Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - 2021 Games We Are Most Excited For - Kinda Funny Gamescast Ep. 70

Episode Date: April 21, 2021

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What's up and welcome to the kind of funny games cast. As always, I'm Tim Getty's joined by the new face of video games blessing at Ae O. What's up, Tim? Nothing much, man. Doing good. Love your shirt. Thanks, man. Love your jacket.

Where can people get that? Oh, man, that's a good question. I assume roosteteeth.com slash store, but there might be a 25% chance that I'm wrong, but I think you can get there. It is the roosterteeth store. It is weird that if you go to roosterteeth.com slash store, it doesn't take you to the roosterteeth. store. I never understood why they don't fix that. But yes, it is go find the Roastead store.

You can get that shirt designed by the homie James Davis. Yeah. They killed it. And it's the shirt for Black Heritage Month. And so he sent this over to me after we did some work with Ruth Steeth in February and very happy with the shirt. It's a very cool design. I love it. It is super dope.

And joining us again, of course, is the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez. Just adjusting my lights, Tim. I figured you know, Baby Blue not really used on this show. More like a teal more like a green. So I'm trying to go purple, trying to go kind of, you know, I like dancing. It's a dance. It's a beautiful. Blue is your color. You're just a beautiful dance. You're right. And making one of his first appearances on

the games cast, very excited about this, the master of hype, snow bike. What up, Tim? Andy, I've embraced the blue. I'm just going to rock blue all show long. So, you know, don't worry about it. I got you got, you got, you got the blue for you. I mean, you're in Lake Tahoe. It's a Sapphire Blue Lakes. And by the way, this is not Mike's first appearance. His first appearance was when he talked a lot of shit about the dual sense. The audience.

The experience was already in the Blind Forest Review. Comments not happy. Back in the old studio, that's crazy. People weren't hot on those PlayStation comments. I still don't know. Have you come around at all? No, no, I have not. How? How?

Blessing, let me just break it down for you. I don't want him to eat up too much this show. He's doubling down. Grab a hold of this Xbox elite controller. And Tim will tell you to. This is the best controller around. You can't tell me that if you grab this controller and you walk over and you grab that dual sense, that you think that this is even, you know, in the market, you know what I mean?

It's not that good. Does the elite controller have haptic feedback? I don't like the haptic feedback. Because, look, oh, dude, half the feedback changes the game, though. When you're running around an astrobot? Yeah. And you get the pitter patterns of the feet? Let me tell you.

It's different. In a game that you actually care about, MLB the show 21, where I can actually feel like when the ball like hits the glove of someone, and depending on where they are on screen, I can feel it in like the corners of the controller. Mike, it's pretty cool. Oh, do they have haptic feedback in baseball, Barrett, where you, because like I remember playing baseball in high school and stuff.

And sometimes a breaking ball might come a little too inside and you're hitting the baseball right like above your. hands as opposed to on the barrel of the bat and that shit hurts your hands yeah it does i don't know i would have to actually like play it like in the moment lazy lazy does if uh you feel that but uh when you get like throwing in stuff and fielding you you definitely feel it and notice it now i know i know little about baseball i know the basic rules but every now and then i know that the pitcher will sometimes throw the ball at the batter and that'll force that'll force a walk and i don't know when that happens but it happens every now and then

Do you feel that in the haptic feedback? Like, do you get the impact of the ocean? I haven't been beaned by a baseball yet. So, no, I don't know. Okay. Take one of the shoulder. Yeah, could the Elite Series 2 do that, Mike? I don't think so.

I'm going to take a lot of smack in the comments. People will be like, but it's a $200 controller, like this and that. I know. I know. Comments just way better. We're just talking shit. It's way better. Let us talk shit.

We're just having fun. Premium is shit, man. I love this thing. I love the versatility of it. I love being able to switch out the D-pad and all the and stuff depending on the game I'm playing. If it's a 2D platformer, I want I want this D-pad. If it's a fighting game,

I might want the one that's a little bit more of that, you know, the roly-poly-looking guy. It's just like, I like the options there. I think you're crazy for not loving the dual sense. The dual sense is fantastic and the closest the two console controllers have ever felt. But I will say that there's nothing

as premium as this thing. And I wish that there was a premium version of the dual set. You're talking about the elite control, specifically. The elite series too. Yeah. Yeah, bless. Because, bless, you're playing a New Souls game, Eldon Ring comes out, right? And I'm putting a date on it right now, August 24th, 2021. Oh, that's sooner than I thought.

Yeah, really exciting stuff. Really, really exciting stuff. So, Bless, you get Eldon Ring, right? You get that shit on PC, okay? Because you know what? You can't get that little back button controllers anymore. They're not for the Dual Sense 5. They're only on the old Dual Shock 4 or whatever.

So you get the lead controller. You play it on PC, and on the, you get back button. You set it to run and roll. You set it to run and roll. He said it's a run and roll. You're not having to take your right thumb off the camera stick. You have full control of your camera, and you're running and you're rolling, and you're juke it and jive in with your, with one little, I only use one bumper, by the way.

Just one is all I need. And right, and you're just, you're set for life, dude. You're set. That does sound nice. That does sound nice. I would use that if I was going to play it on PC, but I am going to play it on PlayStation 5 when it comes out. Damn. On your dual sense.

On my dual sense. With the happy feedback in the adaptive triggers, and the PlayStation button, in the touchpad. and the lights that light up. This thing is perfect. Yeah. Does the Xbox controller have a PlayStation button? I don't think so.

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Game Informer has a website you can go to called GameInformer.com slash 2021. All right. If you go there, it's just an up-to-date. list of release dates for video games coming to all different consoles all that stuff. And as far as it can tell, it has everything as up to days as humanly possible. Dang. It does his best. Cobra Kai in January, huh?

I go to this page every single week for PS I Love You because this is one of the sources I go to to gather all the new releases of the week for PlayStation. Every now and then, they miss out on certain things. And I think a lot of times things come out of left field. And so once you get to a week, there will be certain things that maybe got announced the week before.

But to their best effort, they do keep this thing updated. And it is an amazing list. So my thing is, if there's games that aren't here that we know we're supposed to be here, let's bring it to our attention. Let's try to look for them. Let's figure that out from there. But just letting the audience know, this is the list that we're working on as we're going through these games.

So what I want to do with this beautiful group of men right here is to go through game by game. And I want us to figure out how excited, how hyped we are for all of these different. games. Now, the rules that I came up with are simple. Let me know if you're not liking these. We're going to each answer two different questions about these games. Question one is ranking from one to four on how excited we are for these. One is not interested. Two is going to try. Three is going to beat and four is hyped. Do we understand all that? We don't need to use the numbers. You can say the numbers. You can say the words, whatever you want. But the rankings go. Not interested, going to try, going to be hyped.

And then the second question is, is it going to release this year? Now, we only need to talk about that if we don't think it's going to make it. But in the year of our Lord 2021, there is probably going to be a lot of video game delays. Am I right? You never know. You never know, Tim. You just never know. That's just the laws of nature.

So I want to start this off today, which is 420 as we record this. to try to see where we are at on this. MLB the show 2021 comes out today. I want to know who guys hype levels are, even though I know some of us have already been playing it. I'm at the not going to try. Yeah, I'm also not going to try. Like, I've never been the person to keep.

Well, actually, you know what? I'm going to roll that back a bit. I might try it out maybe once or twice since it's on Xbox GamePass. Game Pass, baby. Yeah. Yeah. we were having this conversation a couple days ago.

When I say a couple days ago, I mean literally yesterday on PSL Love You, that, you know, like I'm not a baseball person, right? I'm not the type of person to follow the releases for only the show specifically week to week, or not week to week, year to year. I played the last baseball game I played outside of like the arcade baseball games or Wii sports or some shit was probably an MLB game that came out in like 2002 on the PS2. And I've never really had the explicit desire to check out MLB the show. But AICOMON to Game Pass presents this ease of

oh, I can just try it out if I really wanted to and I have friends that are playing it right now. And so if I wanted to play a game with Barrett or Snowmike Mike or somebody, it's the easiest downloading it and trying it out. Boom, it's right there. Yeah, I might be number two on there. I'm number three on the list. I'm going to beat it.

Oh, yeah. Okay, I'm going to beat Major League Baseball. I've heard that the final boss is like the big cat, Andres Colorado, Mike. Oh, I love the big cat. El Gato Grande. Yeah, I don't know. Like, I know the final boss is like, I know difficulty really ramps up there.

No, for real, though, I'm going to try it out. I'm going to try it out. I love playing games with Mike and the Squids Squad. I definitely want to get in there. My enthusiasm for baseball has come back recently in the last two, three years since the Braves got better. But for like six years, the Braves are really terrible. And my love for baseball was like at an all-time high as a kid. Similar to kind of like, I'd say the WWE almost, being a gigantic WWF fan.

and then my enthusiasm just kind of went down when I turned like, I don't know, 16, 17, didn't really care much about baseball when the Braves were bad, and then I've recently started carrying since they were actually good now. So I'm back in. I want to create a little franchise mic, create a player. I know our friend Washburn, his creative player name is Bobby Bases. Love that. That's great.

Yeah, I want to, we'll see if I'm creating like a DH mic. Maybe I'm a little shortstop. that's what I'm used to playing shortstop in baseball. Yeah, baby. Well, I'm really glad that you brought this up, Tim, because this is a four for me. And this is something over on the kind of funny X-cast. You can catch live.

We did our first impressions and in the review so far of it as we had a little bit early access to it. But I'll tell you this right now. This is a four. It's a big deal for gamers all around the globe and for mainly Xbox players like myself, because this is the best major league baseball sports team that you can find on the market.

And in all honesty, this is probably the best sports simulation game you can find, right? FIFA, Madden, NBA, NHL, now MLB on all the platforms. This has crossplay day one on Xbox game pass and playable on the cloud. There's a lot of big factors going into this that gets a lot of momentum in my book. But for me, it's like, here comes baseball again for us over on the Xbox side. We just put up with years of RBI baseball and super mega baseball. And if you don't know those games, trust me, they suck. Okay, plain and simple.

So to have this on our side right now is a big deal. And I've played about 12 hours right now so far. And I am thinking about it. I'm daydreaming about it. And we've had the conversation on the kind of funny X-cast of like the MLB's job with this game was to get people interested in baseball again. Baseball is America's past time. Now kind of getting passed up by the NBA and by football, of course. but their goal is to try to get people back into it.

And I have to say, after spending so much time with this game, I've actually sat down and watched four Major League Baseball games over the course of the week, and it's mind-blowing. It's like wild. We're like, I sat down and I wanted to watch. I was engaged with the game. I was excited about it, and it's doing its job. And I mean, all the features, right?

You have Diamond Dynasty, which is the card pack game. You have Road to the Show. You now have a baseball diamond editor where you can build your own stadium. There's so many factors I go on and on. Go check out the Xcast. But this is a four. And anybody listening out there, I implore you just to give it a try.

If you're on Xbox, it's on Game Pass. If you're on PlayStation, you're going to have to have a conversation, money-wise, if this is into you. But this is a must-play sports sim right here. Hands down, this will be game of the year in the sports catalog. I promise you right now.

I'm going to put that bet down. While you're talking about that, Mike, I know you got to have X-Cast coming up later this week. Do any of you guys have access to the, the Xbox cloud stuff that came out today, the iOS stuff. As of right now, as of recording, myself, Paris, and Gary have not been invited on Tuesday, April 20. So we'll see if we get access into that right now.

But I have not been invited to that yet. That's exciting stuff. Let me call up. Yeah. Uncle Phil, baby. Moving on. Next up. So the other option is going to be games where we're all just like,

we don't even know. So Alps Lear, Mysterious Trilogy, Deluxe Pack. Move on. Move it on. Buildings have feelings too. We were just talking about that game yesterday. That game looks really cool. It's not what I'm going to try out,

but it's one that if you're interested in building sims and you're interested in weird, quirky concepts, the whole thing about this game is that the buildings in your building some walk around and talk to each other and have feelings. And so like check out the trailer if that interests you. It's a really cool, really funny trailer. But that's one I'm not going to check out.

The next time we got Immortals Phoenix Rising, the Lost Gods deal. see coming to every console known to man, it looks like, on April 22nd. Any of you guys thinking about getting back into Immortals Phoenix Rising for this? No. Never tried it out. No. And it's weird because I, you know, I brought it up in other conversations that we've had.

And I know Barrett's very mild on it. I know several of us kind of on this call are pretty and lukewarm on it. But there's some people that just swear by it and say it's just like an amazing. game and I don't fully know what the, like, whether this would actually be a game for me. I know a lot of people are like, dude, it's like a breath of the wild light, obviously, in HD and it looks phenomenal and it's super fun. I don't know. I feel like I owe it to myself to try it out, but there's just way other, there's many other things

I'd rather play. So moving on a little bit from there, we got one near Replicant version 1.22474487-139. Elypsis. Do any of you guys have interest in this? Oh, yeah, I'm going to beat this one. Oh, yeah? Oh, shit. So we're going number three for blessing.

What about you? This is three or four for me as well. This is either going to beat it or hyped. I was a big fan of near Automata. I've been talking to them before how I've been really wanting to play and replay Altamata on PC since the PS4 version just doesn't look that great. And I believe they put out a tweet, an official tweet recently saying, we are finally going to patch the Steam version,

which has been pretty broken for the last several years since the game came out. And mods were made for it several years ago in order to make it more playable and for it to look better. But I'm happy they're actually going to go back and finally patch it out. The gameplay is incredible. Did you ever play Autonomica, Tim? yeah I beat it only once though got it yeah okay um yeah I did uh I did a a full play through and then I got halfway through the second one

but I didn't I didn't want to commit the time to it blessed because my thing was damn it took me 20 hours for one play through and I want to have to put another 20 hour in and then everybody's like no Andy the second one's like six and the third one's like four and yeah that's the thing that's the bummer to do that for sure that's the thing that's the bummer about near automata is the game frames its systems is having multiple endings, right, where you finish the game, you play it again so you can get more content out of it, and then you continue to play multiple

endings. But really, the other endings are basically sequels to the original ending. Like, once you get past the second one, you are playing entirely different content from there on, but the game doesn't really communicate that. And so people get to that first ending and then drop off because when you start it again, you basically start off from the same beginning that you had when you first started the game. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of when Pixar makes like the Lion King 1.5 and shows you what Timoan and Pumber were doing the whole time.

Yeah. That's the big extra playthrues. That's the thing I loved about it though. It's like even, even though for that ending B, you are doing a lot of the same content, you are getting it from an entirely different perspective in ways to where you get to certain scenes and you're like, oh shit, I didn't realize that this thing was going on over here while this thing is going on over here. Like, near automata TV is dope is because it's a story and a game. that can only be done with it as a video game.

You can't do that as a movie or any other form of media really because you really need to be in the shoes of these characters getting these different perspectives. And near Replicant, right, for those who may not be aware, it's basically a prequel to Neurotomta, but it is a remake of one of the games that came prior. And so like around a decade ago, near Replicant and Near Gestalt came out. And Near Justalt came out in the West where Near Replicant, I believe, came out. not only in Japan. And both of them are precursor to Neartotamata and Near Repliquant.

This new one is a remake slash remaster of the old game that basically, I believe it has the same story and same content, but then has some reworked gameplay and stuff for this new version. And I'm super happy to try it out. Yeah, I love the combat style. Fighting enemies in that game is so fun. It reminds me a lot of whenever we see a lot of those, the massive screens of orbs coming at the player reminds you of kind of what

Returnal looks like it's going to be coming up soon but yeah the gameplay is just so fast and flashy and I'm super stoked to try it out on PC with like the unlocked frame rate and just see how smooth and gorgeous it looks I'm super stoked for it so three or four I put 3.8 for me Tim I'm really excited

for Replican because I want to play through it and then finally play Automata I've never played before and hell yeah hell yeah Andy moving on to that actually April 30th we got Returnal where we are with this I put this one at the at the two they're gonna try i'm interested how smart games always fantastic uh but there's something about they've never hooked me like it never gets me playing past two three hours max and returnal

seems to be one that like has a little bit more meat on the bone when it comes to to you know gameplay that's not just the arcade style that they're known so much for uh but yeah pretty pretty interested in it yeah i would put this in the three or four category for me i you know early on The main thing I'm worried about is the, the scariness of it, man. People are saying it's like legitimately a scary game with like weird, twisted type shit. But the gameplay just looks right up my alley. It's running and gunning and it's dashing and shooting. And you are avoiding the very obvious enemy attacks.

It's basically like one of their top down, any other other top down shooters, but in a more 3D form. And it's supposed to be, you know, there's sort of next-gen offering. visually the lighting looks fucking phenomenal and yeah I think the gameplay looks absolutely just a blast you know I can't what you try to

Dash and Perry yeah dude Dash and Perry dog This is one that is the closer we get to it the more I move up towards a four to where I'm like oh yeah it's housemark Oh yeah this is a big PlayStation game That's about to release and It is a this third person

Roguelight that Housemark is making Which is very different for them Especially for it being a $70 game And for me that comes with certain expectations and whether or not they hit it being a, hey, this is a $70 full experience or whether or not it's just an amazing housemark game. I think either way, if either

of those are the case, I'm still going to be happy with it. And yeah, from what we've seen from the trailers, the gameplay looks fun. I'm totally down that bullet-held style because, like Andy said, that is kind of reminiscent of Neeratomeda, and that's one of the things I loved most about near automata was the bullet-held gameplay whenever that stuff would come up.

And so if that's present in returnal, if that's mainly all the gameplay returnal, then I'm totally down for that. and then yeah like in terms of being a rogue light there are lately I've been getting more and more into uh rogue lights when I say late I guess over the course of the last generation because it started with rogue legacy for me

and then moved on with dead cells and then Hades and I'm if you put a rogue light in the description of a game I'm down to at the very least try it out because when those hit for me they really hit and so I'm hoping that returnal ends up being that and also I just think the difficulty of it makes me excited it seems like I'm going to you're going to die quite a bit in this game

and like, all right, what do I need to fix next time? Because I had that a lot recently playing outriders, like finally beating it and playing through solo the whole way and trying to sort of re-examine what your prior strategy was against that first boss and how can I fix that and make it better next time. I just, I love that type of engaging game playing. And there's a dash mechanic.

That dash, of course, dashing. Dash mechanic, man. Mike, where you at? I'm out of 2.5 for me. I'm really excited. This is something that gets me eager to go turn on the PlayStation, right? And I love the look. I love Housemark and the name behind it, right?

And Andy and Blessing have done so well talking about the gameplay. And that's what gets me super excited. That's why I'm at a 2.5 is if this gameplay does hook me, I think where we are right now with the game releases and what's around it, this is the type of thing that I need right now. I want that single player game. I want something that challenges me that captures my attention. And so I think Returnal could do that for me.

me. So I'll give it a two for sure. 2.5 possibly to 3. If it captures me, I could return to the PS5, which I'm excited about. I'm right there with you, actually. I would say 2.5, where it's just like, I'm not sure I'm going to beat it, but I know I'm going to try it, but I'm expecting to like it. So that would push me closer to that three.

Moving on from here, we got new Pokemon snap coming out on April 30th. Blessing, where you at? God, I mean, I might be at a 1 for this one. Like, I love Pokemon. And I love N64 games, and so I should have loved Pokemon Snap back in the day. But that was one that I played at a friend's house. And I was like, all right, I get it. I'm going to go back home and play Pokemon Stadium, like an adult.

And so this one doesn't necessarily capture me. But I'm like, I'm excited. This one is one where I'm like, I'm more excited for other people to play it than I am to actually try it out myself. This is a four for me. I'm really excited. I'll jump in. This is my childhood right here. right? Like Blessing brought up Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Snap were like two big games for me on

the N64 that were really important to me in my childhood. And right now I'm going through the Pokemon craze just like the whole entire planet Earth is, right? I'm getting Pokemon cards. I'm opening them up. I want more Pokemon content in my life. And to see this and what is going to happen, right, the different ideas of day and night cycles, the chance to throw out these glowing orbs that will make the Pokemon change color that you're seeing up on the screen here in a moment. And on top of that, the social aspect, right? To be able to see other people's photos get inspired by them or be challenged to get a better shot than them, I think it's really going to capture my attention.

And for me, this is a big deal right now on the Nintendo Switch side. This is what I need to get back over to that and turn it on and get excited. So I can't wait for this. I'm so excited. Dude, yeah. I mean, this is a four. social media is going to be popping the hell off with this, dude. Especially because it is a new game and we are discovering stuff all at the same time.

And you're going to see people figuring out shit. They're like, oh my God, I didn't know there was a goddamn Kanga's gone back there. Well, who would have thought, Tim, who would have thought? Who the hell would have thought? Yeah, but my childhood, this is my childhood as well. This is me going to my aunt's house in Austin who had a 64 and Pokemon Stadium was there. But for me, it was like, ah, it's just the 3D version. version of the Game Boy game, I wanted this to be more than that.

So Pokemon Save never did it for me, but this was a different form of Pokemon and a different way to sort of be engaged with the franchise. And it was so creative. And it was bizarre as hell at first. And it's like, God, I got so addicted to it. And yeah, I can't believe it's already here, dude. I would have just assumed this was way later in the year. I don't know why.

I'm with you guys in the sense that this is definitely my childhood. All Pokemon games were. but Pokemon Snap was key because they had at Blockbuster, you can take your game cartridge and plug it into this machine and then print out the pictures you took a Pokemon and make them stickers. And that was like the coolest thing. It felt so kind of like immersive and like like such. Yeah, look at these pictures I took of this freaking Seiduck or whatever.

And it was like, yeah, such a unique game of like kind of taking a Disneyland ride idea of you're in this car. You're just kind of going. but you're just enjoying the places around you and taking pictures. And Andy, I think you really hit something key here, which is it was that thing of like, oh, I heard you can get a picture of you.

I heard if you do this, Pikachu comes out on a surfboard. Like getting that type of like, you know, playgrounds conversation about the secrets of this game of how to actually get the freaking Pokemon to turn around and look at you. Like that's going to be the fun. But my question is,

is there a place for this game in 2021? And that's what I'm a little bit more worried about. I, the, the first game, when you really look at it critically, it's content light. And it is also not that fantastic of a video game itself. It's kind of slow. It's very clunky. And what does that look like in 2021?

And that's the big question I have that I'm hoping that they have kind of looked at it and found enough things, enough like hooks to put in it that aren't just, it's the first game again with new Pokemon, but it's the exact same thing. And we see instances in the trailers of some gameplay mechanics, the glowing. and all that stuff where I'm like, alright, maybe something's here. But I'm going to put this at a three for me. Definitely going to beat it.

But I can't say I'm necessarily hyped out of my mind because the first game, well, nostalgic, for me, not necessarily the best game ever. And where you guys talk to more, I'm like, man, I might actually be closer to it too, actually. Because I know the social aspect

is a good thing to point out of people are going to be talking about this thing on Twitter. Just admit it, bless. You want to play this fucking game. Wait, what was that right? You just want to fucking play this game, bless. Just fucking admit it, bro. I'll try it out.

It's just snap specific. Don't even be like, oh, I'll try it. No, you want to fucking play this game, plus let's go. The thing is there are too many games. Like, we just talked about Returnal and Near Replicate. And from my side, I'm talking about time. Like, I'm like, dude, I know I'm going to have other games to play. I'm still playing Disco Elysium.

Like, am I really going to have the time for Pokemon Snap? But, yeah, like, to you guys' point, right? Like, people are going to be tweeting out screenshots. We're going to be doing all that stuff. And I'm going to see that. And I'm going to go, fuck, yeah, I do like Pokemon, don't I? Oh, yeah, I do. of a Bulbalsore, and I'm going to want to pick up

the game for that. Yeah, totally. I can't wait. Just a couple weeks away from seeing all these fun pictures. I want to see a Pichu hanging out with some other Pokemon. What's he up to? Next up, we got a couple games. Our type final two, Terminator Resistance enhanced, Total War. Total War,

Rome remastered. I don't think any of those are for us, correct? No. So then moving on into May then, Resident Evil Village, the big one. PS5, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, for Xbox 1 PC, May 7th. I'm gonna start this off.

This for me is at that three. This is at the gonna beat for sure. I'm not necessarily hyped out of my mind for it. Like I've said before, Resident Evil 7, not my favorite of these games and the first person, while makes it a little scarier,

not necessarily my favorite from a gameplay perspective. I prefer the third person behind the back type stuff. But I'm loving the atmosphere of this. The demos have been fantastic. I love all the tall lady stuff and like what we're looking at here of like the hord's kind of jumping around quickly coming at you seems different enough from everything we've had before in Resident Evil and I'm

like man they they definitely are putting a lot of care into this and at the end of the day I'm going to play anything made in the RE engine because it is so beautiful and just such a joy to look at third person first person doesn't even matter this is a four for me this is like a get hype moment a because it's on my birthday but also like you'll notice I'm saying fours a lot look at what's around this right there's not much going on depending on like if you're blessing right you have a couple of selections there but we are pretty quiet early into the year and right now another resident evil game is killer at this time and I'm actually opposite of you um tim I like the first person ones right I was a big fan of resident

evil seven of that first person action adventure type vibe that they were going with and I'm excited as can be about this I can't wait for it to drop and play through this and try it again like this is what I need a little spook fest on my birthday is going to be a big deal here. Yeah, for me, for me, within the last month, I've probably gone from probably a one to a 2.5, where trying out Resident Evil 7 and kind of getting more of an understanding of what exactly that game is and how fun it actually is to play, makes me excited to, one, play through the rest of that game, but then also eventually coming around to Resonie Evil Village. Like, it's not one that I necessarily plan to beat by launch. Like, I'm not that hype for it, but I am,

it's one that I know that, like, I'm sure it's going to come out and have good reviews and have people get super excited about it and play it and all that stuff. And somewhere after that, I think after I get done Resoniable 7, I'll want to make my way towards it. Because again, like, I'm enjoying this game so much, 7 that I can see myself wanting more of that hit. This is at minimum of number two for me because we promised that we would play it on Twitch.com. Slash kind of funny games. If it gets delayed for three years, totally fine by me, right? Like, I'll be long gone by then, Mike.

You know what I'm saying? I'm fucking out of the company. But Andy, though, like, if you didn't have to play for stream and all that stuff, has playing seven gotten you to that point just inherently to the Gunna Trial level? No, no. I don't enjoy having the feeling of fear and anxiety and horror. Like, I don't, there were several moments during our playthrough, which you can find right now on YouTube.com slash kind of funny plays where me and Blesser,

well, Bless is playing through it and we're while watching along. several moments of like, you like this stuff. Like this is something you all enjoy doing. It's what's wrong with these people? Feeling fucking horrible and awful. And I just don't get the feeling of thrill of like, oh, that scared the shit out of me. Hell yeah. To me, it's like, this fucking sucks, dude.

I feel like shit. But, I mean, we had a lot of fun with it. I think it's definitely a lot more fun in the way that we're doing it as opposed to if I were to fire it up here in my room alone. Like, I would get to a. a safe room and be like, all right, I'm fucking, we had that moment several times playing Resident Evil 7 where we hit, we would like, bless would do

something incredibly stressful, we would hit a safe room and I'd be like, this is where I would put the game down. Like if I was just playing alone, like, all right, that was stressful. That was a lot, like my body, I want to vomit. Let's just put this game down for a bit and we'll come back later. Yeah, I, and now that gives me ideas of like sneaking into Andy's room and like just leaving Lulu in there for him to I'll bless. I fuck, or bear it, I locked the door when Kevin was telling me to turn off the lights.

But yeah, look, in all honesty, I totally see why everybody's so, you know, jazz about this game. It's beautiful. It's designed really well. A tall lady. If you carry, yeah, tall lady, her daughter's like, I'm into the daughter's like, what up. Yeah, good Lord. I totally understand the hype for it. It is obviously a fucking good ass game. And Seven is a good ass game as well. I just, it's just not for me, man.

It's just not for me. On top of that, the first real major release this year coming, especially multi-platform that we're talking about, right? Like, correct me if I'm wrong there, but like this is a big deal. Yeah, big deal. Hit me a very big. Hey, Man, let's blessing. Make sure at the end of the year, nobody forgets about him, man.

Oh, I will not. It's going to be bad. I will make sure. That and it takes two. Don't forget about it takes too. Those will come up in my game of your discussions, for sure. Oh, yeah. People are going to forget those.

Moving on, we got Hood Outlaws and Legends. You know what? I'm going to have that at a number two. Every time I see gameplay that game, I'm like, that looks kind of fun, yeah. Yeah, I don't know if there's a beat per se because it's a PVP versus PVE type situation. It's going to be two teams taking on a heist and they must break into different castle settings. They got to steal a key, then get the treasure and get out of there. So I don't know if it's a three for me, but it's definitely a two, as many.

any of you guys and all the listeners know it's like, I'm big into multiplayer games and I'm always looking for that next game. Me and my friends can explore, try together and have fun with for a weekend or two or maybe more. And Hood is landing on a good spot where like, we're getting burnt out on all the multiplayer games we have right now and we're on the search for the next big thing, the next thing that could hold us off.

And Hood is going to land right in that time where I need it the most to get my friends playing something new. And it's kind of exciting, kind of different, right? medieval dark medieval fantasy where there's four different classes it's four v four two teams sneaking into a castle like i like the heist idea of this and you know if you've played a hunt showdown i think you're going to be into this and vice versa like if you haven't played hunt and you've been interested in it now's the time to check this out when it comes out because this will be fun but price tag will matter to me as well bless me of like how much is this is this

$40 is it 60 because it's tough for me to convince everybody to buy it if it's $60 plus and really have that conversation. When did we see this? We don't know. We saw this at Game Awards, was it? Game Awards. Was it game awards? Okay.

Yeah, I knew it was at one of like the, it felt like this was at also one of the summer game fest things when we had a billion streams over the course of last year. But this is one that I think could hit in maybe that Outriter Z, Predator Hunting Ground Z, sort of like, hey, there's not much else to play right now. Good for a week and a half. And so we can play this for like a couple days. play this for a couple streams and have fun with it.

I think it's definitely going to be that type of game for us. The other thing, like the one thing that's coming out around it is going to be Resident Evil 8, a Resident Evil Village. But I think for the people that aren't going to be playing that, or the people that are like, cool, I want to play something that's multiplayer alongside this. I could easily see Hood Outlaws and Legends holding that down. I mean, it looks gorgeous.

This looks like the next jet. Watching this trailer, the lighting and everything looks very much like, oh, this is kind of the lighting of this newer, Gen that we're all playing right now. It looks really damn good. Then next time we got Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Wrath of the Druids DLC. Anyone interested

in picking this up, Barrett included? Yeah, I'm interested. This is like a 2.5 for me, just because I really like Fahala. Go watch Assassin's Creed in review to see where I would rank Assassin's Creed Valhalla amongst the other Assassin's Creed games. But yeah, I really enjoyed my time

with Fahala. I really like that gameplay. I've only picked it up like once or twice since I beat it back in like November or December. And I've been kind of like looking for an excuse to play it again. So I definitely want to at least like start this up and see if it pulls me back into that world. Next to we got Monster Harvest before we leave. Are those familiar? Then we got the two Famicom Detective Club games, the girl who stands behind in the missing air.

Bless, I feel like if anyone, that would be you giving it a shot. That is Imran Khan and Jared Petty and all over. Ambron Khan has this on his fantasy critic for Gamescast. I don't know the last time you checked it, but he grabbed both of those. I love him.

God bless him. Okay. Andy, here we go. Mass Effect, legendary edition. Where are you at? One sec. I don't think he's ever played this game. I don't think he's ever played this game.

Yes. We're excited, baby. Oh my God, Tim. I can't wait. It's so loud in here. talk. I can't even hear you all talking actually because the headphone came out. Okay, I can hear you all now. Oh, so

you are out of four. Are you planning to play through all of them? Is there a chance of platonoming this or whatever on your system of choice there? No, not a platinum. How do I sound by the way? So far. You sound good. You sounded enough for a dude and a Yeah, yes, exactly.

Um, I mean, I won't be platinuming it or whatever, but I will absolutely be playing through all three. You have to. Yeah. You have to. How long does it take to play through all three? I mean, if you do like really, really big runs of all of them, like not full completionist runs, but, you know, enough where you're doing a lot of side quests and the side quests are all very, very damn good,

and you are getting great character development. I'd say all three would be about 90 hours. Because you're looking at around 30 probably per game is what I would say. And you could definitely do more if you wanted. But yeah, you kind of have to, man, because this trilogy is the best gaming trilogy of all time, in my opinion. The way every, like, when people talk about decisions not mattering in games, like, they matter here. If you kill somebody in part one, they're not going to be in part two. If you let somebody live in part two, you'll see them in part three.

And if you killed them, you won't get that whole quest line that they have to offer, you know? So, like, this game is just so, I think just so ahead of its time in how it was made. And I think it's just a masterpiece in character development. And every character feels so ridiculously fleshed out. And I'm excited about the gameplay updates to Mass Effect 1. I just could not be more excited about this and see it running at a really, really high resolution with good frame rates. And, yeah, I'm so stoked to see how they reimagine a lot of it. Are you worried at all about it not living up to your memories of it?

Specifically, game one. No, not at all. Not at all. I know for a fact that these games are so fucking good and so well written. And that's what a lot of it is. You know, I think, you know, mission gameplay can age badly. Gameplay in general can age badly. But, like, writing and good development, I think.

like it stands the test of time and this game has that in spades. The trilogy has that in spades. Is there anything that you would expect, I don't know how to the best phrase this question, but is there any possibilities that these games is a remaster, right? Not just the games themselves and like you're feeling towards the games, but as remasters might disappoint in some way, shape, or form? I mean, I think you'll probably get the whole

mass effect three discourse. once again. I think we'll probably see that. Everyone's favorite. But like, you know, again, Mass Effect 3, I didn't love the ending, but goddamn the... And it's not that I even hated the ending. I just think it's all so fucking good throughout that, like, I, as a somewhat rational consumer,

can be like, yeah, it's hard to fucking put an end cap on a franchise like this, but God damn if Mass Effect 3 from start to end is like the masterpiece. I think they're all just... You look at the meta-critics of all three, and they're all like 90-3s and above. It's fucking wild. Yeah. Mike, I'm going to let you off the bench. You started this off, throwing up that four.

It's a big deal here. This is like Andy just said, this is one of the greatest gaming sagas that we've ever lived through. And it's a big deal to see it poured it up and to have gamers, no matter what your age is, your generation of gaming. If you've seen this before and played it, if you've never seen this, this is a big deal for this to come out and for everybody to have the opportunity. and I can't wait to relive it, right? I was one of those crazy gibronies that played a lot of mass effect multiplayer.

Like me and my buddies were playing a lot of mass effect multiplayer. Good, bad, ugly, whatever you saw. And I. You know I'm a weirdo if I was playing that. So I'm pretty excited to play these again, especially because I remember one, I watched college freshman year. I watched the kid play through it in the dorm. Then I played two and three.

So like now to have this back with the up res, like Andy said, in my possession, to play through again. I can't wait. This is a big, big deal. And like to hear Blessing who has never played this and like him have an opportunity, oh, it makes my heart bump out of my chest because this is a big, big deal, especially as well, if you're watching The Expans, come on. You're going to get really excited right now. Before Blessing goes, I know that Blessing recently sort of dove into Fall Out New Vegas for the first time. And if you're playing a game that's 10 to 15 years old, you will always sort of experience the, oh, this game looks kind of rough, you know. And I think you will still experience that.

There will be characters that don't look great. There will be modeling that, you know, maybe their mouth looks weird or it's, they're forming weird around certain animations or whatever. But that's just kind of like me pre-warning blessed, because it's not going to look like Demon Souls remake. Again, this is not a full remake. This is a let's soup up the older trilogy in as many ways as possible

and adding new lighting and upraising all the textures. And also making the huge for me is like, making re-rendering the cutscenes in 4k with like all the new i think they use like a bunch of different a i programs to up res everything and that's awesome because i hate playing a game that's kind of been remade and you go to a cutscene it looks like it's 480p and it looks like blurry and garbage i'm super stoked for how much work went into this trilogy plus yeah like i i i flow anywhere from between a 2.5 to a 4 for this one i'm super i'm super i'm super excited and super hyped to try it out.

Because Mass Effect for me has been a series that has always kind of escaped me. Like back in the day, like I remember having a PS3 and hearing about Mass Effect and wanting to try it out, but I was always like, well, Mass Effect One isn't on PS3 because it was an Xbox exclusive. It came to PS3 later, but at the time I was like,

well, should I start with MassFect 2? And by the time I finally came around to it, I bought MassFect 2, and then my PS3 got the yellow light of death. And it was always that thing where I'm like, dude, I love Bethesd RPG so much. I love fallout so much. And I'm sure that Mass Effect would be one that I'd be really into, especially now having played Outer Worlds and knowing that,

knowing how much Outer Worlds feels like this fun middle ground between a Bethes R-Pg and a Mass Effect game. And so I'm looking forward. I think Mass Effect is one of those games that I'll have everything I'm looking for out out of that type of game. And it's also one of those ones where I'm like, hey man, you never know. I might jump into it, get 15 hours. and be like, all right, cool, I get it and bounce out.

I don't necessarily expect that to happen, but it's one of those things where there's so many there's so many games coming out and you never know, but I always try to keep that in the back of my head of like, I don't got to force myself to play this game, but it's one that I'm excited to try out. And so yeah, like I'm excited to try it out. What's up, Andy?

One of, one of outer world strengths, I thought, was just how great the side characters were and how much you wanted them in your party, right? And you wanted to be around them. Ah, Power Vody, my girl. But the cool thing about Mass Effect is it really reminds me of going the fashion Souls route in Dark Souls games or in Outriders, you're like, God, this super powerful vest is, it looks like shit.

And I could use it and be more powerful, but I'd rather look dope. And a lot of that, you're going to experience a lot of that in Mass Effect where you're like, well, this character is up, you know, has higher skills, this, you know, partner that I could bring with me on these missions. they are more powerful. But, like, these are my homies. These two people are my homies. And we've been building a bond. And, like, we've been getting to know each other. And I'm trying to bang Leara.

Like, I want to bang this blue alien. I fucking love this woman. And it's just, like, you start to forge these relationships with these fucking computer characters. And it's absolutely just mind-blowing how good they are. That's one of the things I love the most about RPGs is being able to forge those relationships between characters. Like that was one of the things I love about Outer Worlds. I'm playing Disco Elysium right now. And that's the thing I love about it is right now I have my partner, Kim Kitsurugi, right?

Who's your partner throughout the game. And as I'm going through this journey in Disco Elysium, I feel like my relationship with Kim is growing and it's becoming something that feels deep and it's something that I care about as much as I even care about the main story. I'm sure Mass Effect has that a lot because that's the thing I hear about Maths fact all the time is, oh yeah, like the companion missions, all like the way that you can build these relationship with your characters, you can bang aliens. Like whenever I hear this stuff, I'm like, dude, that's, that sounds like something I want to do, you know, including the part about banging my alien companion. Like, that all sounds really awesome and really fun. And so again, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Just don't, don't be, don't be, don't be, don't be, don't be, don't be, don't be a little horny boy, though, Blass. Don't you can't be banging everybody, all. You got to pick one and maybe, maybe experiment with Jack, maybe, like, Miranda, maybe Garris, but like, you know, we can't get too horny. I, man, you got to be loyal. My view of Mike is always tarness week by week of him just, like, suddenly being like bang them all. But also, like, blessingly.

I'm begging them all. Did you try to romance everybody in persona? Because I feel like that's the kind of movie you would do it. In persona for Golden, yes. And I receive. Well, not even everybody. Only three people. But still, like, I got, I received the consequences that I deserved.

It's a persona five. I didn't do that. In Mass Effect, I very likely will not do that. But the one thing that makes me nervous about my play through in Mass Effect is how long it is. Because it is all three games. And it is that thing again of like time, time is limited. And it took me what? For Persona 5,

Royal. It took me like five months to get through it because I was planning it and did some pieces until I got to like August and I was like, I'm just going to marathon this thing through. Mass Effect gives me that worry a bit, but it could also be that thing where I just play Mass Effect 1 to start off and then take a long break and then come back to two. Like having a legendary edition, I think gives that nice option where I can just play it throughout the course of let's say the next year or next couple years and take it slow and have fun with it that way. Before we keep going, let me tell you about our sponsors.

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a try back in the day on xbox 360 and i didn't vibe with me that there was like the rover stuff and like I was just like this just feels like it's wasting my time to make go that I don't like and then I remember playing a bit more of two on PS3 and I was way more in I was like okay I get these characters I'm like this lot more but it's just it's not my type of game like that's just that's just that's just where that lies and that's okay totally fine but I'm very excited that the remaster's actually happening I'm stoked that it's coming out on all the consoles and that everyone that wants to play it for the first time like bless gets to and everyone like Andy and Mike can return for the for the who knows what time.

But days gone. Coming to PC. Anyone willing to give that a shot? Potentially Andy? Possibly. Just to, I mean, like many of the other PlayStation releases, I wanted to see how Death Stranding looked. I wanted to see how Horizon Zero Dawn looked.

And I will likely try out and see what Days Gone looks and how it performs. More of just curiosity. Will I play it for more than an hour? Probably not. It likely will just be a hop-in thing I think that's fortunately that's a benefit of working with

kind of funny is that we get the games for free but if I was not getting the game for free I would not buy it. Anyone else? No, don't need to go back. Moving on, I do want to give a shout out to Ariel Knights Never Yield which we saw recently in that Nintendo Indy World thing. It's out now on Steam so you can already try it out. But this is definitely, pretty sure, right?

That's a two for me. I would definitely try it out. Yeah, it's definitely a two. for me. It looks real cool. And I just, I just want to play it on a console. It seems like fun. And there are too many games that I'm, I'm interested in coming out soon. So it's like that seems like a good thing. Yeah, that's a two for me also. I'm really excited to try it out. Moving on, we got some other things. We got Rune Factory 5, Knockout City. What's up with that, Mike? Go for it. Oh, Knockout City is going to be a really good multiplayer game.

It's just going to be a good one. It's family friendly. It's Dodgeball. It's 3V3 or 4V4 Dodgeball. quick, easy action, something to take a break with your friends on. I have seen it behind closed doors. It's now had about three different betas the public could take place on. And I will say all of my friends have really enjoyed this. It's going to have full crossplay day one. It will have private lobbies so you can play up to with six friends or eight friends in your own group if you don't want to play against other people.

And I was actually really impressed by the gameplay. It's tight. It's fast. It's a fun time. And it's something that should be on people's radar. if you're looking for that multiplayer fix. It's a good time. Mike, do you know how much money this is?

This is going to be $20. Oh, really? $20. $20. This is another one that I put in that camp of maybe being like an Outriders or like a predator hunting grounds where people flock to it because we're looking for a multiplayer game at the time. And it becomes the talk of that week.

I was watching Golden Boy, Alex Mendez, play this on his stream. And he was just all in. He was like, dude, this game is awesome. It not only is it full crossplay across a board, but it's just fun as hell, and it runs great. And yeah, it was like one of the more problem-free launches. You know, whenever there's a game releasing with a beta, there's, you can always expect some sort of issues, you know, getting into a party and inviting your friends. But he seemed really, really high on it. I will definitely be trying it out.

I think it could be a great thing to try out on our weekday streams, try it out for a couple hours. 100%. I'm super in. I will definitely try it out, whether during the day or at night or whatever. I'm a strong too. Yeah, this gets a two for me as well. Yeah. Keep an eye on that.

I do want to roll back really quick, Tim. You skipped over one that was important to me, and that's subnotica below zero. That's something I just want to make sure it's on everybody's map. That is elevating subnotica. Now you can go outside and be in the frozen tundra, actually taking it from below the water up above onto the frozen ice. And it looks really cool. I'm excited about it.

if you guys haven't played Subnotica, now that's a good little 420 games since we're recording this on 422. Zone out, relax, to swim in these beautiful settings. I mean, don't relax too much. That's a scary game, but, but, a little caveat, it does get a little spooky after a certain time where some big killer C life tries to kill you.

But this is a fun crafting exploration, zone out and enjoy the setting type games. And I'm really excited to see what this team does in a frozen setting and above ground. right? You're not in the water. You're in the water, but you actually can go above and run around. So this is going to be fun to see what they do. I'm really, really excited about this.

Yeah, I need to definitely give it another shot. I think I tried it out when the game was first released on Xbox. It was a beta on Xbox 1. On 1X. And it was really buggy and did

not run great, and I had a lot of issues with it. But on top of that, I think I sort of set the difficulty bar a little too high and put all the survival settings at the highest thing. So you constantly need to be eating. You constantly, and I think that I think whenever I play survival games with really strict rules, it just immediately turns me off. And I say, I don't want to play this anymore.

So I think I definitely need to tone down those difficulty settings because it gives you those options. They could say, hey, you don't need to eat in this level, in this mode or whatever. In this mode, you need to worry about your oxygen levels, blah, blah, blah. but I definitely want to give it another shot because it's really interesting and everybody who seems to play it seems to really dig it.

So moving on, we got Meatopia coming to Switch. Anyone interested in that? Ring out Mitomo. What about Biomuton? Finally, man? Is this real? May 25th.

That's what it's saying, man. That's what it's saying. Oh, let's go. This is like one of those games that I'd bust out the five of like, I don't believe that. You know what I mean? It's just like I played this back at E3, 2019.

We were hyped about this for years. Like, it almost doesn't feel real now. But from what I played, I'm really, really excited about this. And the character customization was really cool of how you could create your character. And the gameplay was fun, right? It was like that hack and slash combo type game. And I'm interested in the world and the settings, but like it just doesn't feel real now. It just doesn't feel real.

I'm giving it a two. And just looking at it here, it looks like it got. this release date at the end of January. So that's a good sign. And beyond that, beyond that, March 25th, it got a new trailer that had this date

at the end of it. So seeming, like they were really silent about this game forever. Like I remember when they announced this at Gamescom. I was working that Gamescom back in like, I think that was 2018, or maybe even the year before 2017.

And it just feels like we had not heard anything significant since then. And like the fact that like this year, they're like, all right, this is our date. Like, it feels, they feel confident in it. So it feels. It's definitely like a two and a half for me, I would say. You know, I think it's, it's one that I will absolutely 1,000% be trying out. And it could hook me and I could say shit.

I do want to fully play through this game. It looks fun. It looks gorgeous. Yeah, I definitely will be giving it a shot. I mean, I'm in the same boat as Andy where I'm super hyped to try it out. And then I'm also kind of with Mike, too, where I'm like, I don't believe it. I'm not going to believe it until I see it. well here's the thing i mean we we just made it through uh you know a month and a half there or whatever

and we didn't bring up at all that is this going to release this year is this the first game that we're we're actually worried about getting delayed so far i think so i feel confident i feel confident in mass effect oh yeah when we look at everything behind us yeah this is it's just it feels like that fabled game it just doesn't feel real and now that you put a date next to it's like oh man i i guess this was off my radar for so long i didn't even think it was coming out this year, let alone in May. So that's glass guardians coming out? Shit. Yeah.

That's where I might see. I think it's going to hit the date, but it just doesn't feel right when you put a date on this one. It's been around for so long. I could see it getting delayed again. I don't think it gets delayed out of this year, though. I think it's still 2021. I agree. So then moving on to close out

May here. Anyone interested in Shinemagami Tensei 3 remaster? Purely just because it's coming to switch, and I'm in middle of my persona bullshit right now back on my bullshit so uh persona is like an offshoot of shimegame tense and uh five seems to be maybe around the corner a new release on switch so i want to just like have that experience on switch like on the go i think that'll be fun we'll see like how that like holds up uh in the remaster though and see if it it sticks with me shin magami tensea 5

is so far away uh but three um is one i'm going to put out of 1.5 where I'm going to tell myself I'm going to try this game. I definitely want to try it out, but I don't... Realistically, I don't see myself booting it up. At least not right away. I think it'll be one that I might eventually get to. Now, this is a weird one that I think. Maybe Mike might be into.

Earth Defense Force World Brothers, coming to PS4, Switch and PC on May 27th. I'm happy you brought that one up because I've actually grown into playing a fair amount of EDF and really enjoyed killing the big bugs and kind of like, what was that old school space troopers? Or what was that one? No, no, the movie that we all loved.

Starship troopers. Starship troopers. Like, I just embraced that dumb, zany nature of it. And I got really deep into EDF. And I am excited for more Earth Defense Force. And like, this one looks kind of weird, right? Like, you look at this as PS4 Switch and PC. And it's kind of a little bit different than what I was into.

But, like, man, I've played a lot of these games. And I'm, I'm interested in trying anything. that they bring to me. Is this the first one that has a voxel art style? Yeah. This is the first one that I've ever played with this. Yes, exactly. I was going to say, because I don't recall it looking like this.

Yeah, they've always just been a standard kind of over the shoulder, third person shooter type game. And it's one of those games that no matter how it looks, you will always drop frames down to 15 frames per second. That's so funny. It doesn't matter what the art style is. It will do it. Yeah. It's just so much fun killing giant. You know what I mean?

I could kill giant ants for hours. That's why I'm such a big fan of Jeff or Shimonai, you know? It's so funny. All right, boys, we've made it to June here. So there's a ton of these that just going down. I don't think that we're going to be interested in. I'm going to rattle them off and you guys stop me if anybody is interested here. Operation Tango.

Elder Scrolls Online Gates of Oblivion. Rec Fest. Monster Harvest. Pro cycling manager. Tour de France. Sniper Ghost Warrior. contracts too let's just scroll down to fucking ratchet and clank riff yeah yeah I was just like you know where we need to go Tim you know right no no no boys no hold on

yeah before yeah here final fantasy seven remake intergrade let's go I am I didn't see that four motherfuckers I love that game obviously my game of the year last year getting more content from that very excited even more excited to be playing it on the PlayStation 5 because it was a beautiful game but we all know it had texture issues we all know that that there were some things that were like, oh, now that's ugly. And I'm hoping the PS5,

I'm hoping the next gen gives it that extra juice it needs. But at the end of the day, I'm just super happy to be able to go back and play this game a little bit. Every once in a while, I pop it in and I just start running around to get into some battles, just because the battle system is so damn rewarding.

It's so fun. And the music, come on. It's just so fantastic. And this kind of pushing the story, it being a little bit of a, you know, a sequel,

but also like during the story that we've already played through and remake. I'm excited to see what they do with Ufi, playing as new characters exciting to me as well. Yeah, obviously I am all in on this and cannot wait for it. It is my first pure four of the year that I'm looking forward to. Yeah, I'm right there with you. I'm also a four for this one. Just purely for the fact that there is more content with this. That, when they announced that, that was one that I think came out of left field and was super awesome because I don't think anybody was expecting more story content. And with it being Ufi, I'm excited to meet

you if you have heard very nice things. And so I'm looking forward to this. And it's going to look and run incredible. Totally. And the thing I'm looking forward to most is there is a chance that this teases the sequel, that this teases remake part two because that is very much Square Unix's MO of putting out the final version of Kingdom Hearts and then it teases the next proper Kingdom Hearts game.

So that's exciting for me. Andy, where are you at? Yeah, it's interesting. With any other DLC with, you know, usually if there's a big franchise and they put out DLC. I'm about 50-50 on whether I'll try it out. But this one I definitely am going to play and beat it. This is a three for me.

I love Final Fantasy 7. Again, it was my first sort of exposure to the franchise in a real way, as opposed to just watching a cousin play it on a PS1. I'm stoked for this. It's so much fun to play. Gameplay-wise, it's unbelievably just smooth and fun

as hell. And I'm stoked to see it running on PS5 hardware. with all of the nice little bells and whistles, the visual touches. It's crazy to me, because I sit here as, like, the Xbox guy and say, like, when is it coming to Xbox? Final Fantasy 7 remake, like, right?

Like, similar to Andy, I've never been into this series, and I tried it on PS4 and had so much fun with how beautiful it was. I enjoyed the combat system, but slowly moved away from it because that's just not the console that I usually play on,

and I grew past and never played it again. And it's like, when am I over on this side going to get this game, right? Like, we've gone a full year now, not even talking about it. And people were like, oh, the contract's almost up. It's almost time. And like, then it just went dead silence. And it's like, where are we at right now? Because I'm on the opposite side of like, that does get me excited watching the trailer

and reminiscing about what I did play for that little piece of Final Fantasy 7 remake. But then I'm like, well, it's not on the console that I really enjoy and I miss that. And I want that. And it's like, I guess I'm just going to stare off in the space. hope for it one day. It's interesting, man, because you're right, it is somehow, it's been over a year since Fall of NC7 remake has come out. And that was, as far as we know, when the deal was up.

So we'll see. And I'm surprised that they're coming out with this new version of the remake and it's not multi-consul. But hopefully it won't take too long. Next up, Ninja Guided Master Collection coming to PlayStation 4 Xbox 1 Switch and PC June 10th. I'm definitely given this the two for sure. Loved, loved, loved, loved Ninja Guide 1 and 2, 3. Not so much.

But it's been long enough since I've played them that I'm like kind of itching to maybe not beat them the entire way through. They're also very difficult games. But we've all advanced as gamers. So I don't know, maybe I'll have an easier time with it than I did when I was like 12 or whatever with that freaking bone dinosaur boss. but Andy I'm interested in you on this one because what's your history with these games and are you interested in playing because you're a little bit more of that hack and slasher now than you used to be I never really had much experience with the 3D versions of the ninja guide of games it was always just the regular Nintendo versions and I'll just wait too

young to even fully remember him um yeah I don't know I likely won't try him out unless there's a a hint at a bigger future for ninja guide in in a big, meaningful, impactful way, then maybe I'll give it a shot. But yeah, the 3D versions, that was kind of in a gaming blackout area for me, where I just wasn't really playing a whole lot of games around those years, unfortunately.

But yeah, I don't know. I mean, I might hear what people say, and if people are like, oh, dude, it totally holds up. Gameplay is fantastic. Yeah, I'll give it a shot. I mean, I just want to say, like, I don't know how much this stands up, but I would say that Ninja Gaiden won Sigma,

which this, if I understand correctly, is the version that they are porting and upresing and all that stuff, is one of the greatest character action games of all time. So it's like, I imagine it is going to stand up. And if you're like, you're loving blood-borne, different type of game. It's a little less of that, you know,

kind of grindy experience-based stuff. And it is a little bit more about like, it's just brutally difficult hack and slash. But it could be interesting. Bless, what about you? No, it's not one. that I'm super interested in. I think I did try Ninja Guide and Sigma. And for whatever reason, I could not get into it. It might have been, it might have been difficult for me at the time,

you know, I mean, for the little difficulty of the game. But it's not one that necessarily speaks to me right now. I'm kind of with Andy too, where it feels like a hint toward a bigger, like a revival or a big new entry into the Ninja Guardian series that I might feel more inclined to want to give it a go. But as of now, I don't really have that much interest in it. Mr. Xbox, what do you have to say? You know what, Tim, is surprising. This series I have never played. I've seen one of my friends play it back in the day,

but I've actually never tried it myself. And, you know, the things that you're saying out there, get me excited to maybe give that a try and jump into it. But it is a big, giant black hole that I have of like, I've never tried that, never even looked into it. So it's a maybe for me. That's a maybe. It would have to be one where, like,

we get into and see what people are talking about, see what the conversation's like, for sure. Moving on from there, June 11th, big day. We got Guilty Gear Strive coming out, PS5, PS4, and PC. Bless, what's up? I'm like at a 3.5 for this one. I am going to play the hell out of it. Arc System Works, they're just incredible with the work they do.

And I feel like it's been a while since I've gotten super into a new fighting game. Like, the last one I can think of off the top would be Undernight Inbirth, but that didn't, I didn't have a crew of people that I was playing that with. that felt like a more niche release that came out toward the beginning of last year on PlayStation. And then before that, it probably would have been Dragon Ball Fighters, which was the one that felt like this fun group experience

of everybody playing Dragon Ball Fighters and getting super into it. And I think Guilty Gear Strives release is probably going to be more along the lines of that. It's not going to have the Dragon Ball fan base, you know, come out and show up for it. But for folks who are into fighting games, folks who are into Guilty Gear and folks who are into Arc System Works,

like this is a this is a big one uh and i played the the beta last year um one of the betas last year and i was blown away by how fun it was to play how good the art style is because arxton works destroys it every single time uh with their art style and yeah i'm looking forward to getting to this one big because this will also be this will also be my first uh guilty gear game because i've missed the previous releases oh really so yeah yeah and again like seeing how seeing seeing the gameplay of all their games right because like it's not it's not Guilty Gear has been one of those games that I remember seeing other people play because I had friends back in the day that were super into finding a game. So I'd watch them play Guilty Gear, but I'll never get into it myself.

Seeing it, I'm like, fuck, man, this game looks good and looks fun. But yeah, Dragon Ball Fighters was the first one where I hopped in and I was, okay, I'm getting into this game and I got into it. And so now I'm like ready for it. Yeah, I met it too, but Guilty Gear is freaking fantastic and it's always been gorgeous. but this new one strive is like a whole new level of like wow i've never seen a game look quite this good in this way but the cast of characters you're going to fall in love with them blessed super quirky super fucking weird uh and the music is killer like every single track is badass as hell this is about to be on your spotify playlist for years to come hell yeah it's also the thing i love about fighting games too fighting game like this is I feel like when there's a big new release like this

it's almost like you're getting ready to pick up your weapons and like sharpen your knives and like you're about I'm about to train up like I am about to get into the gym right and like work out do the pushups and get ready for combat online and like yeah I I feel like that already I'm already at the point out I'm very

excited for that process because I love that process in fighting games and again like I'm super high for this one yeah I'm gonna try this out yeah no I'm not a big fighting game guy unless it's like mortal combat that's just kind of stuck with me over the years. I'm just not a big fighting game guy. Blessing also beat the socks off of me on a stream once and told me I can never play again.

And so it's like big brother, little brother. He like took the controller from me. So no, I'm not interested in this. Yeah, I think it just looks so pretty. And I'm excited to have a new entry into the FGC again, where I used to be so into Evo and the FGC. And not that I really played a lot of the games, but I

watched my friends play them all the time so I had the knowledge and I knew what the strats were so watching that those tournaments were always really interesting to me but I think this is cool to kind of get in on a ground level with a brand new version of Guilty Gear and it just looks so

goddamn good. The style is just ridiculous So here we go guys Ratchet and Clank, Rift Apart, come in on June 11th this one for me, it's a four but I'm gonna be real. It's probably League of 10. I am so unbelievably hyped for this. The question for me is, am I going to platinum this?

Because I'm going to love it and I am going to spend a lot of time with this. I love Ratching Klan games from the beginning. I got the first one day one. It was an accident. I wasn't like pre-ordering in. I wasn't planning on it, but I was at a blockbuster. They were just putting it down. I'm like, oh, the fuck this is, but I love Crash Bandicoot, so I'm probably

going to like this guy. And I did not expect to fall in love as much as I did. On PS2, the game was fantastic. The sequels were great. when they remade it on PS4, it was like, oh my God, this is still so fantastic. This looks out of this world, the Rift Apart stuff, it being built from the ground up from the PS5. Really the first PS5 exclusive built for it game that we're getting on this kind of AAA level, definitely from like the first party titles, right? That's not a remake.

We got Demon Souls, but this, this is like the first brand new game. I could not be more excited for that. Love the collectibles. Love powering up all the weapons. how ridiculous all of them can be. And this just seems to be the potentially going to be the greatest Ratching Clank game. So I can't wait. Three or four for me.

As somebody who hasn't even played through the fucking remake, I'm excited to get to that. I just think visually, like I am, I will play a game that probably sucks if it's gorgeous. Like, I'm just that type of person where I love, I love the aesthetics and I love the lighting and everything about this visually. looks so goddamn good. So I'm going to try it out anyway. But I, yeah, I'm really, I'm stoked for it. I'm stoked to finally have, yeah, like you were mentioning Tim, that big PS5 release, you know. It's been a while since Miles and, well, I guess Miles was also PS4, but you know what I mean.

Yeah. Yeah, it's going to look incredible and I can't wait to try it out. And hopefully by then, we'll have 1440P video on monitors. What do you think, guys? What do you think? I hope so. Not a chance. Probably not.

Fucking Jesus. Come on, Jim Ryan. I legit, like last night, or two nights ago, actually. I don't know if you guys can see this, but I downloaded the Ratchet and Clank collection on my Vita. Because I'm in full Ratchet Hype mode. A couple of weeks ago we did our Ratchet and Clank, 2016 review for PS, I Love You,

and replaying through that whole game got me so excited because that game stands up. Like, there are a few things about that game where I'm like, okay, this doesn't feel as great as it felt back in 2016. But overall, it still is that awesome experience, especially when they added 60 FPS to it with the recent update. Like that game plays smooth, the gameplay. Once you're, once you are at that mode where you have a bunch of weapons

and you're switching back and forth between them super quickly and you have a bunch of enemies that you're trying to take out at the same time, it flows so well. And that is for a game that came out on PS4 in 2016. I can't imagine how good this game is going to play. Like, we're literally watching a trailer of it right now. And it looks so much better than 2016, just watching a gameplay trailer.

And I know that gameplay trailers are, of course, like an overestimate of what I'm going to get in the final product and also compressed. But God, I cannot wait. What's up, Tim? Dude, absolutely. And I think it's a key thing to bring up what you're talking about here. This was the one you're talking about was a 2016 game made by Insomniac.

Since then, we've seen them do Spider-Man, right? And then Miles Morales. And seeing the jump between even just the combat and just the way that the UI works, in Spider-Man 2018 versus Miles Morales of holding L-1 and then having that kind of the wheel to go between the different gadgets and powers and stuff, very reminiscent of Ratchet and Clank in the way that you switch the guns and weapons in this game.

And if that has increased by quality that much between those titles, like I'm really hoping that this is like even a bigger step forward from that because that is kind of the fun is on the fly, jumping between like big explosive weapons, some like, you know, more snipery type stuff, some assault rifle and shoot people, but it all is that cartoony fun stuff. And

like, man, there's something about the locomotion and momentum of Spider-Man, and we're seeing it here. You know, we're seeing that kind of applied to what we know and love about Ratchet and clank. Man, this one's going to keep their eyes on. Like, insomnia is probably my favorite current PlayStation dev. Like, they, they do not

miss. And their games are so unique and have their, like, they specialize in locomotion. And it's awesome when you find a developer that knows how to do a certain thing so well and you can feel it in all of their games. And just from a pure game feel aspect, they know how to nail it each and every single time.

And right, we both mentioned that, yeah, this is a game that came out in 2016 on the PS4. There's also the fact that it was a remake of a game that came out in like 2002. And it's also a game based on a movie. There are so many reasons why Ratched and Clang in 2016 should feel super dated and shouldn't work. And some of those things do come through in the final product. But for the most part, that game works super well.

And playing the game recently, have those things of like, man, I wish this game had a dash mechanic. Man, I wish this game, uh, I wish like dodging. I wish I had a parry. I wish like dodging, uh, enemy gunfire wasn't just me, uh, holding the strafe button and pressing, uh, X to jump around and do all these flips. I wish it did feel more smoother, more modern. And it seems like ratchet and clank drift apart is going to fix so many of those things and

add so much more. And so I cannot wait. Snowback Mike. Fire up the PS5. Let's get the game. and I can't wait for this game. I'm so excited. You know that.

I mean, I'm a gamer through and through, and I love all of the PlayStation first party titles. And this one is near and dear to my heart. I love 2016. I loved the movie. I actually had a good time with a little popcorn flick there, and I can't wait to see this. And this is one that we've talked about over the year

with the new console and the new generation of like, this is the taking advantage of the hardware. This is going to show the power that we're going to see in these next generation games. And I can't wait to experience that. This is something I'm, it's informed. It's going to be perfect summer title. I can't wait.

Moving on then, we got curved space, dark alliance, Ender Lillies, Alex-Head-Mirical world. The 25th is all that matters. The 25th. Mario Golf, Super Rush, Andy, kick us off. Well, I mean, well, it's not only Super Rush, as a Scarlet Nexus. Like, that day is going to be unbelievable.

I am stoked for both of these titles. Mario Golf, dude. I mean, you saw the way we popped when the game was announced at the, Nintendo Direct. I love golf games. I love golf in real life too. So I mean, I've just been waiting for a newer addition to the franchise. And I'm so excited. I'm so excited to play on stream with you all. I'm so excited to play with hopefully like my brother back home who also has a switch. This is going to be really cool, man. I, I, again, I'm stoked for the multiplayer

aspects of it, I will see how Nintendo online in 2021 kind of deals with latency and trying to hit a good shot. I'm sure you know, golf games are all about timing, but I'm stoked about the motion control stuff too. I think that adds a neat little

a neat little dimension to the gameplay. I'm really excited for this game. Do you think you'll be Greg? Yeah, thousand percent. Hell yeah. Thousand percent. Four. Plus?

Pun intended four. Ha. Mike? I'm such a huge Mario sports fan. I love all of the Mario sports titles. And to get golf back is really great. I will stick by my statement that we should have got Mario strikers. But golf is going to be a lot of fun.

I'm very excited about this. I actually love motion controls. I try to play Andy in tennis motion controls. They did not have that online functionality, which sucks. And I have a great story of back in the day when Tiger Woods had motion controls on maybe the PlayStation or Xbox, or no, it was the Wii. I actually threw my back out, like completely threw my back out and couldn't move for about a week because I was swinging this golf club so hard.

And I cannot wait to do the same thing on the switch. And yeah, Mario Golf is going to be a lot of fun. I'm excited, but wing back strikers. Don't forget to put on those straps, Mike. I worry for your television set up. Just play safe, Mike. Play safe. Mike is going to throw a fucking JoyCon down the mountain. I'm with you, Mike.

I want strikers more than anything. But looking at this, I'm going to go with the three. It's hard for me to look at this and give it the four, specifically because Mario Tennis Aces was kind of the first, not let down, but like the first not classic switch game that Nintendo put out where it's like, oh, it was good. But like, it didn't really hold a candle to the games that came before it.

And I kind of worry that we might get stuck there with something like this. The getting, the running around the course and all that, the fun gameplay modes. I think that's where this could really succeed if Nintendo does it right and if they do have an online that works that allows you and your friends to really like have as much fun as you want to have without them getting in your way.

Won't have to wait too long to find out and I hope that I'm wrong about this but again, no one would happen with tennis a ACEs. I'm like it's hard to be a four out of four for this. The thing that gives me faith is one, how do you fuck up golf? And then two, I think golf for Mario Golf has had a better

run lately than Mario Tenet where the last couple of Mario tennis games that came before Aces were pretty Garbo. And Mario Golf, as far as I can tell, I didn't play the one on 3DS, but I know a lot of people were into it at release. I remember listening to a podcast and hearing Greg talk about it all the time of playing Mario Golf there. And so I think they have golf down. The one thing I worry about is the online.

Like, I do not have trust in Nintendo online. Hopefully, like, all that stuff reads locally when you are taking your own shot. And so, like, the only lag that you'll experience is seeing other people take their shots or whatever the everybody running on the field at the same time thing is. But even with that, I'm sure Nintendo will find some way to make it laggy to actually take a swing. But even still, I'm pretty confident in it. Then we got Scarlett Nexus.

I'm at a 2.5. So sick. I'm a 2.5 as well. Yeah, I'm definitely 2.5. I'll go with that as well. I love the astral chain. I beat it. I had an absolute blast of that this reminds.

being a lot of astral chain. Yeah. It's going to be fucking fighting monsters as anime people with just a rocking soundtrack. You could tell. And I'm the visually, aesthetically, everything just sort of seems perfect for me. Yeah, I'm super in. Andy, when are we going to get to Astrochene to you? That's what I want.

This thing's not just tied to switch. That's the key. It's like, you know, Astrochrane had such a dope visual style. But at the end of the day, it was still held back with some hardware limitations. this looks like they're like, fuck it, we're going all out. We're going to make this thing awesome. So hopefully it plays as good as it looks. I'm a two.

Normally I would skip these kind of games, but something has come over me in the past couple of years where I've gotten a little more into anime, and I've been willing to step out of my comfort zone and try games. And like, this is definitely speaking to me, just the visuals, the action-packed gameplay that we're going to get. And what Andy said, right, it's like, I want to try this. I'll probably play it for a weekend and then never play. play it again, but at least I'm going to say I tried it, which I'm really excited about.

Then destroy all humans coming to switch. Does Guy a 6 come in to switch? Mike, come get the fucking statue. I was going to say, yo, send you that statue. Alyssa, like, any day now I know Alyssa's going to throw me out of the house. She's going to divorce Barrett over this fucking statue. She fucking hates it so much, man. Please get it out of my house.

We've now made it to July. So what we're doing here is the only. months with release dates left are July, August, and September and October has won. So that's all we're going to get through and there's not as many games in each one of them. We're going to do the games without an actual release date at some point in the future. But going through with July here, we got Monster Hunter stories to rings of ruin coming to switch and PC. Only one I'm seeing here is Skyward Sword is like the title that's going to really pop out. But maybe, maybe F1, Mike.

It seems like maybe Michael trial out F1 for a weekend. Yeah, I'll try that out. I really, dirt really got me this year. And like, I'm back heavily into racing games. I mean, to the point where they had a free play weekend of like NASCAR 5 and me and the boys booted up NASCAR. And so I'm into some racing games. F1 seems like it could be a fun time.

But we're all still holding out hope, Forza Horizon. Could it be in Japan? Jeff Grubb once blinked at me twice. And if it is Tokyo drift, it's going to be a big deal. It's going to be a big deal. God, I would love that so much. I would be incredible. I remember one of the state of plays we had, we saw where the heart leads, which is apparently coming out on July 13th.

And that being one that seems like a total Gregass game that I might be willing to try out as somebody who enjoyed Kentucky Route Zero. I didn't fully beat it, but I got to the final chapter and enjoyed the sort of mystery and dialogue and meeting weird stuff. This game seems very supernatural and not, you know, sort of bound to the real world. old. Sort of like a walking simulator with, you know, talking to characters and figuring out what the hell's going on.

It looks really interesting. It's got a cool style. Yeah, I like that. That's a two for me. Do you want to hear the premise of it? Sure. This is from the PlayStation Indies page. They're right,

where the heart leaves is a dreamlike narrative adventure game where you'll grapple with the full spectrum of life's complex emotions. One faithful stormy night, husband and father, Whit Anderson, descends down a massive sinkhole

to save the family dog. Tumbling into the darkness, Witt emerges in a realm beyond his imagining, where moments from his past, present, and future manifest like dreams. Bearing witness to the story of his life, Witt gains the power to change it.

Is that the dog? Dog got excited. It's in the scene cool. Yeah. And so it sounds like it has a cool premise to it. I'm the type person that'll get into a narrative game every now and then,

depending on what the actual plot is if it sounds cool. And also if it has a good reception, I remember what remains of Edith Finch post launch. I remember people going off about that game, about how good it was, and that was the thing that made me try it out and fall in low with it. And if where the heart leads has that same kind of reaction to it,

where people are like, hey, dude, you should check this out because the story is actually really good, that I can see myself falling into it. For sure. Yeah, that we got Legends Zelda Skyward Sword coming July 16th. I don't think I'm going to replay this one. That might be a three for me. I played about,

six, seven hours of it on the Wii and got to the point where I was like, I cannot do this. I do not like this game and I cannot force myself to play a game just because it's Zelda. But them enhancing the controls and making it so that you don't have to use motion controls makes it way more likelyer than I'm going to stick with it. And I haven't played a good Zelda in a minute. You know, like I kind of miss the traditional Zelda style a little bit. Like I love Breath of Wild, just one of my favorite games. but there's something there's something about that traditional setup of go dungeon to dungeon 3d Zelda design yeah

at less yeah like you know collect your items you know do all this all this stuff like there's something about that that I kind of miss and yeah skyward sword I haven't played it through all the way and so I think I might actually beat this one I think you'll have a fun time it's it's a fun world as someone who hated the the game when it first came out and gave it a second shot for for in review playing it like on the the Wii version on the Wii you and having to like go out of my way to find the right controllers to play it and stuff. Like going back to it, I was like, I actually kind of enjoyed it more, and I'm excited to see what this, uh, this remaster does to enhance it even more. And I'll people like the story of this one too.

Yeah, like the, that was like the one thing I really enjoyed was I really loved the, the story in the, the lore building, uh, in this one. And that's, uh, if anything, that's what this, uh, game does really well is, is that aspect. So, uh, I'm excited for, for people to maybe give it a fair shot. a second time around, kind of like how I did for Zelda in review, and I'm excited for maybe some people to try it out for the first time who haven't before. It's a two from me. I'll give it a shot. I just know that the negative reception will kind of probably leak into my brain as I'm playing it. But I'm definitely down to try it out. I'm in that same boat, bless, where it's like,

oh, maybe it'll just kind of work for me. Maybe this time it'll just absolutely work for me where, you know, in the past, This was a game that, you know, again, like most of my Nintendo experiences, we're playing at a relative's place. So maybe it'll work for me this time. And I'm also just curious to also see why people don't like it. You know, maybe I sort of figure out like, oh, I totally get it. I mean, you're pretty much more fun.

I think a big part of it is motion controls. And it seems like that's not going to be as big of an issue for this one, which I think is probably going to get way more people that are talking less negatively about it than. My gut tells me that this one's going to be much more. well received then originally. It's good. I think that the talk's going to be like,

it's really not that bad, guys. I, but we'll see. I think it's going to, I think the narrative of like, it's a really bad game. It just comes from like the, the pushback from the tens that it got when it was,

uh, first reviewed when it originally came out. Like, it's lower on my Zelda review, but like, even like, I kind of like clarified throughout that entire video of like, it's still like a good game.

Uh, I do think a lot of the design and level design is, base around motion controls as well. So I still think, like, although, like, there will be translations of the motion controls to being able to just play on a controller, I think there will definitely be, like, level design choices that people will be like, oh, yeah, this is very, this is very surface level and very basic and very much in the mindset of trying to design a game specifically around motion controls. But again, we'll see.

So we got Neo, the world ends with you. The world is with you surprise sequel that was announced. this one I do not believe for a second's coming out this year but even if it does for me I'm gonna give it I'm at that too yeah I'm out of 1.5 for it right now maybe I can get to you if people like if there are more trailers that hype me up for it or people review it or talk about it in a way that makes me want to play it but right now like it looks cool but I I've not had any experience playing worlds and

the world ends with you and so like I just don't have that hype for it yeah not interesting so here we are in August. Well, before you go to August, I just want to shout out Chris Tales. That's one that was at, I believe, a recent Nintendo Nindi showcase. It has a really cool art style. And it's basically, it's an indie game that has kind of a JRP-ish kind of set up in terms of combat. But then also like the, and I'm not sure the entire premise. I like played a little bit of the demo, but basically in the overall as you're exploring, you can kind of go back and forth. I believe between either time or dimensions. And so things change as you go back and forth. This art style is phenomenal. Barrett's showing it right now. The art style is phenomenal and downloading the demo and trying it out. The art style does hold up when you're actually in the game. Like it was so in the soundtrack, it's really, really good.

When I was playing the demo, I immediately went to the fantasy critic thing. I was like, you know what? I'm going to put a dollar on this so I can get on my draft. It looks like an animated movie. Yeah, damn. And it doesn't have that like flash animation style in a lot of games like this has. This looks real good. Huh?

Hell yeah. Then, now we are in August. Of these, I think, the first one of relevance to us, correct me if I'm wrong, is Keena, Bridges Spirits, coming to PS5, PS4, and PC. That's a 4. August 24. That's a 10 for me, man. That's a Ford for me also. Yeah.

I'm at somewhere, I'm like a 3.5 with this one. I think it is going to be a really accessible game in terms of, they already talked about price, right? It's $40, I believe. Probably. I think it's going to be on the cheaper side of instead of a full $60 to $70 game or whatever. And with that means that... $50. $40.40.

$40.00. Digital deluxe is $50. And with that, I got to assume that it's going to be a sub-10-hour game. I think it'll be a... On the shorter side in terms of gameplay, I don't think it's going to be a gigantic commitment. But it just looks amazing. It looks fun as hell. and it's just stunning visuals and cool gameplay I'm totally in, you know, I'm sold. You know what, Andy?

You're saying that, sub-tend, I'm metaphor. I'm metaphor. That can get me because this does look like the type of game that can deliver cool story, cool characters and freaking awesome gameplay that is just fun, as fun to look at as it is to play. And if it is in that, like, you know, nice, smaller game type of level, I am totally all in on this. Yeah, this strikes me as like an, and it takes two kind of scope.

which it takes too for what that game was and how much that, I think that game was also in the 40 to $50 range, maybe $30, I forget exactly where, but, you know, I would have paid a full price to play it takes too. I think it takes that, that budget and pushes it all the way. For this game, even if it is sub 10 hours, let's say it's an eight hour experience, but it holds this level of quality all the way throughout that it shows in the trailer,

then that, to me, that's enough because I love a nice eight-hour experience in a game. The one thing for me with this game is that I hope that the trailers just aren't way overselling it because it does show us a lot of really good-looking cinematic and then small glimpses of gameplay that looks like it's fun but it's always hard to tell through trailers especially now that we don't really have in-person preview events and stuff because I assume that this is one that we might have played at an E3 by now or at a games column or something by now but because there's been no hands-on really it's hard to judge but based on these trailers oh my god this looks so good Yeah, to me it's not even the cinematics that really gave me excited.

It is the glimpses of the gameplay. It is the, it is keen to dashing away from an enemy and shooting an arrow and it performing this thing. It looks like gameplay. And I know we've been tricked many times before, but there's a sort of rigidness to her animation that seems like a player is playing that and using a controller to control a character as opposed to, you know, hey, this is gameplay, everybody, but it's really just a cinematic with pre-rendered animations or whatever. Yeah, it just looks, it looks incredible. And I, gosh, I hope I have an OLED TV by then. Because this is going to be one that's going to be stunning on a really nice set. Mike?

Oh, I can't wait. You know that, Tim. This is another fire up the PS5. Let's get this thing going to. You know that, Tim. This game looks like it's going to be a banger. Come on, people. This game's going to be dope looking.

Yeah, I can't wait to play this. Can't wait. Bless, this one's for you. No More Heroes 3, August 27. Four to one. does it get delayed? Yes, it does get delayed, but I don't care, man. Four, I'm excited.

I'll play it when it gets here. Every single thing I see about this game just makes it look even better and better. Suda 51 can do no wrong, except for let it die, which should not have had free-to-play elements in it, but I digress. I'm very excited from No More Heroes 3.

I'm somewhere in a two, between two and three for this one, because it's like I love No More Heroes 1 and 2. But that's the thing is, yeah, if the gameplay holds up at all for me, I am definitely going to beat it because I love the wacky-ass story and just how insane this whole thing gets. And this one

having a weird Power Rangers vibe, it's like yeah, that's the type of ridiculousness this franchise needs. God, look at this trailer. Look at this gameplay. Look how different everything looks seen to see and he's nailing it. He's nailing it. Man, like I want to be into this and I feel like I should be but

like look at this. I just like the Okira reference. It just seems, it just looks messy as fuck. it just looks like and I know that's what they're going for with all of like the crazy colors and weird UI things popped up I know it's like

it seems like a commentary on just games itself you know but it just it looks too messy for me man it has like a Scott Pilgrimage vibe to it where it very much is stylized to be like a video game and appeal to

our nostalgia for video games and so you see a lot of those pixelated like the pixelated buttons and the voxels and all that stuff is very much trying to point towards that. Yeah, it seems like the UI will change from level to level, like aesthetically in ways that will bother me. I don't know, that's just a complete guess. But I think also the fact that it's

only on Switch is kind of what bums me out to because I just, it's going to look like duty probably. That game's going to chug. I want it to be higher-res and sharp and pretty as all hell, you know. I don't know. Mike, anything? for you? No, not at all. Unless

Emron, the Don Khan will sit down and explain and play it with me, then no, I'm not I'm not jumping into that. Man, you've been called out, Imran. You've been called that. What do you start playing? It'll make sense. Because, like, no more heroes, I definitely understand watching the trailers, it's like, what the fuck is this shit? But like, usually, at least one and two,

the spinoff that I can't remember the name of, maybe it gets a little bit more into weird territory, but one and two, definitely. Once you start them, it very much starts off simple, where it's like, hey, you just got to take out. strikes back. Travis strikes again. Either strikes back or again.

One of those two. Tim. But you're basically taking out 10 assassins and that's it for the first one. And the second one is like, hey, you're getting revenge, but you're also taking out 49 assassins. I'm sure this one by the time you get in there, it'll be like, hey, you're fighting a bunch of aliens and that's about it. Well, Tim, you know how I made the perfect comparison that in a lot of ways, the rabid fan base of the musical Hamilton remind me of the rabid fan base of the musical movie. Happy Feet. You're such a fucking freak, dude.

What does that mean? It's just, they just, I don't know, there's a lot of similarities there, bless. Yeah. But I feel like no more heroes reminds me a lot of death proof. If we were to compare like a movie to a game, I just feel like the vibe of the over-the-topness, the looking at the camera and the winks and all that sort of stuff. It reminds you of an over-the-top Robert Rodriguez, Quinn Tarantino. That's what it is.

You know, and like the first one came out at a time where we were desperate for Wii motion controls to actually translate to a dope gameplay experience. And it succeeded there. But it was also that perfect thing of like, look, gamers are kind of grown up. So like he's going to pee. Like there's going to be fart jokes. Like sometimes he's going to kind of look like he's jerking off. And also it's going to be very inappropriate and not age well because the whole game

he's trying to sleep with the lady who's giving him his missions. And so. Yeah. There's a lot of shit where it's like, it is edgy as fuck in the like debatably edge Lord territory. And that's the thing for this one where I'm like, are they going to either address that or kind of modernize it and have a new twist, which I kind of expect them to. But we'll see. And for blesses sake, I hope that the answer is yes across the board. Yeah, man, I can't wait.

I'm excited for New World. New World. What is that? This could be the first successful Amazon game. New World had a beta last year or a closed alpha, whatever the hell you want to call it. I don't remember what it was, but it seemed like everybody who tried it out said,

wow, this could be like the brand new MMO that really works. And I don't know what, you know, gameplay-wise, it looked fun as hell. I think it just could be that brand-new MMO that really sticks and makes people fall back in love with an MMO that is not World of Warcraft. You know, we see it time and time again.

And a new MMO comes out. People play it for, for a while. And again, this is Final Fantasy 14, notwithstanding. I know everybody loves that shit. But it just feels like if you're not into that game, you try out a new MMO, you go back to Wow after a couple weeks. But this could be the one.

This could be the one that I also try out and just get in on the ground floor of and, you know, make a new character, see what it's all about, grind out for a couple weeks and see if it works for me. But, yeah, again, it's so bizarre that this seems to be the one that could stick for Amazon as opposed to all of these. the other canceled ones. Yeah, it seems interesting. I think you're crazy.

Really? This thing has a fucking shot in hell. And I think that Amazon has a lot to do with that. I mean, I don't think this game's coming out. I'm talking just based on, oh no, this game's definitely coming out. Like, I think just based on watching Twitch streamers play it. And I watch many, many Twitch streamers play it. They were like, fuck, this is awesome.

And they are the people who are really into Wow. Like, I know Tid the Tapman who loves Wow. stream this loved it Bruce Green loved it as well I think it could work and I'm excited to see if they actually are able to pull it off because I mean I don't want to do the poor Amazon thing

right pay your workers well and treat them like humans but god damn I I just I hope for the game studio's sake that the employees there we do not experience another big mass layoffs because god damn you think there's been

so many people that have been quitting their jobs going for the security of a gigantic company like Amazon who has money out the wazoo to pay for whatever the hell they want to. And so many of them have just been let down. So I hope this one works and I hope it doesn't lead to another round of layoffs. Moving on into September, we got WRC 10. Mike, maybe? No.

Yeah, it's a maybe, but no. Life is strange, true colors. Four maybe for me. It's a four. I set that four. Yeah, I'm very excited about it. Oh, word? Oh, yeah, I love Life Strange.

Oh, shit. Okay. But I do have to go back and play Live Strange, too. I fell in love with Life Strange, one, and before the storm when they came out, and two was the one where the release schedule for that one screwed it up for me, where I played the first episode. I liked the first episode fine. I wasn't in love with the first episode, and then the later episodes didn't come

out until much later, and I never made the time to check him out. But everything they've shown for the new one, I'm super into. deck nine is developing this one as opposed to the what's the name of the actual developer who just did tell me why I forget for whatever don't not yeah as opposed to don't nod and deck nine were the ones who worked on before the storm

and I think they did a phenomenal job with that one and so I trust this game in their hands and for the stuff they've shown about it so far makes it look cool I think the art style and how they've kind of updated it I think looks really good and yeah I'm they're also releasing it all in one bundle as opposed to doing it in a series of chapters that come out over the course of a year.

And so I think the fact that it's coming out as one game is going to be very strong for it. And what a glow up, dude. God, this game looks so much better. Yeah. So happy to go with like a different look entirely. Yeah, good for them. It looks amazing. I'll give it a one.

Sorry, sorry, two. Gonna try. Death loop. That's enough try for me. I feel like I'd have to play the other ones and it's just probably a big undertaking. Yeah, next up, death loop, September 14th, PS5 PC. I'm at that four, baby. Let's go.

Yeah, that's a big four. That's a big old four. I've been at the 10 for years at this point. Let's go. I don't need another trailer. We're going to get at least two or three more trailers. I just know it. But, man, this looks awesome.

I hope that it is nearly as cool as it looks because the vibe and the tone they got from a like aesthetic point of view, not just like the technical visuals and all that stuff is super rad and I just hope that the gameplay of the story can kind of add up to being something as cool as the premise of assassins kind of fighting each other and having to redo it over and over and over. It's a storyline

that we've heard different cool things about and we've seen movies like this and stuff but like that sounds like it could really work in a video game but how long does that hook last and does it like end up in a product that is like fantastic and I think that it could I think if there's

anybody who's going to nail that I think it's going to be Arcane based off their, their pedigree. Like, they know how to make a good game that feels like it is. You make, you, you using your player choice in order to, to, like, sneak around or assassinate or, like, combine abilities in order to make things go your way. Arcane knows how to make that type of game. And, yeah, Death Loop, just in terms of its style, you know, it's speaking to me so much, way more than even dishonored, because I really like dishonored to you.

But if there was one thing that I didn't fall in love with with that game, I just wasn't super into the whale punk aesthetic. And Death Loop, just from an aesthetic standpoint, is fucking killing it. And yeah, the premise of it being these dueling assassins that are going back and forth throughout the whole game speaks to me so much. It looks so good. I'm out of four.

Big four. Strong four. Mike? So excited. Can't wait to play this. Just got done playing Dishonored One with the FPS boost over on Xbox and really got me excited into what Arcane is doing with this. And I know I've brought this up before.

one of the kind of funny shows, but like, I am also interested in the multiplayer aspect of this. It's like, what is that other person going to be? How will it affect your gameplay? Will Stanky Toast 69 continue to troll me throughout my gameplay? But I am excited of like, first off, the game itself looks incredible. It's going to be fun. Can't wait to play it. But also like, what is that multiplayer aspect going to be all about?

And how will I either troll or be trolled throughout my gameplay experience? Very excited about that. Hell yeah And then moving on We only got one in October But before we even get to that I want to shout out Hot Wheels Unleashed

September 30th There can just bring up a YouTube video Of this Because I saw a trailer of this Come up on my Twitter last week And I quote tweeted it Where I was like Is it just me or does this actually

look fucking dope as hell It was you tweeting it out That sort of put it on the radar And be like Oh shit Yeah This kind of reminds me Of the fun races

in GTA online. Totally. Yeah, I love how imaginative it is. And it's about time we got a different racer that isn't, you know, we talk about these character racers like crash racing or Sonic or Mario Card or whatever.

But I guess I've just kind of been tired of the, not that I play a lot of racing games anyway, but the ultra-realism in racing games. This looks like something I'm just super down to fuck with. Absolutely. I'm definitely going to try it this out. Is that such a good

style to it. Like, if you told me that there's going to be, there's going to be a Hot Wheels game that I was going to have an aesthetic and like, that was going to have graphics that you look at and go, oh, fuck, that looks really good. I wouldn't have believed you, but I look at this and I'm like, oh, that looks really good. Like, I want to try this out. This almost reminds me of when Forza Horizon

does like Hot Wheels crossover and shit. Yeah, and I always love that. I'm excited about with this, though. It's just like, you know, Andy mentioned GTA, blessing you mentioned Forza. Like, those things are both freaking awesome, so much fun. We played the hell out of them. But what I like about this, is it's actually what makes Hot Wheels special,

which is they're driving through vents, they're in a garage, they're like, these are tracks like kind of in real world settings as opposed to just blowing up Hot Wheels to be giant actual cars. And I've always loved that. There was a micro machines game

and a Hot Wheels game on the N64 that I just fully thought of the love with. Dude, that was fantastic. And the thing is like it's this Mario Kart type gameplay with a little bit of F0 action, the drifts of a ridge racer. Like, I mean, look at this. Oh, hell yeah.

Like the less realistic parts of Samasco Rush type shit. And like what you're saying to him of like how it's like actually just like the size, realistic size of hot wheels and like seeing them go through like air vents and stuff like that. Like that's awesome to see. It's cool. It's cool. And I will say the hesitation I have on this is pre-alpha. So they have a long time to figure this out.

It looks a little empty, both the course and just kind of like the world around it. And it doesn't seem quite fast enough for what I'd want from this type. of game, but hopefully this was just like the first we've seen of it. Did you guys ever play ExciteBots on the Wii? I did not. Man, ExciteBots.

It was, so ExciteBots trick racing was basically a similar arcade racing game that came out for the weed that had like a similar level of you're making, you're hitting these large jumps, you are playing as these cars that were all modeled after these like different bugs

and Beatles and had weird weird shapes and shit. It had very similar energy. And when I tell you, it is probably one of the most fun racing games I've ever played. It is a fantastic racing game that is so under the radar

and that not enough people know about. But this reminds me a little bit of that, and that gets me excited. Wow, this bug vehicle just used its scorpion tail to grab onto a pole in the track and then start spinning around it. Yeah, I did.

And then launches its side. Come on, guys. I'm telling you all, sleeper hit at 2021. I think the final one with the release date is October 12th back for blood. Come on, baby. That's a big four for me, man. Good Lord. I mean, ever since it got delayed, that was sort of the first real big game heartbreak

that I had this year. I'm like, damn, dude, I was really looking forward to playing this game a lot sooner. But yeah, let that shit cook a bit more. It's going to be really nice and eventful to be coming around Halloween time. I mean, I had such a blast with the beta. I was so sad that I couldn't play with Greg and Bless during the daytime stream, but playing a night with Mike and Tucker, and we had an absolute blast,

and this is going to be one that you just replay a lot because there are different dynamics of different people you're playing with or you unlock this new piece of loot. The card system is so innovative and so fun, especially for a game like this. I didn't expect to really be into that sort of system and kind of building out your inventory. But God damn, it was an absolute blast.

And I was so sad when the beta or whatever it's called went offline. I'm really excited for this. I mean, it's just, it's great that, you know, developers started realizing that Valve was never going to make games ever again. So they're like, all right, we'll make our own left for dead. We'll do it ourselves. Yeah, exactly. Somebody make a portal.

For the love of God, someone make a portal. Why isn't anybody trying to do that? Well, they're underval. aren't they? There's in Turtle Rock. They got bought by Valve, right? Really? So that's kind of like the weird irony of it all. I'm pretty sure they got bought by Valve. I'm looking at it. Maybe maybe I'm lying about it. Did I lie about it? You're just a fucking liar. It's possible. What shit? Did Andy just drop an exclusive sco-oh? Oh dude? The number one video is leagist. I'm at two and a half for this game. Oh, they were formally a valve. My bad. Gotcha. Yeah, I think that's what I knew they I knew they had some kind of connection. I

Because when you mentioned it, it did flip a switch. But yeah, I'm out of two and a half of this one. I'm super excited for it. The card system, I think is super cool and seems super fresh. And surprisingly, like Andy said, added a lot to the experience. And so I'm looking forward to trying that out. And I think the thing I'm looking forward to the most out of this game is playing it with friends and with you guys and playing it on stream. Because I know for a fact that this is one of those games that we're probably going to play for multiple weeks.

For the kind of funny stream, it's going to be another one that's like Outriders, but probably even more so because people are probably going to be way even way more. excited to play this game than Outwriters on stream and so looking forward to it. Yeah, I'm right there with Blass where I'm probably between a two to a two point five and three, but the idea of playing with you guys is bringing me to a four. Like the streams, this looks like so much damn fun. I never had that group of friends to play Left for Dead with. So I was always kind of just playing alone or playing with like someone if I got to for a little bit or whatever. And that was a great experience, but playing with you guys seems like it's going to be a damn blast.

So that definitely takes me to the get hype level for sure. And especially the times that we did play Mike where we died and you kind of had to reassess and be like, all right, well, what do we got to do? All right, run down. Fucking haul ass down that way. I'm going to try to cover here with the mini gun. It's, I mean, good Lord. We had so much fun on that stream.

I can't wait. This is something that we've all been dying for. If you're a left for dead fan, you've been itching for this. And you've got a little taste of it with World War Z. But I think this is going to come full circle for you of like, you're back and it's exciting. Grab your friends, play through the campaigns, play through the different missions,

and do it all over again. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm really, really excited. And I do like this studio and what they've made before. I think a lot of you remember Evolve. And that was one of those, like, you were either in it or you weren't into it, and I was into that.

And so I'm excited to see what this team can do. And this is the perfect game for me and my friends. I can't wait. And with that, everyone, this has been the kind of funny games cast. Thank you so much for joining us with this. Every game with the release date in 2021 so far. Looking at this list, there is a TBA section that has many, many, many games.

So we'll see. There's probably, hopefully, going to be many more games coming out this year. But I'm sure a ton will be delayed. But stay tuned. We'll probably do an episode in the coming weeks going through all of those games and our hype levels for those. We got E3 coming up too. So a lot of announcements to be coming this summer. We're about to do the post show for patreon.com slash kind of funny games.

supporters. Thank you all so very much. Mike, thank you for joining us on Gamescast. Thanks for having me. I can't wait to come back again and of course talk more video games with you and the crew. It's always my favorite. Hell yeah. Until next time. Love you guys. Bye.