Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Kinda Funny Summer Game Fest Awards 2024 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping - Our SGF Awards - Game of The Show/Our One Wish - Zero to 100 Award - Ads - Who Won SGF? - Best Announcement - Most Hyped Game of 2024 - SuperChats - Best FOOD of SGF - Best Indie Showing - Biggest Disappointment/Miss Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast live for Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Of course, I am your host, Tim Geddes. Today I am joined by the Big Daddy himself, Greg Miller. Right next to you. Oh, my God. Give him a chop. That was wild because it woke me up and then my ear popped. Hey, do you want one?

No, I'm okay. I'll say an apple. I'm feeling pretty good. I'll give him. I'll take one. I'll take him. Oh, yeah. Give him a chop to the back.

Here it goes. Oh, that's not going to feel good. I like it. Yeah, that's kind of like a... I'm not here to hurt you guys. Yeah, I know. We got the master of hype. Passionate love.

Snowbike, Mike. Hello, Tim. Thank you for having me today. Yeah, yeah. Love your shirt. New teacher, the Halo Reach. Pretty sick. Ooh.

To the back. Damn, dude. Says Halo Reach, everybody. I think you show it to. With the iconic five, you know what I mean? No, no. They get it. They get it.

And rounded out the crew today. We have the nitro rifle, Andy Cortez. You're not wearing that shirt with, big baggy white and blue windbreaker pants. Did you see that someone found the photo? The midmax thing. The midmax video had the photo. Oh, nice. Very, very cool.

Running around is right? Shout out to Bernie Burns and Ashley for shouting out Tim on the Morning Somewhere podcast. Oh, hey. They're just, they're talking about how excited you were for the for the Zelda pop yesterday. I love that. I was there too.

So like, what was that? I recall yelling a lot too. Shout to them in general. Bernie the other day on that podcast. podcast also said that where he gets his news, gaming news. That's fun. A lot of fun games. It's a fantastic show.

Respect that, man. You know what I mean? Well, you know who else I respect? All of you for hanging out with us each and every day here on Twitch and YouTube. You really are the best and you allow us to have just the absolute best days. Every single weekday right here on Twitch. com and YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. You can hang out with us and support us just by being here.

But if you wanted to go above and beyond, you got to go. get the kind of funny membership on YouTube or Patreon. You get the shows ad free. You could watch live as we record them, and you get a daily exclusive Gregway. Today's Gregway is an untold story about the game that made him fall in love with video games. That's right.

And I'm shocked to imagine there can be an untold story of that. There's more like there's unknown chapters to the story. You know what I mean? The last chapters. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Gotcha. The 25th anniversary. Yes, exactly.

And then if you are a kind of funny member, later today, you will get the last. to watch live Daredevil in review. I've never seen Ben Afflex Daredevil. I have now seen it, and I cannot wait to talk. It's a gentleman about this movie. Oh, I haven't changed, man. So is Andy.

Look at him. I thought it was pretty good back in the day. Shocking. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. I've never seen it either. So much to talk about. It's going to be great.

But that's what we're talking about right now. And you know who knows that? Our Patreon producers, because they know everything. They're just so cool and they're so smart and so handsome. Ciren Hobes Sapien. Carl Jacobs, Fargo, Brady, Delaney, Twining, you're the best of us. Thank you for that.

Today we're brought to you by Shady Ray's, and A Better Paradise, but we'll tell you all about that later. For now, we'll start with the topic of the show. Tots, dots, dots, dots. The topic of the show today, kind of funnies, official Summer Game Fest Awards.

Blessing at E. Oye Jr. Made a bunch of categories for us to talk about it. He did. So we're going to do those categories. Those categories include Game of the show. The Zero to 100 Award. Who won SGF, best announcement?

Most hyped game of 2024, best indie showing, biggest disappointment, and unsung demo. And that means, ladies gentlemen, you know the categories now. You need to write in with your super chats. What are your picks? And then, of course, super chatting with your own categories. What else should we do? What should we add, Mike?

What are we missing off the list? Off the dome. What was the best Steam Next Fest game that Mike and Andy played? Great question. I'd like to know the answer to that, actually. So, yeah, there's a category you would like. Superchatted in. If there's some answers

you want to give to these things, Super chat as well, and we will get to those throughout the show. My dog, Nick 96, can we clarify what is part of SGF? You are still living in SGF. Yeah.

Everything is SGF, but also nothing's SGF. Just like the D.C. Dome. We're kind of counting. We're not saying SGF is now over with the Nintendo one? I would say, I would say,

I would say, yeah, I would say it's over now. I was expecting Madog, Nick 96 to tell me his favorite thing from tomorrow. Yeah, sure. Yeah. But where we're at now is,

yeah, we're going to be mainly talking about, I would say, from PlayStation State of Play through to the Nintendo director that happened yesterday. Yeah, Kevin. There. God, Craig is hyped up. I don't know if you've noticed.

Apples do that, man. Tell you. Apple a day. Dude. Horses were onto something. They were. All right. But there's an energy now when me and Mike get to be side by side. In the middle. I've noticed throughout the

SGF coverage that you started letting us get loose together. Yeah. And it's like, Like, you know, that's why I did it. When me and Nick are over there and we're together, it's the assholes. When me and Mike are here and we're together, we got to come up with a good name. I don't have it. Good call.

We'll get a name. We'll get a name going. Let me see. Let me see. Party poppers. Party poppers. We're here to pop, baby. We're popping, man, baby.

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop up, pop. Tell me your favorite video game. What's wrong? Come on. Pop in our mouths. I missed you. I want you to know, Tim. I don't remember the last time I was on this show.

I don't remember the last time. Last week. I'm missing you all so much. I'm happy to be back. Thanks for having me. I'm happy to have you back. And Andy, I'm so sorry.

You just need to live here. Deal with all of this. Andy can't come to our party. He's a party pooper. We're the party poppers. I'm trying to think of that one game with Ben Star. That's Exponition 33. Okay.

Let me put that on a list somewhere. Let's get into it because we have a lot to talk about we're doing our game. Summer Game Fest Awards. Let's start with the big one, because why not? What? Okay. Game of the show, everybody.

For this, it's the game that showed the best from the LA preview. So this is a game that we played. Okay. A game that we played or I guess, yeah, yeah, play, right? I would think so. I'm fine in how you want to put it. Yeah, but not. It's SGF, it's Nugdome.

It's whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So let's get into it. Blessing's not here. Yes. But I will read the answers that he has here. And his answer for this is Phantom Blade Zero. Oh, Andy, you played this one.

Yeah, sure did. And that was also one of my answers as well. Phantom Blade Zero looked freaking fantastic, obviously. And it's one of those that we talked about it on our games cast. Like, how can this game actually exist in real life? There's no way those animations are real. There's no way that this isn't just in engine but pre-canned animations. It doesn't look like somebody's playing this video game.

And yeah, after playing it and talking to everybody, after having it hyped up to me so much before I went to go have my little presentation demo, it felt great, it looked cooler. I think tech-wise, there's still some very indie things about it when it comes to optimization, some moments where the game can't quite keep up with a frame rate, so it drops to like crazy low resolution at times. But, I mean, that'll, optimization comes to time. Everything else, the core sort of part of the frame rate,

of making the combat look good and feel good, it was like, holy shit. This actually lived up to the expectations and surpassed them, I would say. Awesome game. That's awesome. Also very, you know, in various interviews,

we saw them say like, hey, it's not a soul's like. And I always kind of roll my eyes at it. I'm like, all right, well, obviously it's very inspired

by the difficulty of souls bosses, right? But they're doing some thing kind of interesting, which I haven't really seen one of these games do before was not resurrecting enemies whenever you die.

Which is like such a basic thing. A lot of games don't do that, but you're just so used to that in this day and age whenever you're seeing combat like this. When you die, you go back to your bonfire or your side of grace or whatever it is you want to call it. And when you go, you get to just go run back and the enemies will not be there. We'll see if any of that stuff gets tuned out because it does seem like this game is still a lot longer away than we think

because they had a core concept of it and then, you know, I believe it was net ease or was it Nexon? I'm always blanking on the publisher. But they're like, hey, here's a bunch of money, make this game even cooler. And then PlayStation was like,

holy shit, here's more money, make this shit even cooler. And so they are still sort of in that phase of let's try to build a video game around this amazing combat system. So we got to play three bosses at that demo. they were super cool, super fun, and got to experiment with different weapons

and loadouts and things like that. It's awesome, super excited about it. We'll hopefully sit in like maybe two years. I can't believe it was playable. That and replaced were the two things walking by, I was like, excuse me? Yeah. Like, this seems absolutely wild.

So very cool, and I'm happy that it won Blessings, Phantom or Blessings game of the show. Really quick, that's my one wish award. When you walk around and you go, I wish I had a chance to play. play this. That's my one wish. Over Star Wars, Dragon Names, all the big titles that were there. It's like,

oh, I just walked by that booth looking like a lost puppy. Like, can I play this? And people would look at me as I just circled and circles staring at the game. That's the one thing I wanted. But you will force your way into any place that you don't belong. And I talked to everybody except for that booth. I was intimidated. I talked to

every single move. Come on. I talked to the PlayStation people. I was with the Amazon people. I was with the Dragon Ball people. I talked to everybody and they mama except for that booth. I was, you respected him to do it. You wanted them to pick you. That was my one wish.

What is it? Is that, is that Adam Sam? No, it's snow bike. Mike, is that the guy that made Sechro

look like a child's game? Like, come on, let's get the guy at the number one. He's better than all of you at Sechro. He's better than me at Securo. Better than blessing in Sechiro.

What is it about like you yearning something that you suddenly become timid? Like, it's the one lady that walked up to you at Starbucks and said, you're really handsome. And he said, oh, thank you, Miss Lady and walked away. I don't know what it is.

That's my one wish. My one wish was to play Phantom. I think he was lady. Really love you. He is turning into Adam Sandler. That sounds like something Adam Sandler would say. Yeah. That's so true.

Like, would you call that award? Your, my one wish. The one way, my one wish replaced. I didn't get to play it. But I did, I walked by and stood and looked at it a lot. And my God, that is a pretty game. I heard you talking about it. I did.

Yeah. I was a little bit disappointed with it. Yeah, which kind of bums me out. I'm not surprised. I mean, you know, it's not the game that I was hoping or wanted it to be necessarily, because even though there was a combat demo portion of it, I just like, hey, let's amp this combat up, especially after playing amazing games this year,

like Prince and Persia Lost Crown and how great that side-scrolling combat felt. But it's still a game that I'm looking forward to, even though I know that, oh, they're going for a little bit something different here. It's, I think it's going to be a lot more like talking to characters. and, you know, getting fetch quests and kind of like immerse yourself in that super sick world. But I was a tiny bit let down by it.

Still excited about it. Did you have a one wish? Didn't you play that you wanted to play that? My one wish would probably have been it's got to be Assassin's Creed or Outlaws. I would have loved to have checked both of those out or to walk into the Bandai Namco booth and just like see the goat, you know.

because here's what it seemed like I looked at me I looked at him here's what it seemed like it seemed like the Bandai Namco booth when we had the preview session for like press or whatever it was several weeks ago in LA and at other places around the world it seemed like the one at summer game says was for the

influencer sort of side of the market and but it's fascinating because they were apparently still under embargo like I saw Nakey Jakey say I can't talk about what I played it's under embargo but it's like, well, wouldn't that have been the same demo that we played? I don't know what they played. But I would have loved to have gotten in there, taking some photos, see the goat.

Gotcha. Salute him, you know. For me, Sam it would have been Astrobat. That was my one wish. Yeah, I think you gave me a wish. Anytime, man. I got to go see Outlaws. I got to go see Assassin's Creed.

So it worked out. You know what I mean? But, yeah, I would have loved to have actually gotten hands on and seen what this is all about. What's my little guy up to this time around? Because I don't insult him. I don't insult him in his style. I mean, hey, I do. And despite that, it, uh,

is my game of the show. I don't think that's a surprise for anyone that has heard me talk about Astrobot. I was obsessed with it even before I played it. I already knew just looking at the trailers that I was going to love it. But I cannot fathom how much more I love it than I even thought I could. It is, we have such a winner on our hands coming out in a couple months. I can't believe the polish and fun that they're having with this game. So many surprises in store, you can just tell.

It was one of my favorite demos I've ever done. And I feel like it is just such a small taste. of everything we got going on. And I feel like they purposefully showed, hey, here's the levels you're playing, but they let you see kind of the, for lack of a better term, like world map of like where the other levels are going to be.

And I'm like, oh my God, there's going to be a lot of content in this game with so many, like, unique gimmicks that are fun. There's just pure fun in this game. So, yeah, Astrobot is easily my game of the show and the best thing that I played. I know Blessing put Fanel Blade Zero, but my other one, which I've said many times before,

that I didn't get to play, because nobody got to play it was Dragon Age Vale Guard, how incredible it looked, how blown away I was by the visuals, where it seems like EA is finally like, or Biware is finally caught up with what Frostbite can do, and that engine just really feels like it's soaring right now. And it kind of reminds you of like when you finally see a game really singing with visuals and mechanics

towards the end of that engine cycle. Not that Frostbites at the end of its cycle, but early on Frostbite, if you've read any book, that Jason Shire has written or heard any reports about Frostbite. It was a lot of cause for contention at a lot of different

EA and BioWare Studios. And the fact it looked as incredibly as it did, getting a glimpse of what the character created looked like. I am just, I'm so jazz. And it seems like all of the right decisions, at least for me, are being made for this game. I know a lot of people still want that

CRPG feel. Wow! And yeah, I got a lot of people in the comments telling me about how Dragon Age played for them when they played it on PC. I'm like, okay, that's great. But like a lot of us also played it on Xbox where it just felt like a third person kind of combat game. I wasn't clicking around and skill bar and like I'm playing wow, you know. Yeah, it's going to come up a few other times I think throughout. So I'll save it. But Dragon Age, what a demo. What a demo. Come on. Yeah. That first

trailer, I wasn't sold on and didn't like the tone of like, hey, we're doing the Dungeons and Dragons movie, right? We're a band of misfits making jokes. But man, when I saw the gameplay. I was like, I'm so into this game. I can't wait to play this. Did you end up seeing, I know I think it was Gene Park and several other people tweeting out like, hey, Dragon Age has

never understood what good tone was and they showed one of the first commercials or trailers from, I think it was either I think it was origins. Yeah. And it's legitimately after watching Daredevil last night starring Ben Affleck, I was like, oh, this song

sounds like it would be in that trailer it was just like a Because it was Marilyn Manson, no? Oh really? I thought I don't know I just assumed it was like Shine down or Seather or Three Doors Down It was just like a

D-Dun to Dung a fucking Jada bear Like it was so so shitty It was awesome The next award we have Is the Zero to 100 award A game that was Hold up hold up Oh my bad my bad Mike

We're giving out game of the show Award The biggest show there is The Sequeiro God, man. Wow, man. Put some respect on it. Did you hear the nickname I gave you, by the way? Tell me. The Mike Erie counter Howard. I want you to know that I was playing Sekiro and I was wobbling that sword.

You know what I mean? That's how you parry. You got a wobble. You just don't get that in the Souls games. You know what I mean? There's not that deflect system. There's not that true, like, that feeling like I'm parrying all the time. You should play Lazan P again. Yeah, I should. I should play that.

But you know what my game of the show was? This is something that I saw last year. And this year, I got to go hands on and actually. play it finally was Amazon games and or NCSoft thrown in liberty. A big MMO coming your way later this year. And as you know, Tim, I'm always on the hunt for an MMO to possibly wrangle Andy to pay $15 a month for. This is, I don't think that's this. But, you know, I'm always looking for an MMO to get my friends to play for a week, a month, a day.

You never know what I could be into. Man, we played hardcore while for a little bit. My character died several times I had to restart It was a bad time, too And so I'm always on the hunt for an MMO And Amazon Games has a new MMO coming out Which is thrown in Liberty

That caught my eye And I'm really excited about this one And it played really well On console and PC I was able to play it on controller To see what the console experience is like And I'm really happy You know, as someone who grew up

On the PC with Wow And City of Heroes and all those other You know, all those other MMOs It's been cool to see the MMOs come to console and be able to be played on the controller. And this one is that. You can play it on the controller. It feels great.

But it has the really dope, super, uber realistic character creator that we see in like Black Desert, right? Where you're like, how does this even, how does this look so good? You know what I mean? It has that kind of character creator. A bunch of awesome classes. I jumped into a pre-built wizard class,

so I got to see what it looked like doing the mage. And I really liked this. It had up to eight people. which was a wild combo for a large group to go do a dungeon in. Did you, did you demo with a lot of other people? Yeah, a hip-hop gamer was there? Hell, yeah.

Oh, man, you put me and a hip-hop gamer together. You got some good times. And so this was really awesome because it's interesting. As you think of like, wow, with mounts and stuff, instead of that, you actually, your character can become a kind of traversal mechanic itself so I can turn into a wolf to sprint and run really fast. I can fly and soar as an eagle,

I can swim as like an otter or dolphin it looked like. So that was really cool of like they kind of moved around the map in different ways without having to summon something you just became it. And yeah, I liked this one a lot. It's got a beta coming out, I think July, and then it comes out in September. So keep an eye out for this one. If you're looking for a good MMO, that's coming on console and PC. You're putting this on my radar because like I initially thrown a liberty to me

always just seemed like it was a Mountain Blade style game where you're You are a mount and blade. It's a blade so big. Where it's a first person like siege sort of game. Everybody's got their medieval swords and you're just kind of battling multiplayer style. I didn't really even know it was that style of game. Throne Liberty, I guess, sounds like something else to me. That's cool.

It looked a lot cool than I expected it to do. I'm going to make you play this with me. So we're ready for that one. We'll see. I love that, Mike. What a surprise pick there. I know. And I got a couple more surprise picks for you.

And I have a new surprise category that we're going to do. A new award coming your way very, very soon. Well, that's huge. Stay tuned, everybody. The zero to a hundred award. My game of the show. Hey. Was Star Wars Outlaws.

Shocking, no. When I said this when I previewed Star Wars Outlaws, that the boring answer at all the cocktail parties was my game of the show is, or what's the best thing I saw? Star Wars Outlaws. Completely and utterly in. I can't wait. It's one of those demos I got. I enjoyed and I was like, this delivered exactly what I had hoped it would, right? Of selling me on the concept, showing me the world. I really, really hope we get it here and we stick with a you are a scoundrel. Let's have a scoundrel mission and it doesn't get any crazy, like super big and it doesn't need to be a galaxy to find it. It's just me doing this. I can't wait to see. I can't wait to see how they do side missions and all these other things because I really do feel those will do such a great job of building out the character. that you are and the scoundrel you are if it is oh yeah i need to get to the main thing but i'll

also go steal this thing for you or also run this cargo or also do that kind of thing does it seem like they're going to allow you to you know hey here's a real nice human being that you just helped out bam stab him in the back take their money you know that's a great question i didn't get that vibe from her okay as the character that she would do that you know what i mean now again when you're in there making choices maybe you get a little bit of that not literally light and dark side but maybe you get something like that but i didn't feel that vibe i think they're going more for that fun. I'm a Hanso. Hey, what's on?

Come on, no, that's not a big deal. In a sick, cry. So close to water. It wasn't water. Light treason. Yeah. No, yeah. I had such a great time with this.

Can't wait to see more. Such a Gregass game. Can we talk about the flight really quick? I know that was a big highlight of people like, oh, you know, remember Starfield was a bunch of menus. This one you take off. Is it really like that? Because I felt like in the demo it didn't truly show

or I'm taking off from the planet. I'm flying out into the galaxy and then I'm landing there. Is that really how this is going to feel? Yeah. I don't know if you weren't on the games cast with me. You might not have been. If you missed that one where I previewed this, I got to play three different missions in a 45-minute demo space.

And one of them was, yeah, starting on an empire ship, you know, I get in there. I have to steal this thing. I have to escape, blah, blah, blah, fight through the, you know, the entire ship. Get the thing, alarm goes off, fight my way down, fight my way to my ship, use cover to get onto the ship, go,

then off the ship, into a dog fight. Real fun dog fighting, you know, and I'm not the space combat guy whatsoever, but, you know, leading the target, showing you where to shoot so you actually take them out. It felt it's the opposite of what, again, lots of reasons to bag on Starfield, and this is coming from somebody who loves Starfield,

how I think brain dead Starfield's combat is in space, where it's just, I just sit there and I rotate slowly and I do the thing and I shoot the thing. This felt dynamic, this felt fast, it felt real. And then to be done with it, yeah, and then just fly to the planet, go through the fog, laying on the planet, that was one of those moments from here. I was like, that was fucking awesome.

Okay. Like that was such a great thing of going all the way through and doing this. Yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to because it shows it here and you talk about it. I just think of how big this world could be and how many planets we go to. How does that really feel? What if the planet is far away? Am I going to have to fast travel to that? I'm sure there'll be fast travel to some respect of it.

I think there'll be that. My guess is like, yeah, it's not going to be the Starfield, infinite planets, thousands of planets. It's going to be very specific. Hey, you have a reason to be here. You have a reason to be there and like the space around it. Now finally everybody We're moving on to the zero to a hundred award A game that was completely not on your radar

That you're hyped for now Blesses was embargoed There is a couple things that we can't talk about I have an embargoed one as well Oh But you also have one here that's not embargoed Andy Yeah Expedition 33 It's got that really neat looking

Sort of hey Look we know turnbases And the most fun thing in the world gamers we understand that. Let's try to like modernize it and make it, you know, active and stuff. No, but like I enjoyed that rhythm aspect of it, you know, like hitting all the buttons at the right time. And when we were watching it, Greg immediately pointed out, my mind was right there with him. Look how sick the UI looks in this game.

Yeah. When you have your little menu up and all the little like flare and visual effects that are popping up whenever you bring up these, you know, all that smoke kind of flying away, It looks so freaking fantastic. But visually, this game just was a stunner to me. I couldn't believe how good it looked, how out of nowhere this was. And yeah, I was just kind of really, really shocked by it. It looks fascinating as hell. It looks like a world I want to learn more about.

I think the enemies look fantastic. Again, this guy just, he looks like the Pontiff Sullivan. Look at Pontiff Sullivan, Dark Souls 3. He looks like this dude with the swords. Now, Tim, your selection was one that I was going to put it down as well. So it's interesting. And I just real quick, Expedition 33 is what I would have put, but I was trying to just switch it up. Because like, yeah, I think easily the game that came out of nowhere and most potential Expedition 33.

It's the type of thing that it looks too good to be true. So like what's the catch? Where is it? We'll have to see. But I'm very hopeful for that one because it does seem to have like the polish of the recent Final Fantasy without being a Final Fantasy in both. the visuals, the combat, and the music and everything, which of course I care a lot about. And the voice acting.

Ben's not, maybe, let's go. But my game is never, any VA. Now, it's cheating a little bit because a game that was completely not on our radar that were hype for. This game, very much on my radar. We saw this last year, whatever it was, right? But I completely forgot about it. Completely forgot about it.

And I feel like this showing raised it, raised my hype so much. Me too. It might not have been zero to 100, but it was definitely like 80. to 100, you know, that the trailer we saw last time I was interested in the world. Now I'm interested in the game. The combat here looks so cool. I don't recall seeing combat the first time around. Maybe we did. It was more just like cinematic vibes of the first one. So this looks great. I mean, again, we talked about this yesterday with, man, I'm already blanking on the name of the game, but the-Meo. Mio, thank you. Where it's like, oh, there's something about it that we've seen

this style a million times before, but it looks different and it looks better. This has that for me as well. Absolutely stunning. And the shot we just saw right there, the locomotion of it all looks awesome. Like I feel like this is the, I love platformers, I love

these Metroidvania type games, and like Andy keeps saying when the combat's right, when you get that Prince of Persia lost crown type stuff, ooh, I'm feeling good. Getting Smash Bros. vibes from some of the movesets there. I'm totally in. I love the big white animals. You know what I mean? Big fan of those things. So all of this, very exciting stuff.

You got one sitting right next to you on the left right there. What? Greg's a big one animal. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. I was going to say, if you remember the trailer from last year, it's going to be an emotional, super emotional ride as well. Yeah. So then next up, zero to 100.

How does he keep forgetting? No, no, no, no, no. He's not forgetting the party poppers. He's not forgetting the party poppers. I'm not forgetting the fucking poppers. How could I possibly be thrown off track on this show? Greg, let's go to you. Zero to 100.

Jesus Christ, you know. The allergies are, do you guys not have allergies? No. Never. Not here. Never. I'm a freak. I wish I can. I'm in dying out here. For this one, I put New World Eternal. Again, another one I've done a preview on here and stuff. But if you miss that preview, I went to this game thinking it was a different game.

I booked it thinking it was that other Amazon one. You and I played. Which one was that? What was the one? doesn't even matter. The other Amazon game that I played back in the day during COVID

with Mike or whatever I thought it was that one so I sat down I was like wow they really have changed the visual style of this game and then I was like oh wait no

this is an entirely different game oh I know which one you're talking about you know this they're marking this one as an action RPG right but it is this old MMO not old but you know

MMO from our past Lost Ark Lost Ark that's the one thank you so much Madog Nick 96 this is they put them out right around the same time

New World and Lost Ark right so it was very confusing as many streams on a kind of funny, and it was just like, oh, another Amazon game. That could be cool,

but isn't there yet, but my people blah. What I said about this one is true to this day. It gave me big time, Kingdoms of Amelor reckoning vibes. And I loved the combat I had of it. I loved the weapon proficiencies, the ability to invest points,

try new things, go off and do this. It's a really cool world. It's stylized. It's really pretty. And again, something they didn't have because I've gone back

and watched your streams from when you guys were playing. back on the germany boys back in the day you know they've added in all these NPCs they've added in all the story um it seems like it's going to be a delicious waste of time in the best way where it's going to have all those mmo tendencies it's going to be the thing of getting in leveling up see the ding do the stuff more sword points great more arrow points awesome that's exactly what I want like I am in my live service era right now with fall at 76 with Diablo and I think this will be a great addition. And again, to zero to 100 on it, it is that idea of I find myself playing 76 at night

and being like, I wish I had new. I wish I was playing new world right now. That's dope. Just to be in a new literally a new world, a fresh thing. I had so much fun being bone arrow. I want to get back out there and do it on how good it was. And hopefully, you know, with PC players being able to, where it's going to be crossplay when it drops on console, maybe Joey when I was talking to her about it. She was talking about coming back for it or whatever, seeing all this new stuff in there. just super exciting, a nice little world to get lost in. No, Greg, have you heard of this game called Destiny 2? I have.

Because me and my... Looksbuster. Man, it is so good. Come play with us. It is so good. Nothing I've seen from Destiny 2 has made me go, man, I wish I was playing that instead of Fallout. But that's just me personally what I wanted. I watched you platforming.

I came in, I watched you platform the other day. I was straight. I see you guys shooting stuff up. It's funny because when we went to SGF play days, Amazon was my first appointment at 10 a.m. And you know me? I was very excited to see them all. Was Jeff there?

No, Jeff was not quite there. Me and Tim saw Jeff early at the door, but I walked up to him. I was excited to see him. I was like, what up, Amazon team? How are we doing today? And they got a little confused, and they let me sit down at New World Eternalum first.

Even though I knew it wasn't the game I was supposed to be previewed. And I was like, hey, I don't think this is it, but I have time. I'll play. I don't care. You know what? Because you know me. I was having too much fun.

And so let me play. But he'll wander around the Phantom Blade booth. The opening of it's because it's coming to console. And I thought they did a fantastic job kind of reworking the intro to the game to adapt to console players and really show off the controls on the controller. Really well done. So a highlight of that. Again,

an MMO going on to controller and console is really dope for me. And then about 10 minutes in, they started looking at me funky. And they were like, we've been waiting for you over there. And I was like, oh man, like they put me down you. I'm sorry. Oh, Mike. Mike, sticking with you here. What's your

zero to 100? It's funny. It's funny because Andy is now talking about Expedition 33. You're talking about Never. I thought we were talking about games we played. And so I've already talked about this, but I'm going to switch it up really quick. I'll highlight bad laces, the RTS. I loved that. I had so much fun with that.

If you're looking for a fast and furious, short kind of just easy digestible RTS, go check that one out. But I'm going to switch it up on you. My zero to 100 award goes to killer bean. Okay? I didn't even know what the heck that coffee Bean was until we watched that trailer at Summer Game Fest and I Was he a coffee bean? Yeah, that's what it says

on the Steam page. He's a coffee bean. And so I'm always looking for that GTA Open Worldlike experience And what I loved about the early Saints Rose was they took GTA And they made it kind of fun, a little more loose, a little more jokey.

And I think they lost me around St.O. 3 and beyond. And I'm looking for this coffee bean to maybe take it on me take me on an adventure that will make me laugh again, really enjoy the open world third person, shoot them up adventure. Rogue line, right?

Yeah, it is. It's kind of really weird, interesting write-up. It says the story changes every time you start a new campaign in the first slash third-person rogue-like shooter. Interesting. I'm looking forward to this. This says zero to 100 real quick on this one. I'm sure it'll be madness.

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to make sure you never miss an episode. And we're back, everybody, with our next category. Who won Summer Game Fest? Now I'm looking at it right now. It's kind of wild. And now including blessing, we all have the exact same answer. So on three, let's jump into it. One, two, Xbox.

Xbox. Xbox. Let's throw up. Come on. I jumped the gun. I jumped the gun. One of the best showcases, not just of Xbox. I think of any game publisher ever.

It was so killer. We got so many things that we needed. Updates on stuff. Announcements for things. Kind of a assurance that quality is coming. Could have used a bit more release dates, but when that's the biggest issue we have. That's the only issue.

Come on. That was an incredible showing. So what I'd like to do is use your knowledge base. And throw it right back. your face. We talked about on Games Daily of how good the Nintendo presentation was, right? But one of the things

you said today on Games Daily was that there's a large portion of Nintendo that didn't speak to you, right? And I was like, well, that's every conference. You're like, it wasn't a problem for Xbox, right? Is that one of the reasons? Like, this Xbox showcase is so special? Yes, I definitely think so. Because it's just complicated because of what a Nintendo

direct is versus what a Xbox summer game fest time show. showcases and just like they cut the fluff out of those things like we're not going to get these like a bunch of random marketing games showing up at an Xbox game showcase. Sure. Like and that's very exciting. Whereas Nintendo Direx, you're going to get that. Um, I feel like the Xbox showcase from a production standpoint is perfect. It's killer. All killer, no filler. Get the people on the stage just for fun little transition bits. Trailer, trailer, trailer, the right type of information we need. Don't waste time. It's just awesome. I do think that obviously being the Nintendo fan and how good the Nintendo direct was

yesterday in terms of having announcements that I actually care about. I feel like Nintendo's just winning overall, and I feel like I'm winning as a Nintendo gamer overall. I don't think they won Summer Game Fest, though. I do think in terms of the wins, Xbox, they just brought it, man. That was an incredible showcase. I was riveted the entire way through. Mike? They delivered. I was really impressed. And I came in. I said, I'm eight out of ten hyped, right? I'm ready to be disappointed because that's what they've tracked the past couple of years.

But this year they really showed up and they showed out. There was a couple of games still missing off of my Xbox big board that I was looking forward to seeing. But, I mean, when you have a game like Fables show up, you finally bring out perfect dark with gameplay and really reassure the fans that we are finally tracking in the right way with this game. State of decay, even where that's at, just to get that back on the map and say, hey, we got a game like that is really exciting. And then, of course, the big pop, which is Gears of War, E-Day, right? Like that's wild where we're going. We're going to go back to our roots with Marcus and Dom. We're going to start at the beginning with Emergence Day.

I mean, the idea of a new Gears of War is always exciting, even if it was going to be six. But you think about gears and all the lineage. I mean, the campaign, you got hoard mode, you got that killer multiplayer suites. That is always a big win for me. And you know the coalition is cooking up and unreal. I can't wait to see the final product of that game.

It's going to be awesome. Yeah. I mean, everything was. spot on by Tim, all killer, no filler. And part of, part of their presentation

is what I would like to, whenever we're ready, segue into best announcement. I mean, let's go then. I, when I was first kind of like compiling this list,

I wasn't sure where to go with this. And then looking at your answer, Tim, I'm like, ah, Tim's answer is like very, very along the lines of what interests me, but I was really,

really blown away by Doom the Dark Ages. Oh. I was, I guess I'm more blown away by the fact that, I am as excited for another Doom as I can be. I thought maybe we've seen all we can of Doom, right? Maybe we've seen like what the limits of what that game can be.

And it's still going to be an awesome game when it comes out. But the fact that they could still put out a new trailer and it can still show you why they are just incredible creating awesome campaign experiences and making you kind of just laugh at this insane concept of, of Doom guy being in a medieval sort of fantasy period with a sick-ass shield. How can we level up and evolve the fun there? I freaking loved this trailer.

This was probably my best announcement because I guess when the rumors first came out, I was like, okay, we'll see how that looks. And I'm very much along the line of Blessing where Doom 2016 was one of my absolute favorites. And Doom Eternal was incredible, never kind of reached the high. as Doom 16 and a lot of that could be the what I talk about is like the god of war 2018 going to Ragnarok effect where I've been wowed again and Tim

how can you have this baby drink lemonade again and give you the same reaction you know the baby can only have so many first time reactions but this blew me away I was very very enthused by this my favorite thing about you and your babies and your lemonade is like is that a thing they just get lemons I don't know if babies have ever drank lemonade. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Maybe I'm thinking the lemon thing. Something to ponder. Just something to ponder. Mike, you've seen him drink Coke before. Like they do that. When their eyeballs bowled out of their head,

they're like, oh, you ever see a cat on earth? A cat with a popsicle? Cat freaks out of the popsicle. You see his raccoon the other day? The guy knocked the food out. I did see that.

Oh my God. He patted him on the back like you patted Tim. Yeah. Save that thing's like. Yeah. You got a kid? Yeah. You a kid ever had his eyeballs

pop out of his head off or something so good? Oh, well, not like the crazy reaction. He enjoys stuff. Okay, okay. You haven't had that moment. No, I'm trying to think. Give a chicken nugget.

When he had a ladman, I don't know. He's had a lot of stuff now. I mean, I think it's over now. Oh, you know. He's past that. Really? I mean, you can introduce new things. You ever have a nerd cluster?

He hasn't had a nerd cluster yet. That might change his life. You give a nerd cluster to a pilgrim. They will self-destruct on the spot. It's insane. Self-destruct. Mike, what was your best announcement? Oh, man.

I mean, I have gears. E-Day on this one, but you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to say south of midnight. South of midnight really impressed. I think the year prior when we saw it and we had the announcement, we were all excited of like, ooh, this is a nice twist. I like what compulsion games is doing with this art direction and this tone that they're setting. But to see it in action with gameplay, I'm really impressed. This was a game that went from, oh, I don't know if I'm going to be into this to watching it going, oh, wow, I think I'm really going to be into this game. And I really enjoyed South of midnight. I think compulsion games is set enough for something cool here. So keep an eye out on that one.

The first glimpse at that boss fight was kind of everything I wanted and immediately kind of put any worries to rest that this is something, hey, you were justified and feeling really hyped about what we've shown of this game so far. Yeah, this is definitely, I don't know what category I would put it in, but like, man, this is definitely one of my like, oh shit moments of the show. Like, I cannot wait to play this game. Greg. Yeah. Best announcement.

You know, there's a lot of great stuff in there and I toyed around with what I wanted to do here, but I have to go stated to K3. Like, you know what I mean? In terms of like a franchise, that means a lot to me that I really enjoy, something I did not see. Like,

you know, I did not see coming, I should say, you know, we did our predictions and I had kind of tried to shut myself off to it. Of like, no, I don't believe that's going to be there.

I still don't know when we'll actually see this game. Obviously, Unden Labs is a very different studio now than they were. it for State of the K2. But the fact that it was here, it was a fun trailer. It actually had some gameplay in it. Like, I'm not expecting to be playing it anytime soon, but I'm happy they're still committed to it.

I'm happy it's happening. And I think when it drops, it'll be a game, me and Mike really enjoy together. Yeah, I can't wait to play with you, Greg. I know we're going to get Andy in on it. There's a couple of things that I'm hoping for. Like, we've talked about it, right? I don't want to be tethered to other players.

I want a living persistent world where it's always online. So Greg can jump in at any time when he's free. Me and Andy can jump in on the late night. for free. Like there's a couple of small things that I think in 2024 and beyond these games, these survival shared world experiences have really nailed and grown with. And I think

Undead Labs has seen that, right? I think if you look at the world of State of the K2 and where it started to where it is now, what a place it's in with all the content that it has, how much better it plays. But there are still those small moments that I need to make this a great game. But

it's crazy that Xbox has so many games. And we were there at the predictions one going, well, maybe that might not be there. I don't think it's going to be there. And it's like, that was one of those we didn't think was going to be there and showed up. There was games that I thought would be there for sure that didn't show up. And that's how it will go every year now for Xbox. There's so many studios and so many titles they could talk about that they can pick and choose whenever they want.

It's going to be wild. So for me, for best announcement, I could not choose one because there are two absolute Tim Getty's dream games that were announced. And they're dream games in different ways. The first one is a dream game. game of a known quantity that I'm like, God, it'd be so cool if this happened this way. And that is, The Legend of Zelda, echoes of wisdom. Sure, sure, sure. We're getting a Zelda, a new mainline Zelda game in the style of the Link's Awakening

remake starring Zelda. This is wild. This is crazy. I can't believe it. I still can't believe it. How many-looking at this trailer right now? What? I mean, like, every, I feel like any time we've done a Nintendo showcase, my only wish has been

give me more of that art style. And yesterday it was just so. such an awesome day. And anytime we've talked about it, though, it's been in the context of, give me an Oracle remake, give me a link to the past remake, whatever. The idea of it being a new game from them

is so incredibly exciting. So, like, I am all about this, and it's just pure awesome, pure awesome. But my other one... Just stick it on Zelda. Did you see they announced four swords? I did see that. Is this going to be the first Zelda game

I ever played through all the way? Could be? I would prefer to play with friends. And like, that's a great way to get me into this world. I mean, this is huge. This could be, I'm letting everyone know. I saw that announcement.

It's like, this is exciting. Because I want to play with my friends all the time. I've never beaten the Zelda game or played it all the way through. I think this is going to be the one. What's funny is that this isn't the four swords game. This is just the four swords mode. That was like kind of the demo essentially for what would become the GameCube game. What you would do, you would all your friends would have a Game Boy Advance and you would link up into the GameCable.

Yes. Into the GameCube. That's crazy. And you would use your little screen for like a menu, whatever the hell, yeah. Wow. So can we play it all the way through? Is it a big game? No, it's very, very, very small.

This one's. Working out for me? Yeah. Working out for me. Coming up Mike right now. Yeah. Coming up Mike. Very excited they've added the implementation of being able to play it in a way that makes any sense.

Because back in the day, it did not. But my other best announcement is mixtape. This is the next game from Beethoven and Dinosaur. I would give this game every award possible. That's a great pop because I, this is a dream game in the sense of I could never have thought to ask for this. Seeing this, it's so perfect. I think the only thing that could possibly make this more, Tim, is a hip-hop aesthetic instead of a more like, I don't even know what you would call this stuff. Like, all rock, hipster indie stuff.

But even then, I am blown away. I've watched this trailer no less than 30 times. Like, I am just obsessed with the vibe and tone of it all. Artful Escape was my game of the year a couple years ago. I just love what this team has going. And this just looks like such an amazing step up that I think is going to speak to a lot more people. I can't wait to. You know, you talk about a coming of age, teenage story.

They're on their way to the final party of high school senior year. They're reliving all the touchstones from it set to this amazing soundtrack and being, you know, locked in a time period of nostalgia. Like, I can't wait for this. I hope it's going to be amazing. And the little brief glimpses of gameplay we see here, like are just so cool and varied. I loved the style of artful escape and when it would get a little bit weird and break out of the 2D. It was always like, whoa, this is awesome. They just got pure creativity going on over there.

And I think this one's going to be incredibly, incredibly special. Looking forward to it for sure. Most hyped game of 2024. So coming out of Summer Game Fest, what is your most anticipated game for the rest of the year? Oh, by the way, Bless is best announcement, Astrobot. And what a great call that is. A great call. Another dream game of mine.

But most hype game. Blesses is Dragon Ball Sparking Zero. I love that he's obsessed with it. I love that it's living up to all the hype that he wants it to. But Greg, what about you? Oh, man, I didn't want to start. I put down several, right? And it's really hard because I feel like,

because it's crazy. Like, if you, like right now, clear my mind. I would honestly say New World. I don't think it's going to be a 10 out of 10. I don't think it's going to be something that is, I don't, I'm not expecting to put 80 hours into it, 90 hours into it like I am with fallout right now. Like I don't expect.

that that just looks like a really good time and I'd really like to be jumping in there and playing with you and stuff like that I like that I think imminently it's star wars outlaws I mean game of the year August is not far away I can't wait to jump in to do that and then I guess the one that I haven't put I could put in multiple categories and I haven't is my real answer and I'll say dragon age because dragon age is another one that if I if I had if I had known what new worlds was I don't think it would have been so zero to 100 right when I sat down like this isn't the game I thought it was at all. Dragon Age,

obviously I know what Dragon Age is. I know what BioWare is. I've tried Dragon Ages in the past. So just based on that pedigree and stuff, like I wouldn't have been at a zero for it. So to be here now and be like, after we did the Andy, you and I did the reaction to the presentation,

I found myself throughout that day and throughout every so often drifting into like, man, I'm really, I'm really looking forward to that. Yeah. Like right now again, you know, playing fall at 76 and enjoying aspects with seeing how weak other aspects are.

It is that thing of like, man, I'm really looking forward to a meaty RPG that has a great story. And clearly that's what Dragon Age should be if nothing goes wrong, right? I get sucked in this world and fall in love with some NPCs. Exactly, right? And so like to see how good their combat looks, to see how good that style is, to see how colorful that world is, to see, you know, hopefully bio-ware getting back to the buyware of old and the bioware I love from the mass effect series. Like I'm, this is probably, yeah, this is probably the. most excited I've ever been for a bioware game.

Wow. You know what I mean? Like this is coming a really great time for me right now. Like I'm into that. I'm not the fantasy guy. So that's always been the turnoff for Dragon Age. But the stylization of the world, I look at and go, oh, that looks really fucking cool. And it's a great segue to you. For most

I've gained game of 2024, I had Dragon Age as well in my thing, but I think on the flip side of things, I could easily go with outlaws or Assassin's Creed Shadows. Sure. Shadows are also kind of like, I think shadows are one of the more surprising ones for me.

A lot of it comes down to kind of the setting, right? I think feudal Japan is like such a place that I can get down with and under, and that's like such a great connection point for me to want to get into your video game. And the idea of two different characters, both with two different play styles, I know that that turns some people off

regarding like, well, I just want to be the stealth assassin kind of doing a bunch of stuff, but I also really, really love Souls games, and I think everything that we've seen with Yasuke's sort of combat stylings look really, really sick. And I love that brutal, just gigantic Louisville slugger he's got. I'm super stoked about this. And I'm really much looking forward to it. When you asked Andy at any point about an Assassin's Creed, it's always, uh, maybe this is the one and then I never fully get into it. I think that'll still be the case this time around.

Really? I think so. That's your pizza bit. That's my pizza bed. I like that. I think you give this game five to six hours and then you drop off.

I'm gonna do the mic thing where I'm like, where I force myself was like, no, I'm gonna play this shit. Yeah. That's what you gotta do.

It's what you gotta do sometimes. I'll prove you wrong. Mike? Oh, I can't wait for you to reveal this. What is your most hype game of 2024? Yeah. So let's just jump into it.

I'll save the other honorable mentions for afterwards. But I came at SGF and I got to spend the afternoon with a special team that's close to my heart. And that's the Magic the Gathering team because they have a brand new set coming to Universe Beyond

and that's Assassin's Creed. And I finally get to talk about it. I got to see the cards. I got to sit down with the teams and talk about how they're bringing Assassin's Creed in to Magic the Gathering and it was so much fun and super exciting.

Yeah, this is something where of course you saw a celebration fallout coming to magic in a commander set style. Now Assassin's Creed is set to come out later this summer. And it was really awesome to sit down with the team. Actually, the gentleman who created the cards for the universe and go over. How do you bring Assassin's Creed into magic and make that work? We're talking about a trading card game on the desk.

How do you bring an Assassin's Creed that's all about stealth, parkour, and action into something like that? And I'll tell you what, they did a fantastic job. thinking about the gameplay elements of Assassin's Creed, thinking about the Assassins and how they would look and play and what kind of styles they would do. There's fun little moments of this of, you know, you have the cool assassination from dropping down. You're going to go up and synchronize and see all the world.

It's really interesting and fun how you can bring in a video game and bring it into the world of magic. And it got me really excited. So if you're into magic, I think you should look up. Of course, the Assassin's Creed is coming out July 5th, right around the corner. I'm pumped for this. I think it's fun and interesting and different. I hope they do Halo and gears

and other cool franchises. Tim, what movies is this from? You're good girl. But I'm magic. I don't know. Daredevil. Daredevil. On top of that, my other two honorable mentions NCAA football. I mean, come on, get on the bus.

If you're not excited for NCAA football, this gosh darn summer into fall, what are you doing in life? Get excited. But it wasn't an SGF. Well, I mean, these two, you probably, they just be throwing stuff out, you know? I want to throw out games I love, you know.

Well, all of my, one month to the day. One month to the day right now. All of my stuff was SGF until, you know, my dog Nick, I believe, asked like, what are we kind of putting in here? So I'm like, oh, now, now I can kind of expand. Me and Greg are going to be in the parking lot. Papa tent ump.

We're going to be wearing the black and gold from Missouri. M-I-Z. Z-O-U. Come on. We got the Tigers' pennants all around us. We're going to be barbecue and we're going to be day drinking. we got a keg outside and we're coming into play NCAA football. Now here's the

question I have for this. Because my thought would be we throw a real tailgate outside. Yeah, that's what we're doing. This means circling up with some beers and shotgun and it. It means cooking up some good grub, having a good time. And it means getting Liddy. Liddy. Do we then come in and play the game or do we just simulate and watch?

We make Andy play the game. We armchair quarterback Andy's game play. you there. You're going to need to get in touch with Missou Athletics. We're going to need some jerseys right away. If they can send the tiger so I could wear Truman. If I could wear Truman the suit, let's send them, send it. Give me this one here. Yeah, send it.

Give me the party popper game. Hey, Mizzu, it's me. Greg Miller, one of the most famous alums. And I'm here to ask you a very simple favor. There's a great video game coming out. We hope it's great. It's called EA Sports College Football 25. I'm Greg. This is Mike. And we're very excited about it. and we're going to throw a tailgate here before my Missouri Tigers beat up on his

Colorado Buffaloes. But what I'm asking you to do is quite simple. First off, send a bunch of jerseys and pennants, as Mike just said. But more importantly, we need Truman the Tiger here in San Francisco, California. I'll drive them around. I'll take photos of the Golden Gate Bridge. What do we do to make a deal here,

Missouri Athletics? Let me know. Thanks. Give us the tiger. I just heard the sound effect of Mike's tongue flapping around. Sound effect. I need that broken out. Give me the front and a little bit too

before we go to us. So we're setting the stage for Missouri here. They'll send us free things and the tiger. And finally also called duty Black Hop Six. Blops is back, baby. Blops. Blops. Big blops.

My most hype game is Astrobot. I already talked about it. A lot. And I'm going to continue to because this game is going to be incredibly special. I have never played a game and been like, oh man, this could be as good as Mario Galaxy until this game. And that is an incredibly high bar.

And I think that they're going to hit it. I think this is going to be the one. So good for you, Sony. You got a hit on your hands. Before we get to the next category, though, I want to get to some of the super chats y'all. Superchats. CalP 97 says, best game,

Metroid Prime 4. Best Indie, Killer Bean. Love seeing the Bean. Get some love there. Give it some love to the bean. CJ Splits on says, best game, Astrobot. Worst show, stay to play.

Tough. Fair. I think that's, easy. Yeah. I think Eupisoft is, there's an argument for Uvassoft. Yeah, I would say Ubisoft is the only one, yeah.

Yeah, but the show itself was kind of like, what are we doing here? Then we got Ryan Trimble saying, Happy Almost Wedding, Tim. Category, Best Dad at Summer Game Fest. And why was it, Mike? Yeah, hell yeah. Hell yeah.

We all know. Bring the young ones around. Galaxy lore says, Category, Mike's favorite father's day present. You know, maybe like Jeff should think about having like a daycare system at SGF. We all bring our kids. and we just let them run free, you know what I mean?

That would be a great time. Best activity of Summer Game Fest, Lyme Scootering at 2 in the morning. I want you to know, Andy, I'm going to get to that with my next big category. Our next award goes to Best Food of SGF because you know I like to eat big, be big. And of course, Jeff Keely and the team,

they brought some dope food trucks over to SGF proper for playdays. And we also went out to a couple of great spots. You know, we did. And so I wanted to go around the table and make sure we check in, who ate good and what did you like? I had a burrito from one of those food trucks and that thing was the size of someone's head.

Yes. I was flabbergasted at the size of this thing because like food truck, like the like event food trucks, normally you're getting just like a little tiny portion and I'm like, is this going to be enough for me? I was concerned about the size of this thing. Worst food that I had was the frozen chocolate covered banana. That's crazy. That the, um, the Sega ice cream truck was, I love that.

And here's the thing. It's only the worst. because it was inedible. It was hard as a rock. I was trying to chomp on this thing, all right? I'm hanging out there with a tray, and she's just watching me as I'm just chomping all the back. Oh, Jesus.

Just trying my best to get in there. You know what I mean? And I couldn't penetrate it. I couldn't even get through. It's crazy. You know, I would say the worst food I had at SGF was from the pizza place there. I was on my way to the Ubisoft demo, and I was like,

oh, I had my ticket. I walked over there. I'm like, and I get a pizza and they gave me a cheese that was hot and ready. Yeah. And it was just so oily and just overcooked. I heard it was like a pool of oil. So bad. And I still ate it because I'm a fat guy.

I'm hungry. So whatever. It was my chance to eat. Best food I have. You know, I took you all to Coles. Fantastic. The French dip place I love in L.A. Bread was stale that night.

I was very let down. So we don't get to go there off. Stale bread. It's not in the running. Instead, Dutchess. The formerly birdies, the fried chicken spot. That's my favorite. Ellie. That fried chick, I mean, I already knew it was awesome. I took down the sandwich. God damn.

That's got to be like the biggest surprise for me from Summer Game Fest. I just wasn't expecting that late of a place to have that quality of food. Yeah. I was blown away by those chicken chips that we got, the different flavorings, freaking fantastic. Man, I also did need at Summer Game Fest. I was, I played like 15 minutes extra of Hyperlight Breaker and I ran into my 30 minute lunch and I just didn't have time. Real quick, I want to give a shout. Forget the burrito. The best food I had, that was the biggest surprise for me. At Coles, I got an egg, but it was a weird egg. What was that? Pickled egg.

I had a pickled egg for the first time. They put it in a cup. That was a crazy choice. Thank you. Thank you very much. And it was all these, like, spicy sauces and stuff. That shit was so good. And I kind of got it because I was interested, but I was a little scared of it.

And chop it all that day. I was like, oh, my God, my life has changed forever. I'm a pickle bag guy. That spicy pickle bag guy. Was bombed, too. Coles was good. Oh, yeah. I had the best night because, of course, Tim, unlike you and the Uber driver who refused to wait for me and Greg and the chicken, you know, I'm mad at you for that.

We sat down and had some great chicken and duchess, okay? And then what happens? Greg Miller, like a great father and a great boss he is, takes me back to the JW, leaves me, and he goes on his merry way. I go see my boy Andy. What does he do? He makes eye contact. He says, Mike, I'm hungry. And I said, Andy, I'll blow this popsicle stand right now and we'll go eat some more chicken.

And we hopped on lime scooters. and I went back. And Ellie was blown away that I came back two for two in a matter of an hour from 12 midnight to 2 a.m. We had us out there. And man, we were ripping. We were ripping on those scoers. Mike almost died three times. We're going long on this, but I need to tell this story because we leave Giant Bomb real late.

We're in the Uber. It's the four of us. And there's a plan of like, hey, some of us are just going to go to the JW and some of us are going to get food. And so it's two stops. And we pull over. And then, of course, Mike and Gras and Grubbush. Greg are just talking to this poor Uber driver and like trying to explain everything. God for him.

The party poppers pop off and make a party. Come on. They all get out of the car and I'm like, I'm just going to go to the thing. We stopped for a bit and the guy misunderstood what they were saying because they were incoherent. So he was like, are we, so we're waiting for them, whatever. And because they're offering to buy this man food. No, he didn't, Mike.

He didn't because he was sitting there and he was waiting. He was like, are we waiting for them? No, no, no, no. We don't need to wait for them because I'm going to, I'm going to go. he's like, oh, well, I want, I want food, though. So let me set the stage, Andy, just like last year when I told the man, I'll give him a tip if he turbo drives us to the party. Is this a turbo test?

Can you get the, can you get us our faster? I told our Uber driver, I said, me and Greg are going for chicken. I will buy you a plate of chicken right now if you wait for us. Because we didn't want to leave Tim because I wanted a party with Tim and I wanted chicken at the same time. And so I was like, yo, Uber driver, if you sit here and wait, I'll buy you chicken. And he was into it. clearly he waited he was into it

he was waiting and I was like I'm down to wait and so I'm texting them I'm just like like hey like trying to figure out the situation eventually great was like just just go just go was it a 30 minute driver upset about this the Uber driver I was like man I really wanted that chicken and I'm just like oh god

anyway back to the show just another situation I was like Mike can you just communicate with us a bit better what the situation is best indie showing indie independent however you define it I want to start this one off with Steamworld Heist 2, a game very outside of my comfort zone of genre or anything. This is one of those, I don't even know how to define it, Mike.

I might need some help here. It's one of those strategy games, but it's not, it's a 2D platformer looking thing, all right? And I just want to give a shout out because it was incredible. The polish on this game, Thunderfall over there doing great work. And I know SteamWorld is a very renowned franchise and is in a bunch of different genres. There's dig, there's heist, there's the builder one. I forget what it was called. I think it was called just build.

And they're all great. This was such a surprise, though. I was like, oh, wow, having never played a game like this before, this is like, I get it. I really understand what they're. Will you play when it comes out? I'm down to give it a shot. I'm down, like this does seem like a, I don't think it's a full attention game for me. I think it's like a while we're watching something I play on the steam deck.

But as I was playing it, I was thinking about you a lot, Mike. Yeah. I think that there's a lot here. But yeah, very, very, very impressive. What is this game? Because remember, Thunderfall came by and I got to play Steam World Builder, where I was building the world. What is this?

I've never heard of this. This seems kind of cool. Yeah, it's like kind of X-com style gameplay, but it's 2D. So it's like the turn base you're trying to figure out like your placement and like getting in there and then pulling out these heists. I don't know, man. It's, I was, this was really, really cool. Huh.

It looks great. Bless's was a Ranger, a role puzzling adventure. A Ranger is one that I keep looking at the inbox. I'm like, WonderCodes. That game looks fantastic. That was a lot of fun. Again, I'm not puzzle poppy like Blesses, but I had a great time with that one.

I'm excited to run my head into the wall eventually when we get it. It wasn't your pick, though, Greg. What was yours? No, I did Bloomhouse games. Of course, you know, they had their fear of the spotlight, which I got to play. It's their first game. But Bloomhouse, we had already talked about heading into it.

We knew they're going to be there. I thought it would just be a horror franchise. They already work with, like Amityville horror. They got up there and they said all the right things, especially for Indies, right? Of, hey, it's not one game. It's several.

Here they are. Blum. Sorry, I fuck it up every time. Blumhouse. We have all these different games. We're going to show you. It's from all these indie devs. We want your pitches.

We want you to be weird. Let's make weird horror games together. I love that. And so I love that they're doing that and teaming up with very small creators, right? Fear the Spotlights team is a husband and wife duo. That's it who have made this thing that actually expanded on their idea. And then you look through all the other weird shit they're making.

I'm like, yes, fuck, yes. B, say, like, horror, I love horror video games. There are many great horror games. I think there are a lot of fine horror games. I'm making a horror game and it has a cool concept or whatever. And it doesn't land it, but you enjoy playing it, much like watching a horror movie. I feel like these will be a cut above all of those. I think they're going to really find, if they commit to it and it seems like they are,

they're going to find a great niche there that really is trying to do for video games, what Shudder and a million other places in horror have done for movies. What was the playable one? Right here, Fear of the Spotlight. This definitely was the talk of the town at Summer Game. Everybody kept looking at it, watched people play, and I heard a lot of people be very positive on it. I put that, to jump ahead,

well, I guess I won't jump ahead. Don't worry about it. Mike, what do you got? I got Flock from Anapurna Entertainment. This is one, you know me. Sometimes I'd like to get on the couch and just zone out, Tim, and just become one and meld into the couch. watching my giant television. And flock really interests me a long time ago

because it's that big multiplayer game that we all can fly around this beautiful world together. But I got to do it solo and kind of get the intro of the world of going out to, I believe, my aunt and uncles kind of island and home and see them in their zoologists. And so you're flying around the island and you're identifying these different species of animal all around the island while you also just kind of really feeling

the vibe of flying, which was really, really well, done and it feels good. It's great motion. And then also awesome music and visuals that you just kind of you meld into is what I can best say it and describe it as. It's like you're just zoning out to this. And it was so much fun. And it kind of blew me away of like I remember seeing it and being wowed by the multiplayer. But now playing it, I was like, oh, this is a really good time from flying around the island to stopping off. And they do a fun one of your aunt is a zoologist. So you go out and you try to identify all the different animal species on the island. But when you pull up to it, it's a fun little like multi, what are the multiple choice question of like,

hey, this type of animal does this. And you look at and it goes, well, it has stripes. Okay. It's kind of lazy. It doesn't move around much. And so they have different things. And you kind of choose from the multiple choice answer of, hey, this one has stripes and is lazy. And it will tell you, oh, this is this made up animal, right?

And then you put it in your book. And then there's a bunch more species. you go to. So it's all about observing the animal that you roll up on and then identifying it off the fun questionnaire and then you put it in your book, you go report back. And yo, if you want to zone out, this is it. Does it seem like it's more of a single

player experience? I think we're going to have fun flying around together, but if I was to zone out on the couch, it should be a single player. Yeah, for sure. Andy. Mine was one that I've just been talking about. Forever is Hyperlight breaker and I had

a great time playing it. But I'm going to send through another trailer right now to Barrett in the Assets Slack and this is one that I happen to see on the PC gaming show because there's a lot of really cool there's a lot of cool indies shown

off at the PC gaming showcase and this is a random game that's really caught my attention called Lornevale it is a sort of post-apocalyptic action game but it does this thing where it really really zooms out and

then you kind of go into these little sort of situations where you can either fight these raiders or you could try to trade with them or bargain with them or whatever got sort of that post-apocalyptic mad max feel but i just love the i love the look of it i love like this sort of like pixel art style but it just seems really really neat and odd that it zooms out so far and you are this tiny pixel on the screen walking around kind of exploring this world talking to traders. It just, it seems like if I already give this an award, it'd be like the game I want to play on Steam Deck the most.

That's a good award. Love that. And then our final one here is biggest disappointment slash miss. What game demo trailer or lack of announcement yucked your yums? Bless says he was surprised to not fall in love with the Hyperlight Breaker demo. Still looking forward to trying it at launch though.

Greg? For me, it was simply not having the Xbox handheld. I know the problem with rumors ahead of time is you start drinking the Kool-A expecting it to be there, but like, I want an Xbox. I want a Xbox or PlayStation or PlayStation PlayStation or Xbox series, whatever, so badly that I was like, oh, oh, like to get there and not have it,

it was like, shit, because I think that would have been the cherry on top of an amazing Xbox conference. And I do think, like, there's a whole conversation to have later of like, if it does happen or whatever, like, that's going to be a shift for me. Like, if it was like, hey, if they had announced it here and it's coming out of the fall, I'd be like, cool, Dragon Age for sure I'm playing on Xbox. I want to be able to take that with me everywhere, right? I'd be even more pissed off that ball at 76 isn't cross-platform, right? I put on these hours into PlayStation, but I'd rather have that.

I want my native experience. Mike? Yeah, first off is skates. What a poor disappointing showing there. I really thought we could have done better on that one as a big skate fan. This was your time to really showcase what we're doing over there. And it still felt like, hey, we're really early on. We don't quite, we're not ready.

We don't know what we want to show. and so let's just hire a fun comedian, make some dumb bit. That one's hurt. And, you know, I'll leave just one fun one. I kind of miss the old school EA sports. Hey, here's 20 minutes of FIFA. And let's just tell you about how Zion Williams is sweating. Or let's talk about ball hawk defense and madden.

I miss those. And so it's just, that's a mic thing. That one YouTube is struggling up there. I miss that stuff. You got to sit down and watch the deep dive college football together. Yes, exactly. That's what I want. Instead of this.

category. I am choosing to abstain. I couldn't think of one, but I'm sending it another one. And this is my own category called a game that Greg and Tim should look into. It's one that's been shown off plenty of times before. It's called Unbeatable to the Slack assets. It's an anime, very style-looking game, but it is a rhythm kind of action game where the, where music is outlawed. And I saw this on the PC gaming show as well. again, it got showing off like three years ago. It's been in development for quite some time, it seems like. I have a demo still downloaded from two years ago. That's really, really fun.

Yeah, and I was just really, really blown away by the look of it. And then whenever the actual gameplay comes out, because initially I was like, oh, this is obviously just all cinematics. It's all just 2D sort of animation. But the parts of the gameplay look super fascinating. And just the vibe of you and your band kind of like, you know, just having this camaraderie trying to, you know, play music in a world where the music isn't allowed.

It just seems like a really neat little concept. This is the only trailer that I've watched more than mixtape, and it's because the song. Like, I literally have just played the YouTube video just to listen to the song on the drive to work and stuff. I can't believe that this is a real game. It looks so good. It looks good. It looks good. And it being like this rhythm action game, let's go.

Incredible stuff over there. Is it already out? No, no, no, no. This is one. We'll see. Okay. You know. Couple super chats I want to get to real quick here.

Kabab says, Most Disappointing Sands of Time teaser. Man, I'm just such a different take on this, man. That is so exciting to me that it tells me everything I need to know that it's not the game that they showed before. They're going to do it right. So I liked it. Mara says,

My last name's Truman, so I guess I'm a MZ fan now. Am I Z? Z O you, baby. Game of the show for me was definitely Expedition 33. Godwave says, Dragon Age is easily my most hype game of 2024. Outlaws hasn't sold me yet.

If the game had a team of playable outlaws, I think I'd be more excited. C.J. Splitson says, Expedition 33 is giving Rogue Light RPG. And then SESFIRE says, I love Mike. Happy belated Father's Day. Thank you.

Bring back cool EA deep dives. And thank you all for hanging out with us today. This has been so much fun. Let us know in the comments below what your answers to all the different categories are, what you thought of Summer Game Fest overall. And if you just want to keep hanging out with us, guess what?

are not done. If you're on Twitch, you can hang out here. But if you're on YouTube, you're going to have to make the jump over to a different stream where people are playing, chained together. Chained together. Think only up, but four players,

and they're all chained together. Will Andy break? Let's find out. Let's find out, everyone. Until the next time, love you all. Goodbye.