Yeah, I think people over state how they were "close" in sales. Microsoft was able to leverage relationships being a computer/software company better than Sony was and get more Series consoles into the market at the time. Plus it was COVID and people were buying consoles and games in way higher numbers so if the Series was easier to get of course people were buying it.
The first two Borderlands are definitely good games - even if the series isn't Brad's cup of tea which is fine he seems to think that they're all as bad as the third one.
FFXIV A Realm Reborn is like that for everyone. The game takes an insane jump when you get through ARR and into Heavensward. You just gotta push through the base game. I was a XIV skeptic too and it's easily some of the best music, world, characters, villains, and story in the entire franchise.
I didn't really go "oh shit!" with the FFXIV story until the last patch of ARR with the thing that goes down in Ul'Dah. That was the moment it hooked me and then Heavensward uses a much smaller pool of characters for the story than base A Realm Reborn to it's benefit as the characters they do include get a lot more focus
1:28:20 Brad says you can play music while walking/traveling in Death Standing, but you actually can't which is a real bummer you only get music during certain moments automatically but you can listen freely to music in your private room.
Probably my favorite episode of sussie yet. The GOTY lists and borderlands/death stranding/danganronpa harassment put my heart at ease. keep up the great work Brad and the Dukes.
After watching the damage that has happened to film, television, and music due to streaming. It blows me away that someone can actually want that future for videogames... Enjoy your Hellblade and Hifi while it lasts! It'll be all micro transactions from here on out! If you aren't going to profit off the actual product, then the games will ultimately become a grey sludge for you to dump your money into endlessly.
Here is the state of the xbox. Two xbox dudes talked about their favorite games from last decade, and only Xbox game they mentioned was Starfield which came from a studio acquired in recent years. No Halo, no Gears, no Fable, not even Forza. No core xbox franchise.
I skipped to the state of Xbox segment, I will go back. But I would have thought Matty would have things like dragon age and mass effect which, mass effect at least started as an Xbox franchise
I like to listen to these podcasts when I do menial tasks , cleaning , work notes , shopping etc. When Matty & Cog talked about Xbox I found myself enjoying shopping at Walmart mid day and not actually hearing anything they were saying.
Forza 5 has hit 40 million players 6 is in development Gears is due out next year Fable also Xbox is cooking don't you worry there. We're gaming like Kings over at team green 💚
Outside of Nintendo handhelds aren't doing that well, steamdeck has only sold a couple of million units, if that was an xbox product it would have been discontinued by now.
3:02:00 I think the Xbox community highly overestimates the appeal of a portable Xbox. Even if they put multiple store fronts on it (which would negate the point of a console which is to make the money back on software sales) that would only equalizer to a ROG Ally or Legion GO (and not even really cause Xbox isn't gonna let you emulate). Having your Xbox library is only appealing to people who already have an Xbox. If not the device you're asking for is already here. And it plays Xbox games. Cheaper version of Gamepass too 😂. 3:03:00 The ROG Ally is a windows machine...yall play on PC..And besides that its customizable download Playnite it takes 20 minutes and your Ally boots up like a console its great. 3:03:25 $250?!
@@TonyTynebridge Exactly take the steam deck itself. Easily the most popular of these devices and I don't even think it's done 10 million. Is that really the market to chance with your mainline device?
21:57 Nier Automata sold way more than 5 million. It sold 7.5 million. Also there were lots of nier collabs with other games. I am quite sure 2b will be in next Smash game. I think Nier is as popular as something like Bloodborne.
As someone who owns a PS5, Switch and a PC, Xbox hasn't given me a reason to go buy an Xbox. I like buying games so gamepass isn't enough so I kinda don't care about the brand. With them bringing over 1st party games I'm just going to wait for them to come to Playstation because I'm trophy hunting and I'm already invested into that ecosystem.
this is not my first time hearing about dustin's situation, but I still held back tears just hearing about him stepping away (as he should!) for the show for some time. my thoughts are with him and holly.
@@nine9_abyss I never said it didn’t win, but in my opinion there was more memorable games that year for me at least, like MGS V, Bloodborne, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Batman Arkham Knight, Dying Light and I can keep going. Not saying The Witcher 3 is a bad game, just had more fun with others that year.
@@CatholicShrimp well you said it's not goty material. Like that's even crazier than them not picking it. I can understand if you didn't jive with the game but that's you. You can't dismiss that it is goty for a lot of people. Hence, why it won a lot of the awards that year. Yeah keep listing games released that yr. All of em fell short. Bloodborne while a great game was still niche at the time, mgs:v got a lot of backlash for being shit with repetitive content, same with arkham knight(everybody hating on the batmobile mechanic), dying light was a very good AA game, nowhere near goty material. Xenoblade I dunno lol. I know it's popular in asia but not so much in the west. There you go bud. Have a good day!
@@nine9_abyss That’s fine I respect your opinion, but for me was just the gameplay it’s just boring and repetitive, but story and choices are perfect, just felt stretched out with the combat being pretty mediocre, but that goes to all CDPR games IMO.
So tired of hearing about "the value". "When my cousins come over, we just have so much to pick from to try out really quick." Gaming shouldn't be that. It just shouldn't. Video games should be high-quality, not budget entertainment that you digest like TikTok videos.
I am SO here for MATTY XIV. Please make a video after every expansion! That's much better than an entire retrospective and it'll give you space! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
From Dustin’s twitter Friday afternoon: Last night after being induced over 24 hours prior, Holly needed an emergency c-section, and our beautiful baby son Emil Furman didn’t make it due to a placental separation that occurred. The causes at this time aren’t fully known. Our baby boy is with God in Heaven now. He meant everything to us. Thank you for your support of Holly and I leading up to this. We’re going to need some time to heal and won’t be around for a while. We’re with our friends and family and taking things as they come.
@@nickstark8479 I've had family and friends that have lost a baby during birth. It's devastating. You never really get over it because you never got to see what it would become. I know what it did to my family, I have a pretty good idea what it's doing to Dustin, Holly, and the whole LSM family really. Out living your kids is the worst thing a parent can endure, never getting to see them grow up before is a pain I wouldn't wish on my worst of enemies... R.I.P. Emil
They're definitely in an interesting position. Personally I end up using my Xbox more than my PS and enjoy the experience there generally better... But awknowledge that they are very close to a downwards spiral if customers and developers start/continue losing faith in the brand.
Have to disagree with what Matty said, Xbox isn't doing great right now, they bought Activision so the money that brings in masks the platforms failures now but they aren't selling hardware, they've still hardly released any games and most of the things people were psyched about from their last show case are at least a year away. Gears and State of Decay 3 didn't even say they were coming to the Series consoles lol. People need to remember that revenue isn't profit, it'll take decades to make the money back they spent on Activision.
2014 had one of my favorite metroidvania games maybe ever, Strider 2014! And great shout out to life is strange, still one of the most shocking endings I've experienced in video games
I think cog fails to realize that 1 these CEOs get smoked in miltiple ways. Which isnt an excuse. But lets say they signed an nda saying if this game fails they lose 15,000 k of there salary. …. You might never hear about it because these people cant whistleblow that high up.
I propose water boarding Matty till he tries DS. Nah though, games never hit as hard if they are pushed on people. But I would argue that DS is one that everybody should try even if its not for everyone.
Every time Death Stranding comes up, and no matter how well someone explains it, Matty and Cog are always like "but it's weird and you're carrying boxes!" Especially strange from Matty considering the amount of JRPG's he plays. Reeks of Xbox bias imo
2014: Shovel Knight 2015: Bloodborne 2016: DOOM 2017: Breath of the Wild 2018: Red Dead 2 2019: Sekiro 2020: Ghost of Tsushima 2021: Death's Door 2022: Elden Ring 2023: Tears of the Kingdom 2024: Helldivers 2
Brad Brad Brad...you gotta help your buddy Matt out...he mentioned he was a lvl 36 Pugalist...not Monk yet? Which means he hasn't been keeping up with his job quests...I don't blame Matty since if no one tells you how important that is then how would you know...
So many GOTYs on my to-play list! Unfortunately, my experience with A Plague Tale was getting stuck on a part with three guards towards the beginning. After at least more than half an hour of raging, I finally looked online and apparently it was a glitch - there should only be two guards. Uninstalled :p
Ill put it this way: I loaned my xbox to a good friend a few months ago and I havent missed it. Not even my beloved halo. I do have a PS5 but after all those acquisitions xbox still has nothing to pull me back.
Regarding Final Fantasy 14: I am in the post Realm Reborn patches before Heavensward and it’s soooo boring. I looked up a quest list to see how much I have before Heavensward begins and man… it’s tough
Loved XIV in Shadowbringers. Great story, world/zones, villain. Endwalker was a big step down for me, just felt like there were no stakes (god I hated that final zone when it immediately became clear what they were going to do) but the other zones were cool. I did the entire raid list for the expansion and it was kinda awful, a big step down from Eden, but I needed those fire bird mounts. And then Dawntrail comes and is their worst expansion ever from a story/characters/world perspective, but the content is the best in a while. So I don't really know how to feel about the game. I'll check in every 6 months or so I guess to do the normal mode of newer content but I think I'm finally checked out on the game until the next MMO. DT should have abandoned the Scions and let us meet new people. We got like, 2 new core characters, and one of them is Wuk Lamat who is kinda insufferable for a lot of us. They needed more of a real fresh start imo but oh well, I had a good time at its peak. Hope the next MMO isn't 10 years away
Idk when I replayed Borderlands 2 in 2019 (age 26) in preparation for the final dlc and B3 I still found the writing good and some jokes funny but when B3 dropped it just didn’t hit
I think it's an interesting year for Xbox. Some good, certainly some bad. These last few months are really going to be where most of their releases fall though. So its too earlier to count it.
First game in each year is my favorite. 2014: Dark Souls 2->Shadow of Mordor 2015: Bloodborne->Witcher 3 2016: Hyper Light Drifter->Inside->Dark Souls 3 2017: Nier Automata->Hollow Knight->Nioh 2018: Red Dead Redemption 2->Monster Hunter World 2019: Sekiro->Blasphemous->Control 2020: Doom Eternal->Nioh 2->13 Sentinels 2021: Returnal->Metroid Dread 2022: Elden Ring 2023: Blasphemous 2->Final Fantasy XVI->Armored Core 6 2024: Unicorn Overlord->Nine Sols->Animal Well I didn't include remasters or remakes, otherwise Dragon's Crown, Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls would all be on here. Dragon's Dogma 2 was a HUGE letdown considering the first game is one of my absolute favorites. Still looking forward to Metaphor: ReFantazio, Dragon Quest III HD-2D and Silksong if it ends up releasing this year.
I absolutely love my Logitech G-cloud, paired with GeForce now it has became my defacto console. I beat cyberpunk @ near max settings, save a few path tracing features, and it was a great experience.
Never disagreed with Brad more than on Borderlands 2. I get it you don’t like the franchise but if there was one game (1 was also well written) 2 specifically had one of the best villains in video games. It was genuinely well written. 3 is a sloppy mess but to trash 2 is just purely subjective at this point. Love the conversation nonetheless!
I just can't stand the mini games in that one. The ending is hype, but I raged at it so hard. Skill issue? Potentially! Also, the only DR game I never replayed.
Are they though? There is a series of ff12 raids and you will go to dalmasca and rabinastre, but the quest line is heavily Final fantasy tactics with the same characters, Also ff14 is just full of fan service from the whole franchise but it's not in the same universe. Same as the nier automata raids but it's not in the nier/drakengard universe.
Love Xbox it’s my favorite platform, but I’m a console gamer and switched back to ps5 being my main console recently due to all the decisions Xbox is making. Love jrpg’s and thought the partnership with Xbox would bring at least the pixel remasters over. Just tired of waiting around. Loved the episode!
Get ready for never before seen levels of cope and goalpost moving. *edit* Credit where it's due, I was surprised by Matty's lack of fluff and actual criticisms for xbox so far this year. Cog, well... those Matt Booty mimosas at the corporate brunches must be something out of this world.
It is so stupid to downplay realm reborns story when you are starting from the second part of original FF 14. There is a great story that concludes at realm reborn and character in realm reborn are already great but because you did not play that first part you know nothing about them.
I’ve been hard on Matty for his attendance issues in the past(and rightfully so) but I do want to thank him for showing up and doing his job. I hope this is the start of him being a bit more reliable within this community.
I'm gonna have to go back to royal. I only played like 40 hours of it. But at the time I thought it was a bit too easy compared to p5 and some of the combat mix ups made it feel a bit easy and boring. But I had just come off playing smt5 so combat felt like a step down from that. But I've not played it in about 3 or 4 years and I didn't beat it. So I know theres a ton in that game I've not seen. So I need to go back. I played P3 reload this year and I just couldn't stop playing it. So I'm tempted to play persona 5R again. But maybe after the answer dlc, and maybe after refantasio. As I don't want to burn out. Also I replayed smt5 this year as well.
Lockmort and Ben looking a bit different. 😎
😂
It's Matty and cog. Not lock mort and ben
@@david53444 yea i think he knows that bud
is cog lock and matty ben?
They unlocked infinite health is wealth
PS5 and Series were only "close" in sales at the beginning because of supply problems.
Yeah, I think people over state how they were "close" in sales. Microsoft was able to leverage relationships being a computer/software company better than Sony was and get more Series consoles into the market at the time. Plus it was COVID and people were buying consoles and games in way higher numbers so if the Series was easier to get of course people were buying it.
Brad was choking while Matty praised the Borderlands games😂
well he can touch glass i love those games and personally i find most of hes favorite games overrated as hell like hes belloved fromsoft games
It’s the wort AAA series ever created that people love. I call it Boringlands lol
@@Ovan188 did you just say touch glass?
@@Ovan188Everyone doesn't have to like/dislike the same games. You do realise that right? 🤣
The first two Borderlands are definitely good games - even if the series isn't Brad's cup of tea which is fine he seems to think that they're all as bad as the third one.
I have Death Stranding on PS5 and I've played a good amount. You've sold me on going back asap lol. It is a pretty frickin good game
3rd Strike is indeed included in the Street Fighter Collection
These 3 have great chemistry...
FFXIV A Realm Reborn is like that for everyone. The game takes an insane jump when you get through ARR and into Heavensward.
You just gotta push through the base game. I was a XIV skeptic too and it's easily some of the best music, world, characters, villains, and story in the entire franchise.
I didn't really go "oh shit!" with the FFXIV story until the last patch of ARR with the thing that goes down in Ul'Dah. That was the moment it hooked me and then Heavensward uses a much smaller pool of characters for the story than base A Realm Reborn to it's benefit as the characters they do include get a lot more focus
Tekken has been on the Xbox platform since 2009 with Tekken 6 on the 360. So I'm not sure what improvement Cog was talking about in that instance.
1:28:20 Brad says you can play music while walking/traveling in Death Standing, but you actually can't which is a real bummer you only get music during certain moments automatically but you can listen freely to music in your private room.
Disappointing
August 16th = only hellblade 2
Keep on keeping on 👍
Death Stranding is a great game🫶
Probably my favorite episode of sussie yet. The GOTY lists and borderlands/death stranding/danganronpa harassment put my heart at ease. keep up the great work Brad and the Dukes.
It was a great episode this week!
3:08:09 Dev mode and emulation still works, they shut it down but quickly reverted the change
4 hours let's goooo now I can be entertained while doing all my yard work
Yes Matty - Trails hype!
I am 70 hours in and on the second last chapter.. soooooo good 😀😀
After watching the damage that has happened to film, television, and music due to streaming. It blows me away that someone can actually want that future for videogames... Enjoy your Hellblade and Hifi while it lasts! It'll be all micro transactions from here on out! If you aren't going to profit off the actual product, then the games will ultimately become a grey sludge for you to dump your money into endlessly.
Here is the state of the xbox. Two xbox dudes talked about their favorite games from last decade, and only Xbox game they mentioned was Starfield which came from a studio acquired in recent years. No Halo, no Gears, no Fable, not even Forza. No core xbox franchise.
I skipped to the state of Xbox segment, I will go back. But I would have thought Matty would have things like dragon age and mass effect which, mass effect at least started as an Xbox franchise
@@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu they are bioware ea
I like to listen to these podcasts when I do menial tasks , cleaning , work notes , shopping etc. When Matty & Cog talked about Xbox I found myself enjoying shopping at Walmart mid day and not actually hearing anything they were saying.
Forza 5 has hit 40 million players 6 is in development
Gears is due out next year
Fable also Xbox is cooking don't you worry there. We're gaming like Kings over at team green 💚
Outside of Nintendo handhelds aren't doing that well, steamdeck has only sold a couple of million units, if that was an xbox product it would have been discontinued by now.
Chad Dukes in the house 😎
Our time is now
Gearbox need to give Borderlands a break and make a Brothers In Arms sequel. It’s been 16 years.
Do not sleep on death stranding‼️ amazing experience
Cog I got the same shirt. They have a bomber jacket also that is fire. I got it for Christmas gift last Christmas.
We want Brad's thoughts on Dawntrail!
Splintered Fate can’t get off Switch and on to XBOX fast enough. I’m ready to play it.
3:02:00 I think the Xbox community highly overestimates the appeal of a portable Xbox. Even if they put multiple store fronts on it (which would negate the point of a console which is to make the money back on software sales) that would only equalizer to a ROG Ally or Legion GO (and not even really cause Xbox isn't gonna let you emulate). Having your Xbox library is only appealing to people who already have an Xbox. If not the device you're asking for is already here. And it plays Xbox games. Cheaper version of Gamepass too 😂.
3:03:00 The ROG Ally is a windows machine...yall play on PC..And besides that its customizable download Playnite it takes 20 minutes and your Ally boots up like a console its great.
3:03:25 $250?!
Switch 2 coming aswell that itll have to compete with
@@TonyTynebridge Exactly take the steam deck itself. Easily the most popular of these devices and I don't even think it's done 10 million. Is that really the market to chance with your mainline device?
@@thepews1511 if steam deck passed 5 million I’ll be shocked. Last time they reported on December they said multiple million units.
The Xbox community always hypes up the next idea as the next big thing. First it was Game Pass, now it's a handheld.
Death Stranding is Great! ❤
Hell yeah! I didn’t know Brad was also a fellow Death Stranding enjoy! Absolutely LOVE that game man.
21:57 Nier Automata sold way more than 5 million. It sold 7.5 million. Also there were lots of nier collabs with other games. I am quite sure 2b will be in next Smash game. I think Nier is as popular as something like Bloodborne.
Not as popular as Bloodborne, but close. Nier has essentially the same demographic and fanbase as Final Fantasy since Nier is a Square Enix rpg.
As someone who owns a PS5, Switch and a PC, Xbox hasn't given me a reason to go buy an Xbox.
I like buying games so gamepass isn't enough so I kinda don't care about the brand.
With them bringing over 1st party games I'm just going to wait for them to come to Playstation because I'm trophy hunting and I'm already invested into that ecosystem.
God damn the Summon Sign song goes so hard. Every time I listen to it, I wish we had a full version.
this is not my first time hearing about dustin's situation, but I still held back tears just hearing about him stepping away (as he should!) for the show for some time. my thoughts are with him and holly.
I honestly miss the grind for levels a bit like it was during ARR launch
Wow nobody picked TW3 in 2015 is crazy to me.
It’s fun, but not GOTY material.
@@CatholicShrimp except it won goty that yr. You must have been in a cave somewhere lol
@@nine9_abyss I never said it didn’t win, but in my opinion there was more memorable games that year for me at least, like MGS V, Bloodborne, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Batman Arkham Knight, Dying Light and I can keep going.
Not saying The Witcher 3 is a bad game, just had more fun with others that year.
@@CatholicShrimp well you said it's not goty material. Like that's even crazier than them not picking it. I can understand if you didn't jive with the game but that's you. You can't dismiss that it is goty for a lot of people. Hence, why it won a lot of the awards that year.
Yeah keep listing games released that yr. All of em fell short. Bloodborne while a great game was still niche at the time, mgs:v got a lot of backlash for being shit with repetitive content, same with arkham knight(everybody hating on the batmobile mechanic), dying light was a very good AA game, nowhere near goty material. Xenoblade I dunno lol. I know it's popular in asia but not so much in the west.
There you go bud. Have a good day!
@@nine9_abyss That’s fine I respect your opinion, but for me was just the gameplay it’s just boring and repetitive, but story and choices are perfect, just felt stretched out with the combat being pretty mediocre, but that goes to all CDPR games IMO.
Xbox has had highs this generation? Yeah, no.
Two generations with no games is a bold strategy for Xbox.
Yes Brad! Keep on keeping on ✊
So tired of hearing about "the value". "When my cousins come over, we just have so much to pick from to try out really quick." Gaming shouldn't be that. It just shouldn't. Video games should be high-quality, not budget entertainment that you digest like TikTok videos.
I am SO here for MATTY XIV.
Please make a video after every expansion! That's much better than an entire retrospective and it'll give you space! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
6:02 Woah. Wait. What situation? I dont have twitter can someone fill me in? I dont want to hear that when they had a baby on the way
From Dustin’s twitter Friday afternoon:
Last night after being induced over 24 hours prior, Holly needed an emergency c-section, and our beautiful baby son Emil Furman didn’t make it due to a placental separation that occurred. The causes at this time aren’t fully known.
Our baby boy is with God in Heaven now. He meant everything to us.
Thank you for your support of Holly and I leading up to this. We’re going to need some time to heal and won’t be around for a while. We’re with our friends and family and taking things as they come.
@@creese16 oh no! Jesus that's terrible. Thank you for telling me. This is awful
What!? I can't imagine what they must be feeling. Hugging my daughter and pregnant wife extra tightly tonight.
@@nickstark8479 I've had family and friends that have lost a baby during birth. It's devastating. You never really get over it because you never got to see what it would become.
I know what it did to my family, I have a pretty good idea what it's doing to Dustin, Holly, and the whole LSM family really.
Out living your kids is the worst thing a parent can endure, never getting to see them grow up before is a pain I wouldn't wish on my worst of enemies...
R.I.P. Emil
They're definitely in an interesting position. Personally I end up using my Xbox more than my PS and enjoy the experience there generally better...
But awknowledge that they are very close to a downwards spiral if customers and developers start/continue losing faith in the brand.
Have to disagree with what Matty said, Xbox isn't doing great right now, they bought Activision so the money that brings in masks the platforms failures now but they aren't selling hardware, they've still hardly released any games and most of the things people were psyched about from their last show case are at least a year away. Gears and State of Decay 3 didn't even say they were coming to the Series consoles lol. People need to remember that revenue isn't profit, it'll take decades to make the money back they spent on Activision.
2014 had one of my favorite metroidvania games maybe ever, Strider 2014! And great shout out to life is strange, still one of the most shocking endings I've experienced in video games
Nice shout out to Dustin. Such a devastating thing to even think about going through 😢
2:37:49 Matty spittin bars so fire 🔥 his DOGG turned into a Hypeman! 😤💪🏽💯U love to see it 😂😂🖤💙
I think cog fails to realize that 1 these CEOs get smoked in miltiple ways. Which isnt an excuse. But lets say they signed an nda saying if this game fails they lose 15,000 k of there salary. …. You might never hear about it because these people cant whistleblow that high up.
I propose water boarding Matty till he tries DS.
Nah though, games never hit as hard if they are pushed on people. But I would argue that DS is one that everybody should try even if its not for everyone.
kotor, lost odyssey and trails in the sky are all awesome rpgs!
Every time Death Stranding comes up, and no matter how well someone explains it, Matty and Cog are always like "but it's weird and you're carrying boxes!"
Especially strange from Matty considering the amount of JRPG's he plays. Reeks of Xbox bias imo
Astral Chain is criminally underrated
2014: Shovel Knight
2015: Bloodborne
2016: DOOM
2017: Breath of the Wild
2018: Red Dead 2
2019: Sekiro
2020: Ghost of Tsushima
2021: Death's Door
2022: Elden Ring
2023: Tears of the Kingdom
2024: Helldivers 2
Brad Brad Brad...you gotta help your buddy Matt out...he mentioned he was a lvl 36 Pugalist...not Monk yet? Which means he hasn't been keeping up with his job quests...I don't blame Matty since if no one tells you how important that is then how would you know...
As a destiny fan and lover of ghost of tsushima. Legends is so damn good. Spent a few hundred hours in there
So many GOTYs on my to-play list! Unfortunately, my experience with A Plague Tale was getting stuck on a part with three guards towards the beginning. After at least more than half an hour of raging, I finally looked online and apparently it was a glitch - there should only be two guards. Uninstalled :p
When 3 out of 4 of the Xbox ports play best on PS5, feels like such a slap in the face to gamers who bought into “the worlds most powerful” BS
i love cog bro
An xbox console with multiple storefronts will no longer be subsidized by xbox. The handheld will not be 200-250, lol
I know Matty is talking about Astral chain but I swear it sounded like I heard him say "Ass Cocaine" 🤣
Truly an Xbo- hey wait a minute it’s Summon Sign! 4 hours of peak
Ill put it this way: I loaned my xbox to a good friend a few months ago and I havent missed it. Not even my beloved halo.
I do have a PS5 but after all those acquisitions xbox still has nothing to pull me back.
Let’s goooooo my favorite LSM people!
Matty just unironically listed the Witcher as a great adaption
…
matty should make a video about blood and wine
Regarding Final Fantasy 14: I am in the post Realm Reborn patches before Heavensward and it’s soooo boring. I looked up a quest list to see how much I have before Heavensward begins and man… it’s tough
Loved XIV in Shadowbringers. Great story, world/zones, villain. Endwalker was a big step down for me, just felt like there were no stakes (god I hated that final zone when it immediately became clear what they were going to do) but the other zones were cool. I did the entire raid list for the expansion and it was kinda awful, a big step down from Eden, but I needed those fire bird mounts. And then Dawntrail comes and is their worst expansion ever from a story/characters/world perspective, but the content is the best in a while. So I don't really know how to feel about the game. I'll check in every 6 months or so I guess to do the normal mode of newer content but I think I'm finally checked out on the game until the next MMO. DT should have abandoned the Scions and let us meet new people. We got like, 2 new core characters, and one of them is Wuk Lamat who is kinda insufferable for a lot of us. They needed more of a real fresh start imo but oh well, I had a good time at its peak. Hope the next MMO isn't 10 years away
To the host...
Pc Gamepass is cheaper because of Steam thats it. Biggest competition you can ask for. Xbox is place to game 💯
Man I wish Matty would have picked trails in the sky.
I gotta say death stranding is my favorite Kojima game
SUMMON DUKIES!
Idk when I replayed Borderlands 2 in 2019 (age 26) in preparation for the final dlc and B3 I still found the writing good and some jokes funny but when B3 dropped it just didn’t hit
The amount of times he’s said “alright boys”….jesus
I think it's an interesting year for Xbox. Some good, certainly some bad. These last few months are really going to be where most of their releases fall though. So its too earlier to count it.
I thought cog was gonna say Tekken not starfield
Metaphor ReFantazio: Simile Edition
I thought it couldnt get any worse
2019 is all about Control.
"Summoned Dukes"
I hate visual novels but Danganronpa is that good
First game in each year is my favorite.
2014: Dark Souls 2->Shadow of Mordor
2015: Bloodborne->Witcher 3
2016: Hyper Light Drifter->Inside->Dark Souls 3
2017: Nier Automata->Hollow Knight->Nioh
2018: Red Dead Redemption 2->Monster Hunter World
2019: Sekiro->Blasphemous->Control
2020: Doom Eternal->Nioh 2->13 Sentinels
2021: Returnal->Metroid Dread
2022: Elden Ring
2023: Blasphemous 2->Final Fantasy XVI->Armored Core 6
2024: Unicorn Overlord->Nine Sols->Animal Well
I didn't include remasters or remakes, otherwise Dragon's Crown, Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls would all be on here.
Dragon's Dogma 2 was a HUGE letdown considering the first game is one of my absolute favorites.
Still looking forward to Metaphor: ReFantazio, Dragon Quest III HD-2D and Silksong if it ends up releasing this year.
I absolutely love my Logitech G-cloud, paired with GeForce now it has became my defacto console. I beat cyberpunk @ near max settings, save a few path tracing features, and it was a great experience.
Never disagreed with Brad more than on Borderlands 2. I get it you don’t like the franchise but if there was one game (1 was also well written) 2 specifically had one of the best villains in video games. It was genuinely well written. 3 is a sloppy mess but to trash 2 is just purely subjective at this point. Love the conversation nonetheless!
0 Hope the handheld is anything below 400$/€.
Surprised that Matty considers Danganronpa 2 the worst game in the series. That’s literally the most praised game by the community.
I just can't stand the mini games in that one. The ending is hype, but I raged at it so hard. Skill issue? Potentially! Also, the only DR game I never replayed.
@@retrorebound8887 it’s okay. Some of those mini games are random af lol
Michael Scott cringe face
Someone should tell maddie 14 and 12 are the same universe lol
Matty
Are they though? There is a series of ff12 raids and you will go to dalmasca and rabinastre, but the quest line is heavily Final fantasy tactics with the same characters,
Also ff14 is just full of fan service from the whole franchise but it's not in the same universe.
Same as the nier automata raids but it's not in the nier/drakengard universe.
Love Xbox it’s my favorite platform, but I’m a console gamer and switched back to ps5 being my main console recently due to all the decisions Xbox is making. Love jrpg’s and thought the partnership with Xbox would bring at least the pixel remasters over. Just tired of waiting around. Loved the episode!
I agree regarding the Borderlands movie. It's not even so bad that it's worth watching just to make fun of it. It's just very mediocre and boring.
Get ready for never before seen levels of cope and goalpost moving.
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Credit where it's due, I was surprised by Matty's lack of fluff and actual criticisms for xbox so far this year.
Cog, well... those Matt Booty mimosas at the corporate brunches must be something out of this world.
Say you don’t watch the Dukes without saying you don’t watch the Dukes.
damn bro chill lol
Cog's too far gone bless him
It is so stupid to downplay realm reborns story when you are starting from the second part of original FF 14. There is a great story that concludes at realm reborn and character in realm reborn are already great but because you did not play that first part you know nothing about them.
Astro Bot will be game of the year 2024.
What a fun trio! Studs
I’ve been hard on Matty for his attendance issues in the past(and rightfully so) but I do want to thank him for showing up and doing his job. I hope this is the start of him being a bit more reliable within this community.
Doing his "job," you mean.
The quotes are important for indicating that he doesn't have a real career.
Matty obviously never played The Witcher 3
The open world in the witcher is completely pointless. CDPR is not good at open world games.
P5 > P5 Royal
Really why?
I'm gonna have to go back to royal. I only played like 40 hours of it. But at the time I thought it was a bit too easy compared to p5 and some of the combat mix ups made it feel a bit easy and boring. But I had just come off playing smt5 so combat felt like a step down from that.
But I've not played it in about 3 or 4 years and I didn't beat it. So I know theres a ton in that game I've not seen. So I need to go back.
I played P3 reload this year and I just couldn't stop playing it. So I'm tempted to play persona 5R again. But maybe after the answer dlc, and maybe after refantasio. As I don't want to burn out.
Also I replayed smt5 this year as well.
Roguelitesuck
Titanfall2 mp > Titanfall1