Video Gamers Podcast
Oblivion Remaster, Expedition 33 Predictions and Bye Bye Baldur's Gate 3 - Gaming Podcast
Thu, 24 Apr 2025
Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan and John are back this week to chat the incredible week of video game releases and shadow drops. From the release of the Oblivion Remaster to the release of Expedition 33, it's a fantastic week for video games, and an even better time to be a gamer! Baldur's Gate 3 is done, and Larian studios are now moving on to another gaming venture. Nintendo reveals the price of the Switch 2 Joycons, and Arc Raiders might have us more excited for it than Marathon. All the gaming news you need each and every week from the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, 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 is the episode about?
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the video gamers podcast. It's expedition 33 launch week But is it also Oblivion remake launch week? Rumors are flying and we've got a lot to talk about on today's episode. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh.
Chapter 2: Who are the hosts of the podcast?
And joining me, he dumped Expedition 33 before they even went on a first date for his old crusty girlfriend who got some new makeup.
It's Ryan. Dang, baby, you look so good right now with that remaster. Come on, come to Papa. I'm going to buy eight copies of you. Oh, man. I love it, bro. I'm excited.
All right, we're going to talk about it. And joining us, he's committed to Expedition 33, but sadly his ice cold take on Doom the Dark Ages counters any street cred he might have built up.
It's John. I may be making room for both, buddy. Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
This may be moving Johnny into polygamy territory here.
Yes.
All right.
There's room for both. There's room for both. Yeah. Oh, man. All right. So listen, guys, we're just going to start off because we broke out into a heated debate before we actually started this episode. And we just said, you know what? We're saving it for the show. We're airing our dirty laundry like live to everybody else. Yep.
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Chapter 3: What are the predictions for Expedition 33?
John, would you kindly stop giving spoilers to iconic games? Sorry. We'll move on to movies. There's a few Bioshock fans out there that were like, I caught that, would you kindly, by the way. Yeah. Well, welcome into the Video Gamers Podcast, everybody, where this is what we do, man. We're friends. We argue over things like the Blades of Chaos versus the Leviathan Axe.
Two out of the three of us are smart. The other one's stupid. But no matter what, we love talking video games. And boy, do we have... John's like, wait, is it me? Is it... No, you voted with me, John, so you're the smart one.
I'm the FNG. I figured I was the stupid one.
Oh, man. Oh, boy. I love when these episodes just start off so stupid. We do have a lot of video game news to talk about today. This is a big week for gaming. Even if some of the rumors aren't true that something huge might drop this week. So we're going to get into it. But, you know, we do have some reviews to read.
We're going to do that at the end of the show for people because we really want to just jump right into the gaming news. But if you want to stick around for some pretty awesome reviews that have gotten left for us, make sure you hang out till the end. All right, Ryan.
You know, I thought about talking about expedition 33 because I mean, it does release the day this episode comes out, but you know what? We're a generous bunch around here. And we want to give you the spotlight, Ryan, so that you can talk about the game that I know you're more excited about. So why don't you go ahead and lend credence to the rumor mill. Now, I will say this one thing.
We're recording this on Monday the 21st. So this news will have released by the time people are listening to this episode. But it's fun to kind of... Yes. Speculate a little bit and then listen on Thursday and go, my goodness, we're a bunch of idiots.
We didn't get anything right.
Well, that's that's the usual. So we can just expect that for sure. But man, Elder Scrolls Oblivion remastered, not just like, you know, a little kind of reskin or anything crazy. This is like a full on. Shadow Drop Remaster. The announcement is going to be... They're calling it a remake. Yeah, yeah. Not remaster. Remake. Sorry. Total remake. It's going to be in, I think, Unreal Engine 5, right?
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Oblivion remake?
closing those gates again dude closing those gates again it's like it's it's just to me oblivion is one of the best it's it's one of the best games ever made it's it's way way up there it's just so dated it came out i think in 2006 something like that so it's It's been a long time. It's crazy we're getting that as a remake before Elder Scrolls 6, but here we are. I'll take it. That's fine.
Tuesday, the 22nd, 11 p.m. Eastern, I think is when they're saying the announcement's going to be. 11 a.m. Let's be careful. That's really late for people. Yeah, that's really late. So a.m. Eastern, that's going to be the announcement. It's happened before where Bethesda's kind of shadow dropped some stuff, so maybe they just come out and say, hey, we're releasing this, by the way.
You can play it right now. That would be so awesome. So hopefully, by the time you're listening to this, you can go into Steam and download Elder Scrolls Oblivion. That would be the sickest thing ever.
So, all right, Ryan. Straight up, Expedition 33 comes out Thursday. Okay.
Oh, I know.
Oblivion remake comes out Thursday. Which one are you loading up first?
Well, I kind of have to play Expedition 33. That was a trap, and you just stepped right over it, man.
You were like, oh, I see this tripwire right here.
I know. I'm kind of forced to, but that doesn't mean I can't do both. You know, I can't do both. So we've already prepped our children. We've told them, sorry, little ones, you're going to have to fend for yourselves this weekend. Daddy's playing all kinds of video games, so I may have to bounce back and forth between the two, but...
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts feel about the graphics of Ark Raiders?
All right, lay it on me. If this was action combat, you just click your buttons as fast as your little brain wants to click them, right? So, like, would that change your outlook on this? Is it literally just that it's the turn-based combat?
With the story, the way it looks in the story and the cinematics, if it was more of an action RPG style where I am in real-time combat and I'm fluid and I'm moving, that would totally change my thought. I may be... Totally, you know, wrong. And I hope I am that, that these people have created a game that is amazing and I'm, I'm proven a fool and I absolutely love it.
And it's a good game because you know what? I have to play it either way. So I hope it's good. Uh, and I, I, I want it to be that I just, these turn-based games just seem so monotonous and boring to me. I get their strategy. I get there's a planning, but I just hate the stop in combat. So I hope, I hope that it's great. I hope that it's amazing.
I think that the active combat stuff is going to satisfy that little part that you hate.
I think so too. If there's enough of it, it will. I can take that. When I think of turn-based, I just think of the old school Final Fantasies where you're
just sitting and waiting for your attack you know that's a fair i mean i honestly like i like to pick on you because you know i'm super excited but that is a very fair take dude like as much as i think that expedition 33 is going to be great for the people that are hoping it's going to be great i mean we can say this about any game but it's not going to be for everybody you know plain and simple i think that there's yeah if it was more of an action rpg i wouldn't be a
I will say I think I would not be as hyped, John. I'm with you on that. As cool as it looks, I think I'm in the mood. All right. So we'll leave that because I'm sure we're going to be deep diving Expedition 33 as well. So we'll just leave that one there.
We're going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back and talk about another game that we have not talked about in a while that is also very high up my I'm excited for this game list. And that's a game called Ark Raiders. So we'll be right back to talk about that one. All right, guys, we're back now.
Listen, we just got done talking about marathon and I may have gone on a small little rant. I think is tirade is what some people said about marathon and how it is not doing anything new. And I'm a little disappointed in that one. And then, you know, we're talking about this extraction shooter genre, right? This PV EVP extraction shooter genre is,
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Chapter 6: What are the thoughts on the turn-based combat genre?
Name a developer that is held in the highest regards by gamers. Blizzard. Okay. You're off. You're out. I'm muting your microphone. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Bethesda. Oh, gosh. All right. All right. All right. I'm going to step out.
Yeah.
I would say Nintendo or Larian.
Larry and Studios CD Project Red after they fixed Cyberpunk, I think, is another one where they lost a lot of cred. Rockstar is up there, you know, can do not a whole lot of wrong. Naughty dog. The point being is that there's really not a lot that gamers go. I freaking love this developer, dude. I'm going to buy their games. I trust that they're going to make fun games.
And for me and a lot of gamers, Larian Studios, with their success with Baldur's Gate 3 and how they approach making games. I mean, if you remember when Baldur's Gate 3 came out, this is the game that the gaming industry went, yeah, don't expect this kind of game, guys. That's not good for gamers when people have this high of expectations for games.
And Larian went, why don't you just make a really good video game and then everybody will be happy and you'll make a ton of money. And then everybody else went, well, that's not realistic. And it's like, but why? It can't be done. So Larian... Bids farewell to Baldur's Gate 3. What a catchy headline there. Larian is saying goodbye. Goodbye, our beloved Baldur's Gate 3.
Goodbye to one of the best role-playing games ever made. Goodbye, all of you phenomenal characters and your turn-based combat that was amazing and a true adaptation of the Dungeons & Dragons rule set that made it into PC gaming. Goodbye!
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Chapter 7: What are the predictions for Expedition 33's score?
So that's a thumbs up in my book for sure. Yeah.
All right. Let's talk about a developer that a lot of people love. John, you actually mentioned this. You mentioned Nintendo. Now, there's been a lot of Nintendo news, and we've had some strong opinions on Nintendo stuff lately. I mean, the Switch 2 has caused a lot of controversy in the gaming world with the price of the Switch 2 and the price of the games and all that stuff. So...
You know, this is something that we don't we don't we try not to beat a dead horse. But if there's valid news that needs to be talked about, there's valid news that needs to be talked about. And I think this one is another chance for me to kick this dead horse.
Man, I can't wait to hear that they lowered prices and then they fix. Of course, they lowered prices. And they fix the controllers. Everything's good.
They heard the gamer outcry. They listened to our episode where we talked about the hall effect and how they could have used that on their joy cons. But instead, Nintendo loves stick drift so that, you know, they want more stick drift so that you have to buy more joy cons. Guys, everybody knows this. And so what did Nintendo do? They said, guys, listen, we heard your episode.
We love the video gamers podcast. We love what you guys are about. We know that you're honest gamers and you always speak the truth. And so we went to our executive board and we talked to them about it. And here's what we're going to do, guys. We're going to raise the price of the Joy-Cons, everybody.
You know what? If you're burning through them like crazy because of the stick drift, why not get more money out of you? Raise the price, people.
Guys. john's shaking his head the corporate like finance side of john is just squirming right now you don't understand it makes sense it's just such an unfair position you guys like i i would like to be in an unfair position where i made billions of dollars i'll tell you that much okay okay how many multi-billion dollar companies go bankrupt all the time ryan It happens all the time.
It doesn't matter if your profits have a T in front of them or an M in front of them or a B in front of them. Business is volatile and companies charge what they need to do to stay in business with a reasonable threat level. And even then they go, I don't know about that, man.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts compare Oblivion and RDR2?
Today, we did the same thing. We've got this great little pastry shop called Prep and Pastry in Gilbert, Arizona. And we were talking to the store manager, Liz. We say hi whenever we go in there. We go, hey, Liz, how was your Easter? And she goes, you know, it was really slow. And we go, why do you think that is?
And she was like, well, as near as I can tell, Easter business was down 30% to 40% year over year. not just in restaurants, but across the board. And I was like, that's interesting. Sarah and I went to go see this great movie Sinners yesterday. Easter is usually a pretty heavy cinema day and it was pretty empty. And we go, okay, that's interesting.
There's clearly some pervasive and widespread economic concern that is driving consumer behavior. So what I would say is, is that It really depends on the industry. It depends on what your threat tolerance is. But for a comparison, pastry industries, restaurant industries charge a 90% gross margin on their products.
When you buy a cheeseburger for five bucks, say, which I know cheeseburgers don't cost five bucks, they have to be able to make that cheeseburger for 50 cents. Yeah. So I think people, you know, we don't have all of the, I've never seen Nintendo's profit and loss statement. I think that they are charging what they need to do to stay in business.
The thing is though, with food, food spoils, food goes bad. They have to have a high profit margin to counteract like their spoilage and other things like that. You can have a game and it can sit on the shelf for, for two and a half years and it's still good in two and a half years.
That's not true at all. Nintendo still charges $60 for their games that are four years old.
Okay.
Okay. Yeah. But what we're talking about, this is another great comparison. Tesla's high starting price, low reval because they lose. People don't want to have the hassle of changing the batteries. Its value decreases. New Corvette? Corvettes from five years ago sell for their sticker price or more. And it's because people recognize the value in it.
Nintendo does an exceptional job of retaining the integrity of their IP. And that costs money, baby. That costs money.
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