All aboard the poop train! Christian is wearing a conductor's hat and he's gonna talk about needing to get rocks off in time and you're gonna LISTEN.

Michael muscles magical maestro Tucker to the concrete curb condescendingly in order to take over the studio and describe video game plots from memory! This is the big hobby in 2020, in case you hadn't heard. Don't steal our idea though. I'm mailing this idea to myself so I'll see you in court is how this is going down! Thanks for listening!

The XPB Crew sally forth into a new decade with Bev in tow. No bars are holed during THIS 90 minute gaming discussion, I can assure you of THAT, friend. Christian playing every Witcher game? Expected. Comforting in its familiarity. Tucker talking about the Souls series vis-a-vis Dark Souls 2? Please, I have 4 of that at home. Michael asking the worst video game question ever pondered? Now we're talking.

Tucker runs through the plots of Ocarina of Time, Bioshock Infinite, Half-Life 2, and MGS2 from memory. Everything stated here is now canonical. Please update the wikis.

Tucker takes over the airwaves to deliver cage free and organic bootleg XP Bar content. With a surprise guest!

We return for a few more end of year award categories from our big ol' bag of 2019 nostalgia. We fight about and then determine winners for: Best Use of Music, Best Looking Game, and Worst Character.

It's time for us to look back at the year in games through a series of occasionally inane award categories! Part 1 includes deliberations regarding and final awards given for: Worst Smelling Game, Best Sonic Game of the Year, Best -Verse, Best Debra Wilson, Freshest Game, Best Loop, Best Ensemble Cast, and the most prestigious of them all: The "Outer Wilds or The Outer Worlds" Award.

Where's Michael? Have you seen this Michael? Maybe he stood in front of his microwave for too long, cooked his insides a bit. Ah well, he'll be back. In his absence, let's get caught up on our 2019 backlogs and start to prep for the GOTY conversations that will tear us asunder. That means we're running down a heat-lamped-to-hell buffet full of games like Metro: Exodus, Disco Elysium, Rage 2, Yooka-Laylee and the Subtitle of Destiny, Bee Fight, Race Car Chef, Current Conflict, and Far Cry 5 2: Short Fun. Minor spoilers for Oops! Prank Party occur at 46:31.

Welcome to the soft launch of XP Bar+, our amazing paid subscription service that brings a WEALTH of content to YOU! You can't pay us ENOUGH to talk about Death Stranding and JoJo's Bizarre Meme Scream, and you can't pay us enough NOT to talk about the 10 Canonical Games of the current generation. Seriously, it's the whole first hour of the podcast BUT! If you slip me a fiver I'll cut it down to just the Fortnite talk. No givesies backsies.

On this beautiful Hallow's Eve, I'm excited to announce: we've heard you, and we're ready to introduce the paywall that every one of our listeners has been asking for. XP Bar First will allow you to mute any of the XP Bar regulars at will. Don't want Christian's insight on The Outer Worlds? Blast that mother out of the cast. Don't want Tucker to pontificate about how Borderlands 3 is actually good? You got it, bud. You can even cut out the part where Michael talks about his skin rash; THE POWER IS YOURS (FOR A RECURRING FEE OF $13 A MONTH). A brave new era begins now. Catch it.