The MinnMax Show

Merry Christmas, MinnMax supporters! You've been so generous with your support this year, we wanted to say thanks by releasing an episode over the holidays. On this very special episode, we're reunited with both Elise Favis and Javy Gwaltney as we call up wonderful community members in the exclusive Discord to learn which games we overlooked this year. If you enjoy this episode, please consider sharing it with a friend! We'll be taking next week off, but there will be some content released on MinnMax's YouTube channel.

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:20 - Elise Favis on The Washington Post and friendship

12:30 - Spoiler-free Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker impressions

15:20 - Fortnite

17:30 - The Outer Wilds

24:45 - Luigi's Mansion 3

29:50 - Trails of Cold Steel 3

33:10 - Slay the Spire

38:00 - Teamfight Tactics

40:45 - Untitled Goose Game

44:15 - Observation

48:00 - The Division 2

52:25 - Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

58:30 - The Surge 2

1:00:55 - Streets of Rogue

1:05:10 - Thanking the community's biggest supporters

1:07:10 - Community questions

1:07:35 - Disco Elysium

1:12:05 - More community questions

1:54:25 - Get A Load Of This

Welcome to the biggest show of the year! On this episode, we build up and then whittle down a list of the greatest games from 2019 to create the official ranking for MinnMax. We hope you enjoy the discussion! If you don't like our list, you'll have a chance to fix it on this Saturday in the official MinnMax Discord for Patreon supporters. We'll be calling in community members to share their thoughts on the greatest games released this year.

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5:25 - Creating the list of contenders

18:00 - Whittling down the list

1:53:15 - Ranking the Two Tens

2:49:00 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

2:53:55 - Community questions

3:28:45 - Get A Load Of This

Please support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

We're proud to introduce The MinnMax Awards! On this week's episode, we're happy to air our big debate in its entirety as we lock down the winner and runner-up for a cavalcade of categories. Please let us know what we got wrong... maybe you'll have a chance to fix it in the future. Next week on the show we'll be tackling our full Game of the Year discussions in a similar format. We hope you enjoy this big episode!

You can still donate for us to buy toys and games for kids stuck in the hospital over the holidays right here - https://www.gofundme.com/f/sweet-toys-for-sick-kids-from-minnmax

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9:15 - The Biggest News

45:12 - The “Oh, that came out this year?" Award

1:03:26 - The Game We All Agree is Probably Good But We Didn’t Play

1:15:28 - Dumbest Thing

1:32:40 - Favorite Thing

1:50:30 - Best Podcast Game

2:02:00 - The Honorary "Good Job, Capcom" Award

2:12:47 - The Greatest Work Of Art Of All Time For 2019

2:17:10 - The Most Aggressively Mediocre Game

2:22:55 - Best Character

2:32:00 - Best Moment

3:03:40 - Thanks To Our Biggest Patreon Supporters

3:07:40 - Community Questions

3:31:35 - Get A Load Of This

On this week's episode, we rip off the band-aid and break down our game of the year choices for each year throughout the last decade. This is a fun and sometimes painful stroll down memory lane, we also admit where we were completely wrong in retrospect.

Just a reminder, we have our first MinnMax community meetup on Monday, December 9th at 8pm at Bauhaus Brew Labs in Minneapolis. You don't have to be a Patreon supporter to swing by. If you're not in Minneapolis, we're raising money to buy toys for kids stuck in the hospital over the holidays right here - https://www.gofundme.com/f/sweet-toys-for-sick-kids-from-minnmax

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4:30 - Our 2010 Game of the Year

14:35 - Our 2011 Game of the Year

24:55 - Our 2012 Game of the Year

36:00 - Our 2013 Game of the Year

47:10 - Our 2014 Game of the Year

57:10 - Our 2015 Game of the Year

1:11:05 - Our 2016 Game of the Year

1:22:50 - Our 2017 Game of the Year

1:31:45 - Our 2018 Game of the Year

1:42:50 - Our 2019 Game of the Year... plans

1:46:40 - MinnMax's Game of the Decade

1:50:15 - Thanks to our biggest supporters

1:53:30 - Community questions

3:11:19 - Get A Load Of This

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! We have a very special episode this week as we're joined by music expert/podcaster Emily Reese to talk about her journey to Valve to play Half-Life: Alyx and record podcasts with the audio team. We also couldn't ask for a better guest to join us in raking our favorite video game tracks from 2019, you can check out the timestamps below if you miss the name of the song. We also talk a bit about MinnMax's first community meetup that will be on December 9th at 8pm at Bauhaus Brew Labs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then we're joined by Jeff Marchiafava to answer a mountain of wonderful questions from the Patreon community.

Learn more about Emily Reese's podcast/Patreon here - https://www.patreon.com/Level

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4:20 - Visiting Valve

On this week's show, we unload our full thoughts on Star Ward Jedi: Fallen Order from Respawn and how the game compares to Dark Souls. We also do the appropriate amount of venting and celebrating the release of Pokémon Sword and Shield before talking about Microsoft's X019 and the continually absurd value of Xbox Game Pass. After that, we turn the show over to MinnMax's Patreon supporters as we answer some of your best questions from the week. Thanks again for all of your support on Patreon, it's amazing to see MinnMax continue to grow.

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4:25 - Shenmue 3

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On this week's episode of The MinnMax Show, we're joined by Javy Gwaltney to talk BioWare and the future of the Mass Effect series. After that, we talk about Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding (PlayStation provided several of our copies) and Disco Elysium on PC. Then we dive into some wonderful community questions! If you want to contribute to the community questions, please consider supporting us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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9:45 - The future of Mass Effect

On this week's episode of The MinnMax Show, we pick Suriel's brain for his (spoiler-free) thoughts on Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding and Kyle talks about the ghastly horrors of Luigi's Mansion 3 on the Nintendo Switch. Then we unpack the internet's reaction toward BlizzCon 2019, trying to weigh excitement over Dibalo IV and Overwatch 2 with Blizzard's moves to crack down on free speech from players. We also lighten the mood again by talking about Sakurai's sweet showcase for Terry Bogard in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Our deepest thanks again to everybody that supported us on Patreon and made this entire thing possible! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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1:20 - The Outer Worlds community game club reminder

Welcome to The MinnMax Show! On the first real episode of the podcast, we talk about playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Afterparty from Night School Studios. After that, we talk about Kotaku's frustrating saga surrounding corporate ads via G/O Media and run down every game release that we missed since Kyle, JeffM, and Suriel lost their jobs at Game Informer. Then we make the show better by reading the community's wonderful questions before revealing our new closing segment. Our deepest thanks again to everybody that supported us on Patreon and made this entire thing possible!

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12:00 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare