Video Gamers Podcast
May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
Thu, 01 May 2025
Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan and Ace are breaking down this week’s video game news you need to know about. On this gaming packed episode we dive into The Midnight Walk, Doom: The Dark Ages, Elden Ring Nightrein and discuss the Rivals support strike, plus a whole lot more of the video game news you need to know. It’s another gaming packed episode from the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake and Gaius Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1 Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the most hyped games of May?
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. What a week we had for gaming from the surprise release of the Oblivion Remaster to the long awaited Expedition 33 release. Gamers have been swimming in a sea of fun games. But now what? Well, don't worry. There's still a ton of games to look forward to.
May alone has us looking at A Midnight Walk, Doom the Dark Ages, and Elden Ring Night Rain, amongst others. And we've got a lot to cover for you. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh, and joining me, he's been closing the gates of oblivion with a side of Expedition 33. He's treating like a plate of green beans that he's being forced to eat. It's Ryan.
No, Mom. How many do I have to eat? You got to eat the whole plate.
You're not getting up until you put at least 20 hours into this game.
I'll eat five.
I'll eat five. Seven. Seven. Six. Fine.
Deal. All right. Come here, Fido. Here you go.
And joining us, he hasn't played either because he's busy campaigning for the rights of support players in Marvel Rivals. It's Ace.
Krusty Krab unfair.
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Chapter 2: What is Expedition 33 and why is it significant?
Dude, I'm going to say this. If Ubisoft developed this game and released this game, Ubisoft would not be in the dire trouble that Ubisoft is in right now. Could have saved them. From a company standpoint. Yeah. But my goodness. So listen, you know, I don't want to harp on Expedition 33 for too long because, again, we're going to have that deep dive coming up soon for that one. But kudos to them.
Kudos to the developers.
Big time.
To make a game like this with the music, the graphics, the combat, the story. I mean, this game has all of those aspects in spades. And to realize that 30 people made this game is nuts to me, dude.
That's a lot of work, man. Revelation.
That's a lot of work they put in. And Josh, do you know how many people are on Expedition 33 right now?
Probably a lot. I don't know, Ryan, because the Game Pass stuff you can't track.
Oh, it sounds like somebody's preparing for a lower number because it's 57,000.
57,000.
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Chapter 3: What can we expect from A Midnight Walk?
Which actually threw people off because they were like, is this game available on PC or consoles? And they went, yeah, it's not just a VR game. This is actually... But it is also releasing for VR headsets. I don't know that I've seen a game that looks this cool, man. Like the... Is it all claymation too? We say stop motion, but it's like stop motion claymation.
It's stop motion claymation. It's a mix of different kinds of stop motion, it looks to me. You have a mix of armatures with claymation, but also just some regular old stop motion thrown in there as well. And it just looks incredible to me. There's no game like this.
I think I said on that indie episode, even if this game underperforms, people will remember this game for how it looks and how it's animated and how impressive it is.
Yeah. Atmosphere is the word for sure. It's very Nightmare Before Christmas-esque. That's the one.
There you go, Ryan. That was it for me. Nightmare Before Christmas. Don't you know any other stop-motion films? Coraline.
I was going to say Coraline. I actually like Coraline more than A Nightmare Before Christmas.
No, Coraline is too scary.
All right. I mean, that's fair. Fair enough. Yeah. I this game looks incredible I don't know what it's going to be like I mean to be fair and this is I'm not trying to be negative here but like south of midnight looked incredible and then everybody kind of went. It's really neat looking, but it didn't quite live up to like the hype levels for that. Like, you know, John played it completely.
We had a couple other people that dabbled in it. I have not talked to a single person that went south of midnight is fantastic, dude. That's why I never picked it up. I was so into it.
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Chapter 4: How does Doom: The Dark Ages compare to its predecessors?
Chapter 5: What game drama is happening with Marvel Rivals?
I'm planting my flag on this one, and we're going to talk about it right after this break.
All right, we're back.
The flag has been planted. It's flapping in the wind. Doom the Dark Ages is going to be incredible. Incredible. Rip and tear until it is done, dude. Dude, number one, Doom Eternal. I've said this many a time. If you haven't played it, you're missing out on one of the best single-player first-person shooters that exists. Legitimately, it's up there with the Titanfall 2 campaign.
I mean, it's amazing, dude. I think Doom the Dark Ages is going to be better than Doom Eternal. And that is saying... Wow, that is a bold claim, sir. I'm telling you, man, they understand what makes the newer Dooms incredible. They are gritty. They are so super polished. It's ridiculous, dude. These games will run on a potato... In 4K HDR, 60 frames a second.
I don't know what magic they work behind the scenes on these Doom games, but Doom Eternal is one of the best optimized games ever. And it looks incredible. The music goes perfectly. The gameplay is top notch. I mean, there is, I don't see a way that they whiff on this, man.
Every trailer that I've seen, every preview that I've seen just gets me amped because they are leaning into the stand and fight, dude.
Take that shield with the saw blade. Everything.
Everything, dude. Nothing. Doom Slayer, don't care. Doom Slayer, don't give a darn, man.
Well, that's what you want to do. When you are Doom guy or you want to go through and you just want to bash and kill demons and spawns and everything of the like, you don't want to have to go hide and use a health pack or do any of those things. You just want to go through and destroy. And it looks like it's leaning into that, which is awesome. So I'm kind of with you, Josh.
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