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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the CG Gamecast episode number 288, a weekly podcast screen by gamers and streamers alike to discuss the latest gaming topics from the previous week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am Mr. See if you game himself, Davis Green and with me today, I got three awesome co-hosts.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to talk to the artist's special guest.

[SPEAKER_01]: We got the awesome streamer, awesome master Lego builder, awesome Star Wars fan.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got Stake Eyes 319, how are you doing, Stake Eyes?

[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you doing well doing very well excited about this podcast.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for having me.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's been it's been an awesome year for games.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think.

[SPEAKER_04]: I also need it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's really, really good.

[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, it's been good birthdays coming up.

[SPEAKER_04]: Families coming to down for the holidays.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that's a whole thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's going to be awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, this year.

[SPEAKER_05]: it's been a whole thing like it's been a blessing but at the same time it's just like I just want to I just want to chill

[SPEAKER_04]: I've been like traveling been everywhere.

[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like this year has been awesome to me, but gaming wise, yeah, I'm excited to talk about the game tonight that I picked for sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, definitely, definitely, it's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to hear what your picks are.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it is also, I am speaking on the second, with the second seat, I got pop notes talked here on the second seat.

[SPEAKER_01]: How are you doing, Pop?

[SPEAKER_01]: How you been?

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm good.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been really good just relaxing as my break has started to take a role putting in final grades.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been enjoying the beta for Marvel Token since you know, I got my email on.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, not that I got my email on time, but just the email will be like, hey, you know, the beta's coming up again.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just like, well, I actually actually actually get to play it because it didn't send my email at the last few minutes.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I've been having fun with that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am a little bit sad that there hasn't been a training mode and I've been fighting CPUs to try and get different combos and things together Some of which do not come out in real time because people have been bashing auto combo and I just it's finding that balance That's a lot that's been very fun

[SPEAKER_01]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: At least you're enjoying your break and at least you're not at least having time to at least say, hey, you know what, I can actually just have some fun and fight in it being a fighting game for a little bit without work about the consequences.

[SPEAKER_01]: So one does that and one does that bait in today today's, well, last days today, you know, I think it's like a late midnight Pacific Standard time.

[SPEAKER_01]: So.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but now it's it's it's for it now, but the game is beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, and I think it hold it definitely holds its own for a different kind of finding a game, but it's like I just feel like they need more of a reason to tag.

[SPEAKER_01]: but it seems like the game it's that they're trying to make it try well the first beta there was absolutely no reason but i think they're trying to balance it to a point where it will be like hey they're going to reward you if you do things like that but that's how i feel like right now they're just not there yet i don't think so uh but uh it's really good but but you know what pop what

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the person who I am pretty sure is going to be is going to be choosing a ridiculous game of the year this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: I really feel like it will, it's going to be the five star general of the 80.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's really kidding me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got some video to learn.

[SPEAKER_01]: See what's going on by David.

[SPEAKER_03]: Chillin' my friend just getting through.

[SPEAKER_03]: I literally hit the bear's packer's game is happening next to me.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I've been, if you see me peeking, I apologize.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm kind of doing my best here.

[SPEAKER_03]: Seven, three packers are up.

[SPEAKER_03]: So we're in it.

[SPEAKER_03]: almost half time.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, but I, you know, I love this episode.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love it when we get to just kind of sit back and talk about the games that we played over the past year, what we enjoyed.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and a lot of times we find that they're not the bigger games, but like little hidden gems that.

[SPEAKER_03]: we've enjoyed throughout the year.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm excited to talk about that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Other net though, just kind of getting into the holiday spirit.

[SPEAKER_03]: We got the trivia.

[SPEAKER_03]: We went saw Santa already.

[SPEAKER_03]: We went saw parade.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like we've been getting it in son.

[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, no, we we we kicked it off our.

[SPEAKER_03]: We still have a little bit of decorating to do.

[SPEAKER_03]: We got to get the light itself outside and whatnot, but a good a good strong solid start there.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, again, thank you guys for us being able to come together yesterday and get down on cosmic invasion.

[SPEAKER_03]: I had a ton of fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: That was a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, that was a fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to release it to release that as a game play thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, with it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, one of my favorite is the ones with, with Papa Celia.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, don't touch that.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is going to do the first thing that you do.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, you be lying straight at it and like don't tell me what to do with it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so grateful.

[SPEAKER_01]: What do you want me to do?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, oh my god.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're like the kid.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be like,

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, this is hot.

[SPEAKER_01]: Prove it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do we?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to go out.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see you about that.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see how hot this really is.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: I am that kid.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is so funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: What about you, dude?

[SPEAKER_01]: That was your week, mate.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so I'm not going to say basically because you already know a toy's busy for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the biggest thing is, though, I just went ham on candles, essentially.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just made the past two or three days.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've gone to like, bath the body works.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've been to freakin' the 80 candle.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've been to so many different places.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like, I literally bought probably over 30 candles now at this point.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is insane.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, why you don't need that man?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you're selling or for gifts.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, a little bit of a hoot, a little bit of a hoot, a little bit of a hoot.

[SPEAKER_01]: But really, like, I just, like,

[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm real, if I'm a 100% real to myself, I probably bought like 10, maybe 11 candles for myself, the rest of them, it's just every chance to give them for gifts because it's like, this is the cheapest cat that is the cheapest that they are and I like buying in bulk, it's like, and in the middle, just so I don't know you will never see me at the back of the body works until about me December next year.

[SPEAKER_03]: Say, you know, he's not going to need is a candle next year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's exactly that's it pretty much did and you don't you want suck though I'd maybe take that back because next next week there's another sale and bet the body works and I have to go to but we'll see

[SPEAKER_01]: That's for James, so I have been playing a lot of Marvel Tocon, the Tocon battle.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait.

[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with Pop.

[SPEAKER_01]: I really wish it was a practice mode or a tutorial mode or something that allows you to kind of just do your own thing, but I understand it's a beta and they're wanting everyone to come.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a test for them to see how the net code is, so I understand it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've been playing that and that I have to say is really fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a great thing yeah, I don't know I even heard about that or maybe vaguely went like a damn dude like a

[SPEAKER_03]: last airman or fighting game, they announced a video month ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and the they took it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and yeah, and it's like the style of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's surprisingly good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like it reminds me of the game style that isn't like this, but the style, the gameplay art style.

[SPEAKER_01]: where my kind of might be of a hand drawn art in the fighting game is very rare.

[SPEAKER_01]: It reminds me of skull girls, because skull girls was like that when it comes to like being drawn and stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just thinking like, man dude, this is freaking great.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then how they're trying to make it like, like I was saying though.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I was playing like the avatar, avatar beta, which is freaking awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait to mess around with it more.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait for it to come out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've get a release date, but it's gonna look.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be nice So But it was a million don't want to talk about us trying to figure out why it might compare the side of the crap out the way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Just did Let's go through the normal regular rule that we like to do each and every week.

[SPEAKER_01]: So each of us

[SPEAKER_01]: chooses a topic of discussion in the world of video games, usually, but not today.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is going to be a different kind of episode, as always, this is our last episode of 2025.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we always like to do something special.

[SPEAKER_01]: We like to just do a normal round table discussion about what our own personal game of the year, years are to us individually.

[SPEAKER_01]: and we always have a guest to come by also give theirs.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this what time we're just going to choose the uh we usually we there's no order to what we think our game of the years are but we do choose three games and we have played this year uh of what we would say.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh these are the best that I played this year and I wanted to show to say why?

[SPEAKER_01]: So, and if we have one, we don't necessarily have one, but if you do have one, if you have the worst one that you would say that you were really underrated, that you think there was the worst game that you played this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, we'll go in in the round table discussion.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'll start off with our very special guest.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'll start with

[SPEAKER_04]: So the way I want to do this is like release date, so I'm going to go from like beginning of the year and then to the end first game here's a hammer watch to it indie game real like pretty much played every month in playing for like a community night type of thing with other streamers.

[SPEAKER_04]: It came out in January.

[SPEAKER_04]: And as it dropped, I think the first time I played it, I set it openly and I said, this is gonna be indie game of the year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like this is for me.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is indie game of the year because it was perfect.

[SPEAKER_04]: And this was January.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it was beginning of the year.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I don't even know what else was coming out or what I was hyped for.

[SPEAKER_04]: But as the year went on, I had nothing toped it for me.

[SPEAKER_04]: It fulfilled everything that I wanted it to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even know as on my radar until a buddy told me about it and downloaded it, and then I was hooked and play.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've played over hundreds of hours now on it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: First off, it's so good.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've seen you stream it multiple times, but I just didn't know what it was.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was so like, yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to install you.

[SPEAKER_01]: There were times I saw that was like, I should check this out.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so it's like, you go in, there's a couple of different classes.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think there's like seven or eight classes that you can pick from.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you go in to say think of Hades, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Like you go in, you try to get as far as you can.

[SPEAKER_04]: And

[SPEAKER_04]: As you die, you come back, you level up, you get unlocks, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: You unlock your skill points, you get new weapons, new things that you find out and every run that you do, and you just get better as you go on.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then as you get better, you're also collecting resources for your little town that you build and over time your town becomes like a major city where you can get new weapons

[SPEAKER_04]: upgrading like your, your totems and stuff that you can get inside the game as you're battling through each level.

[SPEAKER_04]: And to me, solo playing is a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_04]: I downloaded it on my, my steam deck that can play it easily from there.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then I also, you know, of course, PC as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: And playing with people is the way to do it in my opinion.

[SPEAKER_04]: We modded it to where we can have, I think, 20 people.

[SPEAKER_04]: Normally you only have four, so it actually scales up, so you'll get more enemies, more boss fights that are more difficult and you make your way through and then more recently.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's about two months ago in September, they released an update for, like say, new game plus.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they added new maps that you can do after, after you can complete the whole run through once.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then you can just go on to these little dungeons and do like,

[SPEAKER_04]: special bosses and stuff that will give you specific year that you can continue wanting to keep going.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it's pretty much repetitive gameplay, but it's always different because there's always new enemies.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's always the way the map is laid out.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's a little different each time.

[SPEAKER_04]: secrets and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, that's my first game of the year came out in January.

[SPEAKER_04]: Second, it's due to awakening.

[SPEAKER_04]: I had to put this on here because when it dropped, I could not stop playing.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'd like three, three hundred plus hours of

[SPEAKER_04]: And this is playing it, exploring the map.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think when you get to Deep Desert, it does get a little more competitive, and I think now more recently, the player-based has dropped quite a bit.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's not as many people playing anymore, but road map, they're supposed to have an update in quarter one of next year.

[SPEAKER_04]: That supposed to be a thing chapter three, because chapter two came out a few months ago.

[SPEAKER_04]: as well that's continued the storyline.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you play the story of it, it's, in my opening, the story was actually pretty good.

[SPEAKER_04]: I liked it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I finished to the end to where it takes you to deep desert and it's kind of like, all right, you know, you're on thing now, right, kind of thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: it's pretty cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's neat.

[SPEAKER_04]: The way they're doing the updates and putting quality of life updates out is really good because I feel like a lot of people have been waiting for like say transferring water was clicking multiple times just to transfer like a little bit of water to your canteen.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it was like, all right, come on guys, we need something that we can just click one by and just fill it off, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: And then they started implementing those types of things and it's been really cool.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I've been playing for a good while, you know, knock on wood here, but, um, did you kill the worm?

[SPEAKER_05]: I think you cannot.

[SPEAKER_04]: So you cannot kill the worm.

[SPEAKER_04]: They, they said there might be a possibility in future updates that you will be able to fight them in, like, say, raids, um, but we have, we haven't even yet to see any any development in that,

[SPEAKER_04]: It reminds me of if you've ever seen men of black where they have like the circular wheel where they sit inside that it looks like that for too much.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly exactly and you just you write around the desert and just in that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I'm disappointed in myself that I have not gotten back and I have not put in nearly as much time as I've wanted to into this game.

[SPEAKER_01]: These games are tough to kind of like these were commitment kind of games.

[SPEAKER_01]: They are.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, these are that you just can't be like, okay, let me just finish it for the story.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just it's continual, man.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I'm afraid to try one of these.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it gets really a dick thing too because you'll start building your base and then you're like, oh, I can have this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I could do this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, there's a new there's a new building part that came out.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, let me try it on my on my on like a new building and then you just keep going and it just piles it piles up and then collecting water is the thing, right, because you're in the desert, right, and that's a big part of the game.

[SPEAKER_04]: So once you start collecting water, there's different ways you collect water.

[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like the game's been out for a while, so there's like dead stills where you collect bodies, and then it extracts water.

[SPEAKER_04]: But that's towards like more end game stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then the flying the flying is incredible.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think they did a great job with like the doctors being able to just glide around if you want to.

[SPEAKER_04]: They did, they do like limitations with them.

[SPEAKER_04]: So which is really good.

[SPEAKER_04]: So people can like exploit things.

[SPEAKER_04]: I remember when it first launched, people were just going into desert and just running people over with them.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was the thing for Ohio.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, people hated it because it's a meta, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Like you just run people over and that's it.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's your PVP, but they did up taking that out within like a couple of months.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're like, okay, you can't squash players anymore.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to be a community of guys, stop it, just come on guys, that's not what it was for, but we get it, but yeah, just don't

[SPEAKER_04]: The other cool thing about it was that the deep desert the map changed every every week.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it wipes, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: So you go out in the deep desert and your buildings and everything that you create if you do it solo or as a community as a guild.

[SPEAKER_04]: All that stuff just gets wiped.

[SPEAKER_04]: So the pain the butt was bringing all your supplies back to like your normal save area outside of the deep desert.

[SPEAKER_04]: And they're implementing now carriers where you can carry carry supply boxes back and forth out of the deep desert and a lot of people I think that's going to bring a lot of people back because it was it was just a pain where you have to bring your resources take all your equipment.

[SPEAKER_04]: See, that's real time, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's real people's time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like you can't come home from working and be like, okay, let me go quickly.

[SPEAKER_01]: you want to play it out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just watching the video, and I'm like, this is just ridiculous, dude.

[SPEAKER_01]: These sizes of these, the first time I saw what I was so scared.

[SPEAKER_05]: I did not touch my feet on the sand for like a good while.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is how my calo players, that's how the figure says.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's how

[SPEAKER_04]: So that was my second game of the year and then more recently a game that I had been waiting for for

[SPEAKER_04]: years.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can say, um, it's about a field six.

[SPEAKER_04]: Um, I have not stopped playing battlefield six.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do and I have to go back.

[SPEAKER_04]: So do and I still set aside time for the power of my base to keep the guild base running and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: But that's pretty much it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I haven't gone back to doing a while.

[SPEAKER_04]: Just just to maintain everything, uh, because battlefield six dropped in October.

[SPEAKER_04]: And

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it's a quick question for you, though.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here's a quick question for you.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, were you a, were you a, were you on all in on cod for a long period of time before Battlefield 6 or like was this something or when six, I know you've been waiting for six.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this whole time.

[SPEAKER_01]: But since Battlefield's been kind of in its role for years.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you ever play like cod like where you up to dates on cod as well?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: So the modern warfare I will play a good amount for good while multi-player mostly.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't really get into the VR stuff a lot.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, VR is for me.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's cool to jump into a game with the squad and like go to your thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: But for me multiplayer, I just I can sit there for hours and play multiplayer either in

[SPEAKER_04]: the battlefield series, I would say the first first person shooter that I ever played was Battlefield 2 and that started my my FPS grind.

[SPEAKER_04]: And so from Battlefield 2 to Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Battlefield 1, play them all, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: 2042, we don't talk about that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Just kind of happened.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think a game that Battlefield needs to look back on is Battlefield 2142.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was the future mistake version.

[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like it gets overlooked and underrated with the Battlefield series.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was more.

[SPEAKER_04]: uh, mex, there was involved, you know, the tanks were more advanced because it was way in the future.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can see them taking what they've done with Battlefield 6 and making, say, uh, 2242, like even more advanced one.

[SPEAKER_04]: And if they do that, what the way they're doing Battlefield 6 with Battlefield labs, um, getting feedback from players, making sure that, you know, it runs smoothly

[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like if they do that for 2142 or a version of it for futuristic warfare, that would be awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: Battlefield 6, I was part of Battlefield Labs.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I could say.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can say that and I got to actually put feedback in for the game, which was really cool and being able to be a part of that process.

[SPEAKER_04]: made me love the game even more, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Not saying that that's why it's my one of my games of the year.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's just that it came out, the baby came out perfect, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty much what happened.

[SPEAKER_04]: And Battlefield 6 hits all the spots.

[SPEAKER_04]: There are still things, you know, minor things out there.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're matchmaking doesn't always work the way that you expected to.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I haven't had any real major issues with hacking, but I know that's a big thing in their red sec version, which is, you know, there's the other side of things.

[SPEAKER_04]: Um, I don't, I don't, I've played red sec.

[SPEAKER_04]: I still think battlefields should just focus on what they're good at, which is big game modes, which is conquest breakthrough, you know, those types of things.

[SPEAKER_04]: Escalacinousers is a new mode that they have

[SPEAKER_04]: that's pretty fun as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: Um, but when you have like 48 players 64 player maps, I feel like that's where, where they shine.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's where.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's where it comes to the last Battlefield that I was about to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I played the last Battlefield I played was Battlefield 3.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that's good one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was but that's the one that I put everything to the bar to people say four is good too I Yeah, but then so really it's the limit that that bar after four when they decide to go do their weird thing when they switched over the battlefield one Was it one What were one Yeah, trying to went a skew for for for for the deal, but

[SPEAKER_01]: But from the most part, like I've been trying, I tried 24, uh, well, some figures says that 242 was a great one when they fixed it, but who's too late?

[SPEAKER_01]: Is that the one you were referring to or?

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, that's 20, so 242.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that's the one that came out during COVID, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: I think he was sharing COVID to drop.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I had the controversy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's no, no, no, no.

[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're a weird.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and, and it took a while for them to like,

[SPEAKER_04]: tune it perfectly.

[SPEAKER_04]: So towards the end, I would say like within the past couple years, like two years may be, it got better.

[SPEAKER_04]: I want to say we've got to a point where it's like great, but it got to a point where it was playable for people, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: When it first dropped, it was

[SPEAKER_04]: It wasn't playable.

[SPEAKER_04]: It really wasn't.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let's be honest.

[SPEAKER_04]: It wasn't playable.

[SPEAKER_04]: They, I feel like they just rushed it.

[SPEAKER_04]: They were like, oh, new battlefields coming out.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're without the people, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think that was the first time they actually tried, you know, even bigger scale where there's over like 120 people on a map, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: And that's, again, it's kind of kind of chaotic chaotic for that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Really.

[SPEAKER_04]: Um,

[SPEAKER_04]: But now with six, they actually just hired back a lot of the old game devs from Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, they're all coming back.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're like, okay, we wanna be a part of this now because you've actually done something.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think what they do with Battlefield 6 was they like, I mean, they just chose a lot of wins.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think the primary one,

[SPEAKER_01]: was that they got Vince Vincenpella a part of it and that dude, if you don't know who Vince Vincenpella is, you know who Vince, you played his games.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean like you've played like he created apex apex, when it was, when it originally came in, he did the Star Wars series, the Star Wars uh, what's it called?

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember right now, fallen into the other, fallen order, all that old stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: He did what's it called?

[SPEAKER_01]: The the game before apex, that was in the same universe,

[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, and fall hi and fall.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: I came right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean this dude this dude wins I mean like he knows and he knows what exactly what gamers are doing and then when they gave him the keys for a battlefield You know it's fine when I said like oh, yeah, you know these games and I couldn't even name one game

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so I'm just saying that like they chose a right guy to do it and and he knew what they were needing what what what about if he'll need it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, given the fact that the that battlefield is basically giving the I want you to say the bare minimum, but is listening to the feedback of what people are saying that they what they want in these kind of games and they're listening and they actually made

[SPEAKER_01]: maybe do some tweaks like the like how the weapon how the weapon dispersements are different a little bit but that but at the same time it's like this is what people are doing wanting for battlefield again.

[SPEAKER_03]: So let's just give it up and hey it's finally a proper next gen battlefield I feel it is you know and and you're right they didn't have to do a lot because I feel like it's a night and day difference from 242 to battlefield six and again I'm not huge into the battlefield.

[SPEAKER_03]: uh... maybe another i'm not sure but uh... you know i i i can tell even playing out like this is out like this is a good it's a play it's a beta i was like this is a great game i wanted to play up i just didn't have i have the time i knew i knew that i would do it the same i would do like call a duty or anything i'd play for like a week and never pick it back up you know so i think

[SPEAKER_04]: So let's look like I know you were talking about cod like I tried I tell people I try not to compare the two Maybe you know, you can't you completely different animals, you know, like it one's more arcade style the other one's a little more strategic And you have big scale battles and you have small right, so it's kind of it's really hard to compare that to

[SPEAKER_01]: The way I would compare it would be cod to cod though because like cod the I remember was monwarfare and the original like maybe block out I think I saw that block up black ops two two or three And but then when you see what where it where it like evolved to it just makes me sad

[SPEAKER_01]: is it really does because like it's just like it was about like a like I mean the story was not really a big thing but it was something you know and it was really more of a the grounded story of something like a military base or or something like that or an operation of some sort but then now when you do things when you have skins of things like Seth Rogan, Megan the stallion that we do stuff like that you kind of

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you kind of defeat the purpose of like, oh wow, you lost it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You lost it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then this story mode of whatever cod seven is is that everyone's all meaning about about like a giant Michael Rooker is just saying, you know, it's like, yeah, that's true.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, normally for every cod game, I played the beginning of it, you know, except for this last one because I played the beta and I didn't feel it right like it wasn't it wasn't for me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'll play it and then once those skins start coming out, where it's like, and he may not just out there, there's, you know, Snoop Dogg, there's, like you say, Seth Rilgin, it's like, I'm done.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, it's like, what do you do, whatever, like, she's been like, I can't do this anymore.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, some figures I think question, you probably are the best person to say, did you play a lot of it, but did BF ever get 64 V 64 working?

[SPEAKER_04]: certain maps certain maps.

[SPEAKER_04]: So like the bigger scale conquest map, 6464 is perfect.

[SPEAKER_04]: It works really smooth because people are always rotating, squads are always rotating.

[SPEAKER_04]: When it comes to like smaller maps or mid-sized maps, the cool thing they did in one of the more recent updates is they

[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, and now it feels, it feels perfect.

[SPEAKER_04]: It feels really nice.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's not, I mean, there's still chaos everywhere.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's always rockets flying past you're building, blowing up next to you.

[SPEAKER_04]: But it's not like, you know, you have an alleyway and 20 people start piling through it, you know?

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not, it's not like that anymore.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I feel like when they do the big scale battles, the 64 or 64 works because those maps

[SPEAKER_04]: it takes it'll take you if you decided to walk it would take you good 10 20 minutes walk across the map if you wanted to.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, that was good picks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you have any any ones that that you that you play that you're like out that you were disappointed in playing this year?

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, just a pointing that was so hard.

[SPEAKER_04]: I

[SPEAKER_04]: I really couldn't pick one, maybe if you guys know hyperlite breakers, that came out, yeah, they came out of January.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they came out of January and they they discontinued it right now, I think, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: They stopped the element on it or they're taking it off because it didn't, it didn't hit right.

[SPEAKER_04]: But it was really cool when I dropped there was like you have a really cool concept here.

[SPEAKER_04]: This could be a lot of fun as a rogue like

[SPEAKER_04]: as well, and they dropped the ball at it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I was like, the first one seemed a lot better, but like, something about it just didn't not tune in.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was for me that the combat didn't feel as clean as it should have, and I really thought they were going to make updates to it for like the melee builds and stuff like that for it to be smoother.

[SPEAKER_04]: The combat seemed a little wonky, and I think they never really

[SPEAKER_04]: to what it needed to be and I feel like once it dropped there's, you know, the big hype for it for the first like couple months and then everyone was like okay, once the new stuff coming out when are we getting good updates and then nothing ever happened.

[SPEAKER_01]: So.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that's fair.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's unfortunate because like do like I said hyper the hyper life drifter was a really good game was a fun fun game, but the sequel.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was a lot of fun because you can play like here.

[SPEAKER_04]: You can jump off.

[SPEAKER_04]: You can play with other people.

[SPEAKER_04]: So playing with my buddies just going and doing boss battles.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was difficult.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was very difficult because the way the combat worked.

[SPEAKER_04]: But we made it work for us, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Like, all right, if this is in working this fight, and that's showing on the screen there, that's absolutely nuts.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's like the great bosses that you've come through.

[SPEAKER_04]: it took us like a couple days.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's just for the first boss.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's really cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: I like it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's just, it didn't go the way that we thought and it kind of sucked.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that's my game that could have been something great this year, but they didn't come through with it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do want to put one game that I really wanted to put up there as a single player game and it's a vow of out.

[SPEAKER_04]: I really wanted to put that on my list because I played that I sat down on my Xbox on my TV and it was just one sitting.

[SPEAKER_05]: I couldn't stop playing it was so good.

[SPEAKER_05]: It was so good.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was so good.

[SPEAKER_05]: I could not stop playing that game.

[SPEAKER_05]: That was.

[SPEAKER_05]: You took that thing over.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: That was good.

[SPEAKER_05]: That sounds like that was over number two, Jesus.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, honestly, like a valid really, really hit the spot for me for it for because it's a game that I, it's a couch game for me, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Like I can just say, just play with it and just show them play with it and that's a game that I really want to go back and actually, I rarely go and do replays of games.

[SPEAKER_04]: But that's the game I totally would.

[SPEAKER_01]: on the black and white mentioned is a valid.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so that's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's so cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, though, that definitely keep that within mind.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: What about to you pop your up next?

[SPEAKER_01]: So what are, what are some of the, your, your game of the years of this year that you came into.

[SPEAKER_02]: So my favorite games first up.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is a no particular favorite order.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is just release order.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, once again, once again, I know you said you had the honorable mentions.

[SPEAKER_01]: Once again, the honorable mentions first before you go to that point.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's take a look at the honorable mentions.

[SPEAKER_02]: We'll go to Warriors Abist and Monster Hunter Rounds Warriors Abist.

[SPEAKER_02]: I first, I was like, oh, this is a really cool chill game, but like the more and more I played it, I was like, I really want to speedrun this game.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it's also like the game that kind of broke me out of, even now I'm just like maybe I wasn't burnt out from rogulates.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was just tired of how they were set up with the similar formula.

[SPEAKER_02]: Where's it this and even blaze bootenship effect, even when that came out.

[SPEAKER_02]: like two years ago, those games don't use the same formula.

[SPEAKER_02]: You have different characters.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can play as different builds you can use.

[SPEAKER_02]: But the worries about there are so many different gameplay styles for each character, like with the speed friend that I'm doing at Yuzuru Chou, I really like how her gameplay looks.

[SPEAKER_02]: She can shoot not only shoot, but she flips over enemies as she shoots some similar terrain as you got in gameplay, as well as you know

[SPEAKER_02]: I see Smitty is like smiling as I'm talking about the game because he knows how exciting it is.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like it does not matter what character you play.

[SPEAKER_02]: They feel and move so differently that every time I play with a different character, it does not play the same.

[SPEAKER_01]: To be fair, everyone in this room except for me has played this game, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think all you'll have, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I have not.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have not, but I've watched Smitty play a ton of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: he streamed it that I watched it.

[SPEAKER_05]: It looks like a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is a ton of fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's crazy on how many different kinds of styles there are in this game.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, yeah, it's meaty, it's meaty.

[SPEAKER_02]: And all the characters are free.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's right.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is very cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, but you have to pay for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not really, I mean, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: You paid out of the cosmetic.

[SPEAKER_02]: You paid, listen, you buy the game.

[SPEAKER_02]: You get all the characters.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was your local DLCs that came out for it?

[SPEAKER_04]: Or is it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: All the DLC characters are free.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh.

[SPEAKER_02]: Did you a total of 119 characters?

[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's incredible.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so funny to me that it's just crazy.

[SPEAKER_01]: When I see Pop play it, because I know she's been getting ready for the speed run for it, I'm just like, wow, this is just too much.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is too much for me, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so what you said, monster under wild is going to be, it was one you said.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, another honorable mention, I don't really have a lot of multiplayer games that I play with my friends outside of fighting games if you would consider that multiplayer.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, on the PvP thing and in like PSO.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll get this on it.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you said not to talk about my games of the year yet.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: So with wild.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like.

[SPEAKER_02]: monster hunter as a franchise and I had to miss out on writers because of the obvious erected boss on like wilds that has like the semi erected let me there there's still a recnits and they don't figure me as much but which is surprising this one's more scarier than the right one and rise actually had eight legs from what I was told.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've never seen it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I would just remember being in a friend stream.

[SPEAKER_02]: I heard him scream.

[SPEAKER_02]: He has a rectophobia.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just going to look away.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not going to look.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I'm just, that's just gonna look away.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know that screen.

[SPEAKER_02]: But even though Wild has, she's like, I know people would talk about, you know, the game being super easy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like that with some of the collaborations that they've had, like the one right now with the FF14 boss, like that's still available when I think that's just gonna be, you know, in the game forever.

[SPEAKER_02]: I look forward to like,

[SPEAKER_02]: future collab that they're having.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know there's an update coming up soon.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't feel as rushed to pace myself to level up in that game and grind as I did.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, maybe I was just a crackhead with the world.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so because like

[SPEAKER_01]: world was just tougher what do it was like like I felt that world I was saving my life away.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you had to do a lot just to keep yourself a lot like just to keep yourself like you know up in and prevalent on your You know the spheres everything needs to be Yeah, and as well as like you know your abilities your your You know all these every kind of things wilds feels like

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't need to worry about that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I didn't even do sphere upgrades until like I don't mean I don't think I even have a full set of spheres upgrades yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: When I think about it, I was like until until I had to fight the Omega weapon, the Omega weapon was actually a tough one to fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: And uh...

[SPEAKER_01]: And Sergio, Sergio's was annoying too, if I remember correctly.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, those two really made it really annoying.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, but that no, it just, it was like, I think world was a different time compared to what Wilds is now, Wild is catering more for the introduction for newer people in newer classes.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's what makes people who have been playing monster hunter.

[SPEAKER_01]: a little bit sad.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a bad game.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not it's just that the difficulty level has gotten has just gone drastically lower in such a short period of time.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a fast time that people are not ret wasn't ready for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then they're all hyped because I mean hyped for it and it's not

[SPEAKER_01]: What they were expecting it to be because after you play worlds because Ryze was never really the one that was supposed to be the the next, you know Placement of world it was this was supposed to be the replacement of worlds when you what we got was like wow, okay This is it sounds like a

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I mean, no, but the rise, you're right, I mean, Wilders is a good, is a good game.

[SPEAKER_01]: Beautiful game, though, too.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's very pretty, and I love playing with my for eyed eyed let's cap on.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you're watching this, I was missing for several months because I needed a new capture card.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't need my squads being given away to someone random.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's in there.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's not fair.

[SPEAKER_02]: with my tears.

[SPEAKER_02]: I would say blood, but no blood was shed with my tears.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I didn't even know the dip that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know that like, so if you're out for a period of time, they'll, they will allow you to get into it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's weird.

[SPEAKER_02]: If it's if it's public, if it's said to private or like invite only you're still like the leader of it, but the the anyone can join so long as they find it they're like, oh, this person's gone.

[SPEAKER_02]: We got to keep this public.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's move it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't gone by choice.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's wild.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there you go.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some monster and wilds is um, it was a knowledgeable mention.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: So what are your games of the year?

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, uh, going in release order first.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have Dynasty Warriors origins.

[SPEAKER_02]: The game was absolutely gorgeous.

[SPEAKER_02]: I look I'm a sucker for a good UI.

[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't realize it until metaphor came out.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, you know what?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm very shallow when it comes to how a game looks like if I don't like, if I don't like a certain aesthetic, I probably won't play the game.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, warriors, the game is very pretty.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like the deposit in you, the map and just being able to like ride your horse to go to different places.

[SPEAKER_02]: I really like how it's more so like a soft reboot of this series.

[SPEAKER_02]: that lets you see the perspectives of the three kingdoms or, you know, the three the the three factions that were available.

[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't realize that there were like hard cut scenes for each route.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm just like, okay, maybe I could actually save this person and you know, get like a bad ending and save history.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I want to say who, but I kept trying to save the same person and I'm like, thanks and visible all.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a permanent cut scene.

[SPEAKER_02]: Where is this voice?

[SPEAKER_00]: Where is this voice?

[SPEAKER_02]: I love the weapon choices.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was a huge fan of the giant circular blades.

[SPEAKER_02]: I forget their names at the moment, I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_02]: But they were super fun to use.

[SPEAKER_02]: Great for AOE attacks, and that's what I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, the story itself was very interesting, uh, Koi Tekbo team that you always has this interesting way of when they do, like, any historical fiction, uh, base games.

[SPEAKER_02]: They have the, you know, the mysterious protagonist.

[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, as someone who not only teaches music, but as music history.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I know so many things.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm always wondering, like, how are they going to fit this random mysterious protagonist in the background?

[SPEAKER_02]: And they, they have such a unique and fun way of, uh,

[SPEAKER_02]: Putting the player into the game, especially when we're able to, you know, design our own protectors and like their other titles, such as Neo or Walaam.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, I had a ton of fun with Dynasty Warriors.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was gorgeous.

[SPEAKER_02]: The gameplay was smooth.

[SPEAKER_02]: I actually thought about speedrunning this game at one point, but that got tabled because the following month

[SPEAKER_02]: was the release of like a dragon.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Yakuza, and Hawaii, and I actually do it ended up doing a speedrun of that game.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I kind of had to balance the two.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just like, uh, sorry, but I'm kind of a Yakuza speedrunner.

[SPEAKER_02]: I can do that a few more years later.

[SPEAKER_02]: But, um, no, it was a beautiful game.

[SPEAKER_02]: Beautiful techniques, fun gameplay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I definitely want to go through it again.

[SPEAKER_02]: Only because I'm not sure if they're, you know, they might do something else.

[SPEAKER_02]: They have DLC coming out in January.

[SPEAKER_02]: Whether they're adding some new weapons, sorry Mike.

[SPEAKER_02]: I might take that as the chance to go back and experiment with the new weapons that they have.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, sounds good.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm using some of these review for the video for the video.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I have nothing to say.

[SPEAKER_01]: I will have already said what I thought about Dice Warrior Games.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, but it's probably with a degree with you, essentially, because he's a hardcore Dice Warriors fan too, or me so fan in general.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, now specifically Moosa wise, that's the only game that you really played right like Moosa wise like you're not playing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've just been a huge I've always been a fan of 90s, you Warriors since I was younger.

[SPEAKER_03]: I played I used to play with my buddy so my sentiment is is the same as as pops here with this so and I'll talk more when it's my turn about it, but yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I will say the character read designs were just a nice chef's kiss.

[SPEAKER_02]: I somewhere, you know, obviously they got prettier and others, I'm just like, oh, you know, they really look like the villain, you know, it's a true look of a villain.

[SPEAKER_02]: As I mentioned before, this next game up is like a dragon pariochas in Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know a lot of people were kind of upset about this release because they're like, oh, the story is goofy with whatever.

[SPEAKER_02]: Me personally, I don't care.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was fun.

[SPEAKER_02]: The game play was fun.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like speed running it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was more so intrigued by the fact that they decided to not only have a game that starred Marjuma, but a game that has two different fighting cells, so they had the mad dog and then the

[SPEAKER_02]: see dog I think Mad Dog, see dog, something with it, um, and with the to the see dog has a very interesting kit, that's not only fun to use, but it's kind of like a core part of using that kit for the speedrun, so there's like a hook.

[SPEAKER_02]: The enemy is like to spread for out,

[SPEAKER_02]: whenever you have like those cluster battles or they come in attack you in the cloister and I like to hook them so because they like to run away and try and shoot at you.

[SPEAKER_02]: The story itself can't say too much without spoiling I will say that the for me, the ending was a nice touch.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know some people like expect.

[SPEAKER_02]: some sort of realism, I personally enjoyed some of the, some sort of realism of the Yakuza game, though?

[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we're just completely annoying the fact that Q's been shot stab multiple times in a still alive somehow.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'd not to mention how them intimidate, but the Millennium Tower blew up in the very first game and he still alive, but you know, that's a talk for it every day.

[SPEAKER_02]: I really had a lot of fun with this game.

[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't get a chance to do all the other style games as much.

[SPEAKER_02]: I really, and this is gonna be a shock today is because he's heard me talk about this, but like, Kingdom Hearts.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like the ship battles.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_02]: I really like the ship battles.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is not because of the mechanics.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the crewmates that you can have.

[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, I had to do many games and stuff to unlock them, but they have the sheet man and a chicken man and as you're like on the boat, you're like, you're crew like making noises and stuff as they fight and it's just so funny to hear them in the background.

[SPEAKER_02]: You could also have like carry you and each of mine if you get like the the the.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not necessarily a DLC, it's like an ultimate packing or whatever, but if you get that, you can see them fight as you do different like ship battles and you board the other ship that you're fighting and you just see them like knock and kick.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like other pirate crew members out and it's so fun and funny to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: I kind of hope K&M hearts for there are gummy battles that

[SPEAKER_02]: something like that happens where I can just see, you know, many miles, you know, on the guns of the ship, just ready to blast someone or cloud, you know, you know, something make it interesting.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, gummy battle for me, even as an adult.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's just a little bit weird to me that they,

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the gummy bells are terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I mean, it was a small thing of a lot of things.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, I'm not a, I'm not a Kingdom Hearts fan at all, but the, uh, the whole thing is,

[SPEAKER_01]: The battle, I'm just saying to compare the battles to that to this game, I don't know, like, can you, is the real question?

[SPEAKER_01]: Because like, they did the better.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, in terms of traveling, like for traveling, may it was not tedious to travel.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, obviously, when if I'm speedrunning and I'm traveling, I can't just do ship battles at a waste time.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have to save the game and load the save file to make the enemies disappear.

[SPEAKER_02]: But if I'm casually playing and going through, you know, you get items along the way, I can see some doffing and wells hopping out on the water.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then if my boat is super duper strong, you know, I can just ram into a ship, but it just sinks.

[SPEAKER_02]: But

[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know, maybe it's because of like hearing the different characters say things throughout the travels that made it a little bit more interesting for me outside of the gummi ship and you just hear the gummi ship noises as a shooting, you know, the PPPPPPP and I don't know, maybe I just got tired of it over time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Although the travel music for it

[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite, I still hate the gummi shit battles.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and my third, this one's a multiplayer game is Sonic Racing Cross Worlds.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now.

[SPEAKER_02]: Cart racing, is it necessarily my theme?

[SPEAKER_02]: And I wasn't necessarily interested in this because it's a Sonic game.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was interested in this because of the mechanics that were shown.

[SPEAKER_02]: And sort of like, you know how things get marketed and I just was like, I wanted to try it out.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I had already played teams on it and I'm like, I probably wouldn't do a Cart racing at this.

[SPEAKER_02]: Crossroads got announced.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've played in both beta as a play in the PS5 beta and then the open beta that they had back in August early September It was like right before the game I came out and playing it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, oh It's different seeing them say what's in the game, but then actually experiencing it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, this is really fun

[SPEAKER_02]: my favorite things about this game in particular that really makes it different than the other Sonic Racing games.

[SPEAKER_02]: First, the car customization is I've seen some pretty wild things.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's like with the with the Minecraft a lot of that they have, you know, they have the Minecraft box.

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, we have what's called the Amazon Prime Box or the Prime Box vehicle that you can create in the game.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um,

[SPEAKER_02]: I've seen people make like the Batmobile, you know, Davis knows about how I put cream, the rabbit, and a monster truck, like there is some really fun and cool things you can do with the car customization and the decals.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know everything I like are the gadgets.

[SPEAKER_02]: I played Mario Kart before, and honestly, getting smack with an item and just sitting there defenseless, and obviously this happened, and like teams aren't raising him, and others on it games, that had items is just, you know, I'm sitting here, I'm definteless, I can't do anything to really, you know, get back, unless I can item to attack back.

[SPEAKER_02]: crossroads actually balances this and I recently had a patch to like balance it out even more where you can have defensive gadgets to, you know,

[SPEAKER_02]: Help either keep your placement or if you end up in like 4th to 8th place, uh, you can make a comeback to get to the top 3, um, there are gadgets where some people are terrible led drifting, I hope the people that I played against are hearing this some people are horrible at drifting my car is in rammed into multiple times, um, there are a lot.

[SPEAKER_02]: Gadgets to help you drift.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, they've heard me say it on my stream.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like I've literally had spin drift and collision boost on because I got so sick and tired of people driving into my car I would start drifting and and anyone that would try to like ram into me because they can't drift Their cars just flying in the air and I don't care because I'm just like you got to learn how to drift.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can't rely on me to make those turn I'm not going to say you I'm going to make things worse and have you run into the wall and I'll be okay Um

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but yeah, I like the gadgets that my only nitpick is that I kind of wish we had more than six plates for saving because there's different situations to have a gadget plate for so little like playing online playing with friends the festivals.

[SPEAKER_02]: which I'll talk about in a minute and then the time trials like I have a set of gadgets that I use for time trials like there so many different gadgets that you can use for a variety of different situations.

[SPEAKER_02]: The festivals are another thing I know some people get sick and tired of them shutting down online for the festivals but I

[SPEAKER_02]: really like the festivals, not necessarily because, oh, you know, the DLC characters come out.

[SPEAKER_02]: They have different events and with the more recent festivals, they've switched up the activity for those races and let's say, you know,

[SPEAKER_02]: All four of us are on its team together, but we didn't place, we have a second place in terms of placement, but we completed the objective.

[SPEAKER_02]: That will give us extra points and we end up winning the race for that event.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's, it's a very, very nice incentive.

[SPEAKER_02]: I only do the festivals because I like to get the items or the exclusive items.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've done all of them except for the Minecraft one because I was in the San Diego or Twitch column, but ever since I've been back, I've been on all the festivals since.

[SPEAKER_02]: then with the paid DLC characters, we get tracks for them.

[SPEAKER_02]: The cross world aspect, so you go through the first lap and then whoever's in first place gets to pick the next route that you go to, which will take you to the crossover track, you end up in a crossover track and then the final lap begins.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very interesting mechanic because

[SPEAKER_02]: the cross over tracks aren't just thrown to you.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can do those in time trials to learn the cross over tracks and I really like that feature of the game so they're not you know a huge surprise for you but yeah it's super fun to play with friends.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can play with I think you have up the 12 people in your lobby and you can do like your own team races and things.

[SPEAKER_02]: that way.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if they're going to increase the lobby count because we've seen the team list and on each team you can have up to like 10 players.

[SPEAKER_02]: So fingers crossed that they'll be able to increase the amount of friends we can play with at once but even so with 12 us just it's a good amount not too hectic about the same amount of racers you'd have at a festival or an online match anyway.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's actually pretty jam packed.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm going to be playing that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've been waiting for a physical copy on my switch to that's all I've been waiting on so that's going to be coming in.

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's coming into out in January, so within the next month or so.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're going to enjoy the patches as well as some of the new music they added.

[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite favorite.

[SPEAKER_02]: feature, which is then related to racing, the jukebox.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can add any of the music from either the clubs, the game, other electronic games and create your own race track playlist that plays as you're doing the races.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I judge a lot of people when I'm just like you're just listening to the track that's for this track, where's your custom playlist from the game?

[SPEAKER_02]: Where's your

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not surprised about the sign that I know because you're the Sega person.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually surprised that two point museums was in the part of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, that one.

[SPEAKER_02]: I enjoyed two point museums.

[SPEAKER_02]: A lot to the point where it's been in the back of my mind that I didn't even think about nominating it.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it's more so.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm kind of hoping that it wins at the Game Awards for this Immigration category.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's hilarious.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's funny.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a great.

[SPEAKER_02]: What's it?

[SPEAKER_02]: They have the Zeus and the Zeus came out.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they get the Zeus in this out now.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't touched that DLC because I was busy with speed rent stuff, but I'm hoping to get to that this week and catch a couple of zebras and make a whole match Madagascar Museum.

[SPEAKER_02]: And fact, that's all I'm calling.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Madagascar Museum.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's perfect.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: Those are good.

[SPEAKER_01]: All good picks except for Dinosaurers, but I'm just kidding.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give you guys a podcast for a voting, would you say to me?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, smithy, you're up at bat with our Europe topics, or your favorite topics, your favorite games.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to start with my honourables, one of them being.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's funny that that origins made it in your list.

[SPEAKER_03]: Origins was in my, in my mentions, it was great.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love that I thought, again, it's a great way for,

[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody that hadn't played the Don't You See Warriors before, I feel like it's a great entry point game for people really lays out just kind of that retelling of the story and being able to actually interact with those characters on their come up and the way that they made it so that, you know, there's some other things for kind of

[SPEAKER_03]: choose your own adventure type things like you're saying I think I'm from earlier with the invisible wall deal because I could not I also could not get this dude and save them.

[SPEAKER_03]: You died every time I do have plans to go back and play it but that was one of my honorable mentions.

[SPEAKER_03]: Another one, once human, yeah, that was done to see where your origins.

[SPEAKER_03]: What a troll.

[SPEAKER_03]: My second honorable mention is going to have to be once human.

[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I was a huge fan of once human.

[SPEAKER_03]: There was a beta and December then it rolled out here.

[SPEAKER_03]: I want to say, I can't remember exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was earlier in the year, maybe like February or something like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: It sucks though.

[SPEAKER_03]: I kind of fell off it.

[SPEAKER_03]: They move really quick on it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a pretty meaty game.

[SPEAKER_03]: They eventually brought in like perpetual servers.

[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, that gets stuck.

[SPEAKER_03]: But by that point, I had kind of, I've never been a fan of the server wipes.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that thing had pretty consistent server wipes.

[SPEAKER_03]: So,

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, by the time they kind of dressed that, I was kind of out of it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it would have ended up higher.

[SPEAKER_03]: Had I played it more, but there was just other games.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought to say, I'm like, I remember you play talking a lot about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know I have to know that you were trying.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're even an ambassador for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: If I remember correctly, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, didn't we do a good favor?

[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, that was, um, oh my gosh.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was a survival game.

[SPEAKER_03]: one that was like out for like an hour that everyone was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so those yeah, I would say I would say those you and then I would throw in dispatch as well really enjoy that again, I love a good Tuesday or adventure style game.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love how they were rolling things out episodically, you know, got me excited for Wednesdays to come around and that's not something that happens to often these days, especially in this.

[SPEAKER_03]: digital bot world that we live in.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, now that I really enjoyed that, moving on to my games of the year.

[SPEAKER_03]: First one, I got to talk about and I know that Davis is going to be on board with this.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's Quadra.

[SPEAKER_03]: this little game that I just, you know, again, I was I played in the beta when I came out when I had so much fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, oh, I got to make sure I played this when it comes out.

[SPEAKER_03]: And there's a lot of times that I'll say that to end up not happening or I forget about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: But when it came out, you know, I played it and I enjoyed it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I, I, I, I, I, I,

[SPEAKER_03]: bought the season pass for that first first season here, you know, I was grinding things out.

[SPEAKER_03]: And your right new disc game is a lot of fun, but it's also super frustrating because you get teammates.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what the hell they're doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: And sometimes you are that teammate.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then you're just frustrated at yourself.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's just a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's, you know, again, too.

[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like this is one of those games.

[SPEAKER_03]: I like,

[SPEAKER_03]: this is like a very dumb down like legal legends and what that kind of, uh, uh, what did I call it again?

[SPEAKER_03]: Movers.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, you know, what they're about.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I, I feel like they packaged this up so well.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love the fact that you can get characters within game currency.

[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to spend money, even though they kind of cap, although they've, they've raised that stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: They've raised the caps on things and,

[SPEAKER_03]: and all that stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they're actively working on this game, but it's a ton of fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that to me is one of the most important things.

[SPEAKER_03]: If the game is fun, I'm all about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it's simple to

[SPEAKER_03]: play difficult to master.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that I'm I'm always down for games that are like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, if you can deal with the online shenanigans of people not knowing what the hell they're doing, that'll keep your blood pressure down.

[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, no, the game is easily in my top three for this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, squadra is a yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I'm surprised.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was actually surprised that you put squadra on the list when you showed it to me.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, wow, it's a whole, but usually one of my top three played games this year.

[SPEAKER_03]: Dude, that's like, it hasn't even been out that long.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is the other thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: So like I think that again, as a testament to, you know, the fact that I'm taking time to sit down and play it to me.

[SPEAKER_03]: It says a lot about the game in itself.

[SPEAKER_03]: what's your right like what I'm sorry we're gonna say snick us i was wondering is it like forty four five five it's a four four four I think it's four four five four five five five five uh... to attack and one support

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever played the Pokemon, the Pokemon one?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pokemon unite.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's exactly that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's two lanes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Usually, it's supposed to be two lanes, but yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but yeah, it's really fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is a really fun game.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just with Dragon Ball Z characters and a lot of craziness on that, but the thing that's going to really take it that thing is going to make it really it make it that makes it really frustrating is the people that you play because some of these people don't have never played these kind of games.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's cool that they're in being introduced to it to see if they are into it, but then sometimes there's those people that are just straight up toxic, where they're just like, they're just going through the motions, but they're just purposely like, or they're just purposely throwing the fights, and then you just wanted to be like, I want to throw this guy out of the window, but you can't, because you can do messaging to these individuals.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it is a, but you just keep on coming back because it's just the, the, the game loop is fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just like it's very interesting.

[SPEAKER_01]: Very interesting to me.

[SPEAKER_03]: And when you do lose, you're not taking like monster hits to your rank either.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that helps cause that was a huge issue with Overwatch where you get to my thrower and some like that are you're playing your hardest and you guys lose and then you end up taking a monster hit because Joe's mode decide I'm going to sit in a corner.

[SPEAKER_03]: really frustrates gamers too.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I feel like they have a good balance between winning and when you lose and then what you did effectively in the game also weighing in and having a factor on the points that you lose or win.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it's a good balance.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not totally great.

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, uh, speaking again, these, these, these are one season.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just gems that I did not know were coming.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, next time my list, I got to talk about be my hoard.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, it's just a fun game.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, it's literally a game where I can sit down.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have to think I'm literally just moving around and holding space bar.

[SPEAKER_03]: And basically it's like the, you know, you're a necromancer that when you kill, you bring minions back those minions fight for you, you know, there's different enemy types and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now mind you, the game isn't early access right now.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it hasn't actually fully released.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's why it's hard to.

[SPEAKER_03]: Really say that it's a game of the year because there's still a lot of things that it still needs more flushing out Well, I feel like I'd be playing it though you must have been playing it pretty often if you're if you're I've played it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, I've played it because like you can level things up and like level level up Minion to my things like that as well and there's still building new things into the game.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's just not a complete game yet

[SPEAKER_03]: but it's a it's a ton of fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: I really enjoy it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's really simple and again it's something that you can sit there and the thing about it though too is that like you know that to fully complete a level you're going to be spending at least a half hour doing it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So if it's something that you know you're going to have a little bit of time or you're working or listening something else or something that you can quickly dip pop on and you know what I mean.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you do the harder levels, the harder levels are a lot harder, but you know, if you're just looking to upgrade or get points or whatever, just going on a normal level and it's just kind of Set it and forget it.

[SPEAKER_03]: The voice acting is great in it as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you're in the dummy mommy's, this is definitely something.

[SPEAKER_03]: that you would be interested in.

[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I definitely, this definitely is on my list for this year in terms of games that I played.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then,

[SPEAKER_03]: For me, it's funny because it actually made pops honorable mentionless, but my game of the year is Warriors of this.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's just too good.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's too much fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have spent so much time on that game to where my thumbs are hurting because I can't put it down.

[SPEAKER_03]: I did like, it's just, and again, what we say, 119 different characters.

[SPEAKER_03]: Each character feels different, the different builds of characters that you can get.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's an infinite game of just awesome.

[SPEAKER_03]: This game really made me dive into the genre of Rogue Light.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because I am not really a Rogue Light player, but the only reason I have interest in it was because of this game.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of open it up to us like, man, maybe I should try some of these other ones.

[SPEAKER_03]: I like the fact that you level up and it's not just, oh, you die, you start back over, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_03]: You get the, you progress further and further until, you know,

[SPEAKER_03]: For me, Warriors are best here.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's just so much fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's hours upon hours of replayability, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_03]: Like the it looks good for, you know, for what it is and whatnot and like, graphically and whatnot, but the play style, the gameplay loop of it is just fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, it's just, you don't mean like something that

[SPEAKER_03]: seems like it could be repetitive.

[SPEAKER_03]: Doesn't not somehow, you know, they make it so it's not repetitive.

[SPEAKER_03]: Again, a big part of it is being 119 characters with each having their own unique abilities.

[SPEAKER_03]: They each have like a special weapon that you can get as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they've opened up like, um,

[SPEAKER_03]: different kind of modes to for it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So there's things outside of just the going through the stages and whatnot, I'm like survive as long as you can things like that, it just, dude, what they did, I didn't see it coming.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was a shadow drop earlier in a year.

[SPEAKER_03]: I picked it up immediately and I was like, holy hell.

[SPEAKER_03]: And had I known that this was going to be the game that I probably dumped the most time in this year out of been like, no, that's crazy talk, but that's what we're at.

[SPEAKER_03]: Where is this?

[SPEAKER_03]: My game of the year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, that is impressive.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually surprised.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm actually surprised the level of there's not that much overlap.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this is quite impressive.

[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't even finish, I didn't like again, I need to go back to DK.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just haven't, I just haven't.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, the weather really throws me off as the fact is like be my hoard.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, I didn't really do that game existed.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, that would be like Jesus, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is, that is impressive.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was like, wow, they felt like, wow, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been

[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, for sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I didn't ask this on pop, though, but like what did you have like a game that was like that in the performance.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let me get the pop under.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: But pop did you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you have anything like that?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, or does she leave?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's the last thing we have to do here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, I'm here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, like, medically muted itself.

[SPEAKER_02]: Probably muted.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure if I'm going to come back.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not using it now.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's funny because last year you asked me this, and I say this every year, I only play games that appeal to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's, it's,

[SPEAKER_02]: after the one punchman fiasco i remember you like that was a year we first met i'm just like you know what i'm gonna be super picky uh i've lucked out again this year uh if i can't say one game i got tired of hearing about was mine's eye and it was the freaking sea it was

[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't want to break it up.

[SPEAKER_01]: The streak didn't.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the streak is over, though.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, can we have a talk about mindset for at least a month?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was good.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was good.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: But that was it because you played it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was just because of the all the nonsense and drama behind it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll give it that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: And from what I saw, the gameplay was indeed a trotian.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's got to be, you know, actually about the game.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, god.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, what about you?

[SPEAKER_01]: What about you, what was yours?

[SPEAKER_01]: What was your like underperforming game?

[SPEAKER_03]: You would say for me, and I just want to Preface it.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is not because the game is bad.

[SPEAKER_03]: The game is not bad.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is a good game But the game for me that has been the most underwhelming for 2025 has been borderlands four

[SPEAKER_03]: I have it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have maybe put in like five hours into the game.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just have no drive to actually play it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I don't know, like, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I think I would have been fine, just waiting to get the game is how much I am I.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, have you been in love for a land?

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you have love, I love it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, great.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love the story.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love the, like, dude, I'm a huge looter shooter fan.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's why it's even more shocking to me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Could I know that they're all there?

[SPEAKER_03]: I know that this is there, but I just have not had the,

[SPEAKER_03]: urge to sit down at my PC and I did play the other day, but it's always been later and you need to like this again is a game that you need to be able to put some time in and I just feel that I haven't been able to have or I haven't had a time to be able to properly invest into Borderlands 4 and that's why for me it's been the most disappointing of the games that I've played this year.

[SPEAKER_03]: simply on the fact that it's it's on me in in the amount of time I've played, but again, it's just it's kind of I don't know there's just nothing that's really grabbed the hold of me and be like, oh, you know, I'm I'm having a blast so Will that yeah, that's what it is for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, for I'll give it that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was really

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's very interesting on, like, that game, the game looks nice, but optimized and stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: was just very odd, like, it was just very, was who it's so funny?

[SPEAKER_06]: You know what's funny?

[SPEAKER_02]: Smitty was laughing like this last time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no!

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so what it was, what it was, what it was, what it was, what it was, what it was, oh snap, the salad mixer or the dulce, okay, okay, that was weird.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was weird.

[SPEAKER_01]: The facial expression, how old is this video?

[SPEAKER_01]: 11 years old, oh my god, okay, that's hilarious.

[SPEAKER_01]: breaking down in itself.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, what the fuck are you like this?

[SPEAKER_01]: I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like, I have to be like,

[SPEAKER_01]: It's all good, but I can't wait to watch it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's all I've just got to go.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to go into it anyway.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, we did.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there was a lot of different good games that y'all were mentioning.

[SPEAKER_01]: I really like y'all's picks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Really surprised on Spiny's picks.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was actually really curious about what your picks were this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would go for three for any of them.

[SPEAKER_01]: One, I was right on one, but oh, oh, I was like one for three.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's freaking hilarious.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take something to perform it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, I mean, everyone, everyone's picked for awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like the, yeah, so it was good.

[SPEAKER_01]: But so here's my picks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now for honorable mention, I'm going to have to say dispatch, because this game, there's actually two honorable mentions I have.

[SPEAKER_01]: This match is probably the biggest one,

[SPEAKER_01]: literally came out of nowhere like i mean this get well i knew about it but i didn't know that i would like it as much as i did because one of the biggest things that i do not like is episodic i do not i don't know why why why they do why they would release it in the episodic manner when you pay the full price and then you have to pay in the in you have to do it in the period but that's what talking to the developers about it and then what they were trying to go for and what they're going for and how they're wanting to ship this

[SPEAKER_01]: I understand why they're doing it because they're kind of wanting to make it like a kind of make it feel like it wasn't like a TV series kind of thing because the game loop isn't that hard.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not hard at all actually.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's very simple but it's just overall what this is more important on is the story.

[SPEAKER_01]: The story itself is what's mostly important about all of this.

[SPEAKER_01]: So

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, the game is incredibly great.

[SPEAKER_01]: The story, oh my god dude, it's just what makes you, it's what drives you in.

[SPEAKER_01]: It just, it just drives you in on this game.

[SPEAKER_01]: So no, so dispatch was my number one on this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, my honorable mention, I would say.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, but,

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that was it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was one of them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do have and that I have I have to say is definitely a good augmentian is a indie game from eSpar games called Demon School.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the game that came out that will they like I've been waiting for this game forever because this game has been delayed.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was delayed.

[SPEAKER_01]: The last big delay was because of silk song, it was originally supposed to come out to say around the same week when silk song was supposed to come out, but then they were afraid to push it back another two months.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was officially came out back in November, half a mid-Deal Vemper.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this is a fairly new game and it's a very, very fun game, I would say.

[SPEAKER_01]: It plays like old school persona, so like, if you, and I'm not talking about persona 3, I'm talking about like the old school, like original persona 1 in persona 2, like that kind of style.

[SPEAKER_01]: So like you're you're a you're a person that moves goes into an island that you know that is Haunted by by demons and stuff like that and you're needing to You're you're basically go to come across and fight fight different kinds of things to this weird art night art artistic style The video I'm just showing is it seems like this is intro video, which isn't the good one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let me see if I'm gonna find it better one

[SPEAKER_01]: Very odd.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, what's cool is that the bowel system is very, it's very, I want to say original, but it is very different than what you would normally see in one of these isometric RPGs.

[SPEAKER_01]: So the goal isn't the fact that you have to kill everybody, the goal is you have to kill a certain amount of people, once you get to a certain amount of people, you go to the very end, the end of the goal line is glowing.

[SPEAKER_01]: You just have to get at least one person at the end of the goal line to go take to beat the stage.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the story is just fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like if you're an old school fan of old school persona, this is exactly, it will feel like that, exactly like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you will definitely not be disappointed.

[SPEAKER_01]: It took me about 37 hours to be, I would say.

[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, and it was just fun all throughout this time dude.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like the combinations, the subject you have to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there's some people that just can't attack their political pacifist so that the healers so they have special abilities that only they can do and stuff and then you can set up these wicked combos, which makes it really even crazier, you know.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, so this was a definitely good on this was an honorable mention for the games that one of the games I played itself.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this was one now

[SPEAKER_01]: I will have to take a page on the pop because it was a game that Pop did mention that was an long ago bench for her, but it's one for me, it's definitely monster hundred wilds is going to be one of my games of the year for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I played I have clocked six oh on that six.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have clocked over 420 hours on it and I just love like I just love Monster Hunter.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean just as much as everyone else that they do Like I just love combinations.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love finding combos But I also love fighting fighting the monsters in certain different kinds of weird ways and stuff So the video I'm showing here this is a video of me when I was playing the against the Omega weapon and that thing was annoying

[SPEAKER_01]: But it was fun, so yeah, the thing I love about it is not necessarily like, is the, when you play with people, then let alone you're on discord, y'all just basically talking to each other and saying like how things are working and stuff and how and try to change into a just and then go and go and try to get that piece of armor so you can dress up your cat is all is all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it's all in the, it

[SPEAKER_01]: It's all you need.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's no other better, like, you know, good thing to do for the rest of the day.

[SPEAKER_01]: So though I loved playing this, I still love playing this.

[SPEAKER_01]: I need to play more of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just haven't had time to do it as a flight, but yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Even though, like I said, like what I said earlier, the one thing that I really wish that this was was the game was harder,

[SPEAKER_01]: There's it's slowly getting there, but I think we're just going to wait and see until the expansion comes because you know there's the expansion coming because this is the this is the most successful monster in the game they've ever sold Now officially, so So yeah, so monster hunter is definitely is definitely my it's because it's definitely one of my top games of the year because especially amount of time I spent on it another one I don't think that y'all will know I don't know if y'all don't know but I like RPGs

[SPEAKER_01]: I've said it multiple times.

[SPEAKER_06]: So I know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so one of the games was a game that I've been waiting to play for a long time, but but I haven't played in such a long time in such a

[SPEAKER_01]: wild because this game originally came out on the PlayStation Vita.

[SPEAKER_01]: No PSP came out on the PSP originally and they decided to do a remake of the game itself into a modern day, modern day graphics and that game was trails into the sky first chapter.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I am a trails fan, I've been playing, I play trails in the newest ones, like the the reverie and all these other ones that just just come trails in the cold steel, all the other ones trails in the sky is the very first one in the of the series.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they decided to change it into updated graphics and everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: The whole styles changed to the modern styles, the more modern style that trails is going through.

[SPEAKER_01]: And just the gameplay, the story representation, everything of this is just really, really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's super fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: And and all the characters that you remember from the original ones is are here as well as, you know, so that's coming up in the in the in the near future.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this was like when I started messing around with this, I still haven't even beaten it yet, but I will be playing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still going to continue playing on.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm only in 20 hours in.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think this game is going to be at least a 50 to 60 hour game.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I've just loved, I just love to story, these old school story story styles and I just couldn't believe at the inside to make a remake of this one.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there's go, there was three, there was three, I believe.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this is the first, this was successful, which I think it was.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be two more that's coming in the near future.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, so this one is this one's like a niche one that if you're fans of JRPGs This is one that definitely check out love love this game.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, so that was number two and my number one And I don't think it's surprised to anybody for me is obviously is Claire obscure expedition 33

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I it's in my top five like ever I mean, I just yeah ever I mean, I cannot you cannot like this game you know what's funny when I saw this game when they were announcing this back in the like when this game was It was coming out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was they kind of overlooked it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was just like, oh wow, but that's all this when I was seeing the system.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, wow, that game looks actually really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm definitely wanted to get that when that comes out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't

[SPEAKER_01]: Think much of it, but when the game came out and I picked it up, and I just started watching and played the first chapters the first two chapters And the first two chapters get real real fast and I was like, oh my god, okay, I chose I chose a banger, and I've just like

[SPEAKER_01]: have I don't even know like what you can do at this point to make it any better.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the one thing I would say is just the like the get the the fighting the the bowel scenes is very interactive like you have to time your buttons out correctly.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't time it out right then you can lose a lot of health really fast.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the way that that you know how they how villains like to faint do faint attacks or the delays to be able to just kind of mess with you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, they many work on that a little bit more, but just the style, the turn-based, everything, all the stuff that's happening around there, and then also you're caring about literally everybody in your group is incredible.

[SPEAKER_01]: Music is insane, the voice acting is insane.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they got three out of the five for best voice actor for this coming in at the game words, this Thursday.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this is like everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did realize it was Charlie Cox was in it when I first played it, so you got to play his Daredevil.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'd that hooked me into it immediately as I started playing, I was like, and I kind of looked so familiar and heard the voice and I was like, that has to be Daredevil.

[SPEAKER_04]: I looked me into the game, I agree with you.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is a mention for me as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is insane.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I was like, wow, and to say that they decided to just, this is, this is a

[SPEAKER_01]: and they just went completely ham on this style.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is just they knocked it out the park.

[SPEAKER_01]: And for this game, only being $50 is ridiculous to me, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: You would think that like the style of this game would be like everything would be like a full fled 70-80 buck game.

[SPEAKER_01]: But no, this thing is incredible.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now I mean, now the next one's going to be 70 bucks.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know,

[SPEAKER_01]: I have this the way that that game is going to definitely get they're going to definitely melt the second one They're going to melt the shit out of the second one, but but now this one's definitely game of the year for me Like I know that there's not really eight like one two and three, but not this one's my go to of 2025 So

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I don't like I'm kind of in this year though when it came to like, you know Like disappointing I don't really have one this year I was trying to think of it and I don't really would say that like that comes to mind I'm sure I have played it, but it's probably not in my mind.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have never thought of it

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it's just it's very interesting.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're right.

[SPEAKER_01]: This game was this year has just been loaded with just insane types of games It's just been ridiculous, you know When it came when it came up to all to all of this like just the way to keep up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Unless you're writing it down Everything that you've been playing and then you're just like, oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this game was kind of was bought, you know

[SPEAKER_01]: So, but no.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am satisfied.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad that this is this year's wrapping up next year.

[SPEAKER_01]: As this goes, we're just going to go through it all over again.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, like I said, this is going to be a lot of big big bangers are going to be coming coming soon.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really looking towards Capcom.

[SPEAKER_01]: Capcom's presentation next year is going to be insane.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like the three different games that they played, we went to packs west and played demos of all three and I was like bandies game.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is gonna be crazy, you know, just just like capital low and if GTA comes out because you know GTA by default People are gonna just be all fans of it, you know, it's good man

[SPEAKER_01]: And then they pushed it again, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they pushed it to November, uh, the next year, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Number 19.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, which I'm saying, but like what's some of these point, I would agree with somebody.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not coming out next year.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's coming out next year.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's, uh, yeah, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: But dude, I'm a rock star.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, rocks are, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_03]: Like they, they are pretty notorious for their delays.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I don't feel like it should be a shock to anybody because they are super media games.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, I just don't know why they they start doing the hype so early, you know, just for it to kind of, I mean, I guess it's not fading away really people are still talking about it and and hyped about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just, it all just feels a little premature.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, well, the way he speaks to me off.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, really pissed to be off about that was the fact that they're going to win two game awards.

[SPEAKER_01]: Two game awards for most anticipated game back to back, like the last year they won.

[SPEAKER_01]: They won last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: So next year, this year, they got no idea.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, if you're delayed, you should not.

[SPEAKER_03]: get to be able to do that.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's not, that's not right.

[SPEAKER_01]: They need to stop with a stupid, like, oh, well, most of the anticipated game.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, remember the golden joystick award there was 18 games that were nominated for this thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then guess who won?

[SPEAKER_01]: A GTA 6 is like, okay, whenever GTA 6 is not on the board and then it's not coming, we know what they're gonna win this.

[SPEAKER_01]: So why I'll even put in this on the mark, like on the map, it's gonna be dope.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's gonna be dope.

[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, it was just it's yeah, this kind of irks me when they when they do things like that, but uh, but you know, but it was, but like you said, but overall like y'all said, this was an amazing year for gaming.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was a ridiculous loaded set of different kinds of different kind of the gaming for game gamers all around.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this is going to be very interesting games really shine this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was like the way that AAA studios have been acting and moving and stuff out there.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're just putting making the spotlight on indie games brighter and brighter.

[SPEAKER_03]: And all they had to do is like, Oh, look what we got and we got some bangers.

[SPEAKER_03]: We got some.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they were just like, you know what, you're right.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, challenge accepted and they definitely brought their A game and they came to this kind of stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: So like the biggest thing is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just can't wait till a light to see.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that Mr.

[SPEAKER_01]: Seven figures.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's y'all's most underrated game this year?

[SPEAKER_01]: DK Penance?

[SPEAKER_01]: What is up?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's your DK bro.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna be gay.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna be gay.

[SPEAKER_01]: The reason why, okay, the reason why I don't, I didn't even put DK on my list because I never played it yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why.

[SPEAKER_01]: The, it looks good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think the only person that's played it in this group is Smitty.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I would say it was leaning closer to disappointment then really make it my list.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, that's not the thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: And don't and not that it's a bad game or anything.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking about in terms of games that I've played and games that I can't step away from versus games that I haven't picked up in months because again, the drive to play them just kind of faded away.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's on, excuse me, it's on the latter list.

[SPEAKER_03]: But again, I think, I think you're right, though, Mr.

[SPEAKER_03]: Seven figures, like, it's a great game.

[SPEAKER_03]: It really is, it just, I just lost team on it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know why exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: I do plan on going back and finishing it is just never high up on the list.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the one that I'm also, like, also was a, what was it called?

[SPEAKER_01]: You remember, I think you guys come to show up at your house.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, wow, you really pissed off the audience.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[SPEAKER_04]: book folks and let's say it's they guys thank you so much for stopping by man it was awesome appreciate it thank you appreciate it and this year's been fun and I got to see you know you and Smitty by the twice this year so that was kind of cool yeah yeah so I appreciate you guys have me out on the podcast

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, it's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's definitely, it's definitely fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: The guys also check out steak as three one nine when he does his leg of streams is really fun watching.

[SPEAKER_01]: And as well as his hammer watch streams, although like a couple of months a month ago, you're playing like castle cat crashers with some friends, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, we did a charity stream with castle crashers and we went through it and they had the painter update where you can

[SPEAKER_04]: up like you can draw your own character and put it into the game and play the whole game through.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we all created our own characters and did that.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was really cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey guys, thank you so much folks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for listening to episode number 288 of the CFG Gamecast.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for being a part of the conversation as always.

[SPEAKER_01]: We won't be back next week, but we will be back in 2026.

[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have a date yet, but it's probably going to be in January.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'll definitely let you know on our social media when we're coming back.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if you did miss out on this episode, that is perfectly all right.

[SPEAKER_01]: We do release all all podcast services at the beginning of each and every week.

[SPEAKER_01]: So there is absolutely no reason to miss out on all sexes, sex divorces.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: Be sure to check out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, by the way, this Thursday, we are going to be doing a live stream.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, watch along of the Game Awards, definitely stop by on CFG games to be a part of that.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a fun one, especially I know we're probably going to be racking.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, most, most doubly, we're going to be racking on the son of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Probably, me, mostly, mostly.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm like the most unserious in the Game Awards.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm literally just going to say a world premiere for any trailer.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if it's a trailer we've already seen, it's like,

[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably going to happen.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's definitely going to happen with the guys, but they'll check it out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Check us out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Come back on Thursday.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're definitely going to have a fun time just messing around on the game award.

[SPEAKER_01]: So once again, this is Davis pop, Smitty, and