Last Fantasy Critic Check-In of the Year - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: “Last Fantasy Critic Check-In of the Year”

Date: October 30, 2025
Hosts: Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, Mike “Snowbike Mike” Howard, Roger Pokorny, and others

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Episode Overview

In this final check-in of the year for the Kinda Funny Fantasy Critic league, the crew reviews the state of their fiercely competitive (and occasionally chaotic) video game “fantasy sports” league as it enters its home stretch. With spirited discussion, accusations of collusion, and in-depth strategic breakdowns, the episode serves as both an entertaining look at the battle for video game prediction supremacy and a user-friendly primer for listeners new to Fantasy Critic. The cast candidly reflects on their picks, pitfalls, and the format’s rules while teasing big shakeups for next season.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Fantasy Critic 2025 League Explained (08:00)

• Greg Miller lays out the basics for unaware listeners:
  • Each participant drafts and bids on video games expected to release that year.
  • Points are awarded based on OpenCritic scores over 70; points are lost below 70.
  • Counterpicks allow players to challenge others’ games (hoping they’ll flop or won’t release).
  • Trades, drops, and legal loopholes fuel recurring drama.

[09:35, Greg Miller] "Fantasy Critic is basically fantasy football ... for video games... throughout the year these games get reviewed on Open Critic and the number of points they get above 70 is added to your team. The number of points they get below 70 is subtracted."

2. League Standings Breakdown (13:46)

• Snowbike Mike is in first place, credited largely to listening to audience suggestions and taking calculated risks. He's still got a pivotal final pick to make.
• Roger Pokorny and Andy Cortez are neck-and-neck just behind Mike.
• Blessing and Barrett (Boss Baby Productions) are in striking distance, with several unreleased games that could swing the outcome.
• Paris Lilly's gamble with late picks may cost him.
• Greg and Tim (Let Tim Publish) are battling for last place, with Greg just hoping to avoid the bottom.

[14:12, Greg Miller] "Currently in first place, it is the one, the only... Snowbike Mike... 121 points..."

3. Collusion, Cheating, and Rule Shenanigans (10:24; 11:56)

• Mike and Roger are called out (half-mockingly) for their backroom plotting and “bending the rules”—though all agree that, per the official Fantasy Critic site, everything has been technically legal.
• The group muses about hosting a “Fantasy Critic Summit” to review and possibly revise rules for next year.

[10:24, Greg Miller] "The way that Roger and Snowbike Mike have been the slimiest little shits this entire Fantasy Critic year has made me so fucking happy."

[10:43, Blessing] "You guys definitely cheating. We're gonna have another episode—I've not told Greg this—we're gonna have the Fantasy Critic summit..."

4. Counters, Remakes & The Rules Debate (25:30)

• Much of the contention revolves around what constitutes a legal pick, especially with remakes vs. remasters.
• Roger's picks are scrutinized: several are “remasters” that, by site rules, are categorized as remakes, making them legal, to the chagrin of other players.

[25:41, Blessing] "Remasters aren't allowed. And you might look at Roger's list and go, oh, Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion Remastered... Fantasy Critic says it's legal."

• Discord wheeling and dealing is dissected, but again, the group defers to the site’s rulings.

5. Strategic Insights: Bidding, Counter-Picking, and Budgeting (19:43; 20:45; 21:07)

• Mike proposes a radical scoring change: converting leftover budget into points, but the idea is overwhelmingly rejected.

[21:07, Roger Pokorny] "No, that's—"

[21:09, Andy Cortez] "I'm even against you on that one..."

• The value of picking games that are likely to be delayed—netting zero points for a rival—is a recurring theme.

6. Player-by-Player Team Analysis & Reflections (15:19–62:01)

Breakdowns for each league member’s team, key picks, and turning points. Key highlights:

- Snowbike Mike:

- Audience-inspired picks led to first place.
- Survived two games locked at zero points (due to counterpicks and unfinished early access).
- Final pick to possibly secure the win is Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 DLC 3.

[15:19, Mike] "My key to success was listening to my best friend Andy Cortez... but truly and honestly it's been pandering to the audience..."

- Roger Pokorny:

- Frequent advocate for technicalities in game eligibility.
- Bold remake/remaster picks.
- Claims all actions are legal per the site.

- Andy Cortez:

- Learning from last year's last-place finish.
- Explores the value (and danger) of counterpicks.
- Swapped out risky picks after new info.

- Blessing:

- Strong start hindered by “Mixtape” likely not releasing—calls it his “make or break.”
- Relies on late-game releases for a chance at a comeback.

- Barrett (Boss Baby):

- Banked on Monster Hunter Wilds and Citizen Sleeper 2.
- Some risky picks (Dispatch, Unbeatable) could net huge points—or fall flat.

- Paris Lilly:

- Two late picks may not deliver enough.
- Disappointed by Little Nightmares 3's underperformance.

- Greg & Tim:

- Greg’s indie gambles (and a bit-heavy Indiana Jones DLC pick) backfired.
- Tim’s wild swings and faith-driven picks left him at the bottom.

[47:58, Greg Miller] "Welcome to the seller. It's me and Tim. I am in second to last place..."

7. Memorable Quotes & Moments

The Candy Debate (01:32–03:02)

• Greg’s take: “Peanut butter stinks. It doesn't stink. It's just overrated. Out of my chocolate. I don't need it.” [01:40]
• Blessing’s rebuttal: “Greg has the taste buds of somebody who watched his media in black and white.” [02:19]

Mike on his “cheating” style:

[10:38, Andy Cortez] “Yeah, we're cheating, bear. We're cheating, bear.” [10:52, Andy Cortez] “We see the future... interesting people who we think we can bring into this league to even it out.” [12:01, Mike] "A totally legal and fair trade. Two consenting adults that led to me winning that year..."

On remakes and arguing with the system:

[28:38, Blessing] "I can't get mad at it because the website deems it is so. So..."

On learning from mistakes in game selection:

[50:57, Greg Miller] “Wheel World, which got me three points. To a T, zero. Super tough. Criminal hurdling, ten points. What’s notable... is that I played them all... and I thought all three... could deliver, and it was that thing, I know what I’m saying... I got in my own head... need to find these games that have the juice.”

8. Looking Ahead: Next Year & League Improvements

• Multiple suggestions entertained for future league formats:
  • Split (Spring/Fall) seasons
  • More/different counterpicks
  • Scoring tweaks—most are dismissed in favor of “playing on the page” as the site establishes

[63:00, Greg Miller] "No, we play on the page. We play on the page." [63:36, Blessing] "So it's like, do y'all like when Roger picks 10 remakes..."

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• 01:11: Show intro and lighthearted candy debate
• 08:00: Fantasy Critic basics explained
• 13:46: League standings update and analysis
• 25:30: Remakes/remasters rules debate
• 36:46: Blessing’s reflection on a possible comeback
• 41:13: Barrett’s regret over a dropped indie DLC
• 47:39: Greg’s “Seller’s Row” review and indie woes
• 54:34: Mike debates final pick for the win
• 62:01: Mike locks in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 DLC 3 as his last bid

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Tone & Style

• The group’s style is loud, playful, bantering, and occasionally profane, mixing deep game knowledge with pop culture references and good-natured ribbing.
• They take turns touting their successes, roasting each other’s judgment, and commiserating over heartbreak picks.
• There is mutual respect for inventive (if dubious) strategic thinking—provided it remains “by the book.”

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Concluding Thoughts

The final 2025 Fantasy Critic league check-in provides hilarity, candid strategic analysis, and a unique window into one of gaming’s great ongoing “friend rivalries.” While the outcome remains undecided, the episode serves as a love letter to competitive gaming predictions—and the many ways friends find to argue about video games. Listeners come away with ideas for their own leagues, inspiration to try Fantasy Critic, and plenty of reasons to look forward to the “Summit” and next year’s draft.

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For more, check out the full results and league updates at kindafunny.com/kfleague2025.

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(Super chats, ads, and intros/outros omitted for clarity.)

Transcript

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[Greg Miller]

What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Thursday, October 30, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 a k a New York Game Awards nominated aka leftover poppy blessing. Adio. Yay, Junior.

[Blessing]

Good day, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

How was that Reese's piece? How's that Reese's Cup?

[Blessing]

Lovely. Yeah, it was very good.

[Greg Miller]

Overrated candy.

[Blessing]

No, it's not.

[Greg Miller]

I said it.

[Blessing]

No, it's not.

[Greg Miller]

Peanut butter stinks. It doesn't stink. It's just overrated. Out of my chocolate. I don't need it.

[Mike]

I.

[Blessing]

That's a very upsetting worst opinion.

[Greg Miller]

Fine.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

But a caramel is respected the level caramel should be respected. No one's over here like living and dying.

[Andy Cortez]

What's your goat then?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, what?

[Andy Cortez]

Just candy.

[Greg Miller]

Oh. If I was going there, I mean, I'm either getting a Mounds or a crunch bar.

[Blessing]

Jesus Christ.

[Greg Miller]

Almond Joy, get the nut out of here.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God. It's all about the nut. It's all about the enjoy the chocolate.

[Greg Miller]

I don't need a goddamn nut in here. This taste buds have been eating mound is insane.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, it comes from the guy that has no beans inside of his burrito. So.

[Greg Miller]

I mean. Yeah, look how fast I am.

[Blessing]

Greg has the taste buds of somebody who watched his media in black and white. That's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

That's a great one. Yeah. I've always liked Mounds, even as a kid. So that's like Heat bars. No.

[Mike]

Oh, Heath bars.

[Andy Cortez]

If he said. I thought he would say yes.

[Blessing]

You like hard candy.

[Greg Miller]

Original. Yeah, I know you do.

[Blessing]

I do.

[Greg Miller]

Like, we already talking. We made fun of you on a show about that recently.

[Mike]

Oh, we did.

[Greg Miller]

I didn't know you actually liked it, but.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I do, actually. That's actually hilarious.

[Mike]

I With.

[Andy Cortez]

I have some in my. In my car, actually. Actually, I think. No, I actually have the. What was it?

[Blessing]

The.

[Andy Cortez]

The strawberry ones. Remember those ones that got discontinued?

[Mike]

Oh, I love those.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, they brought them back recently and I have some in the car. It's a little treat for me.

[Greg Miller]

He's a master of hype. Snowbuck. Mike.

[Mike]

Good morning, Greg. Great to see your smiling face. Hello, King of Halloween, my friend.

[Greg Miller]

Good to see you. See your smile.

[Blessing]

I don't like him. I don't like you calling him King of Halloween. Two episodes in a row.

[Mike]

I thought he was King of Halloween.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. Who we gave it.

[Blessing]

I was like to believe in Sage.

[Greg Miller]

Sage. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

We were sick of fighting about it.

[Blessing]

Yeah, well, he was.

[Greg Miller]

No, you never cared.

[Blessing]

No, I always cared about King of Halloween. That's because I love the holiday name.

[Roger Pokorny]

The Halloween colors again. Bless you.

[Blessing]

Orange and black. How could somebody forget that?

[Andy Cortez]

How can anybody?

[Greg Miller]

How could anybody forget the quartet? It's the taste maker, Roger Pokorny.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm obsessed with this Quarter K thing you and I talked about on the kfgd. Yeah, I think I might buy one.

[Greg Miller]

I missed it. Give me the drive.

[Andy Cortez]

So it's a Kickstarter that is still going on right now. 23 days left to go. It's called the Quarter Cade and it is a mini PC that this person is hand making. He said that he only makes like $30 per these devices, but like you can run a fuck ton of games and they're just small little, you know, small little PC console hybrid right there. It's like. Oh, fuck. Exactly what I want. 350 bucks. I think it is not bad.

[Greg Miller]

What can it like. So is it running old games or.

[Andy Cortez]

He's able to run like Elden Ring on it too. Okay, so it's like, of course it's gonna depend per game or whatever, but is this.

[Greg Miller]

What I want is Xbox Consol?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, this is. This is it. This is what I'm trying to figure it out right now.

[Greg Miller]

How much is it?

[Andy Cortez]

350 bucks.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, so this guy is out there for I think $400 for the early bird if you want it right now. But yeah, really cool stuff. I'm gonna. I think I might support right Now.

[Greg Miller]

Wow, look at that. Roger's gonna do it. He's gonna swipe the car.

[Blessing]

I might swipe the car.

[Andy Cortez]

I wanna. I want a living room PC and this might be the moment here.

[Blessing]

That's pretty sick.

[Greg Miller]

What kind of graphics card is in it?

[Andy Cortez]

It's. I can read to the specifications.

[Greg Miller]

This is a Kickstarter, you said?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's Kickstarter.

[Greg Miller]

And I should listen to games daily, you said Games Daily. I like listening on the way home. So it puts me at a.

[Andy Cortez]

So he has the Quarter Kade Regular and he has a Quarter Kade Pro and they're using APUs, so CPUs that also have GPU power in it. So they're running AMD Ryzens. One of them is AMD Ryzen 57640HS and the other one is the Pro version is the AMD Ryzen 77840HS. I need to do more research on that and how well that's going to run games. But you know when you see these fucking AMD models.

[Blessing]

Was that Godfall? What game was that? I haven't seen that game in ages.

[Greg Miller]

That was the game run all the hot games like Godfall.

[Andy Cortez]

But I saw him playing Elden Ring on that. So I'm going to do some more research, see what games that it can run. But it seems like it's kind of what I'm looking for right now. Upgradable too. That's it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, my gosh.

[Greg Miller]

Wow. We'll have to get a review from you on the Kind of Funny Games cast because that's what we do each and every weekday. We run you through the biggest topics in video games. Whether they be reviews, previews are just things we need to talk about. We cover it all on the Kind of funny Gamescast live on Twitch TV kind of funny games YouTube.com kind of funny games podcast services around the globe.

[Andy Cortez]

They said we don't do it on gamescast.

[Blessing]

Andy said we don't do it on gamescast. And I agree with him. But I know Greg does it wrong,

[Greg Miller]

so I follow him. I'm going to do what Greg's gonna do.

[Blessing]

Greg eats hard candy for fun.

[Greg Miller]

I don't eat hard candy.

[Andy Cortez]

He does. That's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's just weird that some people are so anti coconut. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

But you're anti nut.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. They suck. No, I'm kidding. Nuts. They. I believe in nut segregation.

[Blessing]

I don't like the S. What side?

[Andy Cortez]

And what side? Where are they going?

[Greg Miller]

What?

[Mike]

What?

[Andy Cortez]

Nuts are being segregated.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, no. I Just they should. Nuts should stay in their old bowl.

[Andy Cortez]

They want almonds over here. No, no, no.

[Greg Miller]

All types of nuts can hang out together. But they shouldn't be hanging out with my chocolate.

[Blessing]

Chocolate. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean.

[Blessing]

I mean I disagree.

[Greg Miller]

But you know what?

[Blessing]

I can't argue.

[Greg Miller]

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[Andy Cortez]

12 minutes.

[Blessing]

Sakurai had to get that whole direct one.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, of course after this you're going to get Predator Killer of Killers in review. Then the boys are streaming Battlefield 6 for an Nvidia sponsored stream. Are you stoked, Mike?

[Mike]

So stoked. I can't stop thinking about this battle Royale right now.

[Greg Miller]

I love that.

[Mike]

I love this. It's so good.

[Greg Miller]

If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg way is actually 17 minutes. It turns out of my thoughts on Animal Crossing switch 2 after watching the video this morning. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Arc Raiders, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be topic of the show. It is nearly the best day of the year. October 31st. Halloween of course after October 31st the year falls off. It's just done. You got what, a week until Thanksgiving. Then like three days till Christmas. Nobody's working, no news is happening. Then it's New Year's. And when we think of New Year, we think of new beginnings and how well I'm going to do in Fantasy Critic 2026. I'm really stoked for Fantasy Critic 2026 but of course, before we get there, we do need to land the plane. That is kind of funny. Gamescast Fantasy Critic 2025 so today's Gamescast is your final look at where we're at right now before of course, we get to next year. See who actually wins the whole damn thing. If you haven't been following along, pull your car over right now, go to kind of funny.com kfleague and you can look in live on our Fantasy Critic if you've never seen one of these and don't know what we're talking about. Of course, Fantasy Critic is basically fantasy football or fantasy baseball or fantasy any sports for video games at the beginning of the year or really whenever you wanted to start your own. But for us, beginning of the year, we all came together, we went through and drafted five games, right? And then we filled out the pretty sure you do a draft where you draft five games, then you go through and you bid on other games and try to outbid each other to get games on your team. You can drop games AD games. But the long and short of it is that throughout the year these games get reviewed on Open Critic and the number of points they get above 70 is added to your team. The number of points they get below 70 is subtracted from your score. Then at the end of the year you. You see who has the highest score. There are all a matter of little things that change.

[Andy Cortez]

Counterpicks.

[Mike]

Huh?

[Andy Cortez]

Counterpicks as well.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. There's a whole. That there's. When you get above 90, the score changes. But just if. Elevator pitch to keep you on with us. We thought we would do that. We have quite the jam packed league of folks this year. And I can't tell you, you know, every time I listen to one of our shows and I see all of a sudden Andy say, well, we don't pound the table on. It's like it's. I don't care what you do with it. It's jazz. But I'm always so pleased to see y' all doing things I invented, you know what I mean? These run of shows, these things, the. The cadence, you're all crushing it. And the way that Roger Piccorni and Snow Bike Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Have been the slimiest little shits. This entire Fantasy Critic year has made me so fucking happy. As they've wheeled, they've dealed, they've gone in the discord to try to sway things for the official. I'm so proud of these two little.

[Mike]

Thanks, Greg.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we're cheating Bear. We're cheating Bear.

[Mike]

Definitely.

[Blessing]

So you guys definitely cheating. We're gonna have another episode.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I've not told Greg this. We're gonna have the fantasy critics summit where we come together and we figure out what the fuck to do with this thing.

[Andy Cortez]

We got some sick of me and Mike have some ideas.

[Blessing]

I'm gonna put you both on the

[Greg Miller]

same in reality blessing. What have they done? It's all been within the letter of the law.

[Blessing]

I don't think they as someone who. Somebody who was false that he was breaking the rules.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah. You know he's one is worth trade

[Blessing]

Mike Ninja Gaiden 4. In an exchange. Mike can help. Mike would help him make the argument about the remakes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It wasn't the rules.

[Blessing]

That isn't the rules.

[Andy Cortez]

That's not the rules.

[Mike]

We made a whole about. Yeah. You know what? I'm down to have this summit because we have a lot of things we'd like to bring to you. That's a great commissioner. You know what I mean? Like we have ideas. We have to make it.

[Andy Cortez]

We see the future. We see the future. We see the future of what this league can be. And we have some. We have some interesting people who we think we can bring into this league to kind of even it out. Make it.

[Blessing]

Absolutely not.

[Andy Cortez]

No, no.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

We have some really kicked out. I like that their pitch is going

[Roger Pokorny]

to be having someone else be commissioner to take over.

[Blessing]

Their pitch is going to be oh, Nick Scarpin can make all major decisions.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah. We have another person.

[Greg Miller]

And Joey, it just feels like underneath this blessing leadership. There have been a lot of false accusations thrown around. Of course. I was demonized for trading Starfield back in the day.

[Mike]

Demonized, demonized.

[Blessing]

Uncarily demonized.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. It was all letter of the law

[Mike]

and a totally legal and fair trade.

[Greg Miller]

Two consenting adults that led to me winning that year. You know what I mean? And everybody. I'll put an asterisk next to put an asterisk. You don't need that. I did what I need to do to win.

[Mike]

And because of this legal trade, like

[Roger Pokorny]

actual money and Gary.

[Greg Miller]

No, Barrett, this is one of the things. You're one of those horrible people on the Internet who reads the headline and thinks they know the whole story. No, I feel like no money was paid. Maybe I use the in game dollars. And then I gave away free advertising for Gary's book.

[Mike]

That's what I book.

[Greg Miller]

All right. I did a gundog ad. You know what I mean? And then the next year we said you can no longer do that kind of stuff. And I've never done it again.

[Blessing]

Yeah, but you know who did?

[Mike]

Well, you know that's hearsay.

[Andy Cortez]

But also we didn't. It didn't even go through.

[Mike]

We weren't allowed to trade. Yeah. Oh, so because of Greg's action that were totally fair and legal, you.

[Greg Miller]

Well, they were fairly legal that year. Then. Since then we've said you can't do well.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, we lost the ability to trade. And that's a big question mark in the league.

[Andy Cortez]

Huge question mark.

[Mike]

That is something in the league that should be viable and being able.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a basic. That's a basic law of any fantasy

[Mike]

adults should be allowed to trade of

[Blessing]

any fantasy league that you were trading off of. Cheating.

[Andy Cortez]

No cheating. We're just in the discord. We're talking to people having a civil conversation. I didn't know you're anti.

[Blessing]

You're trying to push.

[Roger Pokorny]

You're trying to push games to be tagged as certain things that maybe they shouldn't be.

[Andy Cortez]

And you're getting Nick

[Greg Miller]

four.

[Andy Cortez]

Well then we didn't even go through.

[Mike]

Didn't go through.

[Blessing]

If I go into a bank and I try to rob the bank

[Andy Cortez]

and

[Blessing]

I don't get the money, I still broke the.

[Roger Pokorny]

Also who has Ninja Gaiden 4 right now?

[Andy Cortez]

Mike.

[Mike]

Mike. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Cuz I dropped it. Yeah, he dropped you because you told me I couldn't trade. So then I use my legal and fair trades and drops

[Greg Miller]

are.

[Andy Cortez]

We got there. Well, you didn't even know that we can do trades or can't do trades.

[Greg Miller]

So you know, there's been a lot of moving, a lot of shaking in here. So let's just bring you up to speed just at a top level, what we're at right now in terms of who are placed where. All right, so currently in first place, it is the one, the only, the master of hype, Snowbike Mike. The publisher name is Team Andy made me pick it. Currently he has 120, 21 points. I'm just rounding up like I think they do on your things as well. He also has a budget of $5. We interested to hear if he's gonna do anything with that.

[Mike]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Right behind him is a man very legal. Roger Elo Games. Elo Free Game 106 right now. Second place right there. But right behind him, hot on his tail is the one and only Andy Cortez Nitro rifle games in third place with 105 points. So just one point really separating those two. Behind them in fourth place is Blessing 103 points behind them of course. Sad Boy Barrett. Boss baby Productions about 95 points behind them. Paris Lilly with positivity P 93 points in sixth place. Then a humongous drop off. Greg Miller, Ecto One Games. I still have two games to come out if that matters. Six 59 points in seventh place and then behind me, Tim Geddes. Let Tim publish 56 points. Yeah, as long as I can beat Tim, which is going to be tough.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Which is going to be difficult. I will be happy if I can get out of here. You know it's weird. Of course Tim has the crown.

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I think.

[Greg Miller]

Correct me if I'm wrong. Is it, is it that Tim won last year and I won the year before that? Is that the lineage? So it's funny that we're now at the fucking seller.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Doing this goddamn thing. Mike, what's your key to success?

[Mike]

Well, my key to success was listening to my best friend Andy Cortez and following his, you know, ever guidance on what games I should pick. And that's what's really led me to hear. But no, truly and honestly it's been pandering to the audience because the audience knows best and they were the ones who put me on to Trails in the sky first chapter. That's just so happy I followed them and listened to them. I also bet on the audience with Kingdom Come Deliverance too. I believed in a small studio from France, Expedition 33.

[Andy Cortez]

I did.

[Mike]

So like I really, I shot from

[Greg Miller]

the hip and I believe Mike is a fascinating thing if you are an audio listener and can't see the screen right now on this team where he currently has two zeros locked and he's still in first place with 121 points. So again the way it works is that if you put when we draft games you have to. Everybody on the thing has to make a counter pick. When someone counter picks one of your games, basically they're saying that game won't come out this year and so you're locked in with a zero or I believe that game will not perform as well as the other one. So hopefully if it drops below 70 points on open Critic I would get points for it. Or you know, it's just the less lesser of all the evils. So right now Mike's with his number one pick, took Grand Theft Auto 6. Of course I counter pick that locking it in. That means he's guaranteed zero points on that one. But after that expedition 33 of course getting him 24 points. Kingdom come deliverance two 19 points. Trails in the sky, first chapter 20 points, then hyper Light Breaker. You know, another lock in there of not coming. So he's locked into zero points after that. The first berserker, not the Last Berserker. Kazan 11 points. Donkey Kong Bonanza 23 points. EA College Football 2614 points, which I did not believe.

[Mike]

I told you I did not believe that at all.

[Greg Miller]

For 12 points. And then he still has an open slot to pick.

[Andy Cortez]

He can find a 99.

[Greg Miller]

What are you going to draft, Mikey?

[Mike]

Yeah, Greg, you know, this episode was really a little kind of a pressure cooker for me because everybody looked at me and said, you're going to make your last selection here on this, on the, on the stream. And I said, I'm not doing that on the show.

[Andy Cortez]

No, no.

[Mike]

Okay. You have to wait on my time here.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, you're number one.

[Mike]

And so I have some, I have some picks I want to talk about with the team. I do just want to highlight, you know, know I've been under a lot of pressure this year with Fantasy Critic. As you know, I had the second pick in the draft that you brought up, Greg, and I, I kind of my hand was forced to pick Grand Theft Auto 6 on the first player. Of course. Sad boy Barrett, he had the option really weighed out. Do you believe that they will delay this game or do you pick Grand Theft Auto 6? And he believed in the delay and he got Monster Hunter Wilds now as number two. I was really forced my hand of like now I feel. But I feel like you had to pick it. You had to pick if you were in my shoes.

[Blessing]

Nobody else here thought that game was

[Mike]

coming out this year. Well, here's the problem. You weren't second pick so you wouldn't

[Greg Miller]

approve exactly that he got you.

[Blessing]

That's a good point.

[Mike]

Maybe.

[Blessing]

If only somebody was first picking, just so you know.

[Mike]

So like I, I got, I got stuck behind the ball right there and then I had a delicate dance. If you rewind the tape, I really encouraged a lot of people to maybe counter pick my team, which was, you know, put the target on my back. That was a bad idea.

[Andy Cortez]

That was a silly idea.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, but you did that because you didn't want anybody to counterpick Indiana Jones, which honestly was a good counterpick for you.

[Mike]

I saw that as well. Thank you very much, Barrett. I appreciate that.

[Roger Pokorny]

I just want to make sure of this. Your first five games on your team here up to Hyper Light Breaker were all drafts. Right. Like, that's all like Day one picks.

[Mike]

That is correct. Yeah. Thank you so much. And so I followed Andy Cortez with Hyper Light Breaker. He loves Hyper Light Drifter. He loves that studio. He really believes in them. And that was one. Like, I looked into my best friend's eyes, and I just believed the nitro rifle. And he betrayed me.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I tracked that one last year as well. And that also was the same situation. So I kind of looked you. I was like, why are you doing that? You're like, this is the one.

[Mike]

And that was one of those unfortunates where someone counterpicked it. I don't know which one of you did, but I think Andy did it. Came out early Access didn't receive enough reviews to get a score, so I got very lucky. Then the team a couple months later was like, hey, hold up. We're, like, halting production on this, which then put it onto the it won't release this year category, where I could have dropped it, but unfortunately wasn't able to get out of it. So that gave me the two zeros. So now we moved a little bit forward. I bet on first Berserker Kazan. It got me 11 points.

[Greg Miller]

Would have been star.

[Mike]

I'll tell you. You want 15 points and above. You're playing Fantasy Critic with your friends. Your target goal is always 15 and above. Right. In a perfect world, you're probably not going to get that, but you're. You're aiming for that. And so I had to make a big move. Blessing. And this is where, when we go to the Fantasy Critic summit, I'm going to raise my hand, and I'm going to. I'm going to propose something. As many of you know, a lot of you like to sit on your cash. A lot of you are afraid to spend it on, like, Big Mike, who's willing to throw it down.

[Greg Miller]

How much game and in real life,

[Roger Pokorny]

how much did you bid on Donkey Kong Bonanza? I think it was more than what the game is, actually.

[Mike]

I wasn't afraid to stiff arm Barrett and the rest of my opponents to keep the best games for myself. And so I splurged, because what is 89 at the end of the game gonna do for me? And that's why I propose a new idea. All of the money that you have left in your bank account at the end of the year gets turned into points or half points. So to encourage you to maybe make smarter biz, or maybe you understand this

[Greg Miller]

may be in your favor.

[Mike]

Well, no, this would hurt me because I don't have any points. It Would do Tim a big benefit because Tim has $96 left. He didn't do anything.

[Greg Miller]

So I'm saying, what if we so busy anticipating the birth of his daughter got in real life going on.

[Mike]

What if we turn. What if we turn the money into points at the end?

[Roger Pokorny]

No, that's.

[Greg Miller]

Now you have terrible idea.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm even against you on that one. I mean, like, chat.

[Mike]

Because, like, it's a good idea.

[Blessing]

Badly. We shouldn't award Tim for playing badly. You saw the potential in.com bonanza and saved your money and went, oh, I have 80 whatever dollars to spend here. I feel like that's the. That's the game we're playing.

[Mike]

Let me tell you on this, you have $23. You would get 23 points.

[Greg Miller]

Here's what I'll say is that the game needs to be played on the page. Yeah, we can't come in with. This is like Monopoly where all of a sudden free parking. Put all your money in the middle. No, we're not breaking the game. Where it's going to be. We look back and like, okay, well, Roger has the crown. But because of Mike's weird, like, no, it's definitely. Whatever's happening on the page has to be on.

[Blessing]

I can see what happened with options they have on the website because maybe if they have it, then maybe, maybe

[Mike]

we throw it out there but return to it. Then, of course, I go to EA Sports. College football. I believed in that. It was year number two. I thought improvements. They did that. Ninja Gaiden four. Me and Roger. This is when me and Roger started to cheat.

[Sponsor/Announcer]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

After all of them, we haven't been cheating.

[Mike]

This is when we started to cheat.

[Andy Cortez]

We were cheating.

[Greg Miller]

Roger, it's full, like, mask off. Back up. Yeah, we're doing it.

[Mike]

Roger promised me Ninja Gaiden 4 would be. Would deliver. And by the points, that.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's also.

[Andy Cortez]

That's not true now. Now that is Mike doing his mic thing where I looked at him and I was like, hey, Mike, I don't want ninja gaiden 4. I don't think this game is going to be great. But also I want to get Crimson. Crimson Desert. And then I want to drop that and then have a free drop space. Right? So that was the game we were playing. Playing. But I told you straight up, I was like, I don't think this game is going to be. Going to be amazing. Clearly, I was wrong. I mean, this game has an 82. Still great. That's a.

[Mike]

That's a.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a great.

[Mike]

But Like I said, five or above. And so now we get to my final pick. And that's what today's episode is all about. Was putting the pressure on reveal what his final pick is. These people, these, these opponents, my competitors. Okay, audience out there, fine. Incredible human beings in the audience out there. These jabronis here at this desk and out there are trying to put pressure on me to select the game today. And I'm not gonna do that. Okay. But I will tease you with some

[Greg Miller]

of the games just for a record too. If you've never done fantasy critic before, he couldn't. He could bid on a game today and then the bids process still in two days. So it's not even like, well, here's the catch.

[Mike]

Nobody else can bid. So like it is my. It's my game no matter what. It'd be one thing if you guys can slide in a bid, you can't bid. Right.

[Andy Cortez]

Looking a little weird.

[Greg Miller]

I mean I do believe that like

[Roger Pokorny]

I still have Greg Silga has drops and he has a lot of money.

[Greg Miller]

I have drops money and I have the ability. I. We have to. When we get to mine, we need to talk about Moonlight.

[Mike]

We'll see. We'll see. I like, I like that you got the. Like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Stand back and stand aside.

[Blessing]

Okay, Stand down. Stand.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm just saying you're not a player. You're not a player.

[Greg Miller]

And that could be to hold you back.

[Andy Cortez]

We got some ideas for the summit. We got some ideas for the summit.

[Mike]

Gr Now Roger put a lot of pressure on me here at the end of like, Mike, you need to select ball X pits. And I, I really trusted Roger and I was like, I was 75% of the way there, there. And then Roger did the most Roger and selected it his damn self. And that really upset me.

[Andy Cortez]

I looked at you for maybe, maybe months and I said, hey man, this is the game to get. And you said, I don't know. Andy says, it's not. That might not be that great. I don't know. I don't know. And I was like, you, I'm taking it then. And he's like, okay. And then he's doing the mic thing where he's doing one word answers. I'm like, I just, I need to look out for myself for once.

[Greg Miller]

While we're here, why don't we look at second place Ilo Games

[Andy Cortez]

reach.

[Greg Miller]

We got Roger with his first pick, took Ghost of Yote, got 17 points off of that second pick. Metroid Prime 4 beyond. We will see in December. That's that. That's impressive. South of Midnight brought in seven points. Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition brought in seven.

[Blessing]

Here we go.

[Greg Miller]

Principal Reawakening God, that was a great. The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion remaster brings in 12 points. Tony Hawks pro skater three plus four brings in 13 points. Keeper, 12 points. Fantasy Final Fantasy Tactics. That's where we work. 13 points.

[Andy Cortez]

That's where we work.

[Greg Miller]

Ball cross pit, 17 points. His counter pick of Claire Obscure lost in 24 points.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to talk about that.

[Greg Miller]

He would run away with it right now. But currently I saw that and was

[Blessing]

like, ah, it's too original.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's exactly what happened currently.

[Greg Miller]

But yes, Blessing, while we're here, Commission, talk to me a little bit about why we all groan when we get to Xenoblade. Talos, Principal Elder Scrolls 4 Tony and Final Fantasy Tactics.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, well, now it's a full remake. You play that game.

[Blessing]

I'm not going to get too mad at Roger because they're playing the game, he's playing the game. There are rules set for remake, reimagining and remasters and what's allowed and what's not allowed. Remasters aren't allowed. And you might look at Roger's list and go, oh, Elder scrolls, Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion Remastered. Doesn't that fit? According to the Fantasy Critic website, they look at that and they go, well, no, that remaster is actually a remake

[Andy Cortez]

and we weren't part of that discussion.

[Blessing]

We're not judging off of the title. We're judging off of what. What the game is. Which fair. It's weird. It's a whole thing. So I don't groan at that necessarily. Will that be a thing that comes up in the summit? Who knows? If somebody submits a complaint, we can talk about it. But I mainly groan when we get to the Discord conversations and the wheeling and dealing that goes on behind the scenes with Roger and Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, we could talk about that, right? I mean, these conversations are out in the open. These are not private conversations. You can join the Discord at any time. It says it right there at the top. You can press the button, you join it. Right.

[Mike]

I'd like to shut this down.

[Roger Pokorny]

I did also join just to keep an eye on what, Whatever, of course.

[Andy Cortez]

And all we're doing is we're just putting out our opinions and we've gotten, you know, being like, hey, that's a good idea, Roger and Mike, sort. But sometimes, most of the times, it's a lot of. I don't Worry about it. We'll figure out our discussion. Roger and Mike, what are some of

[Blessing]

the games you've tried to make arguments.

[Andy Cortez]

Made an argument for Final Fantasy Evil? Le Chronicles. Cuz that game is quite literally a remake.

[Greg Miller]

Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, well, we'll talk about that in a second.

[Mike]

I added new pages to the book.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I made that distinction. I said, hey everybody, I think this should be a partial remake because they added some new storybooks. Storybook pages. And they said no. And I was like, okay, that's fair. You guys are the judges. You guys are the judge, jury and executioners. I understand it. But Evely Chronicles, Mike and I, we did put our two cents out there because there was an article from the director who said that they lost all the code of the game, the entire code of the game, so they had to rebuild the entire game from scratch. I think that sounds like a partial remake at the very least. At the very least.

[Blessing]

I mean, I'm not mad.

[Andy Cortez]

And it also has voice acting, so that's. That's a partial.

[Blessing]

I want to get mad.

[Roger Pokorny]

That was fair.

[Andy Cortez]

That one's fair. I don't think anything, anything that I've argued here is unfair.

[Mike]

Hold on.

[Andy Cortez]

Yep.

[Blessing]

Okay, first of all, Xenoblade Chronicles.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, talk about Talos Principle, because you said that Talos Principle is fully remade in Unreal Engine 5.

[Mike]

5.

[Andy Cortez]

Fully remade.

[Mike]

Fully remade.

[Blessing]

Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive.

[Andy Cortez]

I've made the. I've made the distinction before. Have you played Xeno Xenoblade Chronicles X before?

[Blessing]

I played the definitive edition.

[Andy Cortez]

Have you played the original?

[Blessing]

I know, but I.

[Andy Cortez]

So you will never know. You will never know what they've changed.

[Sponsor/Announcer]

Remake.

[Andy Cortez]

No one knows what they've changed.

[Blessing]

They have new content in it.

[Greg Miller]

I don't buy it on the page. Fantasy critic says it's legal. If there's new,

[Andy Cortez]

there is new content inside of. Of it.

[Roger Pokorny]

Right, but what is that?

[Andy Cortez]

That's a partial remix.

[Mike]

And here's the problem.

[Blessing]

Tell me one new content.

[Andy Cortez]

Rod, I don't know. I don't have to know anything. I'm telling you, the information's out there.

[Greg Miller]

The machine allows it.

[Blessing]

And that's the thing is I can't get mad at it because the website deems it is so.

[Andy Cortez]

Exactly.

[Blessing]

So.

[Andy Cortez]

So we're just talking. It's not like Mike and I came in there and said this is what needs to happen because we're the number one fantasy critic influencers. No, they've said no to us. They said no to us multiple times

[Blessing]

as Commissioner, if you guys were doing anything here that was like, you know, shady or actual, if I'm offering to

[Mike]

Venmo them, then you can get after.

[Blessing]

Yeah, exactly. I would have stepped in and been like, no rock.

[Greg Miller]

Have

[Andy Cortez]

we thought about it?

[Blessing]

But everything Roger has done here is all technically legal.

[Andy Cortez]

And I myself, it's all perfect. It's all perfectly legal. I have myself. I mean, clearly with the Expedition 33 one again, I will stand by it in the sense that I did that before. The second, like the actual, like gameplay drop of that trailer happened under the developer director, which was in January or February around there. I think it was in January. This was like the initial reveal trailer, I think at Game Awards. Game Awards. Right, right. So I saw the big names. I saw Charlie Cox. I see fucking Gollum in there. He's. He's in this game. He's in this game. And I'm like, I don't know, man. Like, it's such a. You're trying. You have all these amazing, incredible inspirations how it's a small team. How are you guys going to be able to do it? I bet against a small team. Clearly I was in the world.

[Roger Pokorny]

Felt like a very ambitious, like, almost too ambitious project for such a small new team that has had experience before. Like, I was right there with you, Roger, at the beginning of the year. I was. I was a doubter of this game. But yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So, you know, I'll take that big L, I'll take that big L. And next year I'm gonna learn. I'm gonna counter pick. Just.

[Roger Pokorny]

Just.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm gonna. I'm gonna just find. Yeah, I'm gonna find GTA 6 and

[Blessing]

we're gonna count A thing that I learned. Obviously, when it comes to the counter picks, it comes down to, you know, like, games that are the games that we have the option to counterpick. Right. Like, I think when you're either the last counterpick or when you're in that last few, it is. Is all right. What's the lesser of all these evils? I was looking at a page. I already lost it, so I'll see if I can find it again. That broke down the stats over the years of like, what were the best counter picks, what were the worst counter picks and all this stuff. And funny enough, the best ones are always games that get delayed into the next year. Yeah, it's so rare that we have a game that's listed that gets scored

[Andy Cortez]

below a 7 or gets canceled like Everwild, which is what I should have Done. Is that the one that you picked?

[Blessing]

No, you're thinking of the Celeste.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, the Celeste follow up which I

[Roger Pokorny]

was like I drafted.

[Andy Cortez]

I was kicking myself. Yeah, that was I think with that news came out. Right. Right. As the Clair obscures like gameplay trailer started to come out and I was like, man, alternate universe. I could have done that.

[Blessing]

Like I'm looking at the the lowest scoring games and this goes back to 2021 in this specific league page has been on and off, so don't use this as gospel, but the lowest scoring games here of all time. Right. Battlefield 2042 was picked by Greg and that got us back in 2021.

[Greg Miller]

I don't like this narrative. I. I look over this. I already don't like this narrative.

[Blessing]

Scored a 65 on Metacritic or on Open Critic Jet the Far Shore was picked by Imran in 2021 that scored a 65. To the rescue a dog shelter simulator was picked by Greg in 2021 that scored 67. And then everything else for the lowest scoring games are all did not release games. Elden Ring She Dreams Elsewhere Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Silk Song Gotham Knights Sinuous like all those scoring 70 have been the lowest scoring score wars since this league has begun.

[Roger Pokorny]

Gotham knights got a 70.

[Blessing]

Well because it didn't release the year

[Greg Miller]

Tim.

[Blessing]

Yeah, Tim picked it in 2021.

[Greg Miller]

You're dogging me. But look at Tim Tim Tim. They're all Tim games.

[Blessing]

I think these are all games that like I think this is tracking from 2021, 2024 and 2025. I think between 2022 and 2023 along with 2020, those were all P.S. i love you. Yeah, fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

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[Mike]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Andy Cortez]

Tyler puts in the chat. To be fair to Chronicles X, the whole UI is redone and it adds a chapter to give it an actual ending.

[Blessing]

You know what? That's a remake. That's a damn near new game right there.

[Roger Pokorny]

I gotta respect it now.

[Andy Cortez]

I like you as commish. You know, we might not try to change it.

[Blessing]

By the way.

[Roger Pokorny]

I might not try to change it with one power.

[Andy Cortez]

We have some ideas.

[Greg Miller]

There's a lot of super chats in here. Of course. Dean says Mike and Raj. Lucky the FBI is busy with the FBI with the NBA.

[Andy Cortez]

We're next up.

[Greg Miller]

Hard to find. Says Mike. You're my dog. But quite frankly, that's the worst idea I've ever heard. Ricardo says Blessing is just jealous that Mike and Raj have been able to riz their way to a W on discord scored and then call out of course that we were just talking about off air football 20 manager 26 is a 63. Bullet dodged everyone. Because Mike. Yeah, you were talking about that for a while.

[Mike]

Yeah, we'll talk about the games that I, I, I'm looking at for my final spot. But yeah, Football Manager was a big one. They of course didn't release last year. Your hopes were that they were getting everything right. They were really dialing it in and they had an open beta like a week before launch or maybe two weeks before launch. And I looked at Roger, I said I'm on the Reddit here. Day 11 and it's on fire. I don't think this is the right choice. So I avoid that one thing.

[Roger Pokorny]

That's a tough one because for like a good couple of years, like back in 2020, 2021, Football Manager was such a solid. If you need 10 to 12 points in December to like get up there, like that was always a consistent pick. But it's, it's sad to see them struggling the last couple of years.

[Greg Miller]

So again, Mike in first place has one game Left to drop. Drop in there, try to make a move. Thank you, Raj. In second place, has Metroid prime still on the DOC December come out. We then turn our eyes to third place. Nitro Rifle Games. That's Andy Cortez, who currently is waiting on Skate Story and Demon School Post. And again, he's at 105, so right behind y' all on your heel heels. Yeah, he had Civ 7 got him 9 points with his first pick. Ouch. You know what I mean? Doom the dark ages. 16 points. Avowed got him 10 points. Always crazy to remember Avowed came out this year.

[Andy Cortez]

Insane Skate Story.

[Greg Miller]

We're still waiting on Lies of pete. Overture got 15 points. Ninja Guide and Ragebound got him 16 points. MLB the Show 25 got him 13 points. Hell is Us only got him eight points. Yeah. Absolve them. I can never say it. Absol. 16 points. Yeah, we're waiting on Demon School, right?

[Mike]

Yeah. That was a good slide in right at the end with Absolum Roger with

[Greg Miller]

one game left to go there. A big one. Metroid Prime. Are you worried about Andy coming in and being able to usurp you with Skate Story?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah, for sure. No, he's gonna.

[Greg Miller]

He's.

[Andy Cortez]

He's gonna beat my ass. But, you know, it's. It's. I tried and I worked hard. I remember last year, I think I was last place. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was last place. So, I mean, I'm just looking for. This is the rebuild year. This is me trying new things, figuring out the buttons work, figuring out what's cheating. What's not cheating. Yeah. Just readjusting. So I'm feeling good and I'm happy for Andy, and honestly, he's. He's doing great. And he just dropped which brook. Which. Yeah, which brook, which was delayed out of this year, and he picked up Demon Schools. That was a good pick on his.

[Roger Pokorny]

I'm glad I advised him to do that because, again. Oh, I don't need to win. I just need Mike and Roger.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, advised. Yeah. Interesting.

[Mike]

Advising.

[Roger Pokorny]

Well, you two are advising each other all the goddamn time.

[Blessing]

All right.

[Andy Cortez]

It seems like we all collude, huh?

[Roger Pokorny]

It's. I. I think Skate Story and Demon School are going to be solid ones to. To keep him fighting until the end of the year, but it's. It's going to be very close.

[Greg Miller]

I think we look our eyes then at Blessing at OA Junior. Fourth place with him. Tendo, of course. Three games left to post for Blessing, Mixtape Possessors and Luminous.

[Blessing]

Two games, really? Because Mixtape ain't coming out. Mixtape is not coming out.

[Greg Miller]

To run you through the tale of the tape Split Fiction was his number one pick. Got him 21 points. Humongous Death Training 2 on the beach 20 points. Humongous Wonder Stop with 11. Mario Kart World with 17 mixtape which is counter picked and locked in. Of course not looking good for coming out this year as they continue to be.

[Blessing]

What's like the best case scenario? Like is it a shadow drop at this point?

[Greg Miller]

Game awards.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, yeah. Game awards. I was really worried about the idea at Xbox thing earlier this week. I was like that might happen, it might happen too small.

[Blessing]

I don't know if that's a game that Shadow drops a game Awards. That's a game that needs to be in the awards. You know what I mean? Like that's the game that needs to be. Needs to be nominated for the awards

[Greg Miller]

Boards Possessors which is coming up pretty quick again. Coming out Bionic bay got you 16 points.

[Mike]

That was a great pull.

[Greg Miller]

Skin Deep got you six points. You picked up Luminesce Arise which should be awesome. Yeah. And then consume me here with 13 points. Your counterpick was Tim's unannounced mainline Mario platformer. Good for you.

[Blessing]

Did not come the big swing. Honestly. 3D Mario platformer, you know, DK Bonanza came was announced and like I've never had like such a. A sigh of relief in my life of oh shit, they're not doing it. I can't believe it. But you know I feel good about the picks I have except for mixtape. I think Mixtape honestly is the make or break here of if that was able to come out this fall based off of your guys summer game fest previews. I think that would have skyrocketed me into possibly second or first place. But at this point I've lost all hope with mixtape coming out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Sadly.

[Roger Pokorny]

Sadly I still think you have a shot honestly of like looking at everybody for the rest of the year and what games we have left on the board.

[Andy Cortez]

You got a shot.

[Roger Pokorny]

I honestly think you're going to be the one to be here Blood us because Luminous Arise, like looking back back at Tetris effects like that's a 90 I think on open critic like that like Lou, I think Luminous Arise will maybe not hit as big as Tetris Effect, but I would still imagine 80s, you know and then Possessors like I. I don't have a good finger on the pulse with that one but I know how excited people are for that game. So like I could See you getting anywhere from like, middle mid-30s to like 40 points left on the board here.

[Blessing]

What's first place?

[Roger Pokorny]

Like who.

[Blessing]

What's the. Right now, first place is 100, so 121.

[Mike]

You, Andy and Barrett are all in this with me. Of, like, if your games were to score 15 or above, you would be in the 30 range. And we're all having a very close battle to see where this goes. Barrett has three games.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say let's bring Barrett into the conversation then, if you don't mind. So we have an idea of who all is still in the mix over here. Boss Baby Productions currently has 95 points. Yes. Three games left to play. Monster Hunter Wilds got Barrett 19 points. Citizen Sleeper two star Ward Vector got him 17 points. Dispatch is locked. So far, no points. Right. Because we're waiting to see the whole thing come out. Is that what the little.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Needs more reviews.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, yeah, it's got reviews, but I think it needs to be like a certain. What is it like? Well, no, it's got like eight reviews on there, but I think they're from smaller outlets. Like, they need to be like, from bigger outlets or whatever.

[Blessing]

It's also a weird one because nobody's fully reviewed Dispatch. Like, the reviews are for episodes one and two, which they can't count towards this.

[Roger Pokorny]

Right? I. I have no idea. But I imagine once the full season. Yeah, like, you're gonna get your ign, your game spot reviews and stuff like that. I. I feel good about Dispatch just for the reaction people are having for the first two weeks. I. I see that getting mid-80s at the end of the day. Unless it like falls off in like the last week, something like that.

[Blessing]

You're thinking like 82, 83 is where I. I'm.

[Greg Miller]

My prediction would be okay after that. Rift of the Necro dancer got you 10. Everhood 2 got you 8 points. Blue prince, 20 points. Hey, Shinobi. Art of Vengeance got 17 points, then left to release. Why? I. I'll toss in Rematch got you four points, which is crazy. I would have thought that Unbeatable and Marvel Cosmic Invasion are still left to release here. You counter picked. Connor picked mixtape, which looks like it's going to pay off if it doesn't come out.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. And that was the counterpicking. I was the last person to counterpick and that was the hope that it wasn't going to come out this year because that game does look rad as hell. Yeah, Rematch. That was a. I was. I was really heartbreaking. I was really riding on the.

[Mike]

The.

[Roger Pokorny]

The high and excitement of Bless Mike and Andy on that one, and that did not pay off.

[Blessing]

All you needed to do was ask us, because I would have told you that you're not going to do well. Yeah, I would have been like, no,

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't trust any of you, though, anymore. Especially because of those two at the desk there.

[Andy Cortez]

Trustworthy.

[Roger Pokorny]

I think my biggest mistake this year, honestly, was a game that I drafted Day one and then dropped because I got two in my head about it because it was a DLC for an indie game. And that was. We'll talk about it later, but Greg ended up picking it up was Sea of Stars throws of the Watchmaker. If I hadn't dropped that, which I think after I dropped that, I picked up both Rift of the Necker Dancer and Everhood two, like, I would be in a much, I think, easier spot and feel, like, a bit more safe about getting a win here because of that, though. Yeah, we'll. We'll see. I do think Dispatch will get me probably an 84, 85. Just with, like, a lot of nine so far is a lot of eight, so I really think it'll hit in the middle there. Unbeatable is a weird one.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

Unbeatable has been, like, one of my most anticipated indie games in the last, like, four years since that white label demo came out, I think in 2020 or something like that. That one I'm really looking forward to. It's coming out next week, and it's one that, like, I could see being really into rhythm games, being really into, you know, the. The anime vibe and what they're teasing as, like, a kind of really emotional story that has some interesting political commentary in it. I could see it being, like, one of my, like, contenders, but I could see it reviewing at, like, an 80 overall on, like, Open Critic or something like that.

[Greg Miller]

Barrett, I understand, but from the chat, we have Nicholas saying, I thought Sea of Stars is good. Why'd you drop the dlc?

[Roger Pokorny]

Because Greg and I have, like, had this conversation before. We're, like, DLC never reviews as well as. As an indie game.

[Greg Miller]

Talk about that when we get to my list. Yeah.

[Roger Pokorny]

And then also the other thought was I was worried about, like, if was. I think it was coming out at such a busy time. I was also worried about it not getting enough reviews and enough outlets actually, like, giving it the time to review it. So that. That was kind of a. That was. I was again, doubting myself a lot, and I. I shouldn't have. And so, yeah, we'll see with unbeatable. But then Marvel Cosmic Invasion I think is going to give me big points. Their last game, Shredder's Revenge, I think reviewed at like an 87 or something like that. So I. I think Cosmic Invasion is going to give me big points to get me close here. I doubt I will take it all at the end of the year, but I'm in the conversation.

[Mike]

At least he's in the conversation.

[Greg Miller]

I want to make sure we're clear, especially for people listening who don't have all the stuff in front of them. Michael, you said he's in the conversation, right? Because of course 95 points but three games left to score here. You notably left out Paris Lily. He has 93 points but only two games left to go. I would assume that's the answer why you're leaving him out of this conversation. Right.

[Mike]

Know positivity. P. Here's the catch. With Paris Lily, Kirby Air Riders, I think you're going to get a thumbs up. I think you might score about 85 or above on that. Call of Duty Black Ops 7 though is a tough one. His final two picks here, Greg, Call of Duty, Black Ops 7 and Little Nightmares 3 were his. Hey, let's make a big move. A big bet right here. And I think he got too excited a little too early and selected those two. I do think Call of Duty Black Ops 7 will review view probably in the 77 to 80 range. I don't think we're gonna go above 85 on that. Maybe you get to 80 heroes.

[Andy Cortez]

I think that there's a chance this one like is low 70s.

[Mike]

I don't know. They got. I. I think they're hiding enough.

[Andy Cortez]

They're hiding enough of the big stuff that we've talked about and it's like oof. Why aren't we showing this? Why aren't we talking about this game comes out, comes out pretty surprising. Yeah.

[Mike]

But Little Nightmares 3, that was one where it's like, oh, here's a game coming out. Halloween, spooky season. Of course. It is super massive. It's not the original team. This is one maybe we jump on. And Paris definitely beat me to this. And three points is unfortunate there.

[Greg Miller]

Let's run you through Paris so far he with number one. He took Hollow Knight. Silksong got 22 points off it. A huge get for you. Paris like a dragon pirate Yakuza in Hawaii got him 11 points. Assassin's Creed Shadows got him 11 points. The Outer Worlds 2 got him 12 points points. Adam Fall netted only 5 the Altars then got 16 points. Then as we said, Kirby Air Riders is still in play. Borderlands 4 got him 12 points. Call of Duty Black Ops 7 got him no points yet. Obviously. We're waiting to see how that plays out. Little Nightmares 3 got him three points. And then his counter pick was Resident Evil Requiem. So he got greater.

[Roger Pokorny]

I. I still don't see what everybody else sees. I'm still convinced Kirby Air Riders gets him like, five points.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I feel like that's absolutely. That's wild.

[Blessing]

You want to watch that last direct.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah, man. Like, I don't get the.

[Blessing]

Sakurai put his foot in it, man. He put everything.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. When you. Sakurai goes full Sakurai. He's gonna. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

He.

[Andy Cortez]

He. He believes in this franchise. I think this is gonna do. Really.

[Blessing]

And has Nintendo on the box at least.

[Greg Miller]

Nad.

[Blessing]

We'll see.

[Greg Miller]

Paris. Yeah. I think it's just doesn't have that third slot that you're talking about to kick it around.

[Mike]

Those final three picks for him were the unfortunate ones. Right. Like, you. You kind of start looking towards the end of the year. You look at what you have left after those initial first five picks, and it's tight. Right. You don't have many picks to really play with. And Borderlands underperforming due to just a lot of bugs at launch and never finding its footing with the audience out there. That's an unfortunate pick at 12. Call of Duty is just a roll of the dice every year on where that is. That's like picking a sports game and hoping that this year's their breakout year. And then Little Nightmares 3. That was a roll of the dice. That's a 50. 50 coin toss, in my opinion.

[Blessing]

I'm surprised that's low. I thought that would have came in at least like an 80 or something.

[Greg Miller]

It previewed so well, it seemed like. And then. Yeah. Just reviews were like.

[Mike]

The worry is. Yeah. If it's not the original development team, does it still have the stuff? And you know, looks like the co

[Blessing]

op, but the co op was only online co op as well, so.

[Andy Cortez]

Wait, what?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that sucks. I was gonna play that tonight with Lianza on the couch. I had a whole night planned.

[Greg Miller]

You can play and just tell her what to do.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

She'll tell you what.

[Roger Pokorny]

Paris is in the. In the chat as well. And he said Fable screwed him because he also picked Fable. Had to drop it big.

[Mike]

25 years of Xbox. Held that one back. That's too bad.

[Greg Miller]

Next year. Big year, though. Get them. We'll see every Year, you know, campaign evolved. That'll be. That'll count.

[Mike]

That will count.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm excited to see who, who, who picks that one after that.

[Greg Miller]

Welcome to the seller. It's me and Tim. I am in second to last place with Ecto one games. I do still have Mina the Hollower to play. I still. You have Moonlighter 2 Endless Vault, which I want to talk about in a second second. And then I have Octopath Traveler 0. But obviously none of this is going to catch up. I hopefully just. I'm able to stay in front of Tim, which is what I want.

[Blessing]

Hey, Greg, why don't you just drop

[Andy Cortez]

me to the Hollower?

[Greg Miller]

Elden Ring Night rain was my first pick. It got me 10 points. Metal Gear Solid Delta, Snake Eater was my second. Got me 15 points. My third one was egregious, but it was also part of the bit. Indiana Jones and the Great circle the order of the Giants. This only got me two points with my third pick. My idea, of course, was that I, you know, notoriously didn't like Indiana Jones that much, or at least as much as everybody else claims they liked it. And so I was like, oh, well, this is going to be their chance to get in there.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm right there with you.

[Blessing]

That's a good game.

[Greg Miller]

Game. A lot of people still talking about. Yeah, a lot of Game of the year lists, even the ones that went, yeah, yeah, a lot of people loved Indiana Jones. That's why I got in our top 10. Enough of you clowns were like, oh, you were wrong about it. It was in my personal was put it at number 10. You would have got it on our list.

[Blessing]

Not every game I play is gonna

[Greg Miller]

be a top 10 game.

[Blessing]

Great game, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Anyways though, I was like this DLC hopefully will be a chance. And it was not. Nobody. Nobody gave that one the time but Day then, yeah. Mina the Hollower, then Moonlighter to the Endless Vault, which again, Mina and Moonlight are still coming. Interestingly, Moonlighter 2 on our thing says will not release this game will not release this year. In fact, Moonlighter 2 will release in early access this year. This is a conversation. I did join the fantasy critic Discord today. Yes, you did. Of. I don't understand what's going on. What's going on? Dan from Canada answered. Your league has quote only needs a score. End quote. Which means early access games, if they get enough reviews, three top critics, you will get a score like Mike did last year with Hades too.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So it is this showing up to

[Blessing]

these things with PowerPoints Because I definitely explained this at the beginning.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, no, no, no, you did. I mean, let's be honest. There's just so much information and then to get to here where it pops up and I'm like, my question wasn't, what's going on? I was like, Moonlighter 2 is tagged as will not release, but it's coming to early access. Is this a thing with the league I'm in? Should I drop it? Or inevitable reviews kick it up. So no, you, at the beginning of the year, you do a great job of explaining. It's just a year later where now I'm hazy of like, wait, am I wrong? Because my belief was if I get. I. I fully believe Moonlighter 2 is going to release this month and it's going to get sports. Like, I'm not worried about getting three top critics. I think it's going to. I don't think an IGN is going to hold off on it and be like, well, it's early act. I think you do early.

[Andy Cortez]

They did kind of you a little bit though, because they said that they specifically weren't doing early access. It was like on the thing, even

[Greg Miller]

that thing where like, did they fuck me or. Because it was like you hovered over and it was like, a PR person has set. It's like, well, you can't trust a fucking PR person.

[Andy Cortez]

They're not the developer.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean? So I'm holding on hope that that will get there, whatever I like. Then Dan started from Canada, started giving me advice though, of like, well, you may want to do this with Mina and blah, blah, blah, blah. And then I especially appreciate it. You know, my first day on this fantasy critic thing, I popped in, Jim Booney responded and just goes, greg, did Tim come into work today? Pulling a sub, kind of funny subreddit thread I made of a joke into this over here. So appreciate the kind of funny best friends being out there all the time. Anyways, Moonlighter 2 is there. I am committed to it. I'm not letting Moonlighter go, especially since I'm already out of the race. But I, I believe in Moonlighter too. Then we get into an interesting trio of games.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Wheel World, which got me three points to a T, which got me zero super tough criminal criminal hurdling, which got me 10 points. What's notable about all three of these games is that I played them all. That the GDC ID at Xbox thing came home and bit on them. And my thought being like, I thought the Real World demo was so good. I loved it so much. I reviewed it for us and I was like, this did not live up to the expectations I had on this game. Which is heartbreaking. Right. But it was that idea of. I went against my own advice. If you look back through the years of doing Fantasy critic early on, I. I've fallen for this swan song again. This cool indie. I'm going to toss it out there. You fucking tour to the rescue a dog. I'm like, people who get this are going to love this and they'll like. It's like indies are so hard to nail. But coming off of last year where like Barrett killed it with Batro and stuff like that, I was like, I need, I. I got in my own head of I need to find the diamonds that that indie hit. I need to find these games that I think have the chance, that have the juice, that have the thing. And I thought all three of these games could. And it was that thing. I. I know what I'm saying. I thought they could deliver on.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you're a two bet on one

[Greg Miller]

of them to a T being a. More like it's from, you know, Nobi Nobi boy director, like a weird ass game. But here's an idea that might work

[Blessing]

better with I think we at this point at Xbox ID at Xbox during gdc because remember me and you coming out of that being like, man, this game is super charming.

[Greg Miller]

Like looking forward to this, the songs, this. Yeah.

[Blessing]

I also bid on this game and I think you outbid me on it.

[Mike]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

By the way. I'm happy I took the bullet for you. But again, now we've learned my lesson. And next year, no fucking indies unless they've ingested.

[Andy Cortez]

That's how I feel. No indies, no indies, no Xbox. That's what I'm going for.

[Greg Miller]

Except for Forza, after hurdling I was able to pick up Sia Stars throws of the watchmaker. 17 points. Picked up on that, that one. And then like I said, that's number one. Octopath Traveler 0 is still in play for me this year. I counterpicked Grand Theft Auto, so that's nice. And yeah, I've 59 points. Mina Octopath.

[Andy Cortez]

Octopath's a little weird though. I know because it's like that was the mobile game, right, that they're not porting to.

[Blessing]

It's not a.

[Greg Miller]

It's not a port.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a remake.

[Greg Miller]

Spiritual Success or whatever.

[Roger Pokorny]

I don't reimagine. Yeah, there's like some like the systems and the way they're Telling the story and maybe some character stuff they're pulling from the mobile game, but it's like kind of a new, different game.

[Blessing]

Some would say you should drop me in the hollower.

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Blessing]

Yeah, he's not going out this year.

[Greg Miller]

I thought they. Well, no, they delayed it, but they didn't put a new delay.

[Blessing]

That's what I'm saying.

[Greg Miller]

I. Yeah, that again, it just doesn't matter a lot of points for me. And if it doesn't, I still lose. So whatever.

[Blessing]

I mean, I think it would serve Mike better is what I'm saying.

[Greg Miller]

Mike's got his own problems.

[Roger Pokorny]

What Blessing, Why are you trying to help Mike?

[Blessing]

I'm trying to help a game that's gonna get delayed next.

[Mike]

We can talk about those options. Greg, if you want to drop a game because I do have some high,

[Greg Miller]

we turn our eyes back to you.

[Andy Cortez]

A little trade. Do we want a legal and fair trade, Michael?

[Mike]

Because, Greg, now it all comes down to me and my move. I don't think anyone truly on this league will make one more final move. I think it is just me here and it is me in the driver's seat. It is my game to fumble, as the audience has said. And now I have to look at what's in front of me. And I've really took my time on this. I've missed out on some hits. Ball X pit here and a couple others. But I also have dodged some bullets by not getting too excited. Football Manager 26. I'm looking at you. And so right now, this moment, if I was to put in a bid for this week, that would be probably Hyrule Warriors. Agent Prince. I have that under the wire if I wanted to get in. Right. Where does that stand? Where does that going to put me if.

[Greg Miller]

What did the Last one get? What? 92 warriors.

[Blessing]

Barrett, I need you not stepping.

[Mike]

Yeah, I was just say I don't think that's how high we're lying. Roger will double check we're cheating. But it's one of Those of like 76 was warrior.

[Andy Cortez]

What was the other one is that is. Oh. Age of Calamity 7.

[Mike]

So if you look at my score right now at 1:21 and you think about Barrett, Blessing, Andy, I need something that is guaranteed over 15 at this point if not reaching into the 20s because Barrett has three spots and all three of those games could easily score over 15s, which would skyrocket him in a heartbeat. Andy there right behind me. He could do the same with two 15s. I need something that's going to put me into the highest 39, if not

[Greg Miller]

140 to win top available games.

[Sponsor/Announcer]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

And you. A high rule obviously is at the top of it. Right. But I do look at that Terminator 2 dates.

[Mike]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

I'm super excited for that. And I know that I'm. What. But I feel like the kind of people who are going to be drawn to that are going to be like, man, what a cool, cool thing. Now does that get you 15 points? That's tough.

[Roger Pokorny]

And also, does that game get delayed again because they keep delaying it for like this last one was tariffs.

[Greg Miller]

So you're hopeful this time? It does.

[Roger Pokorny]

Yeah. You know, yeah.

[Mike]

So I have that one on my list is termed Morsels.

[Greg Miller]

From that thing, we just.

[Mike]

No fate. It looks exactly.

[Blessing]

If I was in your position, I might look at morsels. Like that's not even a joke.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I think that game looks.

[Mike]

I haven't heard of that one. We can look that up. But I have, of course, 117 packs. Romana. You can look at the Nano and hope that maybe the strategy nerds will come out. The problem with that is you got a Ubisoft title on that. And then on top of that, you saw what happened with, of course, Sieve.

[Andy Cortez]

And then also, what was that one that Xbox was doing that I picked up that.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Like 72 aura. Yeah.

[Mike]

A lot of these strategy games, it initially comes out, the audience says, no, we want this, we want that. You messed this, this up. And it takes about one to two DLCs or content updates to get that right. And so the initial picks of these strategy games are very smart because they do finish up on the higher end. But the problem is pretty low. They start low because the audience, the die hard fans, are not happy with.

[Roger Pokorny]

And then it's rare for people to go back later in the same year to like re review to like change that score and stuff. But Mike, you could trust Roger.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, you could.

[Roger Pokorny]

You could trust Roger and believe y that a mainline unannounced Half Life game will shadow drop at the Gamma.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what I've been. I've been saying this for years, man. We've been tracking Gabe Newell's boat. Where the is the boat? Is he gonna show up in LA and is he gonna go on stage and is Jeff Keighley gonna have the moment where he's like, I got a little bit of that high last year of I. I announced a ton of games. I announced Okami, but everyone wanted Half Life. So here it is. It's in the Ether Half Life X HLX is in the codes of. What's a game game you play?

[Mike]

Deadlock.

[Andy Cortez]

Deadlock. Is it that code of deadlock? HLX is in there. Somewhere out there, there is a new Half Life.

[Blessing]

You already used your super drop, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Like you're at drop thing.

[Blessing]

Okay, thank God.

[Andy Cortez]

Why?

[Blessing]

Because knowing you, like, I could see you at the last moment dropping Metroid prime for this to pick something crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

I would never do such a thing.

[Blessing]

You for sure would do such a thing.

[Andy Cortez]

But now I have an idea for a trade.

[Mike]

There's one more game, Greg out there, that maybe could be my saving grace.

[Roger Pokorny]

Oh, God.

[Mike]

If you look at my list, there was one game that I chose to believe in. And through the past October, 30 days, the whole month, I have pandered to this audience with Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. And guess what? Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 just what, two weeks ago announced that they have a DLC on the way. Run it back. Run it back. Mike, am I about to run it back with Kingdom come Deliverance 2 DLC to possibly secure this win in the best way possible?

[Blessing]

That's actually kind of.

[Mike]

Right. So there you can see it.

[Greg Miller]

Mysterious.

[Mike]

But yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's also hover over the other DLCs that they've had and what the scores he's gotten over there. I believe one of them had like 10 points or 60 or was like a 60 or 70. So like these.

[Greg Miller]

Aren't they making a big deal about this one?

[Blessing]

I thought they were the bigger one.

[Mike]

This one, I. You know, I just. We're riding the hive. Kingdom Come Deliverance too. I'm a believer of it now. I've been playing, playing it non stop. Wouldn't it be fun if I bet everything on this game? If I fumble the bag, everybody can say, nana, boo. Boo. You messed up. But if it wins, we could have one of the greatest stories ever. And that's ladies and gentlemen and mbs, where I'm at right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Or you bet it all on me. Your best friend, Half Life three will be there.

[Mike]

You took ball pit from me. I'm upsetting you. Okay?

[Greg Miller]

It had months.

[Andy Cortez]

That's breaking up now. Okay.

[Roger Pokorny]

Do we want to look at the big losers?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah. We didn't look at Tim.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

We kind of looked past them a little bit.

[Blessing]

It's funny to go from like Paris's thing, which is so clean, like well laid out. And you look at Tim's, and Tim's look like somebody's like drawn on it with like marker.

[Greg Miller]

Let's look at hashtag let tim publish. Currently 56 points. His first pick. And it was counterpicked and locked in. It won't Release unannounced. Mainline 3D Mario platformer.

[Roger Pokorny]

Big bet.

[Greg Miller]

Second pick, Pokemon Legends ZA. That got him 12 points. Not too shabby.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Better than I would have thought.

[Greg Miller]

Then of course 2xko. This is a game that will not release. I said so. Zero point.

[Andy Cortez]

That's crazy because I got an IGN review.

[Blessing]

Well, it's on early access.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I know, I know. He just needs like one more.

[Greg Miller]

This is the scary thing, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Then he had Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D remake. That got him 15 points.

[Andy Cortez]

Good for him.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Just then he had counter picked as well. Resident Evil Requiem by Paris. Zero points on that. That one. Then he had Midnight Walk, which got him 10 points.

[Blessing]

Tough.

[Greg Miller]

Then Darwin's Paradox.

[Blessing]

Tough.

[Greg Miller]

The Eternal Life of Goldman.

[Andy Cortez]

I love Sam. It's just hilarious that he saw that. He's like, this is my game.

[Greg Miller]

Getting it. Darwin's Paradox. Like what's. What's the deal? How. You see it was Hanami Publishing.

[Andy Cortez]

It was like.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, I meant more like. So okay, they just. There's no word on when it's coming out. Just 2025 and no cancelization.

[Roger Pokorny]

And then the same with Eternal Life of Goldman. Like that was one that was. We saw I think at the very end of last year or maybe the beginning of this year. Looks cool. It looks more of like a DuckTales but type of vibe gameplay wise. But then, you know, handdrawn cuphead vibes as well.

[Greg Miller]

Then he went for Mafia the Old country got him three points.

[Roger Pokorny]

I told him not to do it

[Greg Miller]

and he did get Silent Hill F. That brought him 16 points. That was Fire Pick, however, is Dispatch.

[Roger Pokorny]

Okay, so points that he just gained from Dragon Quest. He will lose with Dispatch event. That's tough.

[Blessing]

He originally had a Greek God of War 2D game on his list.

[Greg Miller]

He's getting to know what kind of

[Blessing]

player Tim is this season.

[Greg Miller]

He always dreams. He always goes with his heart. You got to respect.

[Andy Cortez]

We respect him. We love him.

[Blessing]

So I worked for him before.

[Greg Miller]

Are you prepared to say, Mike, what you're going to actually bet on?

[Mike]

Yeah, I am. Greg.

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Are you doing it now?

[Mike]

Because I'm going to do it for the audience.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm going to do it for the content.

[Greg Miller]

We love content, Roger.

[Mike]

I love making a story and I love content. Greg Miller, he loves pandering. And I love Kingdom Come Deliverance too. I've been playing it all month long. And I believe in this game. And gosh darn it, it wouldn't be the year 2025 of stepping out of my gaming box and not believing in something that I have fallen in love with. So today, I will be putting in my final bid for kingdom Come. Deliverance to DLC number three. Here we go.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow. What a strong name.

[Mike]

I'll see you soon.

[Greg Miller]

Proud of you, Mike.

[Mike]

Thank you, everyone.

[Greg Miller]

Proud of everybody on this panel. And of course, the fantasy critic. You can keep up with it. Kindafunny.com kfleague2025 Some super chats before we get out of here. Jack says, let's go, Mike. You got this fantasy critic in the bag.

[Mike]

Let's go, Henry and Hans.

[Greg Miller]

Then we got what Michael says, time to cancel Greg for his Reese's opinion. For worst already lingering Shadow says, in my league, we are awarding the person with the most budget left over. Just five extra points to incentivize. Not blowing your budget.

[Mike]

Not bad.

[Greg Miller]

I think Mike's idea just goes too far.

[Andy Cortez]

What's wrong with blowing your budget?

[Blessing]

I mean, yeah, you got the money. Spend it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

Look at me.

[Greg Miller]

Ryan says, I'm just starting the stream. But I had to share. I saw the title of this and you said out loud. Oh, fuck, yes. And then I like, this is an interesting one for you to think about, Commissioner. Okay. Michael super chats and says, bless. Is there an option to do a spring league and a fall league? I think it could be interesting to draft games in the first six months and the second half.

[Blessing]

Interesting.

[Greg Miller]

And then he says the winner is cumulative. No, we played on the page. We played on the page.

[Blessing]

I'll see what options they have on this on the side. I don't want to get too extracurricular.

[Andy Cortez]

I know there's some fun ones of like, I know other leagues do the thing where it's like, oh, you can like choose multiple counter picks. And like you choose one in the beginning, you choose another one later. There some.

[Roger Pokorny]

And then. Yeah, I think Giant Bomb does it where it's like they, yeah, you have a counter pick. You do at the draft day and then you have to fill your second counter pick. Or you like, lose points or some by the end of the year, which is cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Might get too far.

[Greg Miller]

I'll put out a poll.

[Blessing]

I'll put out a poll for what people like. What people don't like. No, like on the Internet for the audience because they're the ones that consuming this.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing]

So it's like, do y' all like when Roger picks 10 remakes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, they do. They love that.

[Greg Miller]

Let us know ladies, gentlemen and enbies, and make sure you come back each and every weekday for a new episode of the Kinda Funny gamescast. Remember, we're hurtling towards the fantasy Critics Summit for next year, drafting for next year, finding out who won this year. It'll all be decided soon on this very show. So like subscribe, share and if you really enjoy the content, pick up a kinda funny membership patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kinda funnygames Apple, Spotify. Get all of our shows ad free. Get a daily dose of me in a series we call Greg way. And of course, course get good karma for supporting an 11 person small business. All about live talk shows. If you are watching live. Up next is Predator in review. We return to Killer of Killers. Of course you can watch it later. Get on your podcast services and don't forget there's a stream coming up of Battlefield and an Nvidia sponsored one. So you got nowhere else to be. Hang out with us. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

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[Blessing]

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