The boys are here for their annual "best games we played this year that might have come out this year but not necessarily because we have jobs and lives and kids and can't keep up with all the newest games extravaganza 2023 part 1". In this episode Adam, Andy, Chazzee, Mark, and Nick run down the 5th, 4th, and 3rd best games they played this year. Stay tuned for part two in a few days.

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Not gonna lies boys, this one is tenuous at best. It's the last episode before the annual GOTY bonanza so Andy, Mark, and Nick decided to watch a video game Christmas movie, but there aren't any video game movie adaptations set at Christmas. So they watched 8-Bit Christmas, a movie about a kid trying to get an NES at Christmas. It was pretty good.

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Mark, Nick, and Andy have a good chat about entitled content creators, Steam bloat, virtual reality, and a plethora of games.

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Mark, Nick, and Chazzee chat about the layoffs at Bungie, the latest in a series of job losses that have rocked the industry this year (there's been two more since we recorded this episode), before running down all the games they've been playing recently.

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As a mysterious illness sweeps through LGR towers, join Nick, Andy, and Mark as they celebrate Halloween with a look at another video game movie adaptation, this time it's 2021's soft reboot of the Resident Evil franchise - Welcome to Raccoon City.

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Additional music from the Resident Evil official soundtrack composed by Makoto Tomozawa, Koichi Hiroki, Masami Ueda, and Takashi Niigaki, all rights reserved by Capcom.

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In this episode Mark is joined by Chazzee and special guest Doug to discuss camper vans, festivals, getting old, and retro gaming, before breaking down the long, drawn out acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft and what IP might be resurrected, and of course running down all the games they've been playing over the last few weeks.

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It's time to induct another game into the LGR Hall of Fame, so join Nick, Andy, Chazzee, and Mark as they grab their backpacks and head to the Rocky Mountains to yell at teenagers, uncover mysteries, and try real hard not to burn the forest down.

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Join Mark, Chazzee, and Nick as they complain about how hangovers take much longer to go away than they used to when they were young, before running down the disastrous couple of weeks Unity have had. They also chat about some video games before settling into an extended rant about Starfield.

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Join Mark, Nick, and Chazzee as they chat about house moves, digital libraries, chunky athletes, and a brief chat about some other games they've been playing before settling into a lengthy and almost entirely spoiler-free discussion about Baldur's Gate 3.

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Andy is joined by the lovely Colm Sheridan from the Last Save Loaded podcast to talk about the 4th and final season of Netflix's animated adaptation of the Castlevania series.

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Additional music from the Castlevania series composed by Trevor Morris, all rights reserved by Netflix.

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