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Speaker 3: Hi, my name's a Boo and I'm Snoop Dogg performing Sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm Aaron Kaufman.
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Speaker 3: Right In today episode, it is our big twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four video game roundup. First off, we're going to react
Speaker 3: to the game Awards, the trailers, the awards themselves, and
Speaker 3: then we're going to recap some of the biggest stories
Speaker 3: from the year, some of the biggest games of the year,
Speaker 3: and finally, the x Ray crew will share what game
Speaker 3: they are looking forward to the most next year.
Speaker 4: But first, previously on all right, Aaron, we got to
Speaker 4: start with a big one. Yeah, Astrobot one Game of
Speaker 4: the Year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Have you played it?
Speaker 5: I've not played it.
Speaker 3: Did you play astro Astro's World that comes with the
Speaker 3: PS five?
Speaker 4: Nope, it's still downloaded on my PS five and I've
Speaker 4: never opened.
Speaker 3: To incredibly charming. I would highly recommend you play it.
Speaker 3: It's very short, it teaches you a lot of very
Speaker 3: fun things like how to use your controller, but it's
Speaker 3: a really smart, creative platformer, and Astrobot is even better.
Speaker 3: I am not surprised at I think it was an
Speaker 3: outstanding game that felt very unique, especially amongst this year's nominees.
Speaker 3: But I know that was not your choice necessarily for
Speaker 3: Game of the Year, right, you know?
Speaker 4: It was an eclectic year for Game of the Year nominees.
Speaker 4: Like just to remind folks, there was Astrobot, b Latro, Blackmith, Wukong,
Speaker 4: Elden Ring, Shadow of the Ur Tree, Final Fantasy seven Rebirth,
Speaker 4: and Metaphor Refuntasio. That is a weird collection of finalists
Speaker 4: for a video game year. Like usually you have your classic,
Speaker 4: heavy hitters like Final Fantasy is maybe the only classic
Speaker 4: heavy hitter in that list. Everything else has like something
Speaker 4: particularly unique about it, So I did not know who
Speaker 4: was gonna win going in. I played some metaphor and
Speaker 4: I really liked it. But that's certainly for a particular
Speaker 4: type of gamer who's really into the persona games, right
Speaker 4: and long hundred hour RPGs. I love Final Fantasy seven,
Speaker 4: so I guess those two who.
Speaker 5: Were my personal picks.
Speaker 4: But Astrobot is like if you look at the numbers,
Speaker 4: it is the best reviewed game of the year, like
Speaker 4: be really based off of like if you look at
Speaker 4: numbers across like Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Open critic, I do think it Astrobat and Bolotro are
Speaker 3: the shortest games. And that's one of the problems I
Speaker 3: think with like Game of the Year awards, Like it's
Speaker 3: realistic that you could see every movie that is nominated
Speaker 3: for Best Picture at the Oscars. It is pretty unrealistic
Speaker 3: that you can play through each of these best games.
Speaker 3: I mean, the amount of time I put into the
Speaker 3: elden Ring Dalc alone prevents me from playing the majority
Speaker 3: of these games. And then to add on to that, Bilotro,
Speaker 3: which I'll talk about more later. Like that game is incredible,
Speaker 3: Astrobot is great. Like I did not touch Final Fantasy,
Speaker 3: I did not touch Metaphor, and I didn't even touch
Speaker 3: Black Mets Pukong, which I thought I would really get into,
Speaker 3: and I just never got around to it.
Speaker 5: Right right, who else the time?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, exactly. Also, we had the best adaptation Fallout
Speaker 3: one over Arcane, and you and I both big fans
Speaker 3: of Arcane. It did yep, yeah, you know we covered
Speaker 3: it on extras earlier, we did the entirety of season
Speaker 3: two on the main show, right, So what did you think?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I think anyone who's listened to X ray over the
Speaker 4: last month and a half will likely know where I
Speaker 4: fall on this, But I don't know. I mean, for
Speaker 4: what it's worth, I only watched the first two episodes
Speaker 4: of Fallout, and I did love them, and I grew
Speaker 4: up playing you know, shit ton of Fallout three, Fallout four.
Speaker 4: I love that franchise, and I thought the TV show
Speaker 4: the first two episodes were great. But obviously I'm like
Speaker 4: deeply attached to Arcane in a way that's a little unhealthy.
Speaker 4: So just I was a bit bummed about this one.
Speaker 4: It felt like the wrong choice. I thought Arcane was
Speaker 4: the easy shoeing, and for what it's worth, they had,
Speaker 4: like they did a whole Arcane live performance, and I
Speaker 4: feel like even the Game show itself expected Arcane to
Speaker 4: win the one and like planned for that whole performance
Speaker 4: and everything.
Speaker 3: I mean, they couldn't really bring in anyone to do
Speaker 3: a musical performance from Fallout. I guess like all that
Speaker 3: music is from you know, pretty long time ago. But
Speaker 3: let's bring in Jason, Rosy and Joel to just real
Speaker 3: quick talk through these two TV shows because we have
Speaker 3: mentioned both of them. Jason did a huge deep dive
Speaker 3: on the variety of drugs available and Fallout. We did
Speaker 3: so much on Hurricane. What do you all think about
Speaker 3: Fallout taking best adaptation?
Speaker 6: It's I think it is a little bit of a surprise,
Speaker 6: But you know, what would an awards show be without
Speaker 6: a notable snub. I'm also you know, this is the
Speaker 6: I don't know how many you know what number year
Speaker 6: that I've been paying attention to and clicking in and
Speaker 6: out of the Game Awards. I have no fucking clue
Speaker 6: is there any I mean, like, how do they do
Speaker 6: around the world.
Speaker 7: Is there an app zero fu Yeah, I don't, I
Speaker 7: know zero about it, and I've always just kind of assumed,
Speaker 7: kind of like everything with video games, that there is
Speaker 7: some sort of like handshaken vaguline exchange that goes.
Speaker 6: On on the carriage, and that's a Fallout. I think
Speaker 6: was a great show. Arcane uh, more of a pioneering
Speaker 6: and yes, you know, groundbreaking show, whereas Fallouts is kind
Speaker 6: of in the format of something you've kind of seen before,
Speaker 6: but very excellently done. So yeah, I think a bit
Speaker 6: of a snub, but part of the course for awards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: I also think if you think about it, like Accessibility buys,
Speaker 2: Fallout had a massive audience because of it being on
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime that was like way way outside of the standard.
Speaker 1: Video game audience.
Speaker 2: Also, it is, as Jason says, like recognizable prestige TV.
Speaker 2: But also it is one of the few really really
Speaker 2: good live action video game adaptations, so I also think
Speaker 2: that puts it up there. It was also, you know,
Speaker 2: generally very well received, whereas I think because of the massive,
Speaker 2: massive passion and fan base of Arcane, it was definitely
Speaker 2: Season two was like a little bit more divisive, whether
Speaker 2: it was the pacing or character choices, or who they
Speaker 2: chose to focus on. So I think that Fallout was
Speaker 2: a bit more of a easy choice though, like you said,
Speaker 2: I mean Arcane, I think is a groundbreaking TV show
Speaker 2: of which we may not get the like again, whereas
Speaker 2: Fallout was just a really, really expensive and well made
Speaker 2: prestige TV show.
Speaker 8: I think you're also coming in on the heels of
Speaker 8: a divisive second season of Arcane as opposed to a
Speaker 8: holy crap was that good season of Fallout? Like you're
Speaker 8: sort of entering at two several points. I'll also say
Speaker 8: if you're if you're the kind of dream member. To
Speaker 8: answer your question, Jason, a quick Google search revealed a
Speaker 8: ninety percent jury, ten percent fans voting system.
Speaker 9: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Question?
Speaker 6: Mark on details again, Yes, but I appreciate the information.
Speaker 8: That's a little bit of information I can provide. I
Speaker 8: think too, if you look at specifically the category of
Speaker 8: like adaptation, Arcane has a higher bar to clear because
Speaker 8: if and again I have not played Arcade, so correct
Speaker 8: me if I'm wrong. But it's not a very story
Speaker 8: driven like, no lot driven game, right, so like, whereas
Speaker 8: you have a lot of plot in Fallout and you
Speaker 8: can adapt that lore in that narrative and fit that
Speaker 8: season into the larger canon of Fallout. It's a little
Speaker 8: harder to do for our Kane because it's establishing something.
Speaker 8: So I think if you were like, as far as
Speaker 8: how am I judging it as an adaptation, I could
Speaker 8: see pulling the lever for Fallout over Arcane. But I
Speaker 8: do think it sort of came as a surprise and
Speaker 8: kind of a lovely one Ella Pronell having a great year,
Speaker 8: happy for her love Fallout looking for season two.
Speaker 3: We talked about it with our Fallout coverage that the
Speaker 3: main characters are the different play styles and Fallout where yeah,
Speaker 3: no one can you know, watch Arcane and then go oh,
Speaker 3: I can't wait to play like this, that someone's just
Speaker 3: gonna yell at you in the lobby that you're not
Speaker 3: topaning on.
Speaker 2: The only one that I do think is that when
Speaker 2: by the end of Arcane season two, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I understand why they made a best of the new
Speaker 2: character because she had those sick like scorpion esque calls
Speaker 2: kind of chains, so she was one character I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: if I was ever gonna play this, I would play,
Speaker 2: but I'm never gonna play it because everyone always wants
Speaker 2: me like it's the scariest game to play in the world.
Speaker 2: Then everyone will yell at you, and I did my
Speaker 2: time with Halo Online. I don't need to I don't
Speaker 2: need to do that.
Speaker 9: Get in there.
Speaker 4: Well, while we have all of you here, how about
Speaker 4: we talked through some of the trailers and announcements. Because
Speaker 4: this is an award show, but it's mostly a three
Speaker 4: a long adver commercial. Yeah, so let's talk through some
Speaker 4: of the highlights. First up, Naughty Dog announced their new
Speaker 4: game that they've been working on for four years in
Speaker 4: secret since twenty twenty, Intergalactic the Heretic Project. This is
Speaker 4: a sci fi video game about a bounty hunter who's
Speaker 4: going after Kamail Najianni, who takes me.
Speaker 3: Out of ever.
Speaker 4: I love com so so much, but he keeps showing
Speaker 4: up in video games and it absolutely like takes rips. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's a voice is a character in Mass Effect. It's
Speaker 4: so weird, but I love it. He's he's a longtime
Speaker 4: gamer and podcaster and so follow your passions, Kamail. What
Speaker 4: do we all think of this Intergalactic? What do we
Speaker 4: think of the reveal trailer?
Speaker 3: Looks amazing. I can't wait to play it in ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks it's great.
Speaker 2: Whenever it comes out, I will play it, probably when
Speaker 2: it's on sale. But also I do think it was
Speaker 2: really interesting to see the way that conversations are Naughty
Speaker 2: Dog have changed post the Last of Us, you know,
Speaker 2: because a lot of the reporting I saw on this
Speaker 2: was like an original sci fi ip.
Speaker 1: By Naughty Dog.
Speaker 2: So you know, the studios are just like lapping up, like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, when can we make it into a
Speaker 2: TV show?
Speaker 1: Like who who's going to be able to adapt it?
Speaker 2: Got a wait for it to come out first, guys,
Speaker 2: unless we're going to get into the space in video
Speaker 2: games like there are in books where people are kind
Speaker 2: of like optioning games before they come out, the same
Speaker 2: way they optioned books before they come out. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it looks great. I love a Bounty Hunter story.
Speaker 2: I also love sci fi, and I'm very excited to
Speaker 2: see I will probably play this on easy mode in yeah,
Speaker 2: ten years when it comes out.
Speaker 4: Could you imagine a concurrent like TV show and game
Speaker 4: real ease at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be absolutely wild, but there's precedent for it.
Speaker 2: If you look at not in video games, but like,
Speaker 2: for example, when they were making the original Scott Pilgrim movie,
Speaker 2: Brian Ley O'Malley still hadn't finished the last book, so
Speaker 2: they were kind of making it alongside, and that was
Speaker 2: like a very interesting choice. And obviously that was because
Speaker 2: him and Edgar Wright were like collaborating and in that
Speaker 2: kind of mode. But I do think we could end
Speaker 2: up in a world where, you know, we're getting more
Speaker 2: and more corporate mergers and conglomerates and stuff. So there's
Speaker 2: probably gonna be a world where they're making a video
Speaker 2: game and its adaptation at the same time within the
Speaker 2: next few years totally.
Speaker 9: I mean to your point.
Speaker 8: Rosie Trent Reznor and Aticus Ross are doing the soundtrack
Speaker 8: for this game, and so we already know they have
Speaker 8: a pretty stellar run at film and television. Serially, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm excited. I think the mystery for this game is
Speaker 8: really interesting. He plays like a bounty hunter who gets
Speaker 8: stranded on a planet that lost communication with the rest
Speaker 8: of the galaxy six hundred years ago, and you're trying
Speaker 8: to get off the planet, but everybody who has left
Speaker 8: the planet has never returned, and so you don't know
Speaker 8: if leaving is a death thing or if you're just like,
Speaker 8: screw this planet, I got off goodbye. And then the
Speaker 8: character design looks fantastic, like really stellar love the weapon
Speaker 8: blunt electrified weapon is really cool. So the design elements
Speaker 8: that are available to us so far definitely have me
Speaker 8: intrigued and die Dogs on kind of a run.
Speaker 9: So I'm hoping for good things.
Speaker 6: I think the lineage of Naughty Dog is what you're
Speaker 6: going to be excited about here, Yeah, exactly uncharted Last
Speaker 6: of Us. The fact that this is a studio that
Speaker 6: is known for great story and gameplay elements that are
Speaker 6: high quality and really support great story. So I think
Speaker 6: that part of it is really intriguing in terms of
Speaker 6: like what we saw. Who knows, but I think the
Speaker 6: I just the idea that Naughty Dog has its kind
Speaker 6: of like first original story since the Last of Us
Speaker 6: set in space and a sci fi context is super
Speaker 6: super exciting. They showed us like very little, and to
Speaker 6: everybody's point, that makes makes me feel like this is years.
Speaker 1: Away, years away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, hopefully this next game is not that far away,
Speaker 3: because I know a boo practically you know, pulled his
Speaker 3: hair out over this next one. CD project reads the
Speaker 3: Witcher four a start of a brand new Witcher saga,
Speaker 3: with a teaser trailer focusing on Siri and uh no gameplay,
Speaker 3: no gameplay, not to inject my own personal biases, but
Speaker 3: a boo you were you were freaking out about this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there were, There was rumor of this, but we
Speaker 4: also got mere months ago confirmation that Witcher four has
Speaker 4: left pre production and is now in production, and.
Speaker 5: So it's so early.
Speaker 4: This is like years and years and years away. And
Speaker 4: I was shocked that the Game Awards like practically opened
Speaker 4: with a trailer about Witcher four, So that was exciting.
Speaker 4: I'm very excited to see Whicher Sirie back as a Witcher,
Speaker 4: presumably based on what we saw on this trailer. The
Speaker 4: vibes looked great. Uh there you know, the trailer claimed
Speaker 4: that this was in engine footage, So if the game looks,
Speaker 4: you know, even close to what we saw in that trailer,
Speaker 4: it'll be it'll be gorgeous. So I mean, I'm a
Speaker 4: huge Witcher fan, so I'm gonna be playing the shit
Speaker 4: out of this as soon as it comes out.
Speaker 3: And from the game that Aboo couldn't relax over to
Speaker 3: the game that I thought was actually a hoax when
Speaker 3: my friends texted me the trailer because I was watching
Speaker 3: the football game and they send this text to me.
Speaker 3: Elden Ring Night Rain co op survival action game. Yes,
Speaker 3: I am so excited for elden Ring to be nominated
Speaker 3: for a Game of the Year for the next five
Speaker 3: years running as from sooff just keeps doing new things
Speaker 3: under the elden Ring banner. I think this one looks
Speaker 3: to be drawing from all across the Souls franchise. There
Speaker 3: are moves from Secoro, there is the Nameless King from
Speaker 3: Dark Souls. People are theorizing that the fire Keeper from
Speaker 3: Dark Souls three is there. The main thing, though, is
Speaker 3: that from Soft games are notoriously single player. You can
Speaker 3: bring in other people to help you on a boss,
Speaker 3: or you can get invaded, but it is not a
Speaker 3: seamless co op experience. And this looks to be that.
Speaker 3: This looks to be like you and I load in
Speaker 3: and we play for an extended period of time and
Speaker 3: we are going to go start to finish. There's not
Speaker 3: you falling out when we beat the boss and I
Speaker 3: have to resummon you. This is its own thing. I'm
Speaker 3: very excited about what this could be Jason, You've played
Speaker 3: the DLC, right, mm hmm. The amount of things that
Speaker 3: we're introduced in the DLC of new weapon types, new
Speaker 3: combat techniques, and then seeing this which had even more things,
Speaker 3: just I am in awe.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a little. I am super intrigued and very excited.
Speaker 6: That said, I'm also like, they've never done anything like
Speaker 6: this before. And I love summoning somebody and I do
Speaker 6: it all the time because i need fucking help eating
Speaker 6: these bosses. But I'm gonna need more synergy than you'd
Speaker 6: show up. I show up and then we both just
Speaker 6: start dodging and hacking at a boss like uh. So
Speaker 6: I'm interested to see how they add value to the
Speaker 6: fact that this is a co op game and what
Speaker 6: the synergy between the players is because my initial reaction
Speaker 6: is if it's just like a long a game version
Speaker 6: of a summoning boss fight experience, that's kind of not enough.
Speaker 6: So I'm interested to see what else is there. And
Speaker 6: I'm sure, like you know, it's the reputation of this
Speaker 6: studio obviously speaks for itself, so I'm sure it will
Speaker 6: be great, but I'm really intrigued to know what else is.
Speaker 3: There next up from the creator of Shadows the Colossus.
Speaker 3: In the Last Guardian, we have something tentatively titled Project Robot.
Speaker 3: The teaser features this pilot climbing on a giant mech.
Speaker 3: The head ejects, and then this doomsday storm comes in
Speaker 3: and destroys the body of the mech. As someone who
Speaker 3: I have very fond memories freshman year of college, sitting
Speaker 3: in like my best friend's dorm room, him playing Shadow
Speaker 3: of the Colossus and me just like sitting on his
Speaker 3: floor crisscross like watching in awe. I cannot wait for this.
Speaker 8: I think this is the most anxiety.
Speaker 2: Anxiety inducing games when you suddenly realize that you have
Speaker 2: been on the wrong side of history all along.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for this. It looks it looks fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's just as mysterious and weird and strange as I
Speaker 2: would hope, And it was definitely like giving me. There's
Speaker 2: been a big mac resurgence recently, I feel like, whether
Speaker 2: it's in comics or whether it's in you know, even
Speaker 2: having like an ultraman kids cartoon on Netflix that was
Speaker 2: like so popular. It's it's really fantastic, Like I can't
Speaker 2: recommend it enough.
Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Just this looks so good, and I'm this was the
Speaker 2: one where I was like, Okay, they hooked me, like
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 1: They because usually I'm a smaller.
Speaker 2: Game guy nowadays, but I'm I'm I'm really ready for
Speaker 2: this when in five years, when when it comes out
Speaker 2: with a totally different names nothing to do with mechs for.
Speaker 6: Me, it's really simple. Nobody does a little guy climbing
Speaker 6: on a gigantic guy better than fumio. Nobody in the
Speaker 6: history in games does that matter?
Speaker 1: So that.
Speaker 3: On a big guy. Yeah, next up we have gearboxes
Speaker 3: Borderlands four. We had hints of this after the Borderlands.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, it's kind of funny that like
Speaker 2: they announced this and they were like, yeah, there's this
Speaker 2: cool thing coming, and it's like, guys, guess how we
Speaker 2: already knew this was coming out because you guys were like,
Speaker 2: thought that movie sucked, Well, guess what the game's gonna
Speaker 2: be bad, So we like knew it was coming in
Speaker 2: the most hilarious way.
Speaker 3: And the trailer has uh pod racing, grappling hooks, obviously,
Speaker 3: loot drops, and there's clap Trap set to launch in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. We didn't mention that about the Eldon
Speaker 3: Ring one as well. Nice to see a trailer that
Speaker 3: has a release date, even if it's just the year,
Speaker 3: like an actual.
Speaker 6: Release date and seemingly in game footage. Yeah, I'm probably
Speaker 6: the only Borderlands fan here, and I'll say I'm excited
Speaker 6: for this game because I like a game with a
Speaker 6: lot of guns where I don't have to think sometimes yes,
Speaker 6: silly silly guns.
Speaker 3: Next up, capcom released again just the title Okami sequel.
Speaker 3: There's not an actual name yet.
Speaker 2: If you haven't played at commy, no, because I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, like, this is such a legendary game if
Speaker 2: you love it, like I love this game. This is
Speaker 2: one of those PlayStation two games that, like I would
Speaker 2: just always rebuy and game stop because I would have
Speaker 2: set lent it to someone or something and I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 2: I got to play this again, Like yeah, this is
Speaker 2: a really beautiful game, and I'm just like, again, is
Speaker 2: it really going to come out?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I would love it if it does.
Speaker 3: If you've never played it, it's kind of like Legend
Speaker 3: of Zelda meets Japanese folklore with like a paintbrush. It's
Speaker 3: it's beautiful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I will say I think we've kind of
Speaker 4: been joking about it this whole conversation. This has nothing
Speaker 4: to do with Okami, but this I thought this Award
Speaker 4: show was actually quite solid, especially considering some of the
Speaker 4: stumbles and like decisions from.
Speaker 5: The last couple of years of award shows.
Speaker 4: But I think we will look back on this one
Speaker 4: and go, hmm, shouldn't have announced that so early? Like
Speaker 4: that was that was like really the vibe of a
Speaker 4: lot of these announcements, like, oh, comedy, there is no game.
Speaker 4: What they announced was we are going to a thing. Yes,
Speaker 4: there is no game to speak of right now.
Speaker 2: Like it feels to me and obviously like we kind
Speaker 2: of are familiar with this at this point, but it's
Speaker 2: kind of like you know those MCU slates they make
Speaker 2: where like at least is never coming out the Inhumans
Speaker 2: movie that never came out, you know, the same way
Speaker 2: that James Gunn's Gun of Us, which ones will we get?
Speaker 1: Like you never really know?
Speaker 2: Like this definitely had that kind of energy, but for
Speaker 2: multiple different studios. Like I don't know if you guys know,
Speaker 2: but the general rule of San Diego Comic Con is
Speaker 2: like a lot of people are getting those calls like
Speaker 2: the night the weekend before, like hey, can you be
Speaker 2: here like and announce this comic or announce this movie,
Speaker 2: and then you never know if they're really going to happen.
Speaker 2: This definitely was giving that kind of energy of like, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: got anything you could announce, like anything you're just excited about,
Speaker 2: Like I think you're right, I heard.
Speaker 3: Grand Theft Auto six is not getting shown, So do
Speaker 3: you have something.
Speaker 9: Else Thoastards still won't give us ship?
Speaker 4: Yeah right, no silk song, no GTA, we need to
Speaker 4: rail again with anything.
Speaker 2: In some ways, I think like it is kind of
Speaker 2: interesting because we are getting highlights on like other games
Speaker 2: that wouldn't necessarily have been highlighted in that way, like Dispatch,
Speaker 2: which looks really cool.
Speaker 1: It's made by like the guys who left.
Speaker 2: Tell Tale, but like, yeah, it is definitely funny, and
Speaker 2: I do think that in a few years we'll probably
Speaker 2: be looking back and being like, lol, remember when that
Speaker 2: was supposed to get.
Speaker 1: Made and it never got made? You know, it gives
Speaker 1: that energy for sure.
Speaker 8: The video game industry as a whole is going through
Speaker 8: a lot of upheopal right now. They talked a lot
Speaker 8: entering the game awards about the massive amounts of layoffs
Speaker 8: that have been sort.
Speaker 1: Of which people mention it actually, yeah, and.
Speaker 8: To honor somebody who's been trying to help folks get
Speaker 8: connected to the right jobs. Like I thought that was
Speaker 8: I cried. I was like, this is a very beautiful,
Speaker 8: heartfelt moment. But I wonder if the lack of announcements,
Speaker 8: and especially if we look at like still the impact
Speaker 8: of Skidi Project read Biffing Cyberpunks, if there's is this
Speaker 8: a reaction of video game companies being like if we
Speaker 8: announced too much, if we announce things too early, or
Speaker 8: you know, as their in development and they flop or whatever.
Speaker 8: Like we're very in tune to like almost every step
Speaker 8: of the video game making process now, and I just
Speaker 8: wonder if this is like a back because I remember
Speaker 8: like two years ago the trailers were immaculate and they
Speaker 8: were like Christmas two weeks from now, you can get
Speaker 8: this game, and it felt like very much more.
Speaker 2: Like it was interesting to not have any like surprise
Speaker 2: drop kind of trailers.
Speaker 1: They do love to do that, and they do like, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's usually more of a Nintendo Direct style for a
Speaker 2: smaller game, but this definitely does seem very far from anything.
Speaker 6: I wonder if part of it is that we're clearly
Speaker 6: coming to the end of the life cycle of their
Speaker 6: current consoles. Yeah, and a lot of this is about
Speaker 6: moving targets and hitting hardware that's not that doesn't exist
Speaker 6: now and won't exist for three years, And so does
Speaker 6: it make sense to show something now? You know? It
Speaker 6: almost makes you pine for the years of like the
Speaker 6: early aughts where everybody just made fake trailers of stuff,
Speaker 6: kill Zone two being the most notorious moment version of this,
Speaker 6: where Sony just like made a fake CG trailer that
Speaker 6: they said was in game footage and was clearly not
Speaker 6: in game footage. It was like the most mind blowing
Speaker 6: game footage. But yeah, I wonder if some of this
Speaker 6: is just like hardware. We don't know what hardware is
Speaker 6: going to be in a couple couple of years from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, real quick. A couple more of the trailers. We
Speaker 3: got Shadow Labyrinth, which looks like a dark take on
Speaker 3: pac Man. It almost looks kind of hollow nighty.
Speaker 2: That's interesting as well because we did just get that
Speaker 2: secret Level show where they're giving like a scary pac
Speaker 2: Man episode, So I thought that was interesting. There's obviously
Speaker 2: a scary pac Man Zeitgeist going home right now.
Speaker 3: It's very strange to watch something that looks like Hollow
Speaker 3: Night and then have like the old school classic pac
Speaker 3: Man sound as he goes around, which is just kind
Speaker 3: of like Kumail took you out of Boo that took
Speaker 3: me out. Outer Worlds too. Also coming next year, Split Fiction,
Speaker 3: which is coming from Can.
Speaker 1: It be as good as it looks?
Speaker 6: I don't know?
Speaker 3: But actually really great?
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, so I.
Speaker 5: Don't know if y'all played.
Speaker 4: It takes two, but this is giving it takes two
Speaker 4: plus sci fi energy and I fantasy both, Yeah, it
Speaker 4: takes too already fantasy though, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Yarn and yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah this is the game too where I was like,
Speaker 8: this is so fast that you only need to buy
Speaker 8: one copy and you can play online with a friend.
Speaker 9: Like as a.
Speaker 8: Child whose parents were very selective about which games you
Speaker 8: could purchase and how many games a year, this is
Speaker 8: a miraculous fine And I think the idea of like,
Speaker 8: as a girl who's really into the fantasy games, we
Speaker 8: had a brother who was very into the science fiction games.
Speaker 8: I really like the potential of like bringing like mixed
Speaker 8: gamers together in a world where they can like sort
Speaker 8: of share their appreciation for each genre.
Speaker 9: Like this game gotta be really hyped. I love this trailer.
Speaker 1: It looks so good.
Speaker 6: It got me really really hyped. There's nothing I'm not
Speaker 6: seeing anything like this, really this type of ambition for
Speaker 6: a co op game, with that many different types of
Speaker 6: settings and seemingly gameplay, I'm very, very hyped. The one
Speaker 6: thing that holds me back is that I said this
Speaker 6: pretty us recording. But you know, usually a game, a
Speaker 6: really really good game like has one kind of core
Speaker 6: groop that it does like super super well, is really
Speaker 6: really really polished, and maybe it adds like a curve
Speaker 6: a change up somewhere in the middle of the game,
Speaker 6: like all like a platforming part or a driving part
Speaker 6: or something to just switch it up. This looks to
Speaker 6: have like several different types of types of gameplay, and
Speaker 6: I wonder if it can all be as polished.
Speaker 3: As that said.
Speaker 6: This looks fucking awesome. This was maybe my favorite trailer
Speaker 6: of the whole thing. There had one scene where it
Speaker 6: looks like the player on the left was in third
Speaker 6: person three D and the player on the right was
Speaker 6: in a side scroller on the same level, I mean,
Speaker 6: like insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And finally, they had a trailer for Tarrock Origins, which
Speaker 3: we have no idea what that is.
Speaker 2: Yes, is it even a Torock game or is it
Speaker 2: another game with the you know, serial number.
Speaker 3: Five dinosaur tro logo?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But I love a dinosaur. I will play
Speaker 2: any game with a dinosaur. I have played most of
Speaker 2: the Tarrock games. I'm a dino crisis person personally, so
Speaker 2: bring us bring that respect please.
Speaker 9: But the armor looked really cool in this some of
Speaker 9: the changes.
Speaker 8: I was like, as well, Yeah, seven to twelve year
Speaker 8: olds are about to get their whole lives on this game.
Speaker 9: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: It's amazing to me when there's a remake of Joe
Speaker 3: and Mac.
Speaker 8: Though, can we talk about Project Century really quick as
Speaker 8: far as new trailers go. Jason had mentioned it before
Speaker 8: we jumped in. It's really really interesting from the same
Speaker 8: people that did Yukuza and like a Dragon Ryu got
Speaker 8: Go Toku Studios, and it's set in nineteen fifteen, and
Speaker 8: it's got some cool fantasy vibe but also some like
Speaker 8: cool mob vibes, and you.
Speaker 1: Have an La Noir vibe.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys played that, but that
Speaker 2: was like a b I played that game like extensively
Speaker 2: when it first came out, But that is a bit
Speaker 2: more physical, a bit less point and click looks like that.
Speaker 9: What were you excited about from the trailer?
Speaker 6: Just the Yukuza of it all? The the way the
Speaker 6: street looked again, very little to go on here, but
Speaker 6: what I saw made me sit forward a little bit.
Speaker 6: You know, There's this clip of the character who's being controlled,
Speaker 6: like stepping out of a building into the street of
Speaker 6: you know, nineteen teens somewhere in Asia, and it just
Speaker 6: it looked awesome. Then detail looked incredible, And I really
Speaker 6: loved the Yakuza games. I think they're super super fun
Speaker 6: and so ex gen version of that I'm in.
Speaker 3: All right, Next up, I think we should go through
Speaker 3: some of the live service of it all. From this year,
Speaker 3: there were many live service games introduced and closed. Most notably,
Speaker 3: we had Concord, which we mentioned on an earlier episode
Speaker 3: of the show. But Concord was undeniably probably the year's
Speaker 3: biggest flop. It lasted less than two weeks before it
Speaker 3: was completely shuttered. This was a game that tried to
Speaker 3: recreate Overwatch, Valorant, et cetera. But it cost money and
Speaker 3: all those other games are free to play, and this
Speaker 3: just it just didn't work. The studio got shut down,
Speaker 3: and then Amazon released a Secret Level based off of
Speaker 3: the game, So an episode of Secret Level. So yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: I hesitate to even ask. Did anyone play Concord? I
Speaker 3: did not log in a resounding no. Carmen is a
Speaker 3: not on Mike, but I know Carmen was a huge
Speaker 3: Concord fan calm.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is my.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be playing this for years to come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, every day.
Speaker 2: Definitely, nothing could ever stop me from playing this game.
Speaker 3: What Fortnite continues to dominate the gaming industry?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 3: They also just dropped Ballistic, a new first person five
Speaker 3: y five shooter mode very similar to Valorie or Teammate Shooter.
Speaker 3: So Fortnite continues to do everything. They now have racing
Speaker 3: and rock band and your character can have sneakers at like.
Speaker 4: A Lego like life simplom truly the.
Speaker 1: Sneak Is this such a big deal?
Speaker 2: I was in London with my nephew and he watches
Speaker 2: a lot of YouTube shorts and literally like at least
Speaker 2: forty percent of the videos were like look at Godzilla
Speaker 2: in these Jordans, look at Galaxy in these Jordans, like
Speaker 2: who is the tallest when they're wearing Jordan's who has
Speaker 2: the biggest feet? Arguably Godzilla has the biggest feet. But
Speaker 2: they did not agree on the shorts that I was watching.
Speaker 4: There is Yeah, I mean that that story Rosie like
Speaker 4: puts into perspective like the big question about for not
Speaker 4: like it just continues to defy any definition of itself
Speaker 4: at this point, like do we call it a life
Speaker 4: service game anymore?
Speaker 5: Is it an arcade shooter? Is it a looter shooter?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: It has like transcended culture in a way that feels
Speaker 4: like truly unprecedented, and I think like we honestly won't
Speaker 4: fully be able to articulate for years, Like years Donline
Speaker 4: will look back and be like, oh, Fortnite was the
Speaker 4: inflection point of X y Z changes in culture.
Speaker 6: They've just positioned themselves very very smartly to pick up
Speaker 6: gamers as they age out of roll blocks, as they
Speaker 6: age out of Minecraft, and to give them an on
Speaker 6: ramp into the main Fortnite experience that matches those experiences.
Speaker 6: And it's just really fucking smart and with all the
Speaker 6: corporate Tians, the ip Tians. It's just like it's yea,
Speaker 6: an amazing story, an amazing industry story.
Speaker 3: And they've done that incredibly well. You know, I've talked
Speaker 3: very briefly on the show about Magic the Gathering, a
Speaker 3: card game that has universes beyond where it brings in
Speaker 3: other properties, and people are very upset about it, Like
Speaker 3: they don't love that I'm playing with dragons and you're
Speaker 3: playing with the Transformers Cars. Fortnite has been doing that
Speaker 3: the entire time, and like, I don't think anyone right,
Speaker 3: They're like, look at I have Godzilla fighting, SpongeBob fighting,
Speaker 3: you know, like yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: That was something I learned, is like if somebody died
Speaker 2: and they had a skin in progress, well they'll do it.
Speaker 2: They'll release the skin for free, or they'll do something.
Speaker 2: They did it with Chadwick Boseman with the Black Panther skin.
Speaker 2: They did it recently with Juice World. Like there's all
Speaker 2: these kind of interesting intricacies that they are doing that
Speaker 2: we can't even really like comprehend, and they're introducing kids
Speaker 2: to all these different aspects of culture, and like my
Speaker 2: nephew doesn't even really play Fortnite like he plays like
Speaker 2: Spider Man two, but he will still watch all of
Speaker 2: those videos and wants to know everything that's going on
Speaker 2: in the game, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think like, for example, here's a string
Speaker 4: of words that I'm about to say that actually make
Speaker 4: no sense like this in a sentence, but it's an
Speaker 4: actual thing happening. Snoop Dogg's game studio will be turning
Speaker 4: the Justin Timberlake starring film In Time into a game
Speaker 4: within for minute.
Speaker 1: Again, what no, no know what I will say.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you something that you know what they
Speaker 2: love in fortnit What I've learned from my YouTube short
Speaker 2: Immersion is like they love like a weird gadget or
Speaker 2: like a gimmick. So in Time kind of makes sense
Speaker 2: because that idea of having honestly, I'm in where you
Speaker 2: can like sell time or have more time. I can
Speaker 2: see that being translated in some way, but that is
Speaker 2: legit the kind of like insane brain rot sentences that
Speaker 2: happen when you talk about Fortnite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Amanda's living up state doing Arc Digest tours of
Speaker 3: her ranch house, and she's like, keep my name out
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a man a Sea Freedom money.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now sticking with live service, I didn't want to touch on.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't talk about live service without talking
Speaker 4: about Destiny toom h game, that's that's doing worse than Fortnite. Yes,
Speaker 4: bungeee had a number of tremendously awful layoffs over the years,
Speaker 4: a particularly bad one this year in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: The future of Destiny too is like totally in flux.
Speaker 4: We've now had ten years of Destiny. Twenty twenty four
Speaker 4: was the ten year anniversary of the franchise, and like,
Speaker 4: I've been an on again, off again Destiny player for
Speaker 4: a couple of years.
Speaker 5: And it's just like.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I'm on again ever trying to
Speaker 4: like jump back into it. The future is super uncertain.
Speaker 4: They've changed up plans. They're going to release two smaller
Speaker 4: expansions instead of one big one every year, that sort
Speaker 4: of thing, more smaller updates throughout the year, et cetera,
Speaker 4: et cetera.
Speaker 5: And they are.
Speaker 4: Trying to work on the new player experience, but they
Speaker 4: have been saying that for years and honestly, like I,
Speaker 4: there's just no way you can explain how to play
Speaker 4: Destiny to anyone trying to play it today. And that's
Speaker 4: like the that is like the Achilles.
Speaker 5: Heel of the game, in my opinion. Is it just
Speaker 5: it's just so convoluted.
Speaker 6: It's structurally they're just like in a tough place, because, yeah,
Speaker 6: they have to do two things. One is honor all
Speaker 6: the time and energy that the hardcore players who have
Speaker 6: been there since Destiny one have put in grinding, grinding,
Speaker 6: grinding to get all the stuff. And two, they have
Speaker 6: to create a game in which the player base is
Speaker 6: replenished by new incoming players who aren't like who don't
Speaker 6: see how high the mountain is and just go, fuck this.
Speaker 6: There's no way. I have to get how many pieces
Speaker 6: of light and different kinds of currency to just fucking
Speaker 6: get the armor that everybody already had, Like, there's no way.
Speaker 6: And I just think that's an almost unsolvable problem because
Speaker 6: if you create an update in which new players immediately
Speaker 6: get good shit, the players that have been here for
Speaker 6: a while gonna be like, what the fuck? And if
Speaker 6: you don't do that, nobody's ever gonna want to play
Speaker 6: the fucking game. So it's just they're in a tough spot.
Speaker 3: It's really hard.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the opposite of for Night, because Fortnite
Speaker 2: is actually like so simplistic, even though the ephemera around
Speaker 2: Fortnite might batheloss people in our you know, twenties to thirties,
Speaker 2: the notion of like you go in and shoot people,
Speaker 2: like anyone can kind of jump into the game, whereas
Speaker 2: with Destiny is like, how do you explain that to
Speaker 2: like an eleven year old or how do you explain
Speaker 2: it to a forty five year old who's only just
Speaker 2: getting into video games?
Speaker 6: Yeah, to me that the killer app part of Destiny
Speaker 6: was always like the raids, Yeah, and like those to
Speaker 6: this day are some of the best experiences I've had
Speaker 6: in gaming. If you have like a tight group of
Speaker 6: players that you're playing with all the time, the amount
Speaker 6: of cooperation and co optness and just like having players
Speaker 6: shirper you through different parts of the raid, it was
Speaker 6: so fun. It's so inaccessible if you're just like a
Speaker 6: new player, that's like you have to almost like do
Speaker 6: like training cam to get to that level where you
Speaker 6: can then participate in the raid. And so I feel
Speaker 6: like there's got to be a way to get people
Speaker 6: into those experiences faster, and I just don't know what
Speaker 6: the answer is for destiny. I too have been off
Speaker 6: on again, off again player, but it's hard to get
Speaker 6: to the good part, which is the raids. That's what
Speaker 6: you want more of.
Speaker 3: Should we move on to just some of the hyped
Speaker 3: and popular games from the year that we didn't mention yet,
Speaker 3: and we won't be mentioning in our personal recommendations, but
Speaker 3: be remiss to not mention College football. This game was
Speaker 3: the biggest sports game. As someone who's played Madden and
Speaker 3: has downloaded you know, the most, the two or three
Speaker 3: most recent ones, and every time I play, I get
Speaker 3: part way into a season and I go, I don't
Speaker 3: like this game. Why did I download this again? And
Speaker 3: and then next year here I am again signing up
Speaker 3: to do another franchise mode and I dislike it. College Football, huge,
Speaker 3: huge game.
Speaker 2: I'm supportive of this game because I believe that this
Speaker 2: game is under the new laws that they actually pay
Speaker 2: the kids.
Speaker 1: Yes, So in that way, I'm supportive of this game.
Speaker 1: Will I ever play this game? No?
Speaker 2: I still don't really understand American football anyway, so I'm.
Speaker 1: Trying to maybe playing this game would be helpful.
Speaker 9: I'm going to teach you American football one days. Any
Speaker 9: people have.
Speaker 1: Tried to teach me, I'm unteachable.
Speaker 9: I will say it's been interesting.
Speaker 8: My brother plays the two K games, the basketball versions
Speaker 8: of these, and I was like, is this just sims
Speaker 8: for boys? You get to dress, they have little stores
Speaker 8: you can go to and druss your guy up, and
Speaker 8: then you get like a little apartment or whatever, and
Speaker 8: you can design that and then you have a career
Speaker 8: and you can fire your agent or key them. I
Speaker 8: was like, this is just the Sims for boys. I
Speaker 8: love it over here, so I could take a spin
Speaker 8: around the block. Maybe that could be fun.
Speaker 3: Next up we have Hell Divers too, which Jason will
Speaker 3: hit on later, another very very popular game, and they
Speaker 3: just dropped a new trailer game, Awards with a third faction.
Speaker 3: Very exciting. Also like vehicles and everyone can ride in together.
Speaker 3: Black Ops six. Does anyone play so oh eron?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know if we stated this clearly.
Speaker 4: What you're listing right now are as of November twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four, the top selling games.
Speaker 1: Of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 4: So college football is the number one selling game as
Speaker 4: of November of the year, followed by Hell Divers, followed
Speaker 4: by Black Ops six.
Speaker 6: Yeah, college football was the game that got my friends
Speaker 6: that don't game that much back into gaming.
Speaker 9: Oh oh wow.
Speaker 3: Something. I mean, it is worth noting with college football
Speaker 3: that while something like two K or Madden feels like
Speaker 3: a rehash every single year, this was a brand new
Speaker 3: feel and very exciting across the board. I think the
Speaker 3: last three games Black Ops six, dragon Ball Sparking zero,
Speaker 3: Modern Warfare three. I have not touched any of them.
Speaker 3: I have nothing of interest to say about any of them.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I will probably play the dragon Ball game at
Speaker 2: some point, because I actually I love dragon Ball Fighters.
Speaker 2: So ever since that, at anytime there's a new dragon
Speaker 2: Ball game, I will usually take a little look at it,
Speaker 2: but I have no idea what it's about, and I'll
Speaker 2: probably be terrible at it till I get hyper fixated
Speaker 2: on it and then play it a bunch. And I'm
Speaker 2: I'm not a cod guy. I'm not I'm not called
Speaker 2: a Judy shoot a guy. So those are not things
Speaker 2: I have played.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think the takeaway here there's a lot
Speaker 4: list of the top twenty that I looked at, and
Speaker 4: it's mostly Call of duty and sports games.
Speaker 5: So what is sort.
Speaker 4: Of unchanged about the industry is we are getting a
Speaker 4: wider breadth of the types of video games. And we're
Speaker 4: gonna talk about indie games in a few moments here.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 6: Call of Duty still fucking moves units.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and sports games will keep selling every year. Just
Speaker 4: keep churning that shit out and slap a new year
Speaker 4: onto Yeah.
Speaker 9: This the on rap for Call of Duty is so easy.
Speaker 8: And maybe it's just because I grew up in a
Speaker 8: Halo Call of Duty world where that was sort of
Speaker 8: like my introduction to video games beyond the Nintendo sphere,
Speaker 8: But like, how easy is it to call your friends
Speaker 8: and be like cop online, We're about to kill some people,
Speaker 8: and then you could just be like ratchet as hell
Speaker 8: in the in the realms, like taunting people.
Speaker 2: The any reason that I didn't spend like hours every
Speaker 2: day day playing Marvel Rivals when I was in London
Speaker 2: with my family is because my brother in law was
Speaker 2: playing Call.
Speaker 1: Of Juwey with his friends.
Speaker 6: I mean, the thing that makes Duty easy is it's fast.
Speaker 1: You can play a game quickly.
Speaker 6: You can you can play it, you can get into
Speaker 6: it very quickly, and you don't you don't need people
Speaker 6: like you can go in at three a m there's nobody,
Speaker 6: you don't know anybody else that's up, and you can
Speaker 6: just like grind and go for it. Like that's kind
Speaker 6: of always been the utility of a of a black
Speaker 6: Ops and a cod game is like I need to
Speaker 6: shoot people right now. I can do it no matter
Speaker 6: what time it is, and it doesn't matter if my
Speaker 6: friends are on because I'm just gonna do my thing.
Speaker 6: It's not it's not the type of game like a
Speaker 6: Marvel Rivals or any other mobile type game like Valorie,
Speaker 6: like Overwatch, et cetera, where it's like, what the fuck
Speaker 6: is my team doing? I don't care what my team
Speaker 6: is doing. I'm just trying to get kill streak.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I actually.
Speaker 2: Lun a lot about different play styles while watching him play,
Speaker 2: because there is a whole realm of players and it
Speaker 2: was pissing him and his friends off so bad. But
Speaker 2: it's clear that it's a trope. Is like there's people
Speaker 2: who would just hide in a corner campus it's me
Speaker 2: and then just two people to get their kill streak up.
Speaker 1: And I was like, whoa, this is crazy.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm just I think I'm just like
Speaker 2: a tiny bit too old, and also like just I
Speaker 2: went on a different There was like two routes post
Speaker 2: Taylor that you could go on, and this was just
Speaker 2: not one I went on. But it's definitely interesting to
Speaker 2: see what these games look like now, where that shit
Speaker 2: looks like so real and people were just sitting around
Speaker 2: just like shooting each other in the head.
Speaker 1: Okay, get it out, let off that steam, guys.
Speaker 6: My twitch like nerve endings are fried. I just don't
Speaker 6: have it like that anymore where I can go into
Speaker 6: a cod game, especially now with the Black ops Omney movement,
Speaker 6: where guys are like kicking through the air and shit like,
Speaker 6: there's no there's no way that I could even try
Speaker 6: to play this one.
Speaker 8: Huh, Sniper's mess, baby, what it's all about. I don't
Speaker 8: like a battlefield game.
Speaker 6: That's the thing I like is like a wire ranging
Speaker 6: like a battlefield game with a massive map, sixty four players,
Speaker 6: and I can just be like, I don't feel like
Speaker 6: I gotta be like duking it out on the front
Speaker 6: lines with everybody else. I'm gonna be like doing my
Speaker 6: own thing. That's the type of shooter I like.
Speaker 3: We want to talk about some of the big big
Speaker 3: indie games this year, because there were a lot of
Speaker 3: really important ones, both in terms of the heights they
Speaker 3: reached as games, also the heights they reached as news stories.
Speaker 3: And for the first one, I think, let's throw to
Speaker 3: a boo. This is the game you played, and it
Speaker 3: is power World played is putting it very strongly. I
Speaker 3: downloaded it on my Xbox on a Friday night because
Speaker 3: a buddy wanted to play. I ordered some five guys,
Speaker 3: and I slurped on a chocolate milkshake while I tried
Speaker 3: to get anything in this game to work properly.
Speaker 2: Did you get to hold the gun as a cute Pokemon?
Speaker 1: And did you shoot?
Speaker 4: I never even made it that far because, like at
Speaker 4: the time I played it, it was so glitchy and
Speaker 4: buggy on Xbox because.
Speaker 5: It just came out on PC first.
Speaker 4: It's I've heard it's better on PC, but the console
Speaker 4: releases are a mess. And like we practically could not
Speaker 4: even we were having difficulty even like building our first
Speaker 4: work bench and building a torch and trying and trying
Speaker 4: to catch the They're not called Pokemon, but the creatures
Speaker 4: in the world.
Speaker 6: They should just call them Pokemon.
Speaker 1: Just lean in, just call that poket mon stuff.
Speaker 6: Just go for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's the news story we have in our
Speaker 4: script here. But I you know, I think they're even
Speaker 4: more hesitant to do that because unsurprisingly, it took Nintendo
Speaker 4: like way too long to get around to do it.
Speaker 4: So long they're getting sued by Nintendo for a couple
Speaker 4: of different copyright infringements. The one I looked at was
Speaker 4: at the concept of throwing a ball at a monster
Speaker 4: and capturing.
Speaker 2: It also as well, like it was very obvious, there
Speaker 2: were a lot of great side by sides of the
Speaker 2: designs where some of the tree coming very clearly, just
Speaker 2: literally it was like they traced over a Pokemon and
Speaker 2: then like changed the colors. You know.
Speaker 1: I think Carmen mentioned before she was.
Speaker 2: Like, it felt like they just like put every Pokemon
Speaker 2: game into an AI generator and will like generate me
Speaker 2: some non copyrighted Pokemon characters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I will say despite being sued by one
Speaker 4: of the biggest gaming companies in the world, that world
Speaker 4: is still doing stuff. At the Game Awards, they announced
Speaker 4: a new expansion coming out Suit Incredible, so I mean,
Speaker 4: more power to it.
Speaker 2: I did wonder at the beginning if it was like
Speaker 2: a publicity stunt type situation for both Nintendo game was
Speaker 2: never coming out because it felt like how could this
Speaker 2: be and how could Nintendo take such a long time
Speaker 2: to sue them? But yeah, very very interesting that they
Speaker 2: were at the Game Awards and they didn't just immediately
Speaker 2: get like arrested by a Nintendo's noise like brushing the stage.
Speaker 1: You know, how could you do this?
Speaker 9: I'm still so confused by this game.
Speaker 8: Like I had a visceral reaction to the trailer where
Speaker 8: I was like, I've never been playing Pokemon and thought,
Speaker 8: you know what this needs guns?
Speaker 9: Guns out here these.
Speaker 2: Stuck in some annoying battles against some smug students.
Speaker 1: I would be like, bring out the block, like I'll
Speaker 1: do it. I'll do it.
Speaker 5: You know what's always super effective?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? All right, Moving on one of the
Speaker 3: Game of the Year nominees. One of the Game of
Speaker 3: the Year nominees was Bilatro. Such an incredible game, one
Speaker 3: of my favorites of the year. Huge success. Also a
Speaker 3: huge success though, was Manor Lords Wikay have any of you.
Speaker 1: Played it now?
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to play it because I love this
Speaker 2: kind of game. But I did get into Blatro, so
Speaker 2: I did not have not played it.
Speaker 3: Yet and a Mayor Lord's the also solo developer, and
Speaker 3: it's sold a million copies the day after release.
Speaker 5: Wow, Quiz.
Speaker 2: I feel like we are in a solo developer renaissance
Speaker 2: right now, obviously sparked by Stardu Valley in my opinion,
Speaker 2: and kind of the way that has become one of
Speaker 2: the biggest games in the world. And now with Bilatro,
Speaker 2: which was literally just made for his friend's word or style,
Speaker 2: Like I've been reading a lot of interviews with him
Speaker 2: and he was like, I just made this for my friends,
Speaker 2: and I didn't expect it to become you know what
Speaker 2: it became. And obviously now with Manor Lords, which is
Speaker 2: like a medieval strategy building kind of time manager e
Speaker 2: type game. Yeah, very interesting. I mean a million copies
Speaker 2: off to release. I'd probably have a hot attack. If
Speaker 2: I make a game and that happened the next day,
Speaker 2: I'd be like Ah.
Speaker 3: Another solo developer, Indie hit Animal, Well, one of my
Speaker 3: other favorite games of the year, a very cute, vibey game.
Speaker 3: It's like a metroid Vania. It has elements of It's
Speaker 3: not a horror game by any means. I don't like horror,
Speaker 3: but it has like kind of some spooky, cutesy things
Speaker 3: going on, giant cats and giant animals. You play as
Speaker 3: this little blob and near universal praise. Very fun. There
Speaker 3: are countless inventive items, like you get a yo yo
Speaker 3: and you get a slinky, and these are like the
Speaker 3: items you used to solve puzzles. The game also is
Speaker 3: built in three layers, where like you can just play
Speaker 3: as a normal person and you beat the game, and
Speaker 3: that's layer one. Layer two is finding secret and lore
Speaker 3: hidden within the games level design and the background. There's
Speaker 3: like graffiti on the walls and it says something that
Speaker 3: references another part of the dungeon, et cetera. And then
Speaker 3: the third is like beyond even my understanding of Basically,
Speaker 3: the developer was like, I just want fans of the
Speaker 3: game to like come together as a community and talk
Speaker 3: about these things, and you maybe will develop like figure
Speaker 3: out the third layer, which that might just be James
Speaker 3: Gunn saying there's one more Easter Egg nobody's found, but hey,
Speaker 3: the game's incredible.
Speaker 2: And when you think about how old video games would
Speaker 2: build in like Easter eggs, and you'd be like go
Speaker 2: to the end of a maze and at a certain door,
Speaker 2: you'd open it and it would be like a guy
Speaker 2: being like I love.
Speaker 1: My wife and kids. Here are their names. Like, so
Speaker 1: I always believe.
Speaker 2: In the inventiveness of people programming to add like a
Speaker 2: weird thing gives me like just I haven't played it.
Speaker 1: I've only seen clips of it, but it does have
Speaker 1: a kind of night in.
Speaker 2: The woods like Vibe where it's like spooky animals but
Speaker 2: not scary. Different gameplay obviously, but that was like such
Speaker 2: a definitive game for people who like like indie game.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to.
Speaker 3: Try that for anyone who is worried about spooky. I
Speaker 3: do not do spooky, and I like this game a lot,
Speaker 3: so it is not scary. It does not scoopy.
Speaker 6: So waiting Aaron, you don't like scary games at all.
Speaker 1: You're not a scary No, they do not like we
Speaker 1: should play.
Speaker 6: Like one of these co op Oh my god, let's scary.
Speaker 1: Let's get them to play like.
Speaker 6: There's a lot scarier games out there now, I understand.
Speaker 6: I absolutely play.
Speaker 3: I've seen clips of like them, the ghost Hunter games,
Speaker 3: and like you are all going back to the van
Speaker 3: and there's a witch chasing you and it's I don't
Speaker 3: know it would.
Speaker 6: I mean even the Friday the Thirteenth game, which is
Speaker 6: like imperfect.
Speaker 1: Perfect and you play it together, but it.
Speaker 6: Can be really fun. Could you even like to handle
Speaker 6: the Friday the Thirteenth game?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 9: I think that.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen any of it O online service games
Speaker 2: that is no longer having online service.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I think this year is sad.
Speaker 9: Dying Light?
Speaker 6: Would you try Dying Light?
Speaker 9: Let's do a Silent Hill VR.
Speaker 2: Let's just we'll just do Like there's this iPad game
Speaker 2: that kids love and it's called Granny, and it's like
Speaker 2: you're just in a scary house and a granny is
Speaker 2: trying to hit you with a baseball bat and when
Speaker 2: she comes, she goes Granny.
Speaker 1: That's like a very popular kids game.
Speaker 2: What about all these basics where you're in a school
Speaker 2: and you have to do like scary equations, but the
Speaker 2: last equation is always impossible, and then Baldy kills you
Speaker 2: with his ruler and he hits your kids like freaky stuff.
Speaker 2: Guys they like, But I believe you guys can handle it.
Speaker 2: Five Nights of Freddy's You want to get jump scared?
Speaker 3: No, I don't like Jump Scared, I hate particular are
Speaker 3: extra yeah, you know you know that can handle like
Speaker 3: a long drawn out scare, but a jump scare is like.
Speaker 5: That's that's where it gets me, you know.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, moving on from and.
Speaker 5: You want to try.
Speaker 2: Ryan and Jason's New Passion now, it's like that's the
Speaker 2: scariest His game, The.
Speaker 6: Back Grounds is really like creepy pasta ish, so it
Speaker 6: might be that be a good one.
Speaker 8: There's an indie game where you just explore different cabins.
Speaker 8: You're like in a giant empty room and they just
Speaker 8: drop a cabin in and you have to go inside
Speaker 8: and explore.
Speaker 1: In the room.
Speaker 10: Outlast Trials, that one is actually like they just shut up,
Speaker 10: like stop it. We have to do where we just
Speaker 10: like black out all the light and we just do
Speaker 10: like four something.
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll do it for the content and only. Okay,
Speaker 4: continuing with our categories here, we wanted to talk about
Speaker 4: We're at the end of the year. It's December now,
Speaker 4: and there are stills some great games coming out that
Speaker 4: you know, we didn't see at the Game Awards just
Speaker 4: because it's December. We did see Infinity Nikki at the
Speaker 4: Game Awards.
Speaker 5: I'll admit.
Speaker 4: This is the first I heard about this game, and
Speaker 4: I was not ready for how much quote unquote cozy
Speaker 4: this game was going to try and inject straight right.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, Like I think we've sort of we've
Speaker 4: maybe lost the plot on cozy a little bit. Like
Speaker 4: watching this trailer, I was like, is this cozy because
Speaker 4: we're just like it looked like so much.
Speaker 5: It looked like they took.
Speaker 2: Everything you had, Like there's a cozy game about being
Speaker 2: the Grim Reaper. That's one of the best cozy games
Speaker 2: ever made, Spirit Farah.
Speaker 1: So I think people are really like you can cozy
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 2: But I did not realize until this clip then finn
Speaker 2: Nicky was meant to be cozy. I'd only seen like
Speaker 2: a few clips, so I wasn't aware of the cozy nature.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, well, like the subject for the game is called
Speaker 4: is like the coziest game ever made? Is what they're
Speaker 4: calling it.
Speaker 9: Because here's what I remember from the trailer.
Speaker 8: You get a person that you can dress up in
Speaker 8: different towns, like you're what is the plot of when
Speaker 8: are you trying to accomplish?
Speaker 1: It's an open world.
Speaker 2: It's like a cozy open world game where yeah, exactly
Speaker 2: where basically.
Speaker 3: Like you like explore worlds well.
Speaker 2: Worlds, but it has like platforming elements, puzzle solving elements,
Speaker 2: it has dress up elements like uh link. It's basically
Speaker 2: like what if you were doing in Zelda, but you
Speaker 2: didn't have to fight any of the great beasts, like
Speaker 2: you're just looking around like cooking. It's kind of interesting too,
Speaker 2: because one of the games I was going to talk
Speaker 2: about later is and maybe on a different episode now because.
Speaker 1: I'm realizing we really went in on this, but like was.
Speaker 2: Wildflowers, which is basically like what if you were Stardu
Speaker 2: Valley mixed with animal crossing, but you're like a witch
Speaker 2: and you can change your clothes and you can go
Speaker 2: and like go into a special world where you can
Speaker 2: fall in love with a were wolf and stuff.
Speaker 1: So this is like a triple A. It feels like
Speaker 1: a kind of triple A version of that.
Speaker 2: I will absolutely be playing when it comes to a
Speaker 2: console that I have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and for for what it's worth, it's it's being received.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, yeah, it'd be amazing. That's how I
Speaker 1: found about out about it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I see, like people clearly love it and
Speaker 8: to play about like have we lost the plot on
Speaker 8: cozy games. There was a debate the other day and
Speaker 8: I can't remember who was between, but they were trying
Speaker 8: to decide if Skyrim counted as a cozy game.
Speaker 1: No, I think that what it is, you can argue.
Speaker 2: I think that post boulders Gate, which is classed in
Speaker 2: many ways as a cozy game because of what wait
Speaker 2: a minute, on the Wired.
Speaker 1: I believe that on the Wired.
Speaker 2: List of best cozy games, they actually might have included Yeah,
Speaker 2: Dungeon Dragons, but cozy boulders Gate three.
Speaker 9: You spend a whole level just in hell, surrounded by it's.
Speaker 2: Fair, but people are like, but it ends your day
Speaker 2: ends with like a campfire and pajamas and snacks, and.
Speaker 1: You're like at home.
Speaker 2: So I think that because we are living in increasingly
Speaker 2: unprecedented and stressful times, I think people are looking for
Speaker 2: cozy and I think a lot of these games are
Speaker 2: learning from lessons of like, not me specifically, but people
Speaker 2: like me, where like when they play you know, Zelda,
Speaker 2: the newer versions that I'm spending so much time like
Speaker 2: cooking or like Rosie.
Speaker 6: Did you see that? Did you see the trailer for
Speaker 6: Tales from the Shire?
Speaker 11: Correct correctly me and them meet each other all the time,
Speaker 11: and I think that is the conversation that could be happening.
Speaker 6: That's cozy. It's like what if what I'm in my
Speaker 6: underground house making pins exactly, you know, that's what I.
Speaker 2: Want, Like Stardi Valley, you know, like Animal Crossing. But
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting what does it mean? Like how
Speaker 2: like you mentioned like have we gone too far and cozy?
Speaker 2: I think the bigger question is like how influential are
Speaker 2: these cozy games that all these Triple A developers are
Speaker 2: now like, well, how do we like sprinkle a little
Speaker 2: cozy in Like how do we get people to include
Speaker 2: Bouldersgate or Skyrim? Because in Skyrim you're going into a
Speaker 2: tavern and people are like, well, maybe that's cozy, Like
Speaker 2: I'm seeing an house and there's music music, And I
Speaker 2: think that like they're leaning into it because there has
Speaker 2: been this like massive movement towards that, whether it's like
Speaker 2: Disney doing Dreamlight Valley, which has obviously been super successful
Speaker 2: for them, that's basically like Disney Animal Crossing. I just
Speaker 2: constantly play games like Lemon Cake, a lot of like
Speaker 2: repetitive movement games.
Speaker 1: I actually put one in for.
Speaker 2: Our superlatives, which we'll probably talk about a different day,
Speaker 2: But I think it's really interesting because you're right, like
Speaker 2: Infinity NICKI essentially has taken all of the staff that
Speaker 2: you would have as a side quest in a game
Speaker 2: and been like, what if that is the main quest
Speaker 2: and it was a Triple A game, Like what if
Speaker 2: you're just gonna wander around with your friends and there's
Speaker 2: zero conflict.
Speaker 1: The question is when will the cozy bubble burst? Like
Speaker 1: what will be the.
Speaker 2: Triple A game that people go into expecting it not
Speaker 2: to be cozy that ends up being cozy that people
Speaker 2: are like, no, I'm done, no more cozy, only bad,
Speaker 2: only bad things now, only conflict.
Speaker 4: I think we're still on the cozy upswing, and I
Speaker 4: suspected a few more years.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, the next game is the opposite of Cozy because
Speaker 3: it is Indiana Jones in the Great Circle. This game
Speaker 3: is basically physics Abound and you just everything is an
Speaker 3: improvised weapon. No no, You are picking up umbrellas and
Speaker 3: throwing them at a guy, and then you're picking up
Speaker 3: a shovel and throwing it at them, and they catch
Speaker 3: the shovel and they try to hit you with the shovel.
Speaker 3: That's the only thing I know about the game.
Speaker 8: Nine pictures of straight Cats for Bonus Stuffy nine a
Speaker 8: half ten from IGN notoriously yeah above a seven.
Speaker 2: So I thought this is probably very beloved and it
Speaker 2: seems like people are enjoying it.
Speaker 8: The game opens, you get to recreate the Boulder scene,
Speaker 8: so you're doing stealing your way in the object the walls,
Speaker 8: and it's so good to watched us side by side
Speaker 8: of like that scene with the video games version of
Speaker 8: the scene, and you go from a third person to
Speaker 8: first person while you're running, and it looks so good.
Speaker 6: Guys, it does look really fun.
Speaker 1: Can I just get something off my chest?
Speaker 2: George Lucas stole that from a fucking stoogem dot comic.
Speaker 1: I just need you want to know it's a scrooge
Speaker 1: dot is the one who was originally running away from
Speaker 1: the boulder Like he did a great job. But isn't
Speaker 1: it to gather off my chest?
Speaker 6: I am gonna I am going to try this game.
Speaker 6: I was very intrigued to see Troy Baker's recent comments
Speaker 6: where he was listened nobody loves to voice a great
Speaker 6: job he's doing personally than Troy Baker and absolutely everybody
Speaker 6: doubted him. But he's doing a great job. He's his
Speaker 6: recent comments that I forget who it was, todd Ham
Speaker 6: and maybe or somebody was like, don't do it, don't dot,
Speaker 6: don't be Harrison Ford, the voice of Harrison Ford in
Speaker 6: the Nandie Jones game. And then you know, seeing praise
Speaker 6: from Harrison Ford saying yeah, I did a great job.
Speaker 6: That had me intrigued and the gameplay looks great. I'm in.
Speaker 3: Next up, we have Path of Exile to the open
Speaker 3: baita just released this previous week. For those of you
Speaker 3: who've never played Path of Exile, Path of Exile is
Speaker 3: like Diablo Evolved. If Diablo has a skill tree, Path
Speaker 3: of Exile has a skill star system. It is expansive.
Speaker 6: Anybody, Yeah, just go look at the screenshot of the
Speaker 6: skill tree. Just google the Path of ex to screen.
Speaker 6: Like skill Tree.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 6: My jaw dropped. I am both heavily like I think
Speaker 6: I'm gonna try and play this game at the same time,
Speaker 6: like that skill tree made me both scared and extremely intrigued.
Speaker 3: One of the nice things is it's a shared skill
Speaker 3: tree from all classes, and so you can do anything
Speaker 3: you want no matter what class you are, you just
Speaker 3: build them into it. And the fun thing is that
Speaker 3: every skill is customizable, so you create, you create a
Speaker 3: gem that you can sock it into any skill. So
Speaker 3: maybe I have a poison arrow and I have a
Speaker 3: lightning arrow, and I can get a skill gem that
Speaker 3: says you have a ten percent chance to reload your
Speaker 3: AMMO on hit, so I can put that into either
Speaker 3: one and I can customize. Oh, I actually want my
Speaker 3: poison arrow to be like the main DPS and the
Speaker 3: lightning one is going to be a fast shoot, and
Speaker 3: so you can adjust and really customize it. However you
Speaker 3: want one five skills.
Speaker 8: According to Pathtree's website, that it's crazy that.
Speaker 3: This is similar to Diablo. This is a game where
Speaker 3: the end game is like it's so common for I
Speaker 3: have a friend who played an intense amount of the
Speaker 3: first one. He was the first one I knew who
Speaker 3: got the second one, and he was like, the game
Speaker 3: doesn't start until you reach the endgame, and like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, max level is one hundred, and he's like,
Speaker 3: you'll never reach one hundred because like you're going to
Speaker 3: get enough out of the game well before you get there.
Speaker 3: The game is very very fun. I played co op
Speaker 3: with two of my friends last night. It was incredible.
Speaker 3: We're drastically different levels. We all had an equal and
Speaker 3: fun amount at least they told me. We all had
Speaker 3: an equal and fun amount of time, with me being
Speaker 3: the lowest level. But very very fun. I highly recommend
Speaker 3: it if you are. If you like Diablo and your
Speaker 3: favorite part of Diablo four was that you could customize.
Speaker 3: You know, this item would make my fireball instead of
Speaker 3: one fireball, three bouncing fireballs. If that's your favorite part,
Speaker 3: then Pathwaxyle might be for you. Okay, all right, And
Speaker 3: to close out real quick, everyone who's on, let's just
Speaker 3: what is one game that you are looking forward to
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five or the game you're looking forward
Speaker 3: to the most coming in twenty twenty five? Joelle, what
Speaker 3: about you camping out in the corner over there?
Speaker 1: What game are you waiting waiting to shoot?
Speaker 7: Us?
Speaker 2: All?
Speaker 9: Yeah, let's see here.
Speaker 8: I oh, there's so many can I I don't.
Speaker 9: Know, I don't know, go someone else, come back.
Speaker 1: We go to me, Go to me, Tales of the Shia.
Speaker 9: It's a great pick me and will be there.
Speaker 1: On day one.
Speaker 2: We want to be hobbits. I want to see Triple
Speaker 2: A gamers get really upset about the fact that the
Speaker 2: animation doesn't look that good, which is like a classic
Speaker 2: part of cozy gaming. I want to make you know,
Speaker 2: potatoes every day. I want to just be cozy. I
Speaker 2: want to see if they're going to do any creatures
Speaker 2: or anything that's a little bit in that more spooky
Speaker 2: realm that some cozy games have been getting into but.
Speaker 1: Generally looks great.
Speaker 2: I believe it will be, you know, the first kind
Speaker 2: of cozy Lord of the Rings game ever, which seems
Speaker 2: wild but makes a lot of sense with the way
Speaker 2: the phantom is nowadays.
Speaker 1: I will be playing on day one.
Speaker 2: Me and Common will be there dming each other about
Speaker 2: how glitchy.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it is amazing. Jason, what are you looking forwards?
Speaker 3: You most in twenty twenty five Ghost.
Speaker 6: Of Yute, the Soccer Prices sequel.
Speaker 9: Yes is Man, that.
Speaker 6: Game circled on the calendar, underlined three times. I am
Speaker 6: unbelievably excited to play that game.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go assassins Creed Shadow, even though I've been
Speaker 8: burned and burned and set on fire and tossed over
Speaker 8: a cliff. I still just love the idea of being
Speaker 8: a secret assassin. I love Yaske as a historical figure,
Speaker 8: like very interesting person. I like that you're getting to
Speaker 8: play two assassins. It's the first time in a couple
Speaker 8: of games that we've been able to do that, and
Speaker 8: I usually have fun with that. I think their boating
Speaker 8: elements get better game. I actually like the sea fairy stuff,
Speaker 8: so I'm prepared to be disappointed again, but damn it,
Speaker 8: maybe Assassin's creed'll get me.
Speaker 9: Back a boo.
Speaker 3: What about you with your your most anticipated game of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Death Stranding two. I thought Death Stranding one was like
Speaker 4: one of the most unique games I've ever played. I
Speaker 4: went in knowing like nothing about it and kind of
Speaker 4: expected based off conversations I was seeing online, kind of
Speaker 4: expected to bounce off of it, and just couldn't stop
Speaker 4: playing and blasted through the whole thing and walked away
Speaker 4: being like, I don't think I've ever played a game
Speaker 4: like that. I know that's a bit of a basic
Speaker 4: Kojima stand take, but kojimas Kojima for a race.
Speaker 1: A legend for a reason.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, like, it's incredible, and I'm so
Speaker 4: ready for Death.
Speaker 3: Stranding too, how about you, Aaron, I guess it has
Speaker 3: to be one of the many VR horror games you
Speaker 3: guys have mentioned.
Speaker 8: The.
Speaker 2: Five Laps of Freddy, the Five Nights of Freddy's Racing Nights.
Speaker 5: Freddy seven.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you everyone for joining us. We will have
Speaker 3: more video game coverage coming soon. We're gonna do a
Speaker 3: superlatives and some of our favorite games on upcoming episodes
Speaker 3: of x ray that's the episode. Thank you for listening,
Speaker 3: Thanks for everybody for being here.
Speaker 1: Bye.
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