229: Game of the Year 2025, Part 1

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🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

For our final two podcasts of 2025, we're getting together to lay out and discuss our personal top 10 lists. This week we reflect a bit on the state of games over the past year before running through numbers 10 through 5 on our lists. Hope you're having a happy holiday!

CHAPTERS

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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:11:15) Number 10 [Brad]
(00:17:34) Number 10 [Vinny]
(00:24:01) Number 10 [Alex]
(00:28:27) Number 09 [Brad]
(00:30:58) Number 09 [Vinny]
(00:31:42) Number 09 [Alex]
(00:36:28) Number 08 [Brad]
(00:46:32) First Break
(00:46:37) Number 08 [Vinny]
(00:47:57) Number 08 [Alex]
(00:49:44) Number 07 [Brad]
(00:50:24) Number 07 [Alex]
(01:06:38) Number 07 [Vinny]
(01:07:14) Number 06 [Brad]
(01:16:14) Number 06 [Vinny]
(01:22:26) Second Break
(01:22:30) Number 06 [Alex]
(01:26:29) Number 05 [Brad]
(01:37:25) Number 05 [Vinny]
(01:37:48) Number 05 [Alex]
(01:46:43) Brad numbers 10 through 05 recap
(01:47:05) Vinny's Number 10 through 05 recap
(01:47:23) Alex's Number 10 through 05 recap
(01:47:38) Wrapping up
(01:49:35) See Ya!
(01:49:48) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to another game of the year.
0:13.8	This time, 2025 here for Nextlander.
0:18.0	Hello, Alex Navarro.
0:19.6	Hello, Vinnie Caravella.
0:21.5	We are doing this again.
0:24.4	Here we are, Brad Shoemaker, once again, into the breach.
0:27.7	2025 is an impossible number.
0:30.2	It doesn't exist.
0:32.4	It is funny.
0:32.9	Well, it won't exist in about two weeks.
0:34.9	It does seem a little apropos to be 20 to 25 because you guys are fairly close to that
0:42.6	being the number of games of the years that you have done.
0:45.4	Not quite.
0:46.2	Brad, you're probably a little closer than Alex.
0:47.8	Alex, you're a little closer than I.
0:49.8	But it is getting close.
0:51.5	I'm probably on a little over 20 or 20--ish, maybe, maybe actually 18 or 19.
0:57.5	19.
0:58.2	Yeah.
0:58.6	I think.
0:59.1	And what are you at, Brad, for how many times you have ranked a game officially, officially in Prince?
1:03.9	Are we counting game spot?
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