The Greatest Games Of The Decade (2000-2009)
The MinnMax Show
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 175 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The MinnMax show podcast, we welcome Game Informer and Giant Bomb alumn Dan Ryckert back to the world of video game podcasts as we choose our favorite game for each year of the last decade. 2000-2009 is an incredible stretch in the game industry, with technology going from Perfect Dark to Uncharted 2. We also debate the #1 greatest game of the decade, talking about the merits of Super Mario Galaxy and a couple of Metal Gear Solid games. Then we open up the Minnbox 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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6:45 - Saints Row III
15:45 - General 2000-2009 thoughts
20:20 - 2000's best games
27:11 - 2001's best games
33:40 - 2002's best games
41:45 - 2003's best games
49:50 - 2004's best games
1:01:56 - 2005's best games
1:08:44 - 2006's best games
1:20:44 - 2007's best games
1:25:35 - 2008's best games
1:37:20 - 2009's best games
1:51:50 - The best game of the decade
2:03:20 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters
2:07:35 - Community questions
2:44:10 - Get A Load Of This
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome to the Min-Max show a good place to forget bad things. I'm been Hanson and I'm joined by Kyle Hilliard |
| 0:25.5 | Hello, Surio Vasquez, |
| 0:27.3 | Hello Jeff Markeyofaba, hey and calling from his wonderful podcasting studio as he cracks some sort of drink, Dan Reichert. |
| 0:37.0 | Bob Blasten, this is a podcast zone. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm here in the Pizone. |
| 0:40.0 | Hell yeah. |
| 0:41.0 | Thanks for being here, Dan. |
| 0:42.0 | It's discord. |
| 0:43.2 | You have a monument to Terminator and Super Mario Sunshine in your home? |
| 0:47.8 | I guess there's actually way more rocky stuff in here than there is a Terminator. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, it's mostly rocky actually. |
| 0:54.1 | Dan, is this your return to video game podcasting since leaving Giant Bomb or what's your... |
| 0:58.8 | I was on some Patreon show right after I left Giant Bomb explaining about leading Giant Bomb. |
| 1:04.5 | I can't read. |
| 1:05.5 | We have a standalone MinMax interview, yeah, but that doesn't count as like a real big |
| 1:08.8 | podcast. That was a little side hustle. |
| 1:11.6 | I did a little bit for the Beast Cast and I did a stream with |
| 1:16.0 | Giant Bomb but as far as the podcast I think I just did a little Beast Cast email |
| 1:20.3 | thing. Gotcha I've been obsessed with how much you've been streaming. |
| 1:24.1 | You have seen to have lost your mind. |
| 1:26.0 | What's going on over there? |
| 1:28.0 | Turns out I really like playing video games and I like doing it with an audience and it's a great excuse to play things |
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