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Star Wars, Tomb Raider, & Expedition 33 Take Over The Game Awards · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hold on, hold on, Let me see your picture.
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  OK, well let's talk about these Game Awards, bro, As they say,
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  Oh. OK. 321 Hello everybody.
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  Welcome back to The Boss, which podcast?
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  A great place to play games and do better.
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  And one of your hosts, Corey Deer, again alongside me as
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  always, is PC Muscle Race himself, LA Ron Dawkins.
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  Hey, what's poppin? Hey, La Ron.
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  How good was it? I heard your computer broke
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  today. Yeah, I did.
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  Just you had. Well, you didn't.
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  You didn't so much here. As I told you, it broke.
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  Yeah, I don't know. You sent me a picture of it.
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  Yeah, your screen that had a bunch of stuff I didn't
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  understand, but it's fine. From the bio screen, yeah.
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  Yeah, it looked like it looked like one of those UIS that
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  important people use in movies because they can't show Windows
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  or to any other OS. Actually, you know what, there's
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  so many, there's been so many times I've actually seen like
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  movies or TV shows where like where like it's legit like a bio
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  screen or like the most generic screen that you can get on a
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  computer without actually showing like proprietary
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  software or whatnot. Other times, other times, like
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  like sometimes just in building gadgets and like and like, it's
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  literally like a like a Raspberry Pi board with like
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  with like with like, you know, like like a rant or like like
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  some type of like, like, you know, like like like RAM stick
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  add on or something. It's hilarious.
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  That's funny. Speaking of proprietary, also
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  here is PK Power Pat Klein. I don't even know what that word
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  means. Proprietary sounds important
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  though. Actually I probably do, but like
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  prior I don't know. You do.
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  I'll tell you when you're older. It's fine.
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  Hi, Pat. I feel like it's been a hot
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  minute since I've seen you. Yep, I I got a second podcast
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  that I record now, so it's kind of hard to juggle both of them
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  together at times. Nah, you can do it.
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  I believe in you. We try I'm I'm here to talk
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  about awesome things tonight. Yeah, what are we talking about?
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  I don't know. Tales celebrating their 35th
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  anniversary. I talked about that the last
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  time on my on the Gamescast. I know it's the Patreon episode
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  today so. My gosh, you know what?
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  I I swear every time I say oh this episode can't possibly last
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  more than an hour and a half, I somehow drinks myself and it
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  becomes like the longest episode I've recorded.
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  Yeah, it's. Yep, that's how it goes.
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  Welcome to Welcome to Podcasts. Yep, good time.
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  So great time, great discussions.
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  Happy 35th Anniversary Tales series.
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  Yeah, great job, Tales. You've done good, as they say,
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  Spina. Good.
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  Those Game Awards happened and we're going to get to that.
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  We're going to get to the winners, we're going to get to
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  the announcements. Are you?
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  Trying to say the game award show was good because I thought
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  was I thought this one was mid and that's and that's and that's
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  and that's wild considering like how good like it had been going
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  for the last few years. I I want to say three years in a
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  row. Like I like it been.
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  It been really good as far as like, you know, like I train and
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  and presentation and stuff like that.
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  But but this year, like this one, seemed kind of mid.
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  Yeah, I mean. Just your opinion.
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  Yeah, just my opinion, yeah. It was, it was fine.
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  You know, it was just one of those, one of those awards that
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  happens. It happened right?
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  It had amazing announcements. There was announcements for a
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  spectacular. There were some good
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  announcements. Some of the best announcements
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  to ever be announced. Except for that last
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  announcement. What do you mean you didn't
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  think? What was it called?
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  High Highlander. High Guard.
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  High. Guard whatever.
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  High Guard. You didn't you didn't think that
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  was a good way to end the the show.
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  Not, not not Fate of the Old Republic or Divinity or the
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  racing game or two Tomb Raider games.
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  They're we're going to end on that.
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  They could have ended on the second last one.
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  The second last one was good. What was the second last?
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  The second last one was the best actually.
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  What out of the? Orchestra for that one.
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  Phantom Blade 0. No.
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  My brain hurts. It's Mega Man.
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  Oh yeah, I forgot Mega Man. They announced Mega Man.
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  That was that was like in the middle of the show.
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  According to my list, no. That was like the second last
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  thing that they announced. I'm about to go back.
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  I'm about to go back and rewatch because I, because I, I, I
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  missed it. I, I, I missed it and everyone
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  was talking about. I was like, wait, where?
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  Where is it? I have it somewhere, I don't
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  know, it's fine, whatever. But yeah, Mega Man Man looks
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  good, looks interesting. I like that they're continuing
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  the video. Well, hey, hold on.
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  I, I kind of, I kind of, I kind of said like, you'd be a great
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  surprise if a Mega Man title showed up and hey, I win an
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  award. Tell me what I win, Corey.
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  You win the prize of sitting here with me for the next hour
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  and a half. Yeah.
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  I mean, there's a lot of pretty decent announcements at this
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  thing, but we're going to, we're going to kind of glide through
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  what we've been playing real quick.
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  For me, I've been playing more Hyrule Warriors and Metroid
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  Prime 4. That's kind of it.
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  I've also been lifing SO. Yeah, I think everybody's been
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  lifing. Yeah, yeah.
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  Well, Ron, I have to say though, on this, on this computer side
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  tangent, you sound a lot better. Oh yeah, Yeah, you sound like a
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  human. Oh, OK.
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  What did what did that sound like before?
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  I don't know, not like this. I can't describe it.
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  Good. Good to know.
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  OK. Yeah, it's like that one time
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  you turn that NVIDIA, NVIDIA stuff off and you sounded normal
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  that one time and. Then, well, it's weird.
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  It was weird because the NVIDIA stuff is on.
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  Oh well, this is all. You're also on a different
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  computer, so I don't know, maybe it's acting different.
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  So are you blaming my old computer?
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  I'm blaming whatever was not working the last time.
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  OK. Speaking of not working, Pat,
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  what are you playing? Well, I've been working through
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  some backlog stuff since now we're kind of done with releases
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  and I finished Metroid Prime for a week ago.
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  So with the announcement that what happened at the Game
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  Awards, I kind of want to dive right back into the good old
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  Mega Man series. So I played through Mega Man's
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  One through 3 recently. Nice.
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  Yep, the the legacy collection, complete with all the bugs that
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  the NES cartridges had. And you know, it's, it's, it's
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  a, it's a great game. I'm I'm even trying to go
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  through the actual recommended robot master order instead of my
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  own customary like how I always done it over and over again when
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  I played. Them Wait what?
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  Wait your? What's your, what's your order?
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  Cause 'cause most people, most of the first time they ever
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  played Mega Man, like any of the Mega Man games, they usually,
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  they usually find, they usually find the order to go through on
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  their own. You know, 'cause the wait, which
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  game are you? Which which?
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  Which game 'cause shit. For example, Mega Man 2, I would
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  always start off with flash man, then for some reason I'd go
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  Bubble man, Metal man, air man. Like my order didn't quite make
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  sense because they didn't hit any of the weaknesses.
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  Yeah. But that's just how I, you know,
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  played it all over and over again as a kid because that's
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  how I beat it the first time. There are a lot of people who
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  actually play the Flash Man stage first.
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  I've seen, I've seen it in a lot of Let's Plays and stuff like
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  that. I don't like playing the Flash
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  Man stage first when I the very first time I ever played Mega
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  Man for for some odd reason, like I actually started on the
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  Air Man stage and, and, and I'm trying to think, 'cause I don't
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  think Air Man is the stage people people go to for is like
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  it's the recommended first stage.
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  Either recommended first is Metal Man.
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  Metal man. Yeah, yeah, I I So I go air man,
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  Air man, crash man, Metal Man, then Bubble Man.
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  No, no, I'm sorry. Not bubble.
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  Yeah, Bubble man, Bubble man, then heat Man, heat Man, wood
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  man, Wood Man 20, and then that's kind of where I get
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  screwed up because I wind up going to Flash Man and then I
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  got to go to Quick Man. Yeah, you're you're creating
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  closed on the recommended order except for they start with metal
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  Man, then they go to Air Man, Crash Man, then I think it's
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  then I think they do bubble Man and.
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  Then and then Mega Man and then Mega Man 3.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  And then Mega Man 3, it's a it's a snake man, shadow man, Spark
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  man, Spark man, Gemini man, which technically, technically,
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  like you're supposed to use a spark, you're supposed to use a
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  spark weapon on, on magnet Man. But, but in my opinion, like in
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  my opinion, in the order I go on, I can't go from Sparkman to
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  magnet man because like I don't have enough of the rush, the
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  rush utilities to do it. So yeah.
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  So, so Sparkman and Gemini man, Gemini and Needleman, Needleman
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  to Hardman and then Hardman to magnet man.
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  And then am I missing somebody? Probably.
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  That that is definitely not the recommended order cause.
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  In three. 3 has essentially 2 loops that you have to do
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  because for some reason they didn't connect.
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  Like it's like 5 of the bosses like loop into each other and
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  then three of the bosses have to loop into each other was like
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  they they don't form like everyone's weak to a certain
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  weapon which is odd but Oh well. So I did that.
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  And also I kind of craved playing some Red Dead Redemption
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  for some I kind of wanted to play an old western game again.
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  So that one just recently came out with a an up res version for
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  the PlayStation 5. And so I decided to test it out
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  and it looks good and it's a fun place.
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  This is the. So.
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  If you have the the PS4 or the Switch version you get that free
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  upgrade right I think to the PS-5 and Switch 2 versions.
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  I don't know if it's free or not.
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  I I could not tell you I I didn't have it for the I had the
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  original one on the Xbox 360. So I I decided to get for the
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  PlayStation. It was weird it originally it
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  was $50.00 for the Red Dead Redemption or a bundle pack with
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  Red Dead Redemption 2 for 40 bucks.
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  I'm like this makes no sense. You're telling me I can get a
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  second game and the other game for cheaper than just getting
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  the other game? Yeah, that's how it goes
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  sometimes. The NBA 2K and WWE2K, the bundle
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  is $40 right now, but each one is still $70 on Xbox and Switch
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  too. So I don't know, man.
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  I don't know either. Trying to get you because
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  they're going to make it up on those.
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  What do you call them? The microtransactions?
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  So that's the idea, I think. Oh OK for the NBA, but I'm like
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  Red Dead 1 doesn't have microtransactions.
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  I don't recall. No, I I was talking about WWE
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  and NBA2K, Yeah. I'm sure Nope, it clicked.
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  But yeah, sport. And also I also just started
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  Tomba because the sequel just came out, just got released this
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  last week. So I figured now's a good time
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  to go back and beat the first one because when they originally
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  released it, there were bugs that didn't allow you to get all
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  the trophies. But now that's been patched and
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  you can get all the trophies, Bugs, bugs.
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  And it's it's interesting considering the game was created
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  by the Resident Evil director. It's not so.
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  Wait, Makami. The.
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  Other one Mr. What's his name? Fujiwara.
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  Fujiwara. Yep, Tokiro Fujiwara was the
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  creator of Tomba, and he's also the father of Resident Evil.
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  Yeah, Makami didn't come until 2.
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  OK, Yep. So yeah, that's why I've been
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  playing. Nice Loron, what are you playing
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  a lot? Of second.
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  PC building. A lot of 2nd.
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  Yeah. It's fun, but this fun is also a
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  little frustrating. Of course you know.
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  You really, you really sold the fun there, Laurent.
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  You really sold it just now? I mean, I mean, I'm, I'm in
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  this, I'm in this precarious spot right now in Tekken where
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  basically we're basically like, you know, like I cannot I'm,
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  I'm, I'm in another, I'm in another promotion plateau.
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  And like I'll like I can't, I can't see in the like get the
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  get the movement or the traction that I want with right now with
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  my character. OK, OK.
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  OK. Well, Lauren, you good luck to
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  you. Yeah, yeah, like, like I, I, I
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  plan to get back into into my second playthrough dispatch
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  though, but I just haven't. But Tekken seems to be the only
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  thing. And I'm actually, I'm probably
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  gonna get back on Monster Hunter because like the new, the new,
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  the new title up, the final title update is out.
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  Final title update. For Monster Hunter Wild, yeah, I
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  believe yeah, yeah, title update 5 is the is they announced is
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  the is the last one as far as as far as like new content.
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  Really. Yeah.
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  Are they doing an expansion? Is that is that the idea?
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  Is that there's going to be an expansion?
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  They'll just, they will. They will be doing an expansion.
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  Yeah, I. Was going to say, I feel like
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  that's kind of what are you, What are you doing?
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  Why, why are you wasting? Why?
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  Why you put all this work into this and you're just going to
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  abandon it? Yeah, it's been kind of fast
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  seeing how it originally came out in.
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  In like a year, but. It yeah, like the game, yeah,
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  the game's enough for a year. But I think the problem was, is
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  that they, they need they 'cause I feel like there should have
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  been at least a six title update.
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  I think the problem is, is that they need to start working on
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  fixing the PC version of the game.
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  And they can't and they can't and they can't do that at the
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  same time, while they can't do that while trying to like
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  develop a new new, new content for like, for like the game
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  itself. I think that's, I think that's
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  really what's going on because like, 'cause like if I look at
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  Monster Hunter, let me see how many Monster Hunter World title
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  updates. Let's see.
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  All right, So oh OK, OK. I thought World had 6 updates.
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  It only had five updates. Then Iceborn came out and
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  Iceborn had a total of 6 title updates.
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  OK, Iceborn, are you? Do you still think about those
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  those good old days? Lauren of Ice Sport.
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  What I do, I do actually, I, I, I ice one, ice one honestly is
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  my world and ice one is honestly my favorite of the, of, of the,
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  of the, of the the modern Monster Hunter games now.
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  Yeah, I I feel I feel like I feel like those games are going
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  to like leave that imprint on me for like the rest of my life in
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  the same way that the original Monster Hunter like left this
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  imprint on me, you know, like world, nice world, nice born is
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  probably going to be my fate. It was the first it was the
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  first Monster Hunter game where they actually took like the
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  actual story mode of the game seriously.
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  You know, we didn't just kind of like gleam it from like The
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  Avengers that we did, you know, as in the previous legacy
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  titles. Yeah, like it.
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  Yeah. And people also asked me, am I
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  ever going to play like the old school Monster Hunter games?
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  I'm like, no, I was like, I no, I I can't play, I can't play.
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  I I learned that I could not play legacy Monster Hunter once,
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  once once world came out, I tried to go back and play
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  generations ultimate and I could not I could not play it because
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  like, you know, it was just it's not even that this.
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  It's not even that the that the play styles antiquated, but once
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  you once you put me into a modern into a modern scenario in
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  my favorite franchise, it's hard for me to go back.
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  It's it's it's hard, you know, and like, yeah, Monster Hunter
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  portable 3rd is my favorite Monster Hunter game in this in
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  the entire legacy series, you know, yeah, but yeah, I but as
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  much as I love that, I cannot go back and not go back to it.
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  Like I just, I just, I just break out in hives thinking
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  about like, oh, like I have to like heal.
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  So that means I have to pop. I have to pop a potion, which
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  means I stop dead in my tracks, drink the potion, and then flex.
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  You know, meanwhile a monster's trying to like, tear my ass
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  apart. Jeez, that sounds violent.
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  That is. Violent but.
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  Yeah, I. I understand that, right,
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  because of especially because of like the way Destiny has changed
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  so much in the last 12 years at this point, like people are
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  always like, go back to Destiny one, it's better.
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  And I'm like, guys, come on. Like shut the hell up.
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  It runs at sub 30. You got to jump.
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  There's no like ledge vaulting, you know, like all the weapons
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  have. Come on guys, come on.
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  Don't be. Don't be dumb.
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  Yeah, no, I, I, I don't, I don't understand.
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  I don't understand like the part of gamers, the part of gaming
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  culture where they just have to like is it is it is this like a
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  flex you have, you have to say some dumb shit like that, you
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  know, like, I mean, like people like what they like, you know,
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  like, so like, you know, like for for example, like I like the
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  modern Monster Hunter game. So, so world rise wild, you
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  know, like I like the I love the modern Monster Hunter games.
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  And this is from a lifelong Monster Hunter player.
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  Like, you know, I've been been playing these games.
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  I've been playing these games since they were in their
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  inception, you know, you know, but everybody finds their niche
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  in what they, in what they like and what they do, you know, And
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  there it is, you know, So I, I don't, I don't understand people
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  sometimes. You know people are not smart.
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  Yeah, it's like, it's like if you people just want.
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  To be people want to be mean, you know they.
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  That that part. They can't let you enjoy what
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  you want to enjoy without having to make it sound bad or down you
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  in some way. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
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  For for for real? Yeah.
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  Yeah, it's, I don't know, just play what you want to play,
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  people. If you want to go play the old
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  stuff and you like that better go play it.
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  Don't, don't bring somebody else down.
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  You know, you know, like, I don't, I don't tell my son he's
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  stupid for liking the worst Ninja Turtle show on
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  Nickelodeon. But you know, that's mean.
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  He's wrong. But it's OK, You shouldn't tell.
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  You shouldn't tell your son. That's that anyway though, man,
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  come on. Yeah, well, I mean, he's got to
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  learn someday, but he's only four.
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  He'll get there. You.
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  Know figure it out. He'll get there.
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  Well. If he reaches if he reaches set
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  like 9, you might want to sit him down and have that talk with
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  him. You know, to let him know that
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  he is choosing the inferior choice.
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  Yeah. It'll let them believe now, but
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  don't let him believe that when they get older.
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  Yeah, he'll, he'll get there. I believe in him, maybe so.
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  Yeah, yeah. So, so yeah, that that's it.
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  So like like depending on depending on when, like my
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  depending on when my computer gets my computer parts get in
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  and I can, I can get them all set up and replaced and
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  everything. Like, I would probably jump back
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  on the Monster Hunter because right now the ROG ally cannot
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  handle Monster Hunter Wilds in his in his current state.
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  You know, which I'm hoping, I'm hoping that's one of the things
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  like that, that the, that the team will work on like, you
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  know, like making it, making it, making it accessible for like
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  the, for like the, the the PC handles because Wilds and ice
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  born world and ice born and Ryzen Sunbreak played fine on
• 23:44
  the on the on the ROG ally. And and that's funny because,
• 23:50
  like because Ryze and sunbreak are RE engine.
• 23:56
  So, like I I thought it was going to be AI thought it was
• 23:58
  going to be a shoo in that, you know, like Wilds would play, you
• 24:03
  know, at least OK, like I don't I need to play perfect, even
• 24:06
  though, like world nice one played perfectly on on the wrong
• 24:10
  ally. Yeah, I mean, I mean Ryze was
• 24:17
  built for Switch also. So like I mean, yeah, should
• 24:21
  run, you know, most on most things, I would assume.
• 24:26
  I also wonder if, I also wonder what they're going to do about
• 24:33
  Switch to and putting like what Monster Hunter they're going to
• 24:38
  put there because they seem very adamant about putting, you know,
• 24:44
  their games on Switch to, right? Because Pragmat is coming.
• 24:47
  Resident Evil. Yeah.
• 24:49
  Street Fighter 6 was there at launch.
• 24:52
  Something else from Capcom on there too, but I kind of forget
• 24:54
  at this point. Oh, Kanitsugami is on there.
• 24:57
  I could, I could see them maybe when they come out with the
• 25:01
  expansion for Wilds the that they'll also be like we had the
• 25:05
  switch to version with the expansion coming out at the same
• 25:09
  time. I wonder how that's going to
• 25:12
  work. You know, like I, I really
• 25:15
  wonder how. I mean that game didn't run well
• 25:18
  on Xbox or PlayStation unless you had APS 5 Pro.
• 25:22
  Unless you had APS 5 pro, yeah. I mean, I, I know you, even you,
• 25:25
  Laurent, had trouble with it on PC for a hot minute.
• 25:28
  Yeah, like, yeah, I had, I had trouble till till till I didn't
• 25:31
  have trouble. Which is, you know, which is,
• 25:33
  which is weird. Like I, I, I feel like, I feel
• 25:35
  like they started cleaning it up.
• 25:37
  Well, they, they, they were cleaning it up, but you know,
• 25:39
  they, it felt, it felt like they start, they really started
• 25:42
  cleaning it up with the, with the title update.
• 25:45
  Or. No, yeah, 4, no, well, we just,
• 25:49
  we just got 5. So probably title update 3.
• 25:52
  You know, even though I know there was probably some
• 25:54
  headaches that I had during that cycle, but but yeah, like this
• 25:59
  is this is this is what I'm going to say.
• 26:03
  And this is like a, this is a play of the PC gamers, right?
• 26:07
  If you're making games and you intend to sell, if you're a
• 26:09
  develop, if you're a developer or publisher and you're making
• 26:11
  games, the intent to sell them on the PC version you need to be
• 26:14
  creating, you need to be developing both versions of
• 26:17
  these games the same exact time. Or, or, and I don't know, I
• 26:21
  might be crazy here, build it on the PC first and then and then
• 26:27
  on the on the side, because it's easier to, it's easier to go,
• 26:31
  it's easier to go down to console version than it is to
• 26:34
  and than it is to go up from console version to PC version.
• 26:38
  This is why, This is why the history was like, you know, like
• 26:40
  a game would come out on the consoles and then it'd take
• 26:42
  like, you know, like 2 years for it to come out on PC.
• 26:44
  You know, like those like those times are getting, those times
• 26:47
  are getting are, are, are shrinking now.
• 26:48
  Like, you know, like now, like, you know, if it's not day and
• 26:51
  date now, like, you know, it's like a couple of months, like
• 26:53
  it's on the consoles and then it's on the PC, you know, but
• 26:57
  but, you know, I don't know, I might sound like a crazy person
• 27:00
  for saying this, but yeah, like just build them at the same
• 27:03
  time, you know, I, you know, I understand, you know, but also,
• 27:08
  I think what they're also doing is they're trying to, they're
• 27:10
  trying to console gaming has come to the point where it's
• 27:13
  almost on par with PC gaming. So I think they are trying to,
• 27:18
  to wait it out until like, you know, basically like how Corey,
• 27:21
  you predicted, like, you know, four years ago that you know,
• 27:23
  the place, the PS-5 and the, and the, and the Xbox Series are
• 27:27
  going to become more and more PC like in like how their
• 27:30
  development structure and all this stuff.
• 27:32
  I think this is, I think this is what the developers are waiting
• 27:34
  for. They're, they're waiting for,
• 27:35
  they're waiting for the hardware to get so close to PC so that so
• 27:39
  that there's literally no gap between like the releases.
• 27:45
  Yeah. And I think I also, I also think
• 27:49
  like, I don't want to say this, I also think like the way that
• 27:56
  hardware and technology is these days, you need things to be as
• 28:01
  close to, you know, obviously they're going to have
• 28:05
  proprietary, you know, software running the, the platforms, but
• 28:09
  you want the, the way they're built to be as similar as
• 28:13
  possible because of how long these games take to make and how
• 28:15
  high the budgets are. And, you know, if you're using a
• 28:20
  proprietary engine or if you're using Unreal, like these things
• 28:24
  have to scale to different, you know, they have to scale
• 28:26
  differently. And, and it's just, you know,
• 28:30
  it's not, it's not the, it's not the NES anymore.
• 28:33
  You can't just blow in the cartridge and it works right?
• 28:35
  Like, you know, I mean, Final Fantasy, I don't know if you
• 28:39
  guys ever heard that story of Final Fantasy 4 being built by a
• 28:44
  team of like 20 people in nine months or something.
• 28:50
  And. Like, wasn't it like also in a
• 28:52
  garage? Yeah, I believe.
• 28:54
  I believe those. Stories.
• 28:55
  I think that was the first one, Pat.
• 28:58
  Yeah, I, I believe stories like that, like shit, like, like,
• 29:01
  like, like Pat was talking about Mega Man two and three.
• 29:04
  Like the like Mega Man 2 was developed in less than six
• 29:06
  months. Now, of course, now, of course
• 29:09
  when you look at Mega Man 2, like, yeah, oh, you're like,
• 29:11
  yeah, it was definitely built in six months, 'cause 'cause like,
• 29:16
  yeah, the, the, Well, actually, no, it was Mega Man 3.
• 29:18
  Mega Man 3 was, was, was built in a short.
• 29:21
  Mega Man 2 was built in a short amount of time.
• 29:23
  But Mega Man 3 was also built in a short amount of time.
• 29:25
  And it kind of showed because like, 'cause like, you know,
• 29:27
  like the boss, the boss orders were kind of like flim flam.
• 29:30
  They didn't make any sense. And then, you know, and then you
• 29:32
  add on top of that, you know, like, yeah, a second run through
• 29:35
  when you play. You played all eight of the Mega
• 29:37
  Man 2 Robot Monster Masters again?
• 29:41
  Yeah. Yeah, and and also like Mega Man
• 29:45
  3 is like the worst running one, right?
• 29:49
  Like in terms of like stuttering and frame?
• 29:52
  Rate, Yeah, yeah, Mega Man three had a lot of had a lot of of
• 29:55
  frame clipping. It did.
• 29:58
  Yeah, it did actually, since I just played that today.
• 30:01
  Yeah, and and I don't even, and if I'm not mistaken, because
• 30:05
  you, you played on the you, you're playing the legacy
• 30:07
  collections, right? Yep.
• 30:09
  Yeah. So like, yeah, the fact that
• 30:11
  they, the fact that they couldn't even like fix that, you
• 30:14
  know, which I guess is authenticity, you know?
• 30:17
  But now it's a feature. Yeah, I mean, it's like when you
• 30:23
  used to play like Ninja, like Ninja Gaiden on the NES 2,
• 30:26
  right? Where like the enemies would fly
• 30:28
  at you and you would learn how to use the like.
• 30:31
  To manipulate. Glitching to manipulate the, you
• 30:33
  know, moving through or like I, I guess Mega Man does that too,
• 30:36
  right? We're like, when you get hit,
• 30:38
  you have to use that time to like move through the enemies
• 30:40
  because you're blinking and you know, because you got hit or
• 30:43
  whatever, you know? You get some eye frames going,
• 30:46
  yeah. Ninja Gaiden is a is Ninja
• 30:49
  Gaiden on the NES is one of my video games shames.
• 30:51
  I I I never beat that game when I was a kid.
• 30:54
  I I only beat it when I was an adult and I've only beaten it
• 30:57
  once as an adult. I've, I mean, I've never beaten
• 31:00
  it so. Yeah, like, yeah, like I could
• 31:03
  not, I could not get past stage 6 two boss.
• 31:07
  So basically fighting basically fighting the Jaquil or whatever
• 31:12
  he was like, you know, before, like you actually fight the
• 31:14
  demon. Like I could, I could never, I
• 31:16
  could never beat, I could never beat beat that when I was a kid.
• 31:21
  And then, and then by some fluke, by some fluke, and of
• 31:24
  course, like emulator magic without save states, I finally
• 31:27
  beat it as an adult. But I've only beaten it once.
• 31:32
  I mean that would. Be a good one to bring a
• 31:34
  remaster package or not. Not like just.
• 31:37
  Well, the first. Election package the. 1st 2 are
• 31:40
  so I think the 1st 2 are at least, but still, yeah, I, I
• 31:47
  agree with you though, Pat, I, I feel like, I feel like that's
• 31:51
  like a digital Eclipse like layup right?
• 31:53
  Where you do like the first three NES games and then you do
• 31:57
  the SNES trilogy thing and the arcade games and like you put
• 32:01
  them all in the package, right? That seems like a layup.
• 32:04
  Yeah, I mean, all the gig companies are doing that.
• 32:07
  Namco, Capcom, Liberty and Ron's been, you know, dabbling with
• 32:13
  the series like Gex and Tomba. With the Atari, Atari's
• 32:17
  literally like made a whole business out of it.
• 32:19
  They bought what Night Dive and Digital Eclipse to do that.
• 32:24
  So, Speaking of, anybody try out that Mortal Kombat collection at
• 32:33
  all? The, you know, the ones that
• 32:35
  came out like last month? Yeah.
• 32:37
  No, no, I, I, I wasn't, I wasn't really pressed.
• 32:40
  I wasn't really pressed for it. Yeah, I I wasn't either.
• 32:43
  I was just wondering. So.
• 32:50
  Oh yeah, I forgot. I also played the that Marvel
• 32:52
  Cosmic Invasion a little bit. More how is that?
• 32:56
  How is that? Because, like, because like I
• 32:58
  number one, I didn't even know it was a thing.
• 33:00
  Yeah. And then when I saw the, then
• 33:01
  when I saw the trailer for it, I was like.
• 33:03
  Oh yeah, It it reminds me a lot of the X-Men arcade game mixed
• 33:07
  with that Ninja Turtles game that came out a couple years
• 33:09
  ago. It's the same team that did the
• 33:10
  Ninja Turtles game. Man, this this.
• 33:13
  Team's on a roll. Yeah, so far I don't know if
• 33:16
  it's as good as Ninja Turtles or not.
• 33:17
  I haven't played it enough of it.
• 33:19
  And I play Ninja Turtles like twice a week because my son
• 33:21
  loves it. But it has this really cool tag
• 33:25
  team system where like you pick like if you're playing by well,
• 33:29
  anybody that plays picks 2 characters and then you can do
• 33:32
  like combos with the second character that's kind of in your
• 33:36
  like holding slot. And then you can switch
• 33:39
  characters on the fly to kind of switch back and forth.
• 33:42
  But then like you can do different combos and different
• 33:45
  characters offer different combos.
• 33:49
  It does kind of throw me off a little bit though, because like
• 33:51
  some characters like Captain America, the the button you
• 33:55
  usually hit to dodge, he holds his shield up so he like blocks
• 34:01
  instead of dodges and it kind of throws me off a little bit.
• 34:03
  But you know, it's cool. Storm is awesome.
• 34:09
  Wolverine's good. Let's see.
• 34:14
  My son loves Black Panther and Spider Man.
• 34:16
  Those are like the characters he picks all the time.
• 34:21
  Beta Ray Bill is in it for some reason instead of four.
• 34:25
  OK. So that's kind of strange, but
• 34:29
  it's cool. Captain Marvel, She Hulk, Rocket
• 34:34
  Nova, it's got, it's got a pretty like strange cast of
• 34:39
  characters. Like it's a bunch of it feels
• 34:42
  very random, but also totally sets it up for DLC in the
• 34:46
  future. Iron Man's in it.
• 34:50
  So I think there's like 16 playable characters right now,
• 34:55
  but if it's anything like Ninja Turtles, they'll be adding DLC
• 34:57
  characters for a while. So.
• 35:00
  And I don't know who you unlock when you beat the game.
• 35:01
  Usually you unlock a character when you beat the game.
• 35:06
  But no idea I. Haven't looked it up, so I don't
• 35:08
  know, but it's cool If you like the X-Men arcade game and the
• 35:14
  Ninja Turtles game, I would I would highly recommend it.
• 35:17
  Oh yeah, it's only, it's only it's on sale right now for like,
• 35:21
  I don't know, I don't remember if it's like, I think it's
• 35:25
  $30.00, but I think it's on sale for 27 or 26 right now.
• 35:30
  So all right, let's talk about these game awards.
• 35:35
  Speaking of cool games, I don't, I don't know if you want to like
• 35:40
  discuss the winners at all, but I have a whole list of the
• 35:43
  winners. We can just run through them
• 35:45
  and. We can discuss them, we can, we
• 35:48
  can, we can run through the winners real quick.
• 35:50
  All right, so obviously Expedition 33 cleaned house,
• 35:54
  right? Yeah. 9 Awards. 9 Awards Setting
• 35:57
  A. Like, I think it, I think, I
• 35:58
  think it practically won everything.
• 36:00
  It was it was listed in I, but I've I think it I think it
• 36:04
  missed out on one, maybe 2. I think it missed. 2/1 was a
• 36:09
  player's choice, it didn't win. And then best audio design it
• 36:14
  didn't win. Wait, wait, because I was I was
• 36:19
  texting you all night because I know you were, I know you were
• 36:21
  recording Xbox casuals. I know you, I know you were
• 36:25
  doing that. So I was is this basically like
• 36:27
  the list the list I sent you? The real time, some of it.
• 36:32
  I mean, I, I kind of you. You kind of you kind of compiled
• 36:34
  it yourself. Well, no, I I went to a website
• 36:38
  and OK, you know, summarized it as they say, but yeah, it
• 36:46
  Claire, Claire skier, one game of the year, best game
• 36:50
  direction, best narrative, best art direction, score and music
• 36:53
  performance. Jennifer English one for best
• 36:56
  performance as my Al best RPG, best indie game and best debut
• 37:04
  indie game, which is like OK, not really an indie game, but
• 37:10
  whatever it's I I think they kind.
• 37:13
  Of changed the wording. Game from an indie studio is now
• 37:16
  what they call it. OK, Well that would make more
• 37:20
  sense because they are an independent studio.
• 37:22
  They just had a publisher, I guess.
• 37:23
  But I mean, I I think that makes more sense if they make that
• 37:29
  part clear, you know, because we had that big kerfuffle with Dave
• 37:35
  the Diver last year. It made everybody like By The
• 37:41
  Way and a lot of the indie. Games that people really enjoy
• 37:45
  tend to now have publishers. Yeah.
• 37:47
  So, you know, they want to keep that indie status.
• 37:51
  They got to change the name to Independent Studio.
• 37:55
  Or developer yeah, yeah, so yeah, Claire obscure clean
• 38:03
  house. I'm kind of shocked that it like
• 38:05
  it won so much because usually like best game direction and
• 38:09
  best narrative like those are two like those two usually go to
• 38:13
  the games that aren't going to win game of the year.
• 38:15
  So a lot of the time it feels like it's like, oh, you didn't
• 38:18
  win game of the year, but here's a here's a bone for you to.
• 38:21
  Here's your prize. Yeah, but.
• 38:26
  It cleaned house man. I'm I'm like really happy for
• 38:29
  them seriously. And then they they shadow drop
• 38:32
  that DLC as soon as they won game.
• 38:34
  Of the year yeah, I'm. I'm happy for them too, but also
• 38:38
  at the same time I think I think you know what, let's circle back
• 38:45
  to this. What I have, I have some, I have
• 38:48
  some thoughts and views. I have some thoughts and
• 38:50
  opinions, OK, OK. Like, I like #1 like, I am so
• 38:55
  happy. Like clear, obscure, like X
• 38:56
  Version 33 is probably one of the best role-playing games I've
• 38:59
  played this year. You know?
• 39:03
  You know that. To the people who really like
• 39:06
  Kingdom come deliverance. Too Come deliverance too.
• 39:08
  Yeah, yeah. They'll say Clareps gear is not
• 39:11
  an RPG for some reason. Don't.
• 39:14
  I don't I don't I don't understand.
• 39:16
  OK, you know what I'm going to be?
• 39:18
  I'm going to be potty mouth tonight.
• 39:20
  I don't understand. Understand the fuck?
• 39:22
  Why not? Because like it has, it has
• 39:24
  everything in it, like it's. It's literally a turn based RPG.
• 39:28
  Turn based RPG, like, I mean, as a matter of fact, as a matter of
• 39:31
  fact, it's funny because, like, because like, for some strange
• 39:34
  reason, right, you know, clear, obscure 33, like put the
• 39:38
  expedition 33. You put like the, the, the RPG
• 39:42
  conversation back in, like the in, in, in like the, the
• 39:45
  zeitgeist or something, right? Because everybody 'cause
• 39:48
  everybody's like, oh, RPGs are back.
• 39:49
  I'm like, have we not been playing all these Final Fantasy
• 39:52
  games the past five years? And and and Dragon's Dogma and
• 39:57
  Persona and, and what was the what was the game?
• 40:03
  The other game shit, damn it the the pretty game from like the
• 40:08
  the the former persona people like, what was that?
• 40:10
  Oh, metaphor. Thank you, thank you.
• 40:12
  Metaphor Fantazio. Like what that was like.
• 40:14
  That was our RPG of the year last year for the bosses.
• 40:19
  Like like what? What what what is I don't
• 40:23
  understand. You know, like, and yeah,
• 40:26
  Western RPGs and JRPGS are always going to look different
• 40:29
  and, and clear obscure. Expedition 33 was definitely
• 40:32
  more JRPG esque and it's and it's turn based mechanics and
• 40:36
  all that stuff, you know? Don't tell the JRPG people that.
• 40:39
  I know because the Jr. because the JRPGRPG people are all they
• 40:43
  worried about is waifus and those bondos and stuff.
• 40:46
  I also have to I also have to call out Edward Varnell of the
• 40:52
  host of Nintendo Power Block for trying to talk about this game
• 40:57
  without even having. Having played it.
• 41:01
  I'll put it, I'll put it in perspective.
• 41:02
  Pat, he just got to the the tree and going to find my L That's
• 41:11
  where he's at. And he tried to tried to like
• 41:14
  have this big old conversation about it, about it maybe or
• 41:18
  maybe not being game of the year and like you can't talk.
• 41:22
  Sorry Ed, I love you, but no. Yeah, he, he needs to get a
• 41:32
  little further. I I definitely feel like a lot
• 41:34
  of people who haven't played clear obscure Expedition 33 are
• 41:39
  the ones who are making the loudest argument against it.
• 41:47
  But it it is funny though that it tended to unite both the JRPG
• 41:50
  and the Western RPG people against it just because it is
• 41:55
  like an amalgamation of both of them and so neither of them like
• 42:01
  they they claim that they I guess muddied the name of both J
• 42:05
  and western RPGs. I am, yeah.
• 42:13
  I also think like, I feel like a lot of people that don't at
• 42:18
  least get through like Act 2, right?
• 42:21
  Like, and you know, the the big twist at the end of act one, but
• 42:25
  then like Act 2, like as you make your way through Act 2,
• 42:29
  that's kind of where the game kind of becomes the game that
• 42:32
  people love, right? And so like, you know, I kind of
• 42:36
  feel like if you don't at least get.
• 42:37
  Picture of the game. Yeah.
• 42:38
  If you don't get back, yeah. And then like, if you don't get
• 42:43
  that far or finish the game or whatever, like, I don't know,
• 42:47
  there's a point in the game where you're like, I get it now,
• 42:49
  right? And I think everybody has
• 42:51
  various points where they see that, but it's usually within,
• 42:56
  you know, between the end of Act one and Act 2, right?
• 42:58
  Like I get it now. Right, right.
• 43:04
  Plus SK man, would we have to travel halfway around the world?
• 43:10
  No. Oh, but, but going back to what
• 43:14
  I was initially trying to say, like, you know, I, I feel like I
• 43:18
  feel like even with Claire skier, like wonderful game, like
• 43:23
  definitely deserving of all the awards and stuff like that.
• 43:25
  I think, I think they put this game in too many categories and
• 43:29
  it pushed out other games that should have had a had A at least
• 43:33
  a the same shot, you know? The The thing is though is like
• 43:40
  the the categories are voted like the even the entries into
• 43:46
  the category are voted on by outlets.
• 43:47
  It's not Keely putting these in these.
• 43:50
  I know, I know. Yeah, I'm not.
• 43:52
  Yeah. I mean, I understand what you're
• 43:53
  saying, but yeah, I mean, it's like that many people just love
• 43:57
  this game, you know? Yeah, yeah, because trying to
• 44:01
  let. People know that it's not
• 44:03
  necessarily winning the award that's important.
• 44:05
  It's the fact that all these other games got nominated.
• 44:09
  They're standing with, you know, Claire Obscure for the best of
• 44:14
  these. It just happened that Claire
• 44:16
  Obscure happened to be the diamond out of all of them,
• 44:21
  which you know, it's it's it's a testament for clear Obscure and
• 44:25
  it's, it is sad to see all the other ones not win awards, but
• 44:29
  that doesn't necessarily make them bad games.
• 44:32
  You know they're standing shoulder to shoulder with clear
• 44:36
  obscure. I I guess what I'm trying to say
• 44:39
  is like the the panel, the panel of the panel of judges and and
• 44:44
  the nomination panel needs to expand their pallet.
• 44:49
  Yeah, I also think a lot of these, a lot of these outlets,
• 44:54
  like most of them feel like they have to like touch every game,
• 44:58
  right, to be able to like say something.
• 45:01
  And it's like you don't have to play everything, you know, like
• 45:06
  you just don't have to play everything.
• 45:08
  And and I I feel like when you have to feel like you have to
• 45:11
  play everything, you don't finish anything.
• 45:15
  And so like, you know, I, and I again, I don't want to take
• 45:19
  anything away from Expedition 33.
• 45:20
  I think it's an amazing game. It's definitely my game of the
• 45:23
  year. I, it might be a top ten game of
• 45:26
  all time for me, honestly. Like it's, it's amazing.
• 45:29
  But like, you know, when you play, like, what if somebody
• 45:33
  played, you know, Silk song for like 2 hours or Hades for an
• 45:38
  hour And then, you know, Claire obscure to, you know, maybe
• 45:41
  halfway through Act 2 and, you know, Death Stranding for five.
• 45:45
  Like, you know, like there, there's so many games this year
• 45:48
  that like, how can you even possibly try?
• 45:53
  You know? And then you have like these
• 45:55
  mini standouts like ball pit, right, Which you know, became
• 46:02
  essentially this this year's Bilatro essentially, I feel
• 46:05
  like. The year before, it's Vampire
• 46:09
  Survivor. Yeah, like you always have that
• 46:11
  one game that's like a surprise to everybody.
• 46:16
  So LA Ronnie. All right, there.
• 46:19
  Can you hear me? Are you all right?
• 46:22
  Nope. Nope.
• 46:22
  Goodbye. He's gone.
• 46:24
  Yep, he's gone. But now, you know, I'm, I'm
• 46:29
  happy Claire Obscure did as well as it did.
• 46:32
  It is definitely a testament to the team that made it.
• 46:36
  It is you know, it should be an eye opener to the industry to
• 46:41
  see that a game that only had I forget how much it was a small
• 46:46
  budget wasn't like 10 million the.
• 46:48
  Budget was only 10 million. Dollars the budget was like $10
• 46:52
  million and a team of like 30 people yeah made this game and
• 46:57
  yes some of them had video game development others, you know he
• 47:01
  accredited to YouTube videos it's this is kind of showing how
• 47:06
  video games should should be you know created.
• 47:13
  Yeah, we can't hear you still. Yeah, he's.
• 47:17
  He's he's struggling over here. It's fine.
• 47:21
  Yeah. You know.
• 47:24
  Performance issues. This is how video games should
• 47:26
  be created. You know, not with the intention
• 47:29
  of stacks. In mind, but with the intention
• 47:32
  of creating a game that both developers and players want to
• 47:36
  play. Yeah.
• 47:38
  Wait, I 'cause I, I blinked out for a second.
• 47:40
  Were we still talking about Expansion 33 or we?
• 47:42
  Yeah, OK, OK. Yeah, Anything you think should
• 47:48
  have won any of these categories Besides that, like I, I there's
• 47:54
  a couple here. I feel like something should
• 47:56
  have gotten an odd, but I. Feel like this.
• 47:57
  I feel like dispatch got robbed, but I had but I think, I think,
• 48:01
  I think I say that because dispatch made a phenomenal
• 48:04
  impression on me, but also players, the players cause
• 48:08
  dispatch wasn't the player's voice like like like category
• 48:11
  no. During waves, was the player's
• 48:14
  choice. Well, that's what that's what it
• 48:17
  won. That's what it won.
• 48:18
  But but dispatch was in was in the player's voice nomination.
• 48:23
  Yeah. And so, and I think the only
• 48:24
  reason why I think the only reason why dispatch did not get
• 48:27
  that, get that, get that headway is because like it was a press
• 48:33
  release like I mean like dispatch came out what 3 weeks
• 48:36
  before they three weeks before like the nominations came out.
• 48:38
  It didn't win because we went against.
• 48:40
  It wasn't gotcha game and it wasn't and technically it wasn't
• 48:45
  actually completed at the time that, you know, the game Awards
• 48:49
  that you know, like it got nominated, you know, like it was
• 48:52
  still it was still releasing the episodes.
• 48:54
  Yeah. Like the last episode didn't the
• 48:57
  last episode didn't come out till a week after the
• 48:59
  announcements? We still have what, the Baftas
• 49:02
  and some other things in January, right?
• 49:05
  Wait wait, no BAFTA Bafta's already happened.
• 49:07
  No Golden Joysticks already happened.
• 49:09
  Golden Joysticks already happened in Dispatch 1.
• 49:13
  Dispatch won an award in the Golden Joysticks, and then it
• 49:16
  got a shout out from the Expedition 33 team at the Golden
• 49:20
  Joysticks. Hold on, I'm crawling through.
• 49:28
  Some, by the way, Pat. Category what?
• 49:29
  Do you think of Ben Stars reaction I'm.
• 49:34
  Happy. Actually, I think it is like I
• 49:39
  had a feeling that a lot of these actors, we're actually
• 49:44
  rooting for Jennifer English, like Erica E she clearly was
• 49:48
  rooting for Jennifer. Like she, she knew she was
• 49:52
  wasn't there to win. She came just to have a good
• 49:55
  time. That's why she was so laid back
• 49:57
  and eating popcorn during, you know, the nominees.
• 50:00
  Yeah, Ben, clearly, you know, like this was I think all the
• 50:07
  favour was going for Jennifer and Ben was being an awesome
• 50:10
  friend and supporting her being like, you know what, She earned
• 50:13
  this. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:17
  And I, I think, like, you know, she's not credited in too many
• 50:23
  games. She was what I almost said
• 50:26
  Braveheart, Shadow Heart and and Baldur's Gate.
• 50:30
  And I, I just feel like Mile was such a breakout performance for
• 50:35
  her. Like, Mile is like an amazingly
• 50:37
  acted character, you know, like I, I know a lot of people point
• 50:42
  at Gustav for being amazingly acted because, you know,
• 50:45
  obviously Charlie Cox's Hollywood actor.
• 50:48
  But like, I feel like my L's performance was like it if my L
• 50:54
  didn't work, the game didn't work, right.
• 50:56
  Like, yeah. The game was clearly a my my L
• 50:59
  story. Yeah.
• 51:04
  So I I think. I'm happy for her.
• 51:08
  She was honestly the person. I'm not going to.
• 51:10
  I'm not going to argue with you. And it's kind of funny because
• 51:14
  now they're saying if you want to win game of the year, you
• 51:16
  just have to hire Jennifer English because Balder's Gate
• 51:19
  won it, this game won it. She's the star in Tides of
• 51:23
  Annihilation next year. So they're saying that's going
• 51:26
  to be the go to contender. Hey, whatever works, you know?
• 51:34
  I know. And honestly, talking to Ben,
• 51:36
  Ben was, Ben is supportive of all his team members.
• 51:40
  Like he, I'm sure he'd be happy if you won an award, but he's
• 51:43
  just happy that, you know, someone like one of his
• 51:48
  colleagues. Yeah, just as much.
• 51:50
  Earned it. Yeah, I almost feel like if she
• 51:52
  didn't win, he was the one that was going to win, right?
• 51:54
  I mean. Yeah, he yeah, that's that's the
• 51:56
  way I feel it's. Going to be one of them too, you
• 51:58
  know. Yeah, Troy Baker, of course, was
• 52:01
  pretty damn close, but. I mean, he was great.
• 52:04
  Indiana Jones. Yeah, I thought.
• 52:06
  I thought, I thought he was going to win that.
• 52:09
  Yeah, but I feel like, I almost feel like if I feel like Troy
• 52:15
  Baker's Indiana Jones was great, but he's doing an impression
• 52:19
  where as like, you know, Ben Starr and and Jennifer English
• 52:23
  had to like, create these characters, you know, from
• 52:26
  scratch and like, really find their voice, you know?
• 52:29
  So don't get me wrong, I don't want to take anything away from
• 52:33
  Troy Baker. He, I mean, that's an incredible
• 52:36
  Indiana Jones. But we know what Harrison Ford
• 52:42
  sounds like and what Indiana Jones is like, right?
• 52:44
  So like, there's something to work off of for it, you know?
• 52:47
  Whereas these characters had to be built from the ground up,
• 52:50
  essentially. Nominate him for Higgs honestly
• 52:56
  for Death Stranding too, because that role that was he was the
• 53:02
  best character in the entire game like.
• 53:04
  You know, people keep saying. Looked like, yeah, it's so much
• 53:07
  fun as that character, yeah. That's what people keep saying
• 53:15
  any, any, anything else about Expedition 33 before we kind of
• 53:18
  move on to these other categories that it didn't win.
• 53:25
  I think, think, think we're all right.
• 53:27
  So Haiti's two got best action game.
• 53:30
  I mean, that combat is pretty. I mean, it's pretty good.
• 53:35
  It's pretty good. It's OK.
• 53:39
  Hold on, what was? I don't remember honestly.
• 53:43
  Hold on, hold on. I'm looking.
• 53:45
  Best action. Let me see.
• 53:46
  We had Battlefield 6, Doom, The Dark Ages, Haiti's 2, Ninja
• 53:49
  Gaiden 4 and Shinobi Art of Vengeance.
• 53:51
  Yeah, I did have some competition, but yeah.
• 53:54
  No rage bound and they're. Weird, I kind of guess they
• 54:00
  decided only one Ninja Gaiden would work in this.
• 54:03
  Yeah, well, I wouldn't have. Or maybe they thought Rage Bound
• 54:06
  was action adventure, I don't know.
• 54:08
  I wouldn't have picked 4 out of the two Ninja Gaiden games to
• 54:11
  put there, but it's just me. Let's see.
• 54:18
  Best action adventure was Hollow night Silk song.
• 54:22
  People are pissed off. At Jeff's comment with that one,
• 54:26
  but I think they almost forgot the context that Team Cherry
• 54:31
  basically said we're not showing up because it's going to go to
• 54:34
  Expedition 33 anyways. So that was kind of where Jeff's
• 54:40
  comment was aimed for. Not at the fans, but at Team
• 54:43
  Cherry themselves for being like guys, you did win an award here.
• 54:48
  Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, that was the the
• 54:53
  Silksong was in the same category of Death Stranding 2,
• 54:57
  Golciote, Indiana Jones and Split Fiction.
• 55:00
  I'm actually shocked Split Fiction didn't win just because
• 55:03
  it seems like it seems like like The Game Awards, like the awards
• 55:07
  committee that has a has a real soft spot for Haze Light
• 55:09
  Studios. Yeah.
• 55:12
  Look at the competition it was against.
• 55:14
  Yeah, plus, like, I wonder how many people, like, I don't know,
• 55:20
  sometimes I feel like those games in particular, it's like
• 55:22
  really hard to find somebody to play.
• 55:26
  Maybe it's just me play with on a consistent basis.
• 55:29
  And obviously the the what was the last game he did It takes 2
• 55:33
  right? Was so beloved, but I don't
• 55:41
  know. No, it's it's interesting though
• 55:44
  that we're also seeing now like a surge of these Co-op games
• 55:49
  coming. Yeah, we saw several of them
• 55:52
  announced Legos came out with theirs just recently, I think.
• 55:57
  What was it called? Legos?
• 55:58
  Voyager. Voyagers.
• 55:59
  Yeah, and then the Out of Worlds coming out soon to that spot
• 56:05
  Motion handcrafted 1. Yeah.
• 56:09
  So I mean it, it's definitely they, they created something
• 56:14
  successful and now people have taken note of it.
• 56:18
  Yeah, best audio design Battlefield 6, of course.
• 56:24
  I mean, these games are Immaculate.
• 56:27
  That was the only game or only category Clear, obscure, lost
• 56:31
  in. While it did also lost players
• 56:33
  choice but. OK, fair enough.
• 56:36
  But like when they say it got nominated for 12 awards,
• 56:41
  technically they were going to lose at least two of them
• 56:44
  because you nominated three of them in one category, right?
• 56:49
  So the best it could have won was 10 of the official awards.
• 56:54
  So it's interesting that they didn't have the full sweep.
• 56:58
  They lost. Yeah, you suck.
• 56:59
  Mm. Hmm.
• 57:03
  I'm just kidding. Best family game.
• 57:06
  I'm kind of shocked. Donkey Kong Bonanza one, I
• 57:10
  thought it was going to be Mario Kart or Sonic Racing, whatever
• 57:14
  it's called. Cross world.
• 57:18
  I really. Thought donkey winning.
• 57:20
  I mean, I'm fine with it. I just, I'm shocked.
• 57:23
  I'm fine with it. I'm fine.
• 57:24
  I'm fine. With shocked it wasn't a, you
• 57:27
  know, like a family friendly multiplayer racing game like
• 57:30
  Mario Kart or Sonic Best No, go ahead.
• 57:37
  Yeah, no, no, I was disagreeing with you about the about I
• 57:39
  thought I thought the one of the racing games we've gotten it.
• 57:42
  You know, honestly, I feel like I feel like if we can talk about
• 57:48
  racing, the best racing slash sports, I think I think Sonic
• 57:52
  racing got robbed by Mario Kart because I feel like I like Sonic
• 57:56
  racing across worlds. Is is the stronger game?
• 57:59
  I'm just kind of shocked because there seems to be an industry
• 58:01
  upward turn toward Sonic and these games are usually a lot of
• 58:08
  people usually like these games. Especially the What transformed
• 58:12
  one right? Which was what, 2 iterations
• 58:14
  ago? I don't know, I feel like plus
• 58:17
  they have all that weird DLC coming to this right?
• 58:20
  Like SpongeBob and Mega Man and Ninja Turtles are all coming to
• 58:25
  this thing somehow. Yeah.
• 58:28
  Yeah, so I don't know. But Mario, you can't, you can't,
• 58:34
  can't beat Mario, man. I mean, just doesn't happen.
• 58:41
  Laurent, what do you think about best fighting game?
• 58:42
  Fatal Fury. City of the Wolves.
• 58:47
  I mean, I mean, I'm not against it.
• 58:50
  It was up against 3 collections and because we got a riot game
• 58:53
  which I always forget what combination of letters and
• 58:56
  numbers is in there. 2X KO like 2 X KO2X KO like actually looks
• 59:03
  pretty good. But I don't I don't I don't play
• 59:05
  a lot of fighting games, which is which is wild, you know,
• 59:07
  because like I do play Tekken, you know, so people people
• 59:10
  probably associate that play a lot of fighting games.
• 59:12
  I only play like one or two. Yeah, yeah, but the Capcom
• 59:17
  fighting collection too like that really shouldn't have been
• 59:19
  up there to begin with. We talked about.
• 59:20
  That as a category like. When we were talking about them,
• 59:23
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, 'cause I mean, 'cause I
• 59:26
  mean like if they've done, if they've done that, they might as
• 59:29
  well just put like, you know, like, let me see, there was a,
• 59:33
  there was a lot of, there was a lot of backlash that, you know,
• 59:35
  Tekken got, Tekken 8 got snubbed.
• 59:37
  I'm like Tekken 8's not a new game.
• 59:38
  So what were you going to do? Like put the, put the, you know,
• 59:41
  the season pass in there, You know, you know, what were you
• 59:44
  going to do? Like Street Fighter wasn't in
• 59:46
  there either. And Street Fighter was like
• 59:47
  what? And there's six season pass now
• 59:48
  or something. Like that, I don't know.
• 59:51
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, like, you know, what
• 59:53
  were you going to do? I sometimes sometimes I don't
• 59:55
  understand like the the the the vapidness of like of like the
• 1:00:00
  like the fan bases sometimes, you know, it's like it wasn't a
• 1:00:03
  new game, you know, and technically Capcom Fighting
• 1:00:05
  Collection 2 should never have been in that in that either, you
• 1:00:08
  know. Hearing an echo from somewhere.
• 1:00:13
  Yeah, I'm hearing it too. But but yeah, I've but yeah, I,
• 1:00:21
  I don't, I don't have a problem with Fatal Fury City of the
• 1:00:24
  Wolves winning, but I did see two XKO in action and I was
• 1:00:30
  like, huh, like did the best man win in this case?
• 1:00:33
  I don't know, like I'm not being a hater either because like, I
• 1:00:35
  actually, I'm actually an old school fit of Fury fanboy.
• 1:00:39
  So I mean, I don't, I don't mind anyone.
• 1:00:41
  But also at the same time I was like, huh, a brand new title
• 1:00:44
  came out, you know, a brand new title.
• 1:00:46
  I. Also wonder if two XKO is too
• 1:00:48
  niche because it's it's only on PC right now and it's you know,
• 1:00:52
  riot right? Like you can't I think it's only
• 1:00:56
  through their launcher right? Like it said, it's a hard game
• 1:01:00
  to get to if you're PC player because you know you're only
• 1:01:02
  allowed to have steam on your computer and nothing else right?
• 1:01:06
  That's how PC gaming works. Everything else will fill your
• 1:01:11
  libraries and you got to double click on the different button
• 1:01:14
  and oh you PC people, let's see here.
• 1:01:23
  Best 7 strategy game, final phase tactics Evil loose
• 1:01:26
  chronicles. Not surprising.
• 1:01:29
  Woo Hoo. Games Games for Impact South of
• 1:01:32
  Midnight. Well deserved.
• 1:01:37
  I'm glad. Well.
• 1:01:37
  Deserved coming to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 next year.
• 1:01:42
  Yeah, so that's cool. I wonder if I'll get a physical
• 1:01:45
  because it didn't on Xbox. This feels like one of those
• 1:01:49
  Really. Xbox is going to do a limited
• 1:01:51
  run thing for them. But I mean it might piss off the
• 1:01:56
  switch people because they guarantee that'd be a a game key
• 1:02:00
  card. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:04
  Best VRAR game. The Midnight Walk, Best ongoing
• 1:02:10
  game. Little, little surprising, No
• 1:02:12
  Man's Sky, that that game just must continue to be huge.
• 1:02:17
  I mean. Yeah, it keeps winning.
• 1:02:20
  It keeps winning. Yeah, it's.
• 1:02:23
  I mean, they keep reinventing it so.
• 1:02:26
  Yeah. Didn't they just put like base
• 1:02:28
  building and ship crafting in it or something?
• 1:02:32
  Yeah. And I think you can go
• 1:02:34
  underwater and all that other fun stuff now, like it's what it
• 1:02:39
  originally was. It's definitely not the game it
• 1:02:41
  is. Yeah, I wonder if they're, I
• 1:02:43
  wonder if they're putting all this stuff in No Man's Sky to
• 1:02:45
  test it out for the the that new game they're building the.
• 1:02:50
  Let there be light. I think it's called.
• 1:02:52
  Something I don't know, something like that.
• 1:02:57
  Best community support. Baldur's Gate 3.
• 1:03:00
  Not surprising. Best mobile game Pat help me out
• 1:03:09
  here. You know Japanese.
• 1:03:12
  Let me look at this. This is Uma Musumi.
• 1:03:16
  Uma Musumi. Yeah, Uma Musumi.
• 1:03:19
  Pretty Derby. Basically, it's horse girls.
• 1:03:24
  Horse girls, all right. Horse horse girls.
• 1:03:30
  Hope you have safe service on the best multiplayer game arc
• 1:03:33
  Raiders not surprising and most anticipated game Grand Theft
• 1:03:37
  Auto 6 also not surprising. Not surprising, but kind of kind
• 1:03:45
  of bullshit. Yeah, just another category
• 1:03:50
  filler, I feel like, because like The Witcher 4 is so far
• 1:03:52
  away and double Double O Seven, really a most anticipated game,
• 1:03:57
  you know? I I I thought Resident Evil 9
• 1:04:01
  had that one. Never, sorry.
• 1:04:05
  Against Grand. Why against Grand Theft?
• 1:04:07
  Why It's got, it's got, it's got.
• 1:04:09
  People have been begging for Grand Theft.
• 1:04:11
  Auto for decade. I, I don't know because I'm, I'm
• 1:04:16
  just sitting up here like Resident Evil not and Resident
• 1:04:18
  Evil Requiem has like has like the man that that both men and
• 1:04:22
  women get boners about when it comes to Resident Evil.
• 1:04:24
  Yeah. But it's not Grand Theft Auto.
• 1:04:28
  I mean, yeah, fair too, I guess. Grand Theft Auto is both ball
• 1:04:33
  and gun game. By the way, Pat, side tangent,
• 1:04:40
  the Ska plush is officially up for pre-order official one.
• 1:04:45
  Yep, kind of want it. But what you should do, what you
• 1:04:50
  should do is you should get. It then you should hollow it out
• 1:04:53
  and put like a wine casque in it and then you know.
• 1:04:58
  Yeah, only people who've gotten that far will get that.
• 1:05:04
  All right, you know someone's going to do it.
• 1:05:06
  Any final thoughts on the winners before we move on to our
• 1:05:10
  favorite announcements? I don't think we need to do
• 1:05:12
  every announcement because that would take forever, but maybe we
• 1:05:16
  can, maybe we can speed through it.
• 1:05:18
  I don't know. All right, well, let's move on
• 1:05:23
  to the announcements then. How do we want to do we want to
• 1:05:27
  do we want to just run through them all or do we want to just
• 1:05:29
  kind of say our favorites, like 3 or 4 favorites and then I'd.
• 1:05:36
  Say let's run through them because because, because,
• 1:05:39
  because, because, because if I'm being serious right now, like
• 1:05:43
  like I've I've kind of already like forgotten a lot of the
• 1:05:46
  stuff that. What's on the list on the dock,
• 1:05:49
  Lauren? I know it is it is, it is a
• 1:05:53
  good, it is a good thing. You know, like like, like I, I
• 1:05:56
  was really, I was really wanting to live stream.
• 1:05:58
  This I know, and yeah, I don't know.
• 1:06:02
  Just there's no time for me to do anything.
• 1:06:08
  Yeah, I, I just feel like I just, I just feel like, oh man,
• 1:06:11
  that would have put us over the top.
• 1:06:13
  That would have been a wonderful way to end the year.
• 1:06:16
  All right, so Star Wars Fade of the Old Republic was announced.
• 1:06:20
  What a what a great announcement.
• 1:06:23
  Except that. That should have been that
• 1:06:28
  should have been the final announcement, yeah, for the
• 1:06:30
  show. Yes.
• 1:06:33
  Especially when you think, especially when you think of the
• 1:06:34
  fact that you know, Casey Hudson.
• 1:06:36
  I know, back in the spotlight. That's exciting.
• 1:06:40
  Single player action refugee. He promised we would see this
• 1:06:45
  game before 20-30. Yep, it's only 4 1/2 years away.
• 1:06:49
  Guys. What about that night's Little
• 1:06:55
  Republic remake that Sabre still working on?
• 1:06:56
  Huh? I've heard I read somewhere that
• 1:07:00
  they totally scrapped it and started over on the on the
• 1:07:05
  remake. So.
• 1:07:07
  But yeah, I'm excited for this. Obviously no.
• 1:07:12
  What if they're lying to us because we never saw anything
• 1:07:15
  about the? Raven light of the lightsaber
• 1:07:18
  and walk towards the screen and then just.
• 1:07:22
  We didn't see any part of the game.
• 1:07:24
  Though part of this game either. This was all just CG.
• 1:07:29
  But look, it's been 3 days OK? We don't need to see anything
• 1:07:33
  for a while. Also, I trust Casey Hudson more
• 1:07:37
  than I trust Aspire. Yeah, I mean those.
• 1:07:42
  Look, the Tomb Raider ports are good, but like, they should just
• 1:07:44
  stick to porting games instead of remaking entire games.
• 1:07:50
  They're good at certain things, you know?
• 1:07:51
  It's like when Sony tried to get Blue Point to work on a live
• 1:07:54
  service game when they're good at remakes.
• 1:07:59
  I know. Stop it.
• 1:08:02
  Any other thoughts on Fate of the Old Republic?
• 1:08:03
  Anybody it look it sounds cool. Yep, I'm excited we found out
• 1:08:11
  what that big statue was for, which is divinity.
• 1:08:16
  Yep. Just divinity is all it's
• 1:08:18
  called. No, not divinity.
• 1:08:20
  Original Sin 3 just divinity. So what a trailer?
• 1:08:25
  Like what? Hey, Dark crazy trailer.
• 1:08:29
  It reminded me of that Diablo. We thought we thought Diablo.
• 1:08:33
  Yeah, I was gonna say we thought the Diablo trailer last year was
• 1:08:36
  was crap. Oh my God.
• 1:08:38
  Like the Diablo 1 was like I can't watch this again, that was
• 1:08:42
  gross. And then this one took it 10
• 1:08:45
  times with the gore, the sex. Oh my gosh.
• 1:08:49
  It's like, how are they showing this at The Game Awards?
• 1:08:52
  Yeah, I know. But they did well.
• 1:08:57
  Hopefully it's hopefully people like it.
• 1:09:00
  I wonder if it's going to be a like Baldur's Gate, that kind of
• 1:09:05
  top down ish style or kind of third person action RPG.
• 1:09:10
  Although I know you can zoom in on Baldur's Gate also.
• 1:09:12
  So maybe it's maybe it'll do both.
• 1:09:17
  I mean, it's probably going to be close to what Divinity
• 1:09:20
  Original Sin was, which was kind of the top down.
• 1:09:24
  Yep, also today or yesterday, I guess the divinity original sin
• 1:09:29
  2 got to switch to up up grade, so that's cool for people who
• 1:09:34
  are playing that there. Bruce Straley where you heard
• 1:09:39
  that name before everybody? Bruce Straley, Co creator, the
• 1:09:43
  Last of Us director of Uncharted 3.
• 1:09:49
  He it has a new studio and a new game that looks very indie.
• 1:09:56
  It's got a platform in Grandma. Yeah, Coven of the Chicken Foot
• 1:10:03
  coming out of Bruce Traley's new studio.
• 1:10:07
  And the grandma actually has chicken feet.
• 1:10:09
  It looks neat, looks definitely like something like Pat and
• 1:10:14
  Stephanie would play. Yeah.
• 1:10:18
  So. Yes.
• 1:10:20
  I didn't know I need to play a platforming grandmother, but you
• 1:10:23
  know what I got? I got to play my platforming
• 1:10:26
  grandmother. You should.
• 1:10:30
  Speaking of old people, Resident Evil Requiem has confirmed that
• 1:10:34
  Leon S Kennedy is part of the cast, and he's old and grizzled.
• 1:10:38
  I think somebody did the age math in this game, and he's like
• 1:10:41
  51 in this game or something. So LeBron 2. 152.
• 1:10:45
  You and you and Leon are partying it up together.
• 1:10:50
  He looks exactly the same. Only problem.
• 1:10:54
  No, he doesn't. He looks like he.
• 1:10:55
  Did him 6. Yeah, he OK.
• 1:10:59
  Yeah. You know what?
• 1:11:00
  I keep forgetting about that. I think most people want to
• 1:11:03
  forget that six exists. No, no I don't.
• 1:11:06
  I'm never getting 6 exists because I actually enjoyed 6 for
• 1:11:09
  what it was. It's kind of like years, but.
• 1:11:12
  Yeah, I enjoy. I enjoyed 6 for what it was.
• 1:11:17
  You know that that was the worst kept secret in all of Resident
• 1:11:20
  Evil. I know, especially because it's
• 1:11:21
  been up on Gamestop's product listing for like 2 weeks.
• 1:11:28
  Lauren, this is the game that you've been pointing at for
• 1:11:32
  quite a while. Exodus, another studio made-up
• 1:11:37
  of X BioWare people and this looks this looks.
• 1:11:41
  This is this is. This is my Mass Effect.
• 1:11:44
  We have Mass Effect at home going on here.
• 1:11:49
  You are a mass. Effect off a team moon this.
• 1:11:53
  Is this is my this is my Mass Effect clone and guess what I.
• 1:11:56
  It does look really good though. It does look fun.
• 1:11:59
  Yeah, yeah. It looks it looks cool I think
• 1:12:04
  man. Dude, everything about this
• 1:12:06
  screams Mass Effect. I mean, there's even like, who
• 1:12:10
  is the character that the DLC character you got in two for
• 1:12:14
  that day one DLC? No, no.
• 1:12:19
  The alien with like the four eyes, Yeah.
• 1:12:22
  Javik, that was. Three, there's an alien in here
• 1:12:24
  that looks just like Javik. That taller version of Javik?
• 1:12:27
  Oh. Shit, oh shit, oh are you better
• 1:12:32
  have good one liners like. Oh no, he looks kind of serious
• 1:12:34
  in this game. I love the I love, I love it.
• 1:12:38
  I love anytime. Like he had a he had a
• 1:12:39
  conversation with like with like Liara or or or Tally.
• 1:12:43
  He was always like, throw it out the gridlock.
• 1:12:46
  Oh man, how is Matthew McConaughey?
• 1:12:49
  By the way, throwing. Out this game.
• 1:12:52
  All right, if he's like. The player character, I assume
• 1:12:56
  you're going to create your own character, I hope.
• 1:12:58
  And I assume he's like. AI hope he's not the player
• 1:13:00
  character. Not a side character but more of
• 1:13:02
  AI. Don't know.
• 1:13:04
  Like I'd like the mentor character or like the sidekick,
• 1:13:07
  I don't know, something. Maybe he can be a villain.
• 1:13:10
  Maybe he could be the villain. Who's to say?
• 1:13:14
  That would be that'd be kind of. Cool, I enjoyed him as a villain
• 1:13:17
  in the Dark Tower. I thought he did a good man in
• 1:13:21
  black. Oh yeah, I forgot he was the
• 1:13:23
  villain in Dark Tower, wasn't he?
• 1:13:28
  I always forget that that movie exists.
• 1:13:30
  Idris Elba was good in that movie too.
• 1:13:34
  Yep, it was an underrated movie. Remedy announced Control
• 1:13:41
  Resonant there. You know, I'm, I'm happy for it,
• 1:13:47
  but I was kind of thinking they were going to stay in like the
• 1:13:49
  same like universe, you know. They're, I mean, they're,
• 1:13:52
  they're going to try to tie Alan Wake in this together more and
• 1:13:55
  more, right? I mean, that's kind of the goal,
• 1:13:57
  I think. I mean, this is they the the
• 1:14:00
  city is even clearly the parts of like I would assume the
• 1:14:06
  Manhattan parts of the the Max Payne remakes, honestly, But you
• 1:14:13
  are playing as Jesse's brother in this.
• 1:14:18
  Jesse is missing apparently. So I don't know man, I really
• 1:14:24
  like to control, but this seems, I don't know, that kind of
• 1:14:27
  almost feels like it's not what I want from controls people.
• 1:14:30
  Yeah, yeah, it seems. It seems different.
• 1:14:32
  It seems different. I think that was what they were
• 1:14:34
  going for though. Like, I feel like they want
• 1:14:37
  control to be the universe, and so that's where they're trying
• 1:14:41
  to tie these things in. And so resonant is, you know,
• 1:14:45
  with the new character is a new gameplay style.
• 1:14:48
  Yeah, which is a melee action combat.
• 1:14:52
  So we'll we'll see how that turns out.
• 1:14:55
  I'll I'll play it because I I really like to control a lot.
• 1:15:00
  Yeah, yeah, I'll play it. It's on my.
• 1:15:02
  It's on my list. So all right, Gang of Dragon,
• 1:15:08
  also announced by the creators of the Yakuza series and their
• 1:15:14
  new studio. That's kind of funny how he
• 1:15:19
  literally left the studio, made his own one, and he said his
• 1:15:23
  game was going to be similar to Like a Dragon.
• 1:15:27
  He didn't exactly specify exactly how similar it was going
• 1:15:31
  to be. I mean I I thought it was a
• 1:15:33
  Yakuza game when he when the trailer first started.
• 1:15:37
  It looked like that, but then like after when they showed the
• 1:15:40
  main character walk underneath the that arch, it's like, Oh my
• 1:15:43
  gosh, I can't believe they just did that.
• 1:15:45
  And then they call it Gang of Dragon, which obviously Yakuza.
• 1:15:50
  Yeah, so that, I mean, it looks cool, right?
• 1:15:55
  But I'm sure Yakuza fans will eat it up.
• 1:16:01
  Oh yeah, no, especially. With.
• 1:16:03
  How Ryu got go to RG? GS Studios kind of flailing
• 1:16:08
  right now. They're they're not making some
• 1:16:10
  good decisions out there. Yeah, I wonder if that's a Sega
• 1:16:13
  people are. Calling them out for that I
• 1:16:15
  wonder if. That's a Sega thing Sega's not
• 1:16:18
  gonna do. Like these remakes and then spin
• 1:16:20
  offs and it's. Not I mean it's those aren't
• 1:16:25
  necessarily bad like people want Kwami 3.
• 1:16:30
  The problem is though, is that the character, one of the
• 1:16:33
  characters that they are, one of the actors they hired is a known
• 1:16:37
  sex offender and people are outraged about that.
• 1:16:42
  I didn't know that. Yeah, 1 Kirigawa.
• 1:16:47
  Kirigawa or something. Kirigami.
• 1:16:49
  I, I forget what the name is, but one of the characters who's
• 1:16:52
  just a side character in the game, well, kind of a main
• 1:16:55
  character, but like like a companion character is played,
• 1:17:00
  is played by a guy who has a very well known sex history of
• 1:17:05
  sexually assaulting women. Great, so people are begging
• 1:17:11
  RGG. To get rid.
• 1:17:12
  Of that guy and replace him. But of course RGG has been
• 1:17:15
  silent, so that could very well be a a a moot point.
• 1:17:20
  Yeah, I mean, they have no. Studio in the future.
• 1:17:23
  They have no problem replacing people, though, in these games,
• 1:17:26
  right? Because that the one actor in
• 1:17:28
  what, four or five was totally replaced because of a drug
• 1:17:31
  felony or something, right? And they take that really
• 1:17:34
  seriously in Japan. They aren't taking this one
• 1:17:37
  seriously. That's the problem.
• 1:17:40
  Like the game's out now in like 2 months and they've had how
• 1:17:44
  many months? Like since they announced who
• 1:17:46
  the guy was and they're like Nope, Nope, we're not.
• 1:17:50
  We're not hearing it. Yeah, well, I hope something
• 1:17:56
  happens because I was actually planning on playing these games
• 1:18:00
  soon, but hey. No, I mean, I'm not happy with
• 1:18:06
  it. I'm still going to play the game
• 1:18:08
  and you know, and just try to keep that out of my mind because
• 1:18:12
  I, I don't know if it's just the Japanese side that he's
• 1:18:16
  portraying his character. I don't, I think it's just a
• 1:18:18
  Japanese actor. So if I play the American
• 1:18:23
  voices, it shouldn't. I don't know.
• 1:18:28
  Yeah. Maybe I'm just making excuses,
• 1:18:30
  but yeah, what can you do? What can you do?
• 1:18:38
  You know what I'm about to do. About to eat real good was the
• 1:18:41
  next Tomb Raider. Damn dude, you know, I heard
• 1:18:46
  rumors of the remake and so when people are saying new Tomb
• 1:18:50
  Raider was going to be a remake, I you know, I'm like OK, we do
• 1:18:55
  we really need a remake of the second one or the first one
• 1:18:58
  again? Yeah, I know.
• 1:18:59
  They've done it like 3 times at this point.
• 1:19:02
  Is this the third time? Wait wait, remake?
• 1:19:06
  Or because I thought the first one was a.
• 1:19:08
  Full So 2 Tomb Raider games were announced here.
• 1:19:12
  There was Legacy of Atlantis, which is a full remake and
• 1:19:16
  reimagining of the first game, the very first game, and that's
• 1:19:21
  coming in 2026. And then the Tomb Raider
• 1:19:25
  Catalyst is coming in 2027, which is a follow up actually to
• 1:19:30
  Underworld. So they're kind of starting to
• 1:19:36
  tie all of these games together now because it's.
• 1:19:42
  Look at that, they're doing the. Uncharted older character model
• 1:19:45
  of the previous trilogy, right? But they have a new actress
• 1:19:50
  playing Laura, I think. I do think though that Tomb
• 1:19:55
  Raider Legacy of Atlantis looks really cool.
• 1:19:58
  They have the old, the old. Animations in there where she
• 1:20:02
  when you platform, she does like the handstand kind of flip over
• 1:20:07
  very acrobatic. Very.
• 1:20:10
  I just hope it doesn't control the state.
• 1:20:11
  This is old games, but I think it looks really cool.
• 1:20:16
  Also, all I've seen on the Internet is hot, hot Laura's
• 1:20:19
  back. I'm like OK.
• 1:20:24
  Yeah, it's funny. The Internet actually doesn't
• 1:20:26
  know how to take it because like, they're like, oh, she's
• 1:20:28
  ugly, but wait, she's hot. Wait, she why isn't her boobs
• 1:20:32
  big? And you know, it's, they're
• 1:20:35
  like, they don't know whether to call her woke or not.
• 1:20:38
  Yeah, I know. It's funny.
• 1:20:42
  Amazon knows what they're doing. You connect your Amazon ID to
• 1:20:44
  it, you get the wet suit. So everybody's happy.
• 1:20:48
  Although I don't think the last character model for Laura was
• 1:20:53
  unattractive so I don't it's just me.
• 1:20:59
  But yeah this game looks cool. I also think Catalyst looks
• 1:21:06
  really cool. Yeah.
• 1:21:09
  Oh, the legacy of Atlantis is being developed by flying wild
• 1:21:14
  hogs. So if you played evil W, you
• 1:21:17
  know who they. Are I like that one?
• 1:21:18
  Yeah, that's winner though. So that's, that's going to be
• 1:21:22
  interesting to see what they do with this.
• 1:21:24
  Yeah. And then Catalyst is being done
• 1:21:27
  by Crystal Dynamics, so both published by Amazon Games by the
• 1:21:34
  way. I know I know that they own the
• 1:21:38
  the IP now, but. It makes me think they're
• 1:21:42
  probably going to do the port of Underworld too then because they
• 1:21:47
  just recently came out with the anniversary edition kind of
• 1:21:52
  remastered version. Yeah, I think Aspire has been
• 1:21:56
  doing those right. Aspire has been doing the
• 1:21:57
  trilogy's. They did the first two trilogy's
• 1:22:00
  but these are the crystal dynamic ones that like, yeah are
• 1:22:04
  both have PS-5 versions for Legends and Anniversary now.
• 1:22:09
  Yeah but Aspire also did the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
• 1:22:16
  for the switch to that just came out which is also a Crystal
• 1:22:21
  Dynamics. I don't know, we'll see.
• 1:22:25
  These games will make it. That trilogy will make it to
• 1:22:28
  platforms eventually regardless. You said you said Legends and
• 1:22:32
  Underworld are already on PS-5 right As PS?
• 1:22:36
  Legends and the Anniversary. So the remake of the first one,
• 1:22:40
  right? OK yeah man, I played Legends on
• 1:22:46
  GameCube. That was fun.
• 1:22:50
  No, I I I enjoyed the legacy series now it was one of my
• 1:22:55
  favorite ones. Like it had it, it was it wasn't
• 1:23:00
  as control. Like the controls for it weren't
• 1:23:03
  as bad as the original 2 trilogy's.
• 1:23:08
  So it was a good mix of bringing it modern modernization to the
• 1:23:12
  Tomb Raider. Yeah, yeah, All right, so Double
• 1:23:18
  O 7 First Light confirmed that Lenny Kravitz is the villain.
• 1:23:22
  So that was interesting. He came out dressed like the
• 1:23:25
  villain to present what? Best soundtrack I think but.
• 1:23:30
  Yeah, that soundtrack. Like, OK, Lenny Kravitz is in
• 1:23:33
  his 60s and he's like, ripped to.
• 1:23:36
  I mean, he's just man, all right, so no Law was also
• 1:23:43
  announced, which is a first person Cyberpunk game from the
• 1:23:47
  developers of The Ascent, which was a Xbox Game Pass launch
• 1:23:52
  title for the Xbox Series consoles.
• 1:23:56
  It's kind of like an isometric game.
• 1:23:57
  And this is a first person game that kind of looks like
• 1:23:59
  Cyberpunk and Bulletstorm had a messed up baby.
• 1:24:04
  I actually look kind of fun. So I mean, it just, it looks
• 1:24:08
  like cyberpunk, but then you're like kicking people and like,
• 1:24:11
  you know, I don't know, Bolt Storm.
• 1:24:12
  I always think of that weird whip thing you had and then you
• 1:24:15
  kicking people. Those are the only two things I
• 1:24:17
  remember from Bolt Storm. I'm down.
• 1:24:21
  I'll I'll try it out. Let's see Soros, they showed a
• 1:24:27
  new trailer. It's coming out in April now
• 1:24:30
  instead of March. I think it got like a five week
• 1:24:32
  delay. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm hotly
• 1:24:37
  anticipating that one. I don't like roguelikes, that's
• 1:24:40
  my problem. I want to enjoy, I want to like
• 1:24:44
  try this, but at the same time it's like I did not like
• 1:24:46
  fraternal, so I will probably not like this one.
• 1:24:52
  Yeah, it looks cool. That's the thing though, is
• 1:24:55
  like, it looks cool, but I don't want to like, I don't want a
• 1:24:59
  roguelike, The Star Wars Galactic racer was revealed.
• 1:25:06
  We forgot Bradley the Badger guys, I.
• 1:25:08
  Forgot Bradley the Badger. Grant Kirk Hope's been the
• 1:25:11
  soundtrack, apparently, yeah. That looks that looks cool, but
• 1:25:15
  also the same time I'm like, am I really going to like invest on
• 1:25:17
  the Blazers? Evan Peters who?
• 1:25:21
  Evan Peters, Quicksilver from X-Men.
• 1:25:27
  I I still don't I I don't understand why people were like
• 1:25:30
  losing their. Jeffrey Dahmer from Monsters.
• 1:25:33
  I, I I know who he is now. I just I don't understand why
• 1:25:39
  people were like losing their shiz over this.
• 1:25:44
  Does it look like Conker's Bad Fur Day?
• 1:25:46
  Why? Don't we just make a new
• 1:25:50
  Conker's Bad Fur Day? Oh, wait.
• 1:25:52
  I didn't, I didn't. I didn't really see the, I
• 1:25:54
  didn't really see the the connection between that, even
• 1:25:57
  with you saying it just now, like, yeah.
• 1:26:00
  Platformer that goes mature and like crosses the lines of like
• 1:26:06
  what it's supposed to be. Yeah.
• 1:26:12
  As long as it has a giant sunflower with boobs and a poop
• 1:26:15
  monster, I'll be all right. It's a conquer.
• 1:26:20
  Reference. You may get your wish.
• 1:26:21
  You're confused. Yeah, only, only, only because I
• 1:26:27
  didn't. Only because I didn't really
• 1:26:28
  like Invest. Time.
• 1:26:29
  You're missing out man. I wasn't if I I didn't own a 64.
• 1:26:35
  So you have an. Xbox, do you have APC?
• 1:26:38
  Oh, OK, yeah. Game Pass.
• 1:26:39
  Yeah. Well, I, I, I missed, I missed,
• 1:26:42
  I missed a bus on that. Excuses excuses.
• 1:26:48
  Star Wars Galactic Racer was also announced, which is a not
• 1:26:51
  pod racing racing game you. Just pod racing.
• 1:26:56
  There's pod racers in it, but you can also race speeders and
• 1:26:59
  ships and other things. They're racing through Jakku
• 1:27:04
  from Episode 7, so that was kind of cool to see.
• 1:27:08
  And then at the end they teased Sebulba, so that was
• 1:27:13
  interesting. I wish they would have just made
• 1:27:16
  a pot racing game though. I feel like that would have made
• 1:27:18
  much more sense than just random ships, but what do I know.
• 1:27:24
  Makes it up a little, yeah. What do I know?
• 1:27:29
  Mega Man dual override confirmed.
• 1:27:31
  Oh my gosh, Evan. Stoy and I were freaking out for
• 1:27:35
  this one. We were like, went like, at
• 1:27:39
  first I was kind of curious when they had the orchestra playing,
• 1:27:42
  but then I started recognizing the Wiley theme song #2 during
• 1:27:47
  like 30 seconds into it. And I'm like, no, no, no, Mega
• 1:27:51
  Man, Mega Man, Mega Man. Yeah.
• 1:27:54
  And I'm like, you know, messaging, story, story, what's
• 1:27:56
  happening? You saw it, but hang.
• 1:27:57
  I thought the Silverlight announcement was.
• 1:27:59
  Going on? Yeah.
• 1:28:02
  You just see the Capcom logo coming to view and it's like the
• 1:28:05
  silhouetted Mega Man behind it. It's kind of cool.
• 1:28:07
  It's really cool. Dude, we're finally getting it.
• 1:28:13
  We're finally getting our Mega Man 12, do you think?
• 1:28:17
  Do you think they're going to finally connect the X and the
• 1:28:20
  mainline series in this? Because there was a, there was
• 1:28:24
  like a tease or something towards.
• 1:28:25
  No, because no, because X. Because X is like far in the
• 1:28:29
  future. Well there was people wondering
• 1:28:32
  what the dual means, like why is it called dual?
• 1:28:36
  Are they? Trying to combine a series or
• 1:28:38
  are they? People think bass or bass is
• 1:28:41
  coming back, so that might be part of it, some people.
• 1:28:44
  Also think this might be a some levels are in 2D and some are 3D
• 1:28:48
  like legends. I've heard that theory too.
• 1:28:52
  Oh no, please don't do that. Please don't do that.
• 1:28:56
  That'll piss, that'll piss me off.
• 1:28:57
  Also, before they announced this, they were referring to it
• 1:29:00
  as Mega Man 12 internally. So I don't know.
• 1:29:07
  I mean, I think bass makes more sense than a 3D component to
• 1:29:12
  this, yeah. And I, I don't know if I'm quite
• 1:29:16
  like, I want to see the series continue.
• 1:29:19
  So I don't know if I really want to have that game that
• 1:29:22
  eventually connects both of the series together.
• 1:29:25
  Because that will mean Mega Man's done in my opinion.
• 1:29:32
  Because the theory is zeros kills Mega Man.
• 1:29:35
  Yeah. And that Mega Man X is a whole
• 1:29:39
  new robot. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad Mega Man's
• 1:29:45
  continuing coming to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch One
• 1:29:52
  into PC. Surprised to get a Switch 1 port
• 1:29:55
  but I guess not technologically super intense so I.
• 1:30:02
  Can see them dropping that though. 2027.
• 1:30:06
  It depends on how well Nintendo's supporting Switch One
• 1:30:09
  by then, yeah. All right, so, oh, go ahead,
• 1:30:15
  Pat. I was going to say same with the
• 1:30:17
  PS4. In fact, I thought Sony actually
• 1:30:20
  just announced that they were dropping support of PS4 next
• 1:30:23
  year. They're they're dropping some
• 1:30:26
  features next year, I think from PS4.
• 1:30:33
  All right, so the Free Shepherd revealed it's a good sheep
• 1:30:39
  herding game. Doggo game.
• 1:30:43
  It's a what? It's a doggo game.
• 1:30:48
  You play a doggo, a border collie.
• 1:30:50
  Oh cool, decrepit announced as a dark fantasy souls like set in a
• 1:30:57
  grim castle. Whoa.
• 1:31:01
  That means that that means Corey will never play it, man.
• 1:31:04
  I, I, I beat Bloodborne, I played Eldon Ring for 10 hours,
• 1:31:14
  Audiomech revealed. There's a demo coming on that.
• 1:31:19
  One hurt my eyes. Yeah, it's out now.
• 1:31:21
  If you're listening to this. Guild Wars 2 expansion of Vision
• 1:31:25
  of Eternity launched. Escape from Dukov announced a
• 1:31:33
  new region coming in 2026. I don't know what that is.
• 1:31:37
  I must have missed that. It's it's basically a play no
• 1:31:43
  escape from Tarkov, that part. Oh, OK, OK.
• 1:31:47
  I, I, I didn't know. I didn't know.
• 1:31:48
  I didn't know if you knew. The title part I just didn't I I
• 1:31:51
  don't remember this announcement or the game at all.
• 1:31:56
  Oh yeah, me neither. Pragmatic confirms for Switch 2
• 1:32:02
  there's a demo on I Love and there's an Amiibo.
• 1:32:06
  I love how after the game awards.
• 1:32:08
  OK, that. Craig Mata's social media
• 1:32:11
  dropped. You can stop calling us a Mega
• 1:32:13
  Man game now. I know.
• 1:32:14
  I saw that, yeah. How are people thinking?
• 1:32:20
  They thought it was like this prequel to Mega Man or
• 1:32:23
  something. I don't know.
• 1:32:25
  Because Diane's a robot and there's blue stuff and there's
• 1:32:28
  puzzle. I don't know.
• 1:32:29
  I don't know. Oh, Jesus.
• 1:32:31
  I kind of liked that theory though, in a way.
• 1:32:33
  It was a great theory. We we were starving for Mega Man
• 1:32:38
  so much that we wanted this to be Mega Man.
• 1:32:40
  Yeah. I was starving for Mega Man, but
• 1:32:45
  I wasn't wanting another game that didn't look like it was
• 1:32:47
  remotely close to Mega Man I bet.
• 1:32:49
  There's a Mega Man style costume in this game.
• 1:32:53
  Probably because it's probably because it's cap, you know,
• 1:32:55
  probably because Capcom. And Capcom is like, we're going
• 1:32:57
  to throw the Mega Man nerds a bone.
• 1:32:59
  Yeah. They're going to give him a
• 1:33:00
  lemon shooter gun. Yeah, and we get an Amiibo, so
• 1:33:04
  that's cool. I wonder what it does.
• 1:33:11
  Celesta 2 is coming out in March.
• 1:33:16
  Yeah, this is the one that stars a couple boulders.
• 1:33:19
  Gate three people in Ben Star. It's a tactics RPG.
• 1:33:24
  Oh OK, Tank rat was announced as a tank based action game.
• 1:33:31
  OK Stupid Never Dies was revealed as the debut game from
• 1:33:37
  GPT or GP track 50. It looks really weird.
• 1:33:44
  I don't. I don't remember that one.
• 1:33:46
  It looks really weird. It's the, it's the zombie boy.
• 1:33:51
  Yeah, it's the girl. Game.
• 1:33:53
  OK, now I remember that one. It's kind of strange, but South
• 1:33:59
  of Midnight was confirmed for PS-5 and switch to We talked
• 1:34:01
  about that already. John Carpenter's game Toxic
• 1:34:04
  Commando was confirmed for a March release date, so that was
• 1:34:08
  interesting. Looks fun, but I'm also not a
• 1:34:12
  multiplayer game. Yeah.
• 1:34:15
  So that's my only hiccup for that one.
• 1:34:18
  Yeah, so For loop was also revealed.
• 1:34:24
  This is the Bad Robots game with the Left 4 Dead designer Mike
• 1:34:31
  Booth leading this game. It's a sci-fi 4 player Co-op
• 1:34:38
  shooter. Characters are reprinted after
• 1:34:42
  death, letting players try new strategies against an invading
• 1:34:45
  force. The game is planned for PS-5 and
• 1:34:47
  PC. Interestingly enough, Sony is
• 1:34:50
  publishing this. So that came out in a press
• 1:34:56
  press release like a week ago that Sony was partnering with
• 1:35:00
  Bad Robot. I don't know, looks kind of
• 1:35:04
  looks kind of generic. But if they make it simple,
• 1:35:10
  right? Because like Back for Blood was
• 1:35:12
  like so close to being left for dead and then they made it too
• 1:35:15
  complicated and that made it worse.
• 1:35:19
  So if they can kind of keep it simple and have that left for
• 1:35:21
  dead vibe without, you know, adding complicated mechanics
• 1:35:26
  like a card system, it might be fine.
• 1:35:33
  Antos I I think that's how it was pronounced from the creators
• 1:35:38
  of soma. It's launching in 2026.
• 1:35:41
  It's a, it's a switch to. It's coming to switch to I
• 1:35:46
  think, but it's also coming to everything else, so.
• 1:35:52
  I mean people, people praise Soma, so I can see people
• 1:35:56
  enjoying this. Yeah, people like amnesia too.
• 1:35:59
  I think so. Yeah, Soma, but this is.
• 1:36:02
  More leaning yeah. This leans more soma for sci-fi
• 1:36:06
  than. Horror.
• 1:36:07
  Yeah, as Ed pointed out on Nintendo Power Block the other
• 1:36:11
  day, there is a very old Talk of the Walk episode that you can
• 1:36:14
  listen to on SOMA right now on Somewhere.
• 1:36:19
  Who's to say? Somewhere Zema Zone 0 was
• 1:36:24
  revealed. There's a new faction, Angels of
• 1:36:29
  Delusion. OK, what?
• 1:36:36
  Somebody saying something? Or did I said cool?
• 1:36:39
  No, two XKO confirmed for PS-5 and Xbox in January.
• 1:36:49
  All right, so we lost. We lost Ron again.
• 1:36:55
  This guy, this guy. Order of the Sinking Stars.
• 1:36:59
  Jonathan blows next game. I think this game looks really
• 1:37:02
  cool. It's interesting.
• 1:37:06
  I need to see more about it because I wasn't a big fan of
• 1:37:10
  Braid, but Witnessed intrigued me.
• 1:37:12
  I have it. I haven't played it.
• 1:37:15
  This one I don't. It's the idea of controlling the
• 1:37:21
  four different characters. Yeah, kind of like, Yeah, I need
• 1:37:27
  to see how it all works together.
• 1:37:28
  Yeah, I thought it looked really interesting and cool, like
• 1:37:33
  almost like a like a Zelda puzzle only game.
• 1:37:37
  But then like they, you know, I don't know, every time games
• 1:37:41
  introduce multiple characters that always like I get hesitant,
• 1:37:45
  right. I don't know, I just feel like.
• 1:37:47
  Like, I worry that the puzzles might get too complicated,
• 1:37:50
  especially when they seem to be like connecting the world's the
• 1:37:53
  way they were. Yeah.
• 1:37:56
  I don't know. Yeah, Also, I know people feel a
• 1:38:00
  certain way about Jonathan Blow. I don't know.
• 1:38:03
  I feel like people feel negatively towards him, but I
• 1:38:09
  don't. I don't know, I never really got
• 1:38:11
  too far into it. I don't really know why.
• 1:38:13
  But that's for a discussion. For another day, maybe.
• 1:38:17
  Or not. Who cares?
• 1:38:19
  It looks neat. The Warlock Dungeons and Dragons
• 1:38:23
  was revealed as a dark fantasy action game.
• 1:38:25
  We don't have enough of those. Kind of neat we.
• 1:38:29
  Don't have enough of those dark fantasy?
• 1:38:32
  We could always use more. Yeah, always more.
• 1:38:35
  Hey, look, he's back. Hey there on.
• 1:38:41
  Yeah, like something, something went on like the screen went,
• 1:38:43
  the screen went blank. And no matter what I what I
• 1:38:45
  tried to do like I could not get it get it back.
• 1:38:49
  Let's see Street Fighter or wait, no Screamer announces an
• 1:38:54
  anime inspired racing game. That's neat.
• 1:38:58
  All right guys, we got to talk about the Street Fighter movie
• 1:39:00
  trailer or not. I mean, I prefer.
• 1:39:04
  Not to. Cheesy, we've got.
• 1:39:05
  To talk about it, but. OK, OK.
• 1:39:08
  I like how close. It I like everyone.
• 1:39:15
  I was interested in this project until I saw.
• 1:39:18
  What Cody Rhodes person attached to don't guile haircut?
• 1:39:22
  I don't even know who. That is Andrew Schultz.
• 1:39:26
  That's just he's, he's like, he's like a comedian slash
• 1:39:30
  podcaster that, you know, is basically he, he basically has
• 1:39:36
  made himself unlikable because of bullshit he's done to like
• 1:39:39
  other people, like other other other people, particularly women
• 1:39:42
  and people of color. Well then.
• 1:39:47
  Yeah, yeah. Like if, if, if there's a reason
• 1:39:51
  why that movie's going to flop, it's because.
• 1:39:52
  I don't know, I saw plenty of other reasons to think this is
• 1:39:56
  like $0.50's haircut. No, I think, no, I think, I
• 1:40:04
  think Capcom just I think Capcom went all in on like the the camp
• 1:40:07
  of it. They knew, they knew they
• 1:40:09
  weren't going. They, they kind of, I feel like
• 1:40:11
  they kind of knew they weren't going to make something serious
• 1:40:14
  like what the Mortal Kombat movies have become because of
• 1:40:17
  what the 1st Street Fighter movie was, you know, So I think
• 1:40:21
  they're embracing the legacy of just like having a camp because
• 1:40:23
  I mean, let's be serious. Like, like if you look at the
• 1:40:25
  stuff that goes on in those video games, that's I mean.
• 1:40:27
  Half the characters, kind of. Campy and crazy.
• 1:40:29
  Movie are wrestlers, so you know it's going to be campy anyway,
• 1:40:32
  right and then like what's his face as as Blanca God, what's
• 1:40:38
  his name Jason Momoa Mamoa right, I think he only like I
• 1:40:44
  don't know, I feel like the the actress that plays Chun Li has
• 1:40:47
  been all over social media like being really excited about
• 1:40:50
  playing Chun Li so that I mean that that's cool to see like
• 1:40:53
  stuff like that, but I don't know we'll see.
• 1:40:58
  I guess I we said the same thing about the Mortal Kombat movie
• 1:41:01
  and people. Who knows, we'll see.
• 1:41:07
  Yeah, so so yeah, so but I think, but I think Capcom is
• 1:41:11
  really leaning into this, leaning into like this just
• 1:41:14
  being a funny, goofy ass movie, you know which which I think
• 1:41:18
  which I think is all right, you know, like you know, else is.
• 1:41:21
  I think that's all right. I feel like some, I think
• 1:41:24
  sometimes like the magic, the magic is in when when you have
• 1:41:28
  like when you have like something that doesn't take
• 1:41:30
  itself too. Seriously.
• 1:41:32
  Yeah. I mean, I think that's it's got
• 1:41:33
  to be that. So just to make sense also the
• 1:41:40
  the the the guy that played polka dot man is M Bison in the
• 1:41:45
  Suicide Squad movies, right? Like the polka dot man he's
• 1:41:49
  which is like a weird yeah, casting.
• 1:41:52
  I I thought I thought M Bison was like that huge dude but.
• 1:41:56
  I mean, look, they they gave it to Rod.
• 1:41:59
  Julian. The original 1 and that was
• 1:42:03
  weird casting but he nailed it. Yeah.
• 1:42:08
  It depends on what continuity of Bison it is, because like Street
• 1:42:11
  Fighter, Alpha Bison is like the big the big stocky Bison and
• 1:42:15
  Street Fighter the mainline Street Fighter is this is the
• 1:42:17
  skinny Bison. Skinny Bison sounds like a diet
• 1:42:21
  fad. So you know what else looks
• 1:42:29
  cool? Is this Lego Batman game looks
• 1:42:30
  cool? It looks like they're just
• 1:42:31
  making an Arkham game with Legos instead of trying to make a Lego
• 1:42:35
  game forcing the Batman stuff into it.
• 1:42:39
  I'm all for it, yeah. I think it looks cool.
• 1:42:44
  Rust mobile Sweet. I didn't know Rust was still a
• 1:42:48
  thing. Force 3 was announced Invincible
• 1:42:56
  Versus which is the fighting game based off the Invincible
• 1:43:00
  universe coming in April. They have a an original fighter
• 1:43:04
  was the big announcement here too.
• 1:43:06
  So I don't know what that means but I guess a character that
• 1:43:10
  doesn't appear in the show or the comics.
• 1:43:13
  I guess Orbitals, the Co-op puzzle adventure inspired by
• 1:43:21
  classic anime is coming to switch to in 2026.
• 1:43:25
  I thought of you, Pat, when I saw this trailer.
• 1:43:29
  I'd enjoy it, you know, I just got to find people to play with.
• 1:43:32
  Yeah, that's fair. And Nemo announced its second
• 1:43:40
  closed beta in 2026. It's free to play.
• 1:43:44
  Next Gen. creature catching open world RPG.
• 1:43:47
  Tell me where you've heard that before.
• 1:43:49
  Tell me that they're not going to get sued.
• 1:43:53
  They probably are because like, because I got, I saw it and I
• 1:43:57
  was like. Oh.
• 1:43:59
  Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred expansion was confirmed.
• 1:44:03
  This is the final expansion for the Hatred saga.
• 1:44:08
  Apparently that was the big. That means he'll move on to
• 1:44:11
  Diablo 5 after this. Yeah, that's that was the big
• 1:44:15
  headline on Xbox Wire. That was a weird that finish.
• 1:44:21
  The trailer looks cool though. It makes me I have to finish up
• 1:44:27
  Vessel of Hatred so I need to catch up.
• 1:44:33
  But I I like the paladin. The paladin was nice.
• 1:44:37
  Yeah, that was probably the highlight though, right?
• 1:44:39
  They're adding a new class, so. Well they said there's one more
• 1:44:43
  class coming that they haven't announced.
• 1:44:46
  So Paladin's an early. Like you have to pre-order the
• 1:44:51
  game to get the paladin, so it's an early release class, but then
• 1:44:55
  there's one more class when the expansion does come out.
• 1:44:58
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:45:01
  Well, we'll see, I guess. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I don't know,
• 1:45:07
  I'm kind of shocked this is the last expansion, but I also, I
• 1:45:09
  don't know how many expansions Diablo usually gets, so.
• 1:45:13
  One or two. One.
• 1:45:16
  Diablo 3 had one, I think Diablo 2 had two.
• 1:45:22
  And so yeah, this one gets 2. All right, Marvel Rivals Season
• 1:45:28
  6 is arriving in January with adding Deadpool.
• 1:45:33
  They also just dropped Rogue and Gambit, I think recently, which
• 1:45:37
  by the way, a lot of people are really happy with Rogue, if you
• 1:45:41
  know what I mean. So so I've been I've been seeing
• 1:45:45
  those walking animations on the on on Twitter.
• 1:45:49
  People are sharing very excited, I guess, Oh, Twitter,
• 1:45:54
  considering people hated what happened to her form, we'll say
• 1:45:58
  in X-Men 97. Well, Marvel Rivals hasn't
• 1:46:04
  exactly been conservative with their with the character designs
• 1:46:11
  they've they've kind of had a specific audience in mind.
• 1:46:14
  Yeah, yeah, they've. Given with Sue Storm, yeah,
• 1:46:23
  specifically. Yeah, Yep.
• 1:46:28
  So let's see where was I at? I have lost where I was at.
• 1:46:32
  Oh, the seven deadly sins Origin showcase cooperate gameplay
• 1:46:39
  Howard's legacy is free on the Epic game store not until
• 1:46:42
  December 18th, which is Thursday.
• 1:46:48
  Lords of the Fallen received and final major update version 2.5
• 1:46:53
  Phasmaphobia is coming to switch to Total War Warhammer 40K
• 1:47:01
  officially announced. They spent a lot of time on that
• 1:47:04
  game. They also had David Harbour from
• 1:47:08
  Stranger Things come out and talk about that.
• 1:47:11
  Apparently so. Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't
• 1:47:15
  get Henry Cavill. Yeah, cuz isn't he?
• 1:47:20
  You know, Henry would have done. I think so.
• 1:47:23
  Or show or whatever. Isn't there a show coming out
• 1:47:26
  soon? Show or movie?
• 1:47:29
  But that's like, that's Henry's bread and butter right there.
• 1:47:33
  Yeah, probably couldn't afford him, right?
• 1:47:37
  I mean, I feel like Henry Cavill's expensive Ace Combat 8
• 1:47:42
  Wings of Thieve was revealed. Looks I've never.
• 1:47:47
  Played in Ace Combat, but this does look good.
• 1:47:50
  I played the demo of Ace Combat 6 on Xbox 360.
• 1:47:55
  It was hard and I quit. That makes me sad.
• 1:48:04
  A game we talked about earlier, Pat out of Worlds announced this
• 1:48:09
  is that stop motion inspired Co-op game looks a lot like
• 1:48:12
  Unraveled. It takes 2 that sort of style.
• 1:48:17
  Isn't it the same people? No.
• 1:48:21
  I thought it was the. Same people did.
• 1:48:23
  Unraveled. Yeah, I think it's the same
• 1:48:24
  people did unravel. I don't.
• 1:48:26
  I thought, I thought we're talking about it takes 2, but
• 1:48:29
  no, I think it's the same, no. No, I think it's the same people
• 1:48:32
  who did Unraveled. Yeah, it's very.
• 1:48:35
  It looks nice. It's a very cute, very well done
• 1:48:39
  game. It looks nice.
• 1:48:41
  It's really nice. Everything in that game is
• 1:48:43
  handcrafted and then scanned into the game too, which is
• 1:48:46
  really interesting. Let's see, Phantom Blade 0
• 1:48:53
  confirmed for September. I I thought this was a Rise of
• 1:48:58
  the Ronin sequel. I thought it was only Musha At
• 1:49:00
  first I had no idea what this was.
• 1:49:04
  Then I was like I'm just lost but I don't know.
• 1:49:08
  It looks it looks neat but. And then last but not least,
• 1:49:14
  this was the equivalent to One More thing High Guard, huh?
• 1:49:21
  Huh. Anybody need a little a lot
• 1:49:25
  fantasy shooter? Ron, we can't hear you again.
• 1:49:32
  I don't this dude. This game looked really like I
• 1:49:35
  thought like it. I thought it was going to be
• 1:49:37
  like a single player game. And then I thought it was like
• 1:49:38
  an immortals of AVM style game. I was like, that looks neat.
• 1:49:41
  Looks cool. Can you hear me now?
• 1:49:45
  OK? I was.
• 1:49:46
  I was just saying whatever, I guess.
• 1:49:48
  I guess my microphone was like, let's just censor this asshole
• 1:49:50
  like he's going to talk shit about.
• 1:49:51
  It's fair. Yep.
• 1:49:54
  I mean, I am too. It looks very it doesn't.
• 1:49:57
  It's like it's out just in seven weeks and then like the top
• 1:50:00
  comment on the YouTube trailer is Concorde 2.
• 1:50:05
  Right. Yeah, I don't know, man.
• 1:50:10
  It's free to play, so I guess it's there's.
• 1:50:14
  Got that going for it. Yeah, but like they're trying to
• 1:50:18
  trying to like push the developers of Apex Legends and
• 1:50:21
  Titanfall thing on it. And it's like, it's not, it's
• 1:50:24
  not Respawn. Stop trying to make fetch a
• 1:50:27
  thing, Gretchen. Yeah, I don't know, It just
• 1:50:31
  looked kind of like, I think the premise looks interesting and I
• 1:50:34
  don't I'm glad that like the art style is different enough from,
• 1:50:38
  you know, those other games that they worked on.
• 1:50:39
  But like it's weird. It feels different and generic
• 1:50:44
  at the same time, which is like, I don't, I don't know how you
• 1:50:48
  can do that. But I don't know, it's like this
• 1:50:53
  futuristic fantasy, right, sci-fi fantasy style thing.
• 1:50:59
  I don't know, the character they kept showing off looks looked
• 1:51:02
  like the main character from the last Prince of Persia game with
• 1:51:06
  sci-fi armor on. That's what it reminded me of
• 1:51:10
  anyway. Summoning horses out of thin
• 1:51:13
  air, That was weird. And then there's tanks.
• 1:51:17
  Also. I don't know.
• 1:51:19
  This is this game looks weird but I don't know.
• 1:51:23
  I hope people that play it like it.
• 1:51:25
  I I have no interest in this. There's also a weird game to end
• 1:51:29
  on right? Besides the clear obscure Shadow
• 1:51:32
  drop DLC. Think if they didn't when they
• 1:51:38
  wouldn't have been able to announce that.
• 1:51:41
  You know, I think, I think they were going to drop it anyway.
• 1:51:43
  They would have. It would have just been like a
• 1:51:44
  social media post or something like, you know, thank you,
• 1:51:47
  whatever here, you know, to thank you for hitting a
• 1:51:50
  milestone. Here's our free DLC.
• 1:51:54
  That was about. Right.
• 1:51:55
  Yeah, but I don't know, Ron, you said you were going to shit talk
• 1:52:00
  this this high guard game. You have anything else to say
• 1:52:02
  about it? Nah, Nah.
• 1:52:07
  And I like. Just just just just just who
• 1:52:11
  asked for this? That that that's that's what I'm
• 1:52:13
  going to say. Who asked for this?
• 1:52:14
  I know. Shareholders.
• 1:52:18
  OK, OK, we. Have Fortnite, Overwatch and
• 1:52:20
  Apex at home. Who's who?
• 1:52:22
  Who important enough asked for this?
• 1:52:26
  I don't know. I don't know, man.
• 1:52:28
  I feel like man. Will you have a like you're just
• 1:52:35
  going to go make another team based shooter like you already
• 1:52:38
  had Apex? That's, that's only going to,
• 1:52:41
  that's only going to get enough traction for like 1-2 weeks
• 1:52:43
  maybe. And, you know, then everybody's
• 1:52:44
  going to go back to what they've already been playing right now.
• 1:52:47
  Yeah, I just, I feel like everybody has their multiplayer
• 1:52:49
  game at this point. Also by the way, side tangent,
• 1:52:52
  nothing to do with the Game Awards, but like The Division
• 1:52:55
  Two just had a major update yesterday.
• 1:53:00
  I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
• 1:53:02
  I'm like, people are still playing The Division 2.
• 1:53:05
  Yeah, they are. Excellent.
• 1:53:06
  I know like those that that and Ghost Recon are two of the
• 1:53:09
  quiet, quietly, the two biggest games out there that are like, I
• 1:53:13
  just hear nobody. And they're both.
• 1:53:14
  And they're both Ubisoft. I know.
• 1:53:19
  I don't know, man, whatever. Any final thoughts before we get
• 1:53:22
  out of here? We are.
• 1:53:24
  We're we want to get those shorts, Laurent, our shorts are
• 1:53:27
  doing pretty well. I know.
• 1:53:29
  I saw that. Yeah, I saw that.
• 1:53:31
  I'm happy. Yeah, me too.
• 1:53:34
  Me too. Any final thoughts on The Game
• 1:53:37
  Awards though before we skedaddle out of here for the
• 1:53:40
  for the year? No, no, like I said, like I said
• 1:53:46
  at the top of the show or the top of the hour, basically, I
• 1:53:50
  feel like this. I feel like this time, like The
• 1:53:52
  Game Awards didn't really like, didn't really like, didn't like
• 1:53:56
  hit the mark, you know, like no, it did.
• 1:53:58
  It did the thing like, you know, like it gave out awards, you
• 1:54:00
  know, like you got, we got recognition and stuff like that.
• 1:54:03
  Like, I feel like, I don't know, I feel like there was a
• 1:54:06
  something the magic they've had the last couple of years, like
• 1:54:10
  just wasn't there. And this is, and this is coming
• 1:54:12
  from me that, you know, like I really am not the biggest fan of
• 1:54:15
  The Game Awards. But I don't know, I feel like I
• 1:54:18
  feel like Keely was listening to me at some point because he's
• 1:54:20
  like, OK, let's at least make it like, you know, something that
• 1:54:22
  LeBron will talk about. You know, so the last couple of
• 1:54:25
  years have been like something that I was talking about.
• 1:54:27
  You know, this year was just kind of like, I probably missed
• 1:54:31
  the Mega Man thing because I was falling asleep.
• 1:54:33
  I'll be honest with. You This thing was way too long,
• 1:54:35
  dude. I mean, it's always too long.
• 1:54:38
  No, it was the same runtime and I watched it from the pre show
• 1:54:42
  all the way to the end. It's all stuff like that.
• 1:54:44
  Yeah. Yeah, no, the Meg man was at the
• 1:54:47
  end, so. It was at the end.
• 1:54:50
  It was at the end. I'll tell you all I know.
• 1:54:56
  All I know is flute guy. Keep keep rocking, baby.
• 1:54:59
  I do want to say that like the the orchestra thing at the end
• 1:55:02
  where they like tied all the game of the year soundtracks
• 1:55:05
  together and it seemed very seamless.
• 1:55:07
  And then the the girl that sings the Donkey Kong theme song came
• 1:55:11
  out. Yeah.
• 1:55:12
  And like, tied it all to that was cool.
• 1:55:14
  I I really enjoyed that. Oh, I did, you know, I like, I
• 1:55:17
  like the musical stuff this year.
• 1:55:18
  I don't know why I like the musical stuff this year.
• 1:55:22
  And and and and and nobody come from me like, oh, it was because
• 1:55:25
  Evanescence was there, you know, like that's not.
• 1:55:27
  It like Amy Lee looked the exact same after like 25 years, you
• 1:55:30
  know what I mean? Like she looks she's a vampire.
• 1:55:33
  I'm I'm starting to think that I'm not complaining, I'm just I
• 1:55:39
  noticed. The music, the musical, the
• 1:55:41
  musical stuff this year, in my opinion, was actually pretty
• 1:55:45
  freaking awesome. You know, and this is coming
• 1:55:49
  from someone who I love video game soundtracks and I love
• 1:55:51
  video game music and all that stuff, but I always feel like I
• 1:55:54
  always feel like they never picked the right stuff, you
• 1:55:58
  know, for the game last year was.
• 1:56:00
  Perfect. Last year they had poets to the
• 1:56:03
  ball. Old Gods the Old Gods of Asgard
• 1:56:08
  was best show, one of the best. Wait.
• 1:56:12
  That was, that was the Alan Wake.
• 1:56:13
  That was the Alan Wake thing, right?
• 1:56:14
  Yeah, and they did that dumb dance.
• 1:56:16
  That was, that was, that was fanservice, Yeah.
• 1:56:22
  That was. Perfect.
• 1:56:23
  And it was exactly what people asked for.
• 1:56:25
  That was that was fanservice and but but but, you know, like I'm
• 1:56:30
  I'm. Pat, any final thoughts?
• 1:56:35
  You know what? I thought this was a fine show.
• 1:56:38
  Maybe not for a US awards show, but there was enough good stuff
• 1:56:42
  shown. Hold on, I'm.
• 1:56:44
  Trying. I'm trying.
• 1:56:46
  No, we're trying to add this I'm.
• 1:56:47
  Trying to make sure we're getting the the shorts, La Ron.
• 1:56:51
  We have 3 minutes left. La Ron.
• 1:56:53
  Yeah. And you know 2 of that's going
• 1:56:55
  to be the outro so. Like.
• 1:56:58
  Look, I, I thought it was fine. I literally only watch these for
• 1:57:02
  the for the game announcements because I, I look, I appreciate
• 1:57:06
  the awards. I don't like.
• 1:57:09
  I don't watch the Oscars or the Emmys or any of these other
• 1:57:11
  trophy giving things like I'm glad the people that won one.
• 1:57:15
  I will always congratulate winners.
• 1:57:17
  I just, it's not for me. The two Tomb Raider games are
• 1:57:22
  the most exciting things for me. I also think the Star Wars game,
• 1:57:26
  if it turns out to come out sometime in the near mid future
• 1:57:31
  anytime actually, will be exciting.
• 1:57:35
  I love nice Old Republic. And so like, yeah, I mean, I
• 1:57:41
  think there was enough here for me to be excited.
• 1:57:43
  Mega Man. I'm glad Mega Man's coming out
• 1:57:46
  again. So like yeah, but the.
• 1:57:51
  Only the only new thing, the only new thing that got that,
• 1:57:53
  that got got me to talking and I'm and I completely missed it
• 1:57:57
  was Mega Man 12, you know? You can watch.
• 1:58:00
  There was nothing. I think it's only like a minute
• 1:58:02
  and 20 seconds alone. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:58:04
  Well, what? But all I'm saying is like there
• 1:58:06
  was nothing with all their, with all their, their, their brand
• 1:58:10
  new announcements and all that stuff.
• 1:58:11
  You know, like there was nothing really that jumped at me.
• 1:58:13
  Like a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff that got me hyped with
• 1:58:15
  stuff I already knew is, is either in the books or, you
• 1:58:18
  know, you know, on the pipeline and stuff like that.
• 1:58:20
  Yeah. You know, none of the, none of
• 1:58:23
  the premieres. Like, you know, some of the
• 1:58:26
  premieres were great, but, you know, none of the premieres was
• 1:58:27
  actually like, Oh yeah. Like that's my thing.
• 1:58:29
  You know, I probably will get, I probably will get the Tomb
• 1:58:32
  Raider remake, though, because this will be the first.
• 1:58:33
  This has been the first time I've played Tomb Raider one
• 1:58:36
  since Tomb Raider one. Yeah.
• 1:58:41
  Well, we did it. We did it.
• 1:58:45
  Game Awards next December, they said sometime again.
• 1:58:49
  Shocking, but that's it. That's it for us for the year.
• 1:58:54
  I want to thank everybody out there for watching or listening
• 1:58:56
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• 1:58:58
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• 1:59:13
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• 1:59:15
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• 1:59:20
  time as always. Stephanie and Ed out there as
• 1:59:24
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