Guest host Kyle Bosman leads Sarah Podzorski, Jacob Geller, Haley Maclean, and Jenna Stoeber in a not-yet-deep-dive on Baldur’s Gate 3, talking about the characters we made, how we’re handling romance, and how the game compares to DnD. Plus we drool over cooking game Venba, and hear the scoop from Sarah about the new expansion for critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, which has an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn!
And of course we answer questions from the Patreon audience about game release hype, save scumming, and a delightful riddle game.
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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below…
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:24 – Baldur’s Gate 3
00:45:48 – Venba
00:55:15 – FF14 Dawntrail
01:03:29 – Thank you to MinnMax’s biggest supporters
01:08:54 – Community Questions
01:47:00 – Get a Load of This
Kyle B GALOT – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCBjYrNOWrM
Jacob GALOT – https://youtu.be/BDuITB5mDKk
Sarah GALOT – https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/j6e53k/has_anyone_else_read_the_eula_i_guess_wed_all/
Jenna GALOT – https://www.vulture.com/2023/08/vfx-workers-vote-to-unionize-at-marvel-for-the-first-time.html
Haley GALOT – https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/
Community GALOT – https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1687910510656708608
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Jacob Geller and Kyle Bosman on the same podcast, does it get any better than that? Super excited for this one.
Yes.
MinnMax just, keeps winnin'
Cohorting Bosman, anyone? haha
This is too good.
So what I have learned from this episode is that Kyle isn't DND-pilled enough to know when an orc and ogre at jumping each other if you interrupt you should expect them to get their rocks off at you.
Let's gooooo 45m on BG3, if Jacob and/or Leo are super down on it by GOTY I'll be bummed
Great loads this week😂
Please keep Bosman on when Ben comes back!!
I was in the same boat as Jacob when I first jumped into early access with my boyfriend, super confused even with a very straight forward class at the time but once you get a feel for the mechanics every class becomes so accessible, now I'm controlling a necro wizard and a barbarian leaping around the map tossing enemies at their friends and resurrecting them all as my minions in tactician mode, approaching the end(??) of act 3 and I don't want it to be over
33:26: It is because of the story few weeks before when other AAA game devs told that this game is anomaly and people should not expect them to make a game this good. I have been following game media since late 90s and I haven't heard such a thing for a game which is not even out. That story sold me the game.
This is the anime beach episode
I'm bum out that MinnMax did not do a live reaction to the Pokemon Direct and that has to be the first time.
Other than that, Damnnnn this was a good segment on BG3 and still a banger of an episode.
As a Ranger, I also roleplay as Aragorn with a dark side haha.
I don't think the genitals have anything to do with Judaism when it takes place in Faerūn, Jacob. Abrahamic religions don't exist.
Kyle has definitely shaken off the rustiness because this week was very enjoyable. The other two weeks you could feel the rust but despite that it has been very fun each time
Great episode this week. Having Kyle hosting a show again is spoiling us man, I'm gonna miss this!
Today I learned that I’m a life long habitual save scummer.
Everyone's been asking Fromsoft why AC6 isn't open world after the success of Elden Ring. I firmly believe From has some kind of crystal ball, because they chose the perfect moment to not-compete with open world games.
I love that Sarah is on this episode. She has been championing BGIII for years. I wish she had been on the summer game preview issue when Kyle Hillard didn't even bring up Baldur's Gate 3.
I don't know why you make such a big deal about the new expansion of ff 14 being in Mexico. The white girl seem offended but me and all my friends who plays the game are glad to see thoses characters we love interact with our culture. Leave the game a chance before being all negativity <3
57:40 all of you guys are american where there are tacobell everywhere, you know that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily have mexican food ?
Jacob’s experience with Brawl mirrors mine exactly
Kyle is just the best.
Yo I love Jenna Stoeber, please keep having her.
The most hyped game for me was Warcraft 3! Got my older brother to take me to the midnight launch at Fry's, got the undead box, played until dawn that morning. Great game, first launch I had enough money of my own to get a game the day it came out and loved the franchise enough to want to. Sure would like a Warcraft 4…
🙌🙌 To both Kyles for hosting the show these days!
Sarah 100% deserves to gloat about how popular BG3 is! The rest of the Minnmax cast poo-poo'ed it before release.
My dream podcast is Bosman, Leo, Jacob & Bradley Ellis – no BS, proper deep dive game discussion that could be critical when necessary and actually funny.
Wait so you guys can't swear on this but Jenna can gush about genitalia and expressing her body…?
God Baldurs Gate 3 is good. Very, very good.
BG3 will be better than Starfield and I'm excited for Starfield.
another great episode this week!
I love the "jumped her" discussion, so good
Baldur's Gate 3 is waaayyy better than Tears of the Kingdom, waaayyyy better.
Also, Kyle I hope you continue to host some podcast somewhere. You are such a good host.
Venba hypeee
EDIT: No Janet for Venba
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Please hire Kylie B! If he doesn’t want full commitment, perhaps a different construction could be worked out. 😊
I had smello – vision fOR Venba just because of memories lol. That's pretty cool that a game can do that.
When I played Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. I accidentally saved as I pressed the jump button. So everytime I loaded i fell to my death. I couldn't cancel the animation and I had to start the whole game again.
that Kyle guy seems good at hosting podcasts, he looks like a fine ally.
33:28 You know what got me trying baldur's gate 3? All those developers on twitter crying for gamers not to raise their expectations for other rpg/games after this. It made the round on the news a few times. A few youtubers made fun of those developers, and now ign made a similar video dissing those devs. Before that I didn't care about it at all. I got to say, I have never played dnd and don't currently have fun with BG3 yet (don't even know if the fun would ever come to me).
LOVE having Jenna on always but even more so on this one!