The MinnMax Show

On this episode, Ben Hanson and Kyle Hilliard are joined by Ashley Glassel AKA Midnite and Devin Robinson AKA TTinyy to talk about the Minnesota Rokkr Call of Duty eSports team, Red Dead Redemption 2, and what it takes to play Call of Duty professionally. Then we're joined by Jeff Marchiafava and Jack Gardner to talk about Bioware's overhaul of Anthem, Geoff Keighley skipping E3 2020, and the final release of Media Molecule's Dreams. Then we open up the "MinnBox" and answer dozens of great questions from the community. We hope you enjoy the show!

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:30 - Minnesota Rokkr's Midnite and TTinyy on Call of Duty

55:45 - Anthem's reboot

1:05:50 - E3 2020's struggles

1:14:30 - Kunai

1:18:25 - Dreams' big release

1:35:00 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

1:43:20 - Community questions

3:01:20 - Get A Load Of This

Kyle's GALOT - https://twitter.com/the_darklorde/status/1225632961921372161

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/682247286/how-to-dial-911-from-space

Cheers Intro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiJ2SRgN9Zs

Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous support of MinnMax at the $50 tier!

Superhero Sinema Scoop

Iam8bit

Seth Walkee

BeatenDownBrian

Jawarhello

Mark Seliga

Jesse Vitelli

Zachary Pligge

Mirko Arico-Torreno

Byron Black

Christian King

The_Smak

David Lacolucci

On this episode of The MinnMax Show podcast, we welcome Ana Diaz (@analikespikachu) to help us rank our five favorite Super Nintendo games of all time. We all have a lovely time talking about Earthbound, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, and a whole lot more. Before we go retro, we cover the wild news of Dan Houser leaving Rockstar and what Kyle thinks of Zombie Army 4. In the back half of the show, we celebrate our new supporter iam8bit and are proud to announce the return of Question of the Week! If you'd like to submit a question or topic and potentially win an amazing item from iam8bit, please support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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4:30 - Final Fantasy VII Remake

6:20 - Rodeo Stampede

8:15 - Dan Houser Leaving Rockstar

11:00 - Zombie Army 4: Dead War

14:50 - Reggie Fils-Aimé podcast report

21:20 - Our top 5 SNES games

23:20 - Harvest Moon

29:10 - Secret of Mana

33:30 - Earthbound

44:00 - EVO: Search for Eden

46:30 - Super Mario Kart

51:20 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

57:10 - Metal Warriors

59:45 - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

1:03:30 - Super Mario World

1:08:10 - Donkey Kong Country

1:12:15 - Super Metroid

1:18:50 - Yoshi's Island

1:26:50 - Mega Man X

1:33:39 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

1:41:00 - Community questions

1:43:00 - WarCraft III Reforged

3:03:45 - Get A Load Of This

Kyle's GALOT - https://twitter.com/JosephGlass/status/1208754712079732738?s=20

JeffM's GALOT - http://www.citypages.com/news/minnesota-hates-wisconsin-loves-canada-and-cant-follow-instructions/567432261

Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous support of MinnMax at the $50 tier!

Superhero Sinema Scoop

Iam8bit

Seth Walker

BeatenDownBrian

Jawarhello

Mark Seliga

Jesse Vitelli

Zachary Pligge

Mirko Arico-Torreno

Byron Black

Christian King

The_Smak

David Lacolucci

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez wind back the clock to 2013 to talk about the big reveal of the PlayStation 4 at the legendary February event and what it might teach us about Sony's direction for the PlayStation 5 reveal. We also talk about Journey to the Savage Planet from Typhoon Studios and why Suriel loves Kentucky Route Zero. Then we dive into some wonderful questions from the community on Patreon. If you support MinnMax at any tier you get access to the private Discord and can leave questions or comments for us to read on the show! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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2:50 - The PlayStation 4's reveal versus the PlayStation 5

52:05 - Journey to the Savage Planet

58:30 - Kentucky Route Zero

1:13:15 - Disintegration Technical Beta

1:19:19 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

1:24:35 - Community questions

2:22:25 - Get A Load Of This

Suriel's GALOT -https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/etz64g/allihearisgeneralgrievoussayingfuckyou/

JeffM's GALOT - https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bkVkZnogM/?utmsource=igwebcopylink

Kyle's GALOT - https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/1217615217296674816

Hanson's GALOT - https://twitter.com/GameStop/status/1221947966195490816?s=20

Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous support of MinnMax at the $50 tier!

Michael Moran

Superhero Sinema Scoop

HyperDot

Jawarhello

BeatenDownBrian

Mark Seliga

Jesse Vitelli

Zachary Pligge

Mirko Arico-Torreno

Nick DeFeo

Adam Walker

The_Smak

Greg “FlaminQueso” Griffith

James Smith

Marc Charette

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! For the first section of the podcast, we talk about CyberConnect 2's Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Tokyo Mirage Sessions on Switch, and Darwin Project before jumping into wonderful community questions alongside developer Rex Crowle from Knights and Bikes, LittleBigPlanet, and Tearaway acclaim!

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1:50 - The Deepest Dive on Chrono Trigger

5:15 - Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

38:30 - Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore

46:45 - Darwin Project

53:10 - The Witcher 3 on Switch

57:55 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

59:55 - Rex Crowle on Knights and Bikes

1:11:20 - Community questions with Rex Crowle

1:34:30 - Community questions without Rex Crowle

2:20:55 - Get A Load Of This

Suriel's GALOT - https://twitter.com/bfod/status/1219859832796274688?s=19 Kyle Hilliard's GALOT - https://twitter.com/snorkpu/status/1219062910342725632?s=20 Ben Hanson's GALOT - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous support of MinnMax at the $50 tier!

Michael Moran

Superhero Sinema Scoop

HyperDot

Jawarhello

BeatenDownBrian

Mark Seliga

Jesse Vitelli

Zachary Pligge

Mirko Arico-Torreno

Nick DeFeo

Adam Walker

The_Smak

Greg “FlaminQueso” Griffith

James Smith

Marc Charette

On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez break down their most anticipated games of 2020. We cover everything from Cyberpunk 2077 to the remake of Final Fantasy VII. As Kyle puts it, these are the five games that we would grab first if they were all stacked in front of us. Then we answer some wonderful questions from Patreon supporters, thanks for leaving us so many great questions and comments every week!

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:40 - The Deepest Dive on Chrono Trigger

2:55 - Checking in on Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

5:16 - Yakuza: Like A Dragon

10:00 - Dying Light 2

13:30 - Little Nightmares 2

15:50 - Cyberpunk 2077

23:25 - Final Fantasy VII Remake

37:15 - Biomutant

39:40 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons

42:40 - Guilty Gear Strive

49:00 - Watch Dogs Legion

53:30 - Gods & Monsters

58:39 - Call of Duty's Battle Royale

1:01:45 - No More Heroes 3

1:06:00 - Ghost of Tsushima

1:12:00 - Resident Evil 3

1:14:30 - Half-Life Alyx

1:16:10 - More exciting games in 2020

1:39:05 - Thanking our community's biggest Patreon supporters

1:42:40 - Community questions

2:44:50 - Get A Load Of This

JeffM's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqu5SEFqRI

Suriel's GALOT - https://screencraft.org/2020/01/07/screenwriting-wisdom-from-j-j-abrams/ and the Polygon article on the Kinect - https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/14/21064608/microsoft-kinect-history-rise-and-fall

Kyle's GALOT - https://twitter.com/DiGiorno/status/1216885009254055939

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.wired.com/2007/09/mecca-in-orbit/

Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous support of MinnMax at the $50 tier!

Michael Moran

Superhero Sinema Scoop

HyperDot

Jawarhello

BeatenDownBrian

Mark Seliga

Jesse Vitelli

Zachary Pligge

Mirko Arico-Torreno

Nick DeFeo

Adam Walker

The_Smak

Greg “FlaminQueso” Griffith

James Smith

Marc Charette

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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this episode, we kick off the new year by announcing the next installment of The Deepest Dive community game club that is fueled by your comments and will be airing on January 22nd. Then we run down a gigantic list of games that we played and enjoyed over the holiday break before making some very bold predictions for the game industry in 2020. From the launch of the PlayStation 5 to the Xbox Series X, we cover it all. We also read a ton of community feedback and questions, thanks for leaving such great stuff at patreon.com/minnmax

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2:45 - Announcing the next Deepest Dive community game club

9:30 - Awesome Games Done Quick

11:45 - Resident Evil 6

15:00 - No Man's Sky

19:10 - Return to Jurassic Park

24:20 - Deltarune

26:25 - Untitled Goose Game

29:20 - Heave Ho

30:15 - Outer Wilds

34:30 - Forza Horizon 4's Eliminator

37:30 - A Short Hike

39:00 - My Friend Pedro

40:00 - Ape Out

42:10 - Wargroove

43:07 - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

48:50 - Moonlighter

54:45 - Wattam

57:30 - Afterparty

58:00 - Knights and Bikes

59:00 - Breath of the Wild

1:00:15 - 2020 game industry predictions

1:59:15 - Thanking MinnMax's supporters

2:02:45 - Community questions

2:44:15 - Get A Load Of This

Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous support of MinnMax at the $50 tier!

Michael Moran

Superhero Sinema Scoop

HyperDot

Jawarhello

BeatenDownBrian

Mark Seliga

Jesse Vitelli

Zachary Pligge

Mirko Arico-Torreno

Nick DeFeo

Adam Walker

The_Smak

Greg “FlaminQueso” Griffith

James Smith

Marc Charette

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 Or you can watch our video profile on her from Game Informer here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jzUQcwFFQY

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4:20 - Visiting Valve 11:20 - Half-Life: Alyx 25:30 - The MinnMax meetup on 12/9/19 at Bauhaus Brew Labs 28:50 - Our favorite game music tracks from 2019 29:20 - Control - Poets of the Gods' Take Control 31:15 - Kingdom Hearts III - Mount Olympus (Field) 35:00 - Borderlands 3 - Main Menu 38:00 - Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Main Theme 42:29 - Vane - Metamorphosis 45:15 - Heaven's Vault - Under the Eye of Kibenya 47:28 - Pokémon Sword and Shield - Gym Leader Battle Music 50:30 - Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - Mansion 52:50 - Cadence of Hyrule - Windmill 57:12 - 11-11: Memories Retold - Harry's Voyage 59:00 - The Outer Worlds - Main Menu Theme 1:05:00 - Death Stranding - Low Roar's Don't Be So Serious 1:10:00 - Sayonara Wild Hearts - Mine 1:12:45 - Ace Combat 7 - Charge Assault 1:19:57 - Thanks to our biggest supporters 1:24:19 - Questions/comments from Patreon 2:35:30 - Get A Load Of This

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 8:45 - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 39:20 - Pokémon Sword and Shield 1:00:40 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's leaked battle royale mode 1:05:45 - Minecraft Earth 1:07:50 - Obsidian's Grounded 1:09:10 - Age of Empires IV 1:11:50 - The future of Xbox Game Pass 1:21:35 - Thanks to our biggest supporters 1:23:05 - Questions/comments from Patreon 2:58:00 - Get A Load Of This

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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 25:30 - Death Stranding 53:26 - Pistol Whip 56:11 - Disco Elysium 1:02:45 - Thanks to MinnMax's biggest Patreon supporters 1:04:04 - Community questions 2:30:24 - Get A Load Of This

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 3:09 - Extra Life 2019 back at Game Informer 7:53 - Death Stranding 26:25 - Luigi's Mansion 3 36:10 - The reaction to Blizzcon 2019 45:00 - Diablo IV 49:50 - Overwatch 2 55:45 - Lonely Mountains: Downhill 58:55 - Terry Bogard in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 1:09:20 - Thank you to our biggest supporters on Patreon! 1:14:18 - Community questions 2:24:25 - Kyle start listening here 2:55:30 - Get A Load Of This

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 30:35 - Afterparty 39:35 - Kotaku's challenges 53:00 - Control 55:30 - Astral Chain 57:00 - Gears 5 59:50 - Grindstone 1:00:50 - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 1:04:19 - Untitled Goose Game 1:06:30 - Mario Kart Tour 1:07:15 - Destiny 2: Shadowkeep 1:10:05 - Little Town Hero 1:13:15 - Ring Fit Adventure 1:16:40 - Borderlands 3 1:19:34 - The community makes the show better 2:38:45 - Alternate names for MinnMax 2:50:20 - Get A Load Of This