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What Even Is a Video Game?! (Grab Bag!) (Patreon)

Published:
2025-11-07 08:00:00
Edited:
2025-11-07 08:20:50
Imported:
2025-11

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This week, we talk about a mystery game that feels like a book, a historic epic that plays like a movie, and a simulator that takes the place of our favorite chores. No surprise, The Besties find themselves wondering what a video game even is.

Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!

Comments

Ryan

“I don’t want to be on your team for this one” 🤣

BucklingSwashes

Still playing a lot of Hades II, and I think I'm nearing the "true ending". As with the first game, I think I'll take a few months away after that in order to just let it sit with me for a while before jumping back in to start tackling some of the game's more intense challenges. That said, I've put about 80 hours into this fresh save since 1.0 released, and as with the first game, I continue to be surprised at the sheer breadth and depth of the writing. Just had a huge revelation about one of the main characters last night that I can't believe I didn't see coming, and I've still yet to see any repeated dialogue in my numerous encounters with various friends, enemies, and gods. I really want to shout out the ways in which this sequel improves the player experience as well. You eventually gain ways to not only track resources that you're looking for on a run, but even specific boons required to earn powerful duo or legendary ones. It really improves the overall player experience, and adds a greater degree of agency to each run without forcing you to constantly check and double check lists of boons or recipes. It makes me wish that more roguelikes and survivor-likes would adopt similar systems.