2024 Was a _____ Year For Gaming | Firelink Podcast

[@mcbiggitty]

LAST TIME STAMPS OF 2024 2:50 - Buncha pre-goofs 13:00 - Sony becomes majority shareholder of Kadokawa 21:35 - MAIN TOPIC - 2024 IN REVIEW 1:08:40 - KC and Marty on the last 7 episodes of Secret Level 1:38:10 - What we’ve been playing/watching - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Black Doves, The Madness, Baby Driver, Glen Powell

[@MYyGUN]

No gonna lie, this are do helpful

[@PiratesRock]

thank you. 🙏

[@johnsnow5125]

we should have a "layoffs of the week" segment every episode, starting next year

[@CottonModem]

Sony hasn't become a majority shareholder in Kadokawa, they just upped their existing stake to 10%, becoming the largest shareholder.

[@Saetanigera]

Marty saying "if people don't play on ps5 they're going to wonder about the game with the robot winning game of the year" is really funny when the other podcast has the other half of the cast saying 'whelp Sony won the console wars so Microsoft and Nintendo went off and did their own thing while sony hasn't really been doing anything'

[@buckysrevenge]

Roguelike can work in movies, best example is Run Lola Run

[@MrBazBake]

Live, Die, Repeat (Edge of Tomorrow), Groundhog Day, Happy Death Day...

[@buckysrevenge]

@MrBazBake absolutely good examples

[@79tomato1]

man that movie had such a good soundtrack.

[@dionisiosmarinos4285]

This game, like any year, is the best for gamers. So many different games coming out all having a place and impact on lives and some providing amazing experiences. Being a gamer has never been better because you have a huge selection of quality. Now as for gaming as an industry....

[@MrBazBake]

If you want thirty amazing games in 2024, there were at least thirty amazing games in 2024. If you want ten amazing AAA games you can put a hundred hours into, 2024 had that too. If you want the thirty most popular games to be familiar IP you can buy without reading reviews and just expect them to be good and last forever and never get tired of them... I mean...no... and how would that be good for gaming? One greedy analyst whose name no one cares about anymore wrote a ten page report demanding $70 games and gamers went, "Or I can buy a $40 game that's much better and then pay $30 for this AAA game in six months. 😂" And that's pretty great.

[@MYyGUN]

I guess this started when my meds kicked it, totally fell asleep during the whole thing, time to rewatch

[@monkeyaround4901]

Elden Ring does have a manga and its absolutely hilarious if you guys wanna give it a read

[@jakenveina1367]

Siiiiick! I was just thinking about how much I miss The Escapist Show, a day or two ago.

[@LordlyWeeb]

I will absolutely be playing something like Balatro when GT6 drops, because I don't care about it

[@Aweirdjoe]

Should games constantly move toward or should they polish off what works? “Moving” forward leads to live service and jiminy cockthroat of blending everything together

[@samadams8533]

KC the deaths in Spelunky are just representations failure, it’s not videogame specific, it’s the message “we learn from our failures and they help us grow so don’t be sad about failing” which is a pretty universal message. If we don’t understand these themes we’re asking for our media to not trust the viewer and to have to spell things out for us directly

[@Aeleas]

57:30 Me getting to here while playing Skull & Bones because it was deeply discounted.

[@SpcGrdnr]

So is Producer, Eric's first name?

[@PolygonAlley]

It certainly was a year.

[@toolazytobeoriginal4587]

Maybe even a _____ year

[@ej7052]

Most definitely been a year

[@Rezzo64]

One of the years of all time.

[@Kaunte]

It went straight to the top of my list of the most recent years.

[@danielpayne7194]

Given that all my favourite games came out a long time ago, I'm fine with bad years for gaming.

[@LanceSniper001]

I finished about half of my backlog for this year. Just got the dlc for WOTR and void trader, that will keep me occupied until new interesting.

[@danielpayne7194]

@LanceSniper001 I don't like modern games much at all personally.

[@huzi990]

You know what would be hilarious? If an AI Yahtzee chat bot refuses to say specific things that real Yahtzee has said in the past because it's programmed not to say questionable things.

[@sasuke11457]

I usually only listen to one podcast but since i started to delve in more of second wind content i found 2 more podcast to listen to because of Marty. I dont watch the movie and tv one as i mostly play games now.

[@demilung]

It was a typical year for gaming. We had some high tier blunders and some hits, the industry conditions kept the momentum of sliding into shit while the loud voices in the industry kept blaming those pesky consumers for everything. Same shit, different year.

[@jkitty542]

We need another year of Luigi.

[@Ward1706]

It was certainly one of the years.

[@KeirosDragon]

2024 has its highs (mainly for indies IMO), but the rest was a shitshow for AAA. I hope for indies to continue to grow and dominate, and for AAA to continue to spiral until they crash and burn.

[@AdamHaas]

1:28:39 so the plot of Infamous?

[@rbdriftin]

That PlayStation episode of Secret Level is absolutely godawful.

[@MrBazBake]

I haven't gotten that far, but is it worse than the New World episode? (Every other episode up to that point was fire even though WH40K is now apparently no longer in on its own joke).

[@dougnico2492]

Yeah its sad that alot of 40k dont get the built in satire​@MrBazBake

[@Kaunte]

​@@MrBazBake 40kh wavers on the humour, sometimes it's just played straight

[@metalsonic66]

"To Michael!"

[@SpudNickleson-im7is]

Good year to be a gamer, terrible year to be a game developer.

[@BAMFshee]

2024 was an awful year for gaming IMO. Very few interesting games, lots of studio closures and layoffs, and a lot of the good games were either tainted by developer/publisher nonsense or were remakes/remasters of older games. I've been a gamer for almost 30 years and I can't think of a year where I've felt as down about the state of the medium as I have about this one.

[@Stormer-vx5kw]

for me it was so bad that it ended up forcing me to find new hobbies

[@Freakuency_DJ]

I feel like this was a great year for interesting games. I’m curious about what you feel about this year has been awful. There were studio closings that hurt my heart, like Tango and Arkane - but Tango got picked up by Krafton (and Xbox hid HiFi from gamers under an exclusive for as long as it took to get them shuttered, so getting a parent company that won’t be exclusive might be good), but were there a lot of closures? The high profile ones really hurt, but I don’t think it was an epidemic of closure. And as far as tainted projects… I can really only think of Gaynor making Open Roads rough to play. I don’t really remember any other games I felt gross from the team about. The remakes suck… but I don’t think this year really embodies that at all. The coolest indies came out, there were really great console games. What was awful?

[@bullo247]

Insane take to say this year was bad. 1000xResist, Lorelei, Mouthwashing, Dungeons of Hinterberg. All excellent games

[@MrBazBake]

I feel like this is often someone who hates the marketing of games more than hates the quality of games. Games they assume are fun at $70 are harder to find while new fun games aren't familiar enough for them to spend 40 bucks. I could be wrong, but how many of these folks have played Animal Well or Balatro or Astro Bot or Lorelei and the Laser Eyes? There are often dozens of games people simply refuse to acknowledge exist despite being some of the best games ever.

[@11clocky]

What are you talking about? Dozens and dozens of great games came out this year. Among my favorites: Shadow Generations, Astro Bot, UFO 50, Rise of the Golden Idol, SteamWorld Heist 2, Mario vs Donkey Kong remake, Nine Sols, Minishoot Adventures, Mario Party Jamboree, Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, Arranger, Mind Over Magnet, Shiren 6, Isles of Sea and Sky, Factorio Space Age, Animal Well

[@arkturhellsing1484]

Terrible year for game development but a great year for game choices. A strange combination

[@thefakefloyd]

...okay...