Gaming Hosts Ryan and Josh are back again with another fantastic gaming filled episode. In this episode, we take a look at our extensive backlog of games and make some interesting video game discoveries. We talk the games we’re most excited to try, which ones are must plays, and realize we might just have some hidden gems waiting for us. It’s video game chat with your friends, from the best gaming podcast around! 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 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 main topic of this episode?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Gaming is an amazing hobby, but sometimes we can get a little too excited about the number of games out there. Sometimes we fall prey to the wonderful yet evil Steam Summer Sale, I mean Steam Winter Sale, I mean Steam Autumn Sale. Our wallets take a beating, but our backlogs grow in leaps and bounds.
sometimes awesome-looking games like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Avowed released within just a week or two of each other? Whatever the cause, we all have that backlog of games we've been meaning to get to, and today we're talking about a ton of games in our backlogs that still have our eyes and attention, if maybe not our time to actually play them.
It's going to be a gaming-packed episode with some seriously good titles, so get ready. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh. And joining me, when I asked him what his games and his backlog were, he said, Diablo 2, Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction, and Diablo 2 Resurrected. What do you mean? Ew.
It's Ryan. I mean, what more of a backlog do you need? You're never done. That's all it is. 20-something years later, you're never done. And it's just revolving. I'm just being economical. I'm being frugal and friscal. Friscal? I don't think friscal is a word. I'm just making up words. That's how committed I am to Diablo. I'm making up words.
I, I, you know, we, we pick on you and your love of Diablo two, but dude, any game that you can play 20 years later and still have a good time is a testament to a great game. Like rocket league. I love rocket league. I haven't played it in a few months, but it's like, is rocket league going to be around in another 15 years or people still going to be just, you know, playing rocket league.
And it's like, I don't know if it is, then you're an all time game at that point. So yeah. Yeah. Well, welcome in, everybody. Ryan? I'm tired, boss. I'm tired, boss.
I wish this is like the IRL stamina bar. I don't have a mod for it. This is where we got to rest, man. We're just going to be goofy and crazy and fun and talk about some crazy stuff right now. I'm excited.
Yeah. You know, listen, we want to thank all the people that have come on the show to do these awesome interviews. I mean, talking to voice actors, talking to these developers. I mean, this has been awesome. And we warned people ahead of time. We said, man, we are shooting for the moon. We're taking this podcast to the next level. And I think they got a taste of that.
But at the same time, this is always who we've been. It's who we will always be. We are gamers chatting games, hanging out together, talking about the stuff that gamers talk about. And it's been awesome, but this is kind of like a... like a breath of fresh air. Back to basics, baby. Getting that stamina bar back, right?
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Chapter 2: What games are in our backlog?
And I mean, that's what we will always do. That is our guarantee to people. But honestly, the feedback to those interviews has been spectacular, dude.
So honestly, thank you to everybody that has reached out to us and just said, yo, I love these because, you know, that that was the goal is to to be able to do this, keep it entertaining and kind of give people a look at the people that are behind the games on those as well. So we'll definitely have more of those in the future.
We probably will not have four of them in a row kind of thing like that. But, but yeah, we're, we're super excited for, like I said, this was our promise to the listeners, right? Is we're going to try to up the game. We're going to try to bring you more awesome content. And the only thing we ask is that you join us for the ride and bring a friend along, man.
That's the best thing people can do is tell people about the podcast. Leave us a review. We have a couple we're going to read here in just a second.
Yeah.
And, uh, you know, just rate the show and join our community, man. That's, that's really all we ask in return. So, um, speaking of reviews, Ryan, we get a chance to get back to a couple of them, buddy.
This is, this is one of my favorite things, man. These, every time we see these come in, um, it just, it warms my heart and, you know, good, bad, otherwise, like just to see that people care enough to, to hop in, write a review and, let us know what they think. Like there's something special about it and it's, it is so awesome.
And if you leave them, we're going to read them on the show, which is even better.
Yeah. Yeah. It really, you said it and we have said it before, but there is nothing like seeing a new review pop up and the kind words that people say. And then to realize that we get to kind of be a part of their lives. Yeah. You know, we're at the gym with them. We're, we're mowing the lawn with them. We're on their commute to work with them. And I mean, that is awesome, man.
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Chapter 3: What makes Death Stranding interesting?
Turn-based combat, Marvel superheroes, cards is like the skills, like what's not to love. This is all like Josh type stuff. And I just don't know why I've, and I got it for free. It's like, there's not even any risk, man. I don't have to be like, oh, I better refund this in two hours if I don't like it. I think that it's just that it's a big game. I've heard that it takes a while to play.
And I don't know if that's kind of what's putting me off on that. But I am still very, very curious about this one. I think it looks great. I totally get this is not up your alley at all. But yeah, that's one that's like right at the top of my backlog for me.
No, that's a good one. And it does... It seems like it's like a little bit... You know, a lot of comic book Marvel stuff, like lately, it's just real kind of happy, dory, campy stuff. It seems a little darker. It seems a little like there's real kind of battle to it, you know? Um... And it's just, yeah, I think this one definitely, it's not, I'm not a turn-based guy, so it's not for me.
But I think you would most like, I mean, obviously, a lot of these games we know that we would like. It's just getting the time to play them over something else. You know, it's like weighing those odds. But because I'm not a poser like you, bro, I definitely didn't look this up. But it's the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. There you go. I said the gifted school for people. For people, kids.
I knew what it was. That's right. We don't want to call them mutants. Yeah, that's not the right thing. You're genetically gifted. There we go. That's what my mom used to say. You're genetically gifted. Oh, brother.
Oh, what a good mom. Yeah, I know, right? Moms tell the best lies.
All right, well, that's... So that's... All right, that's a good one. So for me, my next one is going to be... I'm going one... Kind of another one on the... darker kind of world that man, I just don't know how I never got into this kind of, of realm. Like it's not something along the lines of, I just didn't like the gameplay. I just didn't like kind of what it was or what it looked like.
It was more of just, it just didn't happen. Like, Oh, that's a cool game. I really want to play it. And then I just never got around to playing it. And that's going to be, uh, the monster hunter series, man. You've never played any I've never played any of the Monster Hunter series and I feel like it's so like tailor-made for me I love fantastical fights I love beasts I love crazy worlds and
Amazing graphics. I feel like it has everything that I would love. And it just never got around to lining up to playing it. It's just one of those things that it just didn't line up for me. And I must have been playing something else or just enthralled with some other game or world. But yeah, that's one that I just, yeah, I never got around to getting into that.
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Chapter 4: Why is Another Crab's Treasure a must-play?
Like if anybody that's old enough like me to remember star control, it's, it's kind of similar in that regard, but it's a top down. You were piloting a submarine through the deep, dark, creepy, creepy ocean. And it's very, very atmospheric. And I remember for the longest time I was like, I'm going to buy this suddenly sees game and give it a shot. And then I just never did.
Well, lo and behold, they made a sequel called Sunless Skies, where instead of being in the ocean, now you're floating around, you know, in a post-apocalyptic world as like a floating train, I think. And it's like, but this game looks incredible, dude. It is one of the most atmospheric games that exists. You're seeing all kinds of creepy things.
You're floating through these really dark areas and you just see like these kind of scary things on the peripheral part of your vision. Cause it's foggy and it's dark. And it's like, it's almost like a horror game in a way. Um, and I can't believe that I had this game just sitting there, man, all this time, just waiting to be played by you.
I know.
So I'm going to read, just so people can understand, I'm going to read the description for Sunless Skies because it just sounds really neat to me. I won't read the description. It's just considered a gothic horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling. Now, the draw here is that you get to put together a crew, but your crew is very, like...
You know, they're not a good crew, man. Like, they all come with serious problems that are involved with them. You know, so I think they're filled with character and stuff like that there. I love exploration and discovery when it's just kind of natural in a game and the stories that those can tell, too.
So Sunless Skies, I will absolutely probably dive into this weekend just a little bit because I didn't realize I had this game. And I think it looks phenomenal, man.
It does. It has that... I don't know, almost that, gosh, it's like, you know, it is that top-down old-school look, but it's like an alien effect to it, to where it's just, it feels creepy, but you're drawn in, you're sucked into it. So it gives that effect to where you just want to keep playing and keep going with it. It seems supremely atmospheric, which I really love.
And I feel like I'm not sure what the gameplay is like, but I feel like this is one of those games that you probably actually remember playing just because of how unique it feels at the same time.
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Chapter 5: What are the highlights of Marvel Midnight Suns?
So signal is the steam description is a classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures and scavenge an off world government facility as Elster, a technician replica searching for her lost dreams. Um,
Now, before we started recording, Ryan, I said the one game that I'm going to talk about that you probably need to watch the trailer for is this game called Signalis. And what did you think of it?
I think it's basically exactly what you described. It is wild looking, man. It's almost hard to describe what it looks like. It's that weird kind of eerie creepiness, but...
It looks like a game that was made in the late 80s or early 90s with some of the weird graphics to it. It's very artistic in its styling, but it's also very dark. But it goes from a weird, almost like a top-down third-person view of the character, almost like a Resident Evil in a sense.
Yeah, exactly.
In a sense, but then it gets into this weird puzzle-based... uh, very almost like eight bit in some of its graphics. You're trying to unlock stuff and yeah, yeah. You're turning dials and trying to interact, but you're like a replicant kind of thing. So you are a cyborg lady. It's eerie as anything. It's dark as anything. It's very atmospheric once again.
But I, I mean, I have heard incredible things from, from people that have played signal us on like social media and stuff where they're like, dude, this game blew my mind. I have heard people equate it to like the memory that like, uh,
being as memorable as playing like through the near games where they're just like, dude, these there's, there's like a deep, deep kind of like humanity, like thinking and how like we interact with our world and things like that. So again, I've never played it. I just know I really, really want to play this game.
And if the reviews are anything and if the word of mouth is anything, I really feel like people should at least look into this. And again, if you've played it, I want to hear about it because I'm very, very interested in this game. And again, that name is Signalis.
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Chapter 6: Why should you play Hades?
And yes, you have to be okay with fighting a boss maybe 20 times. But the thing with Elden Ring, the beauty of it is, and this is where I think Bloodborne goes wrong, is if you fight a boss 15 times and you never get him to half health... just go away. Yeah. Like legitimately just go away because you can do that so easily.
You were not locked into like, you have to just slam your head against this fight. If you, if you're not getting anywhere, just go away, go explore. You will find so many incredible, fantastical things that it's not like you, you don't feel like you're grinding. You don't feel like it's just, it's incredible.
But that's what I did with, like, I mean, I fought all the Valkyries on God of War with, you know, on Mega Hard Difficulty, whatever it was. And I enjoyed it because I was so drawn into the story and the characters.
And you like Elden Ring.
But that's the thing is there's no story in Elden Ring, right? There is. Okay, there is, but you have to dig to tomes and, like, find all the stuff. I get it.
I get it. And it's confusing, but the story in Elden Ring is your gameplay. Like, your gameplay where you're like, what the heck is that over there? I'm the story? You are the story, yes. Like, the fact that you're wandering around and you find some little cave and you're like, dude, what's that over there?
Yeah.
And you go in and it's a giant dungeon. And it's like, you could have walked past that and never seen it, man. Yeah. You know, it's just, there's nothing like it, dude. There's nothing like it.
I knew I'd get you hyped up for this one.
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Chapter 7: What is Signalis and why is it recommended?
All right. All right. You heard it here, folks. We're going to play together. Oh, I love it, dude.
All right. Listen, we're running a little low on time. So I'm going to speed this up a little bit. I dove into this game for a little while. So, you know, there are some games where it's like, hey, I dabbled in this when I bought it and then I got busy doing something else. But I really want to kind of go back and play more.
There is a game out there that is one of the best space games that I think I've experienced in a really long time. It has some of the best visuals I have seen in a space game. It has some of the best combat I have seen in a space game. And it is like a giant space RPG where your ship is your character and you can get all kinds of upgrades to this thing.
If you want lightning guns, you can get lightning guns. If you want... Different types of ships where you're like a little ship that can cloak and avoid enemies or you want to go with a big bruiser ship that's got turrets on it. You can do that. It lets you fly on planets. So it's not just outer space. You can actually kind of cruise through planets and even in dungeons in planets.
Like I'm telling you, this game has it all. And that is a game called Everspace 2. I played the initial Everspace, which is a roguelike game, and I fell in love with it. And then they came out and they said, listen, we want to take everything we learned from Everspace and we want to turn it into this gigantic space RPG that just is almost hundreds of hours with how much content you have.
And I remember tracking the development. I bought it on release and I played it. This game is something else, man. I cannot encourage people enough that like this kind of game to look at Everspace 2. If the trailers don't draw you in because this game is gorgeous, I don't know what else does.
But man, I'm telling you, the upgrade pass, the fact that you can go on planets, the storylines involved, you meet people, it's just fantastic, dude. This is one of those games I really, really want to get back into because I think this is just one of those hidden gems, man.
That's... It's... It's always weird to see, especially even us, when games just kind of go by the wayside, when we're so involved in the gaming world. I know. Like, think of how many other people haven't seen these games, and it can be just such an awesome masterpiece, and it just kind of falls by everyone, so...
Man, yeah, there's so many out there, and that's why we love doing these, like, you know, what's your backlog? What are you looking for? And then people will come up with a game that you've never even heard of, and you look it up, and you're like, whoa, that looks really cool, and you try it out, and you love it. So, you know, that's the cool part about this, but...
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