Thumbstick Athletes

XCOM 2 picks up after the inevitable failure of the XCOM project in XCOM Enemy Unkown.  We discuss our thoughts on some of the changes made for the second game and get into some of the performance issues as well.

During "What We Played" we talk about the newly released Firewatch and Unravel and talk some more about The Witness.

Some of the other Athletes got a chance to play The Division Beta so we had our episode on it this week.  During "What We Played" Corey and Will talk some more about The Witness.

For this week we have a dual indie game main segment covering Jonathan Blow's first person puzzle game The Witness and sanity management dungeon crawler Darkest Dungeon.

During "What We Played" Dan talks about The Division beta.  Stay tuned after the outro for a special clip dug up by Tito, where the Athletes eerily predict Pokemon GO over two years ago.

In part 2 of our 2016 games preview we each pick a handful of games to cover that may or may not end up coming out in 2016.

During "What We Played" we cover the PC port of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Pony Island and That Dragon, Cancer.

Dan and Corey nerd out over the complex JRPG, Xenoblade Chronicles X.

Though I said in the beginning of this episode that we would have our 2016 games preview all in one episode, we decided towards the end that there were a lot of games we didn't cover and will be doing a Part 2 next week.

Our 3rd annual Thumbies awards episode where we revisit the good and bad of this year's games, along with our usual discussions on why we picked the games that we did.

Dan gives the other dudes a week off and recaps some of the game releases from earlier in the year before heading into the the Thumbies next week.  Clips include our coverage of Dying Light, Monster Hunter 4, Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, and Heroes of the Storm.

Eric once again carries the episode on his back, with the Xbox One timed exclusive Rise of the Tomb Raider as the subject of this week's episode.  Corey and Will also talk about Her Story in a spoiler free manner.

Eric again carries the episode, breaking down the tactical FPS Rainbow Six Siege.  Later on in the episode Dan and Corey briefly cover the mammoth Xenoblade Chronicles X and Eric and Will give quick first impressions of Rise of the Tomb Raider...to be covered more in-depth next week.