185: An A-Tier Pac-Main

The Nextlander Podcast

Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

We played a bunch of games this week and now we're here to talk about 'em, including Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Total War: Warhammer III, Crow Country, and... Smash Ultimate? and... Hollow Knight? Plus, in the news, Ninja Gaiden 4, the Celeste dev's next game is canceled, the VGHF opens its digital archives, and more.

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CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:04:41) Is it time to buy a Switch?
(00:13:10) Ninja Gaiden II Black | [Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] | Jan 23, 2025
(00:23:12) Tokyo Xtreme Racer (Early Access) | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Jan 23, 2025
(00:29:54) First Break
(00:29:59) Total War: Warhammer III | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux] | Feb 17, 2022
(00:37:20) Hollow Knight | [Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Feb 24, 2017
(00:46:56) Crow Country | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | May 09, 2024
(00:51:29) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | [Nintendo Switch] | Dec 07, 2018
(01:02:38) Second Break
(01:02:42) Ninja Gaiden and the Xbox Developer_Direct
(01:10:25) Celeste devs cancel next game
(01:12:51) Physical game releases are in a tough spot
(01:21:47) PlayStation gives incentives signing in on PC
(01:25:45) Video Game History Foundation is opening its digital archive
(01:37:03) Emails
(01:45:30) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:47:56) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(01:52:04) Late breaking questions!
(01:53:24) Did the bits mean something once? Do they still mean anything?
(02:01:42) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to another week here on the Next Lander podcast where we are keeping it all live.
0:20.3	Keeping it up. Everybody's trying to tear it down. We. Keeping it up.
0:21.1	Everybody's trying to tear it down.
0:22.5	We're keeping it up.
0:23.3	Alex Navarro, they depend on us.
0:26.6	Who would try to tear down in this podcast?
0:28.6	We're so, we're just, we're just normal men.
0:31.5	Just innocent men.
0:33.8	There's that one guy on reset era.
0:35.3	He hates me.
0:36.4	He just hates everything I do. I don't know
0:39.2	what to do. Listen, for every person in this industry, there is one reset era poster that hates
0:44.9	them. That is just you are assigned one the second you take on this job. So I just don't know what to do.
0:49.8	I think I think I think I'll tell you what to do. What I it. Brad Schumacher, stop looking. Stop reading it.
0:54.5	Stop reading it.
0:55.4	That's not what I do.
0:56.3	I engage.
0:57.4	I'm out there.
0:58.0	I'm just trying to make friends.
0:58.9	Just don't look.
0:59.9	Just don't look.
1:01.2	I got a little bit of interesting insight into some internet psychology reading our discord yesterday.
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