Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Predictions of Metacritic Scores in 2023 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: January 18, 2023

We predict the Metacritic scores of all the biggest games of 2023 from Zelda Tears of the Kingdom to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:49 - Housekeeping 00:09:00 - Our Metacritic Predictions for 2023 00:43:17 - Ads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast. Of course, I'm Tim Getty's and I'm joined by the new face of video games blessing at a yo-e-je junior. What's up, Tim? Nothing much blessing. And rounding out our crew today, it's the Nitro rifle himself, Andy Cortez. Great afternoon, everybody. Great afternoon to everyone indeed, especially Greg Miller, who's not with us because he's at jury duty. And our lives are just, you know, we come back from the break.

Right. We think we have a hold on something. We think everything's good. storms left and right, leaks left and right, just disasters across. Everyone's getting sick. Bomb cyclones. Pornclos. Pynaple Express.

Utter disaster. And then, oh, guess what? We're good jury duty. So we're trying our best here. But Greg is here in spirit. Today we are doing our metacritic predictions for 2023. Greg submitted all of his predictions, his numbers. So we do have some input from Greg Miller, the ghost of Greg Miller, out there.

But go send some sweet nasty love to Greg, because I'm sure he's not having a great day right now. Could you imagine, like, defending yourself in the court of law? and you turn to your left and you see Greg Miller just sitting there. Greg's face. That's scary, scary face. Like Cole is sitting on his lap. Yeah. The bandage is walking around the pool room.

What I, what I sort of suggested is that we just, we leave a lot of printed out photos of him at his worst. Maybe with the Batman symbol shaped into his chest. That's his worst. Maybe him tombstoneing the child. Yes. We put the,

we just leave, we print out photos, we leave them there at the court and they just see it. They're like, oh, this guy's not fit to be here. Send him home. Barrett, when you get back to the computer there, can you pull up Greg's Twitter?

Because I would like to show an image that Greg posted, because Greg's already starting this campaign himself, Andy. I don't know if you saw. I did, yeah. But yeah, he's doing the best that he can to not do his civic duty and be here. Imagine being a kind of funny best friend

and that was your day in court that day. It was your case. Like, you jaywalked. And like, oh, son of a man. And you look and you see Greg Miller, you're like, oh, damn. I listen to you. Oh, my God.

Yeah. This man is not right. The tweet says, I'm on my jury duty lunch break, but it's looking more and more likely that they're going to let this man decide someone's fate. And it is a Corey Cudney Giff of Greg with Joker makeup laughing. And God, I can hear this image. Was this makeup edited in? No. No, that was real.

Oh, no. He wore it one day. Yeah, he did. Oh, man. And then he kept it for, what was that, Kuku in review? Yeah, conjuring. Conjuring. And he just kept that makeup handy for that.

Was that the same makeup for the Ronald McDonald? Was that the same day? No, these are all different things. Oh, shit. That's Greg Miller for you. Well, you know what? This is the kind of funny games cast for you. Each and every week, we get together to talk about video games and all the things that we love about them.

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We had a fantastic kind of funny podcast yesterday that you should go check out. Snowbike Mike joined us to just bring us his own, my goodness. You know what I mean? I know you guys know what I mean. You want to hear Mike talk about his sweet yams? For an excessive amount of time.

Excessive amount of time. Andy, you missed out on no less than an hour of Nick and Mike going back on forth of like, I'm bringing the, fuck, what was it? I'm flanking down. I'm bringing the yams and I'm bringing the, fuck. I didn't miss that because I get it all that. I get it every day anyway. Yeah.

Yeah. In fact, that would have just been an extra serving and I'm sweet potato. Thank you, Roger. Thank you. Nick's going to bring the sweet. potatoes. And then Mike talked about what he wants on his thigh tattoo. Yeah. So.

He wants a thigh tattoo buzzing that just says, fuck you. Oh, I've heard this conversation. Yeah. He was asking Roger about it. And Roger's like, no, don't do that. But at the beginning of today's stream, we had a special stream today. It was our 500th stream. And we decided to, thank you, thank you. We decided to

join the lands between and have Nick join us in Eldon Ring with this new co-op mod. It's a co-op mod. It's a co-op that came out last year, and it's a ma that allows you all to just kind of run around together without summoning and all the bullshit that most from soft games have

with co-op. And while we were creating the character, Mike shows up and shaved his mustache. I'm like, God fucking damn it, I created your character with a mustache. But anyway, but, you know, Nick asks, what's the plan? Are you going to grow back the beard? Are you going to do the goatee?

And Mike, he's like, oh, we'll see. You know, we got time. I can grow back in, and we have time to kind of like fix it on a look and find the right look. And I was like, Mike, like you're acting like you have a PR agent being like, we got to figure out what's going to be on the action figure for you whenever we

make the... What does that mean? Just living your life? He just so desperately wants a persona. But here's the thing. The closest thing he has to a manager telling him, like, we need to figure out the look of this toy is you making his look in Eldon Ring and then him actively going against the designed look. He just shaved

it immediately. It's just unbelievable. It is unbelievable. Andy, where can people find that if they wanted to see it. YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. That's where the whole Vod is up right there. We got a, we created Nick, we created me and Mike. I worked really, really hard to get us all super accurate

to how we look. Nick the whole time running around, just naked wearing gloves. Hold on. I just won't let you know. Snowmike Mike and Cool Greg just both bustling in the studio and music started playing like a fucking WVE entrance theme.

Hey, did you need me? Were we talking about me? No, I'm just talking about you shaving your mustache and ruining the whole look for Elden Ring. Blessing gets it. I actively said I didn't like it. Blessing was like, Mike. I'm glad that you're exploring your look and I'm so proud of you. I asked you why you shaved.

Grow back your facial hair. It's too clean. Less it gets it, though. Everything about that was fantastic. And I'm sure the stream was as well. I do want to give a shout out real quick. The boys have been killing it on the streaming side of things recently. Like I feel like this year there's been a new energy

Trying to like make the the daily Twitch streams more premium content I don't know the right way to phrase it that might not be right But like like like more focus More produced more like like let's say let's make something Let's do something not just hang out It's like hanging out with a purpose you know And I think you've been really crushing it

So you can check out all those The videos are on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games Live every day at 11 a.m. So you can check that out on Twitch and YouTube But the VODs are all up on YouTube So obviously I know a lot of people can't watch live but definitely go check it out. I would say that some of these streams aren't what you expect them to be.

They're not just like how the streams used to be. I do think that there's a lot more loving care put into it. So go check out the Selden Ring one for sure, because I know that Andy worked hot on it. But I hate it so much here where it's like the way that Mike is weirdly closer to his camera, especially on the day that he shaved. Like it really just feels like it doesn't look like. It accentuates the open lot there, the vacant lot that is there.

Why is he always so close to the camera? It really freaks me. Why is his chair all the way up whenever he sits on the set? He sticks out his tongue in the bottom. That looked perfect. You nailed Nick's hair. Oh, thank you.

Yeah. A hawk, man. There you go. There you go. Well, you know, if you don't have dollars to toss our way on Patreon, that's cool. When you're on the epic game store,

use our epic creative code. Kind of funny. And at no extra cost to you, it got money in our pocket. So that's pretty damn cool. Thank you for all of your support. Some housekeeping for you. There's been a lot of cool stuff happening.

and it kind of funny. So go check out all of it. Our game of the year episode was last week. The Blessing Show was last week. Go check that stuff out. It was fantastic. KFFL is over? We'll see.

We'll see. Okay, well, there's a new KFFL. You can check that out as well on YouTube.com. Real bad day yesterday. Andy, how do I get K-Fifa going? Because I've been on a FIFA kick lately. I'm playing so much FIFA. I mean, I'd have to learn what.

off sides is. Oh, it's easy. The striker can't be behind the defenders is the thing. When you pass the ball. Stryker, Wolverine. Mario. Mario, strikers, baby. Soccer. Come on.

Come on. Total combat strikers. Yeah. Exactly. Total combat strikers. What? Yeah. There's a, I believe there's a character. Yeah. Character. I thought there was a game. We're a fucking mess here. We're in association, everybody. Kind of funny is best. You know what?

We're doing it. The topic today, is. No, the Games cast Metacritic bets for 2023. We're going to go through a big list of of some of the bigger games. We have a really long list right here. I want to say there is 37 different games

we have on this list. So we'll talk about it. Some of them might not talk about as long as others. But I kind of just wanted us to give our predictions on where we think the game is going to fall with the Metacritic. Now, of course, for people that don't know, Metacritic is a website that kind of takes,

it's an aggregator of a bunch of different review sites and averages all their numbers together to be the one number that kind of represents like the overall vibe. And it can be interesting because not anybody can just sign up their site to be part of Metacritic. You have to be approved in a bunch of different ways. For example, kind of funny is not part of the Metacritic scoring. So although we give scores to a lot of games, our score is not part of that. And we don't want it to be at this point in time. So all that is good.

And it does mean, though, that some games only have a certain amount of reviews. have way more reviews. And if games have more reviews, the chance of them having a lower score is higher. That's just how numbers work. So a lot of things for us to kind of keep in mind as we discuss these potential scores. And keep in mind a lot of what we're about to say here. I know this isn't going to get through to everyone listening, but I hope you can at least try to understand this is necessarily what we think the game is going to be, but what we think people are going to think the game is going to be. General consensus. General consensus. And this is all pizza bit. But yeah, it's all

for all the pizza. Every single game. Every single single game. One pizza per pepperoni. That's a lot of pizzas. A bunch of little pepperonies. Yeah. So I am really, really excited about this. But yeah, if we ended up on and talking about our own thoughts on what we expect from this, that'd be fun as well. The first one

on the list was Fire Emblem Engaged, but hey, guess what? The reviews are already out. It's out. I will say Greg sent in his prediction for this, and he predicted 82. Oh. Currently, Guess what fireman engages on? Oh, no.

82. 82. Oh, God. 82. I'm not going to give it to him, though, because we're not going to count it. Did he send that to you today? I don't know if he cheated or not. If he said that to you today, that's definitely.

He's in the court of law. He's out there lying. You know what I mean? They do, they do make people put their hands on the Bibles. Yeah. You can't laugh at that. That dude's handle burn immediately. Yeah.

That's just so about it. He's just sitting there. He's like, oh, shit. Oh, shit. I got the idea of Greg Miller being unholy is accurate and hilarious. But okay, let's get right into it. Forspoken, the first big game of the year, that's fair to say, right? I guess far as I'm going to engage as well.

But forspoken, first, like, big, like, AAA game. He has five exclusive here. The buzz going into it, not that positive, I would say. I'd say it's leaning negative for sure. Greg Miller coming in with a 74 prediction. I do think that that's the realm I'm going in. I think that I wouldn't be surprised if forespoken is better than most people thought it was going to be, but not good enough to be really special.

And I'm not even to set the world on fire. I don't even think it's going to be getting in the 80 ranges. Like I think that I might even go a little lower. I'm going to go 72. Are there prices right rules to this or anything? Like if I bet $1.00. and you guys all over predict. The way we've done it in the past

is you only get a point if you nail it. Oh, if you nail it? Oh, you got to nail it, okay. All right, I actually puts things in perspective for me. Oh, okay, so Greg said what, 74? 74. You said 72? Mm-hmm.

I'm in that same place to you, right? I think this is going to be interesting one because the demo's been out. A lot of us have played the demo, right? And we kind of know where our expectations lie in that. And also there's the common, just conversation people are having about first spoken that puts it in perspective in terms of

all right this is where people are going into this game with right and for some people it is positive I've seen enough people online say that they actually did enjoy that demo especially when they when they wrap their minds around the mechanics of it right I think one of the issues with the demos that they didn't tutorialize it well enough my issues with the demo

were mainly I didn't like how that game looked a lot in a lot of the places like I think the environments there's like a lot of greener in the environments right a lot of green a lot of plant life a lot of that stuff and I think like it reminds me how Andy talked about the foliage in Horizon Forbidden West when that game came out where it's like a bit much going on and that it kind of muddied itself when you're exploring in the open world. Now that was fixed by a bug.

Oh, was that a bug? Yeah, that was fixed by a bug where people watching on certain displays or whatever, like a lot of people were like, oh, you just probably don't have a good enough TV. And then it turns out that a little bit after that they came out and guerrilla came out was like, hey, we're fixing this bug where there's a lot of visual noise. So that was like an actual visual noise issue where things looked really noisy. But when I played the demo, I still kind of got that vibe where I was like, there's just a lot going on in this world.

But none of it looks particularly super high-deaf, high-quality crisp in the way that I'd wanted to as I've explored through the world. I didn't really love the locomotion. And that's been one of the things that's been highly advertised in the trailers, getting from point A to point B, the main character, doing all these cool tricks and having all this cool magic to get where you need to be, right? Like, playing a game like this for me should feel like I'm playing something like Spider-Man, right, or something that a game that really has really cool parkour mechanics to where you need

to go. Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Frontiers. But I wasn't a big fan of that either. And then also, like, the combat didn't hit for me. The dialogue and the voice acting didn't hit for me either. Like, first of welcome, if I'm being honest, it's just not a game that I'm looking forward to personally, but it strikes me as one that just might hit for certain people, depending on what your tastes are.

So with that, I'm going to say a 69. Yeah. I don't think of 69. I have this at a 71. Okay. I have four spoken to 71. I think it's going to get enough eights to bring up that score. There's going to be plenty of outlets that do give like six and a halfs or six out of tens.

Yeah. Because I do think that some of the weaker parts will outweigh whatever positives there are. And I played the demo too. It took me a while to get into it, but by the end of it, I found myself a little bit more on the positive side. But I agree with Blessing, where it kind of reminds me of Stranger of Paradise's demo, where it just, you know it'll look, you know it can look pretty if it's running at its full power, but it just looked muddy and kind of like low resolution. When a lot of games kind of have a lot of shit on screen, they need to show, they have like a variable. resolution thing where it'll drop your image down from 1440 p down to like 920 whatever p and I feel like that happens a lot in in this game and it kind of just results in the game looking

a little bit bland even though every trailer we've seen looks amazing because they're usually running those on like the highest spec to everything you know yeah it's interesting this is a game that I was really hoping was going to be good and I hope was hoping people are going to be wrong about because I really really like the vibe of it I like the the tone and I know a lot of the dialogue is cringy as hell to people and admittedly even for me a lot of it is but i liked a lot of it too in a way that i do think i am set apart from others but i'm like cool we haven't gotten a movie that feels like uh 2007 or it's gotten a game that feels like a 2007 action movie but like i'm kind of down for that um i like the look of the main character like the vibe of the magic stuff but playing

the demo i was really kind of crushed where i was like oh man i really don't like the way this feels i don't like the um the momentum wasn't so much my problem as much as the combat like the uh having to tap R2 as much of like the to shoot out didn't feel good like it felt like the controls were fighting against me it feels so much better when you take off the adaptive triggers yeah interesting like the adaptive triggers just like it was with the amount of times you're having you you had to tap the trigger and the amount of times that it's fighting against you it was just like it was so fun and weird feeling yeah yeah so um I'm still hopeful but I think the devs put out a uh an update today that they are like updating the demo

based on feedback. Interesting. Okay. Based on like a, I'm not sure exactly what they're fixing, but I know some of it was like text size. There is a setting in there

where you can cut down on the, the chatter you get from the cuff guy. Yeah, you can like make that super minimal. Yeah, you can turn that all the way down, which is great because it was in that short demo,

I heard the same conversation like three times. Yeah. And that's not great. I will say the visual side of things. Like, I was super impressed. I wasn't really noticing some of the stuff you guys were saying. I was like, this is a fucking beautiful, gorgeous ass game. But, um, they added

button mapping functionality. Locked on enemies will move off-screen. That move off-screen will remain locked on longer. Certain tech sizes just is. Some of these are problems I had. So, all right, cool. Maybe I'll give it another shot. And this is just for the demos. You got to assume that all this stuff is being applied to the core game. This is a nipick, but I also

didn't like the fish eye menus. I was like, very odd choice. Why would you do that? So next game, Dead Space remake coming out really soon. This is a tough one to kind of predict the Metacritic of, right? Because we've had the original game. What's the original at? 86.

Original's at 86. Yeah, for PC and then 360 it's at an 89. Yeah, you know, I don't see the remake hitting quite that high of a score because it's a remake of a very old game. Clistopold Protocol just coming out. There's like a lot of things against it, I think, in terms of the reviews being too high. but I still think that it's probably going to, I'm going to go 80, between 83 and 4.

I'm going to go 83. Yeah, I'm in that same realm where I think it's going to be 80s. I currently have faith in this remake. It looks great, right? And like if you are just taking the original debt space and giving people what they want, right, and having it be beat by beat, it's like how much is there for you to fuck up, right?

I think the fuck ups there would be mainly if it didn't run well or if there's weird technical hiccups, right? Or if even the game just didn't age well and you're playing and you're like, oh man, this is an old game. But I think even that, people are able to get past pretty easily, right? Because it is, I mean, if that's what the game wants to be, that's what the game wants to be. That being the case, I'm going to say 86. I think it's going to do a repeat.

I think it's going to, I think people are going to receive it probably the exact same way that they did back then. Right. And like in terms of reviews, if it gets the job done of, oh, man, this game is fun. Like, it is dead space. It looks fantastic. It's bringing back this classic thing that I loved. But also it has the hiccups that maybe the original game. did as well. I can see it landing out there. Yeah, Greg predicted 85 so higher than me closer to

you there. It's a tough one for me because I feel like with EA working on it and like there's just things like that that I think are going to be in people's minds of what they're comparing it to. But I do think Dead Space has something going for it where it is one of the most recent games that I would call a classic where I feel like Dead Space one specifically has kind of like stood the test of time of like people talk about that game with the same level of reverence as Resident Evil before it or um even games like Mario or what it's a franchise yeah you know what I mean that like um because of that I have more faith in this remake that I would other remakes I want to say 88 whoa um because I think colistow is so fresh on everybody's minds and I think

they're going to make that direct comparison and say like man I wish colistow could have had this. I wish Colissa would have had this. I think that's people went into Colistow expecting a better dead space and they didn't get that. My thing there is I think that it's the reason I'm going lower is I think that Colistow being fresh of mind. They're like, oh man, I wish that it was more dead space and they're going to play Dead Space and be like, oh man, this wasn't where I remember it being. You know, like I think it's, it might be that case of because Colistow was so close and people, a lot of people didn't love it. I think that people's nostalgia and memory, memories, memories, memories, of...

Rememories sounds like a final fan. I don't. Final fan. Remembers? Rememory. But yeah, I'm hopeful, man. I'm really, really, really stoked to get back to Dead Space.

Here's what I'll say. Shadow Colossus, PS2 on Metacritic, has a 91. The PS4 version, that was made by Blue Point, also has the 91. And I think for me, that's another case of a game

that had all the visual improvements in the world, and had people still being like, oh, yeah, like, the original didn't age as well in certain, ways, right? And like the BluPoint version didn't really do much to the gameplay, but still scored that same 901, right? Because I think it got the job of being a remake done.

I can see it being a similar thing where I think if they get the job of being a remake done, people might forgive some of the, some of the places where it falters because it is like, all right, well, how much do you really expect from something that is a remake of something that originally had those problems? But again, like that's going to be a wait-and-see kind of thing. I think that is going to be a, every reviewer has, has their own take on it and has their own way in which they approach it kind of thing. Yeah. Very interesting.

Next up, Hogwarts Legacy. Another one that I, this, like, I, I don't know. I feel like we don't have enough evidence to understand. Is this going to be in the 70s, 80s, or 90s range? Yeah. My gut right now tells me that all things considered, it's probably going to net out at like an out at 84. Oh.

That's higher than what I would say. I was going low 80s. I said 81 on mine. I think there's going to be enough people that are super jazzed about being in that world and seeing it realized in this way where the last time you were anywhere in a Hogwarts environment was old-ass consoles, right?

This is the first time they're seeing it in this way with this level of high fidelity. And there's going to be enough people that want to review this that are super stoked about the Harry Potter IP. And I think there's going to be a lot of other people that also review it that maybe see, maybe compared to like Assassin's Creed open world games and sort of see similarities to be like, we've been doing this sort of system or this trope in open world games forever. Why hasn't it changed here? And I could see a lot of people giving it around like six or sevens, you know. I'm a lock in mind at 82. here where I think that it's going to be a very competent game at the very least.

And I think that it's going to deliver the Harry Potter world to people that want that. But I don't think that it's going to be like a revolutionary game or do anything truly special by itself that gets it to that nine level. I'm looking up at Avalan software right now to get an idea of what they've done before. Cars three. That's the last thing they did. Oh yeah, because they did the Disney Infinity Studio. So this is kind of a new territory for them, right? And like WB, of course, like this isn't necessarily new territory for them because

WB you're talking about, you know, you're talking about Shadow of War, or you're talking about injustice, all this stuff. And like WB as a publisher has a track record that is usually good, but also sometimes you get Gotham Nights, you know what I mean? Like sometimes it gets Shadow of War also, which like Shadow War was fine, but also wasn't, I don't think that one didn't set the world fire as much shadow of Mordor, I'd say. And so yeah, like Barrett said, right?

It's been waiting a little bit. And for a game that is coming from WB right now, coming off of Gotham Nights, going into Suicide Squad, which today we talked about how people are feeling kind of iffy about that based on the live service stuff. Is WB games in a place as a publisher where they're putting out the bangers? Or are they very much like, are they letting the dollar signs get in their eyes? And a game that's been in development forever.

as well. For a very long time. I'm going to say, I'm going to say 77. I'm going to say 77, which I think all in all would be good. And that is based off of seeing the trailers and saying that, like, I think the talent being put into this game from Avalanche seems to be good, right? Like, I remember seeing their character creator a few months ago. And, like, the creator options alone, I was like, damn, for what I was saying,

for, like, black hair in that game. I was like, it looks like they're doing more than what I usually see out of the average character creator right out of the average video game let alone seeing clips of like the magic battles and all this stuff like it looks like it looks like it can be a fairly fun game but at the same time do they have the stuff coming off of cars three i don't know and before cars three what was it uh disney infinity and cars two which is great disney infinity is great but this is a much bigger project but i imagine they have a much bigger theme and there's tons of turnover tons of studios as well How prone is Metacritic to like,

not review bombing, but review buffing? Well, so that's my thing. I mean, like, just the reality of this situation, I would not be surprised if a bunch of major outlets don't review this game. And that would be out of MetaCritic normally, and they might be the ones that, for whatever reason, would be more critical, whereas a lot of reviews that are just,

I'm a Harry Potter fan and I'm rocking for this. That's why I'm a little higher on it, where I think that where it falls, if I'm predicting correctly, I do think that that's, there's going to be that, the numbers game that's played. But I don't think it's going to be that demonstrable. But we'll see.

Next up, we have Wild Hearts. That's the Monster Hunter style game. Yep, that's the one coming from EA being developed by Koe Techmo. I think it's technically an EA original is. Yeah. And honestly, this game looks pretty good.

So I played a preview build late last year, and I didn't get to play much of it, right? I messed with it very briefly because I'm like I wasn't a monster under person and I was like I don't know what I'm doing in this thing it was a very early build um but it seems cool all the contraption stuff that they've shown off where you have all the all these tools that are very mechanical and like move in like these really cool ways I think all that stuff looks cool um I think the I think for reviewers when it

comes to this one it's going to be about comparing it directly to monster hunter and going all right this game this game is going to to succeed at being what it is if it's able to capture the fun and capture the essence of Monster Hunter. Can it do that? Can it not do that? And so far, I think there have been very few games that have even captured that a little bit. You know, I go to things like Freedom Wars on the Vita or like, well, I think was, was Dauntless a Monster Hunter game? Yeah, Donlis. But even though, like, those aren't popular games, right? Like both those games kind of came and went. Can Wild Hearts be the first one that really steps up to Monster Hunter and be a big thing? It's being published by EA. It's being developed by Coatechmo.

so I think it has better chances. I see this as any other battle royale trying to get into the game with Titans like Warzone and Apex and all those multiplayer games. I see this being as something that people will maybe step away from Monster Hunter for a little bit and then eventually just go back to Monster Hunter.

The tough thing too is that the Monster Hunter rises coming out this month when like a couple days maybe. It's coming out soon this month. This does look a lot better than Monster Hunter. I play the PC version of Monster and Rise back in the day when they finally kind of went from Switch to PC and you're

basically playing a higher frame rate version of a switch looking game where like everything's still low res and has like low res textures and low polygons. I'm going to guess that this is a 78. 58, all right. I was thinking somewhere around there too. Also I had to check Monster Under Rise

embargoes up so I can't talk about it. I've been playing a little bit of Monster Under Rise on console and like yeah, I mean it looks like a game that originally was developed for Switch. Granted, like, it looks higher-res and it looks a bit cleaner and all that stuff. And I guess for me, Tim, it's less of a thing where a lot of my scores here are based on, like, I think several outlets are going to give them a nine and several odds are going to

give like six and sevens, right? That's how a lot of my scores are here. I just think this is going to get a lot of sevens and eights. I think it's going to be like a pretty good game that people recommend, but doesn't really, you know. Yeah, I think you're right. So Greg has it a 77. I put 74.

There's something about this. I think there's going to be more of the low sevens than the eights, and I think it'll it's going to bring it down a bit. I'm going to say 72. Is that what you said? Oh, shit. I said 78.

I'm going to say 72. That's the lowest of any of us. Yeah. I think I'm going to stick with it. I think Monster is such tough competition, and I think that's going to bring it down quite a bit. Next up, we have Atomic Heart. This game looks rat as hell.

This is the game that I refusably will run smoothly on any device. Yeah. It looks amazing. Can you give the pitch on this one, Andy? Atomic Heart is kind of like a first person Bioshock style game. And when I say Bioshock, I just mean that they're going for like this different

kind of unique look that doesn't really fit in any era. It's very like kind of steampunky in a way. But a lot of... Bioshock mixed with Wolfenstein, the modern Wolfenstein. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of really unique looking enemies. and monsters and weapons and abilities and it just looks like it's going to run like shit

if you're trying to run it like at a high frame rate or at a high resolution. It looks amazing. Like this is sort of one of those visual feasts that I love talking about. I love Muncheon on. I'm going to guess that this one is an 81. Greg Miller also goes 81.

Oh, motherfucker. I'll go 82. You sure? Yeah, I'll go 82. I'm going 84. I think that this is going to be one of those ones that people are going to have something to say. They're going to have something to prove here. And I think that it'll if it's as good as it should be

and like if it runs well enough and whatever, because I agree with you, I think that the performance will be the thing to take it down. Yeah. But overall, I think that people are going to rock with this one. I imagine that this is going to be on people's like favorite games of the year list for the people that play it,

if it lives up to what we expect it to. This looks like one of those, hey, even on PS5 and Xbox Series X, It's still going to be 30 frames. Sorry, y'all. Like, this looks like one of those games that is going to be forced to be at 30 frames for whatever reason. All right, Blas. Where are you at?

I'm thinking. But I'm going to be playing with Ray Tracy. Woo, chase those rays, Andy. This is a Focus Entertainment joint, which could be great, could be terrible. It could be anything. Because, like, Focus, they did Plag Tale and stuff, right? And they've done Evil West and stuff. And, like, that could be anything.

I looked up the Metacritic for Wolvesine to the new Colossus, because that's what this game reminds me of the most. And that sits at an 87. I'm Metacritic. And so now in my mind, I'm like, do I think this is going to be better or worse than Wolfstein 2, the new Colosses? Which for me is one of my favorite shooter campaigns ever. Well, they have the same personality as Wolfensstein 2, though, Bless. Think of like BJe Blascovitz, his whole crew.

His whole crew. The personality of that game, you know? Cuts scene of cutscene, Wolfstein 2, The New Colossess. Chef's Kiss. A binger. But here's what I'll say. I looked up Atomic Hart. Composer, Mick Gordon.

Oh. And if you want to make a banger FPS, you get a bit. get McGordon on the ones and twos and also pay him what it's worth, you know what I mean? Oh, man. But here's the other thing. I look up the developer, Munfish. Who the, what the fuck?

Who are they? They're working on this game, Soviet Luna Park, it looks like. It was a VR game, and that's about it. That comes up on their profile. That's the pay the bills, bro. Yeah. That one's making money for this thing. They're a developer from Russia that I think

left Russia, stuff like that. There's some interesting conversations about who they are as a developer in the last couple weeks. Oh, interesting. I'm going to say, I'm going to say 86. Say 86. One point lower than Wolfstein 2 than the Euchar. Cool. I'm going to skip this next one.

You boys are okay with that? Sure. You know, you don't feel like Raiden lack of dragon Aeastern? You know a yakuza boy? I guess 89 for them. PlayStation VR2 I just put it here but I don't even know if it's going to be reviewed like that

I think that's top one for us top out So we won't put predictions for that Horizon Call of the Mountain though I do think we should should go for Greg says 88 88 Greg is a madman You think I mean look there's a lot going into this

Like I feel like this game Legit has to be great Because if it's not What is PSVR2 doing? This would be a huge fumble for them for it to not be at least to 85. But obviously, I think that they're striving and hoping that this thing is a 90. I will remind you all that Tam got to preview this earlier in the year.

And he came on to one of our shows, I think PSI Love You, and talked about how much he really fell in love with that game and how it previewed and stuff. You know what? Maybe I'm speaking to seeing. Because now I'm looking on Metacritics, right? For a frame of reference for like VR stuff, Asturbot, Rescue Mission, for PlayStation PlayStation VR2, or VR scored in 90. And for me, that's like one of the best

VR games I've ever played, right? Incredible video game. Half Live Alex scored in 93. Horizon West, the AAA game that came out last year, scored in 88. And with that, right, looking at that context, if this is a VR game that PlayStation's putting their all into, because it is a launch game, and they're bringing

Horizon level quality to it, you might be on to some with the, you said 88, right? Greg and I both are at 88. You guys might be on to some. I'm going to say 87. I'll go 86 I love you Andy Kirby's return to Dreamland

Deluxe Greg hasn't has it as an 87 this is a port of a WiiU game that was a remake of the original game it's a tough one

because who the fuck knows I was gonna say can we do this one in theory is it not just gonna be the same Metacritica as the we went and do we think

enough outlets even like review it since it's just a port I mean, it's a Switch game. I don't know. I'm sure they'll review it. But let's skip it. These are rough in Switchland.

They need to stop the play. Let's just skip it. Things like. And I'm going to guess 90. And only because I think that this, along with another game later down on the list, I feel like the most hardcore from these genres are going to want to be playing these games. and they are the ones that are wanting these sort of style of games. So I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to guess 80.

I'm going to guess 82. And I guess that based off of the original Octopath Traveler scored in 83, Live Alive last year scored in 81. And so I feel like that's sort of the realm where these games, that these games are landing at. And I think Octopat Traveler being the first one, being the first HD-2D game, was more of a surprise in terms of how incredible individual style was.

for me that that was the premier thing about this game and so octopat traveler too coming through and not having that as like the premiere thing cool we've seen this before what are you bringing in terms of content if it's the same level of content as octopat traveler um the first one then i i could see it dropping maybe a point or two i'm right there with you i put down 82 uh for oxopath uh gregg had 84 so and he's on the higher side there with the 90 uh wolog long fallen dynasty oh oh this is where things get interesting yeah what do you what do you guys guys think? Um, I have it down as an 84. I, mostly because I, like, unlike blessing, I didn't love the demo. And I think it's just, I think it's just needing to get used to a different

style of, uh, of combat and sort of whatever they're sort of, um, like, here's, here's what our upgrades look like. Here's what, here's how you should be kind of living and breathing in this world. And I guess I was just kind of straight off of some sort of Souls game. I just wasn't quite feeling it in that moment. And I think it's going to be kind of like a lot of the other, this is this Koi Tecmo?

This is Koi Tecmo. Yeah. I mean, most of the near games are, not near, Neo games. Oh, wait. No, this is Team Ninja. Sorry, this is the same developer as Neo. Yeah, I think just based on whatever Neo does.

It just always seems like the Souls game to play when you're not playing a Souls game. But it is published by Kelly Techno. Yeah, I'm going 84 as well. I wanted to go a little bit higher on it, but I think it being a new

IP brings it down a little bit for this one, whereas I feel like if it was more of a known quantity, I think it would perform a little higher. Greg has that at an 81. What about you? Do you think if they call it Neo3,

it's getting a higher? I think so. You know, even if it was like, and like, I know that you can't just like take that franchise and turn it into this. But like, I think that there's a lot of hype for this game being a new thing and just being like the kind of novelty of it where it's like, oh shit, there's another game like this. But I still think that we've had a lot of those now. So it's like for it to hit that 88 range that I think, if I remember correctly, the NEOs normally hit, I think it really needs to stand out. I'm not so sure that it's going to have that enough uniqueness to it. So looking through, right, like Neo2 revolves around like the 85, 86, like 83, right?

And that's all remastered ports and all this stuff. But they hit the mid-80s. I'm going to say 87. I really, really dug the demo. And I think when it comes to these games, the nerds know what's up already, right? Like I don't think Will Long Fallen Dynasty is releasing with the idea that they're going to expand their audience that much or that like, you know, people don't know what to expect. while playing the demo, everybody in, I'm not, I was, I hadn't touched the Neo games, right? I was playing this game and everybody in chat was like, oh, it's Neo3.

Like, if you like this game, you should play Neo. Like, this is basically just Neo3, right? I think the fan base kind of understands it in that context, that it is kind of continuing that lineage, even though it's a different franchise. So I think there's that. But I also went back and I tried to play Neo 2, and I struggled so hard playing Neo2. Like, I just could not get all the way into it. And I think that might speak to Wolong being a bit more approach.

than Neo 2 and the combat system for me at least being just a bit easier to comprehend in terms of like not having to I forget what the word is forever like press R1 to like regain my my stands after I do a combo and Neo like that stuff got complicated and that was that was a hard hill for me to get over whereas during my Wollong demo I got to the first big boss fight and I fought that boss for like hours and I had a blast doing that and the moves set just felt a bit more straightforward in terms of understanding that and being able to to to to get through it. So I think with that it's going to be more approachable. And then also, Team Ninja, I assume, is learned based on the work on doing all these other games, right? Not just Neo 1 and Neo2, but the games like Stranger or Paradise, which I know we make fun of, but, you know, it is a game that is in this lineage of the Team Ninja modern action game right now. And I think there's a lot they've learned. And I think they can take all the new ideas and put it into Wolon Fallen Dynasty as opposed to something called Neo3 that has these expectations to it. E-Pulse, thank you, Patrick.

Star Wars Jedi Survivor. I'm going to go with the 84 here. I think that the first one didn't review glowingly because of a lot of the tech issues and things of that nature, but I feel like this one they've had a lot of time. The trailers look dope as shit.

It looks like everything that we've loved about it, kind of just like turned up a little bit, and it just feels like it has that next-gen gen polish that we would hope to expect with where we're at with these games. So yeah, I think it's going to do better than the first one, 84. Yeah, this is kind of that typical sequel thing we always talk about. We're like, I can't wait to see what the next one is like the 1.5 version of it, if you will.

I'm going to say that this is an 86. I think it's going to get a shit ton of nines and a lot of eights. Greg's out of 83. But for any reason, I think that like the story's going to bring it down for a lot of people. That's just my tip of the hat guess, pizza bet. Pieces everywhere. Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order is at a 79 on Metacritic.

And I wonder how much of that was just how the game ran because I remember that this game just did not or Fallen Order didn't perform well at launch. Still doesn't some say. Yeah, and the game was buggy. But also the game was great, right? Like the bugs were honestly the main issue that I had when I was playing that game.

The map wasn't great. The map wasn't great. Everything was cooler in 21-9 though. Yeah, that's the thing is watching this trailer. When I was at the Game Awards and I saw this trail, I was like, damn, is this my most anticipated game for the year? Like, this shit looks funny. I mean, it's real high. And honestly, it might have been the aspect ratio that did it.

But no, I am super excited for this one. And I do think that this one's going to be better, right? Like, again, talking about learning from your previous games. I think there are quite a few places that Star Wars Shut up Fall in Order could have been better. And respawn is a fantastic studio. And I think they probably listened. I'm going to say 80. I'm going to say 86.

Did you say 86? I said 84. Okay. Yeah. the only person that says 86? Yep. Okay, good. No, no, no, no.

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Let's go. Andy Cortez coming in hot with a 93. Greg Miller came in with a 90. This one's interesting because you think about it, right? We've had already two. remake, RE3 remake, and like both of those, fantastic, but two's the one that got all the love. Three got a little bit of the, like, I don't know about this.

But I've always said, Resident Evil 2 is an incredible video game. Resident Evil 3 was a pretty damn good video game. So that remake makes sense. But Resident Evil 4 is one of the best games of all time. Yeah. So then remaking that, everything that's been saying, people were mad about RE3 for cutting a lot of content. They've come out and said they're not cutting content.

In fact, they're adding content. And everything about it seems like what we've seen with the HBO last of a show of everything they're talking about like they really care they want to get this right they know they can't screw it up and i get that vibe from this remake as well so i i have high expectations for it um resnie before is a game that in many many many ways still holds up to this day i know bless always talks about how the controls don't but in terms of story in terms of like atmosphere and all that stuff it definitely does and imagine that just playing better and looking better i think it's going to be be real high but i'm going to go 92 because i think that getting once you start getting

93 and above, that's like real, real all-timer shape. But hopefully this is that. Should 10 of 9, should 10 of 10, I think. You think it's, oh, hey, yeah, that's... I mean, you're talking about Resident Evil 4. You are. Which is a game that a lot of people would put up there

is their favorite game of all time. Reson Evil 4 originally, back in the day, scored in 96 on Metacritic. And this is the PS2 page. And so I wonder if it's even higher if you look at other, like, the Gamekeeper or something like that. Resident Evil 2, the remake has 91.

And so I think that is the range that we're working with, right? think it's going to be somewhere between 91 and 96 I'll be I'll be blown away by I don't think it's going to get that high just because I mean that puts it in a league of like what 10 games ever yeah exactly like I and I think modern day it is so hard for a game to get up there right like like you can release the best game ever I don't know if it's going to get a 96 on Metacritic um I'm going to say 93 I think it's going to do better than Resident Evil 2 remake I think by my my prediction for myself right now is that Resident Evil 4 remake makes Reson

for one of my favorite games ever. I think that's going to happen. I hope so. I really do. Next up, we're doing this one. Crime Boss, Rock A. City. 63. Guess what? Both me and Greg also got... No way.

That's awesome. Yeah, this is going to have a bunch of fours and fives and a couple of sixes and sevens, you know? Yeah, it'll get where it needs to get. I hope this game is a fun stream, you know? I'm going to say 68 I'm a little bit more Game with the year guy over here

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here. What did Saints Row get? Oh, man. Because to me, I think that was like sixes, right? Yeah. What was Saints Row at currently on Metacritic? 61.

Danny Glover is gloves. That's right. I'm going to 61. Vanilla ice is a... You think it's going to be Saints Row bad. I'm going 61. Greg won 72. See, okay, me and Greg are on the same thing. It's going to be Saints Row bad. It's like such a fucking...

statement. That's a question. I was hurt by Sanisra. Like, Stainzra was, like, a personal attack on me from Volition, a studio that I love. But, come on. I'm going to 74. Wow. All right.

All right. Yeah, I think I'm on that same line of thought based on how much I loved and enjoyed dying light, too, and how much I personally want this game to be as good as dying light to. Dying Light 2 on MediCritic has a 76 or 77, right, depending on the platform. Maybe I'm wrong. But, you know, I'm saying too. But, like, this game might.

might not be that good is the thing. I think it gets a lot of high ratings from reviewers that, like, similar to in the way that we rate, in the way that we love Fast and Furious, in the way that some people love Stranger of Paradise, like Blessing. Like, or they're just like, it is just pure dumb fun. Like, don't think too hard about it. Don't, the story's shitty, who gives the shit,

I give this an 8 out of 10. Like, I feel like there's going to be a lot of reviews like that. I think that it's not going to hit there, though. Like, I think that it's not going to have. that the me me nature to it where it's Stranger's a Paradise it's like you watch a clip of that and if that's your type of humor it's the funniest thing ever like I just struggle to see people looking at this and be like every moment of this is hilarious where Stranger Paradise every moment's hilarious Pablo Koch and chat says this is dying light too without the parkour so

and like I can kind of see that in terms of it being a dying like two style game that doesn't have the things that make Dinight II so special because I do think Dinan Light 2 thrives because the parkour in the navigation and like the puzzle solving with the platforming and stuff. That said, I think in terms of story, Diony 2 was so, it took itself so seriously and was like basically, I had always compared to something like CW where it's like, oh man,

this is the most cheesiest drama ever, but at points I'm eating it up and at points I'm digging it, but ultimately I'm like, oh, it's whatever. Dead Island 2, based on that trailer, I think it was the latest trailer we got or maybe it was one trailer before, maybe it was both.

That game seems goofy as hell. Like all the cuts seem really. funny and really self-referential in terms of like, no, we know we're stupid. We know this is ridiculous. I get like in the same way that people like Dead Rising for what it is, that's the crowd that this is going to cater towards. Yeah. I hope I enjoy this game.

I, did I already say a number? Yeah, 74. Okay, cool. Well, there you go. About that. Legend of Zelda. Tears of the Kingdom. 100.

Right down to him. Greg said 94. I say 95 Here's the thing What is Breath of the Wild at? 97 And you know what Tim? Put me down as a 97

I'm saying it Dude let's go Oh shit 93 this game's gonna suck Dude I mean it's funny Because like God of War And God of War Raggaron currently had the exact same score

And to me I'm like that We're in that range I think that a Breath of the Wild is going to be a couple, or sorry, tears is going to be a couple down from Bethel Wild because just...

Breath of Wild was the moment. Yes, and there's the amount of people that gave it tens. I don't know that we're going to get that amount for this one, so I think it's going to be a little bit skewed, but I mean, you know, we're talking,

all of our guesses are putting this as one of the greatest games of all times. Yeah. I'm so excited. My 90, my 97 is honestly just me speaking into existence. Like, if I give an actual guess,

I'd probably say 95 or 96, but keep mine as an, in 97. I'm keeping that energy. I need this game to you a fucking masterpiece. Yeah. Yeah. Suicide Squad. Kill the Justice League. Greg has it as 74. That's a good guess. Damn, that's a good guess.

I'm going to go 78. I'm going 73. I'm going 69. Nice. Marvel's Avengers on Madagetic critics is at 67. As soon as you're the suicide squad, I immediately typed in Marvel's Event. Yeah. It's based on the kind of view.

Yeah, the only reason I have it higher than that is that I think that the, I think people will vibe more with a shooter, pretty much. Like that's all, I'm kind of, the only reason why I'm ranking it that high is that it's, it's going to be whatever Avengers and whatever Gotham Knights was, but people like shooty, shooty and upgrading guns, and it's a bit more involved gameplay, I'd say. And also on the technical standpoint, I think, just looks better than either of those games. Great, looks great.

And even, like, you know, we talked about the possibility of the story not hitting, but, like, I don't know, the cutscenes and the vibes that they, that they're going for in these trailers, I do think that they're pulling off in a way that doesn't feel as genuine from some of those other games. So there could be a little bit of, like, oh, it's, like, it's genuinely funny and has a fun cast of characters and stuff. And have more of a personality than I would say the story of adventures does, you know? Here's the thing, Gotham City Impostors has a 65 on Metacritic. That's okay. And it's not going to be worse than that, so.

Street Fighter 6. Start with you, Bless. Oh, man. I don't know, like, it's tough because I don't know what fighting games actually deal on Metacritic. I never really check Metacritic for fighting games. This is, like, us predicting who's going to win all the esports categories. Like, and not saying that Bless is in Kat, like, you know, bless is definitely, you know, he deserves to kind of, you know, he deserves to kind of. of be one of the reviewers and he'll have a good rating on it.

But I do feel like it's, this is going to be a weird one because not every outlet I don't feel has like a fighting game person. Yeah, but I think that's when you like. Having said that though, like they're reviewing a video game. They're not reviewing it as an e-sport. And I think that that is why I firmly think that this is going to get an 88. I have 91. Oh, I said that wrong.

I said firmly and I was saying I put 87 actually. I think that the single player stops going to not be good enough to, look past. Like, I don't think it's going to be horrible, but I think that it's going to take down, even if the gameplay is like, yo, the community fucking loves it. Reviewing the overall package, I think it's going to have enough things in it to not hit that 90. Great things it hits 90. Wow.

I'm going to say 85. Whoa, even lower than me. Shit, okay. This guy hates fighting games. And, I mean, honestly, Tim can miss me a little bit there about the single player stuff, because I think the single player stuff is going to be exciting for Newcom. but is it going to be a quality single player experience? And even something like Mortal Kombat 11 on Metacritic, that has an 82, right?

Mortal Kombat X is somewhere around the same. And those are like the popular fighting games in the space. And granted, I think Street Fighter 6, in terms of mechanics and in terms of how it's going to play and all that stuff, I think my appeal to like the hardcore fighting game player more than Mortal Kombat. But I think the tough thing is I do think you got to hit both, right? You've got to be able to have very solid fighting game mechanics, but while also delivering in terms of content and delivering things that that's going to get the casual players in, right?

I think it got to be an overall package. That's so difficult. Ryu in the streets, Blanca and the sheet. Exactly. And here's the thing, right? I think in terms of a 90 year up, I think a Street Fighter 6 ultimate edition is going to come out four years from now and hit that, right? Where it has all the things that people will ask for and dream for this for Street Fighter 6. And the 10 people reviewing it are going to give it the scores based on, yeah, what they're.

reviewing. My real prediction is that, yeah, Street Fighter 6 is going to have an ultimate edition that's going to hit a 10, like, from IGN. And like, in the way that they update their Overwatch Rainbow 6 reviews, I think Street Fighter 6 is going to have a version of that that's going to absolutely sore. So I'm at 87, Greg's at 90, blesses at 85, Andy?

91. Whoa. I love it. Diablo 4. 89 on mine. Grigs at a 93. I am in an 88. I think there's going to be enough stuff that annoys the community to bring it down a little bit.

Like, I think it's going to be exactly the Diablo that people have been wanting for a long time, especially when they got Diablo 3 and it was more colorful than they wanted. You know, I feel like this is the one, especially after the mobile game that came out that a lot of people didn't love with how sort of predatory it was with its money.

Yeah, I think this one's going to really hit. 89. Final Fantasy 16. Man, the number I have on here, I don't trust it already. Say it, Andy. Say it.

I don't want it to be on the record, Timothy. I have 93 on mine. You're a madman. Turn Timit to the Joker. Dude, please be a 93. Oh my God. Please, God.

I think it's going to be a shit ton of nines and a couple of tens. Whoa. Okay, Greg has it out of 82. I feel like a true fly somewhere in between. Yeah, I'm going 88. I'm going 87. I want to go lower because that thing. I wonder if they said about not putting black people in the game.

But like, 87, I feel pretty good about it. And I want this to. I was so looking forward to the game. And then Yogi gave a statement about like, yeah, man, I don't know, man, it's old school fantasy. I'm not going to put black people in it. I'm like, hey, hey, man. How are you going to just ruin my excitement like that? That shit clearly fucking sucks.

I really, really hope, though, that this is like a... I don't even want to say return to form. It's not that at all. I just hope that this is a brand new masterpiece of Final Fantasy. Like, I hope... I mean, this is the first new Final Fantasy title we've had in almost a decade. It's pretty wild to think about.

That might not be entirely true. The expectations are, like, massively high. You said the last core Final Fantasy game? Yeah, I think Final Fantasy came out like seven years ago. Yeah. So it's like, we're on the way to the decade there. Eight years ago? That's pretty well...

Definitely the biggest gap between... form fantasy titles that even includes the online titles. So there's a lot going into this. It being written by the 16 people. That's the thing that I'm really... 14 people and the music being done by them as well. That's the

stuff for me. How many 14 nerds are going to be reviewing this? Yeah, exactly. But yeah, does it bother me that the main character looks like that. It is named Clyde for whatever? Yeah, that kind of sucks. So 7 remake is at an 87 on Medi-

creative. Do we think this is going to be better? I mean, I think there's less going into it. Like Final Fantasy 7 like has baggage, right? So I think that affects the reviews, both positively and negatively. Yeah, I think this

I think the story stuff kind of really turned some people off on 7 the changes and sort of the liberties they took there. What did Greg guess? So yeah, across the board now we got me at 88, Greg at 82, Blessed at 87, and Andy at 93. Pizza bet within a pizza bet.

Whoever's closer, me or Greg gets pizza. Wow. Because he's the lowest, I'm the highest. Yeah. Thank you, Greg. You're welcome. We'll skip this one, but just want to put it out there. AEW fight forever.

Greg says 79 that I'm going to fucking love. 79 is real high. I'm saying 63. I'm saying 62. Yeah. Okay. Oh, you know what? Fuck it.

We will do this one. Andy, you said what? 73. Actually, a 60s, though. What's a bad game? I'm going to type in the Saints Row. You're like 66, bless. You sound like Jeff Crow when we were playing the episode of Bless Who.

And the question was, name a game that Greg or Greg Miller likes, and Jeff Crow was like, what's a bad game? I'm going to 69. Stakes Row is 61. I'm going to say 63 for AEW Fight Forever. All right. Now we're getting into ones that just don't have release dates. Let's go

Perfect Bomb S-D-7 Rebirth Mine is I think mine is a little too high here I'm going to drop it down two points I'm going to go with 85 I'm going to say

91 Oh Dang Listen you're out You're out of Midgard now You're into the Or are you I forget how the brothers

And shit work Yeah you are You're in the open world now You're hanging out with Sephiroth We're in a post-crisis core world Oh man They got so much to cover here I'm going to 88

because I think that the Midgard section of the game is the the best section to kind of just turn into this type of remake and we got that experience and it felt so good. It felt like a complete game to itself.

The end, it's kind of like opened up for more stuff, but like that was such a great experience. Opening it up, I think has more room for more questions. The stuff that we don't like, more questionable things. They're like, oh, this doesn't add up too much.

Like, what is fact? What is fiction? all the questions they're asking us, we're going to be asking them. They don't know either. But at the same time, it could hit, it could work. And if they pull it off, it could be utterly spectacular. I mean, Final Fantasy 7 remake was our game of the year a couple of years ago.

So if they can take that energy and make something new, this could be the core Final Fantasy title, right? Like, this could be, I expected to be more a new game than a remake of 7. Is it the same Zach voice acting? unfortunately it is change my go get me in the booth bro maybe you'll be given

a better direction this time around you know Andy well that is the thing crisis was a million years ago yeah at least this will be written with the Final Fantasy 7 remake team

which was like fantastic dialogue yeah crisis core I love crisis core I love crisis core everybody for it's a motor sport I have this one at a 90 so do I so does Greg

this shit What was the last one? Seven. Seven. That on Metacritic was an 86. So I'm going to go an 86. It's going to look prettier.

The cars are going to be louder. We're going to post-horizon world. That's all I need. Get the shit out of here. Hollow Night Silkside. Oh, man. I got that on my fan. I put this shit way too high, bro.

Did you really? Yeah. And I don't trust in it, okay? I'm looking back at the mirror, and I don't like what I see. I don't like the person I see in the mirror. I don't know where I'm going with this. I'm going to go 89. I'm going 91.

I went 91. I had it at 93. Greg went 90. Hollow night currently on Switch is a 90. For PC, it's on an 87. Andy, bring it. years up to 93 again. I'll give you the chance, Andy. What's your final answer? I'm keeping in 89. I'm keeping an 89. Because I don't know if it does

enough to kind of step it up as it being like this long-awaited sequel. I think if it would have come out back when everybody thought it was going to come out, it would have been amazing and people would absolutely love it. But I feel like with how long it's taken, people are expecting like the next coming of Christ and I think it's going to be more Hollow Knight. And I hate using the more of this and that game. I hate using like,

it's just going to be more Hollow Night, but I do think it is going to be that. It's going to be a better version of what we get from Yacht Club when they come out with King Knight and when they came out with a plague night. I think it's going to be a better version than that. It's going to be similar

look and feel, tone, vibe, but different mechanics. That's interesting. I do think that something going for it is that when Hollow Night first came out and even like the years surrounding that there was a lot of these Metro Advania games right a lot of the super stylistic beautiful to look at things like

ori and to an extent Celeste that's a different type of game but like those type of things I think that that trends kind of slowed down for whatever reason so if this game hits at the right moment this year it won't be surrounded by a ton of similar games that I think people might be like oh wow like I I haven't experienced it like this for a while. And I do think that Hollow Night has had this sort of this soulslike discovery to it

where people are continuing to start to play it for the first time. As more and more years goes by and as time goes by, they keep, like, newer and newer players are joining sort of the reason why they're becoming me, what I was last year when I was like, I finally get it now. I understand why you all have been asking for Silk Song for so long. And I think more and more people are going to get it and have less time to wait. And they're going to get a really, really dope sequel. Redfall.

This one's tough. This one's tough. Greg's at an 82. Good for him. I'm at a 76. Wow. Wow. I like 82 good for him because that's high.

76, how dare you? Too low. This one's really, really tough. I'm at an 83 with Redfall. I think it's going to feel good as shit to play, right? Like abilities and everything, it's going to have what we enjoyed from games like Death Loop. But I do think what's going to hold it back is finding friends to play it with and going through single player, even though a lot of these games are like... Yeah, a lot of these games, go through it with single play.

you can play single player too if you don't have friends, but I feel like that would definitely lessen the experience. And there's also the progression problem as well, or your world won't progress if you're helping out in someone else's game and stuff like that that people have been kind of talking about in the community. I know Paris brings it up all the time on Xcast. And there's no level scaling, scaling, right? I don't think there is.

I'm going to say 84. Bless, what does pray have on that? It's actually what I looked up. Prey has 82. on PC. 79 on PS4, but if you remember, like,

that game didn't perform well at the time, right? At launch it had some issues. Les, do you be fair? Can you look up the metacritic scores

for Bleeding Edge? How fucking dare you, Tim? I dare you invoke bleeding edge. Are you kidding? In regards to Redfall. Do you know who you're talking

about Arcane Austin? All right? They're not, they don't have, how fucking dare you? What did get, though? I got a 66. Oh, shit.

Okay. That's, yeah, I'm happy. No, Bleeding Hedge was not great. I'm happy at my 76. I'm happy with my 76. You better be. Why would you even invoke that here? It's Arcane Austin.

They haven't put out of game since Prey. And Prey was really great. Underappreciated. Death Loop had an 88. Is this going to be Death Loop? Probably not. Still, they got the stuff. I believe in them.

Borderlands had an 83. That's another one I looked up for this. That's a good one to look up. Yeah. Starfield. Oh, let's fucking go. What did fall out three get? Do you want me to start by telling you what Greg?

Daddy, yo. Greg put An 80 How dare he How dare he Oh man Four got an 84 And he's saying an 80 for Starfield

I mean different context Different time Different context, different time But enough lessons learned I'm going to go 87 That's within the realm that I'm thinking This will be a banger to some And really really good to a lot

going through history Skyrim got a 94 on Metacritic Fallout 4 got an 84 on Metacritic Fallout 3 got a 91 on Metacritic on PC

So you're talking about like 91 96, 84 in that order Yeah 84 And can they evolve the formula enough to keep us happy For us to say like Wow this is just a prettier version of an early 2000s game

Or a mid-2000s game Asimbo in the chat says, No Man Sky has a 71 on PSP. Oh, Shimb, I need you to time yourself out. All right. I'm going to say an 80.

Eight? I'm going to say an 88. That's really high. It's so excited. I almost went higher, like, I mean, the fact that you can't play

at 30 or 60 frames or second on consoles, really not great. But think about all that's in this game. Play on PCD. How could it even do that? Like, I guess the best thing about that,

is like, you want to, yeah, there's like, you don't need that many. Is that real? Can you not play in 60 frames? They're locked to 30 on consoles, I heard.

Isn't that a thing? Is that not a thing? I don't know. Look it up. I mean, that's the case. Just think about, like, I'm pretty sure it is. They're ray tracing all of space.

You know, think about how much work that is on the CPUs. I'm just thinking of like how much more of an active shooter it's going to be when you're going into the combat. Yeah, that was a poor choice of wording. Yeah. The tone you said. into. But you know what, like in the comparison

to fall out, right, where we have vats and stuff like that, like it doesn't seem like there is a system like that, right?

And so the fact that is the shooting going to actually feel good in action? Yeah, especially in 30 and stuff like that. That's so weird.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, my mistake. 30 frames for 4K, 60 for 720

to 18 to 1080 on Series S. You imagine playing 720? Bro. But I have a 80 monitor. that actually works perfectly. I'm in.

See, my question with Andy, you're talking about, lessons learned. Like, I wonder when they started learning those lessons in the middle of the production of this game.

I think because it's been in production for so long, we're talking lessons learned around Fallout 76, let's say a year into fallout 76, that's what,

2018, 2019? 2019 about? Yeah. I don't think that they When I say lessons learned I don't necessarily mean like improving The core gameplay loop

I just mean Functionality What works What doesn't work How can we make this game not Run and be a Embarrassing buggy mess at launch Because

I think there have been I think developers Learned enough with Andromeda And then Cyberpenter punk came out and was even more of an embarrassing launch. And I think that like Anthem. Oh my gosh

Anthem. Make that a single player game dude. If I go back at time and I wave my fucking game dev wand, make that shit a single player game. I don't know, man. I would hope that the combat in this game is going to be better than what

Bethesda combat typically has been because of both lessons learned. Because of new technology, right? You're rocking with an Xbox Series X as opposed to an Xbox 360. Higher frame rate, I think 60 frames per second at 1080 is going to feel, hopefully feel good for a first person, for a first person shooting. And then also looking at other examples, like something like Cyropunk, I actually really

dug the combat in Cyropunk. And I know it's a different developer and like different ethos and all that stuff, but also, what, outer worlds had pretty decent combat. I would be, I would think that you'd be able to do it as with Thesda, given all of the leaps that we've made in terms of the actual technology that we're working with. And it's super encouraging for my taste at least that the game looks as good as it does, even though it started development such a long time ago. And usually that leads to a game looking outdated at launch.

And whether that's like the tech or whether that's just the aesthetics that they're going for, but I've never liked the way any of the fallout games look. Yeah. Even though maybe you can make them better, you know, perform me, they still have like a certain look to them that I just don't find, like, inviting. you know. So Greg's at an 80. Bless is at an 88.

I'm at an 84. I was between 84 and 86. And I think at the end of the day, it's going to be on the lower side. What do you think, Andy? I said 87. 87. Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

Oh, man. I didn't even put anything down here. Greg said 90. I'm going 88. But I'm telling you right now, it's going to be a 10. And I think it's going to be a 10. It's going to be a master of Spider-Man. 2018.

Yes, 2018. 2018, yeah. Is one of my favorite games ever? Is it perfect? No. Is it a 10? No. But I mean, like, goddamn, I enjoy the hell out of that game more than pretty much any other

game ever. Like, it is just so much fun to play and be in that world. And there's so much I love about it that even the things I don't love as much, the Mary Jane sequences, some of the story. choices, like this and that, whatever. It's still like, damn, this is as good as a Spider-Man game can be. And I expected this one is going to be better.

But, yeah, I think review-wise and critically, fair, I'll give it 88. And I think I'm in a very similar place. I remember there was a few weeks ago where we were talking about how Spider-Man 2 is going to do on Metacritic. And, like, you know, I made the argument that I don't think the Metacritic matters for Spider-Man because

it is, like, I don't think Insomnia is trying to put out a god of war critically acclaimed 96 on Metacritic type of game with Spider-Man. I think they're trying to put out one of the most fun games you're going to play on the PlayStation. That's sell so much.

That's going to sell buttloads. And I'm with you that, like, Spider-Man 2018 for me is one of my favorite games, probably ever, right? Especially when you're talking about PlayStation games or PS-4 games. I think this is interesting because Spider-Man for PS-4

has an 87 on Metacritic. Spider-Man-Malz Morales has an 84 on Metacritic. I think, um, scope-wise, Spirenan 2 is going to be bigger than Spider-Man Miles Morales, right? And I think Miles Morales probably got dinged for its brevity, right?

How short that story was. And, like, some people, me, felt like it was a bit rushed. So I think it's going to get, I think it's going to get higher than that. I think the question is, this is going to do more than Spider-Man in 2018. And that's where things get tough. Because, yeah. How much more can you do? You can get rid of the Mary Jane sections.

You can get rid of maybe, like, the science puzzles sections. And, like, I think there were parts in Act three of that game that got a bit messy in terms of story. telling and introducing the Sinners to Six and all that stuff. Yeah, the pacing in the last third. It goes at like a breakneck speed. Yeah. When you're suddenly in a city that's been taken hostage, like, that just, a lot of that felt really off to me.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're like really up the, like, kind of open world design of like, here are all of these, like, areas to take out. Yeah. Here's another thing I'll say is that Ratchett and Clang ripped apart was an 88. An 80?

88. Insomniac might be peeking out. They might be picking out at the 88s, dude. They might be thinking out at the 88 rate. 88s that are like, let's be real. They're better than that. But critically, they're not. Yeah.

Let's be real. Our favorite 88s. Yeah. 80 for Brady. I'm going to say 88 as well. Andy? What was yours, Tim? 88.

Greg? 90. 86. Wow. Sevent. I mean, the inclusion of Venom, I do think, is a, like, easy thing to fuck up. So, a lot of it is like,

I don't know what you can do with variety to really freshen up that experience. Like, more power to them if they do it. I'm rooting for them, obviously. I want it to be a lot more fun when you're out there in the open world, but I just wonder if it's going to be. You know what?

Is it too late for me to change? A lot of the same taking down. I'm bringing mine down to an 86. I think they're going to find some fun things to switch between Peter and Miles like tech-wise that I think is going to impress people. And then also, yeah, you got Venom, but you also got Green Goblin, possibly,

with the teases from the first game. And, yeah, Craven is another weird toss-up. But if those are, like, the only three villains and not the entire sinister sticks, there might be a little bit better focusing on stories of. Okay, we have four more that I want to do here. I'll tell you what I'm Craven. This next arm...

Armored Core of Software game. Armored Core. Where are we out with this one? Greg Miller coming in with a spicy 81. You know, I'm not too far off. I'm going to go 84. Yeah, I'm feeling it. I'm in 83. Yeah. Armour Corps is

going through typically haven't done that great I'm at a Metacritic. This is, of course, a new era for From Software, right? This is post Souls, post-Elden ring, post-Secaro. Alone. Sorry, what would you say, bless? I'm not, I've not figured it out yet.

Okay. I said 84. Talk to me, plus. What are you at? I'm just looking through, I'm looking through the entire Armour Corps franchise

right now to see, has there been any, oh my God. And to be real with you, I think the game gets a lot of, a lot of nines and tens, or a lot of nines, rather, out of tens,

because of the FromSo name and because what they're going to do with boss fights and kind of make them a bit more involved. But at the end of the day, it's going to be a mech game and it's going to really, really hinge on how good is the combat.

That's where this game's going to like either completely succeed or just fail. I think it's also going to be like a lot of customization, a lot of like stats, a lot of like getting into the nitty gritty of customization your mech and all that stuff and going through Armour Corps 2 for PS2, 78 on Metacritic, Armored Core 3,

74, Armor Corps 4, 65. Armor Core 5, 65, right? Like, I, and these are games that I think are very much speaking to a niche audience and maybe this probably won't affect reviews, but who knows, like, I could see a lot of people coming into armored core and being like, oh, yeah, I'm a from software fan. I played Souls. I played Eldon Ring and they tried

at Armored Corps and they're like, whoa, this is not what I was looking forward to from this developer. This is so different. This is so nerdy. As a review outlet, right, you're assigning people to this game with the understanding that they are, they know what they're reviewing and they are going to be an armored core person to some extent, or at least have enough knowledge to be able to review it competently. But how hard is it to develop a mech game? Like a fantastic mech?

Like, what is the best MEC game? And how much, like, where was that on Metacritic? Zone of the Enders, the second runner. And I don't know. And that's my thing is like, is there is there a MEC game above an 85 on Metacritic? Probably is this going to be the first one?

Wait, is Zoned of the Enders? Second runner. I also think because of how kind of, I don't want to say basic, but for the first of the first of the first of the first of the enders, the lack of a better word basic. The idea of it being sort of like old school mission based structure just like the old armor corps where, you know, like you're not necessarily

experiencing this, this big campaign that it's going to go like cut scene to cut scene. Like the idea that you go back to a mission list and you pass that mission and you maybe got some parts to upgrade your mech onto the next mission, like that feels kind of arcady and archaic in a lot of ways. And I think that that will see. sit with people not too great. Like that feels like a very kind of old school approach to game design. This is a funny thing, but I said 83, and

I think that because it's Armored Core 6, if it was just Armored Core, a brand new reboot, I think it would be 86. And see, that's where I'm at. It's like, this is Armour Corps 6. But also it's called Fires of Rubicon. That's pretty cool. So where are you at? Bless. So Zone of the End is PS2, 78. Zone of the Enders, the second runner, 71.

That's some bullshit. I mean, it's higher than the original Almer Core game. That's fucking bullshit, dude. Somebody in chat mentioned... There's no way that's right. Somebody in chat mentioned Titanfall, right? Which, like, I wouldn't really count because that is... It's the first-person shooter

where you happen to get into mechs. I'm going into this with the idea that this is going to be the best mech game of all time. 84. They wouldn't want to... On the opposite side... On the opposite side of things, right? I've already talked about all the reasons

why I don't think it's going to be, like, this 10 out of 10 game of the year, or even, like, a game that's going to be amazings all across the board. On the opposite side of things, I don't think From Software would want to make this game if they didn't think it was going to be amazing. In the same sort of way that we talk about Last of Us Part 2

and how Neil Juckman was like, there's more story to tell, and you're like, well, fuck, if he says that there's more story to tell, this dude could make any game that he wants right now. The fact that he wants to make a part 2 to one of the best games of all time, fucking let him. I bet you it's going to be pretty damn good,

and it really, really was. I don't know if, I don't know if From Software takes on this challenge, unless it's like something they know that they're going to knock out of the park. Like, yeah, they could have made, they could have made Sekido too. This is the,

the same director who directed on Sekido, which was originally, originally supposed to be a Tenchu game. And like, they could have just made another Sekito style game, but the fact that they know that like, no, we're going to go back to our roots

because we have something to really show off here. I will never forgive. Edge Magazine for giving Zona the Enders, the second runner, a 40 out of 100. tanking it's a Metacritic score. This is a bullshit, y'all.

Bullshit. That game was fucking awesome. So final, final I'm going to say 84. I think it's going to get a lot of eight to nines. Assassin's Creed Mirage. I mean, I don't even know anything. It's the single player one. It's them going back, smaller scale.

We just haven't seen anything outside of like scenes. What did Assassin's Creed syndicate get on Metacritic? a 76 not enough yeah I think that it's gonna be around there I'm going to 78 on this one Greg's at a 79

Bear was there an Assassin's Creed after syndicate was that origin those origins that was the first big open world one but this is going back see I would say I'm going to 80

like I would start looking at more of like in the black flag Assassin's Creed 3 era of scores there because I think the way that they're talking about this one it feels like it's going to be even smaller than like syndicate became, you know?

Because even though syndicate was more of the classical school, like the open world definitely became a bit bigger and more dense, where I feel like they're going to start looking more at the designs that they had for the older games. So Assassin's Creed 4, which a lot of people will put up there is one of the best Assassin's Creed games ever. Yeah. 83 on Metacritic from PS4.

I think it could hit that. See, I don't. I, based off of current Ubisoft and like this game's starting, off as an expansion for Valhalla and then turning into its own thing. I don't know if it's going to be that special of a game. I think this is going to be like... I would argue the opposite

where if they were thinking of this as an expansion for Valhalla at first and then maybe had a moment where they're like, oh, this could be its own game. They might have had that moment where like, no, this is actually something more special than just an expansion for Valhalla. And the reason that they did that

was because the main character is someone who yeah, money. But also So the idea for why it was an expansion at first was because the main character in a mirage is a character that was introduced in Valhalla. Devil May Cry was originally Resident Evil 4. Wow. I also don't know why I feel like in sort of like this hindsight 2020 thing, I feel like if Metacritic existed back then and if we had this sort of same review mantra that we do that we have nowadays, I feel like Black Flag would have scored a lot higher back. then. So I don't really trust that Black Flag score. I feel like

the way it's talked about now, the way everybody talks about how Black Flag is the best Assassin's Creed. I feel like it's a higher rating than what? An 84 you said? Yeah, 84, yeah. It was essentially like the best next gen launch title. So I think that's another thing that people remember bond memories of the game because it

was tied to the PS4 and Xbox One. Yeah, I'm going to say this gets a 79. I'm going to say 77. And it's going to have like 90 percent eight out of tens and the rest of it are like a couple sevens and a couple nines. I think it's also likely that it just doesn't come out

because Uvisov doesn't like putting out games. Yeah, that's true. I mean, that's another, yeah. Well, next up we're going to talk about Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Another Ubisoft game. We don't know shit. This one's a hard one to talk about, but it'll be yeah by the time

we meet the fire tribes in part three. I hope it's good. I think it has a chance of being good. Pandora's a dope-ass world. You can not like the movie or whatever, but like the idea of flying around that world's cool. but did Horizon already do it? You know what I mean?

Like just having that kind of like that low Oh, it's not going to be as good as Horizon I don't think Can we agree that there's like zero chances comes out in 2012? No, I think it does. I just feel like the fact that we haven't seen anything. I imagine there's been like issues and like I look, we've talked about a million times. Yeah.

What the fuck is you? What's going on at you? What's happening? What are they? What is happening? I'm sorry checking up on my friends at Ubisoft. At some point I do think that like there we're going to, the fiscal quarters and with skull and bones being moved and stuff,

I think that they're just in a shuffle spot right now, that they're like, hey, let's just figure this out. Because Ubisoft is like ride or die E3. I can't imagine the game coming out, or the game shown off at E3, and then coming out a couple months later. That seems like impossible to me. I mean, I think this game's further along then.

Yeah, I think it's further along, and I think it's just a lot smaller scale, right? That's like, it's not going to take them that much time. Remember, a size of screen used to be annualized, and I think that it was like a... You think Avatar is a smaller scale? Sorry, I'm thinking of a Assassin's Creed Mirage for the movie.

Yeah, no, no, no, no. Yeah, I think Avatar's going to be a pretty, pretty big scale, but. That's going to be like the Star Wars scale, sort of. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if it's going to be Star Wars scale. Yeah, a little under that, but like, I mean, more close to that than a mirage.

If I'm James Cameron, I was like, this, like, no game made after my fucking movie, like, is going to come on and be a seven out of ten. Well, except that mobile game. Yeah. Yeah. I think that Frontiers of Pandora has a chance to be a surprise.

But even having said that, like, Greg's into 76. I'm going to go 84. I'm going 80. 82. Because, like, what you were saying, Andy earlier about something, I've seen a lot of bullshit.

You were saying that it's just fun to shoot things. Talking about Suicide Squad, right? It's like just being a shooter means it's going to be good enough. I think that Avatar, here's what I want to do. I take back my vote. I'll take back what I said there.

What did what Outwriters get? A bunch of high, sevens, low 80s? 73. Really? Yeah. God, that game's so much more fun. The reviews are crazy. They zone of the ender did this.

Wow, yeah, that throws me off. You know what? I stand with where I was. I'd write his fucking rules. I will say... 84's too high. What am I? What am I smoking?

81. I'd riders has like the Stranger of Paradise dialogue thing going on. But that game is so much fun. You know, bring me it down to a 79. I feel like a... I'm envisioning the avatar from Tuesday, Pandora, Metacritic page. It's hard for me to, like... You see the yellow.

I can't, yeah. Like, I can't put green there for some reason. That doesn't seem green to me. I get yellow vibes. I think a yellow is actually... Fuck it. I'm committing. I'm sick in 84.

You're like a fucking, like a psychic reader. Like, dude, like, I'm not seeing green. I'm seeing yellow. I'm seeing yellow. I'm going to say it is that, yeah, the avatar game that I pulled up, which is James Cameron's Avatar the game. Different time. On PS3. On PS3 is a 59, and that was developed by Ubisoft.

Different time. But lessons learned. Lessons learned, everybody. Final game, Lies of P. Oh, man. This is a tough one. It is. I hope.

I'm going with the shocker here. I'm going with the big little shocker, 76. Wow. I think it's going to be a... I think this game is going to... And this is me like... Again, just setting my expectations super low in hopes that it blows me away.

But I feel like it's going to come out and be like a lot of other really, really, really pretty soulslikes that we've seen trailers for before and go, holy shit, this is the next coming of Christ. I think of a Mortal Shell, which looked so impressive. And it came out and was like,

that's fine, 7 out of 10. And I feel like this game's going to have a lot of those vibes. See, Mortal Shell is the exact place I went with it and also games like The Surge, right? And the Surge Metacritic 73. Mortal Shell Metacritic 76.

Eliza P for me has the secret sauce which is Pinocchio. I love why you started laughing before you even said it. It was a tough one to get out. But like, come on, man. Jimmy Cricket's in the game. They got Jiminy Cricket and he's probably going to be fucked up somehow. They got Jepetto. I assume that's Jepetto. Yeah, my guy.

Come on, man. He's going to tell a lie. His nose is going to grow. I like how your argument for this game is literally just your Michael's, no, your Michael Sarah impression. Yeah, come man. Come on, man. I'm dead and I'm in space. Andy, you missed blessing to an

impression of Michael Sarah as as Isaac Clark from dead space. And it was literally just, oh, man, I'm dead and I'm in space. This game just looks sick as hell and I wanted to be sick as hell. I'm going 77.

You're fighting automaton's Where are you going, Bless? I'm going 86. Oh, I'm going 86. Wow. I mean, I love that. Look at this boss right here.

Yeah, that looks amazing. And how his hands are spinning and shit. Oh, how good is near Autometer? It does look like Neurotometer. God. Yeah, the fidelity on this, looking at every trailer I've seen, it really does remind me of how wowed I get when I see the Atomic Hearts trailer or Atomic Heart trailer. Like, it has that level of this.

This could be a thing. Yeah. This is like the latest version. of this. I think it's running actually on Unreal Engine 4, and it kind of reminded me a lot of of Colise of Protocol running on Unreal Engine 4, where it's like the last bastion of this engine. We are fucking using every piece of juice, every little bit of pulp. Remember when Mortal Shell tried to make deep action game a thing? This is a deep action RPG. Trying to like use that instead of Souls like? Really? I don't remember that.

Yeah. Let us know in the comments below. Do you remember that? Also, let us know if you thought that we were spot on or completely off about any of these guesses. Let your metacritic predictions be known. I want to see all of them. I'm going to argue with all you. Yeah. We'll take you all on, as Optimus Prime would say. He also says, let them come,

which I appreciate. Let them come. So, this has been fun. We're about to shoot a kind of feudy. We are. So you guys can go over to Patreon.com slash kind of funny to see that. Who's the reigning champ, everybody? I'm the reigning champ. Am I going to continue that, rain? I hope that I will.

But we'll have to wait and see. Snowmike Mike will be joining us for this one. Oh, God. It's going to be a lot of fun. But anyways, we are... One second, everybody. Let me do some secret stuff. Well, guess what?

If you're watching this, non-Patri-on people, we're going to give you a little hint at what you're missing with Kind of Feudy. We're going to give you an episode of Kind of Feudy right now. Yeah, what's up? You just finished listening to The Kind of Funny Gives. games cast. But to end this episode, we want to do something special. Over on Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny, we have a show called Kind of Feudy, where I'm joined by Greg, Tim, and Andy, and I challenge them to trivia, where the answers are dictated by the audience. Just for this week,

we want to give you guys a free episode to listen to. If you want to check out more episodes of Kind of Feudy, along with a bunch of more Patreon content, you can head to Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny, and say that blessing sent you. Enjoy, and until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you. Feudy, the original trivia game, now trivia show hosted by yours truly. I'm joined today by Tim, Andy, and Greg. Contestants, are you ready? Yeah, I would say that I'm ready, but first I just want to give a shout. Look how good Greg Miller looks.

He looks great. He looks great. Onsleeve shirts, fantastic. You can get that at kind of funny.com slash store. The new X-Cast long sleeve. What's the emblazoning your arm, Greg? Those are Xs for X-Cast. KFX, KFX, KFX.

Of course, kind of beauty. He's drinking out of the tree. feed you drink it. Whoa! It's not waterproof. The base is not waterproof. She pours out everywhere.

I love the commitment so much. It smells like it tastes like a little bit of soap because I watched it a little like that. The smell of an energy drink. Oh. What is the rock star energy smell?

It's kind of like fumes. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. But what is it that causes the smell? Guarine quantity. That's what it is. Yeah. Gwari.

Warren. Warren. Yeah. Garnatine. Sounds like a water Pokemon. Which one? Me? You're talking to Mike more.

I've been fucking up. Noob. He's talking to like Tim's like. God, how much is in the base? You're going to have to unscrew. It's going to be so sticky. Yeah, you have to watch this thing thoroughly. It was going to be really unfortunate.

If anybody else wins today, it's me unfortunate. Game Grill's a great ball. That's a great pole. He's the vampire. He's a vampire wrestler. He was a vampire that wrestled. He was a vampire that wrestled. He was a man.

And people say wrestling isn't real. You know how there's a lot of the Japanese wrestlers that do the venom where they like spit out the poisonous people? Recently, I don't remember exactly the details of this, but Shinske Nakamura from WWE went to do some Japan show with an icon over there that I'm unfamiliar with. And the icon is known for doing the whole spitting out the... Green mist, right?

And Shinske locks up with him. sucks it out of his mouth and then spits it back at it. Oh. I'm like, it's pretty fucking cool, man. That's cool. You all just kissing. Oh, they're kissing. They made it look good too.

But he sucked that shit out and spit it back. I was like, oh, man, that was commitment. That's awesome. And you know what, guys? Worth the gift. Totally worth it. Well, there you go. Of course, kind of feudy, the rules are simple.

I've surveyed over 1,200 members of the kind of funny audience on a number of prompts. Each round, I'm going to read to a prompt and we'll ask each of you, which answer you think the kind of funny best friends gave the most. I've narrowed down to five answers per prompt. If you give a correct answer, the more popular the answer, the more points you'll receive. For example, I might ask you to name an incredible open world RPG. If Greg says Skyrim and it's number one, that'll net him 50 points. If Tim says The Witcher, and that's number two, that'll let him 40 points.

If Andy says fallout three, and that's number three, they'll net him 30 points and so on and so forth. It's round robin. Each player will get a max of two guesses per round. Last place goes first after the first round. Whoever gets the most points after five rounds wins. Contestants, are you ready? Yeah. I'm ready.

Andy, how does it feel to have that trophy in front of you for the first time from me? It feels great, yeah. I mean, I knew push a T, so. I mean, that's all you need to know. Mm-hmm. Got that one last week. Greg knew Nicky Minaj. That was one of the years.

A lot of people argue it shouldn't have been defendants because that wasn't a game's kind of feudy, you know? I think you were the one who said he wanted to defend it. Despite it. And then at the end of it, you try to gaslight it. It's saying that you won. Like, at the end of it, I was so close. I was so close for getting away. I was like Greg Juan, that sucks.

I think it was blessing and maybe Kevin, because I don't think Barrett was running and they were like, wait, no, did. Let me a second. This isn't right. And we looked back at the scores. I was like, how did Greg Lynn? That's crazy, but I'd accepted it.

And it wasn't real. That's crazy. All right, round one. Name a game that would pop up if you googled female protagonist. Name a game that would pop up if you Google searched female protagonist.

For this one, I will accept franchise names. We're going to start off with the champion, Andy Cortez. Tomb Raider. Andy says Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider is our number one answer. That's going to get you 50 points. Next up, Tim Geddes. Horizon.

Tim says that's a great answer. That is our second most popular answer. Wow. We. That is going to get you 40 points. Greg Miller. Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Greg says Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

That is not on the list. If I would have said Assassin's Creed, you would have given it to me, though, right? I wouldn't have no No Assassin's Creed on the list Oh okay well And we're back To Andy

Real deep roster isn't it Yeah it's really tough It's really tough Um Well this is gonna be a weird Mirror's Edge Andy says Mirrors Edge Mir's Edge is not on the list

Damn it Tim Gettys How much fire in my kind of O-Ne I know I'm gonna go The Last of Us Oh, that's a good answer.

Good answer. Tim says the last of us. I'm going to give it to you at 20 points. Last is part two. Good job. Great job. Next up, Greg Miller. We have two options left.

Our 30 point option and our 10 point option. I feel like this is going to be one of those. I'm going to miss. And then you'll give it to us and we're all going to go, oh, that's good. That was great. That's great. Greg is our final guest for this one.

Do it. Who did it. Who your shot? Life is strange. Greg says life is strange Life is strange Is not on the list That was a good one though

Very good guess one I guess one My guess one of the fire He's spicy When I was gonna say Because it's like accurate But I'm not sure Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy not on the list Damn Was Portal on the list Portal was not on the list This is a tough one There's a lot of options for this one At 30 points We would have guessed Metroid

Oh fucking excellent Afts Straight forward one At 10 points Bayanetta Sure okay Yeah Bea forgetta

Is what I said Whoa That's what I said during the Game Awards. You all should have been there, man. That was crazy. With that, Andy got 50 points with Tomb Raider. Tim got 40 points with Horizon. Tim also got 20 points with the lastest part two.

Barrett, what's the score? Currently in third place is the man who tried to steal the win last time, is Greg Miller with zero points. Stop the steal, dude. In second place is the solid, as always. Andy Cortez with 50 points. Like a rock. They're playing in my grocery store the other day

And then in first place Outside out of the first round Is Tim motherfucking Geddes with 60 points I can't believe you docks us like that What that I go to a grocery store Everybody knows that one grocery store Played like a rock

I think it was a radio Oh like a rock groceries Round number two. Name a game franchise that blessing Adioje Jr. loves. Name a game franchise that blessing Adioje Jr. loves. We're going to start off with Greg Miller. God, damn it. See how much he listens.

This is basically like... Oh, damn it. Greg says Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong is the 10-point answer. Wow, that sucks. That shit. Fucking Bricktown. Next up, Andy Cortez.

Securo. Andy says Sekiro. Sekiro is not on the list. Fucking what? Next up, we got Tim, Ma fucking Gettys. Sonic the Headchog. Damn.

Sonic the Headchog. Sonic is our 50-point answer. This fucking guy might win one, dude. Yes. He's on fire currently. Woo! Next up. What was the question?

again. A franchise blessing. We're back to Greg. Name a game franchise that blessing at Aalje Jr. loves. I'm torn by two game franchises. I also think could not even be on the list.

Yeah, there are definitely games you like. You know what I mean? That you love even. Loves them. I'm going to say FIFA. Greg says FIFA. FIFA. Not on the list.

I like your head was out there, though. Come back to me to the other one. It's all done. We're back to Andy. It's the wording, but I want to say to anyway, Bloodborne. Andy says Bloodborn. Bloodborne is not on the list. What is?

Who? How? But that's like, I mean, it's just wording. Like, whenever people are like, what's Tim's favorite game? And like, people just like entered in the things that he played recently instead of the stuff he thought that would have been on the list. You know what I mean? How?

How. Every game that gets mentioned on Gamescast, me and BloodBlet, Let's see and go, it's not as good as a Souls or a Blood-Born game or a Secuto game, you know? Tim, you're our final answer. Now, here's the thing. I don't necessarily associate the franchise with you, but I know that your number one game of all time is Breath of the Wild. So I'm going to say Zelda. Tim says Zelda.

Zelda is not on the list. I was torn and I wanted to say Guilty Gear. I mean, guilty are also not on the list? Are you, for Andy's line of reasoning, are you doing like a Soulsborn? Is there like, is there? There wasn't any Soulsy thing on it. Okay, okay, okay. But I will say, more people rode in with Dark Souls

than they did either GTA or Meligier, which pissed me off. I'm like, y'all don't know me, because I never play, I'm not, I'm not, like, a Dark Souls game, right? I'm not like a big Dark Souls person. I do love Bloodborn, I do love Seconder, I do love Eldering. I think that's, you know, Meligier in GTA, talk about all the time.

Apex on there? Apex isn't on here. I think that's the umbrella of, like, the fact that Eldon Ring and Bloodbourne are games you always talk about, and those are like Souls games. So Persona Rinaina. So persona was the 40 point answer. That was the second most popular answer.

The third most popular answer, near. Near. The fourth most popular answer, the 20 point answer, street fighter. Yeah. Which is interesting, because I feel like I've only really talked about the new one. I'm not a big street fighter person historically. I would have expected better from you, audience.

I would have expected better. I got it. You suck, audience. You suck, audience. With that. Tim got 50 points with Sonic. Greg got 10 points with dokeycom. Barrett, what's the score?

Greg is still in last place with now 10 points. He's on the board. Andy is still in second place, still with 50 points. And getting a little bit of space between him and second place is Tim motherfucking Geddes in first place with 110 points. This might be one of those rare episodes where first place runs away with it. So Tim is far ahead right now. Hell yeah.

As we roll in. But he usually fucks it up. Let's see if he does it this time. As we roll into round number three, name a PS2 game that might move a player to tears name a PS2 game that might move a player to tears Greg Miller PlayStation podcast host

Thank you very much. Metal Gear Solid 3 Greg says Miller Your Solid 3 is our 20 point answer What the fuck? Next up Andy Cortez The boss? The Lilies? That final boss fight? Eco

Andy says Eco one of my favorite games Eco not on the list Actually actually actually That is a mistake Eco is our 10 point answer 10 point answer

Oh shit hey Next up Tim Gettys Final Fantasy 10 Tim says Final Fantasy 10 Final Fantasy 10 Is our 40 point answer

Wow That game makes you cry Oh fancy 10 Yeah Dude the ending I never got there Nobody beat that game Nobody beat that game

Yeah They were all too into Blitzball. Come the fuck on. Greg Miller, we're back to you. Name a PS2 game that might move a player

to tears. NBA live vote to. Bugglers, right. That's amazing. Shadow the Clausus. Greg says Shadow Colossus. Is our 50-point answer.

Wow, really? It's our number one answer. It should be on the list, but like, number one. Andy Cortez. At this point, it's just, it's name a PS2 game. That's not here right now.

There's one option left at 30 points. Name a PS2 game that might move a player to tears. Oh, God. Interpret it the other way and name it the worst game you can think of. Because it was so bad. I spent $50 on this. I'm going to just say Metal Gear Solid 2. Andy says Middle Gear Solid 2.

Metal Gear Solid 2 is not on the list. Timma fucking Gettys are a final answer Kingdom Hearts Tim says Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts is our 30 point answer This guy can't be stopped right now Tim is on fire Tim is on fire right now right now

Here's your sticky fucking truck Andy got 10 points with Eco Greg got 20 points with Meliger Solid 3 Tim got 30 points with Kingdom Hearts and I would have taken one or two for that one Tim got 40 more points with Final Fantasy 10. Greg got 50 points

with Shadow Colossus. Barrett, what's the score? Right now, the Texas Street is in last place with 60 points. Getting ahead of him is Greg Miller with 80 points

and getting far in the lead. It's his day. How will he fuck it up? Is Tim motherfucking Geddes with 180 points? Oh, yeah. Damn, I'm not seen a lead like this. I love it.

Since 2022. It's wild. as we go into round four Tim, I was talking shit about you the end of day and I regret it now because you're dominating right now but I was like why don't me like why are Tim and I from Gamescast not invited

to all these fantasy critics and I was like you know what because Tim never votes smartly Tim always goes for the creative answer and it always ends up fucking you but right now you're going with the smart answers Sometimes they could be both Andy they could be both Tim's locked in right now he's locked the fuck in

after weeks and weeks of learning it been. I think he's just been him taking it taking all of it in, right? Like learning from Greg, learning from Randy, learning from snow bike, and now it's all coming into fruition. He's all the straight face. Number four, name a type of animal you can play as in Diddy Kong Racing.

Name a type of animal you can play as in Diddy Kong Racing. Because of a tie, there are two 30 point answers. Huh. For six possible answers for this one. That's cute. We're going to start off with Andy Cortez. Monkey. We back to this.

A little pie of the A's bullshit. Andy says monkey. That is our number one answer. It always on here is ape, but I'm going to give you monkey. Damn. I was really hoping you're going to say no. You're going to say no and I was going to say Ape. I was going to need to follow up with Ape.

Next up, we got Greg Miller. Bird. Greg says Bird. Bird is not on the list. Bird. There was a confidence there that I believe. I don't know, man. Did your Czui's got a bird.

Maybe this one does so. I was like, are you going for like a category of animal? Maybe there's a chicken in there or a rooster. I don't know. Tim Gettys. Elephant. Tim says elephant. Elephant is not on the list.

We're back to Andy. Tim, are you played DiddyConrace? I'm not a Didiccon Race. This is my snowback mic moment of saying, Tim, you left the door open for me. Tiger. Andy leaving the door open said tiger

Don't let me stay good Tiger is one of our 30 point answers and we're back to Greg

Alligator I thought you're going to go worm Greg says alligator you know what Greg I'm going to

give it to you crocodile I see I was hoping if a monkey and ape worked out though I get that it's actually

not King K rule but like Kruil whatever Yeah, he looks like a Kremlin. I don't know if he's actually associated with him. We don't know the more details. Yeah.

I think he just happens to be a crocodile. All crocodiles aren't part of that gang, Tim, is the whole thing I'm saying. What point answer was that? That was the 10 point answer. Jump change every time. Tim, you're our final answer. Penguin? Tim says penguin.

Penguin, not on the list. At 20 points, you would have guessed squirrel. Because remember, Conquer is playable. He is. Yeah. I didn't remember that. All badass. At 30 points, you would have guessed Bear, because remember, Bainjo is playable.

Not the bird, though. Yeah, I know. Apparently not. Not the bird. Not the bird. At 40 points, you would have guessed a turtle, I guess. I don't even know what's being. I love the tiger.

I always used a tiger. Yeah, the tiger was really cool. That game's incredible. God, Did you con, I was playing on my Steam deck, allegedly. And that still holds up is one of my favorite cards. I think it's better than Mario card. I accidentally deleted my aunt's save file back in the day. Oh, no.

She was not happy. I didn't know what I was doing. I don't know what this console is, the leader safe file, like the whole game beat. I felt so bad, dude. How old was your A-N at the time? My Tia was always the gamer. When I was like five years old, six years old,

she was playing, she was serving me as Zelda was. She was like maybe 35 or 40. That's awesome. That's amazing. With that, Greg got 10 points with Crocodile. Andy got 30 points with Tiger. Andy also got 50 points with Ape. Barrett?

What's the score? Right now, Greg Miller is, you know, stealing the chum change down there. in third place with 90 points. In second place, catching up with his little legs, Andy Cortez with 140 points right ahead of him is Tim Gettys

with 180 points in first place. It's a close one. I see the light in the gap of the door. The lights of the gap in the door. Close the door. The door left open, dude. You got to lock that shit. Round number five.

Final round. Our final round. Name a game. where you can slow down time. Name a game where you can slow down time. Greg Miller. Max Payne. Rex is Max Payne.

Max Payne is our number one answer. That's going to get you 50 points. I believe that's going to tie you up with Andy Cortez. Damn. Next up. Andy Cortez. Just look that. Andy, name a game where you can slow down time.

Prince of Persia stands at 10. Andy says Prince Prussia stands at 10. the time. Prince of Persia is our 40-point answer. Fuck. Tim Gettys. Oh, God. I'm feeling the breath on his, on the back of his neck right now.

I hate this. The pressure's on. I'm blank. It's so hard. I'm going to go Zelda. Tim? If you need a specific one, I can give you it. I don't need a specific one.

Because Zelda is not on the list. And we're back to Greg. To give people context of where the score is at right now, I believe Andy did tie up with Tim with that answer of Prussia. That is correct. No. So the pressure's on in this final round. Greg Miller, name a game where you can slow down time.

Do you have a pick? I'm blanking on the name. I'm trying to think of it. I can't. I'm having a lot of trouble with it right now. Ooh. Yo, Tim and I were on the same wave. Maybe.

Like right at the same time. Yeah. Oh, I think I got one. Greg is thinking. Yeah, I know. I know. Because there's so many ones when you do little things. Like, I can think of like, oh, you upgrade this thing.

You get extra time. But I'm like, that doesn't count, right? So that's not what they want. That's what my head was that with Breath of the Wild. Yeah. Not really. I mean, yeah, it's... I don't see the game.

I can see the words. I just don't know what it's called in. Here's what I would like to do. I would like to respectfully pass since I can't win. And then I'd like Andy to tell me what he's thinking. And I will try to help you to beat him. Great. Wow.

You're thinking of what now? Can we get a little boom, boom, boom, boom. This is incredible. I've never seen anything like this in the history of kind of feedily's. This worked out so fucking well. And I don't know if it'll be there. Yeah, I don't either. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't think so. What I'm going to say is, because it's kind of like one of the, I'm just giving you my rationalization. This isn't like an ability. It just does it. And I'm hoping I'm putting my faith in the people. Final Fantasy. Andy. That was not what we discussed, but off mic, I want you to know that.

Andy says Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy is not on the list Tim, you're our final guess Tim, do you want to talk with me? Can you guess it for the win? You have three options here. There's a 30 point option,

the 20 point option, the 10 point option. Any of them will get you the win right here. If you don't guess right, I'm gonna get a time. And this might be the 10. I don't expect it to be the 20 or 30, but I'm gonna go with super hot.

Nice, nice. Tim, that's good. Guess is super hot. Super hot. Is our 20. Yes! Was that the one you were thinking, Barrett? I was thinking Fallout.

That's. So to give a breakdown, right? Because at 10 points, we would have guessed quantum break. Oh, no, I still would have lost. You still would have lost. That was what he couldn't remember, and that's what I gave. At 30 points, you would have guessed Bayonetta. Oh, yeah.

I feel like that's, you know, that's not as much on our radar. That was how many points? That was a 30-point answer. That was a 30-point answer, it was Bayoneta. I did have a tie breaker ready in case there was a tie with our, sixth answer, seventh answer, and eighth answer. Our sixth answer was Red Dead Redemption. Both one and two.

Sure, sure, sure, sure. For slowing down time. Our seventh answer, God of War, for slowing down time. Oh, yeah, the original games, the original trilogy. And then our eighth answer was Fallout 3 slash 4 for the VAT system. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So with that, Greg got 50 points with Max Payne. Andy got 40 points to Prince of Persia.

Tim got 20 points with Super Hot. Barrett, what's the final score? The final score for this incredible episode of Kind of Feudy. Greg came in, third place with 140 points, caught up as much as he could. Thank you. Someone who almost tied it and almost took the win,

but choked as he usually does, is Andy Cortez with 180 points. But today's champion is Tim motherfucking Geddes with 200 points. Smells like Guari. I was say, how does it feel to hold it? Is it sticky? Real steak.

Mickey everybody, but it feels good. Thank you all. Ladies gentlemen, Ivan Blessing. That's been Tim, that's been Andy, that's been Greg, and this has been another episode of Kana Futey. It's been our pleasure to serve you. Warana.