Fantasy Game Draft 2022

Are you ready for some football? Well, you’ve come to the wrong place. We are, however, doing a fantasy video game draft this week, inspired by those of the football variety. We’re picking teams from a list of the season’s (year’s) hottest players (games). After our teams are set, we’ll track our games’ Metacritic scores throughout the year. At the end of the year, the games’ final Metacritic scores will be the “points” they’ve scored, and whoever has the most points, wins. If a game gets pushed from 2022, it’s considered an “injury” and no points are awarded. Who do you think has the strongest team? Email us and let us know! Also on this episode, we discuss changes to the Halo Infinite battle pass, Raven Software’s QA team unionizing, the newly announced EA Star Wars games, and what we’ve been playing.

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00:02:12: Halo Infinite’s Battle Pass will eventually include “premium credits” that can be used as currency to purchase shop items or future passes

00:08:25: Raven Software QA testers form union, Activision Blizzard ignores them

00:13:42: EA announces three new Star Wars games: a sequel to Fallen Order, an FPS, and a strategy game

00:21:33: More Halo talk

00:24:05: Paul has been teabagging it up in Halo Infinite (not really) and farming it up in Stardew Valley

00:29:50: Joey finished 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim and Metroid Fusion, started Persona Q and Hitman 2, chipped away at Pilotwings Resort, and failed at starting Secret of Evermore

00:41:19: Fantasy Video Game Draft 2022! The list of games we are drafting from:

Horizon Forbidden West (2/18)

Elden Ring (2/25)

Dying Light 2: Stay Human (2/4)

Martha is Dead (2/24)

Gran Turismo 7 (3/4)

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (3/18)

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands (3/25)

STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl (12/8)

Sons of the Forest (5/20)

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong (5/19)

Saints Row (8/23)

Starfield (11/11)

Bayonetta 3 (2022)

Skull & Bones (2022)

God of War: Ragnarok (2022)

Gotham Knights (2022)

GhostWire: Tokyo (2022)

Goodbye Volcano High (2022)

I Am Jesus Christ (2022)

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild sequel (2022)

Soup Pot (2022)

Stray (2022)

Hogwarts Legacy (2022)

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (4/5)

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (2022)

Session (2022)

Sifu (2/8)

Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals (2022)

Forspoken (5/24)

Kirby and the Forgotten Land (3/25)

Redfall (2022)

Marvel’s Midnight Suns (2022)

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (2022)

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (2022)

Sonic Frontiers (2022)

Splatoon 3 (2022)

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2022)

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