{"id":880505,"date":"2025-12-20T20:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/bad-games-with-good-reveal-trailers"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:44:10","slug":"ian-higtons-bum-guffs-the-best-games-ever-podcast-episode-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ian-higtons-bum-guffs-the-best-games-ever-podcast-episode-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Higton&#8217;s bum guffs: The Best Games Ever podcast episode 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ian-higtons-bum-guffs-the-best-games-ever-podcast-episode-103.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s now a premium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-games-ever-podcast-extended-edition-info-page\">extended version<\/a> of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber &#8211; check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/subscribe\/standard\">Support Us<\/a> page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don&#8217;t worry if that&#8217;s not for you, the main show will always be free.<\/p>\n<p>Still inspired by last week&#8217;s topic, we thought we&#8217;d flip it on its head an ask perhaps an even more pertinent question in an age of decade-long marketing campaigns: <em>what&#8217;s the best rubbish game that had a great reveal trailer<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Baffled by the concept of how a <em>rubbish<\/em> game can be &#8220;best&#8221;? Listen, don&#8217;t worry about it. Games media is full of this contradictory rubbish. We often say things like, for example, &#8220;a good 7\/10 game is better than a bad 9\/10 game&#8221;. And it makes a perverse sort of sense. 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