New Pokémon Legends, Pacific Drive, State Of The Industry
The MinnMax Show
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 165 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Haley MacLean, Leo Vader, and Jeff Marchiafava to talk about Pacific Drive, Penny's Big Breakaway, and somehow rave even more about Balatro. Oh, we also squeeze in some Age of Empires talk before Sarah Podzorski joins the show to talk about Bandle Tale and League of Legends. Then Blake Hester jumps in to talk about being laid off from Game Informer and his current thoughts on the game industry landscape. 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 leaving a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:10 - Pacific Drive
00:17:48 - Balatro
00:31:02 - Penny's Big Breakaway
00:43:41 - Age of Mythology Retold
00:52:41 - Pokémon Presents
00:56:59 - Pokémon Legends: Z-A
01:04:03 - Bandle Tale
01:12:24 - Blake Hester on being let go from Game Informer
01:23:31 - Yakuza: Like A Dragon
01:31:42 - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
01:33:44 - Polaroid Pete
01:38:07 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters
01:40:17 - Community questions
01:56:45 - Layoffs and the state of the game industry
02:05:54 - More community questions
02:28:09 - Get A Load Of This
Leo’s GALOT - https://youtu.be/2N8kqc-bf9o?si=CZ08569xpGAMueZP&t=352
Blake's GALOT - https://open.spotify.com/track/5oSnYy4EijgEEEDO9MPDq4?si=5b5b5b1c3f9042bb
Hanson's GALOT - https://www.reddit.com/r/roadtrip/comments/ash5v0/my_cows_car_game/
Community GALOT - https://x.com/wario64/status/1762846646176555261
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of the MinMax show, |
| 0:23.3 | Place About Games, Friends, Getting Better. |
| 0:24.8 | My name is Ben Hanson and I'm thanking you for being here. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm joined by Leo Vader. |
| 0:28.6 | Hello. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm joined, I gotta stop laughing. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm joined by Haley McLean and we're joined by Jeff |
| 0:36.2 | Marquis of a father. No laughs this is serious business. |
| 0:39.7 | Perfect is serious as possible. Hey we have a hell of a show here. |
| 0:44.0 | We have Sero Pazorski swinging in. |
| 0:46.0 | A little bit later in this episode. |
| 0:49.0 | It's going to be great to talk Pokemon, all that fun stuff. |
| 0:52.0 | And then for community questions, we're honored to have a returning guest, |
| 0:56.0 | one Blake Hester is going to be joining us. |
| 0:59.0 | You know him from Game Query, of course. |
| 1:01.0 | Now, sadly, formerly of Game game informer he was recently laid off |
| 1:05.6 | from game informer so we're gonna dive into a little bit of that but then just |
| 1:09.3 | have a good time with him talking about a bunch of questions that people submit over |
| 1:12.1 | there on patreon but you know him from something rotten with Jacob Keller. Thank you. |
| 1:16.4 | That's gonna come up later I promise that's gonna come up later. |
| 1:18.6 | Look at I wear my something rotten tea. Yeah could we go back in time to when everybody was laughing so I can have a perfect transition? |
| 1:25.5 | Are you ready for this? |
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