Welcome to episode 50 of the Best Games Ever Show: a disturbing look at the best games pro-monarchy.
Video games are ridiculous monarchies. Nintendo’s biggest franchises all have you chasing a princess. Final Fantasy is filled with royals who appear as quest givers, party members, and protagonists. Fable III is all about seizing your divine right to rule, and leads to an infamous sequence in which you are tasked with deciding the fate of a kingdom through a series of binary decisions: the point of the sequence arguably shows how difficult it is to make a Sovereigns keep all their subjects happy and/or alive. For the most part, the video game monarchy is sympathetic: the medium carries more pro-royal sentiment than Ibrox’s home turf.
So, for most Republicans, gaming is hostile (not to be confused with Republicans, who tend to love video games because they also have lots of guns). But which games are the most disturbing? The most heinous bent of a knee? The most giggly crown? Which of these is the best, according to our esteemed panel of experts? To find out, you have to listen to this podcast here.
If you’re the kind of person who skips to the last page of a book (wrong people, fallen people, bad seeds), you can also simply read the summary below.
tom
tom picks football manager, need you to ask. You might be surprised if he chooses something else. But he didn’t. Although, he did fake it a little bit, and that was exciting. But then he didn’t. It’s less exciting. Thanks Tom.
Kelsey
kelsey chose long live the queena statistics-based visual novel about courtroom intrigue and dubious consent laws.
connor
World of Warcraft Possibly the most royally obsessed game of all, its decades-long storyline has always focused on who sits on which throne. As Connor pointed out, it also hosts numerous guilds, which all have masters. A kind of micro-monarchy. Some of them like to, uh, engage in a little bit of minor embezzlement.
“What is iGamesNews’s best gaming podcast ever?” you ask? Well, it’s essentially a 30-minute panel show where people (Jim Trinca and co) decide the best game in a particular category. That’s it. very good. listen to this.
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