Ep. 011: Losing The Plot

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12/12/20 • 127 min

Every genre of art seems to have its own sort of awards showcasing excellence within it’s given field. Music has The Grammys, the American Music Awards, and the Billboard Music Awards. Television has the Golden Globes and The Emmys. Hollywood and Film, in general, have a metric ton of awards with probably The Oscars, the Golden Globes, and The BAFTAs being the most well known. The biggest difference between those genres and video games, however, is that those awards garner prestige and as much as the DICE Awards are comparable to The Oscars or The Grammys for their respective genres. The thing is though, they’re not prestigious in the least in the eyes of gamers. Enter Geoff Keighley. Keighley began becoming a household name during his run on G4 and eventually becoming the host of the Spike Game Awards. Keighley, however, thought the awards should be as prestigious as The Oscars and would break off to develop his own awards show for video games, simply titled, The Game Awards. Now, in its 7th year, The Game Awards has become many things to many gamers, and that is in essence what we want to talk about for you today.

On top of all of that, Josh has some thoughts on The Queen's Gambit and the first two Friday The 13th films. Austin regales us with anime talk when he discusses Attack On Titan and Demon Slayer. Both of the boys played more Ghost Of Tsushima and they discuss that as well as a couple of gundam games and Josh's first impressions with Yakuza: Like A Dragon.

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Ep. 010: Untitled Gooch Game

Every year, around this time, it never fails that people crawl out of their beds after a long day of eating turkey, and go out to do holiday shopping. Whether or not this is an ideal thing is not really debatable because people do it regardless. So we’ve decided, in the spirit of being as obnoxious as possible we would feed into the horrible reality that is Black Friday. So we’re going to run through the sales for video games and give our feedback and hopefully give you something to think about for the holidays. On top of this, Austin has been getting his Spider-Man on in multiple ways, while Josh has been delving deep into True Crime.

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Ep. 012: The Golden Pixel Awards - 2020 Edition - Part 1!

Every year, it gets this time of year and everyone starts putting out their game of the year nominees and winners and we’re no different. However, in the interest of giving you smaller more digestible episodes we’ve decided that it’s more beneficial to break those things up, and as such we’re going to have separate shows for separate things. This week’s episode will be in service of the various awards that we’ve decided to give out that aren’t Game Of The Year. This includes a multitude of elements including Best Character, Best Music, and Biggest Shit Show. To be nominated for any of our given categories the games or events must have happened between December 16th of 2019 and December 15th of 2020. Each host came together with their own submissions for categories as well as nominees to each category. This list is not set in stone from year to year, but will provide a framework for the podcast to utilize. The categories and nominees are as follows:

Best Supporting Character
- Nominees
  - Hades (Hades)
  - Lady Masako (Ghost Of Tsushima)
  - Genke Lee (miles morales)
  - Layla Hassan (Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla)
Best Multiplayer Event
- Nominees
  - Dead By Daylight’s Eternal Blight Event
  - Fortnite’s Season 4 Galactus Battle
  - Rocket League F2P Transition
Best Art Direction
- Nominees
  - Ghost Of Tsushima
  - Hades
  - Ori and the Will of the Wisps loser
Best Level/World Design
- Nominees
  - Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbol’s Adventure
  - Ghost Of Tsushima
  - Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
  - Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Best DLC/Expansion
- Nominees
  - Ghost Of Tsushima Legends
  - Isle of Armor (Pokemon Sword & Shield)
  - Crown Tundra (Pokemon Sword & Shield)
Best Boss Fight
- Nominees
  - Theseus and Asterius (Hades)
  - Lady Masako (Ghost Of Tsushima)
  - Hell House (Final Fantasy 7 Remake)
  - Prowler (Miles Morales)
  - The Heart of Ender (Minecraft Dungeons)
Best Music
- Nominees
  - Hades
  - Ikenfell
  - Doom Eternal
  - Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Biggest Shit Show
- Nominees
  - CD Projekt Red’s fumbling of Cyberpunk 2077
  - Sony’s rollout of the PS5
  - The internet’s overreaction to TLOU2
  - No first party titles for Microsoft on the launch of Series S/X
  - Marvel’s Avengers
Best Narrative
- Nominees
  - Hades
  - Ghost Of Tsushima
  - Miles Morales
  - Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
Best Lead Character
- Nominees
  - Abbie (The Last Of Us Part 2)
  - Zagreus (Hades)
  - Miles Morales (Spider-Man: Miles Morales)
  - Eivor (Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla)
Best Old Game
- Nominees
  - Fire Emblem: Three Houses
  - Final Fantasy 8 Remastered
  - SD Gundam CrossRays
  - Dark Souls III