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PODCAST | The best game with the most pointless feature
We're not allowed to talk about horse balls.
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PODCAST | What's the best game where you can do a wee wee
We're not taking the, er, you know.
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PODCAST | What's the best game that could convince Biden to step down?
Sorry, we put politics into games again, sorry, all the best, sorry,
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PODCAST | What's the best game you were happy to see the back of?
Oh no, we shoehorned politics into games
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PODCAST | Which games have aged like a fine wine, and why is everyone so mad at our guest host?
There's nothing graceful about the Best Games Ever podcast episode 104
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ARE SOULS? | Ian Higton's bum guffs: The Best Games Ever podcast episode 103
What are the best games that didn't live up to their hype? Find out within.
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PODCAST | What’s the best game that had the worst reveal trailer? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 102
They say that the first impression is the most important, so even if your game is great, you’d better not botch the announcement.
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PODCAST | What the best game where everyone's mad at you even though you did nothing wrong? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 101
It's only game, why you have to be mad?
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PODCAST | The Best Games Ever Show 100th Episode Quiz: PART TWO
Who wins? Who loses? Who kicks off about the rules? Find out in the second part of our enormous buzzer episode.
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CELEBRATION | The 100th Episode of the VG247 EVER - super quickfire round edition!
100 questions in this special episode of the VG247 podcast? Who will the winner be? There's only one way to know for sure...
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PODCAST | Who is currently winning the Best Games Ever Podcast?
We don't have office politics, apart from the half hour per week that we record and publish for your entertainment.
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PODCAST | What's the best game where your character gets wet, then slowly dries off? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 99
Water palaver! Games are so good at simulating H2O, but which is the most clever?
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PODCAST | What's the best game with shooting where you don't get a gun for ages? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 98
What's the point in having guns if they won't let us shoot people? Eh?
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PODCAST | They'd never get away with THIS nowadays! The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 96
Nowadays, right, you can't even massacre everyone on a football pitch in an ill-advised parody of the first world war, because of woke
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PODCAST | The best game where your family DITCHES you? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 95
Blood and water are of equal consistency when irradiated.
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EXTENDED EDITION | The best FREE games we'd love to PAY FOR – SUBS ONLY
As the old saying goes: the best things in life have a flat upfront cost and no microtransactions.
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PODCAST | The best FREE games we'd love to PAY FOR – The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 94
As the old saying goes: the best things in life have a flat upfront cost and no microtransactions.
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ARMAGEDDON FACTOR | Blur vs Split Second was Deep Impact vs Armageddon for mid-2000s arcade racers
They're nothing like buses! They're sports cars!
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PODCAST | Inspired by Dune 2, what's the best game with a load of sand in it?
What's course, rough, and irritating, but gets nowhere? It's the VG247 podcast!
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GAAS-LIGHTING | That one live service game you begrudgingly like? It's probably just as bad as all the others, you just need an intervention
As if "always online" is a selling point for entertainment. I'm always online! Let me log off!
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DISC-USTING | What's the best game that shipped on multiple discs? The Best Games Ever Podcast
Most games shipped on multiple discs, if you think about it...
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PIRATE BAE | What's the best Pirate Game that ISN'T Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag? Find out in The Best Games Ever Podcast
Contains only minimal discussion about Blackbeard's syphilitic pinger.
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NO PRO | You don't need a PS5 Pro | Have live service games reached their nadir with Suicide Squad?
Would you prefer a PS5 Pro or an Xbox on the go?
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EVERYONE LIKED THAT | That game everyone loves that you just can't stand? Turns out, everyone's got one of those
Some popular games are actually real stinkers.
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Backlogged | Is there a game you just can't stop playing?
Best game that you play instead of tackling your growing pile of shame.
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AMNESIA: THE BLUNDER | 2023 games you FORGOT about: The Best Games Ever Show
Remember when we had a new Zelda — A NEW ZELDA — and everyone forgot about it within a week?
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GIT REUNION | The Best Games Ever Show Christmas Special
Who is the best Santa in video games? And is it Tony Blair?
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Tom's on this | Are there any good video game spin-offs into a completely different genre?
Look, we all know Mario has loads. You don't need to say it.
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TURNCOAT | Shock Betrayals and Other Gaming Tropes
Getting screwed over is just part of the deal as a video game protagonist.
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A STAR TOO FAR | What’s the best game that we’d give a kicking?
Sometimes your review is an outlier, but that’s ok.
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TAKE A SEAT | What's the best game you can finish in one sitting?
Sometimes you just need a quick one.
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LONDON PUN | The best game set in London isn’t what you think
England’s capital is gaming’s second city, but some games get it so wrong.
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DAFT PUNT | From Alan Wake to Miles Prower: what are the best pun names in gaming?
The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 76
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FUHGEDDABOUDIT | What's the best game set in New York, apart from Marvel's Spider-Man 2?
How d'ya like them Big Apples?
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GUMSHOE IN | What's the Best Detective Game, and why isn't it Disco Elysium?
Fans of sleuthing are well catered for by video games, but which is the best of the best?
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VIOLENCE IS GOLDEN | The Best Ultraviolent Spectacle in Gaming
What's the best game where a lot of people get battered? Find out in The Best Games Ever show!
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It was made in 59 | What is the best driving (not racing) game?
Vroom vroom vroom vroom, parallel park in my room.
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ALSO FEATURING | What are the best cameos in gaming?
Jeff Goldblum? Professor X? General Zod? They’ve all shown up in video games where we least expected them.
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Lordy | What's the best Easter game? What even IS an Easter game?
We've not had Christmas yet, but we're extremely odd here at VG247.
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HE CAME EARLY | What's the best Christmas game? What even IS a Christmas game?
It's not even halloween yet, but we're extremely efficient here at VG247.
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BEST WURST GAME | What's the best German game, from Germany?
And why didn't we do this when Gamescom was actually on? Find out in The Best Games Ever show episode 67!
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NO LIFE STYLE | The best Bethesda games that aren’t Bethesda games
If you see it, you can go there. But who does it best? Find out in The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 66!
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NO COFFIN REQUIRED | What's the best game where nobody gets killed?
Can't we all be friends? Or just maim each other a little? Find out in The Best Games Ever show episode 65!
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TOUGH LOVE | Goldeneye 64: the best game you love despite itself?
Find out in episode 64 of The Best Games Ever show.
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PARTY DOWN | Baldur's Gate 3 is great, but can you talk about it at parties?
Not that any of us get invited to parties.
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BARELY MANAGING | The best management sim isn't even a video game: The Best Games Ever Show episode 61
You never know what Tom Orry may bring.
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GIMMICK A BREAK | What's the best game with the worst gimmick? The Best Games Ever Show episode 59
Video games are full of gimmicks, and the bad ones are usually found in bad games. But not always...