Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - BREAKING: No New Games For One Year! - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

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What's up everybody? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Monday, September 15th, 20, 25. I'm going to host Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30, AKA New York Game Awards nominated, AKA. Poppy of all trades. That's what they're calling me now. Is that what they're calling them all now? Yeah, that's what Tim's calling me at least. Okay, Poppy of all trade. It's blessing.

Adio, Ye, Jr. Good day, Greg. The Silk Song starter. Oh, I did start a silk song yesterday. I like that. Okay. Next to him is the Hispanic heartthrob, Texas Street, Latino heat, clicking heads and

ripping him to shreds. The globe, trotting, head, shot and three points shooting, root, and tootin. Nitro rifle from Twitch.tvy, Andy Cortez. I think it's, I think my self-diagnosed, self-afflicted carblet tunnel. Yeah. Nerve damage. It's gone.

Wow. Yeah. Healed to carpal tunnel. Diagnosed that you heal. I love it. How are your thumbs? I saw you put up a Instagram story of your thumb being all fucked up from Silkson. Well, you know, No, thumb is better.

You know, whenever you get into the, the really midst of the combat and action, I always end up hitting the buttons on the joint part. There it is. Look at that. It's just where the bone is, you know? And that's where I started feeling a lot of distress. But again, the great ones tell their bodies, not today. Exactly.

I feel the sword is in the tip of my thumb. We're doing all the platforming in Silksong. Well, I notice how the tip of my thumb is cropped out because it was red because of hot funnions. how funyins is crazy and I didn't know how funny is all they're delicious I didn't realize funnions came in Flaming how funnies is all they're delicious what doesn't come with Flamon and I didn't want I didn't want people to think the top part of the thumb was afflicted as well

oh sure sure sure yeah okay I appreciate that and then he's back from La Piri 4 30 under 30 aka the second best baby blues in San Francisco aka the married one at Tim Getty's let Tim Hose I'm so happy to be back excited for the KF podcast after this time, all about Paris. But real quick, on the gamer side of the Paris trip,

two things I want to say. One, we're not sponsored by X-Ril this week. We are not sponsored by X-Ril. I love them so much. And 11-hour flights back and forth, I hate flights, hate long flights. Give me as many flights as possible. You can't sleep. Yeah, yeah, very hard for me on planes.

Give me the longest flight possible when I have my X-Rill glasses and Hollow Night Silk Sock. Oh my God. I was sitting there. loving life. I can't believe I didn't scream fuck at all. Because I was convinced at some point I was going to be unruly someone was going to get mad at me. No,

I kept my cool, kept my cool, all things considered, even though God, some of these bosses, man, they don't like me at all. But yeah, great time there. And then the other thing, never a better time from Tim Getty's to go to Paris than the year that Expedition 33 comes out.

Oh, you know, walking around. I'm just like, let me give you a toy. Where's off a floating debris. We're a patron. It was awesome. It really felt like going to do a Disneyland version. Nice. That's amazing.

Nice. Jesus Christ. I think we'd have waited until after Pokemon Zah. Well, I got some things to say about that in the KF podcast. About the graphics of Pokemon Zah and how they may or may not relate to what Paris actually looks like. I don't mean that as condescending as it sounds. But hey, you'll see. We'll see, I guess, in the kind of funny podcast right after that.

We're excited about that one. just a fun one for you. You're talking about cursing on a plane. Jen went and picked up Ben from preschool the other day. And the teacher pulled them aside. And she's like, she was already laughing about it, but she's like, I want you to know. Him and his little friend were over there and they were doing whatever and they weren't paying attention class. She came over and she's like, you got to pay attention. And they were still playing.

And so she took whatever toy they were using or whatever. And then they still kept like, as the teacher sat down to correct, she's like, all right, Ben and little boy's name. And Ben, she's just on business goes, God fucking damn it. teacher was like I didn't like I was so hard not to laugh God fucking damn it That's like my number one like when something really Pisses me off

God fucking damn it That's hilarious Ben is He knows they're in the house words Car words but yeah he slipped up there God fucking damn it You know what I mean you can't do it Well God fucking damn it

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the real one. And actually, I'm underselling it when I say that, of course, I led Team Blue. to a three-peat, unprecedented, just rolling over the competition here. Kind of funny, game showdown is back on Friday,

and I'm incredibly excited, but I'm also incredibly disappointed. Oh, no. We talked about this on Games Daily. Of course, I told Blessing what a great job he was. There was no collusion. But he mentioned Team Purple, which I didn't even know we had a Team Purple. Did you know this, Tim? Yes.

Team Purple apparently going to have a new leader, Andy. That's what's been told on Games Daily. It's a mystery. Yeah. You're out. You're done. Yeah. It's official.

you know it was a pleasure being a part of the competition you know and I I will miss team purple greatly but uh yeah I think you know me and my representation I've decided that it's best to move on wow wow we're gonna miss you you know what I mean I'll miss you guys too okay Tim I can't wait to just shit down your fucking throat on Friday for a whole season it's gonna be great it's like good to be back welcome back to him we're 11 persons small business all about live talk shows. You already got kind of funny games daily that ran you through the news that Wolverine

might be coming from Insomniac next year. Of course. Is that real? Is that a real graphic someone made? That is a real graphic. I legitimately don't know who that is. That's Logan Marshall Green. Jesus Christ.

After this, of course, you are getting the kind of funny podcast. And listener, you don't want to miss this one. Something's happening on it. You're going to want to be there. And then the stream is going to be Silk Song with Andy. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is embargoed until after the kind of funny podcast. Because that's the kind of shit I got up my sleeve. Thank you to our producers.

He looked at the camera. Thank you. Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Shady Raisin Factor, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is in forever will be. Topic of the show. Tots, tots, tots, dots, dots, dots, dots. Your topic of the show is,

One, that honestly, I didn't know if we'd ever get to. We have a spreadsheet of what we're going to be doing on the shows, and a lot of gamescasts have things in italics, where we put in a headline, a topic, an idea, and then they constantly get kicked by reviews, previews, whatever. We've always said, what's going on with Ubisoft, it just keeps tumbling further and further away. Becoming bigger and bigger of a question.

You know what I mean? What's going on? Evergreen. But quite some time ago on a little website known as Reddit.com. There is a subreddit called, Kind of funny. Run by the community. We don't have anything to do with it. Don't yell at me if you get banned.

I don't care. Two months ago, though. That's true. I don't know what the fuck's going on over there. We don't have nothing to do with it except they talk about us. It's great. Two months ago, a post was put up by Top of the Cloppers, which right away, great name. And the title of Top of the Cloppers post went like this.

Games cast idea. No new games for a year. How do you spend your playtime? only across already released titles. And I thought, God damn, what a great games cast topic. So boys,

I will now dive into a long post from Top of the Cloppers, who again deserves all the praise for making the Conflops. And we will go through it and then we will come back to it and we'll get into this because I think it's fantastic.

Top of the Cloppers. Or as I'll now say, T-O-T-K. Cloppers are with a K. Oh, shit. The kingdom. Top of the Clop. I'm sorry.

T-O-T-K. This is an idea I've had for a while. So many times over the last weekend, Andy, who's popping in my head. This is an idea I've had for a while that I would love to hear the guys discuss over the course of a games cast. In a hypothetical world,

the video games industry grinds to a complete halt. Absolutely no games are set to be released for an indefinite period of time. You can only play whatever is out already today right now. In this world, how do you spend the next 12 months of gaming? Listening to the recent games cast on Greg's Expedition 33 thoughts, he mentioned that he feels somewhat of a compulsion to play the game that is, quote, unquote, the current conversation, even if it doesn't appeal to him or he isn't enjoying it.

I feel like all the crew, Blessing and Andy for sure, have mentioned at various times they would love to spend more times with a certain game, but are constantly forced to move on to the next new thing. Without that pressure, to stay up to date and with complete freedom to tackle their backlog or old favorites, what games would each of the crew go back to? I've come up with a few suggested categories that I would personally focus my time on. The categories are all here. But before we even get into this, clearing your mind, no new games for a year,

Tim Gettys, what would you do? I'm happy you started with me. And I'm happy you started with me before we get into the categories. I like the categories and I kind of want to have answers for the categories to the best of my ability. But the one game that I think is the easiest answer for me that I stand by, that in no world am I even going to give a shot otherwise? is Final Fantasy 14. Oh, wow.

That's, if I had a year that I can't play any new games, I got old games I've played, and I might replay them over and over left and right, like I always do. I have my annual games. The amount of times I'm going to play Super Mario 3, you don't need Mario 64, various Pokemon. Of course I'm going to do that. But if I could just focus on a new experience and get lost in it, there's no world in which I complete to whatever that means, Final Fantasy 14. Sure.

And regret it. I have heard nothing but amazing things. about how hype and emotional the story beats can get in and all the big things. So, yeah, Final Fantasy 14 would definitely be the answer. With all the expansions and, you know, a year's worth of getting the best out of the game. I don't even know if that's enough, though. Like, I don't even know if having that be my only game for a year would get me the Final Fantasy 14 experience. I think it would.

Yeah. Yeah, I definitely think it would, right? Because you get to live in that every night for multiple hours or whenever you're playing games, I guess. Like, I think you'd be able to really be invested in it. Especially if this was a rule for everyone else. I'm sure there's other people that also would jump in a Final Fantasy 14. If I can have a little crew, Klan. Oh, what are they calling in these days?

I never liked Klan. Gild. I was always surprised that, yeah, we never moved away from Klan. Yeah, I was like, guild. Okay. Guild is usually. Yeah, guilds for losers, though. Like, let's be real.

All right, you with your capital K clan. No, no. Stick the plan then. I think, I think that's a great call because I've, that's always one that I've, mention about, man, you know what? I think this is the year that I start my Final Fantasy 14 journey. And realistically, it's never the year.

It's never like the right time for it. But that is one that you can just lose yourself in for 100 and, you know, 200, 300, 300 hours. That feels like the one. That's like such a great call that I hadn't even considered. Is that your pick too, Andy? I mean, like, again, clearing it because we have categories coming up and da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, when it comes to cat, I mean, it's always the Witcher three is always on. top of the list with a game that you could

again spend over a hundred hours in with all of the content that's there and a game that I never really formally played at all you know I played it when it I played about three to four hours when it came to when I had that remaster on PS5 and stuff yeah yeah yeah but

aside from that I never went back to go you know get into it so the Witcher 3 is probably number one next to Disco Elysium I like this comment chronic says free companies guilds friends it's all lame as shit it's true blessing top of the mind where do you go with this question mine is similar to

Andy I had to pull up my steam to see what the accurate hours I put into it were but balder's gate three came out in 20203 and I played 27 and a half hours and I really adored it and just moved on because of our jobs because of like you know having to do other things that's a game where yeah if I funny enough I don't know if it would last the year but if I had like a couple months just to play a game and just live in that game. Baldersgate 3 for sure.

See, what I think is interesting, you say you don't know if it would last a year, where again, it's another one where I guarantee it would. Yeah? Because it would be that idea of you'd go through and finish it and like, okay, now I'm going to run it back and I'm only going to do this. I'm going to make that character. I'm going to do this. Like, especially Balders Gate with so many permutations of it.

Right? Where it's like, you know, that is such a, again, our lives and jobs are incredible. Thank you for them. Couldn't do without you. Support us with the membership. And I'm so lucky to have done this for so long. but there's plenty of RPGs especially I look at and go like again like

I would do another 200 hours of Starfield that's not my pick for what I'm but I mean like Greg if you're fucking answer this question with Starfield I wouldn't put it fast you and hey it's good for you but wow stream cuts I would love to see permutations in this and granted I know that's not even the best game for prementation

but like going through the unity and doing all that stuff and how powerful could it be blah blah like I would love that kind of shit I think Ballersgate would be a great example of like Yeah, like, re-roll my character. How we used to play games as a kid? You know what I mean? I know it's boring, but I always come back to Metal Gear.

Whereas, like, I'm playing Metal Gear again tonight. It's another day after high school. Today, I'm not going to wear the bandana at all. I'm just going to do a trank run. I'm going to see if I can X, Y, and Z. You break the game, you try to find your own fun. For me, it was Pokemon. Like, when I was a kid playing Pokemon Blue,

and the fact that you can have, there's 150 Pokemon in this game, meaning that my party can be so many different permutations. That might, I think between that and Super Mario 64, or probably the video games that I've played through the most. Because of that. Yeah. Taste this boy right here.

Thank you. And then now my answer might still piss you off to him because it's not Starfield. But it's also not a game. Like I've always said this since IGN that if I didn't work in that industry, I would just be playing DC Universe online. Yeah. Like I would love to give myself back to DC Universe online and not feel like I'm ignoring so much stuff in our industry and what's going on. Like I'm between 900 and 1,000 hours in DCUL, right?

And it would be like, I've, I've, I boot it up every so often, and I run back, and it's a dated looking game with dated. Everything. It's an MMO from 2007 or whatever. So it's like, it's dated as shit, but I would love to get really, really deep back in that. And I think about creating a new character every so often or this, that, and the other, and have fun with it. But like, I would love to see that for, yeah, a year of, even taking DC out of it, but a year with no, nothing to keep up with. What do you do with your time?

Somehow our job still survive. Like, that'd be fucking incredible. That's why the question I love so much or whatever. Uh, let's go again, top level before we get into the categories given here. Hot blip and a jump. That sounds familiar. Mm-hmm. Who's that?

Who's that? Who's that? No, that can't be right. I know it's true. I was fucking wrong. Sorry. Uh, two words, dwarf fortress, miss and love you for. Also, a week ago, I dreamed Andy broke into my house at night and ate all my pizza.

Then he complained. Wow. That's fucked up with you. Not a pepper. You didn't have, like, a toast. You just had a microwave. And it's like, yeah. Yeah.

That's not a toasty crust. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is an interesting question, though. Kabab says, do live service games still get updates? I say no. I think it wouldn't matter for me and Tim coming back to an MMO. I've ignored for nine or eight years,

and then you jumping into an MMO you've never played. MeloFello answered the question as well in a super chat, just like you can on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games that said, Night Rain, Baby, the game that keeps on giving and slowly creeping to game of the year's status for me, even beating Expedition 33, currently in depth three trying to reach five.

Wow. I don't know what any of that means. I don't know what any of that means. Is that the new update? Because then you're like going down layers, right? What? I don't know they did a DK thing. I just know that they're,

the thing that kind of buns me out about night rain is like they keep on introducing new stuff that's like, it's harder now. Yeah. They keep being like, oh, it's even harder. It's like, so it was already hard. But like, look, I beat it. back then. Like, I don't, you know,

do I really have to try, okay, fuck it, you're going to make me try to prove myself again. And I'm going to spend many, many hours doing so. But in Night Rain, there is plenty of stuff to do there with all the, uh, with all the ever-dark bosses. Ever dark. Redux. Redux.

So chat, here's where you got to start keeping up and participating on the super chats as we go, because we have categories. I will read through them all along with the descriptions from the one, the only TOTK. That's top of the clopper. name. And then we will go through and give our answers, okay? So, without the pressure to stay up to date, and with complete freedom to tackle their backlog or world favorites, what games would each of the

crew go back to? I have come up with a few suggested categories that I would personally focus my time on. Favorite game ever. Just picking the game you love to play and unashamedly piling more hours into it. For me, says Top the Gloppers. Red Dead Redemption 2. Second Chance games. Those that didn't click the first time, but you'd like to give a second chance based on the positive chatter or a feeling that your tastes have changed. For me, death stranding. Never finished. The games you were enjoying, but never got a round of finishing. Either you find it too hard to pick up where you left off or too daunting to start all over again. For me, Balders Gate 3, and he puts in parentheses, act 3. Become a pro. The games you feel totally outmatched in by those who make it their life's

passion, but if you had more time, would go all out with. Think competitive shooters, racing, sports, or fighting. For me, Tek and 8 or any of the F1 games. Alternative endings. Games that lend themselves to replays to see different outcomes. For me, Cyberpunk 2077. Indie darlings, indies that had lots of good noise around them, but simply got swallowed up by bigger titles you were playing at the time. For me, return to the Oberiden. And then final category is just chilling out. Games, you just love to hang out in the world. For me, legend is out, the tears of the kingdom, or

Redemption 2 again. As someone with it, and then there was just an outro here from the Klopperman. Oh, Kloperman is a good name too. And do you think about changing your last name of Kloperman? As someone with a busy, full-time job and a kid on the way, congratulations. Maybe the kid's already here. I struggle to

keep up with the latest games and only very recently am coming to the realization that I don't need to keep up. Across my switch in PlayStation, I probably have enough games installed on both consoles to last me the rest of my life. It is a massively freeing realization and has helped me enjoy the games I have far more, rather than dipping after a few hours

and trying to keep up with the latest big releases. I'm glad you had that realization. Thank you, TOTK. That's a big, great question, great stuff here. So, Andy, I want you to start with favorite game ever, just picking the game you love to play and unashamedly piling more hours into it. At this point, it would have to be.

be Eldon Ring. It has to be. It would have to be. I don't really, I don't often replay a whole lot of games. Especially now in this industry where we, we do move on to the next thing. But even as a kid, I would say like, I wouldn't

I wasn't ever doing what Greg would do with Metal Gear Solid. Really? All right, let me replay this as this now or whatever and try. I just like when I was done with it, I was done with it, but I would still boot it up to just kind of fart around, but it never a, oh, I'd like to beat it again with these sort of like, you know, play styles or whatever. I would say probably like Super Mario World and Mega Man X and Link to the Passer games that I've

started a million times and like never went back to fully beat again. But for me, it's probably Eldon Ring because that is a game that I've beat three times, I think, in various fashions and kind of gave up on another run recently where I was just trying to do, not gave up, but other stuff just kind of got in the way where I was doing a, like a no-summons play-through, kind of leading up to the DLC. But, yeah, I think Elden Ring is just a game that I think I've experienced everything that there is, I think. Yeah.

But, you know, up until even this most recent gameplay, it, you know, Tomor Hussein called it, like, the game that keeps on giving. And there's still stuff that I was like, oh, my God, those enemies do that if this happens, That's kind of crazy to me. But that is a game that I can just kind of exist and run around in and know your cycle and, you know, exactly where you're going to know the boss hit list or whatever, but there's still a lot of ways that you can have fun with,

you know, with those different permutations. Hell yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's just so zen in some, in a lot of ways. And obviously, so intense in many others with how crazy the boss fights can get. But there is just a very minimal.

meditative nature to running around with the very tiers of the kingdom style of soundtrack where you're out in the open world and we're not playing a main theme for you it's just the music is almost just like the leaves on the tree like they're just existing kind of there in the background with you um yeah i like that video game quite a bit okay yeah yeah Timothy what would you do for your favorite games something you just love playing you want to jump back into no games for a year the first game that comes from my mind for that is Hades and cheating a little bit

kind of because these are games that have to be out already Hades 2 with the early access even like just that like I only did the first release of it the early access I never did the Ben Star update as we like to call it notably don't like Ben Star Star exactly that's the reason I didn't play

but I really feel like Hades is a game that I could play forever every single run feels fun and every single weapon is a joy to play and that's not true for a lot of the games I normally like. I like to find a load out that this is what I'm going to use and I'm stuck with it. But after falling in love with dead cells many years ago, this was the next of that type of game to grab me and really kind of inspire me to care

about different weapon sets and upgrades and really getting into the roguelike idea of, all right, what are the power-ups that I actually want? And then getting Delta hand that I'm like not stoked about and then getting further than I ever have in a run. And being like, oh my God, wait, actually, there's something here. And then elements of that run being put in the next run with things I am familiar with. And just the amount that you're learning and the amount that it just feels like your progression is based on the experimentation is not something I typically liking games. And with Hades, I just feel like it's the perfect combination. of the gameplay being rewarding

and then also just the sights and sounds backing that up. The story's awesome, the music's awesome. The designs are like incredible. Yeah. And yeah, that's all just around a game that is just 10 out of 10 fun at every single moment. So it also just feels endlessly replayable by design.

So because of that, like this is a game that I really wish that I could 100% multiple times over. And I feel like I wouldn't be bored. You know, I feel like that is the, whether it's maybe one or two, I think it'd be a game that I could play endlessly. That's a great call.

That's a really good one. Bless, what about you? I'll do the similar thing as Tim, and do the original iteration in the sequel. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are like the easy answers for me, mainly because I never 100% of those games, nor have I necessarily desired to,

mainly out of like both time and then also, I think there are certain types of open worlds that feel more geared towards me, wanting to 100% them, right? Something like a Spider-Man. I'm like, oh, I'm going to do every single thing in this game because that game feels designed for it. Whereas Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom

feel so vast as far as the amount of things that you can do and like not just the shrines, if you wanted to go beyond and like, yeah, and do the side quests and do the Korox seeds and all that shit, right? Like, it just feels at times for me and my sensibilities

too vast in that sense, but also I like that. Like, I kind of like playing through games where I finish it and there's a lot left to do because it makes that world feel bigger to me. I don't know how to explain it. But yeah, when I put the controller down, I'm like, damn, I only did 60% or 30% of the things in this game. There's something to that mystery of like what the rest of that shit going on is that

kind of heightens the experience and makes it into this thing of like, yo, I chose my path through this world and that was the way I did it. That said, I think if I were to have a year where there are no games that I was going back to my favorite game, if I was to pick a game to 100% out of like my favorites, oh for sure like breathful wild to choose the kingdom being able to have the time to slowly go through and like not even check guides right like yeah just play the game the way it's meant to be played and slowly go through the shrines and do all that stuff and learn every secret in this world i think i for sure this would be the pick okay but you have to pick one breath of wild do you think it's

because that's the one you've fully explored the least no i because i think i i think i've explored i might have done them both equally because i think i put like a hundred hours into each of them. But I think there's something to the gameplay loop of Breath of Wild and how more simplified it is that appeals to me more.

And also, I don't feel like 100% in the depth. Like the depth is the thing where I'm like, I didn't like that part of the game as much as I just liked the above ground world

and Breath of Wild just being that, I think it just appeals to me more. You bringing these up, like for my answer of Hades, this would be my backup and I cheat and I would put both the games as one

simply because of how they were really on the Switch 2. Still two skews, but like I just, the idea of these games, I see them now in re-releases as kind of a part one, part two situation. And something that I really love, like obviously video games can be so many things,

whether they're AAA indie, re-releases, brand new IP, so many different combinations. But I feel like I've been very well fed with, uh, what I like, which as opposed to Andy who doesn't replay games, I love to replay,

uh, my favorites. And I feel like I, in the last couple years have been very, gifted with amazing things like Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake Eater, Resident Evil 2, Tony Hawks, 1, 2, 3, 4, like, so many awesome remakes. And something about Nintendo recently, we're about to get

Galaxy 1 and 2, but Breath of the Wild and 2's the Kingdom, the Switch 2 editions, I will never give enough love because I just don't have the time to go back and play those games. And I love that they aren't remakes, they aren't changing anything about the game, they're just the game playing better. And I

really wish that I had the time to go in 100% because I didn't 100% either. They're not even close. But I would love to, especially given the modern upgrades that we have now. And I just think that that's such a great thing. And I feel like this is something that I am jealous of the people that get to play these games for the first time. Yeah. Yeah. For me, favorite game ever on this list from TOTK, I think it's the hardest category for me.

Because I'm so, I mean, even though like when I was a kid, and you know you bought this game and you're locked into the game I'd replay it over and over again the way life is now the way the career is xy and z like I don't replay things and you even when I try to go back to something when we're getting ready for a re-review or whatever it can be tough for me to jump into a game that I've already played and do it because once the shocker you know the surprise of what's around the corner is gone it's hard for me to be like I'm going to I'm going to do this again it's why that's not my pick starfield's worked for me of like okay cool well I'm making my own narrative in my head I'm doing all

those things. Going through to the new game pluses actually changes what's happening in the other game, which I like a lot. So it's like here I'm again, if we hadn't already talked about it, because I want to give different games every time. I probably would have picked DC Universe online here just again to go through and have a million things going on and all this other stuff. To look at it here, and I, you know, favorite game ever is how TOTK describes it, which is fine. I'm drawn to a fallout. I think this is one of the reasons I get so excited about a Fallout 3 remaster is that I love Fallout 3 so much and I don't remember. remember much about Fallout 3 to this day.

There's like two quests that I'm like, oh, that is when it's solidified as being awesome. Seeing that in a modern context with all this would be great, but also going in and restarting Fallout 3 and I have no rush. I'm just doing everything. I'm not looking at guides. I'm trying, you know what I mean? I am going to literally go

over that ridge and see what it is. Like, I know you can get the, I remember the alien thing, but I can't remember how to get it. Could I figure that out? Can I put all that together? That would speak to me. It almost, saying it almost speaks enough to me I'm like, well, should I grab Fallout 76, but it's like, well, no, I've run up to the,

I've played the shit out of Fallout 76, and I remember that so well. I think Fallout 3 is what I would pick here as my everlasting gobstopper RPG for the moment. Again, I'm hopeful that Outer Worlds 2 will be outclassed in this in terms of story, and I'll want to make a million characters, and I keep daydreaming about my good character and my bad character to run through in October. But for right now with where we're at the industry, I'd say Fallout 3, going through that, hopefully having a remastered version of, or whatever, jump on and going for it.

That is a nice thing about having just an awful memory for me. Like, I memory holds so many things. And it's like experience for the first time, all, every time. Because there are so many big story beats in a lot of these games that I think back and go, Mass Effect 2, top five for me all time. And there are so many things that I do not remember about a lot of my favorite pieces of media. And even playing through Mass Effect one legendary edition when that came out several years ago.

Remembering, you know, there are a select couple of things that I'll be remembering on my deathbed while my life is flashing before my eyes. I'll be like, oh my God. Brand is out, Morton, Sola, scientist, Salarian. All of that stuff is so big and impactful, but there are tons of smaller things that I do not remember and I don't remember that MPC's name and that's, and it's one of the benefits, even though I always feel like an idiot when I try to talk about these things on a podcast and I very, I rarely remember big key moments, you know. Yeah, it's so funny. James Burke just

beat Expedition 33 and we were hanging out and he was like, taught me about stuff like core story, little things and I'm just like, oh man, I kind of remember that, but I don't remember that in detail and I'm like, God, I just played that. Like, that's crazy. Games are interesting about that how much is tied to the enjoyment in the moment versus what you remember. We were having this conversation on Games Daily about Spider-Man. And when I think back to Spider-Man and Spider-Man too, think of swinging and I think of New York and I think of gliding. I don't jump to a story beat or a thing.

Swinging, what happened in Mexico? We've all been asking, Tim. We've all been asking. I've been asked to see what happened in Paris. Kind of funny podcast up next. It's interesting to see how those tie up and I think even fallout three, right? Like, it was the surprise and the, oh my God,

the first, I know it sounds quaint now, but the first super mutant I ran into, right? Or the person you meet in the White House and it's like so much of that, yeah, was that surprise, but it was also just exploring this world, go anywhere, do anything that just stands out that I'm hopeful they are remaking that or whatever. You call that Oblivion remake. I don't want to get into the argument about what Mike and Roger are doing right now. Okay. Let's move on to the next category.

Second chance games. Those that didn't click the first time, but you'd love to give a second chance based on positive chatter or feelings your taste have changed for me. Like I was earlier, Death Stranding from TOTK here. Doing the snake draft here starting. back with me. There's two answers here. The immediate one right now that I hold out hope that I will still find at some point, I don't know when and I don't know where the time to give it a real college try is this year Kingdom Come Deliverance to. I love these open world Western RPGs, right? Go through, make the choice, do think, da-da-da. We got Kingdom Come Deliverance to. I started it, basically played through the tutorials, you know what I mean, and got to where they wanted me

to put on armor and it was late and it was after embargo. It was all these different. things to where I did it and it was just like okay cool this is very in the weeds and again I need to move on to the next big thing the next big thing I'm not going to have the time right now to really dedicate to this this has been installed on my rog since that moment if not after shortly thereafter like I know this is a game that if I could sit there with a year of nothing else coming out and dedicate myself and learn to I'd probably fucking adore because of how I like this and everything I've heard from people about the narrative about the characters about what you're doing like I want to give this the shot.

It's just that right now there is redacted one and redacted two and redacted three all sitting there also waiting for me to get to them to talk about them. That's why I would long in so many ways for this year. Also, it's a lot like the DC Comics event one year later. You remember this, Tim? No. It happened, Infinite Crisis,

and then they jumped all the comics one year ahead. Superman had been Superman for a year. Batman and Robin had been off on them. It was fucking cool. It wasn't actually cool, and he kind of sucked. But it gave us 52, which was a weekly comic book. But it was like, whatever. We got away from it pretty quick.

Anyway, so that's the in the moment right now, especially as we hurdle towards game of the year, hurdle towards game awards. I want to try to be as briefed on everything, especially shit I should really care about. The other one that I thought about multiple times, but again, who has the time?

Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2. I agree. Red Dead Redemption 2. I, you know, everybody talks about what bad taste I have. Now, this would have been the canary in the cold mind. Me talking to Jared Petty being like,

I put 25 hours in, whatever it was, and I'm not playing anymore. I don't enjoy it. Like I, again, back then even recognized it was a work of art that it was, you know, a masterpiece and all this different stuff. It just did not work for me narratively, which led to it not working for me mechanically, which led to me just bouncing on it. When I'm bouncing, again, I put 25 hours in or whatever. Where it's like I would, I again, nothing else coming.

I'd love to prove myself wrong and jump back in because again, in the way Expedition 33 isn't my jam because I'm, I just can't do turn-based stuff. That's a deficiency of me. the mechanics of Red Dead are the kind of games I'm drawn to. So it's like I'd love to give it a shot where I don't feel the pressure of an embargo or what's coming next and go through and do it. Yeah, I've been thinking about Red Dead recently as I've been playing a different open world game that's been reminded me of Red Dead a little bit just in terms of like being in a setting and being fully in that setting.

And this is one that I think I echo your thoughts on it completely, right? Like I didn't finish it, but I remember talking to people being like, oh, you got to get to Chapter 4 and I'm like, I am on Chapter 4. Like, I keep playing, people keep telling me to play more and I play more. And for me, it was more of a mechanic thing than even a story thing. That said, I'd want to see it through for the story. I think that's the thing that people will talk about the most, at least when I'm talking about them as far as like, no, like this is why this game's legendary, right? Like, you have these arcs. You have this thing that happens. And I'm

like, okay, well, I don't know if I'm going to get there because I'm just not enjoying the game but if I had the time to go back and give something another shot, I think this would be the game. I'll think you're, I've stepped on it. I think it really enjoyed blessing. It's me, Dutch Spooke in the chat says Red Dead Redemption 2 is like the series finale of video games. That's a cool last statement to make that.

I like that's, man, yeah. It's that, me just talking about stuff that I like memory hole out of my life, Red Dead 2 has some, Red Dead Red Dead 2 has some amazing moments that like have stuck

with me still. And that was like, I'll never forget just thinking back of how long ago the game was and where I was in my life. and I was like, man, I really want to get an OLED TV. Or no, I really want to get an HDR TV, just period. And an Xbox Series X so that I could play in true 4K.

Because it was still locked at 30 frames per second on the Series X, but it was like, this thing is, it's true 4K. It's not like upscaling or whatever. And what a different place that was for me. But that game was still just so damn special. And that is one that I didn't even put a whole lot of time into all of the other stuff that the game has to offer. was just let me experience the story, give me these narrative beats, let me meet these

NPCs and holy shit, there's some truly amazing stuff in that. What would your second chance game be then, Andy? Um, you make a great point when King Come Deliverance too. That is one that I've kind of been like, all right, I promise before the end of the year. I was going to say you shot your fucking mouth off every time it comes up on the subreddit or in a comment section. They're like, Andy said he's going to play before the end of the year. He said he's going to try to play it before the year.

I don't know if that's true. Did you give it a shot the first time, though? Have you played it at all? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, and I, like, I forget what else was out at the, oh, it was a Vout. It was like a communication thing where an extra code wasn't sent because I asked for a code too late. And then by the time that they sent one a bit later, I was already on Avowed and I was like 20 hours into that.

So I would have hop, I would have been jumping into Kingdom Deliverance too, but a Vought sort of took over in that moment. So that'd be the one for this year. but just for overall second chance games. I feel like it's not fair to throw Balders Gate 3 in there because... You played a lot of that. Yeah, because I was just near the end of it and it's not like it was something that didn't resonate with you the first time.

It was just the game's really, really big and there's other stuff to play out there. It's kind of tough for me to think, but so far I would say, getting him kind of deliverance to is the... We'll go for like that being the temporary answer right now. Fair enough. I do have a backup answer.

Oh, that wasn't your real answer. I was doubling back. This is the way conversation. What do you got, plus? Life is Strange, too. That's one that I... Oh, okay. Yeah, so I love Life is Strange.

Oh, okay. Life Strange, one, absolutely adore. We played and reviewed true colors, right, adored that. And then double exposure happened. But two... Two was the one... Was it really like that?

It was fine. The first half of double exposure was real good. Second half, I feel like just dropped the ball. I didn't like where they went with the story. That said, Life Strange 2, was a victim of the whole episodic release timing thing where they dropped episode one of this game.

I want to say at the end of whatever year it came out and then it took months for them to drop chapter two or episode two and by the time that came around, I had already cooled off so strongly on it. And I also didn't really love episode one that much. And it wasn't until the thing was fully out where people started evangelizing it a bit more. And I would love to go back one

so I can complete my life of strange experience throughout playing all the games of the series. But then also I've heard enough good things that I'd want to give it an actual college try. Ooh, I have a, I have a, a, a permanent one that I'm going on. Lock it in, Frady. Metaphor, refontasca. Oh, that's great.

Yeah, that's one that, again, I played 15, 13 hours of it and was like, you know, I, I'm not enjoying this enough right now to give the 70 hours, 50 hours or whatever that it deserves because of the other stuff on the horizon. and also, you know, at that time, Barrett was playing it. So it's like, we have somebody at least at the studio and I don't feel bad, you know, dropping off of it if I'm kind of like the only turn base fan here or whatever. Like I, it was one of those situations where, all right, we have our bases covered there. Let me go play something else for the time being. But that it's, it really is metaphor of Fantasio that whenever it would get brought up in Goody discussions, that it was.

it's one of the few games that I wouldn't even try to disagree with because I could see the greatness there and it's similar to this year with Don Kong Bonanza, a game that I have yet to get back to and I know that I like it and I know that if anybody else has it as their

goadie, I go, you're totally valid and thinking that. I won't even try to argue the point. It's not like when the game of the years last year had a or game awards had Mario Wonder in their top. And I'm like, Like, that's one I'll disagree with.

That's one I don't think should be there. I don't think Resident Evil 4 remakes should be on your top six. But Metaphorie Fantasia is one that I'm like, totally. I totally get it. I understand it. The love that everybody has for it with the story, with the narrative, I know that I, if I gave it the full amount of time that it deserved, that it would be one of my all-time phase.

See, I know this game is fucking dope because I played this game less than a year ago and I already have nostalgia for it. I'm like, watching the trailer, I'm like, damn, do I go back to our old? You got to put on a sequel tomorrow. Timmy, what's your second chance? Second chance. I mean, I think that the most obvious, well, they brought up Death Stranding, right? And I feel like I gave Death Stranding my second chance, like a real second chance this year.

And it still just didn't click. I love the idea of the world, but I can't say I love the world, even, at the end of the day. So I'm excited for the movie. I think that's the thing. And I think that's okay, is that just what that game is to me. But Eldon Ring, I have to bring it up. The reality is it's just like, I also just don't like that stuff. Like, I feel like the reason I would say it is because for Andy, I want to get to the final boss just to have that moment of hearing the music and context and feeling like I earned that.

All the context of the many hours you put it home. That's the thing is it's like it's, I know, I know, but it's just there's so much about this game that I don't like. It's a hurdle for me to get over. And there's so much about it, right? So I think there's that. But my answer to this of second. chance games is Fire Emblem, Three Houses. Because I fucking love Fire Emblem Path

of Radiance and Radiant Dawn and Awakening and the Fate games. And afterwards, I just kind of got Fire Emblem out a little bit. And then the couple releases after that just started like not being my jam. I named pretty much all of them up to Three Houses. But when it came out on Switch, there was something about the timing and how expansive the gameplay was of allowing you to like walk around the school

and it was a bit more of an RPG, a third person RPG as well as the strategy game. And it was just a little bit overbearing for me to think about playing this game for that long. Because I love Awakening, but it felt much shorter than Three Houses did. But the way people talk about this installment in particular is like with such praise. And it really seems to be a standout of the series. But it's also one of those ones where it came out early Switch. and there's just a look to it that I don't like. And a performance and just a technical quality that I'm just like,

man, so much of what I did love about the other games was the pixel art and like the style of it. And the style of this is just not my jam. But I'm sure that if I just gave it a second chance and I really committed to it, that this would probably end up being one of my favorite games ever. Did this one get the sort of uncapped performance bump for Switch? I don't think it did.

I don't think it did. But yeah, so this is. definitely my answer. I just got to flip that. If you've made a game on Switch one before, developers, flip the Switch. Flip the Uncapped Frame Rate Switch. Just do it. Like, it doesn't... Cross it to the AI machine. I'll go drive to your place and fucking hit that switch because, like, the games that we have seen get that bump is so nice.

Things like Link's Awakening that don't require that already ran uncapped frame rate, but they just couldn't ever get to anywhere near what you would want. for uncapped frame rate. Just fucking do it. Uncap it. Just like you should uncap your wallet. You know, the rest of the kind of five dollars.

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How much is the main story? 76. Main story is 50. 50 hours. Even that though, man. That's a lot. Look up awakening for me. I just want to see.

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plus free breakfast for one year. Get delicious ready to eat meals delivered with Factor. Offer only valid for new Factor customers with the code and qualifying auto-renewing subscription. purchase. From the super chats, we have some second chance games. Joey Radstone writes in for second chance. It says, no man sky with all the updates. Oh shit. Damn. I try. I tell you every year and half I go back to no man sky and play the same 10 to 20 hours of it. Oh my God. It's great. I was streaming the other day and the homie washburn comes in and chat. He goes,

I know. Andy, what if I told you that building ships in no man sky is awesome? And I like, I didn't fully even, I didn't absorb the information. I was like, oh yeah, damn that update or whatever. And then once I started seeing Twitter pop off and including Sean Murray posting all these images of people's ships, I was like, oh, it's like that build. I didn't know it was like the Starfield type building. I was like, fuck, man.

You can't do that right now. That's what he shared me. He shared that Ecto one build. Hell yeah. One day, Andy, I just want to buy a bunch of Legos, give them to you and just be like, build me the sickest shit ever. Get out of that man. It'll be the centerpiece of my leg.

Come on. B.J. Bernardo's second chance would be the Witcher 3. and then Daughter said Second Chance game Metal Gear Solid 3 I tried playing during the HD collection 7 8 years ago playing Delta right now

and loving it I was a splinter cell kid please remake I was gonna try to do that back in the day when I bought a Vita TV at Best Buy and then I returned the Vita TV I thought of it for big money

that was hard to come by dude the amount of oh my gosh I just could not even imagine how much my employees hated me at Best Buy with the amount of times I was buying and

returning stuff. Dude, they must have been so bad. It was like, all right. You're on a list for sure. I'm trying to buy this laptop, but I have $280 in cash

and I have $100 on this gift card. I'm using, but this, but on the Best Buy credit card, I want that in 18 months, no interest. They were, oh, fuck, this guy's back, dude, doing this.

Enough, Andy. We move on to the game you never finished the games you were enjoying, but never got around to finishing. Either you find it too hard to pick it back up or you left off or two daunting to start all over again. Tim?

Yeah. Ghost. of Sushima. Definitely my answer. I have started this game up maybe three times now. All three times because of Andy. Being like, Tim, you've got to fucking do it. Or seeing Andy post some clip or video.

And I'm like, fuck. That looks so cool. When it first came out, I remember both Greg and Kevin were playing it. We're like, Tim, I don't think it's your jam. Based on me asking, like, is this my jam? And at that time, I definitely don't think it was. And I don't think much has changed. but the biggest problem now, it's time

and especially this year, like, I'm even scared about Yote. Like, I am so excited for that game, but with Patees 2 getting a release date, with how deep into Silks I am, like, there's just so many Tim games that I'm like, I just don't know. Like, I bet I play a handful of hours of Yote. I bet I fall in love with it.

I don't see myself completing it by review for sure, whenever that is. If you haven't even started. We can say we have it in reviews next week. Yeah, I mean, fuck my life. Like, look at this shit. But yeah, definitely. This is a game that I started,

really enjoyed, was super into, but I just, I haven't had the time. And anytime I try getting, I think I have the problem where it's like, I need to just commit. This needs to be one thing that I do because I, it's not like I get lost and whatever. It's just more I want the experience beginning to end of it all. Andy. I mean, I've already said like seven times on the show,

but Walter's Gate 3. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Got to act 3, got sidetracked by other things. and I don't know if it was maybe me playing too interstitially in between other stuff so I was slowly losing momentum on it and then eventually just kind of fully fell off but Baldos Gate 3 is one that I

like I there was a charity stream several weeks ago that Alana was like hey I want to do a charity thing like do you want to play a game or something let's do a stream and I was like oh we should do ballpark

There's Gay 3. And it was just so fun being back in that role-playing thing of just, like, finding the comedy and lines of how to deliver and how reacting to certain people in character or whatever. You know, I was, I forget exactly who I was playing, but she was playing. We were creating characters without knowing what we were creating. And so I created a very Latino version of, like, a dwarf. and I gave him the accent and everything and not knowing that I was doing that

she created me so I became my father and so I was just like role playing my dad and hey good job mihoa that's a good attack right there and it was just like a lot of fun and I want to I want to just experience all of that with friends and I'm always I always get so jealous

whenever I see people posting like oh we're you know their version of game night instead of board games whatever it's them around a couch playing split screen or not split screen but just shared screen ball is gay three like damn, that seems like so much fun. And the story is amazing

what I experience. And again, all of the different outcomes that can happen. It's, it... To me, when... I mentioned earlier with Tomor Hussein, saying that Eldon Ring is the game that keeps on giving, that definitely seems like it applies to Ballas Gate 3 as well. Do you want to apologize to me?

Sure. Friday, you made a big deal that if we left everything uncapitalized in the Hollow Night Silk song YouTube premiere like Alana Pierce does, we'd get a lot of Pierce numbers and we didn't. yeah yeah yeah I would like to apologize for that for absolutely nothing

oh my god blessing never finished balder's gate three I echo that answer but I also want to add the additional answer of Majores Mask oh you never finished Majores mask never finished Majoris Mask I started it back in the day yeah and I loved Ocarina of time right like Majores Mask was one that I you know allegedly might have played it on a laptop when I was in college or whatever

and like came fresh off of Ocarina a time and like it was between majora and twilight princess and i think i started them both at the same time i just went with twilight princess because i was really enjoying that but majoras is the kind of game where every single time i see it or hear people talk about it i'm like that seems like it would click with me even more than ocarina like if i just gave my uh uh found the time to give to major's mask i feel like it will become my next favorite game and so this is one that if i got if i ever get the time i really want to do adore major's mask i think like death loop blessing but zilda which is like my perfect type of shit.

This is virtual console footage we're looking at right now? Yeah. Correct. God. What a game. What a game, Tim.

I know, man. That's one of those, you know, it, Ocarina and this ruin Zelda for me, because I just want more of this.

You know what I mean? They keep getting weirder and doing different stuff, which is great. Great games. I'm not knocking it, but it's like, this is where I want to be.

I remember buying the 3DS version to play, well, the new 3DS version and we're playing with the dual sticks or whatever, and just another one of those playing games. And I think this was like,

at a time where I was not flying at all as much as I do now. And even though I don't fly a whole lot now, but it was like I was flying once every five years back in the day. And I was like, oh, I'm going to play out. And that just never got really through it. But that is definitely one where so many of those old games that I did beat back in the day, total memory hole. But Major's Mass is one that I put in maybe a couple hours at my aunt's house.

I mean, mine is a Zelda as well, Tears of the Kingdom. You know, what I put 40 hours into tears. is the kingdom, never rolled credits, never did the thing. Switch 2's here. It's fucking awesome. I love this goddamn thing. There's this pretty amazing version of it, right? The best version of it that I am anxious to do something with. But every time I turn on my switch, it's like, well, I got to finish Bonanza. Well, I got to play this. Well, I got to do that. Well, I got to review X, Y, and Z. Like, that is one that I want the X amount of hours to do. And I have a

plan when I do get it. I'm getting in there. I have a plan, Arthur. And I'm just going to, I'm going to stick to the main quest, because that's what killed me last time. is that I got in there and I was like, I'm going to Greg Miller and I went and did all the fucking shrines forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and then it just never got back to it. Yeah. I don't, I mean, there's no way you do that. I just like that with how that game is designed and you. And I don't think you necessarily should or whatever either. Like it's when you do that, I think you're going to have a great time.

Because I think the tiers of the kingdom is a very unique game and maybe I'm wrong about this. But it's unique in the sense that it was such a zeitgeist game where everyone in the moment was sharing their builds of all the crazy things. that can happen. I was listening to the IGN podcast about it. Exactly. It was a weekly podcast. I was like, yeah,

there was things happening constantly and there was like so much like, did you see that? Did you see this? Like so much great stuff. But I feel like that stuff is still special out of that time. Oh, for sure. Like I still think that just like playing the game would be rewarding left and right.

There are so many large ass games that by the end of it, maybe they don't wrap up as narrative as good narratively as you would hope. And then the rebuttal to that is like, it's, it's not the journey. It's, or it's not the destination. It's the journey. It's all about, like, how much, you know, enjoy me. You got throughout the whole, you know, 100 hours, 70 hours or whatever you put into it. Tears of the Kingdom is one of the few where all of it, to me, was.

It wasn't just the journey. The destination also fucking hit in the most amazing ways, like, crying on stream. Just like, I can't believe this. This is some magical shit. I'll get back to it one day. And just real quick, just because I can't think of a better category to say this, Greg,

but for the never finish, just for you, I understand it's probably never going to happen. You gave great reasons why on the podcast a couple weeks ago, but Expedition 33. Something that's been killing me for a long time and I haven't found the right way to say it, but I think now is the best time,

is the story is so Greg Miller. There's so many characters and story things that I made so Greg Miller. And like, you were like, oh, like, I know the twist. I got to the twist. It's like,

there are more twists that are like, I think the twist that you know is just part of such a bigger thing. I'm like, this is so Greg. It's so Greg coded that like, if you saw it through with the characters, the story in world, I think you'd be obsessed with it. But I get, I get exactly that type of shit. But I also totally get it, but I just felt the need to say it.

If you ever want to talk to me about it, you can't. I read the Wikipedia. Yeah. I hate you. I hate you. The next category is become a pro. It really does. That hurt me. Become a pro. The games you feel totally outmatched in by those who make their life's passion, but if you had more time would go all out with.

I'll start. I put WW2K. Fuck yeah. Hell yeah. I can see Greg getting really into the competitive circuit. It is one of those

like, don't get me wrong, everything's amazing, my life's gone exactly how it should have. But like, if things were how they are now when I was a kid, I would fucking be insane at WW2K on YouTube,

on stream. Like, because it's like, we all have those games where you remember. Like college football is a great example, where I was the fucking shit

at college football on PlayStation and PlayStation PlayStation 2. And then I went to college and I met other people who played it and I was just getting my wheels beat off. They knew the formations. They knew what that meant.

Like I legitimately, you're talking N64 wrestling game era, unparalleled, unstoppable. I would have fucking cry. I would have loved to have had online to go challenge to go do the thing. That da da da da da. And so now I am just a fucking pale imitation of that fucking fat 10 year old.

You can't like, you know, I play 2K and I'm good at 2K, but I don't have time to. be all in on 2K like I was as a kid where I would literally play hundreds upon hundreds of hours of N64 wrestling to smackdown at PS1. If I could do that now and have that in 2K, I would love to see what I would do online at the competitions and all this other jazz. Just in general, it would be cool. The content I'd be creating, goddamn.

Bless, what would you go pro in? TechNate and, like, fighting games in general. Obviously. This is one that I think about all the time of like, I'm fucking sick as hell at Tekin. And this happened over the course of like, just, I mean, the game being out. out over time where I went to Evo. I didn't get any wins at Evo sadly. I almost did.

But even since then, I've gotten so much better at the game to where I'm like, man, if I just quit this job and dedicated all my time to play in Tekken, I genuinely think I'd be fucking incredible. Like, I genuinely think I'd be fucking sick as me in this video game. But, yeah, I mean, even for where I'm at now, right? Like, I think fighting games are what come natural to me as far as like how they work, how they function, how to get better, how to practice, how combos work, how. to like understand them right like even playing the um the what was it marl tokon fighting souls close beta

very quickly kind of understanding oh this is what this game wants out of me it's such a fun experience and i love the experience of like getting better and understanding what characters do and how to defend yourself against different characters and stuff like that um so yeah for sure tech and it would be the number one on the list of fighting games but then yeah there's also other fighting games that between stride and street fighter and stuff where i'm like for sure i'm getting i'll go i'll try to go pro in these ones Andy? It's between two. It's between Valorin and Deadlock.

Now, for fighting games, because of how much I love the FGC as a whole and just love seeing Evo every year, if I could, that's one where like, if I could just flip the switch

and become good, I would, I don't want to try to get better at a fighting game. So like, because of just... You know what to put it to work? Because of that journey is just way too arduous. But if I was able to just like flip that switch, like the dev should flip

to switch to make 60% of the games. It would be fighting games for sure. But Valorin or something like Valoran or Deadlock. These are games that I love so much. I hate getting my ass whooped, and it's very, very deflating when you do. And then you go, well, it's very similar to golf. I hit a bad shot at golf playing out there with my family.

I'm like, you fucking idiot. It's like, and you play once a year, dude. Why are you surprised that these are the results? you know. And it's the same with Valorin, where I'll get my ass whipped and I'm like, well, yeah, you play maybe once a week, if that.

And it's usually just two games because those are the two games where we play with our little competitive squad. And I, it's one that mechanically, whenever I do feel myself get better, it's like, oh man, I could, I have so much more to unlock.

And another one is deadlock, where deadlock, I feel, is getting very soon to being announced. and coming out formally in a very formal professional way. But Deadlock is one that I want to go back to so badly. And even they just had a massive update that felt the most 1.0 of any of the other updates. Yeah. Where they gave the, I mean, well, first off, the characters have completed art now.

We're back in the day when you were playing these characters, their shin and ankle bones may not be connected to their shoes. like because the art, the 3D art was just not completed or like the lady who's wearing a sort of like a coat over her shoulder, the arm may not be attached in a way, you know? But now

the art seems to be really, really completed. Now there's like a hub area in the you know, in the, whenever you start off playing the game where you kind of run around a mansion and you can run to go watch games that are happening right now or you can go watch to look at stats or training room or whatever. It feels like the most 1.0 it's been in a while

and with all the new, I don't know what they're called, agents, heroes, whatever their calls that were introduced, just all seem so damn cool and I want to get into that game because I,

for somebody who doesn't love mobas, that's usually just the top-down version, but for this to be a third-person moba with the same sort of energy and, you know, kind of quick decision-making you have to make. It was always so funny playing with Mike early on

where Snowbike Mike is the only one who knew Mova's and none of us really knew it. Yeah. And there were so many moments early on like, I don't know what to go do now. We'll go farm this and that and then we'll wait. And then hearing Mike get more and more frustrated. Like, well, just do that thing that I'm telling you.

Because he's like the coach. He knows what to do. It was just a lot of fun kind of getting better with our squad. And yeah, I would say Deadlock is a tide between, uh, it's a tie between Deadlock and Ballarat. Timmy, if your answer isn't smash, what are you doing? It's not smash. Actually.

No, no, no. You're already so good? I enjoy how good I am at smash. I feel like smash, like above my level, which again, is not even that good compared to, I very early had the moment of realizing I already wasn't even the best in my group at my high school and college.

We start meeting other kids and other people and other colleges. It's like, oh shit, we are small fish in this. But I just love the game. I love playing it and all that stuff. But my answer for this, I have two for different reasons. My first is just call of duty in general. And the reason being,

this is very unexpected for me to say, I'd imagine. It's because I love the campaigns at the Call of Duty games. Not all of them, but you know, the OG modern warfare and like even the some of the stuff that they've done in recent times. But I feel like not playing Call of Duty multiplayer.

I'm just going to say ever. Like I think maybe like two or three matches in my entire life has really kind of fucked me as a gamer because I have such a understanding of video games to an extent. And you all know the games I like and then the genres I like and Nintendo essentially. and Halo when it comes to like competitive shooting games and all that stuff and I was never competitive there to begin with. But the concept of loadouts and the way all the systems work and like the matchmaking styles and stuff, whenever we do or did party modes or like do streams and stuff, I feel like I'm picking up sticks for the very first time ever. Like there were just so many systems and languages that I just don't understand.

So if I was a pro in that, I think it would just help me understand a lot of games that I just like, if I'm being honest, like have a fear of even picking up because. I'm just so behind in the lexicon and like the understanding of I mean, keyboard and mouse, that's one thing. Like that's a whole other level. But even on a controller, I'm like,

I don't even know what all these buttons do and why I should be using them. Controls where the pros play. For real. For call duty. No way. Because of all the aim assist. Oh, the pros, huh?

Well, like, you know, but like it's trying to break through, it's always like a, like, I don't know if any pros on pro teams play without controller. I think I'm pretty sure they're all control players. Yeah. But my answer to the to Greg saying,

it's Master for this thing, it's Pokemon, right? Like the dream of being a Pokemon master. Like, come on. Like the catch of them all has always been more my vibe. Beating the games, doing that stuff is like the cool. I'm good. I've never understood the competitive scene in a real way, but I wish I did. So my answer would be Pokemon champions,

which is cheating because it's technically not out yet. So if I had to choose one that's out now, it would just be whatever the latest gen is. So Scarlet and Violet. But yeah, getting hell into that. really good at it. Like, I feel like that would complete the Tim Getty's kind of arc. All right, then we'll start with you, Tim, for alternate

endings. Games that lend themselves to replays and different outcomes. You know, I don't really have an answer for this one. Oh, fair. Yeah. Those tend to not be my types of games. I like a canon ending. Yeah, me too. You know, I always feel like I want to have a definitive thing. There are certain games in recent times, specifically, I don't want to name them,

but like, I like that there are multiple endings, but even then, I don't really feel that I like how the game I'm talking about is presented it away. You don't need to play through the whole game and do different choices and all that stuff. Like, I would much prefer a

developer driven story than a make your own choices and it changes the game and all that stuff. So not really enough. Andy, alternate ending. Ballard's Gate 3. I put that down too. Yeah. Again, if there was nothing else to play, like I don't like how Ballersgate controls and so that's a frustrating experience

for me. But again, for a year, I'm like, let's actually get through it. Let's get competent, let's find the fun in this and go, and then I'd like to see all the different permutations. Were you playing controller? Yeah. Okay. Because I know when I did try to play controller,

it's funny just thinking about how tech kind of also affects a lot of these things and how the recent rise of me, not just me, but just handheld PCs becoming more and more prevalent. And we were talking about, we've done a sponsor team for Nvidia, G-Force now. And it, like, it still remains true to this day of that Baldersgate 3 not running or looking great on Steam Deck back when it launched.

Yeah. If I was playing G-Force now and if I discovered how much it actually works for me and looks good and performs well, I would have played way more. But when I would play on my steam deck, it just, it was hell of noisy looking. It was, you know, pretty framing in a lot of moments. it just wasn't quite optimized for it at that time. And but had I had G-Force now or just a really good cloud sort of service

I would have really put in a lot more time into Ballard's Gate 3. But I didn't love the I didn't love the control scheme. A keyboard mouse felt way more like this where I need to be playing. Yeah. Blessing. Cyberpunk. The same answer as Cloppers. This is one that like I

when they put out the cyberpunk 2.0 update alongside Phenem Liberty, they did a lot of refinements to the skill tree. And honestly, that's the thing that I care way more about than even re-rolling endings. Sure. I think for Phantom Liberty, I re-roll the endings anyway. Like, I would just go back to my previous save because I was so invested in that story in Indra Zalba that I wanted to see what the different stories,

and Indra Zelba. I wanted to see what the different endings were anyway. But for me, in that DLC, right, like I had tinkered with my skill tree in a way where I turn my character into more of a samurai build where I'm deflecting bullets and doing all that shit. I want to see what all the different permutations of that game are. The fact that you can play as a hacker,

the fact that like, you know, I remember them early on talking about the backgrounds for your characters where you can be a street kid or a corporo or whatever, I thought that they would end up doing way more into that. More with that. And like, I think for me,

the skill tree stuff is kind of the true like, oh shit, no, this is where you can really define what kind of character you are and how you can do your play style and all that stuff. And then also, you know, figure out other side quests that I missed.

Romances that I didn't do. I was a Payne M guy in my first play through. I want to see what's going on with Judy and other characters. And so Cyra Punk for sure. Yeah, when we did the Phantom Liberty Review and you talked about the ninja stuff with the blade, that got me to re-roll another character. Maybe it wasn't even a fandom, whatever. When you talked about it, that's when I did it.

And I re-rolled one to do that and, like, built into that tree. The next one is Indie Darling's, Indies that had a lot of good noise around them, but simply got swallowed up by bigger titles you were playing at the time. I don't feel like I got a great answer on this one. So I'm going to pull the answer from my heart. That's a ridiculous, ridiculous thing to say. But a short hike.

I've started a short hike several times. It's a game that should be for a great. It's a fucking Greg game. But it just never works. It never clicks. It never hits. I don't know how you boot it up and don't finish it. I get bored like 10 minutes in, 30 minutes in or whatever.

I was like, oh, this ain't doing it. And I know how much people love a short hike. I know it's supposed to be super touching. I know it's a great game. But it just, no, it's just ain't. It ain't what I want. Yeah, it ain't doing it for me. I love it.

It was really this video game that made me want more games in this style. Like I just kept on thinking about, because this was around the time that I was playing another bird game called Death Store. And it's just like, man, I love this art style. I want more games to kind of mess around with that style of doing visuals. And more games with birds. Yeah, more bird games. There's a bird dating sim coming up in the direct, I think.

Is it the same as how? Outta for Burfr? No, but it reminds me of how to have a way for it. Yeah, it's very similar. Bless, what about you? I have two answers that are both opposite types of games, so both very blessed games. Return of the Oberden, like Cloppers also mentioned, that's one that I never got around to. But one that I think would be totally my taste, especially coming off of games like Outer Wilds or Blueprints or those games that are that tasky with kind of solving a mystery, kind of being a detective.

So that, for sure. And then Splunky, too. I love a roguelight. I love a difficult game. I love a platformer. I feel like Splunky fits into so many of the categories of things that I love about video games design-wise. But I've always bounced off of Splunky. I want to give this one a call a shot, especially years and years later.

When I first played Splunkie, it must have been like 2015 or something like that. I think I'm a different person now. And so going back to it in 2025 or whenever, like I think I'll probably take to it a bit more. That's a great call. Yeah. Seeing Spillanke-T on your list is like, oh, shit. that's one that I've definitely been wanting to play. And when we did a couple of streams with it,

realizing like, man, this is so my shit. I don't know why I never got into it. I would put disco elysium on my list, though. Yeah, that's a good one. That is a good one. I know that that's one that I would vibe with and just in the moment that I tried it out was not the right time nor place and never went back to it.

Another good one for me would be the altars. As much as you've talked about that, I'm like, I would really fuck with this and I just haven't had the time. It's, again, on my rog, it's ready to go. It's just always something else to play. That's a good ass game. Mine is one that I now will get to at some point in my life. And it's a semi-a-cop-out answer, but Hollow Nights.

I gave it a shot many times. Don't love the beginning of that game. Don't love how obtuse and open it all feels. But in Silk Song, I think, gets into the Metroidvania a lot faster and into the action a lot faster. And I enjoy that. And how much I'm loving this game. And I'm like, all right, it's hard.

It in some ways, hard and in ways I actually despise. But overall, I'm like, I, I can do this. And I feel like from what I've seen, most people are like, Hollow Night Silk Song, early game is as difficult as some of the hard stuff in Hollenite, not all of it.

And I'm like, okay, cool, I can do it then. And I just love, I've always loved the look and world of Hollow Night. So I'm like, I got to get to it because I,

I don't want to say I get it now, because I've always got it, but I know that I can do it. You know what I mean? I know that it's worth it overall. So I'll get to it eventually. So then to swing us back and finishes off. just chilling out, games you love to hang out in the world.

What do you got for me, Timmy? Oh, I got the weirdest answer ever, but fuck, I stand by it. Sonic Mania, man, that is a game that if I have five minutes, I'm just like, I'm going to boot it up. I want to see that shit. OLED portable, it on the screen, whatever, chemical plant zone, put it in my veins. It's just good vibes. Here are the sonic music and just the overall look of all those classic levels in widescreen. Like, I love everything they did with Mania, all the updates to Sonic and the.

animations that he has, like, I just wish every game looked like this. Andy? I think that TOTK makes a great mention with TOTK, having Tijuana on their list. It's hard to not say that because that is just such a lovely place to exist in how peaceful it can be, how much you can just kind of turn your mind off and just zen out, you know? Maybe pop, maybe they'll eat a little gummy, you know. just kind of like just like no chance just need to you know just kind of relax for the day

if I are if I were to not go with tears of the kingdom though I would probably say I already mentioned Eldon Ring and that was a game that I just did like hanging out in as well I would probably say

something like any multiplayer game that I'm playing with friends in a discord you know like and maybe it's like the people that I'm with, you know, and maybe that's just mainly what I'm kind of searching for is just the kind of like, you're just chatting and bullshitting

with friends. That's good. Let's go, yeah, let's go with, I guess right now, since I miss Chris Anka, I haven't talked to Chris in a while. Sure. I love Marvel rivals. Okay. I like that a lot. What about you, bless? GTA online. That's a game that feels like

coming home for me. I'm not played in years now. But like, Like I, that game lasted me four years. Like when I was playing it. Like F-O-R, like for years, I played that game, right? And like, I don't know. There's something about having a game where I have an apartment, I have a garage with my cars that are mine.

And like, there's a level of ownership of the things that I own in that game where I'm like, damn, I worked for this. I went on heist. Like, I went on missions. Like, I saved up money in that game. I was paying attention to when Rockstar, when they were like, ah, shit, we fucked up with the servers. Here's $500,000 for free, right?

Like, I would log in specifically to make sure I was claiming, claiming that money because that shit meant some to me. And, like, there's just a variety of things that I was doing in that game, from races to death matches to all that stuff, right? And, like, I don't know. That game very much is my PlayStation home of video games, right? Where I come back here, and this is my chill spot. And so if I'm playing a game for a year and I'm choosing a thing where it's just like,

I'm just chilling out for the year, DTA online for sure. I guess all year for me, it was doing Awakening. with just a house building. I had totally forgotten about just survival games as a genre for this, which I think they're perfectly molded for me. Of course.

Where I can just spend a lot of hours trying to build that next thing and get that next element that then upgrades a new part for my ship or my building or whatever. But because I kind of, I feel like I already did a lot of that in Dune Awakening, it would be no man's guy then.

Because I really want to I really want to mess around with that game enough to be able to build a ship and get super into it and have this mobile base that I'm not only proud of how it performs, but I really put in a lot of work into how it looks aesthetically.

Yeah, and the similar vein to you and blessing then, like mine would be Animal Crossing New Horizons where it's like yesterday, Jen gave me a haircut. And when she was doing, she's like, put on the Wii shopping music, put on the Wii menu music.

And we tried to do on Spotify. I was like, oh, right, fuck. And I downloaded the Nintendo music app and put it on there and play. and then I had to run to Home Depot for some garbage. And I was like, I still had it open. I was like, oh, man, sucks and I'm not a bigger Nintendo fan that I'm like, wait a second. I went to Animal Crossing and I just let Animal Crossing play.

And the wave of nostalgia for a 2020 game that washed over me. I was literally on the drive back like, am I about to just throw it all the way? Say fuck a review season and go play more Animal Crossing. It's like that way, if in time was like, as you know, everybody has their Animal Crossing COVID story. But again, what you're talking about of like the ownership of that island and what you build and what you build and what you. make and like even last night or driving around being like well if i came back i'd want to do this and i want to do that you know joey started over i'm like i wouldn't do that but i would want to and it's like immediately back into well i could do this and i could do that what about that and but

this and like i just fucking love animal crossing so much i miss it i miss it god damn it uh a couple super chats to get in here to the kind of funny podcast uh i like this one trevor said the favorite world to live in is by far skyrim playing skyrim feels like i'm stuck in a wooden cabin during the snowstorm and have a fireplace going. And that is like when people talk about cozy games, when we talk about this like nostalgia, when you talk about chilling out, like that's what I think of as well or whatever.

There are a couple other ones too. I like that I'm going to toss into my Greg way after this, okay? I had this one that I liked. Zomino says, or Zomino, you should each take a week off of new releases and play one of your picks. I was thinking about this. Like,

even before this episode, I was thinking about the fact of like, if we could do a thing as a company where we do like the catch up week. Yeah. We're only catching upon games. Like each of us are getting bespoke stream and we're just catching upon the game. I think that's totally doable and it's probably on the other side of like

Black Friday or leading up to Black Friday and then in this November, December I know there's so many games I got pushed to December. It's doable and I think we should. We set up cubicles in this space. Everyone has their own camera and we have a little a little sleeping bag as well

and that's where we sleep. Oh okay. The other one I want to tackle because it's in line with that, right. Romance Dawn, Super Chat, and said, In a year with no new games, what would kind of funny content look like? Y'all talk sometimes about, y'all talk sometimes about all the things you'd like to do

if you weren't so busy to play. I mean, I want to talk about that on a Greg way. Yeah, I mean, just kind of quickly, thinking back to a week and a half, two weeks ago, blessed with us getting really into Rainbow Six Seagex out of nowhere. Yeah, dude. Playing those streams and being like, man, I like this game.

And I, and if we had more time or, you know, During that week, I was like, oh, we're probably going to play a lot of deadlock. And then for whatever reason, Mike puts CJX on the stream. I was like, oh, that's a weird pick. And I was like, oh, this is awesome. I'm having so much fun playing this. Yeah, I mean, that's how it was with me and Pokemon Violet, right? They'd be able to go back and just like, okay, I'm just playing this game that isn't the hottest thing, but cool.

In this episode has been very cool. Thank you so much, TOTK. We love you, Koppers. We couldn't have done this without you. Wait, hold on. Mad Rock says $5 super chat. You would give a second chance to Axi and Verge. First off, thank you for the $5.

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