Game of The Year 2025 DEBATES - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Game of the Year 2025 Debates (December 19, 2025)

Episode Overview

In this spirited end-of-year episode, Greg Miller hosts Blessing Adeoye Jr., Snowbike Mike, and Mike Barrett for the Kinda Funny Game of the Year 2025 debates. Instead of a formal deliberation, the crew provides a lively check-in on their individual GOTY rankings, previewing the upcoming team reveal while discussing the year’s standout games, "pack" titles, and possible dark horses. The tone is candid, passionate, and often humorous, dissecting personal favorites, industry trends, and how Kind of Funny's unique collective voting process shapes their final GOTY list.

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Main Topics and Key Insights

1. The Kinda Funny GOTY Approach (08:39)

• Weighted Top 10 Lists: Each team member independently drafts their top 10, sent to Barrett, who tabulates the rankings to produce a combined list, blending individual passion and math.
• No Forced Consensus Debate: Unlike other outlets, the focus is not on hammering out a consensus or time-capsule pick, but rather showcasing varied personal tastes.
• Greg on the process:
  "I’m on the record is not enjoying a top 25. I don't enjoy arguing about games. I enjoy talking about what I love or don't like about a game... The way we do it is so great." (08:39)

2. Is There a Runaway Winner in 2025? (10:16)

• Consensus Favorite: The team initially presumes Expedition 33 is the clear winner, likely to "run away with it" akin to previous years' juggernauts like God of War Ragnarok or Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
  • "There's no doubt in my mind... Expedition 33 will be running away with this year's kind of funny award." – Snowbike Mike (10:29)
• Counterpoints:
  Barrett and Blessing both provide healthy skepticism—while E33 likely wins, a fragmented pool means the distance may not be so vast. Previous so-called "runaways" have sometimes barely eked out first place.

3. Challengers, Contenders & The "Pack" (14:35, 22:16, 28:16)

• Top Tier Contenders:
  • Blueprints, Hades 2, and Clare Obscure are highlighted as personal favorites and strong top-10 candidates.
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong and Donkey Kong Bonanza emerge as possible top-five finishers; debate ensues over which has wider appeal.
• "The Pack":
  • The bulk of the cast focuses on “pack games”—highly-regarded but not universally beloved titles fighting for a top-10 spot, often rated "8 to 8.5 out of 10."
  • Dispatch, Metroid Prime 4, Ghosts of Yotei, and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach are noted as games that many will enjoy but few will champion to the very top.
  • Barrett predicts a year much like 2021 (Ratchet & Clank), where voting distribution leads to tight competition and possible ties for lower slots.

4. Surprises, Sleepers & Spoiler Picks (22:16, 28:16, 39:01)

• Potential Surprises:
  • Dispatch: Highly accessible, universally liked, but perhaps not inspiring #1 votes.
  • Split Fiction, Monster Hunter: Wilds, Silent Hill F, Elden Ring: Night Rain, and Sword of the Sea populate the "sleeper pick" conversation.
• Dark Horse Arguments:
  Each host pitches for personal or less-hyped favorites, including Keeper, Mega Bonk, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Schedule One ("a fantastic time... Fun, dumb, derpy. Just a good time making drugs and selling.").
• Personal Pick Passion:
  Frequent reminders: games ranked lower by the collective may still be someone's ride-or-die, fueling KFG's eclectic and personality-driven GOTY lists.

5. Superchat Listener Picks & Community Trends (35:23, 57:48)

• Throughout, listener superchats inject even more variety—titles like Dead Take, Clutch Time Basketball, Night Rain, and Power Wash Simulator 2 surface as people’s favorites.
• Reveals just how wide the net of 2025 hits—some community picks are "pack" games the hosts nearly forgot about.

6. Tensions, Ties, & the Reality of So Many Good Games (40:05, 56:03)

• Abundance Creates Chaos:
  With so many “8 out of 10” games, the distribution will likely be wider than ever; Barrett even prepped a three-way tie graphic for the reveal show.
  • "I'm really worried about where it's all going to land... we've never had a three-way tie before, but I'm prepping for it." – Mike Barrett (56:14)
• Fragmented Votes:
  Lower slots are highly susceptible to personal quirks—single outlier votes or quirky placement (e.g., skate, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4) could push less likely games onto the final top 10. (47:07–48:04)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On the Fun of the Debate

• "I love this podcast already. I'm so glad you guys are here. F** 'em, IGN."* – Greg Miller (12:41)

On Kinda Funny’s Philosophy

• "When you come to Kind of Funny, you're coming for someone's opinion... you’re not here for Kinda Funny, the brand." – Greg Miller (15:01)

The Power of "Pack Games"

• "A pack game is like, they're not front runners, they're in that 3 to 7 range." – Snowbike Mike (28:16)
• "It's going to be interesting to see who, what game, is getting a little more love than others aren't." – Snowbike Mike (39:51)

On Surprises & Community Picks

• "Those who ride for it, ride for it, my man. You're not alone." (re: Power Wash Simulator 2) – Snowbike Mike (49:28)
• "If you haven't checked out blueprints, but you love board games—think that, but in a video game in a really cool format." – Blessing Adeoye Jr. (59:50)

On the Year’s Variety & Strength

• "I think that year [2023] had higher highs, but... in 2025, there’s something about the variety... there’s a game for no matter who you are." – Blessing Adeoye Jr. (60:38)

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Segment Highlights (with Timestamps)

• [09:35] "Where are we at with Game of the Year?” — Opening thoughts; Bless shares why this check-in is valuable for shaping final votes.
• [10:16-14:37] "Is Expedition 33 a Runaway?"/Comparison to Past Years — Mike, Greg, and Bless debate the notion of a blowout GOTY and potential for upsets.
• [22:16] "The Pack Games" & Surprise Picks — Mike introduces the importance of Dispatch, Metroid, Ghosts of Yotei, and Death Stranding 2 as potential mid-list movers.
• [28:16] "Pack Games Defined" — The hosts dissect what sits in the 3–7 and trailing spots, with analysis of Metroid, Ghosts of Yotei, Death Stranding 2.
• [35:23-37:35] Listener Superchats: Community Games of the Year — Highlights the wide array of community picks and reinforces the depth of strong releases.
• [41:02-44:06] Debating Sleeper Titles — Split Fiction, Elden Ring: Night Rain, Mario Kart World, and more as potential fringe top 10 candidates.
• [56:03] "Will Ties Rule This Year?" — Barrett details his worries about more ties than ever, and the historical voting stats.

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Additional Topics

Legacy Games, Sequels, & Remakes

Metal Gear Solid remaster, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered, and Tony Hawk remakes all spark nostalgia but battle for limited top 10 real estate. Hosts acknowledge their personal bias (“I would put [Sniper Elite Resistance] high on my list if there was even a chance” – Snowbike Mike, 54:41).

Multiplayer & Indie Moments

Smaller, memorable indies like Keeper, Mega Bonk, and Schedule One get called out for the unique fun they brought—even if they’re unlikely to place highly.

GOTY Meta-Reflection

Hosts frequently reflect on the process itself:

• How personal stories, "math," and communal voting all play a part
• The fact that every year, passionate outliers make or break the lower ranks
  • "All it takes is one jabroni to put it too high, and another to put it semi-high, and it’s on there. It only takes 12 points." – Mike Barrett (47:07)

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Concluding Thoughts

• 2025 as a Year: The hosts agree 2025 may not have two or three “all-timers” like 2023, but the sheer breadth and consistent greatness of releases make this year possibly even more impressive.
• Open-Ended: The final rankings are to come after the holiday break (January 12, 2026). The episode serves both as a look back and a final push to reexamine and replay contenders before voting.
• Final Call to Action: The hosts encourage listeners/viewers to try overlooked gems (Blueprints, Keeper, Schedule One, others) and stay tuned for the big reveal.

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Final Memorable Exchanges

• "You have your one-through-fours that'll probably be locked in. But that four through ten, where's everybody putting them?... That’s a crapshoot." – Snowbike Mike (39:51, 47:07)
• "[2025] is better [than 2023]." – listener JBC (60:24)

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Next Steps:

• GOTY Results to be revealed January 12, 2026
• Listeners encouraged to catch up on "pack" games and hidden gems as they prep their own rankings

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For More:
Catch the next episode for the results, and check Kinda Funny’s various platforms for end-of-year discussions, streams, and recaps!

Transcript

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[Snowbike Mike]

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[Greg Miller]

episode is sponsored by Arc Raiders where you and your squad can explore future earth and brave killer robots to secure the best loot on the planet. Arc Raiders is available now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X S and PC. What's up everybody? Welcome to the Kinda Funny Games cast for Thursday, December 18, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated aka Puzzle Poppy Blessing Eddie oh Ye Jr. Good day Greg. Congratulations on all the compliments on the jacket.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you for the compliments on the jacket.

[Greg Miller]

We've all been complimenting you. Except Barrett.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Except Barrett.

[Greg Miller]

Except Barrett had nothing nice about the jacket. Apparently everybody else sucks. You hate to see that from Barrett. Usually a very nice boy when he woke up on the wrong side of the small hat today.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Usually where the small

[Greg Miller]

I was hoping I'd get him with that one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My favorite color, burnt orange.

[Greg Miller]

To your left, the one, the only, the master of hype. Snowbike. Mike.

[Snowbike Mike]

Good morning Greg. It's nice to see you.

[Greg Miller]

It's nice to see you Mike. I hear you're having a bad day.

[Snowbike Mike]

I had a little tough start but you know what, I'm up and moving and I feel fantastic. Greg, I'm excited to talk video games this year or this episode. We're going to look back on our year. We just had kind of look forward to what next year will be with like you know, our top tens of this year and I'm pretty excited to share some fun ones with you. Oh because I got some games to recommend you.

[Greg Miller]

I love that. I want to hear that.

[Snowbike Mike]

I got a couple games I need you guys to play.

[Greg Miller]

If you didn't know, this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday we run you through the biggest topics in video games. Whether they be reviews, previews or just topics we need to talk about. If you like that, we'd love you to pick up a kind of funny membership patreon.com kind of funny YouTube.com kind of funny kind of funny games Apple or Spotify to get all of our shows ad free. Get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series we call Greg way. And of course get good karma for keeping the lights and mics on for our 11 person small business. All about live talk shows. Of course if you are live right now with us, the way to be part of this show, YouTube super chat on YouTube.com kindafunnygames of course we are talking about game of the year 2025, our final check in. I need you to tell me what is on the top of your list. What do you think is going to win our list or maybe come in second place and then of course just go on. We're going to talk about our recaps for Steam, PlayStation, a whole bunch of different stuff. So talk about your year in gaming to be part of this show. Of course, no bucks tossed our way. No big deal. Like subscribe share ring the bell. If you have Amazon prime, you have Twitch prime and we'd love it if you gave us that free 30 day subscription. Like I said, we're all about live programming. You got a big one coming up this weekend with Mike Barrett and Alyssa. Celebrate the end of my hero academia with Mike and Barrett as they watch the entire final season live for the first time this Saturday at 5pm Pacific Live only on Twitch TV. Kind of funny games. Has it been hard not to watch ahead, Mike? Or were you ready?

[Snowbike Mike]

I didn't even know it was happening.

[Greg Miller]

Great.

[Snowbike Mike]

So it's been great for me. I didn't even know it was happening until Barrett informed me. But I'm very excited to watch it all because here's the deal, Greg. This is a story that everybody should know about. Okay, Young Midoriya. He looks like all might and he wanted to be a hero, but he didn't have a quirk when he was born, so he was quirkless. But then some things happened to him and he grew into a strong boy and he's got to face his toughest nemesis yet. It's going to be a great one. I can't wait.

[Greg Miller]

I can't either. Just like I can't wait for GDC this year when of course we're teaming up with our friends at the MIX again for another spring game showcase and the submission phase begins now. Submit your game at kind of if you're unfamiliar. Each and every year we get together with the media Indie Exchange and help profile a bunch of indie game developers and their games as both a hey, here's an on demand indie showcase. Hey, here's a live day of live streaming games from the office here in San Francisco and then of course doing a big old party in San Francisco for other people can come play those games. You can go to kindafunny.com how to immediately lose that spring showcase where you can submit your game. If you're a developer you can get a press pass. If you're a content creator you get industry pass of course and come to the party and have some fun today. We've already been cooking on our live programming schedule. Kind of Funny Games Daily was Sony and 10 cent settling over that horizon clone after Gamescast is going to be Avatar in review. Then the first stream is a sponsored 5 hour Energy Outer Worlds 2 race between me and Mike who can get the most levels. We'll see. Then we have another stream with the one, the only Jack Pattillo checking out the Last Caretaker. If you're a Kind of Funny member Today's Greg Way is going to cover a bunch of different things including the differences between Cole and Portillo and I'm probably going to do it live so you can go to patreon.com kindafunny if you want to be part of it live and have some conversations. Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs and Omega, Buster and Delaney. The song Twining Today let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show. Some call it the most wonderful time of the year. Not the holidays, but the game of the year season, of course, where Jeff gives out his awards and we begin the awards season. IGN GameSpot, you name it. Eventually, you know, you go into dice. But before all that, Kinda funny, of course comes back each and every year for kinda funny day, January 5th. I hope you join us for an all day live stream. And then the next week we go into Our own top 10 finding out live with you what our game of the year is because you've never done a game of the year with us. We each draft a top 10 list that's weighted. We send it to Barrett and Barrett goes into a hole and tabulates it into one gigantic top 10 list. It has already begun. Isn't that correct, Barrett? I've seen you've erected walls around your desk so you can work without anybody seeing anything.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah. With some behind the scenes production stuff. My editing area has had to change this year so I'm actually editing at my desk for the first time for game of the year. So I don't have a separate room to hide away in so people don't get spoiled. So yeah, the old walls that we used to have in the lab we still hung onto. So I was like, hey Kevin, let's move these and have them around my desk so you know, Mike isn't peeking to find out what the, what the list is early. He would look at that man, look at him.

[Greg Miller]

I said he would, I said he

[Snowbike Mike]

would know shenanigans are afoot. Yep.

[Mike Barrett]

What shenanigans are afoot?

[Snowbike Mike]

Just need you to know that I'm working with some people numbers. His shenanigans numbers will be moving.

[Greg Miller]

You know, me and Mike check in every so often to see where we're moving as everyone forget Monster Hunter. And then I was like, where are we putting skate?

[Snowbike Mike]

That's all I need to know. I had two rules. Greg and I followed them as every

[Mike Barrett]

year I always encourage everybody to vote with their hearts because I think that is the fun of our list is seeing, you know, the, the, the math and the soul come together to see what our cumulative top 10 list would be. Andy and I have already been in that production hole for the last couple months and we're excited to show what really what he's been cooking up and I've just been helping put together.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I mean hats off to obviously Andy for all the graphic work and then all the organization you do on this. Barrett, I think you know our top 10 is one of my favorite things and I am on the record is not enjoying a top 25. I don't enjoy arguing about games. I enjoy talking about what I love or don't like about a game. Sure. But not arguing about them. And I feel the way we do it is so great. Of what is your personal top 10? We put all that together, put math behind it, put it over there and then that nets out and we find out what the kind of funny game of the year is. And it's got surprises sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. And so I like we have this podcast. I'm not saying we like ever are on a script, but I feel like there's more of a skeleton to some shows than other ones. This is very much a blank document of Game of the Year check in. We have one games cast before this year wraps up. We go on holiday break. We will come back and it will be kind of funny day. And then it will be before you know it blinking you miss it. We're here with the all the pump circumstance. Everybody out here, we're going through it. So I like this final breath blessing of where are we at with Game of the Year?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Which I'm very excited to talk about. This is one an idea that I had for an episode. I originally I wanted it to be more deliberation because I thought more people would be in the office. But with it being just the three of us. Right. I think this is going to be way more of a check in to see like what the vibes are and all that stuff. But you know, one of the things that I, I do like when it comes to the game of the year are the conversations leading in before we actually know what the thing is.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So where we can break down, give the argument for, oh wait, no, I love this game. Oh, this is why blueprints deserves to be talked about. This is why Clear, Obscure deserves to be talked about and see where people go from there as far as going home during the holidays. See, seeing if they may pick up a game and then seeing what those votes are at the beginning of the year.

[Greg Miller]

Michael.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Is this just though another Tears of the Kingdom year where like really what we're going to talk about today, the start I want to do is of course what will be number two because my clarifskier is running away with this. Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Greg, I will tell you with very 100% confidence that yes, Expedition 33 will be running away with this year's kind of funny award. There's no doubt in my mind that when I look at the 11 of us and I add it all up, there's no doubt that this will be number one.

[Mike Barrett]

Do you think it runs away more than other years? Greg, you bring up Tears of the Kingdom, obviously the one that the. The Game of the Year winner that had the most amount of points behind it for winning Game of the Year was God of War, Ragnarok. Yeah. ASOT LA won last year. Not as heavily as other years, but not. Not skating by like Ratchet and Clank did, where Ratchet and Clank won our Game of the year back in 2021 by like one point or something like that up.

[Greg Miller]

Tears of the Kingdom because remember that games cast where we had said during the review of like all right, cool. Now Game of the Year is literally what's number two? Like, I think that was the running thing. And yeah, the scores were a bit different, I think on how it netted out. But I do expect this to. Well, I mean how. You don't have to tell me different. I expect Expedition 33 to have a Ragnarok year where it is like we are spaced out, we are far away from the competition. Whatever two is, is it distant to interesting. Am I wrong, Wes?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I mean, I think the difference with Tears of the Kingdom is that Tears of the Kingdom had competition.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Baldur's Gate 3 was such a. In fact, I think throughout the industry, Baldur's Gate 3, I think was more of the winner. Even though I think for us, Tears of the Kingdom won that. That year. Right.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Mike Barrett]

And Baldur's Gate 3 was our number four.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And that was because of just personal preferences. And again, this is where I. I like the way we do it and who we are. You know, we're not ign. We're not the gold standard for video game reviews. I think if it was that, you know, when. If you were to put down a ballot in front of me, right. And say we are voting on a bigger scale, you know, I mean, even Game wars, I guess I'll toss it out there. Right. Because we. Way we do Game War is. I know I was talking. I'm not going to talk about how we voted or whatever, but like, you know, we send the thing, the ballot to all of us and we put our names next to it and then we vote on which one got the most. Like if we were going in and I wouldn't. If we had to have a unified voice, even as somebody who I didn't click with Clarex Obscure but if it was like, we got to vote objectively, what's the that is game of the year, like, period.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, why is that? Why is it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Is that why.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why is it objectively clear obscure is the one is because the industry feels that. So we feel like we have to feel that or do you think that.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I mean, it's just me, right? So I don't want to put it on we as a company or whatever. I think for me, and this is definitely throughout the years in game of the year conversations and top 10 conversations got. I love this podcast already. I'm so glad you guys are here. Fucked him. Ign I always put that on my shoulders, where the old story goes, right? It was Journey versus Walking Dead at one year, right? And we were in the conference room and I was arguing ride or die. Ride or die the entire time for Walking Dead to get it to where it needed to be. And when it got down to it went head to head with Journey. I got up in front of everybody and I was like, cool, we're voting Journey. Like, we are ign. We are the gold standard of video game reviews. When you're playing the Walking Dead and you fall through the floor and it crashes and it eats your save and it does. Like, I. What I kept saying in that meeting was, like, when we say something's game of the year, that goes into a time capsule where people can look back and say, that is the best this industry could do in that year. And I. That's. I don't know why then for when we do top tens, I don't feel that pressure of, like, cool. Like, I've already said it. Like, Octopath Traveler 0 is my number one this year. Right. But it's because I don't think kind of people are looking at the kind of funny Game of the year list going, oh, this is a time capsule for how it's all been. Not to mention, I also don't think I'm the fly in the ointment that's gonna get in the way of skewing the scale where, like, there's no way for me to steal rob the system. Even as me and my joke around about it. It's not like I'm gonna jury rig it so I do make skate number one or something like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I think the pushback that I'd

[Snowbike Mike]

give a little bit.

[Greg Miller]

Please.

[Snowbike Mike]

I love it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Obviously, everything we do here is math, and I think that's the right way to go about it. I think the way. The way that we do. Game of the Year is perfect for what kind of funny is. I do think though, that if we had more of a discussion basis around it, I could see a Hades 2 rising to the occasion and taking it on. Because, like, for me, I look at my Game of the year in my top two, I don't know if I want to spoil it. I guess I've said this throughout the year.

[Greg Miller]

This could also change your main place.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This could change the move. Right. But my favorite two games, in no order, are blueprints in Hades 2. And clear obscure is like further down the line. I love all these games. Right. That's why Claire Obscure is still in my top 10 probably when it's all said and done. But I think between. How much I love Hades 2 between. I know Tim says Player Obscure is his game of the year, but I feel like if I had to sit down, talk with them, he would probably admit that he thinks Hades 2 is a better game.

[Greg Miller]

So here. But. And I hear. But here's what I think again, I love how we do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Is that I love the idea that when you come to Kind of Funny, you know, you're coming for someone's opinion. You're not. And that sounds stupid, but you know what I mean? I don't think nobody thinks of Kind of Funny the brand. I think they think of Mike, Snow White Mike from Kind of Funny, Greg from Kind of Funny, this, that, the other. Right. Where it's like you come here and you. I want those lists to be in a vacuum. This is what I did. So when we get to the table, we talk about why we loved that game and why we put it where it was rather than it be. Let's come to a consensus and let me convince you why this. And then we're back. Because then we're back 100% to when it's me, Colin and Clements in a room banging our heads for the top 25 PlayStation games. And I'm like, I just don't. I don't agree that. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think my. My main thing is that I don't want it to be a Clear Obscure is going to win kind of funny. It's because Clear Obscure is the. Is the industry consensus of this.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I don't think that's the case at all. I think the way it stole Mike's heart, I think even though it's not in your. You're not one or two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I think it's going to be high enough in the list. Yeah. I don't know where it'll be for a bear. I don't know where it is for a lot of people. Right. But I think it's going to be so high that it'll be on stop.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's the game that's going to be on everybody's list, at least, except for maybe yours.

[Greg Miller]

Correct? Yeah.

[Mike Barrett]

I'm not even convinced of that, honestly. And granted, I haven't talked to everybody, but, like, I don't know if this is a year where everybody votes for it and has it on their list. And that's similar to tears of the kingdom, right? Like, tears of the Kingdom won by 20 points and Mike was the only person who didn't vote for it. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, Barrett, is clipseer not on your list? Is it not going to be?

[Mike Barrett]

I'm not revealing one way or another, but I'm just not convinced of, like, the, like, totality of, like, it running away with it. Right. I would love that even ratchet and clank, which was on everybody's list that year, only won by one point. And so. And I also am not convinced that it's going to be a unified every Even if everybody has it on their list, how unified people are of where it is on their list.

[Greg Miller]

You know, See, I guess my. And this is again why I love it. Shout out to resolute super chats. I love how kind of funny does game of the year because it makes every voice that kind of funny matter. I do, too. And I think that's the excitement of it for me. But I do think the. And I'm probably. Maybe I'm wrong, but again, thinking about it, talking on the show about it, I think what will work for it running away with it is that I think. I think if you played Claire obscure, it kind of funny and you finished it, you're going to have that at least in your top five, if not top three. And I would then say the games that are in front of it, I think are going to be different for everybody else.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Mike's going to have kingdom come deliverance. Like, in this world I'm pitching. Mike would have kingdom come deliverance really high. Roger would have silent hill f really high. You're going to have blueprints really high. So it's not that everybody's putting one game above that game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everybody played silksong and, like, if everybody had silksong in that top five, too, then I think it's another thing. Right. But, yeah, we're in this place where clear obscure is the. Has the most penetration as far as like, you know, getting into every single person act kind of.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Except for Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Right. And then, I mean, it got in for 10 hours, you know, that's more than just the tip it was in.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a third of the way through the game. But it didn't get to finish, you

[Snowbike Mike]

know,

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

didn't get all the way. And so, like. Yeah, I think it's the. It's the exact thing you're saying, Greg. Right. It's going to be on everybody's who's played it. Top five, probably.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But yeah, everything above that is going to be different for every person.

[Mike Barrett]

Mike, you're putting up a two with Silksong. Do you think Silksong is going to be our number two?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, if I had to guess, I think if. If you came to Mike right now, and we're like, hey, give me what you think will be there. It will be Expedition 33 into Hollow Knight. Silk Song is not. That is my bet. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Silk song over Hades 2.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes. We're our number two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I. I feel like when Greg says, oh, Expedition 33 will run away with it, I feel it's like, oh, Hollow Knight. Hollow Knight will be number two. Run away with it.

[Mike Barrett]

I will take a. I'll take that pizza bet. I'll take that pizza.

[Greg Miller]

Hit it.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like that. Hit the music, Katie. Write it down.

[Greg Miller]

Hit the music, Katie.

[Snowbike Mike]

What's their last name?

[Greg Miller]

Katie who?

[Snowbike Mike]

Katie Butler.

[Greg Miller]

Where are you, Katie G. What are you talking about?

[Mike Barrett]

No, Mike created an entire new person named Katie Butler. Did end up in our chat. Yeah, I. I am not convinced that Hollow Knight goes that far away with it. I don't. I don't know if of a majority,

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

what do you think is above it?

[Mike Barrett]

I mean, just thinking about the numbers in terms of what a majority of us have played and more likely will have on our list. There's Donkey Kong Bonanza. There's even. Yeah, like, you brought up Hades suit. Like, I. I am more convinced that Hollow Knight will probably be in that, like, five.

[Snowbike Mike]

Where is everyone on Donkey Kong, though?

[Greg Miller]

I feel like disgusting your fucking face right now.

[Snowbike Mike]

Have we cooled on Donkey Kong? Because there was a year where it's like, oh, we were going crazy for Astrobot. I love that Andy got mad at Astrobot. It's like, I like the Astrobot Andy. Hey, little fumble for you. I like Astrobot a lot. But, like, have we cooled on Donkey Kong where it's not gonna be a top three here? Or do we do think it is?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It'll be top Five, three. It's not gonna be top three.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, exactly. Okay, okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think Bear's wrong about DK Bonanza being that. Because, I mean, Bear, you gave it an 8.5 or 8. 8.58.

[Mike Barrett]

I would give it an 8.5. Solid 8.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Like, I think you either played it and loved it, or you played it thought it was good, or you didn't play it. I think, like, we have people that are in all three of those camps where me and Tim played it, absolutely adored it. But even as I'm talking, right, it's not in my top two. Who knows what's my number three? You know what I mean? Like, you know, you have me there. You have Tim, who I think won't have it in his top two. Mike, have you played Bonanza?

[Snowbike Mike]

I've played Bonanza, but it will not be in my top three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There you go.

[Snowbike Mike]

Might not be in the top five.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think Bonanza is, like, lower on everybody's list.

[Mike Barrett]

But.

[Greg Miller]

But is that the ratchet and clank of it all?

[Mike Barrett]

That's the ratchet and clank of it all. We're Ratchet and Clank was only. Let's see if we go back to 2021. It was Andy's game of the year, and it was Mike's number three. Everybody else had it in that 5, 6, 7 range.

[Snowbike Mike]

He's got the numbers, the back end.

[Mike Barrett]

Oh, yeah. I keep. I. I keep all this stuff just for the fun stats of it all. Right. And so I think if one, two people have it in their top three, and then everybody else has it somewhere on their list and it's going to be that thing of, like, I think it easily makes top five.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You know, sorry to top five, but not top five.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, yeah. We're talking about, like, who's taking top three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My thing is every single person that's played both Hollow Knight and Bonanza, I think might put Hollow Knight above Bonanza, is my guess. So then it's a numbers game of who played what.

[Mike Barrett]

But how many people is that? Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like it's everybody but me, right?

[Mike Barrett]

No, there's going to be three of us, I believe, who vote for Hollow Knight and that's it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought more people played Hollow Knight here.

[Greg Miller]

I played hollow night for 15, 20, whatever it was, and I really enjoyed it. But that's one of those things where.

[Mike Barrett]

Enough to put it on your list.

[Greg Miller]

No, exactly. I. Well, I feel weird because there's so many games I loved this year and played the out of. And so for Me to be like, I played 15 hours and really liked it and didn't get back to it. It won't be. Whereas I've been very vocal. Right. Of like, I'm playing Metroid right now. And as soon as I roll credits on Metroid, we're back to Donkey Kong. Because when I played Donkey Kong, I was so high on Donkey Kong that I want to make sure I put it on this list. And I want to make sure I stay with my whole chest.

[Snowbike Mike]

Can I give you the surprise one?

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because we're kind of. We got about a four right now. We got Hades, we got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm doing my own over here. We're doing the prediction.

[Snowbike Mike]

Kong. We got.

[Greg Miller]

Andy already went in the chat. He didn't. Super chat.

[Snowbike Mike]

Can I give you the number four that, like, good side above Donkey Kong or maybe even top three? What about Dispatch? What's the vibe in the office with Dispatch? Because here's a sleeper pick that could all of a sudden become a number four.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, you're right.

[Snowbike Mike]

And push Donkey Kong down.

[Mike Barrett]

That's a great.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, you're right. Hades 2, Hollow Knight, Expedition 33. To me, those feel like top three contenders that we all can agree will be in the mix. But there's a couple like Donkey Kong. Now, a Dispatch that could slide in here.

[Greg Miller]

You're back to a dispatch.

[Snowbike Mike]

Dispatch is up.

[Greg Miller]

Being so good, as we've all said here. Right.

[Snowbike Mike]

Nine.

[Greg Miller]

Nine and a 10, I think is what we did in the review. I can't remember being so good and also being so digestible. Right. Loved Hollow Knight. I know I would have gotten to a point where I would have not been up. I would have hit a boss and put it down and then been frustrated or whatever. And I would have come back to it eventually. Or maybe I wouldn't because I'm so busy. Whereas Dispatch, everyone's able to play because it's what, eight hours or whatever it is.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're done on your way down. Play it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think when we talk about everyone playing it, that'll be a game, I

[Mike Barrett]

think that's easy on everybody's list. Maybe one person doesn't have it right.

[Greg Miller]

I just wonder how high it gets. I know we're back to the ration clank argument of it where it's like, I adore Dispatch, but again, the gameplay of Dispatch is kind of where I was like, man. So it's like, I feel like that's going to push it further down my list. Maybe I'll be wrong when I sit down to actually Draft it. Can I ask a question here that I don't have a temperature read on at all. Where is kind of funny at with Metroid? As always, Nintendo is so stingy with codes. So Tim got the code, was able to play, did a great review with Logan. And then we've all been. I see you signing. I was playing it last night, saw you sign on and start playing. So it's. And I know, Barrett, you rolled credits this week and stuff, but we haven't had that group discussion because we've been so busy. There's so many other headlines going on of where are we at with Metroid?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not that far. And I'm still. I'm. I just hit the Volt Forge.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For the very first time. So. Yeah, like what, maybe an hour or something like that. I want to stream it more. We were having the conversation right before this about games to play during break or whatever, and I'm kind of like. I'm kind of burnt out. Isn't even the right thing. Right. But, like, I kind of want to use my break as a break, of course. That said, I think Metroid's calling out to me so much that that might be my break. Like, I might just play Metroid. Not even as a game of the year thing. Just a. Oh, I feel like playing Metroid prime four things.

[Snowbike Mike]

So.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A healthy way to play games. A healthy way to play games.

[Greg Miller]

Dude. I was thinking that last night was I was playing Metroid Prime 4. I'm like, man, playing games and not reviewing. It was pretty great. You know, maybe I will stop here. Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll play skate. Maybe I'll go do this. Maybe I'll go to bed. I went to bed the other night, I was like, I don't have to worry about this. I can just sleep.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm gonna see during my holiday break, I'm gonna try to play 77 hours worth of Fire Emblem. Three houses in 11 days, which breaks down to seven hours a day. That's my goal.

[Greg Miller]

The octopath instead. Okay, help me get that.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's for our recommendations at the end. I like that.

[Greg Miller]

Barrett, you rolled credits on Metroid. I never. What do you think of Metroid?

[Mike Barrett]

Metroid, I think, is a really good Metroid game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Barrett]

Until the last three hours. And then I think it falls off of a fucking cliff. If the. You know, I liked the kind of not open world, but that kind of hub, open desert area. Like, I thought that was cool. I thought that was interesting. A different way to Kind of break up the close containment Metroid formula. Because I think a lot of this Metroid reminded me of Halo 1. And that's why I like the, you know, NPC characters that you become friends with and help you out because so when you're cut off from them and once you go into a dungeon or what have you, you really feel that like isolation hit you out of nowhere and it's like, oh, this is what Metroid's all about. And I love this. These high arts are really high. I think there's some design choices and boss fight designs near the end that I, I think are really boring and kind of annoying. And then there's. There's a thing you have to do that reminds me of the Triforce Quest from the end of Wind Waker that I find very dull and annoying. And it's like, it's bewildering to me that like that's a thing that was come up with for a video game in 2025 and those last three hours I was like, you know, man, like I, I respect people who gave this like a, like a 10 out of 10 or what have you. Really love this game. Like I do not see it getting to the last hours here, but I had a really good time.

[Greg Miller]

Cool.

[Mike Barrett]

Metroid Dread is still peak though.

[Greg Miller]

See, and I think that's where I'm lucky slash special or whatever on. We all know I'm special, but I adore this game and not a 10 out of 10 by any stretch of the imagination. Don't get me wrong there. But I mean like as somebody who's never played a Prime before, like when Tim recontextualized me, I'd be like, no, it's a first person adventure. And like the scanning and the. I was like, oh, okay, cool. I was the. When I had seen prime, when I had started remastered on a plane and immediately turned it off, I was seeing it as a first person shooter. Seeing it this way and like oh shit, this isn't at all what this is. And da da. Like I'm having such a great time that like I finally broke two nights ago where I went to home screen, went to the virtual cards reinstalled remastered reinstalled dread where it's like I. It's like am I a Metroid fan and I didn't know all these years? So it's like I'm excited to go play those games but I understand paling in comparison to what it is or comparing to what it's come before. So for me jumping in, I'M like, this is so much fun. This is so good. This is such a great vibe game. That is going to be on my list and I think it's going to

[Snowbike Mike]

be high leading up to it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, it'll be high on Tim's. When I beat it, it could be high on mine. I'm not at a place yet where I'm annoyed with it or anything right now.

[Greg Miller]

I see it in the back.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's in the pack.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

The pa. I'm going to give you some pack games. Here's. Here's two more pack games to talk about because I think now we're getting into that four through seven window. A little bit later we'll talk about the trail end at the end. But in the pack here you have a Metroid. But let's add two more. Let's talk about Ghosts of Yote and Death Stranding 2 on the beach. Yeah, now we're talking about pack games

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

here of like, when we say pack, what do we mean?

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, it's clearly not the leaders.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

They're not front and they're definitely not a 10. They're in that F. They're in that 3 to 7 range where they could be anywhere.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, 3 to 7. Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

But like, okay, perfect example. Metroid.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right?

[Snowbike Mike]

So much hype leading up to that launch and then it comes out. I haven't heard people go that lit the world on fire.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, it's good, right? So here's Ghosts of Yotei and Death Stranding on the Beach. Right. It's like those didn't rule the world. They ruled, but they were good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's Fanning ruled my world.

[Mike Barrett]

Honestly, like, I could see a Death stranding to making it to that like four spot even. Just like, I think this coming year is going to remind me a lot of the Ratchet and clank year for 2021 where scores were really tight across the board. And like it takes two was our number four that year with like 32 points. So that's like, you know, two people having it in like that number one or two spot and then like two or three other people having it somewhere on their list. Right. I. I could see Death Stranding 2 sneaking its way up to the higher parts of the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The package.

[Snowbike Mike]

My worry is you ride with it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My fear is that I ride with it.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't see many other people ride

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

because my fear is that I'll have it highest on my list. And even with that, like, I don't think it's gonna be Numbered. I don't think it's gonna be top three on my list.

[Mike Barrett]

You.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't think it's. Yeah, yeah. It's another one where.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because Andy hasn't played it. Tim. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

No, he hates kitchen.

[Snowbike Mike]

But like all of us. That's a lot of us right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That is a lot of. That's rating too will be on the list.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's four, five of us right there. That. That could be. That's a pack. That's a pack runner right there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Go say Yoti. I'm more.

[Greg Miller]

I'm more curious about.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah, I'm curious about that one.

[Snowbike Mike]

Does it make the top 10?

[Greg Miller]

I think so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't think it makes my top ten.

[Greg Miller]

I just make your top ten.

[Snowbike Mike]

No. Oh, wow.

[Greg Miller]

Okay then. No, probably not. No. For me it will. But that is a pack animal back towards.

[Mike Barrett]

And Roger really loved that game as well.

[Greg Miller]

I think it's really loved it. Yeah.

[Mike Barrett]

I think it sneaks in. In that like kind of bottom, you

[Greg Miller]

know, like 10, 9, 8, 7, 9, 10, 9.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's two more fun ones to talk about in the pack and in the back.

[Greg Miller]

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you have super chatted in with your takes on your games of the year. Your top 10 list, some quick ones. Resolute says my game of the year is Expedition 33. But there are so many great games that came out this year. Shout out to Dead Take and Clutch Time Basketball Deck Build.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yo.

[Greg Miller]

Wait.

[Snowbike Mike]

I told you to play that one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bless Clutch Time Basketball.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, that's that. You play basketball, but you build the deck. It's fun. That's a good game. Shout out to that. Who said that?

[Greg Miller]

That was Resolute.

[Snowbike Mike]

Again, good job.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shout out Dead Take.

[Greg Miller]

Shot out Dead Take.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah, that was like, honestly, like, I don't know if that'll make my top 10. But that experience of playing it with Bless in one stream was like one of my favorite experiences of the year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Marty Pixelrod says an incredible year of releases. Of course I released Prototype one O. Yeah, you did. During his stacked year. Curry Air Riders is my game of the year. Then Yote is my number two mellow fellow. Night Rain keeps impressing me with every update, boss. The music should have been nominated for the tga and I believe the game overall is ahead of its time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I've not thought about how Night Rain fits into my list yet.

[Greg Miller]

Scarlet Libra 99 My Top 5 Number 5 the Last Caretaker Shout out to Jack Number 4 Doom the Dark Ages 3 Expedition 332 Hollow Knight Silksong Number 1 Ghost of Yotei I see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I got like a pack of 8 out of 10 to 8.5 out of 10 games.

[Greg Miller]

And this is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I assume the Dark Ages is in there with Ghost of Yote and like Split Fiction and stuff like that where I'm like, I don't know. I guess I do know which ones I'd put above the other but they're all in that same category to me.

[Greg Miller]

The final one before and I'll keep coming in. We'll pepper them in later. But JBC writes in and says Number 1 Expedition 33 Number 2 ARC Raiders Number 3 Hades 2 Number 4 Ghost of Yote Number 5 Dispatch 6. Silksong 7 Blueprints 8. Sword of the Sea 9. Bonanza 10 Absolute shout out to Sword

[Mike Barrett]

of the Sea that's another like 8 out of 10 for me that I.

[Greg Miller]

And that's my thing about this year which makes it so interesting. The pack games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Is that I feel like there are a few that we all look at. Go Expedition.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

Hades. Yeah. These games that are like another. But there are so many eights and eight fives which isn't an insult. These are great video games. But then it is. Everybody's pack is a little bit different in where you would go and like will Ghosts even make our list? But so many of the ones I just read have it in the top three if not one.

[Mike Barrett]

And that's why like I think this year is going to be very similar to that Ratchet and Clank year where it's just like every. Every spot is going to be off by like one point or another.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How do we get everybody here to play and Roger and put it at like. Like, you know, just look at it to your nine or ten spot. Let's just get it in the list

[Greg Miller]

because you and I are going high on it. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It probably will be in my list. I don't know if I'm going.

[Greg Miller]

Mine will be high. And Roger. Yeah. If you haven't. If you missed my Greg Way or Blessing Stream that happened recently about it. Yeah. One of those Greg games you'd all joke around about. About a very touching, disorienting story of what's going on. And I don't talk too much about it because I don't want to give it away. But it is like, damn, we're doing something Here. And that's one of those games that yeah sticks with me. And it almost has like that Florence art style and everything else to it. It fucking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like rips.

[Greg Miller]

Makes you cry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The best Florence style game that I played since Florida.

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[Greg Miller]

100%. That's a great way to put it. 100 and you can beat it in

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Greg Miller]

Mike, before we were going to break there, we did. You did start going into some other stuff.

[Snowbike Mike]

You brought it up so well. It's like the pack games, those games that are like eight to eight fives that have just been great. But in a year of just non stop bangers, a solid top four.

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Where do these fall?

[Snowbike Mike]

Because now it's going to come down to all of us voting. Where do you put them? Who's getting the most points? But some great polls here are blueprints. Split Fiction, Doom, the Dark Ages, Monster Hunter, Wilds Elden, Ring Night Rain, Silent Hill F. Did you remember we got a Metal Gear Solid this year?

[Greg Miller]

I did. I did forget about that.

[Snowbike Mike]

We got a Borderlands 4 that yes, I know, came out very buggy, but was the best Borderlands since Borderlands 2. And that game launched so poorly that nobody even knows that it's a good game deep down inside of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everybody forgot that. A Borderlands game called this year. You know what? We got that I was playing last night on my PS5 Pro, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater three plus four. That should be in my top 10.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like with how much I played and fucking love that game at launch. But it's again, it's to what you're saying, all these games that it's like, how do I pick and choose these games that I think come in right under that highest of tears?

[Snowbike Mike]

So good. So good. There's a giant list. Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered came out. There's a Ball X Pit game that came out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think it's luminous.

[Greg Miller]

Luminous. Come on now. I'm gonna ride on that. That's gonna be in there.

[Snowbike Mike]

And it will all come down to when everybody steps up. You have your one through fours that'll probably be locked in. But that four through 10, where's everybody putting them? What game is getting a little more love than others aren't? You know, it's going to be interesting

[Greg Miller]

to see in the chat early on somebody was like, Pokemon Legend. Za will definitely make their list. And there's not a chance. Like there's not a chance.

[Snowbike Mike]

Andy.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think Andy likes it enough. I just don't I. I don't. I think that really.

[Snowbike Mike]

He says he loves it.

[Mike Barrett]

He loves streaming it. He doesn't like that.

[Greg Miller]

He loves streaming and making fun of it.

[Snowbike Mike]

He was on his top 10, though.

[Greg Miller]

You think so?

[Snowbike Mike]

100. It'll be on. Stop.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, I see it as the anti ratchet where everybody played it, but nobody's gonna.

[Snowbike Mike]

On the list.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But everybody enjoyed it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, man. Ball pit. That's a great, great one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And that's. And that's when it gets so fragmented. Is when we get into the. And Rogers. You know what I mean? Of like. Yeah, we.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Liza P. Two of us played these

[Greg Miller]

things and really love it and we'll, you know, put it on there. But how high are you going?

[Snowbike Mike]

So let's get real really quick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Let's talk about some games that have a chance here.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

Split Fiction. Is Split Fiction making the list?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It should.

[Greg Miller]

It will not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It should. That's a good game.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, well, let's. Let's hold.

[Mike Barrett]

I think you could break through.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Barrett]

Number 10.

[Snowbike Mike]

You don't think that this is a 7 through 10 game somewhere on our list?

[Greg Miller]

I feel like that is a game that has had no juice. It kind of funny. I think that is a game we all objectively look at and go, nobody does it like Hayes Light. Yeah. But it's not. We're all sitting here going like, oh, my God. You know, I just. I have not heard us talk about it that way.

[Mike Barrett]

Just a reminder, right. Last year, Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Tekken 8 come in at number 10, tied with 12 points each. Like, the. The barrier of entry is lower than you remember, you know, so if a couple of people ride for it, even the middle of their.

[Greg Miller]

I just don't. Who rides for it? Are you either. You putting on your lists.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, probably on top of your head.

[Greg Miller]

You're not locked in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're not lower on my list. Probably.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I'm a split.

[Mike Barrett]

You and Tim, because y' all did that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we. We played it and had fun with it. I didn't like it nearly as much as It Takes two, man. I think that some of the gameplay stuff they do is great with it, but the story overall has never had me bear.

[Snowbike Mike]

You putting it on yours?

[Greg Miller]

What are you doing? No.

[Snowbike Mike]

Roger and Leanne, I guess that might be. And his nephew.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That might be the anti ratchet as well.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We all played it all, enjoyed it, but just ends up on none of our lists. Damn.

[Snowbike Mike]

How about Elden Ring Night Reign, man. Because here's the catch. Mike And Andy will have it high. Yeah, I think Andy's coming around on this game. I've already been very high on this. So, like, where does that go? Because we. Can we get a blessing in this? Can we get someone else?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I am turning around on it in

[Snowbike Mike]

there, and all of a sudden it's up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I, like, at the beginning, when it. When it first launched, I was definitely of the mind of, like, I enjoy playing this, but this isn't great. Right. Like, this feels like just a bunch of mechanics just glued together. And the more that we've played it and gotten to understand it and now with the dlc, I can kind of see the excellent things about that game where I'm. Yeah, I'm higher on it now than I was months ago. I don't know if I'm high enough to be like, this is the top five game by any means for me, but maybe it ends up on the lower end of my list.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think if you put it in the 5 through 10, if Andy puts it somewhere between a 3 to 5 and where I'll put it, it'll make the list.

[Greg Miller]

It'll make.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah, like nine or eight or something like that. Here's an interesting one that someone just reminded me of. Mario Kart World is a video game that came out this year.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Mike Barrett]

I don't know where everybody else's vibe on Mario Kart World is.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like another one that came and went. It was enjoyable for that, the nights we spent with it, but it never felt like it had a hold on us.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But it's so. It's such a toss up with these pack games where if they're like, Barrett, you played the most out of it. I know you had a lot.

[Mike Barrett]

The criticism of it, I mean, and the most. It's like I played 30 hours of it. Right. And like a good chunk of that was when it was the week of my sunburnt legs and Jesse Patelli and Michael Hyam were doing a lot of knockout tours, and I had no. Know, nothing else to do but stay, lay down in bed, play Mario Kart World, and have King of the Hill on in the background.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And I don't know what Tim's vibe was on it because obviously he's Mr. Nintendo around here if he was gonna put it on there somewhere else.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll probably put Sonic Racing Crossroads on my list.

[Greg Miller]

Above it. Right, right. Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Might be on my list.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sonic.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, no.

[Greg Miller]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was like, wait a second. It was on your list.

[Snowbike Mike]

Restart every single Grand Prix with the Motion wheel had a blast.

[Mike Barrett]

I forgot you did that. Honestly. Props.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thanks, Mike.

[Mike Barrett]

Might be the Mario Kart I was gaming this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Could be on there. There's like a lot. There's a lot of games here in the mix. Outer Worlds two Avowed. Are those getting any love from anyone. Right.

[Greg Miller]

Like, they'll get out of world too. We'll get love from me.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

In the back half. I could see that. Not. You know, I'm just listening to games as we talk here. Right. I've thought about this, but not intensely. I feel like that'll make. I think that's a shoe in for my top 10. But I think it is like a. Hey, we're at 10, 9. Somewhere in there. Like, that's like, you know, we gotta

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

have a real talk. Mike. Rematch was a good game. Rematch was a fantastic game.

[Mike Barrett]

And went.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was a good game.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't hold it to how good it was. I hold it to the live service aspect. Hold that. But like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But they just. They dropped a new season yesterday.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's gone.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did. We haven't tried it.

[Snowbike Mike]

People need to call you doing tonight. You're making a live search game. You call me, I'll help you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What if me and you, we stay in the office tonight? Rematch.

[Snowbike Mike]

Now here's a great one. You bring up rematch. Bless. There's games like Keeper out there. Oh, man. For Keeper.

[Greg Miller]

That's on my list is a crazy one because that was one that y' all did the review on. I was so stoked on, I downloaded it and just haven't made time to it. But then again, I feel like after the review, the conversation just never was here. I'm not, don't get me wrong. Conversation doesn't dictate if it should or shouldn't be on your list. It's just that idea of like, I keep forgetting about it where I'm like, I got to make time for this. You know, this again. My break is finished. Metroid finish Donkey Kong, try the alters. Hopefully get addicted to it. And so it's like I was like, oh, shit. I should fit Keeper in there. Based on everything you guys talked about for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, keepers, a short game so you can easily fit it in between.

[Greg Miller]

Mike got it done in 30 minutes. Three hours.

[Snowbike Mike]

How long did it take me? Three, three to four hours. Yeah. Super easy. Super easy. You should play that, Greg. It's a great game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think you'd appreciate it.

[Greg Miller]

Really good game.

[Snowbike Mike]

They did a great job with that one. But like. Yeah, then you get into arc Raiders and Battlefield or anybody voting for that.

[Greg Miller]

Where you're voting for Arc Raiders, Andy, Dune, Awakening.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, those are three games that like you would think me and Andy would be riding for. And I think that it will not get enough love. There's no Nick on this panel. It just gets Mike.

[Mike Barrett]

No. Because it's going to be three games and it's gonna be the three games that he played. Like, I would love for Nick to have like a full. Here's my top 10. That's not the video gamer that Nick

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

has definitely played at least 10 games.

[Greg Miller]

Nick should be allowed to just do that.

[Mike Barrett]

Came out in 2025.

[Greg Miller]

We do like the. My. We're gonna do the, you know, after the game of the year, we then do the top tens for everybody. We should have Nick come in for his top ones just so we can talk about doing awakening. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

And then like skate is a great one as well. Greg, it's like that's you and me.

[Greg Miller]

Like that's you and me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're talking about all these pack games. They can put skate in the thing.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I mean spoilers.

[Snowbike Mike]

Skate is a 7 through 10 trailing the pack game that could possibly make the list depending on how high Mike and Greg put it.

[Greg Miller]

And that's my thing is like you can all roll your eyes, whatever. I would bet that skate makes it this year because me and Mike are going to go in there. It's just how high we're going to go with

[Snowbike Mike]

like there's. There's a 7 through 10 window. And like all. Every year that we do that, it's like this is a crapshoot. Anything could make this. Because all it takes is one gibroni to put it too high, another person to put it semi high and it's on there. It only takes 12 points.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah. And like even to get into that eight, nine spot. Like remind me what year immortality came out. That was 2022.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're not going to compare immortality to skate though.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not.

[Mike Barrett]

In terms of numbers and how many people are riding for it. Yes. It's two people. Immortality was only voted by you and Greg.

[Greg Miller]

But like me and what do we put it at?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, what do we put it at? Where was on my list that was like number three.

[Mike Barrett]

That was number two. And that was for you. Bless. And that was number three for Greg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I don't think these guys are putting skate at their 2 and 3.

[Snowbike Mike]

Don't give you that look.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Don't put skate at your 2 or 3.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. You'll find out at their 4 or 5 though, like you'll find out, you know. So like there's a lot of like that seven through ten. If Mike put.

[Greg Miller]

Just for this specific conversation, he tossed up my PS recap.

[Snowbike Mike]

If Mike put Kingdom Come, Deliverance too high enough, does it make the list at all?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, do I.

[Snowbike Mike]

The only person that would ride that, right? So like there's your problem there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But like if you put a number one, it'll probably. Tekken 8 got in there. It was my number one.

[Greg Miller]

Number four right there. 32 hours. That's just a PlayStation. I don't know how much I played it on PC, handheld, how much.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bring up my top five on PlayStation now because I think I got. Oh no, that's Greg. I was about to say I think I got Hell's Us on there. That's not how it.

[Mike Barrett]

Also, Blessing, you weren't the only verse person who voted for Tekken 8 that year. I just want to remind you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, oh, was that you?

[Mike Barrett]

No, Tim had that. I forgot he with the story mode. So like I. I think it's nearly impossible for a game to get on the list with only one game of the year vote, as we've seen with Greg for the last couple years.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, see, this is my top five. And like, I know I can't even see my number five.

[Mike Barrett]

I think it's out of Outer worlds too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, those are on my list. Doom. Doom. The Dark Ages ain't making it.

[Mike Barrett]

Outer Wilds making it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, if that was allowed, Outer Wilds would probably be my number one. Yeah, that's raining too though.

[Greg Miller]

It's a good game. It is a good game. It's a good video game. It is a good game. It is a good game. I'm excited for this. Let's super chat in here and see what else we got going on. All right, Tavin. Super Chat says my game of the year by a mile is power wash simulator 2 got robbed for best sim at TGA's. I get it won't be everybody's favorite, but the quality is high and I lost hours every night for weeks.

[Snowbike Mike]

Those who ride for it, ride for it, my man. You're not alone.

[Greg Miller]

Remember that DaVinci wrote in with a diverse top 10 dispatch, Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2, Donkey Kong Mafia, the Old country, the Dark Ages, Lost Records, Kronos, the New dawn avowed in Ghost of Yotei.

[Snowbike Mike]

Look at that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A Lost Records enjoyer.

[Greg Miller]

I'll let you write that book. The joke around with Lost Records obviously is I'd done that preview, thought it was cool. Then they did the stupid episodic thing, and I was reviewing something else. So you, Joey and Raj played it for review. None of you went back for episode two? I heard nobody cared about it. I have then just been lost. I'm like, I should play that. But I saw Jerika from JK Games, and of course a contributor here on Kind of Funny. She put up a story about it. I'm like, do I need to play this? She's like, yeah, probably. I'm like, okay. Like, you know what I mean? It's just on the fringes. And when we're talking about so many games, I know I'm going to love that. I need to get to. I need to get to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Does anybody else ride super hard for blueprints?

[Snowbike Mike]

I do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you do?

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I forgot about Bear. Put his hand up too. Barrett.

[Snowbike Mike]

Kevin. Yu. Kevin won't vote, but, like, what if

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

we can make Kevin and Nick one person?

[Snowbike Mike]

There you go.

[Mike Barrett]

Be a combined total of 20, 25 games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Six games. Let them split their lists.

[Mike Barrett]

And three of those entries would be Kevin putting blueprints three times, which should be allowed. I ride with blueprints. I think, like, us three.

[Greg Miller]

And I think you guys are gonna have it high. Like, that's. That's a top. That's on the top 10. As it should be. Great game. Whiz Pig Tactics says Octopath. Traveler zero is my game of the year. The king part is story arc. Dot, dot, man, dot, dot, dot. What a relentless, emotional roller coaster. Agreed. But JJ Baseball comes in and says, mike, I need you to ride for Mega Bunk.

[Snowbike Mike]

Mega Bonk, bro. Get bonked. That was a fun time. Will that make the list? Probably not. Will Andy have it on his list? Will I have it on mine? Andy really liked that game. He was bonking.

[Mike Barrett]

He really liked a lot, like, the. The person I hear from the most in terms of, like, yeah, I really like that game. But this is an insane year for games. Like, I hear him say that a lot. So it's like, even if he really likes something, I think it's. He's gonna have a very contentious list of the. That he really rode for this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

Is he putting bonk seven to ten? That's the question.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now Andy keeps. Keeps popping in chat and saying that I should.

[Greg Miller]

Not super chat, though.

[Snowbike Mike]

Ignore him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, not super chat.

[Greg Miller]

No, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He keeps saying I should Finish Citizen Sleeper 2.

[Snowbike Mike]

He did invite you to his apartment before me. I'm pretty uptight about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, so I Can take some Adderall.

[Mike Barrett]

He wants. He wants blessing to steal some of his Adderall to the focus on Citizen Sleeper too. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What does Adderall do?

[Greg Miller]

Does that just make focus hyper focus?

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. What about like a dragon pirate Yakuza?

[Greg Miller]

Why are you wasting my time?

[Snowbike Mike]

Could Mike and Roger swing the vote to get that in there?

[Mike Barrett]

What is your actual passion for that game, Mike?

[Snowbike Mike]

With Roger buying me in and out? Could be high.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God.

[Mike Barrett]

Again. I would really love for you guys to not make this a fantasy critic it and like actually vote with your husband.

[Greg Miller]

You know they will.

[Mike Barrett]

I don't trust those two.

[Snowbike Mike]

I really don't.

[Mike Barrett]

Also, Andy is right. Lock in. It's awesome about Citizen.

[Greg Miller]

Citizen Sleeper. Great game. Great game.

[Mike Barrett]

And Greg, like I would.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I mean I didn't finish it. By this I'd be like 15 hours. Yeah. Maybe 10.

[Mike Barrett]

Well, I finished it in 11, so.

[Greg Miller]

Oh no. I'm way off then. But I did play it. I talked about. I don't shows.

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah. I'd encourage you that short.

[Greg Miller]

I should go.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. There's one game that will upset me that I won't make the list that I wish. Got a lot more love here and would be my recommendation for all of you to play. And that's schedule one. Schedule one. Fantastic time. They did a great job in the life sim category. Fun dumb derpy. Just a good time. Making drugs and selling.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that a single player one?

[Snowbike Mike]

No, it's multiplayer as well. You have your friends make drugs with this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because here's the thing, right?

[Snowbike Mike]

That game is fantastic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know you want more multiplayer games than top 10. You got to invite me to play the multiplayer games with you. I got nobody to play these games with.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay. Holler at me next year. Get ready. You're in that booth with me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hell yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

We're going to have some fun.

[Greg Miller]

A lot of people were talking about you and me doing a Baldur's Gate multiplayer. That's. That would be the way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, because. Yeah, I think Mike also mentioned it.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm trying. I'm trying to get Baldur's gate back again.

[Greg Miller]

Let's do it.

[Snowbike Mike]

I can rob in Andy's run, but we're going to get us back.

[Greg Miller]

Let's do it. Let's do a run of us on the streams or whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How many people can you have play Baldur's Gate? Three, four.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's four.

[Greg Miller]

This is the dream team. We don't.

[Snowbike Mike]

We got it.

[Greg Miller]

You know, we'll add Roger. No, sorry. Here we go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He loves Roger.

[Greg Miller]

He does love him more than anything in the whole.

[Snowbike Mike]

Any love for Kazan? No, I don't think anyone will love Kazan, man.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Barrett]

I think that's like one that comes in at Andy's number 10. Maybe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't even. I don't even think so, man.

[Mike Barrett]

Between put so much time into it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But like I think that's just the genre. Like first Berserker Kazan was one that I put in a lot of hours into mainly dying against a big lizard man who killed me for about 10 hours straight.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it was like fun or whatever. But I think as a souls like type title. It's not. It's like a seven. I don't think we got space for

[Greg Miller]

sevens while we're talking about things that'll be on our list. Like don't get me. Let me say it all of it before anybody turns on me. Right. I'm going to be disappointed that Hell is Us is not on our top 10. However I understand that it shouldn't be. If that makes sense. It's going to be on my top 10 and I. But not in a 1, 2, 3 slot anywhere up there. Right. So. But it's like I wish more people checked. I just wish. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We get released at the same time as Hollow Knight. Silksong.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

They had it.

[Snowbike Mike]

You have a couple of those games. Because I have a couple of those like my perfect 7 out of 10 that I love. Like a 10 out of 10. Right. That would make that joke. It's like for me, two Point Museum. I wish more people played out. That game is above a 7 out of 10. But like no one will play it here. And then another one. Sniper Elite Resistance. I put so much time into that game. That is my 7 out of 10 game that I love. Like a 11 out of 10. And I. I would put that high on my list if there was even a chance of scrapping into the top 10. But it won't. So it will. It will go into the correct place. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The ones I have. I have. We've already mentioned. Right. Keeper. I don't. I like I genuinely don't know if that game is going to make it in. And then. And Roger as well. Like I worry that's not gonna make it for me. It's.

[Mike Barrett]

You know. And this is one similar to. To Greg of like it won't make our list. But I totally understand. But this is one that like I will ride for is probably somewhere in the middle of my list is unbeatable. And I know like that's one that like I was really looking forward to the story mode and I think that story mode is, is still kind of a mess. But even so like the, the ending of that game still meant a lot to me and. But it's purely just that arcade mode. That arcade mode I think is some of the most fun I've had in a video game this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

So.

[Mike Barrett]

But I, I completely understand that like that's not gonna scratch a lot of people's like itch right now. Maybe Tim plays it, but I don't even know if Tim will ride for that in any sort.

[Greg Miller]

As our stats man and the man who builds all this irk the imp Super Chats says I'm expecting this year to have the most ties from spread of great games is in all genres. Are you worried about that as well?

[Mike Barrett]

Yeah, like I've even so Andy, you know, Andy is our kind of like art director in terms of the game of the year stuff and he builds a lot of templates for me so when I have the finalized lists I don't need to bother him anymore and I can just make it all. And he's made it all simple. This is the first year where I was like, you know, we, we put the pictures in the front of the desk to show like okay, this game's number ten, this game's number nine. For the first time ever I have asked him to make a template for a possible three way tie. I'm really worried about where it's all going to land. But also like it's interesting too right? 2024, I think we had let's see 12 games make it onto our top 10. So that means there were two ties. We had 45 games that were voted in. The same with 2023 there were two ties and that was 36 games voted in. Let's see, 2022, only 11. There was only one tie in 2022 but that was 42 games voted in. And then with 2021 there was only one tie and that was 34. And it really is just going to depend on where everything lands. I like how much crossover there is between all of our lists or not. I like that stuff. Like I think matters less and it's just. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how it all maths out. I'm. I'm really scared how many times there's going to be this year though. But I also said that last year and it wasn't too bad.

[Greg Miller]

Before we get out of here, let me run you through more super chats. Okay. Mr. Hawk says after Expedition 33, I was all about pirate, yakuza, Yakuza 0, Director's Cut and DK Bonanza. Mad Rocks became a member for 23 months and says my top five is Expedition 33, Silk Song, Hades 2, Lies of P Overture and Hollow Knight. Dean Brown is representing Mike over there. Kingdom Come Deliverance two is my game of the year. And it's not even close. Both hilarious and emotional. A true evolution of the Bethesda slash Obsidian formula. Mike, never forget Semin.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thank you for that. Yeah. Dean Brown saw me instantly smile when you brought that up. That's one I will never forget. It's like there's moments in games that have just that special. There it is. And it's like that Samin is one of them. I'll never forget that. I'll never forget it.

[Greg Miller]

We roll into another one here. Bob says still need to finish Expedition 33 and death training too. But my game of the year is Dispatched. Didn't know how much I missed Telltale style games. The Portland Kevin says blueprints is mine so far. I released a 2.5 hour podcast about it last week. Wanted bless on there too, but Scheduling is hard. PlayStation Plus Game Club Snow 13. Yeah. Game of the Year is Expedition 33, but a close second is Octopath Traveler 0, August. Wow. Rabit Rabbit of Canterbaugh and the Rabbit. My game of the year is Hollow Knight. Silksong. Definitely. Definitively I should say one of my favorite games I've ever played. Surprise game for 2025. Blueprints. As someone who loves board games, blueprints is addicting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And as someone who goes to escape rooms nonstop, you can see why Kevin Coelho is obsessed with it as well.

[Mike Barrett]

That is extremely his shit.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Herman. Homeboy. My Game Boy. My Game Boy. My game over the years are usually games I've played in the year. Along with Expedition 33, blueprints and dispatch, I finally played and enjoyed Deathloop and the Messenger. Oh, hell yeah. All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Zym has a birthday tax. Happy birthday. Very grateful to be here after dealing with lots of immigration procedures this year and winning it all. Listening to kind of funny got me through it all. Well, congratulations. I'm glad it worked out for you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you're somebody who's listening and you haven't checked out blueprints, but you love board games. If you like Betrayal at House of the Hill. Think that. But in a video game in like a really cool format. Right? Like if you played that, that's a board game where you are building out a house as you go and things happen immediately. Blueprints reminded me of that. And so you check it out.

[Greg Miller]

Gondor's Condor says Hades 2 is my game of the year with nearly 75 hours in version 1.0 after just over 100 hours in early access.

[Snowbike Mike]

God damn.

[Greg Miller]

Very impressive. And then to end, Here is a JBC comment. 2023 was a goat year for gaming. 2025 is better.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

How's that feel for everybody? 2023, of course. Baldur's Gate, Tears of the Kingdom, Spider Man 2, Resident Evil 4, Alan Wake to Jedi, Survivor Street Fighter 6, Diablo 4, Cyberpunk, 2077, Phantom Liberty Man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean I think that year had higher highs, but I do think there's something about the variety of 2025 and like there being a game for no matter who you are, there's something out there that's different and unique for you. I think that's special.

[Greg Miller]

I agree with that. I think you. You sum it up so well. Higher highs for sure. Yeah. But the quantity of great games like we talked about earlier, I think is. Yeah, I'm not ready to say better, but whatever.

[Mike Barrett]

Barrett, two things I want to throw out there, please. I just. I'm gonna do this officially on the podcast even though I've been annoying blessing about it off camera. Blessing just whenever you're in the. Whenever the mood strikes. I think it would be a really fun stream for you to at least check out the seance of Blake Manor, a game I've only put in an hour or so into. But that is one that I'm trying to hold myself. Like that is kind of like my last like big game I want to play before hopefully like I can finalize my top 10 because the first vote that comes in from one of y', all, I cannot touch my top 10 anymore. So that's what I'm trying to. Trying to get in there to see how I I fully feel. But if you loved blueprints this year, if you with the golden idol games, the end you like like kind of creepy vibes. I think this one is free and it's one of the best reviewed games of the year. And so that's why I'm like, I feel like for us that like really with that stuff, I think we really owe it to ourselves to at least try it out. And then another one for you. Bless. And I know, Andy, you're watching or maybe you're on. Maybe you're busy now. Absolum. I would love for y' all to, to go back and check that out just because that is one that I, I really fell in love with. And if you, you're looking for something that's more of a turn your brain off kind of thing, bless like I think that's a fun one of just like putting on, you know, whatever documentary you want to watch and then putting Absolum on and just having a really fun time with like beat them up gameplay moment to moment gameplay with a very satisfying roguelike structure similar to Hades that I, I think you would enjoy with a really fun like Saturday morning cartoon art style.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you. You just remind me I got to finish the Diddy document. Appreciate it.

[Mike Barrett]

I didn't want to say it, but I knew like that's what you'd been watching.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody. Game of the Year is going to be very, very interesting after this holiday break. Remember, you get one more games cast out of us tomorrow before Kind of Funny takes the rest of the year off and returns on January 5, 2026, our 11 year anniversary for a huge stream of shenanigans. Then one week later on January 12, we will do Game of the Year and find out what's going on. AK says Greg, have you tried the Berlin AP apartment? No. It was on my wish list. It snuck out. Somebody mentioned it. I was like what? Really? And I have not played the Berlin Apartment. I know I need to. We are excited to bring that to you after we get all of our top tens to bear it and have a great time. So we will see what happens on Monday the 12th for one gigantic game of the Year discussion. Of course. Although we only have one Games cast left, there's plenty.

[Snowbike Mike]

I heard you don't want to miss the Games cast too. I'll tell you what, you don't want to miss tomorrow's Games Cast.

[Greg Miller]

Oh geez. Fantasy Critic.

[Snowbike Mike]

You do not want to miss tomorrow's Games Cast. I don't know anything about Fantasy Critic. So I'm going to be really excited. Excited to see who won this year. But I would say I would tune in tomorrow right after Games Daily. Your final Games Cast of the year is going to be something special. Don't miss it.

[Greg Miller]

Of course today there's still content. Before that happens, we're gonna go from this in in review for Avatar. From that into the sponsored five hour energy outer world stream. From that, Jack Patillo shows us the last caretaker. Of course. Then the programming day starts a new tomorrow with Kind of Funny Games Daily. This abomination of a Games Cast. Then game showdown. Oh Yeah, I mean, we don't have to do the show. We can just have Tim give me the belt because we all know I have an insurmountable lead of stars and I'm sure there's no shenanigans.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wouldn't say insurmountable. I feel like Team Purple's right there.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, they're. They're close enough. They're always a bridesmaid, everybody. This has been another episode of the Kind of Funny Games cast. Thank you for hanging out with us and watching it. We hope you enjoyed the streams. If you're listening later, of course, you go catch them. YouTube.com kindafunnygame Games we're always live on Twitch YouTube podcast services. Pick up your membership on Patreon, YouTube, Apple or Spotify. And until next time, no, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

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