games, John.
• 51:10
  No, go ahead, you haven't done one in a minute.
• 51:13
  Bastard bitch games for impact for a thought provoking game
• 51:18
  with a pro social meaning or message.
• 51:20
  Love it. We do love that.
• 51:22
  That's fucking dope. Consume me Jenny Zhao Sia Hisia
• 51:29
  slash HP Thompson executable slash executable.
• 51:33
  God damn why do you guys so much despolote Julian Cordero?
• 51:41
  Sebastian Valbuena in Panic, We Got Lost Records, Bloom and
• 51:46
  Rage, Don't Nod Montreal and Don't nod South of Midnight,
• 51:53
  which I still think this game deserved a lot more than what it
• 51:56
  was given by the critics and everyone else.
• 51:59
  Compulsion Games and Xbox Game Studios.
• 52:02
  And we have Wander Stop again, another game that I really
• 52:05
  wanted to play and I don't know why, which is Ivy Road and Anna
• 52:08
  Pierna. It's probably because Anna
• 52:10
  Pierna and I love so All great games.
• 52:13
  You haven't played any of these. Give them a shot, give them a
• 52:15
  chance. There's something here.
• 52:17
  Haven't touched them. All important games.
• 52:19
  Yes, very important games. This next category is also very
• 52:24
  important. Yes, and innovation and
• 52:30
  accessibility. Assassin's Creed Shadow from
• 52:33
  Ubisoft, Adam Fall from Rebellion, Doom, The Dark Ages
• 52:37
  from AIDS Software in Bethesda, EA Sports FC-26 from EA Canada,
• 52:43
  EA Romania and South of Midnight for Compulsion Games, Xbox Game
• 52:48
  Studios. So to give a quick shout out to
• 52:50
  this category because this was not in I think previous editions
• 52:55
  of this. Innovation and inaccessibility.
• 53:00
  Yep, you talk about a game specifically here.
• 53:03
  No, I'm talking about if you look at the page when you're
• 53:06
  going to vote for them, you can click learn about the nominees.
• 53:09
  And I don't know if that's been, I don't know if that's been in
• 53:11
  previous iterations of this award, but I love it because it
• 53:15
  breaks down what these games did in terms of helping to be
• 53:20
  accessible. Yeah, accessible and to be
• 53:23
  innovative in that approach. I appreciate that.
• 53:25
  That's a very, very good because as we've talked about before on
• 53:31
  the show, this isn't my category.
• 53:33
  We don't use a lot of these settings, so we don't really
• 53:36
  know what makes them special. So we like to be able to read
• 53:40
  these. It's very helpful in determining
• 53:42
  what we can then decide like, OK, what do we think is the most
• 53:45
  impactful? Like what's the what's the best
• 53:47
  thing? I am so glad they put this here
• 53:50
  because accessibility and being transparent about your
• 53:56
  accessibility settings is so important.
• 53:58
  They need to be displayed. Yes, oh boy, everyone deserves
• 54:02
  the game. The next The next category is
• 54:05
  big. And yes, everybody does deserve
• 54:06
  a game. Who wants?
• 54:07
  To and really quick here and really quick here.
• 54:10
  Shouts out to my boy legally fucking sighted for the
• 54:14
  inaccessibility community he has like for this category, he is
• 54:18
  always champion because he's he's legally blind and he games
• 54:22
  and this dude makes content. He's a YouTube he's he's a
• 54:26
  friend of the show. This dude fucking rips and he
• 54:29
  doesn't doesn't give a fuck and it's awesome.
• 54:32
  This category is always awesome even though it is not for us.
• 54:37
  We I fuck with this category so hard.
• 54:39
  So this one, Evan, this is your category.
• 54:44
  OK. You wanted it anyways.
• 54:47
  Don't even fucking play with me, boy.
• 54:50
  I gave a little look to the camera for those listening.
• 54:53
  Best performance awarded to an individual for voice over,
• 54:57
  acting, motion and or performance capture.
• 55:00
  We have Ben Starr for Clare Obscure Expedition 33, Charlie
• 55:04
  Cox for Clare Obscure Expedition 33, Erica Ishi for Ghostaviote,
• 55:09
  Oh yeah, Jennifer English for Clare Obscure Expedition 33,
• 55:13
  Kanatsu Kato for Silent Hill F, and Troy Baker for Indiana Jones
• 55:18
  and the Great Circle. Wow, you tell me is this is the
• 55:21
  best Clare Obscure Expedition 33 category?
• 55:24
  This is this is incredible stuff and I feel almost as if Jennifer
• 55:30
  English deserves her flowers because she didn't get it for
• 55:34
  Shadow Heart. I know that's a fairpoint.
• 55:38
  That's like, I genuinely feel that I have not seen Ben Starr
• 55:42
  yet in Expedition 33. I have not played enough.
• 55:47
  I have. Yes, you're right.
• 55:48
  You've you've you've told me that before.
• 55:50
  But like, I don't know yet. Yeah, like I I the only person
• 55:55
  that I have not heard on this list is Konatsu Kato for Silent
• 55:59
  Hill Left because I've just not played it.
• 56:01
  It's not really my game, although I've heard it's sort of
• 56:03
  like Dark Souls Silent Hill. Yeah.
• 56:06
  So that sounds like it might be interesting.
• 56:11
  I guess at the at this point I I did say actually I should just
• 56:15
  clarify this. I told Brody and everyone in the
• 56:18
  discord and like for spawn camp that I would not vote in this
• 56:22
  category or predict in this category until I finish both
• 56:25
  Indiana Jones and declare obscure cuz those are the games
• 56:28
  I have furthest along right there.
• 56:29
  Literally have until next week. That's fine, I can do that.
• 56:32
  You don't understand how quick it can be.
• 56:37
  Fuck, but I love all of these nominees.
• 56:41
  I think this is an incredible cast or an incredible stack.
• 56:45
  Yeah, an incredible list of of. And I can, I can personally
• 56:49
  assess to the expedition 33 people who all delivered very
• 56:53
  emotional, powerful performances.
• 56:56
  Yeah. Here's my thing.
• 56:58
  I don't, I, I like, I, I can't vote for Charlie Cox because
• 57:03
  he's spoken about how he recorded it in like an afternoon
• 57:05
  and forgot about it. So like, I feel like you don't
• 57:07
  serve it if you forgot about that quick.
• 57:10
  I didn't vote for Tony Cox, you know, I loved his performance,
• 57:13
  but I didn't vote for. Him like I just, I don't know.
• 57:16
  I just heard. I just heard that and I was
• 57:17
  like, I don't know. I don't know if you really.
• 57:20
  I've seen Ben and Jennifer on interviews regarding Expedition
• 57:24
  33 and how they've done conducted themselves afterward.
• 57:27
  I have never seen Charlie talk about Expedition 33 at all so.
• 57:33
  My thing is is. I did it.
• 57:35
  I, I think I said in the discord that I was partial to, to Troy
• 57:38
  Baker for Indiana Jones because it was one of those things where
• 57:42
  it was a comfort game for me when I got, when I got some work
• 57:46
  done for my teeth. And it was one of those games I
• 57:48
  could just sit down and play. And it was just something so
• 57:51
  impressive to hear young Harrison Ford, like it was it
• 57:56
  was something to just behold of like, you know, it's not AI
• 58:01
  generated. It's not them like modulating
• 58:04
  Harrison Ford's voice. Or maybe it was and they didn't
• 58:06
  say anything. But like it was like you could
• 58:08
  hear Troy Baker in it, you know, And that was like the best
• 58:11
  tribute to me was like, I get to play.
• 58:14
  And it was fun. It was a fun game.
• 58:16
  It reminded me of my childhood. So it was just one of those.
• 58:18
  So like I said, that's why I'm partial to him.
• 58:21
  But like, I feel like anyone could win this Nick he's giving
• 58:29
  us. I thought my wife got no, no, I
• 58:30
  thought my wife got locked out of the house.
• 58:31
  He. Gave us you were running, you
• 58:35
  were moving your hand like you were like wrapped.
• 58:37
  Up. Just keep it rolling.
• 58:38
  Keep it rolling, keep it. Rolling.
• 58:39
  Yeah. No, no, no, no, no.
• 58:40
  All right. Do you want to take this next
• 58:42
  one, John? Nick, do you want to?
• 58:43
  I can take it if neither of you want to.
• 58:45
  It's up to y'all I. Don't care, we only have a few
• 58:47
  left. Boys.
• 58:48
  We got best. We're an hour in.
• 58:49
  Let's get it. Ever.
• 58:50
  Fuck. We gotta be quick.
• 58:52
  Best audio design Recognize the best in in game audio and sound
• 58:56
  design. Battlefield 6.
• 58:57
  Battlefield Studios, EA Expedition 33.
• 59:00
  Sand Fall Interactive, Death Stranding 2 On the Beach, Kojima
• 59:04
  Productions, Ghost of Yote, Sucker Punch Productions, Salmon
• 59:07
  Hill F Neobars Entertainment, Konami.
• 59:10
  I will say Battlefield Expedition 33, Death Stranding
• 59:15
  2, and Ghost of Yote. I'm going to actually drop Ghost
• 59:19
  EO tape those top three games right there.
• 59:21
  Yeah, their sound design is out of this world.
• 59:26
  The the war tape setting on battlefield is.
• 59:29
  Is insane. That's for me to use personally
• 59:32
  because I have an injury, but it sure does sound good.
• 59:36
  It's it's really, yeah, it's difficult for me to pick in this
• 59:39
  one even like to even just like what I even could consider a
• 59:43
  winner because like I like you said, I love the war tapes,
• 59:46
  John, but like there was something so special about
• 59:49
  playing Death Training 2 and having all a lot of the audio
• 59:52
  come to the controller. I don't know, like, like that
• 59:54
  was really cool to me. Like I liked being able to take
• 59:57
  like one headphone off and hear like the rocks on the controller
• 1:00:00
  speaker. Like that was just really cool.
• 1:00:02
  Like if I was going down a Cliff, like, yeah, it was, it
• 1:00:04
  was very impressive. That being said, Clear Obscure
• 1:00:06
  also has some great audio design, but wow holy fuck I
• 1:00:10
  cannot get those Perry's right no matter how hard I try to
• 1:00:13
  listen. So like.
• 1:00:15
  You can't do it. You should watch.
• 1:00:16
  You should watch Nick do it. Oh, I don't even watch.
• 1:00:19
  Shut up. Best scoring.
• 1:00:21
  Music moving on, Yeah. Christian Larkin Hollow Night
• 1:00:26
  Silk Song Darren Korb, Hades 2 Lauren's Test Hard Player
• 1:00:32
  Obscure Expedition 33 Toma Atoa Ghost of Yo Tai would kill loot
• 1:00:38
  and Ludvig for. So would kid.
• 1:00:41
  That's Ludvig. Woodkid and Ludwig Forcella.
• 1:00:46
  Death Stranding too, on the beach.
• 1:00:48
  Yeah, I, I. Cried to Lorenz music a lot.
• 1:00:53
  A whole lot more than I should probably admit, really.
• 1:00:56
  Yeah, I love that. I love, I love the heavy.
• 1:01:00
  The heavy. Like dark music of Hades too as
• 1:01:04
  well. I haven't played it.
• 1:01:06
  Strandings music many times. I haven't played anything other
• 1:01:09
  than Exhibition 33 industry too, so it's kind of a toss up for me
• 1:01:13
  on both of those and I I truly love both of them.
• 1:01:15
  I could not decide like if you ask me right now or even.
• 1:01:19
  When I think you have to decide. I I will have to decide.
• 1:01:21
  That's the point of voting. It's going to be very difficult.
• 1:01:24
  Yeah, because they're both so good and even Ghosty Fiote is
• 1:01:27
  great too. I, I haven't played enough of
• 1:01:28
  Silksonger. I haven't played any of 80s to
• 1:01:30
  determine that, so I should probably play more of either of
• 1:01:33
  them, but I love them. This is a great again great list
• 1:01:37
  of. Yeah, so good.
• 1:01:40
  Best art direction for outstanding creative and or
• 1:01:43
  technical achievement in artistic design and animation.
• 1:01:45
  This, this is gonna be, Yeah, this is another tough one also.
• 1:01:48
  Well, I it's. Not all the same nominees from
• 1:01:51
  previous categories. It's yeah, it's starting to get
• 1:01:54
  to that point. Ghost.
• 1:01:56
  Go on it is. Go on, it is.
• 1:01:58
  I'll run through them real quick.
• 1:01:59
  Yeah. Clear Obscuria Expedition 33
• 1:02:01
  from Sample Interactive by DES Training 2 On the Beach from
• 1:02:04
  Kojima and Productions, Ghost of You, Otate from Sucker Punch
• 1:02:07
  Productions, Hades 2 from Super Giant Games, and Hollow Knight
• 1:02:10
  Silksong from Team Cherry. Again, very hard list to
• 1:02:13
  determine who should. Ghost the otate should not win
• 1:02:17
  here. You think so?
• 1:02:19
  That's a very. More of the same of the 1st.
• 1:02:22
  OK. That's not a bad thing.
• 1:02:24
  It's not a bad thing. But nothing here.
• 1:02:26
  Is striking to me. It's pretty.
• 1:02:28
  It's not gorgeous. That's Stranding is gorgeous.
• 1:02:31
  I really that's. Tradition 33 has some very
• 1:02:34
  diverse and breathtaking scenes, yeah.
• 1:02:39
  I will agree with you guys on both of those.
• 1:02:41
  Yes, I think Destranitu and Claire obscure both hit it out
• 1:02:44
  of the park for me on this because yes, I that's kind of
• 1:02:46
  why I dropped off of Yote so quick because I felt it was just
• 1:02:49
  more of the first game, but with like some improved systems and,
• 1:02:53
  you know, new ideas. I haven't played again enough of
• 1:02:57
  Hey, I haven't played any of 80s two haven't played enough of
• 1:02:59
  Holo Knight, so I can't speak. Any like a broken record today.
• 1:03:02
  I know. Well, I'm a one.
• 1:03:04
  I'm a one hit gamer. I'm a one track game.
• 1:03:08
  I will be special. Wow, I will take this one.
• 1:03:12
  Go ahead. This is now this again.
• 1:03:15
  I I think the otay should be dropped, but anyways we got
• 1:03:19
  Claire obscure, Expedition 33 sand full interactive, Death
• 1:03:24
  Stranding 2 on the beach, Kojima productions, Ghost of Yote,
• 1:03:28
  Sucker punch, Kingdom come, Deliverance two.
• 1:03:32
  There we go baby. Good job War Studios, Deep
• 1:03:35
  Silver, Silent Hill, F Neo, Bards Entertainment, and Konami.
• 1:03:40
  Did you say what this is for? Best narrative?
• 1:03:43
  Best narrative. I didn't hear you.
• 1:03:44
  Sorry I didn't hear you say that.
• 1:03:45
  My bad. No, all good.
• 1:03:48
  This is a powerhouse list again, really.
• 1:03:50
  Minus goes to Yote. It was that.
• 1:03:54
  We'll get more into it on the next episode, but I just don't
• 1:03:57
  feel like this really did anything.
• 1:03:59
  It's hard to talk about or hard to not talk about.
• 1:04:01
  But yeah, no, this is again, great list.
• 1:04:04
  But I agree with you, Nick. I I, I genuinely do.
• 1:04:07
  Yeah, KCD 2, love it being here, but with games like Exhibition
• 1:04:12
  33 and nothing wrong with Silent Hill that from what I heard
• 1:04:16
  people loved it. That's great.
• 1:04:17
  Yeah, but for KCD two to be with Death Stranding 2 and Claire
• 1:04:21
  Obscure. Fantastic.
• 1:04:24
  It's a tightening of itself. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:27
  It's. All right, Yeah, I have an idea
• 1:04:31
  for this, Evan, so I want you to go do this one.
• 1:04:33
  You. Want me to do this one?
• 1:04:34
  OK, this is best. This is for best game direction.
• 1:04:38
  Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game
• 1:04:40
  direction and design. We have Claire Obscure
• 1:04:42
  Exhibition 33 from Sandfall Interactive and Kepler
• 1:04:45
  Interactive, Destiny 2 on the Beach, Kojima Productions and
• 1:04:48
  Sony Interactive Entertainment, Ghost of Yote from Sucker Punch
• 1:04:51
  Productions and Sony Interactive Entertainment, 80s Two from
• 1:04:54
  Super Giant Games, and Split Fiction from Hayeslight Studios
• 1:04:58
  and EA. Wow.
• 1:05:01
  Great list. This this is a great again
• 1:05:03
  ghostiote I don't think should be here.
• 1:05:06
  I I sorry. I'm just like, where's Doom I?
• 1:05:08
  I feel most if not Doom, I feel like KCD should take its place.
• 1:05:12
  Case exactly. Like.
• 1:05:14
  I'm almost choosing not to speak because I'm just going to glaze
• 1:05:18
  Clare Obscure every single time. Clay Clay Clay.
• 1:05:22
  Clare Obscure deserves to be on plenty of this list lists.
• 1:05:28
  It it it this that was a cultural moment for a lot of
• 1:05:31
  people, I think, And that's important in gaming.
• 1:05:34
  Yeah. Again, though, with Yote, man,
• 1:05:36
  it just it's not a bad game. It that's the thing here.
• 1:05:39
  I am not saying Ghost Yote is a bad game.
• 1:05:41
  I am saying it does not deserve the praise it's getting.
• 1:05:46
  I agree. I, I agree that it's not, it has
• 1:05:51
  not lived up to the expectations that I, I, I had for it.
• 1:05:55
  I, I was really excited by the so-called Elden Ring, you know,
• 1:05:59
  inspiration and, but I felt it was still OK, but I, but I felt
• 1:06:03
  it was still too locked. Down travel to each and every
• 1:06:06
  point you want. To but I didn't care about that
• 1:06:10
  though because you can do that in Elden Ring when you get to
• 1:06:12
  the camps. But like it was differently
• 1:06:15
  though. You're right, I agree, but I I
• 1:06:17
  also think that it was more or less like it still was guided to
• 1:06:21
  a point, and I think that it should have been completely
• 1:06:24
  unguided. I know.
• 1:06:25
  I agree, but I agree with what you're saying as well.
• 1:06:30
  Yeah, I don't know. All right, boys.
• 1:06:35
  Here we go give. Me the year we're on to the big
• 1:06:37
  one. John, please read off.
• 1:06:42
  Recognizing the last. Game.
• 1:06:44
  Recognizing a game that delivers the it's game of the years.
• 1:06:47
  It's the game of the year. I already.
• 1:06:48
  Said that. I didn't speak enough
• 1:06:52
  recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience
• 1:06:55
  across all creative and technical fields.
• 1:06:58
  Clear Obscure Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive Dash
• 1:07:01
  training 2 on the beach from Kojima Productions Donkey Kong
• 1:07:04
  bananas from Nintendo 82 from Super giant game.
• 1:07:08
  I was gonna get it in ADC for super giant games.
• 1:07:12
  Hollow knight Silk song from team cherry.
• 1:07:15
  These were all. I have a small laptop stream KCD
• 1:07:20
  2 Warhorse Studios. I I had to scroll.
• 1:07:22
  I didn't see it. I don't.
• 1:07:24
  Forget it. You give them game of the year
• 1:07:28
  one time. These are all Titans.
• 1:07:34
  They really are. You know, yeah, wow, I, I feel
• 1:07:37
  like no, dude, Nintendo has to be on this list because it's
• 1:07:40
  Nintendo. But Bonanza only very recently
• 1:07:44
  came out and I'm not sure they would have been on this list had
• 1:07:47
  not been for Bonanza. I feel like it maybe should be
• 1:07:50
  replaced with Doom or something else.
• 1:07:53
  Maybe 2 should be replaced with Doom.
• 1:07:58
  I know that's hard to hear, John.
• 1:08:00
  I have my own opinions about it and we can talk about it next
• 1:08:03
  next episode, but. Yeah, cuz like I there's,
• 1:08:08
  there's a lot I would like to talk about with all of these cuz
• 1:08:10
  I haven't, I've only finished one of them and I plan on
• 1:08:14
  finishing two before we record the next episode at least.
• 1:08:18
  You got no you, you. There's three games you have to
• 1:08:20
  beat cuz you also have Death Stranding too.
• 1:08:22
  You have to beat. Dude like you underestimate my
• 1:08:25
  ability to be a gamer. You ain't doing it.
• 1:08:27
  I don't think you could do it. 50 bucks, you come out this
• 1:08:33
  weekend beating player obscure Death Stranding and what's the
• 1:08:37
  last one, John? Indiana Jones.
• 1:08:40
  Indiana. Jones, Indy 50 bucks.
• 1:08:42
  Indy I've. Had mode immediately.
• 1:08:45
  You have to. You have to understand, I've
• 1:08:46
  already gotten through a portion of indie.
• 1:08:49
  I've gotten through a portion of Claire.
• 1:08:51
  'S I will be surprised and I've gotten through most.
• 1:08:53
  Of death training. Too by the time I would be
• 1:08:56
  surprised if you'd be Expedition 33 by next weekend.
• 1:08:59
  OK, I will, I will, I will. I will make it a next. 60 all.
• 1:09:03
  Together, I'm gonna put a I'm gonna put a whiteboard and I'm
• 1:09:05
  gonna stick it to the sunroom door and I'm gonna say playing
• 1:09:08
  video games till Sunday, please. Leave them alone, $60.00 on the
• 1:09:11
  line. Yeah, $60.00 is on the line.
• 1:09:15
  No, this is like the game of the year list is also, again, great
• 1:09:18
  list. Like that's kind of this is kind
• 1:09:20
  of in the time that we've been doing this, this feels like
• 1:09:24
  probably the hardest year to pick winners for the, the the
• 1:09:27
  bigger categories. Like it's really hard.
• 1:09:30
  Like, there's a lot of great games.
• 1:09:31
  On this list, that's way harder. Oh dude, it's I can't even.
• 1:09:34
  I don't even want to imagine how that's going to be.
• 1:09:37
  Next year. So here's So here's the thing
• 1:09:40
  though. Oh well, no, never mind.
• 1:09:42
  I take it back. Yeah, because Resident Evil.
• 1:09:43
  Wrecked me. Won't be.
• 1:09:44
  There all of well, all of those anticipated games, if they come
• 1:09:48
  out prior to whatever the point that the game rewards makes, at
• 1:09:52
  least we know what it was. We know for a fact that Resident
• 1:09:57
  Evil. Resident Evil Witcher 4.
• 1:09:59
  Witcher 4 Well, when is Witcher 4I?
• 1:10:02
  Don't know? Well, OK, so Wolverine.
• 1:10:03
  Resident Evil. Resident Evil Requiem is like
• 1:10:11
  January or February. Grand Theft Auto 6 is in
• 1:10:14
  November. Double O 7 first light.
• 1:10:19
  I don't even know if they even. Gave.
• 1:10:20
  I don't even know. There's there's no release date
• 1:10:23
  for Witcher 4. Yeah, there's no release date
• 1:10:26
  for that. And they're the release date,
• 1:10:28
  oh, March 26th for Double O 7. OK, so that's on the list.
• 1:10:33
  So I would say that yeah, Requiem, Double O 7 and
• 1:10:36
  Wolverine will probably be on the nominations for next year's
• 1:10:42
  Game Awards. I think you can rest assure that
• 1:10:45
  all the all the big hitters will be on next year's game of the
• 1:10:48
  year. Would November 20.
• 1:10:49
  But what? What day did they say?
• 1:10:51
  I think. I think GTA.
• 1:10:53
  Like just beats it. I don't think it just beat.
• 1:10:57
  I think Project Team Project Red will shoot for release date
• 1:11:01
  within the bounds of next year. We'll see.
• 1:11:05
  I think, I think we'll, I don't know.
• 1:11:07
  I feel like Witcher 4 is further out than they want to admit.
• 1:11:12
  I feel like maybe the prime set of Witcher 4.
• 1:11:15
  If it's anything like Cyberpunk, it's friends around that they
• 1:11:17
  want to admit. Yeah, like they can push it out
• 1:11:19
  early next year, but it won't be.
• 1:11:20
  Yeah, the nearly the same thing. No, I, I agree.
• 1:11:23
  I don't know. It's it's, yeah, we're going to
• 1:11:25
  have a lot of exciting stuff to talk about between now and the
• 1:11:28
  end of the year and then into next.
• 1:11:30
  My wife is creepily in the door. I can't even do it.
• 1:11:33
  Oh, I see the. Hi ex-wife dude, I'm also
• 1:11:39
  waving. The door keeps opening.
• 1:11:41
  Waves that was a door I can't do I got performance or sorry no
• 1:11:50
  man next next year's category is gonna be wild, but this year's
• 1:11:53
  categories. But this year is incredible.
• 1:11:56
  This is great. This year is gonna be really
• 1:11:58
  tough next week if especially cuz I got a lot.
• 1:12:01
  Of shit to beat. Well, if you think, if you think
• 1:12:04
  this week's episode is long, just wait until we're drinking
• 1:12:06
  and having to do this next week. Yeah, we at least we don't have
• 1:12:09
  to go through the whole rigmarole.
• 1:12:11
  Super crazy, though. That's true.
• 1:12:14
  This episode's an hour. Actually, these episodes, those
• 1:12:17
  episodes are usually two hours. Next time we should or next the
• 1:12:19
  next episode, we should just stay at the the studio, just
• 1:12:23
  record. It you and me, Yeah, just may as
• 1:12:24
  well. We may as well, Bill.
• 1:12:28
  We'll sleep in the office. We'll sleep in the office.
• 1:12:30
  At this point, at least it'll be comfy.
• 1:12:32
  John. Yeah.
• 1:12:36
  What? Nothing.
• 1:12:38
  What did John say? Nothing.
• 1:12:39
  Don't worry about it. Oh my God, those are your
• 1:12:44
  nominees and those are your category?
• 1:12:46
  What shit were you talking, John?
• 1:12:49
  Wrap up the episode, Nick. OK, that was all your nominees
• 1:12:53
  and those were all your categories.
• 1:12:55
  Love it or hate it, Jeff Keeley is back again, and I think it's
• 1:12:58
  a good thing. I know a lot of people have
• 1:13:01
  their problems with them, but Jeff, if I may, you made the
• 1:13:08
  banner this year look like Half Life.
• 1:13:10
  Oh. My God.
• 1:13:12
  No, don't do that. Look at what I'm about to show
• 1:13:14
  you. I'm.
• 1:13:14
  Going to close out the show, no? No time out.
• 1:13:17
  I'm going to close out the show. Time out time.
• 1:13:20
  Out folks, folks, for those listening, he's opening up
• 1:13:22
  Twitter. He's going to Jeff Keeley's
• 1:13:23
  page. He opened up.
• 1:13:26
  Oh, I saw this. This looks like risk your brain.
• 1:13:30
  This looks like. Half life it does look like risk
• 1:13:32
  your brain. It looks like the Citadel core.
• 1:13:36
  Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, you think you're slick?
• 1:13:39
  Look. At these comments, but it's not.
• 1:13:41
  Look right there. No.
• 1:13:42
  Go back. Click on it.
• 1:13:46
  Look at the Nope. Click.
• 1:13:47
  Open it up. Open the image.
• 1:13:50
  I know. Look right there.
• 1:13:51
  Yeah, right there. Yeah.
• 1:13:53
  That's the game of wars. This looks like half life.
• 1:13:56
  I understand. I think you're coping, really.
• 1:13:58
  Hard I I'm high on hoping. I think, I think you and every
• 1:14:01
  other nerd on Twitter is coping so hard.
• 1:14:04
  They're all believing this is me.
• 1:14:06
  Yeah, that is you. Yeah.
• 1:14:07
  It's just Gordon Freeman. We're objecting with Hopia.
• 1:14:11
  Anyways, stay tuned for next week guys, while we while we
• 1:14:15
  give our predictions and our official picks for this year's
• 1:14:19
  Game Awards. Thank you for listening to this
• 1:14:21
  episode. It's been, it's always a blast
• 1:14:23
  to have the guys on. John, thank you for hopping on
• 1:14:26
  this year. Do this with us.
• 1:14:27
  Somebody you've been wanting to you didn't fuck up this.
• 1:14:31
  We're drinking. You're just John, you're doing
• 1:14:34
  your cool thing. I don't know.
• 1:14:35
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