199: Need for Affleck

The Nextlander Podcast

Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

This week: There's a new Doom game out and court has adjourned long enough for Brad to deliver a verdict on it, Vinny clicks around in Loco Motive, we debate the coming of the FRPG era, the Switch 2 is getting some Very Important Features, Walton Goggins has a business he'd like you to know about, and a bunch more.

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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:03:40) Nothing stops the Giant Bomb?
(00:20:24) Doom: The Dark Ages | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | May 15, 2025
(00:44:05) First Break
(00:44:09) This here pile of games, it is large
(00:44:47) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Apr 24, 2025
(00:49:16) Hollow Knight | [Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Feb 24, 2017
(00:50:47) Revenge of the Savage Planet | [Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] | May 08, 2025
(00:54:28) Loco Motive | [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Nov 21, 2024
(00:57:35) What is a JRPG? What is Anime? What is anything, really?
(01:03:42) Order of operations for completing games
(01:04:19) Alex's remaining stack of games
(01:04:30) Assassin's Creed Shadows | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Mar 20, 2025
(01:15:27) Some future games on the horizon
(01:18:32) Second Break
(01:18:37) News
(01:19:22) The Switch 2 is still coming and there are updates!
(01:33:01) The Top Games on the PS5
(01:38:55) Netflix removing Bandersnatch
(01:45:41) Emails
(02:09:01) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:11:40) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:13:18) What's up with Walton Goggins?
(02:17:04) Nextlander content updates
(02:17:44) See ya!This week: There's a new Doom game out and court has adjourned long enough for Brad to deliver a verdict on it, Vinny clicks around in Loco Motive, we debate the coming of the FRPG era, the Switch 2 is getting some Very Important Features, Walton Goggins has a business he'd like you to know about, and a bunch more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to another NextLander podcast. Alex Navarro. Uh-huh. Brad Shoemaker.
0:21.4	Hi.
0:22.6	Now, look, we've been in and out of various companies, circles, media.
0:30.4	We know that never say never, things are weird.
0:34.4	Things can be funky.
0:41.3	We've worked for various companies. You guys have worked for various versions of GameSpot, various versions of screened,
0:48.3	Giant Bomb, Red Ventures, ZBS Interactive.
0:55.7	Whiskey Media.
0:56.7	Whiskey media.
0:59.0	Never fandom, but still.
1:00.9	Was that ever the day?
1:02.2	I never were for ZDet.
1:03.5	I interned at the, at that version of GameSpot.
1:07.7	I was there as an intern the day that the CNet buyout was announced.
1:11.9	And I was freelancing for CNet when the Cnet buyout was announced.
1:16.3	Well, Brad, I know you've been impaneled.
1:19.2	You've been on a jury. Is that the right word?
1:20.9	Impaneled? I don't know where I got that from. But yes, I looked it up and that is in fact. So I don't know if you caught the new. I don't know if it broke.
1:28.0	Did they stop the trial for this news?
1:30.1	Yep.
1:30.3	That's right.
1:30.7	They called recess.
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