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Game Boys, Ep. 124: What Makes A Game Good
Tis the season, the season for the best games of the year to release, accumulate their accolades, and potentially walk away with the coveted GOTY tag. But what, specifically, makes a video game good? Is it the same across the board or something that can only be determined person to person? The Game Boys have some thoughts, but are they in agreement?
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We’ve got someone held hostage. It’s your attention. Here’s a list of our demands. Specifically the twenty things we want from 2020. Some of them are reasonable, some of them you’ll never see coming. The rest is on you, 2020, and you’d better deliver!
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They say hindsight is 20/20, but when I look back, I see 2019. This week the Game Boys are looking back and celebrating 2019 with their annual Golden Game Boy Awards. What were the best games in each genre? What was the best game score of 2019? And what was the game of the year according to three lovable yahoos that you listen to for some reason?
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From Zelda to Pokémon to Overwatch more recently, the Game Boys are collectively pretty vocal members of a lot of fandoms. Perhaps no property is more important to the Boys than Star Wars. This week, the Game Boys are looking at how fandom impacts reception to media through the lens of not only games but also books, television, and movies. Using Star Wars as a reference point, they investigate how new entries in an existing franchise can be positively bolstered by the fandom or toxically torn down by the same individuals and how association isn’t always an ally. In this episode, the Game Boys specifically revisit Dice’s Star Wars Battlefront II and discuss Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, the final chapter in the decades long Skywalker saga.
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