Breaking News: Overwatch? Definitely a Battle Royale (Pokemon Sword and Shield Pt 3)

Wow, approaching the writing of the description for the final goodbye episode of Good Game, Great Game is...tough, man. It's been an amazing year and a half. You all have been amazing. We're still stunned at the love and feedback and response we've gotten. As we now put our podcast child to rest, let's just say this. Thank you for the love. Thank you for the support. Thank you for the conversations. Thank you for the laughs. Thank you for the tears. Thank you for the friendship. Thank you for your energy. Thank you for your time. Thank you for all you've given us, and for loving what we've given you. Thank you for you, amazing listener. Keep doing you, keep be you, keep loving you. You got us here, you're so great, and we love and cherish all of you. Also?

Your hair looks friggin' fantastic every day.

For one last round, your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Kevin Ruiter, and Andrew Orsie


Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)
Please go give them a listen, seriously, if you have not!

On Deck: The rest of our lives! Who knows what the future holds?

We love mashups. We LOVE mashups. It's like taking two beloved children, one in each hand, and then smushing those hands together and see what kind of squishy weird new child comes from forcing those two together into one big ball of Play Doh. Like, yeah, you're still gonna get that good good Play Doh smell, but will you be able to shove that big new ball into the Play Doh spaghetti machine and actually get beautiful color-swirled noodles out of it? Or is the structural integrity of those colors fundamentally removed and now we're just getting long strings of muted brown poop Play Doh? THESE ARE THE EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS THAT TOKYO MIRAGE SESSIONS PUTS IN YOUR HEAD! Well, that and things like "COOL OR CUTE?!?!?!!1??!"

Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Kevin Ruiter, and Andrew Orsie

Games/topics discussed this episode (with timestamps!):
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (~ 6:17)
Good Omens (~ 10:30)
Pokemon Conquest (~13:24)
Project X Zone (~17:33)
Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics (~20:17)
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (~27:54)
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #Fe Encore (~ 40:25)

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)
Break Song: "Raindrop Memory" by Mamori Minamoto

On Deck: More Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, The Last of Us, Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind


You can follow Good Game, Great Game on Twitter and Instagram at @GoodGreatGame. We also have a Patreon now if you'd like to further support us! https://www.patreon.com/goodgamegreatgame

If there's one thing you should take away from this one, it's that maybe if Tony Hawk was a character in Smash, people would recognize him more. Then again, he might use his skateboard in a slashing motion and become another goddamn sword boi so maybe we take that back. Also, we all had a few drinks before we got into this one, so rails? GET OUTTA HERE, BUDDIES. No time for rails, we've got some OFFROADING TO DO. In our flip flops.

Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Kevin Ruiter, and Andrew Orsie

Games/topics discussed this episode (with timestamps!):
Byleth in Smash Ultimate (~ 4:03)
Our Dream Challenger Pack 2 rosters (~ 15:24)
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #Fe Encore (~ 45:00)

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)
Break Song: "Reincarnation" by Kurono Kiria (Nanjou Yoshino)

On Deck: More Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, The Last of Us, Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind


You can follow Good Game, Great Game on Twitter and Instagram at @GoodGreatGame. We also have a Patreon now if you'd like to further support us! https://www.patreon.com/goodgamegreatgame

We're dropping in one last time on Norman Reedus and his fetus this week to finally break down what the heck happened in Death Stranding. Who the heck is Amelie? Why can't motorcycles drive up rocks well? If you give a MULE a cookie, is he going to ask for a glass of milk? Can we confirm if Hideo Kojima is still alive at this point, or is he just a recorded hologram dictating plot threads to a team of developers who are furiously trying to put them together before the end of the recorded material. And we'll tackle the most important question of all: who thought that "Princess Beach" was a pun that fit acceptably into this particular game?

Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Kevin Ruiter, and Andrew Orsie

Games/topics discussed this episode (with timestamps!):
Death Stranding (the whole time - FULL SPOILERS FOR THE GAME)

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)
Break Song: "BB's Theme" from the Death Stranding OST

On Deck: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, The Last of Us, Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind


You can follow Good Game, Great Game on Twitter and Instagram at @GoodGreatGame. We also have a Patreon now if you'd like to further support us! https://www.patreon.com/goodgamegreatgame

Ahhhh the end of the holidays! When we can all finally relax with all that gift giving and celebrating and just settle into our seasonal depression like a wet, warm blanket. Speaking of wet blankets, Zach, Andrew, and Kev are back at last from winter break and we played SO MANY THINGS. At least two! We're gonna talk about all those, along with gripping topics like retirement homes, food poisoning, tax audits, and we're gonna answer the question that will define 2020 for everyone we think: what's the difference between food and drug? You're welcome, world. With that out of the way, we can probably just move on to 2021 now, I'm tired of this year, thanks.

Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Kevin Ruiter, and Andrew Orsie

Games/topics discussed this episode (with timestamps!):
Ys VIII (~12:05)
Kingdom Hearts III (~16:02)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (~26:30)
Jedi Fallen Order (~50:42)
Halo: Reach (~1:04:41)
Super Mario 3D World (~1:17:28)
Baba is You (~1:19:19)
Threes (~1:21:34)
Listener Tweets/Questions! (~1:23:33)
The NFL Playoffs (~1:36:37  -  post outro music)

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)
Break Song: "Tearing Through Heaven" from the FE 3 Houses OST

On Deck: Death Stranding full spoilercast, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, The Last of Us, Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind

That's right, friends, it's December, which means it's time for those very very good awards that go to video games of all kinds. Oh, you thought we meant the Game Awards? No, no, we're gonna trash talk those guys on this episode. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GIGIS. The network renewed us so we've got another red carpet night of stars, songs, and celebration while we hand out meaningless arbitrary titles that Andrew made up in the forms of three boys loudly fighting about which of their opinions is more right! It's the season for giving, after all! Will we agree on everything? Will we agree on ANYTHING? You'd better not change that channel, cause we're gonna answer all these questions and no other questions besides those!

That being said, as this is our last episode of 2019, a very very happy holidays to all of you and yours. We remain eternally grateful for you, our listeners, and hope you'll follow us into the new decade and see what we've got coming in 2020!


Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Kevin Ruiter, and Andrew Orsie

Games/topics discussed this episode (with timestamps!):
The Game Awards 2019 (~2:24)
Forza Horizon 4 Battle Royale mode (~34:50)
The 2nd Annual Gigis (~41:28)

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)

On Deck: The Holidays! And finishing up Death Stranding when we get back!

Now that our bellies have finally digested that Thanksgiving feast we had, it's time to get back into the hard hitting questions that you've come to expect out of Good Game, Great Game. Andrew and Zach are here today to tackle inquiries such as what would happen if you Instagrammed your poop? Has this been a bad year for the crops? What is a battle royale? Is Overwatch one (spoiler: no)? Is a Super Smash Bros stock battle one (spoiler: yes)? Are pancakes delicious (spoiler: also yes)? Sorry for answering all these questions as we go along, I just know that the answers are super clear and want you all to not. Get. It. TWISTED.

Also, not news, but Celine Dion is just straight up the greatest and It's All Coming Back to Me Now is a straight up masterpiece of our time.


Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich and Andrew Orsie

Games/topics discussed this episode (with timestamps!):
State of Play December 2019 (~6:14)
Control (~25:35)
Soul Calibur VI *but kinda the whole series* (~43:14)
Star Ocean: First Departure R (~54:45)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses *yes, again* (~1:16:45)
Pokemon Sword and Shield (~1:27:00)

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)

On Deck: More Death Stranding, More Pokemon Sword & Shield, The 2nd Annual Gigi Awards

Do you enjoy a nice healthy Thanksgiving dinner table argument? Cause that's basically what the boys did this week. We're sitting around the dinner table and inviting you to break bread with us in this holiday season. And then we're gonna yell loudly about things like Game Award nominees, whether we're satisfied with the delivery services we've been using for holiday gift deliveries, and the music of the raucous youth. Settle in and bask in the awkward silence that we leave you to sit in when, oops! we brought up politics with Uncle Jim and now off he goes. And we're not even helping to shut him down; we DID start the fire, and while yes, it was always burning since the world's been turning, we're NOT trying to fight it, we're just leaving everyone else in the lurch to deal with it.

Feel free to Google that reference, 2000s babies.


Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Andrew Orsie and Kevin Ruiter.

Games/topics discussed this episode (with timestamps!):
Game Awards nominations 2019 (~6:05)
Pokemon Sword and Shield (~35:16)
The Outer Worlds (~50:10)
Death Stranding (~53:11)

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)

On Deck: More Death Stranding, More Pokemon Sword & Shield, The 2nd Annual Gigi Awards

Wow, what a dream it is to finally put on our delivery scrubs and strap in our fetal baby and run through vast expanses of plain riddled with aging rain and wandering goop ghosts and OCD delivery guys who JUST WANNA GET THAT JOB DONE. We're doing it for the likes on this week's episode, where we're starting our talks on both Death Stranding AND Pokemon Sword and Shield and it's a very good time. Also sorry we didn't address the Game Awards nominees we recorded a day too early. Let us live. WE'RE SORRY, OKAY? WE'LL DO IT NEXT WEEK. I KNOW WE SUCK. I GET IT. But hey, side note, you like amiibos? Zach likes amiibos. Feel free to donate to the Zach Amiibo Fund that doesnt exist but for his wallet's sake probably should (don't donate to that give to good charities).

Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Andrew Orsie and Kevin Ruiter.

Games/topics discussed this episode (with timestamps!):
XO19 (~4:10)
Pokemon Sword and Shield (~21:55)
Amiibos (~43:20)
Death Stranding (~48:00)
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite (weird, right?) (~1:23:20)

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)

On Deck: More Death Stranding, More Pokemon Sword & Shield, The 2nd Annual Gigi Awards

Here we are, folks, living in the era of Disney+. Our lives are indefinitely changed now. How will we move forward? That's up to Disney to decide. Honestly, that's not new though. Of perhaps much bigger concern, like WHAT WERE THOSE OBELISKS YOSEPH TALKED TO IN ASTRAL CHAIN? WHERE DID THEY GO? WHAT'S GOING ON? The answers to these questions and to many other questions will likely never be known. But we CAN confidently say that the Star Wars prequels will never be good movies, and if that's the one small comfort we have in an upcoming post-apocalyptic world, I have faith we'll make it through that together.

Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Andrew Orsie and Kevin Ruiter.

Intro / Outro Song: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)

On Deck: Death Stranding, Pokemon Sword & Shield, The 2nd Annual Gigis