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The Besties Polygon
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4.6, 634 Ratings
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It's Game of the Year meets King of the Hill as four of Earth's best friends – Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Chris Plante, and Russ Frushtick – rank and review their favorite video games. Because shouldn't the best of game be chosen by the best of friends?
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2019 Recap Special
The Besties bid farewell to 2019 with the highs and lows of some of the biggest trends of the year.
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Game of the Year Part 2
Time to decide the best video game of 2019. We've tabulated our votes, and we're even including a surprise bracket, as voted on by the fans. Here we go, folks. It's all led to this.
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Game of the Year Part 1
Who better to pick the world's best games than the world's best friends? The Besties kick off the 2019 Game of the Year special with an intense melee of the greatest video games to walk the Earth in the last 12 months.
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Death Stranding
Who likes walking? Justin likes walking! Hideo Kojima's long-awaited walking epic captures Justin's heart, but will the other Besties be as charmed? Also: What other games would be well-served by entering the "Strand" genre?
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Pokémon Sword and Shield
Griffin loves his adorable little pocket monsters and tries his very best to convince the boys that they are truly creatures of god. This is generally ineffectual. Also: Pokémon that get far, far worse the more they evolve.
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
The Besties are back! This week they're discussing Respawn's Star Wars game, Jedi: Fallen Order, and diving into the weird world of deep cut Star Wars lore, from Yaddle to jizz (literally the official term for the genre of music in the cantina scene) .
Customer Reviews
Blesties
Seriously great video game podcast featuring some TITANS of the industry. I used to read Justin’s articles on Joystiq and love basically everything the McElroy brothers do. Alongside Justin and Griffin, we’ve got Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante and the four of them just have amazing, hilarious and insightful dialogue about video games. Highly recommended!
Good for the most part
Very interesting and engaging to listen to. The hosts have a great rapport and are entertaining.
At one point Justin McElroy (one of the hosts) says that this is ‘his’ podcast. Part of me hopes that isn’t true because he’s the main reason I’ve taken away a star. It seems like half the time he can’t be bothered to play the games or prepare his thoughts, and yet he frequently he criticizes the other hosts simply for disagreeing with him or saying something he disagrees with. It comes off as self-absorbed, and that takes away from the show.
I have followed the show to Spotify, and look forward to listening to it more.
It’s a game of telephone
I listened to heroes and halfwits(Rooster teeth show) and when that ended I looked for another d&d show and found The adventure zone (McElroy show) and I’ve listened to the RT podcast for years so I listened to MBMBAM( McElroy) and then I hear an ad for a McElroy podcast on the RT podcast. They’ve collaborated a bit but I never knew about it. Loves the McElroys and RT.
