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https://youtu.be/RPPPeyflV5I

This is the funniest thing I've ever heard in 18 years of listening to podcasts. Jeff is just gold. I really don't know how it goes on without the guy who founded it.

I love Giant Bomb, and have listened to it since 2009, and while I now have over 730 episodes to listen to, and reminisce about, I think my energy will be on Nextlander for the foreseeable future. Once Jeff announces what he's doing next, I'll be there if it's public.

I'll check back and see how things are for Giant Bomb, but for now, I just have "See you next game, Jeff". Always stay a threat.

I took the dive and got it. I wanted to know if I can play online Mario Kart 64 and Mario Tennis with randos or if I can only play online with friends?

I just crossed 120 hours in Red Dead Redemption 2 (I've only been playing for 3 weeks). I'm about 2/3 through chapter 4, and I am loving, loving it. I'm trying to do 100% with it. I could see myself getting the platinum with this. It's an amazing game. I do not agree with anything Dan said about it during GOTY discussions.

I know that my son and I grew up in different times. Back in my day *Wink*, an RPG was widely accepted as being a game where you are going through a typically fantasy setting, where you grind your party to high levels, learn new abilities as you grind, and do dungeons, and have massive boss fights.

My examples for what I consider and RPG from those days were Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger. Ultima, etc. I would never have said that Zelda, Metroid, or Doom were RPGs. Yes, you are taking the role of a character in those, but you're not embodying them in a way you were embodying like Cecil from FFIV.

Now, I see when I play games like GTA, and especially Red Dead Redemption 2, I am embodying the character, but the actions I am taking are not what I would consider RPG style; it's me going from place to place, shooting a bunch of people, and doing sometimes mundane tasks.

I know it's probably outdated to define a genre as RPG or not, and it's a generational thing but I just could never play Red Dead Redemption 2, then jump into Xenoblade and think I played 2 games from the same genre. In my mind, one is an open-world action game where you embody a character as much or as little as you want; the other is a power fantasy where I am leveling my team and learning new things as I do.

But I guess in the end, it's subjective because Tetris and Portal are both puzzle games even though they are so different from each other.

Glad this brought a lot of healthy discussion.

I can 100% Metroid Prime in 1 hour, 29 minutes. That's my claim to fame.

So, my 18-year old son and I have a massive disagreement on what an RPG is/constitutes.

When I think RPG in video games, I think of games like Final Fantasy, Skyrim, Persona, and even Dark Souls. He says games like GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, Saint's Row, and the like are also RPGs because we are playing the life of a character(s).

I told him that I see RPGs as games with skill trees, leveling systems, and most often magic systems, and some form of turn-based, or real-time combat. I see the games he mentioned as action, adventure, or open-world games. I don't know if I could ever, in my head, say that Red Dead Redemption 2, and Persona 5 are in the same genre.

Thoughts on this debate we are having?

Hey, guys, I'm going through Demon's Souls again. The servers shutting down got me to want to try and platinum it before they do. I know that I need all unique weapons for a trophy, which means ones like the Dragon God weapon.

I never paid attention to world tendency my first two times through the game, so someone please explain it to me? I've beaten 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2, and 4-1. I heard it has something to do with killing bosses without dying... I beat the armored spider, Flamelurker, and Adjuticator and their levels without dying, so do I still have a shot on this play through?

Any help would be appreciate. Thanks!

Do we all think now that the top 4 will be PUBG, Nier, Cuphead and Zelda? In that order. Jeff, Vinny and Brad are just so stupid in love with PUBG, their voices will be louder than the detractors like Abby.

The sad thing is I have Splinter Cell Blacklist, but on Wii U (Won it in a contest), so while I may love the game if I play it, I'm sure there is no online community to speak of to play Spies vs Mercs or Co-op which sucks.

Aragami? There's a game I haven't heard of. Please go on. I'll look at info on it.

I forgot to put The Last of Us on my list. I've beaten that game 6 times lol. I love that game so much.