Game Scoop! Presents: The 100 Questions Challenge (2025)

Summary

Game Scoop! Presents: The 100 Questions Challenge (2025)

Podcast: Game Scoop! (IGN & Geek Media)
Date: November 27, 2025
Host: Daemon Hatfield
Panelists: Nick Limone, Justin Davis

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Episode Overview

This special Thanksgiving-week edition of Game Scoop! features the return of the beloved “100 Questions Challenge”: a supersized twist on the classic video game “20 Questions” format. Hosts Daemon Hatfield, Nick Limone, and Justin Davis put their collective gaming knowledge to the test, fielding trivia submitted by listeners (Scoop Nation). The aim? To identify five games within a collective 100 questions—testing both memory and teamwork.

Beyond the challenge, expect the show’s signature blend of nostalgia, good-natured banter, and expert commentary on both classic and modern gaming.

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Challenge Format and Rules

• 100 Total Questions: Five games to guess via yes/no questions, rotating turns.
• Banked Questions: If a game is guessed in fewer than 20 questions, extra queries are banked for later rounds.
• Skip Option: Panelists may skip a particularly tough game and return later if time allows.
• Truth-or-Dare Twist: Any remaining questions at the end can be used to quiz Daemon.
• Listener Involvement: All challenge games were listener-submitted, accompanied (sometimes) by personal anecdotes.

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Key Discussion Points and Game Rounds

[03:36] Introduction and Crew Status

• Thanksgiving week means a light crew—Nick and Justin represent the panel, as others are traveling or out sick.
• Daemon jokes: “It's like you made a whole Thanksgiving feast and then there's only two people. Eat it all.”
  — Damon Hatfield [01:59]

[04:48] Rules Recap and Meta Q&A

• Justin asks if, based on the games selected, Daemon thinks they’ll win.
  • Daemon: “Yes. I really think you'll have nobody to blame. There's one in here... Four out of five I think are [gettable].”
    — Daemon Hatfield [04:44]

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Game 1: Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)

Listener: Mark from Winston Salem, NC
Outcome: Guessed in 12 questions

Key Hints and Progression

• Not from the 70s/80s/90s
• Japanese-developed, PlayStation (originally) exclusive, Sony involvement
• Not part of a series, remade by Bluepoint
• Classic frame rate joke: “Does it run at 12 FPS?” “Yes.”
  — Justin Davis [08:11], Damon Hatfield [08:17]
• Correctly deduced as Shadow of the Colossus (PS2 original)

Notable Quotes

• “Shadow of the Colossus PS2. Yeah, there you go. Original Shadow of the Colossus. Got there in 12 questions.”
  — Damon Hatfield [08:20]

• Listener anecdote: “When this game originally came out on PS2, I really didn't understand the hype. It chugged and seemed so empty. But... the remake, it is now one of my all-time favorites.”
  — Mark's note, read by Damon Hatfield [08:56]

• Fun fact: Code name “NICO” (spiritual sequel to ICO; NI means “two” in Japanese).
  — Damon Hatfield [09:25]

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Game 2: Burnout Paradise

Listener: Thwarted Junk
Outcome: Guessed in 20 questions

Key Hints and Progression

• Not 70s/80s/90s, not Xbox exclusive, not Japanese/US-made; 360/PS3-era
• Open world, multi-platform, street-level crime (panel takes the clue a bit literally)
• Not a superhero game or running-focused, racing elements deduced
• EA-published, racing game
• Eventually guessed as Burnout Paradise after considering Midnight Club, Need for Speed, etc.

Notable Banter

• “Street level crimes.” (Damon keeps repeating to drop a heavy hint)
  — Damon Hatfield [24:26], and recurrent throughout

• Justin on Burnout Paradise: “I think Paradise is deeply disappointing to me.”
  — Justin Davis [24:49]

• Nick: “I love Paradise. I think Takedown's my personal favorite...”
  — Nick Limone [24:51]

• Listener Memory: “I used to spend days inside a GameStop... I would play the demo of Burnout Paradise repeatedly at a PC station.”
  — Thwarted Junk, read by Damon Hatfield [26:10]

• Panel on genre’s disappearance: “These games did not have to go away.”
  — Damon Hatfield [25:34]

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Game 3: Vectorman

Listener: Tom from Corning, NY
Outcome: Guessed in 8 questions

Key Hints and Progression

• 70s/80s/90s: Yes. Genesis, Sega-developed/published
• Part of a series (panel jokes: “It’s Vectorman!”)
• Not by Sonic Team, first in its series, not a spin-off
• Decisively guessed as Vectorman

Notable Exchange

• “That’s like one of the Genesis games I’ve played.”
  — Nick Limone [29:20]

• [Vectorman] is “maybe Sega’s answer to Donkey Kong Country, but that’s not true—BlueSky made it.”
  — Justin Davis [31:13]

• Panel celebrates the Genesis’ “pseudo-3D” tricks and fond memories.

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Game 4: Typing of the Dead

Listener: Jim Galligan
Outcome: Guessed after 17 questions

Key Hints and Progression

• 70s/80s/90s game, not NES, not SNES, SEGA Genesis? No—arcade-derived, ported to Dreamcast
• Not a brawler, not fighting, not racing (no gun, rod, or steering wheel controls)
• After much debate over Power Stone, Marvel vs Capcom, and other Dreamcast ports, Justin wonders about “weird control schemes” (keyboard?).
• Suddenly, possibility of Typing of the Dead comes up—confirmed.

Notable Banter

• “Do you control this game with a keyboard?” “Yes.”
  — Nick Limone [40:24], Damon Hatfield [40:28]

• “Is this Typing of the Dead?” “Yes!”
  — Nick Limone [40:33], Damon Hatfield [40:34]

• On DLC: “There’s a $3 DLC for the Steam version that gives you filthy words to type. The example in the screenshot is Sexual Tyrannosaur.”
  — Justin Davis [41:22]

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Game 5: Donkey Kong Country Returns

Listener: Evan from Down East Maine
Outcome: Guessed in 13 questions

Key Hints and Progression

• Not 70s/80s/90s
• Playable on Switch, Nintendo exclusive, not originally Switch
• 2D platformer, not on Switch Online (thus not a pure retro title)
• Not Mario, Mario cast appears, not starring Yoshi, starring Donkey Kong
• Panel works through Mario, Yoshi, then Donkey Kong / DK platformers
• Clue about recent ports leads to Donkey Kong Country Returns

Notable Quotes

• “Is this game star Donkey Kong?”
  — Justin Davis [47:26]
• “Did this game come out this year [on Switch]?” “Yes.”
  — Justin Davis [48:01], Damon Hatfield [48:01]

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Tally and Results

• All Five Games Guessed in 70 Questions

  • Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
  • Burnout Paradise
  • Vectorman
  • Typing of the Dead
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns

• The panel aces the challenge, leaving extra banked questions unused.

Final Reflection

• “Wonder if that’s a record...”
  — Justin Davis [49:26]
• “A win’s a win.”
  — Nick Limone [49:35]

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Bonus: Post-Challenge Discussion & Game Recommendations

[50:00] What’s Next in Games and Life

• Nick: Baldur’s Gate 3, deep in Dungeons & Dragons lore, reading Volo’s Guide to Monsters.
• Damon: Announcing new show “Is It Still Fun Today?” (Episode 1 on Ocarina of Time just aired)
• Panel: Reflects on the “Game of the Century” fan poll—debates around Halo 3 vs. BioShock and GTA 5 vs. Half-Life 2.
  • “GTA 5 vs Half Life 2... GTA 5: 49%, Half Life 2: 51%... These are really close games.”
    — Damon Hatfield [52:09]

[53:31] Game Recommendations

• Justin: Deep into Disney Dreamlight Valley for relaxation; starting “Dispatch” (episodic, story-driven hit, “bar for bar with prestige TV”).
• Damon: Finished Ghost of Yote, ready to try Dispatch after some Mario Party with the family.
• Nick: Recommends the new LEGO Mario Party-like game.

Game Critique Example

• Damon on Ghost of Yote: “By the end, I was ready for it to be over…The villain is just an evil guy that killed your family... Still a great game, but not as much as I thought I would like.” — Damon Hatfield [56:07]

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Notable & Memorable Quotes

• “Street level crimes.” (recurring Burnout Paradise hint)
  — Damon Hatfield [24:26, etc.]
• “I feel pretty strong right now, Justin.” — Nick Limone, after nailing Shadow of the Colossus
  — Nick Limone [08:28]
• “That’s what they call parallax scrolling right there, right?” — Nick Limone on Vectorman’s visuals
  — Nick Limone [32:17]
• “Is this Typing of the Dead?” “Yes!”
  — Nick Limone [40:33], Damon Hatfield [40:34]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:36] — Introduction and Thanksgiving crew
• [04:48] — Rules and setup explained
• [08:20] — Shadow of the Colossus guessed
• [24:24] — Burnout Paradise guessed
• [30:53] — Vectorman guessed
• [40:33] — Typing of the Dead guessed
• [48:06] — Donkey Kong Country Returns guessed
• [50:00] — Post-challenge talk, recommendations, and Game of the Century poll results

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Episode Tone and Style

• Casual, witty, full of in-jokes and playful ribbing, balanced with real insider knowledge.
• Plenty of retro nostalgia, with the hosts regularly referencing their personal histories with the games in question and joking about their own gamer blind spots.
• The tone is inviting for both hardcore and casual listeners, blending informed commentary with accessible, relaxed conversation—a hallmark of Game Scoop!’s appeal.

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Closing

With all five games guessed well under the 100-question limit, Damon congratulates Nick and Justin for conquering the 2025 Thanksgiving 100 Questions Challenge. The panel signs off wishing everyone a happy holiday and inviting listener emails for future 20 Questions rounds.

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For next week: The regular Game Scoop! schedule resumes, and the show teases an upcoming “Is It Still Fun Today?” series and the results of the “Game of the Century” audience poll.

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[Listen for:**

• Video game trivia banter and deductive reasoning
• Retro and modern gaming nostalgia
• Community engagement and IGN’s unique podcast camaraderie

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For first-time or returning listeners:

This episode is a quintessential example of Game Scoop!’s balance of tradition, fun, and deep gaming insight—with some of the smoothest podcast chemistry in the industry.

Transcript

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[Nick Limone]

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[Damon Hatfield]

What's up, everybody? Welcome to a very special edition of IGN gamescope. Sort of a yearly tradition this has become. This is our yearly 100 questions challenge that we always do the week of Thanksgiving. I'm your host, Damon Hatfield. Joining me here in studio is Nick Limone.

[Nick Limone]

I'm back, baby.

[Damon Hatfield]

And Justin Davis is here as well.

[Justin Davis]

Scoot.

[Damon Hatfield]

We got a small crew. Only two of you. Only two of you take on this challenge today.

[Nick Limone]

It's a lot of nervous.

[Damon Hatfield]

It's a lot of questions. It's like you made a whole Thanksgiving feast and then there's only two people. Eat it all.

[Justin Davis]

That's so sad.

[Nick Limone]

Hope you guys I got room though. My tummy's rumbling and I'm hungry.

[Damon Hatfield]

Sam is in Tokyo. Mark got sick. Per is not here. I reached out to Seth Macy. He's on Vacation already. There's just. There's kind of a skeleton crew right here on the Tuesday of the week of Thanksgiving. And obviously we have Thursday and Friday off, but then even tomorrow, Wednesday. Not a lot of. Not a lot of.

[Nick Limone]

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm gonna be working 24. 7 for the next 24 hours.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, but you should pour one out and keep your local commerce editors in your thoughts and prayers, because the commerce editors are ramping up.

[Damon Hatfield]

Absolutely. Working this week for sure.

[Nick Limone]

Click those affiliate links, y'. All.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yep. So 100 questions. What's that?

[Justin Davis]

We get 50 questions a piece?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah, that's. You could look at it that way, sure. 100 questions. Everyone knows 20 questions. This is that times five. I've picked five games. Five games that are suggested by Scoop Nation. 100 questions total. Nick, have you done this version of the game before?

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, I've done this before. I think. I think once.

[Damon Hatfield]

Okay. Yeah. So for everyone out there listening and watching. Thank you. They have a hundred questions total. That means if they guess a game in fewer than 20 questions, they've banked extra questions, and they can. So that you can end up asking 30 questions on. On. On one game. If, if, if. That's how long it takes you. So a hundred questions total. And you always have the option to.

[Justin Davis]

If.

[Damon Hatfield]

If you're just. If you're burning questions and you're not getting anywhere close to it, you have the option to just skip. Skip it. Move on to the next game. Maybe there'll be time to revisit that one at the end. It's up to you guys. 100 questions.

[Justin Davis]

We can just skip.

[Damon Hatfield]

What's that?

[Justin Davis]

The loophole. We'll just skip all five and then we can just all knock off early and go get some.

[Damon Hatfield]

There's that too short episode this week. If you get all five, you will win a great feeling of satisfaction. Ooh, yeah.

[Justin Davis]

For any banked questions that we have left at the end, then we get to ask Damon questions, and then he has to tell the truth no matter what they are.

[Damon Hatfield]

Oh, yeah. Okay. So banked questions go into truth or dare.

[Justin Davis]

For me, they become truth or dare.

[Damon Hatfield]

Hey, it's only fair. Well, let's kick things off then. Our first one. First game comes from Mark in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Okay, Mark from Winston Salem, North Carolina. He has a little anecdote that I'll share after the game is revealed. So with that, let the questioning begin.

[Justin Davis]

We don't get the pre question anecdote.

[Damon Hatfield]

It's. It's it's spoilery.

[Justin Davis]

Okay, okay, okay. Before. This is not one of my 100 questions.

[Damon Hatfield]

Okay.

[Justin Davis]

Based off the five games, Damon, do you think we'll win?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes. I really think you'll have nobody to blame. There's one in here. Okay. Four out of five I think are. And one of them is just a little bit. You know, I think we've talked about every game on this list at some point on gamescoop.

[Justin Davis]

Cool. Got it. Got it. Okay, understood. Don't tell us which one is, like, borderline hard mode.

[Damon Hatfield]

I will figure it out.

[Justin Davis]

Okay. Did this game come out in the 70s, 80s, or 90s?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Is this game made in Japan? Yes, Japanese.

[Justin Davis]

Is this game exclusive to a console when it first came out?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Is this game on Nintendo consoles?

[Damon Hatfield]

Nope.

[Justin Davis]

Is it exclusive to the. To a PlayStation console?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes. That is five 95 questions to go.

[Nick Limone]

I don't like.

[Justin Davis]

I don't like it. I don't like it that way. Just something about it.

[Nick Limone]

You know? What effort is this on the PlayStation 4?

[Damon Hatfield]

It. It. Well, A version of this. A version of this is on PlayStation 4.

[Nick Limone]

Okay. So that means it's maybe it's like, through, like, PlayStation now or something.

[Justin Davis]

I think it's Metal Gear Solid 4.

[Nick Limone]

Okay. Is this a conam.

[Justin Davis]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Yeah, I don't know if I actually. Was that game on Xbox. I don't even know.

[Nick Limone]

Metal Gear Solid four was not never. But it is ported forever. Correct. And actually it's not been ported to anything, so it's only on the PS3. Metal Gear Solid 4.

[Justin Davis]

Specifically on the PS3 or PS4.

[Nick Limone]

It's only on the PS3. It's never been ported to anything else, so that one actually would not apply.

[Justin Davis]

Maybe it's metal gear solid 5.

[Nick Limone]

Thank you for saving me for myself.

[Justin Davis]

Full disclosure, that's. When I said four, I meant five.

[Nick Limone]

Gotcha.

[Justin Davis]

But wasn't. Okay. Anyway, we can. We can get off this topic. Was this game developed or published by Sony?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Justin Davis]

All right, well, that's that PS3, maybe. PS4 exclusive. Developed or published by Sony. Made in Japan. I don't know. Shadow of the Colossus, Last Guardian.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, there's like that dual pack that got remastered.

[Justin Davis]

Is this game part of a series or franchise?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, looking good.

[Nick Limone]

Is this game from a studio that still exists? Well, because Studio Japan no longer exists, but Fumito Ueda is making a new game.

[Damon Hatfield]

Got him.

[Nick Limone]

No, I think we. I think we're in studio Japan, baby.

[Justin Davis]

All right.

[Nick Limone]

Has this game been remade by Bluepoint Games?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Okay, so it's the Shadow of the Colossus. Shadow of the Colossus. It does it.

[Justin Davis]

We think it's.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah. Does it matter?

[Justin Davis]

It's the original.

[Nick Limone]

Well, do. Does it matter if it's the original or if it's the remake? Are we calling these two different games? Technically.

[Justin Davis]

Does this game. Is this like a great game, but does it run at like 12 FPS?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Okay.

[Justin Davis]

Okay. Is it Shadow of the Colossus for the PS2?

[Damon Hatfield]

Shadow of the Colossus. PS2. Yeah, there you go. Original Shadow of the Colossus. Got there in 12 questions.

[Justin Davis]

8.

[Nick Limone]

I feel pretty strong right now, Justin.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. I wonder if it's hard. I've never thought about this when I was. But like in Damon's shoes, when we're busy spoofing and goofing the whole time, I wonder if it's hard to keep track of the number of questions.

[Damon Hatfield]

I've always got them on my hands.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, you don't see it. It's just off frame. But I've been looking at those hands.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, I forgot about that water Colossus.

[Nick Limone]

This is like one of my favorite ones. It's such a cool arena.

[Damon Hatfield]

Mark says when this game originally came out on PS2, I really didn't understand the hype. It chugged and seemed so empty. But as an older gamer now and experiencing the remake, it is now one of my all time favorites. It's easy to just pick up after a hard day of work, take down a Colossus, then put it down. Simple and fun while also being gorgeous to look at.

[Nick Limone]

Amen.

[Justin Davis]

Okay, never mind. I'm not going to make the joke I was thinking about making.

[Damon Hatfield]

Okay, Okay, a couple fun facts. Do you know what the code name for this game was during development?

[Justin Davis]

No.

[Damon Hatfield]

I think this is very cute. Is codenamed Nico in ICO because spiritual successor to ICO and NI means two in Japanese.

[Nick Limone]

That's cute.

[Damon Hatfield]

Very, very cute.

[Nick Limone]

Very cute.

[Damon Hatfield]

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[Damon Hatfield]

All right, you guys are in good shape. 12 questions in. Next suggestion comes from Thwarted Junk. Who says this is definitely one of my favorite redacted games to date.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, you gotta be careful though, because the redacted could be favorite games to hate on because it's terrible. You never know.

[Damon Hatfield]

Let the questioning continue.

[Justin Davis]

Okay. Did this game come out in the 70s, 80s or 90s?

[Damon Hatfield]

No. Okay.

[Nick Limone]

It's another modern. Is this a game? Is this game exclusive to the Xbox series of consoles?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Okay. Sorry, that was a bad.

[Justin Davis]

You're trying to. You're out here trying to metagame. There's no. There's no connection between the five. It's Five random. It's just chaos out here. There's no system. Okay, was this game made in Japan?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Okay.

[Justin Davis]

Was this game made in the United States?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Justin Davis]

Uh, oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, that basically confirms it's. It's a rare game. A late, late Nintendo era rare game.

[Nick Limone]

But late. I mean, that would be.

[Justin Davis]

What, though? It's ukulele?

[Nick Limone]

I don't know.

[Justin Davis]

I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe Nintendo. Maybe rare didn't make any Nintendo games after 2000. Maybe they were all done. No, it's Star Fox Adventures. That's what it is.

[Nick Limone]

Let's see. Is this game in the PS2 GameCube Xbox line of hardware?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Justin Davis]

Okay, Rip. So it's a little more modern. Could still be Yooka Laylee.

[Nick Limone]

It could be Banjo Kazooie, Nuts and Bolts. But that is exclusive to Xbox.

[Justin Davis]

That's why I don't know if. I don't know if I actually think it's a rare game. But not made in America, not made in Japan. Could be Korean.

[Nick Limone]

I mean, it could be Australian. Team Bondi.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Good call. Okay. Okay, okay, okay. What did you just ask?

[Nick Limone]

It's not a PS2, Xbox or Gamecube era game.

[Justin Davis]

Okay, what about the next generation PS3? Xbox 360, I guess.

[Nick Limone]

Wii, Xbox One and then.

[Justin Davis]

Oh, my bad. Yeah, my bad.

[Nick Limone]

All right. No, we.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah, Wait, not Xbox One.

[Nick Limone]

Sorry, brain.

[Damon Hatfield]

Are you asking 360. Yeah, you're asking if it's 360. 360 generation, correct? Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Okay.

[Justin Davis]

Okay. So maybe it is Team Bandai. It could be La Noire.

[Nick Limone]

La Noire. Yeah. I don't know why we always latch onto this. Yep. It's got to be this one game.

[Justin Davis]

I just like to do it.

[Nick Limone]

Is this.

[Justin Davis]

I'm addicted to like the one time in my life that it was that.

[Nick Limone]

You're calling your shot ever since. Is this an open world game?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, maybe it is. La Noire. Damn.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, I feel like we just had that or maybe we thought it was like just.

[Nick Limone]

Just cause is also like that. That got its start during this era. And I believe that's a European based studio, Avalanche Studios, which I believe is like Swedish or something.

[Justin Davis]

Are they. Are they. Are they making What? Hogwarts Legacy 2. Is that them?

[Nick Limone]

No, that's Portkey Games. That's WB Games. Is that okay? Yeah, they also did Mad Max.

[Justin Davis]

I think Nobody, nobody knows. It could be Mad Max. By the way, if it was them.

[Nick Limone]

360 ERA. Saints Row. You got your just causes. You got your LA Noir, your GTA 4. Which Rockstar?

[Justin Davis]

What about. What about just GTA?

[Nick Limone]

I mean, Rockstar is what, They're Scottish, right? I mean, would they still be considered a Scott? Yeah, right, because Rockstar North. No, Rockstar North.

[Justin Davis]

Well, I mean, yeah.

[Nick Limone]

So now I'm getting in my head. Get out of my head.

[Justin Davis]

Okay, so it's. It's open world. It's PS3, 360 generation. Is this game part of a series?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Let's see, what's the. Does this game focus on, like, street level crimes? What? That's Grand Theft Auto and Saint show right there. Oh, I guess that'd be La Noire too. Damn, that was a bad question.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes. Okay, this game focuses on street level crimes.

[Nick Limone]

So it's not just cause. Cause then that's like international stuff.

[Justin Davis]

I don't think that was that bad of a question. It eliminates Mad Max. It eliminates just cause.

[Nick Limone]

David's making a look now, which makes me think it's just cause. Is there a grappler hook in this game?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Okay. It's not just cause.

[Damon Hatfield]

That's 10 questions.

[Nick Limone]

I had to get it out of my system. I'm sorry, Justin.

[Damon Hatfield]

Ten questions into this game.

[Justin Davis]

That's fine.

[Nick Limone]

Okay. Saints Row, Louisiana And Grand Theft Auto. Is there any other things that we're missing? Any like glaring omission, street level crime? I guess just wait. Crackdown.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, except that's an exclusive. Oh, we don't. I don't think we know if this is an exclusive. Well, we know this game. Multi platform.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

All right, so It's LA Noire. GTA.

[Justin Davis]

I think it is probably GTA 5.

[Nick Limone]

Is this game.

[Justin Davis]

That's my guess.

[Nick Limone]

Does. Let's see.

[Justin Davis]

Did this game get 10 out of 10? Well, hold on. I know we're not allowed to use our computers, but I'm gonna.

[Nick Limone]

Hold on. We can narrow. We can narrow it down. We can narrow it down. Is this set in a fictionalized New York?

[Damon Hatfield]

No. Okay, hold on.

[Justin Davis]

That's GTA 4.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, exactly. So it's not. So it's. It's gotta be.

[Justin Davis]

No, I said GTA 5.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, shit. Damn it. Okay, so we. Now we just know la. It's either. It's either. It's either GTA 5, LA Noir, or a Saints Row game.

[Justin Davis]

I like that you've narrowed it down to these three. There are dozens and dozens of other open world games that it could be. I mean, I think that those three.

[Nick Limone]

Are the most likely, but street level crimes?

[Justin Davis]

Did this. Did this game get a 10 out of 10 from ignore.

[Guest or Narrator (possibly a poet or musician)]

No.

[Justin Davis]

All right. Not GTA. Five did this game. I don't know how to narrow down Saints Row. I mean they got silly, they got sillier and sillier as they went.

[Nick Limone]

And we know. And we know it's a part of a series, right? You asked that question earlier.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick Limone]

So Saints row. Saints Row 1 is a launch 3, 6 like launch era. Saints Row 2 has an insurance fraud mini game. That's all I know about that.

[Justin Davis]

I don't think was that. You don't think that. I think that game was made in the United States.

[Nick Limone]

Saints Row.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah.

[Nick Limone]

Isn't that Volition? I. I think.

[Justin Davis]

I don't even know. I can't even tell you. And then what was the third series you thought it might be?

[Nick Limone]

Oh, it was Crack. Crackdown was the last one that I came in. It's not that.

[Justin Davis]

Is this game? Is this game. It's part of a series. Okay, nevermind. I'm not going to ask what I was about to ask which is is it based on a license at this.

[Damon Hatfield]

Point you should use your hack. The hack.

[Justin Davis]

Have we mentioned the name of this game?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Oh shit. Okay.

[Justin Davis]

I guess there's like L A Noire. Not L A Noir. Not Saints Row. No, I mean not anything we've mentioned. So I don't it being part of a series because there was also like the Godfather and like Scarface and like weird open world games from that era. But they're not. But they're not part of a series.

[Nick Limone]

Mafia.

[Justin Davis]

I think it's one of. Yeah, that's a pretty good call. Could be Mafia too.

[Nick Limone]

Street level crime. It fits. It's multi plat.

[Justin Davis]

Was. Is this game set in a historical time period?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Okay. Not a mafia game.

[Damon Hatfield]

That's 15 questions on this round.

[Justin Davis]

RIP.

[Nick Limone]

I feel like we're on the cusp of it. We're like right there. Let's see.

[Damon Hatfield]

Street level crime.

[Justin Davis]

Is there a superhero game?

[Nick Limone]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

Is this a superhero game?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

What other street level crime games are there? It's part of a series.

[Justin Davis]

There's Sleeping Dogs, but that's not. That's not part of a series.

[Nick Limone]

You're right.

[Justin Davis]

It's a great game though.

[Nick Limone]

It is a good game.

[Justin Davis]

There was those two. Oh, but it's not licensed. There was the. The what? The kung fu games.

[Nick Limone]

Did we ask if it was? I don't think you actually asked the license question. Did you? I think.

[Justin Davis]

Well, but I guess I'm just. I'm assuming it's not because it's part Of a series. And how many license games got multiple things that are not superhero themed. But there was like, you know, I'm just this, like, weird. There was like, you know, Jet Li had a game back then, a bunch of weird stuff. Jackie Chan. There was Mark Echoes Getting up. You remember that game, Damon? That's a good game.

[Damon Hatfield]

I never played it.

[Nick Limone]

360 era.

[Justin Davis]

I don't know if it was actually good. I. You know, it was. Okay.

[Damon Hatfield]

Street level crimes.

[Justin Davis]

Why do you keep repeating that?

[Damon Hatfield]

Why do I.

[Nick Limone]

Street. True crime. Streets of LA. No, that's PS2.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, that could.

[Nick Limone]

That's PS2 era.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, but there was. But there was a sequel. There was true crime.

[Nick Limone]

Streets of New York. But it's not something.

[Justin Davis]

It's not what.

[Nick Limone]

But that's. It's not modern. It's not a fictionalized New York, though, remember?

[Justin Davis]

Oh, we did specifically ask New York.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, man. Maybe the name Street Streets. Street level Crime. Is that in the thing? Is that in the title?

[Justin Davis]

I was thinking about, like, we. So it's open World. But then I was thinking it might not be like. It could be like. What was the open world racing game that Rockstar made? Midnight.

[Nick Limone]

Midnight.

[Justin Davis]

Midnight Club. And then. And then I was thinking about stuff like that or like, you know, Forza Horizon. Although that's not crime. Except technically speeding is crime.

[Nick Limone]

Need for Speed.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. Need for Speed. Hot.

[Nick Limone]

That's like Panado.

[Justin Davis]

Something like that. I don't think Damon would do that to us.

[Nick Limone]

But it's an open world game.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, like an open world racing game.

[Nick Limone]

Do we want to ask if it's a racing game?

[Justin Davis]

No. Are you running around on foot mostly in this game?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Justin Davis]

Okay, okay, okay. We're on to something. Maybe it's Midnight Club.

[Nick Limone]

Is this.

[Justin Davis]

That was Rockstar. I don't remember which Rockstar Studio.

[Nick Limone]

I mean, this was before they went like. I mean, it could be.

[Justin Davis]

Is this a racing game?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes, it is.

[Justin Davis]

It mid.

[Nick Limone]

Dude. Midnight Club. Three Dub Edition.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. See, I don't know. Did they even make. I didn't even know that they made three of them. I could only remember one and two. I don't know when they came out.

[Nick Limone]

Midnight.

[Justin Davis]

I don't know if Midnight Club 3.

[Nick Limone]

Dub edition, I believe, would have been this era.

[Justin Davis]

I don't know if there's a racing game that has more to do with crime than, you know, you could. Like, they're all a little bit about crime because street racing is illegal. But like, the need for Speeds literally have you evading the police.

[Nick Limone]

Need for Speed. Most Wanted was like an Xbox 360 launch title, I believe. Launch window that was.

[Justin Davis]

And I wonder if. Do you think maybe Criterion Crit made that? Who's not?

[Nick Limone]

That would be United States. That'd be Burnout Revenge. And that was a PS2 game.

[Justin Davis]

But what about Burnout Paradise? That's Open World Burn.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, yeah. That is open World and that's that era.

[Justin Davis]

Was this game published by ea?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

So it could be this game.

[Justin Davis]

Burnout Paradise.

[Nick Limone]

Yes. All right.

[Damon Hatfield]

On 20 questions.

[Nick Limone]

Okay.

[Damon Hatfield]

Street level crimes.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, thanks. Damon's helping us out.

[Damon Hatfield]

I know, I know. This is great.

[Justin Davis]

I replayed. I forget. I already forget that I replayed Burnout 2. I was going to say recently. I'm realizing now it was last holiday break, so almost a year ago and just a fantastic game. Just so great. I mean, I think paradise is deeply disappointing to me.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, I love Paradise. I love Paradise. I think Takedown's my personal favorite. And then Revenge. But I do think that Burnout paradise has probably my first like two minutes of a video game ever where you're in the loading screen and then Paradise City starts playing and then the game just seamlessly rolls into it and you just begin racing. Pretty sick opening.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. No, I mean all of that stuff's great. And the promise of like, you know, anything, any intersection is a new event and then it's all racetracks and it's all just free flowing and go whatever you want. But it's like so killed by like not having a restart option, like not having.

[Damon Hatfield]

No crash mode. And I just love the arcade nature of what Burnout was.

[Nick Limone]

Before that they were playing some Burnout 3 takedown recently just for funsies. Good time.

[Damon Hatfield]

Good. I don't, I don't. This is like an example of like these games did not have to go away. I don't know. Why are these games just not being made today?

[Nick Limone]

Revolutionary feature, the aftertouch. Your car's already exploded. You can still just move it around because. Why not? It's more fun.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah, because it's more fun.

[Justin Davis]

Well, and then so Burnout. Burnout's gone. And yet Forza Horizon is one of the biggest video game franchises on the planet. Right? And it's like somebody, somebody messed up somewhere.

[Nick Limone]

Give me a crash mode in Forza Horizon. Come on.

[Damon Hatfield]

They got to get the, the licensees they got.

[Nick Limone]

They got to get Lexus to sign.

[Damon Hatfield]

Off on that Florida junk. Says I used to spend days inside a GameStop because my mom worked a few stores down from them enough for the employees to joke about charging me rent and I would play the demo of Burnout paradise repeatedly at a PC station. They had three. Definitely one of my favorite racing games to date.

[Nick Limone]

I think one of the first games that also had in game online advertising. I think Barack Obama ran ads.

[Justin Davis]

Whoa.

[Damon Hatfield]

Burnout Paradise. That's funny because it came out in 08, which would have been. That was an election.

[Justin Davis]

There was a startup. I can't remember the name of the company now, but that was their thing was if your game was online, the. The billboards in the game could change and you could buy like buy the.

[Nick Limone]

Ad space in game advertising in a racing game. Makes sense to me.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah. It was 2008 for 360 PS3 and PC. It was remastered in 2018 for PS4 and Xbox One. And then that version came to the switch in 2020.

[Nick Limone]

Nice.

[Damon Hatfield]

And criterion is not around anymore or.

[Nick Limone]

I think it's still around, but I'm not sure what they've been doing.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

Didn't they get like subsumed into like dice and stuff like that?

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, I think they're a part of Battlefield now, if I'm not mistaken. That sounds right to me.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah. Or did they do Battlefront?

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, I think so.

[Damon Hatfield]

All right, all right, all right.

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[Damon Hatfield]

Okay, we guys are still in good shape. 32 questions in.

[Nick Limone]

You still have two games down.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah, two games down. You still have eight banked questions. Let's move on to round. Oh, I think I skipped. Wait, no, I didn't write. They're fine. Round three. This is Tom from Corning, New York, and they've suggested a 20 question game that they can't believe hasn't been used before.

[Nick Limone]

Never used before.

[Justin Davis]

Never been used before. Did this game come out in the 70s, 80s or 90s?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes. Okay.

[Justin Davis]

Was this game released on the original NES?

[Guest or Narrator (possibly a poet or musician)]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Is this game in the Super Nintendo?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, SEGA or arcade.

[Justin Davis]

Was this game originally released for the Sega Genesis?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, man. This is a bit of a blind spot for me. All right, let's see if we can do this.

[Justin Davis]

But it's interesting that it's Genesis and not Super Nintendo. So, you know, we got that going for us. Was it developed or published by sega?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes, that's fine.

[Nick Limone]

Vector Man. It's Vectorman.

[Justin Davis]

I think. I think Vectorman's a super plausible guess.

[Nick Limone]

That's like one of the Genesis games I've played.

[Justin Davis]

It's also very possible that over all of 20 questions, like we've never had Sonic 3, you know, or something like that. Like, Damon doesn't often like to do sequels, but you know, sometimes, I mean.

[Nick Limone]

Is this game part of a series?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Okay, maybe it's Sonic. The Sonic dream is still alive.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. Well, to be fair, there's two Vectormans.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, I only played the first one.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, everybody only played the first one because the second one's not that great. I have a real soft spot in my heart for Vector Man. Good game. Yeah, it is a good game. And he. He goes, whoa. When he gets up to a great.

[Nick Limone]

Splash screen on that SEGA screen where you get to just see Vector splash.

[Justin Davis]

And you can destroy the whole logo and stuff. Okay. Was this game made by Sonic Team?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Justin Davis]

Is this game Star Robot?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah, dude.

[Nick Limone]

Is it Vector Man? Is the vector.

[Justin Davis]

We don't know which one. Is this the first game in a series?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Justin Davis]

All right, well, I don't. You can do it. I just want to take a second to think about it because there might be other robot games. It's like Fantasy Star four Star. Like a robot or like something. I think.

[Nick Limone]

Can we ask if it features vectors?

[Justin Davis]

I think it's. I think we. I think we're probably safe. I think we're good to go.

[Nick Limone]

I'm gonna. Should I do it?

[Justin Davis]

Do it.

[Nick Limone]

Is it Vector Man?

[Damon Hatfield]

Sure is. Vector man from the three point line?

[Nick Limone]

Yeah.

[Damon Hatfield]

And you had that like, like question four, you said it's Vectorman, dude.

[Nick Limone]

Great boss. Look at how good this game looks.

[Justin Davis]

Is the boss of the first level. This was Sega, I think Blue sky. It was defunct. They're not in business anymore.

[Damon Hatfield]

They software.

[Justin Davis]

And. And so it was never like officially. I was about to say it was their answer to Donkey Kong country, but that's not true at all. But from. Well, not like, you know, like they didn't like Blue sky made it right. Like, it's not like Sega's like, we got to have an answer.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah. SEGA published it, though.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, but, like, just the visuals, like the pseudo 3D. It was, like, so good and so cool. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I know I goof. I goof on Sonic the Hedgehog and the Genesis now a lot, but I was a Genesis kid growing up, and I have very fond memories of Vectorman.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah, you mention it on the show quite often. And that's why I think it was funny that we've never used this game for 20 questions before.

[Justin Davis]

I was gonna say, I think. I feel like it does come up kind of a lot.

[Nick Limone]

You could destroy the SEGA logo right as Vectorman. Or do you just shoot, like, in the top right corner and something falls down?

[Justin Davis]

You can do both.

[Nick Limone]

The tank level. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, this game was great. Like, look at this. Look at the 3D. Yeah, it's so cool.

[Damon Hatfield]

Vectorman himself is made up how many 23 separate sprites on just Vectorman.

[Nick Limone]

That's. That's. That's what they call parallax. Scrolling right there. Right?

[Damon Hatfield]

I've never played this level. This level looks insane. This is so cool.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, it's. It's awesome.

[Damon Hatfield]

It's a good game.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. And then Vectorman 2 was a deep disappointment.

[Damon Hatfield]

I'm pretty sure they made three vector men on the Genesis.

[Justin Davis]

Well, no, there's only two, but one of the very, very first E3s I ever went to, I played Vectorman 3, which was a 3D, you know, game. And then it was. It never was released.

[Damon Hatfield]

You're right.

[Justin Davis]

Okay. Yeah. It was going to be on the SEGA Saturn, and I think, you know, I think I was 18 years old and whatever. And then, like, oh, Vectorman 3 was just at E3, and I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen in my life. And then, you know, end up in Lost media.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

Weird.

[Nick Limone]

That's crazy. Somewhere out there in a bin, there's, like, a prototype code for Vector Man 3.

[Justin Davis]

It was pretty bad.

[Damon Hatfield]

You guys are doing very well.

[Justin Davis]

It's just like that is that early, early 3D era, right? Like, it just, you know, wasn't really working.

[Damon Hatfield]

42 questions down, three rounds in. You're going into your fourth round. You guys are. You guys are doing good.

[Nick Limone]

I feel like that could have been the hard one.

[Damon Hatfield]

That wasn't the hard one.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, okay. Dang.

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[Guest or Narrator (possibly a poet or musician)]

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[Damon Hatfield]

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[Nick Limone]

Dude unknown. All right, let me kick this one off. Is it 70s, 80s or not 90s?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, there's a hesitation in that though.

[Justin Davis]

I think it's pronounced Jim Gaffigan.

[Damon Hatfield]

This one is Galigan.

[Justin Davis]

Oh, so it's not the comedian? No, Jim Galligan.

[Damon Hatfield]

Unless it's Jim Gaffigan.

[Nick Limone]

Who?

[Damon Hatfield]

And he's like, oh, I don't want them to know. Change it. Jim Gaffigan.

[Nick Limone]

Jim Gaffigan. If you're watching, let us know.

[Justin Davis]

70S, 80s or 90s? Yes. Was this originally or did this come out on the nes?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Justin Davis]

Did this come out on the 16 bit consoles?

[Nick Limone]

It's either arcade or like Master System, I guess.

[Justin Davis]

I mean N64.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.

[Justin Davis]

Or handhelds.

[Nick Limone]

Is this could be a game? Yeah, let's go for it. Is this a game on a cartridge?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Okay, so it's CD or arcade.

[Justin Davis]

Was this originally a PS1 game?

[Damon Hatfield]

No, that's five.

[Justin Davis]

Could be Dreamcast, could be a launch Dreamcast game. Or it could be an arcade game or something hinky like that.

[Nick Limone]

Is this an arcade game originally?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Okay, so it's probably on Dreamcast 2, or at least it's been ported to a CD based console.

[Justin Davis]

Did this game come out on the Dreamcast?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

House of the Dead too.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. Does this game prominently feature or is there an option for like a weird non controller control scheme?

[Damon Hatfield]

Wait, hold on. Like can you ask that?

[Justin Davis]

Can you. Can you use something like a fishing rod to control this game?

[Nick Limone]

A gun? Fishing rod?

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. Or a gun, a fishing rod or a steering wheel. Fishing rod, gun or steering wheel to control this game?

[Damon Hatfield]

None of those three things.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, no.

[Justin Davis]

Okay. It's not. It's not Sega Bass fishing. And it's not House of the Day.

[Nick Limone]

No House the Dead.

[Justin Davis]

Two or three, sadly, could still maybe technically be typing of the Dead. I think that might have come out later. So arcade games. So what, your Power Stone.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, Power Stone. It can't be Marvel versus Capcom, because we had that semi recently. Right.

[Justin Davis]

And we talked about Power Stone when we were figuring out that it was.

[Nick Limone]

I always forget, though. Did Power Stone have an arcade port or was it on arcade first?

[Justin Davis]

I don't know. I think so. No. Nobody knows.

[Nick Limone]

Or it could be like, is this a. Well, is this a brawler?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Okay, so it's not like, you know, it's not your. I guess Powerstone's not a brawler.

[Justin Davis]

Crazy Taxi.

[Nick Limone]

Not a steering wheel.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, I get. Okay. Yeah, you're right. Is this a. Is. Would you. Did you ask Brawler thinking that that eliminated Power Stone?

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, I did. When I should have probably been fighting game is what I should have asked.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. This is because I assumed. I assumed. Damon, when you were asked Brawler, you.

[Nick Limone]

Think of Streets of Rage, right?

[Justin Davis]

That's what I was thinking was like, cycling Brawler.

[Damon Hatfield]

That wasn't an arcade game.

[Nick Limone]

Right, right, right. But like, that type of game.

[Damon Hatfield]

But I mean, Powerstone is kind of like a fighting or like a multiplayer brawler.

[Justin Davis]

Okay, okay, okay, so. And he said no. So not. Not Power Stone. Damon's daemon's being generous. I mean, is it a fighting game?

[Damon Hatfield]

No, that's 10.

[Nick Limone]

I mean, what.

[Justin Davis]

So an arcade game that came to the Dreamcast that is not a fighting gamer. Brawler, but does not have weird controls.

[Nick Limone]

Well, it does. I think, specifically, we did ask if it's a fishing rod gun or steering wheel.

[Justin Davis]

Well, okay, but.

[Nick Limone]

But to your point, though, your previous point is the keyboard. I'm kind of latched onto that typing of the dead now.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, I just. I didn't think that that came till later. I didn't think that was from the 90s, but maybe it was. Oh, boy.

[Nick Limone]

What else could we ask?

[Justin Davis]

Oh, okay. It could be, you know, there's like, Mars Matrix and, like, there are shmups back then. I mean, I don't know how I'm gonna, like, Radiant Silver Gun. I'm never gonna zero in on, like, which ones are on the Dreamcast. Is it a shmup?

[Damon Hatfield]

Nope.

[Nick Limone]

Is. Well, I mean, it. Huh.

[Justin Davis]

And it not being a brawler eliminates. I don't even know if any of these came out on arcades, but there was like. I also. I'm getting the Dreamcast And Saturn. Confused. I was thinking about, like, Guardian heroes and. And, you know, some of those brawlers, right?

[Nick Limone]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

Beat them ups. But it's. It's none of.

[Nick Limone]

Have we mentioned this game yet?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, shoot. I. Dude, I think it's Typing of the Dead, bro.

[Justin Davis]

Do you. Can you control the. Do you control this game with a keyboard?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Is there any. Is there any. Is this Typing of the Dead?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes, it's.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah. Well done, Justin.

[Justin Davis]

You.

[Nick Limone]

You.

[Guest or Narrator (possibly a poet or musician)]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

What a weird game.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah.

[Nick Limone]

This game rocks.

[Damon Hatfield]

Arcades in 1999, Dreamcast and PC in 2001.

[Nick Limone]

It is. This is a bummer about getting older. This game just gets too easy, though, because it's like, I know how to type.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

I think it's on again. I'm not using my keyboard while I'm playing, but I'm using it now. The game is on the. Yeah, the game is on Steam.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah. It's also for the longest time before it was on Steam. The version that's on Steam is obviously available. I'm pretty sure it's a bad version of the game, if I'm not mistaken. I don't mean to slander the game if that's not the case, but there is an abandonware version of the game that is the original release that fans have modded to make it playable on modern operating systems.

[Justin Davis]

There's. There's a $3 DLC for the Steam version that gives you filthy words to type. What? And the example. The example in the screenshot is Sexual Tyrannosaur.

[Damon Hatfield]

That's from Predator.

[Nick Limone]

Dude, that's a hard word to type if I'm fighting zombies.

[Justin Davis]

It's not. It. It doesn'. It's like super filthy, but just like blue. Like it's dripping. Dripping wart goo is one of them.

[Damon Hatfield]

Okay. Weird. And it's like an official.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah.

[Damon Hatfield]

DLC from Sega.

[Justin Davis]

It's the first. It's the. It's the first thing you see when you go to the Steam page.

[Nick Limone]

Wow, that rocks.

[Damon Hatfield]

Cool. Typing of the Dead nicely job. There's only one game left and you guys have asked 56 questions. So.

[Nick Limone]

Dude, we got.

[Damon Hatfield]

I think within 44 questions you can guess the final game.

[Justin Davis]

Man. You're going to be host on this Truth or dare. We're going to learn so much about you.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah.

[Damon Hatfield]

I should have picked harder games. No, you guys are great. All right, last round. Let the question continue. This is from Evan from down East Maine, near Acadia National Park. Evan says, I recently started listening regularly to the show at work. I clean cars and you help Me get through the second half of Slow Fridays. Nice.

[Justin Davis]

Cool.

[Nick Limone]

I mean, yeah. Let's do it. I'm not trying to. I'm not trying to rack up the question count here. Is this from the 70s, 80s, or 90s?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Okay.

[Justin Davis]

Can you play this game on the Switch?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Is this a Nintendo exclusive?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Justin Davis]

Was it originally released on the Switch?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Justin Davis]

It's Mario. Mario Kart 8.

[Nick Limone]

It's Metroid prime because he's celebrating the fact that Metroid Prime 4 is coming out soon.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. Metroid Prime 4. Metroid Prime. Excuse me. Could be Metroid Prime 4 if Damon wanted to be really sneaky.

[Nick Limone]

Is this a platformer? Yes.

[Damon Hatfield]

That's five.

[Nick Limone]

Nintendo Switch game 2D.

[Justin Davis]

Sorry, 2D?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes. 2D platformer. Yes.

[Justin Davis]

Super. Super Mario World. Super Mario World 2?

[Nick Limone]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

Yoshi's island is this game. I don't.

[Nick Limone]

Is this game available as part of the Nintendo Switch online service?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Okay, cool. So that gets rid of retro games.

[Justin Davis]

Mario Wonder. Yeah. Wait, did I ask. Did we ask if it was originally released on the.

[Nick Limone]

You did.

[Justin Davis]

The answer was no.

[Nick Limone]

That's correct. So that's.

[Justin Davis]

That's what makes me not Mario Wonder.

[Nick Limone]

Correct. And that makes me think it's like a GameCube game or like a port. Like a. Like a Skyward Sword or a Metroid Prime.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. Except It's a platformer.

[Nick Limone]

2D platformer. You're right.

[Justin Davis]

You're right. Yeah. So this is a little bit tricky. After all, it's not on Switch Online, but was not originally released on the Switch, but is a 2D platform. It's like an older 2D platformer.

[Nick Limone]

Nintendo, then.

[Justin Davis]

Nintendo. Was it developed or published by Nintendo?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Justin Davis]

Does this game have mar. Is this a Mario game?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. So I thought. I'm like, I'm barking up the wrong tree. It's got to be something else.

[Nick Limone]

Why am I blanking on 2D? Nintendo games like that fit this criteria that are not Mario, like, I guess, see what's kind of port to the Switch. That would make sense.

[Justin Davis]

Well, what's a platformer that doesn't star Mario? Not a lot of those. Could be. What is it? One of those weird Yoshi Yarn games? There's a million of those. The Woolly World and Yarn. Kirby's Epic Yarn.

[Nick Limone]

Does this game feature any Mario cast of characters?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes. Okay, that's 10.

[Nick Limone]

So we're in the right territory here.

[Justin Davis]

Was there a. I don't even. I don't know. This is a slight blind spot for me. There's these Yoshi games.

[Nick Limone]

There's Yoshi's woolly world. Yoshi's 3D crafted world. There's.

[Justin Davis]

I. I mean, one of those must have been a Wii U game, you know, that then came out.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

Later.

[Nick Limone]

It's got to be like Woolly World. I think Crafted World is an actual, like.

[Justin Davis]

I don't like the Yoshi games used to be pretty hardcore. Super Mario World 2 is pretty hardcore. And Yoshi's Island DS is like, particularly like, hardcore. And then now they've made Yoshi like the little kid.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah. Kind of like kind of a baby game.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, they've. Baby game.

[Nick Limone]

Very pretty, but kind of baby game. Is this a. Does this game star Yoshi?

[Damon Hatfield]

No.

[Nick Limone]

Shoot.

[Justin Davis]

Wait a second.

[Nick Limone]

It's a Mario cast characters.

[Justin Davis]

Oh, there is Princess Peach. Showtime.

[Nick Limone]

But that was a Switch.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Wait, what about Wario? He's up to no good all the time.

[Nick Limone]

I mean, Warrior, the last 2D Wario. Wario game was. That was a platformer. Was the GameCube one. And I guess there was one Wii.

[Justin Davis]

What about Luigi?

[Nick Limone]

New Luigi.

[Justin Davis]

But there's obviously Luigi's Mansion. But those aren't platformers. And then there was the new Luigi.

[Nick Limone]

U. Yeah, new Luigi U.

[Justin Davis]

But did that come out? Is that on the switch?

[Nick Limone]

That is on the switch.

[Justin Davis]

It did come out on the switch.

[Nick Limone]

It is on the switch as part of a new Super Mario Brothers plus Luigi Youth Combo Pack thing.

[Justin Davis]

I think. I think I know what it is. I think it's. I think it's Donkey Kong.

[Nick Limone]

Oh, yeah. Donkey Kong. Tropical Freeze.

[Justin Davis]

I think it's either. Yeah, Tropical Freeze or Returns Return.

[Nick Limone]

And it's a Mario. Cast a character.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, yeah. Does this game star Donkey Kong?

[Nick Limone]

Yep.

[Justin Davis]

Cool. Which one is it?

[Nick Limone]

I mean, Tropical Freeze versus Return. Donkey Kong Country Returns. I can't think about Donkey Kong Country Returns. Just recently got a Switch port too. Like, it's like a fairly new, weirdly new switch port.

[Justin Davis]

It came out right before, like, this year. Right before. Did this game come out this year?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yes.

[Justin Davis]

On the Switch. Yes.

[Nick Limone]

Okay, so it's got to be returned.

[Justin Davis]

Is it dk? Is it Doncon Country Returns?

[Damon Hatfield]

Yep. Donkey Kong Country Returns. Originally a WWII game in 2010.

[Nick Limone]

Also a 3ds game.

[Damon Hatfield]

3Ds in 2013, and then came to Switch this January.

[Nick Limone]

It's really weird when this coin came out when it did.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah. I mean, we're in that, like, late Switch era where, like, Nintendo clearly had to, like, buy time for a year.

[Nick Limone]

But it's like they released Tropical Freeze for the Switch before they did this one.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah.

[Nick Limone]

Which is like.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, but Tropical Freeze was like year one of the Switch. It's like, you know, we. I mean, first of all, the Switch kind of got Nintendo ports throughout the console's life cycle, but we particularly got them in the first year or two when they were giving us Wii U games and giving them a second shot at life. And then we got them in kind of the final year where they're like, oh, no, we need more games.

[Nick Limone]

I've never actually played this game. I've only played Tropical Freeze, which rules. And I've just heard that this is like a worse version of Tropical Freeze. Not that it's bad, it's just not as good as Tropical Freeze.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah.

[Damon Hatfield]

When did Tropical Freeze first come out?

[Nick Limone]

That was Wii U. That was Wii U? Yeah, that was Wii U game that was like, what, 2013 or something?

[Damon Hatfield]

13, 14, 15. Some of that. Well, my friends, you've completely aced.

[Nick Limone]

We crushed it.

[Damon Hatfield]

100 questions, a total of 70 questions.

[Justin Davis]

Wow.

[Damon Hatfield]

Five games you got.

[Justin Davis]

I wonder.

[Damon Hatfield]

Got them all in. 70 questions.

[Justin Davis]

Wonder if that's a record.

[Nick Limone]

We never went Questions. We never went over a 20 questions per game, Right?

[Justin Davis]

No, but we got. We got it on 20.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yep.

[Nick Limone]

Hey, it counts. A win's a win.

[Damon Hatfield]

Shadow of the Colossus, Burnout Paradise, Vectorman, Typing of the Dead and Donkey on Country Returns nicely job. Yeah, indeed.

[Justin Davis]

Burnout paradise was the diciest one out of all those.

[Nick Limone]

Well done, Justin.

[Damon Hatfield]

Street level crimes.

[Nick Limone]

Street level crimes.

[Justin Davis]

Damon's helping us out.

[Damon Hatfield]

I got you back. Let's see what. Real quick before we go, Nick, you plan to play anything over the short little break here?

[Nick Limone]

Honestly, ever since we've been doing our conversation about Game of the century watch, and during this time of year year, I always get into a fantasy Dungeons and Dragons mood, so I've been jumping back into Baldur's Gate 3 and I'm. I'm looking to push credits on it now. I'm. That game's got its grips on me and I'm. I'm like so all in on Dungeons and Dragons and just like Faerun forgotten realm stuff that I'm. I'm reading Volo's Guide to Monsters.

[Justin Davis]

I'm.

[Nick Limone]

I'm all in on just source books and learning about Faerun and all of the deities and creatures. I just love learning about monster. It's like you're telling me there's a whole book that has monsters in it? Yes, please. I will read that book from beginning to end. Even though I Don't really plan on playing Dungeons and Dragons. So. Yeah, Balers Gate 3 and also another game that I am planning on playing. I just don't know if we're. If you've announced anything yet about.

[Damon Hatfield]

Oh, so yeah, the first episode of Is It Still Fun Today? Just went live today, so Akario time. So that'll be showing up in your Game Scoop feeds. You can also watch the video on our YouTube channel. Yeah, new, new show. Is it Still Fun Today? We replay old games to answer the question, Is It Still Fun Today? We started things off with Ocarina of Time and we've got our new next episode lined up. It'll be publishing early in the new year and so we'll be playing that over December and we can make that announcement at a later date. Yeah, I need to play that too.

[Nick Limone]

But I'm going to be playing that as well.

[Damon Hatfield]

And you brought up Game of the century. Watch. I've been tallying all the votes. I put out the question out on all the socials, Facebook, Twitter, Blue sky and just everywhere. What are the best games of the century? So far I'm tallying up everything. There have been a lot of tiebreakers that I have to do. So yesterday there was tiebreaker between Halo 3 and BioShock. So I put a, I put a poll in our Facebook group. You know, which one do you think is better? The poll came out 50. 50.

[Justin Davis]

50.

[Damon Hatfield]

Exactly. People can't decide between Halo 3 and BioShock.

[Nick Limone]

Yeah, I mean, both great games that are indicative of the 360 era.

[Damon Hatfield]

And so right now, today I'm running GTA 5 or Half Life 2. Right now, after being up for a couple hours, GTA 5 has 49%. Half Life 2 has 51%. Oh, these are really close games.

[Nick Limone]

That's not what I would expect.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah.

[Justin Davis]

GTA 5 versus Half Life.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah, but they're, they're basically neck and neck.

[Justin Davis]

Half Life 2 is a much better game than GTA 5.

[Nick Limone]

100. Agree.

[Damon Hatfield]

My. That's my opinion as well. But I mean GTA 5 is just a monster.

[Justin Davis]

So anyway, the, the Half Life, the half life first BioShock thing is interesting to me. I'm sure a decade ago or whenever, like when they were more contemporary, BioShock would have run away with it by far. But I think it's like more time has gone by. People like, wait a second, like, maybe this game's not quite as like, smart as people thought it was.

[Damon Hatfield]

People have wonderful memories of playing Halo 3 multiplayer. Right. And that'll just, that'll do a lot of heavy lifting for them as well.

[Nick Limone]

I mean, that's like Xbox Live Gold membership plus Halo 3 equals fun.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, it's been, there's been, you know, 20 years of, you know, capitalism, bad question mark games since Bioshock, and it doesn't feel quite as fresh anymore, which is not Bioshock's fault at all.

[Damon Hatfield]

That's true.

[Justin Davis]

But like, you know, I think it does make Halo 3 shine all the brighter.

[Damon Hatfield]

So on a an upcoming episode, we'll have. We'll have the definitive list. The top 25 games of the century so far. It's going to be really.

[Nick Limone]

Why isn't Chrono Trigger on this list? What the heck.

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, I'm glad we solved it. Yeah, definitively. No one can get mad.

[Damon Hatfield]

No one can get mad. Justin, what are you gonna be playing over the next few days?

[Justin Davis]

Factorio obsessed? No, I've been off of factorio for a little bit now. I've been really obsessed with Disney Dreamlight Valley. Yeah, you've been to. I think I've shared on the show before. The more stressed out I get, the more like, chill game I need. So it's been a lot of like Vampire Survivors and DDV as we call it.

[Nick Limone]

They just released an expansion, right?

[Justin Davis]

Yeah, I'm not even in the expansion. I'll get there. I'm currently trying to get my friendship level with Elsa up to max, which I need to get her at a 10 out of 10 friendship level in order to do the quests that I need to do. But what I actually want to talk about is I've downloaded and I'm going to start Dispatch. I'm super excited.

[Damon Hatfield]

Oh, there you go.

[Justin Davis]

I know. I'm really. I just like, you know, they did such a good job with it and those episodes coming out so quickly. So I'm like a little bit bummed that I missed the zeitgeist. It's like the new episodes were dropping, but like, I'm so glad that it seems to have finished strong and like it's getting such a hearty recommendation from, you know, people who I know and trust that I'm excited to get dig into it.

[Nick Limone]

I didn't get a chance to talk. I don't think I was on GameScoop during that game's release, but I gobbled up each episode as they dropped. And it's one of my favorite stories I've experienced in a long time. It's. It's one thing to, you know, I don't really have any interest in discussing Whether or not it's a game, because very clearly it is. But it takes. It's one thing entirely to just tell a story, but to tell a story well, it's, you know, competing against prestige television, against films. And I think this thing goes bar for bar with anything currently on TV or anything releasing in movie theaters. This is just a good story that's being told and I am very stoked that people seem to be globbing onto it.

[Damon Hatfield]

Well, maybe this is why I should play. Because I finished Ghost of Yote a couple nights ago and I was going to bounce back to other worlds two maybe. But maybe I should play check out Dispatch.

[Nick Limone]

Don't play with the kids around.

[Damon Hatfield]

Well, no, I know that for the kids we've been playing, we got Super Mario Party Jamboree. Oh, that's such a good one. That's a fun one. I've never, like, played much of Mario Party at all, but like, you know, everyone else, the games are just dead simple. But it's totally fun to play with the kids and they're like laughing and hooting, hollering.

[Nick Limone]

And if I may make a wreck in the Mario Party vein, Lego just released a Mario Party like that rules. I don't remember the name of it. Yeah, but it's.

[Damon Hatfield]

I know the one you mean.

[Nick Limone]

Very good. And it's like, I'm glad someone's made a Mario Party competitor that's actually good.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah.

[Nick Limone]

And, yeah, people seem to be digging it and I've seen quite a bit of game plan. I was like, yeah, this looks fun.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yeah, we should check that one out. Did you finish Yote?

[Nick Limone]

I have not. I don't think I will.

[Damon Hatfield]

You know, I. I was so hot on it. By the end, I was ready for it to be over and I felt my enthusiasm has dampened a little bit. Great game, great game. But it's just like, for like the first half of it, I was like, this game is amazing. My favorite game of the year. Yeah, I don't know, it just. Everything starts to feel. The rewards for most of your quests are just a weapon kit, which is like just different colors for your weapons and gear. And it's like, well, I don't really care about that, so. Oh, I'll just mainline the quest. And then the villain is just like, out of all the people that she wants to kill and get revenge on, like, the main villain is the least interesting one. It's like, it's like, think about Kill Bill at the end. At the end, Kill Bill is a very well rounded and fleshed out character. Even though he's obviously evil, it's like he has his own point of view and a justification for what he did. But here it's just. Just an evil guy. Just an evil guy that killed your family. And so anyway, good game. Very good game, in fact. But I didn't end up liking it as much as I thought I would.

[Nick Limone]

Very pretty game.

[Damon Hatfield]

Very pretty game. All right, anything else for us to do here? Are we gonna.

[Nick Limone]

I think. I think we ate everything with a big old spoon and we're ready to take our power nap.

[Damon Hatfield]

Yep, you did very nicely job. Very impressive work for just a two person team. Usually you have at least one more person helping you. So viewers, listeners, if you have your own suggestions for a video game, 20 questions or just questions for us in general on the show, email them to me at the email address. Game [e-mail] hope everybody has if you're in the United States, hopefully you have a really fun and safe holiday weekend. Whether you be challenging or traveling or visiting family and friends or just playing video games. Hope you have a great time. I hope you have a great time even if you're not in the United States as well too. Thank you to both Nick and Justin. Thank you to Jobert. Working behind the scenes to make this episode possible. My name is Damon. We'll be back next door next week with your regularly scheduled episode of Game Scoop. And we're out. This episode of Game Soup was produced by myself, Damon Hatfield and Gilbert Adienza. Technical direction is handled by Gilbert Atienza. Technical production is way by the Marian Franzen and Amir Aqib. Audio engineering is by Amir Aqib and post production. Editing is by yours truly, Damon Hatfield. Graphic design is by Nicole Kagempen. Gamescoop is an IGN production and part of the Geek Media Network.

[Guest or Narrator (possibly a poet or musician)]

I said I would run away as far as I could go Teach the dogs to pull a sleigh through the white and drifting snow you brought home a magic box in time for Christmas day I chased stars and busted box til the feeling went away. Moon the carpet ice behind your eyes you on my best behavior till Santa Claus arrives in another castle trying to survive the storm and took us all in 1985. You are to into the wind to warm up grandma's car but you never came back again. Lost beyond the fog of war Scrolls unfold in front of me and I am in control. Wires from the old TV through my hands and to my soul noodles in a vacuum I sit behind your eyes on my best behavior till Santa Claus.

[Justin Davis]

Arrives.

[Guest or Narrator (possibly a poet or musician)]

In another castle trying to survive the storm that took us all in 1985. In 1985. Good night. Good night to me. Goodbye. Good night.