EP 80 - ANTI-GOTY 2024 | Super Ghost's Game of the Year!

[00:00:03] I'll hit the button.

[00:00:06] Bonus time!

[00:00:08] It is...

[00:00:08] What is happening?

[00:00:09] I hit a gong.

[00:00:11] I'm gonna rock your socks?

[00:00:13] My socks would blow right off my ankles.

[00:00:18] Jerry, you're so lucky we don't live in the same place, because I would come to your house and slap you.

[00:00:23] Like I'd slap the fucking shit out of you.

[00:00:25] One of these days I am gonna hang up the cold.

[00:00:29] Last, certainly not least, but definitely the shortest of the bunch.

[00:00:35] Well, March is the longest month.

[00:00:38] Or something like that.

[00:00:41] Yeah, you got dumb news.

[00:00:44] Adam, Eve.

[00:00:46] Oh, I just...

[00:00:52] Buddy, I'm always having to ding your dong.

[00:00:56] I should leave the room.

[00:00:58] You know, let you guys be here together.

[00:01:01] No, stay.

[00:01:04] I want you to see this.

[00:01:45] For this episode.

[00:01:46] Hey man, fuck you.

[00:01:51] Okay.

[00:01:52] Uh, you guys wanna kick into gear here?

[00:01:55] Let's do this.

[00:01:56] Let's kill it.

[00:01:57] Let's kick it off.

[00:02:02] Okay.

[00:02:03] Don't be alarmed.

[00:02:03] Welcome back to Super Ghost Radio.

[00:02:22] I just scared Beth.

[00:02:24] It is the end of an era.

[00:02:26] We are at the end of 2024.

[00:02:28] By the time you're listening to this, you might have already listened to the other two episodes of the anti-game of the year.

[00:02:36] Um, where we've had some really awesome guests and friends of the podcast come on.

[00:02:42] Uh, but if you're just tuning in, welcome.

[00:02:44] Welcome to the season finale, I guess.

[00:02:47] Um, we usually always do this.

[00:02:49] We usually always do a game of the year kind of thing with the three OGs of Super Ghost.

[00:02:56] And, uh, this year's no different.

[00:02:59] So we're gonna end it off this way.

[00:03:00] Also, uh, I don't know if either of you realized, but when this episode comes out, this is episode 80.

[00:03:08] We are 20 episodes away from episode 100.

[00:03:12] We gotta do our big, our big episode 100 celebration.

[00:03:16] We'll do it live from the CN tower.

[00:03:19] Sure.

[00:03:20] That means you gotta come down here.

[00:03:21] Yeah.

[00:03:22] I will.

[00:03:23] I'll, I'll friggin.

[00:03:24] They probably will not let us up there with recording equipment though.

[00:03:27] We will be promptly ejected.

[00:03:29] We can just do it on our phones.

[00:03:31] Greg on, Greg on camera.

[00:03:33] It'll sound like a potato.

[00:03:34] Um, Jerry, that, that, that, uh, that theme song, was that composed by you?

[00:03:40] Fuck no.

[00:03:41] That's, uh, it made me so mad.

[00:03:44] Yeah.

[00:03:44] I didn't like it.

[00:03:47] I don't know what I was listening to, but my immediate reaction was anger and feeling

[00:03:53] like he brought me here for this.

[00:03:55] And I was not happy.

[00:03:58] Okay.

[00:03:58] Uh, well that hurts deeper than, you know, because that's from mystical Ninja 64.

[00:04:04] That absolutely tracks.

[00:04:06] No, I didn't like it.

[00:04:07] Oh, absolutely tracks.

[00:04:09] That fucking bing bong fun house garbage.

[00:04:14] That bing bong bullshit.

[00:04:17] Oh my God.

[00:04:19] Oh, this is, this is the perfect way to kick off this episode.

[00:04:22] Uh, but if you don't know, I will never play that game on the chance that I might hear

[00:04:26] that song again.

[00:04:27] Well, here's the thing.

[00:04:29] If you don't die, cause that's the game over screen.

[00:04:31] If you don't die, then you'll never hear it.

[00:04:33] What a terrible game over.

[00:04:35] I would, I would, if I, if I got game over and then they made me listen to that.

[00:04:40] I'm going to take that cartridge.

[00:04:42] I'm walking down my stairs.

[00:04:43] I'm hurling it into the woods.

[00:04:46] Gone.

[00:04:49] Um, but the best part about that song is on the grid on the game over screen.

[00:04:55] It's just a giant ripped devil with short shorts on and he's shirtless and he's just hula

[00:05:01] hooping straight into the woods.

[00:05:06] Yeah.

[00:05:07] Anyway, anyway, here we go.

[00:05:09] Straight into the woods.

[00:05:09] If you have never checked this out before, uh, here, we like to do things a little differently

[00:05:14] for celebrating the games every year.

[00:05:16] And, uh, you know, on the other episodes we have guests come on that, uh, create awards

[00:05:22] essentially just, it could be serious.

[00:05:24] It could be funny.

[00:05:25] It's just a fun little way to make up some weird little awards.

[00:05:29] And then we nominate games and we plug them all in and then we debate who should win that

[00:05:34] category.

[00:05:35] Um, but what we're going to do today is just kind of the tail end of that.

[00:05:39] So we're each going to go over, uh, our own little categories that we've made up.

[00:05:45] And then we're going to nominate something and then we're just going to talk about it until

[00:05:48] we figure out who that winner should be.

[00:05:51] And then after that, we are going to talk about our personal lists.

[00:05:55] Um, well, I have a personal list.

[00:05:57] I don't know.

[00:05:58] Greg might have just a personal pick.

[00:06:01] That's the thing.

[00:06:02] We just do it how we feel.

[00:06:04] We should do it.

[00:06:05] It's just, it's our celebration of 2024 and the games and stuff that we've played.

[00:06:09] So that's just how we roll here.

[00:06:11] Um, and then we will try to pick our actual.

[00:06:14] Super ghost game of the year where we all agree on the one winner.

[00:06:20] And we've had, we've had pretty good discussion.

[00:06:23] I think last year was Baldur's gate.

[00:06:25] I think we all kind of like.

[00:06:27] That conclusion except for Beth, maybe.

[00:06:31] There's a, I feel like every year there's maybe like one outlier.

[00:06:34] Yeah.

[00:06:35] I think I tried to die on the Alan wake to Hill for that.

[00:06:39] Yeah.

[00:06:40] Actually, no, that I remember it.

[00:06:41] Yeah.

[00:06:42] Which I mean, that, that was a tough call because I like, even like Greg, we, well, you watched,

[00:06:49] you got to play Alan wake this year.

[00:06:51] Mm-hmm.

[00:06:53] But like, I mean, I played it too, but Baldur's gate just sucked me in and.

[00:06:58] We can move on from last year and how I never get what I want.

[00:07:02] Baldur's gate just sucked me off.

[00:07:05] Uh, I can, I can, I can tell you who did not.

[00:07:09] Uh, Shadowheart didn't do a damn thing with me.

[00:07:12] I bent over backwards for her.

[00:07:14] Anyways.

[00:07:15] He bent over for her?

[00:07:16] I thought he was going to finish.

[00:07:18] I was willing to be pegged.

[00:07:20] I was, I was, I was throwing a leg over the fence.

[00:07:24] I was, you know, trying everything.

[00:07:26] I was getting nothing.

[00:07:27] Yeah.

[00:07:28] Torture.

[00:07:29] Absolute torture.

[00:07:30] Um, but anyways, let us kick this.

[00:07:34] This off.

[00:07:34] Now, first up, Greg, your award, please present it to the listeners.

[00:07:42] All right, guys, this is the.

[00:07:45] Culmination the year, the 2024.

[00:07:48] Waifu watch the 2024 Waifu award.

[00:07:51] Jerry, if you may.

[00:08:00] I like how you're just like letting it sizzle.

[00:08:02] You gotta let it, you gotta let it sit.

[00:08:05] And I want to know.

[00:08:07] Who?

[00:08:09] Your biggest, who wins the award for.

[00:08:13] Prime Waifu.

[00:08:15] From all the games that came out and were played this year.

[00:08:19] I want to know.

[00:08:20] I want you guys to tell me.

[00:08:21] Okay.

[00:08:22] So the way that I did this too, I did it kind of like, um, in each category, like I go first and Beth and Greg and then it rotates.

[00:08:30] So in this category, I will go first.

[00:08:32] So my nomination for Waifu of the year is Maria from Silent Hill 2.

[00:08:39] Cause that bitch be crazy.

[00:08:42] And it's the, it's the right kind of crazy for me.

[00:08:46] I have a legitimate question.

[00:08:48] Did you ever play.

[00:08:48] I'm sure I'm, I'm gonna, I'm just waiting for the questions.

[00:08:53] Well, did you ever play Catherine?

[00:08:56] No.

[00:08:57] Do you know anything about it?

[00:08:59] I heard Nave scream about how cool that game was.

[00:09:03] Okay.

[00:09:03] You're Catherine with a C kind of guy.

[00:09:07] Okay.

[00:09:08] I think if you played it, you would go with Catherine with a C, not Catherine with a K.

[00:09:13] Cause crazy.

[00:09:14] That's crazy.

[00:09:16] Now, Beth.

[00:09:17] Yeah.

[00:09:18] Speaking of crazy, what's, what's going to be your nomination for this category?

[00:09:22] This is really like tough.

[00:09:24] Cause I actually, before you go back, I have to say, you know, some waifus have junk in the trunk.

[00:09:31] Well, Maria, she is the junk in the trunk.

[00:09:34] Now continue.

[00:09:35] Okay.

[00:09:36] I am going to talk about a guy.

[00:09:38] If that's what that was alluding to.

[00:09:41] Spoiler alert.

[00:09:42] I can't.

[00:09:42] I think, I think that's what Greg meant.

[00:09:46] If you, you know what?

[00:09:47] That's, that's a really good, like non spoiler spoiler.

[00:09:50] Cause it's kind of like, if you know, you know, and it's, that's, that was clever and

[00:09:54] disgusting.

[00:09:55] And a lot of different emotions just happened.

[00:09:58] I just, I mean like, it kind of just confused me, but I'm assuming that that is like, it meant

[00:10:03] that waifu is a gender neutral term.

[00:10:06] Um, no, no, no.

[00:10:07] I was talking about how Maria is dead in the trunk.

[00:10:11] Oh, I was like, I don't care.

[00:10:14] I don't get what's going on here.

[00:10:15] I definitely didn't.

[00:10:16] Yeah.

[00:10:17] I called her Maria.

[00:10:18] Yeah.

[00:10:18] Well, I did the Italian version.

[00:10:20] Yeah.

[00:10:21] Jerry's wife, who is Maria, who is the like figment of James.

[00:10:27] Oh, well, we can get into that.

[00:10:31] Yeah.

[00:10:32] Um, but what is your nomination?

[00:10:34] I'm okay.

[00:10:34] I said it was hard because I actually really can't think of any that I like that really

[00:10:42] stood out to me this year.

[00:10:44] Like I haven't played anything really with that.

[00:10:47] Um, was like, Oh my God, this is my husband.

[00:10:52] We will be wed.

[00:10:54] What?

[00:10:55] Nothing.

[00:10:56] I can't Greg speak up when you talk insults, when you say things.

[00:11:00] Speak up when you insult me.

[00:11:03] Yeah.

[00:11:03] Speak up when you insult me.

[00:11:04] I'd like to be.

[00:11:06] Oh, no.

[00:11:07] No.

[00:11:08] Um, so I, but I'm going to go with, uh, Ulrich from fields of mystery.

[00:11:16] And I'll, um, everyone's going to take their phone out.

[00:11:19] Yep.

[00:11:20] Do it.

[00:11:21] Please do it.

[00:11:23] And it's like, it's like the end of America's funniest videos where it's like, everybody get

[00:11:28] your like pad thing from behind the seat and vote.

[00:11:32] Like everybody get your phone out and look this up.

[00:11:34] Do it.

[00:11:34] Are we going to elaborate or are we just saying?

[00:11:38] Well, I was going to say, we'll, we'll go through our nominations first and then we'll

[00:11:42] kind of elaborate on each one.

[00:11:43] Well then I'll for all.

[00:11:45] Yes.

[00:11:45] Everyone Google Ulrich while you're waiting.

[00:11:50] Ulrich.

[00:11:51] Ulrich from fields of mystery.

[00:11:53] Yeah.

[00:11:54] I don't know how to spell.

[00:11:56] Oh, L R I C.

[00:11:58] No, I mean fields.

[00:11:59] Oh, you don't know.

[00:12:00] Okay.

[00:12:01] Okay.

[00:12:01] I'm just kidding.

[00:12:06] Uh, someone on Reddit mad that he's not dateable.

[00:12:09] Okay.

[00:12:09] Yes.

[00:12:10] That's going to be a part of my elaboration.

[00:12:13] Okay.

[00:12:13] This guy has, this has, this dude has the, what I would call the typical Beth Husbando

[00:12:20] haircut.

[00:12:21] Yes.

[00:12:21] That's it's the hair Jerry.

[00:12:24] You understand it's all the hair.

[00:12:26] It's in the hair.

[00:12:28] Okay.

[00:12:29] Okay.

[00:12:29] I see it.

[00:12:30] Craig.

[00:12:33] What is your pick?

[00:12:34] So my pick.

[00:12:37] Is.

[00:12:39] Eagle one from held divers to Eagle one.

[00:12:43] Yep.

[00:12:44] Okay.

[00:12:44] Now I got to Google something, I guess.

[00:12:46] Google all you want.

[00:12:47] You never see her.

[00:12:48] What?

[00:12:49] You just like her voice and what she says to you.

[00:12:52] Well, we'll get into it.

[00:12:53] We'll get into it.

[00:12:54] Okay.

[00:12:55] Okay.

[00:12:55] So you said you had questions about Maria being my, my waifu.

[00:13:00] No, I had general questions about who you were as a person.

[00:13:06] But you know, you don't, you didn't play Catherine.

[00:13:09] So I can't narrow it down that way.

[00:13:12] Um, I think the, like when you meet Maria in silent hill too, like James is such a stick

[00:13:19] in the mud and like, he's just like, I have to find Mary.

[00:13:24] And like, he's just so depresso.

[00:13:26] And then like, Maria is just like, like, very flirtatious dream girl.

[00:13:33] Who is a, hang on, hang on.

[00:13:34] Hang on, hang on.

[00:13:34] A literal manifestation of his dead wife.

[00:13:38] I get it.

[00:13:38] And when he thought she could be sexier and how she could be flirtier and if she didn't

[00:13:42] have cancer and died.

[00:13:44] So.

[00:13:44] But that's super hot to me.

[00:13:49] When people don't die of cancer and they're very flirtatious, it does something for me,

[00:13:55] man.

[00:13:57] Okay.

[00:13:57] You can keep going.

[00:13:58] I just mean, it's Maria.

[00:13:59] Also, they made her like, some people complained about the redesign in which like was barely

[00:14:04] a redesign to me.

[00:14:05] Like it was, it was very slight, but like.

[00:14:08] They just changed her outfit a bit.

[00:14:09] A little bit.

[00:14:10] Yeah.

[00:14:10] And you can still find that out the original outfit in the hotel room, which was really

[00:14:14] cool.

[00:14:14] I watched someone play and he was like, put it on.

[00:14:16] Please put it on.

[00:14:18] Put it on.

[00:14:19] Put it on.

[00:14:20] No, I, I just, I liked her character.

[00:14:23] Like being around her was very fun before you know the thing.

[00:14:29] Like, you know, spoiler alert.

[00:14:32] If you haven't played Silent Hill, go, go play that.

[00:14:36] Even though we kind of alluded to it, but she's not really what you think.

[00:14:41] And yeah, it's kind of depressing when it kind of all gets revealed and comes together.

[00:14:48] But man, those like 24 hours you spend with her at first are real cool.

[00:14:56] You know, running through the hospital and stuff, checking in on her.

[00:15:00] And run to the hospital together.

[00:15:02] Yeah.

[00:15:02] She's just a, she's just fun.

[00:15:03] You know, she's just trying to have some fun.

[00:15:08] But I think for me, like, she's just, even though she is technically like a, a figment.

[00:15:18] I mean, she's still really cool.

[00:15:21] Like, she seems like she'd be fun to hang around.

[00:15:24] Yeah.

[00:15:25] Because she's like a, if you like imagined what the perfect woman would be like for you.

[00:15:34] That's what James is imagining Maria as.

[00:15:37] And so take that for me, but also do it for you.

[00:15:42] So she's it for me.

[00:15:44] But like, think about if like Ulrich was in Silent Hill, like it would just be like Eric or something.

[00:15:52] I don't know.

[00:15:52] No, but I just be like, it's like, yeah, you could say that, but you're taking away all of the commentary that is there about Maria and how it like she is like you tying into James's guilt and how he in a lot of ways really resented Mary by the end because she wasn't young and hot and going out and partying and stuff.

[00:16:19] That was a part of why the resentment he felt like, so you have to like put away and like really just like forget about a lot of everything that's Silent Hill too is trying to tell you in this story for you to be like, yeah, Maria is a wife.

[00:16:35] Is the wife.

[00:16:37] It's like, like, I guess to a degree, like the point is, is that yeah, like she's this like idealized version.

[00:16:44] You're supposed to go through most of it being like, wow, Maria is the cool girl.

[00:16:48] She's the hot one.

[00:16:49] She's the chill one.

[00:16:50] She's flirty.

[00:16:51] She's this.

[00:16:51] She's that.

[00:16:52] But it's like you get to the end and you're supposed to be like, holy shit, like this is supposed to deconstruct these ideas.

[00:16:59] And really.

[00:16:59] But that still doesn't take away from the fact that I like that character and I would like to spend some quality time with her.

[00:17:13] She's not a waifu though.

[00:17:16] Greg, what are your thoughts?

[00:17:19] So let me just understand.

[00:17:22] Yes.

[00:17:23] Yes.

[00:17:24] Now, are you saying that James is Maria is your waifu or are you saying that if you were in Silent Hill, your Maria would be your waifu?

[00:17:34] Because if it's the latter, I'm going to have to overrule you and say that's not the question asked.

[00:17:42] Well, I like James is Maria.

[00:17:44] That's all I need to know.

[00:17:45] OK, because I don't know what mine would look like.

[00:17:49] I have no idea.

[00:17:50] OK, well, you know what?

[00:17:52] It would look like your lovely partner.

[00:17:57] I'm sending this to Karen.

[00:18:01] Maybe it would be Catherine with a K.

[00:18:03] Catherine with a K.

[00:18:05] She's the sensible one.

[00:18:07] Oh, Jerry, if you feel that she's your waifu, far be it for me to take her away.

[00:18:14] But remember what I said earlier.

[00:18:18] Just being attractive does not a waifu make.

[00:18:20] But yeah, if that's if that is is, you know, you're where you're going.

[00:18:27] Can we give a can we give a quick shout out to Eve, though, from Stellar Blade?

[00:18:31] Just a quick shout out for talking about some bodacious.

[00:18:35] I mean, well, see, that's that's well, as I also said earlier, the problem with Eve is that she was manufactured to be a waifu.

[00:18:42] A waifu.

[00:18:42] I'm not a waifu.

[00:18:44] I'm not a waifu.

[00:18:46] No, I won't be.

[00:18:47] I'm a waifu.

[00:18:48] I won't be taken that easily by something.

[00:18:51] I will not be pandered to.

[00:18:53] I will not be pandered to.

[00:18:56] I like the idea of like Greg being on like a panel for the Oscars and there's like stuff that's clearly Oscar bait.

[00:19:03] And he just stands up and is like, I will not be pandered to.

[00:19:07] I would.

[00:19:08] I absolutely would.

[00:19:10] I would be like, guys, there's not an actual room.

[00:19:13] You go, you write it and vote.

[00:19:14] But if there was a room, I would like, guys, come on.

[00:19:16] Don't you see what's happening here?

[00:19:19] So like, no, Eve.

[00:19:22] Very attractive, dare I say a smoke show.

[00:19:25] But.

[00:19:26] She's not a waifu.

[00:19:28] She was manufactured.

[00:19:29] There's a natural connection to find.

[00:19:32] Well, that's why that's why we had the there's a there's a category in the day one of anti game of the year that Matt Storm came up with for video game hottie of the year.

[00:19:42] That's where she belongs.

[00:19:43] She's not wife.

[00:19:44] She's not wife material.

[00:19:45] No, that's why I what I will say is if you wanted to pick a wife of wife from that game, I would entertain choosing tacky because.

[00:19:58] She.

[00:19:59] You can protect me.

[00:20:01] She is.

[00:20:01] You can make rationalizations like that.

[00:20:04] She only has one outfit.

[00:20:07] And you can you can almost like you can feel some emotion for her.

[00:20:14] Yeah.

[00:20:16] Interesting.

[00:20:18] The other thing that I was going to pick was Hulkenberg from.

[00:20:24] She's a queen.

[00:20:25] She is.

[00:20:26] But I feel like there would be a clash between her and I.

[00:20:31] I think.

[00:20:32] Would you be into that?

[00:20:33] She.

[00:20:34] She.

[00:20:34] She would be a very nice waifu.

[00:20:36] But I guarantee.

[00:20:36] I guarantee that we would be de force to like within a year.

[00:20:42] Maybe.

[00:20:43] But like you guys would have a lot of fun eating together.

[00:20:48] Like she.

[00:20:49] Like culinary journeys.

[00:20:52] That.

[00:20:53] Yeah, that's true.

[00:20:54] Whenever I hear Hulkenberg, I think of a man.

[00:20:57] Oh, yeah.

[00:20:58] Well, that's your last name.

[00:20:59] I know.

[00:20:59] I understand.

[00:21:00] But it's just because I think because I played so much of the F1 game, there's a racer named

[00:21:04] Nico Hulkenberg.

[00:21:05] And so I just think.

[00:21:06] Oh, yeah.

[00:21:07] A man named Hulkenberg when I hear the name.

[00:21:09] Yeah.

[00:21:11] Hulkenberg brother.

[00:21:12] Not Hulk Hogan.

[00:21:14] But maybe it's Hulk Hogan, you know.

[00:21:17] Maybe my waifu is Hulk Hogan.

[00:21:18] No.

[00:21:19] So, yeah.

[00:21:20] Maria's crazy.

[00:21:21] I'm into it.

[00:21:22] I like crazy fun.

[00:21:24] I think it would be fun.

[00:21:25] It should be fun.

[00:21:26] It's fun.

[00:21:27] It's fine.

[00:21:28] It's fine.

[00:21:28] It's fine.

[00:21:30] Anyways, that's my TED talk about Maria.

[00:21:34] But tell us why Ulrich should be the winner of this year's waifu award.

[00:21:42] Okay.

[00:21:42] So I'm not like fighting too hard for this.

[00:21:46] Unlike previous.

[00:21:48] How much is the fight based on haircut?

[00:21:51] 75%.

[00:21:53] No.

[00:21:53] I think.

[00:21:54] Okay.

[00:21:55] Here's the thing.

[00:21:56] It has a lot to do with.

[00:21:58] And this is partially.

[00:21:59] I'm going to explain myself.

[00:22:00] The second part.

[00:22:01] This is a call to action for anybody listening.

[00:22:04] Okay.

[00:22:05] Because I really want this.

[00:22:08] Okay.

[00:22:09] So.

[00:22:10] In Fields of Mysteria.

[00:22:12] It's kind of like a Stardew Valley-esque game.

[00:22:15] But it's like the art style of it.

[00:22:19] Which you all should know now.

[00:22:20] Because you have Googled who Ulrich is.

[00:22:23] Is kind of like 90s cartoon, Sailor Moon, whatever.

[00:22:29] And Ulrich is the blacksmith.

[00:22:32] And he is peak himbo.

[00:22:37] He's cute.

[00:22:38] He's buff.

[00:22:39] He's very nice.

[00:22:41] He's a very kind person.

[00:22:43] And he's dumb as a brick.

[00:22:44] And I love him for that.

[00:22:46] I love how.

[00:22:47] I love him.

[00:22:48] He needs.

[00:22:50] He just is.

[00:22:51] He's so cute.

[00:22:52] He's so cute.

[00:22:52] Because he's so dumb.

[00:22:55] And his hair is very nice.

[00:22:57] Which is.

[00:22:58] Like I said.

[00:22:58] 75% of it.

[00:23:00] I love him.

[00:23:02] But he's not romanceable.

[00:23:05] You cannot romance him.

[00:23:07] And the person you can romance.

[00:23:10] Is his stupid bratty little brother.

[00:23:12] Named March.

[00:23:13] And I don't like him.

[00:23:15] And he's like.

[00:23:16] All the other.

[00:23:17] I don't really like any of the options.

[00:23:20] Romance options.

[00:23:20] In Fields of Mysteria.

[00:23:23] So.

[00:23:24] Part one.

[00:23:25] Of why I picked Ulrich.

[00:23:27] Is because.

[00:23:27] It's the only one I could draw.

[00:23:28] Any sort of like.

[00:23:30] Feeling for.

[00:23:30] That I've.

[00:23:31] For.

[00:23:32] That I've played this year.

[00:23:33] The other reason.

[00:23:34] Is that this is a call to action.

[00:23:36] Please go.

[00:23:37] Blue sky.

[00:23:38] If that's where you're at.

[00:23:39] If you want to go.

[00:23:40] On their steam.

[00:23:42] Account.

[00:23:43] Go to their website.

[00:23:44] Whatever the.

[00:23:44] Go to the Field of Mysteria website.

[00:23:46] And petition these people.

[00:23:48] Beg them.

[00:23:49] For Ulrich.

[00:23:50] To be romanceable.

[00:23:52] For me.

[00:23:53] There's already.

[00:23:54] There's already forums out there.

[00:23:56] You can find them.

[00:23:57] Join them.

[00:23:58] Get out there on.

[00:23:59] On truth social.

[00:24:01] Whoever you gotta go.

[00:24:02] For the rooftops.

[00:24:03] I guess wherever you gotta go.

[00:24:05] But I'm just like.

[00:24:07] In general.

[00:24:08] Like I.

[00:24:09] That's.

[00:24:09] I really.

[00:24:10] Really.

[00:24:11] Like.

[00:24:11] I will not romance.

[00:24:13] Any other character.

[00:24:14] In Fields of Mysteria.

[00:24:15] I haven't done it.

[00:24:16] Because.

[00:24:17] I'm like.

[00:24:18] Maybe someday.

[00:24:18] They'll patch in Ulrich.

[00:24:20] As romanceable.

[00:24:20] And I gotta save myself.

[00:24:21] For Ulrich.

[00:24:24] So.

[00:24:27] I don't know.

[00:24:28] Essentially.

[00:24:28] It's.

[00:24:28] It's.

[00:24:29] You want him more.

[00:24:30] Because you can't have him.

[00:24:32] No.

[00:24:33] No.

[00:24:34] I would have wanted him.

[00:24:35] No way you said that.

[00:24:36] I was like.

[00:24:36] No.

[00:24:37] That's not why.

[00:24:39] I just want.

[00:24:39] Beth wants the pretty dullard.

[00:24:41] I do.

[00:24:43] The bumpkin.

[00:24:44] I do.

[00:24:45] I want this.

[00:24:45] The fuck we call that guy from.

[00:24:47] Yes.

[00:24:48] What was.

[00:24:49] What was his name?

[00:24:50] What did they call him?

[00:24:51] Lumpkin.

[00:24:52] Lumpkin.

[00:24:52] Yeah.

[00:24:52] I want.

[00:24:53] His name was not Lumpkin the bumpkin.

[00:24:54] It was just a bumpkin.

[00:24:55] No.

[00:24:56] But they call.

[00:24:56] They call.

[00:24:57] He said that the.

[00:24:59] Sheriff was calling him a lumpkin.

[00:25:01] Behind his back.

[00:25:01] No.

[00:25:01] A bumpkin.

[00:25:02] No.

[00:25:03] He called him a lumpkin.

[00:25:04] I thought he said a bumpkin.

[00:25:06] No.

[00:25:07] I think we made the joke that he was like.

[00:25:09] A country bumpkin.

[00:25:10] And Beth was like.

[00:25:11] He called him a lumpkin.

[00:25:13] Get the insult right.

[00:25:14] And then she was upset.

[00:25:15] Yeah.

[00:25:15] I'm going to insult him.

[00:25:15] But I just like.

[00:25:17] No.

[00:25:17] No.

[00:25:17] The thing is.

[00:25:18] Is that.

[00:25:18] I would have.

[00:25:19] The second I saw Ulrich.

[00:25:21] I was like.

[00:25:21] That's who I want to romance.

[00:25:23] That's my guy.

[00:25:24] And then he was not a romancable option.

[00:25:26] Which.

[00:25:27] Like.

[00:25:28] Should have been illegal.

[00:25:29] You're tearing me apart Lisa.

[00:25:31] So.

[00:25:32] I.

[00:25:33] I would say.

[00:25:34] I would.

[00:25:35] I want him more yes.

[00:25:37] Because I can't have him.

[00:25:37] But I wanted him anyways.

[00:25:39] Like.

[00:25:39] I wanted him to be the option regardless.

[00:25:41] But now that I can't.

[00:25:43] It pisses me off.

[00:25:46] But that's him.

[00:25:47] That's.

[00:25:48] And that's.

[00:25:48] That's Ulrich.

[00:25:50] So.

[00:25:52] Smart.

[00:25:53] That's.

[00:25:53] Cute little dum-dum.

[00:25:56] Okay.

[00:25:56] So we got.

[00:25:57] We got crazy sexy cool.

[00:25:59] We got cute little dum-dum.

[00:26:01] And.

[00:26:02] Now Greg.

[00:26:03] I mean.

[00:26:04] I played this game with you.

[00:26:05] I don't remember Eagle One.

[00:26:08] That's.

[00:26:08] That's shocking.

[00:26:10] That's shocking.

[00:26:10] Interesting.

[00:26:11] Before we go.

[00:26:13] Before we go.

[00:26:13] Go into mine.

[00:26:15] So I just found a fun update for you guys.

[00:26:18] So I mentioned that.

[00:26:21] Hulkenberg is also the name of an F1 driver.

[00:26:23] At the Singapore Grand Prix.

[00:26:26] This past September.

[00:26:28] Atlas sponsored.

[00:26:29] The.

[00:26:30] The driver Hulkenberg.

[00:26:33] And on the front of his car.

[00:26:34] They had a picture of Hulkenberg.

[00:26:36] No fucking way.

[00:26:38] Yeah.

[00:26:39] I love that.

[00:26:41] Yeah.

[00:26:42] Atlas sponsored an F1 car.

[00:26:45] Yeah.

[00:26:45] Queen.

[00:26:46] How much money does Atlas have?

[00:26:48] Lots.

[00:26:49] Do you know how successful they've been?

[00:26:51] This past year.

[00:26:52] Put no bangers.

[00:26:55] That's insane.

[00:26:55] I mean.

[00:26:56] He's no.

[00:26:57] Whoever the guy that drives for.

[00:26:59] Ferrari and.

[00:27:01] Stuff.

[00:27:01] Whatever his name is.

[00:27:03] But.

[00:27:04] Still pretty nuts.

[00:27:05] I like that.

[00:27:06] I'm going to look that up later.

[00:27:07] That's cool as hell.

[00:27:08] I'll send you guys.

[00:27:09] I'll send you guys an image.

[00:27:10] You know what's funny?

[00:27:11] We had an episode.

[00:27:12] Last year called.

[00:27:13] Anime Girl Paint Job.

[00:27:16] And you know what?

[00:27:17] Atlas made it happen.

[00:27:18] They did it.

[00:27:19] They did the anime girl paint job.

[00:27:20] They heard our episode.

[00:27:22] And we're like.

[00:27:22] They were like.

[00:27:23] Fuck.

[00:27:23] Get on the phone.

[00:27:24] Get on the phone.

[00:27:24] Get this.

[00:27:25] Get this done.

[00:27:26] I wonder if Ace Combat still does that.

[00:27:28] They should.

[00:27:29] I think so.

[00:27:32] I should be able to put.

[00:27:33] Anime Girls on my fighter jet.

[00:27:36] Anyway.

[00:27:36] Speaking of.

[00:27:37] Fighter jet.

[00:27:40] Eagle One.

[00:27:41] Is the.

[00:27:41] Fighter pilot.

[00:27:43] In Helldivers 2.

[00:27:44] Eagle One.

[00:27:45] And if you take.

[00:27:45] Take certain stratagems.

[00:27:47] Like anyone.

[00:27:47] That's like a strafing run.

[00:27:48] Or.

[00:27:49] Or a bombing run.

[00:27:50] Or anything like that.

[00:27:51] You.

[00:27:52] You get the.

[00:27:53] Eagle One will fly in.

[00:27:54] And do these things.

[00:27:56] And will drop the bombs.

[00:27:57] Whatever you need.

[00:27:58] Um.

[00:27:59] And she'll give you like.

[00:28:00] A little voice line.

[00:28:01] Do the thing.

[00:28:01] And then go away.

[00:28:02] Mm-hmm.

[00:28:05] People.

[00:28:06] Across the community.

[00:28:07] Myself included.

[00:28:09] Got really attached.

[00:28:10] To Eagle One.

[00:28:12] But how?

[00:28:14] Because you're.

[00:28:14] And you get like.

[00:28:15] Get into the game.

[00:28:16] And like.

[00:28:17] Like.

[00:28:17] Oh.

[00:28:17] Eagle One saved me.

[00:28:18] And stuff like that.

[00:28:19] Support.

[00:28:20] You feel supported.

[00:28:21] She supports you.

[00:28:21] And like.

[00:28:21] She supports you.

[00:28:22] She more than.

[00:28:23] She gets you out of.

[00:28:24] Out of jams.

[00:28:24] And stuff like that.

[00:28:26] But then.

[00:28:27] It evolved.

[00:28:28] And you just saw.

[00:28:30] Scores of people.

[00:28:32] Across all different.

[00:28:33] I.

[00:28:33] I googled it today.

[00:28:34] It was fantastic.

[00:28:36] Across.

[00:28:36] All different.

[00:28:37] Like.

[00:28:37] Levels of.

[00:28:38] Arts.

[00:28:38] Skill.

[00:28:39] Drawing fan art.

[00:28:41] Of Eagle One.

[00:28:42] And what they.

[00:28:43] Perceived that she looked like.

[00:28:44] And stuff like that.

[00:28:45] It got to the point.

[00:28:47] Where.

[00:28:47] The official.

[00:28:48] Hell Divers Twitter.

[00:28:50] Was like.

[00:28:51] Sorry guys.

[00:28:52] She's married to democracy.

[00:28:53] It's like.

[00:28:54] Because.

[00:28:57] Because people kept talking about.

[00:28:59] How much they loved.

[00:29:00] Eagle One.

[00:29:00] And like.

[00:29:01] It's a weird thing.

[00:29:02] Like people.

[00:29:03] Developed almost a parasol.

[00:29:04] Not almost.

[00:29:05] People developed a parasocial.

[00:29:06] Relationship.

[00:29:07] With this.

[00:29:08] This pilot.

[00:29:09] That probably has like.

[00:29:10] Five voice lines.

[00:29:12] But they meant something.

[00:29:13] To these people.

[00:29:14] And she would save your life.

[00:29:16] And like.

[00:29:17] You would just.

[00:29:17] You would.

[00:29:18] Bring like.

[00:29:19] Eagle stratagems.

[00:29:20] To be able to.

[00:29:21] You know.

[00:29:22] To bring.

[00:29:22] Bring her with you.

[00:29:23] And it was.

[00:29:24] She was.

[00:29:25] She was.

[00:29:25] Your constant companion.

[00:29:27] In a world.

[00:29:28] Where everything else.

[00:29:28] Wanted to kill you.

[00:29:30] I like that.

[00:29:31] That's really nice.

[00:29:32] I do have a confession to make.

[00:29:33] These are not confessions.

[00:29:34] Until you said the word stratagem.

[00:29:36] I thought we were talking about Warhammer.

[00:29:41] No.

[00:29:43] Gary.

[00:29:44] But now I know.

[00:29:45] But I still don't remember.

[00:29:46] I like.

[00:29:46] I still don't remember.

[00:29:47] It's still.

[00:29:48] Like I.

[00:29:48] I do and I don't.

[00:29:49] Like.

[00:29:50] Yeah.

[00:29:50] I do remember.

[00:29:51] Getting support items and stuff.

[00:29:53] But I never had a.

[00:29:54] I never had an attachment to this person.

[00:29:57] Oh my god.

[00:29:57] You didn't play as much Sherry.

[00:29:59] I played a bit.

[00:30:00] I didn't play as much as you.

[00:30:01] But I played a bit.

[00:30:02] Well that's exactly what I just said.

[00:30:04] Yeah.

[00:30:05] You didn't play as much.

[00:30:07] Just want to make it clear.

[00:30:08] Thank you for agreeing with me.

[00:30:10] Yes.

[00:30:11] We're all in agreement.

[00:30:14] As much as I like the.

[00:30:16] The crazy sexy cool of Maria.

[00:30:18] I kind of.

[00:30:19] Really like.

[00:30:20] The idea.

[00:30:21] Of the Eagle One thing.

[00:30:23] Just like everybody.

[00:30:25] Gushing over this person.

[00:30:26] That like.

[00:30:27] Nobody knows what they look like.

[00:30:28] So they were just like.

[00:30:29] I must draw her.

[00:30:31] I'll draw her.

[00:30:31] But also.

[00:30:32] What people.

[00:30:33] If you actually.

[00:30:34] The sad.

[00:30:35] The tragedy of Eagle One.

[00:30:37] Is that.

[00:30:38] If you read like the.

[00:30:39] Like included.

[00:30:40] Like lore snippets.

[00:30:41] About things in this game.

[00:30:42] And like.

[00:30:43] When you upgrade your.

[00:30:47] Your.

[00:30:47] You're like your.

[00:30:48] Your Eagle.

[00:30:49] To like.

[00:30:50] Store more ammo.

[00:30:51] And stuff like that.

[00:30:52] And if you read the.

[00:30:53] Like the flavor text.

[00:30:54] It becomes pretty clear.

[00:30:55] That it is not impossible.

[00:30:57] That Eagle One's legs.

[00:30:58] Had to be removed.

[00:30:59] So that she could fit in the cockpit.

[00:31:01] Oh.

[00:31:03] What the fuck.

[00:31:05] Most of the fan art.

[00:31:07] Misses that fact.

[00:31:08] But you know what.

[00:31:09] She does it all the same.

[00:31:11] And she does it for you.

[00:31:12] I like this.

[00:31:13] You know.

[00:31:13] I like this.

[00:31:14] I like the idea.

[00:31:15] Of like.

[00:31:16] I mean.

[00:31:16] Also.

[00:31:17] You talked about something sad.

[00:31:18] It's like this.

[00:31:19] People getting so emotionally attached.

[00:31:21] To something.

[00:31:21] That just gives them support.

[00:31:23] Yeah.

[00:31:24] I.

[00:31:26] I like it.

[00:31:28] Mm-hmm.

[00:31:29] And she has a nice voice.

[00:31:30] Because that's all.

[00:31:31] That's all I got.

[00:31:32] She got a nice voice too.

[00:31:33] Mm-hmm.

[00:31:34] Soothing.

[00:31:35] Companionable.

[00:31:36] Yeah.

[00:31:37] Exactly.

[00:31:38] Beth.

[00:31:38] I do feel.

[00:31:39] There's a tragedy.

[00:31:41] To your.

[00:31:42] Waifu.

[00:31:43] Because it's like.

[00:31:45] I get the.

[00:31:46] I get the attraction.

[00:31:47] I get the.

[00:31:48] The.

[00:31:49] The attraction.

[00:31:49] To the idea.

[00:31:50] Of this person.

[00:31:51] But there's a tragedy.

[00:31:52] That.

[00:31:53] You just.

[00:31:53] You can't have them.

[00:31:55] No.

[00:31:56] You can't.

[00:31:56] You can't.

[00:31:58] You know.

[00:31:59] If I look at this.

[00:32:00] Subjectively.

[00:32:02] My waifu.

[00:32:03] Is likely to.

[00:32:05] Murder me.

[00:32:06] Perhaps.

[00:32:07] Your waifu.

[00:32:08] Your.

[00:32:09] Your waifu.

[00:32:10] Is a signal.

[00:32:11] That you.

[00:32:11] Yourself.

[00:32:12] Are going insane.

[00:32:13] And need help.

[00:32:14] Your waifu.

[00:32:15] Is a signal.

[00:32:16] That you are about to.

[00:32:17] Kill yourself.

[00:32:18] Yeah.

[00:32:18] Not great.

[00:32:19] And then yours.

[00:32:20] You can't even have.

[00:32:24] I feel like.

[00:32:25] Greg might win.

[00:32:26] This category.

[00:32:28] Greg can't have.

[00:32:29] His legless lady.

[00:32:30] Either.

[00:32:30] But you know what.

[00:32:31] I like the idea.

[00:32:32] Of her the most.

[00:32:34] And I'm willing.

[00:32:35] To vote against.

[00:32:36] Maria.

[00:32:37] Because I.

[00:32:38] Leave her legs out of it.

[00:32:38] I can't have.

[00:32:40] I can't.

[00:32:40] I can't have Maria winning this.

[00:32:42] And I'm not.

[00:32:43] Honestly.

[00:32:45] I mean.

[00:32:46] I would love for.

[00:32:47] All right.

[00:32:47] To be romanceable.

[00:32:48] But whether or not.

[00:32:49] He wins this.

[00:32:50] This isn't.

[00:32:51] Grahatia.

[00:32:51] I don't need to die on a hill.

[00:32:53] Like.

[00:32:53] Oh that was funny.

[00:32:54] If you ever.

[00:32:55] If you ever want to.

[00:32:55] Want to hear Beth gets.

[00:32:56] Like actually.

[00:32:58] Stressed out on this.

[00:33:00] This show.

[00:33:01] That's the episode.

[00:33:02] Because Greg and I.

[00:33:03] Basically.

[00:33:04] Banded together.

[00:33:05] And we're like.

[00:33:06] No.

[00:33:06] No.

[00:33:06] No.

[00:33:06] No.

[00:33:07] No.

[00:33:07] You guys were just doing the fuck with me.

[00:33:09] And even though I knew.

[00:33:10] Half of it was just fucking with me.

[00:33:11] I couldn't not.

[00:33:12] Fight.

[00:33:13] I like.

[00:33:13] I was like this.

[00:33:14] Unless.

[00:33:14] If this is true.

[00:33:15] I can't have this.

[00:33:16] I don't remember who won last year though.

[00:33:18] But.

[00:33:18] I don't even know who it was.

[00:33:20] I think this year.

[00:33:21] Greg.

[00:33:22] I think.

[00:33:22] I think Eagle One deserves it.

[00:33:24] Yeah.

[00:33:26] All right.

[00:33:27] Winner.

[00:33:28] Eagle One.

[00:33:29] For Waifu of the Year.

[00:33:31] I'll have to say.

[00:33:32] The second Jerry said Maria.

[00:33:34] I was going to vote for your pick.

[00:33:36] No matter what.

[00:33:37] So.

[00:33:37] But I liked.

[00:33:38] The support.

[00:33:39] The support really.

[00:33:40] Gave me something to believe in.

[00:33:46] All right.

[00:33:47] So.

[00:33:49] Next category.

[00:33:51] This is Beth's.

[00:33:52] Beth brought this one to the table.

[00:33:55] Beth.

[00:33:55] Present your award please.

[00:33:57] Okay.

[00:33:58] My award is.

[00:34:00] Sure.

[00:34:01] But.

[00:34:03] And.

[00:34:03] It's kind of like.

[00:34:04] Any game.

[00:34:05] That came out this year.

[00:34:07] Or you played this year.

[00:34:09] That.

[00:34:10] Is.

[00:34:12] Somehow.

[00:34:13] Belovved.

[00:34:15] That you can't fathom.

[00:34:16] You don't understand.

[00:34:17] It either has a really good.

[00:34:19] Like.

[00:34:19] Score.

[00:34:20] Or it has very positive word of mouth.

[00:34:22] And that's why you played it.

[00:34:24] And.

[00:34:25] When you.

[00:34:26] Finished it.

[00:34:26] Or whatever.

[00:34:27] You're just like.

[00:34:27] Like.

[00:34:28] Okay.

[00:34:28] I guess.

[00:34:29] Like you hear the points.

[00:34:31] That other people make about it.

[00:34:32] And you go.

[00:34:32] Sure.

[00:34:33] Totally fine.

[00:34:35] But I don't get it.

[00:34:36] Or.

[00:34:37] But.

[00:34:37] But.

[00:34:38] XYZ.

[00:34:38] Is kind of the concept.

[00:34:39] Your idea.

[00:34:40] So.

[00:34:42] Okay.

[00:34:43] Okay.

[00:34:44] Greg.

[00:34:45] You're up first buddy.

[00:34:47] Jerry.

[00:34:48] I don't have one.

[00:34:51] To put it plainly.

[00:34:54] Nothing.

[00:34:55] Everything.

[00:34:56] Things that people like this year.

[00:34:58] I either didn't play.

[00:34:59] Or have no opinion on them.

[00:35:00] Or like them just fine.

[00:35:01] I.

[00:35:02] Okay.

[00:35:02] I don't think I've got one.

[00:35:03] Unfortunately.

[00:35:04] Okay.

[00:35:05] Okay.

[00:35:06] If I think of one.

[00:35:07] I will interject.

[00:35:09] But.

[00:35:12] Um.

[00:35:13] Well.

[00:35:14] My nomination.

[00:35:16] Is Wukong.

[00:35:19] Really?

[00:35:20] Interesting.

[00:35:21] Here's the thing.

[00:35:23] Wukong's fine.

[00:35:25] It's.

[00:35:26] It's fine.

[00:35:27] Like I.

[00:35:27] I actually.

[00:35:28] I bought it on Steam.

[00:35:30] I played it for like.

[00:35:32] I don't know.

[00:35:33] An hour.

[00:35:34] And I refunded it.

[00:35:36] I knew that I was underneath like the.

[00:35:37] The two hour mark or whatever that you can get the refund back.

[00:35:40] Yeah.

[00:35:41] And I was like.

[00:35:44] Do I really need another Soulslike in my life right now?

[00:35:48] Like it's good.

[00:35:49] I get it.

[00:35:50] But.

[00:35:51] How many fucking Soulslikes are there going to be?

[00:35:55] Like.

[00:35:55] In the run of a year.

[00:35:57] It's.

[00:35:57] It's a.

[00:35:58] It's a genre that I like.

[00:36:00] Dare I say love.

[00:36:02] Because I loved Elden Ring.

[00:36:04] I loved.

[00:36:06] Shadow of the Earth Tree.

[00:36:07] And you also had a good time with Life of.

[00:36:09] Pi.

[00:36:11] Pi.

[00:36:11] Life of Pi.

[00:36:12] The musical.

[00:36:13] What's it?

[00:36:14] Lies of Pi.

[00:36:15] Lies of Pi.

[00:36:16] I got Life of Pi.

[00:36:17] I didn't know about the boy on the boat.

[00:36:19] This tiger.

[00:36:19] Yeah.

[00:36:20] Yeah.

[00:36:20] I didn't play a lot of Lies of Pi.

[00:36:22] Oh.

[00:36:23] But it is good.

[00:36:25] But again.

[00:36:26] I feel like.

[00:36:27] I gotta fire that boy up.

[00:36:27] A lot of the times.

[00:36:29] I will fall off.

[00:36:30] A Soulslike.

[00:36:32] That isn't.

[00:36:32] Something from software.

[00:36:34] Hmm.

[00:36:34] And.

[00:36:36] It's not like some loyalist thing or anything.

[00:36:38] It's just like.

[00:36:39] They're never.

[00:36:41] There's always like that something that's missing.

[00:36:44] That I'm like.

[00:36:45] Yeah.

[00:36:45] This is really cool.

[00:36:46] Like.

[00:36:46] Wukong looks amazing.

[00:36:49] It controls.

[00:36:50] Pretty good.

[00:36:51] Mm hmm.

[00:36:52] But like.

[00:36:52] It was just the concept of like.

[00:36:55] Okay.

[00:36:55] Now I'm in this world with this moveset.

[00:36:58] Doing this thing.

[00:37:00] Yeah.

[00:37:00] And it was like.

[00:37:02] I.

[00:37:03] Like.

[00:37:03] The reviews are good.

[00:37:04] Sure.

[00:37:05] But.

[00:37:06] Do we need another.

[00:37:08] Like.

[00:37:09] Do we need this many Soulslikes.

[00:37:11] Just kicking around.

[00:37:13] Like.

[00:37:14] Which is funny.

[00:37:15] Because I'm.

[00:37:15] I mean.

[00:37:15] Last night.

[00:37:16] I was playing a.

[00:37:17] Quote unquote.

[00:37:18] Soulslike.

[00:37:18] Metroidvania.

[00:37:19] Nine Souls.

[00:37:21] Loving it.

[00:37:21] Like.

[00:37:22] It's.

[00:37:22] It's fantastic.

[00:37:23] But like.

[00:37:25] I feel like the 2D ones.

[00:37:26] They haven't hit that threshold yet.

[00:37:28] Where it's been like.

[00:37:30] Almost like beginning to tip the scale of.

[00:37:32] Oversaturation.

[00:37:33] Whereas like.

[00:37:35] There's so many Soulslikes coming out now.

[00:37:37] To the point where.

[00:37:39] They're using that term.

[00:37:41] Soulslike.

[00:37:42] Just like.

[00:37:43] It's.

[00:37:44] It's a new.

[00:37:45] Like.

[00:37:45] It's basically a new genre.

[00:37:47] Like.

[00:37:47] They.

[00:37:48] They talk about it in like.

[00:37:49] Official trailers for games and stuff.

[00:37:51] And like.

[00:37:51] They.

[00:37:52] Describe their games.

[00:37:54] And games are being described as.

[00:37:55] Soullike.

[00:37:56] At the game awards.

[00:37:58] Everything.

[00:37:59] So.

[00:38:00] And again.

[00:38:01] It's one of those things where.

[00:38:02] This probably sounds contradicting to like.

[00:38:05] What I normally say about these things.

[00:38:07] Because like.

[00:38:07] I do love Soulslikes.

[00:38:09] Don't get me wrong.

[00:38:10] They're great.

[00:38:11] But.

[00:38:12] I never really.

[00:38:14] Find.

[00:38:15] I truly enjoy them.

[00:38:17] As much as like.

[00:38:19] The actual Souls games.

[00:38:21] The Soulsborn.

[00:38:22] Ring games.

[00:38:24] Like.

[00:38:24] It's just not the same.

[00:38:25] So.

[00:38:26] My pick is.

[00:38:28] Wukong.

[00:38:29] This is when we find out that Jerry has the woke mind virus.

[00:38:35] Why?

[00:38:36] Why do we have to talk about?

[00:38:39] Wukong was like.

[00:38:40] The.

[00:38:40] The game that the.

[00:38:42] The anti-woke grifters were.

[00:38:43] Were champion.

[00:38:44] Championing.

[00:38:46] Why?

[00:38:47] I don't remember.

[00:38:48] It's been a long time.

[00:38:49] I don't know.

[00:38:50] It was.

[00:38:51] A return to.

[00:38:52] Format.

[00:38:53] Probably something to do with titties.

[00:38:55] Yeah.

[00:38:56] No.

[00:38:56] No.

[00:38:57] Women.

[00:38:58] DEI.

[00:38:59] Bullshit.

[00:38:59] I don't know.

[00:39:00] It's just because China won't let them.

[00:39:02] It's just a monkey.

[00:39:03] It's just a monkey guys.

[00:39:05] No.

[00:39:05] I don't know.

[00:39:05] I don't know.

[00:39:06] Hmm.

[00:39:07] Okay.

[00:39:08] Well.

[00:39:08] That's.

[00:39:08] I'm.

[00:39:09] I clearly outlined my reason.

[00:39:13] Um.

[00:39:14] Beth.

[00:39:15] What did you have?

[00:39:17] What did I have?

[00:39:19] You know what?

[00:39:20] Hang on.

[00:39:21] Before you do that.

[00:39:22] Let's throw a twist on this.

[00:39:23] Because I already know what you're going to pick.

[00:39:26] I already know what this is.

[00:39:29] I mean.

[00:39:29] I believe that.

[00:39:30] Because it's obvious.

[00:39:32] To anybody who knows me.

[00:39:33] I already know.

[00:39:35] No.

[00:39:35] Yeah.

[00:39:36] So.

[00:39:36] Here's what I'll ask you.

[00:39:38] Yeah.

[00:39:39] You say your.

[00:39:39] You say your thing.

[00:39:41] But then I want to.

[00:39:42] I want you to give one in Greg's place.

[00:39:44] As a secondary pick.

[00:39:46] Oh.

[00:39:46] Okay.

[00:39:47] So like.

[00:39:47] Because I already know.

[00:39:49] And I already know that you're going to have a strong ass opinion.

[00:39:52] And a very strong case.

[00:39:54] For why you hate.

[00:39:56] Final Fantasy.

[00:39:57] Fucking seven rebirth.

[00:40:00] Fuck that game.

[00:40:01] Fuck that game.

[00:40:03] What do you mean a 94 on Medicare?

[00:40:05] What do you mean narrative?

[00:40:07] What?

[00:40:07] No.

[00:40:08] Read a fucking book.

[00:40:11] Narrative?

[00:40:13] Best narrative?

[00:40:14] Oh my God.

[00:40:15] Get the hell out of here.

[00:40:17] You don't know what a narrative is.

[00:40:18] It deserves best narrative.

[00:40:19] But.

[00:40:20] It was good.

[00:40:21] To me.

[00:40:22] Fuck off.

[00:40:23] It was bad.

[00:40:23] It's just.

[00:40:25] It's.

[00:40:26] It's nonsensically.

[00:40:28] Like stupid.

[00:40:30] It.

[00:40:30] And I want.

[00:40:31] I want.

[00:40:33] I mean.

[00:40:34] Take some breaths before you have to talk about Tifa.

[00:40:37] Okay.

[00:40:37] I'm going to try and leave some of that out.

[00:40:40] Because that.

[00:40:42] That's not even.

[00:40:42] That's a.

[00:40:43] Final Fantasy 7.

[00:40:45] Thing.

[00:40:45] Thing in general.

[00:40:46] Is like.

[00:40:46] Them having this.

[00:40:47] Inability to write.

[00:40:49] This.

[00:40:49] This one character.

[00:40:51] That's not a.

[00:40:52] Final Fantasy 7.

[00:40:53] Reaper thing.

[00:40:54] I.

[00:40:55] I had a lot.

[00:40:57] Of goodwill.

[00:40:58] For this game.

[00:41:00] Going into it.

[00:41:01] Like.

[00:41:01] It was one of those situations.

[00:41:02] Where I was like.

[00:41:05] I.

[00:41:06] Don't.

[00:41:07] I like.

[00:41:07] My expectations.

[00:41:08] Weren't through the roof.

[00:41:09] Like.

[00:41:09] I had.

[00:41:10] I feel like I had.

[00:41:11] Moderate level expectations.

[00:41:13] I wasn't like.

[00:41:13] Looking forward to it.

[00:41:14] I was excited.

[00:41:15] I wasn't like.

[00:41:15] This is going to be.

[00:41:17] The best thing.

[00:41:18] I've ever experienced.

[00:41:19] That's not what I thought.

[00:41:20] I was like.

[00:41:21] Oh.

[00:41:21] I hope this is a continuation.

[00:41:22] Of the stuff.

[00:41:23] That they started in.

[00:41:25] Remake.

[00:41:26] And it.

[00:41:27] Immediately starts being like.

[00:41:28] Yeah.

[00:41:29] We're not talking about.

[00:41:29] Half of that shit anymore.

[00:41:30] We're.

[00:41:31] Going to drop.

[00:41:31] A bunch of those threads.

[00:41:33] And I was like.

[00:41:34] Then what the fuck.

[00:41:35] Was the point?

[00:41:36] Um.

[00:41:37] And then I was like.

[00:41:37] Okay.

[00:41:38] Calm down.

[00:41:39] Let's see where this goes.

[00:41:41] And then it continued.

[00:41:42] To do some of the most.

[00:41:44] Frustrating.

[00:41:44] And then.

[00:41:45] Oh my god.

[00:41:46] The.

[00:41:47] Cloud.

[00:41:48] Continuing to get.

[00:41:50] More and more deranged.

[00:41:51] And not a single.

[00:41:53] Fucking.

[00:41:53] Person.

[00:41:54] In his entire party.

[00:41:56] Even being like.

[00:41:57] Hey bro.

[00:41:57] What's going on?

[00:41:59] He tries to.

[00:42:00] Kill.

[00:42:01] Tifa.

[00:42:01] And then they drop it.

[00:42:03] I mean like.

[00:42:04] Nothing.

[00:42:05] Nothing.

[00:42:05] I'm like.

[00:42:05] Why is anything happening in this thing at all?

[00:42:08] None of it makes sense.

[00:42:09] It's a bad fucking story.

[00:42:11] It's forgiveness.

[00:42:12] There's just.

[00:42:12] No.

[00:42:13] No.

[00:42:13] Shut up.

[00:42:15] They're tight.

[00:42:16] They're real tight.

[00:42:17] They're like.

[00:42:17] Childhood friends and stuff.

[00:42:18] And she has a big crush on them.

[00:42:20] But she's too.

[00:42:21] Too shy to tell them.

[00:42:22] Okay.

[00:42:23] Maybe she wouldn't.

[00:42:24] Maybe.

[00:42:24] And that'd be.

[00:42:25] To me.

[00:42:25] Character flaw.

[00:42:26] Maybe she wouldn't.

[00:42:27] But.

[00:42:29] Nobody else does either.

[00:42:31] Like.

[00:42:32] No one in the game.

[00:42:34] So is it just the narrative?

[00:42:35] It's the narrative.

[00:42:36] Oh yeah.

[00:42:37] That killed it?

[00:42:37] The narrative killed it.

[00:42:38] I think that.

[00:42:39] The fluff killed it for me.

[00:42:40] I love the game.

[00:42:42] And I'm going to be.

[00:42:43] The.

[00:42:44] Mini games.

[00:42:45] Being inserted.

[00:42:46] I was originally like.

[00:42:48] Oh cool.

[00:42:48] They're going to.

[00:42:48] I saw the mini game stuff.

[00:42:49] And I was like.

[00:42:50] Cool.

[00:42:50] They're going to give you the option.

[00:42:52] To do all the mini games.

[00:42:53] Like.

[00:42:53] I don't mind a mini game.

[00:42:55] But when it was like.

[00:42:55] Oh.

[00:42:56] I have to do these.

[00:42:57] Like to progress.

[00:42:59] Destroyed the pacing.

[00:43:00] Big time.

[00:43:01] It fucked with the pacing of the story.

[00:43:03] That already is just arduously.

[00:43:06] Fucking.

[00:43:07] Bullshit.

[00:43:08] And I.

[00:43:09] It was like.

[00:43:10] Losing my mind.

[00:43:12] And then.

[00:43:12] I think that like.

[00:43:14] There's like.

[00:43:16] And then.

[00:43:17] Yeah.

[00:43:17] I agree with the.

[00:43:19] The.

[00:43:19] The mini games getting forced in.

[00:43:21] Just started getting.

[00:43:22] Really irritating.

[00:43:23] And further.

[00:43:24] Just like.

[00:43:25] Grinding down.

[00:43:26] Any goodwill.

[00:43:27] That I had for the game.

[00:43:28] And I.

[00:43:30] Unlike.

[00:43:30] And I.

[00:43:31] And I know.

[00:43:31] Unlike a lot of people.

[00:43:32] Who like.

[00:43:33] The remake.

[00:43:34] Both version.

[00:43:35] Like a.

[00:43:36] Remake and rebirth.

[00:43:37] I didn't particularly enjoy the combat.

[00:43:40] I think it's serviceable.

[00:43:41] It's fine.

[00:43:41] But I don't actually hold it.

[00:43:43] In that high regard.

[00:43:44] Hard.

[00:43:45] So.

[00:43:45] The.

[00:43:46] The combat was my least favorite thing.

[00:43:48] About the remake.

[00:43:49] And I.

[00:43:50] Don't think they did much.

[00:43:52] In the way to change it.

[00:43:54] Which is crazy.

[00:43:55] Because honestly.

[00:43:56] I fucking loved that combat.

[00:43:58] Honestly.

[00:43:59] That was the thing that kept me going.

[00:44:01] In that game.

[00:44:02] Was the combat.

[00:44:02] But you can't tell me that fight with Rufus.

[00:44:04] At the end.

[00:44:05] That went on for 55 fucking years.

[00:44:08] Wasn't mind numbingly bad.

[00:44:10] No.

[00:44:11] That wasn't a.

[00:44:11] Okay.

[00:44:12] Here's the thing.

[00:44:13] I think.

[00:44:14] The problem with that fight.

[00:44:15] And.

[00:44:16] I'm not trying to speak for you or anything.

[00:44:18] Yeah.

[00:44:18] But.

[00:44:18] I think you got so frustrated with that fight.

[00:44:21] Because that was a hard fucking fight.

[00:44:23] Like.

[00:44:23] I got to that.

[00:44:24] It just wasn't hard.

[00:44:24] I remember texting you.

[00:44:25] It was long.

[00:44:25] What the fuck is this fight?

[00:44:28] Like.

[00:44:29] It was insane.

[00:44:30] It's not difficult to execute.

[00:44:32] It just was.

[00:44:33] Way too long.

[00:44:34] All of the bosses in that game.

[00:44:35] Have way too much.

[00:44:37] Like.

[00:44:38] Help.

[00:44:38] And it's like.

[00:44:39] I know how to do this fight.

[00:44:41] There's nothing like.

[00:44:42] That special.

[00:44:43] About the combat.

[00:44:44] That is like.

[00:44:44] That level of technique.

[00:44:46] Like.

[00:44:46] Oh yeah.

[00:44:46] And it just.

[00:44:47] It was.

[00:44:48] It still is one of my favorite.

[00:44:50] Like.

[00:44:51] Combat.

[00:44:52] Like.

[00:44:52] Like.

[00:44:53] One of my.

[00:44:54] All time favorite.

[00:44:55] Action RPG combat systems.

[00:44:57] I think.

[00:44:57] Like.

[00:44:58] It's so good to me.

[00:44:59] You're allowed to like it.

[00:45:01] I loved it.

[00:45:01] I strongly disagree.

[00:45:04] Greg.

[00:45:04] Did.

[00:45:05] You never ever did finish that first part.

[00:45:07] Did you?

[00:45:08] No.

[00:45:09] No.

[00:45:09] I didn't.

[00:45:09] Did you enjoy the combat in the first one?

[00:45:12] I hate stagger systems.

[00:45:13] That so many of these games use.

[00:45:15] I think they're fucking bullshit.

[00:45:17] And it's a part of the art.

[00:45:18] They just pad fights.

[00:45:19] It's a.

[00:45:20] It's a part of bloating up the health.

[00:45:22] Far.

[00:45:22] And making these fights go on for longer than necessary.

[00:45:25] Yeah.

[00:45:25] Like.

[00:45:26] Like.

[00:45:26] Like.

[00:45:26] Like.

[00:45:26] That.

[00:45:27] That sag mechanic.

[00:45:28] I didn't like it in 13.

[00:45:29] And I haven't liked it any time I've seen it since.

[00:45:31] I think it sucks.

[00:45:32] No.

[00:45:33] So.

[00:45:33] That wasn't why I bounced off that game.

[00:45:35] I just.

[00:45:35] I just bounced off that game.

[00:45:36] I.

[00:45:37] I.

[00:45:37] I can't.

[00:45:37] I can't.

[00:45:38] And then.

[00:45:38] Oh my god.

[00:45:39] The fumble.

[00:45:40] How do you fuck up?

[00:45:42] So bad.

[00:45:43] This.

[00:45:43] But yeah.

[00:45:44] It's the story that like.

[00:45:45] I think.

[00:45:46] You know.

[00:45:47] The game looks fine.

[00:45:49] It.

[00:45:49] You know.

[00:45:50] The music is the music.

[00:45:51] Great.

[00:45:52] Whatever.

[00:45:52] I don't personally enjoy the combat.

[00:45:55] So it's not like.

[00:45:56] That really is there.

[00:45:58] To like.

[00:45:58] Kind of.

[00:45:59] Bolster it.

[00:46:00] But.

[00:46:01] The way the characters were written.

[00:46:03] And acted.

[00:46:04] And.

[00:46:04] And.

[00:46:05] Was so.

[00:46:06] Abnormal.

[00:46:07] And felt so unnatural.

[00:46:08] And.

[00:46:09] They were like.

[00:46:10] Just frustrating the shit out of me.

[00:46:13] And.

[00:46:13] Then.

[00:46:14] It was like.

[00:46:15] They set up.

[00:46:16] Plot threads.

[00:46:17] And ideas.

[00:46:18] And concepts.

[00:46:18] In remake.

[00:46:19] That they just.

[00:46:20] Fully dropped.

[00:46:21] Stopped.

[00:46:21] And.

[00:46:22] Started.

[00:46:23] And.

[00:46:24] Oh my god.

[00:46:25] Like the whole shit.

[00:46:26] I feel like we need like.

[00:46:26] Award show wrap up music.

[00:46:28] Oh my god.

[00:46:29] Yeah.

[00:46:29] Sorry.

[00:46:29] Sorry.

[00:46:30] Sorry.

[00:46:30] I can literally go on forever.

[00:46:32] Because this is not.

[00:46:32] This is not a remake podcast.

[00:46:34] I hate it.

[00:46:35] I hate it.

[00:46:36] And I like.

[00:46:39] Okay.

[00:46:40] That's.

[00:46:40] But I'm like.

[00:46:41] I genuinely.

[00:46:42] Last thing.

[00:46:43] I'll like.

[00:46:44] I'll say about it for now.

[00:46:45] Unless someone triggers me in the future.

[00:46:48] Because.

[00:46:49] Because of how much I hate this game.

[00:46:52] I fully.

[00:46:53] Out on Final Fantasy 7.

[00:46:55] In general.

[00:46:58] Okay.

[00:46:59] That's it.

[00:47:00] That's my last bit.

[00:47:01] Fine.

[00:47:02] Laugh me off stage.

[00:47:04] I feel like that's the perfect thing.

[00:47:10] Who was that?

[00:47:11] Was it Christopher Judge?

[00:47:12] That they kept.

[00:47:13] Yeah.

[00:47:14] Trying to get off stage.

[00:47:15] That was my Christopher Judge moment.

[00:47:17] We all have them.

[00:47:19] Um.

[00:47:21] Now.

[00:47:22] Just as a.

[00:47:22] As a funny.

[00:47:23] Stupid thing.

[00:47:24] Pick another thing.

[00:47:26] There must have been something else.

[00:47:27] That you also thought.

[00:47:28] There for sure was something else.

[00:47:29] No.

[00:47:30] Honestly.

[00:47:31] Everything else this year.

[00:47:32] I felt kind of like.

[00:47:33] Yeah.

[00:47:33] Okay.

[00:47:34] Whatever.

[00:47:34] Um.

[00:47:35] If we want to cut.

[00:47:37] Genuinely want to cut this.

[00:47:38] Give me two seconds.

[00:47:39] To look at like.

[00:47:40] Top 10 games.

[00:47:41] Or something like that.

[00:47:42] And I can find something.

[00:47:42] To probably formulate a quick.

[00:47:45] Opinion on.

[00:47:46] But my camera is.

[00:47:48] Greg.

[00:47:49] Is there anything that.

[00:47:50] Like maybe.

[00:47:51] Let's just.

[00:47:52] Fucking spin it on its head.

[00:47:53] Is there something that.

[00:47:54] Maybe you.

[00:47:55] You think is good.

[00:47:57] But people didn't like.

[00:48:00] That I thought was good.

[00:48:01] That people didn't like.

[00:48:02] It's like the opposite.

[00:48:04] The opposite.

[00:48:05] I wonder.

[00:48:06] You know what.

[00:48:07] I'll.

[00:48:07] Know what I will talk about.

[00:48:08] A game that I think more people.

[00:48:10] Should have played.

[00:48:11] But it was.

[00:48:12] Kind of.

[00:48:13] Fucked.

[00:48:13] With its distribution.

[00:48:15] And its pricing.

[00:48:16] Which is.

[00:48:17] Prince of Persia.

[00:48:18] The Lost Crown.

[00:48:19] Hmm.

[00:48:20] Oh yeah.

[00:48:22] So that game.

[00:48:24] Yeah.

[00:48:24] They dropped the ball.

[00:48:25] On that one.

[00:48:26] It was.

[00:48:26] It was.

[00:48:28] Uh.

[00:48:28] It was a.

[00:48:30] 2D Metroidvania.

[00:48:31] Priced at 79.99.

[00:48:34] Only released.

[00:48:36] On PC.

[00:48:36] At least on Epic.

[00:48:37] Not on Steam.

[00:48:39] Um.

[00:48:40] As I think that was the case.

[00:48:42] I think.

[00:48:42] I think it was.

[00:48:43] Uh.

[00:48:44] On the.

[00:48:45] Like Ubisoft storefront.

[00:48:46] And it was.

[00:48:47] On Epic.

[00:48:48] And it was just.

[00:48:49] Like I played the demo.

[00:48:50] And.

[00:48:51] I thought it was amazing.

[00:48:53] Was I going to pay.

[00:48:55] Uh.

[00:48:55] $80 plus tax to play it.

[00:48:57] There's no chance.

[00:48:58] Yeah.

[00:48:59] That's a lot.

[00:49:01] But.

[00:49:01] Uh.

[00:49:01] Yeah.

[00:49:02] That.

[00:49:02] Uh.

[00:49:02] I would say.

[00:49:03] Oh no.

[00:49:04] It is on Steam.

[00:49:04] It is on Steam.

[00:49:05] My bad.

[00:49:06] Oh.

[00:49:06] Guys.

[00:49:06] It took a price drop to 54.99.

[00:49:08] That.

[00:49:08] I'm sure that helped things.

[00:49:10] That's still.

[00:49:10] I feel like these games shouldn't be any more than.

[00:49:12] Like.

[00:49:13] $49.

[00:49:13] It should have released at 30.

[00:49:14] It should have released at 49 or 39.

[00:49:16] Yeah.

[00:49:17] Like.

[00:49:17] And then.

[00:49:17] You know what.

[00:49:18] People would have.

[00:49:18] Half the price.

[00:49:18] People would have played it.

[00:49:21] Yeah.

[00:49:21] Probably.

[00:49:22] Yeah.

[00:49:22] Is it.

[00:49:22] Is it not on like their Ubisoft.

[00:49:24] Like.

[00:49:25] Thingy.

[00:49:26] I'm sure it is.

[00:49:27] But like.

[00:49:28] But yeah.

[00:49:29] Then you got to.

[00:49:29] Price point.

[00:49:30] Yeah.

[00:49:31] Ubisoft plus.

[00:49:31] Or you play where the fuck they call it now.

[00:49:33] And it's.

[00:49:33] It's all.

[00:49:34] Stupid.

[00:49:36] Um.

[00:49:38] So.

[00:49:38] I mean.

[00:49:40] How about this too.

[00:49:42] Greg.

[00:49:43] From both of our.

[00:49:46] Stances on.

[00:49:47] The games that we've picked.

[00:49:50] What.

[00:49:51] Which one would you lean.

[00:49:53] More toward.

[00:49:55] Towards what.

[00:49:56] Like.

[00:49:58] For.

[00:49:58] Disliking.

[00:49:59] For actually like winning this award.

[00:50:01] Uh.

[00:50:01] It would probably be Final Fantasy.

[00:50:02] Because I didn't finish the first one.

[00:50:06] True.

[00:50:07] True.

[00:50:07] I don't see a world where I play the second one.

[00:50:08] And after not finishing the first one.

[00:50:10] So I guess it's that one by default.

[00:50:12] And.

[00:50:13] And I.

[00:50:13] I don't like a staggered system.

[00:50:14] And I don't think Wukong has one.

[00:50:16] So I'm.

[00:50:16] I can be all about that.

[00:50:19] Yeah.

[00:50:20] It's just a soul's lick.

[00:50:21] Like.

[00:50:21] I can.

[00:50:21] I could play.

[00:50:23] Wukong.

[00:50:24] And have a good time.

[00:50:26] I.

[00:50:26] I.

[00:50:27] So much don't like a staggered system.

[00:50:29] That I don't think I would.

[00:50:30] Have a good time.

[00:50:31] With the combat.

[00:50:32] In.

[00:50:32] In Rebirth.

[00:50:34] Also Beth.

[00:50:35] The.

[00:50:36] The amount.

[00:50:37] Of times that I've lent my ear.

[00:50:39] To your screaming voice.

[00:50:41] I hate this.

[00:50:42] This year.

[00:50:43] For this game.

[00:50:44] I feel like if you.

[00:50:46] If this doesn't win this.

[00:50:48] Category.

[00:50:49] I just.

[00:50:50] I do feel.

[00:50:51] To like.

[00:50:52] To let you guys know.

[00:50:54] This is the thing I feel.

[00:50:55] The most strongly about.

[00:50:57] That's happened this year.

[00:50:58] Like nothing else compares.

[00:51:00] How much.

[00:51:01] I.

[00:51:01] Really think this game was.

[00:51:04] We're.

[00:51:06] I'm.

[00:51:07] Definitely okay with.

[00:51:08] Nominating it.

[00:51:09] Like you make a fair point.

[00:51:11] About.

[00:51:12] How.

[00:51:14] You know.

[00:51:14] The.

[00:51:15] The narrative for you.

[00:51:17] Just was so lackluster.

[00:51:18] And everything.

[00:51:19] Greg.

[00:51:19] You do make a good point too.

[00:51:21] About the.

[00:51:21] The stagger system.

[00:51:22] I.

[00:51:23] Also don't.

[00:51:24] Care too much.

[00:51:25] For.

[00:51:25] Staggers.

[00:51:26] But like.

[00:51:26] I don't mind it.

[00:51:28] So much in this.

[00:51:29] You know what it is.

[00:51:30] It feels.

[00:51:31] Because they've been doing it.

[00:51:32] For so long.

[00:51:32] And I haven't seen any.

[00:51:33] Any kind of like.

[00:51:34] Real change to that system.

[00:51:35] It feels dated.

[00:51:37] Yeah.

[00:51:37] I feel slow and dated.

[00:51:39] And I would.

[00:51:39] Like argue that.

[00:51:41] Something that.

[00:51:41] They did in 13.

[00:51:43] I know you just.

[00:51:44] Didn't like the stagger system in 13.

[00:51:46] I actually.

[00:51:47] Do like.

[00:51:48] The 13 system.

[00:51:49] I hate that battle system.

[00:51:51] But the.

[00:51:52] And that's fair.

[00:51:53] It's not.

[00:51:53] It's not for everybody.

[00:51:54] That's fair.

[00:51:55] But.

[00:51:55] One of the reasons why.

[00:51:57] I did end up liking it.

[00:51:58] Is because.

[00:51:59] How you.

[00:52:00] Laid out your paradigms.

[00:52:03] Really.

[00:52:04] Made it so that like.

[00:52:06] For each.

[00:52:06] Boss fight.

[00:52:08] You.

[00:52:09] You went in.

[00:52:09] And you had your paradigm.

[00:52:10] Set up the right way.

[00:52:11] And you'd be able to stagger them.

[00:52:13] Like in seconds.

[00:52:14] So.

[00:52:14] I think that.

[00:52:15] It was like.

[00:52:17] Very.

[00:52:18] Very well.

[00:52:19] In my opinion.

[00:52:20] It was like.

[00:52:21] Very much.

[00:52:22] Integrated.

[00:52:22] Into the system.

[00:52:23] In a way.

[00:52:24] That they were like.

[00:52:25] Really much a part of each other.

[00:52:26] But like.

[00:52:27] Since then.

[00:52:28] They've kind of taken.

[00:52:29] In the stagger system.

[00:52:30] But not really.

[00:52:31] Like have.

[00:52:32] Kind of like.

[00:52:33] Done.

[00:52:33] Like you said.

[00:52:34] Done anything with it.

[00:52:36] To make it like.

[00:52:38] Any more interesting.

[00:52:39] It's just.

[00:52:40] It's.

[00:52:41] It's just an illusion.

[00:52:42] To give boss.

[00:52:43] Bosses.

[00:52:44] Yeah.

[00:52:45] More health.

[00:52:46] Yeah.

[00:52:46] Just give them a big ass health bar.

[00:52:48] Who gives a shit.

[00:52:49] Just give them a big ass health bar.

[00:52:50] And call it a day.

[00:52:51] Yeah.

[00:52:52] I guess so.

[00:52:53] Well.

[00:52:55] I'm okay.

[00:52:55] Nominating it.

[00:52:57] Winning.

[00:52:57] You mean winning.

[00:52:58] It's not nominated.

[00:52:59] It wins.

[00:53:00] Winning.

[00:53:01] Winning.

[00:53:03] Awarding.

[00:53:05] The sure butt.

[00:53:06] Award.

[00:53:07] To.

[00:53:07] Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

[00:53:08] I think I'd be less annoyed too.

[00:53:10] If it didn't get such a high score.

[00:53:12] Like if it got an 80.

[00:53:14] Or an 81.

[00:53:16] Understandable.

[00:53:18] So.

[00:53:19] This is kind of funny so far.

[00:53:20] Because Greg's award.

[00:53:22] Greg has won.

[00:53:23] His nomination.

[00:53:24] Beth's award.

[00:53:25] Beth has won her nomination.

[00:53:26] So god damn it.

[00:53:27] I better win my own award.

[00:53:30] Who knows.

[00:53:31] So my award.

[00:53:32] This year.

[00:53:32] I'm bringing it back.

[00:53:34] It's been in.

[00:53:34] Every single one of our game of the years.

[00:53:37] You know me.

[00:53:37] I love a horror game.

[00:53:39] Or just.

[00:53:40] Tension.

[00:53:41] Or jaw dropping moments in general.

[00:53:43] They're my favorite things in video games.

[00:53:45] So.

[00:53:46] I present to you.

[00:53:47] The shit pant.

[00:53:48] Award.

[00:53:49] 2024.

[00:53:51] So.

[00:53:51] This.

[00:53:52] For.

[00:53:53] If you don't already know.

[00:53:55] By the title.

[00:53:56] Something that like.

[00:53:57] Actually.

[00:53:58] Is like.

[00:53:59] Makes you shit your pants.

[00:54:02] It's shocking.

[00:54:03] It's terrifying.

[00:54:04] It's jarring.

[00:54:06] Something that just.

[00:54:06] Leaves you.

[00:54:08] Totally.

[00:54:09] Numb.

[00:54:10] Or totally scared.

[00:54:11] It's just this feeling of like.

[00:54:13] Holy shit.

[00:54:16] Um.

[00:54:16] You fill your britches.

[00:54:17] Yeah.

[00:54:18] Fill them bratches.

[00:54:20] Up.

[00:54:21] Um.

[00:54:22] Beth.

[00:54:23] What is your nomination.

[00:54:24] For the shit pant award?

[00:54:26] I feel really like.

[00:54:28] Conflicted.

[00:54:29] I almost want you to go first.

[00:54:30] Because I have.

[00:54:31] I think.

[00:54:32] I think I know what it's going to be.

[00:54:34] Well I have two that I'm okay with.

[00:54:37] But I feel like one of them is.

[00:54:40] Like.

[00:54:41] Definitely what you're going to pick.

[00:54:43] It's not.

[00:54:44] No.

[00:54:44] I can promise you.

[00:54:46] You promise.

[00:54:48] Mm-hmm.

[00:54:49] Okay.

[00:54:50] Then.

[00:54:51] Basically.

[00:54:52] Nine.

[00:54:52] My.

[00:54:53] My thing.

[00:54:55] Is.

[00:54:56] Approximately.

[00:54:57] 80% of mouth washing.

[00:55:00] I knew it.

[00:55:02] Yeah.

[00:55:03] Yeah.

[00:55:03] Mouth washing.

[00:55:04] Just as a.

[00:55:05] As a whole.

[00:55:06] Is just.

[00:55:07] All of it.

[00:55:08] Jaw dropping.

[00:55:08] Jaw dropping.

[00:55:10] Like.

[00:55:11] Just.

[00:55:12] Shock.

[00:55:13] After.

[00:55:14] Horrifying realization.

[00:55:15] After.

[00:55:16] Disturbing visual.

[00:55:18] After.

[00:55:19] Something.

[00:55:19] But what.

[00:55:20] Thing.

[00:55:21] Now again.

[00:55:22] I don't want to do too many spoilers or anything in this.

[00:55:24] In this episode.

[00:55:25] But.

[00:55:26] I was just talking to Dave Jackson about this today.

[00:55:29] Because he just finished it.

[00:55:31] And.

[00:55:32] I was like.

[00:55:33] Dude.

[00:55:33] The cut the cake part.

[00:55:35] Made me put my controller down.

[00:55:38] Yeah.

[00:55:38] And I was.

[00:55:39] I just kind of sat back.

[00:55:40] And I was like.

[00:55:41] The realization.

[00:55:43] When feast comes up.

[00:55:44] And then you kind of like.

[00:55:45] Take that in.

[00:55:46] And realize what it means.

[00:55:48] And you're like.

[00:55:49] Jesus Christ.

[00:55:51] But.

[00:55:52] Maybe.

[00:55:52] What's the.

[00:55:53] What's the one thing though?

[00:55:54] The one moment in that game.

[00:55:56] That.

[00:55:56] That deserves this award.

[00:55:58] For me.

[00:55:59] Probably.

[00:56:00] Swansea coming at you.

[00:56:01] In that graveyard.

[00:56:02] Hallucination thing.

[00:56:04] Because of the way.

[00:56:05] The noise.

[00:56:06] Yeah.

[00:56:06] Did you find that scary?

[00:56:08] I did.

[00:56:09] And I.

[00:56:09] Yeah.

[00:56:09] Jerry.

[00:56:12] Jerry.

[00:56:12] I found it scary.

[00:56:13] And I started yelling.

[00:56:15] So.

[00:56:15] I was like.

[00:56:16] Oh my god.

[00:56:16] Jerry.

[00:56:17] Jerry.

[00:56:17] Jerry.

[00:56:18] Jerry.

[00:56:25] You're.

[00:56:26] You're.

[00:56:27] You're.

[00:56:27] Like.

[00:56:27] You're scaring me.

[00:56:31] You're.

[00:56:32] Terrifying me.

[00:56:32] I'm like.

[00:56:33] Oh.

[00:56:33] Sorry.

[00:56:34] This is why we're such good friends.

[00:56:35] We can.

[00:56:35] We can have moments like this.

[00:56:37] Where we go.

[00:56:37] I'm going to need you to.

[00:56:38] Just.

[00:56:39] You need to shut down.

[00:56:41] You need to shut it down.

[00:56:42] Hold it in.

[00:56:43] I need you to go away.

[00:56:45] Yeah.

[00:56:46] That was a.

[00:56:46] That was a.

[00:56:48] Insane moment.

[00:56:49] For sure.

[00:56:50] I just mean like.

[00:56:50] So much of that game though.

[00:56:52] Like.

[00:56:52] Almost.

[00:56:53] Like every.

[00:56:54] I feel like every.

[00:56:55] Ten minutes.

[00:56:56] We were like.

[00:56:58] Yes.

[00:56:58] What the fuck.

[00:57:00] For shizzle.

[00:57:01] But because.

[00:57:03] Because my level of like.

[00:57:05] Anxiety.

[00:57:05] In that moment.

[00:57:06] Freaked you out.

[00:57:07] I kind of have to pick that moment.

[00:57:09] Because it's like.

[00:57:10] My.

[00:57:10] My.

[00:57:10] My anxiety was so high.

[00:57:13] It transferred to you.

[00:57:17] Well you're in luck.

[00:57:18] My pick was not from mouth washing.

[00:57:20] But Greg.

[00:57:21] I would love to know yours.

[00:57:24] Sure Jay.

[00:57:25] So.

[00:57:25] Mine comes from.

[00:57:27] Space Marine 2.

[00:57:30] Lots of tense moments in that game.

[00:57:34] So.

[00:57:36] For.

[00:57:38] The bulk of the game.

[00:57:39] You fight against the tyramid.

[00:57:41] The tyranid.

[00:57:42] Excuse me.

[00:57:42] And they generally.

[00:57:44] Their.

[00:57:44] Their game plan is to overwhelm you with numbers.

[00:57:47] There's one part in that game.

[00:57:49] Where you're going through basically like.

[00:57:52] Like a.

[00:57:53] A lab that they've infested.

[00:57:55] To recover some data.

[00:57:57] And then.

[00:57:58] When you're downloading the data in this one room.

[00:58:00] Or something like that.

[00:58:01] You're in this room for a period of time.

[00:58:04] And the power goes out.

[00:58:06] And it's pitch black.

[00:58:07] And you hear them.

[00:58:08] And they've come to attack you.

[00:58:11] And the only way you can light the room.

[00:58:14] Is with the muzzle.

[00:58:15] Muzzle flash of your gun.

[00:58:16] Oh.

[00:58:17] Otherwise.

[00:58:18] It's pitch black.

[00:58:19] That's scary.

[00:58:21] Yeah.

[00:58:21] And that is.

[00:58:22] I was there for that.

[00:58:23] I.

[00:58:23] That is such an intense moment.

[00:58:26] Because you have to keep fighting.

[00:58:27] Or else you can't see.

[00:58:29] Mm-hmm.

[00:58:30] And then.

[00:58:31] If then you die.

[00:58:32] If you just stop firing.

[00:58:33] Then you won't be able to see.

[00:58:34] And you die.

[00:58:35] Like it's.

[00:58:36] It's.

[00:58:36] It's.

[00:58:37] It was such a.

[00:58:39] Tense.

[00:58:40] In a game.

[00:58:41] That is.

[00:58:42] Not at all.

[00:58:43] You know.

[00:58:46] To say this though.

[00:58:47] I don't know if I could.

[00:58:48] Consider this the shit pan award.

[00:58:49] Because.

[00:58:50] My ass was clenched.

[00:58:51] So tightly.

[00:58:52] Nothing's coming out of it.

[00:58:53] In that moment.

[00:58:54] You're shitting diamonds.

[00:58:57] Because it was.

[00:58:58] It was very tense.

[00:58:59] I remember like.

[00:59:00] After that.

[00:59:01] Like that whole thing.

[00:59:02] I was like.

[00:59:02] Can we just like.

[00:59:03] Walk around in this area.

[00:59:04] For a second.

[00:59:05] I gotta like.

[00:59:05] Kind of catch myself.

[00:59:07] I gotta like.

[00:59:08] I gotta breathe for a second.

[00:59:10] Mm-hmm.

[00:59:11] It was.

[00:59:12] It was like.

[00:59:13] Shockingly intense.

[00:59:14] Intense.

[00:59:14] Like I mean.

[00:59:15] The game is already intense.

[00:59:17] Yeah.

[00:59:18] There's already a lot going on.

[00:59:19] But out of nowhere.

[00:59:20] Yeah.

[00:59:21] It's just like this moment of like.

[00:59:22] What the fuck?

[00:59:23] The game is scary?

[00:59:24] What's going on?

[00:59:26] Yeah.

[00:59:27] Just crying in a corner.

[00:59:30] Yeah.

[00:59:30] It was great.

[00:59:31] It.

[00:59:31] It.

[00:59:31] It.

[00:59:32] It doesn't like.

[00:59:33] Pull any punches.

[00:59:34] At that.

[00:59:35] At that particular point.

[00:59:36] That was a fantastic moment.

[00:59:40] Uh.

[00:59:41] My pick.

[00:59:43] Is.

[00:59:43] From Silent Hill 2.

[00:59:45] Actually.

[00:59:47] And.

[00:59:48] The thing.

[00:59:51] That really.

[00:59:52] Really.

[00:59:53] Got me.

[00:59:55] Good.

[00:59:57] Because I couldn't remember fully.

[00:59:59] A lot of the.

[01:00:01] Like the.

[01:00:02] Beats.

[01:00:02] Between the main story beats.

[01:00:05] Of Silent Hill 2.

[01:00:06] Like I remembered some stuff about it.

[01:00:08] Because it had been a long time since I played it.

[01:00:10] So I remembered things.

[01:00:12] Things.

[01:00:12] But I didn't remember.

[01:00:15] The little things.

[01:00:16] The little scary things.

[01:00:18] And the way that Silent Hill 2.

[01:00:20] Remake.

[01:00:21] Took.

[01:00:22] Little.

[01:00:23] Details.

[01:00:24] And.

[01:00:25] Blew them up into.

[01:00:26] These extravagant details.

[01:00:29] Was.

[01:00:30] Brilliant.

[01:00:31] One of those things.

[01:00:32] That I.

[01:00:33] I don't.

[01:00:34] I think it might be in.

[01:00:36] The original.

[01:00:37] But maybe not in this way.

[01:00:38] But spoiler alert.

[01:00:40] If you haven't gotten past.

[01:00:42] The hospital yet.

[01:00:43] This is a very minor spoiler.

[01:00:45] Spoiler.

[01:00:45] And maybe you want to hear the spoiler.

[01:00:47] Because this jump scare.

[01:00:49] Nearly.

[01:00:50] Put me on the floor.

[01:00:52] There's a part.

[01:00:53] When you're like.

[01:00:54] I mean.

[01:00:55] The hospital is already.

[01:00:56] Such a fucking terrifying place.

[01:00:59] And in the remake.

[01:01:01] You're there for.

[01:01:02] Four hours.

[01:01:04] Like.

[01:01:04] Alone.

[01:01:05] Like it's.

[01:01:06] It's.

[01:01:07] So much longer.

[01:01:08] In the remake.

[01:01:08] Than it was.

[01:01:09] In the original.

[01:01:10] So like.

[01:01:11] By the time.

[01:01:11] You're like.

[01:01:12] Oh.

[01:01:13] Thank God.

[01:01:13] I have the key.

[01:01:15] To the place.

[01:01:15] I know I can go.

[01:01:16] To get the fuck.

[01:01:17] Out of here.

[01:01:19] And like.

[01:01:19] You're making your way up.

[01:01:20] And you're like.

[01:01:21] Okay.

[01:01:21] I don't want.

[01:01:22] I don't have to deal with these nurses anymore.

[01:01:23] Like.

[01:01:24] I just run.

[01:01:24] Like a skirt past them.

[01:01:25] Like.

[01:01:26] You're just like.

[01:01:26] I just need to get.

[01:01:28] Out of this place.

[01:01:30] And you get to the rooftop.

[01:01:32] And you open a door.

[01:01:34] And as soon as you open the door.

[01:01:36] A cut scene starts.

[01:01:38] Where pyramid head.

[01:01:39] Is on the other side.

[01:01:40] And he grabs James.

[01:01:42] And I'm telling you right now.

[01:01:44] That scene.

[01:01:45] Scared the fucking shit out of me.

[01:01:47] Like.

[01:01:48] There were jump scares.

[01:01:50] In mouth washing.

[01:01:51] Yes.

[01:01:52] But no jump scare.

[01:01:54] This year has gotten me as bad.

[01:01:56] As that jump scare.

[01:01:57] That fucked me up.

[01:01:59] And then they just were like.

[01:02:00] Oh yeah.

[01:02:00] Here you go.

[01:02:01] Just continue playing now.

[01:02:02] And as if.

[01:02:04] You know.

[01:02:04] My heart didn't just.

[01:02:06] Palpitate and explode.

[01:02:07] Like.

[01:02:08] I.

[01:02:10] Had to pause the game.

[01:02:11] And just be like.

[01:02:13] Think I'm going to go make myself a coffee.

[01:02:15] Like.

[01:02:15] I think I need to like.

[01:02:16] Get the jitters out.

[01:02:17] Right now.

[01:02:17] With more jitters.

[01:02:18] From something else.

[01:02:19] It.

[01:02:20] Fucked me up.

[01:02:21] Like it.

[01:02:22] It was a bad jump scare.

[01:02:24] And.

[01:02:25] To me.

[01:02:26] That is the definition of shit pan.

[01:02:28] It's just something that.

[01:02:30] Let's you let your guard down.

[01:02:33] Long enough.

[01:02:34] To.

[01:02:34] Puncture you.

[01:02:37] And that's exactly what that part was.

[01:02:40] But I will say.

[01:02:43] As a whole.

[01:02:45] Mouth washing was.

[01:02:46] For the two hour long run of mouth washing.

[01:02:49] I was.

[01:02:50] Genuinely.

[01:02:51] Terrified.

[01:02:53] I just think like.

[01:02:54] It was more disturbed.

[01:02:55] Like.

[01:02:56] Actually.

[01:02:56] I don't know.

[01:02:56] It's not that it's more disturbing.

[01:02:58] It's a different type of disturbing.

[01:02:59] I guess.

[01:03:00] But like.

[01:03:00] It really like.

[01:03:02] Is.

[01:03:03] I like don't know how to just.

[01:03:04] It's like.

[01:03:05] The entire atmosphere.

[01:03:07] Is like.

[01:03:08] Disquieting.

[01:03:09] It's like.

[01:03:09] There.

[01:03:10] You just.

[01:03:11] Feel.

[01:03:12] Uneasy.

[01:03:14] Almost.

[01:03:15] All the time.

[01:03:16] And then.

[01:03:17] Even when you're in like.

[01:03:18] The before.

[01:03:20] Crash.

[01:03:21] Like.

[01:03:21] So when shit isn't necessarily.

[01:03:23] Like.

[01:03:23] Off the rails.

[01:03:24] You just have like this.

[01:03:26] Mounting sense of tension.

[01:03:28] And.

[01:03:28] To me.

[01:03:29] It just is like.

[01:03:31] This huge.

[01:03:31] Constant dread.

[01:03:32] Like.

[01:03:33] Yeah.

[01:03:33] Feeling constant dread.

[01:03:34] Where you're like.

[01:03:36] Like.

[01:03:36] I don't know.

[01:03:37] It just makes you feel uneasy.

[01:03:39] In a way that like.

[01:03:40] Only horror movies have ever really done that to me.

[01:03:44] Silent Hill did do it to me.

[01:03:46] But.

[01:03:47] Even though.

[01:03:48] I.

[01:03:49] I.

[01:03:49] Like.

[01:03:50] I literally played Silent Hill 2.

[01:03:51] And mouth washing almost back to back.

[01:03:53] Yeah.

[01:03:53] Yeah.

[01:03:54] But I feel like mouth washing.

[01:03:56] Had.

[01:03:57] In its two hour run time.

[01:04:00] Just like.

[01:04:02] Scares and uneasiness per minute.

[01:04:05] Like.

[01:04:06] Way more than Silent Hill.

[01:04:07] Absolutely.

[01:04:08] Like.

[01:04:08] I think that.

[01:04:09] I mean.

[01:04:09] Jerry.

[01:04:10] I love Silent Hill.

[01:04:11] And I know that I.

[01:04:12] Like.

[01:04:12] You know.

[01:04:13] Use the Swansea thing.

[01:04:15] As a thing.

[01:04:15] But like.

[01:04:16] Think about how many times.

[01:04:17] When we were playing mouth washing.

[01:04:18] That we just like.

[01:04:19] Were like.

[01:04:21] What the fuck.

[01:04:22] Is.

[01:04:23] Like.

[01:04:23] Not even.

[01:04:23] It wasn't jump scares.

[01:04:25] It was genuinely.

[01:04:27] Atmosphere.

[01:04:28] Like.

[01:04:28] What was.

[01:04:29] Like.

[01:04:29] What we were looking at.

[01:04:30] Just was like.

[01:04:31] Just having to.

[01:04:32] Having to carry.

[01:04:33] What's the.

[01:04:34] What's the.

[01:04:35] Curly.

[01:04:35] Curly.

[01:04:36] Having to carry him.

[01:04:37] And him.

[01:04:37] And just looking at you.

[01:04:38] I was like.

[01:04:38] And when you're.

[01:04:39] I don't like this.

[01:04:40] And when you're walking around.

[01:04:41] In one part.

[01:04:42] To get his medication.

[01:04:43] You can hear him crying.

[01:04:44] And breathing.

[01:04:45] And like.

[01:04:45] Us like.

[01:04:46] Being like.

[01:04:47] We gotta go.

[01:04:47] And get this shit.

[01:04:48] Cause like.

[01:04:48] He was.

[01:04:49] His.

[01:04:49] And then when you have to give him the meds.

[01:04:51] The sound.

[01:04:52] Yeah.

[01:04:53] Like.

[01:04:53] It just is.

[01:04:53] Not bad.

[01:04:55] Like.

[01:04:55] The whole.

[01:04:56] Like.

[01:04:56] You know what.

[01:04:57] Maybe not shit pant.

[01:04:58] But I wanted to throw up.

[01:04:59] Multiple times.

[01:05:01] I felt so.

[01:05:02] Just like.

[01:05:03] Uncomfortable.

[01:05:04] And so like.

[01:05:05] Ugh.

[01:05:06] And uh.

[01:05:07] What?

[01:05:07] It's the shit pant award.

[01:05:08] Not the far shirt award.

[01:05:10] Which is.

[01:05:10] Hey.

[01:05:10] Maybe that's me.

[01:05:11] Trying to give Jerry his out.

[01:05:13] Um.

[01:05:15] So he can get his silent hill.

[01:05:17] But I just.

[01:05:18] I really.

[01:05:18] I think that.

[01:05:19] It like.

[01:05:21] It.

[01:05:22] Such.

[01:05:23] Just.

[01:05:24] For.

[01:05:24] For like.

[01:05:25] One.

[01:05:26] Like context.

[01:05:27] Uh.

[01:05:27] Greg.

[01:05:28] There was.

[01:05:29] This point.

[01:05:30] Where.

[01:05:30] Well.

[01:05:30] It's like.

[01:05:31] Like I said.

[01:05:31] Not a jump scare.

[01:05:33] Just something that like.

[01:05:34] Like shit's going off the rails.

[01:05:35] The character's clearly losing it.

[01:05:38] And you're walking down this hallway.

[01:05:40] And then.

[01:05:40] As you're coming.

[01:05:41] Around this corner.

[01:05:44] At the same time.

[01:05:45] Me and Jerry.

[01:05:47] Notice.

[01:05:47] This like.

[01:05:48] Image.

[01:05:49] Underneath.

[01:05:50] The floor.

[01:05:51] And just went.

[01:05:53] Oh my.

[01:05:54] Fucking.

[01:05:55] God.

[01:05:55] Odd.

[01:05:56] Like in the same tone.

[01:05:57] At the same time.

[01:05:59] Because it was just like.

[01:06:00] Chills.

[01:06:01] Of just feeling like.

[01:06:02] This is just.

[01:06:03] Horror.

[01:06:04] Like you just feel.

[01:06:05] So uncomfortable.

[01:06:06] And like.

[01:06:07] You're like.

[01:06:09] Also.

[01:06:10] The flashing words.

[01:06:11] Oh my god.

[01:06:13] So crazy.

[01:06:14] And I hope this hurts.

[01:06:15] That.

[01:06:16] Has stuck with me.

[01:06:18] Yeah.

[01:06:18] That flashing word.

[01:06:20] Has stuck with me.

[01:06:21] Especially after knowing.

[01:06:22] Because again.

[01:06:22] I don't want to spoil anything.

[01:06:23] To do with mouth washing.

[01:06:25] But like.

[01:06:26] Um.

[01:06:27] Knowing the context of that.

[01:06:29] Because like.

[01:06:29] A lot of the words.

[01:06:30] Flash on the screen.

[01:06:31] You're like.

[01:06:32] What the fuck.

[01:06:32] Does any of this even mean.

[01:06:34] Yeah.

[01:06:35] I actually thought.

[01:06:35] When we started this game.

[01:06:36] That it was going to be like.

[01:06:37] A funny game.

[01:06:38] Really?

[01:06:39] I did.

[01:06:40] Because like.

[01:06:41] The thing that chases you.

[01:06:42] At the beginning of the game.

[01:06:42] I was like.

[01:06:43] What the fuck is that?

[01:06:44] Oh yeah.

[01:06:44] Fair.

[01:06:45] Right.

[01:06:45] So I was like.

[01:06:46] Like what is this game?

[01:06:47] And then it just.

[01:06:48] Fuck.

[01:06:48] It's.

[01:06:49] Spirals.

[01:06:51] So not to spoil.

[01:06:52] Because since we don't want to spoil something.

[01:06:53] But um.

[01:06:55] I watched.

[01:06:56] Just because.

[01:06:57] It's so good.

[01:06:58] I watched.

[01:06:58] Um.

[01:06:58] A streamer play it last night.

[01:07:00] Because they.

[01:07:01] I watched.

[01:07:01] Their streamer I really like.

[01:07:02] They actually play a lot of Silent Hill.

[01:07:04] And like Silent Hill speed runs.

[01:07:06] Um.

[01:07:06] And they were picking it up for the first time last night.

[01:07:08] So I watched them play through.

[01:07:10] Um.

[01:07:11] And.

[01:07:12] Someone in the comments.

[01:07:15] Like.

[01:07:15] In the chat.

[01:07:16] Said a few things.

[01:07:17] That made me have even more realizations.

[01:07:19] About.

[01:07:21] What was going on.

[01:07:22] And so.

[01:07:22] I'll tell you about it after.

[01:07:24] But like.

[01:07:24] So here's the thing.

[01:07:25] Yeah.

[01:07:27] I've played.

[01:07:28] All three of the games.

[01:07:29] That we're talking about in this award.

[01:07:31] Uh huh.

[01:07:33] The part that Greg is talking about.

[01:07:35] Actually is very.

[01:07:36] Very intense.

[01:07:38] I believe it.

[01:07:39] And even.

[01:07:39] Like.

[01:07:39] There's like a really intense horror sequence.

[01:07:41] In a non-horror thing.

[01:07:42] Like you feel even.

[01:07:43] You're not ready for it.

[01:07:44] You're not ready for it.

[01:07:45] You feel.

[01:07:45] You want to talk about like.

[01:07:46] Shit your pants and unsafe.

[01:07:48] And all that.

[01:07:48] That's.

[01:07:49] Yeah.

[01:07:50] And that's kind of the point I'm getting at.

[01:07:51] Is that.

[01:07:51] Yeah.

[01:07:52] That in.

[01:07:53] In the same context.

[01:07:54] As the.

[01:07:54] The part that I'm talking about.

[01:07:55] From Silent Hill.

[01:07:56] Where it lets you let your guard down.

[01:07:58] Where you're like.

[01:07:59] Yeah.

[01:07:59] Okay.

[01:07:59] I just want to get out of here.

[01:08:00] Like.

[01:08:00] I'm letting my guard down.

[01:08:02] I'm.

[01:08:02] I'm like.

[01:08:03] Basically speed running back to the spot.

[01:08:04] That I know I now have like.

[01:08:06] The key for.

[01:08:07] Mm-hmm.

[01:08:07] Um.

[01:08:08] But.

[01:08:09] Like.

[01:08:12] Those two moments.

[01:08:13] Are kind of like the same feeling.

[01:08:15] Yeah.

[01:08:16] That said.

[01:08:18] The feelings that I got from mouth washing.

[01:08:21] Were a different kind of.

[01:08:24] Like scared.

[01:08:25] Yeah.

[01:08:26] That I've not been from a game in a very long time.

[01:08:29] You thought you'd never shit again.

[01:08:32] The tagline.

[01:08:34] That's what it says.

[01:08:35] Mouth washing.

[01:08:35] And honestly.

[01:08:36] Like I was.

[01:08:36] I was juggling between mouth washing.

[01:08:38] And Silent Hill.

[01:08:39] Yeah.

[01:08:40] For my pick.

[01:08:40] Like I put.

[01:08:42] Both of them.

[01:08:42] I really thought you were going to pick.

[01:08:44] That's.

[01:08:44] I knew that's why you said.

[01:08:45] You wanted me to go first.

[01:08:47] Because I was like.

[01:08:48] Oh.

[01:08:48] Beth's going to pick mouth washing.

[01:08:50] Because I have another.

[01:08:51] If you want.

[01:08:51] Jerry.

[01:08:52] If you want to scrap a lot of this.

[01:08:53] And you pick mouth washing.

[01:08:54] So you.

[01:08:55] But I can.

[01:08:55] I have another.

[01:08:56] I do.

[01:08:57] Well.

[01:08:58] I definitely want to give some shout outs.

[01:09:00] Okay.

[01:09:00] To some other stuff.

[01:09:01] Um.

[01:09:02] But I do.

[01:09:03] Feel comfortable.

[01:09:05] Picking.

[01:09:06] Mouth washing.

[01:09:07] Especially for the.

[01:09:08] The graveyard chase.

[01:09:09] Because that was like.

[01:09:11] Shit.

[01:09:12] Pant.

[01:09:13] City.

[01:09:14] Yeah.

[01:09:14] Me yelling.

[01:09:15] And not just because.

[01:09:16] Beth was yelling at me.

[01:09:17] It was already bad enough.

[01:09:18] Just to put it into context.

[01:09:20] How bad this situation was.

[01:09:21] For me.

[01:09:22] Yeah.

[01:09:22] Is that it was already.

[01:09:23] A situation that I could barely deal with.

[01:09:26] With my nerves.

[01:09:27] And Beth was escalating.

[01:09:30] And also.

[01:09:32] The like.

[01:09:32] One.

[01:09:33] Funny.

[01:09:34] To know.

[01:09:34] Greg.

[01:09:35] Me and Jerry did.

[01:09:37] So mouth washing is only like.

[01:09:39] Two ish hours.

[01:09:40] And we.

[01:09:41] We did.

[01:09:42] Most of it.

[01:09:43] In one sitting.

[01:09:45] And.

[01:09:45] Before.

[01:09:46] This part.

[01:09:47] So.

[01:09:48] And before we got to this part.

[01:09:49] And whatever.

[01:09:49] The reason why we stopped.

[01:09:52] Though.

[01:09:52] Is because.

[01:09:53] Jerry.

[01:09:54] After.

[01:09:54] There's this really crazy.

[01:09:56] Intense sequence.

[01:09:57] And like.

[01:09:57] We both were just like.

[01:09:59] Quiet.

[01:10:00] Like.

[01:10:00] Holding our breath.

[01:10:01] Try.

[01:10:01] Like.

[01:10:02] Like.

[01:10:02] Like.

[01:10:02] Somehow.

[01:10:03] The creature in the game.

[01:10:04] Would hear us.

[01:10:05] Like.

[01:10:05] Talk to each other.

[01:10:06] And then.

[01:10:07] After it was over.

[01:10:09] Jerry just let out.

[01:10:10] This big like.

[01:10:13] I gotta go to bed.

[01:10:15] It was literally like.

[01:10:17] It took it.

[01:10:18] It took him out.

[01:10:19] It was like.

[01:10:20] He just was like.

[01:10:20] Drains.

[01:10:21] I don't think.

[01:10:22] I have any more of this game.

[01:10:23] In me tonight.

[01:10:24] Like.

[01:10:24] I just.

[01:10:24] I can't.

[01:10:25] I also had that feeling.

[01:10:27] To play in Silent Hill.

[01:10:28] Yeah.

[01:10:29] Where I would kind of have to.

[01:10:30] Like.

[01:10:31] It was nice to feel that.

[01:10:33] Like.

[01:10:33] Scared.

[01:10:34] Feeling of like.

[01:10:35] I'm forcing myself.

[01:10:36] To play this game.

[01:10:37] Like.

[01:10:37] It's.

[01:10:37] It's scaring me.

[01:10:38] Like.

[01:10:39] It genuinely is scary.

[01:10:42] But I think.

[01:10:43] Like.

[01:10:43] If I think about it.

[01:10:44] Just.

[01:10:45] In.

[01:10:46] That.

[01:10:48] Silent Hill 2.

[01:10:49] As a full game.

[01:10:50] Yes.

[01:10:50] Was scary.

[01:10:51] But.

[01:10:52] Mouthwashing.

[01:10:53] As a very short.

[01:10:55] Two hour experience.

[01:10:57] Is just.

[01:10:59] Damn near.

[01:11:00] Terrifying.

[01:11:01] From the second.

[01:11:01] You start playing.

[01:11:03] Until the end.

[01:11:04] When you're just kind of left like.

[01:11:06] Drained.

[01:11:06] And breathless.

[01:11:08] Can I.

[01:11:08] Even.

[01:11:09] Dare say.

[01:11:10] When you know what's going on.

[01:11:12] And what kind of person.

[01:11:13] You're playing as.

[01:11:14] Also.

[01:11:16] Makes it.

[01:11:17] As.

[01:11:18] Like.

[01:11:18] A different type of terrifying.

[01:11:20] Once you realize the type.

[01:11:21] Yeah.

[01:11:21] There's a lot of realizations.

[01:11:22] After the fact too.

[01:11:23] But.

[01:11:23] Yeah.

[01:11:24] That said.

[01:11:25] Yeah.

[01:11:25] Um.

[01:11:26] You want to do a couple.

[01:11:28] I'm.

[01:11:28] I'm.

[01:11:29] I'm.

[01:11:30] Definitely okay.

[01:11:30] With nominate.

[01:11:31] Or.

[01:11:32] Awarding.

[01:11:33] Mouthwashing's.

[01:11:34] Graveyard chase.

[01:11:36] For the shit panel award.

[01:11:38] Or just the game in general.

[01:11:41] Because there's too many things.

[01:11:42] Like.

[01:11:43] The thing.

[01:11:43] One of the things that actually scared me the most in that game.

[01:11:46] Um.

[01:11:48] Like.

[01:11:49] For a different reason.

[01:11:50] Just mostly like a jump scare.

[01:11:52] Um.

[01:11:53] Was the.

[01:11:54] See I don't want to say too much.

[01:11:56] But.

[01:11:56] You know what I'm talking about.

[01:11:57] There's a.

[01:11:58] There's a part where you're going through.

[01:12:00] Um.

[01:12:00] It's almost like a.

[01:12:01] A maze puzzle kind of thing.

[01:12:03] That happens.

[01:12:04] And there's a thing.

[01:12:05] In that area.

[01:12:06] That absolutely shook me.

[01:12:09] Not as bad as the.

[01:12:10] The pyramid has.

[01:12:11] Scare.

[01:12:12] But it was pretty fucking bad.

[01:12:14] Yeah.

[01:12:14] Um.

[01:12:15] And I also kind of want to get.

[01:12:16] To give a shout out to a couple of things too.

[01:12:18] Like.

[01:12:18] Uh.

[01:12:19] We played hollow body.

[01:12:20] This year.

[01:12:21] That was.

[01:12:22] That was a really cool game too.

[01:12:23] Um.

[01:12:24] Had some like very unnerving moments.

[01:12:26] And.

[01:12:27] Some really cool stuff going on.

[01:12:29] Um.

[01:12:31] I feel like I played.

[01:12:33] Well we played.

[01:12:34] Uh.

[01:12:34] Home body.

[01:12:35] I don't think that.

[01:12:35] I don't know.

[01:12:36] I don't think that's a 2024 game though.

[01:12:38] But we still played it this year.

[01:12:39] Yeah.

[01:12:40] I think the stuff that we played this year counts.

[01:12:42] Because.

[01:12:43] Like we've.

[01:12:44] Always kind of done like our personal stuff.

[01:12:46] But like.

[01:12:47] That way.

[01:12:48] Yeah.

[01:12:48] Yeah.

[01:12:49] But um.

[01:12:51] But I think.

[01:12:51] I think mouth washing is the shit pan award.

[01:12:54] Yeah.

[01:12:55] Um.

[01:12:55] I'll give my other choice.

[01:12:56] The thing that I was.

[01:12:57] If you had picked mouth washing.

[01:12:58] I was going to say night.

[01:12:59] Greg.

[01:13:00] What's.

[01:13:00] What say you.

[01:13:01] Do you.

[01:13:02] Do you.

[01:13:02] Do you agree with the.

[01:13:03] The pick.

[01:13:04] I.

[01:13:04] After what you've heard.

[01:13:05] I will.

[01:13:07] Concur.

[01:13:08] With your.

[01:13:09] Awarding.

[01:13:10] Of mouth washing.

[01:13:12] You should.

[01:13:12] Like watch them.

[01:13:14] Like legit.

[01:13:15] There are.

[01:13:15] There.

[01:13:15] There are.

[01:13:17] Specific.

[01:13:18] Uh.

[01:13:18] Scary game streamers.

[01:13:20] That I.

[01:13:20] Love.

[01:13:21] And I'm just waiting for them to play.

[01:13:22] Yay.

[01:13:23] I think you'll.

[01:13:24] You'll have like.

[01:13:26] Your.

[01:13:26] I mean.

[01:13:26] You might not find certain parts.

[01:13:28] As.

[01:13:29] You know.

[01:13:30] I think.

[01:13:30] There was.

[01:13:31] A part where Jerry found it really.

[01:13:32] Something really unsettling.

[01:13:33] And I didn't.

[01:13:34] And then vice versa.

[01:13:35] So like.

[01:13:36] I'm sure there'll be things.

[01:13:37] But I think you'll have a really.

[01:13:39] Interesting.

[01:13:39] Like good view of it too.

[01:13:41] It's.

[01:13:41] I'll be very.

[01:13:42] Anymore.

[01:13:43] And.

[01:13:43] Hear your final.

[01:13:44] Like your thoughts on the game.

[01:13:45] Actually.

[01:13:46] Once you.

[01:13:46] Once you see it.

[01:13:49] Beth.

[01:13:49] Why don't you.

[01:13:50] Why don't you pick it up.

[01:13:51] And then play it for Greg.

[01:13:53] Uh.

[01:13:53] No.

[01:13:56] No.

[01:13:58] I cannot play horror.

[01:13:59] Especially something like that.

[01:14:01] I would not move.

[01:14:02] Well.

[01:14:03] What do you play?

[01:14:04] Because.

[01:14:05] We all played a lot of stuff this year.

[01:14:07] Um.

[01:14:07] So.

[01:14:08] Why don't we give our personal lists?

[01:14:10] Why.

[01:14:11] Why don't we do that?

[01:14:12] Why don't we.

[01:14:12] Yeah.

[01:14:13] I mean.

[01:14:13] I.

[01:14:13] I have a full blown list.

[01:14:16] Um.

[01:14:16] And again.

[01:14:17] We do.

[01:14:18] We do something different.

[01:14:19] Kind of every year.

[01:14:21] Um.

[01:14:21] Greg.

[01:14:22] You tend to play.

[01:14:23] The.

[01:14:23] Usually the least amount of games.

[01:14:25] I don't have an addiction.

[01:14:28] There's a problem.

[01:14:29] Hey.

[01:14:30] Hey.

[01:14:30] Hey.

[01:14:30] Hey.

[01:14:31] This is.

[01:14:31] We can do that in the new year.

[01:14:33] Okay.

[01:14:33] We can have that intervention.

[01:14:34] But.

[01:14:35] Now.

[01:14:36] That'll be episode 100.

[01:14:37] Jerry's intervention.

[01:14:38] My.

[01:14:39] My intervention.

[01:14:40] Yeah.

[01:14:41] You'll.

[01:14:41] You'll.

[01:14:42] You'll come in for.

[01:14:44] Like.

[01:14:44] Uh.

[01:14:44] Another topic.

[01:14:45] And then like.

[01:14:46] Uh.

[01:14:47] Like.

[01:14:48] All the.

[01:14:48] The past guests of the show.

[01:14:49] Will be.

[01:14:50] Yeah.

[01:14:51] In.

[01:14:51] In.

[01:14:51] In the.

[01:14:51] In the room.

[01:14:52] Crying and shit.

[01:14:53] We'll have like.

[01:14:54] We'll have like.

[01:14:55] Scott and Sam.

[01:14:56] And we'll have.

[01:14:57] Like.

[01:14:57] Everybody will be.

[01:15:00] There's.

[01:15:01] Well.

[01:15:01] You might have a hard time.

[01:15:02] Because there are some people.

[01:15:04] That have been on this show.

[01:15:05] That.

[01:15:07] Like.

[01:15:08] Beats as much as I do.

[01:15:09] Well.

[01:15:10] I'm not.

[01:15:10] Interested in their problem.

[01:15:12] Jerry.

[01:15:12] I won't have them on the show then.

[01:15:13] And also.

[01:15:14] I don't think there's anybody.

[01:15:15] That we've had on here.

[01:15:16] Who wouldn't love to give you.

[01:15:17] A hard time.

[01:15:19] This is true.

[01:15:20] Yeah.

[01:15:20] This is very true.

[01:15:24] So.

[01:15:26] Greg.

[01:15:28] If you have a list.

[01:15:29] By all means.

[01:15:30] I do indeed.

[01:15:30] If you just have.

[01:15:31] I've got a list.

[01:15:31] You have a list.

[01:15:32] You have a list.

[01:15:33] You have a list.

[01:15:33] I played.

[01:15:35] Five.

[01:15:36] 2024 games.

[01:15:37] This year.

[01:15:38] I feel like it might be a record.

[01:15:39] You played in 2024.

[01:15:40] That wasn't.

[01:15:42] No.

[01:15:43] No.

[01:15:43] No.

[01:15:43] I'm going to do five.

[01:15:44] 2024 games.

[01:15:46] And I will.

[01:15:47] I have ordered them.

[01:15:49] In a top five.

[01:15:50] Okay.

[01:15:50] In a ranking.

[01:15:51] Okay.

[01:15:52] Nice.

[01:15:55] My number five game.

[01:15:58] Is.

[01:15:58] Tekken 8.

[01:16:00] Okay.

[01:16:01] Came out in January.

[01:16:02] Really really good time.

[01:16:04] It's not higher.

[01:16:05] Because even though I'm like.

[01:16:06] The fighting game guy.

[01:16:08] On this podcast.

[01:16:09] Tekken isn't my.

[01:16:10] Isn't like my.

[01:16:11] My number one.

[01:16:12] I like Tekken.

[01:16:13] But it's.

[01:16:14] It's.

[01:16:15] It's.

[01:16:16] It's like.

[01:16:17] A number three franchise for me.

[01:16:21] Number four.

[01:16:23] Is a surprise entry.

[01:16:25] A game that.

[01:16:25] I would have never expected to be on this list.

[01:16:27] But has.

[01:16:29] An enormous amount of play time from me.

[01:16:31] Number four.

[01:16:33] Is.

[01:16:34] WWE.

[01:16:35] 2K.

[01:16:35] 24.

[01:16:37] Yes.

[01:16:38] Yay.

[01:16:39] A game I have played.

[01:16:41] Daily.

[01:16:42] Since.

[01:16:42] It was.

[01:16:43] A free game on.

[01:16:45] For.

[01:16:45] With.

[01:16:46] PS plus.

[01:16:47] Nice.

[01:16:47] The amount of content.

[01:16:49] That I.

[01:16:50] First I played the game normally.

[01:16:51] And that was a good time.

[01:16:52] And then the amount of content.

[01:16:54] That I made.

[01:16:54] And entertained myself with.

[01:16:57] It's.

[01:16:58] It's been such a complete.

[01:16:59] Fun package.

[01:17:00] And you know what.

[01:17:01] I don't even care.

[01:17:02] That the game constantly tries to sell me DLC.

[01:17:04] That I'm never going to buy.

[01:17:05] You're having a great time.

[01:17:06] I'm having the.

[01:17:07] Time of my life.

[01:17:09] Mm-hmm.

[01:17:11] Um.

[01:17:12] My number three game.

[01:17:15] Is.

[01:17:15] Stellar Blade.

[01:17:17] Okay.

[01:17:18] First game.

[01:17:18] I ever.

[01:17:19] Okay.

[01:17:20] Oh.

[01:17:21] 100% it.

[01:17:22] Got the platinum trophy.

[01:17:23] You did get the platinum in that.

[01:17:24] That's crazy.

[01:17:25] Yeah.

[01:17:26] Got.

[01:17:26] Every costume.

[01:17:28] Um.

[01:17:29] I haven't gone back to it since.

[01:17:30] Because.

[01:17:32] Uh.

[01:17:33] You.

[01:17:33] There's.

[01:17:34] There's.

[01:17:34] They've added.

[01:17:34] Since added more costumes.

[01:17:36] But.

[01:17:36] You can get 2B.

[01:17:38] Oh yeah.

[01:17:38] Yeah you can get that 2B now.

[01:17:39] You can get 2B.

[01:17:41] But in order to get the new ones.

[01:17:42] You have to.

[01:17:43] Like.

[01:17:44] When you get to the.

[01:17:45] The quote unquote.

[01:17:45] Like.

[01:17:46] The point of no return.

[01:17:47] Is not actually the point of no return.

[01:17:49] Because I can't leave where I am.

[01:17:51] Mm-hmm.

[01:17:52] Like.

[01:17:52] The end of my last save.

[01:17:53] So the only way to get it.

[01:17:54] Would be to start another new game.

[01:17:55] And like.

[01:17:55] Listen guys.

[01:17:56] I did that three times.

[01:17:58] Mm-hmm.

[01:18:00] I don't want to do that again.

[01:18:02] You're good.

[01:18:02] You've played it.

[01:18:03] But it was.

[01:18:04] It was a great time.

[01:18:05] And it set the groundwork.

[01:18:07] Like.

[01:18:07] Stellar Blade by itself.

[01:18:08] Is not.

[01:18:09] Breaking any new ground.

[01:18:11] But what it did.

[01:18:12] Was it set the groundwork.

[01:18:13] For a potentially.

[01:18:14] Like.

[01:18:14] Really really good franchise.

[01:18:16] Okay.

[01:18:17] Um.

[01:18:19] And now this is where it gets controversial.

[01:18:21] Okay.

[01:18:22] My.

[01:18:23] Number.

[01:18:24] Two.

[01:18:25] Game.

[01:18:26] For 2024.

[01:18:27] Is Space Marine 2.

[01:18:30] I waited.

[01:18:32] I waited.

[01:18:32] What was it?

[01:18:33] Third.

[01:18:33] Eleven.

[01:18:34] Somewhere between 11 to 13 years for this game.

[01:18:36] Okay.

[01:18:36] I played it.

[01:18:37] I loved it.

[01:18:39] I.

[01:18:40] Number two.

[01:18:41] Yeah.

[01:18:42] Okay.

[01:18:42] This is really throwing me through a loop here.

[01:18:44] I.

[01:18:45] I played the multiplayer.

[01:18:47] I loved the campaign.

[01:18:48] It.

[01:18:49] I.

[01:18:49] It.

[01:18:49] It gave me everything I wanted and more.

[01:18:52] I was.

[01:18:53] Impressed.

[01:18:54] Impressed.

[01:18:55] And satisfied from start to finish.

[01:18:56] It was.

[01:18:58] Great.

[01:19:01] My number.

[01:19:02] One game.

[01:19:04] Can I guess?

[01:19:07] No.

[01:19:10] Denied.

[01:19:11] Maybe.

[01:19:12] Because I've only played five games.

[01:19:13] This year.

[01:19:14] Yeah.

[01:19:15] I guess I probably could just easily guess it.

[01:19:17] Now that you say that.

[01:19:18] Yeah.

[01:19:19] Yeah.

[01:19:19] Now I'm like.

[01:19:20] Okay.

[01:19:20] I know what it is.

[01:19:21] Yeah.

[01:19:21] My number one game this year.

[01:19:23] I don't currently play it.

[01:19:25] But nothing has matched the way it is.

[01:19:27] Made me feel.

[01:19:28] When I did play it.

[01:19:30] My number one game.

[01:19:31] For 2024.

[01:19:33] Is Helldivers 2.

[01:19:36] The way.

[01:19:38] What that game managed to do.

[01:19:41] And the way it made.

[01:19:43] The moments it created.

[01:19:44] Not so much the way it made you feel.

[01:19:45] But the way it created moments.

[01:19:47] And the way it's designed to do that.

[01:19:50] Is.

[01:19:50] Some of the most like.

[01:19:52] Genius game design.

[01:19:55] That I've ever seen.

[01:19:57] Now.

[01:19:58] Has it lost its way?

[01:19:59] A bit.

[01:20:00] Yes.

[01:20:02] But the.

[01:20:03] What it.

[01:20:04] It.

[01:20:04] Although I have heard.

[01:20:05] It's kind of.

[01:20:06] Gone back.

[01:20:07] Back to good.

[01:20:08] But.

[01:20:11] Nothing.

[01:20:12] I've played.

[01:20:13] Has kind of matched that feeling.

[01:20:16] Including the game.

[01:20:17] I waited 13 years.

[01:20:19] Yeah.

[01:20:20] It was.

[01:20:20] Yeah.

[01:20:20] It was a good time man.

[01:20:21] Like I remember when.

[01:20:23] When I.

[01:20:24] Was like.

[01:20:25] All right.

[01:20:25] I'll pull the trigger.

[01:20:26] Like.

[01:20:27] Let's.

[01:20:28] Let's do it.

[01:20:29] I'll pull.

[01:20:29] I'll pull the trigger on this one.

[01:20:31] Because you would.

[01:20:31] I think you may have had it for like a day or two.

[01:20:33] And I was like.

[01:20:34] And you were like.

[01:20:36] Raving about how good it was.

[01:20:37] And I was like.

[01:20:38] Uh.

[01:20:39] Getting that FOMO.

[01:20:40] Maybe I should check it out.

[01:20:41] And.

[01:20:42] Yeah.

[01:20:42] It was like.

[01:20:43] Every day after work.

[01:20:44] I was.

[01:20:45] Basically messaging me like.

[01:20:47] Are we.

[01:20:47] Fighting for liberty tonight.

[01:20:49] Or what's going on.

[01:20:50] And it was like.

[01:20:52] Every day.

[01:20:53] For.

[01:20:53] A full like.

[01:20:54] Month and a half or something.

[01:20:57] Which is crazy.

[01:20:58] Because like.

[01:20:58] For me.

[01:20:59] I typically do not.

[01:21:01] Invest.

[01:21:02] At all.

[01:21:02] A single dime.

[01:21:04] Into a live service game.

[01:21:06] I typically.

[01:21:07] Think live service games.

[01:21:08] Kind of suck.

[01:21:10] This was an exception to the rule.

[01:21:12] The thing for me.

[01:21:13] About this game.

[01:21:14] Is it felt.

[01:21:15] Fucking fair.

[01:21:16] It didn't feel like.

[01:21:17] It was trying to rob me.

[01:21:18] Of my money.

[01:21:19] If I really wanted.

[01:21:20] To go out and grind.

[01:21:21] For that shit.

[01:21:22] I could have done it.

[01:21:23] It wasn't pay to win.

[01:21:24] It was all.

[01:21:25] Just kind of a cosmetic thing.

[01:21:27] Except for.

[01:21:28] There was a.

[01:21:29] There was a few.

[01:21:30] Things here and there.

[01:21:31] That were like.

[01:21:31] Oh yeah.

[01:21:32] This is a pretty fucking.

[01:21:33] Wild thing to get.

[01:21:34] But like.

[01:21:35] For the most part.

[01:21:37] It was very generous.

[01:21:38] About that stuff.

[01:21:39] So.

[01:21:40] You know what?

[01:21:42] Good on you Greg.

[01:21:43] Good on you for picking it.

[01:21:45] And let me just.

[01:21:46] Let me just say.

[01:21:47] Like there's.

[01:21:50] There's.

[01:21:50] There's.

[01:21:51] The two things that the game.

[01:21:53] Where.

[01:21:54] Where.

[01:21:54] It's.

[01:21:55] Nothing has ever matched that feeling.

[01:21:57] Is.

[01:21:59] The very beginning of the.

[01:22:01] Of.

[01:22:02] A mission.

[01:22:03] And.

[01:22:04] The very.

[01:22:05] End of a mission.

[01:22:07] And.

[01:22:07] And.

[01:22:08] What really helps it.

[01:22:09] Is.

[01:22:10] The.

[01:22:11] The score.

[01:22:13] The score.

[01:22:13] I had to look at the guy's name.

[01:22:14] His name is.

[01:22:15] Wilbert.

[01:22:16] I don't know if it's Roger or Roger.

[01:22:18] But his name is.

[01:22:19] That.

[01:22:19] The composer for this game.

[01:22:21] Oh yeah.

[01:22:21] Did such a good job.

[01:22:23] At capturing.

[01:22:24] The vibe that they wanted.

[01:22:26] I'm assuming.

[01:22:27] And so.

[01:22:29] When.

[01:22:31] Before you start a mission.

[01:22:33] And.

[01:22:33] You go into your pods.

[01:22:35] The music is rising to crescendo.

[01:22:37] And then.

[01:22:38] All music drops out.

[01:22:40] Pods drop.

[01:22:41] And then.

[01:22:42] Crescendo.

[01:22:43] It's.

[01:22:43] Pods drop.

[01:22:44] Nothing.

[01:22:44] Nothing is like that.

[01:22:45] And then when you're.

[01:22:47] When you're extracting.

[01:22:49] And like.

[01:22:50] A very often.

[01:22:51] The higher difficulties.

[01:22:52] You're literally like.

[01:22:53] Fighting for your life.

[01:22:55] Waiting for the drop ship to come.

[01:22:56] It comes.

[01:22:57] You get on board.

[01:22:58] The music again.

[01:22:59] Crescendo is the same thing.

[01:23:01] But.

[01:23:01] With like.

[01:23:02] Almost a little bit more triumphant.

[01:23:04] It.

[01:23:04] Nothing.

[01:23:05] Nothing has matched that.

[01:23:07] And I don't know.

[01:23:08] When the next game.

[01:23:09] Will.

[01:23:11] It's just.

[01:23:12] Nothing has made me feel that way.

[01:23:14] It's wild to me.

[01:23:15] That.

[01:23:16] Like.

[01:23:16] A game.

[01:23:17] Like.

[01:23:18] Space Marine 2.

[01:23:19] That you waited for so long.

[01:23:21] Has.

[01:23:22] Gotten.

[01:23:23] Overshadowed by.

[01:23:24] A game that.

[01:23:26] You kind of.

[01:23:27] Were like.

[01:23:28] Starting to show interest in.

[01:23:30] Like.

[01:23:30] When they first announced it.

[01:23:31] You were like.

[01:23:32] This might be cool.

[01:23:34] I guess.

[01:23:34] We all kind of were like.

[01:23:35] This kind of looks cool.

[01:23:36] I guess.

[01:23:37] We'll see how it plays out.

[01:23:38] And then I feel like.

[01:23:39] Gradually over time.

[01:23:40] Every single time.

[01:23:41] That there was new things.

[01:23:42] Coming out about it.

[01:23:43] You slowly got like.

[01:23:44] Like more and more hyped.

[01:23:46] And you became like.

[01:23:47] The Helldivers hype man.

[01:23:49] In our group.

[01:23:50] Like you were like.

[01:23:51] Guys.

[01:23:51] This game looks like.

[01:23:52] It's going to be crazy.

[01:23:53] Like.

[01:23:53] I might be wrong.

[01:23:54] But like.

[01:23:54] There's some stuff here.

[01:23:55] I think it's going to be nuts.

[01:23:56] And then.

[01:23:58] Yeah.

[01:23:58] You.

[01:23:58] And you fully convinced me.

[01:24:00] To get it too.

[01:24:00] I wouldn't.

[01:24:00] I wouldn't have never bought this game.

[01:24:02] If it wasn't.

[01:24:03] For you convincing me.

[01:24:04] To get it.

[01:24:06] Yeah.

[01:24:07] It's.

[01:24:08] It's something special.

[01:24:10] Hell yeah.

[01:24:11] Hell yeah dude.

[01:24:13] Mm-hmm.

[01:24:14] Great pick.

[01:24:15] Good memories too.

[01:24:17] Great memories.

[01:24:18] Yeah.

[01:24:18] And.

[01:24:19] I might jump in.

[01:24:20] Sometime soon.

[01:24:21] Because again.

[01:24:21] They.

[01:24:22] They.

[01:24:23] They finally started.

[01:24:24] Well they finally.

[01:24:24] But anyway.

[01:24:25] We could.

[01:24:26] This is.

[01:24:27] This is off topic.

[01:24:27] We'll talk about it another time.

[01:24:29] But.

[01:24:29] They.

[01:24:29] They.

[01:24:30] They.

[01:24:30] Of course.

[01:24:31] Corrected.

[01:24:31] Their.

[01:24:32] Their.

[01:24:33] Balance.

[01:24:33] Philosophy.

[01:24:33] On the game.

[01:24:34] Not good.

[01:24:36] Because it definitely was like a.

[01:24:38] Like surprise darling.

[01:24:40] At the beginning of the year.

[01:24:41] For sure.

[01:24:42] Mm-hmm.

[01:24:44] Nice.

[01:24:46] Now.

[01:24:48] Beth.

[01:24:48] Uh-huh.

[01:24:50] You.

[01:24:51] Played some video games in 2024.

[01:24:53] A few.

[01:24:55] Yeah.

[01:24:55] You.

[01:24:56] You hated some.

[01:24:57] You loved some.

[01:24:59] Tell me.

[01:25:00] Do you have a list?

[01:25:01] Or do you just have.

[01:25:02] A pick?

[01:25:03] I guess.

[01:25:04] I mean like.

[01:25:04] I kind of.

[01:25:05] Could do a list.

[01:25:08] But.

[01:25:09] Is it in a particular.

[01:25:10] It doesn't have to be in a particular order.

[01:25:12] No.

[01:25:12] It could just be like.

[01:25:13] Here's my favorite games.

[01:25:15] And then.

[01:25:15] More so.

[01:25:16] I'm more interested in like.

[01:25:18] What is the game?

[01:25:19] Yeah.

[01:25:20] Right.

[01:25:20] Like.

[01:25:21] Whether it's a list or not.

[01:25:22] I think like.

[01:25:24] So I never finished metaphor.

[01:25:26] Yet.

[01:25:27] So I can't.

[01:25:28] Really speak to it.

[01:25:29] Because I don't know that.

[01:25:31] The ending.

[01:25:31] And.

[01:25:32] In.

[01:25:34] Hey.

[01:25:35] If you don't know.

[01:25:37] When it comes to narrative stories.

[01:25:38] Or stories that are story focused.

[01:25:40] Or games that are story focused.

[01:25:42] The ending matters a lot.

[01:25:44] In how.

[01:25:45] I feel.

[01:25:46] About.

[01:25:47] The game.

[01:25:48] So.

[01:25:49] I can't.

[01:25:50] Fully say.

[01:25:51] You know.

[01:25:52] It's definitely.

[01:25:53] Where I'm at.

[01:25:54] On track.

[01:25:55] On track to have been the best game.

[01:25:56] I.

[01:25:56] For this year.

[01:25:58] But.

[01:26:00] Other than that.

[01:26:02] That.

[01:26:02] A lot of the games that I played this year.

[01:26:04] I felt very like.

[01:26:06] Meh.

[01:26:07] About.

[01:26:08] So.

[01:26:09] I could.

[01:26:10] Say like.

[01:26:13] I'll say like.

[01:26:14] I finished God of War Ragnarok.

[01:26:16] At the beginning of this year.

[01:26:17] Which.

[01:26:18] Obviously.

[01:26:19] Love it.

[01:26:19] Good stuff.

[01:26:22] And.

[01:26:22] I did like.

[01:26:25] Like.

[01:26:26] Dice Omancer.

[01:26:27] I had a great time with that.

[01:26:30] And.

[01:26:31] That I had fun with.

[01:26:32] Crime scene cleaner.

[01:26:33] Even though.

[01:26:34] I was not expecting.

[01:26:35] There to be a story.

[01:26:36] But.

[01:26:37] I wouldn't like.

[01:26:37] Put them.

[01:26:38] On a list.

[01:26:39] Because I don't think.

[01:26:40] Most of them.

[01:26:41] Really.

[01:26:43] Fully hit.

[01:26:43] Like.

[01:26:44] A criteria.

[01:26:46] That like.

[01:26:47] Got me.

[01:26:49] So.

[01:26:50] Like.

[01:26:50] I don't know.

[01:26:50] It's really weird.

[01:26:51] Because I think like.

[01:26:53] I.

[01:26:54] Even if I had fun with some of these games.

[01:26:55] And.

[01:26:56] I think they're good.

[01:26:57] Like.

[01:26:58] There's aspects of them.

[01:26:58] That I'm like.

[01:26:59] Oh.

[01:26:59] If I never played it.

[01:27:00] I would have been fine.

[01:27:01] But.

[01:27:02] So.

[01:27:02] I'm not going to go.

[01:27:03] A full list.

[01:27:04] I'm just going to say.

[01:27:05] My game.

[01:27:05] Personal pick.

[01:27:06] Of the year.

[01:27:08] Um.

[01:27:09] Is.

[01:27:09] Unicorn Overlord.

[01:27:11] Ooh.

[01:27:13] I forgot about that game.

[01:27:15] Yeah.

[01:27:15] I played.

[01:27:17] Uh.

[01:27:18] Dice.

[01:27:18] I like.

[01:27:18] I got all of the side.

[01:27:20] Like.

[01:27:20] All the characters you could get.

[01:27:21] I played all of the side stuff.

[01:27:24] I like.

[01:27:25] Other.

[01:27:25] I think I almost 100%ed it.

[01:27:28] Um.

[01:27:29] There's like a couple trophies that I'm missing.

[01:27:31] But I don't really want.

[01:27:32] They're not ones that I want to pursue.

[01:27:34] I think the story is kind of basic.

[01:27:38] Especially if you're like.

[01:27:40] Like.

[01:27:40] Going to look at.

[01:27:41] Um.

[01:27:42] Their previous.

[01:27:44] Stuff.

[01:27:44] Like.

[01:27:45] 13 Sentinels.

[01:27:46] That story is phenomenal.

[01:27:48] Um.

[01:27:49] But.

[01:27:50] The.

[01:27:52] Actually.

[01:27:53] Like.

[01:27:53] The combat.

[01:27:54] In.

[01:27:55] Unicorn Overlord.

[01:27:56] Is just fun.

[01:27:57] Like.

[01:27:57] I.

[01:27:58] Wanted to do all of the fights.

[01:28:00] And do all the things.

[01:28:01] Because I really enjoyed like.

[01:28:02] The.

[01:28:03] Like.

[01:28:04] Top down.

[01:28:05] Like.

[01:28:05] RTS.

[01:28:06] Like.

[01:28:07] Elements.

[01:28:08] To the fight.

[01:28:08] And stuff.

[01:28:09] And.

[01:28:10] You're having to like.

[01:28:11] Kind of.

[01:28:12] Kit out your units.

[01:28:14] Um.

[01:28:15] And then kind of figure out.

[01:28:16] How to compile them.

[01:28:17] Into.

[01:28:18] Um.

[01:28:19] Like a.

[01:28:19] Like a party.

[01:28:21] So that when they engage in the enemy.

[01:28:23] Like.

[01:28:23] Their things will go off.