[TRAILER] Controllers Down: What Defined Gaming in 2024 - Part One

[TRAILER] Controllers Down: What Defined Gaming in 2024 - Part One

Author: The Waffling Taylors December 12, 2024 Duration: 3:01

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Here's three minutes of zero-context conversation from our next episode: Controllers Down: What Defined Gaming in 2024 - Part One

In this first part of an (almost) five hour long conversation, we explore our gaming experiences from 2024 with guests Alyxa and Matthew Bliss. This part of the conversation centres on our top three games of the year, with Alyxa reminiscing about the nostalgia of Persona 3 Portable, while Matthew highlights narrative-driven games like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and The Last of Us Part 1. We discuss the joy of revisiting older games, contrasting their accessibility with the frustrations of modern titles

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