Mafia: The Old Country Review, Merge Maestro, Huber Returns
The MinnMax Show
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4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 133 minutes
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, and Jeff Marchiafava are joined by Michael Huber from Easy Allies to walk through our full review thoughts on Mafia: The Old Country from 2K and Hangar 13, Battlefield 6's successful open beta, JeffM's new Balatro-like obsession with Merge Maestro, and more! 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
00:02:14 - Mafia: The Old Country
00:30:34 - Battlefield 6
00:42:54 - Merge Maestro
00:51:17 - Drop Duchy
00:54:14 -Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game
01:02:50 - Is This Seat Taken
01:09:50 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/
01:12:52 - Community Questions
01:56:06 - Get A Load Of This
JeffM’s GALOT - https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises
Huber's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQ94x2TPOI
Hanson's GALOT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-grazing_fireball
Haley's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0N1w5koxHE
Community GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSOievYWhBU
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of the MinMAC Show, Place About Games, Friends, and Getting Better. |
| 0:25.9 | My name is Ben Hansen, joined by one Haley McLean. |
| 0:29.3 | Hi, gamers. |
| 0:30.2 | Hi, gamers. |
| 0:31.2 | And the gamers are going to hear from one Jeff Marcia Fava. |
| 0:35.0 | That's me. |
| 0:36.1 | And we're very fortunate to be joined once more by Easy Allies' own Michael Huber. Oh, hello, hello. Thank you for having me so much. Oh, my gosh. Honor to have you. Honor to have you. How are you feeling? Great. Excited to talk about these games today. I am also excited to talk about these games because we're going to be talking about Mafia, the old country. And when you're playing a new Mafia game and you have those feelings of like, okay, it's a prequel, how does this compare to the other ones? Who connects to what? If only there is some master of the mafia here, I'm not talking about Jeff Markia Fava's freaking family. I'm talking about Michael Huber, a fan of the series here. We got the best of the best. |
| 0:54.6 | Then we're going to talk a little bit mafia here. I'm not talking about Jeff Markyafo's freaking family. I'm talking about Michael |
| 1:10.8 | Huber, a fan of the series here. We got the best of the best. Then we're going to talk a little bit about Battlefield 6. Huber and I played it at the event. Haley dove into the open beta. Jeffem and others. We're going to talk about Merge Maestro. Jeff, what type of game is Merge Meestro? I don't know anything about this game. |
| 1:08.1 | What is this game? |
| 1:08.5 | It's a rogue-like baby. |
| 1:10.1 | Oh, of course. |
| 1:11.2 | Oh. Meestro. Jeff, what type of game is Borge Meestro? I don't know anything about this game. |
| 1:27.9 | What is this game? |
| 1:28.4 | It's a roguelike baby. |
| 1:30.0 | Oh, of course. We're going to be to my ears. And I didn't, I didn't volunteer it this time. It is true. Anson brought it up. That's true. We have a journey to go on with that game. Doesn't count against my quota. That's right. |
| 1:24.5 | Is this seat taken? |
| 1:25.7 | We're going to be talking about. |
| 1:27.0 | And Haley, do you want to talk about, of course, the iconic game called Tales of against my quota. That's right. Is this seat taken? We're going to be talking about. |
| 1:48.8 | And Haley, do you want to talk about, of course, the iconic game called Tales of the Shire, |
| 1:52.7 | colon A, the Lord of the Rings TM game? |
| 1:55.3 | They got to stick the TM in there. |
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