VG247’s The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.8: Best recreation that journos love however most individuals suppose is a bit naff

It was February, 1996. A coke-filled, obese 13-year-old me was studying about CES in difficulty 148 of CVG and salivating over the ultra-positive overview of Sonic 3. CVG gave out some excessive scores, however a 94 was fairly thrilling for a SEGA boy like me. What a life I’d have as a video games journalist, I believed to myself. Not excessive on medicine, simply filled with the hope solely a toddler can possess. I’d make this dream a actuality and reside like a king, by no means having to purchase a online game once more.

And then, screaming out of the tinny speaker in my Philips radio alarm clock, got here a music that was, unknown to me on the time, foretelling my future. Ironic, by Alanis Morissette.

A site visitors jam once you’re already late

A “No Smoking” signal in your cigarette break

It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you want is a knife

It’s being a video games journo yeah, after which turning on them in a radio present

And is not it ironic, do not you suppose?

A little bit too ironic, and yeah I actually do suppose

18 years later, and right here we’re. The prophecy has been fulfilled within the quest for hits. It’s the VG247 Best Games Ever Podcast, episode 8: Best recreation that journos love however most individuals suppose is a bit naff.

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“What is VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast?” you ask, hoping it’s not going to set off one other ill-conceived nostalgic segway. Well, think about you’re watching a TV panel present from the early 200s. One of the great ones. But the TV is damaged so there’s solely audio, and all of the well-known panelists have been off sick so that they needed to convey some randos down from the viewers. The TV community additionally began to care about video video games, so devoted an entire present to it, fairly than simply having one individual reference Mario as if he’s to be talked about with the identical disdain as Fred West. It’s additionally solely about half-hour lengthy, so for those who don’t prefer it you’ll be over it very quickly in any respect (facet word: this episode is 40 minutes as a result of Sherif went off on one about time loops).

We’ve acquired some particulars on the present’s content material beneath (if you wish to get a refresher earlier than heading to the feedback to make an exquisite, thought of submit or don’t need to hear however do need to know what video games we picked), so if you wish to keep away from spoilers, don’t scroll previous this fan-made creation of what Chris Bratt would appear like as a rat in The Sims 4 (Support pals of VG247, People Make Games, on Patreon).

The Best Game that journos love however most individuals suppose is a bit naff

This is the subject of Episode eight of VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast. Here’s a rundown of who picked what.

Tom – Yakuza 6 (or simply any Yakuza recreation)

Right, hear earlier than you begin having a go. I’m right here to get folks speaking, to be the contrarian jester of the group. So I picked a recreation from a franchise that I full-well know folks love, however Yakuza is a recreation collection that journos adore, but I don’t actually get. OK? It’s on me, however I’m projecting onto others.

Alex – Quantum Break

Hello, I’m Alex, undoubtedly not Tom writing phrases for me as I’m not working in the present day. I apologise for selecting wonderful 8/10 sci-fi motion banger, Quantum Break, as my recreation for this week. I’ve come to grasp, since this podcast was recorded, that Quantum Break is an excellent recreation that most individuals love. It’s destined to go down in historical past as one of many greats of the style.

Sherif – Deathloop

Everyone in video games media has been raving about Deathloop because it got here out. When I lastly sat right down to play it in direction of the tip of final yr, I realised that I simply don’t see what everyone seems to be enamoured by! Deathloop has all the time been pitched, and marketed, as a time loop recreation. This is what I went in anticipating. I used to be left in disbelief but once more once I began enjoying and located that it’s not a god rattling time loop recreation!

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