Bears In Games
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 13 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsBears In Games is an episodic video podcast that takes a look at the bears that inhabit the world of video games. Each week, your host Johnny takes a only-halfway-sardonic stance on the latest or classic games that include bear archetypes, gay bear content, or just plain have hot guys!
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Blogger Done Broke RSS Feeds
October 21, 2010 15:35I'm gonna give it to you straight: Blogger broke its video podcast encoding, and I'm not super smart. Until I get someone who can make my video enclosures syndicate properly, I'm going to be feedless. I'm still posting videos at www.youtube.com/bearsingames, don't worry. I'll get this fixed as soon as I can.
Knights of the Really Old Republic
February 21, 2010 20:34I figured since I have this blog format going, and it won't disrupt the iTunes feed, I really should start reviewing games on here, instead of spamming my Twitter followers with dozens of messages about whatever game I'm playing. I mean. I'll still do that. But anything requiring more than 140 characters to explain will go here. Not turning this into a reviews site, don't worry. Still going to concentrate on the burly men of the games we love. *** I picked up Knights of the Old Republic whe...
Bears In Games Versus Final Fight 2
February 21, 2010 20:32 VideoJohnny and Robbie tackle Final Fight 2 to ask: has the game got less gay? Alright, here's a Let's Play of sorts for the first couple of stages of Capcom's Final Fight. Johnny and Robbie tackle this brawler to answer the question: has Final Fight become less gay? (The answer? Yeah, kinda.) This episode has some interesting appearances, including Guy, Cody, and a skinny background version of Chun Li! We discuss the longevity of the brawler genre, what can be considered modern descendants of the...
Bears In Games - Super Slash Greek Heroes
February 21, 2010 09:57 VideoRise of the Argonauts, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Muscle March all get their chance to show off the biggest, burliest, and Greekiest of musclemen in this episode of Bears In Games! First: Rise of the Argonauts! You think a game set in the Greek era with huge and muscular bearish guys would be easy to do an episode on. Hm. Nope. Mostly I just gripe about the terrible writing and pacing of the cutscenes. The game itself, when there is combat, actually plays nicely. Combat is fun, and the combo...
Bears In Games Best Of 2009
February 21, 2010 09:44 VideoYou take the good, you take the bad, you talk about bears for a while, and there you have... the Bears In Games Best Of 2009 Awards! Featuring Our Fantastic Returning Guest Hosts Robbie, from Japan, and Max from Gamesters.ca! The ground rules for this podcast was that we actually purchased and played the games which we bitch about. This narrows the playing field somewhat, except for Johnny, who has a very flexible idea of what is worth purchasing if it costs under $20. We start with the part...
Bears In Games - Dragon Age Of Gay Dating
December 17, 2009 01:30 VideoDragon Age is here! Dragon Age is Queer! Get over it! Yeah, it ain't just Zevran who can get man-on-man action in Dragon Age! And he's not the only gay character either! Bears In Games tackles the important subject of Dragon Age this week. It's true, there is gay banging in Dragon Age, involving elves, dwarves, humans, Qunari, you name it! But that's not the only reason a lover of the bearish type should purchase the game; for one thing, it's Dwarf character model is pretty damned hot. And y...
Bears In Games - Street Fighter Mantacular Part 4
December 17, 2009 01:23 VideoStreet Fighter IV! And more Street Fighter IV! We end the Bears In Games One Year Anniversary Street Fighter Mantacular by seeing what our favorite Street Fighters are up to now. Plus: a very special montage. Johnny and Robbie go head to head with some Street Fighter IV action! But, first, Johnny has to admit that he hasn't actually unlocked much in the game, due to the draconian unlocking policies. Which is too bad, because Gouken is totally a bear. Actually, everyone is looking a whole lot...
Bears In Games - Street Fighter Mantacular Part 3
December 17, 2009 01:10 VideoPart 3 just checks out one game - but when you realize that it's Marvel Versus Capcom 2, you can understand why it takes about twenty minutes to go through all the burly, sweaty manliness that is contained inside. If you are a fan of comic books, you might want to skip this one; Johnny and Robbie know next to nothing about them, and confuse "X-Men" with "Ultimate X-Men" or something shameful like that, and can't figure out why they're trying to slip in TWO Wolverines. But Marvel Versus Capco...
Bears In Games - Street Fighter Mantacular Part 2
December 17, 2009 00:58 VideoWe continue our unwanted assault on Street Fighter with Street Fighter III, which along with Gem Fighter is considered the pinnacle of 2D fighting. Also, we look at Gem Fighter. Played at all the events on the Hard Core Tournament Scene. Street Fighter III: Third Strike is one of Robbie's favorite games, and all kidding aside is thought of as possibly the premiere 2D fighting game. It's sheer skill, and the heights you can reach as a player are pretty crazy. You won't see much of that here, ...
Bears In Games - Street Fighter Mantacular Part 1
December 17, 2009 00:46 VideoBears In Games is a year old! And we celebrate with the manliest game series of all time, Street Fighter! Join Johnny and guest-host Robbie as they plow through Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Street Fighter EX 3, and the Street Fighter II Anniversary Edition! Super Street Fighter II HD Remix is the first subject of our analysis, and we pick apart its Udon take on the Street Fighter characters. It's a great looking game, though some background animation perhaps has a little bit too m...
Bears In Games - Epic Final Fantasy Extravaganza Part 3
November 11, 2009 22:04 VideoWe bring this exhaustive Final Fantasy retrospective to a close! And how! From the childlike characters of Final Fantasy IX to the strangely serious Final Fantasy XII, with a little Tidus, Yuna, JPOP, and Charlie's Angels all thrown in! Final Fantasy IX brings a sad dose of agreement among Johnny and Max. Yeah, it's more fun when we disagree, but neither of us have any great love for the game. It's not a bad game, just has a slightly off-putting art style. It harkens back to the look of the ...
Bears In Games - Epic Final Fantasy Extravaganza Part 2
November 09, 2009 08:04 VideoJohnny and Max now dive deep into Final Fantasy VII, with all its gay dates, bears, musclemen, and group assault. Also: Final Fantasy VIII, where magic meets Sweet Valley High. (Or is Sweet Valley High already magical?) Final Fantasy VII. We all know it. Some of us love it. Some of us think that it's overrated and a step back for the series. But Max and Johnny are surprisingly agreeable on the subject, with both thinking that it is a great but flawed game, and one that pushed the JRPG genre ...
Bears In Games - Epic Final Fantasy Extravaganza Part 1
November 09, 2009 06:49 VideoJohnny and guest host from gamesters.ca Max take a good, hard look at the first four Final Fantasies. Provided that you think Final Fantasy starts with Final Fantasy III. Final Fantasy III starts us off with its slightly creepy child-warrior look, and confusingly androgynous protagonists. But all is not lost in this game: it does feature one of Final Fantasy's hottest bosses, the Djinn! So that's something right there. Final Fantasy IV does have a chubby bear as a playable character, but it...
Bears In Games - The Daily Lives Of Domestic Bears
November 05, 2009 19:21 VideoElite Bear Agents, Bears In Sims, and a slightly off topic look at Midnight Club: Los Angeles make up this week's too hot for TV episode of Bears In Games! Elite Beat Agents is a bizarre music action game from INiS that just so happens to feature a lot of big guys, bears, and chubby guys. A spin off of the Japan-only Ouendan series, you tap along with the beat to progress the story. We take the time to look at four different bearish characters, and pause momentarily to see what secrets a yo...
Manhunter: New York Let's Play!
August 26, 2009 23:22Yep, got a Let's Play of one of my favorite adventure games of all time: the bizarre, dark, horror-adventure game Manhunter: New York!
Bears In Games - Manly Sports And The Bears The Do Them
August 07, 2009 03:51 VideoFirstly, Johnny checks out the Bears of Beijing 2008! Or should it be BEARjing? Huh? In this episode of BearsInGames, Johnny is inspired by the hot burliness of Olympic athletes Manolo Martinez and Matthias Steiner into renting and playing a few events in Sega's Olympic tie-in Beijing '08. Did it deserve the critical drubbing it received? Can you play as your favorite bearish men? In short, yes, it did, and no, you can't. All you need to see about this game is contained in the video. Plus: a ...
Jus' a Quick Plug Of My Let's Play!
August 07, 2009 00:34Hey folks, I'm doing a Let's Play of Codename: Iceman on my koobert youtube user, so feel free to watch it of you are a fan of watching other people play through early 90s Sierra On-Line games. If you aren't, well, that's understandable.
Bears In Games - Which WRPG Makes The Best Bear?
August 01, 2009 10:00 VideoUnlike the set characters found in Japanese RPGs, western RPGs almost exclusively deal with created characters, with modifiable skill sets, gender, background, and most of all, looks. The downside is that this can lead to lifeless tabla rasas on which you are supposed to project yourself, egotist that you are. The upside? Big hot bears in RPGs! Who doesn't want that? So, firstly, we look at Bethesda's shake at the hugely popular Fallout franchise. How hot can a man wandering the nuclear waste...
Bears In Games - Musclebear Smorgasbord Extraordinaire
August 01, 2009 06:50 VideoJohnny takes a quick look at games that feature men of the muscular persuasion; first there's Pit-Fighter, Atari's arcade classic from 1990 which used the then-impressive digitized graphics of musclebears, beefcake models, biker bears, and men in tight gear aplenty in a bare-chested brawling. Could anything be more heterosexual? Then we move to Altered Beast, the Genesis launch title that devotes itself to getting your big muscleman as pumped as possible before donning his were-whatever fursu...
Johnny's Been A Guest Star
May 26, 2009 10:11Yep, when Johnny hasn't been busy making DVDs and Blu-Rays, or working on the BearsInGames podcast, he's been engaging in some other podcasts! You can hear him in two episodes of the fantastically vulgar That's What She Said Podcast, as hosted by the never-exacty-polite Christian, Frank, and Brian, and has been harassing and generally hassling the fine folks over at The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Films, another great podcast for in-depth-yet-hilarious takes on the business we call show. Gac...
Bears In Games - The Gayest 16-Bit Games Of All Time (That Aren't Cho Aniki)
May 26, 2009 07:04 VideoJust what is the gayest 16-bit game of all time? CHO ANIKI! But, that's a bit of a foregone conclusion. And at BearsInGames, we like betting on the underdogs. So we're counting down the top five gayest games during the wonderful era that brought us the Blast Processing of the Sega Genesis, the Mode 7 scaling and rotation of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and the... Johnny Turboness... of the Turbografx-16! Watch in awe as we look at beefcake Boris Vallejo paintings, chubby bear gian...
Bears In Games Episode 5 - The State Of Gays in Games
May 06, 2009 10:27 VideoHow are gays portrayed in modern video games? Johnny takes a look at what gays look like to game designers, and the hows and whys of their use in the games we play. We check out the Just Us Guys store owners in Aruze's Shadow Hearts: From the New World, Makoto from FROM SOFTWARE's Enchanted Arms, Jann from SEGA's Valkyria Chronicles, and Bernie and Brucie from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV. How do they stack up? Are gaymers going to enjoy their video game counterparts? Are any of them big bu...
New Digs, New Gamertag, New Show
February 11, 2009 12:32Hey guys. Just wanted to let you know that I went dark for a while because I got a new job, new digs, and heck, even went to a new country. But I'm back and working on a new episode! In the mean time, feel free to add my new gamertag to your XBL list! gamertag: BearsInGames
Bears In Games Episode 4 - Fable II
December 03, 2008 05:22 VideoYes, even in the mystical land of Albion, gays can get gay married. And, as Johnny finds out after some loutish behavior, gay divorced. While the menfolk populating the land might not be very attractive, that doesn't mean that you can't have some passive-aggressive relationships with them. Watch as Johnny shows you just how awkward virtual relationships can get, gaining through pie eating, and the most disappointing love scenes since Mass Effect. No, not even side boob in this one.
Bears In Games Episode 3 - Soul Calibur IV
November 25, 2008 15:52 VideoJust how bearish can a 3D fighting game get? This week in Bears in Games, Johnny takes a look at the custom characters you can whip up in this pretty awesome fighting game. Pro tip: use female character fighting styles to give your bears a slightly creepy seductive edge. Also, some ruminating on Rock, and teaching an XBox Live jerk a lesson.