Our Favorite Games of 2018: Austin and Natalie Don't Know How to Shut Up

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🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 173 minutes

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God. We. So... So here's the thing. We. Hrm. Incredibly deep breath.

When we first discussed doing this new end of year format, one of the things we liked about the focus on podcast discussions was that they would be a tight, focused way to critically dig into our favorites while still keeping the discursive flexibility of conversation between friends. The plan was for each of these to be between 30 minutes and an hour long, regardless of if we were doing an episode on a single game or one on our respective top 10 lists.

Natalie and I went for nearly three hours. Look.

On the plus side: This means that we had ample time to dive into everything we wanted to talk about but didn't have the chance to yet this year. We talk Red Dead Redemption 2, the critical apparatus of the game's industry, and the terrible power of polish. We talk anime gacha games and the pull of comfort play. We talk about giant robots, queer bodies, and utopian ontologies. And, uh, we spent the final 45 minutes or so of the podcast going deep into Undertale spoiler territory.

I guess what I'm saying is: Thank you for your patience. And enjoy?

Discussed: Into the Breach, BattleTech, Monster Hunter: World, Hollow Knight, Hitman 2, Minit, Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Sea of Thieves, No Man's Sky: NEXT, Heaven Will Be Mine, Picross 2, Ashen, Frozen Synapse 2, Slay the Spire, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Tetris Effect, Dead Cells, Undertale, Bloodborne, Danmachi Memoria Freize, Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4, Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7, Minecraft, Unexplored, Celeste

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0:31.0	What's good internet? Yeah, but I have like a whole thing. This is awesome.
1:00.9	I'm here to talk to a friend who has a top 10. How does it use this?
1:19.0	Somewhere again. What's good internet? Welcome back. This is a no-one now. What's good internet? Welcome back to our year end celebration here at Waypoint.
1:33.0	We are recording the final podcast. We're the last ones to go. That's a privilege of mine. I think I don't take a lot of privileges being EIC. I could. You know what I mean? I could be like, you'll give me a corporate car. You know send me out. You should get a corporate.
1:47.1	I could get a what else could I do? It could be like, yeah, but that's the fly me down to West Virginia to play this game. But I don't do that.
1:54.6	You know, now they go give me some fruit snacks from the kitchen. I'm not saying I don't take any privileges. I'm not saying. Sometimes you're like at the latte store and I'm like, yeah, I'll take a latte too.
2:05.5	Yeah, I hit you up for that. That's true. Yeah. No one. But one privilege that we do I am taking is like, I want to talk about my list last. So I have a little more time to finalize it.
2:14.7	Same. And I've done that now. We put up. We put this off down to the final hour of the final day that you were here in New York. Yeah, we're going home for the holidays.
2:23.8	And here we are. We're going to talk about our top 10 games of the year. We're doing that for people who maybe are listening to this in out of order. We are also doing deep dives.
2:32.6	Into some of our favorite games. We figured out like, oh, hey, a lot of people really like into the breach. We should have an into the breach conversation.
2:39.8	I don't know that that's gone up yet. That might be tomorrow. I think it's tomorrow. It'll go the next day. I'm pretty sure.
2:46.5	It's the last one. There's no saying. So this will come up. This will be out before that will be. No, I thought our list.
2:54.1	Yep, that's Thursday is Wednesday. Yeah, Robin Patrick and Robin Patrick are Friday.
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