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Vidjagame Apocalypse

VGA 266 - The Comeback Kids

Vidjagame Apocalypse

Laser Time

Video Games, Comedy, Video, Lewis, Time, Game, Anne, Games & Hobbies, Laser, Videogame, Radar, Best, Technology, Games, Vidjagame, Tv & Film, Mikel, Other Games, Industry, Talkradar, Reparaz, Talk, Apocalypse, Podcast

4.7943 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

What do the new God of War and the YouTube Red series Cobra Kai have in common, other than the fact that they both feature leads with anger management issues? They're both new entries in franchises we thought we'd moved on from, yet turned out way better than we could've hoped -- or even asked for, for that matter. The comeback success of these two dormant franchises got us thinking about some other gaming franchises that came back seemingly from out of nowhere to re-establish themselves as heavy hitters. On this week's show, Alaina Yee joins Matty Allen and Chris to look at the top 5 comebacks in vidjagames.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome to episode number 266 of

0:14.8

Vigil Game Apocalypse. I am the returning co-host you never asked for or knew you

0:18.3

wanted Matthew Allen who's here with me in the Michael Repares Memorial

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chat room 38 anniversary collective edition here with me in the Michael Repares Memorial Chat Room.

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38 anniversary collector edition, Chris Antista, and you don't have to say that, Matt,

0:27.0

because, no, never mind.

0:28.0

Never mind, I'm bailing out on that joke, you can totally leave this in.

0:31.0

Okay.

0:32.0

I guess that's where leave this in. Okay.

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I guess that's where I come in.

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Also, Elena Yeh, who never can think of anything good to go with her name.

0:39.0

So hi, I'm back.

0:40.0

Leener, leaner, leaner, morphing ball on Twitter. That's me. There you go. So as a reminder for these

0:47.7

interim episodes of Vigigame Apocalypse each week we'll be choosing a topic, doing a

0:51.7

top five based around that topic.

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This week we're going to be talking about dormant franchises that made a comeback.

1:02.4

The reason I picked this topic, not too long ago a few weeks back as of this recording,

1:08.4

Bethesda said they had a pretty big announcement and turns out they had announced rage too

1:16.9

Which okay that's fine and good rage to the little game that nobody liked. The little game that nobody asked for sort of like it was like oh oh cool. Yeah

1:28.0

Rage too sure cool. I really did like the reception to it because rage didn't it didn't like hit the top of like the

1:38.3

meta review scale but it's it's so the opposite of a bad game and it's it was pretty ambitious and it just didn't make the big splash that everybody wanted but it's like it's sort of the perfect series to get another shot.

1:52.0

Yeah, true. I mean it's yeah, it's it's not a bad of the I don't think it made a big splash and typically in games that means sort of

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