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LlamaPockets and LaughingMan have a sit down to each trade war stories with five games that have had the most positive or profound effect on their lives. Whether it was a game that changed the landscape of gaming, a game that shattered their minds, or a game that gave them inspiration to pursue life-long goals, we give our top 10 games that changed our lives. Most of the games are fairly popular, and come as no surprise, as they’re well established in the gaming cultural zeitgeist and have had similar affects on millions of gamers world-wide. However, the reasons why these games have had such an impact on them individually may leave you wondering which games left a permanent impression on you?

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Thanks largely to other YouTube gaming personalities, we’ve seen numerous videos and lists of bad video games. And while several of the games on our own list of Guilty Pleasure Video Games make repeat appearances on those “worst video games of all time” videos and lists, LaughingMan and LlamaPockets still have lots of fun with them. Whether it’s nostalgia goggles, or the games have been patched into playability, or the “professional game journalists” are talking out of the wrong hole, we still love them…

Sort of.
Kind of?

Maybe not… But we certainly still play them.

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In the wake of the cancellation of the 2020 E3 convention and the Tokyo Game Show, LaughingMan and LlamaPockets are watching Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest digital convention. The creator of the Video Game Awards is putting on a great show, with more long-form discussions that they both appreciate and enjoy. After major players like Nintendo and Sony have pulled out of E3, with Nintendo long holding its own digital Tree House event, are digital conventions like the Summer Game Fest the future of game conventions? While the content is certainly more prone to longer, more in-depth looks at new games and technology (Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 Remaster, Unreal Engine 5), it could be more stale and less “meme-able” than its live, more disaster-proned predecessors.

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After hearing rumors of Tetsuya Nomura (of Kingdom Hearts infamy) having a hand in the Final Fantasy VII Remake, a concerned LaughingMan cheated and, like Don Corneo, peeked up Cloud’s skirt to see the spoilers. Having played the original Final Fantasy VII, and eager to ramble about exactly how the story of the Final Fantasy VII Remake compares to the original game, he invites his long-time friend and fellow gamer, LlamaPockets, to discuss the revelations. Being notoriously bad at spoiling plot points, LaughingMan bites his tongue and waits impatiently as LlamaPockets finishes the game faster than a Netflix binge of “The Tiger King”.

And both of these Final Fantasy VII veterans have a lot to say about this long-anticipated remake of a game that each of them has played through at least 4x each.

What they discover is a game that has largely improved upon the original, but they wonder if the addition of the Whispers convolutes the plot, which has now gone off the rails.
The original Final Fantasy VII now feels like the “Sparknotes” version of this larger, fuller, and richer game.

LlamaPocket has nostalgia for Final Fantasy VII because it was his first real RPG experience, and he explains how revolutionary it was on the Playstation.
LaughingMan still defends his desire to name his first son “Vincent”, and Llama takes the piss.

We try to discuss exactly what the Whispers are, and we spin speculations of whether or not Aerith and Sepheroth are actually self-aware in the FF7 Remake of the events of the original. However, in doing so, it now appears to keep the original Final Fantasy 7 as canon.

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