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Speaker 2: It's Rosie and me and Jason are on this video

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Speaker 2: game episode talking a lot about video games and the

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Speaker 2: Game Awards in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: So if you're downloading on Tuesday, don't worry, we are here.

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Speaker 2: We're just throwing to game experts A Boo and Aaron

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Speaker 3: Hi, my name's a Boo and I'm Snoop Dogg performing Sorry,

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Speaker 3: I'm Aaron Kaufman.

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Speaker 4: Your views solo on stage. Welcome to Xtra Vision Extras

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Speaker 4: and x Ray Vision Series, where we dive deep into

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Speaker 4: even more of your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture.

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Speaker 4: Every superhero team needs side quests, and our rotating panel

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Speaker 4: of producers and guest hosts will be suiting up to

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Speaker 4: help Jason and Rosie cover all of the amazing nerd

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Speaker 3: Right In today episode, it is our big twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: four video game roundup. First off, we're going to react

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Speaker 3: then we're going to recap some of the biggest stories

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Speaker 3: from the year, some of the biggest games of the year,

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Speaker 3: and finally, the x Ray crew will share what game

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Speaker 4: But first, previously on all right, Aaron, we got to

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Speaker 4: start with a big one. Yeah, Astrobot one Game of

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Speaker 3: Have you played it?

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Speaker 3: To incredibly charming. I would highly recommend you play it.

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Speaker 3: It's very short, it teaches you a lot of very

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Speaker 3: I am not surprised at I think it was an

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Speaker 4: It was an eclectic year for Game of the Year nominees.

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Speaker 4: Like just to remind folks, there was Astrobot, b Latro, Blackmith, Wukong,

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Speaker 4: But Astrobot is like if you look at the numbers,

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Speaker 3: Open critic, I do think it Astrobat and Bolotro are

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, exactly. Also, we had the best adaptation Fallout

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Speaker 2: I also think if you think about it, like Accessibility buys,

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Speaker 2: Season two was like a little bit more divisive, whether

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Speaker 8: I think you're also coming in on the heels of

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Speaker 8: holy crap was that good season of Fallout? Like you're

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Speaker 8: answer your question, Jason, a quick Google search revealed a

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Speaker 8: ninety percent jury, ten percent fans voting system.

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Speaker 8: me if I'm wrong. But it's not a very story

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Speaker 4: Well, while we have all of you here, how about

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Speaker 4: up in video games and it absolutely like takes rips. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: gamer and podcaster and so follow your passions, Kamail. What

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Speaker 3: Looks amazing. I can't wait to play it in ten years.

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Speaker 3: Elden Ring Night Rain co op survival action game. Yes,

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Speaker 3: There next up from the creator of Shadows the Colossus.

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Speaker 6: Me, it's really simple. Nobody does a little guy climbing

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Speaker 2: In some ways, I think like it is kind of

437
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Speaker 2: interesting because we are getting highlights on like other games

438
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Speaker 2: that wouldn't necessarily have been highlighted in that way, like Dispatch,

439
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 2: which looks really cool.

440
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Speaker 1: It's made by like the guys who left.

441
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Speaker 2: Tell Tale, but like, yeah, it is definitely funny, and

442
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Speaker 2: I do think that in a few years we'll probably

443
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Speaker 2: be looking back and being like, lol, remember when that

444
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Speaker 2: was supposed to get.

445
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Speaker 1: Made and it never got made? You know, it gives

446
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Speaker 1: that energy for sure.

447
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Speaker 8: The video game industry as a whole is going through

448
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Speaker 8: a lot of upheopal right now. They talked a lot

449
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Speaker 8: entering the game awards about the massive amounts of layoffs

450
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Speaker 8: that have been sort.

451
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Speaker 1: Of which people mention it actually, yeah, and.

452
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Speaker 8: To honor somebody who's been trying to help folks get

453
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Speaker 8: connected to the right jobs. Like I thought that was

454
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Speaker 8: I cried. I was like, this is a very beautiful,

455
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Speaker 8: heartfelt moment. But I wonder if the lack of announcements,

456
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Speaker 8: and especially if we look at like still the impact

457
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Speaker 8: of Skidi Project read Biffing Cyberpunks, if there's is this

458
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Speaker 8: a reaction of video game companies being like if we

459
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Speaker 8: announced too much, if we announce things too early, or

460
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Speaker 8: you know, as their in development and they flop or whatever.

461
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Speaker 8: Like we're very in tune to like almost every step

462
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Speaker 8: of the video game making process now, and I just

463
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Speaker 8: wonder if this is like a back because I remember

464
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Speaker 8: like two years ago the trailers were immaculate and they

465
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Speaker 8: were like Christmas two weeks from now, you can get

466
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Speaker 8: this game, and it felt like very much more.

467
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Speaker 2: Like it was interesting to not have any like surprise

468
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Speaker 2: drop kind of trailers.

469
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Speaker 1: They do love to do that, and they do like, yeah.

470
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Speaker 2: That's usually more of a Nintendo Direct style for a

471
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Speaker 2: smaller game, but this definitely does seem very far from anything.

472
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Speaker 6: I wonder if part of it is that we're clearly

473
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Speaker 6: coming to the end of the life cycle of their

474
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Speaker 6: current consoles. Yeah, and a lot of this is about

475
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Speaker 6: moving targets and hitting hardware that's not that doesn't exist

476
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Speaker 6: now and won't exist for three years, And so does

477
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Speaker 6: it make sense to show something now? You know? It

478
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Speaker 6: almost makes you pine for the years of like the

479
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Speaker 6: early aughts where everybody just made fake trailers of stuff,

480
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Speaker 6: kill Zone two being the most notorious moment version of this,

481
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Speaker 6: where Sony just like made a fake CG trailer that

482
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Speaker 6: they said was in game footage and was clearly not

483
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Speaker 6: in game footage. It was like the most mind blowing

484
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Speaker 6: game footage. But yeah, I wonder if some of this

485
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Speaker 6: is just like hardware. We don't know what hardware is

486
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Speaker 6: going to be in a couple couple of years from.

487
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Speaker 3: Yeah, real quick. A couple more of the trailers. We

488
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Speaker 3: got Shadow Labyrinth, which looks like a dark take on

489
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Speaker 3: pac Man. It almost looks kind of hollow nighty.

490
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Speaker 2: That's interesting as well because we did just get that

491
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Speaker 2: secret Level show where they're giving like a scary pac

492
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Speaker 2: Man episode, So I thought that was interesting. There's obviously

493
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Speaker 2: a scary pac Man Zeitgeist going home right now.

494
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Speaker 3: It's very strange to watch something that looks like Hollow

495
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Speaker 3: Night and then have like the old school classic pac

496
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Speaker 3: Man sound as he goes around, which is just kind

497
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Speaker 3: of like Kumail took you out of Boo that took

498
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Speaker 3: me out. Outer Worlds too. Also coming next year, Split Fiction,

499
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Speaker 3: which is coming from Can.

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Speaker 1: It be as good as it looks?

501
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Speaker 6: I don't know?

502
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Speaker 3: But actually really great?

503
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Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, so I.

504
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Speaker 5: Don't know if y'all played.

505
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Speaker 4: It takes two, but this is giving it takes two

506
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 4: plus sci fi energy and I fantasy both, Yeah, it

507
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 4: takes too already fantasy though, like.

508
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Yarn and yeah.

509
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 8: Yeah this is the game too where I was like,

510
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 8: this is so fast that you only need to buy

511
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 8: one copy and you can play online with a friend.

512
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 9: Like as a.

513
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 8: Child whose parents were very selective about which games you

514
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 8: could purchase and how many games a year, this is

515
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 8: a miraculous fine And I think the idea of like,

516
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 8: as a girl who's really into the fantasy games, we

517
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 8: had a brother who was very into the science fiction games.

518
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Speaker 8: I really like the potential of like bringing like mixed

519
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 8: gamers together in a world where they can like sort

520
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 8: of share their appreciation for each genre.

521
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 9: Like this game gotta be really hyped. I love this trailer.

522
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: It looks so good.

523
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Speaker 6: It got me really really hyped. There's nothing I'm not

524
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 6: seeing anything like this, really this type of ambition for

525
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 6: a co op game, with that many different types of

526
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 6: settings and seemingly gameplay, I'm very, very hyped. The one

527
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 6: thing that holds me back is that I said this

528
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 6: pretty us recording. But you know, usually a game, a

529
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Speaker 6: really really good game like has one kind of core

530
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 6: groop that it does like super super well, is really

531
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Speaker 6: really really polished, and maybe it adds like a curve

532
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 6: a change up somewhere in the middle of the game,

533
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 6: like all like a platforming part or a driving part

534
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 6: or something to just switch it up. This looks to

535
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 6: have like several different types of types of gameplay, and

536
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Speaker 6: I wonder if it can all be as polished.

537
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Speaker 3: As that said.

538
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Speaker 6: This looks fucking awesome. This was maybe my favorite trailer

539
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 6: of the whole thing. There had one scene where it

540
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 6: looks like the player on the left was in third

541
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Speaker 6: person three D and the player on the right was

542
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Speaker 6: in a side scroller on the same level, I mean,

543
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 6: like insane.

544
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

545
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 6: Yeah.

546
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 3: And finally, they had a trailer for Tarrock Origins, which

547
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Speaker 3: we have no idea what that is.

548
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 2: Yes, is it even a Torock game or is it

549
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 2: another game with the you know, serial number.

550
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 3: Five dinosaur tro logo?

551
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 9: Yeah?

552
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But I love a dinosaur. I will play

553
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: any game with a dinosaur. I have played most of

554
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 2: the Tarrock games. I'm a dino crisis person personally, so

555
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: bring us bring that respect please.

556
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 9: But the armor looked really cool in this some of

557
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 9: the changes.

558
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Speaker 8: I was like, as well, Yeah, seven to twelve year

559
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 8: olds are about to get their whole lives on this game.

560
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 9: Oh my god.

561
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 3: It's amazing to me when there's a remake of Joe

562
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: and Mac.

563
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Speaker 8: Though, can we talk about Project Century really quick as

564
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 8: far as new trailers go. Jason had mentioned it before

565
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 8: we jumped in. It's really really interesting from the same

566
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Speaker 8: people that did Yukuza and like a Dragon Ryu got

567
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 8: Go Toku Studios, and it's set in nineteen fifteen, and

568
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 8: it's got some cool fantasy vibe but also some like

569
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 8: cool mob vibes, and you.

570
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Speaker 1: Have an La Noir vibe.

571
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys played that, but that

572
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 2: was like a b I played that game like extensively

573
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Speaker 2: when it first came out, But that is a bit

574
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Speaker 2: more physical, a bit less point and click looks like that.

575
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Speaker 9: What were you excited about from the trailer?

576
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Speaker 6: Just the Yukuza of it all? The the way the

577
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 6: street looked again, very little to go on here, but

578
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Speaker 6: what I saw made me sit forward a little bit.

579
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Speaker 6: You know, There's this clip of the character who's being controlled,

580
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 6: like stepping out of a building into the street of

581
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Speaker 6: you know, nineteen teens somewhere in Asia, and it just

582
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Speaker 6: it looked awesome. Then detail looked incredible, And I really

583
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Speaker 6: loved the Yakuza games. I think they're super super fun

584
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 6: and so ex gen version of that I'm in.

585
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: All right, Next up, I think we should go through

586
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 3: some of the live service of it all. From this year,

587
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 3: there were many live service games introduced and closed. Most notably,

588
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 3: we had Concord, which we mentioned on an earlier episode

589
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 3: of the show. But Concord was undeniably probably the year's

590
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 3: biggest flop. It lasted less than two weeks before it

591
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 3: was completely shuttered. This was a game that tried to

592
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 3: recreate Overwatch, Valorant, et cetera. But it cost money and

593
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: all those other games are free to play, and this

594
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 3: just it just didn't work. The studio got shut down,

595
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 3: and then Amazon released a Secret Level based off of

596
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 3: the game, So an episode of Secret Level. So yeah, yes,

597
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 3: I hesitate to even ask. Did anyone play Concord? I

598
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 3: did not log in a resounding no. Carmen is a

599
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 3: not on Mike, but I know Carmen was a huge

600
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Speaker 3: Concord fan calm.

601
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Speaker 1: I was like, this is my.

602
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be playing this for years to come.

603
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, every day.

604
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: Definitely, nothing could ever stop me from playing this game.

605
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: What Fortnite continues to dominate the gaming industry?

606
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Speaker 10: Uh?

607
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 3: They also just dropped Ballistic, a new first person five

608
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 3: y five shooter mode very similar to Valorie or Teammate Shooter.

609
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 3: So Fortnite continues to do everything. They now have racing

610
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 3: and rock band and your character can have sneakers at like.

611
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 4: A Lego like life simplom truly the.

612
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Speaker 1: Sneak Is this such a big deal?

613
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 2: I was in London with my nephew and he watches

614
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: a lot of YouTube shorts and literally like at least

615
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: forty percent of the videos were like look at Godzilla

616
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 2: in these Jordans, look at Galaxy in these Jordans, like

617
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Speaker 2: who is the tallest when they're wearing Jordan's who has

618
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 2: the biggest feet? Arguably Godzilla has the biggest feet. But

619
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Speaker 2: they did not agree on the shorts that I was watching.

620
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Speaker 4: There is Yeah, I mean that that story Rosie like

621
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 4: puts into perspective like the big question about for not

622
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 4: like it just continues to defy any definition of itself

623
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Speaker 4: at this point, like do we call it a life

624
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 4: service game anymore?

625
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 5: Is it an arcade shooter? Is it a looter shooter?

626
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: What is it?

627
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 5: Like?

628
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 4: It has like transcended culture in a way that feels

629
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Speaker 4: like truly unprecedented, and I think like we honestly won't

630
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 4: fully be able to articulate for years, Like years Donline

631
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 4: will look back and be like, oh, Fortnite was the

632
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 4: inflection point of X y Z changes in culture.

633
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Speaker 6: They've just positioned themselves very very smartly to pick up

634
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 6: gamers as they age out of roll blocks, as they

635
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 6: age out of Minecraft, and to give them an on

636
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 6: ramp into the main Fortnite experience that matches those experiences.

637
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 6: And it's just really fucking smart and with all the

638
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 6: corporate Tians, the ip Tians. It's just like it's yea,

639
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 6: an amazing story, an amazing industry story.

640
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Speaker 3: And they've done that incredibly well. You know, I've talked

641
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 3: very briefly on the show about Magic the Gathering, a

642
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 3: card game that has universes beyond where it brings in

643
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: other properties, and people are very upset about it, Like

644
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 3: they don't love that I'm playing with dragons and you're

645
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 3: playing with the Transformers Cars. Fortnite has been doing that

646
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 3: the entire time, and like, I don't think anyone right,

647
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 3: They're like, look at I have Godzilla fighting, SpongeBob fighting,

648
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 3: you know, like yeah, yeah, exactly.

649
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 2: That was something I learned, is like if somebody died

650
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 2: and they had a skin in progress, well they'll do it.

651
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 2: They'll release the skin for free, or they'll do something.

652
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 2: They did it with Chadwick Boseman with the Black Panther skin.

653
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 2: They did it recently with Juice World. Like there's all

654
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 2: these kind of interesting intricacies that they are doing that

655
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,240
Speaker 2: we can't even really like comprehend, and they're introducing kids

656
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Speaker 2: to all these different aspects of culture, and like my

657
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 2: nephew doesn't even really play Fortnite like he plays like

658
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 2: Spider Man two, but he will still watch all of

659
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 2: those videos and wants to know everything that's going on

660
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: in the game, right.

661
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 4: I mean, I think like, for example, here's a string

662
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 4: of words that I'm about to say that actually make

663
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 4: no sense like this in a sentence, but it's an

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Speaker 4: actual thing happening. Snoop Dogg's game studio will be turning

665
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 4: the Justin Timberlake starring film In Time into a game

666
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Speaker 4: within for minute.

667
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,959
Speaker 1: Again, what no, no know what I will say.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you something that you know what they

669
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 2: love in fortnit What I've learned from my YouTube short

670
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 2: Immersion is like they love like a weird gadget or

671
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 2: like a gimmick. So in Time kind of makes sense

672
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: because that idea of having honestly, I'm in where you

673
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 2: can like sell time or have more time. I can

674
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 2: see that being translated in some way, but that is

675
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 2: legit the kind of like insane brain rot sentences that

676
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 2: happen when you talk about Fortnite.

677
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, Amanda's living up state doing Arc Digest tours of

678
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 3: her ranch house, and she's like, keep my name out

679
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 3: of us.

680
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a man a Sea Freedom money.

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00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

682
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 4: Now sticking with live service, I didn't want to touch on.

683
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't talk about live service without talking

684
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 4: about Destiny toom h game, that's that's doing worse than Fortnite. Yes,

685
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 4: bungeee had a number of tremendously awful layoffs over the years,

686
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 4: a particularly bad one this year in twenty twenty four.

687
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 4: The future of Destiny too is like totally in flux.

688
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 4: We've now had ten years of Destiny. Twenty twenty four

689
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 4: was the ten year anniversary of the franchise, and like,

690
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 4: I've been an on again, off again Destiny player for

691
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 4: a couple of years.

692
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 5: And it's just like.

693
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 4: I don't know why I'm on again ever trying to

694
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 4: like jump back into it. The future is super uncertain.

695
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 4: They've changed up plans. They're going to release two smaller

696
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 4: expansions instead of one big one every year, that sort

697
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 4: of thing, more smaller updates throughout the year, et cetera,

698
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 4: et cetera.

699
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 5: And they are.

700
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 4: Trying to work on the new player experience, but they

701
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 4: have been saying that for years and honestly, like I,

702
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 4: there's just no way you can explain how to play

703
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 4: Destiny to anyone trying to play it today. And that's

704
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 4: like the that is like the Achilles.

705
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 5: Heel of the game, in my opinion. Is it just

706
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 5: it's just so convoluted.

707
00:37:54,160 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 6: It's structurally they're just like in a tough place, because, yeah,

708
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 6: they have to do two things. One is honor all

709
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 6: the time and energy that the hardcore players who have

710
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 6: been there since Destiny one have put in grinding, grinding,

711
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 6: grinding to get all the stuff. And two, they have

712
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 6: to create a game in which the player base is

713
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 6: replenished by new incoming players who aren't like who don't

714
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 6: see how high the mountain is and just go, fuck this.

715
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 6: There's no way. I have to get how many pieces

716
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 6: of light and different kinds of currency to just fucking

717
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 6: get the armor that everybody already had, Like, there's no way.

718
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 6: And I just think that's an almost unsolvable problem because

719
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 6: if you create an update in which new players immediately

720
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 6: get good shit, the players that have been here for

721
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 6: a while gonna be like, what the fuck? And if

722
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 6: you don't do that, nobody's ever gonna want to play

723
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 6: the fucking game. So it's just they're in a tough spot.

724
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 3: It's really hard.

725
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 2: It's kind of the opposite of for Night, because Fortnite

726
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 2: is actually like so simplistic, even though the ephemera around

727
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 2: Fortnite might batheloss people in our you know, twenties to thirties,

728
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 2: the notion of like you go in and shoot people,

729
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 2: like anyone can kind of jump into the game, whereas

730
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 2: with Destiny is like, how do you explain that to

731
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 2: like an eleven year old or how do you explain

732
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 2: it to a forty five year old who's only just

733
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 2: getting into video games?

734
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, to me that the killer app part of Destiny

735
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 6: was always like the raids, Yeah, and like those to

736
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 6: this day are some of the best experiences I've had

737
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 6: in gaming. If you have like a tight group of

738
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 6: players that you're playing with all the time, the amount

739
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 6: of cooperation and co optness and just like having players

740
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 6: shirper you through different parts of the raid, it was

741
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 6: so fun. It's so inaccessible if you're just like a

742
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 6: new player, that's like you have to almost like do

743
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 6: like training cam to get to that level where you

744
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 6: can then participate in the raid. And so I feel

745
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 6: like there's got to be a way to get people

746
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 6: into those experiences faster, and I just don't know what

747
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 6: the answer is for destiny. I too have been off

748
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 6: on again, off again player, but it's hard to get

749
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 6: to the good part, which is the raids. That's what

750
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Speaker 6: you want more of.

751
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Speaker 3: Should we move on to just some of the hyped

752
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 3: and popular games from the year that we didn't mention yet,

753
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 3: and we won't be mentioning in our personal recommendations, but

754
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 3: be remiss to not mention College football. This game was

755
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 3: the biggest sports game. As someone who's played Madden and

756
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 3: has downloaded you know, the most, the two or three

757
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 3: most recent ones, and every time I play, I get

758
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 3: part way into a season and I go, I don't

759
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 3: like this game. Why did I download this again? And

760
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 3: and then next year here I am again signing up

761
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 3: to do another franchise mode and I dislike it. College Football, huge,

762
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: huge game.

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00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 2: I'm supportive of this game because I believe that this

764
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,959
Speaker 2: game is under the new laws that they actually pay

765
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Speaker 2: the kids.

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00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: Yes, So in that way, I'm supportive of this game.

767
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: Will I ever play this game? No?

768
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 2: I still don't really understand American football anyway, so I'm.

769
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: Trying to maybe playing this game would be helpful.

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00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 9: I'm going to teach you American football one days. Any

771
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 9: people have.

772
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: Tried to teach me, I'm unteachable.

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00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 9: I will say it's been interesting.

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Speaker 8: My brother plays the two K games, the basketball versions

775
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 8: of these, and I was like, is this just sims

776
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 8: for boys? You get to dress, they have little stores

777
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 8: you can go to and druss your guy up, and

778
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 8: then you get like a little apartment or whatever, and

779
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,720
Speaker 8: you can design that and then you have a career

780
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 8: and you can fire your agent or key them. I

781
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 8: was like, this is just the Sims for boys. I

782
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 8: love it over here, so I could take a spin

783
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 8: around the block. Maybe that could be fun.

784
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 3: Next up we have Hell Divers too, which Jason will

785
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 3: hit on later, another very very popular game, and they

786
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 3: just dropped a new trailer game, Awards with a third faction.

787
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 3: Very exciting. Also like vehicles and everyone can ride in together.

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00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 3: Black Ops six. Does anyone play so oh eron?

789
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know if we stated this clearly.

790
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 4: What you're listing right now are as of November twenty

791
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 4: twenty four, the top selling games.

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Speaker 1: Of twenty twenty four.

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00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 9: Wow.

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00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 4: So college football is the number one selling game as

795
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 4: of November of the year, followed by Hell Divers, followed

796
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 4: by Black Ops six.

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00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, college football was the game that got my friends

798
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 6: that don't game that much back into gaming.

799
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 9: Oh oh wow.

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Speaker 3: Something. I mean, it is worth noting with college football

801
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 3: that while something like two K or Madden feels like

802
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 3: a rehash every single year, this was a brand new

803
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 3: feel and very exciting across the board. I think the

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00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 3: last three games Black Ops six, dragon Ball Sparking zero,

805
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 3: Modern Warfare three. I have not touched any of them.

806
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 3: I have nothing of interest to say about any of them.

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00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I will probably play the dragon Ball game at

808
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 2: some point, because I actually I love dragon Ball Fighters.

809
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 2: So ever since that, at anytime there's a new dragon

810
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: Ball game, I will usually take a little look at it,

811
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 2: but I have no idea what it's about, and I'll

812
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 2: probably be terrible at it till I get hyper fixated

813
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 2: on it and then play it a bunch. And I'm

814
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 2: I'm not a cod guy. I'm not I'm not called

815
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 2: a Judy shoot a guy. So those are not things

816
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 2: I have played.

817
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think the takeaway here there's a lot

818
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 4: list of the top twenty that I looked at, and

819
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 4: it's mostly Call of duty and sports games.

820
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 5: So what is sort.

821
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Speaker 4: Of unchanged about the industry is we are getting a

822
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 4: wider breadth of the types of video games. And we're

823
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 4: gonna talk about indie games in a few moments here.

824
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 2: But.

825
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 6: Call of Duty still fucking moves units.

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00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, and sports games will keep selling every year. Just

827
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 4: keep churning that shit out and slap a new year

828
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 4: onto Yeah.

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Speaker 9: This the on rap for Call of Duty is so easy.

830
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 8: And maybe it's just because I grew up in a

831
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Speaker 8: Halo Call of Duty world where that was sort of

832
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 8: like my introduction to video games beyond the Nintendo sphere,

833
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 8: But like, how easy is it to call your friends

834
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 8: and be like cop online, We're about to kill some people,

835
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 8: and then you could just be like ratchet as hell

836
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 8: in the in the realms, like taunting people.

837
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Speaker 2: The any reason that I didn't spend like hours every

838
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 2: day day playing Marvel Rivals when I was in London

839
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 2: with my family is because my brother in law was

840
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 2: playing Call.

841
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: Of Juwey with his friends.

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00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 6: I mean, the thing that makes Duty easy is it's fast.

843
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: You can play a game quickly.

844
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 6: You can you can play it, you can get into

845
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 6: it very quickly, and you don't you don't need people

846
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 6: like you can go in at three a m there's nobody,

847
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 6: you don't know anybody else that's up, and you can

848
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 6: just like grind and go for it. Like that's kind

849
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,760
Speaker 6: of always been the utility of a of a black

850
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 6: Ops and a cod game is like I need to

851
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 6: shoot people right now. I can do it no matter

852
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 6: what time it is, and it doesn't matter if my

853
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 6: friends are on because I'm just gonna do my thing.

854
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 6: It's not it's not the type of game like a

855
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 6: Marvel Rivals or any other mobile type game like Valorie,

856
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 6: like Overwatch, et cetera, where it's like, what the fuck

857
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 6: is my team doing? I don't care what my team

858
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 6: is doing. I'm just trying to get kill streak.

859
00:45:58,200 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I actually.

860
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 2: Lun a lot about different play styles while watching him play,

861
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 2: because there is a whole realm of players and it

862
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 2: was pissing him and his friends off so bad. But

863
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 2: it's clear that it's a trope. Is like there's people

864
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: who would just hide in a corner campus it's me

865
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 2: and then just two people to get their kill streak up.

866
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: And I was like, whoa, this is crazy.

867
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm just I think I'm just like

868
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 2: a tiny bit too old, and also like just I

869
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 2: went on a different There was like two routes post

870
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 2: Taylor that you could go on, and this was just

871
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 2: not one I went on. But it's definitely interesting to

872
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 2: see what these games look like now, where that shit

873
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: looks like so real and people were just sitting around

874
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 2: just like shooting each other in the head.

875
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,280
Speaker 1: Okay, get it out, let off that steam, guys.

876
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 6: My twitch like nerve endings are fried. I just don't

877
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 6: have it like that anymore where I can go into

878
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 6: a cod game, especially now with the Black ops Omney movement,

879
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 6: where guys are like kicking through the air and shit like,

880
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 6: there's no there's no way that I could even try

881
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 6: to play this one.

882
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 8: Huh, Sniper's mess, baby, what it's all about. I don't

883
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 8: like a battlefield game.

884
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 6: That's the thing I like is like a wire ranging

885
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 6: like a battlefield game with a massive map, sixty four players,

886
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 6: and I can just be like, I don't feel like

887
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 6: I gotta be like duking it out on the front

888
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 6: lines with everybody else. I'm gonna be like doing my

889
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 6: own thing. That's the type of shooter I like.

890
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 3: We want to talk about some of the big big

891
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 3: indie games this year, because there were a lot of

892
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 3: really important ones, both in terms of the heights they

893
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 3: reached as games, also the heights they reached as news stories.

894
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 3: And for the first one, I think, let's throw to

895
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 3: a boo. This is the game you played, and it

896
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 3: is power World played is putting it very strongly. I

897
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 3: downloaded it on my Xbox on a Friday night because

898
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 3: a buddy wanted to play. I ordered some five guys,

899
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 3: and I slurped on a chocolate milkshake while I tried

900
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 3: to get anything in this game to work properly.

901
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 2: Did you get to hold the gun as a cute Pokemon?

902
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: And did you shoot?

903
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 4: I never even made it that far because, like at

904
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 4: the time I played it, it was so glitchy and

905
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 4: buggy on Xbox because.

906
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 5: It just came out on PC first.

907
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 4: It's I've heard it's better on PC, but the console

908
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 4: releases are a mess. And like we practically could not

909
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 4: even we were having difficulty even like building our first

910
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:36,800
Speaker 4: work bench and building a torch and trying and trying

911
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 4: to catch the They're not called Pokemon, but the creatures

912
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 4: in the world.

913
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 6: They should just call them Pokemon.

914
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: Just lean in, just call that poket mon stuff.

915
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 6: Just go for it.

916
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's the news story we have in our

917
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 4: script here. But I you know, I think they're even

918
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 4: more hesitant to do that because unsurprisingly, it took Nintendo

919
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 4: like way too long to get around to do it.

920
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 4: So long they're getting sued by Nintendo for a couple

921
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 4: of different copyright infringements. The one I looked at was

922
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 4: at the concept of throwing a ball at a monster

923
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 4: and capturing.

924
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 2: It also as well, like it was very obvious, there

925
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: were a lot of great side by sides of the

926
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 2: designs where some of the tree coming very clearly, just

927
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: literally it was like they traced over a Pokemon and

928
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 2: then like changed the colors. You know.

929
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: I think Carmen mentioned before she was.

930
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 2: Like, it felt like they just like put every Pokemon

931
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 2: game into an AI generator and will like generate me

932
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 2: some non copyrighted Pokemon characters.

933
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:45,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I will say despite being sued by one

934
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 4: of the biggest gaming companies in the world, that world

935
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 4: is still doing stuff. At the Game Awards, they announced

936
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 4: a new expansion coming out Suit Incredible, so I mean,

937
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 4: more power to it.

938
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 2: I did wonder at the beginning if it was like

939
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 2: a publicity stunt type situation for both Nintendo game was

940
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,839
Speaker 2: never coming out because it felt like how could this

941
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 2: be and how could Nintendo take such a long time

942
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 2: to sue them? But yeah, very very interesting that they

943
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 2: were at the Game Awards and they didn't just immediately

944
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 2: get like arrested by a Nintendo's noise like brushing the stage.

945
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: You know, how could you do this?

946
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 9: I'm still so confused by this game.

947
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 8: Like I had a visceral reaction to the trailer where

948
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 8: I was like, I've never been playing Pokemon and thought,

949
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 8: you know what this needs guns?

950
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 9: Guns out here these.

951
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 2: Stuck in some annoying battles against some smug students.

952
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: I would be like, bring out the block, like I'll

953
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: do it. I'll do it.

954
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 5: You know what's always super effective?

955
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 3: Oh my god? All right, Moving on one of the

956
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 3: Game of the Year nominees. One of the Game of

957
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 3: the Year nominees was Bilatro. Such an incredible game, one

958
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 3: of my favorites of the year. Huge success. Also a

959
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 3: huge success though, was Manor Lords Wikay have any of you.

960
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: Played it now?

961
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to play it because I love this

962
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 2: kind of game. But I did get into Blatro, so

963
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 2: I did not have not played it.

964
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 3: Yet and a Mayor Lord's the also solo developer, and

965
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 3: it's sold a million copies the day after release.

966
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 5: Wow, Quiz.

967
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 2: I feel like we are in a solo developer renaissance

968
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 2: right now, obviously sparked by Stardu Valley in my opinion,

969
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 2: and kind of the way that has become one of

970
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 2: the biggest games in the world. And now with Bilatro,

971
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 2: which was literally just made for his friend's word or style,

972
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 2: Like I've been reading a lot of interviews with him

973
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 2: and he was like, I just made this for my friends,

974
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 2: and I didn't expect it to become you know what

975
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 2: it became. And obviously now with Manor Lords, which is

976
00:51:55,880 --> 00:52:00,320
Speaker 2: like a medieval strategy building kind of time manager e

977
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 2: type game. Yeah, very interesting. I mean a million copies

978
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 2: off to release. I'd probably have a hot attack. If

979
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 2: I make a game and that happened the next day,

980
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 2: I'd be like Ah.

981
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 3: Another solo developer, Indie hit Animal, Well, one of my

982
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 3: other favorite games of the year, a very cute, vibey game.

983
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,439
Speaker 3: It's like a metroid Vania. It has elements of It's

984
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,720
Speaker 3: not a horror game by any means. I don't like horror,

985
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 3: but it has like kind of some spooky, cutesy things

986
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 3: going on, giant cats and giant animals. You play as

987
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 3: this little blob and near universal praise. Very fun. There

988
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 3: are countless inventive items, like you get a yo yo

989
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 3: and you get a slinky, and these are like the

990
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 3: items you used to solve puzzles. The game also is

991
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 3: built in three layers, where like you can just play

992
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,840
Speaker 3: as a normal person and you beat the game, and

993
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:00,479
Speaker 3: that's layer one. Layer two is finding secret and lore

994
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 3: hidden within the games level design and the background. There's

995
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 3: like graffiti on the walls and it says something that

996
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 3: references another part of the dungeon, et cetera. And then

997
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 3: the third is like beyond even my understanding of Basically,

998
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 3: the developer was like, I just want fans of the

999
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 3: game to like come together as a community and talk

1000
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 3: about these things, and you maybe will develop like figure

1001
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,240
Speaker 3: out the third layer, which that might just be James

1002
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 3: Gunn saying there's one more Easter Egg nobody's found, but hey,

1003
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 3: the game's incredible.

1004
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 2: And when you think about how old video games would

1005
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 2: build in like Easter eggs, and you'd be like go

1006
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 2: to the end of a maze and at a certain door,

1007
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 2: you'd open it and it would be like a guy

1008
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 2: being like I love.

1009
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: My wife and kids. Here are their names. Like, so

1010
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: I always believe.

1011
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 2: In the inventiveness of people programming to add like a

1012
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 2: weird thing gives me like just I haven't played it.

1013
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: I've only seen clips of it, but it does have

1014
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: a kind of night in.

1015
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 2: The woods like Vibe where it's like spooky animals but

1016
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 2: not scary. Different gameplay obviously, but that was like such

1017
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 2: a definitive game for people who like like indie game.

1018
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to.

1019
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 3: Try that for anyone who is worried about spooky. I

1020
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,839
Speaker 3: do not do spooky, and I like this game a lot,

1021
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 3: so it is not scary. It does not scoopy.

1022
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 6: So waiting Aaron, you don't like scary games at all.

1023
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: You're not a scary No, they do not like we

1024
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: should play.

1025
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,439
Speaker 6: Like one of these co op Oh my god, let's scary.

1026
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: Let's get them to play like.

1027
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 6: There's a lot scarier games out there now, I understand.

1028
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 6: I absolutely play.

1029
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:36,240
Speaker 3: I've seen clips of like them, the ghost Hunter games,

1030
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,879
Speaker 3: and like you are all going back to the van

1031
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 3: and there's a witch chasing you and it's I don't

1032
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 3: know it would.

1033
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 6: I mean even the Friday the Thirteenth game, which is

1034
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 6: like imperfect.

1035
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: Perfect and you play it together, but it.

1036
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 6: Can be really fun. Could you even like to handle

1037
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 6: the Friday the Thirteenth game?

1038
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: I don't.

1039
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 9: I think that.

1040
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 2: I haven't seen any of it O online service games

1041
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 2: that is no longer having online service.

1042
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I think this year is sad.

1043
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 9: Dying Light?

1044
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 6: Would you try Dying Light?

1045
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 9: Let's do a Silent Hill VR.

1046
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:19,280
Speaker 2: Let's just we'll just do Like there's this iPad game

1047
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 2: that kids love and it's called Granny, and it's like

1048
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 2: you're just in a scary house and a granny is

1049
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 2: trying to hit you with a baseball bat and when

1050
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 2: she comes, she goes Granny.

1051
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 1: That's like a very popular kids game.

1052
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 2: What about all these basics where you're in a school

1053
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 2: and you have to do like scary equations, but the

1054
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 2: last equation is always impossible, and then Baldy kills you

1055
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 2: with his ruler and he hits your kids like freaky stuff.

1056
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 2: Guys they like, But I believe you guys can handle it.

1057
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 2: Five Nights of Freddy's You want to get jump scared?

1058
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 3: No, I don't like Jump Scared, I hate particular are

1059
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 3: extra yeah, you know you know that can handle like

1060
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 3: a long drawn out scare, but a jump scare is like.

1061
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 5: That's that's where it gets me, you know.

1062
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, moving on from and.

1063
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 5: You want to try.

1064
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 2: Ryan and Jason's New Passion now, it's like that's the

1065
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 2: scariest His game, The.

1066
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 6: Back Grounds is really like creepy pasta ish, so it

1067
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 6: might be that be a good one.

1068
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 8: There's an indie game where you just explore different cabins.

1069
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 8: You're like in a giant empty room and they just

1070
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 8: drop a cabin in and you have to go inside

1071
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:33,240
Speaker 8: and explore.

1072
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: In the room.

1073
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 10: Outlast Trials, that one is actually like they just shut up,

1074
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 10: like stop it. We have to do where we just

1075
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 10: like black out all the light and we just do

1076
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 10: like four something.

1077
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll do it for the content and only. Okay,

1078
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 4: continuing with our categories here, we wanted to talk about

1079
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,240
Speaker 4: We're at the end of the year. It's December now,

1080
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 4: and there are stills some great games coming out that

1081
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 4: you know, we didn't see at the Game Awards just

1082
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 4: because it's December. We did see Infinity Nikki at the

1083
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 4: Game Awards.

1084
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 5: I'll admit.

1085
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 4: This is the first I heard about this game, and

1086
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 4: I was not ready for how much quote unquote cozy

1087
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 4: this game was going to try and inject straight right.

1088
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, Like I think we've sort of we've

1089
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 4: maybe lost the plot on cozy a little bit. Like

1090
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 4: watching this trailer, I was like, is this cozy because

1091
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 4: we're just like it looked like so much.

1092
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 5: It looked like they took.

1093
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 2: Everything you had, Like there's a cozy game about being

1094
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Speaker 2: the Grim Reaper. That's one of the best cozy games

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00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 2: ever made, Spirit Farah.

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00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: So I think people are really like you can cozy

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00:57:59,680 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: and it.

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00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 2: But I did not realize until this clip then finn

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00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 2: Nicky was meant to be cozy. I'd only seen like

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00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 2: a few clips, so I wasn't aware of the cozy nature.

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00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 4: Well, well, like the subject for the game is called

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00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 4: is like the coziest game ever made? Is what they're

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00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 4: calling it.

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00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 9: Because here's what I remember from the trailer.

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00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 8: You get a person that you can dress up in

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00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 8: different towns, like you're what is the plot of when

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00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 8: are you trying to accomplish?

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00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: It's an open world.

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00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 2: It's like a cozy open world game where yeah, exactly

1111
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 2: where basically.

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00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 3: Like you like explore worlds well.

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00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 2: Worlds, but it has like platforming elements, puzzle solving elements,

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00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 2: it has dress up elements like uh link. It's basically

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00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 2: like what if you were doing in Zelda, but you

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00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 2: didn't have to fight any of the great beasts, like

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00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 2: you're just looking around like cooking. It's kind of interesting too,

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00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 2: because one of the games I was going to talk

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00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 2: about later is and maybe on a different episode now because.

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Speaker 1: I'm realizing we really went in on this, but like was.

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00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 2: Wildflowers, which is basically like what if you were Stardu

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00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 2: Valley mixed with animal crossing, but you're like a witch

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00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:11,439
Speaker 2: and you can change your clothes and you can go

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00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,919
Speaker 2: and like go into a special world where you can

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00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 2: fall in love with a were wolf and stuff.

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Speaker 1: So this is like a triple A. It feels like

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00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: a kind of triple A version of that.

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Speaker 2: I will absolutely be playing when it comes to a

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00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 2: console that I have.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and for for what it's worth, it's it's being received.

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00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, yeah, it'd be amazing. That's how I

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Speaker 1: found about out about it.

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00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I see, like people clearly love it and

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00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 8: to play about like have we lost the plot on

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Speaker 8: cozy games. There was a debate the other day and

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Speaker 8: I can't remember who was between, but they were trying

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Speaker 8: to decide if Skyrim counted as a cozy game.

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00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: No, I think that what it is, you can argue.

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Speaker 2: I think that post boulders Gate, which is classed in

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00:59:55,160 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 2: many ways as a cozy game because of what wait

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01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 2: a minute, on the Wired.

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01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: I believe that on the Wired.

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01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 2: List of best cozy games, they actually might have included Yeah,

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01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 2: Dungeon Dragons, but cozy boulders Gate three.

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01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 9: You spend a whole level just in hell, surrounded by it's.

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01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 2: Fair, but people are like, but it ends your day

1147
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:23,439
Speaker 2: ends with like a campfire and pajamas and snacks, and.

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01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: You're like at home.

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01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 2: So I think that because we are living in increasingly

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01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 2: unprecedented and stressful times, I think people are looking for

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01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 2: cozy and I think a lot of these games are

1152
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 2: learning from lessons of like, not me specifically, but people

1153
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 2: like me, where like when they play you know, Zelda,

1154
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 2: the newer versions that I'm spending so much time like

1155
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 2: cooking or like Rosie.

1156
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 6: Did you see that? Did you see the trailer for

1157
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 6: Tales from the Shire?

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01:00:52,960 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 11: Correct correctly me and them meet each other all the time,

1159
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 11: and I think that is the conversation that could be happening.

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01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 6: That's cozy. It's like what if what I'm in my

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01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 6: underground house making pins exactly, you know, that's what I.

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01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 2: Want, Like Stardi Valley, you know, like Animal Crossing. But

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01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting what does it mean? Like how

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01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 2: like you mentioned like have we gone too far and cozy?

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01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 2: I think the bigger question is like how influential are

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01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 2: these cozy games that all these Triple A developers are

1167
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 2: now like, well, how do we like sprinkle a little

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01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 2: cozy in Like how do we get people to include

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01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 2: Bouldersgate or Skyrim? Because in Skyrim you're going into a

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01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 2: tavern and people are like, well, maybe that's cozy, Like

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01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 2: I'm seeing an house and there's music music, And I

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01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 2: think that like they're leaning into it because there has

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01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 2: been this like massive movement towards that, whether it's like

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01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 2: Disney doing Dreamlight Valley, which has obviously been super successful

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01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 2: for them, that's basically like Disney Animal Crossing. I just

1176
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 2: constantly play games like Lemon Cake, a lot of like

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01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 2: repetitive movement games.

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01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 1: I actually put one in for.

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01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 2: Our superlatives, which we'll probably talk about a different day,

1180
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 2: But I think it's really interesting because you're right, like

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01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 2: Infinity NICKI essentially has taken all of the staff that

1182
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 2: you would have as a side quest in a game

1183
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 2: and been like, what if that is the main quest

1184
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 2: and it was a Triple A game, Like what if

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01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 2: you're just gonna wander around with your friends and there's

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01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 2: zero conflict.

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01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: The question is when will the cozy bubble burst? Like

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01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: what will be the.

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01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 2: Triple A game that people go into expecting it not

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01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,959
Speaker 2: to be cozy that ends up being cozy that people

1191
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 2: are like, no, I'm done, no more cozy, only bad,

1192
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 2: only bad things now, only conflict.

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01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 4: I think we're still on the cozy upswing, and I

1194
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 4: suspected a few more years.

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01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 3: Well, the next game is the opposite of Cozy because

1197
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 3: it is Indiana Jones in the Great Circle. This game

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01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 3: is basically physics Abound and you just everything is an

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01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 3: improvised weapon. No no, You are picking up umbrellas and

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01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 3: throwing them at a guy, and then you're picking up

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01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 3: a shovel and throwing it at them, and they catch

1202
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 3: the shovel and they try to hit you with the shovel.

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01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 3: That's the only thing I know about the game.

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01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 8: Nine pictures of straight Cats for Bonus Stuffy nine a

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01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 8: half ten from IGN notoriously yeah above a seven.

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01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 2: So I thought this is probably very beloved and it

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01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 2: seems like people are enjoying it.

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01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 8: The game opens, you get to recreate the Boulder scene,

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01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 8: so you're doing stealing your way in the object the walls,

1210
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 8: and it's so good to watched us side by side

1211
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 8: of like that scene with the video games version of

1212
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 8: the scene, and you go from a third person to

1213
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 8: first person while you're running, and it looks so good.

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01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 6: Guys, it does look really fun.

1215
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: Can I just get something off my chest?

1216
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 2: George Lucas stole that from a fucking stoogem dot comic.

1217
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: I just need you want to know it's a scrooge

1218
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 1: dot is the one who was originally running away from

1219
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 1: the boulder Like he did a great job. But isn't

1220
01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: it to gather off my chest?

1221
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 6: I am gonna I am going to try this game.

1222
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 6: I was very intrigued to see Troy Baker's recent comments

1223
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:08,919
Speaker 6: where he was listened nobody loves to voice a great

1224
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 6: job he's doing personally than Troy Baker and absolutely everybody

1225
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 6: doubted him. But he's doing a great job. He's his

1226
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 6: recent comments that I forget who it was, todd Ham

1227
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 6: and maybe or somebody was like, don't do it, don't dot,

1228
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 6: don't be Harrison Ford, the voice of Harrison Ford in

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01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 6: the Nandie Jones game. And then you know, seeing praise

1230
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 6: from Harrison Ford saying yeah, I did a great job.

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01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 6: That had me intrigued and the gameplay looks great. I'm in.

1232
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 3: Next up, we have Path of Exile to the open

1233
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 3: baita just released this previous week. For those of you

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01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 3: who've never played Path of Exile, Path of Exile is

1235
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 3: like Diablo Evolved. If Diablo has a skill tree, Path

1236
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 3: of Exile has a skill star system. It is expansive.

1237
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 6: Anybody, Yeah, just go look at the screenshot of the

1238
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 6: skill tree. Just google the Path of ex to screen.

1239
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 6: Like skill Tree.

1240
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 1: I was.

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01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 6: My jaw dropped. I am both heavily like I think

1242
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 6: I'm gonna try and play this game at the same time,

1243
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 6: like that skill tree made me both scared and extremely intrigued.

1244
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 3: One of the nice things is it's a shared skill

1245
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 3: tree from all classes, and so you can do anything

1246
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 3: you want no matter what class you are, you just

1247
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 3: build them into it. And the fun thing is that

1248
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 3: every skill is customizable, so you create, you create a

1249
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 3: gem that you can sock it into any skill. So

1250
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 3: maybe I have a poison arrow and I have a

1251
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,160
Speaker 3: lightning arrow, and I can get a skill gem that

1252
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 3: says you have a ten percent chance to reload your

1253
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 3: AMMO on hit, so I can put that into either

1254
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 3: one and I can customize. Oh, I actually want my

1255
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 3: poison arrow to be like the main DPS and the

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01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 3: lightning one is going to be a fast shoot, and

1257
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 3: so you can adjust and really customize it. However you

1258
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 3: want one five skills.

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01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 8: According to Pathtree's website, that it's crazy that.

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01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 3: This is similar to Diablo. This is a game where

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01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 3: the end game is like it's so common for I

1262
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 3: have a friend who played an intense amount of the

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01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 3: first one. He was the first one I knew who

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01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 3: got the second one, and he was like, the game

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01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 3: doesn't start until you reach the endgame, and like, oh

1266
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 3: my god, max level is one hundred, and he's like,

1267
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 3: you'll never reach one hundred because like you're going to

1268
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 3: get enough out of the game well before you get there.

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01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 3: The game is very very fun. I played co op

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01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 3: with two of my friends last night. It was incredible.

1271
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 3: We're drastically different levels. We all had an equal and

1272
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 3: fun amount at least they told me. We all had

1273
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 3: an equal and fun amount of time, with me being

1274
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 3: the lowest level. But very very fun. I highly recommend

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01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 3: it if you are. If you like Diablo and your

1276
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 3: favorite part of Diablo four was that you could customize.

1277
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 3: You know, this item would make my fireball instead of

1278
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 3: one fireball, three bouncing fireballs. If that's your favorite part,

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01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 3: then Pathwaxyle might be for you. Okay, all right, And

1280
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 3: to close out real quick, everyone who's on, let's just

1281
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:06,960
Speaker 3: what is one game that you are looking forward to

1282
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five or the game you're looking forward

1283
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 3: to the most coming in twenty twenty five? Joelle, what

1284
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 3: about you camping out in the corner over there?

1285
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 1: What game are you waiting waiting to shoot?

1286
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 7: Us?

1287
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 2: All?

1288
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, let's see here.

1289
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 8: I oh, there's so many can I I don't.

1290
01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 9: Know, I don't know, go someone else, come back.

1291
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: We go to me, Go to me, Tales of the Shia.

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01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 9: It's a great pick me and will be there.

1293
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:38,439
Speaker 1: On day one.

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01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 2: We want to be hobbits. I want to see Triple

1295
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 2: A gamers get really upset about the fact that the

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01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 2: animation doesn't look that good, which is like a classic

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01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 2: part of cozy gaming. I want to make you know,

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01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 2: potatoes every day. I want to just be cozy. I

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01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 2: want to see if they're going to do any creatures

1300
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 2: or anything that's a little bit in that more spooky

1301
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 2: realm that some cozy games have been getting into but.

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01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: Generally looks great.

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01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 2: I believe it will be, you know, the first kind

1304
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 2: of cozy Lord of the Rings game ever, which seems

1305
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 2: wild but makes a lot of sense with the way

1306
01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 2: the phantom is nowadays.

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01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: I will be playing on day one.

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01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 2: Me and Common will be there dming each other about

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Speaker 2: how glitchy.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure it is amazing. Jason, what are you looking forwards?

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Speaker 3: You most in twenty twenty five Ghost.

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Speaker 6: Of Yute, the Soccer Prices sequel.

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Speaker 9: Yes is Man, that.

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Speaker 6: Game circled on the calendar, underlined three times. I am

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Speaker 6: unbelievably excited to play that game.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna go assassins Creed Shadow, even though I've been

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Speaker 8: burned and burned and set on fire and tossed over

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Speaker 8: a cliff. I still just love the idea of being

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Speaker 8: a secret assassin. I love Yaske as a historical figure,

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Speaker 8: like very interesting person. I like that you're getting to

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Speaker 8: play two assassins. It's the first time in a couple

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Speaker 8: of games that we've been able to do that, and

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Speaker 8: I usually have fun with that. I think their boating

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Speaker 8: elements get better game. I actually like the sea fairy stuff,

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Speaker 8: so I'm prepared to be disappointed again, but damn it,

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Speaker 8: maybe Assassin's creed'll get me.

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Speaker 9: Back a boo.

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Speaker 3: What about you with your your most anticipated game of

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: Death Stranding two. I thought Death Stranding one was like

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Speaker 4: one of the most unique games I've ever played. I

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Speaker 4: went in knowing like nothing about it and kind of

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Speaker 4: expected based off conversations I was seeing online, kind of

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Speaker 4: expected to bounce off of it, and just couldn't stop

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Speaker 4: playing and blasted through the whole thing and walked away

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Speaker 4: being like, I don't think I've ever played a game

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Speaker 4: like that. I know that's a bit of a basic

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Speaker 4: Kojima stand take, but kojimas Kojima for a race.

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Speaker 1: A legend for a reason.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say, like, it's incredible, and I'm so

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Speaker 4: ready for Death.

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Speaker 3: Stranding too, how about you, Aaron, I guess it has

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Speaker 3: to be one of the many VR horror games you

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Speaker 3: guys have mentioned.

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Speaker 8: The.

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Speaker 2: Five Laps of Freddy, the Five Nights of Freddy's Racing Nights.

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Speaker 5: Freddy seven.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you everyone for joining us. We will have

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Speaker 3: more video game coverage coming soon. We're gonna do a

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Speaker 3: superlatives and some of our favorite games on upcoming episodes

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Speaker 3: of x ray that's the episode. Thank you for listening,

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Speaker 3: Thanks for everybody for being here.

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Speaker 1: Bye.

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Speaker 6: X ray Vision is hosted by Jason Sumpsion and Rosie

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Speaker 6: Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcasts. Our executive

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Speaker 6: producers are Joelle Smith and Aaron Kaufman. Our supervising producer

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Speaker 6: is a Boo Zafar. Our producers are Carmen Lron and

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Speaker 6: Mia Taylor. Our theme song is by Brian Basquez.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to Soul Rubin and Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman

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Speaker 2: and Heidi on discoord Moderato