BGB Podcast #63 – Hype Men

Get hype.

The train’s pulling into the station and you’ve got a ticket, because this week we’re talking all about hype. Why do we get irrationally excited about games we know nothing about? How much should we listen to our overly excited inner selves? Before it’s all aboard, we also talk about Reykholt, PUSH, and Great Western Trail.

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Timecodes:

01:51 – Reykholt
10:13 – PUSH
14:54 – Great Western Trail
30:50 – Hype and anti-hype
32:41 – Res Arcana
33:45 – The 7th Continent
35:32 – El Grande
38:29 – Gloomhaven
38:57 – Brass: Birmingham
40:09 – Blood on the Clocktower
42:43 – Terraforming Mars

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.