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This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out a great prize for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 10am Central on Wednesday.

On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...

- The Avengers

- The Last Campfire

- Battletoads

- And more!

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Comments

Anonymous

Hello Cohorts! In the olden days of 2015, Game Informer had an awesome feature called “The Essentials” where every week a GI editor would contribute a game that they considered “required reading” for gamers. Below is that list of 14 games (or at least that is how many I believe there are from Google searches cause the GI website’s hub is broken) and the editors that made the contributions. Can the cohorts guess (or remember) the 14 games on the Essentials list? (Bonus points if you can say which editor added the game) • Zelda: A Link to the Past (Mike Futter) • Super Mario 64 (Shea) • Bioshock (Miller) • Metal Gear Solid (Kyle) • Half-Life (Kyle) • Left 4 Dead (JeffM) • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Kyle) • The Last of Us (Miller) • Resident Evil (Tim) • Final Fantasy 7 (Juba) • Chrono Trigger (Kim) • Shadow of the Colossus (Kyle) • Street Fighter 2 (Cork) • Doom (JeffM) Thanks for all you do! P.S. Why did Kyle get so many bites from this apple? Not that I mind cause I agree with all of his inclusions but I find it funny and interesting

Anonymous

How many animals can JeffM name that have not been made into Pokemon?

Anonymous

G'day Minnmaxers I recently purchased and played A Short Hike after your glowing recommendation. I now have no pants on because that game charmed them right off me. I would have never bought this game without your recommendation as it didn't seem like anything special and the art style did not appeal to me. What was the last game you played purely on someone's reccomendation and it turned out to be great. Also have you considered a Minnmax selects segment every month where the minnmax hosts suggest a must play game that we may have overlooked otherwise.

Anonymous

OK, so I casually watch wrestling (as in WWE) Youtube videos with my partner sometimes and I still find it enjoyable and entertaining (if a bit mind-numbing, but hey it's comfort food!) . Thing is, she laughs because she sees the punches as so obviously fake which annoys me because I'm 1) nowhere near as perceptive and 2) everyone knows it's "fake" (real injuries but choreographed, etc.) so it doesn't seem funny to me. What's an interest of yours that you find fascinating but someone you showed it to thought was funny or reacted to it differently than you?

Anonymous

Hey Ben Oddy and the Bird Watchers, Can any of you whistle?

Anonymous

Hey Ben & CLCs, did any of you catch the Nvidia conference on Tuesday? I personally am much more excited about the next generation of Graphics cards than I am the next generation of consoles. Do you follow PC hardware at all or enjoy putting together gaming systems? If so, what gets you excited about a new generation of CPU or GPU? And finally, to RGB or not to RGB? Thanks!

Anonymous

Guten Tag Minnmax, Is there a skill you once had that you do not have anymore? For example, I used to be able to whistle and I can no longer do so. Auf Wiedersehen!

Anonymous

Cohorts, can we put to bed the "Games are cheaper than ever before" justification for games rising to $70? It is true that in the 80's games costed way more, but back then gaming was more of a niche hobby. Now it is the largest money making entertainment industry in the world, and that is in part due to the dozens of ways games can earn revenue outside of the initial sale - microtransactions, battle passes, deluxe editions, exclusivity deals, DLC/expansions, remasters, etc. And what has those additions accomplished for Activision and 2K who are leading the price increase? Billions in revenue, tens of millions in CEO salary, and hundreds of devs overworked and underpaid. Don't think this $10 bucks is gonna help them. Lastly I don't think it can be stated enough that $60 per game on top of hundreds for the console is already a lot to ask of the consumer in this country where many lived paycheck to paycheck before coronavirus. I am no economist, but I can't help but feel that more people buying more games for a lower price is better for the industry as a whole than the way we are heading. Sorry this is more of a letter than a question. Wondering what your feelings on this are!

Anonymous

Find us in the discord so you can join our german playstation group!

Anonymous

Conundrum for y'all: what advice would you give someone who has roughly 14 years of experience in advertising, during which he worked his way up from intern to art director, but is tired of his job and his entire field and can't figure out what to do? Cheers

Anonymous

My daughter just recently moved off to college and took my copy of Breath of the Wild. I’ve almost done everything you can do in that game and have racked up over 400 hours play through both the normal and Master Mode. The other day I got the urge to play it again so I went to the eShop and bought a digital copy at FULL PRICE. What is the game that you’ve bought multiple times that you’ve already consumed most of its content?

Anonymous

Hello Ben and the Not-Bens, With Kyle getting a job at a game publisher but still working with MinnMax as a cohort, is there any concern about bias when talking critically about games, either from GameMill or other studios, now that you'r working on "that side" of the industry? Thanks, Travis 'Manick_T' Manick

Crayter

Burning question the cohorts: what is the correct number of games to bring on vacation to balance your need for games, your fear of losing games, and overpacking?