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We are reacting to the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct. After managing to dodge an entire day of spoilers you will hear our raw takes as we see the direct for the first time. Afterwards, we briefly dig through things like pricing, announcements, and overall impressions. https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Welcome to our Game of the Year Podcast for 2024. This years choices are by far the most diverse we've ever had. Let's see what made 2024 special in gaming and beyond. Here's our Categories:   Looking Back: Personal top 3 from last year and if we still agree with the order   Best Old Game: Game that came out a previous year or a live service game that didn't quite make your top 10)   Best Music   Most disappointing game:   The “We like other things as well” Category: Top 3 media we loved this year that wasn't a Video Game. (Movies, Books, Albums, TV, anime, Board Games, CCG ECT.)   Add it to the Back Log: aka 2 games you wanted to play this year but didn't get a chance to   Our Top 10 Games of 2024   Bit of a monster Podcast but we hope you enjoy; We especially hope you were inspired to try a game you might not of otherwise. See you next year   Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

We're back from a haitus not talk about anything current, but to travel to the gaming stone age of 2014! How was the First year of the PS4 and Xbox One? The Wiiu and the VITA were still a factor, but one had a much better year than the other. And boy, the PS3 was long in the tooth but you wouldn't know it from the game release schedule. Follow along as we trek 2014 from January to December. We'll see you next for GOTY 2024, it's been a good one.   Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Welcome back to Big Bandit Gaming! This week explore the early narrative powerhouse Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. We explore whats it like coming back to the game a decade on and for the majority of the crew what the experience is the first time through. Before we dive into the meat of the podcast we briefly touch upon Prince of Persia the Lost Crown, Stellar Blade, Stardew Valley, Hades 2, and a few more. Thanks for joining us and as always thanks for listening. https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

We convene after a long break playing more games than we could possibly cover in one show. With that said, In this episode we talk about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Helldivers 2, and Colton's journey with Baldurs Gate. Everybody in the podcast is playing a different Persona (Not planned) and Josh builds a new PC. Thanks for listening and we'll see you next time!   https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

The list is closing on the top 5 games that made the largest impact to the hosts of BBG. Thank you so much for listening, See you next time!   Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

A little late to the party on our Game of the Year Episode for 2023 but with good reason! 2023 was packed with so many awesome games we needed some extra time to play through them. This year, we decided to expand out our categories bit to further celebrate and discuss the games we all spent time playing. So Without further adieu here are our categories for this episode. - Looking back (Our Top 3 from last year and if we still agree on the order) - Best Old Game of 2023 - Best Music - Most Disappointing Game -Our top 10 Games of the year Picks 10-6 Listen to Part two to hear our top 5 games of the year!   Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

We're are here once again folks, Josh was the clear winner for 2023 so we wipe the slate clean and bid for the best games of 2024. Victoria and Colton are a team again, Javi comes back for his second round of the competition, while Troy and Izayah rave about games no one else will care about. Join us through our audio streams or watch the list built live on our Youtube channel. Happy 2024 and thanks for listening. https://linktr.ee/big_bandit_gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar, Victoria Green, Javier Solis Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic  

We're coming in with some of the best games we've played this year in a year already packed with great games. We kick it off with Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario Brothers Wonder. Josh played and beat Final Fantasy 16 and has some surprising takes. At the end of the podcast we discuss the Game Award Nominees as they were dropped live while we were recording. As always thanks for listening! Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Hi and welcome back! In this episode are covering a good amount of RPG's including Starfield, Baldur's Gate and Sea of Stars. Troy talks about building a FPGA MISTER for retro games and at the end we lay on the table our most wanted sequels. Thanks for Listening! Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Troy bought a PSVR2, Izayah is hacking a Wii, Josh gets bullied off of a video game, and Victoria needs a case for her new Kindle. And for the big stuff, a new numbered Final Fantasy is upon us and Blizzard released a new video game. Thanks for listening! Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Join us as we struggle to find nice things to say about the 360/PS3 "Classic" Alice Madness Returns and reflect on bad games we played as a kid and how that helps us view games today. This episode was recorded a month ago and some life happening have put us on a temporary hiatus. We will start recording again here soon but we hope you enjoy this bonus episode in the meantime. Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

We're finally back with a big ole heap of awesome games! Tears of the Kingdom is of course the star of the show but we also discuss Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Factorio, Hades and more! Also, we discuss what's going on with Xbox after maybe one of the the worst months ever for that brand and briefly touch on the Playstation showcase as well. Glad to be back and thanks for listening!

The Crew has seen the Mario Movie, watched anime, and have played a fair few number of new and old releases. These include multiple versions of Resident Evil 4, Dead Space, and Meet Your Maker. Once we talk our way through the games and media we hand it off to Josh who put together our Second edition of the Big Bandit Game show. Join us and Enjoy!   (00:01:13) What we're Playing (00:55:23) The Big Bandit Game show Ep.2 Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

We resume the Ranking of Playstation by sorting through a monster list of Playstation games spanning from the PS1 to the PS5! There's a video version of the list in action on our Youtube channel as well. https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

It's been a busy few weeks but the crew manages to get together to every rank Playstation Console released in the United States. We also find some time to chat about Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, The Resident Evil 4 Demo, Metroid Dread, and of course the recent Final Fantasy 16 Gameplay Previews. A video version is on our Youtube channel if you'd like to follow along visually! Part two is coming soon where we rank a monster list of Playstaion Exclusives spanning from the PS1 all the way to the PS5. https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

The Last month saw so many new game releases and as it so happens we've played a lot of them . In this episode we cover the big new releases(also some anime talk near the beginning) with titles like Hi Fi Rush, Dead Space Remastered, and Hogwarts Legacy as well as many others. From there we look at the release calendar for the next three months to see what each of us is excited to play and as always, thanks for listening. https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:05:57) So Many Games (01:35:20) The Next Three Months Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Josh hosts our very first games show where we compete to see who can most accurately guess how the various games of 2013 (recorded in tandem with our 2013 time machine episode) scored on Metacritic. Listen to see who comes out on top! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Josh Delamar Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Troy Olsson Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic Music by the Consouls (We do not own)

The BBG crew continues our trek through 2013! We start in July where Sony deals a devastating blow to Microsoft at E3 and the Last of Us releases and becomes one of the most important games of the last decade. We then follow that up with loads of amazing games right up to the end of the year where the next generation of consoles begins. Join us in the time dumpster and enjoy! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

The Crew has a time dumpster in hand and ready to travel back 10 years to 2013. The PS3/360 generation is in its last year, the Wiiu is a just few months old, and we're about to see the first official news on the PS4 and Xbox "Durango". Join us this episode as we travel back to the first half of 2013 as well as give some brief thoughts on Fire Emblem Engage and Hi FI Rush! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:00:36) Intro (00:10:18) Back to 2013 Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

It's 2023 and we're ready start a new Games publishing draft using the site fantasycritic.games. Competing with each other we will race to grab up what we think will be the highest critically rated games of the year. The site does break half way through our podcast but we did our best to power through and finish the draft. Fun! https://www.fantasycritic.games/league/5c9dc149-25a2-4009-919f-59bc5277deea/2023 https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar, Victoria Green, Javier Solis Cover Art: Javier Solis Youtube Video Edit: Izayah Sandoval Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic    

It's the holidays and it's that time of year! This episode we share our own personal top ten games of the year as well as some quick thoughts on the Game Awards. While not the the strongest year in gaming we still manage to make a diverse list of awesome games. Thanks for listening and we look forward to recording in 2023! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:00:16) Intro/ The Game Awards (00:21:42) Game of the Year Lists Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

We're coming at you with a handful of the biggest games this holiday! Does Bayonetta 3 live up to the legacy of it's two excellent predecessors? Did Sonic Frontiers live up to  Izayah's lofty expectations? Does God of War make up for the lack of big triple A titles this year? This, and more! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:00:05 ) Intro (00:06:50) What We're Playing (00:16:39) Bayonetta 3 (00:42:24) Sonic Frontiers (01:10:46) God of War: Ragnarok (02:05:15) Ending (or is it?) Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Youtube Thumbnail Art: Samantha Fortner Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic  

Join us as the crew starts on what we've currently been playing and what games we're looking forward to for the rest of the year. We then discuss our history with indie games and make a group list of indie games you should really check out if you haven't had the opportunity. Thanks for listening! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:00:36) What we've been playing (00:15:46) Our History with Indie games (00:27:00) BBG's Indie Game Picks Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

In this weeks episode we compare and vote on who had the best two years of their life cycle. Will it be the Switch, Playstation 5, or Xbox Series X/S? Find out who came on top! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Josh Delamar Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Troy Olsson Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

We are back with part two of our Nintendo Tier List! We rank every first Party Switch game we've played. (No friendships were lost during the making of this list) https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar, Dalton Puckett Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Ooooo yeah, It's a group tier list. Join us as we rank the Super Mario games and all of Nintendo's main line of consoles and handhelds. It stays mostly civil (this episode) and hold up for part 2 coming next week where we rank every Nintendo published Switch game we've played up to this point! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:01:30) Ranking Super Mario Games (00:43:16) Ranking Nintendo Consoles and Handhelds Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar, Dalton Puckett Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Join us on our second BBG Game Club episode as we discuss our recent play through of INSIDE from developer Playdead (00:11) Intro (00:03:11) History and Background (00:23:06) Thoughts and Impressions Host: Troy Olsson Guest: Colton Green, Josh Delamar, Izayah Sandoval Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

In this episode the four of us share our top 5 games of the year so far. We also discuss the games we missed from this year and would like to come back to, as well as the games we're excited to play for the rest of the year that have yet to come out. https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:00:48) Game of the Year list (so far) (01:38:46) Past and Upcoming Games we want to play for 2022 Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Troy ranks the main Final Fantasy games and gives some quick thoughts and opinions along the way. Just a quick Bonus Pod on our off week and if you'd like to see the list being built check out our Youtube Channel! https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

We have a lot of catching up to do this episode as we discuss all the games we've been checking out these last few months from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredders Revenge to Loot Hero. Our Fantasy List also heats up as every big games drops into 2023 and we scramble to bid on whats left https://www.fantasycritic.games/league/5c9dc149-25a2-4009-919f-59bc5277deea/2022 https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:03:15) What we're Playing (01:12:00) Fantasy Critic Update Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Josh Delamar Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

This episode we share some brief overall thoughts on the summer of game announcements before watching and reacting to our favorite trailers of the various shows. (While this is still an enjoyable listen I encourage you to check out our Youtube channel this episode to visualize what we're reacting to with us. Our Youtube channel is in our Linktree below.) https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:00:08) Intro/Summer Games Fest impressions (00:08:08) The Summer Game Shows wishes and predictions (01:14:28) Outro extra Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Josh Delamar, Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Today we discuss our recent play through of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West in our new series Big Bandit Games (BBG) Game Club! Does this 2010 PS3/360 cult classic hold up to modern day standards? Well, maybe not, but its been a fun interesting look back nonetheless (00:09) Intro (00:02:00) History and Background (00:21:20) Thoughts and Impressions Host: Troy Olsson Guest: Colton Green Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

In today's episode we talk about the games that have been keeping us busy during this pre E3 drought. Games including  Switch Sports, Horizon: Forbidden West and would you believe it a tiny bit of Elden Ring (Not a lot, we promise). We also briefly talk about all the shows coming up the next two weeks, from The Summer Games Fest to the Inevitable unannounced Nintendo Summer Direct. Join us! https://www.fantasycritic.games/league/5c9dc149-25a2-4009-919f-59bc5277deea/2022 https://linktr.ee/Big_Bandit_Gaming (00:07:52) What we're Playing (00:42:18) The Summer Game Shows wishes and predictions (01:30:15) Fantasy Critic Update Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Josh Delamar, Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic  

In this weeks episode we have a more personal discussion on the games that left a long lasting impression on us and went beyond the screen to our real lives to become the games that made us (00:00:11) Intro (00:06:51) News (01:20:57) Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Game Club) Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Big Bandit Gaming is back from a brief hiatus where we discuss the games we've been playing, Victoria's books, News and most importantly the screen time of Sonic's feet, yay! (00:02:26) What we're Playing (00:43:00) News (01:19:40) Fantasy Critic Update Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green, Izayah Sandovol, Dalton Puckett, Victoria Green Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Big Bandit Gaming is back once again to talk about new releases like Tunic and discuss our feelings on the big three console makers current online service offering. We also talk about what we'd like to see in Playstation's forthcoming Project Spartacus and what it could do to stack up to the juggernaut that is Xbox Game Pass (00:04:20) What we're Playing (00:31:05) The Big threes service offering (01:03:56) What We Want From Project Spartacus (01:29:15) Fantasy Critic Update Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Josh Delamar, Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval Cover Art_ Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Just a quick little bonus clip of Colton and Troy trouble shooting Discord while talking about Elden Ring Follow Big Bandit Gaming on Twitter and Instagram to see when new episodes drop Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Colton Green Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

Big Bandit Gaming gets together to discuss Elden Ring and our history with FromSoftware's Souls series! (00:00:00) Heads UP (00:01:10) Intro (00:03:02) History with the Souls Series (00:18:45) Elden Ring Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Josh Delamar, Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Dalton Puckett Cover Art: Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic

In our Inaugural episode we talk about the games we're currently playing including Horizon: Forbidden West, Lost Ark, and Elden Ring. We also cover the ENTIRE release history of the Uncharted games in the wake of the Uncharted Movie and the release of The Legacy of Thieves Collection. And to wrap up we recap on our Video game Fantasy League. https://www.fantasycritic.games/league/5c9dc149-25a2-4009-919f-59bc5277deea/2022 (00:00:11) Intro (00:01:29) What we're playing (00:50:36) Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring (01:09:45) Looking back at Uncharted (02:30:40) Fantasycritic recap (Colton Greens Indecisive Acquaintances) (02:40:52) Ending Host: Troy Olsson Guests: Josh Delamar, Colton Green, Izayah Sandoval, Javier Solis Cover Art_ Javier Solis Outro Music: DippersDoesMusic