Defining Duke, Episode 206 | WHAT A SHOW! - Our Reactions To The Game Awards 2024
Added 2024-12-14 17:00:11 +0000 UTCAfter a disastrous showing in 2023, Geoff Keighley and his team put together arguably their best show for the 10th anniversary of The Game Awards! While not perfect, major issues with pacing, presenters, and speech time seemed to be ironed out. It also doesn't hurt that the show was chockful of insane announcements. Of course, we get into The Black Rock who is delivering not just one, but two massive RPGs in a single year thanks to The Outer Worlds 2, but also a staggering list of other games. An Okami sequel is real as is Naughty Dog's new sci-fi IP. Onimusha is back as is a new IP for Yakuza developer, RGG. They're not just working on Project Century at RGG, but also reviving Virtua Fighter. Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country, massive showing in their own right, end up as footnotes due to the seismic amount of announcements packed into this show. The list goes on much longer than that, but we'll leave you a little something to listen to now. Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:43:25 - What We’re Playing
1:17:26 - General thoughts on The Game Awards
1:28:51 - Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
1:31:39 - Thick As Thieves
1:32:38 - Shadow Labryrinth
1:33:48 - Steel Paws
1:38:14 - Rematch
1:41:16 - Solasta 2
1:44:38 - The Witcher 4
1:50:00 - Elden Ring Nightrein
1:54:20 - Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth goes to PC
1:55:22 - Untitled Project from Ico, Shadow Of Colossus, Last Guardian devs
1:57:11 - The Outer Worlds 2
2:12:25 - Split Fiction
2:14:36 - Killing Floor 3
2:15:30 - The Long Dark 2
2:16:38 - Borderlands 4
2:23:42 - Clive Rosfield to Tekken 8
2:26:29 - Splitgate 2
2:26:49 - Virtua Fighter announcement
2:29:04 - Project Century by RGG
2:31:38 - Turok Origins
2:32:54 - Helldivers 2
2:33:14 - Warframe 1999
2:34:04 - Palworld Feybreak
2:36:11 - Onimusha Way Of The Sword
2:38:05 - The First Berserker
2:39:54 - Arad: Dungeon & Fighter
2:43:15 - Dying Light: The Beast
2:45:55 - Fortnite Ballistic
2:46:25 - Squid Game Unleashed
2:48:47 - Stage Fright
2:49:37 - Game Of Thrones Kingsroad
2:52:29 - Double Dragon Revive
2:54:21 - The Last Of Us 2 on PC
2:54:43 - Den Of Wolves
2:56:04 - Sonic Racing Crossworld
2:58:04 - Mafia: The Old Country
3:00:45 - Dispatch
3:02:48 - Okami Sequel announced by Capcom and Hideki Kamiya
3:05:48 - Crimson Desert
3:08:24 - Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
Comments
Great show dudes
lazer_josh
2024-12-20 17:01:01 +0000 UTCRelax.
Adam Barnes
2024-12-20 08:57:04 +0000 UTCI'm just stating what my initial impression was. I hated it. it felt very out of place
Ryan Zimm
2024-12-19 18:56:13 +0000 UTCCog, just so you’re aware if you’re not already, that Amir dude has a high enough position at Tencent, I wouldn’t be so quick to sing his praises, if they eat up Ubisoft then the layoff armageddon is on
Daddy T
2024-12-19 15:14:01 +0000 UTCI'm not really up on their vision of retro futurism- even if it is the 80s- from what I saw, but are you really applying realism to this sort of game?
David P
2024-12-19 14:25:39 +0000 UTCI got my license when I was 20 and definitely felt embarrassed not to have it. More power to fellow LSM members for doing something that’s actually scary but beneficial. It’s one of the few perks of being an adult.
Yo mamas so fat shes DEAD!!!!
2024-12-18 22:38:01 +0000 UTCCogs most anticipated character in gaming 2025: Split fiction Glizzy
Bartevious
2024-12-18 17:53:07 +0000 UTCI don't know where you read that, the opening of the video quotes "ancient sempirian scripture" from 1986. So I'm pretty sure the game takes place much further into the future We'll see. Hopefully they can make it make sense.....
Ryan Zimm
2024-12-18 13:34:05 +0000 UTCTo be fair from what I read this isn't the future, it's literally the 1980s. Seems like some kinda alternate timeline where space travel advanced super quickly
Morgan
2024-12-18 02:05:31 +0000 UTCI kind of hated the Intergalactic reveal. The graphics are stunning, and I'm sure the game will be fun....but I hate the retro-future nonsense. No way are they using CDs in the future. No way are they using old crappy CRTs. And no one in the world uses a hair clipper that way. Retrofuture makes sense for movies made in the 70s and 80s...cause what do they know? It just rubbed me all wrong for this game.
Ryan Zimm
2024-12-17 17:16:21 +0000 UTCJesus lol how hard is it to move the dog further from where you are recording?
Casey Cieslikowski
2024-12-17 13:11:35 +0000 UTCCog really referred to the biggest reveal of the show as “almost a footnote” 😭
Trill Spencer
2024-12-16 20:15:08 +0000 UTCGreat job getting that and getting the freedom to do what you need. I know a few young people even into their late 20's who were like you. I was too nervous when I was 16 I ended up waiting till I was 18 to get it. Which made me miss out on 2 years of blissful opportunity. To say that its irrational to fear, it's really not, it's the most dangerous thing we humans in the current culture do. but as you stated here, the beauty thing about facing those anxieties is the progress conquering them bring. Always fight your anxieties, they are designed to hold us back and in comfort, not in progress. Fuck Anxiety
Seth
2024-12-16 03:09:17 +0000 UTCWatch out for Matty’s Teabag! 😉 It’ll come from outta nowhere.
Directional Joy
2024-12-16 00:32:02 +0000 UTCThe last 5 minutes of the show is the best DD content ever. I’ve rewound it 5 times. #DDthroatcoat
Kenneth Koepnick
2024-12-16 00:23:35 +0000 UTCYeah I don't understand people thinking that about Matty and AstroBot. I did however think it was a strange comment from Cog saying that "oh people were mad" about Astro winning - as that's not the reaction I've seen at all. If anything it was sheer surprise (which it shouldn't have been, given the critical reception Astro got, and how much reviewers loved it ). But even those people seemed happy for a small studio like Asobi to win it, and it wasn't surprising to many imo, as if was a very open year anyway. Was it just ILP that Cog is talking about being mad lol
Deemac
2024-12-15 23:52:04 +0000 UTCAgree. Erdtree was the best piece of gaming content I personally played all year. However, it’s a dlc. It should not have been nominated.
Nick Vieu
2024-12-15 21:37:29 +0000 UTCWoah that intro write in about driving really hit me, I had the exact same experience earlier this year. 25 and didn’t bother with my license due to an irrational fear but decided it was time. I had that anxiety and panic for about a month and a half afterwards but what helped me out was I was finally able to go to the gym anytime I wanted without relying on public transit or having to pay for ride shares all the time so I committed to going daily. It was about a 30 min drive there for me so I was banking minimum an hour experience each day until one day I realized that I just zoned out the entire ride and from there on the anxiety went away and now I can’t imagine how I lived without my license for so long. It gets to the point where you don’t really want to be driven by anyone and your car becomes like a second home, a place where you’re most comfortable. At least that’s been my experience.
Sechro
2024-12-15 21:01:18 +0000 UTC#TGADD I absolutely agree that this was the best Game Awards yet, by far. I was bummed that we still haven’t heard more on State of Decay 3 but with everything that we did hear, I’m not too upset. Merry Christmas, Dukes!
Ryan
2024-12-15 19:17:01 +0000 UTCAlso people saying Matty hated Astrobot clearly don’t listen to the show. He shattered a little kid’s dream getting the last physical copy of the game at the store! That’s how much he likes the game 😂
Breno Bezerra Bluhm
2024-12-15 17:23:36 +0000 UTC100% agree with Cog. Metaphor was my choice for goty with Astrobot as a very close second, so I was very happy not only with the goty but the whole show, but I would also hate if Erdtree had won goty (even though I loved it, it’s a fucking DLC).
Breno Bezerra Bluhm
2024-12-15 17:15:51 +0000 UTCThis thumbnail took over as the thumbnail for every LSM podcast episode in my iPhone Podcast app from my PATREON link lol.
Mark Pengryn
2024-12-15 14:34:34 +0000 UTCAnyone know which bit of the Nightreign trailer showed Bloodborne characters/monsters? I didn't see any Bloodborne and assumed it wouldn't be included. Hoping I just missed it!
Wesley
2024-12-15 13:58:05 +0000 UTCMuch love. Sincerely
The Iron Lords Podcast
2024-12-15 08:23:20 +0000 UTCThat was well reasoned. Great job guys. #TGADD
Aaron Omar
2024-12-15 01:04:16 +0000 UTCOf all the announcements that showed gameplay, Project Century was hands down the biggest highlight for me. Like Cog said, it looks SICK.
Adam Razak
2024-12-14 21:28:55 +0000 UTCThe Metaphor comment at the end sounds like one you'd make if you haven't played a JRPG since the late 90s, or haven't scratched the surface of another ATLUS game period. Lol.
The Infinity Strasher
2024-12-14 20:35:11 +0000 UTCI just love COG he is awesome. Such a good dude man , COG is like the one person that could never truely annoy me, just an all around likable guy.
Big titty drinker
2024-12-14 20:25:35 +0000 UTCWhat’s the book? Is it fiction?
Ghost of YoDEI
2024-12-14 20:25:16 +0000 UTCI'm happy to set a good example for all my fellow slow drivers! - Matty
Matty LSM
2024-12-14 20:06:57 +0000 UTCPersonally I’m super excited for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. The new Ninja Gaiden game looks awesome too. Matty play Ninja Gaiden 2 on nes for Retro Rebound its awesome
Hustle&Motiv8
2024-12-14 18:33:37 +0000 UTCShout out to Matty for staying in the right lane as a slow driver. To many people driving under the speed limit in the left lane here in Texas and it’s the worst.
Bryan Lozano
2024-12-14 17:53:35 +0000 UTCOnimusha is being made by Capcom, not RGG
Tim Robinson
2024-12-14 17:50:41 +0000 UTCRebirth on PC and no Xbox? I guess we're not gettin those games till the trilogy is totally complete. Damn.
Morgan
2024-12-14 17:46:21 +0000 UTCIt really was a good show. Exciting games to look forward to, the winner’s speeches were great, and the end speech from Larian’s game director especially was legendary.
Bloated Backlog
2024-12-14 17:24:12 +0000 UTC
