Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "THE NOTORIOUS MASS EFFECT EPISODE 144 PT 2 // "PLAYSTATION DOMINATES THE GAME AWARDS 2024"

Episode Date: December 24, 2024

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with some dope-ass trailers. Hey, you tell them, Snoop. Don't you like how, well, don't you love when music and gaming just comes together in a very organic fashion? Because if you don't know, Snoop Dog does have an album coming out soon with Dr. Dre, of course.

But this particular segment is all about the game awards. Because as far as the biggest stage for recognizing the best performing games from a quality aspect, I believe that the Game Awards show does the best job at acknowledging and giving different platforms the flowers

or different developers of flowers as far as the games that they created and the span of 2024, of course. So whenever you see Snoop Dog announcing the best ongoing game as he is right here, and analytic, also, analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio.

And the game Award goes too. I don't have a game cause yet. Hell Divers 2. I mean imagine saying the winner with such conviction like a Snoop Dog. I mean, I don't know the bag that they sent this man to announce the best ongoing game, but as far as Hell Divers 2 winning it, it definitely makes sense because of course we're going to be getting into all the winners of the Game of War show, but more specifically, Hell Divers, for those who don't know, was the best performing video game on the PlayStation 5 platform and then the PC platform.

So as far as the quality level being at a certain top tier level, it also had the sales and units sold to go along with it. So that's why I always say just because you sell a lot does not mean that you have the highest quality of content or if you don't sell a lot, that means that your quality is below C level as far as the rest of the field. It's basically not, it doesn't correlate. You can have high top tier quality and not sell a lot. And you can sell a lot and really not have the best quality,

but it's really up to your respective fan bases on which one that they prefer. Because sometimes people come into this industry and they say, the things that sell the most is what's important to us, which is why a game as service as far as the live service model is so popular nowadays. But when you get games like an Astrobat, when you get games like a Hell Divers 2, which is technically a game as a service, so not the best example. Basically, Astrobot like two years ago, it takes two very niche games as far as the platforming aspect when it comes to.

to people only playing Call of Duty sports games and things of that nature, right? So whenever you see the Game Award show shining a light on so many different genres in the video game industry, that is why I keep saying that it's the best platform as far as being an acknowledgement of everything. We're going to acknowledge the AAA games that sold the most. We're going to acknowledge the indie games like this one right here.

I don't exactly know what this game was, But I do remember seeing this because I watched the entire Game Award show because I'm a nerd. I don't know if that's news to y'all. But, you know, there's a reason why I cover gaming and music. So with that being said, let's get into the Game of War show for 2024 as far as the winners. Because this is the 10th anniversary. This is the 10th anniversary of the Game Awards show, basically showcasing a lot of different video games a lot, which was powered by the Unreal injuring 5. So when you come to realize that the Witcher 4, which was one of the most

prominent announcements in the Game Award show, if, you know, personally speaking, that's what I think was the biggest announcement. You know, of course, Eldon Ring co-op is definitely a huge announcement. So I don't know, those two are battling it out for the top one. And speaking of Eldon Ring, Eldon Ring night rain was announced, which is a co-op version of Eldon ring and there's more of a spinoff game in itself then you had mafia the old country you had ony oenemusha i think that's how you say it way of the sword and those were just some of the prominent reveals throughout the entire show so that's basically what the segment is for for people who didn't see the show i'm basically going to break down what i thought was the key elements the most

standout viral moments and also getting into the winners because not everybody has time to watch a four plus hour show detailing all of the different performances, the announcements and all that. So basically I'm going to put in a concise fashion for y'all. So with that being said,

you know, definitely make sure to rate this five stars on everybody who's listening on their respective podcast platforms or leave a like and share this with somebody who you think would enjoy this type of gaming industry breakdown.

So diving back into the industry, let's get into one of my favorite developers in recent time because as far as a goat as far as my favorite game in the past two to three years what cd project red has done to cyberpunk as far as the edge runners tv show as far as the phantom liberty dc they have pulled a full 180 as far as the perception of cyberpunk to the point where I would say cyberpunk is up there

as one of my favorite games of all time but for those who didn't know they also have the Witcher series which is also very highly acclaimed for its overall franchise to the point where

blood and wine is considered one of the best gaming DOCs ever created So CD Project Red is really up there as far as the discography. As far as their resume, it's now being compared to a rock star, which if you look at Rockstar, and you look at CD Project Red, I mean, I'm not going to lie. As far as the GTA online model, some people, well, most people would still prefer Grant the Fado. But as far as the quality aspect, as far as the innovative factor, having The Witcher and

cyberpunk under your belt is a resume that i don't know if majority of people would put above or no would put below rock star as far as a quality level so anyways i know a lot of people would argue with me about that but you know that's what uh this podcast that's what this platform is for right so reason why i bring them up is because the biggest reveal in my opinion was the witcher for that showcased an older syri as a protagonist but there there was no release day or platform announced so basically it's not going to come anytime soon also they said additional projects in the Witcher universe confirmed such as Polaris the original game remake one of the other announcements in this Game Award show was the

uh developers naughty dog coming out and saying that they are making an intergalactic video game the heroic the heretic prophet a dystopian in space adventures starring Tati Gabrielo so I don't know what that is Hey people been begging naughty dog to make a new IP And guess what?

They've heard your claims and they was like We're gonna make a new IP And we're gonna stop making Well actually it did you know it's so funny They did announce a remake for the Last of Us 3 Which well last of us 2 last of us 3 I forget I don't know what number there are And I haven't played any of them

But basically They announced a remake and everybody was like Oh the 50 millionth remake from Last of Us and then they was like guess what we got new IP we're working on and so that made everybody simmer down as far as the hatred towards them also squid game came out out of nowhere because I don't know if I can find it on here it doesn't show me I don't know why it's not showing me I'm trying to find the actual squid games is that the dude from Star Wars or am I tripping I forget when they came

It was definitely towards the middle But basically they came out They was like Play our video game It basically looked like An arcade version of Squid games It wasn't like the realistic aspect that we thought They was going to go for

It was more of A Nintendo type of game That uh It wasn't really as appealing I ain't gonna lie I feel like they dropped the ball On the overall art direction of the announcement.

So I can't find it. So that's okay. Anyways, so Squit Games was definitely there as far as announcing, it looked like more of a cartoon game. I'm just going to look these up as I bring it up. Squit game.

Let's see. And they also gave like exclusive look to the upcoming TV show as far as season two. Let me see. Okay. Ah, here we go. So this is Squid Game, the characters that, so this is during the Game Award show. There's no video, but, you know, I was just showing, I was just trying to show you all they was there.

As far as the timestamps, I don't think they actually have it up yet as far as, because this is the actual Game Awards live stream that I watched it on. So overall, I do believe that people are going to play the Squid Games, like, video game, but it's just not one of those type of video games to where it entices you. It's a very arcadey kid-like game, and we thought we was going to get the same thing we received in the TV show just in video game format. And that's just sadly not the case, especially for the art direction. So, but that was one of the more prominent reveals as far as it being an online party royale game. So people are going to look out for that squid game. Yeah, squid video. Oh, that's kind of, it's like a tongue twist.

The squid game. The video game. So anyways. Um, something else I was wanting to get into. Of course, we're going to save who won Game of the Year for the end. Um, we're going to get into some of the categories. There was something. Okay, so recognized Fallout for best adaptation as far as video game to TV.

Um, what else? The live performances that happened, they had Snoop Dog, which you just showed at the beginning, uh, 21 pilots. Then they had Royal and the Serpent. and oh it's d4 vd but i remember covering him before i believe he's an rmb artist and it may be pronounced david now the same thing that run into a black i'm sorry this is the gaming section portion of the platform so people may not understand what i'm saying right now but black spells his name instead of a b he swaps it out for a six and i'm like let me tell you out something if you're up-and-comer

artist and you swap out your letter for a number, I'm just going to purposely mispronounce your name every single time. Like if you're not just going to use the English language, how it was constructed, I'm just going to purposely mess up your name. So I don't know how to D4VD, like I do remember covering him, but hey, learn how to use the English language and now pronounce your name correctly. So anyways, there's something else. So one of the running gags throughout the entire Game Award, show, which I actually thought was pretty fire. They featured Stattler and Waldorf from the Muppets. And I'm not going to lie, the self-deprecating type of aspect that they added to the show was phenomenal

because they was really going at Jeff Keely hard. Like, he's the host of the Game Award show. He's the one who made this all happen. And they had a lot of jokes for him to the point where I think this needs to be a continuous, continuance and the rest of the game awards because I do like how they joke about themselves and not take themselves as seriously because it's like one of the best portions

of the show I believe when they kept coming back in talking about how a DLC is nominated for Game of the Year or they talk about oh did you know that Jeff Keeley is friends with Koshima? I think this is his name. Kojima is that his name? I forget. Oh let's listen to him and now is Gojima

watch this. more. RGG Studio nominated tonight for four times for Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth has not one but two projects in the works, and we are honored to reveal both of those titles for the first time here tonight. Now to present our next award, please join me in welcoming a dear friend who also happens to be one of our industry's most innovative, creative spirits. He's been with us since the very beginning of TGA in 2014.

That boy, Reminiscian- On Death Stranding 2 on the Beach and O.D. Please welcome an industry icon Hideo Kojima. Yeah, Kojima. Okay. So, yeah, basically, with Kojima and Jeff, their whole relationship was being joked upon by the Muppets. I thought that was, like, very much a great aspect of the entire show because they was telling jokes that was what the entire public was thinking a little bit.

So overall, that was a great addition to the Game Award show. hopefully they come back for the next one but also they had uh it was something else else one again to and that's basically it so the new titles i got into that okay yeah that's basically it so now let's get into the categories so for the game award show these are all the categories right here so we have the players voice we have uh best esports team we have best esports athlete best esports game content creative of the year most anticipated game best adaptation best multiplayer best sports slash racing game best sim slash strategy best family best fighting best RPG best action slash adventure best action game best VR slash AR best mobile game best

debut indie game best independent game best community support best ongoing games for impact innovation and accessibility best performance best audio design best scoring music and then these are the top four in my opinion as far as the game award show best art direction best narrative best game direction and then of course the award of all awards game of the year so those are all the categories and then we're going to go through one by one just basically just talking about the winners right nothing too crazy as far as how far um well no nothing too crazy as far as the length because i want to make this concise for people who didn't watch the award show so i'm going to give my sentiments of when it happened during the game

war show and things that nature so also um well let's get into the first one so black myth wukong won something i don't even know what this award is like obviously it said the player's voice but what are they voting for? They're just like, oh, this is the player's favorite game, which I highly doubt that. I mean, literally, as far as the voting aspects, Astrobat 2 and Final Fantasy 7 rebirth had seven nominations. So as far as them winning player voice,

there's essentially like a popularity vote. You would think that Final Fantasy or Astrobat would have won those because they received the most votes, which is why each of those games respectively has seven nominations. But whatever. So anyways, let's get into Best Esports Team. So T1 from League of Legends won the award for Best Esports Team. I don't know too much about that.

So we're just going to move along, right? If I don't know too much about a category, I'm just going to keep going because I don't want to just give my opinion if I don't know too much about it. Best e-sports athlete, we have Faker. Now, of course, this is not something in my book. I don't watch too. I don't watch a lot of esports competition for the simple fact that

if it's not a fighting game, it's kind of hard to get me into it's hard to get me intrigued on watching an e-sports event if it's not like a fighting game. So, but shout out to faker. So he won the best, he won the award for best e-sports athlete.

Best e-sports game went to League of Legends. Now, as far as this, this is obviously something I can speak on as I'm not going to lie to you. League of Legends and the amount of longevity this specific game has had in the gaming industry. I mean, it's something that I don't know

if we'll ever see again. Because as far as when this game, when this game come out. League of Legends release, they League of Legends came out October 27, 2009. It is December 13th, 2024, and this game is still

winning awards such as best e-sports game. That is just a testament to one of the most successful games in gaming history as far as longevity and people competitively engaging in this game year after year after year. I mean 2009 to 2024 to have this type of sustained in the esports field is just unparalleled and which is why it keeps being deserving of its flowers that obviously received here. at the Game Awards in this particular category. So then we go on to content creator of the year for a streamer or a content creator

who has made an important and positive impact on the community in 2024. Ladies and gentlemen, I have to let you know that I don't care if Kitesonat is not the most gamious the gamers as far as his ability or his threshold as far as the amount of games he plays. This man has put the overall Eldering video game on a level that we've never seen before as far as one particular streamer being on a game and garnering that amount of attention for the entire play through.

I don't think we've ever seen that in 2024, specifically in 2024. Kaisenat's Eldering stream alone should have gave him content creator the year. So I don't know the politics behind content creator of the year. I don't know if they wanted him to show up. I don't know how that works. But if I was Kynat, I'm not going to lie to you. I will feel completely disrespectful. Because when they said content creator and I didn't see Kaisana,

it didn't really connect to my brain that they was just completely shunning the biggest content creator out of the award, out of the category. So it's like, what is the motive to not embracing Kaysenat as a gamer? What is that? Like, what is the ultimate background knowledge that I'm missing for why Kaysenat is just completely missing from this category? So whenever I see content creator, especially in 2024, I mean, goodness, there's no other content creator that has done the amount of high quality content that Kaysenat has done. and 2024 alone. Maybe Mr. Beast, if you really want to

debate, but for the most part, where are those two content creators when it comes to this? Because Kaysanat plays games. I understand Mr. Beas. He does other content. But Kaysanat actually play Eldon Ring. He played some other games. I forget. I think it was Shadow.

Not Shadow of the Earth Tree. That's the Eldering, of course. He played Securo, I believe. And he played, I mean, I believe him speed had like a roadblock stream or no Minecraft stream so I just don't understand I don't understand this category especially

after reading the description for a streamer that alone is constant net or content creator who has made an important and positive impact on a community in 2024 I'm just maybe I just don't understand the background knowledge

of why he would just be completely left out out of the category so anyways um well But shout out to KCO, though. I don't want anybody thinking that I have a problem with any of these content creators.

Just obviously, I'm just pointing out the obvious. KSanab by far had the biggest impact as far as a streamer and the gaming community with his elder ring stream. So anyways, shout out to Koso. Shout out to everybody else who made this list as far as the nominees. Most anticipated game is not even close. Grant and Fado 6, which I keep hearing, and I've been reported on, I wonder if I posted on my podcast.

Make sure to follow my podcast, Notorious Mass Effect, or whatever podcast platform you listen on. And I know people who listen in now is like, why are you preaching to the choir? Well, there's other people who listen from other platforms, so I just want to let you know. But, so Grand The Fado, okay, so, I was looking at it. Okay, no.

Basically, I haven't reported on it, but basically, Grand The Fotto 6 is reportedly to be pushed back, And this is not the recent news that you've heard from like the inside or whatever. I've been new that Grand The F Auto was looking at pushing back the video game for the simple fact that they want to make sure it comes out not a buggy mess. I mean, if one thing that cyberpunk 27's launch should tell other AAA developers is that no matter how good your game is, if it's completely unplayable, we will trash it. Because cyberpunk went from the worst game of the year. because of its launch to now the rendition, the remixes, the upgrades all the way into 2024, especially with the Phantom Liberty DLC, you can look at Cybert Pse7 in totality,

along with the DLC and say that it's probably one of the best games we've ever received. And that is the amount of care you have to do to come back from the negative reception of a terrible launch. So that's why I keep hearing that Rockstar will push back Grand The Fado 6 because of them wanting to make sure everything is a seamless experience for the fans, right? Grant the Faddle 6 has a lot that goes on in the midst of a one packaged video game. I mean, you have shooting, you have driving, you have shopping, you have, I think the GT5, you had golf, I think you have a tennis it's a lot that goes into gt a you have the role playing aspects as far as the different highest and competing and there's just so many different game modes there's a lot that goes on

obviously you all need you all need to tell you that grant the father is like the golden corral of video games it has everything in one package so basically they want to make sure it's a seamless experience for every single fan which is why i keep hearing it's going to be pushback but even if it is push back i mean what's wrong with two peding in the most anticipated game category. I mean, obviously some people may get upset, but Granthavito 6 is by far the most anticipated game. Surprised to not see Doom on here.

I don't know why Doom is not, because Doom comes out, hold up, because the Doom video game, forget what it's called. Is it the Dark Ages? I think it's Dark Ages. Really estate. Yeah, so Doom to Dark Ages comes out in 2025.

I don't know why that's not. on the most anticipated games list. But maybe that's just beyond me. I'm like, I'm looking forward to Doom after hearing about the last one, which I still don't, I wouldn't mind going back and playing that one because they do say that that's the most innovative first person shooter that they've played in a while.

So as far as Doom to Dark Ages, hopefully that's just a rendition. Not a rendition. Hopefully that's just an upgrade in the addition to the original Doom video game. Because, of course, Doom to Dark Ages, he's using his shield. now a lot more.

So don't know why that video game's not on most anticipated games list, but whatever. There's also a report that everybody is pushing back or not even announcing the 2025 release for the simple fact that Grant the Fado 6, when it comes out, either 2025 or 26, but if it comes out 2025, a lot of games are just going to have to push back. I mean, it's just no attention that's going to be sought. but it's going to be no attention garnered when GTA 6 comes out. Everybody will be taking off work, will be neglecting life responsibilities to play GTA 6 for hours upon hours.

When I tell you, GTA 6 will literally stop the world. Like people are going to be upset at the amount of people that don't come into work because of GTA 6's release. So anyways, let's keep going. That's why it's the most insistence. spade the game best adaptation was fallout now i'm not going to lie to you arcane definitely had a strong case but what i kept hearing is that fallout is one of the best video game adaptations of all time so when they're saying that type of when they're giving that type of praise but then you also

see arcane and why has knuckles on here he has his own tv show you know that's the one piece of content that I feel like I'm missing out on. Me, especially with Sonic 3 about to come out, I feel like I should have caught up on Sonic and the Knuckles TV show. So maybe I'll do that at some point. Probably won't. I don't know why I'll find the time.

But overall, I think what Sonic has been doing with their movies and I'm not going to be blasphemous. I was going to compare it to the video game, but you can't do that. Like, no matter how many bad Sonic video games is out there, it still held a legacy to a certain point to where this is even possible. But I just want to say that the TV shows and the movies are doing a phenomenal job at carrying the mantra of Sonic and just keeping the legacy alive.

So what was I getting at? Oh yeah. So the Fallout, you know, Fallout winning, I think this was a very competitive category because of Arcane. But I'm not mad at Fallout winning. I mean, I would say it was definitely the frontrunner because I do remember covering this. When I cover this. The Fallout TV show. review roundup yeah i covered i covered this back in may 13 2024 and even then i remember people saying

that this video uh this adaptation is like leaps and bounds above every other video game adaptation i wonder why uh borderlands movie with that i'm just joking uh oh man i'm just joking anyways let's keep going best multiplayer so hell divers two won this which unsurprisingly um But surprisingly, I'm surprised that Hell Divers 2 was not on the game of the year nominee list because I'm not going to lie to you. I felt like it deserved it. And especially the amount of awards and won, I do believe that overall, Hell Divers 2 wouldn't have gotten a lot of backlash if it was on the game of the game of the year nominee list, right? and you're probably wondering, well, what would you have taken off, right? You got to take out Black Myth Wu Kong.

I mean, I kept hearing so many optimization issues and called me biased. But when my game of the year, I think it was last year. When my game of the year personally, Star Wars came out, right? Star Wars, I think it was Falling Order. Maybe I got it mixed up. Yeah, that's not the right one. Star Wars Awakened? That's not Force Awakens.

That's like, what was that game called? I keep again, fall in order. And then the next one was Star Wars Jedi Survivor, I believe. What did I say Force Awakening? Isn't it like, it's like, I forget the dude's name. Star Killer, right? Anyways, I don't know why I said that. Yeah, so Star Wars Jedi Survivor came out March 17, 2023.

So call me bias. But if my game of the year for 2023 personally can't even get a nomination for game of the year for the simple fact that everybody was saying it was unoptimized, then there's no way on God's green earth that black myth Wu Kong should have got nominated. Because of course, I've seen multiple reports of their entire screen tearing as far as on console. What screen tearing means is when you,

like, let's say you lock on, right? And the boss is doing something in the air and it's going all around, but the camera's going with it. But now the image is like completely distorted. That's basically what screen tearing is. So I've heard so many. reports of that and just overall lack of optimization issues with black myth wukong to the point where

i'm just going to call the game awards out and say y'all not keeping that same energy right also to add to that phantom liberty doc for cyberpunk 277 should have definitely got a nomination for game of the year if we're going to put shadow of the urge tree on there so that's another one of my which you could definitely call me bias, hey, that's, you know, that's why that's my personal takes. I feel like Phantom Liberty is one of the best pieces of DOC we've ever received. I also feel like Jedi Survivor is one of the best pieces of Star Wars content that we've received in the past four to five years, bar none. So for not to get nominated for Game of the Year, for Phantom Liberty not to get nominated for Game of the Year. but now you have

now you have Black Myth Wu Kong nominated for Game in the Year and not only that you have a DOC and Shadow of the Erd Tree nominated for Game of the Year. You can see how I would have a problem with that, right? So anyways, back to Best Multiplayer because, you know, to bring a full circle.

I do believe Hell Divers 2 deserved it and I would say it could have went to Black Op 6 but it just it came out too late as far as the high hype already already being built for Hell Divers 2. Hell Divers 2, as far as in competition with Black Op 6, is what X defiant was trying to be. Be able to stand on your own and be comparable and comparable to the quality level of

a Call of Duty video game. That is what Hell Divers 2 is. It's a very phenomenal game. I love the entire premise of it. I mean, it's just straight up, it's almost, I'm not going to say a parody. But it's just a lot of stereotypes and tropes being played upon, right? And it's a very comedic take on the war aspect of patriotism and just honoring your nation and things like that. So anyways, I wouldn't have been mad at Black Opsix winning, but of course, hell divers too definitely deserves it.

Let's get into Best Sports slash Racing category. it. Now, EA Sports FC won this. I'm not even going to lie to you. Why in the world is college football not on this list? Like, if you really think about it, I wouldn't be mad if they took off 2K25. Call of Duty, I'm not Call of Duty, my fault. College Football 25.

And this is going to be interesting because it's going back to my sales, don't correlate with quality. But as far as EA Sports College Football 25, I do believe the quality level was at a certain top tier element, right? Multiple people coming out saying it was not leaps and bounds, but they were saying it was noticeably better than Madden.

More of an arcade field, not as realistic, but people enjoyed it more than Madden. So when you combine that with the fact that EA Sports College Football 25 was the best-selling game on Nintendo Switch platform. And then, of course, overall, it was the most successful game and top selling game of 2024 and showcases the dominance

of a college football brand when EA is behind it as far as the video game format. Because the other thing that I think these people are missing is that college football went away but not because of lack of sales. It was because of the NIL.

Well, today is called the NIL. But back then it was the lack of monetary value for the players that you're putting into the video game. So once the one player sued college football, I forget what year it was. But basically, I think I, well, I definitely cover this. Let me see if I could pull this up, right?

Because this was a pretty big lawsuit, which is why they took the game away, right? So when they took the game away, basically it was an 11-year hiatus. So 11 years ago is when that lawsuit happened as far as them having to pay the players for their likeness. And it was like, well, we're just going to use random play. person number two, and then everybody could tell that that's Tim Tebow from Florida, right? So that's why the game had to go away because even when they tried to do generic names, the law was like, you know what, we're not having it. So nowadays, with NIL in place, it's the perfect system to pay your players,

especially for being in your game. So 11 years later, now college football 25 is back. And overall, a lot of people are enjoying it. So I don't know why it's not on the best sport slash racing category. I just think it's a no-brainer to have it on here. So if you have a racing game, that's cool. Top spin. I mean, all right.

I mean, I remember covering top spin. WW2K24, I guess I understand. NBA 2K25, you know, I definitely understand. I mean, 2K prints hand over fist money when it comes to, 2K in the NBA aspect of it because their fan base is just like going to be forever bonded in the shackles of micro transactions right so anyways um EA sports FC 25 I do I do believe that this game is a it's deserving of winning this category but I do believe that EA sports college football should have won not only is the

successful video game in 2024 but also has the quality to go along with it. Combine that with the 11-year hiatus, I think it was just a perfect opportunity to give them their flowers. But, you know, there's always next year, I guess. But, you know, for the first time in like 11 years, we have a college football game. It doesn't get nominated at all. It's kind of a, it's definitely a bad look. Anyways, shout out to EA Sports FC25.

So we have the best sim slash strategy. category and that went to frost punk two i don't know too much about this category so i'm just going to move along best family game now of course this is ultimately the nintendo category fun fact if you have kids which you know no sex before marriage kids well i guess kids shouldn't i don't know in hip-hop you never die just let me chill that was crazy uh uh basically best family category is not known for having all type of Nintendo games in it. So what I want to say is Astrobat did something that is beyond phenomenal.

Not only was it dominated in the nominations by not one, not two, but three, maybe even four. I don't know what platforms the Plucky Squire came out on. Because I do believe that, uh, I, I don't, well, actually, I don't remember. covering this game uh the plucky yeah i didn't cover this game at all okay the plucky squire platforms i don't know what platforms just came out on oh it came on on every platform okay so technically it's also a nintendo game but reason why i say this is phenomenal because astrobot is exclusively on playstation five you know not to tune my own horn but you know i do own a playstation five really because of spider-man like i don't know if i can see my analytic dreams video on spotify to see the

video along with the audio but um let me see if i can show you this right quick so this is how much of a nerd i am basically i got a whole controller a whole console just to play my favorite fictional character of all time and the game and the game still let me down how about that right how about you get a whole console to play spider-man and the game still lets you down like when i tell you it was the most lacklester IP I've ever seen. After I beat that game in like one to two days, like yes, it was one to two days. Go back to the tape. I still have that analytic dreams video on Spotify.

Type in Spider-Man, it would pop up. Have the whole entire gameplay beat in like a day or two, right? It was a very short game. Guess what? Insomnia X-N, no DLC, no anything. So when you come to the PlayStation platform, there's so many high-profile IPs that they have, whether it's Spider-Man, Cratos. Um, the girl from, uh, Horizon, Last of Us.

I mean, you could just go on and on with like top tier PlayStation exclusive video games, uh, Securo. What else? And then now we have Astrobot, which is literally PlayStation's version of Mario. And they did it in a way that was phenomenal. So now they actually have a competitor for a Mario type of game that will come. from the Nintendo platform specifically. So that's why I say it's such a monumental accomplishment

because this is just the start of a very interesting rivalry between Astrobot and Mario. Astrobat is definitely going to need this. Luigi, it's Peach, it's Bowser, all those things, right? But as far as right now, Astrobot alone is one of the greatest creations as far as a video game character in the past five years. The reason why I say that is because now,

PlayStation can now say they have their own Mario as far as a platformer uh platformer so obviously I don't want to disrespect Mario like y'all see my banner all the time before my episodes right I have my where's my banner right oh here we go uh actually I can't put that because I'm a cover me see if I can put my camera away here we go so my banners are already there right I have the my personal list of the most impactful video game characters that's why it's called you know notorious mass effect because of course you have notorious b ig and you have commander shepherd for mass effect so overall i cover gaming and music right so those are my picks for what i think is the most impactful video game characters of all time and then you come over to music and that's who i think is the most

impactful musicians of all time so that's why the banner looks the way it does because it's pretty straightforward but um just wanted to you know i wanted to show that for the simple fact that i don't want y'all think i'm ever ever hating on mario is never it will and will never be the case i'm just letting you know that astrobat is definitely coming for that number one spot which is why this is a good indication of what of what's to come as far as the mario and astrobot rivalry especially in the best family category where nintendo is just beyond dominant year after year i'm me even in this year they didn't win but they had three games in one family category so anyways technically for because uh plucky came out on it um best fighting game not gonna lie to you

this wasn't even close i didn't hear too much about marvel versus capcom fighting collection arcade classics when it came out all i kept hearing was this little handshake right here how many times can y'all talk about one little handshake and never say when the games like what's the most intriguing part about the retro arcade right a new arcade mode coming back or not rk mode new collection coming back right basically a celebration of this video game and all everybody was talking about is basically um the handshake so I just don't understand where the hype went for this game. Multiverses surprisingly is not being talked about currently.

Don't know what's up with that because they have such monumental IPs as far as the iconic legacy of them. But nobody's talking about this video game. I just don't understand. Dragon Ball Sparkin Zero lost 9. 90% of its player base, right? So people acted like this was going to be a continued for game of the year, but then guess what?

They stopped playing it. So even with that game, like it was high quality, but people just completely abandoned Dragon Ball because they realized that the overall meta of the game is very broken, which is why it was never meant to be a competitive video game in the first place. And now that people are realizing that, they're like, hey, if I can't make money off of this game, I'm a leave. And people are just so upset on the competitive play.

because of like certain characters being able to fly straight up and straight down and certain characters being able to heal themselves. It's a lot of interesting things going behind the scenes as far as the fighting game aspect of Dragon Ball, Spark and Zero. So then we have Grand Blue Fantasy versus Rising. I don't know that game at all, so I can't speak on it, but that's, you know, safe to say that pills in comparison to Tekkenate. TechNate really was a dark horse because if you were,

remember, mortar combat 11 came out, Street Fighter came out shortly after, and then Tekkenate, which is like the stepchild of Street Fighter and more to combat, because nobody really pays attention to Tekken because we have Mortar Combat Street Fighter, right?

Tekken came out and just completely disregarded that whole perception. They came out and it was like, hey, we're the best fighting game, and not only are we the best fighting game, but our rollback net code makes it to the point where we have the most seamless experience out of,

well, more the combat wasn't even in question. Like that game is just a glitchy mess, right? Not only will be more seamless as far as an experience, but we also have a lot more depth as far as the training mode, the options, the overall mechanics, the teaching of the mechanics. They had like actual frame data. If you go back into, you could watch film

on like different matches. You could watch film. You could go back in, replay games and literally start from that point and fight the same type of computer. It will mimic the type of player you just play. Like, TechNate blew a lot of things out of the water when it came to just accessibility and versatility and the overall fighting game mantra because there's only so much you could do with a fighting game, but Tekkenate really took it to a whole not level.

So this category wasn't really close, in my opinion. So anyways, then we have Best RPG Metaphor ReFantasia. Not going to spend too much time on this. I'm not going to lie to you. Shadow of the Urtree is a DOC. Don't know why it's on here. Dragon Dogma 2. The ending needs to be worked on.

Final Fantasy 7 rebirth. How you mess up a remake? Y'all let me know. Like a dragon, Infinite Wealth, I can't speak on that game. I don't know too much about that. But Matafor, Refantazio, surprisingly, I'm not going to spoil anything, but surprisingly did not win as much as I thought it was going to. But was glad that it won something and best RPG.

was one of them then we have best action slash adventure game now of course astrobot won this oh hold up i clicked out it was like i was right here okay so astrob won this category and it wasn't even close like maybe the closest would have been star wars outlaws if it was actually a good game oh sorry i don't know why i said like that but yeah it wasn't even close like i would say no i wasn't close astrobi is really playstation's mario like play astrobi and you will realize the amount of care and detail that went into that game. Oh, also shame, well, I'm going to save that to the end. Because I've been playing Astrobob, but I want to show you all footage of it because basically,

I've been, I've been on the Asthmaubal Wave. Like, you know, I'm definitely not a gatekeeper. I'm just letting y'all know that. I play games, you know. So I just let y'all know that to be like, hey, I've been on the Astrobat Wave whenever it came out. I was like, you know what, this game is a platformer. Platform is on my specialty.

I love platforms because it makes me, you know, it just overall, it's just a great. feeling to play a platform and just get lost in the world right and then um uh i think i was looking it up let me see and then for astrobot to be handled with such care as far as not only being a mario competitor but also being a pretty legit competitor like it's not just talk you play astro oh that kind of scare me as a song titled peekaboo too kind of popped into my ears i'm pretty sure y'all heard that too but uh i definitely did not play i did not press play but you know piccaboo still popped out which is ironic um what was i saying that threw me off oh let me see analytic dreams astrobot okay yeah astrobat see i played this all the way back in

october 29th as far as my gameplay walkthrough of astrobot part one obviously is out is on analytic dreams video on spotify yeah so just type in astroby gameplay walkthrough part one and it'll pop up as far as analytic dreams video podcast specifically on spotify so with that being said or you could just type in astro by analytic dreams and it'll still pop up but i'll play this back in october 29th and completely just thoroughly enjoyed the game to the point where i understood where people was coming from as far as it's being a game of the year contender so as far as it winning best action slash adventure definitely makes sense so then we have best action game Now, I feel like this is a very sympathetic choice for the winner because Black Myth Bukong,

I'm not going to lie to you. It has a great premise, but for the optimization issues, for the way that it just has a lot of screen tearing when you're locking on to certain bosses in the video game. And not only that, but as far as the optimization issues, when it comes to, to transversion the environment and stuff popping in and popping out as far as graphics and textures popping in and popping out.

Call me biased. But when Star Wars Jedi Survivor had that, everybody and the mom called it out and to the point where it wasn't even nominated for last year's game of the year. So, you know, I'm a little upset at that. You know what I mean? So as far as Black Myth Wu Kong having a similar type of performance

when it came to optimization, interesting to see it get all these awards right which technically I do believe Jedi Survivor won action adventure game so you know technically it won something but game of the year which it should have been nominated and that's my main thing so not mad at Black Mith Wukong winning Black Best Action actually yeah I am because it could have went to Warhammer I ain't a lot I would Warhammer hell diver and Black Ops and Stella Blade are all better action games in this. You know, this is,

oh, this is crazy. Black Ops 6 has the Omni movement, very innovative. One of the most innovative features in the past, three to four call of duties. Hell Divers 2 has a whole co-like community where the whole thing is talking about patriotism. It has a great PVE type of system going on to where this game is going to be around for,

long time, right? Not just Black Miff that's just here today, gone tomorrow. Hell, well, no, Stella Blade 2, the overall Souls-like aspect, but still keeping it like, still not making it as difficult. I will compare it to Star Wars, Jedi, Survivor as far as the difficulty. Like, you can have it be Souls-like or you can just have a regular play-through as far as the difficulty. The Stella Blade mechanics, though, is, I'm amazing. And of course the graphics are great and it's just better than Black Myth. And then of course Warhammer. I mean, we really need to talk about how much of a better game Warhammer is than Black Myth Who Kong. I think a lot of people who don't play PVE-type games don't understand the intrigue of a

hell divers to a Warhammer, right? So yeah, Blacksmith Wukong is actually the worst on this list, but they ended up winning. Isn't that crazy? So anyways, best VR slash AR This went to Batman Arkham Shadow And the reason I'm laughing is because Shout out to RDC, man If it wasn't for RDC, I would have never watched The amount of hours of hours I watched

As far as this video game Because RDC had Batman Let me see, Arkham I don't know if they posted it on Twitter Okay So basically They kept saying that Batman Arkham Shep I don't. It's like actually pretty immersive and was surprisingly great as far as the story aspect.

And I don't know why surprisingly because didn't Rocksteady make this and they made the original Batman. So it wasn't like they had some B-Team making this mobile game. But I'm trying to see. I don't know if it's, uh, I don't know where they posted it. Maybe they posted it on IG. Oh, here goes right here. I don't laugh in my spelling. I think I spelled it right. anyways um all right so look at rdc playing this game right here hold up that's how i knew that this game was going to be seriously in contention for best vr game because look how much fun they

happen right here propaganda i mean out here just crouching for no reason Like, Like, Good Gulfamites Become afraid I'll destroy any radios

I find Oh Like honestly This is The future of gaming Which is at a point where This

type of technology What we have For VR now And this may sound crazy It reminds me Of my My grandma's

video game I think it was Like a duck Shooting game Back in the day Yeah It was like This duck

Shooting game Right I forget to set up for it. Was it duck hunt? I don't think it was duck hunt. Okay.

So what we have for VR right now, I do think this is the future wave of gaming. I think when it get to a point where you have a whole setup, you can walk into and now you just completely immersed in whatever video game you play, right? I do think we'll get to that point. But right now, the type of technology that we have,

this is the level of VR we have right now. This right here. Y'all remember this? This looks ancient compared to now, right? that's how I believe we're going to look at this, this type of technology we have now for these video games. Like obviously it looks solid, but we're going to get to a point where we're going to look back

and be like, bro, what were they doing? I want to be surprised if these little headsets turn into like glasses or something, like something very small, but it still puts you into the environment, like glasses, earbuds, and now it has the same effect, right? So I think we're going to look back and be like, you know what these moments were needed because we had to start somewhere I want to get to the far part where he was I want to get to the part where he was

fighting jump but I can glide across with my cape oh glide across with your oh that's hard you don't even got to do all that I don't think more viz okay let me get to the part with the fire day in Batman life all right we go this is a oh I'm real here in combat simulator hey oh it's time

make a fist oh I had already did that hunch from a distance okay all right so y'all get the point right it just makes you feel like your Batman

has a whole graphics set up and everything so it's pretty solid which is why I'm pretty I'm glad that it won best VR slash AR game because I think it definitely

deserved it trying to look at the other games yeah i can't think of anything else that would have beat it out best mobile game now of course i've been you know keeping my promise on covering more mobile games in the community because of course with me being a cover of games and music you know i try to cover everything very in depth as far as the overview so getting into the mobile side of things like i don't know why i was neglecting them for so long so that's why my first ever mobile uh mobile review and sales roundup was for Marvel contest

of champions, that mobile game, right? As far as this year, best mobile game going to Bilatro, it ended up being a nominee for Game of the Year. I think people really enjoyed this game. Now, I can't speak on this too much because I don't know too much about any of these

mobile games besides the Pokemon trading card game pocket because I believe no, I did cover that. When I covered that? I covered that back in April 22nd, 2024 so basically the Pokemon trading card game is I don't know

it's pretty solid but I think Pokemon Go will always be the notable Pokemon mobile game but you know glad it got a nomination on this category but yeah just type in Pokemon analytic dreams and the trading card game segment will pop up so

anyways let's get into best debut indie game well I don't know too much about that shout out to Balatro for winning that again but shout out to local Funk slash play stack. I think those are the developers. I think that's why they have it below there. Best independent game goes to Balatro. Okay. Is that not the same thing? Hold up. What's the difference between best indie game and best independent created by a new independent studio? Okay. Brow standing

outside the traditional. It's not the same thing. Maybe I'm tripping. What's the difference between best debut? Oh, best debut indie game. Best independent. the game. Okay, so debut. So this your first game ever. Hmm. Okay, whatever. I understand the difference now. Um, best community support went to

Borders Gay 3. Wouldn't have been, I wouldn't have been mad if it went to Fortnite. I think Fortnite has one of the most popular fan bases in the world as far as the amount of people who just consistently just put time and effort into Fortnite.

Fortnite, and today's age is turning into what Minecraft what Roblox was but just times a trillion right Fortnite is really here to stay but I guess maybe it's voters fatigue they don't want to give it to Fortnite every single time so Bartas Gate 3 is definitely deserving of best community

support because fun fact they also won Game of the Year for 2023 so to come back this year to win best community support you know it's probably just a continuation of those flowers Best ongoing game was Hell Divers 2 So I guess maybe they was making up for this Because I feel like best ongoing is the same as community support But maybe not, I don't know

So Hell Divers 2 won this definitely deserving of that I see Destiny 2 on here I do remember they had a DOC That the Destiny fans swore was going to bring the game back But let me tell you Bungie laid off 220 employees When they merged with PlayStation So as far as the best ongoing game, I'm interested to see on this list.

Because I know they literally had like a whole heartfelt moment during the show. But they talked about somebody who was like reaching out the people who got laid off to like tell the story and they helped them out and things of that nature. So it's interesting to have bungee on here. But you know, that's the thing you run into when you have these moral, these moral high ground takes, but you're still in the industry, which is to bring it back to music. What Kendrick is going to find out the hard way. Because let Kendrick not show up to the Grammy. it's over right so obviously kindrick has to play the game at at some point in time right because the system wins every time so anyways um that's basically why i say that like even though

you have these high moral ground takes is definitely a good thing but also remember that there's a game to be played and not to like not the whole kid's stuff like that's that's insane that game is illegal and those people should go to jail, right? Allegedly if, well, I didn't say any names, but y'all get on. Yeah, y'all know, hey, y'all know who I'm talking about. Y'all, y'all know who I'm talking about. Those people, if it's true, I'm saying they need to go to jail. But as far as the game of showing up, showing face, shaking hands, things of that nature,

I think it's just fair as far as people who also have power and influencing the masses as far as what they prefer in video games or music, right? anyways games for impact don't know too much about this for a thought-provoking game with a pro-social meaning or message that's cool

yeah I don't know too much about it but you know shout out to all these games you know what I mean pretty sure they had a pro-social meaning or message right that's it that's my take on that innovation and accessibility so Prince of Persia won this category when i think about it i'm not mad at it i believe prince of persia developers literally went under

literally i'm not laughing at them losing the jobs because that's not funny i'm just talking about how how in the world do you go under for a video game and let me see let me make sure because i believe they did go under but i don't i don't want to just be talking right um montpellier Ubisoft Okay So basically the developers Of this video game Oh they haven't

Wait Oh okay So okay So they wasn't disbanded As far as Montepillar Right Basically the team Behind this particular game

Was reassigned To other projects Within the studio Rather than the studio itself Closing down So what does that tell you

Like come on now Like it's just label jargon for hey the great game that they made we broke up that entire team and they wonder why Ubisoft is in uh in trouble as far as being bought out by tinsent right because they keep saying that Ubisoft shares have failed like 17% after it delayed its launch of the new Assassin's Creek game like so much stuff that's happening with Ubisoft right now none of them good because it's such a backwards company so uh I mean how do you have Star Wars outlaws right the the first ever open world Star Wars game and you out here

just completely fumbling the play. You just completely fumbled the product. You have Star Wars IP, the first ever open world game and you fumble it. Like how in the world does that happen? So anyways, shout out to Prince of Persia. I'm glad that team got some type of award.

I wonder what that award was like. Because who would have went up there to receive it? And what did he say? Or what did he or she say? Right? Because I would have got up there talking to all type of mess. Like, yeah, thank you for this award. I'm glad somebody.

sees the value and the work that we do. I would just walk the off. That's not how you're supposed to do it. But no, I'm pretty sure that they felt a little bittersweet. It was probably a bittersweet moment. All right. Best performance. This is the lady from the,

is it the deaf game or is it the, it's not, I don't think she's deaf. I think she just has voices. She, like, be, she, like, is hysterical and be, I don't know. Basically, it's a weird game. game. I ain't gonna lie to you. I mean, it's literally called Hell Blay. You know, I try to stay from everything hellish. So I do recognize, because I have covered this game before. I remember, I do remember specifically, before covering that, I was like, you got to sprinkle some holy water before I cover this game because I ain't going to lie to you.

Get into all this type of devilish imagery and the whispering of different voices in your head. Like, she definitely played that well because I would have went insane in that booth. Be like, what you mean? We got to retake again? Like, I'm telling you, like, she probably was going through. it in that booth so I'm glad that she won this award um Brianna white who is she the character of was it Tifa if it wasn't Tifa then we ain't trying here not let me chill all right else Luke Roberts from Silent Hill to I don't know why I'm reading off the names shout out to the person from Hellblade too um best audio design I clicked off again what in the world where we at okay best audio design

went to Oh, yeah, went to Hellblade too, of course, because I'm not gonna lie, that is like that video game is literally a movie. It's like an interactive movie. I wouldn't even call it a video game. It's like one of them telltale video games. Like you're just watching the movie,

and at certain times you, you like, take over. Right? So it's a great, it's a great, I don't know, man, I don't prefer it because it's hellish type imagery, right? But if you prefer a movie in that type of spectrum when you have multiple voices in your head and you have like a good stereo system or a headset that you can put on while playing this video game it definitely has the best audio design by

far like i said it plays out like a movie so uh not mad at it going to hellblade too would have definitely like astrobot to get it but you know that's one of the few categories well maybe the only category that well no actually because they was nominated for seven they only won three so they lost four so this is one of the four that they lost as far as the best audio design um okay best score in music

final fantasy seven rebirth interesting not mad at it because people do love the final fantasy soundtrack I would say that because of metaphor being so new and the quality of the soundtrack being comparable to Final Fantasy

I would have it to metaphor because Final Fantasy is going to be around because they'd be putting out, oh, this is the remit. This is remaster. This is remaster part one. This is remaster part two. This is remaster part three, four, five, six, seven. You get it.

Like, Final Fantasy is going to be around for years to come. As far as metaphor, I don't know when the next addition to metaphor is going to come out. And it had a phenomenal soundtrack. So for this year, I would have gave it to metaphor. But I'm definitely not mad at Final Fantasy winning. And Astrobat, I ain't a lot. Astrobat score was pretty solid. like the little, hold on, let me play this for y'all.

Let me play a little, about the enlighten y'all right quick. What y'all, what y'all know about the Astrobot theme song? Because they had that T-Pain effect going on. And it's like catchy when you're playing the game. It's like, I am, okay, my fault. Let me just play it off because y'all want me to sing it right. So anyways, all right, y'all, here we go. All right, y'all, y'all get the point, right?

I like my dance moves. It's definitely a Commander Shepherd type dance moves. Anyways, those who know, those who know, those who play mass thing no one I'm talking about. So Astrobaugh has a fire soundtrack, in my opinion. But I do understand, like, the versatility of Final Fantasy's and Metaphorous soundtrack. It probably wasn't even, like, Asthmael probably wasn't even close.

But it's still a fire soundtrack. Don't get it. You're like, come on now. That's some heat. I ain't allowed to you. All right. So anyways, um, yeah, so Final Fantasy 7-1, Best Score and Music. Now, let's get into Best Art Direction.

Best Art Direction went to Metaphorer, re-fantazio definitely is well-deserved. I mean, talk about an anime game, right? Anime video game and one best art direction. And not only is an anime game, but the art is top-notch. And, you know, usually anime is known for

its great art direction, but it's no different with metaphor refantasio. So, by far in the way, probably the easiest category. Best art direction, metaphor, uh, one that one. Best narrative. Okay, now I think we're in the big four, right? Oh, that was the, okay, so we start off right here. This is the start of the big four

categories in gaming, right? The best art direction, best narrative, best game direction and the game of the year. Those are usually the very sought after wins as far as a war show. Why? Because literally

when you have these type of games, right? And then you get into these big four categories, you start to realize that people will go back and play your game for the simple fact that they see it on these lists. They're like, oh, I must have missed something because I never played this game.

So FOMO kicks in, now you check out the game. That's why the big four is a term popularity. What is that word? What is popular? I just made up something, right? Anyways, excuse me, you know what I mean? Just messing up all type of words today. But the popular phrase as far as every awards show is like the big,

for because the Grammys have it with the producer the year you know song at a year album year stuff like that right um gaming has it with best art direction game of the year just you already have the big categories that everybody wants and then the other ones are like you know still sought after but the top four is definitely very much a game changer as far as the public perception going down the line for years to So anyways, metaphor one, best art direction. I said that, but it was just going over. So best narrative.

Metaphor won this is, I'm not going to lie to you. Metaphor winning best narrative is definitely an upset. And let me tell you why. Saga Hellblade 2 is literally a movie. It's literally a movie. It's like an interactive movie. It's like a telltale type video game, a AAA telltale type video game.

Because throughout the entire cut, scenes sometimes you won't even know when you're supposed to pick up the controller that's how good the graphics are in this video game so with that being said the overall story the overall graphics the way it plays out exactly like a movie i would have thought this would have won would have won best narrative but metaphor winning best narrative makes sense because of the political aspect and the depths of how they covered certain problems in the political field right So anyways, I'm not mad at metaphor winning, just thought it was probably a close race between Hellblade 2. All right.

So best game direction. Now, this should have told everybody who is going to win game of the year because usually best game direction is like a precursor to what is going to come as far as who's going to win the best game of the year, right? So Astrobot won best game direction. Makes so much sense as being a PlayStation exclusive, having a, character created that is now competing with the likes of a Mario as far as on a platforming aspect, a significant accomplishment, and not only is it significant, but it also showcases how if you want to compete for years to come, you have to switch it up and come with things that nobody even saw coming as far as uplifting your overall brand. So Astrobat coming out of

left field being PlayStation's now solidified Mario competitor, like solidified, like two games under his belt and is already being compared to Mario. I think that's a monumental accomplishment, which is why, you know, let's just go and get it out the way, which is why it won game of the year. So Astrobot won game of the year, of course, developed by team, Osobi, SIE. And the thing about Astrobot winning game of the year is that it only came out on the PlayStation 5 platform. God of War, one game of the year that only came out on a PlayStation platform.

Last of Us, I believe one game of the year that only came out on a PlayStation platform. Securo, one game of the year, only came out on a PlayStation platform. Like, we're going to get to a point where people are going to realize that if PlayStation keeps having game of the year, year after year after year, and it's exclusively on PlayStation, we will have to have a race. real conversation on how to help out Xbox. Because even though I own the PlayStation, I do acknowledge that

if PlayStation keeps tipping the scale, because right now they're winning by a last lot. Like, there's a stat out there that for every one Xbox sold, there's four for every one Xbox there's four PS5 sold, right? It's like a four to one

ratio, and that's like the bare minimum. So if the scales keep tipping in PlayStation's favor, What's stopping them from having competitive prices like an Xbox? Why not mark their prices up because they can? Because they have the entire player base now. Right. So I do believe Xbox is getting whooped so bad right now

as far as just popular games that also is high quality that at some point they're going to have to pick themselves up by the bootstrap. I know that whole mantra that they love to tell black people. Pick yourselves up by the bootstraps. and then find a game that can be your next Halo and run with it. Because of course, Doom, I believe it's a replacement for Halo as far as the quality level and still being innovative.

Xbox cannot afford to lose out on another console war because at that point in time, I don't think it's going to work well in the consumer's favor because now the scales are tips so heavily that the competitive price of both of them having what's the I don't even know what price they charge but let's just make it up right if they both charge $50 for an online subscription right

what stopping PlayStation from charging people $120 for a yearly subscription because y'all are already on the platform where are you going to go to Xbox all the players are on Xbox I mean all the players on PlayStation and I know people are out there probably saying what about cross platform well what about the exclusive PlayStation

video games that keep winning game of the year to the point where we now recognize that PlayStation has the best games as far as a discography in the past four to five years. So that's what I say. Competition is great in the way that PlayStation is winning time and time again. Xbox has to come with a banger. They have to get some type of banger under their belt. I know they're buying all these studios that I think that's Microsoft

realizing that Sony is just whipping them on a game since so often year after year that at some point it's going to be a a non it's going to be a lead that's not able to be recovered

at some point the gap between the PlayStation console sold and the Xbox's console sold is just going to get too large so that's why I'm saying we're at the point now where it's like in a race, right?

Sony is way ahead of Xbox, but it's still one to two laps left in this race, and I do believe Xbox is going to have to push forward to make this a competitive race. Because if they don't, if Sony just takes off and leave

Xbox, I do not think that will be in the best interest of the consumer. Hopefully that makes sense. But anyways, with that being said, Astrobot one game of the year, Also, I played this game back in, I put out part one back in October 29th. And basically, I have a whole new, because I didn't even know it was going to win game

of the year, but I did want to finish Astroby. I told my analytic dreams video Spotify audience that I was going to be the Call of Duty campaign, which I did end up being that, have multiple Marvel rivals, Gameplay walkthroughs out there. And I started Astrobat back in October 29th. But of course, with my new place, my new setup, everything, things of that nature. This whole aspect now, I'm now starting to back, I'm starting back up as far as the gameplay walkthroughs, right?

So I started Astrobot and I played three days ago and I also streamed it. But streaming is also just something I do to give extra accessibility. But for the most part, people watch on Amazon. analytic dreams video on Spotify. So basically this is me playing Astrobar right here, which is, you know, now currently the game of the year. So just a little tidbit analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio.

But this is me playing the game. Wait, hold up. That's kind of an inception. Look at that. Oh, I don't think I did it right. Did I do it right? Am I in front of the camera? Wait, hold up.

Am I in front of it? Oh, my chair is in front of them. Okay, let me see. I was like, what type of inception is this? I'm on twice. All right. Let me take this out right quick. See y'all can see there.

All right, so now this is the previous version of me. This is not currently me. But y'all probably know that. Anyway, this is me playing the game of the year for 2024. Here we go. Last one, last one. Look how I'm getting into it. Oh, I'm about saying.

Move your finger then. Show my, uh, my hat still on. It is. I ain't gonna lie, this is starting. The Santa Claus hat. This hat do be hurting. So as you can see, it's just a fun interactive game, and I'm showing you with the controls what is having me do. You know what?

You gotta be very peculiar where you put places, where you put things. And I'm also showing like with the controller how you can move around the box and things of that nature. You sure, inspect that right quick, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I think the jigger watts in the right place. No. All right. Alright, so anyway, so because the premise of the game is basically fixing an old PS5. It's probably fixing an old PS5 because the PS4 people won't get a PS5.

But you know, that's what's what's point. Oh, hold up. Let me make myself appear like a magician. All right. So, yeah. Astrobaugh, one game of the year, well-deserved, definitely one of the more pivotal games of all time for the simple fact that PlayStation now has a Mario competitor.

And overall, the Game Award show, I would give it a solid 8 out of 10. I ain't going to lie. Then I'm coming out the gate with Elder Ring and Witcher News being a Game Award show. Because for those who don't know, News Flash, a lot of these studios are very tight-lipped with what they're creating because they have their own platforms now, right? There's a reason why Nintendo now exists. There's a reason why PlayStation Rewind, I think that's what's called, I forget what it's called.

But there's a reason why the Xbox showcase exists, everybody realizes they have the ability to press go live themselves and get the same amount of audience. So for Jeff Keely to pull this off for the Game Award show to get exclusive content for something that's not even the developer's own platform, right? Like CD Project Red, they have a way to go direct to. Actually, they just went direct to consumer in one of the live streams. CD Project Red went live. I don't know if I can find it. Diamond 2. Okay, so they put out the 12th episode of the podcast.

when they talked about their new uh cyberpunk uh update which a lot of a lot was in cyberpunk 277's update which you know just reinforces the point that that's the amount of effort it takes to reinvigorate a franchise after uh horrendous loss uh horrendous launch right so anyways um so yeah that's what they did they went live but technically they just put up out of a podcast. But y'all get the point, right? So these people are just going to direct the platform or direct to consumer because they

have the ability to stream themselves, right? They don't need the other conglomerates to put out their product when they can just do it themselves, which is why I'm giving the Game Awards an 8 out of 10 because I do believe they had a lot of unique content showcase for the entire Game Awards show. Like I said, once again, the standouts was The Witcher 4 trailer. You had the co-op version Spinoff games of Eldering You had Nottie Dog announcing

Intergalactic which is the Heretic Prophet, a dystopian Space Adventure starring Tattee Gabriel And of course The Squid game characters come Coming into the Game War show just to Announce their online party Royale game which is, you know

Not looking to great as far as graphics wise But don't know why they went for their cartooning effect But that's what they went with But that's what they went with Um With that being said Yeah click my link In my bio

Let me know one of my social medias What do you think about Astrob winning game of the year And obviously looking at this list Oh hold of I think I'm blocking the last game Okay Obviously looking at this

Actually that's not gonna help Let me pull this back There we go Looking at the last game As far as metaphor Refantzio Final Fantasy 7 rebirth Elder Ring Shadow of the Urtree Blackmeth Wukong

Belotro Astro, Astro, click my link to my bio, let me know on one of my social medias. What video game do you think was most deserving of game of the year for 2024? Marvel rivals and Path of Exile

are battling it out for the most popular game currently, as far as most popular new game, because of course, the most popular game will forever be a counterstrike to or a shooting or sports game, right? But as far as currently, as far as recently released, Path of Exile 2 is currently the fourth most play game on Xbox. And as far as PlayStation, it's outside of the top 10.

When it comes to Steam, it's the fourth most play game on that platform. But what's interesting about the dynamics between the consoles is that Marvel Rivals is the seventh most play game on. PlayStation but but path of exile is nowhere to be found on this list but when you come to xbox it's the fourth most play game on xbox but marvel rivals is nowhere to be found on that list so just to show you a little bit of the dynamics on consoles as far as the overview perspective as far as analytically right so as far as path of exile too if you don't know it's basically uh ambitious action RPG sequel from grinding gear games as the gameplay mechanics feature

character customization new skill jam systems revamp combat and enhanced multiplayer and as far as 19 new ascendancy classes shared world hubs with drop-in multiplayer a new campaign a completely new campaign alongside the existing path of exile content. Now, when it comes to sequels, people as far as the higher-ups have started to realize that if you put out a sequel, guess what? People are going to watch it a little bit more because right now going with what's safe as far as getting your value for your dollar has made it to where a lot of movies, a lot of entertainment that has been sequels have benefited off of the previous path that was set by the

original i mean just look at inside out two just look at wicked two basically that just came out look at a lot of these continuations of a franchise and them selling a crazy amount to the point where now the higher ups are looking at it like we don't want to take any chances just make a sequel off of the original project, which Disney, in all intents of purposes, are making sequels to movies we never thought we would receive a sequel to, right? Huge side tent. Well, not huge. Small tidbit as far as a side tangent. Zootopia 2 is something I never thought I would have seen as a sequel.

And now we're getting it, right? Incredibles 2 is something I thought we'll never get as a sequel. But now in recent times, people are realizing that brings people out. more, especially when it comes to spending money on your product. So as far as bringing it all the way back to Path of Exile 2, it being a sequel, having this substantial hold currently with it having 321, no, 198,000 concurrent players as far as on the Steam platform and being a fourth most play game on Xbox when this game come out, when path of, let's see.

I'm not scrolling like I'm 80 years old. Path of Exile 2 came out December 6th, 2024. So obviously it's a new game, but still had a lot of attraction over time as it was really putting up numbers when it came to sales and unique encounters as far as for people playing the game. Because now if you're selling a lot,

people who are playing the game are talking about how it's a lot of different bosses, all of them are unique and now the the barrier to entry is lower because it's available on PC PlayStation 5 Xbox X slash S you realize that

a lot more people are going to be able to play the game because that's not always the case sometimes it's exclusively on PlayStation actually most times is all right my fault most times the good games are exclusively on PlayStation there I said it you know what I mean to say it like that I didn't even know I switched my camera but hey hopefully I enjoyed that so with that being said um this particular game I believe that the overall attraction of it and the reason why people are playing it so much is because of the different ways you can expound upon the original path of exile it really takes your your it really takes your progress and the decisions you made into account as far as the sequel because not all games do that

some games will give you the illusion of choice and you stay or you end up at the same point that everybody else did but it gave you the illusion of picking a different path right path of exile is completely the opposite it actually showcases different pathways to go down and now with path of exile too coming out it's just building upon the original original games complex storyline, the complex skill tree. A lot of the game introduces new mechanics as far as active skill gems that modify gameplay based on link supports as far as new multiplayer features allowing co-op party play in world events.

And then of course, when it comes to Path of Exile 2, just know that it's more of a combined game experience from from a gameplay mechanics as far as allowing players to choose between campaigns because it's a it's a combined experience with Path of Exile which you would think is a given with it being a sequel but not every game gives you the ability to continue the way that Path of Exile does from your original save sometimes you play the original game and the next game they're like hey we ain't saving all that just tell us these three main decisions and we're going carry on like no hold on what about this decision what about that decision this decision that's why mass effect will forever be my favorite game because ultimately the decisions the decisions you make

in that game really carries over to the third game like one of the main characters you you have on your squad towards one of the missions and Mass Effect 1, you make a huge decision between two characters and guess what? That character is gone for the rest of the series

and that other character can continue story arcs all the way up to Mass Effect 3, right? So you kind of see what I'm saying as far as a continuation of the original story versus other games that give you the illusion of choice.

And then, of course, vice versa, if you... I'm not trying to spoil it for anybody. So as far as the decision you made, if you would have chose the other person, that person would have had a whole... character arc all the way through to mass effect three which is why it will always be my favorite game of all time anyways i don't know how i got on a mass effect tangent see that see look at me you know me

we talk about path of exile my fault so back to path of exile as far as the free-to-play model that as far as uh marvel rivals is very peculiar because they came out around the same time and they're both free-to-play uh models right and the foundation has been set to where it's an ethical micro transaction type of philosophy similar to Marvel rivals that is currently out what do I mean about that basically if developers put out a game and it's free to play they don't lock everything behind a paywall as far as the most intriguing parts of the game right the things that's micro transactions is basically cosmetics and things that don't affect the overall gameplay well it affects the

the visual elements, right? And maybe some of the customization options, but it doesn't really affect some of the core foundational mechanics of the game. One of the examples I gave with Marvel rivals is imagine EA developing Marvel rivals. Exactly. They would have locked

Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, and especially Wolverine behind at least a $10 paywall, at least, at the very least. So as far as an ethical micro transaction type of model that's what i mean about that releasing a game fully and then the cosmetic side of things are now up for you know purchase and things of that nature so that's what a lot of people

showcasing they said that the soundtrack features orchestral orchestral i think it's orchestral i'm just you know ours rs be kicking me uh and a you know what man ours be uh whooping me but anyways uh the Orchestra. Y'all get to hear me a struggle through this. Composition is recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. And basically, that was a highlight of the game. A lot of people talked about the soundtrack being phenomenal. What else?

So the scale customization has said to be double as far as the previous games. And a lot of players are really enjoying Path of Exile 2. So that's the review roundup of the people playing the game. game as far as the major corporations as far as um game reviewers which is a you know a tad bit a tad different a tad bit different than uh people who actually play the game because of course when you're a reviewer you have no guys going on going in there's no tips and tricks there's nothing as far as path of exile too like obviously the developers can tell you oh go here for this go here for that but as far as getting a review out at a deadline it takes the joy away from it then

compared to a player genuinely genuinely interested in this game, putting 30 to 40 hours in and then giving you a review, right? That's why I give both sides of the spectrum. But with that being said, as far as,

as far as the game reviewers, the game reviewers talking about this game, IGN gave this an 8 out of 10 saying they praised the redefine action and surprisingly fleshed out in-game even in its early access state. Eurogamer gave this 85 out of 100, basically saying that they highlighted the game's

high production values and impressive package, no ditty, even in early access. And of course, a lot of other scores were literally eight out of tens, right? That was the lowest that they went. Highest being 9.5 at a 10, basically praising the game's difficulty, combat, art, and map design.

So everybody seems to love it. being a general consensus from the major conglomerates and that everybody seems to love it from the people currently playing the game that has it at a hundred and 98,000 concurrent players on Steam fourth most played game on Xbox

and as far as the Sony ponies out there is nowhere to be found on the top 10 so it really shows you the difference the differences of fan bases on each and every console but it still doesn't

take away from the fact that Path of Exile 2 is definitely being publicly, well, being critically acclaimed as far as for the year of 2024. So shout out to the developers grinding gear games based in New Zealand because y'all have undeniably made a hit. So that being said, click my link to your in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about Path of Exile 2? Have you played Path of Exile 2? And if you haven't, Will you be willing to give it a try? The year is 1980. And the sequence of events leading up to 1985 was drastic for the video game industry.

Ladies and gentlemen, when I tell you, the video game industry went from $3.2 billion with a B to $100 million due to the cost. crash, right? Video game industry was in shampals. The reason I call Mario the greatest video game character ever created is because there was a specific title that was released titled Super Mario

Bros in 1985 on the Nintendo Entertainment System. By the end of that year, Nintendo sold 6.1 million units largely driven by the success of Super Mario Bros. Went on to become one of the more successful

video game franchise of all time and ultimately turned around the entire video game industry for the simple fact that everybody seen that the video game industry could produce high quality but also innovative but more importantly immersively enjoyable because if you don't know super mario was the first to do a lot of things i mean when it comes to leveling up when it comes to power-ups when it comes to scrolling levels all of this seems normal now right marvel not

marvel my fault we was just talking about marvel rivals mario is the great this video game character of all time for the development that happened via Nintendo that ended up influencing the gaming industry to the point where now we recognize that Super Mario Bros. had

sold over 40 million copies as far as back when it released in 1985, up to 1996, making it one of the best selling video games of all time. And it

instilled the trust back into video games as far as from a consumer standpoint. Because a lot of people lost hope that video games was just a lost cause. And if you play video games, you was just lazy and ever was going to amount to anything because you're wasting your time because all of these are low quality products. But when Mario came out, it enlightened the public that video games can actually be mentally stimulating and also enjoyable as far as a problem. solving aspect. Now, of course, today is not just about Mario, but I had to give a crash course as far as

why I put so much respect on Mario's name, because if you don't know, analytic dreams, oh, my fault, I'll press my drop, analytic dreams video on Spotify, I see the video along with the audio, because basically there's a reason why Mario is right next to notorious B-I-G on my banner that I created. Basically, I put together what I believe is the most impactful gaming characters of all time and, of course, hip-hop musicians of all time. With that being said, Mario, ultimately, in my opinion, is the most popular and the most influential video game character of all time.

Now, I want to beat the dead horse, but I just want you all to know how much respect I have for Mario as far as just revealing a creation that ended up saving an entire video game industry. So anyways, let's get into the reason that we're even talking about Mario, right? Super Mario Party, Jamboree, was just released not too long ago. And essentially, with this game coming out exclusively on the Nintendo Switch, because Lord knows if there's one mascot for a platform that's been carrying it, like the 26th, LeBron James for the Cavaliers. It's Mario for Nintendo.

Nintendo, that's funny. Is that the female version? No, I'll explain it. My fault. For Nintendo. Now, of course, Zelda fans may get a little upset at that. You know, rightfully so. I do believe Zelda is the robin

to Mario's Batman as far as holding the Nintendo up to a certain stature as far as in the video game industry. But nonetheless, as Mario is the Beyonce of the group when it comes to Nintendo's IP and they will have the exclusive rights to Mario to the day that brand goes under and hopefully that never happens. But, you know, just putting it in perspective. So anyways, exclusively on the Nintendo Switch is where you can play this game, right? It's developed by Nintendo Cube, formerly ND Cube, known for Mario Party since 2012.

And they didn't always used to work. They didn't always used to work on Mario Party. They basically just recently started to work on Mario Party because I believe they picked it up since, yeah, so they picked it up in 2012 with Mario Party 9 because before that, actually, I don't know who developed it before, but anyways, Nintendo Q picked it up in 2012 with the first one in the development being Mario Party 9.

So with that being said, exclusively on a Nintendo Switch so you already know when it comes to sales they're going to be the top dogs and rightfully so as when Mario drops everybody else moves out of the way as as far as the units

and weekly sales when it first came out it sold around 73,000. I mean talk about having first week sales for a video game, right? That's why you should definitely follow you know hit the bell icon to be notified when I put out content because this keeps you up to date with the gaming and

music industry right so as far as 73,000 first week sales for the Mario party jamboree it did not stop there because it had a 30% week over week sales surge which isn't common in other entertainment fields especially in music usually it goes down a little bit especially over time but for Super Mario Party Jamboree it was the opposite so As far as currently, this game is increasing because they've restocked it a lot as far as sales increasing on a Nintendo platform because, of course, Mario has a plethora of other games that people are playing as far as Mario and Luigi Brothership. As far as Mario Car 8 Deluxe, as far as Minecraft, as far as Animal Crossing. There's a lot of games you can play on the Switch that's very, I'm just immensely popular. popular has his own coat like fan base also as far as nintendo when it comes to its combined

weekly sales a lot of people don't know that they also put up bigger numbers than a playstation or an xbox because the nintendo switch has been around for a while and obviously people want the nintendo switch too but why when weekly it's selling at least 80 000 units as far as overall and the economy, right? So with that being said, the traditional Mario Party formula is here once again, and Jamboree is no different as with over 110 mini-games, turn-based gameplay and unique board mechanics

basically introduce jamboree buddies for strategic advantages, and that's the difference between this game and the other Mario parties. And also, So there are new pro rules mode reducing reliance on luck because I'm not going to lie to you. As far as watching RDC World and the amount of mickiness that happens when Leland wins, I'm not going to lie to you. Luck seems to be the only way to win a Mario Party because I was watching a play through of them playing Jamboree. Literally, like the game we're covering right now because they always play Mario Party. So it was actually the most up-to-date one.

It was playing jamboree. Dylan was up by like three, four, five stars, right? At the end, he had some type of role that he had to give like majority of his stars at Leeland and he ended up winning the entire game because that was the last round. And stuff like that that makes you realize that this game, I'm not going to say it's entirely on luck. But I mean, goodness, if you win every mini game and at the end have to give all your stars to somebody else, I mean, what else do you call it?

Right. So as far as that, you know, this game supports up to 20 players and multi-player, right? Or eight players in corop. Okay, so supports multi-player up to 20 players, which is titled Cupa. What in the world? A Cupa Thalon? A Cupa Thalon. I know they're trying to play off Marathon, but I ain't going to lie to you.

That's still hard to pronounce. Cupa the line. Anyways. Or eight players in cooperative. Bowser Kaboom squad. And then of course the robust of characters is still here as

this game has 22 playable characters, the largest roster to date with new additions like NINGI and Pauline. Of course, Pauline from Super Mario Odyssey. That was the one where I think that was the first time ever. Mario had his hat able to do

a plethora of different things as far as power ups and things like that like his hat would like basically turned into a boomerang like Captain America Shield and it was a very unique addition because who would have thunk to update Mario to give his hat Captain America Shield like abilities right it's similar to in Spider-Man an IP that's been around for forever was given the addition of movable eyes obviously in the animated show it animated the eyes well animate the mask so you can see the expression man real life well in current day you know with the evolution and live action adding it to the point

where it's moving and live action and still seems plausible i think those are necessary innovations to keep this long-standing IP relevant right and not relevant in a sense that's going to fall off i mean we're talking about mario and spider-man right but still in the sense that still upholding creativity to the highest level to always be adding to an already iconic character. So anyways, um, overall, a lot of people have been having a little criticism for this video game, especially compared to other Mario parties, but they do acknowledge that it's pretty much a solid game. I mean, it's kind of hard to mess up the Mario Party format, right? So that's why in general, it's been the top selling game on Nintendo since it came out. As far as

initially when it came out early this month to now, it's the top by far. So when it comes to other games, as far as Dragon Quest 3, Mario, I mean, if y'all want to know the top five, basically Super Mario Party Jamboree is number one selling game on the Nintendo Switch platform. Then you have Dragon Quest 3, Mario Car 8 Deluxe, Minecraft, and then, you guessed it, Mario again with Mario and Luigi Brotherhood. It's a reason why we put so much respect on Mario's name. not only does he uphold just a video game perception, but he also upholds its, you know,

his original developers with Nintendo. So with that being said, it's really not too much else to get into because this game is already fantastic. So we're just going to praise Mario a little bit more, right? Because how can you break down a Mario party game besides telling people that it's a lot of online players that can play at once? And there's multiple mini games throughout the turn. term-based gameplay with unique board mechanics, right?

So with that out the way, going back to ultimately glazing Mario, no ditty, that Super Mario 64 is another stand-down for Mario because one of the things about Super Mario 64 is that it sold 11.9 million units worldwide. While am I talking about that for the simple fact that Mario went from impacting the video game industry and saving it literally back in the 1980s right with super mario bros which for those old enough to remember it was a 2d game right so when it made the jump to 3d obviously people would be a little skeptical because now this is not my

mario what is this three-dimensional type of realm that you have bar Mario in i'm used to like the pixelated 2d format right then of super mario 64 came out just cementing again that they are just leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. You know how people, I mean, at this point, it's a little less because Mario comes out so repetitively. But as far as the anticipation built up for GTA6, that's how Mario was back in the day. Because when Super Mario 64 came out,

it was literally revolutionary for the 3D space, just like it was for the 2D power-ups and the things that it had as far as gameplay mechanics. So when 3D came out, and as far as the camera control, analog movement, And back in that day, it was not, it was like nowadays is normal because everybody's then copied it, right? But back in that day, it was really innovative to the point where now you've innovated on a 2D front, saving a video game industry, came out with a 3D model, innovating on camera control, analog movement, all type of just 3D elements that we've never seen before, going from 2D to 3D, the game soundtrack being straight, classic. I mean, of course, people remember the bomb on battlefields song, a track off of the soundtrack,

being one of the more recognizable tracks ever in video game soundtrack history. So when I talk about Mario, it's not from a sense of biasness. It's from an objective standpoint as far as literally saving the video game industry, as far as it crashing from 1983 to 1985 and then 1986 Super Mario came out and then now people are getting back

into video games because it reinstalled confidence that video games could be high quality and obviously it's set the stage of quality because it innovated on so many different levels like do y'all not know how basic

of mechanics that power-ups are now like as far as as far as having power-ups as far as having just overall leveling up, it's just so much that the non-linear pathways that they set, I mean, as far as the game design, all of these seem simple now because it literally was,

innovated and founded by Super Mario Bros. Levels, power-ups, non-linear path, all of that was taken from Super Mario Bros. And all of that is thanks to Super Mario Bros. So, yeah, man, Mario's a goat and I rest my case. So with that being said, click my link to your in my bio. Let me know on one of my social medias. What do you think about Super Mario Party?

Jamboree. And at the end of the day, have you ever played Super Mario in? If you haven't, would you be willing to give this latest Super Mario party a try? Now, even though we're getting into basically a card game, which is a poker theme, rogue-like, It's still available on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox. And of course, it's available on iOS and Android. Now, as far as a card game receiving such critical acclaim as far as to the point where it was nominated at the Game Awards for literally Game of the Year, Do y'all not know how insane a card game has to be for it to get nominated for game of the year?

Like this means that a bunch of people was vouching for it as far as this being one of the most pivotal games of all time. Because I'm not going to lie to you. I haven't played this at all. I mean, this looks like something, no disrespect, that you will see at the bingo club. Like you go to Bingo Night and somebody, you know, Martha, she on the. slot sheans on the on the back and this this is what i imagine it looks like right i don't really find any intrigue into these type of games now that's just me personally i'm just letting you know where i stand right you know martha and dorothy over there having fun with this car game

meanwhile they over there on the other side playing bingo that's why that's the the picture the setting i would think that these type of games would thrive in but i am sorely mistaken as all of the Those positive reception in 2024 seems to put this at the top list as far as a nominee for game of the year. And when I looked into it, people were saying it's so addicting, but it's actively avoiding gambling mechanics because it's a strategy about, well, it's about strategy and deck building rather than betting. So it's like at first I thought, oh, it has to be, you know, it's a card game, right? I'm thinking, oh, they must got this at the casino, right? I go back to the old way of thinking maybe they just nostalgia, right? Maybe they used to bet back.

You know, maybe Bellatro was next to the blackjack back in the casino. So apparently this doesn't have any gambling at all. So overall, I'm just completely flabbergasted on how in the world a game like this could get so critically acclaimed to the point where it not only is a nominee for game of the year, but it also won in a one. award and the award was best independent game because if you don't know when it comes to games like this and the profitability i mean one million in sales within eight hours and you're probably wondering to yourself how in the world how in the world does that happen if this game is not based off betting like what enjoyment do people find from this this is my brain trying to figure out how people are just gravitating towards this game.

No hate, just purely ignorant and curiosity combined, which is what we have now as far as my review and sales roundup. As after doing some research, I realize that I have to cover this game because I'm not going to lie to you as far as having 250,000 units sold within the first 72 hours. As far as 1 million units sold within launch, two million in sales by August

24 and of course it won Best Independent Game in a nominee for Game of the Year I mean so many accolades at some point you just got to say

the famous Shaq quote I'm sorry my brother I was not familiar with your game pun intended so anyways with this being a rogue like

deck building game basically a lot of people are falling in love with the gameplay mechanics, which basically is poker-based, rogue-like deck building. So, innovations for this game essentially is the Joker cards have 150 unique cards modifying, scoring, and adding special effects, right? Then the strategy focused with no gambling mechanics. So they don't focus on gambling at all, which is very honorable if you think of a card game. I mean, first thing you think of when you think of card games is betting, right?

Every movie in the world, you go to a casino and they bet in what's the first thing you see? Chips and cards, right? Obviously the slot machines and, you know, things that nature. But for the most part, it's chips and cards. That's essentially what people view when you think of casino. So with this completely trying to avoid gambling, it's very honorable, in my opinion. designed for players with no prior poker knowledge. So you know how I made all the jokes about, you know,

the Marthas of the world, basically playing this game and me as a young book, not knowing anything about it because I don't have that type of nostalgia. Well, apparently, you don't have to have any previous knowledge as the gameplay mechanics are very different in this, right? And a lot of the replayability basically comes from the vast, joker combinations and deck building strategies. So it's very much a thinking man's game or a thinking woman, a thinking human game, right?

So with it coming to console, having immense success, with it being on mobile, having a lot of expansion on that front, you realize that having, along with that, no micro transactions. If this game is not They're just the ultimate Saint of the video game industry I don't know what it is Because of course They've had crossovers with Star Doe Valley

They've had crossovers with Potion Craft Cyberpunk 277 and Dave and Divers So obviously they've had backing as far as You know collaborative strategic efforts But still having no micro-transactions Like as far as from the initial purchase, that's it. So they aren't really maximizing the amount of revenue that they could be generating.

But on the other hand, from a consumer perspective, this is the ultimate W to just showcase that we want people to play our game for it being fun. We don't want people to play the game with the likes of, or with the hopes and they like in hundreds and $200 on micro transactions, which is nothing wrong with that if the foundation is robust and you give us enough to wear and make sense to buy additional cosmetics or things in that nature but Balatro is not doing it at all

so that's very interesting and honorable controversies as far as this game because of course with a card game it was temporarily pulled from platforms due to a messed up rating change to 18 plus I don't know who was hating on a game

on what platform but it was removed but it was resolved quickly so you know as far as that um people was talking about the gambling type of mechanics that could get people into other card games that does involve gambling but i'm not going to lie to you with no micro transactions with no ties to even trying to get you to put up money i guess as far as a competitive format that's not blotro's responsibility Dave did everything in their power to showcase anti-gambling practices to not have any micro-transactions to the point where if somebody takes this and creates their own version where you do put up money

or maybe the side bit discourse where you put up money and you're playing this game then you can't really blame this particular video you can't blame belatro because they practice everything in the world as an indie developer mind you to basically showcase how the straight and narrow can also lead to immense success as a car game even being nominated for game of the year let alone winning best independent game is beyond the same so shout out to belatro as far as the developer shout out to local thunk basically an anonymous solo developer from Canada who created belotro So a lot of people don't know that local thunk developed Canada developed

Canada develop Bellatro and he's literally from Canada so a lot of people don't know that he's anonymous don't know why but as far as being an indie developer I wonder if they showed him at the game awards I mean I would have missed it because you know he's not as publicly you know accessible so but with that you know being an independent developer putting out this type of game that's received this about amount of insane critical perception or critical acclaim. I mean, it's just, I'm just speechless, man. It's one of the first times I've ever seen the game, not understood it, researched,

and it came out with, you know what, ultimately, a lot of things, as far as a consumer-friendly, aspect is obvious in this game to where this amount of high critical. acclaim, I mean, just, you know, trying to be a positive person, you know, having a glass half full type of perspective. Hopefully, other games try to follow this type of model with the hopes of garnering the same amount of critical acclaim for the simple fact that Bellatro did it with no micro-transactions, with no gambling type of mechanics. Why can't we?

right so that been said click my link to my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about belatro being a car game that was dominated for game of the year what do you think about it be what do you think about it being available on every platform i mean consoles pc mobile you name it whatever you have you can look up belotro on your local game store so that being said will you be willing to give this a try and if you have what is your favorite aspect of belotro i say i say said that I would take care of the mobile gaming community. And as far as the listeners who primarily play mobile here on notorious Mass Effect, just know from now on you are being taken care of because I neglected the entire mobile fan-based

community by not covering the most play games because of course this is notorious Mass effects or how are you going to talk about the notorious mass effect of the video game industry and not even get into the mobile aspect of the entire industry when it comes to evolving the video game format now of course for this specific segment as you see right now analytic dreams video on spot to see the video along with the audio we are getting into what is currently the third most played mobile game in the world as Pokemon Go originally

made as a mobile game and I'm pretty sure it still is a mobile game because as far as the platforms that is on is basically iPhone and Android and with Pokemon Go of course

there's a lot of events that attract a lot of Pokemon fanatics into events that makes them come together and basically catch Pokemon together. It's really impactful as far as a community,

but overall it definitely showcases how Pokemon Go has accomplished something that many mobile games have tried to do, but of course failed, as this is one of the most popular mobile games of all time. Definitely coming off of the IP of Pokemon, but of course putting it in a mobile format, then they took it to a whole other level now when it comes to pomeongo of course it's trajectory uh compared to the initial release date because i believe pokemong go came out okay so pomego came out officially july 6th 2016 so as far as where it is to not today

in 2024, that's the third most play mobile game in the world. As far as the revenue built up over time, it's one of the highest grossing mobile games ever as far as in the first month, basically accumulating $206.5 million as far as his initial release back in July 2016, setting the all-time record for mobile game revenue in the first month, while also holding other multiple Guinness world records. Just to put in perspective how big and how much of a mammoth it became to be in such a short amount of time.

Because of course now, everybody knows Pokemon Go. But back then, we didn't know how this game would be received. We thought it would be a solid game, right? I don't think anybody in the wildest imagination would have thought that this would compete with actual classic, console or hand console Pokemon games so getting back into Pokemon Go

I wanted to talk about overall what do people like about the game what's the main entry of the game because of course it's been out since 2016 so you've had some time to learn about it so I wanted to get more in depth as far as the over as far as the analysis personally for me right

so I wanted to get into while the initial launch because of the massive amount of people who signed up on the game or was playing the game because of the initial launch being so successful basically the servers was overloaded right all type of server issues crashes connectivity issues and then of course they overcame that throughout time but when it first came out the the overall player base was a lot for the servers to handle which is the case for a lot of really popular games that basically blew all the projections out of the water. Because if you don't know, the network as far as connection for these video games cost a lot.

I mean, there's a reason why Twitch comes out all the time to let y'all know how much these servers cost because they don't want y'all to think that they're just printing money with all these different streamers and they're not having a humongous overhead. right so as far as the servers is considered that's probably one of the premier overheads for a popular game but besides the fact they overcame it so with Pokemon Go also another big obstacle for it to overcome basically when it first launch was the overall data collection you know I definitely prod myself on scouring the data and basically analyzing to break it down and give it in a very concise fashion for the people who's watching.

So with that being said, the premise of it is the data collection by Pokemon Go led to a lot of privacy debates regarding local location, well, no, regarding location data. So as far as that, it had to overcome that obstacle because whenever you get so immensely popular to where everybody is literally turning on their location, to play the game because that's basically how you have to play it like i have a whole video up right now

basically showcasing how the game looks as far as the app in today's day right you go around and essentially it's more of like an a r experience it's definitely not vr because it's not an entire different world it's basically the same world you're in but as far as with air there's certain things that they put in your real world experience that of course lead to the Pokemon IP as far as Pokemon, as far as Pokemon, as Pokemon, as Pokeyballs, the UI. But the setting that you're walking around is, that you're walking around in is literally the location that you're at. So it's not like, oh, I'm playing Pokemon Go and now I have to go into a whole different world

to catch this Pokemon. Like literally you can find Pokemon in your own town, own region. It's just basically putting the Pokemon in certain places around your location. So that's why a lot of the privacy issues came out because literally it uses the GPS to locate and catch local well okay so the players use GPS to locate and catch virtual Pokemon in real world location so as far as actually having those security issues it definitely makes sense because it's constantly tracking your movement for the overall optimization of the game right but people are not trying to hear that especially when it comes to the overall experience with Pokemon Go.

So another thing I was wanting to get into is, even though Pokemon has the likes of Pokemon Go, even though they have the classic handheld Pokemon games, the lawsuit that Nintendo sent Power World, as far as the actual developers of Power World, and I mean, more specifically, pocket pair, who if you don't know, are the developers of power right that whole lawsuit fiasco which happened back in october 22nd

2024 well as far as when i covered it and nintendo versus pocket pair really puts a damper on a lot of things like pomego they're a classic handheld games because of course one of the things about power world being considered is that they were innovative to a certain front as far as implementing a lot of different systems in place, as far as the survival aspect that the overall Pokemon games did not have. But as far as the capturing mechanics of monsters, as far as a lot of the names and designs of what Powell World had, you realize that the lawsuit definitely has some credence. But in general, it does take away because Power World is up and

coming is obviously inspired by you. I would say it's not a complete rip-off. It's more of like what Marvel rivals is to Overwatch right now. There's heavy inspiration from Overwatch when it comes to Marvel rivals. But of course, there's heavy inspiration in a lot of things we do in life. Nothing is completely 100% unique, right? So as far as Nintendo suing Power World, it definitely took the overall public's perception

in a negative turn. Because now they're looking at Nintendo and they're basically saying instead of making your own survival-like game that's in the Pokemon world, you have rather sue Power World for what? Because Power World's not even as popular

as it once was as far as when it initially came out. So that's why I wanted to throw in there because as far as the tidbits of Pokemon, obviously it's such a gigantic IP that nobody ever believes Pokemon is going to fall off, especially with games like Pokemon Go being one of the more successful mobile games of all time.

But then, when you get to the fact that they're suing people like Power World, it leads you to believe that they are a little threatened about what they could become potentially, even though at this point, people could confidently say that we don't think Power was ever going to get to a level of Pokemon, which even that was a stretch when they initially launched but the numbers when they initially launched was definitely milestone all-time type of launch for a new game right so anyways the reason why even bring that up as far as Nintendo sending the lawsuit to power because of course I cover

music as this is called notorious Massifay covering gaming or covering music and gaming so gave me a little throwback to when my favorite musician sued his label UMG I was like did Nintendo set the whole precedence, the whole blueprint into my music connoisseurs of the podcast out there? Still, the whole verse, bar for bar from Nintendo as far as suing to get the upper hand. Did Drake copy Nintendo's whole flow? Food for thought. So anyways, after that random side tangent, I just went on, let's get back to Pokemon Go. So, With Pokemon and the AR integrations, of course, Pokemon appear in the real world using a devices camera, well, your device's camera, with an option for non-AR mode. And basically, they have regular community days to keep people involved on the game and offer opportunities to catch rare Pokemon and participate in activities.

So as far as the roster, I mean, has the Pokemon from all the generations, from Kanto, to Pauldia. Paul Dia. I think that's how you said. They regularly update the game, and you will hope so, but they're being so immensely successful and Uber successful.

So they definitely update it every now, well, they update it all the time. And as far as teams and leaders, you can choose from Mystic, valor, or instinct. So when I talk about sales, as far as it being one of the more successful mobile games of all time,

and especially, having so much revenue generated. I think the explosiveness of Pokemon Go, especially coming out in 2016 and holding its dominance to 2024 is just showcase if you make a great game, people are going to like it and people are going to follow along

with the regular updates, with the regular events for Pokemon Go fans alike to get together and catch rare Pokemon and when it comes to catching shinies i think Pokemon Go has really cemented yet another reason why Pokemon overall is one of the most iconic brands of all time so with that being said i think there's something else i was wanting to get into with Pokemon Go actually that may be it Oh, okay. So as far as balance changes, they also wanted to have Nintendo introduce PVP changes to Pokemon as far as the mobile goal aspect.

But that's basically it. I mean, mobile gaming is one of the more successful areas in video game history. So even when you think about handheld, technically, I'm not going to say those are mobile games, But at this point in time, I mean, I would say an iPhone and what the Nintendo 3DS was back in the day, the Nintendo 3DS may be inferior to what we have nowadays as far as a cellular device. So Nintendo was really ahead of his time, continues to be ahead of his time, and Pokemon Go is yet another huge achievement under the Pokemon IP to showcase how this brand is going nowhere. as far as falling off and it will forever last in the hearts of video gamers such as myself.

So with that being said, click my link through my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about Pokemon Go? And if you've played Pokemon Go, what is your favorite part of the mobile game, Pokemon, Go? All right. Let's talk about TikTok. Taking that legal battle to the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal government has ordered the Chinese own app to shut down or be sold to an American company by January.

January 19th citing national security concerns. Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio because ladies and gentlemen, it is finally here. After covering this topic extensively with it starting, really, all the way back in November when TikTok and Billboard was teaming up to launch a top 50 songs chart, right? So ultimately, TikTok was building up. a lot of leverage in the U.S. economy to the point where the biggest music label in the world jumped out of the woodworks and was basically basically saying hey how about you pay us more to have our artists on your platform because we basically don't like the amount of leverage you have

TikTok was like we don't have to pay y'all we have everybody in the world guess what you UMG left took all of his artists taylor swift drake post malone all of them included right and then After Taylor Swift being the biggest gangster in the industry, basically told UMG that she was going to pull what she did towards screw de Braun if UMG didn't reinstate all those UMG acts on TikTok. Coincidentally, that whole debacle was smooth over and the UMG artist was able to come back to TikTok. Following that, and this is all on my podcast. So as far as TikTok analytic dreams, it should pop up on whatever podcast platform you listen on.

Following that in March, TikTok now has beef, not with the biggest music label in the world, but now they have beef with the biggest government in the world. As U.S. came out and was like, hey, we have a bill that could pass if you don't divest to U.S. companies. as far as the specific operations of TikTok in the United States if you don't divest that in the algorithm

to a U.S. company we have a bill that could potentially ban TikTok. This was when it was speculative. It was literally saying House passes bill that could ban TikTok but it had a lot more loopholes

to jump through, right? And then it basically got through all of the loopholes. And then TikTok is to the point where they realize the U.S. is actually serious. They're not bluffing like UMG was. They've went through all the levels of getting this bill passed to the point where now TikTok is basically showing up to court to try everything possible to delay the shutdown that could potentially happen January 19, 2025.

So to put in a concise fashion, basically TikTok is going to be banned, right? Unless they divest to an American buyer or succeed in the U.S. legal battle, which one of y'all thing is going to happen. Either they divest or they get banned. They're not winning in this case. It's in the U.S. It's a case in the U.S. I know we talk about, oh, the justice system.

is going to provide justice. But the whole time, the people behind the scenes pull the strings. So the justice is what they say it is. We don't care that we have Instagram and Twitter doing the same thing. You specifically are going to divest to US or else. So basically, that's what TikTok said. So they're going to get banned unless they divest. I am predicting that if they dovests,

don't divest, I believe it may be a hot, hot take. I do believe United States do not want to take down TikTok. They like the way that the ecosystem has turned a lot of brains into zombies, right? The whole purpose of social media was really to connect with the outer world, but you know, out of your region, things of their nature to make it easier to connect with people. The social media now is everybody faking a lifestyle and how, having all type of detrimental mental health effects of too much consumption of social media

because they're looking at a life that's already fabricated. But now they're trying to implement that and fall into depression when they can't live up to that false picture of what people put on social media. Because if you don't know, if TikTok ends up getting banned, it's going to be a lot of repercussions from that. because currently they have 170 million U.S. users, which means this will disrupt

a lot of people's mental health. Now, of course, their mental health shouldn't be tied to social media in the first place, but hey, we are in 2024. You can easily, through conversation, tell whose mind has been corrupted by TikTok. There's a reason why there's things

such as TikTok brain And also one of the main reasons that I'm proud that the podcast is successful because I ain't going to lie to you. As far as social media, I have not figured that out as far as figuring out how to get people's short attention spent to pay attention to social media clips. So as far as notorious mass effect, I'm glad that everybody comes back week after week to tune in because I'm not going to lie. Those social media platforms, I ain't figured it out yet. So as far as long-form content, it seems like I have something working for me. But as far as short form, obviously, you know, clips go viral here and there. But as far as consistently, I just think the frying of attention spans basically makes it impossible to keep people's attention for longer than like 10 seconds on a social media platform.

Anyways, so with that being said, TikTok will remain usable for the duration of time. until January 2025, right? And then the U.S. came out, because I believe they said something to, they says something to Apple, I believe. Because the U.S. came out. I don't think I have it on here. But I remember they told Apple and Google, I believe.

Oh, yeah. Okay. So they told Apple and Google to prepare for TikTok's removal for the app stores. which is definitely like a, that's like a villainous tactics. I'm not going to lie to you. Who in the world comes out like, hey, you better be prepared to take that down. Like, my brother, I'm pretty sure they've seen the news.

I'm pretty sure they're ready. So as far as the U.S. saying that, I think it's another one of their marketing tactics to let bite dance know, like, hey, we are serious. We will take you completely off of United States soil if you do not divest into our U.S. companies. Now, that does bring another interesting tidbit into the freight. So as far as the use of a VPN, I do believe certain content creators that majority make their income from that specific platform may go to those methods. That is something that I believe won't come to fruition because I do believe either the U.S. is going to forcefully take it or that sounds so crazy. or a bite dance is going to sell. I don't assume U.S. really wants to take TikTok down.

I believe they do want to see how in the world TikTok's algorithm is set up. So when push comes to shove, I wouldn't be surprised if they just run up in there and take it. So TikTok's algorithm is probably one of the more valuable marketing systems in the past five years. because for musicians, you can have a track that came out in like 2017, 2019. And basically, if you blow up on TikTok, you might as well have dropped it in that day, right? Well, on that day because now it has a brand new life from a track that's already been out and had no traction. But now TikTok picked it up organically. And now it's just having millions upon millions of listeners because that's the type of impact TikTok has on a lot.

of independent musicians. Now you would say that doesn't Instagram, YouTube, Twitter do the same thing. Technically it does. But as far as the powers that be having more manipulative hands on the algorithm is a little harder. And I wonder why that is. I wonder why TikTok's algorithm is more independent friendly as far as people blowing up than Instagram, Twitter, or don't let me get started. it so anyways the algorithm is the main thing i believe the u.s wants they don't care for ticot they care for the tool that the algorithm has been working on because that's the most valuable asset for what they want as far as into the offer or not even the offer the potential ban to avoid that basically divest your algorithm to one of our to basically a u.s buyer right so

that's what tic talk is facing the u.s. a court uh the u s court of appeals in dc denied by bite dances request for a pause on the law no ditty leaving a company reliant on a potential supreme court intervention now the main things is still the main thing tic talk is going to be banned january 19th 2025 objectively speaking the government is saying they will ban uh ticot and you US app stores starting January 19th, 2025. Think of Flappy Bird, bond a whole. Well, yeah, it's the same as Flappy Bird.

Just like a social media platform instead of a one-off viral game. So that's basically it. I mean, for the main thing that you should take away, I do believe that the U.S. wants to keep TikTok's algorithm. I do not believe they will let TikTok go to the wayside without figuring out how in the world did TikTok's algorithm work and how can we get it under our control? Because either they're going to shut it off completely

or they're going to control it. And I'm willing to bet they would prefer to control it, whether it's by force or by them divesting into a U.S. company. So with that being said, TikTok has to January 19th, 2025, and an alternative route, if the Supreme Court intervenes, that is the Hail Mary of Hail Mary's as far as being able to intervene

to gain TikTok a reprieve. Right? So, yeah, man, TikTok's in a sticky situation. And I don't know if they can dance their way out of it. So with that being said, click my link to your in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about TikTok being threatened by the U.S.? to potentially be.

banned by January 19th, 2025, unless Bight Dance, which is the company that owns TikTok, sells the app to an American buyer. And ultimately, who do you think, or what do you think will happen? And what do you think is going to be the ultimate outcome to this whole entire fiasco? We have to figure out as the gaming community, let's figure it out together. Titanfall, Hyperscape, Battleborn, Lawbreakers, y'all let me know what you think also should be added to that list. Because ladies and gentlemen, it's a sad day in history for another so-called Call a Duty Killer. Now, of course, I love competition in the gaming space because I think it brings out the innovative features as far as to get the consumers on your side to showcase you provide the better game loop,

which is why I believe we've received one of the best call of duties in the past five to six years. Call of Duty Blackop Six is one of the greatest call of duties of all time as far as a total package, right? So when we're getting into X-Difiant, ultimately being one of the more popular downfalls as far as a call of duty killer because initially it did reach a million players within 2.5 hours of launch. It did have 300,000 concurrent players within the first 48 hours. What happened?

Literally featured characters from all the popular Ubisoft titles such as Splinter Cell, the Division, Watchdogs. I've been asking for a Splinter Cell since the inception of this podcast. I love stealth games and I say it all the time on my Analytic Dreams video gameplay walkthrough on Spotify to see the video along with the audio. You know, shame's plug. But when I'm playing video games, stealth aspects were always intriguing to me simply because of me growing up, especially with my cousin playing Splinter Cell to the point where you realize,

hey, I think this type of style of gaming is one of my favorites as far as an actual gamer. So whenever I see stealth aspects in other video games, I always compare it to Splinter Cell, which brings me back to the point. Why haven't we received the new Splinter Cell game? But that's okay? Because, you know, that's for a whole other segment. For today, we're talking about the downfall of X-defined, unfortunately, as it was officially announced that all X-defined servers will go offline June 2nd, 2025. registration and downloads are no longer available purchases have been disabled

if you wanted to play the game which we know you didn't but if you wanted to play it you still can't sad damn history now this does not bring me joy because like I said at the beginning of the segment I enjoy competition but these jokes have to fly

because guess what if you're going to call yourself a call of duty killer with X but supposedly ex Call of Duty developers working on this game basically bragging about how they was holding them back or something like that and then you come out with this game

shows a lot of promise and now not only does it show a lot of promise but you just come out with the most blasphemous statements like oh we don't need skill based match we don't need skill based matchmaking or it makes it too arcady or it was a lot of different

takes on how actually let's just getting to the the the crust of it right the reason why x defiant failed is literally because after the launch x defiant didn't know what his player base wanted and the whole player base was out here flying around like they was Superman and no that's not the ability in the game they was just straight up cheating so not only is the community disrespecting the developers developers disrespecting the community you have as far as a free to play game you have you have X defines whole financial model based on in-game purchases. If you have a free-to-play model, you have to entice people to want to purchase things in your game to support the longevity of it.

But of course, the trash skins, there were no alternative options as far as making something look better, which you may have had to pay for. at the same time if it's a free to play game there's no reason to not pay for it if you get it for free initially and it's a great game that's a very important and right so of course x define did not generate enough revenue from micro transactions to be considered profitable and of course you have the intense competition in the f p s p s market as far as it being highly saturated when black ops first was first was revealed as far as Black Op 6 because now you're dealing with one of the well they didn't know it at the time

but now they're dealing with one of the greatest call of duties of all time and in the form of what they said they was about to kill right obviously I don't think they ever said that verbatim but it was implied always talking about how it was ex-collar duty developers working on this game and how oh this is like

creativity just let loose and they wasn't restricted by the call of duty rules or whatever also the decision to shut down x-dify it was more of ubysop's broader strategy because i don't know if y'all been paying attention ubysov is on the ropes right now as far as a boxer they would be knocked out and the judge the referee is basically counting to 10 and right now ladies and gentlemen that referee is at least at 7 is getting spooky to the point where I had to cover Ubisoft again in December 11th 2024 shameless plug just type in Ubisoft analytics in well Ubisoft analytic dreams with a Z people forget the Z but I guess you know that's not

how you're supposed to spell dreams but of course you see the title analytic dreams with a Z Ubisoft anyways on whatever podcast platform you listen on and the segment of me talking about how Ubisoft shares fell 17% after it delayed one of his more premier Assassin Creed games which is Shadows because they finally just how you know they're on the ropes

people been asking for Assassin Creek Japan game forever right tell me why it took until this year for them to announce it showcase some gameplay and guess what they still delayed it because they are so scared that if this flops, that it will be inevitably over for

Ubisoft as Tencent, a significant shareholder, is literally contemplating, taking Ubisoft private because of the financial downturns and unsuccessful game releases. I mean, you have Star Wars for crying out loud. The only

open world Star Wars game ever, of all time. The only open world, Star Wars game of all time. If somebody who wants to play an open world, Star Wars game, guess who owns it? Ubisoft. Guess what happened when Star Wars Outlaws came out? Nobody played it.

How in the world does those two things correlate? So, honestly, Ubisoft just fumbled a ball. If you can't make the first open world Star Wars game popular, if you can't do that, and then your first ever Assassin Creed game in Japan, which fans

been clamoring for, you've just been ignoring them. Like, hey, we'll do that at some point. But now, that some point is now, and you still can't get it right. Everybody is upset over the shadows game, which, you know, that's a whole other discussion, but they are upset. So as far as facing financial setbacks,

it only makes sense that they basically end extified because of the pressure to cut financial liabilities. And at this point in time, being a free-to-play model with literally not enough revenue, to even break even make sense that you have to pivot resources away from underperforming projects

and it's already not performing well. So now if you remove more resources to save money, it's going to be less that gets fixed in the game. And it's already broken. So at this point, Ubisoft is really in a whole world of trouble, which is

bringing me back to my beginner my beginner point. But before that let's just talk about how Ubisoft at first they didn't want to just cut the game entirely right back in august 2024 they started to cut off some

developers ex-define after they finished the game because you know this game this gaming industry is very high turnover rate which is why I've never wanted to be a game developer but I super respect everybody who's in their field because I ain't going to lie it has to be a grind

never know when your next paycheck or your next game or your next opportunity is going to come right so I really respect them as far as what they do but let me tell you something the gaming industry as a whole has laid off a total of 13,000 people so as far as ex-define laying off 10 developers we didn't really think too much of it but then Ubisoft's san francisco ubisoft's osaka and ubisoft's sydney teams all were closed all of them longer here they are finished they were laid off they are I know okay y'all get the point right so basically that resulted in 277 job cuts so now you're looking at it from from a perspective that

of hold up is you be soft in trouble which brings me into the fruition of the whole tinsent threatening to take over because y'all are blowing too much bread out here y'all are basically losing every single turn well every single time we turn around you lost money you ever know that person that got paid and in the next week he talked about man i can't wait to my next paycheck i'm down to my last hundred my brother would you do for with the other two to 2500 which you you just so you're just blowing money all right let me just let me hold on to that and now now i'm your financial advisor how about that i'm going to manage your wealth because obviously you can't that's basically what tinsent is telling ubysoft essentially because

if you go private, basically it helps because with you going private, Bloomberg reported that your stock would soar, well, would raise rise, however you say, by 31%. This is literally Bloomberg's report of Ubisoft. They said if Bloomberg said if Ubisoft went private, their stock was sore by over 31%. So yeah. I don't know why it's at its lowest point since 2013 as far as Ubisoft's current stock. All I got to say is you have all the resources and IP in the world to have hits and you ultimately fumbled. So with that, one could say that you had all the positive reception.

leading up to Star Wars outlaws and to Assassin Creed Shadows. And now both of those games unequivocally have let down gamers specifically in the year of 2024. Because shadows don't come out to like 2025.

Y'all get the point. All right. So with that being said, it brings me back to my first point and to round this off, I will say once again Titanfall, hyperscape, Battleborn, and Lawbreaker. I wonder what game is now added to that list.

Saddened history, man. So with that being said, click my link to your in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about X-Define being shut down and being completely taken offline June 2nd, 2025? And what is your overall takeaway from this unfortunate debacle of not only X-Define, but Ubisoft as a whole? She says in her filing that she ran.

ran to a nearby gas station after the alleged attack and called her dad for right home. However, in an NBC News investigative report published December 13th, her father said he does not recall picking her up following the alleged incident. Furthermore, a celebrity the woman alleged to have spoken to at the party told NBC news that he was not in New York at the time. And while the inconsistencies does not necessarily mean the allegations are false, The woman said in a December 13th interview that she, quote,

may have made a mistake in identifying. Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio because basically we just got into how reporting on a story as soon as it comes out sometimes leaves you without important

in very key facts as far as a lawsuit is considered. because not only did J.Z. A.k.a. Sean Carter, also known as the greatest rapper ever, you know, dead a lot. But, you know, that's what I was the point. Not only was he sued by an anonymous woman, but also she claimed that Sean, as well as Jay-Z, sexually assaulted her at an MTV video music awards. after party in 2000.

One of the main things I want to let the public know is that when covering this Jay-Z story, I wanted to have as many facts as possible. So I'm glad I waited to cover this story because literally with the anonymous person that we still don't know who it is, right? Comment out and saying she may have made mistakes and a claim like you just heard at the beginning of the segment. That key detail was not there when she accused Jay-Z and Sean Diddy Combs of allegedly assaulting her when she was sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old. Now, of course, these type of lawsuits, especially in light of what Diddy has been going through with the actual objective evidence of him physically.

assaulting Cassie in the 2016 hotel footage that everybody's seen is a little different because now people are comparing that to every instance and every person that's coming out to accuse not only Diddy but Jay-Z. I do believe that Cassie when it comes to Diddy has the most credence to her case because they put out the evidence, the video evidence of him assaulting her. So now there's no he say-she-say. We saw it. And now you have to face the repercussions of those actions all the way back in 2016.

So when people are trying to put Jay-Z in the same light as Diddy, when Diddy, before the video came out, was in the same, basically, he was in the same light as Jay-Z currently as far as us not knowing what's true and what's false. But when that video came out, we started to realize that we have an absolute. monster on our hands because we've already heard the behind the scenes i mean there's literally a video of top dog from tdede talking about how p ditty was slapping the taste at a germane co's mouth right there's a whole video about that just look up top dog t dee j cole and you'll find you'll probably find it on ticot or something as far as a short essentially when kendrick put out control he was being checked at a party after you know it released and stuff

they went out to party to feel the temperature you know rapper stuff Diddy knew Kendrick was there walked up talking to Kendrick obviously size 7 didn't want any smoke because he's about 4 foot too right

Jermaine who's like 6 foot or something like that you know stood up for his friend he was like hey this is my homie man leave him alone. And they already had previous beef. So then they started going to that.

And the whole story that Top Dog says, I mean, is literally between the interaction between P. Diddy and Jay Coe. So when P. Diddy was like, you know, if you're going to do something about it, you know, you might as well do something. And then that's when Jay Cole got up to literally choke him. I was like, dang, Jay Coe about their life until you realize the following events. was P. Diddy and, you know, to be fair, P. Diddy and his bodyguard stomping out Germain to the point where they realized it was Germain because, you know, it was a club. So, you know, the lights were dark. The security came over not knowing it was Jay Z's man. And once he saw his face, he realized they had to back off. So, but they didn't know that while they was putting hands, feeding elbows on them because, of course, it was dark. So that's a whole thing. There's a lot of stories like that behind the scenes. Of course, the kid, Cuddy car being blown up.

up like a mission off of GTA by Sean Dedy Combs allegedly, right? Because I don't want to have to ride bicycles my whole life. So allegedly, he blew up Kid Cuddy's car because of his involvement with Cassie. So all these behind the scenes information has been spread throughout the media as far as P. Diddy really being the Joker of the hip hop industry is the reason why he literally dressed up as a Joker for one of the Halloweens and to the point where Warner Bros. reached down was like hey my brother dress up as joker one more time and we're suing you uh diddy literally literally had a video if you look up diddy joker c synthesis warner bros

themselves sent out a c synthesis to ditty letting him know if you dress up as a joker again we're suing you why in the world would they do that you know he's just playing a little dress up right until you realize this man's the real life joker so there's a lot of things behind the scenes that's starting to come to light and because ditty's a billionaire that had his ties taken away as far as diagio or diego whatever the ultimate liquor brand is right basically they looked at ditty and they told him hey you want to sue us for sarac which he ended up winning we're cutting ties and you know good good luck my brother and then coincidentally all this stuff popped up but didn't help that he actually did a lot of it. So allegedly. So with that, people are comparing it to Jay-Z when the behind-the-scenes

of a Jay-Z image is basically that he got out of the game early as far as marrying Beyonce. Now, of course, there's some tidbits about Jay-Z that's been spread throughout the media. And all I'm going to say is, Rihanna is one of the more successful people in life, ain't she? I wonder who saw that from the beginning and how long ago was that fool for thought

so anyways as far as Jay-Z and allegations being out there we've been known about certain things but as far as this one as far as being tied to ditty and these type of acts is more of a far-fetched not not really heard of type of action you know, a type of pattern from Jay-Z.

Now, do we know any of these celebrities? Of course not. But all of these uber-successful people have marketing teams that talk behind the scenes that spend day-to-day routinely helping out these celebrities, whether it's hair, whether it's flights, whether it's travel, coordinating events, coordinating strategies. A lot of people have their hands in the pot as far as an entire billionaire team that have certain tidbits behind the scenes, right?

So not to say that, obviously, we know people off of that, but just letting you know how we get certain things behind the scenes before other people. So with that being said, basically, Jay-Z came out and said this girl captain, right? He ain't say it like that, but I ain't going to lie to you. The response that he sent towards his lawsuit was like Lex Luther and Joker wrote it. Like, they basically sat down and wrote it together. That's how the lawsuit read, the response to the lawsuit. read. J. Z. literally came out and was basically talking about how I'm going to show you how different

I am. I'm like, hold up. Is this Thanos? Why is he talking like this? This man talking like he about to take out the entire Avengers. He was like, you must not know my body. I'm from mercy queens or something like that, right? And he was like, actually, let me see if I can find this. Because this was one of the more villainous responses I've ever read. And he's supposed to be innocent, right? So, let me see if I can find this response. Jay-Z response. Ah, here we go.

Okay. All right, so analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio. Jay-Z releases a statement on allegations of sexual assault towards a 13-year-old with Diddy in 2000. Listen to how

Jay-Z was speaking in this response. I'm not gonna read this entire thing because that's how heinous this is this is like bro if you're innocent you should not be talking like this but hey Sean Carter the greatest rapper ever live dead or alive so he probably thought hey I'm already nice with the pen why don't I write the response to the lawsuit and here's what it reads and it reads hold up make sure y'all can you can't see that I think I oh man I clicked out is that close enough you know you know you know I want to block y'all. Oh, yeah, I can't get any closer. Sorry, it's Twitter. Actually, let me just, I can get closer to this, right? Ah, there we go. Yeah, y'all definitely can see that.

Cool. Okay, yeah. Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio. So, essentially, this man, Jay-Z, was not playing around. This man said, my lawyer received a blackmail attempt. called a demand letter from a lawyer quotation marks, mind you, named Tony Busby. What he had calculated

was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle. We're going to address that in a second. No, sir. It had the opposite effect exclamation point. It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a very all caps public fashion so no i will not give you in all caps one red penny two exclamation points these allegations are so heinous in nature that i implore you

to file a criminal complaint not a civil one two exclamation points actually we're going to start counting how many is that that's about five exclamation points total count of exclamation points is at five all right we're keeping count from here on whomever would commit such a crime

against a minor should be locked away would you not agree these alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case. This lawyer, who I have done a little bit of research on, seems to have a pattern of these type of theatrics, six exclamation points.

I have no idea how you have come to be such a deplorable human, Mr. Busby. Now, there's a comma, so I'm going to take a break, and we're going to look up deployable right now, because I have no idea what that means. Deploriborobul. because in rap terms I ain't gonna lie to you that that sounds like expandable and you know what they use that word for okay so the definition of deplorable a deplorable deplorable there we go deserving strong condemnation shockingly bad in quality all right so that's the definition right back to jZ

I have no idea how you have become such a deplorable. I can't even say that. Deplorable human, Mr. Busby. But I promise you, I have seen your kind many times over. I'm more than prepared to deal with your type. You claim to be a Marine? Seven exclamation points prefaced by a question mark. Marines are known for their value.

No, my fault. Marines are known for their valor. You have neither honor nor dignity. My only heartbreak is for my family. My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the present ask questions about the nature of these claims and explain the cruelty and greed of people.

I mourn yet another loss of in health. Children should not have to endure such at their young age. It is unfair to have to try to understand inexplicable degrees of malice meant to destroy families in human spirit. My heart support, my heart in support, goes out to true victims in the world who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit.

You have made a terrible error in judgment, thinking that all celebrities are the same. I'm not from your world. I'm an alien. I'm just playing my fault. He didn't say that. I'm not from your world. I'm a young man who made it out of the project of Brooklyn. We don't play these type of games.

We have a very strict code. We have very strict codes in honor. We protect children. You seem to exploit people for personal gain. Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me. that if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids

would be laughable why is that the end? Is that the end? Oh man, I was enjoying that. Well, dang, that's the end of the lawsuit. Oh, no, no, no, we have more. Oh, no, that's just another picture. Dang, I was enjoying that. I swear he had like an ending like, we are not the same. Hold on, that's not. That can't be the right one. Let me find the right one.

Because mind you, I read this, so I actually know how it ends. that's definitely not the end. I don't know why it doesn't have the full response, but it's all right. So a little intermission. We're going to find the actual response with the full detail. I love how media, you know, organizations cut off a lawsuit acting like we don't know the full one.

All right. Because I actually read the full thing, I have it right here. All right. Let's see right here. Okay. Okay, so that's not it. That's Buzzbee's response. We don't want that one.

I want the actual response. Where's the response? Okay, here we go. All right. You always can count on Rock Nation to have the official statement. You know, he definitely knew if Rock Nation would have the official statement.

So that's what happens when, you know, you try to be a journalist in this game. You do your research before. So I definitely knew that was not the end. So I had to find a real response with the continuation. This is the real response, but, you know, it's the continuation. All right.

Where was I at? My hard. Okay, the cheap suit, we hit that. My heart break, I would have to sit off. Okay, the cheap suit. Okay, you have made it too. I don't know. These responses are different.

What's up with these media corporations? Putting out fake news. All right. So in a cheap suit. Okay, let me see. Where's the cheap suit part? That makes it easier. Okay.

hard and cheap suit. You have made it terrible. Okay. Okay, so it just didn't have the end. It literally just didn't have the end. That was my favorite line, and it messed me up because it didn't have the end. So anyways, obviously, you could tell at the end, that man was not playing around. He internalized his full Joker slash Thanos slash Lex Luther.

To end off this response, basically letting that person know, which is Tony Busby. that obviously preface once again i'm gonna re-read the last line if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids no let me start from this we protect children you seem to exploit people for personal gain only your network of conspiracy theories fake physics will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me if not not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids would be laughable. I look forward to showing you how different I am. Insane.

All right. So that's basically it. So that man, Jay-Z is a super villain. I don't know what type of villainous heart you have to have to write a response like that. And also potentially not be, well, potentially be innocent. Like the duality of a rap ring on not to your. Kendrick didn't show us one thing is that you can technically have a good heart and still call a man a PDF and get away with it.

So as far as Jay-Z getting accused of being a PDF and writing that type of statement and the two correlating, but as far as him being able to write that type of villainous statement and response and also be innocent. I ain't going to lie. You got to love the duality of a rapper because that was some straight-up Lex-Luther type B. Anyways, back to all saying. So apparently behind the scenes, people are saying Jennifer Lopez allegedly, I got to keep saying that, allegedly Jennifer Lopez is the unnamed witness, right? So at some point, she will be brought to the stand if this continues.

Y'all probably didn't know that, but hey, now you know. So Jennifer Lopez is the alleged unnamed witness. I'm not breaking any news. Actually, I may be, but sources is I made it up, right? I made it up. I don't know, allegedly, I don't know how J-Lo will even be on top of my brain. You know what I mean? Definitely nobody told me this information.

So anyways, yeah, so she's probably going to be allegedly the key witness. And as far as what happened with the accuser, Tony Busby responded and basically said that he's still going to represent the accuser and the other victims against Combs. and he continues to maintain his clients, multiple, plural. Allegations are true, despite the inconsistencies that I played at the beginning of the segment, basically were her retracting her statement because she was like, oh, I may have made a mistake. And this is super relevant to the lawsuit, but was, you know, coincidentally left out. But now she just made a mistake. So I don't want to choose sides, but what I will say is,

does seem like j z and his highly acclaimed lawyer alecester alic spiro is doing a great job right the only thing with that these type of cases especially for a black man you give the higher-ups more than enough reason to cut you off which is why i commend roger giddell from the nfl coming out in support of j z to let them note that our partnership with Jay-Z has only extended, or not extended, but it would not be affected by this lawsuit. Now, Hennessy, on the other hand, it has to be those liquor companies. It's crazy and how that works. But anyways, because if you don't know about the liquor company,

that's literally what I think is started with Diddy, because I've been covering Diddy for a minute as far as this whole fiasco of him spiraling out of control. Diddy basically sued Diageo. Yeah, D-A-A-A-G-E-O. So the multiple times I always bushered his name, there's the actual spelling. So you can tell me how it's pronounced. I think it's Diageo, also the owner of Syrac,

but that's a complete understatement. Diageo owns everything in the liquor business. So anyways, once he cut ties with that in August 30th, Well, in August, right? I covered it around that time. Then, coincidentally, November 16th, Cones was accused in a lawsuit filed by singer Cassie. And not only that, in May 18, 2024,

was when the Diddy assaulting Cassie gets released by CNN. Something that happened in 2016 brought the light shortly after you sue such a mammoth of a company in Diage. I wonder how that works. So anyways, But that being said, I do believe that Jay-Z will be right. Hopefully, he continues to face this with the seriousness that he have. You know, maybe take a little villainous tone out of his voice, you know,

makes people assume that he's more of a maniac than an innocent man. But, you know, however, he wants to write his responses to let the opposition know that he's really about their life. I guess, you know, he definitely got his point across. But at the end of the day, Jay-Z and Alex Spiro obviously remains steadfast as far as far. as defending Jay-Z and his innocence with strong supposed evidence and timeline verification and photographic proof right but the accuser surprisingly has maintained their stance and say that they encourage other victims to speak up now I ain't trying to laugh I'm just like why I don't get it like what about your

case so are you like are you is this something you leaving out or you just like oh help me like i just i don't understand the whole encourage other victims to speak up like obviously victims to speak up but we don't even know if you want of them yet so i'm not trying to be insensitive so i'm leaving right there so that being said click my link sure in my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about jz being accused of sexually assaulting a 16 year old with sean daddy combs back in 2000 make sure i get this right Yeah, back in the after party in 2000 of the MTV Video Music Awards, obviously, allegedly. And with that being said, what do you think would be the outcome of this very heinous situation?

Getting into the overview of episode 144, which was titled, of course, PlayStation dominates the game awards. Because of course, for 2024, we already know that Astrobot was. indeed deserving of game of the year and especially for the year of 2024 it not being as stacked I believe it just opened up the floodgates as far as limitless opportunities we could have had a doc win we could have had astrobot win obviously a lot of people saying metaphor refantazio should have won but not should have but could have won so 2024 I'm not going to say was a weak year but compared to others I'm not going to lie to you and I own a place to So as far as me saying this, you know it's not coming from a place of bias because I do believe that this year was not as strong for gaming as far as the game of the year contenders compared to the past three to four years.

Now, that's a completely different statement than if I was to say, oh, gaming was not good this year. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying it wasn't as good as the past two to three years. So with that being said, once again, want to congratulate Astrobot for winning Game at a Year at the Game Awards show for 2024. So for this episode, obviously it was titled, PlayStation dominates the Game Awards, but we got into a plethora of other topics, obviously starting with music, with Kendrick and Siza. Not only did they announce a huddlem. So obviously you see the graphic right here,

Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio. But this is the graphic. Obviously, the biggest standout was the game awards. And then of course, Billboard Awards. I mean, those are the two main litmus scales, in my opinion, that showcases how pivotal certain content is in that specific space. And it just so happened that the boy ends up on top, even when everybody's calling him a PDF.

And it also is, still a reoccurring pattern of PlayStation exclusives when in game of the year. So hopefully at some point Xbox catches up. But with that being said, let's get into the overview of 144 because we got into a lot of different topics throughout this episode.

We'll probably be one of my longer episodes, but of course, everybody who supports week after week, especially the hundreds of thousands that people are downloading the podcast, week after week after week and especially seeing just the overall engagement just makes me want to make sure every single time I give you an episode that I put a lot of effort into covering music and the gaming industry.

So hopefully you got that out of this episode. But with that being said, we started with Siza and Kendrick, aka Size 7, AKA White Tank Top. Basically, they're going on a stadium tour, right? I can't help myself. And then as far as the Christmas concert is very heartwarming to see somebody who's crowned the king of hip hop currently doing things like showing up to his old label. Because if you don't know, he's off a top dog entertainment. So contractually, he did not have to show up.

There's his top dog entertainment. It's not PG-Lang. And Kendra still showed up. So showing up to a free concert in Watts, Los Angeles for a Christmas concert where they gave away unwrapped well they gave away toys to families in need definitely a pivotal move and just submits the fact that kendrick does seem like the greatest rapper to ever champion as far as from a moral high ground from the outside looking at obviously we don't know these people but as far as what the people have chosen as their savior is kindred so with that being said we got into aft from

RDC World, Mr. Afiang Harris, the co-founder of RDC World, that of course primarily works behind the camera directing, editing, and handling a lot of the visual effects when it comes to what RDC World puts out. And I've said multiple times that they are undeniably one of the greatest black content creator groups ever created, maybe the greatest. And let me not put black on it because that's how they try to put us in a box they are one of the greatest content creator groups of all time and also my greatest inspiration as far as the content that i create i really enjoy the way that they have fun with content while also giving you life advice at the same time because if you don't know a lot of the best comedians sometimes the cerebral aspirate uh the

I already said it. I already messed it up. The cerebral. The cerebral? I don't know. Is that a word? Hold up. We're doing this live.

Y'all going to witness me struggle through this. Yeah, I mean, I don't really cut stuff off. I don't really, you know, it's one take Drake over here. So, C. Rebro. There we go. The R's be messing me up, boy. You know what I'm saying?

Anyways, y'all had to struggle through that because I had to struggle through that. And I ain't cutting it out. So now what? No, I'll just play. All right. So anyways, the cerebral part of content creation and especially the comedic element, I believe you have to be a student of life in general to be able to have these sort of comedic skits, these short form films, and it have a larger meaning as far as the initial skit, right?

One prime example would probably be, probably be the scientist's short skit that, RDC world had when they talked about global warming and you know I don't know about y'all but I'm pretty sure this is one of the hottest Christmases we've ever had I mean we might as well just go to the beach for Christmas in Kansas you know what I'm saying so anyways uh they was on to something with that one but obviously people have been talking about it but whenever you're cerebral enough I'm gonna keep using it I'm gonna keep doing it enough to uh talk about it in a comedic fashion I think that you know adds to your comedic element which is why I think RDC overall It's one of the greatest content creator groups of all time.

And my main inspiration for creating content. With that being said, AF, getting back to him, because this was the entire point of the segment, dropped the new track titled Walk It Down, which you could listen to on, is out now on all DSPs. You can listen to it as far as whatever platform

you listen to music on. So AFF from RDC World, walk it down, well, his track titled, Walk It Down, is out now on all DSPs. And then unfortunately, I had to get into Jermaine Cole. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he did something else that was newsworthy. So he's in the episode.

Saddened history. So anyways, this man, Jermaine basically has a podcast. You're still in my whole flow, bar for bar. I feel like soldier boy right now, right? So he put it out in November 18th, 2024. And the last installment of the 10-episode podcast basically was December 12th, 2024. So it went from November 18th to December. December 12th in the year of 2024,

had a lot of gems in it. I'm not going to lie to you. From what I've garnered from it, it does seem worth the minimum price point of $10, as he has whole unreleased collaborative tracks with Kendrick Lamar on his podcast. If he wasn't a hip-hop timeout, I'm telling you, those only released tracks would have blew up.

But it came away because, of course, it brings joy to my heart that people come over to my side of realizing Jay Cole is the most, overrated rapper of all time. But definitely, this is a smart move, letting people know the iconic nature

of your rise to fame. But it's still not top three, which makes you the most overrated of all time because people put you in a top three, hopefully. Hopefully they're straightforward at this point. With that being said,

then we got into the biggest portion of the episode, I believe, in covering the entire music industry analytically and who better to corroborate my story as far as the analytics as far as numbers than Billboard. Billboard 24 music awards happened and it literally tells you the greatest effect on the masses that the music artists had and ranks them from the top all the way to five well sometimes the three but anyways so i use that as an opportunity to cover the entire music landscape so

this is essentially my recap analytically 20 my music industry recap of 2024 going over to billboard numbers because if you don't know that's the official charting site for everything when it comes to music consumption so as far as covering that in its entirety as far as the entire awareness list we cover latin we cover k-pop we cover christian we cover rock we cover hard rock. I don't know what's the difference between rock and hard rock, but hey, rock in the hard place is the same thing to me, right? So I'm ignorant out here, but we still cover that. Covered producers, songwriter. So we cover the entire music industry in one of my favorite war shows that's currently in place because of the objective nature of just analyzing

the numbers. And that's basically the entire premise of this podcast, getting into the musicians, well, just getting into the music and the gaming side of things that impacts, that affects the masses notoriously. Pun intended. So anyways, we covered the entire music industry of 2024. The highlight, obviously being Taylor Swift taking home, 10 awards, literally becoming the most decorated artists in Billboard history with 49 Billboard Music Awards. But guess who's second.

Of course, Drake. So I had to talk about how Drake was also the top rap artist, the top, hold of you. Y'all see right here, right? Y'all see right here? Hold on. All right. So yeah, I got to say. Top rap artist, the top rap male artist, the top rap album, the top rap album, the top rap album.

Somebody lying. Y'all all are champion Kendrick. Whole time y'all out here streaming Drake. How he went top rap album and y'all said they're a PDF. Now, I could understand top rap artists. because maybe they're listening to R&B a little bit more and that counts towards the rap. But as far as rap album, y'all listening to For All the Dogs,

even though y'all think he's a PDF, somebody lying. Somebody is lying. And it ain't me, because I've been saying I'm listening to Drake, but I do not think he's a PDF because if he was, I would not listen to him. But I don't make false statements with no evidence like Side 7 and AKA White Tank Top does.

So anyways, covered the entire music industry. I was pretty proud about that segment. I think that's one of my better segments of all time. In my opinion, from an analytical standpoint, from an analytical stand point, I do believe that's one of my better segments for the simple fact that I was able to literally give all of the reviews that I had throughout the year and won award show because I covered almost every one of those artists on the list. I was pretty proud about that and harking back and shameless plugging all of my segments

from when I cover those artists. Anyways, Marvel rivals. We got into the gaming portion of the podcast and what other game to start off with than the ultimate 6V6 shooter, well, not shooter, but 6V6 hero game that basically is Overwatch for Marvel fans. As much as people don't like it, well, as much as the developers don't like the comparison to Overwatch, it is essentially Overwatch for Marvel fans. And guess what?

I'm a Marvel fan. I don't play Overwatch. So now you've got a whole new fan base that just wants to swing around the Spider-Man, throw the hammer as Thor, and turn into the Hulk as Bruce Banner, which it has everything in this game and a lot more.

A very in-depth experience as far as the video game aspect to the point where Marvel Rivals could be a nominee for the Game Award show for Game of the Year for 2025. That's how good this game is. Because if you remember,

when Overwatch came out it actually won it ended up winning game of the year now 2025 is about to be a stack year we have Doom coming out GT86 is not coming out I don't know if I broke any news to somebody I'm sorry I should have prefaced that

you're going to be a little sad but I keep hearing it's going to get pushback because they want to make sure it's optimized when it comes out so we have Doom you have a lot of other games I don't know this is a bunch of games

coming out 2025 I ain't a lot 2025 is about to be super stacked That's what I'm saying this year was a little light You don't miss a little light I don't know why they was light Because you know Imagine if GT6 did drop next year Now everything's overshadowed

So I don't know why people just didn't drop this year They knew for sure it wasn't coming out But of course you got optimized games And that's just not like a snap your fingers thing And it's done or work overnight Like a week and it's done Like it takes months upon months To optimize these games

So anyways Why'd I say that? Oh yeah Marvel rivals I could see being a nominee for game of the year for 2025. With that being said, then we got into the Game Awards show, another one of my more proud segments because of me being able to harken back, 24 going on age you. What type of word is that? 24 going on 80. I kid you not. As we harken back to all the times

I cover these games in the Game Award show. And I love how, was able to make callbacks, talk about when I talked about it in the specific dates, give them the way to listen to it. If they want to hear more about specific games, talk about me going more in detail. Just really a proud moment showcasing the work that I've done throughout the year of 2024 for the simple fact that every single game genre, just like the Billboard Music Awards, we went over every musical genre for the Game Award show. We're going over every game genre and talking about what impacted the masses notoriously.

as far as in the gaming industry. So having that, along with the Billboard Awards in the same episode, not going to lie to you. This is going to be one of the longest episodes probably of all time. I want to be surprised. I haven't even put it together yet.

I want to be surprised if this comes out to like 8, 10 hours. No cap. Or else it is cap, you know, if it ends up being shorter. But if it is, then A, definitely felt like 8 or 10. So anyways, covered the game awards extensively.

Obviously, you already know that Astrobat came out and just spanked everybody. Like spanked everybody in the mom. It really wasn't even close. They ended up winning the most awards with Final Fantasy. And I think metaphor had the second most with four wins. But basically, actually, let me just look at my... Basically, the Game Awards was simply a PlayStation Fest. Like, the PlayStation was just running rampant with the Ws, right?

So as far as the game of war celebrating this 10th anniversary, seems like PlayStation is about to get to the point where they start celebrating their 10th exclusive game of the year. I mean, what? We have Astrobot, God of War, Ghost of Tashima. I mean, man, can Xbox catch a break? I guess not. So anyways, shout out to Astrobot and also shout out to the Witcher 4. So with that being said, let me see what else.

Top for the most nominations. Okay, so yeah, Astrobot won Game of the Year and three other awards. So they won four in total. Other winners included Balatro and Metaphor Refantazio securing three awards. So there we go. You know, objective. You know what I mean? We try to be fact-based over here.

No fake news allowed. So anyways, Astrobot with four awards total and the most as far as the Game Awards show. metaphor refantasio and balatro came in second with three uh wins so with that being said we moved on into path of exile that is definitely putting up a fight as far as the most hot new game in the market as marvel rivals is putting up numbers but also path of exile is also putting up numbers because if you compare them as far as on xbox and playstation and steam it's very interesting the positions on these games because on steam Marvel rivals is behind Path of Exile with Path of Exile

having 389,000 concurrent players with Marvel rivals having 292,000 right? Then you go to Xbox on Xbox basically the PlayStation and Xbox top games is very drastically different so I was definitely stalling so I could pull up the list hopefully I could pull up the list

I wanted to do an animation for it pulled it in and you gotta love it so anyways yeah the top games for Xbox was uh well no no as far as Path of Exile

compared to Marvel Rivals Path of Exile 2 was the fourth most play game on Xbox and guess what? Marvel Rivals is nowhere on this list and best believe me it's out on all platforms free to play just like Path of Exile is free to play as well

But when you go to PlayStation and you go to their top games, you realize that Marvel Rivals is the seventh most played game on PlayStation, but Bellatro is nowhere to be found. So they're definitely battling it out as far as the most hot game currently as far as a newer release. So we also talked about how it's just overall just killing it when it comes to gameplay mechanics. And the way that you can continue your path off of the original path of exile is really being highlighted as some games give you the illusion of choice. Basically for a path of exile, they give you an actual choice as far as different options and how the game should continue. So a lot of people was enjoying the continuation from path of exile too straight into path of exile. Oh, no, they was enjoying the path of exile transitioning into path of exile to. So ultimately, it's up to you to decide which game you think is better.

But as far as analytically, they're definitely battling it out as far as Marvel rivals and Path of Exile, as far as the hottest new game. So that being said, we transition into Mario Party Jamboree. Because if there's one thing that Mario is going to do, it's completely dominate the Nintendo. field as it has not one not two but three games in its top ten as far as nintendo so mario is just out here just killing every single metric you could find as actually it has four in the top ten it is three in the top five excuse me my fault i got mario's body all the way messed up pause no ditty um at super mario party is by far in the way the most played game on switch and of course Mario Car 8 Deluxe is the third most play game on Switch.

Mario and Luigi Brotherhip is the fifth most play game on Switch. And then Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, well, technically is a Mario game. I ain't going to capture. Well, no, I can't do that. Super Smash Bros. is goaded for everybody who contributes. So technically only has three games in the top 10.

So still a monumental accomplishment. And so that's my point that he's just straight up just carrying Nintendo. I mean, goodness. Can somebody else get some love? But over at Nintendo, it's either Mario or Zelda. Nobody else get love. If you're not Mario or Zelda, you're being treated like a step, child, and you better like it. So anyways, yeah, man, shout out to Mario for just being a savior gaming.

I also got into, like, how he literally saved games because sometimes I get into it, but that time I really, like, broke it down for people. So that was nice as far as getting into giving the flag. hours to the greatest video game character ever created, which is Mario. Then we transition into one of the big nominees for Game of the Year, Belatro, because I've already covered metaphor refantasio, which if you type in metaphor, analytic dreams, it should pop up on whatever podcast platform you listen on. So I've already covered that extensively, and that was the cover of the last episode. That is why for this episode, I was going to put Balotra as the

cover. I ain't going to allow to you. But guess what? We reward analytical slash objectively objective winners out here. As far as objectively speaking, as far as the analytics speaking for itself, we

award the ones who are the cream of the crop. So I had to put Asthma on the cover. So with that being said, I did get into Blotter though. I did want to talk about the game at least once specifically. So I got into the overall units as far as the sales roundup. I got into the review roundup. I got into what it was because some people

might think it's a gambling game, but really it's just the ultimate poker-based, rogue-like deck building game. But it has no gambling mechanics. It's free to play. And also, as far as the micro transactions, it basically goes in a route of emphasizing non-micro transaction type of additions, right? So it's very much an honorable game because it's a independent developer from, I believe, Canada making it, I forget where he actually, I think it was on here. Yeah, as an independent developer, I forget where he's actually at. But, yeah, the overall game is, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an independent Canadian developer,

local thunk. And with that, being an indie game, it's crazy how much organic word of mouth it garnered over time to get to a nominee for game of the year. Because also the sales are there.

I mean, as far as the sales for this game, it still went crazy in the year of 2024, putting up some monumental numbers. So with that being said, then I transitioned into Pokemon Go, the mobile video game.

So with that in specific, let me tell you something, as far as Pokemon having one of the greatest IPs of all time, obviously there's no debate. But when it comes to video game format, its dominance over monster capture type of gameplay

mechanics has to be brought up in a broader scheme of things. Because if Nintendo's going to go out the way to Sue Powell World, who in all intents and purposes was trying to innovate on Nintendo's system and just

took a lot of heavy inspiration from Nintendo but still added their own twist like they you know they said Pokemon with guns right if they're going to patent it monster catching which seemingly is you know it's a broad patent right capturing monsters with a ball

is a broad patent in my opinion but of course Pokemon can do it because it's Pokemon and the suing power for those type of gameplay mechanics and they're definitely going to explore how to go about this as the implications is basically them taking Nintendo's intellectual property rights

and so this would definitely have an effect on future game design patents but that's not what we talked about this segment I was just going on a side tangent Basically, I just got into the mobile game. I told the mobile game community I was going to cover their video games that they play the most to give them the respect that they deserve. Because, of course, they are a pivotal part of this video game industry, and I need to start acting like it. Right.

So this is my second mobile game review, which I chose. The first one was Marvel Contest of Champions. And for this one is Pokemon Go, which Pokemon Go is currently the second most playing mobile game. in the world. So that being said, we transition into, we transition into TikTok. Okay, so yeah, this is the beef portion of the podcast. This is my favorite part.

All right. And also, you know, people really enjoy this part of the podcast. But basically, when I get into just the beef section of the podcast, I don't know what it is, but people always say, I don't know why you end off with beef, but for some reason, it just helps the overall format so I've continued to do that since then

so we started with TikTok versus the US government basically don't have to spend too much time on this I've covered TikTok extensively just type in TikTok analytic dreams essentially in this specific segment

we talked about the escalation escalation is that the right word I think so of this situation basically US standing on business shout out to Drusky as TikTok will indeed be banned from the app stores in the U.S. starting on January 19, 2025, unless BightDance sells the app to an American buyer or succeeds in its legal challenges.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the end game now. Or else, bite dances. So yeah, hopefully they figure out how to do that one, because I ain't a lot to you. US is not budging on their stance and they will shut it down February 19. Transitioning into Ubisoft's X-Defiant as another call-a-duty killer bites the dust.

I mean, this is insane. Sometimes you look at the overall spectrum of call-a-duty killers and you realize they all end up in the same place. It's like call-a-duty just ends up sliding the block like there's nowhere to park and taking out the competition one by one. Every time the competition seems to have a firm grasp

in the FPS field, seemingly to be a competitor to Call of Duty, guess what? Now we have the Omni Movement System. Now what you're going to say? One of the best movement systems in Call of Duty. Just forget BlackOps. One of the best movement systems

and Caller Duty of all time just came because of competition. That's why I can. keep saying Microsoft needs to keep the console war competitive because I'm telling you the PlayStation will fall off as far as on the PlayStation side if they get the dominant side of the gamer the gamers as far as the overall player base because if they have like 80% of the player base because for every Xbox that sells there's four PlayStation's that sell or for PS5s so that's the stack currently so PlayStation is just whooping Microsoft

when it comes to selling consoles. So now when you're looking at it and you realize that ultimately, if they get even, let's say, 60, 70%, maybe they're already there. I mean, 4 to 1. I mean, goodness, how long is it going to take for them to get 70 to 80% of the entire gamer fan base? And then what?

They're going to mark up their prices and where are you going to go? I imagine they stop being as receptive to crossplay. Imagine PlayStation's like, you know what? We don't feel like doing crossplay no more. And also, our next console is going to be like $1,200. Then what we're going to do? So that's what I'm saying. We do need a competitive marketplace for Xbox because right now it's not looking the greatest.

I mean, if Call of Duty can't save Xbox as far as Xbox game pass, getting exclusive, you know, tip bits as far as Call of Duty, because, you know, they literally bought Activision, which has the most popular game year after year. If that can't save it, I don't know what can't. anyways it's a real conversation that needs to be had but besides that exfine is ultimately a flop just joins the list of call-a-duty killers that ended up not killing a soul so that being said then we switched over back into the music land of things um the music side of things as mr sean carter let me tell you something now as far as Sean Carter potentially being innocent in this allegation that him and Sean I got to say allegedly again because I'm not trying to die

I ain't gonna lie to y'all. Allegedly sexually assaulted a 16 year old at an MTV music after party in 2000. The way that he may possibly be innocent, but wrote the most villainous response, and it has to go down as one of the more bipolar humans ever in history. Because if you're innocent, why are you writing statements like you're a Lex Luther, Joker, and Thanos combined? This man writing statements like he can't. wait to see him out in the streets.

I'm like my brother. You're the one that's accused of, no, you know what I mean? Sometimes it pays to just let the lawyer write the statements. But anyways, I do think that Jay-Z would end up coming out as innocent because the accuser already said that she made some grave mistakes in her claim. So I'm like, hmm, time to start giving Sean Carr a little bit more to benefit of the doubt. Remind you that Sean Diddy. Cones, the other shine, was caught on camera.

2016, assaulting Cassie on camera video. Y'all remember what happened before the video versus after? The perception changes when the actual evidence is upon us. So until we get that, I'm just going to believe that Jay-Z is innocent. So that's about it for the notorious Mass Effect episode 144. And before I get into the title, of course, just to end this off, because it is the month of December. it is the last episode before we wrap up 2024.

I just want to thank everybody who supports the podcast from the bottom of my heart. We surpass 7 million total downloads. And let me tell you something. It is something that I do not take for granted because overall, you could be listening to anything and you come back time and time again to listen to me break down the music and gaming industry. So for that, I say thank you. The support that I've received for this podcast makes it to where I want to upgrade the product,

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you know, I got my have my Santa Claus hat on because, you know, I'm about to be Santa Claus after I record this episode, basically going to get presents. You know what I mean? Things in the nation, you know, they're asking for handouts. But I only got two.

All right, my fault. You know, I got all type of drink quotes. Anyways, so yeah, hopefully you enjoy your Christmas. When it comes to output of the podcast, obviously I'm still going to be posting. But when it comes to 20, 25, just know. We have a lot in store. And y'all,

Ain't seen nothing yet. So that's about it for episode 144. That's titled PlayStation Dominates the Game Awards. And with that, I want to thank you for tuning in to the notorious Mass. A Fake podcast. And don't be afraid to send me a message, sending me an email, letting me know what you think of the show and what you want me to talk about in the next episode. Click my link tree in my bio to access my social media.

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