Deep Fried Gaming

Before the Godfather, Gone with the Wind, or Don Quixote, there existed an even more renowned and influential piece of art.

Though the film adaptation of Barnyard would not be released until 2006, the ideas and concepts were created in the 30s and helped move America through the Great Depression.

Today, we take a look at the Pinnacle of gaming and dive into the 2006 GameCube port of Barnyard, the single best game we've had the hono...

The past decade has not been kind to game journalism. The profession has taken a hit due to a plethora of issues ranging from skill issues and dishonest review scores to the unnecessary politicization of games and games media.

Today, however, the savior of Games Journalism’s reputation has descended: Ben Sledge, and he is here to set the record straight in a piece he has entitled: It’s time to Start Trusting Video Game Journalism.

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What do you get when the chicken crosses the road?

If you answered that capitalism is bad and CEOs killed it, you'd be partially right. For the second half of the answer to that question, you need to listen to the rest of todays episode.

Welcome back to the Deep Fried Gaming Podcast. Today we turn our sights to one of the most insightful and cleverly done critiques of Capitalism and unchecked wealth that we have ever had the pri...

In 2022, we covered Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. While the consensus was ultimately a mixed bag, we generally liked it and thought much of what it had to offer was at least fresh and swung for the fences with ambition and Nintendo Charm

The Thousand-Year Door was released in 2004. 3 Years later, another Paper Mario game hit the shelves and proceeded to spit in the face of TTYD, the player, and gaming as a whole.

Folks, meet "...

*This episode Contains Spoilers for Death Stranding Throughout. Check Timestamps to see the severity for each section. It is highly advised you do not listen past the Act Man Review roast if you have not, but plan to play Death Stranding*

In this Companion episode to our Season 3 Debut, we take one last drive by of the game start started us off: Death Stranding. This time, however, we have something a little different in our sights:...

We kick off season 3 with a hefty title: Death Stranding. In 2019, the title was the first release from the freshly-formed Kojima Productions. Controversy and confusion plagued the game even from before its release.

Was it nothing other than a walking sim? Why was it so bloody weird? Why didn't Sam talk? What's up with the baby in a jar?

These questions and more caused the game to be panned by most critics on launch. With the re...

Episode 40 marks the end of Deep Fried Gaming's Prolonged second season. In it, we dig deep into the breakout star of 2025: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Timestamps0:00 Intro14:33 - Prologue Discussion ( Prologue Spoilers)

25:20 - Sound Design

32:35 Gameplay

40:25 - Character builds, Pictos, Luminas, Character mechanics, Combat

1:03:00 - Technical Questions and Concerns

1:09:00 - The Overworld/The Continent

1:17:00 Act 3 and Post-Game Conte...

Today's installment focuses on 2024's Children of the Sun; a frenzied but deliberate shooter that blends elements of Sniper Elite, Super Hot, and just a little Far Cry 5 . Join us as we pick apart this games mechanics, presentation, and short length.

Further, we discuss the price to playtime proposition of games like this and others. How much playtime should you get per dollar spent? Is time or money the more valuable curren...

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In episode 37, we dive into another review roast. This time, surprisingly, not from Kotaku but gamesradar. Our journalist today tells the account of a fateful trip into a Wa...

Between the dishonored series and their wildly underrated immersive sim, Prey, Arkane has proven themselves a reliable and inventive studio. They're responsible for creating interesting worlds with layered characters, morality systems, and stellar gameplay that has high replayability  years after release. So when the word was out they were making a similarly crafted game with a 60's style aesthetic, a jazzy soundtrack, and an ...

Wolfenstein is a game series with a long and illustrious history pioneering a genre and spanning multiple decades. After many rehashes, Machine Games took a swing at developing what would become the Wolfenstein formula in the mid-2010's. Wolfenstein: New Order breathed new life not only into the Wolfenstein series, but also Blazkowicz as a character. This game makes BJ Blazkowicz in the 1960's form of the Doomguy, killing Nazis and...

In this episode, we take the trip back to 2004 and hunker down with a Gamecube classic: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is the follow-up to Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64 and is the second game in the Paper Mario franchise.

One of us is a resident JRPG noob and it was supposed that perhaps this title would be an excellent introduction to the genre. 

In this episode we dig deep into this game and discuss its various uni...