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Episode Date: October 2, 2024

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What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024. Of course, I am your host, Tim Gettys. Today I'm joined by Blessing at Ayoia Jr. Good day, Tim. Greg Miller. Hello. And Andy Cortez. Morning. How are y'all doing? Doing great. How are you? I'm doing good. I'm doing really good. Last night, so a couple of years ago during the pandemic, we were all very bored at home. A lot of, you know, a lot of time just sitting there. Nick almost learned how to play piano. Nick almost learned had a piano, how to play piano, Gia Harris, Gia Gettys, excuse me.

As of a couple days ago, officially legally changed her name. Nice. Wow. Like legal official. Damn, I would have put that out for so long because you got to, like, go to an office and leave a document and stuff. By parking.

What a nightmare. Crazy stuff. But yeah, she's now Gia Gettys. So Gia Gettys played through and beat her very first video game, Pokemon Fire Red. Right. And she got really into it, took it very seriously. And she loved her little game boy that she played on.

she has the week off so she's been at home just kind of chilling and yesterday she was like or like two days ago she was like can you get me the next Pokemon game and I was like oh my god

oh wow so much like Gen 2 or yeah and I'm like I love this so much like oh heart gold soul silver this is fantastic I just bought copies of them in Mexico so I was like I have them like yeah you could

I gave her my my 2DS my 2DS XL and I'm like we can go to town and so I got it all set for her She didn't start yet, though. Yesterday I was wearing my Final Fantasy 7 shirt from Uniclo. And she looked at it and she goes, I like that shirt. And I was just like, huh, not my favorite shirt.

There's a sleep shirt for me. I like my Final Fantasy 10 one. Seven didn't love the design, but she liked it. I'm like, all right, cool. Interesting stuff here. What are you doing, okay? Oh, gotcha. I was acting as if I had any idea why you liked one shirt over the other.

Yeah. And she was like... You try to add to this show. You try to be a little bit. It looked like you were about to, like, start some shit about somebody. I thought it was going to be me. You're short shorter. Shut up.

I'm fucking hate you. God damn. It's hot. It's not hot in the studio. Are you hot right now? Uh, right now, no. I'm hot right now.

I mean, even outside's not that hot anymore. Okay, first off, that's a fucking lie. I was just that side. Yeah, it's fucking hot.

You got in a little bit, like it got hot later in the morning blessed, not as early as it was yesterday. Yeah, I've been inside here since not in them legs. Look at them legs. It looks like you're naked. It looks like you're naked.

It looks like, back to the Final Fantasy t-shirt. Back to the Final Fantasy t-shirt, everybody. Oh, wow. I had a moment where I was like, holy shit. This is happening. That's renew our vows.

So, yeah, so I was just like, I kind of went through a crisis of conscience where I was just like, like, time slowed down for me. And I was like, this is my moment right now. It's this dialogue back and forth with being her that could change the trajectory of her life forever, you know? And I had to ask myself, like, is this the right move? Right. Or is this not? You know? And I was like really thinking.

And I went through such a rabbit hole. I was like, all right, I have an opening right now that I could convince her anything. I could be like, don't do this. You should play Zelda, links of the past instead. You should, you know, I can take her in a different direction. But then I was like, I mean, she wants to go Fall Fantasy 7.

I think I got to give her Final Fantasy 7, you know? So got my Switch light, downloaded Fall Fantasy 7. Oh, the original. The OGBit. Oh, I'm not giving her remake. No, no, no. Really? She doesn't understand 3D camera controls.

You kidding me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, she's in the turn-based, mode right now. The natural progression from Pokemon Fire Red. You're right. You know what? Coming off of Pokemon, you're right. Yeah, and so she started it up. Played about 30 minutes. And I was like, I'm just going to watch you play this. If you have questions, I'm here to answer, but I'm not trying to backseat

game. I'm like, I just want to let you go. She was doing her thing. And she got to a safe point at some point, whatever. She beat what's it called? The Scorpion boss, like the first little Midgar section. And she was like, into it, but not super. super loving it. She's like, it's a little slow. Is this really all it is? I'm like, yeah,

obviously it advances and stuff in the battles and they get a little bit more. She's like, Pokemon seems more like deep. I love that you just said that. There's also more of an onus of building your squad of little Pokemon and you kind of grow a connection with these little guys, you know. But Funn Fassey, there's the story, there's the characters.

She likes to read. You know what I mean? So that's my thing too. I'm like, there's a lot of reading at Final Fass 7. There's no voice acting. It's not the best like written and vocalized the game. No, but it's not the worst. Anyways, I don't expect that she's going to beat this game.

But this morning, looked over. Switchlight was next to her side of the bed. I didn't say anything. I was like, I'm just going to let this one slide. We'll see where this goes. So I'm excited to come home tonight and see, see what happened. You know what I mean? Exciting time for me.

This is going to sound like the most insane thing I'm going to tell you. Yeah. Download Live Alive for her. Yeah. I legitimately think that Live Live coming off of playing Pokemon as her like first big video game. One, as the pixel art style, that's like the 3D, their HD2D, that's very appealing to the eyes. And then you have a bunch of bite-sized stories that all have like different vibes and energy.

So there's like fun ones, there's more serious ones. There's a bunch of different settings. I think she might dig it. I think that the thing with G is I, she wants the cultural touch point. She wants to be part of a conversation. You know what I mean? Like so she's interested in the like, what am I missing about this whole thing? So I feel like Live Alive might be.

That's fair. Live also. Combat System and Live Live might be the. the obstacle. But everything else I feel like would appeal just as far as like it's a fun

and easy game to get into. Yeah. So we'll see where this goes. I'll keep everybody updated. But this is kind of funny games cast every single weekday. We get together at the top of the biggest reviews,

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Then, of course, what I had done last night is I was like, wait, I remember, I don't have as much as jump ability with my boost pack anymore because I was using the one from this DLC and not my starboarded outfit. But then I said, wait a second, I had complimented someone on the internet for looking great in their start. And I was like, wait, they must be using, I got a mod, got this, has two different and I gave Andrews calling. If you got a funny member, you can get today's Greg way where Greg talks about why he

hates audio listeners. Fuck them kids. That's what you wrote in parentheses. No, man, audio listeners. I see you. I hear you. What are you, Andy? Huh?

We were... We're splitting into factions about which group of the community we fuck with, and you can't fuck with the others. You got the audio listeners, you have the video watchers, and then you have the live chatters. You know, I think there's very good people

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We're going to go through a whole bunch of confirmed release dates for 2025. A couple days ago, we did an episode looking at this month, October, and did a hype check on all the games releasing. and that was a lot of fun. Had a lot of great conversations. So we're taking it a step further. We are now in what people call Q4, everybody, of the year of 2024. We call it review season. I was going to call it review season.

So many reviewer seasons, you know. But Q4 means the next Q is Q1 of 2025, starting a whole new year, a year that I feel we know a lot about already. Sure. Right? We're about to go through all the dates today. But it's kind of impressive how many. dates we have for 2025, how many big games we know are going to be next year, or at least plan to be next year. I feel like it's not always like this, this early. I don't think it's

ever been like this. Like I'm somebody who like, I for some reason, you know, maybe this just one of my brains wired. I pay attention to dates a lot. It was like, I don't know. But like, you know, I feel like, I don't know. I'm very good with dates and I'm very good with calendars for some reason. We've been over this blessing because I think somebody immediately at somebody in the chat was immediately like, hey, what day did this historical thing? take place. Well, no, not history. Video game related dates.

Okay. Yeah. What was the release date of Mario 64? It was like November 1996, right? Right. I don't know. Yeah. One of the 12 months in the year that I know that it is.

I'm pretty sure it was September? Was this September? I know for a fact it was fall. I'm talking about it in the U.S. or in Japan. What date did the PS2 come out in America? Oh. It was 1995 for sure. The PS2.

Sorry, I'll stay PS1. I'll think PS1. I want all the fan art of him is Calendar Man for Batman. Bear, did you finance? It was September 96, but he's got to be Calendar Man, but it's all like...

It's all like... It's just like, February has like 31 days. It's like, oh, can I forgot, I forgot. But no, I think this... Where we're at right now in regards to the games we have announced for 2025, I'm pretty sure it's the most we've ever known.

in about a year going into a year. Like as far as like the big game releases. Is a lot of it because of fall delays? I was going to say, do you think, I think, I don't, I'm not going to, I can't argue yes or no on that. I feel like February is so fucked. And that's why it feels like we know more than ever. You look at February like somebody's got to move.

But you all moved here to get away from other shit. Now you got to fucking keep moving. I'm talking about GTA 6. I'm talking about the switch to you. Do you think you'll actually see it? Because it's going to be a big conversation of who are these games really coming next year. I'm talking ghost of Yote. I'm talking death training to you.

I'm talking borderlands. for, these are off the top of my head. I'm not even looking at a list or anything. There are so many big games announced for next year, even regardless of just what's coming out in February. I mean, I'm with you, Bless. And on top of that, like, we'll get to it soon,

but the first thing I see here is dot-com country returns with January 16th. That was the game with an actual release date that is, was so far out from when they announced it. Like, that was crazy that they announced a 2025 game in the direct that they did. Like, there's something about 2025 and the Switch 2. Yeah, switch 2. You know what I mean?

You imagine we're going to get Silk Song. You imagine we're going to get Hades 2 full release. Like there's, there's so many known quantities that might change my move, but the plan is for them to be there. I feel like this is easily the most we've known about the following year. The last time it was like this was 2020, probably. Because I feel like going into 2020 from 2019, there were so many big games that we were, that were known quantities of like Final Fantasy 7 remake and Last of Us 2 and Ghosts. And like, there's just so many releases that we were like awaiting.

And then they all kind of lined up. and then also the release of the PS5 and the Xbox Series X. Like when there's a console launch, I feel like it's easier to kind of like expect a lot from the year because there's going to be a launch lineup. And we have the Switch too. Tim, should I be excited for Donkey Kong Country Return? That's an excellent question.

Let's get into it. The first release day we have here is Donkey Kong Country Returns. HD coming to the Nintendo Switch on January 16th, 2025. And you just asked me if you should be excited. it's a hard question to answer. Because that's just a, that's a large catalog of games that completely passed me by. So that's the thing. Broke up

with a ex-girlfriend of the time, she kept the Wii U. And I was like, well, I paid more for that. I mean, I was she playing on it. I mean, it's fucking nothing. Like, I was like, what was her name? What was her job? Seems like a made-up story if you ask me. So Donkey Kong Country Returns is originally a Wii game. They later put it on to 3DS as well. But now they put it on Switch. It looks better than ever.

and the biggest thing is the problem is it was a amazing 2D platform made by rare incredibly quality game for sure first 2D Donkey Kong in decades at that point or decade God we were just getting old but it

the fatal flaw motion controls to roll you had to like waggle the thing and there was no way around that so I'm really excited to play through this game again on Switch not having to do that being able play it like a more traditional Donkey Kong Country game. And we're aware that they are

going to allow that? I mean, they must. They just must. W&D. If they figured out with Skyward Sword, like they can figure it out. They did already on the 3DS. But the 3DS but the 3DS port was just, it was fine, whatever and it was the 3DS, which I'm not a big fan of.

But this I'm like stoked about. But to answer your question, no. You should play Tropical Freeze. 100%. Like, Donkown Country returns walked so Tropical Freeze could fly. Tropical Freeze is one of the best 2D platforms ever. Don't Gun Country Returns. A very good two-platform. I didn't know Tropical Freeze had it like that.

Oh, yeah. Oh. I mean, I just, I didn't know like, I mean, everybody's all creaming their jeans right now. Oh, but topical freeze, I don't know it was like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Everybody, I've not played Tropical Freeze, but it's probably the 2D platformer that people tell me. You haven't played it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got to bring back to October.

It's here. Come on. I was gonna say we're in it right now. We're in it right now, bless. I mean, Andy, me and you, we can play through Tropical Freeze. It's co-op. Is it co-op? It is co-o.

Whoa! My game! I don't know if it's like the best quality co-op, but like, no, real talk. Y'all need to play this. Like being the DK64, like, fanboy and like, like, like, take that aside. Like, this,

Tropical Freeze is by far the best Donkey Kong game. It's not by far. It's very close to DKC2. But it is, I do think better. At the end of the day, if I had to say it, it is better. So, yeah, that's it on DK.

Okay. But I'm excited for it. Like, it's been long enough that I've, play this and I also replayed Tropical Freeze a couple years back when they released on Switch. So I'm ready for some more Donk Kong country. I'm also just happy that Don't con country still a thing. They're pushing it.

They got that theme park. I don't know. But another full game. I mean, well, Tim, I'm penciling you guys into play Donkey Kong on Wednesday, October 23rd. I mean, we're probably, we probably should like, Halloween streams. Donktober.

Donktober! Donk. It's in the day, you know. I still have the answer. The reason it's the 23rd is because you have so many spooky streams before then. Tim, I, uh, I regard to inform you that the joy, the joy conzy gave me, I dropped my switch with, and the right stick is just completely, completely fucked. Like, not functional anymore. So I bought one of them, Nitro decks.

Yeah. Fucked up. I bought the pro or the plus edition or whatever. And the, the, the face pad button. are below the stick, which feels really awkward. Yeah. I'm sure once I, maybe if I play a game that requires a lot of like dual sticking camera movement, but I'm just playing Zelda right now, and it's like kind of awkward with a button play.

So I'm returning that sucker, getting the other version of it. But so far, I like that little sucker. I like that little freaking thing. Yeah, you can return it if you want. I have an extra, I can just give you it. What? The Nitro deck, OG. Oh, word?

Oh shit, well, I already ordered the other one. Oh, Kinslin. I got lost. I got the clear pink one though. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I like it. I love that you're still in this.

It looks so good on OLED. This little goddamn Zelda game looks so good on OLED. Everything does. I mean, I know we're just not even talking about the show anymore. But on the games daily where you guys had the Switch Light Zelda edition. I was like, that fucking thinks. Cool. It's great.

It does. Switch was OLED. Do you think if I stole it from him? You think he noticed? No, he's like me with a station controller. If I walk in a cool and puts them on a shelf and everything's funny. If Tim's like, oh, man, my mom. My OLED or my little switchlight disappeared and I walk in one day with the exact same model edition.

Do you think you would think that I stole it? No, because you stole it from Gia. I was going to say having an inside job, yeah. Get Gia to do it. Replace it with a graham cracker. Gia won't know the difference. He's like, I mean,

this final face of seven games still looks like shit. This most means, it's brick. I guess it looks a little bit better now. Old ass fucking video games. Dynasty Warriors origins coming to BS5 Xbox Series X and PC on January 17th. No, Mike can't wait. You know, we saw this in state of play a week ago.

God, that was last week. Yeah. And like, it looked cool. You know, like, I've never really been into the Dynasty Warriors games. Like, I, in theory, they're really my shit. Where it's just, like, fun actiony, smash the shit out of things, like, fun music's playing. But I, the trailer piques my interest enough that I started going down a rabbit hole of, like, looking into the High Rule Warriors, the Age of Calamity stuff. Because I've been playing a lot of Zelda, too.

So there's just a lot of thoughts going on in my mind. I don't know that this ones for me, but like, there's something about the Warriors gameplay that I'm like, Mike might be on to something. I, see, I had a similar reaction where I've never played any Dynasty Warrior thing. Watching this trailer, I was like, man, this looks kind of good. Like, this looks like a fun time. And yeah, I'm the similar kind of person where you give me a character with a sword that's hacking and slashing.

Already I'm in. You put a bunch of characters on screen. That sounds fun. Like, I'm in. And you show me like, you know, these visuals, we see all of what's going on on screen. We see how good the fidelity looks. We see how good, like, the rain looks, the environment,

the character models, all this stuff looks really cool. It makes me when I check it out. My brain goes a different way where I'm like, should I get a PS2 emulator and play a Disney Warriors game? We are using Games Radars list. Shout it to them for making such a great list. Also, as the chat calls out, a fuck you to games radar.

Apparently, according to it's already gone, shout of somebody or other, Freedom Wars remastered, we skipped. January 10th. Now, of course, fuck me for not remembering that. I apologize. There's too many games in 2025. I'm very honed in on the next month of games.

What does that look like to you, Greg? Freedom more's, I know means a lot to you, but are you excited for a remaster? Are you actually going to put time into this? So multiple questions there's him, and I appreciate all of them. Thank you so much. As you know, I love Freedom Wars.

Great question, Tim. Exactly. You know, this guy over here, he's got a future in it. I love Freedom Morris. I am going to put time into it, yes. But I don't, I don't think this will lead to me platinuming it. I doubt this leads to me rolling credits on it again. Not because I don't love Freedom Wars, more because this is already a jam-pack start to the year.

I'm sure I'll still be playing stuff from in the past. Then you get here and it's like, okay, I love Freedom Wars. And all the previews out of the TGS area when this got announced were very much like, this is a remastered Freedom Wars, which means it is a game that's very old and cool. But like, is it like some of the things they were doing that were so innovative and cool in making it a monster hunter on the Vita in this different world? and yadda, yeah, yeah. All that was amazing for the time,

but to get here now and have it still be that game, it's not going to feel modern, all right? It's going to look modern. It's not going to feel modern. And I could see this me being like, jumping in, I can't wait. This is great. And then I play for a while.

I'm like, oh, yeah, I remember this. And roared tinted glasses for what it was back then. And a month out for Monster 100 Wiles. That's part of it, right? So I see this being something I jump into. I'm sure I do a stream here. Again, all it takes is, oh, let's stream it all week with the guys.

Yeah, 100% let's go, right? Or I get in and I'm like, oh, the trophy list actually is pretty attainable this time around. I'd like to make up for the sins of the past where the trophy list was outlandish before and go and chase that and do whatever. But I bet it'll be a few nights, maybe a few streams, and then, yeah, I move on to whatever I have to move on to. But I'm happy it exists. I hope that it sells well enough to go, oh, we should make another Freedom Wars. When you say it's Monster Hunter like, what does that mean? Are you going on missions?

Are you cutting off tails of being? Yep, yeah, 100%. You're fighting, you know, these robot creatures or whatever if you want to keep the trailer up there, right? and you're, you know, targeting their arm because you need to get this R&G to get this one thing to make your thing better and da-da-da-da-da. But, yeah, the idea is you're going out there to, you know, serve the panopticon,

try to get, you know, the years reduced on your sentence so you can go free. You are a prisoner. You have a sentence. The more you go out on these missions, the more years are removed from your sentence with this idea that they do this. Of course, they can add more if you're a bad guy

or whatever. It's, you know, very dystopian future. But whereas Monster Hunter is that weird, you know, it's ancient times in this weird offshoot for monsters or whatever. This is a Hey, this is a horrible future where you're this, you know, a sinner that has this sentence and you need to go work it off by

serving the Panopticon and going out and fighting that thing. Opticon. I'm excited to check it up. I hope you play with me. I will. That's a promise. Civilization 7's next up coming to PS5. Xbox Series X and X. PC and Nintendo Switch. February 11, 2025. The first time

a SIV has simultaneously launched on console and PC. Big deal? Yeah, of course. Last time around with Siv 6, it launched on PC later came to console. This is a big Mikey one. My game. My gloves this type of stuff. But Greg, are you interested in this? I know that you've done things with SIV in the past. Yeah, back in the day, for Siv 6, I went out there and hosted a bunch of interviews with the devs over at Faraxis. I did a little series with them talking about the game. And then, yeah, as Pax,

just a few months ago, a month ago now, I went and hosted their panel for SIV 7. I am, of course, fascinated by any video game developer, so I love talking to people about the games they make. SIV is on paper my shit. It's just the classic. Okay, it was only on PC. Okay, they brought SIV Revolution, which wasn't a full-blown Siv experience,

and so I didn't like it as much. But I look at this and I see the pangs of, ooh, wow, it's the nerdy ass sim city stuff. Ooh, wow, it's building a civilization and making these choices. If memory serves for Siv 6, it was the idea that, oh, I want to play this, but it's not launching simultaneously on console.

I'll get to him to it came to, console. And then it's the classic thing of, it came to console, there was a million things competing with it. This wasn't the hotness anymore. There wasn't something to talk about because it'd already been, and I never ever got to it. This coming here at launch, I will be requesting a code at launch and trying to get in there. I'm sure Mike will lead the charge on the review. But I want to because this is such an interesting, dorky game, and I am that kind of person. I'd love to sit there and go through and build it. And what they're doing with ages now, and again, shaking up that you can have a civilization that deviates so much and

use another civilization in the second era or the second age, the third age. Like that's all interesting to me and so I do want to try it, but by no stress the imagination, am I the sieve guy? Steam deck? An option for you? No, I don't think so. Because again, we'll see where we're at with, you know, the grand PC

experiment. You know, we tried it with the Starfield thing. I like the taste, but not enough to commit. Dragon Age again, I'm still very much, what the fuck am I going to do? What the fuck am I going to do? When EA gets their shit together, when BioWare gets their shit together, and they send codes for review. I'm getting

both. And I'm going to sit there and look at him. I'm going to play an hour here, play the hour there. Play the hour there. And figure out what looks the best, Tim. What am I doing? How does it look on the deck? We'll have our best been on the job, Greg Miller. As much as I want you on my side to slowly kind of, you know, dabble, take a little, you know, a little taste test here at the Costco.

You know, got some samples here and there. I just feel like your eyes maybe not as discerning as mine because for example you playing on Xbox and feeling like it's a similar experience to me I'm like this is night and day different from playing on PC at full high settings

and I feel like if you were to boot that sucker up on PS5 you'd be like Dragon Age you know what it's totally fine here I'm going to be totally okay playing on PS5. I want you to be on my side, Greg. Again, the big thing will be the portability of the Steam deck.

The ability to have that just ready to go. And yeah, I have my remote play and that's great and I love that or whatever. But the idea of all right, cool, in between shows, I'm going to do 30 minutes right there or whatever. Yeah, the plane. Now, I have a big trip. I'm going to New York we haven't signed the contract fully. In November. But even then, it's like, well, well, I still be playing Dragon Age. Now, I say that and I'm playing Starfield a year later like a madman. So

great chance. I don't know. I don't know, Andy. There's too much going on. Too much going on. If they want to take me to New York with you, I'll give them a discount. I mean, I can ask him. Let me know, yeah. Kingdom Com, deliverance, too. PS5, Xbox Series X and PC. February 11, 2025.

Andy, I turn to you. I want to give this a shot. I know that a lot of people enjoyed part one, and I know that it's got a lot of things that I'm interested in, this medieval setting, including apparently just like a shit ton of writing and a shit ton of characters. I don't think I'm going to look at this game and say, I'm going to see this through to the end the way I feel about Dragon Age Inquisition

or Dragon Age Vildgard. But it's something I definitely want to try out because I do enjoy the visuals. And I love anytime we've seen one of these trailers or teasers, I like the vibe of it. I like the dialogue. It's quirky. It's got that sort of British deadpan humor that I enjoy. I want to try it out for sure.

But I don't think I'm going to give this like the old college try and really try to get sucked in time. the world. Especially because Assassin's Creed Shadows, PC, Xbox Series X and PS5 coming February 14, 2025.

Andy, I want to stick with you for a second. That's the one. I mean, that's the one. With that in mind, do you think that

that's going to get in the way of your kingdom come deliverance? If the codes are given to us in a similar time, I am 1,000% picking Assassin's Creed Shadows. Okay.

Yeah, Valentine's Day, two days before my birthday. I want this game to be really, really good. But what if it isn't? Like, are you worried with this delay? I know obviously they delayed. That's the right call, obviously, if you need more time for your game. But are we in a situation where even with the delay, it's not a tech thing, it's a fun thing and the systems they built and all this stuff? No, I'm still, whatever that most recent showing they gave to us of,

here are the different gameplay features for both Giosuke and Yau and how they differ and different you'll be doing with both of the characters, the way the seasons are working, the way like the year cycle works. All that stuff has me interested enough. And this will be a nice little appetizer to Ghost of Yote. Like, I really want to just get back to a feudal Japan era with two characters that I can hopefully kind of dig into their backstory and start to enjoy. And I just, I love what both of these characters are being presented as. The big brooding, sure. Powerhouse. Like, yeah, the powerhouse two-handed, gigantic, fucking baseball bat with spikes on it.

I like what they're doing with the combat there. And then Yahweh being this more nimble. She's got that cool. Frickett, what do they call that? Like the Kunei sort of like spinning thing? I love that shit. I'm just, I'm really into it. I want to see what this.

She tears up all the trees, takes down the bamboo trees when she's spinning around. Yeah, that stuff looks really, really awesome. I'm really down to sort of check out this world. This is the one that I feel like will be the one. Huh? Noway, by the way. Oh, nowe, not a y. Not a why?

Now way. You're complaining with Yoske. Yoseke, nowe. You know what? Adiote. So. Yahweh is what we call God. Well, also, way means like dude.

Like a lot of Latin people will say like, way. You know, so I kept on thinking, yeah way, but it was now way. Nowe. A lot of this, in my culture, a lot of people in the south say, no way. You know what I mean? Which culture?

Which culture? White. Southern California surfers. You know, Spacoli. That's the South. SoCal's the South for you. Let's have some fucking fun here. Now, if we had the unfortunate incident where we get these codes three days before the game comes out or something like that, that would be an ultimate tragedy.

Yeah. Well, that would also be a sign that there's something going on. You know what I mean? I hope. I hope everything is great. For me, so here's the thing is a while ago made the bet with baseball. about whether or not I and Andy will get into this video game. I, a lot of my side of the bet...

I'm part of the bet. Yeah, I think you're part of the bet. Yeah. A lot of my side of the bet hinged on the fact that this game was coming out in November and there's nothing else coming out in November for me. So I was like, I'm going to have all the time in the world. You know, this game is one that intrigues me. It's, you know, it's the Assassin's Creed in Japan that we've been asking for forever.

Like, I think this is going to be my gateway back into the series. The problem now is now that it's coming out in February, I'm looking at the dates and I'm like, man, between Assassin's Creed Shadows, which is coming out February 14th, Valentine's Day. And then... It is a romantic option. And then you have a few days later,

avowed and lost records bloom and rage. Out of those three games, for me, likely the priority is going to be Lost Records Blue and Rage. Honestly, maybe a vowed over Assassin's Creed at that point, right? Like, Assassin's Creed Shadows for me is one that at this moment is giving me the vibes of

where I was at with Rise of the Ronan going into it, where I was so excited for Rise of the Rone, And I was like, oh, dude, I fucking love the Kauai Tecmo games. I enjoyed, what was the one me, Andy, and Mike. Wollong, Fallen Dynasty. Like, we played that. And, like, we gave it, like, a three out of five. But it was still, like, one of those ones where it's a three out of five that I enjoy.

But then with the additive of in Risen Rhone and getting that open world, getting those systems, having it be, you know, a bit expanded out. I was like, oh, man, okay, you have to bring me more than just, like, the, like, Samurai setting or, like, the medieval Japan setting. It just didn't have the narrative sauce that I want. And I'm hoping that I have some sort of stakes to give a shit about in a saddust. I want to get attached to a character in the first three hours and have that son of a gun die. And be like, oh, whoa, dude. Holy shit, I wasn't expecting that one character to stab his friend of the back. I want some narrative sauce, bless.

And that's my thing. The idea of Assassin's Creed Shadows is working so well for me. I like everything about it as far as how they're presenting it and what it's selling itself. to be, I'm so scared that I'm going to get into those first 10 minutes, walk around a bit and be like, ooh, this is a Assassin's Creed game, right? This is a Ubisoft game. This doesn't feel the way that, like, playing a Ghost of Tsushima feels, right? Or playing Ghost of Yote, which is coming out later in the year. If I want a Samurai game, I'm already invested in as far as, like, the world and the story and the franchise. So, you know, I'm kind of like back and forth on Assassin's

Street Shadows right now as far as my own investment. But again, this is one that I'm hoping is good, because it's doing a lot for me. without being so soon after scares me. Your word. Yeah. Yeah. I want to love it. I love what I saw at SGF, but even since SGF,

like I haven't thought of this game and I'm like, I got to play that. I can't wait to play that. Whereas a bunch of other stuff I did. So I'm hoping it's just going to be great and I'll have a great time when I get there. Yeah, I think I'm a little less worried. I don't know why. It's just like the gut feeling. Like I think, I feel like the delay is more so because they just weren't all hands on deck.

can make this as like big of a release as possible. And I think if they didn't delay it, I feel like it would have come out as like a kind of normal Assassin's Creed launch. You know, like we would, you and I would play it. We would enjoy our time with it. Less than Andy would play an hour of it and be like, man, this wasn't the one. I feel like they're just, they just want to take some time for the kind of last minute things to try to make this as big of a launch as possible.

We'll see. That mentality you have right there is the same way I felt about Star Wars. was outlaws, though. Like, I thought there's not a division being made by massive because they are trying to really cook on this Star Wars game. This is their big chance. This is a can't miss, and it won't miss. And it kind of missed for a lot of people. And so, like, that's the one thing that worries about. I'm stoked for the extra time for Paulus, though. I, the only difference is that, like, the moment-to-moment gameplay of outlaws never looked good to me. And that was, like, why I felt like I clocked it early of like this game

feels like it's going to be in trouble, whereas like the different elements of what they're adding to shadows on top of what they've already built for the last decade or so, I am more confident in in the moment to moment gameplay loop type of thing. We've got a vowed next up.

PC and Xbox Series X February 18, 2025. Now let's go the opposite here. If I'm Microsoft, I'm moving a vowed up. Let's get you the fuck out of February, put you in January. Let's get you in January. Let's get you in January. where Avad's whole schick is that it's obsidian.

It's a smaller RPG. It's not meant to be 4,000 hours, right? It's going to be hopefully multiple players because you enjoy it so much. Let's get you into January. Everybody's looking for those new games. Everybody always wants a good fucking call. Yeah. Phil?

Phil. Are you listening? Phil. Obsidian are you listening? I hate to say, you got a crunch now. Correct me if I'm running there. About got delayed and weren't they straight up just like, yo, we're trying to create some space.

Yeah. Right. So I feel like... That's why I'm saying. I think now they... I hope that they're over there. They look at February and they're like, this is too crazy. Let's move it to January.

Because I think January is the perfect time to look at that. You got Freedom Wars. You got Donkey Kong. You got Dynasty Warriors. One of these things is not like the other. And I mean, all of them aren't like the other. Where it's like, you could drop this, give people a good reason to turn on their Xbox,

ask for an Xbox for Christmas. Ask for a GamePass ultimate, whatever, for Christmas. And then be like, now you get to play this to get you started for the new year. Expectations for these first, quarter games are usually lower so you're getting a smaller experience, you're doing this whole thing,

let's just fucking go and have fun. Phil, should we move this up? It's don't, though. I think even if you double down on the point that Greg's making here, right, like if you're somebody who maybe gets an Xbox during Black Friday in November or you get it during Christmas,

you have Indiana Jones in December, cool, getting game pass for that. All right, January comes, time to cancel, oh wait, a valid, like, let's keep this thing going, right? I think that's what Xbox wants. You want something to keep people, you want that carrot on the stick.

They keep people going month to keep them described. So I agree. I think you move it up. And that's the thing, right, where you're like, you make a great point of Indiana Jones being on GamePast, getting you in. I forget if they said it. Indiana Jones, right? I'm expecting an uncharted runtime. So what, 10, 12 hours of Indiana Jonesness? You're done with that.

Then there's something here again that isn't the biggest thing in the world, but is ready to roll into and have some fun with. I was so excited by all the previews. 100%. People that were able to check it out at that. Was that the LA version of gamescom in LA. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I was just very, very excited about it. I want to have these awesome NPC interactions and cool dialogue choices and big decisions to be made in addition to just having this sort of new fantasy world that I'm really excited to kind of get into. Zach Johnson is expecting 20 to 25 hours for indie. I mean, unfortunately, I am too. Wow. Yeah, I mean, just in the sense, like, these games, like, love to just bloat. And, like, I feel like modern, the modern uncharted is 2025. I'm with you that I hope that it's 12 hours, but like, yeah, I think 15, 20.

The game just got bigger, you know. Wolfstein 2, the new Colossus, I believe, is 11 hours according to how long to beat. And that's more of what I'll compare it to since that was their last game and it's also first person. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want 20 hours, 25 hours in the Indian Jones. I hope. I hope it's as long as Wolfenstein. Yeah.

I wish there was, like, a way that I could, like, get my brain scanned over time and, like, have, like, a hype tracker situation. Because the way in which, like, the Assassin's Creed and, like, the chart that you would see from my brain can scan, Assassin's Creed is like inch downward, but like avowed is kind of over too. Oh wow. Because before my hyper avowed was kind of like, just down. I did not really care about it. But I think with previous previews and kind of just I think how it's positioned here, I'm like, you know what?

I might be able to have time for this thing. If they're able to get it, I guess get it out of February, get it into somewhere that's going to have a bit of space, I can see myself falling into it. I'm not smart enough to do this, but someone out there is. What you're saying, rather than scan your brain would be if someone made you, a Google sheets or an Excel thing, right, where you had an allotted number of points to assign to X games, right?

And you checked in weekly or bi-weekly, right? And then you could just hit graph, and then the graph could do it. It's like, the blessing stock market. Oh, the blessing stock. It's like when I had my kidney son, they were like, what's your pain level at? And I was like, 10 out of 10.

I'm full. They're like, what smiley face are you? I was like that one to renounce smiling at all. I'm frowning real hard. Thanks, my therapist does this, because she has like a questionnaire that I fill out every time. That's like, how are you feeling

Hype levels for Blessing's life. Yeah. I was thinking just like we get you a smart watch with the heart monitor, right? And then we just look at you. We just go, avowed him. We see the rating go up. We got lost records, blood and rage coming to PC. Blum and rage.

That's a typo. Not on your end on games radar. Somebody hit up Games Radar Plus. Let him know there's a typo there. Bloom and Rage. Cannot fucking wait. Of course, don't not. This is a similar situation, right?

Where don't nod, the folks who are super famous, obviously for Life is Strange. We're like, hey, we're doing this one. It's a return to what we know the best, right? Teenage Girl drama. And then, of course, they were like, hey, cool. We're Squarionics. We're also making a Life is Strange with Max Calfield. We're putting out here.

And they were like, you know what? We don't want to make the audience choose. We know that there's limited bandwidth. We're moving. We'll see you later. I don't think they need to move from February. I think this game is going to do what it's going to do for folks like me. you're Greg Miller freaks

who just want to go through and have a walking sim do this thing, blah, blah, but the demo I played of this, so in love with it. Tim, I think I, I forget if I called you over just told you about it,

but like I didn't, you know, it's happening on two planes of existence, or time, I should say, the present day and then the past

when you were a teenage girl. You come in here and you have that 90s camcorder you film with all your friends that then you are making choices for the dialogue, making choices in the game. You then have the footage

get edited together. and then you have this like narration you go into to watch your video footage that you just made, edited together to tell you more about whatever you're looking for. Awesome. And then something horrible happens to them that we're not assured because that's where the demo ends. And that's why they have this now mystery on top of just a coming of age teenage drama. That is we all hung out and then we put everything in this box and we said we'd never talk about it again. And now 20 years later the box has shown up and what's going on.

It's like, fuck. Okay, cool. Greg, I know you're as a fellow Life of Strange sicko. Where's the Greg stock, I guess, with this and Life of Strange? Great question, boss. I appreciate that.

Let me get my, my stat of the Greg Stock market out. I'm more excited for this one. Wow. But it's because I know more about this one. I've played it. I think, again, we've already had so many Life is Stranges. I know we're returning to Max. I know that.

But even returning to Max isn't as exciting because I like that we were done with that and like you have your head canon slash the comic book slash whatever you want coming in and having a canonical Max Cawfield story and being like cool

what happened with Chloe and all this stuff it's I'm not it doesn't move the needle for me the name Life is Strange moves the needle I'm excited to go see what's going on but I'm more excited for this

because I've played it and the camera thing's really unique and the mystery's cool and I like a hey we had to like it we're all back together as adults because whatever horrible thing happened in our childhood

let's figure it out what about you I think I'm more excited for a life is strange just because of the track record so far of deck nine compared to

Don't nod lately where Don't nod's latest projects haven't done much for me when you're talking about the narrative adventure stuff

because what that is tell me why which frankly I had so many yeah yeah like tell me

I didn't get to actually check out that was more of a word of mouth for me of what I heard from people

and I was kind of like okay I played episode one and I was like yeah it must have you you must have been the word of mouth

but it was that and then there was tell me why twin mirror twin mirror that nobody seemingly played. I didn't hear anything about it. Harmony, the fall of reverie. You saw it banisher's ghost of New Eden,

then lost records, Blooming Rage here at the end. Man, if I could stamp my fingers, I would make banishers of 15-hour game. Sure. Because, God dang, what I did play was so fucking good and captivating, and the writing is like, writing and acting is some of the best I've experienced,

but it's just, when people were in my chat telling me, I beat this game in 73 hours, like, what? Why? It doesn't need to be that game. No, it did not. It had a really interesting ideas, and I agree. It was just too,

it was trying to do something that it was, and the combat wasn't good enough. It was stretching too far out of the AA, trying to be a AAA when it should have been like, we're a double A, we're going to be, yeah, 10, 15, 20 hours. Yeah, with Life is Strange, two hours. Which was like in my top five, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, great game. And so I think because of that, I'm more excited for Life Strange, but I'm hoping that Blumen, Blumen rage. I'm hoping that surprises me. Speaking of surprises, like a dragon,

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. What a surprising name. I just love it. I love the boldness to commit to it. And it's like, it is what it is and what it is just looks awesome. Good for them. I'm excited for Roger.

I'm excited for Brittany. I just love that it's coming February 28 or no, that's not right. February, yeah, 28, 2025. Like, they are just getting these things out. Every year, let's give you something in this thing. We have this American Western audience, you know, that we've been trying to get forever.

We finally have, let's just feed the world. Feed the world. Feed the world. Feed the world. The world. With some pirates in Hawaii. And at this point, Roger making a great point

and a lot of the the Yakuza sort of fan base or like a dragon fan base pointing out, yes, a lot of these assets are the same ones from the other games,

but who gives a shit? You're having these teams using all these assets to, hey, let's, we have enough shit to just throw another story together. Let's do that,

right? And it's such a smart way for them to continue to deliver like quality, right? Because every time a, I like a dragon game comes out, that fan base is so jazzed about it. And they keep on growing that fan base. I think they're doing such a kick-ass job right now.

Yep. Good for them. I wish others would take note. We got Monster Hunter Wilds coming up with PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X, February 28, 2025. Last fucking go. We've been out last day of February there. You want to talk about one that's going to be, we're just streaming nonstop in there, right? It's me.

It's blessing. Oh, I made it this time. Yeah, yeah. Sorry with you this time. Yeah, yeah, we'll be out there. Yeah, you're there. You're doing stuff. Mike's ordering pizzas.

Oh, okay. You can play with this. Nice. Unless Kevin's back, then he probably wants to play. Yeah. Joey will probably won't play too. Yeah. Might be time for you guys to go do arithmetic.

You know what I mean? Go balance the books while we do it. I want to create beef between Sega and Capcom. Not like actual beef, but like one, these games are coming out the same day. And like they give me similar energies. Like Sega and Capcom, not these two games. Just as far as like what they bring to the table is third-party publishers.

Okay, sure. sure sure I feel like we can build something there. Interesting. I think Capcom's beating the pants off in the fast moon. Of Sega? Yeah. The Sega has the persona franchise. They got Sonic.

They got Yakuvarez. Atlas has when they bought Atlas. I mean, but they bought Atlas, you know. PlayStation bought insomnia. I got Sparta me. I think day, I think year after year,

you're getting a better crop of games from Capcom, I think. But I, whatever. Let's not do this right now. Instead, we'll talk about how much we love Monster Hunter Wilds. Of course, Bless and I played it last week. You got to see a preview on Friday. It is one that I keep thinking every so often. I'm like, oh, it's going to be so much fun.

When we get to go out there, just go after the same monster 30 times. So I have the best goddamn shin guards you've ever seen. So specific. I love I love a good shin guard. I mean, Maltzer Wild. I never played soccer, Tim, so I never got to have him, but I see kids to make the pizza plays

with him like, oh, you can kick so hard. You can't get him in the face. Just going through this really quick just to finish out the games that we actually have dates for. Tales of the Shire, coming to everything, March 25th, 2025. Andy's going to play it. He loves it. He loves these little weird munchkins. I

previewed it at SGF and thought it was pretty not good. Thank God it got delayed so it doesn't affect my fantasy critic. And then Fatal Fury City of Wolves, PS5 and PC April 21st. Let's go. I'm moderately excited. I think as far as fighting games next year, I'm more excited

to XCO. But, you know, Fatal Fury City of Wolves is going to feature Ken and Chun Lee along with Cristiano Ronaldo, the soccer player. What? Yeah. And so what's the fun? That's how you get blessed interesting.

Yeah, I mean, I was like, oh, fuck, all right. You know, I would prefer messy, but sure. Take what I can get. So now looking through that, those are the games that we know the dates of. Is it safe to say that, like, the big contenders of this are Monster Hunter Wilds, avowed, and Assassin's Creed? Like, those are the big ones. For taking your... Well, just the big ones being like the big conversation pieces, I would say.

I feel like lost records, I think, probably has the highest chance of, like, lost records would be that normal thing where it's like, I talk about it, busting talks about it because we really liked it or we're disappointed by it and then it's just done, right? Whereas I think the others will be ongoing conversations more. My,

I hope a Vought is in the conversation you're talking about that it's in this big thing. I'm looking forward to a Vowd. I like the previews I saw of AVoud. I just don't want it to be a game. We play and it was like, oh, it's fine. And then we move on. I want it to be a really cool RPG that I finish.

I'm like, oh, man, I want to re-roll a character. and run back through it right away. See, I do wonder if any of these games that we're talking about are going to be in the conversation by the end of the year. Just looking at how big next year is. My thoughts would be your best bet on that if I was a betting man. I mean, in the wide conversation, Monster Hunter Wilds.

I think I think Monster Hunter Wilde is going to deliver that multiplayer experience. I think we're all going to be into it. I think we're going to be into it for a while probably of playing at home. What are you smiling about what did I do? Don't worry about it. Playing it and playing at home, playing here at the streams. I think it'll have a helldivers kind of vibe where we put so much time into it that it is, oh, I really enjoyed that.

I don't know if it'll be a lasting thing we play throughout the year or anything like that. And then I think, I bet lost records will probably end up on my top ten list in terms of... You think so? I mean, from what I played, if it can do, if it nails that over the two giant chapters, two chapters it's trying to do, I'd say so, yeah, but like, who knows how it'll actually be. Because, yeah, I get, I'm just looking at that next year compared to years prior, and it is like, we're going to end up talking about Borderlands 4. We're going to talk about Death Stranding 2.

You guys are going to talk about Ghost of Guilance 4. We're going to talk about GTA. You two are going to fall asleep. You're going to fall asleep during you. You think we're going to be talking about, if Borderlands 4 comes out next year, you think we're going to be talking about that at the end of the year for game of the year?

I mean, not necessarily maybe at the end for game of the year, but I think it's going to be in the car. I think that's one of the biggest games of the year. Wilde is going to be in the game of the year discussion. I don't think it's going to be number one, but I think that it will be in the top 10. What if it was?

Because, I mean, like, Copcom's just been on such a role recently. Unlike saying. Hunter Wilder World was like such a big thing that I do think that this is going to, be that like sequel jump up for them. Do you think so of us? Yeah, I agree with that.

I guess out of all these games, yes, Monster Hunter Wilds is the one that's going to, I think, stand out the most. And I guess it will stay in the conversation, but I think there's an element of Monster Hunter Wilds where it speaks to the audience

that it speaks to. And it's one that I think it's tough to break out into a wider audience because it is a very specific type of gameplay style that it, you know, it leans into, right?

And it like polishes that and it focuses on that. Whereas like, when I talk, when I bring up poor, Borderlands 4 in the conversation. I guess I'm more so talking about just like conversation and how something dominates the conversation.

I think Borderlands is one of those franchises is going to dominate the conversation more. I think Monster Hunter Wilds, and again, who knows, but I don't have a crystal ball. I think Monster Hunter Wilds is going to be like an even bigger version of Hell Divers where it is going to be,

I think, yeah, Hell Divers is very specific in what it does, right? You can wrap your head around it, but there's like, oh, these stratagems and no, it's punishingly difficult, yada, yada, yada. I think Monster Wilds will capitalize on the love that Monster Hunter World found.

like that was such a breakout hit for Monster Hunter that now you double down, you put it out here in a different time when people are expecting different things from multiplayer games. I think it'll deliver that. I think it'll have the hooks to keep you coming back, but I also think it'll be that thing of,

yeah, I can play an hour tonight and then go off and play whatever else I want or I can play five hours tonight and do the whole thing. Borderlands 4 just on, I think Borderlands 3 did what it did in terms of it because we had had so long since a numbered Borderlands. People were excited to see it back,

and then I think that audience was happy to have it back. But the lasting reception of Borderlands 3 really makes me think Borderlands 4 is going to have like that. It comes out and everybody's like, eh, it's just dick and fart jokes. Oh, it's just this. Oh, it's blah, blah. And then is the game actually good on top of that layer? It's just a boring swamp planet over and over again. God, that planet sucks.

That planet does. Story is cool about it, though, right? You're trying to get them married or whatever. But yeah, it's like, yeah, I hear you. And I think I think Borderlands 4 is going to be judged harshly in 2025. I think, I think, again, the way everything has changed. Like, Borderlands 3 dropping was like, cool, it's back and it's this. and it's yay and blah, but then even then people were like,

I mean, I feel like it was hated. I feel like the discourse around Borderlands 3, the discourse part of it, not talking of the game quality was like, poo, poo, boo. See, I think that's, I think that is more, um, like press media and like more of the hardcore gaming audience.

Discourse. Yeah, yeah, discourse. I, and maybe this is me, judging more anecdotally of like being in college and how much, how many friends I had that like weren't even like the biggest gamers,

but they played borderlands and they love borderlands. and they love Borderlands, right? Like, Borderlands is one that I view as more of a mainstream, I guess, I view it as more of a mainstream franchise than Monster Hunter. Even though I understand Monster Hunter, I agree with that. I agree with that, 100%. But yeah, if we're talking about Game of the Year conversation, I guess.

They both had horrible movies. Oh, yeah. Well, there was something to find to enjoy it in Monster Hunter, you know? Did you watch the Monster Hunter movie? I did, I did. Did you find something to enjoy it? No, you watched it. It was fine.

I had a fine time with it. I don't know, me and Jen, I might have even bought it on Amazon. You know how it is. Oh, my God. What? Milo Jovovich, right? Yeah. Yeah.

And you're somebody who doesn't even love action movies. Yeah, I thought the movie was fine. I was like, all right. I mean,

I've never talked about it again, obviously, right? Yeah, because we didn't know. Yeah, I don't want to count out Monster Underwilds out of, like, the game of the air conversation. I guess I'm,

even if I'm thinking beyond even just Borderlands, I'm more so even just thinking about things like, again, GTA, Ghost of Yote, a switch launch lineup. That's probably going to have a 3D

Mario in there. Yeah, I own it. I have watched again. That's crazy. What do you mean? Watch again. That's crazy. You actually watch the monster.

Especially when you see like the watch bar all the way completely. You watch the credits. You got Reds. You got evil. The end of the credits. You got Hellboys. Ron Perlman. You got Monster Hunter.

Let's go. Bless another pizza bet. Uh-huh. I predict Monster Hunter Wilds will be in the top five of our top 10. Oh, I'll take that bet. Yeah, I'll take that bet for sure. All right? Yeah.

No, it's not going to be in top five. Pizza, pizza bit. Oh, you're saying it's not going to be in our top five? Monster and the Wilds, yeah, Simon. Whoa. Top five, dude? Yeah, no, I'm kind of with less on this. Next year's about to be insane, dude.

This is what I keep saying. Next year is going to be fucking crazy. We got GTA, we got Ghost of Yote. We got fucking, we got Nintendo Switch launch lineup. Monster Under Wilds isn't making it above. The one thing that would, I think it'll be hard for Monster Hunter Wilds to get there. the one thing it would have going for us in this world we're talking about would be

that a bunch of us would play it and we would all have great, when you guys talk about game of the year now Barrett's always like, and you guys are always like, it's going to be such a crazy one everyone's number one for this year will probably be different. If you're in a situation next year for that, right, that'd be the way. If everybody's fourth is Monster Hunter Wilds. We got Metal Gear Delta snake eater. Gank, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang,

I hear my other crazy predictions, I'm not going to take a pizza butt on this. I don't think GTA or Death Stranding 2 hit next year. I don't think you're crazy. Yeah, that's... I mean, that's also fair. I'm going by the assumption that they do. We're going to keep talking about what may or may not happen in 2025

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but of course beyond what we've already said, we don't have full dates. So we have a giant list here, I think we're going to go through and kind of pick and choose what we're excited for, what we think's happening, and where you're going to go with it.

I'm glad to look through this and see. So what is your take? I mean, GTA6, I think, obviously, is the elephant in the room next year in terms of a 2025 game that we don't have a full date for, but it's supposed to be 2025. Do you think actually comes out next year?

I'm 50-50, honestly. Yeah. I'm not I'm not of the mind that like oh there's no way I know there have been the reports of like it may be slipping but right like when we read those reports it seems like it's slipping from maybe spring to fall it doesn't seem like it's a oh this is 2026 for sure yet but of course game development is hard GTA 6 probably going to be the highest budget video game ever released right and so like there's a lot being put into it I imagine it's

going to take time it's going to take effort and so yeah I'm I'm about 50 50 what about you Greg thank you Tim yeah it's the normal one where it's not like we have insider information one way or the other to make any educated guess. I would say, yeah, I think it is going to get delayed because I just think Rockstar is in that envious position of, we don't have to release shit

until it's right, until it's perfect, until we think it's going to be, we want another 10 out of 10 IG. We know exactly what we're aiming for here and we won't settle for less. I think with that attitude and the money they already have, there's no reason to rush. And I do think that like, you know, you look at the rest of the 2K portfolio, it's not like

that's not going to deliver. You're going to get your NBA game you're gonna get you know mafia yeah I wanna go that far yeah I mean yeah mafia is gonna be fine but I don't think they're like take two interactive is worried about like oh we need this to make ends meet I just don't think they need

to worry about it so I think any slight thing that would throw them off they wouldn't they'd be like all right cool you know let's not do it whether it is the game's not coming together where it is they're part of the sag strike right oh I think that I mean there's stuff like that if you're still trying to finish that shit up then you're fucked on trying to get this game done and you don't want to rush you don't do a thing

blah blah. I'm going to do an experiment right now. I'm going to write down. I'm going to try and make a top 10 games for 2025. In terms of what you think your top 10 list would be? What I think the kind of funny top 10 list is going to be. Save this. That's a game's cast topic. Yeah, that's a predicting

our top 10 next year. Yeah. That's a good guy. Because this is me like trying to tell you all that Maltrenner Wild is not going to be top five. Cal says no, they are exempt from the sex, right? Okay, so don't even worry about that. Thank you very much. I'm 7030 on GTA, really seeing in 2025, 70 being positive. Like I think it's more

likely than not it actually hits next year. But I'm with grade that like they can do whatever the hell they want. But I think that that game is in better shape than we might think it is just because of a million different factors. I don't even think it's in bad shape. I just think rock stars perfectionists. Yeah. Yeah. Like Red Dead 2 got delayed

multiple times, I believe. And that's just because, you know. That's true. They just want to make sure the horse testicles, you know, contract. Yeah, they got a shrinking. If you think about it, though, like any game that comes out and they're thinking about things like horse testicles and things, if they're going that into detail, usually they come out in their bangers. Now, the two games are talking about our Metal Your Solid 5 and Red Derrador 2.

But so far it's not failed. Do you think Chris Hanke doesn't like Phantom Pain? Here's the problem with Chris Anka. Everything. Okay. Everything. At some point we're going to stop him here before he keeps talking. You know what I mean?

I have the power and you just talk over it and make it stop. I can get louder if I need to. Chris Anka, you know what you did. So if I'm going to save my top 10 prediction then, can I at least ask, when you guys look at this list of both the dated games and then the to be announced games that are coming out in 2025,

what are your top five games? Like top five most anticipated. Just off the top of your head. I mean, switch two. Yeah, that's the number one. Like whatever that lineup looks like, that is what I am most excited for. GTA definitely up there as well.

Metal gear solid I'm very excited for. Yeah. You're talking about Delta. Yeah. South of midnight. Mix tape, the next game from Beethoven and Dinosaur. Yeah, would I be like GTA?

I'd be like Ghost. I would say Metal Gear, because you have to say Metal Gear. Doom the Dark Ages. That's 2025. Yeah. Wild. Hyperlight breaker baby. Table 4 is supposed to come out.

Yeah, and that's what I'm debating. Because I don't think they're actually like, they don't have. have a date, but I would imagine Hades 2 next year. I'm not putting it on my list because I'm for some reason hesitant for it, but Pokemon ZA is next year. The thing that I'm most intrigued about that game is that they took a year off. Right.

Like the fact that we're not getting a core Pokemon this year is, I think, a very good thing. The Assassin's Creed Factor sort of thing where they finally were like, yeah, let's, maybe we. And you got to assume it's maybe because they just played Scarlet and Violet. They're like, oh, man. They're like, man, why does it look like this, you know? Let's use the full power of the Switch 2. I mean, Metroid Prime 4.

So, yeah, I mean, Prime 4 is such a big, one of the biggest question marks to me, at least, of like, that game could release at any point, and I'd believe it. I mean, they're announced for 2025, right? Oh, they don't have like an early 2025 or anything. No, no, no. Did they even say 2025?

I don't think they did. Oh, they did. Really? Yeah. Yeah, that I explicitly remember. You're not doing a mic. right now with Marvel rivals. There's no, dude,

if they didn't announce $20.5, I am in a different universe. 1,000%. Yeah. I mean, that's exciting. We can come out. Oh, yeah, in south of midnight. Oh, man. South of midnight and mafia,

the old country are probably my two right now. Because I'm a mafia sicko. That's just purely for me. We're too close. Hollenite Silk Song. Yeah, come on now. Don't even.

Like, that's why I'm like, I feel like we're underestimating our top five. Like, our top tens might all be tens. Hollinide Silk song is 100% 2025 100% I would like

100% Pizza bag Oh yeah I say not 2022 That is a real pizza bed I'm gonna actually get a pizza You think 2024 Game Awards

Shadow drop Oh man Oh wow You think about in December I'm just making fun Oh okay Why not though I will say it sure Wow

That'd be crazy See, I'm still holding out that Metal Gear Solid is going to be 2034, although real time, I think I need to let it go because TGES. Is it on your fantasy draft or something? No, it's not, but it's just like, it just, there was a lot of signs there was. And they've, they never said 2025, you know, they haven't said it. The game, people preview it when you think we're in October and they're not announcing the release date of a Meliger Solid is coming in? I thought they were going to TGS and they didn't, which was bizarre to me. But.

So when does a metal gear solid Delta, Snake Eater? come out. I don't know. Probably mark her some shit. June. June. June. I'm gonna say April. Yeah? I'm saying April. Yeah. Yeah, we don't have much in April at this point going on. Yeah. I mean, okay, switch two. We haven't talked about it in a while. We're launching with a Mario game? 100%. Yeah. This is going to be awesome?

100%. You guys gonna sell it up the river like you did Odyssey when you didn't get that? Sell it up the river. You didn't give that game of year? We got our second place. How dare it? First loser. First loser. I mean, it deserved to lose the breath of the wild line. Oh man, we couldn't make up a story so just run around.

We couldn't make up a story. I hate that you didn't beat tears. I hate your ass. What was our game of the year last year? It was tears. Oh, thank God. Okay. But during the tears discussion, Greg going, what's our game of the year going to be

that's not tears? Dude, right? You fuck this guy. Great game. It's a great game. It's a great game. Nobody's saying it's not a great game. We're saying you run around.

Where are we at right now? I mean, though this also could be a game's cast topic to itself. It probably will be. But top level, switch two. When's it come out? Bless. April.

Greg. March. Andy. April. Barrett. August. Yuck. I'm sticking with March, baby.

I'm sticking with March. I believe. I believe it. What else is the launch lineup? Mario and Mario Kart probably? No way. No way. No fuck you're crazy.

Why? Tim, it's been. Well, when you say launch lineup, I'm thinking launch lineup, I'm thinking launch window. No, I'm thinking launch day. Okay, you're saying launch day? There's no way they're putting out two of their biggest franchises on the same day. That's stupid. No, okay, I agree with that.

But I would almost lean toward a Mario cart over a 3D Mario for launch day. I mean, people can say that. I don't know if I'm excited for anything more. than whatever that reveal presentation is going to be. Like, I am going to lose my shit. If they even go the tiny, uh,

tiniest bit of like, here's what this game looks like on the switch too. Like, I'm just so excited for any sort of visual differences. Yeah. And if I just get a menu in 4K, I'm just going to be very excited about that. If I get a menu that's in not black or white,

I'm going to be, you know, the non-flying menu is insane. Insane. Yeah, I also makes sense. But my prediction then would be day one, launch day. I think you get Mario Kart. I think a month later, you get Metroid Prime 4.

It comes out on both Switch 1, Switch 2. And I think probably fall, I'd say 3D Mario. I think you launch with a Mario because that's just such a welcoming, hey, it's Mario, wahoo. And then you put card out. Yeah, maybe at the end of the year. But I also would think a year later, probably. Like, they're not going to be worried about selling it.

Like, you had to have one of those. Like, I think a Mario Kart is, like, one of them ones. Oh, it is. You know, it's Mario Kart, it's Animal Crossing. It's a Pokemon, but that's almost a different thing because it's a Pokemon company, all this shit, right? But, like, you, an Animal Crossing or a Mario Kart, that is a... Multiplayer encourages people to buy more, like, of their own Switch 2s, to be able to play a family title. Yeah.

That you play with the family, play with friends, invite people over, be like, look about Switch 2. Whoa. It's a lot like the Switch 1. It's a game that, like, your most casual audience and your most hard-class. who audience fucks with. Yeah. Like I think I think you prioritize

it's crazy to think that this is how it would work but I think you prioritize a Mario cart over a 3D Mario for getting it out first. Not for launch. Really?

No man, that it's that comes later. The launch needs to be the system seller. The thing of like this is why. No, I think the Mario Kart is like

that continues that but I feel like the launch it's like more defining they're looking for the review scores whereas Mario Kart's not for the review scores. They're selling that shit. Nintendo wants that fucking

crown jewel win for their launch and it's going to be 3D Mario and I can't have to wait for an animal crossing I guess last time it was Zelda right so that makes it imagine a year okay I think I think animal crossing is a year two title for the switch I think it'll be a year three yeah see that's right three yeah um looking through this list here is there anything else you all want to bring up oh my god really quick I just want to shout out demon school that was supposed to come out this year and uh blessing we are really uh interested in it it seems to be kind of like an homage to like PS1, almost like OG persona era like

RPGs that I'm really interested in, but just with like much more like modern design and art sensibilities. And it seems rad as hell. Yeah, this was a good one that came on the game showcase we did at GDC. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is one I want to keep my eye on.

I'm excited for Hello Kitty Odd Adventure. Butters from that one episode of World Warcraft. Also, I'm pretty sure that's a port because I'm pretty sure that games out, yeah. I mean, you know, we look at this list. You can't forget WW2K25. You can't. Who's on the cover?

They're sleeping giant. Oh, that's a great question. They had Cody Rhodes already for this year. I would bet, yeah, I know. I would bet you do something with Roman. You think so. I mean, they've already done this. Sina's last run.

You know what I mean? Yeah, but he was on the cover. See, I think with Roman being, you know. I think you put Greg on it. I appreciate that. I'm saying Jay Uso. No. I mean, I love that.

I love that. I think it'll be tied to the showcase, right? So, like, if you're going to do that, I think Roman Roman reigns being a face now, right? You could put him on there and have it be, relive all these Roman reigns moments, relive the streak. You know what I mean? Yeah.

When he said CM Punk. I mean, also, yeah. I mean, like, there's a lot of people you could obviously pick great. Seampunk would be great, actually, for a showcase mode. Actually, that's really fucking smart fuck. Yeah. Oh, Crimson Desert is another one. Crimson Desert.

I was going to mention Judas doesn't feel like it's coming out next year. No, not at all. all. B Fox says, Greg, have you watched the Netflix documentary about Vince McMahon? I did, and it was my Greg way yesterday. I pick it up on Patreon. Or YouTube.com slash kind of funny. So, Sina, did he already got a showcase, right?

I'm not crazy. Yeah, two years ago. Yeah. Yeah, this year was made in the year before. If he didn't have that, I would say for sure, Sina would be a slam dunk, but it means, yeah.

I still think it's Sina. Maybe they don't do the showcase another do something different, but him, the last run stuff, man, there. For his last run, what I would want,

and you guys know more than me if they would build to this, but I would want like a Sina Oordon feud, just like one last one. Oh, yeah. And then put so many last ones here. Put Randy Orton on the cover. No.

No? But, Blas, let me tell you, me and my friend James Burke were texting back and forth last night, doing some fan booking of what this might all look like. Yeah. If somehow they build it to a match at WrestleMania of Randy versus Sina, which I think is very likely, but if Randy Orton comes out to his legend killer theme song, I beat Sina.

Is that the legend, is that like the, hey, you can say? Yeah. Oh, man. I'll get chills. I'll get fucking chills. rights itself, everybody. Greg is Wonder Woman coming out in 20205? I say yes.

I could see it, yeah. Like, I want to be a hating-ass hater. I don't. I mean, I want this game to be really good. I'm really looking forward to it. But it's like, you know, I just bet so conservatively, usually. I could see this coming out next year, yeah. The last game was like when I was at IGN.

I know, brother. I know. Yeah, well, was that Shadow of War? Yeah, 2018. Yeah. And so I think, you know, I don't know. I think it's, well, when was, what game of war? words was this that they showed this?

Oof. 2022, I think. Yeah. Maybe, let's see. Two years ago. 2021. Yeah. It's not on this list, but I'm pretty sure it said

2025 is a Marvel 1943, the Cap and Black Panther game. Oh. That'll get canceled. I will say it doesn't come out. I will say Wonder Woman comes out next year, September. Yeah.

Yeah, we've said this before, but I don't believe that's a real game. The Cap and Black, the Capping. Look, the Captain Black Panther. Yeah. You're like me where I kept calling Black Panther Black Panda. I was going to say the Captain Black America.

And I was like, no, that's not it. No, I was joking about like this game will get canceled. But I think it's a real game. I just think it's going to be a long time still we see anything. I just need Hennig to get a dub. Yeah, getting the form of just releasing a video game, you know. Shadow Trickster says, we got a cinematic trailer, Tim.

Exactly. Exactly my point. I don't think it's a game. Damn. It looks unbelievable. I know I mentioned it before, but 2XCO. That's high up for me

for next year. Me and Mike are already on it, training. You know, as we look through games radar is no 2025, but announced Control 2. How far? They haven't even hinted it how far out are we all, right?

They update us. They just did the partnership with the Annapurna, right? They talked about that. They do like to post, I sort of got their monthly, where they tell you exactly where they're at with each project. I think they just secured funding from like Krafton or something like that. Well, they were partnered with like, um, it was next on maybe. They had some kind of deal with like, it was like 10 cent or some shit.

It was one of those. 10 cents. That I think they then split off of so they can get, I'm conflating it. There's like, I know that like last week they recently got extra funding from 10 cent. Oh, you're right. That happened recently. Yeah. I feel like control two still got to be in pre-production at this point.

I don't feel like we see that for. We get that DLC this year. Or yeah, Lakehouse. Oh, God, October, fuck. There's so much going on.

We're there, man. We're there. 20-207 for control. Man, look at this. Marvel's Iron Man, Marvel's Blade. Marvel's Wolverine.

It's like crazy stuff. I wonder. Wolverine's not next year, right? I think it's incredibly unlikely. Yeah. I'll be shocked. Like,

I think we get ghosts next year. Like I know that they... Ghost of Yote? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I know that they said it, but like, that doesn't mean it's going to happen.

That's true. I think it does, though. I think we get it next year. But I'm not really counting on any other major PlayStation Studios, single player title. You think the two, single player... Oh, there's the death raining two, 30 to 40...

Here's the thing. This was... I don't believe this either. No, this was a translation... Get it off! It's lies! It's already been updated with, like, it was a translation issue where

he was talking about the VO being 30 to 40% complete. Yeah, because I saw, I try to add this to K.D the other day. I'll take your article then IGN. I clicked the link that had the article. It wasn't the IGN one, but it was like a different, it was like insider gaming and then they had deleted the article. So I was like, oh yeah, there's something wrong here. Um, I think we get the stranding to next year. So you think the two single player PlayStation games we get next year are desperate to go see Yote and that's it. I mean, yeah, we're like that scale of game. Yeah. Like I don't count out fair games. single player.

Oh, yeah. But that's where I was going to take it too. So like, as far as this PlayStation First Party, you get those two, you get fair games, that can't be it. I just want to see Bear keep rolling back in the chair. Further and getting smaller.

Gets the Coke and rolls back. Like, what game do they put out a Lego version of, you know, what a surprise is there? Well, things like that might happen. Yeah. But is there any... My point is, I don't think... You're talking big ass,

we're not getting insomiac. We're not getting Sony Santa Monica. We're not getting naughty dog. Like we're not getting Blue Point. Or are we? That's my question mark. Blue points my question mark. We hear about Blue Points thing at

Game Awards. Yeah. And it releases in 2025. I love that. No way. Fucking take it to the bank. You're going to get it to the bank. Dreadgames.com.

And you're going to like it. God, days gone remastered. I cannot fucking wait for that day when that just pops up on the blog. It's gonna end a game award. It's a good show. Kingdom Hearts 4.

I think it's next year. No. You think Kingdom Hearts 4? Let me ask you, why don't you? Because they've shown nothing. All we saw was like a CG animation of Sora in a city. It was gameplay. What was gameplay?

There was gameplay in it. Yeah. In that? Barrett, bring that up. He was air attacking a fucking black figure. That was gameplay the way that the Kingdom Hearts 3 revealed trailer was gameplay. Where they're like, oh, this is our idea that we have concepts of gameplay. No.

Kingdom March 3 was like full on CG shit. This had actual like gameplay stuff going on. Bears scrub to the gameplay part. We're about to get to it. Yeah, we're about to get. There is. That's gameplay right there. This is concepts of gameplay, man.

Did you play Kingdom March 3? Because this is how the game is how it was. Yeah. I mean, this looks a little better, but like. A little bit better. Yeah. What button did you press here? Was that just right and left?

What did you press there? I mean, kind of, but that's what Kingdom Arch 3 is. Fucking live subreddit comment, right? I just don't believe it. Yeah. So, I don't know. I think the biggest question is, when we think about King of Arts 2 and 3 and the lead up to that, how much of the game were you seeing in reveals and trailers?

Like, were they doing a whole lot of press leading up to those? Kingdom March 3, I think, is an outlier when it comes to this stuff because of how long it was between King of March 2 and 3. But then there was all the different spinoff titles that they were. on, but then also the development process of three was more strenuous than any of the previous ones were. Where we're at now with the modern Square Enix, with how they're doing so they're pumping these games out.

Remake, rebirth, Bomb Fantasy 16. This one's next, man. They don't have anything for 2025. They don't have any of those big titles. So Square needs something desperately right now because those big titles didn't hit for them. Remake did. Yeah. I don't know.

I believe. That Ivy logo looks too much like a three. I mean, that's what they're going for. The point that Square Index doesn't have any big things announced, I think is very salient. Like I, that is a good point that, yeah,

we just don't know what they're working on for next year. And they have to have something, you'd imagine. Yeah. There's a part of me that wonders, this is just like a total weird thought that I was having the other day. But the fact that, um,

that, that we're seeing something like legacy king come back from that old sort of like 90s style. For some reason, I feel like they're going to bring back vagrant story. Oh. I really feel like they're going to just, kind of let's remaster this. Let's put a new look on it,

but it's going to operate just turn-based. I'm calling it now. October, 2025 Paraside Eve. Oh, whoa. Here's the thing. You guys are making good points of just like how Square has functioned. Everything Square's saying right now

is going in the opposite direction. It feels like they're very much like clamp down, just the hits, multi-platform, let's be smart about this going forward. And I don't think it's smart to do Parasite Eve for favorite story. No, but like, I don't look at those as, I look at those as visual overhauls. Oh, okay, just more of like, like what they've been doing with just collections of the matter games or whatever.

I mean, I see it more of in the remaster realm than a remake. Like, I'm not expecting them to suddenly do real-time combat the way Final Fantasy is done. Yeah, I feel like there are a lot of old franchises that are begging to have some life sort of breathe back into them. Ubisoft. Uh, Assassin's Creed Hexie. When is that supposed to come out? And also Splinter, so. When are we getting that remake?

Or don't ask for more Assassin's Creed until this one comes out and they figure out what's going on with it. Yeah, no way. Hexie comes out. I guess you wouldn't put Hexie out in the same year, yeah. But, like, I mean, it got delayed, though, was the thing. And maybe it was buying more time for that. And, like, is it, is that game launching with Infinity? What the fuck's going on with that?

Like, I remember reports. Infinity? And don't get me started. No more reports on games daily that we talked about on this show. or on Games Daily a couple months ago that imply that that is still a thing. So where the fuck is that? I think so much of that gets scrapped.

I just think it doesn't matter. The infinity part of it. It's just going to be a thing just like, oh, there was a database for Melger Solid 4. You can go and it's like, cool. Yes, it will exist. It's going to be something you know. No one's going to do it's going to be something

that I think we complain about more than anything. And then we eventually just get rid of it. Yeah. It's going to be like call duty launcher when I learned that they have that on PlayStation where I'm like, oh, I just want to play the newest one and then I have to like click into an application.

and then it's gonna be like, you gotta update this and restart and be like, oh, and then I'm like, you gotta restart every time every single fucking time. And I'm like, bro, I just want to play Liz Call Duty. Get used to that, bro. And I have to click into three different apps. And I'm like, fuck this, man. The shade is a compiled restart. Yeah.

It's to be that, but Assassin's Creed. There's been a playlist update, restart. So no Splinter Cell. No Splinter Cell. Yeah, Ubisoft, man, we've been saying it forever. Bless, they're in a weird spot. And it's like, they're two, the two big ones, Star Wars and now Assassin's Creed. And it's like, well, we know half of that.

I know, again, I know the answer is now Assassin's Creed Shadows, but that wasn't the plan before. So, like, before Assassin's Creed Shadows, what was the big one supposed to be for next year or big ones? Are they do have, do they have watchdogs? Do they have a far cry? Prince of Persia Sands a Time remake when they've now re-re announced it. That's 2026.

Oh, you're right. Yeah. So, 2026. I mean, I think that says where we're at with a lot of these things, right? Like, I'm sure they'll put out like a ghost recon or something. I mean, that's the answer then. Like, I think, I mean, that's an answer. Yeah

But like which one You know what I mean Like I don't know I'm just I'm just in a weird place With Ubisoft where it's hard to I think they're in a weird place That's true

That's true What would be if they Because Far Cry I feel like Is next in line To get like an announcement And release I wouldn't be surprised If we get a new

Far Cry next year Yeah me I wouldn't be But what is it Like what should it be To hit I'm not just saying What are you?

What are you? You know, you have like a major villain that's usually played, or sometimes played like a big actor or whatever, and I'm like, who would be the actor to play the villain that's Far Cry? My brain immediately went to Cindy Sweetie again. Why? I don't know. What the fuck is wrong with you? That's awesome. That's an

awesome get. I don't know. That would be actually, honestly. You should be awesome though, right? You know what? You say it, like, you're right, though. Like, right? You look through all the villains of Far Cry, right? And I guess Far Cry 5 had the family and you had the one woman part of it, but she wasn't the lead. Doing, doing that,

A thousand percent. That makes a lot of sense. It'd be the biggest year ever for Far Cry and voicing Rosalita in Mario, too. Dr. Squatch ads. I want to shout out Mani to Kinto from the Ackleite who played the stranger in there.

How do you say it? Jacinto. Jacinto. Yeah, he plays a good villain and I want to see him play more villain roles and he won't be able to get that chance in Star Wars. Was Far Cry, did Far Cry 6 ever get their version of the Blood Dragon

sort of thing? Did they ever... had a whole bunch of stuff that dropped afterwards. I don't think they ever had like the standalone expansiony thing, no. Because, or the, what was the primal one? They never had that. Six never got that version of it. So that's why I am like 100, I feel like really, really close, 100% sure that we'll just get a brand new one. I don't know if you got just said this, but like the post-apocalyptic one.

Blood Dragon. No, not Blood Dragon. Oh. For five where like, it was after the ending of five. It's the one that Nick really like. With the twins, yeah. Nick really liked it. New Dawn.

New Dawn. Yeah. That's a very forgettable name. But, yeah, you're right. We haven't gotten one of those. But it almost feels like it's been too long. Well, that's why I just think that seven's an inevitability. No games ever had something in the total.

Bobby Plaza would be great, actually. It was like a Far Cry villain. Bobby Blas is just great period. Killing said, Killian Murphy had been rumored at one point. That's insane. Yeah, we talked about that. He was rumored. Yeah.

Insane. I just feel like Killian Murphy would be in, a motion capture suit and just like, I don't like any of this. You know, like, like, what we know about how he does, like,

press tours and he just doesn't, he didn't know what a meme was. I don't want to be a part of it. You know, like, that's how disconnected. He's like, what the fuck is this?

What am I doing? Like, I forget if the rumors were, like, actual rumors or if they were, like, people just speculating just based off people

wanting to have killing Murphy. Just fan casting. Because I feel like that came and went real quick with the killing Murphy stuff. God, he's cool. But that would be so good.

though. Well, everybody, that's our hype list for 2025's video games. I'm sure we're going to recheck in on a whole bunch of these and definitely we have some fun games cast topics that we came up with during this show that we'll get to eventually. We definitely got to predict what our top

10's going to be at the end of the year. We also, we talked about this a while back. We need to actually get on the counter predicting Nintendo Switch 2's launch year. Yes. You know, like breaking down, maybe even a couple years. What if we got crazy? First three. You know, let's get crazy, everyone. But let us know in the comments below what games you're excited for in 2025.

Do you think Grand Theft Auto 6 will make it in 2025? Yes or no. Until next time, though, game daily.