Revisiting our "Most Anticipated Games of 2024"

Plus, a huge holiday gift guide!

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How does The Bestie’s list of anticipated games from January look in the harsh light of November?  Listen to find out! Plus, we put together an extensive holiday gift guide to make your decisions easy this month.

Here’s our predictions episode from January.

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This week on The Besties Bonus Patreon: This Tuesday, the Resties go long on the biggest, weirdest surprise of the year: The extremely fun, Mission Impossible-inspired campaign of the new Call of Duty. For real! Plus, they share how they prepare for GOTY season. And this past Tuesday, The Besties Battle Bracket returned and picked the best party game of all time! Here’s the full back catalog of Patreon episodes for your perusal.

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Games discussed:

Dragon's Dogma 2, Unicorn Overlord, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Baby Steps, Animal Well, FF7 Rebirth, Alone in the Dark, Persona 3 Reload, Light No Fire, Hades 2, Hot Shots Golf Open Tee 2

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Movies discussed:

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

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The Besties Holiday Gift Guide:

For a parent

• An emulator handheld

• The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook

• Zengrip Ronin

• Deku Tree Lego Set

• Atari Lego Set

For a teenager

• A Steam or console storefront gift card

• Undertale kitchen collection

• Divoom 

For a kid

• Mario LEGOs

• The Sonic Adventures merch collection from Limited Run Games - Hoodies, T’s, trading cards!

• Nex Playground

For the indie gamer who has everything

• Stanley Parable Deluxe from iam8bit

• Kentucky Route Zero vinyl

• The Crimson Diamond 

For an old-school PC gamer

• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and accessories

• Disco Elysium: The Final Cut Collector’s Edition 

For an old-school console gamer

• Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

• Sega Dreamcast trading cards

• NES Ending Compendium

• Talking Conquer plush

• UFO 50

• LL Bean Flannel Sheets

For your Secret Santa

• An Etsy trinket based on their favorite game

• Dark Souls Siegmeyer Plush

• Zelda plush costume

• Balatro 

• Fields of Mistria

• LL Bean Flannel Pillowcase

• https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/2024/

For the person who loves stuff that’s books-level boring

• Outer Wilds: Design Work from Lost in Cult

• How a Game Lives by Jacob Geller

• Retro Gaming by Mike Diver

• Supernote Nomad

• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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Next week on The Besties:

On next week’s The Besties: Windblown and Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake

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Bonus links:

• What Fallout’s music means

• A fun, smart, helpful breakdown of Journey to the West adaptations

• The Retroid Pocket 5 looks SO GOOD

• Metal Slug Tactics looks SO GOOD