Announcements of the Year w/ Jesse Cox | The Grinding Gear Podcast #148

The Grinding Gear Podcast

Garrett Weinzierl and Kyle Fergusson

Mmo, Console, Warcraft, Nexus, Pc, Fantasy, Ff14, Games & Hobbies, Starcraft, Final, Hots, Diablo, Video, Blizzard, Video Games, Ffxiv, Gaming, Games

4.9 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 193 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Cox returns to the show to discuss the Game Awards! The reveals, the trailers, the gossip and the awards. Fathoming Highgaurd and trying to sell us on Ace Combat. What is Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic? How much goo fits in a single Divinity body? These are all classic questions that Garrett and Kyle need answers for. We are also on the eve of a fresh new Final Fantasy XIV MSQ Patch. We all played Dispatch too. Supportourbromance.com and you too can get that WB face.

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0:00.0	The podcast begins with the press of the red button.
0:24.7	Hi, everybody.
0:25.6	I'm Garrett.
0:26.3	He's Kyle.
0:27.4	The game awards have happened, which means we drew a pentagram, and we put a headline
0:34.8	about Half-Life 3 that I printed out and cut out in the center of it, and we summoned ourselves, not Gordon Freeman, but someone who also brings the orange.
0:44.9	Jesse Cox is here.
0:47.1	Oh, man, I was really trying to get to my recording settings so I could change my filter so I could be read.
0:52.9	And be like, you have summoned me, but I didn't get there in time just imagine that's what happened and I hit a whole bit
0:57.8	perfect awesome well thanks for coming back we're gonna uh I sent you like the world's
1:03.6	simplest rundown when in reality my show notes are essay length but we're gonna talk about
1:10.8	Final Fantasy 14.
1:11.8	We may get into a little bit of dispatch discussion.
1:14.2	If we do that, it'll be towards the very end so that if anyone's worried about spoilers,
1:17.2	they can easily just nope out.
1:19.8	And then obviously, we're going to talk about the game awards of which there's just so much to discuss.
1:27.0	I hated that Mephisto bit so much.
1:29.3	That was so awkward.
1:30.3	It was not great.
1:32.3	I want to talk about that so much.
1:36.4	It was not the best.
1:38.1	The part where he said in,
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