0:01

the big daddy himself. Greg

0:03

Miller. Hello, Tim. The lock, Roger Pachorni. What

0:06

up. And the

0:08

master of high snow bike, Mike. Who's in

0:10

last place now, Roger? You are.

0:13

Remember that? Stop spoiling the episode. I'm going to

0:15

be the last one to do that. I'm

0:18

going to be the last one to do that. I'm

0:21

going to be the last one to do that. I'm

0:24

going to be the last one to do that. You

0:27

are. Remember that? Stop spoiling the episode,

0:29

Mike. Stop spoiling the episode. It might have changed. It

0:31

might have changed between the start of this episode and

0:34

to now. Tim, as many

0:36

people know, they just clicked on a title that

0:38

says us talking about our fantasy critic for

0:40

2024. And if we rewind

0:42

the tape, Greg Miller,

0:45

maybe I wasn't paying attention. Maybe. Maybe

0:47

I wanted Shadow of the Earth Tree

0:50

as my first pick. And a lot

0:52

of people joked and clowned on poor

0:54

snow bike, Mike. And they said, oh,

0:57

oh, here comes last place. Ladies and

0:59

gentlemen, I'm happy to report that you boys. Snow bike.

1:02

Mike is projected to be first place at the

1:04

end of the year. Projected. Who

1:07

will be last place? Roger.

1:09

Okay. Is that projections as well? No,

1:12

he's just currently last. And also all projections.

1:14

He is set to be seventh place now and seventh

1:16

place. Now

1:19

I've been seventh place and projected to be seventh place

1:22

since the beginning of this. And I thought maybe there

1:24

was going to be one point where I would be

1:26

sixth, maybe fifth, maybe third. No, just been seventh the

1:28

entire time. Legitimately, are you surprised? Like,

1:31

were there any moments during this adventure where you're like, oh, man, I

1:33

was more sure of myself. We'll

1:36

get into it. Okay. I can tell

1:38

you a couple of steps. We'll break

1:40

it down. We'll break it down. That is what we're talking about

1:43

today. Everybody earlier in

1:45

the year, we started our fantasy game

1:47

critic for 2024. We're

1:50

going to do a little check in. See where, who's

1:52

the winning so far, who's losing. We're going to make

1:54

our own projections on where we think it might be

1:56

in and up. And it's going to

1:58

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but we'll tell you all about that later

4:29

for now let's begin with what is and

4:31

forever will be the topic of the show.

4:34

Shadow trickster in chat says that Beverly Hills

4:36

cop Axel left came out today that can't

4:38

be correct and I haven't seen the first

4:40

color can I watch it? Wow I'm gonna

4:42

watch it. Yeah okay holy shit I'm gonna

4:44

watch it. IGN reviews like we can trust

4:46

those. It's a four out of ten. They

4:49

gave Maxine a five out of ten that's crazy. Did you

4:51

watch Maxine? No but you know I just you know

4:53

feel the vibes you know can't be less than

4:55

a nine you know I mean well the

4:57

vibes on the streets from what I'm seeing Maxine not that

5:00

good. Axel left was supposedly

5:02

a basic. That's insane. I did the supposedly

5:04

last one was not but they're

5:06

like they brought they brought the heat. I'm excited. But

5:08

I've never watched any of them I love the theme

5:10

song. Do you think they play the crazy frog version

5:12

of that? I can only hope. I can only hope.

5:15

Fuck. I hope so. We'll talk about the games cast

5:17

fantasy critic this is our July 2024 check

5:20

in here. If you wanted to

5:22

follow along you can go to kind of

5:24

funny.com/KF League 2024 to see where all of

5:27

us are at but for people that

5:29

don't want to click around they wanted to click

5:31

on this and listen or watch us talk about

5:33

it I'll let you know some stats. Currently

5:36

in the lead we

5:38

have Greg Miller with a hundred and

5:40

ten point forty three points. Just

5:42

crushing. Just crushing out there. However

5:45

Greg only has three games left to come

5:47

out. Wow. So not much more room to

5:49

wiggle any higher. Mike

5:53

is in second place with

5:56

eighty one point four nine points

5:58

and six possible to

6:00

come out okay we'll see how many of those actually

6:03

come out. Is the plucky squire

6:08

gonna come out? Hey we'll talk about that

6:10

but like who's in the money right now

6:12

ladies and gentlemen? Also really does the 80s

6:14

too really count even though it's only early

6:17

access enough? Hey remember last year

6:19

when y'all fucked me out of Baldur's

6:21

Gate 3? Yeah, retribution.

6:24

Yeah I don't feel like

6:26

that rule was discussed at

6:28

the It was! It definitely was.

6:30

If the game is on this thing it counts.

6:32

That's true. That's what we said. If it's DLC

6:34

or early access and if it does have a

6:36

thing then it's official. I have some clarifying questions

6:39

about that later but we'll get back to it.

6:41

We'll get into it. Barret is

6:43

no slouch. 71 points right now. 6 games

6:46

to come. So okay that's

6:48

I feel like right now we should probably win. Let's

6:50

do a break then. You want to go through some

6:52

of our our lists here and kind of see if

6:54

we have any regrets so far. Roger I want to

6:56

start with you because we did bring up the Go

6:58

to the cellar. Go to the basement. Go to the

7:01

very bottom. You're fine. I gotta break up in a

7:03

fucking white cloth. Oh

7:06

shit. That's like an 1118 white cloth baby.

7:08

Jesus fucking christ. You know I

7:10

tried my hardest. You know I didn't know the buttons. I'm learning

7:12

the buttons. Oh yeah. You know my first year here. I'm

7:14

just a baby. I don't know what's going on here. And I

7:16

made some good calls here. I think you know who

7:19

would have thought that Hellblade 2 wouldn't have been a 90 right? Who

7:22

would have thought that one but first pick to

7:24

first pick. I thought that was a heater right?

7:26

It looked it was like the one for Xbox

7:28

right. Dawn trail. We're still waiting on

7:31

that. I hear I hear somewhat mixed things about that.

7:33

I know that I know people like like the reviewers

7:35

like it but I also know some of the fans

7:37

like are like it's not a lot of fans aren't

7:39

giving you points Roger. I know. So we'll see. We'll

7:41

see. Me to the Hallower. Sure.

7:43

I mean like where where is that they they mentioned

7:45

it. They said it's coming soon. Quote unquote. Are we

7:47

have you used the drops because you get one free

7:49

drop wasn't it? And then the two drops you can

7:51

drop it. They don't release. Oh I use my drop

7:54

already. I use my drop already.

7:56

So then going to go around on the

7:58

I think this is no. We,

8:00

how many do we draft originally? Five,

8:03

five, something like that. Yeah. So then

8:05

Metroid prime four beyond fucking 2025 locked

8:08

into that one. You got counter picked

8:10

by blessing on that one. That's zero

8:12

points. That's a great one. A hyperlight

8:14

breaker. That also is not coming out

8:16

this year. That is locked.

8:19

We're like my pick that one. You

8:21

Mike, so again, real quick,

8:23

if you're new to fantasy critic fantasy draft,

8:25

you haven't seen the other one. The idea

8:27

is it's like fantasy sports where your team

8:29

goes or your player and we would go

8:31

out and play, but here you're picking games.

8:34

We drafted five. Then we had a budget

8:36

where we could go bid to get other

8:38

games from drafts as they get announced, do

8:40

whatever, right? You get that on your team.

8:43

Then as if you can throw a Rogers

8:45

back up, right? He's locked into Metroid prime

8:47

and hyperlight because he was counter picked. The

8:49

idea was when we drafted our five games,

8:51

we then had to look at the other

8:53

teams, counter pick from someone's team, a game

8:55

that you thought either wouldn't release or would

8:58

be bad or the worst possible choice. The

9:00

idea being that if it

9:02

gets negative points below 70,

9:04

you get positive points to your team. If

9:06

it gets positive points for the other person's

9:08

team above 70 on the review thing, you

9:10

would lose points. If it gets zero, no

9:13

harm, no foul. Everybody just locks it in

9:15

and goes. So these are great counter picks

9:17

for Mike and for blessing because they're no,

9:19

they won't have a chance to lose points.

9:22

However, they're since they're locked in, Roger can't

9:24

drop them. So if they hadn't been counter

9:26

picked because nobody thought Metroid was

9:28

coming, if they hadn't been counter

9:30

picked, he would have been able to drop these games, get other

9:32

games in there for a chance at points. But

9:35

the one wrinkle to this, let's give them

9:37

the wrinkle hyperlight breaker is coming

9:39

to early access this year, which does mean like

9:41

eighties to could probably will get some points for

9:43

that score and potentially it's going to do better

9:45

than the next pick over there. No rest for

9:47

the wicked, which is not probably not coming out

9:50

this year. We haven't gotten confirmation that's early access.

9:52

I think it has like five reviews. I was

9:54

going to say we really liked Andy really liked

9:56

that. I've played it and liked it too. But

9:58

that's the thing is that there's like five reviews.

10:00

I think a bunch of them are unscored. And

10:02

then like a few of them are like, it's

10:04

fine right now. It could be better. So like

10:06

that's the one where I'm just like, fuck

10:09

that sucks because like, if we just had a

10:11

little bit more reviews or just whatever, just gave

10:13

me the zero, I could drop it potentially by

10:15

the end of the year. But I don't know

10:17

how that works right now, right? Because I'm just

10:19

stuck because I have points. Is that what it's

10:21

about? There's reviews on Metacritic for it. That's fair.

10:24

But it doesn't come out this year though.

10:26

That's the issue. Like in 1.0, like, no,

10:28

that doesn't matter. If it's reviewed

10:30

on Metacritic, they're reviewing the product that is

10:32

out at that point. If Mike gets Hades

10:34

two, you get no rest for the wicked.

10:37

And so here's the problem. This

10:39

reminds me of a Rainbow Six extraction where

10:41

I thought that deserves more points. This no

10:44

rest for the wicked game is way better

10:46

than 73. So Roger, I

10:48

apologize to you. That should be at least

10:50

77 to 82. You

10:53

know what I mean? I'm surprised that that didn't get any love.

10:55

Shouldn't have an open credit page, but

10:57

rounding out my list really quick. So then I

10:59

picked up Homeworld three. I liked Homeworld. I thought

11:01

the nerds. I thought the nerds were gonna get

11:03

it. One of the higher scoring games on your list. Yeah, one of

11:05

them. I thought the nerds were gonna get this one. I thought that

11:07

they're gonna really, I don't know anything about Homeworld. Don't even know

11:09

what kind of genre it is. I picked it

11:12

up well before Mike started playing it. And he looked at me

11:14

and he was like, this is Mike got this, this is Mike

11:16

got the stuff. This might be a 90 for you. And of

11:18

course it's not a 90. You should never listen to Mike.

11:20

Should absolutely never listen to Mike. Roger looked at me and he

11:22

goes, the nerds will give this the love that it deserves. I

11:25

said, all right, Roger, you got it. And then I played that.

11:27

I was like, Roger, this is a pretty good game. Actually

11:29

you might score big. Looks like the nerds gave me seven. No,

11:31

and this is the weird one because like I picked this game

11:33

up and it started, I think at like an 82. And

11:36

then like, I would check in like months later

11:38

and would drop like three points every time.

11:40

So yeah, I guess this one wasn't that

11:42

great. Our history untold. I

11:44

think the nerds are gonna get me on this one.

11:46

See, I mean, I think that I'm telling the nerds,

11:49

bro. I think that, I think this is the

11:51

one, you know what I mean? Is it coming this year? That's

11:53

what they said. You know what I mean? They said end

11:55

of the year. And we haven't seen it. We

11:58

haven't seen it at the Xbox conference. And maybe we see at a game. We

12:00

have no date on it, but I'm hopeful

12:02

for it Yeah,

12:04

what's locomotive? Yeah, so this is when I

12:06

get to my bag of trying to find

12:09

some secret games Some games no one's

12:11

ever heard of so then I start going indie games 2024

12:14

going down the list and this locomotive

12:16

game It's yeah, it's like a it's

12:18

a point-and-click adventure game kind of going

12:20

back to like the Lucas Lucas art

12:25

Yeah, totally okay, it looks really great

12:28

Full-on voice cast it's apparently coming out this year. Is

12:30

it a murder mystery? Yeah, I mean you're on a

12:32

train I like that a lot. I like that a

12:34

lot. So I'm hopeful for I oh September

12:37

24th or I forgot about that. Yeah, so that's

12:39

coming out this year. Hopefully this game comes out

12:41

this year as well I'm I'm hopeful that I

12:43

get maybe above an 80 on that one. But

12:45

hey, I'm locked in I'm not winning this one

12:48

I'm gonna be completely honest. Well, I mean go

12:50

down your final three because you do

12:52

have a winner here I had one about that. Yeah, I had

12:54

one where I had children of the Sun I'm

12:57

having points Above

12:59

an 80 you should look at yourself and say

13:01

that's a win huge way anything above an 80 is

13:03

a win for sure But then this was my

13:05

Bellotto moment This was my bear Courtney gamer moment of

13:07

the century where I was looking at games coming out

13:09

this year I was like Oh brain anniversary edition.

13:11

Is that just like a remaster? What's going on here?

13:14

They like remade the game fully so like it counts

13:16

as like a partial remake or whatever So I

13:18

picked it up right before it came out. So that's

13:20

19 points right there. Hey That's a

13:22

moment right there everybody that's that deserves something that deserves not

13:24

last place and I mean what if I trade with you

13:26

might let me Let me hand you something else. So you

13:29

guys just go to the end of the board. What did

13:31

you get? Let me hand you this that's

13:33

an L Roger

13:37

counter picked dragons dogma to a draft day

13:39

where you had to pick from somebody's list

13:41

What's a game you think that will underperform

13:43

or get you zero points, right? He picked

13:45

dragons talking with two which got an 87,

13:47

which means he loses 17 points Just

13:50

a quick little 17 real you know It

13:53

was towards the end of the the way that we did

13:55

I think I was the like one though Maybe the second

13:57

the last person counter picking and I was looking around you

13:59

were the second person to counter pick. There's no way. No,

14:01

I remember I was the last person to counter pick. All

14:04

right. Well, maybe I don't know if I'm able to draw, cause I

14:06

don't know what focus happened. I don't know what was going on. I

14:08

think I looked around and I was trying to, I was going from

14:11

the big swings and I just really wanted to hurt blessing. You know

14:13

what I mean? I was like, what if, what if this game sucks?

14:15

What if I can take them down a peg and I just kind

14:17

of just reverse, you know, card, just shot myself right in the foots.

14:20

Hey, I thought this game, I didn't, I don't know anything about this game.

14:22

I just knew that it was kind of like a

14:24

old, it was not as modern. I know they're going for the

14:26

old school approach to it. Maybe it wasn't going to review well.

14:29

Maybe it was going to be too hard for these game

14:31

journalists. Greg, you know, these games, you're not

14:33

on a play game. So whatever 17

14:37

points I'm at then I'm at the end. There's

14:39

nothing I can do. There's nothing I can do

14:41

here. This is it. I dropped my

14:43

own only game. Every other game that apparently is coming

14:45

out next year has not said that's coming out next

14:47

year. No rest of the wicked. I can't drop a

14:50

yeah, I'm just fucked. So this is me at the, in

14:52

the basement. I hope that you guys

14:54

do well. And I hope you prosper. And

14:56

now in last place, I want

14:58

to jump next to me because I feel like

15:01

I am doing the most similar to Raj in

15:03

the sense that like I understand this fantasy stuff

15:05

at the least, but I wanted to try it

15:07

this year. I wanted to really, really try my

15:09

best. Pay attention to this. When new games come

15:11

out, I try to make some bets and get

15:13

some things. And I've gotten some pretty sweet buys

15:15

out of this whole thing. I'm feeling good about,

15:18

did I make every perfect choice? The answer is

15:20

no. There's a couple of things I regret and

15:22

we're going to go through that right now, right

15:24

at the top. My first choice, shadow

15:26

the earth tree. What a, what a crushed it.

15:28

Oh, come on. 100% sold 28 points there for

15:36

me, which definitely was needed and feels good. Unannounced

15:38

mainline 3d Mario platform. Here's where I start

15:41

getting a little fucked. My problem was I

15:43

was convinced that the switch was going to

15:45

be this year. And if that were to

15:47

happen, it would come with a mainline 3d

15:49

Mario platformer. My problem now that the switch

15:52

is officially not this year. This game's not

15:54

this year, but they're not going to say

15:56

that. So I don't get to just drop

15:58

this as You used your drop?

16:00

I have not. I need to be strategic about

16:02

this. Cause I'm a little worried at this point

16:04

that I might've made some bad calls that are

16:07

gonna cost me points. So I

16:09

might wanna leave that there, just take the zero

16:11

and move on. That was a big second round

16:13

pick. That is your second pick

16:15

overall. And you just shot for the stars on

16:17

that one. I appreciate it. And I don't know

16:19

if like- Same as a good hype man. And

16:21

I like that, but I don't think other people

16:23

are thinking of that round too. I think they're

16:25

trying to still secure like known quantity games. And

16:27

I appreciate that. You're like, fuck that. I'm

16:30

just going right off the rip for this. Timmy and I

16:32

were on the same page cause I had drafted Mario Kart

16:34

as well. When I dropped Mario

16:36

Kart the second though, we heard that the

16:39

Switch like reportedly not coming this year. Yeah.

16:41

So then we got a Metal Gear Solid, Delta, Snake

16:44

Eater. This is, it's a

16:46

weird one. And like, you know what guys, I

16:48

still have faith. Is that confirmed this year? No,

16:50

it's definitely not. Well, it was. And

16:52

then they just say you didn't talk. But then they just haven't talked

16:55

about it. So there's the rumors that it's gonna be 2025 that,

16:58

you know, are likely to be true. But

17:00

I'm gonna keep

17:03

it here for now. Cause until there's something that I'm like,

17:05

I need to drop this to get something. Why do I

17:07

need to drop it? I feel like Gamescom might be the

17:09

good, like if it doesn't show up in a big way

17:11

there, I feel like that's gonna be kind of your big

17:13

test. Yeah. If it's actually coming. And that's the

17:15

thing, if it's at Gamescom and they actually put a date on

17:17

it there, then I get to drop it as one of my

17:20

two drops, right? If it gets officially a

17:22

2025 date, then

17:25

it'll cancel some of my other drops. So I don't wanna waste my

17:27

drop on it quite yet. My

17:29

first swing and a miss here was Penny's

17:31

big breakaway. Could have been worse, but only

17:33

got seven points here. From the

17:35

team that brought you Sonic Mania, I kind of expected this

17:37

was gonna do a bit better. Not a 10, not a

17:39

nine, but I was hoping for like an 85 or so.

17:43

So that was kind of a bit of a bummer for me. Indiana

17:45

Jones in the great circle. It's

17:48

a rough one. How are we feeling about that one? I

17:50

mean, I'm very, very confident in it,

17:52

but I also feel like the vibe

17:54

from the games journalist circles, it's

17:57

not great. Not electric, not

17:59

electric. And I feel like there's

18:01

kind of a something going

18:03

in of not wanting to love this game.

18:05

Everyone wants a Wolfenstein They're not getting a

18:07

Wolfenstein. So I feel like that might

18:09

not be my best pick, but you know what? I'm

18:11

still feeling good about it I still feel like in

18:13

terms of reviews. I don't expect it to get horrible

18:15

scores. You're gonna get 10 points Um, where where we

18:17

are gonna get an 80 really? I think I'm thinking

18:19

85 82 to 85 window But

18:22

I love all similar on this. Yeah, I would say

18:24

that one game was gonna be amazing home roll three

18:26

never forget Never forgive you I would

18:28

say 15 points on this Timmy, but my big

18:30

question is like Do

18:33

you actually get those points this year? No

18:37

I do think so. I think so too. I have faith

18:39

that it's this year. I just really hope it's not December

18:41

for its own good Then next

18:43

up animal well, this was one This is one of the

18:45

ones that I was like playing the fucking meta game of

18:47

all the shit because this wasn't the draft This was after

18:50

draft. It was I got I got

18:52

animal well during draft. Yeah, like this is a game that I've seen

18:55

Six games we're having this argument

18:57

earlier. Yeah, we drafted six. Yeah I

19:00

I saw this game at GDC years ago. We've

19:02

seen it at summer game festival times I was

19:04

like, all right this one when this

19:06

game comes out. It is going to hit I did not expect

19:09

it to hit as high as it did but very happy about

19:11

that Tim gave me $100 to give it a 10 out of

19:13

10 Yeah

19:19

Then next up one that

19:21

really bums me out because I

19:23

lost points or didn't get too many points on it

19:25

But more because this one had the potential it could

19:27

have been the winner Princess

19:29

Peach Showtime peach getting her own game

19:31

really exciting moments And the switch has

19:34

had such a great track record of

19:36

whether it's new IP or fresh takes

19:38

on spin-off titles or whatever remakes of

19:40

games sequels to games Which

19:43

has been the best place for Nintendo

19:45

IP ever with rare exception the Mario

19:47

sports titles being one of it And

19:49

unfortunately, I think princess beach Showtime is

19:51

another example of they just put this

19:53

one out This didn't get the love

19:55

and care that it needed It's

19:58

still very fun game of cute

20:00

things about it, but I definitely

20:03

feel like this one should have should have

20:05

got that Nintendo polish that it just

20:07

simply did not get Yeah As

20:10

evidenced by the loading yeah if this wasn't a Nintendo game

20:12

if this was anything else this would have been you would

20:14

have lost points on This like that's it. Yeah, you you

20:16

I mean at least you got some points then

20:19

after that we have Silent Hill 2 remake this one Considering

20:22

a drop-on yeah 10

20:26

points guaranteed yeah About

20:28

this real bad when is this coming out

20:30

can somebody help me there cuz I I

20:32

want to know Okay,

20:35

I got a little time. I got a little time So

20:38

we'll have to see what happens there and

20:40

then tails of kazaro's out six points There's

20:43

another one that like I I was very high on

20:46

I thinking it was going to be be Great.

20:49

I don't think 76 necessarily that

20:52

bad, but I feel Maybe

20:55

not my strongest call But we're also getting late into the chair

20:57

the pics there So I don't I don't regret that one at

20:59

all and then here we get some of my new Buys

21:02

good for you that I'm extremely happy about the moment

21:04

Astro bot came out I was like this is where

21:06

Tim's got to play the game Yeah, cuz I know

21:08

Barrett knows and tell the fucking story Tim you piece

21:10

of shit 51 dollar bet $50

21:15

left Literally,

21:19

that's smart. That's how you play the game Astro

21:23

bot's about to be the greatest game ever fucking made

21:25

all video games gonna be like why do we exist?

21:27

We should just stop yeah, this game is awesome now

21:30

that I played it I know that even more this

21:32

game is fucking incredible, and I think it is gonna

21:34

get I hate you too I think it's gonna get

21:36

like a 90 agreed three So

21:38

I've been I've been out of this league pretty much for the

21:40

last three months and like I have no Moveability

21:43

and Mike looked at me. He's like Roger. I

21:45

know you can't do anything So let me get

21:47

some advice shot should I try to bid on

21:49

a shrimp for five dollars? No

21:54

Absolutely, we'll get to mine in a moment. You'll see

21:56

I spent a lot of money similar to Tim to

21:58

box out I'm a selection that I hate. Don't spoil

22:00

your money. We'll talk about that. Your boy Mike, I

22:02

only had a little bit of money to play with.

22:05

I was hoping I beat him, but of course, you

22:07

know. He looks so sad. He was just like, $5

22:09

by me. I should like,

22:11

no, it won't. Pixelated Soul says greatest game

22:13

ever made, but badly designed haunts him. I

22:15

mean, yeah, that's just how good this game

22:17

is that like, despite that, it's still gonna

22:20

be perfect. This is an

22:22

interesting point, right? So you started this

22:24

whole thing off. You wanted to have fun. This

22:26

is your first time. You don't fully understand that.

22:28

I appreciate that. You know what I mean? You've

22:30

had a lot of fun here. That's great. You

22:33

and I go back a long way. You know what I mean?

22:36

I gotta ask. Why

22:39

not trade me Astrobot? I

22:42

like that. You're not gonna win. You're

22:44

out of the running for the trophy. I don't know.

22:46

So now, you get to do the thing that's just

22:48

gonna spuck

22:50

you to the rest of the league

22:53

of all time. Now I can't, there

22:55

is an agreement I can't barter without,

22:57

there's more restrictions on our

22:59

favorite fantasy critic than the Supreme Court

23:01

justices. I can't do anything. I

23:03

understand. So we're just talking strictly about me

23:05

trading you college football for Astrobot. Oh, college

23:07

football is gonna do great. It's not gonna

23:09

do Astrobot. It's gotta do great. So

23:12

it's just that idea of, Tim, here's

23:14

your consolation prize. It's a

23:16

participation ribbon. Everyone's proud of you

23:18

for coming through and doing this at the end.

23:20

But think you get to make Barrett doubly angry,

23:22

which is great. You'll definitely piss off Mike. Blessing,

23:24

who also is out of the running and doesn't

23:27

fucking matter, will be furious. This

23:29

is just great content. This is some good

23:31

professional wrestling. I want to see how high

23:33

I can get though. I might not

23:35

be able to get one last place. Big

23:37

punishment for last place. Okay, we'll have a conversation about

23:39

that later. You don't want to be that person. And

23:41

here's the thing is like, if Greg's gonna win this

23:44

year, he should fucking earn it, you know? And I

23:46

am right now by playing. He's earning it. Tim, when

23:48

we get to December, I'll fix you an eggnog and

23:50

we can kick up our feet and see where you're

23:52

at. No, that's bribery. I like this. I love bribery.

23:54

I can't fucking pour him an egg. No, that's bribery.

23:56

What the fuck are you talking about? That's crazy. That's

23:59

like five bucks. That's like five. That's a great one

24:01

last year and that was cheating and that's why his

24:03

one last year was contest. I love a good eggnog.

24:05

Hey Tim, have you ever heard of locomotive? Did you

24:07

like locomotive? I have.

24:09

But after that, no, I

24:12

made another great call. The Legend of Zelda, Echoes of

24:14

Wisdom. As soon as they announced this shit, I had

24:16

to make a choice. I only had one open spot

24:18

and I had a couple dollars to play with, I

24:20

still do. It's a great one. I had 10 left

24:22

and I was like, I want Mario

24:24

and Luigi Brothers ship. I want Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom,

24:26

but I need to make the choice. Which one do

24:29

I know was gonna review better? And the answer is

24:31

Zelda. So I'm going for it and I did it

24:33

and I have that as my last one. Now here's

24:35

what I'm most upset about and I don't know why

24:37

the fuck I would have done this at any point

24:39

in time. I still don't fully understand counter picks and

24:41

that is clear. I chose Star Wars Outlaws. I egged

24:43

you into it. I egged you into it Tim. I

24:45

egged you into it Tim. Counter picks were. I

24:48

just don't know. Now I understand it and now

24:50

I'm like, why the hell would I do that?

24:52

That's a very, very bad call. No, you understood

24:54

because like, we had a whole conversation about Outlaws

24:56

and. Yeah, you thought it was gonna

24:58

be delayed, right? You and I were the last people to

25:01

counter pick and so we have like very few like good

25:03

picks left to counter pick and

25:05

I egged you into Star Wars

25:07

Outlaws for sure. I mean, that's

25:10

unsportsmanlike and you should have regrets

25:12

in your life. Like

25:14

I do, choosing Star Wars Outlaws as my counter pick. I

25:16

think that it is going to do at

25:18

least an 80. So I don't wanna lose

25:20

points. What the fuck? I think you're gonna lose five to

25:22

10 points. Yeah, it's unfortunate. You might lose 15, bro. Yeah.

25:25

You might be. I might be rough for you. Yeah, I might be

25:27

rough for you. This might be a dragon's

25:30

dog, but two situations. It might be rough. And the worst

25:32

thing is I can't drop it. Yeah, it's

25:34

the counter pick thing, right? I

25:38

left SGF talking

25:40

so much about how much I loved Outlaws and whatever it is. I

25:43

could see Outlaws Achilles heel being

25:46

it's too short. It's buggy shit

25:48

at launch. Like there's a bunch of things

25:50

that could not save you, but bring you

25:52

down. It's like in the seventies for something.

25:54

I don't foresee it happening, but. That's the

25:56

thing is I feel like even with the

25:58

buzz and performances, you do. Yeah,

26:01

okay using 70 something. Yeah, and that's why I talked to

26:03

you into it where I was like I what

26:06

we've seen of the game so far like I'm Interested

26:09

like a most recently from the

26:11

SCF stuff, but like beforehand I don't

26:14

know there's just a feeling I have about this game that

26:16

I don't think it's gonna like it's not gonna

26:18

review bad But I'm gonna get any survivor launch

26:20

at like 15 FPS and is an 84 So

26:23

like I feel like you're for your Jedi as some

26:25

people actually want That's true. I don't want to be

26:27

a Jedi. I don't want to be a Jedi. They're

26:29

gonna pick up that lightsaber They're gonna pick up that

26:31

lightsaber and then it's gonna get at 73 because of

26:33

it Can't

26:36

we don't try Mike

26:39

Take us through a journey About your

26:42

boy. You know what I mean? This boy. It's a

26:44

boy. People were saying I was a laughingstock of the

26:46

league off the rip What have I

26:48

done because you tried to draft a game

26:50

that someone already drafted an incredible team Tim

26:53

Let's look at my big squad right now Starting

26:57

at number one for my

26:59

best friend Andy Cortez I picked Hollow Knight silk

27:01

song still No

27:03

word. We have no idea if this is real or not

27:07

Will this ever come out? No, I think it's

27:09

coming this year. I don't think so either I

27:12

have a couple here where you go. Where are

27:14

we? What are we doing? Right? And so you

27:16

look at Hollow Knight silk song What

27:18

are we doing the plucky squire? How

27:21

do we get so much promotional stuff for

27:23

this and then go a whole summer of

27:25

not talking about it? I mean we're at

27:28

this year We're at SGF with a devolver

27:30

digital booth the most beautiful booth in the

27:32

whole place and all they got is an

27:34

8 by 10 Poster of it and no

27:36

word about this game what? So

27:39

you wonder what happened to the plucky

27:41

squire Mike? I don't know then you

27:43

look at replaced again at SGF No

27:47

word of replace that head again, but

27:49

it was playable What

27:51

it I'm hoping games come I'm hoping games come

27:54

we say hey, we are ready for this game

27:56

I would like that to come out. I need

27:58

that one. Well, let's not skip over over your,

28:00

your wins as well. I mean, let's yeah,

28:02

exactly. Those are my, those are my questions

28:04

right now of like, Oh, I have three

28:07

big games that I need to score here

28:09

or one of them to at least

28:11

announced so I can drop them, but let's go into my

28:13

wins. You know, a lot of people doubted me on Hades

28:15

too, but I knew it was going to be a great

28:17

game. Oh yeah. What

28:20

a question Mark. Super secret in the game. 90,

28:22

giving me 20 points. What

28:25

a win that was. Dragon's

28:27

dog with two, you know, there was

28:29

conversation from blessing before this was even

28:31

released. It kind of looks like a

28:33

PS two PS three game. Took a chance on

28:36

it. 17 points. That was a

28:38

big win for me right there. You go down. Now

28:40

we play the game of, I have

28:42

three games still left that aren't my

28:44

question, Mark games, which is world war

28:47

craft, the war within. That's definitely scoring

28:49

eighties for sure. What's the vibe on

28:51

that? That's hot. That's a hot vibe

28:53

right now for us. Then

28:55

I have assassin's creed shadows

28:57

and Lego horizon adventures. So

28:59

to go over that assassin's

29:02

creed shadows, you think of the

29:04

assassin's creed person. That's bear Courtney. Once

29:06

we saw this announced and you know,

29:09

kind of shown off during the summer game fest vibes, I

29:11

said, I got to get on this. And

29:13

what did I do, Tim? I did the you, I

29:15

put $75 on that thing. You put

29:17

80 and you want to know how much I bid,

29:19

well making you waste all that money, 20. And

29:23

so who has the game and who

29:25

doesn't? You spent all that money to

29:27

get 15 points. So

29:33

that will round out my squad with that.

29:35

And then I got Lego horizon adventures, hoping

29:37

that will score 85. Yeah,

29:41

I think that will be high. I think that will be

29:43

a good, fun, family friendly game that I think will score

29:45

well with there. After playing it,

29:48

I would be surprised if it doesn't hit the

29:50

80. Like I feel like that's

29:52

you look at it or when you first hear about it,

29:54

you're like, oh, that's like a 70 something

29:56

like playing through it. I'm like, all right, there's more here that

29:59

I think is going to. hit for the reviewers. So

30:01

again, just to call it out. Yeah. When

30:04

Mike started this and he's like,

30:06

I'm projected to be number one when I'm actually

30:08

number one. Remember it's, it doesn't the

30:10

AI here. Isn't perfect. That's right. It's just saying he's going

30:12

to get all of these points for games that aren't going

30:14

to come out. It's not sitting there going like where the

30:16

f**k's hollering. It's just saying that'd be 13 points at where

30:19

the f**k's plucking the squire. I was going to be 12 points.

30:21

Yeah. But we should celebrate some of my other wins as well.

30:24

Definitely to the final shape, scoring a

30:26

91, 22 points because

30:30

if we remember last year when we did

30:32

PSI, lovely versus X-cast, I chose destiny to

30:34

the light fall and that one absolutely bombed

30:36

and it deserved to bomb because that game

30:38

that sucked. Oh, for quite some time for

30:41

a couple of weeks there, you were the

30:43

number one game. This was the highest scoring

30:45

game before Erdtree showed up. It was big

30:47

deal right there. And so destiny really delivered.

30:49

If you're a fan of destiny too, it

30:52

did deliver. It's a lot of fun. Final

30:54

fantasy 16, the rising tide. This was one

30:56

of those where you're in the mid season,

30:58

you're getting a little eager of like, man,

31:00

should I be picking something up? But there's

31:03

only, there's still nine months left. Why are

31:05

you getting excited? Mike? And I was caught

31:07

up in the hype of like, I need

31:09

points. I need this. And so I thought,

31:11

you know what, Ben Starr, you know, accept

31:13

the truth, you know, stuff like that. I

31:15

was in into it and it didn't

31:17

score. Well, it only got me eight points. So

31:19

I needed that one to do better. And then

31:21

I had little guardsmen, which I thought was

31:23

really fun. That's a cute papers, please

31:25

type vibe with a little girl working

31:27

the castle guard booth. And she's letting

31:29

people come into the castle. That got

31:31

me 14 points. So 84. So

31:34

that's a big win. And then my counter

31:36

pick is hyperlight breaker, which I am hoping

31:38

won't get scores. But you know, after Hades,

31:40

it might get scores. Maybe it doesn't fully

31:42

release. Who knows? You know, early access, maybe

31:44

they push it back a month or two.

31:47

We'll see. But yeah, if you

31:49

look at my squad, I am projected to

31:51

finish first. But as Greg said, that's the

31:53

AI bot putting the points together. I have

31:55

more games available than Greg to hopefully score

31:58

me points, but I do have a big

32:00

hole right now. now of Hollow Knight Silksong,

32:02

the Plucky Squire, and Replays, three games that

32:04

we have no idea really about.

32:06

So this could be a big problem for me.

32:08

And you have to, again, like we've talked about

32:11

before, tell us officially announced by Hollow Knight and

32:13

Plucky Squire that we are not coming this year.

32:15

You can't get the free drops on them. I

32:17

think the only wrinkle to this that blessing told

32:19

me was that I think at the end of

32:21

December, if a game just hasn't

32:24

had an announced date or whatever, you can

32:26

just drop it. So you have a little

32:28

bit of maneuverability at the December. Correct. But

32:31

for people watching at home, the idea there, you drop

32:33

them and you'd have to get games that aren't out

32:35

yet that are still coming out in December. So I

32:37

helped three games that are probably going

32:40

to be very whatever. That's what you really go

32:42

into of like, what can again be two points,

32:44

three points. Did you already use your free drop?

32:46

Yeah, I did use my one official free drop

32:48

on Marvel Rivals. I picked up Marvel Rivals feeling

32:50

really confident after that alpha. The downfall of Marvel

32:53

Rivals was as they did do the, hey, we're

32:55

not releasing until 2025. We're

32:57

going to give you some betas, which then put

32:59

me at the spot of, well, this has got

33:01

to go. And now I got to go with

33:03

Lego Horizon Adventures. Now what I could have done,

33:06

instead of using my one free drop, I probably

33:08

should have reached out to this fantasy critic because

33:10

that's what you're supposed to do. And just write,

33:12

hey, they announced this isn't releasing. Put it up

33:14

there because then they would have put the board

33:16

on there, allowed me to make the move. But

33:19

you like to do the most cumbersome hard work

33:21

against you think possible. Well, I like

33:23

to get things done in a timely manner instead

33:25

of waiting for a week for an email response,

33:27

which would have gotten me the same results fast,

33:30

just fast. But I was on it. Real quick,

33:32

Zandfer says, one thing to note is that Devolver

33:34

said, good news, the plucky squire is coming out

33:36

this year before their summer showcase. It was text

33:38

during the stream countdown. Oh, it's actually

33:41

the bank. That's definitely the bank. Don't worry about the

33:43

JPEG poster. This is all they had for the game

33:45

at the place where he plays the game. I'm not

33:47

showing it off again during the Devolver. Mike, I think

33:49

you're going to get Hollow Knight. You

33:51

think so? You think Hollow Knight? What games comedy announced it?

33:54

I don't know. I think you get it both. Next

33:56

year is just so fucking stacked, I feel like. This is the year

33:58

to make it happen. It's it's it

34:01

could be any time. Yeah, it could be literally tomorrow.

34:03

They can just be like hey It's out and we'd

34:05

be like wow it's out. You know I don't think

34:07

like they released the first one in 2017 What

34:10

are the craziest years of sure in the

34:12

last decade right so I don't think they're

34:14

thinking about in that way Yeah, I think

34:16

they're thinking about finishing the game to their

34:18

standards. Yeah It's amazing that

34:21

that game has garnered so much love and like respect

34:23

like you said like that game could come out tomorrow

34:25

We're all gonna go crazy. It's like man I'm

34:27

blown away that this little cute insect thing

34:29

has like taken over the world my storm

34:31

like that That's wild to me little guy,

34:33

and so yeah, I feel good about my

34:35

squad I have some holes that I think

34:38

will prevent me from taking that first place

34:40

spot unless if everything goes right here I

34:42

think I have what could be a takedown

34:44

Greg Miller situation for my lineup right now

34:46

not a chance speaking of Greg Miller Let's

34:48

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34:50

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34:52

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34:54

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37:22

Greg. Hey, how are you, Tim? Who do

37:24

you want to take down first? First off, I screwed

37:26

up. I'm sorry. I wanted

37:28

to give Andy an award, which then reminded me that we're playing for

37:30

an actual award. Of course, the fantasy

37:32

critic trophy, the 2024 edition. Of

37:35

course, Janet Garcia walked away with the inaugural

37:37

2022 one. I

37:39

just so happened to win the 2023 one, and

37:42

obviously I'm on track right now to win the 2024 one. No

37:45

big deal, but I'd

37:47

like to give the Gary Whitta

37:49

Memorial Award to Andy Cortez. If you're

37:51

unfamiliar, ladies and gentlemen, Gary Whitta Memorial

37:53

Award goes out to the player who

37:55

was at the draft and then just

37:58

never gave a shit about this ever.

38:00

Yeah, yeah, Tim you want to

38:02

talk about like you understanding the lease out of

38:04

all of us No, that goes to one Andy

38:06

Cortez Andy Cortez is playing with the Ron Popeil

38:08

method of set it and forget it where he

38:11

drafts His six games then the

38:13

next week picks up another additional what

38:15

three to get to nine and then just

38:17

has this empty space Completely

38:20

filled his team like a week later.

38:22

How do we then he dropped something?

38:24

Gotcha space marine and then walked away

38:26

and he has like what? $77

38:29

in the budget right now so he could make a move on

38:31

something if he gave a shit, but he doesn't Andy

38:34

the first pick was Tekken 8 which was great

38:36

got 90 got him 20 points. He's lost he

38:39

asked Star Wars outlaws He's of course locked by

38:41

a counter picked frostpunk 2 is his third pick.

38:43

No points yet When is that coming? Oh, I

38:45

got pushed a little bit, but it's still this

38:47

year I wish when I don't get the cool

38:49

thing when I hover and like I

38:51

think it's I think it's gonna review I think

38:54

he's gonna get points on it for us

38:56

He took brothers a tale of two sons remake

38:58

that got 81 points giving him 11 points under

39:00

night in birth to sis Solas shot 82 got

39:02

him 12 points. He's got stalker 2 on

39:04

there yet to come out heart of Chernobyl MLB

39:07

the show 24 and 80 with 10

39:09

points then he has skate story anger foot

39:11

and wild Bastards his counter pick his tales

39:13

of the shire. That's a solid one So

39:15

there's a lot of action still happening and

39:17

again so far all he's posted is double

39:19

digit points, which is pretty good Yeah, but

39:21

again he said it forget it

39:24

walked away We'll see how this pans out

39:26

for him as a strategy then you have

39:28

the completely opposite and much

39:30

more sad story of blessing Adio you jr.

39:33

Andy said it forget it walked away Since

39:36

then been on a million dates driving

39:38

his Ferrari around San Francisco. Yeah blessing

39:40

fretting over fantasy critic non-stop Blessing

39:43

out there trying to make something happen with fantasy

39:45

critic and right now just in fifth place projected

39:48

fourth place $10

39:51

left in the budget as we look

39:53

at what samurai hypothesis That's his publishing

39:55

name has his first pick micro Microsoft

39:57

Flight Simulator 2024 We'll

40:00

see what that gets. We're still waiting to see on the solid. What's

40:02

the deal with that? Is there a date on that? Or is that

40:04

just like a, he'll get to November 19th is

40:06

what the website says. Then

40:10

he's got black myth Wukong. I've

40:12

heard, we've heard things about that. See how that one

40:14

shakes out when we get there. Then

40:16

we get into, you know, just some pitiful picks

40:19

here. Rise of the Ronin got him seven points.

40:21

Grand blue fantasy. Relink got him 11

40:24

points. Pepper grinder got him nine. It's

40:26

gotten him 13. And this is always the problem with

40:29

the Indies. I love the Indies and you can have

40:31

something like Barrett with Bellatro. You know what I mean?

40:33

Where you've that, Oh man, this is fucking awesome. But

40:35

then you can see something and it's that thing of

40:37

like, this looks so impressive. This looks so cool. Where's

40:39

it going to go? And it just

40:41

goes to nine points. You know what I mean? Yeah. Stellar

40:43

blade got him 12 points. That's great. Uh, you

40:46

didn't chronicle. A hundred heroes got him five and that's blessed.

40:48

Just playing the fucking nerds are like this nerd game. Yeah.

40:50

That's literally what he told me. I don't hate it because

40:52

I got a nerd game on mine. I'll talk about it

40:54

in a second. Laura line laser eyes.

40:56

Got him 17 points. That was

40:58

great. And 87 great pickup there. Then he's got

41:01

steam world heist to, which I think he added

41:03

based on my preview, my preview. What do you

41:05

think? If you were going to guess? Yeah. I

41:07

mean like I was saying this a couple of

41:09

weeks ago after playing it very out of my

41:11

normal genres of what I care about, but the

41:14

polish is so there that I'm like, Oh wow.

41:16

This, I know people love steam world

41:18

as a franchise and all the different kind of types

41:20

of games that it has. And it seems to just

41:22

keep doing them well. It being a sequel to heist,

41:24

which is one of the more popular ones. I think

41:26

that this is going to pay off. Like I think

41:29

that that's going to, going

41:31

to get him at least 15 points. Wow. And

41:33

then he's got never never ever. Well, a very

41:35

beautiful game. We're all excited about it. No way that's this

41:38

year though. Yeah, I don't think so. I mean,

41:40

he's got to take an educated guess. He's got to take a shot

41:42

at there and do it. Yeah, I don't think I agree with you.

41:45

I don't think it's this year, but I appreciate the hustle. And

41:47

then he's running out with dragon quest three HD 2d remake.

41:49

That's a good one. Yeah, that's a great one. I expect

41:51

that one to score pretty well as well when it comes

41:53

out in November. And that right now leaves them with

41:55

61 points. And he kind of picked Metro and prime

41:58

four and you know, that, that, Maybe

42:00

it's the zero actually maybe maybe Now

42:03

of course we could jump to me we could

42:06

well Let's talk about another loser behind me eating

42:08

my dust Barrett Courtney. What do you

42:10

got on your team loser? All

42:12

right, the fucking hostile way to start me

42:16

Popo he's unstoppable. I feel like you're being

42:19

more hostile to me because I do have

42:21

a chance. I'm actually quite scared of you

42:24

I'm sorry takes this the most years because he has

42:26

the eyes for these kind of games Well, he listens

42:28

to podcast, but I still think she knows Games

42:34

and skill up and all the in the

42:36

besties is cheating. It's cheap Oh, I

42:39

thought you're like saying it's cheating on us because we're the

42:41

only podcast you know what I mean? I don't know stuff.

42:43

I just feel like when you talk to more informed people

42:45

and they give better opinions. I like that All

42:48

right. Anyways right now. I'm currently at

42:50

71 points My

42:52

first round pick was a metaphor refantasia, which

42:54

I'm feeling fucking great about

42:56

was gonna crush I think that's gonna be a

42:59

20 point at least And

43:01

then my second round pick was persona 3 reload

43:03

which is in the high 80s, which honestly I'm

43:05

really happy about I was for a little bit

43:07

there. I was starting to think it was gonna

43:09

be like low 80s then

43:11

next we got rise of the Golden Idol, which is

43:15

The follow-up to I think the Curse

43:18

curse of the Golden Idol which people are

43:20

loved Yeah, like not a lot of people talked

43:22

about the but the people that did review

43:24

it fucking adored it and that first game Got

43:27

like an 88 or something

43:29

like that There's still no date

43:31

on rise of the Golden Idol, which I'm a little bit

43:33

nervous about But they said

43:35

like during sgf like they're still hitting this year

43:37

It had a demo during sgf that people are

43:39

really fucking high on so That's

43:42

a big question. Isn't the original coming the game pass? Yes.

43:44

Okay. Yeah, I'm very excited for that Yeah,

43:47

so and and that's why Roger I am kind

43:49

of worried for you and your locomotive pick because

43:51

it fries with Golden Idol Comes out like I

43:53

think that's gonna eat that games lunch Yeah in

43:55

terms of just mindshare and people maybe like comparing

43:58

it all I need is four reviewers to giving

44:00

an 88. You know what I mean? That's all

44:02

I need. I don't care about multiple of them.

44:04

Yeah. And then next up I had unicorn overlord.

44:06

I bet big on Atlas during our draft this

44:08

year. Great idea. That also got me into the

44:11

high eighties, which is why I'm super confident with

44:13

metaphor, not just because the SDF previews, but because

44:15

that's going to be their big game. And if

44:17

there are two other, like not

44:19

small games, but smaller releases compared to that

44:21

this year are in the high eighties, like

44:23

no way metaphor can, I will eat the,

44:25

I won't eat these words. Metaphor can't fail

44:27

this year. My last

44:30

pick before the counter pick was tails,

44:32

the Shire, Oh Lord of the rings

44:34

game. Rough. This

44:36

is a solid counter pick from Andy. I

44:38

think, I think this

44:40

loses me five points. I

44:43

think at most it gets five. Where

44:46

SGF previews really negative. I would, I

44:48

would guessing even wise, a lot of

44:50

shrugs, which to me says 70,

44:52

you'll get a 70, 71 off of that. Yeah. I

44:55

don't know. It's a really weird, like who's

44:57

going to be reviewing this? Is it going to

44:59

be cozy game people who love Lord of the

45:01

rings, but also Lord of the rings people who

45:03

maybe aren't in the cozy games. Like that's the,

45:06

it's a big question mark there. And that's definitely

45:08

like, it's the most

45:10

chaotic game. I think on this list that hasn't come

45:12

out this year that I'm a little bit worried about.

45:15

I don't think that game looks good. I

45:17

know it's not for me, but like I, there's something about, I'm

45:19

like, this looks pretty bad. Next

45:24

up we have Thrasher, which is the follow

45:26

up like spiritual successor from the team of

45:28

Thumper. That comes out

45:30

next month. That's wild dude. Which is crazy.

45:32

I'm super excited for that game. It's a

45:34

VR exclusive, I think first as well. I

45:39

totally didn't know about that part of it.

45:41

I think it's coming to other things later.

45:43

I think it's just starting out in VR.

45:46

And honestly that makes me even more

45:48

confident in the release because Greg, these

45:50

VR sickos, they have nothing to fucking

45:52

play. So when something even slightly interesting

45:54

comes to the platform, they're going to

45:56

be like, Oh my God, it's an

45:58

85. least. So

46:01

I'm feeling I'm feeling okay about Thrasher and then we

46:03

got Football Manager. Dude I'm so mad at you about

46:05

this one. So yeah we both bid on it and

46:07

you outbid me. Yeah this is one that I picked

46:10

up from the first year that I did

46:12

fantasy critic with Jonathan Dornbus. Football Manager

46:14

is a great guaranteed 10

46:16

to 15 points at the end of the

46:18

year because they always come out in December

46:20

and they're always like great releases and

46:23

so that was one where I was like if

46:25

I want like a boost in the arm at the end of

46:27

the year this is one to pick up. And they keep on

46:30

hyping this one up specifically. Like hey we're changing a

46:32

bunch of stuff we're making this better. Something

46:36

I bid five dollars for feeling great about

46:38

was good old Bellatro. Shout out to Giant

46:40

Bomb who were talking about the what

46:42

was that the demo that was out on Steam for like

46:45

a month and then eventually I was like all right I

46:47

just got to pick this up. The

46:49

way they were talking about I was like I

46:51

feel like what was the other card game that

46:53

popped off a couple years ago? Inscriptions. Yeah. The

46:55

way that like not in the same vein

46:58

obviously but there's something about Bellatro and how people

47:00

were talking about it. I was like this is

47:02

gonna be the indie hit card game. I'm glad

47:05

I picked that up. A more

47:07

passion pickup that definitely bit me in the

47:09

butt with Sandland. I was feeling really good

47:11

like that game looked really interesting. Obviously

47:14

the PS5 demo was like really bad.

47:16

Yeah. Which had come out. I played the

47:18

game like we got review codes and

47:20

I really enjoyed it but I definitely

47:22

understand like it only got four points

47:24

and that definitely bit me in the

47:26

butt there. Then I picked up.

47:29

So far your only game that has got double

47:31

digits which is crazy. Yeah and then I picked

47:33

up Nine Souls which was a good get there.

47:35

I was I've been really excited for Nine Souls.

47:37

That's the the 2d kind of like hand-drawn towel

47:43

punk game

47:45

that's like very 2d Sekiro. Great

47:47

style. Great soundtrack. All that stuff. That got me

47:50

in the 80s even though in my heart that

47:52

is a 90 plus game. And

47:55

then my most recent pickup because

47:57

I was outbid for Assassin's Creed shadows. I

47:59

was outbid for Astro bot forced me into

48:02

the pickup of Dragon Age, the veil guard.

48:04

Great. I'm going to be honest. I think

48:06

it's going to be a 15 plus. And

48:09

then my counter pick pennies, big

48:11

breakaway lost me seven points. But honestly, I think

48:13

that was best case scenario for being the last

48:15

person to counter pick. So, um,

48:17

I honestly think I've got, if rise of

48:19

the golden idol comes out this year, I'm

48:23

in the bag for at least another 50

48:25

points. I think buried is

48:27

the one I'm the most scared about. I think

48:29

he's got a really great lineup. I think metaphor

48:31

is going to play really well. I think you

48:33

look at football manager, like he's talking about in

48:35

the Dragon Age. I think you put those out

48:37

there, you have a lot going on. So if

48:39

you can get just the five, the whatever off

48:41

thrasher, like he's, he's a

48:43

scary competitor. I think he's going to get

48:45

more than the first thrasher for sure. Yeah.

48:48

And currently I only have $5 left and even

48:50

Mike, even if you drop anything, you have $1.

48:54

$1. I'm just going to dream. Two bucks, seven bucks. Productions.

48:58

Remember, don't worry about it. Hey, that's what the rock

49:00

didn't look at him. Now. Yep. He's a winner. Yeah.

49:02

Watch the young rock. I gotta watch

49:05

the young rock. Now I'm excited. Anyways

49:07

back to me last year's champion, you're

49:09

reigning fantasy critic champion Ecto one games

49:11

goes like this. My first picked up

49:13

pick of course was final fantasy seven

49:15

rebirth. He got a 93 getting me

49:18

25 points. Just fucking crushing out there.

49:20

I've been thinking about that

49:22

game a lot recently. Yeah. Oh killer.

49:24

I thought about starting at the other day.

49:26

Played more Diablo paper, Mario, the thousand year

49:28

door, the remake there got me 18 points

49:30

with an 88 Alan wake

49:32

two nights. Spring's got me 13. Wow.

49:35

Yeah. I can expect more. I was, I was hoping for

49:37

more when I put it on there. And then when we

49:39

all played, I was like, Oh shit, this is actually backfire

49:41

on me 13. I'm happy. I'm happy to

49:43

get away with my reaction. When you got that one, I was

49:45

like, Oh, I was surprised you didn't do the second DLC. I

49:47

mean, I know that can always go to 20, 25. Yeah. That

49:49

was my thought. Yeah. The whole thing with me was, yeah, we

49:51

were coming in hot. Obviously the start of the year off of

49:53

Alan wake. I wanted something that was dropping this year. So I

49:56

went with the first one for it up next

49:58

is visions of manna, which I believe is next. month

50:00

is that right it's it's up two months two

50:02

months August no no we're at the end of

50:04

yeah exactly I am expecting good points off

50:07

of that one that one looks good I want to actually play

50:09

it which is you know not usual for me then

50:12

I had like a dragon infinite wealth 20

50:14

points a little bit a little bit of

50:16

question marks there just if we rewind the

50:18

tape Roger you know this was I didn't

50:22

want to bring it up you know what

50:24

I mean but like this was Greg's last

50:26

selection a lot of people in the chat

50:28

were like why haven't they selected like a

50:30

dragon maybe Mike and Roger were currently reviewing

50:32

the game and we didn't we weren't allowed

50:34

to pick it up that's not what happened

50:36

we had a hundred percent happening that we

50:38

were reviewing it now he had weeks of

50:40

knowing that that was good and he

50:42

picked it the last pick that is

50:45

how reality states that's not what I

50:47

want everyone oh that's that's correct what

50:49

I will say is that remember we had a

50:52

conversation about this we were put we're playing persona we

50:54

were playing Tekken and we were playing like a dragon

50:56

and the question was should we not be able to

50:58

to draft these or not yeah my heart I was

51:00

like we shouldn't be able to draft these but then

51:02

we had the conversation of like this these are known

51:04

quantities we were gonna draft these no matter what right

51:06

I didn't feel comfortable doing Yakuza so then I

51:08

let that one slide I remember and

51:11

I misremember this so maybe I just I

51:13

miss heard something or whatever I thought that

51:15

we weren't gonna draft games that we were

51:17

reviewing correct so that was the rule so

51:19

when Barrett drafted persona I was like

51:21

oh shit maybe that conversation was the

51:24

latest conversation I got before the draft

51:26

was does your personal feeling on the

51:28

game is that giving

51:30

you really an insight on how the rest of the

51:32

industry is gonna review it because even when I drafted

51:35

persona that was more of a personal pick and like

51:37

I got it like that this is

51:39

gonna get me hell of points because even at the time of

51:41

drafting it I was in the throes of like is

51:44

there enough here that people

51:46

are really gonna clamor on to this

51:48

like they do a persona 5 so yes the conversation

51:50

we had as a team that Mike was a part

51:52

of yeah I was no matter like he wasn't here

51:54

no no I the rule was if you are reviewing

51:57

the game you are not allowed to draft what do

51:59

you want to talk You know what I mean?

52:01

Why are you going to talk filibuster and Greg

52:03

chose that because he wasn't reviewing it. But you

52:05

know, I'm just letting the world know. He knew

52:07

it was good. So what had happened remember is

52:09

we had to do this late because of how

52:11

the games cast all shook out coming back from

52:13

game of the year. So the conversation about the

52:15

three games you just mentioned were those

52:17

are up for grabs. You can pick those because

52:19

we would have picked those anyway. And also none

52:22

of them were shocking and none of them were

52:24

like, these are going to be 100s, 10 out of

52:26

10. It's like, Oh my God. I mean, it was

52:28

like, we knew we would have picked these and you

52:30

also know that there's going to be better games than

52:32

this year. Then the rule was yes, that from here on

52:34

out, you cannot pick a game base that we have

52:36

in the office that we're playing and reviewing and doing

52:38

the whole thing for after. So it could have been

52:40

like, I'm playing whatever

52:43

tiny titties, big adventure too. And I'm like, yo, this

52:45

is no one's hurt. I'm in the 10 out of

52:47

dad. You know, the rule is as soon as we

52:49

get codes, it's it's all exactly exactly. But Mike's trying

52:51

to of course get out here. I'm getting ahead of

52:54

it. But he makes this, I know he's out

52:57

of the chat. I'm just letting you know

52:59

what happened. I mean, you're already causing device

53:01

in this in the chat. Mike is my

53:03

champion. Thank you. Fucking fucking Mike. But it

53:05

was a great selection. Greg, I will give

53:07

you that great selection. Tim, bury the needle.

53:10

Huh? Bury the needle. Send it

53:12

to train. Astrobot. No, not a chance. Come on.

53:14

Why can't you be evil

53:18

once in a while? No, no. No, no. Hey Greg, you

53:21

heard of locomotives. Anyways

53:28

back to my team. All right. After

53:30

that, I picked up a bunch of star. No,

53:32

we're still in draft one, two Diablo four was

53:35

my final draft pick. I picked up vessel of hatred, which

53:38

of great selection was just Diablo four. I'm expecting

53:40

big numbers off of that based on the fact

53:42

that as I'm sure you've seen, or at least

53:44

heard the scuttle, but that this season season four

53:46

has been so great. Everyone's like, Oh, this is

53:48

how the game should launch. Giddy yada. We love

53:50

this thing. I would assume that by the time

53:53

we get to vessel of hatred, you're going to

53:55

have so many reviewers and people coming back for

53:57

the first time in really investing hours in that

53:59

all the things they. they've done throughout the by

54:02

the time they get there year and a couple months, that'll be

54:04

a big holy shit. This game is even better or whatever. As

54:06

long as they don't fuck this up, but the new character seems

54:08

neat and they have a much they have pets now and obviously

54:10

I think there'll be a lot of shit in there for people

54:12

really to like and I'm looking for good numbers off that then

54:15

another crabs treasure. I picked this one up. I

54:17

only got me eight points and it's back to

54:19

what I'm talking about. If you see these indies,

54:21

you're like man that seems a cool thing we

54:24

played it and like we liked

54:26

another cap treasure. We you know the reviews up like

54:28

it's a positive review, but it is a thing of

54:30

like I had expected that to get

54:32

higher. I thought that was going to do a lot better

54:34

with its humor, especially because I like going under so much.

54:36

I thought, you know, learning on that I'm surprised it didn't

54:38

resonate more with critics, especially with how much people like souls

54:40

likes then shockingly, which is

54:42

outrageous to me banishers ghosts of new

54:45

Eden got me 10 points. I

54:47

would definitely think at least flip it where another crabs

54:49

get me 10 and this gets me. I played banishers.

54:51

I didn't get a glowing review. I liked my time

54:54

enough with it, but I didn't like it this

54:56

way, but whatever. Then WWE 2K 24

55:00

got me 10 points again. I knew that's

55:02

a known quantity to a degree where I

55:04

was like the 2K games keep

55:06

getting better than this one coming in. I was

55:08

like, well, this one should everything I'm

55:10

seeing whatever I hoped it was going to

55:12

go more than this, but I'll take it

55:15

whatever for 10 points off it another shocker

55:17

for me crip master 76 giving me just

55:19

six points. I thought you know, this is

55:21

getting IDGA awards. This is a

55:23

game I played and loved so much that was

55:25

really, really cool and unique and different. I would

55:27

have said 80 no problem

55:29

10 points on this. So six is pretty shocking

55:31

to me for that to be only 10 critics

55:33

reviews. That's the problem. Yeah. And

55:36

then my final pick and this runs out

55:38

my entire 10 group here is EA college

55:40

or you sports college football 25. What do

55:42

you think? Here's

55:45

points. Huh? Five points

55:47

is my guess. No way. No way more

55:49

than that. No way. I appreciate that and

55:51

respect that no way. Like this is like

55:55

everything they have done and talked about for this

55:57

game, which is imminent, right? Two weeks away, me

55:59

and my I can't wait, is answering

56:02

what a college football fan has wanted for

56:04

11 years. Like I think

56:06

if it was another Madden, it was annualized, and

56:08

again, when this does become annualized every year after

56:10

this, I think you'll see numbers go to the

56:13

2K, 80s, high

56:15

70s, whatever. I think for first one out of here, I'm

56:17

hoping for 85 on this one. And I

56:19

think it's like, because again, like the

56:22

minutia of nerdy shit they're doing in here for

56:24

fans like us, and again, think about it this

56:26

way too, of like first

56:28

college football game in this era, let

56:31

alone even the last generation, right? Where

56:33

it's like, the things they're

56:35

talking are things you'd expect, but like they're so

56:37

fucking cool to see of like in your dynasty,

56:39

if you move your team out of the conference,

56:42

the conference patches on the uniforms are gonna change.

56:44

Like that level of minutia is what they're calling

56:46

out and creating your coach and doing your thing

56:48

and this, that, the other, and like, it's, you

56:50

know, I've seen- I do respect all

56:53

of that, but how much does that hit with

56:55

the audience of reviewers who might not be in

56:57

the nitty gritty like you and Mike? Like this

56:59

is- I don't think, I mean, I don't think

57:01

I, I'll stop you right

57:03

there. Like I think if you're reviewing this at

57:05

IGN or GameSpot or whatever, they're going and finding the

57:08

NCAA football fan. I don't think it's just gonna be,

57:10

I think the days of when I reviewed fucking UFC,

57:12

whatever the hell I reviewed, I'm like, I don't know

57:14

what I'm doing. I think that's long gone. I think

57:16

it's gotta be, you go in here. And I also

57:18

think EA is doing a great job right now of

57:20

drowning, just here's all the

57:22

information. They're putting up these things every day, blog posts

57:25

that are just like, fucking, here's a laundry list of

57:27

things we've done for this game. And so I just

57:29

think that like, you're gonna come out and it's gonna

57:31

be, you should throw up Madden, but I think this

57:33

is night and day in terms of like, what they're

57:35

trying to do here, what they're trying to capture. I'm

57:39

right there with Greg. I think this will, I think this will

57:41

get in the A&E here. I think this is a solid pick.

57:44

I think the only issue for Greg's

57:46

team that I see is just like, yeah, you

57:48

have only a couple left. I have three left.

57:50

When you look at me and Barrett, we have

57:52

these openings that will hopefully give us those boots

57:54

to get us closer to you. But you've established

57:56

a solid base. I think my counter picks were

57:58

placed by the way. Yeah, which we don't expect

58:00

to see this year. Exactly. And you could get lucky on that one

58:02

is right. But like your

58:05

small mistakes, like another crabs treasure and crit master

58:07

might be the ones to come back and bite

58:09

you. If Barrett all of a sudden starts dropping

58:11

20s and 15s, then

58:13

you have a big problem here. But you

58:15

know, relying on EA Sports College football, Diablo

58:18

4 and vision the manna, if you say that

58:20

out loud, you're like, oh, that's probably not where

58:23

you want to be at first place. And like

58:25

hoping for those. But vision the manna and Diablo

58:27

should score very well. And then you hope for

58:29

college football. You have set yourself up to probably

58:31

look down upon all of us at the first

58:33

spot still. We'll see. We'll see. I think it's

58:35

going to Barrett. We got some super

58:37

chats that I want to get to here. Sachin writes

58:40

in and says, very surprised Fong Fessy 7 Rebert scored

58:42

that high because I expected it to be very divisive,

58:44

especially regarding the story, to be honest. I love the

58:46

game personally. Yeah, it was

58:48

with fans. But I think critics, yeah,

58:50

it was pretty unanimous. So it's interesting.

58:52

Yeah. Yeah. Jake

58:55

just super chats in with nothing to say, but we

58:57

appreciate you. You owe me

58:59

Mara writes in saying, Skillip just had a

59:02

lengthy, pretty glowing preview of the plucky Squire

59:04

go up. So don't be too pessimistic, Mike.

59:06

Yes. I love that. But

59:08

here's why wouldn't they show it off in like

59:10

a more expansive space in SDF?

59:12

That's so weird. They're cooking. They're

59:14

cooking. And then

59:16

this is completely unrelated. But you'll call me.

59:18

Rob says, hey, guys, you got any picks

59:20

for Mr. And Mrs. Money in the bank?

59:22

McIntyre, Tiffy Tom, baby. Oh,

59:25

Tiffy Tom. Baby,

59:27

let's fucking go. Here's my thing. Center of the

59:29

universe. McIntyre, you sold me on a pitch for

59:31

McIntyre. I believe you, Roger. I love that. The

59:35

women's Money in the bank. Chelsea,

59:37

baby. I wish. I think it's Chelsea. I

59:39

think they go for the meme pick. And

59:41

I love the meme of her cashing in

59:44

on the diva. It's so funny. It's

59:46

amazing. It's so fucking funny. But if you can

59:49

call it, are they actually going to run it

59:51

down that way? I think it's between the two

59:53

of them, Tiffy and Chelsea. But I feel like

59:55

this is Chelsea. Giving her that gets another

59:58

character, another storyline. I

1:06:00

also got like second last year and he's

1:06:02

randomized fucking picks. It's like okay bullshit randomized.

1:06:04

Let's just fucking put me on there. What

1:06:06

are you talking about? Commissioner. If we're talking about 2025.

1:06:11

Yeah. Over on the kind of funny subreddit, Callie

1:06:13

greens wrote in and said I saw the schedule for this week

1:06:15

and it looks like they're finally going to check in on a

1:06:17

fantasy critic, which is something I've been looking forward to. I

1:06:20

just want to suggest that they use some time

1:06:22

in the episode doing early look at 2025 and

1:06:24

talk about which games they already expect to be

1:06:26

top picks for next year. Do you

1:06:28

nail that GTA right? Unless, unless

1:06:31

you worry about it coming out. That's always the question. That

1:06:33

is, that is a concern, but I also think that it

1:06:35

is likely to come out next year. You'd be foolish not

1:06:37

to grab it. Yeah. I agree. 100%. Yeah. I mean, Mario

1:06:41

anything. Yeah.

1:06:43

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anything

1:06:46

Nintendo. Yeah. I would say

1:06:49

Civ seven. Civ seven is going to be up there

1:06:51

for sure. That got 89 on open critic for civ

1:06:53

six. So you think you got to grab ahold of

1:06:55

that one for sure. We need to see more Metroid.

1:06:58

Oh, but little Nintendo

1:07:00

sickos, they're going to be excited. Here's the

1:07:03

question. Again, this is probably more for

1:07:05

blessing. If Hades two doesn't go

1:07:07

into 1.0 this year, but

1:07:09

does next year, can we pick up

1:07:11

Hades two again? Yeah. Yeah. Because we don't,

1:07:14

we review it again. We review. Yeah. Yeah.

1:07:16

Exactly. Our, our list just, you know, resets

1:07:18

or whatever. Interesting. Also, do we think

1:07:20

Hollow Knight's coming out next year? Exactly.

1:07:23

I'm just saying, just give me second place. Just get, let

1:07:25

me choose. Let me get second. Let me get to you

1:07:27

guys. It'll be random. Just think about it. Think

1:07:30

about it. Think about it. Think about it. Yeah.

1:07:32

I mean the, the, the switch to lineup, whatever that looks like.

1:07:34

I feel like it's going to have high

1:07:36

hitting reviews monster hunter wilds. Oh,

1:07:39

that's a big pick. Doom. Great

1:07:42

one. Yeah. That'll be hot. That'll be a

1:07:44

good pick right there. I like that. Stable

1:07:48

tables. I must have Danny over here. Big question

1:07:50

mark for me in 2025 is Judas. I could

1:07:52

see it going either way. Yeah,

1:07:54

I would never. Yeah. I don't know when you're going to

1:07:56

see that game and especially in that weird, like What

1:08:00

was it? The friends per second podcast got

1:08:02

to do like that weird preview, but it

1:08:04

was so early. They didn't even want to

1:08:06

call it a preview. Yeah. Like that game

1:08:08

just seems so early. Jumping off the game

1:08:10

and forward list. You got things to call

1:08:12

out like Death Stranding two fable. Yeah.

1:08:16

Donkey Kong country returns HD. I

1:08:19

can't wait for that game. Ten points. Can you really

1:08:21

not wait for that game? Honestly? Yeah. Wow. Okay. It's

1:08:23

awesome. It's, it's not the best Donkey Kong game. It's

1:08:26

really good. Yeah. How about this a Marvel 1943 rise

1:08:28

of Hydra? No, no. Early.

1:08:32

I think I don't believe that's a video game. No,

1:08:34

I don't either. I just don't. It just looks like

1:08:36

the captain America black panther one titled. Yeah. Yes. That's

1:08:38

what this is. Yeah. Yeah. And you don't believe that's

1:08:40

a video game. I don't, it looks like, was it

1:08:42

not, is it going deep or deep down? Who was

1:08:44

the fucking capcom game from PS the PS four launch

1:08:46

or whatever? It just looks like a fake game. And

1:08:48

I knew that it's like, that's kind of the point,

1:08:50

right? That's the whole point of it. But like it,

1:08:52

it looks like such a fake game that I just,

1:08:54

I literally don't believe it. Yeah, totally. And

1:08:58

I felt that way about other games like death stranding and

1:09:00

they ended up coming out. So that's running too. Yeah. Yeah.

1:09:03

I might pick that one. There's a lot of games here

1:09:05

for next year that I'm feeling pretty good about that little

1:09:07

devil inside out of that one. There's

1:09:12

just so much unknown for next year that

1:09:15

it's like, it's hard to like really get

1:09:17

a grasp on like early projections, early predictions

1:09:19

on like, we're going to be the hot

1:09:21

pickups, you know? Yeah. I mean,

1:09:23

it's GTA, right? First big guarantee. Yeah. Whoever's on

1:09:25

the board will pick that. No matter what. Yeah.

1:09:27

You ask KO. Oh, that's a great one. That's

1:09:29

a really great one. You know, bless. I'm going

1:09:31

to choose that one when he goes first selection

1:09:33

right there. Yeah. Well,

1:09:36

everyone, let us know in the comments below what 2025 games you think

1:09:39

are going to be the big winners. Are

1:09:41

there any fun surprises that you can drop

1:09:43

in the chat so that bear can read

1:09:45

it so we can fucking cheat. How did

1:09:47

I cheat? I listened to podcast. Sorry.

1:09:52

Anyways, I love you all. Thank you for hanging out with us. I'm

1:09:54

going to secure that number three and I'm going to do it for

1:09:56

you. I'm going to do it for you. Thanks. Do it for

1:09:58

me.