Episode #892 – Avowed, Elden Ring Nightreign, Pirate Yakuza
Intro: Ease into Ry and don’t call him Scooter
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- This week, win :
- Avowed
10 sec. spotlight:
Michelle
- Sworn – looks like Hades- in King Arthur’s court.
- Thanks MilkDud for “One to Watch”
- All the old Tomb Raiders 1-6 / John;s gaming history
- Kingdom Come Deliverance – Her sister is hogging it
- Drinking: water w/ Tru Lemon
John
- Where is John in Indiana Jones? Still in Egypt
- “I’m going to play this game every fukking week” – John
- Watched Raiders /
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza in Hawaii – Pirates in modern day Hawaii
- Drinking: Natural Light
Guest Host: Ryan (aka, @GenerationRy )
- Minishoot Adventures – bullet hell top down + old school Zelda
- “I’m in the closet, but the xbox is not” – John
- Elden Ring Nightreign – Elden Ring with a Battle Royale Map
- Usual service games / Dead by Daylight / Zenless Zone Zero
- Drinking: Waterloo Amber Ale
Roundtable: Avowed
- Acquisitions
- mixing based on Pillars of Eternity world
- Feels very Indy / doesn’t feel AAA
- art direction / climbing everywhere
- Is it open world? / seamless cutscenes
- Owning the chuds / woke art director
- micromanaging companions
- 1st or 3d person / Can’t dash forward
- shield assholes and clunky combat
- Verdict: A pleasant surprise / fire the Art Guy
News:
- Switch 2 for 40K on black market
- Shadow drop in April? / Switch blue balls
- Phil says “let people play”
- Hardware no longer matters
- Yoshida forced out by Jim Ryan
- Rainbow 6 SiegeX
- The legacy of Rainbow 6 / ZeroCommit
- Nintendo Gold coins program ending in March
- Kotaku says it’s a scheme
- Delta Force debuts in 3 days
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