EP 61 - We Leak The Game Award Winners

[00:00:00] Oh my goodness.

[00:00:02] Yeah.

[00:00:03] Oh my.

[00:00:04] What am I saying?

[00:00:05] Oh my goodness.

[00:00:06] What do I have?

[00:00:07] Oh my goodness.

[00:00:08] Could I?

[00:00:09] Oh God.

[00:00:10] Oh my word.

[00:00:11] You're such a freaking violet.

[00:00:12] Could I go a full episode without cursing?

[00:00:15] No.

[00:00:16] No.

[00:00:17] It is as breathing to you, Jerry.

[00:00:22] Hey.

[00:00:23] No.

[00:00:24] I'm actually going to.

[00:00:25] You know what?

[00:00:26] Now?

[00:00:27] Now I'm going to prove a point. especially today I am joined with my two best friendos, Greg and Beth. Say hello to the people, please, both of you, beautiful people. Only because you asked nicely. And because I called you guys beautiful. I give you compliment. Yeah, but you asked nicely, that's why I said yes.

[00:01:40] Well, that too, I guess.

[00:01:42] Oh man, I am so excited about today because

[00:02:42] thegamowars.com? No. What's the site?

[00:02:44] Oh! Like the gift of the site, Jerry.

[00:02:47] Oh my god!

[00:02:49] The SIGHT. For fuck's sake.

[00:02:52] Oh my god.

[00:02:54] Do you want to restart?

[00:02:56] Do you want to restart?

[00:02:58] No, no. That's what I meant. That's what I meant.

[00:03:02] Like what kind of site?

[00:03:04] Like are we talking... Do you have like a third eye?

[00:03:06] Do you have a third eye that you just want to use mine? I sure do. I think we're starting with most anticipated.

[00:04:22] Oh man, this is going to be rough.

[00:04:25] Do you want me to take you over?

[00:04:27] Yeah Greg, fuck this. Because like... Okay. No, we're saying it again. I'm going to go... All right. So you have the League World Championships, Blast.tv, Evo, the Dota 2 Championships, or the Valorant Championships.

[00:05:46] Okay.

[00:05:47] Well, who do you think is going to win?

[00:05:48] Because you've got... I like evil geniuses here. Just, yeah. Like, I don't care about- It's probably fanatic. So I voted for evil geniuses, but my site updated. It's gonna be fanatic. Okay. You hit refresh. Hey, Jerry, are you writing all these down so we can tell Greg? I was just gonna say, I was just gonna say. I was just gonna say.

[00:07:00] Beth, I mean, we're recording it for posterity.

[00:07:02] Yeah, but like...

[00:07:04] I mean-

[00:07:05] Beth, can you bust out your little notebook? If I know who this person is, that's who it is going to be. And the site has also confirmed it. Select it. Okay. You're going the wrong way. Okay. Stupid website. I'm going to start with game of the year. Don't use the website. Use the site. Okay. Here we go.

[00:08:20] About actual video game.

[00:08:24] Are they though?

[00:08:25] Best esports game. I have very vocal he's counter-striked sound fucking no use for long I was like oh Throwing it out there cuz you know valorant seems like the obvious like the you know I just feel like valorant has like just been Blowing up at an exponential rate like dota. I feel like dota. Maybe it has won it a few times, but like

[00:10:45] Vtuber things. It's a fool under a state some under a city. It's a Vtuber

[00:10:50] You did I'm gonna I'm gonna vouch to get that put out on your headstone, Greg

[00:10:54] Sure, then people think I was killed by a Vtuber

[00:12:20] They reveal themselves to me and then kill me cuz I know too much I would love that I would love to see the YouTube But Greg felt like he had to share all of his site. But now we're getting into the beef around the gills here. OK, so I don't know how, Jerry, every week you have some new expression that no one's ever heard of. It always bothers me.

[00:12:23] Beef around the gills.

[00:12:25] Like what was the like last week? Oh, yeah, you got like something about something about like turnips.

[00:13:22] Outlaws or Tekken 8.

[00:13:27] Well, Greg, I don't think people need to have Greg Stronomis'

[00:13:31] magical sight to see how this is going to go.

[00:13:33] Yeah, I don't think so either.

[00:13:35] It's going to be Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

[00:13:39] So I'm with you, but interesting thing.

[00:13:42] What are your guys's most anticipated out of this list?

[00:13:47] Like, do you agree that it Mario movie, or Twisted Metal.

[00:15:00] This one's tough because I feel like The Last of Us is going to win it. But I feel like So do you guys both seen it right? No, I haven't You guys have you? Yeah, so yeah, it's good. It's good movie No, it's screaming yes Bruno screaming outside my door We're gonna move on oh

[00:16:22] Here we go. We're getting into the games like the game games finally back into it

[00:17:22] multiplayer is the thing that people are like, wow, this does multiplayer better than these other games.

[00:17:26] Not for what we wanted to do with it,

[00:17:28] but I've talked to a lot of people that are like,

[00:17:31] they've literally dedicated like,

[00:17:34] no, we're playing this in multiplayer.

[00:17:37] And they did end up adding the ability

[00:17:40] to drop in and out of games and stuff.

[00:17:42] Because we couldn't do that when we started playing.

[00:17:43] It was like, nope, this is the character for our campaign,

[00:17:47] and that's it. I also, I don't know, I feel like Diablo is, it just is a multiplayer experience. So, you can play it solo, but it's like a multiplayer. Yeah, you're kind of right about that. And I mean, I only played the beta and it was a great time,

[00:19:00] but I don't know, I kind of just,

[00:19:04] like if I had to pick something that was a bit more,

[00:20:04] basically like a little picture of like a Mario or like a Toad doing an action or with a power up

[00:20:08] or something like that and it's like a cardboard pop up

[00:20:11] and you can just like place them anywhere in the map

[00:20:15] or on a level.

[00:20:16] So like if you're struggling to find like,

[00:20:19] man where is that last coin at in this level?

[00:20:23] Oh, well there's this sign that says,

[00:20:25] that shows Mario with like the ice flower, No, I would come kill you. Anyway, the winner of this category is going to be Baldur's Gate 3. I voted for Street Fighter. Of course. Of course you did. But yeah, I don't know. I think, yeah, it's hard. My initial pick is that it's going to be Baldur's Gate 3, but yeah, I don't know.

[00:21:43] It's a toss up for me.

[00:21:44] But if you say so, Greg Strodamas has spoken yet again. And it just getting like how much does the the No, the fan voting what's the weight on that? It's like something I Feel like it's not that it's not like as much as you think it is because it's like way more the industry's face Yeah, well, I'm gonna but Greg you already know the answer though. I know I'm just saying I'm just saying that it would be

[00:23:05] Though what do you guys think or do you have to? It's gonna be for it's a my heart here. Here we go. This hot wheels. Best sim strategy. I think I think some of us might have some opinions here and you may even say some of them might be strong. All right. So we have best sim strategy. We have advanced wars one

[00:24:21] plus two reboot camp. See Skylines to come in Heroes three fire emblem engage and Pikmin The current landscape of gaming journalism. It's actually, it's going to be Fire Emblem. No. No way. I know you don't like it. I'm just telling you what's going to win. God, that game is so bad. I think you're... I'm just telling you what's going to win.

[00:25:42] Okay.

[00:25:43] It's close.

[00:25:45] It's really close about Pikmin unless they want some KFC, you know? Blue, blue, blue, blue. Hey, fuck you guys. I wish I could say that word. Still haven't yet, by the way, if you're keeping count. Okay. Best family. We've got Disney, Illusion Island, Party Animals, Pikmin 4, Sonic Superstars, or Super Mario

[00:27:05] Brothers Wonder. but a tiny child was like, I want to play Mario 2. And we said, and we were like, yeah man, let's do it. And we threw it on and like, yeah, she was having a great time playing that game. And she's like, I don't know, like four or five

[00:28:20] or something, she's not super old.

[00:28:24] She's definitely younger than I was

[00:28:25] when I started first playing video games.

[00:28:27] And she was doing pretty good with it Nabbit actually whom Nabbit Dang Nabbit. What do you I don't know what you talking about? You don't know who Nabbit is He's like the little he's got like the it's got like the sack over his face How you talking about? Nabbit is he's like a purple dude. Anyways, he can't he can't die He can't fall down pits like he just literally like just comes back up. So it's it's basically like God mode. So you give like a

[00:30:45] and like 3D but 2D Sonics that have been coming out in the last like, I don't know, like how long, how many, it's been a while now that we've been getting like Sonic Colors and you know, like

[00:30:52] Sonic Heroes and all these other things. Like this is the first time that I've played one of those

[00:30:58] that I've been like, oh, this is actually, this is not bad. This is pretty good.

[00:31:02] Sonic Heroes came out when it was in college.

[00:32:02] Moving along. Yes.

[00:32:03] Ooh.

[00:32:04] Here we go.

[00:32:05] Best fighting game.

[00:32:06] Here's the beef.

[00:32:07] God of Rock.

[00:32:08] Never heard of it.

[00:32:09] I don't know what that is.

[00:32:11] Mortal Kombat 1.

[00:32:13] Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2.

[00:32:15] I didn't know that they were on to the second one.

[00:32:17] That's apparently really good.

[00:32:18] I didn't know they were on to the second one.

[00:32:20] I thought that was just like they only had the first one.

[00:32:23] Pocket Bravery, again, never heard of it.

[00:32:25] I don't know what that is.

[00:32:26] I bet it's such a huge comeback story from Street Fighter V. And it's generally well-loved. It has some dissenters, much like the more comic game does and everything has.

[00:35:02] People are a bunch of, I'm going to call them. I mean, Street Fighter VI, like, Street Fighter VI, like a Street Fighter and a Mortal Kombat game in the same year, that's precious gold, baby. And we just barely missed having Tekken in the same year. That, yeah, that's- True, I, oh man, that would have been crazy. Yeah, that would have been- To have all three of them in the same year, that would have been tough voting, tough voting for sure.

[00:35:05] Yeah. Final Fantasy 15, making this comeback. Finally. Getting what it deserves. Getting what it deserves, finally. The lies of P. What is this doing here? All right. It's an action RPG. For the best game design with rich player character customization and progression.

[00:36:23] Customigation.

[00:36:24] Customigation.

[00:36:25] Including massively multiplayer experiences. I do want to play lies of lies of P. I it you know what lies of P dude is Fantastic it is very good. And you know what? in a Genre that it it is tied to where you know, it's like there's so many now quote-unquote souls likes it had

[00:37:42] It had every right to flop really

[00:37:47] because it kind of

[00:38:41] to win this category. I would too.

[00:38:42] But I think it's going to be Baldur's Gate 3.

[00:38:44] It's not going to be.

[00:38:45] Yeah, it's going to be Baldur's Gate 3 100%.

[00:38:46] And I'm just happy it's not going to be Final Fantasy 16.

[00:38:51] I'll be happy that it's not Starfield, if I'm being honest.

[00:38:55] Um, I feel like to me, Sea of Stars is just like, and it's probably just playing on nostalgia

[00:39:07] for me, really. None of these games are MMOs. No. I feel like the description here is just like a general thing and not a criteria. Yeah. Because I think you can look at... That's kind of like setting down almost like what it could be. Guidelines of what could be in this category. It doesn't have to check off literally all of the boxes, but it's kind of like,

[00:40:22] okay, it fits, this is the one and it would deserve it. Honestly, it would. It really truly would deserve to win this award. The problem is this year is just ham. Like it's just, it's, it's, it's too crazy. Like, I mean, every single month I was like, I guess this is my game of the year.

[00:41:42] I guess this is my game of the year.

[00:42:43] Oh, man, you're a tortle.

[00:42:50] This is OK.

[00:43:00] Well, each of us have played at least one of these and seen some of these.

[00:43:03] Beth, you've now seen all of Alan Wake to mostly most of our way.

[00:43:07] Yeah, I've seen.'s the kingdom and not finished it. Yeah, I

[00:44:25] Think it's in the well or whatever but there's that cat who's like I have approximate knowledge of many things. Yeah. I forgot about that. I have approximate knowledge of that. That's me. I'm that cat. Super ghost is the well that you guys have this one's interesting and I got a pretty good feeling about this one I totally because my media brain was like I know that Armacore didn't review as well or do as well as like Fromsoft normally does and like it doesn't have its general like support that's like the other Soulsmourne type stuff that Fromsoft has done

[00:49:21] All right, this is crazy.

[00:49:26] And then, like, it just turns out to be such a good game.

[00:49:29] And then also, Nine Inch Nails is in it.

[00:49:31] Nine Inch Nails is in that game.

[00:49:33] That's the one song you bring up every time.

[00:49:36] There's two Nine Inch Nails songs.

[00:49:38] I know, but sorry, that's the one band

[00:49:39] you bring up every time.

[00:49:41] Like, that's the one, whenever you talk about it,

[00:49:43] you say, and also Nine Inch Nails.

[00:49:45] Yeah.

[00:49:46] Yeah, man.

[00:49:46] No one else.

[00:49:47] One of my fans.

[00:49:49] Yeah, there's some other cool stuff there. I don't know you. Call me crazy. Call me crazy? You crazy. Go ahead. Call me it. I just did. Do it again. Crazy man. Best VR slash AR. We have Gran Turismo 7, Rise and Call of the Mountain. Oh, the humanity. Humanity.

[00:51:00] That's a good game.

[00:51:02] Resident Evil Village VR or Synapse. That might be kind of cool because like the PS VR 2 has some pretty Pretty amazing visuals apparently so that might that might actually be really neat humanity. I have actually played But the non VR version that might be kind of fun to look at In VR just kind of like looking down on that stuff because that is a very

[00:52:23] very interesting concept of a game and

[00:53:26] lived. No, I've never. Is there a reason? Not particularly.

[00:53:30] Just availability probably. No, there's one in this house. Oh really? Yeah. Put is like a put is it? Yeah, throw it on. No,

[00:53:35] I can tell you, you would love job simulator. Yeah, but like,

[00:53:40] okay, so not good. Are you afraid to get sick? I get I don't

[00:53:45] know. I don't I just don't wantis Sareil. Monster Hunter Now or Terra Nell. What is Monster Hunter Now?

[00:55:02] It's the, well, it's gonna be a It's all my it's all my fantasy critic draft. I yeah

[00:56:22] Unlike fantasy critic. Yeah, I never heard you talk about this game

[00:56:26] What is this game even I and So if I talked about it, it would have been around the end of March Beginning of April, okay Well, I'll take you take your word on it If you want to or I don't know for what is the people's who listen if they care they can let I don't know

[00:57:43] You know So I wasn't initially looking at the thing when you were listing these out. And I was like, man, what is Hawkeye? I thought you guys were saying Hawkeye, Star Rail. And I was like, what is that even? That sounds cool. And then when I came in and I was like, oh, that game, nevermind. Yeah, Hawkeye, Star Rail.

[00:59:00] Yeah, it's one of the full bets against the Hoyleverse.

[00:59:04] You can put that on my tombstone as well. that I didn't track and just make sure I'm all caught up. Okay. I'm all caught up. I almost asked, do you remember what they are? But surely you do. Of course I remember what they are. They're just in your brain. All right. Best debut indie game. We've got Cacun, Dredge, Pizza Tower, Venba, and Viewfinder.

[01:00:23] So I have played two of these. You know what, if you were listening to this and you're like, what is cocoon? You know what, don't even look it up. If you don't know what it is, don't even look it up. Just go get it, it's on Game Pass. Just go get it, throw it on, and just be amazed. It's fantastic. It's by the same guy that made Limbo.

[01:01:43] And inside.

[01:01:44] And inside. creative leads, like the, you know, not just the, not just the dev, but like a creative lead behind inside and limbo that was making a game. And I thought it was the Somerville, because they also said like, from people who, you know, made these games, but

[01:03:01] the it was the cocoon guy, the guy who went on to the guys who

[01:03:04] went on and did cocoon was the one I was thinking of.

[01:04:04] That's my prediction. Well let me tell you, I've seen the future.

[01:04:06] I know the future.

[01:04:08] The winner of this category is Dredge.

[01:04:10] Aha!

[01:04:11] Okay.

[01:04:12] I knew it!

[01:04:13] Do I have the site?

[01:04:15] No.

[01:04:16] Only I.

[01:04:18] All right.

[01:04:19] Well, Dredge is that winner.

[01:04:23] Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[01:04:25] Oh, debut.

[01:04:26] That was the name.

[01:04:27] Debut.

[01:04:28] What the fuck is this shit? props to all these independent studios for making like games that are just absolutely blowing some triple-a games out of the water like that deserves all the praise in the world as far as I'm concerned so yeah so honestly if any I

[01:05:40] don't know anything about viewfinder I really don't know what that is I haven't

[01:05:43] played it so I don't really have an support as per the game of the award is Ballther's

[01:07:01] Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Destiny 2, Final Fantasy 14 online and No Man's that you've already paid for and stuff when certain things come out too. So that was something my uncle was really pissed off about. Hmm. Yeah. It's a real shit show. So I don't that that it's even nominated is baffling to me. I think.

[01:08:21] I don't know. I feel like we might end up getting surprised

[01:08:24] and it be Cyberpunk 2077.

[01:08:28] Why do you see that? Sorry, I misspoke. It's going to be Bald's Gate 3. Open that third eye a little wider. Come on. Just because it's the level of things that they've changed based purely on community response and things like that.

[01:09:40] There's so much of it where it's like, oh, you guys said this?

[01:09:43] Okay, we 2020. Yeah. No, it was 2021. Oh, cause I was, I was still, I, I, I was at my current job when that came out and I started there in 2021. So it was, I had to have been at least 2021.

[01:11:02] It's December 10th, 2020.

[01:11:04] Oh, okay.

[01:11:06] So the end of 2020.

[01:11:07] So there you go.

[01:12:03] Like betting against Fortnite seems bold. But Final Fantasy XIV has beaten Fortnite in this category.

[01:12:06] Has it?

[01:12:07] I thought it was just the community one that it did.

[01:12:10] No, it's one for ongoing.

[01:12:13] However, I wouldn't vote for XIV this time.

[01:12:16] But what wins, Greg?

[01:12:17] Then I will.

[01:12:18] I'll say XIV.

[01:12:20] Well, I'm going to say XIV wins.

[01:12:22] I will also say XIV wins.

[01:12:24] I'm just saying I wouldn't have voted for it.

[01:12:26] What would you vote for? Two to three half maybe but I never even heard of the first two if you want to go through them space Okay, so yeah games for impact We got a space for the unbound Don't know what that is chance of the center Also, don't know what that is. Goodbye volcano. Hi. I do know what that is

[01:14:47] Yeah, well, like I said, Venba's about a family that immigrated to Canada and it's about them trying to-

[01:14:48] At some point, you'll be playing as the kid-

[01:14:49] Preserve their heritage?

[01:14:50] Yeah, preserve their heritage.

[01:14:51] And their kid is growing up in Canada and they don't want him to completely grow up

[01:14:57] without their culture and heritage.

[01:15:00] Guaranteed, at some point, you'll play as the kid and then mom and dad will be fighting I don't know. I don't think Chia or Venba or I don't I don't even really think Tarenel is gonna win this But like I don't know enough about like I don't know anything about I don't know what space for the unbound or the chance of Sunbar are to Guess properly Space for the unbound just looks like 13 Sentinels emo edition

[01:16:22] There's probably like okay, whichever they

[01:16:26] I

[01:16:27] think No, hi wouldn't necessarily get it either because is because it's gonna animate Well, no, it's something that's been Like people have been waiting for like for it for a really long time and don't know how it did No, goodbye volcano. Hi. Oh, sorry. I'm so I don't know

[01:17:41] I don't know how that game did because I feel like people have really high expectations for it

[01:18:42] Accessibility?

[01:18:44] Fuck you. Oh no I die. Oh no!

[01:18:57] You've lost. I made it an hour and 24 minutes. It's the personal best PB.

[01:19:01] Innovation and accessibility.

[01:19:08] We have Diablo 4, Fortza Motorsport, High Fire Rush, quite a few. And even, I mean, High Fire Rush even went as far as being like, hey, you don't have to be exactly on the beat. But if you are, that's good too. But yeah, I feel like with what you just told me about Street Fighter 6, that's crazy.

[01:20:21] That has to win it.

[01:20:22] That has to.

[01:20:23] I didn't know that that had that.

[01:20:26] And I can tell you right now,

[01:20:27] none of the other games have that. Lillard for Alan Wake 2, Neil Newbon for Baldur's Gate 3, and Yuri Lowenthal for Marvel Spider-Man 2. Who did Neil voice in Baldur's Gate 3? Astarion. Oh, really? Yeah. Then it's Astarion. It is single-handedly Astarion.

[01:21:42] He won the Golden Joystick.

[01:21:44] Yep.

[01:21:45] It's going an American accent. Really? Yeah. Oh, interesting. And I mean, you know what, Ben Starr, he did he did pretty good, too, for the most part, in Final Fantasy 16. All of my hatred of Final Fantasy 16.

[01:23:02] None of the voice acting like none of the voice actors did a bad job.

[01:23:06] I think Ben started a just a job for him. Yeah. But I would say they all feel strongly about their characters. I'm shocked though. I am absolutely shocked that Megan Fox didn't make this list for her performance. I know, right? Wow. Robbed.

[01:24:20] A riveting surprise.

[01:24:21] You want to talk about Robbed.

[01:24:22] I was listening to somebody else say about this. That's what I thought but props to Melanie She did fantastic yeah collapse the arm all of them, but yeah, she she's great asaga is fantastic. She's oh Very very good character. Yeah All right, here we go best audio design

[01:25:44] Alan wake to I have to double down on that dead space

[01:25:47] high fire rush It's almost like, I mean, what are we doing here if we're not talking about Hi-Fi Rush? Like, that's like, that's the design of the game. The whole game is designed around sound design. But it's like music. Yeah, it's like, but it's the game is like literally, quite literally designed around music and sound.

[01:27:04] The game is designed around rhythm.

[01:27:07] Yeah. they're not even in the conversation. No, it's not, it's not this like, honestly, I feel like on principle, I feel like high-fi rush should win this. But at the same time, if I'm talking like strictly like, wow, this blew my mind, it's Alan Wigg too.

[01:28:24] So when casting my vote, like I, I kind of, also silence in moments too. Yeah. I forget why I heard this. This is not video game related,

[01:29:40] but one of the best examples of sound design.

[01:29:43] Someone said this once.

[01:29:44] I don't know if they were a film professor or something,

[01:29:46] but one of the best examples of good sound design Alan Wake 2, composer Petri Alenko, Baldur's Gate 3, composer Borslav Slavov. You didn't have to laugh. No, because it's like it reminds me of Bob LaBla from Borslav Slavov.

[01:31:00] It's funnier the more you say it.

[01:31:04] Final Fantasy 16 composer Masayoshi Soken. I don't get this is the one where you die on a hill for high five rush because it's score and music isn't talking necessarily just about um like Instrumental like things like that as well. Like I actually I voted for this I vote for allen wake two

[01:32:23] Yeah, like that'd be my personal vote. I don't think allen wake two is going to win this category

[01:33:26] is absolutely one of the most joyous things I have ever done in a video game. It is without question one of my favorite moments of this year in video games.

[01:33:37] Like yeah my thing with my thing with Alan Wake is like high-fi rush.

[01:33:43] I never played but it has like iconic music but I think 16 probably wins. 16 is the one that wins. Yeah, FYI. But yeah, I'm with you, Jerry. It's like Alan Wake 2 soundtrack. Like all of the music is just so

[01:35:00] good. Wait, so did you vote for Alan Wake 2, Jerry, or Tears of the Kingdom?

[01:36:12] good for them. It definitely does have a look. But I would I would pick Mario Wonder over all the other ones too. Yeah. You got to fill it. Oh wait. Huh? So you got to fill out a

[01:36:18] list. Yeah. No it's for me. I think. We have Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Phantom Liberty, Final Fantasy 16, and Spider-Man 2.

[01:39:00] Well, I have not seen to like, I don't even think I realized how much I liked this game until going through this, this year,

[01:39:04] because I've, my gut that people, there are people who are frustrated with some of the controls. So they're not like a hundred. They get really annoyed with some of their controls and especially in combat. They think it's a little bit clunky at times.

[01:40:21] Um, I will say that from watching you play Alan Wake and then I'm watching, um, the The the thing that we're talking about here is highlighted in this game the narrative Goddamn it is the fucking narrative good in this game and like yeah I remember such a good character like I can't get over how good wait you say Sega. Yeah so Sega Dreamcast is good

[01:41:45] So many of the character like you've run into something you or like this Alan Wake 2 specifically. But yeah, I cannot agree more with you Beth on this one. And I mean mark this on a calendar.

[01:43:01] Beth and I are agreeing on something. Every time. So good. Yeah. So I mean, Greg, tell us what it is. I mean, it's Baldur's Gate 3. Baldur's Gate. Yeah. I said that right off the bat. It's Baldur's Gate 3. Yeah. Next category. Best game direction.

[01:44:22] Alan Wake 2.

[01:44:23] Baldur's Gate 3.

[01:44:24] Alan Wake 2.

[01:44:25] Alan Wake 2.

[01:44:26] Marvel's Spider-Man. I don't see it getting like replicated or making as much of an impact on games coming out. I wouldn't be surprised if 2024, 2025 are the years of like the Baldur all these insanely cool things and I just feel like the vision that they had for this So I mean, deep down, I'm thinking like, I want Alan Wake 2 to win, but it's going to

[01:48:22] be Paulers' game.

[01:48:24] Yeah.

[01:48:27] For direction.

[01:48:28] Yeah. Spider-Man 2, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Brothers Wonder, and Tears in the Kingdom. I mean, come on. Who we getting there? We know who's gonna win Game of the Year. Like, it's not even... I don't... I mean, I could... I get six games that are just like, I mean, at the end of the day, all of these games are crazy good. And if you wanted to die on a hill to pick one of these for your own personal one, I wouldn't even argue against it. Because like, they're all so good. The problem is how goddamn good Baldur's Gate 3 was.

[01:52:01] Mario and Zelda.

[01:52:05] I still am going to say to you, the kingdom wins.

[01:52:09] But Greg has spoken.

[01:52:11] He has. He has.

[01:52:16] And that's like the most logical choice, I think, is Baldur's Gate. But.

[01:52:19] I'm going to just go for the other one that only really has a shot.

[01:52:24] I wouldn't say that it's the only one that has a shot.

[01:52:27] I feel like.

[01:53:25] take away any logical points, quote unquote points for the game.

[01:53:32] Tears of the Kingdom don't really have too much bad to say about that.

[01:53:33] Mario wonder.

[01:53:37] I don't really have anything negative to say about that either.

[01:53:40] But then I also don't have anything bad to say about Resident Evil.

[01:53:43] Like I don't think there's anything bad I guess we don't really have to well I was gonna say we don't have to really watch the game awards But we kind of do because there's always like cool Did you want to want to do some fun last-minute wild prediction Sure, let's do one. Well, let's do a pie in the sky

[01:55:03] One each for trailers a trailer we want to see and I'm really hoping that we see more about Silent Hill F. Okay. I feel like you'll probably see more-

[01:56:21] We'll see the two remake.

[01:56:22] Two remake before F.

[01:56:25] Pie in the Sky.

[01:56:26] They're both being developed simultaneously. I'll say it, four, I really like four. And then obviously, which one's the room? The room, yeah. I like Silent Hill four. Alan Wake Two is about as close to Silent Hill as you're gonna get. Especially when you're playing as Alan. It's pretty much Silent Hill. Like it's, there's a lot about it that's a lot like, like what I would envision a modern Silent Hill being.

[01:57:46] But yeah, I would like to see Silent Hill F.

[01:58:43] Let's just pray that we don't get another Gran Turismo trailer. Yeah, no moons.

[01:58:45] No moons.

[01:58:47] Don't want to catch this googling moon and me yelling Bloodborne 2.

[01:58:51] Yeah.

[01:58:52] And then Greg mercilessly teasing us both for days to come.

[01:58:58] So there you have it.

[01:59:00] Nostradamus.

[01:59:01] I don't know who the fuck Nostradamus is.

[01:59:03] Greg Strodamus has spoken.

[01:59:06] These are the games.