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BRICK WALL | What's the best game with the WORST difficulty spike? The Best Games Ever Show Episode 49
Everyone has their own traumatic memory of a really Annoying Bit.
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GLUE ARE THE WEAPON | Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom still has weapon degradation, but you won’t care
Swords don't matter any more: this is an engine of chaos.
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POO BRITTANIA | What's the best game set on a horrible island? The Best Games Ever Show Episode 48
The clever subtext here is that the definitive horrible island is Great Britain, hope that helps.
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GRID CIRCULAR | Tron: Identity is the perfect Disney universe for Bithell Games to play around in
A surprising culmination of everything the studio has been building towards since Thomas Was Alone.
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THE NUMBERS, MASON | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.47: An Audit of Current Winners and Losers
Who on our panel has taken the most wins? Let's find out.
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TONY BLEURGH | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.46: The best game that features a 90s star
It was the best decade between the 80s and the 2000s.
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WHAT THE 'ELL | The Last of Us on PC is a cruel joke of a port that should not have been released
Bafflingly choppy performance on high-end systems and incessant crashing: why did they bother?
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STARTER FOR TEN | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.45: The best game that's rubbish after ten hours
Some games are incredibly front-loaded, but which has the best, er, front?
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CASH HAEMO ROYALE | Vampire Survivors absolutely deserved to win Best Game at the BAFTAs
It achieves more with a handful of sprites and some clever psychology than most AAAs do with infinite budgets.
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IF IT AIN’T BROKE | The Witcher 3 Next Gen Update: three months on, I’m still not convinced
CDPR is future-proofing its flagship games, but at a cost to today’s players.
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BAD CHOICE EDITION | The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is, for now, an expensive downgrade
Questionable visual changes and abysmal performance mean this remaster should head back to spacedock for a refit.
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FAKING IT | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.44: The best game where you'd swap places with the main character
Surviving most video games would be hell, but some of them let you just chill out on a beach.
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SKYRIM’S DAD | Oblivion: Somehow, 17 years have passed since The Elder Scrolls went mainstream and changed gaming forever
From Fallout to The Witcher, Oblivion paved the way for console-friendly RPGs to become the dominant force they are today.
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GET TO THE POINT | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.43: The best game that takes ten or more hours to get good
A sewage pipe that leads to an ocean.
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SELF DOUBT | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.42: The best game you could complete as your real self
Could you be... a plumber?
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ALIEN MAGIC | Starfield’s latest tease shows that Bethesda is embracing its fantasy roots
On the one hand, their space bound epic depicts a realistic sci-fi future. On the other, it’s got a big swirly thing in it.
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UNFORGIVABLE | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.41: The best game that you can't forgive
When a video game annoys you for the last time, the grudge stays with you forever.
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FANTASY PREDICTION | With Baldur’s Gate 3 heading to PS5, could it be a bigger deal than Starfield?
Larian’s most high-profile project to date could be its Witcher 3 moment.
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FALSE DESTINY | Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League shows how shareholder culture is killing AAA
By wasting Rocksteady’s pedigree and talent on live service guff, the quest to fatten dividends may have robbed us of a good Arkham follow-up.
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GOTHAM PLIGHT | Never mind the Arkhamverse, the only good Batman game is Assassin's Creed 2
Suicide Squad’s descent into live-service hell only accelerates an inevitable process of diminishing returns.
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GROW UP | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.40: The best game with the most juvenile feature
The average video game enjoyer is in their mid-thirties, but you wouldn't know it from playing one.
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AGHAST BOOT | Your next Indie obsession drops in a few weeks, and it ain't on Game Pass
Visit a beautiful island archipelago where everyone is terrified of what happens next (not Britain)
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MOTION SLICKNESS | Is PS VR2 the last time we'll get a Mario 64 moment?
Gaming tech hasn't seen a revolution for a long time, but Sony's latest hardware could be one.
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CRUEL MARKET | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.39: The best game that completely flopped
Being the best is no guarantee of success. Just ask my bank manager.
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ELDER MAGIC | Oblivion's connection to Discworld is a legacy worth celebrating
From The Elder Scrolls to Tomb Raider, Terry Pratchett had a profound influence on the world of video games.
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PIVOT | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.38: The best game you'd never believe was from that developer
Sometimes a game developer just goes off-piste, and the results are wonderful.
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NOT LIVE OR KICKING | Why are all the games dying? The Thursday Nite Rant
From Apex Legends Mobile to Knockout City, dozens of live service games are being killed off.
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LICENCE TO ILL | Goldeneye on Xbox Game Pass is a bitter disappointment
Compared to the abandoned 360 remaster, this re-release is a painful reminder of what could have been.
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FRIENDS LIKE THESE | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.37: The best game with followers you would never hang out with IRL
NPCs are annoying, needy, and dumb. But unlike your kids, you don't need to like them.
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SPRUCED UP | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.36: The best game that really needs a remake
Games tend to age badly, and sometimes that's a tragedy.
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IDIOT BOX | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.35: The best game that shouldn't be made into a TV show
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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FREAK KINGDOMS | Wo Long Fallen Dynasty is a Souls-like that gives you a helping hand
Dark Souls too lonely? Elden Ring too daunting? Game Pass has got your back. Kinda.
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GIRTH OF THE WILD | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.34: The best game that suffers from bloating
Whether it's mince pies or side-quests, you can always have too much of a good thing.
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THE FATHER OF MAGIC | The best time to make a new Discworld game was 10 years ago – the second best time is now
Britain’s best fantasy author is criminally overshadowed by its worst. But video games have the power to redress the balance.
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CRUNCH BREAK | The Callisto Protocol proves that crunch is dumb and doesn't work - The Thursday Nite Rant
Middling scores, poor user reviews, and myriad technical issues: did those 15 hour days really pay off?
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NOSTRADUMBASS | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.32: The best game of 2023
Can our panellists predict the future? No, obviously.
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MISTLETOE AND WHINE | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.31: The best game that reminds you of Christmas
Special guests from across the games media join us in the spirit of togetherness.
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FORMAT C: | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.30: The best game that made you uninstall
Why would you uninstall the best game ever?
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THE PAST OF US | 2022 Games of the Year: Pentiment, and Jim’s other picks
A time-machine fuelled by the power of art, a comic book epic about sharing your feelings, and one of the most inventive RPGs we’ve seen in decades.
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LIGHT TOUCH | The Witcher 3 Next-Gen Upgrade: Should I Choose Raytracing or Performance?
It's a long-awaited upgrade, but now console players are faced with a stark choice.
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SMALL TURN | People in small apartments deserve better driving games: Thrustmaster T128 review
A sim-wheel that’s unapologetically designed for cluttered desks.
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IDLE CHATTER | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.29: The best game where you don't do much
Sometimes you just want to do nothing and get rewarded.
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JOYSTICK NOEL | Gaming gift guide: The best Christmas gifts for gamers that aren’t video games
Stuck for what to buy your gamer kids for Christmas in 2022? Need to get a present for your nerd spouse? We’ve got you covered.
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DEJA VU | Synced: Off Planet is another live service shooter set in an apocalyptic future
If you like that sort of thing, 2023 is your year, it seems.
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NEED FOR EXPOSURE | NFS Unbound is great, why didn't EA tell anyone? The Thursday Nite Rant
Need For Speed has finally found its identity, but the publisher almost seems ashamed of it.
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LAST MINUTE HEROICS | Midnight Suns is a surprise late contender for Game of the Year
Firaxis finally gives us an Iron Man Mode we can all enjoy.
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MARVEL MASHUP | Marvel's Midnight Suns review: Firaxis assembles its most joyful game to date
The feelgood game of the year is a strange, stark contrast to XCOM.
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GERALT OF NVIDIA | The Witcher 3 is getting a next-gen upgrade, but does it need one?
The original still holds up remarkably well, but there’s always room for improvement.
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ALTAÏR WE GO | 15 years of Assassin’s Creed: Why there’s never been a better time to replay the first game
The game that changed everything.
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REQUIESCAT GAME PASS | Pentiment shows the true value of Game Pass
Games with niche appeal but of huge cultural value benefit from the subscription model.