Distractible - 2026 Distractible Game Guide

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractable. This episode, Magnific Mark owns all the prizes, then asks the future of computer entertainments. Bothered Barbist trophy neglected, has James a gesturing, mentions speeding minnie Vader, Bond, and Yushi. Wanktastic Wade sucks stuff, talks cavernous pass, the Cortor-Swatter successor, and blow to boys. From consistent inconsistence to Mario, yes. It's time for 2026, distractible game guide. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted

and enjoy the show. Good evening, gentle listeners, and good morning, rowdy viewers. Welcome back to Distractable, the favorite podcast of whoever your favorite person is, because they have good taste, even if you don't. So, in today's episode, we're going to do the exact same thing that we do every episode, except it's going to be very different because we change up what it is every single time. If you're looking for consistency, this is not the place. Or is it? Because we're consistent about who these guys are. Bob and Wade! That's us. Consistently inconsistent. That's what I was voted in high school.

Always been me. Never been anyone else. Unless you have a cigar, then you turn into another person entirely. I thought you were going to bring out the cigar. No. All right, fine then. Unless. Oh, yeah, that's right. I was reaching for. I was just trying to do it stealthily. Something beeped. I didn't sound good.

I mean, like, every time you put that cigar in your mouth, I'm more and more sure that someday it's going to kill you. Taste worse each time, too. It might be a bomb if it's beeping, so you might want to... I don't know how to hold a cigar. Is this how you hold a cigar? Well, anyway, you're not getting any points for that. But Bob, you're not getting any points either.

So everything is fair. And that's what we do here on this podcast. Wait, what was that and why? Bob, what was that? It was a fidget spinner. Because Wade was doing a cigar thing and I was trying to see if I could get cigar points. Oh, God. I was, ah, man, you know, that's why I'm not playing this episode.

I don't know what's going on with anything ever. The new year, man. New year. Well, it's a good thing. new year because that means we're going to have entirely new content. We're going to mix up this show. We're going to change the paradigm. Just like how in Dexter's laboratory for that weird last season, you remember when the art style just like completely changed. Yeah. For some reason. And I don't know why a lot of shows do that, but they do. Because as a kid, it's extremely

jarring and it's, it's scary. Because I, like, I wasn't super young when that happened, but it was Like, I was watching, I was just like, I got so confused. Like, is this a fan project? Is this a weird one-off episode where they look different? No, just completely different aesthetics. That's going to be us this year. All right. Wait, but you said that was bad.

Yeah, but when we do it, it's going to be good. Because you guys are going to make it good, right? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah. Wait, you're not really agreeing as much as Bob is. Oh, I agree. That I'm not agreeing as much as Bob is. But I do agree about the agreement prior to the agreeing that I'm not agreeing as much.

Pro pre-agreed. Pre-pro-pre-wow. What a callback. Give yourself a point, bud. You heard it. No. Okay. There will be no earning of points.

Wait, okay. Pause. There will be earning. See you guys later. I'm taking this one off. Not for me. So I'm the host for everyone who doesn't know, but who knows? This is a new year.

It's going to be all kinds of weird going on here. Ignore the fact that this is the same shirt I was wearing before Christmas. Um, but Bob and Wade, whose shirt is different between you, you, you, look, listeners, some weird things are happening. Nothing's happening. Don't worry about it. Now Wade's sucking on that weird bottle. Why does it? All right, I got the winner right here. Not sponsored.

Is that a can of a jar of mayonnaise? Wait, wait, did you guys get this? Yeah, I did. It's mine sitting back there, I think. Yeah, here. If it's in a box, I haven't opened those. It's actually a really nice box. It's an award for armchair athlete. The armchair athlete wrapped awards 2025. It has my name on it, and it says, uh, the crate digger award wrapped awards 2025.

I want to, I want one of those. Well, yeah, it's like a, maybe. be a foot by foot and a half kind of box. It's pretty, like a pretty medium, all black box, yeah. For no particular reason, I'll be right back. Yeah, well, there was, there was, did you have the chocolates too? There were chocolates in there. They were pretty good.

They were chocolates in there? Yeah, though there was a little box. Oh, the Comparties, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're pretty good. Each one is like a different award. And for list, for anyone who doesn't understand the context of what's at, this is from Spotify.

Every year, Spotify sends us around the holidays. around the end of the year like a little gift or this year they sent out this boxes that had like these awards in them that are very cool and then there were like chocolates there was what was oh then really they also sends sort of a really fancy gift this year they sent a sono speaker yeah that's right i have that over there it's very nice mine was green it's cool hmm mine's black i think well mine's cooler so this is like the first time i've gotten a trophy that has my name printed on it in i don't know since i was 10 years old probably since i got like a trophy for playing baseball or something.

When do you get a trophy with your name? Well, I don't have to ask you. You get things, but I don't get trophies with my name on them. I got a couple. I don't accomplish things, so it's much more surprising for me. You'll accomplish plenty of things. Look, when your kid gets you a macaroni art with your name on it, I think that'll be better than any award.

Or not? Okay, I won't be. It'll be a piece of shit, and you'll hate it. I wouldn't know because he hasn't done it yet. So, promises made, promises not kept, really. You guys will never believe what came in the mail yesterday. Oh, wow, what's in there? Happy wrapped.

It's just a big box of coal. Got them. Whoa. Crate digger. Hey, wait a minute. Hey, what does what you got? We're both crate diggers. I'm going to look right past that.

I'm going to just appreciate it. Unless it's like a Fortnite thing and then, no, it just doesn't sound good no matter what. And I got this best Beatles thing. Ringo! That's actually an interesting water bottle. It has a mag safe mount on top, but I didn't notice until Mandy pointed out. It says distractible on it. It actually, on the base, on the powder coat, it has distract.

Because I was like, oh, water bottle. I mean, cool, nice, but whatever. But it says distractible. It's nice. It's fancy. Come on focus. Focus on the bottle, not on me. Tamara, please.

And then Wade was blurry for the rest of the episode. Anyway, well, that's really cool. Congrats on your awards, guys. I'm going to give you both an award point. Oh, I want to throw this out, too. To the social team at Graters in Cincinnati, I got the box of ice cream. Hey, holiday flavors from Graters. I had the eggnog one already.

It was really good. Graters, I love Graters. Call me. You would probably just get it and not open it, and then you have a box of melted ice cream, just like last time. Yeah, but it would be my box of melted ice cream. Well, that was delightful pre-small talk, but the real small talk comes Now, wait! Everything in my life has kind of gone the exact same as it usually does.

I've been at my computer a lot and things are pretty common, chill. Wow. I mean, yeah, it's kind of the dream. I got a sad update. Do you guys want sad? Wait, you said everything was good and fine. Is it sad or is it not sad? Giving you a lie point.

Okay, here's the thing. Everything is the same, which is kind of sad, because usually my family comes up from Atlanta, Georgia, but my aunt had a bad infection, and she went to a doctor. She was like, oh, I'm having some pain. And they were like, oh, we have this little infected area. Let me give you some, like medicine. And her daughter went with her was like, shouldn't you like clean out the infected area before we go or something just to, you know, make sure it's in a good spot. And the doctor's like, oh, I suppose I can do that. And it's like, oh, I suppose I can do that. And it's weird. That feels like just something you should probably do or don't do. I don't know. And he went to clean out the infected area. And it turned out that small little dot of infection. was like the entry point into the vast cavern of pus and death and murdered spots. And so whenever he went to drain, he ended up draining a lot more. And it was apparently very gross. I won't go into all of it. But he was like, I probably should have done this. This seems like more of a job for the emergency room. You should go get checked out.

Long story short, she has a really bad infection, which I think she's getting better from at this point, but she couldn't make it up for the holidays. I don't get to see them for the holidays. Man, I feel so confident that doctors always have our backs. I'm glad that they always do what we ask them to because they know that we know best or something. God, I hate stories like that. It sounds like she's getting better, though. That's not that sad of an update. That's more just like things that happen that are unfortunate,

but catching the infection and curing it, that's good. That's very good. And the doctor let them tell him everything that he didn't know, which is great. This is why we all need medical degrees so that when we see the doctor, we can tell them to do the stuff they don't remember about. Oh, ho, ho. Happy New Year.

I'm gonna earn way more points. I have a very funny update. All right. I can't wait. Sad updates aren't worth nothing. Okay. James is refining his comedy and it's really fucking funny.

So, James, James likes to tell jokes and a lot of his jokes are set up punchline something really quick. Usually he'll do like a fart or something or,

you know, like, whatever. But he has realized, he likes getting the laugh and he's, he has, learned, like, this is what got me the laugh, right? So he'll do a joke and he'll be like, ah, and then I farted and everyone's like, ha, ha, very funny, like, ah. And he'll be like,

mm-hmm. And then I farted? Because he's like, laugh some more, right? He's like working on it. But obviously, you can't say the same punchline twice in a row. That doesn't work. We're comedians. We know that. So last night at dinner, we've seen there and James just is like eating his food and he looks over at manny and he goes, mom, you're cheese. And And Bandy is like, why am I cheese? And he's like, cheese can't talk. And I'm like, okay. I look at it, I'm like, okay, what's dad?

And he goes, dad, you're crackers. And I'm like, oh, because crackers goes with cheese. And he's like, crackers can't talk. We're sitting there. And look at it, I'm like, all right, if mom is cheese and dad is crackers, what is James? And he goes, hmm, I'm scared. Because mom and dad are cheese and crackers. And we lost our shit.

Like, it was very funny. I had a good laugh. And he was just like soaking it up. Like, that's the funniest thing I've ever said. I mean, he's right. And I said, and we've been trying to teach him about this, right? So we had the laugh. It was good.

And I looked back at him and I was like, okay, James, mom is cheese and dad is crackers. What does that make James? And he was like, oh, can't see the same thing. Ooh, what do I say? Ooh. I'm afraid. And then he went through every word that he could think of that was like scared to get back to the same punchline.

It was so funny. It's probably much funnier because I'm his parent. Like I get that that's maybe not the most genius comedy thing that's ever been crafted. But he is working on, he's like really actually working on his timing. And he's, like, experimenting with how he's doing pun. It's very funny to watch him, like, figure it out in real time. It's actually super impressive, too. He's thinking of, like, synonyms and wordplay like that.

Like, that's crazy. He did it a bunch. I think he did. I'm scared. I'm worried. I'm upset. I'm... Oh, what did he say?

I'm nervous. I'm something... He did, like, one or two other ones. He knows a lot of words. That's funny and impressive. And he's just turned three? Yeah, just turned three. Anyway, very funny.

dinner is very funny sometimes sometimes he screams and he's a toddler but sometimes it's hilarious based on his current level of intellect he's like six months away from just being able to replace me flat out on the podcast yeah keep telling me he needs to find a job and he's like nah i'm gonna play fortnight some more kids he is better than me all right man that was you're right that got you way more points way more points you both did very admirably Wade you do have a lie point in here and you know that's conditional, right? Oh, I do, and I know what's coming up. What had, what? What did you figure out? Whoa. You guys can't begin to imagine the intellect that just enraptured this episode and I know exactly where it's going. The lie point told me everything I needed to know. I'm a little worried.

No, it was probably fine. I'm nervous. I'm afraid. I'm a little upset. Uh, one day we'll do an episode where we just come up with synonyms until we can't and that'd be fun. But for today, it's the New Year, which in the past, we've always done like, what do you do these resolutions? Dumb, stupid, moronic. Resolutions are for idiots. I've never done them before in my life. What are your resolutions? No, God, no, stop.

No, we can't do that. Is that the episode? Let's do it. I got some ideas. I think actually we've done this before as well on the New Year, but we're going to go back to our gaming roots. Game Awards happened weeks ago. Topical, top of goal.

Happened weeks ago. It's a new year, which means. there are new games. And I, as a gaming YouTuber, I swear, I am for realzies. I need to know what the landscape is of games for the upcoming year. Now, I know you've got your games that you are playing right now, and you can talk about them if you want. I'm not going to stop you from saying anything about it. But I just want to hear what's the upcoming titles? What small little niche things have you been playing? What's on the horizon? Is Half-Life 3 finally coming? I know that people were, for some reason, hyped up about the game awards, maybe going to see that.

I saw that horrifying trailer for divinity, you know, I, but I don't know what the landscape really is. All I know is that I hate Claire Obscura 33. Nobody liked that game. That's why I won so many awards, because it's fixed by the man. By the time this comes out, I might be done with blueprints. I went back. I told you guys I might go back. I went back.

Yeah. Oh, good. I've started it up again. and not start it over, but continued. I really want there to be more that. A blueprints update blueprints DLC. There was an announcement for Star Wars fate of the old republic. And I was like, dude, the announcement I have needed.

Finally, an old republic thing for the first time since like 2015. There's an old republic game. People are speculating it won't come out to like 2030. I did see that and I am excited. But didn't the studio, I don't know if you said this because I was reading something else. Didn't that studio just get formed like six months ago? Isn't that why people are saying that? I think so. I don't know all the reasons. I just, I was like super excited. I was going to look into it. Then I saw a couple posts of like, yeah, this may be come out for PlayStation 7. I was like, wait, are six even out yet? Do we even have a PlayStation 6? The lead on that is like the person who was the lead for Cotor for Nightsdale Republic, the original game, I think is what I heard. But I swear I heard people talking about that like don't look, don't look for a night time soon because literally they just got that team together and it's less than a year of development on that. But they have.

had a trailer. I mean, they had an announcement trailer anyway. Like, they do have a trailer, but if you go to the website for the game, they have like a whole jobs listing and there, there were a lot of available jobs, which does not give me optimism that the game is deep in development. Given that I've worked three years on a movie, and that's the longest I've ever worked on a project. Games sometimes can take eight, 10 years. I mean, I don't even know if there has been any work on Half Life 3 or any of those three quills that people are craven. but Rockstar works infamously long on their games, and they are big, huge games, of course. When GTA 5 first came out, I think my grandma was still a kid, and now GTA 5 is still the one that's up.

Six has been in production for about 80 years. I'm not going to question it. That makes sense. Okay, so Old Republic happening? Eventually, one day, maybe. It's weird to have a trailer for a game five years before it may be. Like, how close, how do they have the trailer? Like, why would they have the trailer?

Why even tease that this far in advance? It builds a pipe that is then gone for years. I did a trailer as we were filming Iron Lung. We took time out of a day to shoot a shot that was specifically to make a teaser trailer. It's just- But you anticipated it coming out sooner than this, right? I sure did, but three years later, still somewhat effective, you know? Yeah, but your intention was, like, it doesn't seem like this intention is this game to come out.

like it wasn't like coming December 2026 like there was nothing like that on the trailer it was just like I think it's it's the initial hype I think I get why even if the project is many years down the road you you would want to be like look we're doing this because it's well for reasons I don't like it's you want it to look good for like the publisher right you want the money people to look and be like ah they've got a trailer so like they're working on it or whatever then they if they see the hype they'll believe that the game might make money but as like a studio, you want to be like, look, we're doing it. Maybe they're going to publish trailers along the way. Maybe they're going to do like a dev blog or like dev behind the scenes footage like they do

with like no clips sometimes or like, I don't know, but like people are going to be hyped about this game. People are excited that it's coming even if it's way the hell in the future. It's a big enough title. I get why they would want to do that even though. To be honest, a lot of these trailers just piss me off. I get pissed off by trailers that give too much that like just give you the whole plot or give away too much. I didn't think the, the Star Wars one gave away too. much. So I will take that away from that one. That one didn't give a whole lot, which I was fine with. But like, I almost feel like, okay, we're getting it now. The last time, like, when did Star Wars the Old Republic? When did Star Wars the Old Republic? It was like 2015, the MMO. And the Knights

of the Old Republic 2 was like 2010, maybe was code or two. It's a long time ago. So you're releasing a trailer in 2025 for a game that hasn't had a new one come out in 10 years and you're like, hey, this really successful franchise that people love and have been begging for a new for. We decided not to work on for the last 15 years, but now we're starting it up because we love you guys. Five more years. You finally that sequel, 20 years in the making. You can't be too upset. They're just trying to get ahead of the people on their deathbeds being like, hold on to life for a little bit longer. Stave off the Grim Reaper for five more years and you'll get it. So you got to understand. They're thinking of the people. December 6th, 2004 is when Coder 2 came out.

years ago. December 20th, 2011 is when Swoder was released. 14 years ago. So you're telling me the successful franchise that in, we'll call it, a 10-year period, had three games come out, 14 years before they're like, people like this, maybe we should make another one. Wade, you're right, they should just give up all together. No, this should have been in development for the last 20 years. They should sell that IP off to someone who's going to shelve it forever, and they should let it go. That's what I'm with you. I'm with you. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Hey, if we're going to talk about Star Wars game trailers that played at the game awards,

there was another one that I actually thought was intriguing enough. I was excited about it. You guys ever heard of pod racing? Oh shit. They bring in the arcade game back. Star Wars Galactic Racer, I believe, was, is that what it was called? It was a Star Wars pod racing game that they played a trailer for. It was a, very sleek and modern looking. It was, I don't know, I don't know what to expect from it, but that's very nostalgic for me. And when I saw that, there was definitely a part of me that was like, nice. And I think that one is slated for 2026, but I don't know that it has a date, son. Don't put too much weight on that potentially, but finally a sequel to episode one

racer, which came out. Oh, April 30th, 1999. What have they been doing with our Star Wars IP for 25 years? only make 19 TV series a year up on the Star Wars stuff what do you mean what have they been doing that they've made like three that have been worth mentioning yeah but they've made like a shit load plus they spend a lot of time on the Lego Star Wars games those are really

good oh no that's not a joke those are really good I know they're fun games they're really good man it's gonna be okay look I mean I'm glad that things are finally happening but what were they doing for 20 years torturing you it was targeted at you.

Yeah, I'm super excited for that. Looks like a great game. In indie game news, you know what's slated to come out this year? Claire Obscure 34. Oh! Expedition 35. Hey, skipped one. No, the Slade the Spire 2 is slated for this year, isn't it?

You guys like that game, right? Oh, yeah. I was never able to get high in the Ascensions, but I did. did enjoy the game very thoroughly. I did not enjoy the other characters besides the guy with the sword and the robot. But did you guys know I played that when we were on tour? I had like my laptop and whenever we had downtime. I was playing like Tyler would come and hang out and he and I would just like play the spire. Yeah, and I like the green rooms and stuff. Yeah, that was what it was like early access, right? Wasn't that? Oh, it might. I mean, that was 2017, 2018,

yeah. That game came out in 2018 and they're just now making a sequel to it. Lazy, of garbage. I don't know, seven years feels like better than 25. It's funny, when you introduce this, Mark, in my head, I was like, oh, man, I don't know. There's not that, I actually do have a bunch of games I'm interested in coming out this year. I'm just a pessimistic jerk. This is interesting. Good topic, Mark. Hey, don't say that. The only one here that is coming across as a pessimistic jerk is Wade. Thank you. So Slate Aspire to Wade, he technically jumped your turn, but I turn Schmern. That's what I say.

Yeah, Schmerz are for turns. Are we about anything or specifically games? Gaming specifically? Gaming is the main time, but if you got something else, hey, it's distractible. We're meant to go off topic. I have to, I think I threw this out when we were talking about like the looking forward to 2026 thing a while back, but the boys' final season is coming out and I'm really excited to see it.

I don't know. I got really into the boys. The first couple of episodes when I watched it, it's such a different vibe than what I expected or any other show that I saw prior because it's so fucking just graphic and bat shit crazy so I've been super into it I watched uh gen v they had season two come out uh late 20 25 and I watched all of that and I'm just I'm super ready I've not read the comics I've avoided all of like the post of like well here's what happens in the comic I don't know any of that I have avoid I've not watched the trailer again I don't trailers I feel like give away too much sometimes so I'm always afraid to see them

so I've not watched the boys trailer I'm just ready for it to come out I'm ready to see how it all lens. I think they're bringing in Jared Padalecki, who was in Supernatural, along with Jensen Ackles, like they were the two stars of Supernatural. So I'm interested to see what his role will be because Jensen came in a couple, I think he came in like season three, a soldier boy. So not soldier boy, but soldier boy. I'm interested to see what Jared's role will be, but it's cool to see those two United because I love Supernatural. So seeing those two do something again, it's kind of fun. But excited for that. And I can't imagine if they made a game based on the boys. That would be rated 25 and up. Yeah, there's not really much to do.

in it, but they make games out of everything, so I wouldn't be surprised. There's a lot they could do with it. They have quite the universe, or they could, I presumably. It used to be, they would, I mean, I'm sure they still do, but it's like when movies have come out, it would be even a concept. They could be like, yeah, let's get a game to happen at the same time, and it'll release, and it'll build up hype for the movie, and now games actually are kind of more predominantly in terms of storytelling.

Video games realized they didn't need movies anymore, and they were like, That I'll just do what we want. I don't think a lot of games, like, I feel like the boys game, do you remember the old Red Faction game where like it was one of the earlier ones where you could destroy walls and just blow up everything? I don't feel like a lot of games take advantage of those kinds of mechanics, maybe because it's difficult to do in great graphics or something, but I feel like a Boys Universe game would be just Uber amounts of destruction and mayhem.

Levolution? Levolution, yeah, that's what it was. I forgot about that. I horrified myself. I was playing Red Faction, and I was doing the thing where I had unlimited rocket launch or something with the cheat code and I was just like spamming it into the wall. I wanted to see how far I could go

and I just went and went and went and I was going into the wall and then I got bored so I was like all right I'll walk back out and when I turned around I was walking on this long tunnel I made and it was closed at the end and I was like and I was so afraid

to turn around in the game because I was like oh God they plan for this they plan and I turned around like and what happened was it just ran out of holes that it could put. So I dug so deep, it just block it deleted like decals, like the holes that I had first made. So I couldn't get back out.

I never did that. I always thought about it. I was like, ah, no, it would be too much work. I never did it, but I wish I had. Yeah, yeah. There is a limit. Yeah. And when I shot into where it was, it would blow up, but then it would replace the block I was in with,

so it would delode this one that I was just in. So I just got stuck in the bricks. I think it crashed or something. Yeah, so... That's pretty funny. It's, uh... I could have gone around. Why didn't I think of that?

I could have just gone around. Why did I think the shoot stro? Why didn't I just go around? Oh my God. I'm so dumb. Hindsight. That's really funny. Uh, the boys.

Wade wants to blow people up. I've only written wants to blow, so, uh, good enough for me. Mark, do you want to hear about the Nintendo IP that I'm interested in? Or a game that was made famous on a Nintendo. console, this is a sequel to that I'm interested in. You're interested in both, right? These are two different things, yes. I'm more curious about what this game famous on than Nintendo console was.

I was try to shoehorn it in here. I may have oversold it. But slated for March of the coming year, the end of March, uh, 007 first light. A new, 007. Yeah, I don't keep close track of like James Vaughn games, but I think it's been a minute. And I'm intrigued about this one because online, if you look at people talking about it, it's all theories, I think mostly, but people are like, it might be like it, it's going to be kind of like hitman, right? And like the hitman game is very fun. It's like stealthy and environmental kills. And like it's, it would be very interesting to be like a James Bond character, but in a hitman universe doing thing like I could see that working. Also, there's a version of this. I think it's like $300 or something. There's a version of the game. that you can buy that comes with a replica of the golden gun, like a gun, like a real gun sized. It comes with a gun. Comes with a real gun. Probably not operational, but it's like a big

like golden comes a showcase thing, golden gun and it's really cool looking. It's a golden gun that's not real gold nor a gun. Hey, it's cool man, it's cool. It's cool looking and it's the color gold, not necessarily the metallic material gold for our... Anyway, I just think that's interesting. Honestly, I have low hopes that it's going to be something I really enjoy. But it'd be really fun to play a fun James Bond game. The last one came out in 2012, by the way. If it's, like, whatever, if it's fun to play, it's such a fun character to be and universe.

And I'm just inherently in my head, I'm like, I hope that's good. I want to play that. The last one I think I played and really enjoyed, I don't know that it was very popular one, I think it was called like Nightfire or something like that. That was one. And I remember... Night fire. I think that was one.

Something like that. Like a PlayStation 2 or 3 games. I remember playing on a bit like a map where there was like two skyscrapers and you're on the roof. Yeah, that was the second Pierce Brosnan one. There's like a trolley you could take from like roof to roof. But I remember I would piss off all my friends because I'd play his odd job and I would just stand on one side of the roof and throw my hat across. And it would typically work. Like they would run out of ammo and I would just be up there throwing my infinite hats and kill them.

That's really my only memory of the game. I remember enjoying it. That does sound annoying. Yeah. I wasn't a big PVP or so people would make me PVP. I'd be shitty about it. So I'm like, yep, I'm odd job, have my hat. All right.

Well, we got a new 007. I'll come back for the Nintendo IP that I'm curious about. But Wade, Wade, what else you got? Hit me with the... Get my hopium up of future releases. So right now, you can pre-order Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred DLC. Diablo 4 I've had fun with on and off I'll get really into it

and then I'll kind of like fall off because it starts to feel repetitive then I'll come back get really into it so I've been playing it again recently so I pre-ordered the DLC and when you do you get access to the Paladin class which is one of the two new classes coming out with the DLC they haven't announced

what the other class is yet I think it's spoilers I suppose but I think they're finally putting one of the Lords of Hell in the game finally because like up to now Diablo is surprisingly low on Diablo 4 is surprisingly low on Diablo or his brothers or any of the main baddies from the

series so far it's like Lilith was like the boss when the game came out and it's like okay Lilith okay that's cool interesting direction when the dLCs come out I can't wait or there's gonna be a twist I'm like one of them and they've kind of like teased with Mephisto a little bit he's the Lord of Hatred they've kind of teased with him a bit I could hear sorry I got I could hear he's Lord of Hatred he's Lord of Hatred after all I think he is he Lord of Hatred Terror, destruction If he's not the Lord of Hatred I'm gonna take this point away

Brain tells me I think he is I think Belial's Lord of Lies Mephisto's Lord of Hatred That sounds right Note of Hatred is Mephisto Okay okay yeah

I mixed him in Belial up in my brain for a second But I was right Anyway I think one of them Will finally be introduced Which is crazy Because like when Diablo 2 came out

You fought Mepisto and you fought Diablo in that game And then the DLC came out And they're like The 3 brothers That was Diablo 2 I'm sorry

Diablo 3 came out and it's like, okay, we have Lyle and Asmadan and then, oh, there's Diablo. Diablo is this Diablo game, great. And now it's like Diablo 4, where Diablo is nowhere to be seen whatsoever. I mean, it does make sense in a sense where it's like they kind of die,

but also I know, like you kill them in the other games, but also who cares it's game, right? Yeah, they're building it back up and I think their plan is like, okay, this game's going to last 10 years like every Diablo game does and we're going to release some DLCs and slowly will build back up

and Diablo will come out eventually, and that's like, that's a really cool concept, except for when the game first comes out, and you're like, all right, Lilith's dead. Now we're fighting Lieutenant Squid, and I made that up, but it's like... The Senate Squid sounds pretty cool. Tell me more about Lieutenant Squid. Lieutenant Squid. He's that guy who was an intern for Lilith. You killed Lilith, the big bad, but now Lieutenant Squid stepping in, and you've got to fight the intern because they're saving the baddies for five years from now. But you have to stay interested. But trust me, in five years, you keep playing,

you're gonna get to fight one of the big baddies Lieutenant Squid and Private penis and Private penis I'm a little scared of private Commander Cumstain I don't know man I just like I figure when Diablo 4 is about like two years old now

And the second paid DLC is when we Maybe get to fight the first actual big bad So I get it but also at the same time I'm kind of like I can see why people maybe are falling off a little bit But the game it's fun right now The Paladin's a fun class I'm excited to see what the other class

is going to be. So I'm cautiously optimistic for Lord of Hatred because it's like, okay, now we get to sink our teeth into like one of the big bads. And they've made some of these fights tough, really hope that the big bads feel like big bads. Because so far, fighting Lilith, there's like a Lilith in game encounter that's still to me the hardest fight. And I feel like Mephisto, Bale, and Diablo should be the hardest fight. So we'll see. And I thought that I'm usually won for challenges, but like just feels like that should be right, you know? I mean, at a certain point Diablo three, it got so fast that It's like, I enter the boss arena and, you know, the big spider guy. He's like, instantly dead.

And I'm just, like, spinning because I'm a barbaric. Like, you know, you know, you. Thankfully, they've kind of, some of the boss fights can still go like that, but they've got like world boss encounters and like overworld encounters where people can group up and fight the bosses together. And there was a while where they were game breaking class builds that would do that. But they've somehow, I don't know if they nerfed, like they capped damage you could do per hit. They did something where it slowed those fights down.

And now they're actually legitimate. it fights. You can still go into some boss encounters and just wipe them in like two hits, but some with like the overworld fights last like five minutes, no matter how good your build is. That's interesting. At least that keeps it engaging, because it was a little boring when it was just a race to how quickly you can spam your way through everything.

I think they've balanced the game. I think a lot more things are decently balanced and a lot more classes have viable builds now. It's not just like everyone's playing Blood Wave Necromancer or whatever. So, cautiously optimistic. Because Diablo has been a big part of my life since 1990. All right. Well, we'll look forward to the Lord of Hatred and how to kill him.

Uh, Bob, what is you got? Anyway, Nintendo IP. This is coming out. It's not dated, but it's scheduled for some time this year. I think they may be said maybe spring, but it's not set. New Yoshi's Island game. What? No way!

It's called Yoshi and the Mysterious book coming out for the Switch 2. I was not a huge, like I'm not going to pretend. like I've always been a huge fan of platformers. I don't generally like platforming games. They make me really frustrated, but I like watching them. And specifically, I have a lot of nostalgic memories watching the N-64 Yoshi's Island game. And, like, the music is, like, etched into my memories of, like, all the Yoshi's singing and being like,

blah, la, la, la. Such a bubbly game, such an iconically, uh, distinct game. The teaser trailer for the new Yoshi and the Mysterious Book game looks like the vibes are right. The tone looks funny. It has some mechanics that look like references to the N64 games. It has some new looking mechanics. It looks like it'll be really fun. And if it has good music and the same, like it captures that vibe, I'm excited for that.

I think that's going to be delightful. Really good. I mean, I really like that. I think I feel like I remember something else about Yoshi's Island coming out just a couple years ago. Did you mention that or did I blank out in the middle of that? I don't know that I mentioned that, but like there was a different one or a remaster or something like that. They did an online release in 2019, Super Ineus Classic Edition, 2017. I was trying to see if there were other things about it because I thought I heard something.

It must have been a re-release. Yeah, because I remember seeing it. Oh, no, I'm thinking of Super Mario RPG. They did a remaster of that and I started playing that and that was it. No, but they didn't, that's right. Yose's Island was separate from that. But I knew Yose's Island was great. I can't believe they didn't pick that IP up.

sooner because it was such a fun different thing. The mechanic of like platforming and then the throwing was just, yeah, it worked too. It just worked really well. Anyway, that'll be very fun. I like Yoshuz Island. I don't know if I'll play it though, but I just haven't had time, but

All right, we all got time for a few more if there's anything else out there. I have one more. I can try to find another, but I've only got one more on my list at the moment. We got to get back and finish Sons of the Forest because Forest three, was also announced Oh boy And man the meme of

Ha ya As I threw logs at you guys Has really still lived with me forever Wait wait wait You guys Wait through logs at you guys Wait You threw logs at you guys

You both were doing it No no I'm pretty sure I threw logs at you guys Uh huh What Wade said what Wade said You guys I'm still salty about that You're so salty that you went on your own and played the game so you could enjoy it.

That's so fucking funny to me that like, you were just like, never mind that. Never mind those assholes. I just want to see what happens in this game. Oh, we were so successful. Were we? That game also just was not the same. It didn't, for some reason, I don't know. It was very similar, but it just didn't have the same kind of like, all right,

we can sink our teeth right here and we can figure this out. And it's like, it was too big. It was too spread out. It didn't make sense. I couldn't tell the difference between the different locations. It was like my head was upside down all the time. I liked how contained the other one was. So I don't know if this one's going to go even bigger or something, but, you know, it might.

No, no, but Forest Three announced. Okay, tell me about it. That's all I know, because I don't watch the trailers, so I don't want spoilers. Okay, Forest three. What if there was a spoiler for Sons of the Forest, which we're definitely going to go back and finish? Oh, for sure. For sure. Also, there's apparently a game called Raft that we need to play that we've never heard of.

I don't know. it sounds terrible. This is our Achilles heel. We'll do a series that will be unbelievably popular. Everyone fucking loves them. Views are astronomical and we'll be like, eh, whatever. Wait, wait, but we actually finished raft. It took several circling backs. The reason we stopped playing that was because every time we stopped playing it, we like finished the content that was out for the game, right? Well, the first time we played it, we like got to the big dome city and then there wasn't anything beyond that. And we were like, I guess we're done. And then when they released more, we circled back, but we got to the end of that. And we were like, I guess we're

done. I will say the last time, I don't think we finished it. Where they unlocked the shops and the island and the bar, the trading system and all that. I think we just stopped playing it. But initially, we did like finish it. It just was in early access. So it wasn't like a whole, like it wasn't the whole game yet. So there was nothing else for us to do. We did. We did our best. Well, also, yeah, I don't... If people like something, it makes me immediately want to stop playing it. Average content creator minds. Oh, this is doing really well.

I should never play it again, ever. Just, I love this game, but suddenly I could not be bothered. Just fuck that game forever. We're just built different. Wrong, but different, you know? That's why Markle ever played one FNAF game. Oh, yeah. This one feels kind of lame to me, but there's like a fandom for this.

There's a new Mario Tennis game, Slated for 2026. Okay, I like Mario tennis I've really I've always liked the Mario sports games I really liked Mario strikers I really like Mario tennis Even Mario and Sonic the Olympics Fun

Not exactly the same as the rest of the sports game Mario golf very fun The Switch Mario golf game played that a fair bit I'm excited that the new tennis game's gonna be on Switch 2 Because I really like Switch 2 As like a handheld It's bigger and it's like big enough That I don't get hand cramps when I play it

And so I actually might like bring it if I'm traveling or bring it on vacation or whatever and uh but like I'm not like super excited about that but I just always kind of look forward to like the new Mario sport games they're like all that even the ones that aren't great they're like always good it was like worth playing for me anyway I like sports games so I've never played one of those I loved we tennis is Mario tennis similar to how it feels when you're playing it it's not it's not motion controls it's you it's like controller controls you control the character and run around the court and stuff but there's yeah this is not going to help as a comparison but it's like super mario

strikers was for soccer in that it's it's actually a surprisingly tight sports game but that's fair i've played sports games i played like you know a ball basketball so on and so forth so i imagine it's similar to that those can be really fun but there was something about the wee tennis other than me breaking my aunt's light that was really fun i really loved the swinging of the we've stuff but um there was one more i forgot about that i don't know if we've talked about or not larry in studios who made balder's gate three they have divinity coming out that was i mentioned in the trailer um i was confused though because i thought whenever they announced it it seemed like it wasn't going to be turn based like balder's gate but then in a follow-up post they're like

it's going to be turned based but brought to the next level aren't the divinity games turn based are i yes but i thought you thought this one was going to be different wasn't going to be and i don't know where i got that i thought during the game award someone like something went viral about how this one wasn't going to be i was like that's interesting but then they're like this will be turned based, but to the next level. I don't know how that works, but... Yeah, I'm not, I'm not at all a Balder's Gate or Larian aficionado, but isn't that like what they do?

If it wasn't turn-based, wouldn't it kind of not be a Larian title? Isn't that their thing? They're very, very, very good at it. Obviously, they've been super successful, so... I thought it was scared that they were going away from it. So I think I'm kind of relieved, but also a bit confused at the, like... Yeah, I get why that's interesting. All right, man, they, that trailer.

You see the trailer, though? Nope, don't watch those. Well All right, I guess we'll stop talking Shut up, Mark You can talk about it I just don't know it Nah, nobody watch those

Nobody watch those No I don't watch game awards I don't care I just look at the list of things That come out after I didn't watch the game awards I just saw the trailer

You just watch the trailer But you watch the trailers Their teaser trailers Be teased You have to watch them to be teased Otherwise you're not teased at all Don't want to be teased Just want to see the announcement

Of what's coming out They give away too much Man trailers Sometimes give away too much Modern trailers This little title called GTAC is slated to come out in November.

I anticipate that's going to be delayed to the next year, so I wouldn't get too excited about it. That's probably also true. We'll see that June of 2027 at the earliest, guarantee. They also released their trailer a while ago, like the couple going around. You don't watch this, so. Yeah, you don't watch them.

I watched that one. All right, we're closing it up. That's all the games. There are going to be no more games. If any other game developer was hoping to get their game out in 2026, just give up. Give up. You can't do this.

Let's tally this bullshit. All right. Bob, you got an award point. You got, um, all right. So, so this might be a record. James earned you three points because each punchline was funnier than the last. All right. Cheese can't talk.

Crackers can't talk. And I'm afraid in all of its derivatives. Yep to four. Pretty good. Pod racer games, Slay the Spire 2, 007 Yosu's Island and Mario Tennis, which is nine. I, for some reason, doesn't do the thumb on that one. nine. All right, Wade, you got an award point.

You have a lie point. We all remember the rules about what that means. Oh, and I knew what was coming, and I didn't disappoint with it what I knew. You got a horrible dot, dot, dot, horrible point. You got Old Republic 2030, the boy's odd hat job, the Lord of Hatery, and Divinity turn-based, which puts you at eight plus a lie point. So it's eight and a lie.

That's almost nine. Almost nine. Would be nine with that lie, but we'll see where that goes. Oh, we all knew what was happening when that lie point came out. Wheels up, boys. How many spins will there be? We should implement putting bets on the number of spins. Good bet points on how many spins.

Two, it landed on due. I bet too. Uh, talked about games the most. In this case, I think that'd be Bob, because I told, talked about shows twice, right? Pretty much. Two spins, spin number one. Yay.

Spin number one, spin number one. Best comeback. Who said Lord Commander Cumb, Stain? Was that, Wade, was that you? Is that a comeback? I'll take it. It's the only thing that's cum related

that I can think of in this episode. Hey, I'll take it. I won't argue, man. I'll take them. All right, it's nine and nine with a lie. It's either all tied or something else. I don't remember what. What happens with the lie points if we don't get any lie points on the wheel?

There's lie wheel spots. Oh, no. Best Scottish accent perform if necessary. Here we go. Who else to go first? Should I flip? I'll flip a coin. Oh, good.

All right, heads weighed, Taylor's Bob. Bunk! Oh, my God. I swear. I swear, you saw it didn't, it went. Nice cash. It was on it going there. All right, Tails Bob.

Yeah, uh-huh. All right. Oh, listen here, laddie. You'd best be giving me this point. Oh, just a wee bit of points for your friend, Bob. I can't tell if Moore is hurting me or helping me at this point, but... Well, yeah, I don't know. Let's wait until we hear whoever the other one is.

That hurts. You can take my points, but I can never take my victory! I got a lie, Bob, that was pretty good. I don't know, we were allowed to scream. There's practically no rules here But I think I gotta give that to Wade That was... Look, it's all relative, right?

Mine, for me, for my pre-compared to my previous performances, that may be the best Scottish accent anyone has ever put on. I'm always great at my performances. Yeah, well, Wade's barely improved at all, if at all. Wade's is as good as ever, which is arguably good. But mine was so much improved. Can I change my wheel addition to most? improved Scottish accent instead of most game talking.

Because I hear you, I hear you out, man, I do, I do. I'll do that. I'm not going to tell you, you know. I can't ever improve. I'm just, I'm perfectly Scottish. Yeah, so this, this way we have a distinction and we know which one we're counting the point for, most improved or good in the moment. So there's room for anybody to get these.

What did you add, Mark? Video, talked about video games. the most? Nope. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Baby. Yes. There you go. Perfect. That feels fair. I think that's a fair resolution. I'll take that. Okay. And with that, congratulations, Wade. Even without the lie point, you peeked out that victory with that Scottish accent. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. As it was foretold, whenever that lie point first appeared, I knew how this was all going to play out. I saw the way this was coming along. Unintended.

Victory was inevitable as am I. I'm in your house. I'm on your screen. I'm in your ears. Look upon me for I am the bald. And you can never forget. Okay. You know, it's not the weirdest winner's speech we've had.

So, uh, Bob, loser's speech. Look, I just want to say that fair is fair, but that Scottish accent thing has come up way more times than I ever thought it would. And I did not understand when I allowed that to be added to the wheel. What a disadvantage I was putting for myself out into the universe. But it's on the wheel. And I have no authority to remove it. And I think you were very generous to put the most improved Scottish accent point on the wheel.

So I'm going to take that as a moral victory, even though I have an actual loss on the episode for today. So I feel pretty bad still, but that's fine. Thank you for taking it so graciously. Uh, thank you, everybody, for taking this episode so graciously, as the first one of the year really sets the tone for the whole year until the council episode where we change everything. Which I don't know why we don't do that around New Year's, but hey, don't question things. What?

Don't poke holes? Come on. 45 days. Are we going to die? What? Fire and lung. Oh, oh. Okay, all right. Okay, all right.

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