Tina's a natural at this! 💙

No hate for planet scanning on Mass Effect 2. That is the most chill experience I have ever had in a game. It is VERY relaxing.

Great job hosting and running trivia (while keeping a straight face as they were closing in..) in Daemon's absence!

Since Tina's in charge now, can we get timestamps in the description?

The blinking green light behind Sam’s shoulder is very distracting! 😅

Tina was awesome hosting (unsurprisingly) like Daemon she's knowledgeable and keeps the conversation flowing very well.

Amini Scoop!

Great show! Kat is awesome. She is very knowledgeable 👍

Tina could have at least wore a Godzilla shirt to soften the blow 😨

Respect to Tina for doing the research by watching a LP of the 20 Questions game!

I am on my 2nd playthrough of the Legendary edition. This time I am evil D!ckhead Shepard. Love this character so much. Very underrated character. He is so mean and it is great. Best moment is when Grunt was in the pod and they were telling Sheppard he shouldn't open it because it could endanger the ship. Evil Shepard says, "If anything goes wrong. I will just have EDI open the port Cargo hold doors and flush him into space" Miranda responds with, "What about the crew who is in there? They will be flushed out as well". The funny part is the evil choice is "REPLACEABLE". You pick that and Shepard says, "EDI? How many crewmembers do we have on board?" EDI responds, "There are currently 24 active crew member on board, Shepard". *Shepard didn't respond with words. He sat there with his arms folded and an evil grin on his face that pretty much said, "See? No big loss"

I actually liked Mass Effect 3 alot.

Finally, I am not alone. I completely agree with Kat. Playstation studios branding is very similar to marvel in the sense of presentation. Especially, when starting up a PlayStation exclusive game.

Tina is a natural at hosting a podcast. Very well done!!

In addition, is this cycle going to be the two majors just buying up studios to split access to games?

The channel “U Can Beat Video Games” is a fantastic resource for taking on some classic NES games. It’s a relatively new channel and I imagine it branching off to the other consoles at some point. It’s got a great walkthrough on Little Nemo. Great job hosting Tina!

RPG rule #13 Always do as much side content and side/quests as possible before moving on to the next main objective, unless you know for a fact progressing the main story wont effect it, but its a good thorough practice in any case... :P (Coming from an older dude who started playing RPG's back on the C64 with The Bards Tale trilogy, lol :P)

Fun fact that Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland is a Japanese AND American film, it was first released in Japan but the production and development was shared between both countries!

I was surprised to hear the slightly negative comments regarding bloober and their record. I'd held them in high regard from the moment I completed layers of fear.

Always a pleasure to see you back Tina, and hosting!

Wow! Awesome show this week.

Tina was an awesome host, and id love for (Cat? Kat?) to be on again; she was an excellent guest addition.

Just wanted to point Sam in the direction of an amazing pinball boardgame called 'Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade'. It's cheap, you can play it solo, and it's amazing!

I hope we at least get a Housmarue greatest hits or something like that.

Returnal is already confirmed a franchise, so expect Returnal 2 next

This week's 'like' was given for the Neon Genesis name drop.

Hey, it's Kat, from the other only podcast. 🙂

Can you upload a review of *Zero Hour* ?

Mass effect 1 is a fine game, for it's time it was even very good, so I disagree when Tina says "it was not a good game." But yeah ME2 is so leaps and bounds better, it is definitely the best/most improved upon game sequel of all time. Cuts away all the stuff that needed to be cut (ammo, crappy looking custom armor, the Mako, exploring boring planets, elevators, duplicate warehouses) while improving on everything that remains (better minigames, better combat, better character progression and differentiation, better music, better story, better characters, better locations, better story/writing, better graphics, better paragon system).

This entire podcast was about stuff I personally have no experience with or care about haha

Great job Tina and co 😃

Sony better be putting Returnal on Xbox now to get their money back…

Happy 4th of July, Goose Campers!! I hope Daemon enjoys his time in Hawaii and we get to see all the photos next week! Nicely Job, Tina and it seems appropriate that we have an actual ‘Cat’ take the fourth spot after all the other cat appearances each week.

Telltale’s The Walking Dead does a good job of carrying decisions over from one game to the next.

So Sony is buying the studios that are already making PS exclusives? I guess that's one way to go.

A hard time at EA. Well I never. Hold my geraniums.

"Hey listeners" 😁

Fark. Got a free hour back I guess

Kat mentioned Evangelion! 😍

What a cool person Kat was! I hope she guests more in the future!

❤ your X-ray Spex tee Sam!

Scoop X Blood God, I love it!

Great job Tina!

great work tina :)

All I want to know is if these games are coming to xbox. We all know this is the big question now after studio Acquisitions

OMG they said skip ME1. Don’t get me wrong I understand where they’re coming from but if you can play the first game in this series you should. The best way to describe it is picture having access to an old Victorian home great foundation great visuals but everything inside needs to be gutted. That’s what you get from the first game of the series video gaming no matter whether you prefer a more fast paced RPG shooter like the latter in the series or if you prefer a slower paced RPG shooter. The first game in the series has systems built into it I mean that if the game was remade from the ground up simply would not be there. They were revolutionary at the time but today they are something we don’t need anymore. No I can speak as someone who started with the second game in the series over a decade ago and I went back and played the first game in the series once it was released on a Sony platform years later. I can tell you you need to play that first game just for the story. Few games if any tell you such a rich story few games if any build such a rich universe I can honestly say I don’t think that’s happened before and I don’t think it’s been done well since. To be honest I would even argue they should’ve re-made the first game in the series. The story was just that good to where they could’ve drawn in more people to the series if they had just remade that one game. In fact they could’ve remade the first game in the series and built-in multiplayer similar to the third game in the series. How many people don’t think about this but go look at the multiplayer numbers for the third game in the series you will notice that the game remains at the top of the charts because people kept playing the multiplayer. Updates were free but we would purchase loot chests by the bundle at times. We didn’t do it because we felt pressured to it was literally fun to do so. Yes you could play and earn all the gear you want it without spending a dime and I did but it was no problem to drop five dollars a weekend in hopes of getting an update to my favorite gun or a new gun to test out and that would totally change my gameplay. I just don’t know how to describe that multiplayer because it was that good. It was so good they actually decided to include multiplayer in dragon age inquisition.

Justin thanks for the last-minute, ‘hey listeners’. It’s been a while since we’ve heard that so I was starting to twitch.

This was a great show. Nice natural flow. Well done Tina. Cat's great too. Good knowledge and smart insights.

I would watch every minute even if it was 2 hours

Oh shit Daemon..... HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER.

Thier next gen strategy is the same as every other generation which is to make great games! Microsoft and Nintendo need to adapt this strategy

Kat's "did it release first in Japan" question almost sunk them. Who the hell knows which month old games were released in Japan vs America? You would assume Japan first but no way to know for sure. Always stick to "was it developed in Japan."

Dam i love Sam machines in the background. So awesome

Great job tina

I want another game like Max Payne. I would settle for playing the original which is not easy to get to play on a modern windows box. Physics based, slow down, acrobatics, AI that lets every scene play out differently every time you play... Every other game has become a genre yet no Max Payne genre yet...

Kats voice sounds so familiar. But I can't place why since she doesnt look familiar?

Good job Tina! As for Remedy, as long as we are getting an official Control sequel, bring on the PVE multiplayer game! Could be interesting.

I have the me trilogy, having never played any of them, i am STRUGGLING to play through the first game. I’ve had it since it released and i still haven’t finished feros(?) or any of the first planet quests.

Tina did a great job!

Excellent work Tina!

Good to see ya Tina!

Tina is a fantastic host!!! Also, Kat is awesome.

For Elder Scrolls VI, pre production in 2018 and early design phases in 2021 feels the exact same to me so I think it is definitely a bit of a disappointment. I still don't expect it any time soon, but 'early design phase' seems like the game stalled a bit. Also, I disagree 100% with the idea that Bethesda doesn't need to 'milk the dragon' as the panel is saying here. 100% that is what they should be doing right now. I played Skyrim for hundreds of hours nearly ten years ago and I have not played it since. If I could get an up rezzed Oblivion I would definitely be all over that.

Tina was amazing. I'd love more Amini-Scoops

TINA SCOOP!

Don't know if it's the fact Daemon isn't presenting or the fact that 80% of the podcast wasn't taken up talking about metroidvanias or some other game that was released before i was born, but this was the most informative and refreshing scoop i've heard in months!

Great Job Tina But First!

Kat fits in well with the group. She is a very good alternate to the Scoop Crew. Also good job hosting, Tina! Cheers!

Great episode with a natural host in Tina! Kat was great and would love to see her guesting many more times in the future! Also Mass Effect 2 is the best in the trilogy!

Great episode! I'll always miss Daemon when he's not hosting, but every single time I see Kat on a podcast, I like her even more. She's got a great dry-yet-funny sense of humor backed by an encyclopedic knowledge of gaming. As just about all of the other comments here are saying - Tina was fantastic as host, too. You didn't just do your normal thing but toss out topics, you really became a host just as Daemon does, and that is very rare in podcasts. Have a great extended weekend, Omega Cops!

I get that Xbox has been lacking in first party games and studios, but I think it’s ignorant to say that they were just buying to buy. Most of their studios that they acquired all had close working relationships with MS already, just like how you guys are comparing with Sony and how smart they are with their buys. They were smart buys as well. Even on the tech side with ID tech. Such media bias on how things are portrayed. It’s getting annoying. Sony bought these studios in response to MS’s acquisitions.

It's a shame so many people seem to feel the need to crap on Mass Effect 1, i loved it when it was released, sure it had a few issues but the world & the characters were awesome, i hadn't played a game like it at that point. Obviously 2 improved on many of aspects of the first game but much of what 2 is is just a refinement & elaboration of 1.

I love Damon but I have to say, Tina did an excellent job this episode! Also, Kat is awesome. Her opinions and contributions are fresh, wisened, and help shake up the conversation between the other panel members. Great episode, thanks folks

Skipping 1. You lose some character interactions with 1 off characters you have met in the 1st one. For instance if you skip 1. Conrad Vernor is not in 2.

Kat's great. Always knowledgeable and genuine.

Didn't realize Sam had blue eyes until he wore that blue shirt

Please add headlines to videos for each section ur talking about so I can scroll through :)

The concept of PT has been done 10 times over since PT. Especially in VR. It can't be done anymore as the genre was flooded. Paranormal Activity, Excorcist VR, Resident Evil 7, Layers of Fear. There are clones on top of clones and some are pretty good. So yeah ... Kojima for his XBox game should not be a PT clone.

Personally, Mass Effect 1 was also the fav. Most open, expansive, and mysterious game. Loved it so much. Disappointed me they went more main stream for 2 and 3.

Lovin' the shirt Sam! 🤘

Sams take on Ratchet last week was on point

There is no Ammo in Mass Effect. Those are heat sinks to collect the heat so the weapon does not overheat like they did in 1. Invented while Shepard was dead. Not invented. Mass marketed. Shepard had knowledge of them. But they were not readily available before his death/rebirth The weapons according to the lore is a block of metal that shaves off a tiny piece with each trigger pull and sends the piece of metal flying at a ridiculously high speed that a the tiniest piece of metal will hit with so much kinetic energy it shreds targets. The block of metal can take thousands of trigger pulls to deplete making reloading a monthly and in some cases a yearly thing. Read the Codex. So mo much history in Mass Effect it is ridiculous.

Let me tell you my story about mass effect. I was in high school at the time and decided to play this. Back in the 360 days. Ill go quick. First game, VERMIRE, Ashley, then the end viliian. Second game. Ashley was barley in I didn't concept I think the full potential of a game so a lot of people died at the end. Third game. Ashley ended up dead in front me with someone else and I destroyed the whole universe, saw the ship on a green planet, door opened and it cut to black. (pre dlc)

Based off the purchases they're about to port their games to pc.

Skipping Mass Effect 1 is utter blasphemy

Come to Xbox !

SCOOP!

Fallout 4s development did not start in 2008. Fallout 4s production started after Skyrim. So Kat Bailey was way off on that comment. The team who made Fallout 4 is the same team that made Skyrim. Bethesda does not have 2 teams. 1 for Fallout and 1 for Elser Scrolls like you are suggesting

In an interview in late 2019. Todd Howard said the art team has or is about to move on and was getting started building assets for Elder Scrolls 6. Now in translation. That could just mean they were beginning updating the Creation Engine and its suite of tools for the art style being used. Or it could mean they were creating actual assets and/or rough models for the game. Since that interview. The world had a crisis. So I would think a lot has changed since then and some projects hit roadblocks. But the art team is the very first step along with the writers coming up with story. The actual development team building the world using the created assets is still on Starfield. So my guess is ES6 is 2024-25 range. 5 years is not happening. The only time a developer takes 5 years or more to develop a game is if they overhaul the entire game engine which I am pretty sure they did already with Starfield *PHOTOGRAMMETRY ... r is important

Tinaaa

I played Mass Effect 2 a while ago (because Mass Effect 1 was not available on Playstation) and didn't like it. Too much dialogue, not enough action. I get why people like them, but to me it just felt like a chore - I kept playing the game waiting to get to a "good part" where I'll start having fun and that never happened.

Tina killed this and Kat was a perfect addition also

The Elusive Man was nowhere near the villain in Mass Effect 2. He was only ambitious and making sure Humanity has equal footing in the Galaxy. If it wasn't for the Elusive Man. The races of the galaxy would have done nothing to stop the Reapers. He was a hero up until he got himself indoctrinated which happened in the 6 months between 2 and 3. And it was likely because he visited the Collector base after Shepard wiped it. The Elusive Man was never a villain. Just questionable in his methods. And he was not indoctrinated in 2. *Anybody would says he was a villain in 2 is a gamer fraud.

Scoop (dab)

Returnal loved by everyone? The thing is buggy as hell. Players play for hours and loose all progress and crashes the console. Sounds very enjoyable and not frustrating at all. Who said it's AAA?

Why would you give spoilers from Mass Effect?

I would have been satisfied with the Mass Effect 3 ending if there was no choice at all. Destroy ending. Shepard takes a breath after the credits. This ending should be Canon. Even EDI could be rebuilt. I would have been happy with just that 1 ending. Even though the entirety of the game was about choice. The ending did not have to be in my opinion. If Mass Effect 4 is a direct continuation of 3. Which I hope it is. Bioware has their work cut out for them. There are ways to do each ending. Have Shepard come back. The Starchild said it. Synthesis. Many cycles tried it but could never get it to work. So they could just play it off as Synthesis didn't work. And Shepard's data core is sitting on the Citadel to be cybernetically implanted in a Shepard clone. They could do the destroy ending where Shepard survived as seen after the credits. They could do the control ending where Shepard controls the Reapers. He keeps all of his memories and is aware of who he is as was said by the Star Child and he could be transported to a Cybernetic clone like EDI (and synthesis) Or just the "Do nothing" ending and have the races beat the Reapers in the war without the use of the Catalyst *So there are many ways to bring Shepard back. But Bioware screwed the pooch with the multiple endings. This is why they made Andromeda. Because they knew they screwed up the story of the Milky Way with the multiple endings so they needed to go somewhere those endings didn't affect it.

This is the best episode of Game Scoop I've heard in the last 3+ years. Tina, you did a fantastic job hosting! You were well prepared with your agenda and sources. You had a direction for the show and kept it on track. It was focused, informative, and moved along in a way that respected the listener's time. Justin Davis is always insightful and well spoken. Kat Bailey should be on every week. Her perspectives are interesting and articulate. The flow of the podcast allowed for intriguing discussion and occasional laughs without the fluff of lame humor and conversations that should take place outside of a podcast. The organization, direction, content, and pace of this podcast were superb. Keep up the good work Tina, I hope you get your own podcast someday. Thank you, Justin and Kat, for your articulated thoughts and opinions.

Completely agree with Tina. Couldn’t get through the original Mass Effect again. Might set up the story really well but the gameplay is terrible in my opinion. 2 improved on almost everything 1 did.

Love tina 👊🏽