Game Of The Year Debate 2025: The Prologue

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Sarah Podzorski, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, and Leo Vader assemble for a big episode where we prepare for our Game of the Year debate for 2025. We share picks for games that we want to see on the list of "The Two Tens" and we need more people to play. After that, we talk about the excellent new games Town to City and Whisper of the House before unpacking Leo and Jacob's enthusiasm for Battlefield 6 and its new battle royale. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below... 

00:00:00 - Intro

00:05:14 - Pew Pew Bang wins Game Podcast Of The Year

00:07:58 - Preparing for our GOTY debate

00:14:12 - Road to Empress

00:16:34 - Cauldron

00:24:57 - Keep Driving

00:27:18 - Citizen Sleeper 2

00:30:59 - Hell Is Us

00:33:46 - Keep Driving

00:35:14 - Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders

00:40:04 - Promise Mascot Agency

00:41:16 - Dead Letter Dept.

00:43:32 - Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

00:46:19 - Grimshire

00:48:25 - Peak

00:50:03 - The Alters

00:53:38 - Absolum

00:55:07 - Hades 2 and Silent Hill F

00:57:39 - Hollow Knight: Silksong

01:01:04 - He Is Coming

01:02:32 - Inventorix

01:04:52 - What might not make The Two Tens cut

01:09:09 - Blue Prince

01:12:55 - The Roottrees Are Dead

01:16:31 - Town To City

01:26:32 - Whisper of the House

01:32:21 - Battlefield 6

01:45:53 - Join the Wall of Heroes in November!

01:47:02 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:48:33 - Community questions

02:35:44 - Get A Load Of This

Leo’s GALOT - https://laist.com/news/entertainment/30-rocks-werewolf-bar-mitzvah-an-oral-history

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRcB4n4CGcy9KwO4-t0aJ8Qedwy5tsPsP

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.pbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23123887644&gbraid=0AAAAAooDyp1-2hytkILpy63WjMckdd3ds&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9obIBhCAARIsAGHm1mRTFKirrcLG5HdzdLWzt2b5rX3Hj7mKoRKVQcuwBifIBpNecR5WAJcaAlj3EALw_wcB

Janet's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/kelslewin.bsky.social/post/3m4ae6g6cjk2b

Sarah's GALOT - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIOrKydv1BZ/?hl=en

Community GALOT - https://automaton-media.com/en/news/hideo-kojima-never-even-heard-about-konami-being-offered-a-matrix-game-no-one-told-me-for-26-years/

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