Hijack a Host: Ace Gets Lost in Control – Gaming Podcast

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Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan and Ace are back, but this week the community has spoken—and they’ve forced Ace to dive headfirst into the paranormal madness of Control for a special Hijack a Host episode! Is Remedy’s reality-bending masterpiece the kind of gaming experience that convert skeptics, or will Ace’s sanity unravel faster than the walls of the Oldest House? We’re breaking down everything from telekinetic combat to those unsettling SCP-style mysteries that make this one of the most unforgettable video games of the last decade. If you love video games that twist your brain, bend the rules and push storytelling in gaming to wild new places, this episode is absolutely for you. Don’t miss this mind-bending, community-powered showdown on the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf, Phelps and NorwegianGreaser Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, PeopleWonder and Bobby S. Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/vgp Follow us on Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/⁠ Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠ Subscribe to us on YouTube:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast.
0:16.7	There's been a hijacking.
0:19.4	And just in case you weren't aware, Ace got forced to play
0:24.0	control. He's played it. He's beaten it. And now it's time to find out what he thought
0:30.1	about the iconic sci-fi action adventure shooter. Is it as weird as people make it sound?
0:35.9	Does it hold up after six years?
0:38.2	Did Ryan and I play it too?
0:39.8	Like we certainly intended to, but probably didn't because Ark Raiders is still really fun.
0:44.4	And we didn't have to play it because we weren't forced to.
0:47.0	And everybody knows we probably weren't going to play it,
0:49.7	even though we said we were going to play it just a little bit.
0:53.5	But enough about our poor gaming habits
0:55.4	because some introductions are in order.
0:58.3	I am your host Josh.
1:00.6	And joining me,
1:02.2	he's the other host who 100% definitely
1:05.7	without a shadow of the doubt
1:07.4	wasn't going to play control,
1:09.6	even if he had the best intentions.
1:12.5	It's Ryan.
1:14.6	I will neither confirm nor deny if I booted it up and then did not play.
1:20.6	So I remained, I plead the fifth.
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