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Hello, welcome to the Easy Allies Podcast.

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I'm Daniel Bloodworth coming to you from Los Angeles, California

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this week. I'm joined by Bradley Ellis,

0:46

Michael Huber, Michael

0:48

Damiani.

0:50

Hey, how's it going? In

0:52

the control room making it all happen we got Isla Hink.

0:55

Hi. Dawn Casanova.

0:58

He says hi. And

1:00

keeping an eye on us, it's Gabby. She

1:03

waves. Friends, we're

1:06

here to talk about some of the biggest headlines in

1:08

video games this week. We're gonna

1:10

share our thoughts on those Game Awards

1:12

nominations. Nintendo

1:15

had an Indie Direct this week so we'll go over some highlights.

1:17

We've got the October

1:19

sales report. Mm-hmm.

1:22

And it's time for one final

1:24

round of Mario Kart or Wario

1:27

fart. Oh man. Good heavens.

1:31

But before we get started we must answer for the mistakes

1:33

we made in last week's episode. Isla,

1:36

begin corrections music please. I

1:40

said that all we got for Chucky in Dead by Daylight

1:42

was a cinematic teaser trailer but

1:44

as is Dead by Daylight tradition

1:47

they did put Chucky out there in a public test build

1:50

for people to mess around with so there was gameplay

1:52

video out there before last week's episode just

1:54

not official gameplay trailer.

1:56

Cool. Yeah. Sounds fun. Chucky?

1:59

Yeah. A lot of people

2:02

chimed in on TMNT mutant

2:04

mayhem. Oh yeah. Saying was not

2:07

seen as a failure and that Paramount

2:09

does have a sequel, TV series,

2:12

game and more, all in the works. So

2:15

it won't be the last we see of that art style. Better

2:17

not be. Robamiani just quit the desktop.

2:20

You've been guilt tripping

2:23

people about this. For me like 100 something

2:25

mil. This is getting

2:27

like everything. I had a budget of 70

2:29

million and made 180. So

2:32

like barely broke even if

2:34

you count marketing. To me I

2:36

don't think that's a huge success. But you're getting more

2:38

turtles. You're getting sequel, game, TV

2:41

show. You're getting like everything. I'm assuming

2:43

that shit was already green light before this movie even came

2:45

out. I mean like which it was. Turtles will never

2:47

die. Yeah, no way. Yeah. They

2:50

can reboot turtles every three years. I

2:53

just like when 10 out of 10 movies do

2:56

really well financially too. Deserves

2:59

it. It's a great movie. It

3:02

was not a spin off. It was the

3:04

original GTA that

3:07

had four female protagonists and four

3:09

male protagonists to choose from. And

3:14

then we're getting Robamiani back online

3:16

here. Oh

3:20

yeah, Don got it. If you

3:22

have a correction, leave

3:24

it in the YouTube comments on either the public version

3:27

or the Patreon version of this episode. Start

3:29

with the word correction and leave a timestamp.

3:33

So I know what the heck we're talking about. End

3:36

corrections music.

3:40

There

3:42

it is.

3:43

All right, on Monday we

3:45

got the nominees for

3:49

this year's game awards. As

3:52

a reminder, we are a member

3:54

of that jury so we can't explicitly

3:57

reveal what we nominated or what we're gonna vote

3:59

for. or anything like that. But we can still

4:02

give reactions to the general

4:04

vibes and the things that stood out and surprised

4:07

us. So yeah, like

4:09

in the collective, we are somewhat responsible

4:11

for this, but we can also look at the collective of 120

4:13

other outlets and say like, hey what? But

4:20

yeah, we'll start off, start at the top,

4:22

the biggie, game of the

4:24

year. Six

4:26

on this category. Alan Wake 2,

4:30

Baldur's Gate 3, Spider-Man 2,

4:33

Resident Evil 4, Super Mario

4:35

Brothers Wonder, and the Legend of Zelda,

4:38

Tears of the Kingdom. All

4:41

really fantastic games. Yeah, seems

4:43

pretty damn good. I mean,

4:46

obviously this year has had so many

4:48

incredible games that things

4:51

are gonna get snubbed. Things always

4:53

get snubbed even when there isn't this much quality

4:55

out there. Right. So

4:58

this year is gonna be rough because like people, games

5:01

I mean, are gonna be left out.

5:03

So it's gonna be, it's

5:06

gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt. There's gonna be some big omissions

5:08

throughout, I feel like, once

5:10

a lot of these game of the year start dropping.

5:13

Yeah, yeah, like we were saying, there's game of the year like

5:15

every month. Exactly, exactly,

5:18

yeah. It doesn't feel to me like any

5:20

of these don't belong, so that's good. Yeah,

5:22

exactly, that's the key, yeah, for sure. Johnny,

5:25

any thoughts?

5:27

Yeah, I think all the games

5:30

on here are deserving. I would say to me

5:32

the maybe odd

5:35

one is, maybe it was a little polarizing,

5:37

but no Final Fantasy 16 on this. I

5:39

thought, I saw a lot of people's reactions to this.

5:42

I watched it when I unveiled

5:44

it on Monday and then watched the people's YouTube

5:46

videos and they had a little bit of

5:48

a surprise that maybe 16 didn't make the cut.

5:51

Super Mario Bros. Wonder, I reviewed it.

5:54

I gave it a perfect score. It definitely deserves to be on

5:56

there. I just didn't know if everyone would be like, riding

5:59

is high. That's

6:01

the one I thought like maybe wouldn't make it onto

6:03

this like if you were to ask me What was gonna make

6:05

the list I would definitely have picked four

6:08

of the six on here And I would have put like 16

6:11

the other one is Alan wake to I just haven't

6:13

played it But all everyone talked about you have a

6:15

huber and Brad talking about it everyone else

6:17

talk about says like it is fantastic It

6:20

definitely seems like it is the maybe they're

6:22

like I don't want to say like sleeper hit But like

6:25

it is definitely the one to watch I think

6:29

It you know the one you don't expect to win

6:31

or have a chance and it like shows up and everyone's

6:33

like whoa Where did this come from so yeah?

6:35

next up

6:38

best game direction This

6:42

is five otherwise it's basically

6:44

the same with that's weird Alan wake to

6:47

Baldur's Gate 3 spider-man 2 super

6:49

Mario Brothers wonder and tears of the kingdom to

6:52

which my question is Again,

6:55

why is this category? Yeah,

6:59

well I always I always like in the Academy Awards

7:01

it can like You

7:04

can get like if there's two favorite

7:06

movies or whatever It's like yo this movie is

7:08

gonna get best director But this one's gonna get best

7:10

picture like this is a great This

7:13

is what I'm hoping Alan wake wins cuz

7:15

I don't know right and wake will top You

7:17

know baller's gate seems to be like the favorite

7:20

the front runner but

7:22

that the direction of Alan

7:24

wake 2 is Incredible

7:27

like that game is a vision. You know

7:30

so yeah, I mean they're all they're all Like

7:33

Domiani was saying you know they all deserve to be

7:35

there. I feel like no weird outliers

7:37

think

7:38

to me I think like that

7:40

they're very different especially like

7:42

with movies and stuff because

7:45

Oftentimes the best directed movie will

7:47

be the best movie of the year, but sometimes

7:50

like Hebrew is just saying

7:52

like a game can

7:55

can

7:56

Be an amazing total package

7:58

and win game of the year, but again games direction

8:01

can stand out like I think Alan way

8:03

to the perfect example of that. Yeah,

8:05

so I do think in that regard That

8:08

there's a reason to have both Yeah

8:11

Don't you any thoughts?

8:14

All right, those are those I liked I was

8:16

argument there also that just feels

8:18

very weird. This is only five when there's so

8:21

many Yeah,

8:23

I mean most of the categories are only five.

8:25

It's just game of the year. Yeah, put an extra

8:27

slot in there. Yeah This one's

8:30

the one that just like stands out a little bit weird, but I do want

8:32

to like I mean give this

8:34

like You know, it feels like we're just

8:36

not getting enough games recognition here because there

8:38

was a said there's too many games Like

8:41

like another one like just like Street Fighter 6 Yeah,

8:44

like that games like direction they did with it how

8:46

much they did they did to kind

8:48

of modernize Street Fighter make it more appealing

8:52

Lowering that barrier to entry for a lot of people all

8:54

the accessibility stuff they did with it It

8:56

just seems like you know, maybe

8:58

some people some genres

9:01

maybe have a harder time, you know cracking in

9:03

here So it would have been nice to maybe have

9:05

seen, you know, this one expanded

9:07

to six and following Isla's

9:10

logic You know a game that maybe wouldn't actually

9:12

be game of the year, but you know could be shine

9:14

here Although I do think super six is definitely

9:17

Very goatee caliber as well.

9:20

So yeah, very surprising. Yeah.

9:22

Yeah, I think for me like I definitely understand like Isla's

9:26

argument and it's something that I look

9:28

at it with this category as well Right, like there

9:30

are games like Alan Wake 2 like

9:33

best stranding, you know Where's like you

9:35

can see the director all over it, right? Like

9:37

I mean, Sam Lake is not

9:39

a whole Writing

9:42

the game story, but he's starring

9:44

in the game and he wrote the lyrics

9:46

for like most of the songs in the game

9:49

You know, it's like they didn't want to

9:51

put that in and he like put his foot down.

9:53

He's like, no, it's going in What's that?

9:55

Like a big like musical

9:58

vibe of the oh, you know So

10:01

really cool. But so it's

10:03

crazy to have that kind of stuff,

10:05

but I think the thing is, is again, when you

10:08

look at what the collective does with it, that

10:10

it's like

10:11

it feels like

10:12

it's just like a copy and paste move.

10:15

A lot of it, yeah. And it's like, I

10:17

don't know what the solution to

10:19

that is, because it's freeform. It's

10:23

like you take your staff's picks and

10:26

you submit them and that's what all the votes come out

10:28

to and you end up being the top five. Yeah, because

10:31

these games, good direction, are very

10:33

high up on the list already. Right. So,

10:35

but yeah, I see your saying. I always do

10:37

hope like a little weird one gets in there.

10:39

Right. Just a really cool direction, but maybe not

10:41

the best game, but you

10:44

know, you can't do it all. Yeah.

10:48

I mean, like 10 nominees for heroes or something, right? Maybe

10:50

not the greatest game, but like the direction is

10:53

all over. Oh yeah, totally. Up

10:57

next, best narrative.

11:01

Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3,

11:04

Cyberpunk, Phantom Liberty,

11:07

Final Fantasy 16, and

11:09

Spiderman Yeah, I didn't know

11:11

they did expansions on there. Yeah,

11:14

it's, yeah, again, it's up to

11:16

like what people put in. If enough people put it in

11:18

there, then it stood out. Yeah. I

11:21

mean, I've played Cyberpunk. I thought it was fantastic, the

11:23

story and everything. So it makes sense for me. Yeah,

11:26

it's great to see Final Fantasy 16 in there.

11:29

Yes, definitely. Alan Wake, of course, and Baldur's Gate.

11:32

Spiderman 2, yeah, I can see that.

11:34

But yeah, pretty solid narrative list all

11:36

around, I'd say.

11:39

Yeah, the, pretty sure this

11:41

is public knowledge, but like

11:43

the thing for

11:45

the Game Awards is like eligibility is,

11:47

everything's eligible, but you're rating

11:50

things that are from this year. Like

11:52

they're saying Cyberpunk, but it's,

11:54

you know, largely you're considering the content from

11:56

this year, I guess. Right. Yeah,

11:58

and this was specifically Phantom

11:59

Liberty that was called out. Yeah, yeah.

12:02

In this case, any

12:06

thoughts on any?

12:08

Yeah, I'm very curious what's going

12:10

to win this one just because someone

12:13

who has not played Baldur's Gate, it

12:16

seems like the strength of that

12:18

is how personal that narrative

12:20

becomes depending on the choices you make and

12:23

who you have in your party and

12:25

the fact that it sounds like they counted for so

12:28

much that no matter what you do, you have

12:30

a very fulfilling, satisfying narrative. I feel

12:33

like that, you know, just, you

12:35

know, would probably push it over the edge from

12:37

anyone else on this list because all these

12:39

other ones are kind of like more straightforward

12:41

narratives where Baldur's Gate is doing

12:44

so much branching, so much, you know, choice.

12:46

So I feel like that's

12:49

for anyone who's like, well, Baldur's Gate, isn't that about like decision-making

12:51

and choice, you know, choice-making? Like how, like,

12:53

what if your story sucked? It's like,

12:56

I don't think that's ever gonna be the case

12:58

in that, which is a testament to how impressive

13:01

that game's writing is. Yeah,

13:05

I'd say so. Yeah, I can see

13:07

any one of these, really. Yeah,

13:10

pretty crazy. Yeah, it's a tough one.

13:13

It's one of those categories where we win.

13:15

Spider-Man and Phantom Liberty, but

13:18

yeah,

13:19

we'll see. That's

13:21

a tough one.

13:24

Best

13:25

art direction.

13:27

Alan Wake. Alan

13:29

Wake, too. High-five

13:31

Rush. That's sick. Liza P.

13:35

Super Mario Brothers Wonder. Damn. And

13:37

Tears of the Kingdom. This category.

13:39

Yeah, it's a good category. I have great heavy

13:41

hitters in there. Yeah, this is my I Refuse category.

13:45

I

13:46

do feel like maybe Tears of the Kingdom

13:48

is

13:49

the odd one out, in my opinion. Riding

13:51

on in the previous game. I mean, it's a nice looking

13:54

game and we had Breath of the Wild

13:56

and I don't think it's doing anything drastically

13:58

new visually.

13:59

Um, so

14:01

I'm surprised I didn't try and go

14:03

with something else, but I know

14:06

a lot of you said like, Alan Wake, but

14:08

like to me, HiFi Rush, like

14:10

that game, what it's trying to do, like to

14:12

me, I hope I

14:15

have, you know,

14:17

preferences. Like to me, I'm like hoping like Liza

14:19

P or HiFi Rush, honestly, you

14:21

know, takes it because they

14:24

just, you know, what Liza P was doing visually,

14:26

you know, just, I love that

14:29

style. I mean, anything that tries to go for a blipboard,

14:31

but then puts its own unique spin on it. But like HiFi

14:33

Rush, it's like this, that game feels like for

14:35

both audio and visual direction. Like

14:38

that's like the game. It was made for that

14:40

and it excels at that. Um, but

14:42

dude, Alan, like, again, I haven't played Alan Wake 2. Yeah,

14:44

I'll ask you again after you play that.

14:48

I will say everything, everything, even

14:50

just the trailers, man, made it like this.

14:52

It's our direction. It's going there. It's going there. Just

14:54

lock it in now. You don't have to play it. In

14:57

the nominees. Yeah,

14:59

it is a tough category. Yeah. Well,

15:01

and then yeah, let's Super Mario Brothers wonder like taking

15:04

something that we think we're so familiar with. Yeah.

15:07

And really like making it come to

15:09

life in a new way. So, uh, yeah.

15:12

Wonderful.

15:13

Best score and music

15:16

heavy hitter here. Alan

15:18

Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3,

15:21

Final Fantasy 16, HiFi Rush, and

15:25

Tears of the Kingdom again in there. I am

15:27

obsessed with the Final

15:29

Fantasy 16 soundtrack. I mean, Final

15:31

Fantasy soundtrack is always

15:35

one of the best soundtracks possible.

15:37

The music in that franchise is

15:41

legendary. Uh, and

15:43

Final Fantasy 16 delivered. There were so

15:45

many songs and the way you get to listen

15:47

to the music and you unlock like the jukebox

15:50

songs and everything and just like the

15:53

energy it gives you during some of those boss

15:55

fights and like the quiet moments in between

15:58

like that soundtrack. It. I am

16:00

passionate about that one. It does what Blood loves,

16:02

how it implements the music into the gameplay and

16:04

everything like that, how well it just

16:06

fits together. Like the songs change

16:09

dynamically. Yeah, there ended up

16:11

being less of that in the full scope of the game

16:13

than I expected from the preview. But

16:16

yeah, there are moments that it does do that

16:18

super well. Yeah,

16:23

the Alan Wike 2 stuff has been blowing me away. I just

16:25

finally finished that. So we're gonna get into spoiler mode later

16:27

today. But yeah, again,

16:30

the fact that like,

16:32

they've got all this stuff that is like

16:34

written, like lyrically

16:37

written to like fill in gaps in the

16:39

narrative and everything. It's

16:42

pretty wild, what's going on with the

16:44

music and

16:45

that game way above and beyond. And

16:48

then yeah, we were just talking about High Fight Rush. Like

16:50

holy crap. The whole game is around here. Yeah.

16:54

Just like feeling the rhythms of the dodges and

16:57

stuff. It's so satisfying.

17:01

Tell me honey, you're always on the

17:03

soundtrack train. Oh

17:05

yeah. I'm sorry, yeah.

17:08

Like 16 doesn't win this. I'm

17:10

like flying to the feeling's house. Yeah,

17:13

I am very. Like all this sign up at

17:15

the front door. Just saying Rob.

17:18

Yeah. It's

17:20

like a week. All this shit outside is, yeah. And

17:23

you're like, have me escorted away. All

17:26

right. Time

17:28

for a category. We're almost to just rename

17:31

best horror game. Best audio design.

17:34

Alan Wake 2. Dead Space.

17:37

High Fight Rush. Spiderman 2. And

17:40

Resident Evil 4.

17:46

This is the one I think. Don't

17:48

speak more to High Fight Rush. Yeah.

17:51

That game, like this is like High Fight Rush

17:53

the game. Like that audio design is integral

17:55

to that game. So I feel

17:58

like it is, if you're gonna. to reward

18:00

that game for something it's this category

18:02

but I cannot understate

18:05

the I mean I did not play dead space

18:07

but the way Huber talked about it. Good

18:09

audio on that game my goodness. Yeah you and Gabby

18:12

talking about it and obviously Spider-Man 2

18:14

does a good job and like Resume 4 the audio

18:17

man like this is this

18:19

this is surprisingly difficult to pick for me and

18:21

I haven't played Alan Wake 2 and I'm sure that's gonna be

18:23

like make that even harder.

18:28

Yeah best performance Ben

18:31

Starr. This

18:34

is my my Indomiani where I'm going to

18:36

someone's house holding up a sign. Rob.

18:40

Cameron Monaghan and Star

18:42

Wars Jedi survivor. Sick. Idris

18:45

Elba and Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty. Oh

18:48

this one's got six as well. Nice. Melanie

18:51

LaBurd and Alan Wake 2, Neil

18:53

Newbon in Baldur's Gate 3 and Yuri

18:55

Lowenthal in Spider-Man Some

18:59

really good ones in there. Yeah really good one. I mean Ben

19:01

Starr is my favorite but I would say that

19:04

Neil in Baldur's Gate as a star is really

19:06

good too. He's very good. To me to me

19:08

this is definitely down between Ben Starr and

19:10

Neil.

19:11

Something tells me that

19:13

if it's anything like joystick and some other stuff

19:15

Baldur's Gate might sweep a lot of these but like

19:18

yeah those two are like this

19:21

is high competition. Yeah geez. Yeah

19:25

definitely even liking Melanie

19:27

and Alan Wake as well. The

19:31

one that I was hoping would make it on there

19:33

was Sid Doe. Oh

19:35

yeah. Yeah Sid's great. Oh absolutely.

19:38

It was the Oscars best supporting actor. Right

19:41

there. Yeah he's fantastic. And

19:44

the fact that he ended up having Diablo the same

19:46

month. Yeah he had a good month. Yeah.

19:50

Yeah.

19:51

The innocent. The other one that I think

19:53

is overlooked is the narrator from Baldur's

19:55

Gate 3.

19:56

She does. Yeah she's

19:58

good. A

19:59

lot. And it's very

20:02

easy to overlook I think but like she

20:04

had to do 16 versions

20:08

of that entire game Which

20:10

is insane. Yeah, although

20:13

three is a

20:15

staggering achievement in

20:17

every department Yeah

20:22

Next yeah, oh that is oh Echo

20:26

Ila yeah I watch a lot of people talk about the

20:28

Baldur's Gate nomination and but a

20:30

lot of people are like should have probably picked the narrator

20:33

like just because of like everything you said and More

20:35

so but this category should be renamed

20:37

like best like headshot Because

20:40

then it would be between Ben star and Cameron

20:42

because lightsaber

20:44

Star Wars pandering right there, but

20:47

you know Ben got in that nice graffiti wall

20:49

pretty nice nice Games

20:52

for impact this one's definitely one

20:55

of the ones that's more up to an interpretation But

20:57

just like something they feel have like a

20:59

personal or social message space

21:02

for the unbound chance

21:04

of sonar Goodbye volcano

21:06

high Chia Karen

21:09

ill and Venva. Yeah,

21:12

I was happy to see Chia on there. Yeah me too. I'm

21:14

really on there Yeah, really enjoyed

21:16

fantastic. Yeah, I was doing and

21:18

Venva as well. Mm-hmm Yeah Then

21:22

does a little shorter. Yeah,

21:24

but yeah very yeah very personal.

21:27

Yeah for sure on that Chia

21:31

is more just about that just that whole like exposure

21:34

to that. Yeah, totally culture. Yeah the food

21:36

and everything well done going on in there Yeah

21:40

Chances sonar I haven't had a chance to get to yet,

21:42

but that one looked really interesting to me Yeah,

21:44

I've got that thing installed and waiting for me. I gotta Hop

21:47

on that thing space for the unbound same

21:49

thing. It's been installed since like whenever it came out Any

21:56

any for you Damiani either that

21:59

you played or the that you have an interest on this list?

22:01

I mean, how much you all talked

22:03

about Chia. And

22:06

I mean, I got to play a little bit of it. But a

22:08

space for the Unbound is the big blind spot.

22:10

I'm also like you. I have had it installed for

22:13

a few months and just never got around to it and

22:15

really wanted to jump into that. But

22:17

also the pleasure of being on that frame

22:20

trap where you talked about Venva. And he

22:22

gave Brad and I that kind of nice breakdown.

22:24

It sounded delightful. So

22:27

yeah, this unfortunately is just a little bit of a blind spot

22:29

for me. But thankfully, most of these

22:31

games are pretty short. The rest

22:33

of them I feel like. So something you could

22:35

just over holidays or something get

22:38

into and see

22:40

what you like. Yeah.

22:42

Best ongoing game. These

22:46

are the online live service

22:49

plus things with expansions. So

22:51

we have Apex Legends on there. Cyberpunk 2077

22:55

got in there because of Phantom Liberty. I

22:57

saw some people that were like, what? Just because

22:59

of patches? No, no. It had a big expansion. Yeah.

23:03

Final Fantasy XIV, Fortnite,

23:07

and Genshin Impact. Yeah, a lot of

23:09

the usual suspects. Definitely.

23:11

It's Cyberpunk, I would say. Dummy,

23:15

any thoughts? I know you had that whole back and

23:17

forth with the community on 14 this year. Sure.

23:21

I'll also say someone made, I mean, I

23:23

thought it was a funny joke. But is Cyberpunk

23:25

really eligible when it's like technically

23:28

it's now completed, I saw

23:30

someone say, instead of ongoing,

23:32

I was like, oof, ouch. But 2.0

23:34

update

23:35

and Phantom Liberty, kudos

23:39

to sticking with that. I'm always

23:41

in support of studios that stay with a project

23:44

and make it right.

23:47

What happened in the past is the past with that.

23:49

But they didn't abandon it and move

23:51

on, which would have been the wrong thing. Again,

23:53

the blind spot is up for me as Apex Legends. Alexander

23:56

Zernoff, shout out every community

23:58

showcase. Give another those care. I

24:01

definitely have been very you know welcomed

24:03

into that into that game in that community

24:05

through those But in terms of

24:07

like the new features are adding outside of like the

24:10

actual like champions I'm like, oh like

24:12

I'm not really kept up with that But

24:14

like fortnight going back and adding like the OG

24:17

with the building and stuff like and

24:19

just their consistent updates obviously

24:22

Genshin impact and One I'm

24:24

shocked it's not on here is a honkai star

24:27

rail No, I mean spend a little

24:29

bit of time in that and that

24:29

the people really like that game and that

24:32

games updates But yes to your question real quick

24:34

blood 14. I think it's definitely

24:36

worthy There

24:38

may be the back and forth. We don't really need to get

24:40

into that But uh, there's

24:43

been a little bit of like drama I would say maybe there's some

24:45

like bad faith actors going around

24:47

trying to like say stuff for the for

24:49

click baiting You know nature to draw

24:51

like views and keep you know doing

24:53

that whole like YouTube algorithm chasing

24:56

stuff But like 14 is still in a very

24:58

good spot. Like don't let anyone else tell

25:00

if you personally don't like it That's fine. But

25:02

like there's nothing wrong Like

25:05

you're just like obviously is dead. It's over. It's like

25:07

what are you talking about? Like no,

25:10

but yeah, I think this year It's

25:13

you know, it's open to anyone I would say

25:15

I think every game in this category

25:17

has a fair chance. Yeah of winning it

25:20

Yeah,

25:21

you know, I'm a fortnight lover But I feel like this

25:23

year was just okay like for an

25:25

og right now is one of the best moments

25:29

of the game so that Elevates

25:31

it quite a bit. But before that it's kind of

25:33

been a little bit safe

25:36

They've had what about the whole thing with the like

25:38

being able to make your own games and stuff in for

25:45

Main fortnight though. It's just kind of been like on

25:48

Autopilot like a lot of people left

25:50

behind the scenes. The story has been

25:53

all like out of whack They haven't really done seasonal

25:55

events like they used to be doing Okay,

25:58

so they

25:59

just like their

25:59

biggest ever for an energy for another

26:02

day of course 44 million for an age in one

26:06

day 100% crazy yeah another

26:09

category where I'm like on the fences to like

26:11

why we need both of these I

26:14

can see the arguments but it's it's definitely a

26:16

little weird best community support

26:19

Baldur's date 3 cyberpunk 2077 destiny 2

26:24

Final Fantasy 14 and no man's

26:26

sky hmm

26:28

best community support yeah

26:30

especially the best game

26:32

also yeah yeah the

26:35

two of these together it's just like I'm not sure

26:37

like there's enough of splitting hairs to make sense

26:40

yeah yeah I

26:43

guess maybe it's like a game I like a really good

26:45

like communication level right players

26:47

I guess I suppose but to me that would kind of

26:50

go in with the best ongoing game as a

26:52

whole but I don't know the

26:54

timing of this after bungee fired everything

26:57

yeah yeah I will say a lot of people help educate

26:59

me on

27:05

Baldur's

27:10

Gate the the community

27:13

communicating with Larian in

27:15

the the lead up to the game's release

27:17

and it's like the community like community members

27:20

supporting the game like helping out it

27:22

does sound like you know that from

27:24

that standpoint in terms of like the fan base

27:27

helping the dev team sounds like they did

27:29

a lot of good work they're very

27:32

impressive work so it was like I was

27:34

not aware of that and you know just giving a

27:36

shout out to that that's that's pretty

27:38

awesome you know to have that like passionate

27:40

fan base to help make the game what it

27:43

became so yeah

27:45

I mean this game was an early access for years so they've

27:47

been doing that for a while but they've still

27:50

did a very good job at it I would say

27:52

based on the final product Chad

27:55

is pointing out the new Karlak kiss very

27:58

good but they wrecked Like three other characters

28:01

kisses. Oh boy when they added

28:03

her kiss so Keep it

28:05

straight out sort it out. Got it

28:08

best community support rename it

28:10

best kiss Yeah,

28:16

let me hide I Would

28:19

vote for that. Yeah, I mean for all

28:21

of these but all right. Here's the real

28:23

controversy. Oh, yeah best game

28:29

Cocoon Dave the diver dredge

28:33

sea of stars and viewfinder

28:35

and We all the thing is

28:37

we already had this discussion earlier about Dave

28:39

the diver Yeah being a team under

28:41

Nexon. Mm-hmm, and it's like

28:44

okay, so Because

28:47

you made a smaller team within your company, this

28:49

is now an independent game, but apparently

28:51

even the team has said it's not an independent Yeah, yeah,

28:54

it's just the collective suddenly decides

28:56

to put it in there. Nobody's saying smaller game independent

28:58

Yeah, yeah, that's how they think and it's

29:01

pixel art Game

29:03

independent game, baby. Doesn't that argument work

29:05

for sonic mania as well? Like

29:07

yeah, yeah people are saying like Resident

29:10

Evil 4 is For reasons

29:12

because of Capcom and my publicly trading

29:14

or whatever Any company

29:16

that's not owned by Microsoft or

29:18

an abrasor is an independent? Other

29:21

than your thing point Matt piscatella was saying

29:23

like Larian is independent. Yeah,

29:25

where's BG 3 you coward? Yeah So

29:29

Howard where tell us principle to

29:31

you coward in the category messy

29:33

as always. Yeah everywhere. Yeah People

29:36

are starting to wake up blood. We have this argument

29:38

last year about indie games and stuff like that

29:41

sheeple What was it? Um, all the all

29:43

you world or something? We're talking about. Oh, yeah Because

29:45

the not any in the no no private division

29:47

picked him up Seems like a good place

29:49

for a Darkest Dungeon to could have got a shout

29:52

out here, you know fucking legendary

29:54

game But here's the flip side of this coin. This

29:56

is the problem. This is why I'm bringing up these like

29:58

split hair categories Where

30:01

else would you put Dave the Diver? Yeah.

30:03

What else are you going to put it on? You're

30:06

going to put it on your action adventure? Probably not. You're

30:08

going to put it on their Simmin strategy? Yeah.

30:10

Is it a... What are you doing? This

30:13

team's debut game? I

30:16

don't know for sure whether Mint Rocket has done something

30:18

before. I know they're working on another game after that. But that category

30:21

is also called Best Debut Indie. That's

30:24

where it would go. But yeah, just do Best Debut

30:26

Game then or something. I don't know. Right. Just

30:28

get rid of the Indie thing. Just do Best Debut Game or something.

30:31

That could make more sense. Yeah. Yeah, for

30:33

sure. Isn't that a category

30:35

or no? No, Debut Indie game. Best Debut Indie

30:37

game. God, I got it. Just Best Debut Game. God,

30:39

I got it. I got it. Yeah. They need to have a best...

30:42

Something like Best Games to play

30:44

in one night, like we do. Or it's just like

30:46

Best Smaller Game of any origin.

30:49

Or just like... I

30:52

mean, we don't even have like a puzzle adventure category

30:55

at all. Boy, don't I know it. There's

30:58

no Talos Principle 2 in this list. Bloodworth?

31:02

Daniel Bloodworth. Talos

31:04

Principle 2, coming out on November

31:06

2nd, and the cut-off being November 17th,

31:09

is criminal. Talos Principle... I

31:11

know

31:12

I'm a huge puzzle person, and I

31:14

know I'm a big philosophy person, and I know I'm

31:16

a big Talos Principle person. But Talos

31:18

Principle 2 is one of the best games of this year. I

31:21

adored it. It is so good.

31:23

It's one of the best puzzle games I have ever

31:25

played. Ever.

31:27

Ever. It's up there with portals 1 and 2. It

31:30

is

31:30

fucking incredible. And

31:33

the fact that it's not mentioned anywhere

31:35

in this is very

31:37

disappointing. I mean, hopefully they'll like...

31:40

Maybe... Because like no one had finished it by

31:42

this point, you know? Oh, for sure. Like...

31:45

Like the... Yeah,

31:48

like eligibility ends tomorrow or something

31:50

like that. It's like... Like no

31:52

one had finished it by the time boats went out. So it's

31:54

just... It's just weird timing.

31:57

And hopefully they just like make it

31:59

eligible next... year because

32:01

it's so good yeah unfortunately

32:03

this that gap that's the gap that

32:06

yeah yeah yeah

32:08

yeah we'll have to cover it another

32:11

one that's left out of both of these categories

32:14

change echoes I know I was hoping it was gonna make it on there

32:16

yep Howard you

32:18

cowards yeah I would you know

32:20

the stage I would storm the stage like that kid

32:23

who shouted about Bill Clinton or whatever the fuck and

32:25

be like I'm gonna

32:28

let you finish but tell us for yeah

32:31

let me go ahead and read the data games the debuts

32:33

were cocoon dredge

32:36

love to eat the tower hmm Venba

32:39

mm-hmm and viewfinder yeah all

32:41

great all great games yeah yeah really

32:44

great games happy to see dredge on there yeah

32:46

yeah I think it just highlights

32:49

you know the imperfect system

32:52

and award show where it's like you got to be good

32:54

and you got to be popular right you know

32:57

people got to play your game and like 120

32:59

outlets yeah majority of them in

33:02

a year that's crowded like this yeah

33:04

yeah especially if your game is like longer

33:07

in any way you know it's like what you know like I

33:10

guarantee that like no

33:12

shade against Venba but the fact that it's like

33:14

three four hours yeah

33:17

this is a nomination for sure do

33:20

smart tactic so it's not

33:22

perfect but what

33:25

is but it is a bummer that

33:28

you know tell us principal to I feel your pain

33:30

well

33:31

I mean it's it's that's why that's

33:33

why any system

33:36

of

33:37

what you know I guess democracy whatever

33:39

but any any kind of system like this

33:41

where it like availability

33:43

not

33:44

not necessarily popularity but like

33:46

mind share you

33:49

know which sometimes translates to marketing

33:51

dollars sometimes it doesn't or

33:53

length or accessibility like that like if

33:57

more people have heard of or played a head

33:59

of chance to play a game, it has a higher

34:01

chance of being nominated because

34:03

just more people will vote for it. Like

34:06

five outlets who loved the Taos

34:09

principle could put it as their number one

34:11

in every category and it wouldn't make it at all

34:13

because it just didn't have the numbers, you

34:15

know.

34:16

So it's, you know, whatever. Award

34:18

shows do not always award quality.

34:22

Dom, any

34:24

thoughts on either of these indie categories?

34:27

I

34:29

mean, it's

34:33

not really.

34:35

I'm glad to see some games on there. I mean,

34:37

Cocoon and Sea of Stars,

34:41

but otherwise, yeah, this is always

34:43

like, how do you give a spotlight

34:46

to certain games that otherwise wouldn't like

34:48

have a chance in other categories and it's

34:50

just crowded. This year's crowded

34:52

in general and like these categories are just

34:55

crowded in general. So it's just unfortunate

34:57

that, you know, some games couldn't make the cut.

35:00

Every category should have 10 nominations. I

35:03

will be pushing for that with easy allies, Godis,

35:06

Mark my words. Oh boy.

35:08

Yeah. Get ready. Get a guy

35:10

will, I will vote for that. We don't even know what our

35:12

format is. We're changing it up. Anyways, 10

35:16

nominees everywhere. We're just doing personal.

35:23

Stuff that's completely out of our warehouse. Almost

35:25

best mobile game. We're gonna

35:28

rumble. I don't think it was eligible

35:30

at the time. I don't think people knew

35:32

what's coming out. It came out before November 17th.

35:34

So it was eligible, but it's basically

35:36

a shadow drop, which means that it won't, it

35:39

won't make it. It could

35:42

be on, it could be though. Cause it ongoing

35:45

stuff can be, yeah.

35:50

Final fantasy seven ever crisis. Honkai

35:52

star rail. Hello kitty

35:55

Island adventure made the cut somehow. I've

35:57

known that game exists.

36:00

I don't know anything about it really other than that. Yeah,

36:02

could be sweet. Monster Hunter

36:04

now. I

36:06

don't know about that. I don't know. I only played

36:09

a little bit of it. It's fine, I guess. And

36:11

Taranelle made on there. I didn't even know that

36:13

had a mobile. Yeah, same for me. I'm

36:16

surprised Genshin Impact didn't make this list.

36:19

Taranelle is good. Right.

36:21

Genshin Impact's humongous. Yeah, but

36:23

I think people, like Aylo was saying, I think people do

36:26

tend to go for the newer games. Yeah, I guess

36:28

so. I mean, Genshin Impact's on

36:30

stuff later on. It's ongoing. Yeah. Okay,

36:33

whatever. Warcraft Rumble's snubbed.

36:36

Yeah, Warcraft Rumble's really good. It's really fun. I

36:38

don't know a lot about it. Yeah, I think it

36:40

probably. I've had fun blowing. It basically comes through a snub.

36:43

Yeah. Snub. A

36:45

timing snub. Snubbed by

36:47

time, dude. Especially with

36:49

Hello Kitty, you know. Hey,

36:51

I can't criticize that. I've never heard of

36:53

it. I have no idea. I'd have to

36:55

see it. What is it called? Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

36:58

Download that. Check it

37:00

out right now. You're not going to play

37:02

fucking Animal Crossing, but you're downloading

37:05

Hello Kitty Adventure. I just want to

37:07

see it. What do you

37:09

guys that played Ever Crisis think? I

37:12

haven't played a ton of Ever Crisis. I mean, I

37:15

can't get super excited about like Omega

37:17

Gotcha Final Fantasy stuff. Like,

37:19

it's cool and it looked, it was fun

37:21

when I played a bit, but I've been holding

37:23

out for a PC port, essentially, at this point.

37:26

I don't want to play it on my phone. I don't like playing

37:28

games on my phone that much. Right. So,

37:31

but it seemed alright. Domianni played some of it and

37:34

wasn't too happy about some of the grind

37:36

monetization stuff. It's

37:38

like an Animal Crossing. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy.

37:41

But, um, and it's weird because

37:43

they're just like continually adding on to that game. So,

37:46

I don't know, it's hard for me to get a good grasp

37:48

on it. Right. Domianni. Yeah.

37:53

It wasn't really what I was looking for, Ever Crisis. It's

37:55

got a nice presentation. Really fantastic

37:57

music. Yeah. It does have some like, good.

37:59

Visually the costumes costume.

38:02

Yeah, excuse me. Yeah costume add-ons. Those are really

38:04

nice But in terms of the lot like the systems

38:06

and how satisfying it was to just play I

38:10

the what I played a punk. I star rails is just

38:13

a better game It's more satisfying that

38:15

level even though they have similar elements

38:18

between the two I just feel

38:20

a hunk. I start rails is like, you know better

38:22

just better overall. So I would Definitely

38:25

think you know, yeah a little bit more deserving. You can

38:27

play that in desktop, too Yep,

38:29

mm-hmm

38:31

Best VR slash AR game.

38:34

Mm-hmm Gran Turismo 7 so

38:36

good in the arc Humanity's

38:39

cool game man. It's a cool game, but

38:41

I like I can't even picture myself playing

38:43

that in VR So it's it's interesting

38:45

to think about that. You just got experience

38:47

it. Yeah Horizon call of

38:49

the mountain Yeah

38:55

Fine I wonder if it got on there cuz it's like a

38:57

big VR game, you know

38:58

Yeah, Tony first party by our game budget

39:01

graphics. Yeah bow action This

39:03

one. Yeah that Brad exactly what

39:05

I thought this one smacked of just like

39:08

the most people had played that

39:09

Launch game a lot of people left this

39:12

one blank. So yeah, I don't think it's like terrible

39:14

or anything like that It's just alright from

39:16

what I played resident evil village.

39:18

Very good in VR mode really fun and

39:21

synapse was Fantastic

39:24

have not tried dude ghosts or sorry,

39:27

Grand Turismo 7 in VR is amazing

39:30

I love that game in VR. It was so

39:32

cool man and like transform that whole game. It's

39:35

fantastic. Yeah, I could see that winning Yeah,

39:38

cool Yeah, you really you

39:41

feel like you're yeah, that's the village was

39:43

really well done Also when I played that game like

39:46

just shooting someone in the face like

39:48

a werewolf man in the face real Yeah,

39:52

it's really cool

39:54

The seventh guest obviously wouldn't have

39:57

been good enough to get nominated, but I was actually pretty

39:59

surprised

39:59

Yeah, yeah, oh, sorry one more thing about

40:02

Village

40:05

like exploring those spaces in VR

40:07

like the castle right was Incredible

40:10

like just looking at every little detail around

40:13

everything was so well done. I loved it

40:16

Looking up at lady D. Yeah, you like Yeah,

40:19

it's so funny Alright

40:23

now we're into these genre categories. Oh

40:25

boy Yeah, this is where it gets

40:28

Little rocky messy. Yeah, so a little

40:30

behind the scenes on this when everyone

40:33

submits their genre categories I start moving

40:35

things around on our team. I

40:37

figured you would blood Yeah, I knew you would because

40:39

I have to I have to predict where the collective

40:42

will put things And even

40:44

I on some of them. I was like I am not

40:46

sure yeah It's because like I had to

40:48

go through like the past years and

40:50

like look at the nominations from the past year's game

40:53

awards Like okay, where where do they put

40:55

this series? Where do they put Resident Evil?

40:57

Yeah? Yeah, dude I mean you're you're

40:59

bemoaning ongoing and community

41:01

having best action and best action

41:04

adventure is so stupid to me

41:06

Oh my god, it makes sense

41:08

in my head for sure But the genre

41:11

blending across the board especially with RPG

41:15

Crazy

41:15

just call it best adventure Like I

41:17

don't know the fact that the literal same

41:19

word

41:20

is in both categories is so right

41:22

the difference being that like action

41:26

adventure is more combat focused than like a Quote-unquote

41:29

pure adventure game might not have any kind

41:31

of combat whatever yeah, so Then

41:33

what's an action game? An

41:36

action game is more on combat than

41:38

anything only cry I guess it all

41:40

it all kind of doesn't make sense that's

41:42

my jump. Yeah in all of them armor

41:45

course six Dead

41:48

Island to Ghost runner

41:50

to yeah hi-fi rush and

41:52

remnant to all under really cool picks on there.

41:55

Yeah Obviously armored course

41:57

six is super good

41:59

Like a ghost art 2 I was very impressed of what I

42:02

played that game also I had a really good time playing

42:04

that however. I rushed very great also

42:06

and run it to dude shout out remnant Yeah,

42:08

but I've also heard like people's like things like well

42:10

couldn't remnant have gone in our pj. Yes Island

42:13

to quite a lot of exploration

42:16

in that game It's a lot about going

42:18

back and like look at her stuff in those levels

42:20

and it's a messy thing blood. Yeah Best

42:23

action adventure we got Alan wake to nice

42:26

spider-man to Resident

42:28

evil for and yeah,

42:30

that's a perfect example like present evil for

42:33

in dead island to like the difference

42:35

mainly being

42:37

XP

42:38

or something first I'm a person like

42:41

I don't know Like you talk

42:43

do you talk to people that I like make choices and

42:45

stuff right? It was like RPG elements, and

42:47

I guess more calm in

42:50

it

42:51

Is the only thing I can think of resneevals pretty propulsive

42:54

you keep there's exploration, and you're moving

42:56

around and always no zombies Showing

42:58

up yeah in dead island to maybe

43:00

cuz there's like multiple characters. You can play us to

43:02

write Don't you pick your character or

43:05

something in down to yeah? I? Don't

43:08

know I've

43:11

been played that out into those all seem like arguments

43:13

against it being just action. That's what

43:15

we're saying Yeah, it's like that island to feel like

43:18

it should be in the accident of interest side of it

43:20

Yeah, if resident evil for is Star

43:23

Wars Jedi survivor which makes sense

43:25

in Metroidvania That

43:27

to me makes sense as an adventure game

43:29

yeah And then tears of the kingdom

43:32

that's a hell of a category good green That

43:35

category is action adventure the fact

43:38

that tears of the kingdom is action adventure

43:41

And and not RPG, but Final

43:43

Fantasy 16 is RPG

43:45

and not action adventure is very very odd to

43:47

me. Yep

43:50

Yep, they probably just put probably

43:52

seen there because it's historically RPG right

43:55

whatever I mean there's RPG elements

43:57

in it, but it has more of an action focus

43:59

for sure

43:59

Yeah fewer I would say RPG

44:02

elements than legend of Zelda tears of

44:04

the kingdom

44:08

Well you don't if you don't

44:10

level up in a game they don't think it's an RPG. Yeah, I guess

44:12

that's true Yeah, that's definitely a part

44:14

of it call of duty dude crazy

44:17

RPG. Yeah exactly For

44:23

to a motor sport RPG Wait,

44:31

didn't they do that with a new one? That was like a mechanic RPG

44:34

Good Lord, you have multiple layers. Well,

44:36

it didn't make I don't make for some made it on a lot of stuff

44:38

anyways Yeah, it's only in the

44:40

sports American category before you go

44:43

any other genres dummy on any thoughts on action

44:45

versus action adventure stuff May

44:49

just make it action adventure RPG category

44:53

and then let's get sports race

44:56

like sports racing and like

44:58

let's make fewer Categories with like more genres

45:01

in them so that we don't have to have

45:03

these arguments. So we just delete these all together Allow

45:07

ten nominees for these. Yeah

45:11

Because I think part of this is like well, let's

45:13

make sure that more things get nominated makes

45:15

more sense. Yeah Yeah,

45:18

but I'll interrupt the flow in show blood. I

45:21

Will say that I mean, I

45:23

just it's weird technicalities,

45:25

but like I guess I'm happy that 16 is

45:27

we haven't gotten to yet RPG where it

45:29

is because of the stupid

45:31

discourse around it's like cool. They put an RPG

45:34

So whatever more more, you know

45:36

fuel to you know Band the flames

45:38

of people getting annoyed that it was called

45:41

an RPG and like cares

45:43

Whatever get owned the team themselves

45:45

called it an action game when we interviewed

45:47

them.

45:48

Yeah, they took action Yeah,

45:52

I think when you goes on sale and it goes in

45:54

your little category box on PlayStation store

45:56

thing they will role-playing

45:58

They call any environment where

46:00

it's linear and their enemies dungeon

46:02

environments internally. It's like even

46:04

though like not dungeons, it's like the

46:07

old and dungeon environments like yeah, they

46:09

still use certain terminology but yes,

46:11

that's part of the problem. It's like not even

46:13

not every region is even operating on

46:15

like the same vocabulary There's like no unified

46:17

like agreement. So this one of these categories It's like just

46:20

make them more the bigger

46:23

and cover like, you know more of an umbrella thing

46:25

where more things can fit under it so really

46:28

Yeah, yeah, or

46:30

just go to thematics Detective

46:33

games and horror games and fantasy But

46:39

yeah to best RPG we have Baldur's Gate 3

46:42

Final Fantasy 16. We have

46:45

Liza Pete You see

46:47

of stars, which is nice to make

46:49

the cut there. Yeah and star field No-chain

46:52

decos It's always

46:54

so funny when like a game of the

46:56

year is nominated in the category because it's

46:58

like Baldur's Gate 3 is nominated for game of the year The

47:01

other ones aren't so it's like oh

47:03

sure winner

47:08

Yeah

47:11

Yeah, Brad you said no

47:13

chain echoes I also say like a lot of people

47:15

were kind of bummed at octopath traveler

47:18

Yeah, didn't make it either. Yeah.

47:20

Yeah Yeah, especially

47:23

like with the split on star field

47:25

and in Some

47:27

split on Final Fantasy, but

47:29

it's like it's weird. Sorry. Yeah classic

47:31

case of five nominees or whatever It's

47:34

about it. It's all you can do

47:36

This one is like especially

47:40

because of the Like

47:42

to me Baldur's Gate and see it started the most

47:44

RPG in here, but Baldur's Gate is just

47:46

like

47:47

the best Many

47:52

many years. I mean star fields

47:55

pretty damn RPG from what I played.

47:57

Yeah, you put it in good. Yeah

47:59

I mean that's

47:59

thing I think ball is good so much better

48:02

game than the car wheel but it is very much an RPG

48:05

oh yeah not disputing that ball

48:08

is getting incredible

48:09

like why the fees really good too so that's

48:11

cool to see it in there that's an action adventure game

48:14

yeah well don't you get it you level up I

48:18

actually emphatically do not get it the

48:21

criteria you level up okay

48:25

you level up in Star Wars Jedi survivor yeah

48:27

you sure do you sure do him

48:29

Alan yeah yeah yeah yeah

48:35

I think that goes that's just like because from

48:37

soft games have been in RPG from

48:40

soft like then now

48:43

it is to be on the pale here very

48:47

difficult category every year best

48:50

fighting game see food

48:52

I think this is a less difficult

48:54

is a difficult year boy years

48:56

difficult to fill out no no I'm just saying

48:59

we didn't have to put seafood in a category

49:01

you know I'm saying right yeah we've got

49:03

God of Rock mortal combat

49:06

one Nickelodeon all-star

49:08

brawl to pocket bravery

49:10

which I don't even have any mental

49:13

picture of that game and Street Fighter 6

49:15

yeah from what I've played on those

49:17

Street Fighter 6 is like very good

49:19

for what I've played I haven't played Mortal Kombat once I have

49:21

no idea but I like when I play

49:24

this category where it's like this is

49:26

Street Fighter 6 versus Mortal Kombat yeah yeah definitely

49:28

then the others are as old as time yeah

49:32

career rivalry I yeah

49:34

I don't want to anger anyone here but like this is

49:36

Street Fighter 6 is to lose it's not even close

49:39

like somehow Mortal Kombat

49:41

pulls us off it really is just a popularity contest

49:43

at this point cuz

49:44

like no like Street

49:46

Fighter 6 is like hands like

49:48

it's just the best this

49:50

is like the surest catat this should be the surest

49:53

category yeah I think right now

49:55

I'm sorry next year will be more interesting maybe

49:57

like

49:58

tech I know Don's

50:00

getting angry. Sorry, Don. I know Don's

50:02

getting angry. He was the

50:06

most snotty little teenage girl

50:09

I've ever seen come out of the

50:13

game.

50:46

I'm just gonna nominate the ones that are good.

50:47

Yeah. Guys, we would have been way

50:50

better if it was just literally mortal combat at

50:52

Street Fighter's. Yeah. Epic.

50:55

We're in height. Yeah. Or

50:57

we need a category that's not limited to fighting

51:00

it. We need an overall competitive

51:03

multiplayer game category. Yeah. That

51:06

makes sense to me. Shout out to Sifu. Love

51:08

that game. Shout out. Love

51:11

that game. Shout out. One

51:16

that gets a little weird sometimes, but I kind of

51:18

like most of what's on this list. Best

51:21

family game. Disney Illusion

51:23

Island. Not Forgotten. Nope. Really

51:26

good pick there. Party Animal. Party

51:28

Animal Zone's fun. Yeah.

51:32

Pikmin 4, which is the one I question

51:34

a little bit. Sonic

51:36

Superstars. Because it's not a family

51:39

vibe or what? Yeah, because Pikmin 4 is still

51:41

like a single player game for the... There's like a

51:43

little bit of a multiplayer mode, but... This category is more competitive.

51:46

And then Mario Brothers Wonder. That's E-rated game. Yeah,

51:49

usually this is the best Nintendo game category. Thanks

51:51

for hearing it here. Yeah, it is.

51:54

It is. Was Mario Party last year?

51:57

Super Mario Party or whatever? Oh yeah, it was a little bit. Yeah,

52:00

yeah, yeah, yeah, gosh.

52:02

I mean for what I played Hard

52:04

for me not to think Super Mario Brothers

52:07

But you know I haven't played everything yet. Mm-hmm.

52:09

No, we're aware is pretty hype. Yeah Family

52:15

game sorry. Yeah, but family and more

52:18

you are aware perfect for ya. Yeah sure

52:20

I Really do think it's like

52:22

best family appropriate game

52:24

though Like that's how I think most people

52:26

probably mostly you rated game. Yeah, I don't wait

52:29

to for sure Oh

52:33

Here's a here's your demons Here's

52:35

a conversation for which we we don't know

52:38

that much about but best sim

52:40

strategy game

52:41

Should also be puzzle game maybe

52:43

I don't know

52:46

the Simmons already is already a weird messy category

52:48

But yeah, they're very different when you look at what's in

52:50

here advance wars 1 plus 2 reboot

52:53

camp city skylines to

52:55

company of heroes 3 fire on lemon gauge

52:57

and Pikmin 4 and and

53:00

Yeah, this this sparked a conversation

53:03

where people are saying like the

53:05

you know They're they're they're

53:08

freelancers that are specialists in this

53:10

space. Mm-hmm that outlets

53:12

like IGN and game spot turn to for these kind

53:14

of reviews and They weren't

53:16

consulted for their yeah, there's

53:19

a possibility the outlet to handle that that's my

53:21

part of my argument Yeah, but but

53:23

yeah, it's like there's stuff like like shadow

53:26

gambit Shadow gambit didn't make

53:28

it on here at all Yeah,

53:31

advanced wars didn't need to be there

53:34

No, I would say fire them

53:36

engage probably it was not good enough to

53:38

probably make this list I feel like there's probably

53:40

other strategy or sim games

53:43

out June with another one that are people in pointing out. Oh Yeah,

53:46

I love OG

53:49

company heroes and I've always meant to get

53:51

to three but

53:53

Yeah,

53:54

yeah that I don't know what the story is on three

53:56

but it's unlike people who had some issues with

53:59

with that being on the list of issues. Yeah.

54:01

Thank. Oh, so that's

54:04

what I think. It was just like, it felt like, Oh, these are

54:06

the lists of recognizable names

54:08

rather than best in

54:10

the category. Yeah. Um,

54:13

and even like, you know, city skylines,

54:15

you know, it's like, Don love

54:18

it. Bones are there, but when

54:20

you put out a statement saying we're going to ship with a bunch

54:22

of issues, like preemptive

54:25

damage control. Yeah. I believe

54:28

Don.

54:29

With that though, Don loves that game.

54:31

Don is in a catatonic state

54:34

right now.

54:37

He doesn't participate in this sort of thing.

54:39

He, he, he was immobile

54:41

and just, just mumbled. The bones

54:44

are there. And then he's like completely

54:46

unmoving otherwise. But I

54:48

mean, like, even on like on the thin side of things,

54:50

right? Like when you look at like a terra

54:53

nale or you look at like even something like Fay

54:55

Farm, which, you know, maybe not the most amazing

54:57

game, but I've, I've seen

54:59

people really get into that game, you know, and, um,

55:02

and there's a ton of that stuff

55:04

in the indie space. Uh, don

55:06

gave me a 10 minute passionate rant about how

55:09

city skylines is absolutely

55:11

incredible. I truly believe.

55:16

So yeah, definitely.

55:18

I definitely feel the sense of like, yeah, this

55:20

is definitely a genre that is outside of my personal

55:23

wheelhouse, but I, I hear what people

55:25

are saying about it. Yeah. I'm

55:28

sure there was like three Warhammer games that came out.

55:33

Total war did have something, but I don't know if anyone was speaking

55:35

up for that one. Uh,

55:38

best sports and racing game, which is

55:40

hilarious for me. Because like, Oh, I got half of this

55:42

category. Uh,

55:45

EA Sports, uh, FC 24 F1 23 Forza Motorsport

55:48

Hot Wheels Unleashed Two

55:52

Turbocharged and the Crew Motor

55:55

Fest. But what do you think about them always

55:57

combining this category? I mean,

55:59

The vibes, I guess, are

56:02

kind of similar, but it's two completely

56:04

different genres. Do you know anything that's a disservice

56:06

to both?

56:07

Uh, it's a little strange

56:09

because I think when you look at

56:13

something like F1 and you look at something

56:15

like Forza and you look at something like WRC,

56:18

but those really can kind of fit into

56:20

sport in a way. Mm-hmm. Um, but

56:22

then when you look at Hot Wheels, it's like... Yeah. Hot

56:25

Wheels is, you know, like it's purely

56:27

fantasy. You know, Mario Kart is purely fantasy.

56:29

Like it doesn't really fit, but I mean, at the

56:32

same time, like, you would put like a Mario

56:34

Strikers in here if it was good enough, right? Yeah.

56:36

You're competing, I guess, for you.

56:39

It makes more sense than SimStrategy when it's

56:41

stuff like... Yeah. Trucking Simulator 23

56:45

versus, you know, City Skylines 2 versus

56:47

Company of Heroes 3. Those are very different

56:49

games. Yeah, right.

56:52

For sure.

56:53

Yeah, that's another part of Sim where

56:55

you even think about, like, Farming Simulator and all

56:57

that stuff. Usually there's one of those in there, but this

56:59

year there wasn't. Yeah. Which one do you think, Blood?

57:02

Mm-hmm. Which one do you like the most out of those?

57:04

A lot of these? Yeah. Uh, oof.

57:07

Um... I

57:09

wanna play WRC, and that

57:12

one I think got... Uh,

57:14

snubbed, essentially, because of the timing. Oh, snubbed. Uh...

57:17

You know, when Blood calls a snub. Yeah. I

57:20

didn't get to F1 this year, I didn't have time for that this

57:22

year. There was something else that I was thinking of, too,

57:24

that was... Oh,

57:27

F0. Oh, F0. Where the crap is F0

57:30

on this list? There it is. There's no F0

57:32

on this list. Oh,

57:34

shit! Oh, my

57:37

God. Blood's goatee snub. Oh, my God. Brain

57:40

trap, blood. Yeah. Oh, my

57:42

goodness. Oh, man. Save that, sort it

57:44

out. Save it up. Yeah.

57:46

Easily. Yo, that... F0 over

57:48

Forza and Hot Wheels and the crew. Come on. That

57:51

is an insane snub, Blood. That is a big one. Blood

57:54

is pit. Yeah. Wow.

57:56

You messed up. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

58:01

Best multiplayer, Baldur's

58:03

Gate 3, Diablo 4,

58:06

Party Animals, Street

58:09

Fighter 6, Super Mario

58:11

Brothers Wonder. Yeah, this is a really

58:13

good category. Mario is a

58:15

weird one. I was going to say that's my least favorite

58:17

I think out of the multiplayer. Like, Baldur's

58:19

Gate 3 is fantastic because it transforms

58:22

the whole game and how you interact with it. Diablo

58:25

obviously with people is fun. Party Animals is a goofy

58:27

fun, Street Fighter of course. Multiplayer

58:29

is so important to that game. So, we have Mario lobby.

58:33

Yeah, Mario is like, it's a nice bonus. It

58:35

feels like there's got to be a ton of other games

58:37

out there that would have been a better pick. I

58:39

agree.

58:40

It did, it improved

58:43

on past entries of the Mario series. 2D

58:45

Mario multiplayer. Very true, yes.

58:50

I mean, but there's another one, F0.99. Better

58:53

multiplayer. There we go. Mortal

58:56

Kombat didn't make it in here. Mortal

58:58

Kombat didn't make it either. I

59:02

think it has to do with that Jolly Lobby and Street

59:04

Fighter. Maybe, yeah, the fight area now. It's

59:07

a space where you can really get

59:09

together. Yeah, maybe Mario Wonder people are thinking

59:11

of like the ghosts or whatever works. Yeah,

59:14

that's part of it. Definitely. Yeah, I guess.

59:17

Counter-Strike 2 didn't make the list. No, Counter-Strike 2

59:20

did not make the list.

59:23

Alright, this is one outside

59:26

of most of my frame of reference that you guys have been watching. Best

59:29

adaptation. Sick. Tassylvania

59:32

Nocturne. Shout out. Gran

59:35

Turismo. It was fun. It

59:38

was fun. I liked it. I liked

59:40

it. The

59:43

Last of Us. Shout out. Yeah. Yeah.

59:46

The Super Mario Brothers movie and

59:48

Twisted Metal. Twisted

59:51

Metal's sick. I forgot about it too. I feel

59:53

like The Last of Us is going to win easily. Yeah, that's a block

59:56

for Last of Us. Just Episode 3 alone

59:58

is like

59:59

God tier.

59:59

Yeah, wow, I'm glad

1:00:02

nocturne got in there sick

1:00:04

Mm-hmm.

1:00:05

Yeah, those are all really good Seriously,

1:00:07

like the Grange reason is it's seriously a fun watch.

1:00:10

I really liked it. But I Mean

1:00:12

Last of Us takes that

1:00:14

all day

1:00:16

got me any oh

1:00:17

Yeah, I thought Last of Us was fantastic. I

1:00:19

get it. It's it's it's There's

1:00:22

the win or there's a lose. Sorry. I really

1:00:26

enjoyed the Super Mario Brothers movie. That was like fantastic

1:00:29

But Last of Us is a put

1:00:32

my money where my mouth is where it's a game I was

1:00:34

like I really would want to just watch this

1:00:36

and watch it I was like this stories

1:00:38

is so good. I already played it story was good. But

1:00:40

like like it's just I

1:00:43

don't know It's maybe some games the slim themselves

1:00:45

better to this, you know being adapted to a different

1:00:47

medium And that's why it's shy but like that production

1:00:50

value the acting like it was just really

1:00:53

good But yeah, also shout outs in nocturne like

1:00:56

really thought it like

1:00:59

Stepped up a lot of expectations

1:01:01

of that. I haven't seen GT in

1:01:03

Twisted Metal though, but I know Huber you

1:01:05

say Like I twisted

1:01:08

metal grew on me so hard.

1:01:10

It's got heart Unexpectedly,

1:01:12

it's not cringy like that first Trailer

1:01:16

they showed with like sweet tooth and stuff

1:01:18

like it really what a choice

1:01:20

that yeah And like a little choice

1:01:22

and I know not crazy because a lot of people that watch it were like,

1:01:24

yo It's really good like yo, it was all good. Yeah,

1:01:27

it was it was good But

1:01:31

yeah, I just think yeah, we all know lots

1:01:34

of us is they should just like do

1:01:36

it. Yeah, you know

1:01:38

Yeah, and then finally

1:01:41

There's a little little bubblegum entry here

1:01:44

most anticipated game final

1:01:46

fantasy 7 rebirth Hades 2

1:01:50

Like a dragon infinite wealth Wow

1:01:53

making it up there most anticipated Star

1:01:56

Wars outlaws in Tekken 8

1:02:01

Give it to rebirth and move on. Yeah, I

1:02:03

don't know. I don't know.

1:02:06

I don't know. I'm

1:02:08

excited

1:02:08

for that.

1:02:10

I'm more curious who comes in. I

1:02:12

don't know if they reveal it, but who comes in second

1:02:15

and third and so on for this. Right.

1:02:18

Yeah, they won't reveal it. Yeah.

1:02:19

Because I

1:02:21

guess outlaws probably would be the second

1:02:24

most would be my guess.

1:02:27

Maybe. Second might be the second, I

1:02:29

think. Yeah, chat points. So GTA

1:02:31

six now being on Earth. Oh, yeah.

1:02:34

Maybe because there hasn't been. It

1:02:36

has not even announced. Yeah. Yeah.

1:02:40

Yeah. He like, I just

1:02:42

signed an NDA. He could have put it on here. Yeah.

1:02:46

The game wars.

1:02:49

Dang, no kingdom hearts for.

1:02:52

Yeah. No, I think. I think

1:02:54

that game is not going to be anyone's radar until rebirth. So.

1:02:57

Any other thoughts overall that that's it for the categories?

1:03:00

Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Yeah.

1:03:03

I do think that like, obviously

1:03:06

they're not like this is how

1:03:09

how jank and weird some of these are is evidence

1:03:11

that there's that there's no tampering because

1:03:14

everyone always blames Keely like, oh, they call him the key

1:03:16

leaves, whatever. And like, whatever it's not.

1:03:19

It's just all the outlets like

1:03:21

us voting and it's just a numbers

1:03:23

thing.

1:03:24

But I do wonder sometimes if there

1:03:26

does need to be like, not Keely

1:03:29

maybe, but like a council of elders

1:03:31

or something to be like, that ain't no indie game. Yeah.

1:03:34

Well, I mean, just like a little quality control on this

1:03:36

stuff. But that's the one thing like I do wonder

1:03:38

about, like, especially with like the action and

1:03:41

action adventure things where like I'm doing

1:03:43

the invisible hand on my side with

1:03:45

our votes to like put them or I think they're

1:03:47

going to put them. But then when they get those

1:03:49

votes in, right? And if like, you

1:03:51

know, they've got like 50 votes for

1:03:54

let me see where they are. They've

1:03:58

got like 50 votes for lies. P

1:04:00

in accident adventure and like

1:04:02

well, we're gonna shift that down to RPG

1:04:05

right like they would have to right I

1:04:07

don't know who's making that call right I I

1:04:09

get for business reasons

1:04:12

it needs to be when it is but Like

1:04:16

we can joke that it's like I just some silly

1:04:19

like game game of the year game awards

1:04:21

like it doesn't matter It's just an awards But like

1:04:23

to a lot of people they do to a lot of developers

1:04:26

they really matter to a lot of fans They

1:04:28

really matter so I just wish

1:04:31

that it would be a little

1:04:34

later to

1:04:36

to let it sit to let the year

1:04:38

itself the calendar year sit

1:04:40

and Also, give all these outlets

1:04:43

more time to catch up on

1:04:45

games I mean the holidays are when a lot of people

1:04:47

go back and they finish a lot of these games and play

1:04:49

a lot Of these games. I just think you would get a more honest

1:04:52

and a more accurate Representation

1:04:55

of the games released in that year if

1:04:57

it was just a little bit later. That's right That's why

1:04:59

we do ours in January. Shout

1:05:01

out easy. I'm out in game of years already.

1:05:03

We're like in November. Yeah, like You're

1:05:06

over. Yeah. Yeah,

1:05:08

it's funny though because it's like a lot

1:05:10

of people bemoan

1:05:12

or dislike the game awards and like It

1:05:15

is positioned when it is and

1:05:18

it is it takes the shape

1:05:20

that it takes because

1:05:22

of money and like because

1:05:24

it needs to Make money

1:05:27

and it needs to have announcements

1:05:29

and hype and all that stuff because frankly nobody would

1:05:31

watch it Otherwise like awards shows

1:05:34

Don't traditionally perform as well Like

1:05:38

new award shows don't perform as well generally

1:05:40

and like even the old standbys like the

1:05:42

Grammys the Oscars whatever like ratings

1:05:45

have not been at their all-time high,

1:05:47

you know for a while and You

1:05:50

know, they have a lot of advertising and stuff too, but it's

1:05:52

like you got to pay the bills and in gaming I think

1:05:54

like Either it exists

1:05:57

how it exists or it doesn't exist

1:05:59

probably

1:05:59

Or it exists very small and

1:06:02

no one watches it, you know like

1:06:03

yeah, and I think as you know Trailers

1:06:06

being part of that formula like the

1:06:09

game Awards is Designed

1:06:11

specifically for the people watching

1:06:14

at home Yeah, whereas like you're

1:06:16

saying the Oscars and the Grammys or whatever they're designed

1:06:18

for the people in the audience receiving the

1:06:20

rewards Yeah, and they're there's

1:06:22

they're about the awards those shows have fallen off

1:06:24

too though because nobody really has cable TV anymore

1:06:26

And it's on TV. Whereas these

1:06:28

are word shows on the internet like right

1:06:31

on your computer laptop or whatever So

1:06:34

yeah specifically going to every platform that he can

1:06:36

get every day all so many platforms.

1:06:39

So yeah, I just I wonder

1:06:42

if it would Be way

1:06:44

less people watching if it was just months

1:06:47

later. Yeah People

1:06:49

oh I don't know

1:06:51

that really actually makes that big of a difference.

1:06:54

I think announcement wise it would I

1:06:55

think Well, yeah,

1:06:58

and I think that like he can get better

1:07:00

access and better deals positioned it right

1:07:02

before holiday shopping from

1:07:05

the Part

1:07:07

of it Something wins

1:07:10

on December 7th and then so

1:07:12

holiday ball hundred thousand copies in

1:07:14

Christmas like that Yeah,

1:07:17

I Can see that it was calculated.

1:07:20

Yeah for sure,

1:07:22

but like all that said

1:07:24

like I I like the

1:07:27

game awards and I'm very happy to exist and

1:07:29

like I would I you know, I

1:07:31

kind of take it forts and all

1:07:33

sort of like I I Understand

1:07:37

that it has to exist as it exists to

1:07:39

exist at all and I

1:07:42

don't kind of hold it against itself, you

1:07:44

know. Yeah,

1:07:45

which I

1:07:46

Don't know. Yeah,

1:07:48

I just want to see

1:07:51

Some orchestra playing Final Fantasy 16 music

1:07:55

and one of those bands from Alan Wake to

1:08:00

the old guy that plays 16 music

1:08:02

but it didn't make the gotee so it's not gonna

1:08:05

be in the gotee montage. It won't be in the gotee montage.

1:08:08

But that doesn't mean it won't be there. That's

1:08:11

right, it could still be there. There's still some hope.

1:08:14

Dude. Because they did the God of War thing.

1:08:18

I need to hear some of my own anti-16 music. Or

1:08:21

I'm docking points. The

1:08:25

gotee games are gonna make for one hell

1:08:27

of a montage anyway. Medley,

1:08:30

I mean. Maybe they will

1:08:32

get Soakin and Koji Fox on

1:08:34

stage. You wasted it. Yeah,

1:08:39

mighty mighty boss toad. Yeah,

1:08:41

the ties. That

1:08:46

would be definitely bad. Alright,

1:08:49

let's move on to some other stuff. Nintendo

1:08:51

had an indie world this week,

1:08:53

Tuesday morning. Not too long, about 20

1:08:55

minutes. This is probably

1:08:58

like, it's okay. There's

1:09:00

nothing that stood out to me like super amazing

1:09:02

here. But some

1:09:05

fun things in here. I'm not gonna go over everything but

1:09:07

some highlights. First up, Shante

1:09:09

Advance, which we heard about earlier

1:09:12

in the year. This was

1:09:14

that never completed

1:09:16

GBA sequel.

1:09:18

Better 22 years late than never. Top 10

1:09:25

franchises I want to get into. Oh

1:09:27

yeah. But then every time

1:09:30

I go to play one, it's like, this is a sequel to this one. You

1:09:33

don't have to worry that much about the continuity yet. Especially

1:09:35

considering this one never came out and

1:09:38

other things that happened in it were referenced

1:09:40

in the future game. Blood, I love continuity.

1:09:43

Alright, two... Well

1:09:45

now you can complete it. Now you can

1:09:47

go from a Game Boy Color game to this game. But yeah,

1:09:50

you can dance to transform

1:09:52

into an elephant or a monkey. Great.

1:09:56

You have this thing that they show where you

1:09:58

can like, rearrange... Stages

1:10:00

by swapping background and foreground

1:10:02

like go to different areas. That is cool. I'm

1:10:04

curious how that'll work out Alan wake.

1:10:07

Yeah They put

1:10:09

in a new four-player battle mode Okay.

1:10:12

Yeah, and then during the direct

1:10:16

Matt and Aaron Bozon

1:10:18

we're talking about a little bit, but

1:10:20

and then I realized is Aaron that created shante.

1:10:23

Oh, yeah, that's cool. Yeah That's

1:10:26

coming out 2024 Um

1:10:29

The next one I'll talk about is this a kind

1:10:32

of like it took me a minute to like figure out what

1:10:34

the heck was going On here. It's called on

1:10:37

your tail and

1:10:39

This is from an Italian dev called

1:10:42

memorable gains with

1:10:44

humble publishing And it's

1:10:46

and it's full of like a lot of like cat

1:10:48

and dog people. Mm-hmm and

1:10:51

they were talking about just like the The

1:10:54

kind of vacation vibes Huber

1:10:57

like who going to some town on the coast

1:10:59

and chilling out and all that But

1:11:02

at the same time there is a masked

1:11:04

minute yo In

1:11:07

this town So like

1:11:09

you got these like narrative life

1:11:12

sim things going on with like

1:11:14

you go to the beach You hang out with your friends

1:11:16

you go to the arcade you know my house But

1:11:19

then you can also like look around

1:11:21

and find clues to like Figure

1:11:24

out what's going on with this quote-unquote masked

1:11:26

menace. I don't even know what the masked menace

1:11:28

is doing Toby You do is looking for tail beasts

1:11:31

reminds me of that

1:11:34

What's that crap

1:11:37

what is that game called the guy the follow-up

1:11:39

to deadly permission to oh A

1:11:43

wonderful life. Yeah Kind

1:11:45

of oh yeah, yeah

1:11:49

Yeah, that's also good life the good life good

1:11:51

life, that's it Yeah, harvest

1:11:53

moon was a wonderful life characters kind of reminded me

1:11:55

of dust in a lesion tail mmm.

1:11:59

Yeah

1:11:59

We were getting a sequel to that? Damn, I like that game.

1:12:02

Maybe? There was something about

1:12:04

that. I don't remember. I think it's like one or

1:12:06

like a couple of people make it in like

1:12:09

one person. Next up

1:12:11

is Howl Huber.

1:12:15

So this is interesting. It's got kind of like

1:12:17

a sketchbook, a storybook

1:12:20

kind of style to the graphics. And

1:12:23

it's it's sort of like that

1:12:25

wolf bread. Yeah, it's sort of like a

1:12:27

top down tactical game. But

1:12:30

it's but it also kind of described it as like

1:12:33

turn based puzzles. And

1:12:36

so we'll feel the kill. So it

1:12:38

sounds like you can go like up

1:12:40

to six turns in advance and

1:12:42

you kind of have to predict where the enemies are. Yeah,

1:12:45

it's going to be a big trial and error game. Yeah,

1:12:47

there's

1:12:48

a game on the play date made.

1:12:51

Which game was it? It's called like zipper

1:12:53

or something like that. Oh, yeah. You played as

1:12:56

a like a ninja trying to infiltrate

1:12:59

a Shogun or whatever. And

1:13:01

it was pretty much like that. And it was sick.

1:13:05

So it's cool. Yeah, that game. Who made

1:13:07

that one? I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember who made

1:13:10

that one. This is but this is so

1:13:12

you have these the kind of wolf

1:13:14

slash werewolves body. That

1:13:17

they're they infect people through

1:13:20

sound. They howl and

1:13:22

then people get infected by the howl. And

1:13:25

your character is death. So

1:13:28

she's immune. Awesome. Yeah.

1:13:31

Yeah. And you're going through in search

1:13:33

of a cure.

1:13:34

They say there's 60 levels across

1:13:37

four chapters.

1:13:38

And then there's like routes on the world map

1:13:40

to like pick where you're going to go and unlock different

1:13:42

skills and stuff like that. That was

1:13:45

that came out that day. That came out Tuesday. 15 bucks

1:13:49

on switching. Oh, nice.

1:13:52

Shadow drive friendly.

1:13:55

Next up is backpack hero,

1:13:58

which you might be like, didn't that game come out? already this

1:14:00

was originally an ichio game

1:14:03

that got a Kickstarter for a

1:14:05

bigger fuller version so

1:14:07

a roguelite dungeon crawler focused

1:14:10

on how you manage your backpack it's

1:14:12

great so it's kind of like the at the she

1:14:14

case in Resident Evil definitely

1:14:16

but where things are in approximation

1:14:19

to each other like changes their

1:14:22

effects oh I see so

1:14:24

like if you have like two weapons

1:14:26

next to each other like then they're there's

1:14:30

stronger attack or whatever like that

1:14:32

there are a few games like this right

1:14:34

now I can't remember the other ones called but it's

1:14:36

like a save

1:14:38

room come combo with

1:14:40

vampire survivors sort of this

1:14:44

one also the bottom part reminds me of a phone

1:14:46

game that I liked a lot called 10 million yeah

1:14:49

so you you go out and

1:14:51

you loot and then you come back and build your town

1:14:53

up

1:14:55

skin looks sick yeah

1:14:58

and then oh this

1:15:00

one is for Damiani and Brad

1:15:03

blade

1:15:04

chimera the

1:15:07

side-scrolling of Metroidvania from team

1:15:09

and ladybug you recognize that name don't

1:15:13

think they do know same

1:15:15

team is Daedlet in Wonder Labyrinth

1:15:18

oh yeah so yeah in this it's

1:15:20

happening in future Osaka

1:15:27

fucking sick cyberpunk environment

1:15:30

protecting the city from demon attacks

1:15:33

you've got a whole bunch of different weapons that you pick up

1:15:35

along the way but your main weapon is

1:15:37

actually a demon sword called

1:15:40

the luminous sword that

1:15:43

it can like transform into different things

1:15:46

that you come across in the world like it like our brothers

1:15:48

did this like time

1:15:51

restoration kind of thing so it can like recreate

1:15:54

platforms or bridges or staircases

1:15:56

or whatever yeah so

1:15:59

it's like it Demon flat yeah,

1:16:02

I'll play that game. Yeah, I like D lit in Wonderland

1:16:04

with a lot So I'm happy to see them doing

1:16:06

another game. Yeah, hell yeah, I'll play that game Sam.

1:16:08

I try to play every Metroidvania there is It

1:16:12

is like my life mission There's

1:16:15

a lot I know That

1:16:18

comes out in spring 2024 don't know

1:16:21

what do you think of that any is like relax

1:16:23

my brain in the best way Yeah,

1:16:27

what do you think uh?

1:16:28

Yeah, D lit felt great like control wise

1:16:31

so them getting another getting

1:16:33

another crack at this is amazing and Different

1:16:36

you know vibes and setting like doubt

1:16:38

totally down for this Yeah,

1:16:41

what's that out? Spreading spring, right

1:16:44

yeah Next up

1:16:46

is a Highland song which

1:16:48

is like I've gone back and forth on this

1:16:51

like I've got mixed Impressions,

1:16:53

but it's interesting the way that this game sort

1:16:55

of plays with scale It zooms

1:16:58

in and out a lot as you're exploring

1:17:02

And you're it's like a side-scrolling platformer,

1:17:04

but you're exploring these like big

1:17:07

Scottish Highlands, and then there's

1:17:09

parts. Yeah, where you're like they're like rhythm game

1:17:12

like you're like following a deer or whatever Yeah

1:17:17

There's also a part where she's like running like straight

1:17:19

across the water And I'm like is it shallow

1:17:22

or she like actually running on top of the water

1:17:26

And then it does what's that

1:17:28

game cold? Anyways, it's got a

1:17:31

thing where like her like words will like kind

1:17:33

of pop up in her handwriting What's

1:17:36

not oxen free that thing is like?

1:17:38

Lost words that was it. Oh yeah,

1:17:41

it gives me some of those vibes. Oh, it used in

1:17:43

coal. That's interesting

1:17:45

and then

1:17:47

Yeah, the narrative adapts based on the different

1:17:49

routes that you take

1:17:51

that makes sense for being an ankle Nice

1:17:54

game ankle is sort of like twine a

1:17:56

lot a lot of games are kind

1:17:58

of developed

1:17:59

in that or like preconceived

1:18:02

in that?

1:18:03

Got it. And this one's out soon. This

1:18:05

is December 5th. Oh, wow. That

1:18:07

is sick. This one comes out. Next

1:18:10

up, we've got Moonstone Island,

1:18:13

which

1:18:14

kind of similar to the Backpack Hero

1:18:16

is you go out and collect

1:18:19

stuff and then come back

1:18:20

and build your town. But

1:18:23

they've got 100 procedurally

1:18:26

generated islands. It's

1:18:28

got creature collecting kind of like Pokemon.

1:18:31

It's got dungeon crawling. It's got deck

1:18:33

building. It's got a whole all the life stuff going on. Life

1:18:36

style game. All

1:18:38

the islands are up in the sky, and then your town is back

1:18:41

down on Earth. It's not a game. It's a lifestyle.

1:18:43

Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot. They do

1:18:45

about 60 different adorable spirits

1:18:48

that you can capture and collect. Card-based

1:18:51

combat. And then you got

1:18:53

a cute little glider that you go up to the different islands

1:18:56

on. In town, along with all

1:18:58

the building and farming and stuff, you've got the romance options

1:19:00

too. So it

1:19:03

hits a lot of those different indie

1:19:05

bases. All the indie check boxes. Yeah. Coming

1:19:08

in spring. And

1:19:12

then they

1:19:15

did a few other things.

1:19:17

Outer Wilds coming to Switch on

1:19:19

to Severs' Sevens. How does that run? It's

1:19:21

looking Switchy. Yeah. Like I said, it runs

1:19:23

OK, but it's looking kind of muddy. Looking

1:19:27

kind of down with its finger and her thumb. It

1:19:30

does look for the Switch too. Shape of an L on her forehead.

1:19:32

Yeah. It does include Echoes of the Eye with the full

1:19:34

package. Oh, that's good.

1:19:37

And then they had a montage at the end that had Planet

1:19:39

of Lana, Heavenly Bodies, The Gecko Gods,

1:19:42

Passport Out 2, which is out now as well.

1:19:45

The one that caught my eye here in the montage

1:19:47

is called Urban Myth

1:19:50

Disillusion Center. You can

1:19:52

play this. This is like some anime

1:19:54

horror craziness. I actually found the Japanese trailer,

1:19:57

which was longer than it was in the montage.

1:20:00

But yeah, I don't know what's going on in this game, but

1:20:02

it's it's got a vibe. Yeah sick as shit

1:20:05

really cool vibe Some

1:20:08

yeah, definitely something like A

1:20:12

visual novel almost a

1:20:13

lot of these how they're talking to characters, but

1:20:16

maybe it's like a more of an entry game. Mm-hmm Oh,

1:20:19

yeah. Okay. There's definitely like moving around and

1:20:21

stuff.

1:20:22

Yeah, it switches between like side scrolling

1:20:24

bits Okay, and that's neat some stuff

1:20:26

on like your phone looking at different textures and

1:20:28

stuff that guy in the red coat reminds

1:20:30

me of Boogie pop phantom. Mm-hmm And

1:20:33

then the big character portraits Yeah,

1:20:36

yeah, looks cool. Actually

1:20:39

really cool

1:20:41

And that is just 2024. So cool.

1:20:44

But yeah, there it

1:20:46

is. Not bad. Yeah Not

1:20:48

bad some cool stuff in there. Mm-hmm. Not amazing,

1:20:50

but not bad Tommy I do you

1:20:52

have any thoughts overall on that for an

1:20:54

Nintendo indie world? bit

1:20:57

like

1:20:58

Yeah, I really didn't tune into it

1:21:00

and then didn't really hear there anything like big

1:21:03

news for a bit. So Yeah,

1:21:05

not much for sorry not much to really say on it. It's

1:21:08

not really my cup of tea sometimes

1:21:10

for sure

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1:24:34

we have a lot of new stuff, so this will be fun

1:24:36

to go through all the new ones. US

1:24:38

spending on content,

1:24:40

hardware, and accessories fell 5% from a

1:24:42

year ago to $4 billion. Declines

1:24:49

were experienced across all categories. The dip

1:24:52

is partially driven by

1:24:54

Call of Duty moving months. Yes, definitely.

1:24:57

That's the thing, when you have these comparisons, it's like, why'd

1:24:59

it go down? Oh, I think Call

1:25:01

of Duty moved a couple weeks and it

1:25:04

changed everything. Even when it's bad,

1:25:06

it carries. Sirkana

1:25:09

is also tracking active

1:25:11

player time now across Steam, Xbox,

1:25:13

and PlayStation. The finals

1:25:16

from Embark Studios held an open beta

1:25:19

on Steam during October, helping

1:25:21

the title rank fourth overall

1:25:24

in Steam monthly active users in

1:25:26

the US. Only Counter-Strike 2,

1:25:29

Baldur's Gate 3, and Cyberpunk 2077 were

1:25:31

higher. Crazy. For

1:25:34

a beta, yeah. Yes, for most played games

1:25:36

on Steam. It looked really cool. Alan

1:25:39

Wake 2 is not included because

1:25:42

Epic is not part of their tracking, and

1:25:46

it did not rank among the top 150 titles

1:25:50

on the active users on PlayStation,

1:25:53

Xbox, and of course, it's not

1:25:55

on Steam. Right. He

1:25:59

followed this up by... It's at the tail end of

1:26:01

the tracking period too. Yes, the only couple

1:26:03

of days. You look very alone concerned And

1:26:06

they're saying with nominations for end of

1:26:08

the year awards. It could see a boost. Yeah

1:26:11

and strong legs in November in December and Quote

1:26:15

Alan wake to would have likely benefited from

1:26:17

having a physical release in my opinion I've

1:26:22

seen a lot of people going back

1:26:24

to catch up on Alan. I won cuz they missed it

1:26:26

the first time around I feel like that's a factor. I've seen that

1:26:28

too. Yeah, yeah, give people time

1:26:30

and

1:26:31

Give it some awards shine.

1:26:34

I

1:26:35

think that game will have legs. Yeah Yeah,

1:26:38

especially now that nominations are out. Yeah

1:26:41

on hardware PS5 was the best-selling

1:26:44

hardware platform in both unit and dollar sales

1:26:46

during October Xbox ranked

1:26:48

second in dollar sales switch was second

1:26:51

in units

1:26:53

But overall video game hardware spending

1:26:55

fell Compared

1:26:58

to last year to 327 million

1:27:01

all current generation consoles experienced double-digit

1:27:04

percentage decline in dollar sales compared

1:27:07

to a year ago Year-to-day

1:27:09

hardware spending was 6% higher when compared to

1:27:11

the same period in 2022 at 4 billion dollars So

1:27:17

down for the month still up for the year They

1:27:21

said it was not surprising but likely

1:27:23

below what manufacturers are hoping for

1:27:26

So look for more discounts

1:27:28

and promotions to come Yep

1:27:31

And the market needs new Nintendo

1:27:34

hardware in 2024 still

1:27:36

projecting a second half really? Yeah

1:27:41

In terms of accessories that

1:27:43

PS 5 Controller

1:27:46

midnight black. Oh with

1:27:48

the month's best-selling accessory

1:27:51

Yeah, nice one.

1:27:52

Here's like those dual sensors are always up there. Yep

1:27:56

That's

1:27:59

Funny you ever said a lot of broken controllers

1:28:03

Alright, he grips too hard

1:28:05

Oh top 20 almost half of which

1:28:07

are new Robo cop No,

1:28:11

I saw a number Yeah, it's my

1:28:13

man. Yeah. Well, it's spider

1:28:15

man. Yeah, spider-man 2 is

1:28:19

the number one for October also instantly

1:28:22

became the fourth best-selling game of

1:28:24

the year Pretty crazy pretty

1:28:26

crazy the crazy man platform

1:28:29

spider-man his character is so

1:28:31

popular Yes, that makes sense

1:28:34

Last month dollar sales of spider-man 2

1:28:36

exceeded those of September 2018 Marvel

1:28:39

spider-man by a double digit

1:28:42

percentage Wow Nice, that's

1:28:44

insane. Just we're at a healthy install base

1:28:46

right spider-man double

1:28:48

the double the yeah, I'm not easy

1:28:52

Good point. Oh, yeah. All right. We got eight more

1:28:54

games October releases. Well Mario's

1:28:57

on there so Mario Number two.

1:28:59

Yeah, Mario's number two It

1:29:03

currently ranks as the 21st best-selling

1:29:05

game of 2023 year-to-date. However Nintendo

1:29:10

does not share digital. Nope. So that makes

1:29:12

a difference. Yeah true turn us

1:29:14

Zelda

1:29:16

Mm-hmm

1:29:17

Are you want to know where Zelda's? Yep. Okay.

1:29:19

We haven't even we haven't even gotten through the new ones But

1:29:22

uh Zelda is not there this month Are

1:29:32

you are I'm gonna

1:29:34

say cyberpunk is what I played it to

1:29:37

Cyberpunk were you gonna say something?

1:29:39

No cyberpunk Assassin's

1:29:41

Creed. Yeah Yeah, where's

1:29:44

more that please tell they did well third

1:29:46

place nice People

1:29:48

pointing that out sick. Yeah, where's Cola

1:29:51

D? Call of Duty will be next

1:29:53

month on November. No, no, no, no, I'm over for two.

1:29:55

I don't work there too. Is it 11? Oh close Oh,

1:30:01

oh, oh,

1:30:03

oh, oh, um, Oh, some new game. Oh,

1:30:07

uh, football club, not new. That's

1:30:09

in fifth place though. Oh, right. But

1:30:12

we do have sports games in the mix. Oh,

1:30:14

Madden's going to be on there and NBA

1:30:17

two K from previous

1:30:19

months. Yes. NBA is 13.

1:30:22

Madden is fourth

1:30:25

and holding strong.

1:30:27

Uh,

1:30:29

new game.

1:30:30

Cause we said Mario Sonic also came

1:30:32

out that much. Sonic is in ninth place. Oh,

1:30:35

I made it. Nice. Yep. Good for

1:30:37

Sonic.

1:30:40

We've got two sports games. And

1:30:45

uh, was forts on there.

1:30:47

Forts. Yep. 17th place. Oh,

1:30:50

coming in. Not a big debut. No, I

1:30:54

remember the game past. Yeah, I know. I

1:30:56

know. Resident

1:30:58

evil four. No, no,

1:31:00

no, no, no. No, we're going to evil four. We've

1:31:03

got four new ones still though. Who did.

1:31:06

Okay. Did

1:31:10

Metal Gear collection. Yeah. Great

1:31:12

call. And where'd it go? Wow. 12th

1:31:14

place. Power of Metal

1:31:16

Gear. Okay. Open up a little higher.

1:31:19

That's more than I thought I would have done. Yeah. That's pretty

1:31:21

good for a collection of old games.

1:31:23

That much being done. Solid one being available

1:31:25

again. I thought it was like a big deal for like

1:31:28

people our age. All right.

1:31:32

Uh, well almost there. That's two sports games still have

1:31:34

them in guest and we've got one other newbie

1:31:37

sports games, football, basketball,

1:31:39

baseball, hockey, tennis, soccer,

1:31:42

some other racing game. You did

1:31:45

wrestling. Yeah. Was it like F

1:31:47

one or the WRC

1:31:49

game or something? Uh, WRC

1:31:52

came out later. Uh, NHL 24.

1:31:54

Oh, NHL, NHL hockey

1:31:57

and UFC five UFC. The

1:32:00

not rest for you see there you got one

1:32:02

more left that multiple people on this panel

1:32:05

have played a

1:32:07

New game yeah, new game

1:32:11

Not Alan wake Hey

1:32:18

multiple people have played

1:32:21

I don't know what I play anymore. Yeah, I don't

1:32:23

know any guesses Ila I

1:32:26

Can't help this one

1:32:27

no idea no idea all right

1:32:30

no memories of anything that's ever 20th place Lords

1:32:33

of the Fallen Lord Yeah,

1:32:44

cool anything else you want to look at before

1:32:46

we go through this whole list Mario Kart yo G.

1:32:49

I'm hard is not here. Oh, yeah five for

1:32:51

real now. This is common. There's no

1:32:54

GTA five come on Thinking

1:32:58

do I'd be curious about uh, you know, so he said

1:33:00

no Mario Kart no No,

1:33:02

Zelda did what's

1:33:04

that the big one? That's been on the eldering stole

1:33:07

the list somewhere 15th Great

1:33:09

is Hogwarts on the list and

1:33:11

where can what about is armored core?

1:33:13

I remember in there no armored core dang

1:33:18

Oh All right, we'll go through

1:33:20

the go through 20th Lords

1:33:23

of the Fallen 19th Minecraft

1:33:26

oh Hanging in there. Yeah, of

1:33:28

course 18 Star

1:33:30

Wars Jedi survivors nice 17th

1:33:33

forza 16th the crew

1:33:36

motor fest Wow, okay

1:33:38

the crew 15th is Elden

1:33:40

Ring

1:33:41

14th star field

1:33:44

Drop from first place last month the fourth 14th Wow

1:33:46

13th is NBA 12th

1:33:51

is Metal Gear 11th is Modern

1:33:53

Warfare 2 10th is Hogwarts

1:33:56

9th is Sonic 8th is NHL 7 is UFC

1:34:01

6. Mortal Kombat 1. Yeah,

1:34:03

K1. Yeah. Hanging in there strong.

1:34:06

Get your microtransactions. Get them out.

1:34:08

Get them out for ed. This

1:34:10

was uh, Football Club. 4th

1:34:13

is NFL. Madden. 3 is

1:34:16

Assassin's Creed. 2 is Mario. And 1

1:34:19

is Spiderman 2. Hell of a month.

1:34:21

It says Crete. Yeah. I mean

1:34:23

it's a big franchise. The franchise is alive and kicking. Like,

1:34:26

you know, that's a

1:34:28

little surprising that it's so high up there and you

1:34:31

know people really wanted this this throwback

1:34:33

and it's. Wasn't like Odyssey the

1:34:35

highest selling one ever. Or Valhalla. Valhalla.

1:34:38

But after Valhalla for a little bit there was

1:34:40

some major fatigue going. They took a

1:34:42

bunch of years off. There was no game though. Yeah.

1:34:45

Yeah. There wasn't like a game that came out did bad.

1:34:47

Yeah. Well and it kind of shows that like

1:34:49

they can put out a smaller game and yeah maybe

1:34:52

it won't break records but people

1:34:54

are still gonna go for it. It's encouraging so hopefully

1:34:56

they continue that. Yeah.

1:34:59

Trend. It feels almost like

1:35:01

a Madden dude. They can just put out whatever. Yeah. Yeah.

1:35:05

They'll be alright. Yeah. It

1:35:07

definitely had a dip

1:35:09

after Unity. I mean they had a dip

1:35:11

but didn't die or anything

1:35:14

like that. Right. It's in no

1:35:16

danger. Zero danger. Yeah. Sir

1:35:18

Cash Cow did. Yeah. Alright.

1:35:22

I'm gonna move on to something weird here. Okay. Let's

1:35:24

get weird. You know physical stuff. You got props

1:35:26

right. He's like carrot top.

1:35:30

So no. So they sent us this stuff a

1:35:32

while back. This is the Genki

1:35:35

Alpine collection hardware.

1:35:37

So here's the thing. I don't do hardware

1:35:39

stuff. I'm not a technical guy. What is

1:35:41

going on. Yeah. What the

1:35:44

hell. But we

1:35:46

do a lot of capture right. Yeah. This is the perspective

1:35:48

of like some of you does a lot of capture.

1:35:51

Once it's like I'll check out a capture device or whatever.

1:35:54

So we got these things in.

1:35:57

Don took them home and tried to get them work and had

1:35:59

issues. and then October

1:36:01

happened. So we didn't get up there before

1:36:04

the... Yeah,

1:36:07

we'll put this guy over here for now.

1:36:10

But I don't know what you can see there. I gotta

1:36:12

go. Nice.

1:36:16

But yeah, so the Kickstarter

1:36:18

actually did really well. They got 791,000 for a 50,000 gold. Wow,

1:36:24

that's a lot. 5,500 backers.

1:36:27

And yeah, there's three devices, so I'm gonna go through one, one

1:36:29

at a time. So this is the one that we're looking

1:36:31

at right now. It's the Shadowcast 2 Pro. Shadowcast.

1:36:35

Sounds like a baller's game. Game move. It's

1:36:37

a whole character. And

1:36:40

this is gonna go for 160 retail. If

1:36:42

you're on the Kickstarter, you got like discounts and stuff

1:36:45

like that. So one

1:36:47

of the main differences is before they didn't have a pass-through.

1:36:50

So now you've got like the input

1:36:53

and then the pass-through. And then you've also

1:36:55

got mic

1:36:57

and headphones right on the unit itself.

1:37:00

Nice. So this guy, they

1:37:02

say it does up to

1:37:05

4K60. Okay. I

1:37:08

was messing around with it and I've

1:37:11

tried... One of the things

1:37:13

that's a little weird is that their app isn't updated

1:37:16

to use the new devices yet. So the only way I could really test

1:37:18

it out was with OBS. And so

1:37:21

some of this is with kind of like the

1:37:23

caveat that like, okay, I'm just trying

1:37:25

this out with my laptop. Which is a fairly

1:37:27

capable laptop. And I'm testing

1:37:29

this out versus my old Elgato

1:37:31

HD60. Like not even the S. Like the regular

1:37:34

HD60. Oh, wow. Okay. And

1:37:36

so I set up things in OBS and I

1:37:38

ran Hot Wheels and a little

1:37:40

bit of Thirsty Suiters. But Hot Wheels mainly

1:37:42

because that's a smooth 60-50 second

1:37:45

game. Yeah. And

1:37:47

I feel like

1:37:50

at 1080-60, like

1:37:53

it wasn't quite as smooth

1:37:55

as the old Elgato footage. But it was like one of those

1:37:57

things where it's like, you've got to be like... eyeballing

1:38:00

that thing and it's like I don't even know

1:38:02

like it could be just like weird like case

1:38:05

by case like Maybe if I did it five

1:38:07

minutes later, I would get a smoother result, but

1:38:09

I just like I had done several clips Yeah,

1:38:11

and it's also like pre-release.

1:38:13

Yeah Maybe they're gonna have more

1:38:16

wasn't firmware. Yeah. Yeah, I

1:38:18

think production models and stuff like that When

1:38:22

I tried I brought it in here and I tried

1:38:24

4k 60 that

1:38:28

was definitely not working with this laptop

1:38:31

sure that was not happening. Yeah It

1:38:35

wasn't too bad Honestly, like if you weren't

1:38:37

trying to be do something professional with it Like

1:38:39

if you're just gonna be like a hobby video

1:38:41

or whatever like but it was sort of

1:38:43

like it looked like you're like Even though

1:38:46

I was like seeing like a smooth 60 on screen.

1:38:48

I was getting

1:38:50

the result looks closer to like

1:38:53

Maybe 30 or maybe like a little in

1:38:55

between like maybe it was like 40 something.

1:38:57

Oh the yes. Yeah Yeah, like it was it

1:39:00

like it wasn't But

1:39:02

it wasn't like as yeah, that's pretty not as smooth

1:39:04

as is what was happening. Yeah

1:39:06

when I was playing it What

1:39:09

else I want to bring up on this thing? The

1:39:12

oh, yeah, there's you know, there's no

1:39:14

lag with the pastor's pastor is nice The

1:39:17

other thing that you can do with the pass through is that

1:39:19

like you can record in? 1080 on

1:39:22

OBS, but then be going to 4k on

1:39:24

your TV. Yeah, which is nice. Yeah Yeah,

1:39:28

the other thing I do want to say that I hope they change

1:39:30

for the final. This is the tiny

1:39:32

little cable Yeah,

1:39:35

it's really shorty little cable that they put with these

1:39:37

devices and I'm like, that's not

1:39:39

gonna do it Thankfully,

1:39:41

there's another thing that we'll get to in a minute that had a longer

1:39:44

cable So yeah,

1:39:46

so there's that That's the pro

1:39:48

the shadowcast 2 Pro Pro Now

1:39:52

this next thing is wild This

1:39:59

is the regular shadow autocast too. This

1:40:02

is a teeny baby. This is a tiny

1:40:04

teeny little baby. Oh, that

1:40:07

is funny. It goes directly into

1:40:09

the HDMI port and then the USB

1:40:12

out. Damn. Which, again, another tiny

1:40:14

little cable because the box is in this thing is tiny. I'm not

1:40:16

even going to take it out. Yeah, it looks like a little... You

1:40:18

can get an idea of how short that cable is going to be inside

1:40:20

that box. Yeah, it's like a little USB. That's

1:40:22

wild. That's wild. So,

1:40:25

yeah, so you can plug this guy in to your

1:40:28

HDMI port and then plug

1:40:30

it into your computer and OBS and capture

1:40:32

1080-60. Jeez. And

1:40:35

the results were similar to what I got with

1:40:37

the other guy in terms of the 1080-60 capture.

1:40:41

The main difference is, though, because this doesn't

1:40:43

have pass-through, you need to be playing

1:40:46

in OBS. Like, you need to be looking

1:40:48

at your laptop or your PC while

1:40:51

you're playing the game. But other

1:40:53

than that, it was fine. Yeah, it's a cool

1:40:55

little, like, maybe emergency situation or

1:40:57

something. Yeah, it's like if you need something that's really

1:40:59

portable, it's like... Yeah, that's really

1:41:02

cool, yeah. And

1:41:05

then this thing... This

1:41:08

guy... Now, this is the guy that comes with the nice beefy

1:41:10

cable. Yeah, that's good. This is beautiful. This

1:41:13

is the Covert Dock. Covert.

1:41:16

So, this thing right here plugs into the wall

1:41:18

and it also comes with all the other, like, international

1:41:20

plugs. But it does everything

1:41:24

that your Switch Dock does. So,

1:41:26

you just plug that sucker into the wall and

1:41:28

then you plug your HDMI cable in and your USB

1:41:30

cable in to your Switch

1:41:32

and you're good to go.

1:41:34

And that's all you need.

1:41:37

Whoa. You don't need the power brick, you don't need the

1:41:39

dock. Also, it works

1:41:41

with the Steam Deck. Oh. Yo.

1:41:44

And phones and iPads and stuff, too. Wow. He

1:41:47

did. This thing is sick. Yeah.

1:41:50

Some, like, real trade craft here. What?

1:41:54

Yeah. That is

1:41:56

gonna retail at $60. My

1:41:58

shit. Which compared to a new Switch Dock, that's... That's like $70

1:42:01

for a switch dock or $90

1:42:03

for the steam deck dock, which the same deck

1:42:05

doesn't come with a dog He's true.

1:42:08

Yeah, why they call it covert. How much is it?

1:42:12

And it has 4k support to for the same

1:42:14

deck shit I've bought like four

1:42:16

switch docks and a steam deck doc

1:42:19

over the years Like an idiot.

1:42:21

Yeah, and you can just stick this thing in your pocket plug it

1:42:24

into the wall. There you go There's your doc. Maybe

1:42:26

if you got big ol jinko pockets Um

1:42:29

sure, I mean you put in a backpack

1:42:31

pocket too, but it's not that big

1:42:33

Nothing ain't fitting to know lady pockets on

1:42:35

say I mean, it's smaller than his phone

1:42:38

here

1:42:39

It's pretty it's pretty

1:42:41

small. It's the width. Okay, we don't need to get

1:42:43

to it argue Yeah,

1:42:47

and they the the original cover

1:42:50

dock was like 30 watts.

1:42:52

This is 45 watts. So faster

1:42:54

charging ten away dude ten away

1:42:56

humor. Yeah I

1:42:59

have anything out of But

1:43:03

yeah, I thought I thought this thing is

1:43:05

actually pretty cool I don't know how much I would actually use it

1:43:07

but that is cool though If you didn't want to bring

1:43:09

a doc and all that crap with you, then there

1:43:12

you go

1:43:12

go on a vacation very easy. Yeah

1:43:16

Hardware reported know

1:43:19

what to do with it I was not expecting

1:43:21

a visual sound Chat

1:43:25

was like what is this an ad what's happening?

1:43:27

I'm not dad. I was like no it's not an ad just

1:43:29

impressions They let this be was just hyped on

1:43:32

it. Yeah, let us gone rogue Cool

1:43:38

I dig it. Yeah blood. Yeah the

1:43:41

blood report Gear

1:43:47

layoff this week Oh Way

1:43:50

to bring us down. Yeah, I'm sorry.

1:43:52

There's a lot Warframe developer

1:43:55

digital extremes laid off 30 as

1:43:57

they're closing their publishing division So

1:44:00

they're no longer going to be publishing other companies'

1:44:02

games. Interesting. And Wayfinder,

1:44:05

which they were going to be publishing, they returned

1:44:07

control of that to Airship Syndicate to

1:44:10

shop that around or self-publish or whatever they were going

1:44:12

to do with that. Samurai

1:44:16

Punk, the Australian developers behind

1:44:18

Screensheet, in the American

1:44:20

Dream. Where are James talking about Screensheet

1:44:23

on the stream? Yeah, they're closing

1:44:25

their doors after 10 years. Oh, man. Oh!

1:44:29

That's good! That's 9 games at all.

1:44:31

In 10 years? Yeah. Wow,

1:44:33

that's very fast. Impressive. Damn,

1:44:35

dude. Shout out, Screensheet. Shout

1:44:38

out! Long live, Screensheet. Long live, Screensheet.

1:44:40

Yeah. Amazon

1:44:42

Games is laying off 180 employees,

1:44:46

including the entirety of the Crown Channel,

1:44:49

which was one of those things that I didn't even know existed

1:44:51

until like a month ago. How does that weird

1:44:54

thing that suddenly had like a million views on

1:44:56

Twitch and everyone was like, what is this? Yeah,

1:44:58

so the Amazon G4, essentially.

1:45:01

There was high budget stuff. Like, I watched the thing that

1:45:03

like Trisha Hershberger and

1:45:06

Susie and I think Paris and

1:45:08

somebody else were on there talking

1:45:10

about Cyberpunk lore. And I was like, what

1:45:13

is this thing? I'd never heard of the channel. And

1:45:15

with super high budget, like cameras

1:45:17

on like cranes and stuff moving around

1:45:20

and like really high-end set, I'm like, what

1:45:22

is happening here? That thing just came out. Yeah,

1:45:24

I don't know when it came out. But

1:45:27

it's gone now. Jeez, that's not good.

1:45:29

Do they say anything about like New World developers or anything

1:45:32

like that? They didn't. This is

1:45:34

Amazon's second round of cuts this year though.

1:45:36

Okay, jeez. Have any expansions

1:45:38

come out for New World? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

1:45:41

Yeah, they're still bringing in stuff. They just had one pretty recently. Nice.

1:45:44

Yeah, I haven't been following. Nice. And

1:45:46

they still got Blue Protocol coming too. Yeah. They're

1:45:48

probably involved with that. Yeah. Yeah.

1:45:51

Yeah. Digital Bros, the

1:45:53

parent company of 505 Games is

1:45:56

letting go of about 30% of

1:45:57

its worth.

1:45:59

Force. Geez, what is

1:46:02

happening? And what's worse, they're

1:46:04

saying that they're now going to focus more on established

1:46:07

franchises and sequels rather

1:46:09

than new IP. I

1:46:12

mean, I get it. Doing

1:46:15

that financially. But ideally

1:46:17

you would do both. That's rough. Yeah. Yes.

1:46:20

But these are, you know, these are the guys that published

1:46:22

Bloodstained. Yeah. And

1:46:24

they do. They published Control.

1:46:27

Control. Yeah, they did publish it. So.

1:46:31

Burdle, man. Humble

1:46:33

Games also laid off employees this week, but

1:46:36

they have not confirmed the exact number. And

1:46:39

while they haven't been announced yet, it seems

1:46:42

likely that Unity will see even more layoffs.

1:46:45

Quote, though the company reported Q3

1:46:48

earnings within expectations, the

1:46:50

company says it will likely implement

1:46:52

layoffs and other measures to improve

1:46:56

profitability metrics.

1:46:59

Geez.

1:47:01

Goddamn percentage.

1:47:03

Yeah. Ripley, you

1:47:05

know. You don't see them fucking each other

1:47:07

over a goddamn percentage. Yeah. Burke.

1:47:11

Yeah, she's right. Yeah. Also

1:47:14

this week, on

1:47:16

the flip side of things, Atlas is

1:47:18

raising employees average

1:47:20

annual salary, like 15%. Hell yeah. There you

1:47:23

go. After having already raised it by 5% earlier

1:47:26

this year. Hell yeah. Way to go. And

1:47:29

they will be giving staff performance bonuses

1:47:31

based on worldwide profits. Oh.

1:47:33

The move comes in response

1:47:35

to its titles garnering worldwide recognition

1:47:38

and the need to attract and retain talent

1:47:40

to promote global expansion.

1:47:43

Global expansion. More

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