2023’s Underappreciated Games & Valve's New Half-Life Documentary With Danny O'Dwyer

On this episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Kyle Hilliard to set the scene for MinnMax's game of the year debate. We share games we think more people should play before we record The Two Tens and recommend games that deserve more love this year. Leave a comment and let us know the games you think we should play before our debates. Then we're joined by NoClip's Danny O'Dwyer to talk about working directly with Valve to create the new documentary on the 25th anniversary of Half-Life and we answer a ton of great community questions submitted on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

Watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/C9K0meTjSwg

You can watch Danny O'Dwyer's Half-Life documentary here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3HzvFEto

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:05 - Prepping for Game of the Year debate

00:04:46 - Like A Dragon: Gaiden

00:06:38 - Kelsey preparing for The Two Tens

00:08:30 - RPGs and Star Ocean: The Second Story R

00:11:07 - Sea of Stars and Super Mario RPG

00:13:15 - Tchia

00:15:35 - A Space For The Unbound

00:17:47 - Octopath Traveler 2

00:20:16 - Hi-Fi Rush

00:25:01 - Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

00:26:39 - Humanity

00:29:33 - The Talos Principle 2

00:31:17 - The Making Of Karateka

00:32:36 - Theatrhythm Final Bar Line

00:33:01 - PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

00:34:04 - Pikmin 4

00:34:53 - Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

00:36:02 - Rapid-fire recommendations

00:39:31 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

00:46:23 - Community questions

00:56:59 - Assassin's Creed Nexus VR

01:00:20 - Danny O'Dwyer on working with Valve on the new Half-Life documentary

01:35:04 - More community questions

02:01:32 - Get A Load Of This

Danny's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DWxWVigsKI

Kyle's GALOT - https://www.tiktok.com/@littlesiha/video/7293627480978607391?_r=1&_t=8hWnimrHDZu

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/21/wallace-and-gromit-aardman-animations-reassures-fans-over-clay-shortage

Community GALOT - https://fxtwitter.com/CrowdControl/status/1726698316195680634

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