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Shinook. Starring Cali-Marie Tran and Sena Lathan. Listen to Shinook wherever you get your podcasts. What's up everybody? Welcome to IGN Game Scoop. I'm your host Damon Hatfield. Joining me in the shoot car, Sam Claiborne. Hey, hey everybody. Justin Davis. Scoop. And here comes a new challenger. Make her scoop appearance, IGN's managing editor Rachel Weber is here calling him from Chicago. Rachel, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I feel very honored.
So let's give you a prosthetic. I got to ask Rachel. Is that a qubert swear on your shirt? It's not. It's kind of a knock off. Hey, look to the undecided. It wasn't cue, but. Oh, okay, okay. Okay. How can it not be qubert? It's got. He has different swear as apparently. Yeah, it's yeah, they're just generic swears. Rachel, let's give you a proper introduction. What's your favorite game of all time? Of all time. Mm-hmm. Probably got to be. Skyrim. Just. Yeah, I play every time that comes out.
So you played it on everything. Oh, Like she doesn't ask that question. And every morning meeting when we have any person on staff. Yes. It is. It is. It is. It is traditional to ask new. New conversation. All right. Yeah, I think we're just going to have a conversation. Yeah. Is what their favorite game of all time is in front of everyone at our morning meeting. Rachel, what's the best game? It's a good this year.
With some help from our, our Jane guide seem definitely enshrouded, which is kind of a weird and the survival game. Yeah. Yeah. I keep going back to. I have been using our, our, the IJ guide for shout out of the third tree. We call here at IGN a slow news week, not a lot going on. In times like this, we turn to you, scoop nation, and the Game Scoop email inbox, because you are an endless fountain of interesting topics for us to discuss. So we'll get to that in just a bit.
But first, let's share what we've been playing recently. Rachel, what have you been playing? I am deep into want teaming, which is pretty weird, but pretty fun. If you can't tell, I'm kind of a survival game fan. So drop me in a world where I'm just picking up rocks in my underwear for the first two hours and I'm really happy. It's just getting weird that there's a walking bus, one of my melee weapons, is a fish. I don't know what's going on, but I'm really enjoying it.
And then when I'm not in the mood to kind of be running around the wilderness with strangers, there's one, I think it came out maybe yesterday the day before on PC called No Time to Die, where you play a kind of psychologically damaged detective in a blade run at S future, where people can be essentially immortal, but there's a serial killer running around. What type of game is that one? I can't get a grasp on it. Yeah, it's kind of very much a detective.
You're kind of walking around picking things up. Okay, so it's almost like a normal adventure game. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Yeah, definitely recommend it if you like any of that kind of puzzle solving stuff. Just you've been known to enjoy a tree puncher from Time to Time, haven't you? Yes, I do enjoy tree punchers quite a bit. Damon, I do want to say, by the way, it's so cool that you invented the phrase Slow News Day. I did. Just a little little phrase that you made up.
Yeah, when I started here at IGN, there was a day that no news was happening. And I said, you know what, this is, it's a slow news day. Is there any one's human on your plate, Justin? No, probably not. I am a little bit discerning. I like, there's sort of different lanes of tree punchers in survival crafting games. And I like the little bit more Minecraft-y style is a little bit more of my vibe.
I am playing, well, I think Sam's mostly going to talk about it, but the game that I started last night was Nintendo World Championships. Cool. Yeah, I'm having a good time. Actually, maybe we'll let Sam go first, because I have kind of specific. It's fine. I want to hear your impressions. I've been talking about it all morning on Nintendo Voice Chat, which is a new podcast about Nintendo games. I don't think so. Well, wait, it's not right. That can't be right. That's brand new. It's brand new.
It's brand new. Yeah. We're not the only video game podcast anymore. Do I just stop putting that in there? What? Description. They made another one. Well, only if they make a second episode. Okay. Yeah, it's not a podcast until there's more than one. And you also have to record it, otherwise it's just you talking about games. Yeah. That's what they tell me. So I do not have.
And I don't know if it expired or what happened, because I definitely had a Nintendo online subscription at one point, which I do not have anymore. And you can do so little. So Nintendo World Championships is a $30-budgagain. the physical editions $40, it's $30 on the eShop. So my expectations were already in check.
I was expecting a little speed run, mini game, like I wasn't expecting too much, but there are three menu options and two of the three, you just can't do if you don't have an end end online collection. The only thing you can do is complete these little, sometimes three seconds, three second to 30 second, little challenges, how fast can you beat a boss and Mario 3, how fast can you go in a door and Mario 2? And then that's the entire game. If you don't have an end end online subscription.
So it does, I do want to make one more observation which the game opens an end end end end end end end end end is a weird company, which I say that with love and affection, many of my favorite games and end end end end end games. They're kind of odd, there's sometimes a little bit stilted and weird in their communications. And the game opens with this little message, this little paragraph of text that's like, you know, many old end end end end end games can be very challenging.
They might especially be challenging for some of you because you weren't even born yet. And I sat on that screen. Or it says like, it says like, there's may experience challenges, including the challenge of having not been born with these games. It's like it's really weird. It is really weird. And I read it like 10 times trying to figure out, I'm like, is this just Nintendo being weird? Are they trying to make a joke? Like are they joking? And I don't know the answer.
Because they're like, localization team has a good sense of humor. We'll often inject humor into the translation, right? Yeah. Well, I do, this game is really cool. Like obviously this game mostly appeals to olds, right? That like Zelda 1 and Zelda 2 and Nintendo games and all the pixel art and you were in little badges. Like it's mostly for us, right? But they actually do a lot to kind of contextualize through little blurbs like that.
Like if you're a younger gamer, a new gamer, or as somebody's kids, like as a good player, I just like, this game's really shitty. So try some speedrun time. Let's see who know, you know? But it has little Nintendo player guides that like, you know, like go to the left and do this. And like, they're called classified information, which is the cutest thing ever. The Nintendo power section. That's good.
And so I actually, and so I think that that opening blurb is meant to be a goof and a message to the younger gamers. Because all throughout this, there's this nice little vein of like, you know, Nintendo kind of recognizing that its old games are old down and that they have to recontextualize them and give people more guidance and like, hey, when you run over this thing and excite bike, like that lowers your turbo meter and you can keep doing turbo, like all that stuff.
So I think it's really good. Like for a $30 game, like look, you're gonna play this two evenings and then be done unless you get really into the online stuff. Because it does have to catch caught. Yeah, or the catch caught. That's free. But a little bit bummed out by that. But otherwise, yeah, having a good time getting, it's got S rank scores for everything, which are nuts. They're so crazy hard. Like I can usually get an A rank in the first couple of times with the S rank, so no joke.
All right, Sam, you're reviewing this. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think? Also, just got this. Literally, just cool. Oh, cool. There it is. Which is the special thick boy package, which will not be okay. That's gonna go in a closet. They've top men working on it right now. Cool. Top men. So, yeah, so reviewing it, I have played a lot of the online and I have some good news and some bad news, Justin. Actually, I don't have any good news. The bet, it doesn't add much.
Like it's weird because it actually adds a weekly challenge. So guess how many I've played in the review period? One, one. And it's not over yet. Physico is till next Monday. So it's like, well, I, I, it's like I've played it all and like they're like, oh, you can play it again for points. But like there's two types of all. I'll get to some so many things about this game that I love. But yeah, it is, the online's fine, but it is weekly.
So like you, you're not gonna play it every day, you know, so that's, that's already a problem. But you do, you can take, they have a selection of challenges in one mode that you can just try to get the high score on. And then what they say they're going to do is rank you by birth year on a leaderboard at the end of that week period. That's so cool. I love it. So that's pretty funny and fun. And you know, I was talking to Seth Macy about that.
He's like, oh, wow, well, you know, my birth year, I'm going to be the best in like who I'm like, no, it's the opposite. There'll be so many more people playing from your birth year than there are from like 2002, you know, if you want to like be competitive like, you know, be a 16 year old. So anyway, so there's that mode, which cap, they like select, they pre select them though. You can't, there's 156 challenges in the single player game.
And you don't, you only get a little smattering of those like five or six that you can like get the mushroom and super Mario Brothers ones first level as fast you can. That may be 2.1 seconds or something like that, right? And you can just keep on doing it over and over again to get faster faster. I really like that type of challenge actually. It's actually really fun. So then, then there's another one, which is an elimination boat where you play against Nintendo is obsessed with ghosts.
You are always racing ghosts of things and ghosts. It's like the Mario Kart ghosts where it's like there's these other players that have already pre recorded and you see like, did they beat you or not in your time? You kind of see it play out on the screen on their screens and you go one. You have to be at the top of a top four of eight. Then you have to be at the top two of four. And then you have to be the one to beat it. And I've won all of these, the Golden Silver rounds.
There's, there's, in those you play like three games in a row. Some of them are pretty hard and it's really neat. But then you're done and you just wait till Monday. So that's what those are. Anyway, let me wind it way back to the beginning of the game. Because after that splash screen, after that, you get to choose a couple things. You get to choose like a little icon to represent yourself. You can unlock more of those. I unlocked Windy Cooper, which is amazing.
And then you can also choose a little catch phrase. And one of them is like playing with power. So you know Nintendo power references are going to be in this game. That's pretty cute. That was the tagline for Nintendo power in 1990. And then I did that one. I did parents confiscated my power cord. And then so they're pretty tongue-in-cheek and funny, right? And then you choose your favorite Nintendo game. And this might be the most amazing thing Nintendo has ever done.
There is a full list of licensed Nintendo games. All six hundred, I need to count them what they put in there. Because there's differing opinions about this. But you know, there's like 600 games in there. Like I chose zombie nation for mine. That is not a common known game that exists that people just say. My favorite Nintendo game is this. They just put it in there. So they have that. They have little stamps and surprise a dinosaur peak, the Rare Flintstones game, a crazy stuff.
So that's in there. And they have a list of Famicom games too. It's totally crazy. So I thought that was really cool. So there's a lot of NES worship. But to Justin's point, what I said in my review is that NES games have been remixed multiple times now. There's NES remix, there's Warioware, which does it really well. And then there's like Mario 99. Like this is a thing that Nintendo keeps doing. Is this better or worse than those? It's kind of right in the middle.
Like I don't think it's as fun as Warioware because it's not as varied. It's only speed runs. Now, if you think of what speed run, well, it takes you how many seconds to get to the end of World 1, 1 and Mario Super Mario Brothers. That's the most famous speed run of all time, I'd say. Just beating the first world. You've seen people just fly through it. They have it in there. That's a pretty short level. There's even shorter ones. Like get a mushroom. Like it's really funny. Yeah, one second.
Restart, restart. I didn't jump. Restart. You have the little restart button. I obsess over those. I get S-Ranks. I'm super into them. Then you have Ice climbers and balloon fight and Kirby, which Justin likes, but I don't. But those previous two are really clunky bad games. Like I love balloon fights. The best music ever. It's so peaceful, just to float forever. But getting four kills in as many seconds as you want, it's not fun. It's not even, it's not repeatable.
But Zelda is surprisingly repeatable. It's like one of the things is like kill four octoroks in the first octorok screen. It's really fun. You have a you, you, you, you dash out your sword attack one way. That might not be the fastest way. And you restart. You just, you just learn these cool patterns. Like killing any Koopa kid. Bounce, bounce, bounce. You want to bounce in their head as soon as they stick it out and Mario Brothers 3 again. It's super fun. I like that stuff a lot.
And then there's legendary ones, which are actually long. One of them is like, did you not beat Super Mario Brothers 1 as fast as you can? Like that's it. That's the speed run. But the cool thing about it is that you have to use the warps. So they actually point where they are. And before you start those legendary ones, it gives you a classified information page that looks like it's from Nintendo Power. It looks like it's from the manual really.
It shows you exactly the path you need to take for the whole thing. And it shows you tips. And then you play, you can't pause. So that kind of is scary. So then you play it. And that's shortens. I make that run like under 10 minutes, like six minutes. Or so I can't remember what the number is, but it's short. And, but also you think like Super Mario Brothers, like I, that game's hard to beat. Like it just is. Like you can learn it. But the last level is amazing. You're little Mario.
And it's really deadly. And even if you get to Bowser, he barfs out like a million hammers that are hard to dodge. Like it's not, it's not easy. It's not like the hardest game ever made, but it's not like everything in Super Mario Odyssey is easier than Super Mario Brothers one, I'd say, except for the one final run, the final one.
So yeah, so to beat those last levels, like eight, three, eight, four, the hard ones, you actually have, whenever you die, it just rewinds you a second, so you lose that rewind time. So really you can brute force your way to an A or a plus or a plus plus right. You're not gonna get an S probably would dying a bunch, but maybe it was dying at once, because there's just so long. So it has some lenience and it's kind of interesting.
And you know, the counter point I was talking about to like, you know, this is just for the olds is that it is a better introduction in general, like Atari 50 is, to old games than maybe just dropping somebody in front of, you know, a rom filled thing. And say, learn. It does a good job of like the speed runs are actually tutorializing like, you know, the first Mario speed run is get a mushroom.
And the second Mario speed run is like, like, all these coins and the third one is like, yeah, like find a shortcut or beat level 11. And then beat Bowser and it like, you can see those speed runs almost building, like the Metroid run is even more clear because it like one of the speed runs is like go in this room and collect the power up. And then it shows you like, you need to activate your missiles and shoot the missiles at the door to break, you know, break the red door.
So it's like, there's a lot. Kirby is like that too, like, tutorializing how to eat things and take over their power. So the first first five speed runs of like each game kind of pull double duty of like, hey, it's a fun speed run. Like you said, how can I beat these octo-axis fast as possible? But B, it's also like just teaching you the rules of the game and setting you up for it to graduate to like the final challenge, which is like, you know, hey, beat and play this whole game.
Yeah, or beat the dungeon of the first level of Zelda. It's really cool. So there's also like, there's a kind of, it's kind of good that you, when you die, not much happens because there's, there's the longer sequences for like, Kid Echoris is dungeon. Like you can play those and learn them almost like a tutorial yourself before you do your run. And then you might decide like, why don't you even wanna try this as a run? But you can beat it so you can unlock that and move on.
Like because you can kind of brute force your way through basically anything. Like you're not gonna get stuck in something and be like, I can't ever beat this. I don't think. I mean, maybe some of the Donkey Kong levels are really hard, but one of the most fun things I killed the Donkey Kong levels, I have straight S's on this.
But the one of the most fun things is like, killing, craid and riddly, because it has you start a little bit away from the boss rooms and then you just take as much damage as you want because that's what you can do in that game. It sets you up with like, it's not trying to kill you. It's trying to make you faster. So you can just like, some of the games you're supposed to get hit. Like it knocks you the right way when you get hit.
And then when you get to riddly or craid, you just stand in their face and shoot as fast as you can and you can get a really good rank that way. You would never play that as a kid. You'd be like, oh, I'm gonna learn the boss pattern and stuff but it just doesn't matter. You just get in their face and shoot them. It's like a little hack to kind of learn by playing the game. I'm so glad this thing exists and it looks minimizing watching it. I'll never play it. Like this is so specific.
I like my fun to last more than a few seconds. Maybe. I hear you. Yeah. Well, in like couch call up if somebody like ropes you in at a house party, you will not know how to do any of these and somebody else who has unlocked them all will know how to get that mushroom in 1.2 seconds and you will be like, well, I thought I got it fast but you'll be three times as long as them. So it's like, that's not fun. That's like how WarioWare was though too.
Like you could all learn them together and play them but I don't see that being as communal as WarioWare once was like the GameCube version. Yeah. Rachel, did you play any S3 mix on the Wii U or 3DS? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. I have a soft spot for old. Gameboy was my first ever console of any kind. So I have a real soft spot but I'm not a speed runner or a learn how to do things the right way. I'm gonna kind of bash my way through things. See how it goes.
I should mention like the speed, thank for bringing that up. Like I'm not a speed runner either and I like watching and feeling like I'm fast in the game. Like that's cool. Like this game interviews that and you unless you're playing one of the slow bad ones. But it is funny that the Joy-Cons are the worst possible controllers to play this with. They are just dreadful. The D-pad is impossible.
The analog stick will give you false problems and then the B and A buttons when you're holding them together run and jump, that'll happen. What just happened to Mario? You'll hit the end of the level and you even though you think you jump precisely, you will run a little bit too far. It just doesn't work. So the pro controller I have totally better, I can get ass rankings with it. I still use the analog stick though. The D-pad is terrible.
And then I've also started holding the controller like an idiot for some levels. Like with my two four fingers on the A and B button to be more precise. So it's really training me to think like a speed runner and like really, I bet the way to play this is with those NES controllers. I don't have this. So. I do think Nintendo is the best at this is while keeping their old games alive and just giving them a chance to kind of shine on new machines.
I can't really think of any other company that does it with quite the love that they have. Or that it has the library. And their library is a luxury because they can cut out a lot of fun games. But these crappy ones over and over again. I don't know why they do it. These are only Nintendo developed published games. So, you know, they left out pinball and volleyball and tennis, which is super nice of them. Baseball is baseball in there. Yeah, there's no baseball or golf.
But there is some clonkers. Surprisingly Zelda 2 is really fun. Like speed running in Zelda 2 is probably more fun than Zelda 2. I love Zelda 2. So in conclusion, do you recommend Nintendo World Championships NES Edition? Yeah, I'm giving it on our rating scale, a G for good. Good. Which is a lucky seven. Not the replacement for NES remix that we would love. No, so that is my go to for revisiting old games. However, only recently surpassed by Atari 50, which I gave it 10 to.
Yeah. And those games aren't even fun. This at least has super good reviews three in it. Oh, and might I add Nintendo will give you fair warning on this. They do not include the full games. Go subscribe, peasants. Isn't that insane? Yeah. Yeah. Like you can beat Super Mario Brothers one, but you got a warp or else it's unfair. I am still playing shadow of the earth tree. I'm currently on a Romina St. of the Bud. Tough boss that's like half scorpion, half synopede. Spoilers, man.
Yeah. It's the scorpion one. I told you I didn't want to hear about the scorpion one. Yeah. Stay here and here she is. Anyway, that's the boss I'm stuck on right now. Look away, son. Remember those scorpions from earlier? Well, they're back in Lady Form. So I'm using the hygiene guide to find as many shadow tree fragments as I can to power myself up. Yeah. Yeah. Because she is very. They're 20 total. Well, how many other 50? I can't remember.
I think there's got to be more than 20 because the amount you need to have an upgraded level increases like every few levels. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, no, it's 50 something. Let's check in with the listeners. Hey, listen. Well, howdy. Remember, you can always reach us at the email address, gamescoup at hygiene.com, just like Ricardo did. Ricardo says he's 37 from the nice city of Campinas, Brazil's science and education capital says it's true. We even have a particle accelerator.
Yeah. Oh, there are only 30,000 of those on planet Earth. No, there's not that many. I looked it up. 30,000. I looked it up. How many accidental black holes do we need to evaporate society? I know. I'm worried about some of those. They can't be in that. Totally. I think there's only one in the US, I think. Yeah, you want to see my particle accelerator? Yeah. Anyway, Ricardo says I'm a man on a mission to roll the credits on gamescoup.
I discovered the podcast last year and let's just say that I liked it. Now, I'm back listening to the episodes and I'm currently on an episode 259 from September 2012. More than 10 years ago, it's been quite an educational and fun journey. Amazing information, knowledge and memorable guests. More than 515 episodes in and considering the each is around at least 45 minutes. It's been 23,175 minutes listening to you guys. That's about 386 hours or 16 full days.
First of all, you were listening to 9 of us. Wow. None of us. Only Damon. Only Damon. I would have been creeping in around that time. Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, really? Yeah, Justin, it's like 13 year-round of us. No, I know, but we don't just magically get swooped onto gamescoup. It's true. I don't know if the wiki so the game's superfan that does the show stats. I don't know if they have the first appearance of everybody. That would be like the first appearance of someone in a comic book.
I want to see that for the IGN shows. Yeah. Anyway, says before I beat gamescoup, can I ask you just one question? During these last few years, you've made a number of predictions. Most of them, right on the spot, others a bit off the mark. Some cute examples made by guests who actually said, I predict that are the Resident Evil franchise is dead after Resident Evil 6. Handhelds are dead with the rise of mobile gaming. Indie games are dead because of costs.
Consoles are dead because of the cloud, which I guess we predicted around the time PS4 was being announced. And Disney actually saved the Star Wars franchise from the hands of George Lucas. New movies will be excellent since they need a more corporate supervision. Oh, Damon, you made some bad calls. Yeah. So Ricardo says, since... I confirmed I was not on those episodes.
Since I'm currently listening to 2012 Damon and Company, my question is, if someone 10 years in the future came back to you right now and allowed you to ask one question about what happened in the next decade to a game franchise or company that you love, what would you be curious about or would you actually want to know how things are in 2034? And so I think this is interesting.
And it would be very easy to just start bringing out questions, but I think it's a little bit more of an interesting thought experiment. If we limit ourselves to one question each, we had to actually... You were only allowed one question to ask. Well, I have so many questions about those 2012 and before episodes. So, can we...what's the writer's name? Ricardo. We got to have Ricardo on. I just got it here with what was going on back then. Okay. Well, okay. Ricardo, respond to your email.
There's some joke about lava. There is something about... Ryan Getters for Midora. I can't remember all the Greg Miller jokes. Ryan. That's right. That's Ryan Getters. He was mid of lava. And the official GameScope drink was Flora Dora. And I think only because it was at Rick House, the bar in the financial... Yeah, he was trying to remember the name Philistiller. Yeah. Anyway, Sam, would you like to ask your question of future man, future gamer first?
Yeah. So, I guess I would want to ask anything I could bet on and make a lot of money. What are we betting on these days? E sports? No. I think the most interesting thing that we would want to know is are the three competitive console makers right now still the three? Because I think that's the thing that's changing rapidly. That's fun for me to know about. And I want to know if Nintendo is going to be around another hundred years. I just think they're super interesting.
And I think Microsoft's recent moves are interesting. But at a moment's notice, some corporal should make a decision that says like, we're not doing video games anymore. Or Microsoft and sell off those divisions or something could happen. Or the most interesting thing is, are all those people irrelevant now? Yeah. I think they say we're not making the boxes anymore. Yeah. The games would keep making the boxes are gone. And then is it do people only talk about Nintendo seems to survive that?
Right? Because there's huge software maker and so talented at it. Well, no, they make really software companies. And you be soft for example, I'm not saying you be soft makes all the best games or anything. But you be soft like it has figured out how to make lots of games all the time. And that's what needs to be figured out to really dominate software. You know, you have to be able to put stuff out. But does that has not figured that out?
You know, no, they figured they figured out the opposite of that. How can we never make a video game and then get sold for billions of dollars? Or you like epic and make kind of one massive game that just keeps on. Yeah, right. Exactly that. Do people just play a single game too, right? Is there the one game like that game in Star Trek next generation that gives people some kind of like carnal pleasure that they all get addicted to it? Maybe that's the 10 year question.
Did anyone make the whole matter of us thing work? Did anyone make that kind of world where you're kind of what's face running around? Yeah, they're like games. Yeah, yeah. Do they look like total? Because everyone was saying that was a thing. And no one made it actually work in any interesting way. Yeah, you remember, you know, where's my ready player one? Yeah, we've well my children live in a VR hellscape.
Yeah. Yeah, remember a couple of years ago, we had like an expert speaker coming to give a talk about the metaverse and explain what it was and what was going to happen? Nothing has happened with that. I mean, Facebook calls himself a matter which is hilarious. That's true. If you can't make that, if you can't sell that during a pandemic where everyone is stuck inside, like when else is it going to? People need to trust their guts more.
Like, yes, no, we don't know everything about what the future holds and that there's going to be all kinds of technological surprises and you know, Ziggs and Zags. But like from a big picture, like 50,000 foot viewpoint, just ask yourself like, is anybody wants, is anybody asking? Nobody wants it. No one's like, yeah, I want to live in, you know, in a crappy metaverse where everybody has that eyes. Yeah. I want to have my meetings in a pretend board. Yeah, exactly.
But then again, second life happened. Yeah. The second life still with you. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, I'm more of a PlayStation home guy. Well, YouTube both had so much better answers than me. My answer to this question is really crappy. So I'm going to caveat this now. But like 10 years from now, like I want to know, like there's many, many beloved franchises that I really love that are dead.
And then I would like to know, is there any hope that like, you know, are we ever going to get another F zero game or advanced voice game or, you know, kidnaker is game again. Like it's mostly F zero. Like I wake up every morning and I Google was new F zero announced. And the answer has been no. Or I think we're up to like over 3000 days in a row. Well, how would you like to play three seconds of an F zero over and over again? I'm engaged in the coming.
Yeah. So, you know, like, no, the big picture questions about like, are the console makers still making consoles? You know, is everything cloud gaming now? Like those are those are better bigger picture questions to know, although I do like the back to the future, all maniac style. Like can we reverse engineer this into like a sports gambling thing of like, exactly. Are they still making a World Cup soccer game and does it star, you know, 2028 World Cup champions Brazil?
Yeah. I would just like grab the time travel shoulders and be like, yeah, who won EVO 2020? Just go to Vegas. Justin Chad G.P.T. says it's been 7,210 days since the last F zero game was released. Yeah, I know every day every morning. And he's felt every single one. Yep. Yeah. Okay, those are all good answers. I would ask future gamer is game scoop still happening? Do I have to? Am I still losing game scoop every week? Because then we're going to pre close the host 30 years of this.
But what if which would be more is the answer yes to the host or know the host, which would you more want to hear? That's the real. Yes, you'd want to hear yes. Yeah, I'd want to hear yes. Okay, is it what can firm all kinds of other things? Yeah. Yeah, that's true. If the answer is no, then you have follow up questions. Follow up. The existence of California. This episode of Game scoop is sponsored by Squarespace.
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Joel says I was talking to a friend of mine about our personal top 10 games of all time lists. For context, we're both in your top age demographic of 35 to 44. It's funny to note that the majority of our games weren't anything recent, which makes sense to the factors like nostalgia. So I was curious, what is the newest game the scoop team would consider worthy of their personal top 10 lists?
So the most, what's the most recent game that we each have on our top 10 list? Joel says his cyberpunk 2077. Nothing since then. For years ago. It's a great answer. And like two years ago since it got good. Yeah, so let's each reveal what's the most recent game on our top 10 list. And then Sam also had the good idea. What's the oldest game on our top 10 list?
I mean, it's a good idea. I mean, I don't have like for me to do like an official top 10 list, I would need to meditate on it. I would need to really sit on it and think about it. I would get anxiety about like, oops, Justin, you accidentally forgot your second favorite game ever. But unofficially, like, here's the kingdom. If I were to really go into the meditation kingdom and emerge with a new top 10. And you've waved between that and breath of the wild, right?
Oh, no, I'd like to say the kingdom much more. I actually just replay did replay breath of the wild this year, which is amazing. And it's got been vibes. But no, I mean, this game is an unbelievable achievement in, you know, game design. Like I don't, I'm not even going to get going on why it's like, but it's just. Is it like the building? Is it the story? Like, what is it that really puts that ahead of?
And no one else is even, I mean, we said this on breath of the wild when we've been talking about it on Game Scoop for years. So like that game came out and we said, well, this is what open world games are going to be. I don't know. And else is going to like climb everything is going to be the new thing. Yeah. And it turns out it's really, really hard to do. And only Nintendo got it right.
Like anything that I say is going to sound right just because everyone's talked about this game for a couple of years now. But like, the fact that puzzles don't have solutions that you have to invent the solution. They're not even really puzzles. It's just obstacles. And then how do you want to get past it? You can do it. Whoever you want. There's not one way or two ways. There are infinite ways. And, you know, just the space for player self expression.
And getting through things how you want. And just the confidence of Nintendo's game design to let people do that. Like, now we don't care if you break our dungeon or break our boss. Like, play however you want. And, you know, we're confident in the game that we made. And we don't mind if you do that. Whereas I think it makes every single other game. Look kind of.
You know, a little bit lack of confidence of like, no, we have to stop you from doing this stuff because we're not confident in the systems in the game that we made to let you go nuts. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Yes, you've got a game on your list. What's the oldest game on your list, Justin? I don't know. Let me come back. Okay. Come back to you. Yeah, Sam, were you going to say tears in the kingdom as well? Justin's answer is super retro.
I was, I was, I don't know. I need to think about this. I know. I know. I might have some of my top right because there's always the mega man and the super Mario's to put that right. Yeah, I don't, yeah, I won't rehash it, but it's tears of the kingdom. And I think that's a little sad. Like, I think it's like, um, the fact that that's so easily can jump to my top list.
I would say how easy they fall in there because there was a time in which I was like portal to mass effect to like those all it's residual for that they all just kind of like jump on my list every three to five years, you know. And it's not that way anymore. It's just that kind of bumps me up. So you're saying that games you consider to be your favorite or coming out less and less often. Yeah, they're fewer and farther between. Same. Yeah. That's okay though. I definitely know my oldest one.
Okay, hold that thought. Rachel, how about you? What's your the newest game on your top 10 list? Oh, about this gate three. I'm so emotionally tied to that game. I love everything about it. It's the work of art and they just keep tweaking it and making it better as well. I love it. Yeah. For me, I actually do go I'm the one Sam who goes back and forth between breath the wild and tears of the kingdom in which one I like more.
I've said before that I think breath the wall came first and has a better feeling of just freedom and exploration. Whereas tears of kingdom has better scripted moments in my opinion. So for I'll just put those aside for now and I'll say Elden Ring from which is just a couple years old now. Yeah, well, I mean that gives me hope that there's three games on our on our top lists that came out recently. That's good. I think it wasn't in it was his name Joel. It wasn't in the question.
But like before tears of the kingdom, I'm not sure there had been a game breakthrough my top 10 in a decade or more, maybe even longer. It was really, really, it was really, really calcified and I just I can't I'm so obsessed with how much I think the game is like a perfect sequel. What about fact? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I did. I forget about the story over a second or fortress. Yeah. Oh, it was really old, right? Isn't that game really old?
Well, I don't know how to the game is unfinished. It's been in continuous active development for like 15 years. Wow. I know. Like same as like Minecraft, right? So I'm okay, but it is from like the 2010s. It's not from like 1999 or something. I might be that old. I'm not really sure. I should know that that well, there it is. Wait, is that dwarf fortress or factory that store fortress? This steam release that added graphics. Yeah, crazy.
I should know the game I played this year, the most is Bala Tro. And I try to be aware of recent C bias, but sometime in the future that could be the most recent game of my top 10 list. I think it's another perfect, I think it's another spulink or a dead cells, a perfect roguelike that I could just play forever. Okay, oldest games on our top 10 list.
Yeah, mine's super Metroid, same as right. Cool. I had to go into the mine palace a little bit to see if any NES games snuck out there. The answer is no. So what is that 94, 93, 93 somewhere rather. 93, 94. Where's your how about you? Mine is probably, and this is probably another 90s on. It's a really old game. It's called the seventh guess. Oh, yeah, but it was an old like it had FMV and I think nowadays you can buy it on I think like that.
How much the technology has come on, but I remember as a kid being like seeing a clip of it on TV or something and then being obsessed with it and then finally getting to play it. And it was so spooky and actually the puzzles are very kind of old fashioned and you know, I almost don't want to go back to it these days, but at the time like, oh my god, it's like real people on the screen.
And it's a big old haunted house and a weird doll maker and you know, I was so obsessed with it when I was younger and I think it really. So in addition to so in addition to survival games, you're also a horror fan, but not necessarily a survival horror fan. I like a bit of survival horror. I like a bit of you know, I'm trapped in the wilderness. I don't like the games where you're just running away from something though.
Why is the cursor like what you just get why is the cursor like I call because it's like a magician instead of chattering teeth weird that's also from 1993 just makes me nostalgic. Yeah, I believe there was a apple exclusive. I was getting one plate on Macintosh. No, it was on DOS. It was. I remember being. I think I had a Atari something. Okay, okay. Yeah. Did you have it on CD rom? Probably if it had FMB. I think so. Yeah, I think that was a big deal.
Definitely a big deal. Yeah, for some reason, I remember my Mac friends bragging about a game. I thought it was seven guests. Maybe not. Apparently that was even on the Phillips CDI hell. Yeah, it was. What about the Apple Pippin? No game is on the Apple Pippin. Sam was the oldest game on your list. Is it is it an arcade game? It's kind of a trick question. So by the way, I think that actors and seven guests you can read like just like with moral combat. You can like read about where they.
What it was like doing that. There's some funny stories about recording that. So I do have an arcade game on my list that's Atari Star Wars is from 1983. But a PC game proceeds that. Zork won the Great Underground Empire is one of my top 10 favorite games of all time. The first game I ever fell in love with. I still love it as a text adventure from InfoCom.
It's a great sense of humor. You can play it on an ATM machine. If you need it, he's no power. You can play doom on an ATM machine now, I suppose. So there's that. But yeah, I absolutely adore that game. It's really fun and funny and has a lot of unexpected things you can do by just typing in, you know, answers. It kind of became the foundation for all adventure games for sure, but also a lot of fiction like sci fi fiction about kind of open ended games, which you know, we're kind of.
Coming around to with AI like AI could basically write you an in resort game if you want it, right. But it felt that way it felt like you were talking to a very smart, you know, a fellow player inside a black box. And the way I played this. I'm having a flashback. Nice. I'm having it. I remember this now being at someone's house and just typing in like, you know, we were like,
typing in like the rudest things we could and seeing what it was like. Yeah, it'll say like such language for an adventure. Yeah, it's pretty cute. Me too. I think this would have been on a Commodore 128, but I was emulating a 64 holding on the Commodore button and loading Zork comma one. Like that's how I played games then not at my house, but at my grandparents house, my grandfather was a super game collector and nerd of that era.
And he had a bunch of those games you get a floppy desk and it had like every arcade game on it and like some crappy bootleg form you'd load them up. You could just that's how I played Donkey Kong in pole position and Pac Man, everything and these terrible Commodore 64 iterations that were, you know, freeware, whatever you would call them at the time they were stolen. That would be 1977, I think.
It's not complicated because Zork was a spin off of colossal cave adventure, which is, you know, for the first adventure game from ARP and net. But then they sold it in a couple different ways and like the polished great underground empire, Zork one was when they split it into three they split colossal cave adventure into a couple of as a little bit of a complex legacy.
Great, great, that was the era in which when you get the game is predates, you know, I would have never seen this because I even played it probably by like 1988 or nine or something like that. I don't know. It was later, but then you get a box with feelings in it. So you'd get something with like medallions or like handkerchiefs and like a bunch of stickers and like your PC game was this.
That was the purpose of not stealing the game and we are back to that we are back to digital distribution is making it so people aren't buying hard copies. How do we get them to do that? I think that's a really connection to the modern era. It was also copy protection a lot of times or like there would be some puzzle in the game that you had to refer to the cloth map, you know, and like so if you would pirate a game and had your friends.
Page 17 of the manual what's like the full code or something. That's great. For me, both Megaman 2 and Shadowgate came out in 1989, but I believe Megaman 2 came out in June and Shadowgate wasn't until December so it would be Megaman 2. Next up we're talking about the future of eating while gaming presented by Wendy Sassy Nugs, a whole new way to Nug.
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Extra curricular activities. I've watched two movies over the past week, bringing the grand total of movies I've watched this year to three. Oh my gosh. Wow. And they're both Netflix movies. I watched Axel F and Hitman. I mean, I also watched Axel F. So I liked it. Okay. So Axel F first. I liked it. You? Well, it's fine, but the problem is I watched Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2 first like the E. For free of your nights. And those nights are like perfect. Yeah.
Those movies are perfect. And like I also watched true lies randomly recently. I have a lot of fun revisiting old movies from the 80s and 90s because one of two things happens. One is you're like, Oh my God, this movie is terrible. I don't know why I ever like this. You know, why why was I so obsessed with this as a kid or the second is it just validates you like, No, yep. This movie's awesome.
This movie rules. I've been right this whole time Beverly Hills. Yeah, Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2 are definitely the latter. Like they're so good. Yeah. So Axel F is not nearly as good as the two of them. It's just it's fine. I agreed with that. I had fun watching it, but had I bought tickets to a movie theater and paid a babysitter and spend all that money. Then I would have been much less enthusiastic about it.
And I do have one one more positive thing I want to say about it, which is like they resist it. It's the only one of these like 20 year later sequels rebits like whatever you want to call them. That is it's not just endless references and callbacks.
Although the rest of them are like, remember, would I stuck the banana and the tailpipe remember like, but this movie is just like, no, it's just a sequel. It's like trying to do. It's like, let's bring the characters back and go on a new adventures instead of just being endless memory. So I like. Yeah, except the soundtrack is all it's it is the Axel F theme the whole time. Yep. Yep. Which is fine. Which is fine with me. Yeah. No, it's so, but I did I did like the writing for resisting that.
Yeah, I think, you know, Eddie Murphy's charisma carries the movie. It's an enjoyable watch as an action comedy. The action is not great at all. And the villain is really lame. But I think that helicopter scene towards the end was pretty good. I think they did that practically just and I was impressed with that. Cool.
And then so Sammy saw Hitman. That's a much better. I'll check I'll watch actually. I don't I don't really like the lead of Hitman, but I like the female. Yeah, he's kind of annoying. He's the hitman right now. He was all right. I thought the woman lead was really good. I thought she's cool. Yeah, but yeah, it was okay. So let me I've watched a trilogy now.
And it's this the new roadhouse to Jake Gyllenhaal. Wow, okay. Which which is good. Yeah, I think it says good as Hitman. Maybe a little bit more creative, which is saying something is hitman's kind of trying to be creative, but I didn't think it was.
And then Fletch the new Fletch which easily trounces the other two. Oh my god. That is a John Han movie. Yeah. And he is so charming and funny. And that movie is surprisingly good. It's so good that when we were bored and hanging out with my parents. I was like, we should watch Fletch. And everybody's like, no, we're not doing that. I'm like, trust me. I saw it alone. I think you like it. Everybody loved it.
Nice. It's great. What? What? I feel like my answers could not be more different from your guys. I had a big horror week. And I went to the long leg. Yes. I went to the magazine. Both are perfect horror films on two very different ends of the horror spectrum. Yeah. Yeah. Like one is one of the darkest. My stressful ones. I've seen in a while and my scene is just an amazing good time. Awesome. They're great things. Yeah. I want to see long legs a lot. I want to see Max.
We my partner and I my wife and I finished the Apple TV show sugar. It stars. Nice boy. But oh my god. It's not the way you think it's going to go. No, yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to phrase this. I'm not going to spoil anything. Don't worry. But I just so the show. It's in Los Angeles and he plays a he plays a private detective and he's trying to find a missing girl. So like a very kind of standard plot. And of course, he's investigating the missing girl.
There's new layers that are revealed in the story twists and turns. But I just. It's so hard for me to talk about this without like the most insane thing I have ever seen any television show do in my life happens. And it's so insane that it's not even accurate to like call it a twist. Now it's just like. And I like I couldn't believe what I was watching and like I don't know if it's good or bad. I like I know if you haven't watched the show none of this is making any sense.
Like maybe if Damon and Sam if you don't mind, I'm happy to kind of spoil it for you after the show. But it's completely nuts. And you know, and I don't know. I mean Rachel, if you watched it, like I don't know if I rewatch the first few episodes. I'm like, is there any kind of like for shadowing this is about to happen? Yeah, there is. If you if you go back. Because I did went back just to see.
But basically the reason it's such a surprise as well as because it starts out like, and I love Apple TV. But you kind of. Some guys made a thing about a detective in Hollywood who loves movies and you know, it's all very kind of retro and lots of talk about movies. And you kind of think, OK, this is someone's like passion project. I know I'm going to get here. You know, troubled male character. And then it just goes absolutely.
Yeah, like Justin says, not a twist like a fracture, but a really good one and makes the most of it. Yeah, it's and I can and I can understand why Apple haven't been able to market it in a way that would get more people to watch it because the only way to do that is to kind of. Well, I think it got around word of mouth because of what you're both describing. So I think that's helping it. And I can't wait to watch it. So my next step list. Was that Tim Roth I saw? See in the show. Yeah, cool.
All right. Now, if you have had like, you know, like trouble sleeping ever in your life or, you know, are kind of like, you know, I'm not much. I'm not much of a napper. So it's hard to catch up watch star wars. Ackle, it's the only star wars thing that I've ever watched that absolutely I sleep through the center of that episode. Cool. Yeah. No, I haven't watched accolade. But a lot of discourse about that show flying around the internet.
Justin, I think you I thought you'd tweet something about how you liked it, right? Yeah, I mean, it's like it's just really good at putting me to sleep. That's all I'm saying. It should have just been about the cover. It should have just been about the towers, which is. Yeah, it's it's a little bit of a hard watch only because I don't it reminds me a little bit of Final Fantasy 15 of like there's the bones there of like, oh my god, this could have been amazing.
It's got interesting character and is in like, like just the plot of the show, like written out bullet by bullet would sound like the most like, you know, compelling star wars thing. Like execution is sometimes weird and sometimes hammy and like, I don't know, like I'm, I'm, I'm sounding more negative than I actually feel like to me, it's like a seven out of 10 show, like I think it's totally like a good watch, but like it had the potential to be a 10 out of 10.
And so that's that's what sometimes makes it a little tough. So the whole show has this premise of like it's a set tells story, a story in the past and a story in the present. And the whole thing is like, well, how could the Jedi be viewed in such a negative light by some characters. They're going to have to reveal that. And then you see what happens.
And then you just just plays out in a past episode. And the big twist is that all the Jedi act like fucking idiots and they don't act like that. I and it makes no fucking sense. And that's the twist. Cool. It's unbelievable. But there's, you know, everything that takes place in the present is kind of neat, a bunch of Kung Fu and stuff like that. It's cool. And then you did a tool been dirty with the aging when you see him aged. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, really cool. Yeah. So weird.
And this is what we're getting. This is Star Wars this year, everybody. That's it. Go home. Two years. We'll get Mandalorian and Grogu and theaters. Maybe. Totally. Okay, that brings us to video game 20 questions. Our suggestion this week comes from Andrew in an undisclosed location location. Rachel, if you don't know how this works, it's just 20 questions. You ask yesterday no answers. And you, you, you at least know one thing. You know that it's a video game.
And with that, let the questioning begin. Did this game come out in the 70s, 80s or 90s? No. Y'all on Rachel is the hero stroke main character human. Maybe it's a Star Wars game. I can't, okay, I think I have to say. No, the main character is not human. How I have to answer that. So he's already broken the S or no question. No, the main character. It's not you. Is this a console exclusive? No. Is this game made in Japan? No. You know, Sonic makes out with a human lady in one of those games.
Yeah, or like Mario. Are we counting like Craig toss this human? You know what I mean? Like he. Yeah, he was. What's human? Yeah. I'm going to have to move off of that question. It's going to completely derail. The whole thing. Was the game developed in the United States or Canada? Yes, that's five. Is it based on a licensed property? Yes. Oh, no. Is the game an RPG? No. So it's not a Burger King RPG. It's a good idea. A yo-no-aid RPG. That would be good to.
Let's see. Is this based on a movie franchise? Yes. It's a movie. It's a movie franchise. Didn't come out in the seventies, eighties or nineties. So it's a little bit newer. In the heyday of licensed games. Is this game take place in the past? No. Not Star Wars. It's true a long, long time ago. Yeah, it has made me think like it's a party, you know, like there's a team or there's an Android-esque or any human or you know, like the main character is... I think so too.
I was thinking the same thing or like Gollum where he was a hobbit and now as a twisted monster. Or what if it's that the main character is kind of like a, you know, an invisible figure that clicks around on a bunch of characters like in Siv. Yeah. Yeah, like the Dune real-time strategy game. I don't know if you play as a character in Dune RTS or not, I'm a big fan. Can you see your character in this game? Yes, that's 10. So you can see you're not human.
Just standing right there and not being human. I mean, it's going to be all those... It's going to be a lot of fantasy and sci-fi. Yeah, well, we do know it's based off a movie license. I'm saying the... I'm metagaming Damon Zancey, which we're not supposed to do. But like, you know, the main character is not human is one of those things where like, well, you're controlling the horse, not the man on the horse. It's going to be one of those deals.
That's not Star Wars. It still could be superhero based. More action. And we could get a genre movie. I'm like, yeah, it could be Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, that's a good one. The Star Lord is only half human. He's half planet. That's true. Like if you're Spider-Man, you work human and got bit by a spider, but it didn't change you from being human, right? Well, are you trying to say that mutants aren't human? There's been decades of X-Men comics about this.
LAUGHTER I guess it does, if it changes your DNA. Yeah. Is this based on a Marvel franchise? No. Oh, darn. I thought we were on to something there. There's no DC games, right? Yeah, I mean, well, this Batman right? Superman, but Superman's very much not human. Also, I think the last Superman game was Superman 64, which was probably in the 90s. OK, so not superhero, not Star Wars. Should we just ask if it's just sci-fi? Yeah. Is sci-fi? Yes. Maybe it's... So there was Alien.
There was Alien, what's it called? Alien Isolation. Yeah. There's the Terminatorics. Yeah. There's Rafa or Alien as... Yes, there is with a human character. Yeah, I don't know who you are, an Alien. Or maybe Damon's argument is that the Alien's the main character. Do we ask you to play as...? Maybe we're the Walking Dead. Yeah. And so Chronicles of Riddick... Yeah, should we ask if there's like a sequel to this movie series in the past, including this year coming out this year in the past year?
This is Alien House 1. Sure. How do you want to ask that past two years? I don't know. Yeah, sure. That sounds good. OK. The past two years as this movie series had an entry, including this year going forward. No. Oh. OK. So it could be Riddick. That's cool. Yeah, I like that. I like that answer. Well, you're like... Oh, you're... OK. Well. But you... I don't know. Are you not a human in that one? No idea. I've never played it or seen the movies. I've never played it. That'll be difficult.
So there's Riddick. There's also like Avatar. That's pretty... That's a really good answer. I haven't had something in the last two years. When did that come out? I can't remember. I don't know. Didn't water come out like... Well, the game came out this fall, but it missed the year that the game... So I know that the movie came out three years ago. The movie was two years ago, right? Well, but it didn't come out last calendar year or this calendar year.
Because the game came out last calendar year and missed the movie year. Should we ask if it an alien? Because that rules out so much. Yeah, you know, an expert. Well, are there aliens in it? Is a good question. What's a sci-fi game? I don't know. I mean, yeah, I guess robots are... Or zombies in a sci-fi game. Sure. Are there aliens in it? Oh, yeah. Maybe... Maybe we're the aliens. Are they blue? No. That's 15. Oh, no. Okay. We've been bamboozled. So we got independent today. Oh, man.
It's not alien though. Because alien has a movie this year. What about Starship Troopers? Troopers? Did that get a game? Is there a game coming out? Yeah, you play the human, though. That's okay. Yeah. It's obviously our human. For all human. It's been a predator game. I'm not in the lot. We could ask if this is based on a classic 80s movie franchise. Well, you eliminated it. Like, we know it's not. We know it's not alien isolation.
Yeah, because it's not based on a series of that has an entry this. It's not a series. Right. Right. We're getting all twisted up on our questions now. What we eliminated and what we didn't. They. It could still be. We're ready. But I don't know does it. Is that aliens? What if the thing. Yeah. Yeah. Is alien with a thing game? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It could be this. And I survived one. I never I never played the thing game. But I know that it's made sort of conceit.
So, it was every time you played it. I loved it. It was completely different. It was different. You never knew just like the movie. You never knew who was infected and who wasn't and like it was different Every time you played based off who went into rooms together and so. It would help to know if there was a 70s or 80s movie. Yeah, sure. Is this based on a beloved 70s or 80s movie? Yes. Okay. So that eliminated. It's ridiculous about just that.
Carpenter joint. Okay, 70s or 80s. It was think about this for a hot sec. So we know it's not Star Wars. We know it's not we know it's not aliens or aliens are not avatar, but still based of game released in the 2000s based off of the 70s or 80s sci-fi movie. I mean, the thing meets those criteria. 100%. We could ask if it's multiplayer focused. I don't think the game has multiplayer. Oh, okay, okay. I
thought it was a survival. Yeah, well, well, like, you know, Friday the 13th or something, but I don't think about it. I don't know how to narrow it this down. I guess I can ask is this a good licensed game based off the movie? The thing? No. Okay, good. That good, but like I felt guilty about asking it that way. I still feel like the oh, yes, there are aliens like there's a low of aliens. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 70s or 80s aliens though, there's we got ET. You got close encounters.
Yeah. Starship or the last star fighter. Not Tron, no aliens. This is difficult. This is really difficult. I feel like we're missing something stupid. Yeah, killer clowns. Maybe it's killer clowns. I mean, there was the they're from outer space. There was the capcom arcade brawler, the aliens, but that didn't come out in the 2000s. Inside aliens. It can't be aliens because there's an alien movie. Yeah, you're right.
Right. What about killer clowns? Does that meet all our criteria? Not quite human. They're from outer space. 70s or 80s movie. I don't I mean, maybe yeah, I don't know. I don't think gaming would do that to us, but you're right. It might meet all our criteria. Isn't there a new death race coming out? Are you human in that? There are aliens in that. There's Mad Max. Does that fit any of our criteria? Obviously, human, right? Yeah.
I don't know. How many questions have I got? Two questions in a guess. I don't mind. I don't hate that as a guess. Okay. Is clowns in it? Yes. We did it, fam. You want to do the outer space? Do it. No, no, no. This is all you. You came up with clowns out of nowhere. Okay. Well, I always do. I always ask about the clowns. So is this killer clowns from outer space? It sure is, Sam. Nicely done. I honest, that is incredibly done. This game is only a month old. It kind of like,
it passed me by. I didn't realize it had already been released, but it was just released last month. Wow. And it is another game is so much harder than I thought. There is yet another asymmetrical multiplayer game where it's easy when you're listening and chatting at the TV. But once you get up and jeopardy, it's impossible. All right. Now, I think you did really good. You came up with a few questions. And we won. And first of all,
you're the only person in the show with the perfect record. That's true. That's true. 100% win rate. That's happening back. I think the main character are the clowns, right? That was why. Yeah, I saw them modeling around in their little clown shoes. You can play as humans, but I think the main characters are the killer clowns from outer space. I'm not familiar with killer clowns lore. Are they are they wearing makeup or is that just them?
Is that just how they emerge from space? They are from another planet where everyone is a clown. No, it's not so they're not so they're not so their version of clown makeup would be like to make up on to look like. Yeah, exactly. They're basically from Darth Maul's world. Yeah, got it. I love Justin's mind. He needs to know more. You can't write. I just I've never seen it.
It's totally worth watching. I pause a little bit when Sam asked if this is from a beloved 80s movie because it's not on the level of like the thing or aliens, but I mean, right, right. It's loved enough to have beginning a video game in 2024. Have you seen it? Yeah, but not in forever. Yeah, so this is what you're going to revisit after a total recall? Or sorry, what would you say? Duelize. Justin should watch this now. It's worth watching for the goofy kills, the ways the clowns
think to kill people. That's the reason. Yeah, there's a drinking game in this special. Yeah. Do you think that humans win? Well, I don't think they made a sequel. So I'm going to say no. This is not the kind of movie where I think the humans will. So maybe the sequel will be killer humans from outer space and three humans will land on their planet. Spoilers, the pies melt that. Yeah. The happy clown planet and just ruin everything. Yeah, I have perfectly intent to clown
planet. Well, nicely, Joe. Yeah, it's terrible. Thank you. Terribly fun. Nicely job. Thank you for the suggestion. Andrew, viewers, listeners, if you have your own suggestions for video game 20 questions, email them to me at the email address, gamescoup at IGN.com. And that's all the scoops that we have for this week.
Thank you, Rachel. Thank you, Sam. Thank you, Justin. Thank you to Joe and Mariah and working behind the scenes here in Tio, working behind the scenes here to make this episode possible. Oh, I forgot to mention the top of the show. There will be no gamescoup next week because next week is San Diego Comic Con and many of us will be traveling down to San Diego. So apologies for that, but please be excited for all of our Comic Con coverage. My name is Damon. This is IJN Game Coup. We're out.
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