Pixel Pints - Do modern games hold our hands too much?

This time we wrap up 2024 with finding out who won the Game of The Game Awards and look back on our favourite games of the past year. See you again in 2025! In the meantime follow us on Instagram @pixelpintspod Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/pixelpints

We are back to go through The Game Awards for 2024. Including the important stuff like the colour of #geoffkeighley suit. And NO Shadow of the Erd Tree shouldn't be up for awards. It's DLC not a game, FFS!

This week Matt, Evan and Mitch talk all things Final Fantasy. Follow us on Twitter @Pixel_Pints and on Instagram @PixelPintsPod Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/pixelpints

This week we talk about the week's BIG story of all RPGs having to live up to the stratospheric standards of the best video game EVER (not called Zelda), Baldur's Gate 3. Is it a non-story needed to fill a quiet time in the games industry? Are media outlets unreasonable to expect "all" RPGs to aspire to deliver to the Baldur's Gate 3 standard? Should we expect this from "all" game developers? Follow us @pixel_pints on Twitter and @PixelPintsPod on Instagram

This week Mitch, Keith and Evan bring up game and game related gimmicks that sounded cool when they were first mentioned but then turned out to be anything but. Follow on on Twitter @Pixel_Pints and on Instagram @PixelPintsPod Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/pixelpints

This time round, given the lack of accessibility options in Starfield and based on the tiny text settings in some games Keith has been playing, we talk about what settings should be standardised across all Triple AAA games. And McWomble mentions  LauraKBuzz  a lot. Follow us on Twitter (for now) @Pixel_Pints and on Instagram @PixelPintsPod Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/pixelpints

Do game designers think we are more stupid than we used to be? This week Berkough wants to talk about modern game design being too involved in puzzle solving. How do you handle 'hints' in games to help people who need it and not be intrusive for others? Follow us on Twitter (for now) @Pixel_pints and on Instagram @pixelpintspod

This week Evan isn't on but we steal his suggestion for a topic. We go through games that were a commercial and/or critical disaster and suggest how they could have been avoided. Can you guess what we might stop from turning into a 'live service'? Follow us on Twitter (for now) @Pixel_Pints and on Instagram @PixelPintsPod Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/pixelpints

This week it's Matt's birthday and will it break the Pixel Pints Birthday Curse of the stream crashing? We talk about video game remakes. Are they necessary for creators to go back to remake or reimagine old IP? Are there too many? Which one have done it right and which haven't. Plus what remakes we'd like to see. We also troll Evan for dressing like he's 19 again. Follow us on Twitter @Pixel_Pints and on Instagram @PixelPintsPod Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/pixelpints

This week McWomble was meant to be on but accidentally pulled out of the show. So you'll have to put up with Mitch trying to find ways to slate Xbox. Because he's contractually obligated. Follow us @pixel_pints on Twitter and @PixelPintsPod on Instagram Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/pixelpints