Yes! Time to spend around an hour with my four friends that I’ve never met and watch them in their homes. This is what 2020 has come to.

Been listening for a decade+. Still such a brilliant show. I haven’t found a podcast that has an appreciation and understanding of everything video games. Hearing Sam and Justin talk about the game saves of EGM and the consoles, hard drives etc. they have at at the IGN offices is so incredible. IGN doesn’t get the recognition they deserve for what they do/ have done for the video game industry.

As someone who rarely uses his Switch undocked, I'm glad there aren't games that are tied to a dedicated handheld system. Having the option to take it on the go is great, but I mostly game at home and I want to use my giant TV screen.

Love you guys, you all inspired me to make my own weekly podcast which has been so much fun to do. Keep doing what you're doing!

Justin's joke about his kids being a 10/10 and then him silently cracking up at the fact he just made that joke gave me 50% hp bar increase

The perfect way to start the weekend! Thank you Omega Cops

Justin’s acting needs work! The google at the end was too obvious.

Whoa there, Daemon, invoking my name!

53:05 : myself: Pump up the Volume.. 53:08 : Damian: Priceless, thank you sir.

Game Scoop, making the week better with laughs, insight, tech talk and games! Always a good time

8:24 The mini sega Dreamcast is the memory card that you had to put in your Dreamcast controller. That little thing could play video games back then.

the Nintendo DS (including 3DS) was supported from 2004 - 2019 with first party releases, I can definitely see Nintendo iterating on the Switch for a long time, adding new features and mechanics and being creative in implementation (such as Mario Kart Live, Labo, RingFit) to keep things interesting

Scoop, cheers guys, great job as always Happy belated birthday, Seth.

18:00 thank you for that😂😂😂

Thanks for another hour of entertainment to help us escape reality once again. You guys are the best

Scoop!

Great episode as always guys 😁

Yo! I completely stan Sam & Seth's gaming set ups and I hope to have a set up of my own one day that'll stand up to theirs 🙌

Daemon: you should rewatch Karate Kid before watching Cobra Kai. Seth and I out loud at the same time: I dont need to I have it memorized. I'm pretty sure Seth and I are the same person lol.

Iterative Scoop! I feel like I bought this Scoop Gem last year with slight less battery life and RAM.

Wait... there was a remake of Total Recall?

sccooooOOOOOPPPPPP Great Show This Week! Loved the Nintendo Console Segment.

Man, I was thinking slay the spire pretty early on! Dismissed the thought as I didn't realise it was on switch!!

50:58 The game does have a season pass, it doesn't unlock untill you hit Adventure Rank 20.

At 1:02:00 Justin sounded like he was about to go Super Saiyan.

Do you need EA play pass to play multiplayer on star wars squadrons?

10:40 Don't forget the X-Modem for the SNES

I think comparing Switch sales to DS and WII combined is not a good indication since that was 2 generations ago. A better comparison would be the 3ds and Wii U sales which are 75M and 11M respectively, while the Switch is at 63M and it's only it's 3rd year. So I do think they are in a better position selling one hybrid console then they were selling two 8 years ago.

I think what we're not seeing that may be what is bridging the Switch to Wii/DS sales gap are software sales. Anecdotally, only Nintendo and very few rare 3rd party games sold well on Nintendo's old consoles. Switch has 1st party games performing at even higher levels than before as well as 3rd party games doing incredibly well.

I love Genshin Impact, plus you kinda simplified the character change, they have elemental abilities that not only do you need against certain enemies, but you can combine elemental attacks to make them even more effective... 🤔

Lol. I feel the pain of Rambo NES. Dope music, but I could not understand how to play for the life of me...

I haven't played Yakuza 7 yet, but I would have done if it weren't for the combat change. I will play it eventually, but Yakuza 6 was one of my all time favourite games. Some games I enjoyed and feel like I never need to play another, for example Fallout 4. I haven't got round to Nioh 2 yet as I'm still not quite done with the first Nioh.

Half-Life: Alyx is a first-person shooter at its core, so that should count as a first-person shooter getting a 10/10 on IGN.

Isn't each New Console just an iterative upgrade on the last one?

Hey Seth! "Get him a body bag!"

Today on Nintendo Voice Chat! Just kidding, love me some Game Scoop.

Watching Cobra Kai with the wife, both 36, and it's great. Know how to keep it cheesy, funny and not over do the nostalgia. Hated on it while KZfaq had it and gave it a shot on Netflix, definitely won't regret it

Wow, Gunsmoke was a great game on the NES

I think originally Nintendo was thinking some of that loss in revenue from a dedicated handheld was going to be subsidized by the games they were putting into the smartphone market. However clearly that was not a success for Nintendo.

I've been playing Genshin Impact and really enjoying it. I don't know if it's because i'm playing the PC port or perhaps my internet is better than the Host's but I have not experienced any lag whatsoever playing the game.

Could've swore Titanfall 2 was a 10/10 but just rechecked and it was a 9.

The way they described how unexpectedly good Cobra Kai is, which I might try watching now just makes me think about Doctor Sleep. It's the sequel to The Shining if u didn't know. I think it was way too under the radar. It's great, it explained to me what the Shining was to the characters, which I don't know if that was explained or even a thing in the original. It's such a cool sequel, plus Ewen Mcgegor, come on. If u haven't seen it, I recommend going and watching Doctor Sleep immediately. I had to show my friend as well and he was blown away by how much he liked it and how good it was. It's one of my favorite movies in general now and I'm not a big fan of The Shining. Be aware that there is a torcher seen that may scar u because of the victim and result. It really bothered me.

It seems like a lot of ign crew members are moving lately and Sam mentioned a few times about the office "moving". Are they closing down the office and keeping the "virtual only" permanently?

Great question about sequels that you’ve avoided. For me it’s the matrix. The first movie was perfect. I never seen the sequels. No need.

Rambo’s real power is being able to fire a .50 Cal Machine Gun (which has CRAZY recoil) smoothly with one hand.

I was playing Genshin while listening to the podcast, so far I’ve spent $150 on it. I got a couple of 5* heroes and weapons. I’m really liking the game and think I’ll put easily 200+ hours.

@1:00:00 just definitely opened a web search and looked up the answer and poorly pretended to remember.

I can see the Switch Lite model becoming the new DS down the line. Then Nintendo going back to a 2 device system. The home console could be something they tried before with the WII U. Wheee the Switch Lite could work with the new home console but without the gamepad’s limitations. Unlike the Wii U the new home console wouldn’t need the Switch to play. As for the Switch Lite it wouldn’t need the new console to play. This way the home console can be a little more beefier then the Switch and run games at 4k/60fps. But the portable mode would be 1080p or something like that. Both devices share the same media. So you just buy one game or instead do what the PS3/vita had where buying certain games on the PS3 got you ps vita versions.

When the NES came out it absolutely was a powerhouse at over 3mhz (omg... I just typed that... it felt as strange as it looks:-) ). The SNES was TWICE the power!! They kind of were cutting edge considering the Famicom had a printer, online capability, and could even report stock prices.... how many computers had hard floppy discs in their home computers back then? Mine sure as hell didn't... but I was rocking dual 5.25 floppies holding 64k each! LoL I don't think Nintendo could stand toe to toe with Sony and Microsoft anymore. It's not because I don't think they're capable. I just think after 30 years of a certain back catalog their games just don't need it. With that being said.... how did you have an entire Nintendo segment pretty much kissing their ass without discussing the current joycon drift lawsuits and the news that came out this week? They have 80 million pads out there that are potential timebombs waiting to fail. Unless the media joins in putting pressure on them with customers this won't improve. We all know Nintendo can be heavy handed with their policies, lawsuits, and business practices so it really requires everyone to stop giving them the wiggle room to do anything except what is right. Especially charging 80.00 for replacement junk controllers.

30:50 funny

I think people are forgetting that all battle royale games are like that they all go to the fucking tedious shit of landing looting going around you barely shoot anyone for a while sometimes you do right away people get knocked out then there’s this lol where everyone’s looting in sometime shooting here in there and I was done at the end there’s a really tense moment of who’s gonna win and it comes down to like three maybe four people and then two and then one it’s just I think there’s just battle royale fatigue

I've never avoided watching or playing a sequel in fear of it ruining the original, but I have regretted watching sequels. The Matrix sequels come to mind.

First person shooters always seem to be flawed for me because locking the camera that way makes it really difficult to be aware of your surroundings in a way that supports frenetic gameplay. Getting shot by someone you can't see is basically never fun.

Is that Shadowgate kicking off the episode? I could be wrong, haven't played it in probably 20 years but some dormant neuron just fired when I heard that

Shadowgate scoop!!!

How dare you besmirch Ghostbusters 2. Well, I guess we're gonna have to take control. Edit: Okay, you're forgiven after that "Pump Up The Volume" reference. Respect.

The answer to 20 questions is the game I was playing while listening. So yeah, I guessed it pretty quickly. :D

Season 3 gets a little more teeny romance...but Season 1 and 2 were great

YAY! JUSTIN!

Justin googlin the answer !

Nintendo could not continue the Nintendo Wii line for one very simple reason actually two reasons. First the casual consumer had already purchased a Nintendo Wii and they were happy playing Wii sports. Remember many consumers only bought the system for a few games. Next you had the Hardcore players life meaning of us we weren’t buying games on our Nintendo Wii anymore. So if they had bothered to upgrade the platform the casual player would not have bought into the upgrade and there is a strong chance that the hard-core player would not have done so either. The Nintendo switch provides a unique opportunity where Hardcore players like the system but we would also like to have the opportunity to upgrade. In addition they sold many younger children on the system and guess what if an upgrade comes out they will bug their parents for one.

I wish Nintendo would just fix joycon drift 😒

If there was one game I would give a 10 to in 2019 it would be Outer Wilds. Also I'm surprised IGN never gave Portal 2 a 10 in 2011.

System could be the first 30 million sellers a year and y’all talking about new hardware. Nintendo is not ditching the system until sales say otherwise.

I’ve beaten Tetris 99 so many times. I’ll show u on FaceTime if ya want

28:59 Your site is broken. I tried doing the same thing last year but for movies (back when you gave Joker a perfect score) and came to the conclusion that IGN's search engine/search result filters are deeply flawed. People in the comments helped me realize there was a bunch of perfect scores the results would simply ignore and not show me. Your database seems to be corrupted.

"Red Dead 2 is basically a western shmup"

You guys actually DID give overwatch a 10/10 in a re-review

Malarkney.

Yes they sold 100 000 000 Wiis and 150 000 000 DS', but the Switch costs the same price as a Wii and a DS combined. I think they'll be ok.

the last of us part 2 is amazing. play it. as for sequels that ruined everything for me....Independence Day: Resurgence. That sequel was absolutely horrible, and even ruined the first movie for me, which up to that point....was one of my favorite movies of all time.

Nice cheat Justin 😅

Overwatch is an FPS too. It's moba-like, but it IS an FPS.

Maine is a great state!

I have a 100% win record in Tetris 99. 1-0

You can’t just ask is Nintendo selling more video game systems because that’s a potential to be a false positive. What if you sell more systems but you don’t make as much profit on each system you sell. The same is true for video games as well remember back when the Nintendo DS was popular it was very cheap to make a game for that system and if you could sell millions of copies of that game you probably make more money than you did now if you made a new game for the Nintendo switch. Now that does bring up one issue with the Nintendo switch many of those games that are really popular in that have sold millions are remasters. Look at how many games were for the Nintendo Wii U that ultimately came to the switch and sold gangbusters. Ironically one of the most popular switch games was originally made for the Nintendo Wii U. I’m talking about the legend of Zelda breath of the wild. It’s synonymous with the Nintendo switch but the game was originally made for the Nintendo Wii U.

Why aren’t the people annoyed with Genshin’s English VA changing it to Japanese? It’s much better this way

What about the new Half Life game that got 10/10?

I wish i never played the Last of Us 2. I loved the first game with hindsight i would have not played 2

2004 Ds and 2006 wii sold 250 million. During the middle of there lifecycle and beginning of 2009 iOS App Store. 2011 Wii U and 3ds sold 87 million. Portable gaming was dieing because of smartphones and app stores. Nintendo made a new market. Gotta follow history fellas 2017 switch hybrid 66 million and might sell 30 million consoles in a year

Game boys...technology waits for no man.

Other people's kids to anyone are at best a 4 out of 10.

Justin is big mad that people like Genshin.

One thing can be said about Mario 35. Only Nintendo can take a 35 year old game and still make new fun gameplay out of it.

Justin clearly cheated in 20 questions, you can see it lol

I would definitely love to see Brian Altano join the scoop crew again.

I'm not sure if this has been said but Daemon was wrong about the trivia answers physical, it DID receive a retail release!

I was screaming " SLAY THE SPIRE"

Man. This week Tina looks radiant, is that a new haircut?

I feel Sam’s comment regarding The Last of Us Part 2’s story was too spoilery. It didn’t say anything directly about the story, but there seemed to be a pretty clear implication about a direction the story goes in.

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There won't be a Switch Pro. It's nonsense talk now. It's too late into the cycle anyway, and to fracture the market with a more expensive option is something Nintendo just don't do. Even for Sony and MS it was a unique situation due to the sudden proliferation of 4K and HDR early in their cycle. I bet we'll never see the Pro concept ever again from anyone. As for an update, a Switch 2, definitely. I guess it will be around the 5 year mark, so early 2022 or perhaps late next year. Given its success, I could see it become like phones with a periodic update, especially as the bare console itself could be sold with controllers and any accessories. It would be a cheap upgrade in that sense. As for the Wii, its success was due to its novelty value appealing to a new audience. It actually died a quick death, manifesting with the disastrous WU. So Nintendo returned to a conventional gaming system to reclaim its ground.

They didnt do something interesting with the characters of the last of us in the second game.. its not worth it for the story, but the game is a technical marvel for sure... The first Last of us is a game that will remain unmatched for a very very very long time...

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Damon is obsessed with talking about IGN 10s and I just don’t get it. I had to fast forward.

No offense, but can't they get someone else besides Seth again? maybe someone that contributes just half as much as Tina does would be great. Anyways, Love the show.

If you thought the last Jedi was a good movie, last of us 2 is for you.