The MinnMax Awards 2022

The MinnMax Show

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Video Games, Leisure, Games

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 254 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the biggest episode of The MinnMax Show EVER! This week is dedicated to handing out the annual MinnMax Awards for specific categories in gaming this year and Ben Hanson is joined by Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, Sarah Podzorski, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and Kelsey Lewin. We run down our picks for Best Thing, Dumbest Thing, Biggest News, The Game We All Agree Is Probably Good But We Didn't Play, Best Character, Best Moment, and The Greatest Work Of Art Of All Time. To improve your experience, we added specific timecodes for any discussions containing spoilers for specific games. If you enjoy this episode or our detailed timestamps, please help share the episode online or with a friend! We exist because of your support. Thank you!

We'll be back next week with Part 1 of our debate for The Two Tens, where we'll begin to create the ranked list of the best games released in 2022. You can watch our Game of the Year debate live (or the unedited archive early) by supporting MinnMax at the Backstage Pass tier. https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:06:38 - Best Thing

00:34:48 - Dumbest Thing

01:06:59 - Biggest News

01:19:43 - The Game We All Agree Is Probably Good But We Didn't Play

01:38:49 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

01:43:45 - Best Character

01:48:39 - Immortality Spoilers

01:52:43 - Best Character

01:56:53 - God Of War Ragnarok Spoilers

02:11:47 - The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Spoilers

02:13:57 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Spoilers

02:16:48 - Stray Spoilers

02:20:47 - Best Character

02:30:35 - Best Moment

02:41:14 - Splatoon 3 Spoilers

02:42:01 - Not For Broadcast Spoilers

02:43:36 - Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Spoilers

02:45:02 - Weird West Spoilers

02:45:56 - Dying Light 2

02:47:32 - Pokémon Legends: Arceus

02:50:17 - Sonic Frontiers

02:51:24 - The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Spoilers

02:56:54 - Somerville Spoilers

02:58:20 - Kirby And The Forgotten Lands Spoilers

03:02:40 - Elden Ring Spoilers

03:14:23 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3

03:19:55 - Return To Monkey Island

03:25:34 - Horizon Forbidden West

03:30:11 - God of War Ragnarok

03:41:21 - Best Moment

03:49:42 - The Greatest Work Of Art Of All Time (2022)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to an exciting new episode of the MinMax Show podcast.
0:25.3	MinMax is a place about games, friends, and getting better. This is a very big episode.
0:30.2	My name has been Hanson and I want to personally thank you for being here and thank God I'm
0:34.4	not alone because I'm joined by the one and only Sarah Podzorsky. Hello. Hello, welcome.
0:42.2	I'm glad to see you here. I'm joined by Leo Vader. Get high. We're joined by Kyle Hilliard.
0:48.9	Hello. Join by Janet Garcia. Hello. Can't go on. It's overflowing. You can't possibly
0:54.4	squeeze any more people in. But wait, there's more. Kelsey Lewin, everybody. Hi, it's me.
1:00.0	Welcome and Jacob Geller. Everyone is here. And Jeff Markey of Fava. That's me.
1:08.0	Well done. Anodea's is here in spirit. Shout out. If you're watching us on YouTube, thank you
1:12.8	for being here. This is a big episode. So we'd always appreciate it. First of all, if you
1:16.6	subscribe to our YouTube channel, our little YouTube channel here, we appreciate that.
1:20.1	And he helps spreading the word about this episode's appreciated. But the big thing is you can always
1:23.8	subscribe to the MinMax Show podcast in your favorite podcast app. It's not a patron exclusive
1:28.1	thing. It's completely free. So if you want to tune into all of MinMax's game of the year debates
1:32.3	and listen to it in a very convenient way, MinMax Show on your favorite podcast app. All right.
1:37.5	And if you want to watch us obviously and you're listening to that, you can always jump in and
1:40.4	watch the YouTube version as well. It goes both ways. This is a big episode because this is the
1:45.1	MinMax Awards. We are going through categories and nominating and debating and locking down the
1:50.8	winners for a handful of categories, which we will get into in a second. But this is just the start
1:57.4	of MinMax's big game of the year series because the next two weeks of the MinMax Show podcast
2:03.7	are going to be all about honoring the best in the game industry. So the week after this,
2:09.5	we're going to be talking about the two tens, building out the list of the greatest games,
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