What's up everybody welcome to IGN GameScoop. I'm your host Damon Hatfield joining me this

week is Mark Medina happy to be involved Sam Clayborn Friday scoop and Tina Amini and

we've got a great show for you this week. It's the 555th episode. Wow. Game scoop nice

a nice number. That's cool. No 666 but not the number of the beast. Yeah. It's the number

of the beast minus 111. The number of the boost. Some fast math. 555 is. We do have a great

show for this week. We're recording late in the week so the episode is going to be coming

in hot to viewers and listeners at home. But we got to talk about a new Half-Life game which

is something I wasn't sure I would ever get to say. Definitely not. It's pretty amazing.

It's got a troll Half-Life game. No, no, it actually looks good. I'm just joking.

It's a really good show. It's a really good show. But first the big topic I wanted to post

you all. Now that all the big games of the year are out I've had this I've had this theory

I've been working on all throughout 2019 and I think I think my theory has been proven

to be true which is that 2019 has not been a great year for games. Is it the worst of

the decade? I don't know 2014 was also pretty bad. That's what I looked at before the show.

Yeah, obviously glad you look. I think we've got another 2014 on our hands. Okay.

That was the Dragon Age Inquisition. I can tell you what it was. But the reason I think

that Damon I hope you noticed this too is that both those years at disappointing things

that we were excited about that ended up being disappointing. Which is also the theme

of this year in a way. Exactly. Exactly the same situation I think. Because of this

year we had. Anthem was that situation. You had other ones. Other things. I'm bringing

you to 2014. Well I have a different theme to I feel that very very in my heart and

soul. Because the second you said it I was just like yeah I've been feeling that all

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