Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
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What are the top indie games discussed in this episode?
hello fellow gamers and welcome to the video gamers podcast i'm your host ace and today we're talking our top indies but before that with me is my indie brother in arms john hey what's up everybody super stoked for this episode oh this is gonna be a good one i'm very excited for this one and of course my newest recruit to the indie army The one and only Ryan.
Listen, I'm slowly accepting that some indie games are good. I'll take that.
Yeah, Ace, I would be a little hesitant to name him amongst our ranks today. Just with his very, very lukewarm response to Claire Obscure. I don't know. I don't know. He might be a defector in the making.
That could have been a triple A game. I would have the same response. So the developer made no difference.
Well, clearly, because it didn't make any difference for you how you felt about it. I mean, Baldur's Gate 3 won Game of the Year. It's an indie technically, so I'm thinking we're probably going to see another indie win Game of the Year, if you ask me.
There's two great contenders so far. I mean, between Claire Obscura and Kingdom Come. Do we actually even consider Kingdom Come 2?
I think technically two isn't, but one is. It's semantics, all sorts of stuff like that. But, you know, we got a really exciting episode here where we're going to break down our personal top five indies. And I'm very excited because I definitely have a lot I really want to talk about. I know you definitely do.
Yeah. I was like when when you mentioned that this was going to be the topic of this show and we're sort of curating it. I started thinking immediately. I was like, my top five indies is almost my top five just games in general. You know, I. Yeah. We've had several conversations about this where indie games tend to feel like they have a lot more heart and they're able to take better risks because the financial risk is not as important. Well, it's probably more important, honestly.
It's probably pretty devastating, honestly.
Why are indie games considered more heartfelt than AAA games?
They put a lot on the line. Yeah, exactly. Sink or swim. Yeah, a bad game will probably tank an independent studio. But it happens with the bigger titles, too. Anyway. Most of my favorite games are indies, so this is awesome.
I'm in the same boat. I know you are too, right, Ryan? Most of your favorite games are surely indie games.
Totally, they are. My name's not Shirley.
Thanks for butchering that quote, by the way. I know. My name is not Shirley. I like indie games.
I just tend to like the polished depth of AAA titles. But I'm not taking away anything from what these indie developers do. I think they do some amazing work. They're doing the Lord's work, man. This stuff they create with, like, 5, 3, 10, 20-man teams is Claire Obscura, 30-man. Like, that's amazing. So, you know, no things against them. But, yeah, man, I'm excited to see what everybody's game is.
Is it safe to say you're also like a Nickelback fan and a Creed fan? Like, like really over.
Well, you know, we all just want to be big rock stars. No, gosh, no Nickelback. I just, I can't say the name without. They made a lot of money, though. I'll tell you that much. They did. They're doing something right. They're still around.
There's a lot of big, steamy piles of poop that have made a lot of money out there.
So did McDonald's, but here we are. Yeah, at least they're consistently poopy.
I love talking about what's coming out in the indie scene, but I definitely love talking about what I already love from the indie scene. So this episode is going to be very fun for me. Because like I've said before, I think indies are the...
purest form of a game it's the dream straight from the mind of a developer completely unfiltered as long as it's you know legal you know what's interesting ace i i'm curious about your feedback on this i feel are you familiar with a24 movies that yes yes okay So they ended up rising to prominence and they're releasing a lot of movies now because the AAA movie titles have lost so much money over time. Like they've become stale and sort of repetitive and A24 started investing in these more like esoteric titles that have done really well on smaller budgets. And now a lot of titles, a lot of bigger movie companies are sort of following suit.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the top indie games discussed in this episode?
0:11–2:19
2
Why are indie games considered more heartfelt than AAA games?
2:19–6:24
3
What makes Hades a standout indie game?
6:24–11:19
4
How does Death's Door explore themes of mortality?
11:19–16:09
5
What unique gaming experiences does Lethal Company provide?
16:09
6
What is the significance of music in indie games?
4:11–8:51
7
How do indie games challenge traditional gaming norms?
8:51–1:13:14
Speakers
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