Every Major Announcement From The Game Awards 2025

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Mess Mornings with Me Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>your host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you for
<v Speaker 1>tuning in. In this episode, we're going to be talking
<v Speaker 1>about what happened at the Game Awards. It's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a good one because we have John Martin on the show. John,
<v Speaker 1>how are you doing doing well?
<v Speaker 2>How are you doing?
<v Speaker 3>Jeff? And I have clearly died.
<v Speaker 1>This is my camera just went black and white this morning,
<v Speaker 1>and I did figure out to fix it, but we all,
<v Speaker 1>for the three of us, grew attached to it. So
<v Speaker 1>we're just going with it and am memoriam to me.
<v Speaker 1>I guess that's just how it goes sometimes.
<v Speaker 4>You worked really hard yesterday, so it kind of just
<v Speaker 4>makes sense that this is the outcome of all that
<v Speaker 4>it was.
<v Speaker 3>It was fun.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Well, as soon as we got done with the
<v Speaker 1>Game Awards, then we recorded another podcast, me and Mike
<v Speaker 1>and so yeah, we was working till like twelve thirty
<v Speaker 1>last night. It was a good time though. We I think,
<v Speaker 1>you know, again, put it go into the Game Awards
<v Speaker 1>with expectations kind of checked appropriately for how you know,
<v Speaker 1>reverent towards the industry. It's going to be and also
<v Speaker 1>know that all of the rumors you're hearing, all of
<v Speaker 1>them could be wrong.
<v Speaker 3>Many of them were.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of the stuff was was accurate, though, and
<v Speaker 1>it was like cool to see stuff like Control Resident
<v Speaker 1>and a bunch of other things where it's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>we've been hearing about this for a minute. Now here
<v Speaker 1>it is no Half Life three though. Were you deeply disappointed?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, because that was one of the ways I could
<v Speaker 4>have gotten bingo last night and in the sure three shots,
<v Speaker 4>so that was not great.
<v Speaker 3>Not fun. Yeah, I missed. I missed my bingo. We
<v Speaker 3>all did.
<v Speaker 1>Apparently no one got being over. There's my card, everybody,
<v Speaker 1>let's see. Kind of got a couple that were nearly
<v Speaker 1>nearly there. It was yeah, two away in a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of different directions. But we Yeah, we had a good time.
<v Speaker 1>It was a lot of fun. And then you know
<v Speaker 1>Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three Cleaned House. It won every
<v Speaker 1>category was in except for one Audio Design where it
<v Speaker 1>was beaten by Battlefield six. Yeah. I overall I enjoyed myself.
<v Speaker 3>How about you?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>I thought it was a pretty good game Awards. It
<v Speaker 4>wasn't the most mind blowing games. A lot of the
<v Speaker 4>stuff that was big and talked about. Not a lot
<v Speaker 4>was there, but what was there got me really excited
<v Speaker 4>for twenty twenty six. A lot of games kind of
<v Speaker 4>coming out of nowhere. Things we thought we knew, we
<v Speaker 4>didn't actually know. I blacked out. I think they announced
<v Speaker 4>a new Mega Man game that was that was wild,
<v Speaker 4>and I don't know. I mean, we're gonna talk about
<v Speaker 4>all these games, but yeah, next year is looking maybe
<v Speaker 4>not as busy, but there is a lot to look
<v Speaker 4>forward to, even in just the first six months of
<v Speaker 4>next year.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and that's gonna be the bulk of the show.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna go over what happened at the Game Awards,
<v Speaker 1>all the announcements, all the trailers, all that stuff, and
<v Speaker 1>however long that takes, it'll take.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, let's let's get into it.
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<v Speaker 1>All right, we have a lot to get into, so
<v Speaker 1>let's start the morning mess with the game awards happened,
<v Speaker 1>and then before they happened, there was stuff that seemed
<v Speaker 1>kind of related, So let's touch on those stories. First,
<v Speaker 1>South of Midnight is coming to PlayStation five switched to
<v Speaker 1>in spring twenty twenty six. That's something they actually did
<v Speaker 1>also announced during the show when they won an award,
<v Speaker 1>which is one of my like it's a really dumb thing,
<v Speaker 1>something that would not happen at any other kind of
<v Speaker 1>award show. I like that video games are just blatantly like,
<v Speaker 1>we know we're in a commercial. Let's just use our
<v Speaker 1>award to also sell more of our game. So it's
<v Speaker 1>coming to other platforms. But they announced this beforehand, and yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that game came out in what like March April, so
<v Speaker 1>I expect like as soon as the one year calendar
<v Speaker 1>thing is up, we'll just see it on PlayStation five
<v Speaker 1>and switch to any interest in South of Midnight.
<v Speaker 3>Did you check it out when it was on game
<v Speaker 3>Pass or whatever?
<v Speaker 4>No, this year was crazy. It just slipped through the cracks.
<v Speaker 4>It definitely seems like a voice I really want to hear.
<v Speaker 4>The combat looks crazy, is like some senile turtle or something.
<v Speaker 4>That's like pretty much what I can remember. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I mean having more places, more opportunities to play it
<v Speaker 4>might get me in there. I know a lot of
<v Speaker 4>people liked that game, but it just there was too much.
<v Speaker 4>There's too much now. I'm still trying to catch up
<v Speaker 4>on games, but yeah, this is definitely something I want
<v Speaker 4>to check out to kind of form my own opinion
<v Speaker 4>on Did You Lose?
<v Speaker 1>I started it, and I didn't get too far into it,
<v Speaker 1>but I was like, Okay, immediately I kind of see
<v Speaker 1>what people are saying that the vibes are really good
<v Speaker 1>in terms of establishing a setting that is not typical
<v Speaker 1>for video games the American South and doing a good
<v Speaker 1>job of representing that. It really does, and it stylizes
<v Speaker 1>it in a very fascinating way. Something that I thought
<v Speaker 1>was like, Okay, this sort of heightens all the cool
<v Speaker 1>things about this setting. And then the gameplay, primarily primarily
<v Speaker 1>the combat very sort of I don't almost say, like
<v Speaker 1>by the numbers, it's PS two, not necessarily in a
<v Speaker 1>negative way, but not necessarily in a post positive way.
<v Speaker 1>It's like it's just from another time and it's a
<v Speaker 1>bit simple. I think it's kind of what I was
<v Speaker 1>getting from it, But it's probably still worth playing just
<v Speaker 1>if you want to have a kind of the kind
<v Speaker 1>of or play a game that feels different. It will
<v Speaker 1>feel different just because of that setting, but that wasn't
<v Speaker 1>the only Xbox thing. They also said there's going to
<v Speaker 1>be a developer direct showcase in January. Matt Boody talked
<v Speaker 1>to Variety and he confirmed this. He says there's going
<v Speaker 1>to be a lot of things there, including Playground Games,
<v Speaker 1>will be involved in the event, and it's Notable because
<v Speaker 1>Playground Games. We do know they're making Forts Horizon six,
<v Speaker 1>which was confirmed at Tokyo Game Show last year. They're
<v Speaker 1>also making Fable. They just showed us some Forts Horizon
<v Speaker 1>six stuff at Tokyo Game Show a few months.
<v Speaker 3>Ago, like a few weeks ago, maybe a few months.
<v Speaker 1>Ago, and they could be ready to talk about Fable
<v Speaker 1>in this thing, or maybe even both.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>It sounds like they're kind of saying that the studio
<v Speaker 1>could be busy. But if we don't, if we don't
<v Speaker 1>hear about Fable here, my expectation, John is we might
<v Speaker 1>not even hear about it throughout all of next year either.
<v Speaker 4>What do you think, Yeah, I mean, to the credit
<v Speaker 4>of Xbox, I honestly do think it will show up
<v Speaker 4>next year, but probably targeting that's Spring twenty twenty seven.
<v Speaker 4>If we don't get it here, I don't know how
<v Speaker 4>kind of closely linked the two teams are working on
<v Speaker 4>for As a Horizon in Fable. Fable seems like it's
<v Speaker 4>going to be way more of an ordeal for As
<v Speaker 4>the Horizon is going to be another one of the
<v Speaker 4>most gorgeous, fun arkadie racer games to play. That's something
<v Speaker 4>I can definitely see launching in twenty twenty six. But
<v Speaker 4>I mean, if they don't have like a big Halo
<v Speaker 4>project beyond the remake, Fable would be an excellent way
<v Speaker 4>to close that year. It was kind of surprising that
<v Speaker 4>we didn't get a tease in that weird Janitor commercial
<v Speaker 4>kind of deal, but I I'm kind of interested to
<v Speaker 4>see what it looks like. At this point, we got
<v Speaker 4>like a couple tastes of it, like a slice of
<v Speaker 4>the pie kind of situation, getting the humorous tone of
<v Speaker 4>this one, but not really much in the way of gameplay.
<v Speaker 4>I think it was at one Xbox showcase. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I'm much more thinking thinking that for us, this probably
<v Speaker 4>a lot more likely and probably a lot further along.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah's that's the feeling I get as well. Forts Rice
<v Speaker 1>and six continues to be like actually a highly anticipated
<v Speaker 1>game for me. I really liked five, one of the
<v Speaker 1>best sort of I just need to play something right
<v Speaker 1>now video games ever made, and it really does facilitate
<v Speaker 1>that that purpose. All right, let's get into the Game
<v Speaker 1>Awards proper now, although by that I guess I still
<v Speaker 1>mean the pre show, and I believe that either well,
<v Speaker 1>you know what, actually it's gonna bats around. I took
<v Speaker 1>this list from let's see, I think it was IGN
<v Speaker 1>or maybe yeah, it was IGN's list of everything announced.
<v Speaker 1>So shout outs to them for collecting all this and
<v Speaker 1>they are kind of putting it in somewhat of an order,
<v Speaker 1>their order of importance.
<v Speaker 3>So let's start with the biggest one for me.
<v Speaker 1>Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic is a single
<v Speaker 1>player game from Casey Hudson, directed by here's some details.
<v Speaker 1>It's directed by Casey Hudson, who was the director of
<v Speaker 1>Kotor and The Mass Effect Games.
<v Speaker 3>It is a new.
<v Speaker 1>Single player, narrative driven action RPG set in the Old
<v Speaker 1>Republic era. It's developed by Arconaut Studios. It's a spiritual
<v Speaker 1>successor to Kotor and yeah, they're working with Lucasfilm Games.
<v Speaker 1>Like Lucasfilm Games is publishing this with Arconaut who is
<v Speaker 1>that is Casey Hudson's new studio. We didn't get like
<v Speaker 1>a date or anything like that. There's no time frame here.
<v Speaker 1>It's They do say on star wars dot Com that
<v Speaker 1>it is very early on that they are still kind
<v Speaker 1>of figuring this game out, so we're probably several years away.
<v Speaker 1>But they did emphasize yes, this is a Casey Hudson game.
<v Speaker 1>The person who led Knights of the Old Republic is
<v Speaker 1>back and doing this thing, but it's not a direct sequel. Instead,
<v Speaker 1>it's a spiritually aligned with Coetor's tradition of cinematic choice
<v Speaker 1>driven RPGs, but it will be built sort of to
<v Speaker 1>live up to that legacy. They did give visions and
<v Speaker 1>goals focus on player agency, narrative depth and immersive world building,
<v Speaker 1>emphasis on creative clarity, team alignment, and ambitious scope.
<v Speaker 3>I got like a lot of that could be like
<v Speaker 3>word soup.
<v Speaker 1>John like that that right there, like just kind of that,
<v Speaker 1>But for some reason it's like, actually, those are I
<v Speaker 1>think pretty good descriptors of what I would want from
<v Speaker 1>something that's following up Kodetru.
<v Speaker 3>Where are you at with this?
<v Speaker 1>Like seeing that, were you excited kind of thinking more
<v Speaker 1>about what this could be.
<v Speaker 3>Are you excited? I think I certainly am. How about you? Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>No, I mean this was announcement that like it's all
<v Speaker 4>in the details. Like obviously, like Star Wars has a
<v Speaker 4>billion different games, but not a lot have the legacy
<v Speaker 4>of koetor not a lot really have the pedigree that
<v Speaker 4>a Casey Hudson actually had.
<v Speaker 2>So as we're going through that trailer, like there was
<v Speaker 2>more and more.
<v Speaker 4>Stuff coming out, this is kind of exactly what I
<v Speaker 4>want from a Star Wars game. And like, granted, the
<v Speaker 4>Old Republic is like you could go hundreds of thousands
<v Speaker 4>of years back and you're still technically in there.
<v Speaker 2>I think.
<v Speaker 4>So this is the big kind of choice adventure game
<v Speaker 4>in Star Wars that I've always really wanted since Kotor
<v Speaker 4>one in two way back in the day. There LucasArts
<v Speaker 4>is very or is it Lucasfilm game? Sorry I just
<v Speaker 4>default to LucasArts.
<v Speaker 1>Well everyone knows what you mean, and I think, god,
<v Speaker 1>we all would prefer it to be LucasArts, but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's Lucasflone Games.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean, this is something that is incredibly exciting,
<v Speaker 4>like actually getting something on the par of a mass
<v Speaker 4>effect on par with a koeur. Granted we haven't seen
<v Speaker 4>the game yet, but it is checking all the right
<v Speaker 4>boxes and I don't even know where.
<v Speaker 2>This story could go. It's I'm the most exciting outcome.
<v Speaker 3>It's okay, So it's.
<v Speaker 1>Worth pointing out some timeline stuff here. Hudson co founded
<v Speaker 1>Arconaut Studios in twenty twenty five, enabling the collaboration. So
<v Speaker 1>this calendar year he started the studio, So that lets
<v Speaker 1>you tell us a couple of things. It is very
<v Speaker 1>early on, and if we were to like do the
<v Speaker 1>thing we do on a show like this, which is
<v Speaker 1>try to draw lines between two events in a way
<v Speaker 1>that's way too clean for reality. But if we were
<v Speaker 1>to do that, because I want to do that, Mike
<v Speaker 1>pointed out last night that like, hey, maybe this is
<v Speaker 1>the kind of thing that happens.
<v Speaker 3>Because Balder'sgate three did so well.
<v Speaker 1>And Casey Hutson go, oh, we have a legacy of
<v Speaker 1>doing things like that. We've worked on Balder's Gate games.
<v Speaker 1>We have many people here who have or worked on
<v Speaker 1>games like that. What if we went back to Knightsville
<v Speaker 1>of the Old Republic and did it in that style
<v Speaker 1>and did what knights Still Republic originally did would just
<v Speaker 1>take a D and D rules set and apply it
<v Speaker 1>to Star Wars to do that again. So I guess
<v Speaker 1>what I'm getting at here is if that's the line
<v Speaker 1>I'm drawing, and I'm placing that in front of you,
<v Speaker 1>and we're saying, well, maybe because it's going to be
<v Speaker 1>so intricate and a deeper RPG, it doesn't need to
<v Speaker 1>be or they won't have the budget to make it
<v Speaker 1>like a big like Final Fantasy sixteen. Oh, it's all
<v Speaker 1>the money in the world is on the screen sort
<v Speaker 1>of graphical style. What if it was like a pair
<v Speaker 1>down a little bit but similar to Balderskate three, would
<v Speaker 1>that still be something you would be down for?
<v Speaker 3>No?
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely, Like I mean I think of like to the
<v Speaker 4>outer worlds, Like if we get a small collection of
<v Speaker 4>planets that we can score, like explore, hav a tight
<v Speaker 4>interconnected story, we're forging relationships, and we're you know, just
<v Speaker 4>being able to like kid out our Jedi however we want.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, that's that's all you can really ask for.
<v Speaker 4>I just want cool, weird characters. I need I need
<v Speaker 4>more Babu fricks and less snokes.
<v Speaker 1>You know, yes, get give me all the freaks, get
<v Speaker 1>just I mean, the Knights of the Old Republic games
<v Speaker 1>are not cannon anymore.
<v Speaker 3>So just take all the best parts of those.
<v Speaker 1>Games, and you know, in some areas reimagine them, and
<v Speaker 1>some in some areas just copy and paste HK forty
<v Speaker 1>seven and give us exactly that. Again, like you have
<v Speaker 1>really a lot of opportunities here to do a lot
<v Speaker 1>of fun stuff and kind of keep the best parts
<v Speaker 1>of those games.
<v Speaker 3>And I hope they will will.
<v Speaker 4>Revin revealed himself, that's the question, because they could make
<v Speaker 4>him canon. This is the way you could fit him
<v Speaker 4>in with that timeline.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's possible.
<v Speaker 1>And but you know, also, like you said, that's the
<v Speaker 1>Old Republic era is so large. If they want to
<v Speaker 1>tell a holy new story, they can move a few decades,
<v Speaker 1>a few hundred years in a different direction and have
<v Speaker 1>a complete clean slate. All right, let's see here this
<v Speaker 1>here's his clare obscure, one Game of the Year and
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of other stuff. But it also announced DLC. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they're they're, they're. They called their shot here a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>which I think fair. Everyone knew they were going to win.
<v Speaker 1>They did win, but they they were on stage all
<v Speaker 1>night for all these other awards, and then they did
<v Speaker 1>not announce their DLC like the first time they won.
<v Speaker 1>They saved it for winning Game of the Year, which hey, ballsy,
<v Speaker 1>yeah I respect it. But yeah, they they it's out now,
<v Speaker 1>right they released this thing right away?
<v Speaker 3>Is that what happened? I can't.
<v Speaker 1>I was kind of like, oh yeah, I kind of
<v Speaker 1>heard something that might be happening here, but I wasn't
<v Speaker 1>sure on the timeline.
<v Speaker 2>Gets out out.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, it's at Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I'm being gorimaged right now myself, as people can see.
<v Speaker 3>So ill.
<v Speaker 1>I'm still playing this. Actually, this is the one I'm
<v Speaker 1>really trying to finish before Game of the Year. I'll
<v Speaker 1>see how this DLC fits in. We have you heard
<v Speaker 1>about this at all? Has anyone played any of this? Like,
<v Speaker 1>have you heard any early word.
<v Speaker 2>On this on the DLC?
<v Speaker 3>On the DLC.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, all I know is I'm probably gonna spend like
<v Speaker 4>seven to eight hours playing it because I'm assuming it's
<v Speaker 4>post end game of the original game content. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>like Dungeon, new Bosses, new enemies, new encounters, new outfits.
<v Speaker 4>Outfits is especially interesting because they have a phenomenal awardrobe
<v Speaker 4>for every single character. I was a little sad that
<v Speaker 4>there was no bag at at the actual awards itself.
<v Speaker 4>But I did love just like the entire team being
<v Speaker 4>dressed up in the mind where. But yeah, I mean
<v Speaker 4>this is kind of how you do a mic drop
<v Speaker 4>at the Game Awards. Like I have no idea what
<v Speaker 4>the fallback plan was going to be. If like coders
<v Speaker 4>find it and it's like, oh, there's this update that's
<v Speaker 4>just ready to go, I wonder what it's for. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I think it was in a way like everyone kind
<v Speaker 4>of expected it to win Game of the Year. It's
<v Speaker 4>entirely you know, justified that game is phenomenal, and them
<v Speaker 4>just adding new free.
<v Speaker 2>DLC is incredible.
<v Speaker 4>I don't remember if Astrobot did the same thing last year,
<v Speaker 4>like if they talked about, hey, we have for stuff
<v Speaker 4>on the.
<v Speaker 3>Way, I think they did. Yes, Yeah, I think they did.
<v Speaker 4>I if they just want to treat us like thank
<v Speaker 4>you so much, give us free content for all like
<v Speaker 4>godies in the future, I would one hundred percent be
<v Speaker 4>down for that.
<v Speaker 2>Give me more reason to return to that game.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and they and they did steal our gammick of
<v Speaker 1>having their baguettes with them all the time, and it's like, no,
<v Speaker 1>the long bread roll things is one percent giant bomb.
<v Speaker 3>That's trademark. Get off our turf.
<v Speaker 2>From last year, right exactly?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Uh, that statue was Divinity, as we were talking
<v Speaker 1>about at one point this week, cannot altered Beast to
<v Speaker 1>everyone's shame and chagrin.
<v Speaker 3>Instead it was Divinity. Uh.
<v Speaker 1>They showed a trailer for their new game called Divinity,
<v Speaker 1>which you know they've had Divinities, Divinity Original Send one
<v Speaker 1>and two, there's other Divinity games, never a game just
<v Speaker 1>called Divinity. This feels like an opportunity to go back
<v Speaker 1>to that world while also setting up like what feels
<v Speaker 1>like a clean slate of like this is a new
<v Speaker 1>entry point.
<v Speaker 3>They showed the trailer. It was. It was gruesome. I
<v Speaker 3>don't think I don't mind that it was violent.
<v Speaker 1>It was just like, oh man, that's just a lot
<v Speaker 1>of flesh eating a lot of gore to start off
<v Speaker 1>the show. But like I said, in context, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>that'll be completely fine.
<v Speaker 3>It won't phase me at all.
<v Speaker 1>Just in that one context of an awards show where
<v Speaker 1>everyone's kind of sitting down being fancy, it was a
<v Speaker 1>little weird. No one cares about this the game itself, though,
<v Speaker 1>I'm excited to see them go back to this. This
<v Speaker 1>also feels like one where it's probably a ways a way,
<v Speaker 1>but maybe a little bit less so because this is
<v Speaker 1>a studio Larion that always puts their stuff out into
<v Speaker 1>early access, So we could be playing it one way
<v Speaker 1>or another not too long from now, and I'm looking
<v Speaker 1>forward to it. I actually played quite a bit of
<v Speaker 1>Original Sin too, and really enjoyed it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, no, absolutely, Like I played a lot of Original
<v Speaker 4>Sin before I even got my hands and bothered the three.
<v Speaker 4>It was like kind of in the hype cycle of that,
<v Speaker 4>and like, granted, this is maybe the squallchiest trailer I've
<v Speaker 4>seen for a video game all year, Like it was
<v Speaker 4>kind of gross, but I know I'm going to be
<v Speaker 4>their day one regardless.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't know about you.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like we kind of could see early access
<v Speaker 4>launching in like two to three years, maybe even here, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>or see gameplay like not a Summer games Fest that
<v Speaker 4>feels a little early, but like next year's game awards
<v Speaker 4>are like next year Summer game or twenty twenty seven
<v Speaker 4>Summer games Fest. I think Original Sin two was like
<v Speaker 4>like four years before, like early access of walters Kate three,
<v Speaker 4>So all they needed to do was show a logo
<v Speaker 4>for Hilarian and that would have been big enough bop.
<v Speaker 4>So it's it's interesting to see the trajectory they're going
<v Speaker 4>in seeing and get a little bit more weirdly satanic
<v Speaker 4>and stuff with Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I would never stand in their way of doing that.
<v Speaker 1>They should go more satanic at every possible opportunity. Capcom
<v Speaker 1>finally confirms another thing that I think everyone was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>we get it's gonna happen.
<v Speaker 3>Leon S.
<v Speaker 1>Kennedy will be in Resident Evil requiem. He's confirmed to
<v Speaker 1>be a playable character, and they're doing the thing that
<v Speaker 1>I think everyone also assumed. The hunt here was Grace Ashcroft,
<v Speaker 1>the other character I believe that's her name. She's gonna
<v Speaker 1>be the one that has to sort of like run
<v Speaker 1>and it's frightened. It is the scarier gameplay, and then
<v Speaker 1>when you're in control control of Leon S.
<v Speaker 3>Kennedy, you're gonna be kicking ass.
<v Speaker 1>He literally gets a chainsaw and starts chopping up people
<v Speaker 1>himself to get revenge.
<v Speaker 3>Resident Evil four.
<v Speaker 1>I think you know this is stuff they've tried in
<v Speaker 1>the past, but now they seem to have the chops
<v Speaker 1>looking at it. This looks very confident, and I'm I'm
<v Speaker 1>I think it could. They could really pull this off.
<v Speaker 1>How are you feeling about it?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, this seems like it is they've learned every single
<v Speaker 4>lesson they could from Resident Evil six, and they know
<v Speaker 4>how to balance Leon and actually use him in an
<v Speaker 4>interesting way.
<v Speaker 2>I think we all kind of felt it.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe people were an easy when they were like, well,
<v Speaker 4>we couldn't have Leon be scared in like a Resident
<v Speaker 4>Evil game, So this is a really good compromise. I'm
<v Speaker 4>very curious to see how those paths crossed, if it
<v Speaker 4>is a situation where like it's two kind of campaigns,
<v Speaker 4>or if it is interwoven, if it was like PS
<v Speaker 4>one Resident Evil two and it's like, well, there's four
<v Speaker 4>different playthroughs.
<v Speaker 2>You could do.
<v Speaker 4>Granted, at this point, it's just like I don't know
<v Speaker 4>how many big changes you can make.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm gonna be happy to play as Leon. I'm
<v Speaker 2>gonna be happy to play his grace. That game is just.
<v Speaker 4>Looking to be phenomenal, and it's it's so early next
<v Speaker 4>year too, It's like I feel like we don't get
<v Speaker 4>a break in between years.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm kind of like wonder what I would prefer
<v Speaker 1>what I prefer it to be the PS one style.
<v Speaker 1>Pick your campaign either Leon Kennedy or Grace Ashcroft, or
<v Speaker 1>if I would want it to intertwine and kind of
<v Speaker 1>bounce back and forth between the characters. I think I
<v Speaker 1>would want it to intertwine. But that's me as someone
<v Speaker 1>who's probably gonna play the game once. For people who
<v Speaker 1>are going to play it over and over again, maybe
<v Speaker 1>you do want to select.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, we'll see either way. I'm gonna be
<v Speaker 3>excited about it.
<v Speaker 1>Tomb Raider Catalyst was announced for twenty twenty seven tomb
<v Speaker 1>Raider one reimagining called leg Or Legacy of Atlantis. This
<v Speaker 1>is a whole new remake that is out next year
<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty six. And I thought both these games
<v Speaker 1>looked pretty good. I think the tomb Raider one remake,
<v Speaker 1>the newest remake, looks a little bit better in my opinion.
<v Speaker 1>But you know, we'll see more Catalysts later and see
<v Speaker 1>how that comes together. I think the biggest thing for
<v Speaker 1>me is, Yeah, where do you go with tomb.
<v Speaker 3>Raider right now?
<v Speaker 1>You kind of went the gritty reboot route already for
<v Speaker 1>three games. You sort have to go in a different direction,
<v Speaker 1>and I'm not surprised that they oscillated back towards let's
<v Speaker 1>kind of go with the original vibes, let's bring back
<v Speaker 1>the dinosaurs, let's go remake the first game again. Tomb
<v Speaker 1>Raider Anniversary came out in like two thousand and seven,
<v Speaker 1>eight something like that. Yeah, so god, that was like
<v Speaker 1>around ten years after the first game came out.
<v Speaker 3>Now we're much further from that than we are.
<v Speaker 1>Either way, they like remade that game, made it modern
<v Speaker 1>for that time, but it was still like mostly that
<v Speaker 1>that that game in a lot of ways.
<v Speaker 3>I guess.
<v Speaker 1>Really, what I'm just saying is this looks like the
<v Speaker 1>Resident Evil style reimagining of tomb Raiders.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, And then.
<v Speaker 1>I think they did a decent job of modernizing the character.
<v Speaker 1>I think both characters, the one Catalyst and in Legacy Atlantis,
<v Speaker 1>have a little bit of the AI beautification filter face,
<v Speaker 1>but it's it's worse than Catalysts and not so egregious
<v Speaker 1>in a Legacy of Atlantis. Either way, You tomb Raider guy,
<v Speaker 1>how'd you feel about these games?
<v Speaker 4>I don't like a tumb Raider controls in the original games.
<v Speaker 4>I did like I think I kind of didn't really
<v Speaker 4>gel with the third of the reboot trilogy, so I
<v Speaker 4>don't think I ever actually finished that, But I mean,
<v Speaker 4>I love tum Raider as a concept.
<v Speaker 2>I love Lauracraft. This seems pretty interesting.
<v Speaker 4>It's definitely like, like you said, yeah, like it's like
<v Speaker 4>Resident Evil or Silent Hill, like we do the remake
<v Speaker 4>kind of establish hey, we kind of know what we're doing,
<v Speaker 4>and then just blow it out of the water with
<v Speaker 4>that next original game.
<v Speaker 3>This is the strategy right now?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, and just having I'm very excited to more
<v Speaker 4>so feel the controls of a Legacy of Atlantis. That's
<v Speaker 4>going to be a big dictator of Am I going
<v Speaker 4>to give Catalyst a shot right off the jump? Am
<v Speaker 4>I going to be immediately excited for this or is
<v Speaker 4>it going to be like too much tum Raider too fast?
<v Speaker 4>Kind of remains to be seen. But I mean everything
<v Speaker 4>that A Legacy of Atlantis showed off seems really cool
<v Speaker 4>to me. I wasn't expecting to get as interested in
<v Speaker 4>it as I was, so yeah, definitely caught my attention.
<v Speaker 4>I love the dinosaurs are back.
<v Speaker 3>That's yeah.
<v Speaker 4>That was probably the biggest thing to get me to
<v Speaker 4>pop off a little. They're like Oh I remember that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that's sweet.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and that the fact that they're proud that, like
<v Speaker 1>they showed off the dinosaurs, So that tells me something
<v Speaker 1>of like, oh, they're going back that to the fun
<v Speaker 1>route for tomb Raider and not that I you know that.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't think tomb Raider twenty thirteen or whatever it
<v Speaker 1>was wasn't fun, but.
<v Speaker 3>People know what I mean.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Well we'll get legacy of atlandis in twenty twenty six.
<v Speaker 3>I'll give it a real chance.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm yeah, I'm excited, and that was never a
<v Speaker 1>huge tomb Raider guy.
<v Speaker 3>But I also don't have anything against the games.
<v Speaker 1>Control Resonant was announced by Remedy and that's got a
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six release. This is a follow up to Control.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's Controlled too, although I wouldn't be surprised
<v Speaker 1>one day if they did a Control two to go
<v Speaker 1>back to like Jesse Faden's story, that's the big hot
<v Speaker 1>headline here. You're not playing as Jesse Faden. You're playing
<v Speaker 1>as Dylan, her brother, who instead of using the service
<v Speaker 1>weapon that Jesse Faden has, he's got a transforming melee weapon.
<v Speaker 1>And it looked much more like a character action game,
<v Speaker 1>a stylish action game, which I thought, like, just you know,
<v Speaker 1>glancing to the combat, you get a pretty good sense
<v Speaker 1>of what it's going to be like. You know, I'm
<v Speaker 1>often wrong about that too, but I'll say it looked
<v Speaker 1>good to me when like what was happening on the
<v Speaker 1>screen in terms of the action.
<v Speaker 3>How do you feel about it this?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, this is definitely one of the best games they
<v Speaker 4>showed yesterday. I'm a big control fan. I granted still
<v Speaker 4>need to play through all the Alan wake To stuff
<v Speaker 4>to get to this point, but yeah, they I mean
<v Speaker 4>they they had that like Misfire Break earlier this year,
<v Speaker 4>and like I didn't question it for a second that
<v Speaker 4>we were going to get a controlled to an incredible game.
<v Speaker 4>Everyone should go out and play it. There's not a
<v Speaker 4>lot of games that feel as tight as Control and yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I like, quite.
<v Speaker 2>Literally, the sky is the limit.
<v Speaker 4>I have no idea how Dylan is getting that high
<v Speaker 4>in the air too, combo people. The amount of stances
<v Speaker 4>he might have looks like he has like heavy hammer,
<v Speaker 4>he has quick Melee. I don't know this brain. This
<v Speaker 4>game is going to break my brain and I'm going
<v Speaker 4>to be so happy to have that happen.
<v Speaker 2>Very very excited for this, and it's very soon.
<v Speaker 4>I would have assumed that's a twenty twenty seventh thing,
<v Speaker 4>especially after fire Break.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, that's that still just seems to work like they're
<v Speaker 1>busy little bees over there, constantly buzz away making a
<v Speaker 1>ton of stuff. I've stated it on on our talkover,
<v Speaker 1>I'll re.
<v Speaker 3>Emphasize it here.
<v Speaker 1>I think this is the one that really kind of
<v Speaker 1>helps remedy break back in break Out of like with
<v Speaker 1>a game that just succeeds on every level commercially and critically,
<v Speaker 1>they've you know, Control I think probably did really well.
<v Speaker 1>I think this is going to do much better and
<v Speaker 1>it won't have the sort of anchor around its neck
<v Speaker 1>that was alan Wick two not ever launching on Steam.
<v Speaker 1>It's still not on Steam that it did seem to
<v Speaker 1>negatively hurt that game.
<v Speaker 4>That's good toe, so it is coming to Steam. That
<v Speaker 4>is gas to hear.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, So the epic published Allan Wake two epic is
<v Speaker 1>not involved in any of this stuff. So yes, Control
<v Speaker 1>is kind I think I think remedies publishing it themselves.
<v Speaker 3>I think that's right.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's take a break. There's a lot more to
<v Speaker 1>get to from the game. Awards effect. When we get back,
<v Speaker 1>we'll start hitting some of these other smaller stories at
<v Speaker 1>a little bit more of a rapid pace, although we'll
<v Speaker 1>still talk about the big stuff.
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<v Speaker 1>It's Game Mess Mornings, John Martin, Jeff Grubb. Let's get
<v Speaker 1>back into it. Like I said, let's hit some of
<v Speaker 1>these stories a little bit faster we did Control Reternal
<v Speaker 1>successor Sorrows Saros.
<v Speaker 3>Do you have it?
<v Speaker 1>Do you know, like what the actual appropriate pronunciation is not?
<v Speaker 2>No, I don't know. I don't know the government I've
<v Speaker 2>just been seeing Sorrows.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's a government name.
<v Speaker 1>Who could say Sorrow's got a new trailer, got a
<v Speaker 1>release date, And by gotta release date, I mean a
<v Speaker 1>new release date that is a different one that is
<v Speaker 1>later than the previous release date. So it looks, it
<v Speaker 1>looks so fantastic. The game is now coming out April thirtieth.
<v Speaker 1>I think it was previously scheduled for March, right, so yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>a little bit, just a tiny bit of a delay there.
<v Speaker 2>Either I thought it was out on four to twenty,
<v Speaker 2>but I could be wrong.
<v Speaker 3>I no, no, maybe I got the wrong date written
<v Speaker 3>down here. It could be April twentieth. Either way, it's
<v Speaker 3>out in April now.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, plenty to get excited about. One of the
<v Speaker 4>best PS five games is Returnal, still like probably my
<v Speaker 4>top five to probably top three new first party games
<v Speaker 4>from Sony, lot lot to look forward to, and I
<v Speaker 4>didn't really need a story trailer per se, but just
<v Speaker 4>seeing more of that game gets me a lot more
<v Speaker 4>excited and reminds me that the.
<v Speaker 2>First half of this year is just going to be
<v Speaker 2>in an.
<v Speaker 1>Absolute killer yep, absolutely just NonStop. Super Mario Galaxy Movie
<v Speaker 1>got thirty seconds of.
<v Speaker 3>New Wish footage.
<v Speaker 1>Like I think there were some like overlap with the trailer,
<v Speaker 1>but this time Luigi sort of did like a flying
<v Speaker 1>knee kick towards Bowser Junior.
<v Speaker 3>That was pretty good. That movie's still coming out April. Third,
<v Speaker 3>we got Mega Man Dual Override revealed.
<v Speaker 1>By Captom, which first game and twenty twenty seven launch plans.
<v Speaker 1>It's a two D side scroller returning to the series's origins,
<v Speaker 1>and yes, they do plan to release sit in twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty seven quite a way, so off we do have
<v Speaker 1>more about this effect. Maybe I'll just jump around and
<v Speaker 1>get to that here at a second. But you were
<v Speaker 1>happy to see this, right, Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>I was so.
<v Speaker 4>I was very excited to see Mega Man coming back.
<v Speaker 4>It has been an entire console generation, like I twenty
<v Speaker 4>seventeen or something, so it's been basically a full decade
<v Speaker 4>since a new entry.
<v Speaker 2>I'm excited for it.
<v Speaker 4>I'm hoping we see more that like differentiates it, more
<v Speaker 4>playable characters. I am looking forward to Mega Man like
<v Speaker 4>evolving in that sense, but just like having him back
<v Speaker 4>is so refreshing. To see CAPCOMs making him a priority
<v Speaker 4>is always good news of my book.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I it was like, Okay, this is pretty exciting.
<v Speaker 1>We just got that new story that they were going
<v Speaker 1>to try to make Mega Man one of their core
<v Speaker 1>franchises alongside a bunch of other stuff that already is
<v Speaker 1>like Monster Hunter. It's like, oh man, that means they're
<v Speaker 1>gonna go They're gonna go hard on Mega Man.
<v Speaker 3>So when they started this build up.
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't like, there's a chance this is Mega Man
<v Speaker 1>Legends sort of like the like rebooted. There's a chance
<v Speaker 1>that this is a whole new sort of style of
<v Speaker 1>action game, like a ratchet clank thing that Mike was
<v Speaker 1>talking about. But it's it's a two D Mega Man game,
<v Speaker 1>and I think it looks pretty good and I bet,
<v Speaker 1>I bet it will be better than even the last one,
<v Speaker 1>which was what was that eleven? Uh So, so yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm excited about this. I do think though, that
<v Speaker 1>they will do more than just this with Mega Man.
<v Speaker 1>This is not the entirety of their plans. If they're
<v Speaker 1>talking about making this a big new core franchise, right.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, when is x X is the big question right
<v Speaker 4>now because I want to play his X, they want
<v Speaker 4>to play zero. I want to see where that story
<v Speaker 4>continuously goes. It's there's still stories you could tell there.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Like there's the problem with Mega Man is like
<v Speaker 4>there are so many different ways you can go and
<v Speaker 4>I don't even know what information they're getting from how
<v Speaker 4>those collections are selling. But so like we could get
<v Speaker 4>a new Battle Network, we could get another new X
<v Speaker 4>but yeah, like a sub a new sub series, like
<v Speaker 4>a three D sub series that's not really bad, like
<v Speaker 4>X seven ones would be absolutely cool. I the fact
<v Speaker 4>that he's back, I'm I'm very excited.
<v Speaker 3>I yeah, I I we'll look forward to this. I
<v Speaker 3>think you're right.
<v Speaker 1>They'll they'll want to hit all that stuff and kind
<v Speaker 1>of make sure that there are other ways for people
<v Speaker 1>to get it, and that's maybe they can experiment. It's like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna do Mega Well, I don't know if people
<v Speaker 1>are gonna just want a Mega Man X game.
<v Speaker 3>If they're gonna do Mega Man X.
<v Speaker 2>So we'll see kind of the problem.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, exactly right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they would still have space to just use a
<v Speaker 1>new name and do something new with Mega Man. But yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think people are still gonna want to just the
<v Speaker 1>regular X game.
<v Speaker 3>Uh Okay, let's see here.
<v Speaker 1>Capcom invites fans design to design their own Mega Man
<v Speaker 1>boss for Dual Overdrive, that is.
<v Speaker 3>The new MegaMan game.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Blair Marnell at Game Spot as announced
<v Speaker 1>that the Game Awards Mega Man is now officially making
<v Speaker 1>his comeback in a new game, Mega Man a Dual Overdrive.
<v Speaker 1>Since the franchise began in nineteen eighty seven, the Evil
<v Speaker 1>Doctor Wiley has been creating robot bosses to challenge Mega
<v Speaker 1>Man and keep him from foiling whatever nefarious plans he had.
<v Speaker 1>Now it's your turn to design a robot boss for
<v Speaker 1>Mega Man to fight in dual Overdrive. This is they
<v Speaker 1>did this before, right, They did this with like an
<v Speaker 1>early Mega Man game.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I think it was a nintended power. They were
<v Speaker 4>like in peration. I don't remember. It might have been
<v Speaker 4>or Aquaman or something from eight or nine. I forget
<v Speaker 4>which Robot Master one out of that, But yet they
<v Speaker 4>gave us something like weird like squiggily armed design. I
<v Speaker 4>don't know if they're going to incorporate this into the
<v Speaker 4>main series, but this is like the best way to
<v Speaker 4>bring back the fan in community engagement that Legends three
<v Speaker 4>was gonna have before it was canceled. So I think
<v Speaker 4>this is like a really good move to just already
<v Speaker 4>earn like your heart, the heart and soul of potential fans,
<v Speaker 4>but like people who've been around forever feel like they've
<v Speaker 4>been mistreated. It's yeah, them showing faith in the franchise
<v Speaker 4>and the fans who've been around for like thirty plus years. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if we could come up with a
<v Speaker 4>communal robot master, like what type.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, listen, yeah, you're right we should.
<v Speaker 1>But Mike and I he did announce on Games Decides
<v Speaker 1>last night that this is going to be his primary
<v Speaker 1>pursuit going forward, that he will be designing.
<v Speaker 3>He wants to own this.
<v Speaker 1>No, that doesn't mean everyone else can't challenge him, but
<v Speaker 1>he will be focusing all his efforts on this for
<v Speaker 1>the foreseeable future. And I wish him luck and getting
<v Speaker 1>his robot master in there. He says, not to get
<v Speaker 1>too cute, right, you can't get too like out there.
<v Speaker 1>You want to be something that's kind of cool, but
<v Speaker 1>you know, in.
<v Speaker 3>An unexpect way. So we'll see what he's able to,
<v Speaker 3>what he's able to come up with.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's continue here down the rundown I did
<v Speaker 1>Mega Man.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, there's a lot of stuff left. So
<v Speaker 3>let's see here. There we go.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight release date
<v Speaker 1>announced It's coming May twenty ninth. Continues to look very good.
<v Speaker 1>You Lego Batman guy, Lego video video game guy.
<v Speaker 4>I'm an Arkham game guy, so like I played them
<v Speaker 4>as a kid, like the Lego Batman games as a kid.
<v Speaker 4>But I mean this basically being an Arkham game that
<v Speaker 4>goes through the highlights of like the movies and TV
<v Speaker 4>shows and stuff. Yeah, this is probably one of my
<v Speaker 4>most Answest Beta games, especially after how good that lest
<v Speaker 4>Lego Star Wars was. Like, I still can't believe that
<v Speaker 4>game was as good as it was.
<v Speaker 1>Really solid Sean and Chat rallying everyone to submit hundreds
<v Speaker 1>of apple Band character designs. If it becomes a meme,
<v Speaker 1>there is a chance they will select the best.
<v Speaker 3>Appleman or maybe the worst Appleman. Yeah, let's make it happen, everybody.
<v Speaker 1>Diablo for expansion, Lord of Hatred revealed adds not one,
<v Speaker 1>but two new classes, including the Paladin. Blizzard announced Diablo
<v Speaker 1>for Lord of Hatred added to new classes Paladin and
<v Speaker 1>a mysterious second class. It's out April twenty eighth. The
<v Speaker 1>Diablo count on Twitter was retweeted, it's like, due to
<v Speaker 1>like many many comments, we are adding a sword in
<v Speaker 1>board character and they quote tweeted Mike Manatti from twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty four saying, Diabolo for is launching without a sword
<v Speaker 1>in board character. I bet the first class is gonna
<v Speaker 1>be Paladin and then so then They're like, yeah, we're
<v Speaker 1>putting out your paladin.
<v Speaker 3>Here you go, you fucker. That was funny to see.
<v Speaker 1>Debut trailer for the Street Fighter movie shows off famous
<v Speaker 1>special moves and even the car Bonus stage that movies
<v Speaker 1>out October sixteenth. It looks hokey as hell in a
<v Speaker 1>way that I think is like, well, welcome by me,
<v Speaker 1>because I think that this team does not have the
<v Speaker 1>chops to do like something dramatic.
<v Speaker 3>So if that's fine, I don't try that.
<v Speaker 1>Make a hokey fighting movie kung fu movie, and I'll
<v Speaker 1>check it out.
<v Speaker 3>What do you think?
<v Speaker 4>Just the whole presentation was just off the rails from
<v Speaker 4>the jump, everyone coming out there. I have no idea
<v Speaker 4>what to expect from this movie. It's going to be
<v Speaker 4>very funny seeing a new Mortal Kombat movie and a
<v Speaker 4>new Street Fighter movie in the same year.
<v Speaker 2>Seeing them fight it off. I have no idea what
<v Speaker 2>to expect.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if it's gonna be good, but like
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna be there day one. I still watch the
<v Speaker 4>uh that's all front Lungern the the original Street Fighter movie.
<v Speaker 3>Uh Van dam yeah there you go.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yeah it It looks true to the games and
<v Speaker 4>doing that in live action is wild. The fifty cents
<v Speaker 4>fore hat forehead is like seared into my brains.
<v Speaker 2>It is.
<v Speaker 4>It is nightmare just looking at the wrinkles and the
<v Speaker 4>styrofoam here.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, yes, it's uh yeah. I think it's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a good time at the movies. Doubt it's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a good movie, but I won't care. I really won't.
<v Speaker 1>Star Wars Galactic Racer announced the second big Star Wars game,
<v Speaker 1>a big surprise from former Burnout and Need for Speed developers.
<v Speaker 3>That is I think Fuse Games is the name of
<v Speaker 3>the studio.
<v Speaker 1>It is, Yeah, not just take a pod racing game.
<v Speaker 1>It's a speeder bikes and speeders and all kinds of
<v Speaker 1>different swoop bikes.
<v Speaker 3>They did show subab at.
<v Speaker 1>The end, so you can assume that pod racing will
<v Speaker 1>be one of the options, and it.
<v Speaker 3>Looked really good. I think it just looks like the
<v Speaker 3>follow up to.
<v Speaker 1>That entire genre of Wipeout and f Zero, but with
<v Speaker 1>the Star Wars aesthetics which were really working in this game.
<v Speaker 3>I thought it looked impressive.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'm very much looking forward to this game. Episode
<v Speaker 4>pot one. Pod racing is like probably my top five
<v Speaker 4>most played n sixty four games. I've bought it on pretty
<v Speaker 4>much every platform it's on. I absolutely love that game.
<v Speaker 4>Somehow Subulba returns. That's that's crazy. Yeah, that Star Wars
<v Speaker 4>had a great night last night. Yeah, that future is
<v Speaker 4>looking right right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's like and if the future of all the
<v Speaker 1>rest of the stuff isn't these games are so disconnected
<v Speaker 1>from that while also being like square in the middle
<v Speaker 1>of still the kind of Star Wars that people want,
<v Speaker 1>like give us more Episode one or you know, prequel
<v Speaker 1>era games like like this. I don't know if the
<v Speaker 1>Racer is necessarily that clearly subb was older here, but
<v Speaker 1>like still it has those aesthetics, and then old like
<v Speaker 1>Knights to the Old Republic, give us more of that.
<v Speaker 1>They did both those things, and none of those are
<v Speaker 1>going to hang on anything that happens in Mango and
<v Speaker 1>Grown Gon.
<v Speaker 3>Or whatever the hell that goddamn movie is going to
<v Speaker 3>be called.
<v Speaker 1>Uh So, I think I think we could probably just
<v Speaker 1>enjoy these video games and not have to worry about
<v Speaker 1>whatever cinematic Titanic they're going to have happening at their
<v Speaker 1>with their next movie. All right, let's see Phantom Blade
<v Speaker 1>zero as a release date. That's coming out September ninth,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six. It's a kung Kung fu punk action RPG.
<v Speaker 1>Is what is how it's described here. I think this
<v Speaker 1>looked better than ever. It looked great previously, but boy,
<v Speaker 1>I think it looked really fantastic in this trailer. I'm
<v Speaker 1>adding it to one of the games I'm looking forward
<v Speaker 1>to next year.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, awesome.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's a game that's always looked interesting, had like
<v Speaker 4>I feel like, I feel like we haven't seen this
<v Speaker 4>game in so so long, but like, getting a really
<v Speaker 4>polished trailer on top of a release date is very cool.
<v Speaker 4>This is definitely one of the Sony projects that I'm
<v Speaker 4>looking for to the most next year.
<v Speaker 2>Looks hot.
<v Speaker 1>Uh, Pragmata got released date demo and oh you know
<v Speaker 1>it's this Is this the one that got delayed? Which
<v Speaker 1>which one got delayed? Maybe maybe it was Pragmatic that
<v Speaker 1>got delayed. One of these games got pushed.
<v Speaker 2>Sorrow Scott delayed I think a couple of weeks from.
<v Speaker 3>Sorrow, So okay, yeah, it was one of those.
<v Speaker 1>The April lease release date ones Pragmata is coming out
<v Speaker 1>April twenty fourth. Gameplay demo is available now they also
<v Speaker 1>confirmed it for the switch to, so it's like, man,
<v Speaker 1>that's a lot of good news for Pragmata, a game
<v Speaker 1>with that. When I played it at Summer game Fest,
<v Speaker 1>came away from it being like, oh, I am that
<v Speaker 1>is one of my most anticipated games of next year.
<v Speaker 1>It is very fun. I guess people probably have been
<v Speaker 1>trying it by now.
<v Speaker 3>I don't.
<v Speaker 1>I haven't seen any word on the street about what
<v Speaker 1>everyone else is thinking, but I know I'm still looking
<v Speaker 1>forward to it.
<v Speaker 3>So what do you think about the latest from Pragmata.
<v Speaker 4>It looks great. It's looked great for a while. I
<v Speaker 4>love what you guys have been saying about it. There's
<v Speaker 4>a lot of people who are singing these praises. So
<v Speaker 4>I downloaded the demm of this morning. Haven't played yet,
<v Speaker 4>but yeah, it's easily going to be one of my
<v Speaker 4>most anticipated games of next year.
<v Speaker 2>And we don't have to wait that long anymore.
<v Speaker 4>And now it also doesn't have to hold the Minati
<v Speaker 4>baggage of it secretly being a Mega Man game, so
<v Speaker 4>I can enjoy this game for what it is now.
<v Speaker 4>It looks it looks really cool, So yeah, I'll try
<v Speaker 4>that later today. Yeah, and switch to like our e
<v Speaker 4>engine is very good for that platform.
<v Speaker 2>It.
<v Speaker 4>They have done so many games for the Switch Too.
<v Speaker 4>I think it's like nine games and like the span
<v Speaker 4>of six months.
<v Speaker 2>It feels like.
<v Speaker 1>And I think I think Capcom was one of those
<v Speaker 1>publishers out there and one of their earning sports talking
<v Speaker 1>about like Yo, Switch Too is here. We got to
<v Speaker 1>get serious about it, and they, you know, took credit
<v Speaker 1>really have.
<v Speaker 5>Uh Rob, If I ever hear you say the words
<v Speaker 5>Pragmata delayed ever again, you're getting to catch these hands
<v Speaker 5>because you're personally responsible.
<v Speaker 2>Looks at you.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not the one who's like every time they talk
<v Speaker 1>about that game, they delayed it, right, like.
<v Speaker 3>That was what they would do that in lieu of
<v Speaker 3>anything new.
<v Speaker 5>When when they delayed, it's cute they have a little hand.
<v Speaker 5>I'm just like that fucker.
<v Speaker 1>All right, we got to keep going a little bit faster,
<v Speaker 1>So I'm gonna go through these a little bit quicker.
<v Speaker 1>Gang A Gang of Dragon is Toshihiro uh Negoshi's new game,
<v Speaker 1>and it sure looks like Yakuza. Negoshi previously at RGG
<v Speaker 1>start a new studio under Was it Nettie's next on?
<v Speaker 3>I can never remember. I think it might be Netty's.
<v Speaker 2>Oh I think you're right. Actually I think it is
<v Speaker 2>net E's.
<v Speaker 4>And yeah, that whole situation is weird where they're making
<v Speaker 4>them front like the whole publishing bill or something.
<v Speaker 1>Right, and like I felt like they weren't going to
<v Speaker 1>like promote the game, but then it showed up at.
<v Speaker 3>The Game Awards. Maybe Kili's doing a solid for him
<v Speaker 3>or something like that. I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Uh, it looks awesome, like it looks like, oh my god,
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna get like we're gonna have two studios now
<v Speaker 1>that make these kinds of games, like with Japanese talent.
<v Speaker 1>That is extremely exciting to me, and I think they
<v Speaker 1>kind of crushed it with what they're going for here.
<v Speaker 3>Don Lee is the actor for the character model.
<v Speaker 1>I've seen him before, I'm not super familiar with his work.
<v Speaker 1>I will say that that is a big Boy and
<v Speaker 1>it's Big Boy season and gaming once again, and I.
<v Speaker 3>Love to see it. So we'll see what's going on
<v Speaker 3>with man.
<v Speaker 2>He's a phenomenal actor.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Okay, he's in that. I've been meaning to watch that. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>so it's time. I'll make it happen. Hell yeah, Warlock
<v Speaker 1>Dungeons and Dragons is a new single player RPG that
<v Speaker 1>leans into expressive magic.
<v Speaker 3>It's single player game.
<v Speaker 1>Forest three, which is a fall up to the Forest
<v Speaker 1>and Sons of the Forest. Yeah, what do you think
<v Speaker 1>about this one? I was like, this looks more than
<v Speaker 1>those previous forest games.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the shift from just like Legiti Forest to like
<v Speaker 4>a sci fi kind of exploration game is so interesting
<v Speaker 4>because I always was just thinking, oh, you know, it's
<v Speaker 4>that Forest Cannibal game that I liked playing a couple
<v Speaker 4>of times, and then another survival game came out of
<v Speaker 4>my friend's got distracted. But like, yeah, taking it to
<v Speaker 4>space is pretty wild. I think that's definitely something to
<v Speaker 4>keep your eye on because those games are very fun.
<v Speaker 4>But yes, now I have no idea what to expect
<v Speaker 4>from this game anymore.
<v Speaker 1>The big last thing of the show. Do you remember
<v Speaker 1>what it's called?
<v Speaker 2>So I cheated?
<v Speaker 4>I looked at the doc if you asked me, like
<v Speaker 4>ten minutes ago, like Sean asked us before we even
<v Speaker 4>went on, completely forgot what that game was. You ride
<v Speaker 4>on something high Guard. We're talking about high Guard.
<v Speaker 1>We're talking about high Guard, a PvP raid shooter from
<v Speaker 1>the creators of Apex Legends and Titan Fall.
<v Speaker 3>This is out January twenty sixth. That's pretty quick, so you.
<v Speaker 1>Could you probably imagine what happened here is they're launching
<v Speaker 1>this thing and they're going to they probably have.
<v Speaker 3>A big budget to like acquire users.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, so we'll see. I am not moved by
<v Speaker 1>the trailer I saw, but this is like like a
<v Speaker 1>lot of things.
<v Speaker 3>If it plays really well, maybe maybe it'll win me over.
<v Speaker 1>But it just right now, it feels like dangerously in
<v Speaker 1>the concord zone.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, it's also kind of hard because it's like
<v Speaker 4>I don't know how much money they paid or if
<v Speaker 4>like Jeff was rearranging the show himself. It definitely feels
<v Speaker 4>like something happened and they needed to shift the order
<v Speaker 4>of games, like there were so many big games, Like
<v Speaker 4>I feel like Control could have been a good ender
<v Speaker 4>Mega Man. Probably not, but like Mega Man is a
<v Speaker 4>great like close in game, and then you have yeah,
<v Speaker 4>like a Controller of Star Wars.
<v Speaker 2>So it kind of stinks that the the expectations.
<v Speaker 4>Of yeah, half lif three, like like I mean, the
<v Speaker 4>Altar Beast fans, they were they were ready, and now
<v Speaker 4>they're just gonna rip in the shreds.
<v Speaker 2>Uh this yeah it you know books good? Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>they're gonna wise.
<v Speaker 4>It's it's hard, right because it looks like it could
<v Speaker 4>be fun, but there's like no time before announcement to release.
<v Speaker 4>There's no beta to get people actually excited excited for this,
<v Speaker 4>and yeah, it being the last is just like it
<v Speaker 4>kind of has the world against it, but so it is.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah it is.
<v Speaker 4>And it's also hard to compare any game to titan
<v Speaker 4>Fall like that is a series of words.
<v Speaker 1>That are like when you do can make the comparison,
<v Speaker 1>it's like kind of want something has like a campaign
<v Speaker 1>and maybe traditional multiplayer, and this is not that I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, we'll see. I will give it a shot.
<v Speaker 1>It's going to be free to play, it's going to
<v Speaker 1>be a live service game. It'll be there when I
<v Speaker 1>want to turn to it, at least, you know, until
<v Speaker 1>if it doesn't do well, then it won't be.
<v Speaker 3>But whatever, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Total war Warhammer forty K announced from Creative Assembly. They've
<v Speaker 1>done Total war Warhammer games before. This is the first
<v Speaker 1>one they're going to be doing in the sci fi
<v Speaker 1>forty K setting. Yeah, looks really promising. Invincible Versus announced
<v Speaker 1>to a new character. Let's see that is Tierra Wack
<v Speaker 1>or no, that's the voice actor Elmnal. Oh Elemental, right, yes, totally, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I know Elemental. And then for for Loop revealed as
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation's new sci fi co op shooter from Bad Robot
<v Speaker 1>and Left for Dead designer, this is another one that
<v Speaker 1>I was left pretty cold by. It is kind of
<v Speaker 1>a Left for Dead like. It's PlayStations publishing it. Jj
<v Speaker 1>Abrams was on stage, the guy from Left for Dead
<v Speaker 1>was on stage talking about, hey, this is the successor
<v Speaker 1>to it, and then the game itself looked pretty generic
<v Speaker 1>to me.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, how did you feel?
<v Speaker 4>Did jj Abrams not look really like uncomfortable following a
<v Speaker 4>Star Wars game with like a roaring applause, Like he
<v Speaker 4>looked visibly uncomfortable there, and then like they're like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>you remember Left for Dead And then like a couple
<v Speaker 4>of people are like, oh, we we got a clap.
<v Speaker 4>It was right, It was unfortunate series of events. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>like there there was not a lot that did it
<v Speaker 4>for me. I honestly didn't think the trailer speaking to
<v Speaker 4>us as opposed to showing us what goes on in
<v Speaker 4>the game didn't really work and if they were gonna
<v Speaker 4>do like any scripted bits like I hate these kinds
<v Speaker 4>of trailers, but like even the like forced friendship, like
<v Speaker 4>we're working together and we're gonna talk you through, like
<v Speaker 4>what the kind of gameplay loop is sort of trailers
<v Speaker 4>would have hit a little bit better. So yeah, so
<v Speaker 4>even though it's like a Left for Dead designer, it's
<v Speaker 4>like kind of hard to get excited for this because,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, we know what it is, but they didn't
<v Speaker 4>really sell us on why that loop is worth coming
<v Speaker 4>to them for.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, myself muted, I think my wireless charging Logitech mousepad
<v Speaker 1>must have died because my mouse just stopped responding and
<v Speaker 1>it worked again when I plugged it in. So my
<v Speaker 1>induction feel has broken. Everybody. Oh no, I'll forget that
<v Speaker 1>looked at all right. The next game from the developers
<v Speaker 1>of The Ascent is called No Law, and it looks
<v Speaker 1>a bit like Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven. It's like a
<v Speaker 1>first person RPG. It looked very cyberpunky. Let's see here
<v Speaker 1>the yeah, oh this was a big one. Ace Combat
<v Speaker 1>eight Wings of Thieve announced for PC and consoles, and
<v Speaker 1>first trailer this is the first excuse me first Ace
<v Speaker 1>Combat game since seven, which was like twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen,
<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen. I think that was awesome that they kind
<v Speaker 1>of really pulled off and gave it like an air
<v Speaker 1>of importance that I was really impressed by, how about you.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'm very excited for this, having only really played
<v Speaker 4>the base campaign when it launched and not really returning
<v Speaker 4>to it. Yeah, just picking off where they left up.
<v Speaker 4>Ace Combat has always been like kind of middle Gear
<v Speaker 4>in the sky for me, like just some of the
<v Speaker 4>most absurd storylines going on.
<v Speaker 3>Really good way I look it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I am always just a big fan of that.
<v Speaker 4>It is probably the like the dog fighting game besides
<v Speaker 4>like a Rogue Squadron that I've played the most in
<v Speaker 4>my life. I actually I forget what it's called, but
<v Speaker 4>like the Arcade one that came before, is combat one
<v Speaker 4>that they put on like the like the shop or whatever,
<v Speaker 4>like the retro game. That game is even them, That
<v Speaker 4>game is really sick. I'm very excited about this. Got
<v Speaker 4>me to buy the Top Gun DLC that I forgot
<v Speaker 4>came out for seven. So yeah, I'm this is a
<v Speaker 4>game I'm very itching to maybe marathon all of the
<v Speaker 4>games in anticipation of this one, because it's been so long.
<v Speaker 1>I was thinking the same thing. I'm at least going
<v Speaker 1>to go back to some of those PlayStation originals. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know if it was like Ace Combat four right
<v Speaker 1>that they did up to four. I don't think I've
<v Speaker 1>ever played four, so I'm gonna do that. Lenny Kravitz
<v Speaker 1>is joining Double O seven First Light as a villain.
<v Speaker 1>That game's still out March twenty seventh. He's going to
<v Speaker 1>be a black market arms dealer. Cool, weird, but I'll
<v Speaker 1>thank it. I imagine he might be involved in in
<v Speaker 1>the Bonds song, which is maybe why he's in the game,
<v Speaker 1>but who knows. Marvel Rivals Stephens season six trailer confirms
<v Speaker 1>Deadpool as next playable character. That was a ne of course,
<v Speaker 1>that was always gonna be. They were always going to
<v Speaker 1>pull the Deadpool.
<v Speaker 3>Lever, right. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>The Witness and Braid creator Jonathan Blow announced new two
<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty hour puzzle game. Why would you put
<v Speaker 1>it that way? Order of the Sinking Star?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I like The Witness. I don't like Braid. I just
<v Speaker 1>couldn't click with Braid. I don't like Jonathan Blow, but
<v Speaker 1>was curious about this, and now I'm like, Okay, that's
<v Speaker 1>a relief. I don't want to play this, so I
<v Speaker 1>don't have to like deal with Jonathan Blow. But I
<v Speaker 1>kind of also had a hard time of understanding necessarily
<v Speaker 1>what it was. I'll say visually did not have the
<v Speaker 1>the juice of a Witness.
<v Speaker 3>Apparently his artists won't work with it. I don't want
<v Speaker 3>to say it that way. I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know the details, and I don't care they
<v Speaker 1>don't work together anymore.
<v Speaker 3>So that was pretty clear here. Any interest in Jonathan
<v Speaker 3>Blow games and Witness in this game.
<v Speaker 4>Like kind of like I like the concept of Braid
<v Speaker 4>more than I like the execution, and then the Witness
<v Speaker 4>was a game that made me feel really stupid in
<v Speaker 4>high school, so I haven't gone back, but in a
<v Speaker 4>post Blueprints world, I probably would find a lot more
<v Speaker 4>enjoyment with that. Yeah, it's weird because it does look
<v Speaker 4>kind of interconnected, and I think that is somewhat fascinating,
<v Speaker 4>But I don't know it. It might be I just
<v Speaker 4>need to watch someone stream like if Soldier Boys streams
<v Speaker 4>it or something like, I'll watch him play it or something.
<v Speaker 1>I think that would be the best way to consume
<v Speaker 1>it for sure, like at least the most respectful and
<v Speaker 1>deeply understanding of what was going on. And Jonathan Blow
<v Speaker 1>would insist us to watch it that way.
<v Speaker 4>That's his favorite streamer after all. Yeah, his favorite video game.
<v Speaker 2>Guy.
<v Speaker 3>Oh fuck, that's funny.
<v Speaker 1>Lords of the Fallen two publisher discusses dismemberment lore and
<v Speaker 1>learnings for the sequel they're making.
<v Speaker 3>Lords of the Fallen two.
<v Speaker 1>Out of Words is a stunning and unique take on
<v Speaker 1>co op platforming game.
<v Speaker 3>This is the other a split fiction.
<v Speaker 1>Like actually, we didn't talk about the first one, but
<v Speaker 1>we'll talk about it here in a second. Out of
<v Speaker 1>Words was the I think the stop motion one, Like
<v Speaker 1>the characters were the puppets or whatever. It had a
<v Speaker 1>real strong style, and it is one of these co
<v Speaker 1>op games two people play through the whole thing alongside
<v Speaker 1>one another and sometimes doing varying tasks at the same time.
<v Speaker 3>It looked really stylish and cool.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I just find that fast that art style kind
<v Speaker 2>of fascinating. It does have that kind.
<v Speaker 4>Of like like a coraline sort of esthetic to it.
<v Speaker 4>It's not afraid to get like kind of dark with
<v Speaker 4>them just removing their mouths altogether.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. No, I'm a sucker for that. I love being able.
<v Speaker 4>To just play games with friends, like sitting side by
<v Speaker 4>side couch co op.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean I'm in for this.
<v Speaker 4>I'm probably a little bit more excited for the other
<v Speaker 4>one we haven't yet gotten to.
<v Speaker 1>But saying yes, yeah, and did I skip that or
<v Speaker 1>is that in here? Let's see, I'm gonna just go
<v Speaker 1>control f Orbitals. Yeah, I don't see it in here,
<v Speaker 1>so IgM missed it, so let's just talk about it.
<v Speaker 3>Orbitals.
<v Speaker 1>This is seventies eighties anime style, also split Fish, split Fiction.
<v Speaker 1>It takes to Joseph feris like of two players playing
<v Speaker 1>on their Nintendo Switch to where this game is being
<v Speaker 1>exclusively released, kind of like doing cool things like one
<v Speaker 1>player is piloting a neat eighties anime style spaceship and
<v Speaker 1>the other one is using the gun on that spaceship
<v Speaker 1>and you're going through Varius.
<v Speaker 3>Stuff like that.
<v Speaker 1>I don't like, who like Who knows if it's going
<v Speaker 1>to be as good as the fairest games have been recently,
<v Speaker 1>because like split Fiction got really good. But I will
<v Speaker 1>say the orbital style won me over hard and I'm
<v Speaker 1>ready to check this out.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean, you can pretty clearly draw a line
<v Speaker 4>from it Tis two and seeing how they got to
<v Speaker 4>split fiction, and both of those games are phenomenal. But like,
<v Speaker 4>like both this and Out of World having such fastly
<v Speaker 4>different art styles I think is really good for the
<v Speaker 4>style of game. I feel like co Op does need
<v Speaker 4>to be a focus going forward, just because it does
<v Speaker 4>get a lot more people into gaming. Like the free
<v Speaker 4>pass thing is so incredible in a like Lego Voyages
<v Speaker 4>was one of the best games I played this year
<v Speaker 4>co Op. But yeah, no, talking about this game. It
<v Speaker 4>looks like an absolute dream. I am in low with
<v Speaker 4>the aesthetic. I think you guys have mentioned it, but
<v Speaker 4>it does look like the uh uh the Journey Daft
<v Speaker 4>punk album like music video film. Yes, and it's incredible, incredible.
<v Speaker 4>I love those like seventies eighties.
<v Speaker 3>Like, yeah, it's interstellar. Yeah that's what it is. Interstellar. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>This this got one of the biggest pops in my
<v Speaker 4>group when we were watching it in person last night,
<v Speaker 4>it was it looks very cool. Yeah, I just don't
<v Speaker 4>think it'll be switched to exclusive forever.
<v Speaker 2>All my friends was really sad.
<v Speaker 4>But like, I think getting that Nintendo alignment in Push
<v Speaker 4>is probably really good, Like haities benefited from that a lot,
<v Speaker 4>Like there's there's a long history of that.
<v Speaker 1>But at the games sell best on Switch. It's stole true,
<v Speaker 1>it's what you know. It's that in Steam. Steam just
<v Speaker 1>has like a number, so Switch as like that audience
<v Speaker 1>that is into those kinds of games. Okay, let's see
<v Speaker 1>Neo three got a new trailer that games out February sixth. Man,
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be a busy year early. They're going to
<v Speaker 1>release a demo a demo on January twenty ninth, so
<v Speaker 1>a week before the game comes out. Mario plus Rabbits
<v Speaker 1>creator David Soliani announced a new platforming game called Bradley
<v Speaker 1>the Badger. This was another standout for me. It's basically
<v Speaker 1>a parent style game. Yes, a conquer like not another
<v Speaker 1>teen video game, is what I would like describe it as,
<v Speaker 1>where it's like it's gonna take it's perioding a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of different kinds of games. Like there's one called Badger
<v Speaker 1>Born to give you an example, where the Badger character
<v Speaker 1>goes into a bloodborn. It's still a platformer, but then
<v Speaker 1>there is these other elements from these games in there,
<v Speaker 1>and that is the whole point. According to the developers
<v Speaker 1>for like we want to sort of show our love
<v Speaker 1>for games by playing around in their space a little
<v Speaker 1>bit and lampooning them.
<v Speaker 3>What did you think of it?
<v Speaker 4>This is at the end of the day. I think
<v Speaker 4>this might be my favorite game that I saw yesterday,
<v Speaker 4>just the way that it switching art style, switching gameplay,
<v Speaker 4>it being David Soliani, Like that's a huge get. I
<v Speaker 4>didn't realize he was going to rebound to have a
<v Speaker 4>new game already. Yeah, because I feel like Sparks Marin Rabbit,
<v Speaker 4>Sparks the Hope came out like two years ago. But no,
<v Speaker 4>this is someone that I will follow it to the
<v Speaker 4>ends of the earth. He is one of the most
<v Speaker 4>wholesome men you can kind of point to in the
<v Speaker 4>gaming industry right now. So yeah, this being all of
<v Speaker 4>these things and more like we're gonna go into the
<v Speaker 4>real world. The Badger is played by Evan Peter. It's
<v Speaker 4>just a recipe for John really really getting down with
<v Speaker 4>this kind of game. Everyone loved it, Like our WiFi
<v Speaker 4>had problems with us all trying to steam wishless it.
<v Speaker 2>But what did you think.
<v Speaker 1>I'm really impressed by it, Like, like I think it's
<v Speaker 1>you know, it looks really good. I think the kinds
<v Speaker 1>of parodies it's going for feel very modern, like, oh no,
<v Speaker 1>this is these are people who are into games right now.
<v Speaker 1>It's not like, oh, if you asked Hollywood make a
<v Speaker 1>parody of video games and they would be like, they
<v Speaker 1>would do Mario, but they would do they would do
<v Speaker 1>pac Man, and they do a bunch of arcade stuff
<v Speaker 1>and Atari stuff, and it's like, there's nothing wrong with that.
<v Speaker 1>But if you're going to have someone who really knows
<v Speaker 1>ball come and do this, yeah, it's gonna be shit
<v Speaker 1>like Bloodborne and The Last of Us and that's what
<v Speaker 1>this game is doing. So to me, that's just exciting
<v Speaker 1>because we know David Soliani knows ball.
<v Speaker 3>So let's get that game and see how this goes
<v Speaker 3>all right.
<v Speaker 1>Stupid Never Dies is set in a world where monsters
<v Speaker 1>are part of everyday life and you are a lowly
<v Speaker 1>zombie kind of another zombie game. I kind of had
<v Speaker 1>a hard time place in exactly how this one played.
<v Speaker 3>The free ship go yeah, go ahead.
<v Speaker 4>No, So I just didn't remember if this is the
<v Speaker 4>one where you're like vomiting all over the place as
<v Speaker 4>like a projectile weapon.
<v Speaker 2>That's the only thing that stuck with me.
<v Speaker 1>I think it might be yes, yeah, you play that
<v Speaker 1>zombie character, and that there's other zombies you're taking on.
<v Speaker 3>I don't really know.
<v Speaker 1>The Free Shepherd kicks off the game Awards. So that
<v Speaker 1>was the dog hurting sheep game. The sheep hurting game
<v Speaker 1>that is out in twenty twenty seven. But it looked really,
<v Speaker 1>really good. I'm a sucker for any sort of physics
<v Speaker 1>mechanics game of like, hey, if you move here, you'd
<v Speaker 1>cause another thing to move over that when you to
<v Speaker 1>sort of to heard these things, Hurdling was a great game.
<v Speaker 1>This one is going to be along those lines, and
<v Speaker 1>I thought it looked really promising. The Last of Us
<v Speaker 1>on Charge to four director Unveil's next project, Coven of
<v Speaker 1>the Chicken Foot. This is Bruce Staley's new game from
<v Speaker 1>Wildflower Interactive.
<v Speaker 3>It doesn't look a lot like Non Charged or The
<v Speaker 3>Last of Us. It's something smaller.
<v Speaker 1>Old Lady Well, she's a witch. She has chicken feet
<v Speaker 1>for legs, and then she's got some creature that follows
<v Speaker 1>her around that she needs to kind of take care of.
<v Speaker 1>Looks like sort of a platforming puzzle action adventure game,
<v Speaker 1>and I thought it looked at very least, very cute,
<v Speaker 1>very different. Dan made the point that I thought I
<v Speaker 1>agreed with. We don't get to play as old women
<v Speaker 1>in video games very often, and so it's very notable
<v Speaker 1>when it happens, and I get excited to play us
<v Speaker 1>old women.
<v Speaker 3>And I want everyone to know screaming.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I'm gonna go screaming on the street to anyone
<v Speaker 1>will listen, and those who won't as well, especially Okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's see here de Krepit is a terrifying first person
<v Speaker 1>souls like coming to PC in twenty twenty six.
<v Speaker 3>Let's see audio.
<v Speaker 1>Mech gets new gameplay trailer from the audio Surf people.
<v Speaker 3>I love Audio Surf.
<v Speaker 1>The idea is you take your music, put it into
<v Speaker 1>this game, and then it looks like a Vampire Survivors
<v Speaker 1>with you know, shiny musical notes coming at you as
<v Speaker 1>the as the sort of projectiles. Pretty cool idea. I
<v Speaker 1>like that quite a bit. Guild War Yeah, Guild Woar's
<v Speaker 1>Two Visions of Eternity expansion is coming. It got a
<v Speaker 1>trailer and Selasta two which I think is pronounced Solasta
<v Speaker 1>that's going into early access March twelfth, twenty twenty six.
<v Speaker 1>It's a turn based RPG sequel featuring voice talent like
<v Speaker 1>I'maliah Tyler and Ben Starr, which yeah, yeah, of course,
<v Speaker 1>of course he's in the game, of course.
<v Speaker 3>Yes. All right, that's everything I have written down here.
<v Speaker 1>Anything we might have missed, any Any final thoughts from
<v Speaker 1>the Game Awards, John.
<v Speaker 4>No, I mean for the Game Awards. He kind of
<v Speaker 4>covered all of our bases. I think it was a
<v Speaker 4>really great showing for Capcom and PlayStation and I thought
<v Speaker 4>it was pretty decent. It's kind of hard to follow
<v Speaker 4>what happened last year with so many Titanic announcements, But yeah, no,
<v Speaker 4>I think they did a good job. If we're gonna
<v Speaker 4>do like a letter grade kind of deal, what do
<v Speaker 4>you think you would give it?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? I was.
<v Speaker 1>I would be at a B minus C plus probably
<v Speaker 1>a B minus though, because it's grading on a curve
<v Speaker 1>knowing what these shows are, understanding that you can only
<v Speaker 1>have the announcements that are available to pick from. That
<v Speaker 1>means games that already have assets, have companies that have
<v Speaker 1>spent the time and money to make these things already.
<v Speaker 3>H and yeah, I was excited about a lot of
<v Speaker 3>stuff that looked good.
<v Speaker 1>It was easy to ignore the stuff that didn't like
<v Speaker 1>nothing like gotten the way like in some years where
<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh my god, we're doing this for so long.
<v Speaker 1>There was some of that stuff, but we've built up
<v Speaker 1>a calloused soul against the anime, the NonStop gotcha game
<v Speaker 1>commercials or whatever, or commercials for the US military, which
<v Speaker 1>I don't Maybe there weren't any, but it seemed like
<v Speaker 1>there were.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, how about you? Where are you at?
<v Speaker 2>I think, I honestly think I am in that B range.
<v Speaker 4>It's gonna be kind of hard to disappointment with a
<v Speaker 4>new control and a mega Man Game Star Wars Code
<v Speaker 4>to or three effectively, not not literally, but yeah, no,
<v Speaker 4>it was a great group of games.
<v Speaker 2>Fox Tour. That's that's gonna take them getting used to.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, it's better start now because we're gonna be saying
<v Speaker 1>it a lot.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 4>Here you go in the street, talk about Grandma's I'll
<v Speaker 4>scream from the rafters.
<v Speaker 2>Uh fhau Tour. It's like it's turbo time.
<v Speaker 4>And then we run around someone's apartment and like stampalon
<v Speaker 4>all stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah no, absolutely, uh yeah, good show.
<v Speaker 4>Not not mind blowing, but I there there was potential
<v Speaker 4>for more stuff, but for what we got pretty happy.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, same here, all right.
<v Speaker 1>I think what we should do now is actually real
<v Speaker 1>quick last story.
<v Speaker 3>I'll just hit the details here real quick.
<v Speaker 1>The studio behind Doom just unionized. This is from Ethan
<v Speaker 1>Gotch at Kotaku. The team behind Doom the Dark Ages
<v Speaker 1>is the latest to unionize as a wave of labor
<v Speaker 1>organized and continue sweeping across Microsoft owned game studios. They
<v Speaker 1>joined developers across Blizzard, Butthes and other Xbox teams and
<v Speaker 1>a moved aimed at giving them a seat at the
<v Speaker 1>table and how things like layoffs are handled at the
<v Speaker 1>Tech Giant. Got to say, awesome to see this happening
<v Speaker 1>in the same day as the Game Awards. The developers
<v Speaker 1>taking their power where they can. You're not going to
<v Speaker 1>get it from the statue you get at the Game Awards.
<v Speaker 1>So that's pretty clear now that that doesn't have a
<v Speaker 1>sway to like make you now you can go into
<v Speaker 1>office the next day and make demands on behalf of
<v Speaker 1>your team Like, no, it's going to have to come
<v Speaker 1>from a union.
<v Speaker 3>So shout outs to the team over there for making
<v Speaker 3>that happen. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Roughly one hundred and sixty five workers at ID Software
<v Speaker 1>announced on Friday that they had a union unionized, or
<v Speaker 1>that they have unionized with the Communication.
<v Speaker 3>Workers of America, So shout outs to them.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's see here we have the poll question
<v Speaker 1>from yesterday, which actually Sean got posted.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much I saw.
<v Speaker 1>I think he was asking people to go vote, and
<v Speaker 1>we did ask Hey, what letter grade did you give to.
<v Speaker 3>The Game Awards yesterday? And I have the results over here.
<v Speaker 1>Let me do that real quick, YouTube dot Com, slash at,
<v Speaker 1>giant bomb slash posts. All right, let's see here, give
<v Speaker 1>the Game Awards a grade A B, C or.
<v Speaker 3>D or lower.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go with the B that I said, as
<v Speaker 1>did fifty two percent of respondents. Then the next most
<v Speaker 1>popular grade was see it twenty five percent, thirteen percent
<v Speaker 1>gave it an A, ten percent gave it.
<v Speaker 3>A D or lower.
<v Speaker 1>That's a healthy bell curve, right like that. You know, again,
<v Speaker 1>he can only control so much. I think that his
<v Speaker 1>show is always going to be inherently disappointing to people
<v Speaker 1>who want something that's more reverent to the games industry
<v Speaker 1>and more respectful to sort of the wider cultural touchstones
<v Speaker 1>or cultural hot points that we talk about.
<v Speaker 3>He's just incapable of handling those things.
<v Speaker 1>What he is capable of doing is put on commercials,
<v Speaker 1>and the commercials were pretty good. So everyone seems pretty
<v Speaker 1>happy with the you know, b being the most popular. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>that is it, no new poll question because it's time
<v Speaker 1>to do the bomb twelve here in a second, before
<v Speaker 1>we get to that, John Martin, why don't you tell
<v Speaker 1>people where they can find you on the internet what
<v Speaker 1>you have going on and all.
<v Speaker 3>That good stuff.
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely well, yeah, so you can follow me on Blue
<v Speaker 4>Sky at Jonathan Martin dot com or John Martin zero
<v Speaker 4>six dive or something that's that's great Jamie zero sixty
<v Speaker 4>five on YouTube. I think they're removed the ability to
<v Speaker 4>like actually change your handle or something, so something I
<v Speaker 4>reverted on looking into that. Yeah, besides that, kind of
<v Speaker 4>just streaming more games before the end of the year
<v Speaker 4>and finishing games before I submit a top ten or
<v Speaker 4>any kind of list of you guys should be a
<v Speaker 4>good time.
<v Speaker 2>Looking forward to it.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, But we have some people sitting in their list
<v Speaker 1>to us right now. I know that we're still going
<v Speaker 1>to get some next week, so we'll expect a lot
<v Speaker 1>more work soon, Marino and Lexi, we'll get that going.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, let's see here we did that.
<v Speaker 1>We should talk about what's happening on Giant Bomb later
<v Speaker 1>today we're doing upf Ultimate Chicken Horse sequel, Ultimate Raccoon Sheep.
<v Speaker 3>I think I think that's it is. I think that's
<v Speaker 3>what we're calling it. HP Raccoon Ultimate Sheep, Ultimate Sheep Raccoon.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you, Sean.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, we're gonna play that. It's gonna be a
<v Speaker 1>good time. So I really enjoyed that first game, always
<v Speaker 1>wanted to play more of it. Well, let's just wait
<v Speaker 1>for the sequel. Here we are and we'll be wrapping
<v Speaker 1>up the week with that. Okay, I think that means
<v Speaker 1>John Sean, it's time four the Bomb twelve. That's right,
<v Speaker 1>these are the twelve games that really matter to people
<v Speaker 1>who are really playing video games. We got our results
<v Speaker 1>in from a week where most of the games that
<v Speaker 1>are gonna come out this year are now out. Like
<v Speaker 1>that first week of December really does seem like the
<v Speaker 1>finish line for just about everyone. There's you know, like
<v Speaker 1>DLC coming for that Avatar game from last year or
<v Speaker 1>maybe it's two years ago. It's coming out the same
<v Speaker 1>day that the Avatar movie comes out. Yeah, stuff like
<v Speaker 1>that will still happen. But instead or outside of that,
<v Speaker 1>most everything out else for twenty twenty five is now
<v Speaker 1>available to be on the Bomb twelve, so let's get
<v Speaker 1>to it. Number twelve was Sectory, number eleven, Destiny two.
<v Speaker 1>It seems like that that latest update, people are really
<v Speaker 1>into it.
<v Speaker 3>How star Wars is it? Everybody is?
<v Speaker 1>It's something I should check out. I've never played that
<v Speaker 1>much Destiny too, Maybe I should. I know it's like
<v Speaker 1>faux fake Star Wars, but that's fine. Oh yeah, number ten,
<v Speaker 1>Final Fantasy fourteen, number nine, World of Warcraft number eight,
<v Speaker 1>Prince of Persia, The Lost Crown, number seven, The Outer
<v Speaker 1>World's two, number six, Marvel Cosmic Invasion number five, Arc
<v Speaker 1>Raiders number four, Hollow Night, Silk Song number three, Haighties two,
<v Speaker 1>number two, Demon School, and number one Metroe Prime four.
<v Speaker 1>Demon School got pretty close to taking that top spot,
<v Speaker 1>but Metroy Prime four this is its first real full week.
<v Speaker 1>It was number one last week, but that was like
<v Speaker 1>right as it came out, it splashed and number one.
<v Speaker 1>It was always got to be number one for this week.
<v Speaker 1>So we'll see how many people are still playing it
<v Speaker 1>next week, and I'll be interested to see, like like
<v Speaker 1>the Christmas week Bomb twelve, John, I want to see
<v Speaker 1>like what everyone returns to from this year. I think
<v Speaker 1>there's a chance that's like Silk Song, Haities two or
<v Speaker 1>Clare Obscure, where everyone's like, I'm going back to this
<v Speaker 1>game that everyone everyone's been talking about this whole year,
<v Speaker 1>and now I have some time.
<v Speaker 3>Off, let's try to play that.
<v Speaker 1>We will see all right, this will get updated on
<v Speaker 1>giant bomb dot com.
<v Speaker 3>Here's that works from now and everybody.
<v Speaker 1>There is a below the fold on the front page
<v Speaker 1>for giant bomb dot com, the new website, Thank you, Chuck.
<v Speaker 1>There is a module there that has the Bomb twelve.
<v Speaker 1>There's a link right there that's going to say vote now.
<v Speaker 1>I will update that after this show each Friday, so
<v Speaker 1>you can go and find the new Bomb twelve and
<v Speaker 1>vote for next week's game, and we'll get the results
<v Speaker 1>and we'll talk about on each Friday as we always have.
<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, I think it's time to get out
<v Speaker 1>of here. John Martin, thank you so much for hanging
<v Speaker 1>out with me today and talking about video games. Man,
<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate it anytime.
<v Speaker 2>Jeff, it's always a pleasure.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you all for watching and listening. You are the
<v Speaker 1>best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good one,
<v Speaker 1>take care of yourself and goodbye.
<v Speaker 3>Thanks Sean,