Microsoft Buys Bethesda, Next-Gen Chaos, Hades
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4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez are joined by YouTube essay extraordinaire Jacob Geller to talk about his upcoming charity stream and the wild news that Bethesda has been fully purchased by Microsoft. We also wade through the pre-order and exclusivity confusion surrounding the PlayStation and Xbox Series X. Then we're joined by the great Mary Kish from Twitch to rave about Hades with our review of Supergiant's new game and answer community questions submitted on Patreon alongside Ana Diaz! You can win a prize from iam8bit and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and leaving a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:19 - Jacob Geller's charity drive
00:04:46 - Microsoft buys Bethesda
00:35:32 - Pre-order mayhem
00:42:33 - Demon's Souls
00:44:36 - Final Fantasy XVI
00:50:47 - God of War "Ragnarok"
00:56:01 - Welcoming Mary Kish
01:00:11 - Hades
01:16:28 - Super Mario 3D All-Stars
01:20:44 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters
01:23:15 - Thanking iam8bit
01:25:37 - Community questions
02:09:45 - Get A Load Of This
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | James Geller. |
| 0:30.0 | J |
| 0:25.0 | James friends are getting better. I'm Ben Hanson. Jeff Mark Yefava. |
| 0:28.0 | Hey, and Jacob Geller. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello. |
| 0:31.0 | Friend of the show returning champion. Welcome how have you been man I've been |
| 0:36.3 | you know objectively fine is what a friend of the show Griffin Newman says which is like the world's on fire but I'm doing okay. |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah you are well known for your essays on YouTube they continue to just dominate the |
| 0:51.8 | YouTube sales charts the YouTube sales charts, the YouTube Times, New York Times |
| 0:56.4 | bestseller list of YouTube videos, always at the top. You have new videos |
| 1:01.0 | about cities without people, which is Microsoft Flight Simulator. |
| 1:05.8 | It's a flight simulator video that turns into a discussion of how we will be living in the future and how maybe the perfect world of |
| 1:16.0 | Microsoft Flight Simulator will get more and more different from our own as time goes on. |
| 1:22.3 | So it's kind of heavy, but also, you know, it's just look at |
| 1:28.0 | Microsoft Flight Simulator for a while. Put that video on as a screen saver. It's a beautiful game. Yeah, it's a strangely heavy game in and of itself |
| 1:37.6 | But we're not going to talk about Microsoft Flight Simulator for the full episode because we have a lot to cover on this episode. |
| 1:44.4 | We have a bizarre surreal experience |
| 1:48.8 | to talk about in the industry here, |
| 1:50.2 | where Microsoft purchased Bethesda. |
| 1:51.9 | We'll talk about what that means |
| 1:53.3 | for everything under the sun. |
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