Should We Have Connected? | Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast, Episode 232
926There's little doubt that this year's Video Game Awards was the strongest industry showcase in a long time, potentially in several years. Geoff Keighley did a great job, and he deserves credit as a great ambassador for our medium. But even more important than the VGAs, the winners, and the pomp and circumstance were the game reveals. PlayStation players are going to be eating very, very well in the years to come, particularly when you consider how full the schedule is without much of an inkling of what's coming from first and second party outside of Insomniac's Marvel duo. So let's dive extensively into Ken Levine's new BioShock-like banger Judas, Hideo Kojima's haunting and wonder-invoking Death Stranding 2, Guerrilla's beautiful LA-based Horizon: Forbidden West DLC called Burning Shores, a promising new action-RPG from Don't Nod titled Banishers: Ghost of New Eden, the return of From Software's dormant mech battler with Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, 505's surprisingly fun-looking romp Crime Boss: Rockay City, Supergiant Games' first sequel ever in Hades II, and so much more. Other news this week includes the industry's unending obsession with Days Gone discourse, the FTC's decision to sue Microsoft over the Activision acquisition, and more. Is this the longest episode of Sacred Symbols ever? Yes... it sure is.
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Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:06:10 - There’s a reason Pokemon and Autism are connected
0:09:50 - What should I say at the pet mortuary?
0:18:30 - ❤️
0:20:40 - Moriarty Reagan
0:30:15 - Taylor Swift has definitely done coke
0:35:02 - Play it by year
0:40:17 - Should you roll up your pizza?
0:44:42 - Another new trailer for HBO’s The Last of Us has dropped
0:50:15 - Monster Hunter: Rise is digital only on PlayStation
0:57:25 - Yuji Naka has been arrested… again
1:06:14 - River City Girls 2 is coming December 15th
1:08:08 - Moss and Moss 2 are coming to PSVR2
1:17:48 - Power Wash Simulator is finally getting a PlayStation release
1:21:54 - Dead Island 2 gameplay has been revealed
1:30:07 - What have we been playing?
1:56:10 - The Game Awards
2:11:02 - The Game Awards - Returnal on PC
2:14:14 - The Game Awards - Dead Cells Castlevania DLC
2:16:20 - The Game Awards - Street Fighter 6
2:21:44 - The Game Awards - Hades II
2:24:20 - The Game Awards - Suicide Squad
2:27:39 - The Game Awards - Judas
2:35:45 - The Game Awards - The Last of Us: Part I on PC
2:38:37 - The Game Awards - Star Wars: Jedi Survivor
2:45:01 - The Game Awards - Earthblade
2:45:37 - The Game Awards - Forspoken
2:47:59 - The Game Awards - Diablo IV
2:50:03 - The Game Awards - Death Stranding 2
3:01:52 - The Game Awards - Wayfinder
3:04:37 - The Game Awards - Horizon: Burning Shores
3:07:20 - The Game Awards - Company of Heroes
3:08:37 - The Game Awards - Blue Protocol
3:09:58 - The Game Awards - Remnant 2
3:11:38 - The Game Awards - Transformers Reactivate
3:15:07 - The Game Awards - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
3:17:55 - The Game Awards - Warhammer: Space Marine II
3:21:08 - The Game Awards - Meet Your Maker
3:22:30 - The Game Awards - Crash Team Rumble
3:25:01 - The Game Awards - Crime Boss: Rockay City
3:27:51 - The Game Awards - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
3:29:18 - The Game Awards - Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
3:33:40 - The Game Awards - Behemoth
3:34:56 - The Game Awards - Final Fantasy XVI
3:39:04 - John Garvin has pushback against Days Gone’s reviews
3:53:27 - Let’s catch-up on the Microsoft/Activision acquisition
4:31:23 - Star Wars Battlefront II is coming to PS+ Premium
4:34:37 - IGN has suffered layoffs
4:36:02 - What’s the purpose of The Game Awards?
4:42:13 - Would Sky be more popular if it had been released on PS first?
4:46:40 - Should Sony take part of the blame for The Callisto Protocol?
4:49:39 - Is there less news now than before?
4:53:02 - Do we have big gaming plans for the holidays?
4:59:39 - What are our thoughts on boob armor?