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The Besties Best Game Bracket: 2025 Edition, Part 1

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

How do you pick the best video game of the year when over ten thousand games have been released since January? You bring together the world’s best friends, hand them a bracket, and hope for the best. Yes, friends, it’s time for the Besties to pick the Game of the Year, or as we prefer to call it, The Besties Besty. Will The Game Awards champion Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 claim the most coveted prize in all of gaming? Or does another game have what it takes to battle for the crown?

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0:00.0

This is just great podcast, which I had a dream last night.

0:02.8

I wanted to share it with you.

0:04.0

And I wanted to kind of talk to...

0:05.0

Let me stop my recording.

0:06.4

Okay, good.

0:07.0

No, this should be...

0:07.6

This could be the show.

0:08.2

No, let me stop my recording.

0:09.6

I'm not going to make anybody listen to a dream. Hold on. Let me just... You got it? Okay, okay. Okay, I'm deleting. Go ahead. Okay, okay. So I went to sleep wondering how we would give an award to people for the bestie, bestie.

0:22.3

We used to give people the Golden Marcus Phoenix.

0:37.7

I think we did that once. We did that once. We did it. We did it. We're actually physically doing it to anybody, right? And I don't think they actually accepted it. I think that's the other problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my understanding of the thawley. Because we're sort of the bad boys of game podcasts.

0:38.6

Yeah, yeah.

0:39.7

Then I had the stream last night and I did smoke before going to bed that we would give people bronzed

0:47.3

versions of ourselves, but in my dream, like we were kind of dipped in bronze. It was nice. Carbonite Han Solo kind of deal. Yeah. And a few questions came to mind. One, how much would it hurt? Two, do you think a video game studio would be... They get to pick which one of the four of us they get? Oh. Well, would they accept it? You know, yeah, not what else or which ones more valuable? Sure. Is it ranked? Is it platinum gold, silver, bronze?

1:12.3

Is that what we're... I mean, I think we could do that. I think we could do it. Do you think people would accept it? I did take platinum gold, silver bronze. That's four different colors of metal, Griffin. No, I know, but I don't want... But then who does the show? If we sort of like... Oh, you're saying if we get away the whole.

1:28.2

I mean, the Internet's a powerful thing.

1:29.7

We could keep doing it from our space. show if we sort of like freezer cells and metal for the whole yeah it's a wonderful

1:29.3

thing we could keep doing it from our

1:31.3

space inside the bronze you know

1:33.4

you put a little yeah mic in there

1:35.1

the bronze is the bronze the name of the

1:38.3

isn't the bronze the name of the nightclub and

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