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The Nextlander Podcast

131: Game of the Year 2023, Part 2

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 255 minutes

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Summary

It's our last podcast of 2023, and thus our last chance to celebrate many of our favs with some chill 'n friendly debate about categories like best storytelling, best remake, and most anticipated, plus our highly personalized list of top 10 games of the year!

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CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:00) Spoiler Warning
(00:00:49) Intro
(00:03:42) Best Storytelling
(00:05:20) Sons of the Forest [PC (Microsoft Windows)] on Feb 23, 2023
(00:07:28) El Paso, Elsewhere [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Sep 26, 2023
(00:11:30) Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Nov 09, 2023
(00:14:10) Mortal Kombat 1 [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] on Sep 19, 2023
(00:19:17) Final Fantasy XVI [PlayStation 5] on Jun 22, 2023
(00:21:21) Fort Solis [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] on Aug 22, 2023
(00:23:05) Oxenfree II: Lost Signals [Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5] on Jul 12, 2023
(00:24:59) Marvel's Spider-Man 2 [PlayStation 5] on Oct 20, 2023
(00:30:30) Golden Idol Mysteries: The Lemurian Vampire [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch] on Aug 31, 2023
(00:31:48) Breakout 13 [PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac] on Jan 09, 2023
(00:32:55) Star Wars Jedi: Survivor [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] on Apr 28, 2023
(00:35:43) The Making of Karateka [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch] on Aug 29, 2023
(00:42:27) Venba [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One] on Jul 31, 2023
(00:45:16) Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores [PlayStation 5] on Apr 19, 2023
(00:48:03) Baldur's Gate 3 [PC (Microsoft Windows)] on Aug 03, 2023
(00:54:12) Deliver Us Mars [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5] on Feb 02, 2023
(00:55:59) Dredge [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Mar 30, 2023
(00:57:04) Chants of Sennaar [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] on Sep 05, 2023
(00:58:24) Thirsty Suitors [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Nov 02, 2023
(01:03:06) Alan Wake II [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] on Oct 27, 2023
(01:08:43) Ok, mostly ordering at this point the games at this point.
(01:20:16) Alex's Best Surprise
(01:38:06) Best Remake / Remaster
(02:05:22) Brad's Hard Game Club
(02:23:45) Game We Wish We Could Play Right Now!
(02:50:01) Top Ten Games of the Year
(04:09:55) The Big Recap (for those that just want to hear all the winners)
(04:11:30) Wrapping up and thanks
(04:13:21) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get started you know the drill this is our game of the year content it is going to be full of

0:05.6

spoilers especially in this part two where we are going to be talking about the

0:11.1

narrative and stories from a bunch of games. I have tried to mark out the

0:16.2

specific games we're talking about during the story category, so if you want to try and use those to navigate that if there's a game you haven't finished yet or you're looking to try to avoid as many

0:28.6

spoilers as possible well be warned second of, you can try and use it.

0:33.3

No guarantees they're perfect.

0:35.4

Prepare!

0:36.2

Here we go.

0:37.1

Game of the Year to part two of the world's finest game of the

0:55.2

the year broadcast I'm Vinny Caravella joined by Brad Shoemaker. Hi hello

1:00.3

breeding and Alex Navarro. World's Greatest Greatest Game of the Year.

1:05.0

That's right.

1:06.0

Only here at Nextlander, this is the canonical list.

1:10.0

All other lists sometimes that come out before us to try and get ahead of our of our freight train coming through I under I understand it

1:17.6

I get why you'd want it because once we name our top 10 why even bother Once we haven't even finished this thing yet and I am already ready to declare this the game of the year of the year.

1:30.4

That's right. It's the best game of the year. If you're joining us a couple of things,

1:34.8

housekeeping notes here. There's probably a big spoiler warning like I put on the first part at the beginning of this

1:39.8

but for this one for Shoresi we're going into the best story on today's.

1:45.6

And that's gonna have the six spoilers.

1:48.8

So you're gonna wanna watch out for that one

1:51.2

if you all of them.

1:52.2

If you played video games in 2023 so heads up

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