Video Gamers Podcast
Metroid Prime 4 & Doom The Dark Ages Anticipation + Nintendo Direct Predictions – Gaming Podcast
Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan, and John break down this week’s biggest video game news! Schedule 1 dethrones Monster Hunter Wilds, we get an epic look at Doom The Dark Ages, and cover the divisive Metroid Prime 4 trailer! Plus what’s coming in the next Nintendo Direct—could we see Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 remasters, Mario Kart, or ports of beloved video games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring? Plus, Ghost of Yotei is officially coming in 2025! All the gaming news you need, each and every week from the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the hosts' introductions?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. The Nintendo Direct is looming. Well, okay, by the time this episode releases, it's already happened. Doom the Dark Ages is making a strong push to unseat Expedition 33, on my hype meter at least, and Metroid Prime 4 will let you open doors. We've got a lot to cover, but first, some introductions are in order.
I am your host, Josh, and joining me, he's been dreaming about setting up his own unsanctioned medicine empire and watching reruns of Breaking Bad to prepare.
It's Ryan. What should my color be? I can't be Mr. White, obviously, so make me Mr. Tan.
I don't know, Ryan. Mr. Light Tan. Tan is a color, I guess, right?
My favorite color is light tan. You're Mr. Red, bro. Oh, yeah, there you go.
And joining us, he's really just here for the Nintendo Direct Chat, and he's already doubled down on a Switch 2 Red Dead Redemption 2 port. It's John.
Hey, everybody. I got my diet cock and bull here. This episode brought to you by cock and bull. Cock and bull. It's a chicken and a cow.
Wait, wait, wait. Are we getting proceeds from this?
I'm working on it. Okay.
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Chapter 2: What are the predictions for the next Nintendo Direct?
But, you know, I like these kind of questions here, too. So he asks, what are your thoughts on the new DLSS4 and the use of AI in frame generation? So, Ryan, why don't you go ahead and explain frame generation and DLSS and what that stands for in 20 seconds. Go.
This guy. Yeah, I know what you're doing. I know what you're doing. I will say, because I was reading it and I'm looking at this stuff, I'm like, oh, geez, I better kind of at least look a little bit into what this all means and what this stuff is. Normally, I'm just like, that one's expensive. Plug it into the rig. It's good to go, you know? Yeah. Uh, but I was looking at this stuff.
And so with this AI like frame rate generation and stuff, um, I was reading and I put it in the chat right before we started 15 of the 16 frames will be AI generated. So, you know, take that, you know, however way you want. Either that's going to kind of bog things down and make it look weird.
Because you know how sometimes with AI design, like, it can make crazy stuff and things that are really kind of wild and creative and detailed. But also... not everything looks right all the time.
And when you're relying that much on not just standard performance in, in generation from the hardware itself, and you're using AI to, to kind of replace that, you know, it leaves a little room for error. If you know, if the way I'm looking at it, at least. All right. All right. You failed on that explanation, Ryan. Yeah.
I wasn't really going to explain. I was giving my opinion. I was giving my opinion. This is what you get for slamming Goldeneye, Ryan.
Oh, I'm going to pay for that for a while. I can't comment on the technology specifically, but I'm a bit conflicted on the use of it. So the... humanist in me is concerned. I like probably anybody else and especially people that are in the industry as like, you know, if you follow this thing to its logical end, all I'm seeing is a lot of lost jobs and,
Um, but, uh, the gamer in me and especially the part of me that so wants to have as much of my humanity torn away from me as possible, like, and plug into the machine. I think that any AI advancement that brings us closer to the matrix and or ready player one or whichever iteration you want to call it is like fine by me. So, yeah.
Bow to the AI overlords.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Doom The Dark Ages?
literally came into work he's you know he's a gamer and he said josh have you have you you know heard of this game and i said yeah i absolutely have i've heard of this game and he said i played it all weekend with some buddies of mine it's really fun dude and i think the the chatter is is on point and i was just like man we've been talking about covering this game as well and i've been hearing really incredible things we're going to tell you what that game is right after this break
All right. So this game has dethroned Monster Hunter Wilds, guys, in its first couple weeks of release. It has a higher concurrent player count than Monster Hunter Wilds, which is a gargantuan franchise and release. This is a game called Schedule One. This game sounds like the stupidest premise ever.
But before we actually talk about that premise, let me just hit you with the Steam ratings on this game. This game is sitting at a 98% Steam rating. Unheard of. Unheard of with 33,000 reviews. This is not like 500 people found this game to be really enjoyable. This is a 98% rating, 33,000 reviews. Schedule one sounds bananas. Ryan, tell the people, what do you do in this game, dude?
Dude, so have you ever wanted to, and disclaimer, we do not support and encourage any of these actions that go on in this video game at the Video Gamers Podcast.
Are you sure about that? Are you sure about that, Ryan?
I'm sure about that. So have you ever wanted to create your own meth lab? Well, you know what? In Schedule 1, you can. So if your dreams were that, then you can run your drug empire. It looks like such an interesting, neat premise on just the way these all kind of...
run along the same... We have Repo, we have Lethal Company, we have all these types of games where you have to go do something, you have some sort of task, you have to get money, things cost money, and rinse and repeat. It's just how they execute it. And they've all been doing it pretty... In a fun way that is entertaining.
And this one just seems to be that next level to where now you're doing... The goofier they make it, the more crazy and outlandish they make it, the better it seems to be. And this one just seems to hit all those marks. I mean, you were talking about beating Monster Wild. 414,000 players on its peak player at a 24-hour current count. That's insane, dude. That's insane.
Monster Hunter Wilds was at 283. So it's like, what, 130-ish thousand more? A normal NFL stadium is what, like 60,000, 70,000 people, if that? That's two completely full stadiums more than Monster Hunter Wilds of people playing this small little game that nobody knew about. And you say, oh, yeah, I heard about this game.
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