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The Game Award Nominees Revealed + Call of Duty BLOPS 7 Troubles

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Speaker 1

Welcome to another episode kat Lidy Got You Covered.

Speaker 2

Each week we talk about the biggest things happening in the world of video games, but in a random order, as dictated by these letters.

Speaker 1

These letters are.

Speaker 2

Partly done by our wonderful production crew Spencer and John Luke, but some of them come from you at home and Kurt.

If people want to write a letter to us, how do they send it?

Speaker 3

You know what?

Speaker 4

They can email it to us at Got You Covered at GameSpot dot com.

Speaker 2

Easy, easy, all right, all right, that's up in the first one.

Speaker 3

Let's rock you go.

Speaker 2

The Game Awards nominations have been announced.

Congrats to the nominees.

Speaker 1

They all seem deserving to us.

Speaker 2

But if you can nominate one more game in each category.

Speaker 1

What would it be?

Speaker 3

Well, there's a million categories.

Speaker 2

What's your favorite esports team?

Speaker 3

The forty nine ers?

Speaker 1

Is C nine?

Still going?

Is nine?

Class nine?

Speaker 4

Okay?

We're not gonna do that one.

Okay, So there's a million of them.

Speaker 1

There's a million categories.

Speaker 5

We're just gonna highlight a few of them, not everything, all right, And I'm gonna have you guys start with most anticipated.

Speaker 2

Okay, most anticipated game?

Oh you know what what?

Speaker 5

Oh?

Speaker 1

Comedy two.

Speaker 4

Oh, that's the thing that was announced because I cannot.

Speaker 1

Believe that that game exists or will.

Speaker 4

Be existing, I mean, doesn't technically exist, is in pre pro but.

Speaker 2

Yeah, oh that Expanse game looks cool.

Yeah, in lieu of a mass effect.

Speaker 1

And I like the Expanse universe.

Speaker 4

Yeah you got a few, Yeah, got one more in you.

Speaker 2

Cyberpunk too, oh Ryan, zero.

Speaker 4

Parades, Oh the one.

I would probably say zero pres as well.

I'm at least I have a thing where, of course I like anticipate things that are coming, but I get most excited over stuff that I know actually exists.

So when I say that, so it's like, sure, Cyberpunk two, it like on paper exists, like in theory, people are working on it, but we don't actually see anything.

Same thing with something like the Witcher.

It's like they showed you a slice of a thing, but that thing was like proof of concept.

Speaker 3

That is what it's gonna Yeah, what it could look like.

Speaker 4

They show they had the playble bit oh ye yeah, yeah, it was like look at the bear blood of Don Walker.

Oh yeah, see that's the thing that exists because you played.

Speaker 2

It, didn't play watch you watched it, but Hey, Star Wars thirteen thirteen existed.

Speaker 4

So you know, yeah, I know, I know, so you never know.

There's one thing I played I would like to continue beyond Good and Evil to Yeah, yeah, guess whatever, buddy, the only person in the world who's actually played that game.

No, there's a game I want to get my hands in on, drenched in however you want to put it V the Hell Razor Games, the one that's all about you know, it's all like goopy guts, Yeah, goopy gutsy, you know, sleepy, sloppy.

You know it's got all it checks all the boxes that make the game remarkable.

Speaker 3

Do you know what those are?

Speaker 1

The three faces?

Sex, violence?

Speaker 3

You're close?

Well sure faces blood.

Speaker 2

Yeah, guts, sex yeah.

Speaker 3

And gore?

Speaker 1

Wait know is it gore?

Speaker 4

No?

Poop?

It's oop, okay, sex, poop.

Those are the three things that sell no matter what.

I don't want to hear anybody if they deny those things in life, they're wrong because those are the things that make the world churn.

Blood, sex, and poop.

And from what I can tell, Hal Razor has all of it.

And I know for a fact, at least poop.

I don't know poop is in it, but the guy calls you a little little feces monkey counts in my book.

I played it, all right, that's one of my next Next, we're gonna go with best RPG, Best RTPG, an extra one to throw on.

Go on, then, look outside?

Speaker 3

Have you see anything?

Speaker 2

You're such a I'm just trying to yes and yeah, and here I am shutting it down.

Speaker 4

Well, you're not supposed to look outside and look outside, so yeah, go ahead, look outside.

Speaker 3

And don't come back.

Speaker 4

Go on.

Speaker 3

Finally I'm free.

Speaker 5

Next one, all right, we're gonna go with best action adventure, a very.

Speaker 1

Best action adventure.

What's yours?

I didn't play it.

Speaker 4

Well, you're British and you're doing it to service to your to your kind, to my country, to your country, to my queen.

Speaker 2

Well you know she's dead, could be alive an animal.

Camilla is technically queen, that's true.

Speaker 1

She's a queen consort or something.

God save Charles the King.

Speaker 4

Yeah, Adam Fall is my action adventure game that's not on this list.

Speaker 3

That should be.

Speaker 4

I don't care what anybody says, but if I had to choose, not that we're doing this, I just want to shout out that I'm happy the Indiana Jones The Great Circle got on me too.

That game rocks someone who's a grumpy dump about it, you know, because like machine games, I love grumpy dump.

I was like, I gotta wind your old man.

Lucasar's franchise gave me some Nazi killing, like real Nazi killing, and then they gave me a game that's like Nazi killing adjacent but still.

Speaker 3

For action adventure.

Speaker 2

Well puzzles and oh it doesn't have combat.

I guess it does have traversal it.

Speaker 1

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 3

Next one.

Speaker 5

Next, next time, we're gonna go with best indie game debut, which only has four, which only has four.

Speaker 1

Because the Megabonk person who are they?

Speaker 4

Maybe the mystery developer John Megabank megab for context if you don't know, the developer of Megabank chose to step out of the debut indie game because they, whoever they are, I think deem it unfair because they put out other games.

It's other pseudonyms and this technically is not their first debut game.

So good on you, John Megabank.

Speaker 2

Uh.

If Fields of Mystery I was in one point now this year, I would have said that team for sure.

Speaker 1

Uh, what do you call it?

Consume Me?

Speaker 3

Consume Me debut?

Speaker 1

I'm pretty sure it was.

And what was my third one?

Speaker 2

Oh, Ambrosious sky Act more on.

Speaker 1

I finished that the other day, and I had a really lovely.

Speaker 3

Time space cleanup game.

Speaker 1

Space Powerwash sim with grief and emotions.

It's very good.

Speaker 4

Usually I think Powerwash similar resonates with people who have a lot of grief and time to meditate on problems, so I think it's perfect.

Yeah, but this is only calls for let's say two, so you got to pick two.

Speaker 2

Okay, well not Fields and mystery then because it didn't go into one point and expanded early access forever.

Speaker 1

Yeah, so Consume Me.

And I would pick.

Speaker 4

Ki Mara, which is just a short one, but that would be probably one of the most exciting debut indie games that at least like, I don't know if that is their debut game, but debut game that was published and put on Steam.

And my second pick would actually would actually probably be Heartworm or Look Outside.

Let's say Look Outside.

I would pick Look Outside over Heartworm Look Outside.

I'm just a big fan of the game.

Apparently, what's out there?

Do you see anything?

Speaker 1

No, it's Doc four PM already next one?

Speaker 4

All right, now we're going for best Independent?

Speaker 3

Yeah?

Speaker 4

What is independent?

Even me?

I don't know?

Speaker 1

If outside?

Speaker 4

Yeah, I guess, Just like, what's another cool game?

And Roger Trees A Dead Sands a black manner?

Speaker 1

Is that Sounds of Black Men?

Speaker 2

Yeah?

Speaker 1

It was published by Role Fury did Blueprints, so.

Speaker 4

Sounds and a promised mascot agency developed and published by the same folks.

So yeah, I don't know.

We're just naming off good indie games that didn't get nominated.

RoboCop Rogue City?

Is that independence?

Speaker 1

I don't know, is the RoboCop independent?

Speaker 3

Is the robot?

Yes?

Speaker 4

That is kind of what the entire crux of robe Cop is, right, he just doesn't know if he's in control.

Speaker 3

Is he a human?

Speaker 4

Is your machine?

Is he both?

Can you be both?

Speaker 3

Next?

Speaker 4

Actually?

Can I put one on this list?

Oh?

Speaker 3

I thought you were getting excited about something?

Speaker 1

What are you excited about?

Speaker 5

Really cool puzzle game made by mostly one dev not entirely, but a indie dev in Japan.

It's not their debut game, but it is quite excellent.

Speaker 4

You know, I had a lot of respect for you putting that on there until you told me it was made by more than one dev.

Speaker 3

What are we gonna do all right next?

Speaker 5

Probably not gonna talk about accessibility really people for that, but I do want to shout out.

Steven Saylor, who is an excellent voice in the space talking about accessibility, is doing a series on his YouTube channel where he goes through each of the nominees for accessibility and breaks down what that game did well for accessibility.

That is curious about what those games do well.

Stephen's channel Steeze the Man, Steve's the one.

I wanted to shot that out anyway.

Best performance.

Speaker 4

I mean, I just need to say I'm very there's really like, look all well and good.

I was just I was going to set the world on fire if Kanatsu Kato yes didn't get nominated for this, I would have destroyed the planet.

Speaker 1

Did you see Rinko's actors now starting to play the game.

Speaker 4

Too, Yes, and it's amazing.

So I feel a little.

Speaker 3

I don't feel robbed.

Speaker 4

I'm very glad that she's there, but I was kind of like holding it was the only full disclosure.

It was really the only nominee for this year that I actually cared about.

Where I was like, I swear to God, there's just one thing I want right now.

Speaker 3

It's this.

Go ahead, let him know.

Speaker 1

I would say.

Speaker 2

From this list, Alex Jordan in front of the shot that is, that's a puzzling one to me, be kind of a little confounding because he plays eleven versions of the same person.

Yes, and I think he does an incredible job, like his accents throughout so good.

But I would also say from Expedition, obviously Ben and Jen and Charlie Cox did amazing jobs.

There are only six people in this category.

But I also think Kirsty Ryder, who played Lune, did an amazing job.

That a whole cast was really good, so it must have been really difficult.

Speaker 1

I am.

Speaker 4

I concur with Alex Jordan because I cannot imagine what it was like to play that many versions of a character yep, from different time paths versions of that thing.

Speaker 3

So yeah, that's a good one.

I agree with.

Speaker 4

That Best score and music, best scoring music.

I have one that I think, oh deserve to be on here and Janie Jones, Yes, that's yours.

I assume it's good.

You know what I got.

I think the soundtrack in this game is an amazing sound hill Keeper oh yeah, the soundtrack and Keeper is so good and so imaginative, and it was like so refreshing to play a game where the music felt present, Like there's too many times where like in games that I play and this is not the Storchet, but like you just play games and you feel the cues of music that you're supposed to be feeling in certain moments.

But Keeper used very strange cues and very strange sort of genres and intermentations in places that don't feel like they've made sense in a good way.

It gave like a very distinct personality to that game.

So I think scoring music, I think Keeper Keeper was robbed.

I'm not getting an opportunity and if I could add one, that would be it still for me, it's silent hill Augh.

I think it's crazy soundtrack's not on here.

Yeah, they've got their dudes before.

It's fine, but that soundtracks so freaking it's amazing.

I got another one Keeper Keeper.

Genuinely think what I Keeper should have been in best art direction that that game.

Speaker 3

Every single I'm just gonna gush about this game.

Speaker 1

Every frame you can.

Speaker 4

When I was editing this, when I was editing the review for Keeper, I was like playing a little game with myself.

I was like, I'm just gonna just click anywhere in the timeline and see what happens.

Every single time I clicked, I was like, oout hanging on my wall.

I would hang it on my wall, a very curated, artistic experience keeper.

That would be my additional put it in there.

I agree, all right, best narrative and Roger.

Speaker 2

I think and Roger is, yeah, the most impactful and clever way of telling a narrative this year.

I loved Expedition thirty three, maybe Crime multiple times.

I'm excited to experience Kingdom Comes, I loved Silent Hill, didn't finish Death Strending, and I'm still working away through Yota San.

Speaker 1

Roger would be mine.

Speaker 4

Am I missing something really obvious with narrative?

I did kind of struggle with narrative a little bit this year.

I wouldn't say it counts, but I do think one of the most interesting approaches is the storytelling I saw this year was Adam Fall.

Speaker 3

The way in which that story is like delivered to you is.

Speaker 1

So beautiful accent.

Speaker 3

Yeah, It's just it's just that.

Speaker 4

Yeah.

And I was like, Wow, the narrative in this, No, I would say the narrative in it is like fine, but it's the way in which the game delivers the narrative to you just feels very novel.

Speaker 1

I mean the same with U with hell as us for that then yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5

Yeah, that's kind of what makes these categories odd is because I would I would.

I agree with you, Kurt, like, I think the narrative, the way the narrative is told to the player is impactful.

But you could almost argue that it's like more of a design category.

But hey, games, it's like they all flow together, you know.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

Speaker 4

Anyways, that said, narratives didn't blow me away this year except for sound Hill F and that is in here, so we're good.

Best game direction keeper.

I cannot believe sound Hill F is not on this Yeah.

Maybe it's because there were so many good things, but like, that blows my mind.

It blows my mind.

So sold Hill F would be my actual Yeah, add that to my keeper or keeper so you're handsome yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

And finally, Game of the Year, Game of the Year.

Speaker 1

Silent Hill, Silent Hill F, Sounce and Blake Manner.

Yeah, it's genuinely I I'm not proud of this.

Speaker 3

Okay, here we go.

Speaker 2

The first day, I played Sound of blaken Is that for six hours non stop.

Then I couldn't really.

Speaker 1

Play it, and I went to the office.

I watched you.

Oh no, no, I played it for like.

Speaker 3

An hour then and then you went.

Speaker 2

That was on a Thursday.

This was on a Sunday.

Speaker 4

Oh.

Speaker 3

The second day, the second the real pick up.

Speaker 1

The real pickup day.

Speaker 2

Then I went on vacation and we had like I took the Monday off, but we had the Tuesday off a Veterans Day or something, right.

Speaker 3

Mm hmm.

Speaker 2

I just sat for seven hours and played it, and I was so excited.

I'd written notes down of leads that I had to follow.

Every time I unlocked a mystery, I was.

Speaker 3

Like, would you do actually do that.

Speaker 4

I've seen you in the office by yourself, like squeaking to yourself over something you're excited about, and I'm always like, Lucy's losing again.

Speaker 2

I there was one there was one particular puzzle that I solved and so many threads like like it went across the board that I went around the house by myself.

Anyway, great game.

Speaker 4

Yep and silent hell yeah, yeah, overall, it's another year.

Yep, nominations, way to go.

These are just the ones that, you know, we could just throw a little darge truck in there.

Speaker 1

We would Indiana Joe's is great too, and Keeper was stubbed.

Speaker 4

They'll appear an hour, Oh yeah, what.

Speaker 2

Maybe they'll appear in the game spots, game of.

Speaker 4

The ye oh oh yeah, that's the thing we do, right yeah, I'm a part of that all right, Time for another letter, Time for another letter.

Call of Duty Black Ops seven launch sales are way down from Black Ops six, and it has the worst user reviews of any Call of Duty yet.

This could be contributed to a few things, like successive Battlefield six accusations of their use of AI art, or those viral clips of the boss fight against the Godzilla sized bomb barfing version of Michael Rooker.

Speaker 3

Have you seen that?

Speaker 2

Yes?

Speaker 4

Oh yeah, before we move on, what the fuck was that?

Speaker 1

What the Michael Rooker thinks?

Speaker 4

Oh yeah, how did you see the giant?

So I just need to say this, I myself and Jean Luke edited the video review for that game.

We were The review came in hot, we were there.

We split the review into half, so I reviewed the first half, all right, I added the first half and the second half, And one of the best experiences was Jean Luke and I sing next to each other at our desks and in real time going through footage and asked me like, what the fuck is this game?

Like over and over again, be like do you see this?

And then you looking over there, do you see this?

Including the giant machete?

Yeah, that falls from the sky.

For what it's worth, it was the first time since Black Ops won.

Speaker 1

You've been interested in campaign.

Speaker 4

Know what the hell this is?

Speaker 5

So?

Speaker 4

Hey, you may have lost the hearts of many others, but the interest of one guy who notoriously has bad taste.

Speaker 3

So what was that?

Speaker 5

What I mean?

Speaker 4

Hey?

Speaker 1

They said it was going to be a screwy mind game game this year.

Speaker 4

Yeah, Screenlind game game, and they went all in.

It was like the first like twenty minutes of that game that I was watching, Wow, it goes like full like control, like like like oldest house styles sort of things.

Was like, what is going on?

Anyways, I'm okay with it.

However, I do have I do want to make one thing.

I do want to say one thing, the AI thing.

So the director went on record saying that AI was used as tools, but nothing that they used.

Speaker 2

And crucially that they are selling to use part of a battle pass, yes, but that they went on record saying we didn't use it for anything that is used in the game.

Speaker 4

That could be up to debate based on the things that look very clearly AI made.

The thing I'm concerned about is whether or not AI was used to write such a bombastic experience.

I don't.

Look, we don't have a tin foil hat segment yet, but if I would put my tinfoil hat on, I don't want to discredit anybody who worked and wrote that game, but for a game that is so outrageous compared to other Black Ops campaigns, it seem I hope it isn't written by AI.

Speaker 1

Not for they would have to disclose at least one on Steam.

Speaker 4

But even then, because I like what I saw, that would be very upset.

Speaker 5

I'm gonna say I don't think it was, just because I have played Black Ops three and that story is equally like mind bendingly like nonsensical, like I think there is at least like somebody somebody there just has a passion for.

Speaker 4

Stuff.

Speaker 5

Because because three also was one where I was like, I think they've gone too far with this.

I have no idea what's going on, so it feels kind of more goods following that vain all right.

Speaker 3

CurR and Lucy, Hey, that's that's us.

Speaker 4

Will now attempt to get the franchise back on track by filling out a mad Lips style announcement for next year's inevitable Black Ops eight release.

Speaker 1

I thought next year was modern.

Speaker 4

Well, let's just the amounts them both at the same time.

Okay, okay, let's go.

Have you never done a mad Lips.

I don't think the British people know what it is.

Speaker 1

We don't have it, So.

Speaker 5

Lucy, here's how mad Limps works.

You're given a paragraph that has a bunch of blanks, right, and in the blanks they it'll say, like, give us an adjective.

Speaker 2

I did this on the Orlando Bloom fan.

Speaker 3

Forum one wow.

Okay, how long to Bloom?

Speaker 1

Like two thousand and two?

You think a peak?

Lord of the rings?

Speaker 4

M I'm going to need to write these down, yeah, okay doing them?

Speaker 3

Can I be?

How specific?

Can I get?

Speaker 4

Because I got one for body part?

Do we both give a body part?

Do we take your given him?

Many that I think we work on because it's gonna be Yeah.

I got, I got the I got the first body part.

Christopher Maloney's left.

Speaker 1

Ass cheek adjective.

Speaker 4

Small, small plural noun as an that's that's a really funny.

Speaker 3

One plural noun.

Speaker 1

Canalopes word that ends in an Pelican wow.

Speaker 4

Pelican Uh name me an ai tool Oh.

Speaker 3

I don't know if I know enough?

Speaker 4

She is an a tool.

Speaker 1

I guess everything's to Alexa, Siri, lucky charms.

Speaker 4

I'll just do.

Speaker 1

Rainbow American sounding first name chet Chat?

Speaker 3

Have you met ale out of Chet's chat?

Speaker 4

Hanks?

Speaker 3

American sounding last name Anderson?

Where be going with this?

Speaker 4

You'll see?

Speaker 3

Are they gonna kill this?

Speaker 4

Cancel?

Stephen Sigall, My dad wanted to beat Steven Sagall in the nineties.

Speaker 1

Now Uh door plural noun we use.

Speaker 2

Toes uh fomb animal, pig.

Speaker 4

Casino game, craps.

Speaker 2

Adjective terrifying verb, fart, celebrity share disease.

Speaker 3

What is a disease?

Speaker 1

What's a disease that doesn't hurt?

Speaker 3

It doesn't exist anymore?

Speaker 1

I think just go chicken pox?

Speaker 4

Chicken pox, it is okay.

Sinful adjective covetous, look at you pulling that out a plural baby animal, the little goats, kids?

Kids?

Is that a British thing?

Speaker 2

Oh?

Speaker 1

Thanks, so I think it's just a thing.

Speaker 4

Oh well, gonna say kids.

Speaker 1

Then high number four okay.

Speaker 4

Al right, okay, okay, four twenty.

Speaker 1

I get bad Ass Badass Lee.

Speaker 3

Yeah that's pretty Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 5

Hey badass, Yeah, badass Now Chaos Emeralds, Yeah that's good.

Speaker 3

New metal band, ye, new metal band, please saliva.

Speaker 2

I've never even heard of them talk about items to crunch.

Speaker 4

Sorry, okay, look away from the that for a second.

Why bring it in?

You guys can turn around?

Speaker 5

All right, all right, here we go.

So that's gonna work.

One of you will read this, okay, which one?

And this is gonna be like you are presenting.

Speaker 3

Oh so we are?

Are we on the stage?

Speaker 4

You're on the stage.

Speaker 5

So maybe you guys could take paragraph turns or if Lucy wants to do her best, like please.

Speaker 4

You've been on a stage before, but make sure you do the stage.

Speaker 1

Well, what we're doing, we'll do on each other.

Speaker 2

Yeah, exactly, okay, okay, all right, ready, yep, okay, we finally got it.

Speaker 3

We're here to announce call of duty.

Black Ops eight.

Speaker 2

Repair your Christopher Maloney's left butt cheek for Coal of Duty Black Ops eight.

Speaker 1

Building on the small foundation.

Speaker 2

Of Black Ops seven, this new title reflects our commitment to play at Cantalopes and a development process guided by a paid subscription to Siri.

Speaker 4

In the campaign, you'll go undercover in a war torn Pelican astan where you'll take out the terrorist group known as the Black Rainbow and their leader Chenko Andersonovich voice by Steven Sagal.

We know players, I gotta do it how they would do it.

We know players have asked for a more grounded campaign, So the one hundred foot tall door woman who shoots we use has ray tracing on her toes.

Speaker 2

Multiplayer has been completely redesigned to be exactly the same as always.

Weapon balance, hit detection and matchmaking will be determined by a pig we told to play craps.

For those who say Omni movement and last year's wool jumping mechanic was a terrifying gimmick, we listened.

Now you can fought every limb in mid air like Shaer with pit chicken pox.

Speaker 6

As always, we view our players as covedous little kids who are lucky to spend seventy dollars on the base game, which is why we're setting a four hundred and twenty dollars price point for the Badass Lee Edition, which comes with a limited edition Saliva Operations skin and a cheesy Gordita crunch wrapped AR fifteen.

Speaker 4

Hoorah.

Cool.

Speaker 3

Can't wait for the Call of Duty game?

Speaker 6

Yep?

Speaker 5

You next?

Speaker 2

Do you know it's the twentieth anniversary of the Xbox three sixty.

Speaker 4

Wow?

Speaker 3

No, I did not know that.

Speaker 4

No.

Speaker 1

No, that that's upsetting.

Speaker 2

What are your fondest memories of the console, your favorite games, and what is its legacy.

Speaker 4

You have a more intimate relationship with Xboxer sixty because, as mentioned, you purchased a mass Effect Shepherd chest plate.

Speaker 2

Okay, I thought you were gonna say that I bought my Xbox three sixty because I was so enamored with the Red Dead Redemption Redemption you played John Marston Reason one O one trailer.

Yeah, yeah, I remember buying it.

I remember picking it up and it was my dad's best friend's funeral.

So I was back from university and I had it sent to my house and I picked it up, so I had it delivered to my mom's house and my stepdad was there and he handed it to me.

Speaker 1

I remember that.

Speaker 2

And my sister had to drive me back to UNI after the funeral, and all I could do was sit and read the Read Dead Mind.

But that was when manuals were good.

You got the big map.

Speaker 1

I was reading it.

Speaker 4

I was ah man, I was.

Speaker 2

And then other than that, I spent the whole summer because it was I remember the funeral was around May because that's when Reddad came out.

I bought it in a bundle from game and then I took it to UNI with me, bought it all the way back, and I spent that summer.

I had the greatest summer of my life.

I was playing Red Dead, I played mass Effect, I played Oblivion, played.

Speaker 1

BioShock.

Speaker 2

I think it was also the summer of Arcade or there.

That's when they were doing Summer of Our Kade, so that was like limbo, like I would go back and play stuff like Beyond Good and Evil.

I had such a cool summer, But I was relatively late coming to the three sixty because I was still getting a lot of use out of my PS two literally up until I went to university.

And then when I went to university.

The friends that the friendship group that I fell in with.

That makes him sound like a ragtag group.

Speaker 1

But you know, like my friends at the time, they had a three sixty, they had a way.

Speaker 2

So we played Batman, Arckmasylum, we played rock band, guitar hero, a lot of dead space, like a lot of stuff as a group.

And then by the time I got my stuff, it was like me figuring out my own taste on that platform.

Speaker 3

I got a weird Xbox three sixty story.

Speaker 4

Oh I love your Xbox three sixty story, So first off, I need to set it up.

I didn't have one.

I I chose to get a PS three instead.

So a lot of myx my early Xbox three sixty memories are similarly going to my friend Steve's basement, unfinished basement where he also slept.

I was this is a room and we would sit there and my fondest memories of Xbox three sixty earrow, like before I had one, was playing Grath Left out of four and driving as fast as possible and then getting out your car mids and just watching an eco belic like fly across the map and die.

But h well, I didn't actually get at Xbox three sixty until I want to say twenty ten minus twenty ten, twenty eleven, and I got it.

You may have watched the John Marson video the Welcome to Red Dead Redemption.

I learned about a game called Deadly Premonition, and that is a game at the time was only on It was a three sixty exclusive, and I never it was the game I always wanted to exist, and when I learned about it, I was like, I will do everything I can.

I was very broke at the time.

I was working like customer service jobs, minimum wage, living paycheck to paycheck, and I made a very foolish decision to be like, I can't sleep tonight until I experience Deadly Premonition.

So before even buying the three sixty, first I set eleven eighty dollars.

I needed to find an Xbox three sixty for eighty dollars.

That was all I had left in my bank account, actually one hundred because I needed twenty dollars without the buy Debly Permanition.

And I looked on Craigslist and I found one that was listed for eighty dollars.

To set the scene.

This is Rochester, New York.

Peak winter season, so cold snow you have to shovel your car out.

Basically, wherever you go you have to push your car on the snow.

And for what it's before I continue, I did make a comic book about the story, for what it's worth, because I think this is a very informative part of my life.

But I actually do think there's deeper meaning that'll get too Anyways, I go to my bank account, I go to my to ATM.

I empty out the eighty dollars have left.

I go to game Stop.

Yeah, they have one copy of Deadly Premonition.

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I buy it.

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I make contact with the craigslist buyer and he says he doesn't tell you where he's located.

And he's like, I'm in this area, and the area he listed is a notoriously rough neighborhood of Rochester.

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He gave you like a like you know when you go to a video games like search this area, and yeah, it was a giant circle and I listen mode.

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And things started to highlight the environment.

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Yep.

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I was so dead set on it that I didn't care.

I was like I'm doing this and my girlfriend was like, please come home.

Yeah, like please make it back.

And so I go.

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I go to the neighborhood.

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I text the individual saying, hey, I'm here at the address.

I was like at the address, and in that moment, I heard and I look behind me and a dude is on a is on a four wheel ATV booking it down the street and he skids in front of me and he says, you're here for the Xbox sixty yep.

And he's like, well, we can't go to my house.

We have to go to my aunt's house.

And don't tell me you got on.

No, I did not go on.

I did not get on ADV but just his ant's house was across the street instead.

Okay, So I go in there and I walk in and like the there's a little girl there who's like trying to show me a picture, like she's trying to show me a mirror of myself, and she's.

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Like, look at yourself, look yourself beautiful.

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And the kid brings me in and he's like, here it is.

I was like, I need to see it.

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Turns on?

He like turns on.

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Meanwhile, there's three dogs that were like humping each other and like running around, and I'm just trying to get the three sixty.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, all in all, I get it.

I go home.

Everything's fine.

Three months later, that Xbox three.

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Sixty dies, But who could have seen this coming.

I did get to complete Deadly Prenovtion one, however, it died the day I started Alan Wake one.

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Oh my god.

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I tried to return that Xbox three sixty and they opened it up to find that the seal was broken.

So they had already opened up and it was filled with cheese at dust, even though I clean the outside of it and polished it.

But that is my one and only three sixty that had and I actually missed it quite a bit, pouring one out.

Happy birthday, Xbox, thy sixty, Happy Birthday, Xbox.

Happy Easter, Xbox, Happy Easter, Xbox Time for this week, we lost Rebecca and Heinemann, one of the co founders of Interplay, a Space Invader's National champion.

I didn't actually know that, and a game developer.

Was so many incredible titles to her name.

So for our Game of the week, let's look through the game she worked on, and each pick a favorite for you to check out.

I just got to say I read her thing.

I had a hard time reading that, so shout out cancer sucks.

Yeah it does, all right, Holy schnikes, there's three papers.

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Good.

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These are all the games with start on Wikipedia.

Unfortunately do not know the specific involvement with each game, but but.

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Her fingerprints are on them.

The thing with Rebecca and Heinemann is the thing that makes her a legacy is that, like she's had big credits to games, but I think it's a testament of just how important she has been to the craft of games.

Maybe not so much like the very specific things of like being a specific sort of designer.

She did design the Bard's Ortly ser Tail three, yes, but it's astonishing to see like how much work she did porting games, some of the most important games, just stuff like Max.

Yeah, also like the like the Counter sixty four ports, like ignore super.

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Kicks as soon as I knew, as soon as I like Chuck n Our, Supermans, you all over it.

Okay, No, But in terms of also just like being a co founder of Into Player, I know, a huge video game company, like one of the names certainly in the eighties and nineties InVideo games.

Just an incredible, incredible legacy And yeah, cancel fucking sucks.

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Yeah I would.

If there's any game out here, though, I would actually try and tell people that should play.

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Mac Port of Hexon two.

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Oh yeah, that's fine.

Hexson two holds a very dear place in my heart as a young as a young PC, as a young gamer, as a young gamer.

So I think Hexon one gets all it gets a lot of love, as it should.

But I want to shout out Hexson two and it's Macport a place that I should live on and breathe forever.

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Thank you for listening to another episode of Curtain We see, gotcha covered.

My suggestion for you right now is to go and GameSpot, thank you, and watch usn't play Mario Cat sixty four on the analog thirty d.

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Yeah, or you could live in your audio world and not have to watch could get thrashed.

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Okay, that's enough, that's an enough, all right, Thank you for listening today.

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You did all right.

That doesn't mean I have to feel.

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I'm not trying to rub it in.

I'm trying to glad you do celebrate my mind.

I feel good for you.

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Thank you.

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I think you gave me a very good match too.

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I didn't Yes, you did throw a blueeshell.

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Yeah.

Unfortunately for you, I was all right, okay, all right, thank you so much for listening.

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We'll be back again next week.

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So we have a special Thanksgiving episode that we are about to record now, so it's going to be an oops ol view of mail.

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Whoops.

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However, we do still love getting your letters, so.

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Please send them two Gotcha cover at games dot com.

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And so while we will not be reading them out in the Thanksgiving episode, we'll take a look for the following weeks.

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Yeah, so think I mean so sorry if you know you send a letter for this week, but just maybe should watch next week.

You don't know it might be read or maybe the week after, who knows.

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We'll see you next week.

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Goodbye, bye

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