The best Deep Impact to another game's Armageddon? | The Best Games Ever Podcast

Big Western style open-world RPGs from beloved Japanese studios who tend to be known for other things (inhale) are like buses: there's none for ages, and then two come along at once! See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about Earth getting clobbered by an asteroid. See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about America getting clobbered by volcanoes. See also: those ones about the White House (former home of Bill Clinton) getting clobbered by some guys with guns. I dunno. You don't read this anyway.
The gist is this: there are two games with superficial similarities that have come out at the same time, and so I'm asking our regular panel to come up with previous games that have followed this pattern, and to add a further layer of meta grief, asking them to specifically pitch me on the Deep Impact equivalent of the pair. As in, the less good one. The less well known one. The one that didn't have an associated Aerosmith song, if you will.
Listen. It's just an excuse for everyone to shout at me. Listen at your own inconvenience here.
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[@minisav16]

Dante's Peak vs Volcano is my favourite movie version of this. Apparently they can be a case of a screenwriter takes a film idea to a studio, the studio says no but then decides to use the plot anyway and gets in a different writer to do it. And whilst that is happening the original writer goes to a different studio and gets greenlit. And that's how you end up with similar films at similar times. Think that's what happened with No Strings Attached vs Friends With Benefits that came out a while back.

[@captaincokecan]

Tom was robbed, i want to hear more about his bin rustling shirtless neighbour

[@Psientologist]

Two small things that I was surprised didn't come in these conversations. First, sorry if you want Borderlands to take a break because there is a movie coming out so it may not be a game but it's going to be around. The second is, and it is quite different but regarding Overwatch/Battleborn I remember early on a lot of R6 Siege and Overwatch comparisons. Not until release, because previous R6 games are not "hero shooters" but Siege 100% is, definitely different to Overwatch less "FPS Moba" but it's there. The wild thing being Siege came out before Overwatch and before Battleborn and is still going and hasn't had a sequel like OW (just a crap spin off no one wanted).

[@paklaselt2198]

Hooray for more Mochi

[@Menome]

I absolutely bloody loved Battleborn, far preferred it to Overwatch at the time and I'm forever bitter the servers were shut down.

[@wintertorrent]

Week 3 of asking for Burns to come back on the podcast

[@Snay]

The correct answer is Kingdoms of Amalur to Skyrim's Armageddon.

[@ceripowe3818]

This podcast without Tom vs this podcast with Tom, I’d take the latter.

[@MrVg247]

Stop this - Tom

[@ceripowe3818]

Tom would never tell his fans to stop demanding his presence, Jim.

[@TrickyMagican]

What is it with Jim and Tom both having stories about toddlers in supermarkets

[@MrVg247]

When you reach our age your entire life revolves around childcare and supermarkets

[@theraga3]

its me the other person who liked battleborne

[@geneticjen9312]

How long until BotW vs Horizon appears? I'm predicting 12 mins