Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Every Game Still Coming Out In 2018 - Kinda Funny Gamescast Ep. 179

Episode Date: July 23, 2018

We run through all of the games still coming out in 2018 and discuss our excitement levels for each. (Released first to http://www.Patreon.com/KindaFunnyGames Supporters on 07.20.17) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up guys? Welcome to the first ever episode 179 of the Kind of Funny Games cast. As always, I'm Tim Geddes. He's joined by one of the coolest dudes in video games. Greg Miller. Reaching your back pocket, get the sling ring. And joining us, as always, Jared Fettie. Disgraced to be here. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, man, we had quite the pre-show. Every so often I'll say this episode is worth the dollar. Yeah. I will let you know that this pre-show worth the dollar to watch live. You can go to patreon.com slash kind of funny games. to just $1 a month. You can watch four or five episodes live, depending on how many weeks or the month.

I mean, you can just get them early. You know what I mean? You got Friday. You get them early there. That's the other thing too for a little bit more cash. And yeah, is it going to be worth the five or $10 depending on you want to get audio or video early? Yeah.

We don't put the pre-show on the audio version, right? So it's just the $10. If you just want to get it early. This is confusing the way we do it. I will counter that fucking money. That statement by saying I would give you a dollar to be digitally removed from this particular pre-show. Listen,

here's the thing about Jared Petty. Everyone in the industry knows them is the nicest guy. Like, people were aghast when you cursed that one time on Games Daily. Cursed. Reddit threads about it, yeah. Oh, well, I was reading a quote. That's different. No, you cursed naturally once on that show.

Did I? Yeah, but in Arizona. You don't curse? Not on shows, not often. We are going to make sure we ruin your reputation. We're going to bring you down. We don't want you to bring us up is kind of funny. We want to bring you down and show you the underbelly of it and, like, show you,

these are the rats we eat to live. We did the Amazon Day live stream yesterday as of recording this episode. and I told the guys before we go in and I was like, look, we're not not allowed to swear but like they're being like, hey, just watch your language, be aware, whatever, and I'm like, totally cool. So guys, let's just try our best. We did not go five minutes without Andy saying fuck.

And then Andy's the worst cover up I've ever seen. Andy was like, fuck and I just, hey, ho, ho. Like, wait, what? That doesn't stop it at all. This is the Kind of Funny Games cast each and every week right here on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games we get together, talk about video games, all the things that we love about them. Like I said earlier, you can get the show early on patreon.com slash kind of funny games.

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That gets you a whole bunch of days, including party mode, which is, wow, what a hit show we have. And by hit, I mean, it's really good. Party mode's awesome. When this publishes on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games, it will be Party Mode Week. And you might say, what does that means? It means we are going to Pimp Party Mode very hard.

Our local multiplayer show that we're incredibly proud of that we think Andy does an amazing job editing that has all sorts of jokes and clip arts and all sorts of like live action. Wow. We got that clip art. We've done Let's Play since we started. And I think a lot of people just assume

this is our new Let's Play series when in reality it's a highly produced, edited phone. Oh, it's really well. produced. Have you run the Rocket League one yet? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's up by this time. Yeah. Yeah. That's a lovely episode. Yeah. No, that'll be up. Well, not for you watching live. But by the people. Everyone else. Yeah, when it gets there. Yeah. Yeah. I caused the time work. Time work. No, it's fine. So yeah. I want to be pimping out the top 10, I think, uh, on Twitter. So go to Twitter.com slash

kind of funny viz. Check them up there. Joey, don't forget. Joey won't forget. No, just like I'll never forget. Our Patreon producers, Tom Bach and Eric Heights, the men, the myth, the legends. I appreciate you guys both very, very, very much. How are you guys doing? I'm good. I'm in a good mood. I was in kind of like a shitty mood because this morning, there's a lot going on. Oh, yeah, that's true.

And then now that I'm here, now that I was talking, now that that pre-show kind of warmed me up, got me loose and goosey. Primed the pump. It primed the pump, Greg. You're right. I'm feeling good, and I want to talk about video games. I want to start with you, Greg.

I want some updates. Okay. Some games you've been playing. I've been boring. I like, that's the thing. For the time, for people watching later and maybe even the next Monday or whatever. We're recording this the Tuesday, when we usually record on Thursdays. We're recording on Tuesday because I, as soon as this ends, run to the airport, fly to Los Angeles,

film something amazing tomorrow that I don't know if I can talk about yet. I keep waiting to find out if I do. How I told you what it is? I know. No, I'm very excited. It's one of the coolest things we've ever got to do. 100%. Then I will take a train to Comic Con and meet you guys, and then we are at Comic Con doing a million things. Wow. So our schedule very abbreviated this week. So in terms of what I've played since we last recorded on Thursday, not that much because Octopath Traveler is fucking awesome And Fortnite Season 5 is fucking awesome I just want a quick update

You don't need to go too long Fortnite season 5 How's it treating you? Excellent Like I yeah I'm I know People want me to play other games And finish other games

And all the stuff And I just I mean I'm having so much fun with that game And it's so awesome To have a game We're all playing and being a part of Whether it is that we're doing it on stream Like we did yesterday on the Amazon stream

Or we're just playing in the back room Or we're at home playing And like you know Kevin I just jumped on It was trying to get my Like here's the thing about Fortnite where this season five, right? It's my first full season where I'm all in, right?

We join, I joined when Swiss dropped at E3. So like I was already had 30 days, if not less than that to play through the last season. This is the first one where I, I, I'm just all in on the game in the way that I didn't think I would be of like, all right, cool. Well, fuck, no one's online. I'm running through. I've gotten a couple wins.

I've gotten a couple losses here, but I'm playing solo. Fuck it. Let's just do the challenges. And so now I'm actually going out there and I was, you know, I was running around collecting all the lightning bolts and I was looking up the treasure maps and where the treasure you know what I mean like all the like super nerdy stuff that I was ignoring for a long time of just like whatever and now it's like well fuck I'm getting really close to this next thing in the battles here so I need to get that so I'm going to go in and I'm just running around and actually

using using the systems they've put in there that once again are making we've talked about before making me play the game differently where I think uh you know my strategy is usually when I'm just playing to win, drop, you know, wherever the line is, go out to a far away point, drop, try to get good stuff, and then move my way in, which whenever I put up a video on Twitter of me winning or an Instagram video of me winning, everybody's like, oh my God, you only had three kills, like, you know, because usually you see these videos like amazing people with like 11. And I'm like, well, the way I play, it just gets down to it. I really don't see action until then. But again, the brilliance of the way they use the daily challenges to make you

play a game differently, the brilliance of what achievements started as, it is. is me, fuck, well, there's a lightning bolt over there. So I'm running to a different area. I'm running in different things. You know, it was a get three kills in one of the places. I forget now. I got it. But I dropped in there and I was like, all right, cool.

This is going to take a lot of attempts. Got all three in the first thing. And that was like, wow, what a confidence booster number one. And then secondly, like, oh, this is how people are ending the game with 11 kills. And it's just a different strategy than how. So it's like, I'm learning how to strategize differently to get the lightning bolts you have to build. So I'm learning how to build in a different way. So it's teaching it to play without tutorializing, which is live in the dream.

And that's such a brilliant gameplay thing. You know what I mean? Like the game, Fortnite, I'm surprised because we all know how super popular it is, right? Even before I was playing, I was reading about it on Games Daily and talking about all these different things. I knew it was super popular, but I'd never paid attention since I wasn't talking about it. Of just the wave of hate it also gets. Of people who are just sick of it and don't want to hear about it, right? The game, I don't think gets enough credit publicly for stuff like this.

All these smart little choices they're making inside that are actually, wow, There's a lot to this free-to-play game that, you know, I've already put this season. I put $35 in, right? Because I bought the $25 pass, then I bought the superhero costume. And meanwhile, Nick's playing right next to me and default everything and just hasn't put one dime in, but it's played just as much as me. Like, it's a neat little ecosystem. We're having a lot of fun, and I'm having a great time.

Mad respect to Nick for not putting any money in and walking around. He's getting close to falling because he was asking yesterday on it. But like, it's just like, it's different strokes, right? Again, for me, it is very much, I realize the privileged position I'm in in the industry. I get a lot of games for free. I was looking at my Switch clock, right? And it's like, I think a couple days ago. So I'm probably 50 hours into Fortnite right now on the Switch.

And it's just like at that point, I'm like, yep, you deserve money. You deserve these things. And like I bought the costume after they said they were going to give more people money. It's the Dota League mentality. It's going to church and tithing. I like what I get here. So I'm just going to give you money now. Exactly.

It's what people do with kind of funny on Patreon, right? Yeah, absolutely. Or, yeah, exactly. The other thing I wanted to ask you for you looking toward the fall. Yeah. When's it going to end, Greg? That's a great question. Do you want to save that?

Because I think that's your topic of the show. We're going to save that for later in the show. But give me your update on Project or Octopath Traveler. Octopath Traveler still going through that and still just so in love with it. The thing I think I'm most excited for in the immediate future, I shouldn't say that. In gaming, the immediate future is the flight that I'm taking here. I'm just like, oh, an hour and a half, a couple hours of the airport too, just playing Octopath. I won't be distracted by Fortnite.

The internet's not going to be good enough. and then going from L.A. to San Diego, I'm taking the train. It's like a three-hour train ride where they have a bar cart where I can just get a drink and sit there and play an octopath. Octopath is such, I've seen somebody else do it, so this isn't me coinless, not that it matter. But it is such comfort food. It is just like, oh, I'm just sitting there. And I, you know, I took. A lot to do.

I took time off, not like egregious, obviously. But I think from when we spoke last, even when we were getting around talking last time, it was the plane ride in that weekend. and I had to been playing it through the week leading up to games cast and then jumping in over the weekend we had a friend in town for Jen so they were watching like catching up on sharp objects

and so to sit there with it muted and just run through and kind of grind on a few things and beat some bosses and then move on it. It's just like yeah this is what this game is that's something that best are JRPs I think all have in common is that comfort food feeling I think that's people sometimes look at the silliness

or the tropiness and think why would anybody want to be a part of that but Octopath seems to fit into that pantheon of things like Sweet and 2, Dragon Quest 5, Final Fantasy 5 and 6, where you go in and you feel a sense of familiarity that builds, and it just

continues to snowball as you play. The more you play Octopath, the more you like it. Yeah, that's the thing. The deeper I get into it, the more I care about the characters, the more I care about the storylines, the more I care about the next abilities I'm going to unlock, and it is that thing of, oh, man, this boss just took me to the limit. Like, I finally,

I'm, you know, I was 10 hours last week, so I don't even know what my clock's at. I, 12, 13, maybe again I haven't played that much since Thursday um but I finally ran into a boss where I was like I died and I was like and I came back and I was like all right started using my items do my things beat them and it was then to all right cool people have leveled up and to go unlock their next passive ability which oh that's going to help me do this it was like yeah you can just see how it's going to keep going and going and go you think he'll go back and revisit things like chrono trigger now when you finish this no I don't I've tried with chrono trigger I I picked it up as a PS1 classic on Vita a while back on some trip. Well, that was your first mistake. Don't play the PS1 version. It's terrible.

But I mean, that was like that was what was available to me. Right. And like that's, that's where this all comes down to is what the ease of it is. And for me, it's more, I don't think I'm going to finish, uh, uh, uh, Octopath and feel like, man, I need to jump into another one like this right away. Yeah. This is such a outlier for me. This is not my traditional style of game in terms of visuals in terms of just if it's not persona, a JRP that I want to go like this. But I feel like it hit, you know, bless, praise, blessed to be the fruit. It hit right at the moment of, hey, this is a, not a quiet time, obviously. There's a million other games I'm ignoring for Fortnite and Octobah.

But like, hey, this is, Spider-Man's not here. You don't have to worry about this. And hey, you're on the road like fucking forever. And the biggest thing about where I am right now with gaming that I know I don't need to say, and I've said before, but it's something I think you kind of forget like a dream. how fucking great is the Nintendo Switch? You know what I mean?

Like this thing is such a phenomenal fucking system, especially now that I'm using it in both modes, where it is that I'm playing it as a handheld, and then I am coming home and fucking plugging it in going. And like, Kevin joined me on Saturday. I was running around doing solo stuff. Won a game? No big deal. And then Kevin was like, hey, you want to do duos?

And I was like, sure. And I jumped in. And it was that thing of he had the little controller next to him. Like, are you playing on Xbox? And he's like, yeah, man. I'm playing on it. And we're sitting there talking through the games. voice chatting through the games and it was just like,

he's like, man, you know, he's like, it is, it runs noticeably better. It looks way better here. I'm like, I get that, but I'm so happy being in one ecosystem with the switch. Where, I mean,

until X and Y and A and B, being in their spots are second nature for me. And I don't have to sometimes look down, which I don't have doing Fortnite, but like other games or whatever. Like, I just can't get over how much I'm enjoying the system, how much stoked I am to look ahead of packs,

like to peel back the curtain a little bit. Like I'm doing the, InterSight Championship tournament or whatever for that Pear Schneider Cup we made, right? You're in it. Like, I'm just bringing the Switch, right? Because it's loaded with amazing multiplayer games. We're doing this skybound stream

on Friday at Comic Con. I'm just bringing the Switch and we're just plugging it in the dog and we figure out what we play there because there is so many options. Obviously we don't need to beat the drum. The Switch is awesome. I love it. And I love even just like the older games are just being ported. Like Crash Bandico is a perfect example. Like

now it's on Switch, I'm like, yeah, I'm playing through it again. It's like I don't have that need to like beat it in one weekend, but it's just like it's there for me. I'm just going to go levels by levels and play through all three games. It's almost the reverse. People are always searching for that set top box. I mean, literally since the late 80s, people have been trying to create that one integrated place you go for all your entertainment. And it's going to be in your living room. And instead, what Nintendo did was that, well, actually, what if we created one integrated place where you go for your gaming that you can take everywhere?

It's a vastly different philosophy than anybody's ever actually managed to wrap up in something and really. put marketing muscle behind. It still boggles me to think back only a little more than a year ago when we were all convinced this thing was going to fail. And the fact that it came out the doors and kicked our butts up over our shoulders and has

changed the way we play games forever, I think. I mean, it's just like another great example of it, right? It was like, I'm going to LA at night, right? I'm going to stay with Scott Lowe and Cindy. And Scott hit me up and he's like, so when are you coming? I'm like, I get in here. I'm like, I laid at seven or whatever it is. We'll go to dinner. We'll

come back and play Fortnite and Switch. He's like, I like the way you think. Like, you know what I mean? Of like, it is like that, and not that that couldn't exist elsewhere, but if I was solely playing on PlayStation 4, unless I wanted a pack of gaming laptop and figure this out and blah, it's just like, no, here's my device and everything I want. And if I do want to play by myself, I have these games.

And if I do want to play other people I can? And I'm like, do I bring the Ojo and projected on the wall instead of playing in handhouse? I mean, there's, there's a lot of options with it. And again, it's not perfect. Like, I do wish that there was a version of the doc that was official that was more of just like an HGMI. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But going back to what you're saying about the settop box and all that, I feel like portably, when you have the switch and your phone, like your smart device, like, you're kind of just set to do anything that you need to do. Because, like, I like, so many people like, oh, when's the switch going to get Netflix? Who the fuck cares? I think that's a stupid, useless thing for that system to have because it's like you have so many other places. Everything runs Netflix, right? And it's like, that's at this point, that's not a privilege thing. Like if you have a switch and you're expecting Netflix on it, it's like, I guarantee there's some other device that you have that can play Netflix. I like the purity of it.

That is a game machine. Yeah. It's great. I think it's, I always laugh. It always cracks me up when I post something to Twitter from it. And it's like, cool. If you want to see this post, go check on a PC or something. Because you can't fucking see it here.

Like, that's comical that there isn't a browser. But again, I mean, Vita had all that shit. And I never used it for that. When PSP's first came out. I used a Twitter app, I guess. I was beside myself in excitement for the browser to come out and for the video capabilities and for all of that shit. And I loved it and I used the hell out of it. Why?

Smart phones didn't exist yet. Right? And once I got my iPod touch, never used my PSP for those functions again. Right? And it's like now that the phones are just in our pockets at all times. When you combine that with the switch, you just have everything. I like to steal smart things that Jeremy Parrish says because he's a really smart guy. One of his go-toes for Nintendo is that they are kind of the kings of good enough.

Nintendo understands how to create something that does one thing really well at an affordable price. And that goes all the way back to the Game Boy. And it continues through, you look at something, even like the GameCube, which actually made a lot of money, despite not selling as well as it could have, very dedicated game machine at the time when everybody was branching at. They focused on let's make it affordable, let's make it easy to program for, let's make it game-centric. The Switch is the ultimate realization of that design philosophy for Nintendo. And you mentioned the word purity. I really do feel like it's just they know us. They're really good at telling us what we want.

But we sometimes get this idea that Nintendo doesn't listen. I don't know if that's a popular media thing that comes from some of the bizarre decisions. Well, it's always their online stuff. But yet it's very obvious that they understood things that we wanted that maybe we didn't realize sure when they invented this. The biggest thing about it is I know I turn it on and I see all these other games there, right? Of like the stuff I should be playing.

I still haven't started Hollow Night. I have no idea if it's good. We'll talk about that in a sec. Okay. Good. I didn't know that. That was not a lead in. Oh, really? But speaking to that, like, well, you just get stuck playing games that are just there because you enjoy them which is a great problem to have. I got back into Sonic Mania

because Sonic Mania Plus came out. Sonic Mini A Plus is a physical version of Sonic Mania with a bunch of different added stuff. You can also get, I think it's a $5 DLC download if you own the original download. It's on all the consoles. I've been playing it on Switch. And it's just like, I loved Sonic Mania.

It's the best Sonic Game ever made. I still stand by that. And the Sonic Mania Plus is like, it gives me enough fun to come back to you and want to do it again. There's an encore mode where it adds Angel Island Zone, which is just like,

it's a fun little thing. We're like, just the people that make this game. I've said it a million times, they just really care about what people that like 2D Sonic games give a fuck about. Okay. And like they go back and they tap into the nostalgia in the right ways while also improving it and modernizing it not fully, but enough to make it like not just look and sound like a Sonic game, but to feel like one and to have all of the things that we love about it. And Encore mode is great because it takes the same levels from Sonic Mania and it just palette swaps the level so they look different.

and it just moves things around. It's not so much like full new layouts and some of them are a lot more similar, but just where enemies are is different. And like certain paths and stuff, there's like more hidden stuff. And there's two new characters you can play as Mighty and Ray. And they both have unique abilities

just like Tails and Knuckles and Sonic. But Mighty, or not Mighty, Ray, the Flying Squirrel, he kind of has a Mario World Cape functionality where you can kind of fly and do the like, get the control it really well when you get good at it and you can kind of fly through levels and it's super fast like even faster than sonic it feels like because you're also getting that vertical momentum fun and it's just like it's fun and again it goes back to it's like this character was designed understanding how sonic the momentum of sonic is important Sonic games is important and using the ramps

and stuff to launch yourself out and then fly and do stuff it's like that's that's cool and it's fun I like Sonic Mania. Should I go back and buy Plus? Do you think it's worth it? For the $5? Yes. Yeah, as an upgrade, definitely worth it. If you were buying a separate copy, this is not worth buying again.

There's not that much, it's not too much new content. It's enough new content. Also, it kind of feels like a lot of the criticisms I had of Sonic Mania last time around were that it felt unfinished in a couple ways. Most levels had intro animations, but not all of them. This one, all of them do. Um, they, the bosses have better tells of when, of how you need to attack them to, to damage them. And that wasn't a problem with every boss in the first game, but there was a couple that I'm like,

it is kind of bullshit. I, I should have been able to know what I had to do instead of just trial and erroring it. Um, but I just feel like it's just an improvement on, on the last game in pretty much every way. They added a four player split screen that I didn't get to try out. Can't imagine that's too good. But, but I, but it turns out you're missing out on the secret. best most. I was going to say that, but like if they put 10 or 11 care and everything else. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, it seems like it's more of a throwback to the old two player, like just kind of

race through the level thing. And like, I had fun when I was a dumb little kid playing that, but like, by new me. Now you're a dumb old man. I'm a dumb asshole. Man, it's true. But there's new bonus levels in Encore that are inspired by Sonic Spinball. And it just, I, when I did my review, Sonic Mania last year, so much of it was just about not only do the people making this game really care about Sonic. They really care about the, the history of of Sega and the lineage of all the classic, like that sound effect that matters to them. Like all those, it reminds me of how Smash Brothers treats Nintendo, like, it's like a museum of Nintendo thing.

Yeah. Sonic Mania really feels like a museum of Sonic the Hedgehog and early Sega history. No, I mean, there's been some criticism around the way Sega treated Sonic since the very beginning. When he was selling consoles. Yeah, exactly. He was selling consoles and then he just sort of squeezed all the blind. out of him and then rung him like a washcloth to see what else they could get out instead of celebrating their history there are their exceptions to that things like say ga ga ga which never got here unfortunately so we never got to see that tlc for the company's properties that was presented in the game like that but i i do wonder one thing about sonic mania that's that's jumped out at me is how successful has this been very did this work for them like are is there going to be a sonic mania too so that's the thing is it was definitely successful for them i think that

that the fact that we're seeing this is kind of them trying to get a little bit more bang for their buck out of it. I think they're like, we can get more. And I also feel like they're like, look, it's, we're not ready to make a whole new game yet, but there is enough things we can add to make this feel worthwhile. And like I said, this is such a kind of history moment, like nostalgia, like at its best thing for Sonic, that if another one were to happen, I think it would be entirely new levels. it wouldn't be releasing old classics. And I don't know that we'll ever actually see that.

I don't know that that would be worth their time and investment. That's what I wondered about us, if they were going to be willing to spend the money to actually build a whole new game and make it feel right? Because that's a pretty daunting challenge. Yeah, and I just, something tells me that if they did, it wouldn't sell as well as this. Like them making this kind of remixed version

that gives you a couple more classic stages, or at least inspired by classic stages, that is the right kind of business move because it is just like, hey, all things you do love, here it is. If we tried to make new stuff, even if the game was great, I don't think it would have the legs that the mania seems to now. Another question for both of you that came out of that four-player split-screen thing. I've been wondering about this ever since TV's got huge.

I mean, we don't think about it now very much, but televisions have increased exponentially in size in a very short period of time. And most of us are still, I think, unless we're playing on PC, playing games on our TVs, especially when we're playing on a console, Has anybody made a game that takes advantage of the enormous size of a TV in four-way split-screen mode yet? Has there been a game you've played? Like doing it in a different way? Like doing, just being like, this screen is so big that we can actually project now four small televisions on the screen to make a playable game around this.

I didn't cart. When I played cart, I was talking to Andrea, I think, on Games dealer, somebody just may have a conversation, which is rare. That isn't filmed. But it was that thing. I was like, I don't know. like four-player split screen, I feel like it exists so well in the indie market right now of us doing so much. And, you know, all the party mode games we end up playing stuff. But like when you think of that, I always think of like how beautiful, yeah, Mario Kart does look split up.

I mean, Mario Kart is a great example. I honestly think that any modern first-person shooter that still has split screen does it very well. I remember obviously playing Halo and it being four-player split screen and it's just like you, it wasn't even widescreen. Yeah, it's just like four squares and it kind of limits your view. Gold and I. But playing, yeah, exactly. Playing gold on a 30 inch or whatever. Play modern games, like the developers understand the real estate that they have.

And like even when you're playing two player, like, I like that it doesn't just split the screen in half. It does a thing where it kind of cuts off letter boxes the left and right side because it wants to give you the right experience. And those little details, I think, go a long way. Screen sheet does a good job of splitting. I mean, that's the whole game is splitting the screen into a quad in four pieces and then making you look at other people's screens while you're playing on your own screen. You ever play a screenshot? Never. You should do it. Do you know what it is?

No, never. I don't know. Everybody's invisible. So you go, you pick your gun at the beginning, right? So you get a blunderbuss or whatever. And then you, everybody's running through in their things. And so you look at somebody else's screen and you see that they see the purple like carpet. You're like, fuck they're upstairs.

And you run up there and there's just. I'm trying to find them. I played a very similar game to this that was top down, but it had a different mechanic. Oh, this is really interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Golden eye level layouts, but if every room was like all red or one room was all blue, and everything's color-based, so it's like you need to look at other people. You got to shoot off. I love that.

That sounds great. It's a blast. My favorite implementation of that, I think I've ever played as Pac-Man versus. Do you remember that? The weird Miamoto GameCube one? Yeah, the weird Miyamoto GameCube one. Yeah, one of their worst T-3s of all time. But a great game.

Great game, but like the fact that that was their like, and one more thing. Yeah, that was a terrible presentation. That was reaction guys won, right? Was it? Wasn't it? Isn't that what they were responding to? Where they were all just sitting there and it ended on Pac-Man?

Yeah, maybe. Great idea, though. I'm looking at it as the ghost. Uses the split screen really well, uses the second screen really well. I keep waiting for somebody to leverage big TVs in some creative new way. Like what you just described.

Sounds like a good use of that. But there's got to be something else out there. I wonder what it'll be. Yeah. And the final thing I want to say about... Was it 2003 for Pac-Man? Pac-Man versus? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there it is. Connectivity. That was the key word. Over at, Know Your Meme, Origin. The photograph of the four IGN reporters looking rather disinterested was originally taking

during Nintendo's conference at E320 2003 Expo where Nintendo's CEO introduced Pac-Man versus for GameCube. Pac-Man versus has a pretty good DS port. It has a switch port, but you have to have two switches to use the versus. There's an arcade version too. That is really, really cool. That's Pac-Man Battle Royale. You're right. Yeah.

Which is a little bit different. Different game. Dropped into a maze. Very good, though. Very good game. Actually, that game is available on Steam if you ever want to party mode. Oh, that could be cool. Yeah, that game's a lot of fun.

Yeah. Last thing I want to say about Sonic is the encore mode with the added characters. It has a new feature where one of the power-ups is getting another one of the characters. So you have the two guys that you're going on us because normally it's like Sonic and Tails, right? In this, you get the whole cast of all five of the characters and you can choose which one you want to join with you. and when one of your characters dies, you get to play as the other one, or you get to switch on the fly.

And the levels, the remix levels are completely designed around that exploration and using their different powers to, like, Knuckles can climb the walls. So it's like, you can switch to knuckles, climb, find the secrets up there and all that.

And they finally got rid of the 10 minute time limit for levels. So you can just explore. And it's like, oh, man, just little things that I think are making a great game even better. I've Sonic Fire and Ice used a lot of that mechanic,

which is actually a pretty good game. Do you ever play that? Is that the shitty DS? RPG game? No, no, no. That's the, you're thinking of the BioWare one. No, Fire and Ice was one of the last

platformers before Sonic Mania, and it was a, it was a 3DS one, but it's the sequel to one of the really bad ones. I forget which one. Yeah, but the last one of those is really good. Or not really good. Oh, it's up on Sonic Boom.

Yes, yeah. But Fire and Ice, that last one. Who on you, Chili Dog? Anyway, that one uses, sorry, I couldn't remember the name. That one uses the exploratory mechanic quite well. I reviewed that when I worked at IGN and it's actually pretty good so I'm glad to see him integrating that into this.

Earlier Greg you were talking about Hollow Night. That I see it and I'm like I should play that but gotta play Octopath. Uh huh. Jared you've been playing on it. I've been playing Holla Night. Yeah, people are telling me for a long time. Jared you gotta play Hollenite. Jared you gotta play Hollenite.

Well it's on Switch and I'm playing Hollenite on the Switch and Holy Night. Shit, it's really good. Almost there. Yeah, it's really good. Awesome. It's marvelous. People have been making a big hubbub. about it. Yes, it's beautiful. I love

the cartoony style mixed with a kind of almost painting like realism, a really beautifully realized world. But a lot of it is just that it is classic balls to the wall Metroidvania done to practical perfection. It's

really wonderful. I want to say Metroidvania, you guys have played a lot of that kind of game before, right? Action verge type stuff, gave story. I played about an hour of Hollandite on Steam when it came out last year because like the animation style and look of it just drew me in so much and I love that stuff. I appreciate with the animation that it doesn't have that kind of cheap flash look that a lot of these style games have. It has a very unique look that works. And also the immediate takeaway is, oh, it's Metroidvania. But when you play it, it kind of feels a bit more actiony as well. It has all the elements of a Metroidvania. But I feel like it's the character, the weight of the character and the way he attacks and stuff.

it feels very different than a Castlevania or Metroid. It does. I'd say if anything, he's not as floaty as, he's not floaty at all. He's precise. That's one of the things I like most about him. Almost like a Mega Man level of precision. That's probably the right. It feels like if Shovel Night was a Metroidvania.

Yeah, exactly. Perfect. Well encapsulated, my friend. And it's a lovely video game. I don't want to talk it to death except to say that it's substantial. It's got some really clever mechanics. You kind of leave your, you sort of leave. your body or your soul behind when you die.

So in soul, Dark Soul style, you kind of retrieve your own corpse to get your money back. So it's like a shovel like there. Yeah, right. Exactly. You're money big. But it's all exploratory. I do think it's kind of irritating that I have to buy map upgrades and stuff, but they actually the ecosystem's really well balanced against it.

It's hard. It's really hard. You're the cute little guy that pokes things with little nail sword and finds cool stuff. I'm enamored by it. I can't. I'm going to play it again. All right. So, Greg, you'd love it, I think.

Okay, yeah. I'll have to get to it. The last game we're talking about today, Jared. Rain World. Yeah. So I got a buddy at IGN, Chloe Rad, who is way smarter than I am in occasion. It's like, hey, Jared, you should play this game. Or I'll watch your playing game.

And they're like, what's that? Rain World apparently came out last year. I completely missed it. Rain World is a game where you play a little cat slug. I've never seen a cat slug till now, but it's what happens. Whoa! You have a cat slug! It was under me the whole time.

What? It's cat slug! I didn't know if you were here. I told you I had a surprise, Cool Greg. I've been sitting on that fucker the whole time. Jesus. I am not, I was going to reach out and hug cats lug, but he's been to your butt, so I'm not going to now. You have some cameo on him.

Oh, look at that. He's so adorable, little cat's lug. Yeah, Seren World is a game where you are almost powerless. Okay, great. You're this thing, and you're in this immense, hungry ecosystem. You have things that you eat to stay alive, and there are things around you that want to eat to stay alive. And that's kind of what the game's about.

You're exploring this vast labyrinthine area, but you're extraordinarily vulnerable. Okay. And it's not like, oh, this game's hard. It's like, oh, this game is deliberately unfair. It can kill me at any turn. It can kill me at any turn. And the enemies appear to be randomized in years I can tell.

So it really is kind of like, it's almost like a simulation. It's like, hey, if you were a weak little animal in a hungry world, this is what life would be like that has strengths and weaknesses the strengths are that it's unlike anything else in some very positive interesting ways it really does it's scary it's genuinely scary especially because

there's a progression system and if you screw up it knocks you back down and there's this threat every now and that it starts raining and you're not quite sure when that's going to happen and if you are not under very special cover when rain happens you'll melt because you're a slug you're a slug man and so you've got to run in

everything on earth is trying to eat you and you can starve to death and you can there's just all this horrible stuff going on but it's really tense the bad side is it is not particularly interested in your comfort it is a harsh game it's not brutal in the sense we use when we talk about a brutal platform or dark souls brutal difficulty it is brutal in that it is like nature and it is arbitrary and awful sometimes and you scream and throw your controller as I was doing yesterday. Okay. But it's quite unlike anything else. The best way I can put it is sometimes it's not fun.

It has a real blade runner vibe to it. I played it at Pax. Yeah. There's a week last year, I want to say. But it has a blade runner vibe where it like especially the look of it. And even the way that it feels, it is very dark. It is. And the character, I mean, I know he looks like a cute little dude.

In gameplay form, like it's a, it's a pixelated game that kind of looks like if Panda Musk made a really dark Blade Runner video game about a slug creature that lived in the sewers of Blade Runner. And like that is what fucking Rain World is. Yeah, that's a perfect description. Did you enjoy it when you played it? I did. But it was the same thing in what you're talking about where it's like, it just, it kind of just felt unsettling even. Like the wild like the way he moves. Oh, no.

He's weird. He's so fluid. God, the animation is gorgeous. But it's very different. It's a very stark contrast to something like Holo Night. Yeah. Where when you're playing Hollenite, you feel powerful. Yeah, like you said, you don't feel powerful as this dude.

And you never will. This is a game about, you don't just feel powerless. You are practically powerless. It's like the difference between when you're Pac-Man and you're kind of in the corner and all the ghosts are coming at you versus when you have the power pellet. That's that's Hollinite. Yeah, and that's how this feels. So it's, I'm playing on Steam.

It's on PS4 as well. I recommend it if you're looking for something a little different. I can't promise you that you're going to get like enamored by it because it is arbitrarily difficult. Obtuce. Yeah, it's up to you. They don't tell you anything that's going on. Okay. They, I frankly, I understand purists are going to scream at me.

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You're in charge. We're pretty excited. topic of the show. Every game coming out in 2018 past this point. Oh, I'm going to go through. We're going to talk about them. We're going to talk about our hype levels. Are we going to prognosticate? We're going to Prague motherfucking nosticate. This will answer the question

of how long does Fortnite last. And Octopath, but yeah. Oh, yeah. Right? I mean, Octopath's got legs. Octapest got eight legs. I think Octopat has legs based on the fact that it's switch. You know what I mean?

Again, I mean, like, we're taking trip to London, right? We're going to RTX London. That's a fucking flight. And if they have a power outlet on that, you best fucking believe that I'll just fucking plug right in and go. So you got that flight to London and that flight back. Yeah, exactly. From here, London's what about 8, 9? 16, I think is what it said, right?

15, yeah. We figure it's 6 to New York and then it's, what, another 6 or 8 from there. I think I did a straight shot last time I went to London, but I don't remember how long it took. That's how long, I mean, ours is straight and I thought it said 15, but maybe maybe, no, I could just be forgetting. You're right. Don't.

So we're at that point Now we're in July. July 13th Captain Toad came out. Oxypath Traveller came out. We know about that. July 17th, Sonic Mania Plus came out. I'm loving it. I'm a chili dog. Today is July 17th, the day that that game comes out. July 19th, closed nightmare comes out on the Switch and PS4.

I don't know what that is. Oh, you're literally going to go through every game. Yeah, there's not too much on this list. Oh, yeah. It's a... So this is like the... you don't need time. Time goes for, the time goes to every game coming out in 2018. Yep.

Yeah, so like, okay, so this is the bigger stuff that's coming out. This is everything coming out. Bullshit. But what do you mean? You said there's not that many on the list. 30 games just came out today. I read them all on kind of funny games daily. Yeah, you know what?

Whatever. You're going to tell me your fucking ice cream, is ice cream surfer on there? Is ice cream surfer on there? Because that shit came out today. No, it's not, dude. Exactly. So we're going with the bigger games.

Maybe, maybe these are physical games? How many Johnny Charbo games are on there? Yeah, how many Johnny Turbo's games are there? There's no Johnny Turbo game. Well, we know Johnny Turbo's going to release seven. I don't know. He's going to release 17 games before the end of the year. These are the titles that's featured on the game release 2018 list on Wikipedia.com.

There we go. Mega Man X Legacy Collection on every system. You're excited about this. Oh, yeah. That's coming July 24th. Yeah, so the Mega Man X games, especially the early ones, are extraordinary examples of the evolution of platforming from 8 to 16-bit eras. And they really set the template for the next. 10 years that followed after that.

They're wonderful, fascinating, beautiful, and totally worth your time if you never played it. I cannot wait to play them again. Mega Man X won. It's my favorite Mega Man game. That's your favorite one? The classic Mega Man games, I get it, and there's a lot that I love about them, but they are not for me. Mega X is for me.

What is the difference? Because Mega Man Classic has never clicked with me. I've never played a Mega Man X. Mega Man X, you should give a shot then. Okay. It's a very different feeling game. It's trying to find the right way to do. It like it feels a bit it's the difference between playing Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario World

That's a very good comparison. We're slightly larger characters. So what they've done is they've retooled the screen size and the number of characters on screen and the size of those characters To make sure that everything stays balanced but instead of balancing it toward feeling just like old Mega Man They balance it toward a feeling of being more agile having more verticality more speed You just really quick reactions you feel very powerful the charge shot is easier to use and more potent and you'll use it more than your special weapons. You have other power-up abilities that can allow you to kind of tweak the character

and the difficulty of the game the way you like. You can wall jump, you can... Interesting. You've got a very powerful slide. My problem with Mega Man always was, I felt like he was too heavy. So that's the opposite of that. It's not about precision jumps.

It's not about everything needs to be perfectly time. It's not that at all. It is way more about being a fun action game. Okay. It's sloppier in a good one. Okay. Okay. That sounds like me. Yeah, I prefer the originals, but it's it's a masterpiece. All right, cool. Well, fuck. Maybe I was try that. And it's really fucking cool. The music's really cool. You get power-ups that like you get the Hadoquan and the-you-Rood Yeah, you really got to go to a lot of trouble to get the Hadook in there. Also, it has giant robot animals.

Okay. The bosses are all like giant evil animal robots. Okay. Those are fun. No Man Sky. No Man Sky. July 24 on Xbox One. Uh-huh. Yeah. With with the patch. Yeah, did you go through, have you done the, did you look at the trailer today for the giant update? Yeah, I mean, it seems like the game they've always promised. You know what I mean? It's been two years of work to get to. Here's full-blown multiplayer. Here's the ability to jump into third person.

Here's all these. There's a whole bunch of base built. Like, it's crazy the amount of stuff that I think it's next is what they're calling that patch. No Man Sky next is adding. That'll be everywhere. And then obviously the Xbox game on its own too. So for me, this is exciting because I like to No Man Sky, even with all its flaws. Me too.

Yeah. Are you? Yeah, yeah. Oh, totally. No, my sky buddies. Woo-hoo. No, Kevin, too. Kevin and I, you know, always were like, well, we had our expectations set correctly because

we got to play it ahead of time. So we came in and got what we wanted. I'm, what I was talking about today on Games Daily is that I love this patch and I love this because I do feel, I, I, I counted them out. When everything went to shit at launch, I was like, they don't recover from this. Sean Murray cannot walk back on an E3 stage. Hello games cannot put out another game. They need either close down or make this right.

And I think closing down will be, what happens. And here we are two years later. And it's like the hubbub, today around that trailer is great. I've seen tons of people who are like, I didn't play it before and I'm going to give it a shot. I've seen tons. I saw Patrick Kleppick be like, I was super critical at launch, but I'm super happy they're doing this. And I mean, like, this seems like it has the makings of coming out and people being like, this is great. And people, not everybody, obviously, but people who were burned coming back and trying and be like, all right, cool. And it seems like even another year from now, another six months from now, it has the possibility to be a really, really, really cool redemption

story of like, hey, we bit off more than we each you and we fucked it up, but we put our head down for two years and we made it right. And in the meantime, we got that video with that dinosaur in Jurassic Park and that harmonica. Exactly. Exactly. That's all we needed. The banner saga three on pretty much everything.

Banner sagas never grabbed me. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I just haven't spent the time with it. It probably deserves. Yeah, I was the same way where I got so much hullablubleu about it when it finally got, the first one came out, I think, to Vita or PlayStation wherever and I played out like oh okay

not for me I see why people like this that's fine Ease memory of Calceda Oh that's July 25th on Windows You said ease so you're in yeah Really? I didn't you're a big Ease guy? Oh I did Yes I mean it makes sense Falcom for life

Okay Ease especially They have some other good stuff too Let's talk some brandish someday But uh dark Rivinant But yeah I love ease stuff So they're not there are bad ease games And they're great ease games

I'm interested to see which one this is. What do you think it's going to be? Memories of KSah. This one I don't know enough to speak informed on which. Why is it just coming on on Windows? So Falcom doesn't actually develop a lot of their games in-house. Occasionally they do, but the PC stuff is usually made by them and then it's ported to other platforms.

Now that's become less and less that way as time's gone on. So this is probably, I'm guessing, an internal Falcom development one because they are first and foremost to PC House and have been since the 80s. July 26, this one's for Andy. Mobile suit Gundam Battle Operation 2. You know he's been waiting for more Gundams, and he's going to get a shot finally.

On the 27th, Go Vacation on the Switch. It's a sports game. I don't know that game. Hello Neighbor coming out on the Switch, PS4, iOS, and Android. It's a stealth survival horror game. I've seen Funhouse do a... Really?

And it looks pretty fun. We should do a party mode of it. It would be great... Everything you just said, you know, stealth survival horror, but it was like a knockoff of Mr. Rogers. Like you were hiding from the murderous Mr. Rogers. That would be awesome.

I mean, it's kind of like that. Yeah. You're hiding from your neighbor who's trying to kill you. Okay. Is it sneaking? God, where is it another fucking sneaking? Where is another fucking sneaking?

So I was at IGN last week. On Barrett Courtney's desk, there is a sealed, like shrink-wrapped copy of Sneak King sitting out there on the desk. Next time in there, open it. Yeah, just to annoy him. Just to annoy him. Get that Barry Courtney fucker.

Uh, July 31st, Code of Princess EX on Nintendo Switch. Nope. I have to look to you for. I don't know anything about Titan Quest on the Nintendo Switch. Titan Quest. Is that the old Diablo like? It's an action role playing hack and slash.

Yeah. Wow. Really? July 31st. Okay, I didn't know that was happening. So color me intrigued. Yakuza Zero August 1st on Windows. I mean, this is a game in there.

People love Dukes Zero. Yeah. Wireware gold on 3DS? This is very exciting for me. So, all right. So forget, I know it's on the 3DS. Shout out 3DS for life. That's right.

Thank you for the 3DS again. Tim gave it. I didn't do nothing. If you're an audio listener, he's holding up the S&S 3DS. It's a very, very cool present to add to my 3DS collection. But Warrior games are splendid and stellar, and I don't care what platform I'm playing them on.

I assume they're going to come to phone someday, and that'll be great place for them. They're wonderful on Wii, and they're going to be great on DS. And I'm sure there'll be a marvelous switch one eventually as well. I hope so, man. I never got into the wireware games. The first one I actually played was the Wii version.

And from all I read, that version wasn't the best. The Wii version is okay until you get like eight or nine people in a room. Because it has this hot potato one Wii mode mode that is, the most fun I've ever had playing a party game. It's extraordinary because you only have one controller and you have to pass it immediately to the next person and the games just keep getting faster and faster. And you're all doing stupid things in front of it.

That's another great party mode kind of game. It's just people looking stupid around each other and getting tickled. But you'll worry what games. Really good. August 7th, dead cells. Oh, yes. Windows, Mac, Linux.

Switch. PS4 and Xbox. This is not expound. Oh my God. Cool, Greg. I need you to search Dead Cells. I don't know. That tells you do. It is a C-E-L-L-S. Rogue-like. There you go.

Switch, there you go. And then, yeah, click that, click on the early launch trailer there or whatever. Launch trailer on PS4. How have I not played this? Middle YouTube video. There you go. That one right there. Perfect. Just already on Steam? Show some people to it. I don't think so. No. No, no. And I played it originally on Switch at Pax.

Let it go. Let it go. Let it play cool work. Yeah. Yeah, and you can, but if it's a... Death is not the end. So look at this awesome pixel art. It's beautiful. And so, yeah, it's just...

Are they seeing this? Wow. It's fine. Wow. You're running through. It's a hack and slash, but it's like it's a rogue-like, right? Where you're coming back. Isn't this right?

It's been so long since I've played it. So kind of like cheese. Cool. We can do it. It's fine. Just let it keep Jared. Let Jared see. It's okay,

because it's easier to show than tell. Absolutely. It reminded me of Rogue Legacy and Spalunkey, obviously, but then it's got this eight-bit art style to it of running through it. I forget, I'm sorry, I'm so rusty. Yeah,

you unlock, so this is my big, it says on the trailer, unlock permanent upgrades. That was always my problem with playing ones of these, the Rogue Legacy, Rogue Legacy for me was exactly what I wanted, where I got further,

and then I came back and I was able to buy new things and feel like I was stronger. When they take that away from me in Rogue Likes, I don't like it. That's why Sharon works so well, because it has a system for that too. So this one looks like it's about the same line. Running through and doing this, yeah, in Dead Cells is, it was awesome when I got to play it. And I'm totally all in. That's definitely a switch game for me.

One of the movies. I can't play them all. I know, right? No, that's the problem. When is that one? August? August 7th. Also August 7th.

Overcooked 2. Yeah, I know. Are you fucking kidding me? You fucking kidding me? Let's go, man. We did a party mode. You can go watch that. It's life.

Yeah. Patreon or YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. Overcooked to you. Yeah, all in on to hope. I mean, I've yelled at them at Judges Week. I'm pretty sure it's going to have a platinum, but I don't think I have 100% confirmation on it. That's one I'll play on PlayStation 4. I'd like to just stream it. Let's just fucking try to platinum.

Me and Kevin here doing it. They just naming the platinum, the Greg Miller special. A lot of games should call that because they don't listen to me. They don't. August 9th, Layton's mystery journey, deluxe on the Switch. Layton games are pretty good. I have never been super captivated by them. Yeah, me too.

Really? I thought you would have. You know, I thought I would have too. They're charming and beautiful and smart. And a lot of it's just that I get mad at puzzle games. And they are adventure games, but Leighton leans a little heavily into the puzzle stuff. Yeah, yeah. I'm not as great at that. We got Monster Hunter World coming to PC.

August 9th. Better late than never. Okami HD coming to Switch. Because God forbid that thing not come to a platform. I know, right. We got to put it everywhere. Ocami's beautiful. I'm never going to complain about Ocami being available to people again.

I still have never played it. It's really good. Yeah, that's what I hear everywhere. It is good. I honestly, I loved it at the time. But when it came out as an HD release on last gen. Yeah, PS3 Xbox 360. I tried playing through again, and I was just like, you know what?

I don't need to. The game, we've just gotten a little too far from that style of gameplay for me. Then August 10th, Madden NFL, 2019. Yay, man. And we happy few. Actually, now worth pointing out, actually yesterday Scott Porter did put out an image confirming that

long shot two is in Madden. Oh yeah? Yeah. That's weird. They didn't mention that. I know. Very weird. I thought that was very interesting they doing, but it's more long shot and it's more Scott Porter and all right, cool. I wonder if it was a rush job. I worry about it on that front, but hey, you know what? I loved Longshot 1. Let's see what they got.

We happy few finally coming out, Windows, PS4 and Xbox 1. That's exciting. Played it at Judge's Week. Really, Doug the story they were telling, a lot of environmental storytelling, kind of giving that more of a brighter opener BioShok vibe to it. I don't think it didn't speak to me like fuck I can't

wait to play that I need to play that but I think it's going to scratch an it for a lot of people. Then on August 14th, Death's Gambit on Windows and PS4. I remember hearing this title but I don't remember what this game is. Can you pull up Death's Gambit real quick? Death's Gambit. He just gives us the X-Man.

It's like throwing playing cards everywhere. See, Death's got, I don't know anything about this. Click on the middle one. There we are yeah. I just want to see it for a say. Oh, it's an adult swim game. Oh.

Scroll forward. Adult swim from the publishers of rain world. Oh, were they rain world? Yeah. In Battle Chef Brigade. I don't know. I'm not feeling this. And robot unicorn attack.

Oh, wait, what do we got here? Oh, this is very, it's supposed to look very Castlevania. Yeah, a little slides roll in action here. This is what I was talking about earlier. You guys can look it up, Death's Gambit. That's the type of. Flash-looking animation that I don't fuck with me. Yeah, we're just too many people who are putting out games. They're just too good. Yeah, true The Walking Dead the final season episode one Jesus. Yeah, this is coming up.

August 14th. Yeah, see how Clems adventure ends. Can't wait on PS4 Xbox one on Windows. World of Warcraft battle for Azaroth on Windows and Mac. Haven't they already battled for Azaroth? I don't know. This is the final. Did you ever play a while? Are you a wow guy? No, I was I was a Eve guy. I was a snob. I wanted a community generated content, not some single player RPG that I happen to have a bunch of annoying people around. Yeah. August 15th, state of mind coming out on every system. Its genre is walking simulator. Oh, great.

There we go. I'll probably play that. August 21st. Shenmoo and Shenmoo 2. Collection coming out on Windows, PS4 and Xbox 1? Jerry's excited. And you're stoked? Yeah.

Shenmu is, it's what it is, and I'll play it again. It is so deeply flawed and so brinkly. brilliantly ambitious. It's, I feel like Shenmu, if you love video games as a game, you should play just

to get a feel for how we got where we are today. Shenmu really did try some things too early. And it blazed a lot of trails that eventually

became commonplace in video games. It's a living little slice of history. And the fact that it's set in this tiny little neighborhood in this tiny little time castle

is a period piece. It's weird and wonderful. I never played it. Alfredo Diaz loves it, which is very, really, very fucking weird. He loves his dream cast, so that was the thing.

But whether or not you've played Shenmoo, I recommend you go on YouTube and search for Mega 64's Shenmoo skit. I've been looking for some sailors. The funniest thing. He wanted to find the sailors. He's needed the sailors. Of the four woo-doo.

August 23rd, My Hero 1's justice. No idea. 24th, F1, 2018. Danny Dwyer's probably, he's stoked. He's stoked. He can't wait.

24th. Here's one for you, Greg. Little Dragons Cafe. I first thought it was a joke. Then you put the cafe in there and I'm actually interested. What are the platforms? Switch and PS4.

It's a simulation role-playing game. Cool, Greg. Can I see Little Dragons Cafe, please? Should I just change the theme of whatever game I end up making to have cafe at the end? Sure.

I mean, am I running a cafe? Am I a Little Dragon running a cafe? Oh, fuck. Show me the gameplay. Is this, I think I saw something for this. at Enemy Expo. We got a dragon flying shirt. Hold on.

Save a loved one. All right. Okay. A little storybook vibe to it. Yeah. Just a lot of nodding. A lot of cheby art nodding and talking here. Let me guess.

See? They want a steak bowl. Am I making the steak bowl? Collect the recipe. Okay. Hold on. Cooking. Get cooking.

This is trailer not. Oh my God. I am running a cafe apparently. There's some ingredients. I went out there and I did that. I'm examining this lettuce. On August 28. The world.

There is a fighting game called Blade Strangers. I know nothing about Blade Strangers. That sounds fucking cool. Blades Strangers. August 28th on the Switch, Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate. Like I said before, I'm surprised that doesn't do anything for you. It's because I think it's going to be, it's going to, I mean, it's a re-release of a Monster Under game that already came out. So it doesn't have the improvements world has.

In world scratch and itch, I didn't even know I had. And, but it is, it's the same thing where, you know, Capcom's price just took a dip right because the people being, they're projecting, uh, lower retention rate for monster hunter world. And I'm a prime example of that, 130 hours in and they've put out a whole much new monsters and content, yada and I can't get psyched to turn it back on. Yeah. And so like for them to drop, here's another, here's the older monster hunter that was very convoluted and loading screens between map segments and paint your drag into fall.

It's like, it says something about the business model of our industry that you just said you played a game for 130 hours. Yeah. And that was a disappointment. No. No, it was a disappointment. Not for you. Yeah.

I'm talking about for them. Right. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's their thing. And it's an interesting thing to hear that, you know, it's suits and bean counters who are like, oh, man, we're like, we expected longer tail or attention on this and then to be the actual person of like, yeah, I guess, yeah, yeah. Like, I don't know what you would need to do to get me to come back and do it. This marketplace is getting more crowded than it was a couple of years ago.

Yeah, yeah. There's just too many people making these kinds of games at once. I'm worried about a shakeup. Like, I really do think a couple of these things may just fall flat on their face. August 28th, we got Pro Evolution Soccer 29. Pairs. Then we got Strange Brigade. It's a third person shooter.

Okay. I've heard of that name. We got Victor Vran Overkill Addiction. Okay. Yakuza Kawami 2. There you go. That's going to do well.

People love that. Yakuza. And then on the 31st, we got Naruto to Borudo Shinobi Striker. Okay. Windows, PS4 and Xbox one. That'll be a game of the Ninja Guy. And then here you go.

Jared on September 4th, we got Dragon Quest 11. There we go. I'm an elusive age on Windows and PS4. And then you'll lose me for a month. Yeah. Yeah. That's,

I mean, that's going to be, it's, those RPGs are always meaty, always long, and I won't play anything else when 11's out. Not even God Wars, the complete legend on Nintendo Switch that also comes out that day? No, I will be playing Dragon Quest 11. Well, then maybe on August, on September 7th, you'll be playing a mortal unchained on Windows PS4 and Xbox 1. Still Dragon Quest 11. NASCAR Heat 3 on Windows PS4 and Xbox 1?

No, no. Still playing with fun. S&K Heroines tag team frenzy, Switch and PS4? Uh, S&K Heroin's tag team frenzy. I played a little of at E3. It's interesting, but I wasn't spellbound by the version they showed me. And that's some neat idea is it's another one of those kind of babies first fighting game things. And that's some cool stuff in it.

But I don't know. It just felt a little. I figure S&K could get a little past the skimp outfits at this point, maybe. Yeah. Nah, that's what they want to do. Well, here's the thing, Jared. You're going to be playing Dragon Quest 11, Echoes of an elusive age, September. 4th. I will. You're going to need to beat it quickly

because on September 7th, what do we got, Craig? Spider-Man. You got that Spider-Man on PlayStation 4. I'm very excited about Spider-Man. I will absolutely be playing Dragon Quest over Spider-Man. You're a fucking monster, but thank God this show won't just all be Spider-Man because that's all I'm gonna be fucking be playing. That game looks so

good. Dude, I look at the travel schedule and see how much stuff we have around that date and I'm like, well, it looks like I'm trying with the PS4 again. Just like when I had fucking God of War and I was playing Firecry stuff on the road and had a screen with me at all times. We got Dakar 18 coming out on September 11 I don't know what that is. NBA 2K19 as well. So a lot of people out there will be excited about that.

Slamma jamas. Black Clover, Quartet Nights, and Shadow the Tomb Raider on September 14th. You stoked about that? I am excited for Shadow the Tomb Raider. Are you going to beat Shadow the Tomb Raider? That is the big question. I don't know. I just did a video that you can see in GameStop stores coming up in August, right?

Where I did a very similar thing of my five picks or whatever. And I did Shadow the Tomb Raider didn't make my five picks. Got an honorable mention, of course. but it is I don't know like I don't know like I love those games I love

Crystal Amics and what they made with the first two of the rebooted ones I understand this is Idas Montreal and Chryslanamics

from what I played it's more of what I care about and what I like it's darker it's got an interesting story it's all those things

I just feel like it's gonna be stiff competition around there because it is becoming off of Spider Man and be getting

ready for the holiday stuff that is coming up and so like when I start doing the short list for fucking games I'm stoked for and can't wait for.

It doesn't pop on that. I do think it's September, what is it? 14th. See, I don't mean to spoil it, but like we're, at that point, ladies and gentlemen, we're 11 days away from Valcaria Chronicles 4. Which is the day I stopped playing. That's, that's shadows fucking window right there. And that's also, I'm done with Spider-Man.

I've platinum Spider-Man by that point. That's your fucking window to play with. I don't know, man. You're going to have to come in and convince, even for me to even pick up, Shadow. You're going to have to come in and be like, Jared, you have to play the other team. Yeah, I tried. They just didn't care. I tried caring.

I wanted to care. I was very excited at the beginning. There were some missteps around the story of the first one that threw me. And honestly, it kind of soured me on it. Rise was great because it just gave you like those open areas to play with that were smaller open worlds of go find treasures and collect this and deciphered that. And so to get more of that I'm stoked about and to have more abilities in this whole apocalyptic storyline they're doing seems interesting. But I don't know. Will I finish it? I don't know.

On the 18th of September, labyrinth of Reframe Coven of Dusk is on Windows Nintendo Switch and V-S4. That's actually kind of interesting. I'm not being obnoxious. That game is actually kind of neat. I played a little bit of that at E3. It is a

first person dungeon crawler where you have a party of 40 characters. Okay. Yeah. Wow. It's really, yeah, it has some really neat ideas in it. Like, eventually you get powerful enough that you can just like beat through the dungeon walls. Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, there's nice stuff in there. It's actually kind of a neat game. I will probably pick this up and try it. Cool. Star Control Origins on Windows. Star Control. Okay.

How do you know everything? No, no, no, no. No, Star Control 2 is one of the best video games ever made. Okay. And this is an attempt to lean back into the origins thing. If they lean into the best parts of Star Control, that's one of those games. like universally fun.

Like you could play that 30 years later. It would still be fun. Because at its core, it's a really simple competitive arcade game built in a strategy game. And it's all about screwing with one other person constantly. It's so much fun.

Do you like Steinsgate? I have nothing to say about that. Okay. Well, Stein's Gate has a lot to say about you, Jared. Because on September 20th, you got Steinsgate 8-bit on the Switch. Steinsgate Elite on the Switch, PS4 and Vita.

And Steinsgate linear bounded phenogram on the PS4. That's not real. September 21st, Spiro, Reignited Trilogy. Let's fucking go, boys, on PS4 and Xbox One. Another perfect example. I'm just bummed about this. I want it on Switch.

I feel like it's going to be on Switch eventually. I don't know. If you don't buy it, it might not get the Switch to them. No, people are going to buy this game. I'm going to buy this game. I want this game, but... That game's going to be on Switch. I just want it on Switch.

And then the 21st, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Tornah, the Golden Country on Switch. Did you play Zonoblid 2? So wait, which one is this? Chronicles 2. It's like the DLC panel. Okay. I, I can't give too much on this one.

Do you know what Chronicles games are neat? But I don't know much about the DLC stuff. September 23rd, Paw Patrol on a roll. Really? Tell me more platforms. On Windows, Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox 1. I'm interested about the trophies on Paw Patrol. I'll tell you right now.

Potrol on a roll. It's a sequel to Nintendo Dogs. Do you not know Pop Patrol? If it's trophy related, of course, course I don't know. It's not true if you related. No, no, no, no. This is one of those fun things of I always appreciate when you somehow by hook or crook break through into another universe and learn of something extremely popular you knew nothing about. And then when you go back to your universe, you see it everywhere. Paul Patrol is one of, if not the hot kid cartoons. Oh really? And so like

two years ago, maybe last year, whatever it was, when I went and visited Poe and his son for a while, Jack Post Sun is obsessed with Paw Patrol. So there's Paw Patrol shit everywhere. And we watched a whole bunch of episodes together. And it's like, what is it? Rubble Rubble on the Double or something. Like they all have names and catchphrases and shit they do together. And they're all dogs that like there's a fireman dog and a cop dog and a construction dog.

And they all come together as Paw Patrol to help other dogs and help kids and shit. You told me about this story. And ever since I see it. Like it, you, uh, he's busy. So now I'm just going to walk around to see Paw Patrol. Cool, Greg. Can you throw up, Google search Paw Patrol and then click on images. And then you will see these people, or these dogs everywhere now.

Because, like, kids wear shirts and they have bags and they have this. And it's like, I was watching something recently in news report and it was in a foreign land. Images. And it was in a foreign country. And sure enough, like people are walking on. These kids are walking on in Paw Patrol shirts and stuff. So Paw Patrol is the hotness. And since it's a kid's thing, yes, I would like to know how the trophies are in this game.

It's like Jimmy Neutron with a bunch of puppies. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. It's a Palm Patrol on roll. And then September 25th, Metal Max Xeno. Yeah. Again, I don't want to be dismissive, but what I saw at E3 was not super encouraging

unless you're a hardcore Metal Max guy. Metal Max hasn't made it to the States. Maybe it was still rough. But it's a turn-based RPG about tanks, which is an idea I like, but I wasn't crazy about the little slice I saw. Valkyria Chronicles 4. Ooh, ooh! Shit you not.

PS4, Xbox 1, September 25th. Could not. sleep last night after we said goodbye to some people. And when you go through the Rolodex, the things that are like in Greg, problems in Greg Miller's head, there was a lengthy self-debate of where we're getting this.

Are we getting on PlayStation 4 for the trophies? Are we getting on Switch? Because we'll just play it all the time. And I don't know, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know. I feel like, that's my thing. It's like, I need to see the trophy list. Because Valcharia Chronicles remastered

when it came out on PlayStation 4, that trove list, I'm like, too rich for my blood. I'm not going to put in the thousands of hours. And I feel like that's what it would be here. So I might as well. And we all know, of course, Valkyria Chronicles 2 on PSP was the best Valkyria Chronicles. We didn't get three, of course, so I can't judge that.

So it was portable. You really? Two was the best one? I loved the two so much. I thought two was such a great way. Really? This story's better, obviously, in, in, in, in, Valkyeriaeorkeye's one on the PlayStation 3 with the debut art world.

It's not about, like, hello. It was about walking, I have privilege and stuff. Okay. Well, that's, you know what? That's just, that's good storytelling right back. Okay. Valkyria Chronicles one is the best game Sega ever made.

Wow. Okay. I'm not going to argue. But I can't fucking wait for four. And yeah, I think I'll end up on the Switch. We'll see. Really quickly.

I've never played one of those games. Yeah. If I like Fire Emblem, is that? Yeah, you should try. Yeah. It's not exactly the same, but it'll be familiar enough that you'll feel good about it.

On the 27th, dies, IRA, Amontes, Amontes. What did you just summon? You just summon some, even from another dimension. The original novel, no one's surprised.

And then Life is Strange 2, episode 1 on the 27th. Let's go. Let's see what you got. What do you got for me, don't not? We got Super Neptunia RPG on Switch and PS4. Not really my jam. Then we have The World Is With You Final Remix on Switch. I did not know that had a release date of September 27th.

That's very exciting. That is exciting. That's a game. I gave the call of Tri and DS and enjoyed for a while and fell out of it for some other reason. I got excited when it's coming to Switch. But now I wonder how I'll feel about it on Belker Chronicles two days before. Octopath having really You know

Taking it taken my heart I don't know Dragon Ball fighters the next day On the 20th Yeah that's really not gonna be We played that yesterday It was beautiful Man that was fun

And it's another I'm not good at fighting games But I'd love to fucking pop it in When I'm on a plane Just like sure I'm gonna play as Goku FIFA 19 on the 28th And

Underworld Ascendant Yeah so that's a That's the A long time ago There was a first person RPG Ultima Under world that created first person shooters as we know them today.

It also revolutionized the way people thought about what you could accomplish in an RPG. Underworld Descendant is the pseudo-spiritual sequel to that long ago game. And what I saw of it a long time ago was very interesting. And this probably is worth a look, especially if you enjoy kind of quirky system-deep RPGs. We're now in October. October 2nd.

Or it's a Horizon 4. Fist of the North Star Lost Paradise and Mega Man 11. Hey. Mega Man 11, if the previews are anything to go by, if what they've let us play so far, is really good. Your thoughts? Oh, I'm not the Mega Man guy. Oh, okay.

Mega Man 11 is, well, you don't have to be a Mega Man guy to try 11. They change enough, Greg, that it's worth checking out. Is it more in vain with what you guys were describing for Mega Man X? No, it's something different as well. Okay. It's a third very different thing. it has a little more that classic Mega Man precision feel, but it has a time stop mechanic that doesn't feel cheap.

It allows you to use it both if you're really good at the game to do awesome things with those Mega Man moves you know so well that you never could have done before. And if you're not great at Mega Man yet, it allows you to get through some of those sections without feeling like you're compromising the difficulty but still also not being punished and having to do the same thing over and over.

Okay, okay. Very creative. I like it. Then on the 5th of October, we got Assassin's Creed. Odyssey. I can't fucking wait. That is when you talk about a AAA game that's coming that is like more in line. I think with who I traditionally am seeing how it's been weird with multiplayer stuff since last year. That I when I play that at E3, when we saw it at E3 being able, I like the female protagonist.

I love the color palette of the world. How beautiful it is sunny, blue, green, vibrant. I love the humor of it. I love the choices. Just being able to choose my own dialogue stuff. like taking those systems and dropping them on the combat that I did enjoy in origins but just overall it didn't click for me I can't

I'm fucking all in my favorite things in the entire world are mythology history military military history naval and nautical Mediterranean history this is like I don't I can't believe someone made this as a

AAA game this is like this is eight years of college for me just coming being like come Jared come and play in this world it's wonderful I have to polish up my old ancient Greek again. I'm pretty excited. Yeah. Yeah. And then October 5th, I'm really excited for Super Mario Party on the Nintendo Switch. This is one that

we need to see more of. I am very scared about. Because the Mario Party series has not been any good for a very long time. Used to be amazing, obviously. I love that on 64, but I really haven't played since then. The Gamekeeps are great as well. Not all of them, but some of the Gamekeep ones are great. The Wii didn't really have a good one as far as I I'm concerned. The Wii one fucking sucked. I'm hoping the rebrand from Mario Party is Super Mario Party

means that Nintendo gets it and kind of wants to have a Switch style reboot for this franchise Mario Party on the Switch is the perfect synergy Like that could be such It could be the next Mario card Where it's just like you're just with your fucking friends Let's play some damn Mario Party, you know what I mean?

No, I wonder Do you know which of the internal teams is developing this? I do not. I wonder if it's like if they're farming it out to Tosei or something or if it's actually getting some TLC. I'm really interested to see what happens. Indie Cube. Okay.

We'll see. We will see. Then we got Desquia 1 complete on Switch and PS4. Damon Hanfield can't wait. Yeah, Desquia games are good. And Deskia 1 is a solid game and on Switch. Again, that's another one I played Lee 3 a little bit. And I like what I saw.

It's pretty much everything from every Diskaya game and expansion ever, except for the multiplayer and with new. like some characters that weren't playable before are playable. It's if you're into like tactical fire emblem type of stuff you'd probably like it. This guy I won I played on PS2. I was really into it. I never beat it because it was way too long.

Think about it on Switch. Yeah. It's still with you everywhere. WW2K19 on October 9th. College duty Black Ops 4 on October 12th. Any interest do you think you're going to play through that campaign? No, no. Black Ops 4 and like I mean it's the same thing as always

like maybe he's getting closer. Something spring forth from it to make but I mean like in the years past where it was like we're going to space and we're doing this and it's a Kevin Spacey I was like oh these are interesting like things I want to try I haven't seen well there's no campaign there's their campaign way yeah wait you totally see me because I'm like why do I know nothing

about that campaign yeah sorry it took me a while to catch my own thing with honestly I do want to code because I do want to try battle rail or what they call it black black out I want to see what their blackouts like I mean I'll be garbage at it and probably only played for a little bit but this is one of those things are like there's no number low enough for how little like here.

Yeah. Yeah. What about Lego DC supervillains on October 16? Actually, that sounds awesome. Yeah. Oh, Lego Batman was delightful. The Lego games, by and large, are great. And Lego Force Awakens is one of the best Star Wars games ever.

I think that anything they do in the Marvel or Star Wars universes is usually pretty cool. Obviously, you're sold. Yeah, I mean, full disclosure, I'm in the game. So I mean, like that. So it's a dream come true to find, I mean, I've been in other Lego games, but I'm finally in a Lego DC game with DC being. me being such a DC fanboy. But checking all that and you can take out of the grain of salt, like playing at 83, I was like, holy shit.

Like, this is actually a real step forward for the Lego games of, you know, you are the star of it. And when I say that, I mean, you are creating your own super villain that you can make look how you want. I made it look just like me, which I was like, that's fucking rad. And then your, your character then is placed into a episode of the Justice League where Clancy Brown is Flex Luthorne. Kevin Conroy is Batman. And Travis Willingham is back doing his fucking Superman. That's amazing. Like it's everybody you'd want in there.

And like, you know, Susan's back as Wonder Woman. I think I heard, this is the whole thing. None of this is confirmed, right? I think I heard Michael Rosenbaum's Flash. I thought I heard Hamel's Joker. But that seems to bridge too far and no one's talking about that. So I assume I'm wrong on that. And it was just a really good joker.

Story seems awesome. Love making my own character. Love unlocking my abilities. I'm super happy to have another fucking thing. I can't confirm yet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then October 60, we got Starlink Battle for Atlas on Switch, PS4, and Xbox one.

The StarFuck stuff got me interested in a game that I would have never otherwise touched. If it plays right and it feels good, I love that type of game. People I talked to that played it as like No Man Sky but good. And I thought No Man Sky was pretty fun. So I'm very interested in that. Warriors Awochi 4. Warriors Arochi 4, okay. Yes, on Windows Switch, PS4 on Xbox 1. That's October 16th.

October 19th, we got Battlefield 5. That don't got me this time. The war stories last year I loved, or two years ago, I loved. Soul Calibur 6 on October 19th. Yeah, Gerald Rivia. I can't wait for that, Gerald. That's right. The 23rd, we got Crayola Scoot.

That reminds me of when we skipped, who that wasn't on the list there, Divinity Original Sin 2 or whatever. It's granted right now an Xbox game preview, but officially launched that. want to say in August. Oh, let me double check on that for you. I played that, and I'm just a snob and I want the trophies. Played it on an Xbox at Judges Week.

And I was like, this is awesome. It's another one I think that game's too big for me probably, but I do see me getting into it and stinking time into it. Yeah, the divinity games are going to most likely make Octopath look like a short foray. Right. But yeah, they are, but that's awesome. We got Crayola Scoot and Just Dance 2019 on October 23rd. I don't know what Crailahlea Scoot is, but, uh, yeah.

September 14th. Wii. If you've got your Wii, it's starting to buy your game for the year. What did you say, Greg? Nothing. I was reading the wrong ear. It's one of those fucking games. October 25th, Disaster Report 4 Plus summer memories is coming out on PS4. On the 26th, we got My Hero

One's Justice and Red Dead Redemption, too. Yeah, that game might be good. Yeah, we'll see. I'm always 30s out. I joked about Dragon Quest, but I mean, this is where that gets laid down and so much red dick gets played. And pretty much I'm, I'm done until like April, I think.

Wow. Because the online competitor, I suspect, will come out at Christmas and I'll just be playing through the rest of the year. The first of the single player and then whatever they create online. I am very interested in Red Dead Red Dead Redemption too. Yeah? Yeah. Which is out of character for you. Oh, yeah, definitely out of character for me.

But I'm interested in two ways. One, like, I can't wait to play it. The other side of it, though, is I wonder if it's going to be as good and sell as well as everyone expects it to. Like, I feel like there is so much pressure on it. And we've talked about this a lot on games daily, but it's not Grand Theft Auto. But I mean, Grand Theft Auto wasn't always Grand Theft Auto. And I feel like they've stepped up and risen to the occasion on most.

I mean, obviously you can argue certain things with four or whatever, but like five was stellar. I think it. Expectations like sales wise, I'm not worried about sales. It's going to do better than Red Dead One. It's going to fucking close. Yeah. I mean, I know that. But like, we've talked about is it going to do better than Grant Theft Auto 5?

And that's where I'm like, I just don't think it's awesome. No. I think it will not do better than GTA 5, but I do think that we could be looking at. in a situation where five years down the road, it's doing comparably to what we're seeing. I really do believe that. I think that let us not underestimate the incredible power of that long tail

and the fact that GTA 5 is going to help. What this game has the GTA 5 didn't is it has GTA 5 to help sell it. If there's not all kinds of integration between those economies and the fact that GTA 5 is still an actively supported game with constant updates and a huge community, I figure they'll share a common currency.

I figure that they're going to, going to have all kinds of incentives, not just to bring you into Red Dead, but to bring you into the GDGA from Red Dead and vice versa. I really do think this could be one of the biggest games ever made. Yeah. And we may not know it for two years. November, finally, Greg, we got Overkills the Walking Dead on November 6th. We'll see.

Okay. Played it at Judges Week. Definitely did not make me feel like this is something I've got to fucking play when it comes out. Was over kills the, oh, I'm sorry to interrupt. Was Overkills the Walking Dead, the one that had all the zombies next to the IGN booth at E3, like crawling around on the floor? I don't know. What year?

This year? Yeah, I think so. Probably. Shout out to those zombies because those were the best. I've seen a lot of zombies on show floors. Those are the best zombies I've ever seen on a show floor. They're very creative. Hitman 2 coming out on Windows PS4 and Xbox 1 on November 13th, alongside S&K 40th anniversary collection.

That I'm very excited for. That's a lot of games that have not been overreleased, and most of them are very. good. Fallout 76 on November 14. I was talking on this in games daily day. You know, Tom Howard or Todd Howard put out another interview this time with Kesa. He was talking in this one about like, hey, like, you know, we don't, we don't say survival because we don't want it to be put into the same category as dust or rust or any of those kind of games. And he's like, I still want to play it, play it single player. I'm like, all right, man. I, like, I hope my first impression of watching it, I play it. I'm like,

oh, no, I don't have to worry about it. This is actually. It just doesn't look like the fallout I want. Not that I'm saying it doesn't deserve to exist or something. I'm very interested in this game. I've got to, I think Fallout is a fascinating franchise. I think releasing right next to Red Dead is going to cut significantly into how much attention I give this until 2019. And then on November 16th, you guys lost me. Pokemon, let's go, Pikachu, let's go Evie.

Day one. Evie, baby. Let's fucking go. Start playing Pokemon Go right now. I don't want it. I don't want, I mean, then there's no game. Like, I want to play through the game and get the, get them all, got to catch them all, 151. They just released that, the second trailer for this game.

And my God, or I guess third at this point, but this is like so close to a dream game for me. But then there's just like the like baby factor to it all that I'm just like, God damn it. Like, why? Why are we so close? I don't like necessarily the goal mechanics. I haven't played yet, so I reserve the rights. changed my mind. Sure.

But I do wish that it was more traditional battles. I hate that you have your friendly rival. It's like just fucking give us a douchy ass rival. Like that's what we all want from Pokemon. That what you want? Yeah. Oh yeah, man. You need that.

But everything else about this game, it's like, dude, it looks exactly what I thought Pokemon looked like when I played it when I was eight years old. Right. Seeing the gym, seeing Misty and Brock's having the, like riding the, um, the, the, the onyx through the overworld and all the stuff. I'm like, this game looks incredible. And just, I'm so excited because gets to go back to Kanto. I fucking love that.

I always will. But just how good this game looks, that just means that next year when we get the next Pokemon game, it's going to be a brand new experience that looks even better than that. I can't fucking wait. I'm really excited to hear that. I light up every time I see you talk. You make me want to like Pokemon. Especially the OG Pokemon. One of them G-Water bitches.

Rec Fest comes out on November 20th. It's vehicular combat racing. Rec Fest? Reck. Is that followed by Runch and Rinner or Rupper? Bannan-Dun-Dor-D-D. Jared Pandy Jokes. Oh, I didn't get the joke.

It's by T.HQ. Nordic. All right. Well, there we go. Yeah. And then Dark Siders 3. November 2017. Go get them, Andrew Renee. This is no place for a horse.

Yeah. Yep. Gunfire games. Why not? Don't get that either. No? No. You don't play Darksiders? No.

I like most of the world don't give a shit. Why they keep making these games. Because they're good. That's why. I know. They have an audience. He can Just Cause games as well. And Kevin is very excited that Just Cause 4 is coming out on December 4th.

Understandable. Games with Grappling Gooks. Gotta love that. Yeah. Override Meck City Brawl coming out on December 4th. Wow. That's what Jared says. Wow.

The final game. That's a thing. All right. The final game with the release date in 2018 so far, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate on December 7th. Ooh. Man, I can't wait for that. That's my number one. No surprise.

What a surprise. But that is my number one. Let's fucking go. Now, to close. out this very long episode. A good episode. A good episode. A good episode. We're going to do a little segment called Mobile Game or Bullshit. Oh, right.

Cool, Greg. Drop that fat beat. Very exciting. What's this week's game, Jared? Ladies and gentlemen, this week's theme, mobile game or gas station drug. Okay. That's right. You know when you go up to the gas station, the truck stop, battle, et cetera.

And there's a collection of perhaps dubious male enhancement products, not fine quality necessarily medically valid in every case. Very colorful. Some herbal supplements, perhaps,

to help you with certain issues you may be having. They always got riders on. Good call, cool, Greg. As well as some stuff, you know, I don't want to comment on all those products. Some of them, I'm sure, are fine and work well. But today,

we have five different mobile games and or gas station. products. Now, we started with Tim last time, which I think kind of puts you at a disadvantage of you go first. We're going to start with Greg.

I'm down. I'm in. Greg. Here's the mobile game. Euclides. A geometric construction puzzle. I'm saying that's the game. Mobile game.

Tim Gettys? Drug. Let's go drug. He's going drugs. One to one here. I've never won this game. Number two. Anti-Yoi.

Simple turn-based strategy. Antioi is that a mobile game or a gas station drug? Drug. Gas station drug. Antioi. Greg Miller. Game. Mobile game. Number three. Vovu.

The description. Vovo helps you to keep calm thanks to its beautiful background music with sounds of nature and relaxing piano. Vovu. This is the first one that's challenged me so far. I'm going to say vovoo. Can I, can you spell it? V-O-V-U. I'm going to say that's a drug.

V-V-V-U. Going game. Go on game. Number four, Tim Gettys. Yes. Eternium. Eternium. A tribute to classic RPGs, made with passion, not greed.

Jesus. Oh, Eternium. That sounds so much like it's a mobile game. I feel like it must be a drug. I'm going drug. I'm going drug, ladies and gentlemen. Greg Miller?

I'm saying drug. Drug. You think something called Eternium might be used to treat erectile dysfunction? And finally, Biko. Bico. Word games can be violent. Can you spell

B-A-I-K-O-H? I'm going to say that's a drug. Say it's a drug. I'm going drug on that one as well. All right, so, headed down the list here. Number one, Euclidia, geometric construction puzzles. Totally a mobile game. Damn it. One point for Greg Miller.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. It starts again. Greg's never lost a mobile game. All bullshit. Number two, Antioi. based strategy. Mobile game. Do it. I'm getting two for two.

It's great. Played out. Number three, Vovu. Vovu helps you keep calm. Thanks to its beautiful background music with sounds of nature and relaxing piano. Mobile game.

Yes. All right. I'm on the board. Greg with two, team with one. There we go. Number four. Eternium.

A tribute to classic RPGs made with passion, not greed. Mobile game. Both of us wrong. We both have lost on that one. Final one Bico Word games can be violent

and so is Biko the mobile game BIMB-B-B-B-B-W so I win again I've never lost Hit the beat, cool Greg! My worst showing them all time but I still get the W

that's all that matter As bad as that seem You only beat me by one Yeah that time I still lost Three in a row there were no ringers this week. Those were all mobile. Well, hold on now.

Technically, haven't you, oh wait, who isn't, you lost four in a row, right? Was it four? I've beaten you now three times, but there was a game I missed. Kevin beat you. Yeah, then I lost four times. Wow, Tim, man.

Man, man. Got to play some mobile games. The drought is going. Or look at gas station supplements more. You know what? You got to remember, Tim, it's like baseball. It's the season. Sometimes you get in a slump,

but in the end, you come out. Wait, so none of these were drugs. None of them. We're driving. All five of these were mobile games. I love you, Jared, Petty. And I love you guys. Ladies and gentlemen,

thank you very much for watching this episode of the Kind of Funny Games cast. Until next week. Thank you very much for watching that episode. Oh, I thought there was a chair there. Damn it. Thank you for watching that episode. You can click here to subscribe

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