Video Gamers Podcast
Game Of The Year 2025: The Video Gamers Podcast Awards Show – Gaming Podcast
15 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. 2025 has been one of the best years in gaming that we can remember and it's finally time for the official Video Gamers Podcast Award Show.
Chapter 2: What awards will be discussed in the Video Gamers Podcast for 2025?
Which games will receive our most prestigious awards? Which game will take home the Dog Turn trophy? Will the Smoke Show Award be back this year? We've got an incredible episode for you, but first, some introductions are in order.
I am your master of ceremonies, Josh, and joining me, he's my brother from another mother, my gaming buddy, and he's been nominated for the Video Gamers Podcast Content Creator of the Year Award.
it's right oh dude i so once you went to the content creator of the year i thought you were gonna just juke me with ace a hundred percent no i thank you everybody thank you for your voting thank you i love it i appreciate it oh bravo me i heard the burnt peanut voted for you Yeah.
Yeah. He's a big fan. And joining us, he's been nominated for best new host of the year. The Indy master extraordinaire, the guy who rose through the ranks from listener to host, but we're just glad we get the joy of calling him our friend. It's Ace.
It's an honor to be here. I'd like to thank all of my friends in the Discord for pushing me this way.
Hold on. Why didn't Ace get two nice ones in a row? I don't like this. Ryan, it's Christmas.
It's like the joyful time of year, man.
Look at Ace's.
Look at Ace. He's got a Santa hat on. His background's all jolly. And also, your intro was nice, Ryan. Yeah, you had a nice intro as well.
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Chapter 3: Which games were nominated for the Smoke Show Award?
Guys, I am so excited for this episode, man. This is a tradition. It is a yearly tradition. It is like, hey, Christmas is coming. Yeah. It's the end of the year of gaming. We've got a whole new year of games coming up. Yeah. You know, we've had people asking, like, are you guys going to do your like end of the year show? Of course, we're going to do the end of the year show.
And we have a show for you. So, guys, we have a lot to cover in this episode. But you know what? we're just, we're going to do what we love to do. And we're going to thank somebody to start this show off the right way. So we need to send a shout out to Larco who signed up for rare status to support the show. Larco. Thank you so much. Thank you very much.
Everybody else out there that supports this show. We love you all. Like all of you. Yes. You listening in your car on the way to work right now, you support the show. We love you. And you know what? If you don't, support the show we love you too maybe just a little bit less but we still love you i'm kidding i'm kidding i'm joking i'm joking i'm joking here Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you for your support and everyone else that supports, you know, and any facet, like, uh, it really means a lot to us. We've seen so much, uh, over the, over the year of, of what people, you know, I have, have,
you know taken from this podcast what we've uh contributed to their lives and it really genuinely means a lot for us and when you tell us that it means even more so please leave a review tell us what we mean to you like it really we read every single one we talk about them amongst ourselves um it's it's cool so thank you everybody thank you for all your support uh that you're that you give to us but uh but yeah thank you for everybody else as well yeah yeah
We wouldn't be here without the support of people. But also, we know that there are a lot of people that listen out there that say, hey, guys, I love what you do. I just don't have the means to financially support the show.
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Chapter 4: What are the nominees for the Most Promising Game Reveal?
Leaving us a review, honestly spreading the word, telling a friend, tagging us on social media, just helping people know that this podcast is out there is honestly one of the best things you can do. So... You can absolutely help in your own way.
And just to kind of summarize things for people, since we are at the end of the year, this podcast has grown year over year, but this year might be one of the best years of growth that we have had for three just dumb doofuses that love talking about video games. We are at a point now where we are... In the top, I think it's like 3% of podcasts in the world, which is crazy.
There's a lot of podcasts out there. It's impressive that we're at where we're at, but we're going to keep doing this. Who gave us microphones? Who gave us microphones, dude? I know, right? Yeah, that's still one of my favorite, like, mean comments that we got on social media. It's like, you know, just, like, they need to raise the cost of podcasting equipment.
Yeah, that made me slap someone. That was a solid burn. Solid burn. It was.
I appreciate a good, like, a good burn, man. You know? Like, yeah, absolutely. So, all right, guys. Let's get into this here. So... We're going to go.
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Chapter 5: Which games are considered the biggest disappointments of 2025?
How many categories do we have, man? We've got a good bit. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. We have ten categories to get through, boys. Oh, boy. That is a lot. I will tease this. We are going to have some drama because I've already told Ryan that we're going to fight, and we are going to fight.
uh on this show uh because ryan's a stupid doo-doo head uh and has some really bad takes so i'm sure that's coming up so you got that to look forward to as the internet agrees with you oh of course the internet's gonna because you're an idiot right what are you talking about nice time is over okay all right all right yeah there goes my nice intro i love you you know i love you so i can i can call you that
That's also why I gave you a nice intro so that I can just troll you the rest of this episode.
Perfect. That makes sense.
I love it. Perfectly balanced as all things should be. Exactly. All right. Oh, and one and one thing that we tried to do this year that's a little bit different is normally when we do these categories, we just give who we think is the best. But we have like nominees this year as well in most of these categories.
There's a few where we kind of went, well, there's not really like nominees for this one, but we do have some nominees to kind of keep things interesting as well. All right, guys, a category that is very unique to this show. I don't know that anybody else does this. This is just for fun, you know, but we've done it year over year.
You know, artists, the artists in games put a lot of work into making their characters attractive for the most part. And, you know, if you didn't get recognized for all that hard work to make very attractive characters in video games, we feel like that's a crime. And so we have the Smoke Show Award.
That is an award to nominate those rather attractive characters that we come across in video games. And our nominees for the Smoke Show Award, Invisigal from Dispatch. Woo! Blonde Blazer, also from Dispatch. Loon. I cannot say this name right. Loon, Loonay, Luna, Loon. I thought it was Loonay.
Whatever. I've heard Loon as well.
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Chapter 6: What are the most memorable moments in gaming for 2025?
It's French, right?
So Loon from Expedition 33. jemma from monster hunter wilds and ace's favorite we know who nominated this one luna snow from rivals oh is it on your arm where is it all right oh yeah he says luna snow tattoo there it is yeah that's actually that's a cool tattoo also that's my favorite one i've gotten this year i love the abyss this one but man i love my girl yeah
Alright, so guys, and just so people know, we have these nominees, but we each pick our own winner for each category here. So, Ryan, let's start with you. Who is your winner for the Smoke Show Award?
Well, for my Smoke Show Award of 2025, this is Casey Kasem. No, I'm just kidding. I gotta go.
There's like five people that knew that reference.
That's probably true, honestly. Like... Dang it. I dated myself again.
I got it.
I was like, well, that's pretty good. But everybody else is like, ooh. Oh, no. He got it, though, Ryan. I know.
He's older than me. I got to go with my girl, Vizzy. Invisigirl. I can change her. I can fix her. Even though she betrayed me. Even though she did not save me and stick with me in my playthrough on Dispatch. I like a bad girl, so I got to go with Vizzy.
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Chapter 7: What games are nominated for the Best Under-the-Radar Game?
Okay. That's fair. I mean, I understand one of those obsessions.
She's fine, all right?
She is fine. All right. Well, my official winner on this one, I will say this. I was really torn between two. Blonde Blazer? I am a gentleman that prefers blondes. My wife is blonde. So, you know, maybe there is that. And then, of course, my girl Luna from Expedition 33. Those were the two finalists for me.
I'm a little disappointed in Blonde Blazer's role in Dispatch for reasons that I won't go into here. So I'm going with Luna from Expedition 33. I know what you like, Luna. Listen, listen. We know we have listeners from all over the world. If anybody, if any of our French speakers can clarify how to say this stupid name for a dumb American like me, because it's like, is it Luna?
I think it's Loon.
No, I don't think it's just Loon. That seems...
i don't know anyway that's my winner you know she's she was one of the few that stayed in my party the whole game is it because you like no coincidence whatsoever guys no reason at all she was good she had good attacks for sure yeah did i grind for the uh for the swimsuit cosmetic no i did not because i don't i don't do accomplishments guys but i thought about it
Josh ain't gooning. Very nice.
All right. Okay. Now that we got the silliness out of the way, guys, it's time to get serious, boys.
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Chapter 8: Which game is declared Game of the Year for 2025?
Join me in the pits of embarrassment and unprofessionalism, Ryan. My man. Ryan's like the guy where he's like, bro, if you have to shave your head, I'm going to shave my head too.
I would do that for you, man. What a boy. I'm here for you. What a brother, Ryan. That's what I'm here for. Yeah, man. Thank you. But I am going to be the basic B, and I'm going to do GTA 6. Yeah, that makes sense. Man, this is – there's been a few delays on it, and I thought we were finally going to get it.
It was a while from when we kind of got that previous delay, and we thought end of the year, quarter four, we're going to get this game, and it's finally going to be something that – it's been how long since GTA V? So it's a long – It's like 10 years or something. An entire generation. Yeah, basically. I love all the stuff online always is like, oh, yeah, we got this before GTA 6.
There's a reason that that is going on. But make it right because this is going to be, I think, something that's revolutionary. I think there's going to be, honestly...
a legitimate economy within this game it is going to mean a lot to a lot of people it is going to bring value to a lot of people it is going to be a really really good game and there's just a lot there so it was it was really sad that it got delayed but it is what it is do it right we've already waited 10 plus years like what's another six months you know so
With them delaying it an entire year... Yeah, 12 months, actually. Sorry. Do you think that it wasn't actually ready? Do you think if they had tried to push it out in November that it would have caused problems? Or do you think that this year is literally going to just make it even greater?
What could, though? I know. A whole year of development with how much money Rockstar has... And a studio the size of Rockstar.
This is not like 10 people trying to make something happen.
A lot of developers are just crunching away every day on this game. And the chance to work at Rockstar, you're going to be grinding away. You're going to work over 40 hours for sure. So these people are putting a lot of time in this game. And to need a whole year? That, to me, is mind-boggling. It's hard to understand what would need fixed that much for that much of a delay.
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