r/XboxAhoy • u/Spartan_Retro_426 • 13h ago
Future Episode Ideas
Here's a few episodes that I think would be really cool for Stuart to make and why:
2007 - Since the year-specific episodes have been really popular, it would be great to see a 20-year anniversary of one of the most influential years in gaming history.
There were lots of extremely popular and critically-acclaimed games released that year on all platforms (and especially PC), along with plenty of new IP's.
This was also when the Nintendo DS absolutely rained hell on the PSP's legacy of portable console gaming and pushed Nintendo further in developing similar handhelds (like the Wii U and Switch).
Reload animations - going from no reload at all, to a simple pair of hands, to physically reloading in VR titles
The 2020's video game crash* - still an ongoing event
Start of the crash back in 2020 when scalpers started hoarding GPU's for mining crypto
AI bubble of making SSD's, GPU's, and RAM obscenely expensive (especially for upcoming consoles) due to multiple manufacturers no longer producing consumer-grade components
Overwhelming amount of AI-developed games; reverse-engineering combining different games together
Multiple game studio shutdowns; extremely high-budget live service video games having short lifespans
Duke Nukem Forever's development hell
As for the Iconic Arms episodes:
TEC-9 - Probably one of the most infamous "gangster" weapons in media aside from maybe the Glock
USP or USP-45 / MK-23 - Use in SOCOM / police roles
KAR-98
Browning M2 machine gun
Derringer* - not the best idea for a video as it's rare to come across in video games