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BRB UK Podcast

BRB UK 563: We’re at EGX 2023

BRB UK Podcast

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Games & Hobbies, Pc, Video Games, Big Red Barrel, Tim Hibbs, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series S, Chris Coleman, Podcast, Xbox Series X, Playstation 5, Brb Uk, Steam Deck, Dan Gibbons, Sguk

4.7533 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

It's the second EGX since the UK tried to return to some kind of normal… so how was it?

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0:00.0

BRB UK Worst teeth, better accents.

0:07.0

Hello and welcome to episode 563 of BRB UK.

0:18.0

And it is a special episode.

0:20.0

It is yet another early episode because one, we have no Dan.

0:24.8

And two, we have the man called Rick. And we also have Tim. I should probably say, I'm playing a thumb

0:31.0

up for audio listeners, shouldn't I? Yes. The reason for such, the reason for such disarray in this week's episode of you getting an early episode and a shake-up of hosts, that would be because we have been to EGX over the Excel Centre in Londonian town, where a fun time was had by all.

0:53.1

Sometimes because of video games, sometimes because of the friends

0:56.1

we made along the way.

0:57.9

And today, we're going to talk about some of those games, not so much the friends.

1:02.6

But gentlemen, before we start, we'll start with you, Tim.

1:06.8

How did you find this year's EGX over at the Excel?

1:11.6

It was okay, I think, is the overall sort of take away from it.

1:15.6

I didn't think it was massively impressive in terms of size.

1:19.6

It does seem to be a bit sparser than it was last year, and last year was a bit sparser than it was before, you know, the pre-lockdown shows kind of thing,

1:29.2

in comparison to the pre-lockdown shows.

1:31.2

There was a fair bit there, but it felt like it still had a bit missing.

1:37.0

And I spoke to a couple of other people that said that the atmosphere at WASD was comparatively

1:42.5

nicer, even though it was on a slightly smaller scale.

1:46.8

It feels like WASD's on the way up and EGX is waning a little bit.

1:51.5

I'm hopeful that both can actually grow in future years, but with the absence of major

1:59.5

platform holders being namely Xbox and PlayStation,

2:03.6

and with a little slightly lackluster appearance from Nintendo, because they only had the one game they were showing there,

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