Greg Miller

And Omega Buster.

For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report.

We have two stories today.

The Game Award nominees are in.

What are our initial gut thoughts?

Andy Cortez.

I mean, I'm not shocked, because to me, that's my biggest upset.

I've been talking about this, me and Bless have been talking about it a lot, of how I was like, I'm going to lose my shit if it's not there.

Because I get the argument of people being like, it's a bunch of old songs.

And to that, I say, you're an idiot.

You're an absolute goddamn moron.

Because Mario Kart World doesn't feature a single song that is just an old track, an MP3 they're putting in.

It's not like a Smash Bros.

situation that, oh, it's just collecting all the music and it's just literally the song.

We're talking about brand new arrangements of classic songs from the entire history of Mario games.

Almost every single Mario game was touched.

There are songs that we have never heard since the original game they were in, arranged across pretty much every genre of music imaginable, featuring live instruments, like live performances.

Some of the greatest arrangers and orchestrators and composers of all time joining together.

This is an all-star squad situation.

On top of that, this deserves an award for the new music it has.