Game Scoop! 839: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Games

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A vow with just announced for PS5 moments ago, just moments ago. And we also have some speedrunner news that I'm looking forward to sharing with Mark. But first, what were the most popular games on PlayStation 5 in 2025? Well, second verse, same as the first. They were the exact same games in the exact same order as 2024. This info, this info comes from Matt Piscatella from Serkana, the artist formerly known as MPD. And he shared on Bousky the top five most played games on US PlayStation 5's. Fortnite, Call of Duty, GTA 5, Roblox and Minecraft. If you compare that to 2024, it was Fortnite, Call of Duty, GTA 5, Roblox, and Minecraft. I'm going to assume that 2025 number six is ball pit. Ball pit. And I don't want to know the answer on a PS5. I just just choose going to assume choose to believe that. Yeah. So a lot of people playing. So what are these are live service games? Right. All of them. But all of them, none of them require a PS5. Oh, also, yeah, some you can play at a phone, too. Don't you have a phone more handy than your PS5? You've got to use the phone. That's, that's what I think. It's also the exact same games on Xbox just in a slightly different order. Right. So people are buying a PS5 or an Xbox to play old live service games. These games are old. I got it doesn't even say what Call of Duty they're playing. But everything else Fortnite is the most recent game. Well, the thing with Call of Duty is weird because it's Call of Duty HQ. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just one day generic call of duty that whenever a new call of duty comes up, they just update Call of Duty. You should have seen me trying to download Black Ops 7 when I came. I was like, where is it? I know I got the camera. It's like you go to install it and it's like a mile long checklist. It's like, it's like, do you want the modern warfare three campaign? I'm like, no, I don't think there is an uncheck, right? Because I went through that and unchecked everything. You can uncheck it, but I don't know. It's, it's very true. I don't. I'm steam. I think I do on PS5 to you. Yeah. I mean, I went down by controller and unchecked everything. But yeah, all I wanted to do was play the campaign. To it's credit, it does allow you to just download the call of duty campaign. You don't have to get everything. It's just a really weird platform. You set up for it. Yeah. It's, it's, it's so silly how they do it because their steam numbers are always just going to be messed up because no matter how many people play, there was like a moment in time where like war zone was super popular. And so their peak will always be then, even if it's the new game, they're competing with something from three years ago. Anyways, cold. I know. I'm sorry. Are these numbers peak concurrent? Players or is it just the most played game play time percent of active panel that played is what? Yeah. I mean, you know, it does seem like initially like we're supposed to go to the yote, but like for the most part, I know it wasn't going to be go to the yote. But yeah, no, but like first party PlayStation titles, right? I know you're instinct. A lot of people say it's like, oh, well, we're on video games are dying or whatever. But it's like, well, I mean, those games are kind of one and done, right? At a certain point, you play those games, you finish it. And for the most part, people play call of duty and they're just going to continue playing like Fortnite. I still play Fortnite. And that's going to be in my regular rotation. I have 64. That's all them. That's the only game I've ever played. There's other games. So, so yeah, it does, it does seem a little bit like doom and gloom, but maybe it's not as bad as we initially think. At least I want to be optimistic. I mean, that's a good point because the other games end at some point. And these games never end. Correct. The whole point they want to keep you there. Also, Roblox is like 50,000 billion games. Dude, I was at that. That also doesn't mean anything. I was at all playing Groza. So many family gatherings with four with like children much younger than me who are playing Roblox on their phone. I'm just watching them in their sonic skin playing parkour maps. I was like, dude, what is like that's why why are so many kids playing Roblox on a PS5? Yeah. Like just because they're parents have one maybe like to be fair watching it. Yeah, their parents have this PS5 like loaded up with all these amazing triple A games. And they're just there at their fingertips. And they're like, I can't believe all my parents have is the stupid PS5. I guess I'll play Roblox on it. Watching a kid play a parkour map on a phone though is painful because he's like, you know, having to make precision jumps trying to like zoom in. He's pretty good at granted using like the mobile interface. But it's probably a little bit easier on a controller. I would assume I can barely type on a phone. I definitely can't do one. I can't do on my phone. I can't like text with both thumbs. I can't I can't even do that. Wait, I can't do this. Is this like in a decade from now or people would be like, people were complaining. You couldn't use two figures to use a phone like like the way we were doing. Like you can't look and move at the same time in the first person shooter. Anyway, looking at these these games, Fortnite called it a GJ5 Roblox and Minecraft. Maybe this is why PlayStation stopped releasing games and I kid, but their output has slowed. They put out games with much less frequency than they used to, but they have the dad here. They're not playing our games on our console. Picture this. That's someone else do it. Yeah. Picture this. They made a last of us factions multiplayer mode. That was a game as a service. Well, it also tells you why they were so hot to get their own games in service. Because that's what people use their console for, right? Yeah. That's why they all use like monthly active users as their metrics now. Yeah. Weird. Piscatel was also recently on kind of funny. He explained on their show. He said, this is a quote, the way the market used to work is that players would buy one big new game. Spend all their time on that then move on to the next one. Yep. That's what I want. That's what I do. That's what I've always told. That's what I work in this house. Yeah. I except for Marvel rivals. I don't know what it is. I can't break it. A publisher has a game I want. I will pay them one time for the full game. I'll play it until I'm done with it. Put it away. We want to the next one. That's how it works. So Sir, kind of puts out, you know, the monthly sales data and they put out yearly sales data for 2025, which I'm very interested in seeing. But he said, Met Piscatel's guesses. He expects their data is going to show that 30% of people that play video games would did not buy a video game in 2025. Wow. Yeah. I believe it. 30% of people that play video games did not buy a video game in 2025. But I mean, I really just think. Many people have been playing the are like one mobile game that's even. Yeah. Not even a shooter like a cookie crush. Something like that. That seems a little stranger with the call of duty of it all though. I guess they are probably playing just war zone to be fair. But I don't know what it seemed to do. The multiplayer stuff in each specific bespoke call duty. So I call a tiny bit of shenanigans on that. Well, they think that this. God. I was just going to say like there's a million of those Gacha games now. Those are all free. Genshin and weathering waves and infinity. Nikki and they're there are just so many games out there that you never have to pay for if you don't want to. Don't you think that stat was exactly the same in 1999 though? Because most people were playing Minecraft and solitaire and they hadn't purchased those. This game was 1998. Why not? Because it wouldn't be out yet. That's not a 90. Mine sweeper. I meant. Oh, oh, there we go. Yeah. And then the free one level of that pinball game that I love. The space one. Yeah. There's other levels. I think so. So 30% I can buy new maps. 30% didn't buy a game at all. Our article says a further 18% would purchase a new game every six months or less frequently. Does that mean 48% if 30% a further 18%? Does that make 48%? I don't. Damon, I work in video production. Not a matter. Yeah. This is like this down to the listen is down to the boys in the lab. I took a very specific walk and it did not leave me down the math route. 48% to 2 thirds of a count to one fourth of a what? Well, the status is easier to read. Only 12% buy a game once a month and 4% of gamers buy new games more than once a month. I'm in the 4% yeah. We are the 4%. So once again coming back to this list, you look at this list Fortnite call duty GTA 5 Roblox and Minecraft. What I would hope is that publishers look at that list and they say, okay, I think we're covered off on games of the service. Let's make something different. Unless you're rock star. And then it'd be like wait a second. Yeah, I I bet that number is not going to change when GTA 6 comes out. I think people just live in GTA 5 and they're not going to leave it. I mean, I did wonder what it's going to do. Do you think they'll both be on there? Yeah, like at least I do think there will be a we don't we don't we don't know when GTA 6 online is coming out, which will be next year, right? So when GTA 6 online comes out next year, I think GTA 5 will still be bigger because for one, it's on more platforms and PC for two, like GTA online RPG and stuff like that. Like people aren't going to leave that stuff. They they live in that they never had a reason they never said they're going to do a new online. Right. That's just not even they haven't said that they're doing one. You would assume that they will. Yeah. I mean, they could they could pull a world of work craft and just have GTA online, be GTA online forever. Or you are like a graphical and engine overhaul or something. I don't know what that would look like, but that'd be that's definitely going to be one of the most interesting things that happened next year for sure. Because it's excited for like you said, as excited for GTA 6, people are it would be really hard to get them out of GTA online into something new, especially all the amount of money people have poured into their own experience in GTA online. Yeah. Then our next story is somewhat related to the first story Nintendo source blames, switch to holiday sales slow down on the economic landscape and the absence of a major Western game. Hmm. So this comes from game business switch to sales and the switch to sales in the US and within key markets in Europe fell behind the equivalent pace of switch one. Something that an unnamed senior Nintendo source blamed on a complicated economic climate and the absence of a major Western game. Was there any major Western game for switch to this holiday season? I guess what they're saying is terror and we only had a minor Western. But to be fair, the main the main holiday season is like no, the shopping season, November, Black Friday and Metroid Prime for the Western game came out in December. Yeah. A little bit. A little bit like me. A moda once again dropping shade on Metroid. There's got to be a sick of it. There's got to be a nicer way of phrasing that though. Right? Like it's a weird thing. Do you think that means let go ahead, Jim? I mean, we're making Metroid jokes because, you know, we can, but you know, call duty didn't come out on switch. Right? That's that's the major Western game that they don't have. You know, or are many other Western games that you can. That's what I want to say. Yeah. The holiday sales were terrible for all three consoles, not just switch. Yeah. Yeah. It was it was an industry wide issue this holiday because everybody was scared of GTA. Change things many years ago to get out of the way of it. There we are. Wake before I don't know if it's factors into it actually. But a lot of only PS 5 went on sale, right? Like Xbox and Switch didn't go on sale. I mean, how could they? They literally cost more to import not every in the United States. When he says a major Western game, you think he means a game by a Western developer because when has that ever been a big draw to Nintendo? I know. That's what I don't get it. So we're coming very strange. Anyway, the game business supports us switch to sales over the holiday period. We're down 35% versus the Switch 1s sales performance in 2017. So it's first holiday. But I do think like we've always I know it's silly and it feels outdated to say this. Now, but like if there is a big fall game like GTA 6, but more like the next Assassin's Creed, like they really should get that out on Switch 2 at the same time as the other systems to make sure there's like this parody across systems and all things being equal than people want to switch to because they're going to play out there the two new games they buy in the not quarter, you know, statistically on the Switch 2. Yeah, but I was going to say comparing the holiday periods for these two consoles in their launch years is not comparing apples to apples because with the Switch 1, it was unproven with the weird new system. We didn't expect they were coming out of the Wii U. So it wasn't nearly as much excitement for the Switch, but we got it on launch. And then we started spreading the word about how great it was and breathed the wild and then Mario Kart 8 Deluxe came out and then Mario Odyssey was there. So there was tober. Yeah, like hype for the console. Chris Shindode into the holiday season. Where is here? There was a lot of hype right at launch midnight launches for the first time in a long time sold really well. So I think coming into the holiday season, a lot of people who wanted to switch you already had one. Yeah, they're already covered up. Yeah, I mean, if they if they had released a 3D Mario, which we were kind of hoping they would, I think it would have been a different story, but launching with Mario Kart and then their big game being Metroid Prime 4, which, you know, I think they're big game. Well, they had a. Oh, they did have the. Yeah, Pokemon. So about a mainline Pokemon is going to do a very different thing for Nintendo, although it's going to be on Switch one also. And this is the comparison, right? That that he this is the comment is about not switch to sales necessarily being quote unquote bad, but being fewer Switch, choose were sold and switch ones. Is that the stat? Oh, I don't know. No, just doing the holiday period. Or just the two is still the still the fastest selling console. A lot of us still. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't so, you know, we get to see people's playing patterns and the game that came with Switch 2 got a massive boost in the coverage that we do. So by the scenes, we can see that a lot of people got Mario Kart and they're looking up the things that you look up in Mario Kart from the start of Mario Kart. That there's no other bigger theme than that for the holidays. And that does not say that's the biggest game, the most popular game or anything, but I can tell people open to Mario Kart and Christmas Day. No question about it. So what they should have done was get clear and came to become deliverance to on Switch to buy fall. I mean, that's not probably what it sold more. That I mean, that type of stuff is like so essential to make sure that people play Switch 2 because remember when Switch 1 came out, it did have a couple years where you could play admittedly less version of this game on with that. So that's why Resident Evil Requiem is a big deal to have on it, right? They are doing Assassin's Creed, you know, but they did get they did outlaws and stuff like that. It's just those were not big Western games. Right. I meant to ask you, Sam. They got cyberpunk five years old. Yep. They got a good, a perfectly good portable version of cyberpunk. Thank you. Joining back to those top five PlayStation five games for one second. I meant to ask you, Sam, Fortnite, Call of Duty, GTA 5, Reelblocks, Minecraft. How closely does that correlate to IG and Guide Traffic for the year? Is there an overlap there? Right. A playclose. Yeah. I mean, the thing is about those things is that we know that that's where a lot of people play stuff, but also like there's not a lot of people that need strategy guides for some of these things. Although Reelblocks is one that's like a huge strategy guide. But point for us, there was actually a big RPG in Reelblocks, um, um, called The Forge that came out in late. Well, I got really popular in November, December. It's one of the most popular games of the fall. Like it's a, it's a, an actual, you know, RPG. Mark, you played a little bit of it, right? Uh-huh. I did. It's a little, it's, you know, it has, it's typically like, you know, stripped down for what it is, but it's, you know, 20 years from now, a lot of people are going to be like, oh, yeah, the first RPG I played is that game. It's probably, you know, I know tens of millions of people probably played it. Yeah. Games huge. They just, man, Reelblocks needs to, they need to figure out the whole like walking. Like you can't take a game seriously. When you look like, you know, it's so funny. But, but you know, the other thing about strategy guides and how we cover them is that usually a giant audience doesn't necessarily mean everybody's using strategy guides. A hard game means everybody's using strategy guides. So there's plenty of hard games out this year that did really well. And one of those is Expedition 33 hard, hard game. Speaking of Metroid Prime 4, Sammy, beat it. I did. And I, and I not only beat it, but I, I went, I did the best I could to, I, under 100% it. So I got all the scans, which is great because when I was first playing that game, I didn't know what was missible or not. And I was very, very worried about that. It happened to get the right missible ones sorted. And then I was able to fill in the blanks. But then you have to do this thing like, you have to get everything in the desert, which is like all these green crystals like every time, you know, those, when you're driving around, you have to get all of those are like somehow, you get a radar that like allows you to like kind of get them all. And there might be some kind of like, Algo thing happening, but it takes a long time. So I'd like put on a podcast and like drive around the desert and like just do that mindlessly because there's no music. Yeah. And it does unlock, you know, some cool and game stuff. But then it doesn't like the 100% it just does the gallery. So I go to the gallery at the end of 100% all the stuff to the items I see, you know, the ending, the special ending or whatever. And then I go to the gallery and there's three things not a lot in the gallery. And like, I don't care that much. I'm not going to play the game for them, but it says it's because I didn't beat hard mode. So I now I would have to play hard mode all the way through to 100, 100, 100, 100% which I'm not going to. But I loved it. I love this game. I think it's really, really cool. Did you see the interview with the Japanese devs way they were saying because Breath of the Wild was such a big hit. That's why they felt like they should add the open world stuff into prime forward. It's such and everybody should check this out. We summarized it and use article. It is so crazy. It's like there was like a, you know, this poll to make it an open world game. And then like, no, we're going to reverse that. And then we have to leave a little bit of it in because we built the game. Yeah. We can't start over again. So just leave it in. It's total nuts. It's exactly what you think it would be though. I mean, if you wouldn't tell it, make up a story for how this game ended up. How it is, that's what I would say. It's like an unfinished like half-hearted open world. Yeah. A whole goal. But you know, the stuff that is not that is, I don't really care about that. I thought it was all fine. Like it's all fine. But then that I really like the, the, the, the power of the switch to in this game. Like I just thought it looks really good. Almost all the time. And I was so impressed by that. The very pretty game. And I think it's a great technical showcase of the switch to. Yeah. I mean, we actually get to the ice stuff if you haven't played there. Yeah, like ice looks really good in this game. And it doesn't look switch good. It looks good. It is good looking. Sam. All right. And you also started, you also started terminator 2d. Sam. Yeah. How far did you get in that? Like three or four levels. Yeah, I got to the point where I'd lost all my lives and you, you have to start over. Like it's not like a, it's like a hardcore game, right? So it's like, I didn't, I'm not going to do that. I got to probably like, I don't know, eight or nine. Something levels. Like I got past the cyber nine. Infiltration stuff. And then I got to the decision making points where you're like, do you, you know, when Sarah Connor breaks into the, the people's house to like kill the guy that made the chip. Yeah. And then she finds out that like, you know, she, she doesn't kill him. And like there's a decision to kill him and I'm stuff like that. So I saw that stuff and I think it's interesting. This game is really amazing looking like it's really fun and cool. Like even like these parts where they're recounting the story and they're showing this really janky looking, but totally accomplishable at a super intent out this. Yeah. Like that. It would be like, if that was on Sega CD, I would have been like, wow. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I thought about that. Graphics can't get better. Yeah. This stuff. It's a very cool game that I'm glad exists very much. Same. I'm not really playing anything new. Notable, just completely random stuff and then something else for is it still fun? Nick, anything you're playing you want to share? Is it still fun? Secret project. And then I am very close. I am within a stone throws distance of the ending of Baldur's. Baldur's 3. I am. Oh, nice. I'm at like a hundred and thirty hours or something right now. I'm, I'm genuinely sad. Like I'm trying to like procrastinate finishing because I'm like, this, this is one of the greatest RPGs I've ever played. I'm in the house of hope right now. If you know what that is, cool. But there's just so much good writing happening in that game at every point where I'm just like the premise of the house of hope is so sick of just this devil has captured the personification of hope and uses the personification of hope to be like, well, you, I can make you rich, bro. If you sign your solo way to me. And it's just like how like literary that is and just how clever it's so good man. And I just had a lot of major revelations that happened about who certain people are. And I'm just loving every second of it. I'm, I'm like also listening to a, like kind of a accompaniment podcast from the people who do watch out for fire, fireballs podcast. They do like a book club style approach to Baldur's gate. They, it's called real lich hours. If you're interested in that, they take it area by. And basically go through every permutation of, well, I might play through this happen. Well, I'm doing an evil playthrough. So this happens. So it's nice to have that context after I've cleared an area to be like, oh, that's what I miss. That's cool. And then move on. So big, big shout out there. Those, those folks are awesome. But yeah, this, I am excited to finish this game so I can move on and play other things. But I am going to be a little bit sad that nothing will quite reach this high, presumably until divinity comes out. Yeah. Yeah. I never finished this game. I would like to go back to it. Now probably would have been a good time. I don't know. I might have missed that window, but we'll see. I have to do it too. I have to play the game and it's part of like, you know, a career goal for me this year too. I have a pitch for you, Damon. I do think you should try to dispatch now that you have some downtime between things. I think that the, the, the voices and like the characters are so good. And you know, that's Aaron Paul and he's, he's that lead in it. And he's great. Like it's really good. Like he actually contributes a lot to the game being good. The way he plays his character. And then Jeffrey Wright plays a character that's really different from what Jeffrey right now would play. And he's really funny. And I really like that. And then it's great. I have no complaints and it has this cool overlay of being like a cop dispatch to superheroes that are going around the city and, and bumbling because they're actually supervillains. Like it's good. It's a good premise. It's got a lot going for it. And, you know, I was like, I was starting to playing, I started playing chapter by chapter. And that feels good too because you stop playing. And then the next day you pick up, it's like watching an episode of TV. It's like only going to be a half an hour or 45 minutes, right? So you can like, kind of binge it if you want or not. But I started playing and I was like playing it too close to going to bed. And it was like, hyping me up too much. I was like, I can't post it. Easily one of my favorite TV shows of last year. I, it is. It is. I devoured it. It's so much fun. And it happens to have, you know, the dispatch mini game that Sam was talking about. It's such a fun, like clever use of, it's a great way of shaking up that telltale formula, right? Because usually the, the gameplay of telltale, apart from making choices is you have to awkwardly navigate your character over to something and then do click on a, a little marker to shoot something in the head. But this is a more clever adaptation of making something feel meaningful without it feeling too gimmicky. Is there ever a part we have control like here's a llama? You don't typically control a character. It is very streamlined. I think it takes all of the stuff that wasn't fun from telltale out and then just stream lines it and makes it more fun. Yeah. Alana is this character that you see, uh, malevolage, the little devil, uh, devil, the red lady. Yeah. Uh, devil girl. Yeah. Hmm. Cool. All right. Well, I, I will check it out and then report back. Good stuff. Hmm. Very tangentially related. Uh, my kids were watching Zootopia. I was not watching it. It was just one or two. One, which is like 2016. I want to say they're watching. I'm not watching it, but it's on and I hear one of the animals that's like, I think they're in like a mafia like type of everything and they say someone is just arrived. They say he says like, Walt and Jesse just arrived. And I just hearing that I was like, that has to be a reference. That has to be. Definitely. Definitely. That was pretty good. Um, Mark, Mark, anything you want to shout out that you're playing? Um, let's see. So I find out that Hades is out. Hades too. I went, I started a fresh new file and I played like, man, I played like 50 hours over the break. Hello, because like it's, it's, I got the Legion go ass, which is just like a beefed up steam deck. Nice. And I just, I can just take Hades anywhere. What a game. I finally got the true ending. What a fantastic game that is. Is it better than ball pit? Oh, so different. I don't know. Hot take. Ball pits. Real good. I think it's much. The thing that Hades is always, the thing with Hades has always been that some people find it a little bloated because they're so much in it. But I did get to a point where I was just kind of skipping the dialogue because I was like, I, I, what the heck is this? Never stop talking. That's half the game. Yeah, exactly. Uh, and then, uh, let's see. So right now I'm bouncing between, I, I, I finally had the arc rateers click moment where I played with my friends one night and I was like, I got it. I got it. I'm in. I get it. Uh, and then I weirdly started playing P O E 2 and the game is very fun. But I have like eight level seven characters because I can't decide who I want to play. I thought we've already had to start a game. We're not mathematicians here. Path of exile too is like spreadsheet the game of like, how do I minne max my character to get 0.01 percent faster? So it's like, it's like, it's like the passive skill tree. The new zoom out is the worst thing you'll ever see. I look at that. Like, I think of space. Gober. Can you bring up a screenshot of the passive skill tree in Path of exile too? It looks like the solar system. It's awful. What was that space game that he would, uh, that have starfield? No, no, no, that people have really no stories of like people losing millions of dollars and it's all about. It's like, to me, it's very much evil online of like looking at something like, I'm happy for anyone who's excited about this, but could not be me. It's fun to play, but I'm telling you, the passive skill tree is the worst thing you'll ever see. It makes you want to vomit. There it is. That's the passive skill tree. That's zoomed out. And it is just that zoomed out all the way. It's hard to get a sense of how big it would look on like your screen. But why it's awful? That's definitely. Mark, it is this, this is the reason why people use Max roll, right? 100%. No way would I ever try to figure any of this crap out. Tell me how to be good. By the way, Max roll or Mark and I's colleagues and we work with them and they make an amazing tool for Path of exile too, which I'm sure anybody here who's played Path of exile is already using because it is essential. I'm not because I'm level, I'm not even in the double digits of letters. Levels yet because I can't decide. I don't really want to play. You already messed up your build, dude. Yeah, my builds, my builds messed up right now. I'm a, yeah, the jury is really fun. But yeah, I'm such a filthy casual. I didn't even know what POE to was. Okay. Pillars of eternity. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Next set. Next set. Next set. A valid was just announced for PS5. I put it on the run of show, but I don't know if there's anything much to say about that. I don't even know what the release date is. I'm happy for the people who have been playing. February 17th. It's right there. It's like it's finally coming to a real console. Okay, okay. Thank God. All right. Everybody settled down. That game is, I think that game is, is a lot of fun. So I think if you like, if you liked Out of Worlds 2 on PS5, I think you should check out about World Needs Good. You like Goofy and Face is too. I forgot about the Goofy faces. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but they don't really bother me. I'm not mad about it. No, I don't either. The blue guy's kind of. Yeah, they're due to hole. He's got a great force. That's a good voice. The actor, I think he's from a coach or he's been around for a long time. Oh, Path of Exile. A vow is also getting like a 2.0 update, right? Is that true? Yeah, it's doing a new game. Plus, it's doing all bunch of stuff. So that's also coming out on the 17th. Okay, yeah, I presume that they'd be one in one. So yeah, that's cool. It seems like it's a great time to jump into the game. It's never been a better time to jump in and vow. Whoa. A year after release. Sorry, that's my branded content. Let's make it a hot five, played game. It is a fun game. It's fun. It's a great game. I had a lot of fun with the extra one. And it does one of the gaming 10 Commandments that we think should be in every game where you can just kill all the enemies in area and kill everyone dead. And they're all dead. They're all dead. Travis's review will it will always be my favorite thing where he's like basically when you're ready to leave an area, it's like it's like you're on a movie set. And if you haven't left yet, you just see them tearing down the sets behind. They're like, you're still here. No, you're supposed to. You're supposed to move on. There's nothing left here. Baldur's Gate 3 is like that. Yeah. Al the world's the same as that. It is. Yeah. There's no reason for enemies to come back. Okay. Then we've reached our speedrunning story. Mark, it's taken 15 years, but someone finally completed this game without dying. Oh, I know. Oh, wait. I did hear about this. It was a super meat boy. Super meat boy. That's wild. Yes. I didn't know if it was speedrunning or not. I thought I was like, I was like, did they speedrun or did they just like play at slow is hack and try to like make sure they didn't die? Well, he just no doubt. I think he's a speedrun, but I think in this case, he was just trying to beat it without dying. The speedrunning category is a zero death completion, right? Yeah. Yeah. That is an absolute wide. That is an absolutely wide. Shredberg right here in Sacramento, here in California, it took him more than 2,000 attempts in over a thousand hours. Wow. That's impressive. This is a really, really difficult game. I reviewed it and I beat it, but man, I could never do it without dying. Never. Yeah, I'm surprised you did. And then listen to this. At the end, his video is like 2.5 hours long of his playthrough. At the end of his video on YouTube, he says this, I'm going to be emailing everyone, Kataku, IGN, CNN, chefs illustrated. They're all going to hear about it. I will unironically email IGN. Wow. So I don't know if we've gotten an email to our news tips line or something. And if you want to unironically email, gamescook at IGN.com. I don't understand the ironically unironically. I don't get it. Also, ironically, you know what? I don't know what chefs illustrated is either. I mean, I feel like you did it, buddy. You probably be more likely to cover super meat, more than sports illustrated. Oh, maybe that's what maybe that's the connection. Wait, is it cook illustrated? That's a great thing. Oh, yeah. That's associated with the American test kitchen. He was just thinking that and says chef skill. Anyway, that's really funny, though. That's a funny comment. Quite the feat to the feet of me, anyway. That's very impressive. That's awesome. And just in time, did you do the same thing in the next 15 years for super meatball 3D, right? Yeah, which I checked still doesn't have a release date just to release here. Sometime, this year, right? Yeah, this year. Yeah. They had to wait till somebody beat this game without dying first. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Now they can release it. Okay. Mm-hmm. Right. Because Joe Burt's editing this episode. Aw. Thank you, Joe Burt. So I can do top 100 Xbox games. Oh, smokes. Unvideos. That's a lot. It is a lot. Well, we can finally do it because they just finished their 100th game. That's available. Yeah. We got 100 games. That's awesome. Congrats to Xbox for reaching 100 games. Since Sam just shared our email address, let's check in with the listeners. I'll do it. Hey, listeners. Oh, hey, listeners. Listeners. Remember, you can always reach us. I just sat back and waited at the email address, gamescoup at IGN.com, or you can mail us a letter. Whoa. Just like, just like, right? Yes, Arbor. In Ontario, new market Ontario did. He sent us a Christmas card. Wait, was it shipped to the office? Yes. Okay, to your home. I was like, uh-oh. Wow. Two of the barrels. It says, it's a Christmas tree. It says, Mary Christmas. Aw. Yes. Yes. Ross Arbor says, dear Scoop Crew, Omega Cops, Goose Camp, Damon Justin Sam, Nick Mark, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks for another entertaining year. All the best for 2026 and hopefully GTA 6. Ross Arbor. Thank you, Ross. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Ross, I love you, man, but I hate to tell you, GTA 6 ain't coming out. Sorry, buddy. Maybe next year. Ross, if anybody else wants to send us letters, Valentine's Day is just around the corner. That's true. That's true. But those ones have to have candy in them. Or I don't want them. Ross also sent a card to podcast Unlocked. What the hell? Wow. Unfortunately. That's so like, I don't even care anymore. Let's read their mail. That's what they're mail. Yeah. He just blasts out. Yeah, open it. Unfortunately, no one from podcast unlocked. Lives in LA or works in this office, but I told Ryan McAfry. Ryan McAfry. That's here. So next time. Why is the seal broken? Next time he comes down to the office, I'll have it waiting for him. It's not illegal. Wow. It's addressed to a business. Okay. We can open their mail. What about a, Ross does not care about NBC or what's the other way around? I'll be on. Apparently. I'm just going to get the latest. Okay. Okay. Our first email. Not not snail mail email comes from Joe from the North Bay. Do you know Joe Sam? Do you think he's trying to get the North Bay of San Francisco Bay area? What other North Bay would be I know do you have one? Do you know I live in the South Bay? I live in the South Bay, but there's no North Bay. There's no North Bay. Okay. It would be Malibu. I guess maybe. Anyway, Joe from the North Bay says I ran into an old friend. He was shocked. It was shocked. To hear I had not played Death Stranding. Oh yeah. This is a good question for all three of you, but Nick in particular, I think. He said it is his favorite game. So with all the years of perfect dark resin evils and playing in hardcore bands, I should give it a try. I know the story is supposed to be on its own cool aid. I have been working on my Spanish. Could I attempt to play it in a Spaniol or his Kojima two wild and should I play it in English? That is such a good idea to turn on. If you're trying to learn a language to turn on your game in a different language and do the subtitles, I think that sounds great. Yeah, I think you could block it. I mean, in Spanish it should be all right. Yeah, of course. Yeah. It's just going to be dubbed, right? Like he's not going to be Norman Reed. Thank hell. The rest of the world is speaking American English because of video games, because they can get them only in English or in English with subtitles or, you know, that's their choice with movies too. It's like, yeah, I think it'll help. Okay. That's a fun idea. I mean, Damon plays games in Japanese all the time. I do. I tried. I tried to play, I tried to play Yote in Japanese and I tried. I could, I couldn't retain it. It's the best way to do it. It's kind of like any of the information and I had to read the subtitles and write a horse at the same time. That was my issue. It's like, I'm like riding with somebody and I'm having to like read these subtitles. I just, I couldn't retain the info. That's the nice thing. It's a game that doesn't, that stuff doesn't really matter. If you're a horse, people are talking to you. Nothing really matters. It's going to repeat it once you get there. Yeah. Destraining would be fine because most, the only talking in the game is like cutscenes and stuff like every prepper they have a lot to say. Yeah, you're going to get like, you're not playing while that's happening. It's got. Pizza was invented a long time ago and pizza ovens have been around since then. I need you to. Sam. You're probably feeling water. That's called hydrogen. Oh my gosh. Well, yeah. And then like no matter what you're going to hear it twice because the puppet's going to repeat everything. Yeah. So you'll leave the day on the repper. Well, you're in a set up. Shoot. Okay. That sold me. I might be in. Well, Joe from the North Bay, the puppet's not in the first game. I don't think. Right. Oh, sorry. I don't know. I don't think I'd skip the first game at this point. I think it's. I don't think I'd skip the first game at this point. I think it. I think it'll feel really good to go from one to the next. What if I told you because they did a big desk training, too, is just a remake of the first game, but with more. It is. It is. Is that true? Yeah. Pretty much. It's not that different. It's just a different place. I think it'd be worse to go. If you're going to play them both, I think it'd be worse to go and reverse or. Correct. 100%. Well, yeah, there's a lot of quality of life stuff. Hey, the good news is that Desherand two starts in Mexico. So. Yeah, you're right. 100%. Okay. Did everyone see the new trailer for Resident Evil Requiem out of CES? I refused. So long with that show that they're the rainy street. Do you want to say? No, that's all right. You could talk about it. I just didn't want to watch. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. That's all right. Yeah. But please. It just. It just. I don't know if there's some things about it. Does anyone else know when this is game is set? It's like 2028, 2026. It's 2028 because it's supposed to be 30 years after Raccoon City was destroyed. 1998. So Leon is in his 50s. I think he's late 50s or late 50s or early 60s. Well, he looks great. He looks fantastic. Yeah. And he's driving a Porsche. And he's sponsored by Porsche. But it's interesting. So 2028 because the shadows of Rose DLC for Resident Evil Village is set. Is that in what? Like 2037? Yeah. It's far in the future. Yeah. Wow. But that DLC was not very fun. So I'm happy to be away from that. I mean, this is this this started starting to get into that Castlevania type of timeline. A dendraculous castle appeared in 2035. Yeah. But that was actually the 2000s version of it, which you played in 1997. Yeah. That's like the dawn of sorrow. Time of the future. Time of the right. What is the one? Is that not the one? There's a lot of futuristic castle. Yeah, there is one where it's like takes place in Tokyo. And there's also a really sick, sorry, as quick a side, really sick, ROM hack that released of dawn of sorrow, where you can play a full game as a Soma if you chose the evil ending. So it's like what happens when he becomes the bad guy. And it's what looks really cool. Sorry. It's a quick aside. If only Konami could make games like that. Yeah. They've got something they've been doing more size hill. Did that octopus game? Yeah, they've been doing Silent Hill. They were going to publish that octopus. That hasn't come out yet. That's right. That's right. That's right. Anything about that in a long time. Or maybe it has it inside limbo game. Yeah. It looks cool. It did look cool. Anyway, in the trailer for Resident Evil Requiem, there's a scene where who what's her name? Grace. Grace ash Christ. Yeah. Um, she's like walking down a busy street. And some people were like, that's not Resident Evil. It looks like. It looks like. Resident Evil is whatever is in a Resident Evil game. Yeah. I mean, this called Raccoon City. There's other people. Yeah, she works for the FBI. Yeah. Well, that's why that's why I investigated the setting because I was like, what I thought Reckon City was destroyed. It's been rebuilt. It's been rebuilt. Yeah. Years later. It's just a little radioactive. No, no, no. I wouldn't still want to live there. What? I mean, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Anyway, she was. Yeah. Anyway, she was in a 195 FPS. No, I mean, now, now, I mean, the human eye can only see 24. I'm getting. I'm getting. I'm dead to joke. She's like an investigator for the FBI, right? Yes. And so she's going, she goes to this hotel. Yeah, I think she's like a pencil pusher time. Not like an action here. So in that scene, it just looks like she's walking down the street approaching the hotel. That's not like there's going to be this open, huge open area that's busy with other people around. And then the three remake opens with you like chaos breaking out on the street. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. We've seen tons of people on Resident Evil before. It's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Part of like a horror aesthetic can frequently be you are unsafe, even if you're surrounded by the trappings of society and like how they take those away from you and how they make you like not believed by the people around you or make things happen that other people aren't seeing. Like that's all like horror trips. It's common. Yeah. Anyway, Resident Evil Record and continues to look good. It's out. Yes. Every, every RE engine goes in. It's just how did they make the game look like? This is so cool. It's so good looking. Well, they turned to RTX on RTX on. And that's that's what they did. I mean, I'm thinking across the oh, yeah, what's up? Do you know what the RE engine stands for? It's not Resident Evil engine. It's rendering. Sure is it. Rendering. Nope. It's the reach for the moon and engine. Reach for the moogos. A guy reaching for the moon. Oh, wow. Is that true? Does anyone call the reason you make any sense, though? So what you're saying is engine is the e. So we shouldn't be saying engine. Oh, we should just be saying it's built on the RE. Is it? Is this like an ATM machine problem? Yeah. Yeah. Or DVD disc. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, I'm just going to say, you know, it's the moment we've all been waiting for. Matthew Reed along with stats. We get a mathematician with the house. Greg Kelly has the stats. The 20 questions stats for 2025. And if it feels like Justin should be here, I get it. Justin says yes. But there's some key stats missing from this. So I will humbly ask at the end of this, ask Matt if we if there's we could get a couple more stats and we can share those next week when Justin's back. Oh, good idea. Matt is in Massachusetts. He says thank you for reading my 20 question stats once again this year. Here in my note, read on the show, each of the past three years has been such a thrill. But not as awesome as it was flying across the country to meet you all at IGN live from getting destroyed. Yeah. From getting destroyed at Mario Kart by Pear to getting selfies with a bunch of you. It was the coolest experience. And I'm already looking forward to returning in 2026. Now onto my stats. That was a good one. I can't believe Pear beat you. All right. Now onto my stats for the past year. Starting off. So we're just talking about 20 questions. There are 516 unique games mentioned. Wow. Wow. During 20. During 20 questions seconds. How does he... Oh, Jesus. It's by far the most since I've been keeping track of these stats. The game mentioned most frequently, which thanks to Sam will now forever be known as winning the Prince of Persia award was perfect dark. It was named during five different 20 questions episodes six if you count the mention of the Xbox 360 remaster. This is the most frequently that a game has been brought up during a given year since I started keeping track. There was a tie for a second place with Dr. Mario, Elden Ring, Punch Out and Star of Valley all being mentioned on four different segments. Wow. Okay. Okay. Last year's the year before 2024's most frequently mentioned game, Hades was not mentioned once during any 20 questions segment in 2025. Wow. Wow. Okay. The first game to be repeated was Tom Clancy's The Division, which was mentioned on episode 795 and then again on episode 803. Games mentioned in 2025 included nine different Halo games, 12 different Zelda's, 13 different Final Fantasy's and 15 different Mario's. Wow. The episode with the most unique games mentioned was episode 833 when a whopping 34 different games were mentioned before Mark finally figured out the correct answer. It was Titanfall. Oh, yeah. That was only a few weeks ago. Yeah. Wow. We were through 34 games, but we landed on Titanfall. There were back to back. There were back to back episodes with the fewest games mentioned in episode 808. Sam was playing solo and didn't mention a single specific game, although he did mention the GTA and Pac-Man franchises. The correct game was Psychonauts. And then in episode 809, Hollow Knight was the only game mentioned as the panel quickly guessed it correctly and just eight questions. So that's because I was internally thinking of games of games. I need to say them out loud. That's what he's saying about that. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. I didn't win that. Yeah. Yeah. Not that one. So that's a wrap on 2025. A big shout out to Greg Kelly, the 20 questions stats master for putting all my data on the game scoop. Wiki every year. Happy New Year to the crew and everyone out in scoop nation. Long live the best and only video game podcast. Very cool to hear that. That was fun. I would love to hear a win loss ratio. I'm miskilling that. Yeah. So KD. Yeah, we need that. So yeah, Matt, if I could humbly ask for if you have a win loss ratio, I would love to see that as well. And how it starts previous years. Yeah. And that brings us to video game 20 questions or suggesting this week comes from Joseph in Nevada City, California, which I didn't know is it? I didn't know that existed. I. Okay. So I'm going to Nevada guys. Nevada City. Joseph says this game has some of my favorite redacted in the past redacted. Oh, man. And with that, did you say Nevada City, California? Is that what you said? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's like a grass valley area thing that's this like I've heard a lot about that. It's like old ghost town, a gold country village is stuff. I wonder where I want to go that. As you said, it's grass valley in your Sacramento. Oh, okay. Hmm. Okay. Well, let the questioning begin. Is this game for the 70s? 70s, 80s or 90s? No. Is this game have recorded talky dialogue like the game Hades? I was going to try to figure out a way to get Hades in there. Not like the game Hades for sure. No, no. I'm not talking game. There's no got to give you boons. Got it. Okay. No recorded dialogue. It's got his favorite redacted. Okay. That doesn't help us at all. Let's see here. Okay. Is this game exclusive to any platforms? Yes. Is this game developed by Sony Microsoft or Nintendo? In part. Oh, okay. It might be no man's guy. Okay. Let's see. Let's figure out who platform is. Is it Sony? No. That's five. Oh, okay. Is this a Nintendo exclusive? Yes. Maybe it's. All right. Nintendo and maybe it's maybe it's Hades. It can't be because this doesn't have to dialogue levels. I'm so. A dialogue. It's true. But not not co-developed. That's monolith soft. Monolith soft and Nintendo. Xenoblin. Yeah. That one has a lot of. Fire fire. Fire emblem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. True. Let's think. Is this game take place in the Mario or is all the universes? No. It's exclusive. It's a Nintendo exclusive. It's a Nintendo exclusive. But we got to figure out which one. Yeah. Which Nintendo. Okay. So is this on is this on the switch? Because like it's the most popular one. Yes. All right. Cool. All right. Here we go. Let's see. Is this game have. Is this franchise? Have a game. That's on the NES. Yes. Yeah. Does this game eliminate all your RPGs? Yeah. I think it's a trade prime. Unless it's fire emblem. Oh, I guess that would have been. I mean, that may kind of. Yeah. It's not animal crowd saying or anything. Is this a. Can you play as a lady in this game? Yes. Is this a platformer? No. Is this the first person game? No. What are we at? You've asked 12 questions. What other what other games are that? Is this a strategy game? Oh, no. Okay. Thank you. Oh, okay. Hold on. Is it an action game? Yeah. Okay. So it's either going to be Bayonetta or what's that other one? Any astral. Astral. Oh, that's right. And yes. Gosh, dang it. Action game. That would have also just remember remembering that action is a very, very broad category. There is action in this game, huh? Yeah. So it might it might be Mario. Do I do I play? No, it's not set in the Mario universe. I know. That was a joke. Do I play as a humanoid in this game? Yes. Okay. So it's a human like character. You play as a woman. You play as a woman. You can. You can't. Oh, can you. Do you want to do an asset? No, we already did. The answer was yes. But it was that you can not that you do. Gotcha. Gotcha. Is anybody listening to the answers? I'm just I'm in the zone right now. I'm in my mind palace. So, you know. If Nintendo has this a franchise going back and it's not. The first person game. It sounds like it could be that other Metroid game still right? Yeah, Metroid. Would you call that a platformer? I would call that a platformer. Yeah, it's a Metroidvania. Calling a Metroid, a Metroid game of Metroidvania. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's a platformer. Is this a sci-fi game? Yes. Oh, shoot. Maybe it is. Oh, it might be Metroid. Then. It's on the switch or something that's available. Is this part of the game? It's a platformer. It's a platformer. Is this a sci-fi game? Yes. I'm not sure if it's available. Is this part of the Metroid series? Yes. All right. Yeah, okay. So we got to let you get a bit. But I'm a little unclear what when something's on switch. We didn't actually ask about if it was on the switch. Like as in Metroid Zero originally. Yeah. We just know it's not a first person shooter. And it's but it's not a platformer. Did this game originally come out for the Nintendo switch? Yes. All right. Well, there you go. You know the answer. You want to. You want to say it? I'm not saying you do the honors Sam. Well, is there anything that could trip us up? Cause like, I don't think so. I think we're measuring. What question are we on? You have one question in a guess. Do you get chased by a robot frequently throughout this game? Yes. Is it Metroid Dread? Yes, it is Metroid Dread. I wouldn't call a platformer. Another is platformer. Yeah. I hear you. No, I think there is platforming. Yeah. Like if you were making a list of the top ten platforms. We call them a Metroid Dread. Yeah. Yeah. Astrobot is a platformer. Mario's a platformer. Yeah. This is a Metroidvania. It has a jump button. This is a wild take. This is a, you guys are blowing my mind. They have a whole junk like is dead cells a platformer? Yes. That's a Metrovania. That's also a Rogag Metrovania. Which has platforming in it. But like, that's not the genre that you feel in it. I don't think. I'm. Would you Nick, would you say this is a shooter? No. Or can you shoot? No. I don't know. I don't know. So I think what Nick is going to get is that they're going to be. It's like, this is this genre in essence, you know, Metroidvania's. Are they all a version of platformers? Yes. Right. Because like Castlevania is a platformer. Symphony of the night, Cam from Castlevania. Just because you can go back and open doors does not necessarily mean it's not a platform. I guess I'll say the only clips I've seen of Silk Song are people like Pogoing and doing like the super complicated thing. So I, okay. If you are bad at jumping, you will not get far in these games. If you were bad at jumping. I see your question. But why don't you get to make sure that if these are just platformers? It's a flavor of platformer. Now I'm trying to think of Metrovania that isn't a platformer. But it is very funny to call a Metroid game. It's like, it's like saying a cart racer is not a racing game. Like it is a racing game. It's a subgenre of racing games called cart racers. I didn't think about that Nick. That's like calling Dark Souls a souls like. Like, it's not wrong, but okay. It's also kind of weird. True. I never finished this game. It's good. Just another one that. Someday. I like the last boss in it quite a bit. That was his, that was the, oh my god, hard boss. That was the redacted Joseph in Nevada City said, uh, this game has so many fun. I said, uh, this game has so many favorite boss fights in the past 10 years. Oh yeah. Samus has so much character in this game. And I really like how like bad assaymaker. Unlike Metroid Prime 4, in which you get the silent protagonist in this game. Sam, Samus makes some like human decisions that are really interesting. But does she talk? Does she speak? She doesn't talk, but there's just a lot of like body stuff that she does. It's really cool. First of all, that's a huge spoiler and Nick is wrong. So which one? Which one would want to be that? I mean, it's been a minute since I played it, but does she say, okay? There's, there's a, there's a moment where Samus. Finally is like hearing out a point and then has a moment where she responds. And it's awesome. Hmm. No, fair enough. I stand corrected. What the hell? It's in my, it's in my review. But I have to obscure it as like a moment that you won't expect that's never happened in a Metroid game. In this way, because it certainly happened in other games. Very chatty and that game. Dread was developed by Nintendo and Mercury steam. I like Metroid Samus returns for the 3DS. There I said it. It's a good one. Yeah, that better than Dread. No, I like Dread more. But Mercury steam did. Yeah. That one's that's why zero missions. My favorite Metroid game. That's. Yeah. Yeah. Probably, probably same. Well, nicely job. You definitely got there. Thank you for the suggestion. Joseph in Nevada City. Viewers and listeners. If you have your own suggestions for video game 20 questions, email them to me. I think you might just. Gamescube at ijane.com or feel free to send us a letter if you have. If you want to send me suggestions in the more traditional way. All right. Right now at humble, you can get humble choice for just $14.99 and score a curated bundle of PC games for January, including Sonic Frontiers, Tomb Raiders, 4 through 6 remastered, Hunt Showdown 1896, Etch and Odyssey 2 HD, Night Safe for Fishing, Metal Select Tactics, Settlement Survival and Wizard of Legend 2. This month's choice is available through February 3rd, so head to humblebundle.com and start playing today. And that's all the scoops that we have for you this week. Thank you for joining me here. Nick, thank you to both Sam and Mark. Thank you to Joebert and everyone working behind the scenes to make this episode possible. Happy New Year. Everyone out there in scoop nation. 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