Game Scoop! 855: Can Resident Evil Survive Without Its Stars?

27:11And you just do that over and over again. But it's a roguelite because your job that you play in it is either to send out a bunch of soldiers and you can buy units per level, just like Blotcher or anything like that. You're switching out weapons or cards or whatever. But other times, you might be only, your only skill is you set yourself on fire. So then you have to do the whole level so there's no water near you. There's a bunch of fire, flammable things around you and it burns down. So that's all to say, it's like basically a roguelite strategy game with a match three component and then like an exploration little castle component and it's totally wild.

27:48It's absurd. It's absurd in like such a fun way. There is a story to this as well. Yeah. So it's set up in almost like Asteroid City, if you've seen that movie, which I love very much. The Wes Anderson movie? Yeah, yeah. So it's like, this is a play, and we don't have our lead anymore. So we cast someone new, and she doesn't know any of the lines, but she's here. And so she's going to go in. And so then they get into this thing where it's this person that you're playing as gets lost in the woods and finds himself at the Titanium Court. And then they can't leave. and the court is now saying that you're the queen and you have to help the fairies win their war.

28:26And then every, the match three comes in is like every day you have like a tide. And so it changes what the field looks like so that you're constantly shifting that around. And the fairies are all business people. Yeah, they're all very strange business people. They're corporate roles. Yeah. They don't win anything. Yeah, they're not cute. And that's, it's such a fun inversion. There's a talking cat. like there's like this weird mystery so like if you reach the end of like what is technically the map or battlefield you get a night scenario where like the the court is completely different you have to explore so there's like a mystery element to it and like the levels of strategy are just so much fun and at first it's really intimidating but it's would you agree sam the game's like really forgiving like if you fail it's like oh well and it's the roguelite in which you you absolutely get to use stuff after you fail and you start amping up your levels.

29:21So you can take more and more stuff with you into them. But by that point, you're starting different roles. Like I played a lot of this game. I've played 10 or 12 hours and, you know, I get obsessed with one, you know, role. And then it's just like any of these games where you're like, well, I'm never going to play another one. This one's so fun, but this gives you a cap on that. It's like, you'll get to somebody, it'll have like a challenge. It's like beat this boss as this role. And then you want to try another one after that. And the other one usually is pretty fun, But they're really different.

29:46Like I was just playing one where you were crawling around as an octopus on the map and you don't even do any of the send out of troops and stuff. That's what I'm doing right now. Crazy. It's so weird. It's cool. It just goes very strange and wonderful places. It has like the Alice in Wonderland vibe. But if it were again, slightly fantasy with corporate structures. It's definitely a just one more round thing. Like everything. It's got everything going for it. Like if you play this game, you won't be in you play stuff like this. You won't be disappointed. It's like, yeah, it's all right. So you recommend it.

30:19Yeah, yeah. Okay. But like I got to stop playing it because I need to play other things. And it's like one of those things like this is my only game for a month. It'd be fine. Yeah, that's the problem is that there's just so many games out right now. This is the one that I play like when I'm getting kind of close to bed. And I've realized that's a big problem because as you said, it's just one more one more battle, like one more day. It's fine. And I say up to like 2 a.m. And it's like, well, great. I think I think it's a very Damian game. It's just like you can I skip a lot of the stuff, like like a lot of the dialogue.

30:50It's like crazy. But then, like, sometimes it's just so funny to watch. And like, again, that music scene and then the music is actually kind of nuts to like, clearly somebody like did this kind of like lo fi guitar and drums music for the whole thing. It's great. You hear it so much that you get sick of it, but then it's stuck in your head and you go back and play and it's a variation on it. It's just it's a whole thing. All right. I will check out Titanium Court tonight.

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33:58That's shopify.com slash realm. And then Miranda, you've been playing a lot of Windrose. Yeah, so this is a... Yeah, there's just again, there's so many games to play right now and Windrose is another one that I have been into. So in vain of like Entrouted and other survival friend games comes Windrose which you play as pirates and Blackbeard is ruling the seas and has destroyed your ship and now you need to kind of avenge your crew, bring them back and go fight blackbeard as you can I guess uh that was kind of the stories I got pretty quick it is still early access so there are some issues but it is so fun like it's just really satisfying and weirdly hard um because you are playing on your own servers though you can kind of tune it down and like make it as hard or as easy as you want um but it is just really intuitive and how a lot of its systems work one thing I was so happy was I think I've talked no yeah I talked about it last time I I was on the show was one of the things that I hate most is when you have these survival games that have a lot of crafting and I can't find where those resources are this one just if you're within range of the base it just pulls from all your pocket your pockets and all the chests around you don't have to craft like a special one you don't need a special component it's not an upgrade it's just default I'm like thank you thank you I will continue to play this game and so it makes that really easy but basically you start on these little islands they're like different kinds of themes that you can find but it's procedurally generated where they are in the map and you start with a few like easy quests of like kind of after having been shipwrecked effectively rebuilding your crew so like you have to make weapons you have to make gear you have to go kill boar for their food there's like dodos everywhere and they're the most aggressive things ever and they're so annoying and I'm like, you deserve to go extinct.

35:59It's great. Fighting enemies is a really big gamble because if there are three or four, you can get taken out so fast, which is really cool. I like it when it's pressuring you to think about, is this encounter actually worthwhile? Should I go wait for my friends? And that's what I did. It was my friends sort of just helped me guide me through the first bit because they had been playing for a few hours. And then we just were able to divide and conquer parts of a quest and like proceed together and like that's just such a fun way to play by the time i ended i had like a little like tiny sailboat for just myself and we're working on building a big boat but building bases is really intuitive and fun i really like just the general design of the characters and the look of the game and it's definitely one i want to play a lot more of is there a supernatural like or like fantastical element to it like some kind of monsters that fighting also oh yeah okay there's giant crab things they're crazy looking they're very aggressive there's also like these uh zombie guys kind of like they're just washed up very wet corpses basically they don't look that scary but they're yeah they're pretty gross like kind of bloated so you'll see some of those sorts of things as well and there is some sort of magic element but not like you're casting spells or anything but something with the story that i didn't quite understand with blackbeard so we'll see what happens there but um overall still very we didn't get to talk about um god i was just gonna say that the combat on the sea it's like if you're watching you can kind of see some people on a ship right now so we didn't get the big ship yet but it is really hard because blackbeard's uh ships will just be in the water and if you get on your tiny ship they will just like hunt you down they start shooting at you like crazy it's like like chaos it's really fun though because like sailing is just fun so it's like a gamble anytime you go out and i like it a lot i think the assassin's creed reveal happened after the last game scoop right because we didn't talk about it yeah yeah i think so it just reminds me i think it looks really good i mean yeah it does look good i have not played black flag since it was released so you know 12 years ago or something i watched one of those like 15 minute like breakdowns they did and like there's a lot they added and removed to like to make it more like the contemporary assassin's creed games um like uh you know they added characters and stuff like that but like they it just it i didn't remember too that it has a grappling hook which is kind of great it's like kind of makes them awesome and then yeah just like the ship combat they added like new skill trees and stuff and just like that was my favorite stuff but it looks like like you know in that game i always wanted to just get back on the boat i'd like i was only playing the other stuff so i could do like get my boat leveled up whatever i just really like to see combat in it so i i think this looks like a lot a lot better tweak of that uh combine gameplay i can't wait ubisoft and the developer the developers have stated multiple times that it's not an rpg which i just think is well because that's that's what the the you know the last four have been right uh origins odyssey valhalla and shadows but i don't i i don't know i i didn't think that the rpg-ness was a part of it that anybody had a problem with i don't know i mean i just don't see how it's effectively different it's a giant open world game giant open world on maps and then also underwater maps and then boat maps i don't really understand well again it's been a long time because i've played this one but maybe numbers don't fly out when you when you attack no yeah they won't have that um but that new splatoon game has numbers that fly out when you shoot enemies.

39:37Oh, cool. That's an RPG. Yep. Easy. Cool. Windrose. Is it multiplayer, Miranda? Yep. It looks like all the footage we were seeing looked kind of single player, but I wasn't sure. Yeah, it is multiplayer, but you can play by yourself. So if you don't have friends who want to join you, they can also just jump in if you're running your own server. So if you're hosting locally, whenever you're playing, they can just hop in. It has a lot of players on Steam. Like, it's a big game. Cool. Yeah.

40:12All right, let's check in with the listeners. Hey, listeners. Listeners, remember you can always reach us at the email address gamescoop at IGN.com, just like Michael Reyes in Portland, Oregon did. And speaking of, Miranda said she's playing a lot of old games. Michael says, I'm curious to hear from the crew, in your own gaming time, what's the ratio of older games versus newer games in your rotation? These past few years, I've been playing classic and retro games through my Retroid and MiiU devices, some for the very first time, such as Half-Life, Mario 64, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Diablo, and Zelda Link's Awakening.

40:43I'm also currently working my way through more modern games, such as Expedition 33, Stardew Valley, and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. Personally, my own ratio for how I spend my gaming time is one-third modern games and two-thirds retro games. How about you all? What would you say, Miranda? Dang nice. I would say I'd probably flip that with my time, I'm like probably two-thirds mod or one-third retro. I've been recently getting back into my old devices, so I still have like my PS Vita. I have all of my DSs. Like those are all ready to go. And I find myself sometimes getting back into the back catalog of Game Pass just to play some old games that I really loved.

41:20Just like comfort stuff. I think whenever I get really stressed, I just want to go be in places that I already know I enjoy rather than having to like kind of stress about thinking about games for work because that's ultimately what happens when I play a lot of new games. I kind of think of, oh, how is this going to impact what we're doing for the guide? Or is this one set? Or did we do this thing? Because this is hard for me. Did we do that? So it is kind of nice to be able to step back into games that are just so not necessarily applicable. Not that we don't have guides for these old games. You should be writing guides for those games, too.

41:50Not that we don't have guides for the old games. And I don't know what the state of all of them are. But I can tell you, we do not have a guide. I'm like 99.9 % sure for Princess Debut which is one of the games that I'm playing right now so I don't know I don't think we would cover that which is a DS Otome rhythm game basically which is a very specific genre for just me Do we have a guide for the first Half-Life or Diablo? I don't know Yes and yes The issue with those is that they were written and then ported to like three or four CMS by now. So it's like whatever the wiki version of this is probably pretty crazy.

42:32Yeah, formatting gets weird. But yeah, that's kind of where I sit. And I've been going back to Ball Pit a lot. I know I just, I talk about that all the time this year. Why, that's still in my backlog. It's so fun. It's just so fun to dip in. It's very meditative. And that's kind of what I like about it. Like I can just kind of, you know, zone out for a bit. They just had an update too. so it's even even more exciting yeah i saw that update how about you sam i mean it's it this is weird i uh first of all i just played a lot of harappa and i played a lot of resident evil 1 and a lot of zelda because we did those for our new series is still fun featuring this panel right here um so uh those and usually when there's an e-shop game out uh a set of e-shop games i i'll go through and play those.

43:24I don't do as much of the, I don't have any devices that are like emulator devices right now. So unless I bought a bunch of like cartridges, then I'm not going to go through and like play that stuff. But yeah, it's not, it's not a huge split right now. I just have to do so much, so much gaming for work. Now the change comes, why this is weird for me is that like I play old arcade and pinball machines all the time. And that's what I'm doing when I'm not at work i'm usually working on those or you know i guess playing them but like playing them to make sure they work and that's like an ongoing thing so like in that sense i'm not like gaming but i'm like doing a side hustle uh constantly getting crts to work so that's fun cool yeah like i i usually have like one big game one big um you know recent game that i'm playing just you know to basically for the show so we can talk about resident evil and pragmata and stuff on the show and then it'll be uh 007 and then it'll be uh fourth horizon six so that's probably like 90 of my time and then 10 you know just like checking out you know just picking up my uh my miu mini flip or something to play some you know whatever yeah i guess you were showing kingo games yeah yeah that's nice it's nice having those on hand a lot of them are on like nintendo switch online he wanted to check out mario versus donkey kong and then we were checking a bunch of mega man games so yeah i'll do that but probably 90 90 of my time is whatever the the latest big game that's out now although as sam has said we have this new show is it still fun today that gives us a really good excuse to play old games before work too so and i couldn't those are the best games i've played all year like seriously that resident evil one was so fun it was so fun playing that and like when we were playing ocarina of time i couldn't put it down like that was so i looked forward to it each night i was like this is great this is so fun i was thinking about i had like a print strategy guide so that happens and i actually did just play through all of it.

45:16Metroid Prime 2 before Metroid Prime 4. On Wii U. I do do this stuff, I guess. I would say it's a pretty healthy split. I probably do play 30 % of my time playing old games. Yeah. Alright. This is Mark from London who says, I was curious what the panel thought about how regional gaming habits have changed as we have become more globalized and connected. I feel like habits around the world are starting to feel a lot more synced. An example for me is things like how Final Fantasy has moved away from turn-based combat to maybe appeal to wider audience and how games tend to come out everywhere now versus some that never came to Western regions.

45:52Do you feel like there are still games that are made almost only for a region anymore or are all games maximizing returns by trying to target everyone? It's true that I think yeah well I think almost every game gets a worldwide worldwide release now I think that's largely because of digital distribution like why not i think it costs a japanese publisher next to nothing to put their game in the e-shop in the west so why not do it right i think sometimes the answer to that is that that does still exist in some way so if you look at the nintendo directs the one in japan or for japanese audiences will sometimes be different like there are games that don't come here still or will come here years later because even though it might not cost them a lot to put them on the eShop, they still got to do translation, right?

46:38So that's going to be where their cost is if they're not planning for that already. So I do think there is some aspect of that, but I would say if you're looking at, say, Final Fantasy and the transition from not being strictly turn-based, it seems maybe that could also be an internal preference, right? They could maybe just like developing a little bit differently where it's that kind of pseudo-turn-based with some elements of it, but mostly action-oriented. Yeah, I don't think they're trying to westwash that. All Final Fantasy games have gone that direction, weirdly. No. I think Like, if you look at, like, Kingdom Hearts 2 and, like, the success of that, and I think maybe just they saw something in there that they really enjoyed and wanted to kind of mix it up with Final Fantasy and just continued with it that way.

47:16So it's hard to say, and I think it would be a developer-by-developer thing. But as far as, like, global appeal, it's hard to say that developers really think that way because I think there is still, like, a key market they're targeting and saying, like, this is what—these are the people who mostly pay for our games or will invest in them. if it's a live service thing. So we're going to make our things for them. And then I think if you see like smaller studios that they're just making what they want, right? Not necessarily for a specific target audience globally, I guess you could say. So there's a huge amount of games that are only made for the US.

47:53They're called Xbox games. Oh my gosh. Hey, hey. Yeah, those don't sell in Japan. Oh my gosh. You know, you say that, but also whenever we would go to TGS or I would go at least and we meet up with our guys from IGN Japan, there's like one or two guys on that team that like loved Xbox games. They're so excited because we can talk about it. And they're working for IGN Japan. I know. And so we would go talk about it. They're like, oh, yeah, people played as much. But they're trying. And I'm like, yeah, I know. Think of all the gotcha slop that we're not getting here. First of all, Korea is famous for MMOs, right?

48:34Yeah. We get them years later. They're made for Korea, though. They're not really made for the West, right? So that happens. And then there's the gotchas that are like Genshin-type things that really, like a lot of those games are made for Japan or China in mind. And then they come here sometimes. But the vast majority don't. Yeah. There's like niche genres. I think there's still like Mahjong games that they don't bother releasing in the West. There's Ronnie NES a bunch. I think that's really cool, too. there's like the denchidego like train simulation games or uh you know like uh there's even but there's also examples that we've seen on sam with the uh uh seal of quantity where there's just japanese games being released here that aren't even translated they're just there's not even an english localization it's just a japanese game that's available here and there was i think it's cool there's local sports games like cricket you know is is big i'm not saying that's like a small thing in the world that's a huge thing in the world it's just not in the the United States at all.

49:32So it's like, you know, if you're going to make a cricket game, it's going to be huge in England and India and other territories that we will never even see here. Yeah. It's really cool. There was, I think there was a time though, to Miranda's point that I think Japanese developers were trying to cater to the West, maybe in the late two, like 2008, nine, 10 ish. Cause you know, Capcom, we had, I think Resident Evil five and six did that square Enix got into the tomb Raider game. I remember being at a TGS some Japanese publisher like Tecmo, someone like that had a Gears of War clone, just like big burly cover shooter, bro shooter it's like why is this coming out of Japan?

50:12Remember when Bomberman got the Gritty reboot? Well yeah, that was a little bit before that too but then I think they realized to Japanese go ahead, you go first to Japanese developers credit, I think they learned with Capcom and the start of Resident Evil 7, that they learned that they should lean into what makes them Japanese developers. And I think they found great success doing that. I mean, it's really cool in our lifetime seeing Biohazard and Dragon Quest become the names that are used in the West just a little bit sometimes. Biohazard was used for Resident Evil 7, which I thought was cool.

50:44We still don't have Probotector here. So in terms of Westwashing, a term which I just coined on this episode, the NES and Super Nintendo era was really funny for this because uh there is a lot of anti-japanese sentiment at the time um there's a bunch of like you know stuff in the news about japanese cars versus u.s cars and you know production shifting to japan there's all this kind of ameri anti-japanese sentiment so this giant influx of pop culture from japan happens and what do they do they're like we got to make this not look japanese and how do they do that they took all the amazing drawings that like keiji inafune made for megaman or that shigeru yamato made for mario and they'd like completely wipe them out and then make them into like stupid like i don't know you would call them like uh what is that called uh the sprayed um paint art hairbrush hairbrushed crap yeah i mean that's how we got the the original the infamous megaman one box art right yeah and but a million of them i mean they're all like that and some are really cool like contra and castlevania have the best boxes ever made right but like that's not what the games look like you look at the cute art of Simon Belmont that they would have drawn in Japan.

51:57There we go. I was trying to look up. Oh, dear lord. Okay. I was like, what do you mean it's brushed? I was like, what is that supposed to mean? And you show the Rockman one box art? I see. If you can do a side-by-side job with the actual Japanese Rockman box art. I mean, the Rockman one just looks like the game. That's terrible. What the heck? Yeah, like, yeah. I mean, it was like this for everything, like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest or anything. They made these like stupid He-Man looking characters, but in Japan it'd be like the super deformed, like cute characters. Yeah, that's true.

52:49What time is it? That brings us to Video Game 20 Questions. Oh, my gosh. Our suggestion this week comes from Nick from Mount Juliet, Tennessee, who says, Damon always makes me happy when you rock a Soundgarden shirt. Sorry, I'm not wearing it today. So based on our mutual love of Chris C. and the gang, why not choose my suggestion for 20 questions? No need to thumb through any of the other submissions, as I've got your scoop right here. Three, to be exact. So you can make the scoop crew choose. Well, I've chosen the second. He gave me three choices. I've chosen the second one, because the first one is something called Echo Night on PlayStation 1, which I've never even heard of.

53:22And the third option was Jersey Devil on PS1, which I know is a mascot platformer, but that's where my knowledge of that game ends. I just know there's an X-Files episode about the Jersey Devil, which is like a Bigfoot. Yeah, I only know it in that context. I have selected option number two for you. So with that. What could this possibly have to do with Chris Cornell? I don't understand. Well, I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about that. All right. With that, let the questioning begin. Is it a PlayStation 1 exclusive? No. Okay. I was like, the other ones are PlayStation claims. Yeah, that's a good point.

54:02Is this from before the year 2000? No. Ooh. Okay. Is this a 3D graphics game? Yes. Oh, Miranda might have played it. I might have played it.

54:21Is it a PlayStation exclusive game? I don't believe so. Let me just double check and no. Okay. Just ruling that out. Yeah, did this come out before 2012? Yes, that's five. Okay. End of the Mayan calendar. No, I think we're... I'm trying to switch to that because I think that's when PS four started. That's a good way to look at it. I might be wrong about that though, but it's good to know.

54:59Did this game win any major awards? Let's see. Did it? I don't think so. He's looking at the, what's the section called on Wikipedia reception? That's exactly what I'm looking at. No game of the years. Smaller game, probably. Not necessarily, but just not incredible. Did this release on a compact disc medium? Yes. So not a cartridge, so not Game Boy DS or 3DS. That's a good question. Or PC downloadable or whatever. Is this a PS2 era game? Yes. Okay, this is a little hard for me. Yeah, I had a PS2 just for Kingdom Hearts. That's literally it.

55:53I don't think I ever played the first Kingdom Hearts. Definitely played two. Is this game for a licensed property? Is it based on a license? Yes. Yeah, based on a license? Okay. Okay. Okay. We're getting somewhere. One of those. Is it based on a movie? Yes, that's 10. Oh, shit. Okay, that's good. Based on a movie, PlayStation 2 not exclusive to not win any awards. Is it based on a movie from around the time that the game came out? No. Oh, interesting. Ooh. Not from around the time the game came out. That's weird. Maybe it's The Warriors by Rockstar, which is one of the best movies ever.

56:45um uh i'm trying to there wasn't a lot of games that would have been based on old stuff is the time i it's probably the warriors but i don't i thought that was a ps2 exclusive but that could have come to xbox ask a question around it okay because i don't know anything to ask around that game specifically is this uh based on a movie from the 1970s no oh okay is the movie it's based on a fantasy movie no no okay sci-fi nope nope what we're almost at 15 dang we're at 14 um Miranda's good at keeping track yeah I always like keeping track yeah well uh there's like they made a godfather and scarface game and stuff but those are all we games right yeah i thought those but but this it's not an exclusive to ps2 it was just was on ps2 yeah yeah i mean yes disc-based yeah um is this a crime movie yes that's 15.

57:59oh you might be onto something then because yeah i think so godfather scarface because i can't think of any other pison schemes but godfather is a 70s movie but scarface is an 80s movie i believe so there's that it's later i'm trying to i don't know much about the game i've seen the movie um is it alpha i didn't even know those had games so um yeah something new every day is this based on a plot about a drug lord no no wow so no drug lords no fantasy no sci-fi let me let me assure you you have three questions and a guess you are absolutely in in reach you're in reach here yeah yeah because maybe this was a maybe the game isn't about the same thing as the movie or something like that

59:04like it's not a retelling um yeah i'm trying to what do we know about this uh well i guess the setting because the setting would be the 80s i think i don't know though But we don't, yeah, we don't know it's the 80s. Did the movie take place in the 80s? No. No.

59:37I'm so confused. I'm, so it wasn't from, the movie did not come out around the same time as the game. Yeah. So it was an older movie. How many questions do we have? Two. And a guess. Have we, have we mentioned the movie or the game yet? No. okay so we just got to think of some some kind of crime movie that work that is in this you know but it doesn't have to be like crime the problem is i'm thinking we asked if it was a crime movie

1:00:07right didn't we ask that i thought you said if it was a crime based game well yeah then he said no I mean, this is stupid, but like I could, I would call those spy things, but there's always bond. There is always bond. I was thinking, cause I'm trying to think of some other like kind of big movies, but it's hard to say whether or not we're too old, but. Yeah. Spy, Spy Hunter is not a movie from that time. Yeah. I don't, man, this is weird. I mean clearly there was like some kind of like famous movie that got a game that probably wasn't that great yep I don't know I don't know where to go you have one question and a guess okay

1:00:59there's some things I'm like was that then and I don't remember it's like that's the time in my life where time is strange did this movie have a sequel no

1:01:13lord a singular movie that had a game tie in I mean this is enough to get it I just don't know what it is came from the PS2 era based on a movie not from that era a movie that did not get a sequel that's not from the 70s or 80s not award-winning game not an award-winning game crime theme okay so it does have a crime theme was there any like 90s movies

1:01:52someone out there shouting i know you're out there i'm so sorry i'm so sorry about to let you down crime though it's like matrix you know but crime movies would have been sci-fi it can't be sci-fi reservoir dogs did that exist it did that was in the 90s i'm pretty sure no was there a reservoir dogs game i don't think there was a game that could have been i don't know yeah i'm just gonna have to give up we're just gonna have to get this one i think yeah i don't i am unfortunately not very helpful with crime movies i don't watch that many of those specifically yeah that are old that's it i can to give up.

1:02:31Ooh, Sam, it is Reservoir Dogs. Okay. Oh, my God. I thought there was. I was like, Sam, why don't we just say Reservoir Dogs just in case? I was like, I don't. It's okay. The Stats Keeper will make up a new stat for this, which is the last thing they guessed was the right game, but they didn't guess. I had no idea that was a game. What? How was it? Well, this is when IGN and IGN UK both gave their own review scores. IGN, we gave it a three out of ten. And IGN UK gave it a 7.5. Okay. And neither of us gave it a year. That's great. So you're playing through the plot of the movie, but they don't have the likenesses of everyone, and they certainly didn't have the voice talent, I don't think.

1:03:17So what a weird project. What a strange project to exist. What? Yeah. What do you actually play? Do you drive? There's driving and shooting. It's a third-person shooter and driving game, is what it's described as. A little bit of Grand Theft Auto DNA to try to get it to tell the story. But it is right at the same time that the Godfather and Scarface games came out too. So there was, let's make a, let's got to make games based on all these classic crime films. And this came out for Xbox also? Xbox, PS2, and PC. Wow, yeah. Definitely didn't have a Waggle version on the Wii. It's too bad. But Godfather and Scarface did, so yeah.

1:03:57Who made it? this it was published by eidos made by volatile games which is no longer yeah but and they did a lot of licensed stuff based on nickelodeon properties too so yeah yeah this this engine doesn't look terrible not for the time yeah not for the time when is reservoir dogs set just 90s just i mean it probably came out in 91 92 so it would just be set then i think amazing well we got there you got there Sam good job thank you for knowing crime movies kind of but get close enough was there a Reservoir Dogs game now we know that was brutal well I thought you had a better chance of getting that than Echo Night or Jersey Devil nicely what's up I don't get the story still there's no story he's trying to get me to pick his He's appealing to the fact that I like Soundgarden to get me to pick him.

1:04:54Got it, got it, got it. That's all. Got it, got it, got it. Thank you for the suggestion, Nick from Mount Juliet in Tennessee. Viewers, listeners, if you have your own suggestions for a video game, 20 questions, email them to me at the email address gamescoop at IGN.com. And hopefully everyone knows that IGN Live is coming up soon. IGN Live 2026 happening June 6th and 7th, downtown LA. Come hang out with us. We're going to have a lot going on that weekend. Celebrity panels, game reveals, live stage shows, giveaways. we'll be doing the 20th anniversary edition of game scoop there it's gonna be a really good time uh you can get tickets right now at show clicks or live.iGEN.com they're 15 bucks a day so please be excited for that and that's our show all the scoops that we have for you this week thank you Sam and Miranda thank you to Jobert working behind the scenes make this episode possible my name is Damon this is iGEN GameScoop and we're out

1:05:56there it is oh my gosh how do you oh man that's crazy the art is though for the rock man i know it's really today yeah the technology exists to make a rock man game that just looks like that yeah that's what it should look like but astrobot it's astrobot but it looks like that that'd be really cool actually yeah i'd probably play that what about the one on the left though you know we do we do so much prep for game scoop we have the writer's room and then we have rehearsal then we have dress rehearsal and we got all the way to dress rehearsal without having anybody on the show but damon and i so thanks for swinging in there yeah we showed up and only then when we were getting mic'd up do we realize that no one else was coming so glad i could join yeah it was great alright okay thanks everyone thank you so much Sam I'm going to pick up my mom from the airport now and then this weekend we're going to Disneyland nice is there a park hopping plan or are you just going to go to one no we're doing the park hopper that's great we were seriously considering tacking on a Disneyland thing to being down in Los Angeles for IGN live but it dumps us onto a Monday after that and then it's just like a work week and i'm like i don't know like i'm like i don't know if that really is going to make sense i'll probably i'll be behind on so much like the next weekend maybe but we're actually traveling starting then but yeah we're not gonna we have free tickets that expire in june and i think we're bummed so no go now what are you doing go this weekend yeah it's brutal just go they just they just flipped over space mountain it's hyperspace mountain again i love hyperspace mountain it's so stupid it's so like lo-fi how they do it it's like the things they project are like crappy looking and it's just great.

1:07:39It's fun. Yeah. No, that's my favorite. Yeah. That'll be really fun. No, I do want to go, but I just don't know. I'm glad to go down to LA though for that time for Azure and Live. It'll be fun. Yeah. Alright, thanks everyone. I'm excited. Thank you. Thanks y 'all. Bye.