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Game of the Year Contenders Overview
00:00:13
Speaker
what's up everybody welcome to the logon games podcast for friday july the 28th on this episode we are going to go over the game of the year contenders and possibly what upcoming games could uh be in the mix for game of the year
00:00:33
Speaker
We have not talked about game of the year really at all so far this year. So we're a little over the halfway point, but still.
00:00:43
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It's, it's about time we've played. There's been a crap ton of really good games that have been out highly rated games and some to come. Um, so we will be talking about some of the biggest games that have happened and that are coming out on this episode with me. You can find them at X user rate X across the globe. We have Matthew. Wow. That is cooking.
00:01:12
Speaker
If you're playing Express t-shirt on, are you excited? More Futurama? I am excited. More Futurama. Well, so am I wearing my playing express t-shirt? It's on Hulu. The commercials I've seen, it's for Hulu. I don't know if it's like on something else and also streaming on Hulu or if it's just a Hulu thing. I do not know. But either way, I know it's coming down. Yes. Yes, yes. I'm looking up now. See what?
00:01:43
Speaker
Uh, also the Hulu's reboot returns, all of the, also the Futurama characters and skins are in Fortnite now.
Gaming Crossovers and Personal Gaming Choices
00:01:52
Speaker
I believe it's bender fry and Leela are the three that they put in Fortnite. So if you want to bend around, yeah, go for it. Yeah. I'm not sure about all the details, but if, uh, you know, if I have to ask a question about it, I will.
00:02:11
Speaker
That's good. See what I did. Acts a question. I did. Because Futurama. Yeah. What you been up to? What you been playing? Well.
00:02:24
Speaker
Couple things, I ended up biting the bullet on Remnet 2 last night. Played with you and a friend of ours, Colby, for a while actually. And we did probably gonna do so when we finish recording. Yeah, so that was good. Today, if you get the deluxe version of F1 Manager, it came out today.
00:02:52
Speaker
Um, we actually had a conversation last week, a little bit about you, uh, we're talking about selling your switch and stuff. And I, um, I guess some expenses coming up. Um, Beyonce and I are looking for a place to move to, uh, after we get Beyonce. Yes. Beyonce and I.
00:03:12
Speaker
Um, no. And so I'm going to move, I like, my lease is up September the first, so I have to move September the first and then she'll move after we get married or whatever. Um, but my point being, there's some expenses for that that's going to be coming up. And so in order for me to justify spending money on remnant and F1 manager, I'm going to sell the switch here this week or next.
00:03:31
Speaker
time. It's one of those things like I want to play it. As a matter of fact, there's a game that we'll talk about here in a few minutes. It's a switch game that I would I'm intrigued and it's at least interesting to me. It's just one of those things that I don't
00:03:44
Speaker
play it a ton anymore. I still play a lot of Octopath on it, but Octopath is also available on Game Pass and other stuff. So the problem would, I just need to finish the first one on the Switch because I don't want to, you know, you lose that wholesale file. So I want to do that and then
00:04:04
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you know, it still has good high value right now. So it can get a good amount of money out of it. And at some point in the near is future next year or two, you would assume they'll announce something else system wise. Yeah. And so get max value out of it. Yeah, I'm excited. I sold my switch last fallish or something like that. You got the OLED, then you sold that. Yeah, I got the OLED specifically for Splatoon 3 because it had the
00:04:35
Speaker
the dock that had the ethernet cable never ended up getting Splatoon three. So it's just not something that we played, but got Pokemon and hated how it ran. Yeah. And as a big Pokemon fan, it kind of grinded my gears a little bit. So, um, I'm very excited for what we all assumed to be a, uh, switch to.
00:04:58
Speaker
Um, or I would assume at the very minimum, a very beefily upgraded. Switch. Yeah. So I'm excited for the back. Like whenever that comes out, I'll get it day one and I'll have a giant back catalog. It's all Pokemon. I'll have tears of the kingdom. I'll have me put Metroid prime on sales. What they need to do. Cause that's the one that I haven't played that I really, really want to. I'll play that. I'll play the new 2d Mario game coming out.
00:05:27
Speaker
Did you play the Metroid Prime stuff growing up at all? Yeah. I mean, I definitely played it. I don't know. I couldn't tell you if I beat it or not, but I do remember playing just the first, at least the first, at least the first one. Yeah. Got it. So good. But, uh, yeah, I'm excited for the back catalog of switch stuff that'll come out. Yeah. That won't be on sale unless, unless of course it's not backwards compatible at all. And it's a completely new thing, which I can't imagine that.
00:05:57
Speaker
Um, even if that's the case, I assume a lot of the big games like Zelda would be ported over. I just post whatever they come out with, whatever the games are day one, which I assume is probably a new 3d Mario game from the Odyssey. Yeah.
00:06:15
Speaker
Um, so it'll be a, it'll be like, like when a new console comes out, there's usually like, usually the launch lineups aren't that great. Um, it's usually like one or two games that you get or want to play. And some of those are usually third party stuff. So it'll be nice when the new switch comes out, cause it'll be like an even bigger launch lineup for me. So it's gonna be a good time.
Gaming News and Sponsorship Details
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Game of the Year Criteria and Leading Contenders
00:09:54
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Because we really want to get back to playing Remnant.
00:09:57
Speaker
That's true. And but there are games. I mean, this has been we'll talk about it at the end of the year. I think we may have done a podcast. Months ago, but.
00:10:09
Speaker
gigantic year. There's so many games that have already come out. And many to discuss will discuss, you know, the best years of gaming at the end of the year. And we'll see where this one stacks up. I know a lot of podcasts and stuff have already done it. And I've watched some of them. But I'm just like, let's get to the end of the year. You know what I mean? At the beginning of the year, we all thought For Spoken was going to be a game of the year contender because it's a PlayStation thing. Turns out not so much, you know,
00:10:36
Speaker
Um, Redfall, you know, we all thought it might be okay. Utter garbage. So let's get to the end of the year before we start, you know, doing some stuff. Um, games that we have Metacritic brought up by year, by 2023, all platforms.
00:11:00
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And we are going rules based off of basically, uh, the game awards, you know, what, what five or six games, I think there's only supposed to be five games at the game awards for game of the year. There's been six a couple of times because of ties. Sure. Maybe there's maybe sometimes they just want to do six. I don't know. Um, but I think it's supposed to be five. Definitely for sure.
00:11:27
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Sitting at number one right now on Metacritic at a 96 is Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. Yes. And if the year ended right now, is the game of the year? I think so. Yeah. I think the only things that can beat it are still coming. And whether they beat it or not, I don't know, but they're not out yet.
00:11:50
Speaker
So I think that remakes can be Game of the Year or remasters cannot if I'm remembering correctly. So I don't think Metroid Prime remaster is sitting at a 94. I would imagine that can be nominated because of how
00:12:11
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how remastered it is. You know what I mean? Like it's not just an upscaling or something, but I would not like, I wouldn't imagine it could win it other than maybe it could make the list of top five or six or whatever and be sitting down there. I'd be shocked if it made the list, but I would be willing because I believe like people are going to vote for Zelda. Again, if the year was over right now, I think it makes the list though. But, um, well, probably not in the future. Resident of the four.
00:12:41
Speaker
Yeah. Remake sitting at a 93 right now. I think if it ends right now, it's definitely on the list. You think so? Maybe the thing with it is even though it is like, probably in my opinion, the best game to come out this year. The problem is that it's like, it's coming out again. You know what I mean? Like it's been out a bunch of times. So I don't know. Maybe it might make the list. I'm gonna, I'm gonna
00:13:09
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I'm going to write down what we think the list is going to be. Write it down, Andrew. The top five, at least. Street Fighter VI at a 92. I'm going to be honest. That's pretty crazy. That's a higher score than I thought that it had. And I also, for as much hype as that game had coming out, I haven't heard anything about it since it came out.
00:13:33
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I know the few people that I've seen on Twitter and podcasts and stuff that play it like freaking long. They're like, this is going to be the best fighting game ever. Okay. Well, I mean, I really, I think it looks awesome. I want to play it. I have a hard time thinking that regardless of how good your fighting game is that a fighting game is going to win game of the year in this kind of a bit. No, but I mean, it could be nominated, you know, could be, could be, I wouldn't be shocked if that, uh, again, if the year ends now.
00:14:02
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That's a hundred percent in the top five or six, I think. Um, Diablo four, it's high score. Metacritic right now is in 91. I think that's ended right now. I think it would finish second. I'm going to put it on our list for now. Yeah. I think it's the year, but it's a year ended now. I think it would finish second and voting. Um,
00:14:32
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Really good Diablo. I think I haven't, I haven't played season one at all. Oh, I have. I know there's a lot of problems with it to the point where the developers had to do a whole developer video to address a lot of things. I don't know what the problems are. I do. And it's not, it's not that there's necessarily problems with season one. The problem where they did a.
00:14:55
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on either day one of the season or right before the season started they did a big patch where they nerfed some stuff some people and people were like what the heck man like you nerf the crap out of these people that is too nerfed and then their thing was basically okay
00:15:11
Speaker
We, we now know what you want or no more big nurse. And then we went back and fixed it. So that's not exactly like a problem with the season one. That's just a, I was a bad patch, bad idea. So my, my opinion is not even close to best Diablo game that's been made for sure. And, and I've played season one and like it more than the game before season one came out.
00:15:40
Speaker
That's good. Yeah, it's real good time. Also, game awards time. I feel like we might get like an expansion like teaser or something. Sure. Sure. 100 percent. Let's see. Going down, let's try not skipping kind of all the ones that have already been out and will be eligible. The Dead Space remake sitting at 89.
00:16:11
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haven't played it, but I heard it was good. Yep. Yep. Yep. I've heard good things about that. But I mean, if we're, I mean, the media and like you can go on the game awards website and see who all votes for these awards, basically a bunch of media from in podcasters and influencers, whatever, from across the globe. I don't know why they don't ask us.
00:16:38
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classist, Jeff Keeling. I'd be like F1 manager 2023 number one. I feel like a lot of the outlets do like either or kind of stuff as far as voting goes, like. Which Nintendo game are we voting for, you know? Sure, sure. Which fighting game are we going to vote for or whatever?
00:17:02
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So I feel like with the, there's going to be like, Oh, what's the best remake? So resident evil four is a dead space thing for now. That's going to be like the right and forth of what's going on here. Yep. Yep. Understand. Um, I am actually going to put this name before on our list. Cause I want to get five games before we look at the.
00:17:26
Speaker
I think the next game, I know you're going down this list right now, I think the next game could probably make the list. You know, I'm not a fan of it and I don't really 100% understand why the hype is what it is. Yeah. I don't really understand the hype on that one, but I know there's a, like, people love that game. There's always, like, a straight, yeah, kind of thing. Yep. I could totally see that being making the list.
00:17:51
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I can see it making the list now. I think there's just going to be too many good games when we go to it, but I'll put it on the list because I want to have five here. Would it be the, what will it be when we'll talk about system that will it be the only Xbox first party games make the list? Can you imagine? I feel like if I honestly feel like if starfield is a eight.
00:18:14
Speaker
Yeah, an eight out of 10, even if it's like seven points, even if it's like a 75 to 85 on Metacritic, I feel like. It'll make the list. It'll make the list. Just because of how giant it's going to be. How giant of a game. Put it this way. But 8,000 hours into it. Put it this way. For their sake, it better make a list. See? I just, it's a bad omen if Hi-Fi Rush is the one Xbox representative based off of the games that they had that were supposed to have the hype.
00:18:42
Speaker
I may be better than the last couple of years when they hadn't had anything. Yeah. Sure. Uh, Pikmin four sitting at 88 really great. Is Pikmin going to beat out Zelda? No, it's not going to be out of Zelda for sure. It could be on as a second Nintendo game instead of like Metroid or something, but I don't, I don't know. I doubt it. Um, Final Fantasy 16 sitting at an 87 right now. Yeah.
00:19:10
Speaker
Well, I'm just a little bit out of touch with honestly, I just haven't been interested so I haven't followed much Just like 17 16 16 mm-hmm. I think you said 16 I'm really really really really excited to play this game like I think about it often and I'm trying not to just impulse buy it one day for $70. I'm just waiting for it to go on sale and
00:19:36
Speaker
I'm still playing through the next game that I'm probably gonna say, looking for it. Octopath Traveler 2 is in 86. Yep, I saw that. Hogwarts Legacies, the biggest ones in 85. That's the game I'm currently still playing. Back into it. Wanna beat it before I get Final Fantasy 16.
00:20:03
Speaker
Yeah, I want a game that I keep, I have kept thinking about jumping back into as well myself. Um, but honestly, I think that could make the list. I really do. I don't want to get, I don't want to get into it. Okay. I'm not a political person.
00:20:23
Speaker
but the media outlets are the ones voting on this. I personally think a lot of these media outlets are not gonna vote for Hogwarts legacy just because of their personal beliefs or whatever. Probably correct. But I mean, it's gonna be the highest selling game probably the entire year.
Top-Selling Games and Future Speculations
00:20:41
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I don't agree. I think it is at the moment currently, just as far as numbers goes. I would imagine Zelda's close.
00:20:51
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are going to be close. I also imagine that Spider-Man sells like a billion copies. So this is as of July the 5th. Okay, so pretty and about a month ago. It's got to be the highest selling of the first half of the year I would assume.
00:21:18
Speaker
There was just a tweet that says, legend of Zelda tears of the kingdom was the best selling game of May, 2023, instantly becoming the number two best selling title of the year. Despite only physical sales from Nintendo being included. I would imagine that passes Hogwarts. And I would, like I said, I would imagine Spider-Man does, but I wouldn't be shocked if it finished third.
00:21:38
Speaker
Which is pretty cool. Let's see. Hogwarts legacy is already a mess over a billion dollars in sales, having sold around 15 million copies worldwide. Yeah, I would have met. Yeah. Surely Zelda passes that. It's number one. It's number one as of July 5th and Zelda's number two. If Spider-Man doesn't pass it, it'll be because it had enough time in the year.
00:22:06
Speaker
See if I can find another one, another thing just so I can see. Yeah. What the what the lineup is this? OK, here we go. Top 10 best selling games of this of May. Here's a look at top 10 selling games of 2023 so far. They don't give us numbers, I don't think. Hogwarts Legacy is number one. Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom number two. This is as of whatever I said, June 27th.
00:22:35
Speaker
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, 3, Star Wars Jedi Survivor 4, Resident Evil 4, Remake 5, MLB The Show, 23.6, Dead Island 2.7, that's pretty shocking. FIFA 23.8, Dead Space, Remake 9, Madden NFL 23.10. Right. Well, I have an article here that says- This was before- Yeah, an article here that says, Tears of the Kingdom sold 10 million copies in the first three days. Yeah.
00:23:10
Speaker
Yeah, so I think those games will be number one, number two. And then when Spider-Man comes out, yeah, it'll be, it'll be Hogwarts, Zelda, and Spider-Man in the top three. Those will be the top three. Yeah, I think Hogwarts will be third. Like I said, if it doesn't, if Spider-Man doesn't pass it, it'll just be because it comes out towards the end of the year.
00:23:29
Speaker
And Spider-Man is a PS5 only, so that might can hurt as well. Whereas Hogwarts is on everything. Well, Zelda's Switch on, so. True, but everybody has Switch. The PlayStation tweeted out today that they just sold 40 million. 40 million. That's a lot. I'm going off of Spider-Man sales for the last, for PS4, like it was pretty crazy.
00:23:56
Speaker
Yeah, it'll be, it'll be nuts. It'll be nuts in the butts. Which, but though for Hogwarts though, like, I mean, if you're the third highest selling game of the year, every year you are doing something right.
00:24:07
Speaker
That's a lot of guacamole. I mean, it's, I've been playing through it again. I played the crap out of it and I said the crap out of it. I got to fall. I did the first semester or whatever. Same, same. And then I stopped at fall because a bunch of games came out and we were playing them all. And I just jumped back in the last week, having a fantastic time. It's so good. It's really, really good. But it also reminds me of.
00:24:33
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the starfield types of games like just giant open world games where there's so much there's just so much to do it's crazy
00:24:43
Speaker
Maybe I don't, I don't feel like it's like Skyrim to me is the one game I played more than anything else where I went. Oh my goodness. This is going to take me forever. And I don't feel like it's anywhere near Skyrim. It doesn't feel like Hogwarts. I just, so I remember before I stopped playing, I got to like the room of requirement stuff and I spent way too much time like.
00:25:04
Speaker
Decorating animal crossing the place, you know, yeah same with you and I was like I'm gonna do so I'm gonna go get so did you go feng shui I'm gonna unlock all the things and go crazy. Mm-hmm. And then coming back. I just did the beast Class stuff where it teaches you how to catch beast. I'm like dang it
00:25:21
Speaker
I haven't done that yet. I got to catch them all now. Pokemon. Yeah. Yeah. And then anytime you're anytime I'm just I mean, most of the time of me playing, it was kind of like when I played the first Zelda Breath of the Wild, which is it's like I'm just going to walk around the castle and just do what I see.
00:25:40
Speaker
Yep. Um, a hundred percent. I just tried to find all the little things I could try to collect. I'm a collector man. I like doing that stuff. But here's the other thing about it. How good it is, is both you and I, not really Harry Potter fans. Nope. And still love it. Yep. Uh, Harry Potter, the character I don't care about, but the world is a fun, it's a fun place. I agree. Here's the question. I've heard this a million times this summer with people talking about it. I actually know somebody in particular who
00:26:11
Speaker
is really considering buying a PlayStation just for that game. Or not just for that game, but that's the game that makes them want to buy it. But do you think
00:26:25
Speaker
in the future because I have heard it spoken about probably 20 times this summer and probably 15 of the 20 times it's called Harry Potter. No one calls it Hogwarts. It was interesting. They're remaking the Harry Potter books, movies, whatever the story of Harry Potter into a show for Max for HBO or whatever. Okay.
00:26:51
Speaker
The first rumor was like, it wasn't going to be the Harry Potter story. They're going to call it. It was going to be called Hogwarts legacy and it was going to just like be a new story or whatever. And I was like, I'd be crazy. But then I didn't happen. Well, we weren't supposed to talk about that yet because they cast me as Harry Potter. I knew it. All right. So I think those are as far as the games that have come out. I'm talking the only ones that really kind of have a chance.
00:27:15
Speaker
We're talking the Game Awards. We're not talking our personal games of the years. Okay, we're talking what we're going to see at the Game Awards being voted in. I have six right now, so we got to kick one of them off before we go into the games for the rest of the year. Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo 4, Resident Evil 4, Hi-Fi Rush, Final Fantasy 16, and Hogwarts Legacy. I don't think Final Fantasy is making my opinion. It hurts me a little.
00:27:44
Speaker
Solid game. I'm sure a lot of people like it. I don't think people consider that game of the year. You know what I mean? The only reason I would say that I would fight for it in this situation is because it's PS5 only.
00:27:57
Speaker
Spider-Man might beat it out, you know what I mean? Might. There's going to be a PlayStation only game as Game of the Year. I can. We'll talk about it here in the future. We already mentioned, if you want me to guess by the end of this, like something might change my mind, but currently my current feel is that Spider-Man 2 wins. I would love that.
00:28:18
Speaker
But Spider-Man, so don't get me wrong. I'm a giant Spider-Man fan. It's my favorite superhero. I loved the first game. A lot of that had to do because I'm a giant Spider-Man fan. It was a great game. It's just not quite big enough in my opinion. But it wasn't like the game was like breaking any boundaries or anything. It was just an open world Spider-Man game. It's doing the same thing that Batman Arkham did. It was just Spider-Man, you know? Sure. And those games were phenomenal.
00:28:48
Speaker
I'm going to see what the score is. And for Spider-Man made a credit PlayStation for it's an 87 miles. I wasn't getting 10 out of 10s or anything like that. We're not miles last to a certain chart. Miles. If I can spell correctly, I will find out 85. It's about the same. Yeah. So I assume. And I don't I don't want to
00:29:18
Speaker
go with my personal thoughts here i am a little bit nervous i'm not saying it's not going to be good but i am a little nervous of the trailers that we've seen so far of this game story wise because it's like it's venom i'm down with venom down with craving and all that stuff but it's the whole trope that i really don't care about oh peter's gonna get the venom via symbiote in him and he's gonna his suit's black now he's gonna talk angry for
00:29:45
Speaker
10 hours of the game being like, Oh, I'm just like, I get it. I get it. I don't want to, I don't want to have Peter being like, I'm angry. And they're all what's Pete's different. What's wrong with Pete? He's angry now. He's not how he used to be. What's wrong with Pete? I mean, it depends. I don't want them to come up. I mean, all the comic books are written in three. All the comic books are written. I don't, I don't want them to come up with new tropes. I'm not saying something new. I'm just saying something we hadn't seen a million times already.
00:30:15
Speaker
Maybe it depends on how they do it from like the last trailer they showed the really long one It's like one of the best trailers. Yeah. Yeah and gameplay wise. Yeah, i'm down with all the gameplay stuff Just the whole the whole trailer from top to bottom. I was i'm sucked in like it's like watching that In that long trailer. This was I didn't I wasn't nervous until this line where he was talking about doing their lizard or whatever was out and about and miles was something like
00:30:41
Speaker
Watch out, he's got big teeth and then Venom Peter Parker was like, so do I. And I was like, OK, I get it. Here we go. I'm in. I'm in. So either way, if I'm saying this is just this is obviously the game didn't come out to October. If for some reason the story is a little tropey and a little cheesy, that might bring it down. But either way, you want to put Final Fantasy Final Fantasy 16 to me now is like the
00:31:11
Speaker
It's the story driven PlayStation five game. That's really I don't at the moment because it's not it's not a normal Final Fantasy game. It's like 30 whatever 35 hours long story driven character driven.
00:31:27
Speaker
Not that like people that are upset with the game and giving it not the greatest reviews is because it's not as RPG as Final Fantasy. It's supposed to be, I guess it's more. I think that a hold of it kind of thing. I think it makes me excited. I think that hurts it more than it helps. Personally, we'll take it off. Take it off. My five tears of the kingdom Diablo four Resident Evil four high five rush Hogwarts legacies are top five at the moment. Sure.
00:31:57
Speaker
Upcoming games that can I'm looking at all the upcoming games. So if it takes me a second, or you see something, you could scream it out. Sure. In our same Custer. Yeah. Yeah. I had another list open too.
00:32:11
Speaker
Ooh, scrolling down, scrolling down, scrolling down, scrolling down. Baldur's Gate 3 is interesting only because I'm seeing a lot of hype around it now. I don't have any inkling of it, but if the people that are hyped about it and it lands, then that could be a possibility. Possible. It would have to be pretty great. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Game of the Year. 100% Wrestle Quest, Game of the Year.
00:32:40
Speaker
Armored core six fires of Rubicon. Maybe I have no idea. I got enough from software game. Um, people have get previews of it now and they're really liking it. Yeah. I'm going to put it on. So I don't forget about it. Um, just for now, simply because it's a from software game and they tend to win game awards at the game awards. They do.
00:33:11
Speaker
Um, let's see. Lies of P, I can see. I mean, it would really have to. I can't. It would have to be. It would have to be like nine to 10 out of 10s everywhere. Like, I mean, like an Elden Ring was. When is that coming out? September the 19th. OK, so you passed Starfield.
Game of the Year Predictions
00:33:35
Speaker
Oh, did I? Yeah, Starfield. Yeah, I'm just going to put on the list for now.
00:33:41
Speaker
I will say starfield is the one is the biggest wild card, I think in this whole process right now, where like that's the one game that could come out as a five and a half out of 10 or a 10 out of 10 that like could be game of the year or could be redfall. Yeah. So like that's a, that to me is the biggest wild card left. I can't imagine it being redfall. I couldn't imagine redfall being redfall. So.
00:34:09
Speaker
Well, we didn't know anything about Redfall. I mean, this is like, if it, if starfield came out and it was six out of 10 or 60, 65 on Metacritic, I feel like Xbox would explode. Like it would just cease to be. I don't know. Because some of the things, like some of the things bug me when like.
00:34:34
Speaker
You know, we here was a Phil Spencer that had said, like, doesn't really matter if Starfield comes out and gets a perfect 10. We're not going to sell blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, things like that. Make me think that your game, you don't think it's a perfect time. You know, like you think there's issues with it. So I don't know. I kind of expect my ex, if you made me guess right now, I'd say seven to seven and a half is what it ends up with.
00:35:00
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I'm saying it. I think it'll be between eight and nine. Like on Metacritic, it'll be between 80 and 90. Like, even like I said, 82. Like I said, it could be a 10 for all. I know. I'm just saying it's just kind of where my gut feeling is right now. Um, how are we feeling about moral combat one? I.
00:35:22
Speaker
I bet it's probably good. I bet it's probably good. That's about as high of a score as you can get from a Street Fighter game that I remember. And I can't imagine it beating that, right? I mean, it's possible. I can imagine it beating it in sales because I feel like it's a more popular IP. Probably. I don't know. I have no idea. It's got the movies, you know? So Street Fighter?
00:35:48
Speaker
But it doesn't. Those two are probably going to knock each other out for any chance of being on the list, honestly. Yeah, I agree. Yep. Okay. Going through, going through. Forza Motorsport, October the 10th. Could be. That could be on the list. I doubt it's a game of the year winner.
00:36:09
Speaker
But I could see that coming out as a 10 or a nine point, not like a 96 or whatever. And it would just make, you know, I still have a hard time thinking of Gran Turismo or fours of wins game of the year. Yeah. I mean, in a year like this year, I don't think it's going to make, I put it on our list for now. Well, what did the last one get? Do you know? I know fours are horizon. I mean, all the fours of games, not the horizon, 90s and above.
00:36:36
Speaker
The last Forza Motorsport 7 got an 86 and the game before that got an 87. So I can see it coming out and getting like a 92 if it like hit on everything. I'm not going to put it on the list. No. But I think a sleeper pick could be Alan Wake 2. I put Forza on the list. A lot of hype on the way they've announced that game and different trailers and stuff.
00:37:05
Speaker
Um, their last game was control, which has been on every console imaginable since then. And I think was on game of the year list. It's at an 82 on Metacritic right now, but I feel like it's there. But I'm saying when they came out with a game of the year, it wasn't not on the list. I think so. Yeah. I think so too. That's what I'm saying. Like it's not bad. I've had that game for a while and I've never started it.
00:37:32
Speaker
It's a fun time. I need to. I'm not going to put it on the list, but if it hits, it could be. Yeah, it's an outside chance. And also like it could be like if it's like really like surprisingly good. I mean, it looks like Resident Evil to me. If it's anywhere close to Resident Evil 4 and it's like getting nines, people might because it's in October, you have to vote in November.
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah, I bet like my gut feeling on that. It's like an eight, eight, five, something like that. I hope it's like Spider-Man to October the 20th. But yeah, yeah, I think you have to. And then directly after that, or is it the same day? Yeah, same day as Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which could be the other Nintendo game that actually does make the list. That could knock out.
00:38:24
Speaker
Anything that's not tears of the kingdom. We'll get into it here in a second. It also could. Split votes, you know, if it's really, really good. It's possible. Cities guidelines to Matthew him put that on the list. It would. It's probably going to be on my list, but no, I've seen there's a lot of stuff coming out about that and I can't. I can't wait.
00:38:52
Speaker
For the rest of the games coming out this year, that's the one I'm most excited for. For the rest of the games, I don't think they're going to be eligible. I think there's some date in November that makes you ineligible, but I don't think any of these other games would. You have WarioWare, move it the day before, which is not a real game. Hogwarts Legacy comes out on the Switch. Save it for us. Persona 5, Tactica, and Super Mario RPG.
00:39:15
Speaker
I think RPG, Mario RPG is probably the only one that would have a chance if it came out a different window. Like in terms of, I'm not saying it should make a list, but I could see it coming out as in 93 or something and be like, Oh snap, this game's great. Um, there's also, I mean, there's all always a small possibility that there's a game that comes out that we don't know about yet. But I feel like we know about all the game in the year contenders now. Probably I would say there is an outside chance of like, uh,
00:39:43
Speaker
Um, PlayStation showcase coming up in a month and them saying, Oh, by the way, the last of us multiplayer game comes out in October or whatever. I don't think, I don't think that's going to happen, but there's a possibility of that. That would probably be the only place where something could be announced. That would be, and you would imagine it would be that like, what else would it be? Yeah.
00:40:06
Speaker
The only other things that I think have the chance to make a list is any of these, uh, games to service games that either we don't know about or that we do know about. Like if one of them actually hits and lands like overwatch did or like rockets coming out. Is it far in the future? It's, I think they've said 2024 and we're supposed to get gameplay. I think later this year. Um,
00:40:37
Speaker
But like the X Defiant, the, like if one of those, if that game, they're also like the division heartland, which I don't know if that's ever going to come out or not. Um, that weird soap bubbly game, like any weird or any games of service, first person shooter, battle royale, anything that comes out and act like out of the blue, like apex or rocket league or overwatch did.
00:41:00
Speaker
and lands and it's really, really good. Yeah. I'm scrolling through the games that just don't have a date yet. Even though, you know, we know they're, they've been, at least they've said they're coming out this year. And the one that, uh, just keeps, man, I don't know if it makes or not, but I did play it at PAX and I'm pumped about it. Is that Pacific drive game?
00:41:25
Speaker
It's so cool. It's so cool. Um, yeah, that's just one of those that I can see kind of like it would, if it made the list, it would make it instead of like an hi-fi rush where it's that style of just kind of like almost indie that just killed it. What was that one game? But I don't, I don't foresee that making the list. I'm just looking through games that like have possibilities.
00:41:56
Speaker
I'm very excited about that game, it was phenomenal. Yeah, I mean, there could be an indie that's like a 10 out of 10 indie game that pops up too. All right, for now. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. We have 10 games, we gotta narrow it down to five. I think 10 is good. We have Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV.
00:42:23
Speaker
Resident Evil 4, Hi-Fi Rush, Hogwarts Legacy, Armored Core 6, Starfield, Forza, Spider-Man 2, Super Mario Bros. Wonder. I'm just going to put Hi-Fi Rush off the list. Yeah, I mean, it could make it, but I understand. Hogwarts off the list? You think?
00:42:52
Speaker
I mean, is Hogwarts going to beat out Forza, Spider-Man 2, Super Mario Brothers, Wonder, Starfield, or Armor Core 6, or Resident Evil 4? I think it absolutely could be more than half of those. I don't think it will. Maybe. I'm just saying there's an argument because it depends on
00:43:15
Speaker
Like, what is Spider-Man? Does Spider-Man come out as a 90 or does it come out as a 74 because they miss on it? Or does Starfield come out as a 75? You know what I'm saying? So there's just questions. All right. Well, let's do it this way. Let's do the ones that we absolutely know for sure. Okay. Zelda. We know the tears of the kingdom. It's going to be number one. Yeah.
00:43:41
Speaker
I don't know that Starfield will be there, but I would bet that it would be. If it comes out is what they say it is, I think it's there, right? I would as well. I think probably the same for Spider-Man. If it comes out as they say it would, it's gonna be on the list. What do you think? I think so.
00:44:07
Speaker
Not as good as like, even if it's not a nine, even if it's the same, it's like a 83, 84, 85, simply because it comes up at the end of October and they vote like midway through November or something like that. It's just going to be so fresh. I think you said the last one was an 87, right? So that's pretty good. Okay. Um, I don't think Resident Evil stays on.
00:44:33
Speaker
Okay. I think for a couple of reasons. One, it's already won a million things before and the 19 other times it came out. And then two, by the time the video game awards come around, it'll been out for a long time. So we have two more to choose from between. Let me delete the ones we've chosen already.
00:44:57
Speaker
We have two more between Diablo 4, Hogwarts Legacy, Armored Core 6, Forza, and Mario Bros. Wonder. I would say Diablo 4. Out of these five, if we had to pick one, which we had to pick two.
00:45:15
Speaker
I would say Diablo 4. Interesting. I would, I think, and that's a fine, that's a fair argument. It's a, I don't think Armor Corps makes it. Maybe I'm wrong. I just don't foresee that. It's a different, I just, I don't have to be Elden Ring like 995, 94, 93, Metacritic score, which is possible, but I think unlikely. Um, I think, I think Armor Corps is going to be a game that comes out and the people that like Armor Corps are going to fricking love it, but it's not necessarily going to be a 90 for everyone.
00:45:47
Speaker
I think out of those games that were left, I understand the pick of Diablo. I think my pick would be if I had to guess what makes the list, I would say Mario and Hogwarts. But I can see anything. I'm going to pick. I'm going to pick Diablo for you and pick Mario or Hogwarts and I'll slide that one in. That would be a list. I think Mario is probably more likely to be on the list. Very twisty, very twisty. So that would mean that our
00:46:16
Speaker
five game of the year nominees are Tears of the Kingdom, Starfield, Spider-Man 2, Diablo 4, and Super Mario Brothers Wonder. Makes a lot of sense to me.
00:46:30
Speaker
Yeah, I can see Diablo not making a list and like something like high five making it or Hogwarts or like I can see that. See, I think that's a solid list. I think the issue we could get into is these outlets voting. If Mario Wonder is really, really good. They're going to be like, do we vote for both tiers of the kingdom and Mario? I think they did last time. Yeah, but that was different.
00:47:01
Speaker
Why? Because Super Mario Odyssey is like a full fledged 3D Mario game that was like right. Blew up. But I wonder being 2D like I think it's great. But but I think it's a good thing in terms of not splitting the vote because it's 2D. Those are very different experiences now. You know, there's just so but there's so many like there's 10 games this year that would have won game of the year last year. What like last year?
00:47:32
Speaker
Uh, okay. So maybe not, but like definitely up there, like the game. Yeah. Here's what I feel confident about. There's three main choices. I think you like the top three that we put. Uh, I think it's possible. Spiderman wins game of the year. Okay. Last year there was six games. Uh-huh.
00:48:02
Speaker
Stray was on there. A Plaguedale Requiem, Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray, Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Yeah, yeah. Definitely weaker than this year. But Tears of the Kingdom is a safe bet, right? Like, if you had, if this was Vegas betting, that would be the best odds. Yeah, for sure. Right? Spider-Man, I think, is almost a lot to be up there.
00:48:33
Speaker
Right. Starfield's the one that could win the whole thing. And it could not be on this list, but the hype behind it is so big that you have to predict that it will at least be on the list. So, and then the other two is kind of you're playing for. So that's possible. Uh, it's possible that the two highest Metacritic games of the year.
00:48:56
Speaker
are, once again, Zelda and Mario. That would not shock me if Mario came out as a 97 or whatever, you know? So, I don't know. And it could be an eight, it could be an 80, and then it's not on the list, but it's just their recent track record really high. Yeah, I would put money now that just tears the kingdom with it, for sure. I think that's, I kind of have a hunch on Spider-Man, but the safe money would absolutely be tears the king.
00:49:25
Speaker
Well, there you have it. We did it. We did all of your work for you, Jeff Keeley. You can just go ahead and start making the assets now. Yeah. As we started off this podcast by talking about, yeah, I think it's time I want to sell the switch. Oh, by the way, there's the kingdom probably one game of the year. I may have to give you nothing, which is great. I'll have to game of the year nominees and actually probably three when the switch to comes up, which can I just say makes me even more upset at games like Redfall because. Just make your game work.
00:49:55
Speaker
Zelda spent a lot of time on Zelda making that game as optimized as possible on the less powerful system and just delay your game and give me 60 frames and then it's a whole different story.
00:50:13
Speaker
That it is an airplane kind of hearing. Oh, gotcha. Nice. Let's hurry up before I die. Um, that's going to do it for us. Any final thoughts before we end this podcast? Oh, sure. You want to play Remnant after this.
00:50:29
Speaker
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