Kinda Funny's Fantasy Critic 2025 FINALE - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny’s Fantasy Critic 2025 FINALE — Kinda Funny Gamescast

Date: December 20, 2025
Hosts: Greg Miller, Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, Paris Lilly, Barrett Courtney, Roger Pokorny, Snowbike Mike

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Episode Overview

The 2025 finale of Kinda Funny Gamescast is a celebratory, riotous, and deeply nerdy sendoff to the annual "Fantasy Critic" league: the video games industry’s equivalent of fantasy football. The cast gathers in festive (and somewhat tipsy) form to crown Snowbike Mike as the 2025 Fantasy Critic Champion, hash out the year’s league drama, dissect the successes and failures of each participant, and debate rule tweaks for 2026. The show revels in community spirit, competitive banter, and gaming deep cuts, all while upholding the chaotic, inside-joke-laden tone that’s Kinda Funny’s trademark.

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1. Championship Ceremony & Opening Hijinks

Timestamps: 06:04–12:10

• Snowbike Mike’s Victory Lap: Mike is celebrated as the 2025 Fantasy Critic Champion with a lengthy, WWE-inspired intro (06:04). Mike revels in his win, referencing inside jokes and fantasy league “lore.”
• Champ Enters With a Bang: Mike commemorates the moment with a musical performance, inviting Greg and Alicia from The Compliments to perform “We Bring the Boom”—a comedic, original live song highlighting the year and Mike’s victory (09:03–10:57).
• Quotes:
  • “We bring the boom to everyone, we bring the boom.” (The Compliments Band, 09:23)
  • “I’m the champion. I get to dictate what happens now. You’re in my world.” – Snowbike Mike (12:02)
• Mike’s ‘Demands’ as Champion: Mike jokingly issues demands for the next season: first draft pick rights, the return of trades, public bidding, and the power to dictate loser punishments (12:38–15:18).
  • “As the winner of the league, I decide the loser’s punishment.” – Snowbike Mike (14:47)

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2. Explaining Fantasy Critic & Setting the Table

Timestamps: 18:46–21:28

• The Rules (in Brief): Greg explains Fantasy Critic’s premise—participants draft unreleased video games, earning/losing points based on eventual Open Critic scores. Counter-picking (betting against a game’s success) adds risk/reward (18:46–19:10).
• This Year’s Outcome: Snowbike Mike wins with 138 points. Barrett (second, 131), Andy (124), Blessing (122), Roger (116), Paris (99), Greg (69), Tim (37).

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3. Full League Results: Draft Reviews & Post-Mortems

Tim Gettys

Timestamps: 24:26–29:27

• Drafted unannounced 3D Mario Platformer, Resident Evil Requiem, and Pokémon Legends; multiple zero-pointers due to delays/counterpicks.
• “I boomed myself so hard back then. The 3D platformer... I was kind of doomed there no matter what.” – Tim Gettys (25:17)

Greg Miller

Timestamps: 29:59–34:41

• Elden Ring Night Rain, Metal Gear Solid Delta both moderate hits; some gambles (Mina the Hollower, Moonlighter 2) didn’t pan out.
• “My team included perhaps the most disappointing Xbox picks of the year.” – Greg Miller (34:35)

Paris Lilly

Timestamps: 35:15–37:47

• Strong start with Hollow Knight Silksong and Like a Dragon… but Call of Duty Black Ops 7 tanks the score; Paris is philosophical about risk and letdowns.
• “That and Little Nightmares 3… I really thought Little Nightmares 3 was gonna score higher.” – Paris Lilly (37:23)

Roger Pokorny

Timestamps: 42:56–51:06

• The “King of Partial Remakes”, dominating with high-score reissues/remasters. Engages in spirited debate over what defines a ‘remake’ vs. ‘remaster’ (“partial remakes”), which gets highly political with Blessing and the group.
• “If I looked at you and in good faith genuinely say, hey, Final Fantasy Tactics… they lost all the code, so they had to rebuild the game from scratch!” – Roger (47:40)

Blessing Adeoye Jr.

Timestamps: 55:58–59:42

• Drafted Split Fiction, Death Stranding 2, Mario Kart World (“I want a 91 from a Mario Kart”), but Mixtape was a zero due to counterpick and delays.
• “Sometimes you take risks and they don’t pan out… Mixtape was my biggest mistake of this Fantasy Critic year.” – Blessing (57:04)

Andy Cortez

Timestamps: 60:36–64:54

• Extremely consistent team, albeit without huge standout hits. Touts the value of “safe” bets over all-in gambles.
• “If you had a team that had every game score 15 points, you’re getting 150… I feel like I have the most kind of games there.” – Andy (63:14)

Barrett Courtney

Timestamps: 65:51–70:14

• Second-place finish hailed as “the bridesmaid.” Regrets dropping Sea of Stars DLC, which Greg then picked up for huge points.
• “Me doubting myself and dropping that Sea of Stars DLC... that was it.” – Barrett (68:16)

Snowbike Mike (Champion)

Timestamps: 71:33–80:35

• Wins despite drafting Grand Theft Auto 6 (zero-pointer) and enduring two zero games; credits “believing in the nerds” and strategic picks like Donkey Kong Bonanza (for $80!); thanks chat for Trails in the Sky recommendation.
• “I had two zeros on my team. Still won. I could do anything.” – Snowbike Mike (75:44)
• “At mid-season, I saved the league. I put the league on my back… I put $80 on Donkey Kong Bonanza!” (78:04)

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4. Rule Debates, League Drama, and Community Banter

Timestamps: 45:56–55:47 and 92:05–98:29

• Partial Remakes Debate: Roger and Blessing lead a passionate debate about banning “partial remakes”—games that blur the lines between remaster/port/reimagining. The cast votes to ban them for next year, pending final rule tweaks.
  • “Partial remake is the only one where consensus is we’d like it banned. Four people voted that way.” – Blessing (93:03)
• Trades & Bidding: The group discusses whether to allow trades (now approved for 2026), and discusses switching from “secret” to public bids (ultimately favoring the secret, more skill-testing approach).
• Loser Punishments: Mike proposes the winner prescribes a punishment; suggestions include making losers perform dance challenges at Summer Game Fest or stream their lowest-rated game.
  • “My four losers will play one round of lightning reactions!” – Snowbike Mike (81:10)
• Shenanigans & Alliances: Constant jabs about in-lab collusion (especially between Roger and Mike), listening to podcasts for secret indie picks, and the drama of real “sports” strategy.

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5. Closing Out: Final Reflections, Super Chats, and Next Year

Timestamps: 98:35–101:18

• Community Appreciation: The cast thanks the listeners for an amazing year, highlighting the growing Kinda Funny audience and the blending of serious game criticism with ongoing chaos.
• Looking Ahead: January 5th, 2026: Kinda Funny Day and the kick-off of the Fantasy Critic 2026 draft, with new rules, winner’s perks, and more shenanigans.
  • “Next day we back at this table for Fantasy Critic 2026. I will now accept the apology from Roger and from Blessing.” – Greg (101:03)
• Memorable Sendoff: Final affirmations, inside banter (e.g., “You look good, Bless”), and a promise that the chaos will return in the new year.

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Notable Quotes & Classic Moments (with Timestamps)

• “I’m the champion. I did what they said couldn’t be done. Two zeros on the board. Still got it done.” — Snowbike Mike, 06:54
• “This is like the most politically charged Fantasy Critic debate we’ve ever had.” — Greg Miller, 46:09
• “If you had a team that had every game score 15 points, you’re getting 150…” — Andy Cortez, 63:14
• “Me doubting myself and dropping that Sea of Stars DLC... that was it.” — Barrett Courtney, 68:16
• “At mid-season, I saved the league. I put $80 on Donkey Kong Bonanza!” — Snowbike Mike, 78:04
• “Sometimes you make risks and they don’t pan out.” — Blessing Adeoye Jr., 58:54

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Episode Structure Overview

• 00:00–01:42: (Skipped) Ads, intros, sponsor mentions
• 01:42–06:04: Extended cast intros; setting the celebratory/festive tone
• 06:04–12:10: Snowbike Mike’s musical championship entrance & band performance
• 12:10–18:42: Review of Snowbike Mike’s “demands” and league power dynamics
• 18:42–21:28: Explanation of Fantasy Critic, context for newcomers
• 21:28–80:35: Detailed draft reviews, drama per participant, high/lowlights, regrets, and banter
• 80:35–88:38: Super chats, community questions, more shenanigans
• 88:38–98:29: Rule changes debated, league formats for 2026, finalizing trades, trades, and bidding mechanics
• 98:29–End: Thanks to the community, preview of 2026, group sendoff

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Final Thoughts

This episode embodies everything that makes Kinda Funny unique: high-energy camaraderie, relentless self-mockery, and that irreverent but loving focus on gaming culture. On its face, it’s a game-by-game review of a strange league. In practice, it’s a full-hearted celebration of the people, the community, and the ludicrous stakes of being a true gaming nerd. The new year promises rule changes, fresh drama, and the same chaotic fun.

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Highlights Recap/TL;DR:

• Snowbike Mike wins Fantasy Critic 2025 (“Put your ones up!”)
• Musical performance, rule negotiating, and loser punishments
• In-depth reviews of every cast member’s draft, with crucial misses and swings
• Hot debate: What is a “partial remake”? Should they be banned?
• New rules: Trades return, “secret bidding” (private) preferred, partial remakes banned
• Warm community interaction and a rowdy, celebratory send-off for 2025
• Fantasy Critic 2026 launches January 6th with new shenanigans guaranteed

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For newcomers and veterans alike, listen to this episode for a riotous celebration of not just this year in gaming, but the communal, competitive heart of Kinda Funny.

Transcript

[Snowbike Mike]

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[Barrett Courtney]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Snowbike Mike]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Greg Miller]

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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 your final Gamescast for 2025. The date is Friday, December 19, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside four of 30 under 30, aka the second best baby blues in San Francisco. Aka the expectant father. And even though the dates don't exactly line up. But is it his final games cast? Baby isn't here. I really hope it's not.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm hoping I get through game of the year on Monday, January 12th.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure. But we're the Splash.

[Tim Gettys]

But I'm gonna be really. I put in all the work this year. I want the payoff. You know what I mean?

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, you don't want to end it on this note, but come on.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't want to end here, but we'll see.

[Greg Miller]

Next to him, of course. Dialing in from the rgv where they don't play no games. It's the hisp Arthur off Texas treat Latino heat Clicking heads and ripping them to shreds the globe trot and headshot and three point shooting Rooting Tootin nitro rifle from Twitch tv. Andy Cortez back home, baby. What'd you eat for? What did you have for lunch?

[Barrett Courtney]

I had some papas with carnita picada and tortillas. Nice.

[Greg Miller]

Andy never like uses the accent.

[Tim Gettys]

He doesn't play games.

[Greg Miller]

But I love it. He does it for food all the time.

[Tim Gettys]

Locked in.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Next to him. You've heard his intro too many times. So I don't have to say it. I'm gonna say it's just the man who makes it unfair. Oh. On Games Daily. First off, me and bless her are drunk. On Games Daily.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I had a few sips.

[Greg Miller]

When you laugh at your own jokes, the way you laugh at them, I know you're drunk.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

When you laugh like that, I know you would.

[Roger Pokorny]

When he does this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Listen, I do do that a lot.

[Greg Miller]

On Games Daily, both the chat and myself. Put you over for the outfit. Taking off the jacket, showing these arms. Unfair. It's blessing out of ye. Junior.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's up?

[Greg Miller]

Not much, man. How are you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm doing well.

[Greg Miller]

I'm good. I like it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I stay sober.

[Greg Miller]

We have a long this. Not only this, then the holiday party. Just give it up now. Next to you, of course, is the best voice in the business. Point blank, period. It's Paris Lilly.

[Paris Lilly]

You know what's funny? I've never actually said that. Andy just made it up. Happy holidays, everyone.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, Andy's got a pretty good defense there. Shaking his head. No. He doesn't agree about that. Of course. Then it's the tastemaker, Roger Pokorny.

[Roger Pokorny]

Hi. I'm not fired.

[Greg Miller]

You're not fired? No, I'm not fired. Yes, we are still trying to take that joke back. That went too far.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was fun.

[Greg Miller]

And then next to Roger. Next to Roger is an empty seat.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Who's that? Empty seat.

[Greg Miller]

That is supposed to be the master of hype. Snowbike Month.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, you did that wrong. Greg, I'm going to need you to read this. The actual intro.

[Greg Miller]

We've heard a man breathing heavily for quite some time. I was wondering about introducing. Try again introducing the man who walked 500 miles during the Death Stranding marathon stream. The man who rocked Hideo Kojima's reality with one DVD. The man who had the second pick of the draft and was forced into GTA 6. The man with two zeros on the board. Cause Andy made Him pick it. The man who saved the league by spending $80 to keep Barrett away from Donkey Kong bonanza. The man who pandered to the audience and became a believer in trails in the sky. The man who did what they said could not be done. The man who brings the boom. Your 2025 kind of funny. Fantasy critic champion snow bike.

[Mike (part of Snowbike Mike's musical act)]

Mike,

[Snowbike Mike]

put it up in the chat right now, baby. Put your watch in the chat. Acknowledge me.

[Greg Miller]

That's my goat.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's my boy right there.

[Barrett Courtney]

Right?

[Mike (part of Snowbike Mike's musical act)]

We did it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Uh oh. Fantasy Critic Champion 2025, baby. Acknowledge me. Hello, Andy. Hello, Paris.

[Greg Miller]

Throw up your ones. Everybody. Throw up your ones. In the chat.

[Snowbike Mike]

Everyone here at the desk. Everyone here live inside the studio. Thank you all so much for being here. It's a big day. It's a special day. And, you know, I thought to myself, man, how do we make this special? How do we go above and beyond, beyond? And I hid myself behind the screen. Okay? I did my very best to hide behind 20 minutes.

[Greg Miller]

There's been huffing and shuffling and fake squ. I thought it was a costume. Why did you just have somebody bring you the bag?

[Snowbike Mike]

It was a long walk. It was a long walk. Okay, here's the deal. I'm a champion, okay? I'm the very best to ever do it. I did what they say can't be done. Two zeros on the board. Still got it done. Okay, Pandering to the audience. Still got it done. Going up against the commish blessing out of Yo Ye Jr, who tried to hold back the shenanigans. I'm the man who got it done. And you know what? I'm also an unselfish lover. Your boy Snowbank Mike loves to give it to you. You know what I mean? I give it to you, and I don't know. Anyway, okay, for those who come after, you know what I'm talking about, now here's the deal. It's the holiday season, and this intro is just not enough. So we got to take this up one more notch. So I brought you all something very special, Something to harmonize with, something to enjoy. An acoustic band. Okay, let me tell you about Greg and Alicia from the compliments. They're going to come out right now, and they're going to start the holiday season right now. Come on out.

[Greg Miller]

Come on out.

[Snowbike Mike]

Get out here. Right? That's right. You guys come right here in this

[Greg Miller]

middle of whoever you are.

[Snowbike Mike]

Greg and Alicia, I don't know what compliments are they?

[Greg Miller]

Mic, do we need to do anything?

[Snowbike Mike]

Microphone right there. Yeah, right. We're going to jam right now, baby. So here's the deal. I love you all. You sit right down. You sit right down. Now we're going to start something off, okay? I want to start the holiday season off right. I want to end 2025 with some smiles. And most importantly, I want you all to remember this day because I one fantasy critic. When they said they couldn't be done, Barrett, Courtney, the only one who takes it seriously, I held him back. Okay, I'm the champion. Greg and Alicia, it's great to see you both.

[Greg Miller]

Thanks for having us.

[Tim Gettys]

Are you ready to bring Happy holidays.

[Snowbike Mike]

Happy holidays. I'm kicking it over to them. Let's start the party.

[Roger Pokorny]

So Alicia and I kind of prepared.

[Greg Miller]

He's my host. It wasn't just him shuffling.

[Snowbike Mike]

That made more sense.

[Greg Miller]

So Alicia and I wanted to prepare something to celebrate the occasion.

[Roger Pokorny]

You know, it's the time of giving

[Greg Miller]

season, bringing everyone together for joy and happiness. So we have this sweet little song.

[Mike (part of Snowbike Mike's musical act)]

We bring the boom. We do. We bring the boom we bring the boom to you we bring the boom we bring the boom to everyone we bring the boom. We BEF father and son every afternoon on your fyp we bring the boom around a quarter past eight we breathe the boom so loud the whole earth

[Andy Cortez]

shakes

[Mike (part of Snowbike Mike's musical act)]

and cheek and bass biceps and chives with green the boom that everybody deserves and we call a big justice. Cause that's what he serves,

[Greg Miller]

what he

[Mike (part of Snowbike Mike's musical act)]

serves we mean the happiness and laughter Everyone enter the room and we're changing up the world with the boom on doom we bring the boom that's what we do.

[Greg Miller]

We bring the boom.

[Mike (part of Snowbike Mike's musical act)]

We bring the boom to you we bring the boom. We bring the boom to everyone we bring the boom. You're the biggest father and son when you subscribe to our channel you'll never be alone. Bring the boom to you we stay from Boca Raton sleep with the Costco guys and you'll never be beat we'll throw some paper towels and get me all me

[Snowbike Mike]

hey, give it a.

[Mike (part of Snowbike Mike's musical act)]

We bring the boom that's what we do we bring the boom bringing the boom to you we bring the boom we bring the boom to everyone we bring the boom. You favorite father and son.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's a compliment. Give it up for the compliments one time right there, Benuel. Lick. Clap it the fuck up.

[Greg Miller]

That was five big booms for the compliments, everybody.

[Snowbike Mike]

Big massive booms. Greg, Alicia, can you tell everybody who you are really quick? Before we say goodbye for the holiday

[Greg Miller]

season, let Mike breathe. We're Greg and Alicia, we do a lot of this stuff. And if you want to hear other things, we do as well. Twitch tv. The compliments that will all ease Bell. With all ease, yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Hell, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Awesome.

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna go subscribe and follow right now.

[Roger Pokorny]

Thanks for following.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you so much.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thank you so much, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Congrats. Congrats.

[Roger Pokorny]

How to help?

[Snowbike Mike]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Happy holiday.

[Tim Gettys]

Holiday.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

That's how it feels, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Understandable.

[Snowbike Mike]

You have right now.

[Tim Gettys]

That's how it always is.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm in charge now, Tim. Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Just so everyone knows, thank you to Roger. Okay. My number two. My 1.2 for making it happen. Okay.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's what I mean. That's 1.1.

[Paris Lilly]

My bad.

[Snowbike Mike]

1.1.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

[Roger Pokorny]

I gotta be upgraded for one day.

[Snowbike Mike]

Here's the deal. I'm the champion. I get to dictate what happens now. Okay? You're in my world, Okay? I held off Barrett Courtney. I held back the fantasy critic commish blessing out of Oye junior. I made Andy Cortez look bad on the numbers. Okay? I'm the champion. And that means you're living in my world. And I have some demands. Roger, bring up my demands list, please.

[Andy Cortez]

Where's the demands list on slack?

[Snowbike Mike]

Bring it up.

[Barrett Courtney]

Can we get an ambulance on standby, please?

[Snowbike Mike]

My demands are as follows. You want me to pull it up on my thing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

As champion, you do it. Snowbike Mike will receive the first pick in the 2020. I am the champion. That means I get first pick because I'm number one. The remainder of you can figure out the order. I don't really give a shit. Okay? So figure out how it goes after me. I don't care what you do. I get first pick no matter what. Okay?

[Roger Pokorny]

What about me?

[Snowbike Mike]

The rest of it. Roger, you get third pick. They gotta compete for something.

[Greg Miller]

I'll take mine. I have a second.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know what, Greg?

[Tim Gettys]

I love you.

[Snowbike Mike]

You can better ask now if you wanted, Tim. Now, moving on.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

First of all. First of all, I want to start this by saying, Mike, I will grant you first pick.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Thank you. The rest of his great order.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, no, that's pretty good. I will grant you first pick, Mike, is all I'm doing right now.

[Roger Pokorny]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Moving forward, what else you got?

[Snowbike Mike]

Trades shall return and everyone will be granted two trades through the year. Two trades? Two trades to allow for shenanigans.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike, I'll grant you trades. Oh, I'll grant you trades are on.

[Snowbike Mike]

Trades are on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll talk. I'll look into the options on the league, but I'll grant you trades this season. Wow.

[Snowbike Mike]

Let's get a little spicy.

[Barrett Courtney]

Fully negotiating with Terrors.

[Roger Pokorny]

I love Terror because he likes. Gosh.

[Greg Miller]

How many domains do you have?

[Snowbike Mike]

One more. No, two more. Two more.

[Barrett Courtney]

What'd you put in that champagne for? Bless.

[Greg Miller]

Just at some point, your honor, just let me introduce the show, but you do your thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

One more. Bids are now public, not private. No more hiding your bids in the shadows. You place a bid, everyone knows about it and has the opportunity to outbid you with their fantasy critic fantasy bucks. No more hiding in the shadows. No more this $1 bids. Okay, you put a bid down, Barrett, on some sort of weird blueprints you heard about on a podcast from 2017.

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna know about. I'm gonna know about it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I definitely do that.

[Snowbike Mike]

And we're gonna allow you.

[Barrett Courtney]

No more insider trading. Nancy Pelosi.

[Greg Miller]

No more. And the final about ethics and fantasy critics.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll look into that one.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'll look at that. And now the final one for you losers out there. As the winner of the league, I decide the loser's punishment. From this point forward. If you win the league, you decide right there.

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna stop you. From this point forward. No, retroactive for last season.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh,

[Tim Gettys]

yeah. Like that.

[Greg Miller]

I like that.

[Snowbike Mike]

To me, from this point in, retroactive,

[Greg Miller]

and then I would. I would say that you get to name Tim's child. That would just be what I think I was.

[Snowbike Mike]

From this point forward, you win the league, you decide what the bottom does. For example, this won't happen this year because I'm a benevolent. I'm a benevolent lover. I'm a great leader. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

He's a giver.

[Snowbike Mike]

This won't happen. But I would make the loser go and perform the boom dance at summer game fest. They must continue bringing the boom in front of all their favorite games journalists and online personalities until Geoff Keighley brings the boom with you.

[Roger Pokorny]

But he's.

[Barrett Courtney]

But you're not.

[Snowbike Mike]

But I'm not gonna do it because I'm a generous lover. I'm a kind lover. So I won't do it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Like.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like.

[Roger Pokorny]

Like walk up on stage when you're not allowed to.

[Greg Miller]

No, no.

[Snowbike Mike]

You stand in the middle of the streets and you do the boom right down there. Jeff Keely joins you. But I won't do that.

[Roger Pokorny]

He wouldn't do that.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm not starting it off.

[Greg Miller]

Selfish lover.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay. Unselfish lover. Greg, start the show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike, I'll bring you that by the way.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thank you Compliments thank you everybody.

[Greg Miller]

Go follow the compliments. That's with an e Twitch tv the compliments. But of course thank you for following this shenanigans. 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 whatever the fuck this was. If you like that we'd love you to pick up a kinda funny membership patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kind of funnygames apple Spotify $10 of course gets this is why you want a games daily to be a little bit shorter so you can set this up. $10 gets you everything ad free. Of course it gets you your daily dose of me Greg Miller in a series we call Greg Way. And it gets you good karma for supporting an 11 person small business doing fucking insane stuff for your amusement each and every weekday. Of course if you're watching live right now be part of the show yout Super Chat. God I can only imagine what you said so far. YouTube.com CondoFunnyGames you can super Chat to tell us how your fantasy critic has gone. Who you think will win next year. What should be number one pick next year? What we should have done differently this year. Right now of course we have killer dragons in the super chat. Saying Mike winning fantasy critic proves anything can happen. Bring the boom corn effect says big ups to snow Michael Michael thank you. I love you all. Thanks for making this a great year. Hope you have a wonderful break. Of course we'll get through more of those super chats as the show goes on. So keep them coming. But no bucks toss our way like subscribe share ring the bell. Of course you have Amazon prime. You have Twitch Prime. Give us that free 30 day subscription. We are an 11 person business all about live talk shows. KFGD was the inaugural Kind of Funny Games Daily Awards where people were honored and blessed and I drank champagne after. This is going to be the Game Showdown Season four finale. And that's why I wanted Mike to have the stage. Yeah, as a man who clearly is going to win season four of Kind of Funny Game Showdown, the gap between me and Tim just too far. Even Tim with his hot dog fingers can't overcome the amount of stars I have on him. You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

Why do I come to work?

[Greg Miller]

Why? Well, you get that much off soon. All right, calm down. It'll be real relaxing too. I can tell you from experience. And then after game Showdown it's going to be, of course our white felt elephant gift exchange holiday party on the kind of funny podcast we will be drinking there as well. Right, Bless. Right, that's what I like to hear. If you're a kind of funny member, you're getting two Greg Ways today. A 25 minute one about Portillo and Cole and a 19 minute one including a preview of Kinda Funny Day 2026. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Karl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The Psalm twining. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be topic of the show. Tots.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tots.

[Greg Miller]

Tots.

[Roger Pokorny]

Tots.

[Barrett Courtney]

Tots.

[Greg Miller]

Tots.

[Andy Cortez]

Tots.

[Greg Miller]

So Tots, if you didn't know, all year long we've been doing something called Fantasy Critic. Fantasy Critic is of course very similar to fantasy football, fantasy basketball, any fantasy sport you might know, except it's built for nerds like us. The idea is that the beginning of the year, you draft a team of games, leave half of your team blank. After the draft, you then of course draft a counter pick. What happened?

[Snowbike Mike]

He's looking at Tim's face. We boomed him. We boomed him so hard. He's stunned.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think anyone watching this will ever deny that you boomed him.

[Snowbike Mike]

Be hard.

[Tim Gettys]

A generous lover, Mike.

[Roger Pokorny]

And the best part about it, we were talking so loud in the office when just Tim was there because we were like, Tim's not listening to us. We know he has completely so much going on.

[Tim Gettys]

Never seen this coming. Someone in the chat. I'm just dying at the chat right now. But somebody was just like, all I'm thinking about is those poor. Those two poor innocent people.

[Greg Miller]

How did you find them?

[Roger Pokorny]

Just online and they were totally down. They were so excited about this amazing, amazing Twitch tv.

[Greg Miller]

The com. Go give it. Go give it to them.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. Mike had told me the Rizzler has been contacted is what he told me.

[Greg Miller]

So if we're doing it here, then that the Fantasy Critic. You know what we're doing? You know what we're doing? Why Mike the boom? Like, I don't. I thought you were gonna come out and have an original song. Making fun of all of us.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

By the way, thought when I saw the music, I had no idea there was two other people back there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Love that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, yeah. We went a few options.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Roger Pokorny]

We're trying to do mariachi bands. It's tough to explain to a marriage what we're doing here. It was just a lot of moving parts. So then we found the compliments and then we're thinking we're with Joey. We're like, joey, we need to. We pulled in a conference room very dramatically. We're like, what's the song? Like, what's the song? We're, like, thinking like, fuck you, CeeLo Green. You know, something like that.

[Greg Miller]

But he's like, he's a bad guy.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, yeah, he is. That's a great call. And then we're thinking about, like, what do we do? What do we do? And then she looked at us and said, the boom. And we're like, fuck, that's just too good, you know? I mean, we got to bring the boom, we bring Costco, and we get to eat on camera.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's great. Yeah, yeah. It was all Joey. Give it up to Joey, who went

[Greg Miller]

to Costco at 10:30. Can I have 19 chicken bakes and 19 hot dogs and 19 cookies?

[Roger Pokorny]

Joey did.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Shout out to Joey.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Excellent. Anyways, we do Fantasy Critic. You draft games. You also do a counter pick. There's a bunch of rules we'll get into maybe eventually. But the idea basically is that every point above 70, you get a point. This is off of Open Critic. Every point below 70, you would lose a point. Then, of course, throughout the year, the reviews come in. You see the things tabulate, you discover who will win, and clearly Snowbike Mike has won. Kind of funny. Fantasy Critic 2025 with a total of 138 points. I'm rounding up as they do as well. Congratulations, Michael.

[Snowbike Mike]

Acknowledge me.

[Greg Miller]

I think we'll just go down the list. Behind him, incredibly, incredibly close was, of course, Boss Baby Productions. That's Barrett, Courtney. Barrett gets second place with 131 points. That dang close. A mere seven point. Andy just boom. Where are you, tio? Where are you? And wait real quick.

[Snowbike Mike]

Why would you suggest better games to me, Barrett?

[Andy Cortez]

Don't listen to me then.

[Greg Miller]

I haven't been paying attention. Is Andy also eating something from Costco? Did you?

[Barrett Courtney]

Eating jelly beans.

[Greg Miller]

Subs.

[Tim Gettys]

Quickstner in the chat gifted out 50 gifted subs. Thank you so much for that.

[Greg Miller]

Hell, yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

They brought the boom.

[Greg Miller]

They brought the boom. Behind Barrett, Courtney, of course. It was the one, the only, the nitro rifle. Andy Cortez with 124 points.

[Barrett Courtney]

I learned the rules half the way through, baby. Come on.

[Greg Miller]

Third year participating in it, but okay. Behind him, a former champion, Blessing Adio Ye Jr. In fourth place with 122 points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There we go.

[Greg Miller]

And our commissioner, by the way, that's me looking great. He also runs a very tight ship on game showdown. I Hope he does it today as well.

[Andy Cortez]

He's also a little drunk.

[Greg Miller]

That'll help me out. Of course, behind him in fifth place was the one, the only, the tastemaker, Roger Piccorni.

[Roger Pokorny]

Build year, rebuild year.

[Greg Miller]

116 points where you want to be behind him.

[Barrett Courtney]

And six, more like the remaster year

[Greg Miller]

behind him. Way out of contention with the rest of us. We. Once we leave Roger, we leave contention where there was nothing happening. Because I'm with you. I'm with you. Paris eating shit. It was Paris Lily positivity P in 6th place with 99 points. Couldn't hit the triple digits. Like bowling.

[Paris Lilly]

September was my month. Silksong came out, there was Reddit poster like, oh, my God, he might win. And then Black Ops 7 and Little Nightmares 3 happened.

[Greg Miller]

So again, I'm not talking shit. I am in the cellar with you. At in seventh place, it's me, ecto1 games with 69 points. Couldn't even crack 70. We'll break down the team included with you. We'll talk about the things that didn't register that maybe should have. Come on, put up your goddamn Moonletter reviews. And then, though, at the very, very, very, very bottom, where he always is, it's eighth place is Tim Gettys with 37 points.

[Tim Gettys]

Not where I always am. Let me remind you.

[Greg Miller]

Look at Andy.

[Tim Gettys]

Let me remind you. I won last year.

[Greg Miller]

For the history lesson. For a history lesson. 2024 winner, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

2023 winner, Greg. 2022 winner, Janet who we said you never get to play again. 2021 winner. Bless. 2020 winner, bless. We've been doing it that long here?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, not all of us.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's like where you log in to watch a game and you're like, that's got to be a typo. There's no way this basketball team's losing. 92 to 31.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, that's not possible.

[Tim Gettys]

I made some bets. I'm sure we'll go through it, but I made it.

[Greg Miller]

I think it's fun to go from.

[Tim Gettys]

Weren't so good.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, start the settlers.

[Snowbike Mike]

Do it from the beginning.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

If you want to follow on kind of funny.com kfleague 2025. You can go and scroll and see yourself. We go to let Tim publish Tim Gettys. The draft order went like this. Number one, your first pick unannounced. Mainly line 3D Mario platformer.

[Tim Gettys]

Look, here's the thing. Hindsight, 20 20, right? We can all act like that's a bad call. It wasn't at the time. This Felt like one of the most, like, surefire things. Not 100%, but, like, it was a safe bet. I would say that it was going to happen.

[Barrett Courtney]

So many icons.

[Tim Gettys]

No one would have ever believed that that team, that team's going to make a Donkey Kong game. Right.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah,

[Andy Cortez]

there were those rumors years ago,

[Tim Gettys]

but, like, that felt like a smaller project.

[Greg Miller]

I want to feel rewind a minute and a half and listen to how Tim is talking. Mike, you boomed him, this kid.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah,

[Snowbike Mike]

I've been boom.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I boomed myself. I booed myself so hard back then because, yeah, the 3D platformer. I was kind of doomed there. No matter what. Then we get down to Resident Evil Requiem. It's like the moment that. That also I was very confident in being this year. And it wasn't just shy.

[Greg Miller]

It's not a bad. Yeah, again, again, the main line. You got to take a shot, you got to take a risk. I respect it. I understand. They got you zero points, of course, because it didn't release and it was counter picked. Meaning you could not drop this game. What is it? Commission? We get one drop? Is that the deal?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You get one free drop? You can drop anything. You get three drops for games that don't have release dates or that aren't releasing in 2025.

[Greg Miller]

Like, get delayed. But they have to say they're not coming.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They have to say they're not.

[Greg Miller]

When we get to my team, you'll see me locked in with a few from there. With pick number two, you took Pokemon Legends. Za.

[Tim Gettys]

With this amount of players, you know, I mean, even around to pick, you're already dropping down to, like, all right, there's not the sure fire. This might get over 90 type games. So it's like you just go for the thing. You're like, all right, I want some points on the board. Some guaranteed.

[Greg Miller]

I'm sorry, the champion would like to speak.

[Snowbike Mike]

He says that. But if you look at the pick after him in the draft, one snowbike, Mike selected Expedition 33.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but nobody believed in it yet.

[Tim Gettys]

No one believed in that. You were crazy to do that. I believe Barrett counterpicked that, and that was a fair thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

I boomed him.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I didn't counterpick. Roger counterpicked it.

[Tim Gettys]

That was a fair thing.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate it. Because the audience thinks that I'm insane for that. But there was only one trailer. There was only one trailer.

[Andy Cortez]

Only one trailer. A lot of us doubted it, you

[Tim Gettys]

know, down to the door, even come out.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. That had Gollum in it. And gollum just had a bad year with video games.

[Greg Miller]

After that. Of course. You picked two xko, another one that is not releasing, of course. Zero points for that one.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

From there we go to Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D remake. That got you 15 points with an 85 and open critic. Resident Evil Requiem, you of course picked up. It didn't release, but you were also counter picked so you could not drop it. Zero points there. The midnight walk brought you in 10 points with an 80. Then you went Darwin's Paradox after this.

[Tim Gettys]

Like Midnight Walk was the last one that I like felt confident in. And then it was just like, I need to pick up games because I had money left. There were spaces left. It was just like whatever's going on. And I was bidding. I was really trying to fight. I. I didn't do what Andy normally does and just not play. I was playing.

[Roger Pokorny]

He's only talking shit when you're. When you're in Texas.

[Barrett Courtney]

Right?

[Snowbike Mike]

No, that's, that's, that's.

[Greg Miller]

But here. So I'm sorry and I should have said commissions did what? We get five. The draft. Six or five rounds.

[Andy Cortez]

I forget.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I believe the first original draft is five rounds. Yes. And then the six pickups throughout the year.

[Greg Miller]

So then the six pickups you can leave blank and bid throughout the year. Did you do the thing where you bid all right away, Tim, I feel.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, no.

[Tim Gettys]

I like, that's, that's what I'm saying is like I, I was trying to play and I, I got outbid at one point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You bid for the God of War Greek game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which I'm glad you bid higher than me because I think I might have also bid for it. But you won. Won that one.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So you're running up the team then. Yeah. Darwin's Life of the Eternal Goldman, which did not. There's just blank. So I don't even know what the deal is with that one. This is not out yet.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That never got like an official delay, I believe.

[Greg Miller]

But Mafia, the Old country brought you in four points and Silent Hill F got you 16 points.

[Roger Pokorny]

Good.

[Greg Miller]

You got wrecked with your counter pick. Of course the counter pick you during draft, you have to look at everyone else's team and you have to pick a game saying, I think that won't release. So it'll get zero points. I mean, best case scenario is you say that game's going to be trash. You pick it, it's below 70. The points the other team lose, you would get. But you get into a Sophie's Choice where Like, yeah, everybody's team looks good. So we're really trying to pick a game that maybe we don't know about or wouldn't come out. Hence the claire obscure counter pick. But in your case, you counterpick Dispatch Losing you 17 points did not expect

[Tim Gettys]

this game to come out this year. I'm still shocked that it did. I thought it was going to be good. Didn't expect it to be as good as it is. But. But this is not me being picking this because I thought the game was

[Andy Cortez]

going to be bad and to be it wasn't a similar claire obscure thing as well because that had only just got announced at the game awards. Like we had the one trailer. So it was like I was taking a shot in the dark with that pickup. And I think it was a fair especially I think, you know, Tim was like one of the last people to counter pick. So it was like he really had to slip Pickens there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And that is what earned Tim 36 points and last place in our league.

[Roger Pokorny]

I will defend again the dispatch one. I totally agree with Barrett there. I mean you're talking to the guy that that counterpick counter clear, obscure. So, I mean, take that with a grain of salt. But then I will question you on The Darwin's paradox 1.

[Barrett Courtney]

Why?

[Roger Pokorny]

Why was that the one that you were like, hey, I got to get this octopus game. It looked good from Konami.

[Tim Gettys]

It looked good.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's the octopus game.

[Greg Miller]

I forgot.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, that's the octopus game from Konami.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I stand by. It looks good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Comes out next year, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll see.

[Greg Miller]

As we start crawling our way out of the cellar, we move our eyes to my team ecto1 games with the first pick, I took Elden Ring night rain. And when everybody el I was like, oh no. Oh no. What did he wrong? What did I do? And you're all like a multiplayer fromsoft. It got me 10 points. But as you see in this league this year should be bigger.

[Snowbike Mike]

Should be higher.

[Barrett Courtney]

80, 83 minimum.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate that, Andy.

[Barrett Courtney]

Thank you, Mike. By the way, Mike, last night beat my first ever dark solo ever solo ever.

[Snowbike Mike]

Can we talk about this? So there I am bringing the boom last night, okay.

[Greg Miller]

As you do me and my boy

[Snowbike Mike]

Kevin az we'd be breaking the boom, okay? And he jumps in, he says, what's up to us, Andy then leaves. He gets on Elden Ring night rain. Just talking to me moments before. Doesn't invite me.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Snowbike Mike]

Doesn't say, hey, you want to play? You were watching.

[Barrett Courtney]

You were Watching stuff I don't.

[Tim Gettys]

Couple nights ago me and my brother are walking out to our car in the parking lot and Mike and Andy are parked as far as they possibly can each other their windows rolled down, trying to coordinate their stream. Later the night of just like 5:30. Yeah 5:30 I think at 5:30. And my brother just looks at me goes I don't like this.

[Snowbike Mike]

And he doesn't like it either.

[Barrett Courtney]

So yeah, well we, we, you know Michael's like 6 o' clock be there. And then he eventually played Expedition 33 until 6:20 and then finally joined me.

[Snowbike Mike]

Simon's calling.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he is.

[Greg Miller]

I do want to. We've talked a lot about how Tim got boomed. I would like to admit that I was boomed as well. Michael, here's your trophy. So much happened in such a condensed amount of time that I was like I'm throwing the running show. Whatever happens. Congratulations on Micro Champion over there.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thank you.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah they're a really good team these two.

[Greg Miller]

Anyway, with my second pick I took Metal Gear Solid Delta, Snake eater, got me 15 points. Then I started playing to the audience and also being a troll a bit I took Indiana Jones in the great circle the order of the Giants of course a game that I, I didn't love Indiana Jones as you all know I'm probably the only person in the video game industry who didn't at review and so I thought well this would be the chance for the industry to reward that game with that got me two points. That was a bad call. Then the same thing I. Before picking it, I couldn't pick Mina the Hollower out of a fucking lineup. But I'm like I know they're. I know Yacht Club, I know it matters. I know they're great pick that, that as you see is one that is not not coming out this year. Supposed to, it was supposed to come this year. Then it was indefinitely delayed but they made it sound like it wasn't a big delay but I can't get out of it so it's just on my list.

[Andy Cortez]

I was convinced it was going to be a TGA shadow drop. I'm surprised, honestly shocked that didn't happen.

[Greg Miller]

I then rolled the dice and I

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

talked about an article about it by

[Tim Gettys]

the way there was like an update after the initial delay where it felt like it was gonna be a short delay and now it feels like it's gonna be a much longer studio.

[Greg Miller]

But even that it was like that was more the woes of how long this game is taking. It's still. Nobody said not this year, so maybe I get a few more points. I'll never catch the next one anyways. Moonlighter 2 the endless balls I picked. At the time of picking it, there was debate, is this an early access game? And they had an icon there forever that when you hovered over it, it said, PR has confirmed this will not release an early access. And of course it was an early access game. So I got zero points because it's out, but it's not being reviewed. Then you get to what I will call the Xbox shit show. Yeah, we went to gdc. We, you know, do this in January, you go to gdc. In March, I go to the Xbox GDC event and I'm like, I need to find cool fantasy critic indies that are going to get me some points. And I go, you know, I play Wheel World and that game demos so fucking well that I'm like, yes, thank you. Boom. Take it. That gets me three points in the end. And of course, I am one of the reviewers who was like, damn, this was my most anticipated game and it did not live up to my expectations whatsoever. Sadly, it's one of those games that demo well and doesn't play. Excellent. Same thing with To A T. To A T comes out from the creator of Katamari, Damacy. I love Katamari. This is cute. This is weird. It's got songs, it's got this cute kid. Yes. Then you play the game like, oh, it's the one song over and over again. Oh, the gameplay isn't engaging. That gets me zero points, which is better than negative, but not deserves a little bit more.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'll give you a 72 on that one.

[Greg Miller]

I'll take it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

73.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, look at that.

[Greg Miller]

Hurdling is another one I take a chance on from that GDC thing and it pays off. 10 points. I'm always looking for double digits. That's what I want out of these things. So I get hurdling, I get 10 points and I'm happy with that. Then Sea of Stars had announced their DLC throws of the Watchmaker.

[Tim Gettys]

Pretty big surprise there, getting 17 points for a DLC.

[Andy Cortez]

We'll talk about it later.

[Greg Miller]

We'll talk about it.

[Tim Gettys]

We will talk about it later.

[Greg Miller]

And Then Octopath Traveler 0. Of course, I love Octopath as a series, as you all probably know. Listen to this show. Octopath Traveler 0 ends up being my game of the year. It gets me 12 points, but it was still a. Okay, I'm going to roll the dice on this one. I'm Going to go for it and see what's up. And I counterpicked Grand Theft Auto 6, which of course is Mike's pick, as we all had to be like, probably not coming out. And that got me a hot, hot 69 points, which is enough to get it done. We turn our eyes to the one, the only, Paris Lily. After this, remind me to take an ad break. I have no idea how deep we are in the show, but I feel like we're right around that.

[Andy Cortez]

You're right around there.

[Greg Miller]

Great.

[Barrett Courtney]

It feels like it's been four hours.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Positivity P pops in with the first pick in the fantasy draft of 2025. They take Hollow Knight silksong. It gets you 22 points. Great pick, Paris. Yeah.

[Paris Lilly]

Well, actually, my real first pick was Fable and had to drop.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was a second round pick.

[Paris Lilly]

Yes, yes. Second round pick.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Then you went like. Like a dragon pirate EQS in Hawaii. Got you 11 points.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, not bad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, not bad.

[Roger Pokorny]

I think the next one, you're going to get more points if you. If someone were to bet on that one. Yeah, the Kwame Three dark guys.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I see what you're saying. Then you got Assassin's Creed Shadows. That also got you 11 points. Then you go outer world.

[Paris Lilly]

Disappointed.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, Go ahead, please.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah, I know. I was gonna say I was a little like, that's a fine score. I honestly thought it was. It was going to be high 80s. I did.

[Andy Cortez]

It needed to be for it being the, you know, the location that the fans have been asking for for 15 years.

[Paris Lilly]

Right, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

From there you move on and you go into the outer worlds too. A game I love and gets. Gets you 13 points. I would have. I would have expected higher from that. Hope. Hope for higher from that.

[Tim Gettys]

That.

[Greg Miller]

But maybe to a 15.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah. I thought mid-80s is kind of what my thinking was. The next one is probably my biggest disappointment.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. But this is a calculated move. You get Adam fall. Sadly, Adam fallen open. Critic ends with a 75, getting you five points. That was a game of like, they're not making Fallout. We will make a Fallout. We will make it more obtuse. Like you need. And not in a bad way, but like, discover where to go. Go to the southeast and you have to find it. Like, that's cool. Cool. Then you pick the altars. I got you 16 points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nice.

[Greg Miller]

Great pick.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That one was. I had that on my radar for a while. And yeah, it delivered. It was a great game.

[Greg Miller]

You pick up Kirby Air riders. You get 12 points.

[Roger Pokorny]

Hey, good job.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah.

[Paris Lilly]

And then after this, this is where I was just panicking and trying to find anything.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, it works for you. You get Borderlands 4, you get 12 points. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then you get Black Ops 7. Yeah, that loses you five points. That's a 65.

[Paris Lilly]

Yeah, that and Little Nightmares 3.

[Greg Miller]

I was just like, damn.

[Paris Lilly]

I really thought Little Nightmares 3 was gonna score higher than that. So. Yeah, that, that was a bummer as well. Yeah, the Resident Evil one.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Little Nightmares only gets you that one point. But more importantly, Black Ops 7 is the only game picked in this league that lost points. Counterpicks. I'm not counting, but this is the only game that actually became in below a 70.

[Roger Pokorny]

So we did really well this year then. That's, that's solid.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's good.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah, for sure.

[Roger Pokorny]

Positive.

[Greg Miller]

Good picks. What are you gonna do about it? And it's that thing where I feel like, like on paper it's, damn, what a year you would have had. You know, when I jump back and look at the P.S. i love you league, that blessing won, I want to say in 2020, I can't see it easily. Like that would have gotten you second place. Like you would have had more options there with this on a normal year. But what a fucking year for video games, everybody. And wouldn't it be a great year for video games here at Kind of funny if we didn't have your support? That's right. Over on patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Apple and Spotify, you can pick up a Kinda Funny membership and of course get each and every episode that we do ad free. Not just the Gamescast, all the shows we do. Of course you'd also get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series we call Greg Way. And most importantly, good karma for supporting an 11 person small business, Living the dream and bringing the boom. Copyright Snow Mike. Mike. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors, guys.

[Snowbike Mike]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Greg Miller]

The KFGD champagne hit so hard because I was so hungry. So these chicken bakes and hot dogs saved my life.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thanks, Joey.

[Roger Pokorny]

Thank you, Joey.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate you, champ.

[Roger Pokorny]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

I also appreciate you. Roger Piccorni, fifth place in the league with pick number one, you took Ghost of Yote, earning you 17 points. Then you followed up. Metroid Prime 4 beyond 11 points. When you picked that, were you confident

[Roger Pokorny]

that it was coming out?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, yeah. I felt like this is. This is the Switch 2 year. We got to have Metroid Prime 4. I was. I was like a little shaky on a Mario. I was like, I don't know when we're going to get that, but Metroid. I was like, yeah, we're going to.

[Greg Miller]

I was. I was sure.

[Roger Pokorny]

We're going to launch with Metroid, but that makes more sense. We got it later in December, your

[Greg Miller]

third pick, south of Midnight, only getting you seven points.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, I'm announcing something big for next year. I'm not doing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Roger Pokorny]

Well, actually. No, I'm lying. I was gonna say I'm not gonna do it. I was gonna say I'm not gonna do anything Xbox. But then I forgot Forza exists. So if I can get Forza, I'M in it.

[Tim Gettys]

Next year's the big Xbox.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But then also outside of Forza, yeah,

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm doing Forza counts. But like, I don't know, Gears, like, I love Gears. But like, I don't know. Are we going to be able to.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know.

[Roger Pokorny]

We'll see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I believe.

[Barrett Courtney]

But yeah, I'm not doing new ip.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, no, no new ip, Nothing like that. But, yeah, I wish this game got a little bit more. I like this game a lot. I was a higher. I think I was second highest when it comes to the game with you, Tim. But yeah, I wish this came out

[Barrett Courtney]

a little bit more.

[Greg Miller]

Paris, while we have you, how excited for an Xbox next year are you?

[Paris Lilly]

I'm very excited for Xbox next year. I think that Dev Direct is going to be pretty big for him. And you see essentially all their flagship titles are launching if they don't delay in 2026. So it should be. Should be big.

[Greg Miller]

Can I tell them what we're slacking about?

[Paris Lilly]

Wait, say that again.

[Greg Miller]

Can I tell them what we were slacking about?

[Paris Lilly]

Yes, please.

[Greg Miller]

Ladies and gentlemen and enbies, I'd like to confirm that when the Xbox Direct happens, Paris, Lily is driving to San Francisco to watch it.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Excited to have you.

[Paris Lilly]

I'm coming to get my hot dog.

[Roger Pokorny]

We're in the same one for you right here.

[Greg Miller]

From there, Roger, with his fourth pick, took Xenoblade Chronicles 10 definitive.

[Roger Pokorny]

This is the big brain moment.

[Greg Miller]

Definitive Edition. This is really 17 points. Boom. This.

[Roger Pokorny]

And Mike, you have an announcement.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hear he, hear he. Okay, I'm a champ. I've spoken with my council. Whisper in my ear.

[Barrett Courtney]

He hears.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes, yes, yes. I've spoken with my council. And as champion, SL King of the league, I have decided that all remasters will be allowed next year.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's insane.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, that's not.

[Snowbike Mike]

You are welcome.

[Roger Pokorny]

You heard it, everybody.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I stay out of the shenanigans for the most part because I don't care. Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition is a fucking port.

[Roger Pokorny]

It's a partial remake. They added new content. They added dlc. Did anyone here play the original game? How do you know?

[Tim Gettys]

Cisco Dead. Nick's torpedo.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, let's review.

[Roger Pokorny]

Existence was the definitive edition. It was definitive.

[Snowbike Mike]

They added new pages in the book, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, let's put Mario Galaxy.

[Roger Pokorny]

We almost touch and go there. We almost got it.

[Barrett Courtney]

We're almost there.

[Roger Pokorny]

They got. See, people in the chat. It's a remake. They added content.

[Tim Gettys]

No, no, it's not a Remake?

[Greg Miller]

You didn't play the game.

[Tim Gettys]

Is it a remake?

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm talking.

[Tim Gettys]

Are you really stating that it's a remake?

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm saying that it's a partial.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm asking you.

[Roger Pokorny]

I am in line with.

[Greg Miller]

This is like the most fine fantasy critic, politically charged kind of funny as ever. I'm asking you. You're like yelling at the microphone. Meanwhile, you got fucking Trump over here. Just. I decree, I decree it's going to

[Andy Cortez]

be this way now, obviously, partial remakes now next year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bless. Well, here's the thing. I can jump in here because I did do a poll around the office

[Greg Miller]

of people, please come in, bring order to the madness.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I pulled people who participate in the Fantasy Critic at kind of funny on what they think the rules should be for next year. One of the questions I asked was what should be banned? And across the board it seemed like consensus was pretty much already what the rules were, except for one category, which is partial remakes.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so as of now, right. Most people believe that partial remakes should be banned. And that would be a new category for us. That would be banned. Examples of partial remakes are games like Demon's Souls in 2020, Shadow Colossus 2018, GTA. The Trilogy Fantasy Critic lists a partial remake as a category that is hard to define. There are a lot of games that are a little too remade to be remastered, but too similar to be a remake. They live here. Now, when I go through Roger's current draft and pick out games that are considered partial remakes, that does include Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition, the Talos Principle Reawaken, and Final Fantasy Tactics.

[Tim Gettys]

The evil.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Evil.

[Snowbike Mike]

Why is he on trial right now? Yeah, why is Mario right now?

[Roger Pokorny]

Let's go through game by game. Right? The Talos Principle reawakened. That was a full on remake of the original Talos Principle in a brand new engine with an entirely new setup. So then you can build new things. It's a brand new game. That's a brand new thing that they based off of the original Talos Principle.

[Greg Miller]

They reawakened.

[Roger Pokorny]

They reawakened. Final Fantasy Tactics, the Ivalice Chronicles, that game. They lost all the code, so they had to rebuild the game from scratch. So how are you telling me that you're gonna ban me being able to pick the fantasy?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just listening to the people. All I did was I told people

[Greg Miller]

we had a blind vote gameplay wise.

[Andy Cortez]

How is Evelyse Chronicles?

[Greg Miller]

Everybody? Hold on. I'm sorry. They added brand new voice actor We. We. We recognize the honorable RGV representative Andy

[Barrett Courtney]

Corte says, Roger, I feel like we should call this the Bad Faith Diplomacy act because of the comment that that person told you in the discord.

[Greg Miller]

Go ahead and tell the comment.

[Snowbike Mike]

What, on bad faith?

[Mike (part of Snowbike Mike's musical act)]

Oh, yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

It's because we were in there and we were trying to get. Was it Mario Galaxy? Because we said that it had new pages in the storybook, so it was a partial remake. And then I think the owner of Fantasy Critic said, I think this argument is in bad faith.

[Greg Miller]

The best is that he watches content. So he knows what you guys.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, he knows. He knows. Here's the thing. Me and Mike talking in that. In that discord. That didn't change anything. You know what I mean? He knew the bit. He got the whole idea.

[Barrett Courtney]

A lot of lobbying out there.

[Greg Miller]

Dallas principal got Roger 18. Elder Scrolls Oblivion remaster got him 12.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's a remake.

[Greg Miller]

Pro skater three plus four got him 13.

[Roger Pokorny]

I should have done a little more.

[Greg Miller]

Keeper got him 11. Yes. Fantasy Tactics got him 18. Ball Pig got him 16. Expedition 33 lost him 24 points.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, we don't talk about that. You know what I mean? Like, again, there's Gollum in there. There's Charlie Cox. He's never played a video. Know what's going on there?

[Greg Miller]

Do you? I mean. I mean, I know we didn't know what we didn't know. Yeah, but, like, you win. If you could have picked a zero game, you win.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, if I picked what? Was it ever wild? Is that the one that, Barrett, you had, which was the Celeste team? Not ever wild.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, what was that called, Andy? The.

[Roger Pokorny]

The Celeste team had their own game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that got, like, canceled. And

[Roger Pokorny]

if I got Earth Blade, which I was. That was in the back of my head. But I was like, ah, if that

[Andy Cortez]

comes out, that would have been the pick.

[Roger Pokorny]

So either way, next year, I'm coming for your asses. But it feels like you guys are trying to hold me back because I'm over here just looking.

[Barrett Courtney]

Roger, do that. No, we can't hold back, Roger, because, like, we. You learn lessons after what you've done. Yes. And you look at Roger's list, and he had the most success with only those remakes or Remads. So if I'm Roger, I'm like, why would I risk it on uip? Like, I have the strategy here. So, like, I think I voted against you, Roger, but I may put in a little law to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To be fair, you still get quite a. You still get quite a few of those Remasters and. Or remasters.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, but like the issue is. Is like, is there going to be a way for me to look at you and in good faith genuinely say, hey, Final Fantasy Tactics. The Evelys Chronicles is put as a partial remake, but that game is a

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

full actual remake because I go by the website.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay, so then that's not fair. Actual remake of a video game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But we're going off of what the website says. For me, that's the only way I can make this completely fair is to go y' all decide over here.

[Greg Miller]

And I'd love to chime in. We have a super chat from C. Barry. Can I suggest for next year to make things interesting, VGA's and maybe KF Game of the Year play a role in points. And this makes game. This makes games with points open to be traded. No, we play it on the page we played on Fantasy Critic because otherwise we don't want the page to be. Oh well, Mike won, but in our world, he. Roger got 10 points for whatever he beat Mike. No, no, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The other option is there are. We can make. Make specific slots for types of games so we could make it to where everybody has to. Has to pick up a partial remake.

[Greg Miller]

No, I don't like that.

[Barrett Courtney]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That sucks.

[Greg Miller]

Here's what I'll say. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Barrett Courtney]

Sorry.

[Greg Miller]

The table. The committee recognizes the loser from Game Showdown, Tim Gettys.

[Tim Gettys]

Is it possible to look at games from previous years of what they are counted as? Cause I want to know what. Donkey Kong Country, Tropical Freeze on the switch.

[Greg Miller]

What year was that?

[Roger Pokorny]

I think that's a partial remake, right?

[Tim Gettys]

If it's a port with funky mode. If that counts as a partial remake.

[Roger Pokorny]

Funky mode, I'm gonna.

[Tim Gettys]

My pants.

[Barrett Courtney]

There's a comment from Omega Buster where who said Roger should just manage Mike chat? They. They almost kind of worked as a team. Anyway, it was hilarious to watch watch. But the amount of times that I heard might go, yeah, Roger fucked me on that one. Like, we can't have any more of that. We can't have any more Mike blaming Roger.

[Roger Pokorny]

Let's see what it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I can't find Tropical Freeze, but Don Kong Country Returns HD is a remaster, if that helps at all.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, that makes sense because that's what it is.

[Andy Cortez]

Tropical Freeze probably came out before this was a website.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Here's what I think should happen.

[Roger Pokorny]

I think partial remake is fair.

[Greg Miller]

Here's what I'm gonna say. Tell me Guard blessing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

You're an honorable commissioner.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

You always have. I hope you enjoyed the PlayStation 5 Pro gave you and hope it, you know, never influences anything I did. I say you go with what the votes were for the league. However, as someone who's often accused of cheating, whether it be in Fantasy Critic. Don't laugh. Whether it be in game showdown where everything I do is perfectly legal. I feel for you, Roger. And I would like to say nobody should mock you for what you did this year. You played the game. You're always playing Survivor.

[Roger Pokorny]

They're playing the game.

[Andy Cortez]

What was the vote difference between the partial remakes?

[Roger Pokorny]

Yes. There won't be off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's one off. Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'll do anything for you. I'll do anything right now.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'll give you my vote.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, if Roger and Mike are on one team next year.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, I'm going to beat Mike.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

My favorite. That was.

[Andy Cortez]

That was my. That's all I'm giving you.

[Tim Gettys]

I'll.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'll be honest with you. Like it.

[Andy Cortez]

It.

[Barrett Courtney]

There was a good chance that Roger, like, would have beat me with this strategy if not for Claire Expedition. Claire Obscure. But I had so much fun being the outsider looking in because I didn't really check my as much as I should have. But the amount of times that, like, Roger and Mike would pull me into the lab and be like, hey, can we talk to you about something secret

[Snowbike Mike]

shit to tell me.

[Barrett Courtney]

And we'd walk out and bust you and be like, what are y' all doing in there? They were like, don't worry about. Was a lot of fun to kind of be like the co conspirator.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

So if you let partial remakes in, we'll still have fun to. Actually, we can.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We can talk about it more.

[Roger Pokorny]

No, there's no fucking ban.

[Andy Cortez]

If there's a boat of partial remakes banning thing. I say stick to the vote.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To be clear, like, you still get games like Elder Scrolls for Oblivion Remastered and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater three plus four. It's those weird ones where we look at and we're like, what the is that? When we're talking about Final Fantasy Evely's Chronicles or Xenoblaze.

[Greg Miller]

The Fantasy Critic commission would like to recognize the champion Snowbike Mike.

[Snowbike Mike]

What if we meet in the middle? Oh, you allow slots.

[Greg Miller]

This is why he's a champion.

[Snowbike Mike]

Let's say that you are allowed up to two partial remakes or the. The muddy ones. You allow two. You. We limit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't think they have that functionality on the site, unfortunately.

[Snowbike Mike]

We can agree.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, we can't. I played with you guys. We cannot agree with that. No, we cannot do that.

[Greg Miller]

I know y'.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All.

[Greg Miller]

If it can't play on the page, we're not doing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not allowing it.

[Roger Pokorny]

You say you can do House Rules.

[Greg Miller]

No, we're not doing House Rules Corrupted.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, I thought the house rules was the setting.

[Tim Gettys]

I gotta be like, out of all of this. The thing that like boils my blood. Is Xenoblade Chronicles being called a partial reel remake. Like, that's. That's.

[Roger Pokorny]

They added brand new ui.

[Tim Gettys]

But that's what. We all understand that that's not what a partial remake is.

[Roger Pokorny]

What is a partial remake?

[Tim Gettys]

It needs to be more than that. You know, if, like, if you were to be asked, is it just. Is it a port? An enhanced port, yes.

[Roger Pokorny]

But here's the issue with it. Now let me genuinely. We can draft dlc. So if it's just glorified dlc, then I should be able to draft that.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, no, because Definitive Edition is being reviewed as a whole package when a DLC is releasing. They are reviewing that dlc. Case in point, Sea of Stars, Elden Ring Night. Or not Night, Rain, fucking whatever it is. It's not like they're re reviewing the entire package of Elden Ring when like a DLC drops on its own, as they should.

[Greg Miller]

They should have re reviewed all of Indiana Jones.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's what I'm saying too.

[Greg Miller]

All these fucking yak yak yakkers. It was such a great game. Where were you this time?

[Roger Pokorny]

You aren't the models. New brand new models. Changes everything.

[Greg Miller]

We turn our eyes.

[Tim Gettys]

Chad is pissing me off. I swear to God.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, they. They're getting mad at me taking this

[Tim Gettys]

too seriously about me winning or losing.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, like the game is broken.

[Tim Gettys]

We're usually broken chest pie.

[Andy Cortez]

Tim, Just don't worry about the chat. They're all bought in by Roger and Mike, so they're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

When you read the boom, it's hard to argue.

[Tim Gettys]

It is hard to argue.

[Greg Miller]

We turn our eyes to fourth place. It's blessings, team. Number one pick was split fiction, getting you 21 points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Second pick, Death Stranding 220 points. Come on. This kid's unstoppable.

[Snowbike Mike]

Come on, wander, stop.

[Greg Miller]

11 points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, and honestly, I'm glad it got back up there. When the. When the reviews first dropped, I think it was in the lower 70s. And so I'm glad to see were netted out, but I wanted even more from Wanderstop. Coming from the same creators as the Stanley Parable.

[Greg Miller]

Mario Kart world bringing you 17 points. Disappointment, I thought still good amount of points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, but Mario Kart World should get me in the 90s.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

No, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A Mario Kart game. A new Mario Kart.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, 90s.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want 91.

[Tim Gettys]

That's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want a 91 from a Mario Kart.

[Andy Cortez]

What does 8 Deluxe get like? Is 8 Deluxe even, like in the 90s?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would hope so.

[Greg Miller]

But even that, that's everything.

[Barrett Courtney]

8.

[Greg Miller]

That's. Yeah, I was going to say Mario

[Roger Pokorny]

Kart 8 is where 8 Deluxe is. 92.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

What about everything that's years and years and years and years and years and years of content.

[Roger Pokorny]

8 is 88.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So pretty close.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Sounds right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

Then you picked mixtape and not only did it not come out this year, it was a counter picked a zero point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mixtape was my biggest mistake of this fantasy critic year. It's a tough one. Knowing that hearing Greg's impressions coming off of Summer Game Fest, I know that game is going to be a banger. And so to have it not come out this year, year really sucks. And for it to get counterpicked so I wasn't able to drop it. That was, I think, one of the key things that didn't allow me to rise in that top two.

[Greg Miller]

Then you picked Possessors. Two points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Another tough decision. Another one that I had big hopes in. I know how much Andy and a lot of people love games like Hyper Light Drifter and Heart Machine is a studio that I think we all love and respect. And so you would hope that. Okay, they're putting out a new 2D Action 2D Metroidvania game that's gonna be fire.

[Tim Gettys]

I think that was a good bet you made. It Just didn't pay off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just didn't pay off.

[Tim Gettys]

You didn't do anything wrong there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

We also, like. We also did the Steam Next Fest demo and it was awesome because it was like the section of the game that felt, you know, very, very complete.

[Roger Pokorny]

When did you pick it up? Did you pick it up when it was just like a teaser or after you played that Next Fest demo?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, that's a good question. I want to say I picked it up toward the summer because I was like purposely not trying to pick a lot of stuff up in the first half of the year. So it must have been during Steam Next Fest.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Then you go with Bionic bay. You get 16 points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, yeah, that was one. I forget where I heard about Bionic Bay, but that was one that I must have been like a showcase or something. Something saw the gameplay of it and oh no, it was. It was definitely a Steam Next Fest thing because I heard people talking about it and I looked at the gameplay and went, oh, this is gonna be a banger for sure. It, I believe, dropped closer to 90 and then the score dropped down over time a little bit, but I'm still happy with this.

[Greg Miller]

Then you fall for that indie siren song and you go with Skin Deep getting you just seven points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I blame George from Pop Agenda for this. Yeah, he was really talking up Skin Deep. And to be fair, I played a little bit of Skin Deep. I see what's incredible about that game. I do think that game does a lot of special things, but also it's a game that is not for everybody. It' it's an immersive sim with a really particular art style that I don't think hit for most people. But it is what it is. Sometimes you make risks, you take risks and they don't pan out.

[Greg Miller]

Then this is where one of those you broke my heart of like, I don't know, early in the year. I'm very. I'm not. It's not that I'm ever inactive on Fantasy Critic, but I'm way more thinking of it. And Luminesce Arise gets denounced and I never even thought to go drop something. Pick it up or pick it up if I had a spot or whatever. You pick up Luminesce arise, you get 16 points off of it. Yes. Very happy about that. Congratulations.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This one I learned from last year where I missed out on drafting Astrobot. And if I spent all my money, I could have gotten Astrobot. So this year, after summer game fest season, I was like, okay, I gotta make sure that I'm drafting things.

[Barrett Courtney]

Then you spend money to make money.

[Greg Miller]

Your final one is consume me. 13 points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was hoping for more from it. Sure, it's another indie one, right, that we talk about. But it was good. It got the Seamus McNally Award from PDC. It's been talked up a lot. I was hoping it could get me closer to like an 88, 89. But knowing what that game is, even an 83 for it, pretty good.

[Greg Miller]

That's not bad.

[Andy Cortez]

People who love it, they adore it. But it just didn't hit for everybody that same way.

[Greg Miller]

It's that thing where we have to learn. And I say this with all due respect. The GDC and I IDGA awards there don't matter because if you remember, last year, I picked Up Master. When it won an award there I was taking notes during the award show like, oh, this is good. And I love Crit Master. Nobody else did. So it's like, well, that sucks and we should stop going to GC.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And counter pick being unannounced 3D Mario.

[Greg Miller]

Good one zero points. You did what you had to do out there. I like the a lot and I

[Barrett Courtney]

loved your strategy behind it. Bless of if I. If I mess up on this, I'm gonna lose points, but I'll have a new Mario.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. That was my thought process toward the beginning when we did this is either I get a new 3D Mario or. Or either I this up or I get a 3D Mario.

[Barrett Courtney]

Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I'm like, all right, cool. I'm down with those odds.

[Greg Miller]

From there, we turn our eyes to third place. Just let me do the math real quick there. Two points ahead. Wow of blessing. Adio ye junior. It's Nitro Rifle Games with your first pick. You went with Meer Civilization 7 got you nine points. Never again.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Civs always launched in a kind of rough state. And then slowly.

[Greg Miller]

But you thought this would be the year they wouldn't.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Like every time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They would have learned every time.

[Snowbike Mike]

That was your first pick.

[Greg Miller]

Seven bites of the apple here. Then you. You make up for it. Doom in the dark ages gets you 16 points.

[Barrett Courtney]

Everybody's got to play that game, bro. That game's so good.

[Greg Miller]

You go with a Vowed gets you 10 points. Which is surprising for me as somebody who likes about but wouldn't think an 80.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, well, I mean, after, after. While I was playing it, the whole time I was just thinking like, this is not going to be great for my fantasy critic. Like it's going to. It's not going to be a disaster. But I. I do not love this game and I'm not super hyped on it right now.

[Greg Miller]

From there you go with Skate story getting you 14 points. Oh yeah. Were you clenching your asshole all year? Is it actually going to come?

[Barrett Courtney]

Well, yeah, because Skate Story was also last year's game that I drafted and got delayed.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

So like it happened again. I was like, you can't fool me twice. Three times.

[Greg Miller]

With your fifth pick in the draft, you go with Lies of Pete Overture. It gets you 16 points.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, wow. Actually, you know what? That's great. That's fucking great. Good for me.

[Greg Miller]

And he's looking at fantasy for the first time. You go with Ninja Gaiden Rage bound. It gets you 16 points of 16s here. This is definitely one of those. If you showed me at the end of the year, I looked at this like, oh, he plays really high with that. Then you go with MLB the Show. It gets you 13 points higher than

[Andy Cortez]

I would have expected, honestly.

[Greg Miller]

Then a heartbreaker for your fantasy team. And just how much I love the game you go with Hell is Us, it only gets you eight points. Wow. Criminally underplayed, under reviewed.

[Tim Gettys]

One of the.

[Barrett Courtney]

One of those risks where I was like, I could see this one just hitting really high and it just. It just didn't, unfortunately. 100% off of it. Good, too.

[Greg Miller]

Then it's absolute 16 points.

[Roger Pokorny]

Good job.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nice.

[Greg Miller]

Then Demon School is your final game out of your roster. Gets you 16 points.

[Barrett Courtney]

Me on that one.

[Greg Miller]

Well, that had a great. That had a great GDC demo. They were here on the mix, and it's a great game. We're not trying to. Or, you know, I haven't played it. It's not bad game. It's just not as many points as you would want.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a seven out of ten. Yeah, for sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to. I want to shout out the consistency because Andy doesn't have anything that's hit a nine ninety on his list. And I have two nineties on my list. Right. But Andy was still able to get above me.

[Andy Cortez]

I think the most consistent team, like we talked about this last year of, like, if you had a team that had every game score 15 points, you're getting 150. And I feel like he has, like, the most kind of, like, games there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So, like, that's the lesson for me, because I got one game that didn't come out and then two games that are in the 70s and like, that brought me below him. And so the strategy really is like, yo, go for stuff that you know is gonna be good and stuff that's gonna come out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

I was still learning rules by the end of the year. Also really proud of that one. Cabarru had helped me out there before he decided to me on Demon School. Yeah, he didn't realize, like, he still

[Andy Cortez]

had, like, drops on delays and stuff like that because I had a. I

[Barrett Courtney]

thought you could only drop one game that had been delayed, but I had Witchbrook at the end of the year, which Brook was like, hey, we're deleting until next year. I was like, well, there goes my chances. And Vera's like, no, you have two more days date drops that you. Oh, wow. Very, very cool. And I was gonna take a risk and go with fancy football or, or sorry, Football Manager again like I did last year. Well, because it got delayed earlier in the year like right as the year started and I don't even know if that game came out, so I probably wouldn't.

[Roger Pokorny]

It did. It wasn't good. Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh good, good.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

That was like down to the, to the wire with Mike's last pick. I was like, hey man, what about Football Manager? And he was like, look at the Reddit, people are playing the beta. This game's bad.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like, oh yeah, they have not had a last good couple of years. Which is, which is rough. I'm, I'm sorry about the, the Demon School recommendation. Andy is truly like purely off of how people previewed that game. That game being showed for years. It just felt like, oh, this is going to hit for this crowd that has really been waiting for kind of like a throwback to Super Nintendo PS1 RPGs and great tactics gameplay. But yeah, everything around it's just unfortunately didn't really hit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shout out to how much fantasy critic makes us lock in into games coverage because why, why, why do we know about Football Manager?

[Andy Cortez]

Because I brought it up like one time four years ago.

[Greg Miller]

A correction from the chat. I said demon school got 16 points. I meant six. I've been drinking champagne all day. Pretty calm down. All right. And then. Yeah, I already see your counterpick. Right Andy? Oh no, I didn't. Hyper Light Breaker was your counter pick, which must have been, you know, heartbreaker for you as somebody who loves them.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, I mean, well that was one that I feel like it was just, you know, as, as much as I still enjoy the game, I just one didn't think it was going to get enough reviews as an early access title because it isn't HADES to early access, which is, you know, I feel like it's so hard to predict, but the game has to have a lot of juice behind it, noise wise, in order to get early access reviews. And I just wasn't sure I really

[Greg Miller]

thought letter would, but who would have thought?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

We turn our eyes to the bridesmaid, the one, the only Barrett, Courtney, Greg.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, right now I'm on a trajectory.

[Greg Miller]

Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

Last year, as some people know, I was third place. This year I got to second place and if I continue this trajectory, maybe I can get a win next year. But here's the thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

Fuck.

[Greg Miller]

What is going on, Mike?

[Snowbike Mike]

Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Don't look.

[Andy Cortez]

But here's the thing. As We've learned so many times in real life, evil always wins.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true.

[Andy Cortez]

And for me to lock in next year and get that win, I've decided for 20, 26, you be evil.

[Snowbike Mike]

Embrace it.

[Andy Cortez]

I have to be evil.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Watch.

[Barrett Courtney]

You got to be a bad person.

[Andy Cortez]

I have to be a bad person.

[Roger Pokorny]

Do partial remix.

[Greg Miller]

Listen.

[Barrett Courtney]

We're cheating.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

These fans are critical.

[Greg Miller]

We are scared.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's going to look like the Sokovia Accords.

[Roger Pokorny]

People are going to jail.

[Greg Miller]

Courtney, just seven points short of first place. First pick, Monster Hunter Wilds, 19 points.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody remember this for your top tens. Just me and Mike. I know. Citizen Sleeper 2 got you 17 points. Dispatch got you 17 points even with a counter pick.

[Andy Cortez]

And those were the only three games that stayed for me the entire year from the original draft. I. I think, yeah, I had Earth Blade, I think was my second round pick. And then the Sea of Stars DLC was my, I believe, third round pick. And so, yeah, Earth Blade got canceled. Had to drop that. And then if we're going to talk realistically about what was my one big mistake this year, because I have a, you know, wildly inconsistent team this year. But if it's down to one mistake, it was dropping that Sea of Stars dlc which.

[Greg Miller]

And I gobbled it up.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, got would have gotten me 17 points. Seventh place finish would have gotten me 17 points. Instead of rematches four, which would have got me the win. So that like me doubting myself and like, oh, it's a DLC for an indie game. DLC never re reviews as well as a main game. Does it even come out this year? Because, you know, Andy and I have known like we're where's the Katana zero DLC kind of thing. So I got in my head about it and then, you know, bought on the, the. The hype of bless Andy and Mike over the summer with a rematch. So if. If there's one core decision, that was it.

[Greg Miller]

And I, I remember being bummed that you got rematch because I had hemmed in hot on getting rematch and I was like, ah, when you got it, I was like, I should have done it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Y' all should have asked because I would have told y' all not to get that one.

[Greg Miller]

But you love rematch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I love rematch.

[Greg Miller]

But after that, Rift of the necrodancer got you 10 points. After that, ever hood2 got you 8 points. Blueprints got you 20 points. Points. This is probably another example of you cheating. Listening to other podcasts.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

And I will be doing that way more next year in 2020. Part of becoming evil. I'm listening to every podcast, even if they're not gaming related.

[Roger Pokorny]

We should make this Mike, you and

[Greg Miller]

I misinformation also maybe wait, you'll be here next year. Like we use generative AI and the podcast Bear was listening to.

[Andy Cortez]

And maybe you know when Mike sneaks into the chat for the draft next year, maybe some of the chatters in the chat that he takes suggestion for from maybe they're my bots telling him wrong information. Who knows?

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh wow. Who knows what is ever so everhood

[Andy Cortez]

2everhood is kind of a definitely an indie game. Kind of Undertale. Like that was really inspired by Undertale. A bit more like music based I think in terms of like what it's

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

game to the combat is like a rhythm game essentially.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And everhood1 reviewed at like an 82 or 83 and this being a sequel, I was like, all right. It was like a really liked indie game game. I feel like this could be one of those that like maybe reviews as well, if not better than the first ever hood and it just didn't pay out, unfortunately.

[Greg Miller]

Those gambles, you got to take them.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, because that's what I was thinking with Citizen Sleeper as well. Like that reviewed mid-80s and I was like 2 will probably review around there.

[Greg Miller]

So yeah, from there that are Shinobi. Shinobi. Art of vengeance got you 17 points.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That game's rad as hell.

[Greg Miller]

Unbeatable brings in a. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And again, you know, this team got me to second place. I can only be happy about it just because of how scrappy and weird some of these picks were. I would not trade Unbeatable for the world. I'm just glad I had that on my team.

[Greg Miller]

Marvel Cosmic invasion gets you 11. Yeah, I expected more from that.

[Andy Cortez]

I before reviews came out, we were in the review period for Cosmic Invasion. And I remember, you know, the two games I had left that weren't reviewed yet were Cosmic Invasion and Unbeatable. And you know, it's between those way you can lose. Yeah, exactly. Like we had been looking forward to Unbeatable for years. Cosmic Invasions being made by the team that made Shredder's Revenge and that reviewed so well. It was like, all right, this is it. Of like can I catch up to Mike? And an hour into Cosmic Invasion, like, you know, two weeks before review embargo, I knew immediately. I was like, I'm not winning fantasy critic. I like, I knew Cosmic Invasion was just not going to get me to that like I think Shredder's Revenge was at like an 87 I think when it got reviewed. And that's what I assumed when I draft the drafted Cosmic Invasion that's it would get me roughly around there. But yeah, I knew I was cooked like a good month or so ago.

[Greg Miller]

Rematches. We've already beaten to death here. Got you four points. Didn't get what you needed on that one, but you did counterpick mixtape.

[Roger Pokorny]

Great job.

[Greg Miller]

So great call there. Zero points.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And that was like. I don't doubt that game. Even though their first game I wasn't as in love with like mixtape does look really cool. But it was one of those. I. I have my doubts of it coming coming this year. So I'm. I'm glad that paid off.

[Greg Miller]

And then the champion Snow Bike Mike.138 on the board Pick number one, Grand Theft Auto6.0 points, not releasing this year. Wow, that's crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Crazy.

[Barrett Courtney]

He was forced into that two of those.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He still won.

[Snowbike Mike]

Keep it going down the list before we get there.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no, no. I'm a journalist. I'm a journalist first. I'm sorry you have been blessing. Is he getting first picked? We decided that was he made his decree. Is that official?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll make that official. Yeah. He'll get first pick.

[Greg Miller]

I have to ask you then Mike, in the 2026 Fantasy Critic Games cast draft, are you drafting Grand Theft Auto 6 again?

[Snowbike Mike]

Tune in to find out.

[Barrett Courtney]

Out.

[Greg Miller]

You're such a piece of.

[Snowbike Mike]

Of course I'm gonna draft.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough.

[Snowbike Mike]

First pick, baby.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now the bigger question is, is anybody going to counterpick it?

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's already been November. November. Not a bad counter pick. Michael, you wanted to take the mic, you go for it.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, I want you to just read them off and then I'm going to talk to you through the year. Tim, I'm tell you about my great

[Greg Miller]

Greg Claire Obscure Expedition 33 brought you in 24 points. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 brought you in 19 points. Trails in the sky first chapter brought you 20 points. Hyper Light Breaker was not releasing this year. Counterpicked brought you 0 points. The first berserker kazan not the bazan kirker first or whatever else is 11 points. Donkey Kong Bonanza brought you 23 points.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Points.

[Greg Miller]

EA Sports College Football 26 brought you 14 points. Ninja Gaiden 4 brought you 12 points. Then you psychopath. Kingdom Come Deliverance to Mysteria ecclesia got you 17 points.

[Roger Pokorny]

Now we have to reveal something about

[Greg Miller]

and then Your counter pick of Indiana Jones got you negative too.

[Roger Pokorny]

We have to reveal something about that that we learned yesterday.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, what are you about to wrong?

[Roger Pokorny]

Can I say Barrett?

[Andy Cortez]

If you want.

[Roger Pokorny]

If you want me to. No, you can tell.

[Greg Miller]

We play it on the page.

[Snowbike Mike]

On the page.

[Roger Pokorny]

Well, it's something outside of the page. We've been getting a lot of shit about playing outside of the page. If you look at the Kingdom come deliverance to Miss Hillary whatever page, it only has three reviews, so it has an 87. Barrett has been messaging the Open Critic people.

[Andy Cortez]

No, no, I have a. There's a submit form on Open Critic where if you see reviews from Metacritic that aren't on Open Critics Critic, you can submit those.

[Roger Pokorny]

So he's been trying to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's been.

[Greg Miller]

He's been petitioning.

[Roger Pokorny]

He's been trying to.

[Snowbike Mike]

He's turning evil.

[Greg Miller]

I'm turning evil.

[Snowbike Mike]

This is what they did to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's so evil.

[Snowbike Mike]

I love this bear.

[Greg Miller]

That's somebody's bonus.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm not even mad at it.

[Greg Miller]

For a DLC review. Come on. Open Critic bonus.

[Andy Cortez]

And it's like I was submitting reviews from sites that do post on Open Critic that for some reason didn't post the reviews of this game.

[Greg Miller]

Open Critic.

[Roger Pokorny]

So the critic watches this podcast. They know scene like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just can't imagine that is.

[Andy Cortez]

That is what these two turns me into. Y' all saw me try to give the the demon school tips to Andy. They have turned me insane.

[Roger Pokorny]

There's the smallest chance that these get updated between this podcast at the end of the year.

[Greg Miller]

That might change everything once the trophy's been passed.

[Snowbike Mike]

I haven't.

[Greg Miller]

Now we've declared him. He brought in a musical act. He brought the boom. I can't. You can't put the tooth away. But I'm not too face. Can't go back in the tooth.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can you imagine working for the Kingdom Come Deliverance two team and like waking up and seeing that your it drops three points down to 79. You're like, what the happened?

[Roger Pokorny]

Barrett brought the boom.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's hilarious.

[Greg Miller]

You got to say champ.

[Snowbike Mike]

And my counterpick, Indiana Jones.

[Greg Miller]

I brought that up. Yeah. Two points. But when you.

[Snowbike Mike]

Tim, let me take you through the year.

[Tim Gettys]

Please do.

[Snowbike Mike]

I had a big year all right there I was second round pick and I was forced into gta. Everyone would have picked it, of course. And you had to pick it. It was. It was the elephant in the room who you were going to take it no matter what. What was the first pick Monger Wilds bear was smart enough to move away from it. I had to take the bullet, you know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

And that's it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay? Because content, anyone would have done it. You had to do it. But guess What? I had two zeros on my team. Still one. Okay? I could do anything. Number two.

[Greg Miller]

He's the greatest of all time.

[Snowbike Mike]

Expedition 33. I believed in you. I knew you were going to deliver. Sure, I played you nine months late, but I'm a believer, okay? I'm an absolute believer in this game. I knew it was going to deliver. Kingdom come deliverance two. Come on now. The follow up, the kingdom come deliverance one. I knew that was going to deliver as well. Saw it. Now we get into some shenanigans. This is insane.

[Tim Gettys]

This. Out of all the picks on this entire list of anyone's choice, Mike pulling trails in the sky, first chapter, getting him 20 points.

[Snowbike Mike]

Did he pull it or did chat

[Andy Cortez]

tell him to pull it?

[Greg Miller]

Doesn't matter.

[Tim Gettys]

He did it though. He did it.

[Snowbike Mike]

And this is.

[Tim Gettys]

When would you have done it, Barrett?

[Andy Cortez]

No, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

You would have sat there and ordered a smaller hat. So shut up.

[Snowbike Mike]

This is when I believe. Believed in the nerds. I opened up my heart. I said 2025 Snowbike Mike is stepping out of the box. I'm becoming something more.

[Greg Miller]

These nerds, man, they don't like realistic looking women, but they love video games.

[Snowbike Mike]

Let's get down and dirty right now. Tell me the pick. And they said, mike, you gotta believe in it. And I went to this guy and I believed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do we turn off the chat next?

[Snowbike Mike]

No. Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

And that was supposed to be a rule this year.

[Snowbike Mike]

I believed it.

[Andy Cortez]

We weren't supposed to be in chat.

[Snowbike Mike]

They said it before. I already knew. Me and me and the champion.

[Greg Miller]

Champion. Is the chat on or off next year?

[Snowbike Mike]

Chat off. What chat off next year? Nobody knows. You got to come into my pulling

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

in for personal stream chat.

[Roger Pokorny]

He'll be fine.

[Andy Cortez]

That's fine.

[Snowbike Mike]

The next game, of course. Andy Cortez. He me. Andy Cortez has a soft spot for heart machine. He loves this incredible development team and he me. Andy hyped this game up to me. He said, this is the next coming of Jesus. I said, yeah, right now, like, I'm in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I agree with you, Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

And then he counter because he also

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

did that with me for possessors as well.

[Roger Pokorny]

And I picked it last year as well. And it didn't come out. So Andy, I definitely was.

[Barrett Courtney]

I definitely wasn't on the show going,

[Greg Miller]

I don't know man, no.

[Roger Pokorny]

We felt the vibes.

[Snowbike Mike]

We went first Berserker, Kazan, Andy also me on that one. He said this was going to be the next lies of P. I believed him. That one didn't get me enough. But then I came back. This is when I saved the league. Okay? This was that mid season drought of like, is anybody still taking it seriously? Is anybody even talking about about it? And I saved the league. I put the league on my back because I put $80 on Donkey Kong Bonanza to what? Stiff arm Barrett person who takes it seriously.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm trying to get.

[Andy Cortez]

That wasn't even really stiff arming me because I barely had any money at this point. You really stiffed armed Greg, who was the second highest bidder with like $40 or something.

[Snowbike Mike]

You gotta just.

[Roger Pokorny]

Did you do this last year as well on Shadows?

[Barrett Courtney]

Spend money to make money.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, you.

[Greg Miller]

Drat.

[Andy Cortez]

You spent $75 on AC shadows.

[Snowbike Mike]

I was wondering what are you doing with that fake fantasy money? You know what I mean? Like, you're not holding on to it when you die. Might as well spend it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everybody, if you. If you want the history of DK Bonanza, Boss Baby had bid $23 for it and failed him Tendo, which I forget. Is that me? I think that's me. I bid $31 for it. Positivity. P had bid $10 for it. Ecto one game. So Greg had bid $41 for it and Mike had bid $80 for it.

[Tim Gettys]

And I only. I was going to bid, but I heard everyone was already bid.

[Greg Miller]

I was like, I don't have enough money for this likely excuse.

[Snowbike Mike]

Then I believed in college football. They added a soundtrack.

[Greg Miller]

And hey, for real, for real.

[Roger Pokorny]

This a good one.

[Greg Miller]

Round of applause for Mike on that one. Because as a college football fan returning after so many years, last year I was like, this year is where they eat shit. And everybody's like, you didn't do enough. He didn't do enough. And it still went up.

[Snowbike Mike]

I was like, damn, they got better. And then this is where, you know, maybe I started to talk to my cat council. Okay. Yeah, I had Crimson Desert. And they announced that they won't be returning. And so maybe we tried to trade. Maybe me and my.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, we felt it in the air. They were gonna have a little whispers.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

And then I gave him that. And then I dropped. And then I got Final Fantasy Evely's Chronicles. So that was good.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's where they called me in. This is where they called me into the lab.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

And we're like, don't tell anybody.

[Roger Pokorny]

We've done that so many times, I

[Snowbike Mike]

forgot which one he said, mike, take Ninja Gaiden 4. And I did. Did. Did it deliver? No, but it got me 12. Hey, my rule on my team is if you don't get 15 points, you're a failure.

[Greg Miller]

Okay?

[Snowbike Mike]

15 or more, you fail.

[Greg Miller]

It sounds like my dad.

[Snowbike Mike]

Ninja Garden four failed me, okay? Know that. Then it was the end of the end of the league, Tim. I was the last one to pick. Everybody had their doubts. What is he going to do? Roger's pushing on me. Take ball pit. Okay? You got to take ball pit. Have you ever heard of this weird goop game where the goop becomes another goop? You got to take this game.

[Roger Pokorny]

You don't even know dad.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, you know what it was?

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't.

[Snowbike Mike]

It just recently came out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Morsels.

[Greg Miller]

Mor. Mor.

[Snowbike Mike]

Mike, have you heard of this morsels game? And I said, roger, stop with this bs. I have to believe in myself. I have to believe. As Nick says, go with the one who brought you here. Okay, who's taking you to the dance?

[Greg Miller]

That's an Excel.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I followed.

[Greg Miller]

Go to the place where you already were with the person who brought you. Direct quotes.

[Snowbike Mike]

Kingdom Come. Deliverance to dlc. Absolutely got me there. And I won. And so I said. I said at the top of the show that I'm an unselfish lover. I'm a benevolent champion.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I was gonna make one of you the loser this year, go out and do tick tock dances, but I've decided against that. Okay? I don't want to do that. I see four people here at this desk, four losers. To the three of you who are off the set, know that I love the you very, very much. You don't have to participate, but my four losers will play one round of lightning reactions.

[Greg Miller]

Come on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just one.

[Snowbike Mike]

Just one.

[Greg Miller]

Love it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Love it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Then we can get into the rules of next.

[Greg Miller]

Did you check if there's the batteries?

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, no.

[Greg Miller]

Remember, Kevin put them in brand new batteries a while back.

[Tim Gettys]

We're good.

[Greg Miller]

We're good.

[Barrett Courtney]

They were very strong.

[Snowbike Mike]

Everybody gather around.

[Greg Miller]

Lightning action. Real game of the year.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. I can't explain how much I don't want to do this right now.

[Greg Miller]

So we're going to hit the button. It's going to play a song, and then when the song and the light. The song and light will change. And then you got to buzz in. If you're the first to buzz in, you don't get shocked really badly. And if you are the other three. You get shocked real badly.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should we mic it up?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Easy.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, you got it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I got it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, I got it too.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I must have buzzed in early.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's all right. It's like.

[Greg Miller]

It's one of those things where lightning reactions got a few different settings and you know, that's all I wanted. But I love it shock. So it's fine for me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It sucks.

[Greg Miller]

Before we get to blessing telling us the new final rules, let's plow through the super chats. You all have been so generous today. Thank you. Of course we do this to entertain you, hang out with you, because we love you. Remember, the day isn't over after the this Tim can't beat me. It's the kind of funny game showdown finale. After that, it will be my celebration of winning the championship. AKA the white elephant Kind of funny holiday party gift exchange. We'll see. I see Wiener Super Chats and says congratulations Andy Parentheses. You can't try to blame shift and take the crown, Mike.

[Barrett Courtney]

I. I mean, what does that mean?

[Greg Miller]

I think he's just saying maybe because

[Snowbike Mike]

my team name is.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Team Andy made me think Andy

[Snowbike Mike]

gets the win win. Because I was going to shift blame if I lost and blame Andy on that Corn effect.

[Barrett Courtney]

True.

[Tim Gettys]

I guess.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, I guess I did win.

[Greg Miller]

You're the Pat Riley of these Knicks Corn Effects Super Chats. It says big ups to Snow Bike. Oh, Michael. I love you all. Thanks for making this year great and I hope you have a wonderful break. I already read that one actually. Oops, I'm drunk. JD Elliott says shout out to the goat best possible gamescast. Lmao. Josh Super Chat says hello. Kf. I would like to thank you for the discount codes for Shady Rays and Aura frames for my folks for Christmas. Christmas. Happy holidays. If you listen to our ads, your Christmas shopping is taken care of. Yep. Or A frames is amazing.

[Roger Pokorny]

Thanks for using that code.

[Greg Miller]

Ed Reed fan says congratulations. Mike, there are those that said this day would never come. What are they to say now? Parentheses rated M for mature. If you know, you know, right know you know.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

All right. Delaney Twany super chats and says happy last day of content. Kf. Hope you all have a great holiday season. Also, good luck to best friends Mike and Andy on the season finale of. Well, that's fucked up. Team Purple will no longer be the bridesmaid and it can finally be the bride open. Listen, come on. There are two competitors in the next show and it's me And Tim. And I've already beaten Tim, so I've won. We can stop playing right now. It's great. Science Dog official says I'm behind you. I'm sorry I'm behind, but I just got to snowbike like Mike loves to give it to you. And spat out my drink. We hope you've caught up and are having a great time. Archaz says wanted to shout out my solo project again. Drag league. It's like fantasy league but for Drag race. Please check it out. Blessing. It tickles. Tickles me every time you mention Beitong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, By Tong.

[Greg Miller]

By Tong. Yeah, Because I live above it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a restaurant I really like in Seattle.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, nice. The raging monkey says, congrats, Mike. Anything is possible. Can I get a quick shout out to my fiance? And this is for you.

[Tim Gettys]

Anything?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, anything.

[Snowbike Mike]

Anything.

[Roger Pokorny]

Like Henny.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like I'm drinking a lot of Henny.

[Greg Miller]

Like Henny.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I get it.

[Greg Miller]

It's a drink. Your brother likes it a lot, if you've ever heard of it. He doesn't have apple juice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

LeBron James did a thing with that.

[Greg Miller]

Anyways, Champ, I've never seen somebody so

[Roger Pokorny]

happy to have a break. Just be away from us.

[Greg Miller]

Champ, can I get a quick shout out to my fiance? Erica and I, Armando, we're getting married next weekend. Thank you.

[Snowbike Mike]

Y hey, what's going on? Erica and Armando, it's Your champion for 2025. Snow Bike Mike. And we're just saying congratulations on your partnership, your love, your Kobe to your shack, you know, my mic to my Andy. We're so happy for you. Let love flow throughout the winter and enjoy the spring. And we love you.

[Greg Miller]

It's literally like he's married to Roger and Andy is the mistress. Roger is there for the becking call, making dinners, doing the thing. Andy could have no shits to give this guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Roger is so much fun.

[Roger Pokorny]

The whole band together.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Roger organized a whole band to come

[Snowbike Mike]

out doing a million things.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm making sure this all band.

[Snowbike Mike]

He's my 1.1. What can I say?

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, what can he say? Marathon Andy. It should have been you.

[Greg Miller]

Shout out to Kevin skirt who gift 50 kind of funny games memberships. Thank you so much. The house has spoken. Says idea for the winner's prize. Winner gets to pick the draft order. I do this in my Survivor in Big Brother drafts with friends and it's always a hoot. You've already let him say that he's number one, I'm number two. Roger number three. I say we cut it there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We just Got it. I don't know if I said.

[Greg Miller]

I say we cut it there, but, yeah, we're good. Soft lock, Jake. Super Chat says he brings the boom. Are we able to take a catchphrase like that?

[Roger Pokorny]

No, that's definitely trademarked.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Bob, Super Chat says playing control for the first time and that mic opening was stranger. Stranger than this game. Red Misfit says. Hey, Greg, I forgot to ask this during kfgd, but can I get one quick? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Before the last Games cast of 2025. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're moving on to other ones. Jesus Christ. There's a lot of Super Chats. Thank you for the support. That record guy says, been listening to y' all for almost a year now and been loving every second. Love y' all and keep up the great work. P.S. looking good, Mike.

[Snowbike Mike]

Tell me.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you to everybody. I said this on Games Daily. But again, to reiterate here, so many people have found us this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you for hanging out and supporting and, you know, doing the Amazon prime thing and then getting the membership.

[Tim Gettys]

I have a question.

[Greg Miller]

You aren't doing that.

[Tim Gettys]

Mike, you look great. They're right. But, like, when you cave out, you were wearing what looked like 15 layers of clothing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You're now wearing something very different than what you were wearing before. No, I didn't.

[Roger Pokorny]

He went back there and then threw his clothes dramatically over there in the corner, like he was, like, changing in a mood movie. And only me and Bless saw it and we were just dying.

[Tim Gettys]

But, like, was this under that or is this the chain?

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, okay.

[Greg Miller]

Now this is. There's two ways this goes. Blessing. And again, you look great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Either I embarrass myself or I embarrass Mike.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

Lay it on us.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Thank you for agreeing to it. The question I have as an old man is, is this the style to wear a jacket or does the jacket not fit because you've been buttoning it and you lean back and it drapes over the gut? In a way, I drape things over my gut all the time. So I'm just wondering what's going on with this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jesus.

[Snowbike Mike]

I noticed that you don't notice many people in the office because this is a callback to my main man, Nick Scarpino, who now likes to button his sweater like this. And so make callback, of course.

[Barrett Courtney]

Classic call. Great. Ready, direct.

[Greg Miller]

This is a choice.

[Snowbike Mike]

Doing it like Nick does it.

[Greg Miller]

Just checking out. Thank you. I see again, the egg is on my face. There you Go. The A aoid. Thank you for another great year of shows and fun moments. And most of all, thank you for spreading good vibes in such a tough year. You all are awesome. We couldn't do without your support. Thank you. The rabid donkey says I'm still team Paris. Best voice in the gaming band business. Love you guys and everything you do. Point blank period, point blank period.

[Paris Lilly]

Thank you very much. And the chat saying, I haven't talked in like an hour, so now I'm talking.

[Greg Miller]

Paris, start here. How excited are you for the future of Starfield? Like me.

[Paris Lilly]

Oh, Lord, I'm very excited for the future of Starfield. So much so that I put out a random tweet and the Internet went on fire, thinking I knew something, but I know nothing.

[Greg Miller]

It got so bad that I texted Paris and I was like, did you do that behind. Behind Closed Doors demo too? And Paris is like, no,

[Paris Lilly]

I was there.

[Greg Miller]

Merc with podcast says it's the sixth night of Hanukkah. Sixth night of Hanukkah. Could I get Happy Hanukkah? Happy Hanukkah. Oh, there you go. Then Garrett Gilbert says, is there any. Is there a Dynasty mode for fantasy critic? I think that could really liven up the league in a cool way. No, there's still. We still. You carry over. Who was the champ last time to get a little crown like Tim had. But no, I don't believe so. Nothing like that.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm gonna miss it.

[Greg Miller]

Sandy Crane says congrats to Mike Roger with another crazy cpk. Lol.

[Roger Pokorny]

Next year, I'm going to counterpick the most normal thing possible.

[Greg Miller]

You'll see Kevin's back to say thanks for another great year. Congrats, Tim, on being a girl. Dad. It's awesome. My dad, my daughter just turned two and it's the best.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell, yeah, I'm excited.

[Barrett Courtney]

Ambrosia 100 super chat.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I missed that. Thank you so much.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You should say that for your daughter, man. Christmas is coming up, you know?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You'll give us the hundred dollars. Give her something.

[Tim Gettys]

I was at the Nintendo store last. Last night, I bought Ben a present.

[Greg Miller]

I made sure I packed his switch today.

[Tim Gettys]

Good.

[Greg Miller]

We're having our Christmas dinner tonight.

[Tim Gettys]

I bought. I bought Kirby O Riders because we talked about our holiday gift guide that it's the best gift game to give because, like, you shouldn't buy that game yourself necessarily. But it's like, if you get it,

[Snowbike Mike]

you're like, oh, about to have a great.

[Greg Miller]

And I want you to know he brought Me to the edge. I was telling blessing today because I had to read a parent chat live or whatever. He was doing a little shit today. And I almost did the thing of, like, Uncle Tim was going to give you a gift today, but if you don't do what you're supposed to, you're not getting it. But I stopped. I stopped.

[Tim Gettys]

But what I love is the. The Nintendo store sandwich. Amazing people work there. Amazing experience. Every time I've been there's been awesome. This is my first time being there. Not for one of, like, the events or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Tim Gettys]

And I'm just like, what a pleasure. This. This place is so damn awesome. Everyone was so cool. And, like, as I'm buying it, the guy looked at me. He was just like, you buying this as a president? I'm like, yeah. He's like, you're about to make somebody very happy.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I'm like, you know, ball, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

That's awesome.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, ball.

[Greg Miller]

You pass that to Roger for me, please. 2. Only two more super chats will close it out. Ambrosia says I need to see you guys play a classic game of Ra Risk. No, Anthony, super chats and says, Barrett, there is an open critic discord where we submit missed reviews. The link doesn't really work.

[Roger Pokorny]

Nah, it's already outdone. Don't worry about it.

[Andy Cortez]

All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't really understand what that was,

[Greg Miller]

but he's saying that they don't check the form you're using. But there's a discord for open critic where you could do that there. Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. God damn it.

[Greg Miller]

Danny's the last one over here. Thank you. Kind of funny for this community. Y' all are such a pleasure. Thank you for being you. Hope everyone has a great holiday season. Plus, P.S. everyone, please go listen to Caroline Polach. Thank you.

[Roger Pokorny]

She has a Christmas song only exclusively on YouTube. So cold, you're hurting my feelings to remix of so hot, you're hurting my feelings.

[Greg Miller]

So does it. Is it like the Death stranding song where it sounds like they're just slamming metal together and she's like, off mic by 5ft? Or is it like a real song?

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, it's a real song.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, cool.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, you gotta listen to time.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm glad someone finally said it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Are you drunk?

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna tell you what I'm thinking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now that straining song stunk up the

[Barrett Courtney]

place,

[Greg Miller]

we turn it over to Blessing out of Yo Ye junior Blessing. What do we need to know about the rules for the future?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. So I wanted to close out this Episode talking about the future of fans. Critic. Of course, we don't have major changes. We love doing this. We're going to keep doing this. I wanted after this year to have a little conversation about the rules. Specifically, I put out a poll to the people in the office that play famous Critic wanted to gather a little bit of data to help set the tone for where we're going in the future with it. So I put out the poll. I asked four questions. How should turn, order, go? What should be banned, should be allowed trades? And what's your preferred minimum bid amount? We already kind of talked about to a couple of these. As far as what should be banned. Already went through it. It seems like partial remakes are the only new thing that the consensus of people seem like they would like banned. And so going into the future, I

[Tim Gettys]

mean, like, if we have the time and if we don't. Shut me up. I am interested in the stats here because I just. I don't even. I don't know where people stand on some of these things. I didn't even realize some of these things were problems.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So seven people wrote in. Even though we have eight contestants. I don't know who didn't write in.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't because it's been busy and I forgot to do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fair enough. But four people voted that we should.

[Greg Miller]

Hold on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which one? We're talking about trades. I forget which one we're on. But four people said that we should allow trades. Three people said that we shouldn't. As far as. Oh, as far as what should be banned? That's what we're on. Four people voted that partial remix should be banned. Out of the seven people that wrote in, were what.

[Tim Gettys]

Were there any other categories people voted on? I don't remember doing this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so we had games already in early access. That's a category that's already banned. Five people. Most people said that that should be banned. We have upcoming games for early access. So if a game is about to release in early access. Three people said that those should be banned. That's not the majority of people. We had Director's Cut. Five people said that those should be banned. That's already banned. And that's the majority of people. We have. Let's see. Remaster, which is already a banned category. Category. Six people said that that should be banned. That is the vast majority of the seven. There we have remake, which constitutes things like Legend, Zelda, Link's Awakening, Crash, Insane Trilogy. That's not banned. Currently. Only two people said it should be banned. So that's not the majority. Partial remake is the only one where it is that's not banned. Currently, four people vote that that should be banned going into the future. That's the majority. We also had reimagining in yearly installments. Nobody thinks those should be banned. And then we have expansion packs where dlc, things like that. Only two people voted in that. Those should be banned.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Even though even two people of how many people are here, it's like, that's. I'm surprised that there's that much dissent, animosity.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. That much. Yeah. That much variety.

[Barrett Courtney]

I wish I remembered what I voted.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. That'd be helpful.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Going back up to turn order. So turn order is interesting. There was no consistent consensus on how turn order should go.

[Greg Miller]

Two people. The king makes the rules.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. That's why.

[Greg Miller]

One, two, three. That's it. Done. The rest toss up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So out of the seven people that voted in, two people think that first place should pick where they want to go. And then we randomize. Two people think that we should go last to first. Two people think that we should completely randomize, and one person thinks that we should throw a turn.

[Greg Miller]

My thing here is I feel like. And this is. I know I'm painting with a very broad brush, but I feel like our. We don't have enough sports fans here. Where it should be. Last place gets first pick. Like, that's just. That makes perfect sense, I feel.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Since there's no consensus, I'm actually down to let the champ decide.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like that. I will take first pick, and then I don't care what happens.

[Greg Miller]

He said you're doing him three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Roger Pokorny]

I feel like the first three is

[Andy Cortez]

like an insane ass.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm gonna move into 2026 and forget about this. I get first.

[Greg Miller]

Big evil.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mentioned trades before. Should we allow to trades? I checked this before I even got to vote, and it was a 3.3tie with the 6 people vote voting in. I voted in to break the tie, and I said, yes, there should be trades.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Snowbike Mike]

I should have.

[Andy Cortez]

I should have voted.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, you should have voted, Barrett. And so trades will be turned on next year. Mike mentioned the two trades per person. I don't think that's a mechanic. That's in the website, But I'll look into it to see what their options are because I do like that. Perfect.

[Roger Pokorny]

And these are. You can just trade. There's no. We don't have to go to you and be like, hey, we want to trade this thing. Because that would be against.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I Would keep it as just, yeah, you can trade, but I'll. I'm going to look into the tools that they give me so we can figure something out there. And then the last one preferred minimum bid amount. Everybody was 100% that they want people to at least bid $1. I didn't know that there was opinions on public trading versus secret trading or not trading. Sorry, public bidding versus secret bidding.

[Tim Gettys]

That.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm going to look into this for you, Mike.

[Roger Pokorny]

I like, I like secret bidding.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I will say reading the site while we're doing this episode, they make it seem like public bidding is for like people who are not as hardcore into following games because sometimes you'll have have these leagues where people aren't paying attention to new game releases. And so you have public bidding so that they get the notification.

[Greg Miller]

So here's the thing. As you all know, I was raised in the mean streets of Monopoly. And of course Monopoly gets a bad rap. It takes too long. And that's because you're playing with house rules. You're playing with free parking and mainly you're not playing with auctions, which would be that when you go and you land on fucking Baltic Avenue Avenue, if you don't want to buy it, you say, I don't want to buy it. And then it goes to a public auction. I like monops. So I, I, it's one of those where I'm not a. I immediately I tense because of what the game has been. But to go to a monops format, I wouldn't be against being like, oh, there is a public. We're bidding currently on a game. I would have easily.

[Roger Pokorny]

But I like the idea of rewarding

[Greg Miller]

for being dialed in.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, exactly. For dialing in, finding a game and being like, oh, I didn't even know that that game was coming out. Like that type of thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's.

[Roger Pokorny]

I think that that is like a purity to this game that I think

[Andy Cortez]

if we take that away, there's like a level of strategy you take away from that if we go public.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I agree with that as well. I think secret bidding is more suited for us because we are tuned in, we are following everything.

[Greg Miller]

So champ, what do you say?

[Barrett Courtney]

I just, I just forget a lot.

[Snowbike Mike]

I give it a thumbs up. I like that.

[Greg Miller]

Andy, real quick too. Before this ends, can you bring your dad on camera?

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh yeah, that'd be cool.

[Greg Miller]

They're not here.

[Roger Pokorny]

They leave party at Andy's house.

[Barrett Courtney]

So I could have full Internet.

[Greg Miller]

Got it, Got it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Because my WI Fi, the WI fi is not great here the at the parents house.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So yeah, I love that. I'm gonna continue to tune these as we move into the year.

[Greg Miller]

You're a good commission.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike said he wants winner to be able to dictate a loser punishment. I like that too. So I'm gonna. That's good.

[Greg Miller]

Within reason obviously I was because I

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

was tattoos cuz I was thinking of like okay, maybe loser streams their least rated game. Ah yes, I saw Reddit mention that.

[Greg Miller]

I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, we'll figure out a punishment for last place because I do agree that last place should be.

[Greg Miller]

I like that idea. If we could kind of make the punishment be tied to games somehow like the streaming the last place game or finishing the last place game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, the lowest rated. Yeah but then it's like the lowest rated game this year was Call of Duty. But we'll figure it out.

[Roger Pokorny]

I mean that would be.

[Andy Cortez]

Roger streamed that once and it made

[Greg Miller]

him want to play video games forever.

[Roger Pokorny]

I was very mad.

[Greg Miller]

Ladies, gentlemen and nbs believe it or not that is your final kind of Funny games cast of the year. Like I said, the day is far from over. You're about to roll in. Andy, take that off that don't. Well no actually keep it up. That's good. Those are good advice. That's good advice. You're about to roll in to what I'm considering a championship parade, a victory lap. There's no way Tim can stop me in kind of funny game showdown. Isn't that right Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

That's right.

[Greg Miller]

Touch his neck. It's humongous. You know what I mean? After that of course it will be the kind of funny Christmas party as a kind of funny podcast that's all live. Twitch, YouTube, you know that. More importantly of course though as we go dark remember Saturday you are getting getting my hero academia final season watch along with Barrett, Alyssa and Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe Mike after. After today's torture. I don't know.

[Barrett Courtney]

I don't know if we're inviting him anymore.

[Greg Miller]

5pm Pacific Twitch TV kind of funny games. When that ends it rolls into a marathon of kinda funny content. We have built a playlist out for you just like Thanksgiving to keep you entertained. You can pop into Twitch TV kinda funnygames anytime to hang out with some kinda funny best friends to watch the some stuff. Maybe the browser breaks because there's a pop up that goes in. Somebody have to come reboot it but you'll be able to do it. We should be live.

[Roger Pokorny]

And also the Death Training 2 VOD should be up on YouTube. Hopefully potentially it's still processing. We will see.

[Tim Gettys]

And last little housekeeping thing. The last couple of days we haven't had our back end up for podcast services. So no shows have been going up on podcast services, which sucks. We are working on it and that should start to be fixed as of now.

[Greg Miller]

What I would like to say is while we've been live, I've been getting the, the itunes notifications that here's a new episode.

[Tim Gettys]

Here's everything should be going out in the order we did it. So games daily from Wednesday, then games cast from Wednesday and then et cetera, et cetera for Thursday and then today. But sorry for that, but it all should be good.

[Greg Miller]

It went up on Spotify, somebody said so it was already happening. And if that wasn't enough, remember, we will be back January 5th for kind of funny day, our 11th year anniversary. We will hang out with you all day long, do a bunch of new stuff, announce a bunch of new shows, have a bunch of good times, play a bunch of video games and then perhaps more important importantly, the next day, January 6th, we'll be back at this table. No, no, at January 6th, the next day we back at this table for Fantasy Critic, we will be doing Fantasy Critic 2026. I will now accept the apology from Roger and from Blessing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm sorry, I apologize.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you very much. God, you look good. Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Anyways everybody, this has been a fantastic episode of the Kind of funny Games Cast. Until next time, have a great new year and it's been our pleasure to

[Roger Pokorny]

serve you play Air Riders.

[Greg Miller]

No.