What’s So Special About Games?

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Video Games, Leisure, Games

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson is joined in the MinnMax studio by former Game Informer editors Jeff Cork, Joe Juba, and Ben Reeves! Ben Reeves just announced that he's leaving Game Informer after 15 years to become a narrative designer at Firaxis. In this episode we share way too many old stories from Game Informer and also talk about what compels us to play games in the first place. Why can't we stop playing Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West? We also share our review thoughts on Gran Turismo 7 on the PlayStation 5, Sony provided the code. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community 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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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:47 - Ben Reeves on leaving Game Informer for Firaxis

00:14:12 - Why do former Game Informer editors stay friends?

00:25:15 - Why do we play games?

00:36:50 - Gran Turismo 7

00:40:25 - More Ben Reeves memories

00:52:22 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

00:59:07 - Community questions

02:15:23 - Get A Load Of This

Jeff Cork’s GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-LqVe2PArM

Joe Juba’s GALOT - https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/cqtq1r/the_chemical_elements_that_turn_cheese_into_a/

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0339SUMLZg

Ben Reeves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOrN97Eo3Yw

Community GALOT - https://twitter.com/pattinsonphotos/status/1497699240880979968?s=20&t=ZYQhIDuBfq8XEw7P7utjnA

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Bob Buel - Windjammers 2

PureBredNumber6 - Sly 2: Band of Thieves

Ronn - Pokémon Emerald

Swiggity Swoo - Sonic The Hedgehog (2006)

Drew Waranis - Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki

Christopher Walton - Lost Plant: Extreme Condition

Spider Dan - Illusion of Gaia (Illusion of Time)

Steve B - Jak 2

PrettyGoodPrinting.com - Ultima Online

Jonathan - Smite

Clemens Zobel - Digimon World 3

IanTClark - Dying Light 2 Stay Human

DominicCichocki - Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht

Starkiller - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Jawarhello - Monster Rancher 2

Roger Reichardt - Super Castlevania IV

Ted Ryser - Kodo Tag

BeatenDownBrian - Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to new episode of The Min Max Show, I'm Ben Hansen and this
0:25.1	is a place about games friends getting better joined by, oh my god, where do I start?
0:29.2	Jeff Cork. Hello. Welcome Jeff Cork, former co-host of BetterQuest, you know I'm your
0:35.3	love, um, eh? Yeah, you got no choice. Also joined by that cackling demon, Joe Juba.
0:43.9	Oh, that's me. Hello. You know I'm from the deepest dive on, obviously, Final Fantasy
0:49.6	Don't Remake, Integrate, Intermission DLC. What? I was on Metroid. Oh, that's right.
0:55.0	That's right. Welcome. Mass Effect. Oh, oh yeah, that was a big one. Uh, those are actually
0:59.7	a huge big thing. Um, if we sound different, it's because, uh, recording this in The Min Max
1:03.9	Studio, it's a rare treat. So apologies for every ounce of breath being picked up by this microphone.
1:09.0	Are you apologizing for us sounding so good? I think that's what it is. Yeah. Uh, and we
1:14.2	sound so good today because of a very special guest, special guest who likes to go by the name
1:19.7	of former game and former intern Ben Reeves. Oh, hey, I think we're four former game and
1:27.2	former. Hey, that's fun stuff. Uh, Ben Reeves, welcome, dude. Hey, how's it going? Uh, I guess
1:33.0	you're on extra life. I guess we spent like, I guess the four of us spend way too many hours
1:37.0	sitting in this basement overnight, but the Max show, it feels different. It's a different vibe,
1:40.6	right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you don't record it. That's right. That's right. I usually sit
1:45.7	there too. So that it's a whole different deal. It's thrown off of five. Uh, Ben Reeves,
1:50.5	thank you for being here. Yeah. Uh, thanks for inviting me. What's going on? You're,
1:54.3	you know what I mean, right? Well, more or less. You didn't call the Jo Jo one, which is
1:58.6	barging right into my house, though, bringing a doorbell, an area doorbell from this phone. Well,
2:02.4	to be fair, your front door is saloon doors, which, uh, Ben Reeves, you're no longer a
2:09.8	game inform editor. That's right. That's what they keep telling me after 15 years. Yeah. More,
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