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Chapter 1: What are the most anticipated games of late 2025?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. 2025 has been a feast for gamers so far, and we just got the release of Doom the Dark Ages. But what's next? What games have we forgotten about that should be remembered? Well, in this episode, we'll be covering the games slated for release this year that need to be back on your radar. But first, some introductions are in order.
I am your host, Josh. And joining me, he's finally out of his early access stage, and the Steam ratings have him sitting rated as overwhelmingly positive. It's Ryan.
I just want to thank absolutely nobody because I did it all on my own. Yeah!
All right, Ryan, thanks for the, you know, thanks, man. Yeah. Glad you didn't need us.
Just kidding. Thank you, everybody. I love you all.
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Chapter 2: What makes Doom the Dark Ages a must-play?
All right, well, let me quickly move on to this next introduction then. And joining us, if announcement trailers are any indication, he's set to be one of the best additions to gaming in 2025.
It's John. Hey, everybody. I honestly thought you were going to, like, skip over me. I was kind of sad. I would never. Oh man. I would never. Oh, I'm like the underappreciated little indie game.
Oh, like the midnight walk. Oh, Hey, you know what? John has not had the greatest of days, which happens to everybody, but what better way to make a day better than to talk video games with your friends. We've all been there. This is why we game. This is why we love video games. And this is why we do what we do, boys. We got a lot of cool stuff to talk about, too. We do, man.
This is going to be a fun episode. So we got a little... Guys, we got a couple people to thank. And then stick with us because we have a quick little story that I know people are going to enjoy. We kind of promised to tell this story on this episode. So we're going to tell that story. And then we're going to talk about some incredible games.
Hopefully they're incredible because we think they're going to be incredible, which is why we're bringing them up. But first, some big shout-outs to some awesome supporters of the show. We want to thank Dingus Con and Riley Dismukes for signing up for rare status to support the show. Yeah. Thank you guys so much.
We want to specify that dingus con self identifies as dingus con and we're not just calling him that.
Ryan and I have said dingus is one of our favorite terms. I refer to myself as a dingus all the time.
I call my kids dinguses like daily. So it's a good quality word.
It's a term of endearment, you know, in my opinion.
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Chapter 3: Why is Donkey Kong Bonanza generating curiosity?
I don't want to get too far off track here, but really quickly, is there a Zelda game that didn't land for you guys? There is one for me. Absolutely. Like I played like three hours and then I was like, I don't like this game at all. I didn't play most of them. Oh yeah.
I loved, I love breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom. Loved them.
uh what's the most recent one where you're actually zelda i didn't oh it's the um is that it's the weird top down it's got the weird art style uh yeah my wife played it the twilight princess maybe no that's the one i don't like i don't So for me, Twilight Princess, we were very excited for. We started playing it and I was like, this is the most dumbed down game. We couldn't do it.
We couldn't walk up to like a fallen log on the ground before the stupid, annoying little, I think it's Navi. Is that who it is? Was like, oh, you can jump over this. Press A to jump. And it was like, dude, I don't know.
need you to tell me that i can jump and but it was non-stop like even my wife who loves these games and is not like as experienced of a gamer was like this is the most annoying thing ever do they think we're idiots and i was just like i can't i can't do it man and i know i know there's people that love twilight princess i'm sorry but i literally that was my most hated zelda game ever did you play did you play mario wonder by any chance
Yes, I did. Mario Wonder I thought was great.
Well, it's great, but it had a similar – the little flower would tell you how to do the most dumb, basic things. And it's interesting. Nintendo, I think, is fantastic at making intuitive, easy-to-approach games. That's honestly, like, why I really like them. My wife and I can enjoy a lot of the games together. But they have –
seem to have been, especially with their major titles, relying on this really weird exposition stuff where it's like, dude, I don't need to know how to jump. Like, everybody who's ever seen a controller before knows that...
Just push the button. Yeah. It's not nobody. Nobody listening right now falls into this category. But obviously, because you're all professional gamers and amazing and we love you. But maybe there's just a lot of dumb people and they need that.
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Chapter 4: What is the story behind the one-star review?
No, everybody plays him. Yeah, fantastic games, man.
Borderlands 4. I'm pretty excited about it. I... I'm with you, John. Honestly, I, I, I'm kind of, I've been doing, I feel like I've been a little negative, but it's more just, please give me something new and different, but dude, Borderlands with friends is an absolute blast. Like there's no world where we don't hop into Borderlands four together and play some Borderlands four and have fun too.
Like, you know, yeah, that seems like a really fun community night type game for us. And I will say shout out to, I believe Mobox from our discord went to PAX East and, uh, and, uh,
actually said that it's quite a bit more evolved than we were giving it credit for when we were talking about it earlier and i i trust his opinion so oh for sure yeah i'm pretty stoked for it yeah um all right last one guys marathon I think it looks cool, man. I don't like the extraction shooter concept, but if I did, I would be really psyched for it.
I have not had faith in Bungie for maybe four or five years from the direction they've taken Destiny. Um, and it seems like they've almost washed their hands of it and they're like, well, let's try this. And this crazy extraction shooter idea that they've had from that. I mean, I hope so. I hope it's awesome. I hope it's amazing.
I hope we really enjoy it because I hope every game is great because then I'm going to want to play it and have fun. So I'm just, I'm very pessimistic, very reserved on what they're going to do with this game.
I I'm with Ryan on this one. I, I don't like extraction shooters for the most part. I did just get saying done saying arc Raiders looks fun. So I, you know, figure that one out. I marathon is the kind of game where it's not really my genre.
The only way I really see myself getting excited about marathon is if people start just singing its praises left and right, dude, it's kind of like expedition 33 with Ryan, right? Like he, he knew right away. He's like, guys, turn-based combat, not my thing.
The hype behind this game, I can't deny it, played it, went, look, I can see how glorious it is, but it just doesn't resonate with me on a certain level. And I feel like that's Marathon, but I don't think Marathon's going to get near the hype Expedition 33 got, man. No, no, no.
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