Too Big To Lose? Why Expedition 33 Could Clean Up at The Game Awards 2025

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4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Episode #581: Expedition 33 has become one of the most talked-about games heading into The Game Awards 2025 — and the question everyone is asking is whether it’s already too big to lose. With an impressive number of nominations, massive community momentum, and critics calling it one of the most unique gaming experiences of the decade, Expedition 33 feels like the frontrunner. But is this confidence justified, or are we watching a hype cycle take over the conversation?

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0:41.3	I'm Welcome everybody to the X-1 Bros.
1:07.6	This is your positive game in an Xbox community.
1:10.0	We're here.
1:29.0	We are. Yeah, thanks for waiting, everybody. We are indeed here. We were watching some cool stuff. We were watching the Fortnite Zero Hour event. Spicy. Thoughts on, dude, I think. Everybody, how you doing, dude? I think, and I tweeted this out, you need AAA games like a Fortnite.
1:34.4	And yes, for those you that are wondering, AAA, or Fortnite is a AAA game with a AAA budget, no doubt.
1:43.2	They did stuff there that no other live service game could do in the way they did it, how they did it with the IPs that they did it with.
1:43.9	Yeah.
2:00.8	That's an experience. I'll give you an example. You need Disneyland and Disney with all their money to be able to build the Star Wars ride that's there. No one else could do that. No one else. That's what Fortnite did here with zero hour. Impressive though, no? Yeah, it's pretty cool. if you haven't seen it,
2:02.7	it's basically how they,
2:00.8	zero hours when Impressive, though, no? Yeah, it's pretty cool. If you haven't seen it,
2:02.7	it's basically how they,
2:07.4	zero hours when Fortnite goes from their old season to the next season and their servers go down.
2:08.7	It's just an event that they do.
2:11.1	I mean, you had,
2:12.0	you had Homer doing a cannonball.
2:16.7	Cannonball.
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