Drop-In Drop-Out

With Ocarina of Time Remake dropping next week, we are discussing the BEST moment in every Zelda game! What'd we miss? Let us know in the comments!

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0:00 Pre-show begins

23:59 Pre-show over

26:40 Our relationship with the franchise

36:33 Zelda 1

39:11 The adventure of Link

42:00 ALTTP

49:00 Link's Awakening

54:21 OoT

1:00:55 Majora's Mask

1:14:50 Oracles of Seasons/Ages*

1:16:30 Four Swords Adventure

1:21:11 Wind Waker

1:32:20 Minish Cap

1:35:19 Twilight Princess

1:42:05 Phantom Hourglass* and Spirit Tracks

1:46:53 Skyward Sword

1:56:53 A Link Between Worlds

1:59:25 Tri Force Heroes

2:00:56 Breath of the Wild

2:10:29 Tears of the Kingdom

2:26:50 Echoes of Wisdom

2:31:50 Recap

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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This week, we are mourning the loss of BioWare after their closure by EA. Patrick and Jerica reminesce on the importance of their games, and how Mass Effect shaped so much of the games they love

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Mass Effect - 10:00

ME2 - 30:00

ME3 - 52:10

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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This week, Jake and Patrick are catching up on the a ton of gaming news. Prices for next gen, graphics cards stopping production, closures. But it's not all bad news! Uncharted! Shrek 2!

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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The Dumpster Boy and @Thefrenchdipdesign are reviewing and spoiling Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival!

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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Mark Delaney of GameSpot drops in this week to talk about the history of horror games, and how we almost lost them to the action genre. Make sure you check out Mark's work over on GameSpot, and join his Madden League if you play!

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The history of horror games - 13:00

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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Let's talk about EVERYTHING in Control Resonant! Light spoilers to start, check the timecodes for full spoilers!

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High level thoughts - 7:00

Spoilers begin - mostly gameplay spoilers - 15:50

Story specific spoilers - 34:00

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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What is the BEST Video Game Villain? We pit 32 of them against each other in a video game VILLAINS bracket to crown the ultimate winner. What would you choose?

Timecodes:

2:05 - Housekeeping

7:00 - Raccoon City Region

23:58 - Lavender Town Region

38:16 - Yarnham Region

55:05 - Silent Hill Region

1:14:48 - Round 2

1:42:31 - Semi Finals

1:50:07 - Finals

1:53:34 - Crowning the Winner

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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This week we are joined by Madeline to talk about the games that still haunt them. From games that disappeared to games that scarred them as kids. We made sure to kick off October with some video game horror stories.

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00:00 Start 07:51 Games That Still Haunt Us 11:53 Games That Ghosted Us: Judas 17:54 Little Devil Inside 23:29 Jurassic Park: Survival 26:37 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake 32:00 Beyond Good & Evil 2 36:50 Prey Sequel 42:10 The Order: 1886 43:34 Studios We'd Bring Back From the Dead: Campo Santo 45:05 The Last of Us Part III 46:50 Blair Witch 49:00 The Naked Art Story 52:30 More Games We'd Bring Back From the Dead 55:38 Dino Crisis 1:01:50 Condemned 1:03:30 Eternal Darkness 1:05:25 The Suffering 1:08:30 Scary Gaming Moments 1:20:50 What Will Still Be Haunting Us in 10 Years?

Thanks to Fuse Games and Secret Mode for the advanced copy of Star Wars: Galactic Racer! Jaketwitchin provides his review of the the return of pod racing in a Burnout coat of paint. Now THIS is podracing! (no one has made that joke i think)

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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This week, we are breaking down the entire Resident Evil (2026) film in a SAVE TRASH CINEMA TAKEOVER! Our favorite Dumpster Boy Kamen runs the show with special guests Cameron French of @thefrenchdipdesign, and Davey James!

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33:53 - Resident Evil Plot / Spoilers begin

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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Thanks to popagenda for providing us with early access to review Toem 2! Patrick and Jerica give their quick thoughts in this surprise of 2026. #gaming #videogames #toem2

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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This week, we breakdown our thoughts on Control Resonant (SO FAR), Wolverine and The Blood of Dawnwalker. 1 of these is NOT like the other!

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2:17 - Control Resonant

32:13 - Wolverine

56:36 - The Blood of Dawnwalker

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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This week, Tamoor drops in to talk about the update from Xbox as they close Halo Studios, get rid of Ninja Theory, and shuffle a bunch of other studios around. Plus, what in the world is going on over at PlayStation lately as well. It's all crazy innit!?

Make sure you follow Tamoor over at youtube.com/@tamoorh, and twitch.tv/tamoorh!

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5:11 - WTF is going on at Xbox?!

36:40 - WTF is going on at PlayStation?!

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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Control Resonant releases NEXT WEEK, so we are going discussing what got us to this point in the history of Remedy Entertainment and the Remedyverse.

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0:00 Start

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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This week, Gianni from The Content Mill drops in to talk all things Physint, Blizzcon, and to catch up on what we've been playing! Quick note, there was a weird audio thing with my mic we didn't realize til after the show, sometimes my audio is kind of doubled and sometimes it isn't. There wasn't a way to fix it, just fyi!

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What we've been playing - 3:36

Physint leaving PlayStation for Xbox - 29:50

News Spotlight - 37:51

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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TWO NINTENDO DIRECTS! Jake and Patrick deep dive both of the direct presentations from this week. What they're excited about, what didn't work for them, and more!

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0:00 Start

5:09 Nintendo Direct

25:55 Everything announced

1:14:00 Zelda Direc

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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Nintendo's 40th anniversary Zelda Direct, Xbox Cloud gaming, PLUS an Onimusha Way of the Sword REVIEW. Lock in gamers, its Spotlight Games episode 220

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What we've been playing - 14:00

Zelda 40th Direct news - 41:55

Xbox Cloud Gaming updates - 47:00

News spotlight - 55:45

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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Jerica and Jordan are dropping in this week to talk all about the new games and demos they've been checking out as we start the insanity known as September 2026 releases.

0:00 - Start 07:15 - Star Wars: Zero Company 20:00 - Orbitals 36:26 - Final Fantasy Resonance demo 44:28 - Moonlighter 2 56:13 - Onimusha: Way of the Sword demo 1:05:22 - Splatoon Raiders 1:11:56 - State of Play thoughts 1:24:42 - Prophet Margin demo

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required. Want some Drop-In Drop-Out merch, or to join our Discord? Head to http://www.dropindropoutpod.com/ Follow us everywhere @dropindropoutpod Opening animation by Ryan Selvy http://www.ryanselvy.com/

We are getting TWO State of Play presentations from PlayStation later this week, so we predict what we might (or might not) see! Plus, we have more GTA 6 news, Xbox is changing up digital licenses, and September's releases are STACKED

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What we've been playing - 12:07

State of Play predictions - 39:03

GTA 6 updates - 53:26

Xbox disc-to-digital program - 58:00

September games - 1:03:00

Drop-In Drop-Out brings together a mix of passionate gamers for an open and engaging conversation about video games. We share our takes on the latest releases, revisit old favorites, and discuss the trends shaping gaming culture. Whether you're here for insight, nostalgia, or just a good laugh, we hope you'll feel inspired to Drop In, listen for a while, and enjoy the ride. No controller required.

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We react to today's GTA 6 new gameplay trailer! We're talking first impressions, the details that caught us off guard and what surprised us in a good way. What impressed us? What has us concerned? Will this game actually run on a base PS5? It's reaction first and then thoughts!

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00:00 - Start

2:58 - Reaction 2

9:40 - Discussion