The Besties Best Game Bracket: 2024 Edition
Fun fact: The Besties is older than the Game Awards
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We did it! After a long year, we all made it to the annual Besties Besty Bracket. If this is your first end-of-year bracket, here’s how it works.
We create a 16-seed bracket to choose the podcast’s official game of the year. The Besties nominate 12 contenders and the listeners vote in a poll to select four. The bracket showdowns take place across two episodes.
This week we present the first episode, in which The Besties work their way through the entire first round. That’s eight big showdowns, culminating with one of the most brutal face-offs of the year.
Next week, we will complete the second round to narrow down our final four. And to wrap things up, we’ll organize those games (plus a bonus game from the pool of losers) to create our official top 5.
It reads like a bunch of rules. But listener, it sounds divine. Join us, won’t you?
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This week on The Besties Bonus Patreon: This past Tuesday, the Resties talked about the brand new Batman Arkham game and a batshit platformer that echoes Wario, Pizza Tower, and Boogerman.
Round 1:
Astro Bot vs. Rise of the Golden Idol
Animal Well vs. Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
UFO 50 vs. Fields of Mistria
Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth vs. 1000 x Resist
Tactical Breach Wizards vs. Steamworld Heist 2
Crow Country vs. Elden Ring DLC
Dragon's Dogma 2 vs. Helldivers 2
Balatro vs. Metaphor Refantazio
Surprise, 10 free 1-month trials of The Besties Patreon!
The first ten people to click this link and claim the reward will get access to a free month of The Besties Patreon! The gift subscriptions come from friend-of-the-show Kyler Starr.
Starr hosts Y-Button, a wonderful show that interviews people from across the industry about what keeps them interested in games and what excites them about the future. Here’s a link to an episode with Plante!
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On next week’s The Besties: The Besties pick the Best of 2024!!!
Bonus links:
Plante and Frushtick’s view at The Game Awards! (We’ll talk about the experience on next week’s episode)
The biggest game announcements and trailers from The Game Awards 2024
“Like my brother Geoff Keighley, I too cried at the Okami sequel trailer”
Frushtick and Plante rode across LA in a driverless car and lived to tell about it
I want to shout out the GotY Award’s Orchestra for rocking the show. That one dude going ham on the righthand corner of the orchestra was a delight and the GotY mashup was fantastic this year. The piece accompanying the Okami sequel reveal was also beautifully done. Kudos to them!
Who's going to tell them that Hunter X Hunter is also just called Hunter Hunter?