Fantasy Critic 2025 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

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Kinda Funny Gamescast: Fantasy Critic 2025 - Detailed Summary

Release Date: January 6, 2025
Host/Authors: Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye, Andy Cortez, Roger Picorni, and Paris Lilly

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1. Introduction to Fantasy Critic League

At the beginning of the episode, Greg Miller introduces the annual tradition known as the Fantasy Critic League, a competitive game where panelists draft upcoming video games to build teams that will score points based on their performance on Open Critic. The objective is to curate the best possible lineup of games, predicting their critical reception throughout the year.

2. Explaining the Fantasy Critic Rules and Structure

Blessing Adeoye Jr. explains the foundational rules of Fantasy Critic:

• Drafting Games: Each participant drafts a total of ten games, five in the opening draft and five throughout the year using a secret bidding system.

• Scoring System: Games scoring above 70 on Open Critic earn points (1 point per score point above 70). Scores above 90 award double points (e.g., a game scoring 92 earns 24 points).

• Counter Picks: Participants must also draft "counter picks"—games they predict will score below 70. These counter picks can negatively impact opponents' scores if they underperform.

• Budget and Bidding: Each participant has a $100 budget for secret bids on games announced during the year. The highest bidder for a game secures it for their team.

• Eligibility: Only new releases, remakes, reimaginings, and free-to-play games are eligible. Expansion packs, DLCs, and games already in early access are generally excluded unless specifically allowed.

Notable Quote:
Blessing Adeoye Jr. [08:31]:
"Fantasy Critic is a game where we each draft a bunch of video games that are coming out throughout the course of the year. And we compete to see who can draft the best team of games based on what their score is going to be on Open Critic."

3. Drafting Process Begins

The panelists engage in a snake draft, where the order alternates each round to ensure fairness. The initial draft order is randomized, leading to surprising turns, such as Barrett Courtney being the first to pick. Each participant selects games based on their strategies, balancing high-potential titles with safe bets and strategic counter picks.

Notable Quote:
Andy Cortez [18:46]:
"If you win, you're first, and it goes down the line."

4. Game Selections and Panel Discussions

Throughout the draft, panelists discuss their choices, analyzing potential game performances based on past experiences, developer reputations, and current industry trends.

• Barrett Courtney opts for high-profile titles like Monster Hunter Wilds and Earth Blade, developed by the creators of Celeste. He emphasizes the importance of selecting games with strong developer backgrounds.

• Snowbike Mike selects Civilization 7 and Doom: The Dark Ages, expressing a preference for both strategic depth and action-packed gameplay.

• Tim Gettys picks a mix of announced and unannounced titles including an Unannounced Mainline 3D Mario Platformer and Pokemon Legends, aiming to capitalize on enduring franchises.

• Roger Picorni focuses on games like Ghosts of Yotai Yote and Metroid Prime 4, betting on established franchises to deliver critical success.

• Andy Cortez chooses titles such as Expedition 33 and Kingdom Come, Deliverance 2, highlighting his strategy of blending narrative depth with engaging mechanics.

• Paris Lilly leans into future Xbox exclusives like Fable and Assassin's Creed: Shadows, showcasing confidence in upcoming high-profile releases.

Notable Quote:
Snowbike Mike [31:29]:
"I'm gonna go with Civilization 7. I am going with that. That's a year of safety."

5. Counter Picks and Strategic Moves

Counter picking plays a pivotal role in the Fantasy Critic League. Panelists select games they believe will perform poorly, thereby reducing their opponents' potential scores.

• Greg Miller makes a bold move by selecting Grand Theft Auto 6, either securing high points if it performs well or risking points if it doesn't release on time or meets expectations.

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. opts for Earth Blade and later Mario Kart, balancing his team with both promising and potentially underperforming titles to maximize his score differential.

• Roger Picorni selects Dispatch and Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition, wagering on their critical reception based on open critic trends and developer histories.

Notable Quote:
Greg Miller [94:03]:
"With the first counter pick in the 2025 Fantasy Draft, I'm picking Grand Theft Auto 6. I will either live or die on that pick. We will see."

6. Finalizing the Teams and Strategizing for the Year

As the draft progresses, panelists finalize their teams, ensuring they have a balanced mix of high-scoring potential games and strategic counter picks. Discussions highlight the unpredictability of game releases, the impact of critical reviews, and the importance of timing in securing game picks.

• Barrett Courtney focuses on titles like Dispatch and Sea of Stars Throes of the Watchmaker, anticipating their release schedules and critical acclaim.

• Tim Gettys adds Resident Evil 9 to his team, anticipating its strong performance based on the franchise's history.

• Paris Lilly ports in Assassin's Creed: Shadows and The Outer Worlds 2, betting on affirming Ubisoft's commitment to the franchise's longevity.

Notable Quote:
Blessing Adeoye Jr. [104:33]:
"I could see this being a Hollow Knight situation. For indie developers, where, like, people are trying to see if this game can pull off the magic in year two."

7. Counter Picks and Playoff Strategies

The counter pick phase intensifies as panelists attempt to undermine each other's teams by predicting and selecting underperforming games.

• Greg Miller gambles on Grand Theft Auto 6, while Tim Gettys expresses skepticism about its release timeline and critical reception.

• Snowbike Mike counters with Hyper Light Breaker, assessing its multiplayer potential and early access impact.

• Andy Cortez uses Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC as a strategic counter pick, leveraging its franchise weight.

Notable Quote:
Andy Cortez [76:27]:
"Resident Evil 9. I'm gonna go Resident Evil now."

8. Final Team Summaries

In the concluding segments, each panelist presents their finalized team, detailing their picks and counter picks. The emphasis is on balancing high-stakes bets with strategic selections to maximize potential scores throughout the year.

Greg Miller's Team:

• Picks: Elden Ring, Night Reign, Metal Gear Solid Delta, Snake Eater, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Order of Giants, Mina the Hollower, Moonlighter to the Endless Vault
• Counter Pick: Grand Theft Auto 6

Blessing Adeoye Jr.'s Team:

• Picks: Split Fiction, Death Stranding 2 On the Beach, Wander Stop, Mario Kart, Unannounced Mainline 3D Mario Platformer, Mixtape
• Counter Pick: Mario

Barrett Courtney's Team:

• Picks: Monster Hunter Wilds, Earth Blade, Citizen Sleeper 2, Star Wars Vector, Sea of Stars Throes of the Watchmaker, Dispatch
• Counter Pick: Mixtape

Snowbike Mike's Team:

• Picks: Civilization 7, Doom: The Dark Ages, Avowed, Skate Story, Football Manager 2025
• Counter Pick: Hyper Light Breaker

Roger Picorni's Team:

• Picks: Ghosts of Yotai Yote, Metroid Prime 4, Beyond South of Midnight, Slay the Spire 2, Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition
• Counter Pick: Dispatch

Andy Cortez's Team:

• Picks: Expedition 33, Kingdom Come, Deliverance 2, Trails in the Sky First Chapter, Hyper Light Breaker
• Counter Pick: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC

Tim Gettys's Team:

• Picks: Unannounced Mainline 3D Mario Platformer, Pokemon Legends, Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D Remake, Resident Evil 9
• Counter Pick: Dispatch

Paris Lilly's Team:

• Picks: Fable, Hollow Knight: Silk Song, Like a Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, The Outer Worlds 2
• Counter Pick: Resident Evil 9

Notable Quote:
Greg Miller [112:20]:
"What are you pointing yourself for? You could have anything on here that could either rake in the points or let you down."

9. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

The episode wraps up with the panelists reflecting on their draft choices, the inherent risks in predicting game performances, and the excitement for how the Fantasy Critic League will unfold throughout the year. They emphasize the unpredictable nature of game releases, the influence of critical reviews, and the strategies they've employed to outmaneuver each other.

Notable Quote:
Greg Miller [113:57]:
"With the first counter pick in the 2025 Fantasy Draft, I'm picking Grand Theft Auto 6. I will either live or die on that pick. We will see."

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Key Takeaways:

• Fantasy Critic League serves as a fun and competitive platform for panelists to engage with the gaming community by predicting game performances.

• The draft involves strategic selections balancing high-potential games with calculated risks.

• Counter picks are essential for undermining opponents' teams and maximizing one's own score potential.

• The unpredictability of game releases and critical receptions adds excitement and tension to the competition.

• Panelists showcase diverse strategies, from betting on blockbuster titles to favoring indie gems, highlighting the varied perspectives within the gaming community.

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This episode captures the dynamic and engaging nature of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, blending strategic gameplay with lively banter and insightful discussions about the gaming industry's future.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

Foreign what's up everybody? Welcome to the Kinda Funny games cast for Monday, January 6, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller on a star studded panel that includes Forbes 30 under 30 aka the second best baby blues in San Francisco aka and he has to go first because of course he is the fantasy Critic champion for 2024 at Tim Gettys.

[Tim Gettys]

Let Tim host three victories in 2024. Game Showdown Season 1 Game Showdown Season 2 Fantasy Critic Baby. Let's go.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. Well we'll see if that luck goes again. All right. If it's able to maintain especially we have the commish here maybe who the.

[Barrett Courtney]

Do we got reviewing?

[Snowbike Mike]

Marvel rivals? Greg. Like come on, dude.

[Greg Miller]

Outrageous. Don't even get me started.

[Tim Gettys]

He knows the name of every single one of them.

[Snowbike Mike]

You can hand Mike on that panel. It's a nine out of ten.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, just the insulting. The insulting ones that were said but you know we'll get to it later of he's the commissioner of the kinda bunny games cast Fantasy critic lead forbes under Forbes 30 under 30 aka leftover poppy. It's blessing Addie. Oh yeah. Junior.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good day, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Good day to you. I hope you're gonna call this one down the middle this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I always do.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Of course. He's the master of hype. Snowbike Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Hello, Greg. Nice to see you.

[Greg Miller]

I'm upset you didn't tell me it was Bib Jean day.

[Andy Cortez]

Greg, just want to remind you and everyone out there heard someone on Saturday night maybe forgot about overall Mondays. And of course Snowbug Mike never forgets. Like an elephant Tim. Always remembering. And so one of our panelists here might have forgot about overall.

[Greg Miller]

Was it the Tastemaker?

[Andy Cortez]

And I wanted to make sure he remembers what Andy says. No, no. And he says, did we forget about overall Mondays? Mike never forget.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean you could look at the last eight months of 2024. I think everybody, New year.

[Roger Picorni]

New year.

[Andy Cortez]

New first Monday of the year, of course.

[Greg Miller]

Nitro rifle Andy Cortez.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think you forgot about it until I reminded you.

[Andy Cortez]

First Monday of the year. I'm wearing them.

[Greg Miller]

Best friends. Okay, Best friends right here.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, we'll see you in May. No, he will remember in May though, to sp.

[Greg Miller]

Of course. Then our last competitor from last year is of course the taste maker, Roger Picorni.

[Roger Picorni]

Biggest comeback of the year. I'm just putting it out there, you know what I mean? Like I got 50 points last year. 150.

[Snowbike Mike]

Where's the biggest loser thing we put around your neck?

[Greg Miller]

We Didn't.

[Roger Picorni]

We didn't get that made. We didn't get that made. It was probably on me to make it, but then I just didn't make it. So, you know, hey, it wasn't, of course, last competitor.

[Greg Miller]

Sorry, what's on the panel? I sat on the panel. I sat on the panel.

[Snowbike Mike]

Make us a Biggest Loser thing with a little hole punch put around his neck.

[Barrett Courtney]

Come on, I'm busy trying to fix your mic.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're trying to get recognized on the show.

[Greg Miller]

CEO Junior. He's trying to make everything work. It's Barrett Courtney who will be doing his fantasy draft from control. That's who was on Fantasy Draft last year. But ladies, gentlemen and nbs, we have a special guest coming back to the Fantasy Critic league. It's the one, the only, the best voice in the business, Paris Lilly.

[Paris Lilly]

Hello, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, Paris. How are you?

[Paris Lilly]

My go, my goal is to not finish in last place.

[Greg Miller]

How did that go for you last time? When you were, when you did this last time, how did that net out for you? Because it was the X Cast versus PlayStation 1, right?

[Paris Lilly]

I don't think I was in last place.

[Greg Miller]

Probably.

[Paris Lilly]

I was close to last.

[Andy Cortez]

Gary.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah, it's probably good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, God.

[Greg Miller]

Of course. Everybody, I have stolen the bars. This will get me a star when it comes time for game shows in the bank. But of course, I am a star of myself. 2023, winner of Fantasy Critics.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wasn't in there last time. It was just beer last time.

[Roger Picorni]

Don't worry.

[Greg Miller]

When I got the stars in the bars case. All right, Anything can happen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where's the contract?

[Greg Miller]

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[Roger Picorni]

Who's Judas? I don't really think about.

[Greg Miller]

I don't remember well enough. Maybe I think I am. Maybe you are. I can never keep.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Remember.

[Greg Miller]

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[Roger Picorni]

It's too late.

[Snowbike Mike]

You have Twitch Prime, Voice of an.

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[Snowbike Mike]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Fantasy Critic is a game where we each draft a bunch of video games that are coming out throughout the course of the year. And we compete to see who can draft the best team of games based on what their score is going to be on Open Critic. And so we go around. We have 10 slots to draft 10 games today for the opening draft. Each will draft five, and then over the course of the rest of the year, we have our. We have money budgets. Yeah, we have budgets that we use to like, draft games as they're announced during the year or like, even if this episode ends and we're like, oh, there's still something on the table, want to get it. We each have a budget of $100 each. Those are secret bids. And so throughout the week, whenever you want, we can bid for a game. And if we bid the highest amount for that game on Saturday, the bids process and whoever bid the highest amount get gets that game. So If Half Life 3 was announced next or this February. Right. It was feels announced February. Say Andy bid $10 for it. I bid $20 for it. Greg bid $80. Greg would get the game on the Saturday that those bid bids happened.

[Greg Miller]

Correct.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Then. Is there anything I missed? No.

[Greg Miller]

Insider trading. I don't know what you do. No, I mean, there's a bunch of little minutia things.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

So we draft five games today, and then we draft a counter pick. The idea being there is that Andy, you. Everybody has to draft a counterpick. So you look at the game you think will perform the least good or be the worst game, somebody drafted, you pick that. The idea here is that on open Critic, for every point one of your games gets above 70, you get a point for your score. If it goes below 70, you lose those points. For of course, the counter pick, the idea would be that you're hoping it's below 70 so you would get the negative. The negative point somebody else would get, you'd get. Or it doesn't cause.

[Tim Gettys]

And above 90.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I guess you get two points. Yeah. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Which is crazy.

[Greg Miller]

Worked out really well for you, huh?

[Tim Gettys]

Did it?

[Snowbike Mike]

Did.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep. So the strategy again, for picking your actual games, right. You want to go for what has the highest open critic. What you think is going to have the highest open critic?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To reiterate again what Greg just said, any point above 70 gets you a point so if something scores 75, that means you get five points. If something scores 80, I mean that means you get 10 points. What happens if you get a game that scores above 90 is for each point above 90, it then counts as two points. So if something gets 92, you get those original 20 points up to 90, but then you get four points for the extra two. Right. So 92 would then be 24, if I do that math correctly. And yes, counter picks work the opposite way. So for counter picks, you're trying to get games that you think are going to score the lowest under 70, hopefully. Or you're trying to get something that maybe won't come out this year. Because for unreleased games, those net out at an even 70 for zero points. I think a few more things. Oh, eligibility. Right. So we're drafting new games. We do have tags because of course games can be many things nowadays, right? There's dlc, there's early access, there's all these things. We have legal tags and then we have banned tags. We're working off of the same rules from last year. And so games that you can't draft are games that currently are already in early access, which means Hades 2 is not on the table.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what, I got them on. Speed down. Let me get a hold of them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hades 2 is not on the table. Path of Exile 2 is not on the table. Director's cuts are banned. Expansion packs are banned. Right. So expansion pack that would be like a Doom Eternal, I guess that is different from last year's World of Warcraft.

[Greg Miller]

Last year we were able to draft information.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, we were able to draft.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, I'm switch that I'm going to make that legal because I think, yeah, we did that last Destiny Fair and justice.

[Greg Miller]

Now, did the Commish ignore a legal trade that had been filed? You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

It was legal.

[Greg Miller]

Could have changed everything. Did he. There was no negative votes for it, but the commission, Mike had to approve it. He did approve it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, wow.

[Snowbike Mike]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was on break and I was.

[Greg Miller]

This is some lame duck president where you let the bill sit on your desk rather than approve it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So as I go, right, more band tags. I. I might to edit this because I think these. Some of these are wrong, but partial remakes I have. So like Demon Souls, Shadow Colossus, Diablo 2, GTA, the trilogy, Resident Evil. Well, Resident Evil I think will count as a reimagining because reimagining is also a different tag.

[Tim Gettys]

This is some fucking garbage. Nonsense, man. How is it this complicated?

[Greg Miller]

Looks like there's some rules. The former champ, you know what I mean? There's the rules. You can't deal with it.

[Roger Picorni]

You know, you can't do those ones. You can't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I have a. The default on the website is that you can't. I might open up last year's to see what it was because I feel like.

[Roger Picorni]

No, we did. Because I did braid and that was a. That was a partial remake.

[Greg Miller]

Go look at it and I can walk people through some other stuff.

[Snowbike Mike]

So Roger's score was worse then.

[Roger Picorni]

That's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

Of course, if you want a history.

[Roger Picorni]

Lesson, if you take away brain, it is.

[Snowbike Mike]

It is like 20 points if you.

[Greg Miller]

Want a history lesson for how it all has gone down. We've been doing this since 2021. In 2021, the winner was Blessing. In 2022, it was Janet. In 2023, it was me. And in 2024, it was in fact Timothy Geddes who won with 146.27 points.

[Snowbike Mike]

In honor of January 6th, we will stop the steals.

[Greg Miller]

Behind him was me. In second place with 142.23. Behind that Barrett Courtney with 12912. Behind that Snowbike Mike. In fourth place with 125.74. Behind that blessing right on his heels with 123.07. In fifth place, Andy Cortez had 99.47 points. In sixth place.

[Snowbike Mike]

Imagine if I knew how to play like. You guys are screwed, bro.

[Greg Miller]

Well, that's one of the things that we haven't as we're reading through this. Another thing, of course, course is that you get one drop of any game. You can drop a game no matter what. But once that's done, you can't drop anything else with the exception of did not will not release. You can get out of a game that you pick that won't get released.

[Tim Gettys]

Only one of those, right?

[Greg Miller]

Correct. I believe.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

I think it's like two, isn't it?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's multi unreleased.

[Greg Miller]

I don't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know if the game gets delayed.

[Barrett Courtney]

I know you're not. Think it's like two drops.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So. Yeah, you have. You have three drops of games that will not release. Games that are confirmed to not come out this year. You can drop three of those. You have one free drop of anything.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Ah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So you have four total drops that you could possibly do.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, cool.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

One more time. I just want to. From. In sixth place was Andy with 99.47 points just on nipping at the heels of 100 points.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And then below him in seventh place was Roger with 55 points.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That.

[Roger Picorni]

No, that's not how that works. And also I just didn't know the buttons work. So, like, this year I figured it out. I don't understand. Yeah, I figured it out. I understand what games are coming out next year and you know, I'm never gonna listen to the chat ever again.

[Greg Miller]

Good.

[Roger Picorni]

Good stuff.

[Paris Lilly]

So I. I have a question. If I can go back to what Blessing was saying with the remake stuff. So if Oblivion Remake comes out does.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can't.

[Paris Lilly]

That doesn't count.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Blessing's finessing that right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. So we have certain band tags and allowed tags. And I think I figured this out now. Right. So right now the band tags that I have are games that are currently in early access. So yeah, Hades 2 wouldn't be eligible. Something like that. Director's cuts. And so something like the Director's Cuts that we've gotten from PlayStation would be announced ports. So something like Doom 2016 for Switch wouldn't be. Wouldn't. Wouldn't be eligible. Games that have been already released internationally wouldn't be allowed. And then remasters, straight up remasters wouldn't be allowed the allowed tags and speak up or forever hold your peace on this. Right. If you don't like it. Allowed tags are free to play games. Right. If it comes out. And it's free to play fair game if it comes out for early access. Free game.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And again, the idea there is it has to have a score on Open Critic. If it doesn't get a score on Open Critic, that means you don't get the points.

[Tim Gettys]

So an example of this would be Hades 2 is not eligible this year. But it was eligible last year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Exactly. New games, of course, are eligible. New gaming franchises are eligible. Reimaginings are eligible. So that would be things like Resident Evil 2 remake or Final Fantasy 7 remake.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So that makes sense. Right? Like Final Fantasy 7 remake. Same, but different. Like very different. What's up, Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

So we are going by how the Fantasy Critic website.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Tags these. It's not what we think. It's not whatever. It's how they tag it. Can the games be tagged? Two things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Things based on these? I do not believe so.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So we're going. We're letting the. The website do its own designations. If anybody has any, like, issues or whatever, you can come to me and I'll put it up to like the other players. And it has to be a unanimous decision of all. Right. You know what website's on. We're gonna allow this thing. We can let that happen.

[Roger Picorni]

But can we just call the owner of the creator Fantasy critic or.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Roger Picorni]

Is that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Roger Picorni]

I just want to make sure that's legal for you.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, you've reached out to the chat because I see you pinned a post in here, says give me your picks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm cheating.

[Greg Miller]

We're not using the chat.

[Barrett Courtney]

Get out of the chat, Mike.

[Greg Miller]

Chat is closed. However, I do have super chats open. So as we go, if you want to talk about what you would have picked or what this were or why that's a bad pick, feel free. Super chat, YouTube.com kind of funny blessing.

[Roger Picorni]

One more, making it clear.

[Greg Miller]

I'm looking at a Google Doc.

[Roger Picorni]

Hades 2 1.0 comes out tomorrow. That not okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, Hades 2 would not count if it.

[Greg Miller]

Stop trying to draft Hades 2, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So again, like I mentioned, reimaginings are available, remakes are available. So something like the Legend of Zelda link's Awakening, Something like Crash Insane Trilogy or Pokemon Brilliant diamond and Shining Pearl. Those would be eligible. Unannounced games are eligible, right? If you want to draft, I don't know, the next unannounced Mario game or whatever, go for it. What's up, Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

Well, question are. Is that eligible if it's not on the website?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It is on the website.

[Tim Gettys]

That one is. But like unannounced Zelda games, not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you sure?

[Tim Gettys]

Unannounced Star Fox games not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, the website has a lot. I think if it's.

[Greg Miller]

If it's on the website, you can.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do it on the website. Yeah, you can. You can. If it's not, then either you can or no.

[Greg Miller]

Gentleman's agreement.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe we reach out to say something.

[Greg Miller]

And we got it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

As far as I've seen, because I've like looked up a lot of these. They have like their bases covered for like a lot of games that are rumored.

[Roger Picorni]

Essentially the 10 dogs.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's the thing is rumored games usually are on there. If something just doesn't exist yet, then it probably won't be on there. Virtual reality is eligible. Games that will release internationally. Just put that.

[Greg Miller]

Sword and shield simulator.

[Tim Gettys]

I was looking at.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Partial remakes are available. So Demon Souls, Shadow Colossus, those things. Expansion packs are eligible. And then finally, yearly installments are eligible. So FIFA, Call of Duty, etc.

[Roger Picorni]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Those are the tags.

[Greg Miller]

Hit it and let's do this. This is a live draft. Every draft order. Is it randomized?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It is randomized.

[Andy Cortez]

No, let's set the tone right now. You earn your drafts.

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

If you win, you're first, and it goes down the line.

[Greg Miller]

Roger should be worth.

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

You come in last place, your ass.

[Andy Cortez]

Is at the bottom. I'm setting the tone right now. You earned your pick, and we've earned our commissioner.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's a commission.

[Greg Miller]

Shut up, bibj.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm pitching it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna consider it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, you said it all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We've added Paris, and like, that just throws things from Paris.

[Andy Cortez]

Pick his number. We just put him right there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So, yeah, we're doing this randomly, right?

[Snowbike Mike]

Love it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm hitting the button. I'm hitting the button.

[Andy Cortez]

Now people push the button.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's funny, because they do. The recommended here is inverse of last year's results. But I am hitting it randomly for this year.

[Greg Miller]

Like the way most sports happen. I am telling the people who made this to fuck off, and I'm doing it my way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, your draft order is as follows. At number one, you have Sad Boy Barrett.

[Greg Miller]

Yo, refresh it, Barrett. It should be there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

At number two, you have Snowbike Mike.

[Roger Picorni]

Are you kidding me?

[Andy Cortez]

So dumb. You're so dumb.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

At number three, we have Tim Gettys. At number four, you have Blessing. At number five, you have Paris Lily. At six, you have Raj. Former. At seven, you have Andy Cortez. And at eight, you have Greg Miller.

[Barrett Courtney]

As it should be.

[Snowbike Mike]

Now that's insane.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also something that should be of note. It is a snake draft, so we will go in that order. And then once we get to Greg Miller, Greg then gets to go again. And then we work our way reverse back up through Andy, Roger, Paris, back all the way up, and then again, Snake back the the way down. And so that's how it works. Do we have any questions before we get started?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. How dare you?

[Andy Cortez]

God is good. God is good.

[Greg Miller]

It's not a question.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, let's do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's kick this thing off. Sad boy Bear, you're the first.

[Barrett Courtney]

This sucks because I did not want to go first, and I didn't expect to go first. So I have a list of 40 games, and I. One of those games is not GTA 6, because I wasn't expecting to get first spot, and I feel like that's got to be the first pick.

[Greg Miller]

It's gotta be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's gotta be.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I'm with you. I. I hemmed in hauling.

[Barrett Courtney]

What if it gets delayed?

[Greg Miller]

I was dreaming last night of this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If it gets delayed. Like, you drop. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

The thing about gta, which is Great for you, Barrett. Right? This is. That. That they'll actually announce it. That it's not coming out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

This is the problem with the other. The other games. You pick some indie and they just never say anything. You can never get it off your thing. Gta.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They will get the chance to drop it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay.

[Roger Picorni]

That's a good call.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, it's. I gotta do it.

[Greg Miller]

By the way, I already like what I'm seeing in super chat right now. It's kind of like our draft experts where, like, when people are putting in the game, I'm like, oh, that's good. I get to call out, hey, they said this about the game.

[Barrett Courtney]

Where do I go to draft?

[Greg Miller]

Roger just like, oh, you know what?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Chat.

[Greg Miller]

No. Well, I'm looking at just now. You should be okay fan funding the super chat. So I can do that. They're not gonna. Greg get this.

[Roger Picorni]

Now he's calling that now he's calling it out. Now people are gonna start doing that. That's up.

[Greg Miller]

If you think. I mean, I won't listen to you.

[Tim Gettys]

It's just like everything else in my life.

[Snowbike Mike]

Maybe I'll just open up super chance.

[Greg Miller]

All right, I'm.

[Snowbike Mike]

Did you. Did he pick it?

[Roger Picorni]

He's thinking, oh, I thought he already picked.

[Snowbike Mike]

I thought we're waiting for next.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I think he saw the game list and was like, oh, there's more games. Yeah. When you go to pick your game and then shows up, it shows the list of, like, the top ones. Yeah, the top ones.

[Roger Picorni]

Gives you a little cheat code.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think he's stressing out. Listen, you got this.

[Roger Picorni]

This is a good one.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, you have to. That's the unfortunate part about being first in this draft is you have to pick GTA 6 because if it does come out, you missed out on the biggest game of the year.

[Snowbike Mike]

Draft.

[Barrett Courtney]

Monster Hunter Wilds.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow, he switched up on those.

[Snowbike Mike]

Good pick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He switched up. All right, next up.

[Greg Miller]

That's great for you, Mike.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Snow Mike. Mike's not afraid to step up and take the ball. It's GTA 6. I mean, step up and get stepped over. And guess what? You have to pick gta.

[Greg Miller]

The slightest hint of competition might get so testosterone. Such a problem.

[Snowbike Mike]

Let me unzip my pants and get.

[Andy Cortez]

My big dick out.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's just one of those, like, for first round. Like, I want to guarantee where. Whereas GTA 6. It's still, like, it's a little too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Scary for a first round.

[Roger Picorni]

Also, I like that you're making bless do this for you. Like, you have it open. You have everything.

[Greg Miller]

Good.

[Tim Gettys]

The only reason I wanted Barrett to choose GTA 6 first is that I feel like Barrett is like very like, oh, GTA 6 is getting delayed for sure. For sure. And I would love to hear him have to fight against himself throughout the year.

[Snowbike Mike]

I really thought if. If Barrett picked GTA 6 and Michael's gonna be like, loser.

[Greg Miller]

What a miss.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's not coming out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's right.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's right.

[Barrett Courtney]

If I picked it, he would have said that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think Mike's an idiot for this one. This game's out this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

Damn.

[Greg Miller]

Gotta believe Timothy Robert Gettys is on the clock.

[Tim Gettys]

I am once again choosing the game that fucked me last year. Didn't fuck me enough to lose. But I am choosing unannounced mainline 3D Mario platformer.

[Greg Miller]

You'll love to see it.

[Barrett Courtney]

That was what I was really between Tim was monster hunter and Mario. Because it feels more guaranteed this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also, I think enough people are logging on that they're crashing the website right now.

[Roger Picorni]

We're good.

[Tim Gettys]

I think we're good. I think we're good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But yeah, I'm refreshing.

[Tim Gettys]

It's fine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right. So it's my turn.

[Greg Miller]

I believe, of course, your publisher is him Tendo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. That's what I meant to read the publisher names because there's a lot of good ones. I am him Tendo. This year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So far, Barrett has been boss baby productions. Mike was team Snowbike Mike and Tim was Hashtag let Tim publish.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I have drafted split fiction.

[Roger Picorni]

Good for you. Smart.

[Paris Lilly]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Any worries?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Actually, no.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, we know you guys played it, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, that's a great selection.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, because they had glowing things to say. We know from their last game that they have the stuff, right? Like their last game won game of the year and has a really good Metacritic. I might have to double check to see what that metacritic is or open critic, but I have good faith in that. And do we have the date? It's coming out in like March, isn't it?

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, it's coming soon, so I don't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Think it's going to get super imminent.

[Snowbike Mike]

I just make more of that. It was max out at 360p and 30 frames per second. Sorry we didn't tell you that.

[Barrett Courtney]

Probably just drop it.

[Snowbike Mike]

The technical disaster Baron.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you refresh, I think it'll pop it in there for me.

[Greg Miller]

Next up, of course, is Paris with his publisher Positivity P.

[Paris Lilly]

So I'm a little conflicted because I have about three games in Mind, I could pick right here. But I'm going to embrace my roots as a former co host of the X cast. And I'm picking Fable.

[Andy Cortez]

Right there.

[Tim Gettys]

I love that for you.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's a big one.

[Snowbike Mike]

The Hail mary down by 14.

[Greg Miller]

I'll tell you what, that's the first one that pops up.

[Paris Lilly]

This is my counterpart boys. Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's my counter.

[Roger Picorni]

Pick.

[Greg Miller]

Pick. I just don't think it's coming out. I don't think they'll make it ever.

[Paris Lilly]

Wait, how the hell do I pick it? Why is it not letting me do it?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, okay.

[Paris Lilly]

I got it. I got it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think the website's finicky right now because there's a lot of people logged on. But refreshing seems to fix things.

[Tim Gettys]

This is funny.

[Greg Miller]

If you want to make it worse for them kind offunny.com kfleague2025 is where you just at home can keep up with with. It would be spoilers if you're listening live.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah, it's. It's chugging.

[Greg Miller]

While that happens, I'll go to some of the super chats. Remember, be part of this super chat [e-mail] kindafunnygames Memo Renteria says I called it. Mike would get GTA 5. Love you, dude. I loved and cried so much during the ten year stream with y'all. Love you all and y'all inspire me every day.

[Andy Cortez]

Thanks, bro.

[Paris Lilly]

Bro.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, Paris, Let me see if I.

[Greg Miller]

Can do it for you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay?

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah, yeah. It's just grayed out. It's not letting me. Let me do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think.

[Paris Lilly]

Oh, no. It says already on. It says I have it.

[Greg Miller]

Great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I got it for you.

[Roger Picorni]

I see it in Mike's eyes. Like he's so evil and angry and like something's on right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's scary.

[Greg Miller]

Next is Roger with his team ILO Reach Games.

[Roger Picorni]

A low Reach Games. Thank you so much. Blessing for that name right there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I got you, homie.

[Roger Picorni]

Slasher. Of course. I was ELO free. This is ELO Reach, everybody. I'm going to go with something pretty safe. We're going go.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's just.

[Roger Picorni]

This is the year of safety. I'm not going to fucking swing for the fences. We're just doing it cut to go.

[Barrett Courtney]

So yote getting okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So you think that's coming out this year?

[Roger Picorni]

I think so. Yeah. I think so.

[Greg Miller]

I think. I think so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Roger Picorni]

I'm typing it right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think so too.

[Greg Miller]

Desperately trying to get in the way of it. Trying to make him counter pick everything.

[Roger Picorni]

Select A draft game. And it's loading, I think on your end.

[Barrett Courtney]

Not yet.

[Andy Cortez]

It'll work. Don't worry about it.

[Roger Picorni]

If you want to try drafting information.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I can try. Yeah. Well, yeah, now I gotta log back in. If you're watching live, click off the website. If you're watching live, we'll tell you.

[Roger Picorni]

We'll tell you what's going on.

[Greg Miller]

Just watch it here.

[Barrett Courtney]

I have it pulled up here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. All right, I'll grab. I'll see if I can grab.

[Snowbike Mike]

We're letting you know what's happening.

[Roger Picorni]

I'm gonna try one more time. Hopefully that doesn't everything up.

[Greg Miller]

All right.

[Roger Picorni]

I don't.

[Snowbike Mike]

I see it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's there. It's there.

[Roger Picorni]

Thank you. Everybody here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to try drafting for everybody since it seems successful for me so far. So. Yeah, just tell me your game and I'll draft it for you.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I wonder where he's going to go.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, so how do. Okay, so because of that. How do you see the list of the games if you.

[Greg Miller]

You should still be able to on the site, open the watch list.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And you'd see every. You can see that's the top available games.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, cool. That helps.

[Roger Picorni]

It's cheating.

[Tim Gettys]

I know. It sucks.

[Roger Picorni]

It's cheating.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Get good.

[Barrett Courtney]

I mean, you have to see it just to be able to like.

[Roger Picorni]

It's like looking at you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but you should make your list first.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I make my list inside the watch list, though. I make my little list. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you can.

[Roger Picorni]

Just click select.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Go to a Google Doc like everybody else.

[Greg Miller]

Roger.

[Barrett Courtney]

Check if he has Twitch Chat.

[Snowbike Mike]

Why do we got Snow Mitch on set right now?

[Andy Cortez]

Set the tone. I'm just setting the tone, you know.

[Barrett Courtney]

Terrible.

[Greg Miller]

Andy, of course, is Nitro Rifle games with your first pick?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes. I'm going to go with kind of a similar thing I did earlier or during last year's picks where I'm like, should I go with a. Something that's a little bit more certain? And that's what I'm going to do. It's a year of safety, Roger.

[Andy Cortez]

Year of safety.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm going with Civ 6.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Man.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know what I'm saying?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really though, it's too late.

[Snowbike Mike]

The sequel. Yeah. The new then. You said this year. Yeah, I got you.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I hate you because that was the one.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, I don't think Elden ring. I. I'm worried about that.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, me too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Same.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I'm not. I'm not like.

[Greg Miller]

What are you worried about?

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm not dead set on Eldering being good or out an above 85 or anything like that. Yeah, I could totally see that game coming in as, like, yeah, it's pretty good, but whatever, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

A lot of the magic is lost for whatever reasons. For Lore story, all that. That. All that stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Barrett Courtney]

Server issues like that.

[Roger Picorni]

We're such dicks for trying to get him to get Civ 6. That would never work, but we.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's just the energy you got to bring, you know, Mike gets it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also, Andy's trying to throw you guys off. You guys should get Elden Ring, just so you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, of course we're going to Drag.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bless is trying to throw you off right now. No, I'm just saying a lot of negative things. I'm just saying the IGN previews and the Gamespot, like, look at what Tame has to say.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, that's true.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't think Tam played it.

[Roger Picorni]

Your mouth is a little agape.

[Greg Miller]

And I'm like, yeah, I legitimately have no qualms. I'm picking Elden Ring Night Ring with my first pick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's go. Fucking idiot.

[Greg Miller]

You soul sickos are a bunch of weirdos. It'll be fine. I'm not worried about the war when you're out there. Triple Teening Molina, like, you've always wanted.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Weirdos millennia, first of all.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, I also just think about, you know, Bear bringing up a great point with server issues, like how. How weird their online stuff has been anyway. You know, the fact that we need mods to kind of play a certain way.

[Barrett Courtney]

Stop talking. Just let him draft it first.

[Greg Miller]

Then I'm. I have no.

[Andy Cortez]

There's.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not worried about it. That's an 80 plus.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, then you better be in that server with us.

[Greg Miller]

80 plus, easy.

[Snowbike Mike]

You better play with us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You'll be 80 plus.

[Greg Miller]

Then I'm gonna go with my next pick because I'm still on there, right? You're picking for me?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm picking for you.

[Greg Miller]

You're okay?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep.

[Greg Miller]

I want metal. You're solid, Delta.

[Roger Picorni]

Good job. Good job.

[Barrett Courtney]

Smart pick.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Barrett Courtney]

So is Elden Ring that lesser?

[Roger Picorni]

There's a lot of games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, we're back to Andy.

[Snowbike Mike]

This was almost gonna be my first pick. This is. Okay, I'm gonna go there. I'm gonna go with Dune, the Dark Ages.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nice. Very good pick.

[Snowbike Mike]

I can't wait for that video game. They said less air traversal sort of stuff. All the things that people had issues with. And in Doom Eternal, when you just had a buttload of air jump in and dashing, and people are like, how about we just stay on the ground? They're going to keep it a lot more grounded this time around.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hold on. I'm still going. You don't think there's, like, fatigue with it being the third Doom. Doom game now? Because I feel like Eternal had a little bit of that already.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think it's been long enough. I mean, that's. That was the first game we reviewed in the Pandemic. We didn't even have webcams. We did an all audio video podcast with Imran Khan and Nick Scarpino.

[Greg Miller]

Remember that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, it's been drafted. Next up, Roger, Come on.

[Roger Picorni]

Drafted it last year. Didn't happen for me, but I'm gonna do it because I think it's gonna happen this year. It has to happen this year. Metroid Prime 4. I mean, we're all, like, up in the. Oh, the trailer didn't look great. It's gonna look amazing on Switch, too. It's gonna be good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a fantastic pick.

[Roger Picorni]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, I don't think people care about. People don't care about the grass.

[Roger Picorni]

You can have a long conversation if you want. I don't think it's going to do as good as you think it's going to do. Going to be like an.

[Barrett Courtney]

Don't tell him that. Just let him draft.

[Roger Picorni]

He said it out loud. We're going to talk about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Barry wants to exist in shadows. All right. We're out here playing in the light.

[Roger Picorni]

Shadow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Playing in the light. All right. Paris, Lily.

[Paris Lilly]

Oh, and I'm recovering for a cold. Apologies for my voice. So, Roger, I know you're trying to live safe here.

[Greg Miller]

Wait, for the record, his voice still sounds awesome.

[Paris Lilly]

Well, good. I know you're trying to be safe. I like to live on the edge.

[Roger Picorni]

Yes.

[Paris Lilly]

Hollow Knight Silk song.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, my God.

[Paris Lilly]

My man.

[Tim Gettys]

My man. I mean, this is the year.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I truly, truly, this is the year.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're right. You're right.

[Tim Gettys]

100%. It's the year I will be halflife.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What?

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, 100%. I would. I would. No, I. I wouldn't say I bet my car, but I would.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I buy your car. Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. There's no other year it could be.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. Like, I think if it doesn't come out this year, they. They come out and go like, hey, guys, it's simply not working.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Creative differences.

[Roger Picorni]

Do you think it's Silk song like, act or is just Hollow Night two?

[Snowbike Mike]

Or we just Hol Sick song.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right. It's Me, I'm going Death Straining 2 on the beach.

[Tim Gettys]

Kind of a risky one.

[Greg Miller]

Jeff. Jeff Bull Jr. Super chats in and says Death Stranding 2 is going to be amazing. Finally. Just played through one last month and I'm very hyped for two. Someone pick it up, you cowards. That was right after Mr. Grover wrote in and said people didn't get Death Stranding when it first came out. They get it now. Death Training 2 will be critically acclaimed. Kojima makes good number twos.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's a great call. That's a really good.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it is. And when I say risky, I. I just mean like, risky in terms of. I don't think you're gonna get like a bazillion points from this. Like, I. But also I do think it will do better than death 21 did because people believe in it and understand the property now. But I. I also think there's that risk factor. I think Death Starting two is the type of game that depending on who's reviewing it and what agenda they have.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That's gonna affect the Metacritic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Drastically. You know, looking at the open critic for death training one. Right. It has an 83, which I want. I want more than that with my second pick.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I think the reason I have faith in Death Training too is to the point of the super chatter. I think people get it a bit more now. I think the Death Stranding one coming out of nowhere and people kind of, you know, getting their bearings, being like, oh, okay, I'm just delivering things. Like literally the gameplay loop is just me delivering things. I think one that put a lot of people off. Threw a lot of people off. I think, going into this one as well. I think this one has the benefit of the production, the budget. It feels like they're pushing things further in terms of how it's being presented. And like the cutscenes and like, you see the little puppet guy that's going at a different frame rate. You see like the Troy Baker doing his Troy bigger ass. Right. Like, that's what he does and that's what he does. The game looks like he's trying to take it to another level in terms of spectacle and presentation. I think you mix that, you mix it. You take that, you mix it with the art house element of it. You mix it with. With Kojima. I do, like, I do think maybe, yeah, there could be like an agenda thing of. My people might not fuck with like the Kojima ness of it. But I think there's on the critic side, on the review Side, I think way more people do fuck with the Kojima shit than don't. And so, like, I am expecting at least, honestly, like, I'm going for a 90 on this one. Wow. Like, I think this will be a big step up.

[Greg Miller]

I think that's too much, but I'd love that. But Grover, I think, has it right of, like, I think people didn't know what to expect for Death Stranding. So Now Death Stranding 2, you're like, oh, you're gonna be in the right headspace if you're reviewing.

[Barrett Courtney]

I forgot someone wrote. Wrote in. I thought you were just bringing back Grover as a character.

[Greg Miller]

My friend Grover.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, I think whatever the sort of mentality had with that shining one at the. When it first came out, I think a lot of the. I think even Kojima and his whole production studio, when they came out with that director's cut and had all these new items that you could get in the game that help out the world and helped kind of make the world less. You know, there was less friction there, and the world is fighting against you a bit less. And they had new machines to kind of help you traverse. And they came out with all these different items where everybody who played at launch was like, I wish I would have had that stuff at the launch, even though I still really enjoyed it. I think they kind of understand what the game should be now.

[Roger Picorni]

And if Caroline Polachek has a song on there, that's a 93. That's a 93. That's crazy.

[Snowbike Mike]

Tim.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gettysburg.

[Greg Miller]

Remember, you couldn't get 93 points.

[Tim Gettys]

We're already getting to a point where this is getting a little. A little more difficult than I expected. Two picks in, and we have three more to go after this as a group, like, we got a big old team. There are not that many games.

[Roger Picorni]

You're not looking at me for the record, right?

[Tim Gettys]

No, there are. There are a ton of games, but I'm just like. I feel like the. The heavy hitter. Sure, sure fire. Like, oh, man, we're fighting to get these things. Like, we're running out of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, when you think about it, you know, we've added a new person with Paris and, like, that adds 10 more games overall. That's going to be drafted this league and five more games today.

[Roger Picorni]

That's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

We love you, Paris.

[Tim Gettys]

So definitely I'm between two right now. I think I'm going to end up getting more points from Pokemon Legends. The longest they've taken to actually develop a Pokemon game in a. In a very long Time, if not ever taken 20, 24 off is a very good decision. We haven't seen that game since Pokemon Day, February last year. I imagine the first time we'll see it will be next month. And I think that it'll be on a new switch. It'll be playable on it for sure. But anyway, either way, I think. I think it's going to review.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, that's just gonna run like butt. It's gonna run.

[Roger Picorni]

It's gonna be 4k.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The frame rate sucked, though.

[Tim Gettys]

It looks like Scarlett was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Scarlet had bugs and all these issues. Right. But I remember even. Yeah, Legends, the last one, it looked really gross, like playing it on the tv. And that's the thing is I think even a bad Pokemon or even like a. Let me not say bad. Even a Pokemon that has performance issues is still gonna get good reviews because it's Pokemon.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes. Your boy, Snowbank.

[Barrett Courtney]

Mike, speaking to the mic.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of selections here. A lot of thank you so much. And I'm gonna bet on a kind of funny best friend. Ben Starr. Expedition 33.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that thing a lot.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Now I play fantasy games, Tim. I'm into the motion. You know what I mean? I like turn based games. I like weird combat. I like talking like this. That's why I picked these games. So I'm Gonna believe in Expedition 33.

[Tim Gettys]

Big X Factor there with that one. I feel like it could be a huge hit or it could just kind of be like Alice's.

[Roger Picorni]

There's a lot of people.

[Barrett Courtney]

Something that's trying to survive. Yeah, it's something trying to hit that, like Atlas, this turn base thing and just not hitting it. Yeah, it's.

[Snowbike Mike]

It looks insane. It looks so good.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm hopeful.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Same. All right, Barrett.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, you lost your next one.

[Barrett Courtney]

No, hold on, hold on. Are you still up?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I got it. Yeah. All right, you can tell me your pick.

[Barrett Courtney]

My next pick. And this is for round two.

[Greg Miller]

Your final pick of round. The final pick of round.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

The final pick of round two. I'm going one. That. That feels like it's time. It has been eight years, I believe almost eight years since we've seen a game from this developer. We're going with Earth Blade.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think I picked that like maybe a year or two ago.

[Snowbike Mike]

I rewatched that trailer recently.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Holy shit. I can't believe we watched that shit live on whatever game awards it was and I kind of forgot it. I was even there and I feel like I was. Maybe we were drunk or I don't know. What me and Tim were doing at the time. But after rewatching I was like, God dang, I can't wait for this freaking bear.

[Greg Miller]

Can you throw a trailer? I actually don't remember this game. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is the next game from the developer of Celeste. Oh.

[Barrett Courtney]

And so yeah, it's been almost seven years since Celeste because Celeste, I believe was 2018.

[Greg Miller]

That's a great.

[Barrett Courtney]

And yeah, they have. They've pretty much just been working on this since then. It just, it kind of feels right. Especially with the first year of potentially the switch to, you know, like the. The makers of Less I think now called extremely okay games. Making a Metroidvania with this art style with the already incredible traversal gameplay, adding combat like this is. This is gonna hit like.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Nothing else.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The question is, does this come out? Because I can see this being another Hollow knight situation.

[Greg Miller]

These indies.

[Snowbike Mike]

I. I think Barrett's right on. I think it's been one of those that has been kind of gestating for a while. And I think this trailer, if you look at the date bear, was it 2022?

[Barrett Courtney]

This is 2022.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I think it had a year, didn't it?

[Barrett Courtney]

No, I don't think it did at that. At the end. Oh, say 2024.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And like that I want this to come out because I want to play this game very badly. I think it's when we talk about how unreliable like gaming windows are like dates and Windows are for even AAA publishers and developers. I think you multiply that for indie developers where like us watching this. Like. Sure. Like I think the studio might plan for it. Might have planned for it to come out in 2024 and you might think, all right, cool. One year. 2025 sure is gonna come out this year. This game, I can see it being like three more years. Oh yeah. I can see it taking forever.

[Barrett Courtney]

But there's just something the Metroidville. It feels like if I didn't pick it up, it was gonna get picked up eventually and I wanted to be the one to get it.

[Greg Miller]

Very smart, Very smart.

[Snowbike Mike]

I can't wait for that.

[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Greg Miller]

Which means because of the Snake draft, we're right back to the boss Baby Bear, Courtney.

[Barrett Courtney]

So DLC is available, correct?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, getting spicy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, he's getting the new Suicide Squad expansion.

[Roger Picorni]

The final one. They got to kill it.

[Snowbike Mike]

They're putting on Joker again.

[Roger Picorni]

Joaquin Phoenix.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'm looking at my second tier priority list here. I'm thinking. I'm thinking where we forgot to take the time code for round three.

[Snowbike Mike]

We show Barrett calling, like, the developer and being like, hey, how you doing? I'm. I'm doing great, Mr. Courtney. Well, how do you. How do you. Would you like being a part of the squad here? I would love to be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I.

[Barrett Courtney]

Would you like to join Boss Baby Productions? There's three sequels that I have. I feel like two of them are big questions, and one of them seems a bit more solid just in terms of actually coming out this year. I'm going Citizen Sleeper 2.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, fuck you, you bitch.

[Greg Miller]

A great pick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hate you.

[Greg Miller]

Great pick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

God damn it.

[Greg Miller]

Is that just based on how good it was last time around?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Andy talked a big game about it when it first came out, and I remember a lot of podcasts that I was listening to, like REMAP or maybe Waypoint at the time. And I think a couple of people on Min Max, like, really loved the first game. And it was one that Andy talked to me so much about of like, dude, you got to play this game. And also just doing my research, I have a list of like 40 games on here. And so I just did a lot of like, all right, how did that review the first time around? And it reviewed much better than in my head when it came out, so. And that actually coming out very soon. Again, safe here. You got to. You got to try to find your guaranteed pick.

[Snowbike Mike]

So.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yep, that is for round three, I think.

[Snowbike Mike]

A solid pick or sophomore slump from a great, you know, developer. We'll see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It happens. You know that Star Wars Vector is the, like, subtitle?

[Barrett Courtney]

No, that game's gonna.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was giving you my next pick. I had that right next to my list. Good grab, Barrett.

[Barrett Courtney]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike, you're up next.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you, blessing Commissioner, for having me. I will select Kingdom Come Deliverance two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

I had thought about it.

[Snowbike Mike]

It.

[Greg Miller]

I. The first one didn't do great on Open Critic. I know that was a long time ago or whatever, but that was my one.

[Andy Cortez]

He has some new energy. That first one, I think kind of came and win. I think a lot of people either played and loved it or a lot of people didn't play it. So I think we have a different kind of energy heading into number two with more of the general populace going to probably jump on this one. I think they're going for a fun tone here with this, and I think we'll grab a lot more people than the first one did. So I'm going to bet on that one. We're kind of in this fun phase now when you get to pick 3, 4, and 5 of like, you're in the mid tiers here, right. And you could go any which way. And you're betting on that, like, 82 to 87 windows where you want to be here. I'm gonna go with that.

[Greg Miller]

Love it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Timothy Gettys.

[Tim Gettys]

We're in that. That point where you're either in the mid tier of the known quantities or you're in the double or nothing tier of the unknown. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Is he about to get spicy?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm getting legit. I'm only spicy in the sense that I. I truly believe. I mean, I know that this game is going to review well when it comes out.

[Barrett Courtney]

Out.

[Tim Gettys]

Will it come out this Year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I think the answer is yes. I think it's time it makes sense. I'm going 2k x.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn you piece of fake fan.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

That was a different direction. I thought you were going down.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

I think it is dated for 2025, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I forget.

[Roger Picorni]

I think it is. I think everything I've been looking up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everything is pointing to 2025 for sure.

[Tim Gettys]

It feels right. It's gonna be this. It comes out this year and I.

[Snowbike Mike]

Think it's gonna kill two KXO I.

[Roger Picorni]

That name we gotta fighting game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, there we go. Oh. So it's my turn and I'm trying to play the game of what wavelength are you guys on?

[Snowbike Mike]

Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like are you guys doing the same thing that I'm doing? Are you looking for those little indies? Are you looking for those, you know, games that we've seen at presentations before that like nobody else might have noticed but you noticed?

[Paris Lilly]

Noticed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I got one in my head that I know Greg's noticed.

[Greg Miller]

Whatever your normal strategy is, it hasn't worked since 2021. Just a heads up, yours worked wasn't last year 2023.

[Roger Picorni]

Long time ago.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm drafting this game. It's called Wander Song or Wonder Stop.

[Barrett Courtney]

Wonder Stop.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

One of those. This is a game that is being published by Annapurna. It looked really cool. It's like a cozy, like a. Almost like a community building game but it has kind of a dark twist to it. It. It's being developed by the same dev as Stanley Parable. Oh yeah, classic.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I think this is one of those ones where I think it's going to catch people off guard and really charm, charm them. Like it one day it'll go through on my website. I see it. Oh, you see it. Okay. Paris, Lily.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, you muted. You're muted. Paris, you're muted.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, he's going.

[Paris Lilly]

No, I know, I know.

[Greg Miller]

Screaming.

[Paris Lilly]

I got a couple games here. One I. I'm gonna take a gamble that it will come back around. So I'm going to pick like a dragon pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, that's an interesting one.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Roger Picorni]

I thought about it. The reason why I'm not picking it is because I'm going off of the last spin off game that they did, which is man who Raises Name, which I believe got like an 80.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger Picorni]

Which is not bad. Right. But those, it's. It's a smaller game. It is, you know, derivative of the last game. So I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

I don't.

[Roger Picorni]

You're not going to get the highs of you got from like a dragon. Infinite Wealth.

[Tim Gettys]

I was hoping to get it because I want points on the board.

[Roger Picorni]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like it's a guaranteed points on the board.

[Roger Picorni]

It is. But also over saturation, maybe. Nah, never. Never for these. In this never.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like if you look up the open credit for like a Dragon, Ishin, it's probably the exact same. Whatever that did is what this is gonna do.

[Barrett Courtney]

Someone pointed out in chat is that it is Majima. Roger.

[Roger Picorni]

It is Majima.

[Barrett Courtney]

People wanted him.

[Roger Picorni]

People do want Majima. And he is a pirate.

[Tim Gettys]

In Hawaii.

[Roger Picorni]

In Hawaii. In Hawaii, indeed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Roger, what you got?

[Roger Picorni]

A lot of ways. A lot of ways I can take this. A lot of ways I can take this. I'm gonna go. I mean, I'm surprised that Paris didn't take this one. It kind of makes me scared you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

I'm gonna go south at Midnight. I'm gonna go south.

[Snowbike Mike]

You could have picked it.

[Roger Picorni]

I don't know who's on the board.

[Greg Miller]

Don't be mad at me.

[Paris Lilly]

It's called a gamble at a fucking loss, okay?

[Andy Cortez]

So, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

It's not that much on the board, so I'm gonna take south at midnight. I think that game is going to deliver. You played it, right?

[Paris Lilly]

No, but I didn't get to play it. Yeah, I got to watch them play it.

[Roger Picorni]

Okay. Interesting.

[Greg Miller]

What are they trying to hide, you think?

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, exactly, Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm really hopeful that that's one of those ones that, like, it looks awesome. I'm incredibly stoked for it. But just like, given their. Their past, they have haven't quite hit yet. You know what I mean? Their games always look very good, but I don't think that they. They've released something that has that, like, real level of quality. And I hope that this is the. The breakout of that.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's also like, I. I hope it's the breakout, but is it a breakout that's actually coming this year as well?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's coming.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's this year. Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

Previews, right? Yeah, yeah. Asking about this year.

[Paris Lilly]

I think it'll be first half of this year.

[Tim Gettys]

First half.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, Andy, what you got for me?

[Snowbike Mike]

I. I don't know why I'm doing this, but I'm doing this.

[Andy Cortez]

Who am I anymore?

[Tim Gettys]

I know exactly where you're going about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna say it's a good pick. It's a good pick. It's a great.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

When you said Paris, I was like, oh, he's gonna pick about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's where.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I was, you know, I've always been kind of questioning this game. And then I once though, you know, we had that big. They had that big preview event. A lot of people really enjoyed their time with it and I feel like it's. I feel like it's guaranteed points. I don't think it's going to be a 90 or above by any means, but I think it's guaranteed, like, you know, 85.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah, no, I, I think, I think this is a mid-80s game from what we got to preview.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, did you get to play it?

[Snowbike Mike]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Playing the preview was the thing that really turned me around. Where before I wasn't really looking forward to it as much. Like, I was like, I was like, okay, cool, it's gonna be another one of these. But like, like playing it, I was like, oh, shit, this is. I actually want to play a lot more of this. Right. Like, I think the combat actually feels pretty good for the kind of game that it is. And I think the world's interesting and like they got really cool spells and upgrade systems and stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I was all set to go in and talk about the fact that since I did the preview, it's the game that I keep going downstairs to play something else. I'm like, I wish I had vowed I want to go experience that world. And I think it's that thing where mo combat with a sword and shield or whatever might feel not clunky, but basic. But then it's the idea of, well, what if you want to use a spell? What if you want to do this? What if. I think it's really going to be the permutations conversations you have too of like, oh, you picked this race. So this is the. Oh, I didn't knew that I ever had that option because I didn't do X, Y and Z. Like, I think it's going to deliver on that nerdy ass RPG thing that'll get you the points you're looking for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like, it's 1000% obsidian RPG and like going, I think before I didn't realize that just watching the trailers or whatever. But playing it, you're like, oh, this is Obsidian. They got the stuff.

[Roger Picorni]

What made you guys not want to draft it earlier? There's too many other things.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't think it's. I don't think it's. I, I hope I'm wrong. It doesn't strike me as it's going to be at 90. I think it's solid points, but not big points. So I'M trying to get the bigger stuff off the board for first.

[Paris Lilly]

I'll admit I was thinking of drafting it earlier, but then I was thinking, well, maybe these, these guys won't, won't be thinking what I think and I can get it later. So I was trying to hold off.

[Greg Miller]

Arturo Tron, Robot Robo bartender, super chatted a long time ago and said avad might be the sleeper hit of 2025. Both Pillars of Eternity games got 90s on open critic. Everyone forgets Obsidian is one of the greatest RPG developers of all time. Yep, we're looking forward to that and hopeful for that as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Greg Miller, you have two back to back picks here.

[Greg Miller]

I do, I do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't like to smile.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's funny because super chats came in, I'm like, fuck. Like there's comments about both of them. So let's start here. Video games, they've been around, we love. No, no, we're talking about getting points. Right? And like, you know, eye of the beholder. What's it going to be? Is the game good or bad? Sometimes, sometimes, you know, you're on the outside, you don't know. But I'm going to draft the Indiana Jones deal. See. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Indiana Jones and the great Cir Gzo. The order of giants I am drafting.

[Barrett Courtney]

I respect.

[Tim Gettys]

I just want to be clear, Greg. This pick is, is atrocious. Like, like, I mean, we'll see if this even gets enough reviews to like count.

[Greg Miller]

It'll get the reviews, you think? What, what did you get off of it for the base game?

[Tim Gettys]

Well, base game, I, I did well. But I'm saying, like, will the DLC even get enough reviews?

[Greg Miller]

Thousand percent. It will. A thousand.

[Tim Gettys]

Will they.

[Greg Miller]

But they.

[Tim Gettys]

Will they be good? Yes.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think they're gonna be the nice.

[Tim Gettys]

I think that what's gonna happen is there's gonna be so few of them that the weight of each number means that much more.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And all these losers at home with their Indiana Jones had who don't know a good video game for a hole the wall are gonna say, it's great. I win, I win. It's all fine. Don't worry about it.

[Paris Lilly]

So can, can I take this moment really quick, Greg?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Paris Lilly]

Because I was even going to address this on the show, but since you picked indie, I have to. So since you were not at the game awards this year and I was, I was literally your proxy for, for indie. What the was he thinking with that score?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's awesome.

[Paris Lilly]

So congrats on that.

[Greg Miller]

You were 0.5 above me. Did they yell at you too? Don't act like. Don't try to distance yourself from it. Like I had nothing to do with it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For the record, I loved it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Video game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. On the stream when we call it Troy Baker. He gave me shit about it. Hold on. There was this indie thing. Yeah. Yeah. Nigel Martin, 35, says Mike's PowerPoint was something special. He truly is one of us. You're the greatest, Mike. Indiana Jones dlc, by the way. Everyone but Greg will rate it highly. And I'm with. I'm with you on that one, Nigel. I think that's where it's gonna be. And then, yeah, now it gets interesting. And like I said, don't look at my list. Like I said, it wasn't.

[Roger Picorni]

I saw you.

[Andy Cortez]

I got a game for you, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

No, I have a couple games. There's no shortage of games on my list. But it is. Where do you want to go?

[Roger Picorni]

I believe in you.

[Greg Miller]

I believe in you. Who? I don't believe in all these indie developers. You know what I mean? They sit around, fart around on these games forever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

Don't applaud that.

[Roger Picorni]

I mean, what does it take to make. For one person to make a game? You know what I mean? Come on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

On making a 2D Metroidvania for 10 years. How long is Deltarune gonna come out for?

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, God.

[Greg Miller]

Let me check one date here. Let me check one date here, please. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Three and four.

[Snowbike Mike]

You got people like in oil rigs.

[Greg Miller]

We used to build houses. I'm just worried houses, you know about. I want to pick this because of their back, what they've done.

[Paris Lilly]

Cheaters pick the Starfield dlc.

[Greg Miller]

I wish. I definitely don't trust you all to review that fairly. You know. Only me and Bear. I'm sorry. Only me and Paris understand what that game truly is. Everybody else in the sound like Grums.

[Snowbike Mike]

What you got? What you got?

[Greg Miller]

I think I can pick the one I want. My heart's into one that's far down there. I'm gonna pull the trigger and say Mina the Hollower.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

It's a similar last year, huh?

[Roger Picorni]

That me last year.

[Greg Miller]

It's a similar. It's got it. This has got to be the year. Right? And it's yacht club. And they're so good and Shovel Knight was so well supported and so beloved. You have to imagine this one is whenever it comes out, it's gonna be awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

I think and if it's not gonna.

[Greg Miller]

Come out, please say it's not gonna come out.

[Paris Lilly]

Out.

[Roger Picorni]

That's me last year.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's going to be awesome. I. I do think that this year makes more sense than previous years because of the finality they're putting on shovel night. Like, they're celebrating the end of shovel night a lot early this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

But, God, let him rest.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, let him rest.

[Snowbike Mike]

Let that man rest.

[Tim Gettys]

Shoveling, man.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's later, though.

[Roger Picorni]

The future. That's in the future.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, Andy, you're up.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, you know, we have to right some wrongs.

[Roger Picorni]

Ah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here we go.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because. Well, it's not what you think it's going to be, but last year I was wronged, and I would have. I would have been in the triple digits.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, wow.

[Snowbike Mike]

Had this game come out. But it'll come out this year. That's Skate Story.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that was on my short list. That's a good one, that game.

[Tim Gettys]

Really think Skate Store is going to review?

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, yes. Every preview I see of it is like, holy, this game is transforming.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just put up a preview like, a few weeks ago that was like, yo. Like, this is. This is a game right here.

[Tim Gettys]

I didn't know people were playing it. Yeah, that's very exciting for me.

[Roger Picorni]

And also fury infuriating for you. Why aren't you playing?

[Tim Gettys]

Why am I not playing?

[Greg Miller]

Digging my inbox real quick. See if I miss. Do you guys want to preview this game or not? What was your fucking problem?

[Roger Picorni]

My turn.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yep.

[Roger Picorni]

Lot of directions. Lot of games, Lot of games.

[Andy Cortez]

Drop the act. Let's help each other. I got some great. I got great games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let me help.

[Roger Picorni]

I'm not listening to Mikey.

[Andy Cortez]

I got some great games.

[Greg Miller]

Is it too late to do it? I'll get you the keys.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you see Devolver, you respond back.

[Roger Picorni]

This is me, you know?

[Greg Miller]

How many do we need? Who all wants to play skate Story on PC?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Me. You want to play Skate Story 3?

[Andy Cortez]

Get one for Andy.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. I am going to go with a sequel to a beloved indie game. And I think this was year. Last year was the year of card games. And I think next year is going to be your card games again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

God damn it.

[Roger Picorni]

Slay the spire. Thank you so much.

[Snowbike Mike]

He's coming back this year, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn it.

[Barrett Courtney]

I can't believe that was on the.

[Roger Picorni]

Table for so long.

[Barrett Courtney]

Well, I was thinking about it earlier, and it was one of, like, oh, if I can pick that up in four or five, I'll be happy slaves.

[Greg Miller]

One.

[Roger Picorni]

To have, like, a 90.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

But the thing is, it's been so long and, like, after, like, now that we're on the other side of so many other different, like, roguelike deck builder type of things.

[Snowbike Mike]

Inscription.

[Barrett Courtney]

Is Slay the Spire two gonna hit the same.

[Roger Picorni]

You know, there is such a. A. Such a fan base for that game. Like, it goes so deep, and it is outside of our circles. It goes so deep. So I, I, I. I think that this game's gonna hit.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't wait for it.

[Roger Picorni]

I never played it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Put it on. Put it on the. On. The title of this podcast is slay the Spire 2 Concord 2.0.

[Roger Picorni]

This is the highlight.

[Greg Miller]

Dave. You're asking the questions other journalists are.

[Snowbike Mike]

If Concord comes out in 2017, maybe it's a big hit.

[Barrett Courtney]

But I laid it up for Andy and he just dunked it right there.

[Snowbike Mike]

Exactly.

[Barrett Courtney]

He understood my point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. That really shifts my whole strategy now.

[Snowbike Mike]

Concord. Right?

[Roger Picorni]

Is Concord come back? You know, let me think about that.

[Greg Miller]

That'd be awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Paris, Lily, you're up next.

[Paris Lilly]

I'm. I'm scared to pick this game, but I feel like I should.

[Roger Picorni]

Do it.

[Paris Lilly]

God damn it. I don't. I feel like I'm screwed in the order I'm in the draft where all the good stuff's gonna get taken if I don't pick this and the other thing I want to pick, but I'm gonna go with Assassin's Creed Shadows.

[Roger Picorni]

That is not what I expected.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's what I fully expected it.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like.

[Greg Miller]

It should be good.

[Paris Lilly]

We know it should be good. It's Assassin's Creed. They obviously delayed it. God damn it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This one might screw me the same sentence. This guy.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's gonna be the one for me. I could feel it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Paris. We still have that bed.

[Snowbike Mike]

I believe this is gonna be the one. Man. I'm gonna play for more than 11 hours, guaranteed.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Real commitment.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Same. Same Andy.

[Snowbike Mike]

I may leave it running for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Snowbike Mike]

May Forget to alt F4.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's me.

[Roger Picorni]

What up?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do I want to get wild?

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, you did.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do I want to get crazy? Get crazy? Do I want to get kind of a little freaky up in this bitch? Mario Kart.

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Paris Lilly]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

You fucker. You fucker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mario Kart. It's happening.

[Paris Lilly]

Save that one.

[Greg Miller]

God damn it.

[Paris Lilly]

You got it.

[Greg Miller]

Not so famous. James. Super chat. And said no unannounced Mario Kart. Or is it just not ready yet? Tim. You thought you could just let it get away?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

I was going to be my next pick.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Either Me or Tim is getting points, I feel like. So as long as the Switch 2 comes out this year, which it has to.

[Roger Picorni]

So this is Mario Kart 9, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is.

[Tim Gettys]

You don't think that they're just something different.

[Roger Picorni]

You don't think that they're just going to make Mario Kart 8 Super Deluxe and put all of the DLC into one package and just put it on there.

[Tim Gettys]

They need to sell Switch too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's the thing.

[Tim Gettys]

They need that DLC that launches with Switch too.

[Roger Picorni]

I know my nieces and nephews, they don't got that dlc. That's a new game to them.

[Tim Gettys]

But it's. It's not. It's not. That doesn't sell people on buying. And they can just. If they already have a Switch, they can just buy that stuff. This is them. This is the reason why you need to buy the Switch 2 you normies that bought a Switch 1 in 2017.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also, the verb. The verbiage on the website is Mario Kart. And then in parentheses, unannounced, next mainline console game. So whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

That might not be nine. Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But it'll be nine. It'll be nine.

[Roger Picorni]

If it's dlc, I'm going to flip my. And you get the points.

[Paris Lilly]

Oh, I don't know if DC launches would Switch too.

[Roger Picorni]

No, sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You think like a Deluxe?

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, Deluxe 8.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Deluxe is already a deluxe.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, I know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So Deluxe Deluxe. If they do a super Deluxe, then it's like, all right, that sounds like some Nintendo show. It does.

[Barrett Courtney]

Which I don't think would count for this because that would, again, just be a port.

[Roger Picorni]

All right, well, we said. He said it.

[Tim Gettys]

I think we get that.

[Greg Miller]

We think it matters what Mr. Open Critic or. I'm sorry, what Mr.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fans will get him on the phone.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's the thing, right?

[Greg Miller]

With Switch not going to help you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Switch 2 is going to have a big. At least one big Mario game on it. Most likely. I would think either or both. A 3D Mario that Tim has on his thing or a Mario Kart.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which one?

[Paris Lilly]

I think. I think Mario Kart 9 launches with Switch 2.

[Tim Gettys]

I think 3D Mario launches with Switch 2. Mario Kart 9 is later in the year.

[Paris Lilly]

And I think. I think the opposite. Where I think 3D Mario's holiday. That's my guess. We'll see. We'll find out soon.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep, we better.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim Gettys.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, Mike making great picks over here. Roger refuses to talk with me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also. I'm glad I still have for him Tim, because Mike looks Mike looks like.

[Greg Miller]

He works at a craft brewery and he just came over to your table to take your order. Like what you guys want?

[Andy Cortez]

You like?

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, I was laughing before the ad because he looked like a iPad kid. He just had the iPad on his chest.

[Barrett Courtney]

Well, he doesn't just look like one.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I'm done having fun, unfortunately. Just cuz I got. I have one more Nintendo thing, but I'm like, that's. I don't need to bring it up on the show. It's not going to get taped. Taken. Even though I'm feeling. I don't think you are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come on, man.

[Tim Gettys]

Because it's very specific in my mind. What I'm going to say right now is Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D remake.

[Roger Picorni]

That's fun.

[Tim Gettys]

Points on the board.

[Roger Picorni]

I like that.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's a safe one. I like it.

[Snowbike Mike]

I could have sworn that was out already.

[Greg Miller]

That was three, I think.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, three cameras. One and two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

On my draft thing last year, I think. I don't know how many points it got me though.

[Greg Miller]

I drafted it and then dropped it or something to that effect.

[Barrett Courtney]

It got you a good amount of points, I think. Bless.

[Roger Picorni]

It was like I did 85. Jesus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

85.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right. That's good.

[Roger Picorni]

That's a really good one.

[Tim Gettys]

Going to be completely honest with you guys, thought that this was going to be the first one coming out and that the second one was coming later. So whatever, whatever. I'll still take it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow. It's my turn.

[Snowbike Mike]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you so much. Bless.

[Snowbike Mike]

Of course.

[Andy Cortez]

Do I have two selections left?

[Snowbike Mike]

Correct?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, great. A lot of great games on my board.

[Greg Miller]

Board.

[Andy Cortez]

Just so you know, Greg, Roger doesn't want to look at him, so I won't tell him any of them.

[Greg Miller]

Do you want me to come look?

[Andy Cortez]

If you'd like to know a couple, I got a couple good ones for you. Greg, please, come on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Stars in the bars.

[Greg Miller]

Stars in the bars. Got knocked over.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let him do it.

[Andy Cortez]

Just let him do it. I got a couple of these. This is going to be really good. Come over here. This one for you right there. That one's for you.

[Greg Miller]

Right? Appreciate that. I guess I haven't drafted it because I.

[Andy Cortez]

Or I know, but like I put that one for you just in case. Blessing. You know, 2024 was all about a year of me stepping out of my comfort zone and trying new games, trying new things, exploring new genres. And there was when I was cheating. I'm not cheating anymore. But when I was cheating, there was one kind of funny best friend out there that recommended one game and I'm willing to take it. Trails in the sky first chapter blessing. Please put it on the big board. I don't know what this is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is.

[Andy Cortez]

Get ready. You're going to learn today. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a.

[Roger Picorni]

That's talking to himself.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I forget like trails of cold steel. Like heroes, whatever that franchise is. Yeah. You know what?

[Snowbike Mike]

Bless.

[Andy Cortez]

You know it. Good job.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean I know of it.

[Roger Picorni]

Someone knows it.

[Andy Cortez]

That was for you. One kind of funny best friend.

[Greg Miller]

What's his. What's their name?

[Andy Cortez]

Don't know. Kevin.

[Tim Gettys]

100%.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know who it was they were going through. I didn't.

[Roger Picorni]

I hope this is like the metaphor moment from last year. We're all laugh and then it's like oh no. This is like.

[Tim Gettys]

First game on open.

[Roger Picorni]

Grid to get 100 years.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This will give you points. God damn it.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This will for sure get you points.

[Barrett Courtney]

Hold on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How many points? We'll see.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Barrett, hold on. Hold on.

[Barrett Courtney]

Bring it back up.

[Snowbike Mike]

Hold on.

[Barrett Courtney]

Hold.

[Andy Cortez]

Also like just to share some of my strategy for some of you out there. Cuz I do like, you know, helping you guys out. I've been trying to select games that like are tough counter picks as well. Like I think there's a lot of games on my big board right here where I could select them but I'm worried that maybe they get pushed out of 2024 or 2025 and beyond. Maybe it's like an easy one to lock me into. So I'm really trying my best to make it hard for you to look at my team and go I'm going to counterpick that and force me into a bad situation. So think about it.

[Tim Gettys]

I appreciate you saying that cuz I. I would have. I would have myself next pick.

[Andy Cortez]

See, got him covered.

[Roger Picorni]

That's a great call because that's what happened to me last year. I think like three people counterpicked my games and I was just.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, you were locked in. This is tough. It was tough. I've got my last two picks back.

[Greg Miller]

To back and after this we should do a quick run through of everybody's list before we go on to the final round.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay. I've got like. See Greg, it's the.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Like the question of like the indie space, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

How much do you want to rely on it? How much do you want to rely. Dude. On a dev that is saying that they're coming out with two games this year.

[Greg Miller]

Don't believe them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No yeah, at least one of them has come out.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, it's going to be the one that they've been marketing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's right. Double O7 from IO. Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

Hitman Four.

[Greg Miller]

I think I know what you're talking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The Dragon game for Xbox. Oh, shit, I forgot about that. Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

Is that announced or just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know. I think Phil Spencer told me.

[Barrett Courtney]

I am now.

[Greg Miller]

Whatever you do, don't ever mention this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He said don't tell anybody.

[Barrett Courtney]

This is tough. This sucks.

[Roger Picorni]

We all are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I love these episodes, man.

[Greg Miller]

They're great.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm at a point of desperation.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I'm going tell you right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Looking at Tim's screen, he's out of picks. He's out of picks.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of picks.

[Tim Gettys]

I'll tell y'all right now. I am looking at the. My release date sorted. Call of Duty.

[Barrett Courtney]

Call of Duty, Metacrix for my fourth pick pick. Bless. We'll see if. We'll have to see if this one's on here. I'm gonna go with Sea of Stars, Throes of the Watchmaker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Barrett Courtney]

New story Story DLC that's coming out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's on there.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's slated for this year. It's apparently free story DLC as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Spring 2025 is what fantasy critic says.

[Barrett Courtney]

I. I think that is a. We'll see if they actually make that window if they make this year. But Sea of Stars got reviewed very well and you know, Paris and I, you know, we represented it a couple years ago for kind of funny game of the year. It's a fantastic game. And I only. I. I don't expect anything less than amazing from Sabotage.

[Greg Miller]

What a talented studio.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yes, exactly. So if they've been cooking up for a bit on like Big Story dlc, I think it's going to be very good. So, yeah, that is my round four pick. So the last pick of round before.

[Greg Miller]

We move on to round five. Let's recap in reverse order of the thing here so we can through and end on Barrett so we can start there. If you go down to ecto one game so far in four rounds, I have drafted Elden, Ring Night Rain, Metal Gear Solid, Delta, Snake Eater, Indiana Jones, and the Great Circle. The order of the Giants in Mina the Hollower. Up next is Nitro Rifle Games. That's Andy, or as he lists it, Cortez with number one. With his first pick, he picked Sid Meer, Civilization 7. Then doom the dark Ages avowed in Skate Story. Up next is Raj, far former with the one the only alo a low reach games. He's got Ghost of Yotai Yote. And I was in my head about it every time. Every time I say it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yotay Yotei Tai would be tai.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you, yote. Metroid Prime 4 Beyond Beyond south of Midnight and Slay the Spire 2. Up next is Paris Lily with Positivity P. It's Fable Hollow Knight, Silk Song Like a Dragon Pirate, Yakuza in Hawaii and Assassin's Creed Shadows.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Roger, you popped off. Just so you know, I'm looking at your list. You popped off.

[Roger Picorni]

Thank you, man. I appreciate it.

[Greg Miller]

Blessing has him. Tendo. He has split fiction.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't like that.

[Paris Lilly]

Blessing. You read mine. And then Blessing purposely goes back to Roger to praise.

[Greg Miller]

Up. It's all dog shit except for this one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He put this asscreen Shadows. What do you want from me?

[Greg Miller]

Blessing has split fiction. Death Stranding 2 on the Beach. Wander Stop in Mario Kart unannounced next mainline console game. Your reigning champion. Who has the little crown next to his name? Tim Gates. Yetis hashtag Let Tim publish picks unannounced mainline 3D, Mario Platformer, Pokemon Legends, ZA2K Ko or no. 2X Ko, which is also isn't how you say it right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, you got it.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, good. Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D remake. Snowbike Mike has picked so far for team Snowbike Mike. Grand Theft Auto 6. I've said 5 for so many years, my brain is seized. Claire Obscura, Expedition 33, Kingdom Come, Deliverance 2 and Trails in the sky first chapter chapter and getting back for the first pick in the fifth round, Sad Boy Barrett in Boss Baby Productions has picked Monster Hunter, Wilds, Earth blade, Citizen Sleeper 2, and Sea of Stars. Throes of the Watchmaker. Barrett, what is your fifth and final pick today?

[Barrett Courtney]

You gave me so much time and I've not thought about it at all.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate that.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's tough. There's a lot. And this is my last pick. So now I can just start throwing out there a little bit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You a little bit.

[Barrett Courtney]

I mean, just to. With you in particular, Blessing, maybe a little bit. You know, like there's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can come back there.

[Barrett Courtney]

There's demon school, right? Demon school got from last year into this year, but that is, I think, maybe their first game. And it's like a. An homage to like early Persona games, but like. Like I want it, but I don't. At the same time. It's a. It's a. A. It's a weird one. There's also I alluded to it earlier out of Worlds 2.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Does actually hit this year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. That was the Reggie Phoenix has super chat. It said really surprised. No outer Worlds two yet. That's one. I just don't believe I would. I'd love to believe it. I. Obsidian's amazing. But avowed being here and being delayed. Yeah. I mean granted it was delayed to move stuff, but still, do you not want to get in the way?

[Roger Picorni]

I believe in it. If a vow does well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger Picorni]

Like if valid's like oh no over perform like this is a good strategy for this team. Like we can make if. If a. I think is going to underd deliver in certain ways and I think they're gonna be like, oh no, we need to market these games better and like actually have a.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's gonna be a proven game. You know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Would you believe it if Aoud came out in November? Right. Like is it just weird because it is coming out in this year and like two games in the same year. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And it.

[Barrett Courtney]

It feels like a vow has to be the one that comes first because that's the one that they've been marketing. It was originally supposed to come out this year and we do we have a solidified date for.

[Roger Picorni]

For that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. February.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mid February. That's my thing is like the reasoning for it getting delayed was. I think it was a crowded time. It's not like it was a oh, this isn't ready or whatever. So that makes me think like, okay, yeah. If I was going to be 2024 and Outer Worlds is going to be 2025. That makes sense in my head. You should pick a Barrett. I can counter. Pick it.

[Barrett Courtney]

No counter. I'm gonna. There's a lot of solid 5th round picks here. I'm gonna go with only because at least right now it is slated for 2025. Is dispatch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that Gusto.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. That is the Aaron Paul game that they debuted at the game awards.

[Greg Miller]

Ah, yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

That is the team that is making ad hoc.

[Greg Miller]

Right?

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. Ad hoc Hawk. That seems like a really fun game. That seems like a telltale like game that people have wanted for a while and it seems genuinely actually kind of funny and fun. So I for a 5th round pick. I'm not too upset with that one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was on my short list.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Who's next?

[Andy Cortez]

Hey, Andy Cortez. You know your games you believe in. Your games you believe in. Cuz you're my best friend here.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, you're up.

[Andy Cortez]

And like here's the deal. Hyper Light breaker. The game you've been cheering on the game. You've been waiting. But it's available to be selected?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

And we've seen early access games get codes or get reviews here. So now the question is, it's a new era. Is this the moment with your team here that you've been champion going, yo, they got this, they're putting on something new and they're stepping out. If it is multiplayer, three player roguelike experience, like. Like, you know, sometimes these fall flat on their face, sometimes they hit and they're really great. Does this team got the juice for a game like that? That's my worry here is does that got the juice?

[Greg Miller]

Of course.

[Andy Cortez]

Early access. Co you reviewed, Will this come in? Will I get numbers? It's available to be picked. So Sometimes, just like Hades2 last year, you got to roll the dice on things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think there's hyp for it. And it's coming out in like two weeks, isn't it?

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's like a very safe pick as far as when it go.

[Andy Cortez]

And I have a lot of other picks that I can select and I.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think you are at the benefit of it coming out so early that there will be sort of like a review. You have a full year of updates and things like that to help out.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, Tim, go for it. Let's select it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hyper Light, you eat.

[Andy Cortez]

My best.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm excited for it, but don't if it's not good.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

Don't get mad at me.

[Tim Gettys]

It's me. Correct.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It is. I'm still refreshing making this pick.

[Tim Gettys]

It's risky, but I'm also surprised that this round nobody said it. I'm gonna go Resident Evil 9.

[Greg Miller]

I was about to say.

[Roger Picorni]

I was gonna say.

[Greg Miller]

Is that what you got so excited for a second ago with you?

[Roger Picorni]

No, it was a separate thing. We'll talk about it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you know, it's not a slam dunk that it comes. Comes out, but it is, it is time. When you look at the cadence of Resident Evil releases, like it's now been two years since Resident Evil 4 Remake. Even so. And even longer since 8.

[Roger Picorni]

So you don't think it's a different remake called Veronica or whatever?

[Tim Gettys]

No, I think, I think it's. I think we're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're due for the next one, Resident Evil 9, unannounced. All right, who's after Tim? Is it me? Because I can start ruminating. I'm having to like, refresh a lot to get this added. For my last pick, I got three options. I'm going mixtape.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, My man. Yeah, I don't think it comes this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You don't think so?

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't, but I. I love that for you and I hope that for me.

[Barrett Courtney]

Which one is mixtape?

[Tim Gettys]

It is from Beethoven and Dinosaur. The artful escape.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. It's the one where, like, you can. They have that clip of them skateboarding down the road and just a lot of. Yeah. Being all hipstery. A lot of cool going on. It's like the kind of game where.

[Barrett Courtney]

It'S like, am I wrong?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, you're right. But that's the thing. It's like, this is me going against my own interests because, like, our full escape did not do it for me, but I know that people loved it.

[Greg Miller]

Did it. Did it open critical?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think critically did. I think it did.

[Barrett Courtney]

Well, I think it's. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And that was one of my favorite trailers the last couple years.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is me playing the game.

[Andy Cortez]

It's all about the game, and I am playing tonight.

[Greg Miller]

Dude, we're so close. Like four hours away.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, shut up. You go watch Overwatch League.

[Roger Picorni]

You know.

[Tim Gettys]

So jealous. Paris.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Paris, you're up next.

[Paris Lilly]

So I just want to say for my final pick that first and foremost, 2025 is the year of Xbox. Oh, no, I'm getting to you in just a second. But this is the year of Xbox. And Greg, I just want to thank you. I do want to thank Greg Miller because you sparked this conversation and you talked Barrett out of it and you got blessing on the record to say he would counterpick it. And I see the chat talking about me that I'm going to be.

[Greg Miller]

To look at the channel out of spite.

[Paris Lilly]

I didn't know that. You can tell me that. But out of spite pick, I am picking the outer worlds too.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Paris Lilly]

It's coming out in 2025.

[Greg Miller]

I hope so.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. I respect it. I respect it more than Fable. Fable is a crazy pick.

[Paris Lilly]

Hey, that is not a crazy pick. That is the biggest game for Xbox in. In 2024. 5.

[Greg Miller]

You.

[Paris Lilly]

Do you think it's delayed or it's just not going to be good?

[Roger Picorni]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Delayed.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, I think when that game comes out, I think it. I. I have a feeling it's going to kick ass. I don't know if that actually comes out this year.

[Paris Lilly]

Well, hey, that's. That's part of the gamble.

[Barrett Courtney]

It is. It is. You're a gambling man.

[Tim Gettys]

I.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's what I respect about you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, Rog. Former.

[Roger Picorni]

A lot of different ways. The thing that I was laughing about and Freaking out about. But it did. Didn't pan out. My way was Duck Detective. Remember this game? Yeah. People were talking about this. Yeah. Well, there's a sequel that's coming out next year that they've already announced since 2025. I didn't really love that game. I didn't finish it. And I was just like, yeah, it's fine, but it's only like a 79 on open critics. I was like, ah, it's not as big of a win as I want it to go. I'm going to go with something. And I looked into it and it says available now. We can have the conversation. If it isn't Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, it shouldn't be.

[Andy Cortez]

You make an election.

[Roger Picorni]

It's a definitive edition.

[Tim Gettys]

Hey, whatever. I'm a fan of like what it says, it says. But I'm just saying that is. I'm just playing genuinely a definitive. It's not a remake at all. It's just a port.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's tagged as a partial remake.

[Roger Picorni]

It's a partial remake.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that's like the 3Ds, the switch aspect of it. Like maybe they're going to be doing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's weird.

[Roger Picorni]

You gotta. You gotta remove the second screen. They gotta figure that out. They're gonna make it a pause menu.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, and that's if someone for years.

[Greg Miller]

Who has just been had the reputation trampled on here. Bo, put an asterisk next door. Do this more. I say if it's playable, play it.

[Roger Picorni]

That's what I'm saying. Braid.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, yeah. Oh, I mean the website is saying partial remake. I don't agree, but we're going by the website.

[Roger Picorni]

Thank you everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What did he pick? Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition.

[Barrett Courtney]

Damn. That was a good one. That was a smart one.

[Roger Picorni]

Thank you, everybody. I played the game this year. I played the game, I figured it out. Figured out the buttons. I didn't choose no Marvel 1943.

[Snowbike Mike]

I was thinking about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fake ass game. Andy Cortez.

[Greg Miller]

Do it, andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Take Marvel 1943.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, no, I gotta. I gotta go for. I don't like what I've chosen so far. I'm not feeling confident about this year seven, you got. Dude, I need points. Yeah, I just need points. So I'm going with Football Manager 20.

[Roger Picorni]

There's always whatever the version that is scary last year, well, it was also delayed. It was delayed, which is the first one ever that they've ever delayed because of issues.

[Snowbike Mike]

This is the one that they got all the issues ironed out.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

20, 25, right, whatever.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I'm not sure whatever the new version is.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, that was the one that I drafted last year because. Yeah, that's usually a game that comes out in December and usually gets you 10 points at the very end of the year. That's the first time they've ever delayed that game. I. I'm worried about that one. So that's. But you're a ballsy man.

[Roger Picorni]

But it's also a lot of upside because apparently the reason they delayed it is because they're like reworking everything. Everything. Right. So that could be a huge positive or that could be a huge.

[Barrett Courtney]

That was just a four month delay though. They're reworking everything.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Four months.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. I mean this whole game in general has been like pitches. Like we're reworking it all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're starting for like it's just menus, you know.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

What do you want to do here? You know, spicy then. But then of course in a year no one remembers you were spicy. They just say you're the last place you saw, you know, so that doesn' me. I want the content now or later. You want the points, you do something. I. There's a game on here that I have full. I believe in but I. No one would none of you. So I could just pick it up for a dollar, you know, right after this.

[Barrett Courtney]

What a second star feel like.

[Greg Miller]

I say then you put $2 and you get it. You know, I don't know how you do it second.

[Snowbike Mike]

I might put $90 full of mike.

[Greg Miller]

There's just a wild, wild, wild pick.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, I need a good counter pick.

[Barrett Courtney]

So yeah, yeah, go for.

[Tim Gettys]

Give me something good.

[Roger Picorni]

Be a blood bath.

[Greg Miller]

I'm going to stay boring and and I'm going to pick the one I could pick up for a buck. But I'm going to give it here because I do love the original. I'm going to put Moonlighter to the endless. I love moonlight so much. It did well in Open Critic. I think a lot of people look past it because there's just a million games. They're always are. But I think this being Moonlighter two. Three, I think a lot of more people are going to champion. I think it's going to have a lot of gusto.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm very excited.

[Roger Picorni]

I forgot that was even announced.

[Greg Miller]

Before we go through and recap, we'll have each person read their what they got, what their final. What their final game list is. Then we'll do our counter picks. I want to clear out Some other stuff here real quick though. Okay. Comments that have come in that were maybe games we didn't talk about or whatever. Right. I enjoyed this one here. Jenny wrote in this is Send me Nuggies patiently waiting for someone to pick up the new Ninja Gaiden from the game kitchen. Yeah I was looking at game I thought about it but it's so so I don't know enough there to actually jump in and say I'm getting that.

[Tim Gettys]

One Looks amazing though. Like all the all the pieces are there.

[Greg Miller]

Joe wrote in and said anyone want to get bold and get bold really and draft Wolverine? No it was on my list. It could have been a fun one this then the other but I just don't believe it's this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No I think that game is way further out than people people think yeah.

[Greg Miller]

This is just ruther writing in with some commentary. I think one of the big factors for most of the games will be looking actively in which window GTA 6 is released so they can steer clear away from it. Devs might hold their release of course well known as we've talked about it then here's where people are just really criticizing real deal J. O'Neill writes in and says no crimson desert phantom blade zero wu chang fat fallen Feather mixtape which happened later Wolf among us too. Happy 10 years. Love you guys.

[Barrett Courtney]

I thought about Wuang for for a bit.

[Snowbike Mike]

That was too many questions.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Best thing is like we've gotten games like Stellar Blade or Rise of the Ronin or like games that we've seen that I think fit in a similar mold but come out either great or like not as great but like none of them are breaking 90s. So I look at Wu Chong and I'm like that looks cool.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it going to live?

[Barrett Courtney]

That was a contender for 5th round.

[Greg Miller]

Pick buses and bridges popped in. It says mixtape Mafia Dispatch all absent as crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

To me that was before Mafia reviews poorly on medical.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah yeah it'll be interesting this one with a linear one, not an open world one. Is that going to solve some of the problems and make it something people are into? We'll see. Fox the future said y'all are y'all tripping over skate four or what? Lock it in. Which could get you points if people but I don't think they're going to review it positively in early access.

[Roger Picorni]

I think it's gonna be like a 70.

[Greg Miller]

Joe S said pick Dynasty warriors, you coward.

[Roger Picorni]

Thought about it.

[Tim Gettys]

I looked into it. It also reviews very poorly. Although me and Mike have been talking.

[Andy Cortez]

You already know I'M already I gotta.

[Snowbike Mike]

Say that out loud.

[Barrett Courtney]

Mike's gonna draft him for 70 bucks. Just let him do it.

[Greg Miller]

Not so famous Jamis says do we think lies of PDLC drops this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

Slash reviews well it does but I don't know if it'll like I mean the original lies of P got like an 84 still points but and then.

[Greg Miller]

Final one electric Greg Tar says bless. How did you not draft Fifu?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know man. It's too risky. I'm excited for it it but just because I'm excited for something doesn't translate to like I forget what's the super title?

[Greg Miller]

Rematch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Rematch.

[Snowbike Mike]

Is that an early Access one as well?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I believe that's like just announced that's the other thing is like does actually hit 2025.

[Roger Picorni]

We'll see how fleshed out is it is it just very simple right like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah you know I have a thing for myself when it comes to these things is like I try to stay away from multiplayer because I think most player more times than not aren't going to. They aren't critical darlings aren't critical successes.

[Roger Picorni]

In that way Unlike Marvel Rivals.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Unlike Marvel Rivals.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah Summer.

[Greg Miller]

Andy, why don't you start walk us through your entire team before we do counterpicks.

[Snowbike Mike]

I went with Civ 7 Doom the Dark Ages. You can. You can like Parry Shield. You have a shield. Really cool looking avowed skate story. Hopefully an indie darling that really just captures the hearts and minds kinds of people across the nation and the world. And Football Manager 2025. That's good good list but it's not as good as I thought. You're gonna go next.

[Roger Picorni]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then it's.

[Roger Picorni]

It's not as good as mine. Halo Reach games. I'm starting off with Ghosts of Yote. Yote, Metro Prime 4 Beyond south of Midnight, Slay the Spire 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive. Thank you man.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is the big comeback.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You played such it's playing by the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Rules but it's remake Slay the Spire and Metroid prime and Ghost of Yote is like it's crazy we let him do that.

[Snowbike Mike]

But it's Slay the Spire the Concord. We don't know Roger.

[Roger Picorni]

We don't know.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, sorry.

[Greg Miller]

Sorry. I was just going to go down and then I'll do Barrett before. Oh, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

You'd like me to do it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Barrett Courtney]

Gotcha. I don't know where he is.

[Andy Cortez]

Hi, I'm Snowbike Mike drafting for team Snowbike Mike. And you know this was a great draft draft. I was really thrown off. I was projected to go fourth round picks on this one but I got bumped up the second round because we randomized it. So shout out center structure and you know, Barrett really threw me off. I thought he was going to gripped grab a Grand Theft Auto 6. He did exactly what I would have done with Monster Hunter Wilds. That's what I was going to go for. So I had to roll the dice with GTA 6. And you got to believe, right? This is the year belief. You got to believe that Rockstar says you, yo, it's been 10 plus years. We're going to give you the greatest game ever. This is the year really big on Expedition 33. Once you get into that second to fourth round, it's kind of a mixed bag. Right. You didn't know where you wanted to go. There's a lot of games. There's not a lot of games. So it's. It's an odd vibe. So I went with Expedition 33 in the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which I feel confident with those two trails in the sky first chapter, that's for you. Chad out there. And Hyper light breakers for my best friend Andy. Quartet heads this year will be determined on if I say Andy me or not throughout the year.

[Greg Miller]

I love it.

[Roger Picorni]

I love it.

[Snowbike Mike]

God damn it.

[Andy Cortez]

Tim. Or I guess Paris.

[Snowbike Mike]

Paris, your whole team score cannot rely on me.

[Andy Cortez]

It does. It does now. It does. The whole year.

[Paris Lilly]

So the my picks were Fable, which is the big holiday game for Xbox which will come in 2025. Hollow Knight, Silk Song. Because God damn it, this has to be the year. It has to be. It has to be. And then I took like a dragon pirate Yakuza in Hawaii again, I think solid point earner. Assassin's Creed Shadows. I get it's controversial, it's been delayed. But Ubisoft is literally betting the company on this game. So if they're ever going to get this right, this has to be the time. Again, I think it's going to be a solid point. I. I feel like this is going to be a mission mid-80s game, which is why I went with it. And then the outer worlds too. Yeah. So hey, it's Obsidian, man. The first one was great. I think this one is going to be good. I disagree with the the panel, Greg, that it won't make 2025. I think it will. So I went with that again. I think it'll be solid on the points.

[Snowbike Mike]

I do love that Roger asked but like a dragon, is it oversaturation which is like we always ask you guys that and you always prove no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I gotta.

[Roger Picorni]

I gotta throw it around sometimes. You know, I may put some doubt everyone's heads.

[Tim Gettys]

My list is very good if they actually come out because we do have two unannounced games on this list. But I feel good about them. Unannounced mainline 3D Mario platformer that I am still convinced will feature heavily Donkey Kong.

[Roger Picorni]

I do think now does it count if it's. If it's a dual protagonist game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a good qu.

[Roger Picorni]

If it says Mario and Donkey Kong the game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cuz what if I pick Donkey like unannounced Donkey Kong game.

[Roger Picorni]

Do you get what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

It'll be. It's the. By the team that made Mario walk Odyssey.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's okay.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what we know we're talking about. And also the site. Will the site.

[Barrett Courtney]

Will the site consider it?

[Tim Gettys]

It will. It will.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I feel confident if it doesn't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim, come to me. We can figure it out.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly. But no, I. I feel confident they will because they'll know. But also it will feature Donkey Kong Pokemon Legends. I just think it's easy. And then 2K XO. Nope. 2xko Dragon Quest 1 and 2HD 2D remake. I'm a little worried I made a bad call there. But we'll see. And Then Resident Evil 9.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope I love. I love it. For mine I picked up Split Fiction followed by Death Straining two On the beach followed by Wander Stop, Mario Kart the Unannounced one for the next mainline console and mixtape Barret.

[Barrett Courtney]

My team. My first round pick was Monster Hunter Wild. Then I picked up Earthblade which is the follow up game from the developers of Celeste. Then I have Citizen Sleeper 2, Star Wars Vector. Then I have Sea of Stars Throws of the Watchmaker which is a upcoming DLC for Sea of Stars. And then I have Dispatch, that telltale like game from Ad Hoc that stars Aaron Paul who works with a bunch of superheroes. That seems very funny.

[Greg Miller]

Very fun for me. In Acta 1 games I picked Elden, Ring Night. Ring Night, Rain. Sorry. Metal Gear Solid Delta, Snake Eater, Indiana Jones. In the Great Circle. The Order of the Giant or Order of Giant, Mina the Hollower and Moonlighter to the Endless Vault. Now it's time for counter picks. It begins with me and I will say you all have assembled very good lists. The everything is just a gamble of. Yeah. Is that game going to come out? That's the biggest problem, right? Of like where do you want to go? And hopefully get zero points and lock in a spot for it. What are you pointing yourself for?

[Andy Cortez]

You pick mine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Pick me.

[Roger Picorni]

Do it.

[Tim Gettys]

It's terrifying.

[Roger Picorni]

Someone's has to do it.

[Greg Miller]

Someone has to do it. No, don't worry. It's. It's in the running. It's. It's between of course grand theft auto 6, a huge swing. And of course then a couple on Paris's list. And again, not a knock to Paris. These games. I'm not, I'm not concerned when I can't wait for Fable. I can't wait for the outer worlds too.

[Roger Picorni]

You know, do it for the content.

[Greg Miller]

Well, somebody else will do it for the content. Somebody else will go for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll tell you right, right now, I'm going for GTA 6 if it gets to me.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

1,000%. That game's not coming out this year. No way.

[Tim Gettys]

Let him.

[Andy Cortez]

For the content.

[Barrett Courtney]

Just let him do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just let's.

[Snowbike Mike]

This is crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm crossing. I'm begging you guys not to pick GTA 6 so I can pick GTA 6.

[Greg Miller]

Honestly, it's for me, it's between GTA 6 and Fable. And I'm honestly more confident in Fable coming this year than GTA 6, but I'm not.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't want that fire.

[Barrett Courtney]

I don't.

[Andy Cortez]

What if we just say like, let's not counter pick GTA as a family.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's not.

[Roger Picorni]

Let's just hold hands right now.

[Greg Miller]

With the first counter pick in the 2025 Fantasy Critic. I'm picking Grand Theft Auto 6. I will either live or die on that pick. We will see. We will see everything.

[Roger Picorni]

Stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good for you.

[Snowbike Mike]

I really thought that decision was yours because I didn't want to say pressure, man. It's like.

[Greg Miller]

It's like you've gotten the notification that Russia's filed the missile and you're like, do I. Am I going backwards or is that a misfire?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, Andy, you're the next counter pick. I got to figure out a different counter pick. I thought for sure I could get it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay. All right. It's really kind of tough here because I just. I just don't.

[Greg Miller]

It's a really good run of games this year.

[Andy Cortez]

Can I help you?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

We talked about early access reviews, possibilities. Maybe this team doesn't deliver. Hyper Light Breaker.

[Barrett Courtney]

You're going to have him counterpick a game on your team.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Which you then won't be able to drop.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, it's not a bad call, cuz this is like a. I'm trying to help.

[Andy Cortez]

Trying to help.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm trying to get real right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're kind of putting me in the NFL football fantasy mind frame where I go go if I counterpick against the Dallas Cowboys and they do great. Oh, well, my team is great. My game is great. I love this video game. But if it's bad, I still somehow benefit, you know?

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, I see where you're at right there.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm just trying to help you out. I'm trying to help the whole panel out to think about that game.

[Snowbike Mike]

I see where you're at. Why did you change your team to team? Andy made me pick it.

[Roger Picorni]

That's good. That's good.

[Snowbike Mike]

I didn't even notice that, you idiot. I. I don't know. I'm gonna go with that. That. Oh, man. That might be the.

[Andy Cortez]

Don't be afraid. That's a good selection.

[Greg Miller]

Don't be afraid, Andy.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm gonna go with. I'm looking at Tim's and I'm looking at Mike's, but I'm also looking at.

[Greg Miller]

Paris's when I look at mine.

[Paris Lilly]

Please, please, please pick all my games.

[Tim Gettys]

Please.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Lock them into fable.

[Snowbike Mike]

I have decided that my pick will be Hyper Light Breaker.

[Paris Lilly]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Wow, that's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's, that's not. That's not a good pick.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow, that's a good pick.

[Greg Miller]

That's like me betting against a Ghostbusters.

[Snowbike Mike]

Game because it's a. It's an early AD Access game and I don't know if the multiplayer is going to really be the thing. You know, multiplayer games like Blessing was mentioning. I feel very similarly where you lose a lot of the. The love that single player.

[Roger Picorni]

You can play this game by itself though, right?

[Snowbike Mike]

You can, but it's, you know, it's one of those situations where I just. I just don't know. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The thing with me with Hy Breaker is, on paper, it sounds like up the perfect and your blessing game. Right. It is a third person action rog light with a really cool art style and like, you know, like I really. I. With. What was the previous game? Solar Ash. Right. Like, that was a cool game. Like I look at that game and I'm like, this should do it for me. But I played it at Summer Game Fest and for some reason it didn't stick as much as I wanted it to. Granted that six months ago. It's coming out this month in Early Access, so it could come out and be good and all that stuff. But there's part of me that's like, is the early access of this game going to take away from the quality of it? Like, is this the game that's going to shine more More when it's actually in 1.0 and, like, everything is ironed out and all that stuff?

[Snowbike Mike]

I was so close to going for Resident Evil.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But that, that said also, I think if this gets a score, I don't think it's getting under a 70. Right. Like, I could see, I think on the low end, maybe like a 77. 78.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh. I mean, I don't think. I don't think anything picked is going to get a bad score. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Roger.

[Andy Cortez]

Roger may help you really quick. I have another selection off of my list.

[Greg Miller]

I help you with this.

[Andy Cortez]

Kingdom Come Deliverance two. Roger, why you trying to lock in? I thought about locking this because he thinks.

[Greg Miller]

I have thought about it.

[Andy Cortez]

I just want you to know, Roger, like, people are bored of medieval. They don't want to hear these people talk. They just want guns. They want hyperviolence. Nobody's going to play this game. This game. 75.

[Roger Picorni]

I know. I saw that. I'm actually going with something else on your list that I just am. I. I hate. I. This could be really great. Or it could just be a 70. Right. And I think it is Expedition 30.

[Greg Miller]

Fuck.

[Roger Picorni]

Right? You just really don't know with this type of game. It has so much star power behind it, has so much energy, so much budget behind it. But also It's Unreal Engine 5.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger Picorni]

It's a. It's a team. I think it's their first game ever. Right. Like, you don't really know where this is going to land. It might get delayed or it might just be mid. Or it might be amazing. So I'm going to take that gamble there. Expedition 33, it's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's a team of 30 people who are trying to make their own. Own Persona. Persona, like, and it seems like, yes, it has a lot of budget behind it. How much of that budget has gone to casting people? Like, why am I blanking? Anthony Circus. But also Charlie Cox is like the main character and stuff. But it's like, yeah, we'll see. I. I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that game is gonna end up being like a high 60s.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's one that I. I feel better about that game. I feel good about about it. But I keep seeing marketing for it. Where 1. I see the marketing everywhere. Kind of crazy. Like, that game will pop up just on Twitter or on TikTok or whatever. And I'm like, damn, y'all going real hard. But also in the marketing, I see, like, I forget the exact phrasing of it, but it's something along the lines of like, the game that'll redefine JRPGs. And I'm like, you can't say that. That doesn't seem like a thing that you should claim and try to be. Especially as a non Japanese developer.

[Barrett Courtney]

Especially as like a game that's just doing Persona.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. So I mean that. Yeah, there's a lot of great picks here, so I think this is the one that I feel the least.

[Andy Cortez]

Roger, great job trying to psych me.

[Roger Picorni]

Out on this one.

[Snowbike Mike]

You got him.

[Roger Picorni]

You don't know anything secret.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm playing a game that you don't understand quite yet. Remember, I'm always about two steps out of you here.

[Tim Gettys]

Remember that.

[Andy Cortez]

Playing a game that you quite. You can't see quite yet, which is great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Paris, Lily, you're playing next.

[Paris Lilly]

So I will have to leave after this because I got to get ready to go to raw Netflix.

[Greg Miller]

Love it.

[Tim Gettys]

It's gonna be amazing.

[Paris Lilly]

But Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Paris Lilly]

I think you picked one too many unannounced games.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah.

[Paris Lilly]

And I'm going with Resident Evil now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I was wanted that. I really wanted that.

[Tim Gettys]

I get it. I get it, I get it.

[Greg Miller]

I get it.

[Roger Picorni]

I mean, it makes sense though, right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, the timing is right. It's just. But Capcom also has as Monster Wilds this year.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah, exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

That didn't stop them though, the last time, right? Like, actually maybe it did.

[Paris Lilly]

World. I think we. I think we. There's a high chance we see it, but I don't think it releases in. In 2025.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's a fair assessment.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You guys put me in a really rough position because, yeah, like after GTA got picked, I was going to pick Resident Evil. Bye, Paris.

[Paris Lilly]

So I'm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bye, Paris.

[Greg Miller]

Love you.

[Paris Lilly]

Catch you guys later.

[Greg Miller]

Have fun.

[Andy Cortez]

On Blessing, may I sell you on Trails in the Sky? First chapter.

[Roger Picorni]

That's a bad.

[Andy Cortez]

Who's ever heard of this game? Made up words on this one. I promise you. Bless. This ain't scoring that high.

[Snowbike Mike]

Does Mike. Does M think there's a rule that exists?

[Greg Miller]

He gets bonus points for more people who counter pick us.

[Roger Picorni]

Am I trying to go for the lowest score maybe or something like that? I don't know what's happening.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm looking. I'm. I'm. I looked up the open critic for the Legend of Heroes franchise, which trails of the first whatever the is coming out and nice job. Trails Of Cold steel got a 79, trails through daybreak has a 85, trails from zero has a 83. So it's tracking to be low. I mean low 80s with you. So no, I'm not picking that.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean there's not many games like.

[Roger Picorni]

Is that game coming out next year.

[Greg Miller]

Or is it going to do that? Well, like I. I'm excited for Dispatch, but it is a telltale game in a modern era. Are people really going to connect with him? Love it. I hope so, but who knows. Real quick, while you debate, I want to point out we have about 4,000 people watching live for us right now. And as a reminder, we are less than 200 away from having 300,000 subscribers on YouTube.com kindafunnygames. So even if you're one of the 1500 on Twitch or whatever, it would mean a lot if you went over to YouTube, logged in your Google and just freaking click the goddamn subscribe button for me. Thank you very much.

[Barrett Courtney]

Also, as another reminder, if you're wondering where our Game of the Year content is, it starts this coming Monday a week from now, where we will reveal the top 10 cumulative games of Kinda Funny for the year of 2020, 24. And then sharing our personal lists throughout the rest of that week.

[Greg Miller]

We're flying Paris up for it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yep.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I'm down to two picks and I'm going, here's the thing, right? You talk about, you know, like, are these games going to do as high or whatever. That's not what I'm thinking about right now because like I'm going for 70. I am going for unannounced. For me, I think there are still games on the board that might not come out and I feel like that's a better bet than like the lower games. And I'm down to two games, both of which could really fucking me real, like royally me. And I want to play the game of hey, if it doesn't come out, guess what? I get the points. But if it does come out, guess what? I get to play a game that I'm really looking forward to.

[Roger Picorni]

Oh, okay.

[Greg Miller]

Those two games soften the blow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Because guess What? If a 3D Mario comes out this year, Fantasy Critic. I get to play a 3D Mario.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, that's beautiful.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If Earth Blade comes out this year, Fantasy Critic. I get to play Earth. So I'm picking one of these two games.

[Snowbike Mike]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm picking one of these two games. Games pick Earth Blade.

[Roger Picorni]

Earth Blade.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There's a good chance Mario Platformer comes out like what else?

[Greg Miller]

A really good chance.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What else would you launch the Switch with Mario Kart Ocarina of Time remake. You know what I mean?

[Snowbike Mike]

Probably Animal Crossing Odyssey came out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

It was so long ago.

[Barrett Courtney]

It was eight years ago.

[Greg Miller]

Game of the year, I would say.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. And like honestly this is against my best interest. Bless. But you of those two picks, it should be Earth Blade.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're right. What if I got.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm be honest. I don't know what game to play now. So I'm going be quiet.

[Barrett Courtney]

No, like, like this. This isn't me play checkers. Like Mike is playing checkers right now. This is whatever the hell Mike's doing. No, because he thinks he's playing chess, but he's really just playing checkers. I, I, I do think of those two picks Earth Blade is the smarter pick. Just because it's an indie team that does like yeah. Who knows what their availability is into actually getting this game out this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know and you know these Nintendo freaks gonna be creaming their jeans with whatever Nintendo puts out.

[Greg Miller]

True. They're disgusting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to do it for the plot.

[Roger Picorni]

Do it, do it, do it, do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I'm not, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pick Earth Blade.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Actually, actually it. I'm picking Mario.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh my God.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God.

[Tim Gettys]

Great googly moogly. That's wild.

[Roger Picorni]

Remember I thought he said Yepcha.

[Snowbike Mike]

I didn't know you thought that.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, I thought he said yipcha for years.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Who?

[Greg Miller]

Mario. Mario?

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, I play Mario. I play Mario versus Donkey Kong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was like what?

[Greg Miller]

Do the Ewok saves? Not ya.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Barrett Courtney]

Bless. You're cra. You're insane.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's. That is.

[Barrett Courtney]

You've lost.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You're normally very enjoyed yourself.

[Roger Picorni]

Throw in this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's crazy doing it for the plot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cuz here's the thing. I think think I am more satisfied with a loss happening on 3D Mario than I am with Earth Blade. If I lose on Earth Blade coming out, I will be very pissed. If I lose on Mario coming out, guess what? Like I'm going out into blazing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I did the damn thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Is it me?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It is Tim.

[Roger Picorni]

Tomorrow.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm very happy about this. Just so everyone knows the game I'm playing, I've been making a list of counterpoints and while a counterpicks and while I trust bless implicit, I don't 100 trust him. So I did not even write down the game that I'm going to choose on this in case he looked at it. I do not think that Dispatch hits next year and if it does, I don't think it reviews that great. It reminds me a lot of Stray Gods, the role playing musical game which like obviously we're very hyped for. Very cool. A lot of friends working on it. Awesome stuff. I just don't think that all those things combine to a game that's going to review very. I, I.

[Barrett Courtney]

My only counterpoint to that is that like narrative, telltale, like games have been done before. The difference with that and the one that you just mentioned is that that was a musical and from what I understand, like the musical elements is something that like has never been tried before. And that was definitely something that like hindered that game. Although people say that the music from it was really good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, there was that one game. Musicals, the you, Yukinaja, the really bad Wonderland, Balance one. That was Balance Wonder.

[Barrett Courtney]

That was after though. Didn't that come out after?

[Tim Gettys]

No, that was before, but also that. Let's just not talk about that ever again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Remember that game?

[Roger Picorni]

He's out of prison.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's out of prison.

[Greg Miller]

For him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

First interview.

[Roger Picorni]

Out of prison.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everybody.

[Barrett Courtney]

All right, Mikey, you're holding your baby.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you so much. Big dog team Andy made me pick. This is up to the plate and I've been trying to get you all to divert your attention onto my list this whole entire time because of course I want to hide some of my feelings and my picks to myself. And of course I look at a couple of games here. I look at Indiana Jones and the great Circle dlc. I was really trying to hide that because I do have a belief that that could be and is probably the right counter center pick when we're talking about low scores here.

[Greg Miller]

So yeah, that's getting me 12 points no matter what.

[Roger Picorni]

No.

[Snowbike Mike]

Can I sell you a game called Kingdom Come Deliverance too?

[Andy Cortez]

Andy, I tried to get you on that one. I also turned my attention to Skate Story as well on that one. I turned my attention to Skate Story. Indiana Jones and mixtape are my big three on my board there. And you know, I tried my best to keep you all focused on my screen screen so I could get the best selection here. And I will go with Indiana Jones and the great Circle DLC for my counterfeit.

[Roger Picorni]

That's not bad. I mean, we're coming off a year where Alan Wake had two pretty good DLCs, one better than the other and they're still like low 80s to 70s, right?

[Greg Miller]

Spring got me 12 points. Tim. I don't know.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't even know what you said.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Greg Miller]

And then we look to the one, the only, the boss, baby Barrett Courtney for the final counter pick of the 2025 fantasy draft.

[Andy Cortez]

You never know. Barrett I think might have taken it. What did it? Was Indiana Jones on your list?

[Barrett Courtney]

Barrett on my list?

[Roger Picorni]

No, the counter.

[Greg Miller]

It's a counter pick.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, Mike did the whole thing. He's like, everyone picked my games and I'm like, I don't think anyone was thinking about Jones.

[Barrett Courtney]

Indiana Jones.

[Snowbike Mike]

I need somebody to go back to rewind to last year's episode of this. Cuz I don't know if I thought the rules were every team had to have a counter pick. Like we couldn't pick three from Mike's list. He already got one. So now I have to. I think maybe I thought that's what the rules were.

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Roger Picorni]

Cuz people.

[Barrett Courtney]

More than people count, Roger.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

At the time.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I know. Going into today, that's what I thought the rules were. I thought of like, oh, somebody picked something off of my Mike's list. You can't pick from his anymore.

[Roger Picorni]

Let's just fully lock in Mike.

[Barrett Courtney]

No, I. I think. Ah, God, I have a good amount of things I can pick.

[Greg Miller]

It's just.

[Barrett Courtney]

What's the smart pick?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Barrett Courtney]

There's football manager. There is. Honestly, it hurts a little bit to say Assassin's Creed Shadows.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

There's mixtape.

[Snowbike Mike]

Outer Worlds 2. Keep talking about the two big RPGs. Is it coming out this year?

[Barrett Courtney]

And yes, Chad, just to reiterate, if a game of yours is counterpicked, you cannot drop it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, you're locked.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, you're locked into it.

[Tim Gettys]

Dude, that sucks for me.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean both those games gonna be a good year though.

[Greg Miller]

You come from the land of the ice and snow and I mean, what.

[Barrett Courtney]

Was the game that they made before? Mixtape plus. Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You like that game.

[Barrett Courtney]

I did not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you didn't like our.

[Barrett Courtney]

And that been my. That's a game based off of like Bob Dylan and David Bowie and. And it just did.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I feel escape, but dude, is.

[Roger Picorni]

Timothy Shallow me this time?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I feel escape.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'm going to pick mixtape.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good.

[Barrett Courtney]

Actually I'm going to pick mixtape.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mixtape.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, he's big in mixtape.

[Barrett Courtney]

All right, now you're getting into a little bit of the Beatles.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, there some Lenin there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I, I.

[Barrett Courtney]

And it's not that I don't think it's. It's going to review terribly.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, I thought you were going to keep on talking about my impression.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, and it's not that like, you know, it's just a little too British. I. I just. I have a feeling that it also just might not come out.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think it hits next year.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So fun this year. Fun thing here, right? Looking at this, three players don't have any counter picks locked on them. So Paris, Lily, Raj, former, and Andy Cortez. None of their games got counterpicked.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So they can drop any of their. Well, not any of the games, but like any of their games, if they wanted to use their drops on them, they can.

[Roger Picorni]

Redemption story.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everybody look out for those players.

[Greg Miller]

Before we get out of here, we should do one final read through of them. We'll go person by person and then I can give you the final commentary that we had from Super CH Barrett, start me off.

[Barrett Courtney]

My picks for my fantasy draft team Boss Baby Productions is Monster Hunter Wild's Earth Blade, Citizen Sleeper two Star, Ward Vector, Sea of Stars, Throws of the Watchmaker and Dispatch. My counterpick was mixtape from Blessings Team Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Team Anime.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, wait, what?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, you're right. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Andy's name, it threw me off my father.

[Andy Cortez]

Team Andy made me pick this. We selected Grand Theft Auto 6, Expedition 33, Kingdom Come, Deliverance 2, Trails in the Sky, First Chapter, Hyper Light Breaker. And I counterpicked Indiana Jones in The.

[Tim Gettys]

Great Circle DLC Timothy Team hashtag lets him publish has unannounced mainline 3D Mario platformer, Pokemon Legends Z2xko, Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D remake, Resident Evil 9 unannounced and my counter pick was dispatched.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sing him Tendo. My picks were Split Fiction, Death Straining two On the Beach, Wander Stop, Mario Kart, the unannounced X mainline console game and mixtape. And my counter pick was unannounced mainline 3D Mario platformer.

[Barrett Courtney]

How you feeling after that high of picking that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh man, I feel so good. I'm going to lose, but I feel great.

[Greg Miller]

Up next is Paris with Positivity P. He picked Fable Hollow Knight, Silk Song, Like a Dragon Pirate, Yakuza in Hawaii, Assassin's Creed, Shadows, The Outer Worlds 2, and counterpicked, counterpicked, counterpicked Resident Evil 9.

[Roger Picorni]

Wild that no one picked Silksong. I guess this is the year that we all were like I got something this year, Roger. Yeah, My team is Alo Reach Games and I picked Ghosts of yote, Metroid Prime 4, Beyond south of Midnight, Slay the Spire 2, Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition, and I counterpicked Claire Obscure, Expedition 33 didn't realize and it would have.

[Barrett Courtney]

Been dumb if any of us counterpicked any of your games. Roger like you've got a great list that I I think probably does all hit this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

Cortez Nitro Rifle Games, sid Meer Civilization 7, Doom the Dark Ages avowed skate story, Football Manager 25 and I counterpicked Hyper Light Breaker.

[Roger Picorni]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

And to round out the draft, it's me, Greg Miller with Ecto one games. I picked Elden Ring Night Reign A Metal Gear Solid Delta, Snake Eater, Indiana Jones in the Great Circle, the Order of Giants, Mina the hotel follower, moonlighter 2, the endless vault and my counter pick is Grand Theft Auto 6 incredible crazy if y'all want to keep up with us as we go. Kinda funny.com kindafunny.com kfleague2025 right now close out your super chats criticizing us. Dcash114 super chat and said no Gears of War, E Day, not even Xbot.

[Roger Picorni]

Paris I thought about it. I really did. I just there's so much happening on Xbox this year. This could easily slip to 2026 and there was no release date. So I want it to happen this year.

[Tim Gettys]

But I don't even think it's a slip. Like I feel like 2026 is the vision.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, I mean there were rumors that it was 2025, so yeah, I want it to happen.

[Greg Miller]

Gurini22Stream says I'm surprised someone didn't pick up first Berserker Kazan, especially with the Ben Star rub.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, I I mean I previewed it. I think it's going to be okay. I think it's going to be like an 81 or an 80. I don't think it's going to necessarily be something that everybody kind of goes.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't think it's going to be.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Especially thinking of how much I loved Lies of People P and I didn't love this game like I loved that one and Liza P was like an 83 to everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's my thing is like I think the action genre is kind of a steep climb when you talk about like critical, you know you're being compared to the best of the best. You're being compared to Elden Ring, Devil May Cry, like the best action games you can think of. And I think for any developer to compete in that space critically, it's going to be tough to like get as high up there.

[Greg Miller]

Velocity Entertainment says Hail Mary. He would have picked God of War trilogy remastered. Then does Prayer Hands, which would be insane of course. But yeah, let's see if that happens. And final one comes from Joe who says no. Mecca Break Andy no, didn't that already come out?

[Snowbike Mike]

No, that was only its sort of open beta alpha period or whatever. Gotcha play for 2025 and that is.

[Greg Miller]

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