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Podcast: Kinda Funny Gamescast
Episode: Predicting Kinda Funny's Top 10 Games 2026
Host(s): Greg Miller, Tim Gettys, Andy Cortez, Mike (Snowbike Mike), Roger Picorn, Barrett
Date: January 16, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast dives deep into a speculative—but passionate—discussion: which games will make Kinda Funny's official Top 10 Games list for 2026? Fresh off wrapping up their 2025 awards, the crew time-capsules their predictions, analyzing announced and rumored games alongside franchise trends, genre preferences, and the unpredictable nature of the games industry. Along the way, they debate, joke, and occasionally get vulnerable about gaming FOMO and personal favorites.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Recent Happenings and Vibes (02:49–10:00)

• Personal Updates: Tim Gettys discusses impending fatherhood and the nerves/excitement as the due date approaches.
  • Quote: “Tonight is my final night. I don't know what to do tomorrow. So please say all your … No more excuses. I don't know what's going to happen.” (03:42, Tim)
• Friendly Podcast Banter: Mike feels slighted for not being invited to Andy's Valorant squad—leads to friendly ribbing and FOMO talk.
  • Quote: “I take great pleasure in watching Andy and his team lose because I'm not invited. But also at the same time, I'm so happy …” (06:22, Tim)
• Shoutouts: Tim thanks the Call of Duty team for a care package; Roger recounts a wholesome Splinter Cell chat with Mike.

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2. Kinda Funny’s 2025 Top 10 Recap & Setting the Stage (11:14–13:09)

• 2025’s List (Recap): Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 tops their 2025 game of the year, with notables like Hades 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Death Stranding 2 taking up top slots.
• Purpose of the Episode: Now that the 2025 list is done, the hosts try to predict next year's (2026) company-wide Top 10—a time capsule moment, not just personal lists, aiming to see who will best predict the team’s tastes one year from now.

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3. The Heavy Hitters: Debating Potential Top 1–3 (13:36–23:38)

Sorrows (PlayStation Exclusive)

• Front-runner Status: Sorrows is repeatedly championed as a strong #1 contender—citing house team alignment, broad genre appeal, and developer reputation.
  • Quote (Mike): “I think it's like it has all the right ingredients … most of us, if not all … will love this game.” (13:36)
• Reasons Given: Accessible gameplay, not niche in genre, strong production, everyone will play.

Grand Theft Auto 6

• Counterpoint: Andy predicts Rockstar’s GTA6 will be #1, but others think it could suffer from "been there, done that" syndrome—unless multiplayer is huge.
  • Quote (Andy): “I think it's boring. … But I think it's the way Rockstar works theoretically. We're all going to play GTA 6 and … play deeper into GTA 6 than Sorrows…” (15:02)
• Key Hesitations: "It’s GTA; of course it’s big, but is it exciting?" "Will people actually finish the main story?"

Resident Evil 9

• Surprise Pick: Tim plays the wildcard with RE9 after a stellar showcase, but most agree it’s unlikely to top the list, though could land in the top 5.
  • Quote (Greg): “But it will be very high on our list … There's no chance this is our number one.” (19:53, Greg)

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4. Deep Cuts: Franchise Trends, Platform Prospects, and Indie Surprises (24:05–41:03)

Nintendo Games

• Uncertainty: No clear big first-party titles are confirmed—possible surprise late-year announcement of a 3D Mario or Fire Emblem, but little faith from the group these would compete for the top slots unless more info drops.

PlayStation Studios

• Wolverine: All agree Insomniac's Wolverine will be on the list but skeptical it cracks Top 3. High expectations if it can have story moments like “Aunt May” from Spider-Man PS4.
  • Quote (Greg): “I think Wolverine will be higher on my list than anyone else's.” (27:20)
• Control: Resident
  • Alignment: Could land top 4 if it launches and delivers—and especially if it goes more hack-and-slash, a la God of War. Some concern about a delay to 2027.

Forza Horizon 6 (Japan)

• A Rising Star: Credited as a mainstream racing breakthrough, with Japan as a setting—a real contender, barring potential split attention with a new Star Wars racing game.

Xbox's 2026 Prospects

• Fable: Anticipated, could become a "surprise lock" for the team’s top 10 if playground games pulls it off.
• Halo 1 Remake & Gears E Day: Big nostalgia plays, but skepticism abounds on whether remakes or reimaginings can crack a modern Top 10 (especially with no multiplayer in the new Halo 1).
• Quote (Tim): “Three Xbox titles will be on our Game of the Year list …” (51:11, Tim)

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5. Genre Swings, Sequels, and Indies That Could Steal the Show (41:03–69:31)

• Fire Emblem: Unexpectedly, hype among the crew is high; could break in due to a new gladiator-style arc.
  • Quote (Greg): “I'm excited at how much excitement there is for Fire Emblem here. … kind of funny's changing, man.” (77:50)
• Mixtape: From the Artful Escape team—a “teen John Hughes movie” interactive—predicted as this year’s potential Life is Strange-style indie hit.
  • Quote (Roger): “It’s gonna get a Mike's List, watch.” (63:23)
• Half-Life 3: The ultimate wildcard—if announced and released, all agree it would instantly slot top 3.
  • Quote (Barrett): “I'm confident to say Half-Life three at number three. … If Half Life three exists, that's Half Life three number three.” (61:38)
• Crimson Desert: Potential “everything game” with high expectations but skepticism about its ability to live up to the hype (“all style, no substance” risk).
• Dust Blood—on Switch 2: PvP extraction shooter from a From Software alum. Tech concerns about performance on Switch2 may limit lasting appeal.

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6. Pizza Bets, Stats & Community Predictions (51:02–85:38)

• Ongoing Pizza Bets:
  • "3 Xbox titles on the GoTY list" (Tim vs. Andy)
  • "LEGO Batman not making the list" (Andy vs. Tim)
  • Over/under on new unannounced games in top 10 next year (Greg contemplating bet)
• Community Involvement: Super chats pepper in with wild predictions, e.g., Mario Tennis Fever, Ace Combat, Star Wars 0 Company Sleeper Hit.

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7. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I take great pleasure in watching Andy and his team lose because I'm not invited. But also at the same time, I'm so happy ...” (06:22, Tim)
• “A lot of asses in this game ... I'm looking at the trailer and so much ass. I'm like, this is number one, right?” (18:44, Barrett)
• “If Half Life three exists, that's Half Life three number three. I think that's a perfect place for it.” (61:38, Barrett)
• “This one has to hit with the story. It has to hit with characters that I care about ... otherwise your combat and open world better be the most impressive thing I've seen.” (44:10, Mike, on Fable)
• “Crimson Desert ... I want to believe ... but I could totally see it being an all style, no substance.” (69:32, Mike)

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• [02:49] – Tim’s fatherhood/family updates & gaming FOMO banter.
• [11:14] – Kinda Funny 2025 Top 10 recap & purpose of this prediction episode.
• [13:36] – The Sorrows vs. GTA6 vs. RE9 debate for #1 game.
• [24:05] – Nintendo & PlayStation first-party speculation.
• [27:20] – Wolverine, Control: Resident, & Insomniac trend analysis.
• [38:06] – Forza Horizon, Star Wars racing, and racing genre talk.
• [41:13] – Fable, Halo, Gears E Day—Nostalgia and the “Xbox 3” pizza bet.
• [61:38] – Half-Life 3 as the top wildcard.
• [63:23] – Mixtape and indie breakout discussion.
• [69:32] – Crimson Desert and skepticism.
• [77:37] – Fire Emblem’s surprise surge.
• [85:08] – Community super chats and dark horse candidate musings.

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Tone & Style

The discussion carries Kinda Funny’s hallmark blend of casual humor, ultra-nerd analysis, and genuine friendship. While deeply analytical about industry trends and game mechanics, there’s no shortage of inside jokes, banter, and authenticity—ranging from competitive trash talk to heartfelt admissions of FOMO or excitement about personal milestones.

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Closing Thoughts

The Kinda Funny crew recognizes that the gaming year ahead is full of question marks, potential upsets, and unannounced surprises. Their top picks—Sorrows, GTA6, RE9, Wolverine, Forza, Mixtape, and (Dreamland!) Half-Life 3—reflect both logical predictions and the unique flavor of what excites their whole team. With ongoing bets, predictions, and audience feedback, the foundation is set for plenty of “told you so” or “eat your words” moments come their 2026 Game of the Year episode.

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*If you want a blow-by-blow walk-through of their predictions and logic, be sure to check the timestamps above—or tune in to see which hosts really can predict the future of gaming taste!

Transcript

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[Greg Miller]

to see the child? Yeah, it is. It is crazy. I am. I'm very concerned because tomorrow is the due date and to the last couple days have been increasingly difficult with G. She's in a very, very. Just. She's over it. She wants this done. She wants it done and it's not done. And I had this moment with her where she was freaking the fuck out about this and she was like, why? Why? And I was like, hey, like the due dates, we're still like four days away from the due date.

[Tim]

We're not there.

[Greg Miller]

And that reframed everything for her. For some reason she was just so tripping of like it should be here by now. Like literally the name, due date, we're fine. And so that's bought me a lot of good, good emotion is up. I am running out hours, guys. Tonight is my final night. I don't know what to do tomorrow. So please say all your. No more excuses. I don't know what's going to happen

[Andy]

next to him, the master of hype, Snowbike Mike.

[Tim]

I love that for you, Tim. Congratulations to you and Gia. Greg, I'm sorry, I'm mad at Andy. Really mad at Andy with me. Andy, I'm mad at you. Okay. Because there I was last night. Tim, I'm. I'm streaming. I'm having a good time. Yeah, I see my best friend start streaming. He's playing Valorant. I go, oh man.

[Greg Miller]

It's a multiplayer game.

[Tim]

I didn't get an invite. So I go outside, I do the Nick's Carpino method. I check the mailbox, I open it up, I look inside, I go, maybe, maybe, maybe. The invite's so big he had to leave it on the front doorstep. I go to the front doorstep, I look around, I move some of those

[Andy]

websites that talks about like, what's down for Steam. Like maybe it was down on Steam. You couldn't.

[Tim]

I go to Discord's down Ian by. Com on my Yahoo. I go, did I get a. A virtual invite? I just see that I. I didn't receive an invite to hang out and play Valerant with Andy and his squad. You know, really hurt.

[Andy]

He's probably too busy begging for views over on Instagram. I saw that the other night.

[Tim]

He.

[Mike]

He popped in and said, hey, just looking. Looking for my invite still. And also resubscribed. So thank you, Mike. And I had to tell him I'm not the general manager of the team. Yeah, I'm not the team leader. I am merely someone who comes off the bench.

[Andy]

Who are you playing with to do

[Mike]

the job with Melissa? Kevin? Ace x Madoc.

[Greg Miller]

Kevin.

[Andy]

That hurts.

[Tim]

That hurts.

[Andy]

Cuz Kevin Ax is. You're Alfred. You know what I mean? You're Alfred.

[Mike]

That's a very good comparison. But like, again, I'm Mike, I need you to know I'm not the gm. I'm not making calls for backup players and things like that. You know, I just, I, I, I, I wake up in the morning, I put my pants on with both legs. You think the star player would be

[Roger]

able to have some sway?

[Greg Miller]

I'm getting best friend on the face of the franchise.

[Mike]

I did go positive in both games.

[Tim]

Can I. Oh, and 2.

[Mike]

02 in our premier season so far. Oh, and 2, however, both really good games. So I'm like really excited because usually the, the I gave up valor for about a year because it was.

[Andy]

You're too good.

[Mike]

Every game was all right. They have their worst players better than our best player. Like, why are we in this little like, you know, bracket or whatever? But now the team's 02. But we lost both games, I think 13 to 11. Very good game.

[Tim]

I don't want to hear about that.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Tim]

Oh, can I, can I be vulnerable? Can I show my jealous side? Wow, when do you not

[Andy]

chat? Kevin? A sex says. What the did I do? Kevin, A second. You didn't do exactly. All right. When, when fucking I don't even know.

[Greg Miller]

Over here.

[Andy]

Nightwing invites Alfred to play a game. Alfred's got to call Batman. All right. That's how it is.

[Barrett]

I love this little killing.

[Tim]

It, it's really hurting me.

[Andy]

Be vulnerable.

[Tim]

Let me be vulnerable. Let me be. Let me show my jealous side. Okay. Okay. I take great pleasure in watching Andy and his team lose because I'm not invited. But also at the same time, I'm so happy. I'm so happy and like love watching them play. Cause they're playing the game that they love and it's exciting and fun to watch. So like, there's a piece of me best friend Mike who's like super supportive. So happy. Like, it's awesome to watch this. It's cool that they're like having their Thursday night valorant nights and they're playing, but then there's a piece of me that's like when they go and they get all uptight for going over too. There's a piece of me that's like, you got him, Mike. That was this guy.

[Greg Miller]

I wasn't the other team.

[Barrett]

I don't think it's a piece. I think it's the entire.

[Tim]

You gotta Mike.

[Mike]

The schadenfreude is just so strong. Wrong with Mike.

[Andy]

He's not a good person.

[Greg Miller]

Dirty daddy says so. Mike is two faced.

[Mike]

He's the fraud father, man. This is the.

[Andy]

That turns me into two face. He was Harvey De before all this happened.

[Greg Miller]

Andy.

[Roger]

Just remember this when you say things

[Mike]

like, he's getting better. He's getting so much better. He's responding to Texas. It's big this year.

[Tim]

And then a final call out. Shout out to the Call of Duty team for sending me a nice care package. I got my first ever Tim. Look at this color. My first ever antisocial social club piece of merch. I've never got. I've never bought this. Everybody wears all the way mad like

[Andy]

he's a soccer mom. I got my first ever anti. So have you seen this very big

[Tim]

thank you, Call of Duty team, for sending this to me. I really love it.

[Andy]

All right. Next to you, of course, is the Catwoman to your Batman, Roger Picorn.

[Barrett]

I love being in between this, right? Because I get the good side of Mike sometimes. Because last night, I'm with my beautiful fiance. We're trying to figure out wedding planning, and I just get a call from Mike. And I answer. I'm like, hey, what's up, Mike? And he does the whole snow Bike Mike intro. Hey, Roger. What's up, Roger? And I'm like, the pause. I'm like, am I on stream right now? He's like, no, this is life. Just the biggest deep. And then he just talks to me about Splinter Cell. And it was great. It was awesome. It was a great conversation.

[Mike]

No bitterness.

[Barrett]

It was beautiful.

[Tim]

Can we tell him about it?

[Barrett]

Yeah, let's tell him about it. Because we never talk. Get to talk about Splinter Cell.

[Tim]

There I am, playing through Splinter Cell blacklist, following up my Splinter Cell conviction plate.

[Barrett]

Very proud of them.

[Tim]

There I am, having fun. Out of nowhere, they decide, you know what? Let's make you the side character for three minutes. And let's go full first person mode on this. And you have to kill, like, yeah.

[Barrett]

So that's the whole thing in Blacklist is that you can play the entire game non lethally and stealth. But then for some reason, they're like, hey, also for this three minutes, you have to kill a bunch of people. It's like, why are we doing this? And Mike says, do you ever think about that? I said mike unironically. I think about this maybe once a week. It is absolutely batshit insane. So shout out to Blacklist.

[Mike]

Everybody says, andy, uninvite this dude from the Tim Schaefer dinner.

[Tim]

I'm gonna ask him about this if he's ever gone through this.

[Andy]

Omega Buster 666 super chats on YouTube.com kind of funny games to be part of the show just like you can. It says a tough 2026 for Mike. Roger is now Barrett's best friend and now on the valorant bench. And let's. And let's not bend the beer pong meltdown.

[Tim]

Oh, man, don't start with the beer pong meltdown. We're not do a party mode of playing beer pong. Yes, because I thought I had it. I thought I had it.

[Mike]

I bet Andy's nasty, man. You would think I'm not too small. Yeah, yeah.

[Andy]

He's used to big balls.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. You can't. You can't put the gooseneck.

[Andy]

Oh.

[Roger]

Shout out to Roger and I doing well in Pong a couple years ago. Was that like a New Year's or Christmas?

[Barrett]

New Year's.

[Roger]

Yeah, we rocked that.

[Tim]

Nice.

[Barrett]

We went crazy.

[Andy]

Remember when us and Naomi Kyle played

[Greg Miller]

beer pong and vidcon with some random

[Andy]

channel that I'm sure was bigger than us, but it's long gone. Everybody. Of course this is the kind of funny gamescast we run you through the topics in gaming you need to talk about each and every weekday. If you like that, pick up a membership. Of course. But more importantly for right now, if you're watching live YouTube.com kindafunny games.

[Greg Miller]

Hold on, hold on.

[Andy]

Your super chats.

[Greg Miller]

I remember who the guy was. No, it's not that. It's not that. Jesus. Sorry. He's the guy. He's huge now and he's funny as hell. I know. You'll know him. Roger does the YouTube videos of the movie pitches.

[Barrett]

Oh yes, that guy where he plays

[Greg Miller]

both sides of the. The thing.

[Barrett]

Yeah. Is that for screen rant or something like that?

[Greg Miller]

I think so, yeah. Ryan. Ryan something.

[Andy]

Anyway, we played with him, Benny B.

[Tim]

Good.

[Andy]

Who super chats. It says Mike is a human golden retriever and it makes my day one million times better. Also, hashtag let Tim's baby out.

[Greg Miller]

I know.

[Andy]

Ryan George.

[Mike]

I don't think a golden retriever ever wants the worst. For people,

[Tim]

quite literally the opposite feels good sometimes.

[Andy]

Oh, that's Nick, everybody.

[Barrett]

Beautiful.

[Andy]

We love him. We love our Patreon producers as well. Patreon.com kinda funny to be like Delaney the Som Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show. Believe it or not, ladies gentlemen and bees, you've made it through Kinda Funny's Game of the Year 2025. It only took us 15 days into January, as always, of course, to get out the smileys, to get out the 10 list, and of course, get out our personal top tens, which means we can finally close the door on 2025 and look to 2026. We came here and we said, what are we going to do to round out top 10 week game of the year week? And I came up with the amazing idea, brilliant. Of predicting what our top 10 for 2026 will be. Not our personal top tens, but who right now in the Barrett time capsule. Barrett, you should write all this down. Can lock in the top 10among us that when we get to next year around this time, we can award the first ever yearly inaugural champion of 2026, predicting the game of the year top 10, 2025-2026, Gamecast, Big Black. As a reminder, everybody, our top 10 as a company netted out like this. Number 10. And Roger, number nine, Ghost of Yote. Number eight, Skate Tide with Elden Ring Night Rain. Number seven, Citizen Sleeper 2. Number six, Death Stranding 2. Tied with Donkey Kong Bonanza. Number five, Blue Prince. Number four, Hades 2. Number three, Hollow Knight, Silksong, number two, Dispatch. And of course, number one, Clair Obscure Expedition 33. Gentlemen, it's time to begin building our list. Andy, when you think of 2026 and you close your beautiful little peepers and for a second you think about Whataburger in the Houston airport. They say, no, no, no. 2026. Top 10.

[Mike]

Spicy ketchup so good.

[Andy]

Somebody put up a photo on Reddit there at the Houston airport at the Whataburger.

[Mike]

Really?

[Andy]

But they got. They got, like, the patty melt. I don't know how I feel.

[Mike]

That's one of the. A very popular ride.

[Andy]

Is that what you're supposed to do?

[Mike]

That's something everybody goes for. I just go for the number. I go for Whataburger junior. The bread. Toast more evenly.

[Andy]

Okay, okay. What's gonna be our number one top 10 that we'll be talking about when you and me celebrate at the Houston Whataburger?

[Mike]

Number one top 10 or.

[Andy]

Yeah, top 10, 2026. What's number one list in your mind?

[Mike]

I mean, I think of a tall, beautiful, deep voice. Ishmate. Oh, it's sorrows. I think, like, Bear walked up to me yesterday and was like, I think Loki. It'll probably be our goatee. And, like, thinking about how Returnal popped off that year.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Because PlayStation exclusive. Most of us, if not all of us, will play this game. Most of us, if not all of us will love this game, I think it's like it has all the right ingredients. It isn't some really weird off genre. This isn't like a PlayStation exclusive that also happens to be a really long 80 hour turn based JRPG or it's on a PlayStation exclusive that's maybe you know like a Life is Strange style game that maybe not everybody's gonna with. I feel like.

[Greg Miller]

And it's also not the biggest PlayStation.

[Mike]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like sequels to some of the happiest hitters or like the Marvel stuff. Like I think there's a. A level of Bender done that right now where follow up to Returnal is still fresh.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think it's you know, shooty shoot all of us some something that all of us can get down with with amazing graphics and Rahul Kohli, man,

[Andy]

come on that I'm not gonna let that. I'm not gonna hold that against it. Oh, something that's gonna be again we all really like.

[Greg Miller]

When you started Hold British I was like James Bond. Like Andy, you're overestimating.

[Andy]

A lot of people have 007 high on their lists. Of course. Get your super chats in with your list right now. Where you think it's going to go? I'm going to say the boring answer though and say my number one is GTA 6. I don't. I think the only thing that holds it back of course. Well, two things. Number one, it doesn't come out this year and number two is just dog shit. But that's not going to happen, right? I don't know. I think it's boring. I think it's not an interesting answer. But I think it's the way Rockstar works theoretically. We. You talk about we're all going to play it like we're all going to play GTA 6 and I think we're all going to play deeper into GTA 6 than Soros I would imagine.

[Mike]

I think that the story has to really deliver for GTA 6 in order for all of us to really vibe with it. Because I think that I feel like that's the thing that has to be the strongest. Whereas Soros, I don't really care about story. I'm here for the moment to moment gameplay with the really cool, creative, fun boss fights. And I feel like GTA 6 has more to deliver in order to live up to those expectations.

[Barrett]

I also think there's a little bit of GTA 6. It's been there, done that. Of course it's going to be incredible. Of course there's going to Be a lot of amazing moments. But I also can see in our personal top tens people vibing with Soros that getting us more, a little bit more excited than a GTA 6 and that kind of pushes it over the edge. We're talking about games though that I think all of us will play. So yeah, I think that that is the top.

[Andy]

My counter argument with that is the Ben there done that. Right. You look at our list here last year and like we talk about stuff like Ghost of Yotei, right. And where that fell out on it, where Death Stranding 2 falls out on it, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. GTA 6 just sitting for so long like they are. Mike, when we were running up to Starfield you're like this Xbox has to expect. Gamers have to expect Game of the Generation. And you weren't wrong and it wasn't that by a long shot.

[Barrett]

Right.

[Andy]

People are expecting that from gta and I imagine the way Rockstar works and the money they pour into these things and the people in the time and yet that they are, they know that and they're shooting for that. And so I really do think like yeah, are we all going to vibe with it? Like the story. Story is one thing but like what if I could easily see as we get into that game and there is like a not as deep but maybe schedule one mini game that is like Mike's like I didn't even fucking touch the story I just made. I just did this. I ran drugs and I did this

[Mike]

non stop in this ship building for me in Starfield.

[Andy]

Yeah, exactly where you run off. You're talking about like what a technical marvel it is. And again I'm giving it a movie. A lot of rope to hang themselves with. But these are the expectations for a game like this.

[Barrett]

Yeah. And that's not even including what multiplayer is. Right. And is that part of this package

[Andy]

see it this year.

[Barrett]

That's also a great point too, right. If. If there is multiplayer, I think that that is kind of a lock for number one. Just because we're gonna have so much fun there especially I think Mike, Andy, Nick and I like we're gonna have so much fun online running around. But yeah, I mean just as a base package, I. I don't know. I think it is up in the air. I don't think it's as much of a slam dunk. I agree expect.

[Andy]

I agree that 100%.

[Greg Miller]

Well, while it's not a slam dunk, I do think like any other game possible has a Higher chance of being number one on more of our list for one specific thing. Like what? Grace? Whether it is just the multiplayer or it is the story, or it is just the having fun around, or it is just the. I can't believe this world is this well realized. Like, there's just so many things that could. Because of the production value, because of the budget behind it, because of the time it's been since GTA 5. Like, I just feel like there is such a. A higher chance that even if there's only one of those things that really stands out to us and we don't really care about any of the other ones, that's not going to make the score drop for where this ranks. But that is a unique position that Grand Theft Auto can be in. Right? But to Roger's point, it's like, I also don't. I don't. It's. It's too big to fail, but I don't think it's too big to not be great.

[Barrett]

Yes. Yeah.

[Andy]

A lot of asses in this game.

[Barrett]

So much. Honestly, I'm looking at it. I'm looking at the trailer and so much ass. I'm like, this is number one, right?

[Andy]

Look at the story you're getting there. You know what I mean?

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Bills, stop chasing them down.

[Mike]

Come on.

[Andy]

A lot of banging. Oh, look at that. You see how she grinded it into him?

[Barrett]

You said that like an alien.

[Andy]

Mike, what do you think? Number one game of the year.

[Tim]

Number one. I'll keep playing the game and I'll give you something different. You know what I'm gonna give you? They had a killer showcase Yesterday. Resident Evil 9. I'm gonna go with. I think we're really gonna vibe with this. This one. Of course. We're trapping Blessing and Andy in a room, so guess what? They're already gonna play it. That's gonna be on their list.

[Greg Miller]

Dang.

[Tim]

I mean, Roger, myself, Tim, all vibe with this. I think this is the one that wins Greg over. And like, he really loves it. Loves it, right? I know, I know you love it.

[Andy]

I love the. The backwater one. Oh, seven.

[Barrett]

You liked eight more than. No.

[Andy]

You like the medium more than eight?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Sucks.

[Tim]

Yeah. I think this is the one that wins him back. Tim, I need you to hype because, like, Resident Evil. Come on now.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, like, look, here's the reality is there's no chance this is our number.

[Barrett]

No chance.

[Greg Miller]

No chance. But it will be very high on our list.

[Tim]

You think it's a 2 through 5?

[Greg Miller]

The problem is I let Me. Just start with me. I've been saying this the last couple of weeks, specifically from game awards on to now, and after yesterday's showcase, I stand by it even more. I think this is going to be the best Resident Evil game. I think that they are perfectly set up. Every single thing that we've seen and played of this game has been anything I could ask for from resident evil in 2026. They yesterday in the showcase, Greg.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Said the director was saying one thing that got me incredibly excited. They're like, there's two gameplay styles in Resident Evil Requiem, and that is that Leon. A little bit more actiony grace. A little bit more traditional survival horror.

[Mike]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

We could have expected that. We could have known that. But then he invoked certain titles where he's like, we're going after the feeling of Resident Evil 2 remake and Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil 4.

[Tim]

And that hits you.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

And when you think about those games, those are good. Those are high points for the specific kind of verticals that they're going for for survival horror and for Resident Evil gameplay. Yeah. So if that is their kind of like starting place and everything that we've seen and played lives up to that already. And we get Leon, we're going back to Raccoon City. All of this stuff looks so damn good. It's legitimately scary. They introduced this new thing. We're like the. The zombies or undead or whatever they are have like personality traits from before they died. So they're like. It's super creepy. Like, it kind of just adds this level of realism of just like the. The example they used was.

[Mike]

It's like watchdog. You scan them and it says, this person works at a bank.

[Greg Miller]

The janitor at the hotel will be like in the bathroom still, like, oh, yeah. Creepily wiping down the mirror. And it just adds this level of like scary human realism to it all.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

And of violence and gore and things that are going to be shiny and ray trace. Like, everything's just at an all time high.

[Mike]

The last of us two of going, Damon, where are you? Damon? You know, like, oh, that person has a name. That's a real person.

[Andy]

You know, janitor was playing Vita.

[Greg Miller]

No, but yeah. And. And again, the locations, I think are the. The other thing is, like, locations is such an important thing to any survival horror game, but specifically Resident Evil. And knowing that we have the hotel, knowing we're going back to Raccoon City, seeing some places that. That are very mansion, like, like, I feel like they're just kind of nailing Every single thing that they, they need to. With this one, my biggest concern is like it's the story and how wild it might get. Will the end of this game go off the rails to a place that we might all give it the. Everyone that plays it might give it a pretty high score. But when it comes to the end of the year rankings. Yeah.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

When we're comparing it to other games, is it going to. To hit that high? I expect it will for me.

[Andy]

I see this by the way. I just want to make sure we're all clear when I'm asking you number one, you're two, you're allowed to move these around. I'm not locking. So by the end of the show we need our top 10. So I think this is a good discussion. I'm with you of. I think Resident Evil Requiem looks awesome. I am excited to play it. I think that's going to be on the kind of funny end of the year scale. Somewhere in that back half I think that's a 5 to 10 depending on how crazy this year is. I would right now and I will probably end up ranking it more towards that eight, you know what I mean, than the five. But I think it's going to be well received.

[Barrett]

I think we also need to be honest about just recency bias. Right. Of like when we play a game in the beginning of the year, it's tough to kind of remember how much that affected us. Unless it's an expedition.

[Mike]

Right.

[Barrett]

Unless it's something that is truly game changing. You're playing it a bunch. Especially when it comes to one of these games. It is a one and done experience for most of us. Right? It is. Hey, we have that experience and then other things come in. So I, yeah, that's what's tough about that being number one. I think if this came maybe in the October, November range, I think it would have a better shot of us being like, oh shit, this game is awesome. It's the best Resident Evil game.

[Mike]

It's going to get split fiction.

[Barrett]

Exactly, exactly. Which is also a great game too. Too Split fiction.

[Andy]

Timothy, what are you, what are you thinking right now as you talk and where are you putting.

[Greg Miller]

I. I mean what's tough about this is I, I feel like 2026, we obviously have some heavy, the heaviest hitters possible, maybe with GTA 6 and stuff. But I think we don't really know too much. I think it's kind of hard to guess the things because like we don't know shit about Nintendo. Like I don't think Any Nintendo game that is that one guy in the

[Andy]

chat there's going to be a 3D Mario.

[Greg Miller]

But the thing is like any officially announced Nintendo game right now I don't think is going to make our list. Fire Emblem is the quality expect will be there. But it's a sheer numbers game of Nintendo gives us one code at this point that code's going to go to Mike. It'll be on Mike's list. But who else is going to give that a shot? And if they it just turns into this thing of like maybe some people will, maybe some people will try and play but it's like it's a numbers game there of like they would need to be so high on Mike's list and then whoever the one or two other people are. So I just don't see that happening. But I do expect we're going to get some heavy hitter Nintendo games. So those will be in that potential for the, you know, top six of this list.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah, I've got a hot take where I think two games that make our top 10 won't even be mentioned on today's show.

[Greg Miller]

I mean I think more than that.

[Andy]

I would think more. Yeah. Because I think there's going to be

[Mike]

stuff that comes just a special random indie games. Yeah, I'm thinking of just like indie titles that pop up. Well yeah, that will kind of catch us off by, you know, off guard.

[Greg Miller]

So I guess the thing that I will go with of officially announced games so far that I expect will make kind of funniest list one way or another is Wolverine.

[Barrett]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

And that is I think the easiest answer. I think that it is incredibly unlikely that Wolverine is top three for us. But I do think that it will be on the list for sure. I think no matter how bad the game ends up, I still think enough of us will like it enough that it makes the list.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But I just don't see both the in terms of what Insomniac has done in the past and how this team reacts to it and then also it being something that we're all very excited for but also kind of looking at as like, but what are they going to do with like how can you turn this Wolverine game into a bigger experience? I think those things are against it and I just again in the taste of our team, I expect more indie games and smaller things that aren't that project.

[Mike]

So if we can deliver an An Aunt May moment From Spider Man 1 PS4, I think that it can be really, really highly ranked. But if there aren't a whole lot of story touches. I don't think that this game is going to revolutionize hack and slash sort of action combat. So it's not something that we're gonna go like, whoa, this really changed the game in terms of what we can expect from one of these games. I think it's going to be what we expect and still be really good and something very, very enjoyable. But if it can deliver on a couple of awesome story beats that all of us go, do you remember that one? I think that it could be really.

[Andy]

Boss fights are amazing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy]

If you're doing that, what is that moment to moment combat gonna feel like? And how visceral is it? Like, I'm with you, Tim, and I hope it's that I'm just setting realistic expectations in hopes that Insomniac gets above it. Where I'd be like, yeah, I could see Wolverine on our list being a number five, maybe a four. My to get to that three, two, one area. Right. Like, this has to be jaw dropping. Baron, it talk to me a little bit about if you have it at your fingertips, if previous Insomniac like Spider Man.

[Greg Miller]

And before you even do that, I just want to jump in and say that like with everything I just said, I would be willing to bet at this point, having not played the game and none of us having played the game, I think Wolverine will be higher on my list than anyone else's.

[Andy]

Higher than me.

[Greg Miller]

Well, you're, you're a wild card these days. I couldn't make that bet, but I do think I will have it very, very, very high.

[Roger]

It's interesting to hear you guys talk about this and especially thinking back on where Insomniac games have ended up on our list in the past.

[Andy]

All the way to the top.

[Roger]

Exactly. One of our favorite games. Just like Astrobot, especially because I think Wolverine being, you know, still a Marvel game, I think it's going to be a different character, different flow of what that game is, different story and tone enough that it's going to shake up what we think of as Insomniac's open world, Spider Man New York formula. That we're all going to be like, really surprised by it. Because even with Spider Man 2, you know, I think we all had varying degrees on like how hot we were on that game. And even then with that being the third game in this Spider man series, that at that point we do all start to feel the formula in one way, shape or form. And that was still our number two for 2023. And then, you know, Ratchet and Clank being our game of the year back in 2021, winning by one point. I just, I think there is something with Insomniac that we all do generally really enjoy. And I think Wolverine could be a nice break from the, the Spider man type of formula that we think of them at for today. And that's why I think it'll be our number two.

[Andy]

Oh, Bear coming off because I, I'm

[Roger]

still on that half court shot. I went to Andy yesterday, like he's mentioned earlier, my half court shot. I think Sorrows wins our game of the year.

[Andy]

Oh, I like that too.

[Tim]

Okay, excited for the introduction of like the X Men Mutants, right? Like, we have a severe lack of that in the video game world right now. And also the MCU of like, there's an excitement of like, like the X Men are coming back, right? The Mutants are coming back. And this is like, I think when you play Wolverine and you get that tease or like Storm shows up, someone shows up, you're gonna be like, oh, I'm out of my seat. Excited now because it's been a long, long time. There's a, there's an excitement here, I think.

[Barrett]

I don't know, I don't know for me personally, like, I, I, Logan and like Wolverine by himself is not exciting to me. Like, I, I am, I am an X Men person. I like him as being a smaller character within this group of other characters. I, I don't know, man. Like, I've grown up my entire literal, my entire life as Logan being the fucking guy. And it's just like, I don't think he's got the stuff comparatively to a Spider man and to that open world and to be able to lean onto that. I am not as excited about it. I'm very excited for this game. I think it's gonna be fun. I, of course, played the fuck out of the X Men Wolverine Origins game. I played the X Men 2 game that they made back in the day with I think Mark Hamill playing Logan there. That was fucking awesome. That was an incredible game. So I like it. But I just, I'm, I don't think I'm as excited as y' all and be like, this is fucking slam dunk. This is an exciting story for me.

[Andy]

Well, then I do ask you then. Roger Picorney is control resident. A slam dunk, I was gonna say, on our list.

[Barrett]

I, I think it would be very high on our list. I don't think it's number one. But also I Don't necessarily feel like this game is coming out this year. I just, the more, the more we talk about it, the more we look at it. I just don't, it feels like 2027 and like, I don't, I don't necessarily believe until we see game plan, like, this is the fucking one that's coming out. It feels almost. If I were to, like, think about the business of this, all of like, hey, we really fucked up with FBC and we need to show in our investors that we are making a game that is coming out and potentially coming out this year. And I think that this is one that can easily slip into 2027 with a nice little trailer that comes out of the game Awards or summer Game Fest. And people will still be very excited about it and, you know, investors will be happy, but I just don't believe that this game is coming out this year. It feels a little bit too soon and they want to get this one right. They need to get this one right. Right. Especially with where the company is at right now and how kind of precarious everything is and they have so many projects going. If Control Resident does not hit on the same level as an Alan Wake 2, it's. I don't think it's going to be great. Well, I mean, it's got to hit

[Mike]

more than I don't think Alan Wake 2 hit, like.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I'm saying critically. I'm saying critically.

[Andy]

Right.

[Barrett]

In terms of sales, yes. It also needs to hit that wider audience that. I mean, Control had a pretty big audience. I mean, by the end of it. Right?

[Andy]

Yeah, you, yeah, you gen, you jump off of that. Right. You saw this one, right, Roger?

[Barrett]

Well, I saw pretty much the trailer and they showed some more screenshots and

[Andy]

remind me, just so I'm not speaking out of turn, you're playing as the brother and it's more of a shooter, right?

[Greg Miller]

We're running.

[Mike]

No, it's more of a hack and shoot.

[Andy]

Like, that's what I was.

[Barrett]

Sorry.

[Andy]

Sorry. Because you're shooting in the first one, obviously. Yeah, yeah. You hope that has, at a glance, broader appeal. Right. Especially for people who are like, oh, I've heard so much about Control. I heard so much about Alan Wake 2. Now there is a game here that I am hacking or slashing through the world.

[Barrett]

Yeah. I just, I, I, I wonder what type of hacking and slashing this is. Right? Is this more Devil May Cry? Is this more, you know, Souls, like. Right.

[Tim]

I think God of War.

[Barrett]

Is that a God? Yeah, the. Where are we Going with this and then also going with the big RPG elements of it. All right. I think that's. That's interesting and cool, but again, when you just say rpg, it's like, what does that mean?

[Mike]

Right.

[Barrett]

I want to see the skill trees. I want to see how actually I can get in there and change the weapon and make it feel like my own. But it has a lot of promise. I think this. This could easily be a number four. I think that's a solid number right there for this. If it comes out this year and it hits at the right time, I

[Tim]

control resident 2 through 5. I think it will. I think it will definitely hit for us here in this office. I think I look at Barrett, Andy, Roger myself. Right. I think we're in that. Bless 100%. You two will be interesting to see where you guys go, but, like, I think you have five out of the seven of us probably really high on this game. If it hits.

[Greg Miller]

For me, Control and Ghost, Tsushima and Yote are examples of games that I know I'd love if I played them. I just haven't had the time to play them. And I want to get to Control at some point and if I do that, I'm going to be very excited about this one and then I'll probably really like it. So. So there's just a lot of ifs there. But at the same time, I can say all that. It's like when I'm deciding what games to play, I don't end up choosing Control. So we'll see.

[Roger]

Yeah, I got a brave through the first one, Office Spaces.

[Greg Miller]

Too scary.

[Andy]

I mean, I adore the first one, so I'm hopeful that I adore this one as well. I don't like you acting like I don't fucking like games.

[Tim]

I like the hack and slash is

[Andy]

the one thing, but I would be coming off of a year here with Hell is Us that I thought, obviously, if you can give me a story and a reason for what I'm doing, I'm all about it. I'm excited to do it, but the giant hammer doesn't do much for me. But I do love fucking up.

[Mike]

Oh, it's transforms.

[Andy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike]

He also has dual blades.

[Andy]

But am I going to be forced to use the fucking hammer when I want to use the dual blades?

[Mike]

You know what I mean?

[Andy]

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[Greg Miller]

I feel like that is a we go to Japan chance. There's a really good chance. I think. Forza.

[Tim]

That high.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, because I think that there's a chance it ends up being Greg's number one game of the year, I think. I love Japan.

[Andy]

I would obey all the traffic laws.

[Greg Miller]

I see you getting in there with Ben. I think that it might end up being like your most played game that I can. Quality is legitimately going to be there. I think that Japan's freaking awesome. Like all of this. I think. Definitely. I think all of us are going to play it. Barrett's the only one. I have a question about.

[Roger]

No.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. So Bear's the only one. But otherwise it's going to end up on all of our list.

[Barrett]

There's another racer game coming out this year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, there is.

[Barrett]

That I think might split some attention. Star Wars Galactic Racing.

[Tim]

Odd racing.

[Greg Miller]

I think that has a chance.

[Andy]

We're all good on that one.

[Mike]

Thanks. If that game comes out this year.

[Barrett]

So if this game comes out this year and it's good, I Think I can't put two racers on my list. I'm sorry. I can't do it.

[Andy]

I can't. That's racist.

[Mike]

Racist.

[Andy]

It is, it is.

[Barrett]

I can't, I can't do it. I can't do it. Cuz one's got Star wars, one doesn't. I gotta choose.

[Roger]

Roger. My prediction for that game, all of us are gonna pick it up and be annoyed that they didn't lean into pod racing.

[Greg Miller]

Amen.

[Mike]

That game will be on two people's top 10. If that, if that and we will make fun of them and it'll be Rogers number one take one comedy his

[Andy]

way to the bathroom and put it number one because of that. I thought you guys were with me

[Roger]

just for stats for the last Forza Horizon that was back in 2021. That came in at number nine with only half of the people voting on it. That was Mike Bless Andy and Paris all having it on their list. But I know times, yeah times are changing times.

[Barrett]

I, I, I, I can see that. I could see that being really high. I can see number two.

[Tim]

I'm excited to see where it does go cuz I anticipate it to be great. I think a lot of us will enjoy it. I do worry about when we talk about gaming tastes and building a top 10.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Racing isn't really the big forte for this squad so it will be interesting of like hey it was a lot of fun. I loved enjoying, I loved my time with it. I see this more as a 5 through 10 window for us.

[Mike]

It is the breakthrough though. Like it is the one that exceeds like just racing games. It's the, it's the one that so many of us including me go. I never play car games. I don't really gravitate towards that but Forza Horizon does it for me. It's the mainstream version of it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. In Forza 5 coming in at that like 9 to 10. Like that totally makes sense to me. Like thinking about this year's list dispatch coming in at 2 even though we all had it around 5 like for the most part it's like this is the type of thing I could see it being a little higher on our list which gets a little higher. Two might be a little lofty but I hope I'm wrong about saying this. I don't have the highest hopes for 2026. I don't think that it's going to be the best year in gaming but

[Tim]

I got big games I'm excited about. Can we stick on Xbox for a little bit? Longer.

[Andy]

I was hoping you would.

[Tim]

I would like to talk about Xbox because we talk about the big four this year, right? We talked about Forza here. Now Fable. Next week we're gonna see Fable. Let's just live in a world that Fable does come out this year.

[Greg Miller]

Whoa.

[Tim]

Is Fable making our top 10?

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Andy]

Greg will have it on his list. Maybe.

[Tim]

Mike, I really am excited for Fable.

[Roger]

You guys got skate on the list.

[Tim]

I look at my man going, good point.

[Andy]

Great point.

[Tim]

Mean Fable. You've maybe you've played the original se. The original trilogy. You know it, you love it. Maybe you're Kingdoms of Amalore Jabroni, like my man Greg. And it's like, hey, you're gonna find some love in that. You might find some love. I think Fable might make a surprise. I, I'm, I'll say this right now. Fable comes out this year and it is where I hope it should be with playground games. I think Fable is a lock for our top 10. I think people are gonna really be wowed by this.

[Andy]

I would love that. You know, you watch the trailers, you get the vibes and like, you know, it is Fable. It's four, it's not Fable. You know, it feels like. And you look at this and it's like, are we going to get a very cinematic RPG from them? You know what I mean? That is going to have a narrative and fun interactions and all. It's going to be very storybooky. Obviously we've seen with the giant, very comedic. We've seen from these things. Like, is it going to be an RPG with so much sauce that not. You're in the weeds with your pluses and minus. It's just a great time to go play. And I know this might sound insulting and it's definitely a lofty goal, but is it going to be a slim down and more comedic witcher? That's my question. Am I going off on this journey that is nonsense and giants and all these goofy little things and goofy characters I'm meeting that are played for comedy, not to, you know, destroy you and make you fucking hate the game and it's trying too hard thing. But like you look at this and it's like, am I setting off on that kind of adventure right now? I would fucking lose my mind.

[Barrett]

Yeah, no, I, this interests me. I have no idea about the history of Fable. Like I, I completely missed this one. Like, I was a 360 gamer with Fable 3 command. I was like, I don't know what the this is. I, I played the demo. I was like, this doesn't make any sense to me. But what you're pitching a. A slimmed down kind of like linear RPG is exciting to me. But then also I'll throw out the wild card there. When we're talking about witcher, if a Witcher 3 DLC comes out, I think my life might just become Witcher. I think I might just actually go back and actually play Witcher for one. So I think if that happens, that's kind of like oh shit. Well, I'm already in this type of world. I don't want to have to go over to Fable right now. So that's a little bit of a wild card there. But I'm excited.

[Andy]

My questioning there is again with this Witcher dlc, am I starting from scratch? Does it play just like the Witcher? Because that's where I get into if it's going to play just like the Witcher. I think a lot of people are going to be reminded of like oh wow, that's an old game. That is a 2015 game. And if Fable drops and plays like a modern game and it looks better and all these, I think that's going to turn heads.

[Barrett]

There's been a bunch of updates for Witcher. I know. I'm not saying it's garbage.

[Andy]

Don't get me wrong, I like Witcher.

[Tim]

I'm really interesting to see if Andy will vibe with Fable cuz a vow we talked about last year, right. This kind of fantasy, you know that Bethesda open world adventure, right. Is this a game for Andy? I, I think it might be. I, I really, I, I'm, I'm interested to see if you'll vibe with this Andy.

[Mike]

What I've seen from the combat looks like enticing enough and it looks serviceable enough. It has to hit with the story. It has to hit with characters that I care about because AAL just did not do that for me. And that even if your story is kind of weak, if the, if the people and NPCs that you're meeting along the way are interesting and compelling enough, then absolutely. But if you're not hitting that, then your combat and open world better be like the most impressive thing I've seen. You know, I, I think that's one reason why I fell off of a vow. Was it I just was surrounded by people that just weren't that great to be around. They weren't, you know, fun enough. They didn't wouldn't have like the most tragic backstories or awesome moments, you know, to that really, really make me remember things. And that's why like when I think of NPCs in a vowed it's always like I'm. I've always been chasing that garrus for carrying high. Can I get. I know this game isn't like you're building a team or whatever, but I just want people around me to be as interesting as like what the story is.

[Andy]

And that's what these vignettes make it seem like we're to get. But of course we will see next week on the 22nd.

[Tim]

Very pumped up.

[Andy]

Paris and Gary return.

[Tim]

Return to the table really quick. Just stick with Xbox, please. Halo and Gears E Day. Let's. We're living in a fantasy world that all four of these come out. Let's Halo the original when has Phil ever lied? And Unreal Engine 5 with three extra missions with Sergeant Johnson and Master Chief.

[Greg Miller]

I can't wait.

[Tim]

And then Gears E Day.

[Barrett]

Let's talk about Gears E Day.

[Tim]

Okay. Because I think that's gotta make.

[Barrett]

I think you and I are brute forcing that. We're brute forcing that thing. That top top five, bro.

[Greg Miller]

This.

[Mike]

I don't know about that.

[Greg Miller]

I, I feel like if E Day comes out this year and if it is as good as I kind of expect it to be, I mean it's a Gears game. I'm talk about Ed.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And I feel like Gears. If Gears 5 were to come out today, I think there's a chance it would have made our list because I think more people would have played it and I think that they would have liked it a lot.

[Tim]

I think they would. I, I don't know about that one. Here's four into five. They took a swing there, there. And five in particular. I don't know if a crew, our crew would have stuck with that, but they made the kind of open area. It was the sequel to four of like hey, these aren't the characters that we fell in love with. We took a swing with this group.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

We're trying to do like they're not sequel trilogy for franchise that people really just cared about two to three characters in. You know what I mean? So it's like it just, it just kind of. We're stretching it thin. But the return to basics, it could get a lot of people in. I'm very, very, very. I think this is probably my most anticipated game.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Barrett]

I, I was CR this trailer like out there. Like I, I. This means so much to me. I'm so excited to play this with my brother. Like, like Gears of war is so like pivotal in my, you know, gamer journey. And to, to see all of this, it is pure nostalgia bait. But if you can actually add on all the stuff that they did, kind of figure out with four and five and make that game feel better. Because you go back to Gears Ultimate Edition last year that they put out on PlayStation 5 and oof, that game is good, but it's also old as fuck and being able to. For them to take that and then build upon. Very, very excited for this game if it comes out. But I also, I think this is the one that would be pushed out of all the ones we're talking about here. I think Fable is probably coming out this year. It's about fucking time. They're doing the developer direct. Halo has to come out this year. I think Gears does not need to come out this year. It needs a moment. And if, if it gets stepped on by gta, if it gets stepped on by something else, this might be the nail in the coffin for, for Gears for a while. So it needs to hit.

[Mike]

You're excited to play with your brother and I'm Mike, I know that that

[Andy]

got him upside immediately. What about your best friend?

[Barrett]

That's true.

[Andy]

Maybe he'll play a second time with me.

[Roger]

Like obviously brother's priority and then it'll

[Mike]

be me and then it'll be Andy.

[Barrett]

Obviously. Multiple playthroughs.

[Tim]

What about Halo one of the greatest stories ever told.

[Andy]

Not top 10 stories ever told. No multiplayer.

[Tim]

Chief Cortana, the Ring again, The Flood covenant. They just keep saying words.

[Barrett]

Say more, say more.

[Tim]

If this doesn't give you goosebumps thinking about that, I don't know. You got to get on the Halo train.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Because you're lost. That shit's crazy.

[Barrett]

I've never played Halo 1, so this is a big deal for me.

[Mike]

Crazy.

[Barrett]

So this, that could make my top 10 because of that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I mean, Mike, you know, we talked about this ad nausea. We played it, we liked it a lot.

[Tim]

It's a big deal.

[Greg Miller]

But no multiplayer is gonna like, bother people. Like, no matter what. There's like the single player. There's no way it's going to be good enough. The new missions are going to be enough to like make it cross that threshold of like making our top 10 individual top tens, perhaps. You know, I think that again, I'm for some reason really low on this year and I'm like, I'm starting with expecting Halo on my list this year, but I also think Halo will be one of the first things to Go.

[Mike]

If, if.

[Greg Miller]

If I'm hopefully wrong about the quality

[Mike]

of this year, if this was Halo

[Barrett]

3, it would be number one for sure. You know the vibes, bro. Come on, bro. Fuck, we got to get there.

[Mike]

When you told me, Tim, that the, the, the Storming the Beach level to the Reconciliation or, Or Silent Cartographer, what is that level?

[Tim]

Right?

[Mike]

I think so. When you told me that that level, you. Right when you said it, I was like, oh, my God, are they actually going to take advantage of the new tech and give us, you know, whenever you play games and you go, man, this is how I remembered back in the day. Like, are we gonna have one of those moments with this? And you said, no, they didn't really, like, add any more.

[Andy]

It looked better.

[Mike]

It's like, damn. So that, that to me shows me that they aren't really going to touch anything else across the rest of the game except for the sprint and things like that. Should be kind of like, you have to. Very, very necessary to have a sprint in Halo if you're going to release it now. And that's why it has it. But the fact that they're not really touching up a whole lot of those other things that could be more epic but were limited because of tech stinks, like, I don't love that.

[Roger]

You know, just to bring stats into this, right, I'm thinking about the amount of remakes, reimaginings that we've had in the last six years. Looking back at our top 10 lists here, the only remakes that have made our top 10 was from 22 was 2024, and then 2020, when not all of us used to vote. And those were both Final Fantasy 7, and those were like full reimaginings. When you think about your Resident Evil 4 remakes, your Silent Hill 2 remakes, those typically don't make our top 10 list.

[Tim]

Yeah, I've never been more excited.

[Mike]

Like, for real.

[Barrett]

For real.

[Tim]

We live in a fantasy world. Some of us do come out like Xbox. All four of these are making my top 10. If they're great, I got a good.

[Andy]

You better put up or shut up. Because when I put Fable on this list, if I'm gonna put Fame on

[Tim]

this list, KDG get the pizza bets out. 365 days from now or minus five.

[Andy]

Yeah, whatever.

[Tim]

A year from now. Now I'll go out there. Three Xbox titles will be on our Game of the Year list.

[Andy]

So the complete funny list, 2.5 is

[Tim]

probably the number, right, of like, you're either choosing under, you're Choosing two and under or you're choosing three and over.

[Andy]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Tim]

I'll go with three.

[Andy]

So yeah, Forza I think makes a list.

[Tim]

Forza, Fable.

[Andy]

I want to believe more than anything the fucking world Fable makes. I will cry tears of joy if Fable is that good that I can get everybody playing an rpg. We're all on thing together and then

[Tim]

either Gears or Halo will make our list to make it three. Three because I'm gonna get those four.

[Andy]

Are you saying in general Xbox. You still mean murky and saying 3 Xbox.

[Tim]

I'm saying 3 Xbox titles will make our game of the year list at the end of the year next year.

[Roger]

I'll take.

[Andy]

I'll take the bet for content. I'd like to limit it to the four you mentioned, but I'll. Because I Xbox this developer direct.

[Greg Miller]

What.

[Andy]

What are they going to shadow drop? What weird things.

[Mike]

Halo Studios.

[Andy]

Come here though.

[Greg Miller]

Here you go.

[Andy]

Pizza bet.

[Tim]

Pizza bet. He's gonna take two. I'll take three.

[Mike]

Halo Studios. Just. Just please ramp it up. Like I. I know you got like do something.

[Greg Miller]

Do.

[Mike]

Do extra. There's a lot of other ways to play Halo 1 right now. Like it. You don't have to stick so like authentically to the original vision or like

[Roger]

they're adding new levels in.

[Mike]

We could go play the other thing if we want and. And remember those old levels the way that they were. You don't have to worry about, you know. Johnny. Xbox 360 on PS5 though.

[Greg Miller]

Andy.

[Tim]

Like PS5 got to bring in a new fan base. Base. This is them testing Unreal Engine 5 as well.

[Mike]

Right.

[Tim]

Like this is like the easy barrier. Barrier to entry. We know they got multiple projects. Right. They're working on Halo 7 or whatever it's going to be called. Like that is probably out there. You would hope. Andy, I agree with you that we are inviting more people to play in the sandbox and we're making a Halo Spartan Assault, a Gears Tactics like Halo Tactics game. We are making a Halo Wars 3. Like Halo should be be all over the place. Right. We should be up in that.

[Mike]

It should be like how we get a warhammer in every different genre, you know?

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Tim]

We should also be getting more gosh darn Blizzard games.

[Andy]

Mike Onimus prime super chats with their top 10. Right. And you got only two Xbox games on here. But one isn't what you think. We got Wolverine, Grand Theft Auto 6. Oh, there might be three. I might misc. I misc. Sorry. Three. Wolverine, Grand Theft Auto 6, Fade, Starfield, DLC slash update.

[Greg Miller]

Whoa.

[Andy]

Not a fucking chance. But I'm excited for it. Replaced. Silksong DLC RE9 Forza Horizon 6 Monster Hunter Wilds Expansion Ocarina of Time remake Yeah. Believe in a banger year.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, there's definitely a chance for that. I don't think it's a slam dunk, but I think it's. I give it the 50.

[Barrett]

Sorry, I'm just laughing at Tim. Just like playing the role of, like, this year sucks. Yeah, I know you're not playing.

[Greg Miller]

It's just like.

[Tim]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Just like I feel. And I think I might have felt similarly at this time last year about.

[Barrett]

Because there's not really much to show.

[Greg Miller]

We consider and just be like, all right, Final Fantasy 73 could be this year. Just like we were last year being like, Silk Song could be this year. You know, it's like we just don't know a lot of things. And I think the GTA threat is such a. A looming thing that's going to affect game releases and delays and movements. And will that come out and will it be good? Like, I don't know. There's just. There's a lot of question marks.

[Andy]

Mike just had a light bulb.

[Tim]

I just have another game. I gotta go for it. Game. I got a game that I think will make the list. Lego Batman.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Tim]

I think we like Batman a lot. I think the LEGO team is moving in the right direction to get to more audience and saying, hey, we like these. We dig these. Right? The last Star wars one was good too. Great, right? I think now with Batman, I think I could see us having Batman on a lot of people's lists. That will then get us into the back half.

[Andy]

I'll pizza bet you on that one too. Lego Batman's not making it.

[Tim]

Put it on another pizza.

[Mike]

I'm right.

[Andy]

Yeah. I. I'll tell you what, I am not a Star wars guy. Like, I like Star wars fine, but don't love it. Right? So when they did the Skywalker Saga LEGO game, and everybody's like, oh, my God, LEGO games are back. Yeah. Yeah, I'm. I played so many superhero LEGO games. Never did it. And then Ben, of course, became of age and wanted to play Star wars lego. I'm like, sure, we popped down. And I've been so disappointed. I'm like, I don't see why people. Why people were talking like, this was so great. I think. I think the superhero ones from before were better like that. Clunky to play together still. It's complicated in the menu, it's way too complicated. And so I look at the LEGO Batman game, which I'm going to play and I'm excited to do. But like those trailers, the announcement of it, I was like, yes, watch the trailer. And I was like, ooh, I don't love the voice acting. And it seems like it's doing the same thing. Like, I don't know about this one.

[Barrett]

Yeah, it's. I was the one that reviewed Skywalker Saga, Lego Skywalker Saga, when that originally came out, and I was really high on it. And every single time I go back to it, it just drops and drops and drops because it is way too complicated. If you play the original LEGO LEGO games, any of them, like just the beat em up element of it is so much more fun. Drop and drop out. But like, when you start doing like third person shooting, like, what are we doing, guys? We got to get back to basics a little bit. And I just, I do think that this is kind of ramping it up to a place that they're trying to meet everyone's expectations. But I think you just got to be a simpler game and we're kind of losing the sauce a little bit.

[Roger]

I do think post Skywalker Saga, it will go a little bit back to basics and remind us of what we loved about the OG LEGO games. While also invoking the Arkham series, which is a series that a few of us here love. I will predict that it will be on multiple of our lists, but still not make the top 10. I think it'll be like really low on some of our personal top tens.

[Andy]

My ten, which is locked. Pokemon gen 10. This is the one. It's gonna give you the feels. It's not gonna give you the voice acting, but it's gonna make you enjoy Pokemon.

[Greg Miller]

Can I tell you guys something?

[Andy]

Sure. Old generation.

[Greg Miller]

I have a child on the way. I have a lot of my mind. I had a dream last night.

[Tim]

Look at him.

[Mike]

About Pokemon.

[Greg Miller]

And it wasn't about a baby. It was about Pokemon. And like it was one of those dreams that just felt so real. Like it didn't feel like a dream. It felt like I'm just living my life, life. And then I woke up and I realized, no, that's a silly ass dream. I was sitting here at the desk. It was Pokemon Day. I didn't have a child of this world. All right, we're just doing our, our, our, our jobs, reacting to Pokemon Day. And the trailer for Pokemon Winds and Waves starts playing. We're seeing it. And does it look Great. No, but does it look bad? No, it was like, okay, this is kind of just what we expect. That's fine. And the surprise of the trailer. They get to the end of the kind of. One more thing. We just hear a voice. We just hear one line of voice acting. And we popped off.

[Mike]

We never popped off before.

[Greg Miller]

And that was it.

[Andy]

And we were so stoked. It's the only VO in the game. Whatever the line was. That's all there is. I think it's like the final game. You beat the final pasta and you're like, good job, Pikachu. Bam.

[Greg Miller]

God. Can you imagine, though?

[Mike]

Can you imagine, dude? Oh, my God.

[Tim]

If.

[Mike]

If it just like shows like, you see a camera pans down, you see a hand with a Pokeball and he goes. You just hear, time to become the very best.

[Greg Miller]

Come on. That's all we need.

[Mike]

I want that stream tonight.

[Greg Miller]

Number one on the list.

[Tim]

I want to have that dream.

[Mike]

Dude, I'm so jealous.

[Andy]

Tim, you mentioned, you know, your life's getting complicated. Ignacio Rojas super chats and says, tim, I wish you the best with your new kid. Now is the best time for you to start Digimon time. Stranger. Never too early to get Baby Mael in.

[Mike]

Digimon. Him on.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, two things I want to say to you, Ignacio. One, I thought about you a lot in the last month. I thought a lot about.

[Andy]

We all popped off with the voices that in the chat, Ignacio Rojas said.

[Greg Miller]

And I thought a lot about the.

[Mike]

The.

[Greg Miller]

The dozens of you. It felt like it might have been like four or five people that were just very vocal about Digimon Story time. Strangers. Where were you last month when everyone's dropping their Game of the Year list? Everyone's talking about their favorite games of the year. I didn't hear Digimon once.

[Mike]

Yeah, anybo. That is so true.

[Greg Miller]

Any outlet anywhere. And maybe that's the problem. Maybe the outlets are the problem. Yeah, I'm not seeing people, like, even individuals being like my number one time Streepers. Whatever the it's called.

[Mike]

Second off, that's a great point.

[Greg Miller]

I do respect you. I do respect Digimon. And I need to let you know, a couple days ago, G asked me. She's like, tim, there's a lot of that you've introduced to be Transformers and Pokemon and all this stuff. Is there something that I'm not prepared for that you're gonna, like, try to force on her? And I was like, it's called Digimon. And she thought I was with her. She's like, what? Like, so it's not Pokemon? I'm like, don't. Don't even get me started here. And she's like, okay, what do I need to know about this? I was like, gee, let's not sit down. Let's sit down.

[Mike]

Turn it up.

[Greg Miller]

And what did I do, Barrett? I've turned on the movie.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

I didn't.

[Mike]

I didn't.

[Andy]

Wasn't.

[Greg Miller]

Wasn't gonna make her do the whole thing, but we watched the first movie. We watched the. The. The. You know, the Greymon parent. Mon 5. Come on, man.

[Mike]

And, hey, when that song kicks in

[Roger]

and he does the.

[Mike]

What is it? The mega blast out of his mouth.

[Greg Miller]

Pepper breath, baby. Let's go.

[Roger]

Pepper breath.

[Greg Miller]

Nova, Flame. Let's go. Shout out to Ignacio.

[Mike]

What are the goats?

[Barrett]

What? A guy in the chat says, tim's full of shit. Digimon was my number 61. One thing I want to bring up. It's a wild card. Half Life 3, you know, I mean, like, the idea Of Half Life 3, if this comes out.

[Tim]

Out.

[Barrett]

If it comes out in the beginning of the year. Right, of course. You know, the, you know, beginning of the year games. Not usually. Number one, number two. But also, it's Half Life three.

[Mike]

No, it's a different story.

[Barrett]

It's a different story. And also, we're all gonna want to play it, even if we are not the biggest Half Life people in the world. I am. Mike's just recently played them. Who's played Half Life? Who's a Half Life person or is. Has the history.

[Tim]

Who needs.

[Greg Miller]

I played one and two.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Andy]

I played Alex. I've tried to play.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Barrett]

So, yeah, I feel like everyone's gonna touch it, though. I feel like everyone.

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Barrett]

It's like Silk Song almost right? Where it's like. Even if you didn't play Hollow Knight 1, it's like, you gotta play Half Life 3.

[Mike]

I rent. I rented the Orange Box way back in the day. And, like, that kind of just got to the moment where the. What's his face? The man. The man in black or what's his name? Oh, I'm thinking of Westworld. What's the guy with the. With the tie?

[Andy]

Yeah, I know who you're talking about.

[Mike]

I don't know. He, like, walked up to a Chaos happening. He just kind of walked up and like, adjusted his tiles. Like, whoa, this game is crazy.

[Roger]

And I know that the Skibidi toilet.

[Mike]

Back to a guy.

[Andy]

I think it may be.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think it might be. Oh, really?

[Tim]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Lore accurate.

[Barrett]

Roger I love halfway through though. You know what I mean? Like if this is. If this is coming out. Has to make the list, right?

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barrett]

Top five, potentially.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Okay. I don't think it gets announced.

[Mike]

I don't.

[Andy]

You don't think so?

[Roger]

Yeah, I don't feel it.

[Mike]

I think the best opportunity would have been for. Well, we never got that like official price for the valve.

[Greg Miller]

I think it has more to do with RAM than it has to do with anything else.

[Barrett]

They're waiting.

[Tim]

Damn.

[Mike]

Ramito.

[Barrett]

I'm confident to say Half Life three at number three. Oh, I think that's what it is. If Half Life three exists, that's Half Life three number three. I think that's a perfect place for it. Everyone's gonna play it. It's gonna be on everyone's. A lot of people's lists if it comes out. A lot of ifs. But also we're playing the game. We're trying to be future proof, future accurate.

[Andy]

This is troublesome, obviously. Tell me because only I've played it but I was wowed by it and it skated, skated, skated out of 2025. What are our expectations for mixtape A Playing through a John Hughes film. You know what I mean? Amazing visuals, soundtrack, writing from what I've played of the one demo at sgf.

[Mike]

Whatever. What are the expectations of it being on our top 10? Yeah, I think that it has as good of a chance as whatever the best life is strange game is but I don't think everybody here will try it.

[Andy]

See, I disagree.

[Barrett]

I think.

[Andy]

I think this one is so approachable and so just hey, play a fun teen teen movie. Your last night in town before you all separate go play this thing. Amazing soundtrack I think. I think this is going to be played by a lot of us if not maybe not. I don't know who I.

[Barrett]

And he said he's not playing it. That's why I think too woke for you.

[Roger]

My. My prediction is that it's one of.

[Mike]

It's what my thing bringing when I was talking about earlier with Sorrows. It's like Soros being such a easy. It's a gun game and it's a PlayStation but I. I got to assume there will be some sort of souls like at out of the time that I'll be playing instead of this but

[Andy]

I think this will take you two nights. Yeah. You know what I mean. I think your stream want to see it too.

[Roger]

I think it'll be on Tim Greg Blessing and my own's list list. We will all mess with this game,

[Andy]

it's gonna get a Mike's List. Watch.

[Tim]

I was gonna say I'm the wild card here because I try these games and I either fall deeply in love with them or I don't put them on the list because I, you know, they're not my top 10. But, like, this one's speaking to me. I think this one has a chance. I. I will be interested to see if I put this on the list if I fall in love with it or not.

[Roger]

I will say, just As a reminder, 2021, Andy bringing up Life is Strange. Life is Strange did tie at number six, six True Colors back in 2021.

[Greg Miller]

My thing is this isn't Life Is Strange, though. Like, this is. This is the follow up to Artful Escape made by that team. Like, it might look like Life is Strange, but the energy is not going to be that. And I. I think that's a good thing, personally, for my taste.

[Andy]

Oh, my God.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger]

But I don't know if the energy is going to be quite Artful Escape either.

[Greg Miller]

I think it is. I think it is. In a lot of ways. It's a. It's a different era. Right. It's not Bob Dylan in future, but.

[Andy]

But it's.

[Greg Miller]

It is definitely. Like we see the shots of them in the. The play the field and they start flying and stuff. Like. Yeah, I. I think that there's. It's going to be very fantastical and very.

[Mike]

Just.

[Greg Miller]

It's. It's going to be a lot and every couple 30 minutes it's going to change up what it's doing and that's going to work for you or it's not going to work for you. I have expectations for this one. Not going to say high.

[Mike]

If it's five hours, I'll probably give it a shot.

[Barrett]

It. It has a high chance. I mean, I'm. Because of Life is Strange talking about Life is Strange. Life is Strange as a franchise is so beloved to Lianza and now that that franchise has just fallen off a fucking cliff, she is looking for something else. And she talks about mixtape pretty much every week. She's like, when is that game coming out? When's that game? So we'll be played in the household. So I think there is a chance if we all play it and we all enjoy it, that that could totally be on that list.

[Andy]

Yeah, I'm locking that in. Thanks for all this feedback. This is valuable because I had it too high. I think I'm locking that as my number five pick. Number six. I'm Putting Mina the Hollower.

[Barrett]

No, I think, wow.

[Andy]

I think mixtape a lot all if not all, a lot of us play and we all can connect with that and roll credits on it. Mina the Hollower I think is going to have a silk songy kind of vibe of I'll start it and play it, but I'm not gonna love it. I can tell you.

[Barrett]

I think a mixtape is like an eight. Yeah, I think it's like that's why

[Andy]

you can make your own list. Don't come in to on mine.

[Tim]

All right.

[Andy]

You're not invited to my house tomorrow. Only as is.

[Barrett]

But I thought this was the company list.

[Greg Miller]

This is your list.

[Andy]

No, but. No, no, no.

[Barrett]

Oh, okay.

[Mike]

Make your own list.

[Barrett]

I'll make my own list.

[Andy]

Well, yeah, you make your own list.

[Barrett]

I have Star Wars Racist number 10.

[Greg Miller]

Crazy one.

[Tim]

I see we are tending to avoid and fear the D. Oh, Crimson Desert.

[Barrett]

So true.

[Tim]

Let's talk about it. Right, Andy? Crimson Desert. Crimson D is what I call it the D. Now, Andy, there's a game you fell in love with two years ago. You created people, playable characters that you loved. You made Kevin for me. Dragons Dog.

[Mike]

Oh, right, right, right, right.

[Tim]

Here's a game that has a lot going forward with Crimson Desert. Yeah, here's a game with a lot of systems, a lot of depth, a lot of exciting things that we've wanted in these giant open world games added to it. Right? Here's a game that knows what it wants to be. A true single player experience, right? No multiplayer, no bs, Just you in the game going out there getting lost in this giant world. It seems to have the hype, right? But Dragon's Dogma had a cool vibe and we all thought that was going to be great. And then it didn't make our top 10. I wonder, I want to know, do we think Crimson Desert will make our top ten?

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no.

[Mike]

I don't know if enough of us will try it. I think it can only make our top 10 if two people rank it as like number two or whatever. Like I. This game with everything it's trying to do, it has to hit on most of them. And if it. If it's trying to be this open world sort of, hey, it's the Witcher with amazing physics and real time systems and water and fire, like will spread across grass and you can burn the wood to break it down once it kind of becomes more weak. And if it. If it has all these systems that are enough for us to go, hey, I didn't really give a about Anything happening in Breath of Wild Story. But the open world systems were so amazing that that's what kind of lifted it up for me. If it does that, then hell yeah. But if it's trying to be this sort of open world Witcher. Witcher game and if it does, doesn't, you know, nail any, anything story wise or character wise. And I could see us going like, yeah, there's a lot of awesome tech, but I just don't enjoy being in the world, you know.

[Barrett]

Is it this year's black myth, Wukong?

[Greg Miller]

I think no, because I've come Deliverance.

[Barrett]

Well, okay, yeah, I just don't think it's gonna be as good as Kingdom Come Deliverance. You know what I mean? Like, I don't think by the end of the year we're gonna be like, you gotta play Crimson Desert. Like I don't think, I think it's gonna be like, oh, this is like a really great game. I think it's gonna sell a bajillion copies and everyone's gonna be obsessed with with it. But I don't think for us we're gonna be like, you gotta play that for end of the year.

[Mike]

I think that it, when it comes out, there will be a lot of pressure for people to want to try it out just to see what it does and to see all the systems that you can mess around with and be wowed by the tech in the same way that for the first time when I'm playing some amazing ray tracing game, it's like, you gotta come look at this. Like I feel like it'll be on that level at the start and then people will just fall off of it because maybe it isn't hooking you story wise.

[Andy]

I want to believe Crimson Desert has so much going on in there. That's a Greg ass game. Let's go do it. I don't believe this game will be good. I think there's just too much going on in the pot. And I don't think it's all going to coalesce into a digestible narrative system. I think this could be a lot of fun to play in the giant battles. But then when you're doing the one on ones it doesn't. Or vice versa. Like it's just, I look at it and I, I see the game. It's that everything game, it does everything and it's just like, I don't think you can nail that. It's almost. And it's like, I know it's got this March release date. I could easily See it not coming out this year and I know that's crazy, but I'm saying like, I just don't. I want to be wrong. I want to eat. I want to get that code and be like this. They did it.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I want.

[Mike]

I definitely want to be wrong, but I could totally see it being an all style, no substance.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Know Mike, what I thought you were going to bring up when you said

[Mike]

the big D. Big D was a penis was a game that starts with the word dust. Dust Blood. A game that starts with the letter D. I. I think with you know,

[Roger]

the combination of you and Andy really loving Night Rain and then also really, you know, fall in love with the extraction shooter type of stuff, especially with Arc Raiders, I think. And then this actually like being directed by me as hockey corrects. Like I think there's gonna be something special here that y' all are gonna really fall in love with. That makes it on our, our list easily.

[Greg Miller]

The biggest question I have about Dust Bloods isn't whether or not it's good at this point when it comes to kind of funny's list. It's whether or not Andy is okay with it being on the Switch.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I was gonna say it's like the opposite of the Nintendo.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

You know what I mean? Like it's, it's. It's gonna be the Nintendo, you know, -5.

[Greg Miller]

Like it being a Nintendo Switch to exclusive, elusive. Yeah, I feel like. Like they need to prove that they can do it. And Andy, I've heard him talk for hours about how much he doesn't believe in FromSoftware's choices when it comes to some of the performance and all that stuff. And so this seems like a risky

[Andy]

gamble, am I right?

[Mike]

Yeah, for sure. Especially you know, I know that people who previewed Elden Ring on Switch to said that it ran better at later conventions, but when I played it, it was an abysmal experience, performance wise. And I know that there have been a lot of improvements since then and hopefully they're still trying to get things evened out. But yeah, this is still a game that is, you know, supposed to be very, very fast and quick and frenetic and if it's a 30 frame per second experience and sometimes if it's hitting sub that because we know how from software can be with their tech, then it will probably not be an amazing experience. And I personally think that, that I will have this a very similar experience with this than I did with Arc raiders where the PvP nature of it will wear off. Really quickly. Like the luster and the excitement of well, it's really cool to have this sort of thing. And then I will eventually go I just want a PvE mode now. Like I don't really care about this PvP sort of thing. Like I. And a lot of it has to do with. With whenever we played Sniper Elite Mike or even when we played the Elden Ring playthrough together when we were playing the DLC and even through the core game I loved getting invaded. It's exciting, it's cool. That never wore off. But when it's. I think I'm more down with PvP when it's more of a surprise and less of this is kind of the core gameplay.

[Tim]

You know, I'm very excited to see how people react to this because I know how I will react is I. I am very excited about the idea of third partying someone getting someone uptight about the build that I have and beating them. Right. I think when you think of a invasion in Dark Souls it's a one on one, sometimes one on two if you're playing with a friend. But it's a very contained of like it's you and I. I see where you're going. You see where I'm going. Of course with beautiful fromsoft networking where it's usually laggy and off the chart. Like not correct half the time. Right. But like I can't wait to see people think oh it's going to be one on one. It's like no Mike is going to come out of nowhere, ruin your one on one and you're going to get uptight and like I think that's going to wear on people. Andy is right. It will be interesting to see what their system is. Is it a night system where night one, everybody, no matter what, you always fight one on one. Is it just this open world map that is slowly closing in and if I see Tim and we start fighting, Andy jumps in and third parties us. Like what is the interactions here?

[Andy]

Because.

[Tim]

Because I don't think people are going

[Mike]

to love that based on a lot of what Miyazaki has mentioned. He has talked about wanting to reward the spontaneous squad up to beat the. The large enemy and that. And in that regard it kind of reminds me of like something like Hunt showdown where you're all a bunch of different squads trying to go take down these enemies but when somebody's taking them down, the other team gets alerted and they're like oh we can maybe third party this as they're taking on this World boss or whatever.

[Tim]

Whatever.

[Mike]

And. But he has talked about wanting to kind of create these friendships and. And allyship when you are out in the gameplay. And I. That seems pretty neat if it can. But that seems also very, very idealistic. But also I feel like at any moment if I've ever doubted what Miyazaki could do, I'm always wrong. And like I. This game could end up being a banger. I just don't know if it's the genre for me. I don't think it's necessarily the genre for me. I think Arc Raider Raiders. The excitement of that wore off pretty quickly for me.

[Barrett]

Huh.

[Andy]

Okay. Yeah.

[Tim]

Yeah. This continues to build my ultimate fromsoft experiences. Right. Like this is exactly what I'm looking for. My worry. Is this on a switch too? Like what are we doing here? You know? So let's find out. Be also interested. Like, you know, I bring up the circle closing in. What is this map? How big is it? There has to be something that is going to push us all together. Or is the map just so small that no matter what we'll find you if you want to play hide and seek.

[Mike]

Right.

[Tim]

Like what is this really going to play?

[Mike]

Like.

[Tim]

But I can't wait. This is definitely what I want.

[Barrett]

My prediction for Andy next year is that he will play more Elden Ring Night Reign than he will Dusk Blood.

[Mike]

It's not a bad call.

[Andy]

Wow. I've locked in my top 10.

[Tim]

Wow.

[Mike]

What?

[Andy]

I think that kind of funny. Top 10 will be all right. Number 10. Pokemon Gen 10. Number 9. A top control resident and pragmata.

[Mike]

Oh, wow. Okay.

[Andy]

I'm getting spicy. Okay.

[Mike]

I don't like the control resin. It's got to be like a. I'm just saying.

[Andy]

I think it's going to. I'm worried about it under delivering. Maybe that means it'll be, you know,

[Barrett]

even better up there a little bit more.

[Andy]

I put number eight at Fable. I let Mike believe. I. I started to believe.

[Tim]

Get ready.

[Andy]

I want.

[Tim]

I want find out next week you're going to see it next week.

[Andy]

Do we get the release date next week? Of course you do.

[Tim]

I. I know.

[Greg Miller]

I honestly, I. I do think we'll see next week. I think next week we'll be able to look at that and we will know if it's gonna make our list.

[Andy]

God, I will lose my mind.

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Andy]

I'm gonna be so excited. Number seven. Another tie. Resident Evil Requiem.

[Greg Miller]

And replaced Replaceable.

[Mike]

Holy.

[Andy]

I think it looks awesome. God damn it. And I want to believe it does. I'm gonna believe God.

[Mike]

It's more of a. I do. I believe enough.

[Andy]

Yeah, I know, I know. We're having fun. You know what I mean? Number six, Mina the hollower. Number five, Mixtape. Number four, W3sorrows. Number two, Forza Horizon, and number one, Grand Theft Auto 6.

[Mike]

That sounds pretty damn solid.

[Tim]

No Fire Emblem, no James Bond. We don't believe in James Bond.

[Andy]

I do not believe in James Bond.

[Barrett]

However, they put Lenny Kravitz in there as the

[Greg Miller]

plus for me.

[Barrett]

We love

[Greg Miller]

huge.

[Mike]

We don't believe in the big James.

[Tim]

I win a race Active Hitman. Like, I don't know, man. Dude, I'm. I know that we're all really down on this and, like, want to see the turnaround, but, like, I still believe that this is going to be a good game.

[Andy]

I believe it'll be a good game. I think there will be 10 better games.

[Tim]

That's not me.

[Barrett]

I think this is the year of Fire Emblem. I like. I'm, like, super bullish on it. I think, like, Mike being in there, I'm definitely gonna play Fire Emblem. I had my little tactics moment with Final Fantasy Tactics, but, like, going into Fire Emblem, I think this is going to be the one for me.

[Mike]

I'm 1000% gonna try it. When I was back home, I looked at my nephew's SU Switch case of filled with games that he's gotten over Christmas this past several years that he never plays because he only ever plays Marvel Rivals. And. And I saw Fire Emblem 3 house and I walked up to him, I was like, I'm gonna take this. And he was like, okay. He doesn't give a. You know, he had it, you know, so, like, I. I'm so interested in, like, people talking about the. Maybe it's the stuff that Tim didn't necessarily vibe with. Are you talking about the school? Kind of, you know, almost Hogwarts Houses or whatever. I wanna. I wanna vibe with the game. And I know this isn't doing that, but I still feel like I can. This is gonna be my entry point. This is gonna be the gateway for.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, this one. Like, there's a lot going for it. That's cool. You are in a gladiator arena. That alone is like, all right, we're getting a tournament arc of some sort. Like, that's just like, the best part. Like, we got the school arc already. Let's get to the tournament. Like, that's dope as.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I'm excited at how much excitement there is for Fire Emblem here. Like, that seems Like a unbelievable thing, but kind of funny's changing, man. I love it.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Roger]

That's my prediction for number 10 is fire emblem Fortunes.

[Mike]

We've.

[Barrett]

I mean, this is a light, lighter year for Switch, right? Unless I'm sure there's gonna be some,

[Greg Miller]

you know, we just don't know anything.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Like, that's the thing is, like, we just know. We know the first like two months

[Barrett]

and then unless we get like a Mario or whatever. But, like, I think that there is a moment. There's gonna be a moment of like, oh, Fire Emblem's the biggest fucking thing on the switch. And I think we're all gonna to try it out.

[Tim]

Or all.

[Barrett]

A lot of us are going to try it out.

[Mike]

I have a weird wild card.

[Andy]

Wild card.

[Mike]

And it's actually going to be a part of the Xbox presentation. Wow. And it's a game from Game Freak called Beast of Reincarnation. And it's a souls, like, very actiony. Right. But I wonder if there's going to be interest from people like Tim that go, this is Game freak. I have to give this a shot. But where I wouldn't have given. Given Wu Chong fallen feathers shot or, you know, the game that Ben Starr was in. I'm blanking on it.

[Greg Miller]

God damn it.

[Mike]

Again, so close. This is why we don't the last Berserk. Yeah. Like, I. I just. I. I feel like this is one of those things where, hey, my favorite director is making a comedy. I've never.

[Andy]

Yeah, it.

[Mike]

I'm gonna go check it out. You know.

[Roger]

Yeah, I'm really stoked for this one, honestly.

[Mike]

I could see that.

[Roger]

I think it'd be really funny if this ended up on our list and Pokemon wasn't.

[Andy]

That'd be hilarious. Impossible. Won't happen.

[Mike]

I'll say that. Here's a hot take. I think this will be high if it makes the list would be higher than Phantom Blade zero.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna bring up Phantom Blade zero.

[Tim]

Oh, shit.

[Greg Miller]

Why would I. I don't think that's true at all.

[Mike]

I don't think I do either. Just saying stuff.

[Barrett]

Just podcasting.

[Andy]

And he's so desperate not to play Pico Park.

[Barrett]

He's.

[Greg Miller]

This is so funny.

[Mike]

Just keep talking.

[Andy]

You know the one.

[Greg Miller]

One game we haven't talked about at all. And like, I. I don't necessarily think we should have talked about it, but it's only Musha way of the sword. Right? Like, yeah, it's like, it's funny that we've brought up two of the three Capcom games and that's the one we didn't. And yeah, I. I'm incredibly excited about that game and I hope that it makes my top 10, but that's where I'm at with it.

[Andy]

We got a whole bunch of super chats before we get out of here. Optimistic 92 says tomorrow is my brother's birthday and I'm hoping he gets a B day, buddy. Congratulations, Tim.

[Greg Miller]

Hell, yeah.

[Andy]

Tim, what do you think your odds are right now having a kid tomorrow?

[Greg Miller]

Like I was saying, I'm really hopeful,

[Andy]

man, but your odds, I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Well, here's the thing. It's like, I already explained that, like, G needs this desperately, so I want that so bad. But I'm also, like, in this really weird place with my life and with work where I'm like, we did our production meeting. It's like, I'm not on anything to next week. So what's going to happen if it's not?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

What if she's not here?

[Andy]

Every day you show up, you tell me what you want to do.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, no, I know, I know. But it's just like, I don't like this. I don't like this uncertainty.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

CO OP 64 says Mike Andy can't handle the round three operator.

[Tim]

You won't let me go up on him. I'm watching Andy play last night and I type in, man. Really a lack of operators on the battlefield right now. And it's like for someone known for clicking head heads, ripping people to shreds, I'm seeing a lot of vandal play. I'm seeing a lot of just like I'm avoiding the op, the one shot, one kill play. Maybe that would elevate.

[Mike]

Maybe. Maybe.

[Tim]

Does it have to be that?

[Mike]

Maybe we need you on the squad.

[Tim]

I love when they lose. I also love when they play. I love when they lose.

[Andy]

Giovanni. Super chats. Control 2 looks near Universal as far as kind of funny appeal. We will see.

[Mike]

Say that again.

[Andy]

Control 2 looks near Universal in terms of kind of funny appeal.

[Mike]

And I was shocked to see as Remedy has kept on kind of tweeting about it and, you know, doing little random, like, here's some more info on it. Them saying this is a very, like our most ambitious unsafe sequel.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And I wasn't expecting them to say sequel. I thought this would just be kind of a side thing and then Control two would eventually happen. But them saying, like, yeah, this is a very unsafe sequel.

[Andy]

We're doing just where you want to put your independence.

[Tim]

Yeah, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

I want. I want to throw out A bed of some sort of.

[Tim]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

But I need help to get there.

[Barrett]

Okay, let's talk through it.

[Greg Miller]

I want to say there are four games that will be on our top 10 that we don't know about yet. But four sounds a bit much. So I think three, when you say three feels safe.

[Andy]

We don't know about. Do you mean like, are unannounced or we didn't talk about in this episode or unannounced. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Barrett]

Like Half Life 3 would be under there.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, exactly. Exactly. Unannounced. Or like, like it gets hard with things like Pokemon and stuff. I'm. Let's go unannounced. Officially. Unannounced Pokemon counts for what I'm saying.

[Andy]

Okay, great.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Four just sounds like a lot on a top 10.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But I just. I have a lot of questions about a lot of these games, so I don't know.

[Tim]

But like, your bet, it would be 3.5.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim]

In the betting world. Right. You go over under 3.5.

[Andy]

So let's look at last year's list. Then what. What would have been a year ago. Unannounced. Announced.

[Roger]

It was announced, but we didn't know if Silksong was coming out.

[Mike]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

And I'll count that. Like, that's the release date announcement.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Of knowing it's coming this year.

[Andy]

So would you count Dispatch? I forget Dispatch. We never did dispatch. We knew. We knew.

[Roger]

We knew release year at least.

[Andy]

So does that count? Because that's not a release date. We're counting that.

[Greg Miller]

I will.

[Tim]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

This gets started to fall apart.

[Barrett]

It's like Fire Emblem also.

[Roger]

And like, technically, like Blueprints was announced and like, people knew about that game, but that wasn't really like on arc radars at the beginning of the year.

[Mike]

Right.

[Barrett]

I mean, I see. I think we have half, like three. We also didn't talk about whatever if this is a real game, the God of War game or whatever, like, that also has a huge chance of making our list, whatever the fuck that is.

[Andy]

Jeff Grove.

[Barrett]

I mean, I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I said this earlier, but like, we don't know what Nintendo is doing. And I don't think it's going to be a light year for them. Like, I do think we're going to get a bunch of games maybe. But I also think that, like, maybe I don't know that we're going to be getting those 9 and tens.

[Andy]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

I think we're going to be getting.

[Mike]

Getting eight.

[Greg Miller]

I can guarantee we're gonna Get a lot of eights.

[Mike]

Will we get that masterpiece Ocarina remake will be nine. Like, I think easily we'll get nines and tens.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Then what? That's the thing too, though, about the remake stuff of like, how. How much of a remake is it compared to a Final Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil 2 or a Metal Gear Solid Delta. Right. Like, I think if it's a Metal Gear Solid is not going to make our list, Mike.

[Mike]

For the year of 2026, the year

[Tim]

that we're currently in, 2026, the year that I'm better to you every single day.

[Mike]

He's showing it every day.

[Barrett]

That's beautiful. You're such a good friend. He's so good to you.

[Mike]

He. He walked up to Nick the other day and said, what's a game we want to get good at this year?

[Tim]

Ah.

[Mike]

And I threw. I threw out Valorant because I. I like. I love the tension of those rounds. But could 2026 be the year of something like Deadlock coming out?

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Mike]

The full official release from Valve.

[Roger]

Could that be one console, like. Or Steam Machine thing high end.

[Tim]

It will be playable on that. You know, Steam Machine consoles. Right. There will be a. A big title for them. Right.

[Mike]

I mean, we get Roger on the squad with this.

[Barrett]

He fucked me that one time. He's like, we're all going. We're all going mid. We're all. If we did that for four. Four games, which is like an hour each. We're there for four hours. I'm like, I'm never playing this game.

[Tim]

Learn, Roger, as Tim knows, never listen to you. I'm a tactician.

[Barrett]

I've played Fire Emblem.

[Tim]

I see the battlefield differently than most. And so when a team adjusts, I adjust with them. I learn from them. I take strategies from others. That's what great coaches do.

[Mike]

Coach Mike.

[Tim]

Okay? And you can't be afraid to coach your squad and sometimes take an L because guess what? Four Ls, it's not March yet. You know what I mean? Me and my squad right now are playing in January. We're looking to March. March for the big madness, the big tournament, Right? Like, this is when I perfect my team, okay? And you got to take Ls in January, in February to learn. So Roger, just know that, like, next time we play, we're going to go four. One lane, one person, middle lane.

[Barrett]

Oh, wow. Really throw them off a little bit.

[Roger]

One that I want to throw out there that I think will sneak onto our list because, you know, we have a history with this franchise. And even when they're not their best best, we still. We still really rock with this game. Mario Tennis Fever. That's gonna come in at number nine

[Mike]

because we love the tennis games.

[Roger]

And even aces, like Aces wasn't. Oh yeah, like super fantastic. But we play like we rocked with aces for a while.

[Mike]

Do we think Nick will remember to call Johnny Ace? Oh, yeah.

[Roger]

We gotta get Lady.

[Barrett]

The cat might come through. That's the only thing you got.

[Tim]

This game better have four player motion control locally. That's what I want. I want a party mode with the four of us in the outfits out here on the big stage swinging away. And it better have. I'd stick to four player swing. Yeah. If it doesn't, I'm going to be real uptight.

[Roger]

Real uptight.

[Tim]

Yeah. That's my vision, Tim. That's make great content.

[Greg Miller]

You know that we'll see.

[Tim]

It won't. It won't let me down.

[Andy]

It won't let me. Like usual, Foxy Steve says I think sorrow has a good chance of being in the 5 to 10 range. I think it'll be higher than that, but we'll see which one. Soros son of Gib says early birthday tax 32 tomorrow. Thanks to the kind of funny crew for all you do. Happy birthday, Bo. Delick says someone take the absolute moonshot and put Judas on the list. No, you ain't seeing Judas this year. You ain't seeing Judas this year.

[Tim]

What if we all take to the skies? What if we embrace our inner mavericks? Maverick Ace Combat.

[Barrett]

It's got a story falling.

[Greg Miller]

Real talk.

[Tim]

Like I got a feeling about Ace Combat.

[Greg Miller]

You know what's going on.

[Mike]

Those cutscenes got me pretty.

[Barrett]

It's crazy.

[Tim]

What if we all of a sudden got a day?

[Greg Miller]

I do think that that's actually a nice little like dark horse there. Kind of funny because like yeah, if, if, if it lives up, bro. He's delivering the hype like it could work.

[Barrett]

It's so hot.

[Andy]

Super chats. It says day late birthday tax. Happy birthday. Listening since COVID Just Covid just really appreciate y' all more than words can express. Give me a condom like this.

[Roger]

This will be this year's long shot.

[Andy]

It's a long shot.

[Roger]

People will love this unironically and it'll.

[Andy]

It'll be great snaving shake. Super chats and says is Mugenics the least kind of funny game of all time?

[Roger]

There's tactics with cats and like rogue like and stuff. Yeah.

[Barrett]

There's a chance that high on the

[Andy]

hype list but maybe it'll turn our heads when it gets around. And then Charlie.

[Tim]

Lot of hype.

[Andy]

I know. Not our list though, huh? I see why you don't hang out with him.

[Greg Miller]

Mike.

[Andy]

Charlie Super Chats says what about Star Wars 0 company sleeper hit IMO.

[Barrett]

Oh I feel like Mike is going to get so deep in the sauce with that one.

[Greg Miller]

That's.

[Andy]

Which one is this?

[Barrett]

That's the XCOM one.

[Tim]

I can't wait. We're going to play an XCOM this year and it's going to make all the characters perma Death Run.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah I was thinking about this earlier when I was trying to come up with a game that isn't announced yet that could make the list and then I was just thinking about like just how received the last one was. But the Jedi Survivor sequel like I think has a I'd say solid chance of coming out this year. I don't think it's slam dunk, but I just wonder where that would fall.

[Mike]

Summer Game Fest and then or before

[Greg Miller]

that maybe like I I can see that game being announced in May and then coming out in September.

[Tim]

When do they do the Big Disney

[Greg Miller]

Showcase D23 I don't think is this year okay.

[Mike]

They do every four years like the Olympics.

[Roger]

I want to see I Survivor if they did the same thing with Fallen Order. Right? Because Fallen Order was like announce and release in a single year. But I forget if they did the same thing with Survivor it would also only give it a three year turnaround which I I don't feel the most confident in. Yeah especially with who is it?

[Mike]

I think events.

[Roger]

I would say maybe but also didn't Stig.

[Mike]

Who?

[Andy]

Stig left.

[Roger]

Stig left.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So yeah I've heard some things.

[Andy]

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