VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.34: The best game that suffers from bloating

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Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 34 - the champion crippled that suffers from bloating

Bloat was intelligibly connected each our minds successful the afterglow of the christmastide season, truthful we did an full podcast astir the concept. But we're not talking astir being afloat of mince pies, here: we're connected astir video crippled bloat. The scourge of modern times, that has turned what utilized to beryllium a amusive escapist hobby into the afloat clip occupation of icon janitoring. Games are truthful rammed with the dreaded "content" present that dev cycles are starting to beryllium measured successful decades alternatively of years. It's an industry-wide problem, and we're each bushed of it.

But which crippled is the worst offender, according to our esteemed sheet of turkey-stuffed commentators?

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Cast: Tom Orry, Alex Donaldson, Connor Makar, and Jim Trinca.

Our picks this week (SPOILERS AHEAD):

Tom - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Nintendo's astir Ubisofty game, but 1 with a estimation for having fixed open-world plan problems, actually. This volition beryllium a hard 1 to pitch.

Alex - Persona 4: Golden

Persona games are reasonably meaty erstwhile they archetypal travel out, but ATLAS has a wont of re-issuing them with a load of other worldly glued on, crammed in, and smeared over, to the constituent wherever the games really go worse: much unwieldy, much of a chore, and little fun. But these updates are usually bundled with a suite of QoL updates that marque the archetypal releases precise hard to spell backmost to. It's a precise peculiar signifier of torture, arsenic Alex explains.

Connor - Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy games person perfectly ballooned successful caller years to the constituent wherever the outgo and clip it takes to marque 1 has spiraled retired of power successful an alarming way. And according to Connor, XV's boring side-content is 1 of the astir miserable broadside effects of this.

“What is VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast?” you ask? Well, it is fundamentally a 30-minute sheet amusement wherever radical (Jim Trinca and associates) determine connected the champion crippled successful a circumstantial category. That's it. It's good. Listen to it.

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