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This week we go over the winners, losers, and announcements of the Game Awards
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Predictions and Results at the Game Awards
00:00:14
Speaker
Welcome to Add to Party. The Friendship Simulator masquerading is a new show. I'm your host, James Hartwell, and I'm joined by Charles Jamot, and I'm joined by Andy K.
00:00:26
Speaker
Charles won the game awards predictions and I don't want to talk about it. Why are you serious? I am better than everyone else. Well, Charles got a you and you and Charles Charles got a correct. Andy got seven correct. Oh, come on. And I got a number that we won't discuss. Correct. Oh, gee.
00:00:49
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You're a nine in mine. No, not nine. We're all evil. We're all eight. Did I win more because I stuck to Elden Ring? Let me see. What's the one you got that really was the one that you did Christopher Judge for best performance? I think that's the one that pulled you out.
00:01:06
Speaker
What was that even? Yeah, the Christopher Judge for best performance and best community sport with Final Fantasy were the ones that really got you there. Oh, Andy, Andy with the snipe for Kirby for best family and best mobile game, Marvel Snap. Interesting. Good. Well, good for Kirby. Oh, actually, wait. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. I missed something. Oh,
Unexpected Wins and Humorous Banter
00:01:32
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It's a tie. Oh, because Andy and I said as dusk falls for games for impact and it stupidly won. So that is a tie.
00:01:44
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Yeah, I just should not have won. Yeah, I should not have won. I remind everyone, Charles, just a minute ago said he was better than everyone. Yeah, I'm only better than one other. Now we're just better than James. Yeah, I think I don't know. I have to. I didn't really count mine because I could just kind of tell you two were ahead of me. But yeah, Charles, you also got strays. Best debut, Indy. That helped you out.
00:02:14
Speaker
We called us a platoon for best multiplayer. We knew. We knew. Trying to see if there are any long shot ones that we got that were impressive. I think that's it. Yeah, I don't think we had too many long shots.
Workplace Dynamics and Boundaries Discussion
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Yeah.
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Well, overall, now I did Andy with the best action for Bayonetta is something he no, it won Bayonetta got best action game and it should not have won. Why? Because seafood category. I was like,
00:02:51
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That was not good. No, it didn't. Didn't Sifu win something completely unrelated? Like, no, it was an category for best fighting. Oh, okay. Yeah. Fighting then it won something. No, it didn't. It didn't. Whatever. Not as better. Come on, you guys. Baynut is great. I haven't played it yet because, oh, my poor arm. But Baynut is great. Disgusting.
00:03:17
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Hey YouTube vamp about how you're better than me for a second because I have to switch out this battery in my headset. Yeah. Oh Wait, what was what are we supposed to do? Oh talk about James. Well vamp at the very least. What does vamp mean? by time Oh Do some crowd work. How are you doing listener? Oh, I know it's crazy out there. It is winter is getting is coming over Yeah, you know, yeah, I think it is about that time for eating food. Yeah
00:03:48
Speaker
Yeah, what are you gonna have? Oh, that's nice. That's it. Wait, what are they having? I think I'm gonna get some dim sum. Oh, okay. All right. Well, I hope you enjoy your food. That's great. I don't appreciate not being part of this conversation, Charles. Okay. I know. He's not even being able to make it about me. I can't jump in. No? No. That's a shame. Well, what topic do you want to ask our listeners?
00:04:15
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I don't know. I'm trying to think about it right now. Whose fault is that, though? You know, talking about vamping or buying time, I ran into a situation yesterday at a holiday party I was at to for work. And I guess number one, have you ever experienced? What are the words I'm looking for?
00:04:40
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Have you ever, like, found yourself going to, like... Andy, I would be... Andy, I would be careful. Your name is on this podcast, and you're talking about a work party. Okay, I'm not gonna actually go into it then, cause... I'm just gonna say, I created an awkward moment for myself, and then, like... Maybe that's something you don't broadcast to the public, and it's just for us, it's for us. That's fair. That's fair. Listeners, and... No, I won't go...
00:05:12
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I'm making it a bigger deal than it is. But I guess, though, even though to speak towards the experience that got me in this situation.
00:05:21
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Have you ever, guys, well, granted, I was drunk and on energy drinks, but have you ever gotten into a situation where you enter like performance mode, like you just like perform for a crowd and your brain shuts off and you just start saying dumb stuff? Like, have you guys done that or fell into that? That's every interaction as an introvert.
00:05:43
Speaker
Is it like what? No. Yeah. I mean, like every time I talk to people, that's not us. You know, not my it's it's a performance. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's. No, but I'm talking about like minimum size of eight. Yeah. Like like a crowd of eight you're talking to. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I have to talk to you know how big my meetings are sometimes.
00:06:05
Speaker
I have to just deal, I have to just make it entertaining. Everyone still has to like me when I request crazy things from them. Yeah. Andy, here's something I'll say about that on my podcast with the name attached. No one at work knows who I am. What? Do you remember that big piece of news that I told you about my life recently? Yeah, no one at work knows. What? Not a single person.
00:06:34
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Oh, talk about it's not their business. Yeah, I wouldn't tell anybody either. The only way they know is my boss when I asked for a fucking time off. Yes. Like what? Oh no, anything happens in my life and I have to tell everyone.
00:06:53
Speaker
Like, because you have main character energy, Andy. But like, no, this is confusing. This is confusing. What do you do at work? Like, how do you talk to people? I don't talk to people. That's insane. No, but you have to talk to people. Yeah, I talk to them about work related things. Oh, my God.
00:07:19
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Yeah, my thing is, if I start talking about stuff like that, how do you separate work from friends? That's right. And all your other things. How can you just turn it off if everyone from work will constantly still come up to you and talk about stuff? Yeah. Because they need something from you. Because you are work.
00:07:37
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Yeah, because you talk, you talk at work. I'm going to cut the tension of this request by asking about your hobbies that I know about. I'm glad they don't know any of my hobbies. Exactly.
00:07:50
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Yeah, when you ask a request for my team, there's no going around. It's just a bald face request. And I get to evaluate it fairly. But now, what if someone at work dares you to drink a Cheeto or a Hot Cheeto flavored Mountain Dew? Do you do it?
00:08:09
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I mean, sure. I don't know. Isn't it kind and considerate if they ask you the next day, if you shit your brains out that night? I think that's fair. I mean, here's the thing, Andy, it's how many people are already involved, right? Because it's like if there's everybody, well, then I wasn't going to go over there to begin with. Wait, what? I was going to be over at my desk going five fucking five o'clock.
00:08:36
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It was after a meeting or like 425. Yeah, that's good enough Andy speaking from a non managerial position
00:08:51
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And so, for me, I'm not gonna speak for James, but I still had to make a certain line across these things between everybody else and management because I can't always be your friend. I'm gonna make some bad requests from you. I can't. That's it. No.
00:09:16
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You can. No, you can keep you can keep professional and goof in separate, can't you? I've also had to I've also had to lay off my friends, which I no longer have friends at work. That's OK. That's tough. I that would be very, very difficult for me. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's hard.
Workplace Fear vs Friendship-based Dynamics
00:09:35
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Yeah. Yeah. That's why I don't do it anymore. Exactly. Much easier to keep my heart shut tight. Yeah.
00:09:42
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I don't know, but there's some tough conversations. You know, there might be that guy you like, but you know what? What if they do something wrong? They do something with HR. They do something with involving HR.
00:09:54
Speaker
Oh, I've never gotten to an HR thing. I was a team lead for a while, and I would have to do that kind of stuff. But I don't know. I think, honestly, the respect we had each other from that friendship made those conversations easier, I felt like, honestly. But I never fired someone. But I had to do behavioral and reprimand them on productivity and all that other stuff. We were asking them to do stuff they don't want to. But I thought it made it easier. But firing would be way too difficult, James. I don't think I could.
00:10:24
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And it's much easier if you just assume everyone hates you. Oh, but that's, that's just so sad. You start, then you start from a position of working your way up. Okay. Well, I guess, you know, if you assume the worst, everything's bad. Guys, but work is such a huge part of your life. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, exactly. Here's what I get.
00:10:45
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Oh man, you got to work with Charles. He's tough, but fair. That's boring. At least when Charles says something, he's tried to help you out, but he's still going to have to give you something hard. That's right. Also, when people come to ask me for things, my response is, Hey, James, can I ask you a question? My immediate response is no.
00:11:07
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And then and then they get dejected and I go on I'll come over here champ and then we talk and I've heard then I've released it But I've I've upheld this wall that they're always a little scared that I won't change my mind Oh
00:11:22
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I'm like feeling bad for these people already. I don't know. I don't know. Chad and Andy, they're paid a wage. I guess, yeah. And I've tried to make it clear. I never want to be a manager. I never want those responsibilities. Being a lead was enough for me. And I never had to do like managerial crap or at least that high of level. But anyways, I need to talk at work. And sometimes I talk to a large group of people and my brain shuts off. And be careful, everyone.
00:11:51
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Carl, he doesn't know the power of fear like we do. Oh, yeah. Fear of who or the fear you instill? Both. Oh, God, you guys don't don't manipulate with fear. Oh, no. You're the bad guys. No, you're right. You're right, Andy. Guilt is so much better. No.
00:12:11
Speaker
Oh, you're the bad guy. No, no, no. Like capitalism is the bad guy. All right. The higher ups are the bad guys. Not not your team. Well, Andy, you're also assuming Charles and I are working people more than they should be or that we would ourselves work, which we don't do, which is why we're good. No, I mean, well, we got to work, but don't make them afraid. Oh, that's not a happy feeling.
00:12:40
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I don't know you guys. We live different professional lives. We do. And I'm, yeah, I'm much better for it. Fair. You know what? You do you do a work for you. I didn't go to someone's house for a party. Well, how close are you? Well, you're not close to anybody at work. What are you talking about? Boston. Close to everybody. No, I meant to say, you know, emotionally.
00:13:04
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Oh, God, no. No. Well, how many other people went to this party? Everybody else, James? I mean, our party's tomorrow. It's a party. I'm not. Well, first of all, there's a puppy I have to watch, but also where is it? It's it's in the restaurant that's above Cheers. Oh, so it's a neutral place. Yeah, I've been to the party. My brother, my brother had his what's the
00:13:32
Speaker
What's the dinner before the wedding called? Rehearsal? Yeah, yeah, the rehearsal dinner there. Yeah. You should go connect with them outside of work. I'm good. It's a different energy, a different feel, and that's a positivity you bring into the work next day. A lot is positive. Andy, I want to be very clear with you. Everyone thinks that I'm incredibly positive. Okay. But they also respect and fear me.
00:13:58
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because they don't know because they've also seen me be very mean to people who aren't them because they know it's true.
00:14:06
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Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. The perception of being tough and fair is nice because they go. Yeah. Charles does not get so combative unless he thinks he unless he thinks it's a wrong decision. I wonder why he's doing that. It must be very important. That's it. It's not it's not because Charles needs to go do a podcast in a little while. He doesn't. Stay longer.
00:14:34
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to talk through another solution. There's a lot of flexibility. That's it. James is upset at them. He must have given them several chances and they wasted. You know, like one time I, you know, in a different company, a coworker knew that was excited for a video game.
00:14:57
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And for no reason whatsoever, unrelated reason, I was actually like I had to miss something. And then they said in front of everybody, Charles is just excited because he's going to be playing blah, blah, blah game. Not true. But does everyone now know like that I like X game and that I could potentially be slacking off playing another video game? Could be. That's right. Just turn it into a joke, though.
00:15:26
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You don't need to make it a joke. It's now in everyone's head that, you know what, Charles could be doing that instead of working. Yeah. Or but here, but maybe it's you don't control how everyone else gets it, including stuff more, more strict and stiffer bosses love us. I can. Well, I tell everyone I'm lazy. So I guess there's no secret. Like, that's my immediate introduction. So I guess. And don't you need with embarrassment? No, I guess not.
00:15:56
Speaker
Oh, no. Embarrassment is how you diffuse tension. Yes, that's that's a different thing. Hmm. You never lead with embarrassment. No, you lead with embarrassment. What's it? And that's an Andy. Why would you need to lead with embarrassment if there's unless there's tension from the very beginning of your meeting? There shouldn't be any tension at the beginning. No, that's just an icebreaker. Check out this dumb thing I did.
00:16:26
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That's how I introduce every conversation. I don't know. This is interesting. Man, I would hate to work with Andy. I'm great. I'm great to work with. Well, you know what else was great? Who? The winter keelys for the first time in a while. The winter. Oh, well, so did you guys watch it? Yeah. Well, I watched it during Charles. You watched it afterwards.
00:16:54
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Yep, yep. I watched it just as it was closing up. So I got to see the Game of the Year announced live and then I had to rewatch the entire thing.
00:17:04
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And you're like, who is this child in an ill-fitting suit? But we'll get there later. That's true. So there was several, several good announcements at the game awards. I mean, we all kind of did
Game Awards Highlights and Notable Wins
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talk about a little bit about who won, but God of War Ragnarok, I believe, did clean up with the most awards, but Elden Ring took best game direction and game of the year.
00:17:30
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uh, immortality took no awards or Sifu or tunic tunic. Anything should have gotten like best interest, but you know, yeah, you know, it got best Andy stray Andy, the stupid fucking game about a cat. I'm going to defend that game just for how much like joy I've heard from anybody else that's played it.
00:17:52
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I know. Is it because like ha ha ha, it's a cat or is it actually? No, it's people. People have said like of the cat, people go, this is the most realistic cat of all video game cats and people like the world of exploring in it. OK, OK. As long as there's that, I feel like like the love of cats is like almost a meme. Like it's like, come on, guys, are cats that great? Like I understand cats really love cats. Yes. I guess.
00:18:22
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Not to say they can't be great, but come on, guys, just because it's a cat in a game doesn't mean it's game of the year. But as you've described, there are merits outside of the existence of a cat. So I'll allow it. Even though that's right. So we got our first big piece of news. That is that Street Fire 6 has a release date of June 2nd, 2023. It's really shaping up.
00:18:48
Speaker
Also, just kind of building that 2023 is going to be a ridiculous year for gaming, which we will talk about maybe a little bit later. Also, the out of left field announcement, I think probably the most shocking one, Hades 2 was announced.
00:19:09
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uh starring uh zagreus it looks like zagreus's daughter i think they've confirmed that now at this point yeah yeah i mean like same same heterochromia chromia and then um her saying she's gonna save her father yeah really yeah
00:19:27
Speaker
It will be getting an early access next year with timing details to come. How long was Hades in early access? I feel like two to three years. I was planning on the epic game store before all of you fucks. I told you how great it was. And you're like, yeah, the game store. Hey, I'm not one of the ones that poo poo on it. Don't I know. I know not that I'm a sim for China, but I just feel like it's like this is the hill you die on. Really? I waited for it to go on.
00:19:57
Speaker
Yeah. Listen, Andy, people have to draw a line at something. Mm hmm. Not forever. That's right. Well, everybody's on TikTok. Even James, James, of course you'd use TikTok. You use the epic game store, James. Right. That's true. James has less concern about privacy. Yes, we agree. Take it all.
00:20:18
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know everything about me. Listen, I already accepted that I can't run for office, and at that point, nothing else really matters. That's true. Listen, I don't know. In my 40s, I might run for governor. Being an immigrant, that's as high as I can go, apparently. That's true. I could be a senator, I guess. Yeah, I could be senator. I mean, a governor is like the top executive position you could act by. True.
00:20:47
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Yeah. Um, but yeah, I don't know. It'll be, so that's real interesting. I, I, I feel two ways about it. Hades is great. Um, we've talked, I think we've talked about it in the past on several podcasts, but if you haven't played Hades, play Hades. It's a fantastic rogue like clean probably up there at this point with like dead cells and rogue legacy is being like the genre definers. Um, but I don't know how I feel about super giant doing a Hades too.
00:21:17
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Have they never done a sequel before right? They've never really yeah, they've never done a sequel. That's one thing I don't necessarily think that's a negative like people can make sequels, but it just feels like I don't know it's like the world of Hades No, not even a cash instance. The world of Hades did not feel so unique
00:21:37
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that it negated your, you know, required a sequel to really stretch it out. I would have been more sexy portrait pictures. Yeah. But that's what I'm saying. They could have done that with any setting. Right. I don't know if it had to be Greek mythology again. Sure. Yeah. I mean, instead of Greek, they could have done something like Norse mythology. And then they would have won all the awards.
00:22:05
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What would be the next best one for sexy portrait pictures? What world would that happen to? Egypt wouldn't be bad. Good ones. Norse, I don't think of. I mean, as of the Japan, the land of 10,000 gods. Okay. All right. Let's go. You could just do Shinto spirits all over the place. Would that be disrespectful?
00:22:31
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Not in Japan. I mean, like Andy, they made Yokai watch. Yeah, he was going to say, yeah. You could do a Hindu and do as a lot of gods. Yeah. Yeah. Look, there's only two religions we're not allowed to do. We're not talking about making it super sexy. That's what I'm talking about. Right. I mean, I mean, religions are allowed to be sexy.
00:22:58
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Apparently, I've seen some sexy portraits of Jesus. If we do Christianity, then what are you doing? Like the 12 disciples? You could date all of the 12 disciples. But you can't do capital G. What do you mean?
00:23:17
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Oh, my God, you could do. Oh, no, no. I think someone's made that game already. If you go on, it's that it's that I bet it's there. Sexy Christian fan fixture. Oh, yeah, baby. Oh.
00:23:32
Speaker
It really happened at that last dinner. If there was alcohol, I'm sure there was some. That Cain and Abel Yowie bait. Candy. And one kills the other out of jealousy. It wasn't just because he was God's favorite. Rule 34 exists for a reason, you two. I love this.
00:23:53
Speaker
All right. Hades team. I don't need Hades. I need hell. Let's go. Yeah, I mean, there is. I mean, if you get into that's true, there is like Christian held like or I don't know. What is it? The apocryphal hell demons like, you know, you get your your Baphomets, your.
00:24:10
Speaker
Well, the what was the one Dante's Inferno? That was super horny. Yes, it was. OK, they should go there. Oh, and then you get those like super buff arch angels or whatever. Yeah. There's a lot of shipping that can happen there. OK, Christianity next. This has been a weird tangent, but anyway.
00:24:32
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You're the one who doesn't want Hades to, James. Well, you got to give something else. Well, funny enough. Yeah. Our next story, huh? Talk about Christianity. Oh, let's go. Oh, all right. Yeah. Anyway. So what is it?
Game Announcements and Reactions
00:24:47
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Ken Levine studio whose name I already forgot something camp.
00:24:51
Speaker
I don't know. The guy that made BioShock. Ken Levine is the person who made BioShock. Yes. That's the name of his studio. Ghost Story Games. Ghost Story Games. I don't feel like I've heard that once in my life. Yeah, it is in Boston. I was like, they said that. I was like, we got to see this in Boston. I'm like, he's in Boston? Why?
00:25:11
Speaker
Why would you have a game studio? Well, I guess MIT, but still, I don't know. Yeah. So they they demoed his new game, which is called Judas. And boy, howdy, does it look like body shock, which I'm not. I'm not opposed to, I suppose. But, you know, it is opposed to a blonde woman protagonist. That's right. Isn't she? I guess she is. Yeah.
00:25:38
Speaker
Um, yeah, so you play, I don't know. You seem to be on some sort of ship. You have a glowing thing in your hand. There's a cast of very expressive characters that you need to either, you know, join or kill. Um, I don't know. You know what? Actually, I get a lot of vibes from this actually kind of like death loop.
00:26:00
Speaker
Um, sure. I definitely think they have similar styles, but yeah, but like, but in the sense of like, I think they're taking from the same. Yeah. Oh, also this is set space too. So it's Ken Levine has gone from the bottom of the ocean to the skies above to now space. Like, is it like semi Norman Rockwell painting style? Yeah. Yeah. That's it.
00:26:25
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, it was a cinematic trailer. Should go look at it. It's very pretty. They have some kind of like half gameplay in there. But, you know, that's very I don't think we also got a date for it, did we? I don't think so. Yeah, it says wishlist now, but I don't see it. I don't see any date for it. So, yeah, and next gen only, too, which is good. We're moving into that world finally.
00:26:55
Speaker
I don't know. Andy, are you excited for Ken Levine's next project? All right, Charles, are you excited? I mean, I'm not particularly excited, but I'll give it a shot because, you know,
00:27:11
Speaker
The thing with Bioshock is that it sets up this nice little cookie cutter way of building things. They're just especially by Bioshock Infinite, which was there's a man, a lighthouse and a city. And in this game.
00:27:30
Speaker
Technically, they're they're separate entities. There's a woman, a ship. We'll see what other thing goes along. But I mean, there's a space station called the lighthouse. Yeah. Yeah. It looks more like Bioshock. I had a great time with Bioshock. It was fun. Did you like the original Bioshock or Infinite more? Remove gameplay stories. Original Bioshock story is better. Yeah, I agree.
00:28:00
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got infinite I never I'm tying them together yeah I never got like super into infinite like I know people love infinite and it's deservedly so but I don't think anything's ever really topped by a shock one for me mm-hmm so I mean I'm curious to play it I think Ken Levine's a creative guy so I'm looking forward to what he's got
00:28:23
Speaker
Uh, actually, and you know how I said Hades two is the most left field announcement. I was wrong. Uh, Bayonetta origins, sir. What is it? Sariza? What is her name? Yeah. Sariza and the lost demon. Uh, this is a platinum game coming out this next year, March 17th, 2023 with a storybook like prologue of the origin of Sarisa in the, and how she became a witch.
00:28:54
Speaker
Yeah, I saw just the thumbnail of the video and I just wasn't interested. So I don't even know what kind of game it is. Oh, and he can't sexualize the characters and all of a sudden he just didn't say anything. Hey, do not flame it like that. Do not. She doesn't look sexy and like walks away. Pass. You are making me feel bad because I didn't realize that could have been a reason. You love Bayonetta, right?
00:29:23
Speaker
I love the world of Bayonetta. I love living in it. What's at the prologue? I was literally going to say no one plays Bayonetta for the story. I'm not problematic. All right.
00:29:44
Speaker
I'm not. Seriously. I'm glad they are making it. I'm looking at it right now and it kind of gave me Okami vibes. Yeah, I would say it's kind of an asymmetric third-person adventure action game.
00:30:01
Speaker
Um, so, you know, you're kind of a top down perspective and again, very illustrated picture book style, very different from traditional Bayonetta style. I think this is very much told as like, you know, a children's bedtime story of how serious it came to be. So, yeah. And I looked like here's the, here's the, here's the thing. It looks super pretty. Like this is the kind of art style that I love. I don't give a shit.
00:30:28
Speaker
But but if this game does get really reviewed, maybe I'll play this because I think this actually appeals to me way more than the mainline Bayonetta games. Really? Yeah. Do you like character action games? Yeah, I love character action. Well, then why don't you play Bayonetta? He looks like a sexy woman. No, no, not just that. It has some of the best combat.
00:30:50
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Oh, I mean, I have a weird relationship with platinum. OK. OK. I I I really can't think of a platinum game I've ever liked. That's fair. Fair. And it's not me say I'm the problem. Right. This is not me saying they're bad games. I just never clicked with a flat. That's fair. That's fair.
00:31:13
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Well, maybe I've tried to play fucking near autonomous so many times. So many times. Yeah, I haven't, or maybe I just haven't gotten far enough to like really understand what the hype was around it. Um, I need to give it a little more shot, but Charles, you can explore the picture Burke world, the Bayonetta.
00:31:34
Speaker
Uh, I still haven't played two or three. So, uh, no. Why would that matter? Because this is the path. You don't need it. This is the beginning. Yeah. My game backlog has increased financially, exponentially since I have the steam deck. Now I have no excuse for any game. There's a lot of games. And if I even wanted to say and say, yeah, put it on the pile, it's at the bottom of the pile. It's going to be a, that's it.
00:32:04
Speaker
I'm going to retire and finally reach fucking Bayonetta origins. Oh, speaking of dead cells and Roguelikes, by the way, this, this wasn't on the list or maybe it's further down that I'm working through. Um, but, uh, there is a Castlevania DLC coming to dead cells, which will basically have a Castlevania map and that you can play as Alucard and Richter.
00:32:29
Speaker
How in the world did that crossover happen? I don't know, baby, but I might play it because I do love me some Castlevania. Like, Konami comes out of the shadows and it's for that. Yeah.
00:32:42
Speaker
Well, I mean, Dead Souls, as I hear, was very good. So Dead Souls is really good. Well, the deal with Konami is as long as somebody else makes it. Konami. Yeah. And that's fair. Someone else should be making their games. Actually, they said they believe they're making a mainline Castlevania game in-house right now. That's the rumor. Like like
00:33:06
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like a real video game, not a pachinko game. Yes. Right. Well, like, is it in the style of Symphony of the Night or I could not tell you that, but just a brand new mainline Castlevania game. Sure. Go for it. Also, another super interesting thing. Not expecting not expecting to be announced Celeste, the Celeste creators. Next game, Earthblade was announced by extremely OK games.
00:33:36
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I don't I mean, other than the art style, I don't necessarily it looks very it has the same art style of Celeste, but I would think the gameplay looks very different than Celeste, which is very, you know, it was just kind of jump focused and timing based. This looks like it might have more of a combat element to it. So I don't know.
00:34:00
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Yeah, it definitely has combat. I'm seeing the combat there right there. I'd be very interested. Celeste was a fantastic game. Celeste was very good. People love Celeste. Yeah. I had fun with it.
00:34:13
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You know, I was listening to I had it literally this happened yesterday. I was listening to the soundtrack to like the MSX computer game of Dragon half or whatever. And I like the MSX like sound chip makes the same noise as how the characters sound in Celeste, because I always thought it was a strange noise that they all made. Like I heard those identical noises in that soundtrack.
00:34:42
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which I'm assuming is like the MSX sound card or sound chip. Oh, maybe. So I was wondering if that's where they got it. I thought that was also the logo treatment is super, super Nintendo era like logo. If you look, if you look at that. Yeah. And then another gigantic announcement that that has been spoiled for about a year and a half.
Kojima's 'Death Stranding 2' Teasers
00:35:07
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You, Norman. Yeah.
00:35:11
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And I want to be very clear. Everybody is saying deaf stranding to has been announced. No, no, no, no. Kojima came out to announce D.S. to all. That's the title of the game is D.S. to. That's not what this article is saying. Yes, I know that any but look at anything in the trailer and it's only listed as D.S. to.
00:35:40
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I know in Kojima, that's going to be for a reason. Yeah, of course it's going to be for something else. And if you just to kind of recap the trailer a little bit, I mean, definitely go watch it, right? It's a Kojima trailer. But I almost said quiet, fragile from the first game seems to be spoilers for Death Stranding one. If you haven't played it, go play it.
00:36:05
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Um, fragile, uh, seems to be raising the baby, uh, the baby that Sam, uh, that released from the container at the end of the game while being attacked by some unknown force that seems to be trying to steal to either kill fragile or take the baby one or the other. Um, then there's a lot of other sequences. Uh,
00:36:28
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Uh, Troy Baker's character is back somehow. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Yeah. He's in there. He was playing the guitar. Also he, uh, Troy Baker was, uh, singing the song that plays in the background of this. Um, also Sam is back, uh, with completely gray hair.
00:36:47
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Uh, he gets more and, you know, gray hair in that it looks like he's graying early, but still looks, his face still looks young. Yeah. He looks normal, but his hair is like, it's like, if you go, like go white from shock, that kind of thing, you know? Um, and dooms level. Um, and also was it, it was the one other thing. Oh, and it has this message. Should we have connected?
00:37:16
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Mm hmm. So Kojima also gave a kind of little speech talking about it afterwards, saying it's like, you know, after the pandemic, I rewrote this whole game because I didn't want to predict the future again. He really said that. Yeah, no, he said that. That's hilarious. That's hilarious. So I don't know. It's did we get to get a year on this? I don't think we did. Hmm.
00:37:46
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I think it's whenever Kojima feels like it. Yeah, I mean, it. It's still using the decimal engine. I heard there's some unreal five in there, though. But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised that this is a twenty twenty four title. I think I feel this way about what you did with Hades, or maybe you feel the same again here. I don't want to sequel to Death Stranding. Here's the thing.
00:38:14
Speaker
I super giant is super giant. Kojima is Kojima. If Kojima wants to make a sequel, he wants to do it for a reason. Yes. And no one's making him make DS2. Yeah. No. And honestly, that's a very good point. And I that probably then speaks to like why I'm still going to play it and I still want it. Like I'm excited for him to do new things. But Kojima has always done new things within his existing property. So
00:38:41
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DS2 is probably still gonna be very cool.
00:38:46
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Yeah, it's going to be. I mean, I wonder, too, if like the gameplay is just going to completely change. Like, I assume it's so it's so weird as an idea to think that the gameplay of Death Stranding One and DS2 could be completely different. Right. Where the one is completely based around delivering packages across America, while two could be who fucking knows. Right. Didn't he say he's like reinventing a genre again or something?
00:39:13
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Maybe he will. Last time was the whole thing is like, this is the first strand type game. Yeah, yeah, that's right. What does this mean, Kojima? It means you deliver packages for Amazon. Oh, which, yeah, I mean, and to be fair, for a game about delivering packages.
00:39:33
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Somehow building zip lines, I could deliver over mountains. How, how, how satisfying. Yeah. So, I mean, we'll see. So far, he has a good track record of making games that I find fun, no matter what weird gameplay it is. I don't think he's ever had a dog.
00:39:55
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I almost wonder too, Leah Sadow seems to be get at least in this trailer is definitely getting the the main character vibe. Oh, it might also be a thing where Sam is the side character and Abigail Fragile is the main character this time. She was a cool character in the first one. Yeah, she is like there. She had a he had a bad catchphrase, but I like there.
00:40:19
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I'm fragile, but not that fragile. Or maybe we'll get a Mel, your solid to fake out. Although, although I will say in the, on the, uh, on the official trailer here, Norman Reedus is still listed first. So we'll see who's Ellie Fanning playing. Did she play someone in the first one? No. Yeah. She's playing a new character. Okay.
00:40:45
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Yeah, so while we finally know, we can stop pretending it's not happening.
00:40:51
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Yeah, it's DS2. It's DS2. I can't fucking, Andy, you know it's gonna happen. It's gonna be DS2 the entire time. And then it's gonna be like the end credits, and then it's gonna stretch out and reveal what DS actually stands for. And you're gonna go, oh! Yeah! It's evil, you genius! Oh, I, absolutely. And I'm already excited about it. It's gonna be unexpected and just like way more clever than it should be.
00:41:21
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I know. Or this will be the one he finally fails at. Who knows? Maybe, maybe.
Celebrity Appearances in Games
00:41:26
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I'm always ready for people to fall from the top of the mountain. Well, we've seen it happen. But Nakojima, OK, he's the he's the pillar in the wind or whatever. What's the phrase? I don't remember, but he's going to hold us the rock, the rock and the rock something. Yeah. But anyways, I'm excited for DS to now. Let's see how long the media keeps calling the DS to. I don't know.
00:41:51
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Listen until there's a trailer that calls it deaf stranding too. I am pretty sure that's going to be for some reason. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Josh Allen. Nevermind. I was going to play. I wanted to be, don't scream anyway. Uh, they also did gameplay trailer for tech and eight.
00:42:14
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Look cool. Next, a very interesting performance where artist Halsey start doing a performance all in red and revealed that she will be playing Lilith in Diablo four with a brand new trailer from Blink Studios over there. It's blank, right? Who does Diablo's or Blizzard's things? I don't know. I have a name. I can't remember what it's called.
00:42:43
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Uh, but yeah, the, the, uh, new trailer with, uh, Inarius, the original angel descending to hell with his armies to fight loath and her armies. Uh, and we have a release date of June six, 2023, six, six, 2023. Oh, I said one six there. It's a beautiful trailer as pretty much every trailer Blizzard releases is even now in their sad state of affairs. They still make great trailers.
00:43:14
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Um, I think I was, someone interviewed them after this and said like, Hey guys, why don't you make a movie? And they're like, do you fucking understand how much, that would be the most expensive animated movie in history. If we made a movie at the same rate, like at the same level that we make these little trailers, right? They're like the polygons on some of these faces are like the same amount of polygons and like 15 minutes of like a regular movie.
00:43:44
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Hey, and they almost went out of business. Let's do it again. Yeah. Um, also Diablo four has been in kind of a like press, um, review, not review period, but preview period right now. And there's been a lot of.
00:44:01
Speaker
Um, good feedback. It's doing well. Um, they keep saying that there will be no pay to win monetization. Monetization will only be for cosmetics and probably a battle pass of some variety. So we'll see this summer. We'll see if Blizzard can crawl out of their hole. Maybe. Yep.
00:44:22
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Wait, is Blizzard owned by Microsoft? Not yet. Remember? Yeah. Yeah. There's a whole FTC is suing them. There's a whole thing. They showed more Super Mario Brothers clips. The movie continues to look good.
00:44:44
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I don't know. I'm excited for it. I mean, that's true. I'm not excited. I'm not excited for Chris Pratt, but I'm excited for everything else. It's for Overwatch 2. Yeah. It looks like it could be fun. I'll see it. Yeah. So what? I'll see. Oh, but no. Oh no. What? There's going to be kids in the theater. Oh my God. Just go late at night, Andy. Those kids are still going to be there and then they're going to be tired and even more annoying. Go while they're in school. Maybe. Yeah.
00:45:13
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Also, they got a release date it comes out in the US April 7th. Oh That's coming up. Yeah. Oh, baby. Don't worry. We're gonna talk about that. Oh Charles went offline. We lost him Okay
00:45:26
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Drology there. Yep. Did you hear me? Yeah, I got really distinct from you guys for a bit there. Oh, that's weird. Didn't come through. Crash team. Another left field announcement. Crash Bandicoot. Crash Team Rumble revealed. That's right. What have you been asking for? A MOBA starring Crash Bandicoot. Oh my God.
00:45:53
Speaker
I don't fucking know. It comes out next year. Is it going to be made by that studio they shut down? Made by Toys for Bob. It is? Yep. OK. I mean, they've they've shown that they can do good stuff. Maybe maybe they will. I don't know. Expectations in the year of our Lord 2023, you would release a MOBA, but more power to them.
00:46:19
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Next, they had a cyberpunk 2077 DLC teaser. We're revealing that Idris Elba will be playing a character because God damn it, it worked for Keanu. It'll work again with Idris. Oh, bring him in with the name. I mean, like, yeah, everyone likes Idris Elba. That's I mean, that's a good bankable person. Yeah. Yeah. Keanu like Idris Elba. Who else do we universally like? You could put.
00:46:47
Speaker
The Rock? Organ Freeman would be good. Samuel Jackson? That would be great. Samuel Jackson? Tom Holland? Oh, Tom Holland, yeah. That would be good. Tom Hanks? Tom Hanks? I'd like to see Tom Hanks in a video game. You know what? I would too.
00:47:07
Speaker
That would be it better be in a wholesome role or not. Yeah, I don't think you're aware of Tom Hanks's career. He's not only played wholesome characters. I'm trying to think of when he wasn't the 80s. I mean, he played. You remember Philadelphia, where he played a lawyer who is unjustly fired from his firm for having AIDS?
00:47:29
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No. Yes. Oh, I have heard of that movie. Yes. Yes. Holson is not the right word to use, but I mean, has he ever played the antagonist? Uh, maybe I can't remember.
00:47:43
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He did play that guy on Black Hammer. He needs to have a Bob Saget moment where everybody's like, oh, you are America's dad. And I can't tell those crude jokes. Andy, let's say he was an antagonist. He played Woody in Toy Story. Oh, wait, what is a bad guy?
00:48:02
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Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't want things to change. He he was both the protagonist and the antagonist to himself. And then they and then because it's a kid's movie, they edit it. And then again, where's kept secret from software announced their next game, armored core fires of Rubicon sticks with a beautiful trailer. I'm begging you, begging you. Go watch this trailer.
00:48:32
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It looks good. Beautiful. Nearly rivals or succeeds the Blizzard Diablo trailer, I would say. And that's high praise. There's also a lot of weird Dark Souls coded language in there, although it is pretty normal for armored core from what I hear. But whereas. Yeah. Yeah. What does the what is it? Let the last cinders burn. Oh, yeah.
00:49:02
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Yeah. And what's interesting is now Miyazaki's done some interviews since then where he goes, no, that's not going to be a Soulsborne game. There's going to be an armor court game. They're like, so what's that mean? Are you going to work that in with the Soulsborne formula? He's like, no, no, we made armor court before. This is a game.
00:49:18
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Listen, it's going to be a lot of menus and just hope you made the right decisions. Man. Yeah, I was so happy about that. I think we talked about this to the last time with the rumors. I said, like, no, it better stay as an armored core game and not trying to move into a.
00:49:33
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Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. They have a lot of learnings since the last time they made an armor court game. So they can still make an armor court game with a lot of refinement, right? To make it more fun. I'm definitely more hesitant to play it.
00:49:49
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Um, then I was originally, and I was like, Oh, okay. They're going to take their, all also coming next year. Um, they're going to take their, um, their souls board foam reel and apply it to one of their old brands. Like, this is very good. I'd be very interested in it. Um, but no, it's, it's going to be, I don't know. This is where you spend a lot of time in menus and fucking get blown up in two minutes. I don't know. I've never played an arm record, but I, I hear a lot of interesting things about it.
00:50:15
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Uh, yeah, it's trial and error, but in a different way. It's definitely a, all right, boys, I brought tank treads and heavy weapons in a giant fast moving map. And I went, Oh, that's incorrect. Let me build something else real quick. Uh, and everything's just going to be named random letters and numbers together. And it's just like, I don't know how anything is different than anything. I don't know what's going on, but granted, I don't like menus driven stuff.
00:50:43
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Um, I did hear someone interesting. I've never heard it, uh, named so clearly, which is, um, there's another streamer, Andy Cortez, uh, who loves, um, from software games, like the dark soul series. Uh, but, and also loves max.
00:51:01
Speaker
but hates mechs game. I have and I was like, yeah, I have never met a mech game that I've liked. I think mech warrior four was like the closest I ever got to really like a game. Even that wasn't that great. Well, maybe they'll pull it off this time. They probably have the money to do it and they have the money to screw up.
00:51:22
Speaker
So yeah, I hope this is a game that and it sounds like they're making the game that they want to make. And I think that's great. And if it's anything like old from software, it won't be for anybody, everybody. It'll probably be bad. So let's see what I mean. I mean, that's the thing, right? I'm really when they came out here and go, no, no, no, no, no, we're not. We're making it. This is this. There's a style to these games and we're making that style. I went.
00:51:50
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That's a bold move, guys. I'm I really hope that is what they're doing, because it could be really cool to see that. Yeah. And listen, you know what? They're allowed to do it. Yeah. So I'm
FromSoftware and Armored Core Announcement
00:52:00
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not I'll be fine. But it's just like my the the last game, by the way, was Armored Core Verdict Day released in 2013. So it'll be 10 years since the last Armored Core game. That's a while. But isn't that crazy, though? They've made that many other games in those 10 years. Yeah.
00:52:20
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Was demon souls right after? I think so.
00:52:25
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And then finally, they closed it out with the new trailer for Final Fantasy 16 featuring the death of a chocobo, which I think has only happened in one other Final Fantasy. Oh, oh, goodness. This is a violent death. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We and we got the release date, which was June 22nd, 2023.
00:52:52
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Um, it looks, oh, also pre-orders available now. Um, Charles, you ended up not going for collector's edition, I believe. Right. Right. Right. Because they were like, collectives edition, $350. And I said, I'm sorry. If I do this for you, it cheapens when I do it for Final Fantasy seven. Speaking of crisis core also out now crisis core reunion. Yeah. Um, yeah.
00:53:17
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I I'm debating saving that or buying it once on sale and playing it on my way to Japan. What is that? Can you bring up what the figure looks like? Well, for collector's edition. Yeah, I'm fancy. Can you can you just like it to meet you? It's a freak versus Gerada. That's great, I thought. Let's take a look. Let me.
00:53:37
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Yeah. But anyway, it's a cool trailer. Again, focusing on how this is very summon focused. Also, I think at one point there was an a freak versus a freak battle, which I'm like, all right. So I don't know. We'll see what happens. But yeah, I don't know. It's like watching. It's like, I don't know. I'm kind of. Oh, you're right. It's Phoenix. I'm Rome.
00:53:59
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I think Gerada's in the art. She's featured probably in the trailers too, probably.
00:54:14
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But, you know, as it seems to be, it looks like the dominant for Shiva is is also allied with that's it with your main character who controls the freet. So I have a feeling that, you know, half of these dominance will join your party and you get to play as them. That'd be pretty cool. Oh, it's like GFS again. Yeah.
00:54:43
Speaker
Oh, oh, we're going to have the draw system again and the junction system. Yeah. And if they want to. Oh, and it made sense. Big number, big stats. That's all you need. That's all you need. If I do this more, that's good. Well. Um.
00:55:09
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So how how would you guys that was and that was the end of the game awards. Also, as Miyazaki was accepting his game of the year award, a weird child ran up personifying the act confident and pretend and act like you're supposed to be there. Just walked up with them. And then one point took the mic and went, I'd like to dedicate this award to my reformed Orthodox Rabbi Bill Clinton.
00:55:37
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Yeah. Which people are like, is this an anti-Semitic dog whistle? Jason Schreier apparently interviewed the kid and asked him a question in Hebrew and he understand it, but then he pretended like he didn't. Oh, really? I don't know. Who knows what's going on with that?
00:55:55
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Yeah, from what I understand, he's either an alt right troll or he's been trolling the alt right, but he has been involved on that side. So it might have been a dog whistle, but that's interesting that you brought up that he knows Hebrew. So who can say it's really weird. Also, the game awards will probably now have a 30 second delay on stream. Yeah.
00:56:21
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and probably also vetting who the fuck comes up to the stage. Yeah, that's. Yeah. If you haven't seen the memes about it, too, there's a great meme where you can see Miyazaki getting up to the ward and you can see the kid in the background getting up, which is like Miyazaki text me achieving anything. And then the picture of the kid imposter sitch.
00:56:43
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Uh, but it was a, it was a really good game awards. I think this is probably the best Jeff Keeley production I have seen, um, in a while, at least since the pandemic has begun. Well, good. He's getting better. Uh, which specifically the, the, the, the game awards in general and in terms of the announcements and the, the whole event.
00:57:06
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Yeah, so I it's definitely a market improvement. I think I'd rate this like a B plus a even just because on a scale of all their winter keelys, this is definitely the best one. I think it helped that they made the time they they they tried to squeeze the time a little bit shorter to two and a half hours. I think they
00:57:34
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I think they're trying to keep the categories while still, um, you know, getting as much stuff in there. They just need to tweak it a little bit more, at least the awkwardness on how they announced the winning, the winners that didn't go on stage. Yeah. Cause they were definitely just like the nominees are the way for the screen to pop up and the winner is. Mm-hmm.
00:57:58
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blah, blah, blah. And like, so it's like these long pauses that feel a little awkward because they're like, we need to give readers time to actually read what the nominees are. So there's a, there's still room for improvement, but it's definitely the best one of the, of the shows he's ran this year, which is actually a lot like, Jesus, this is, this is all Jeff does now is these shows and they're, yeah. And you know, it's working out. It definitely seems like they got better over the year. Yeah, it was good.
00:58:29
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And I and just to close out and I think I don't know this may We'll talk about this afterwards This may be the last podcast for the year because I can't imagine there's gonna be a lot of news for the next two weeks. Oh, yeah Maybe maybe we'll do a game of the year Discussion, but we'll have to sort out how we want to do that There's a couple good formats we could do but
00:58:54
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Uh, one thing I didn't want to bring up and just because the staggering amount of games, they got 2023 release dates in game of
Upcoming Game Releases for 2023
00:59:01
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the year. Let's just take a second and talk about what games are coming out in 2023. And there's a lot. I'm suddenly going to focus on kind of the big titles and don't please. Do you want to go? What about this one? James shop.
00:59:15
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So let's, let's just start in January. Honestly, the biggest two of January, one piece Odyssey, the turn based game coming out January 13th and for spoken the weird dragon game that just got a demo, which has weird opinions about that. Look it up. That's coming out. Any reactions to the demo.
00:59:33
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People have very interesting reactions to it. That comes out January 24th. We get into February. You have Hogwarts Legacy, Wild Hearts, Atomic Hearts, Like a Dragon, Ishin, Horizon, Call of the Mountain, which is a PSVR2 title. Like a Dragon, Ishin. Is that the old school one or the feudal Japan one? That's the feudal Japan one. Not my boy, Ichiban. No, not yet. That'll be a little while longer.
01:00:03
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Um, you also have sons of the forest, the forest sequel, um, octopath traveler two and destiny two light fall. Okay. On February. Then we get to March. We have last of us coming to PC will long fallen dynasty. That's the team ninja game that, uh, Oh, okay. Yep. Uh, yep. Uh, any of the skull Bayonetta skull and bones finally getting released on March 9th.
01:00:31
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Uh, Bayonetta origins, March 17th, Jedi star Wars, Jedi survivor, March 17, Resident evil four remake marks 24th, uh, getting to April. You have dead Island two.
01:00:46
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May you have that's that's Hogwarts like you'll see for old consoles Oh May you have legends of Zelda tears of the kingdom and suicide squad June you have Street Fighter 6 Diablo 4 Final Fantasy 16 all in June and then
01:01:03
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And then here are games that are 2023, but haven't given a release date yet. You have arc to Assassin's Creed Mirage. Baldur's Gate three coming out of early access. Black Myth Wukong. If you that's that game's had a lot of heat back and forth. It's it's a cool game. Look it up. Crash Team Rumble. Yeah.
01:01:30
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No, we we know when Diablo is coming out now. Well, June Spice Wars. Oh, that's the that's the the rust. Yeah, it's kind of the rust like. Oh, it's a rust like. Never mind. Yeah. Or it might be an MMO either or. Final Fantasy seven rebirth. Probably going to be more July here.
01:01:53
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Yeah, might be more January twenty twenty four, but yeah. Oh, OK. That technically counts January and February. Oh, yeah. But it could be it could be next year. Running through this. There's more lies of pie. That's the the Pinocchio bloodborne game. Like a dragon game. No, no, lies of pie has not come out yet. Lies of P comes out and lies of P. I'm sorry, P. Yes.
01:02:20
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Um, like a dragon Gaiden, the man is a racist name. That's the game that tells you what happened to curio in between Yakuza six and seven Marvel's Spider-Man two. Uh, wasn't there going to be a Wolverine game? Yeah, that's later, though. Not next year. Uh, that'll be a big metal. What tactics? What? Yep. OK, three.
01:02:47
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thinking there's we're hitting about the end of this list because up Starfield comes out next year. Masterphone. Whatever. Am I right? Better gameplay. The wolf among us to. Oh, that should be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's kind of I mean, that's a lot of games. That's a lot of games. Yeah.
01:03:17
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It's going to be a lot going on. I can't believe all those games in June. Final Fantasy Diablo and Street Fighter. Yeah. And Andy, the month before that, you have Legend of Solva, too. Yeah, that's you don't want to be stacked against that. Yeah. Don't worry, boys. Horizon is going to come over to challenge that one again.
01:03:41
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No, they're, they already lost the God of War in Elden Ring this year. It was so sad. Every time they came on game war, it's like, oh, you're not going to win this category.
01:03:52
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But yeah, 2023 is going to be an interesting year. So I mean, I'll not. Yeah, go ahead. I was I was going to say a lot. Some of these games probably get pushed 2024, but yeah, not a lot of them are games that got pushed from 2022 to 2023. So they're coming out next year. So we'll see. We're going to say, Andy. Oh, no, I only meant to say I didn't see the like a dragon that I want. So eight or.
01:04:22
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Like a dragon eight. Yeah. Eight is probably 2024. Yeah.
01:04:28
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because it's going to be Ishin this Ishin in early next year. And then probably the man who lost his name fall winter. And then again, probably like eight sometime, you know, late spring, I would guess. Yeah. Twenty four. Oh, well. Well, good. Anyhow, Andy, also I skipped over Kirby's return to Dreamland Deluxe on the switch February 24. I saw that.
01:04:58
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That was the, it was like a multiplayer one, I think. Yeah. Yeah. No, I, I just really love, uh, whatever that, I can't even remember the one that came out that I love so much. What was it? End of the world. Kingdom forgotten kingdom. Love that game. Love it. A little bit to death.
01:05:18
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I did and maybe Andy will remember its title on another to party a friendship simulator masquerading as a new show. I've been your host James. I.
01:05:31
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Certainly got maybe one or two guesses right for the game awards aren't well. And I've been joined by Charles doesn't love Bayonetta too, but also doesn't claim to love Bayonetta. Gosh, and I've been joined by Andy appreciates Bayonetta and all her iterations. I value her as a character and her backstory and her growth exclusively in that sense. OK.
01:05:58
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but not when she's a story picture. Gosh darn it. I mean, really look at it and tell me you were excited for that game. Or you were. I'm not judging. That's fine. That's fair because I was too. I'm so excited. Keep backpedaling, Andy. Just keep on backpedaling. Have a good night. Happy New Year's and holidays. Happy Holidays and New Year's to you and yours. Bye.