Ace
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3,106 appearances
32 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 8 Jan
Ace’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm in the same boat. I know you are too, right, Ryan? Most of your favorite games are surely indie games.
I love talking about what's coming out in the indie scene, but I definitely love talking about what I already love from the indie scene. So this episode is going to be very fun for me. Because like I've said before, I think indies are the...
I would say absolutely. I believe that's where the most promise is coming from. That's where we're seeing the most evolution. Because you have to innovate in the indie scene if you want to stand out. You can't just keep doing the same thing with a popular character. Right. or else they're just going to throw you away very fast. I agree. I agree.
You become Ubisoft if you stay around too long.
We're not getting into that. That's a whole other episode's worth of content there. But, you know, kicking us right off, John, why don't you start with us? Tell us what your top five indie is.
It's such a unique game too. There's not a lot of sort of, I don't even know what you would call that because it's not really a Metroidvania. It's just like an action platformer, almost Souls-like in its difficulty. But there's not a lot of indie games in that genre that I can think of other than like Tales of Iron 1 and 2 and Salt and Sanctuary and its sequel.
That's the only other games I could think of that are like that. You didn't play it, Ryan. I know you did. But you loved looking at the art. You thought the art was stunning.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Getting to see the heart of that was so cool. But I guess I'll take the next step here, and I want to talk about The Messenger. I actually made a little short for The Messenger back before we did FaceCam or anything like that over on our Instagram. That one kind of popped off a little bit, I will say. It did. If you haven't checked out our Instagram, go check it out.
We have some great content over there. Great plug, Ace. There you go.
We're going to make a businessman out of you. But The Messenger is a super cool game. So it starts off like an 8-bit sort of running, not hack and slash platformer. I almost said running gun. There's no guns in The Messenger. But it's a hack and slash platformer similar to like Ninja Gaiden and such. But halfway through the game, you get to time travel.
And when you time travel, it also upgrades the amount of bits you get and the graphics change from 8-bit into 16-bit. And now it is in open-world Metroidvania. It's got great humor. It's got great graphics and... an incredible soundtrack. Like, I am not kidding. We love good soundtracks around here, and The Messenger is second to none, except for maybe, you know, one of John's picks later on.
We brought it up several times. The music in indie games is just incredible.
I'm going to say it's just because they're willing to take the time and invest into it because this is their vision. This is their project. They want it to be perfect versus like a AAA studio, which is like, oh, we could cut some budget there. That's my guess. But what do you think, John?
All right, Ryan. Why don't you give us your number five?
I have almost picked up VR solely for Superhot several times.
Nice. I mean, what's it time only moves when you move. That was the tagline.
Something like the first big mainstream VR game. Personally, at least.
Well, John, it's back to you.
I feel like we bring up Hades a lot around here. I ain't mad about it.
Hades is such a giant in the indie scene. And like, nobody saw that coming when that was announced. Nobody saw where that was going to go. If it had came out in a different year, it would have been game of the year for that year. I'm certain. Oh, totally. Yeah. Cause it took the world by storm. Even Ryan likes Hades and he doesn't even play that many.
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