The Retro Rents - EP096 - Feeling Kneedy

Hosts on Deck: Al and Nick

Hey everyone! Today's episode touches on all the gaming news of the past couple weeks (we chat Summer Games Fest, XBox Showcase, and more!) We also go over Bethesda's newest Horse Armor DLC (i.e. the Tracker mod in the creator store!)

1. News
   1. Summer Game Fest - bit of a snooze fest. Some interesting looking titles but nothing super big. Indie games making more of a mark.
   2. Most big games we knew about so just got more gameplay to entice
   3. Xbox Showcase
      1. Dragon Age: Veilguard
      2. Gears of War prequel (E Day)
      3. New Fable game in 2025
      4. Doom: The Dark Ages
      5. Indiana Jones
   4. Other Showcases
      1. Empire of Ants - 3rd person/RTS sim ant - very cool looking unless you don’t like bugs
      2. Screenbound - clever 2d/3d game where you have a gameboy like device to play the 2d portion but your avatar moves about in a 3d world looking forward to clever puzzles
      3. Civ 7 - Enjoy the civ series but I have to ask: What is it bringing to the table?
      4. Unknown 9: Awakening cool looking action-adventure game
      5. Cleared Hot - Go back to the super nintendo days but updated graphics with this isometric helicopter game
      6. Path into the Abyss - Looks like STALKER but it’s set in Buenos Aires.
      7. Beacon of Neyda - side scroller strategy like the retro look.
      8. Generation Exile - city builder but instead of unlimited resources you are on a generation spaceship where you have to work with what you have
   5. Nintendo Direct is tomorrow 6/18 will it have some goodies this year?
2. Watching/Playing
   1. Games
      1. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Remake
      2. Diablo 4
      3. The Bloodline
      4. Baldur’s Gate 3 (again)
      5. SMT V: Vengeance
      6. Skald: Against the Black Priory
      7. Shadows of Doubt
      8. Soul Mask - Released into EA on May 31. Survival game Conan like with tribes-people vs Thralls. Set against Aztec-like lore and mythos. You don a mask with powers which serves as how you level and your abilities. You can swap to a new mask you can put your mask on others of your tribe who might specialize in other skills. Very versatile. Drawback is a dedicated server is always going so your tribe can burn through your food supplies if you don’t check in on them :( Hoping there is a setting like in 7 days where we can pause it when no one is logged in.

1. Series/Movies
   1. Godzilla Minus One

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