Gaming's Biggest Reevaluations, Fable, Cairn Review

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Leisure, Games, Video Games

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 160 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, Jeff Marchiafava, and Jacob Geller rave about the new mountain-climbing game Cairn before diving into Cyberpunk 2077 and the history of reevaluating games years after they released. After that we have a fun discussion about whether Playground's Fable launching later this year can compare to the original game, defend Highguard, and JeffM gets weird talking about trading babies. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:47 - Cairn

00:24:02 - Huel

00:25:57 - Cyberpunk 2077

00:35:10 - Gaming's biggest reevaluations

01:15:06 - Fable (2004)

01:20:27 - Fable (2026)

01:28:07 - Highguard

01:36:10 - Perfect Tides

01:39:59 - Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator

01:47:16 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com

01:51:10 - Community questions

02:29:40 - Get A Load Of This

Haley’s GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/train-dreams-release-date-cast-plot-news

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/e21xqc/til_that_sega_is_short_for_service_games/

JeffM's GALOT - https://youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of The Midnag Show,
0:23.6	Place About Games, Friends are Getting Better.
0:25.5	I'm Ben Hansen.
0:26.3	Thank you for being here.
0:27.3	I'm joined by Haley McLean.
0:30.1	Hi, everyone.
0:31.4	Creepy.
0:32.7	I can't tell.
0:33.4	Joined by Jeff Barkiafava.
0:35.7	I think it was supposed to be cute.
0:37.2	It was cute. Well, I, the Beholder, were also joined by the creepiafava. I think it was supposed to be cute.
0:54.3	It was cute. I, the Beholder, we're also joined by the creepster, Jacob Keller. Aye, everyone. You're doing Jacob dirty at the end there, call him the creepster. He didn't even do anything. What are you going to do? Hey, welcome to this episode, everybody. We have a lot to cover on this year episode of the Mid-Max show. We we're talking about cairn the rock climbing game that i think we've talked about before uh it was delayed from the end of last year
1:00.4	uh jacob for particularly has really been looking forward to it for a while i feel like he played a demo
1:03.9	felt like six years ago it demo came out maybe even in december of 2024 or something that's right yeah so we're finally going to unpack that, excited to talk about it. And then when Haley, the creepster herself, she's been playing cyberpunk 277. And so that's going to, of course, segue into a conversation about, help me name this. Like, gaming's biggest re-evaluations is what I want to call it.
1:29.0	But I'm like, that word sucks.
1:30.5	Gaming's biggest.
1:32.2	It's just us, right?
1:34.2	Gamous thickest turnaround shenanigans.
1:36.4	Haley played cyberpunk, okay?
1:38.8	Just be honest.
1:40.5	I tried this game and I didn't like it.
1:43.5	And then I tried this game and I did like it.
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