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Breaking Down the Game Award Nominees | Windbreaker Podcast
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On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty chat about the nominees for 2024's Game Awards.
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Game Awards Nominations Discussion
00:00:55
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Hello everyone, welcome to the Witbreaker podcast, I'm Jax Croshaw, joined by Jay and Marty as always. Hello! meop and but And literal minutes ago, ah the nominations are for this year's game awards have been announced, and so we will be doing our due due diligence of going through them and taking the piss, as is our wand. I should mention that I have not looked up the nominations, but my two co-hosts have.
00:01:19
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At the start of this year, I published a semi-ramblematic simply titled, How to Predict the Game Awards, and I will be employing the same tactics detailed in that video ah to predict the winners today. Alright then. Any initial thoughts? cause Because as I said before we just came on, I don't think there's been too many really big tent poles this year.
00:01:40
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I agree, but Marty doesn't. Marty says Marty's tent has been pulled quite a bit. No. So, uh, yeah, I guess for a little table setting, before we get into it, uh, last year's, uh, crop of six games for game of the year nominees, uh, were just six big high profile sequels slash remakes all triple. It was Alan wake to Baldur's gate three, resi four remake, uh, spider-man two, Mario wonder and all the tears of the kingdom.
00:02:08
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yeah And ah this this year is ah it's a very, very different crop. And I will say also the cutoff was November 17th for voting, which means no stalker, no
Indiana Jones Game Expectations
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Indiana Jones. And I think because it was so close, no Mario and Luigi and no Slitterhead, because obviously Slitterhead would have run the table. There'd been more time for people to to slit. so I've got very low expectations for Indiana Jones. and Anything that's like mid-December onwards just shows a publisher with absolute zero fate in the product.
00:02:38
Speaker
Yeah, I have faith in the team though. I feel I i like a lot of the team's work. So I also just really wanted to see a Nazi. just I want to wait for Nazi. Give me Let me do some Castlevania to Nazis. so Play Wolfenstern the New Order. You can drown a Nazi in a toilet.
00:02:56
Speaker
I play, I literally start restarted my replay yesterday. It's pretty good. There's a lot of robot dogs. Yeah, I'll probably do that, but with Harrison Ford's face, it's sellotaped to Troy Baker. Troy Baker's voice coming out of his face.
Predictions for Game of the Year
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Okay. Um, can I predict, uh, can I guess, uh, some of the nominations of game of the year? Yeah. So there's six nominees for game of the year. All right. Uh, dead cert, black myth Woo Kong.
00:03:22
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Yes. That's correct. Is that in there? Okay. Yeah. Uh, but before you have to be fantasy. Oh, yes. Hmm. Let me think. Oh, after that, it gets a bit trickier. Yeah. Um, I'm going to guess black up six. No. Nope. No. Oh, okay.
00:03:47
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Ooh, well, Astrobot. Yes. Yes. ah Absolutely, yes. And then ah the other three were from ah early on in the year, and you only reviewed one of the other three, I will say. Interesting. Hmm.
00:04:11
Speaker
Surely not like a Dragon Infinite 12. No, but you're getting close. It was around that time and it was a game I would not shut the fuck up about because it is but my personal game of the year. Persona 3 reload? No, close. principal so um no It is a remake of a beloved JRPG from the 90s. Oh, shit. ah Oh, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. yeah Yes. wow The second remake of the beloved JRPG of the 90s. Well, that's not gonna bloody win. I disagree. I do think it is going to win, personally. We'll get into it.
Indie Game Highlights
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Yeah, I believe it is tied for the most nominees. With one other game and the last two games you did not review. Okay, so I won't even try to guess those. Well, you loved one of them and you played a lot of it when you were on location for Adventure is Nigh season four.
00:05:10
Speaker
Balatro, the game of the year. Balatro is the is a is ah the big breakout indie that is nominated for a lot of categories. Wow. Well, that goes to show how few should play games there were this year, as I said. yeah Also, Balatro has been a huge like a phenomenon in gaming, like since it's released.
00:05:32
Speaker
stop Oh, I just remembered, like, there was a fuss being made about DLC being added as candidates for Game of the Year. Yes. Why do you think that fuss was made? Shadow of the Year tree. Yep. Yes. That's the sixth. Yeah. That's not, that's not going to win. And Bellatro's not going to win either. um So yeah, it's the six are Astrobot, Bellatro, Blacksmith, Wukong, Herdtree, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Metaphor, Reef, and Tazio.
00:05:56
Speaker
Okay, well, in accordance with the ah strategy laid out in my semi-ramble-o-matic, Erdtree's not gonna win. Because it's a DLC. Okay. Balactra's not gonna win, because it's not AAA.
Black Myth Wukong Discussion
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Okay. the key The winner of Game of the Year can't be something that's ah building off the framework left by a previous game, so it's not gonna be Rebirth, either. Okay. It's gotta to be something that implies the games industry is forever moving forward and getting better.
00:06:25
Speaker
Astro Bot is a little bit too masturbatory and mired in the past. Yeah. so Although it's a good game, I think this is going to go to Black Myth Wukong because Triple A industry is nothing if not sucking off the Chinese. Every the opportunity. can get And not metaphor? Not metaphor, no. that's a little bit You don't think America's ready for a weeb president yet? I'm afraid not. But before we get to the other categories, I'll mention where I think it is going to win. OK.
00:06:55
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So you said you think Astrobot is too looking backwards and masturbatory. Yes. I think that is games journalism in a nutshell. And that's who vote that's who votes on this. and i love but And that's a lot of my favorite games this year, I would say, are masturbatory and backwards looking. Yeah. Yeah, Blacksmith Wukong is an interesting one because it got a ton of nominees. It sold a shit ton. It has a very high Steam score or steam user reviews. I don't really don't know people who
00:07:28
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talk about it. The people I do know who played like Casey played it and was kind of underwhelmed by it. And that's like in Casey's life. Most people who've played it have said that I was put off it massively once like the actual details of the the loop came out. um And I haven't wanted to touch it. But apparently in China has done unbelievably well like yes does crazy. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. You're still operating ah under the misconception that the objective best game is what wins game of the year.
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And I'm saying Blacksmith Wukong, while I agree with everything ah that you're saying, is going to win Game Awards Game of the Year. Interesting. I'm with Marty. I i think Astrobot could take it just because of that masturbatory nature and how that sells to people. It won't because it's too openly masturbatory.
00:08:22
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This has to be respiratory, but like behind closed doors. what if Yeah, but what if you masturbate so much that it goes full circle and then it loops around? and i said and And I said in my review, it's too mired in the past and the game awards is about pushing the narrative that video games are always moving forward and not looking back. And Wukong is the best is the most best example of a quote unquote triple A game.
00:08:47
Speaker
just looking at it. It looks the best. It's got the most epic feel. It's most it's most representative of what AAA gaming is at this moment. um Whereas Astrobot as a platformer is a lot less representative. So
History of Game of the Year Winners
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Speaker
That's it. Okay. So looking back, this is the 10th game awards. So looking back at the nine previous winners were starting in 2014, Dragon Age Inquisition, which 2014, as we discussed a week or two ago, I felt was kind of like a week early year. 2015 was Witcher three, which yep, I think is absolutely that 2016 was overwatch, which yep, I think
00:09:22
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you know, like it or not, that's exactly what Yats said. 2017 was Breath of the Wild. Yep. 2018 was God of War, ah the reboot. Yep. 2019 was Sekiro, which is interesting. That felt like finally giving flowers to a developer who, that almost felt like the, like when Martin Scorsese won his best director award for The Departed. It was like, all right, they've deserved this a few times before. Yeah, let's give it to them now.
00:09:46
Speaker
2020 was the last was part two. Yes. 2021 again, a weird COVID year was it takes two, which might be like the only exception to, I would say the, the. No, that's fair enough. That was a weird outlier for game of the year. The last two were Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate three, which yes, agreed. um Yeah. So if, if that pattern continues, it's going to, it's going to Wukong.
00:10:09
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man, I just don't know anyone who like fucking loves Wukong, which is just, I don't know. It's just weird. I'm sure you'll be hearing a lot more from them after the wins game of the year. Yeah. Yeah. I always loved Wukong. Yeah.
00:10:25
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it' my wooog dad Jay, what do you, what do you think of this, of this crop is going to win? Honestly, i I want it to be Bellattro, but I agree with the odds. I don't think it will be. um I think it will win a lot of other categories, but I don't think it will win game of the year. um In my heart, I wish it would, but i I think it's going to go to Astrobot, namely for what you said, Marty, which is just who's voting on this. You know, what do they want? What do they like rather than?
00:10:56
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um what what might best fit some kind of formula, but Yahtzee does have a point though, like Wicon could take it. It's just it's a tough one. Astrobot of all these games almost had, I guess maybe Bellatro, had the lowest barrier to entry. Like everyone just either kind of likes or really likes Astro. It's a very simple game to play. It's a very simple game to understand. It doesn't have the metaphor refontazio thing of like, oh, you need to give it a little bit, but then it really starts cooking. You need to really like JRPGs. It's not the second in a trilogy like Final Fantasy seven. It's not hard as balls DLC like Urntree and.
00:11:33
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and Is it a quote unquote serious game? Yeah, I mean, it's it's like how an animated movie isn't winning Oscars, right? I mean, does it feel like its own thing? I mean, its appeal is just creeping off like a million other games. ah Games. Yeah. Yeah. You've got a point. You've got a point for sure.
00:11:52
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um Yeah. i don know Or is it time? Like, is it going to be like, okay, we're going to give it to Bellatro to try to prove all those naysayers like Yahtzee who say that an indie game, no, no, no, no, no, no. tweet about palachro's nominee Is it's not even one of the five best indie games. that if it If it takes two, you can win. Why not? track The facts it was nominated for best suit game implies it's probably going to get best in D and that's going to be it's like compensation. Well, I wouldn't say it deserves best in D either, to be honest. Neither would I. I think there is a game we have a documentary about coming out soon. That was a better idea. Yeah. Yeah. In terms of well, I guess we keep going over categories. I have some like notable snubs. I think animal while not getting a game of the year nominee is
00:12:43
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egregious. I agree. I think the shot of the entry getting a nomination is silly. It didn't even get an indie. No, no, no. It got nominees lower on the card, but okay. Yeah. I like that. One of the three standout games to me this year. Um, I think entry just feels like space filler. It just feels like, uh, we needed another thing to nominate for game of the year and that's literally all we had. I mean, it's kind of weird, you know,
00:13:10
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I guess it's weird they didn't put something like the Silent Hill 2 remake in there. but Well, we'll get down there. Silent Hill 2 surprisingly, uh, got a lot more flowers than I thought it would. Also, it's interesting that if you just look
Narrative Game Nominations
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at a trend of these, uh, six games, you have five, uh, Eastern developed games, Chinese, Japanese developed game, triple-A games, and then, uh, a game made by one person in Bellatro. Uh, sort of the, uh, Western triple-A studios were, um, generally shy of the Big Cat. They was, they was certainly slacking off this year. Yeah, not that there was a ton of like, and a lot of the big ones were like,
00:13:43
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not super well received or mixed like Dragon Age and uh, uh, Star Wars Outlaws. Um, you know, we didn't get a big a game or a big Insomniac game this year. Can we, so we went to the next category. Yeah, this is the direction which, uh, to just spoil it is the same six games. Okay. Best direction. Okay. Do you think there'll be a split vote here to to appease?
00:14:05
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all to to you know well concili To reference my previous video, Alan Wake 2 was my prediction ah that would win this one, and indeed it did, because Best Direction is the compensation prize that goes to the best game nominee that was more auteur-driven, ah didn't quite toe the line as far as the committee-loving ah big boys like. So with that in mind,
00:14:32
Speaker
Uh, Metaphorifantazio would be one of my hot picks. If it doesn't win this, it's definitely going to win our direction. Uh, possibly even both.
00:14:46
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Hmm. What else was there? Best direction. Oh, uh, tree might be, you might get best game direction. How do you directed that game a few years ago? I love her tree. I don't, do you think,
00:15:00
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Ertree should be nominated, be allowed to be nominated for this, or should it have just been like, you're an ongoing game? You're the same as Destiny 2. I think maybe let's just be a separate best DLC, I'd agree. Yeah, but then we get to the, should a remake be nominated? Like, should Resi 4 Remake have been nominated last year? I don't know. It's not that big of a deal, but it's interesting. Remind me the other noms.
00:15:26
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ah For direction was Astrobot, Bellatro, Blacksmith, Wukong, Shadow of the Earth Tree, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and Meta IV. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say either Phantasio or Earth Tree for best direction.
00:15:40
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A tree for me, I think that's going to take it. I think Miyazaki needs his flowers to pad his bed, make it softer. You can't give this game best direction when you have to look up, how do I get to the DLC? wow you Like Google, how do I play you? Most, okay. Yeah. But my, we always seem to forget because we're so deeply entrenched in souls. Most people have to look up what to do in any step in souls. Yeah. Um, so I assume after best direction came his best art direction.
00:16:10
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Uh, yeah, we can do best art direction. Yeah. Any new norms there? five This is five and there's one new nom. So Astrobot, black myth, shadow of the earth tree and metaphor got nominees. And then there's one indie game that came out recently that ah you have not reviewed. As far as I know, you haven't played, ah but we did recently do a bite size on it. Just did a bite size. Just did a bite size on it. Oh, um, that one with the wolf. What's it called? Never. Never. Never. Yeah. Yes.
00:16:40
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okay follow up to Gleeth, which is a very pretty game. So in terms of our direction. um Well, as I said, if Fantasio doesn't get best direction, it'll probably get best art direction. I think deservedly so. That is a very pretty game. Yeah. ah Like design, I'll just put out a new video of a good design, bad design, and Fantasio is highlighted in there. So if not Fantasio, best art direction.
00:17:08
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Well, I think, you know, again, a tree might take that. no but love a big tree um but that's true I feel like metaphor has this lockdown, if I'm being honest. It's definitely going to get best RPG.
00:17:28
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seeing well I think never or neither might take it. It is extremely pretty and from a team that has fame has been famous for their art direction. Yeah. like There are two games that have just been gorgeous. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't actually, I didn't actually play never. I haven't played it either. Oh, I was by the Greece developers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's in with a chance I'd say. Yeah.
00:17:56
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OK, yeah, looks nice. Oh, yeah. The yeah, the the art, the animation still doesn't integrate well with the gameplay, does it? Looking at the video of it, everything looks like it's just gliding along the floor. That's targeting criticism how So that's how I said Wolfland. I said the same thing about Greece. ah You want to go the next category? Best narrative.
00:18:21
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Oh, best narrative. Again, so five nominees. And just to give you ah two of the ah best game nominees were nominated in Final Fantasy and Metaphor. So three new games that have not been mentioned in any of the nominees for anything so far. OK. You brought them up, but they were not nominated for anything so far. All right. Just tell them what they are then.
00:18:43
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Like a dragon, infinite wealth, which I cannot believe came out earlier this year. That feels like it was 15 years ago. yeah That's fine. Not for best narrative. ah The most original story of the year, Silent Hill 2.
00:18:57
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And then speaking of twos, is it a game or is it something else? Hellblade 2.
Hellblade 2 as Best Narrative Contender
00:19:05
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Okay. Well, it's a good, it's a fucking crime of signable two wins. Cause they just take final two or final fancy seven should win. I think they're no not at all. Those are already stories retelling stories. Yeah. Um, I think this will go to hell blade. Yeah. It could be the like, you know, that felt like a game that like, despite the fact that it got very lukewarm reception is one of those, we're pushing things forward. Just maybe not also, maybe also pulling things backwards at the same time, but yeah. Yeah.
00:19:35
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Um, yeah, so yeah, well, yeah, of those like metaphor was probably my favorite story of those. Um, I don't know. It's like, it's a, it's a fun game. It's a good RPG. It's got a great art direction, but in terms of storytelling, it's a like all persona games. It's a bit drawn out.
00:19:55
Speaker
Sure. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to tell an interesting story over a hundred hours. You know, there's a whole, there's a whole debate over what counts as, you know, narrative. I mean, fucking Minecraft has narrative. if yeah If you want to argue about it.
00:20:11
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Yeah. Yeah. There's no, um, I mean, an interesting thing is unlike previous years where it felt very clearly like, Oh, uh, Baldur's gate or the last of us or breath of the wild are going to like sweep. Everything kind of seems like a tossup in a lot of these categories, which I guess is is good. Well, they've had to like really scrape the barrel is here as his head. Yeah. I think this best narrative, these nominees are really weak. Like for none of them stand out as.
00:20:41
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yeah this this should be the one two of them i think we all agree shouldn't even be in there i think it all the rest drawn out also points to how uh how basic the definition of narrative is for a game that, and maybe that's just part of the voting block and stuff, but there's no indie games here. And indie games told some of the most interesting stories of the year, in my opinion, with, yeah, ways yeah yeah a thousand times resist, uh, even though he still wakes the deep, like really interesting things with it. Yeah. Just like did something unique. Uh, but it was totally a bit too out there.
00:21:20
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No, i i I agree. And yeah, just in the comments, I a thousand times resist is my story of the year. um Not story of the year, the band, but story of the year. Still need to finish the award. It's real good. um The next big one was score and music. Do you do you care about that? I'm not. So historically, that goes to like a big name title that couldn't really be nominated for anything else.
00:21:47
Speaker
Oh, three are best best game nominees. So Astrobot, Final Fantasy metaphor, ah then Silent Hill 2 also got it, which should be illegal. Shout out to Yamaoka just... you know if if If it were me deciding, I'd give it to Astro Bot because I think the music is, and sound design is generally very well implemented in that game. I agree. yeah i think i That's the one that should win. I think Urtree might be in with them with a chance here. Urtree is not in this category. There's Final Fantasy VII, Metaphor, Astro Bot, Silent Hill 2, and then the one which we haven't ah mentioned yet and got nominated for a few things was Stellar Blade.
00:22:23
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a Well, maybe, um, Final Fantasy seven rebirth but as the, uh, the legacy thing that they feel like they, well, we have to give you something. I mean, it's interesting because Astrobot Final Fantasy seven rebirth and Silent Hill two are all building on foundational scores. Yep. Like they're all building on music. Like Astrobot is building not only on music ah in certain levels of but the properties, but also building on his music of the 2020 game.
00:22:49
Speaker
In some levels, yeah, but from like a technical perspective, it's implemented very well. The music i also like the music was ah bopping along with the action pretty well. Yeah, the way it's integrated into the gameplay and the a lot of the environments, like you said, Bob can move in time. i' also thinking yeah It's considering I said it wouldn't win game of the year, they'll probably ah give it this as like compensation, if that's the case. Yeah. I think it does a really good job for like that dude just chanting in Esperanto. That guy just going. f every and then and they been better live little bit bit one
00:23:26
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Sounds great. so that's great Sorry, what were you saying, Jake, before I got excited? No, I think Astrobot might get it as well because Silent Hill 2 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth are building on top of ah music that has already been created, but Astrobot is creating original music that is evoking emotions and feelings of music that we've enjoyed in the past that is original. um So I personally think Astrobot should take it.
00:23:51
Speaker
I don't know if, I don't even know if they read, did the music inside or to remake. It sounds like they just copy pasted the QAMO because original tracks. and he's like He's got a couple of Slitterhead bangers. Let me tell you. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, man. Yeah. Mocha just doesn't say no to anything. Does he? Oh, he's great. He's great. Do it for the paycheck Akira. Um, another big one, uh, best performance.
00:24:16
Speaker
We got away as Eric in Final Fantasy 7. Do you even want to try to guess these? Because... Hellblade 2. Hellblade 2, yeah. And Hellblade 2 will probably win if it doesn't win. Yeah, as Senua and Hellblade. Well, it has to be a game where you can actually fucking see the performance and Hellblade puts so much effort into the facial animation. Yeah, so all three of these things are third place.
00:24:39
Speaker
and so So it's probably, you know, so it's probably going to win if it doesn't win the other thing. What's the other ones? Brianna White is Aerith in Final Fantasy. ah Hannah Tail as Max in Life is Strange Double Exposure, which I didn't literally did not realize came out already, which isn't great. Humberly Gonzalez as Kay in Star Wars Outlaws. Nope. And you know what? I, of these five, you know who I'd give it to? Luke Roberts as James Sunderland.
00:25:07
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in silo 2. I really think his performance was really good. He did do a good job. He was really good. Remember when he put his hand in that shit toilet? That was great. He did. That was the best pick. He actually went and put his hand and they said, sir, you don't need to do that. That's going to be in the video game. He's like, what? Sorry, covered in shit. He recorded it on his flip phone. He said it is in reference footage. He did a job, certainly.
00:25:31
Speaker
I thought his performance was really good. I think he should win. Well done, James. That's your grease. Well, obviously I'm massively biased, but I always thought he was just playing it a bit more. He was just playing sort of generic mumbly protagonist, man. I didn't really feel it stood out in any way. His performance stood out in any way. Pretty handsome. I think it's the first time I've seen him in real life. Good looking guy. Yeah, he's pretty. Give it to him. Let's jump down to independent game.
00:26:01
Speaker
A Stinde game? A Stinde game. Watcher obviously got a nominee, but what were the other four, do you think? Ooh. Well, the Lat show is probably going to win because it was nominated for game of the year. That's just maths. um Let me think. Plucky Squire.
00:26:15
Speaker
ah No, Plucky Squire got nominated for the debut indie category, which we'll go over next. but Well, that actually makes sense. And it will probably win that. Because it is because it's actually a debut indie game unlike previous debut indie game winners. But a couple of these are are also actually debut. Okay, hang on. Nine Souls. No.
00:26:36
Speaker
No nine souls, nom. No nine souls, nom. I don't think you reviewed any of these. We tried one of them at least. yeah know You Yahtzee tried two of them. Okay. Uh, okay. Well, I won't try to guess. Just tell me. Okay. Uh, animal. Well, Bellato Lorelai and the laser eyes, which hell yeah. Uh, no, the consensus is earlier, uh, never again. And then UFO 50.
00:27:04
Speaker
Oh, yes. UFO 50 is a good one. Deserves an award because UFO 50... Deserves an award for something, yeah. For fucking, wow, you put a lot of work into this. Now that's pushing the industry forward, right? Yeah. I think it's a pretty strong indie category. I know. This is a tricky one to predict because a lot of them kind of deserve it.
00:27:27
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Um, and then just to bleed, bleed into debut, Indy is animal. Well, Bellattro plucky squire, as you mentioned, and then the two extras were manner Lords and Pacific drive. Okay. I'm going to say, uh, Bellattro best in the animal. Well, best debut.
00:27:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I think that's going to happen. I don't think that's, I'm going to say that's what deserves to win, not necessarily. Oh, actually, I'm just going back over the rules I laid down in the last video. And I said the best indie category traditionally goes to the game that shows the most reverence to the establishment, in which case UFO 50 might be ah like a hot pick there. Yeah. Because it's like, hey, remember when establishment video games were really good? Yeah.
00:28:19
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I mean, animal well feels like a distillation of one of the most popular genres of the past 20 years. It's certainly a fan favorite. Yeah. But then watch's just like the sensation, the indie sensation of the year. um So yeah, still ah but at the end of it, it's still just, you know, some cards on a screen. Agreed. So, but you know, bear that in mind, UFO 50 might be like the bullshit winner if um if the game awards act in accordance with the patterns I've established in my previous video. Yeah, Nick mentioned a snub in this category, another crab's treasure, which also didn't feel like it came out this year, but it's hard. Those five games are really good. I don't know what you... I don't know. There's no, like, get this one out of here again. Yeah, I'm probably going to top five another crab's treasure somewhere. You're going to top another crab?
00:29:18
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I'm going to put it in my top five somewhere, probably. As I said, it wasn't that strong a year. um What else? What's next? ah Genre categories. Oh, these are always a big pile of bullshit. Do you want to start with action adventure? Okay. Does Star Wars Outlaws get a nom here? Yes, it is an action adventure game.
00:29:45
Speaker
Well, i would I was about to say, if it does get to NOM anywhere, it's absolute bullshit, because that game is bloody awful. Yeah. but ah But it is like, it wears all the trappings of AAA, so of course they're going to give it a fucking best action adventure at NOM.
00:29:59
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I don't think it's going to win, though, because that might, as it's almost like universally regarded as a failure, so it will might undermine the game awards integrity. if it won four The other four games are but were much more warmly received critically. Yeah. Okay. Action adventure.
00:30:16
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action and adventure. Have they been nominated in other categories? I assume so. Yes. ah well Yes. Two games we've talked about today quite a bit so far. And then two, we actually haven't really brought up. And one is surprising because it's a whole company. We haven't mentioned it um earlier. He mentioned one of them. Oh yeah. Okay. So another Ubisoft game also got the nod, but it's the best Ubisoft game of the year, which came out right at the beginning of the year and then had its team disbanded recently because it didn't sell enough. Yeah. Principal lost crown. Yes.
00:30:46
Speaker
Again, love to compare principles of the lost crown and Star Wars outlaws to extremely similar games. Yes. What a fucking spectrum. Yeah. ah What else was helldivers to this year? It was. And it's kind of shocking to me that that we haven't talked about it yet. um It got a few nominees, but it doesn't feel like if it's if it's not best action adventure, it probably got a best action. It did get a best action. um Did. Yeah. OK. Because best action usually like more gameplay focused.
00:31:14
Speaker
I would say the five best action games are actual action games. Okay. Uh, well back to action adventure. Would they have put black with wukong in here? They would not. That's an action game. According to them. Oh, serious works. Yeah. what's about adventure Where's the adventure is fucking fight boss move on, fight boss move on. You have to journey across the land. Well, that's an adventure, isn't it?
00:31:40
Speaker
I feel like a venture. You have to have a choice of whether you want to go left or right at some point. Best action adventure. All three of these games use ZP'd or FR'd. Oh, okay. Fuck. All right. Just tell me these are impossible to predict. Astrobot.
00:31:59
Speaker
ah boom What an action adventure. Silent Hill 2, what an action adventure. And the first time we've mentioned ah Nintendo all day, the Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, which I would say, rough year for Nintendo. Makes sense.
00:32:12
Speaker
Like we're in the eighth year of the switch, but, um, yeah, well, I'd say Astro bots are strong contender. Yeah. I mean, again, venture means at this point. Sure. And again, if you want to use math, it's the only one of these that was nominated for best game. Like ergo shouldn't be the best, uh, extra adventure game. Yeah. This is, it's gonna win if it doesn't win anything else. Probably.
00:32:36
Speaker
principlepose the lost crown I think that might take it as a just a Keely way of saying the fuck people getting laid off. Yeah. that might be an and That might be the integrity pick. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So what's in best action? If, um, if they put Wukong and The other one I said. Yeah, Helldivers. Yeah. Okay, getting out of the limb here. Space Marine 2. Yes. Yep. Aha. the The theory works. And one more, I assume. Two more. Two more. Best action. Okay. What game had the most the most boobs this year? Della Blade. Yes, they had the most boobs this year, correct. i guess that I guess that makes sense. And then which game had the most Bill Clinton this year?
00:33:24
Speaker
Oh, Black Ops 6, how could we forget? No, it was also Stellar Blade, had the most Bill Clinton. didn't well He'd be right at home. but fris I love this world.
00:33:36
Speaker
um Okay, best action. um Yeah, because this is usually like the combat gameplay focused thing, of where it's less of a story focus. Yeah. It's tough, because again,
Helldivers 2 in Action Category
00:33:49
Speaker
this one, Black Myth Woo Kong is the only game of the year nominee. So you would think Yeah. it would In a sense, in a sensible universe. Yes. But so this is the, this is the world of the game awards we're living in. sure It feels like the game that in the moment had the most love behind it was hell divers for that. Like yeah for that short span, it felt like everyone was loving hell divers, but it just feels like the conversation on that's kind of died out, which is fine, but yeah. Yeah. I mean, black ops six has a whole lot of ripping off all divers. so
00:34:23
Speaker
Yeah. I think Helldivers 2 is still a pretty strong nom unless it's nommed for like best online game or whatever. I think it has been ongoing. um Yeah, it was an ongoing nom. Well, considering people aren't talking about it anymore, it probably won't get best ongoing. No. um Yeah, the ongoing ones were Destiny, Diablo, Final Fantasy XIV, Fortnite and Helldivers.
00:34:50
Speaker
well who can predict because sometimes they just give that to like fortnnight again whatever yeah because ke friendly full team I think your heldovers should probably take it because they've did a lot of interesting stuff with their, like the, the war that was happening that was ever shifting and the patterns and just adding stuff into the game with no date. Also had the bad, like backfiring of people being like, well, why do I have to make a fucking Sony account? and I can't make a Sony account in these countries. So it had like negative publicity around it, which isn't good. And at a balanced controversy. It was a whole thing. Yeah, I do think it should win best action. But again, you know, it's the game awards. They live in their own little world. Will have a might win it, I think. You love you love warhammers. You're always out here warhamming. I haven't played. I just think they will. I'll just think I'll win.
00:35:41
Speaker
It's a bit niche. Yeah. Uh, best RPG I think is a, is a very strong category in my opinion. Uh, for the games we've talked about quite a bit so far, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy seven, uh, like a dragon and metaphor. What do you think the fifth game is? I don't think we've mentioned
Best RPG Nominees
00:35:57
Speaker
it yet. And it was a dragon's dog for two. Yes. Dragon's dog for two. Yes, obviously. Yeah. Um, but also again, shows like, I guess those are all RPGs, but like,
00:36:07
Speaker
Just they feel so different to me. um I think they all got dragons, or one's got the name dragon in its title, at least. Like a dragon. Well, um again, Metaphor will get it if it hasn't won anything else up to this point. Although I strongly think it'll get either best direction or best art direction. If it does, I think like a dragon might be in with a chance in best RPG.
00:36:33
Speaker
um Yeah, if like metaphor and Final Fantasy and Elden Ring win other things, maybe that's the like spread the love kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. No, uh, Persona 3 remake didn't get nominated for anything, which again, if we want to just be like, no remakes allowed, but then Final Fantasy or Silent Hill. I know, I know. I would have said like, um, as we learned in my previous video, the game awards is usually like remakes.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah. So yeah, even if they did normally for anything, it probably wouldn't win anything. Yeah. I could say that sign Hill two is in with a chance with best performance because you know, because of bullshit.
00:37:14
Speaker
because he put his hand in a toilet. He actually killed his wife for the game. That's method. That's real method acting. Going over some of the last ones. Oh, yes. spoil sorry ah that ah we We don't really need to guess these. fighting game was Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, Granblue Fantasy, Multiverses, Tekken 8, which I assume is gonna win, and then the Marvel vs. Capcom Collection, which that also seems like that's not even a remake, that's just them being like, here's all the Marvel vs. Capcom games you loved. Who fucking knows? Best fighting game, you know, that's that's another world.
00:37:50
Speaker
Yeah. ah Family game is the only one where Nintendo actually made a strong showing. ah It was Astro Bot, Peach's Showtime, Mario Jamboree, Echoes of Wisdom, and Plucky Squire. Plucky Squire is going to win that, I think. Yeah. well if but Well, you could argue that it should win. I think Astro Bot might be in with a good chance there. Kids like robots, right?
00:38:14
Speaker
Yeah, I used to like robots as a kid. yeah yeah kids love Yeah, they love little cute robots. Yeah. Simstrategy game, we don't really know anything about. I mean, yeah, there's never any logic behind what gets nominated for Simstrategy. You might as well read them off. ah Age of Mythology retold, Frostpunk 2, Kunitsugami, Manor Lords and Unicorn Overlord. I'm happy to see Unicorn Overlord get one nominee. I don't think I played any of those.
00:38:42
Speaker
ah channel It's good. Yeah. I hope Unicorn Overlord wins. That was great. Give it to that. Mana Lords could take it. Mana Lords is very popular. Yeah. And that was the that was also nominated for first time or debut indie. I think that was like a yeah. Mana Lords might take that ah
Most Anticipated Future Games
00:39:01
Speaker
sports racing. We just skip. I don't really care. Sorry. ah I mean, I kind of we they they you get to a bunch of indie stuff or not any stuff, e-sports stuff, which we don't understand. ah Most anticipated game.
00:39:14
Speaker
Do you want to try to guess what five games? Ever the fucking bullshit award. Basically, which game has the most hype award? Yeah, it is five games that are they're all announced. They're all presumably ah coming out next year and they are all entries in franchises. Assassin's Creed, whatever it is. presently know No. No. Oh, OK. No.
00:39:39
Speaker
The game is going to tank Ubisoft. Yeah. Oh no. No, it's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. I'm excited for it. Still make a break. Okay. Uh, read them off then, uh, death stranding to God knows Kojima needs to be there. Uh, ghost of Yota, which is the ghost of Tsushima follow-up, uh, GTA six, which we'll never release. metro client for Yeah. I think. Metroid prime four and then monster hunter wilds. That's my pick, but.
00:40:09
Speaker
It's close. Like there was already a beta and it's coming out in February. So like yeah it has that going for it. I mean, GDA six, if only to be 100% honest, that is the most anticipated game from an objective standpoint. Yes, it is. the It is going to outsell the rest of those games combined. Yes. It's like every like the last four GDA's. It will be the biggest selling game and also the biggest selling media entity of that year.
00:40:38
Speaker
I have normie friends who have a PS4 and have not bought a new console yet, and all they tell me is to tell them when Grand Theft Auto is coming out, and then they will buy a PlayStation 5. They are horrifically popular. Like, yeah, yes, enormously so. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:55
Speaker
Um, but yeah, that's, that's the, that's the big nominees. Uh, a couple of takeaways I have are that it's nice that three of the six game of the year nominees are new IP. Um, it's nice that like Blacksmith Wukong, well, Blacksmith Wukong, arguably a new IP, a new IP in games and then metaphor refantazio. Um, that's nice to see. Um, as opposed to last year where everything was like the 10th in a series or.
00:41:24
Speaker
Interesting that Black Ops 6 didn't get best action. That's huge. Like the the annual Call of Duty is usually a shoe. It did get it did get best best action. is was it it Yeah, I just didn't really talk about it too much. guess I wasn't paying attention. Well, it might win that. Yeah.
00:41:41
Speaker
um Yeah, my big, like, yeah, takeaways for me personally are, I think, Animal Well Deserved Game of the Year nominee. i And then it's just really funny to see how most years Nintendo has at least one big game running the table. um Last year they had Mario and Zelda. And this year they don't have any. They got... oh Yeah, but when the Switch 2 comes out... that these these nominations are fucked because there's going to be a new Mario. Yeah. Next year, we'll probably have the new mainline Mario at the launch of the switch. And if it's like Odyssey, first like the first loop world game in the it's going to be the first open world, Mario calling it now. Yeah. So that would be to be getting the most nominees for next year. So well, considering they had a bunch of well, they might win something in best family game, even though Astro Bob deserves best family game, because the shame awards usually feels they need to acknowledge Nintendo for something.
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah. Or else Reggie's going to cry. It might go to mario not get to Mario It's a fun one. Because it literally is a family party game. Yeah.
00:42:44
Speaker
It won't go to Zelda, because that game kind of sucked if you ask me. Also, it's not a like, I don't know, just because it's like, it doesn't feel like a game the family's sitting around and playing to me. No, no. But then we't explain that what does that matter? Well, does that matter that the name of the nomination doesn't make any fucking sense? Anyway, snake
Game Awards Live Stream Plans
00:43:04
Speaker
matters anymore. So yeah, as a reminder, the ah game awards are gonna be the evening of Thursday, December 12.
00:43:10
Speaker
ah which is four, three and a half, four weeks away or so. And as usual, we will be doing our live stream watch along. So yes. And probably a follow up podcast in which I am surprised with the winners and talk about how bulged it was that my predictions didn't win. Docked, docked I say. All right. Super chat time. Not too many at this point.
00:43:34
Speaker
ah guess everyone more angry than twitter had didn't get nominated Everyone cleaned out their wallets during the anniversary stream on Saturday, I assume. Yeah, which, by the way, thank you all to everyone who watched. ah So many people watched the entire thing, which I think is nuts, but anyone who just popped in, said hi, sent good vibes, donated memberships, Twitch subs, ah Patreon memberships. ah Thank you, thank you all so much. um that was That was wonderful. Warm, dark cockles. Let me tell you, I had cold cockles going in. Now I got nice, toasty cockles.
00:44:05
Speaker
My cockles are warm to the touch. I'd love to hear it. I put my socks around my cockles so they'd be nice and comfy when I put them on. That's slightly worrisome, but I'm glad you're going. My cockles might be too warm. I might need to. Oh, no. Yeah. Third degree burn cockles. Yeah. See a fucking doctor. I need to see a doctor. Dawa Dodger Esquag is $2 and says Bellatro game of the year. See, even in like a non bullshit realm, I don't think he deserves game of the year.
00:44:35
Speaker
I mean, I still play a bit of it now and then, but it's more like a fidget thing than a serious, really immersed, really fucking pushing the boat out. Yeah, but I think you guys might be underestimating how popular Blartro is, like it's... Well, I think it's popular, but in a sort of... I think it's popular in a sort of guilty pleasure kind of way. I don't think, like, professional gaming journalists and insiders would nominate it as Game of the Year, even though they all probably play it.
00:44:59
Speaker
I mean, they did nominate though. Yeah. They wouldn't award its game of the year. Oh, okay. Yes. It also seems like it's one of those games where like it has all those, which I know is a whole different thing, but Eric showing right now has all those like tie-ins where it has like a Witcher tie-in and a Dave the diver time. And it almost feels like one of those games that all game developers love as well.
00:45:21
Speaker
Like, and it has that feel good story of like a solo dev just going out there. That dude's got to be filthy rich now. I know. What do you do next? What do you do next? Uh, by, uh, the dude who made Minecraft lives in notch. Hopefully he doesn't go the notch route. Hopefully he goes a slightly nicer route than the natural. Yeah. Don't make any public statements. Blacho dev don't let us all know. You're a racist. Thank you.
00:45:51
Speaker
Yahtzee will wear a green hat in three weeks. Gives two year rose and says, Marty, name an example of a no true Scotsman. I'll give it a rest. I don't know. And I don't want to learn. That's my thing. Sometimes I just don't want to learn anything new. And i sometimes I just want this closet door to stay broke. And he's got to let me be. Fair enough. Erb4nm gives 25 PLNs and says, now thanks to Patreon, I can appreciate the windbreaker intro even more.
00:46:19
Speaker
That's right. For Patreon members at the $5 tier and above, you got to watch a ah the first in our monthly experimental video series that was Javed talking about how we made all of our ah various logos and and branding and and intros and all that fun stuff. Yes, the story of how he came up with the Artsy Tries intro animation is a particularly interesting and in-depth one, I thought. Ooh.
00:46:43
Speaker
That's great. And speaking of job that if anyone hasn't watched it yet, go watch his Metal Gear video from this morning because it is fucking wonderful. It's 50 minutes. Watch on your lunch break. Watch it in your evening. Watch it with your moms and your dads. Watch him all the time. You are grateful bastards. He puts so much effort into that. It's so good.
00:47:02
Speaker
A wild Josh gives $5 and says Slitterhead was robbed of its Game of the Year nomination. Damn you, Kaylee, damn you. i agreed I still need to play through that. That's my job this week. um I was playing through Brothership last week, so I'm playing through it this afternoon. I think you're going to hate it. I started it. I started it, so um I've played it like the first couple of hours. And it's ah it's interesting. I'm going to see where it goes.
00:47:32
Speaker
I'm not, I'm not a big fan of how they illustrate all the dialogue with the noises of characters making sex noises the whole way through. um ah here alone in the bun zoi thing a little bit yeah It's not every once in a while something will be VO'd, but it just seems random. It just seems like mental.
00:47:51
Speaker
yeah FoxD goes $5 and says, my game of the year is workers and resources Soviet Republic. Nothing drives home the alienation of the indie stroke AA stroke Eurojank enthusiast. Quite like the game awards. He literally never heard of it. There you go. Well, proves his point.
00:48:10
Speaker
It's got four and a half stars, oh no, very positive, 20,000 reviews on Steam. No numbers for Nine Souls, no numbers for Crip Master. No numbers for Nine Souls. Again, that indie category is tough, right? I know. oh There's so much competition, isn't there? Yeah. Still wakes the deep, should have gotten something.
00:48:34
Speaker
So kind of I'm kind of unsurprised that Plucky Squire got something. Yeah, maybe it says it was one of those indies that had like a lot of hype leading up to it. yeah it had the And it also had the presentation of an indie game that's trying to put the effort in.
00:48:52
Speaker
Yeah. They had the story of like this person used to be an artist for Pokemon and then they gave their freedom and now they're here. And it's fun to look at. Yeah. Frogs disseminating other frogs for friends gives $5. It says I've played stroke will play seven games released this year and I set this on fire link. It still feels like the needle hasn't moved. Everything feels too safe.
00:49:17
Speaker
I mean, I think if you go in the indie space, I think stuff like yeah Animal Well, Bellatro, Thousand Times Resist, Lorelai, and Laser Eyes, like feels they feel different, like they're doing something neat. Yeah. But in terms of AAA, yeah, I hear you.
00:49:31
Speaker
We're in a weird transition period because Switch 2's come in, the PS5 and the Xbox are ramping down like we're we're pushing towards new console generations soon. So all the devs who are making these big AAA games that take five years to make, they're making games for the next consoles. They have, I guarantee you, they have dev kits and they're making games for those. So it's going to be a few years before we get big industry pushing waves in in AAA. Yeah.
00:50:01
Speaker
We wait maybe for the PS5 to actually start being a viable console before we move on to PlayStation. Stop being a paperweight. Yeah.
Community Engagement Reflections
00:50:12
Speaker
Ooh, frog disseminating other frogs of friends also gifted 10 second wind memberships. Thank you very much. Oh my gosh. And said late, gave $2 and said also late HBD to second wind. Oh, thank you so much. HBD. Yes. Yeah. It's our first year and we've been completely collapsed.
00:50:30
Speaker
so Who made a Phoenix cake? who made ah who Is that a second wind cake? Or is that just a Phoenix cake? or I think I just might be a Phoenix cake. Yeah, I'm going to get some Phoenix cake. I want some cake, but then um it's for lunch it's lunchtime. and Ryan Betts, member for Nine Months in Tip Jar, thank you very much. And then Tom Schrader D gives 25 PLNs and says maybe Stalker 2 will be a surprise nominee. I like that because those were the nominees.
00:50:55
Speaker
Yeah. And it came out too late apparently. Yes. R2 comes out on Wednesday and apparently the embargo is two hours before the game comes out, which I'm not saying is like bad news, but oopsie doodle. Not good. Yeah. Um, yeah, we might be doing them maybe on Thursday, Nick might be streaming some of it. So stay tuned. Alex Armstrong gives $2 and says, no opinion. The game awards to me is trailers and nothing else. Well, there will be probably a lot of trailers. So there you go.
00:51:23
Speaker
Surely we should be invested in what becomes the ambassadors of the industry in the year going forward. No, I agree. like it's not To me, it's not religion. like I don't get mad if the thing I like doesn't win, but I do think it's an interesting ah the the relic to look at and does feel a bit like a divining rod. Also, I'm excited because they always had that big 100-person orchestra that plays a medley of songs from all the the best game nominees. and It's just funny that those 100 people are going to be playing blotro music um like alongside like Final Fantasy and Metaphor and stuff.
00:52:00
Speaker
I wouldn't mind if they ditched the orchestra if they could let the nominees actually give half decent speeches when they get their awards. I'm sorry, a very confused Al Pacino needs to speak. and Lauren Fark gives $5. Oh, sorry, I missed one. Whitticism gives $20 and says, happy anniversary. Sorry, I couldn't make any of the stream on Saturday. I was out of town. Congrats to one year and keep up the good work. Also, Nine Souls is my game of the year for what it's worth.
00:52:29
Speaker
i think it's on I think it might be on Casey's shortlist as well. and I need to give that game a decent go. i tapped I'd have to go back over the year, but I'm not sure it would be in my top five, maybe. Do you only choose games that you specifically reviewed? Yes, I only do the games I've reviewed in my top fives. Gotcha.
00:52:51
Speaker
Although, I suppose you could argue that anything I did in Yahtzee Tries might, uh, be eligible. Yeah. Well, usually if I really liked something. Yeah. Well, Nine Souls was originally a Yahtzee Tries game that I went on to do a full review of because I liked it so much.
Yahtzee's Criteria for Top Games
00:53:04
Speaker
Yeah. yeah So that's usually, that's usually how the pipeline works.
00:53:09
Speaker
Uh, Lauren Fark gives $5. Yeah. Lauren Fark gives $5. Does Remake aside, Persona 3 Reload's not getting soundtrack of the year is a crime of the decade.
00:53:21
Speaker
I agree its music was very good, but I also agree that we almost need to like, I don't know, award originality over remakes. And I like remakes, but I feel like they should be in like a different thing. Yeah. Maybe we have a new award show called the remakeies. The remakeies. We should call them the the golden buttholes.
00:53:42
Speaker
i want to Whichever games did the best job of staring up its own butthole this year. get surprised. James Sunderland put his whole arm into that butthole. I know. Yeah. That's a, that would like sweep the butthole award. So James, my cockles.
00:54:02
Speaker
Uh, Hawkeye Gough gives 50 Swedish Corona and says happy anniversary. No thoughts about the game awards 2024, but in 2025, I think the Goro Magima pirate game should just win everything on premise alone. They're excited for this pirate game. Yes. That's the, uh, like a dragon spinoff. Yeah. The spinoff of like a dragon. why pirate game Yeah. I think it's already, already dated for February. February has already got a bunch of bangers.
00:54:27
Speaker
All those fucking yakas are like a dragon games, it's the developers going, right, we've put all the work into making this open world. Let's see how many more games we can milk out of it. I mean, that's how they get like one to come out every year or two. um Yeah, it works. One interesting thing that ah it's it's clear that ah games are a bit different than movies. Cause if you look at movies that win the Oscars, nine out of 10 of them are released in February or like the fall or the winter, like they are end of the year. This was award seasons. Fresh memory. Yeah. Whereas with this, like Bellatro, Erdtree, uh, Final Fantasy seven rebirth all early in the year games. And same thing in the past, like breath of the wild, Elden ring, uh, God of war 2018, all first half of the year games. So I don't think it really matters.
00:55:12
Speaker
ah Faz gives 989 pounds as my two faves this year being Stellar Blade and Life is Strange Double Exposure. I don't have much of a horse in this race. Hannah winning VA would be nice. Max is a fave of mine. Shadow being Game of the Year confuses me. Elden Ring won 2022. Yeah, I don't think it wins. It would be like, what are we doing here? It's not gonna win. That's not.
00:55:33
Speaker
As a self-styled expert on predicting game award winners, it's not going to win. Yeah. It was pretty clear that it was going to be nominated though. When like the other day they like put out that proof like that early, like, Hey, by the way, these are the rules of how it works. Please don't blame me. Yeah. Uh, the dogmatic director member for two months in the green gang says, I'm still mad about pizza tower from last year. That wasn't going to win. It was too subversive and needed to tow the line more.
00:56:02
Speaker
Yeah, I'll pick. ah Oh, look who it is. It's Tsunami Dusha with his twenty dollars and no comment, as always. Thank you very much, Tsunami Dusha. You know, you could just join the Patreon. I mean.
00:56:17
Speaker
I was going to say maybe he is, but he doesn't have the little red bird logo. You can just join the Patreon and give $20 like a month. i i'm almost certain I'm almost certain they do. the The red bird means they're not a member on YouTube. yeah it's not kind They
00:56:34
Speaker
so nature has a patron to of course so i'm do shit to They do A superb owner gives $2 and says, any chance you will do a second wins awards show next year?
Planning Second Wind Awards Show
00:56:45
Speaker
I seem to recall we've talked about it. We've spoken about it. Yeah, it's a lot of work. It's a year two thing though. It's a year two thing. We didn't follow up on that conversation. It's so much work. Yeah, we'd have to rent out a glitzy venue and everyone's got to come out in sparkly dresses.
00:57:02
Speaker
But like the the community could come and like it could genuinely be a thing. Like, yeah. The problem is that end of the year is tough. It's tough to do things at the end of the year. Agreed. Yeah. Just it's bad timing. So we almost like to need the middies, the mid-year awards.
00:57:18
Speaker
ah second would be yeah f with me gives five dollars it says honorable mentions for games i played and liked this year new star gp singoku dynasty fields of mysteryria and starstruck vagabond all hearty wrecks oh you bodyty liquor fox d I don't even know those first two games. I don't know New Star GP or Sengoku Dynasty.
00:57:40
Speaker
I was going for the Obscure Reference Epine Award, I suppose. New Star GP is a game where you race a nice-looking car. Yes, Star Trek Vagabond is a rather good life simulator, stroke, narrative-based game that came out around May by some indie developer who could really use your support I hear.
00:58:02
Speaker
Cody, the true, yas what what's your, what's your problem with taking compliments? Like it's a good fucking game. Every time I compliment your designs, you're like, Oh, that's like, I'm like, mate, just eat a dick. Like you've made a good game. not sure the fuck up Oh, you know, self esteem.
00:58:19
Speaker
That's why I always really take the heart, all the all the negative responses and ignore all the positives. yeah that my pattern You also fixed all of like, I noticed, well, cause I helped you slightly do some of them on the accessibility side. All of the the comments on the, on some of the bugs and some of the accessibility things, you went and fixed all of them. Like. Yeah, have there haven't been any bug reports in Yonks.
00:58:44
Speaker
Best I ever get it. I haven't updated it in ages, which probably means if you haven't bought it, you probably should now. Ooh, I think time guys. Oh, maybe wait for the next theme sale because it's 20% off again. I think that's coming up pretty soon, isn't it? Look, it's like once a quarter. Yeah, probably criminal. Yeah. I seem to remember that being one in November. <unk> Is that one of those things I'm not supposed to talk about? Whoa, whoa. Whoops.
00:59:13
Speaker
whoops Uh, where were we? Uh, just existing 45, member for 10 months in the tip jar, thank you very much. And then SusiGuru2000 gives five euros and says, Marzi, as a Sonic fan, did you see the new death battle, Bowser versus Eggman? You know what? I'm just glad that we're finally acknowledging I'm a Sonic fan. Are you a Sonic fan? I've always known, Marty.
00:59:37
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We've always known. We just don't like to talk about it like the weird cousin who comes for dinner. We just live in the corner. I am just a Sonic fan compared to the rest of you, minus Eric. Oh, we know you're a wee bit shitty taste. I am a wee bit shitty taste. That is 100% true. No, I've never watched any of these Death Battle things. I know they exist, though, and I'm watching some of it in the corner now, and it seems like they're doing pretty well. Animation's cool. Yeah, Bowser's got kids and nephews and stuff, whereas Dr. Robotnik doesn't.
01:00:06
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He kind of does in Sonic frontiers. Can army of robots? Yeah, they're all his they're all his children. Remember, he's got that like a i little girl character. who like Yeah, the one it kind of looks like the girl from near the main character. Yeah. Yeah. And she's kind of his surrogate daughter. what's these Death Battle. Someone just makes that.
01:00:29
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There's a little gag, uh, in, uh, the death of Sonic the Hedgehog where that little girl shows up wearing her best dad t-shirt in the end. That was good. That was a good goof. As I recall. One of the few good, good, good goofs in that game. Seriously needed more goofs. ah because i've disappointed And he should have died for real. I keep saying.
01:00:53
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can
01:00:56
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ah Ryan Betts gives title us $5 and says, a second wind awards show would be fun. Call it second wins and have categories for best podcast game, recursive, Jiminy, Cocktail, Terry, Dad, etc. Now I'll tell you what the categories would be. They'd be what I always said they should be. It should be based around what emotions the game intends to bring out. So there'd be game that most scared me, game that made me cry, game that made me feel powerful, game that made me sad.
01:01:20
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Best tittle later. Games that made my cockles warm. Yeah. Game that scares the shit out of me most. No. Ten bells. That'd be my normal. Agreed. There's a new there's a new um anomaly game where it's almost like you're in like a giant like control-esque warehouse and they put like a a cabin comes by and then they drop a cabin and you need to go into the cabin and see if the cabin has anomalies or doesn't.
01:01:52
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And then you leave. Oh, so it's like a like a production line. Yeah. Yeah. Almost like that one level. What's that cool? What's that cool? Let me let me look it up. I'll figure it out. okay That sounds like fun. Makes me think of that level in Titanfall 2 where you're trapped in a factory that's making so ah IKEA homes. Yeah. I'm going to blow your mind. You are never going to guess what this game is called. It's called cabin factory. Oh, no. co about december thirteenth Cabin factory. cabin factory. Sounds like fun. There you go.
01:02:21
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Uh, a suit just existing 45, uh, gives 10 Canadian dollars says life has been hard. Things always change, but you guys are the constant. I always look forward to Mondays. Cause of you lots of love. Second wind heart. Marty and Yahtzee always make me smile and a Jamaite blue heart. Well, thanks for thinking of me in the final
Silent Hill and Sad Dad Games
01:02:41
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moments. I appreciate you you got a blue art. You got a different color. Not quite so enthusiastic heart.
01:02:48
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ah It feels like it's dying. A blue heart feels like it has a little health behind it. Yeah, mine's fresh. It's blue, right? It's new. Yours are withering. A superb owner gives $2. It says Silent Hill 1 was the original Harry dad game, RF-RF. Well, I think by my definitions laid out in my dad game video, I would say that was more a sad dad game. That was an early sad dad.
01:03:14
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But the hair goes a r r y hairy harry dad game Harry, Harry, Harry, or home um Retro guy 200 gives 70s hours and says if they had a category for best level design, which games would be nominated and which would win? I think they should have best level design and I think they should have best moment. I like, I like when you get really deep, like specific with like, what was the best moment of the year?
01:03:44
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Hmm. Best little thing. Uh, best emotional response based enough categories would work. I love that too. I love that too. Get that, get that in there. Uh, the line's a tough one animal. Well, maybe it's just like a really well constructed Metroidvania. Yeah. and Well, all Astro bot, I think a lot of Astro bots levels are insanely good. I would agree with Astro bot. Yeah. I wouldn't give it to final fantasy or metaphor. Definitely not giving the sign a little too remake because those levels go on too long now. Yeah.
01:04:15
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Oh, yeah, animal. well You know, came I like to to get any nominations. Mini shoot adventures. For even out of it, mate, I was just looking at Pacific Drive on my list and that should have one more things. You know, I enjoyed that. I don't have a mini shoot. I yati tried that.
01:04:38
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That was just a bit sort of visually bland, I think. I thought like the visuals was something that has been drawing me to it. I haven't played it yet, but I love that. They were dots they were solid visuals, but also bland. Okay.
01:04:54
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ah Dawa Dodger Esquire gives $20. There's much love and support for Javed, blue heart. That was a superb piece of media and I hope he continues to put his thoughts out in other projects. Listen, if you have the same colored heart that Javed gets, Jay, you're in good heart company.
01:05:10
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Yeah, no, I feel good. Get fucked, guys. Blue Heart Gang, rise up. Jovid is undeniably ah the most talented person on the team. He is unbelievably talented. He is so good. I sort of started taking it for granted, but then I watched his video on how he came up with all the logos and stuff, and I...
01:05:30
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appreciated him and you. Yep. He's fantastic. And a pleasure to work with a wonderful person as well. So yes, all of your spot on Patreon guys allows Java to have this time to breathe and be able to make these bigger projects. Yeah. So thank you to you guys. And on the same topic, the Reaper's Grimm gives 20 Canadian dollars and says just finished Javits incredible Metal Gear video ah is a must watch for fans. Is that fans of Javits or fans of Metal Gear? Well, both I'd say. Yes.
01:05:59
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Yeah. We're even getting a picture of Java. We had it translated into Japanese and it's going to have a pure Japanese subtitles. That's all. Oh wow. Yeah. We've put, we're putting the effort in on this one. Kojima will see it. Even if we have to tie him down and force him to watch it like in fucking clockwork orange.
01:06:19
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Uh, Yella, member of a Nine Months in the Green Gang, says, have a cream tea, yeah, that's cake for lunch. Cream tea isn't a cake. Fuck, it's cream tea. Cream tea consists of a scone.
British Identity and Scones Debate
01:06:30
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Scones. Yeah, scones with jam and clotted cream. Which is very much not a cake because it's a scone. And obviously you put the jam on first and then the cream because the jam doesn't adhere well to a cream service.
01:06:47
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Oh no, I'm not going to get involved in this topic before we this podcast before we s slipped into that other dimension that we tend to do once. Yeah, it happens once a stream where me and me and Yahtzee get British. for a whole minute and you get yes yes The other dimension known as anything but the United States.
01:07:10
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taste per a superb owner remember for 11 months in tip jar thank you very much and then gay bear daddy too remember that's 12 months in tip jar yeah let's go and then a debut super chat from fwoop fwoop who gives $5 to say, I really don't understand why there isn't a dedicated remake category. green Because, as established in my semi-revelamatic on the subject last year, the Game Awards is not in the business of looking up its own butthole too much. It doesn't want to dwell on the past. It wants to push the narrative that we're always improving and always getting better. And the re and making remakes all the time just implies that games in the past were better.
01:07:52
Speaker
Um, what do you think foot foot? Like, what is that? The onomatopoeia? Well, uh, it makes me think of a bird's flapping wings. Okay. Spider-Man webs. That's that's the whip, isn't it? One man's foot is another man's foot. A foot foot is a bird celebrating with their wings. They go foot foot.
01:08:15
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whoop whoop
01:08:18
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That's the so someone celebrating with a whistle in their mouth who doesn't know how to blow a whistle properly.
01:08:28
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sweet feet Dr.
Excitement for Pony Island 2
01:08:30
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Theogus, my most anticipated game is probably Pony Island 2, sequel to the horror programming puzzle game by the creative inscription. Daniel Mullins, yeah. Friend of the Pod. Friend of the Pod, one of the rare times we'd see what wasn't. Me and Marty have done work with Daniel Mullins. That might be the first time he's an actual friend of the show. Actual friend of the Pod, yeah. Yeah, I'm excited for that as well.
01:08:53
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HawksD gives $2 and says, I don't try for obscure. It's just what I play. No, that's the that's fine. we all Neeras25 gives 25 runs and says I'm fine with DLC being nominated. The distribution method is irrelevant. The content is what matters. Also Astrobot game of the year. Astrobot. Okay, I still don't think it's gonna win.
Astro Bot and Final Fantasy Predictions
01:09:20
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You can, if we in our episode after the Game of Awards winners are announced, you can color me surprised if it does. I think it can have an old filter ready. I can color in my whole webcam feed. As I say the phrase, color me surprised. I think Final Fantasy is going to win, but I think Astro Bot would be my runner up of what I think will win. I will eat i will eat my face if Final Fantasy wins.
01:09:47
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Your whole face? You're not going to have a face? I'll eat my entire face. You'd need that fantasy. Because rebirth sold like shit, didn't it? Yeah, but you know who loves it? All the dummies like me. All the people I've heard to speak about that say that it's a bit drawn out and the minigames are too. You're talking to a bunch of fucking chuds. It's not very good. It's great. That's great. It's not very good. It's great.
01:10:12
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Moving on frogs disseminating other frogs for friends gives $5 as yachts. I would have signed up for and playtested starstruck vagabond if I wasn't looking forward to it. Though I feel the same nerves when making jewelry. LeMou. I want to make something like I want to make something tangible. ah You make a book that could be like a book. I wanted to do yeah I wanted to get into making stained glass. Speaking of tangible, ah bringing out a Blu ray of fully ramblymatic.
01:10:39
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yeah translation Finally, there will be a physical record of my videos. So if the internet goes down, I'm not literally erased from history. If the internet goes down, I'm just going to kill myself for being honest. i Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of ah an apocalypse scenario for us at this point, isn't it? Needed for those hard times. Yes, it is. The world would end. Yeah. For us at least.
01:11:03
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Uh, Joel Rowe gives five euros. says What game would get the award for the horniest game you've guys played this year? Oh, Stella Blade, probably. ah Mario Brothership. Well, there is. Mario and Luigi do sort of ballroom dance together in that game a lot.
01:11:24
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I'm trying to think what's horny. Weathering waves was pretty horny. Final Fantasy 7 has a little bit of horniness. Metaphor has no horniness. No, surprisingly. Very dry game. That's that Gacha game that ah KC plays. That's incredibly horny, and he protests that it's not horny,
Sexual Content in Video Games
01:11:40
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but it is. Is that he the one where the where the initialism is? I think.
01:11:49
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Denless zone zero. I think it's just lack of super horny games on my list, if I'm being honest. Oh, Banishes Ghosts of New Eden was a little bit horny. there was a it It was about a a married couple who had sex.
01:12:04
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You know what game has a great sex scene? Wolfenstein. When they're on that train. yeah you were street You were streaming that yesterday, weren't you? Yeah, it was great. I keep streaming games with sex scenes, by the way. I don't know how that's happening. Rise of Rome. You're living that whole mom walking in, like seeing the cut scene thing, but instead of just streaming to a bunch of people. I don't remember a sex scene in Rise of Rome. No, there was a, they like go into like a, like an orgy or like a a bacchanalia.
01:12:32
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Oh, okay. It's like a sex scene and more like sex is happening during the scene. Oh, the crush house. That was a pretty horny game. Oh, I thought that was the name of the Roman bacchanalia was but so that would be a that would be a good name for a place to have a Roman back and all. Yeah, that is a, that is a pretty good one. Who's the, the Roman dictator? Uh, I'll talk to her. Bari gives 2000 arses, which made for a deep red super chat. So it must've been a lot.
01:13:00
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It's actually Cheeto. Sadly, I couldn't join the stream on Saturday, but I want to wish you all a late happy anniversary. It's amazing what you've been able to build in this year, and I'm really looking forward to the next one, especially Adventure is Nice season four. Best wishes to all, especially Toffee and Ludo. Aw, thank you so much. That's so nice. I got to FaceTime Ludo yesterday, and it was some of the... I was extremely happy and extremely sad at the same time. I've got screenshots of it. I'll send it in the Discord. She's doing well. We'll get her here soon.
01:13:29
Speaker
Aw, look at the mines. I miss that, pup. ah Dr. Theo gives $10. This time of year always makes me realize just how little new games I actually play. I only have like five, 20, 24 games while I pump hours into multiplayer games like Deadlock. No, it's not your job to play them. That's also why I don't, I mean, Yahtzee and I do not play those like ongoing games, so that's one. No, no, I got other shit to move on to.
01:13:55
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where it feels like a lot of folks, Jay, you, obviously folks like Jess. Yeah, i finish I finish my day job, and then I go to my game job and play that.
01:14:07
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ah Mr. Sad Face gives five dollars and says, when passing a dog on the street, who's more likely to shout, it's a happy dog and pet it? Yachts, his kids, or someone else in second wind? Well, I wouldn't do that if I was walking Toffee, because Toffee would be barking his silly head off at every other dog he sees.
01:14:27
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I wave at dogs when I go on runs and I talked about how I just waved that dog in my neighborhood the other day and their owner was behind them and they gave me a weird wave and I thought it was very awkward because I'm like, I'm waving at the dog, I'm not waving at you. Yeah, motherfucker, I'm waving at your animal, not you. Yeah. Thanks if you went up and said, oh, who's a good boy? And the owner said, well, I am a good boy. Thank you for letting me know that.
01:14:51
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I'd pet a dog. I love dogs. I'd give him a good old pet in the streets. I've never met a dog I couldn't befriend without a quick squish of the ears and a quick squish at the hindquarters. Exactly. Toffees sleeping comfortably on a cushion just off screen. Bless their heart. If I did, I would like to pick him up and bring him over. What a cutie.
01:15:17
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No, don't ask sleeping. Oh, they don't have a tone on her. They stopped licking a bit. Yeah. The vet says to take him off and see if he still licks his bits and spoiler alert. He is still licking his bits. He might be getting that coming back on before long. He's asleep more code.
01:15:37
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Anyway, fwoop fwoop gives five dollars says I made this username to play portal on Steam over a decade ago. I thought that's the sound the gun made. Oh, well, fill is in foop yeah that does actually that is a good noise for a portal. Yeah, that pretty much sounds like the portal sound. and yeah And then just existing 45 gives five Canadian dollars says Yahtzee, I love your long form ZPs, bedtime has too many others. Will we get a long form compilation of semi-RAMP? Please, please hear your mate sparkly heart, sparkly heart. We are doing a long form compilation of fully RAMP to bring out at the start of next year. It's yeah, I think if you want the unbroken one that sir
01:16:21
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that it doesn't have like opening credits and closing credits. We're going to do that for that one. The Blu-ray version has opening credits and closing of credits. I've heard of people ask us about that. Yeah. And there's a like, we, we've kind of gone back and forth cause like our first thought was like, let's just do one for all of our shows. You know, let's get a full, a full compilation for design dev or for backdrop for stuff like that. But then there's like a slight worry that YouTube might, might give you a negative tick. If you have too much, um, re uploads, which I don't like.
01:16:54
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I don't know. Yeah. So well on well YouTube shouldn't complain. I mean, they get their cut. Yeah. And like long the long form videos always do pretty well because there's evidence, there's evidence for and it for and against it. There are channels that just do compilations of their own stuff into our long things and they do extremely well. Um, but there is a, there is a worry. I think it's mainly Nick who has that worry.
01:17:18
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Maybe we'll see if there are semis and design doll compilations in the future, we'll see. I don't think we're going to do a semi-rem this year because there's, as it's as a bi-weekly show, ah there's half as much content as fully-rem has at this point, so maybe we'll do one every two years. Yeah. We could do the same for design doll as well, because that's a bi-weekly.
01:17:40
Speaker
Is it biweekly if it's every two weeks, or biweekly if it's twice a week? I can never remember. che I think it's both, which sucks, because it's a bad term. Yeah. yeah you know if we were If we were British and therefore knew how to use language properly, we'd say biweekly to mean twice a week, and fortnightly to mean every two weeks. That's a video game with all sorts of characters and rappers in it. Well, that's what's caused all the confusion, isn't it? Fucking epic games. Per time.
01:18:08
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Lampe gives 10... Thanks for the hearts. Lampe gives 10 pounds. It says, if Marty doesn't go, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, scrawl, scrawl, congratulations, congratulations. After each winner is announced, we should riot. That would be so many. There would be so many. Congratulations. I got that reference. Okay. Oh, it's a reference to the Evangelion. I get it. Yes. Well done. Yeah.
01:18:35
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JD Laney gives 1.99 and says BMW getting a nom is such an insult to women. The car Cars are gonna win game of the year. Oh, Blacksmith Wukong.
01:18:47
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so ah
01:18:52
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i can you be why is because there's not my form yeah It might be because there's basically no female characters in it. Oh, no, tell a lie. There's so there are quite a few female characters in black. I just remembered. I just remembered all those lady spiders you have to kill. Are they represented poorly? Are they like? I don't know. I mean, if you want insults to women, I mean, that's like the least of it if from this year. Yeah. How about, you know, fucking Trump getting back in. That was a pretty big insult to women.
01:19:24
Speaker
Shout out to BMW, another car company if you ever want to sponsor us. We're here. Oh, fuck BMW. We'll take that. Stay away. We'll take that BMW dash. I'll quit. Fuck that car company. Okay. The chat says there was some issue with the developer of reflecting misogyny. Oh, gotcha. Great. There you go. Not great. It's bad. Oh, it's bad. Yes.
01:19:50
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Next Super Chat. Next Super Chat. Let's roll forward. over on Moving on. Dawa Dodger Esquag is $2.00. He says, how much is international pet transit and permit? Oh, it's got to be quite
Costs of Transporting Pets Internationally
01:20:00
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a bit. It's a lot. It's a lot.
01:20:03
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Yeah. It's about between, it's between 1,500 to 8,000 pounds to to get a dog cross. Yeah. So, so when, even when that stuff happens, not on if when that stuff happens, I'll probably be, um, doing a personal stream, maybe doing like a little fundraiser. Um, cause that's a lot of money, um but we'll, we'll see. It's always, it's a ways off. I'm just visiting in the, in the U S at the moment, but when things start getting more official, um, we'll be getting Ludo over.
01:20:31
Speaker
You should be lucky you're not moving to Australia. The quarantine laws there are not fucking about. Because yeah especially with animals and yeah os or something that because they have because there's such an enclosed ecosystem and like any like and anything could really fuck it up. i mean When do you like come into the airport, you have to check the bottom of your shoes for dirt.
01:20:54
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Because yeah that you can't bring any food or seeds or like, no, food to do with seeds nothing like that can biodegrade pretty much just got to stick to a big bin as you arrive. and The dogs have to be in quarantine for a while. If you want to bring a dog. Yeah, Ludo if Ludo comes here, she when Ludo comes here, she won't have to quarantine because England has eradicated rabies, I believe. So well, at least they could do something, right?
01:21:25
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Yeah. Although anti-vaxxers to bring it back. I hear smallpox is coming back because of the anti-vaxxers.
YouTube Content Compilation Debate
01:21:40
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Tom Schrader D gives 25 PLNs and says, if Yahtzee makes long form content, then it should be called the quarterly ramblymatic. I make long form content. They're called books by my fucking books. My last audio book was like nine hours. if That's what you want.
01:21:58
Speaker
ah Well, that was the last Superchair. Thank you very much everyone. Thank you for all your donations and thank you everyone who came along on the Saturday anniversary stream. Thank you and particular thanks to everyone who's joined the Patreon because that is that absolutely the thing that most important in keeping us going right now.
01:22:19
Speaker
The lifeblood. So, so many great bonuses for joining the Patreon. Oh, why wouldn't you join the Patreon? Only if you're a big, stupid loser who nobody likes. Yeah. Try it out. That is true. The bread butter. It's our brother ship. It's our butter ship. Oh, it's our butter ship. That's what the Patreon is. I can't remember. Did we make the butter ship joke before we were live?
01:22:45
Speaker
Was that even today? I don't even remember. Yeah, no, it was today. We did it before we went live. Yeah, and then I did a really funny joke where I said it's called a butter ship when ah ah the the ship looks really good until you look at the figurehead. Yeah, and then you said it was Margaret Thatcher. That wasn't Saturday? No, that was today. Yes, that was earlier. Where am I? think we im fortoring ah but but Where are we? Yes, I'm Yahtzee Croshaw, remember? Yes, I'm the one with the ah black shirts. And I do fully ramblamatic every week and you can see my next one on Wednesday. It will be on the subject of Dragon Age Valeguard, which surprisingly unrepresented in the award nominations as well. Yeah, I think the one ah award it did get nominated for, which we didn't talk about was accessibility.
01:23:38
Speaker
Okay. Apparently it's good access. Okay. It's pushing the industry forward. Like those things are good. We should be celebrating that. Okay. Yes. I've got a semi-ram dropping this week. It's on the subject of a gooey design. wo One for the technical bods there. Rippoo, like the stepping up on the germane's turf. Oh, fuck. My turf.
01:24:03
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And, uh, what else have I got? Uh, Yahtzee Tries, my stream on Wednesday, of course, where I play some indie games and, uh, haven't quite decided what yet. We'll figure it out. And, uh, Ventress and I on Saturday, which I am in. We just wrapped up SideQuest. It will be back to the main quest this coming Saturday, I think. Whatever the main side quest it is. My god, David. Actually, that but that's my stuff. Uh, Jay, what do you got to plug?
01:24:34
Speaker
Design Delve came out last fire day on the worst boss fight of all time. People seem to be enjoying that. Come to tell me their picks. I'd love to hear them. um Got a dev heads this week with Mandalore Gaming. A fellow YouTuber is coming on to discuss them ah potentially discussing remakes and what's happening with those. I think I watched a bit of the old Mandalore Gaming. What was the last Mandalore Gaming thing? Oh yes, I was watching his Cabela's Dangerous Hunts videos.
01:25:02
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Yes, so he's yeah he's coming. Those games are bad. Have you seen those games? They're fucking nuts. I'm not allowed to check those videos out. Those games are nuts. It's like, as he says in the videos, it was there. It was like Cabela's who usually makes sort of slightly dry hunting games attempt to sort of jump on the call of duty train. ah So you just left a mow down sort of on slots of fucking wildebeest. It's, it's fucking insane. Serious sale.
01:25:26
Speaker
Um, yeah. And then the following episode after that of dev heads, we've got game makers, toolkits coming on, um, which is going to be really cool. Um, a fellow game game dev YouTube boy. So, and apparently we look similar. So that's going to be interesting. Um, we'll
Future Gaming Streams Announcements
01:25:40
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see if we can wear the same outfits.
01:25:42
Speaker
um Everyone says you look the same as me as well. It's just beards and glasses. Yeah. It's the same person. Yeah. Similar hair. The similar sort of like Sandy, Sandy hair color. And then me and Jesse have just finished obscure, but we're going to be starting potentially ah starting obscure too, whether that's on the Sunday slot or just on Twitch or whatever we shall see. We're currently discussing it. um We're going to talk to an obscure too.
01:26:08
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There is, yes which is, yes which is weird, like to make a game called obscure, but the second one is so prolific and unobscure. Obscure to colon mainstream. Yeah.
01:26:24
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And yeah, other than that, um some personal streams happening. It's going to be shifting. I ah stupidly discovered it last week for the exact same time. it fire like because i just wouldve got I appreciate it. If I'm being honest, no it wasn't, it was a complete mistake. I didn't realize until I went live. So I'll probably be shifting to another day today, maybe Thursday. We shall see. um But yeah, unless I'm missing anything, that's me.
01:26:45
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Cool. And then later today, Hidden Gen Screw at the normal time, we'll be playing Sorry We Are Closed, which is a new game that looks pretty cool. I don't know anything about it. It just looks pretty cool. So there you go. ah Yeah, normal Wednesday streams. We should have, ah we might have a trio of streams on Thursday. Jack and Jess might be starting off their Liza P adventure starting at noon. Jess certainly seems to think she is. She just said it in the chat.
01:27:09
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I guess apparently Jack has talked to her because the meeting this morning, Jack was like, I think we're doing it. I'll talk to Jess. So there you go. I think we might be doing a stalker to launch a show on Thursday as well. And then Metroid Prime, of course. And Jay mentioned the Twitch channel. Definitely um subscribe over there. Twitch dot TV slash. I also don't know what the address is. Probably second wind something. Second wind group.
01:27:30
Speaker
So can we group, um, because, uh, yeah, like I mentioned, we're going to start doing more, um, kind of like one off weirder streams, stuff that doesn't have to start on the hour, stuff that doesn't have to go a full two hours or can go more or can go less, um, sort of just weird experimental stuff. So, uh, yeah, get over, get over there. Yeah. Check it out.
01:27:50
Speaker
Oh, right. Sorry. I wasn't yawning because you bored me. I was yawning. I was getting up bored me as well. So I do that. I blame you. And it's time for my lunch. Yes. All right. Well, that's it for us. I'll see you all on Wednesday. Bye. You're all my games of the year.