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The Besties

What Was the Best Year for Video Games Ever?

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today’s special episode takes The Besties into a new direction. With newer releases being put on hold, the gang is looking back at what was the best year for video games ever. Each present cases for why the year stood out and examine all the variables. Listeners can get in on the action by heading over to https://twitter.com/thebestiespod and cast their vote to help pick a winner!

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not gonna have a lot of time to talk about this in the actual episode.

0:05.6

So when it talks me out, I was going over my years and video games used to be better.

0:13.4

And now they are worse.

0:15.8

And that is my thesis statement is that video I would take one of the quarters of any of

0:21.0

either of my years over any year of the past decade except maybe 2017.

0:26.8

But video games used to be better and other worse.

0:28.8

Do you think it's a Beatles situation where like my dad was saying like,

0:32.4

well, when I grow up, I'd be the Beatles and you have, you know, Frick and Jewel.

0:37.0

It's like that except if my answer was dad, the bands today are better except the only band was Fortnite.

0:43.5

And the only band that existed.

0:45.8

And also they didn't have a metacritic back in Beatles times.

0:49.2

And now we do. So we have like numerical data.

0:51.8

Yeah.

0:52.4

Proving that games used to be better.

0:54.2

And I'd be curious to see here.

0:55.2

Everybody's thoughts on why they think that censorship is the reason for that and censoring

1:00.2

all the cool sexy stuff that used to be in games.

1:03.6

Russ, you were talking right before we started recording about how political correctness ruined

1:07.2

games.

1:08.2

Right.

1:09.2

Not already guys.

1:10.2

We could just speak on that with the, you know, feeling it's snowflakes and, sure, you

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