Life After Crimson Desert (Your Voicemails) - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Your candy stash just got an upgrade with fruity rainbow five-hour energy shots Grab the shot dive into that sweet boost for your sweet tooth order now at fivehourenergy.com or Amazon What's up everybody welcome to the kind of funny games cast for Friday March 20th 2026 I'm one of your hosts Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated a k a Bicent Poppy. It's blessing Adio. Yay, Junior. Good day. Greg. Good day. How are you? No, how you doing good? We already have that we just had we did we just had Because I saw people in chat pointing out like always bless stick is bless stick and I was sick It's not bad. It's just clearly you're going through. It's not bless Same way as I'm dealing with allergies right now now granted allergies are on the back of me coughing for a month So it's like yeah, I haven't heard you coffee no, actually no you cough. Yeah, but it's the allergies now, right? So it's like a whole thing, but yeah, I'm not doing the horrible wheeze. I went to the you know I got the fucking inhaler. That's all done. Oh, we're done with that night goodness So we're fine with that now. We get to hang out all day long It is that sin getting this off. I feel like it's been that year Because January we all got sit like January to February. We all got sick one at a time starting with Fran We let Fran into the office I don't know if it's us that did it to him or if him that did it to us but like whatever happened to Fran that man He was never the same again. He was never the same way. He was in the hospital He was wearing a cast on his arm for some reason. He didn't do that But like I just imagine him looking like Bear you saw the episode of SpongeBob where they were delivering chocolates and you had the woman chocolate. Yeah, did you say? Chocolate or no, I'm thinking of I mean, yeah, those are the characters But there's another character in that same episode that was like my bones are made of glass every day I wake up. Oh, yeah, that's the same episode because he's like swindling them into like buying More chocolate from him. Yeah, because he's faking a medical thing to like pay for bills That's how I picture Fran Marabella this last January where he was going through it Well that too, but more and more so he just you know, they're very sickly man that month Let's talk about Fran for a second there because you know, we love to do it I've known Fran a long long time As many of you know Fran used to be on kind of funny a lot at the old studio the comic book studio And then his streaming stuff our schedule us getting more employees It's kind of you know, calm down and we don't use Fran as much anymore, right? But we still love Fran The other night and to be clear, I don't text Fran a lot. All right, the so like The before this text on Sunday night, I Texted him previously of like do you want to be on the marathon review? Which he did right and then double checking that he's on the marathon review because we hadn't talked in forever And then it's a few, you know, you start going back and pretty quickly We're like there's one in December one time. I texted him in November before then it was September I were not like texting a lot, right? Yeah, so Sunday Mike says in the thing I'm sick. I'm gonna be down you say hey, I'm gonna be down and he says hey I'm gonna be down at 8 17 on Sunday night. I text Fran You want to do kind of funny games daily tomorrow and Fran responds? Hey, man, probably shouldn't a few things are piling up after GDC unless it's urgent in which case I'm always there to help out and I started drafting. I'm like Free and how often do I text you Sunday night at 8 7 and I'm like, you know what? I just thumbs up the message and I was like, I'll do the I'll do games daily I'll do games daily. That's funny. It's on my side. Everyone's drop unless it's urgent free Why would I be sexy you and a wedding on a fucking Sunday if it wasn't urgent? It was a little more aware of our friend the more the more hang out with friend the more I'm like, I get it Get all these stories. Yeah, I get the hyers and years of IGN stories. God I'm excited for this gamescast blessing. Yes, I'm excited to I talked about on Greg way today, of course Which you can get with your kid for your kind of funny membership patreon YouTube Apple Spotify That I think we've been doing a there was an energy to that review for Crimson Desert It's 3 p.m. We're live we're election night in America. Everything's coming in and then since then now using both Games daily, obviously the continued coverage of the launch of Crimson Desert The obviously the gamescast plays Andy's amazing stream last night great job Andy and then gamescasts of all right cool. This is a Controversial review middle or come in let's talk about other controversial video game reviews today When we got when Friday's gamescast got moved to Monday because of all the sicknesses where we're gonna check in on Pocopia two weeks later There was this conversation. What does this one become and you were like well, we can do a voicemail one And I was like oh interesting and then it the idea bubbles of course what what if it was we asked the audience to voicemail in with What's their most anticipated game after Crimson Desert? What's in a spitty game that broke your heart? What was it? It's a spitty game that critics didn't love but you love it was like oh man I want to applaud you audience who answered the call you all had a lot of a lot a lot a lot a lot of great voicemails They were excited to dive into right now on the kind of funny gamescast because we're here each every week day a live talk show about video games We cover reviews previews and just things we need to talk about if you want to be part of this show Maybe you missed the phone call voicemail segment you can super chat youtube.com slash kind of funny games Tell me what you're anticipating after Crimson Desert tell me about the time and anticipate a game broke your heart Tell me about the time you didn't agree with the critics about a review We'll try to pepper them in as we go through some fantastic voicemails Do it all on youtube.com slash kind of funny games with your super chats of course We couldn't make this show happen and this company happened without our patreon producers on patreon.com slash kind of funny So thank you Carl Jacobs Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining For now let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show Crimson Desert is here for some a Game of the year contender is what they were trying to build this has some still saying it is their game the other ball Tassie Fair enough fair enough fair enough. I'm sure many of the audience will at one point be there, too However, now that we're there and of course it's been an interesting week of it Like I said most anticipated after Crimson Desert They anticipated title that broke your heart and again in a game critics hated that you did I put these questions out on the voicemail So many of you wrote in but I feel like it would be Unfair to not start with Crimson Desert and talk a little bit about that Can I get the first voicemail from the 903? Now the Crimson Desert is out My most anticipated game is Crimson Desert because I am still installing the plethora updates on my base PS5 Damn hate to see your base PS5. How's that gonna be run in bless? Yeah, it might look blurry, but there's a lot of articles that are gonna help you with the blurriness of that game. I It was funny because I think I had the same thing during the review cycle where Like the initial install was fine. Yeah, actually have you told me? Have you told the story about I mentioned it briefly on the review, but didn't go into the weeds So yeah, go for it. So we get the codes and day one of the codes It's like alright, let's go because we got it on it like we got it like a afternoon on a Tuesday I want to yeah, and then was it later that night where we got it was that morning Was it that's all night? So yeah, oh We get Crimson Desert We know it's gonna be a big game and I mean like large in terms of hours and things to do Yeah, so yeah ran home Kissed Jen on the cheek got Ben to sleep and I went downstairs and I played through the Intro well into the world. I thought enough to come in and have opinions the next day Yeah, and luckily I only played like 45 minutes But when I woke up I opened slack and what did I find was yeah? I so I was in the discord for the reviewers and there was an announcement on the discord that hey We're gonna push an update Soon later today that is essentially going to require you to restart your save You're not gonna be able to to take the progress you've made in the game so far into the new patch So play accordingly which we're like ah that sucks And then it got worse and I want to make sure to be clear This is not me. I somebody said definitely off on the wrong foot Annoying for sure. Yeah, none of us held this against this is something you can hold against it And again what I want to what I'm about to say will also not sound great But this is this is the job and it's not Pearl. This is fault at all by any stress the imagination I don't want anybody getting been out of shape with them. Hey, you're gonna get you a patch It's gonna do the thing. Okay, cool. The patch will be here Hopefully by the end of the day whatever and today rolls around it's gonna be maybe by midnight midnight rolls around It's gonna be tomorrow morning and the next morning it was so it was already big day Embargo would have been like just I think a solid two weeks Maybe two weeks in a day if everything worked, but suddenly now you're in your past that we think and it's like damn you got to go So if you have a Paul Tassie if you have a blue thunder a tick tocker We love over here like these people who are like I put a hundred some hours into it You need to know they know life to the shit out of oh, yeah, that's all they did which is happens a lot in our job But I think also then to have this Problem after problem and promise Ramas any right right like again No company owes us a review code and then to get it out and then hey, we're so fixing the game and doing stuff That's it's an opening stumble You know I mean like when like the bullet goes and it's like alright You got it you're running and you take that opening stumble and it's like oh man You know it's so hard to get back up, but you do it right because it's part of the job Yeah, like I'm I'm sure the people that are talking about hundreds of hours I'm sure that first day they probably put in a lot of hours Oh, I'm sure you hadn't restart and that's frustrating The thing is the discord too there are the conversations of people who remain nameless and I know if they did it But they were like well technically I guess I could turn off automatic updates and just keep playing like you know I don't know what it was fixing, but you would have had a completely different experience That thing is you can't review that yeah Like with the amount of updates are pushing because then the other one was midway through getting an update where it was like alright You're gonna download 30 gigs or something like that and me being like ah shit and then like steam being like you do not have the space And then having to go into my computer be like alright What do I had to delete but honestly those are blessing in disguise because then I learned I've had cyberpunk 2077 Downloaded on God galaxy. Oh, wow like forever apparently So I got to get rid of that and free up some space in my in my thing Well, it's funny that you keep bringing this up. We're talking about updates. Yeah, I'm giving bear a little I was I was I was gonna I was gonna go as long as I needed to for you to run because our next voicemail will take us into this can we go to the 737? Hi, this is Paul. I've been Watching our show for a couple years now. Thank you. Paul just the can and just started funding Oh, thank you, Paul. I didn't even know what this phone was but I just download crimson desert and of course there's a 35 gigabyte Day one patch so I still haven't been able to play and all I've been hearing about Kind of mid reviews and it's kind of just upsetting me I'm just kind of figure out what's up with all these day one patches. Why are they so long? I was around the country so take a long time for 35 gigabytes patch to go in, you know half a day That's all but never would have guessed you're out the country Paul the ball Paul That first time like a slim shady skit. Oh, you're the Paul skids of a haze Paul. Yeah. Yeah, that's what that's Motherfucker Connecticut Great question Paul and also I should shout out if you missed the whole phone number thing yesterday I didn't tell what people they were calling it in for I did just put out the number and then I just BS did equipped it whatever put out the phone number and let people call so a lot of people like oh, okay I explained it in my voicemail thing whatever great question Paul and great way jumping into it and again bless. Yeah This is modern video games, right? Yeah, I mean the man the game went gold And we were like all snap is ready all snap is ready It's like no you can nowadays you can make a game gold gold whenever you want because they won patches are a thing Right. Yeah, I continue to work on the game after you've pressed it to disk and so like that's what happens nowadays And like I think the big day one patches can be kind of annoying, but you come to expect them I Might I get more annoyed when I haven't played a game in a couple months that I come back to it and like just on a whim of like Yeah, let's I want to boot up this thing real quick And I boot it up and it's like download and I'm like fuck dude The amount of times I turn on steam and it's something I forgot to install and it's getting a pen I'm like oh our uninstall I should say and it's getting enough to go shit for cancel that I'm never going back to that Uninstall I can only get it out of there. Yeah, and I wish they were faster Like I think part of that is with the hardware. I remember I feel like ps4 for some reason had really long Download times for things. I think they got yeah internal Modem or what it's not with by the right word, but you know what I mean, whatever though your Wi-Fi slash ethernet connection Yeah, they had a problem how they could process all that jazz exactly so some piece of hardware better than others, but This I think leads again in the conversation We're having though about Crimson Desert day one patches in video game reviews Bear could you look the first BS? That's a blue sky Tim. I put in here from Brendan Graber Of course Brendan does amazing work over at IGN. He's a senior guides editor, but yesterday he BSed loose guy Tim Man, I cannot tell you how stressful and shitty it feels to put a ton of work Figuring out how to best guide players on an upcoming game and then a surprise day one patch invalidates a giant chunk of that help Time well spent happy for the players who don't have to deal with it, but dot-dot-dot damn If you needed more I put in a chain that brought this how I originally saw this happening Brendan responding to will Borger quote-tweet or quote BSing Mitchell Saltzman from IGN Mitchell said they added a fast travel point in town with the day one patch lol Oh my god the game you all the game you all are playing is not the one we did pre-release man Will saying I'm gonna become the Joker bro. Are you kidding me? Then Mitchell on his own response was like good. I'm glad this is a good addition that removes a big pain point for the game But also why wasn't it there from the start and then you see more? Conversation here Brendan found out I found this out immediately after publishing a tips page on early stuff like where to unlock your first fast travel point Well says Brendan. I generally would have lost it Brendan even better They added a fast travel spot to the gray main camp 30 feet from the one you have to spend 50 hours progressing to learn how to unlock At that point I stepped away from the computer to stare at the Sun for a while I know Exactly what they're talking about. Yep, cuz in the gray main camp, which is a big deal I unlocked it. I went away from it and then I was like, how do I get fucking? I gotta I get back to it and then I was running around I found what will be the fast travel point I assume 50 hours in covered in Ivy and stuff But you couldn't use your bow and arrow there to burn the Ivy because I guess it's gonna be something I was so like what the fuck is going on here? Like I'm not even worried about the camp that I'm out of here Yeah, this is like one of those ones where like obviously, you know, we're on the internet We're on social media We see people complain about game reviews game journalism all this stuff right and most of those complaints are like Oh, people are just mad to be mad kind of kind of stuff Yeah, this is one of those things where I think it's a genuine conundrum of how to tackle and Like I don't think there is any right solution as far as like how video how much video games Changed from the review copy to the consumer copy right the day of a week after a month after where like this goes back to me for So to cyberpunk 2077 of reviewing that game and like it being a similar situation Here's a PC copy. I'm playing the PC copy It actually honestly a worse situation because cyberpunk was so buggy on PC and me being like well They have told me they're going to put out a day one patch Yeah, so what does my review of this game look like when I know I am playing the most broken version of this and there's a Chains that like as I'm talking about this game during my review The people that play this game aren't gonna see half the bugs and I'm seeing like is that gonna happen? And then I don't want to say thankfully, but it didn't end up that way right people end up seeing still seeing a bunch of bugs Because that game was broken regardless um That continues to be a thing especially of games of this scale games that go for it like this right like there's There becomes a bigger risk of more things going wrong But you have the hype you have an audience that's that's bought in like it. It's a weird thing You could go well, let's not review it until End of week one, but then who are you serving with that when the games for sale and there's nothing? It's a weird thing. It's an and it's been a problem It's not my entire career But as the internet and day one patches and everything else have come along to change how we get games and review games right with There isn't a right answer right you're serving your your audience in your community and the experience you're having with your time with it But yeah to get it out and be like well this is dramatically changed from what it is and again This might not sound like a dramatic change is you okay a fast travel point got added to camp It was annoying it was annoying I the way I circumvented all this if you want a Crimson Desert pro tip, of course Is that this game is inspired by several other games and just like breath or I'm sorry tears of the kingdom There's the sky islands above you right they call it the abyss and so when I could didn't have a fast travel point for where I wanted to get to I would go to the abyss jump off the side and I'd put all my points so far into flying So I'd fall down fly out run a stamina fall Stamina Regents fall, you know fly fly fly as far as I could need as close as I could to what I wanted to do now Would a fast travel appointment better? Yes when I was exploring the world as I'm looking for those Yes, like that was a big part of me trying to go out there and do it but these quality of life features that are getting added in do then go in and negate this thing and as critics and pundits and video game press or whatever you want to call all of us the problem is that we have our Experience and move on and then yes the players have their own experience that then Crystallizes and again changes over time we sit there with the binge games right so we can get it for the review and bar go Or just for the conversation Whereas somebody who even bought Crimson Desert yesterday at launch is now gonna play that for seven months You know what I mean? Oh, yeah Like in three weeks They're gonna be playing a different game there right now But they won't even know it because they haven't gotten to that part yet so on and so forth But I think it leads to an interesting conversation that we kind of started having on games daily And we'll continue here with a call from the 801 Hey, this is Travis I just was thinking about Days gone seem to follow this exact same cycle right where days gone everyone's super hyped and then comes out reviewers of Greg in particular didn't like it people Blasted Greg thinking oh Greg just hates open world games even mentioned open world fatigue And then was like he doesn't get it. He doesn't understand it and it comes out and just kind of fizzles and That was heartbreaking for me I was I was one of those super excited for for days gone and I just see this exact same cycle with Crimson Desert It's just exactly the same thing. Anyway, that's all I want to say. Love you guys. Thanks I'm gonna be fascinated to see What the audience reception is for Crimson dawn like we're talking on games daily That's it. Thank you so much at the end of the year That's was Roger. That was the Roger Mike bit from last year. I'm so much Crimson desert at the end of the year right when we get there and it is the people who have been playing it the entire year Have seen the updates or just are doing things the mix right now We're at a 50 whatever 53% mixed review on steam when those swing back because of updates if this the other how it's running on PlayStation buh-buh-buh if it's going to have this is the audience with it the way they were with it with days gone Where days gone is a notorious one that did not review well for the most part I know like there's people who love it. There's always even people love it Yeah, but for the bigger sites right and then there was then this undercurrent to it of like they don't get it We get it. Yeah, but isn't that all art? Yeah, I mean like doesn't all are even for the people that that Would say you name him so like this thing sucks There's still those people that are like you don't get it like Greg for me This is gonna be something that's tough to admit for me, right? There's a there's a rapper named Chance the rapper I'm familiar. I've got an album called the big day This album is like a historically bad rap album, right? Everybody talks about how this album is the worst the Fantano. I think gave it his first zero out of ten Oh, wow when I tell you I really like the big day I think it's a great album and I don't think people got it and guess what like I'm like, I can't see it here in sieve let like, you know, that the world like guess what the world decided that they don't like this thing That's just on me. Maybe I like a bad thing. That's okay that I like a bad thing, right? Like and I'm not tall in Christmas Desert. No, no, no, I don't think so But it's the thing of like hey like fuck consensus fuck the 78 Metacritic or whatever if you fuck with it you fuck with it if you think people are wrong You think people are wrong. I think the world's wrong about so many things, but it's okay We'll get through this together. But yeah, I think like I to your point right towards the end of the year I think we are gonna probably be in that days gone Situation to like a greater extent. I think there's gonna be like a a crazier discrepancy where People are really really gonna fuck with Crimson Desert and be like yo Critics for a while and or whatever, but I think that group of people is not gonna be the vast majority by any means Yeah, I think most people that play Crimson Desert are probably gonna be like that's fine. Oh, it's okay. I forget who it was Yesterday was it just yesterday? We reviewed this note two days ago when all this is happening and they were out there and on BS That's a blue sky too and being like I love this I love seeing this 78 77 whatever it was the time on Metacritic and being like this means that Pearl Abyss took a swing. They didn't make a boring safe game They they did something that is going to resonate with some in alienate others and I am 100% in that camp Yeah, it goes back to what I was talking with Jordan about you hear me on these shows all the time of like how blessed we are to have This Plethora of voices talking about video games So it really is that like when I say I don't like it because of x y and z But you know what I like usually you can then compare it to somebody who you align more with less with whatever and see why they like to Be like, oh, this will speak to me in a way It didn't speak to Greg and vice versa and so on like I love the idea that people are making art and it is that thing of like Like I oh jeez man I forget what episode of what we were doing or getting ready for and I asked for reader comments and stuff and it didn't make the show but it was me maybe it was just a live chat or whatever it was me talking about how much I Love story and video games right? It's someone and I'm way out of school on this one because I'm not familiar with the quote but the Person writing it was like Damon Hatfield says video games don't even need to have story or he doesn't like story in games I don't remember what it was and it's like both opinions are totally valid. Yeah, it's like, okay Yeah, I need that to anchor myself in a game right? Yeah, I Greg what I I think what I appreciate and I saw this a lot yesterday with people talking about it, right? What I appreciate is so many being like hey that person is wrong. This thing's actually great and here's why I Appreciate that what I don't appreciate is people being like Hey, that person doesn't know what they're talking about sure hey that person they have bad Opinions. Oh that person like they liked X thing So I'm not gonna care about them saying what talking about why thing I think when I can't trust that because they rushed through it And I they didn't lie. Yeah, I like you've combat. They don't like come that's why I roll my eyes and I'm like dude Fuck that right? Art is allowed to hit people in in in different ways and it's okay to think other people are wrong But I don't think it's okay to go they're invalid like they're like they you know They don't know like that when you get into those personal attacks. That's where it's like oh, we're talking about video games here You're being a baby like let's let's grow up grow up a little bit here It's okay for us to have different tastes and what we're looking for here I agree 100% with you and luckily I've never been wrong. I've never been out the odd man looking out And so let's just go to Let's move on to Games people are still anticipating this year There's so many great games still to come this year. Take me Barrett to the 479 Hey kind of funny crew My dad and I were both really excited for Crimson Desert this year, but after the reviews I'll probably just wait till it goes on sale So right now my most anticipated game coming up is Starfield for ps5 My first ever RPG was a Bolivian when I played at eight years old I played every but as the game's sent I just kind of been waiting and as a no man's I think Taking a few years to improve your game. I'm excited to jump into Starfield and see what they've done with it How many people do you think are like the 479 out there? I'm so curious. I'm so fascinated by how much Starfield sells yeah, because we've seen Xbox games come to PlayStation. We've seen how wall of Forza Horizon does when that comes to PlayStation Do you think Starfield has the same sort of juice? To blow up Yes, and no I keep seeing it on the subreddits and stuff of What are the most popular pre-orders and whatever and like Starfield was Right behind the two versions of Crimson Desert and now that they're out right now on the PlayStation store Dot-com it's Starfield premium edition for 70 bucks followed by Lego Batman followed by 007 followed by Starfield vanilla edition, so it's like Always hard to say like what does that actually shake out to? but like it's been so Crazy for me this week as a Starfield sicko that suddenly everybody's excited about Starfield They're positive about Starfield. They're talking about Starfield. I talked about this in Greg way today, too the fucking Starfield subreddit that was so toxic. I had a side. I started going to know sodium Starfield wrong like I just want to enjoy what I enjoy The Starfield subreddit is positive in like you got it Bethesda. You know, I'm proud of you Like what the fuck is going on like suddenly is that for the areas I will tell you I If I'm comparing Starfield and Crimson Desert in my time reviewing both because I think I'm both of them I would give around the same score even though Starfield actually finished I I enjoyed Starfield a more than I enjoyed my time with Crimson Desert, so Take that for what it's worth. Uh, not everybody agrees with you. Can I get the 916 in here talking about it? It's just a game that broke their heart. Give me just a second here. I give you all the seconds you need Don't worry about it. I like you shot another area. It could do because I've been looking them up. Oh, yeah Yeah, I should have done that ahead of time. Yeah, a couple of care Oh, I forget the name of the person from the 801. That's Salt Lake City, Utah. So So one of the games that Came out recently Was highly anticipating that kind of broke my heart with Starfield now. I did enjoy the game But I will say it still broke my heart with how Uninspired it felt compared to the previous releases from the the first day. Thank you very much. Love you guys We love you 916. Thanks for running in that's the question For Starfield ps5. Mm-hmm. Is that if you? Were a PlayStation player or just a lookie-loo who could have gotten on PC and Xbox but never did and you've just seen this thing Drag out into the streets and beaten and just wailed on for years and years and years your expectations have to be so low Oh, yeah, go back to where 916 was talking about right it broke still broke my heart how uninspired like compared like I Always go to it. Remember Mike was like Starfield has to be a game of the generation like that was the fucking Hype and intention and need for the Xbox platform for Starfield Yeah, so yeah, no wonder like it just collapsed under the weight of all that stuff Yeah, I'm so fascinated because I'm when we look at that the pre-orders for it being at the top of the charts, right? Yeah To your point you have to know like people have to understand what Starfield is by now And I think for those people they might be very pleasantly surprised because I think when you go into Starfield with Barry measured Expectations you still have enough of the Bethesda isms where you can get through and enjoy it right like for me Starfield was a game that I wanted to love as much as I love a fallout But I just don't think it's nearly as good as a fallout. And so I was very disappointed. Yeah, however like There's still that there's still like, you know, it walks like a duck enough to where I'm doing the quests I'm getting into the combat. I'm doing enough things where I'm like, yeah This is giving me enough of the gameplay loop even though I want more of an Traditional open world and I didn't like flying around space. Yeah, some of the map stuff. I just didn't vibe with me I didn't like how like the procedurally generated like worlds that they're up like this procedural generation design of the planets when you land on them and kind of like Have not as many you ask. Yeah, pure like man, that stuff didn't vibe with me But if I knew that going in like if I knew what I was getting going about it though This is literally what we're talking about with Crimson Desert Yeah, is that they fixed so much of that or our promising to fix stuff with this April 7th thing Okay, so it's the thing of I think people will jump in and I remember what when They launched escape, which was one of the creations that Bethesda put up on the creation shop I was telling you about it like dude like this is what you and I were looking for at launch Yeah, now having finished all the tracker bounties. They just put out or whatever like dude those five are all like Your bad you your back Bethesda of like really cool. It's not just running this place shoot everybody to death and grab them a coffin It is a choice. It is a swerve. It is we're taking away all your stuff and now you've got to fight from zero It's like damn as cool You really understand what I think so many people expected out of vanilla starfield and even Before a shattered space and before the creations, right? Like they were doing the updates of the 60 frames and they were doing the updates of all right, you know You don't have to be encumbered anymore. You can really tailor your experience where it's like Obviously, I've loved starfields from the jump but I Told you at the time when I reviewed it and I think I gave it a seven or whatever Maybe I aided it we're even doing scores then I don't fucking remember But like it had plenty of room to grow and it's grown so much that I really do feel like you come in with the Expectations for the reviews you heard at launch. I think you're gonna be not blown away But I think there's gonna be a lot of the why was everybody complaining and like not understanding like no No, this wasn't what the experience was okay. Yeah, so I'm Fascinating to see what it does Numbers wise sure but more the no man sky moment the resurgence This is another one that keeps coming up on Greg ways of people being like, you know They've said that this isn't 2.0 But it really feels like a 2.0 and I think again like that was a measured choice by Todd to come on our show and say that Because I think it was let's knock that expectation down So you don't your expectations again are low and then you see free lanes and you see the Terran armada and you go Oh, wait a second. What the fuck like I It's what I had been predicting even though they say they're not stopping that it's here's the complete edition of Starfield Like I think this is like The this is our vision for what this game always was okay because the back to it of like I'm right there with you of like Landing on it same recycled POIs same recycled. Oh, I know what I I look at this building that the Crimson Raiders are in I know already what the layout of the building is because I've done it 17 times or whatever Yeah, and they in our the presentation they gave, you know, Tim Land was very much like We've gone in and tweaked all that so that they aren't appearing as much and that there's more of them now So like, you know, the POIs are going to be more randomized and it's going to feel like no, you're not getting the same shit all the time Okay, we'll wait and see if they can do that. But right now playing it. I'm having so much fun I can't wait for April 7th to get all this extra content and get in there. What it will do, you know sales wise on PlayStation Well, but it's you know, we're coming off games daily with the Cercana charts You know at the top was Resident Evil Requiem and then a bunch of old ass games until you got to like what was it 11 Mario fever like There's still so many a new game is Easier to break in if it's got some juice behind it So I expect Starfield to do well on that front But I don't know if it'll be like, you know, I mean first of all, I was on there too. Yeah, I'm hopeful We'll see. I Want to stick with heartbreaking things and especially Blessing breaking people's hearts. 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Do you think our reviews are used the same way they were used before? Compare it today like they are now. I'm glad I'm not crazy when I read these things Cuz I'm just struggling. I understand the box is small. There's a bunch of different things So our video game reviews being used the same way today as they were back then. Oh I think so I Think it's more the fact that I mean Jen talk about this all the time of like me We don't need to know everyone's opinion. That's that's the thing right now, right? Whether it be Facebook Twitter BS That's a blue sky Tim, etc. It's the firehose of just Everyone puts out their opinion on everything. So then it becomes a well, what do we do? I don't who do you want to trust? What do you want to believe? What do you want to read? Who do you know? What do you think is a better driver for sales? critic reviews or user reviews. Oh Man I Think it was You know what it's a weird one I'll tell you the honest answer I don't think I'm I can tell you okay. I think you know there was a conversation with you and Raj right of like but are we Distance from our we do we have do we have objective sight on this? I think is somebody who? writes the reviews and then does not use user reviews that way I couldn't give you the honest answer and I think there's a big difference between You want to get it in the first week we'll say right because obviously day one there's only critic reviews versus You want to get it a year from now because I think that's where that sure you know what that's a good point The steam aggregate means way more to our point of what you said a year ago when the game was whatever it is That's a really good point actually yeah, because I think that day one I would say it would be the critic reviews right because like that is the I think that's the Core of where from where the hype generates from yeah, but yeah a year later Like there have been so many steam games that I buy that are older steam games that I see and I'm like This looks cool, and then I immediately go to the steam page and look at the user reviews me like all right people It's mostly positive. Yeah, let's check this check this thing out. Yeah. Yeah Let's take blessing a task. Oh, no, can we go to the five seven four? One moment no problem Where is that? Oh here we go seven Here we go Hey games cast this is fast watch only This one is in particular direct a little bit at blessing because when you guys were doing the Nintendo 64 list I said Glover and I haven't let that go Glover is a good game when you were a little kid and you were like whoa dude I'm playing as basically Mario's glove that was the sickest shit ever you go back to it Yeah, you know okay sure that's the best game of all time, but it is iconic There's only one Glover there was supposed to be a second and we were robbed of that Rock But to to write it off. No way man. That's a solid game one of a kind The fact that you knew there was supposed to be a second Glover. I didn't even know that I'm a Glover fan right there. That's a real Glover fan the entity. I'm like typing in a game where you play as Mario's glove So this must have been a shit list And like I don't remember doing an entity for list it must have been I'm let's say it was top 25 Okay, let's say it was top 25. I'll tell you right now Glover is not a top 25 Like I don't know what else to tell you like an ocarina exists smash exists, you know I mean like they have 23 I was gonna say then it's in the library the bench ate that deep though I see you for all the Mario all the wrestling all the Mario all the wrestling all the Mario parties all the Mario spin-offs That at least is 20 games right there Pokemon stadiums both one and two which I was looking at the Wikipedia for yesterday because that's what I do here Yeah, and like I learned like Pokemon stadium two has lower reviews than you would have thought at least that Then I would have thought okay, but like Pokemon stadium two fantastic video game need I go on Donkey Kong 64 Yeah, I mean there wasn't a Metroid the earthbound got canceled Banjo oh banjo all the rare literally every rare game. Yeah. No, sorry Glover. Yeah when your platformer competition includes Mario Banjo and the dog from Jet Force Gemini. It's like no you're not gonna make it. Sorry Conquer Nana let's move on back to some anticipated title start me off with the 704 What's up wainers first off congrats on earning the ire of the internet by telling them crimson desert and Cliff aka cat bar milk toast wasn't in fact the second coming of Christ like this guy What game am I absolutely Jonesing for? We certainly got a lot to pick from Soros to Wolverine to GTA to 007 first Just kidding Game of the year Handedly Save Microsoft a game that's left us doubting its existence Only to come out years after its announcement with the most impressive show I've seen in a long time and that game of course is fable a series I grew up like the sparkling the teet of back in 2004 and the reason showing was so impressive With the reinvented systems If they aren't pulling a Peter Monalew on us this could truly be something special anyway I'm running out of time, but we need to see under the hood We need to see the magic systems the weapons and all that but It looks like it could be something that pulls Microsoft back from the break. Anyway, that's it. Don't call me Like this guy. We're having on episode We need a full episode Listen, but I did love the dunk yeah, there's for 007 standing there's got Okay, I have a few points here one. I like that guy. He's from South Bend shout out not to dox you to I have North Carolina Listen, dad The 574 704. Oh, maybe I missed road arrow 574. Maybe those the previous guy either way cool guy Yeah, 574 is the lover who you hate you're gonna go. Oh, that's right. That was lover man. Yeah, mm-hmm South Bend Secondly, I don't like this double seven shade because I stand by it. I own a reactive. I'm not counted I'm not counting them out until they're out. Okay. I gotta get my hands on the game First before I'm like, no this ain't doing it. Thirdly fable Fable I would say is probably like a top three most anticipated game for me this year. Okay after they're showing at the Sure for sure I was really convinced I was really blown away by what they had to show But now that we're post-crimson desert We've been brought down to earth me and you like what does that do for your anticipation for a fable? It doesn't affect fable. Okay. I look at fable. I mean Crimson desert I felt was so out of the blue. I've just like pearl the black desert online guys I've I've heard of that game. I've never actually seen it like what do you know what I mean? Like could you possibly get all of this in the game and have a compelling story and have an open world that runs and all this different stuff like Fable as long as that's just stated as good as we know playground games is even though they're usually known for Fortzos rather than You know our open world RPGs That demo them coming up you like nope everything's handcrafted. None of those people are AI You can go follow them all because we did it that you really get into off. Oh fuck this Hope this is as special as it looks my thing about it is I Can't wait for fable fable is at the top of my most anticipated game was probably but I don't believe fables this year Oh I and I think a lot of that is just me setting my own expectations So I'm not always caught up in the hype of fable. Yeah, but I can easily see that being a game that they're not gonna get out this year I hope I'm wrong. I hope they get it out. I can't fucking wait for honestly I'm okay with it It's already such a big year that if it gets kicked out of the same year of that GTA is coming out, right? Even though Coming out this year is another question. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like at a place where honestly Delay all your games. It's been a year. I have so many things to play I I think this is only gonna continue as far as there being so many games Coming out and me not having the bandwidth to try all the different games. I want to play I've wanted to play way more marathon than I actually got a chance to yeah in the last couple weeks like hey everybody Delay your games. I don't care. I'll get to them when they come out take your time. Yeah, that's where I'm at Okay, fair enough. I'm okay with fable Lane, but I'm really looking forward to that game. I feel like again, too like I I Want fable to be as good as it looked That's like that is a game of the generation what we saw in a very brief presentation You're wrong, but if you nailed that I mean come the fuck on like oh, yeah to the point Would it bring Xbox back from the brink? No No, nothing that fables not gonna sell enough to bring Xbox back from the brink of wherever they're about to hurdle off into but It'd be awesome to see and I'd just seems like too nerdy of an RPG You know, I mean it seems like too nerdy of a video game to be like the one like I think Mike nailed it when it We was talking about it having to be Starfield the Starfield is that as the big RPG, right mainstream appeal Like that is going to sell well even if it's not that great. It's gonna sell well, right? That was a generation defining thing I think that's a this can hold this can carry a console on its back sort of thing Babel I think is going to be a prediction is gonna be a darling, right? It's gonna be one where we're like, yo It did x y z thing reminds me a little bit of like Indiana Jones even on a bigger scale though, right? We're Indiana Jones comes out and it does things that like nerdy video game reviewers really like because it has systems and it has it like asks you to solve things yourself and Explore and do all these things and it really invokes what it feels like to be Indiana Jones There's something about that type of game design that I think resonates with a lot of people that are that are critics in the World and I think fables gonna have a lot of that stuff too Hopefully let's stay with the anticipated games. We're gonna move on to the two five two What up kind of funny? So I think my most anticipated game this year is definitely gonna be control or resonant followed closely by Wolverine But control resident definitely edges it out start for the bell. I'm out of school. I work here Control resident just looks absolutely insane I love the first control but I would I love more are hacking slash style games games Make you feel like a monster like prototype or infamous and this game is definitely taking some influence from it I think Looking awesome. Can't wait the game that bummed me out by the reviews was definitely anthem I really thought anthem was gonna be destiny But more of an Iron Man simulator and it ended up being more of a crap man simulator That's a bad joke, but either way the game was wildly disappointing. Oh, yeah Thank you for letting me be involved if you'll even hear this call who knows Nobody does I know great day you too imagine like You're in seventh grade. He walking to your teachers over Talking to all I found a phone number on the internet He's like listen, you know do as I say not as I do Control resident, where's your anticipation level for that? Oh very high very very high I think all of us here love control and even the people that are playing control for the first time coming very late to it Yeah, they do it still like adore it, right? I think it being so different is the thing that has me like oh interesting I love so many of the aspects of the first control right being in the FPC Reading the notes and like the weird shit that goes on in the FPC was so cool And so it being such a dynamically different game I think is really interesting for it and I want that to are you scared by that a little firebreak was a radically different game Right. Yeah, I'm a little bit scared But they're pivoting to things that I like a lot because I like melee combat Yeah, and I like an open-world melee combat action game that feels like a prototype or an infamous or a spider-man kind of thing So that seems cool the last big gameplay thing they showed was like showing off like fighting a boss and how The different kind of like poles of gravity work when you're jumping between things And it's a really cool presenting game I just want that to translate into Like when I'm playing this game for hours, right? Like being engaged and being like alright I know I need to do this now. I need to fucking dodge and and it's still of the kind of same track of their other big releases, right? Yep, whereas what was the BC fire I just threw that in there for the conversation Yeah, it's like such a big weird pivot or yeah I'm interested to see like what they what they do to make this feel different from both Like obviously the gameplay of Alan Wake, but even furthering control of all the weird shit you can do Yeah, yeah, I can't wait like you know remedy is a day one You know front of line for me every time where I want to see what they're up to and have it be back here in that control University and be getting weird with it and giving that superhero sci-fi fantasy part of it and shake it up from what control was like Yeah, hell yeah, let's see what's up. I think I'm probably curious on if this splits the audience at all, right? Because I think I could see myself as Barrett even brings up the the gameplay here I look at this and I'm like there's a good chance that all like this more than control one But I'm curious to see if there's people that are like oh no this is too different like I actually like the gameplay of control one more because of the Telekinesis and the flying and all this shit right like it's just such a different game, which is ballsy. Yeah, I like for sure Yeah, Remi keeps doing weird shit, which is both awesome and then terrifying Yeah, but then you're in the place where it's like I think for so many video game sequels The sequels automatically better because you're learning from the first game and yeah, all right Take this upgrade this take this make this better Like we know the places that we can improve when you're making a sequel that is so different from the previous game You like you run the thing of like hey, no now. It's not just about making everything better. It is about re-exploring what makes this compelling and that's Again ballsy. That's a big challenge hundred. I love that they do it Well, let's talk about being ballsy. Let's talk about a different challenge. Let's take a call from the 585 Hey, what's going on? My most anticipated game is honestly a game that hasn't even been Officially announced yet, which is the untitled Cory Barlog game You know, I can't wait for that No matter what it is because I love you know everything he's done, but You know after the recent leaks about the say video game I honestly That's just all I want right now. I think it's gonna recontextualize the North games and I think it'll be amazing And the game that came out that cut this part there We don't need you at par. I want to focus on the Cory Barlog Well, you know people ask her all the questions at once that's great But for this part, I just need the Cory Barlog part How much do you believe the Fae game thing where there's smokes there's fire, right? Yeah, like I mean I feel like that's the common occurrence in our land where you know Okay, we know something's happening and then something like that happens and it seems like it's got enough juice and people behind it You know, okay, that's what's gonna happen here on the other side of it The rumor 2d Metroidvania got a war game was rumored to be an atreus video game for the longest time That ended up being like a weird game of telephone. I feel like I don't remember the trace thing Yeah, that was like the an aspect of it. It was like a tray is going to like Grease or something was like a part of the rumor mill for interesting. Yeah, see I feel like that's one of those ones where people will conflate like What let's say it's Jeff grub saying it right Jeff fucking what Jeff is saying and that he heard versus what he's speculating Because I remember I remember that coming up I think maybe casually in conversation in terms of throwing what it could be Yeah, but like I remember the hard the and maybe this is me Here's the thing I heard from my sources to you that that game existed for a very long time And so like for me it was very straightforward of like 2d Metroidvania God of war Yeah, Greek game and I'm like I sick like we got exactly what What that was you heard? Yeah, what what I heard about at least But then how are you feeling about this Cory Barling, but I? Think the fay game thing is really interesting. I just got to see it. I don't for some reason. I'm not Like totally in on the idea, but I think that's just because I'm not seeing the trailer once you show me the trailer I'm probably gonna be like damn that looks fucking awesome. Yeah, um Maybe I just got to go back to God will rock and like rewatch the the face stuff I just never pegged her as a character that I'm like, oh, that's who I want a full game around But maybe that's what I was like I think when we see her as a giant doing whatever she's doing combat wise gameplay wise I think that could be super fun especially with Shryer talking about like it's not a new IP But it's gonna be made to feel like a new IP like I do wonder even like Bless you going back and looking at the face segments of ragged rock or even like looking back at what they're doing in ragged rock I do wonder how much of a pivot it is even like gameplay and design was like a top-down Diablo like game. Hell, yeah Let's stay in the PlayStation ecosystem give me the 309 She fine Oh 309 that's West Central Illinois that was confusing because there's the 309 time is well hold on You're not in line. That's like Bloomington. Yeah, this is my cousin is my cousin calling in your baby saddison Yeah, I'd say my most anticipated game of the year Wolverine. I mean insomniac rarely misses but second place if it actually comes out this year is Star Wars Galactic racer always need good Star Wars games that aren't you know, yeah, I survived You know just got her out being a Jedi I Call this one out for Wolverine and I should call out of course 90% of them all started like well my most anticipated game I'd be boring is GTA but everybody everyone knows everyone wants GTA It's interesting to see the second places that are filling in there But you owed the Star Wars part of it. Well, yeah, because I've been very much looking forward to Star Wars Galactic racer Yeah, I got a hot take that I can't share right now All right, I'm a barcode. Yeah. Have you played it? No, but like are there other games When it comes to Galactic racer for me where I'm like it's an interesting year man Yeah, I'm excited for this year of racing games Yeah, this is one that you know, I'm not the biggest Star Wars guy Even though I do a little good Star Wars video game and I'm not the biggest racing guy So this is when I I think rare times I get to really sit on the bench and watch you guys have Hype for something I look at and go neat, but I won't play it. Yeah, I'm Do we know Anything of like when this game is coming out? I know they said 2026. Yeah, I don't think we have a specific day for this See, that's what I need into I need like What is the right window for a Star Wars Galactic racer? Yeah, that's a good question. That's a good question Is this like a summer? Can I expect a summer turnaround? Is the summer seems good summer? Yeah, good spot to drop it, right? Where did we hear about this? Was it game awards? Game awards was when it was officially announced and then I think The other trailers have just been from like them randomly dropping maybe like one of the recent State of plays or something like that, but yeah, there's been here in there. Yeah. Yeah, this is looking right Meanwhile Wolverine I feel like is in that GTA conversation another superhero from insomnia. Fuck yeah, cool That's gonna be great good to great whatever. Yeah, I'm so I can't wait for it It's like it's almost so much of a given of what we what that game is gonna be that is boring Yeah, I mean like I'm like I played all the insomnia expiry man games You know, I know what a Wolverine game is supposed to look and feel like I'm sure that game is gonna Look and feel like an insomnia Wolverine game, which will be fun to play for 15 hours and probably get the platinum Yeah, I'm I'm juiced to see more, but I do feel like that's a I know what that's gonna be what I want This is my Extra credit assignment for insomniac Make that story fucking hit. Yeah, I know the story's gonna be good Like I don't expect y'all to make a bad story like all the spider-man games have good stories But like make the story one of the ones where it's like yo Yeah, I'm y'all ain't ready for this shit like that's what I want to say coming out of the review Okay, I want to go into the review and be like yo y'all are ready for what they do with Wolverine Like that's the feeling that they need to invoke for me. Okay Sticking with superheroes. Let's move on to a heartbreaking superhero story. This one's from the 7-8-1 Hello Greg and kind of funny crew Video games I was super excited corporate broke my heart upon review and barge or releasing by the man Charity mentioned was my world for nine months leading up to it and That came out the kind of middling reviews. I still loved it when it came out just to get spider-man as my life and Also, that's the screen three of course I was looking forward to that game watching the trailer every single day waiting for that October 30th release and Yeah, so that's my take. Thanks guys. Bye from the suburbs of Massachusetts. It's a good take I would have told you an expected Shattered dimensions to have a great metacritic I loved shattered dimensions. I remember really like it and I think you know you go back now a Hillary over at IGN And reviewed it back in the day, which I remember he gave it an eight metacritic right now for 360 is 76 And it's like oh Yeah, I guess that makes sense because you start conflating it the story of course for shattered dimensions was it was Beanox making a spider-man game and getting to make their own it wasn't tied to a movie It wasn't some licensed bullshit So it like Expectations were so low at that time for superhero games that shattered dimensions and jumping in and being four different spider-man like it was Awesome, but yeah, I guess it wasn't eight awesome. You know what I mean? I don't know it was a awesome in my heart as well because you know doing the Was the black and white like detective spider-man while I'm a spider-man war Yeah, spider-man noir like getting introduced to like different versions of spider-man I think that were not in the mainstream at that time growing up Really fucking cool and then having different gameplay styles. I just I'm what at my point is it's crazy not crazy I wouldn't expect this to be in like it broke my heart at the review embargo Yeah, cuz like I remember expectations being so low that when Hillary's like no, this is great I'm like, oh fuck yeah, and I went home and played it versus I wasn't expecting a 10 I guess I wasn't expecting a nine right right right AC three I get though. Oh AC three for sure. You're coming to America That's gonna be awesome. Oh parkouring on all of this new geometry We've added into this game is not good nothing is tall here Nothing is tall at all. Why how long does it take me to get into being the assassin? Oh shit this Great villain. Hey, then Kenway honestly number one villain in the series Let's give Grand Theft Auto it's do and get through all the questions in one from the 619 a Boya 9 Rami's Thaddeo All right, I'm back Figure it out the most anticipated game is obviously Grand Theft Auto 6. I just feel like Fred Dead Redemption 2 was amazing and this is rock stars return with you know one of the most famous IPs in video game history probably and then a game that really Made me depressed That's my street unity. I was so hyped for that. It was the next generation of Assassin's Creed and Even though it got shitty reviews, I Still kind of like it mean my friends play to online multiplayer and that shit was amazing and Good times Still think it's one of the better second screen games as far as movement goes and combat But yeah, I miss those ones Thanks. Bye. Love you. Love you too Sanskrit unit is interesting because I feel like I for me as the person who doesn't really like Assassin's Creed that much Yeah assassin's read unity when that was shown off The ps4 and Xbox one still had like the new console smell Yeah, so I remember seeing the trailers and being like odd hand that seems kind of dope Oh and this co-op like again not really caring about a Assassin's Creed But yeah, the power of the new generation. Yeah, that seems kind of cool and then had probably one of the most memified Like launch cycles I remember as far as like the the faceless the flow the eyeballs. Yeah, yeah crazy That was the iconic one. I remember still to the say where that review embargo Was the morning of the game coming out so technically reviews came out after the game was available to buy Oh, that's so I still want to that game stop and bought it. Yeah, you did. Yeah, yeah, you did. Yeah, fucking did GTA yeah, we talk about it in these kind of conversations all the time But I feel like that's the one where it's like Yeah, of course can't wait to play it, but I don't Jones for it. You know what I mean? Same. Yeah Yeah, I think it's maybe it's been maybe it's just been so long since GTA 5 that we've come out of the other side of just like not even like being Not even jonesing for it anymore just being in the place of light. It'll happen when it happens like when we when it comes out we'll play and that's when we'll get hyped for it, but like You know after being after it being so long. Yeah last GTA. I'm kind of just like It's that I've lived life now without GTA I feel so interest it's I'm so more and that granted there's GDC behind this to a degree But I feel like it's all the Smaller indie stuff. I'm way more stoked about I like that taste they gave us of mouse PI for hire and that's like imminent I'm like, yeah, let's go fucking do that. Yeah, I mean I really want mean of the Hollower. Yeah I don't I want to jump into that obviously Starfield updates, which doesn't go to think but I mean like to show that there's bigger games Soros yeah, I was around the corner. Yeah, there's like so much where it's like We're on the precipice and I can see them where I don't think about a Grand Theft Auto I think about a fable and maybe I just getting closer even Wolverine But yeah, I'm excited for September right this one. It is like when we get there. I'll be there I'll be ready for it, but I think I have a weird thing to where Well, I think there's a few things right because they said the marketing cycle will start this summer Yeah, yeah, and maybe I think once we see the next trailer. That's when it'll like ignite us I think though there's something to that But also I think a personal thing for me is that I'm just way more of a San Andreas person than I could buy city Sure, it's like I'm excited for GTA 6 But like if this was like if you go back to the GTA 5 marketing cycle like I was fucking I was like Oh man, we're back. We're so bad like I was obsessed with the idea of GTA 5 and now GTA 6 I'm like, I'm still in but you know when we get to when you get to GTA 7 and we're back to San Andreas You're gonna see another side of me where I'm like, I'm but I'm Turning up the Tupac in the radio. I'm like fucking, you know, I'm gonna be Dana. I'm doing So excited we got two more before we get out of here Let's go to the 207 Specifically for one the critics loved but I'm sorry the one the crates didn't love you did love Hey, okay, so I'll hate you the quick two for number one I was gutted that yeah, cuz they're Kiwami 3 does not have the juice I love the original yakuza 3. I strongly recommend that to anybody. It's a shame that they really blew it on that one What else so Lost records bloom and rage Actually a really touching wonderful game and it just did not get good reviews But yeah, I don't know for your consideration. All right. Have a good one. I will have a good one. Yeah, Yakuza Yakuza good for you. Yeah, and I understand that for me. It was the lost records one Yeah, that was the one of I did the preview. I thought it looked cool And then I forget what else I was reviewing when Joey and Roger Tackled the acne maybe you me and tackled part one and then it was part two was months later Part two dropped. It was no fanfare. It was like a month later a month later It was like such a bad rollout. I and you guys were so Loot warm on the first one. It's like I think about lost records a lot of like Yeah, I should I should get that on my my rock ally and have it so that when I have that down to go play So that has a 74 on Metacritic so it's like firmly in the yellow. Yeah and Yeah, the tough thing is when you give a two-parter and it's a month between and we're not blown away by the first part It's impossible to ask us to pick up that second part Especially when it's like it wasn't a cold situation, right at that point for part two You have to wait for it to be out for everybody. Yeah, so it's like the question of well we don't have time to review it because We're getting it at the same time as everybody else So like if we get to review it people aren't gonna click through to the review So it's like we're gonna play it. It'll be for the love of the game. Yeah, and I don't really have love for this game Yeah, man That was such a tough one because I know from even just part one like I'm sure I believe the caller fully as far as It probably being a touching story, especially for you, right? But like Man, I think you needed a bit more to get me to that touching part of the story Especially it's like that toward the end one day. I'll get back. I'm sure maybe you will not our final call is our final most Anticipated game of the year take me to the 978 So for me the most anticipated video game at the moment is Soros from house mark It's going to be good. I hope because it's followed up return home and house mark is really well known for the gameplay So that's that's the one for me Soros is another one That I I can't wait for but I'm not Obsessed with like Rahul awesome. We love him obviously friend of the show and then house mark a studio whose games I've loved for so long back to podcast beyond to be here with it I just look at it. It's like, okay, cool So it's return with Rahul and I need to be told slash shown what is why it's more than that I think to be like, I can't wait to get my hands on it because I'm looking forward to playing it for sure Yeah, I mean remember the year eternal came out. I want to say that's 2021 Returnal was my game of the year that year. So like if we're using the like transit of property of Like soros is probably a front-runner for what could be my game of the year 2026 And like I think I'm kind of with you as far as like I look at it And I see return again, which excites me because like that means I'm really really gonna love this. Yeah But I think There's a level of okay. Is there something for me to discover is there something for me to learn to be like, oh shit That's how this works. All right. Yeah, and I'm I'm like 80% sure that that will be here And so I'm excited for it for that But it's another one where like I don't think I'm gonna really think about it too hard until we're like it shows up It's the point of like which we should have a review code for that. Why don't we have read that? That's what I think that's what I'm gonna be like as soon as you hit my DM Be like here's the game. Yeah, I think that's why we be like everything stop I'm just playing soros now like nobody making any plans to be anymore. Hell. Yeah Everybody great job with these voicemails. I enjoyed this episode quite a bit blessing It was a really fun one. It was a fun one. 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