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S3 Ep192: 2022 in Preview
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Join Dave and Jake as they look ahead to titles most hotly anticipated in this new year!
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Introduction and Recording Routine
00:00:44
Speaker
How's it going everyone? Welcome to another episode of Serpstone. My name is Jake and I'm joined by my co-host is always Dave. How's it going tonight Dave? Yeah.
00:00:54
Speaker
Indeed. I always try and think of an answer and it's rarely there. I mean, it's tough. I think the only thing that's almost as common as us, our exchange and trying to figure out like what to say is the meta analysis of the exchange and try to figure out what to say. We've talked about it in multiple occasions, how weird it is to just ask someone how they're doing and expect a response.
00:01:20
Speaker
Why is this night different from all other nights? Because it's Thursday and we record. Right. It's like, how are you doing? Well, tonight's the night and it's going to happen again and again. You know, like, huh. Okay. Interesting. Oh, it's Thursday. I do have off tomorrow though. So I will be progressively vibing. I'm still coming off of like, uh, yeah.
00:01:50
Speaker
Oh, good. Sorry, I just say I'm just not full weekend vibes yet. So I'm a mellow fellow. Yeah, I've been very chill this week. I started off with like difficulty sleeping. And if that kind of hits you like early in the week. Now, to be fair, I take responsibility for this because it's usually it's like, oh, there's an afternoon, perhaps like Sunday afternoon, I'm going to drink like an energy drink can. And as I've discussed,
00:02:18
Speaker
Like I had this cutoff, this 6 p.m. cutoff. And if you drink 400 milligrams of energy drink or 400 milligrams of caffeine, it doesn't matter that you finish the whole thing before 6 p.m. That's like a lot of caffeine. Yeah.
00:02:36
Speaker
This literally happened to me, I think, two nights ago. I was just finishing off an energy drink. I'm like, oh, I'll just crush before dinner, which is, again, around 6 p.m. And then I was hanging out playing games. I'm like, all right, guys, I'll see you. Good night.
00:02:51
Speaker
got ready for bed, did the bedtime ritual. And then I woke up in the middle of the night and I was like, huh, that's odd. Like my thoughts were kind of racing. And I was like, okay, I'll go, like, you know where you go and like pee in the dark? It was that vibe. And I whispered to Alex, I'm like, hey, what time is it? She's like, you've only been out for 45 minutes. I'm like, what the fuck? Because it felt like so much longer. Yeah. I was like, all right, let's just try to go back to sleep again. Round two.
00:03:22
Speaker
Yeah, exact same without Alexa, but like we'll have we'll tell Google to play like old country night sounds for like six hours or something like that. And then we'll just get six hours of crickets.
00:03:37
Speaker
Oh, mine jumped to like, get out of here. And it's like, it's convenient because if you wake up in the middle of the night, you have an immediate, no other input necessary, tell for how much time has passed at least. You know that you're under six hours. You know you should just go back to bed.
Sleep Patterns and Caffeine Stories
00:03:56
Speaker
Don't bother waking up, right?
00:03:59
Speaker
But it was the same situation where I woke up and I was like, you know, maybe like a few hours have passed and it was like an hour. Yeah, that's the worst. What do you what do you what do you freaking do? Because like getting up at that point is you're conceding by getting up, right? Like you will be awake. You might be able to do something, maybe a groggy. But you know, in like three hours, you're just going to like crash and be unusable for the following day. And I want to be used.
00:04:31
Speaker
How do you feel about the, like let's say you're supposed to get up at seven and your body's like six and you're like, no. Yeah. And then you like go and lay back down. Your eyes are just closed and nothing else. You're like, mother, and you try and like scrape as much air quote, sleep as possible. Yeah. But then like your alarm goes off at seven, you're just like, God damn. Uh-huh. Cause it was basically nothing.
00:04:57
Speaker
It's miserable. I think everybody would agree that something like that's miserable. I also have that problem where if I set my alarm earlier, like if there's a deviation and I mentally know before I go to sleep that there is a deviation and when I should wake up,
00:05:13
Speaker
like I tend to wake up before the alarm anyways. And not to say I'm like a particularly productive individual in that regard. It's just, it throws me off enough that my body's just like, yep, and get up early. Let's go for it. I'm like, I have calculated the amount of sleep that I need to get and getting up early does not factor into the fact that I went to sleep at like 1.30 a.m. or something like that, right?
00:05:43
Speaker
But I don't know. The nice thing is when you do get sleep after all of that, it doesn't even help because there's like a one day delay before the sleep actually helps you out. So if you have trouble sleeping one night and then you go through the day and then you get perfect sleep the next night, you can still be tired the following day because you don't make up sleep in one day.
00:06:09
Speaker
I don't think you can make up sleep at all from my knowledge. Yeah. Well, I mean, like if you just sleep well enough for long enough, then eventually you start to feel, it's not like you're perpetually tired. If you last sleep at one point, is what I'm trying to say. Oh yeah. True. True. Um, but like I've not had like a shooting out of sleep and then had it carry over. If I had a good night of sleep the next day. Ah, okay.
00:06:35
Speaker
Usually my days are kind of like whiteboards. Hmm. Yeah. It has to be like a really shitty week for me to be like, and actually have it like kind of stack up the shittiness. Yeah. It's gotten to the point where like, if I, if I have like a really crappy night's sleep, then getting a good night's sleep the following night isn't enough to make up for it. Like I'll still be screwed up the following day.
Friendship, Shared Experiences, and Video Games
00:07:01
Speaker
Um, I,
00:07:04
Speaker
This is a story for another time, but at some point I do want to share a funny, like, getting up early or going to bed early story that also involved travel and a bunch of snow. That's fair. We'll cue that up. Remind us to circle back to the audience so we can be a result. Jake adjusted his glasses when he said that he was not going to fucking happen.
00:07:29
Speaker
I think that's fair. One of those is much easier to do than the other. Like, go to sleep early. Huge mistake. Don't even try. Wake up early? Yeah, we can we can we can swing it. We can we can work with this. I could go to bed maybe like an hour earlier. Mm hmm. Because at any point past 1030, my body's just like, you're just kind of hanging out. Like, yeah, it's true. So it's like you dim the lights low and it's not like balls sweat hot. I will fall asleep.
00:07:57
Speaker
Right cuz like my brain will shut off my body shut off and we're out But I guess if both of those things are true, he might be like I actually just Brain no functioning whatsoever body doesn't even move I just hold my breath for the proverbial eight hours. Uh-huh
00:08:24
Speaker
That's why I always wake up like this again. No, that's fair. That is fair. I struggle with it. If I try to go to sleep anytime later than like late night, I tend to sleep for a very short period of time and then wake up rejuvenated for again, three hours until I'm out of it. But you know what is.
00:08:53
Speaker
wake up, you know, wait, you know, what is worth waking up for? What's that? Friendship, friendship and the love and acceptance of those that we care about. And just slightly above that video games, some of which if I woke up to that, I'd be like, how did you all fit in my bed? Like move over, give me space. There's a.
00:09:24
Speaker
Do you remember Black Dynamite? Yeah, of course.
00:09:28
Speaker
Okay, so great entertaining movie. And one of the scenes early enough to kind of like set up the character as being like a super hot badass and how he's good with the ladies. You see him like, it's after, it's like the morning after he's in bed with some girl. And they were kind of talking, he's like, I gotta go. She's like, don't go. And he's like, quiet, you'll wake up the other bitches. And then like, he moves the coverage and there's three other people in his bed. So like, that was what my mind jumped to for like,
00:09:57
Speaker
I mean, you can see my bed behind me. I could fit multiple people there. I just think it's funny. It's the reveal of more people are just in the shot. Right. Yeah. No, that's fair.
00:10:11
Speaker
Yeah. No, that's funny. But anyways, video games. We got some of those this year. This is new year. You might not be able to tell because we have the same problems we had previous years. But some of those problems can be neglected and you can kick the can down the road on them by playing video games in the interim. So we use this as an unhealthy coping mechanism.
00:10:32
Speaker
Kick the can simulator, 2022. It's looking forward to it. So I kind of looked at a game informers list and kind of tried to break these out by like a month. And then as I'm sure you saw on the site and the list here, it's like January, February, March to be announced. And they kind of just, a lot of these things do not actually have dates yet. It's just somewhere in 2022 vaguely.
00:11:01
Speaker
Yeah, I used a slightly different list. I grabbed just one off of Wikipedia, but for the most part, it had the same main entries as what you listed here. I just came back and added I was going to say some of my own. I'm not making these games, but things I figured might be worth talking about because there's
00:11:23
Speaker
There's a lot I don't, I don't know is kind of like a preview of the preview here. If there's a ton this year that I'm super hyped for, but there's more of like a couple big ones. Um, but we shall see. I'd say there's like three in a year. I'm like, yeah. And then there's some maybe four or five or like, yeah.
00:11:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think just three in a year is actually a really low number for things to be hyped for. I don't get excited. I can't get excited anymore. I'm going to see a doctor about it.
00:12:00
Speaker
You get, you get emails. It's like, can't get excited anymore. It's like, play God of War. You're like, okay. Again? This time on PC? Because it's going to be on PC. So, that's actually already, already happened.
00:12:15
Speaker
Yeah, at time of record. So we know
PC Game Releases and Opinions on Upcoming Titles
00:12:18
Speaker
some people who are checking out God of War on PC. From everything I've heard, it's doing great. A lot of people who were waiting for it to not be on PlayStation can now enjoy the joy of God of War.
00:12:32
Speaker
Yeah, it's really, um, I mean, we had an episode on it. Obviously go back, check that out. But, um, it's crazy. The number of games that are coming to PC that I think like, if you went back a couple of years, people would be like, nah, never, not in a, not in a hundred years where it got of war, literally the console seller for PlayStation end up on PC. He was in PlayStation all stars. What are you doing?
00:12:58
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, like this was the, this is one of the ones, right? Cause like people, people liked, um, what, like kill, kill switch, kill zone, kill zone, I think kill zone. People liked, uh, gears of war was no, no, that's X-Box, X-Box. What is PlayStation? It had like final fantasy again, also coming out on PC.
00:13:18
Speaker
Final Fantasy had, Jesus, not Final Fantasy. PlayStation 2 or PlayStation Air stuff had a lot of racing games, fighting games, because it had the dual analogs and places that made sense. Right. Not as much in the way of shooters, where I think the Xbox controller is more suited for, for whatever reason, the staggered analog sticks. But yeah, Killzone still did pretty well. It also had a lot of platformers like Sly Cooper. That's true.
00:13:49
Speaker
There was no others than that. Like if you were to limit it to like the AAA games, I think there's not. There wasn't like a ton where it was just like, absolutely, this is PlayStation's jam. Although, I mean, obviously.
00:14:03
Speaker
Like we own PlayStations, we don't own modern Xboxes. I guess I don't own a modern PlayStation either anymore, thanks five. But like just the same God of War was, you know, it was their thing. So the fact that it's coming to PC now and like a lot of these titles you'll actually see are things coming over to PC from like Xbox or PlayStation categories. Xbox is less surprising because they literally also own Windows, so.
00:14:30
Speaker
Not a surprise but yeah, it's like PlayStation surprises me Yeah, Horizon Zero Dawn was the other one that came over within like last year so that I was kind of surprised by yeah, but I would like them to do that for more things because I I'm not gonna keep it in console every single generation It'll be here and there as it comes up if there's enough games on a given console, right? So if I can just like wait a year to play it, hell, yeah, I
00:14:59
Speaker
Even like Monster Hunter Rise, I was never going to get on the Switch. Now that it's on PC, I'm more likely to. Right. Yeah, I think that's fair.
00:15:11
Speaker
which is also coming out, or has come out at this point. And the other one you had here is Pokemon Legends Arceus, which I will always pronounce as Arceus. But who cares who's right? I don't. I just call it Arceus and it's gonna be shit. That's my hot take on it.
00:15:32
Speaker
I mean, I don't have like I get that a lot of people love Pokemon, but my parents didn't let me play them because they thought they were demonic. So like I don't have a particularly strong attachment to the series.
00:15:42
Speaker
And like, people were talking about it in Discord earlier, and I thought it went through my brain. I was like, if I was a terrible person, or a jerk, I would probably say this out loud, but it's like, Pokemon is basically the call of duty of Nintendo. Like, they release the same game with barely any changes. They add a couple, they add Gothleta as a Pokemon, and like, they're like, here you go, you love this stuff.
00:16:11
Speaker
and people buy it like a crazy amount.
00:16:15
Speaker
Like I don't think it's going to do poor in sales. I just mean, as far as like a game design thing, everything I've seen and like we've talked about this is like, Hey, these are kind of like red flags in games. Yeah. Everything that they've had. It's like, Hey, here's me in a Pokemon fight. Another Pokemon in the wild. And then the wild part of it is vapid as fuck. Like there's nothing there except for like some Hills. I'm like, where's the drive for an open world game? I don't know. Right.
00:16:45
Speaker
It just seems very content dry. But yeah, again, if somebody said that to me in conversation, like, oh, hey, I was checking out Arceus, it looks pretty good. Or Arceus looks pretty good. Oh, yeah. Because I'm not trying to like shit on their day. Yeah, yeah. But if they ask me like, hey, what do you think about this? I'd answer honestly, which is different from like, isn't this cool? Yeah.
00:17:10
Speaker
I think a big part of it is like, it's not that, and I could be wrong, I could be wrong. And as in most things it could be. Like I don't think Pokemon is inherently a good game series. I think that there's
Anticipation for 2022 Game Releases
00:17:23
Speaker
just a lot of nostalgia attached to it. And like Game Freak has the key to that nostalgia. Like they can tap it.
00:17:31
Speaker
by releasing a new game for five mana or whatever, five nostalgia, and everybody will be like, for a time, they'll return to being children and have a lot of fun with it. And I mean, that's awesome. Do you know how shit of a game Pokemon go is real talk? It's not good, but it touches enough of that Pokemon space. And it was a thing like a simple and easy enough to do on your phone. Boom.
00:17:58
Speaker
Yeah. I think they keep doing stuff like that, honestly. And that wasn't even Game Freak, right? That was just Niantic or whatever. True. But I mean, it's the Pokemon IP being used there. Exactly. Well, people got excited about it the same way that people got excited about any Pokemon game that comes out. Because again, they're tapping at nostalgia. They're not inspiring you by making an awesome game.
00:18:21
Speaker
It's just Pokemon. So, you know, it's good for those people. Yeah. But if you have fun with it, then, you know, by all means, continue to have fun with it. I just think that it's the same. There's not a huge difference between the people who play and enjoy Call of Duty every year or twice a year. And like the same people who play Pokemon, it's just different genres. They're tapping different spaces, you know.
00:18:45
Speaker
I like how in that thing, we always refer to Call of Duty, but we never talk about NBA 2K. We never talk about NBA. I'm scared of people who play Monster Hunter games, Dave. Yeah, those are the two. And I skipped right past Monster Hunter Rise on PC. Potential pickup. I mean, I do enjoy the Monster Hunter games. I just haven't played a whole lot recently. I didn't finish Iceborne.
00:19:10
Speaker
I don't have the patience to grind it. Yeah. Like it would need to be a good bit for me to go back to it again. But I mean, I did like a world and Iceborne enough. Now it's fun to play with people. Yeah. I did it on two fucking systems. Yeah. World in particular. It's crazy. Um.
00:19:31
Speaker
I got my time and note and like the other thing on this list. So go into February for a second. There's many things listed here. One of them frothing at the mouth. It's one of them seems to be massively bolded, a massive file like it's a massive font. It's italics and underlined, and I'm sure we'll get to that one. But you also have a horizon forbidden West new friend of the show and guest favored guest in. I know is also very excited to play, but like comparing this to Monster Hunter.
00:20:02
Speaker
Like, hot take that like my friends will kill me for. Like, Horizon is a better Monster Hunter game than Monster Hunter. If you're going for a single player experience. Yes. It's so much more playable. It's so much less grindy, which is hilarious because it's a grindy, leveling open world game. And like, it's very different. I get that. But as far as the fun and action of hunting something, it's actually better.
00:20:32
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot more convenient things you can do that facilitates in Horizon versus like needing to craft everything ahead of time, bring it out on a thing. I guess endemic life's not going to be as much of an issue.
00:20:51
Speaker
with like kicking frogs and other things. There's just Monster Hunter as a game has so much more prep work ahead of time. And things can be slow as far as like using items and other stuff. It's not as convenient as you're going through a single player open world game. And you can fight monsters along the way. Yeah.
00:21:14
Speaker
I think it's more action oriented, which is nice. Monster Hunter spends a lot of time in the prep and the RPG sort of aspects. And like they literally give you a item like spinner. So like switch between your equipped things like, or you could equip them to the radial menu, which is the right way to do it. And then Horizons just like, yeah, radial menu, because why would you use a different way to access your gear? Right? Like, why would you make it purposefully bad?
00:21:42
Speaker
And they're like, hey, two triggers in the D-pad. I'm like, boom, done. Yeah. Crafting arrows in the slow mo to then aim and shoot them again. That's a good one. I'm looking forward to Forbidden West. Unfortunately, although Horizon Zero Dawn has come out on PC, they are obviously delaying the release here. So it's going to be PlayStation first.
00:22:03
Speaker
the knowledge that it's like to get it come to PC sort of kind of maybe makes me I don't know if I'm going to get it immediately I might consider I'd rather wait to play it on PC just because
00:22:18
Speaker
I want more reasons to not have the PS4 anymore. I'm not getting a PS5 anytime soon. But also for like when it's being released, I'm not going to play it immediately. I'd almost rather wait like a whole year. When it's out of everybody's system, I can play it fresh.
00:22:36
Speaker
Yeah. No, I mean, it seems reasonable. Cause, uh, something coming out in February. Dying Light 2. Dying Light 2, which, I mean, did we have an episode on Dying Light 1? I think we did. I know we played it. Yeah. The only reason I remember that, I was listening to a song earlier called, uh, Phase Kicking Song Part 2 by Kabuto the Python. And I remember this because I used an edit for it in this. Cause we were talking about doing drop kicks on zombies.
00:23:07
Speaker
Huh. Yeah. We also had the Liu Kang bicycle kick. It's fine. I remember the episode, but it's probably going to be a good game. I don't, I don't know why I would pick this up first day. I'll probably wait until it's on sale and then buy myself a copy, buy a friend to copy and like play through it. Doesn't seem like a must play for me. If you had to pick a friend, theoretically. Yeah. So.
00:23:32
Speaker
So anyways, Ian's going to be seeing a copy of the game. Yeah, but if we need the content, if we need the content, then I guess we could pick it up and play through. I didn't. I think we both enjoyed that one. It had its issues, but it was fun, actiony.
00:23:50
Speaker
Zombie combat. It's just there's it's zombie parkour and that part great Everything else was shit. Like they try to like force in a story Make it actually they try to make you give a shit and you were just there to kill zombies Yeah, which is oftentimes the problem in multiplayer games. I
00:24:08
Speaker
Yes, it's like you're sitting there, you know, I was trying to think of what would be a great setup, trying to think of a non zombie co-op game. Now, my brain just literally vaporize zombies. It's only zombies. You're playing like it's it takes two and you're like, OK, like parkour parkour is a little bit weak. I haven't killed that many zombies yet. Not the best game. That's the joke. Took me a while to get there.
00:24:35
Speaker
But yeah, probably wait on that one. You put Lost Ark also on this list. I have no idea what that is. I think Lost Ark is going to be some ARPG or MMO. It was an isometric RPG-ish thing. So I think I preordered it somewhere between 20 and 30 bucks. It just looks interesting and I want to be surprised by it.
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah, that's kind of my vague interest. And then the other one eventually when it's fully released and on sale will be last epoch.
00:25:10
Speaker
Yeah. Which I think you played a little bit of. I enjoyed it. Um, although after I played through it and like got through the, uh, the current release content, I was like, I could also just wait till this is done. Like there's no, that's the problem with early access, particularly if it's something where it's like people are still adding, cause this is an ARPG, right? Like people are still adding classes. People are still adding content, like coming in early and being like, this is an enjoyable experience.
00:25:38
Speaker
that will be cut short because I know that the game's not done is like we've talked about it, not ideal. Yeah, I can't imagine anybody who would do that. Mm hmm. Fucking idiots.
00:25:54
Speaker
I actually added one here. I know that we're basically done with February, but like Total War Warhammer 3 also coming out. I don't have a day on this, depending on the day. This could be impacted by other things. It's basically never necessary to pick up Total War on release.
00:26:12
Speaker
But I've been posting periodically little clips and things like that to Discord. I'm like, hey, you can play as the demons. You can play as Chaos Undivided. You can be like a custom demon lord. Pick your head and arms and wings and all that stuff. And you get stat attributes for it. I don't know. There's just a bunch of cool stuff there. But these games are always built off of the previous games. And there will be a point where it's like, OK,
00:26:38
Speaker
Now it's compatible with everything from Total War 1 and 2 and the game probably shouldn't be picked up until they actually flip the switches on those. Are you saying as far as using other classes or missions?
00:26:53
Speaker
Yeah, like they have that. So they're
Reflections on Gaming and Pandemic Life
00:26:56
Speaker
like notorious for it, for it. And they've only released like the two games in total war Warhammer. But like when two came out, it supported DLC from one. And that was the only way to get, you know, some of those races is literally to own game one and the DLC from game one. But then you just have it in game two.
00:27:18
Speaker
But that has led to this weird pyramid type structure, where if you just pick up game three, there's going to be all of these other content packs from the previous games that you literally need to own the previous games in order to have. So you need to wait until it's like, hey, total Warhammer pack on sale, 75% off. And then you buy everything at once.
00:27:41
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much what I did. I really think what they should do is be like, hey, and if you already have it, you already have the old games, awesome. Otherwise, here's the money you can spend to just get it in the latest engine and you don't have to worry about buying old games that you're never going to play. But I don't know, it's weird.
00:28:02
Speaker
I mean, it'd be really cool if you could just kind of get that as like a standalone, Hey, I want to get this specific race in three, but you'd also have for two and one, maybe just like shit your assets and one and two. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird the way they have it set up. But if you really want like all of the races at play and like, there's an extra campaign map, like literally a full campaign mode that is just present. If you own like the first game.
00:28:30
Speaker
And they really just want people to buy all of it. So it's like, ah, I don't know. It's weird. Not the best distribution strategy. Well, I don't think it's going to impact them too much because the garbage person doesn't care about all of the races. It's true.
00:28:43
Speaker
Oh, I'm just, okay, this started the camera for that. I think that was a racist joke. Um, but like some of them are, some of them are big. Like you want to play like skaven or like vampire coast in three, you're probably going to need the DLC from two. The skaven is popularized from vermintide. Yeah. Well, I mean, yes. Well, yeah, I didn't know what it was beforehand. Cause I didn't follow Warhammer really at all, but I enjoyed the left for dead series. So they're like, Hey.
00:29:12
Speaker
fighting rats. I'm like, yeah, that sounds cool. But then I realized, oh, that's Skaven, which is from this universe based off X, Y, and Z. You guys will have to tune in next time for the Warhammer episode where we just talk about the lore for an hour. But basically, the end times are literally there's a bunch of rats and the world cannot sustain them. They will literally eat everything and then starve.
00:29:36
Speaker
That's your apocalypse. This is fantasy. Rats are hungry. Oh, no. And they have more technology than they should. Elden Ring is also on this list. So anyway, in March.
00:29:53
Speaker
Yeah. So as we were saying, Horizon Forbidden West comes out February 18th and then Elden Ring just a week after February 25th. So there's no way I could play and beat Horizon Forbidden West in a week and then be like, okay, I'm now ready to switch gears for Elden Ring. I'd rather just have February be anticipation and then I just go balls to the wall and Elden Ring. Yeah.
00:30:24
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, it's basically true. Like Destiny is supposed to have an expansion this month. We're going to have to skip that. Oh, all Destiny expansions have been skipped since I don't play the game. That's that's the joke. But yeah, there's this combined with like the games I'm already playing, you know, week by week, do I really need to pick up?
00:30:49
Speaker
Something else, knowing that the higher, the bigger font, bolded, underlined, italics, Elden Ring is coming out the day before an important day for me. It's about to dock someone, but I don't think that docks for me and someone else. People will put it together. That's the problem. But anyways, it'd be a great birthday present.
00:31:16
Speaker
Oh, I didn't know that my mom played Elder Ring. Yeah. Good save. Good save. I mean, that actually is mom and I. It's really weird. But no, I think it'll be good. I haven't asked for time off yet for work, but I probably should.
00:31:34
Speaker
I'm gonna not plan to take off time for work. I just will not be as productive. I suppose that's fair as well. Lunch break? I mean a three hour lunch? Yeah. That's the hard thing when
00:31:54
Speaker
Like I have so much anticipation for more FromSoft content and I've seen enough from the network test to like be titillated by it that as I'm exploring and checking out things, it's going to be hard for me to be like, all right, time to go to bed or something else. I'm just fucking beat.
00:32:11
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These are the nice titles though, like really we are jaded old men when it comes to video games and periodically something comes up where it's like, I really want to play that though. And it's nice that that still exists. That's the connection back to nostalgia that I think people who play and enjoy Pokemon games get.
00:32:33
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That being said, Elden Ring is obviously a better game than Pokemon, so it's not really a comparison. We appreciate it because it's better, not because it's front-soft. But it would be cool if you could capture holos and have them fight against each other, just saying. Or I was literally playing the mod recently, the Convergence mod, and was talking about my Pokemon build, so maybe it all comes together in the end.
00:32:57
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Yeah. I mean, Elden Ring is the game of this list. It's the presumed contender for game of the year, for me at least. If something changes my mind on that, it will be a dark day. But speaking of the shiny day, Tunic finally comes out March 16th. I've been literally talking about this game for three years. I'm like, they had this one trailer. It looks so cute. I'm waiting to see where it goes. And then we didn't hear anything for a very long time.
00:33:28
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But it's going to be for anybody who's not aware, uh, an isometric stylized kind of like low poly. Like if you remember, what was the link one that they did a little bit ago? Uh, cadence of Hyrule. No, like a wind fish. Oh, um, crap. But awakening something. Link's awakening.
00:33:50
Speaker
Yeah. So it's like a remake of, I think, the second Zelda game. By the same name. But it was just really cute and fun. And it looks to be in a similar vein to that. So I'm much looking forward to that. It does look really good. It's actually been four years. Goddamn. Yeah. This is why I never remember my anniversary. I'm sorry.
00:34:18
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This is apparently a PC gaming show for E3 2017. And it was renamed. It used to be called Secret Legend. Huh. Trivia.
00:34:33
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Not so secret now. Yeah, but long time coming. Hopefully it will be worth the wait. It did look good when we we looked at it many years past. And I mean, it's it's nice when games have the time to complete and not be like rushed out the door. Yes, this is another cyberpunk reference, but like it looks and it looks good. It looks good. I don't have reason to doubt it. So.
00:35:03
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So speaking of doubt, Kirby and the forgotten land comes out to switch March 25th. How does doubt relate? So kind of similar to how we've been old men judging Pokemon Legends.
00:35:21
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Arceus. Right, right. This to me, it feels too much like a genre shift, but I feel like it's not going to be super fleshed out because this is a more open world Kirby. Whereas before we've only really had a 3D modeled 2D game of Kirby and the Crystal Shards. Right.
00:35:47
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So it'll be interesting to see like what they do with it, but I'm expecting it to be kind of, I don't know. My, my fears is always going to be very generic with an IP. Right.
00:36:02
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I think that's fair. Um, it's kind of the other, the twist side to it there was like, it's a Kirby game. Well, like not all Kirby games are amazing, but it is a Nintendo first party product. And usually Nintendo doesn't completely drop the ball in those. Um, also it's made by Hal laboratory. So obviously if you say anything bad against this game, Sakurai will kill you. Um, so you gotta watch out for that.
00:36:30
Speaker
I wish the trailers were a little more enticing at this point. They just seem I don't know. I just really like I grew up loving Kirby Superstar so, so much play with my cousin all the time. And then when Kirby Air Ride came out, holy shit, doing city trial nonstop. Actually, he left hell laboratory in 2003. You're fine. Trash talk the game as well.
00:37:00
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I just want it to be a good pollo. The music will be good at the very least. Almost guaranteed you'll be able to just grab the OSD and listen to it until Nintendo takes it off the internet. That's true. It always has a certain upbeat BPM to it that I'm just like vibing constantly. Kirby music's great. Imagine being super depressed and
00:37:23
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Imagine it, if you will. Try and put yourself in that mindset. But yeah, then you just have that crazy upbeat thing going on while you're just lying in bed. Yeah, you're trying to brood, right? Yeah. It doesn't work.
00:37:39
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It makes me smile in the least, even if I'm having a shit day. It's still good music. That's why when I subject all of my employees to terrible work conditions, I have a boombox playing carby music and just walk through the office. Keep it up, keep it up. I don't have any employees.
00:38:00
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Um, the other one I added for this month, the month of March was tiny Tina's wonder lands, which I don't know a whole lot about. Um, it's good that gearbox still basically has nothing besides border lanes. Um, from what I've seen, it looks like a border lands kind of side story, but it has some more RPG elements and some stuff, obviously around tiny Tina.
00:38:28
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I'll have to look into it more. Maybe it is another kind of gender, not gender genre is the word I was going for. Swap gender swaps, a different thing entirely. Um, I guess it's going to be on Epic game store. So, um, I really just, I don't know why. Like they only exist in this universe. They're using border lands for everything. I don't know.
00:38:57
Speaker
Who's to say? If it was on the cheap, we could get some people and it had like enough content. I could see it being played on like a Saturday type thing. Yeah. I guess it's like, it's more RPG focused kind of continuing from their D and D, um, DLC they had for like border aliens two, border lanes three. I think maybe it was pretty sequel. Um, but who's to say I'm not super hyped for it much like April.
00:39:28
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And then we have May, which has, uh, uh, sons of the forest, which I did finally watch the teaser trailer that you sent me. Like two months afterwards or something like that. So what did you glean from that? What were your initial reactions? It looks not like the forest.
00:39:49
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All right, good talk. No, it's the graphics. The graphics looked a little bit better, but I mean, the graphics were already good in the forest. I don't feel like I don't really care if they're any better. I'm caring more for like gameplay.
00:40:04
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So honestly, my money for Dying Light 2 and Sons of the Forest, I think it's going to be like the newer version of it. Like they will definitely build upon it, but I'm expecting it to be roughly the same gameplay.
00:40:20
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Though, as I said, Dying Light had like a very triple A generic as fuck story. The forest had an interesting enough hook for a story for me once you got into like the late game to start revealing stuff. So I'm curious where Sons of the Forest goes with that still. But also I'm not crazy about like getting this at like day one at full price. I mean, I'm still going to get it. It's on my list.
00:40:50
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Yeah, it does look good. I was actually, I'm rewatching the trailer now and it actually looks a lot better than I remember. Um, no, the graphics were like really nice, even though the teaser where I think they just had something that was kind of homoculaic. Yeah.
00:41:07
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Yeah, the animations actually stand out as a lot less janky, at least in this tailored trailer than the forest, which is kind of a good sign. Because the first game did have some system issues.
00:41:25
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What I'm really hoping for is they take some of the initiative that they put forward when they made the first game and they literally just improve on it. Like if it is an improvement and expansion of items and utility and survival aspects, like they had such a good base from the first game, I feel that it doesn't have to reinvent the wheel for me. It's just got to be better. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:53
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Also, I wanted to have a bit more in the way of tech trees so we can get Ian to play it for more than five minutes. But I did enjoy the base building part of it. I did enjoy the combat. I did enjoy the exploration. So just hope it's more good stuff. Yeah.
00:42:12
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Yeah. Uh, although it seems weird to have like a survival game here, um, be one of the more interesting titles, I think so far. I mean, like it's, it's honestly up there. Got like Elden ring, obviously horizon I'm excited for, but potentially would delay literally a year like a PC release. A lot of these are kind of off of existing things that we know and like and trust. So it makes sense.
00:42:37
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Yeah. So it's actually up there a little bit, which is surprising to me. I didn't realize that until I thought about it just now. But this is Jake's awakening. He's a big sons of the forest. And yeah, we streaming at day one. Probably not June, July, August and then August. There's Saints Row, which is, I guess, just a remake.
00:43:01
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They're working on from the first Saints Row. This is good because a little bit of trivia for behind the curtain of the podcast. Dave and I attempted to play Saints Row 4 to prepare for an episode on Saints Row 4. And as you may notice, there is no episode on Saints Row 4 in the game. Heck, it crashed and we could not get it working together. Like multiple times. Yeah. So we just pulled the plug on that.
00:43:30
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So hopefully if they literally remake the entire series, we'll be able to play Saints Row IV when it comes out. We'll do that and then Tony Hawk. Yeah. From what little I played of it, it seems fun.
00:43:45
Speaker
I don't know, like the writing in it was actually good. I was entertained. I was along for the ride. It was really unfortunate that we couldn't run it because like the way I've described this series is like Grand Theft Auto, if it was fun. Yeah. And that's that's basically like what they go for. Anytime that there's a question where it's like, hey, you could pick this boring thing and we could put it in the game and it would be plausible and make sense or
00:44:10
Speaker
You just go like balls to the wall ridiculous Saints were always goes ridiculous Yeah The interesting thing here though is like I played the earlier Saints row games a long time ago and They are really a long time ago feeling time ago. I
00:44:30
Speaker
And they are not nearly as crazy as like Saints Row 3 or 4. They're much more GTA like gang warfare and you don't have superpowers. It was a GTA clone initially until it found its identity. Yeah, pretty much. So the fact that they're remaking the first game makes me like, I'm not actually sure. I'm not sure why they're remaking the one before the series really found its identity, but
00:44:57
Speaker
I guess we'll see in August how it does. Should it release then? Maybe they'll take some creative liberties with some of the things you could do in it or the writing. I don't know. I hope so. Um, also like co-op didn't come in until like game three in the series. So if they do like add multiplayer and things like that to the earlier saints row of titles, I think that could add some longevity to it up and out a little bit.
00:45:26
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I want to jump. I want to jump here to some of the TBA. Sure. Because 99% of the list was TBA. It's there is something in 2022. We just don't have a hard date for it yet. So some of the ones that I'm just interested in as far as seeing how they do or possibly playing Bayonetta three Bayonetta has just always been a cool looking game. Oh, yeah. Though I've never really
00:45:54
Speaker
played more than some Bayonetta 1 before the game's like, you're done. I was like, so I played Bayonetta, the character in Super Smash Bros, but I never even completed the first Bayonetta. I have it on Steam. I played it a little bit and I stopped. I didn't know there was a Bayonetta 2 until Bayonetta 3 was announced. Well, I think it was like exclusively on the Wii, the Wii, I think.
00:46:21
Speaker
Yeah, so it was on the Wii and then it got released for the Switch in 2018. Okay. So there's a four year gap. But yeah, four years is exclusivity, you know. It's just because they started releasing everything for the Switch. Which I don't really blame them. Probably a good call, actually.
00:46:43
Speaker
But is that an interest for you as well? I mean, it could be good. I mean, I'm a fan of like the DMC like games and Bayonetta is like that. So I might very well check reviews and pick it up. Um, the first game actually like did, it has aged like a fair amount. Um, and so something to work around that with a lot of effort put into it. I think it could be cool. I'm sure that Bayonetta too, although I did not play it probably improved a lot from Bayonetta one. Hmm.
00:47:13
Speaker
So I assume Bayonetta 3 will be modern. Right. It looks like it got really good reviews, Bayonetta 2 did, so I'm sure that they'll keep it going.
00:47:24
Speaker
And it's freaking Platinum games, right? I love those guys. When's the last time they fucked up combat? All right, next. Platinum games. Platinum games. So Cult of the Lamb, I was kind of interested. I think it's Devolver Digital published, as most things are. The trailer looked interesting, something about
00:47:50
Speaker
having and managing your cult, but it seemed very cute and interesting. So want to be a cult leader. Yeah. I'm just curious. What was your question?
00:48:05
Speaker
I don't know too, too much about at this point. It just looked interesting. So definitely want to follow up on that. It's like cute horror is it's like Eldritch cute. Yes. Is the type of game that it is. The trailer is both disturbing and immediately engrossing. And it's freaking Devolver. So like they release weird stuff, but it's usually good.
00:48:31
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Yeah, they find like a nice little niche for things like, Hey, that's a cool idea. Then they run with it. Yeah. Ghostwire Tokyo is another one that seems interesting from what short clips I've seen on it. Like you're hunting ghosts in Tokyo. It looks very future wave.
00:48:53
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Um, I don't know too much about the gameplay at this point, but yeah, I remember we saw the trailer for this one. Like we were watching, um, the PlayStation showcase and people expressed some interest in it, but it was kind of like a opening interest, right? Like I don't really know where this is going. We don't really know that much about the game. Um,
00:49:20
Speaker
So I guess we'll see, they've apparently released more trailers since the last time I looked at it, but at the very least it's compelling. Interesting setting. Which is more than a lot of the other games I haven't put on the list that were just TBX. I'm like, I don't know what this is. So possibly we might've overlooked some smaller stuff that could be good, but just aren't aware of it yet.
00:49:45
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Is there anything else on the TBA list that you're balls to the wall about or just leaning towards? I don't actually know what any of these games are. I am going to slap you because that was the setup. That was the setup. Was that for little devil inside?
00:50:02
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Well, that is one of them. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I'm looking at the list, so I'm actively cheating, but like, so these are the three games. Tell me which of these I was supposed to know about. Little Devil Inside. Yes. I Am Jesus Christ. Nope. Steel Rising. Yes. Okay. Is Steel Rising a mech game? Steel Rising is the dark, Pinocchio Dark Souls is what it's being colloquially called. I applaud you for trying to say that word. Colloquially is a trap.
00:50:34
Speaker
It's something to do with Coca-Cola and Yulee. Yuleji for Coca-Cola. So I remember people were talking about this clockwork dark souls or whatever it is. And like the trailer looks good, but I guess I don't know anything about it. That's really all we know at this point. Cause I think it was part of the game awards trailers that we saw it. Um, but it's just, it falls under ghost wire Tokyo of like interest peaked. Yeah.
00:51:05
Speaker
And then Little Devil Inside has had at least two trailers or two or three videos about it. That's kind of like a Monster Hunter-esque, very loose on the Monster Hunter part. But the way it was styled looked very... I don't even know how to describe it. I'm bad at describing art styles.
00:51:34
Speaker
but it's a lot more minimalistic. Um, I'd say to a degree low poly, but right. It just looked really fun and stylized. Yeah.
00:51:48
Speaker
I mean, landing a style, landing a graphical direction is incredibly important for the game. Like if you click and go to the website. I tried to find it on Steam and apparently there is no link. It's not on Steam. It's probably Epic, which is what that likely means. Yeah. This reminds me a lot of like Lego.
00:52:11
Speaker
Yeah, it has a very toyish, polished vibe to it. I'm going to watch another video after the podcast. We should just record two minutes of silence and come back and look at it now. I mean, I do like the style. It's definitely cartoony.
00:52:32
Speaker
I feel like I have to go back and listen to an episode because I feel like we definitely talked about it on here at some point. It's entirely possible. I forget most things. Also, I can't believe you just glossed over. I am Jesus Christ. So this isn't even just the title. This is literally a Steam link to the page. And this is the only game that Dave put a Steam link for. He didn't put a Steam link for Elden Ring so I could preorder it.
00:53:02
Speaker
But you can add I Am Jesus Christ to your wish list. It is literally a simulator of playing as Jesus Christ, presumably through the story of Jesus Christ from the Bible, performing miracles and others. I'm going to read the description at this point. Walk in the footsteps of Jesus in this incredibly first person retelling
00:53:24
Speaker
of the story of Christ from birth to resurrection. The baby ears are going to be shit, I'll say it. Performing amazing miracles, interact with a cast of biblical figures and travel around the Holy Land from Jerusalem to the Galilee? It's the Galilee, dude. Become the Messiah in I Am Jesus Christ in what some are calling sacrilegious.
00:53:50
Speaker
But I was just scrolling through things and I saw I am Jesus Christ. Like, we got to click it. I mean, like, so are these games, are these other games from the same developer? Yeah, they've made such notable games as Moon Farming Pro Log, Jungle House and Jungle House Pro Log.
00:54:11
Speaker
I, I have no idea what this is. Although I will say like some of the gifts here look absolutely ridiculous. Like this is the way they're marketing this. Um, follow his path over 30 miracles, save lives and souls. And in three days, dot, dot, dot. And there's the sign of, um, there's, there's the stone rolling to the side. It's like, also there's a meter, there's a meter in this game. I'm gonna,
00:54:41
Speaker
Which, like, it's on the side. It's got a heart on it. It looks like it fills up. I can't think of any way that you can add an actual gameplay mechanic with a resource to a game where you're Jesus without, like, committing blasphemy. You're like, oh yeah, in this situation, Jesus has the power to resolve this because he has mana, you know?
00:55:06
Speaker
I mean, to be fair, man is what he gave to everybody who came to the sermon on the mount. But I got to work on the Israelites in those 40 years in the desert. I'm clicking through some of the trailers on Steam because they can know how they usually have like a couple and some screenshots.
00:55:29
Speaker
On the third one, towards the end, not gonna lie, POV, you're crucified. And you're looking at other people who are on the other crucifixes next to you. Oh my gosh. This description is still, it's still crazy. One of the key features is receive the power of the Holy Spirit and increase its power through prayer.
00:55:53
Speaker
A spirit bomb, if you will. Oh my gosh. Interact with over 60 characters, including Christ's disciples. Recreate essential events, including the Last Supper. So if you're recreating these events, does this mean that these are non-deterministic events? Can you play out a story in a way that didn't happen in the Bible? Because again,
00:56:17
Speaker
we're back to here. You can role play as Judas who instead he just went to the fridge to get more snacks and didn't sell Jesus out. I'm imagining at the time where like Jesus goes with the Romans after he's betrayed by Judas for the silver
00:56:39
Speaker
And it's just like there's a decision pop up. There's like a quick time event where it's just like go with the Romans or book it. You're just like, OK, book it. We'll see how this plays out. High speed, Chase. Oh, my gosh. But you were only praying so you didn't build up your Jesus stamina. Oh, no. Yeah, this this is probably not good for anybody.
00:57:08
Speaker
No, it's just it looks silly. Check it out on Steam if you just want to have a giggle. Just watch a trailer or two and you'll be like, what? But that's really why it's on the list. It just it caught my eye.
00:57:22
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You can you can request access to the play test, too. So if if you were hyped for that Elden Ring network test, you want to get in on the ground floor, you can join the Jesus Christ playlist. Jake, we can get this podcast off the ground. Oh, my gosh. Partial controller support. Anyways, I digress. That whole game digresses. Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.
00:57:49
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Was there anything else in the list that you want to chat about? Yep. I want to throw two more in there. OK. November, Starfield comes out or is announced to come out. And usually Bethesda as developer actually does hit their ship dates because they don't really care about the quality when they push it. There it is. So. I am curious about this one. This is like I think this is the first
00:58:17
Speaker
actual first party developed Bethesda game that will have come out since they were acquired by Microsoft.
00:58:26
Speaker
Like Bethesda's published things, like they've been publishing Doom, like it's games, but this is, you know, potentially this could be one where they pulled in some other resources, maybe, you know, and be good. There was, Todd Howard did an AMA where he talked a little bit about it and he said it's going to support modding and all the things the community kind of expects from their game.
00:58:52
Speaker
I mean, I don't hate it. I like space games in general. That's like, that's super broad. That's ripe for exploitation by people who make space games, but like nobody does. Um, so that money just stays in my pocket most of the time.
00:59:09
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You have one in your pocket? Not as much, not really anymore. I found some change in a drawer recently and I was like, this is useless. I just put it in a cup that already had change in it and I was like, there you go. That's where you belong.
00:59:26
Speaker
But I mean, I like their RPG aspects. I still do like Bethesda's storytelling. When they hit it, they can. They've proven they can in the past. It's just their accuracy may be below 50%.
00:59:41
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So I don't know, I'm willing to give this one a fair shake and it comes late enough in the year that I mean, February Elden Ring comes out, November Starfield comes out. That's a pretty good spread. You know, like that's a lot of time to play Elden Ring. So there's a chance I might take a break from it to play Starfield. Dave was just shaking his head. You're like, Hey, I'm on my third build. Cool. Um,
01:00:04
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The three builds in like how many months is this? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine months in between. That's, that's at least. I'm really done at the game. 36 players.
01:00:22
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Then December the other one I had highlighted was stalker 2 Heart of Chernobyl, which is interesting because there actually was a stalker a stalker clear skies and a stalker call of Pripyat so How does stalker 2 happen? I Don't know because the previous three were all separate games. They weren't expansions They were separate games
01:00:48
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I have not touched any of the stalker series. So I can't really speak to it. I assume it's like a Baron wasteland type of situation.
01:00:58
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Yeah, it's a fantasy. It's a sci-fi game, dark sci-fi, where Chernobyl's explosion caused a bunch of wacky things to happen, like reality distorting artifacts to appear. And a bunch of it's happening in the background. There's a whole plot line and lore and all this stuff. It's based off a book.
01:01:23
Speaker
And it's cool. It's one of the early survival games, actually. It came out well before all of that really took off. But you have to basically play with community patches, or the game is unplayable. So it could be good. We'll see. Well, I hope they continue the franchise in a good way, then. Yeah. Yeah, this is definitely just like a, hmm, interesting. You'll pick up the paper on the day that this game comes out to see how it did.
01:01:53
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more than buy the game the day off, you know. I'm just kind of like let back and see how it all plays out. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
01:02:06
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That sounds like it's a prompt for something, but I have no idea how to follow up. Unrelated, but Amore is going to come out on Switch at some point this year. If you didn't listen to our episode on it, just buy it on Switch. Then don't. Yeah. I mean, yeah, if you haven't listened to our episode and haven't played the game, do neither of those things. Just buy it on Switch and then play the game.
01:02:28
Speaker
It is cool that they're like more like it's a fairly simple RPG. Like I couldn't play it with just WASD in a spacebar. Yeah. Like it's not crazy input. So if you do stuff like that and translate it to switch, you can really do it as handheld or even just have like a shitty Joy-Con and still get the full game experience. Yeah. This is one of the few games where Joy-Con is really no problem whatsoever other than general hand feel. Um,
01:02:55
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But again, another salute. I think on PC controls, it literally used like Z and X because it was a game maker game. And it had like the default. I assumed you did. Accept and cancel. Undertale for that reason. Yeah. Z, X, and C. But I mean, probably same thing. Yeah.
01:03:14
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But I played with the controller, so. Yeah, but otherwise, I mean, looking a little bit sparse, there's definitely like six months in the middle there where almost nothing comes out. We'll probably, I mean, usually what that means is that the indie scene is gonna be popping off and they just didn't have titles that were gonna show up on one of these websites game lists, right? So it's not to say nothing's gonna come out this year, but we'll probably have to look for it.
01:03:42
Speaker
There's again, it's like 300 games on that list. So I don't think they're all going to be good per se. There are a lot of them probably not for me, but as things kind of come up, I'm sure we'll mention them along the way. Yeah. It's also supposed to be an official release sometime this year. Maybe we'll see because it's early access for grounded, which we played a little bit beforehand. So maybe we'll do an evaluation on that if it comes out.
01:04:10
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Yeah, with all spiders turned off. Yeah. I'm being attacked by invisible spiders. If you could also turn off the ants, then the game will get very easy. Very quickly. Hashtag no bugs, not a bug's life. Yeah. But I mean, that's all I've got for games. Do you have any parting words of wisdom or things in particular you're looking forward to this year?
01:04:38
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I was going to do a NASA quote of like the cycle of life and death continues. I will live and you will die. This too shall pass.
01:04:49
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Yeah, nothing crazy planned yet for 2022. I have to like check my system clock, make sure I'm seeing the right ear. Sounds roughly right. I don't know. Life's still been like a haze with pandemic and not really lockdown, but like still effectively not going out and doing a whole lot. Yeah, it's changed everything.
01:05:13
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Yeah. So we'd like that to change back at some point, but at this point it's just play things a little bit safe and see where it goes. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully things clear up. We can, uh, things will be a little bit better. We can have more in-person events and, uh, hang out sometime. That'll be, that'll be New Year's resolution.
01:05:34
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Sometimes. I have you on record saying you want to hang out with people. Sometimes. Oh, okay, sometimes. TBA. Like many of the games here, Ballers Gate 3, Dark of Lights.
01:05:48
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all this stuff. Another Final Fantasy. Never freaking ends. That's coming out for iOS. That's a phone game. I don't care. Nobody cares. But if you care about games that we may not have covered this week, and the soapstone podcast by David Drake, you could send those ideas into us at soapstonepodcast.gmail.com or you could potentially
01:06:10
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