Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Top 5 Most Anticipated 2019 Games - Kinda Funny Gamescast Ep. 203

Episode Date: January 7, 2019

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What's up guys? Welcome to the first ever episode 203 of the kind of funny games cast. As always, I'm Tim Geddes joined by one of the coolest dudes in video games. Greg Miller. 7-9. What? The Reverend Joe Teddy. I'm feeling so self-conscious, Sam. I got excited.

I threw my hands up and my arm fat just jiggled on the camera. And for the first time ever as a full-time member of this show, the hair. Fran Mirabella. Thank you guys for having me. What's up, everybody? What a good time. I'm excited to be here and to have you here, Tim, because I've been on the show, but without you. I know.

It was very sad that I wasn't here for that, but now we can do this every week. 2019. Right here on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. Ladies and gentlemen, guess what? You can get the show at a whole bunch of ways now. Patreon.com slash kind of funny games. 2019. Everything changed, we can say now.

We're recording this. This is the first podcast that we're recording in 2019. It's before our January 4th stream, so things are going to get a little bit weird with the time. stuff in terms of where our heads are at. Sure. But by the time you're seeing this, all the announcements have been made. Fran is the new full-time host of Kind of Funny Games cast. There's a whole bunch of changes on patreon.com slash Kind of Funny Games, including all new memberships.

So there is a bronze membership, silver, gold, platinum. Silver is where you get all the content. You get this show early. You can be part of the show with bronze. There's a whole bunch of stuff. Go to Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny Games. We try to make it as clear as possible across the two Patrons. And now at the gold or platinum membership levels,

you get all the content from both patrons at those levels. So pretty good deals for you guys out there if you're fans of all things, kind of funny. But when it comes to the games cast, you can get the show three days early. Watch it live while we record it or watch it as a VOD. Or you can just wait and get it free on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games on Monday. Fran.

Yo. How excited of you to be here? I'm excited. I feel like I should say a little bit about my background. Like, does everyone really know why I'm here? Who the fuck are you framed Mirabella of the third? It's funny because I'm sitting here and I'm like, thank you. And that is the feeling.

But I feel like I should say and prove that I would like to be here. And I'm hopefully deserving of it. Sure. I'll prove myself on the show. Do you feel like it's the dawn of a new Mirabella era? Oh God. Jared told me he was going to say that. And I just hoped.

The Mirabellera. It's such a stretch. This is really a big stretch. I appreciate it. Leave it in the comments. But anyway, very quick history and how I met all these wonderful folks. Came from IGN, spent 18 years there. We recently left, Jess.

That's how old Barrett is. Yeah. And in all that time, he had to learn the back call. But reviewed a lot of games, did a lot of news, came from the same type of background. Greg did. And then did video over there. And everyone knows me now from Destiny, Fire Team Chat, probably. But of course, Maricard 7.9.

And I'm a streamer late at night. And yeah, that's a quick history, I guess. Streamer late at night. And that's the most important thing, again, I think it's important to point out that much like Jared Petty, you're one of the part-timers. Meaning that you are on games cast full-time. You're going to be here every, or you try to be here for every episode,

obviously. I think I'm missing episode next week. But you have, your streaming is still your bread and butter. So if people want to support you, they need to go to Twitchout D.S. Obviously, like they're here to support you guys, but if you have any extra line around, You can find me at Twitch TV slash FM3 underscore. But yeah, I'm honestly, I'm still figuring that schedule out.

Sure. I didn't, you know, I didn't plan for this. I know you guys were moving the schedule around, but now I have my Thursday kind of plan coming together. I want to make Friday, I think, quite honestly. Nice. You know, call it Fran Friday. Yeah, a little FM3 Friday is on Twitch. So that's my first plan and then sort of expand from there.

If people want to come and watch me play, you know, I want to get into previewing stuff in addition to, of course, I play stuff like Destiny, Fortnite, all that. But we'll kind of see where it goes. really good streamer. I hope people do support you. You are just excellent at it. I'm it's funny because I see all the things that I need to improve just like we all do doing this but I'm really hoping in 2019 to step it up. No you got a knack for it and you've practice very hard. You should play knack. Oh no you shouldn't know you should not know you should not know what you play knack. I guarantee your streamers will fucking spike if you

play knack with our audience they'll fucking jump on that that's bad what's the spike. More than you get compared to what I normally get that's pretty easy. It's not that. It's terrible. It's a Facebook group alone. I do have to ask you, Tim Getty. Yes. Now that Fran Mirabella is here, it's like, hey, you guys should get to know me a little bit.

Will we hear Fran Mirabella's video game history on Gamescast? What is that? It's kind of a tradition. Oh, God, there's a never-ending Jared Petty segment. At some point, yes, at some point. I don't know when. I don't know when. But what I want to do.

We got the whole year, boys. What I want to do next week is a topic. And I'm mad that you're going to miss this one, Greg. But the topic of the show next week, I want to be most controversial gaming opinions based on the 7.9. Oh, wow. You're never going to let it. I mean, the highway robbery. The crime that was done to Mario Kart Double Dash on the GameCube.

When IGN.com gouged out both its eyes and let that person review Mario Kart Double Dash 7-9, get out of here. So it's 2019, ladies and gentlemen. Hold on before you do it. Because you did a great job with all the intros. One thing that I didn't think it called out, that I want to call. I was about to say I want to drive back to the Patreon stuff. I always try to help them, but I always do it on right where you were. I just wanted to say that now.

We're very excited that at the Silver Tier, you get the pre-imposed show on the video and now for the first time ever pre-imposed show on the audio. Yes. Add free on both. So Silver membership, you get all of the content. You get party mode early.

You get when we do the seasonal video game shows. You get them early on kind of funny games. You also get the pre-and-post show audio and video every week for the games cast. Cool little improvements that I want you guys to notice. A bunch of new walls back there. We have about 50 new images added. So keep an eye out for those.

And also, So for the whole month of January, we are trying. That would have been better. I was like that last one was at all, but there's Spider-Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There we go. Hey, Spider-Man, what you're running on? For the whole month of January, every dollar that we make on,

additional dollar we make on Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny or Patreon. com slash Kind of Funny games are going to go towards us funding our first half of 2019 plans, which include you can go to both the patrons and look at the banner at the top. There's a thermometer of how far that we've made it so far. a whole bunch of new content that we're trying to make, a whole bunch of seasonal shows we want to bring back,

some new shows we want to make, and a world tour of meet and greets. The more money we make, the more places we will go to hang out with all of you guys. Every single dollar goes towards us trying to grow, trying to make kind of funny

a better business, better place for employees like our new employee, Barrett Courtney. Woo! Yeah, Barry Courtney! So please, if you have ever enjoyed us

here on YouTube dot com slash kind of funny games or youtube.com slash kind of funny or anywhere that we we make content we are asking for your help to please help us fund the first half of 2019 yeah right that's the thing for us i think and we haven't done an old school pledge drive in a long time right because we're lucky enough that the business is great and we have a you know so many great supportive best friends out there but that was our thing coming into this one right of hiring barrett being able to bring in fran being able to do all these new shows we're in this great spot but we're also about we're on another pad, right? We're on another precipice of doing something else.

We are at a point now physically where our studio does not have more space for desks. Barrett has the last desk, the part timers are now relegated to this weird, what used to be the LaCroix closet. You shoved us into the LeCoy closet at this point. So we want to build a future where we'll be able to get a bigger space. We'll be able to hire more people. Like, thank you guys for your support. We expect that it's there already because you guys are fucking awesome.

Tim, do you realize you have physically created a situation where you're able to where now all I can do is hang out in the kitchen and tell stories. Like there is now, no. Let's get to the video games. It was once an extra life punishment. This is now reality. Just got a door on there. I want to start with you.

Okay. Gris. Oh, yeah. You've been playing it. Greg talked a little bit last year. Yes. About this game. But what's been your little journey with it?

Yeah, it actually, that's a good pun right there. I caught it. I caught it. The artistically may be inspired from games like Journey. I haven't played a ton of it. So I'll caveat that, but I wanted to spend a little bit of time with it. It came out in December and I was just playing it recently. So it's one of those just really chill, beautiful, artistic kind of experiences.

I'm playing it on Switch. And basically, it's just this bringing color back to the world kind of thing and it's got this watercolor kind of feel to it. So the first color you bring back, for example, is red, spoilers. And then you kind of carry that on. But it's kind of just a platformer and I haven't made it far enough to see how it advances. but it feels nice. Everyone was saying, try this, try this, try this.

And that's how I arrived at. Like, I better make sure that I try it, especially now. Being on Gamescast, I want to make sure to get that portfolio of games out there. So I dig it for, I think it was like $17 bucks on Switch, US, and so far I definitely recommend it. It's just chill.

Do you think you're going to go back to playing more? Oh, yeah, definitely. I don't know how long the game is, but I think it's going to be something that you can pick up and put down, you know, for 15, 20 minutes at a time, which I like, because I've got my bucket list

of all these other games that I'm just always grinding and far behind on. So this is kind of a nice little played in bed kind of experience. Here's my question. You shut up here. Here's my question, Fran Mirabella.

We have to get used to having more people. Yeah. Do you find it entertaining? Because this is what I took away from it is when I came and talked about it in 2018, it was that I didn't find it entertaining, but I don't know if that was the point. Yes.

Like, I feel like it's meant to be, like you're saying chill. You bring up an awesome question. I'm always a bit like hesitant to do the review on games right before I get really far into them or at the end right so I'll bring up a controversial point IGN a given journey game of the year one of the years I absolutely disagreed not because I don't think journey was awesome because you're idiot though it was seven nine we already knew it was yeah oh okay but to your point it was very much this experience yeah it was beautiful in a lot ways it became like this uh it was just like an experience and it wasn't for me anyway about

gameplay mechanics a word you'll hear me use a lot when I talk about games so no gris does Gris, which is it, Gris? What did you say the first time? Gris. I think... Everyone says Gris. I think it's Gris. You'd think it would be gray.

I think I said Gris before and I think it's Gris. I think it's great. It's Spanish for gray. That makes, that's absolutely what it is. It's great. Well, we really effed it up. 2019. We don't know anything about culture.

Greg just said that shit. I didn't trust him about Spanish and all. I look over in Kevin and Kevin just gives me this. It's like, nope. No, he came to the mountain man bearded But it's that enough people are calling it griss and like then just nobody cares. Everybody understands. And also it's a weird game because I feel like it's the same thing.

On launch day when I picked it up and was playing it or I think maybe before, whenever, when it was out, so many people were tweeting, oh my God, this game looks beautiful and I'm going to jump in. Oh, I got it did jump in. It is beautiful. And then it felt like it's been radio silence since then. That people I think in the same boat of just like, oh, it was. To quickly wrap the point out, gameplay mechanics. There's not a lot going on.

It's very chill going through the world, bringing color back to it. And jumping around, it is a platformer. So will it open up and be as big as something like Ori, which has a lot of gameplay mechanics? I don't think so. That's what I probably would prefer. But it is, again, for like 17 bucks, it's just kind of this chill experience.

That's where I'm at with. And it sounds like you're playing it the right way right before bet. Yeah, it's not this big epic, but it is beautiful. Honestly, the art style. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. In the sound design, I love a lot too.

Again, that's what it's about. And there's a lot of games out there that I'd say are like that. It's a lot about the art. It's the same as, I mean, I don't want to turn it into this, but you go to an art museum. You look at art and you experience it in different ways. I feel like that is the kind of game that it is. You hide your poops in the corner of the art museum, too.

They'll never find it. What? What? You did this as a kid, definitely, did you? No, a legendary hater, Greg Miller, talked about whatever this game is called on an episode last year. And I had been pretty interested in it. And after that, it just kind of dropped off because I trusted your opinion on that.

But when I'm hearing from Fran is a little different. You were not hypercritical of it, but you're like, I just don't find enough here to pull me in. And Journey did. Journey did pull you in. This didn't. There was some X factor between the two that you explained fairly eloquently there. Fran, based on what you've seen, do you think this is a matter of your too early on to make that call?

Too early on to make the call. Okay. I'm sweating bullets, honestly, with the question. You'll find that's how I am with games. I really like to give them the time. I'm like trying to talk about it eloquently. I'm like, I have not played enough. Welcome to Games cast.

that is something you do know. Fortnite. Greg, you've been playing, you're back in. Yeah, oh yeah. Well, I mean, when we, after Game Awards, when they launched season seven, I jump back in and that's when,

we've talked about this in Gamescast. I tried it. I was like, I want to play Fortnite. Started playing the night and I'm like, I'm not going to buy a battle pass unless, wake up the morning and want it, woke up in the morning, bought my battle pass and I've been in.

What's been surprising is, if you remember, leading up to holiday break, it was, what is everybody going to play over a break? I'm like, what are you going to do? And I'm like, I want to get the UK, game over Gregi account, get some easy platinum on my American one. Thank you. Thank you for cheer.

Your chair, easy platyms? My man, Kevin, all right. I was like, I want to get into Astrobot rescue mission. I love PlayStation VR, and I haven't given that more than three worlds. I need to do that. That's an easy platinum. I wanted to, I've just played Fortnite the entire break. All I played was Fortnite, like, with a rare exception.

I think I popped out one night to tinker with something else, and I didn't like that and delete it. You know what I mean? Delete it. Wow. You know, I didn't you jump in. No, I was just like, It sucks.

You know what I mean? Yeah, I was head over heels with Fortnite this entire brain. It's got that loop, man. You know, even when you die, you're like, I'm going back. And then you know, it's hours later. It's something we talked about on Games Daily and in, I think, games cast as well. But that article or that tweet storm that happened of, like, somebody's spelling out that you know, it's so weird that. Fortnite, he went and played with his kid, right, and his kids' friends.

And it wasn't that they were playing the game. They were just hanging out and instead of da-da-da. Fortnite has, and I've been really blown away. And I'd love kind of fun. for next week on the games cast, I guess two weeks, because I won't be here on next week, and I want their responses.

If you're on the bronze tier and you can contribute to the show, go in two weeks, I'll put up a post about why you don't like Fortnite. And I understand everybody hates on whatever's number one, blah, blah, blah, blah. But every time I tweet about how much fun I'm having with Fortnite over break or that I was,

I want to, I've joked about a boot camp, because I need to go to a boot camp to get over the hump. So many people tweeted, I was just like, oh, God. I wish you weren't playing that game. It's free. And it's, and it's, yeah, what I kept saying to Jen while I'd be playing, because I would just, you know, drift in and out, you know, in between matches, I talked to or whatever. It was this conversation of like, it's the thing I've been saying a lot with different games, but man, what a game.

What a fucking game. And it's not that the journey to trying to get your victory to Royale is the hook. That's a great thing and amazing. It is the fact that I play that game and cool, I'm just going to focus on the challenges. I'm just going to go find the, you. utility pulls to knock down for this week's challenge. Oh, I did them all. Now I'm going to go find the hidden battle star.

Like, there's so much to that game that isn't trying to win and become number one. And it was even playing it and then being like, you know what? I finally did the, you know, Square on PlayStation of like, what are the other, what other modes do they have right now? And I jumped in and did at the time it was, you know, the shotgun explosive mode of 50 versus 50. And then I had been like, oh man, I'm terrible sniper rifles. I have this weekly challenge from two weeks ago that is, you know, kill somebody from 50 yards away and yeah, get this much damage. And then like two days later, it was like, okay, cool, it's, you know, 50 v. 50 snipers only or whatever,

or with like low gravity. And it's like they're putting in this playlist to keep, not only to keep me coming back of, I want to do my, you know, the new challenges just went left today, right? Like, I want to go see what they're all about for this week because I have all the other ones done for the first time in Fortnite where I'm actually knocking them out as I go, right? And then it was 14 days of Fortnite. There was all these other stuff going on. It was the, I'm playing by myself.

I'm playing with our friend's kids. I'm playing with Andy one night. It's just, I'm boggled by how not only good the game is. The fact that I played it on my phone. I'm like, I'm just going to get this challenge I needed one day when I was tying my shoes. And I was like, fuck, this still plays so well. No, I mean, playing devil's advocate for a minute, quick.

And this is devil's advocate. I think Fortnite may very well be the game of the decade when we look back on this 10 years. Debt. Yeah, I think so. I think it's the most important video game of the decade. Wait, back 10 years or 40? forward. 2010 to 2020.

Oh, this point. Speaking so far, it may very well turn out to be the most important. Oh, yeah. Sure. But two things. One, I think for some people, it's likely the same reason that they aren't attracted to something like a single screen arcade game. They look at that experience and the experience of perfecting something, the same loop over

and over and over. For some people, it's extraordinarily compelling. But for some people, I think they look at Fortnite and go, well, I'm just doing the same thing for months with the same people. That doesn't draw me. I think it's neat, but other people might. not. The same reason some people are critical of destiny. And second, hold on now.

How dare you? You got to drag destiny. And second, when it comes to the challenges, and this is a personal one, I think Fortnite's brilliant, but I couldn't care less about going and standing in a certain spot on a challenge. But I'm glad it's there

because so many people enjoy it and it doesn't take away from the rest of the excellent games. And this is my thing. And maybe it's just who we are in the way we talk critically about games and something that plays. I understand it not being. for you. I mean, like, Red Dead wasn't for me, but I respect it as a work of art, and I understand why it's beloved by so many people and why it does

click for so many people. Nobody would tweet that they're playing Red Dead in like, oh man, I can't wait to play more Red Dead, and me'd be like, boh. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, why are people so mad at Fortnite, again, with Epic having such a fucking great year last year? It's because it's mainstream and popular. I mean, it's like, that's the easy answer.

Because it's like, look at any music artists, look at any TV show, any movie. It hits a point where it's just like, oh, I don't like that because other people like it. They did turn on Taylor Swift. Yeah, I guess it did. Yeah, you were a fantastic Netflix. You see the kind of funny shirt in it? Yeah, it's awesome.

And you talk about Red Dead. With Red Dead at least, I can sort of understand if somebody dropped 60 bucks and was greatly, like, greatly disappointed, like, you're terribly wrong. But it's, but I understand being disappointed because you just pull out money on it. But Fortnite, you don't have to spend any money on. Yeah. So I can't figure out why people are upset. It's so funny because that, we've all had this conversation over and over again with our

friends, and it depends on where you land on it. But it transcends all. of this which is you argue about things you love and there are the people that will tell you that you can't love the things you love because you're wrong. There's a certain amount of people who that's who they are fundamentally and they drive me nuts and I think that's kind of what you're getting at great. Yeah, it's like, but if you can you look at something objectively and say oh well that's whatever, that's a nice car.

I don't like it but it's a nice car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's people who are like, that car sucks. You're crazy, it's ugly, you should get this, you know, and so I just think there's That's the fandom that brings us all together also, which is really interesting. But anyway, Fortnite is a highly polished, not a calling-in kind of game. There's so much in the game. And it's interesting because I don't play the game the way you do.

I play it a little more frustrating. Like, I want to get better and be- I want to get better. But that's what I focus on. Sure. I don't play competitively. People play competitively that are mad about all these other things. Sure.

One of them put a sword here, breaks the game. Like, I was never going to win to begin with. I don't care. It's hopefully to maybe Luke finish that point off. It's the same thing. Maybe you're getting out with Red Dead. It's like you understand why people maybe fall in love with it or just like it or don't like it. But can you look at those different perspectives?

Jared is on the other side, I think. He's mad at you if you don't like Red Dead. No, no. You just said it. I think it's very important. Actually, because I've seen this misinterpreted and I think it's important to caveat that. There's a difference between and you're wrong and that sucks. And you're wrong and that sucks.

Part of the fun of doing this with people you care about or. in our case with an audience of best friends that we care about, is that you can be whimsical and flippant and goofy and completely dismiss Fran's opinion because he gave Mario Carter 7.9 or, you know, things like that. But we're not really. And that's important. When you're with your friends and you're in a safe zone, you want to make sure they understand that.

That's a very different thing. But I think some of our audience misses that sometimes. That's not what he's talking about. There's plenty of people. Dead game. I mean, destiny. Same thing. Anytime you post someone to Destiny,

dead game. Why do you play? You know, again, if you look at games out there, there are truly not great games, and I think we can objectively say, like, why do you like that? You know, because it's not good. This kind of sucks.

Okay, well, I guess I can see it, but it's not good. Whereas games like Fortnite, Destiny Red, they are good in all these different ways, but there's things that aren't for everybody. Now, something interesting from, you know, the week and a half of just playing this game, just playing this game. What I think is interesting. You say, you know, you play the game

differently than me. Like, you're out there trying to do, I very much. Somewhere in between. But I, the reason I'm, I'm playing it in a way that it's whatever strikes my mood. I do go out and try to win. And it is like the thing. Now that everything's there, right, that you can link your account.

I did all that shit. And I can use the same Switch account on my PlayStation 4, right? Like I have been playing in December. I started on PlayStation 4 only after only playing on Switch. And it's been that thing of when we were putting up all the Victor Rows we were getting on Switch. So many people were like, why isn't that guy building?

You're like, oh man, switch players suck. And I'm like, ah, fuck you, man. It's fun. And like, it's still fun. on a PlayStation 4, but it is that this has been a week and a half, if not in a month now and a half, I guess, of grinding it out, of getting pounded down and then having to learn and change and do this to the point that now I feel like I consistently get top 10. I get to top five often, but once I get into that final five, that's when they're like, they're up there

and I'm like it snipped across the map. But it's, I'm finding it not, well, fuck, I'm never going to do it. I'm finding like, fuck, start it again. Start again. I want to do it again. But then there are the time, it is, it's a lot like luminous. When I'm playing luminous and I'm like hey, I'm out to set, I want to get a 12 combo right now and I'm like, I have to focus and do that. Like, it's like sprinting and then jogging. Yeah. There are the matches I come

out of. I'm like, whoof, what challenge do that? Oh, all right, let's go dance by Christmas trees. Yeah. Go to the IG and Wiki. Where is everything? Where is everything? It just go fucking land and do it. I was all, I finally bookmarked the IGN Wiki for Fortnite. Good plan. There you go. I want to put a

little, what's a pin? Is that the Greg Millerism? I didn't make that up. I know. You popularized it for sure. I did popularize it on the podcast. I want to put a pin in this because I like what you're saying about the why do people not like Fortnite. That'll be the topic of the show in two weeks.

I'm going to make a note. Let's do a thing. I want everyone to write in why you don't like it or why you do like it. Try to keep it succinct. What are your opinions on Fortnite? Classic essay form. But like also like intro, why you don't like it, I think is the, that'll be the headline.

I'm on it. I'm going to put this up on, we're putting this games cast up at Conradict. a funny day, right? Tomorrow? Yes, at some point, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, okay, then I'll, kind of funny day, night, I'll put it up. Cool.

Great, fantastic. And then real quick, Greg, Beat Sabre. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We came back into work for a New Year's party, and you're like, we're catching up, and Tim's finally like, dude, how's the, the League Legend song? You know, how is the DVA or whatever? And I'm like, dude, haven't even touched it. And he's like, what a fuck?

I'm, my thing with Beat Sabre, obviously, is I've been trying to do it every morning. Yeah. And when we got to vacation mode, it was very much like cool. No more work. Hang out with my wife. And so rather than me waking up early, we were just waking up together. At which point I felt like an asshole being like, all right, see you in an hour. You know what I just fucking doing this in the living room while she does whatever she wants.

So I took a break. Came back today though, Tim, because I knew we were doing this. Got back on my, getting back in my daily swing of it of the Bean Saber. Got back in there. And man, what a song, as we already knew. Not expert. It just beat the living fuck out of me. It is so fucking hard.

Well, so what's cool, what I want to know for you is this is a song you've now listened to countless times. Sure. Right. So you are familiar with the song before playing it. Right. Which is the first time in your Beat Saber history that's happened. Correct. Because going to Beat Saber, you only are playing the PSVR version, so it's only songs from the game.

Right. How was that experience different from songs you've never heard before? Today playing it, there was a moment on my expert run and then when I came back on Hard where I was laughing to myself. because like you're playing Beat Sabre and again these are songs I don't know for the most part right and now I love them or whatever you know what I mean $100 bills it's so fucking good you know what I mean I put the Beat Sabre soundtrack on

when I shower after playing a beat saber anyways though this is the first time where like there's one move right in the thing where it's like you're alternating left and right and it's a quick up and down up and down on them and as I'm doing it I'm like I remember this from the music video they're making me dance like the characters

in the music video and I was like that's fucking really good the wall? No, no, no. The wall's there, but this part is like switching back forth. But it's getting you to dance. Exactly, and I was like, I remember this, not choreography, but I remember this move of them doing their like breakdown thing

in the K-pop video and I was like, thank God Jen is in the other room. Can you feel so badass playing Beat Sabre? But you look like a goof. You gotta look so. Today, trying to jump back into it, I'm trying to do like one of the challenges in the campaign. I'm close to the end of the campaign. And it's like, you know, do it without failing or

you can't get anything. You can't miss once. And so I'm doing it and it's like, I can only imagine what it sounds like. Fuck. Yeah. God damn. Deep breath. Me trying to drink water and run in the mason jar into the fucking day. I'm like,

I'm like, oh, man. What a disaster. This is kind of a metaphor for how I feel every day all the time. Oh, dude. Yeah, totally. Jared. That's awesome.

I want to end this little what we've been playing segment off this week with. Jared teaches the kids. What is this about? Oh, this was a lot of fun. So I had a very relaxed chill Christmas. Went and saw some friends in D.C. They are my wife and I's best friends in the whole world. We went to college with them.

And they have a three, almost four-year-old kid. And I got to be Uncle Jared and show up with Aunt Angie with the switch that they don't have. And introduce this young fellow to video games. He's never played in honor. We really played video games before. And so we sat down, he's almost four. Oh, wow. And he's just not played video games.

And so we sit down and he's just. old enough to really get his head around console games in particular. So we start off easy. We got that Kirby Star Allies, which is great for teaching a kid about platforming. It's extremely forgiving. It's bright and colorful, easy to control, instantly comprehensible. He can walk to the right and left, figures that out really quick, realizes he's controlling what's happening, locked in.

And I'm flashing back to remembering that first time I held the joystick in Pac-Man and realized I was moving the little man around that I was in control and around the same age. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's great. But Kirby Star Allies, you got little characters that pop in AI controlled to help protect him. So they do all the attacking. He didn't know how yet. You can hop in right there next to him up to four people, kind of take care of him, guiding through. You can take it slow.

There's no timer. He was riveted. Could not stop playing. We moved on to a little Super Mario Odyssey. Oh, that's a big jump. Ah, but if you give him-a-a-a-a-hole of the dementia. Give him capi. Give him capi.

Give him capy. Okay. Play that two-player mode and give him the capy, and he can't fail. Oh. He's just there flying the little hat around and gradually starting to make the connection. So you made him cappy. Yeah, we made him happy. So we're Mario.

He's Cappy. Well, he was Mario for a while. We fall down in the big hole. We discover the dinosaur at the bottom of the big hole. The dinosaur is scary and shakes, and he feels the rumbles. He picked up the pro controller off the table. and he's like, and hid his eyes behind it. Adorable.

And then it peaks up over the pro-control just going, the dinosaur is coming. And back underneath it, it was fantastic. And then the next morning, I'm wearing my Pac-Man pajamas because, you know, I got the Pac-Man. And he's like, who's that? And he points at my,

points right to Pac-Man. And I was like, let's go find out. Boot up that Namco Museum on Switch. Ganned over the Pac-Man. Guess what kid gets Pac-Man real fast. Love it. Pac-Man's a great first game. There's only four axis of movement.

you can see him eating the dots and it restarts right quickly. Yeah, it's funny. It's just like a maze puzzle or whatever, but it's such a great game for kids. That's an awesome story. It was a great holiday. So Uncle Jared's buying a Switch?

Yeah, I know. You made it hard for them, Jared. I think the parents are probably buying the Switch now. Yeah, I think I sold the Switch this Christmas. Reggie, you'll send you your cut soon. Yeah, exactly. That's awesome to hear about, it's the things you always forget.

The Nintendo spends it a lot of time on, but like the Capi Experience. They are thinking about exactly what happened in it. so important to them. So it's good to hear about that. We don't experience that as much. In fact, hardly ever. You don't hear about it on the shows, you know, like this, but it's such a big part of gaming out there that you miss. That's how Angie and I played Galaxy. Angie's a pretty accomplished video game player, but she wasn't particularly interested in steering Mario around. So she was star bits and stuns for all the Mario Galaxy. She got a ball. That's awesome.

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Today we're talking about our top five 2019 games that we're excited for. We're going to go around the table. We're going to start with our honorable mentions. Then we're going to go into number five, then number four, and then guess what, Kev? I fucking hate you. Not number one. Number three, then two, then one. I was listening.

Brian, let's just start off with you. Honorable mentions. Get into it. Oh, man. I got my list right here. So we're just honorable mentions, no particular order. No particular order. Well, it was interesting because I had this list going and I realized like, oh, a lot of the

stuff I'm looking forward to is the stuff that I'm not sure if it's coming out. And that's the rules that we had going into this top five. It's games that have been announced for 2019. Either with a release date or just like they've said the year 2019. So last of us. exactly boom nailed the first one that's on my honorable mention

like duh I've been so excited about that one do you think it comes out this year I thought for sure it was going to so yes I actually think it does but I feel like given the quality and money spent on this and the freedom that naughty dog has

they think what if it slips until early next year but I do feel like it's coming out this year I think they're holding for that big announcement because I don't know what else they got to be quite honest that's trendy pat upon too right up There's a series, but meaning really big announcement hitters. And, you know, they did the demo last year, but there was so much around it that looked good

that I think they need another really big swing. NAC three. But the truth is when you, we've been in the business a long time, Greg. I think when you see stuff like this, they're not sure because they're perfectionist if they need to ask for more time. But I think it's playing for this year. That's where I'm at with it.

I bet at some point this year, PlayStation says it's coming this year. I still hold off. I still believe it will not come this year. That's been my thing for pretty much forever. Do you think it'll be a spring game? Yeah. It feels like a spring game.

Yeah, I agree. Based on Sony's track record, the last generation, it's like they don't go hard in the fall. They go hard in that like February to May window. We start going. Yeah,

and then you got days gone in April, right? Yeah. That puts it in a weird thing of being another zombie game close to it. I know it's different. Yada, yada.

I still think they're thinking that that's what it's going to be. I still think that it's going to end of a push. And I say all, this right now just because I don't want your bullshit kind of funny best friends. When Sean Lidden does say, oh yeah, 2019, it's coming.

And I'm going to get, this is going to be a persona five situation again. We're going to go, see you wrong, idiot, blah, blah, blah. And then I'm right in the long run. I'm playing the long game. I'm a long turtle. Look at that. That's a weird thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out this year, but I don't expect it.

I think, and I can say that about all of Sony's first party titles right now with Death Stranding Ghost of Sashima and this where it's like, I wouldn't be surprised. Don't expect any of them. You do make a really good point that I didn't account for, which is they have a lot of other new franchises that are planned probably to be coming.

We don't know about goes to sashimi yet either. But they need to make room for that stuff. Days gone and other stuff that's out there. Even big third party stuff that they may not want to get in front of. So I can see the argument for next spring. If I'm Sony and I'm looking at Microsoft's moves over the last 18 months and the fact that the meta narrative around Microsoft right now is that they are already poised to leapfrog Sony in the next generation,

I seriously consider, since it's very likely the PlayStation 5 is just another PC, like the PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro, I seriously consider holding maybe two of those three games in my pocket, especially Death Stranding as next gen titles, next gen launch titles. Like cross platform? No. No. No, they're cross platform. There's no way. I sit there and go, if you want to play Death Stranding, you got it by PS5. I feel like you do them as cross platform.

I don't think you can do that if that's what happens. And I'm still, I'm the guy right that still has this belief that Microsoft. is going to be like Xbox 2 games can be played on Xbox 1. Xbox 1 games can be played on an Xbox 2. Like we're doing this. Has PlayStation ever announced Death Stranding as a PS4 title? Never is such a hard thing to say in this industry because I'm sure Jim Ryan at some point said something and somewhere. I'm pretty sure they have.

I thought I've seen that headline before. I thought they said that it's not a next gen game. Yeah, I thought I'd said on my head. But I may have also just heard something like that. No, I'd sit on my Kujima exclusive and make people buy. my console to play it. Well, of course you would want that. I mean, truth of that I do think it's playing to be one of those big last-gen,

Death Stranding, big swing hitters, and then, you know, you of course, remaster and release it, you know, in the next platform, too. Just like I just saw with Last of Us. I just feel like that is an old way of doing things. I feel like... Sony doing an old way of doing things. GameSpot last year says, Kajima says, Deftranging is for PlayStation 4 and not PlayStation 5.

Okay. Yeah, they've been adamant about it. There we go. I feel like with the, what Nintendo. has done the last couple of generations. In a lot of ways, Nintendo is always the weird ones doing some weird shit,

but then they get followed years later. And I feel like with what they've done with Zelda, right? I feel it we'll get that instead of what we saw with Last of Us on PS3 going to the remaster. Yeah, I think the remasters, the era of remasters,

I actually think is coming to an end when it comes to next generation because I do think I think we're going to get cloud-based gaming. I think the streaming PlayStation Now, Xbox Game Pass, all of that is going to be the focus. That's got a long way to go,

but like what I would say about it, it still comes down to the technology in time. You don't just get brand new high-res textures by snapping your fingers to the cloud. Well, now we're talking about different things. It re-releases or remasters, right? Like, I mean, that's what you're taught. Right.

No, but I'm talking about new technology that needs to be available, just like a new graphic car. I still believe in that, unless you're saying that graphics don't matter, Tim. Am I reading it right? I think the next gen, like, I don't think the graphics leap

is going to be that monumental. And I think that it's going to be the next gen leap is going to be in technology. not in graphics. It's going to be in being able to play in different ways and wherever you want. What will BluPoint do all the time? I do think it's a big part of it. I mean,

that's a whole different discussion, obviously, but I do think. But bringing it into it, the reason I'm bringing that up is I feel like Last of Us, I feel and Death Stranding, both of them are almost guaranteed to be cross-gen, PS4, PS5. When they launch?

Yeah. Wow. Unless they launched this year. Yeah. No, I don't see that happen at all. I think down the road we would see something like that, but it still just requires so much force to, you know, produce assets for both of those things.

But I mean, that's what I think it is going, by the way. I do agree with you is things start to bleed again. After you do the leap, then, you know, stuff starts to bleed. It's like, well, we can still release stuff for the old platform, but it's just down res from where we're at. Or it's on the cloud and it's already, you know, it's not as good as if you just got it on the home or you downloaded the assets and who knows where this is going.

We'll see. My thing is a couple years ago, there was all these same discussions when we were going, into the PS4 Pro and the Xbox 1x and everyone's like they can't develop the game in two different ways. Yes, they can. And they have been doing it. Yeah, I think there's a very good chance just pulling this completely out of my butt. That last of us is this gen, but late, probably January, February, March next year maybe.

That Death Stranding is cross platform. Like I said, Breath of the Wilde's original intention style. Yeah, Phantom Pain, right? Yeah, Phantom Pain style, et cetera. Twilight Princess. And Bloodbourne 2 is in here somewhere too. Bloodbourne 2 is another big one that'll pop somewhere. Yeah, I'm very curious about that.

Exactly. That game is going to happen. I think the question will be... They said they have a couple games in the works and I already talk about. That was my first thought is it's a next-gen PlayStation exclusive. Yeah, I mean, Blood Board 2 would be a great launch title. By the way, to caveat. Destranging, I think, has the eligibility to do the whole both.

That's maybe... I don't see Last of Us going down that route or anything. The only reason that I agree with that is that I feel like Last of Us is first. and I feel like Last of Us might be further away from the PS5's launch. Yeah. Are you saying the first will be last in the last week first? But having said that, I still think that Last of Us is going to be playable on the PS5. And there will be some enticing reason to get it at launch on PS5.

Well, yeah. I mean, I think that depends when the game comes out of. You get it with a non-depressing ending if you buy it on PS5. I think it's assumed that games as good as Lasfus will be remastered whatever you want to use the word is, but we'll be on that next platform. Who knows? The next gen is so confusing with talk of the cloud, which has not quite been proven, but we talked about it a little bit on the last games cast with Google.

What's the platform? Project Stream, right? Project Stream. And there's a lot of things like in Microsoft. Yeah, whatever they're up to. There's absolutely an interesting battle when you think about just having like whatever Google Android on your TV, your new TV. And they're like, yeah, just if you want, hook up a Bluetooth controller and just play the next assassins. Like, what?

It's funny that. We did that on here with a netbook. I don't know if you were in that day. I mean, we took a, like a crappy Lenovo 2 gigabyte. And it was working, right? Oh, we're great. That bitch. And it worked instantly.

Yeah. Yeah, this one was just literally duct tape together. Yeah. And that, I mean, that is the most interesting thing for the next gen is that we're finally headed into this call it Netflix era. Yeah. I don't know when it's going to truly work that the tech is there, especially when you hit the servers with millions, million.

Think of Fortnite if it was all actually only streamed from the cloud. It's not. It's installed locally. But that is going to be incredible. So, meaning it's going to affect. this whole graphics leap and who knows. And in the same way that I think about ultra 4K Blu-ray, it's the experience I want.

I have like, eh, it's good enough coming from Netflix streaming. Exactly. The game is very different than just streaming of coded video. And maybe we're being conditioned to accept, maybe it's good enough on account of the fact that every time you make a generational leap like that in a streaming system, you have to rewire the entire world's internet backbone to make it happen.

And that's a very big deal. So there's some incentive, you know. That's where I was thinking about it. It's just because it worked does not mean that it's ready and scalable. That's a small test. It probably ran at 30 frames or less. I don't know. But I'm in a world where, quite frankly, I'm playing Red Dead,

and I'm super disappointed that it's not on PC and it's not 60 frames. And we've got competitive players on playing shooters. They don't want to play less than 120 hertz. And you've got Ninja out there, actually 200 plus hertz. So it's interesting. There's the cloud model, but you've got to have a local high quality asset. I think going back to what I originally said, that's where I still see PS5 and Xbox 1. They're going to have something you bring in and it's going to be super high quality.

But that's an experience to choose. One of the rest of your... Talk about getting off talking. Do we even get one? We're not even on the list yet. Last of Us isn't his game. It was Last of Us can't be on the game because it's not... No, no, no.

Audible mentions. I want to actually say on the first show, if ever I'm rambling, you're like, pinning it, we got to move on. This is what the show is. Never stop. We did this for three years. and a half hours at the new year. Mr. Yasmian is so happy right now.

Don't worry. He's loving. I know Mr. Yassman. Who doesn't know Mr. Yassman? But last of us, not officially in 2019. Not on our top five list. And that was one of like five.

Should I just rattle off the other ones? Yeah, give me all your own mentions. Honorable mention. So to rattle off the rest and then you can go from there. Of course, the destiny expansion is not even, it's out announced, but usually in September, we see that next big update,

just like we saw Foraken this year. I really hope to see that. I'm a huge destiny player and excited about it. DMC5, super excited about that. Let's go, baby. Ghosts, Asheema. Oh, my God. I love that studio and I just love the look of it.

Does that have a 2019? Nope. All these are all the honorable mentions. I just don't remember where that one lies all. They're also very like good. The only one that is 2019 that is on my list of honorable mentions because it didn't make the other side of list as Sekiro. I've played Demon Souls, but I never, I've been, my brother,

plays a ton of dark souls. She's like, would you please just play it on stream? And I think a lot of people want to see it. I will get there. But Secaro's probably going to be the first like real experience of that since Demon Souls for me. So I'm excited about it.

Watching your perfectionism, like knowing your fairly obsessive personality and trying to imagine you want to stream playing Dark Souls will be the most entertaining and painful thing to see happen. I really hope you do it. Yeah, I think it's funny that I'll probably play that and just it'll just be subs through the roof.

And I'll be like, why did I wait years to do this? Build up the hype. People love to see the pain, man. Yeah. That's incredible. What are yours? Honorable mentions.

We're just going straight down the list. Mine's long. Imagine that. Who's suppressed? Yep. So first one, my first one's actually just came out and I haven't played yet

which is bury me, my love. But that'll be one of the first games I played this year, which was featured on the kind of funny stream and it's about Syrian refugees. Oh, that's right. That game looks incredible.

That is one of my honorable mentions as well. So let's pop in to say that as well. It's actually available, apparently, mobile right now. Oh, it's been a mobile for a while. It's coming to Switch now. Switch release date is the 17th, I want to say, but I'm jumping out of net there. Maybe 15th.

Mirroring Fran, Goosa Sushima, and Sekiro are both high on my list. I want to see how Super Meat Boy forever turns out. Yes. I'm really intrigued because I'm not sure how involved Edmund McMullen was in that design. Obviously, he's not with Team Meat anymore. And so that leads me to wonder what it finally ended up being like. but I love the idea of a two-tap, random level-generated Super Meat Boy platform.

And if it comes out right, I think it's going to be great. And, you know, the other half of the team still there along with some new developers. So we have that. I'm intrigued by control. I don't want to play control.

That imagery grabbed me during E-3. Another one of my honorable mentions. Remedy. Yeah, remedy, of course, Max Payne, you know, the guys who did that. Control is the thing with people floating in mid-air in the laboratory. Federal Bureau of Control, they investigate supernatural matters.

They've done. Hasn't been shown much. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, I remember that. I'm always excited about their stuff. Yeah, that's this year. That's this year. Yeah, that's this year.

That's this year. That's great. Yeah, that's on mine. Ultimate Alliance 3, because Ultimate Alliance is freaking great. Yeah, I was going to put that on mine. I'm very hopeful for that game. Like, I wanted to be good. I didn't like how it looked at the game awards, but I...

I feel they walked into it awkwardly at the game awards. I was there. I talked to Marvel games afterwards. What did you think? And I was like, hey, I'm excited. it's Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, but it looked weird. It looked like mobile games. There's a HUD, of course.

There's a HUD idiot. So I think it's going to look like what we want it to look like and be like what we want to be like. But it's on my honorable mentions as well. Cool. Hell yeah. Like an Ultimate Alliance on the go that's built for one platform. That's going to like. That's why I'm hopeful.

Yeah, exactly. Or the ability to grab for, you know, for quick switch controllers, for Joycons and jump ride in instantly with people. Yeah. That seems like it'll be a great time. And again, it made my list or my honorable mention list right just because, yeah, okay. Let's see. A few other series. Shenmu 3. I've just got to know. I've just got to know. Wasteland 3. Which is coming soon because Wasteland 2, freaking amazing.

So Wasteland 3, go for it. Brian Fargo doing this thing. Travis Strikes again. I like No More Heroes 2, especially. And I'd like to see what that comes out like. I'm intrigued by Minecraft Dungeons. We don't know a lot about it yet. I'm not familiar with this. This is an expansion. So this is a spinoff. It's a Minecraft. dungeon crawling spin-off and might be 2019 and I know very little about it except that it's Minecraft Dungeons and that was always kind of my favorite part of Minecraft was

wandering around in the dark and having spiders come after me after party Ah yeah, Killer Queen Black which finally That's on my honorable mentions as well When do you think we get that? Killer Queen Black? February. I hope.

February. I think that's a good spot for it. Yeah, I think it's a good spot for it. After the disappointment of Smash Bros. I'm excited. Cuphead's DLC. I'll play that. I totally forgot about that. Yeah, isn't that exciting?

But when is that, though? Good stuff happening. It was 2019 sometime. I don't know. I don't know if I believe that. I hope to make Cuphead. Well, I know in E3, 2018, they were fairly far along. We were talking with them.

I mean, they seem to be. Or maybe I'm just representing that. They seemed fairly far away. I don't know if they explicitly stated that. So maybe I haven't talked about it for a long time though. Yeah. We'll see. Ape out.

Again, kind of funny showcase for a Maynard 7th. Yeah. And that is my honorable mention. My honorable mentions. I actually have two sets of honorable mentions while I was chiming on Jared because I put top, I did top 10 by accident. I forgot that I said top five. So my honorable mentions that aren't on my list, period, had no numbers next to them.

Blood and truth. This is that PlayStation VR game I've been talking about forever, which was that if you remember me talking about it, I was like, it was the first time VR felt supernatural where they tossed that grenade at me when I was ducked down. And I stood up and I grabbed the grenade through it back without like being like, oh, this is a thing you do.

Like you just did it and it worked. And it looked awesome. And it's from Sony London, obviously, who the getaway and all that kind of things. And it feels like it's going to be that kind of experience on rails, which I'm interested in. It seems like it's going to be a fun action movie. Were they the same people that did that PlayStation VR launch collection?

Yeah. London Studio became the PlayStation That's awesome Because that was one of the The best experiences I've had Which one are you talking about though?

Well you're sitting in the chair And then like that's With the whole London The heist Yes Where you're in the car You're in the cab Yes

On the freeway That is that That is them yes So cool Honorable mentions to dreams Again similar to Jared I just need to know What the fuck this game is

I know what the beta Is still running right now As a recording Is that officially 2019 now? No no no no I mean, you know, it'll be one done when it's done, but that's why it's an honorable mention. That would have been on my list.

Yeah, yeah. I also put in the Valley of the Gods. Oh, actually, yeah. I want to see what there at Campo Santo, obviously, Firewatch. Firewatch folks. I thought we didn't, I didn't think nailed the ending,

but I had a great time. Yeah, the trailer was amazing. Great, great. So then my top 10 here, five honorable mentions here, but I've already said someone else would run through it.

Uh, Y2K, a postmodern RPG is finally coming out this month. Like by the time this post, probably it might even be really, really close. It's the 17th. It's always looked rad. I'm excited. It's going to be on Switch.

Like that, it feels like for me, what stops me with like certain games, like a persona ride is that they're so massive that I just can't play them anytime I want to and I don't get to it. I feel like this is a great combination of a story. I think's interesting. Set in the,

you know, the 90s, this guy in a weird 90s town doing weird 90s things where you see them using vinals to fight people. And like, there's all sorts of weird like batteries and mini games. And it's like, that seems like a goofy thing.

Yeah, it reminds me so much of, Space Funeral and that's the highest praise I can give an RPG. I cannot wait to play this. And so I hope I'm hoping since it'll be with me all the time, it'll be easy to click in and the story is better, not better, but more something I can relate to the way I relate to persona on the go,

which I'm excited about brings back persona, you know, four memories for me. And then skipping through the other ones I've already mentioned, number six, almost making the full cut was Days Gone. Where Days Gone is another one. I, I'm, there's no reason for me not to like the game.

I still think it's not getting, the hype it deserves right now. I still don't think it's had a moment that it's going, that's like, oh, wow, everybody needs to play this. But for me, it literally checks all the boxes and shit I love, right? Where I love Sony Bend. I love zombies. I love open worlds.

Like, it's been, if I had that over this break, I could totally see me getting lost in that of right around my motorcycle upgrading and doing this. I love Sam Whitwer. Like, it seems really cool. It seems really interesting. I can't wait to finally play it. Yeah.

I feel like the game's a casualty of the Walking Dead getting bad. Like the TV show. Yeah. No, totally. Like zombies in general, right? Like there's you, so many zombie games right now. And so for you to put out another zombie game that seems like it's like Sons of Anarchy meets Walking Dead and okay, cool, but like neither those are the hot ticket right now.

Yeah. But maybe we'll just be super high on it at the moment it comes out and it'll be wonderful and terrific. Well, I hope that like, since people's expectations, I feel are low for it. Because so many people feel like, oh, it's just zombies. Like maybe we get it and it is like, wow, a riveting story in a cool world. I should have put that on my honorable mentions list. I'm more excited about that, about playing that I am about the Last

of us two. You crazy mother father. No, no, no. The last of us two looks beautiful. I'm not sure I'm going to play it. Based on what I've seen thus far. The theme of hate things like this. I mean, honestly, like this may be one of those things I admire from afar. Sure. I don't know if I want to spend 20 hours in that world again. Why? Because it hurts so bad. Yes. I mean, this is what I mean, like, it's scary because this is what I talked about with Red Dead, right? And why didn't click for me, right? I didn't want to be the bad guy. I didn't like only having bad things. and I compared it at times to Joel in The Last of Us, right? Where it's like he is a bad guy and does questionable things and blah blah blah.

But Ellie's there is hope. There's hope that we're going to be able to fix this and do something. Last of us too, right, Neil said that if the first one was about love, this one's about hate. And it is like, what does that mean? What does that mean when we actually play? Let's go. Let the hate flow through you, baby. You have the high ground.

Last of us too is my honorable mention as well. And I have one for the big three of question marks, but Metrid Prime 4 and Halo it. Yeah. They didn't say anything about 2019. They haven't. They haven't. They have it. Similar to last of us.

We don't know. I imagine it's 2019. Nah. I mean, you know what's funny? I take that back. Nintendo has shocked me with their release schedule. And that's the thing. And like I did nothing.

Smash Brothers would be ready for this year. And they fucking did it. Or sorry, last year, I thought it would be this year. And oh my God, like more characters than ever. But I just, they just. They've been so much more ready than I've ever seen. And they announced Prime so long ago. No, it's not Retro Studios, though.

We don't know that. We don't know that. We did at one point. No, there's rumors, there's leaks that like, but it's like, we don't know. It said Metroid Prime 4, title and development, and that's it. What about now? I'm not sure. Dagnapp Star Fox game that vanished.

We'll fucking see. Speaking of Retro Studios. Yeah. That's been a rumor as well. Oh, that I, Prime 4 for next year I think actually could happen. I mean, they could have an unannounced direct UK exclusive tonight. I mean, announced retroactive prime four. Tim, as soon as that, you know.

I'll spoil my list. As soon as Israel, number one. Yeah. As soon as Israel. Of course. Assuming it's looking. That's right. Metro right in the background.

But yeah, Metro Prime 4 and Halo Infinite. I want to see what that game is. I, I'm not sure 2019. No way. No way. I think there's a way. I think there's a way. No way, Tim.

It's just like, that was like an engine. demo last year. Yeah, but also Microsoft. I don't know. Who the fuck knows? Awesome. It's funny. You're naming all like this stuff

that's even farther past like the speculative stuff that was on my list. I just don't think it's possible this year. I think that's... I think Metro and Prime 4 is likely. But Halo Infinite, you want your cross...

Actually, wait, didn't they say that it's not next gen? I forget. Hello Infinite? Yeah. I don't know. I think they said that, Fran. I don't think they clarified

that it wasn't, which was interesting. I think Halo Infinite could definitely be this year. I don't think it's for sure, but I think it could. It would be. I think Metro Prime is. Cross platform. Like it wasn't, anyway.

Maybe they said it was absolutely not extra. Anyway. Awesome. Ori and the Will of the Whips. Yes. I struggled with that one, dude. It looks great, but there's nothing about the sequel that I'm seeing that I'm like, this is something crazy that I haven't seen.

Yeah, exactly. I love the first one. But I don't know that I need that much more of it. You don't need more? That was good. That was good. That was good. I'll take that one, Sharon.

All right. I felt like if you used it. in a sentence I would have been more like yeah like you know liked it more what do you mean you don't need morey that's a sentence oh friend and then my last article mention is fire emblem three houses I love fire emblem this is the first quote unquote console fire emblem we've seen since uh radiant dawn on the the we in like 2010 or something um I'm not loving anything I'm seeing about this game so far at all I thought that E3 trailer they showed the graphics look like really bad.

I prefer the pixel art to the 3D kind of polygon characters. I didn't like the running around dungeon stuff of the Firenamblum remakes on the 3DS recently, and we're seeing that here. So there's a lot that I'm like, I don't know about this. Wait until they introduce the rabbits to it. No. The rabbits are going to be in Firembuds. Having said that, Firenblum has not let me down yet.

I feel like the last 3DS ones I was just talking about, those were just stopgap ones. And even those were fine. Sirens are. But yeah, I will see. I feel like Nintendo knows that this is an important fire emblem for them to get people that haven't played the franchise before that now have a Switch. Yeah. And I'm like, we can get in. They knocked out of the fucking park on the 3DS with awakening and getting everyone into making Fire Enblem one of Nintendo's like pillars of franchises.

And I don't know. They really can't drop the ball here. And I'm a little worried that this might be the Switch's first first, first party flop. Yeah. But I hope I'm wrong. The first, first party flop, the FFPF. FFPF. FF. Yes, baby.

Fran, give me your number five. Use it in a sentence, Fran. I hope it's not a f-ph. Well played, sir. Well played, indeed. You want some more of that? Until next time. Welcome to the Mirabelle.

Yeah, we peaked. We peaked right there. I've had too much coffee. I'll tell you, I should have not. ask for another one. Number five. What are your top five, friend? Oh, why don't I got to go?

So much pressure. My five was, I'm going to keep this list open so I don't have to keep doing this. Oh, Starwise, Star Wars Jedi Fall in Order. Hell yeah, it is. That it was coming this year to respawn, the Titan, the Mays of Titanfall X, Modern Warfare devs and mix of other people. We don't know anything about it. Andrew Renee got to help announce that at the EA conference.

It didn't show a thing. It was just Vince Impala. It's happening. Yep. It's Jedi stuff. They gave a name. You're going to have to have a lightsaber. Yeah.

They have the era, which sounds fucking cool. Yeah, and I don't know the lore as well. Do you remember? Yeah, it's going to be, it's in between three and four. So it's like it's the destruction of the Jedi, the hunting down as a Jedi. That sounds fucking, it's also my number five. That studio is not letting me down. They're just so technical.

Oh, really? Awesome. Twinsies. Yeah, I love it. You gotta love it. Very exciting stuff, though. And I can't wait to see it in action. That's why it's my five.

How little we've seen of it or heard of it with how close it seems to be. But video games have also changed with like, oh, hey, here it is and it's coming out. So, sure. I trust them. We'll see. Without, it's really weird to not see a game that big and it's going to be out, you know, this year. That more of that's been happening. When's D23 this year?

You think that's the thing? You think it's the EA playing? Is it happening? Yeah. I mean, normally it's in April or July. Yeah, probably April. It's very like, we might do it, right? No, it actually is.

D23 is every other year. It is happening. Oh, my apologies. But there is one. There should be one this year. It is in April, actually, because I was talking to somebody about it last year. It's in August. Okay, nope, summer.

April and August sound a lot of like, so it's cool. Fran, Star Wars celebrations usually April. That's what we're thinking. Oh, that is, and I think it is happening this year, so I mixed the two up. My bad. Regardless, that would be a good place to announce it. But again, I was going, it's very odd. You can announce it anyway.

Star celebration is in April. It's odd, especially for a company like EA, but granted, it's Star Wars, and, you know, you're bringing up a good point of all the permissions and planning to not show anything. you know, at all, because they're a company that's shown concept art, if you remember, at one point, just to be like, we've got it. Hey, we got games coming eventually. And honestly, like, I respected them for showing something. This was an odd one.

Did you just be like, Vince, is it really? He's like, yeah, and it's next November. That's how he said it. So interesting that it's that far along. But that studio has not let me down at all. They're so freaking talented. And their games run at 60 frames a second. I hope that is still the case.

Still the case. Give it to me. Jared. Number five. shocking everyone, I think. And I'm not doing I'm on it. Classics, 2019. Kevin, can I do Smith?

3. Crackdown 3. That is shocking. Yep. That is. I was looking at it. Love Crackdown. Yeah. You love Crackdown? I wouldn't say I love it, no. I've appreciated it. It's never actually hooked me. Crackdown is close to like my favorite video game. It's pure video game. It's just hey, it's all the things I like about

open world gaming with absolutely none of the bull. It's very, very play at your own way. Sandbox. goofiness. I really thoroughly enjoyed that very kind of constrained design philosophy that went into the first game and the fact that I could approach anything, any way I wanted, kind of break the game. I really liked that about it. It was just the right length. It was almost like playing some kind of weird super evolution of arcade games. And I like that about it. Crackdown 2. Terrible disappointment. I don't know. Again, if you should. Crackdown 3 has obviously had an extraordinarily troubled development. I am not optimal. optimistic? Yeah, the stuff they showed gameplay-wise at E3, I was like, that looks really cool. But performance-wise, you could tell, like, oh, man, it doesn't look at it's performing

right now. But early game, you really shouldn't judge it until you see more, but that is my worry. Remember when you just liked games and you weren't this PC guy? You're like, no. It's not about PC or 60 frames. I'm going to go find reviews from you where that's all you talk about. It's, I mean, it's in a game like that where you have physics slowdown, which is different than frame-wings.

But it looks like it could suffer from stuff like that. One of my top games. But it looks cool, man. Yeah, and this is what happened. I wouldn't tell you for putting that on the list. That's why I put it there. It could be a complete grease fire. It probably is.

But one of my top games last year, Earth Defense Force 5. Perfect. Absolutely adored. And it reminded me how much fun a goofy, constrained, well-put-together action game could be. And Crackdown could have been parsed down to that from whatever scale and scope it originally had. And if they did do that, they might come out with a surprise, pretty good game. And so I'm looking forward to it. Greg, number five.

Number five. One that I'm sure will show up on many people's list, probably higher, but no big deal. Resident Evil, too. Resident Evil. Resident Evil. Hell yeah. January 25th. It's so close.

It looks great. It seems like, I've talked about this before, so I won't be a dead horse. But, like, you know, Resident Evil in general when it was on running on PlayStation 1 should have been, these should have been my favorite games. I love zombies. Zombie movies are my favorite horror movies, right? Like, I love video games. and the tank controls just turned me off so bad to them

that I never really played them. And it wasn't until a remake on GameCube, code Veronica on PS2. That's where I started playing it again. I played four. But even then it was still tank control. Exactly. And then obviously I loved seven.

I thought that was such a breath of fresh air. I loved it in VR. Blah blah, blah. Everything I've seen from this, I'm like, fuck yes. I can't wait to play this. Resident Evil 2. I mean, let's just talk about this,

the remake for a second. Sure. I can't believe it's real. I can't believe it's coming this soon. And I can't believe that I've played it and it's good. I have all the same reason. All of those things are crazy to me because it's like this was one of those vaporware games of like, like they announced it's coming and it was like, okay, but is it really, though, because you're just wearing a t-shirt that says yes. Or what was that?

Do you remember? Like, it was like, Resident. It's like an advantage. Yes. Yeah. And I was like, when the fucks is going to happen? And then they announced last year at E3 and again, saying January. And it's like, oh my God, this is this is great.

And there was a lot of questions. It's like, is it going to be a remake in the style of remake one or are they going to do something different with it? And they're doing something ballsy, different, but it's working. Oh, it is the simultaneous sequel. It is a remake to Resident Evil 2, and it is the sequel to Resident Evil 4. It is those two things can be matching in a perfect place. And that's what I'm excited about with it. Yeah, I think it's going to be really good.

I think so. In terms of gameplay, it's taking that kind of inspiration. I get that because that was a precursor to say 7. But for me, it's like 7. In fact, I think it uses the 7 engine, right? Yeah, but it's not first person. it's third person. The way that it plays,

it's a lot more slow and methodical than seven is. Yeah, I think that what you have here is a game that manages to capture the sense of agency and control. And again, this is based on my demo with it.

The sense of agency and control you hadn't for where you didn't feel powerless, where he didn't have the problem Greg had with the earlier games where you really felt combined with that same sense that two got so well because two was amazing. Two was amazing when it came out.

It was utterly terrifying and claustrophobic and beautiful. And cool. And right. Two is like so 90s. It's just like these are the fucking cool zombies. We got this cool guy, Leon Kennedy, it's like everything about it.

Because I feel like Resident Evil One was a lot more like, it's about the horror. Whereas Resident Evil 2 was just like, there's zombies in a fucking city. It's called Raccoon City. There's a police force. This is dope as hell. There's a Canadian with a shotgun.

Let's go. Canadian gun. That's funny. I think that's as someone actually who reviewed R.E4 on the PlayStation 2, probably talked about. You have a 7.9. No, I gave it a very high accolulat. Absolutely must have been 9-5.

You did it on PS2? Yeah, because Casamacina. Did it on GameCube? You made that game that was never coming out on PS2? I will cut my head off with a chainsaw. That was an actual direct quote. But what I was going to say is that game so fond to me. Just an incredible masterpiece type game.

But the vibe and the lore of it is for me why I had the reaction, by the way, Jared. I just got such a feel of the cultist oddity that is already for. And like I just that is not R.E2 to me. Oh, it's not. Just for clarity, I know you weren't talking about that. But for me, that's what makes R4 special. So for me, it is just kind of like, I don't know, it's weird. It's maybe say this, but it feels like the let's, let's go, let's go of that series where they just take the map of RE2 and now they're bringing it into this new era.

It's not. It's really not. I mean, it's the same world. It's just re-mastered and mixed. I mean, it's completely different, meaning it's not to be. Don't construe this as me saying they just took the camera and brought down. That's not that at all. Totally remade.

The reason that I don't think it's a good analogy is playing Pokemon Let's Go. It literally was the like, okay, it's the same thing. And they didn't change things to make it fit better for modern times. This game, they are changing things. They're changing where typewriters can be, and they're changing the ways that the zombies come to make it more fun. That's true. You're right.

They're remixing a lot more of it that it's a different game. That's a good point. And that amazing feel, the reason I drew into RE4 again, one of the agency, but the other is that moment very early in RE4 when the door boasts guy comes through the door and there's nowhere to go. And every encounter with a zombie in RE2 remake I've had kind of felt like that over and over and over again. That game is super intense.

Yeah, I'm super excited. Art of four was more action for me. But anyway, regardless of those semantics, I'm so excited for that one. Like I said, number five for me is Star Wars Fall in Order. Jedi, fall in order. Number four, Fran. Oh, I got to go again. Why don't I memorize this?

Just leave your phone unlocked. Why didn't you know it? My number four is Animal Crossing. Again, we don't know a ton about it. But I have always loved Animal Crossing. I hope that they really bring it into exactly what the fans want. So that's as much as I can say. Ladies and gentlemen, again, Exhibit A of why we don't listen to Fran.

Animal Crossing is my number two. Ah. Oh, you're scowling because. You're robbing it as always. I don't know what you're what, what people I got? Turbo tax 2019. I'll tell you why and I'm the, my history of covering Nintendo forever.

I'm still so skeptical of things like say what the online experience is going to be. That's what the online. I don't care. It's not coming in. See what Tim doesn't play. I'll come in and see what your universe is like. It's not on my list.

I am, this is the first time I've ever been excited and interested in an Animal Crossing game. It's not on your other. Never played them. Why is this one grabbing you? And you're right. It's not even on his life.

list. Hey, you should know better. I'm shifting the blame. But that's my thing is, it's similar to what I was saying about Fire Enblem. I feel like this is a new opportunity for people. Now I'm on the other side that have never played the franchise to come in for the first time. And I expect Nintendo to know that and step it up for this one. I'm excited about this. It's not on my list, but I'm excited about it now because I came to IGN just after the Animal

Crossing Cray's last time. And now I finally get to work someplace where people are actually playing. and we can do universal comparisons, and I'm going to have that fun. And that, for me, with the 3DS Animal Crossing, right, that was the big hook for it in a lot of ways, was coming in that next day. And I remember when Brian Altano, God rest is still.

And we're recording, it's in the future. I just like to, I like to future proof. Sure. Good God. What? He's not going to be alive forever. We know that. I won't be either.

God rest my soul. There is nothing actually happens. So for the people listen to this in 60 years. Hey, everybody earmarked this. And when something happens to. Brian or me play this and then you know like man God rest their souls You know what I'm saying?

Wow And it's so it's so fucking It's fucked up about former President Obama too Right God rest is soul You know what I mean I don't think this is so good It's a future proof episode

This episode's gonna get so many views Because we're I mean God Because you guys Stop predicting deaths for the low of God I'm not predicting them I'm just saying they will happen Are you doing like the fight club thing What's that?

The fight club thing? Oh my God bless his soul Long enough timeline, life expectancy for everyone drops to Z-row. Jared, what's your number four? Dude, bad Joe, Joe. My number four appearing on the Tim Getty's honorable mentions list is Ori. Ory's first game charmed me and moved me deeply and is a extraordinarily well-designed and original exploratory platformer.

I expect more of that and more refinement from this one. I think they've taken plenty of time on it. Moon blew my socks off with Ory, and I look forward to another. superb video game. Greg Miller, number four. Number four for me, the ape out.

It came up, obviously, already as an honorable mention. A great looking game, dude. Ever since I played that at the devolver booth at packs, I've been like,

this looks awesome. And yeah, the showcase, we, yeah, they did the trailer, you know, with the release date a couple days before

and then gave us a new level. And that game, I'm going to be all over it. Like, just the way they mix the music and sound effects in there,

you know, be just being a rampaging ape as you smash through and capture guys and use their guns against them and smash. It seems like it's going to be a lot of fun. It reminds me a lot of hot on Miami, but you're an ape,

you know, one of those games of how do I get out of this level? How do I kill and get out of this level? Can't wait. My number four is one of Greg's honorable mentions in the Valley of the Gods. Yeah. I absolutely love what Campbell Sancho did with Firewatch. It wasn't perfect for me, but there was so many things about it that I was just like, that was one of the coolest video game experiences I had because you always talk about gone home.

I never had that experience. of like not knowing what it was and whatever. Playing through Firewatch, it's like, is this going to be a horror game at any moment? And it's like, I love not knowing things like that. I feel like at the end of it, like the story didn't pay off in a way that I would have liked, but that's the problem when you get surprised by things,

like they don't end how you think they're going to. And looking at this game, it seems to have all of the things that I loved about it, which is a very unique visual style and an interesting setting. I loved the song that they had playing during the trailer. I feel like that is really, a hint at the type of tone that we're going to get. And this seems like a very matured version of what we got with Firewatch.

And something that just blows my mind about what we've seen so far from it is there's a gift that I saw. And I brought this up on the show a couple times now of the way the water moves. And it is the most realistic looking water I have ever seen. But it's contrasted with this like super cartooning cool light. Like look. someday I want to read a timeline of the most realistic video game

water every year. Talked about doing these features before that would be so cool to see. Debatable. One of the first really good. There we go. Top 10 video game waters. But it's like I love the way that it

contrast like the realistic look of the water with the cartooning. There's been no gameplay though really, right? It was just a... It was gameplay? Was it gameplay? Yeah, I mean, then see, this is what I fucking love about it

is that we thought the same thing with Firewatch. When we first were seeing Oh, they did. That's right. We're like, there's no way this is gameplay. I mean, it ended up looking that way. So I'm very excited about that. That's my number four.

Nice. That's a good one to have on there. I feel so cliche with my list now. You guys are picking some really nice stuff. AAA PC gamer fan. Okay. Fran, number three. Two hundred hurts.

Fran, I own a gaming PC and I don't know. I don't know. You've drunk the Kool-Aid, man. You're worrying me. I'm not drinking the cool. Number three. Number three. Number three.

Don't let a pick on you. Number three. Yes. Division two. Greg, where are you at? My number one game on 2019, the Division 2. We're doing it.

It's interesting, we have the same list and he's, every time I'm saying something now, I'm thinking the first reaction is it's not on your list? No, no, no. And he's saying it's higher than my choice. Anyway, we played a bunch of Division. I sure did. I'm on that grind with games like Destiny as well.

I even love For Honor for that reason. I'm so excited about Division 2. I love that studio. And from what I've seen, super excited. We've got to get the band back together. Because you didn't get your shields right for Division 1 though that'll go to Division 2. No, what is that? If you go in there, there's challenges you can do that'll then earn you. It'll earn you.

It'll earn you, yeah, rewards in Division 2. So much to play. So I'm just super excited about Division 2. I can't fucking wait, guys. Oh my God. And it's that thing where... You'll reveal your number one, right? Who cares?

It's fine. You know what I mean? I don't want to talk you're off by Division 2 later on. I just can't wait. Are you guys excited about Division 2 at all? Not much up again. I got a black. We got to black out the day so that you can just, you can play in stream and I can play in stream.

Oh, dude, let's... Oh, let's do it. Stupid kind of fun. There is no number low enough to indicate how little I care about this. Okay, that's fair. Yeah. And as we established earlier,

there's nothing wrong with that. No, you're supposed to say you're wrong, you suck, but say respectfully. No, he's got to go out of the room and then I'll tell me. No, I know you guys love it. Before revealing my number three, Tim, I was looking at my list and I realized, oh my gosh, I don't have like a single RPG here,

what's wrong with my brain? And that made me remember that while it's not in my top five, Torchlight Frontiers deserves a mention. Cool. That is a game I will absolutely play this year. That's a really good pick. Yeah, I'm looking forward to play. I like Torchlight games.

I've played just a little. I've wanted to spend time with them. One of those mini games that don't have time for. I prefer Torchlight to Diablo. Now we'll see if I prefer this one to the current gen. That's very different. And likewise, I didn't mention there's a new EDF coming out, and I'll definitely appeal to that as well.

Another Defense Force coming out this show. Oh, that's right. Yeah. By Yukes of all teams. Wow. Yeah. I know. W W. W.

Not single. Not an angel developer of your. Yeah, now they're making Earth Defense Force games. So that's new. John Cena's going to run in. My number three game this year, the mysterious bloodstained.

Oh. Ritual of the night. Egan. Yeah. We haven't gotten a proper Castlevania-esque, indeed. We haven't gotten a proper Castlevania sequel in a very long time. Curse of the Moon was. Redonculously good, far better than it had any business being, developed by IntiCreates last year.

It was a wonderful linear or semi-linear Castlevania. Bloodstained could be a grease fire or a masterpiece, and I don't know. Was it a Kickstarter or anything to begin with or no? It began as a Kickstarter. It is Igorashi, right? It is Ega. It is Ego leading a team to make a Metroidvania. I have played two levels of it.

Both of those experiences, especially the second time around. I had this wonderful moment where I was playing Symphony in the Night muscle memory and didn't realize it. I was doing a boss fight and I was like, I'm controlling Alicard. I know how to do this. Like it was really weird. That gave me a lot of hope. I don't know if this is going to work or not, but I am. Is it going to be more shovel night or is it going to be more mighty number nine?

Yeah. We'll have to stay tuned to find out. But I think there's a lot of, I can't say it's previewed very well. What they've let us play has been excellent. So I'm pretty excited about this. It's a good call. Fantastic. Greg, you're number three. Number three for me is the Outer Worlds.

Oh. The Obsidian RPG. Space. Yeah. Really good call. Right. We know next to nothing about it. There's Game Wars is first time I'm sorry.

Exactly. Yeah, but they say 2019, you know, the trailer was awesome. It looked like, you know, they're very clear of like the developers of Fallout New Vegas, right? And it looks like it's got that vibe to it. It looks like it's got a humor to it. It's not cranked up Borderlands humor. It's dialed down, but it's also not reality-based.

You know what? that makes sense. And it's space and it's exploration and it's like, this seam is really cool. I do trust that. I mean, they also, you know, South Park Stake a truth, right? Like, this is a team that knows RPGs and RPGs I love. I mean, they, some of the original talent, like Furious obviously worked on the original fallouts. I mean, they're really the original creators of thought. And it got all mixed up with the franchise shifting around. And then New Vegas was that deep RPG bringing it back to after Fallout 3. So that's why I am excited. It's not going to be a surface level RPG, it would be deep.

And they do crazy stuff in their games. Normally, super excited. They're now owned by Microsoft in the future, but not this game. They're owned by Microsoft, but this is a pre-existing game. Same with Wasteland's 3 and everything, right? Within Exile. Right, yeah, yeah, now they're owned by Microsoft. But that's all future stuff.

So anyway, I'm super excited for that. Yeah, me too. My number three, Pokemon, Jan 8. Yeah. Yeah. Did you catch a mom? Super obvious. I'm very interested in what this game's going to end up being.

We know it's 2019. We'll see if that sticks. I expect it's going to, though. But I'm kind of shocked that they got the Let's Go games out last year and are going to do this. What does that mean for the team? They've never really been on this type of release schedule before. And anytime they have, it's always been kind of just smaller titles. I feel like Let's Go is going to affect Gen 8 a lot more than people are expecting.

But I hope that it's only in the good ways, not the bad ways. I hope that this game takes a big step forward. I don't think it's going to be the Breath of the Wild of Pokemon. But hey, maybe it is. We'll have to wait and see. Breath of the Wild was shocking at how much it really beard off for what we expected. And I was skeptical. Yeah.

So I'm most excited to see what Pokemon Gen 8 looks like. Do you think there will be a lamp post with eyeballs and that's a new Pokemon? No, but I do expect Gen 8 to, and this sounds stupid to people that don't play a lot of Pokemon, but I expect it to finally kind of step away from Gen 1 for a bit and do what we haven't seen really since Gen 5, which is there's no, there's 150 new Pokemon or whatever it is. You're supposed to see all these things for the first time.

You're supposed to get this sense of not, where's Pikachu? It's like, what is that? So not even that owl and a bow tie. Like just on from that. I honestly, I'm hoping we get good creature designs. I'm hoping we get some interesting changeups.

I hope we don't just start with firewater and grass. I hope there's a lot of things that we're probably not going to get but like we'll see it but I do expect to get all new monsters and for it to shy away from this kind of pandering that we've seen a lot of everything changes well since they did this last year I mean since they did let's go for exactly that purpose yeah it makes a lot of sense that they would I think that's a wise we'll see Fran number two where you talked about Resident Evil two yeah very high my list despite what I was saying earlier and I do take back what I said about the book Let's go thing. When I thought about it, that game, just to expound out a little bit.

He just saw the internet comments and what happened. He's like, you know what? I love this. Well, here's why. I, just to clarify that, I never really got a chance to play a lot of the Pokemon. I just didn't quite have the time. I was in other games, but I always liked Pokemon. And so I'm not nearly as knowledgeable as you folks.

And I like Pokemon Let's Go, because for me, I'm that target audience. I'm like, it's not super deep, but it's great. I love it. I like it, too. The hardcore fans I've heard a lot, they're like, nah man yeah but it's like i personally feel like it's somewhere in the middle where with gen eight i'm hoping that we get the catching mechanics need to be refined from let's go but i don't want to go back to what we used to have fully and where i was going with that is not that i thought that r2 was just

like some surface level remake it's just that i really appreciated its transition to true 3d that's all i meant by that and so anyway this really coming into its own and true 3d that's what we dreamt of when we played those games everything was pre-rendered even when it came to game Cube, everything was pre-rendered. And now to, like, be able to realize all that and that first-person camera in some cases or whatever, I guess they don't necessarily have that. But the close-up third-person attacks and stuff, I'm just so excited. And I played it at E3, and like everybody's been saying, I was shocked at how polished it was.

Yeah. Super excited about it. Jared. Resident Evil, too. There you go. Also yours. Yeah, also mine. For all the reasons France said and more.

And of the other things we've already discussed. survival horror is back as something very new. Puzzle game. Yeah, shiny puzzle game. I am looking forward to finding the rooster key and putting it in the chicken door and all the other things that go with traveling around that weird old police station.

I like that that big scary man's going to chase me around again. I like like, like you said, it's just so uncool and cool at the same time somehow. Great. The crash fan of it. R.A.2 is dog jumping through window, right? That's right. R2 is...

Was that one? That's one, yeah, when you're going to the back of the mansion. Dang. Yeah, but there's R2 is first liquor. How many megahertz was it? Dark. Okay, first liquor on the ceiling. Licker on the ceiling.

Drop it on you. To see those fond memories coming back, like to see them realized in that. Oh, my God. It's going to be good. R2 is a big guy in a coat bursting through walls at every moment that you... Yeah, RE2 is great. I can't do so much cool stuff. Number two, Greg Miller.

We are talking about Animal Crossing. You all underrated it and you suck. My number two. What friend? What are you most excited about? Getting them seashells. Man, let's get some fossils up in this place. Jared, do you got oranges?

I only got charing. You're a hoarder in Animal Crossing, aren't you? Yeah, of course, yeah. I got to pay off Tom Nook. What do you mean? Come on now. My number two, I put down just as Capcom in general.

Capcom doing. What? That's all right. Listen. Fuck you. You're fired, Barry. Here's the thing. Spike the mic.

Now, I was going to put these in all of a moment. but I wanted to mention them here. Resident Evil 2 and Onimusha. They get honorable to me. Okay. My number two is Devil May Cry 5. But I want to give a shout out to Yo Capcom, giving me what I fucking want.

Like, good for you. Thank you. DMC 5 never expected to actually get it. We are and it looks unapologetically, Devil May Cry. It is super anime, super Japanese, super fuck it, rock and roll. It's like a perfect blend of America and Japan and like it's what's cool and not cool at the same time. Yes. And like it's just absurd. And I can't.

I can't wait to play it. It looks like it plays awesome. That looks fucking awesome. But yeah, Risen Evil 2, we've talked to enough about it. It's coming this month. I didn't want to put it as my... Sure, fair. Because it's so soon.

And also, Onimusha, even sooner this month. Be it'll play on Switch, but I can't actually put that on the list. I love Ony Musha for it. Here's the thing. Love it. Never expected to see it again. And the fact that it's coming back even if it is just a port. Yeah.

But it's a port I get to play on the Switch. Yeah, it is cool. In approximately three hours, yeah, it's fine. You know what I mean? I can't wait to do it though. It's been way too long since I played that game. I hope that it sells well because this is a hint that we might see a new on Emuition in the future. And I think that that could be legitimately a great game. DMC is also owned by Microsoft, right?

Do you think he can get the DMC? It's the Heavenly Sword folks. What's your name again? Oh, oh. Ninja Theory. Ninja Theory. They bought Ninja Theory, right? You're not crazy?

But that's who's doing DMC 5, I think, right? It's almost as if they recognize they need VigRef. I think NGTherry is doing it, right? No. What? Niger theory did DMC. I know, but they recruited them to do this one, didn't they? Am I imagining that?

All right, let's move on. No, no, no, no, no. All right, here we go. I thought Ninja Theory was doing it. The kind of in-depth research that kind of funny Gamscast is known for us is taking place right now. Devil McRife me has always been this blind spot.

I tried that first one. I was like, oof, I understand you're doing just not for me. I never, I know, I know. I'm not taking away from it. Adam Brown loved it. We used to argue about it. I thought that was the big twist

is that after they sort of redid it in their style, they brought them back to do it. It's fine, but now you're making me. No, Capcom's making it. Well, it just internal devs, it's not Ninja Theory. September 22nd, 2018, Devil May Cry 5, Director explains influence of Ninja Theory's DMC, so I imagine

they would have said otherwise. Well, don't I feel stupid then? No, you're not stupid at all. You're just for incorrect. Welcome to Gamescast. That happens a lot. Number one, somebody go. Brad, what's your number one? Oh, Anthem. So, hopefully you can understand.

Amy Cortez burst through the wall. Obviously, I'm excited about Division. That was the first thought that I was having. Of course, the grind. I love the grind being a big destiny player in that, but Anthem, I played at E3, I played the beta. A lot of people are skeptical. I think Mass Effect kind of added to that EA has added even more to that.

But the feel of that game, man, it is Iron Man when you pick up that suit and blast off into the air. For me, that's the reason I'm not into it. It's because I haven't played it. I've only seen it. I've seen it and I'm like, I just don't know if it's a world I want to invest 30 hours in.

It has the depth. Oh, man, it could be hundreds and hundreds of hours. And I would just throw out there. It's like, you never know. I didn't expect it with Descent. games like this, even division, they can change people's lives. And I think Anthem has that potential if it's got the grind, if it's got that. But I'm just super excited based on what I've played.

And I love when that studio spends, it's been five or six years on this project. It's not been, oh, since Mass Effect, they've been working on this new franchise forever. So I'm super excited about it. Hell you. Jared. Number one. In the most arrogant way possible. The game I want to most play this year is the moment I sit down with one of y'all and

show you what I've been working on. I, as you know, fiddle around with games a lot and never do much. And I never, ever, ever show anybody anything. I would like. And I don't know if it's possible. I commit to too much. I overcommit. I do too many things. But if I can anticipate anything this year, it would be by December to sit down with this group of friends and show you not a finish game. There's no way. There's no way. But show you something concrete and share with you the stuff that I sit and talk. about for the first time. Yeah. Guys, here's something I made.

And I'm kind of proud of it. And I'd love the criticism. I'd love the thought. That's awesome here. So that's my number one anticipated game moment for this year. There. Greg Miller. The Division 2, because I'm like Fran, I don't turn my back on games on the

Oh, okay. You know what I mean? Because now there's an Iron Man on the street. I'm always going to stick with my Woody. I'm not going to go get a Fran's buzz. You know what I'm saying. That's good. That's good.

Speaking of that, what an excellent segue, Greg. I love you so much. I know I just said Resident Evil 2 is coming this month, so I'm like. I'm not going to put it as a, I have to put Kingdom Hearts 3 as my number one. It's just been way too long since I've been waiting for this game. There's been so much Kingdom Hearts. Is it going to make everyone happy?

No. Is it going to make Kingdom Hearts fans happy? Probably. Is it going to make me happy? We'll have to wait and see. But I can't wait to play it. It's weeks away. January 29th at this point.

But no matter what happens, I'm going to enjoy the toy story. I'm going to enjoy the Frozen. I'm going to enjoy all of the Disney goodness that we get. I can't wait. Speaking broadly, Tim, are Kingdom Hearts fans capable of happiness? No, well, so that's the thing. This will find out with this. Kings, there's been a long time.

They've suffered much. But no, they haven't, though. The Kingdom Hearts fans love this shit. They're happy with everything they've ever got. Like, the Kingdom Hearts fans are probably too happy all the time. They haven't been let down more. They've let me down many times. They've kind of terrified.

Yes, yes, yes. But no, Kingdom Hearts fans, man, they have a lot. of love to give. Their hearts are not filled with diamonds. They're like quiz show Donnie Smith. They have lots of love to give. Just say yes. Ladies and gentlemen, this is been the kind of funny games cast.

Thank you very much for the first one of 2019. Many more to come because they happen every week. That's how this works here. Now it's going to... Are we going to do the post show? How are we going to happen? Yeah, we're going to do the post show. We're going to be the fucking post show.

I mean, again, the post show usually live. You understand this is different because of the fact we're not announced and yada-da-a. So it'll be a shorter post show. But if you want to say, but if you want to say, see what we're going to talk about. Maybe we just play mobile game or bullshit for the post show. No, I want to say that for later. You know, Jared is an endless well of mobile gamer bullshit, you understand?

I'm an endless well of bullshit. I'm not too sure about it. Patreon.com slash kind of funny games. Do that. Silver to your membership. Until then. I love you.