2025 Game Awards Reaction and Reveals We're Excited For

In this episode of 'Good2Game Radio', Tony and Jaime break down their post-show reactions to the Game Awards, where Claire Obscure: Expedition 33 dominated nearly every category and sparked predictable gamer outrage. The duo digs into why we really watch the show—wall-to-wall game reveals—while debating surprising wins, questionable streaming numbers, and sky-high trailer prices. Along the way, they celebrate standout announcements like new Tomb Raider projects, Control Resonant, Mega Man, Phantom Blade Zero, and more. Add in Jeff Keighley, a legendary flute guy, and classic gamer cynicism, and you’ve got a lively, laugh-filled recap of gaming’s biggest night.

Transcript

00:00:00.79
Tony Sisk
Chomping at the bit to get into this whole discussion. All right, folks. Welcome to Good to Game Radio. I'm here tonight with Jaime. And tonight we're doing the post-reaction, the post-awards show reaction to the the Game Awards, which was last week, a few days ago.

00:00:15.48
Tony Sisk
ah so a lot to get a lot to get into. There's a lot. was so Jaime. Three pages of game reveals, which is the real reason that we watch the award show, right? Like i was telling Jaime before the show started,

00:00:30.58
Tony Sisk
um we don't watch the award show to see who won the awards. We want to see all the new games that are coming up. We just have to sit through the awards, right?

00:00:38.52
Jaime G
Absolutely.

00:00:39.82
Tony Sisk
They make us sit through the awards to see the new games coming up. So, Tommy, what's going on?

00:00:48.28
Jaime G
Dude, much to say. we we were just, you know, talking about Flute Guy. We're talking about Borderlands. We're talking about, what was the name of that? Like Castle Crashers?

00:00:59.37
Jaime G
No, not Castle Crashers. Throne Breakers. I mean, there's there's been a lot of game discussion.

00:01:03.99
Tony Sisk
Oh, you're talking about all the great new all the great games that I've added to my Steam Deck collection over the past few days. I've added, we talked about in last episode, Hollow Knight.

00:01:15.06
Tony Sisk
I added Darkest Dungeon.

00:01:16.10
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

00:01:18.33
Tony Sisk
Like ah I was telling you, the game is 10 years old, but it's got 10 years of development where the the developers have finally crafted this game into like, oh man, this is a, this it's beautiful. It's just running great. has all this content. Difficult turn-based, side-scrolling, RPG,

00:01:41.82
Tony Sisk
ah enjoying it and there was another one throne breakers which is a witcher property right from a cd project red it's an isometric you know do you move your guy around the map and you encounter monsters and then you do like a card battle with them super well produced another game that's been out for a while

00:01:48.89
Jaime G
Right?

00:02:04.44
Tony Sisk
So right now I'm into card games, right? I'm really, I've always been into card games, but right now i've I'm thinking, oh man, here's another card game. I'm going to add this to my Steam Deck and and in and play it. I'm having a great time with it.

00:02:19.16
Tony Sisk
So yeah, check out those old titles, man, especially if you're on a mobile device. Titles like that, perfect. But We're really here to talk about the the game awards, everything that we saw.

00:02:32.49
Tony Sisk
um

00:02:33.53
Jaime G
Of course.

00:02:33.97
Tony Sisk
Yes. So we we had talked about it a couple of different times about who we thought would win game the year. Let's just get right into it.

00:02:46.90
Tony Sisk
Who we thought would win game of the year.

00:02:49.85
Jaime G
Right?

00:02:49.24
Tony Sisk
And who won game of the year, Hyman?

00:02:52.92
Jaime G
it It came to no surprise it was Expedition 33.

00:02:57.59
Tony Sisk
Right. Expedition 33 won game of the year. It also won like nine, eight other categories.

00:03:02.14
Jaime G
No surprise. Yeah.

00:03:05.23
Tony Sisk
And I was telling you, it's like, it's really crazy. It's really weird. And this is just like in an example of just how wishy-washy the gaming community is. Because one of the hot topics after the Game Awards show was, you know, they need to do something to keep a game from winning every category.

00:03:28.82
Tony Sisk
o right there was almost as much hate and and um for expedition 33 after the awards as there was love for expedition 33 before the awards this is this is the gamers for you we can't you can't be made happy we it's like oh we love this game and then you give them what they want and then it's like oh this is not right but

00:03:57.82
Jaime G
I know, man. I know. There's like, i mean, gamers, we're we're a tricky, tricky crowd of people. Like, we get what we want, and we will still complain about it. Doesn't matter.

00:04:10.81
Tony Sisk
right so just to kind of go over the list of the of the awards that expedition 33 walked away with it won best indie game it won let's see best indie game best art direction best debut indie game okay two different awards for seemingly the same thing

00:04:39.03
Tony Sisk
Best music, Expedition 33.

00:04:43.58
Tony Sisk
Best RPG. Best narrative. Best game direction. Game of the year. And best performance by an actor, which went to Jennifer English.

00:04:56.44
Tony Sisk
So, yeah. the the the Kind of the meme after the the games was it like, if there's an award for anything, you know, you would just say, oh, Expedition 33 won that.

00:05:09.43
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:05:08.76
Tony Sisk
ah

00:05:10.77
Jaime G
I mean, i mean did did do you did you see that the French president came out and said, like, ah a historic first for a French title?

00:05:23.38
Tony Sisk
ah Hey, they gotta take the wins where they can get them. ah

00:05:29.21
Jaime G
Man, I was surprised because, I mean, the French president, right?

00:05:36.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:05:37.30
Jaime G
I mean, they they've had Ubisoft for like forever.

00:05:36.76
Tony Sisk
Hey, that is a national symbol, man.

00:05:41.90
Jaime G
That's a French company.

00:05:45.14
Jaime G
And he can't say that about them for sure.

00:05:48.08
Tony Sisk
No, no, no. But, hey, we we said it before that this game deserved to win game of the year. that we That's why we had picked it as our choice.

00:06:01.66
Jaime G
It definitely was our choice.

00:06:00.95
Tony Sisk
And everybody else apparently agreed with us. So, you know, they listened to the show.

00:06:04.57
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

00:06:04.87
Tony Sisk
They heard what we said. And they said, you know what? Tony and Jaime are right. Extradition 33. Nope.

00:06:12.24
Jaime G
They told me I cannot be wrong on this one.

00:06:15.83
Tony Sisk
nope So I'm interested to see, have we gotten the SGL Golden Wings ah winner of the Game of Year category?

00:06:27.19
Tony Sisk
Have we heard from that front yet?

00:06:29.62
Jaime G
Yeah, yeah, but I think they posted it on Instagram or something.

00:06:32.38
Tony Sisk
ah we'll have to We'll have to follow up with that later. But...

00:06:36.25
Jaime G
ah Shadow put put gave us came to us on the Discord and said, hey, guys, if you're not following, it's on It's over here where we're letting people know who won or who did what.

00:06:45.88
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So, we all turned in, tuned in, I would say, and saw Claire Obscure, Expedition 33, walk away with all the awards.

00:06:58.10
Tony Sisk
ah

00:06:58.84
Jaime G
Sure it did.

00:07:00.70
Tony Sisk
But we also saw a ton of new game reveals.

00:07:05.78
Tony Sisk
And was there anything particular about the show? Like, it seemed to me like this year, the show, they they had like a really, a lot of like, stuff happening like they were like it had like ah actors being you know hauled up into the air by you know wires and stuff and like it seemed like a really big production which was cool but you know everybody there is there to see who they see Jaime right but who else

00:07:38.36
Jaime G
Expedition 33. Jeff Keighley. look, my man. jeff keeley

00:07:44.10
Tony Sisk
flute guy

00:07:45.94
Jaime G
off look ah yeah my man

00:07:47.83
Tony Sisk
Right. We're all there to see the flute guy. i mean, the guy was playing every possible thing that you could play musical notes through as a flute.

00:07:59.11
Tony Sisk
I mean, there was like what looked like PVC pipe that he was playing.

00:08:06.74
Jaime G
Oh, I saw that man. Yeah, you're right.

00:08:08.41
Tony Sisk
Like, like every time they would cut to him, it would be something different. Like,

00:08:15.14
Jaime G
it would be something different and yet so random.

00:08:17.82
Tony Sisk
Yes, like, that's a musical instrument?

00:08:21.59
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:08:21.05
Tony Sisk
i Yeah, it was crazy. It makes you wonder like all what the all the other musicians that are sitting around him were thinking, like, oh, gosh, they're just going to cover him.

00:08:33.87
Tony Sisk
He's down on the end. he's He's jumping up and down.

00:08:36.91
Jaime G
Dude, they're thinking like, how am I going to follow this?

00:08:37.54
Tony Sisk
He's shaking his head.

00:08:41.94
Tony Sisk
Right? though They they did have like a focused in on like a guitar player. and like ah I don't know what you'd call it. like a It looked like a guitar piano.

00:08:55.74
Tony Sisk
ah so it was entertaining. I like that stuff. It's pretty cool. but they were They were crazy with ah but the flute guy. We were were saying, they're going to make a movie with this guy.

00:09:11.02
Jaime G
Yeah, man. guy ah Guy growing up in the streets of Argentina or like where did Vance find out he was from?

00:09:18.20
Tony Sisk
Yeah, something like that, Argentina or something like that.

00:09:21.35
Jaime G
I mean,

00:09:22.81
Tony Sisk
And now he's he's famous for you know being the guy playing the flute, the all kinds of versions of the flute. And I can almost hear like like they ramped up the microphone on his instrument.

00:09:38.74
Tony Sisk
like Because you could hear his flute over the rest of the orchestra.

00:09:42.88
Jaime G
Dude.

00:09:43.32
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:09:44.22
Jaime G
He got like much more screen time than probably even like, and maybe equal to the to the lady who came out and was singing.

00:09:52.24
Tony Sisk
yeah yeah he's he's he's a star into himself uh for the show but uh but we saw lots of reveals which you know like i said this is what people really are tuning into the game or show i think 150 than 150 million people streamed don't know it's crazy

00:09:54.26
Jaime G
Right?

00:10:11.29
Tony Sisk
million people streamed i don't know it's so crazy

00:10:13.21
Jaime G
No, no, I don't think I, I'm not buying that number, man. They tried, they tried to do that last year too. And, and, and somebody came out and they're like, I mean, if this is legit, that's more, more viewers than the Superbowl.

00:10:30.46
Tony Sisk
Yes, that's what they're pushing. And they're also pushing Super Bowl-type prices for, like, screen time for these game studios.

00:10:42.36
Tony Sisk
Like, $450,000 for, like, a 60-second clip.

00:10:43.10
Jaime G
Yeah, i i am not I am not buying those numbers.

00:10:49.17
Tony Sisk
A million dollars for a three-minute clip. And I think there was a a couple of games that did come close to three minutes. So...

00:11:00.58
Jaime G
You know what it is, man? They're probably counting every single time that you connected it to the stream because I must have connected to it twice. like Because I connected one time, at some point, it's just like, you know,

00:11:13.40
Jaime G
went crazy. So I was like, oh, let me just refresh. That probably counts too. I don't think it's concurrent viewers at the same time, you know, distinct IP addresses, distinct devices.

00:11:25.11
Tony Sisk
I don't know.

00:11:26.26
Jaime G
No way.

00:11:27.16
Tony Sisk
I mean, they're these developers are paying for it. If the prices are true, if those numbers are true, I mean, it's an international audience. I mean, all of France was turned in.

00:11:40.60
Jaime G
right yeah

00:11:41.02
Tony Sisk
How many people were in France? I mean, just France alone, just to see like their hometown crew just rack up all the awards is probably every gamer in France.

00:11:56.22
Tony Sisk
So,

00:11:57.24
Jaime G
I will kind of agree with that. I think I will.

00:12:00.47
Tony Sisk
ah um, I mean, we know the French president was probably watching.

00:12:06.03
Jaime G
Oh, he was watching it for sure.

00:12:07.18
Tony Sisk
He's like, who am I supposed to be talking about? ah

00:12:10.33
Jaime G
Oh yeah, expedition 30, 30 twat or something.

00:12:13.69
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So we got all these game reveals and I, and I told you, i have like three pages of games that they previewed i don't want to i don't want to read through the list at the list

00:12:30.58
Jaime G
I don't, have Tony, that's a lot, man. I feel like I only got like a couple that I really want to talk about, man.

00:12:38.90
Tony Sisk
right i mean there's a lot of stuff like it's just going to go straight to like the the ps plus you know back catalog when it releases but um there's There's a handful of games that are, I think, worth talking about.

00:12:56.18
Tony Sisk
So, do you want to us started? what What was one that stood out for you?

00:13:02.45
Jaime G
OK.

00:13:04.89
Jaime G
Lara Croft. And what is it? The Temple of Atlantis?

00:13:11.90
Tony Sisk
Yeah, it was Legacy of Atlantis. And I think that is, is that a remake or remaster?

00:13:18.37
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:13:21.56
Jaime G
It is a remake.

00:13:22.35
Tony Sisk
It's a remake, right?

00:13:23.19
Jaime G
It's a remake. I think it's a remake of maybe like the first Tomb Raider.

00:13:27.88
Tony Sisk
Right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

00:13:30.39
Jaime G
and And if you remember, I kind of gave you a heads up. i was like, before the event, i was like, hey, there's like a rumor mill that they're going to announce a new one. And you're like, I wonder how she's going to look this game.

00:13:42.94
Jaime G
And every they they kind of preserved some of the visual elements of like the last trilogy. but But they've de-aged her where she looks kind of like more like she did on the first game.

00:13:56.02
Tony Sisk
Yes, I would agree. cheek They've kind of gone back to traditional traditional

00:14:05.87
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

00:14:08.64
Tony Sisk
Lara Croft, but a little bit younger. You could tell. It it looks amazing. and but it was actually two Lara Croft games that they showed i think it was legacy of atlantis which is like we said a remake and then ah one called catalyst which is a new one i think so they actually talked about two i don't i don't think they showed a lot of catalyst but um

00:14:36.94
Jaime G
You're right. You're right. It was two games, Tomb Raider Catalyst, which is a brand new entry in the series, um and Legacy of Atlantis, which it it can you see like the the imagery here? You have a remake of the first very first game, and you're going to get a brand new game.

00:14:59.70
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I mean, that's that's good. I mean, the T-Rex, just the T-Rex scene, you know, that was enough from like, oh, man, I love it.

00:15:11.86
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:15:12.98
Jaime G
everybody, when you were playing the original Tomb Raider, right?

00:15:13.97
Tony Sisk
Uh-huh.

00:15:17.18
Jaime G
You're in the jungle going through like caves, going through whatever. I had a friend, man. And this is back in the day when like, it was like Friday night gaming. We would like get together at a friend's house and it'd be like four or five of us playing like single player games.

00:15:32.95
Jaime G
He calls us and he's calling all of us like a ah Wednesday or Thursday night. And he's like, there's a T-Rex in the game.

00:15:45.66
Jaime G
and

00:15:45.08
Tony Sisk
why

00:15:47.00
Jaime G
and we're like, you're not supposed to play until tomorrow.

00:15:50.01
Tony Sisk
Right. It's just one of those things like how do you make something better outside of adding more capital? You throw a T-Rex into it, right?

00:15:59.93
Jaime G
Right.

00:16:01.98
Tony Sisk
So, yeah. How do you make a game better? Put a dinosaur in it that can eat you.

00:16:07.26
Jaime G
Yeah, but it but it was like it was like so it was like very subtle, like you had no idea that this was coming.

00:16:07.90
Tony Sisk
but

00:16:16.31
Jaime G
I mean, at one point you're like, I got the leopard, yeah, or the jaguar, whatever it was. And then you're the you're like, there's a T-Rex in here? Yeah.

00:16:28.79
Tony Sisk
But the game looks great. This is one thing I did notice. I noticed in a lot of these trailers that the shift in graphics has maybe finally arrived.

00:16:42.42
Tony Sisk
Right? Like what we were...

00:16:47.54
Jaime G
i have Dude, I've been recently thinking about this.

00:16:46.94
Tony Sisk
You don't think so? I think some of these games look amazing.

00:16:55.22
Jaime G
A lot of the games that are still releasing today are still getting PS4 copies. I mean, Call of Duty has a PS4 version. I think Battlefield has a PS4 version.

00:17:06.71
Jaime G
Dude, even Nintendo, they just released Metroid Prime 4, which should have been, should have been, in my opinion, a Switch 2 exclusive. No, it still runs in the old Switch.

00:17:19.26
Jaime G
I mean, there's a version that will run in the and the regular Switch. I'm like, why why do we need a next generation? Why are developers talking about like even the next generation at this point, if they're still putting out stuff for the prior generation?

00:17:31.05
Tony Sisk
Well, I mean, these games, probably most of these aren't going to come until 2027 at the earliest. s I think that this, I don't think a PS4 is running some of this stuff.

00:17:47.86
Jaime G
Okay, but but if they do come and I'm going on different tangent, I'm sorry, but if they do come out in 2027, what has been the hardware refresh in consoles for the last two generations, eight years?

00:18:03.64
Jaime G
That means that these are going to be probably some of the last gen games before the PS6 rolls out in 2028.

00:18:12.60
Tony Sisk
right i mean then they'll be making games that are backwards compatible with the ps5 so so you know you just know if you had a ps4 you were good to go through at least five or six additional years so we're you're good till the 30 uh 2030

00:18:30.37
Jaime G
All that there's ah one game There's one game, Tony, that i wanted I wanted to mention because when I saw this, i part of me was like, Tony's going to be so hyped up about this game.

00:18:42.13
Jaime G
Control Resonant.

00:18:44.46
Tony Sisk
Dude, that's probably my number two game.

00:18:48.38
Jaime G
I knew it.

00:18:50.06
Tony Sisk
When I saw Control Resonant, I love Control.

00:18:55.03
Jaime G
I remember.

00:18:54.36
Tony Sisk
control Control is like it's like one game that feels more like you're playing like a Jedi than even a Star Wars game because of the things that you do.

00:18:55.86
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:19:08.44
Tony Sisk
Now, this one looks a lot different from the some of the stuff I saw going on with the first game. so

00:19:17.59
Tony Sisk
so But if it its still if it still has its kind of like same mechanics and where you're controlling stuff, you know, like a Jedi, um I'm excited for it.

00:19:27.63
Jaime G
Right.

00:19:29.05
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I was like, that's control. Sign me up. that's want That game right there, I know it's going to be good.

00:19:37.99
Jaime G
When I saw that, part of me was like, toldny this is this is the one that Tony is going to talk about.

00:19:44.73
Tony Sisk
ah Yeah, I mean, it was kind of, it it looked very strange, though. like Like, whatever happened in the first game has now gotten into the world, you know?

00:19:54.01
Jaime G
Right? Mm-hmm.

00:19:56.31
Tony Sisk
And, like, everything is being affected.

00:19:57.37
Jaime G
hu

00:19:58.07
Tony Sisk
Like, cities being overrun by just crazy stuff. Because in the first game, it was like objects would be, like, possessed. Yeah. You know, and you just crazy stuff would happen. And there's like multi-dimensional aspect going on too and all this other stuff. It was just crazy.

00:20:18.39
Tony Sisk
um But this one, it seems that it has like a very heavy melee focus. I don't remember the... there being a lot of melee combat in the first one, just when the guy was like wielding like a giant hammer and and swords and stuff. I'm like okay, does it look like the same combat from the first one, but they've added like melee to it. Cause the first one was a lot you more shooting with a gun, you know, and, but then you would like throw stuff with your, your abilities.

00:20:51.81
Jaime G
Couldn't you like pick up like a forklift and be like, bam, squash, squash guys.

00:20:51.72
Tony Sisk
Um,

00:20:55.27
Tony Sisk
yeah yeah you could just pick up like eventually you got so powerful you could just pick up people or you know throw them against the wall or just smash them with other objects and stuff like that it it really did feel like you know somewhat somehow star wars speaking of and i don't know much about this particular uh

00:21:20.60
Jaime G
Oh, no. I know where you're going with this.

00:21:20.54
Tony Sisk
franchise i mean not not the franchise but star wars fate of the old republic

00:21:28.33
Jaime G
Oh, by the force. ah

00:21:31.61
Tony Sisk
so you know we have to get a start there's actually two star wars games revealed in this in the show right it was star wars fate of the old republic which which was really more of it like a teaser it was just like the ship landing on a planet, like every other Star Wars reveal ever, you know, ship lands on a planet and then a guy walks out and then a lightsaber pops up.

00:21:55.35
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:21:56.64
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:21:57.27
Tony Sisk
So ah that's really all we got with the fate of the old Republic. So is this an RPG? What is this? Another like action adventure.

00:22:09.40
Tony Sisk
So we don't have a lot of info on that,

00:22:10.48
Jaime G
It's going to be another bomb is what it's going to be.

00:22:13.69
Tony Sisk
I didn't see who was making it, but

00:22:18.58
Tony Sisk
I am.

00:22:19.48
Jaime G
i cannot connect. Can I hit the next reveal?

00:22:22.68
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:22:23.98
Jaime G
Although technically technically this wasn't a reveal as a game, but they revealed a lot more of the game that made it interesting. which is Resident Evil Requiem. They announced that Resident Evil is going to be a playable character in the game.

00:22:43.51
Jaime G
And quite frankly, this actually got me hyped ah for this game because when I first saw the the first Requiem trailer, I didn't care for this game at all, Tony.

00:22:54.84
Jaime G
And you know, the reason for that is because It sent me back mentally the trailer back to Resident Evil six. Remember the one where you didn't have guns, where like there was like somebody that was chasing you, the the family in the mansion.

00:23:11.10
Jaime G
And I told you, I hate those games where you can't fight back, where you're, you're the the main mechanic is you trying to hide and avoid detection. um I can't stand them.

00:23:21.40
Tony Sisk
Was that six or was that eight?

00:23:22.30
Jaime G
and

00:23:25.46
Jaime G
No, that was six. Because seven was Village.

00:23:31.77
Tony Sisk
Yeah, yeah, you're right. Mm-hmm.

00:23:34.04
Jaime G
Right? this This is technically eight. ah And by the way, I'm a huge Leon fan.

00:23:42.42
Jaime G
As a character, I think he's like one of the coolest things that Capcom ever developed for like one of their main main flagship titles. But when I saw their first trailer and it seemed like you have to be like hiding around like this big entity thing that's like chasing you around an area, my and mind went to like, I'm out. I don't care for that type of game.

00:24:04.34
Jaime G
Mainly because those, if done right, you know, like Outlast, like Resident Evil 6, like a lot of other IPs, I really get freaked freaked out when you can't, when I feel like you can't shoot back, right? Like a Alien Isolation, or what was the name of that alien one?

00:24:22.52
Jaime G
Anyway, the point is, when you have that that big boogeyman behind you and all you can do is hide, I cannot tolerate those games. But, and this...

00:24:30.97
Tony Sisk
But that was in Resident Evil 2, right? well' see The guy that kind of just kind of walks towards you and you can't do anything to stop him. You have to run.

00:24:40.89
Jaime G
Mr. X. No, but you can you can actually shoot him down to the point where he's like, he falls on the floor.

00:24:41.53
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:24:49.11
Jaime G
And then you have like some time to go around and dodge him. There are some areas where an encounter is inevitable, but again, you can fight back.

00:24:53.21
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:24:58.90
Jaime G
I'm okay with that. right I'm not okay with the games where like there's no no other thing other than go hide and and hope you didn't get caught.

00:25:08.95
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:25:10.95
Jaime G
I'm not bashing those games. I'm just saying they do freak me out. Like I get anxious and like really stressed out playing them. So to see Leon wielding a gun and shooting at things, I'm like, okay, maybe I can play this game.

00:25:23.67
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Because that was... What was the remake that we played, like, two years ago?

00:25:30.90
Jaime G
Resident Evil 4.

00:25:31.56
Tony Sisk
Resident Evil 4. That was Leon, right?

00:25:34.20
Jaime G
That was Leon.

00:25:34.78
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah, so...

00:25:39.22
Tony Sisk
I could get into that. I mean, I like that. um So, yeah, I agree with you.

00:25:45.50
Jaime G
And you know what?

00:25:45.60
Tony Sisk
ra There's an evil. Reku Room is, it that it looks like a major major game that's going to be released, and it's probably going to be pretty successful, I would think.

00:25:56.55
Jaime G
Uh-huh.

00:25:58.25
Tony Sisk
I mean,

00:25:59.54
Jaime G
Yeah, i think so too. and And I've been watching some some stuff, man, on Resident Evil 4, like some people doing like you know the the speed runs.

00:26:01.62
Tony Sisk
all right.

00:26:09.75
Jaime G
and i'm And I'm going back to like, man, this was such a good game.

00:26:13.40
Tony Sisk
Yeah, and I finally got my copy back from my daughter.

00:26:17.11
Jaime G
Who had it?

00:26:17.94
Tony Sisk
My daughter had it. The one that lives in Huntsville.

00:26:22.55
Jaime G
Okay.

00:26:21.94
Tony Sisk
She had it. She borrowed it, and then I was like, of course, you know, I went down there a couple months ago, and I'm like, do you have my Resident Evil game?

00:26:25.98
Jaime G
I know.

00:26:30.14
Tony Sisk
I give it back. You're not playing it anyway. You're just playing some, like, Stardew Valley or something. Give me that Resident Evil game.

00:26:38.46
Jaime G
Give me my game. Anyway, sorry.

00:26:39.48
Tony Sisk
She's going mad at me saying that she just played Stardew Valley.

00:26:41.30
Jaime G
Sorry. you were you

00:26:42.12
Tony Sisk
valley

00:26:43.42
Jaime G
Next reel.

00:26:44.09
Tony Sisk
yeah ah So I saw this game. I immediately immediately thought Jaime is going to love this game.

00:26:53.50
Jaime G
I know where you're going.

00:26:53.44
Tony Sisk
Right. We didn't get it.

00:26:55.99
Jaime G
I know where you're going.

00:26:56.42
Tony Sisk
We didn't get any gameplay. But when I saw the studio symbol come up, I'm like, Jaime is all over that game. And that is divinity

00:27:09.37
Tony Sisk
from, from Larian studios and makers of Baldur's Gate three, Jaime's favorite game.

00:27:14.07
Jaime G
i I knew it, man.

00:27:16.09
Tony Sisk
ah

00:27:17.59
Jaime G
I was like, the joke is going to hit. It's going to drop on Monday.

00:27:22.23
Tony Sisk
ah You know, I don't remember why you don't like that game because you did. It was too difficult. Yeah.

00:27:34.49
Jaime G
Okay, it went to the extreme that there was like so much flexibility, I couldn't end up figuring out what to do in some cases.

00:27:44.79
Tony Sisk
ah You were just overwhelmed with choices.

00:27:47.70
Jaime G
I kind of was. Remember there was that one scene that there was like a house that was on fire? And I told you like, Tony, for the life of me, I was there for 30 minutes. I couldn't figure out how to open up a door to try to save somebody.

00:28:01.72
Jaime G
And you were like, just hit the door.

00:28:06.01
Tony Sisk
Yeah, just hit it.

00:28:07.99
Jaime G
And when I did, I was like, oh, that's how you get in.

00:28:10.97
Tony Sisk
ha

00:28:13.24
Jaime G
I kept on looking for like, open the doorknob or something, right?

00:28:16.45
Tony Sisk
right that's yeah i mean yeah this is the same studio this is i guess it's kind of based on like uh they made like the divinity original sin games i don't know if like this is like kind of like a restart of that series or not but i will say the trailer literally had everything in it like the reveal trailer was very very

00:28:18.50
Jaime G
Now.

00:28:30.79
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

00:28:45.23
Tony Sisk
graphic. I mean, there was all kinds of stuff going on in this trailer. Like, they needed a warning some sign or something to go up. good stuff with the Stuff that was going on in this trailer and what ended up happening in the trailer. But it was pretty, like, dark.

00:28:58.33
Tony Sisk
Like, so... um

00:29:03.16
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I would expect this game to be, like, on the darker side based on the kind of, like the flavor of the trailer. But I'm sure it's going to be a huge hit uh with the crowd that loves this game not that was hymy but um boy these guys won game of the year for bottles gate so you know people are going to be excited for this one what's the another one

00:29:28.70
Jaime G
Okay, I have one that i was I was pumped for. I was really excited about this game, and I happened to catch this trailer with my son. So I hope you know where we'm going with this one.

00:29:42.14
Jaime G
Towards the end, and I'm surprised it was reviewed. It was like... showing towards the end, um they announced a brand new Mega Man title.

00:29:53.14
Tony Sisk
Yes.

00:29:57.92
Jaime G
Mega Man, it had like a dual gears or dual.

00:29:57.62
Tony Sisk
Dual something.

00:30:04.50
Tony Sisk
Dual override.

00:30:06.64
Jaime G
That's it. did Mega Man duel over it. and And my son just happened to be like walking through the room as you know, that like they're zooming into like this vault.

00:30:18.36
Jaime G
And something was like, I was like, I swear, I swear to him. I was like, this is going to be a Mega Man game. And I told my son like, yo, wait up, check this out. And when they in when you actually see the silhouette of like Mega Man, him and I are like, yo!

00:30:38.26
Jaime G
I mean,

00:30:37.66
Tony Sisk
Right. I made a comment to my daughter. I'm like, oh, wow. Old school side-scrolling platformer. I'm like.

00:30:45.31
Jaime G
right. I mean, i mean and we in in the in the in our household, we're Mega Man fans. Check this out. I'm actually holding issue number two of Dr. Wait, not Dr. Mr. Mega Man that I just got delivered today, which I haven't finished reading.

00:30:59.97
Tony Sisk
Oh, wow.

00:31:01.50
Jaime G
So to see a new game announced, my son and I were both like, yeah. the the The bad thing, though, is that... i don't know if this is a bad thing, or maybe I'm just being too picky. It's like, I don't think that's one of those games that needs a whole other year of development.

00:31:18.74
Tony Sisk
Right, 2027 release?

00:31:21.59
Jaime G
Exactly right?

00:31:21.02
Tony Sisk
What is that about?

00:31:23.21
Jaime G
saw that, I was like, no way.

00:31:23.20
Tony Sisk
mean,

00:31:26.03
Jaime G
No, no, no, no, no.

00:31:26.39
Tony Sisk
you can't tell some AI just to make this like in like 30 minutes? ah

00:31:32.15
Jaime G
I mean, it's not like the graphics don't seem... good, but they're not like, they're they're they're reusing some of the Mega Man 11 stuff for sure.

00:31:38.90
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:31:44.86
Tony Sisk
No, I don't know. mean, I guess most the work goes into like making like the new maps and how things work within them and the timing and all that i mean i'm sure it's a fascinating process of how all this is like put together and stuff and they want it to be an awesome game so you know you're gonna play test it and test it and test it and test it until you you get a the game where it needs to be right that way you don't like

00:32:14.78
Jaime G
i still don't think I still don't think that we saw something, which is probably like an intro like tutorial stage. But you can come back and be like, we still need a full year to develop this.

00:32:29.71
Tony Sisk
yeah yeah so yeah it didn't seem you know super different than from some of the other that i've seen but hey i was i was excited to get a 2d platformer right it's like oh wow because everything is kind of the same-ish now really in most of the games that come out so what was

00:32:48.12
Jaime G
Right.

00:32:56.31
Tony Sisk
the standard before has gone away and now it becomes like a rare thing. And now when you get it, it's like especially from like, uh, an IP that has been around for a while.

00:33:08.09
Jaime G
You know what's funny is that my son looked at it, he's like, Dad, it kind of looks like the retro games. OK.

00:33:13.85
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:33:17.21
Tony Sisk
Hey, but that, you know, retro sells though.

00:33:23.10
Jaime G
Nostalgia sales.

00:33:22.74
Tony Sisk
Games that are retro. Yeah.

00:33:25.28
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:33:26.49
Tony Sisk
um and Speaking of, before we move on, about retro selling, have you seen the what's the new Marvel game that came out like last week? It looks the real arcade-y. can't remember what it's called.

00:33:40.76
Jaime G
Oh, Marvel Cosmic Invasion.

00:33:42.30
Tony Sisk
Yes. What do you think about that?

00:33:47.92
Jaime G
Somehow it hasn't picked my interest where I want to play this. I think, Tony, it was, it might have been the same guys that did the TMNT, Shredder's Revenge.

00:33:59.58
Tony Sisk
Yeah, it has that look.

00:34:00.41
Jaime G
Because if you look at it, right, it has that look, but there's something that's just been like, it just for me has been like, it's just it's a side scroller beat him up. and like I haven't cared for it.

00:34:14.20
Tony Sisk
Right. Well, yeah. The price point probably is not is what's probably not speaking to you. $25. So...

00:34:20.38
Jaime G
Probably, yeah.

00:34:21.78
Tony Sisk
um so It's going to be one those games you give for free, you know at some point so ah

00:34:29.69
Jaime G
Not with marble, man.

00:34:31.89
Tony Sisk
That's true That's true All right, moving on i still got a couple of other games that I thought stood out um And this title when I heard the publisher name I was like really

00:34:33.34
Jaime G
ah

00:34:52.49
Tony Sisk
I'm like, have they done games before? I'm not sure. Other than real like physical games. This one is from Wizards of the Coast. right um that The publisher is Wizards of the Coast.

00:35:06.87
Tony Sisk
I can't remember the name of the actual developer, Alchemy, or something like that. But this one's like Exodus. Exodus. You remember that one has that mass effect feel.

00:35:19.03
Tony Sisk
You could tell it's like heavy narrative space opera.

00:35:22.91
Jaime G
There was one that i that I was like, this looks, this really looks like something else. And I think it was Mass Effect that came to mind.

00:35:31.13
Tony Sisk
Right. Right. Yeah. So yeah, it's like heavy story space opera. It looked really good though.

00:35:43.13
Tony Sisk
um So that's definitely one that I'm highly interested in because it just looks so good. And my daughter was telling me, it's like, yeah, it's kind of, it's from the same people that did Mass Effect.

00:35:55.77
Tony Sisk
I'm like, really? Okay. I thought Mass Effect was done by like Pileware, but okay. Maybe she's talking about like individual developers or something, but um

00:36:09.34
Tony Sisk
that one looked really good.

00:36:10.46
Jaime G
I don't know.

00:36:11.48
Tony Sisk
so exodus look it up uh

00:36:15.62
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:36:19.22
Tony Sisk
another one that in this one the the presentation of the kind of like the the character models is kind of what sold me on this one to be excited about gang of the dragon remember that one it's like a like Japan, you're playing like this really burly looking Japanese dude.

00:36:43.35
Tony Sisk
Like mafia guy, Yakuza guy. Remember that one?

00:36:48.07
Jaime G
Oh, is he the one that gets like beat up and he's like, I'm going to take you guys out or something?

00:36:52.63
Tony Sisk
I don't remember any scene where he was getting beat up. He was literally like destroying people.

00:36:56.05
Jaime G
Okay.

00:36:57.69
Tony Sisk
but I was like, so my daughter was like, this is for the people that want to play a character that just like pulverizes people. Like um I'm tired of playing these thin little fragile guys who just jump around over the place. Give me like Rhino. ah Where he just charges through like a wall or something like he's so big and he's so like.

00:37:24.12
Tony Sisk
His physical presence is enough to just like crush you itself.

00:37:29.81
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:37:32.18
Jaime G
Now, all sir I was surprised about Neo 3.

00:37:32.57
Tony Sisk
So that is gang of the dragon.

00:37:42.17
Tony Sisk
Why did I think that Nioh 3 had already been released?

00:37:47.70
Jaime G
I don't know, but I mean, just just between us, is Neo franchise that we're just like sleeping on? I mean...

00:37:57.82
Tony Sisk
I mean, I have Nioh, the first original Nioh. It, it, think a from, think from software. It's not from software, but it's like a from, so from software game.

00:38:09.86
Jaime G
It's a soul's lake.

00:38:10.42
Tony Sisk
Yeah. It's a soul's like very, very difficult. Um, and the first one you were playing like a samurai and man, you had to learn so many moves and stuff.

00:38:25.72
Tony Sisk
It got really like so many things you had to learn. So, If you like that sort of thing, like where you have to learn like the it everything.

00:38:42.20
Tony Sisk
Like the game is not playing anything for you. You like literally are doing it like everything. Yeah. The boss battles are extremely difficult.

00:38:55.10
Jaime G
I don't know. I don't know. But when I saw Neo 3, and I swear that as soon as the trailer started, and you can hear like the the music, at that I I was like, this is a Neo game.

00:39:08.69
Jaime G
And it was. but But part of me is like, I've never really cared for the franchise. There's nothing in the franchise that makes me think I must buy it. Because isn't there like also like a bundle that's yeah like Neo 1 and Neo 2 coming together?

00:39:24.06
Jaime G
Like if you want to go through the hassle, wait, and I just get both of them at the same time?

00:39:26.78
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:39:28.72
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:39:28.02
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah. i mean I don't know why the game, why that particular franchise is not like, like on the same level as some like, you know, other titles from, know, from software, I guess it's because it's not from, from software.

00:39:43.11
Tony Sisk
There's like a missing ingredient that tries to be those things, whatever that missing ingredient is, they just don't have it.

00:39:48.38
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

00:39:51.62
Tony Sisk
And it's, so it's like, I don't know. Like, I can tell, though, like having played the first Neo, there is something missing. and I don't know what it is. Maybe like

00:40:08.54
Tony Sisk
the storytelling is not the same. Not that that's from. is It's heavy-handed with the storytelling. It's very subtle. So it's like, I don't know. But I could see it, because I actually have i actually have the same. like I don't regard Neo as the same way as I regard something from FromSoftware.

00:40:27.50
Jaime G
But since we're talking on the FromSoftware kind of genre, I'm kind of excited about this game.

00:40:26.81
Tony Sisk
something from from software

00:40:35.99
Jaime G
i don't know if it's going to hold up to the hype. But if you remember, like last year, around this time frame, I was hyping up Phantom Blade Zero.

00:40:47.20
Jaime G
Because I remember telling you in advance, like, this just is like an elk.

00:40:47.17
Tony Sisk
Yep. Because we first we first saw this at a state of play from Sony, I think.

00:40:56.89
Jaime G
Yeah, like forever ago.

00:40:58.55
Tony Sisk
And has it like, what I wasn't sure back then.

00:41:02.30
Jaime G
No.

00:41:02.58
Tony Sisk
Is this in a Sony exclusive game or no? I'm like, I don't, I'm not sure, but

00:41:08.13
Jaime G
I don't know, but it's but we finally saw more to this. We finally get a release date, which was September 2026.

00:41:17.25
Tony Sisk
This looks amazing.

00:41:18.04
Jaime G
and and

00:41:20.86
Tony Sisk
I use that word a lot, but this really does look amazing.

00:41:22.16
Jaime G
it's so it it's It's always looked like ah like an old Chinese Kung Fu movie, right?

00:41:29.08
Tony Sisk
Yes.

00:41:30.55
Jaime G
and And I've always said, like, if you if they blend this well in the gameplay to not make this, like, a cinematic, but it' it's always been, like, you know...

00:41:30.55
Tony Sisk
I

00:41:40.59
Jaime G
Like people throw throwing like kunai at him and he's just like, ch ch you know, flinging them off with a sword. I've always thought this game looks so cool, but I've always wondered like, where is this game? It's in like development limbo.

00:41:53.75
Jaime G
Now we see that it's going to come out. And like, frankly, this is one that maybe me visually, I'm like, this is, this game's got the right sauce. Can it deliver?

00:42:06.48
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I mean, it's got that far Eastern like myth mythology, lore, whatever you want to call it.

00:42:16.78
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:42:16.15
Tony Sisk
It's just dripping with that stuff. And it's like, okay, that looks great.

00:42:19.13
Jaime G
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

00:42:21.30
Tony Sisk
The combat looks fantastic. It's got that FromSoftware feel. I mean, it similarly has... all those ingredients that, to me, it's going to add up to a great a great game, seemingly. um I'm sitting there trying to decipher like ah you know the the words that they say you know during the trailer and whatever. And I'm like, so it's like, OK.

00:42:47.35
Tony Sisk
When they were talking about the weapons that Phantom phantom Blade is using, whatever, it's like it almost sounded like, oh wait, so you craft your own weapons?

00:42:58.36
Tony Sisk
And you level up the weapons until they become like these mythical, super powerful weapons. That's what it's like. It sounded like to me. And I don't think we have any, I don't know if we've got details on the game, but just listening how they're kind of talking in the trailer. That's what it sounded like. um I could be totally wrong on that, but i was like, okay, I'm up for that. Like, Hey, I love that.

00:43:24.63
Tony Sisk
I love crafting weapons in games, you know? um but the idea of leveling up a weapon that you've crafted into something so powerful that it's legendary, you know, it's like, oh, it's mythical now. I'm like, okay, that I haven't seen.

00:43:43.67
Tony Sisk
and I would love to see that. So if that's not a thing, well, I guess so it's not a thing, but if it is, you know, I'm super interested.

00:43:52.04
Jaime G
All right. You might get more excited about this next one the night than I personally did, but new DLC content for Diablo 4, two new character classes.

00:44:05.46
Jaime G
i mean, is this going to make you go back and play it some more?

00:44:05.66
Tony Sisk
I saw that.

00:44:09.30
Tony Sisk
I want to go back and play. I love Diablo. um

00:44:14.83
Tony Sisk
I mean, I love Diablo. The only problem with Diablo is having to go back and, like, kind of start over, you know, and it's like, ah, you know, do I want to put that much time into starting over? Because I usually like to start a new character, and I don't like that requires me to, like, you know,

00:44:30.30
Tony Sisk
go through the whole campaign again or just starting from scratch and that's that's a lot of work uh and i'm also playing path of exile which is an open uh early access and that game is the same thing as diablo but it's also like there's a lot of content to that and it's like oh every time i want to go play an action what do you call it crpg um

00:45:00.53
Tony Sisk
I've been going to that instead of Diablo. So ah I am interested in in the the new the new DLC for Diablo. Now, I did see some DLC that you had talked about the other day for Marvel Rivals Season 6.

00:45:21.14
Jaime G
Yes.

00:45:21.56
Tony Sisk
Who is it that they showed?

00:45:24.80
Jaime G
Rogue.

00:45:26.01
Tony Sisk
Rogue and Deadpool, yeah.

00:45:28.38
Jaime G
Deadpool.

00:45:30.10
Tony Sisk
I saw that. was like, oh, there's Deadpool. I'm like, we're going to go back. ah Oh, dude, speaking of, did you see which game?

00:45:39.17
Jaime G
Okay.

00:45:41.88
Tony Sisk
Did you see which game? This is the one category one of the few categories that Expedition 33 did not win.

00:45:50.33
Jaime G
Yes, I know.

00:45:50.26
Tony Sisk
Best.

00:45:51.13
Jaime G
Best sound design.

00:45:53.54
Tony Sisk
No, they won that one. um

00:45:56.12
Jaime G
No.

00:45:56.60
Tony Sisk
No, that one went to Battlefield 6.

00:45:59.99
Jaime G
Exactly. That's the one the one category that they didn't win.

00:46:00.44
Tony Sisk
Yes Right did you see who won best multiplayer game?

00:46:10.68
Jaime G
No. Who did?

00:46:12.34
Tony Sisk
That battlefield six Arc Raiders won best multiplayer I was like of course I was joking to myself when they had the category up best multiplayer expedition 33

00:46:15.10
Jaime G
Arc Raiders? I knew you were going to go with that.

00:46:27.90
Tony Sisk
ah There's no multiplayer in X-Position 33.

00:46:30.32
Jaime G
All right. I'm going to give you a stat. And this is real-time information provided to us by Steam Charts, which, again, is the closest that we can get to in real information since Sony and Xbox don't give us anything.

00:46:46.26
Jaime G
Arc Raiders currently, in the last 15 minutes, 233,000 players playing it Marvel Rivals had 101,000. Just to put that in context, it's less than half.

00:47:03.25
Jaime G
Battlefield 6 had 70, I'm going round up by like 12, 79,000 players. Call of Duty isn't even on the radar, dude.

00:47:17.62
Tony Sisk
Cool Call of Duty m Man Boy they took a punch this year

00:47:22.58
Jaime G
It's... It is not even in the top game. And i mean, I mean, our creators for sure, hands down, it's been getting a lot of love, a lot of great reviews from you too. Marble Rivals, I had read somewhere that their player count had like seen a steep, steep fallout, but it's still number four with 101,000. still

00:47:47.96
Jaime G
but still though Arc Raiders is getting a lot of love, man. i'm

00:47:52.73
Tony Sisk
Well, Ark Raiders is the brand new IP.

00:47:53.58
Jaime G
I'm just going to recognize that.

00:47:56.04
Tony Sisk
Just released less than two months. um Marvel Rivals has been out a year now.

00:48:06.49
Jaime G
ah Came out in January, I think.

00:48:06.21
Tony Sisk
That's... No, no, no. They came out in December 6th or something like that.

00:48:13.69
Jaime G
Okay, okay, sure, okay.

00:48:15.61
Tony Sisk
But... um I mean, still 100,000

00:48:20.77
Tony Sisk
is pretty pretty good i mean i wouldn't complain about that um

00:48:22.87
Jaime G
Pretty respectable and and yeah.

00:48:29.85
Tony Sisk
but yeah i mean so we got the new season six for marvel rivals which you know might go back and check out some of that uh some of those new heroes that have dropped here recently and that uh oh here's a game And I know one of the guys I work with is going to, he's probably, i don't know if he's seen this yet because I don't know he if he would pay attention to a Game Awards show, but I know that he is super interested in this particular franchise. And that is Warhammer Total War.

00:49:06.14
Tony Sisk
total war

00:49:10.40
Jaime G
Well, is it 40K? Because i for the life of me, I always thought it was 4K. And when I saw the reveal, I was like, whoa, they went to forty k now.

00:49:21.18
Tony Sisk
yeah Because I'm sitting there watching the trailer. like, is this an action game? Is there a story? And um then I'm sitting there watching and then it's all these dudes moving around on the screen. I'm like, I think this is a war game.

00:49:36.84
Tony Sisk
I think this is a strategy war game. And then it's like, you know, I saw the title total war. i'm like, that is a war game. i like, dude, 40 K where you control in whole armies and taking over solar systems and stuff.

00:49:51.70
Jaime G
Yeah. a

00:49:53.50
Tony Sisk
That would be amazing. I'm like, I am super interested in that just because it's like, you know, I'm like a huge civilization fan. Uh, but,

00:50:05.77
Tony Sisk
At the same time, I'm like, instead of doing all that boring stuff about like, you know, making theaters and temples and stuff, like, I just want get down to attacking the city over there on the other of the river, right?

00:50:20.76
Tony Sisk
So this is right up the alley, like a war game in space, epic battles, epic units. and like, I can get into this. So I'm actually interested in this. And I'm sure if my buddy's listening, that he's probably, once he hears about this, he's going to be looking this up. you know I'm going to go look up more on this too. But hopefully it's dropped this year. I think it does, but I'm not sure.

00:50:47.29
Jaime G
right, Tony, did you see that one trailer that was a GTN line, a safe house in the hills?

00:50:55.92
Tony Sisk
I missed and missed that one.

00:50:58.14
Jaime G
Okay, okay. Well, the the thing that I wanted to like make a comment of is not the actual trailer itself. It's the the music that was playing in the background to it.

00:51:12.82
Jaime G
Because I was watching this, And it's blasting a song that's from a group in Mexico, like from the 1980s. um I just dropped in the chat window here for you so you can check it out later.

00:51:28.50
Jaime G
But there's like, to this trailer, there's this 1980s song. and my and And my wife and I have had like multiple interactions around this. She's like, why are they putting this Spanish song from the 80s in this video game trailer?

00:51:43.80
Jaime G
I'm like, I don't know. She's like, do people even know what this song says? i'm like, I don't know. She's like, well, they probably should have picked a different song. i was like, maybe, I don't know.

00:51:57.98
Jaime G
so I just dropped here the YouTube trailer. Check it out later. Pay attention to the song. It's like May Noodle in like the eighty s man. Yeah.

00:52:08.18
Tony Sisk
Okay.

00:52:11.58
Jaime G
um Well, I think the only other thing that was that i i gave you I gave everyone who was listening a heads up that Expedition 33 was definitely going to release some free DLC content that I knew that they were working on it. They had made an announcement.

00:52:32.41
Jaime G
And at the Game Awards, the devs, when they were winning one of their prizes, were like, I think for Game of the Year, they were like, Thank you for all the love. Thank you for whatever. Hey, there's some brand new DLC content. You can go out and play it right now.

00:52:47.32
Jaime G
And it's it's live. It's called Verso's Drafts. So you know how like the whole theme is like paintings that so-and-so did?

00:52:57.30
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:52:58.10
Jaime G
There's a brand new era where it would have been like the drafts or paintings that Verso did before, you know, spoiler alert, he met his untimely demise.

00:53:05.25
Tony Sisk
Okay.

00:53:10.07
Jaime G
But you have to be in Act 3 and you have to be at a high level because there is some challenging enemies like the rest of the game.

00:53:09.64
Tony Sisk
Cool.

00:53:19.32
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So there's one other game that I saw. And it did make it um abundantly clear that it had a connection to, it doesn't have a connection other than the the developers. But it made me super excited for.

00:53:38.26
Tony Sisk
Do you remember the game Returnal?

00:53:41.74
Jaime G
Oh, yeah, totally. It was one ah one of like the early PlayStation 5 games that, yeah, yeah, i remember.

00:53:42.46
Tony Sisk
Right? From Housemart? Mm-hmm. Right? So it's a roguelike set in space, and you know you're an astronaut, and you're trying to figure out what planet you're on and what's going on.

00:53:52.52
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

00:53:57.32
Tony Sisk
is It's an interesting story. The gameplay is fantastic, right? That's Returnal.

00:54:04.97
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:54:06.71
Tony Sisk
So the developers of Returnal are rolling out another roguelike, um and this one's called Sorrows and it drops in like April so

00:54:19.51
Jaime G
I saw the trailer, man. I was like, what is this?

00:54:22.01
Tony Sisk
yes so think Returnal except new game it's on the same principles so Sorrows I'm really looking forward that because I love Returnal so just super super great gameplay super tight you know just

00:54:44.22
Tony Sisk
um ah it's great pedigree that that company is super it's one of the great developers um that doesn't get enough credit for some of the work that they do but uh but yeah oh one last thing at the very end of the show they did a reveal right before you know their their announcements uh for game of the year i think it was but uh there's a game called high guard.

00:55:16.30
Tony Sisk
It's another hero shooter. Did you see that one?

00:55:22.34
Jaime G
Mmm, it's not ringing a bell, man.

00:55:23.56
Tony Sisk
It's the one where the guys are riding around on horses and shooting like machine guns and stuff.

00:55:28.44
Jaime G
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, what is this?

00:55:28.92
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah. It was like, Oh, never before they've been working on this in top secret. um never before gameplay uh mechanics you know seen in a hero shooter and stuff i'm like what riding on a horse like it was weird there's nothing that i saw about it that really made me think what what about it that's made it stand out and i know there was a question and you know out there like

00:55:46.68
Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

00:55:59.10
Tony Sisk
why did he show this as like the last rubio trailer like surely there was a better game to show than this because it's like right now like it's a hard it's mean it's extremely difficult to to gain traction in a multiplayer shooter space right it's like there you have the big guys that have like fortnite and um games like that that have been around for a long time and you're trying to break in there you have to be like

00:56:06.24
Jaime G
Right,

00:56:26.84
Tony Sisk
original like original original so so i'm interested to see like what is it about this game that makes them think that this is going to like be successful because like sony has tried to like roll out a couple of different things and you hasn't received great reception for them in the in the shooter market

00:56:31.22
Jaime G
right.

00:56:52.10
Tony Sisk
So we'll see. I'm like, you know, Ark Raiders has obviously had success, but you know, for every one of them, there's probably like four or five like marathons.

00:57:04.29
Jaime G
there's There's a bunch of games that release that don't get any love at all, and they get more hate than then they should.

00:57:13.14
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So anyway, so that was the 2025 Game Awards show. And, i you know, well, you got another one?

00:57:20.74
Jaime G
there's one there's There's one thing i want i want to mention. You and I, neither one of us have touched base on the reveal of the first teaser.

00:57:32.22
Jaime G
for the Street Fighter movie, which is a video game. um

00:57:37.43
Tony Sisk
Right. Right.

00:57:40.31
Jaime G
And Shadow Knight and I kind of had a brief brief exchange on this on Discord. and And I made a comment like, they're really leaning into like the goofiness of this.

00:57:52.47
Jaime G
And he was like, bingo.

00:57:55.80
Tony Sisk
Yeah, it it looks goopy.

00:57:58.68
Jaime G
Right?

00:57:59.61
Tony Sisk
Like, they're they're going straight for the... I mean, is it even b the the B action movie? I don't even know if it's a B. Yeah.

00:58:11.03
Jaime G
But, dude, did you realize that Jason Momoa, you know, ex-Aquimon, he's going to be Lobo in the next Supergirl movie, is Blanca.

00:58:17.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:58:25.24
Jaime G
I was like, okay.

00:58:25.30
Tony Sisk
What?

00:58:28.76
Tony Sisk
Okay. I yeah don't know. I'm like, yeah why are you going so cheesy? But I guess that's what they're going for. So.

00:58:37.59
Jaime G
I mean, I don't know. But we saw the very first teaser ever. Okay.

00:58:45.46
Tony Sisk
Right. Okay. So cool. So overall, I think it was a pretty good show. I mean, it was a good show. i mean, it it seems to be getting bigger every year, but you know outside of the people not liking the fact that Expedition 33 won everything, I'm like, well, that's kind of like comes with the territory, right? If you're game of the year, you're probably going to win a lot the awards.

00:59:09.59
Tony Sisk
So... But, I mean, that game has so much love for it, though. i Why is everybody acting surprised? Anyway.

00:59:19.99
Jaime G
I'm telling you, man, not the that the number of people that they're saying is watching the award show is not the actual number. No way. No way.

00:59:30.32
Tony Sisk
I don't know. I mean, it's got to be ah a lot of people, though. There's a lot of people that are talking about it, just like we are. So, I mean, I don't...

00:59:39.77
Jaime G
Yeah, but we do but kind of have to talk about it.

00:59:41.30
Tony Sisk
I don't know.

00:59:44.15
Tony Sisk
I mean, we're a games podcast.

00:59:44.95
Jaime G
ah

00:59:46.14
Tony Sisk
So, yeah, we're going to talk about it. Though, sometimes we don't talk about games. We talk about movies and shows and other stuff.

00:59:50.51
Jaime G
Bye.

00:59:52.38
Tony Sisk
But we should talk about awards show. It's fun to talk about anyway. so But before you know closing tonight, just in the next month or so, we're going to be talking about more games coming out in 2026. We're probably going to be having our draft episode.

01:00:16.28
Tony Sisk
So be on the lookout for that.

01:00:19.19
Jaime G
I expect more people to join in this this next year than this this past one.

01:00:19.02
Tony Sisk
What

01:00:23.83
Tony Sisk
we have? Five this past year?

01:00:26.55
Jaime G
Yeah, but we would from we went from four to five. let's Let's go for six.

01:00:31.14
Tony Sisk
Let's go for six this year. Woo-hoo.

01:00:33.21
Jaime G
ah ah

01:00:34.84
Tony Sisk
I mean, there's only so many games. yeah I don't know. like What did we pick this past week? Four? We picked four games, and you dropped the one had the lowest score, right?

01:00:43.86
Jaime G
We dropped the lowest one of the four, right?

01:00:46.51
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:00:47.96
Jaime G
and And that's what that's what got J-Rod. He picked a bunch of games that didn't really use.

01:00:55.19
Tony Sisk
Right? So it'll be something similar to that. And hopefully we'll have a couple more players.

01:01:04.30
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:01:03.74
Tony Sisk
Yeah. We just limited it. We didn't. Did we really like. Recruit it for it. i don't remember.

01:01:12.19
Jaime G
Nah, word of mouth.

01:01:14.10
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I think I would like to like if we get a couple more that bring them on to the show.

01:01:23.16
Tony Sisk
And that way we have like. Five live people on the episode because we're going to.

01:01:28.57
Jaime G
oh, dude, we should make it like we should make it like the the Game Awards where the winner of the last year is invited to be there in person.

01:01:29.10
Tony Sisk
We'll have it on Twitch.

01:01:39.11
Tony Sisk
That's true. That's true. We'll have to reach out to Spidey Dude to see if he wants to come on and have the be on the episode in

01:01:41.29
Jaime G
Right?

01:01:46.27
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:01:50.65
Tony Sisk
and see yeah yo if he wants to do that or not. I'm up for that.

01:01:55.22
Jaime G
Yeah. Yeah, right. It'd be cool.

01:01:58.14
Tony Sisk
All right. Cool. um Anyway, well, thanks again for joining me tonight. and Can't wait till next week and see what topics we get into next week.

01:02:12.61
Jaime G
I will be playing a lot of Borderlands for Tony. And hopefully, we can play at some point. So yeah. at some point

01:02:20.71
Tony Sisk
All right, cool. All right. Well, thanks again for everybody for listening in on Goody Game Radio, and then we'll catch you on the next episode. Bye.