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The Besties

Two great games: one new, one old

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Starfield inspired Frushtick to take a ship deep into the cosmos of No Man's Sky. After seven years and tons of updates, the sci-fi game is a stunning alternative for people who crave the awesomeness of space more than the dramatics of a traditional RPG. We also talk about the fantastic Shadow Gambit, a stealth tactics game for everybody -- not just fans of the genre. Also discussed: Retro Bowl and Only Weird Games. For more info and links to all games, follow our newsletter besties.fan.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. My name is Christopher Thomas Plant. My name

0:13.4

is Russ Froschtick. And we are the resties. We are the rest of the best to discuss the

0:18.8

best of the rest. This week we're talking about two great games, no bummers. That's

0:25.8

what we like to say at the resties. It's no bummer zone. We got no man sky twist. It's

0:32.7

great. Now, no bummer man sky. Hey, that doesn't work. But this is no, no bummer zone.

0:41.0

I think that's a good effort. Yeah. We've also got Shadow Gambit, which is one of my favorite

0:47.6

surprises of this year, a stealth tactics game, which is not my genre at all. And I am in love

0:56.6

with it. It's got pirates in it. It's got pirates in it. It hasn't got a real sea of themes

1:03.7

aesthetic that I'm into. Before we do that, though, yeah, something. Okay. So the last time you

1:12.6

heard from us was the episode on Starfield that we recorded. And this was before the embargo

1:19.1

lifted. And before we knew the reaction, broad, the broad reaction to the game, we were,

1:24.6

which pretty anxious. We were pretty anxious. I, I, the broad reaction seems to be inconsistency.

1:33.4

It seems like there's a lot, here's what it comes down to. It seems like there's a lot of people

1:37.8

that basically agreed with what we said, but it's just a question of how much that stuff bothered

1:43.8

them and whether they were still able to find joy within the experience, regardless of that.

1:49.7

Yeah, which I think, hey, you're skeptical during that episode when I said, I think there's

1:57.0

going to be people who like this who none of this bothers them. They just, you know, get a little

2:01.2

bit of a little bit of the weep. They chill out. They zoom in. They zone out. And they have a

2:08.4

great time. I think the problem for you. And this is what we're going to be talking about in this

2:12.3

episode is you made a criminal mistake, which is you went and played No Man's Sky. Yeah, that

2:20.3

was a big mistake. That was a big, it was a, I would say a grave error on your part to go and do

2:27.1

that. I mean, to be fair, I went and played it after I was not really vibing with Starfield.

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