{"id":944580,"date":"2025-12-31T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/pointless-gaming-features"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:05:18","slug":"the-best-game-with-the-most-pointless-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-best-game-with-the-most-pointless-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"The best game with the most pointless feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/the-best-game-with-the-most-pointless-feature.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>Sometimes video games include the most random things, but who doesn&#8217;t love that stuff? We all get excited when you can flush a toilet or turn on a tap, even though these are the most mundane actions possible in the &#8216;real world&#8217;. Jim, in his wisdom (?), decided that these neat little features are pointless and made everyone pick the most useless of all found in the best video game. How did this go? Well, you&#8217;ll find out when you listen to this week&#8217;s episode of the Best Games Ever Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>To help make these 30 minutes or so more tolerable we are this week joined by everyone&#8217;s favourite dated video game journo d-lister, Steve Burns. If you know who he is, brilliant, if you don&#8217;t, he&#8217;s hard to explain so we won&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/pointless-gaming-features\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/pointless-gaming-features\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber &#8211; check out our Support Us 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. Sometimes video games include the most random things, but who doesn&#8217;t love that stuff? We all get excited when you can flush a toilet or turn on a tap, even though these are the most mundane actions possible in the &#8216;real world&#8217;. Jim, in his wisdom (?), decided that these neat little features are pointless and made everyone pick the most useless of all found in the best video game. 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