BREAKING: No New Games For One Year! - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

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Kinda Funny Gamescast: BREAKING: No New Games For One Year!

Episode Date: September 15, 2025
Hosts: Greg Miller, Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez

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Episode Overview

In this special Gamescast, the Kinda Funny crew tackles an intriguing hypothetical:
“What if no new games released for an entire year? How would you spend your time as a gamer, stuck only with what’s already out?”
The hosts, inspired by a fan’s Reddit post, break down how they’d fill their game time, reminisce about unfinished gems, share wishlists for second chances, and reflect on perennial favorites—all framed by insightful and hilarious discussion.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Introduction: Setting Up the Premise

• [10:35] Greg introduces the main topic, crediting “Top of the Clappers” from Reddit for the show’s concept:

  “In a hypothetical world, the video games industry grinds to a complete halt. Absolutely NO games are set to be released for an indefinite period. You can only play whatever is out already…how do you spend the next 12 months?”

• [11:40] Categories are outlined by the Redditor, which structure the episode:
  • Favorite game ever
  • Second chance games
  • Games you never finished
  • Become a pro
  • Alternate endings
  • Indie darlings
  • Just chilling out

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2. The Gut Answers: If No New Games For a Year…

• [13:04] Tim’s immediate pick:
  Final Fantasy XIV—the MMO he’s always wanted to lose himself in for hundreds of hours, which never seemed possible due to the job’s demands:

  “If I could just focus on a new experience and get lost in it...there’s no world in which I complete...Final Fantasy XIV and regret it.” (13:22, Tim)

• [15:17] Andy:
  The Witcher 3 or Disco Elysium—massive, celebrated RPGs he’s never given proper time to.
• [15:58] Blessing:
  Baldur’s Gate III—one of his favorite games of 2023, yet barely scratched the surface due to time constraints:

  “I played 27 and a half hours and I really adored it and just moved on because of our jobs...if I had a couple months just to play a game and just live in it, Baldur’s Gate III for sure.” (15:58, Blessing)

• [17:54] Greg:
  DC Universe Online—his forever “comfort game.” Without the pressure to keep up, he’d fully immerse himself in it again for possibly 1,000+ hours.

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3. Going Through Each Category

A. Favorite Game Ever ([22:58])

• Andy: Elden Ring

  “That is a game I’ve beat three times…I can just kind of exist and run around in. There's still a lot of ways you can have fun with…different permutations.” (23:36, Andy)

• Tim: Hades / Hades II

  “Every single run feels fun and every single weapon is a joy…It feels endlessly replayable by design.” (27:22, Tim)

• Blessing: Breath of the Wild

  “I kind of like playing through games where I finish it and there’s a lot left to do...it makes that world feel bigger to me.” (28:17, Blessing)

• Greg: Fallout 3

  “I love Fallout 3 so much, and I don’t remember much about it to this day…Seeing that in a modern context would be great.” (32:31, Greg)

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B. Second Chance Games ([35:30])

• Greg: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2

  “This has been installed on my rig since that moment...I know this is a game that if I could sit there with a year of nothing else coming out and dedicate myself to, I’d probably fucking adore.” (36:38, Greg)
  “Red Dead Redemption 2…back then, even recognized it was a work of art…just did not work for me narratively...I’d love to give it a shot.” (37:57, Greg)

• Blessing: Red Dead Redemption 2, Life is Strange 2
• Andy: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Metaphor: ReFantazio

  “Metaphor ReFantazio is one…that if I gave it the full amount of time it deserved, it would be one of my all-time faves.” (43:15, Andy)

• Tim: Fire Emblem: Three Houses

  “But the way people talk about this installment in particular is with such praise…it really seems to be a standout.” (45:44, Tim)

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C. Games You Never Finished ([54:10])

• Tim: Ghost of Tsushima

  “This is a game that I started, really enjoyed, was super into, but I just haven’t had the time.” (55:15, Tim)

• Andy: Baldur’s Gate III
• Blessing: Baldur’s Gate III, Majora’s Mask
• Greg: Tears of the Kingdom

  “I put 40 hours into Tears...Never rolled credits, never did the thing...every time I turn on my Switch, well, I got to finish Bonanza, got to play this, got to review X, Y, Z…” (59:42, Greg)

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D. Become a Pro (Mastery/Competitive) ([62:32])

• Greg: WWE 2K series

  “If things were how they are now when I was a kid, I would fucking be insane at WWE 2K on YouTube, on stream...” (62:46, Greg)

• Blessing: Tekken 8 (fighting games in general)

  “If I just quit this job and dedicated all my time to playing Tekken, I genuinely think I’d be fucking incredible.” (64:04, Blessing)

• Andy: Valorant or Deadlock (competitive shooters/MOBA hybrid)
• Tim: Call of Duty, Pokémon competitive scene

  “Not playing Call of Duty multiplayer...has really kind of me as a gamer...I feel like I’m picking up sticks for the very first time ever.” (68:38, Tim)

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E. Alternate Endings ([71:11])

• Andy: Baldur’s Gate III
• Greg: Baldur’s Gate III
• Blessing: Cyberpunk 2077

  “I want to see what all the different permutations of that game are…for me, the Skill tree stuff is kind of the true, ‘oh shit, this is where you can really define your playstyle.’” (73:26, Blessing)

• Tim: Not his thing; prefers a canon, developer-driven story.

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F. Indie Darlings ([75:15])

• Greg: A Short Hike

  “I’ve started a Short Hike several times…it just did not—it just ain’t what I want.” (75:20, Greg)

• Blessing: Return of the Obra Dinn, Spelunky 2
• Andy: Disco Elysium
• Tim: Hollow Knight

  “I gave it a shot many times. Don’t love the beginning…but I can do it. I know it’s worth it overall.” (77:29, Tim)

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G. Just Chilling Out (Cozy Games/Worlds) ([78:26])

• Tim: Sonic Mania

  “If I have five minutes, I’m just like, I’m gonna boot it up…Chemical Plant Zone, put it in my veins.” (78:31, Tim)

• Andy: Tears of the Kingdom, Marvel Rivals, survival/crafting games like Dune Awakening, No Man’s Sky
• Blessing: GTA Online

  “That game lasted me four years...there’s something about having a game where I have an apartment, a garage with my cars that are mine.” (81:01, Blessing)

• Greg: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

  “The wave of nostalgia for a 2020 game that washed over me…I’m like, wait a second, I went to Animal Crossing and I just let Animal Crossing play.” (82:10, Greg)

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4. Notable Quotes & Moments

• [23:46] Tim, on Hades:

  “Every single run feels fun and every single weapon is a joy to play...it feels endlessly replayable by design.”

• [39:36] Live Chat Quote on Red Dead 2:

  “Red Dead Redemption 2 is like the series finale of video games.”

• [65:38] Andy, on fighting games:

  “I don’t want to try to get better at a fighting game...if I was able to just flip that switch like the devs should flip the switch to make 60 frames, I would.“

• [80:24] Greg, on Animal Crossing nostalgia:

  “The wave of nostalgia for a 2020 game that washed over me...am I about to just throw it all away, say ‘fuck review season’ and go play more Animal Crossing?”

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5. Outstanding Community Suggestions

• [52:21, Super Chats]
  • No Man’s Sky (Joey Radstone)
  • The Witcher 3 (BJ Bernardo)
  • Metal Gear Solid 3 (daughtrr)
• [83:52] Challenge from chat:

  “You should each take a week off new releases and play one of your picks.”
  The crew expresses a desire to actually do this, maybe around Black Friday.

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Conclusion

This episode sees the hosts get deeply personal about their gaming habits and backlogs, and what games they would genuinely savor if freed from the relentless pressure of “the next big thing.” The floor is packed with nostalgia, unfinished business, and dreams of mastery, from epic RPGs like Baldur’s Gate III and Fallout 3 to chillout mainstays like Animal Crossing and Sonic Mania.

The hosts reflect on:

• The luxury and freedom of NOT having to be up-to-date.
• How their jobs shape—and sometimes limit—deep dives into single games.
• A newfound appreciation of savoring classics, revisiting uncompleted gems, and possibly even becoming competitive in old faves.

As Tim notes:

“I wish I had the time to 100% [my favorites]... There’s something I am jealous of—the people that get to play these games for the first time.” (31:12, Tim)

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Timestamps: Segment Highlights

• [10:42] - Topic Introduction: The No-New-Games Hypothetical
• [13:04] - Gut Reactions from Hosts
• [22:57] - Favorite Game Ever Picks
• [35:30] - Second Chance Games
• [54:10] - Never Finished
• [62:32] - Become a Pro
• [71:11] - Alternate Endings
• [75:15] - Indie Darlings
• [78:26] - Just Chillin’ Out
• [83:52] - Community Challenges the Crew—Take a Week Off Just to Catch Up

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The Spirit of the Conversation

The mood is lively, nostalgic, and self-aware—bouncing between sincere longing for lost hours and irreverent, classic Kinda Funny banter. Each host’s personality shines through in their picks and reasoning.

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For anyone who’s ever struggled with their backlog or fantasized about having unlimited playtime, this episode is a must-listen—while also serving as a clever celebration of gaming’s breadth, community, and enduring power to create joy even when the flood of new releases stops.

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What's up everybody? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Monday, September 15, 2025. I'm one of your host Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated aka.

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Poppy of all trades.

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That's what they're calling me now.

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Is that what they're calling them all now?

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Yeah, that's what Tim's calling me at least.

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Okay, Poppy of all trades blessing. Adio. Yay Jr. Good day.

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Greg Silksong Starter.

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Oh, I did start Silksong yesterday.

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Okay. Next to him is the Hispanic heartthrob Texas Street Latino Heat clicking heads and ripping them to shreds. The globe Trotting head shot and three point shooting root and tooting nitro rifle from Twitch tv. Andy Cortez I think it's I think.

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My self diagnosed self afflicted carpal tunnel.

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Yeah.

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Nerve damage. It's gone.

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Wow. Carpal tunnel.

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Diagnose that you healed. I love it.

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How are your thumbs? I saw you put up an Instagram story of your thumbs thumb being all up from silks on.

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Well, you know, thumb is better. You know, whenever you get into the. The, the really midst of the combat in action.

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Yeah.

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I always end up hitting the buttons on the joint part.

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There it is. Look at that.

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The jo. It's just that. It's just where the bone is, you know. And that's where I started feeling a lot of distress. But again, the great ones tell their bodies not today exactly. I. I feel the soreness in the tip of my thumb doing all the platforming in Silksong. Well, I notice how the tip of my thumb is cropped out because it was. It was red because of hot funions and I.

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I didn't realize Funyuns came in Flaminion.

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Flamin Hot funny is all. They're delicious.

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What doesn't come with Flamin?

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And I didn't want the. I didn't want people to think that the top part of the thumb was afflicted as well.

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Yeah.

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Okay. I appreciate that. And then he's back from LA Pey 430 under 30 aka the second best baby blues in San Francisco. A the married one at Tim Gettys.

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Let Tim host. I'm so happy to be back. Excited for the KF podcast after this town all about Paris. But real quick, on the gamer side of the Paris trip, two things I want to say. One, this we're not sponsored by X Rail this week.

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We are not sponsored by X. I.

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Love them so much. And 11 hour flights back and forth. I hate flights, hate long flights. Give me as many flights possible.

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You can't.

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I can't sleep. Yeah, they're very hard for me on. On planes. Give me the longest flight possible when I have my X ray glasses and hollow knight silk sock. Oh my God. I was sitting there loving life. I can't believe I didn't scream at all because I was convinced at some point I was going to be unruly. Someone was going to get mad at me. No, I kept my cool. Kept my cool. All things considered. Even though. God, some of these bosses, man, they don't. Oh yeah, they don't like me at all. But yeah, great time there. And then the other thing, never a Better time for Tim Gettys to go to Paris than the year that Expedition 33 comes out. Walking around, I'm just like, let me give you a tour.

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Where's all the floating debris?

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Where's the patriss? It was awesome.

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It really felt like going to a Disneyland version.

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Nice.

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Jesus Christ.

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Waited till after Pokemon Z.

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Well, I got some. I got some things to say about that in the. In the. The KF podcast about the graphics of Pokemon Z and how they may or may not relate to what Paris actually look like. I don't mean that as condescending as it sounds, but hey, you'll see.

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You can't do it. Well, God fucking damn it. I'm glad you're here, everybody, for another episode of the Kinda Funny Games Cast. Of course, each and every weekday, four, sometimes five best friends gather on this table, come to talk about the biggest topics in video games. Whether they be reviews, previews, or just topics we need to talk about. If you wanna talk with us, you should be watching live. Of course, if you are watching live, you can super chat to be part of the show over on YouTube.com Kinda funny games super chats with your thoughts, opinions and answers to my questions. We have a big topic that I've been wanting to do for a long time today and you are going to need to participate via super chats. Of course, you could also be chatting with each other while we record it live. Twitch TV kindafunnygames YouTube.com kindafunnygames Podcast services around the globe each and every weekday as we run you through the biggest topics. Of course, if you think we're doing a great job and wanna support this small independent business, pick up a kinda funny membership. YouTube.com kinda funnygames twitch well, no, it's not right. YouTube.com chronogames Apple Spotify patreon.com kindafunny of course you can kick us ten bucks. Get all of our shows ad free. Of course get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series I call Greg way. That's 15 to 20 minutes of exclusive podcasting and videoing from my car for you. And of course you get good karma for supporting a small business. Some housekeeping for you. We have a new premium collector's art print over on patreon.com kindafunny and it's all about Lee San Kevin Coelho. I can't say it normally, you know what I mean? So when they start throwing stuff in.

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Oh no.

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We talked about this on Games Daily. Of course I told Blessing what a great job he was. There was no collusion. But he mentioned team Purple, which I didn't know we had a Team Purple. Did you know this, Tim?

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Yes. Huh.

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Team Purple apparently gonna have a new leader, Andy. That's what's been told on Games Daily.

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It's a mystery yeah.

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You're out. You're done.

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Yeah.

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It's official.

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He knows. It was a pleasure being a part of the competition, you know, and I will miss Team Purple greatly. But yeah, I think, you know, me and my representation have decided that it's best to move on.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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We're gonna miss you. You know what I mean?

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I'll miss you guys too.

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Okay, Tim. I can't wait to just shit down your fucking throat on Friday for a whole season.

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It's gonna be great. So good to be back.

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Welcome back, tim.

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That is a real graphic.

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Thank you, producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Shady Rays and Factor, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show. Your topic of the show is one that honestly, I didn't know if we'd ever get to. We have a spreadsheet of what we're going to be doing on the shows and a lot of gamescasts have things in italics where we put in a headline, a topic, an idea, and then they constantly get kicked by reviews, previews, whatever. We've always said, what's going on with Ubisoft? It keeps tumbling further and further away.

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Becoming bigger and bigger of a question.

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You know what I mean? What's going on Evergreen. But quite some time ago on a little website known as Reddit.com there is a subreddit called Kind of Funny run by the community. We don't have anything to do with it. Don't yell at me if you get banned. I don't care. Two months ago, though that's true. I don't know what the fuck's going on over there. We have nothing to do with it except they talk about us. It's great or Two months ago a post was put up by Top of the Cloppers which right away and the title of Top of the Cloppers post went like this games cast idea. No new games for a year. How do you spend your play time? Only across already released titles. And I thought God damn, what a great games cast topic. So boys, I will now dive into a long post from Top of the Clappers, who again deserves all the praise.

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From Top of the Clappers.

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And we will go through and then we will come back to it and we'll get into this because I think it's fantastic. Top of the Clappers or as I'll now say, TOTK Clobbers with a K.

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Of the Kingdom.

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Top of the Clock. I'm sorry C O T K says Cotter. This is an idea I've had for a while.

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So many times over the last weekend. Andy Just popping in my head.

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This is an idea I've had for a while that I would love to hear the guys discuss over the course of a Gamescast In a hypothetical world, the video games industry grinds to a complete halt. Absolutely no games are set to be released for an indefinite period of time. You can only play whatever is out already today, right now, in this world, how do you spend the next 12 months of gaming? Listening to the recent Gamescast? On Greg's Expedition 33 thoughts, he mentioned that he feels somewhat of a compulsion to play the game that is the current conversation, even if it doesn't appeal to him or he isn't enjoying it. I feel like all the crew, Blessing and Andy for sure, have mentioned at various times they would love to spend more time with a certain game, but are constantly forced to move on to the next new thing. Without that pressure to stay up to date and with complete freedom to tackle their backlog or old favorites, what games would each of the crew go back to? I've come up with a few suggested categories that I would personally focus my time on. The categories are all here. But before we even get into this clearing your mind, no new games for a year. Tim Gettys what would you do?

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I'm happy you started with me, and I'm happy you started with me before we get into the category because I like the categories and I kind of want to have answers for the categories to the best of my ability. But the one game that I think is the easiest answer for me, that I stand by that in no world. Am I even going to give a shot otherwise? Is Final Fantasy 14.

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Oh, wow.

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That's. If I had a year that I. I can't play any new games. I got old games I've played and, like, I might replay, you know, them over and over. Right. Like I always do. I have my annual games. The amount of times I'm gonna play Super Mario 3, you know, Mario 64, various Pokemon. Of course I'm gonna do that. But if I could just focus on a new experience and get lost in it. There's no world in which I complete to. Whatever that means. Final Fantasy 14, sure. And regret it. I. I have heard nothing but amazing things about how hype and emotional the story beats can get in. In all the. The big things. So, yeah, Final Fantasy 14 would definitely be the answer. With all the expansions and, you know, a year's worth of getting the. The best out of the game. I don't even know if that's enough, though. Like, I don't even know if having that be my only game for a year would get me the Final Fantasy 14 experience.

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I think it would.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. I definitely think it would. Right. Because you get to live in that every night for multiple hours or whenever you're playing games. I guess. Like, I think you'd be able to really be invested in it. Yeah.

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Now, especially if this was a rule for everyone else. I'm sure there's other people that also would jump into Final Fantasy 14 if I can have a little crew.

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Yeah.

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Clan. What are they calling them these days? I never liked Clan.

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Guild.

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Never liked.

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I was always surprised that. Yeah. We never move away from Clan, too.

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I was a guild usually.

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Yeah. Guilds for losers, though. Like, let's be real.

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All right.

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You with your.

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I think. I think that's a great call because I've. That's always one that I've mentioned about. Man. You know what? I think this is the year that I start my Final Fantasy 14 journey. And realistically, it's never the year. It's never like the right time for it. But that is one that you can just lose yourself in for 100 and, you know, 200, 300 hours. That feels like the one that's like such a great call that I hadn't even considered.

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Is that your pick to Andy. I mean, like, again, clearing. Because we have categories coming up and that's it. I did that. Yeah.

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When it comes to. I mean, it's always. The Witcher 3 is always on the top of the list with a game that you could again spend over 100 hours in with all of the content that's there. A game that I never really formally played at all. You know, I played it when it. I played about three to four hours when it came to. When I had that remaster on PS5 stuff.

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Yeah.

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But aside from that, I never went back to go, you know, get into it. So the Witcher 3 is probably number one next to disco Elysium.

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I like this comment. Chronic says free companies, guilds, friends. It's all lamest shit. It's true blessing. Top of the mind. Where do you go with this question?

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Mine is similar to Andy. I had to pull up my steam to see what the accurate hours I put into it were. But Baldur's Gate 3 came out in 2023 and I played 27 and a half hours and I really adored it and just moved on because of our jobs. Because like, you know, having to do other things, that is our curse. That's a game where, yeah, if I, funny enough, I don't know if it would last a year, but if I had like a couple months just to play a game and just live in that game, Baldur's Gate 3 for sure would see.

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What I think is interesting, you say you don't know if it would last a year where again, it's another one where I guarantee it would. Yeah. Because it would be that idea of you'd go through and finish it and like, okay, now I'm gonna run it back and I'm only gonna do this. I'm a different character. I mean, like, especially Baldur's Gate with so many permutations.

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Right?

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Where it's like, you know, that is such a. Again, our lives and jobs are incredible. Thank you for them. Couldn't do without you. Support us with the membership. And I'm so lucky to have done this for so long. But there's plenty of RPGs especially I look at and go like, again, like, I would do another 200 hours of Starfield. That's not my pick for. But I mean, like, Greg, if your.

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Fucking answer to this question was Starfield.

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I wouldn't put it past you.

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And hey, good for you.

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But wow, stream cuts just walk off.

[C]

You know what I mean?

[A]

But it would be like, I mean, like, I would love to see permutations in this. Granted, I know that's not even the best game for permutation, but like going through the unity and doing all that stuff and how powerful could it be, blah, blah, like, I would love that kind of shit. I think Baldur's Gate would be a great example of like, yeah, like reroll my character as a kid. You know what I mean? I know it's boring, but I always come back to Metal Gear. Whereas I'm playing Metal Gear again tonight. It's another day after high school. Today, I'm not gonna wear the bandana at all. I'm just gonna do a tranq run. I'm gonna see if I can X, Y and Z. You break the game, you try to find your own fun.

[D]

For me, it was Pokemon. Like when I was a kid playing Pokemon Blue. And the fact that you can have. There's 150 Pokemon in this game, meaning that my party can be so many different permutations that might. I think between that and Super Mario 64 are probably the video games that I've played through the most because of that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Taste this, boy.

[A]

Right here.

[D]

Thank you.

[A]

And then now my answer might still piss you off, Tim, because it's not Starfield, but it's also not a game. Like, I've always said this since ign, that if I didn't work in that industry, I would just be playing DC Universe Online.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, I would love to give myself back to DC Universe Online and not feel like I'm ignoring so much stuff in our industry and what's going on. Like, I'm between 900 and 1,000 hours in D.C. uO, right. And it would be like I. I booted up every so often and I run back and it's a dated looking game with dated everything. It's an MMO from, you know, 2007 or whatever. So it's like it's dated as shit. But I would love to get really, really deep back in that. And I think about creating a new character every so often or this, that, the other, and have fun with it. But like, I would love to see that for. Yeah, a year of even taking DC out of it, but a year with no nothing to keep up with. What do you do with your time? Somehow our jobs still survive. Like, that'd be fucking incredible. That's why the question I love so much or whatever. Let's go again, top level. Before we get into the categories given here. Hot blip and a jump. That sounds familiar. Jump. No, that can't be right. I know. It's true. I was fucking around. Sorry. Two words. Dwarf fortress. Miss and love you for. Also. A week ago, I dreamed Andy broke into my house at night and ate all my pizza. Then he complained.

[D]

Wow, that's fucked up with You.

[C]

You didn't have like a toast. You just had a microwave and it's.

[A]

Like, oh, you can't. Yeah, yeah. You want. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is an interesting question though. Kebab says, do live service games still get updates? I say no. I think it wouldn't matter for me and Tim coming. Me coming back to an MMO I've ignored for nine or eight years. And then you jumping into an MMO you've never played. Mellow Fellow answered the question as well in a super chat just like you can on YouTube.com kind of funny games and said night Rain baby, the game that keeps on giving and slowly creeping to game of the Year status for me. Even beating Expedition 33, currently in depth three, trying to reach five.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

I don't know what any of that means. I don't know.

[D]

Is that the new update? Because then you're like going down layers, right?

[C]

What? Players of Fear. I didn't know they did a DK thing. I just know that they're the thing that kind of bums me out about Night Rain is like, they keep on introducing new stuff that's like, it's harder now.

[D]

Yeah, like, oh, it's even harder. It's like, so it was already hard.

[C]

But like, look, I beat it back then. Like, I don't. You know, do I really have to try? Okay, it. You're gonna make me try to prove myself again and I'm gonna spend many, many hours doing so. But Night Rain, there is. There's plenty of stuff to do there with all the. With all the ever dark bosses redux.

[A]

So chat, here's where you got to start keeping up in participating on the super chats as we go because we have categories. I will read through them all along with the descriptions from the one, the only totk that's Top of the Clappers team. And then we will go through and give our answers. Okay, so without the pressure to stay up to date and with complete freedom to tackle their backlog or old favorites, what games would each of the crew go back to? I have come up with a few suggested categories that I would personally focus my time on. Favorite game ever. Just picking the game you love to play and unashamedly piling more hours into it for me, says Top of the Clappers. Red Dead Redemption two Second Chance games. Those that didn't click the first time, but you'd like to give a second chance based on the positive chatter or a feeling that your tastes have changed. For me, Death Stranding never finished the games you were enjoying but never got around to finishing either you find it too hard to pick up where you left off or too daunting to start all over again. For me, Baldur's Gate 3 Act 3 become a pro. The games you feel totally outmatched in by those who make it their life's passion, but if you had more time would go all out with think competitive shooters, racing, sports or fighting. For me, Tekken 8 or any of the F1 games. Alternate Alternative endings. Games that lend themselves to replays to see different outcomes. For me, Cyberpunk 2077 indie darlings. Indies that had lots of good noise around them but simply got swallowed up by bigger titles you were playing at the time. For me, Return of the Obra Dinn and then final category is just chilling out games you just love to hang out in the world. For me, Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom or Redemption 2 again as someone with it. And then we're just in the outro here from the Clopperman. Oh, Clapperman's a good name too. Andy. Think about changing your last name. Clopperman. As someone with a busy full time job and a kid on the way, congratulations. Maybe the kids already here. I struggle to keep up with the latest games and only very recently I'm coming to the realization that I don't need to keep up across my Switch and PlayStation. I probably have enough games installed on both consoles to last me the rest of my life. It is a massively freeing realization and has helped me enjoy the games I have far more rather than dipping after a few hours and trying to keep up with the latest big releases. I'm glad you had that realization.

[C]

Thank you. Totk.

[A]

Totk. That's a big, that's a big great question. Great stuff here. So Andy, I want you to start with favorite game ever. Just picking the game you love to play and unashamedly piling more hours into it.

[C]

At this point it would have to be Elden Ring.

[B]

Has to be.

[C]

It would have to be. I don't really, I don't often replay a whole lot of games I I especially now in this industry where we we do move on to the next thing even. But even as a kid I would say like I wouldn't I wasn't ever doing what Greg would do with Metal Gear Solid.

[A]

Really.

[C]

All right, let me, let me replay this as this now or whatever and try. I just like one when I was done with I was done with it, but I would still boot it up to just kind of fart around. But it was never a. Oh, I'd like to beat it again with these sort of like, you know, play styles or whatever. I would say probably like Super Mario World and Mega Man X and link to the passer games that I've started a million times and like, never went back to fully beat again. But for, for me, it's probably Elden Ring, because that is a game that I've beat three times, I think, in various fashions. And kind of gave up on another run recently where I was just trying to do. Not gave up, but other stuff just kind of got in the way where I was doing a, like a no summons playthrough kind of leading up to the. The dlc. But yeah, I think Elden Ring is just a game that I think I've experienced everything that there is, I think.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But, you know, up until even this most recent gameplay, it, you know, tomorrow. Hussein called it like the game that keeps on giving. And there's still stuff that I was like, oh, my God, those enemies do that if this happens. Like, that's kind of crazy to me. But that is a game that I can just kind of exist and run around in and know your cycle and you know exactly where you're going to know the boss hit list or whatever. But there's still a lot of ways that you can have fun with, you know, with those different permutations.

[A]

Oh, yeah, okay.

[C]

Yeah, it's just, it's. It's so Zen in some, in a lot of ways, and obviously so intense in many others with how crazy the boss fights can get. But there is just a very meditative nature to running around with the very Tears of the Kingdom style of soundtrack, where you're out in the open world and we're not playing a main theme for you. It's just the music is almost just like the leaves on the tree. Like they're just existing kind of there in the background with you. Yeah, I like that video game quite a bit.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Timothy, what would you do for your favorite game? Something you just love playing? You want to jump back into no games for a year.

[B]

The first game that comes to my mind for that is Hades and cheating a little bit, kind of. Because these are games that have to be out already.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Hades 2 with the early Access, even, like, just that. Like, I. I only did the first release of it, the Early Access. I never did the. The Ben Starr update, as we like to call it.

[C]

Notably don't like Ben Star.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

He's A problem.

[B]

That's the reason I didn't play it. But I feel like Hades is a game that I could play forever. Every single run feels fun and every single weapon is a joy to play. And that's not true for a lot of the games I normally like. I like to find a loadout that this is what I'm going to use and I'm stuck with it. But after falling in love with dead cells many years ago, this was the next of that type of game to grab me and really kind of inspire me to care about different weapon sets and upgrades and really getting into the roguelike idea of all right, what are the power ups that I actually want? And then getting delta hand that I'm, like, not stoked about, and then getting further than I ever have and being like, oh, my God, wait, actually, there's something here. And then elements of that run being put in the next run with things I am familiar with. And just the amount that you're learning and the amount that it just feels like your progression is based on the experimentation is not something I typically like in games. And with Hades, I just feel like it's the perfect combination of the gameplay being rewarding and then also just the sights and sounds backing that up. The story's awesome, the music's awesome, the designs are like, incredible.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And yeah, that's all just around a game that is just 10 out of 10 fun at every single moment. So it also just feels endlessly replayable by design. So because of that, like, this is a game that I really wish that I could 100% multiple times over. And I feel like that I wouldn't be bored. You know, I feel like that is the. Whether it's 80s one or two, I think it'd be a game that I could play endlessly.

[C]

That's a great call.

[A]

That's a really good one. Bless. What about you?

[D]

I'll do the similar thing as Tim and do like, the original iteration in the sequel. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are like the easy answers for me. Mainly because I never 100 in those games, nor have I necessarily desired to, mainly out of like both time. And then also I think there are certain types of open worlds that feel more geared towards me wanting to 100% them. Right. Something like a Spider Man. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do every single thing in this game because that game feels designed for it.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Whereas Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom feel so vast as far as the amount of things that you can do. And like, not just the shrines, if you wanted to go beyond and like, yeah, and do the side quests and do the Korok seeds and all that shit, right? Like, it just feels at times for me and my sensibilities too vast in that sense. But also I like that, like, I kind of like playing through games where I finish it and there's a lot left to do because it makes that world feel bigger to me. I don't know how to explain it, but yeah, when I put the controller down, I'm like, damn, I only did 60% or 30% of the things in this game. There's something to that mystery of like, what the rest of that shit going on is that like, kind of heightens the experience and makes it into this thing of like, yo, I chose my path through this world and that was the way I did it. That said, I think if I were to have a year where there are no games, I was going back to my favorite game. If I was to pick a game to 100 out of, like my favorites. Oh, for sure. Like Breath of Wild, Tears of the Kingdom. Being able to have the time to slowly go through and like not even check guides, right? Like, yeah, just play the game the way it's meant to be played and slowly go through the shrines and do all that stuff and learn every secret in this world. I think I for sure this would be the pick.

[C]

Okay, but you have to pick one.

[D]

Breath of the Wild.

[C]

Do you think it's because that's the one you've fully explored the least?

[D]

No, because I think I explored. I might have done them both equally because I think I put. I put like 100 hours into each of them. But I think there's something to the gameplay loop of Breath of the Wild and how more simplified it is that that appeals to me more. And also I don't feel like 100 in the depths. Like, the depths is the thing where I'm like, I didn't like that part of the game as much as I just liked the like, above ground world and Breath of the Wild. Just being that, I think it just.

[B]

Appeals to me more, you bringing these up. Like, for my answer of Hades, this would be my backup and I cheat. And I would put both the games as one simply because of how they were released on the switch. Two still two skews. But like, I just. The idea of these games, I see them now in re releases as kind of a part one, part two situation and something that I really love. Like, obviously video games can Be so many things, whether they're triple A indie RE releases, brand new ip, so many different combinations. But I feel like I've been very well fed with what I like, which as opposed to Andy, who doesn't replay games, I love to replay my favorites and I feel like I in the last couple of years have been very gifted with amazing things like Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake Eater, Resident Evil 2, Tony Hawk's 1, 2, 3, 4. Like so many awesome remakes and something about Nintendo recently we're about to get Galaxy 1 and 2, but Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, the Switch 2 editions. I will never give enough love because I just don't have the time to go back and play those games. And I love that they aren't remakes, they aren't changing anything about the game, they're just the game playing better. And I really wish that I had the time to go 100 because I didn't 100 either of them. Not even close. Yeah, but I would love to, especially given the modern upgrades that we have now. And like, I just think that that's such a great thing and I feel like this is something that I am jealous of the people that get to play these games for the first time.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. For me, favorite game ever on this list from TotK. I think it's the hardest category for me because I'm so. I mean, even though like when I was a kid and you know, you bought this game and you're locked into the game, I had to replay it over and over again. The way life is now, the way the career is, X, Y and Z. Like, I don't replay things. And you. Even when I try to go back to something, when we're getting ready for a re review or whatever, it can be tough for me to jump into a game that I've already played and do it because once the shock or you know, the surprise of what's around the corner is gone, it's hard for me to be like, oh, I'm gonna. I'm gonna do this again. It's why that's not my pick. Starfield's worked for me. Of like, okay, cool, well, I'm making my own narrative in my head. I'm doing all these things. Going through to the new game pluses actually changes what's happening in the other game, which I like a lot of. So it's like here I'm again. I. If we hadn't already talked about it, because I want to give different games every time, I probably would have picked this universe online here just again to go through and have a million things going on and all this other stuff to look at it here. And I, you know, favorite game ever is how Totk describes it, which is fine. I'm drawn to a Fallout. I think this is one of the reasons I get so excited about a Fallout 3 remaster, is that I love Fallout 3 so much, and I don't remember much about Fallout 3 to this day. Like, there's like two quests that I'm like, oh, that is when it's solidified as being awesome. Seeing that in a modern context with all this would be great. But also going in and starting restarting Fallout three and I have no rush. I'm just doing everything. I'm not looking at guides. I'm trying, you know, I mean, I am going to literally go over that rage and see what it is like. I know you can get the. I remember the alien thing, but I can't remember how to get it. Could I figure that out? Can I put all that together? That would speak to me. It almost. Saying it almost speaks enough to me where I'm like, well, should I grab Fallout 76? But it's like, well, no, I. I've. I've run up to the. I've played the shit out of Fallout 76, and I remember that so well. I think Fallout 3 is what I would pick here as my everlasting gobstopper RPG for the moment. Again, I'm hopeful that Outer Worlds 2 will be outclassed in this in terms of story, and I'll want to make a million characters. And I keep daydreaming about my good character, my bad character to run through in October. But for right now, with where we're at in the industry, I say Fallout 3, going through that, hopefully having a remastered version or whatever, jump on and going for it.

[C]

That is a nice thing about having just an awful memory for me. Like, I memory hole so many things and it. It's like experiences first for the first time all every time. Like, because there are so many big story beats in a lot of these games that I think back and GO Mass Effect 2 Top 5 for me all time.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And there are so many things that I do not remember about a lot of my favorite pieces of media. And even playing through Mass Effect 1 Legendary Edition, when that came out several years ago, remembering, you know, there are a select couple of things that will. I'll be remembering on my deathbed while my life is flashing before my eyes. I'LL be like, oh, my God. Brand is that Morden Sola, Scientist, solarian. Like, all of that stuff is so big and impactful, but there are tons of smaller things that I do not remember. And I don't remember that NPC's name. And that's. And it's one of the benefits. Even though I always feel like an idiot when I try to talk about these things on a podcast.

[B]

And I very.

[C]

I rarely remember big key moments, you know?

[B]

Yeah. It's so funny. James Burke just beat Expedition 33. And we were hanging out. He was like, tell me about stuff, like core stories, little things. And I'm just like, oh, man, I kind of remember that, but I don't remember that in detail. And I'm like, God, I just played that. Like, that's crazy.

[A]

Games are interesting about that. How much is tied to the enjoyment in the moment versus what you remember. We were having this conversation on games daily about Spider Man. And when I think back to Spider man and Spider Man 2, I think of swinging and I think of New York and I think of gliding. I don't jump to a story beat or a thing. And I swinging.

[C]

What happened in Mexico?

[A]

We've all been asking. Tim. We've all been asking.

[B]

Wait to see what happened in Paris.

[A]

Kind of funny podcast. It's interesting to see how those tie up. And I think even Fallout 3.

[C]

Right.

[A]

Like, it was the surprise and the. Oh, my God, the first. I know it sounds quaint now, but the first super mutant I ran into. Right. Or the person you meet in the White House. And it's like so much of that. Yeah. Was that surprise. But it was also just exploring this world. Go anywhere, do anything that just stands out that I'd. I'm hopeful they are remaking that or whatever you call that Oblivion remake. I don't want to get into the argument about what, you know, Mike and Roger are doing right now. Okay, let's move on to the next category. Second Chance games. Those that didn't click the first time, but you'd love to give a second chance based on positive chatter or feelings. Your taste have changed for me. Like I was earlier. Death Stranding from TotK here. Doing the Snake draft here. Starting back with me. There's two answers here. The immediate one right now that I hold out hope that I will still find at some point. I don't know when and I don't know where. The time to give it a real college try is this year. Kingdom come. Deliverance 2.

[B]

No.

[A]

I love these open world Western RPGs, right? Go through, make the choice, do the thing. Da, da, da. We got Kingdom Come, Deliverance two. I started it, basically played through the tutorials, you know what I mean? And got to where they wanted me.

[B]

To put on armor.

[A]

And it was late, and it was after embargo. It's all these different things to where I did it. And it was just like, okay, cool. This is very in the weeds. And again, I need to move on to the next big thing. The next big thing. I'm not going to have the time right now to really dedicate to this. This has been installed on my rag since that moment, if not after, shortly thereafter. Like, I know this is a game that if I could sit there with a year of nothing else coming out and dedicate myself and learn to, I'd probably fucking adore because of how I like this. And everything I've heard from people about the narrative, about the characters, about what you're doing. Like, I want to give this the shot. It's just that right now there is redacted 1 and redacted 2 and acted 3, all sitting there also waiting for me to get to them to talk about them. That's why I would long in so many ways for this year. Also, it's a lot like the DC Comics event one year later. You remember this, Tim?

[B]

No.

[A]

It happened Infinite Crisis, and then they jumped all the comics one year ahead. Superman had him in Superman for a year. Batman and Robin had been off on. It was fucking cool. It wasn't actually cool, and it kind of sucked, but it gave us 52, which was a weekly comic book, but it was like, whatever it was, we got away from it pretty quick anyway. So that's the. In the moment right now, especially as we hurdle towards Game of the Year, hurdle towards game awards. I want to try to be as briefed on everything, especially shit. I should care, really care about the other one that I thought about multiple times. But again, who has the time? Red Dead Redemption two.

[D]

I agree.

[A]

Red Dead Redemption two. I. You know, everybody talks about what bad taste I have now. This would have been the canary in the coal mine of me talking to Jared Petty, being like, I put 25 hours in, whatever it was, and I'm not playing any more of this game. I don't enjoy it. Like, I again, back then, even recognized it was a work of art, that it was, you know, a masterpiece and all this different stuff. It just did not work for me narratively, which led to it not working for me mechanically, which led to Me just bouncing on it after when I bouncing again, I put 25 hours in or whatever where it's like I would I again, nothing else coming. I'd love to prove myself wrong and jump back in because again, in the way Expedition 33 isn't my jam because I just can't do turn based stuff. That's a deficiency of me. The mechanics of Red Dead are the kind of games I'm drawn to. So it's like I'd love to give it a shot where I don't feel the pressure of an embargo or what's coming next and go through and do it.

[D]

Yeah, I've been thinking about Red Dead recently. Is I've been playing a different open world game that's been reminding me of Red Dead a little bit just in terms of like being in a setting and being fully in that setting. And this is one that I think I echo your thoughts on it completely. Right? Like I didn't finish it, but I remember talking to people being like, oh, you got to get to chapter four. And I'm like, I am on chapter four. Like I keep playing. People keep telling me to play more and I play more. And for me it was more of a mechanic thing than even a story thing. That said I'd want to see it through for the story. That's. I think that's the thing that people will talk about the most, at least when I'm talking about them. As far as like, no, like this is why this game's legendary, right? Like you have these arcs, you have this thing that happens and I'm like, okay, well, I don't know if I want. If I'm going to get there because I'm just not enjoying the game as much. But if I had the time to go back and give something another shot, I think this would be the game.

[C]

Sorry I stepped on you. I was going. I think it really enjoyed Blessing. It's me.

[B]

In the chat says red Dead Redemption 2 is like the series finale of video games. That's a cool ass statement to make, man.

[C]

Yeah, that's. It's that me just talking about stuff that I like memory hole out of my life. Red Dead 2 has some. Red Dead Redemption 2 has some amazing moments that like have stuck with me still. And that was like, I'll never forget just thinking back of how long ago the game was and where I was in my life and I was like, man, I really want to get an OLED TV or no, I really want to get an HDR tv. Just Period. And an Xbox Series X so that I could play in true 4K, because it was still locked at 30 frames per second on the Series X. But it was like, this thing is. It's true 4K. It's not, like, upscaling or whatever. And what a different place that was for me, but that game was still just so damn special, and that is one that I didn't even put a whole lot of time into. All of the other stuff that the game has to offer. It was just let me experience the story, give me these narrative beats, let me meet these NPCs, and. Holy. There's some truly amazing stuff in that.

[A]

What would your second chance game be then? Andy.

[C]

You make a great point. When Kingdom Come Deliverance, too. That is one that I've kind of been like, all right, I promise.

[A]

I was gonna say you shot your mouth off every time it comes up on the subreddit or in a conference. And he said he's gonna play before the end of the year. He said he's gonna try to play.

[C]

I don't know if that's true.

[B]

Did you give it a shot the first time, though? Have you played it at all?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. And I, like. I forget what else was out at the. Oh, it was avowed. It was like a. A communication thing where the co. An extra code wasn't sent because I asked for a code too late. And then by the time that they sent one a bit later, I was already on about. And I was, like, 20 hours into that, so I would have hopped. I would have been jumping into Kingdom Come Deliverance, too, but about sort of took over in that moment, so that'd be the one for this year. But just for overall second chance games, I feel like it's not fair to throw Baldur's Gate 3 in there because.

[A]

You played a lot of that.

[C]

Yeah, because I was just, like, near the end of it, and it's not like it was something that didn't resonate with me the first time. It was just. The game's really, really big, and there's other stuff to play out there. It's. It's kind of tough for me to think, but so far, I would say Kingdom Come Deliverance two is the. We'll go for, like, that being the temporary answer right now.

[A]

Fair enough.

[D]

I do have a backup answer.

[A]

Oh, that wasn't you. Really? So I was doubling back. This is the way conversation. What do you got?

[D]

Bless Life Strange, too. That's one that I. Yeah. So I love Life is Strange. Right. Life is Strange one. Absolutely adore. Played and reviewed True Colors. Right. Adored that.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And then Double Exposure happened. But two. Two is the one. Was it really like that is double. It was fine. It was the first half of Double Exposure is real good. Second half, I feel like, just dropped the ball. I didn't like where they went with the story. That said, Life Strange 2 was a victim of the whole episodic release timing thing where they dropped episode one of this game, I want to say, at the end of whatever year it came out. And then it took months for them to drop Chapter two or Episode two. And by the time that came around, I had already cooled off so strongly on it. And I also didn't really love episode one that much. And it wasn't until the thing was fully out where people started evangelizing it a bit more. And I would love to go back one so I can complete my Life is Strange experience throughout playing all the games of the series. But then also, I've heard enough good things that I'd want to give it a. An actual college try.

[C]

Oh, I have. I have a not permanent one that I.

[A]

Permanent one.

[C]

Locking in free metaphor refund.

[B]

That's great.

[C]

Yeah. That's one that again, I played 15, 13 hours of it and was like, you know, I. I'm not enjoying this enough right now to give the 70 hours, 50 hours or whatever that it deserves because of the other stuff on the horizon. And also, you know, at that time, Barrett was playing it, so it's like we have somebody at least at the studio, and I don't feel bad.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, dropping off of it if I'm kind of like the only turn based fan here or whatever. Like, I. It was one of those situations where, all right, we have our bases covered there. Let me go play something else for the time being. But that it's. It really is metaphor refantasio that whenever it would get brought up in goatee discussions, that it was what. It's one of the few games that I wouldn't even try to disagree with because I could see the greatness there. And it's similar to this year with Dong Kong Bonanza, a game that I have yet to get back to. And I know that I like it and I know that if anybody else has it as their goatee, I go, you're totally valid in thinking that. I won't even try to argue the point. It's not like when the game of the years last year had a. Or game awards had Mario Wonder in their top And I'm like, that's one I'll disagree with. That's one I don't think should be there. I don't think Resident Evil 4 remake should be on your top six.

[A]

Sure.

[C]

But metaphor, even Tasia is one that I'm like, totally. I totally get it. I understand it. The love that everybody has for it with the story, with the narrative. I know that I. If I gave it the full amount of time that it deserved, that it would be one of my all time faves.

[D]

I know this game is fucking dope because I played this game less than a year ago and I already have nostalgia for it. Watching the trailer, I'm like, damn.

[C]

I'm like, damn, do I go back.

[D]

To our game, a sequel tomorrow.

[A]

Timmy, what's your second chance?

[B]

Second chance? I mean, I think that the most obvious. Well, they, they brought up Death Stranding, right? And I feel like I gave Death Stranding my second chance, like a real second chance this year. And it, it still just didn't click. I love the idea of the world, but I can't say I love the world even at the end of the day. So I'm excited for the movie. I think that's the thing and I think that's okay. Is that just what that game is to me? But Elden Ring, I have to bring it up. The reality is it's just like. I also just don't like that stuff. Like I, I feel like the reason I would say it is because for Andy, I want to get to the final boss. Just to have that moment of hearing the music in context and feeling like I earned that all.

[C]

The context of the many hours you put it on that.

[B]

That's the thing is it's like, it's. I, I know, I know, but it's just. There's so much about this game that I don't like. That's a hurdle for me to get over. And there's so much about it, right? So I think there's that. But my answer to this of Second Chance games is Fire Emblem Three Houses. Because I love Fire Emblem, Path of Radiance and Radiant dawn and Awakening and the Fates games. And afterwards I just kind of got fired out a little bit. And then the, the couple releases after that just started like not being my jam. I named pretty much all of them up to three Houses. But when it came out on Switch, there was something about the timing and how expansive the gameplay was of allowing you to like walk around the school. And it was a bit more of an rpg. A third person RPG as well as the strategy game. And it was just a little bit overbearing for me to think about playing this game for that long because I love Awakening but it felt much shorter than Three Houses did. But the way people talk about this installment in particular is like with such praise and it really seems to be a standout of the series but it's also one of those ones where it came out early Switch and there's just a look to it that I don't like performance and just a technical quality that I'm just like like man. So much of what I did love about the other games was the pixel art and like the the style of it and the style of this is just not my jam. But I'm sure that if I just gave it a second chance and I really committed to it that this would probably end up being one of my favorite games ever.

[C]

Did this one get the sort of uncapped performance bump for Switch?

[B]

I don't think it did.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

I don't think it did. But yeah. So this is definitely my answer.

[C]

I just got to flip that every if you've made a game on Switch 1 before developers flip the Switch. Flip the Switch. Flip the uncapped frame rate Switch. Just do it like there's.

[A]

It doesn't I'll do it AI Machine.

[C]

I'll go drive to your place and hit that Switch because like the games that we have seen get that bump is so nice Things like links awakening that don't require that already ran uncapped frame rate but they just couldn't ever get to anywhere near what you would want for uncapped frame rate. Just fucking do it.

[D]

Do it.

[A]

Uncap it.

[C]

Uncap it.

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Just like you should uncap your wallet.

[D]

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I got the how long to beat for Firemen three houses because I was thinking about it as he was talking about it. The completionist 210 hours to complete.

[C]

How much main story six stories. 50.

[B]

50 hours even that though man that's a lot look up Awakening for me. I just want to see just like.

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[C]

Oh, shit. Damn.

[A]

I try. I tell you, every year and a half I go back to no Man's sky and play the same 10 to 20 hours of it. Oh yeah, it's great.

[C]

I was streaming. I was streaming the other day and the homie Washburn comes in chat. He goes, I know, Andy. What if I told you that building ships in no man's sky is awesome? And I like, I didn't fully, even I didn't absorb the information. I was like, oh yeah, damn, that update or whatever. And then once I started seeing Twitter pop off and including Sean Murray posting all these images of people's ships, I was like, oh, it's like that build. I didn't know it was like the Starfield type building. I was like, man, that. You can't do that right now.

[A]

That's what he shared, man. He shared that Ecto1 build. Hell yeah.

[B]

One day, Andy, I just want to buy a bunch of Legos, give them to you and just be like, build me the sickest centerpiece of my life.

[A]

Come on, BJ Bernardo. Second chance would be the Witcher 3. And then daughter said second chance game. Metal Gear Solid 3. I tried playing during the HD collection seven to eight years ago. Playing Delta right now and loving it. I was a Splinter Cell kid. Please remake.

[C]

I was gonna try to do that Back in the day when I bought a Vita TV at Best Buy and then I returned the Vita tv, those.

[A]

Things were hard to go.

[C]

The amount of. Oh, my gosh. I just could not even imagine how much my employees hated me at Best Buy. With the amount of times I was buying and returning stuff, dude, they must have been so bad. I was like, all right, you're on.

[B]

A list for sure.

[C]

I'm trying to buy this laptop, but I have $280 in cash and I have. Have a hundred dollars on this gift card I'm using. But this. But on the Best Buy credit card, I want that in 18 months. No interest. They, oh, this guy's back, dude. Doing this enough. Andy.

[A]

We move on to the game you never finished the games you were enjoying but never got around to finishing. Either you find it too hard to pick it back up or you left off or too daunting to start all over again. Tim.

[B]

Yeah, Ghost of Sushima definitely my answer. I have started this game up, up maybe three times now. All three times because of Andy being like, tim, you gotta do it. Or seeing Andy post some clip or video. And I'm like, I want this.

[A]

So cool.

[B]

When it first came out, I remember both Greg and Kevin were playing. It were like, tim, I don't think it's your jam. Based on me asking like, is this my jam? And at that time, I definitely don't think it was. And I don't think much has changed. But the biggest problem now, it's time. And especially this year, like, I'm even scared about Yote. Like, I am so excited for that game. But with Hades 2 getting a release date, with how deep into Silksong I am, like, there's just so many Tim games that I'm like, I just don't know. Like, I bet I play a handful of hours of Yotei. I bet I fall in love with it. I don't see myself completing it by review for sure. Whenever that.

[A]

Yeah, if you haven't even started, we can say we have it in reviews next week.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, fuck my life. Like, look at this shit. But, yeah, definitely. This is a game that I started, really enjoyed, was super into, but I just. I haven't had the time. And anytime I try getting, I think I have the problem where it's like, I need to just commit. This needs to be one thing that I do because I. It's not like I get lost and whatever. It's just more. I want the experience, beginning to end of it all.

[A]

Andy.

[C]

I mean, I'VE already said it like seven times on the show. Baldur's Gate 3.

[B]

Sure, sure, sure.

[C]

Got to. Got to Act 3. Got sidetracked by other things and I don't know if it was maybe me playing to interstitially in between other stuff. So I was. Was slowly losing momentum on it and then eventually just kind of fully fell off. But Baldur's Gate 3 is one that I like. I. There was a charity stream several weeks ago that Alana was like, hey, I want to do a charity thing. Like, do you want to play a game or something? Let's do a stream. And I was like, oh, we should do Baldur's Gate 3. And it was just so fun being back in that role playing thing of just like finding the comedy and lines of how to deliver and how I reacting to certain people in character or whatever. You know, I was. I forget exactly who I was playing, but she was playing. We were creating characters without knowing what we were creating. And so I created a very Latino version of like a dwarf. I gave him the accent and everything. And not knowing that I was doing that, she created me. So I became my father. And so I was just like role playing my dad. Hey, good job, mijo. That's a. That's a good attack right there. And it was just like a lot of fun. And I wanna. I wanna just experience all of that with friends. And I'm always. I always get so jealous whenever I see people posting like, oh, we're, you know, their version of game night. Instead of board games, whatever, it's them around a couch playing split screen or not split screen, but just shared screen. Baldur's Gate 3. Like, damn, that seems like so much fun. And the story is amazing what I experience. And again, all of the different outcomes that can happen, it's it to me when. Yeah. I mentioned earlier with tomorrow saying. Saying that Elden Ring is the game that keeps on giving. That definitely seems like it applies to Ballers Gate 3 as well.

[A]

Do you want to apologize to me?

[C]

Sure.

[A]

For your Friday, you made a big deal that if we left everything uncapitalized in the Hollow Knight Silk Song YouTube Premiere Like Alana Pierce does, we'd get a lot of Pierce numbers and we'd disappear.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would like to apologize for that. For absolutely nothing. Me.

[A]

Oh my God.

[D]

Blessing never finished Baldur's Gate 3. I echo that answer. But I also want to add the additional answer of Majora's Mask.

[A]

Oh, oh, you never finished Majora's Mask?

[D]

Never Finished Majora's Mask. I started it back in the day.

[C]

Neither did I. Yeah.

[D]

And I loved Ocarina of Time. Right. Like, Majora's Mask was one that I, you know, allegedly might have played it on a laptop when I was in college or whatever, and, like, came fresh off of Ocarina Time. And, like, it was between Majora and Twilight Princess. And I think I started them both at the same time and just went with Twilight Princess because I was really enjoying that. But Majora's is the kind of game where every single time I see it or hear people talk about it, I'm like, that seems like it would click with me even more than Ocarina. Like, if I just gave my, like, found the time to give to Majora's Mask, I feel like it would become my next favorite game. And so this is one that if I got. If I ever get the time, I really want to do a dormitory mask.

[C]

Like, Deathloop Blessing.

[D]

But Zelda, which is, like, my perfect.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

This is virtual console footage we're looking at right now.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah, right.

[A]

God, what a game. What a game, Tim.

[B]

I know, man.

[A]

That's one of those, you know, it. Ocarina. And this ruins Elda for me because I just want more of this, you know? I mean, they keep getting weirder and doing different stuff, which is great, great games. I'm not knocking it, but it's like, this is where I want to be.

[C]

I Remember buying the 3ds version to play the new 3ds version. We're playing with the dual sticks or whatever, and just another one of those plane games. And I think this was, like, at a time where I was not flying at at all as much as I do now. And even though I don't fly a whole lot now, but it was like I was flying once every five years back in the day, and I was like, oh, I'm gonna, you know, play out. And that's just never got really through it. But that's. That is definitely one where so many of those old games that I did beat back in the day. Total memory hole. But Majora's Mass is one that I put in maybe a couple hours of my house, you know?

[A]

Yeah. I mean, mine is a Zelda as well. Tears of the Kingdom. You know What? I put 40 hours into tears. Never old credits. Never did the thing. Switch twos here. It's fucking awesome. I love this goddamn thing. There's this pretty amazing version of it, right? The best version of it that I am Anxious to do something with. But every time I turn on my switch, like, well, I got to finish Bonanza. Well, I got to play this. Well, I got to do that. Well, I got to review X, Y and Z. Like that is one that I want the X amount hours to do. And I have a plan when I do get it of getting in there. And I'm just gonna. I'm gonna stick to the main quest because that's what killed me last time, is that I got in there and I was like, I'm gonna Greg Miller. And I went and did all the fucking shrines forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. And then it just never got back to it.

[B]

Yeah, I don't. I mean, there's no way you do that. I just like that that with how that game is designed in you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I don't think you necessarily should or whatever either. Like, it's. When you do that, I think you're gonna have a great time. Because I think the Tears of the Kingdom is a very unique game. And maybe I'm wrong about this, but it's unique in the sense that it was such a zeitgeist game where everyone in the moment was sharing their builds of all the crazy things that could happen.

[A]

I was listening to the IGN podcast about it.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

A weekly podcast.

[B]

I was like, yeah, there was things happening constantly. And there was like so much like, did you see that? Did you see this? Like so much great stuff. But I feel like that stuff is still special out of that time.

[A]

Oh, for sure.

[B]

Like, I still think that just like playing the game would be rewarding left and right.

[C]

There are so many large ass games that by the end of it, maybe they don't wrap up as narrative, as good narratively as you would hope. And then the rebuttal to that is like, it's. It's not the journey. It's. Or it's not the destination is the journey. It's all about, like, how much, you know, enjoyment you got throughout the whole, you know, 100 hours, 70 hours or whatever you put into it. Tears of the Kingdom is one of the few where all of it to me was.

[A]

Pays off.

[C]

It wasn't just the journey. The destination also fucking hit in the most amazing ways, like crying on stream just like, I can't believe this. This is some magical shit.

[A]

I'll get back to it one day.

[B]

And just real quick, just because I can't think of a better category to say this, Greg, but for the Never finish just for you. I understand it's probably never gonna happen. You gave great reasons why on the podcast a couple weeks ago. But Expedition 33, something that's been killing me for a long time and I haven't found the right way to say it, but I think now is the best time is the story is so Greg Miller. There's so many characters and story things that I'm like, it's so great, Miller. And like you were like, oh, like I know the twist. I got to the twist. It's like there are more twists that are like, I think the twist that you know is just part of such a bigger thing. I'm like, this is so great. It's so gray coded that like, if you saw it through the characters, the story and world, I think you'd be obsessed with.

[C]

You would have a textbook.

[B]

But I get exactly that type of shit. But I also totally get it. But I just felt the need to.

[A]

See if you ever want to talk to me about it, you can I read the Wikipedia. Yeah.

[C]

I hate you. I hate you.

[A]

The next category is Become a pro. The games you feel totally outmatched in by those who make this their life's passion. But if you had more time would go all out with I'll start. I put WWE 2K.

[D]

Hell yeah.

[C]

I can see Greg getting really into the competitive circuit.

[A]

It is one of those like, don't get me wrong, everything's amazing. My life's gone exactly how it should have. But like, if things were how they are now, when I was a kid, I would fucking be insane at WWE 2K on YouTube, on stream, like. Cause it's like we all have those games where you remember, like college football is a great example where I was the fucking shit at College Football on PlayStation and PlayStation 2. And then I went to college and I met other people who played it and I was just getting my wheels beat off. They knew the formations, they knew what that meant, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like I legitimately. You're talking N64 wrestling game era unparalleled, unstoppable. I would have CR. I would have loved to had online to go challenge to go do the thing. And so now I am just a fucking pale imitation of that fat 10 year old. You can't like, you know, I play 2k and I'm good at 2k but I don't have time to be all in on 2k like I was as a kid where I would literally play hundreds upon hundreds of hours of N64s Wrestling Smackdown and PS1. If I could do that now and have that in 2K. I would love to see what I would do online at the competitions and all this other jazz. Just in general, it'd be cool. The content I'd be creating. God damn, bless. What would you go Pro?

[D]

Tekken 8 and like, fighting games in general, obviously, this is one that I think about all the time of. Like, I. I'm fucking sick as hell at Tekken and it's happened over the course of like, just. I mean, the game being out over time. Where I went to Evo, I didn't. I didn't get any wins at Evo, sadly, I almost did, but. But even since then, I've gotten so much better at the game to where I'm like, man, if I just quit this job and dedicated all my time to playing Tekken, I genuinely think I'd be fucking incredible. Like, I genuinely think I'd be fucking.

[C]

Sick as a video game.

[D]

But yeah, I mean, even for where I'm at now, right, Like, I think I. Fighting games are what come natural to me as far as, like, how they work, how they function, how to get better, how to practice how combos work, how to like, understand them, right?

[C]

Like.

[D]

Like even playing the. The. What was it? Marvel Token Fighting Souls closed Beta very quickly kind of understanding, oh, this is what this game wants out of me. It's such a fun experience and I love the experience of like, getting better at understanding what characters do and how to defend yourself against different characters and stuff like that. So, yeah, for sure, Tekken 8 would be the number one on the list of fighting games. But then, yeah, there's also other fighting games that. Between Strive and Street Fighter and stuff where I'm like, for sure I'm getting. I'll go. I'll try to go pro in these ones.

[A]

Andy.

[C]

It's between two. It's. It's between Valorant and Deadlock now for fighting games because of how much I love the FGC as a whole and just love seeing Evo every year. If I could. That's one where, like, if I could just flip the switch and become good, I would. I don't want to try to get better at a fighting game. So, like, because of just.

[A]

You want to put in the work because that.

[C]

That journey is just way too arduous. But if I was able to just like flip that switch, like the dev should flip the switch to make 60 frames, I. It would be fighting games for sure. But Valorant or something like Valorant or Deadlock are. These are games that I love so much. I hate Getting my ass whooped. And it's very, very deflating when you do. And then you go, well, it's very similar to golf. I hit a bad shot at golf playing out there with my family. I'm like, you idiot. It's like, and you play once a year, dude. Why are you surprised that these are the results? You know, and it's the same with Valorant where I'll get my ass whooped. And I'm like, well yeah, you play maybe once a week if that. And it's usually just two games because those are the two games where we play with our little competitive squad. And I. It's one that mechanically, whenever I do feel myself get better, it's like, oh man, I could. I have so much more to unlock. And. And another one is Deadlock where Deadlock I feel is getting very soon to being announced and coming out formally in a very formal professional way. But Deadlock is one that I, I want to go back to so badly. And even at. They just had a massive update that felt the most 1.0 of any of the other updates.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Where they gave the. I mean, well, first off, the characters have completed art now where back in the day when you were playing these characters, they're made. Their shin and ankle bones may not be connected to their shoes like because the art, the 3D art was just not completed. Or like the lady who's wearing a sort of like a coat over her shoulder, the arm may not be attached in a way, you know, but now all the art seems to be really, really completed now there's like a hub area in the, you know, in the. Whenever you start off playing the game where you kind of run around a mansion and you can run to go watch games that are happening right now or you can go watch to look at stats or training room or whatever it feels like the most 1.0 it's been in a while and with all the new. I don't know what they're called, agents, heroes, whatever they're called that were introduced just all seem so damn cool. And I, I want to get into that game because I. For somebody who doesn't love MOBAs, that's usually just the top down version. But for this to be a third person MOBA with the same sort of energy and you know, kind of quick decision making you have to make. It was always so funny playing with Mike early on where Snowback Mike is the only one who knew MOBAs and none of us really knew it.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And there are, there were so many Moments early on, like, I don't know what to go do now. We'll go farm this and that, and then we'll wait. And then hearing Micah get more and more frustrated, like, well, just do that thing that I'm telling you. Because he's like the coach. He knows what to do. It was just a lot of fun, kind of getting better with our squad. And yeah, I would say Deadlock is a tied between. It's a tie between Deadlock and Valorant.

[A]

Timmy, if your answer isn't Smash, what are you doing?

[B]

It's not Smash, actually. No, no, no, no.

[A]

You're already so good.

[B]

I enjoy how good I am at Smash. I feel like Smash, like, above my level, which, again, is not even that good compared to. I very early had the moment of realizing I already wasn't even the best in my group at my high school and college. Yeah, we started meeting other kids and other people at other colleges. It's like, oh, it. We are small fish in this. But I just love the game. I love playing and all that stuff. But my answer for this, I have two for different reasons. My first is just Call of Duty in general. And the reason being. This is very unexpected for me to say. I'd imagine it's because I love the campaigns at the Call of Duty games. Not all of them, but, you know, the. The og Modern Warfare, and, like, even some of the stuff that they've done in recent times. But I feel like not playing Call of Duty multiplayer. I'm just gonna say, ever, like, I think maybe like two or three matches in my entire life has really kind of me as a gamer because I have such a understanding of video games to an extent. And y' all know, the games I like and then the genres I like and Nintendo, essentially, and. And Halo when it comes to, like, competitive shooting games and all that stuff. And I was never competitive there to begin with, but the concept of loadouts and the way all the systems work and, like, the matchmaking styles and stuff, I. Whenever we do or did party modes or, like, do streams and stuff, I feel like I'm picking up sticks for the very first time ever. Like, there are just so many systems and languages that I just don't understand. So if I was a pro in that, I think it would just help me understand a lot of games that I just, like, if I'm being honest, like, have a fear of even picking up because I am just so behind in the lexicon and, like, the understanding of, I mean, keyboard mouse. That's one thing. Like, That's a whole other level. But even on a controller, I'm like, I don't even know what all these buttons do and why I should be using them.

[C]

Controls where the pros play for reals for Call of Duty.

[B]

No way.

[C]

Because of all the AIM assist. Like, oh, the pros, huh? Well, like, you know, but like it's trying to break through. You know, it's always like a. Like, I don't know if any pros on pro teams play without controller. I think I'm pretty sure they're all controllers.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

But my answer to the. To Greg saying Smash Brothers thing, it's Pokemon, right? Like the dream of being a Pokemon master, like, come on. Like the catch them all has always been more my vibe. Beating the games, doing that stuff is like the cool. I'm good. I've never understood the competitive scene in a real way, but I wish I did. So my answer would be Pokemon Champions, which is cheating because it's technically not out yet. So if I had to choose one that's out now, it would just be whatever the latest gen is. So Scarlet and Violet. But yeah, getting hell into that and like really good at it. Like, I feel like that would complete the, the Tim Gettys kind of arc.

[A]

All right, then we'll start with you, Tim, for alternate endings. Games that lend themselves to replays and different outcomes.

[B]

You know, I don't really have an answer for this one.

[A]

Oh, fair there.

[B]

Yeah. Though those tend to not be my types of games. I, I like a canon ending.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, I, I always feel like I want to have a definitive thing. There are certain games in recent times, specifically, I don't want to name them, but like, I like that there are multiple endings. But even then I don't really feel that I like how it. That the game I'm talking about is presented in a way you don't need to play through the whole game to like and do different choices and all that stuff. Like, I, I would much prefer a developer driven story than a make your own choices and it changes the game and all that stuff. So not really.

[A]

Andy. Alternate ending, Ballers Gate 3. I put that down too.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Again, if there was nothing else to play. Like, I don't like how Ballers Gate controls. And so that's a frustrating experience for me. But again, for a year I'm like, let's actually get through it. Let's get competent. Let's find the fun in this and go. And then I'd like to see all.

[C]

The different permutations Were you playing controller?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. Because I know when I did try to play controller, it's funny just thinking about how tech kind of also affects a lot of these things and how the recent rise of me, not just me, but just handheld PCs becoming more. More and more prevalent. And we were talking about, we done a sponsor stream for Nvidia GeForce now and it like it still remains true to this day of that Baldur's Gate 3 not running or looking great on Steam Deck back when it launched. Yeah, if I was playing GeForce now and if I discovered how much it actually works for me and looks good and performs well, I would have played way more. But when I would play on my Steam deck, it just, it was hella noisy looking. It was, you know, felt pretty framey in a lot of moments. It just wasn't quite optimized for it at that time and. But had I had GeForce now or just a really good cloud sort of service, I would have really put in a lot more time into Baldur's Gate 3. But I didn't love the. I didn't love the control scheme. Yeah, the keyboard mouse felt way more like this. Yeah.

[D]

Blessing Cyberpunk. Same answer as Cloppers. This is one that like I, when they put out the Cyberpunk 2.0 update alongside Phantom Liberty, they did a lot of refinements to the skill tree. And honestly that's the thing that I care way more about than even re rolling endings. Because sure, I think for Phantom Liberty I reroll the endings anyway. Like I would just go back to my previous save because I was so invested in that story in Idris Elba that I wanted to see in Idris Elba I wanted to see what the different story, what the different endings were anyway. But for me, I, in that dlc, right, like I had tinkered with my skill tree in a way where I turned my character into like more of a samurai build run deflecting bullets and like doing all that. I want to see what all the different permutations of that game are. You know, the fact that you can play as like, as a hacker. The fact that like, you know, I remember them early on having. Talking about the backgrounds for your characters where you can be a street kid or a corporal or whatever. I thought that they would, they would lean way more into that, more with that. And like, like I think for me the Skill tree stuff is kind of the true like, oh shit, no. This is where you can really define what kind of character you are and how you can do your playstyle and all that stuff and then also, you know, figure out other side quests that I missed, romances that I didn't do. I was a pain Pan Am guy in my first playthrough. I want to see what's going on with Judy and other characters and so cyberpunk for sure.

[A]

Yeah. When you. When we did the Phantom Liberty review and you talked about the ninja stuff with the Blade, that got me to reroll another character. Maybe it wasn't even a fan of. Whatever. When you talked about it, that's when I did it. And I rerolled one to do that and like built into that tree. The next one is indie darlings Indies that had a lot of good noise around them, but simply got swallowed up by bigger titles you were playing at the time. I don't feel like I got a great answer on this one, so I'm gonna pull the answer from my heart. That's a ridiculous, ridiculous thing to say. But a short hike. I've started a short hike several times. It's a game for. It's a fucking Greg game. But it just never works. It never clicks. It never. I know how you boot it up.

[D]

And don't finish it.

[A]

I get bored like 10 minutes in, 30 minutes in or whatever they doing it. And I know how much people love a short hike. I know it's supposed to be super touching. I know it's a great game. But it just did not. It's just ain't. It ain't what I want. Yeah. And they doing it for me.

[C]

I love. It was really this video game that made me want more games in this style. Like I just kept on thinking about. Because this is around the time that I was playing another bird game called Death's Door and it's just like, man, I love. I love this art style. I want more games to kind of mess around with that style of doing visuals and more games with birds. Yeah, more bird games. The dirty.

[D]

There's a bird dating sim coming up. The Direct, I think.

[C]

Is it the same as how to for bro?

[D]

No, but it reminded me of how to.

[A]

Yeah, it's very similar. Bless. What about you?

[D]

I have two answers that are both opposite types of games. So both very blessed games. Return of the Obra Dinn like Clappers also mentioned. That's one that I never got around to, but one that I think would be totally my taste. Especially coming off of games like Outer Wilds or Blueprints or those games that are that tasky with kind of solving a Mystery kind of being a detective. So that for sure. And then Splunky too. I love a Roguelite. I love a difficult game. I love a platformer. I feel like Splunky fits into so many of the categories of things that I love about video games, design wise. But I've always bounced off of Splunky. I want to give this one a call, a shot. Especially, you know, years and years later when I first played Spunky. It must have been, must have been like 2015 or something like that. I think I'm a different person now.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And so going back to it in 2025 or whenever, like, I think I'll probably take to it a bit more.

[C]

That's a great call. Yeah. Seeing Spelunky 2 on your list is like, ah, yeah. You know, that's one that I've definitely been wanting to play. And when we did a couple of streams with it, realizing like, man, this is so my shit. I don't know why I never got into it. I would put Disco Elysium on my list though. Yeah, I know that that's one that I would vibe with and just in the moment that I tried it out, was not the right time nor place and never went back to it.

[A]

But another good one for me would be the Altars. As much as you talked about that, I'm like, I would really with this and I just haven't had the time. It's again on my raw, it's ready to go. It's just always something else.

[C]

That's a good ass game.

[B]

Mine is one that I, I now will get to at some point in my life. And it's a semi a cop out answer, but Hollow Knights, I gave it a shot many times. Don't love the beginning of that game. Don't love how obtuse and open it all feels but. And Silksong I think gets into the Metroidvania a lot faster and into the action a lot faster. And I enjoy that and how much I'm loving this game. And I'm like, all right, it's hard. It in some ways hardened and in ways I actually despise. But overall I'm like, I can do this. And I feel like from what I've seen, most people are like Hollow Knight. Silksong early game is as difficult as some of the hard stuff in Hollow Knight. Not all of it. And I'm like, okay, cool, I can do it then. And I just love, I've always loved the look and world of Hollow Knight. So I'm like I gotta get to it because I, I not, I don't say I get it now because I've always got it, but I know that I can do it connected to it. You know what I mean? I know, I know that it's worth it overall, so I'll get to it eventually.

[A]

So then to swing us back and finish us off, just chilling out games, you love to hang out in the world. What do you got for me, Timmy?

[B]

Oh, I got the weirdest answer ever, but I stand by it. Sonic Mania, man, that is a game that, if I have five minutes, I'm just like, I'm gonna boot it up. I want to see that oled. Portable OLED on the screen. Whatever Chemical Plant zone put it in my veins. Just good vibes here. Sonic music and just the, the overall look of all those classic levels in widescreen. Like, I love everything they did with Mania, all the updates to Sonic and the animations that he has. Like, I just wish every game looked like this.

[A]

Andy.

[C]

I think that TOTK makes a great mention. With TOTK having Tears of the Kingdom on their list. I. It's hard to not say that because that is just such a lovely place to exist in. How peaceful it can be. How much you can just kind of turn your mind off and just zen out, you know, and pop. Maybe the. Eat a little gummy, you know, just like, no dense. Just need a. You know, just kind of relax for the day. If I were. If I were to not go with Tears of the Kingdom, though, I would probably say. I mean, I already mentioned Elden Ring and that was a game that I just did like hanging out in as well. I would probably say something like any multiplayer game that I'm playing with friends in a discord, you know, like, and maybe it's like the people that I'm with, you know, and maybe that's just mainly what I'm. I'm kind of searching for is just the. Kind of like you're just chatting and bullshitting with friends.

[A]

Yeah, that's good.

[C]

Let's go. Yeah, let's go with. I guess right now since I miss. I miss Chris Anka. Haven't talked to Chris in a while.

[A]

Sure.

[C]

Love Marvel Rivals.

[A]

Okay. Yeah, I like that a lot. What about you?

[D]

Bless GTA Online. That's a game that feels like coming home for me. I've not played in years now, but, like, I. That game lasted me four years. Like, when I was playing it, like, for like four years I played that game, right? And like, I don't Know, there's something about having a game where I have an apartment, I have a garage with my cars that are mine. And like, there's a level of ownership of the things that I own in that game where I'm like, damn, I worked for this. I did. I went on heists, I went on missions. Like, I saved. I saved up money in that game. I was paying attention to when Rockstar, when they're like, ah, we fucked up with the servers. Here's $500,000 for free.

[A]

Right.

[D]

Like, I would log in specifically to make sure I was claiming. Claiming that money because that shit meant something to me. And like, this is a variety of things that I was doing in that game, from races to death matches to all that stuff.

[C]

Right.

[D]

And like, I don't know that game very much is the. My PlayStation home of video games.

[A]

Right.

[D]

Where I come back here and this is. This is my chill spot. And so if I'm playing a game for a year and I'm choosing a thing where it's just like, I'm just chilling out for the year.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

GTA Online for sure.

[C]

I guess all year for me it was Dune Awakening with just a house building. I had totally forgotten about just survival games as a, you know, as a genre for this, which I think they. They're perfectly molded for me, of course, where I can. I can just spend a lot of hours trying to build that next thing and get that next element that then upgrades a new part for my ship or my building or whatever. But because I kind of. I feel like I already did a lot of that in Dune Awakening. The. It would be no man's sky then. Because I really want to. I really want to mess around with that game enough to be able to build a ship.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Get super into it and have your. This mobile base that I'm not only proud of how it performs, but like, I really put in a lot of work into how it looks aesthetically.

[A]

Yeah. And the similar vein to you and Blessing. Then like, mine would be Animal Crossing New Horizons where it's like, yesterday Jen gave me a haircut. And when she was doing. She's like, put on the Wii shopping music. Put on the Wii menu music. And she tried. We tried to do it on Spotify. I was like, oh, right. Fuck. And I downloaded the Nintendo music app and put it on there and played. And then I had to run to Home Depot for some garbage. And I was like, I still had it open. I was like, oh, man, sucks that I'm not a bigger Nintendo fan. Than it. I'm like, wait a second. I went to Animal Crossing and I just let Animal Crossing play. And the wave of nostalgia for a 2020 game that washed over me. I was literally on the drive back, like, am I about to just throw it all the way, say, fuck review season and go play more Animal Crossing? It's like, that way, if time was like, as you know, everybody has their Animal Crossing Covid story. But again, what you're talking about of, like, the ownership of that island and what you build and what you make. And like. Like, even last night or driving around being like, well, if I came back, I'd want to do this and I want to do that. You know, Joey started over. I'm like, I wouldn't do that, but I would want to. And it's like, immediately back into, well, I could do this and I could that. What about that? And put up this. And like, I just fucking love Animal Crossing so much. I miss it. I miss it. God damn it. A couple super chats to get in here before we get you out of here to the kind of funny podcast. I like this one Trevor said, but favorite world to live in is by far Skyrim. Playing Skyrim feels like I'm stuck in a wooden cabin during a snowstorm and have a fireplace going. And that is like, when people talk about cozy games, when we talk about this, like, nostalgia, when you talk about chilling out, like, that's what I think of as well or whatever. There are a couple other ones too. I like that I'm gonna toss into my Greg way after this. Okay. We had. I had this one that I liked, Zamino says, or Zomino. You should each take a. You should each take a week off of new releases and play one of your picks.

[D]

I was thinking about this, like, night even before this episode. I was thinking about the fact of, like, if we could do a thing as a company where we do, like, the catch up week.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Where only. We're only catching up on games. Like, each of us are getting a bespoke stream and we're just catching up on.

[A]

I think that's totally doable. And it's probably on the other side of like, Black Friday or leading up to Black Friday and then into November, December. I know there's so many games that got pushed to December. It's doable. And I think we should.

[C]

We set up cubicles in this space. Everyone has their own camera and we have a little. Little sleeping bag as well. And that's where we sleep.

[A]

Oh, okay. 1. I want to tackle because it's in line with that, right? Romance Dawn, Super Chat. And said, in a year with no new games, what would kind of funny content look like? Y' all talk sometimes about. Y' all talk sometimes about all the things you'd like to do if you weren't so busy to play. I mean, I want to talk about that on a Greg way.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, just kind of quickly thinking back to a week and a half, two weeks ago. Bless with us getting really into Rainbow six Siege X out of nowhere. Yeah, dude. Playing those streams and being like, man, I like this game. And I. And if. If we had more time or, you know, at that during that week, I was like, oh, we're probably gonna play a lot of Deadlock. And then for whatever reason, Mike put CJX on the stream. I was like, oh, that's. That's a weird pick. And I was like, oh, this is awesome. I'm having so much fun playing this.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, that's how it was with me and Pokemon Violet. Right? Like, being able to go back and just like, okay, I'm just playing this game that isn't the hottest thing, but cool. And this episode's been very cool. Thank you so much, Totk. We love you, Kloppers. We couldn't have done this without you.

[C]

Wait, hold on. Madrock says $5 super chat. You would give a second chance to Axiom Verge. First off, thank you for the $5. Second off. How dare you not give it the first chance. Oh, man, what a game that is.

[A]

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[B]

I have a story from Paris that, like, is going to blow your minds, I promise.

[A]

And after that snowbike Mike is streaming again. Oh, no.

[C]

I'm playing silksong.

[A]

Silksong? That's what it was? Yes. It all got jumbled up. There, there. However, for now, it's time for us to go. Until next time. It's been our pleasure to serve you.