Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Mon, 06 Jan 2025
Gaming Hosts Ryan and Josh are bringing you another awesome gaming filled episode. This week we chat the very real Half Life 3 teaser, discuss our gaming pet peeves, give a quick break down on Path of Exile 2 and more. Video game chat with your friends, from the best gaming podcast around! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Thanks to Legendary Supporter: FitNerdJohn Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the Video Gamers Podcast about?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Sometimes the best part of gaming is just chatting with your buddies about the latest news, upcoming game releases, or diving into a fun topic, like what's the best console of all time? It's the fun, lighthearted chat that gamers know and love, and that's what we do in these side quest episodes.
Chapter 2: Who are the hosts of the podcast?
Before we get into the show, though, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh. And joining me, he was nominated for the most improved co-host award for 2024, but sadly it's 2025 now. So he missed out.
It's Ryan.
Only one way to go now is down. That was also not a jab at your sense of time, Ryan, you know, that you have until, you know, January 1st to claim this award. And then it just sat there because you were like, oh, it wouldn't be the first time I've missed a deadline on something. That's that's for sure.
Ryan, I know I said this in our last episode, which if you have not listened, you absolutely must check out the most anticipated games of 2025 episode that just released. So make sure that's on your to-do list because it really got me hyped for everything that's coming out in 2025 now. And it's funny because we've been talking to a lot of people in our community and
And it's weird because I think a lot of people kind of felt like we did where they said, dude, I don't really know what I'm excited for in 2025. And then we kind of went, yeah, well, we've got the solution for that. That's that episode. So make sure you check that one out. But this episode, Ryan, is a side quest. I love these episodes, man. This is kind of how we got our start. Yeah.
You know, just chatting about video games, man. Talking about the gaming world, what's coming up, what have you been playing and all that stuff. So these are a lot of fun, man. I really enjoy these episodes. But before we get into it. We got some people to thank, Ryan.
Yeah, this is the best part.
Listen, if you're the kind of person where you're like, dude, I don't like feeling left out of stuff, you better get on this hype train because people have been signing up to support the show. I feel like we are reading names out left and right. And, man, it just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
It's so good, man. The VGP train is rolling. You better hop on board. All aboard! But we have two new Rare supporters to thank.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest gaming pet peeves?
We want to send out a huge thank you to Bearded Butch and Timmy Boy, who both signed up for rare status, both in our Discord server. Awesome people have been chatting away. Just, you know, we say this all the time, but thank you. You know what I mean? Thank you for listening to the show. Thank you for supporting the show. It's incredible to see what two old friends
Yeah, Ryan, that includes your gamer dads have done in the gaming podcast world. We are up there with the likes of IGN and, you know, all these other big websites and their little spinoff podcasts and all that stuff. But we are just we're right up there with the big boys. We've done it with. Just a love of games. Maybe some silliness and some goofiness.
But thank you to everybody that supports this show. Thank you, Bearded Butch and Timmy Boy, for going the extra mile and helping support the show.
Yes, thank you so much. And actually, it's a cool trend I've noticed lately, too, is I'll see people hop into the Discord. Hey, everybody, blah, blah, blah. And they join up. And then like two days later,
blah blah blah signed up for legendary or not legendary but like rare or epic and it's like what you know awesome man this is so cool they hop in they see how good the community is they see what we're actually kind of we're not joking when we say how great it is in there and and then they sign up and uh get all the the perks of it and everything so it's it is really cool to see i love it
Yeah, it really is awesome. And so if you're not part of the Discord server, you really are missing out on an amazing gaming community. We actually just had a really, really fun night that we're going to talk about here in just a second. So I'm going to leave that little teaser there because... Ryan, I did promise on our last episode that we would read a couple reviews.
You know, not only are people signing up to support the show, but they're also doing their part by rating the show five stars on Spotify. If they have an Apple phone, they're going into the Apple podcast app and they are leaving us a written review as well. And we've been a little lax. So I've got two of those that we're going to read right now. This first one comes in from the Faptastic Four.
And it's titled The Greatest Gaming Podcast. And it says, I downloaded Apple Podcasts just to leave this review since Spotify doesn't allow written reviews. Anyone reading this and wondering if they should give it a try should be warned. No other gaming podcast will ever feel as good as Video Gamers Podcast. Not only are the guys fun and make it feel like we're all just hanging out,
but they're super active on their Discord and engage with the community constantly. You can check out their game leaderboards to know if your tastes align with either of them. And even though Ryan is wrong in thinking Red Dead Redemption 2 is better than God of War, hashtag Team Josh, he still has interesting takes once in a while.
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Chapter 4: What are the hosts currently playing?
I have seen a lot of really positive feedback about Indiana Jones and it's caught me in kind of by surprise. But then at the same time, it's like, it's Indiana Jones, baby. Yeah. Like how bad could it be? Yeah. Right. So it, uh, that, that one does get me excited. It also gives me a little bit of the FOMO because I love Indiana Jones and I didn't really have high hopes for that game.
So, and then everybody's saying like, yo, this game's super enjoyable, makes me a little jealous. Yeah. Well, especially when it's free on Game Pass. Yeah, that too. So I have also been playing Marvel Rivals. I will say that it is starting to get its hooks in me. Nice. To the... Where I'm craving playing it. Not just, oh, I'll hop on if people are playing or something like that. But like...
Last night, I had, I don't know, 20 minutes. And I was like, you know what? Let me hop in. I want to try this Black Panther character. All right. Let me try this guy. And then before you know it, I was playing matches as Black Panther and getting wrecked and that kind of stuff. But we teased it.
But this is another reason why we always encourage people to join our Discord server is we kind of spontaneously had a community night where...
we had like 10 people like in in voice chat all playing marvel rivals together and after we got past that like six person limit we kind of went oh man we're gonna have to like split these groups and and get like two full groups going but then we kind of went wait a minute does this have custom matches we very quickly figured out that it has a very robust custom match feature Within minutes, baby.
We're going up against each other. We have two teams. We are in a custom match, just going to town, fighting each other, having a blast. I gotta give you credit. I hate it, but you're pretty good at Moon Knight, Ryan. I'm pretty annoying is what I am. You're pretty annoying as Moon Knight. You know, that was one.
It was pretty funny because I'm pretty sure that you and I just ignored everything else and just tried to kill each other the second we saw each other.
Absolutely. I may or may not have just been seeking you guys out like the whole time. Any of the scushies.
Yeah, so that was an absolute blast, but we are really looking forward to doing that more just because it lends itself to so many good, fun times with people. But yeah, Marvel Rivals is the hotness right now. I have also been playing just a teeny bit of a game called Path of Exile 2. Yeah, just a little bit.
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Chapter 5: What are the thoughts on Path of Exile 2?
I haven't talked about it in a while. Now, that might be because we were on a break and we didn't have any new episodes, but that's not the point. So I checked right before recording. I have 94 hours in Path of Exile 2. So I would say at this point, I'm qualified to talk about the game. It is everything I wanted it to be. Legitimately, it is everything I wanted it to be.
It is one of those games where even though I'm 94 hours in, I feel like I could easily put in another 40 or 50 hours to reach that peak, peak endgame. I'm already in the end game. Like I've experienced that, but you know, it's like I'm doing tier 10 maps is like the end game stuff. And it goes all the way up to like tier 18.
So I have done a couple of those with some friends, but path of exile too. I cannot recommend enough to people that think that they like that genre Diablo. If you've ever played Diablo torchlight, uh, uh, uh, Path of Titans, Titan Quest, something like that. There's been a ton of these. If you haven't played an action RPG in the vein of Diablo, this game is fantastic. It's difficult.
It is super customizable in the number of builds. I literally just switched my character's build from one thing to another. I feel insanely powerful now, all that stuff. So Ryan, at some point, I got to get you in on this train, man, because you love Diablo. You love it, man. I do.
And it's like, this is better than Diablo. That's high praise, man. Those are big words. It really is. In my opinion. Well, I was going to say, what would you say between the two is the most like Diablo? What features are the most like Diablo? And what's the biggest difference that you noticed? That's a really good question.
They're similar in almost every aspect.
Yeah.
The loot drops the ping when a good piece of loot falls down on the ground. They've got the semi-rare monsters that are just mixed in with the horde and have the kind of colored glow around them and stuff like that. I mean, this is 100%. If you were comfortable with Diablo, this is a clone of Diablo in that regard. Yeah.
Now, where it differs is in kind of the pacing and the intensity of the builds and the customization in this case. So whereas Diablo is very click-festy and fast-paced, I would say that Path of Exile 2 is very intentional and slower-paced. OK, so I've kind of brought this up before, but like I just changed builds and it's a drastically different build than what I was playing before.
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Chapter 6: What are the most anticipated games of 2025?
And then I'll pick up a new character and play that and all that stuff. So it's like, I can see that coming for myself. But like I also mentioned, I'm kind of with you in that Marvel Rivals is really starting to dig its claws into me. And it's like I'm in that, like, I want to try to get good with Spider-Man. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
I want to learn Black Panther because that guy's a pain in the butt, you know, or that kind of thing. So I really am hyped for Marvel Rivals. And anybody that's been listening to the show for any length of time knows that I love hero shooters and Overwatch 2 is or just Overwatch in general is one of my most played games.
So I think I'm with you in that I'm more than content to just kind of crack out on rivals for the next month.
Yeah.
We've been getting groups of people together and playing with friends is an absolute blast. So I'm totally okay with doing that for the next 30 days or whatever until we get Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Heck yeah. And then can dive into that one. All right. It's nice having those comfort games, man.
It is, yeah. And there's so many characters that there's always something new to try. And the content online, like all the reels and videos, is always somebody doing something you haven't seen. So you're like, oh, I want to try that. I saw the other day, Spider-Man's flipping off... ledges out in the open, um, and pulling guys off the map and then diving back.
And I'm like, okay, that's kind of cool. I want to try that. And so there's just so much to do. And, um, now we're turning it into a rivals episode too, but, but I just, yeah, I think, I think I'm going to be stuck on that for a little while. I mean, hyper light breaker, early access or whatever comes out in a couple of weeks. So maybe we'll hook, hook into that for a minute.
But, uh, yeah, man, I think we got a little bit of time to just mess around. Um,
I'm torn on Hyper Lightbreaker. You know how hyped I am for that game. But there are a few games where I will actually intentionally just wait for the full release. And that's one of those games I might. I might just say, hey, I'm interested enough in this that I'm willing to wait. And then just have us dive in together and have fun with that one. So I'm kind of undecided, though.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts compare Path of Exile 2 to Diablo?
Oh, man. So last year being my first kind of full year on the pod, I paid a lot more attention to things that I normally wouldn't in the gaming world and played a lot more games that I wouldn't. Even if they get kind of mega hyped and they're the hotness of the moment, you know, normally I stick to what I'm just cracked out on.
So I hope we have another year like last year that was just full of so many surprises of just awesome. Even if they're flashing the pans, like last year was just such a fun year for all these types of surprise gaming experiences that we got to have. Yeah. I hope we get that again, man. I just enjoyed it so much.
And then also just with games and everything, watching the pod grow, I just hope we keep chucking along and keep growing and keep just getting to experience all this awesome gaming talk that we have. So I'm stoked, man.
Yeah, I am too. I will say, I think if I had to boil it down to for like a game perspective, like 2024 was pretty awesome. But I feel like other than Helldivers 2 and Astro Bot, there weren't any of those like, oh my goodness, this game is the most amazing game I've seen in a long time. And so I kind of hope for that in 2025. If we get GTA 6, which let's be honest, isn't going to happen.
But if we do, that could be the answer that I'm looking for. I really want that kind of generational game. I don't know if we're going to get it. Hopes are high right now. It's the beginning of the year. But I think for me, that's kind of what I'm looking for is this. I want that next Witcher 3 or GTA 5 or Cyberpunk 2077, God of War. One of those this year.
So what would you say was the last one of those generational games to come out? The most recent?
Elden Ring for me.
Okay.
Now, Elden Ring came out in what? Was it 2022? Something like that. Somewhere around. It's been a couple years. But for me, Elden Ring's that game where it's like, dude, this game was made for me. Yeah. And I will continue to just sing the praises of Elden Ring to everybody because it is truly one of the best video games I've ever played.
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Chapter 8: What are the hopes for gaming in 2025?
Your disdain for the stamina bar is legendary, dude. It really is. It's the first thing you say. I've heard this come out of your mouth so many times. Two swipes of the sword and then I'm like... It doesn't bother me. I don't know why.
Well, you like the tactical nature and the reality of the fights and doing that. That's why you like turn base. I just... I want to go and just kill stuff, man.
It makes sense. I think for me, it's another challenge of how do I manage this resource properly so that I can do what I need to do while accounting for that. I don't know. I'm kind of torn on that one because like I said, I don't mind them, but I also see your point of view. I'm going to go a little bit more from a broader kind of perspective because it's something that I see more and more.
And maybe this is just that I generally handle our social media account for the most part. And this is something that we've always been very clear on. I get probably unreasonably annoyed when everybody... or like when somebody is afraid to just call a game out for being bad. Okay. You know what I mean?
Like it's one of those things where if you're a gamer and you have been a gamer for any length of time, you have played bad video games. You have had your hopes dashed by battlefield 2042, you know, or dragon age veil guard or something like that, you know?
Yeah.
Pacific drive for you, you know? And it's one of those things where it's okay to have an opinion, right? you know, it's okay to say, hey, I did not like this game. This game sucks, you know? And I see it more and more online with people where it's like they can never say something bad about a game no matter how bad the game is, you know?
And it's like, oh, well, you know, the game might have missed on this topic and this topic, but the developers tried really hard to make a good game.
Yeah, that's the thing they always, oh, think about the devs. They tried so hard. This is their job, you know?
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