Not Without Merit: A Gaming Podcast

Recorded early this week as Mike is on the way to PAX South! He's been enjoying River City Girls, while continuing on with Final Fantasy XIV and Horizon Chase Turbo. Jake is still endlessly playing Escape From Tarkov, but also started Metal Gear Rising. Ben picked up Final Fantasy VIII Remastered and beefed up his PC to play more Civilization 6.

News is pretty major this week with Sony backing out of E3 yet again, both Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Marvel's Avengers have been delayed, new updates for the DOOM I and II re-releases, and Exit the Gungeon gets a PC/console announcement!

Bonus Round is our New Year's Gaming Resolutions!

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Awards are over, back to games, and there were a ton! Here's all the games we played over the holiday season:

Apex Legends

Horizon Chase Turbo

Final Fantasy XIV

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Enter the Gungeon

Demon's Tilt

Warframe

Resident Evil 2

Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order

Final Fantasy VIII

Escape from Tarkov

The Witcher 2

Spec Ops: The Line

Euro Truck Simulator

Slay the Spire

XCOM 2

The only news this week was the PS+ releases for January!

Bonus Round is assigning our gaming homework for 2020!

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The new year starts with our favorites from last year! We give each of our Top 10 games of 2019!

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Welcome to our end of the year awards show! Listen in as we give out our awards to the following categories:

Most Anticipated 2020 Game

Best Remaster

Best Soundtrack

Best PS4 Exclusive

Best Digital / Indie Game

Biggest Disaster

Best Looking / Style

Best Multiplayer

Best Moment

Best Story

Best Ongoing Game

Thank you everyone who has discovered or been with us through this year, we appreciate all of you and hope you stay with us into the new year!

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Getting close to the end of the year, but we're still gaming! Mike enjoyed a GameCube nostalgia journey and also finally started Final Fantasy XIV, Ben finished Death Stranding and won the lottery in FF14, Jake is playing a ton of Escape from Tarkov and nearing the end of Remnant: From the Ashes with Mike.

Light news week with Sony announcing a paddle-like attachment for the DualShock 4, LaMulana 1 & 2 coming to consoles, and new Final Fantasy 7 Remake screenshots and information.

Bonus Round this week is a recap of The Game Awards!

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Jake is out sick with the "new gaming PC" flu, so Mike carries the torch with a ton of games, including What Remains of Edith Finch, Observation, Ape Out, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Modern Warfare. Ben is trying to finish both Death Stranding and Final Fantasy XIV before the end of the year.

Sony and Nintendo announced a bunch this week through press releases and videos, Rockstar released a new heist and radio station for GTA 5, and a Bayonetta/Vanquish remaster is coming early next year.

Bonus Round is our predictions for The Game Awards!

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December is here, but new games are not! Mike and Jake continue on with Remnant: From the Ashes, while Ben and Jake keep going with Death Stranding and Final Fantasy XIV.

In news the PS+ games for December have arrived, new SNES and NES games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online, Dead Cells has DLC coming in 2020, a NA release date for Persona 5 Royal, the 2.0 update for Super Mario Maker 2, more games coming to PSNow, and Snoop Dogg is now a commentator in NHL 20?

Bonus Round this week is chatting about games we stayed up far too late playing!

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Mike and Jake played both Jedi Fallen Order as well as Remnant: From the Ashes, Ben and Jake played Death Stranding and Civilization 6, and Mike and Ben played Risk of Rain 2!

News this week is another sneak peek into the FF7 remake, the Playstation Awards being broadcast globally for the first time, the Switch version of Elder Scrolls: Blades getting delayed, and the first major content drop for Modern Warfare.

Bonus Round this week is what we plan on grabbing for Black Friday!

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It's over, all the games are done for 2019 (basically)! Mike and Jake picked up Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order and both are enjoying their time so far, Ben started Death Stranding with positive results and Risk of Rain 2 with very mixed results.

Path of Exile 2's announcement is the big news this week, along with the nominees for The Game Awards 2019, along with Sony's official deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Bonus Round this week is us chatting about the games we want to finish before the end of the year!

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Quality over quantity this week, Mike remembered he played Man of Medan, Ben dove deep into Control, and Jake dove even deeper into Death Stranding.

News is extremely light with Black Ops 4 revamping their loot boxes, and in our Bonus Round we take a quick peek at all the announcements out of X019!

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