Good Enough Gaming Pod

As a game developer, you want the audience and player to embrace, celebrate, empathize, relate and fall in love with your main character(s), this helps build a story, a franchise and sometimes a cult following. Some characters have taken all of us by storm, been globally received, and immortalized. Unfortunately.. Some of these characters have fallen flat and would be better off wiped from our mem...

It's time to take a dive into the developmental landscape and release structure of games you guys! There has been a rise in both releasing games as a beta, giving gamers a chance to dive into a game before it is completed, as well as games that have been delayed months or multiple times due to a multitude of factors, but coming out as a completed project. So what is better? Does it depend on t...

Ever have a dream where you are somehow in a world that looks like a french renaissance painting, and you go on a wild adventure to fight giant monsters and strange mimes? Well if you have, and wanted that to become a playable experience…IT HAS! If you're also looking for a new single player adventure game with great battle mechanics and a gripping story, then look no further as this game has...

We all love games here, some we shed a tear when it comes to an end, some we play over and over again, some we return to after a few years, and some we retire and reminisce fondly over for a long time. Today we want to focus on some of these games that hit us so profoundly that we wish we could experience them for the first time all over again. So put on your rose colored glasses, open up a can of...

The year is 1579, you are caught in the midst of an intense civil war, glorious sword fights, stealthy figures lingering and causing disarray. Do we have your attention?! Now picture this all happening in Japan, with Samurais and Ninjas! Now we are cooking right? Well this is the stage for the latest of Jordans guilty pleasures, Assassins Creed: Shadows. You get to play as one of two new protagoni...

To all the writers that feel like as soon as they submit their ideas to a big studio or publisher, that your ideas will be ripped off somehow, HOO boy do we have a game for you! Let that nightmare/fantasy come to life as you travel through the mixture of two stories and completely different genres in Split Fiction. You play as two writers who were supposed to be in their own bubbles trying out a m...

Your favorite guys are back for another season! That's right we have Chris and Marc from Game-Con Canada hanging out with the most okayest hosts of a podcast ever known to man. We keep it Good Enough around here. Join us as we discuss all the exciting things coming this year to Canada’s largest gaming convention, and one of the premier events for gamers of all kinds to attend in all of North A...

This is a very special episode of Good Enough Gaming, where we thought it was important to really dive into the real hard hitting and thought provoking questions of gaming. The types of questions that have you sweating a bit over the importance of your answer. The types of questions that keep you up at night, pondering all the possible outcomes and potential scenarios. If you haven’t figured it ou...

Welcome to GEG 139, A new challenger has entered the ring for the title of best Isometric Action Packed game! This fight is scheduled for three rounds, introducing first; standing at several years of development and three months launched, weighing in with its second entry into the franchise, hailing from the ARPG genre and Grinding Gear Games, the result of Diablo and Dark Souls having a baby, the...

The gaming scene has changed over the last decade with the ever growing realization that many of the people buying the games are folks just like us!  Since the market has much more than just the youth target audience, the things that developers are making and releasing seem to have two distinct targets for sales. #1 being the new release game, a creation from the ground up / a continuation of a st...

Ever think to yourself that there is a threshold of where a franchise can go, and then you are completely blown away by a creative direction? So are we, especially with our topic today. We are here to talk about the 6v6 game that has taken the internet by storm and the streaming and competitive gaming communities are loving it. That's right we are going to discuss what has everyone at Blizzard...

2024 has come and gone, along with the many games that were released and played. So what do we do now? What is there to look forward to? What on earth is coming out this year that has us gnawing the legs of the kitchen table off in excitement?! There are some releases this year that have us excited and intrigued! Find out what we are most looking forward to playing this year and let us know if we...

Imagine, you're an angsty teenager that loves performing and practicing martial arts at the local smoothie shop in town, just minding your own business when suddenly a floating head and a whiny robot teleport you asking for help against a sorceress that is far more powerful thank you. Crazy right?! But it's okay, just take these shiny crystals that the lady at the farmers market tried to sell you...

The 2024 Game Awards have come and gone, and we think they might have forgotten a few things. So, in typical style for your favorite podcast crew, we thought we would once again introduce some new categories, the nominees for our awards this year and maybe even some winners for the 2024 Edition of the prestigious Good Enough Gaming Awards. So put on your finest sweatpants, pour a glass of your mos...

Merry Christmas Good Enoughers! We were all treated to a little early Christmas gift on Amazon Prime this year with the arrival of the mini series “Secret Level”. For those that dont know or haven’t touched grass in awhile, this was a collection of short animations made by Tim Miller and Blur Studio in conjunction with Amazon MGM Studios. Each episode (10-20 minutes each) was based on a different...

Well folks its that time of year again, where we here at Good Enough Gaming have taken it upon ourselves to take on the task of deciding what is ACTUALLY the Game of the Year for 2024. Our rigorous process and criteria has left us with 16 games that will face off against each other for gaming supremacy. There will be arguing and debate from the most acclaimed critics we know…us. It might not be Ma...

Playstation has just recently put out a statement that they will be developing a handheld that can play PS5 games on the go, as well as some possible proprietary titles. So yet another juggernaut in the gaming world has stepped back into the handheld realm. What does this trend mean long term? Have we seen the end of the true console? Will this be the standard moving forward? Cloud gaming and Digi...

Imagine you are trying to save the world from a powerful Mage who is conjuring up something that will kill a ton of people, only to find out that in stopping that you have unleashed a much greater threat onto the world in which you must rectify. Intrigued, well that's only the beginning of the newest Dragon Age game Veilguard. Taking a whole new approach graphically and some new combat intricacies...

Well the mobile gaming scene just got blown away yet again by a game that has taken over the internet, distracted thousands of people, invoked immense nostalgia and completely taken over one of the chat channels on our Discord. You thought Pokemon Go was cool, wait until you play Pokemon TCGP, the game that lets you relive opening packs of cards and pulling some of the best and beautifully artisti...

There have been a ton of games over the last decade that have failed out after big marketing pushes and years of work and development from teams at AAA studios. We would be remiss if we didnt take a stab at figuring out why this is happening and why some of these titles have failed in the hands of gamers, or lack thereof. So join us as we attempt to navigate these murky waters and try and sort out...

It's Bull King Season you guys,so let's get to training and figure out if we are the destined one, or just the Old Monkey that's past his prime. We like to think we still have the fortitude, just like one of this year's hottest RPGs that took on a classic Myth and gave it a playable reality that many gamers loved. We are of course talking about Black Myth Wukong and the tale that has had a massive...

Have you ever replayed a favorite game of yours, and just thought to yourself, “I miss when games were designed this well”. Well us too! Maybe we are showing our age, but maybe, JUST MAYBE, some games have become too complex and input heavy, when simpler games with focus on other pieces had our attention for long spans of time. So what's been going on in the development of games, why do they feel...

You already knew we were all going to play it, you already knew we were all going to treat it like we were the Spiritborn Power Rangers of Sanctuary, but did you know that we were going to play so much so quickly and crush a bunch of the new content? Well maybe you did, but just act surprised, okay! If you havent figured it out yet, this week is about Diablo 4 DLC Vessel of Hatred and the continua...

So imagine there is an alien baby sent to earth that ends up becoming the world's greatest hero, when all his parents wanted was for him to escape to safety as the end of their world was imminent. If you were thinking about Superman you are WRONG! We are of course talking about the oddly carefree, often oblivious and ever hungry Goku and the world of Dragonball. The newest game Sparking Zero has t...

Playstation has found its new prospective mascot, and it is the DualSense utilizing and stylishly dressed mini robot that believes in the power of nostalgia. This is profoundly expressed in the newest Astro Bot game that came out last month, as well as the demonstration of the controllers and system of the PS4/PS5. So get your memory card ready, wrap up your controller cords, wipe off the disc and...