Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Predictions of Metacritic Scores in 2021 - Kinda Funny Gamescast Ep. 57

Episode Date: January 20, 2021

We start our 2021 Fantasy Games League! You can join us at http://www.kindafunny.com/gamescastleague 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:11 - Housekeeping 00:01:30 - Who Had The Most Correct Predictions for 2020? 00:09:40 - 2021 Fantasy Games Draft! 00:23:00 - Round 1 00:31:56 - Round 2 00:43:06 - Round 3 00:48:20 - Round 4 00:55:25 - Round 5 00:57:16 - Ads 01:06:51 - Round 6 01:11:42 - Final Round 01:21:38 - Counterpicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up guys? Welcome to 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. Cuckoo! The new face of video games blessing at Aeoia Jr. What's up, Tim? I like everybody's shirts today. I'm just noticing that you guys all have, like, good shirts. Yeah, I like the Achieve. I think that says Achieve on Tim, the Dragon of Dodgimo shirt that Imron's wearing. And then Greg's got a shirt that I also got that says drink water and don't be racist, which I'm a very big fan of.

Are you? See? Simple things. It's the simple. The simple thing. Good advice. And of course, we have the former, informer, Imron Khan. I'm drinking water.

We're going to see about the rest of it as the show goes on. Oh, my God. Oh, no. Is this a hurting point? We've been waiting for Enron to finally do it. It's better to be you. What is Emron's probable traits? We just all learned.

Oh, man. This is the Kind of Funny Games, guys, each and every week right here on YouTube. com slash Kind of Funny Games. We get together to talk about video games and all the things. that we love about them. You can watch the show live as we record it with the exclusive post show, ad free by going to patreon.com

slash kind of funny games. If you want it later, that's cool. You can get it free on YouTube or roosterteeth.com. You can also get it as a podcast to search for Kind of Funny Gamescast on your favorite podcast service and we'll be right there for you. Boys, I want to get into it. Last year, we started the year off right,

doing a metacritic predictions topic. where we went through every video game and we decided what we thought each game was going to be scored. Well, now we've been scored on how well we did on all of that. I swear to fucking God if Blessing wins this again. I want to go back and look at some stats.

Looking at some stats there. We'll talk about that. And then we're going to do our metacritic predictions for 2021. But we're doing it different this year because Greg Miller really liked the way that they did the fantasy draft on, P.S. I love you. And they're like, guess what? It's even more fun with more people. So we're going to do it here on the games cast for all video games, not just PlayStation stuff.

And that's going to be great. But before we get there, all four of us were on these prediction topics. All right. Now, our boy, C underscore Anon over on Reddit, always loves to put together stats. Always loves to get all the kind of funny things together of like how many appearances we've been on this, all this. I don't know how many spreadsheets this dude must have, but I'm sure they're plentiful. to say the least. All right. But he did a lot of work here, and there was a Reddit post he did,

of games cast predictions of 2020. Who won? The answer is all of us in some way. Whoa. And let me explain how. He judged it based on all of the different predictions things we did, and we all won in different ways. Imron won the Metacritic predictions.

Nice. Blessing won next-gen predictions. I won the Game Awards predictions, but at the end of the day, Greg Miller won overall. Oh, so there you go. There is an overall winner there, and it's me. Yeah.

It's me, baby. It's me. Going through some fun stats here with it, or notes at least, for the Metacritic predictions. He says, I merged Imron and Fran into one being since these predictions episode had one of them.

The biggest gap was when he scored for Predator Hunting Grounds, the closest guest was still 13 away. But the coffee scores for cyberpunk have since eclips that. There was some debate over the method of scoring. But by PSI Love You Rules, Fran had 12, Greg had 11, Tim had 8, and Blessing had only four. Damn. Your powers were just beginning to germinate, bless.

It was before you'd run away with every other competition we did last year. No, yeah, they needed some time to marron it. Blessing won next-gen predictions. Nick and Barrett also got on the scoreboard here. Fucking Nick. Barrett with a legitimate prediction about Ratchet and Clank being launch window, while Nick accidentally joined the call and agreed that the PS5 would outsell the Xbox series access at launch. It's accurate. That sounds right. This is about right for Nick.

Useless. Tim won the Game Awards predictions. The winning point was from Tim guessing T.LU2 would win Best Action Adventure when everyone else went for Ghost, which brought the score to 20, me, Greg 19, Blessing 17, Imron, 15. But Greg won overall. either Greg was most consistent or the Boussan has given him reality bending powers. By adding all the scores together,

according to Cianon's calculations, Greg ended with 36.83, I ended with 34.49, Imran with 33.16 and Blessing with 29.52. Wow. I will, I want to give the credit to Blessing, though, for predicting the GTA 5.

Because I don't think we have. Oh, yeah. At this point, when I said it, everybody looked at me like I was crazy. Yeah. When the PS6 comes out, we'd be like, oh, yeah, GTA 5 is going to be there. There's a reasonable chance he'll be right. And also, one of a year now that Greg is the Final Fantasy 7 remake of the bunch. Exactly.

I have the most points and I've won the trophy. All right, I like to thank. See it on for out there for sending this to me. I'd like to, you know, really rub it in Blessing's face that he lost. You know what I mean? That's what it's all about that. There was a point value and there was an overall winner and it was me, Greg Miller. This is all from like January 2020, right?

I don't remember anything I said aside from the GTA prediction that I'm very proud about. I mean, that's how I live my life every day in a podcast. I throw it out. I just say it. It's in a black hole and it's gone and somebody brings it up years later. But, you know, here I am not running from it and holding my trophy as the 2020 medicarend champion. That is not your trophy.

Is that a trophy? Is that not? Is that not? Is that not? Yeah. Because apparently we made a dollar bet. A $4 pool was left on the table all show. And then it was put into the table.

kind of funny the video game box at the studio. Greg asked the post show to remind them at the end of the year. All right. Now, post show, we're a real show right now. I need someone out there to remind us when we're allowed to go back to the studio, that there is $4 that is mine inside the kind of funny, the video game box. But I love that like right now, the old studio's gone. So this box is just somewhere.

It's just somewhere in another box. Yeah, exactly, exactly. It's actually really funny because I think the idea, I think the idea, of it was that like who's going to touch this thing because like we're just going to put it in a random box and it goes right behind the studio. Yeah, it'll be there forever. It would always be there. And then yeah, not there at all.

And then to find, just as a heads up, this trophy is actually the Halloween king, uh, runner up trophy. How do you get there goes. Yeah, I got this. Oh, wow. Runner up. Yeah, it was meant for blessing, I think, but it ended up with me. So I have it.

And he has, blessing is my real game award because blessing won a fake game award honor. And so like, you know, right now we each have each other's trophies i think it's a fake game i think if you go to the game award website i'm on there sure but if i go to like the game awards that count where you get trophies those are what counts you know what i don't see people i don't see you with a trophy i see you got you got a final fantasy figure back there you got a final fantasy butterfinger figure back there some lights from game stop and a donkey con but i don't see no game awards trophy that's that says your name again you have mine i'm aware you in the game spot post.

I don't think, I don't, I don't think yours has your name on it also. Like, it's, I appreciate it's just empty. Does it have your name on it? Yeah, it does.

I don't think you have, you have it. Where is it in your house? Wait, what is Michael I am doing in my game award right now? I feel like he's trying to get, he did something to the name.

He's trying to gaslight you now to be like, no, Roger did something in the edit. In the, in the blessing show edit, Roger did something to the plaque. That's so funny. Another thing that I lost here to Greg,

which I really hate, is back in July, Tim bet Greg, three dollars that the game awards would get pushed to January. So, Greg, you're just making it out like a bandit here. That's $7. See it right there? Oh. Turn it. Turn it the other way.

Oh. Oh, yep. It's there. Yeah. You were just going to be like a maid in China like kind of logo. It does think Greg Miller. Thank you. So funny. All right. What other fun here do we got? I know that game award like the back of my hand.

The amount of times I've slept with that game more, I know everything about it. Well, anyways, that's it. So congratulations, Greg. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. For the 2020, but. I get $4 whenever we get to the new studio.

All I have to do is risk COVID to get it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So moving on from that then. We're moving to 2021. This is the beginning of new. This will be the first full year of predictions and stuff where Imros is with us from the beginning. And it's not some weird mix with Fran.

So let's see. I forgot that I wasn't part of the Medicare predictions until you told me. I was like, yeah, yeah, I remember doing that. That's fine. It was like, oh, yeah. I was like, was I not? Sure.

I guess I will take points. I think it was last year, right, where somebody put it up on the subreddit of like being on the predictions episode, I think it is, at the beginning of the year is like being a red shirt in Star Trek. And it was a photo of like, it was me, Tim Colin, me, Tim Andrea, meet him Jared, And it meets it, Fran.

It's like, oh, God. You don't want to be on this episode. I'm Ron, but here you are. It's funny. All right. So, Greg, you want to lead what we're about to do now? Sure. So if you don't listen to PSI, I love you, XO, XO, XO, each and every Tuesday, I don't know what your fucking problem is.

But you also have missed something called FantasyCritic. Dot Games. Blessing, when he got higher, this is one of his brilliant ideas that it turns out he just stole from Easy Allies, right? Bless. Yeah, I did. So the idea is that fantasy critic. Dot games is fantasy football for video games. Obviously, instead of being a season, it's an entire year.

So the idea here is I know I've already lost him when I started talking about fantasy football is that you are drafting a roster of games. You are a publisher for all intents and purposes in this game we're about to do, right? Today, we're going to do the draft. You're drafting seven games to your roster, meaning that we go, you know, one by one, I think it snakes back and forth, right? So, you know, everybody goes and we pick our games. That is you building your roster.

The idea is that you are building the roster of games that you think are going to review the best in 2021. And now what that means is it's not Metacritic. They go by Open Critic, but for all intents and purposes, same thing, right? The idea is that for what you pick this game and every point it gets higher on average than 70, you get a point four on your scoreboard. However, every point it gets below 70, you lose a point. So it will give you negatives. You can easily end up in the negative.

If just by happenstance, let's say you want to pick one horror game, but you get confused and pick the wrong horror game. It can really fuck up your season, but don't worry about it. That sounds impossible. Totally impossible. No idiot would possibly do that. No idiot would possibly ever do that. So today we draft the seven.

However, I forget, what are the total we have 14 on the team? 15 total. So you have 15 total slots, which means this now, guys. So Tim, do you understand, Amaran, you understand so far? Yes, I understand. Okay. What's going to happen then to fill in the next eight slots is that you have a budget of $100. And so what happens is now you bid against all of us on a week by week basis or as much as you want to for games.

So let's say that we finish the thing today. and tomorrow, or like some game that we don't draft today, is still available. It's still a free agent out there. Or more likely, you sit on your money for a while. We get to June, and they announce, guess what, Mario Sunshine 2 is coming out this year. Nintendo announces it.

You then have to come back to the site. By the way, if you want to follow along at home, you can go to kindofunny.com slash gamescast league. You can watch throughout the season, see the scoreboard, see everything going. You'd go back to fantasycritic.com. you would then bid on it. If it's like PS, I love you, Sunday night, or no, Monday night is when bids get locked in Sunday nights

when bids get locked in. Yeah, one of those nights. I can look it up. Look it up. And so, like, you go in and say, cool, I want a bit, I want Super Mario Sunshine on my publishing team. So I'm putting in $5 of my $100 budget that I have. And then you hope that when it expires,

no one bid more than $5. If nobody did, then you would get it for $5. $5 would be deducted from your budget for the year and you would have Super Mario Sunshine 2 on your team. But if Imron bet $7, he would get it on his team. He would lose the money. You wouldn't lose any money. And so you're trying to maximize

your publishing thing, keep money in the bank because obviously we're going to make all these different predictions, all these different locks, and then games are going to get pushed, games are going to get delayed. You can drop those games, but then you still have to bid with bucks to get new games onto your roster. So what has kids of say, Breath of the Wild 2 gets announced? And Tim and I both bet like 100 bucks

because that's like a guaranteed, you know, a high metacritic game. Like, if we both bet the same amount, who gets it? I don't know. I don't know. I assume it's who bid first. That would be my assumption. I can look into that more.

But for Greg's earlier question, I think it's changed a little bit this year. Bids are processed on Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. Eastern. Okay. Okay. Are all games worth the same amount of money for this first round we're doing?

For draft, they're worth $0. For draft, there's no penalty to your budget here. It's only after we finish the draft and you go into free agency that games are now worth actual money. So for tiebreakers also, they have like an order in which they kind of tackle it. And so

highest bid wins, obviously. And then if there's a tie, lowest projected points wins. And so that means whoever has like the like whoever has the roster that is performing better or that is performing I guess performing worse in that case, we'll get the we'll get the game.

Okay. And so if you're behind, have confirmed 2021 day. It's not necessarily like the exact day but they said those games are supposed to come out

these are all announced games. Exactly. You could, if you want to, you can put down Colisto protocol that's coming in 2022 but for what we're doing

for this league, right, is we're trying to say for 2021 who's going to win. So by the end of the, at the end of the year, the points we have on the board is the winner.

So it doesn't behoove you to have something beyond that. Blessing, are we doing the counterpick thing this time? We are doing the counterpick thing. Yeah. And the counterpicks are basically

after we do that initial first seven game pickup round, we then have one more pick and that pick is going to be the counter pick, meaning that we'll each have to pick a game that's on somebody else's list that we think is going to perform the worst. That's going to get the least points. And so if somebody picks Baytina three,

and we think Baytad of three is going to come out and it's going to bomb, I can pick Bayoneta three is my counter pick. And that means the opposite amount of points that they get are the amount of points that I'm going to get. And so based on like the 70 point thing, I know I'm kind of getting into the weeds here with like the with like the points system, all that stuff.

It's easy when we get into it. But say like I counterpick a game and it's the, that game scores 65 on Open Critic. That means that that person who actually had the game on their roster gets negative five points because it's five points below 70. I, who counterpicked it, I get five points. That makes sense. You're looking a game on somebody else's squad that is going to perform poorly. Yeah. Got it.

That's what the counterpick is. Okay. And yeah, so like the idea is like, I know you, I don't, Amron, you never played fantasy football, right? No, no. So like fantasy football is, you know, week by week you're really involved in it. This one you can let cook for a while. What didn't kill the PSI Love You League,

but really helped us, of course, is that blessing and I talk every week on the show. So we were still going. But like Jonathan and Gio and Callie really weren't. Like they kind of like Jonathan actually did tinker with his list a lot, but Gio never touched it again. I don't think Callie ever touched it again. So the hope is that with us doing it together on, on Gaviscast, we can, you know, chide each other a bit more,

keep everybody actually a little more engaged on it. Should we keep, should we have rules where we don't touch it, but only touch on specific days, like specific weeks or something? Or is that complicating it too much? That's complicating it too much, I think. Like, I mean, this is going to be for, you know, fun and bragging rights again. We can, if we are all together, we can put $4 in a video game and forget about it. But like, you know, there's not much.

There's a pizza party, I guess, way to get the end of this that we'll all benefit from. But I don't think you need to worry about it that much. And I think a big part of the fun, too, of it is, like, a game gets announced on a random Tuesday. And I see that. And I'm like, oh, fuck, that might be a good game for my fantasy league. And I get it. And then the next week we're like, oh, shit, Bletson got X, Y, and same game.

A thing to point out, too, the cool thing about fantasy critic is that it allows, it allows and disallows games based on different categorizing. And so there are a number of band types of games. And so right now, and this is the thing I can change everybody, is if anybody has any disagreements. Right now, the band tags are director's cuts, meaning that a persona 5 royal or a Super Mario 3D world plus Bowser's Fury,

that wouldn't count, since it's a director's cut. There's also expansion packs are disallowed. Let's see here. Anything that had early access, right? So like, if it isn't, you don't want any, you can't bid on a known quantity. You can't be like, you know, obviously this game's been

great before. It'll be great again this time. Early access, I do have allowed. If a game is currently in early access and it comes down. Because I feel like that one's like, iffy enough one where it's like, okay, we don't, like, Dreams was the example for me of like a game that came out and ended up reviewing pretty well that I wish I got on my on my league. But because that came on early access the year before, that kind of made it, that made it illegal for the league. But I feel like there's enough conversation around that that that could have been fine.

And like another game like Hades, you know, would have been disallowed. And I feel like Hades was also like another one. where it's like, all right, how do we feel about that? And so that's one that we wanted to disallow we can, but I'll leave that, I'll leave it up to you guys. I'm fine if you want to leave it.

I'm rattling my head right now, thinking of games that are currently in early access that I would want to bid on. And I don't think there's so many that you're like, I don't know, what was back for blood? Was that technically early access when that? No, that was just an alpha.

That was a beta. That was a beta. Okay. You're fine. By the way, speaking to Staropunk, like, there is a next-gen version coming next year. Is that, like, disallowed? That's disallowed because that is a port.

And so Ports was another one, like, Dune 2016 coming to Switch, Death Strand and going to PC, Cyrupunk 2077 coming in next-gen. That's considered a port. That is not allowed. Also, games that were released internationally aren't allowed.

And so that's another one for for Persona-Five Strikers, right? Like, that game's been on Japan is coming out this year. That is disallowed. Cool. Okay. If there's any qualms with that,

we can talk about it and I can change it. I think there's going to be some like arguing about some of it like Yaka is a game that took a year to get localized. So like there are some things here and there that might we'll have to talk like talk about individual cases here and there. Yeah. And the site does a nice thing where the site does categorize games based on that. And so we can live and breathe by the site. And so like the site like for all these disallowed tags like this is like a site wide thing. This isn't this isn't like house rules.

And so you can like check aloud or check disallowed. A couple more remasters, not allowed. And so Gears are World Ultimate Edition. Zelda, HD, Uncharted Nathan Drake collection, stuff like that isn't allowed. And then lastly, yearly installments aren't allowed. And that counts for stuff like Madden, FIFA, F1, Football Manager. That doesn't count for things like Call the Duty. Okay.

So it's got to have like a year at the end to make it like... Pretty much, yeah. Okay. Okay. And then I guess a couple of... a couple more things too. You can drop games. And the way we had it on PS Love You

was that any game that was confirmed not coming out in 2021, you were then allowed to drop that game if you want to. I've changed it this year so that one, you have one free drop of a game. Say we get later on to the year and you're like, fuck, I'm not confident about how this game

is going to perform, whatever it is. You get one free drop. You also get three drops for games that are confirmed not coming out in 2021. And so you guess Bayoneta 3, right? And like at the end of the end of the year, Capcom or whoever, I forget who who published. Platinum. Nintendo. Yeah. Flatnam says Bayaneta 3 is not coming out in 2021. You can then drop

that. And you get three of those. After three, you got to keep. Can I put a preemptive thing for our listeners here? Nothing we guess is based on like inside formation. So don't like, don't go write in the stories about Imran says Breath of the Wild 2. coming out this year. I'm just guessing on everything. So wait, we have three free drops or four free drops? You have

one free drop, three drops for games that are confirmed, not 2021. Three drops for games that are confirmed. Oh, so one free for anything I want. I just don't like how it's whatever. Got I got, got, got, got it. Okay, thank you. Yes. Okay. I'm liking

this scenes of strategy. Oh, and another thing, there is a minimum bit of amount. Last year, if you PS love you, the minimum bit amount was zero. And so if I wanted to, I could bid zero dollars on a game and then get it if nobody else bid on it. You do have to bid at at least $1. Okay. Okay. I'm a high roller. I'm going to bid high. Mr. Money and Ron Khan, you'll love to see it. All right, how do we start the stall? I guess I launch it. So I was going to say everybody go to the page, obviously. Who's here?

I mean, live chat, you can go watch if you want. But yeah, I guess we could introduce, we could introduce our our publishers because when we joined the league it then asks us to create a publisher because technically we're video game publishers and so my publisher is called scarceware my publisher is Portillo's platinum publishing

mine is Conquest Games nah that's good at Tim Geddes boom Uncreative Just keep it simple you know what I mean Why spread the brand out doesn't make sense All right so I'm kind of funny.com

slash gamescast league if you want to follow along. You will spoil this if you're watching later. You'll see how it all nuts out. Yeah, and I think Bear is going to be showing it live too. Oh, great. And so I just click LaunchDraft. It looks, it randomizes it. And so it looks like I'm first. Did it randomize it? Because you're first. That's interesting because you're the first

people in the standards and the standings. It might have done it based on. Because if I'm next, then guess what? It's not random at all. And you just got to go first. Now, I won't argue, ladies. I might just be a small town pizza lawyer. All right, but he did win the PSI Love You League. So I'm not gonna, I will not, I will sit, I will rest. This Congress will not be stopped by me.

This is already getting spicy. I feel like it might have done it based on who's, who signed up in what order. And so I can, let me see if I can reset it. No, no, no, we're already going. Who cares? All right, you sure? Because like, yeah, Tim's last, fuck him. I'm second. I don't want to destroy you guys. I don't want to. All right. So I'm going to go first. I'm going to go ahead and draft Horizon for Bidden West. Why?

What do you do to actually draft it? Have you refreshed your page right now? It should say the draft is currently in progress. Next draft is scarce. Where once he locks it in and if it assumedly goes to me, it'll pop on my screen of like which game do you want to pick? Yeah, see, I just got a notification. It's my time.

Okay. And it explains you how to do it. Why'd you go with Horizon? Horizon is the most sure bet for a game I think is 100% coming out this year and a game that I think is going to perform very well in reviews. Like I think that is a nine out of ten game. probably hopefully fingers crossed because anything can happen

tyrantpunk but that is a 9 out of 10 game if I've ever seen one in terms of like what I anticipate but you haven't seen it that's the thing exactly based off of Horizon Zero Dawn and how people receive that game if Horizon Forbidden West comes out and it is Horizon

Zero Dawn and possibly better than that then I think it's a surefire bet okay who knows if that's how it's gonna I can't wait for Horizon Horizon Frident and West, I hope Gorilla knocks it out of the park. But the little bit we've seen, whether that is just like, all right, put together some kind of teaser trailer or whatever,

looks so much like Horizon Zero Dawn that I really wonder if that's going to disappoint people, if it is just more of, I'm sure they're going to push it. I'm sure something's going to happen. I'm sure yada, yada, yada. But also isn't going to come out this year? I don't know. I think that's the bigger question of the if it actually comes out this year. I think it will.

But I do think it's a surefire 8-5. which is still good if I'm understanding how this game works. Yeah, it's going to be like critically well-lauded. But so my thing is, Horizon One's story was so good. It was so interesting and so compelling that now that I know what the background of that world is,

which is like the world is actually what I wanted to find out about, I don't know how much more interested I'm going to be in Horizon 2. Like I'm going to play it. I'm going to enjoy it undoubtedly. But like maybe that drops up for like a 9-5 to like a 9-0 or, an 8-5 for me. But I just can't imagine it getting less than 8-5. Yeah, no, I think 8-5 is a lock, for sure.

Yeah, at the minimum. Sony has what Nintendo has in terms of that first-party magic where, like, people talk about how, like, oh, yeah, people grade on a Nintendo curve. A new Zelda comes out, if you are automatically going to rate it high and love it. I think Sony first party has the exact same thing where, and obviously, like, it's a case-by-case, right? Like, not every single studio is proven.

Days Gone comes out and doesn't review as well. It's like a Horizon or a Ghosts or, last west, but for the ones that hit, like, those games tend to hit well critically. Yeah. Also, another thing I want to point out, because this is like one of those extra, extra rules, but it is going to be, it is going to be important to how you guys guess your games. Greg mentioned, right, that like 70 is like that baseline, right? A 70 is a zero.

Any score above 70 is a point. Any score below 70 is a negative point. Once you hit 90, any score above 90 becomes an extra two points. And so if a game gets a, if a game gets a, if a game gets a, a 91 on Open Critic, that is then 22 points, because it's the 20 up to 90 and then two points based off the one about 90. I didn't know that. Did we do that last year too? Yeah, that was last year too. I mean, not many games

scored above 90. Last it was dead and then I fucked it up and over again. Yeah. So let me ask this. Horizon Forbidden West, a PS4, PS5 game. Which one are we looking at the MetaCritic for? Is it just what if it was higher? Well, this is Open Critic, yeah. Yeah, I don't know how they are doing it on Open Critic. I assume it's an overall average. Okay.

I mean, it's in fantasy critic. Dot games his hands. Whatever they put in. That's what we believe. That's where we go for. Oh, man. I'm already stressed about this. I hate that last.

Blessing Horizon for Ben West is a great pick, of course. Guerrilla, they're going to come out. They're probably going to impress. But there's just so many unknowns. Is it going to advance that much further? If it's not, if it's just more Horizon, does that score at the 89 it has on Metacritic right now? Can it keep that kind of. trajectory are people burned out on horizon uh is it actually coming out this year seeing how much we

how little we've seen of it everything else i ladies and gentlemen with my first pick for portillo's platinum publishing and taking the guaranteed plus 90 ratchet and clank a rift apart i i thought i honestly thought you're going to say god of war as a bit i was expecting it i mean what hell is that a bit different conversation and let's see who if anyone takes that because that is a great question of is God of Oregon. We'll get there in a second. I think Ratchet and Clank people are starving for it. I think everything we've seen from it looks awesome

for it. I think it's insomnia because it's on fire right now. I think they're going to fucking crush this and it's going to be huge. And it's going to be a PS5 exclusive. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's razzled down. Yeah, exactly. Tammy, make good points.

Those rays to be traced. I'm excited for it. That would have been my first pick because I do think that it's a slam dunk of, again, at least 8, 5, but I actually think this has a chance of being 9 plus. Imran.

Imran Khan. Conquest is up on the clock. Based on the fact that kind of funny has been kind of taken by like the Souls virus these days. Like everyone's playing a some kind of Souls game or like some Souls adjacent game. I think when Eldon Ring comes out this year, theoretically, then I believe

that game is going to do it. at least like an 88 to 90. I think that is going to be where it lives. Currently, Bloodborn is in 91 an open critic. I think that's kind of underrated for that game, but I do think like, Ellen Ring is probably going to be somewhere in that area. Are you going to go,

golden ring? Do you think it's going to come out this year? Yeah, that's the bigger question. Is that coming out this year? I think it will come out this year. Okay. Also, no one write new stories about this. What's the, like, typical,

before, like, before these games comes out for Souls game, like, what's the typical kind of, PR marketing for it because like we haven't gotten anything and like when do they usually start ramping up marketing for a game before it comes out for like Bloodbourne and shit. There's no

like consistent pattern. Dark Souls 2 took a long long time. Bloodbourne 2 Sony seemed like really weirdly afraid of it so they kind of like didn't talk about it for a really or decent while or didn't really market that much. Yeah it was like tucked away. I remember going to a games com thing local for games and it was

there and it was our first time playing it but they weren't making a big deal. It was one station. yeah. Sekaro was like it had like a very short lead time like it's hard to say but I feel like we will have that game with an open-colic score before the end of the year.

Cool. I'm doing it guys. The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wilde. I didn't know if I should get there before you or not. God damn it. Have to do it. But is it coming out this year? It's worth the gamble for me because this is a guaranteed

9 plus. So if I get it, I'm getting those 22 points or whatever. You know, I want those multipliers. Now you're saying guaranteed, could it, is there any possibility? Not a chance. This game does not live up to. Oh, not a chance. Don't even,

don't even start, guys, why are you saying not a chance when we literally just went through cyberpunk 2077? Because this is Zelda. Everyone who convinced themselves. It's great. What was the shitty one with the wee,

Skyward sword, right? Everybody was like, oh, they're so good 10 out of 10 IGN. You're fucking. One of the worst selling games, you're drunk off your ass. But yeah, that's my point. It's like there's no chance that, that Breath of Wild 2 doesn't critically perform well. Will it live up to the hype and will it be as good as Breath of Wild 1?

Probably not. But I hope so. But either way, that's not what this fantasy drafts about. It's about making money moves, man. Making money moves. Now, Timothy. Yes. I don't want to freak you out.

I know you don't fantasy draft often. And often, I mean never. This is a snake draft, meaning that you went, but now you go again and it works its way backwards. So you are back on the clock. You get a double pick right now. No one deserves this much power. Real quick, before we move on from Breath of Wild,

what do you guys think the Overunder is on it come 2021? Because I'm fairly confident that it's 2021. on. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm like 75% there. I think the one, I think the big factor is COVID and how that impacts development. That's the reason why, like, it would have been my number one pick if I, if, if I didn't have the assumption that COVID is affecting how Nintendo's putting out games and their, the roll-up, rollout plan. I think it's like less than said, COVID is the main factor, but I think they, I bet you their plans are that game launches this year because there's, the 70, or 75,000. the 35th anniversary of Zelda,

like, that hell or high water you get that game out this year. Yeah. Especially if there's rumors of Switch Pro, right? I feel like that's, you launched the first Switch with it, why not launch the Pro with it?

I imagine, like, I wouldn't be surprised if like internally they were trying to hit spring, but like, and then they had to maybe push it until later into the year.

I do, like, kind of like, what Imran said. It's like, with Eldon Ring. Like, I do think by the end of the year we do have Breath of the Wild,

too. also think that's like a switch pro game and i think the question is when do we expect the switch pro because my earlier assumption would have been spring i don't think spring anymore and like do we get it in the fall i'm who knows like i can see i can see the switch pro coming out next spring like next spring is in spring 2022 for my next one oh you almost you must fucking say go see this coming i'm going with the balzy picks of like double or nothing shit of will it come out i don't know, but if it does, I'm getting some motherfucking points for Hollow Night Silk Song. Oh.

That was going to be on my list somewhere. Yeah. That's interesting. That game is great. Like, it's Holiday One was great. Hollow Night 2, I expect to also be really amazing. But yeah, I expected to be good. The, you know, excitement is there for it for the quality.

That's going to be a quality title. It's just, will it come out? I think yes. I think it's been kind of soft delayed enough of people being like, where is this thing that I'm like 2021? Mm-hmm. It's time. Mm-hmm.

So now I'm back to you, Imrod. Yeah, the draft eligibility had like height factors. So my current thing, the one I've chosen has a height factor of 67.2. I think at a lot of people like near automata, a lot more people than I thought would have like near automata and ended up liking that game. I think people are going to see near replicate, which is by all, appearances a gameplay remake of the original NIR and see the virtues that game had in the first place. Like, it had better music. It had a better story. I think they're going to go like, oh, we fucked up last time.

We should give this game more of a do, more of its due, and give it a higher score than usual. I don't know that it'll breach 90, but I bet it'll do pretty damn well. Do you think the fact that it's being developed by, I forget the name of the developer, but it's not being developed by platinum. It's being developed by like some third party house, I think. does that affect your hype levels? I thought Platinum did the fighting system. They might have. I might be misspeaking,

but it looks like it's being developed by... I gotta look it up. I'm not, it's not coming up. Do you think that it's having a stupid name is going to affect it at all? No, because if that were the case, then none of this series is going through. Like,

there's a chance. Toy Logic could mess it up, yeah. But I think by and large, it's still going to be... That game had a... you know, I'm sure Hyam has talked to you about it because I saw him streaming the game recently. But that game is actually way better than anyone ever gave a credit for. And what kept him back was like, it was this weird, it was a weird era where like everything

Japanese has kind of looked at as super strange and off-putting. But now that like things have kind of swung back around in a different direction, I think people were going to go like, okay, actually, yeah. Now that I'm willing to commit to this game, I'm seeing what those people who really, those weirdos who were in a weird near cult years ago now seem really seeing it. So do you think the fact, not the fact, but like, do you think

the possibility of it being a Final Fantasy 7 remake, like let's get fucking weird with this thing that people already like? You know, if they go that direction, does that, do you think that affects how it reviews? I think they, Yoko Taro knows how to chart the difference

pretty well because like Nero Atomita was a different game depending on if you played near or not. Like, because the entire, if you played near you were just sitting there the entire time going like all right yeah none of this makes sense what's going to happen what's the what's the other shoot that's going to drop so i think there will be enough in that remake to be like okay this is clearly for the people who've played near but i'm still enjoying like this is my first experience anyway do you think i should play automata before this one because i've been kind of holding off they're unrelated in except for like one scene in automata in

which it's like super related so go ahead and just play this i'd say wait then play Atomata. Okay. Because technically this is before Atomata, right? Yes. Cool. Greg Miller. I see those eyes.

Well, this is the part of the draft that's exciting and terrifying and everything at once, right? Where you are frantically looking at previews, seeing what people have said. Do you have the right information on what's going on? Because there's so many, there are so many good games on the board. right now. But you never want to blow your early picks on something that clearly you could pick up in another two rounds. You know what I mean? And then Imron jumps on something I want. And there's so many things that are out here speaking to me. And again, like you were, you know, it's funny you bring up the hype level and all that jazz. Like I always try to ignore it, right? Because it's about what do you

think is going to review the best? What are we, you know, where are we going to go with this? I want to do this. And I just want to put preview on the end of it. Because I just need to know, what do people think of this. But the problem is nobody calls their previews previews anymore, right? Here we go. Let's say, Polygon. What did you think of this? Uh-huh. What is he talking about? What does he think he's talking about? Because you don't want to say the name in case he doesn't actually want to do it right now. Yeah, exactly.

I can pick it to me there. I had in my head too that I was, I forgot, I was thinking of last time we did this where I was at the end, so I was going to snake back and have two back to back and feel a little more confident in doing stuff out here. It's whatever it is. It's something that Greg thinks I might pick. And it's something that's got to be the only one ahead of them. close if places are previewing it and shit. I'm gonna bet he's

talking about Returnal. I've been bagging on Returnal. I think it might be talking I think it might be talking about Persona 5 Strikers. I thought that was not available though, right? It's not available now. Yeah, don't try to do it. I would gladly

snatch that up if that was my possibility here. I'm just trying to find out what the verdict is. What other games? But I'm going to do it. I'm just going to toss it out there. I hold on my strong here with my second game.

I heard us here. Second draft choice. Shit, and then I see all these other games on there that I really want. I'm waiting for this like build up to be like Pat upon 3 or something. I can think what I'm going to be talking about Monster Hunter. I am talking about Monster Hunter rise. I'm not sure what the temperature is on Monster Hunter Rise off that demo.

And Ron, don't say anything. I'm not saying anything. shit shit shit shit shit I because I as soon as I look at it it's like do I go with my heart I got two games right here that I also think are going to score really well but I know even less about them you know what I mean in terms of like what the game's going to turn out to be I could know more about Monster Hunter if I looked at the stupid preview ahead of time but I haven't looked at it ahead of time but everybody loves Monster Hunter and if you play Monster Hunter and you review monster Hunter those games always fucking clean up and it will be the whole thing where it'll be

compared to world but it won't be those people reviewing it'll be like when I had a reviewed on PSP and fucking people love that shit. I'm picking Monster Hunter Rise. Monster Hunter Rise with my second pick. It's drafted. It's done. Imron, is it getting previews badly?

It was going to be my next pick. I think the only thing that might really harm it is that it's not the same scale as World. But I think a lot of people are going to be like, actually I liked World and this game is a lot very similar and a lot faster. So maybe I can see it reviewing quite well. Okay. Okay. Good.

What is your sense? what is your second choice after Horizon? I'm doing a similar thing that Greg did and I'm looking up reviews for a previous game in the series. Fuck. Trust your gut. I'm going to trust it. I'm going to trust it because like in these early rounds,

I feel like I need surefire bets for games that are for sure going to come out and probably be good. As long as I can get those sure ones, then that's going to be like a good start. I'm going to go Resident Evil Village. Fuck. Yeah.

Just on name recognition alone, that's where you're picking that one. Name recognition is one of the most hype games of the year. Looking on Metacritic for Resident Evil 7. That got an 86 on Metacritic. I said fuck because it got a 7.7 from IGN, but it looks like that's more on like the little bit on the lower scale. What are 7? R7, yeah.

R3 7? Yeah. Well, what from IGN? you? 7.7. That's fucking clowns over there. You know what I mean? I'm not like historically a big like Reson Evil person though I loved R2

remake and I liked I liked fine the R3 remake. I didn't play Resident Evil 7 because like I usually don't fall into those games but knowing what I know about Resident Evil fans and how much people love that franchise I feel like that's a safe one. Yeah. I think you're right.

think that game's going to review. I don't think a review as well as seven. Because like just, I don't know, I think that the first person shock of R.E. has kind of worn off a little bit. But who knows? Maybe like, maybe this is the one everyone's like, oh yeah, fucking witches and werewolves. That's where it should be. The way that people are thirsting after that tall lady too, you know, like, people are ready for it. They keep sharing the image on Twitter. I'm like, what is this from? Yeah, no, people are thirsting after that tall lady. And so Reson Evil Village. Also, I think from, from what? From what? What I understand too, and what I've seen of it, it seems like it has RE4 vibes to it, and I feel like that's going to resonate well with people. It's like literally it's called Village. Like, that is as close to RE4 as you can get without actually straight up saying, this is an R4 remake. Yeah. And if the thing that people take away from that game is, oh, man, they went back to the roots of R4,

then that's going to be a good world. You're going to get some good scores there. Yeah, exactly. I think it's a safe bet. I wasn't, it's snaked. It's camped on you. What's next? oh man i'm really excited about this next one uh because this is another sure fire thing for me

like r a village is not a game that i'm like super excited about this is a game that i'm super excited about death loop it's my next pick hmm hmm arcane no way i'm typing in right now prudy uh arcane knows how to make a game i'm a big fan of their games people are appreciating them more and more with each game they put out and death loop looks like it's gonna be a good one and so i'm predicting like a 89 for death loop See it around there. Like, what is Dishonored usually get? Really good source.

I feel like Dishonored is like a, I feel like Dishonored gets like mixed, not mixed reviews, but mix on the high end. You know what I mean? Let's see. Open Critic is such a bad search thing. Like I search Disorder and picks whatever with the- Starrett too looks like it has an 86 on Metacritic and then a 9.3 from IGN. Mm-hmm.

And yeah, like I can see Death Loop getting like an 85, maybe higher because I think Deathloop's, in terms of like the world and in terms of what they're doing with the story and stuff, that seems more digestible than... Yeah, it seems more remarkable than the Whale Punk universe of Dishonored. Yeah. Even though Dishonored, fucking great. And everybody should play a dishonor to some of the best level design of the last gen. I'm very excited for death loop.

Yeah, I'll get to my pick in a second. I'm very excited for death loop. But it is that thing of, is it going to deliver what people want from it? You know what I mean? I hope so. I love the idea of, you know, looping through two assassins trying to kill each other all the time or whatever, but I wonder if it'll play off or if it'll turn off some critics.

Because that's what you got to be looking for. You got to be looking for a critical darling here. Oh, man, I got four games right here in the hopper. I think some of them would surprise you in terms of it. And it's like, do I waste the pick here

and think you guys would never pick these kind of games? Or do I spend it here? Maybe look like a mad person. You know what I mean? I'm not picking a AAA one. You got to be bold sometimes, Tim. Do it. You got to be. out here and you got to say I see

something in this game. I know the world might and they might not think it's not, it's height factor, not that high. But I think we all know that 12 minutes God damn it. God damn it. 12 minutes being

in my hotel's platinum publishing because that game looks awesome. Of course you can go watch our let's play from 2015 where we help the developer actually get the game the soul that turned out and become a bigger thing. Can't wait to see what that game's all about. And I do think that that's going to be an indie that turns heads. Yeah.

That's... Damn it. I was holding that one because I was holding nobody else to pick it. This was literally my next one blessing. God damn. I would have picked that over at Resonable Village. I wouldn't have thought about it. Yeah, Ron.

Let's see. Since my 12 minutes choice was just, you know, certain distance is speaking from me. I'm going to go with one that I think at some point, Tim probably would have chosen, but it is legitimately a game that I think is going to get 85 to 92 somewhere on that list. I think, hold on, I can actually press the damn button. I think Halo Infinite is going to be on that list somewhere. I like crazy, but I like it. No, I think they know if they don't do this right this time,

then this series is dead. Like, they want this to be a platform for 10 years. Like, this game is an important part of their game pass strategy. I think I will have the the what's the one look for the condition that I think multiplayer and single player

are going to be reviewed separately because they're going to be separate releases then I think that might screw things up a little bit but I do think they know that Hiddell Infant has to play well at the end of the day and that

them delaying it a year I think makes me more confident that they're going to do a good job of making that game remind people of what Halo is it about better than if it had released in November. Oh, guys, this is starting to get...

This is getting juicy. Because there's a lot of games of like, that's a risk. They're all risks. Halo's a big risk, but Imran makes a great case. That they know they can't fuck this up. They have to do it. And also,

think of where expectations are right now for that game coming off of, you know, the huge delay and everything falling apart and people shifting. Like, if they come up, out and they try they do wow with you that i think that goes even farther into what the open critic score is going to be get juicy on me tim get you uh i guess you know what barrett for you i'm gonna go go thom nights hey i don't think it's necessarily going to be a nine but i do think that it's a

guaranteed points on the board i think it'll get you 10 to 15 points is my guess yeah that sounds right that sounds right i could say that being like 80 85 somewhere right yeah yeah good money, good money, getting on the board. Looking at my list, it's starting to get a little dire in terms of guaranteed slam dunks. You know what? Another ballsy move for me, but I want credit for this one when it happens. Hellblade 2. Wow.

Wow. That is a ballsy move. Yeah. Because will it be 2021? I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I appreciate it.

I want to believe. Yeah. I don't think that game's 2021. I think that there is a fairly decent chance it is, because we first saw it over a year ago. And granted, it was just kind of like an in-engine thing. But that's quite a bit of time for, you know, Hellblade the first game being kind of a smaller title.

We don't necessarily know that Hellblade 2 is going to be much bigger or longer. You know, I feel like it might be a kind of different. type of vertical for game pass that is a super highly produced but 10 hour experience and if that's the case i think 2021's possible i could see it and i think it's going to be great no no matter what it is given i think it's going to be reviewed wonderfully and so if it hits that's like a gold mine for you but yeah and i and i think i think you might be on to something to you because they are working ninja theory is working on molyx and so like they do have help blade too and they also have project mara and like multiple or other things.

And with that, like, you got to imagine their schedule has to be laid out as such that like, okay, cool, 2021, it's about getting out Hellblade. 2022, it's about Mara. 2023 is about this next thing. Like, with the amount of stuff they're working on, they've got to start pushing that stuff out. Also, Microsoft needs first part of games.

Like Halo Infinite's fall, but what's until then? A Hellblade 2 in summer, so they would land perfectly. Totally. Feels like a good August game. All right. Greg Miller stole 12 minutes from me that we've established that Greg somehow went in the future

and took that choice from me, but it did allow me to think... Great minds. To think a little bit about an indie game that not getting that much play, but I think it's going to really shock people when it does come out. And I'm saying this because

when SteamWorld Dig 2 came out, that game was perfect. That is a perfect video game that rated, I see, an 88 on OpenGritic. I think the gunk is going to be people going like, oh shit, this game is also really good. I'm great and I don't know it's going to be really good, but I'm going to bet. I'm going to bet on image inform's like pedigree that the gunk is going to surprise people. Okay.

I don't know what that is. It was on Google the movie right now. I feel like that's one you could have just bet a dollar on. Right. Through this show and gotten it without wasting your pick. I think you could have just walked in. we're not, none of us are looking for the gunk, but I, I respect it. I respect it.

Who's going to do it? Who's going to go all out? Do it. I'm waiting for Gregor blessing to do the one that everyone knows, the one of you is going to do. Because I'm pretty sure you're the one in the chat, Greg, and I think you just got to do it right now. That's, that's, that, that is guaranteed money. You know what I mean? Do I want to be boring?

Do I want to be boring? Yeah, absolutely. I know what it's going to do it. It may not happen. No, you guys are. not looking at the chat. You guys are not in the camera Kennedy shut up.

Ballpark. You guys aren't even the ballpark here. Of like a guaranteed like 85 to 90 here. I hope I'm not looking at the chat. And also I don't like that Greg's getting tips from the chat. This feels like. What it was was, Cameron Kennedy was like,

hey, everybody don't forget about blank. And I was like, shut the fuck up. Like that's on my list. Like I don't need that. I don't need anybody. I really hope it's not the one I'm thinking of because I have one that's fucking. I know what if you were going to do it.

I learned from you, motherfucker. I got a bunch of shit. on here that I'm just like the blessing model. I'm just like, oh, well, fucking this game. Greg, I got one that's fine. Do it now. Do it now. There's other games I believe in, too, that I want to put on, you know what I mean? Those things that you believe in.

Ah, fine, fucking, I'll be a cheap little bastard. Well, see, but here's, can I get away? Barrett, do you think I can get away? Can I keep skating? And that can be like a seventh pick. It doesn't need to be my what I think it could be round five, maybe round six. I really hope it's not what I'm thinking. The suspense is like if I really

great great great if yeah I'm listening if you do so if you want to do do something else now let blessing go uh huh and then when it comes back to you yeah yeah yeah he's too stupid to figure this out you would never

really I mean that's a great point Barrett I do like where your head's at yeah but again like who I am I out here trying to impress all these fucks watching or listening why don't I just take the easy points I'm taking the points fuck everybody. I'm putting it in there. I'm saying Lego Star Wars, the Skywalker's dog. I'm doing it. We're putting that in there. Yeah. So here's the thing. I, I'm with you. I was, that was on my list.

But I got turned off from me because I'm looking at Metacritic Lego scores. There's a lot of just 70s. I mean, but again, this, this one in particular seems to be an overhaul of what Lego games are. And a lot of Lego fans are really excited for this one. That's all true. I mean, how many those Lego fans are reviewing games, though. It's fair. That's fair. I mean, like, that's the thing is, like, looking at this, the highest scoring Lego game seems to be Lego Marvel superheroes at an

83. And all the other ones are low 70s. Prediction here. I think this will be easily the best reviewed Lego game. Yeah. I mean, for what I've seen of it, I think so, yeah. It does look really

good compared to the other ones, but all right. All right. Blessing. Did Greg, did Greg lock in his pick? You all learned a valuable lesson now. Never talk me out of the pick before I fucking click the button.

No. I'm moving to Back for Blood. I'm taking Back for Blood. Back for Blood was on my list. Blessing and Two Skywalker Saga. Oh man. Finally. Thank you.

No, I'm going to pick Overwatch 2. Yeah, that was on my list. My concern is there seems to be a rumor going around right now that it might get delayed again. Oh, really? Yeah. Like right now that... They're saying, yeah, because like the thing of that...

I was doing some work, some legwork on it before, seeing if I wanted that. And there was a quote going around about, like, we know we haven't talked about in a while, yada, yada, yada. It's going to be a Bliscon in February, but... And there was a bunch of articles already saying, like, why we shouldn't be upset if it gets delayed? Yada, yada, yada. So, like, it's on my list, but I didn't want to burn a pick. It's in that Ragnarok thing where it's like, all right, like, that'd be a great thing to have if it happens. But I'm not ready to burn it all that for them for it.

Rock? No, I'm kidding. Hey, man. I mean, if you get one of those, you're in good looking shape. That's actually a really good point. I got to think now, because I got Overwatch, right? Okay, looking at my list, because I guess we haven't recapped our list so far, but mine personally is Horizon Foridden West, which I think is a

Surefire game coming out this year. Resident Evil Village, surefire coming out this year. Death Loop, same thing. Overwatch 2 is the first one I picked that I'm like, I think it's going to come out this year, but I'm not sure. And I have another one. Well, actually, I guess my other one that would be that would be God of War Ragnarok. And I feel like having two of those is fairly risky since we only have three drops.

Got to spend money. Three jobs left, you mean? Three drops for games. Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. You're right. You're right. Yeah.

Yeah. Three drops for games that don't have released that end up being confirmed not coming out this year. The question is, do you trust Corey Barlog or are you calling him a liar? Oh, I'm calling him a liar. Big time liar. Nobody trusts him. We're just getting that.

I think there's a higher likelihood. the Overwatch 2 makes this year, then God of War Ragnarok, which is why I picked it first. But if God of War Ragnarok did hit this year and I picked it, oh my God, I'd be unstoppable. I'd be a king, a god, you know?

Let's have like a loser like you were this year with the Metacritic predictions, remember when I won? Yeah, but I got what, but like the PS Love You Better Critic predictions for next gen that we did late last year. That was, I clouted you. You remember that? I know, but I mean, it's one of those things of like,

that's great on your shitty little podcast. you did it, but on the preeminent game show on a kind of funny games cast here, I won. So that's, you know, you know, they call PSLW the pre-Gamescast podcast. Fuck. Okay.

You know what? You're gonna do it? Big Ball's Blessing coming in? I'm gonna go Keena Bridges Spirits. Oh, okay. Sure. Before you give your other one, bless. No, that is my other one.

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in my career this is a franchise that you can never fucking pin down when it's actually coming out no matter what anyone fucking stands so do you roll the fucking dice

you don't but I mean you gotta have big plays out here, Timmy. You know what I mean? There's got to be some big plays. You're right. I really expected him to be like way less cautious. I said to him to be one like, I don't know, fucking whatever. Because he started with Breath of the Wild. I thought it would go that direction. But no, you were by far the most conservative one. Am I? Yes. I think you're being really conservative here. Again, if you're listener, Tim's list is, Breath of Wild to Hollow Night Silk Song, Gotham Nights and Sinuous Saga.

I don't know if he's being super conservative. There's three games on that list that are like not even guaranteed to be coming out this year. I guess like less on Tim's He's listening more like what he's talking people out of. More like whenever somebody has something a little risky, Tim's like he has that little disapproving look on his face. Well, maybe it's, I mean, you know, I'm not trying to give shit away here, but like maybe it's because like I'm planning some major risk taken

and I'm hoping y'all motherfuckers don't choose. Yeah, and blessing makes a good point of like Gothamites is also an easy one that could miss this year as well. Get delayed. That can't be like seven years. Yeah. I mean, what, but again, you know, COVID stuff.

We made it this far. Yeah. Yeah. Greg Miller. My question of Greg Miller is, is it worth it to Rissy for the biscuit? Like, are the reviews that Grand Turismo are going to get can be worth picking up Granturismo because I know that's what we're looking at. That's the thing.

This is obviously the one I'm talking about. And sometimes, you know, Grant Turismo, just a game out of time, right? Like whether it's damage with such a big deal, like fucking give that patched in, and this is years ago, obviously. I'm out of my element with a Grant Tarismo pick. You know what I mean? Because I want to pick forces. Is there even a forza coming out this year?

There's got to yeah. I don't know probably but not a regular. That's unannounced, yeah. Yeah.

And like Fable, this isn't giving you guys ideas, but Fable is coming out of playground games and so who knows when we're going to get the next play

right or next horizon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it's the thing of like, do I go for something that I think is a known

quantity? I know it will get me points on the board or do I, do I swing for something that I don't know if it'll do well, but I think looks promising, you know, and could deliver.

I'm going to follow my heart, which usually ends badly, but I'm going to go for It Takes 2 from Hayslight. Wow. I think that, I think, you know, you look at brothers, you look at no way out, you look at Joseph Ferris in general, and you see a studio that's incredibly talented, that's getting better with every game, or learning new things with every game.

I know people like brothers more than a way out, some people. I think that it takes to looks the most of a great story and great gameplay that they've shown so far. And I'm putting them together. Fair. Amron. I have a thought, but it's like this game, I think, would be guaranteed to get high scores if the review, like, audience was just Joey Noel. But it's not. It's more people.

So I don't know how, like, we heard. little about it. I don't know that I can trust like it's going to do that well on Open Critic. It won't. It won't. It won't. But like what are people going to dislike about that game? That's the thing you don't have to dislike it to be like, all right, it's not a, it doesn't have enough content,

7 to 10. And if it's like a, if it's a stone 70, that does do be no good. But like I think the game that you're thinking of, at best, it's a 9. At worst, it's a 7. That probably nets out at an 80 somewhere. Whoa. If you guys are talking about what I'm thinking about, I think at best it's an 85 and at worst, it's a 50. I think I'm kind of...

No way. What game were we talking about? Pokemon Snap. Yeah. Oh, I'm thinking of stray. What? No, dude, straight is going to be dope as fuck. You're just like, Joey Dewell, small animals.

Okay. He's in Joey Noel. I was like, oh, he must be talking about stray. I didn't think you're talking about Pokemon Snap. That makes way more sense. Come on, man. Jesus, that's so funny. Hmm.

Yeah, I'm still... I don't think I'll go with that. I think it is too risky. Like, I don't think there's any chance that, like, goes past, like, 85. You're right, yeah. Yeah. It's 65 to 85.

I think they're, like... I mean, not to talk to you out of it, but I feel like it's not worth the risk there. I think the other one I'm looking at is also at a very similar boat. Although the thing about Pokemon Snap is, I think it's a guarantee it's coming out this year.

No, they gave a date recently. Yeah. Yeah, I know. But I mean, like, I actually believe them. Yeah, I can definitely, I'm gonna go, this also might be one

that I think I shouldn't use for this round. I should probably just bet on it later because I don't think anyone else is going to beat me to it. But I'll just go ahead and call for this round. Jet the Far Shore. Oh.

It is not talked about much, but Dupy Brothers, like, the name precedes them. Swords and Sorcery was a fantastic game that is well loved. So I think Jet the Far Shore is going to be one of those at, like, very quietly, everyone gives it to their, you know, like, the reviewer who likes indie or weird games, and then it gets like nine to tens everywhere. Very interesting, very interesting pick. All right. All right, guys. Let's hear it. Let's get nasty.

I'm going for it. I'm fucking going for it. It's God of War Ragnarok, baby. Let's go. Here's the thing. Surefire points if it comes out. Yes. Yeah.

Will it come out? Probably not. I think if it comes out, it'll be a PS4, PS5 game. It's not letting me select it. Even the site's like, no. It's not coming out. Oh, it moves. It's a way too big.

It's like an error is showing me. Oh, yeah. Do you might go refresh the page. Okay. Boom. Yeah. It's, I mean,

I know how stupid that is, but I think it's fun. Because I'm looking at this and I'm like, I want some reactions over this year. And I want some like, holy shit moments, some comebacks going on in our hair fantasy league. You know?

Okay. So when it's confirmed that the game's delayed in the 2022, it's going to be a real sad day for me for multiple reasons, least of which that I'm going to be losing to Greg Miller. But if it's not. Honestly, If, like, Tim's list is a very risky list. But if all of these games come out,

dude, if he could run away with it. If just got a war, Racken Rock and Breathful out two, he came out this year. He could run away. Game of the year is going to be off the chain. But then two, like, Tim's one. Like, there's no competition. So for my next pick, I've officially run out of things that I'm like, these are the ones I want to get.

Mm-hmm. So now I'm just taking some bets or getting fucking crazy. Sure, sure. And now I'm just going to, I'm going to talk this one out with you guys. Because, like, I don't think any of you guys are going to pick it. Final Fantasy 16 is supposed to come out next year this year. Will it come out this year? No.

Goddames. I didn't think it was going to put it on my main list. I was going to just, like, put a dollar on it later when nobody else thought it was going to come out. I'm telling you. I think I'm with you. I think it's going to come out this year. It's coming out this year. It's coming out this year.

I feel real good. about that. The bigger question is, is it going to review well? Fallen Fantasy games? Don't typically review that well, modern games at least. But this is the 14, like, team, right? Like, in 14, we're looking at super well. But I'm even saying they're not that well, 85s, right? Yeah.

So I think that this is like a good bet for me points-wise, because it'll be getting me up into them 80s, maybe 90s if it's crazy. Are you talking about 14 MLO? Yes. Yeah. 14 Shadowbringer's the last FF14 expansion has a 91. Gotcha. So it's like if we get that level, we're good.

I don't think there's any way that Final Fantasy 16 gets under a 70. So I'm not going to lose points. Yes. Will it come out? That's the big question. And I actually feel kind of good about it coming out. So I'm locking it in. Final Fantasy 16.

Yeah, Tim has by far the riskiest. Balls. Boom. I think. I'm going to throw out one that's not going to break the upper limits of this. It's not going to be like a 90-I-minute. a critic, but I think pent up frustration over the lack of

real next-gen games is going to kind of artificially inflate this game a little bit. I'm going to say Outwriters from Square. That's nice people can fly. I think that is going to be a game that is going I will predict around like 83 to 85.

So like a comfortable couple of points here. Yeah, I mean Andy both previewed Outwriters and I think that game is going to be a blast when it comes out. That was one of my picks in the PlayStation or PSLW Fantasy League. All right. One, two, three, four, five. How many do we end up with?

Seven. Do we get seven here? Yeah, for this first, like, round. And then that means that throughout the year we're going to pick up eight. Oh, my God, only have one left. Make it a good one, you know? All right. I have a lot of names on here.

I'm surprised there's one game that nobody's said yet. that's like a big AAA game that's coming out this year. I feel like we're going to hash out of the why didn't anyone say this yet at the end? It's always going to be like, well, I think that game's going to suck.

It's a problem. I am cheesing a bit here. I'm using Blessings' own rules against him and I'm choosing pray for the gods. A game.

I had seen a judge's week a few years ago now and thought, was really cool. Kept cooking. It's like a shout of the Colossus. But right now, with Steam Early Access, has a 9 out of 10 on Steam and a 92% of Google users who liked it. And I think that, you know, it's coming to, it's coming in full release this year, so they say, and also coming to consoles and stuff. I'm tossing that out there for the easy points. Yeah, I can see it. I have been playing that game or I have played the game in the past. It looks cool.

Like, I could definitely see that game coming out and surprising people. Yeah. I, my, I thought about that game, the one thing, my, my one hand, hang up is, I played it at Pax, and it is very shadow colossus-y, and I feel like that's going to make people compare it to Shadow Colossus so much, and it's just not going to live up. But that is a good pick. My next pick, I feel like it's kind of obvious when you think about it. Call of Duty, 2021. Yep, that was on my short list.

That was on my short list. Call of Duty is always a surefire game. They've not missed a year yet, I don't think, and it's going to review well. it's going to do Call Duty numbers Yeah What did Black Ops do? It certainly didn't do too bad

It's four right That's a new game Black Ops? No it's Black Ops Cold War Cold War Okay God I can't keep track anymore 76 Well what have I done

Actually that's fine That's fine enough I'll take it Six points you'll take it Put them on the board That means I have one more pick For this whole draft And this is tough

Because I'm looking at a list right now I'm like There's two games I'm surprised you have not taken So I'm curious which of the two This will be If it's either

I mean If one of them If one of them If one of them is Riders Republic is because I think I'm gonna like that game I don't know

How that games I can review at all And who knows When that game comes out What's on the watch list? Harry Potter got delayed Right Like that now that's 2020

That's 2020 Yeah Yeah Yeah what's your temperature on Babylon's fall? I don't think it's coming out this year, but if it does, like,

I don't think it, there's two platinum, there's the good platinum and the bad platinum. I don't know which one this is going to be, but if I had to guess, I'd bet good platyms on bayonetta. Hmm. Bad platinum is usually like license games, though, and stuff.

And I feel like Babylon's fall looked cool in the reveal. But also, like, I'd say, I'd say astral chain is an example of, of like the mediocre platinum of like this game is fine. How dare you? It's not like it's no middle good rising or bane at all or anything like that.

It's just, you know, it's fine. But like I could see that being where Babylon's fall falls. I'm going to look up one game real quick to see if there are any previews for it. Yeah, there are previews for it. What was the,

what games is this developer done? I'm sorry, I take it so long. I just, no, no, take your time. take your time. It's very important. It's all very important. Don't rush in anything.

Final pick. There's dollars at stake. Look up a review for this for their last game. No, I'm not picking that. I'm not picking that. What was the game? It was the medium. Yeah, the medium's way too big of a question. Yeah, the Blair Wish project right before this.

Yeah, I looked at the Black, which had a 69 on Metacritic. Nice. That's why it's such a great medium is such a great game past game. Where I'm like, I'm interested to see if that is going to be cool and come together, but like I wouldn't be like, I'm not, if it was, yeah, if I spent 60, 70 bucks on it, I'd be like, no, I'm good.

You know what? What? What? I don't know. I don't know. I'm narrowed it down to two games and I just got to look up something real quick. I got to look up this developer. Oh.

Yeah, no, I'm going to go. I'm going to go Solar Ash for my last pick. That's an Aparna published game being developed by the same dev he did. Hyperlight Drifter. Looks cool. It's confirmed coming out, I think, in like June. I think that's...

Yeah, yeah, June 2021. And so I feel pretty good about it. If it lets me pick. I think I got to refresh. All right, I picked it. There we go. Lessons is locked. Greg Miller.

My final pick. Oof. Do it, Greg. Well, now it's the thing of, I get picked. You know, Star Wars. I feel like I could pick up for a couple of bucks after this whole thing's over. And then even though I want to waste it.

Think of what's still to come this year. How many other games we're still going to get this year that you could have out there on your list? Yeah. Like this is a weird year. I feel like we know more about the next year at this time every previous year than we knew this year. Because like COVID and just new consoles and all that.

This is one of those I want to pick it just based on the niche audience and the title. But the fact that none of you nerds picked it, makes me think there's something you know that I don't know about it. I'm going to do it and then we'll see I'm going to say Bravely Default 2. Cool.

Yeah, I think it'll review well. I think it's a safe one. Oh yeah, that demo sucks shit. Fuck, God damn. Yeah, like, I know Reb is very excited for that game but she really like Bravely Default 1. So maybe like all Bravely Default nerds really like that game. That's my hope is that they gave it to all the Bravely Default nerds.

and they play it and they're like it and they're like oh it's like classic final fantasy like the original demo was so bad that like they had to retool the game and delay it and the second demo i've heard a lot of people were disappointed in it i have not tried it yet fuck it wrong okay so i'm between two two real confusing ones because there's one that i think Microsoft will not let this game be bad but that's never stopped this publisher before and the other i think it's just a really cool looking indie game that I think I want

I think will rate very well. I'm surprised actually I'll let you go before I give you an idea. Let me see if this game is like on this list. Okay yeah, I'll go with the indie game. I'm going to pick She Dreams elsewhere.

Damn it, I was going to go. I was thinking of between Solar Ash and that. I think like the demos for that game have been great. The developer seems to be building out they're doing. I think that game is going to be reviewed by just enough people who really like that kind of thing to like get me a good 85 to 90. Damn. I was really hoping that nobody would pick that

so I could get it like afterwards for $1. After Tim Pix says, I'll think I'll say what the other alternative was of just like, I don't think that. So, yeah, we'll see. All right, guys, it's my final one. The final one of the show. Let's get even more nuts.

Why not? You know what I mean? I'm looking at these lists right now and I'm feeling pretty damn good about mine. I think it's all depends. on will they happen or not in 2021. I'm looking at the remaining games, and I'm like,

Lego Star Wars and Pokemon Snap, those aren't ballsy enough. Those aren't going to give you the points that I'm looking for. Ghostwire, Tokyo, not predictable enough. I bet that game's going to be bad. Bayoneta three. Yep.

It's a will they, won't they type thing. Is it going to come out this year? I think, I think. and will it perform well? I think it will. In a 2, you got a 10 out 10 game spot. Yeah.

Grant Turismo 7. You know, Greg, brought up the issues there. Axiom Verge 2. Will it come out this year? Will it come out this year? But if it does, I think it's going to get really good reviews. Now, there was two that came up when I was just searching to see what was even on the list that I might not be thinking about.

Last of Us, Factions, was on that list. And that's an interesting thing for me, because I think, whatever that ends up being will review well. And you gotta imagine it's coming out next year, this year. And the other one is Metroid Prime 4. You're madman.

You're madman. Tim, you already have so many games on your list that are already like maybe possibilities for this year. Metroid Prime 4 is no way coming out this year. You're either going to be like smoking $100 bills at the end of this or like wearing a barrel with suspenders. All right. I'm looking at this right now,

and I've boiled it down to two. And I'm either going to go with Bayonetta 3 or Metroid Prime 4. It really much encouraged you to not go down that list. One of those is more likely than the other, though. I encourage you to expand that list a little bit. Let him be in, Ron. Let him be in Ron.

Beionetta 3 has been marinating for a while. That game needs to come out. They put out that collection years ago, which means that that game is imminent. And so I'm with you, Tim. Pick Baynetta. At one point, the Metroid had a restart,

fucking uh... That was years ago. That was years ago that's also a very good pick. Wasn't that? I think that name is for sure coming out 2021. Pick it, Tim.

What, Metro? I'm not, Metroid Prime 4. You don't say anything else, Barrett, let Tim pick it. No, here's my thing. Here's my thing. Let Tim pick.

I am picking Bayonetta 3. I'm picking Bayonetta 3. Because I can always get med. I can always buy Metroid later. Like Tim's list. much. Hold on. I envy Tim's list.

Reload. Because, like, to recap right now, Tim's list is Breath of the Wild 2, Hollow Night Silk Song, Gotham Knights, Senua Saga, Hellblade 2, God of War Ragnarok, Final Fantasy 16, and now Bayon at a 3. That's a fox.

Could you imagine that... If you get, like, half that list that released this year, I think you're pretty much guaranteed. That's what I'm saying, dude. High roller, baby. So, if you get half that list, This year is incredible. Yes, no.

Our list are all locked. We have them as a group now to end this episode of the Kind of Funny Games cast. Oh, we still have to do counterpicks. Yeah, you're not done yet, maybe. Man, that's crazy. Let's get into the counterpicks. It's snakes, so you're going. You got to pick the game you think that's on one of our list.

It's not going to do well. Yeah, and so to make things clear, right? 70 is that zero. If the game doesn't come out in 2021, it defaults as a 70. And so that's zero points. And so that means that whoever picked it has zero points, whoever counterpicked it gets zero points. If a game score is 60, that would mean that if I had that game on my list, I get negative 10 points. Tim, if you counterpicked it, you would get plus 10 points.

So what if you counterpick a good game? I don't think that happened in PSI love you. Sorry, go ahead. If you counterpick a good game, you get negative points. You do lose points for it. You do lose points. So if that game gets an 80, you then get negative 10 points based on your counterfeit. pick.

You can also, there was, there was an option that counterpicks would lock games on that person's list. I, uh,

let me make sure to admit, uh, that that option is off because I, I figured that'd be going too hard. Yeah, that's hard. Yeah, that was too hardcore.

Um, but yeah, if somebody counterpicks one of your games, you can still change that game if you have that game on your list. But those counterpicks are locked. If everyone counterpick, one of my games,

like, like, so let's say Tim counterpicks one of my games. Could Greg then do that as well? Not the same game. Okay. But he can counterpick another one of your games. Okay.

I'm a little confused about this counterpoint thing, but give me one sec. Cool. And yeah, to just look on all of our list and find the game that you think is going to perform poorly. That's all that's what you're looking for. Or if like it doesn't come out, then that's an obvious one to counterpick, right? Yeah, that's an easy way too, right? Like, okay, cool, then it's no plus, no minus.

You're fine. Yeah. And to be, to clarify, too, counterpick blocks are off, which means that if you counterpick somebody else's game, they can still drop that game from their list, but you will still have that counter pick. Okay. I'm looking at my list and I regretting a lot of it.

I mean, whatever. I'm going to draft counterpick. God, this part's hard. Okay, hold on. One second, guys. Ah, because I feel it's too balzy, but I don't want to fuck myself at the points. Do it, you palsy, little fuck.

Yeah, I know. Do it. Okay, okay, okay. I'm going to go with Halo Infinite. Wow. Tim, no faith in Halo Gettys. I wish. Is that because you don't think it's going to be like Phelow?

You think it's going to be bad. Well, hold on. Let me make sure I understand this correctly. Can I gain points from a counter pick? Yeah. If it scores below 70, you gain points. All right. Put 30 seconds on the clock for me.

One. Just mentally. Riders. Are people like it outriders? I mean, I mean, Andy really like it. Can you trust Andy Cortez? Absolutely not. Poop monsters.

The thing that I'm struggling with, Mike, he's got it. Fuck it. I'm going to have. I'll do Hela. I'll do Hela. All right. What's your reasoning?

I don't know. Tim can't bring him self to believe anymore. Yeah. All right, let's see. Too late now. Cracked out. Why is Cracked down the comparison?

Because Cracked down 3, I don't have got into 60. Okay, cool. Yeah, I stand by Halo Infinite. Okay. Damn. I don't want that to be the case. I hope I'm wrong there.

70s are very low bars. I'm like, I'm thinking, okay, what's not going to screw me here? Because I think Bravely Default, probably not going to do great, but I don't think it's going to do worse than 70. So I think my best bet is to go for something that I don't think is actually

going to come out this year. Yeah, damn, that's a better strategy. The thing about that strategy, though, is that it's risky. And so, like, what if you go God of War, Ragnarok, and it actually does come out? Then you're fucked. Right. Yeah, that is true. I'm going to go

it takes two. Ooh. I like Joe. Joseph Ferris, but that game wasn't the last game a way out wasn't great. I could see this one just kind of like

floating along the same, like just kind of skipping across the surface. Oh, no. Wow, this list is harder to navigate that you would think. There we go. All right. It takes two chosen as my counterfeit. Boom.

The final two choices. So it's me. I'm looking over everybody's lists here It's a gamble, you know It is, man I'm just gonna throw this out here, Gregie Yeah, buddy Who's developing Call of Duty this year?

You never do that's here We really don't know because like They threw off their whole They threw off their whole three year cycle My thing with that is I feel like I think that it's above a 70 no matter what Yeah So I'm either looking for something that's not happening this year

But when you look at some of these games It's like yeah, I could risk it and pick Ragnarok right, but if I'm wrong, I'm fucked. So it's like what might not come out this year or what might be closer to 70, right? Like when you think about like what we're actually looking at. So I don't lose too many points. And everybody's picks are pretty solid. I don't, I don't, somebody tell me, I'm going to look at it, but tell me about solar ash.

I don't even know what solar ash is. Andy's very excited about it. The hyperlight drifter follow up. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. shit, fuck. I'm kind of,

this is a really tough one. This is way tougher than I feel it was on PS I love you, I feel. We had more of a, not diverse thing. I started looking at Tim's, like, same thing, right? Hellboy, too. We all laughed.

I didn't think that's coming out this year, right? And like, I will tell you that like, for Tims, I was looking real hard at a three because, like, I'm in my gut, I just don't think that game's coming out this year. But if it did, I would be so fucking screwed.

What's the word on Outriders, though? That's the one that... They did the preview event and they liked it fine. That's the only word on it, right? I feel like that's a safe bet, maybe. I think people can fly does good work. So I think that should be above the 70, usually. I mean, my other thing, I mean, like, I look at Jet the Farshore, right?

Of, like, yeah, Super Brothers did great stuff. When's the last time we heard about that game? Do we know? It was revealed at the PS5 event. Yeah, but what was revealed? Remember? Like, what was revealed? Like, this is them.

Just as a TV trailer? They're like flying across fields. Yeah, you're flying across fields. Year 2. I'm on the trailer right now from June 11th, 2020. I feel like, fuck, this is difficult. I don't like this one bit.

I love it. I love it. Chaos. Because this one, there's like, before with the actual picks you could make the wrong choice whatever but all these games are going to do better than 70 no doubt this one is like you have something to lose if you pick wrong yeah yeah yeah in that event

I feel like if you don't trust him to panic I would go with one of his because like if he starts looking at like final 1916 to be like oh shit that's not coming out this year then you lose nothing if he drops it yeah that's a good one too wait our counterpits are locked right Yeah, they're locked. If Tim drops it, you still have that counterpick. Oh, really?

Yeah. Hmm, okay. Then don't listen to me. I don't know what I'm talking about. I mean, Final Fantasy 16, there's no way that's happening this year. Right. There's a lot of ways. It definitely could happen this year.

And I don't want to help Greg. There wasn't a year in that trailer, was there? I don't know. No, but they, the producer came out and said the reason that game doesn't look that good, quote, unquote, is because they want to get it out faster. They don't want to like spend so much time working on graphics. That sounds like somebody who's struggling in the studio. That sounds like they're like, fuck, we don't have to explain this. Fuck it.

We just want to get it out as fast as possible. You want to get it out as fast as possible. That's why it looks bad. I mean, if there's anyone I would trust that statement, it's the guy who made Reverend Boren. And like, understands, oh shit, we can't do this the way we've been doing it before. As far as I can tell, there is no date, at least in the Awakening trailer from September 16th. It just says PS5. It's happening.

2021, baby. I would not be shocked if it happened, honestly. Yeah, I'm with Tim and Emron. It's happening for sure. Greg, don't pick it. See, now I want to even more, though. I really want to pick it. Greg, go with the gunk.

You know what? I feel like the gunk might be a safe bet. I feel like gunk's too unknown. I don't know what I mean? I don't remember gunk well. I don't want to jump into it. I don't want to do that. I think that gets to be a solid 65.

Well, even though Steamroll Dig is like, literally one of the best games of the generation Seamroll Dict 2 did review very well This is their first game in a 3D development space though I suppose Maybe that's where they eat That's where they thrive, bear it.

They just didn't realize it yet They're like fuck me accidentally Made God of War I did it I said Final Fantasy 16 Damn it Interesting I don't think that game's coming this year

Every every fiber of my being and after watching Final Fantasy from afar for so many years, including when we announced the release date and they said it wouldn't get delayed, and then it got delayed. I believe that it's not going to happen this year. Counterpoint to that, though, is in a more modern square

when we're looking at this, like Final Fantasy 16 was just announced. And remember, it was like the biggest gap of the Final Fantasy being announced. And once they like kind of re-showed remake for the first time in years, it came out pretty quickly after that. Yeah, I know. I know. We'll see.

Bless, take us home. I am between two games. Bravely default two and back for blood. We played the beta back for blood and it was fun. But I think historically, multiplayer games don't get as high as metacritic scores as single player games. And I can see that game coming out in it being like rough around the edges in terms of how it runs and all that stuff.

Like it wasn't the pre-eas game when we played it. And of course, like it's in development, all that stuff. But I could see it coming out. and it being like this hit among people and then critically people are like oh it's got bugs and it's like rough around the edges here and there but it's like a really fun game so it's a seven or an eight I can see that being the case

it'll depend on who's reviewing it and like who has the lineades of left for dead and who is like really passionate about it and stuff at like all of these different outlets right? Evolve did really well in the preview circuit and then once reviews came down it was like oh this was really fun for like two matches

and then stop being fun after that so who knows if like that's the way back for blood comes down too. The thing that makes me nervous about Bravely Default 2 is that it looks like Bravely Default 1 got an 85 on Metacritic. This is not the same team, to be clear.

Oh, well that changes everything. Who is doing Bravely Default 2? Do it, bless! Do it! You got a war, bless. No, absolutely not. Risky. You crazy, Tim. You crazy.

Tim's strategy is starting to crystallize now. I'm like, if everything hits. Tim's got that chaotic Barrett Courtney energy on this episode. Let me tell you. It's key, dude. He'll get the meta-critic or the open-critic points, but also get all of our points if we're all betting against him.

I also kind of want to choose pray for the gods. They don't even know how to spell pray right. That was a lawsuit. Yeah, no, that was the lawsuit. Well, you're going to trust people who are getting sued? That's actually a very good point. It's like...

Don't be a coward. Yeah. We don't know what happened to gods and monsters, even though what people do like that game. I'm going back for blood. Do it. Do it. Okay.

And it's complete. That is complete. There we go. So real quick, who do we think has the best list? I think... Let's read them. Yeah.

Again, for people who are, you know, there. Blessing, go ahead, read yours. Right now for Scarce Square games, which if you're unaware, right, like if you didn't catch it, it's a pun off of rareware. You see what I did there. Last year, I was Rap Star Games, you know, which was like a rock star pun.

This year I'm Scarcercercerf, you know. You know, I'm killing this shit just so, you know. My list reads like this. Horizon Freebidden West, Resident Evil Village, Death Loop, Overwatch 2, Kina, Bridge of Spirits, Call of Duty, 2021, and then Solar Ash, and then my counterpick is back for blood.

Portillo's Platinum Publishing. Go ahead. Is Ratchet and Clink Rift Apart. Monster Hunter Rise 12 minutes Back for blood It takes two Pray for the Gods Bravely default to

And my counter pick Is Final Fantasy 16 For Conquest Games I have Eldon Ring Neerreplicant version numbers Halo Infinite The Gunk Jet the Far Shore

Outwriters and she dreams elsewhere My counterpick is It Takes 2 And mine At Tim Getties Is the legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 Hollow Knight's Silk Song

Gotham Knights Sunu Asaga Hellblade 2 God of War Ragnarok Final Fantasy 16 and Bayoneta 3 with a counterpick of Halo Infinite I will say I like Tim's list

the best I don't think he's gonna win but I like his list the best Tim's list would make the best 231 Yeah no Tim's Tim's list would mean the game awards is just like fucking amazing this year

Tim's list would be the game awards Straight on Could you imagine the fucking the concert at the end of the game awards like the symphony that they do with Tim's list. The game I'm most bummed I didn't get on these lists is Ratch and Clank. Oh, yeah.

Same. Love it. Yeah. Let us know the comments. Whose list you think is going to win? We're about to do the Patreon exclusive post show. We're doing another episode of Bless Who. Very, very exciting stuff.

Until next time, love you guys. Bye.