That intro. Well done Daemon. Most videos would just put a small note in the description or something but you actually fleshed it out

Loved the viewers choice awards 😂. Hope to see someone do this again next year with clips from the mentioned episodes ❤️

Daemon carrying the start of the podcast alone like a champ.

38:50 "plug it in" "then go all Palpatine on your television" haha, most underrated comment that audio only listeners will never understand. I had to back up and listen again while watching to actually get it haha 🤣

Bring CJ Gibson on gamescoop!!! Lets see those bagged milks in action!

I recognized that Blades of Steel music like in 2 seconds!

Thank you so much for including the name of the outro song!!! I always try to look them up and can only sometimes find them.

What would we be without Daemon?

I would 100% buy a red IGN mug. Daemon pass it up the chain

I love your guys videos, thanks for making 2020 a better year. Cant wait for 2021 Game Scoops!

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"...inside a Georgia O'Keefe flower." lol he put it much more politely than I could have.

You know shit's getting real when Justin goes ''What the fuck??'' I laughed way to much.

The reason the Avengers game isn't recouping it's costs is because the costs of developing that game were REALLY HIGH. Avengers was one of the best selling games of that month, and is the second best selling superhero game behind Spider-Man on PS4. It's not that it didn't make money. It needed to make a ludicrous amount of money because they spent so much on development. FF15 also had this problem. It's a Square Enix issue

There is no Spider-Man movie this year and Miles Morales is doing just fine. The bottom line is that Avengers becomes very repetitive after a few hours and and there's not enough interesting content to keep engagement up. Also, I'm not certain making Avengers a GaaS was a good decision on S-E's part.

Should’ve made the joke of Tina winning the hard out award whilst not being available for the show lool

Thanks for showing us the book!

Daemon, you're awesome

The switch coming out in March was perfect

Episode 604. Must be the Vancouver special.

honestly I'm up for this intro from now on! Go on Daemon!!!!

I like that Justin did not give his ticket to buy a Wii to that kid 👍🏼

That Anthem comment made me come here to tell you that I love you Damey!

Awesome podcast i enjoyed it

The obvious caption to me....The Three Gamateers. By the way, you’re always checking in with the listeners how about us viewers? There are some great comments here you could pull each week. Thanks for another great episode.

I'm Level 190 in Assassins' creed at hour 62 (the game clock does not count pause time thankfully) and like man I'm getting burnt out mainly because I wanted to finish it before cyberpunk but I'm realizing that's the wrong thing to do. This game continues to reveal more and more and more content as you progress, that in turn makes me feel dread cause I've put myself on an imaginary deadline to finish. I've decided to put it down until after cyberpunk I feel Ill enjoy it more that way and I've switched my pre cyberpunk goal to getting the Miles Morales Platinum instead. I really like AC Valhalla though I greatly prefer my Eivor (male) to my Kassandra in Odyssey and the contained story structure per area on the map is a choice I actually like.

The gym music from Pokemon Red/Blue sounds very similar to that Blades of Steel music playing in the outro.

Caption-Lib Scoop! This is going to be a real (adjective) Gem!

Daemon you should keep rockin the stubble look, or even grow your beard out, looks good man

I am actually sponsored by Antstream Arcade. It was because of that episode I contacted them and they gave me a sponsorship lol. :)

shout out to everyone who thought they had a notification on their browser at 7:21

Sam in line to get his wii is me getting my ps5 this year %50000000 haha

An Avengers loot game is perfectly fine. We had two X-Men Legends game, 3 Marvel Ultimate Alliance games and two iterations of Marvel Heroes. All of those were loot grind games. Marvel Heroes in particular was also a games as service but was apparently mismanaged.

also the music from Vampire's Empire SLAPS

Might want to consider putting Game Scoop's logo on those thumbnails. I completely glossed over this due to the thumbnail not saying anything.

I would so buy an IGN mug!!

How the heck did Justin and Sam get the release date for the 360 SO wrong? It came out in 2005...not 2008. Holy shit that's a lot of years off the mark! Anyway, still loved the episode!

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The Buyer’s Guide were fun. When I was a kid and didn’t give a shit about reviews. Still don’t. I loved magazines like this. I wanted to get as much info as I could about games and pick the ones I wanted. This buyers would be perfect. You got to see a ton of games, read little descriptions, see a screen shot a game, and maybe a score. I just wanted to circle or mark the games I wanted to get for Christmas and my birthday(January). Just like Justin said I would love this as a kid reading all the blurbs. That is what it was for me. Actually AC Valhalla was down to $32 and some odd cents as door busters at GameStop. Same with WD Legion. The $32 price for AC Valhalla was very short. Then GameStop increased the price to $47. Justin yes they did give explanations of the gorgons and other creatures. They are failed experiments by Isu, who are the people you meet in that whole dlc, fate of Atlantis. Lol.

Where can I go to look at these magazines? Is there some sort of archive site that you use?

The "Destiny killer" games are never going to really succeed. I think the biggest reason why is because most people have tried one of these games, whether it be destiny, division, anthem, avengers, so on, and have decided whether they like them or not. Those that like them have gravitated towards destiny, and have stayed there. These games as a service are trying to get some of that market share, but I don't see the Destiny community leaving, and other gamers dont seem interested anymore.

they should do pinball 20 Questions

The MandaContran

Avengers sold over 3 million copies in it's first month, so it did sell, just not enough to cover costs so far. And as we've seen, more people are buying games digitally because of the pandemic, so it's less likely mom or dad is in Walmart, sees Avengers and just buys it for their kid. In reference to Sam, no Spider-Man movie was released in 2018, nor this year and both Spider-Man games did well. And as of now, Avengers is an equally as big property. Being a games as service didn't make it not sell well, these characters have 60-80 years of having different costumes and versions. Of course players could get on board with the Hulk having armor, his biggest skin is the Planet Hulk skin where he has on Gladiator like in Thor Ragnarok. The problem was that the game was a buggy mess on release, the campaign was decent, but was short, didn't let you spend a lot of time playing with the most known Avengers (Only 10 minutes of Thor), and the Games as Service portion of the game, which didn't move the plot along or have amazing moments, was interjected into the campaign to extend it, without adding any fun. Also the Games as Service portion of the Game lacked content, especially Marvel content. There are no Marvel locations, only 2 Marvel villains, and every stage ends in the characters fighting in a multi level lab. On top of that, the two villains you do have are simple bullet sponges and there is no strategy needed to best them, nor multiple levels to those fights. Then add on the fact that the additional costumes, whether in game or the marketplace are all 2-3 models for each character and then 30 color palette swaps, that all of the additional content has been delayed by months, and that Crystal Dynamics hasn't even put out information on what additional content is actually coming, then of course the license can't save the game. It's a bad game only partially saved by the fact that the combat and the leveling system are both good. It's like Crystal Dynamics did a year and a half of work on a game they've been working on for 5 years as even the simplest things are overlooked. In the campaign, Kamala changes into another character in the training room (she becomes a digital version of Iron-man to test out his skills), but when you go back to the training room on free roam, you can't do that. It would have been a way for multiple people to play the same character in one scenario, as you can't do that on standard missions, which is okay, but they couldn't even do that, when it's already established in their lore. Basically, if it were a good game, it would have sold. As people would have loved teaming up with their friends and going through the Marvel Universe.

Hey scoop if your a level 70-80 on Valhalla you can take one about any enemy about 40 levels above you once you get to like 120 or above you should have any issue with anything about 100 levels above you then close to 200 you should be pretty much, fine.

@Game Scoop Can you check out Reign of Darkness? It's on Steam and they have just launched a Kickstarter. It's an MMORPG made by 1 person, who just started getting more members on the team. They are launching a Kickstarter to hire developers and accelerate development. Has a very positive rating on steam. They could use some help.

Man I just haven’t gotten into Valhalla. I’ll be childless this weekend maybe I’ll get into it now

Funny that for a game-as-a-service, people have been enjoying the single-player experience above all else ^^; Still, Avengers had problems with its character likelinesses not being like in the MCU or even similar to the comic books, heavily downscaled characters like Hulk and Thor struggling to beat low-level minions and the levels being very generic and not based on classic locations. I'd like to point Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 had more fidelity to its source materials, despite a rather repetitive gameplay.

It also didn't help Avengers that Spider-man leaked before launch and alienated a lot of Xbox players.

I think the art style was questionable also. It looked too SE. I bet if it had more of a comic type art style it would have sold more. The realistic type movie theme didn't work imo.

I'm not worried about the price of AC Valhalla, I'm still on AC Origins and got it on sale and still have AC Odyssey that I got on sale. Not to even mention CyberPunk 2077 might derail my progress haha.

Gollum is a Stoor Hobbit, whereas Frodo and Bilbo were Harfoot Hobbits, so either way is correct

Is that 2020 Questions, 2020-Questions, or 20 20-Questions? I'm looking forward to a 12 hour stream where the cast has 2,020 questions to guess 100 games! Also, any chance of a GameScope revival? Going into a new gen makes me wonder how more recent games would fare

Caption: Anthem for the year 2020. I got The Last of Us Part 2 half price during Black Friday, guess that game didn't do well.

Justin's description of degrading away from Assassin's creed side quests etc is spot on. But WHY do I keep buying them?

Avengers just looked dull and the character models were off to me. I'll just keep playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, which is hella fun

I’m brain is not used to this 3 face layout. Just make a empty 4th rectangle lol

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Daemon, in addition to "Omega Cops" and "Goose Camp" counselors, your podcast also features "bouncers" that work for "Acme Pogos". =P

It's a trace of PREDATOR poster there daemon lad 😊

Wow some of those reviews at 44:10 are hilariously offbase. I appreciate he gave Contra a perfect score, all 4s. But then they give Ghostbusters a perfect score for music..... that games has one music track and it is awful and plays on a loop non-stop.

AC Valhalla is a souless game and a step back from Odyssey. Tbh though they tried to go the Witcher route but they are light years away in every aspect, except for graphics.

'Grab 'em by the 1989 Buyer's Guide'

I actually liked the avengers game

Why’s everyone always shitting on Castlevania 2?! Here are 1 opinion and 2 reasons why the haters are wrong: 1. It’s the best of the first 4 games (SNES Included). 2. It’s the only “Metroid-vania” of the first 4! 3. It invented the “Metroid-vania” genre (despite everyone saying it was Symphony of the Night - not true!) because before that they would have just been called “Metroid-likes”!! Case closed!!

Maybe these companies will learn to make a game then if it’s successful turn it into a games as a service. Why put out a bare bones game that cost more money down the line.

Kind of disagree with the guy from Alaska. True the last couple of generations of Playstation/Xbox have been in the holiday window, but plenty of consoles over the decades were released in the early Fall (Dreamcast) and Summer (Saturn) and obviously those did not catch on. The Switch being an exception by succeeding in March. Xbox Ones and PS4's weren't selling out in 2013, it was important to launch them in the holiday window to maximize sales, same with 360s and PS3s. These manufacturers want a jumpstart to their launch to establish a user base to spur development, you should always launch in the peak shopping window even if you sell out. The only other console launch with this level of scarcity was the PS2, which was a combination of factors. Covid has just artificially inflated demand for in home entertainment this time around.

As for who invented the video game, here's a brilliant video essay on the topic... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q66BZ7p0upe7gZc.html

Game Scoop! 604: Assassin's Creed Drollhalla

I have a feeling GameScoops audience skews a little older, but how many of your viewers have no idea what a Sears catalog is? Also the 20 questions game is expensive on both X360 and worse on PC.

Hypeeee

The writing was already on the wall with the failure of Anthem. Square Enix was pretty bold to keep putting that much money behind Avengers after seeing that. The hubris did not pay off

Spoilers Omg Justin saying 2008 wasn't Wii/X360/PS3 generation was infuriating haha

KOTOR 3 is never gonna happen huh?

How anybody could prefer Odyssey to Valhalla I have no idea. The new game is so much better - better setting, less bloat, better stealth, new mechanics. So strange some people arent feeling it. Mind you, I couldn't do Odyssey after playing Origins the year before because to me it just felt samey af.

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Why does Sam sit like he’s posing for a school photo?

The Division is the only franchise to remain stable on the podium with Destiny on top. Destiny has a ton of flaws and frustrations. Tons. But what it does right, it does well. The Division is the same way, to a lesser degree. If a developer or publisher put in the effort to see where Destiny fails, while also copying its successes, they could easily take it over. As is, one thing EA and Square are not considering is how much of a time investment they are making these games. Sure, they want people to sink time into their game, but when your game is not as enjoyable as Destiny or Division, then you will never get those audiences. People cannot play 2-3 time sink looter grinds concurrently. They just can't. They will choose the better ones. That, and publishers have to realize Bungie and Ubi are constantly supporting their games. Fear of missing out is huge. Why start to sink time into a new game when your 500+ hour character in Destiny needs to prepare for a new raid? Same thing with Division. Even worse, why sink time into a badly designed game (Avengers) than the one you have spent 500+ hours in since its launch? Battle Royales don't have this problem. The is no "level" you have to grind or gear you need to get like a looter shooter mmo hyrbid live service game. You don't need to keep up or grind. You just hop back in and play on new maps with new weapons. This is why people can play multiple BRs concurrently. There is no time sink nescessary to actually PLAY the game. Come back after 7 months? Cool, you don't have to worry about bring under leveled or not having the best equipment or loot. There is no catchup. EA and Square destroyed themselves when they made their players think playing their games have to be jobs to actually keep up. You can't play Destiny and Anthem and Avengers all as jobs, at that point you choose one. And Destiny is better, but it didn't have to be if Square and EA actually took time to compete against Bungie's mistakes. They just made the same ones Bungie has already learned from at the start of Destiny 1. Destiny 1 only succeeded because it was the only live service game. It actually launched with just as shallow content as Avengers and Anthem. But it had 2 raids within its first months that held it up until Trials, and then until its second year expansion, which was 100x better than the launch of the game. Ugh, I'll just stop. This topic pisses me off because developers and publishers are horrible at realizing how bad of a game Destiny is to realize where they can be better.

KZfaqrs hated avengers, all the kids watch KZfaq so the word was out that it sucked. It’s a lot harder to fool people these days with your crappy game.

Three guys and no girl or sausage fest gaming.😁🎮🕹

Nope, Avengers didn’t sell because it’s not the game people wanted. Simple... There is no amount of content they could possibly add to change that fact.

With all do respect, that JUSTIN guy never plays anything, he usually gets bored with whatever is out or popular, he is often giving a negative response to whatever is current....what’s the point to have such a contrarian character like him here ?