Welcome to Pause Screen’s first episode of the new year! Over the holidays William’s picked up Ring Fit Adventure plus Xenoblade, Kaz has been enjoying more WoW, and Kyle’s played a ton of Resident Evil, Blaster Master 0, and Bravely Second. On the hype train, we talk Nier: Automata’s last secret, what Lucasfilm Games means for Star Wars (and Indiana Jones!) games, Scott Pilgrim’s physical release, and more! We also interrupt ourselves with plenty of tangents, such as ‘what is a Soulslike?’ and more Important Topics. We also discuss how we fared with last year’s resolutions to finish up! Come pause with us!
Discussion topics
HYPE TRAIN – *toot toot*
- Fan finally found Nier: Automata’s last secret: a hard-coded cheat code at the beginning of the game to take you to the end credits and unlock all of the bonus modes in the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj95Gumb-_8
- Ubisoft is making an open world Star Wars game, from the team that did The Division https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-game-ubisoft-open-world-story-the-division-massive
- Related, Lucasfilm Games is the new label for all games Star Wars. Sounds like they’re branching out from EA. https://www.starwars.com/news/lucasfilm-games
- Bethesda and Machine Games are doing an Indiana Jones game https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1349023307228704770
- Scott Pilgrim is getting a physical release
- Nintendo is buying Next Level Games (the Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon/3 people)
- Pokemon Snap Coming April 30, 2021
- Cd projekt red has owned up to it’s mistakes and commits to quality moving forward https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1349462362764537862?s=09
SAD TRAIN *womp womp*
- Christmas is over
- Hogwarts Legacy postponed to 2022
Discussion:
New Year’s resolutions!
William
- 2020: ‘I just need to find more time to actually game’
- 2021: repeat
Kyle
- 2020: ‘Only buy 3 games per month for the first 6 months of the year and not worry about my backlog or how many games I beat this year’
- 2021- play less, and become a fan of a relevant game
Laura
- 2020: ‘Get to 250 mounts in WoW’
- 2021 – Un ashamedly enjoy videos games