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The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that lets YOU control the narrativeInteractivity is this medium's entire thing. It's a composite of many other art forms: everything from prose, to sculpture, to television. What it cribs from those things is often its weakest work, but what it does brilliantly and almost singularly is give the audience some control within the experience. All art is interactive on some level, in that the relationship between a creative work, its author, and its enjoyer is always a conversation of sorts. We project our own world view onto motionless hunks of marble. Our own life experiences onto flat planes of pigmented acrylics. Our own cultural co...2024-11-0233 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastRings of Power?Gaming is full of rings of power: from RPG trinkets that give your character a small but pivotal buff to a critical stat, warp rings that provide instantaneous transport for Sonic the Hedgehog, and beastly racing circuits. Not to mention, er, the actual rings of power from Lord of the Rings. Season 2 of Amazon Prime's Rings of Power inspired this topic, obviously. Well I like it anyway. That makes one of us.So, which is the best game that features a ring of power, or Powerful Ring? To find out, we assembled this panel...2024-09-2944 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastIan Higton's Bum Guffs, or Best Rubbish Game with a Good Reveal TrailerThere's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247.com paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.Still inspired by last week's topic, we thought we'd flip it on its head an ask perhaps an even more pertinent question in an age of decade-long marketing campaigns: what's the best rubbish game that had a great reveal...2024-06-2540 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game where everyone's mad at you but you did nothing wrongIt won't have escaped your notice, dear viewer or listener, that the last episode - our incredible two-part 100th episode special quickfire edition - featured six contestants instead of the usual three. It may have escaped your notice, however, that 50% of them were not actually VG247 staff. This has caused certain ripples at VG247 Towers. Realising I may have triggered a full-on staff revolt, with its ire pointed squarely in my direction, I felt it wise last week to pretend to be ill and get Tom to host the podcast instead.Tom, being the...2024-06-1128 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Big Quickfire Special PART TWOTo recap: for the 100th episode we decided to come up with 100 episode topics and blow them all on one huge quiz round, with individual buzzers and everything. Inviting some favourite guests to return (Owen, Richie, and Burns) with the promise that, yes, however many points you score in this mammoth episode will be added to your overall total for the series. This has caused some friction at VG247 Towers, which you'll get to enjoy the fallout from in Episode 101: The best game for losers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-06-0440 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Big Quickfire Special PART ONEOne-hundred episodes. 100 weeks of The Best Games Ever podcast. I can scarcely believe it. On a personal note, it's been wonderful to host this stupid, daft, funny, sometimes even informative show about games past and present, with its mad politics and meta-games, running gags, plot twists, special guests, and so on. Tom asked me to host it on a freelance basis at first, and it was working with the brilliant VG247 team on this ad-hoc basis that convinced me to snap up the opportunity when he later invited me to put throw my hat in to replace the brilliant...2024-05-2952 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 97: The best game in which you fight a bearHello and welcome to episode 97 of the Best Games Ever Podcast. As is traditional, let us give you some information about the show. This week we are looking for our contestants to think of the best game in which you fight a bear. Let's see if anyone decides to subvert the topic in ways that cause mutiny within the ranks.As ever, host Jim Trinca must decide who has picked the best game by judging on an unknown list of criteria he most likely makes up as he sees fit on the day. A...2024-04-3038 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 95: The best game where your family DITCHES youInspired by the (frankly excellent) Fallout TV show, this week on VG247's Best Games Ever podcast I've tasked my colleagues with finding the best game where a family member ditches you. With the prerequisite understanding that none of them are allowed to pick Fallout 3, the quintessential "dad's buggered off" simulator.As it turns out, being forsaken by a family member is a fairly common scenario in video games, especially if you widen the concept of family out to any sort of fraternity or gang. Which didn't stop racer-obsessed Mark trying to crowbar in...2024-04-1629 minThe Best Games Ever PodcastA free game we’d love to pay for?Inspired by the recent free drop of current viral sensation Content Warning – a co-op survival “shooter” about making spooky FauxTube videos with three of your mates – this week’s Best Games Ever podcast is all about freebies that we’d happily pay for.It’s a happy coincidence that this topic coincides with the launch of our extended podcast: a paid version of the show which includes an extra segment where you get to heart the host’s pick, and its subsequent demolishing by the rest of the panel. To paraphrase one recent YouTube commenter, “so t...2024-04-0929 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest Game that you can't stop going back to despite having a huge pile of shame to work throughHonestly, we've got no idea what episode this is. Jim thinks this is Season 2, which is news to everyone else, but it's also sort of episode 84. This week we pick the games that we just can't stop going back to. The games that, despite knowing we have newer titles to work through, we play at every opportunity. Do you have one? Oh, and we introduce a new segment: Jim's Pick. Get it free for now, but in the near future we're going to be launching a subscriber's edition of the show that features this extra content. It won't cost...2024-01-1941 min
The Best Games Ever Podcast2023 games you FORGOT aboutSo much STUFF game out in 2023 - we had Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, a new Baldur's Gate, a Skyrim sequel which introduced such innovations to the series as: Guns and Boring. Starfield, I'm talking about. And you knew that, but I have to spell it out in the body text because a certain tech giant has taken wordplay, nuance, and creativity out onto the back porch and shot them all in the head as a sacrifice to the god of Endless Growth. Which doesn't exist. The god, or the concept. Heh! We even got a sequel to Dead...2024-01-1537 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best Games Ever Show Christmas Special 2023Well, for the six of you who kept asking, Merry Christmas. For this festive episode on VG247’s Best Games Ever Show, Tom and Jim are reunited with friends and former colleagues Simon Miller and Steve Burns.Since they all parted ways from their infamous stint at VideoGamer.com, Simon has gone on to become a professional wrestler, in-demand presenter, and all-round online personality with seemingly endless energy for building his brand. He recently made his IMPACT! Wrestling debut and we’ve got no doubt that he’ll just keep getting bigger.2023-12-2238 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastTom reveals the guest he hates the mostWe have a lot of guests on the VG247 podcast because we know a lot of Games Media Personalities and most of them are too polite and/or socially inept to say "no" when we ask them to be on our podcast. In the last year we've had such Talented Greats as Mike Channel from Outside Xbox And Things and James Batchelor who has written some books. But which guest is Tom's favourite? And who can he stand the least? And is forty minutes of one-on-one with Tom Orry enough to shut up all the...2023-12-1843 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest game that's a Spin-off into a completely different genreThe VG247 crew is back to decide on yet another Best Game Ever. In this week's show we're looking at games that are spin-off from a game in a totally different genre. So, things like how Mario Kart is a 'Mario' game but not a 2D platformer that the series became famous for. You get the idea. As always, our host Jim Trinca makes a complete mess of picking the correct winner, but you can be the judge of that without me, a simple person writing these description, influencing you. Learn more about your ad...2023-12-0855 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastShock Betrayals and Other Gaming TropesTom's back by popular demand, but also to answer for his crimes against a previous guest: James Batchelor, author of The Best Non-Violent Video Games. For weeks following James' deserved win, Tom and Conner said some Very Mean things about him and his book, and even implied that virtuous host Jim Trinca (who is fair and kind) would let anyone win if they were on to plug some coffee table book that you can already read as tweets.Did Tom back down, or double down? And how did Connor manage to escape justice? Find ou...2023-12-0140 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastWhat’s the best game that we’d give a kicking?Recently, our friend and long time VG247 contributor Sherif Saed gave Pinnochio-themed soulslike Lies of P a bit of a pasting in his review. Our two star score prompted a lot of backlash from some quarters, and also a bit of internal discussion about the nature of opinion pieces. How reviews can sometimes be a flashpoint of controversy, and how scores don’t reflect any of the nuance that led the author to their conclusion. Personally, I’m always a bit baffled by the phenomenon of people who haven’t played a game kicking off online about the views of som...2023-11-2444 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game you can finish in one sittingHours of gameplay is a deceptive stat. We’re conditioned to think that a bigger number is better in all things when it comes to this hobby, and how long it takes to complete something is seen as part of its value proposition. If a full price game launches with a six hour campaign, for example, there’s hell to pay. Doesn’t matter how good those six hours are.But video games aren’t inherently a long form medium. Some of the best games of all time are 25 minutes long (if you’re good, or cheating). Many more...2023-11-1743 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game set in LondonLondon shows up in a lot of games. It’s in a lot of Call of Dutys, which is the biggest shooter franchise in the world. It has the distinction of being the only non-US city ever depicted in GTA, which is the biggest crime franchise in the world after the royal family. Blimey, Ubisoft have done London four times, they can’t get enough of it. It even pops up at the end of Mass Effect 3.But very few London-based video games are made by London-based teams, such is the nature of a glob...2023-11-1043 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game where the protagonist has a stupid pun for a nameFrom Alan Wake (he’s A. Wake, get it? Get it?) to Miles Prower, there are loads of video game protagonists whose names are rubbish puns. Well, actually there isn’t, but it’s happened just often enough that there’s sufficient material for this edition of VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast.Halloween fell between the gaps of our posting schedule, so we couldn’t really justify doing a Best Spooky Game That You Couldn’t Finish episode, and Guy Fawkes night also doesn’t occur for another couple of days, so we can’t do a Best Game That Mak...2023-11-0436 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best New York GameGimme ham steak on rye with extra pickles and a dozen egg whites on the side. Hold the pickles. Who's uncle do I gotta bribe to get a parking space around here? Get outta here.And so on. Yes, this week we're asking our esteemed panel: what the best game set in New York (or a facsimile thereof)? There are an absurd number of games to choose from. The Big Apple is probably the most depicted city in the medium, and it's not hard to understand why: beyond the fact that it's an enormously...2023-10-2746 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best Detective GameInspired by the recent-ish release of Detective Pikachu Returns, the topic of this week’s Best Games Ever show is: what’s the best Detective Game? And it’s a doozy of a topic, because there’s so many to choose from. Investigative gameplay crops up in so many things. Even the recent Assassin’s Creed games could arguably qualify, if you’re happy to define “detective work” as “pressing a special button to highlight environmental clues”.We’ll just get it out of the way right now: nobody picked Disco Elysium, so that’s the pseud’s favourite...2023-10-2032 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best Ultraviolent SpectacleVideo games and excessive violence go together like cheese and crackers. Laurel and Hardy. Beer and nuts. Bacon and, er, rolls. Playstation exclusives and the concept of mediocrity. We love simulated violence here at VG247, but not the real stuff, so when it came to the task of deciding which notably ultraviolent game is the best one of all we decided to solve our differences via the medium of a weekly panel show format that goes out on all the major podcast platforms and YouTube. Conveniently, we already had one, which is this show: The Best Games Ever Podcast...2023-10-1339 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastWhat's the best driving (not racing) game?I don't have a driving licence. I can't drive a car. People assume I can because I like games with cars in them. I don't bother to correct people anymore, as I'm almost 41 years old and I simply can't be bothered. If you've ever imagined me driving a car because you assumed I could drive a car and this revelation has shaken you to your core, changing your worldview and altering your very existence on this earth, I'm sorry. To be clear, I have been in cars, just not driven them. I mostly walk places.2023-10-0639 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastWhat's the best Cyberpunk Game that isn't Cyberpunk 2077?We all love a bit of Cyberpunk don't we? And did you know that there are loads of games that use that setting and aesthetic that aren't Cyberpunk 2077? Sure, CD Projekt Red's game has just received a massive update, making it better than ever alongside a brilliant expansion, but if you had to pick a Cyberpunk game that isn't that, what would you choose?That's exactly what we're doing here in this week's Best Games Ever Podcast. As ever, Jim has to pick a winner, with Tom, Alex, and Connor doing their best to...2023-09-2939 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with a surprise guest star or cameoWhether it’s Patrick Stewart in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sean Bean in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, or Terrence Stamp in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, there are numerous examples of big name hollywood actors showing up in video games, and it’s always an exciting little surprise to hear a familiar voice that isn’t Troy Baker. But sometimes, there are cameos or guest starring roles that aren’t even particularly well advertised. Did you know, for example, that Lynda Carter of Wonder Woman fame played every female Nord and Orc NPC in The Elder Scrolls IV: Obli...2023-09-2240 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best Easter GameIf you didn't listen to last week's show you might be confused as to why we're doing a an Easter episode in September. Well, Jim was goaded into it (like he was with the Christmas episode), so we're doing it. We also reserve the right to do another one when it's actually Easter (we're smart like that).What constitutes an "Easter Game" is even more wooly a concept than an "Easter Movie", because examples of entire games themed around Easter are few and far between. This is probably because game development takes longer, is...2023-09-1533 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best Christmas GameIf you didn't listen to last week's show you might be confused as to why we're doing a Christmas episode in September. Well, Jim was goaded into it, so we're doing it. We also reserve the right to do another one when it's actually Christmas.What constitutes a "Christmas Game" is even more wooly a concept than a "Christmas Movie", because examples of entire games themed around Christmas are few and far between. This is probably because game development takes longer, is harder, and is less likely to actually make a planned release date...2023-09-0837 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best German GameGermany isn't especially known for its game development, but there's a huge amount of stuff that gets made there. You've got Astragon, which you might not have heard of, but you’ve definitely heard of the range of simulators it publishes. You've got Piranha Bytes, who’ve been making incredibly 6/10 RPGs since before most of the VG247 crew were on solids, and you got you've got Egosoft constantly squirrelling away on the X series, which is nothing to do with Elon Musk, but is essentially Starfield but for poindexters. If this all sounds like Germany is Europe's largest purveyor of s...2023-09-0140 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best Bethesda game that isn't a Bethesda gameWith the imminent release of Starfield, people the world over are about to fill their boots once again with Bethesda’s signature style of go anywhere, do anything game. Unless they don’t have an Xbox or a decent PC, that is. But Bethesda aren’t the only studio who have had a crack at that particular style of vast open-world RPG: indeed, they’ve inspired plenty of copycats and homages over the years, and are often namechecked by other developers when talking about open world game design.So Bethesda aren’t the only studio who...2023-08-2535 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game where nobody gets killedVideo games and murder are like cheese and crackers. Vic and Bob. The Edinburgh Fringe and disgruntled locals. A classic partnership, but hardly inseparable: though our chief interaction with these virtual worlds is to deal death to their residents, it doesn't have to be that way. In fact, there are thousands of video games out there where you aren't compelled to kill anyone. Or stab them. Or even lightly maim them. Farming simulators, for example, where the only thing resembling violence is the application of combine harvester to corn. Relationship simulators, where the only conflict to be found is...2023-08-1832 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game you love despite itselfWelcome to the Best Games Ever show Episode 64: The best game you love despite itself.Some games make it hard to love them. My beloved Assassin's Creed, for example, is often hard to recommend to people, because so many of the games get bogged down in icon janitor nonsense, obscuring the feelgood sense of motion at the heart of the gameplay, and the epic meta-narrative that's essentially an olympian love story set across time, space, death, and reality. But the tailing missions are annoying, so.This week we're joined...2023-08-1156 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that you can't bring up at partiesBaldur's Gate 3 is finally upon us if you're a PC gamer, in which case, this episode is especially for you, because it's all about good games that you wouldn't dare bring up in polite company. Or impolite company.Gaming, despite its mainstream acceptance in recent years, is still an extremely nerdy hobby, full of very niche stuff that rarely makes headlines beyond the enthusiast press. Yes, that's right, I'm sorry to break it to you, but if you're reading this that's what you are: an enthusiast. But never mind, because one thing worth being...2023-08-0435 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that's a shameless rip offAs a medium, video games are often a vast fabric of inspiration-taking, borrowed ideas, and of course shameless rip offs. Some of the biggest and best games in decades have been the result of a lot of hard work coupled with the healthy practice of nabbing what's popular during development. A tad dishonest? Maybe - but it's how some of the biggest game developers in the business got to where they are today. This week we're asking: What's the best game that's a shameless rip-off of another game?You'd see it a lot especially in the olden...2023-07-2845 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best management simWelcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 61: The best management sim.Video games are a treasure trove if you like managing things. People. Buildings. Civilisations. Transport networks. Space programs (as in NASA, not as in Star Trek). Whatever organisational or logistic problem you can imagine, there's probably some kind of video game that attempts to let you solve it. And of those there must surely be a Best One. So what, according to our esteemed panel, is the best management sim? And how on earth do we say...2023-07-2141 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with a reptile.Welcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 60: The best game with a reptile.With Gex making his grand return, now seems like the perfect opportunity to take a look at video game reptiles. There are loads, obviously, of various levels of importance. So this episode is a real toss up! Who will win... who knows! You'll have to give it a watch or listen in order to determine how things will turn out.Reptiles can be snakes, turtles, dragons, dinosaurs... but not frogs! If you were thinking of your favourite video game frog right...2023-07-1438 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with the worst gimmickWelcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 59: The best game with the worst gimmick.There are plenty of crap games with bad gimmicks. Tony Hawk: RIDE, for example, which was built around a terrible skateboard-shaped controller peripheral and was basically a terrible game as a result. Or Crime Boss: Rockay City, which is a painfully bottom tier heist game which boasts “Vanilla Ice is in this” as its entire USP. Then, of course, there’s the Kinect library. The entire Kinect library.But still, look, just because something has a...2023-07-0733 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best use of a mega-popular licenseWelcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 58: The best use of a mega popular license.Licensed games are big business. The richest studios and publishers in the galaxy all have a foothold in the gaming space because, as countless CEOs and market analysts tell us every year, video games make more money than Hollywood, musical theatre, gardening programmes, the broadcasting rights for Shinty, and the GDP of Wales combined. It is for this reason that everyone working in video games lives in a castle with a moat and a bentley on the driveway.2023-06-3033 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game where you play a dead guyWelcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 57: The best game where you play a dead guy.Gaming is stuffed to the coffin lid with undead protagonists. Vampires. Poltergeists. Murdered detectives with unfinished business. Starship captains resurrected from death by a rogue human supremacist terrorist organisation with a trillionaire CEO. The list goes on. And indeed, on.But what’s the best game with an undead protagonist? And why on earth did nobody pick Grim Fandango? Only one of these questions is answered in this week’s Best Games Ever Show, which is a bit shor...2023-06-2324 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best globetrotting travel gameWelcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 56: the best globetrotting travel game.This week we welcome our first guest panellist, the ever endearing Bertie Purchese from Eurogamer! If you've ever gone to EGX you may know Bertie as the eccentric host of the Eurogamer Pub Quiz, and if you're generally interested in games writing you'll have come across his tireless work as an Associate Editor of Eurogamer, where he covers news, conjures up features, records podcasts, and looks after their Supporter Programme. He loves RPGs, which often have a fabulous globe-trotting aspect to them (though not...2023-06-1636 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with horse armour (but you can't have Oblivion)Welcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 55: The best game with horse armour (but you can't have Oblivion)2006 feels like a lifetime ago. I’m sure for at least some of you reading, it literally was. In which case you won’t remember the utter stink that was kicked up over the concept of – get this – paying actual real money for in-game cosmetic items, on top of the money you’d already forked out for the game itself. It seemed unthinkable, until Bethesda went and did it, releasing the infamous Horse Armour pack for Oblivi...2023-06-0934 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that's a sequel to a bad gameBecause we live in a meritocracy, rubbish things never get sequels. Except we don't live in a meritocracy, we live in hell, and therefore rubbish things often get nine sequels and a spin-off TV show while good things are busy getting rejected in board rooms. Such is life.But it's not necessarily a bad thing, because every now and then, sequels far outstrip their progenitors. It's a phenomenon that occurs most often in the world of video games, where sequels will often build on the bare bones of games that perhaps have good ideas...2023-06-0235 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with a terrible nameThe video game industry has a long and legendary history of awful names. Several developers have spent literally millions of dollars on otherwise excellent games just to slap the most staggeringly awful title on the final product.Boring names are common enough, with tepid words like War, Quest or Royale thrown in there more as a tone setter than anything remotely interesting. Then there's the wild stuff! Metal Gear Rising: Revengence is a truly mythical example, and the recently announced Metal Gear Solid (Delta Symbol) is raising smirks in its pseudo-intellectual absurdity. But if you look hard...2023-05-2632 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with a ginger protagonistWelcome to the Best Games Ever show Episode 52: the best game with a ginger protagonist.Cal Kestis of Star Wars: Jedi Survivor is just the latest in a long line of Gaming Redheads, an esteemed group that includes such celebrated characters as Official Femshep, Joanna Dark, and what's-her-face out of Heavenly Sword. And it makes me swell with pride to see this proud tradition continuing.Listen. I'm not even a proper ginger, but my beard has the reddish hue of muddled European stock, and I look a bit auburn...2023-05-1927 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best Zelda game that isn't a Zelda gameAlmost every action adventure game with RPG elements and dungeons, that's set in an open or semi-open world, can trace its roots – a link to the past, if you will – back to the original Legend of Zelda game on the NES. And this is surprising, because that game is 37 years old. That’s roughly as old as I am, which in human terms is “should probably start thinking about life insurance” levels of decrepit. In the context of a medium driven by technological advancement, it might as well be an eternity.And yet, it endures. N...2023-05-1233 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that is uncomfortably pro-monarchyWelcome to the Best Games Ever Show episode 50: The best game that is uncomfortably pro-monarchy.Video games are absurdly monarchist. Nintendo's biggest franchises both have you running around after a princess. Final Fantasy is littered with royals showing up as quest givers, party members, and protagonists. Fable III is entirely about seizing your divine right to rule, and leads to an infamous sequence where you are tasked with deciding the fate of the kingdom through a series of binary decisions: the point of the sequence is, arguably, to show how difficult it is for...2023-05-0531 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with the worst difficulty spikeWelcome to the Best Games Ever Show episode 49: The Best Game with the Worst Difficulty Spike.High difficulty is one thing. As long as it's consistent, it can be an asset. Souls games are essentially all about providing a big mountain to climb. But sometimes games have difficulty spikes that, frankly, take the proverbial Michael. Games which aren't supposed to be mountains to climb, but gentle slopes to meander along. They lull you into a false sense of security, providing a moderate challenge but nothing you can't handle as long as you're keeping your...2023-04-2835 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game set on a horrible islandAs most of us are residents of a horrible island, we at VG247 have raised a suspicious eyebrow at Dead Island 2 for being not set on an island or, frankly, horrible enough for our liking. Which has led us to ask the question: what is the best game set on a horrible island? There are so many to choose from, as islands are a popular setting in video games: their size is naturally limited, so it's much easier to proportion them realistically without surrounding the map with invisible walls. Everything from Morrowind to GTA V could potentially fit the...2023-04-2137 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastAn Audit of Current Winners and LosersWinning this podcast is easy: you just have to convince me, Jim Trinca, that your submission for the topic du jour is better than anyone else's. The tricky part is that I'm fickle and unknowable, and also, Donaldson knows everything, so he's usually uncovered an angle that you haven't thought of. The fact that it's almost always about 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is immaterial.In the cut and thrust of the Best Games Ever Podcast, finding the weirdest or daftest angle is where the game lies. That or having the biggest sob story...2023-04-141h 06
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that features a 90s starFor all of its faults, the one thing you can say about Crime Boss: Rockay City is that Vanilla Ice is in it. Which reminded us of a thing that happened a while back: it was called "the nineties", and it had loads of good stuff, like the Amiga, Fido Dido, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.But the nineties were a great time for personalities. Snoop Dogg. Pamela Anderson. Tony Blair. Loads of them. Chyna from the wrestling. The Churchill insurance dog. Bob Mortimer. I could go on. But it was a long...2023-04-0734 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that's rubbish after ten hoursVideo games are very long-form pieces of entertainment, and as such, they have to work hard to hold our attention. Statistically, most single-player games are left unfinished by a staggering majority of the people who buy them, as much as 90% by some estimates. But is it any wonder, when a lot of games just get a bit naff after the first act? Once the New Game Novelty wears away, you'd better be introducing some huge plot twist, or engaging new mechanic, or something to switch things up and keep it interesting, otherwise people are going to go back to...2023-03-3127 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game where you'd swap places with the main characterYou’d think that swapping lives with any video game protagonist would be preferable to continuing as a regular ol’ human in the real world. After all, we don’t have magic, or spaceships, or unfettered access to military grade ordinance. But most video game protagonists have to live through things that the vast majority of us would need years of therapy to process. Monster attacks. Wars. Alien invasions. Having to go on dates.Still: plenty of game protagonists get to do nice things, like driving boats or growing turnips. So, who would o...2023-03-2430 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 43: The best game that takes ten or more hours to get goodWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 43 - The best game that takes ten or more hours to get goodLet's face it: games are too long these days. I'm over 160 hours into Assassin's Creed Valhalla and I still haven't finished the bloody thing. But, perhaps worse than games that outstay their welcome are games that don't even get to the good part until you've put in a few shifts.The post child for this phenomenon is, of course, Final Fantasy XIII, a game which infamously funnels...2023-03-1738 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game you could complete as your real selfWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 42 - The best game you could complete as your real self Video games allow us to live our wildest power fantasies, such as "plumber", or "murderer". But what if you had to endure a game world not as some souped-up avatar, but just as yourself? You? Little, pathetic ol' you, with your savings account, and your Nissan Qashqai? You wouldn't last two minutes in the mushroom kingdom, mate.But if our panellists had a choice, which game worlds would they h...2023-03-1033 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that you can't forgiveWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 41 - The best game that you can't forgiveSometimes even great video games are associated with bad memories. Maybe the last boss was just too annoying for you to finish. Maybe it was the game that made your 360 red ring. Maybe the day you got it was the day your dog died. Whatever it is, we all have that one game we can never go back to because it's just too traumatic. Or, you know, difficult. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...2023-03-0330 minThe Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with the most juvenile featureWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 40 - The best game with the most juvenile feature.Look. Video games are often, y'know, full of stupid nonsense. Whether they're actually for kids or not, quite a lot of them have bum, willy, or fart jokes (which is actually good), but more sinister than that, a lot of them betray immature or undeveloped attitudes on the writer's part. You know exactly what I'm talking about.Anyway, this is a podcast in which a stirring defense of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is attempted, on the gr...2023-02-2431 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that completely floppedWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 39 - The best game that was a huge flop.Sometimes, it doesn't matter how good something is, it just never gets the right break, or it arrives at entirely the wrong time. An artist may die a pauper, unappreciated in their time, but be considered among the greatest painters in history in the centuries following their demise. This is a form of cruelty we call "existing".Anyway, this is a podcast about Shenmue and things. It's good.“What is VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcas...2023-02-1742 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game you'd never believe was from that developerWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 38 - The best game you'd never believe was from that developerHi-Fi Rush is a joyous cel-shaded rush of a rhythm combat game with a tone and art style not unlike Jet Set Radio, and it's surprising, because it comes from a studio most widely known for Evil Within, a spiritual follow-up to Resident Evil, and Ghostwire Tokyo, which is sort of like Far Cry: Shibuya via Siren Blood Curse. It's not the only example of a surprising or incongruous game from a developer, or studio, that is...2023-02-1038 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with followers you would never hang out with IRLWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 37 - The best game with followers you would never hang out with IRLVideo Games often, through necessity, make us hang out with people we wouldn't necessarily want to in any other context.. Looking after rich idiots? Helping demon-possessed adventurers find peace in hell? Chatting with disembodied skulls who have terrible behavioural issues? (it's amazing how often that last one crops up). NPC followers or party members might be useful in a scrape, usually, but they're generally not the sort of people you'd like to...2023-02-0336 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that really needs a remakeWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 36 - The best game that really needs a remake.It's a simple fact that video games, unlike almost every other art form, just don't age very well. Some games desperately need a remake because they're so outdated that they're insurmountably ugly, impossible to find, difficult to get working, or challenging to operate. The original Dead Space, however, still holds up beautifully in the art department, is readily available on digital storefronts, is backwards compatible with Xbox Series consoles and Windows 11 PCs, and its controls and interface are still...2023-01-2741 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that shouldn't be made into a TV showWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 35 - The best game that shouldn't be made into a TV showThe Last of Us has finally made it to television screens. Well, it was always on television screens. Um. Let me rephrase.Television finally has a prestige drama about zombies.What? Oh yeah. Fine. OK.Television addicts finally have a zombie show that's already been going for like ten years in another medium if they wanna skip ahead,2023-01-2029 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that suffers from bloatingWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 34 - the best game that suffers from bloatingBloat was clearly on all our minds in the afterglow of the christmas season, so we did an entire podcast about the concept. But we're not talking about being full of mince pies, here: we're on about video game bloat. The scourge of modern times, that has turned what used to be a fun escapist hobby into the full time job of icon janitoring. Games are so rammed with the dreaded "content" now that dev cycles are starting to be...2023-01-1332 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 33: The best game that could have been made by an AIWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 33 - the best game that could have been made by an AI Join our panel of gaming experts as they discuss and debate the greatest video games of all time. Each week, we'll tackle a new theme and share our picks for the best games in that category. This week on VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast, we have a special treat for you! In the spirit of the holiday season, our host Jim decided to take it easy and let an AI do some of the work...2023-01-0633 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 32: The best game of 2023Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 32 - the best game of 2023 The future is unknowable. As are the minds of our deranged panellists, who were asked to pick their nod for next year's GOTY based on the scraps of info we know about 2023's game releases and, somehow, none of them picked Starfield. It's obviously Starfield, you idiots. Cast: Tom Orry, Alex Donaldson, Connor Makar, and Jim Trinca. . . . . . . . . . . Our picks...2022-12-3035 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 31: The best game that reminds you of ChristmasWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 31 - the best game that reminds you of Christmas Christmas is a time of togetherness, of sharing your table with family, friends, and strangers. In that spirit, we invited a number of our friends and colleagues from across the games media to contribute to this, our first ever Christmas edition of the VG247 Best Games Ever podcast. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it, and wish you all a joyful holiday season. Cast: Tom Orry, Alex Donaldson, James Billcliffe...2022-12-2340 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 30: The best game that made you uninstallWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 30 - the best game that made you uninstall Uninstalling crap games is one thing. But uninstalling a game that would qualify in some way as a "best ever"? That's a difficult thing to imagine, or determine. Unfortunately for our panellists, that's the game. Cast: Tom Orry, Alex Donaldson, Connor Makar, and Jim Trinca. . . . . . . . . . . Our picks this week (SPOILERS AHEAD): Tom - TUNIC ...2022-12-1629 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 29: The best game where you don't do muchWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 29 - the best game where you don't do much. This is a topic that's very close to my heart because I love sitting doing naff all. In that spirit, I haven't borthered writing an elaborate podcast description this week. This is yer lot. Bliss. I'm going to have a mince pie later after a long and productivity-free morning. You can't sack me Tom, I'm just being thematically consistent. Cast: Tom Orry, Alex Donaldson, Kelsey Raynor, and Jim Trinca. Our picks this week (S...2022-12-0926 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 28: The best game to play while you wait for StarfieldWelcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 28 - the best game to play while you wait for Starfield. This week's topic has come about because of two things: Firstly, we're desperate to do anything Starfield related because we are a games website and people click on articles about Starfield. But, rudely, it hasn't come out yet, so we have to get creative. I say creative. I mean, we have to go on about it on podcasts and things. Secondly, we're scraping the barrell and letting Jim pick them now, and he won't ever...2022-12-0237 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe 6-month Inquisition SpecialThe VG247 Best Games Ever Podcast has been going for six months! Can you believe it? The show that was spawned out of a random Slack message has gone from mild strength to ever-so-slightly-less-mild strength. To celebrate this milestone I sat down with host Jim Trinca to berate him about the choices he's made so far. Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: The 6-month Inquisition Special.Cast: Tom Orry and Jim Trinca. That's it. We definitely didn't do this because we ran out of time to do a proper episode due to various...2022-11-251h 02
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game that crashed at the worst possible timeI've given up writing brilliant intros to these, now. If you want them to return, simply leave a bag containing £100k in unmarked bank notes on the hill at the top of the road near the church, behind the bin. Thanks. Alternatively, write a comment saying how much you miss the wonderful intros. Or leave a review for this podcast. You have exactly one week. Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 26 - The best game that crashed at the worst possible time. Cast: Tom Orry, Alex Donaldson, James Billcliffe, and Jim Trinca.2022-11-1836 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with a Welsh actor in itMichael Sheen is good, isn't he? Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 25 - The best game with a welsh actor in it. Please do let us know what you think of the show – and if this is your first time listening, do go back to listen to the previous episodes. If you’ve got suggestions for topics, we’d love to hear them, because we're just picking countries now and running with it. “What is VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast?” you ask? Well, it is essentially a 30-minute panel show where p...2022-11-1129 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 24: The best game based on a book that nobody who played it has actually readI played the Discworld video game, remarkably, before I'd read a single Terry Pratchett book. I don't know if that speaks more to the cultural cache of video games, or to my own literary ignorance growing up, but getting to the age of 11 in the United Kingdom of the late twentieth century without having read a Terry Pratchett book is quite an astonishing un-achievement. One that I quickly remedied, of course. This was decades ago (I am old), and you'd think that, if anything, the acceptance of video games as a valid form of artistic expression would...2022-11-0426 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 23: The best 6/10 that's better than The Last of Us“Look, it’s very simple”, said Jim. “Review scores aren’t a flat scale, they’re all sort of, rubbery and compartmentalised.”“What on EARTH are you going on about now” replied Burns, already tired of this.Jim thought for a second, looking down at his floppy Meatball Marinara, freshly purchased from Croydon’s worst Subway (which takes some doing). “Well, consider food.”“The stuff you eat?” said Burns. “Yeah”, Jim clarified. “So like, the best thing you can get from McDonald’s-”“Big Tasty”, Burns interrupted.“Yeah so -” Jim continued: “The Big Tasty with bacon,”“No, just the Big Tasty” Burns interr...2022-10-2832 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastLive Special: The best game where you get to eat pieWhat is the best game where you get to eat pie? Because it's the opening line of our theme tune, it's the first question anyone ever heard asked on our acclaimed Best Games Ever podcast: a five star rated show which some critics have described as "safe as badgers" and "short running time". So we decided to ask it for our first ever live podcast, recorded at EGX London earlier this year, with an open mic for members of the audience to chime in with their suggestions. After several arguments about Breath of the Wild...2022-10-2628 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game about gods that isn't God of WarI don't believe in any god. I don't think that's a particularly unusual point of view in 2022, at least in some parts of the world, but if I did there are certainly some moments that stick with me as things I'd have potentially given a deity credit for. I was once sat under a tree watching a game of amateur cricket. From the tree fell the largest pinecone I'd ever seen and to probably ever exist in the history of the world. The kind of pinecone that if it were to land on a head, would crush...2022-10-2131 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best dead game you'd buy a console for if it came backThe PlayStation 3 was a strange thing. The console, arriving late to the party that the Xbox 360 kicked off quite brilliantly, was a big deal. Certainly, in Sony-owned countries like the UK, it seemed everyone was waiting for it. It didn't really matter that the launch line-up was a bit naff, that the console itself looked hideous, or that it was ridiculously expensive. The follow-up to perhaps the greatest console of all time, the PS2, was a huge deal. But what exactly were people desperate to play on their new PS3? I was at the March 2006 UK launch...2022-10-1437 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game you played on your phoneDo you ever think about the time before mobile phones? The era of calling your the landline in your mate's house, only for their mum to answer. "Can I talk to Jimmy, please?" "Is that Tom? OK, I'll get Jimmy." "... JIMMY! JIMMY! TOM IS ON THE PHONE." "Hello." "Hello. Do you want to come round my house?" "... MUM! CAN I GO ROUND TOM'S HOUSE?" "... ARE YOU HAVING TEA THERE?" "Mum says am I having tea there?" "... MUM, CAN JIMMY HAVE TEA HERE?" "... YES." "Yes." "OK." "OK." "Bye." We had such wonderful conversations on phones, before...2022-10-0733 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game with an acronised name like 'FIFA' that isn't FIFAIt’s Barking, 1978. We’re playing an away match against the Under 9 Tigers, and I’m in goal, being the team’s only goalkeeper, and despite my repeated request for new kneepads being consistently denied. “Ain’t got the funds, lad” was the constant refrain from the manager, Keith, ever clad in his suede coat, gold chains, and cashmere polo neck: the standard uniform at the time of people who had large status in small towns. Last minute penalties. Unprotected joints. A striker four years my senior, having been kept back several years in school on account of his behavio...2022-09-3030 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe best game you thought was one genre but turned out to be anotherHaving kids is wonderful when it's not the most tiring, life-changing thing you can do to yourself - and even then you only remember the wonderful bits. When your child smiles at you for the first time and it isn't a build up of gas... wonderful. When your child says "dada" not as part of a string of completely random sounds... wonderful. When your child laughs at you for doing something only they would laugh at... wonderful. As I said, it's not always wonderful. Waking up four times a night... not wonderful. Standing in a stress position...2022-09-2335 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest Assassin's Creed game that isn't an Assassin's Creed game and you can't pick Ghost Of TsushimaIt's not common knowledge, but international mega star, Beyoncé, is a huge Assassin's Creed fan. I'm quite surprised more hasn't been made about this, given her influence, but now you know. Her 2006 stratospheric chart topper, Irreplaceable, was at one point all about Assassin's Creed - a game she played an early build of and loved so much she simply had to pen a song about it, even before it hit stores. The song, which went on to the biggest tune of 2007 in the US, originally talked about how the star loved Assassin's Creed so much that it c...2022-09-1632 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest game that uses that FMV that was all the rage in the '90sGames who ape films Who like films to be games Who make films like they're games Who make games like they're films Always should be something you really love You couldn't go anywhere in 1994 without Blur's classic, Games and Films, wriggling through the airwaves and into your ears. No other song captured the mood of the era better. Video games were rising, but wanted to get the credibility of films, while films were looking at the growing success of games and wondering if they should be keeping an eye on them. Games with bits of movies in...2022-09-0932 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest game with a wedding in itI’ll come clean. I’m writing this well in advance of publication as I’m going on holiday. I usually spend literal minutes coming up with a brilliant way to segue into the topic of the week’s podcast. It is often very brilliant and hilarious. The relationship between me and the podcast article is complicated. It’s not easy. It requires work for it to be the best it can be. You can’t just turn up and hope to have a great podcast article without trying your hardest. Sometimes I even hold a little cer...2022-09-0229 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest game you’d fire into space to prove the Earth isn’t worth savingIn my final year of Primary School the whole of Year 6 worked together to create a time capsule. This was nothing new, I’m sure. No doubt that school field is now almost impossible to navigate with stepping on precious artifacts of a bygone era. But, the point is, we were attempting to put together a package that one day would be looked at by future children (probably with hover boots, and hover cars, and hover food, and hover dogs), so they could appreciate the wonderful world we lived in. My memory is a little hazy about th...2022-08-2637 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest game that was called a clone of another gameMy daughter has a favourite toy. It's a Squishmallow called Serene. Serene is a round-ish turquoise squirrel. If you're not into soft toys, you may not know how popular Squishmallows are, but to give you an idea... the last time I was in the local toy shop, every one of the four people in the queue to pay had hold of a Squishmallow. But the popularity of Squishmallows isn’t the point of this little story. Serene goes everywhere with my daughter and is her best friend - as much as a wannabe toddler can ha...2022-08-1935 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest game that you hated for a very specific reasonWe can't help it when something rubs us the wrong way. Disclaimer: For legal reasons some of the names of the people involved in this story have been altered. ”Steve,” exclaimed the supply teacher, Miss Personality Vacuum. ”Yes, Miss,” replied Steve. ”Frank.” ”Here, Miss,” replied Frank. ”George.” ”Yes, Miss,” replied George. ”Stacey.” ”Yes, Miss, here” replied Stacey. ”Dickhead,” continued Miss Personality Vacuum. There was silence, only broken by the slight sound of heads turning and necks rubbing against shirt collars. ”Dickhead,” Miss Per...2022-08-1241 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest game that you were ridiculously hyped for as a teenTeenage independence brought with it the chance to shape our own gaming futures. Goodbye England's rose May you ever grow in our hearts You were the grace that placed itself Where lives were torn apart You called out to our country And you whispered to those in pain Now you belong to heaven And the stars spell out your name As the news of Diana’s death forced itself into the homes of everyone in Great Britain, royalist tears flooding the carpets and dampening the underside of sofas, some people had other things on...2022-08-0531 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest game that is really badWe all love things we shouldn't love. Video games are no different. ”I can’t believe you!” she screamed, having caught him in the act. She’d left work to surprise him. A lovely little act of kindness on what would have otherwise been a completely ordinary day. Just another feature-less weekday blended in with all the rest – the palatable home-made protein smoothie of life. A posh afternoon tea from the local fancy-for-the-area cafe that sits on the park. Sandwiches with pickle that isn’t Branston’s. Cheese that isn’t 40% lighte...2022-07-2940 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 9 - Best Game With Balls That Isn’t a Sports GameWhen this topic was decided, we overestimated our ability to ignore the obvious crude options. This was the moment. Time to be a hero, to go down as a legend, forever remembered in the history books as the person who took the team into the final. He stepped up to the penalty spot, placed the ball and shuffled back. The goalkeeper looked nervous, but then so was the penalty taker. It was a cold afternoon, but inside this arena (a field), things had reached boiling point. Thoughts fla...2022-07-2231 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 8 - Best Game that Journos Love But Most People Think Is A Bit NaffLook, we know this is pushing the term "most," but just go with it. It was February, 1996. A coke-filled, overweight 13-year-old me was reading about CES in issue 148 of CVG and salivating over the ultra-positive review of Sonic 3. CVG gave out some high scores, but a 94 was pretty exciting for a SEGA boy like me. What a life I’d have as a games journalist, I thought to myself. Not high on drugs, just full of the hope only a child can possess. I would make this dream a reality and live like a king, never having to...2022-07-1541 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 7 - Best Game You wanted As A Child But Never GotIt's hard being a kid. There are so many games but rarely do you have the cash to get them all. It was 4:45 pm on Tuesday. The moon was visible in the blue sky, motionless and distant but looming large. Like an egg in the ocean, that you happened to be viewing through some binoculars you accidentally had the wrong way round. This, I thought, was the world manifesting my brain’s turmoil. My noggin had stopped working and the spectre of the impending deadline was high in my mind. What is a person to do when ta...2022-07-0834 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 6 - Best Game Someone Not In The Know Would Think you Made UpVideo games can be ridiculous, but which ones would the average Joe think you'd completely made up? Someone please save me from writing something here every week. Is there a not an AI capable of doing this, albeit without my amazing sense of humour? We’ve got games that let you explore procedurally generated worlds! Someone procedurally generate some words for me! On that happy note, the VG247 The Best Games Ever Podcast returns, with episode 6. This week I was concerned that we’d be unable to put ourselves in the shoes of the average plebeian, what with...2022-07-0131 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 5 - Best Game You Got For An Odd ReasonSometimes we seek out games. Other times they seek out us. It's another brilliant VG247 podcast. Hello again I won’t lie. As I attempt to write some general blurb about this podcast for the fifth time and not make it the dullest thing imaginable, I’m struggling. But hey, ho, the VG247 The Best Games Ever Podcast returns, with episode 5. This week I worried we’d end up talking about how Steve from over the road lent a copy of Advance Wars on the GBA, but instead we soon became a blip on the radar of the lo...2022-06-2431 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 4 - Best Game With a PubHello again listeners. It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole week since I rewrote the last one of these, but the calendar does not lie. The VG247 The Best Games Ever Podcast returns, with episode 4. This week we’re talking about the most British of things: pubs. And by “talking” I mean, arguing about the best game with a pub. Are the games good, and what makes for a good pub? That and more will be conveyed to you by the medium of talking people in this podcast. “What is VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast?”...2022-06-1734 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 3 - Best Game With a Mini Game Better Than The Main GameThis one is going to cause some arguments. What defines a mini-game? The VG247 The Best Games Ever Podcast returns once more, with episode 3. This week we’re arguing (quite a lot, actually) over the best game with a mini-game better than the main game. This brought up some good choices, but also posed the eternal question: what defines a mini-game? Have a listen to see if you agree. “What is VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast?” you ask, with the child-like glee usually reserved for when you find some money down the back of the sofa...2022-06-0931 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastEpisode 2 - Best Game That Nobody Cares AboutCan you think of a great game that everyone seemed to ignore? We came up with three. The VG247 The Best Games Ever Podcast is back with episode 2, following the tradition of going after episode 1. This week we’re fighting over the best game that nobody cares about. Hmm, tricky one, that. Have a listen to see if you agree with our choices and which game was victorious. “What is VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast?” you ask, with the child-like glee usually reserved for when you see a new limited edition flavour Coke or a Transf...2022-06-0337 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastBest Game With a Named HorseFor quite some time we’ve wanted to produce a podcast on VG247, but for assorted reasons nothing ever got off the ground. That has now changed. VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast is here. “What is this new podcast?” you ask, with the child-like glee usually reserved for when you spot a new type of M&M or an ice cream version of a favourite childhood sweet. Well, it’s quite simple, really. Each week three of us must present our choice for the best game ever that meets certain criteria. Then our host/judge, Jim Trin...2022-05-2736 min
The Best Games Ever PodcastThe Best Games Ever Podcast JingleVG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast First Episode will launch Friday, May 27, 2 PM BST. Here's our brilliant intro jingle to set the tone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-05-2301 min
Unfiltered Imposed OpinionsTop 50 RPGs from VG247In this episode we talk about the Top 10 RPGs from a list created by VG247.com2022-05-141h 13
Splash DamageEpisode 70: VG247 Thinks Ghostwire: Tokyo is More “Authentic” Than Ghost of TsushimaAlan Wen of VG247 says Ghostwire: Tokyo is more authentic than Ghost of Tsushima or Sifu because Ghostwire was created by Japanese developers. We discuss this racist implications of this thought process along with Sam Maggs continuing to embarrass herself and the video game industry at large by taking credit for creations she had little to do with; Anita Sarkeesian trying to remain relevant a decade later; and, by their own admission, Disney’s queer agenda. Oh, and E3 is dead, in case you didn’t hear.2022-04-0200 minSplash DamageEpisode 11: VG247 Libels Gamers as Alt-Right Over Halo 3: ODST OpinionsWhen 343 Industries unveiled it would remove the police siren nameplate from Halo 3: ODST, some fans expressed distaste, and VG247 decided to label them as alt-right. We discuss the many ways VG247 got this “story” wrong along with news about Kinda Funny rejecting Trump-supporting fans, Ubisoft making everything about gender, Brianna Wu being her hilarious self, what Microsoft buying Bethesda means for the future of games, the latest next-gen news, white voice actors leaving black roles, and diversity quotes in fiction.2020-09-2600 min
Weapon Wheel Podcast NetworkVG247 Uncharted Lies | EA Against Remasters | PS4 & X1 Current Status - Weapon Wheel Podcast 10VG247 Uncharted Lies | EA Against Remasters | PS4 & X1 Current Status - Weapon Wheel Podcast 102015-10-182h 00