Game in Hand

By Dan DaSilva

The Podcast for listeners who enjoy gaming news, reviews, handhelds, and flavor of the month topics. Hosted by a Canadian gamer named Dan.

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December 17, 2023 Top Games and More of 2023
Jokes aside, limiting lists to top 5 in 2023 should mean I need 6 lists alone just to mention games I really enjoyed this year. But I narrow my choices down for the best showings. Hopefully this should help anyone with a burning hole in their wallet looking for the best value for your steam wallet. Or even those big EGS sales that get scoured at by the religious cult of Steam. And their followers who believe it is the one true platform lord and cloud saviour of games.

2023 was above average for titles that should easily fall in the "no brainer recommendation" shopping cart. But for every new heights of gaming we reached, somehow, someone, keeps us anchored to the sea floor. Remakes of RE4, Super Mario RPG, Star Ocean, and more, are showing the Konami's that emulating an old HD collection is a pitiful cash grab for people who want to experience Metal Gear Solid. D&D related games get's a 1st place victory lap before Hasbro (or I guess Don'tHasBrosAnymore) laying off everyone before Christmas. New heights of charity for the game awards allowing brief game celebrations to interrupt their ad placement show.

This is my last podcast for this year, it's time to unwind and get some quality time with that backlog you neglect so much. You can replace all that unnecessary information in your brain with game titles. Happy gaming everyone.

Edit: just noticed I said Days Gone in my final list, Days Gone is obviously a cut above anything wading in the garbage tier.
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57min
December 08, 2023 Super Mario RPG Remake
Nostalgia triggered. I beat it in 4 sessions. While I can't make my brain process I paid full price for a very short game, I am enthralled at the opportunity Nintendo presented to players. Now do Chrono Trigger!
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42min
November 17, 2023 Super Mario Wonder
I don't think I can be too harsh about Nintendo reusing the New Super Mario Bros formula. It is the safest bet that Nintendo's holiday sales projections are safe. I think it's just all stop gap measures until we get the new switch. It was casual enough I didn't feel odd being compelled to completing the game over other titles. Really I just needed a mindless break after the month I have had. So consider me defeated when it comes to being too harsh on Nintendo, when they give you just enough to keep you happy. I desperately want Super Mario RPG so anticipate that in the upcoming weeks.
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41min
October 07, 2023 Starfield Is Exactly What I Imagined It Would Be
Starfield has been out for a month now, it is good enough to not warrant red flags like we should have used for Fallout76. But it's not polished, and it's that final polish, proper upscaling tech, and time and time again bethesda problems that makes me think they need a good hard look at how or why this became a 200 million dollar game. It's currently my side game as Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't know I am seeing it between sessions.

Switch 2 hype and rumor mill is running overtime and I had a shared feeling with Luke at LTT's WAN show. If Nintendo doesn't do a docked egpu experience, maybe someone like valve needs to step up to the plate. Get the equivilent of a 4050 discreet chip waiting over thunderbolt 3 or 4 and stop pretending like the switch should cost $400.

I think my next episode will be a handheld rundown as the GPD win 4 gives me a bit to think about. High end gaming and all. Hopefully both the next steam deck and the switch 2 become more in focus.
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49min
September 03, 2023 Too Many Good Games - Armored Core 6
Armored Core 6 is the star of this week, although I can't say it's the only game on my plate. Sea of Stars is as good as I had hoped. Need to pace myself a little better before backlog gets out of hand.

Still can't believe Sony is going through with the Portal, half step measures to pretend to be relevant in handheld gaming.

Ended up returning and buying the ROG Ally again at an open box discount, hopefully I can pass along some game performance on it and the steam deck. But the steam deck is looking a little slow already...

Switched to a different mic for this one to try and reduce the amount of noise reduction for noise suppression but some words were getting clipped. Work in progress.

Thanks again everyone!
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44min
August 12, 2023 Baldurs Gate 3 and Dave the Diver are Outstanding
LONG LIVE AMAZING, PASSIONATELY MADE GAMES. What started as an episode for Dave the Diver, which by all means is likely being the top indie game of 2023, became an show stolen by BG3. Larian fans, Divinity Original Sins fans, Baldurs Gate fans, D&D fans, get your wallet out right now. Metacritic best games of all time #1 AND #2 are current held by ISOMETRIC RPGS, the genre that was abandoned due to some mistreatment by some soulless studios running franchises into the ground. Peak steam concurrent players hit over 814,000, so get your shiny dice out and get ready for a masterpiece.
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50min
July 03, 2023 A Busy June For Gaming!... and me!
A jump back into the podcast with a recap of my time divided across 4 fronts. Tears of the Kingdom is worth every penny, Diablo 4 makes me concerned for every penny. I was so torn between the new handheld PCs that I cancelled a pre-order and now will wait for the dust to settle. And as always, I have indie games to pile onto the backlog.
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37min
March 29, 2023 Diablo 4 Beta - And Now We Wait
It's looking like a proper sequel to Diablo 3 and not a faithful remake of Diablo Immortal. It's just not the innovative genre changer we would hope to get out of a billion dollar company being developed for 8 something years. I wish it wasn't just a beta because I could have accepted a new ARPG even in an early access state such as this. But as always, this beta is meant to help Blizzard. It sells preorders, it sells double downs apparently, it helps stress test. I played all the classes and it really left me wanting more Diablo 4. I think this is a bit of a redemption game compared to Diablo 3, some ideas definitely taken from other games, which isn't terrible. Real battle pass info and not just marketing keyword jargon is still not apparent so let's focus on gameplay and not speculate on what hasn't materialized yet.
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47min
February 13, 2023 Hogwarts Legacy in Hand
Portkey Games has a pretty solid Harry Potter universe addition to their development resume, it's simplistic and casual friendly but balanced enough that I couldn't see myself not seeing it through to the end. Performance requirements for this game makes me wonder about ports to PS4, XBONE, and Switch if the majority of PC users are already struggling. High end GPU owners will breathe a sigh of relief the game will run on ultra but everyone else won't be happy with the day 1 patch.
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30min
January 18, 2023 How was gaming in 2022?
Happy new year! What did we gain in 2022 worth talking about? You have the Steam Deck cleaning house at affordable handheld PC gaming. You have Elden Ring that was a gorgeous reminder that From Software is still the master at making you suffer. I have 8 indie titles that I got more game play value with than any of the other big AAA titles anticipated for 2022. A lot of games were jammed into the first 4 months of 2023. Blizzard made some interesting game decisions, that shouldn't surprise anyone anymore.
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44min

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The podcast currently has 42 episodes available.