Golden Wing Awards Nominees and Jaime Plays the Marvel Tokon Closed Beta

  In this episode of Good2Game Radio, Tony and Jaime dive into the SGL Golden Wings Award nominees, sharing their picks and predictions for Game of the Year. They break down everything from Hades 2 to Expedition 33, react to surprising omissions, and highlight standout indie titles. Jaime gives a hands-on recap of the Marvel Tokon closed beta, while the duo swaps holiday gaming deal disappointments and hilarious Battlefield 6 and Ark Raiders war stories. A fun, energetic gaming catch-up packed with insights, friendly roasting, and community shoutouts.

Transcript

00:00:02.06
Tony Sisk
Hi folks, welcome to Good to Game Radio. I'm Tony, your host, and with me tonight is Jaime. Vance has had his kids' basketball game, so he's not able to join us. But here we are in tonight tonight's episode. We're going to be talking ah some game nominations from our ah one of our groups that we're affiliated with, the SGL Golden Wings Award.

00:00:23.93
Tony Sisk
Has their list of game nominations, a game of the year nominations. we're going to hit that list tonight and then we're going to talk about, was it Jaime, a token Marvel fighting beta was this past weekend?

00:00:37.66
Tony Sisk
i don't even know the name of the game, but right.

00:00:38.17
Jaime G
Marvel Token. Yeah.

00:00:41.07
Tony Sisk
ah

00:00:42.65
Jaime G
Not open beta, close beta, my friend.

00:00:44.73
Tony Sisk
Was it, oh, closed beta. Okay. How do you get into closed beta?

00:00:49.37
Jaime G
You got to know somebody.

00:00:51.39
Tony Sisk
Gotcha. Okay, so Jaime knows somebody who was able to get into the closed beta for the Tolkien fighting game. And then ah where were all the ya holiday gaming deals?

00:01:05.52
Tony Sisk
That's a topic we'd like to hit upon tonight. And then maybe some war stories shared from the fields of Ark Raiders and or Battlefield 6. So let's get into it.

00:01:16.84
Tony Sisk
Jaime, how's it going?

00:01:18.54
Jaime G
Man, it's good to be here again. i i I had listened to the last podcast episode and I was like, wait, that was when I was working a lot. I mean, what's it was weird.

00:01:30.06
Tony Sisk
ah Yeah, you were like ah missing in action for like, ah you know, a month.

00:01:31.26
Jaime G
I feel like I got to catch up with you guys.

00:01:36.22
Jaime G
A month. Yeah.

00:01:37.62
Tony Sisk
We didn't even get it. We didn't even do our Halloween episode.

00:01:40.89
Jaime G
I know, man. It's so crazy. I had like i traveled like back to back two weeks, came back like super sick. And I'm finally here, right?

00:01:50.91
Tony Sisk
Well, welcome back.

00:01:52.44
Jaime G
Yes, thank you.

00:01:52.52
Tony Sisk
It's good to have you. And we get back into you know some some fun podcast discussion talk and us and talk about all the things we've been playing and other things we want to play, the awards a season that's coming up.

00:02:08.62
Tony Sisk
And then, you know, we just – I think the last episode we announced our winner of the – ah the game draft that we have every year.

00:02:20.15
Tony Sisk
And that was spotty dude won that for 2025.

00:02:20.50
Jaime G
Spidey dude.

00:02:24.29
Tony Sisk
So we'll be rolling that out here pretty soon in the next month or so for the 2026 season. So we'll see, ah see how it goes again for that.

00:02:35.81
Tony Sisk
Maybe we'll get the, the field of competitors will expand this year. by a couple more so looking forward that to that also before we get uh deeper into the episode just you know want to thank all the listeners out there we've had some really uh great numbers here the last couple weeks you hitting in the hundreds of listeners which is pretty good for a gaming podcast i would say ah

00:02:43.25
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:03:02.52
Tony Sisk
So it's great to have ah all the new listeners. Just shout out to you guys. Hope you're enjoying the episodes. If you feel so inclined, be sure to share the episodes with your friends. Let them know that you listen to us and and encourage new listeners to join the episodes.

00:03:24.09
Tony Sisk
the listenership. And if you're interested, you haven't already joined the discord. There's a link to the discord in the episode description, in each episode descriptions, you should be able to jump into the discord and, have an opportunity to engage with our community there.

00:03:42.28
Tony Sisk
um, There is also a link there in the description for monetary support. So if you want to throw a couple of dollars our way to help us, you know, improve that ah the podcast by, you know,

00:03:59.42
Tony Sisk
purchasing you know sound effects or ah just whatever cool upgrades that we can do to the podcast that'd be greatly appreciated too so let's get into the the episode and we're starting off with the sgl uh golden wing awards now this was something that came up a couple of weeks ago from shadow knights over at the sgl uh community discord and uh And it's basically their version of the Game Awards. Hey, go ahead, Ami.

00:04:32.95
Jaime G
Oh, no, was just going to say, I mean, this is this is a great opportunity that that to see kind of what they're doing and also see how the SGL community is also evolving and growing and getting into more fun activities where they're engaging with everybody who's in that group. So to it's a cool thing to see and looking forward to see how the results come up.

00:04:54.75
Tony Sisk
Yeah, we do a lot of crossover with that group, a lot of ah tournaments, fighting tournaments we've done with them. um So it's great great to have that engagement.

00:05:06.44
Tony Sisk
And it was really cool to see this ah kind of a new gaming award.

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Jaime G
Thank

00:05:11.44
Tony Sisk
It's got a great name, like I said, the Golden Wings Awards. And i think the last episode, or episode two we just recorded was on the the big game awards, which comes up in a couple of days on December 11th.

00:05:26.94
Tony Sisk
That's where Jeff Keighley has his big award show announcing, you know, the best games from 2025. So let's jump into the nominees for the SGO Golden Wings, shall we?

00:05:42.16
Tony Sisk
Tommy, you want to start us off with ah the first nominee?

00:05:42.76
Jaime G
yeah all right very first nominee is hades 2 i actually have in my backlog and i said that before the year ends i'm gonna try to get get caught up on hades 1 because apparently it was like such a good game hades 2 has dropped to like some very good commercial um reception the only thing i have against hades 2 right now is that It did not drop on PlayStation. It came out on PC and on Switch for whatever reason.

00:06:18.04
Jaime G
I don't get that, but it it'll eventually come up with it for for the other consoles.

00:06:23.89
Tony Sisk
Right, so the original Hades, which I have on my Steam Deck, um is you know a roguelike game, and it's really enjoyable.

00:06:34.36
Jaime G
so so so so So meaning you you you die a bunch of times and then you kind of come back and the game shifts and moves so it's not like the same playthrough the next time you go through.

00:06:35.29
Tony Sisk
I have not beaten it yet.

00:06:45.98
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so you're basically you know making an attempt. the The original game was you're trying to get out of Hades. You're like the son of Hades, and you're like the prince of the prince of the of the of Hades, and you're trying to get out and join your relatives on you know Mount Olympus. So you repeatedly make these attempts to slowly get better skills, get better equipment, and eventually make it out.

00:07:15.51
Tony Sisk
of Hades. Like I said, I have not finished the game, though it's really enjoyable, especially on the Steam Deck. So I know that the community that huge following for this game was looking forward to Hades 2. It looks great from the trailers I've seen, but I've not played it myself.

00:07:33.98
Tony Sisk
But it it is one of the titles that I would would love to add to my Steam Deck collection. So let's move on to our next nominee. Expedition 33.

00:07:47.02
Tony Sisk
So I think this game, from a studio that kind of came out of nowhere, is the favorite for the big awards from Jeff Keighley's Video Game Awards. This game has...

00:08:00.76
Tony Sisk
has already won a ton of awards in the industry. And I think it is the overwhelming favorite. that It's also nominated for like 12 different categories in that award show. But here it is in the SGL Golden Wings Awards Best Game nomination ah category too. So I would think that this is probably, again, the favorite.

00:08:25.94
Tony Sisk
Anybody who's played this game can probably...

00:08:28.40
Jaime G
It's my my favorite for sure.

00:08:30.70
Tony Sisk
Yeah, this this game packs everything into it. Story, great art, great music, great gameplay, just everything. Everything that you would think that a game would need to to be a a nominee for Game of the Year. It has it all, but it really just blows people away but with this presentation.

00:08:56.73
Jaime G
And it's going to get a pack of brand new DLC. The game is not done. Even though the campaign is done, it has a fitting conclusion. There's been announcement that they're going release a brand new area with brand new enemies and, you know, some revelations that might have been like open plot holes throughout the initial campaign. So this game is still doing stuff for the community, which I'm digging.

00:09:24.57
Jaime G
So. Hands down, I think that this is going to be the winner for the Golden Wings Award for the Game of the Year Award. Anywhere where this guy is going, this is but my pick by far.

00:09:39.63
Tony Sisk
I would second that. This is my my favorites in this category from this year. it's It's just so good. And you've managed to get a physical copy of this game, right?

00:09:52.06
Jaime G
I did. this has happened with like maybe three or four games ever where i have the I had to get the digital copy because at the time I couldn't get a physical And I started playing the the digital and I fell in love with And I said, yo, this is something where the scarcity of the actual physical disc made me like want it even more. So I kept on looking, I kept on looking. I can't remember if I got it through Amazon or Best Buy. It might've been like Amazon, but it was like one of those where as soon as I ordered it within like a couple hours, it was sold out.

00:10:32.95
Jaime G
So copies of this game are, I think are going to become one of those like collector's items in the near couple of years, because this game is just so massive and epic that not everyone had was able to get their hands on it.

00:10:48.73
Jaime G
And I think it actually, it broke some records on Game Pass too.

00:10:49.00
Tony Sisk
Right, yeah, it was a very limited print run. of the

00:10:55.07
Jaime G
I was recently reading an article like within the last three or four days that it was like one of like the most downloaded games ever.

00:11:03.42
Tony Sisk
Which is where I played it. I played it on Game Pass. so I unfortunately do not have a physical edition of this game.

00:11:06.18
Jaime G
right.

00:11:09.43
Tony Sisk
so

00:11:11.04
Jaime G
Boo. So

00:11:11.93
Tony Sisk
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Boo to me. me.

00:11:16.12
Tony Sisk
Okay, let's move on. ah Silksong.

00:11:21.02
Jaime G
looks like developed by Team Cherry out of Australia. This game is beautiful. This game has the music, has the lore. tells you so much without actually telling you you much at all.

00:11:34.78
Jaime G
I've said this before, this is one of those games that I love to rage to. I play it a ton. I'm still playing it, trying to get like through the final act.

00:11:45.14
Jaime G
I've reached a point where I'm at a boss fight and I've tried this bo boss fight like maybe 30 times. And you every single time you manage to inch it, inch in a little closer to victory,

00:11:59.22
Jaime G
But it eludes you. Team Cherry has developed one of the most challenging games, platformer games that I've encountered in a long time. And I am such a huge fan. And Tony, I'm such i'm just digging the fact that you told me today that you just started your playthrough through the original Hollow Knight, not through Silksong, right?

00:12:22.84
Tony Sisk
Right, yeah, I picked up a copy Hollow Knight on Steam Deck. It is perfect for a handheld. I'm just, I'm really happy ah with how it plays. um i i Actually, I think it plays better because I have...

00:12:40.83
Tony Sisk
ah Hollow Knight on PlayStation and I make an attempt to play it every once a while on PlayStation but I don't know what it is there's like a floatiness to it on my when I'm playing it on but my Steam Deck but on my steam deck the the controls seem way tighter. I don't know if that's a thing, but it it feels that way to me. I'm like, and so I really enjoy it much better on my Steam Deck.

00:13:08.54
Tony Sisk
And it's a perfect mobile game to take with you. So if you have a Steam Deck or some other, one of the newer modern games, mobile devices like ah the rogue ally or something like that. This is a perfect title for that.

00:13:22.74
Tony Sisk
So I'm enjoying my playthrough of that, hoping to get through that so I can start on Silksong. I would, based on your description of the raging, you showed me a video of the people raging to Silksong.

00:13:35.29
Jaime G
Oh yeah.

00:13:36.10
Tony Sisk
Would you say that this is like the equivalent of a Dark Souls game on platformer?

00:13:37.43
Jaime G
And I was,

00:13:42.97
Jaime G
I think so, man. And you know what? That video of people raging, you could have inserted it clips of me throughout in many, many times. I really do think it's one of those where it's the equivalent, it's a platform platforming equivalent of demon souls or, you know, any of those souls likes.

00:14:02.84
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah.

00:14:03.15
Jaime G
Um, I,

00:14:03.80
Tony Sisk
So that's what it feels like. I agree.

00:14:05.53
Jaime G
Now, I want to say this. I want to say this, though. Even though I love me some Silk Song, I have said before, I don't think this this is going to take it. It's too much. It's it's got some very big competition.

00:14:20.89
Jaime G
But they threw it in there because it's a good game.

00:14:25.18
Tony Sisk
Right. Yes. So moving on to a probably a heavy narrative game here. Death Stranding 2.

00:14:35.67
Jaime G
heavy narrative Heavy narrative and heavy walking.

00:14:40.86
Tony Sisk
Walking simulator.

00:14:42.33
Jaime G
Yes.

00:14:43.46
Tony Sisk
So you and I were but both not big fans of the original Death Stranding.

00:14:49.02
Jaime G
I know. Yes.

00:14:50.23
Tony Sisk
So, but here it is. Death Stranding 2 is on this list. So ah So I don't really have an impression because I couldn't get very far in the original Death Stranding. So, but if it's more of the same, I'm like, ah, you know, I'll probably,

00:15:05.69
Jaime G
I kept on falling asleep playing it, man.

00:15:08.22
Tony Sisk
probably not going to be voting for this one.

00:15:11.13
Jaime G
but But again, here's here's why Death Stranding 2 is on the list. and And this is going to be proven a little bit further down in the list of nameds nominees for the Golden Wings.

00:15:23.38
Jaime G
ah Anything that Hideo Kojima makes, he's got like a legion of followers that just basically say, this is the greatest thing ever.

00:15:36.47
Tony Sisk
This is the best walking simulator ever.

00:15:36.54
Jaime G
even though Even though his connection to reality, i mean, that ship sailed many years ago, man.

00:15:46.20
Tony Sisk
What's so funny is like this game shows up on like the Steam list of games that's always on sale. And it it it actually says a somewhere in the in the description at the top.

00:15:58.90
Tony Sisk
ah It says walking simulator. but whole category of walking simulators.

00:16:03.06
Jaime G
Yeah. yeah Now I'm throw a little bit of an Easter egg before we move on to the next next nominee here on the list.

00:16:07.68
Tony Sisk
It's top. It's the top of it.

00:16:16.64
Jaime G
Tony, I have a kid. I took him to see Zootopia 2, which is a good movie. Hideo Kojima has a a line in there.

00:16:29.50
Tony Sisk
Okay.

00:16:30.90
Jaime G
Yes, he does. And for some reason, when I saw the movie, i was like, man, you know, that that guy sounds familiar. from like I can't picture exactly where.

00:16:44.50
Tony Sisk
well he doesn't speak English very well so it should stand out right so either you're going to be in Japanese or it's going to be very heavily accented English

00:16:55.03
Jaime G
it was it was it was somebody who did a lot of grunting and, you know, I'm i'm angry.

00:16:59.16
Tony Sisk
if it's okay ah so next one Kingdom Come Deliverance I have not played this one this is the second Kingdom Come Deliverance right

00:17:09.31
Jaime G
Nope. No comment. Yes.

00:17:13.75
Tony Sisk
I played a little bit of the first, not a whole lot. But this is like a big time RPG set in the Middle Ages. One of my co-workers played this. He loved it. so Actually, I had two co-workers that played this.

00:17:26.94
Tony Sisk
um And they both raved about the game. so But I personally have no experience with it. so Alright, moving on to Donkey Kong Bonanza.

00:17:36.06
Jaime G
May neither.

00:17:45.11
Tony Sisk
This came out in with July on the Switch 2.

00:17:48.63
Jaime G
It was not a release title, but maybe it missed the mark by like a month or a month and a half.

00:17:58.61
Tony Sisk
So have you played it? You picked up your Switch 2. Did you get this title for your Switch?

00:18:02.97
Jaime G
No, no, but I, I, I went, okay. In preparation for this, I went and did some field investigation, Tony. I went to target where you could play this for like 15 minutes.

00:18:21.14
Jaime G
In the video game department.

00:18:22.74
Tony Sisk
it

00:18:23.74
Jaime G
And it seems like I've been there, done that with other games. Maybe people are just like surprised that the Switch is able to like pull like a PlayStation 4 era video game on it.

00:18:36.98
Tony Sisk
Okay, but it plays like you would think a Nintendo Donkey Kong game would be, right? Probably a 3D platformer or something like that.

00:18:43.38
Jaime G
Pretty much. Yes.

00:18:47.16
Tony Sisk
Okay, so we got that's Nintendo's ah nomination in there. So those games that we just listed were are all also nominated for Jeff Keighley's Video Game Awards, which are coming on December 11th, which is the big big ones.

00:18:52.98
Jaime G
Yep.

00:19:04.45
Tony Sisk
You know, these things are televised to millions people. um So SGL Golden Wings aligns with Jeff Keighley's awards and in those titles that we just mentioned. And let's now move on to, they have, I think, what, four additional titles on the SGL awards. So we'll jump into those real quick.

00:19:27.77
Tony Sisk
And let's go with Split Fiction. This is from the, yeah.

00:19:34.97
Jaime G
Okay. Developed by Hazelight Studio, they were certainly a a developer that I had high expectations for because they're the ones that put out the It Takes Two ah video game, which traumatized my son earlier this year.

00:19:53.00
Tony Sisk
Thank you.

00:19:54.38
Jaime G
um I still think that, you know, trauma aside, its it was such a surprise game. It was much better than what I thought. And it's actually a very good game. It's got really good graphics, but enough about that game. Let's talk about Split Fiction. Split Fiction dropped...

00:20:11.48
Jaime G
It was very well received by the critics. I don't know how it did in far as far as sales. So it comes as no surprise that it made it here for the SGL Golden Wings Award. It did not make it on Jeff Keighley's list for whatever reason. um I'm interested in in playing this one, to be to be honest. i haven't played it. I would like to.

00:20:34.87
Jaime G
But i think I think it's one of those where unless you're doing this with a buddy, and I'm telling you, I did this with a buddy that I was physically sitting next to. It's hard to play these types of games because you have to be so in sync and coordinated and say like, you do this and somebody's screaming at the other person like, now you do this because something's gonna happen.

00:20:57.08
Jaime G
It brings a challenge, right? Trying to do this in line with like some rando. But it there's a lot of reward when you actually get through some of these collaborative focused activities.

00:21:10.47
Tony Sisk
Okay. Yeah, so yeah, the same people that made It it Takes Two, and that game won Game of the Year back in, was it 2022?

00:21:17.88
Jaime G
It did, and we talked about it. I think it was 2021 or 2022, yeah.

00:21:22.56
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so ah good pedigree as far as developers. ah So moving on to here the other Kojima title, Metal Gear Solid Delta, and you played this

00:21:34.78
Jaime G
Which is why I said,

00:21:39.13
Jaime G
I did. I told you my my review earlier this year was that this is visually where they wanted to get this game at.

00:21:41.12
Tony Sisk
it

00:21:50.17
Jaime G
But the technology at the time and the PlayStation, think what this was a PlayStation 2 era. Just didn didn't let them get to it. But if but my original review said and it's all the same, all the same areas. Maybe they added like some camel, like some slight things to have some slight alterations to the gameplay.

00:22:13.30
Jaime G
But at this at the at the core, it's the same exact game that released many, many years ago. I struggle personally, and I said this before we started recording, seeing it on this list in any way, shape, or form for the game of the year. Because this is maybe it was the game of the year when it first launched. It shouldn't be here today. Which, again, further proves my point that anything that that has Hideo Kojima related to it,

00:22:42.20
Jaime G
People are like, oh, this thing's awesome, even though it's me.

00:22:44.15
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:22:48.57
Tony Sisk
all right so the next title um is actually a bit of a surprise to see on this list it's called blueprints and it uh one point a couple months ago was a free title on a it's a little indie game on ah playstation network um

00:23:06.10
Jaime G
PlayStation Network.

00:23:09.56
Tony Sisk
So basically, yeah, you you inherit you inherit a mansion and yeah you're trying to find the secret hidden 44th room or something like that within the mansion.

00:23:09.62
Jaime G
And you played it, actually.

00:23:18.84
Tony Sisk
And it's like a roguelite. each time you you'd make an attempt, you're probably going to fail, but you get a little bit something more knowledge, more...

00:23:31.10
Tony Sisk
uh equipment or something that you need to to to make uh the next one a little bit better so i did play i have played this game so yeah yeah it is exactly that uh though you're not dying or anything like that you just you run out about run out of options it's like uh

00:23:37.62
Jaime G
isn't that is Isn't that a roguelike then?

00:23:50.25
Tony Sisk
you know you're trying to put a puzzle together by finding the pathway through the mansion to find this hidden room by and you're doing it by placing specific rooms throughout the mansion as you go

00:23:50.33
Jaime G
You die a little bit on the inside.

00:24:06.34
Tony Sisk
and trying to make it fit it's like a puzzle uh so it's unique so that's why i think it's probably on this list it's unique it was fun um And I think it's still available on PlayStation if you haven't tried it.

00:24:23.46
Jaime G
All right. The last game here, and I am so surprised that this game has not made it on the actual game of the year list, is Ghost of Yotai by Capcom.

00:24:39.48
Jaime G
Because i have people, good friends, texting me left and right saying, you have to play this game. Like literally every time I see a couple of people that I that i know really well online, they're still playing this game.

00:24:55.58
Jaime G
ah i i admittedly felt that this would have been a game that you play it once. It's open world. you get you know You get your mileage out of it and then move on to the next one.

00:25:07.48
Jaime G
But people that I know are still saying like, there's something about this game that you have to try out. So, you know, good pick here from the SGL team. Tony, your thoughts? You did play through. You you had your playthrough on this one.

00:25:23.22
Tony Sisk
Ghost of Yota is an excellent game. um And I am surprised that it is not on Jeff Keighley's list of nominees for Game of a Year. I think this game deserves to be on that list. um

00:25:37.37
Jaime G
I concur.

00:25:37.40
Tony Sisk
This game is beautiful. The gameplay is beautiful. The story is strong. And I think that... i think I don't know if there's a political aspect to this with the protagonist being a female samurai.

00:25:55.54
Tony Sisk
that might mean me That's just me throwing that out there, but i don't understand why it's not on the list, Jeff Keighley's list. Yeah.

00:26:04.26
Jaime G
I mean, technically, Hades 2 is a female protagonist. Expedition 33 added score as a female protagonist. Silksong, Hornet is a female, i guess, in Bug Anatomy.

00:26:16.50
Tony Sisk
That's true. I mean, there's other titles, but there was there was there was there was ah at a moment during the production of this game when there was pushback on the actress that is the star of the main character in this game.

00:26:30.36
Tony Sisk
So I don't know if they were just trying to avoid that. and I don't know. They usually don't do that sort of stuff, but... It's just weird because this game is so good that it's not on that list. But it either here it is on SGL's Golden Wings. So I think it is, to me...

00:26:50.24
Tony Sisk
well will push Expedition 33 for the win on this.

00:26:54.65
Jaime G
Say what?

00:26:54.74
Tony Sisk
i think I think so. I think it's not as good as Expedition 33, but it's not far behind either. So I think if you if you're going to go, just a to me, a quick list, you got Expedition 33, and then you got Ghost Yotai.

00:27:11.48
Jaime G
okay give me give me your third pick from the Golden Wings list.

00:27:12.00
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:27:18.71
Tony Sisk
My third pick is probably going to be Kingdom Come Deliverance, and I have no experience with the game.

00:27:26.10
Jaime G
ah yeah Oh, man. now he he just

00:27:27.84
Tony Sisk
Just because other people tell me that it's great, but

00:27:29.54
Jaime G
You just went none of the above.

00:27:32.09
Tony Sisk
ah if it's not Kingdom Come Deliverance, it's probably going to be a Silk Song.

00:27:40.12
Jaime G
Okay. My thoughts is I see Expedition 33. I see Silk Song. And somehow, man, I'm going to say it maybe Dead Stranding 2. Like you, I haven't played it but again,

00:27:55.03
Jaime G
People go buku crazy for Kojima stuff. ah

00:28:01.62
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:28:02.17
Jaime G
So why not?

00:28:03.32
Tony Sisk
Why not? All right. So that is the SGL Golden and wing Wings Awards. So we'll bring you guys the the winners from that once we get those from Shadow Knights, who's doing a great job over at the SGL Discord community.

00:28:20.44
Tony Sisk
So shout out to them. And if you're not, if you're in the Facebook group for SGL, ah and you haven't joined the discord for them you should do that they have a lot of stuff going on there all time so let's move on to Jaime where were the deals Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day like in years past you could always look forward to Black Friday I'm gonna get like 10 games at a discount price

00:28:39.32
Jaime G
Yes, sir.

00:28:42.23
Jaime G
I don't know.

00:28:53.78
Jaime G
For the past seven years, I've always had a list. right I've always had a list, and I've said this, where I grab $100. And if you are savvy, I used to get like four to five video games and like very new video games.

00:29:13.56
Jaime G
And I was a happy camper. And one year, maybe two years ago, i think I even shared my list on Excel and I put it somewhere i say hey and said, hey, here's all the deals that I'm finding. If I tried to do that same thing this year, Tony,

00:29:27.99
Jaime G
I would have like sadly failed. I still did list ah third my my my list of video games.

00:29:39.67
Jaime G
But I still spent $100 on video games. But the two best deals that I could see, and these weren't like deals like like you would see in years past, is I was able to see that Battlefield 6 dropped to $35, which is a 50% price cut on a game that's selling really well. It still has a big community playing it.

00:30:02.74
Jaime G
And Borderlands 4. So I managed to snag a copy of Borderlands 4 this season. But if you looked around, man, they were like very scarce.

00:30:15.93
Jaime G
And the games that saw price cuts on them were probably not the games that people wanted to buy. Yeah.

00:30:24.41
Tony Sisk
Right. I saw a lot of like, you know, uh, Madden, some basketball, you know, some, you know, nothing really like that that would interest me.

00:30:25.91
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:30:35.29
Jaime G
yeah

00:30:35.51
Tony Sisk
of

00:30:37.29
Jaime G
I think that was a difference that's the difference. Like in years past, it was like brand new games that everybody wanted. This year, the price cuts were on the games that people don't necessarily want it anymore. And you know the publishers were like, yo, we need to get rid of this stock now.

00:30:56.54
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah. That's the thing. It's like, I'm looking to like add to my physical game collection, but I don't want to pay, you know, full price for a game that's been out for two or three years already.

00:31:08.22
Tony Sisk
You know, it's like, I'm looking for a discount here.

00:31:09.24
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:31:11.19
Tony Sisk
Come

00:31:11.77
Jaime G
Dude. Okay. the The second game that I picked up was Mario Brother Super Mario Odyssey. And this game has been out for how long now?

00:31:22.10
Jaime G
it was like an early a game in the early lifetime of the original Switch. And I picked up it because I was like, Nintendo stuff, their own first party stuff never goes on sale. And I was like, okay, this is the cheapest that I'll ever see it.

00:31:39.96
Tony Sisk
Yeah

00:31:40.18
Jaime G
So I did pick it up.

00:31:43.99
Tony Sisk
Yeah Oh speaking of Nintendo So I went to the movies today with the wife And we watched Wicked number 2 But in the trailers Before the movie started There was a Super Mario Movie trailer Galaxy It looks amazing

00:32:02.11
Jaime G
Galaxy.

00:32:06.84
Tony Sisk
I can't wait.

00:32:07.70
Jaime G
I want to see it.

00:32:08.56
Tony Sisk
I can't wait.

00:32:09.11
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:32:09.64
Tony Sisk
And hopefully this time you won't have to sit in the auditorium for the little girls like you did last time.

00:32:15.36
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:32:20.15
Tony Sisk
Yeah. You stalker.

00:32:20.86
Jaime G
Well, ah no, it, I, I will, I will go see this one for sure.

00:32:23.96
Tony Sisk
e

00:32:28.70
Tony Sisk
Yep. So I'm Jack black as Bowser. Great.

00:32:33.59
Jaime G
Awesome pick.

00:32:34.69
Tony Sisk
Yep. So moving on from the holidays, lack of video game sales, ah you did have an opportunity to play a closed beta of a game this past weekend.

00:32:47.85
Jaime G
I did. and it And you know, if anybody here is into fighting games, that's that's not... I would have said before that's my jam, but like lately I've ventured out to other stuff. But Marvel Token had its close its most recent closed beta this past weekend.

00:33:06.62
Jaime G
Marvel Token, just for context, is a game it's a fighting game developed by Arc System Works, and it's being published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. right?

00:33:18.32
Jaime G
Arc Systems work is is not a newbie in the fighting game community. They've done amazing games such as the Guilty Gear series, the Dragon Ball FighterZ series, which personally, I think in recent years, they've kind of like perfect perfected a very interesting fighting game that they that nobody had ever done well with because Dragon Ball has had like Probably something from like 12 to 15 fighting games and they all were terrible.

00:33:52.38
Jaime G
They sucked. This was the first one that like was on EVO, was in major mainstream. Everyone was playing it, and it was like it's still going. like They're still you know doing updates and balance patches to make sure that it it's fun and interesting. But Arc Systems Works apparently was tapped on the shoulder by PlayStation and Marvel Studios to to to develop a new fighter game. The last time that we ever saw a Marvel fighting game was with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

00:34:26.49
Jaime G
No, that was the last good one. Marvel vs. Capcom Infinity or whatever horrible game that was, Capcom just you know basically ruined it for everybody.

00:34:40.37
Jaime G
It's so bad, bad that, you know, I guess Marvel and Disney said we're not partnering with Capcom to do any more fighting games.

00:34:41.78
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:34:49.85
Jaime G
And they had like a really long history of doing good fighting games with their Capcom characters as well as Marvel characters.

00:35:00.34
Jaime G
But it just takes one very bad game to make that all go. So... The whole FGC was concerned that we might never see a fighting game before and much less a tag-based fighting game.

00:35:16.65
Jaime G
So now we all got the reveal at that PlayStation Direct. Was it PlayStation Direct or game State of Play?

00:35:23.49
Tony Sisk
State of play, yeah.

00:35:24.66
Jaime G
Right, a couple months ago. And you see this 4v4 tag team fighting game. And it was like, yo, what? Because they were always doing a 3v3. So now it's a four v four And everyone's like, hold up, stop the press.

00:35:40.28
Jaime G
Did we just see this right in? Because I think it was like one of their last announcements in that in that event, right? It's set to be released in 2026. So anyway, I took Friday off and I was actually at work and I had gotten the email saying that I was going to be able to play in the closed beta.

00:36:00.18
Jaime G
And I was at work and I was at work and About 10 a.m. in the morning, i'm I'm telling my coworkers, I'm like, guys, I got to go. I really want to play this game. I'm going to take a vacation day.

00:36:13.21
Jaime G
and And what's funny is that is that my coworkers were were texting me throughout the days and like, so how good is it? I'm like, this game is epic.

00:36:24.32
Tony Sisk
Oh, wow.

00:36:24.47
Jaime G
you you Dude, Tony. the The controls, I mean, it's a beta, right? there're They're testing, they're stress testing a lot of things. This is not going to be the final the final release product.

00:36:38.46
Jaime G
um The game play smooth. I only had issues with like maybe... maybe a handful of matches where you could tell that there was like a connection issue. Maybe somebody was in Australia and they were connecting to a server in the U S I don't know, but only like for the most part, it played well.

00:36:58.10
Jaime G
This is the most beautiful thing. fighting game that I've ever seen where they use, you know, marble characters. um The music, the music, every single track that I heard is a banger.

00:37:12.45
Jaime G
So for a fighting game where you're playing and you're like, wow, I really like the music that's in the background.

00:37:16.99
Tony Sisk
Thank you.

00:37:19.10
Jaime G
It's something hard to pull off. Um, This year we saw the release of the latest final Fatal Fury game, and I told Vandy Kit, I said, hey, man, this is a new kid on the block. It's not going to be the best kid on the block by far.

00:37:36.66
Jaime G
This game, it has a good shot at becoming one of the better ones in the near future. Because again, even like there was a 2X KO release that's only on PC, eventually be in consoles, but it like shadow dropped, nobody cares.

00:37:54.39
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:37:56.53
Jaime G
Now my only concern for this game Is that they're using Marvel characters. They've done them all anime style. They're picking, you know, your safe bet characters. I mean, obviously there's Captain America, there's Iron Man, there's Spider-Man.

00:38:13.91
Jaime G
Now they started also picking some characters that were like that have never been seen before the fighting came like Miss Marvel. Um, Ghost Rider has been in a fighting game, but not this particular Ghost Rider. It's comic books. You know how like everyone gets like superpowers and then somebody else becomes the same hero. Well, this is a different variation of Ghost Rider, not your more traditional one.

00:38:38.39
Jaime G
Star-Lord in a fighting game. And they've only announced eight characters so far. So this closed beta that let us play with Ghost Rider and Spider-Man. I'm excited for the future of this game. It's something that I saw that actually made me be very excited about this is, you know how when you pick the same character, you can do do different color palettes for like their their outfits. Well, for Spider-Man, which again, I played, I made Spider-Man the whole weekend.

00:39:10.87
Jaime G
It wasn't just a palette swap. Like it was like play if you picked one character, it was like Spider-Man with the advanced suit from the Spider-Man game.

00:39:21.50
Jaime G
And ah second the the second one was not just a palette swap. It was like like the symbiote Spider-Man suit. And I thought, if they can do that and it looks as good as it does, I can see this becoming like a DLC kind of thing.

00:39:38.05
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:39:38.46
Jaime G
Again, imagine some of the variations that you can get to. i mean, these these things looked beautiful, as I said before. I think I'm really excited about this game and I'm really looking forward for this in 2026. The beta's closed.

00:39:55.51
Jaime G
um A little bit of a shout out here to J-Rod because he kept on quote unquote challenging me all weekend for a face off. And every single time that we would say, hey, okay, let's connect at this agreed upon time, he would never show up

00:40:13.59
Tony Sisk
ah

00:40:15.22
Jaime G
The last time he was like, oh well, you know, my girlfriend surprised me for tickets to go see Jujutsu Kaisen together at the movie theater. And A, girls don't like anime, so I'm not buying that.

00:40:27.34
Tony Sisk
ah

00:40:31.26
Jaime G
So J-Rod, you chickened out of it, my friend. I would have crushed you this weekend.

00:40:36.47
Tony Sisk
Wow. Throwing a gauntlet down the J-Rod.

00:40:39.45
Jaime G
Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, Marvel talk on Tony.

00:40:43.45
Tony Sisk
So

00:40:44.79
Jaime G
I'm so excited about this game. I'm pumped about it, man.

00:40:48.76
Tony Sisk
ah you said this is a four versus four?

00:40:51.42
Jaime G
It's a 4v4 game. But it doesn't like it doesn't force you. This is the thing i never grasped in my mind. it it It doesn't force you to use all four characters. You can just use one character and he's like the main character you're playing with and the other three characters become assists for like projectile, anti-air, or like heavy attacks.

00:41:15.03
Jaime G
And the other thing I was telling Vandy Kit today is that the fact that as you tag in characters, the way how your backup characters are in the sidelines, the character that used to be your projectile throwing character might end up shifting to become your anti-art character. so So many times I was like, oh, something's going to happen.

00:41:39.00
Jaime G
Let me throw out Ghost Rider. He's going to bail me out of this situation. And then I'd be like, what the what? Ms. Marble came out? So you have to have a lot of situational awareness to your opponent as well as to your assemble formation, which is so cool.

00:41:58.65
Jaime G
Again, it makes you have to pay much more attention to areas that usually you kind of just ignore.

00:42:06.76
Tony Sisk
Cool.

00:42:08.00
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:42:08.51
Tony Sisk
You have my interest now. Not that I'll be any good at it because I stink at fighting games.

00:42:13.78
Jaime G
Well, let me just...

00:42:13.88
Tony Sisk
But I know that there's a large community especially ah that's out there listening that likes fighting games. so Awesome.

00:42:21.56
Jaime G
Hey, Poncho, Misfit Sandman, I'll throw the gauntlet. See you guys there.

00:42:30.72
Tony Sisk
Cool. So for our last segment, i don't we we were just talking about you know our war stories. I'm sure. Do you have some Battlefield 6 war stories you want to talk about, Jaime? Yeah.

00:42:42.04
Jaime G
Oh, I do. I've been playing this game nonstop. Like, I play... i play ah silksong a little bit then i rage and i'm like okay let me go play battlefront and then i rage a little bit and i go to something else um i've been getting much better with the sniper gun and it's it's become my recon has been my most favorite uh class to play and i was in one map particularly where i was you know just

00:43:15.06
Jaime G
hook on the floor, you know, people are coming out, bam, bam, shooting them. And I see a tank, right? But i've paid I paid no attention to this tank. I'm still like on the floor, just like, you know, getting my headshots in.

00:43:28.92
Jaime G
All of a sudden, man, and I have this guy in my crosshairs. I'm like, I'm okay. I'm like, he's going down. Then all of sudden I'm boom. The tank shoots the house.

00:43:43.56
Jaime G
I'm falling through the second floor. There's debris that's falling into me.

00:43:45.97
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

00:43:47.36
Jaime G
it I'm like, this game, man, really makes you feel. Again, it it took a while for me to get, you know, really like it because I so played this and I was like, this this ain't Call of Duty.

00:44:02.91
Jaime G
it's yeah Man, it gets crazy. This game really, really gets crazy. um I mean, just the environmental destruction. And when when people are trying to like, when you're like tucked in a corner and people are trying to like, just like get you, they're throwing grenades, they're doing like little missile things.

00:44:22.94
Jaime G
What, man? and And there's this thing, like if you get into like a dogfight, maybe that's not the right word, but when you're when you're a sniper and you're going against another sniper,

00:44:36.44
Jaime G
you get like a little reward when like, like the system knows that two snipers are trying to go for each other and you get like this, like, you know, counter sniper, little, little reward whenever you take the one out.

00:44:49.03
Tony Sisk
like Enemies at the enemy at the Gates.

00:44:49.56
Jaime G
But

00:44:51.44
Tony Sisk
i mean The whole movie based on snipers versus snipers.

00:44:52.55
Jaime G
it's something. It's something like that. but But, man, every once in a while, if you if you have the other guy on your crosshair and you shoot him while he actually had you in his crosshairs, the the little reward that pops up, it's like golden.

00:44:56.28
Tony Sisk
Oh,

00:45:11.49
Tony Sisk
really? Really?

00:45:12.38
Jaime G
Oh, yeah, it's it's different. It's like like you know you took him out right before he was about to take you out. So it it it adds this element of like, there's some matches and some maps where you and the other guy, you're like literally hunting each other because once you're locked into a class, you're you kind of that's it, man.

00:45:35.54
Jaime G
And so you're like going into like little places being really careful because you know that there's another guy that's kind of gunning for you.

00:45:41.82
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:45:43.16
Jaime G
So there's there's like this rival thing that I don't know if the Battlefield guys thought about this when the first the one they were doing this game, but I've gotten into matches where I know that people are like hunting me.

00:45:55.58
Jaime G
And it's always like when you're playing the sniper thing, because when you're like ah assault, man, you're just fodder.

00:45:58.74
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:46:01.90
Jaime G
You know, you go into a room, there's like 20 people waiting for you.

00:46:07.86
Tony Sisk
Right? Hey. Yeah, the cell class, fodder.

00:46:11.77
Jaime G
But i'm going to I'm going to echo something that you said today. And you were like so right, remember? Over the weekend, asked, hey, Tony, you want to play a little bit? you know Our schedules didn't line up. yeah I was still waiting for J-Rod, which he never showed up for our match.

00:46:27.10
Jaime G
um um battlefront becomes that what is the battlefront battlefield it becomes so much more fun if you're working with a squad that you know if it's just random people forget it man that's just don't revive them because they're not going to revive you um

00:46:34.07
Tony Sisk
Battlefield.

00:46:53.22
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah.

00:46:54.46
Jaime G
But when you're playing, like you you and I had the opportunity to pair up with Odie and Isaac. um And it was just, I mean, even when we weren't fighting, inevitably somebody says something dumb that we're just like laughing about.

00:47:12.22
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:47:12.70
Jaime G
Right? So the fun level is good in this game. It's so much but better when you're playing it with a team of people that you know. So i I actually kind of feel bad that there's not a lot more people that I know playing it, which is kind of surprising because it's it's been a good good time for me.

00:47:24.72
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:47:35.06
Jaime G
Every once in a while, I'll see Vance and he's playing Call of Duty. want to be like, boo.

00:47:43.07
Tony Sisk
Right. Boo call duty. Yeah.

00:47:45.11
Jaime G
Yeah. I don't know.

00:47:47.07
Tony Sisk
Well,

00:47:47.26
Jaime G
What's your war story?

00:47:49.11
Tony Sisk
well yeah I do have one war story from Battlefield. The last game I played, well no, the second to last game I played, I was on, I can't remember the map name, but it was like ah Afghanistan Valley or whatever.

00:48:03.49
Tony Sisk
And I was with a squad and all these guys in the squad were all significantly higher than me in rank. And we were playing Breakthrough.

00:48:14.72
Tony Sisk
And I'm playing Assault and I didn't have my spawn beacon. set up I should have set it up because three other guys in the squad were also playing el assault so I figured okay well they'll probably use their spawn beacons because I saw that they had their spawn beacons right well no no they they put their spawn beacon way in the back

00:48:28.47
Jaime G
Nah, man.

00:48:39.57
Tony Sisk
Because they just wanted to snipe. The whole time. And. If I died. And they just happened to be standing there. They never. Not one time.

00:48:51.78
Tony Sisk
Rezzed me. Picked me back up. Like.

00:48:56.47
Tony Sisk
You can't win this mode. If you don't. Revive your guys. Right. Because you're losing a ticket. Every time. Like. This is the worst squad. And these guys were all in their hundreds.

00:49:06.97
Tony Sisk
Right. Like. you This is the worst squad. like All of you are just playing for yourselves. so That's why I said, like oh you're going to have the most fun when you're playing with a good squad or people that are that you know. That way you can coordinate, you can pick pick each other up, and you know and you can actually be effective.

00:49:30.82
Tony Sisk
To me, like yeah I don't even know why these guys were, they're just working on their sniping or whatever it was, but um we lost the game. so you know We didn't come close to winning the game because they would never, like my squad was the worst squad because they never moved to take the objective.

00:49:49.65
Tony Sisk
Like they just sat in the back. I'm like, come on. Why are you playing assault and then sitting way back there? ah So, yeah.

00:49:59.86
Jaime G
Yes. Again, this game is really amazing when when played with friends.

00:50:04.65
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:50:05.05
Jaime G
and and And like you, i've i've you know I've been randomly being paired up with any squad. And, dude, it's kind of bad when you're getting revived or helped out by people who are not your squad members.

00:50:17.82
Jaime G
And your squad, like, you're on the on the floor, like, raising your hand, like, dude, pick me up.

00:50:22.47
Tony Sisk
ah there's Other squads were reviving me. My own squad doesn't revive me.

00:50:24.79
Jaime G
I know.

00:50:25.95
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:50:28.02
Jaime G
And there is ah there is there is a little bit of feeling that you're internal internalizing, like, I ain't helping you out, bro.

00:50:35.62
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:50:35.70
Jaime G
ah

00:50:35.92
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:50:37.18
Jaime G
Now, I got ah a story that that I didn't think about this a minute ago.

00:50:37.51
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:50:42.97
Jaime G
um I'm going to have a little bit of a callback. Remember when you and I were used to play Modern Warfare? Oh, man, I think it was two.

00:50:54.49
Jaime G
The one that had like the bridge across the border from Mexico to El Paso.

00:50:57.72
Tony Sisk
Yeah. yeah

00:50:59.09
Jaime G
Was it two or was it three?

00:51:01.11
Tony Sisk
I don't remember. I think it was three, but i don't remember for sure.

00:51:03.29
Jaime G
maybe it's Okay, that that like so many times I was like, dude, this is exactly like the port of entry. Like I'm originally from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. This is exactly how you cross the border to go into El Paso.

00:51:16.86
Tony Sisk
With machine gun fire. ah Yeah.

00:51:19.32
Jaime G
Well, yeah.

00:51:21.07
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah.

00:51:21.43
Jaime G
On it two two Tuesday, get a little bit crazier, man.

00:51:22.13
Tony Sisk
You're not denying it.

00:51:26.94
Jaime G
ah But but and and remember that when you and when we were playing with Odie, he even was like, oh, yeah, man, that map's legit.

00:51:35.44
Tony Sisk
ah

00:51:35.74
Jaime G
so So I was playing this weekend and there's I'm playing on this. It's like one of the small maps where like there's in the middle, like the school bus that's like separating you from the other team.

00:51:48.73
Jaime G
And it's like just like this really run down area. and there's like, you know, car parts like laying all over the place. And there's like some beat up cars in the middle of the road. ah Okay, man.

00:52:03.32
Jaime G
So I'm playing this and I'm just like in the zone. I'm trying to snipe people. And my wife's behind me. She's watching me. She's watching me. and i'm And I'm having a good run, dude. I'm thinking like, yo, I finally got, you know, a cheerleader behind me watching.

00:52:21.37
Jaime G
And I finally, you know, I have like this moment where like at the end of the match, I take my headset off and, you know, you're you're like victory pose, you know, let me do a victory lap here around to the living room. And I never expected this.

00:52:38.10
Jaime G
My wife says, hey, is that map Juarez? Because it really looks like Juarez.

00:52:50.57
Tony Sisk
It's funny.

00:52:52.02
Jaime G
And I'm thinking like, no, but as soon as she said it, I can't unsee it now.

00:53:01.11
Jaime G
Well, not not, you know, not the whole city of Juarez, but there's parts on the outskirts that like

00:53:05.49
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah.

00:53:09.18
Jaime G
Now it's like, dude, that's that's right. That's it.

00:53:15.07
Tony Sisk
That's funny. Yeah.

00:53:15.54
Jaime G
I told her, no, I think this is supposed to be maybe like Afghanistan or something. I'm not sure.

00:53:20.94
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:53:23.38
Jaime G
But she's just like very casual, like, that looks like Juarez.

00:53:27.22
Tony Sisk
That's funny.

00:53:28.63
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:53:30.19
Tony Sisk
um but you know ah's up but war stories for me ah right now are all Ark Raiders oriented. like That's all I'm playing. The game is super addictive. like you know I think I've talked about couple of different times now in a couple of the different podcasts, but Ark Raiders is, you know, it's got its hooks into me, and it's really a great game to play solo or with friends. I i' play with a couple of guys at work, and we talk about it when we get a chance.

00:54:03.96
Jaime G
All right, if this game is so good, why is it on the and the Golden Wings Awards nominees?

00:54:09.42
Tony Sisk
i don't I don't think enough people have tried it out yet. and like ah I think ah maybe theyre maybe they've heard some good and bad things.

00:54:16.98
Jaime G
um i'm sorry

00:54:18.94
Tony Sisk
like Maybe the bad things are kind of scaring them away.

00:54:19.41
Jaime G
I'm starting to think that this i don't know i'm sorry to think that this is Tony's the only person who likes this kind of

00:54:27.47
Tony Sisk
nope This game is it's it's popular. I mean, it is it's a popular game. i know how many people are playing it right now, but it's pretty it's a pretty good number of But it is a perfect single-player game.

00:54:42.47
Tony Sisk
ah And it plays great as multiplayer, too. So, you know, post-apocalyptic world. so All stuff I've talked about. But, you know, when I initially talked about a couple weeks ago with Vance, I mentioned that how the player base was great, super friendly and whatever.

00:55:00.76
Tony Sisk
And it still is. However, there has been a shift. Go ahead.

00:55:06.52
Jaime G
Tony, i said I've said this in this show before, and maybe this is what you're going to, but I've said before, people ruin games.

00:55:17.72
Tony Sisk
Right. I, yeah, exactly.

00:55:19.58
Jaime G
Proceed.

00:55:20.55
Tony Sisk
Well, I think it, it could be ah a result of the popularity of the game. I, uh, people are coming in that, uh, you know, at this point in there, kind of like, you know, all guns blazing. Right. It's like,

00:55:37.57
Tony Sisk
and There has been a shift. And I think it you could be, I've seen some skits on YouTube about it, you know, about people who have like, you know, been the victims ah of of other players and they have evolved into a shooting first and asking questions later. Sometimes I will i will get that way myself.

00:55:58.88
Tony Sisk
I'm like, if you, if you don't come up to me and you don't use a proper, like, and i these are my own rules. I don't know if this thing exists or not.

00:56:06.27
Jaime G
Hello, Raider.

00:56:07.51
Tony Sisk
Yeah, if you don't say hello, Raider, or don't shoot to me first, or when I say it to you, and you act weird, I'm shooting you, because the the it's like you're just acting weird, so stay away from me. So the one story I want to talk about, it was funny because you were just talking about your wife watching you play.

00:56:32.55
Tony Sisk
I think it was probably like from last Tuesday or Wednesday, I was upstairs and I was playing. And i had just gotten into a map and they have different modes of the map. So in this particular map mode, it's called spaceport.

00:56:50.72
Tony Sisk
For those familiar with the game, it's called spaceport and it was a electromagnetic storm. So basically there's it's nighttime and there's a storm, electrical storm going on and there's lightning strikes everywhere. And these things can kill you.

00:57:06.42
Tony Sisk
So I just got into the map and uh, pried open a couple, or a couple of, uh, of these robot courier things that had been knocked out of the sky. And then I got spotted by a drone and this thing chased me into a field location, a field depot, which is just a hollowed out like aircraft container that acts like a building.

00:57:32.26
Tony Sisk
So I'm in there and I'm shooting at this a drone and I hear, you know, behind me, somebody go, hello, Raider, don't shoot.

00:57:47.51
Tony Sisk
Right. Okay. Typically that would be the sign that this is a friendly player. You know, you still have this kind of like, ah per attorney rules, this is still kind of a friendly player, you know, but you still got to keep your eye out, right?

00:57:58.55
Jaime G
Per Tony rules.

00:58:04.92
Tony Sisk
So um I had backed up from the open doorway. So there's multiple entrances to this thing. um um I backed up, I'm reloading my rifle.

00:58:16.88
Tony Sisk
The guy comes walking up to me and he's like, you know, four feet away from me. He looks at me and then he starts shooting me. Well, he has a horrible shot because he misses half his shots.

00:58:29.78
Tony Sisk
It doesn't take me down. So I raised my rifle and I blast him. One shot at that range. I knock him down. He's down. And I've got my headset on.

00:58:41.11
Tony Sisk
My wife's putting a puzzle together. She's sitting there in the room. And now I go what is wrong with you? Who does that? Are you seriously? Are you kidding me? I'm like, I'm just going off on this guy. I'm like, you're going to come in here and say, don't shoot. Hello, Rainer. And then shoot me.

00:59:00.94
Tony Sisk
And you stink so bad. you You didn't even kill me. I killed you. My wife's like, who are you talking to She's like.

00:59:07.51
Jaime G
He was he was probably he saying, don't shoot first.

00:59:11.57
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah, let me shoot you. Right. And she's like. Oh, and while I'm yelling at this guy, and this is, I'd never yell. I never say anything. You know many times I get ambushed and and killed by dudes in the back a night, you know, three or four times a night probably.

00:59:32.92
Tony Sisk
And has never elicited a response to me other than agitation. Right. Uh, But I hear recently, last week, and this and this is one this is the worst example of it. This guy just comes out i flat out lies and says, ah uses like, what do you call it? A distraction or you know just trying to divert your attention, whatever you want to call it.

01:00:02.13
Tony Sisk
But basically flat out lies and says, I'm friendly. And then shoots you. And then You know, I kill him and in the process of me killing him, the, the, the UIV, I was the the drone I was shooting at shot me in the back and killed me.

01:00:21.53
Tony Sisk
Right. So, and I said, I told the guy, I was like, see, not only did you get yourself killed, but you got me killed too. Yeah. This guy is crawling away. He's like trying, he's crawling away and I just follow him and I'm just, I'm just at him the whole time. oh like keep crawling away. going to be at you the whole time. i like, go ahead.

01:00:46.07
Jaime G
can Can he hear you when you're saying this?

01:00:48.47
Tony Sisk
Oh yeah.

01:00:49.11
Jaime G
Or are you just like venting you by yourself in the living room?

01:00:49.40
Tony Sisk
Oh yeah. He can hear me. No, he can hear me. I have my headset. I have a mic turned on. It's got proximity chats. You can hear.

01:00:56.38
Jaime G
Okay, so it's got proximity chat. Okay. Okay.

01:00:58.63
Tony Sisk
It's got proximity chat. He doesn't say a word, right? And I'm like, I told my wife, my wife's like, who are you talking to? You know this person? I'm like, no, I don't know this person.

01:01:09.61
Tony Sisk
But like, this guy just violated every rule of of the the the don't shoot me. I'm friendly rule that they're the rules of engagement.

01:01:18.36
Jaime G
The rules of engagement.

01:01:20.92
Tony Sisk
He violated them. If you want to shoot somebody, i just shoot them. don't say nothing. Just walk up and shoot. ah He crossed the line, but he crossed the line and I just like, I lost it on him.

01:01:34.61
Tony Sisk
And, um, and a and Amy's was like several times since then, she's like brought it up to people.

01:01:35.58
Jaime G
Man, that's funny, man.

01:01:42.74
Tony Sisk
she's like, Oh, he was just going to town on this guy. I'm like, yeah. And, um, yeah, there's been a couple of different things.

01:01:50.50
Jaime G
Yeah, you know, okay, this this okay

01:01:50.99
Tony Sisk
Like,

01:01:55.74
Jaime G
this is not a war story for per se, but you know how i was telling you, like i so i was like so i I'm having like these little battles against other snipers.

01:01:56.95
Tony Sisk
Thank you.

01:02:07.22
Jaime G
One time, this one guy kind of in my from my team, He's like walking by and he's like, he's like saying something to me like, like, like, are you for real, man? Get in the bam. you guys catch shot By the guy who's trying to shoot at me.

01:02:30.87
Jaime G
And I'm thinking, man, that ah he's got proximity chat.

01:02:35.01
Tony Sisk
Yeah. But I told you, like, right before we got onto the podcast, and I'm like, ah you know, I had been playing tonight before we podcasted, and...

01:02:47.90
Tony Sisk
I am trying to do this, what's called this expedition project. It's basically, you have to turn in all these different resources and stuff to um basically send your character off into the unknown.

01:03:04.69
Tony Sisk
And as a reward for that, you lose the character and you lose everything. But as a reward for that, you get some sort of like extra skill points that you can use in the future, right? Yeah.

01:03:17.99
Tony Sisk
And initially I'm thinking, well, this is not worth it. You have to do this to way too much work. You have to give up everything you've earned to get it like blueprints and all this stuff. I'm like, and then all the materials and you spend a lot of time collecting materials. It's like, I have to give all that up for just some measly points, but I have come to since changed my mind and I've shifted to doing the expedition.

01:03:41.72
Tony Sisk
ah And what time there is left in the season. Hopefully I can manage to get it done. I'm halfway through but it gets progressively more difficult. There's like six different phases of it. I'm in phase four right now ah So hopefully I can get it done But the reason I changed my stance on it is because In the game They have what's called free loadouts now free loadouts is you you go into the map with just a very basic load of equipment that the game gives you, right?

01:04:19.57
Tony Sisk
But the issue is in the game that's with a basic loadout, you might, you get like um a gun, you know, and some ammo and some healing materials and stuff like that.

01:04:30.78
Tony Sisk
But the weapons are good enough where you can take down other players, right? Now, at this point in stage of the game, the upgrades that you can get um with your equipment, and there's like a four or five different levels and stuff like that.

01:04:49.36
Tony Sisk
The upgrades are not enough to counteract the effectiveness of the basic weapons that the game gives you, right? So, I can go in there loaded down with all this really good gear and they get shot in the back by a player that has the basic loadout, a free loadout. So no cost to him. He can come in and kill me.

01:05:13.61
Tony Sisk
And I have hundreds of thousand dollars, hundreds of a hundred thousand dollar credits invested into the equipment that I have and I lose it all.

01:05:24.65
Tony Sisk
Right. And he's, he, he, he risks nothing other than time. I, I risk to take better equipment into a match. I risk all the effort that I've put into that equipment to put it together.

01:05:38.55
Tony Sisk
And it, the, the, the distance between that basic level and the level that I have as far as gear is not enough. So what I'm hoping is by doing the expeditions, I'm,

01:05:53.84
Tony Sisk
that eventually i will gear up or skill up enough that there is a bigger distance between what ah a starting player who's never played or doesn't, or comes into a map with just basic gear can take me down with, you what saying? Like outside of that, you just have to play smarter. But ah right before we got on tonight,

01:06:23.05
Tony Sisk
I'm at, the phase of the expedition, I have to get some epic modules, right? And the only way to get them is off some bigger bosses or bigger enemies.

01:06:33.76
Tony Sisk
So I need better gear. So um I'm loaded down right now as we speak with, you know, some of my best gear. I'm loaded. I got explosives. I've got rocket launchers. I got, I'm ready to go, right? I've got a hatch key so I don't have to worry about ah trying to get out with everybody else.

01:06:56.19
Tony Sisk
I got healing, tons of heals, all upgraded stuff. And I told you, I'm going to get into this match. I'm to hunt this thing down and I need to kill and be two minutes in the match. And some dude's going to shoot me in the back and I'm going lose the, ha ah

01:07:14.84
Jaime G
Fun times, man.

01:07:16.32
Tony Sisk
welcome to our creators.

01:07:18.14
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:07:18.42
Tony Sisk
but

01:07:18.80
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

01:07:22.01
Tony Sisk
So, but it's addictive. It's addictive, you know, and sometimes you just, you know, you want to get payback and I, you know, the, The game gives you the option to see, like, you can backtrack. It's kind of got this cool backtracking mechanism in the post-op screen where you can see, like, the the routes that you took through the map and stuff and what things you did at certain points.

01:07:50.66
Tony Sisk
It will also show you the points of that you where you took damage and who dealt the damage to you, right? It will tell you those things. Well, not only did will it tell you who dealt the damage to it allows you to actually send an invite to that player like yes it does

01:08:08.95
Jaime G
Oh, no way. You're going to be like, hey, let's be friends.

01:08:15.01
Tony Sisk
right hey let's play together then I'm gonna shoot you the back now I don't know if you can do that with your teammates I don't think so but um I don't know if there's friendly fire or not but it does give the the ability to like join up a group I mean I could see where those things could turn south in a heartbeat

01:08:17.62
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:08:31.29
Jaime G
Yeah, ah for sure. I can see it, too.

01:08:33.36
Tony Sisk
Yeah, but it does have this like recent recent player list that you pull up in like the social menu and it doesn't actually show you the most recent player at the top of the list, right? You have to hunt down the name, right? So you have to see the name and then hunt it hunt it down because it will show you like 50 different players' names and then you have to hunt it down, you know, to see where that player is, but yeah.

01:09:04.52
Jaime G
That's funny, man. That's funny.

01:09:07.06
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah. So that, you know, that's my Ark Raider war story. You know, don't, don't say hi, I'm friendly and then shoot.

01:09:16.02
Jaime G
Yeah, that that'll put you very quickly on on Tony's own no-no list.

01:09:16.40
Tony Sisk
it Yeah.

01:09:19.89
Tony Sisk
Yeah. There should be a bounty list. Put this player on the bounty list so everybody can hunt you down. Like they should be a list.

01:09:26.55
Jaime G
Oh, man imagine that people would create Reddit threads and be like, if you see this guy, there's a bounty on him.

01:09:36.26
Tony Sisk
right oh that's a good idea ah

01:09:39.83
Jaime G
but

01:09:40.77
Tony Sisk
right anyway so that's all i got for this week but yeah it's great uh we get the award shows coming up on the 11th and i can't wait see how that goes and then what's great about the award show is the jeff keely award shows is uh a lot of the big publishers also agree to show new games that are coming up so that's uh that'll be something to look forward to other outside of the, uh,

01:10:06.74
Jaime G
i I heard a rumor that there's going to be like a Lara Croft game or a Tomb Raider game being announced.

01:10:13.47
Tony Sisk
okay.

01:10:16.27
Tony Sisk
Yeah. That, that, that'd be very interesting. I mean, I like the last, trilogy of the tomb Raider games. They came out, you know, 10 years ago.

01:10:25.97
Jaime G
The first two were good. The third one was a bit of a letdown for me.

01:10:30.93
Tony Sisk
Yeah. But yeah, I'm up for, a new, a new iteration of a, a Tomb Raider.

01:10:37.65
Jaime G
Yeah. Yeah.

01:10:39.57
Tony Sisk
So, all right, man. Thanks for joining me tonight. And for the listeners, thanks again for listening. um Be sure to check out more of our episodes on whatever podcasting apps to use. know, we have a pretty ever increasing catalog of podcasts that goes back almost five years now. So,

01:11:05.73
Tony Sisk
So check those out. Share the links with your friends and, you know, give us a like, subscribe, and then we'll catch you guys on the next podcast.

01:11:17.36
Jaime G
See you guys.