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How Do We Really Feel About The Game Awards Nominees? · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boxers Podcast, a great
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  place to play games and view better.
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  I'm one of your hosts, Corey Derrigan alongside me.
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  As always, PC must raise himself the wrong dog.
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  It's hey, let's pop. In Hey, Leron, Hey.
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  What's up, Corey? I don't know, just you and me.
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  Just you and me tonight. I am the other one of the hosts.
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  You. You are one of the other hosts.
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  Yes, Yes, you are. He made your enormous bowl of
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  kettle corn tonight. He's snacking, he's hosting,
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  he's doing it all. What?
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  How do I have 10 notifications on Twitter?
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  I don't understand that. Whatever, I don't care.
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  How's it going, man? You doing all right?
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  Living life, you know, trying to, trying not to be stressed.
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  Yeah, I I hear that. I am in the process of, well,
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  not. I'm not in the process of
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  relocating. I am in the process of trying to
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  find a place to relocate relocate to.
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  I am moving. Moving always sucks.
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  I know I I absolutely hate it. Yeah, that sucks man.
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  Moving. And I feel like, I feel like, I
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  feel like, you know, I hate moving.
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  I tried not to move and I feel like, I feel like I probably
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  will be moved. I probably will have like 5 or 6
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  big moves left in my life, you know, before I finally like, get
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  to a place where I'm like, I'm done moving.
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  Yeah, I told, I told my wife when we moved here, I said if
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  you want to move, you're leaving me here because I'm not moving
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  again. So that's how that went.
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  So yeah, yeah, I'm just kind of wraps wrapping some stuff up for
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  work and trying to like not, you know, kill myself over it, but
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  well. It's Thanksgiving week, are you
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  at least ready for the holiday? No, not one bit.
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  It's fine though. It's cool.
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  It's fine. I mean, we're just.
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  We're going to the holiday either.
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  We're going to my parents for some sort of meal, but I mean,
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  we're not really doing anything super big.
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  The the big one is, is Christmas and Hanukkah.
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  So those are the two kind of bigger ones that we're kind of
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  preparing for. That's right, because your your
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  your wife's, your wife's side of the family is Jewish, right?
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  Yep. You know what?
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  Actually, I'll say this question for.
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  I'll say this question for for for Christmas time, I guess,
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  even though I know Hanukkah and Christmas are not quite the same
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  thing. No, they're not.
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  Mostly because one has to do with Jesus and the other one
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  doesn't believe in Jesus. So, you know, it's so.
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  You know, I was about to say so bizarre, but I don't want to
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  like offend anybody, but it's so it's so different.
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  It's so different, you know, like, because you know, like I
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  grew up, I grew up Christian and, you know, Southern Baptist
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  and stuff like that. And, you know, like Jesus has
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  always been like this, this thing, you know?
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  Well, it's not that they don't believe in him, they just don't
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  believe he was the Son of God or whatever, right, 'cause it's
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  more of a historical version of Jesus and not the, you know, I
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  don't know what you call it. The icon, The iconography.
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  Yeah, that. Yep.
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  So welcome to the Bosphorus religion cast.
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  We're not doing this tonight. If you have a religion you want
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  us to talk about, leave us in the comments.
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  No, I'm just kidding. We're we're not here to talk
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  about that. We're here to talk about video
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  games and a lot of game of the year stuff.
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  La Ron, It's it's coming up fast.
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  Yeah. Coming up fast.
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  Yeah, what are we going to do? I don't know that you just
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  disappeared. No, I had, I had to, I had to
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  make an adjustment that that I did not need the camera to see.
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  Oh, well then what do you, before we get in all this
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  whatever this garbage is game of the year stuff, What are you?
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  What are you playing? You told me you've actually beat
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  a game. I beat a game.
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  That's. I think.
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  That's a shocker. The third game I beat this year.
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  That that might be more than me. I beat I beat dispatch over the
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  weekend. Oh yeah, I saw you didn't like I
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  saw in the group chat. Yeah.
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  One of the several were in. That game was that game was a
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  nice big surprise. It was, I'm, I'm putting it, I'm
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  putting in the category of a palate cleanser game because Oh
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  my God, it was, it was the IT was the game I didn't know I
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  needed to play right there, you know, and the fact that the fact
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  that's a new game too, you know? Yeah.
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  All right, so Pat kind of talked about this earlier, but for the
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  people who don't know, dispatch is a dispatch is a game made by
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  the made by former creators of like the like the telltale
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  series games with with the amazing artwork done by critical
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  role. Critical Role, if anyone's ever
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  seen seen the Amazon prime fantasy series legend of Ex
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  Machina, I'm sorry, box machina, box machina that's a video game.
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  The legend of box machina, then you will you will be intimate
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  with the art, with the art style and the and man, when I tell you
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  this is a gorgeous game, beautifully animated like it it
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  this could have been this legit could have been like an actual
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  animated movie or animated TV series.
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  The way it looked, the way it performed everything.
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  It is amazing. Basically, basically with this
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  game, you are you are you are a superhero that who's down on his
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  luck, that basically while he's trying to regroup and like, you
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  know, get get himself back up and back up and goings like
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  that, he takes a job with with with a basically he's a
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  dispatcher for a for a a organization that reforms like
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  former super villains and turns and basically turns them into
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  heroes. So yeah, so the game, the game
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  is 8 chapters long. They're not they're not long
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  chapters. As a matter of fact, most of the
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  chapters, unless if you're even if you're being really slow,
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  most of the chapters won't even take you like longer than an
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  hour to to like play through and beat.
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  But but it is a well is a well contained story.
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  If anyone's familiar with the tell tale like Brand, basically
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  it's basically choose your own adventure.
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  You know, there are, there are some QTE elements into it and
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  stuff like that. So it keeps you, it keeps you on
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  your toes, so you be so you're interactive in the game and
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  stuff. But the major thing is, is that
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  it's all about you building relationships.
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  You, you getting missions done and you get to the resolution of
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  what it is like what it was meant to be a hero for not just
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  yourself, but for the Super villains that you basically
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  start mentoring to become heroes and actually like do their
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  thing. Wonderful, wonderful cast of
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  characters. Definitely some really good
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  voice acting talent behind it. As a matter of fact, I should
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  have already had this pulled up, but but let's see for some for a
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  lot of people that that don't know, hang on, hang on, I'm
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  pulling it up right now. Sorry.
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  All right, so some of the talent behind this series, Aaron Paul.
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  If anyone knows who Aaron Paul is, it's basically if you if you
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  if you watch Breaking Bad, you already know who this guy is and
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  stuff like that. Jeffrey Wright, another, another
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  well known actor is in this is in this and and he plays a
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  really good role like a man he played, he played a phenomenal
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  role in this game. And he was.
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  And you know, when you look at when you look at name of Jeffrey
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  Wright, for example, you know, because he's a, he's a Academy
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  Award nominee, you think, you think you OK, you see his name,
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  you think, oh, he's just like a cameo or he has like a very, he,
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  he barely like has anything to do in, in the game.
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  But you know, like, he's just there.
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  No, like he's one of the main characters for the most part.
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  And you know, like he, he has some pivotal, he has some
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  pivotal stuff going off his character.
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  So, so some, some names of some names that people will know out
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  there in the, in the gaming community.
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  Laura Bailey, Alana Pierce Jacksepticeye young gravy for
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  all you people that remember his little his 15 minutes of fame on
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  you know, on TikTok and Matthew Mercer, you know, well known
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  name and and you know, even when his critical got chance to like,
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  you know, do his thing on here, which I was actually impressed.
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  Nice. Yeah, it's a one.
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  It's a wonderful game. I'm I'm doing my best not to
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  spoil anything, but you know, like if if you like these type
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  of games, you know, like definitely pick it up, give it a
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  shot. You're not it's not going to be
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  a time drain on you and stuff like that.
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  So, you know, you can get in there.
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  You can play it, you can you can get a beat, you know, in a short
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  amount of time. Like I, I thought Pat was
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  kidding when Pat was like, yeah, you can beat this game in three
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  days. I beat the game in five days,
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  but that's because I took a day off.
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  Well, it's fair. Yeah, but it is.
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  It is fun. It is fun.
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  Nice. How much, how much is like the
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  whole thing's out now, right? The like the.
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  Whole thing's out now, 30 bucks, we'll get you all 8 episodes
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  like they're released. They released it episodically.
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  I, I, I purchased the game, but I didn't, I didn't play the game
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  as it was coming out because I was like, because by the time,
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  by the time I realized I was behind on it, they're already
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  like halfway through it. And when and when Pat told me
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  like, you know, no, like not every episode's out right now.
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  They're releasing them like kind of episodically.
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  I was like, OK, I can wait. Soon as soon as the 8th episode
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  was out, and it was and it was finalized, that's when I sat
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  down and started playing it. Nice, nice.
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  I'm just going to say this, I was so I was so impressed with
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  the game. I enjoyed all my time with it
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  and stuff like that. This is one of my game of the
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  year contenders, one of mine. Oh, nice.
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  I'm not saying it is game of the year material, but you know
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  what, based on based on the type of games I play and like and
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  like how I play games, this is definitely a game of the year
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  contenders as far as I'm concerned.
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  There is, and there's so much potential because like there's
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  so there's so many different ways that you can play the game
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  and actually attack the scenarios.
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  Like there's, there's little miniscule things that basically
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  that you that you think will not have an outcome, you know,
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  either later on in the story or later on in that, in that just
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  that chapter you're doing. And yeah, there's so many
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  different ways to to come across it.
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  I've looked at a couple, I've looked at a couple of like, like
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  playthroughs, Well, not playthroughs, but just more like
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  clips on YouTube, what some decisions other people have
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  made. And I'm like, man, I need to
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  find out how to get that. Nice.
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  We'll have to make sure to put it on the list on the On the
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  Game of the Year list. Oh, another big thing, another
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  big thing about the game as you play it, you unlock you you
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  unlock in the extras, you unlock things like comic books,
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  storyboard, storyboard modes. You get you get deep dives into
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  the characters and their personalities and stuff like
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  that. This for 30 bucks, this is one
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  of the most complete games that I have played in a long time and
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  and I say that I say that knowing that there are 60 and
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  $70 games out there that don't even give you this much stuff.
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  You know that this $30 game did. Nice.
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  I always like when these cheaper games turn out to be, you know,
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  good at least. Especially 1 like this, which is
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  like, you know, it seems like it's getting a lot of buzz.
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  Like it it it made its way through the through the storm of
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  games. Like, I mean, there's so many
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  games coming out right now, right?
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  And like this kind of made it through.
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  Call of Duty in Battlefield 6 came out while, you know, we're
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  out while this while this game was like hitting the shelves.
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  Yeah. Going in the storefront, let's
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  just say. Yeah, which is crazy that
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  though, I mean, I I feel like the I feel like those games
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  don't have as much pools they used to at this point, right?
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  Like. Real fast, real fast for people
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  who this is for this is for the parents out there, you know,
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  like if you think you're going to get this game for your kid,
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  there is nudity and there's gratuitous violence in this
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  game. So when I say, when I say
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  nudity, I mean, I mean you, you TNA like, you know, like you're,
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  you're, you're twigging berries, you know, like you, you got,
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  you're going to see some stuff like, you know, I, I was
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  actually shocked because the scene happens and I was like, am
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  I? Those are, those are, those are
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  boobies. Those, those are, those are
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  uncovered movies. I I couldn't believe it.
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  That's funny. That's pretty funny.
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  Well, is that is that all you've been playing?
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  Tekken, Final Fantasy Tactics, you know, but but yeah, I
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  devoted, I devoted time to actually sit down and, and
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  beating dispatch and and yeah, I enjoyed it so much that I start
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  that I started a new game so I could see different scenarios.
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  Nice. This is not one trick pony as
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  far as I'm concerned. Cool.
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  Or maybe there's a 1 trick pony because it's got it.
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  Got me to play again, you know? Nice.
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  I don't usually. I don't usually.
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  I know a lot of people usually go back and immediately play a
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  game 'cause I know you did it with Clare up Skewer.
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  You know, Pat does it all the time.
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  I'm not usually one of those people that go back and play the
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  game immediately after I beat it.
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  Like I usually he's like, OK, I got this out the way, let me
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  move on to another game, you know?
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  Yeah. Well, I mean something like this
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  though, like you go in and and play it totally differently,
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  right? And like, it'll be a totally
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  different game essentially. Yeah.
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  You know? Yeah.
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  So that's pretty cool. I'm into it.
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  I might check this out. It's on PC and play PlayStation,
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  Yeah. Well, this game, this game is
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  not a heavy lifting game. So they're probably on Switch
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  soon. Yeah, but I don't know how
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  they're going to build the nudity on Switch, you know?
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  You know what I mean? I mean, have you seen the amount
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  of like hentai puzzle games on it?
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  I think Nintendo's fine with it. I mean, there are, there are,
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  are. It's an ass.
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  No comment. Other graphic.
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  I mean, they're, they're animated.
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  I'm telling you, man, like I'm telling you, man, like, you
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  know, like it's kind of different when you see Wang in
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  the video game, you know what I mean?
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  I I played the order, I know I know what polygonal penis looks
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  like. So anyways.
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  Check it out though, ad hoc studio dispatch.
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  That's $30 you'll ever spend, especially if you especially if
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  you're a gamer. So those are like games like
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  like anything Telltale's done. They even have some trivia for
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  their for their former games in here.
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  Which is trivia. No way.
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  Which is insane because like, you know, like technically like
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  it's copyrighted by other companies.
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  So like the fact that they were able to like, yeah, some trivia
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  and stuff going on for their four previous games of theirs.
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  Honestly this type of game though, this is probably one of
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  the best games I've played this type since since Detroit Become
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  Human and everyone knows I, Detroit Become Human was my game
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  of the year that year that that the game was out.
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  Yeah, I kind of regret not playing that game, honestly.
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  I I really wanted to play that and I never did.
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  Whenever you get one of these PC handhelds man like play it on
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  that. It's.
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  I replayed Detroit become human when I went on a when I went on
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  vacation to to San Diego that I'm sorry, San Francisco.
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  Yeah, at a time I had I had my Gen. 1 ROG Ally.
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  We will. We will see if I will play that
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  anytime soon. I mean, nothing new for me.
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  I guess. I've been playing more Hyrule
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  Warriors. I'm like 20 hours in.
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  Like, I don't know, I don't know how far into the story I'm in
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  because I just keep doing all the every time a side thing pops
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  up, I just end up doing it because I hate when the things
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  are blinking on my map. So it's definitely it's
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  definitely not for everyone, but it's definitely like the game I
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  kind of needed right now. I mean, I said this last week,
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  but like it just, I don't know, it just, it just feels like
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  something I can turn my brain off for and definitely kind of
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  get lost in the the story is actually getting pretty
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  interesting, especially if you're into the Zelda lore at
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  all. Like it's it it really ties
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  itself into Tears of the Kingdom like a lot like I mean, I knew
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  it would because it takes place right after the beginning of the
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  game of tears of the Kingdom. But like it really like pushes
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  you in that direction. I thought maybe they would try
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  to tie it into like breath of the wild also, but it's it's
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  fully like tears of the Kingdom, like everything down to like
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  even the way how they explain how Zelda traveled through time.
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  Spoilers for tears of the Kingdom.
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  I guess the first 4 minutes of Tears of the Kingdom, it's
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  really cool the amount of characters that you get and
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  learn about and like explore. I definitely thought like at the
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  beginning they show like a shrine, like one of the shrines
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  from Tears of the Kingdom and it says you'll come back to this
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  later and then you never go back to it.
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  At least where I'm at, you don't go, you haven't gotten to any of
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  these shrines yet, but like it's really satisfying to pull off
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  combos and mixing and matching characters to like pull off
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  different combos. The sheer enemy variety is
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  actually quite surprising in this game, especially the
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  bosses. There's quite a bit of
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  interesting enemies to fight. They're definitely leaning
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  really heavily on the kind of. Gannon red shade type
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  characters. It's definitely very, very I
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  don't want to say this very pushing towards I mean it's age
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  of imprisonment. You're going to imprison Gannon
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  at some point, I'm sure. But like it's really cool this
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  the way they're telling the story and like how it's
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  unfolding and learning more about the zone.
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  I and like the different races at that time and it's cool.
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  I really like it. That's kind of it though.
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  I've I mean, I've been playing more plants versus zombies, but
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  I don't know how much more I can say about plants versus zombies.
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  I mean. Is that your is?
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  Is Plants versus Zombie your palate planzer game right now?
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  Yeah, yeah. I mean, it used to be Tetris,
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  but like when this got announced, I'm like, I got to
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  play through it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I did pick
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  up. I did pick up Luminess.
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  I haven't played it yet. Wait, the the new one?
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  Yeah, like the brand new one, like the one the VR one, but not
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  VR. Yeah.
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  The one made by the Tetris Effect people.
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  Wait, is it? Yeah, I know that.
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  Yeah, I did not know that. OK.
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  Yep, the more you know Loron. Does Tetris Effect was was was
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  fun, but I just, I didn't, I didn't really devote a lot of
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  time until like I should have, but yeah.
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  Well, you know, I mean, it's Tetris.
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  You've been playing it for 40 years, so I mean, it just looks
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  nicer. The music is cool.
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  But yeah, I mean, it's made by the Tetris tech people.
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  I'm shocked you didn't know that, but it feels like
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  something. It feels like something I should
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  have known. It feels like.
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  Something you would have told us about.
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  Yeah, you know, I've, I've had an interesting year with gaming,
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  you know, and I'm really hoping I'd get back in touch with my
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  gamer side. I I think, I think the
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  performance of Monster Hunter Wilds let me down and that and
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  that kind of, it kind of messed up like, you know, like my, my
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  drive for gaming. Yeah, this really, this year's
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  been really weird for me too. I just, I feel first of all, I
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  was, I was just so after the, after the bosses last year, I
• 22:39
  was so burnt out from like everything.
• 22:42
  And I, I'm still like feeling the effects of all that.
• 22:46
  I'm not going to lie to you. And definitely like, man, I
• 22:50
  don't know how to like even explain how that like really.
• 23:01
  I, I mean, I'm proud of what we did.
• 23:02
  I just like afterwards I was like, Oh my gosh, I don't want
• 23:05
  to do anything ever again. And like also like work out
• 23:09
  really busy at the same time. And I don't know, it was just a
• 23:13
  lot happened at the same time and I just never caught up.
• 23:18
  Like I still don't feel caught up.
• 23:21
  And we are getting ready. I mean, we're already behind
• 23:24
  where we were with the bossies last year.
• 23:28
  So which we're going to talk about tonight a little bit.
• 23:34
  We got so we got so for you all. Yeah, we do.
• 23:41
  Yeah. I don't know, man, this weird.
• 23:42
  This year's been weird. I haven't played almost anything
• 23:45
  that came out this year. Like I played Claire Obscure.
• 23:48
  I don't even remember what I played at the beginning of the
• 23:50
  year, man. I mean, I played a lot of the
• 23:52
  Nintendo remakes that came out, like Donkey Kong and Xenoblade,
• 23:56
  but I don't know. Metroid Prime 4 comes out in
• 24:00
  like a week, so that'll be fun. All on the fence about that.
• 24:06
  Well, you know I believe in you, Laron.
• 24:11
  I believe that you will. I'm going to need I'm going to
• 24:12
  need one of our our heavy hitters from boss rush to like
• 24:15
  to like grab this game, play it and and let me know how it is
• 24:20
  the in the first week. Well I told you what I did
• 24:23
  right. I actually I pre-ordered the
• 24:25
  Amiibo and like usually I pre-order stuff and then like if
• 24:28
  I like I'll pre-order it on Amazon because they don't charge
• 24:32
  you until it ships. And so like I pre-ordered it and
• 24:37
  forgot about it and then. They showed up.
• 24:41
  Yeah, they showed up. I'm like, oh, whoops.
• 24:43
  I didn't really. Wait, which?
• 24:46
  Which Which Which You mean those?
• 24:48
  The new Metroid Prime 4 ones, the one the one where she's on
• 24:52
  the motorcycle and then the one of just her shooting her arm
• 24:56
  cannon. OK.
• 25:02
  So yeah, I don't know. They're sitting over here in the
• 25:04
  box. I haven't decided if I'm going
• 25:05
  to return them or not. Like, I kind of want them, but I
• 25:09
  don't know. Man, $70.00 for two amiibos is a
• 25:12
  lot of money. That is a lot of money shit.
• 25:16
  Well, the one on the motorcycle is is 40 and then she was 30.
• 25:19
  So yeah, these are Meebo. Wait.
• 25:24
  Wait wait. So yeah, amiibos are get are
• 25:26
  Meebos are starting to get way too expensive.
• 25:28
  Yeah, they're very expensive, I remember.
• 25:34
  When I was wringing, I was. I remember wringing my hands
• 25:36
  about $20 Amiibo, you know what I mean?
• 25:38
  Yeah. Dude, they used to be 1299.
• 25:42
  I don't ever remember that and I used to work at GameStop.
• 25:45
  Yeah, well, they were always more expensive.
• 25:46
  At GameStop they were like 13 or 1499, and then at Best Buy they
• 25:52
  were like 1299. But yeah, man, I was like, man,
• 25:58
  when they bumped the price up to like when Breath of the Wild
• 26:00
  came out and those ones were like 1799, I'm like, oh man,
• 26:03
  they're getting expensive. And now they're like $30.
• 26:09
  It's fine. We've all got money, right?
• 26:12
  In this economy. We're all rich.
• 26:16
  If you say so. That's what the that's what the
• 26:18
  government wants us to think, right?
• 26:21
  I know that way. We can keep they they want us to
• 26:26
  keep the hope alive for them. Yeah, there's no hope.
• 26:30
  Everybody enjoy your life while it lasts.
• 26:34
  I guess that got dark. Anyways, let's talk about
• 26:41
  Speaking of dark, let's talk about The Game Awards.
• 26:46
  Jeff Keeley announced the nominee nominees for The Game
• 26:52
  Awards last week. We should go through some of
• 26:57
  these. I don't, I don't think we need
• 26:58
  to go through all of them. Like, I don't think we need to
• 27:00
  go through, you know, thank. God, we don't.
• 27:02
  We don't. Sports Best esports athlete
• 27:08
  content creator of the year I turned us down.
• 27:10
  I'm sorry if we would just blow that category out of the water.
• 27:13
  So I politely declined. So I, I don't know, let's let's
• 27:21
  each pick like 3 or 4 categories to go through and just kind of
• 27:24
  you want to, you want to go first, you want to pick a
• 27:26
  category to go through 1st and then.
• 27:28
  Sure, let's see. I heard there's a lot of
• 27:34
  controversy about best fighting Game, so let's start there.
• 27:38
  All right, let's see what's here.
• 27:39
  All right, so we got 2 XKO, which is the Riot Games fighting
• 27:44
  game, right? Yeah, Capcom fighting collection
• 27:47
  2. It's a collection.
• 27:50
  I'm not sure that counts. Fatal fury City of wolves,
• 27:53
  Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection and Virtual Fighter Revo world
• 27:57
  stage. I feel like virtual fighter has
• 28:00
  been out for like 12 years. I feel like that game has been
• 28:02
  out forever. Two collections in here.
• 28:08
  I don't know man feels feels like a.
• 28:13
  Yeah, I mean like honestly it feels like the only real fight
• 28:15
  here is between two XKO Field Fury and Virtual Fighter five
• 28:19
  Revo, which which I think I think VF5 Revo is actually
• 28:26
  looking more like a a rehash. Yeah, it's it's like the 4th or
• 28:32
  5th release, right? It's like the yeah.
• 28:35
  So I don't know, man. Yeah, I mean, all I know, all I
• 28:41
  know is there was a lot, there was a lot of controversy with
• 28:43
  the pics on there because because as mentioned, two of
• 28:46
  these games are collections and technically the Mortal Kombat
• 28:48
  collection, even though there are Mortal Kombat games in that
• 28:51
  collection, it's more like that other like a couple of other
• 28:54
  collections where it's basically like a whole bunch of this like
• 28:57
  of like trivia and you know, behind the scenes stuff about
• 29:00
  the entire like legacy of that of that franchise.
• 29:03
  Like if this is if I'm not mistaken, the Mortal Kombat
• 29:06
  legacy collection was was showcasing the arc the age side
• 29:09
  of Mortal Kombat. So Mortal Kombat one through 4
• 29:12
  basically. Yeah, they said they might add
• 29:17
  stuff in the future, which would be cool.
• 29:19
  Like what was it? The Shilon monks would be cool.
• 29:27
  The anthology, it's the anthology on there.
• 29:29
  Sub 0 anthology on there. I don't think so.
• 29:33
  I mean, that would be cool. You know any anything basically
• 29:36
  between like 5 and eight, I guess.
• 29:40
  Also, yeah. But yeah, I don't know, like if
• 29:45
  I looking at his list, if I were to, if I were to pick what might
• 29:48
  win best fighting game, this is just me.
• 29:52
  I think Fatal furiously the wolves might do it, but this is
• 29:54
  also me as a person that has not played any one of these games.
• 30:00
  Yeah, I mean, it's it's just, yeah, I don't know, man.
• 30:04
  I heard that. I mean, that Riot one has a
• 30:07
  bunch of Street Fighter people behind it, so I don't know, I
• 30:13
  just feel like this is kind of a stretch category.
• 30:15
  I mean, you got Virtual Fighter Five in here again for some
• 30:19
  reason. Yeah, it's kind of a stretch.
• 30:23
  Yeah. But all right, I'm going to go
• 30:27
  with let's talk about the most anticipated game.
• 30:33
  Most anticipated game. Yep.
• 30:36
  So we have Double O 7, First Light, Grand Theft Auto 6,
• 30:40
  Marvel's Wolverine, Resident Evil Requiem, and The Witcher 4.
• 30:48
  Now you know what? This is a this is a fantastic,
• 30:52
  this is a fantastic lineup. Yeah, sure.
• 30:56
  Because there's literally 1-2. There's four games on this that
• 31:00
  I that I am that I personally and probably going to like pick
• 31:05
  up. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I will
• 31:10
  definitely be playing some of these.
• 31:13
  I would really like to play Double O 7.
• 31:16
  I really can't wait for Wolverine on the out of this
• 31:19
  list. That's probably my most
• 31:20
  anticipated game. Wolverine.
• 31:22
  Yeah, it just we make sure that trailer looks so good.
• 31:28
  This is going to be wild for me because anyone that knows anyone
• 31:31
  that knows me, it's probably like it's probably it's probably
• 31:34
  like he this would never be a game.
• 31:36
  He would he would want to get first out of this list but it's
• 31:40
  GTA 6 for me. I mean, that doesn't surprise
• 31:44
  me, really. I mean, I'm not I'm not GTA guy.
• 31:47
  I mean, like I, I, I don't hate GTA, but I don't love GTA, if
• 31:54
  that makes any sense, you know, but based on the, the more and
• 31:59
  more they they do the Grand Theft Auto formula.
• 32:03
  Here's the one thing I will say like, you know, like they found
• 32:06
  a way to make you to, to get you invested in the characters.
• 32:10
  If they can get you invested in the characters for the game
• 32:12
  comes out, you're pretty much going to buy the game.
• 32:15
  And that's basically they've been able to humanize all of
• 32:18
  their, I want to say since GTA San Andreas, they've been able
• 32:22
  to starting with San Andreas, they've been able to humanize
• 32:24
  all their hero characters of the games, You know, and it's and
• 32:29
  you know, that's the thing now, you know, because everybody
• 32:31
  knows the GTA formula at this point, you know, steal cars,
• 32:35
  create mayhem, you know, like just just just do dumb shit, you
• 32:39
  know, you know, but ultimately it's ultimately it, it started
• 32:44
  being about the character experience.
• 32:46
  And you know, that's the thing. And like when I saw all three of
• 32:50
  the all three of the trailers, you know, as they as you know,
• 32:53
  Rockstar put them out to us and stuff like that, I was like,
• 32:56
  man, like I really want to see what these characters about.
• 32:58
  You know, we finally got a female protagonist, you know,
• 33:02
  even though, even though I will say you know, Yep, Rockstar,
• 33:05
  y'all kind of cowards, you also admit you also just made her the
• 33:09
  main protagonist, you know? Yeah, but they've been doing
• 33:12
  the, they've been doing the multiple.
• 33:14
  Yeah. Protagonists like, you know, and
• 33:17
  I wonder if each of them have their own set of missions,
• 33:19
  right? Like.
• 33:20
  Either that or like. I think they did this to kind of
• 33:23
  dodge like the whole like why, why why is Rockstar going woke?
• 33:26
  I I really think they did. Yes Rockstar the woke company
• 33:34
  dude if anything they're like the anti woke people.
• 33:38
  I mean have have any of you played GTA recently anyways?
• 33:46
  Yeah, all five of these games on this list are are definitely are
• 33:50
  definitely games I'd want to play.
• 33:52
  But if I if I pick them in order of the games I want to play,
• 33:55
  it's GTA6, Double O 7, Wolverine, The Witcher and then
• 34:01
  Resident Evil. Yeah, I just, I feel like, I
• 34:05
  feel like the Witcher is so far away, dude.
• 34:08
  Like, I don't know, I feel like, I feel like that game.
• 34:11
  Like I feel like it's not even like a game yet at this point.
• 34:17
  Yeah. I mean, it looks, it looks
• 34:20
  amazing, what they've been showing looks amazing, but like,
• 34:24
  I just feel like it's not even a game yet.
• 34:29
  So what category do you want next, Laurent?
• 34:35
  Let's see, I am looking at. Best action game?
• 34:46
  Best action game. All right, Yeah.
• 34:48
  Not to be confused with Best action adventure game.
• 34:52
  Yes, definitely not to be confused with that other.
• 34:56
  All right, so in this category we have Battlefield 6, Doom, The
• 35:00
  Dark Ages, Hades 2, Ninja Gaiden 4, and Shinobi Art of Vengeance.
• 35:06
  This is a really good lineup. Yeah, this is this is pretty,
• 35:12
  pretty good. I wonder, I wonder.
• 35:18
  Like I I also feel like the other the 2D Ninja Gaiden game
• 35:21
  got snubbed, right? Like, I feel like a lot of
• 35:24
  people really like that one. Yeah, rage bound.
• 35:27
  Yeah, yeah, especially I feel like people like that over the
• 35:31
  Shinobi game, but. Yeah, yeah, I, I, yeah, I, I
• 35:35
  agree with that. And, and I wonder if it was just
• 35:38
  the hype for the, I wonder if it's just the hype for Ninja
• 35:41
  Gaiden 4, you know? Yeah.
• 35:44
  That made Rage. No Rage Ground is a good game.
• 35:47
  The little bit I played of it, it's a good game.
• 35:48
  But you know, like I feel like, I feel like it basically was a
• 35:52
  hype machine for Ninja Gaiden 4. Yeah, I also wonder how many
• 35:56
  people try to play it on Switch. In that version was like really
• 35:59
  chunky, especially like game games people, right, like, you
• 36:05
  know, that version and like I I guess the Steam Deck version was
• 36:08
  also not very optimized. Yeah, you know, and that's where
• 36:11
  people kind of want lean towards to play these games.
• 36:16
  So I don't know, but I feel like I got snubbed trying to think of
• 36:22
  it as no one else. Now, knowing the way The Game
• 36:24
  Awards is like, I feel like the darling of this category is
• 36:27
  going to be Hades too. Just just just just knowing what
• 36:31
  I know about The Game Awards and like how and how like things
• 36:34
  goes. Like I feel like I feel like
• 36:36
  this is it. But honestly, I feel like I feel
• 36:39
  like the heavy contenders in this category, there's
• 36:42
  Battlefield, Doom and Ninja Gaiden.
• 36:45
  I feel like those are the heavy hitters.
• 36:47
  See, I'm actually kind of surprised Doom is in here.
• 36:51
  I feel like a lot of people thought this was a step down
• 36:55
  from the previous ones. I've heard, I've, I've heard
• 36:58
  that. I've heard that narrative.
• 36:59
  I've heard that. I've heard the reception the
• 37:04
  Battlefield 6 is pretty good. It's already the best selling
• 37:07
  game of the year. You see that over Call of Duty.
• 37:12
  But Call of Duty's on game pass also so I.
• 37:14
  Over Call of Duty. Yep, Yep.
• 37:16
  Yeah. You know, Call of Duty's.
• 37:17
  Call of Duty's performance really has Microsoft like, you
• 37:20
  know, in alerts right now, Yeah. I don't know.
• 37:26
  I feel like, I feel like you're right, though.
• 37:28
  I feel like Hades 2 is going to win this.
• 37:31
  Although I feel like, I feel like the games that were really
• 37:37
  hyped up this year just kind of blew away like a fart in the
• 37:39
  wind, right? Like Silk Song.
• 37:42
  Yeah, kind of like, like it came out and then nobody talked about
• 37:45
  it and then Hades 2 came out. It came, it came out, it came
• 37:49
  out it it impressed for like that entire week that it
• 37:51
  released and then people. Say the whole week, I would say
• 37:55
  like the weekend, it came out on like Tuesday.
• 37:58
  People were done with it by Friday and we're like, I don't
• 38:01
  know, I guess we'll move on. Yeah.
• 38:05
  I'm I'm just surprised because it people talked about it for so
• 38:09
  long. I was really tired of.
• 38:12
  Hearing that, well, I think, I think it's, I think it's because
• 38:15
  like, you know, like, like it's just like how many games came
• 38:19
  out this year. If you look at that right, like
• 38:22
  it, it's like, it's like people didn't even have enough time to
• 38:24
  like to like let games marinate because a new game was out.
• 38:28
  Yeah, yeah, it's plus like I do think it got a second win though
• 38:36
  when the Switch physical release came out, which was like a
• 38:40
  couple date, like, I don't know, November 20th I think.
• 38:45
  But yeah, I don't know, I, I feel like a lot of it's a lot of
• 38:49
  physical collectors were waiting on that version because it came
• 38:52
  out so much later than the the regular version, the digital
• 38:58
  version. So I don't know.
• 39:00
  It's wild. It's hard to quantify.
• 39:01
  I just, I just asked Gemini approximately how many video
• 39:05
  games were released so far in 2025.
• 39:07
  Oh my gosh, Gemini, can you Gemini can't even can't even
• 39:10
  like you know, give give a specific number overall, but
• 39:14
  it's but it's as of November 25th, over 17,700 video games
• 39:20
  have been released on the steam platform.
• 39:23
  Yeah, that's insane, dude. That's too.
• 39:27
  Many that's too many games Yeah, that's on one platform because
• 39:31
  you got because you got to think like practically if there's 17,
• 39:36
  if there's if there's nearly 18,000 games that were released
• 39:39
  so far, we still have a whole month left in the year and stuff
• 39:42
  like that. Just for one platform.
• 39:44
  We got to think about the other the other three platforms that
• 39:47
  are out there that you know had their had their own exclusives.
• 39:52
  Yeah, it's, it's ridiculous, man.
• 39:54
  There there's just, there's too many games and like now people
• 39:58
  want to use AI to get their games out faster and it's like
• 40:00
  what? So we can have more games that
• 40:01
  nobody buys because there's too many of.
• 40:03
  Them nobody buys or and then no one gives that no one gives a
• 40:07
  shit about because like, you know, like AI built the games.
• 40:10
  Yeah, So like, I don't know man, I I just kind of feel like we're
• 40:15
  at this point, I don't know, games are like, I know game
• 40:19
  development isn't easy, but I'm just saying this as a as a
• 40:22
  thing, right? We're like, I feel like game
• 40:26
  development is too easy at this point to develop.
• 40:30
  It's the tools are readily available for you to develop and
• 40:33
  release your own game without a publisher anymore that like it
• 40:38
  just has given people this kind of the ability to like, you
• 40:48
  know, flood the market with these games.
• 40:50
  And you know, I mean, AAA is feeling it and these are feeling
• 40:54
  it. The only, the only company that
• 40:58
  seems that companies that seem to not be feeling it are like
• 41:01
  Nintendo and like Sony's first party, you know, for the most
• 41:07
  part, you know, I mean, and and then companies like, you know,
• 41:14
  Arc Raiders, Arc Raiders took off, right.
• 41:16
  Arc Raiders is pretty popular now and.
• 41:18
  Yeah, ARC Raiders is doing pretty well.
• 41:21
  Yeah, in games like that, right. And I just, I don't know, man.
• 41:27
  I don't know what the answer is. I don't know what the right
• 41:29
  answer is. But the one thing we don't need
• 41:33
  is more games. We could stop.
• 41:35
  We could stop buying games now and be satisfied for the rest of
• 41:38
  our lives with the games that like the amount of games that I
• 41:41
  that I own or are available on like game pass or PlayStation
• 41:44
  Plus, or you know, the games that are given out on epic game
• 41:48
  store, Amazon, whatever Twitch game prime, whatever they're
• 41:52
  calling it these days. Just too many man I'm.
• 41:56
  Thank you for thank you for reminding me.
• 41:58
  I, I, I, I I need to check in the to the epic game store right
• 42:01
  now and get my get my free games from last week because.
• 42:04
  Don't say that out loud. This The people who care about
• 42:07
  their Steam libraries will come get you.
• 42:08
  They'll get you. I care about my Steam libraries.
• 42:11
  What the, what the fuck if, if, if I don't know as APC gamer, if
• 42:17
  people don't, if people don't know this by now, as APC gamer
• 42:19
  like I am, I am completely dialed in to the to, to the
• 42:23
  Steam ecosystem, you know? But when Microsoft releases
• 42:27
  their new PC setup, are you going to switch stores 22 years
• 42:33
  later? No.
• 42:34
  Oh, but they're hoping you are. They hope.
• 42:38
  Yeah, they hope. Oh my gosh dude, I can't tell
• 42:43
  you how much I just am not into into Microsoft right now.
• 42:49
  Yeah, you're after you get me. Yeah, like I've I've, I've, I've
• 42:52
  noticed, I've noticed, I've noticed your attitude towards
• 42:55
  Microsoft over the last two and a half, three years now and
• 42:58
  it's. I'm just tired man.
• 43:00
  Yeah, it's, it's, it's, I'm so sorry, man.
• 43:04
  It's. Probably not great for somebody
• 43:05
  who runs an Xbox podcast, but that's fine.
• 43:08
  Yeah, I mean. We complain there too, too much
• 43:14
  probably, but it's fine. It's all fine.
• 43:18
  The run, it's all fine. I was going to say, I was going
• 43:21
  to say, oh, had the mighty have fallen, but has Xbox ever been
• 43:24
  mighty? I mean, 360 was, I would say the
• 43:27
  360, they were pretty dominant, at least initially.
• 43:31
  I I can OK, I can, I can get behind that.
• 43:36
  All right, Laurent, let's go to you know what, let's go to best
• 43:40
  performance because this is getting a lot of this has a lot
• 43:44
  of controversy behind it. Best performance.
• 43:48
  This is OK. This is for acting in the game,
• 43:51
  right? Yep.
• 43:53
  Tell me what you notice here, Laurent.
• 43:55
  It's all clear up, Skewer. Yep, yeah, it's.
• 44:03
  Claire OK, so let me, let me, let me, let me back this up.
• 44:08
  It's it's three people. It's 3 British people, 2 Asian
• 44:13
  people and one American. Yeah.
• 44:19
  And I'm not even, I'm not even calling like a racist card or
• 44:22
  whatnot, but it's just wow, you got three actors from the same
• 44:25
  game. Yeah, that's that's too many.
• 44:28
  That's. Two I OK, maybe two OK, but 3
• 44:33
  especially because like so the let me let me run down the names
• 44:37
  real quick. So we have Ben Star for Clare
• 44:39
  obscure Expedition 33 with Charlie Cox for Clare obscure
• 44:42
  Expedition 33, Jennifer English from Clare obscure Expedition
• 44:46
  33. Then we have Erica Ishi for
• 44:47
  Ghost of Yote Yote Kanatsu Kato from Silent Hill F and Troy
• 44:54
  Baker for Indiana Jones in the Great Circle.
• 44:59
  I'm not going to lie to you, I I think Charlie Cox is amazing as
• 45:03
  Gustav. He doesn't need to be here.
• 45:07
  OK, I agree. I agree.
• 45:08
  He's, I understand, like he's a big name for the game, but like
• 45:16
  there are so many other people whose lives kind of depend on
• 45:20
  these types of nominations and awards that like a Hollywood
• 45:23
  actor does not need to like, you know, like a big time Hollywood
• 45:27
  Marvel superhero actor does not need need to be nominated for
• 45:32
  this. Category.
• 45:33
  I'm sorry. That is true.
• 45:34
  That is true. Yeah.
• 45:36
  You know, you know, I, I, I I appreciate the fact that my that
• 45:40
  my husband been stars in here. But if I if I were to say if I
• 45:45
  were to say who the awards to go to I think should be Troy Baker
• 45:49
  because Troy Baker. Damn like Indiana Jones.
• 45:53
  Come on, come on, guys. Come on, come on.
• 45:58
  And that's not this. That's not to discount the rest
• 46:01
  of the talent in this field because I know, I know Erica
• 46:04
  Ishi did it did a wonderful job. It goes to Yote.
• 46:10
  Yeah, I mean, I don't think anybody's denying that.
• 46:13
  The fact that Harrison Ford got up on stage right beside Troy
• 46:16
  Baker and said and said, wow, he's like, you don't.
• 46:19
  You didn't even need AI to put me out of a job because of this
• 46:22
  guy, you know? Yeah, by the way, I would
• 46:28
  totally I, I, you saw that, you saw dial Destiny, right, the
• 46:33
  Indian. I saw, I saw.
• 46:34
  I'm. Yeah.
• 46:36
  The first like 20 minutes where they like CG young Indiana, like
• 46:41
  young Harrison Ford. Yeah, I'm not going to, I'm not
• 46:44
  going to lie to you. I would totally watch a whole
• 46:45
  movie of that. What?
• 46:49
  Do the 1st 20 minutes of that movie is the best part of the
• 46:52
  whole movie. That OK, you are right about
• 46:54
  that. You are right about that.
• 46:58
  Yeah, anyways, people can at me if they want.
• 47:04
  I don't care. You know they are.
• 47:07
  You know they are. I know.
• 47:09
  I know that Jennifer English won it at the Golden Joysticks, so I
• 47:13
  my bet would be that she is the front runner for this.
• 47:18
  Yeah, I say it's between. I say it's between her and Troy
• 47:20
  Baker. Yeah, yeah.
• 47:23
  Although people love Ben Starr, and not necessarily for his
• 47:28
  acting skills, he's a great actor.
• 47:29
  Don't even wrong. But you know what I mean?
• 47:31
  You know what I mean? Of all people, you know what I
• 47:33
  mean. He is so easy on the eyes, so
• 47:36
  easy on the eyes, the ears. You know, I'm, I'm not going to
• 47:41
  say much, much else. Are you sure you want to keep
• 47:44
  going? You sure you don't want to keep
• 47:45
  going? It sounds like you want to keep
• 47:46
  going. I'm fine.
• 47:49
  I'm fine, OK, I promise. If you say so.
• 47:59
  Oh my God. Anyways, the next thing it's
• 48:05
  your turn. They're on.
• 48:06
  Oops. Yeah, OK.
• 48:10
  Let me, let me, let me, let me kill.
• 48:12
  Of of Ben Starr now. Yeah, let me let me kill this
• 48:15
  tab that had that Ben stars on. Kill this tab.
• 48:23
  Do we need to show early? But let's see here, let me go
• 48:27
  with I'm curious. What's the best RPG?
• 48:30
  I'm curious. All right, so see, we have a
• 48:33
  Valve clear, obscure expedition 33 Kingdom come Deliverance 2
• 48:38
  Monster Hunter Wilds. I'm a Monster Hunter player and
• 48:43
  this being in the RPG category is just throwing me right now.
• 48:48
  And then The Outer Worlds 2. I mean the outer worlds 2 is
• 48:52
  like a fallout I I feel like out of all of these, I feel like
• 48:55
  about is like the one that sticks out like a sore thumb.
• 49:00
  I mean, I guess Monster Hunter also.
• 49:03
  I mean, I don't know. I don't know if.
• 49:06
  Monster Hunter should be an action game.
• 49:08
  This this is not. You think so?
• 49:09
  I don't know. I kind of as.
• 49:11
  Someone who's been playing Monster Hunter for 21 years,
• 49:14
  Monster Hunter is not an RPG. It has RPG esque elements into
• 49:17
  in it, but you know, it's not an R, it's not true RPG.
• 49:20
  It's even even if we say this action RPG, it's still not an
• 49:25
  RPG like in the action RPG sense and stuff like that.
• 49:29
  And this is me like the ultimate Monster Hunter fan.
• 49:32
  And no, like I know I didn't say earlier that Monster Hunter
• 49:34
  Wilds let me down this year. Monster Hunter Wilds let me down
• 49:37
  this year because of how it performs on the PC, not not how
• 49:41
  the game itself is. Because I mean, I hear the same
• 49:44
  narrative year after year when the new Monster Hunter game
• 49:47
  comes out. Oh, it's too easy.
• 49:49
  It's, it's too, it's too accessible now and stuff like
• 49:52
  that, you know, like, guess what, I don't care.
• 49:55
  I don't care if it winds up, you know, becoming a game that
• 49:58
  handicapped people can play, you know, with, with, with 0%, you
• 50:02
  know, like, like, like, like, like physicality to it.
• 50:06
  More people are playing Monster Hunter.
• 50:08
  That's all I care about the game.
• 50:10
  The game has not offended or upset me in any way because like
• 50:14
  it's gotten easy because like I'm a veteran of the game and
• 50:17
  once I learn the nuances of the game and stuff like that, you
• 50:19
  know, it's just another Monster Hunter game.
• 50:22
  As far as I'm concerned. The the hardest Monster Hunter
• 50:25
  game I've ever played was the original Monster Hunter game way
• 50:28
  back in O 4. So yeah, I.
• 50:30
  Mean that makes sense. So yeah, you can't.
• 50:33
  So yeah, you can't. You can't throw me, you know,
• 50:35
  with this. But that being said, you know,
• 50:37
  like like seeing Monster Hunter up here in the best in the best
• 50:40
  RPG category when we just went over best action game and I
• 50:45
  almost did best action adventure and I just looked and I just
• 50:50
  looked in in best action adventurer, Monster Hunter is
• 50:53
  not in that category. I don't know what tell you, man.
• 50:59
  Yeah, some some stuff, yeah. Yeah, as far as RPGs, as far as
• 51:04
  RPGs in this category go, it's it's clear obscure in Kingdom
• 51:07
  come. Yeah, I mean, I, I feel like, I
• 51:09
  feel like Clear Obscure has this in the bag.
• 51:12
  Yeah, you know, sugar coated. I feel like, I feel like that
• 51:15
  game is going to win almost every category it's in.
• 51:18
  Yeah, I think it's, I think it has the potential to sweep the
• 51:22
  entire show. Speaking of sweeping, I have a
• 51:28
  bone to pick with the best indie category, so we're going to go
• 51:31
  there. Best indie where you at?
• 51:35
  Best best wait, best independent game or best indie debut?
• 51:42
  Hold on, which one is it? Best indie game?
• 51:44
  Best independent game? Best independent game?
• 51:47
  I want you to tell me how many of these games are actually
• 51:50
  indie games. I'll give you a hint, it's less
• 51:55
  than less than 3. Let me see.
• 52:01
  I see, I see Devolver Digital disqualified.
• 52:05
  Yep, Kepler Interactive disqualified.
• 52:07
  Yep, I mean any of the, I mean, Dodamu's a pretty significant
• 52:13
  publisher. Yeah, I was about to say dodamu
• 52:15
  or dodimu, however you want to, however you want to pronounce it
• 52:17
  in this day and age. Yep, they're just qualified.
• 52:20
  And Rob Fury is a huge publisher.
• 52:22
  Yeah, so it's super here. It's Super Giant and Team
• 52:24
  Cherry. Yep.
• 52:27
  Clear obscure is, I'm sorry, clear obscure.
• 52:30
  Expedition 33 is not an entity game.
• 52:32
  Yeah. No, no.
• 52:35
  It is not an indie game. I love that game, but.
• 52:38
  I swear this is like the fourth year in a row that that there's
• 52:41
  a freaking that there's a freaking like controversy with
• 52:45
  best indie with best indie when it comes to the Game Awards.
• 52:48
  Like, I mean, did you see the one developer?
• 52:51
  I think we mentioned it last week, but like there's a,
• 52:54
  there's a developer that got nominated for best debut game
• 52:57
  and they're like, this isn't my debut game.
• 52:59
  I'm pulling out of the awards. Yeah.
• 53:00
  Well, yeah, I think, I think so. I think so far there's been like
• 53:03
  3-3 different, three different people or three different
• 53:06
  developers or studios or, or games that you know, like recuse
• 53:10
  themselves from, like, you know, the Game Awards.
• 53:14
  It's too many. Let's I mean I, I, I Here's the
• 53:18
  thing though, like I guess the way it works is that like the
• 53:23
  the the way it works is, is they send you a ballot and you fill
• 53:29
  out which games you think deserve to be in each category.
• 53:33
  You don't just vote on games. You actually write like a write
• 53:37
  in almost the games and then they count it from that.
• 53:42
  So like this is on the journalists and stuff.
• 53:45
  But then I feel like the people who are like and going through
• 53:48
  these need to like do a better job of, of curating the the
• 53:52
  list. Yeah.
• 53:53
  Because I'm going to say, shouldn't there be some,
• 53:54
  shouldn't there be some professionalism, you know, in,
• 53:56
  in like the, the industry to know like this is not an indie
• 54:00
  game. This is not an RPG.
• 54:02
  This is not this, this is not that, you know, this is not a
• 54:05
  platformer. This is not a fighting game, you
• 54:07
  know, like I feel. Yep.
• 54:11
  This is why this, this is kind of why this is kind of why we,
• 54:13
  we like, like you, me, David Lasby, Stephanie, Dan Murphy,
• 54:19
  like we all sat down, brainstormed and, you know, came
• 54:21
  up with the idea for the bossies.
• 54:23
  You know, and you know, I feel like we're, we're experts in our
• 54:27
  own right just because we are gamers.
• 54:29
  But the same time we are not the definitive experts.
• 54:32
  But why does it feel like, why does it feel like sometimes we
• 54:34
  are getting it right? Better than the Game Awards,
• 54:37
  which generates a lot of cash and generates a lot of buzz and
• 54:42
  hype for video games. Why, why, Why are we doing a
• 54:45
  better job? That's a That's a great, great
• 54:47
  question, Naran. Why are we doing a better job?
• 54:51
  We, you know, like we are. We are influencers, we're
• 54:54
  content creators. We are not.
• 54:56
  We are not in the industry like like, you know, like they are.
• 55:00
  I'm sorry if I influenced anybody to do anything.
• 55:03
  I'm not, I'm not. This is the, this is the, this
• 55:08
  is the cult of Dawkins. Like you, Whatever I say, you
• 55:11
  should be doing it. There should be no question.
• 55:15
  Play fucking Monster Hunter. I don't care any Monster Hunter
• 55:18
  game pre pre-order Monster Hunter stories 3.
• 55:21
  I mean, yeah, that game looks great, but.
• 55:24
  That game looks amazing. Yeah, I mean, I'm not denying
• 55:29
  that it. I you know what?
• 55:31
  You know what? Here's here's the crazy part.
• 55:33
  Like every ever since Monster Hunter Stories one came out,
• 55:38
  anytime I see anything new in the Monster Hunter Stories
• 55:41
  realm, I get hot and bothered. Now, like Monster Hunter Stories
• 55:44
  2 was freaking amazing and I'm like, how are they going to top
• 55:48
  this? The trailer for Monster Hunter.
• 55:50
  The trailer for Monster Hunter Stories 3 is like Oh my God they
• 55:53
  topped it. Yep.
• 55:57
  That's that's one of my most anticipated games.
• 56:01
  I'm I'm sure it is, I actually re downloaded Monster Hunter
• 56:03
  stories 2 because I heard it actually runs well on the switch
• 56:06
  too. I need to, I need to, I need to
• 56:08
  finish. I need to finish playing it like
• 56:10
  I like I I started playing it on Switch on on the original
• 56:14
  Switch. And then when I got my ROG Ally,
• 56:17
  I bought I bought a copy of it. So yeah, I double dipped, you
• 56:21
  know, and here we are And and I just have not had a chance to
• 56:26
  beat it yet Like maybe maybe that'll be I can play that in
• 56:30
  Final Fantasy. No, no, I can't.
• 56:32
  No, those two games, those two games are time sinks for me,
• 56:34
  like final fancy tactics, you know?
• 56:37
  Yeah. All right, so breaking.
• 56:39
  News Breaking news Leuron Breaking news Are you ready for
• 56:42
  this Death Stranding 2 on the Beach?
• 56:46
  Rated ESRB for PS for PC as of 27 minutes ago.
• 56:53
  Oh. OK, OK, OK.
• 56:59
  I'm not sure when I will play that because like I still
• 57:01
  haven't played in beaten the first one and I have like I have
• 57:04
  it on PlayStation and PC but the PlayStation copy I have is a
• 57:08
  free copy. I mean, free is free man.
• 57:12
  Yeah, and, and actually now I think about it, I have both
• 57:17
  versions of, of Def Stranding on the PC because one is free and,
• 57:21
  and one of them was I'm, I'm subscribed, I'm subscribed to
• 57:24
  the Humble Choice Humble Bundle. So yeah, like I so yeah, like I,
• 57:28
  so yeah, I have, I have the, the director's cut or director's
• 57:32
  edition, whatever version it is. But yeah, we were talking about
• 57:35
  best indie. So like, let me see, we've got
• 57:37
  Absalom. Was it ball X pit or ball cross
• 57:41
  pit? It's just called.
• 57:42
  It's just called ball pit. Then why the hell they put X in
• 57:45
  there? I don't know man.
• 57:47
  I just, I'm just telling you, it's just called ball pit.
• 57:50
  I don't know. Disqualified.
• 57:52
  Devolved What for a naming? For a naming convention.
• 57:55
  Yeah, that too. Disqualified Blueprints, Glare,
• 58:00
  Obscure, Exhibition 33, Hades 2 and Hollow Nights.
• 58:03
  Silk Song. Now, based off of what we just
• 58:06
  said about Silk Song a little earlier, I have a funny feeling
• 58:10
  it's clear obscure in Hades. They're going to fight this one
• 58:12
  out. They're going to fight out this
• 58:13
  one. I mean sure, but also I heard.
• 58:18
  Really good stuff about AB Solemn though.
• 58:21
  Yeah, I've heard. I've heard Ball Pit actually has
• 58:23
  like a very bellatro type quality to it.
• 58:28
  It's like super addictive. It's like this year's Vampire
• 58:31
  Survivors mixed with Bellatro, essentially.
• 58:37
  But yeah, I mean, I don't know, man.
• 58:43
  I I can't. And it should just say best
• 58:46
  debut game because three of the four of these are not indie
• 58:51
  games, so. Yeah, as a matter of fact, as a
• 58:53
  matter of fact, because I'm looking in the best indie, best
• 58:56
  debut indie games and and yeah, like Clear Obscure is in that
• 59:01
  one. Yep.
• 59:07
  But hey, dispatch is in there, so we already know where my
• 59:10
  vote's going to. Go Yeah.
• 59:12
  Yeah, OK, so best debut indie, We've got Blueprints, which is
• 59:16
  also in the best independent game category, Clear, Obscure
• 59:20
  Exhibition 33, which we just spoke about, you know, like it's
• 59:23
  all over the place. Despilote.
• 59:29
  I think I said that. I think I pronounced that right.
• 59:31
  That's for for anyone that's wondering.
• 59:33
  About that game, that's for you. That's that, that's that, that
• 59:36
  the hand drawn soccer game, you know, like, like, and I'm, I'm,
• 59:40
  I'm discrediting it just by how I pronounce how I just described
• 59:43
  it. But you know, like it's, it was
• 59:45
  one of those games that kind of got like a whole a whole bunch
• 59:47
  of people saying put this, put this game on your radar and
• 59:50
  stuff like that. So it's I'm glad to see like
• 59:52
  it's actually in like, you know, like the game awards for best
• 59:54
  debut indie game. And then and then dispatch,
• 59:57
  dispatch, dispatch gets my vote. I mean, yeah, I just, I don't
• 1:00:08
  know, I have a hard time voting for Clear Obscure in this
• 1:00:11
  because it's not an indie game. Yeah, that too.
• 1:00:14
  Also it's up for game of the year, so it'll win that and so
• 1:00:17
  yeah. Yeah.
• 1:00:18
  So, yeah. So yeah, I feel like, I feel
• 1:00:21
  like when, see here's the thing about it, I feel like when you
• 1:00:24
  know, a certain game is going, I feel like for organizers of
• 1:00:28
  like, like award shows like this, if you know a game is
• 1:00:31
  going to be in game of the in the game of the year category,
• 1:00:35
  it should kind of pull it out of like one or two other categories
• 1:00:38
  to say, you know. Yeah.
• 1:00:40
  Or if anything you know say honorable mention, you know,
• 1:00:42
  like like it should be blueprints despolote and and and
• 1:00:46
  dispatch with honorable mention to clear obscure XP-33.
• 1:00:49
  And when you say honorable mention, that means it does not
• 1:00:52
  rank, you know? Yep.
• 1:00:54
  It just means it just means it gets mentioned but does not
• 1:00:57
  rank, you know, and that's fair, you know, because like I feel
• 1:01:01
  like honorable mentions by itself is an award by itself.
• 1:01:03
  You know that you know when you see whatever it's surrounded by,
• 1:01:07
  you know what I mean? Yep, we should do that this year
• 1:01:11
  for the bossies Have have have like have like XYZ number games
• 1:01:15
  and then have an honorable mention for each category.
• 1:01:17
  Yeah. I was thinking about doing that
• 1:01:19
  of like, I mean, we kind of did that last year though, I mean a
• 1:01:24
  little bit, but we. Yeah, we we did, but I, but I
• 1:01:27
  feel like we didn't give it enough fanfare.
• 1:01:29
  So like, I feel like our audience didn't catch on to it.
• 1:01:31
  You know, our audience was like, oh, it's kudos that they'd
• 1:01:33
  mentioned that. But, you know, I don't think
• 1:01:34
  they actually like caught on that, you know, like it was
• 1:01:37
  being done. Yeah, we'll do a better job of.
• 1:01:39
  We yeah, I was about to say we'll be better.
• 1:01:42
  Yeah, man. All right.
• 1:01:46
  You got the next category. Do I?
• 1:01:48
  OK, All right, Well, let's get let's get up here to best.
• 1:01:53
  Let's do best art direction. Best art?
• 1:01:57
  Direction. So shocking list Clare Obscure,
• 1:02:02
  Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2 On the Beach, Ghost of Yote
• 1:02:06
  Hades 2 and Hollow Night Silk Song.
• 1:02:09
  Wow. OK Clare Obscure Exhibition 33
• 1:02:15
  was a great looking game, but will you look at the other four
• 1:02:19
  games as stacked up against? I don't think it wins.
• 1:02:25
  As a matter of fact, I would say.
• 1:02:27
  Well, go ahead, my only fight back on.
• 1:02:32
  I I think something like Hades. Well, I feel like man, I feel
• 1:02:36
  like we've seen all these before though.
• 1:02:37
  That's the problem, right? Like Holla Knight is just the
• 1:02:40
  same art style as Silk Song. Hades is the same as Hades.
• 1:02:44
  Ghost of Yote is the same as Ghost of Sushima.
• 1:02:46
  Death straining is literally death straining.
• 1:02:49
  Actually Claire, I saw I saw Ghost of Yote on on APS 5 Pro.
• 1:02:55
  I mean it looks amazing. Don't give it Yeah, like yeah,
• 1:02:59
  it, it looks, it looks like it's it looks like Ghost of Sushima
• 1:03:04
  in spirit, but it is it. But it makes Ghost of Sushima
• 1:03:08
  look like an old like like last last generation's game, which
• 1:03:13
  that is true. It is, you know.
• 1:03:17
  I think when you get into, especially when you open up the
• 1:03:23
  final act of Claire Obscure and you go through like Act 2
• 1:03:27
  essentially like the second part of Act 2 and Act 3, all the
• 1:03:32
  extra stuff that you can kind of go do.
• 1:03:34
  I feel like the art style gets a little bit more open.
• 1:03:37
  I don't want to, I don't want to spoil it for anybody who hasn't
• 1:03:40
  finished it, but like there's some pretty interesting things
• 1:03:44
  that happened in that game, especially like the final, like
• 1:03:47
  the final boss battle and the things that happened afterwards
• 1:03:51
  are pretty cool, like artistically.
• 1:03:56
  And then some of the bigger boss fights that you have in Act 2
• 1:04:00
  are pretty interesting. I don't, I don't really know
• 1:04:07
  what wins this category, to be honest.
• 1:04:10
  Part of me feels like this is part of me feels like Silksong
• 1:04:13
  will win this because it's not going to be winning.
• 1:04:16
  It's not. Going to win anything else?
• 1:04:21
  I don't know. I'm not.
• 1:04:22
  I'm not saying like that to be mean or.
• 1:04:24
  No, I'm not either. I I just, like I said, I feel
• 1:04:28
  like Silksong came and went, like just, I don't know anybody
• 1:04:32
  who's still playing it. You know, Pat did a games cast
• 1:04:36
  on it and like it. It just kind of came and went,
• 1:04:42
  you know, I don't know man, I don't know.
• 1:04:49
  I mean, Death Stranding and Ghost of Yote are both beautiful
• 1:04:53
  games too, so I don't know what to tell you.
• 1:05:00
  So all right, Lauren, it's your turn.
• 1:05:03
  Then we'll get into Game of the Year.
• 1:05:05
  This is fun. Oh, I was about to say, is this
• 1:05:07
  the last? This is the last pick before we
• 1:05:08
  go game of the year. Yeah.
• 1:05:10
  All right, then. Let's see.
• 1:05:13
  We just did. We just did game direction,
• 1:05:15
  didn't we? But no, we did art direction.
• 1:05:18
  Oh, art direction. Well, I just looked at game
• 1:05:19
  direction. It's the exact same.
• 1:05:20
  It's the exact same games. Is it?
• 1:05:22
  Oh my gosh. Well, still songs gone split
• 1:05:25
  fiction's in there, so we're not going to talk about this
• 1:05:28
  category. Let me see.
• 1:05:31
  So that being I'm curious, what's this category is always a
• 1:05:38
  head scratcher for me. So let's look at Best family.
• 1:05:42
  Oh, you mean best Nintendo game? Pretty pretty much.
• 1:05:48
  Well, I mean it's. It's a little.
• 1:05:50
  It's a little, it's a little more, it's a little more varied
• 1:05:52
  than it was last year, 'cause last year, last year was a mess.
• 1:05:58
  As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, before we even talk
• 1:06:00
  about like this year's, this year's nominees for for best
• 1:06:04
  family, let me just go back to last year's best family,
• 1:06:08
  alright. So best, best only last year was
• 1:06:11
  was Super Mario, Super Mario Party's Jamboree, Princess
• 1:06:15
  Peach. So time the plucky Squire less
• 1:06:18
  than Zelda. Echoes of Wisdom.
• 1:06:20
  How is that a family game? I don't know.
• 1:06:22
  It's, it's the same as I'm like, how's Donkey Kong?
• 1:06:24
  A family game. And then Astrobot, which
• 1:06:27
  Astrobot won. They're one player games.
• 1:06:30
  How is that a family game? Astrobot's a Astrobot's a
• 1:06:33
  platformer. Plucky Squire is, isn't I?
• 1:06:40
  No, I'm not going to do this. We did this last year.
• 1:06:42
  We did this last year when this when this list came out.
• 1:06:44
  We're not going to do this. OK, so this year for 2025, we
• 1:06:47
  have Split fiction, Sonic Racing, Cross Cross Worlds,
• 1:06:53
  Mario Kart World, Lego Voyagers, Lego Party.
• 1:06:58
  Wow, go ahead, go ahead, Lego. And then Donkey Kong Bonanza.
• 1:07:04
  OK, I mean, it's going to be it's going to be between Mario
• 1:07:07
  Kart and the Sonic racing game. I feel like a lot of people
• 1:07:11
  really like that Sonic racing game.
• 1:07:13
  Yeah, you want to know what pisses me off about this
• 1:07:15
  category? What?
• 1:07:17
  12345 of these games are actually platformer games, but
• 1:07:21
  there's no Best Platformer category for the Game Awards.
• 1:07:24
  This is where they put them all right?
• 1:07:30
  I don't know what the right. Let's let's, you said, you said
• 1:07:34
  Sonic Racing. That's probably the strongest
• 1:07:36
  one. I feel like a lot of I've
• 1:07:39
  honestly, I feel like Mario Kart's going to win this, but it
• 1:07:41
  wouldn't surprise me if Sonic Racing Cross World's won.
• 1:07:44
  It, it wouldn't surprise me if Mario Kart wins because I feel
• 1:07:48
  like, I feel like this is the, I feel like this is the Nintendo
• 1:07:50
  Shield award every year for the For the Game Awards.
• 1:07:53
  Yeah. So I'm really curious though,
• 1:07:56
  because, you know, like, like, like, like, yeah, Yosefartez,
• 1:08:00
  you know, like also gives Jeff Keeley, you know, a, a boner
• 1:08:03
  whenever he steps out on the stage.
• 1:08:05
  So I wonder how Split Fiction is going to perform this year
• 1:08:08
  because it's in at least two of the categories that we talked,
• 1:08:11
  that we talked. Oh, no, 3 categories that we
• 1:08:12
  talked about, you know. Yeah.
• 1:08:14
  So how's this going to do? You know, I'm pretty sure Def
• 1:08:19
  Stranding's getting something that way.
• 1:08:20
  You know, Jeff can like, you know, like dry hump, you know,
• 1:08:23
  Kojima on stage once. More Jeez.
• 1:08:28
  Oh man, that makes me laugh every time.
• 1:08:32
  Speaking of which, let's go ahead and go to Game of the Year
• 1:08:34
  now. Oh.
• 1:08:36
  Geez, OK. All right, well before we before
• 1:08:38
  we rolled that out. So last year, last year's Game
• 1:08:42
  Awards Metaphor, Refantasio, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Elder
• 1:08:49
  Ring, Shadow of the Ear Tree, Blackmith, Wukong Bellatro and
• 1:08:55
  Astrobot all fought it out before game of the year at at
• 1:09:00
  the game awards 2024, with Astrobot ultimately taking home
• 1:09:04
  the crown for game of the year, which that was, that was
• 1:09:07
  amazing. I think that surprised every
• 1:09:10
  damn body. Because like the because like
• 1:09:12
  the the argument was, was that it was going to be given the
• 1:09:14
  Elden Ring because Elden Ring was a game.
• 1:09:17
  Elden Ring shall the ear tree was an expansion title, you
• 1:09:21
  know, and it technically, it technically should not have
• 1:09:25
  merited, you know, like whatever.
• 1:09:28
  So, so yeah. So Astrobot, you know, like Team
• 1:09:33
  Sobe like did the damn thing, you know, and actually, I think,
• 1:09:36
  I think because of Astrobot's performance, it actually, it
• 1:09:40
  actually made like like Sony realize that, you know, like
• 1:09:44
  they do need to like work on work with smaller teams
• 1:09:47
  sometimes, you know, give them, give them a nice little budget,
• 1:09:50
  kind of like what they did with with Returnal Studio.
• 1:09:54
  Why am I? Why am I drawing a blank?
• 1:09:56
  House, Mark. House.
• 1:09:57
  Mark, thank you. Which house, Mark?
• 1:09:59
  As you see, house Mark has an epic game coming out in the next
• 1:10:01
  year. Yep.
• 1:10:04
  All right. Game of the year, 2025123456.
• 1:10:09
  Corey, Let's, Corey, let's, let's.
• 1:10:13
  You name a game. I name a game.
• 1:10:14
  You know, leapfrogging. Boy.
• 1:10:16
  OK, so Claire Obscure Expedition 33.
• 1:10:20
  Death straining 2 on the beach. Donkey Kong Bonanza Hades. 2.
• 1:10:28
  Hollow Night. Silk Song.
• 1:10:31
  And rounding it all off, Kingdom come Deliverance 2.
• 1:10:37
  Any anything you feel like got snubbed la Ron.
• 1:10:42
  Gustaviote. Yeah, that's a, that's a pretty
• 1:10:46
  big one. Washer Hunter, Wilds.
• 1:10:50
  I'm always going to say Monster Hunter.
• 1:10:51
  If there's a Monster Hunter game that year, I'm always going to
• 1:10:54
  say Monster Hunter. I know you are.
• 1:10:57
  Hang on, though. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
• 1:10:59
  What? What?
• 1:11:00
  What? What?
• 1:11:01
  What else are you thinking, Corey?
• 1:11:03
  Man, I don't, I don't even know. I think I don't know.
• 1:11:09
  I'm kind of surprised that like something like Arc Raiders is on
• 1:11:12
  here. Yeah.
• 1:11:14
  I just I feel like. Battlefield Battlefield 6.
• 1:11:21
  Man, I don't even know what else came out this year.
• 1:11:24
  I mean, I'm kind of shocked that Indiana Jones didn't make it
• 1:11:28
  here yeah just because like it was, I mean it came out after
• 1:11:33
  the deadline last year and then it re released on PlayStation
• 1:11:36
  this year and then the DLC came out so it was in the news cycle
• 1:11:40
  like 3 separate times, right? So.
• 1:11:43
  Right. I'm kind of surprised it's not
• 1:11:45
  on here. Yeah, I'm going through, I'm
• 1:11:51
  going through some of the other categories right now just to
• 1:11:54
  just to, just to see, let me see, best mobile.
• 1:11:58
  Nope, we don't really. I I'm not saying we don't care
• 1:12:01
  about that, but at the same time, you know.
• 1:12:03
  Yeah. Best audio, best score, Best
• 1:12:06
  art, Best narrative. Best narrative.
• 1:12:10
  Same games. Shocking, yeah, you know, for
• 1:12:16
  for over for over 18,000 for nearly 18,000 games coming out
• 1:12:20
  just on steam alone. I feel like I feel like there
• 1:12:22
  were I feel like I feel like, I feel like I feel like the game
• 1:12:25
  Awards that discredit to the gaming to the gaming industry.
• 1:12:29
  Are you shocked? I mean, I'm sure every single
• 1:12:34
  sponsor this year too is going to be a either a $0.10 game.
• 1:12:40
  Yeah, Who's the net ease game or like, I don't know, Saudi funded
• 1:12:48
  something, right? Like right, Yeah.
• 1:12:51
  And I just feel like, I mean, look, I get, I get he has to
• 1:12:54
  make money, right? Yeah, I know.
• 1:12:57
  But like, give some other games some love I feel like.
• 1:13:00
  Yeah, Well, I also feel, I also feel like based on, based on
• 1:13:05
  what we talked about over the past few years of the Game
• 1:13:07
  Awards, I'm, I'm, I'm really starting to think that Jeff has
• 1:13:10
  like a lot of impartiality. Like he doesn't have that much
• 1:13:12
  to weigh in on this stuff. Like he tries, he tries to be as
• 1:13:15
  fair as as as possible is his show.
• 1:13:18
  So he tries not to sway. But I have also have a funny
• 1:13:21
  feeling that, you know, the people who are on these boards
• 1:13:23
  and stuff to get these games on there, they're trying to they're
• 1:13:26
  trying to get get in sway with him.
• 1:13:28
  So I that's how I that's why I feel like certain games show up
• 1:13:33
  just, you know, just to give Jeff Keeley the fanservice, you
• 1:13:36
  know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:38
  All right, so let me be, let me be, let me be brutally honest
• 1:13:41
  here. These six games on this list, I
• 1:13:46
  honestly feel like five of them are are not game of the year
• 1:13:56
  material. I would say.
• 1:14:02
  And as me speaking objectively, I know there's six games on the
• 1:14:04
  list, which means only one can win.
• 1:14:06
  But out of the six games on here, out of the six games on
• 1:14:09
  here, only one of them is, in my opinion, out of these six games,
• 1:14:16
  game of the year material. What game would you say that
• 1:14:19
  would be? Claire.
• 1:14:21
  Obscure, I mean, I think, I think that's the shoe in winner,
• 1:14:24
  to be honest. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:26
  Death Stranding 2 on the beach. The the death stranding series
• 1:14:30
  is is just too niche. It's just too niche.
• 1:14:33
  You know, it sells decent numbers on just on PlayStation
• 1:14:38
  and and you know it gets better numbers when it comes out on PC,
• 1:14:41
  but death stranding one was very niche.
• 1:14:44
  Death stranding 2 has proven to be even more niche.
• 1:14:47
  You know, Donkey Kong bonanza, wonderful game, but I've heard
• 1:14:53
  you and Ed talk about it, you know, on both, on both like pal
• 1:14:56
  block as well as on the boss first podcast and you guys said
• 1:15:00
  the same thing. It's a repetitious game.
• 1:15:03
  How's it? And and you know, I I repetition
• 1:15:06
  is kind of relative, A relative term for all video games and
• 1:15:09
  stuff like that. But, you know, like a game that
• 1:15:13
  has that much repetition, you know, like, is it really a
• 1:15:15
  contender? Yeah, I mean, to be fair, I
• 1:15:19
  didn't plan enough of it to get that far, but I also, I also
• 1:15:24
  just did not enjoy what I was playing. 80s, two 80s two good
• 1:15:30
  game looks, looks amazing. They've done a couple things to
• 1:15:32
  shake up the formula. I just feel like they didn't do
• 1:15:34
  enough to shake up the formula. Super Giant is a wonderful
• 1:15:37
  developer and and and publisher you know, but I don't feel like
• 1:15:41
  Hades 2 didn't. Hades 2 is not haste.
• 1:15:46
  Who is not going to, you know, do the lightning in the bottle
• 1:15:49
  the way Hades did? And this is saying a lot because
• 1:15:52
  Hades wasn't. Hades wasn't like pre alpha
• 1:15:55
  phase for like for like 3 years before it was officially
• 1:15:58
  dropped. Dude, people could not stop
• 1:16:00
  talking about Hades one like that game was and that game was
• 1:16:05
  in this. I feel like that game was around
• 1:16:07
  for years. Like people were talking about
• 1:16:09
  the game for years the same way. It's almost like the same way
• 1:16:12
  they were talking like Baldersgate was being talked
• 1:16:14
  about, right? Like when it was early access?
• 1:16:15
  Like I don't know really. Hollow night silk song.
• 1:16:20
  I feel like hollow night silk song.
• 1:16:23
  I feel like I feel like that game came out and it kind of it
• 1:16:26
  kind of shot his wad. Not saying it's a bad game, not
• 1:16:29
  saying it's a bad game. But like you said, like you said
• 1:16:31
  like 20 minutes ago, while we're having this conversation, like
• 1:16:33
  it kind of came and went, you know, like it did not keep up in
• 1:16:36
  the narrative. As a matter of fact, I don't
• 1:16:37
  even see, I don't even see Let's plays of the games, you know,
• 1:16:40
  like right now, you know, like. People aren't streaming it,
• 1:16:43
  people aren't like. Yeah, I was about to say I'm I'm
• 1:16:45
  about to jump on the twitch right now.
• 1:16:47
  I bet you I do not see one silks long stream.
• 1:16:50
  I bet you I don't. I mean, I'm sure there's some,
• 1:16:52
  but. Nope.
• 1:16:56
  Here's here's what I'm seeing in my feed right now.
• 1:16:59
  Here's what I'm seeing in my feed right now.
• 1:17:01
  Arc Raiders dispatch. Arc Raiders dispatch.
• 1:17:06
  Let me see some just chatting. Brahalla.
• 1:17:08
  Come on, Brahalla. People are Street Fighter Six,
• 1:17:12
  of course, solo leveling more Arc Raiders.
• 1:17:16
  Arc Raiders again, Dispatch again.
• 1:17:23
  Yeah, like I like I've I've scrolled at least Call of Duty.
• 1:17:26
  Call of Duty 7. That's the first Call of Duty
• 1:17:28
  I've seen. Call of Duty Black Ops seven.
• 1:17:29
  I mean, Claire Obscurus, Elden Ring, Claire Obscur again.
• 1:17:33
  Yeah. So I mean no Silk song.
• 1:17:37
  Yeah. Oh, and by the way, and and
• 1:17:39
  before you guys and before you guys asked, Twitch is asking to
• 1:17:43
  log in. So this is just the flat like
• 1:17:45
  Twitch. It's not even.
• 1:17:46
  It's not in my curated feed right now.
• 1:17:49
  Jeez, yeah, I don't know, man. I feel like I feel like Claire
• 1:17:54
  Obscure is a clear shoe in for this.
• 1:17:57
  Yeah, it would shock me if anything else.
• 1:17:59
  One honestly, even even Donkey Kong.
• 1:18:01
  Like I know a lot of people love that game when it came out, but
• 1:18:04
  like, I don't know man. I feel like I will be surprised
• 1:18:08
  if Claire Obscure does not win. I would too, but what would beat
• 1:18:13
  it? I mean that Death Stranding
• 1:18:17
  would be the only other one on this list I feel like would come
• 1:18:19
  close to it. And if Death Stranding beats it,
• 1:18:21
  I will riot. Because we already know.
• 1:18:23
  We already know why I would beat it.
• 1:18:26
  Yeah, I mean, I mean, but that's the only thing I can think of
• 1:18:29
  that would like come close to beating it.
• 1:18:31
  You know, I I out of this list that is the clear shoe in.
• 1:18:34
  And I'm not just saying that because it's my game of the
• 1:18:37
  year. I'm saying that because of like
• 1:18:38
  everything else is derivative of something else, right?
• 1:18:41
  Even Donkey Kong is like derivative of Mario Odyssey
• 1:18:46
  except for like the the destruction stuff.
• 1:18:48
  But like, you know, so yeah, I mean, I think the Game Awards
• 1:18:57
  are what, the 13th? That sounds right.
• 1:19:02
  Hold on, The Game Awards is what the hell.
• 1:19:09
  Like I was just on the damn page.
• 1:19:11
  December 11th. All right, December 11th.
• 1:19:16
  At the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles, that's where that's
• 1:19:19
  where be live. That's where be presented live.
• 1:19:23
  Oh, not at the Microsoft Theatre this year.
• 1:19:26
  Yeah. No, no, no.
• 1:19:27
  That was the big, that was the big deal this year.
• 1:19:28
  They they're changing locations. Dang, well, you know, Microsoft
• 1:19:36
  just doesn't know what to do with anything these days, do
• 1:19:38
  they? All right.
• 1:19:42
  Well, that's that's kind of our coverage of The Game Awards.
• 1:19:47
  We'll be talking about that afterwards as well.
• 1:19:51
  LeBron, before we go, we should talk about these here bosses.
• 1:19:56
  They are. They are coming up real quick.
• 1:20:00
  See, now this gets me hot and bothered.
• 1:20:02
  I'm sure it does. So the bosses are going to be a
• 1:20:08
  bit smaller this year for obvious reasons.
• 1:20:12
  If you're new here, last year's award show got very ambitious
• 1:20:16
  and very long. So we're going to kind of cut
• 1:20:21
  down some of the categories this year, but we're going to make
• 1:20:23
  it. I feel like we're going to make
• 1:20:24
  it more meaningful this year too.
• 1:20:26
  I want to try to get more people involved in, in terms of talking
• 1:20:31
  about their favorite games and and stuff and, and hopefully
• 1:20:34
  more boss rush people will be involved this year.
• 1:20:38
  But I don't know, I feel like we never really had our post mortem
• 1:20:41
  for last year's either. Yeah, we never did.
• 1:20:47
  But yeah, I, I, I, there's a, there's a lot of, there's a lot
• 1:20:52
  of categories here that I've that were there last year.
• 1:20:55
  I feel like we need to probably cut some.
• 1:20:58
  I feel like the entertainment ones were the ones that didn't
• 1:21:02
  get much love last year. I don't know.
• 1:21:07
  Is there anything that you think is missing or anything you think
• 1:21:09
  needs cut from this list? So we right now we have game of
• 1:21:13
  the year, Best Nintendo game, best PlayStation game, best Xbox
• 1:21:15
  game, best indie game, best PC game, best film, best TV show,
• 1:21:20
  developer of the year, best RPG, horror game, platformer, action
• 1:21:25
  adventure game, action game, ongoing game, multiplayer game,
• 1:21:29
  narrative driven game or visual novel, remake or remaster games.
• 1:21:35
  Making the biggest impact, best adaptation, most memorable in
• 1:21:41
  game moment, Hero of the year, best performance, most unlikely
• 1:21:45
  hero or biggest dork, Best villain, waifu of the year,
• 1:21:50
  husband of the year, Best direction and storytelling, best
• 1:21:54
  original soundtrack, best sound design, and best art direction.
• 1:22:03
  Honestly, I feel like I thought this list is well-rounded.
• 1:22:06
  OK, so here's here's the thing, right?
• 1:22:08
  We have 32 categories like The Game Awards has 29.
• 1:22:13
  So I feel like, I feel like we're evenly spaced out, as a
• 1:22:16
  matter of fact. We don't have any E sports
• 1:22:17
  categories. Yeah, Game Awards has Game
• 1:22:20
  Awards has 29 and they cut a category from last year.
• 1:22:23
  I couldn't figure out which category it was.
• 1:22:24
  They had 30 categories last year though, so, so yeah, so, so
• 1:22:29
  yeah, I think we have a well, I think I think this is very
• 1:22:31
  well-rounded and and I appreciate the fact that we have
• 1:22:35
  we have always made a thing to showcase, you know, best game
• 1:22:41
  per console or platform. So Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox,
• 1:22:46
  PC, you know, like I feel like that's a hallmark of, of what we
• 1:22:51
  do. I know the golden joysticks also
• 1:22:53
  does it, you know, but I feel like it's a hallmark for what we
• 1:22:57
  do because we 'cause I think, I think, I think people know
• 1:23:01
  historically, like the Boss Roast Network, you know, is is
• 1:23:04
  kind of is heavily swayed Nintendo, you know, so this is
• 1:23:10
  our chance to show that, hey, we play other, we play other games
• 1:23:13
  across other platforms and other and, you know, other, other
• 1:23:16
  places and stuff like that. So, yeah.
• 1:23:18
  So honestly, I look at this and I did not see category that we
• 1:23:21
  need to toss out, you know what I mean?
• 1:23:24
  I think, and I think 32 is great.
• 1:23:27
  Yeah, like I said, the only ones I feel like could get cut are
• 1:23:32
  best films, TV show, but it depends on if the entertainment
• 1:23:38
  side of the writing team wants to add anything here, you know?
• 1:23:45
  So the, I mean, the last thing we have to do is fill this thing
• 1:23:50
  out, right? So yeah, yeah.
• 1:23:54
  So we're we're what we're going to do is kind of let our team
• 1:23:59
  kind of fill out these these slots here and then we'll kind
• 1:24:05
  of go down the list once everyone is available and kind
• 1:24:10
  of cut it down to the ones that they can vote on.
• 1:24:14
  So, but I've, So what I didn't tell you, Lauren, is that for
• 1:24:22
  Final Cut Pro on Mac, they my, somebody I work with bought a
• 1:24:31
  like one of the, one of the big like asset packs that was on set
• 1:24:37
  like 80% off for like 22 bucks. And I, and he gave them to me
• 1:24:42
  all of them. And so like there's like,
• 1:24:45
  there's like new style things, there's awards like digital
• 1:24:52
  awards ceremony type things. There's all kinds of interesting
• 1:24:55
  lower thirds, like there's all kinds of things that we could do
• 1:24:59
  this year with it. So I've been kind of playing
• 1:25:01
  around with some of those to kind of make templates for this.
• 1:25:07
  It's it's pretty cool that the stuff that's.
• 1:25:10
  Damn, I wish somebody would do that for me with Davinci
• 1:25:12
  Resolve. Yeah, sorry, I don't.
• 1:25:15
  I don't use Davinci Resolve. I'm sorry.
• 1:25:16
  Laurent Yeah, yeah. So is there anything you want to
• 1:25:22
  hit on before we get out of here though with these?
• 1:25:25
  You mean you mean based off the bosses list?
• 1:25:27
  Yeah. Let's see.
• 1:25:29
  I mean like we we probably should fill out the best PC
• 1:25:32
  game. That's on you though.
• 1:25:36
  Oh, so I'm so I'm the I'm the one that I I, I, I will
• 1:25:39
  spearhead the best PC game category.
• 1:25:41
  I'm not going to do it right now live on on this show, though,
• 1:25:43
  because I mean, that's I got I got to do some research, you
• 1:25:46
  know, that's fine. Yeah, I, I'm see we have the
• 1:25:52
  best platformer category like see we're already doing better
• 1:25:55
  than than some of these other these other fronts, yeah.
• 1:26:01
  Yeah, there's a lot. I can't wait to see what I can't
• 1:26:05
  wait to see what we do in best narrative driven game or visual
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  novel, because dispatch should be in there for sure.
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  Yeah, as. A matter of fact, I'm going to
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  type that in there right now. Yeah, I feel like there's
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  something else that came out this year that was a visual.
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  Oh, the that Life of Strange game came out this year, right?
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  Double. Exposure.
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  Yeah, I feel like somebody's going to want to vote for that.
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  I'll to I'll to hit a pat for this category.
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  He he's the one that added it last year, so.
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  That's weird. Some some games are.
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  Oh, you know what, never mind, I'm not going to say anything.
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  Hey, South of Midnight's on here.
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  Yeah, for what? Best Xbox?
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  Games best Xbox. Yeah, I tried to go with, you
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  know, mostly what I mean. I don't know, man.
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  I would say exclusives, but I'm just going to say Xbox published
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  games because they published a lot of games this year, man.
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  Yeah. There were a lot, including the
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  Oblivion. That's the reason.
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  Soundtrack. Let me see.
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  Clear, obscure Fallon Hill F Let's see.
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  Oh, we can. We can throw some more.
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  We can throw some more in the mix here.
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  Like Haiti's had. Haiti's had a pretty good
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  soundtrack. Haiti's too.
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  I heard that. I do have to say though, man,
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  Claire Obscure has an amazing soundtrack.
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  Has an amazing soundtrack. No knowing, knowing our track
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  record here at Boss Rush, like that's probably going to, that's
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  Well, Ron, I think it's, I think it's, I think it's time we wrap
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  this, wrap this thing up. Yeah, I think, I think it is.
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  Always wrap it up anyways out there.
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• 1:28:33
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• 1:28:36
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• 1:28:57
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