On this huge episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Suriel Vazquez, Ana Diaz, Kyle Hilliard, and Leo Vader unpack the year's highlights by debating the nominees and winners for our categories. We talk about the biggest games of the year like Final Fantasy VII Remake, The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Half-Life: Alyx, and more. Each category earns a Maximum winner and a Minimum winner, naturally. We stayed pretty vague, but we've noted in the timestamps below which games are very lightly spoiled in these discussions. The next two episodes of The MinnMax Show will cover our full game of the year debates, and you can watch us record them live early by jumping into the Backstage Pass tier on Patreon.

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:16 - Biggest News

00:22:14 - Best Thing

00:51:11 - Dumbest Thing

01:24:57 - Best Podcast Game

01:32:10 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

01:35:27 - Thanking iam8bit

01:41:11 - The Game We All Agree Is Probably Good But We Didn’t Play

01:53:42 - Best Character (Light, vague spoilers for The Last of Us Part II and Hades)

02:20:25 - Best Moment (Light, vague spoilers for The Last of Us Part II, Half-Life: Alyx, Kentucky Route Zero, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity)

03:33:00 - The Greatest Work Of Art Of All Time (2020)

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