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As teased by a teaser trailer earlier this week, Sam. We got a trailer? Yeah, I saw that trailer. There was a teaser trailer for you. It was good. I saw it on Facebook. So that'll be coming up. And then I've read a really weird headline this week that I have to share with the class. And we've got some good listener mail. But first, on Sam's recommendation, I've been playing Dispatch. And it's great. Yeah, how many episodes are you in? Three. There's eight episodes. No, I don't mean stop playing personally. I'm just saying you've gotten a good taste for it by now. Yeah. I've been doing like one a night. They last about an hour. And this wasn't really on my radar. Mark, Justin, have either of you checked this out? Yeah. I started playing it over break and then was out of town and stuff. But I'm excited to pick it up and finish it. Yeah. I'll talk about it a little bit because, like I said, this was kind of a blind spot for me. But it's from AdHoc Studios, which is former Telltale devs. So it's a very interesting game. Very Telltale type game. You know, adventure. You watch a lot of it, but that's fine. It's really high quality. It's made with, you know, critical roles involved somehow. I don't know what they're. Somehow. But it feels. I watched their show, The Legend of Vox Machina, the animated show, which is like a comedy D&D type show. And very similar type of comedy here. But it's really good. It's like really well written. It's fun. The premise is our main character, who's played by Aaron Paul. Oh yeah, it's a World War Superhero. So it's kind of like Invincible or The Boys. Superheroes exist, and they're employed by companies. Aaron Paul is the main guy. He's a superhero, but he doesn't have any super powers. He just has a giant mech suit. But his mech suit gets destroyed, so he can't superhero anymore. So he goes to work as a dispatch at the company that, like, you know, sends the superheroes out to fight crimes. First of all, I don't know if you agree, Sam, it's just nice to hang out with Aaron Paul again. A hundred percent. He's such a welcoming, great voice. And a little bit, well, a very different character, but just still, like, has this kind of cleverness to him, and a friendliness which is interesting when he's even being a dick. I just think he's really attractive as a personality in this game. It's great. I mean, Aaron Paul's got a great voice. And you can tell he's taking it very seriously. He's done other animation work, like Bojack Horseman. He's great. And then also, Jeffrey Wright is in it. As a completely different character. Just like, yeah, a completely different character from anything you've ever seen him in. He's great. He plays a superhero, like a speedster, who all the years that he was, like, running around fast, he didn't realize it was also, like, accelerating his lifespan. So he's only in his thirties, but he's an old man. And he's great. He's hilarious. And it becomes a point of a lot of jokes. And it's really good. Yeah, it's super good. So, it's episodic, just like, you know, The Walking Dead or the old Telltale Games were. And you watch a lot, you know, you make dialogue choices, and then, you know, so-and-so will remember that. You don't move around, so it's different than Walking Dead that way. You're never controlling. You don't actually walk around. And it's a good thing. Yeah. It's less video game-y. I mean, you know, whereas Walking Dead was, like, you know, a video game that was sort of like a television show, this is a lot more of, like, an interactive television show, I would say. The video game elements definitely take the backseat. Which, again, I would say is a good thing. Treat it more like a season of television. If this were just a season of television, it would still be good. If it weren't a game at all. I completely agree. In fact, I think it's a better take on this than Boy. Oh, is it? I love Boys. I love the spin-off. I love Gen B. I love everything about it. But I think this universe, even in this little, like, dabbling in it and how they handle it, it's just, it's better acted, it's more interesting, and it has a bigger heart in the right places, and it still has the gross stuff and all that stuff, too. I had, like, never even heard of it, and then one of my co-workers was like, "Are you guys gonna do the Dispatch finale tomorrow?" And I was, like, he was just talking about it like it was a TV show. I was so confused. Well, I'm a little confused, too. I mean, obviously, this blows power past you in trailers and stuff because it doesn't look like a game, right? That's a problem for it. But it's, it was, I did see the buzz at the time. Like, I was not, I was aware of it once it came out, but I did not, I was not aware of it until it came out. Yeah. Well, and also the decision to release it episodically. Like, these episodes were so clearly done. You know, they could've just released it as one thing and they chose to cut, 'cause, like, what, the episodes came out either weekly or biweekly, like, very, very quickly. Like, they were coming out with episode after episode. And so, I think that that was smart. Like, unlike Telltale, where, like, those came out once a month and it's, like, they were making it as they went. Like, okay, we need to go, like, finish the next episode now. It's like South Park style. Yeah, but this is, this is clearly not that, right? This was, this was their choice to make it more television-like by being like, come back in a week or two for the next chapter. So then it has this overlay to it. So it has this extremely high-quality dramatic action superhero show that you watch and you choose consequences, and the consequences matter. There's two romantic interests, and, like, that really matters in it. I have chose, uh, of course, chose the, uh, famous, uh, beautiful blonde woman, which would be no surprise. And, uh, I, uh, I, um, uh, there's another character who's, like, a, uh, a villain that's become a good, a good hero that is the other romantic interest. So then, but there's an overlay which is kind of a little bit of a real-time strategy game, where you're sending your dispatchees out to things, and it doesn't make sense because, um, it's not intuitive. And then once it is intuitive by the end of the game, like, I really liked it enough that I would play more of it. Like, it was really fun, and I got really good only by the last chapter. I was getting, like, totally, like, bad ranks because I was kind of having fun, like, screwing up. Because it doesn't matter. The story's gonna progress anyway. And, um, I don't know. It was, like, low stakes and really funny and cool, and basically, yeah, you have to decide what your heroes, who all have stats, they may be a talker, they may be a, you know, a good protector, they may be really fast, yeah, and then you just read the description. It's like a cat stuck in a tree. And it's like, well, who's gonna be best for that? And there may be a little hint, like, you know, the owner is freaking out. And, like, you can talk to the owner about it, right? It's a talky person. But it might be, like, the cat turns out to be, I think this is a real instance, like, the cat's actually a tiger. It's like, what are you doing? It's like, punch the shit out of it. If you sent a fighter, that might actually work. But if not, you're gonna get attacked and your fighter's gonna get knocked out. It's smart. Yeah. Yeah, that's the, there is an actual dispatch game, sort of, like, in the middle of each episode surrounded by the story that you watch. And like Sam said, It takes a couple episodes to get the hang of the game, but I think once you realize it, it's clever. It's clever, it's fun, it's kind of a real-time strategy sort of exercise. It's good. Yeah, I think I remember reading, I think it's been a big hit. I think it's been a big success, so it bodes well that hopefully. Yeah, sorry it's late to Scoop Nation, but better late than never, and I really think people that listen to this show will find a lot to connect with with this game specifically. It's a good Scoop game, a real Scoop gem. Yeah, like I said, it was from Ad Hoc. It's their first release as Ad Hoc, but Ad Hoc was formed in 2018, so it took them a long time. They're also ostensibly working on The Wolf Among Us 2. So, I don't know, it's taking a long time. Maybe this is a reason why Wolf Among Us 2 is taking so long. I don't know. Yeah, or that this took precedence. Where is Torrance, California, where it takes place? It is my next-door neighbor, where I live in Redondo Beach. It's the next. City over. Oh, wow. That's so crazy. That's another point. Yeah, so it feels. I'm like, you know, solving crimes in my own backyard in this game. It's great. Is it. So, they go to a bar called Sardine, which is like a. That's an actual venue I've played and been to, but I don't think it's the same thing. Have you got to the episode yet? I don't think so. Because that's like not in Torrance. And it's. Yeah, it's confusing. Anyway, I can't tell if it's real locations or not. Torrance. Torrance has all the best Asian food in the South Bay. Nice. Anyway, that's Dispatch. I'm enjoying that. Anyone else playing anything they want to shout out? I mean, I think Mark and I are both playing Hightail. Yeah, yeah. Which one is that? Is that the one that, like, is blown up and. That's the Minecraft one. The Minecraft clone. Okay. It's cool. One of the first lines in our review is that it's just Minecraft 2, and that is 100% correct. Yeah. Like, content-wise, it is far below Minecraft, obviously, because Minecraft has had so long to, like, add stuff. And this is extremely early access. It's only the survival mode. You'll go into certain places, and it'll just be like, this is a work in progress. You can't do this yet. Yeah, it doesn't, like. Didn't launch with Adventure. This game's whole main way it's going to differentiate itself from Minecraft is that it's a lot more sort of progression-oriented and RPG-oriented and is going to have dungeons and stuff for you to go out in the world to do. That's its whole thing. And none of that's in the game yet. Like, any time you're in the world, and I think our review in progress talks about this, you'll find, like, an entrance to a dungeon, or you'll find, like, you know, some cool ruin, and it literally has, like, an under-construction sign that says, like, work in progress on it, and you just can't go in. You can farm animals. They don't do anything yet. You can ride a horse, but when you get off, it just runs away. I'm really loving it. Like, the game is really polished. It's really good. It's really impressive. It has. I actually like the build. I like the building more than I like the building in Minecraft, so it's kind of unbelievable that, like, it almost embarrasses Mojang and Minecraft in some ways, where, like, animations feel smoother, and the building feels a little bit more robust, and there's small quality-of-life features. I don't know if you saw this, Mark, but, like, if you're in a crafting table trying to build this, that, or the other, it'll automatically pull things. The crafting table will have access to and see things that are in nearby storage chests. And, like, people have been asking for that in Minecraft for literally a decade, and, like, this game that's been in early access for one day just did it. So, like. But it's not really much of a. It's, like, it's extremely early access. Like, there's just not kind of much to it yet from a gameplay perspective. Even though it's been developing for, like, eight years or something. Yeah, like ten years. It's, like. Yeah. It's a crazy story. I watched the whole story, and it's, like. It's not in development for eight years. It was just announced eight years ago and went through a little bit of a limbo. Well, and they. Like, this developer. It's a crazy story. Like, the very short version is that they were acquired by Riot. So, like, the League of Legends developer and publisher bought the developer. They owned them and funded the game for years and years and years, and then it was stuck in, like, development hell, and they were, like, redoing the engine from scratch. And then eventually Riot said, nah, we're done. Like, we're canceling the game. We're shutting it down. And that was last year. And the original developer brought it back, and then six months later is just able to release it? Yeah, yeah. Like, it seems crazy to me. Like, why. Somebody should do that with Half-Life 3. Yeah. Yeah. And so, I mean, there's all kinds of little details. Like, just. There's more decorations and, like, bits and bobs, like, sort of in the dungeons and around, you know, that you can place in your house. Like, I really like it, but I played it for two or three evenings. I mean, since it came out. So, yeah, this is, like, two evenings I've played it. And I feel like I've kind of seen. I'm like, okay, like, well, I'll come back in a year when there's more game. Like, there's kind of not too much more for me to do. Yeah. Gameplay-wise, it feels very, like, very updated. The combat is actually fun. You can jump much higher. You vault if, you know, like, you, like, a ledge grab. You can mantle up on things. And stuff like that. Yeah. It seems to have numbers when you attack. Yeah. Yeah. Always a good sign. Justin mentioned with the storage, it's got the beautiful thing that I've only ever. I'm sure it's in other games, but I've only ever seen it in VRite. It's amazing where it's, like, the add stacks feature where you just, like, open a storage container and you click a button and everything that is in your inventory automatically gets added if there's already stuff in there so you don't have to, like, sort through. It just makes everything faster. Well, Minecraft is kind of in that World of Warcraft slump, right? Where it's, like, it can't really change because people are just so used to how it is and it runs on everything. So this feels like an actual, like, update to Minecraft. I was totally impressed. I liked it more than I thought I would, but there's just not much content yet. And so for me, it's really going to be, like, you know, how quickly. Like, are we waiting months for them to be like, oh, we added new mobs and we, you know, improved the farming or are they going to be able to get updates out quickly? Like, that's going to determine how much time I spend in it. But so far, so good. Great. Their numbers are huge. So they have, like, this, like, huge player base and a bunch of streamers playing it, which must make every single company on Earth be like, should we have just made a Minecraft clone? What are we doing? Yeah. This is allowed? We can just do this? I've heard, and again, a lot of this isn't in the game yet, but I've heard that this is Terraria, but Minecraft. Where, like, Terraria has, like, 30-some bosses in it and it's a lot more adventure-oriented and RPG-oriented, but it's a 2D game, right? Whereas this is trying to be that, but in a 3D sort of voxel engine. I mean, that sounds super cool. Yeah. I mean, I hope it delivers on that. I like it. My only, like, thing, and this is purely as a video guides maker for IGN, this is a very unique problem, is that I was, like, excited to cover this game and then there's just, like, not a whole lot to it. And my fear is that the release was bungled a little and that by the time they add adventure mode, it's going to be really tough to get people to come back. And I'm sure that's something they thought about. But my guess is because their first, like, thing was, like, this, you know, releasing the game funded the next two years of, of development, it kind of makes me think that because they went indie, they're like, we have to release something because we need cash flow to be able to do the rest of the stuff. That's the attitude I have as well. And that's why I'm going to keep an eye on it. And it's like, you know, it's January 15th. It's like, hey, the first week in February, they're like, we added a dungeon. And then in March, they added a new enemy. And then they add a boss. Like, if they're able to get that stuff out at a good clip, then this will be big. But if they can't, then I think, I agree, interest is going to kind of fade. Remember Telltale's Minecraft story? Story mode? I did. I reviewed it. No way. Yeah. That was one of the last games I reviewed for IGN. Wow. Yeah. I don't know. Look at the work in progress. I don't know the answer to this. Justin, maybe you do. But, like, how are they allowed to do this? Like, it's just Minecraft. They're selling it. I mean, there's been games that were closer copies. Like, it's, it's, I mean, it is just Minecraft. But, like, you know, the farming works different. The crafting works differently. The building works a little bit different. Like, you know, the furnaces work a little bit different. Like, so, I don't think, I mean, there's been closer copies. But yesterday I got stuck in a cave and I couldn't find my way out. So what I did was I chopped above me and then jumped and built under me. Yeah. Just like I did in Minecraft. And it's like, I don't know. I'm like, huh. I don't know. I mean, I think that these games are as close as, like, Battlefield and Call of Duty are. I was just going to say, you know, we can do this. We could be talking about Minecraft. And if you put this footage up, I would think it's Minecraft. We could be talking about Call of Duty. But if you put up Battlefield 6, I wouldn't know the difference. I mean, but you, but Damon, you don't play either of those games. Like, this, this, like, like, look, it's like Minecraft in the sense that it's a blocky 3D world. But the art styles are different, I would say. Like, this is, this is higher res and has a higher level of detail. Exactly. It does look a little bit better than Minecraft does, to my eye. Yeah. When, when, like, because I, there was, like, rain falling and it's not, it's cute in Minecraft. So I'm not. Oh, yeah. But instead of, like, the little, like, kind of, you know, blocky raindrops hitting the ground. Like, it actually just looks like rain going in the grass type of deal. It's like Minecraft 64. Man. I think Minecraft is Minecraft 64. Yeah. This is Minecraft PS3. Until you go back and play Nintendo 64 games. And then you realize how far off it is. Sam, anything you've been playing? Yeah. I also finished Keeper. Oh, yeah. Which was. Fine. But yeah, yeah. And I yeah. I mean, that game is unbelievable looking. It's very, very slow and puts me to sleep, but it's ended up being like a interesting, you know, kind of like Fraggle Rock type world that you walk through and a bunch of crazy stuff happens on it. It is interesting. What I like about it is it means that Double Fine can make a bunch of little dinky tiny games and every once in a while, one will be amazing, which is what they should be doing. Yeah. Someone mentioned stacking recently. That was like the nesting doll game, right? Like that was great. Yeah. And didn't they have like a mech game where they had to change the name? Like Iron Assault or something? Oh, yeah. It was the next game, but then they had to like. They did Costume Quest. They rebranded it. Yeah. Yeah, something like that. I was trying to think of what the name of that game was. I don't remember that game. Iron Brigade. I don't know. Does this game have puzzles or is it just like things to interact with? 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So I'll try to get this episode published as quickly as possible. So Scoop Nation knows about this. Okay. I mean, at least this one looks like a real video game. It kind of does. It kind of has that, like, what are the, you know, like, power wash sim kind of graphics where it's like. Kind of ultra realistic, but. House Flipper. Yeah, House Flipper was the one I was trying to think of. They could. It does look like that. They could rebrand this as Trad Wife Simulator. It looks like Trad Wife. Like the cover just is already. If you take that idea. I want some of those profits. She's in the kitchen. I've said this before. When we look at these games, you know, I would think if you want to make video games, it's. Because you like video games already and you've played great games. Like you have to know that what you're making is not a great game. But also why you don't want your whatever your game is. You don't want to have cool original artwork. No, just slop it up and chat GPT. That's fine. Throw that up there. Just slop it up. Slop it up. Slop the stakes. We're going. We're going slopping, boys. They can't stop us from ordering a steak and water. That's what it is. Okay. That fridge looks rough. That was great. All the. Cooked food in the fridge. Oh, my God. This is already cooked. It's the best fridge ever. Yeah. All right. So that was Trad Life Simulator. The meat is just out. There's so much cross-contamination happening in this one picture. She's not a very good mom. I'm just going to say it. Sorry. Okay. We all like AAA video games. Scoop Nation loves AAA video games. Isn't it so annoying that you have to buy AAA video games? Individually? Well, good news. It's so annoying. The AAA games ultimate collection is now available. Finally, every day. You can just once with one simple purchase, you get all the AAA games. It's the ultimate collection. You know, games like World of Solitaire, Nights and Guns, Trash Punk, Pixel Cafe, Train Traffic Manager. They're all here together. I love Trash Punk. I. I. I suspect that they don't even know that that's an industry term that AAA games and that they're just trying to get to the head of the alphabetic list. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Either that plumbing company or it's a games because they're saying open up. We're going to shovel it down. Eat your slop. Say, ah, okay. Okay. I'm going to say something controversial. Oh, here we go. These don't look that bad. No, I don't be honest with you. Okay. One of them looked exactly the same. I don't think so. I don't think so. like nuclear throne uh or bro force i think that was trash punk name like the yeah i mean these honestly don't look that bad look at those animations i mean so basically one of these games was like the top selling thing on wii remember that it came with a controller and it had a bunch of crappy games in it and everybody bought it yeah what is what how what does triple a games cost it is it's going for a steal right now justin usually it costs 80 dollars usually costs 80 but it's on sale for 91 off just 6.99 that's a good idea these are all i quickly googled one these are all like these are all available on the e-shop individually yeah this is their compilation yeah yeah joe go back to the the title the key the main key art that has the title on it for some reason just the outline of the title really bugs me how each individual a is outlined and then the rounded edges around the g and the s it just yeah it just bugs me so which of these games has mild blood at that esrb rating probably got a trash maybe solitaire yeah solitaire yeah solid world of solitaire motorcycle game trash punk maybe get ran over by the train okay this next game i just i selected because of the whiplash that you get from the title this game is called battle tanks animal wars oh i loved battle tanks battle tanks animal wars is this one they didn't spell it with an x yeah yeah missed opportunity there save the animal kingdom from mole fueled doom okay moles i don't see any animals no oh it's got a minecraft style look where are the animals how do they do this john travolta and pulp fiction gif where are all the animals yeah hmm some of these four players single screen co-op that's cool oh this was just released yesterday too this is brand new you just found it is it already on sale oh yeah 40 off three bucks three bucks i'm sensing a tactic in discounts similar to amazon okay so it's like bomber man i don't know there's no animal hold on there's animals in the portraits there yeah monkey and a raccoon i think they're in the tanks oh the animals are the tanks got it well they're in the tank okay got it right okay they're driving them with a little pause yeah okay i really like this next one this next one has really high production values this is clothing store simulator and you're gonna love the the key art for this it looks so jesus simulators are everywhere these days tcg card shop that gradient goes from real video game yeah it's you know build the boutique of your dreams clothing this seems fine damon i think i look like does this look like a good video game like no but i feel like i'm i'm like the last couple times we did this this seal of quantity it's like they were literal scams so the fact that you're showing us actual video games this time is like i'm like this doesn't seem too bad i look good i just can't imagine playing this on a switch like that looks like a pc game yeah like i what i'm confused about is how do you get a game to look this lo-fi yeah today it's it's a style like it's it's a trend right this is a trend i just think it looks bad yeah they should run it through the unreal engine 5 no processor there's all of these there's all these simulator games that are like everywhere now right well yeah yeah this one looks just like the grocery store one yep yep grocery store except for that god awful logo that but they're not jokes they're like really rote boring simulators it is interesting like work like these work games like you know but they're like should we make it fun they're like no just make it just look at that store there's two there's two outfits in that entire store so you can you can tell they're gonna roll it out that way they're like well first to start your business you're all gonna have one sweater and one white belted long sleeve black shirt sell them and then they're like now you can put out three dummies with three outfits i can just feel the rollout all right this next one uh let me know if this title uh reveals what the inspiration is i'm not sure i'm not sure i'm not sure i'm not sure what the inspiration for the game might have been this game is called need for race need for race street king street king wait that name is too obvious let's call it one for speed instead wow this looks great yeah yeah yeah like is he killing an animal oh it doesn't look anything like the cover no no his car's still covered in blood but uh you know here we go this is this is more what i was hoping there you go do you think these companies sell one copy of these games that's what i i wonder that too do they sell even one one yeah who knows car doesn't have a shadow the sun is i don't know where the sun is nothing has a shadow i don't think it's an exaggeration to say that that city scape you know first of all those buildings are made out of four polygons and they look like twisted battle on the ps1 uh-oh yeah this looks like gta3 but like even worse yeah but there's infinite variations of this lo-fi racing game you know it's like it's not even attempted like well this one has ducks in it aren't ducks funny like it's just nothing there's nothing to it and what's interesting on the listing there's a publisher listed but no developer so maybe it's just a maybe the whole thing is just a i generated the publisher developed it by going make me a racing game with fast and furious cars i would like to think that like this is the general all these are generated by like some kind of uh video game college class yeah and they're like well here's how you can actually publish something on a nintendo platform they don't care nobody's watching the gates just just slopping it up and then you get to do that for your your class thesis that would be the positive nissan z though i wanted one of those forever now i can yeah in need for race in virtual form all right two more here before uh two more here to show off so the next one is i picked this for two reasons sheriff park ranger and this one actually like just saying the gameplay doesn't look terrible here but i picked this because we have another just a magnificent piece of ai slop that they've used for their cover art here but also i'm pretty sure park rangers don't have a sheriff i don't think that's a real sheriff park ranger they made a they made a whole video game a whole real video game and then like should we pay somebody you know two hundred dollars to make us a logo and a piece of cover art like no i'm just gonna slop it up yep yep made the game but listen to the listen to the tagline for this game patrol deeper react faster protect harder what is the gameplay of this drive your patrol truck flash your lights and keep ordering the wild is his hat is his hat getting bigger the truck and the hat have issues i think that this may be a a mod mod for a sneak king well he arrested somebody well look at look at his hat right there joe can you go back to where he was in the car it was that looks normal that looked normal and then there's the shot of him in the car i thought it looked too small it don't get well it probably is and they'll fix it very soon i think he's wearing a big hat the truck is is his hummer in the front and pick up in the back well it's being generated as he drives so that is not how it looked at the rest of the scene well maybe that's the progression okay man oh dude i'm on the team team hat now i was not on board with this but you're absolutely right at the end of the trailer it's tiny again so it's not telling you like if you play this game you can have wide hat it might just be wait you see it grow as he drives away it might be look at it look at it one more time it's ready for a for a day day on the beach his wife is gonna love that hat yeah he goes from patrolling the forest to gardening like real fast i think you're right i think it's a south bar i think you're like how little that is look at this new forest ranger with his tiny hat okay that's you can't fish here where's your license that's sheriff park ranger i kind of want to play this one that was the best one so far okay that was good all right i'll have one more joe hold off because the the key art to this one is the best the key art to this one is truly unbelievable so let me just read you this title first um okay this is the end of the beginning of courage reasoning and seaweed 10 okay i'll say again the first nine yeah the end we're gonna recap the end of the beginning of courage reasoning and seaweed 10 now joe let's show everybody what the key art for this is this is real this is on the e-shop right now well they used the oxford comma yeah i appreciate that what what's happening under of what are we doing like they just smeared it and then show show them what this game looks like joe burp yeah it's sim city it's just it's probably a visual novel yeah but are there nine other ones i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i didn't bother to look i don't know what the first nine are but also it says on the listing there uh supported languages japanese it doesn't even support english everything's empty except the title yeah yeah yeah maybe that's what's happening i think this game's post-apocalyptic yeah maybe it's post-apocalyptic maybe that's the end of the beginning in the beginning of courage and reasoning and courage i mean maybe that title screen is better than like you know it being ai slop yeah yeah i was trying to think what is better just a really low res image of the of the just the plain text title or a slop yeah i don't know this is this is probably more attention getting it's probably more eye-catching so joe burp click out of this you see how it actually looks on the listing page yeah that's how it looks what what's up here why is there a smear i really don't understand the smear did like somebody like accidentally in photoshop after for some reason putting text on this and clipping it out like smear the paint thing over it i don't this one's only a buck 50 though yeah yeah yeah wait till it goes on sale if you i'll wait i'll wait till it's 91 off if you're listening to this show you can find us on youtube but you can watch you can see what we are seeing yes battle of morality it says the battle between yuki and the dread begins good the end of the beginning i've been waiting i mean i don't know what's worse just the fact this is really on the e-shop right now and you can pay money for it or that i i only know this exists because nintendo emailed me about it i get a nintendo download email every thursday oh my god when they refresh the e-shop nintendo lists out all the games links to it so nintendo is like here you go nintendo fans here's a new game that you can here's your game scoop segment does doug bowser get that email i guess i never bowser said yeah that's why he quit um i guess i didn't realize damon i thought you were just finding these on your own they're in nintendo's email nintendo the new release emails these to me every thursday good anyone who signed up for the email never never unsubscribed i will not these are great i will not and that my friends is the nintendo seal of quantity hey you know we have like super fans that track our stats for 20 questions the real super fans for this would be people that play these games and report back with the review yeah a couple of them seemed okay i would play the triple a one i'm only into that seaweed one that's like a real that's a real like you know like polish developer they're making at least real video games want to be the one who's always in the know about the game the scores the plays here's a tip the apple sports app just pick your favorite teams and get automatic live updates without even knowing their schedules and when your team scores it shows up right on your iphone lock screen making it easy to check in anytime so rule the group chat and download apple sports for free on the app store or find it on your new iphone has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything even our music that hit song named after the color of lemons not a coincidence big lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years think about it but now seven up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda now lime comes first seven up flip the sip all right let's check in with the listeners hey listeners listeners and viewers remember we can always reach us at the email address gamescoop.com just like oh no big tony style big tony style says time is flying and little tony style is about to turn three years old with a toddler around the house my game time has dropped pretty significantly and i'm finding myself leaning more on games that have a solid quick loop to them my recent go-to is the re-release of plants versus zombies one of my all-time favorites while i was playing last night it made me wonder what happened to those old style pop cap games i think about plants versus zombies too i wonder if these types of games fell victim to mobile gaming monetization or is it that i'm not looking hard enough for similar pop cap style games one can only hope that one day we will see the release of a peggle three such yeah well they got ea'd right they got ea'd yeah no yeah and i mean pop cap pop cap's still around but yeah they've not been they're not making games like that anymore yeah plants versus zombies 2 was an overly aggressive monetization mess and then they started doing like the garden warfare games they did two of those at least i think there's a third one isn't maybe they're not nobody knows and then they remade plants for zombies last year yeah yeah yeah that's good that was good yeah well also i agree i'm very much into like you know games that i could just play for 20 30 minutes that's why i've been playing so much hades and ball pit and stuff like that so and i'll have kids i was gonna suggest ball pit like the the whole survivors like genre although what's interesting is like you know the runs in vampire survivors start out as being 30 minutes but you pretty quickly unlock a hyper mode and like a double speed mode and like that's that's kind of becoming a thing in these games is like they start out slow and then they eventually give you options of like just do everything twice as fast like ball pit does the same thing um people like that mega bonk yeah yeah is that a is that a survivor survivor's like it's a 3d version of the garlic like okay so very fun that i mean that doesn't quite scratch the same itch i mean look those games are not as good as like pop cap at their peak to be honest those are some like genuinely incredible video games but they're good from like uh like i just want to zone out and just like play something short for a while and make progress and feel good like so yeah i mean ball pit would be a good idea yeah i think that's a good candidate for that one. Yeah, didn't the. those games kind of get clobbered by clash games and cookie kingdoms and stuff like that yeah i mean i mean big tony styles absolutely right that those games went away because they're like well we could release a really really great game and sell it for five or ten or twenty dollars or we could like make the same game and we could sell people twenty dollar like bullshit things just forever and we would will and then and then zynga you know then we'll be billionaires um so they're still out there on steam you know like they're still not impossible to find on platforms like game pass but that's that's why they went away sadly it's free to play free to play crushed them is there really no appetite for so you think about uh the the old pop cap plans for zombies peggle um even like zuma bejeweled bookworm i loved all those games like single screen simple uh you know puzzle games nintendo used to make games like that nintendo had a bunch of puzzle games mario and tetris attack and all that stuff like even on consoles candy crush now that yeah but like i would play these games like if nintendo made a new puzzle game on switch too i would absolutely play it i just i don't know why that i don't know why uh you know console developers stopped doing it as well yeah i mean they made so it's like you know i i really like balloons tower defense is a really good tower defense game so like that stuff is still out there and there was what was the peggle rpg that i mean it wasn't made by pop cap but pegglin is that what it was called though maybe but there was there was i mean there's been a few there's been a few like sort of roguelike peggle rpg like experiences like bounce around and kill the enemies and level up and you know go on runs um so yeah so i think a good place to to look is when xbox or nintendo does their indie directs that's where you can see a lot of the stuff that like doesn't end up getting a lot of hype behind the trailer and that and they're usually smaller games there's a lot of there's a lot of kind of like i don't know if there's a lot of stuff that's going on in the trailer that's going to be like i don't know they're not quite blotcher likes but these like gambling coded roguelikes where but they don't have free to play garbage in them it's just in the roguelike there's um there's lots of daggers yeah slots and daggers pick clover clover pit clover pit and then there's an upcoming one that it's basically like bellatro but it's a coin pusher oh fun called called rack coin dude those coin pushers stress me out yep and there's there's actually a different coin pusher heroic like too which is funny um so that's that's where a lot of that stuff kind of migrated too i think well i miss puzzle games yeah nintendo should make the last one nintendo did dr luigi right yeah they do they do pit cross games they do stuff like that um yeah they need to bring back push mows we say this every episode yep want to be the one who's always in the know about the game the scores the plays here's a tip the apple sports app just pick your favorite teams and get automatic live updates without even knowing their schedules and when your team scores it shows up right on your iphone lock screen making it easy to check in anytime so rule the group chat and download apple's sports for free on the app store or find it on your new iphone the lemonati has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything even our music that hit song named after the color of lemons not a coincidence big lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years think about it but now seven up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda now lime lemon soda is the new lemon soda it's the new lemon soda it's the time comes first seven up flip the sip okay uh justin last week we went over some uh video game 20 questions stats uh from matt reed but it didn't include the like the win-loss ratio stats so i asked if that could be um uh added as well but killed that i was confused there's more than one person collecting all these stats so greg greg kelly writes in to say ha after listening to the most recent episode i know it's confusing there are a few fans who love both their scoops and stats and funny enough both matt reed and i are friends with them so i'm going to ask them to from massachusetts so here's a quick summary of the two different stats we each cover me i maintain greg kelly i maintain the video game 20 questions dashboard and keep track of the win-loss ratio quickest win uh etc and then matt reed has been uh sending in his crazy cool stats where he specifically tracks all the games mentioned during each segment throughout the year so our stats are different and i think complement each other nicely matthew and i have actually been coordinating over a facebook messenger to send in our different stats to you around the same time anyway i hope all my stats below are the missing pieces that you were looking forward to read when justin is back so here we go 2025 he's right though that what confused us there is that they're both from massachusetts yeah that's and then they don't have to fight to the death that's true so that's good so in 2025 you guys we play a total of 47 games okay of 20 questions and 133 of them which leaves you with a win rate of 70.2 i think that's a pleasing win right like you don't want it to be too high or too low that is the most c minus answer i've ever heard of ever heard to a c minus rate well if you always won it'd be a boring feature you could tell i'm on 28 of the episodes per year how about 90 90.1 would be nice yeah at least get the a yeah i think a 70 is a very appropriate uh you guys are parents ign with this with this group 70 is not bad it is down a little from 2024 in 2024 your win rate was 80.9 percent yeah i did feel that so last year your average questions for a win was 17.6 questions but that was down from 2024 17.2 questions your quickest win this year was eight questions episode 809 hollow night your longest winning streak was 10 episodes in a row from september 17th to november 20th and your longest losing streak was only two episodes in a row okay 10 episodes i was in the hospital at 10 streaks really good yeah that's that's very crosses over three months so sam played the most number of games last year 45 games he had a win rate of 71.1 percent justin played 35 games had a win rate of 74.3 percent and mark only played 20 games and had a win rate of 80 percent wow there you go you gotta be capita i'm the big winner but you gotta be kind kind to yourself mark oh boy here we go none of you have the highest win rate it's got i'm sure somebody played once and it's not a percent no it's nick nick lamone played 16 games and he has 81.3 percent wow somebody played one game come on yeah that doesn't count um pair pair only played four games he has a 50 win rate wow yikes these are not good stats nope anyway thank you for the uh clarification greg kelly and the very fun stats and that brings us to this week's video game 20 questions which comes from danny from colorado and danny says i've been getting really into redacted games recently and i'm currently replaying redacted i've always wanted to try redacted and thinking about picking up redacted anyways i thought this would be a good 20 questions game and with that what was not a good 20 questions game was last week when nobody listened to a single answer and then we just had to repeat it the entire time so just and then we still got help me this week got it you got it on 20 last week right yeah what was a win we didn't get kung fu though that was a brutal week yeah that was tough what was the redacted stuff from that email oh it was oh you almost got me excellent okay um is this a is this a role-playing game or a platformer or a shooter no i thought those might be things that he was getting really into is this game of 3d graphics no i bet it's a roguelike because i've been getting into roguelikes is it a roguelike season is it a roguelike or card game or or or garlic like no this is why i can't remember the answer we're never gonna get this one is it before the uh this century no so i'd a 2d game but not a platformer and not a roguelike from the last 25 years and also not that other stuff but that was more likely to be 3d did sony microsoft or nintendo publish this game yes that's fine oh that's so good did sony publish this game no did nintendo publish this game yes wow we've got a lot of all right so he's in the mario games but it's not a platformer 2d 2d nintendo game from the last 25 years yeah like mario wonders but it's not not super but it's not a platformer no wait when did we yeah well okay that makes sense yeah okay justin are metroidvanias platformers yes nick could have used your help last week i mean are you jumping around do you have platforms that float in the air in this game that's not i'm not asking damon i'm just saying if the answer is yes then it's a platformer There's platforms Nick could have used G-Line So he could have used a friend. Yeah, let's see here. OK, so was this game? Is this game set in the Mushroom Kingdom or Hyrule Kingdom universes? No, it could it could be. It could be like Donkey Kong, March of the Minis. It could be a puzzle game. Damon was just saying he wants Nintendo to make puzzle games. Oh, OK. I guess maybe that's set in the Mario universe, though. Well, but no, but you said Mushroom Kingdom. And I think those games are in New York. I don't know if they're in New York. OK, man, what is this? I mean, is the main character of this game on the Smash roster? No, I actually know that because I've been playing a lot of Smash Brothers with the King of recently. Nice. That's awesome. Oh, OK. Not on Smash. I mean, I don't know. Who do you mean, Damon? I don't think I've settled on a man yet. I like to pick random and Kingo hates that. He hates it when I do random. He wants me to pick a character. He needs to know how to counter you. Yeah, I mean, you never let him know your next move. That's interesting. That is interesting. I'm just I'm very now I'm absorbed in that. And then he wants me to like he wants me to pick his character. He's like, Who should I be, Daddy? I don't know whoever you want. No. Tell me who to be. OK. Mario Yoshi. Yeah. No, I don't want to be Yoshi. Oh. Yeah. So you want you to pick the character he's thinking of. Mm hmm. There's not a lot of games that Nintendo publishes that don't have Smash stars. Mm hmm. There's like, you know, a hundred great books type stuff. I mean, it could be it could be like like Stadium Games or any remix and not have a person that you are like a main person that you are. I mean, it could or, you know, a meet like, you know, I know it's not Wii Sports because this is a 2D game. But like something like that. Did this come out before 2012? Yes, that is 10. Maybe it's a big difference. Maybe it is Smash. Because the can you play as the what are you in the hand? What is that what you are in that game? What was the 2012? Yes. Yeah, it's before 2012. OK, so it's a year where you. Yeah, but yeah. Oh, well, or GameCube. Oh, that's right. Or Game Boy or DS. Well, I think it's a handheld game. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, could be Picross. Something like that. Is it a handheld game? Yes. Hey, could be. Could be medias. Is maybe it's Dr. Kawashima is the character. OK, I could be brain training. Yeah, the brain. Yeah. Is this game mainly controlled or the stylus? Hmm. We had to think about it, so we know it's NDS now. Well, if you can, it would just be an. Option. You know, you don't have to use it. OK, is this a is this a puzzle or adventure game? No. Oh, so it's not Hotel Dusk. It's not medias. It's not Sudoku. Any of those. What am I allowed to ask to hear his note one more time? Because now I have so much more context. I want to hear the note. Sure. I've been getting I've been getting really into redacted. Games recently, and I'm currently replaying redacted. I've always wanted to try redacted and thinking about picking up redacted. Anyways, I thought this would be a good 20 questions game. Yeah, I mean, that doesn't point at brain training, that's for sure. No. And we know it's not a role playing game or puzzle game or platformer, and it doesn't star somebody on the Smash roster. And Nintendo published it on the DS or 3DS. And it's so you. Nintendogs. Yeah, but it's no. And you have to use the style. Maybe it's Animal Crossing. Yeah. Can you can play as village new leaf villager is in. Well, you don't play as well. Yeah, you do play as villager. Yeah, it's weird that you're the only human in Animal Crossing and everybody else is an animal. What is Apple? With a cat, maybe. Something to 2D game. Probably DS, not 3DS, maybe 3DS, though. Man, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of like, you know, 2D. But like, so, OK, it can't be Kirby. Can't be. Can't be Yoshi. Did this game come out as a cartridge? Yes. OK, so it's not like a downloadable only weird ass Nintendo game. We're never going to remember. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. This is. I think it's going to be more of the life style sim like Tomodachi life type things. Something like that. Me's sports. I mean, what about like. Why would he ever want to revisit it, though? But it's not so it's not, you know, it's not like Ace Attorney because those are adventure games and Nintendo didn't publish them, but like not even any, you know, any visual novel. We we said no platformers, too, right? Yep. Jeez. I don't even know where to go this. We have enough questions to get it. I just don't know. Where to go. Does this game have a sequel? This game does not have a sequel, and that's 15. You know, it could be a rhythm game and it could be like a lead the agents or when Dan. Oh, I just is a really good one. Or that what was that guitar hero game? Yeah, there was a had the guitar unplugged or whatever. That's not published by Nintendo, but I am probably not. Yeah, I. The only thing about it and I don't like to metagame Damon's answers, but I think that that might be stylus only, or at least it's heavily styled. Well, it had a wee version, too. Well, that one didn't elite beat agents didn't. But the other game, are there more genres you can eliminate? We could just ask rhythm game. But if there's more, we could try to get a twofer. Why are you aware you don't play as Wario and Wario? Yeah, so this would be like. Is this a is this a rhythm? Game or puzzle? Do we ask puzzle? You did ask puzzle. That's not a puzzle game. I would keep I would throw some other genres and I can't think of any. What's the what's the warrior where genre? How about this is this is this is this rhythm sports sim or mini game collection? No. Well, this is not a game. I mean, yeah, maybe it's the 3DS chat. Yeah, maybe it's maybe it's not a game. Maybe it's like the Louvre app that you could like and you just wouldn't. I would go 100 plus levels. I mean, OK, you've got three questions and a guess. Electro plankton's rhythm, right? Yeah, well, music. We're not like. You didn't ask RPG, and it could just be an RPG game and we did ask RPG. Oh, we did. OK, yeah, that was like one of the first genres that I eliminated. Dang. What about like a racing? Did we eliminate strategy? We did not like advanced wars and stuff. No, no. We didn't. No, it could totally be advanced wars, dual strike or I don't port the fourth one ruin, whatever it's called. Yeah, yeah, it must spell something with DS, right? Yeah, that was still strike. And then they made another one. There were one days of ruin. That's right. Those seem like games that you could use a Silas, but that you probably said. And they also are are also not in Smash Brothers. I bet that's what it is. And they're more relevant, like like people could be playing. We have three questions for us only has a. Remake. And then there's also but then there's also Fire Emblem. Fire Emblem. But that has lots of sequels, direct sequels. I don't think there's a spinoff. Oh, wait to David asked. David said this one doesn't have this one. Yeah, and maybe maybe Fire Emblem is not sequels. I don't know. I know, but it's definitely. Yeah, but no. And then and then Days of Ruin was the last Fire Emblem game, although they did remake they did advance. Yeah, I mean, I guess we can just go with this. Is this an advanced game? Yes. Hey, so it's so then is this is this advanced Wars Days of Ruin? Yes, it is. Hey, oh, nice. Nicely job. Yep. 2008 on Nintendo DS. Great stuff. Good job. Mark, you're the one that said it, right? And yeah, you went through a lot of genres before you got to. Yeah, I mean, I love advanced wars. I said days of room. Thank you. Thank you. I just said advanced wars because I don't know what any of them are called. Yeah, no. Well, I'm so why did you decide to roll the dice on this and not dual strike? Me, who are you talking about? Because this is this is the last one. I said, yeah, Damon said there's no sequel and this is the last one. Oh, so this was a sequel. I didn't realize that. I thought they were all the spinoffs. No. Well, I mean, it's the fourth one in the series. No, no, that makes sense. I totally I totally see the logic. But but so so it's both right. This game, the four advanced wars, one and two, and then dual strike and the days of ruin are direct sequels to one another. But then they're also I mean, you know. But there's no sequels now because the recent ones are a remake of one and two. So that doesn't count as. And then advanced wars was the first one released in the United States. But that franchise had been there's Famicom Wars back in the US. Yes. And like those never came out here. I wonder what that's like. I've never played that. Famicom Wars. Probably not. Yeah. And that's a funny title. Well, the fire was pretty Famicom in Japan. No, I know. So that's one. It's just Nintendo Wars. It's really funny. Like it's like advanced wars. This is why it's a little bit weird because it was, you know, like Super Nintendo Wars, Nintendo Wars. But then Advanced Wars was the first one to come out in the United States. And it was on the Game Boy Advance. And then that name stuck even when they weren't on the Game Boy Advance anymore. yeah nice and this this one went dark and gritty it doesn't have like a cartoonish art style which in my mind was like this is a low point but i look back at the reviews and it totally got good reviews at the time so i don't know well it did kill the franchise yeah that's true oh no it's a big a big fun fact i just learned today so this is out in 2008 it was not released in japan until 2013 wow nintendo did not really put this out in japan until 2013 the famicom wars fans they had to wait they had to wait time so maybe this was adapted to be a like kind of a targeted at our region but then like why is it anime like it's it's all very yeah it's funny that this is i mean it is it is much darker and grittier than the other advanced horse games which are very bright and very cheerful but looking at this footage now i'm like yeah this is still pretty bright and cheerful do you remember though like you're like jim from the office commanding the army like he's like a totally cool like you know like kid that's that's the plot of these games so frequently it's like this one this 18 year old's gonna run the military but he's kind of cool i'm like it's so doesn't feel right and now i can't remember i mean this is by far my least played advanced wars game so it's like i said that this was a direct sequel to the other three and i actually can't even remember if it is now it might not have been um did you catch who the developer was on the screen yeah it's it's not even owned by nintendo in any way yeah yeah that's why game freaks making some rando ass game now i mean intelligence intelligent systems is such a strange company because they you know they made these they make fire emblem they make a they made warrior wear um you know so it's like weird i don't know just like a weird weird uh catalog of stuff they've put together they go all the way back game freak game that's coming out which i know the one it's like it's like a 3d something of a 3d game that's coming out which i know the one it's like it's like a 3d game that's like reincarnation or i forget what it's called yeah it looks strange it looks dope though it looks cool intelligent systems was created in 1983 to develop games for nintendo and the original group worked on mario brothers wild gunman duck hunt hogan's alley donkey kong 3 but they've always been completely independent from nintendo it's wild man where would hogan's alley have been without their help it's true you imagine it's true that would have been the real days of ruin uh danny from colorado was just saying he's really getting into strategy games and he's replaying fire emblem three houses always wanted to try advanced wars thinking about picking up days of ruin well i'm sure he liked our torturous answers to the uh our questions i think i mean i'm on i forget like we were intelligent systems made pushmo and crashmo that's them and they made a bunch of why do we have to bring this up it's an open wound yeah and and paper mario they're just a weird like it's just like if you look at their game library it's just kind of bizarre like i don't know like they're all really good but just really unique i don't know what an interesting development house well also how what a weird and like uh successful line of work to choose to go into just to make games for nintendo and do it for decades right it's wild i mean isn't that kind of com is retro owned by nintendo yes but but i know what you mean but nintendo does like sakurai doesn't technically work for nintendo he doesn't know the answer well yeah how like there's a lot of you're right that nintendo like i don't know what you mean but nintendo does like sakurai doesn't technically work for nintendo he does as a freelancer well yeah how like there's a lot of you're right that ninten like retro is owned by nintendo but they do a lot of you know stuff like intelligence systems and um wait you're looking at their wikipedia page yeah did you see that they made uh end of the beginning number nine which is called seaweed negative one so that's the origins it was these guys they're still cranking them out today all right well nicely job thank you for the suggestion danny from colorado viewers listeners viewers and listeners if you have your own suggestions for video game 20 questions email them to me at the email address gamescoop at ign.com and heads up right now at humble you can get humble choice for just 14.99 and score a curated bundle of pc games for january including sonic frontiers tomb raiders 4 through 6 remastered hunt showdown 1896 etrian odyssey 2 hd nice day for fishing metal slug tactics settlement survival and wizard of legend 2. this month's choice is available through february 3rd so head to humblebundle.com and start playing today and that is all the scoops that we have for you this week thank you sam thank you justin thank you mark thank you to jobert working behind the scenes to make this episode possible my name is damon this is ign gamescoop and we're out family vacation 1995 1995 change the station now i can drive now i can drive my girl is waiting for me at home she's moving with me yeah she's moving with me she hates it when i leave her alone i'm all she can see i'm all she can see dad turned 40 that year we got him cds we got him cds his reaction was pretty severe the smithereens and now we're playing games in the dark how many can we get how many can we get not everybody has that spark no one was upset no one was upset we drove all around to get me to my show it was at that girl's house the one i told you about she thought we were on a date but that was a mistake everyone sat on the stairs all of our friends were there a sticker on the back of your car cgc9 cgc9 cgc9 proves what a big fan you are cgc9 proves what a big fan you are cgc9 proves what a big fan you are this is the sign this is the sign this is the sign this is the sign this is the sign this is the sign and now a plan shows in the dark and now a plan shows in the dark and now a plan shows in the dark everyone is red everyone is red everyone is red everyone is red everyone is red everyone is red now everybody has that spark now everybody has that spark now everybody has that spark the band is dead the band is dead the band is dead the band is dead the band is dead we drove colorado we drove colorado we drove colorado to california we drove colorado to california to get me to my show to get me to my show to get me to my show it was at that girl's house it was at that girl's house it was at that girl's house the one i told you about the one i told you about the one i told you about she thought we were on a date she thought we were on a date she thought we were on a date but that was a mistake but that was a mistake but that was a mistake everyone sat on the stairs everyone sat on the stairs everyone sat on the stairs all of our friends were there all of our friends were there all of our friends were there all of our friends were there all of the characters you can choose from and the idea is that they're just there while you're gaming and you can ask some questions while you play it's weird so an alexa i don't like that i mean one of those will be built into the next consoles you know that's interesting you should uh call that team in massachusetts want to be the one who's always in the know about the game the scores the plays here's a tip the apple sports app just pick your favorite teams and get automatic live updates without even knowing their schedules and when your team scores it shows up right on your iphone lock screen making it easy to check in anytime so rule the group chat and download apple sports for free on the app store or find it on your new iphone tammy regularly hauls stuff to her kids at college that's why she shops at bj's wholesale club saving up to 25 off grocery store prices beef jerky microwave meals laundry 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