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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
5:06 Xbox Reset Discussion
27:47 Ralph Talks Us Through the Latest Bungie Update
42:19 Raycon (ad)
44:39 Everyone’s Been Playing Control Resonant
01:14:17 User Question 1
01:23:49 Lucy and Ralph Have Been Playing Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
01:35:32 Ralph is BEGGING Everyone to Play Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve
01:48:22 Lucy and Jake Have Seen the Resident Evil Movie
01:58:02 Blizzard Block
02:12:08 User Question 2
02:16:39 Show and Tell
02:24:47 Wrap Up
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Let’s meet our hosts!
– Jake Baldino (aka the Before You Buy Guy) is pretty much the most watched reviewer on YouTube across both Gameranx and his personal channel ( If you’re obsessed with Delorians, The Mummy and Pizza you can discuss that stuff with him directly over on Twitter: @JakeBaldino
– Lucy James was a Senior Producer at Gamespot for more than a decade before striking out on her own, founding a newsletter and games discovery platform that serves up cool suggestions (and demo codes) directly to your inbox. She also co-hosts the annual Summer Games Showcase alongside Geoff Keighly.
– Skill Up used to work at McDonalds but he got fired for skimming too many chicken nuggets. He says he regrets it since he hasn’t had a better job since.
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Ralph describing why Ace Combat is the fucking best was the highlight of my day.
I'm so tired of the crying over studios that performed horribly and did their IP's dirty. Good riddance. This culling has been a long time coming.
I know it's not possible but ideally i want Respawn to make a Halo game.
control resonant is a buggy mess disaster on Xbox, and they denied my refund because I pre-ordered it too long ago 🤡
RE: GOTY
Jake, plz.
1:38:23 Just Jake politely nodding along, until he hears MGS and immediately locks in.
People get easily confused about Bethesda.
Obsidian isn't a studio under Bethesda Game Studios.
They're a studio under the parent of BGS, which is Bethesda Softworks.
BGS and Bethesda Softworks are not the same thing.
Obsidian and BGS are more like sister studios now…
such a good hang i don't even skip the adverts
Ace Combat is absolutely a Jake game and he just refuses to try it. I felt the same way about D&D and world of Warcraft. But I was wrong. They were both exactly what I wanted and didn’t know it.
Jake needs to try it.
how could i ever play ace combat….ANNYYYYWAAAAAYY i'm going to watch this movie in theaters for the third time today
Lucy, thank you so much for the Dressmaker recommendation in your newsletter! I picked it up, loaded into the first customer and then just sat my wife down at the computer. She has since played for almost 30 hours. I love when I am able to get her invested in games and this one has been perfect, she has been absolutely loving it and I would not have heard of it if not for you
OUT: Playing Marathon
IN: Running a marathon
Good luck in your race user question asker!
1:50 "out of Control"
no pun intended.
Lets not act like DMC was a good game there Jake
He gave Ace Combat a shot, and still haven't played Hitman WoA? WTF!!
I have 0 sympathy of Halo Studio being laid off, they have made a shitty product for 15 years. I don't know why the video game's industry workers are the only ones that seem to receive "sympathy". If you go to a restaurant, the cheff servers shit for 15 years and he gets fired, noone would bat an eye.
Really want to pick up Control Resonant but still bouncing between Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha, and Fire Emblem. Too many good games at once
I remember getting the original control for free with a purchase of a 20 series nvidia graphics card. Was mind blowing loading it up to see the ray tracing
No, I will not play ace combat, Ralph.
I always forget Alan Wake got a sequel because if you don't play Fortnite or screw around with Unreal you have 0 reason to be on the one platform that can advertise the damn thing.
Have any critics played Control Resonant AFTER the patch yet? I'm just curious, because enemy sponginess is the #1 complaint I'm hearing in reviews, but the balance they're talking about is not the same one that actual consumers are playing. I'd be curious to know how much the patch would have changed their minds about it, because I personally think the combat and damage balance feels pretty good in the final game.
I love how each of these guys have a distinct thing that switches them on and you can just see it 😂
Ralph with Destiny, Jake with Metal Gear and Lucy with some unknown cosy game made by one dude from Newcastle.
I didn't realize they nerfed the Mr Tomasi fight. I did end up beating it and getting the platinum. I replayed Control a couple years later and was dreading the fight, and I beat it on my first try.
Based on OC scores for GotY: mina the hollower, FH6, well dweller, valheim, pokemon pokopia, re:requiem, mewgenics, desktop explorer, hermit and pig
Halo is dead. That horse died long ago.
For all their anachronistic practices and sometimes anti-consumer bull crap, Nintendo genuinely feels like the only one of these three big console makers with any momentum behind it. I was so excited about the idea of a Switch 2 before it was ever revealed, but all I can muster for the next-gen Xbox and PlayStation is either indifference or dread. Not to mention the cadence of games Nintendo is now pushing. Ocarina in November and new Metroid in January? Yes please!
Lucy, in terms of destiny… we never left
But seriously, destiny had the shittest onboarding in history, so it needs this stuff to get the ground work in for new players and future content
Xbox didn’t tell ninja theory to ‘make this type of game’ as stated by Skillup – they were given complete creative freedom by Phil Spencer. Their games weren’t popular (particularly Hellblade 2), reviewed poorly and were too expensive to maintain
Taking away Halo from the Halo Studio is the perfect move imho. They had too many opportunities to make a good game but they failed horribly. On the other hand the Xbox has 3 FPS juggernauts in the house; id software, COD teams and Machine Games. I believe any one of these teams can make a better Halo game in comparison to what Halo Studio has done in the last decade. I really wish Machine Games had the opportunity.
How Jake doesn't think Control Resonant is even a GOTY contender is beyond my comprehension and now I question all his reviews, honestly. There is nothing like this game, let alone 2026 games!
I wish we could hear less of Destiny 2 god damn
Ralph, I've said it before and I'll say it again – as a decade long Ace Combat fanboy, you are an incredible evangelist for this series RN. Keep up the good work and get those butts in cockpits.
control is way more recommendable than control resonant. everyone love super power shooters.
my favourite podcast, Destiny Per Second
Control Nolan movie, I need it
I actually like the way that Control Resonant handles weapon upgrading. By the time that you have the materials to unlock a secondary weapon, upgrading that weapon to roughly the same point where your current one is power-wise is usually pretty negligible, since it's using materials that you probably have dozens of. It encouraged me to try the other weapons instead of just upgrading one and never experimenting! I can totally see your point though.
Was this filmed before the Marathon update was laid out for December to March? I am not saying theyre getting past another year beyond March but it seems like they're committing to getting it into a place where more people are able to enjoy it.
I tried getting into marathon recently, and honestly, it kind of rules. Its just surrounded by so much toxic press, I think people don't want to touch it.
1:13:38 are those magic cards?
Silent hill townfall review when?
All Day I Dream About Skillup
No way anyone is talking about bleeding edge. I bought that game and thought it was pretty sick
Not the 6-7 years ago
If Ralph can bully them into playing Ace combat, can we bully him into trying the Trails series?